Hello to all. Well sum-mer’s in full swing and I hope you had a great and safe Fourth of July celebra-tion with friends and fam-ily. Things all around town are blooming right and left, and all of our gardens look wonderful. Hats off to the crews at our Public Service Department and especially all the great volunteers from the Bellevue Neighborhood Association for all their hard work this year with all the sidewalk planters and gardens that truly make our town look so beautiful. Thank you to everyone that participated in Bellevue’s first Garden Tour. Beauti-ful gardens throughout Bel-levue make our town even better!

Also, the Bellevue Neighborhood Association is always looking for new members to join in the fun. Their membership drive is

in full swing now, so please take a few moments to visit their website at www.bna-ky.com, look at all the wonderful things they ac-complish for our commu-nity and sign up to become a member. Thank you in ad-vance.

Mother Nature has been up to her usual sum-mer tricks, keeping us hot, humid, and rainy this sum-mer. But that is the norm for summer in the Ohio Val-ley. Please be careful when you are out in this summer heat and drink lots of water. Please take time to check on your elderly neighbors to make sure there are cop-ing with the summer heat. It’s also the perfect environ-ment for insects and weeds. Please be sure to eliminate any standing water and be neighborhood friendly and tend to weeds growing in your yard.

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Speaking of hot, our summer concert series is in full swing with the June show taking place already and being well attended. The July 14 show will fea-ture The Belairs for the con-cert at 7pm. with fireworks starting at 10 p.m. Come down early before the show and check out the classic car show from 4 to 7p.m. A Bel-levue favorite is coming up on August 11, featuring Bel-levue’s own Scott Sprague and some of the best local music talent joining him on stage at the “reunion” con-cert.

Be part of first Friday to keep our community strong and unique! August 3 is your next opportunity, so stay in your hometown and shop local and keep the dollars here at home. Some great new shops have opened this year along some old favor-ites. Come down and enjoy a great, relaxing evening

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Free senior lunCh at st. John’s

The Bellevue Education Foundation will hold its classic golf outing on Sat-urday September 8, 2018, starting at 7AM with break-fast, at the Twin Oaks Golf Course in Covington, Ky. The golf outing is the Foun-dation’s primary fundraiser.

The Foundation is thrilled that our 2018 title sponsor is the Rothfuss Family in memory of Bet-sy. Please join the Roth-fuss family in support of our children. All proceeds go toward the academic needs of children attending the Bellevue Independent School District.

The golf outing has be-come a regional favorite of BHS alumni and friends. Golfers enjoy a hearty hot

breakfast, refreshments on the course, prizes and a lunch reception ceremony. Sound fun? At least 100 golfers every year say “it is!”. Your foursome just might win one of the new awards that will be given out this year.

Don’t wait! Register, now! Just click on www.Bellevuegolfouting.com and register as a single golfer or foursome. You can also take advantage of our expanded sponsorship pro-gram. The Bellevue Educa-tion Foundation is a 501(c) (3) entity and donations are tax deductible. Well over 100 golfers participate in this classic event. Lots of opportunities are available for name and/or business

recognition through our sponsorship packages and door prize money. Every generous contribution pro-vides academic resources that simply are beyond educational budgets for the children and teachers.

Please contact a founda-tion member below if you have any questions:

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Enjoy the Summer!

St John United Church of Christ in Bellevue hosts a free Senior Lunch the last Saturday of each month. June 30th theme was Western wear. Lot’s of fun together with Bellevue residents and others folks. Next free Senior Lunch is scheduled for July 28, 12:00 noon. Come join us!

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the 4th of July the summer is almost over and it just started. Vacations, summer grill outs and lots of fun things to do like “Concert in the Park” Bellevue Beach Park that is. I know I like this time of the year for so much to do. I hope you are having a safe and wonder-ful summer so far. We have had our share of rain and heat so far. Fortunately the grass has slowed a bit. We still must keep up with it so it doesn’t get out of control.

I realize it is hard to keep up sometimes but we have to take care of it. I appreci-ate everyone who is keep-ing their properties up. This is such a great community. I have been here for 9 years and the time has flown by. I have seen property val-ues continue to grow. Many folks have made this hap-pen with taking care of our properties-Thank You!

Just remember that if you place plastic bags out, animals and bugs will be drawn to it. If it is spread around due to animals, CSI will not take the time to pick it up. They are on a

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cals and filters can become a breeding ground for mos-quitoes. As we are aware mosquitoes carry diseases and can pose a health threat-not to mention an unpleas-ant outside environment. I receive complaints during the summer about not taking care of them. People cannot sit outside during the sum-mer due to these little pests. Please take care of the pool if you have one.

tight schedule and need to move on with their routes. I also want to remind everyone that all furniture/clothing placed out to the garbage it MUST be in plastic bags strong enough to hold them. Our city office sells these heavy duty bags for this purpose for our cost of $3.00. Don’t bring home furniture and cloth-ing before you dis-

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Please remove your cans after garbage pickup. The alleys look bad when you drive down and all you see is garbage cans in the middle of the road. CSI should place the can as far back so as not to interfere with the flow of traffic. Of-ten times when it is windy they blow around the neigh-borhood and it just looks bad. Put them behind your fence it you have one.

We continue to get daily building permits. This is great for property values. This past month we have had 12 building permits issues totaling more than $49,032.36 dollars. Please call if you are in doubt about whether you need a permit for a certain project. I will be glad to help you with the process and even conduct an onsite visit with you to discuss a project. If you hire a contractor to do the work, always check to see that

strolling along historic Fair-field Avenue and shop and eat IN VUE!!!

With the summer grow-ing season in full swing, please take a few moments to look for weeds cropping up in the sidewalk cracks, gutter line, and the alleys behind your home. This will help keep Bellevue looking clean and sharp looking. Should you notice a prop-erty that may need attention please call the city offices at 859-431-8888 to report any problem properties in your area. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

If you are planning any home improvement proj-ects this summer please call the city offices and our professional city staff to as-sist you with all the neces-sary permits and processes. Please remember building permits start at Campbell County Planning and Zon-ing. C.O.A’s for the historic district are done through the city office. Be sure to avoid

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The NKY Chapter of Kentucky Public Retirees will hold their monthly meeting on Monday August 13, 2018 at Golden Coral 388 Orphanage Road Fort Wright. Gathering, social time, and lunch will begin at 11:45 a.m. Beginning 12:30 p.m. speaker and business meeting with adjournment 2:00 p.m. Retirees from state, local, county govern-ments, support staff from KY, Independent School systems, support staff, from Ky, Universities, and State Police are eligible to join with spouses. Retiree must receive pension from one of the three pension plans CERS, KERS, and STATE POLICE.

Membership is free from month of joining to the end of year December. Yearly individual member-ship dues are $15 from Jan-uary to December of cur-rent year.

KPR has a website, Facebook page, and quar-terly newsletter “The Ker-nel”. NKY Chapter has their own Facebook page “The NKY Chapter of Ken-tucky Public Retirees with latest pension news.

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of our changing climate. Elevated summer tempera-tures in urban ‘heat islands’ mean air conditioners are cranked up, increasing costs to the homeowner and ac-celerating formation of smog. Summer heat islands are created by lack of veg-etation and high solar radia-tion off hard surfaces.

Analysis of temperature trends for the last 100 years in several large U.S. cities indicate that, since 1940, temperatures in urban ar-eas have increased by about 35° F. Electricity demand in cities increases by 2–4% for each 32° F. increase. It is estimated that 5–10% of current urban electricity de-mand is spent to cool build-ings just to compensate for the increased urban temper-atures.

New word for today: al-bedo. An increase in global temperature causes snow and ice to melt, which de-creases the extent to which they cover the Earth’s sur-face, which indicates how much of the incoming solar radiation is reflected or ab-sorbed, decreasing Earth’s albedo. This decrease in al-bedo means more energy is absorbed, which causes fur-ther warming and more snow melt. Low albedo (dark sur-faces) leads to higher uptake of energy and, hence, warm-ing. Think blacktop.

Urban trees and high-albedo surfaces can offset or reverse the heat-island effect. Mitigation of urban heat islands can potentially reduce national energy use in air conditioning by 20% and save billions of $ per year in energy use, improv-

ing urban air quality. For many people, this also im-proves their health.

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Art in the Park – a day immersed in local arts in the beautiful Thomas J. Wiethorn Memorial Beach Park on Saturday, Septem-ber 8 from 10 am to 5 pm. This signature In Vue event brings fine artists and craft-speople to the park for an incredible sale and exhibit of one-of-a-kind work. It’s a celebration of LOCAL. Local art and craft. Local music. Local food, beer and wine. And, of course, our fantastic local businesses along Fairfield Avenue.

Bring your kids to this family friendly event. See them create their own mas-terpieces to take home with them and view kids’ artwork from Bellevue schools.

Buy “Silent Art” to help bring art into local kids’ lives. How? Visit the Silent Auction filled with work generously donated by our

artisans with proceeds go-ing to our very own art class programs in our Bellevue schools. Now that’s a win/win!

Have fun. Be appreciat-ed. Volunteer! There’s a rea-son our artisans say we have the best volunteers. We hope you’ll consider helping out in addition to our gratitude you’ll receive a cool t-shirt. Please visit our registra-tion site https://tinyurl.com/ycjr7ejh or contact Jody at 292-4220 for more informa-tion on these opportunities.

There’s even more mu-sic! The City will host their final Second Saturday Con-cert in the Park beginning at 7 pm with Trailer Park Floozies.

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Hubbard was born when the family lived at 332 Grandview Ave. and lived there until he was seven years old. When his father died his mother moved to New York City to be near family. Hubbard received his art education from New York’s National Academy of Design and the Art Acad-emy of Cincinnati. Eventu-ally his mother moved back to Northern Kentucky and settled in Ft Thomas at 129 Highland Ave.

In 1943 Hubbard mar-ried Anna Eikenhout. The following year they built a shantyboat at Brent, Ken-tucky and traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In 1951, Harlan and Anna built a simple home at

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enJoy suMMer drivingby Alvena Stanfield Northern Kentucky has

its share of traffic accidents. Drivers make mistakes. Sometimes a person in a hurry cuts off a driver. At that point the driver has two choices: be patient and ac-cept that others make mis-takes or jump to anger and try to retaliate, road rage. Most deadly and tragic car deaths, though, are children left inside cars on hot days. Parents of these children of-fer explanations, but under-neath their stories is the fact

fore locking it may prevent this kind of damage.

A different kind of driv-ing based on habit rather than thinking is drivers who enter expressway traffic as if they were traveling onto an exit ramp. Exit ramps should have slow traffic. Somehow in Northern Ken-tucky, though, drivers enter 55 or 65 miles an hour ex-pressways slow, pull into traffic and expect those trav-eling in the through land to drop their speed. No, the en-tering traffic’s ramp is long enough, intended to, allow incoming traffic to match the speed of those already

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they return home to toys left behind, beds never slept in again and no opportunity to watch their child grow up.

Even if the car is parked in the shade, the car’s in-terior will climb over 100 degrees. When we look at these temperatures we know fevers above 101 can cause brain damage. So even if the child survives there is great likelihood the brain has suf-fered from overheating and has irreparable damage. De-veloping the habit of scan-ning the car’s interior be-

traveling 55 or 65. This area accepts the anomaly. Driv-ers from elsewhere do not and expect those arriving to blend at the present speed of those already on the ex-pressway.

Somewhat humorous is the annoyed driver who, though he sees the red light ahead, feels compelled to zip around the car in front. Hurrying to a red light seems foolish. But daily this writer witnesses it and wonders why. Another sur-prising location is watch-ing drivers who approach a round-about treat it as if stop signs are in place. The round-about has been used for many years else-

where but is fairly new in Kentucky. It is designed to provide a smooth weaving of cars and uses less area than four-way stops. So why do people stop instead of smoothly blending in and out of the circle?

Maybe a reminder is appropriate here. Driving while using a cell phone can be deadly. If it is so impor-tant to talk to that person, park and enjoy the conver-sation. All the items above can be summarized by Sean Connery’s comment in the movie “The Untouchables”: “The plan, you see, is that, at the end of the day, every-one goes home.”

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you don’t want them to eliminate. • Plant a bed of catnip in an area where you don’t mind the cats hanging out. They’ll be drawn to the catnip instead of the flower beds. • Provide a shelter so the cats are not nesting in places where they are not wanted. There are many op-tions available; search on-line for feral cat shelters. • Know your local laws and ordinances. Protect your-self and the cats by knowing your legal rights. • Educate your neighbors and keep an ongoing dialog with them. Make sure the deterrents or solutions are implemented and are working for them. • Keep accurate records on how many cats you care for and when they were spayed or neutered.

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Complainant: People who complain about com-munity cats legitimately feel that the cats are a nui-sance because they elimi-nate in their gardens, yowl at night and spray smelly

urine. Complainants often are unaware that removing the cats will not solve the problem. They are also un-aware of the humane deter-rents available to help keep community cats off their property. The value of TNR Whether you love or loathe community cats, trap/neu-ter/return (TNR) is the most effective and humane way to effectively reduce the num-ber of community cats and also reduce nuisance be-haviors. In a TNR program, cats are humanely trapped, spayed or neutered, vacci-nated and then returned to their communities to live out their lives. Because they have been fixed and can no longer breed, the number of cats is reduced over time. Being spayed or neutered also stops nuisance behav-iors. Male cats are no longer competing or fighting with each other, spraying urine or roaming blocks away from their neighborhood. Females no longer yowl to seek a mate and no lon-ger have kittens, of course. These behaviors are typical-ly reduced immediately and eliminated completely only a month after the surgery. Additionally, TNR provides vaccines, so the cats are healthier and do not pose a threat to public health. Humane deterrents Scare Crow: This motion-activat-ed sprinkler has an infrared sensor that releases a three-second blast of water. The sprinkler “fires” 1,000 times on one nine-volt battery and

covers an area 45 by 35 feet long. It’s available at con-tech-inc.com. CatStop: This motion-activated, ultrasonic alarm emits a high-pitched sound that repels cats, but can’t be heard by humans. A nine-volt battery can operate up to nine months, depend-ing on usage. It’s available at contech-inc.com. CatScat: These harmless mats or car-pet runners are made of flex-ible plastic spikes. Place on the ground with spike side up to discourage cats from digging. Other digging de-terrents: Push chopsticks into small potted plants. Use pinecones, lava rocks, concrete pavers or stones as mulch to prevent cats from digging. Place large river rocks throughout the gar-den or use poultry fencing or landscape wrap around plants.

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by Alvena StanfieldAfter writing a $400+

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First. Review the usual times I am not at home and central air is running. Plan to raise the thermostat to 80 while I am gone.

Second, early morning

turn up my thermostat to 85. This writer has found the house remains cool un-til mid-afternoon without air running. Perhaps put to-night’s dinner in my crock-pot (which does not heat the room like my stove).

Third, around 3 PM (when outside temps soar) head out for a gym, business or grocery.

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Fifth. Dinner and relax-ing afterward reading, tex-ting or chatting within the mister’s range until sunset is comfortable.

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Behringer-Crawford Museum (BCM) is seek-ing artists of all genres to participate in its 26th an-nual freshART event. Art-ists selected from a pool of applicants will be invited to spend September 15 and 16 in Covington’s Devou Park working en plein air to create original works to be auctioned at the freshART gala and auction, one of the region’s premier annual art events. The gala will take place at the museum from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sep-tember 16.

All art media are wel-come - watercolors, oils, charcoal, ceramics, fabric art, sculpture et al. A por-tion of the sale price of each auctioned piece will go to the artist; the balance will be donated to the museum, benefiting area children through BCM’s educational programs. Submitted art-works will be judged by a panel of experts, with $1000 in cash prizes awarded to the first, second and third-place entries by the William & Patricia Applegate Fund.

In addition to freshART, the event also will include a silentART auction of works previously completed in the past 12 months, of any size or media. The silentART auction opens to the public for bidding at the museum on Saturday, August 18 and continues through Septem-ber 16. A silentART recep-tion, with an opportunity to meet the artists, takes place at BCM from 5-7 p.m. Sat-

Sixth. Time to lower the thermostat to 72 and cool the house overnight, when outside also cools.

Soon this writer is searching for last year’s Duke, water and sanitation bills to find out if there is ac-tually a savings. My phone is 859-409-3434. Text me if you try this or if you have other ideas.

Freshart 2018 Call to artistsurday, September 1. A por-tion of the purchase price of silentART auction items will be donated to the mu-seum’s youth education programs.

Artists may apply to par-ticipate in either freshART or silentART, but not both. Interested artists aged 18 and older should contact the museum at (859) 491-4003 and/or download the appli-cation forms from http://bcmuseum.org/activities/freshart. There is a $25 reg-istration fee for freshART and the application deadline is Monday, July 16.

The application dead-line for silentART is Mon-day, July 30, and artwork is due to BCM by Thursday, August 9. There is no ap-plication fee for silentART.

Since freshART began in 1992, more than a half

million dollars has been raised, bringing education-al and cultural activities to nearly a quarter-million Northern Kentucky chil-dren.

Behringer-Crawford Museum is supported in part by our members, the City of Covington, Kenton County Fiscal Court, ArtsWave, Kentucky Arts Council, the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame and The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. US Bank Foundation.

For more information, call 859-491-4003, email info@bcmuseum.org or go to www.bcmuseum.org.

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2-4 pm Wednesdays, July 18We may play board

games. We may make a craft. We could do both. The time is planned, but the fun is not. Ages 11-19. No need to regis-ter.

Hair Care with 7th Street Gifts

6:30 pm Monday, July 16Customize vegan and ko-

sher carrier oils and essential oils to D.I.Y. your own thera-peutic grade hair oil. Use all natural SLS and paraben free predetermined shampoo and conditioner bases to enhance with the appropriate essential oils of your choice. Partici-pants will go home with their very own hair food kit. Ages 18 & up. Registration required.

Cincinnati Observatory: Late Night Star Gazing7-11 pm Friday, July 20

Join us for an after-hours star gazing experience pre-sented by the fantastic team from the Cincinnati Observa-tory. We will start the night with refreshments and a view-ing of Apollo 13 (1995). Next, we experience the night sky through the lens of a telescope. Ages 18 & up. Registration re-quired.

Flower Arranging6:30 pm Monday, July 23

Use flowers, from the University of Kentucky Coop-erative educational gardens, to make beautiful arrangements. Ages 18 & up. Registration required. Class size is limited.Programs for Children and

FamiliesReady for K Through Play

10 am Mondays, July 16 & 23

Join us as we play our way through the alphabet and get ready for kindergarten. Ages 3-5. Registration required; class limited to 20 spots.

Baby Bounce & Rhyme10 am Wednesdays,

July 18 & 25Bond with baby while

singing silly songs, playing

with puppets, exploring dis-covery bins that spark Baby’s curiosity and imagination, do-ing fun laptime bouncy rhymes and dancing in our bubbles. Ages 0-24 months. No need to register.

Little Prodigies4 pm Wednesdays,

July 18 & 25Join us all summer long

as we celebrate the ways that libraries rock.

July 18: Microphones & Sing Along

July 25: GuitarsAges 2-7. No need to reg-

ister.Dog Days of Summer Read-

ing2-4 pm Saturday, July 14

Come to the library to practice reading with a dog. Studies have shown that this non-judgmental atmosphere actually helps children better develop their reading skills, so come join us. Please register your child, as space for this program is limited. Once you have registered, the library will contact you to schedule a 15 minute time slot for your reading. Grades 1-5.Drums Alive! with Melodic

Connections2 pm Saturday, July 14Join Melodic Connections

for Drums Alive! — a power hour of music and community. Drums Alive! is a fun and ac-tive drumming workout. ASL interpreters will be present for those members of our Deaf

community. Families. Regis-tration required.

Cincinnati Observatory Presents: Stars &

Constellations4 pm Tuesday, July 17The Cincinnati Observa-

tory will be here to teach you about the stars and the many myths behind the constella-tions in the sky. Grades 1-5. Registration required. Please register each child, as space for this program is limited.

Night Owl’s Story Time7:30 pm Thursday,

July 19Listen to stories, sing

songs, do some bedtime yoga, and mindfulness exercises to wind down for the night. Chil-dren can wear their pajamas so they are ready to be tucked into bed when they get home. Bedtime and Sleepytime Teas will be available to help everyone get in a relaxing mood. ASL interpreters will be present for those members

of our Deaf community. Ages 2-6. No need to register.Sensory Science Story Time:

Melodic Connections

11:30 am Saturday, July 21Children, all ages are in-

vited to use all of their senses to explore stories, songs and hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) activities. Our ‘Sensory Science’ programs begin with a short story time that integrates movement and song, and end with hands-on STEAM exploration. Today Melodic Connections will bring a very merry musical ex-perience. All ages. No need to

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Sensory Friendly Movies: Marvel vs. DC

3-8 pm Saturday, July 21Sensory friendly films

offer an accepting and under-standing environment for in-dividuals with autism or other special needs and their fami-lies to enjoy the movie-going experience. The room will be brighter, the volume will be lower, and audience mem-bers will be welcome to move around, talk and sing. The in-tended audience is children, teens and adults with special

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I can’t believe that July is already here. In America, July is a big month. July is National Blueberry Month, National Anti-Boredom Month, Unlucky Month for weddings, National Cell Phone Courtesy Month (we sure need that), National Picnic month, and, perhaps most importantly, it is Na-tional Ice Cream Month.

Here are some of the important daily holidays in July: Build a Scarecrow Day, International Chicken Wing Day, I Forgot Day, Eat Beans Day (I tend to stay home then), National Coun-try Music Day (a personal favorite), National Bikini Day (I gave up on speedos years ago), National Fried Chicken Day (Yum!), Ugly Truck Day (it’s a “guy” thing), and International Day of Friendship (I love that idea).

By now some of you are thinking, he left out the main holiday of the month, Independence Day!

Nope, I’m getting there. The Fourth of July—also known as Independence Day or July 4th—has been a federal holiday in the Unit-ed States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back

to the 18th century and the American Revolution. On July 2nd, 1776, the Conti-nental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later delegates from the 13 colonies ad-opted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thom-as Jefferson. From 1776 to the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American indepen-dence, with festivities rang-ing from fireworks, parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and bar-becues.

Our independence as a nation is a wonderful gift, however, celebrating in-dependence and freedom with no regard to how this impacts all persons in our community is counter to the central message of the Bible. Independence sepa-rates, but the Bible calls us to unity. When we seek freedom, independence, and peace first and fore-most for ourselves, we miss the mark. In the Christian tradition there is a Bible verse that says, “For Christ is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us (Ephesians 2.14).” We are designed to live in commu-nity and to be interdepen-dent of one another. “Jesus Christ does not build walls, Christians build walls. Faith does not build walls, fear builds walls. Love does not build walls, hate builds walls. Understanding does

not build walls, ignorance builds walls. Need does not build walls, privilege builds walls.” St. Paul says, “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus (Ga-latians 3.28).” And as Tom Trenney puts it, “There is no longer black or white, there is no longer gay or straight, there is no longer Republi-can or Democrat, there is no longer American or for-eigner, for all of us are one in Christ Jesus.” Indepen-dence, freedom, and peace is for all!

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needs accompanied by sib-lings and caregivers, although everyone is welcome. Fidgets will be available to use. Justice League starts at 3 pm; Thor Ragnarok starts 5 pm. No need to register.

Cincinnati Museum Center: Awesome Animal

Adaptions4 pm Tuesday, July 24The Cincinnati Museum

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Family Fun Night: Harry Potter Birthday Bash

5-8:30 pm Thursday, July 26This exciting event gives

new and existing fans a chance to share the wonder of J.K. Rowling’s unforgettable sto-ries and, most excitingly, to introduce the next generation of readers to the unparalleled magic of Harry Potter. There will be trivia and at 6 pm an interactive screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az-kaban. Families. Registration required.

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