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Ukrainian Village Sponsorship 2024

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Dear Friends of Ukrainian Village, Parade and Heritage Park,

Thank you for considering a sponsorship of Ukrainian Village at this year’s parade. In consideration of the ongoing war, it beckons us to call this event a “Fight For Independence”. When victory is achieved, we will proudly designate our parade title to reflect this.

As our donations grow we’d like to share the following funding goals of the Ukrainian Village Committee:

Ukrainian Village/Ukrainian Heritage Park fortification and beautification:
Although the City of Parma assists in the care of these public spaces for all to enjoy, it is our responsibility, within the Ukrainian Community to maintain and preserve the creative vision of Ukrainian Heritage Park and Ukrainian Village (State Rd) as a memorial to our heritage. The committee is designating approximately 75% of the annual sponsorship collection to this effort. More details to follow.

Ukrainian Village Parade:
Since 2011, the parade has become a symbol of our celebration of Ukraine’s independence. 2022 has heightened our responsibility and sincere passion to ensure the parade is continued in robust fashion, alongside our Ukrainian warriors who are sacrificing their lives in Ukraine to ensure we are able to continue our Independence Day celebration. Approximately 25% of the balance will be continuously used to ensure the committee has the funding it needs to cover countless miscellaneous expenses. Remaining year over year funding will be automatically applied to the following year.

Please donate by Sunday 8/11/2024. A QR code (for easy donation) can be found listed below along with the sponsor funding levels. When the QR code opens to the PayPal app please be sure to add a note that this is for the Ukrainian Village Committee and the name you would like us to use in our program booklet acknowledging your generous support.

IMPORTANT: If you cannot use the QR code please feel free to write a check made out to “UZO” with “Ukrainian Village Committee” in the memo line and deliver to:

Cleveland Self-Reliance Credit Union
6108 State Rd
Parma, Ohio 44134

Ukrainian Village Sponsorship 2024 (PDF)

Ukrainian Independence Day Parade Sponsors 2023

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ДЯКУЄМО! THANK YOU!

With the 2024 Ukrainian Village Independence Day Parade almost upon us, we’d like to make a shout-out to all of our very generous business and individual sponsors from 2023!!!

UKRAINE VICTORY SPONSOR ($750+)

  • Cleveland Selfreliance Federal Credit Union
  • Ohio Real Title – Dave Iammarino
  • Ukrainian Federal Credit Union
  • Biryani Hut Indian Cuisine – Westlake
  • Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (Ohio Chapter)
  • Andrew Iammarino

BLUE FREEDOM SPONSOR ($500)

  • Wasyl and Wira Liscynesky
  • Kam, Riley and Teddy Cox
  • State Meats

YELLOW INDEPENDENCE SPONSOR ($250)

  • Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
  • St. Andrew’s Ukranian Catholic Church
  • Holowchak Funeral Home
  • Kolodiy-Lazuta Funeral Home
  • Irene Strus-Iammarino, Realtor, Howard Hanna
  • Irena Wasylyk
  • Jesuit Retreat House
  • Lviv International Food Store
  • Sean and Marta Kelleher
  • Dr. Zenon Farian
  • Dr. Maria Strus
  • Michael and Dareen Jogan

SOVEREIGNTY SPONSOR ($100)

  • Drs. Christina Liscynesky and Dylan Wirtz
  • T & S Power Equipment – Olmsted Falls
  • John Michael Photography
  • Nadia Simovic
  • Ukrainian Museum – Archives
  • Newbook Labs Inc.

DEMOCRACY SPONSOR ($50)

  • Michael Liszniansky

VALUED FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS

  • American Nationalities Movement
  • City of Parma Service Department
  • City of Brecksville Service Department
  • City of Parma Fire Department
  • Parma Police Auxiliary Unit
  • John Doyle
  • FASTSIGNS
  • Chaikovsky Productions LLC
  • Honey Hut Ice Cream
  • Bob Gilligham Ford
  • Giant Eagle (Snow Road)
  • Serpentini Chevrolet
  • Flower Entertainment, Inc

The Ukrainian Village Parade Committee is very excited to cast our eyes to the future as we begin planning the next phase of beautifying the “Ukrainian Heritage Park” within our beloved Ukrainian Village in Parma, Oh. With your generous sponsorship, Ukrainian Village will continue to spotlight this historic Parma neighborhood and robust Ukrainian community.

Ukrainian Independence Day Parade Sponsors 2023 (PDF)

Parma’s Ukrainian Village highlighted as neighborhood that is growing stronger, respects its past

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Interesting new article highlighting the unique character of Parma’s Ukrainian Village, from the perspective of George Mount, a new Parma resident:

There’s an effort in Cleveland to recreate what it once was: a city of integrated neighborhoods valuing culture, family, and civic pride. But I often feel no sense of continuity with the past in these urban enclaves. Few of the hippest restaurants and coffee shops have been around for more than a few years. Emblematic of this difficulty to integrate the past are posh condominiums repurposed from closed schools and factories.

It’s great to breathe new life into these structures, but unfortunate that many longtime residents, likely alumni of West Tech or long-ago Eveready employees, can’t afford these luxury dwellings. This fracturing could make you wonder: can the neighborhoods of Cleveland grow stronger while respecting the past?

I believe the answer is “yes,” and the proof is right over the 480 bridge at State Road. It’s a place many urban pioneers reactively call the opposite of cool…

…Ukrainian Village, on the town’s northern border, is a classic inner-ring suburban neighborhood. Unlike many others, it is livable in its own right, proving that there is a way to combine old-world customs, livable neighborhoods, and affordable housing.

(excerpted from The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook )

Read the entire article at: http://beltmag.com/opposite-cool-parmas-ukrainian-village/

Ukrainians rally against Russian invasion of Crimea

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Heartache for Ukraine.

Fresh-baked Lenten paczkis, Ukrainian-style, cooled on a counter inside Lviv International Foods Monday afternoon, near the samples of cured ham and kielbasa scattered on paper plates.

Preoccupied customers were slow to help themselves. Most were busy raising the issue of the moment–Russian troops in Ukraine–and what it was doing to their blood pressures and to their families.

“We’re all going crazy,” said Luda Popudnyk of Parma, a worried mother who stopped into the ethnic grocery in Parma’s Ukrainian Village.

“Everybody is tense,” she said. “Everybody’s afraid of everything. Nobody wants a war.”

That was the feeling in immigrant-owned businesses up and down State Road Monday, in a commercial district anchored by stately Ukrainian churches and cathedrals.

Many of those houses of worship have been scenes of hurried prayer vigils, community meetings and strategy sessions in recent weeks–ever since Kiev exploded in anti-government protests in mid January.

A recent change of government aroused Russian ire and Russian troops. Now the region’s Ukrainian American community, Ohio’s largest, is trying to respond to a crisis few saw coming.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/03/ukrainians_in_cleveland_rally.html