In her book, On the Threshold of a New Century, a history of South Euclid, an inner-ring Cleveland Ohio suburb, author Nancy Schuemann remarks, “As we enter into a new century, it is time to reflect on our past and to contemplate our future.” Accordingly, this town’s humane society stands out as a jewel of civic pride.
Since the South Euclid Humane Society has no shelter, volunteers foster animals, all under the watchful eye of founder, lawyer, councilperson, Sunny Simon. Simon stays in close contact with the animal warden and the police department in order to obtain strays as they become available. The housing foreclosure crisis has left even more animals homeless. All of this takes time and money, none of which is readily available. Simon and her volunteers have their hands full.
The South Euclid Humane Society will present the free and open to the public ninth annual Pets Light Up Our Lives Ceremony and Home for the Holidays Adoption Event Sunday, December 6, 2:00 p.m., at the northwest corner of Green and Mayfield Roads garden area. A tree will be decorated with lights honoring living and deceased pets. Rabbi Susan Stone, of South Euclid, will offer a blessing for pets. The public is invited to this event, including pets.
They recently hosted a Pasta Dinner Fundraiser Saturday October 24 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the University Suburban Health Center. The atrium was provided to the group gratis. Everyone enjoyed delicious VEGAN pasta, salad, and garlic bread. The raffle for wonderful prizes encompassed a free photography session and health club membership.
Cats needing homes were available for adoption at the Pasta Dinner. Felix (pictured) is a six-month-old kitten who was rescued from a feral cat colony. Felix has been living in a wonderful foster home and is becoming more and more social. He is very attached to his foster mom and will need time to adjust to a new home. He is very loving and loves to play and purr.
Proceeds raised by SEHS are used to organize spay/neuter programs for pets of South Euclid residents and to provide medical assistance for homeless animals. The South Euclid Humane Society is a not-for-profit volunteer organization dedicated to finding homes and providing the proper care for homeless, abandoned, injured, and sick animals. Five million healthy adoptable animals were destroyed in the U.S. last year, because there were no homes for them.
The city of South Euclid was born from the quarries that built Greater Cleveland's first sidewalks and streets. Before the settlement of the Western Reserve, various Indian tribes - journeyed tribes - Eries, Ottawas, Chipewa, Seneca and Wyandots - roamed the area without establishing permanent year 'round villages. It was a land teaming with fish, buffalo, deer, turkey and wild life in abundance. The tribes relinquished their hold slowly with much bloodshed. In 1796 a final treaty was made with the Iroquois Nation to give all lands east of the Cuyahoga River to the settlers. At this point, the newly formed Connecticut Company commissioned one of its directors, General Moses Cleaveland, to lay out and establish a capitol of the "Western Reserve” and to survey and to divide the land into townships five miles square.
Early in the spring of 1796, General Cleaveland and 66 qualified surveyors and helpers moved westward to carry out his company's orders. At Conneaut Creek, a camp was made, and 41 men remained on that site while the others proceeded west to the bank of the Cuyahoga River where a "community site" was laid out for settlement.
They were gone 18 days, and the men remaining camp became dissatisfied and mutinied. They had enlisted for the duration, but they demanded considerations not specified in their agreement. General Cleaveland drew up a contract with them for their joint purchase of a township 25 miles square, at one dollar per acre. Each man was granted lake front property as well as a farm back in the rocky hills and plateaus. They were to clear land, erect houses, and sow two acres of wheat and grass, and settle a specified number of families during the next three years.
In the early organization proceedings, the men involved named the township "Euclid" in honor of the Greek Mathematician and Patron Saint of Surveyors. Euclid Township was officially formed in 1809. In 1828 Euclid Township was divided into nine districts, with South Euclid becoming district two. South Euclid became a village on October 13, 1917, and was officially incorporated as a city in 1941. Today’s population includes nearly 24,000 caring, concerned, friendly people of all ages with a diversity of races, religions, and cultures. The South Euclid Humane Society speaks volumes for this community’s compassion.
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