A Centennial Celebration - 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Forest City Tree Protection Co., Inc.

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SE tires of seeing
‘bad actors’ in city
Council eyes legislation that would allow
inspectors to inspect abandoned homes
By Jeff Piorkowski lation, Schoenewald said, “I
jpiorkowski@sunnews.com have no problem reconvening
our organization. I’m happy to
SOUTH EUCLID — As City go door to door again (to
Council prepares to discuss
WILDCATS new legislation designed to al-
gather signatures to put a re-
ferendum on the ballot, as in
POOL TALENTS low city inspectors to inspect
abandoned and vacated
2008).”
FOR TITLES homes, a group of unhappy Still, Housing Manager
residents believe they have Sally Martin, a driving force
Page B4 seen this show once before. behind the new piece of legis-
lation, said it is definitely nec-
Robert Schoenewald, of
Bayard Road, along with Hin- essary.
sdale Road’s Yakov Lieber,
BEST OF THE “I just don’t think (oppo-
led successful opposition two nents of the legislation) know
BLOTTER years ago to the city’s passage what we have here,” Martin
of point-of-sale legislation. said of the vacated homes.
If council passes the aban- She said without such a law
doned home inspection legis- See ACTORS, A10
Daytime burglaries
A man who had a tough
night asked police to
on the rise in area
By Jeff Piorkowski “In the past two-three
arrest him for being jpiorkowski@sunnews.com weeks we’ve had a notable in-
crease,” said South Euclid Po-
drunk in public, but he SOUTH EUCLID — The number lice Det. Rick Friedl. “We’ve
didn’t get his way. Read of burglaries in the past sev- had eight to 10 burglaries in
eral weeks has increased in that time.
what happened in THE “They’re happening all over
the cities of Cleveland and
BLOTTER, A2 Euclid in the past year, but in the east side and into Lake
recent weeks Hillcrest cities County. Euclid has had a lot
and those to the east have also of them.”
seen an increase. One such incident hap-
GO SEEK pened the afternoon of Jan. 26
JEFF PIORKOWSKI/SUN NEWS A large number of the bur- when a resident of Walling-
Lauren Lanphear standing on the property he knows so well — the 100-year-old Forest City Tree Protection Co. glaries are being pulled off in ford Road called the SEPD
Lanphear grew up on the property and now lives in the house to the left. To the right is the office building for the the daytime when homeown- after seeing a man trying to
South Green Road business. ers are at work. See DAYTIME, A7
SE’s Forest City Tree Protection HH health club closes
reflects on its 100-year-old roots Team Energetics wasowner nowhome to
regional rec center;
proposed
in MV
By Jeff Piorkowski land, and in the eastern suburbs, including
By Faith Hampton “There was a timing issue,”
jpiorkowski@sunnews.com Gates Mills.
FEBRUARY It may sound like a bad pun, but the Forest
He had entered the business after having
fhampton@sunnews.com said Robert Kaleal, the previ-
ous owner who established
A FINE TIME City Tree Protection Company’s roots really
met the acquaintance of John Davey at the old
Sheriff Street Market, at about the present-
HIGHLAND HTS. — A personal
trainer whose first business
Team Energetics in 1999. “We
were trying to turn everything
FOR A HUNT do run deep.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of
day site of Quicken Loans Arena. closed it’s doors Dec. 28 after around while trying to open
the company, 1884 South Green Road in South The Davey and Lanphear families had a his- 10 years in business still up and develop programming
Page B1 tory. When the Daveys settled in the 1870s in strives to include his philoso-
Euclid, whose origins go back to the time on a bunch of different lev-
when Cleveland was known as The Forest Warren, Ohio, they stayed in the home of their phy on physical and mental els.”
City. minister. That minister was John Wesley Lan- health in his next project.
phear. One of those programs was
KNOCK ON WOOD Those origins actually go back a little fur- Team Energetics was a
ther, still. John Davey founded in 1880 the Davey Tree a proposed regional recrea-
health club dedicated to help-
It was in the summer of 1902 that William Expert Company, today the largest residential tion center that would have
ing individuals with internal
P. “Will” Lanphear, a student at Western Re- tree care company in North America. Now serviced five communities at
and external health. It was
serve University, found work trimming and known as the father of the science of tree the Team Energetics facility
forced to close due to strug-
caring for trees along Euclid Avenue in Cleve- See ROOTS, A6 See CLOSES, A7
gles with the economy.
Essa’s murder trial Two MH workers stuck in lift bucket
enters second week By Andrew Attina
Correspondent
By Leila Atassi MAYFIELD HTS. — Two mem-
band, Yazeed.
WHIRLYBALL Plain Dealer Reporter
Yazeed Essa’s attorneys
bers of the Mayfield Heights
service department worked
FUN WILL HELP CLEVELAND — Upon Rosema- suggested to jurors Monday
that if the former physician
their way through a tense sit-
uation Monday morning when
rie Essa’s death in 2005, doc-
WORTHY CAUSE tors harvested her organs — were guilty of poisoning his they became stuck in a lift
bucket on a truck.
her corneas, femur and tissue wife, as prosecutors contend,
Page B1 in her legs — for donation he would not have consented The two men were remov-
with the blessing of her hus- See TRIAL, A5 ing Christmas decorations
from electrical poles on May-
field Road just after 10 a.m.
Goodman seeks input
when the lift became stuck, KEN MATOSKY/SPECIAL TO SUN NEWS
stranding them approximately Rescue workers Monday help two Mayfield Heights service workers
cleveland.com/sun 20 feet from the ground. stranded in a lift bucket as they try to remove Christmas decorations from
is the online home of
on filling vacant SE lots As luck might have it, the
truck was on the south side of
Mayfield Road just in front of
utility poles on Mayfield Road.
bucket. ment raised a ladder and as-
By Jeff Piorkowski their neighborhoods. City Hall and the Fire Depart- sisted in bringing the first
ment. “First thing we did was to
jpiorkowski@sunnews.com make sure the truck was se- man safely down. The second
Home Delivery: (216) 515-2002 Goodman is hosting a de- Rescue workers used porta-
cure with the stabilizers,” said man came down with the help
63rd Year, No. 6 sign charrette Saturday at the ble jacks to stabilize the truck
SOUTH EUCLID — Ward 4 Forte. “It must be done before of the Lyndhurst Fire Depart-
South Euclid Community Cen- that Fire Chief Michael Forte
Councilwoman Jane Goodman attempting a rescue.” ment, which brought in a
ter, 1370 Victory Drive, to confirmed was slightly tipping
is asking residents what they See STUCK, A5
over due to the positioning of After closing the road to se-
want to see on vacant lots in See GOODMAN, A4
the arm and the weight in the cure the area, the fire depart-