Marilyn Burns sits at her kitchen table on a cold December afternoon. As I enter her home, she greets me with a hug. She is in the process of planning a brunch for some of her closest friends.
“We are going to have salmon, salad, fruit, dessert and so many other things,” she said. “I’m making everything from scratch.” Cooking and entertaining for her loved ones is something that Burns loves to do in her spare time. She finds a dash of irony in being nominated for Signal Cleveland’s mayor of the block.
“You know it’s funny, when I’ve been out and about with the mayor [Justin Bibb], he always tells people, ‘I may be the mayor of Cleveland, but Ms. Burns is the mayor of Woodhill,’” she said with a soft laugh as she finished her grocery list…