Gingerbread houses are sweetfundraiser at Great Northern Mall
With ideas ranging from dog bone reindeer to a familiar Cleveland leg lamp, bakers put their creativity to the test at Gingerbread Lane in North Olmsted’s Great Northern Mall.
“The founders of Welcome House and West Haven, the Steudel Family, had envisioned that persons with DD could live in group homes or family style homes that replicated as close as possible the kind of living that they were used to growing up.”
With ideas ranging from dog bone reindeer to a familiar Cleveland leg lamp, bakers put their creativity to the test at Gingerbread Lane in North Olmsted’s Great Northern Mall.
It’s been 40 years since Welcome House opened the first group home for men with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Cuyahoga County. Before then, the only options loved ones had were large institutions.
WKYC,s Joe Cronauer reports from Great Northern Mall to cover the 2012 Gingerbread Lane
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