West Side Cleveland Home Daycare. Looking for summer daycare? Janet Verry, playgroup mom, offers a spacious home environment. The daycare offers numerous art and craft supplies, quality educational software for all ages, spacious backyard with two swingsets, huge sandbox, toddler pool, educational books and toys, vegetable and flower gardens, loving pets, and a calm environment to enrich your child’s development. If interested, please email jverry@sbcglobal.net
Child’s bedroom set for sale. Toddler’s bed with springs, mattress and matching white dresser. $100 includes delivery. Contact Joy Harlor at 216-548-0573.
Big discount on spring flowers! Two local garden centers are offering special discounts to Near West Siders looking to brighten up their corner of the city. Just go to www.ohiocity.com and print the first screen. You’ll find a “print and clip” coupon there good for 25% off all flowers and hanging baskets at West Park Garden Center, and 20% off anything in the store at Broadway Garden Center. Hurry! Offer expires on Friday, May 16. You can also look for the coupon in this month’s OCNW Community Notes.
Cottage for rent or barter in North Kingsville (just East of Ashtabula). Fully furnished with a view of Lake Erie and with a deck overlooking a ravine and creek that runs behind the house. Plenty of hiking, and a 5 minute drive from a nice beach in the nearby town of Conneaut. Sleeps 8. Contact Mary Weyburne at dakukelhan@sbcglobal.net
Voter Education Tip: You know what’s a very helpful source for information on elections, government officials and local civic groups? Cleveland Stonewall Democrats. Go to www.clevelandstonewalldemocrats.org, and click on “Links.” The political stuff is, of course, heavily party-oriented. But scroll down the list and find thing like quick links to most of Cleveland’s Community Development Corporations. Handy!