I didn\u2019t write that. Cleveland.com and Plain Dealer<\/em> reporter Steven Litt did. [“Removing Horseshoe Lake Dam releases a torrent of potential,\u201d July 29.] In 2019, before the lake was drained, Horseshoe Lake was a \u201cliving room.\u201d It was homey — a throwback to an era when people walked around a lot and bumped into each other. Like what we still do at the grocery store. Say, Zagara\u2019s grocery store in Cleveland Heights, except no Cheerios and soy milk at Horseshoe Lake. Only warblers, herons, ducks and sunsets. Free, too.<\/p>\n Litt wants to demolish this living room. Litt favors the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District\u2019s plan to turn the lake into two streams. We already have miles of streams! We have the Nature Center at Shaker Lake right next door, with its boardwalk, gazebo and illustrative signs.<\/p>\n The other<\/strong> <\/span>day I was at Cumberland Pool, Cleveland Heights. Johnny Weissmuller once swam there. The pool is a treasure. Why? Because it looks like it did when Johnny Weissmuller swam there. Some things of beauty should stay the same. Want to knock down the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s 1916 main building and give it a re-make? Would we sell the museum’s painting \u201cStag at Sharkey\u2019s\u201d by George Bellows?<\/p>\n Nobody ever lost his life in a flood at Shaker Lakes. Why are we going nanny-state to make sure the dam is 110% safe? Again, nobody ever — in the Heights or University Circle \u2013 lost her life in a flood in the 170-year history of the man-made Shaker Lakes and dam. There is this Talmudic precept \u201cwhoever saves one life, saves the entire world.\u201d But come on, this coddling is ridiculous. The sewer district fears flooding under the Rapid Transit bridge in University Circle, where there is one apartment building \u2013 one \u2013 that might get flooded. Somebody should buy that old University Circle brick apartment building and vacate the ground floor; pour concrete in it; and call it a day. (I\u2019m doing that tomorrow! joke<\/small>) Then the old building will look like the science fortresses around that part of University Circle. We\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n The sewer board hired a landscape architect from Cambridge, Mass. One of the firm\u2019s owners is Lauren Stimson, who according to the website, \u201chas a deep love for New England, where she was raised, and an interest in the overlap between the built environment and the rural landscape.\u201d Gotta love New England. And here in Cleveland, we have locals with a deep love of Cleveland — locals with the common sense to realize we have a beautiful lake, and it should stay that way.<\/p>\n The Friends<\/strong><\/span> of Horseshoe Lake has hired an engineering firm, public-relations firm, and a law firm to fight for the preservation of Horseshoe Lake. Don\u2019t be misled by the sewer people and the Plain Dealer<\/em>. Check out SaveHorseshoeLake.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"horseshoe](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/horseshoe-lake.-lucy-photo-300x225.jpg\")
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