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34 WWW.SHAKERONLINE.COM The Fowler family at their Drummond Road home. PHOTO BY GREEN STREET STUDIO.
mental values of the city, the caring about the community and education, are homogenous. We want to be with our neighbors, we care about family, community, schools. It is self-perpetuating. In most places, you get the flip: more homogenous, but values all over the place,” notes Clark. “The fact that my brothers and friends from school found their way back here was reassuring. I looked at what I value and know that they share the same set of values,” says Kevin about his decision to come back. Though their own baseball playing days have been interrupted by the obligations of adulthood, their love of the game has not been left behind. Last spring, as the grass started growing and the frost gave way to dew, Clark and Kevin gleefully corralled a gaggle of nine-year-old boys, including some young Khayats, placed them on the field and began hitting pop-flys and grounders to them. On any given evening, Tim would wander over to the field to cheer on the team or to keep their mother, Anita Khayat, company as she watched her sons and grandsons play ball. Ever the dedicated coaches, Clark and Kevin steered the “Lookouts” deep into the playoffs. While the team didn’t take home the trophy, they did take home a love of the game and a summer full of memories. And sure enough, life comes full circle. Fowlers: It’s all about location and people “I love walking the kids to school,” says Mity Fowler, who along with husband Jef and three children, are relative newcomers to Shaker (Jef actually lived here until he was three months old). They aren’t, however, newcomers to neighborhoods where kids play outside and neighbors know each other. “This feels like where we grew up,” says Jef. Both Mity and Jef grew up in suburbs along Chicago’s North Shore where there was an emphasis on superior schools and neighborhoods. The Fowlers were specifically looking to recreate that strong sense of community for their own children. When they relocated from Charlotte, North Carolina for Jef ’s job at Key- Bank, they looked around at many other suburbs, but they landed here. Location and people were the driving forces behind their decision. The close proximity to downtown Cleveland, University Circle and its array of cultural institutions had great appeal. “If we were farther away, how often would we really use these things” ponders Jef. Now, they take advantage SHAKER LIFE DECEMBER | JANUARY 2013 35
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