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Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Released Friday, 16th December 2016
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Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Christmas Eve is the Big Day for Cleveland's Polish-American Community

Friday, 16th December 2016
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It’s not Christmas Day itself. It’s the day before that’s most important to Poles and Polish-Americans. Christmas Eve is the traditional time for faith, family and food. But in Cleveland a couple weeks before the big day, there’s a sort of rehearsal dinner. That’s where WKSU’s Vivian Goodman takes us for today’s Quick Bite. Three Ohio cities -- Toledo, Parma and Cleveland -- are among the top 20 in the U.S. with the largest Polish-American populations. In Cleveland, the heart of the community is in Slavic Village at the Polish- American Cultural Center. “I always say this is Polish home," says Case Western Reserve social work professor Richard Romaniuk, who emigrated to Cleveland in 1988. Like home Ten years later when this building at East 65th and Lansing Avenue opened its doors, Romaniuk was one of the first ones in. He treasures this place, and today, with cooks busy in the kitchen and friends and family gathering in the dining hall, he says it’s beginning to look a lot like a
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