A ParkWorks beautification project at Orchard School Community
Park has earned a $5,000 Community Impact Award, an award co-sponsored by Dominion
East Ohio and Inside Business magazine.
In the eighth annual award competition, Dominion awarded $50,000
to seven winners selected by a panel of judges from 65 entries submitted by
organizations throughout northeast Ohio. The award recognizes cities or groups
that have made an impact in the community. Grant funds come from the Dominion
Foundation.
As part of ParkWorks' "Schools Grounds as Community Parks"
initiative, the Orchard School Community Park came to life. Attached to the
Orchard School of Science on Bailey Avenue in Cleveland, the magical park is
surrounded by an iron fence made of stick figures that seem to be laughing and
dancing their way around the park. Inside, visitors come upon a complete ecosystem
filled with a vegetable garden, a flower garden, and a wetland area filled with
wildlife.
"We support the outstanding efforts of all the people
involved in these award-winning projects," said Jay L. Johnson, president
and chief executive officer. "Their work goes a long way in revitalizing
our communities and making them better places in which to live, work and play."
Other Community Impact Award winners include:
The Community Hall Foundation's massive renovation
project that restored the Akron Civic Theatre to its days of old;
Ohio City Near West Development Corporation for
its massive renovation and redevelopment of the former Fries and Schuele building
in Ohio City, which now includes a market and apartments;
Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber Foundation for
an ongoing continued commitment towards building the infrastructure in the
region through Grow Mahoning Valley;
Slavic Village Development, for a project that helped
preserve Mill Creek Falls in the Warner Road-Turney Road neighborhood;
Stark County Regional Planning, for the StockPile
program, which helps needy families with funding and supplies for emergency
repairs to their homes; and
Common Wealth Inc., for Sycamore Place, an apartment
complex for seniors in Campbell.
Dominion has a diversified and integrated energy portfolio
consisting of about 24,000 megawatts of generation. Dominion also serves more
than 3.8 million franchise natural gas and electric customers in five states.
For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
