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Michelle Simakis
Thursday, December 4, 2014
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Michelle Simakis is editor of
Garden Center
magazine, a trade publication serving independent garden center retailers and lives in Cleveland. She has also covered Cleveland Heights for Patch.com, an online community news source.
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