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Advertisement -  « News Home  Dozens help beautify the Idora
neighborhood area today  Published: Sat, November 13, 2010 @
10:17 p.m.   At first glance, the small rectangular lot at
Parkview Avenue and Volney Road on the city’s South Side looks
sparse and desolate.  Tufts of yellowing grass look like small
islands surrounded by dirt spots, with intermittent skeletal
remains of weeds. A few small bushes with bright berries are
scattered about, and fallen leaves nearly obscure sections of
tall grass.  None of that, however, tells the story of
neighborhood transformation; the cluster of 6-inch holes in the
ground does that.  “This neighborhood has had it rough,”
observed Victoria Rusu, an officer with the Youngstown
Neighborhood Development Corp. “[Residents] want their
neighborhood to be beautiful and want their homes and lots
cleaned up.”  Rusu and five others were filling the holes with
columbine,