![]() ![]() looking for JUST THE RIGHT PRODUCTS for the client's project. Jeff takes his clients on :"field trips" as he calls them, to various nurseries, stone works, etc. ![]() Jeff, his assistants Dave & Terry, & the entire Outdoor Concepts team were diligent, hard-working and wished to please our every desire for the look we were trying to achieve. Jeff Nawrocki, is a DEGREE-holding landscape designer/planner (graduate of The Ohio State University). “Outdoor Concepts designed & built a stunning bluestone terrace on our back lawn. We love the end result and plan to call them back for some additional landscaping in the future.” She continues to be very friendly and responsive to our calls and questions. We also can't say enough about Deanna, Neil's wife and office manager. Neil brought a large crew that completed the work in a matter of hours and did a great job of cleaning up afterward. The entire crew was very professional, very courteous and finished the job on time. Neil's crew took it upon themselves fix those low areas for us. For example, we had areas along our back yard that needed clean dirt fill and grass seed which was not in the contract. Neil also kept us abreast of all details throughout the day.Ī New Image went above and beyond what we expected. We appreciated that Neil, the owner of New Image, not only supervised the job, but ran the equipment and stayed until the job was done. New Image not only had the best price, they were very responsive, showed up on time, and adjusted the landscape plan when we made last minute changes. The one company was almost double New Image's estimate and the second company never followed through with an estimate. We contacted three companies for estimates. Included was mulching and deep edging all beds front and back. including creating a river bed for better drainage. We also had boulders that needed to be transferred to the back yard and river rock that needed to be moved to other parts of the yard. The mulch bed on the opposite side of the driveway needed work because three pine trees had been removed, but still had their root systems intact which were going to have to come out. We had a large bed of mulch and river rock in front that served no purpose and made the width of the yard look narrow. Census data shows the black population growing, and the white population shrinking.“We hired A New Image to landscape our yard that was already over 30 years old. While Shaker Heights is still celebrated for its diversity, U.S. These are conversations that are as important as ever. “I was most impressionable when I was a kid,” core leader Aaliyah Williams said, “and I think I came to understand how important it is to like, engage children in issues like this.” They talk about what makes them different, what makes them the same, and how to break it all down for kids at different grade levels. These classroom sessions are painstakingly prepared.ĭuring the school year a couple dozen SGORR core leaders meet every Sunday night in a classmate’s living room. And when everybody’s ideas is combined it just really makes a good place.” “We’re all people and we’re all from Earth so I think we all should be equal,” he told News 5.Ħ th grader Alexa Carpenter explained that she’s come to understand the beauty of our differences: “A lot of people have different things to bring to society their culture, ideas. Mike Harris A SGORR session with 6th graders at Woodbury Elementary SchoolĪs a result, 6 th graders like Kingston Oliver are sharing wisdom beyond their years. Three times a year they go into elementary school classrooms to get kids comfortable with being uncomfortable. “They are kind of led to look at bias, they’re led to look at diversity, they’re led to look at prejudice in different experiences,” Woodbury Elementary School math teacher Brittany Webb explained. It’s taught to 4 th, 6 th and 8 th graders by high school students. Today the most popular program in Shaker Heights Schools is the Student Group on Race Relations, or SGORR. They'd created an intentionally integrated neighborhood. The result, her mother told her, was nothing less than "magical." Stokes-Hammond's parents also got involved in the LCA when they moved to Ludlow. When black families started moving in and “the banks, the real estate companies drew a big red line around that neighborhood: no mortgages,” Polster explained, the LCA “showed homes… they pooled what little they had together to offer second mortgages,” to stop white flight from Ludlow. Mike Harris Shelley Stokes-Hammond & Federal Judge Dan Polster grew up together in the Ludlow community ![]()
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