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The Clothes Closet in Ma-deira will shut its doors Aug. 1,ending 20 years in the Hos-brook House in the MadeiraHistoric District and morethan 50 years in operation.

The Madeira Woman’s Club,the non-profit organizationthat operates the shop, said thegroup cannot afford the high-er, market-rate lease sought bythe city of Madeira.

“It was more than we couldafford,” club member Mary JoMorgan said at the ClothesCloset April 23, the day afterthe club made the decision toclose the second-hand clothingshop, which was been in theHosbrook House since 1994.

The market lease amount,based on square footage, is$18,684 annually or $1,557 amonth, according to NorthRidge Realty Group’s contractwith Madeira. The Woman’sClub has been paying $300 amonth on a month-to-monthlease. The city is asking newtenants for a five-year commit-ment.

“I know I speak for all ofcity council when I say we verymuch appreciate all of the timeand effort the Madeira Wom-

an’s Club has given to our com-munity. The thousands of dol-lars they have raised throughthe years have benefited chari-table organizations as well asindividuals who have receivedscholarship,” City ManagerTom Moeller wrote in the state-ment from the city.

One of the tasks given toNorth Ridge Realty Group,hired as leasing agent agentand property manager of theMadeira Historic District, was

to determine the market leaseamount for the three proper-ties that include the HosbrookHouse, Muchmore House andMadeira Train Depot.

The train depot’s new annu-al lease amount is $28,996, upfrom $18,000, and the Much-more houses is $29,844, upfrom $15,000. Current Much-more House tenant Creativi-ties owner Christine Parkerhas said she would be interest-ed in leasing both houses to ex-pand her business if the wom-an’s club were to leave.

“They are a wonderful or-ganization and deserve a tre-mendous amount of applausefrom the entire Madeira com-munity for all they have ac-complished and will continueto accomplish,” Moeller wrotein the city’s statement.

Members of the club saidthe Clothes Closet closing willnot be the end of the club, butwill be the end of an era. Mem-ber Ruth Anne Kinney said theclub is looking for a place tostore things and have smallclub meetings. The ClothesCloset has been operating indifferent locations in the citysince 1961.

“We have a lot of camarade-

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The Clothes Closet, operated by the Madeira Woman's Club, sells secondhand clothing. Half the proceeds goback to the owner and the other half goes to the club's fundraising efforts.

Clothes Closetto close in AugustMarika [email protected]


A sign hangs in the Clothes Closetannouncing its closing on Aug. 1.The second-hand store, which isoperated by the Madeira Woman’sClub, has been in the Hosbrookhouse since 1994.

See CLOSET, Page 2A

The Madeira Police Depart-ment is asking for the public’shelp to protect neighborhoodsafter a string of daytime bur-glaries.

“We would like to have peo-ple look out and call us. The big-gest thing I hear all the time is, ‘Ididn’t want to bother you.’ Youare not bothering us. Please callus so we can check these thingsout,” Police Chief Frank Maupinsaid.

There have been three day-time burglaries in Madeira inthe last two weeks, he said.

The first burglary was of ahome on Juler Avenue between7:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. on March 15.A rear window of the residencewas broken and electronicitems were taken. By April 23,the Madeira Police Departmentreported on its Facebook pagethat two more burglaries hadoccurred. One was on Juler Av-enue and the other was onJethve Lane. In both, windowswere used to gain entry, anditems such as jewelry and fire-arms were taken.

For the second burglary onJuler Avenue, Madeira policesaid on its Facebook page that ablack male in his 20s was seenentering the back yard of theresidence at about noon.

Maupin encouraged peopleto ensure their windows arelocked.

“Help us get the word out.Talk to your neighbors and seeif they are following the policedepartment’s Facebook pageand receiving emails from thecity. Encourage them to keep aneye out. With all of us workingtogether we will hopefully beable to put an end to these bur-glaries in the very near future,”Lt. Chris Zumbiel said in anemail.

The police department willhold a neighborhood watchmeeting focusing on Juler Ave-nue on April 30 at 7:30 p.m. atthe municipal building. The po-lice department is encouragingresidents who are looking tostart their own neighborhoodwatch group to attend the meet-ing or contact Zumbiel at 272-4214 or [email protected]

City Councilman KennethBorn commended the police de-partment for reaching out to cit-izens.

“Most of the guys have beentrained through crime preven-tion to make recommendationson how you can better secureyour house. Stuff like not hav-ing tall bushes or anything thatmakes it easy for someone toget into a window without beingseen. We are more than happy todo that,” Maupin said.

Want to know more about what ishappening in Madeira? Follow Mari-ka Lee on Twitter: @ReporterMarika

Madeira Policeasking for public'shelp with crimepreventionMarika [email protected]


The Madeira Police Department is asking residents look out for suspiciouspeople in their neighbors as a result of daytime burglaries, two of whichhappens on Juler Avenue.

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rie because we work here.Without it, it won’t be thesame,” member Bev Clo-ran said.

Club members said theClothes Closet has helpedsupplement the club’sphilanthropic efforts bybringing in more moneyto fix benches in the city

or giving clothes to fam-ilies in need.

“Things move on. It isup to us to come up with anew way to make money,so we can give it away.That is what a civic groupdoes,” Morgan said.

Want to know more aboutwhat is happening in Madei-ra? Follow Marika Lee onTwitter: @ReporterMarika

ClosetContinued from Page 1A

THE CLOTHES CLOSET HISTORY 1961: The Madeira Woman’s Club’s second-hand

clothing store starts in the basement of the MadeiraMunicipal Building

1964: The store moves to 7722 Railroad Avenue1987: The store moves to a location on Goff Terrace1994: The club starts negotiations with the city to

move into the Hosbrook house. Sept. 5, 1995: The store opens in the Hosbrook house

under the name The Clothes ClosetApril 23, 2015: The woman’s club makes the decision

to close the store. It’s last day will be Aug. 1.

luncheon/general mem-bership meeting at 11:30a.m. Tuesday, May 11, atThe Seasons on Montgo-mery Road.

The club will host theluncheon and will awardthree Madeira highschool students with$2,000 scholarships. Af-ter the luncheon a gener-al membership meetingwill take place and thenew slot of club officerswill be sworn in for theupcoming year.

Following the ceremo-ny, the Madeira Woman

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Star Games in Cincinnati(or other cities)? Whathas baseball meant toyou; what does it mean toyou now? Share photos ifhave them. Email [email protected].

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Madeira Woman’sClub meets May 11

The Madeira Woman’sClub will hold its May

of the Year will be an-nounced.

If you are interestedin attending the lun-cheon, please call 561-2117 for information.

Troubadors needvoices

Do you like to sing?The Troubadours enter-tain at nursing homesand retirement centers.

They have openingsfor a few more voices –both male and female. Ifinterested, contact Leah

Cohen at 779-4800 [email protected].

Club seeks to helpveteran

The Madeira Woman’sClub would like to find alocal veteran, especiallyin Madeira, who mayneed some sort of help,other than financial, thatthe club can help pro-vide. Anyone with infor-mation on whom to con-tact, email Rhonda Ste-phens at [email protected].

BRIEFLY

Indian Hill MiddleSchool Assistant Princi-pal Bridgette Ridley willserve as the new principalof the school.

Ridley was unanimous-ly approved by the boardto fill the position.

“Bridgette Ridley hasbeen and will continue to ba fantastic leader at themiddle School,” said Su-perintendent Mark Miles.“(She) will continue tobring a passion and enthu-siasm for students andstaff.”

Miles said more than70 people applied for theprincipal position.

Ridley will succeedPrincipal Josh Kauffman,who accepted a position asprincipal at Milford HighSchool. She will start asthe new principal in Au-gust.

“It’s an honor to be ableto make a difference on alarger scale and support aschool that has greatteachers,” Ridley said.

Ridley has served asassistant principal forthree years and prior tothat had been a fifth-grade teacher at IndianHill Middle School. Shehas also served as a teach-er in the Three Rivers Lo-cal School District and inHillsborough County, Fla.

Ridley describes herleadership style as “stu-dent-centered.”

“The focus will con-tinue to be on recognizingthe academic strengths ofindividual students,” Rid-ley said.

Among Ridley’s inter-ests are baton twirling.She’s a national and worldcompetitive baton twirl-ing champion and alsoserves a s a baton twirlingchoreographer.

She is a resident ofBridgetown.

Indian Hill Middle Schoolwill have a new principalForrest [email protected]

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“She’s special” seemsto be the overwhelmingopinion of a group of Ma-deira Elementary Schoolfirst-graders regardingtheir teacher, MeganMcKee.

“She does things othersdon’t do,” student LukeFeldmeyer said. “We doexperiments that otherkids don’t do. They turnout really well.”

McKee is the MadeiraCity School District’s 2015Educator of the Year. Shewill represent Madeira atthe annual HamiltonCounty Education Founda-tion’s “Celebrate Excel-lence” award ceremony inMay.

“I’m very proud of myteacher,” student AverySilvestain said. “She doesso many things for us.”

McKee is in her sixthyear of teaching, all in Ma-deira. She started in pre-school, then moved to sec-ond-grade and is in herfourth year of teachingfirst-grade.

When she learned thatshe was selected as Madei-ra’s Educator of the Year,she said she was shocked.

“I feel so honored. I amso lucky to be teaching at aschool with such wonder-ful teachers, families andstudents,” McKee said. “Ithink every teacher in thedistrict deserves thisaward.”

Clearly teaching is herpassion and her destiny.

McKee grew up innorthern Ohio in the Find-lay area. Her mother, JulieNiswander, was a teacher.

“I always knew I want-ed to be a teacher,” shesaid. Using her mom’s old

school supplies and books,McKee said that she regu-larly played school.

“I was always theteacher. Never the stu-dent. That was pretty tell-ing,” she said.

McKee lives in MountLookout and looks for-ward to each day shespends with her students.She has 23 children to“laugh and learn with ev-ery day,” she said.

The “Celebrate Excel-lence” award ceremonywill be May 15.

The event recognizesand honors excellent edu-cators throughout the pub-lic school districts ofHamilton County. Pasthonorees have includedspecial education adminis-trators, music directors,principals, interventionspecialists and guidancecounselors in addition toteachers.

Madeira namesMcKee asEducator of YearSheila [email protected]

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Madeira Elementary Schoolfirst grade teacher MeganMcKee works with herstudents. She was recentlynamed Madeira's 2015Educator of the Year.

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Madeira's 2015 Educator ofthe Year, Megan McKee,works with SimonHemmerick on a nonfictionresearch project. She workedone-on-one with each of herstudents.

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There’s one in Chi-cago, one in Louisvilleand another in Cleveland.

Now it seems GreaterCincinnati – Blue Ash tobe exact – may be next inline to build a bike park.

We’re not talking amountain bike trailthrough the woods, but anarea, a training course ofsorts, for mountain bik-ers of all ages and levelsof skill.

A conceptual plan fora bike park was unveiledto the public for the firsttime Sunday at the annu-al meeting of the Cincin-nati Off-Road Alliance, agrass-roots group of cy-cling enthusiasts whopromote and maintainmore than 60 miles ofmountain bike trailsaround Southwest Ohioand Northern Kentucky.

Plans are in the begin-ning stages, said BlueAsh Parks and Recrea-tion employee BrianKruse, the operatingmanager of SummitPark, where the bikepark is planned on thenow partially redevel-oped Cincinnati-Blue AshAirport property.

Kruse believes a bikepark would continue todistinguish Summit Parkas a destination for indi-viduals and familiesaround the region,unique to any other in thearea.

“This is a pie-in-the-sky plan,” Kruse said.“But if the communitywants it and we can raisethe money, we can do it.”

Summit Park openedin August. The $75 mil-lion park encompasses130 acres and today in-cludes an open-endedplay Children’s Play-ground, great lawn, quar-ter-mile trail, restroomsand some communitymeeting spaces.

A giant performancestage – which will hostthe Buckle Up countrymusic festival in 2016,Taste of Blue Ash, andother concerts andevents – will be complet-ed in May.

Phase two should becompleted by the fall andincludes a 17,000-square-foot community building,indoor and outdoor glasscanopy and a plaza thatwill include a 4,000-square-foot space for theBrown Dog Café restau-rant.

The city paid a littlemore than $15,000 for theconceptual plan for thebike park, Kruse said,and the feature was sug-gested by Blue Ash citi-

zens during a rewrite ofthe city’s parks and rec-reation master plan a fewyears ago.

“I’m pretty confidentthat we will have somesort of bike park elementwithin two to threeyears,” Kruse said.

The complete concep-tual design as presentedwould likely cost around$1 million, Kruse said.But it could be built pieceby piece or not include allthe suggested features,which include a cyclo-cross training area, askills station and pavilionwhere parents can watchtheir kids on the course.What is built depends onthe support from thecommunity and Blue Ashelected officials, Krusesaid.

The Parks and Recrea-tion department will be-gin writing grant applica-tions soon, Kruse said,but there is no money setaside for the bike park,though some could be-come available in futurephases of park develop-ment.

Chicago, Louisville,Cleveland and TerreHaute are the only othercities in the Midwest witha bike park, said AndyWilliamson, Great LakesRegion director of the In-ternational Mountain Bi-cycling Association, butthey have become wildlypopular in other parts ofthe country.

Bicycling was themost popular outdoor ac-tivity among Americanyouth in 2012 and thethird-most popular foradults, according to anOutdoor Foundation’s re-port on Outdoor Recrea-tion Participation, Wil-liamson (a 1998 ColerainHigh School graduate)pointed out.

“The really big changein the last 20-plus years isthat municipalities arenow contributing in theseefforts,” Williamsonsaid. “We are no longerhaving to beg for accessand do it on the backs ofour volunteers. We havecommunities and coun-ties and park districts ...like Blue Ash … that arestarting to recognize thevalue.”

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The first phase of Summit Park is now open, with a great lawnand children’s play area. Blue Ash Parks and Recreation is nowconsidering adding a bike park, which would be unlikeanything in the area, shown to the left of the tower in thisrendering.

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Some of the visions for the bike park in Blue Ash’s SummitPark include skill stations, like this concept, where riders learnto bike on rock surfaces, bridges and single track paths.

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Dirt jumps are on the list of possibilities for a proposed bikepark in Blue Ash. It would be built on the partiallyredeveloped Cincinnati-Blue Ash Airport property.

Region’s firstbike park inthe worksCarrie Blackmore [email protected]

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SCHOOLSSCHOOLSACHIEVEMENTS | NEWS | ACTIVITIES | HONORS CommunityPress.com

SUBURBANLIFEEditor: Richard Maloney, [email protected], 248-7134

Madeira High School

» Madeira High School stu-dent Lydia Seiter’s won’t bepaying to study chemical engi-neering at Ohio University.

Seiter was awarded theRuss Legacy-Cutler ScholarAward, a full,four-year under-graduate schol-arship to attendOhio University.

The awardprovides a fullscholarship,

which will go towards tuition,room and board, as well asstipends to cover summerenrichment experiences thatinclude outdoor leadership,public service, a business man-agement internship, and inter-national experiences.

A member of National Hon-or Society as well as an APscholar with honor, Seiter isone of the top students in herclass.

She has also won the SeifertAward for a 4.0 GPA or higherevery year of high school.Seiter was a member of LatinClub every year of high schooland served as social chair hersophomore and junior year,and president her senior year.

Seiter played in the MadeiraHigh School band each yearand served as a section leaderher junior and senior year.

She was a varsity cheerlead-er and was captain her senioryear.

Mount Notre Dame HighSchool

» Mount Notre Dame stu-dents traveled to Liberty,Ky.,for a unique service trip expe-rience - one that would allowthem to reboot, reflect andreconnect with God.

Liberty is a small towntucked into the hills of centralKentucky and home to manypeople who live lives focusedon simplicity and faith. Thisyear, 38 students and eightchaperones went to experiencethe way of life in Liberty. Forthe past three years, studentsand faculty from Seton HighSchool have joined MND ontrips to Liberty. This trip, 13students and four chaperonesfrom Seton accompaniedMND.

While in Liberty, the groupworked on several organicfarms (picking, planting, sort-ing, watering, preparing theground, trimming), helpedelderly and disabled friendswith chores, spent time withresidents at the non-profitGalilean Children’s Home,shoveled manure, helped withconstruction projects, assisteda local Catholic church withprojects, visited Amishfriends, and much more.

“During this trip, I noticedso many people who were liv-ing their lives so simply yetfully,” sophomore Chloe Mar-klay of West Chester Town-ship, who participated in hersecond Liberty trip, said. “Ithink it is important to realizethat you don’t need a lot in lifeto be complete. Sometimes theless we have allows us to seehow much we truly have.”

MND makes the trip toLiberty three to four times ayear, and they often make aChristmas visit to see the localplay. Todd Forman, MND fac-ulty member, has been takingstudents and adult chaperonesto Liberty since 1988. This isForman’s eighth year at MNDand this was MND’s 28th trip.

» Members of Mount NotreDame’s Theatre Program trav-eled to New York City to expe-rience the sights, sounds andstages of the Big Apple.

Ninety-nine travelers, in-cluding 64 students and 35adults, made the trip – the firstof its kind for the program.

The trip allowed students tomeet and talk with actors andtechnicians. The group metwith a performer from “AGentleman’s Guide to Love andMurder.”

The group also attended two90 minute question-and-answerforums. One forum exposedthe group to the artistic side ofBroadway and included a dem-onstration from a make-upsupervisor who did work for“Mary Poppins.” The other

forum exposed the group to thetechnical side of Broadwayand included the expertise ofan off-Broadway lighting/sound designer as well as thestage manager for “On theTown.”

Tthe group took in severalBroadway and off-Broadwayshows including “A Gentle-man’s Guide to Love and Mur-der,” “Into the Woods” and“Matilda.” They toured theLincoln Center for the Per-forming Arts as well as RadioCity Music Hall, where theymet a Rockette. Also on theitinerary were excursions tothe 9/11 Memorial, Statue ofLiberty, Empire State Building,Ellis Island, Times Square andGrand Central Terminal.

Senior Kelsey Day of WhiteOak reflected, “We truly expe-rienced everything that NewYork had to offer while grow-ing closer to each other as afamily. I learned so much that Iwill be able to take onto stageas I continue to do theater.”

Nate Pucke, MNDT direc-tor, recalled his favorite partas seeing the students’ faces

during intermission of the firstBroadway show. “They werefilled with amazement, excite-ment, joy and wonder. Thewhole reason I wanted to orga-nize this trip was so that stu-dents would be able to see aBroadway show, because forsome, they had never been orwould never be able to go,”Pucke said.

» Mount Notre Dame stu-dents were given an opportuni-ty to perform surgical tech-niques on cadaver legs throughthe assistance of Beacon Or-thopaedics & Sports Medicine.

Fifteen students selectedfrom MND’s anatomy andphysiology and AP biologyclasses visited the BeaconOrthopaedic Research & Edu-cation Foundation Lab for ahands-on experience.

The experience began withintroductions by the Beacondoctors followed by a lectureon the anatomy of the knee.

Students proceeded to“scrub in” and entered theoperating/lab room to find

three cadaver legs. One legwas dissected from the front,one was dissected from theback and the third was set upso that students could use thearthroscopic equipment. Stu-dents were shown arteries,veins, muscles, nerves, ten-dons, ligaments and layers ofthe skin. Students were alsoable to touch and feel the ca-daver legs by performing sur-gical techniques such as cut-ting, sawing and stitching.

This is the second yearMND has participated in thislearning lab, thanks to theefforts of faculty memberJennifer Glass

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pus students will have thechance to compete againstother top students in Ohio afterwinning medals in local andregional SkillsUSA competi-tion. The winning local ScarletOaks student is Sabrina Smith(welding, Deer Park HighSchool), bronze, welding.

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THURSDAY, MAY 7Art & Craft ClassesOpen Studio Oils with ChuckMarshall, 9:30 a.m. to noon,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,Tack Room. Bring current projectfor assessment and help; still lifesetups available. Ages 18 and up.$25. 404-3161; www.artatthe-barn.org. Mariemont.

Cooking ClassesSpring Buffet Dinner Partywith Marilyn Harris, 6:30-9p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344 Mont-gomery Road, Watch and learnas Marilyn makes some of herfavorite specialties. $60. Reserva-tions required. 489-6400;www.cookswaresonline.com.Symmes Township.

EducationAdult and Pediatric First Aidand CPR/AED, 6-8 p.m., BlueAsh Recreation Center, 4433Cooper Road, Become certifiedin adult and pediatric first aidand CPR/AED. $85, $55. Regis-tration required. Presented byAmerican Red Cross CincinnatiArea Chapter. 800-733-2767;redcross.org/take-a-class. BlueAsh.

Exercise ClassesZumba Class, 7-8 p.m., HartzellUnited Methodist Church, 8999Applewood Drive, $5. Presentedby Zumba with Ashley. 917-7475.Blue Ash.

CrossFit at Summit Park,5:30-6:30 p.m., Blue Ash SummitPark, 4335 Glendale-MilfordRoad, Great Lawn. Group fitnessclasses led by Blue Ash CrossFitevery Tuesday and Thursdayfrom May through July. Free.Presented by CrossFit Blue Ash.745-8550; crossfitblueash.com.Blue Ash.

Health / WellnessFree Liver Tumor TreatmentSeminar, 6-7:30 p.m., CancerSupport Community, 4918Cooper Road, Educational seriesdesigned to provide patientsand caregivers the opportunityto hear empowering story ofhope despite devastating diag-nosis. Free. Reservations recom-mended. Presented by YES! BeatLive Tumors. 877-937-7478;BeatLiverTumors.org. Blue Ash.

Making Changes: HealthyLifestyle Support Group, 7-8p.m., Crunchy Wellness, 10921Reed Hartman Hwy, Suite 314,10-week weight loss programand support group. Ages 18 andup. $120. Registration required.Presented by Alicia Elam. 546-7179. Blue Ash.

Literary - LibrariesStorybook Paper Roses, 6 p.m.,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Teensmake romantic storybook paperroses. April showers bring theseMay flowers, perfect for sweetieor Mom for Mother’s Day. Ages12-17. Free. 369-4476; www.cin-cinnatilibrary.org. Loveland.

Music - Big BandSwingin’ With Count Basie, 7-9p.m., Deer Park High School,8351 Plainfield Road, CrawfordAuditorium. Premiere perfor-mance of Big Joe Duskin Foun-dation Orchestra. Deer Park’sjazz band performs first, thenorchestra performs evening ofall Count Basie favorites. Bene-fits Deer Park High School musicprogram. $15, $10. Reservationsrecommended. Presented by BigJoe Duskin Music EducationFoundation. 891-0010; www.Big-JoeDuskin.org. Deer Park.

On Stage - ComedyJoe List, 8 p.m., Go BananasComedy Club, 8410 Market PlaceLane, $8-$14. 984-9288;www.gobananascomedy.com.Montgomery.

FRIDAY, MAY 8BenefitsHope for Camp SWONEKY, 6:30p.m., Kenwood Country Club,6501 Kenwood Road, Dinner,silent and live auction. BenefitsSalvation Army Camp SWONE-KY. $75. Reservations required.Presented by The Salvation Armyof Greater Cincinnati. 248-0033;[email protected].

Health / WellnessUC Health Mobile DiagnosticsMammography Screenings, 8a.m. to noon, Kroger Harper’sPoint, 11390 Montgomery Road,15-minute screenings. Pricevaries per insurance; financial

assistance available for thosewho qualify. Reservations re-quired. Presented by UC HealthMobile Diagnostics. 585-8266,ext. 1; uchealth.com/mobile-diagnostics. Symmes Township.

On Stage - ComedyJoe List, 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m., GoBananas Comedy Club, $8-$14.984-9288; www.gobananasco-medy.com. Montgomery.

On Stage - TheaterTwelve Angry Jurors, 8 p.m.,Walton Creek Theater, 4101Walton Creek Road, 19-year oldman has just stood trial for fatalstabbing of father. It looks likean open-and-shut case until onejuror begins opening others’eyes. $20. Presented by Marie-mont Players Inc.. Through May24. 684-1236; www.mariemont-players.com. Columbia Town-ship.

SATURDAY, MAY 9Art ExhibitsFeast for the Eyes, 1-4 p.m.,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Barn Gallery. 13 local artists,working in oils, acrylics, pastels,multimedia, and sculpture. Free.Through May 24. 272-3700;www.artatthebarn.org. Marie-mont.

Cooking ClassesSimple Health-Smart CookingClass, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,Cincinnati Nutrition CounselingCenter, 7400 Montgomery Road,Informal and interactive classseries to discover how healthyand tasty meals can be preparedquickly and simply. $139. Regis-tration required. Presented byCommuniversity at UC. ThroughMay 16. 556-6932; www.uc.edu/ce/commu. Silverton.

Dining EventsPrincess Tea Party, 2-4 p.m.,RSVP Event Center, 453 WardsCorner Road, A traditional HighTea will be served. Guests en-couraged to dress up and bringcameras. Benefits Kindervelt#76. $15. Reservations by May 4.965-0511, ext. 209; https://www.facebook.com/events/1422025268100187/.Loveland.

EducationBabysitter’s Training, 9 a.m. to4:30 p.m., Blue Ash RecreationCenter, 4433 Cooper Road,Become certified in babysitter’straining. $85. Registrationrequired. Presented by AmericanRed Cross Cincinnati Area Chap-ter. 800-733-2767; redcross.org/take-a-class. Blue Ash.

Exercise ClassesTai Chi and Qigong Class, 2-3p.m., Yoga Fit Boutique, 10776Montgomery Road, With MasterJerome Cook. Ages 16-99. $20.Registration required. 237-5330;www.want2gofit.com. Syca-more Township.

Garden ClubsThe Critical Role of PollinatorInsects, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.,Greenacres Environmental andAgriculture Center, 8680 SpookyHollow Road, Learn from ex-perts from the OSU ExtensionBee Lab and local beekeepers.Picnic on foods made possible bypollinators. $60. Reservationsrequired. Presented by GreaterCincinnati Master GardenerAssociation. 859-331-7454;mastergardener.org. Indian Hill.

Health / WellnessDiabetes Conversation Maps,10 a.m. to noon, Duck CreekYMCA, 5040 Kingsley Drive,Small group discussions of Type2 diabetes led by Jan Kellogg,certified diabetes educator. Free.Presented by Jan Kellogg. 791-0626. Duck Creek.

Literary - LibrariesBlock Party, 11 a.m., LovelandBranch Library, 649 Loveland-Madeira Road, Construct andcreate with library’s LEGOs. Free.369-4476; www.cincinnatilibra-ry.org. Loveland.

From Fabric to Final Stitch, 2p.m., Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,

Learn the basics, from whatfabrics works best to choosingright stitch to make quilt standout. Leave knowing how to startyour project. Ages 18 and up.Free. 369-4476. Loveland.

Music - ClassicalMusic at Ascension, 7:30 p.m.Violinist Andrew Sords., Ascen-sion Lutheran Church, 7333Pfeiffer Road, Sanctuary. Free,donations accepted. 793-3288.Montgomery.

On Stage - ComedyJoe List, 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m., GoBananas Comedy Club, $8-$14.984-9288; www.gobananasco-medy.com. Montgomery.

On Stage - TheaterTwelve Angry Jurors, 8 p.m.,Walton Creek Theater, $20.684-1236; www.mariemontplay-ers.com. Columbia Township.

SUNDAY, MAY 10Art ExhibitsFeast for the Eyes, 1-4 p.m.,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, Free. 272-3700; www.ar-tatthebarn.org. Mariemont.

AuditionsMary Poppins, 1-5 p.m., BlueAsh Amphitheatre, 4433 CooperRoad, Community theatergroup. Auditions open to andencouraged for all ages. Perfor-mance dates are August 6-9 and12-15. Free. Reservations recom-mended. Presented by East SidePlayers. Through May 17. 871-7427. Blue Ash.

On Stage - ComedyJoe List, 8 p.m., Go BananasComedy Club, $8-$14. 984-9288;www.gobananascomedy.com.Montgomery.


MONDAY, MAY 11Cooking ClassesHands-On with Dewey’s Pizzaand Chuck Lipp, 6:30-9 p.m.,Cooks’ Wares, 11344 Montgo-mery Road, Chuck Lipp showsup-close aspects of pizza tossingand pizza creating. He willdemonstrate and make a fewfor class to eat, and then workwith participants to help makeone to take home and bake forlater. $50. Reservations required.489-6400; www.cookswaresonli-ne.com. Symmes Township.

Health / WellnessUC Health Mobile DiagnosticsMammography Screenings, 9a.m. to 1 p.m., UC Health Pri-mary Care, 9275 MontgomeryRoad, Cost varies by insurance.Financial assistance available tothose who qualify. Registrationrequired. Presented by UCHealth Mobile Diagnostics.585-8266. Montgomery.

Literary - LibrariesPreschool Storytime, 10-11a.m., Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Enjoy books, songs, activities,crafts and more, while buildingearly literacy skills. For pre-schoolers and their caregivers.Ages 3-6. Free. 369-4476;www.cincinnatilibrary.org.Loveland.

Toddler Storytime, 11 a.m. tonoon, Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Encourage emerging languageskills with books, rhymes, crafts,music and fun. For ages 18-36months. Free. 369-4476. Love-land.

TUESDAY, MAY 12Cooking ClassesDueling Paellas from Paella atyour Place and Hector Esteve,6:30-9 p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, In additionto classic Paella Campesina withmeat, Hector makes vegetarianversion. $50. Reservations re-quired. 489-6400; www.cooks-waresonline.com. SymmesTownship.

Exercise ClassesZumba Class, 7-8 p.m., HartzellUnited Methodist Church, $5.917-7475. Blue Ash.

CrossFit at Summit Park,5:30-6:30 p.m., Blue Ash SummitPark, Free. 745-8550; cross-fitblueash.com. Blue Ash.

Health / WellnessUC Health Mobile DiagnosticsScreenings, 9 a.m. to noon,Sycamore Senior Center, 4455Carver Woods Drive, 15-minutescreenings. Price varies perinsurance; financial assistanceavailable for those who qualify.Reservations required. Presentedby UC Health Mobile Diag-nostics. 585-8266; uchealth.com/mobile-diagnostics. Blue Ash.

Home & GardenWeed Walk, 6:30-8 p.m., TurnerFarm, 7400 Given Road, Hikethrough organic fields andwoods. Learn to identify plantsthat are edible, useful, medicinalor simply beautiful, and ways tocontrol weeds without chem-icals. $15. Registration recom-mended. 561-7400; turnerfar-m.org. Indian Hill.

Support GroupsOvereaters Anonymous,7:30-8:30 p.m., MontgomeryAssembly of God, 7950 PfeifferRoad, Welcome to anyonewanting to stop eating com-pulsively. No dues or fees. Notaffiliated with any public orprivate organization, politicalmovement, ideology or religiousdoctrine. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Greater CincinnatiIntergroup Overeaters Anony-mous. 528-2275; cincin-natioa.org. Montgomery.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13Cooking ClassesDate Night-Dinner and Danc-ing: Salsa with Liliana Ge-bran, 6-9 p.m., Cooks’ Wares,11344 Montgomery Road, 30-minute dance lesson fromArthur Murray and cookinglesson from Liliana Gebran toget the Latin flavors just rightfor evening. Receive $100 giftcertificate from Arthur Murray’sfor further lessons. $140 percouple. Reservations required.489-6400; www.cookswaresonli-ne.com. Symmes Township.

Dining EventsSpring Cardinal Dinner, 6 p.m.,Cheers to Art!, 7700 CamargoRoad, Paint spring cardinalbefore walking to La PetitePierre for spring-themed dinnerwith wine. Ages 21 and up. $65.Reservations required. 271-2793;www.cheerstoart.com. Madeira.

EducationJournaling through Transi-tions, 1-3:30 p.m. Closing theDoor: Finding Peace with End-ings., Women Writing for aChange, 6906 Plainfield Road,Open to women, this 6-weekworkshop helps you recognizeand work through universal ortypical life transitions. Ages 18and up. $179. Registrationrequired. 272-1171; www.wo-menwriting.org. Silverton.

Exercise ClassesYoga at Summit Park, 5:30-6:30a.m., Blue Ash Summit Park,4335 Glendale-Milford Road,Great Lawn. Classes led by YogaAlive. Every Wednesday fromMay through October. Free.Presented by Yoga Alive Ken-wood. 745-8550; www.yogaali-ve.com. Blue Ash.

Farmers MarketFarmers Market, 3:30-7 p.m.,Blue Ash Summit Park, 4335Glendale-Milford Road, Varietyof food and products from localvendors. Free. Presented by Cityof Blue Ash. 745-8550;www.blueash.com. Blue Ash.

Literary - LibrariesToddler Playdate, 11 a.m. tonoon, Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Meet new friends and socializethrough unstructured play. Toysprovided. For ages 18 months-4years. Free. 369-4476; www.cin-cinnatilibrary.org. Loveland.

Support GroupsAl-Anon Meeting, noon to 1p.m., Good Shepherd LutheranChurch Kenwood, 7701 Ken-wood Road, Room 101. Fellow-ship of relatives and friends ofalcoholics who share theirexperience, strength and hopein order to solve common prob-lems. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Kenwood Al-Anon

Family Group. 947-3700. Ken-wood.

THURSDAY, MAY 14Art & Craft ClassesFundamentals of Drawing andPainting for Adults withMary Lou Holt, 9:30-12:30 p.m.,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Barn. Learn line drawingtechniques, basic eye/handcoordination and how to identi-fy positive and negative shapes.Light, shadow, tonal values andperspective taught using simpleshapes. Ages 18 and up. $220.226-3833; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

Open Studio Oils with ChuckMarshall, 9:30 a.m. to noon,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, $25. 404-3161; www.ar-tatthebarn.org. Mariemont.

Art EventsWatercolors of Nancy Sulli-van, 6-8 p.m., River Hills Chris-tian Church, 6300 Price Road,The Gallery. Reception forWarren County artist. Exhibitruns through June 14. Free.677-7600. Loveland.

BenefitsSwap for a Change, 6:30-9:30p.m., Stir Cincy, 7813 Ted Greg-ory Lane, Swap up to 5 of yourgently used ($50 retail value orabove) clothing, shoes, or acces-sory items for new-to-you itemsto refresh your closet. Desserts,drinks, and basket raffles. Ages21 and up. Benefits BethanyHouse Services. $25. Registrationrecommended. Presented bySwap for a Change. 833-4485.Montgomery.

Business Seminars”Montgomery HistoricalPreservation” Janet Korach,11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., WrightBrothers Inc., 7825 Cooper Road,Free. Presented by MontgomeryOhio Chamber of Commerce.502-6975; www.montgomeryo-hiochamberofcommerce.com.Montgomery.

”State of the City” WayneDavis, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,Wright Brothers Inc., 7825Cooper Road, Free. Presented byMontgomery Ohio Chamber ofCommerce. 502-6975;www.montgomeryohiochambe-rofcommerce.com. Montgo-mery.

Exercise ClassesZumba Class, 7-8 p.m., HartzellUnited Methodist Church, $5.917-7475. Blue Ash.

CrossFit at Summit Park,5:30-6:30 p.m., Blue Ash SummitPark, Free. 745-8550; cross-fitblueash.com. Blue Ash.

Health / WellnessMaking Changes: HealthyLifestyle Support Group, 7-8p.m., Crunchy Wellness, $120.Registration required. 546-7179.Blue Ash.

Literary - LibrariesTeen Writing Club, 6 p.m.,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Forteen writers interested in meet-ing other teen writers or lookingfor feedback from others. Ages12-17. Free. 369-4476; www.cin-cinnatilibrary.org. Loveland.

Music - ReligiousWatoto Children’s Choir, 7-8:30p.m., Sycamore PresbyterianChurch, 11800 Mason Road,Watoto Children’s Choir, or-phans from Uganda, presentdynamic worship experience.Benefits Watoto Children’sChoir. Free. 683-0254. SymmesTownship.

On Stage - ComedyTodd Yohn, 8 p.m., Go BananasComedy Club, 8410 Market PlaceLane, $8-$16. Reservationsrequired. 984-9288; www.goba-nanascomedy.com. Montgo-mery.

On Stage - TheaterTwelve Angry Jurors, 7:30 p.m.,Walton Creek Theater, $20.684-1236; www.mariemontplay-ers.com. Columbia Township.

RecreationTri-Chamber After HoursNetworking, 5-7 p.m., TheWorks Restaurant, 20 GrearMillitzer Lane, Join chambermembers from Loveland, Madei-ra and Milford Miami Townshipfor event on bike trail. $10, freefor members. Reservationsrequired. Presented by LovelandArea Chamber of Commerce.683-1544; www.lovelandcham-ber.org. Loveland.

FRIDAY, MAY 15EducationAdult and Pediatric First Aidand CPR/AED, 9-11 a.m., BlueAsh Recreation Center, $85, $55.Registration required. 800-733-2767; redcross.org/take-a-class.Blue Ash.

On Stage - ComedyTodd Yohn, 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m.,Go Bananas Comedy Club,$8-$16. Reservations required.984-9288; www.gobananasco-medy.com. Montgomery.


THINGS TO DO IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

ABOUT CALENDARTo submit calendar items, go to Cincinnati.com/share, log in

and click on “submit an event.” Send digital photos to [email protected] along with event information.Items are printed on a space-available basis with local eventstaking precedence. Deadline is two weeks before publicationdate.

To find more calendar events, go to Cincinnati.com/calendar.

CrossFit at Summit Park will be offered 5:30-6:30 p.m.Thursday, May 4, at on the Great Lawn at Blue Ash SummitPark, 4335 Glendale-Milford Road. These group fitness classesare led by Blue Ash CrossFit every Tuesday and Thursday fromMay through July. Admission is free. The class is offered byCrossFit Blue Ash. Call 745-8550; visit crossfitblueash.com.

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I’ve said this before: wherever I go Imeet interesting, passionate “foodies.”

Ann Kean, a creative foods teacher atMadeira High School, isone of those people. Annsaid she is truly fortunateto love her job. She wantsto make a difference, andshe does.

“My teenagers areanxious to make, bakeand cook anything. Theywant to make somethingeach and every day,” Anntold me. Ann has exposedher students to all kinds

of food, from quinoa to kale to one of myfavorites, cinnamon rolls.

I think this would be so nice for aMom’s day breakfast. Don’t you? Andfor all the moms in our community cir-cle of readers, both biological and other-wise, I hope you have a blessed Mother’sDay.

Readers want to knowWhen can I plant basil outside?When temperatures above the ground

and below are 60 degrees or more con-sistently. Mother’s Day is a safe bet forall tender annuals.

Rita Nader Heikenfeld is an herbalist, educator,Jungle Jim’s Eastgate culinary professional andauthor. Find her blog online at Abouteating.com.Email her at [email protected] with“Rita’s kitchen” in the subject line. Call 513-248-7130, ext. 356.

Bake cinnamon rolls, crab cake for mom

THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD

Homemade cinnamon rolls are a delectable treat for mom.

Rita HeikenfeldRITA’S KITCHEN

Ann Kean’s cool rise cinnamonrolls

Ann uses the cool rise method for herclass. “We can make a yeast bread beginningone day and finish it the next day and evenbake the third day, if necessary”, she said.

1. Mix

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour1 cup whole wheat flour3/4 cup sugar1 teaspoon salt2. Dissolve1 package active dry yeast and1-1/4 cups 100-degree milk

4. Add and stir into the flour mixtureMilk/yeast mixture

2 eggs, slightly beaten2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

5. Add an additional 1 to 1-1/2 cups flourand mix well.

6. Knead dough for 8 minutes.7. Place dough in an oiled bowl; cover

and let rise for about 2 hours until doughdoubles.

8. Roll out dough into a 14 by 18-inchrectangle.

9. Spread filling made of:

1/2 cup barely melted unsalted butter1 cup dark brown sugar or combo of any

sugars3 tablespoons cinnamon

Leave less than an inch edge all the wayaround.

10. Roll from 18 inches side making aroll.

11. Cut into 16 rolls. (Ann says do notsaw when cutting, just press down).

12. Place in two 9-inch buttered roundpans or 9-by-13 buttered pan.

13. Cover and place in refrigerator over-night or let rise in warm pace for 1-1/2 to 2hours.

14. Bake in middle of 350 degree ovenfor 20-25 minutes.

15. Glaze with mixture of

4 cups powdered sugar4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted2 tablespoons milk or more to make thin

Myrtle’s crab cakes

Talking about another “mom with influence,” this recipe fromfriend, Perrin Rountree is an heirloom favorite. Perrin is an An-derson Township reader and wonderful cook.

“Family is everything to me,” she said. I remember fondly herstories of her Grandma, Myrtle, which were always connected withfood. Try this when you want a delicious and easy crab cake. Perrintold me her Grandma Myrtle’s strength and love of family sustainsher every day. “Hers was a gentle but firm love. We knew with justa look when we were behaving poorly, and with that same look wealso knew how much we were loved.”

Well said! As with all heirloom recipes, there can be variables.Like the saltines. You may need more than the recipe says, or youmay not. You want to be able to have the crab cake be nicely

formed and keep its shape but not be dry.

1 pound lump crabmeat4-5 shakes TabascoSalt and pepper to taste4-5 crushed saltines or few more if necessary1 egg, beaten2 teaspoons Old Bay seasoningFresh chopped parsley (opt)

Place crabmeat in bowl. Add other ingredients and mix lightly.Shape into 4 patties. Heat oil in heavy skillet. Over medium heat, fryuntil golden brown on both sides. Serve with extra Tabasco and tartarsauce or your favorite seafood sauce.

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Suburban Life EditorRichard [email protected], 248-7134 Office hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-FridaySee page A2 for additional contact information.

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The Indian Hill Board ofEducation is on a path to keepat least 60 percent of the illegalinside millage tax it has col-lected since 2009. When theOhio Supreme Court unani-mously declared the tax illegallast December, the Committeefor Responsible School Spend-ing appealed to the board toimmediately refund the entire$6,007,536 collected...to allparties involved...plus interestand legal expenses. ($5,288,071of this total is due to privateand corporate taxpayers.)

The board, however, ap-pears to believe that, becauseit has physical possession ofthe taxes collected, it also hasthe right to decide who will getwhat and when, and how muchtaxpayer money the board will

keep for itself.The board’sfirst responsewas to hire newlegal counselfrom Clevelandat $375-plus perhour, afteralready spend-ing more than$208,000 since2010 on effortsto justify the

illegal inside millage tax.In January, the board stated

that taxpayers were entitled torefunds totaling $4,860,992. InMarch, the board reduced itsproposed refund to $3,300.000.In April, the Board reduced itfurther to the present$2,300,000.

In May...? The board has

zero need for this money.(There’s already Astroturfeverywhere!)

Enrollment in the IndianHill school system has beendeclining for a decade. Cur-rently there are fewer than1,900 students.

On March 31, the board hada surplus of $35,772,464. That’snearly $19,000 per student. Theboard owes the Ohio Depart-ment of Education a $664,450refund for formula-based sub-sidies from the state. A $55,015refund is due public utilitieslocated in the district. Intereston the refunds due taxpayersis accumulating at $14,500-plusper month. In its most recentbrief, the board’s new counselsubstituted “rebate” for “re-fund,” apparently in the belief

that “rebate” implies the boardis “giving” back some of thetax money it took, instead ofrefunding all of it.

The board has petitioned theHamilton County Court ofCommon Pleas to:

» eliminate the first three(of the eight) semi-annual realestate tax-collections (on pro-cedural grounds unrelated tothe Supreme Court’s decision);

» approve the board’s claimthat, because some of the mon-ey might have been collected ifthe board hadn’t chosen theinside millage ploy in 2009, theboard is entitled to deduct thatamount from its “rebate;”

» reduce the $5,288,071refund due private and corpo-rate taxpayers to a maximumof $2,300,000, which is to be

credited against something theboard’s new attorneys vaguelydescribe as “damages;”

» permit the board to delayrefunds until the 2016 realestate tax is due (no mention ofinterest payments);

» allow the board to pro-ceed on its own terms withoutescrow or third party supervi-sion;

» approve these claims byMay 22.

The time has come for theboard to end this charade, fireits sly attorneys, agree to fullrestitution of all tax moniesillegally seized, and begin re-building community trust in itscommitment to justice.

Fred Sanborn is an Indian Hill resi-dent.

IH Board of Education’sincredible shrinking ‘rebate’

FredSanborn COMMUNITY PRESSGUEST COLUMNIST

The Welcomers Communi-ty Volunteer Network,launched in Cincinnati andNorthern Kentucky in 2013.

April’s National VolunteerMonth was the perfect time toextend a special “thank you”to every volunteer, and weespecially thank the morethan 4,000 volunteersthroughout the region forbeing part of the WelcomersCommunity Volunteer Net-work.

The Welcomers Communi-ty Volunteer Network,launched in Cincinnati andNorthern Kentucky in 2013,has quickly become one of thenation’s largest networks forvolunteers to play an activerole in supporting a widerange of local arts, culturaland special events.

Based on the enormoussuccess of the 2012 WorldChoir Games, the networkwas created as a turnkey vol-unteer system to support theneeds of local events, whilehelping to attract and hostlarge-scale events to enhancethe region’s economy.

Cincinnati and NorthernKentucky have a strong cul-ture of volunteerism. One infour adults are volunteers.People take pride in usingtheir skills and experience togive back to the communitieswhere they live and work.

Since launching, the Net-work now has 14 active localpartner organizations, morethan 4,000 experienced volun-teers collectively and 24 expe-rienced volunteer managers.

The Welcomers Networkprovides a common technol-ogy platform for participatinglocal arts and cultural part-ners, making the job of find-ing local volunteers easier.

For participating volun-teers, the Network offers“one-stop” access and insiderinformation related to theentire gamut of volunteeropportunities and upcoming

events available throughoutthe network.

The Welcomers databaseincludes people who enrolledthrough partner organizationsand others who have helpedhost large-scale events, suchas the annual InternationalButterfly Show at Krohn Con-servatory.

Upcoming volunteer oppor-tunities include the CincyUSA Tourism AmbassadorsProgram, Spirit of Cincinnaticommunity events leading upto and surrounding MLB All-Star Week, River Grill beforethe Big Chill in October andmore.

The growing list of optionsfor volunteering is evidencedby each periodic update sentout by Rhonda Dickerscheid,the Network Manager. Onbehalf of the 14 partner or-ganizations that comprise theWelcomers Network and thelarge-scale events that choosethe Cincinnati/Northern Ken-tucky region as their destina-tion, we thank the volunteersthat have become the enginebehind their success.

Having 4,000 volunteersthroughout the region in placeto make these events a suc-cess is a milestone worth cele-brating during National Vol-unteer Month!

Interested volunteers canlearn more about the Welcom-ers Network and get involvedby visiting www.volunteer-welcomers.com.

Shannon Carter and Louise Hughesare co-founders of Welcomers

Welcomersdemonstrate cultureof volunteerism

Shannon Carter and LouiseHughesCOMMUNITY PRESS GUEST COLUMNIST

April 29 questionWas Reds manager Bryan

Price right about what he saidabout media coverage hurtinghis team? What is the media’srole in covering local sportsfranchises?

“Bryan Price was totallyoff base in what he said aboutthe media coverage. Themedia isn’t there to be afriend of the team and onlycover good news, or put newsout when the team wants it,that would be a press release,that the team controls.

“The media is there tocover the team. He may (beupset) the information wasn’treleased the way it was, butthe reality is that it was. In-stead of responding to whathe wished hadn’t happened heshould have been matureenough to address what hap-pened in an adult manner.

“He can take his concernsabout the local media to theReds upper management andthey can devise a strategy inhow they relate or releaseinformation to the media.

“The media’s job is to re-port, not make sure the team,manager or a specific player

is happy. It was embarrassingin terms of the content of hisrant and it also made it looklike he wasn’t ready to be amajor league manager, whichmay be the case. “

C.S.

“This is kind of like an-swering that age old mostdangerous question: Do thesepants make my butt look fat?Therefore no, Price waswrong blaming the mediacoverage for hurting histeam, his team’s performanceis hurting his team. What partof this is so hard to under-stand?”

M.J.F.

“If a manager etc... wantsto keep some informationfrom being disseminated heneeds to tell the reporters it is‘off the record.’ I would hopethe local Reds reporterswould respect that wish. Butin this day of paparazzi andsocial media scoops, Priceshould assume the informa-tion will get out. His choice offoul language to complainabout it was ridiculous.

“Keep in mind Reds Hall ofFame reporter Hal McCoywas the one who leaked theBrandon Philips ‘hating the St.Louis Cardinals.’ That led toquite an altercation a fewyears ago. Of course that waswhen the Reds made the play-offs under Dusty Baker threetimes, yet he was fired. Man-ager Price and GM Walt Jock-etty will be gone by year end.Go Figure!!!

T.D.T.

“Sorry, never heard of him.Unfortunately, we don’t havea sports franchise. The clos-est one in in Columbus. May-be next year, Blue Jackets. Abunch of your veterans are onthe Rangers.”

D.B.

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Reds manager Bryan Price is interviewed by Cincinnati media during spring training.

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Tennis» Indian Hill shut out Seven

Hills 5-0 on April 28. SophomoreBen Warstler, freshman An-drew Pregel and junior DurhamColohan swept singles.

The Braves blanked Madeira5-0 on April 29 as Pregel, Col-ohan and sophomore Pablo Guz-man took singles.

» In Flight C of the CoachesClassic, Moeller’s Max Berkyadvanced to the championshipin second singles. On April 25,Berky won the Flight C secondsingles title and junior AlecHoelker was runner-up in thirdsingles. Junior Kelley Peter/sophomore Michael Keyserwere champions in first doubles

and juniors Joe Burns/JustinCashman were runners-up atsecond singles.

Moeller beat Anderson 4-1onApril 28. Sophomore Max Ber-ky and junior Alec Hoelker won

second and third singles, re-spectively.

The Crusaders blankedCHCA 5-0 on April 29. JuniorMichael Tepe, Berky and juniorJoe Burns swept singles.

» Madeira defeated McNi-cholas 5-0 April 27.

Baseball» Moeller’s Grant Maccioc-

chi struck out 12 and didn’t al-low a runner to second base in a1-0 victory over La Salle April27.

On April 28, Macciocchi was3-for-4 with a triple and rundriven in as Moeller beat OakHills 11-2. Patrick Mullingerdrove in three runs with twodoubles.

Moeller beat Conner at Flor-ence Freedom Park April 30,14-5 behind senior MitchellBault. Senior Kyle Dockus was

3-for-4 with four runs batted in.» Madeira bested Taylor 5-3

April 24. Jake Megois earnedthe win. Senior Jake Hyatt was2-for-4 with two RBI and juniorHenry Kahn went 3-for-3.

On April 29, the Mustangsbeat Mariemont 12-2. SeniorColin Voisard won on themound. Jake Anfinsen went 2-for-4 with a double and fourRBI.

» Indian Hill beat Batavia 4-1on April 30. Senior Josh Bur-gher got the win. SophomoreKeith Hammond, freshman A.J.King and senior Michael Folzwere all 2-for-3 for the Braves.

Softball» Deer Park sophomore Jen-

na Shepherd and the Lady Wild-cats defeated Reading 5-1 onApril 27. Senior Lacey Chadwellwas 2-for-3 with a pair of dou-

bles and two runs driven in.Deer Park run-ruled Wyo-

ming 12-2 in six innings April 29.Shepherd got the win and was 3-for-4 with a triple. Chadwell ho-mered and senior SamanthaWood was 2-for-5 with a doubleand three runs batted in.

» Indian Hill beat Finney-town 10-8 on April 27. JuniorCassidy Zang got the win andwas 2-for-4 with a double andtwo runs batted in.

» Mount Notre Damedowned Mercy 16-2 on April 27.Junior Sydney Zeuch got thewin. Freshman Lydia Andersonwas 3-for-4 with a double, tripleand five runs batted in. SeniorKate Jennings was 2-for-4 witha double, triple and five runsbatted in also.

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Mitchell Bault pitches for Moelleragainst Conner at Florence FreedomPark April 30. Bault picked up thewin as Moeller won 14-5.

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MADEIRA — Four years ago,the summer before her senioryear at Madeira High School,Katie Harrington decided thesun had set on her competitivedancing career. But, a competi-tive fire still blazed inside her.So, inexplicably, Harringtontransitioned from the dancefloor to the boxing ring.

“I kind of just woke up andwas like, ‘I’m done with dance,’”recalled Harrington, who’sabout to wrap up her third yearat the University of Cincinnatiwhere she studies psychologyand marketing. “I think (I said):‘Dad, I want to try boxing.’ Hesaid, ‘That’s weird, but we’ll tryand find you something.’”

Harrington discovered theCincinnati Boxing Club andshe’s been trading leather thereever since. So much so, the for-mer dancer won the NationalChampionship for the Bearcats’club team in the 165-pound divi-sion in the U.S. IntercollegiateBoxing Association NationalChampionship hosted by the

University of Michigan April 9-11. She won a unanimous deci-sion over Sarah Gold of the U.S.Military Academy in a three-round bout.

“I remember my dad saying:‘I was pretty sure after a weekand half you’d come home andnot want to (box) anymore,”Harrington said. “He was pleas-antly surprised I wanted to keepdoing it.”

Boxers spend an unprece-dented amount of time honingtheir craft, and the payoff is ahand lifted exuberantly over-head.

“It’s the longest six minutesof your life every time youfight,” said Harrington. “I usu-ally get very, very nervous andmy stomach turns (before afight). Weirdly enough, for thisfight, my stomach stopped turn-ing and my arms felt like deadweight.

"I think I was prepared and Iwanted to win so bad. Not hav-ing (the win) was not an option.”

Harrington’s success is a by-product of her complete immer-

THANKS TO LISA HARRINGTON

University of Cincinnati boxing coaches Kenny Christo, left, and Tim Back,right, stand beside Katie Harrington after she defeated West Point’s SarahGold by unanimous decision in the National Championship of the165-pound class April 11 at the University of Michigan.

Madeira gradHarrington winsnational boxing titleAdam [email protected]

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SYCAMORE TWP. — Tom Ken-nedy’s four sons will be onhand May 9 to watch as theMoeller High School lacrosseteam pays tribute to their fa-ther – the father of Crusaderlacrosse – in “Play for TK Day”May 9.

Kennedy, who died in Janu-ary, will be the focal point asthe boys take on Columbus De-Sales at the Gerry Faust Ath-letic Complex.

He served as the school’shead coach twice after startingthe program. His older sonscame home one day and an-nounced to their mother Fa-ther Tedesco had found a la-crosse coach. With a leap offaith, Kennedy began the Cru-saders’ program in 1987-88.

With an overall record of139-57 at Moeller, he coachednationally-ranked squads in1992 and 1993 and was electedto the Ohio Lacrosse Hall ofFame in 2001. His four sons(Tom Jr. ’88, Matt ’90, Jim ’93

and Pat ’97) all played forMoeller and moved on to Divi-sion I lacrosse.

“We had a target on ourbacks all year long after win-ning the 1992 Ohio champion-ship,” Jim Kennedy recalled.“My dad sought me out in themiddle of the field and we em-braced and gave each other abig hug. My dad kept saying.‘We did it!’ ”

Since arriving at Moeller

last year, current head coachSean McGinnis has researchedthe school’s history and com-pares Kennedy to the gridironlegend, Faust.

“That’s what Tom Kennedymeans to the lacrosse pro-gram,” he said. “He started theprogram at Moeller and start-ed a lot of lacrosse locally. He’scoached a lot of All-Americans

THANKS TO ROB EBEL/ESP MEDIA

Tom Kennedy, surrounded by lacrosse players, family and friends, died in January. The Moeller lacrosse teamwill honor him May 9.

Moeller lacrosse to paytribute to Kennedy Scott [email protected]

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Moeller senior Mitch Nietupski mans the goal with help from seniordefenders Grant Clark (15) and Jack Toomb (9).

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Job openings» The Madeira Athletic De-

partment seeks the followingpositions for hire: High schoolassistant cheer coach (fall/win-ter) and a middle school golfcoach (fall). Those interestedshould submit a cover letter andresume to athletic director JoeKimling ([email protected]).

New fitness center» Madeira is taking on a ma-

jor project to improve the livesof their students - an overhaul ofthe current high school weightroom. The existing 700-squarefoot facility is too small to ade-quately support the student ath-letes. The new MHS FitnessCenter will be about 3,500square feet, have state-of-the-art equipment, high ceilings,walls of windows, more cardioequipment, cross fit space andsound system. Please visitwww.mhsfitnesscenter.com fordetails.

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sion into boxing. She didn’t ten-tatively dip her toes in. Shejumped in and the water’s beenwonderful.

“It’s a really surreal experi-ence. I wouldn’t necessarily sayyou’re even punching, you justdo it and it happens,” Harring-ton said of the reflexes of afight.

Winning a fight? “It’s incredible,” Harrington

said. “It makes every singleminute of blood, sweat and tearsworth it for a single momentwhen they raise your hand. I’venever felt anything else like it …so many emotions — you under-stand why people strive for it.”

Harrington took over the UCboxing club presidency this sea-son and she plans to resume thatrole next year. Her hope is to seecontinued growth on the Bear-cats’ team, which grew fromaround 10 boxers in Harring-ton’s first year to 25-30 this year.

And, she’d also like to defendher title.

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and was a two-time, back-to-back state champion. We owe alot to his legacy. We put on theback of our shirts this year,‘Protect the Legacy.’ ”

Kennedy started with oneteam and several players whohad never picked up a stick. Inhis fifth season, Moeller was astate champion. Now, the pro-gram has a varsity and two JVteams totaling 65 players.

“I remember not knowingwhat to expect since just abouteveryone on our team had nev-er played before,” oldest sonTom Kennedy Jr. said. “I re-member my Dad did not havethis worry.”

Added youngest son, Pat,“The Moeller program alwaysfocused on fundamentals,toughness and discipline.Those traits were stressed byour dad from the first practiceall the way through his last daycoaching in 2008.”

As with all Moeller sports,they shy away from no one.They have already faced thestate’s No. 1 team in St. Xavierand the No. 5 team in Worthing-

ton Kilbourne. Early on, theytook on Louisville Trinity andLouisville St. Xavier. They alsowent to Indiana to tangle withtop programs in Carmel andCulver Academy.

After starting with winsagainst Trinity and SevenHills, Moeller lost five straightbefore defeating Kiski Prep ofPennsylvania and Division IIpower Mariemont.

“This is like a transition

year,” McGinnis said. The defense has held Moell-

er in many games led by sen-iors Jack Toomb and GrantClark and goalie Mitch Nietup-ski. Seniors Nick Cinquina andEric Reynolds and sophomoreCory Lockwood have led thescoring.

Shirts reading “Play forTK” will be available May 9.The game with DeSales beginsat 3 p.m..

KennedyContinued from Page 1B


Moeller defender Jack Toomb is on the run for the Crusaders againstMariemont April 22.

INDIAN HILL — With the re-turn of so many good playersfrom last year’s Division IIIstate final appearance, it shouldnot come as much of a surpriseCincinnati Hills Christian Acad-emy is leading the Miami ValleyConference.

However, there are teamssuch as Summit Country Dayand Cincinnati Country Daythat are part of the fray andchallenging CHCA for the MVCScarlet title. The Knights andIndians played a game April 30that epitomized the confer-ence’s scrappy nature.

In the bottom of the fourth in-ning, the Indians were trailing11-0 when they started to mountthe comeback. A couple runshere and there helped preventCCD from being run-ruled inthe later innings.

Trailing 15-5 in the sixth in-ning, CCD made its first bigmove.

After senior CameronAlldred was hit by a pitch to theload bases, fellow senior AustinRichey smacked a grand slam tocut the deficit almost in half.

Alldred went 3-for-4 with adouble and Richey was 2-for-5with six RBI in the game.

“Richey’s grand slam washuge especially in bouncingback from a pretty poor outingon the mound,” coach Tim Dunnsaid. “In his defense, he didn’tknow he was pitching until 20minutes before game time.”

Once Summit’s half of theseventh was complete, the Indi-ans kept the rally alive.

With one out and a 15-13 def-icit in the bottom of the seventh,the Indians loaded the bases.

Then in bizarre fashion, thenext three batters all walked tohand CCD the walk-off 16-15win.

“I coached knothole for awhile, too, and I haven’t seenanything like that before; thatwas strange,” the coach said ofthe comeback. “We’ll take itthough. It was a good win.”

Cincinnati Country Day,ranked No. 5 in the Enquirer Di-vision II-IV area coaches' poll,improved to 14-4 this season.Summit Country Day, rankedNo. 7, fell to 11-7.

Summit and CCD playedagain May 1.

Dunn is hopeful his team willstart to play the way its statetop-10 ranking says it should.

“We think we can make apretty good run in the playoffs,”he said. “We made the finaleight last year and only lost onesenior. If we don’t play like this(April 30 against Summit), Ithink we’ll do pretty well.”

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Senior Austin Richey low-fives coach Tim Dunn while rounding the basesafter his grand slam against Summit April 30.

CCD baseballholding its own inMVC, state rankingsBy Nick [email protected]

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CCD senior Cameron Alldred can’tget out of the way of a pitch April30.

INDIAN HILL — In one of thewettest springs in recent mem-ory, Indian Hill High School isthe envy of many area teams astheir baseball and softballteams rarely miss games.

Minus rakes and expensivebags of Diamond Dry, PatSpurlock’s girls and ScottLloyd’s baseball Braves are en-joying the upside of artificialturf infields installed by TheMotz Group. Surrounding theinfields are dugouts, battingcages and plush outfield grassirrigated by drainage tiles.

In other words, outside oflightning, neither team has hashad to deal with the nightmareof rescheduling.

Other athletic directorshave been complimentary andjealous. Current Braves ADJeff Zidron has overseen theprocess that was in the plan-ning stages when he arrived.

“There were some long

term plans to upgrade our fa-cilities,” Zidron said. “The firstphase was the turfing of thefootball stadium and the turf-ing of the soccer complex nearour primary building. The sec-ond stage was to rearrange thebaseball and softball upperfields. They had not reallybeen touched since the ‘70s.”

Now, Tomahawk Stadiumhas bright turf with shades ofgreen and Indian Hill red andthe soccer complex allows ex-clusive use for those squads.

A year ago, the baseball andsoftball fields had temporaryfences and looked dated andforgotten. Since last spring,both fields have been reposi-tioned and are the gems of theCincinnati Hills League.

Long-term plans includeadding a new pathway to Toma-hawk Stadium, new concessionstands and a central plaza.

“We’re pretty proud of whatit looks like right now,” Zidronsaid. “We’ve noticed we’redrawing much bigger crowds.

The stands are packed and thekids are excited to come outand watch. Parents and thecommunity are getting behindit because it’s such a nice facil-ity.”

The old baseball field grassis being re-seeded and will be-come an auxiliary space formiddle school football andfield hockey.

In addition to Motz, a con-tractor out of Dayton did thedugouts, stone work and sod.

“The process was quickonce we pulled the trigger,” Zi-dron said. “It dates back two totwo-and-a-half years since itwas planned. It came in atabout $1.2 million. We don’tthink there’s anything like it inthe city with the amenitieswe’ve built with the battingcages and dugouts.”

The field has been a hugeselling point for baseball coachScott Lloyd who became one ofthe more popular skippers inthe Tristate before even play-ing a game.

THANKS TO INDIAN HILL ATHLETICS

This is an aerial view of Indian Hill High School’s baseball/softball complex.

Indian Hill’s new turf fieldsthe envy of area teamsScott [email protected]


Indian Hill players line the dugout to take in the dedication ceremony of the school’s new baseball/softballcomplex April 20.

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Spend and eveningwith “The Count” inDeer Park, when “Swin-gin’ with Count Basie” isperformed at Deer ParkHigh School’s CrawfordAuditorium, May 7.

All his favorite jazzmusic will be featured,including “All of Me,”“Fly me to the Moon,”“Blues in Hoss’ Flat,”“Shiny Stockings” andmore.

This is the premierperformance this yearof the Big Joe DuskinFoundation Orchestra.

All proceeds formthis event go to DeerPark CommunitySchools music pro-grams.

Members of the Dus-kin Fondation Jazz En-semble are all profes-sional musicians andfeature

» Phil Paul, a KingRecord’s studio musi-cian, who played onmore than 350 record-ings there.

» Al Gore, who tourswith George Benson andis a College Conservato-ry of Music professor.

» Marc Fields, whohas toured with RayCharles and is a CCMprofessor.

» Scott Belck, direc-tor of jazz studies atCCM, and toured withManhattan Transfer.

» Scott Pazera, jazz

band director at WabashCollege.

» Brian Batchelor-Glader, Xavier profes-sor.

» Dixie Karas, toutedas the best jazz vocalistin the area

About a dozen moreprofessional musicianswill perform, all underthe artistic direction ofWade Baker, Conducterand trumpet.

Tickets are a $15 do-nation for downstairsseats, $10 for balcony.Some front seating isavailable for a $20 dona-tion.

For tickets, call theDeer Park High Schooloffice at 891-0010.

Jazz concert to benefitDeer Park schoolsmusic programs

“This annual event re-flects that God does notlike to see things wasted,and neither do we.”

According to Blue AshPresbyterian Church Pas-tor Mike Brewer, that’sthe premise behind the25th annual Mouse Mar-ket and Plant Sale at thechurch, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.,both Friday and Saturday,May 8 and 9, 4309 CooperRoad, Blue Ash.

“If we can take our un-wanted treasures and putthem in someone’s handsthat is a great success. Welove to get people into ourbuilding to find out aboutour our wonderful churchfamily,” he said.

The “Mousecateers“have been hard at workcollecting a wide varietyof items from churchmembers that includesitems from a Blue Willowchina set to a lightly usedvacuum cleaner.

There’s a large gas grillwith extra burners and aheavy duty boys’ bike forone under 12 with studdedtires and training wheels

More items for chil-dren and adult clothing,Christmas items, toys forkids as well as clothingand fabrics.

In the past severalyears a plant sale has beenheld as well and the list ofplants grows longer each

year. This event is timed to

coincide with Mother’sDay and the list of plantsavailable includes: hosta,ferns, iris, corn flowers,black eyed Susan and onemember is bringing FairyGardens, a perfect Moth-er’s Day gift,

The Mouse Market andPlant Sale Committee in-cludes Peggy Burwinkel,Ana Lenard, Karen Bretz,Margie Sanders and Har-ry Barnaclo..

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The hard-working Mouse Market and Plant Sale Committee includes Peggy Burwinkel, AnaLenard, Karen Bretz, Margie Sanders and Harry Barnaclo.

Find treasures atMouse Market,plant sale May 8, 9

The Mercy Health Mo-bile Mammography unitwill visit several locationsin May, offering screen-ing mammograms in 15minutes at locations con-venient to your home orworkplace.

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The van will be at theselocations in May:

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Price Hill, Price HillClinic, 2136 W. 8th St., May27;

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Good ShepherdLutheran ChurchCelebrate your faith at GoodShepherd Lutheran Church.Woven Worship with Commu-nion is 5 p.m., Saturdays; tradi-tional service is 8 a.m. Sundays;a 30-minute service for familieswith young children is 9 a.m.,Sundays; contemporary serviceis 11 a.m.; and traditionalservice is 11 a.m.

GSLC offers preschool andstudent Sunday School at 9:30a.m., September-May.

Faith-building classes, fellowshipand outreach opportunities,and small groups are offeredeach weekend and throughoutthe week for adults to connect.

The church is at 7701 KenwoodRoad, Kenwood, 891-1700;goodshepherd.com

Hartzell UnitedMethodist ChurchA salad bar luncheon is plannedfor 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 13.Doors open at 10 a.m.

The adult Sunday school class isviewing Rob Bell’s video serieswith discussion. Considerjoining the class at 9 a.m.Sundays through June.

Sunday School: 9 a.m., SundayWorship Service: 10:30 a.m.,Camp Kids & Child Care: 11 a.m.;youth, outreach, fellowship,music ministries, Bible studies.

Seekers (The Way, the Truth andthe Life) small group meets 6:30p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays. Formore information, contactDave and Melissa at 891-8527extension 1.

The church is at 8999 Apple-wood Drive, Blue Ash; 891-8527; www.hartzellumc.org.

Madeira SilverwoodPresbyterian ChurchThe church is presenting “TheArt of Marriage,” a multi-weekcourse. Visit madeirachurch.org.

The church is at 8000 MiamiAve., Madeira; 791-4470.

Mission BaptistCincinnatiSunday Bible study is 10 a.m. forall ages. Worship is 11 a.m.Pastor is Bill Rains.

The church is at 7595 Montgo-mery Road, Kenwood; 520-9111;mbccincy.org.

St. Paul CommunityUnited MethodistChurchA Bible study is offered at noonand 7 p.m. on Wednesdays,with Pastor Ra. Bring a favoriteBible, an open mind, a friendlydisposition, and a heart for

a Facebook page.

Church of theSaviour UnitedMethodist ChurchChildren’s Weekday Program-ming is Tuesday and Thursdaymornings and Thursday after-noon with lunch available foreither day. There is a nominalcharge and you must bringyour child’s lunch. Register onthe website (www.cos-umc.org)under “Registration Forms.”

The church is at 8005 PfeifferRoad, ; 791-3142; www.cos-umc.org.

Cincinnati FriendsMeeting - QuakerRegular worship is 11 a.m. Sun-days followed by fellowship inthe Fireside room at noon. Firstday/nursery school is available.

The Meetinghouse is at 8075Keller Road, Cincinnati; 791-0788; cincinnatifriends.org

CommunityLighthouse Churchof GodServices are 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.Sundays; 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

The church is at 4305 SycamoreRoad, Cincinnati; 984-5044; onFacebook under CommunityLighthouse Church of God.

times, singing and specialtheme nights.

A college and career Bible studymeets at the church every otherMonday at 7:30 p.m. Call thechurch for details.

Round Up Sunday for all thechildren’s Sunday school classesmeets on the first Sunday ofthe month for a lightheartedtime of Bible stories, games,penny wars, Bible Bowl andmore.

Sunday School classes are 10a.m.; Sunday worship is 11 a.m.Kings Kids, a children’s worshipservice, is offered during the 11a.m. service. Nursery care isavailable.

The church is at 8501 PlainfieldRoad, Sycamore Township;891-2221; bethelbaptisttemple-.org.

Blue AshPresbyterian ChurchA free-will offering will be takenat both performances to sup-port the work of Bake MeHome, a charitable organiza-tion in Hamilton County thatprovides homemade cookiesand other donations for fam-ilies in crisis.

The BAPC bowling group meetsweekly Thursdays, 10 a.m., atCrossgate Lanes.

The church is at 4309 CooperRoad; 791-1153; the church has

AscensionLutheran ChurchA second worship service hasbeen added to Ascension’sSunday morning worshipschedule. The new 8 a.m.service is intended for thosewho would like to worship in amore contemplative way. Thechurch offers a blended wor-ship at 10:15 a.m., which in-cludes traditional hymns andcurrent songs, children’s mes-sage and music by the ChancelChoir or Alleluia Ringers bellchoir. Sunday School, Confirma-tion and Adult Forum meet at 9a.m.

A “Quilting Bee” at 9:30 a.m.Tuesday, May 12, will be in thetradition of our ancestors.Quilts will be tied for LutheranWorld Relief. A brown baglunch will follow.

The ladies Wheel of Friendshipmeets 10 a.m. Wednesday, May13. The Bible study is “TheChurch: Transforming andReforming” from the Series“Transforming Life and Faith.”Women of the community arewelcome.

The men at Ascension will offera Mother’s Day Brunch Sunday,May 10. For more information,please call the church office,793-3288.

Ascension is commemorating 50years of ministry. The first event

is a look back with a nostalgictypical ‘60s cookout and icecream social June 14 followingthe 10:15 a.m. worship service.

Vacation Bible School for allchildren at Ascension as well asthe community will be offered9:30 a.m. to noon, June 22-25.Please call the church office,793-3288, for more informa-tion.

Healing Christ (healing touch)Ministry is offered at 7 p.m. onthe fourth Tuesday of themonth. More information onavailable at 793-3288.

Women’s weekly Friday morningBible Study is at 9:30 a.m. Kidsare welcome play in the play-room. The group is readingJessica LaGrone’s new study,“Broken and Blessed.”

Healing Christ (healing touch)Ministry is offered on thefourth Tuesday of the month at7 p.m. More information avail-able at 793-3288.

The church is at 7333 PfeifferRoad, Montgomery; 793-3288;www.ascensionlutheranchurch-.com.

Bethel Baptist TempleAWANA children’s clubs for ages4 through ninth-grade is of-fered 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdaysthrough May 13. Children enjoygames, Bible studies and story

loving God and the world Godcreated. The topic: What ismeant by the phrase “Baptizedby Fire.” All are welcome.

Mother’s Day, May 10, theDixieland Domes will providespecial music for the 11 a.m.service.

The Adult Bible Class invites allto join in fun and fellowship at9:30 a.m. The class enjoys coffeeand dunkers, prayer and sing-ing and an amazing Bible-based curriculum. The class isstudying gifts of the Holy Spiritfound in John 1, 2 and 3.

Cornerstone is a small adultgroup which meets at 9:30 a.m.every Sunday and informallydiscusses current Christianthemes. In April, learn how todiscern in a culture of decep-tion, as presented in the DVDsermon series “Twisting theTruth” by Andy Stanley.

FUSE, a fun time for students infifth- through 12th-grades,meets from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30p.m. every Sunday for games,food and some time to learnabout Jesus.

Worship times are 8:30 a.m. and11 a.m. (traditional) and 9:30a.m. (contemporary).

The church is at 8221 MiamiRoad, Madeira; 891-8181;www.stpaulcumc.org.

SonRise ChurchA parenting workshop offeredon four consecutive Wednesdayevenings, which began April 29,is titled “Understanding MyKids.” Family Pastor Chad Rickswill help attendees learn waysto deepen relationships withchildren and improve theirparenting skills. The moreparents understand how Godhas created and molded ourchildren, the better chance wehave to relate to them and tohelp them reach their fullpotential in Christ. The classesare offered from 6:30 p.m. to 8p.m., and run weekly throughMay 20. The program is free.For registration/information.e-mail sonrise.mail@sonrise-church. com.

SonRise Church is announcingthe launch of a CelebrateRecovery ministry group. Cele-brate Recovery is a Christ-centered program based on theBeatitudes addressing many oflife’s hurts, hang-ups andhabits.

The church is at 8136 WoosterPike; 576-6000.

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The Watoto Children’sChoir will present thechoir production “OhWhat Love” at 7 p.m.Thursday, May 14, at Syc-amore PresbyterianChurch.

The performance opento the public and free ofcharge, with a free will of-fering for the GeneralFund of Watoto.

The members of theWatoto Children Choirswere once orphaned as aresult of HIV/AIDS, war,poverty and disease, ac-cording to a press release.By using the vibrantsounds and rhythms of Af-rica, the children willshare their personal sto-

ries about how the love ofJesus changed their lives.

Each child in the choirhas suffered the loss ofone or both of their par-ents, but they have beenrescued and now live in aWatoto village, accordingto the press release.

Watoto is a holisticchild-care solution initiat-ed to serve the dire needsof the African people.

Sycamore Presbyteri-an Church is in SymmesTownship at 11800 MasonRoad.

Additional informationand a choir video can befound atsycamorechurch.org.

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A box of more than 60pillowcase dresses creat-ed by Twin Lakes residentJo Graulty traveled toyoung girls in Nicaragua.

The dresses weretransported there by Nan-cy Caine, with Flutemak-er Ministries. FlutemakerMinistries came into con-tact with Jo’s dresses sev-eral years ago and afterplanning a trip earlier thisyear, Caine decided tocontact Twin Lakes on thechance that there wouldbe dresses available.

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Caine was astonishedthat Graulty had made somany dresses, but de-lighted that she hadcalled. The two met atTwin Lakes and Caine wasable to share with Graultyhow the pillowcase dress-es would be used and theneeds of the girls whowould receive them.

Flutemaker Ministryhas four prongs to it: Anorphanage called A Heartto Love Children, a farmfor older boys who go onafter high school to learnthe farming trade, MercyMinistries for 195 chil-dren with disabilities, anddozens of centers thatfeed children a soy-en-riched rice product thatcontains 20 vitamins andminerals.

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children who have onlyone or two sets of cloth-ing.

“The girls’ faces lit upwhen they had the chanceto choose a new dress,”Caine said. “They all haddefinite ideas of whatthey wanted to wear!”

Graulty’s dresses havebeen transported all overthe globe as she has beensewing dresses for sever-al years, first donatingthem to missionaries with

Armstrong Chapel andnow Flutemaker Minis-tries. She works with asmall group of residentsat Twin Lakes who collectthe supplies and cut outthe dresses, which shethen sews.

“It is teamwork,”Graulty said. “We enjoymaking the dresses andwe know there’s a littlegirl somewhere in theworld in need of them.”

The dresses are made

out of donated pillowcases, lace and other trim-mings. If you have pillow

cases or lace that youwould like to donate, dropthem off at The Welcome

Center at Twin Lakes Sen-ior Living Community at9840 Montgomery Road.

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Nicaragua girl showing her new dress sewn by Jo Graulty andresidents of Twin Lakes Senior Living.

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Nancy Caine and Jo Graulty sort dresses for FlutemakerMinistries to take to Nicaragua.

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Madison McDonoughfrom Madeira HighSchool and PaksenarrionE. Sneed of Milford Ju-nior High School werehonored at the March 21“Focus on Youth” meet-ing of the MariemontChapter Daughters of theAmerican Revolution atArmstrong Chapel in In-dian Hill.

McDonough, a seniorat Madeira High Schooland daughter of Jamesand Heidi McDonough,was honored as the Ma-riemont Chapter DARGood Citizen of the Year.

Sneed, daughter ofBeth and Alan Sneed ofMilford and eighth-gradestudent at Milford Ex-empted Village Schools,was named Chapter Win-ner of the DAR AmericanHistory Contest.

The DAR Good Citizenprogram and scholarshipcontest is intended to en-courage and reward thequalities of good citizen-ship and is open to all sen-ior class students en-rolled in accredited pub-lic or private secondaryschools. One student ischosen from each partici-pating high school as theSchool Good Citizen. Thatstudent is then given theopportunity to apply forthe DAR scholarship bycompleting the additionalrequirements of writing a500-word essay within atwo hour time period withno assistance or refer-ence material.

The qualities of de-pendability, service,leadership and patrio-tism must be documentedthrough a student essay,official grade transcriptand two letters of recom-mendation. Three localhigh schools participatedin the contest this year.Each of the schools desig-nated a senior Good Citi-zen whose applicationwas then submitted forthe chapter award.

These students will re-ceive their certificatesand medals as high schoolwinners at their respec-tive school awards pro-grams in the spring: Ha-ley Jacobs of MariemontHigh School, McDonoughand Jacob Dobrowolski of

Milford High School.Mariemont DAR

named McDonough asChapter winner for herwell-rounded contribu-tions to her school andcommunity in the areasof scholarship and extra-curricular volunteerism.She is involved in numer-ous activities some ofwhich include studentgovernment, Latin Club,track and cross country,Environmental Club, KeyClub, National Honor So-ciety, Theater, TEAMSand has received theNorthwestern UniversityAlumni Association BookAward.

She is an A.P. Scholarwith Distinction and hasreceived numerous otherawards. She is extensive-ly involved in Girl Scoutsvolunteering in food pan-tries, food and clothingdrives, and more.

McDonough plans tostudy mechanical engi-neering in college and mi-nor or double major inbusiness. She is specifi-cally interested in biome-chanics. DAR Good Citi-zen Chair Myrna Smith,coordinator of judging,echoed the findings of thejudges and of McDo-nough’s references, “Sheis responsible, positive,academically strong andmature. She is a hardworker, a very involvedindividual and a strongleader.”

Sneed was named Ma-riemont Chapter winnerof the DAR AmericanHistory Contest. TheAmerican History EssayContest is open to stu-dents in public, privateand parochial schools andregistered home-studyprograms in grades fiveto eight. The contest wasestablished to encourageyoung people to thinkabout our nation’s greathistory and relate to it ona more personal and cre-ative level. Each year aselected topic is pub-lished by the NSDAR andcontests are conductedthroughout the UnitedStates. First place win-ners in each DAR Chap-ter are submitted to dis-trict, state and ultimatelythe national level.

This year, studentswere asked to write anoriginal story imagininglife as a child entering El-lis Island in the 1800ssharing their experienc-es with a cousin in thecountry of origin.

Points are given forhistorical accuracy, ad-herence to the topic, or-ganization of materials,interest, originality,spelling, grammar, punc-tuation and neatness.Miss Sneed wrote as achild leaving Ireland dueto the potato famine.

“Miss Sneed’s creativ-ity caused her essay tostand out,” MariemontAmerican Essay chair Ju-dy Sheakley said.

Sherri Smithson, andKatleyn Issler, MilfordJunior High Americanhistory teachers, submit-ted essays completed byMilford eighth-grade forjudging at the chapterlevel. Originally 49 stu-dents participated in thecontest with the top 10submitted to the chapter.Of those, one is chosen toproceed to the districtlevel. Smithson coordi-nated the topic with com-mon core requirementsand with classroom em-phasis on connection to

the U.S. Constitution andto genealogical research.Sheakley coordinatedjudging and presentationof the first place award.

McDonough andSneed received certifi-cates, copies of the U.S.

Constitution and a mone-tary award. MariemontChapter Regent JanMauch said that Marie-mont Chapter has foundthat in “reviewing the ap-plications of these terrif-ic young people reaf-

firms our faith in the fu-ture.”

For questions regard-ing these contests or theMariemont Chapter, con-tact Mauch through thechapter website at marie-montdar.org.

Mariemont chapter DAR honors students

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Mariemont DAR honorees Paksenarrion Sneed and Madison McDonough, and chapter regent Jan Mauch.

Indian Hill residentVictoria Bigelow wasawarded the ChildspringInternational Seventh An-nual Dr. George B. WirthGlobal Spirit Award in At-lanta. The award was inrecognition of her dedica-tion, faithful support, ex-emplary service that havechanged the lives of chil-dren around the world.

The Bigelow familyhosted one of ChildspringInternational’s children,Makenge Chacha, whowas in the U.S. for treat-ment following a horrifichyena attack three yearsago in his Tanzanian vil-lage. As a result of the at-tack, he lost both handsand was scalped. Shrin-er’s Hospital in Lexingtonfitted Makenge with pros-thetic hands, which dra-matically changed hislife. Shriner’s Hospital inCincinnati repaired Ma-kenge’s scalp, leaving himwith a full head of hair.

In addition to otherfamilies who hosted Ma-kenge for his first year inthe United States, as wellas the East End Adult

Learning Center who pro-vided him with tutors tohelp him learn English,Makenge will return toTanzania with a love andappreciation for so manyCincinnatians who werethere to help him.

For more informationabout Childspring Inter-national, visit childspringintl.org.

Bigelow receivesChildspring award

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Makenge Chacha andVictoria Bigelow holding theDr. George B. Wirth GlobalSpirit Award Bigelowreceived from ChildspringInternational.

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COLUMBIA TOWNSHIPIncidents/investigationsAggravated robberyReported at 5300 block of Ridge Road,March 16.

MADEIRAIncidents/investigationsBurglaryBike taken at block 20 of BradfordPlace, April 14.

Male reported offense; $1,000 loss at7400 block of Juler, April 15.

FraudID used with no authorization (IRS

related) at 6600 block of Miami Ave.,April 17.

TheftFemale reported offense at 6400 blockof Old Barn Court, April 13.

Male stated ID used with no authori-zation (IRS related) at 6500 block ofMinnewaukan Drive, April 14.

Cellphone taken from Heartland ofMadeira at 5900 block of Kenwood,April 18.

SYCAMORE TOWNSHIPIncidents/investigationsIdentity fraudReported on 11000 block of Kemper

Knoll, March 16.Reported on 11000 block of Stillwind,March 16.

Misuse of credit cardReported on 7600 block of Montgo-mery Road, March 9.

TheftVehicle removed from 4000 block ofLimerick Ave., Dec. 9.

Reported on 7800 block of Montgo-mery Road, March 12.

License plate removed from vehicle at7800 block of Montgomery Road,March 14.

$400 in merchandise removed from7300 block of Dearwester Drive,March 14.

POLICE REPORTS

COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP4002 Plainville Road: Demetrio S. IV Inc.to Panichachai LLC; $375,000.

DEER PARK8032 Blue Ash Road: Strikes & SparesInc. to 8028 Blue Ash Road LLC;$244,750.

4100 Matson Ave.: Carlson, R. James toDBJ Properties LLC; $526,000.



4367 Matson Ave.: Frank, Gregory N. toNortman, Natalie A. & Kyle T. Cox;$104,500.

7837 Matson Court: Vaccari, Robert D. &Rebecca A. to Pape, Robert P.;$154,000.

4375 Oakwood Ave.: Strikes & SparesInc. to 8028 Blue Ash Road LLC;$244,750.

4377 Oakwood Ave.: Strikes & SparesInc. to 8028 Blue Ash Road LLC;$244,750.

4105 Orchard Lane: Petry, Robert M. &Patricia J. to Julia P. Wesselkamper LLC;$78,000.

4306 Redmont Ave.: Chadwell, Janice

M. to Dage, Jeffrey L. Successor Tr.;$97,330.

4407 Redmont Ave.: Benhase, Jeffrey B.to Ledford, Heather E.; $143,000.

MADEIRA7328 Iuka Ave.: Homewood Finance LLC& Homewood Development LLC toHunter, George W. & Candace L.;$353,904.

7909 Locust Lane: Blank, Derek J. &Jennifer A. to Tharp, Brent A. & Eliza-beth A.; $204,900.

7108 Thomas Drive: Ashton, Rosemaryto Harrison, Christen N. & Timothy;$186,000.

SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP7940 Camner Ave.: Holden, Philip &Vicki to Eitel, Jeff; $65,000.

5829 Charteroak Drive: Worthington,Harrison III & A. Michelle to Sah, Suresh& Madhu; $240,000.

11621 Grooms Road: Flat Rock Proper-ties LLC to Horner, Mark A.; $62,000.

8612 Pine Road: McKeehan, CharlesDean & Lisa Fay to U.S. Bank NA;$59,535.

7720 Spirea Drive: Gibbs, Jacqueline E.to Gralinski, Erik Donald & KierstenElizabeth; $190,000.

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UC Blue Ash College is of-fering students a free credithour this summer, as part of re-newing its 6-for-5 Summer Pro-gram, which means studentscan take six credit hours andonly pay for five.

To qualify for the free credithour, students must be a resi-dent of Ohio who receives in-state tuition rates, and theyneed to register for at least sixcredit hours at UC Blue Ash forthe summer semester by May7.

This is the third year UCBlue Ash has offered the 6-for-5 Summer Program to helpincrease enrollment duringthe quietest time on campus,according to a press release.

Summer classes are offeredin different terms at UC BlueAsh, with the first term start-ing on May 11. For more infor-mation, visitwww.ucblueash.edu/6for5 orcall 513-745-5740.

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Spanish professor Maria Ortiz helps her student, Jonathon Reno, in therenovated foreign language lab at UC Blue Ash.

These local restaurants haveearned “Clean Kitchen” awardsfrom Hamilton County PublicHealth for the first quarter of2015:

The requirements for re-ceiving a Clean Kitchen Awardare stringent. To be considered,facilities must:

» have fewer than three vio-lations in the previous twoyears prior to applying;

» have no “critical” or repeatviolations in the previous twoyears;

» maintain at least two staffmembers with level i food han-dler certification or at least onestaff member with a currentservsafe certificate;

» submit applications along

with corresponding documen-tation;

» have a minimum of twoyears of inspection data on filewith Hamilton County PublicHealth.

Inspection data for all foodservice facilities and listingsfor all Clean Kitchen Awardwinners are available on theHamilton County Public Healthwebsite at www.hcph.org.

The Clean Kitchen Award re-flects inspection data from theprevious two years and is notnecessarily indicative of cur-rent conditions.

(* Repeat winners)The Jewish Hospital Mercy

Health*, 4777 E. GalbraithRoad, Sycamore Township

Cleanest countykitchens in first quarter

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