What's Not to 'Like?'
Get to Know the Very Social Side of the Onaway Community in Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights residents are getting to know their neighbors better through a Facebook group — all 380+ of them.
There's a strong sense of community in a section of Shaker Heights that has been heightened by the creation of a Facebook group — the Onaway Community Organization. The person responsible for creating the social hangout is Maria Vitullo Holcomb. She said she started the page in 2008. Before that, the group of residents communicated via meetings, phone calls and flyers. (That's so five years ago.) "As Facebook developed and improved [its] group presence, it only made sense to bring this organization into the new millennium," said Holcomb. "Emily Braman is our official leader and has been for years. At the time she had a bunch of little kids and not so much time. I knew this could help so she was one of the first 60 or so neighbors I …
