🍖 Flashfood At Giant Eagle + Brycen Gray Bill Passes U.S. House + Cleveland Orchestra

We've got 10 things to do in Greater Cleveland in this edition of the Daily, plus these top stories:

• There's an app to help Giant Eagle shoppers find some deals
• Rebecca Maurer's Cleveland City Council transparency impresses
• Brycen Gray bill passes U.S. House

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Giant Eagle Bringing Flashfood App To All Its Stores Here

1) Giant Eagle is bringing Flashfood — an app that helps shoppers find and buy discounted meat, yogurt and other perishable foods close to their expiration date — to all of its 173 Giant Eagle and Market District stores. Early tests here helped save thousands of pounds of food from going to waste and helps shoppers save on their grocery bill. The app will be available in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Cleveland.com

2) Rebecca Maurer, a freshman on the Cleveland City Council, is setting the standard for transparency, reports Sam Allard for Cleveland Scene. Her ward office released data that shows how she spends her day — as well as the sheer volume of constituent calls she receives seeking city services — and recommendations for how City Hall could better respond to residents' needs. She's six months into her four-year term.

Cleveland Scene

3) Brycen Gray, a St. Edward High School student, ended his own life in 2021 as he suffered depression brought on by a bout of COVID-19. The U.S. House this week passed Brycen Gray and Ben Price COVID-19 Neurological Impact Act on a bipartisan 350-69 vote. Research funded by the bill, sponsored by Republican Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, could bring us closer to learning how the coronavirus affects the brain. U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan voted against the Brycen Gray bill.

3News WKYC

4) The street artist known as Birdcap, aka Michael Roy, is in Cleveland all week to paint an abstract mural on Stella Maris, the addiction and mental health treatment service, in the Flats West Bank. Graffiti HeArt brought him to town. Graffiti HeArt is responsible for more than 40 public murals in Northeast Ohio and raised more than $100,000 in scholarships for high school students at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

FreshWater Cleveland | Birdcap.store

5) The Blossom Festival Chorus has been scrubbed from the Cleveland Orchestra's Aug. 7 show at Blossom Music Center because several chorus members have COVID-19. They planned to perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy / "Choral" Symphony No. 9. The event will go on without the chorus, and the program will change.

Cleveland.com

5 Headlines You Need To See

• Jurors watch 18-year-old woman confess to killing off-duty Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek (Cleveland.com)
• Cleveland police detective, facing scrutiny, is censured by civilian review board (Cleveland.com)
• Construction of Sherwin-Williams' new global headquarters in Cleveland: Where the 36-floor project stands right now (3News WKYC)
• J.Crew Factory store opening at Legacy Village in the fall (Cleveland.com)
• Shaker Heights new $15,000 electric sit-down mower attracts colleges intrigued by the green machine (Cleveland.com)

Cleveland Chatter

• "𝟕 reasons to play as the Browns in Madden23 👀 📈" (Cleveland Browns via Instagram)
• USA Today says the Browns will go 6-11 this season. "This was just a DISRESPECTFUL prediction for the Cleveland Browns 😤" (Heavy on Browns via Facebook)
• "Want to be the best part of a dog's day? Then volunteer with CITY DOGS! The first step to volunteering with us is to attend a City Dogs New Volunteer Orientation and the next one coming up is this Saturday, July 30 at 3:00!" (City Dogs Cleveland via Facebook)
• "Our first weekend of The Learned Ladies has come and gone BUT FRET NOT we still have two weekends of the FREE, fun, romance-filled romp! Check our tour list at cleveshakes.org/tourguide to see if our next venue is near you!" (The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival via Facebook)
• "Registration for the 2023 Classic Car Show at the #CLEAutoShow is now open! Submit your info and picture at www.clevelandautoshow.com/classic_car" (Cleveland Auto Show via Facebook)

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Correction: Bennett Haeberle, a reporter for WBNS in Columbus, was misidentified in Tuesday's edition as working for another news outlet.

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