[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 10198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         IN HONOR OF THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PLANTATION HOME

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 27, 2012

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor David Stein on the 
occasion of the tenth anniversary of his interior design business, 
Plantation Home. Located in downtown Lakewood, Plantation Home offers a 
unique selection of home furnishings, gifts and accessories. At a time 
when scores of companies have closed their doors due to turbulent 
economic upheaval, Plantation Home has weathered those hardships and 
continues to be one of Lakewood's most successful and community driven 
companies.
   Mr. Stein has graciously committed himself to the betterment of the 
Lakewood community in which he has lived since 1989. Stein has been a 
sponsor of the Lakewood Relay for Life, contributes to the Beck Center 
for Performing Arts, opened his home for the Lakewood Historical 
Society Home and Garden Tour and served on the City of Lakewood 
Community Relations Board where he designed a program to establish 
modern and artistic bus stops. He is the current board President of the 
Downtown Lakewood Business Alliance where he directs efforts to 
revitalize and enrich the merchant environment with efforts including a 
City Wide Street Sale, Spring Stroll and Fashion Show, Streetwalk, 
Chocolate Walk, Gingerbread House Tour and Scavenger Hunt and ``Light 
Up Lakewood'' during the holiday season--an effort to create 
beautifully decorated storefront windows reminiscent of Cleveland's 
downtown department store windows of years past. Annually, he awards a 
$500 scholarship to one boy and one girl, the king and queen of the 
Light Up Lakewood festival, to put toward college, asking only that 
they dedicate 20 hours of community service to Lakewood in return.
   Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in honoring Mr. Stein for 
his leadership, loyalty, civic pride and above all, caring for his 
community and what he and his business has meant to the City of 
Lakewood and Northeast Ohio for the past ten years.

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