What can we expect next for Euclid?

Have you noticed the reduced lack of community spirit in our city? Gone are the summer festivals and Ron Emser's Sunday Sunset gatherings on our beautiful lakefront. Cancelled is the fabulous Fourth of July fireworks display due to gang troublemaking.

What happened to the tennis courts, miniature golf and sand volleyball? Our Shoe Center post office is closed. Can you tell me where to find a mail box that you can d A rop a letter without getting out of your car? .Sure you can go to the marginal post office  using precious gasoline to get there.

great disappointment was the closing of the Euclid Beuty College and the first class Great Lakes Exposition Center. Another was the demolition of the PMX plant making way for the Bluestone development. It has drawn little interest from new business. This was to be Mayor Cervenik’s great development achievement.

But all is not bad. After 22 years of lobbying for lakefront development by residents and council members, especially Daryl Langman, a fishing pier and walking/bicycle  paths will be installed soon with restaurants and a marina in the not so distant future. It was held up for years by Mayors Oyaski and Cervenik. Cervenik finally saw the value and became a supporter, but possibly too late for the federal and state funding that was available in the years preceding our collapsed economy. But better late than never

Again Langman was responsible for pushing to get a professional management team into Shore Cultural Centre. Their many achievements have made it possible to think that someday the facility will be self supporting and become a major cultural showplace for Northeast Ohio.

Then surprise, surprise, the mayor himself hired professionals to manage our municipal golf course. The financial and maintenance condition of the course is bound to improve.

No matter who will be our next mayor, he or she will need to spark business investment and civic pride to get us out of the doldrums we are experiencing