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East Cleveland Theater presents August Wilson's play "Fences", a story of a former star of the Negro Baseball League who is working as a garbage man in 1957.

The performance and special reception will benefit the Windermere Renaissance Corporation (WR) was chartered as an Ohio non-profit corporation on August 20, 2004. It is sponsored by the Windermere Taskforce/East Cleveland Initiative.

This parent Taskforce had been organized in 2000 by Methodist and civic leadership in order to (1) repair and refurbish Windermere United Methodist Church for religious and community service, (2) to initiate professional family service programs and other services from the church facilities, and (3) to stimulate the physical and social redevelopment of the Windermere neighborhood in East Cleveland.

The Taskforce has raised and spent more than $3,000,000 for physical repairs to the church building and new child-care and family service programs from the church. Rev. Donald Lefelar, who served as Windermere Church pastor from 1974 to 1980, is the chairman of the taskforce. While church refurbishing and program development continue, the Windermere Taskforce decided last summer that it was ready to explore the development of new housing and other facilities in the neighborhood. It organized an independent corporation for this purpose.