Band Organizes Rally for Silver Oaks Seniors
'Respect Your Elders' rally set for Friday, Sept. 2, in downtown Kent
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The seniors being forced out of Silver Oaks Place will be the guests of honor at a rally to raise money — and support — for their legal defense.
Vivian and Midge Ramone, otherwise known as the band ShiSho, are organizing other music acts for a rally to support the seniors in downtown Kent on Friday, Sept. 2, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Vivian Ramone said Home Savings Bank is donating the use of Home Savings Plaza, and Woodsy's Music is lending a sound system for the rally.
Ramone said in an email that they want to raise money so the civil rights attorney Avery Friedman, who's taken up the seniors' case, can expand his work on their behalf.
"We want to raise money so he can hire staffers to quicken his work and to help these folks who should be relaxing after a life of hard work and, for many, military service to our country," Ramone said.
The Silver Oaks seniors most recent effort came Wednesday, when they gathered at Kent City Council to ask for support. Council members passed several symbolic resolutions supporting the residents.
The owners of the 13-acre retirement complex on Horning Road, the Tell Real Estate Trust, plan to sell the property to Alabama-based Capstone Development Corp. Capstone's plan is to create apartments for students at Kent State University. To do so, they're pushing the senior residents out of the complex.
Bands interesting in performing at the Sept. 2 rally can contact Ramone through the "Respect Your Elders" rally Facebook page.
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Silver Oaks Place
500 Silver Oaks Dr, Kent, OH -
Hometown Bank
142 N Water St, Kent, OH -
Woodsy's Music-Audio-Video, Inc.
135 S Water St, Kent, OH -
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Kent State University
500 E Main St, Kent, OH
Chriss
12:07 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Update, have spoken with Vivian Ramone and I do commend these girls on their project.
Vivian Ramone
2:34 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Chriss, Thank you. We truly appreciate your support. You are our neighbor and we are proud to stand with you against discrimination. I look forward to seeing the greater Kent community gathered at the Home Savings Plaza on September 2 in a show of respect and support for you, the residents of Silver Oaks.
Marilyn Sessions
3:12 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
As a point of clarification; there is never a charge for using the Home Savings Plaza, to this group or anyone else.
Chriss
6:30 pm on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2413163
Exhibition catalogue of collected works by Craig Lucas by friends, colleagues and fellow artists. Craig Lucas (1941-2011) was an important Northeast Ohio painter and educator, teaching art at Kent State University for many years. Book highlights small paintings, prints and drawings from the exhibition, and accompanying texts written by the lenders of his works.
David Badagnani
10:08 am on Monday, August 29, 2011
There is now an event page for this festival--check out the complete list of speakers and bands:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249890728376248