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Imagine a canoe access,bank stabilization and im-proved landscaping along theMill Creek in the Village ofEvendale.

This and more might be pos-sible should the village be suc-cessful in its application for a$300,000 matching grant fromthe Clean Ohio Funds GreenSpace Conservation Programoffered through the Natural Re-sources Assistance Council.

Village council approved aresolution supporting applica-tion for the funds during its Jan.20 meeting.

The grant is for improve-ments for a piece of propertyalong the Mill Creek just northof the bridge on CunninghamDrive. A total of $300,000 would

be available for the projectshould the application be suc-cessful. Since it’s a matchinggrant the village is responsiblefor about $75,000, which couldbe achieved through in-kindwork by the village mainte-nance department, Vice MayorRichard Finan said.

The Mill Creek Watershed

Council is assisting the villagewith the grant application. If thegrant is accepted, the water-shed council will provide grantadministration and reporting,watershed coordinator KaraScheerhorn said.

This stretch of bank, like oth-er areas of the Mill Creek, iseroding, she said. Work thegrant dollars would allow in-clude bank stabilization, the re-moval of invasive plant speciesand planting of native plants.

The plans also include a rec-reational component. For exam-ple, a canoe access could be apart of the project.

“This would be a first for theMill Creek,” Scheerhorn said.

If the grant is awarded,Scheerhorn said the bulk of thework would not likely begin un-til 2016.

THANKS TO JENNIFER EISMEIER

Local officials paddle four miles down the Mill Creek.

Evendale seeking grantfor Mill Creek workBy Sheila [email protected]

Voters who cast ballots atHeritage Hill Elementary inSpringdale will be directed toa new location for the nextelection.

The Princeton Board ofEducation voted unanimouslyJan. 8 to not renew an annualcontract with the HamiltonCounty Board of Elections toallow voters to cast ballots atthe elementary school, one ofeight in the Princeton CitySchool District.

The vote came after a rec-ommendation from interimSuperintendent Ed Theroux,who cited safety concerns.

“I have concerns about thepublic access while we have

students in the building,” The-roux said of the flow of adultsinto Heritage Hill duringschool hours, when childrenin grades kindergartenthrough five are in the build-ing.

Ballots are cast in the gym,and access opens the public tohallways used by students.

“We have had some issuesin the past,” Theroux said,“with individuals who neededto use the restrooms.

“I have concerns about thepublic access while we havestudents in the building,” hesaid. “The security issue is aliability to us.”

Theroux clarified that hesupports and encourages pub-lic participation in the votingprocess, but he said the loca-

tion puts students at potentialrisk.

“In today’s society, we donot want to jeopardize stu-dents’ and staff safety,” hesaid, explaining that in othercases, schools typically arenot in session on election day.Princeton holds classes onElection Day.

The school board agreed,voting unanimously to not re-new the contract with Hamil-ton County.

Sherry Poland, director ofthe Hamilton County Board ofElections, said voters wouldbe notified by mail when anew location was determined,though she said she hoped shecould work out a compromisewith Princeton.

Princeton won’t open Heritage Hill to voters

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Heritage Hill Elementary won’t be a polling location for voters this year,after the Princeton Board of Education voted to not renew an annualcontract with the Hamilton County Board of Elections.

By Kelly [email protected]

Easily the most visible rep-resentation of local veteransgroups is their color guard.

Wherever there is a cere-mony, parade or special event,often a group of uniformedveterans is there to presentthe colors. While their partici-pation in the event might bebrief, it has significant mean-ing.

“We take pride in what wedo,” Army Veteran Bob Calderof Anderson Township said.“Our weapons, uniforms,we’re veterans. We representall veterans past and present.”

Color guards also repre-sent the price of freedom.

“Freedom is not free,”Army veteran Jerry Maynus,commander of the color guardfor American Legion Post 69in Reading, said. “We are try-ing to represent all veteransand bring knowledge to thegeneral public. Where I’m

coming from myself, the free-dom we all have, it’s not a giv-en. It’s not free. We had to fightfor that freedom. The guard isa reminder of this.”

Calder is one of 12 mem-bers of the color guard fromAmerican Legion Post 318 inAnderson Township. Guardcommander is Marine VeteranNate Lampe. Air Force Veter-an Keith Musselman and NavyVeteran Gary Gregorio arealso active color guard mem-bers. They are all very awareof the prestige associated withwhat they do. For this reason,they drill monthly and arriveearly at their venues to do apractice run.

While Veteran’s Day, Me-morial Day and the Fourth ofJuly are easily the busy timesof year for these groups, it’snot the only time they presentthe colors.

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Color guardunits representnation, freedom,veteransBy Sheila [email protected]

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Four members of the color guard from American Legion Post 318 inAnderson Township: Gary Gregorio, Bob Calder, Keith Musselman andNate Lampe.

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funerals, parades, formalevents, they’re prettymuch open to most invita-tions. The only limitationsare having enough peopleto provide a color guardunit.

The Anderson legionpost recently put out a callfor additional volunteersfor its color guard. It’s aregular request but oftengoes unanswered. Grego-rio noted that Lampe re-cently took over the roleof guard commander.

“Nobody else wantedto,” Gregorio said. Thecolor guard is part of theUniform Services Com-mittee. “Keith and Bob,

they are the heart and soulof the committee,” hesaid. Both have chal-lenges. Calder has loss ofhearing and Musselmanhas a form of Parkinson’sthat makes it difficult forhim to speak. Both havespecial devices to helpthem. They call their dis-abilities “minor inconve-niences,” Gregorio said.“I wish we had 20 guyslike this. It’s a pleasure tobe here.”

Maynus said Reading’scolor guard is also open tomost invitations to pre-sent. He has a list of 15names of color guardmembers, but usuallyonly three to five are ac-tive. A few of the mem-bers are retired and haveflexible schedules, but therest are employed and are

unavailable for most day-time engagements.“That’s the struggle,” hesaid.

Also a struggle, overalldwindling membership.The veterans from WWIand WWII are nearly allgone, Maynus said. Theveterans from the Koreanand Vietnam Wars aregetting old. At one timethe American Legion Post69 was 1,100 membersstrong. Today its numberstotal about 360.

Despite declining num-bers, these veterans in-tend to do all they can torepresent their nation andeducate the public aboutthe cost of freedom andrespect for the flag and allit represents. When notserving in color guard de-tails, many members ofcolor guard groups visitarea schools to talk to andteach children.

“We go to schools andteach flag etiquette tochildren,” Lampe said.“We teach them the histo-ry of the service andmore. It’s just somethingelse we do.”

Serving on the colorguard is a prestigious andimportant duty, Mussel-man noted.

“It’s about respect forthe flag and for the veter-ans who served and thosewho have passed on.We’re doing it for respectof the uniform and coun-try,” he said.

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The idea of having a“kit-bag” for packingyour troubles in wassomething for WWI sol-diers to sing about.

Foster children in theCincinnati area might besinging a similar tunewhen they too receivebags from the “Cases forLove” suitcase drivestarted by College Hillresident Julie Phillippi-Whitney.

For this drive, resi-dents throughout South-western Ohio, NorthernKentucky, SoutheasternIndiana and Dayton areasked to donate theirgently used or new lug-

gage, duffels or backpacks,any shape, color or size.The bags can be droppedoff at any Sibcy Cline loca-tion or at University Mov-ing and Storage, 8735 RiteTrack Way in West ChesterTownship, between thehours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.Monday through Friday,now through Feb. 13. Youcan also follow the cam-paign on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/Cases4Love.

Whitney said the inspi-ration for this massive lug-gage drive came from anepisode of ABC “WorldNews Tonight” that fea-tured a story about the fos-ter children in Richmond,Virginia, who had to carryall of their belongings in a

black trash bag as theymoved from home tohome. The reportmoved her to tears.

The story told abouta restaurant owner whoorganized a citywidesuitcase drive to helpprovide each of the 288children in Richmond’sfoster care programwith luggage. Morethan 500 bags were re-ceived. That was all ittook for Whitney to takeaction. The busy ownerof her own communica-tions business, Phillip-pi-Whitney Communi-cations, she began toplan a luggage drivehere. She first contact-ed Hamilton CountyJob and Family Ser-vices, which indicatedthat there is a need forluggage. The agencyalso reached out toWarm Welcomes, a fos-ter care outreach pro-gram in Butler County.

Sibcy Cline also em-braced the project.

Once the campaignends, University Mov-ing and Storage has vol-unteered to pick up thesuitcases in each of the22 Sibcy Cline locationsand transport them tojobs and family ser-vices.

‘Cases of Love’ benefitsfoster childrenBy Sheila [email protected]

Evendale CulturalArts Center toSwing Feb. 22

Attorney turned boo-gie, blues, and ragtimemusician, Matthew Ballaka The Boogie WoogieKid will heat up the pianokeys at the Evendale Cul-tural Arts Center, 10500Reading Road, 2 p.m. Sun-day, Feb. 22, with an all-American program offamily piano favoritesfrom the swing dance era.

Ball will be joined bypianist Ricky Nye for adueling piano romp on thekeys. Admission is free.For information call, (513)563-2247.

‘Grand Winter Ball’in Wyoming

The Flying CloudAcademy of VintageDance cordially invitesany and all to attend “AWinter Grand Ball: Talesof the Vienna Woods,” aromantic evening ofwaltzing and more to theSeven Hills Sinfonietta.

Music will be from theera of Johann Strauss IIand contemporaries. Peri-od costumes are admiredbut not required and con-temporary formal attireis also appropriate.

The event is 8 p.m. to 11p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, atthe Wyoming Fine ArtsCenter, 322 Wyoming Ave.Tickets available at thedoor: Academy members/students with ID, $20;non-academy members$25. Light refreshmentswill be served.

Visit www.vintagedan-ce.net.

Girls Night Out acelebration of localwomen

Apex Chiropractic andWellness Center in combi-nation with the CentennialBarn are hosting a GirlsNight Out, 6:30 p.m. to 9p.m. Tuesday, March 24, atthe Centennial Barn, 110Compton Road (classesstart at 7 p.m).

The evening will in-clude opportunities to tryseveral classes such asLaughter Yoga, Zumba,Nia, Yoga, Hula Hooping,Meditation,Aromatherapy, Qigong,Tai Chi and SoulCollage .Enjoy a chair massage bylocal trusted profession-als. There will be winetasting for a small addi-tional fee. Snacks anddrinks plus door prizesare included in the $15 fee

at the door or pre-registerby March 17 and save $3by calling Barb at 513-931-4300 or going to www.a-pexchirocenter.com.

Tech help offered toseniors

Technology help forseniors over age 50 re-sumes in the new year.

Wyoming residentsover age 50 can receivefree, one-on-one help us-ing their computers,through a program at thesenior room at the Wyo-ming Recreation Center.High school volunteerswill work with the seniorsduring the half-hour seg-ments.

Participants shouldbring chargers for theirdevices.

The sessions runthrough February:

Feb 8, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30

p.m.Feb. 22, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.For more information,

contact Debbie Bellmanat 522-9361. Sign up bycalling the city offices at821-7600. Deadline is 24hours in advance of thesession date.

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SCHOOLSSCHOOLSACHIEVEMENTS | NEWS | ACTIVITIES | HONORS CommunityPress.com

TRI-COUNTYPRESSEditor: Richard Maloney, [email protected], 248-7134

Bethany School» Bethany School second-

graders shared knowledgegained during animal researchwith family and friends. Thestudents researched an animal,built a diorama, and prepared ashort speech to share facts. Theproject is an excellent exampleof the research and publicspeaking practice a student atBethany receives.

Evendale Elementary» Evendale Elementary stu-

dents took part in a project thatmerged music, art and technol-ogy .

Connie Staton taught the stu-dents the song “The World is aRainbow.”

Carol Carver’s art class ana-lyzed the lyrics and realized that

the song is about people, work-ing together in harmony. One ofthe lines is, “Now, you be youand I’ll be me…” The teachersdecided to make mono-chromat-ic or one-color, self-portraits tobe arranged as a rainbow!

The song and presentationswere recorded and part of Even-dale Elementary’s inspirationalmessage to the Princeton Boardof Education meeting.

» Fifth-grade student NathanOrf won this year’s EvendaleScripps National Spelling Bee.Breasia Diggs and BreaunaGause tied for second place, La-ra Goodall came in third place.

Mount Notre Dame HighSchool

» Mount Notre Dame Thea-tre Department will present“Clue” Feb. 6-Feb. 15.

“Clue is going to be a funshow for an audience to watchbut a challenging show for thecompany because all of the the-atrical elements need to work inharmony. From the performers,to the lighting, to the sound ef-fects, to the colors of the set andcostumes, everything has tostrike a balance to not overpow-er any other area. The show is afast paced thrill ride to find outwho killed Boddy, where theydid it, with what and why. Theanswer will not disappoint,”Theatre director Nate Puckesaid.

For show times and ticket in-formation, call 513-821-3044 Ex-tension 7469 or visitwww.mndhs.org.

St. Gabriel ConsolidatedSchool

» Eighth-grade students atSt. Gabriel Consolidated Schoolare receiving multiple honorsfor their performance on theCatholic high school entranceexams. St. Gabriel eighth-gradeteachers are Mary Jo Eggen-berger and Mary Lou Huth.

Dominic Pham earned twoseparate four-year renewable

scholarships ($8,000 and $3,000)equating to a total of $44,000from Summit Country DaySchool.

Sam Fehrenbach earned afour-year renewable $8,000scholarship equating to a total of$32,000 from Moeller HighSchool.

Conlan O’Brien earned afour-year renewable $5,500scholarship equation to a total of$22,000 from Summit CountryDay.

Erin Koch earned a four-yearrenewable $5,000 scholarshipequating to a total of $20,000from McAuley High School.

Margaret Seeck earned afour-year renewable $5,000scholarship equating to a total of$20,000 from McAuley.

Erin Koch earned a four-yearrenewable $5,000 scholarshipequating to a total of $20,000from Roger Bacon High School.

Alec Pfriem earned a four-year renewable $5,000 NormanPohl scholarship equating to atotal of $20,000 from Roger Ba-con.

Dominic Pham earned a four-year renewable $4,100 scholar-ship equating to a total of $16,400from Moeller.

Andrew DeMain earned afour-year renewable $4,000scholarship equating to a total of$16,000 from Roger Bacon.

Rebecca Lyons earned a four-year renewable $4,000 scholar-ship equating to a total of $16,000from Roger Bacon.

Minh-Thu Truong earned afour-year renewable $3,000scholarship equating to a total of$12,000 from Mount NotreDame High School.

Grayson Phillips earnedTWO separate four-year renew-able $1,000 scholarship equatingto a total of $8,000 from La SalleHigh School.

James Krusinski earned afour-year renewable $2,000scholarship equating to a total of$8,000 from Moeller.

Victoria Childers earned afour-year renewable $2,000

scholarship equating to a total of$8,000 from Roger Bacon.

Elizabeth Grantmaierearned a four-year renewable$2,000 scholarship equating to atotal of $8,000 from Roger Ba-con.

Alec Pfiem earned a four-year renewable $2,000 scholar-ship equating to a total of $8,000from Roger Bacon.

Benjamin Ravancho earned afour-year renewable $2,000scholarship equating to a total of$8,000 from Roger Bacon.

Grace Davis earned a four-year renewable $1,750 MeritAward equating to a total of$7,000 from Mount Notre Dame.

Erin Koch earned a four-yearrenewable $1,750 Merit Awardequating to a total of $7,000 fromMount Notre Dame.

Rebecca Lyons earned a four-year renewable $1,500 MeritAward equating to a total of$6,000 from Mount Notre Dame.

Shea Suggs earned a four-year renewable $1,000 WilliamE. Smith scholarship equating toa total of $4,000 from Roger Ba-con.

Becky Dean earned a four-year renewable $1,000 scholar-ship equating to a total of $4,000from Mount Notre Dame.

Elizabeth Grantmaierearned a four-year renewable$1,000 scholarship equating to atotal of $4,000 from Mount No-tre Dame.

Henry Anhofer earned afour-year renewable $1,000scholarship equating to a total of$4,000 from Fenwick HighSchool.

Andrew DeMain earned afour-year renewable $1,000scholarship equating to a total of$4,000 from Fenwick.

Annie Ha earned a four-yearrenewable $1,000 scholarshipequating to a total of $4,000 fromFenwick.

James Krusinski earned afour-year renewable $1,000scholarship equating to a total of$4,000 from Fenwick.

Luke Lejeune earned a four-year renewable $1,000 scholar-ship equating to a total of $4,000from Fenwick.

Benjamin Stacy earned afour-year renewable $1,000scholarship equating to a total of$4,000 from Fenwick.

Michelle Truong earned afour-year renewable $1,000scholarship equating to a total of$4,000 from Fenwick.

Benjamin Ravancho earned afour-year renewable $1,000 Aca-demic Distinction scholarshipequating to a total of $4,000 fromLa Salle.

Victoria Childers earned afour-year renewable $500 MeritAward equating to a total of$2,000 from Mount Notre Dame.

Annie Ha earned a four-year

renewable $500 Merit Awardequating to a total of $2,000 fromMount Notre Dame.

Minh-Thu Truong earned aone-year $2,000 scholarshipfrom Ursuline Academy.

Margaret Seeck earned aone-year $1,500 scholarshipfrom Ursuline.

Grace Davis earned a one-year $1,000 scholarship fromUrsuline.

Annie Ha earned a one-year$1,000 scholarship from Ursu-line.

Michelle Truong earned aone-year $1,000 scholarshipfrom Ursuline.

Grace Davis earned a one-year $1,000 scholarship fromMount Notre Dame.

Becky Dean earned a one-year $1,000 scholarship fromMount Notre Dame.

Annie Ha earned a one-year$1,000 scholarship from MountNotre Dame.

Erin Koch earned a one-year$1,000 scholarship from MountNotre Dame.

Rebecca Lyons earned a one-year $1,000 scholarship fromMount Notre Dame.

Michelle Truong earned aone-year $1,000 scholarshipfrom Mount Notre Dame.

Minh-Thu Truong earned aone-year $1,000 scholarshipfrom Mount Notre Dame.

Victoria Childers earned aone-year $500 scholarship fromMount Notre Dame.

Erin Koch and MargaretSeeck have earned the honor ofAdmission with Distinctionfrom McAuley.

Christopher Curtis, AndrewDeMain, Luke Lejeune, ConlanO’Brien and Dominic Phamhave earned the honor of Admis-sion with Distinction fromMoeller.

Christopher Curtis, Sam Feh-renbach, James Krusinski, Con-lan O’Brien and Dominic Phamhave been admitted and earnedthe honor of being named a St.Francis Xavier Scholar at St.Xavier High School.

Grace Davis, Becky Dean,Annie Ha, Erin Koch, RebeccaLyons, Michelle Truong andMinh-Thu Truong have beenrecognized as Julie BilliartScholar honorees at Mount No-tre Dame.

Grace Davis, Becky Deanand Minh-Thu Truong have beenadmitted and earned the honorof Admission with Distinctionfrom St. Ursula Academy.

Grace Davis, Becky Dean,Rebecca Lyons and Minh-ThuTruong have been admitted andearned the honor of Admissionwith Distinction from Ursuline.

Andrew DeMain, James Kru-sinski, and Luke Lejeune havebeen recognized as Distin-guished Scholars from Fenwick.

SCHOOLS NOTEBOOK

THANKS TO MELINDA BOYD

Bethany School second-graderHilary Rucker presents her dolphindisplay.

THANKS TO MARJORIE MILLENNOR

A project at Evendale ElementarySchool merged music, art andtechnology, includingmonochromatic portraits of thestudents.


Evendale Elementary teacher Steve Coleman and school spelling beewinner Nathan Orf.


Evendale spelling bee contestants, from left: front, Jireah Herd, Lara Goodall, Dyson Hinsey, Ryan Maloney, BryeeGood, Braden Gause and Ronald Schmidt; middle row, Jayden Hayes, Breasia Diggs, Rylee Meyer, Amanda Tulloss,Melanie Kessler, Breauna Gause, Brittany Gause and Nathan Orf (champion); back, Carson McDaniel, MauraSansing, Nylah Coffey, Aric Engel and Iziah Longstreet.


A project at Evendale Elementary School merged music, art and technology,including monochromatic portraits of the students.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 5Art & Craft ClassesJust for the Guys: SweetheartPendants, 6-9 p.m., NeusoleGlassworks, 11925 KemperSprings Drive, Work with jewel-ry artist, Karen Trimble Shell, tocreate two unique pendants foryour sweethearts. $50. Reserva-tions required. 751-3292;www.neusoleglassworks.com.Forest Park.

Cooking ClassesCooking for Two - Aphrodisi-acs with Carolyn Gray, 6:30-9p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, $45. Reser-vations required. 489-6400.Symmes Township.

EducationActing Classes, 7-9 p.m., Shar-onville Fine Arts Center, 11165Reading Road, Actors build andexpand their skills. Prepare forauditions, improv, cold reads,monologues, character devel-opment and agency repre-sentation. Ages 18 and up. $25.Presented by Cincinnati ActorsStudio. 615-2827. Sharonville.

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

LecturesFlags Flags Flags, 7-8 p.m.,Reading City Hall, 1000 MarketSt., Council Chambers. ReadingHistorical Society presentsprogram to learn about “OldGlory” and all the tales it has totell. Free. 733-2787. Reading.

On Stage - ComedyJon Roy, 8 p.m., Go BananasComedy Club, 8410 MarketPlace Lane, $8-$14. 984-9288;www.gobananascomedy.com.Montgomery.

ShoppingBook, Movie and Music Swap,4-8 p.m., Springdale CommunityCenter, 11999 Lawnview Ave.,Drop off items Feb. 2-4 from 9a.m.-8 p.m. and receive ticketfor each item redeemable atswap. Free admission. 346-3910;www.springdale.org/goplay.Springdale.

FRIDAY, FEB. 6MuseumsJessie Durbin Ward FirstPerson Program, 7-9 p.m.,Heritage Village Museum, 11450Lebanon Road, Hayner HouseBallroom. Mark Howard por-trays J. Durbin Ward, Civil Warveteran that lived in WarrenCounty. He attended MiamiUniversity in 1838 and becameprosecuting attorney of WarrenCounty in 1845. He enteredUnion army in 1861. Dessertincluded. Benefits HeritageVillage Museum. $20, $17members. Registration required.563-9484; www.heritagevillage-cincinnati.org. Sharonville.

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

On Stage - TheaterTheory of Mind, 7 p.m., TheGrove Banquet Hall, 9158 Win-ton Road, By Ken LaZebnik.Sensitive, unsentimental por-trait of relationships, tells storyof Bill, a teenager who happensto live on the autism spectrum.Part of Playhouse in the Park’sOff the Hill series. Recom-mended for ages 11 and up. Callvenue for tickets and prices.Presented by Playhouse in thePark. 522-1154; www.cincyplay-.com. Finneytown.

Awesome ‘80s Prom, 7:30p.m., North College Hill CityCenter, 1500 W. Galbraith Road,The Awesome 80s Prom isnotjust a play â€“ It’s a fullyinteractive blast-from-the-pastdance party experience in thestyle of Tony ‘n Tina’s Weddingset at Wanaget High’s SeniorProm in 1989. $25 individual;$40 couples. Presented byCenterStage Players of Ohio.Through Feb. 7. 588-4910;www.centerstageplayersinc-.com. North College Hill.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7Art & Craft ClassesSweetheart Paperweight,noon to 8 p.m., Neusole Glass-works, 11925 Kemper SpringsDrive, Create glass paperweight

shaped like heart. $35 each.Reservations required. ThroughFeb. 13. 751-3292; www.neuso-leglassworks.com. Forest Park.

Cooking ClassesQuick and Easy Chicken Soupwith Joe Westfall, noon to 1p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, $20. Reser-vations required. 489-6400.Symmes Township.

EducationCitizenship Class, 10 a.m. to11:30 p.m., The Healing Center,11345 Century Circle West, BasicEnglish needed. Ages 18 and up.Free. Registration required.346-4080, ext. 350; www.hea-lingcentercincinnati.org. Spring-dale.

Exercise ClassesTai Chi Class Yang 37 ShortForm, 4-5 p.m., Yoga Fit Bou-tique, 10776 Montgomery Road,With Master Jerome Cook. Ages16-99. $20. Registration re-quired. 237-5330;www.want2gofit.com. Syca-more Township.

Health / WellnessGo Red Total Makeover, 2-4p.m., Macy’s-Kenwood, 7800Montgomery Road, Visit sta-tions around store and getheart health passport stamped.Visit all stations and get enteredinto drawing for $250 Macy’sgift card. Giveaways, cookingsamples, special promotions andmore. Free. Presented by Amer-ican Heart Association. 842-8871. Kenwood.

The Journey: Course on Moth-er Loss, 10 a.m. to noon Week-ly through April 25., Montgo-mery Community Church, 11251Montgomery Road, Room 30.Based on book, MotherlessDaughters: A Legacy of Loss 2ndedition by Hope Edelman, andThe Motherless DaughtersMinistry Workbook. Study willguide eight women per classthrough understanding ofeffect of mother loss in theirlives. Ages 18 and up. $60.Registration required. Present-ed by Motherless DaughtersMinistry. 378-6028; www.moth-erlessdaughtersministry.com.Montgomery.

Holiday - Valentine’s DayDaddy/Daughter Valentine’sDance, 6-8 p.m., Kids FirstSports Center, 7900 E. KemperRoad, $16 per couple, $6 eachadditional daughter. 489-7575;www.kidsfirstsports.com. Syca-more Township.

Music - Concert SeriesLinton Music’s Peanut Butter& Jam Sessions: High, Low,Fast, Slow. Listen Closely,Here We Go, 10-10:45 a.m.,11:30-12:15 p.m., 1-1:45 p.m.,Good Shepherd LutheranChurch Kenwood, 7701 Ken-wood Road, Flute, string bass,piano and drums show musicalopposites. $5 or four for $15;free under age 2. Presented byLinton Peanut Butter & JamSessions. 381-6868; www.linton-music.org. Kenwood.

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

On Stage - TheaterTheory of Mind, 7 p.m., BlueAsh Recreation Center, 4433Cooper Road, By Ken LaZebnik.Sensitive, unsentimental por-trait of relationships, tells storyof Bill, a teenager who happensto live on the autism spectrum.Part of Playhouse in the Park’sOff the Hill series. Recom-mended for ages 11 and up. Callvenue for tickets and prices.Presented by Playhouse in thePark. 745-8550; www.cincyplay-.com. Blue Ash.

Awesome ‘80s Prom, 7:30p.m., North College Hill CityCenter, $25 individual; $40couples. 588-4910; www.center-stageplayersinc.com. NorthCollege Hill.

SUNDAY, FEB. 8Art & Craft ClassesSweetheart Paperweight, 10a.m. to 8 p.m., Neusole Glass-works, $35 each. Reservationsrequired. 751-3292; www.neu-soleglassworks.com. ForestPark.

Exercise ClassesFree Workout Every Sunday,2:15-3:30 p.m., Greater EmanuelApostolic Temple, 1150 W.Galbraith Road, Lower level.

Chair exercise and Leslie San-sone’s low-impact, indoor,aerobic workout. Free. 324-6173. Springfield Township.

Karaoke and Open MicKaraoke, 7 p.m.-11:30 p.m.,Roxy’s Live, 11473 Chester Road,Free. Presented by ArethaChapman. --. Sharonville.

Music - AcousticLeo Coffeehouse, 5:30 p.m.,Mount Healthy United Method-ist Church, 7612 Perry St., Week-ly venue of live acoustic folk,Americana, bluegrass, and rootsmusic. Scheduled performancesbegin at 7 p.m. Informal songcircle jam starts at 5:30 p.m.Open mic every first and thirdSunday. Free to members.Donations welcome fromnon-members. Presented byQueen City Balladeers. 399-7227; www.qcballadeers.org.Mount Healthy.

Music - ChoralCincinnati Boychoir, 3-4:30p.m., St. Paul Community Unit-ed Methodist Church, 8221Miami Road, Sanctuary. Choralmusic by group celebrating 50thanniversary year. 45-memberTour Choir, with boys rangingfrom 11-17, perform programincluding patriotic songs andwork commissioned for anniver-sary year. Free. 891-8181. Madei-ra.

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

MONDAY, FEB. 9Cooking ClassesEasy Charcuterie at Homewith Jackson Rouse, 6:30-9p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, $50. Reser-vations required. 489-6400.Symmes Township.

EducationJob Search Seminar, 1:30-3p.m., Family Life Center, 703Compton Road, Seminar seriesprovides speakers who teachhow to conduct successfulcontemporary job search.Reservations required. 931-5777; tinyurl.com/familylifectr.Finneytown.

Acting Classes, 7:30-9:30 p.m.,Sharonville Fine Arts Center,$25. 615-2827. Sharonville.

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.

NAMI Peer-to-Peer EducationCourse, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Vine-yard Community Church, 11340Century Circle East, Recoveryeducation course for adultswith mental illness. Ages 18 andup. Free. Registration required.Presented by National Allianceon Mental Illness of HamiltonCounty. 351-3500; www.namih-c.org. Springdale.

TUESDAY, FEB. 10Cooking ClassesA Winter Evening with JohnRuppel, 6:30-9 p.m., Cooks’Wares, 11344 MontgomeryRoad, $50. Reservations re-quired. 489-6400. SymmesTownship.

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

Health / WellnessOpen House Event, 9 a.m. to 5p.m., Hearing Solutions BlueAsh, 9741 Kenwood Road, Freehearing test and evaluation. Forages 50 and up. Reservationsrequired. Presented by HearingSolutions by Ellis-Scott & Asso-ciates. 793-9333. Blue Ash.

Literary - SigningsBook Launch for My Heartand Other Black Holes byJasmine Warga, 7-9 p.m.,Barnes & Noble Fields-Ertel,9891 Waterstone Blvd., Localauthor and Sycamore HighSchool alum. Free. 469-9669;www.bn.com. Deerfield Town-ship.

Parenting ClassesFoster Parent Training: Ses-sion 4: The Effects of Place-

ment; Session 9: PrimaryFamilies, 5:30-8:30 p.m., TheBair Foundation, 260 NorthlandBlvd., Suite 124, Free. Regis-tration required. 771-1606.Springdale.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11Business ClassesA Valentine’s Evening withthe Cooks with Wine Pair-ings: Liz and David Cook,6:30-9 p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, $70. Reser-vations required. 489-6400.Symmes Township.

EducationDave Ramsey’s FinancialPeace University, 7-9 p.m.Relating With Money., VineyardCommunity Church, 11340Century Circle East, Moneymanagement class designed tohelp you find freedom in yourfinances. Ages 18 and up. $93.Registration required. 671-0422,ext. 265; vineyardcincin-nati.com/FPU. Springdale.

Health / WellnessOpen House Event, 9 a.m. to 5p.m., Hearing Solutions BlueAsh, Reservations required.793-9333. Blue Ash.

On Stage - ComedyPro-Am Night, 8 p.m., GoBananas Comedy Club, 8410Market Place Lane, Aspiringcomics, amateurs and profes-sionals take the stage. Ages 18and up. $5. 984-9288; www.go-bananascomedy.com. Montgo-mery.

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 commonproblems. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Kenwood Al-AnonFamily Group. Through Feb. 3.947-3700. Kenwood.

THURSDAY, FEB. 12Business SeminarsMontgomery Chamber ofCommerce: “Human Re-sources and the Law” withMichael Hawkins, Dinsmore& Shohl, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,Wright Brothers Inc., 7825Cooper Road, Free. Presentedby Montgomery Ohio Chamberof Commerce. 502-6975;www.montgomeryohiochambe-rofcommerce.com. Montgo-mery.

Clubs & OrganizationsGeneral Federation of Wom-en’s Club Southwest OhioValley, 5-8:30 p.m., SharonvilleCommunity Center, 10990Thornview Drive, Club lookingto increase membership. Pur-pose: To provide programs,services and activities throughwhich active women can utilizetalents for betterment of com-munity and themselves. Forwomen. Free. Presented byGFWC Southwest Ohio ValleyWomen’s Club. 755-8519; hea-ney.wix.com/gfwcswohio.Sharonville.

Cooking Classes

Roll Your Own: Hands-onSushi with Holly Bader, 6:30-9 p.m., Cooks’ Wares, 11344Montgomery Road, $45. Reser-vations required. 489-6400.Symmes Township.

EducationActing Classes, 7-9 p.m., Shar-onville Fine Arts Center, $25.615-2827. Sharonville.

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

Health / WellnessOpen House Event, 9 a.m. to 5p.m., Hearing Solutions BlueAsh, Reservations required.793-9333. Blue Ash.

On Stage - ComedyStewart Huff, 8 p.m., Go Ba-nanas Comedy Club, 8410Market Place Lane, $8-$14.984-9288; www.gobananasco-medy.com. Montgomery.

FRIDAY, FEB. 13Art & Craft ClassesSweetheart Paperweight, 10a.m. to 8 p.m., Neusole Glass-works, $35 each. Reservationsrequired. 751-3292; www.neu-soleglassworks.com. ForestPark.

MuseumsDr. Henry Langdon First Per-son Program, 7-9 p.m., Heri-tage Village Museum, 11450Lebanon Road, Hayner HouseBallroom. Dr. Robert Martsolfportrays surgeon Henry ArcherLangdon. Dr. Langdon servedthree years in 79th Ohio Volun-teer Infantry with GeneralSherman’s Army in Atlantacampaign and March to the Seathrough Georgia during theCivil War. Benefits HeritageVillage Museum. $20, $17members. Registration required.563-9484; www.heritagevillage-cincinnati.org. Sharonville.

On Stage - ComedyStewart Huff, 8 p.m., 10:30p.m., Go Bananas Comedy Club,$8-$14. 984-9288; www.gobana-nascomedy.com. Montgomery.

On Stage - TheaterDial M for Murder, 8-10:30p.m., Sharonville Fine ArtsCenter, 11165 Reading Road,Tony plans to murder his un-fortunate wife to claim herfortune for himself. Ages 18 andup. $12, $10 seniors and stu-dents. Presented by Tri-CountyPlayers. Through Feb. 21. 471-2030; www.tricountyplayer-s.org. Sharonville.

RecreationTGIF at Kids First, 6-10 p.m.,Kids First Sports Center, 7900 E.Kemper Road, Pizza, indoorswimming and night-timesnack. $30, $20 each additional

child. Reservations required.Through Feb. 27. 489-7575.Sycamore Township.

SchoolsOpen House, 8:30 a.m.-3:30p.m., The Schilling School forGifted Children, 8100 CornellRoad, Take personal tour andvisit classrooms. Meet head toof school, faculty and parentambassadors. Children wel-come. Ages 0-12. Free. 489-8940; www.schillingschool.org.Sycamore Township.

SATURDAY, FEB. 14Art & Craft ClassesValentine Valley, noon to 3p.m., Tri-County Mall, 11700Princeton Road, Across fromRogers Jewelers. With ArtSpark. Variety of crafts, in-cluding Valentines, crowns andmore. Ages 3-10. Free. 671-0120.Springdale.

EducationCitizenship Class, 10 a.m. to11:30 p.m., The Healing Center,Free. Registration required.346-4080, ext. 350; www.hea-lingcentercincinnati.org. Spring-dale.

Exercise ClassesTai Chi Class Yang 37 ShortForm, 4-5 p.m., Yoga Fit Bou-tique, $20. Registration re-quired. 237-5330;www.want2gofit.com. Syca-more Township.

Health / WellnessValentine’s Day DivorceWorkshop and Yoga, 11 a.m.to 1:30 p.m., Game on Fitness,11096 Reading Road, Motiva-tional workshop for divorcedwomen who are ready to brushoff and move on. For divorcedwomen. $47. Registrationrequired. Presented by Get to itCoaching. 886-5377; www.get-toitcoaching.com/valentinesday.Sharonville.

On Stage - ComedyStewart Huff, 8 p.m., 10:30p.m., Go Bananas Comedy Club,$8-$14. 984-9288; www.gobana-nascomedy.com. Montgomery.

On Stage - TheaterDial M for Murder, 8-10:30p.m., Sharonville Fine ArtsCenter, $12, $10 seniors andstudents. 471-2030; www.tri-countyplayers.org. Sharonville.

PetsphoDOGrapher’s My FurryValentine Mega Pet Adop-tion Event, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,Sharonville Convention Center,11355 Chester Road, Free admis-sion. Presented by My FurryValentine. Through Feb. 15.235-1353; www.myfurryvalenti-ne.com. Sharonville.

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A Book, Movie and Music Swap will be offered for free admission from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb.5, at Springdale Community Center, 11999 Lawnview Ave., Springdale. Drop off items from 9a.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 2-4. and receive a ticket for each item redeemable at the swap. Call 346-3910or visit www.springdale.org/goplay.

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Whenever the grandkidsspend the night, I let them“color” their bath water with abit of food coloring.

Emerson, 2-1/2, usuallychooses blue, yellow andgreen. Her sister, Eva, 6, likes

pink and red. Iguess that’s whyI was low on redfood coloringwhen I got outthe ingredientsfor the red vel-vet cake recipeI’m sharing forValentine’s Day.To be on the safeside, I bought 2boxes, one forme in the kitch-

en, and one for the kids in thebath.

Don’t forget those in yourcircle of family and friendswho could use a bit of cheeringup this Valentine’s Day. Buy abox of kids’ Valentines.They’re less expensive thansingle cards and bring joy toValentines of all ages.

Red velvet cake fromscratch

When I see a recipe likethis, I wonder how it was everdeveloped. Red velvet cake is a“happy” cake - the vivid colormakes me smile. The cocoagives a hint of chocolate. Yes,you do need a whole bottle ofred food coloring. There arerecipes I’ve seen that use beetsas a natural coloring agent.This recipe has to have foodcoloring. But heck, it’s onlyonce a year…

2-1/2 cups all purpose flour1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

powder1 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt2 sticks butter, softened (1

cup)2 cups sugar4 large eggs, room temper-

ature1 cup regular sour cream1/2 cup milk - 2% or regular1 oz bottle red food coloring2-1/2 teaspoons vanillaPreheat oven to 350.Grease and flour two 9-inch

round cake pans. This meansgreasing the pan and thensprinkling it lightly with flour,then tapping excess out. Or usebaking spray with flour.

Whisk together, sift or pushthrough a sieve the flour, cocoapowder, baking soda and salt.Set aside.

Beat butter and sugar onmedium speed 5 minutes oruntil light and fluffy. Beat ineggs, one at a time so that they

incorporate well. Mix in sourcream, milk, food color andvanilla. Gradually beat in flourmixture on low until blended.Don’t overbeat. Pour into pans.

Bake 35-40 minutes or untiltoothpick inserted in centercomes out clean. Cool in pan 10minutes. Remove from pans;cool on wire rack before frost-ing.

Tip from Rita’s kitchen Put eggs in liquid measur-

ing cup with spout. They willbe easy to pour out one at atime.

Buttercream frosting

I like a thick frosting so Iusually double the recipe. Theleft over buttercream can befrozen for a couple of months.

1 stick butter (1/2 cup), soft-ened

4-1/2 confectioners sugar,sifted or pushed through asieve if necessary to removelumps

2 teaspoons vanilla4-6 tablespoons milk or bit

more if neededBeat butter until creamy

and then beat in sugar, vanillaand enough milk to desiredconsistency. Makes 3 cups.

Cream cheese frosting

Beat together until fluffy:8 oz cream cheese, softened4-6 tablespoons butter, soft-

ened4 cups confectioners sugar

or bit more if necessary1 tablespoon vanilla

Anne’s red velvetcupcakes and red velvetcake from a mix

Check out these on my siteAbouteating.com.

Lemon blueberry syrupFor Hank, who asked me to

share this recipe when I men-tioned it during a workshop.Hank picks blueberries inseason and then freezes them.This would be nice over waf-fles or pancakes. Note therange in sugar. Dependingupon the sweetness of the ber-ries, you may need more, orless. For restricted diets, use asugar and butter substitute.

1/2 stick butter (4 table-spoons)

1/2 to 1 cup sugar2 generous cups blueber-

ries, fresh or frozen2-3 tablespoons fresh lemon

juice1 tablespoon cornstarchPlace butter, sugar and

berries in pan. Cook over medi-um heat for 5 minutes, or untilberries pop. Combine lemonjuice and cornstarch and stirinto sauce. Cook until thick-ened, about 3-5 minutes. Makesabout 3 cups. Store in refriger-ator. Warm before serving.

Rita Nader Heikenfeld is an herb-alist, educator, Jungle Jim’s East-gate culinary professional and au-thor. Find her blog online atAbouteating.com. Call 513-248-7130,ext. 356.

Red velvet cake makes Valentine’s Day sweeter

Rita HeikenfeldRITA’S KITCHEN

THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD

Scratch-made red velvet cake is the perfect accompaniment to Valentine’s Day.

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A publication of

Jan. 28 questionWhat do you think about President

Obama's proposal to pay for two yearsof community college, effectively ex-panding school to K-14 by taxing 529 col-lege savings plans?

“Community colleges are a valu-able part of our educational system,and provide an important option formany students and families. However,$60 billion is not free, and ending bene-fits to middle class 529 college savingsplans to pay for it is counterproduc-tive and an added tax on millions offamilies. President Obama is doing adisservice to our students whose gen-eration is already on the receiving endof a growing $18 trillion debt.”

U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup

“I am very much against it. Themain reason is the taxing of the 529college savings plans. When we start-ed saving for college for our childrenwe were told that the benefit of usingthe 529 was that it would not be taxed,so that was a very large selling point inus making the decision to use it as aninvestment vehicle to help pay for col-lege.

“To now change that aspect, has thebait and switch feel to it. Althoughmany will say that 529s are somethingthat are used by the wealthy, we are avery middle class family with bothparents working full time, and are nomeans wealthy. So the taxing of the529 is very disadvantageous to us.

“I am all for expansion of educationfor all, but in this case it seems that themiddle class will take the hardest hit.Also, since the working poor and themiddle class do not have the moneynecessary to influence the politicalsystem, it is easy for the governmentto set policies that make them carrythe load while those with money tosway the political landscape will con-tinually make sure that no policy ispassed that is in any way disadvanta-geous to them financially, either in theshort or long term.”

C.S.

“Let me see tax the hard workingAmericans who are sacrificing to putmoney away for their children, so wecould pay for two more years of edu-cation for everybody. I guess Obamawas told those 5 million illegal chil-dren( he let in) won’t be ready in fiveor six years for the job market. Whytwo? Why not four years? That’s next.When was the last time an applicantwas told, ‘you know if you just had twomore years of a meaningless educa-tion you would be qualified?’ WhenObama said ‘he wanted to spread thewealth around,’ you probably thoughtto other Americans. Now we know hemeant the all the Third World coun-tries.

“You can work extra hours, you gotthe dough right? Someone thinks so. “

J.H.D.

“Obama says this new tax is re-quired for $2,500 write-offs for low-in-come families paying tuition. Forty-nine percent of the population cur-rently does not pay any federal in-come tax. This means the new tax rev-enue cannot be used for write-offsbecause there is nothing to write-off.This new tax will probably fund Oba-ma’s new Common-Core-for-Collegeplan. Obama and the Progressives willnot stop until they control every as-pect of your children’s education.”

D.M.

“Like all things Obama, two yearsof free community college is yet an-other idea that sounds enticing on thesurface, but with no possible equitableway to pay for it, is just another des-perate attempt to create a legacy. In-stead of giving away two years of col-lege to people with no skin in the game,perhaps he could look for ways to slowor trim the excessively high, ever in-creasing costs of college. Just likeObamacare, where he is demandingthat the middle class foot the bill to

provide health care to the masses, heshould be focusing on ways to reign inmedical costs at hospitals, doctor’s of-fices and at the pharmaceutical com-panies. Sadly, Obama’s unchecked taxand spend like crazy policies are bur-dening our grandchildrens’ grandchil-dren with a debt that can never be re-paid. What are he and his ilk think-ing?”

M.J.F.

Jan. 21 questionThe city of Cincinnati released a re-

port earlier this month which detailed adecrease in crime within the city. Do youfeel safe, or safer, in the city than youhave in the past? Why or why not?

“I see no difference in my per-ceived safety level in downtown Cin-cinnati. I work in Cincinnati so I see itnearly every weekday, however, I amusually only there during daylighthours. I suspect I may have a differentperspective if I frequented the city af-ter dark. I applaud the police for help-ing make a decrease in Cincinnaticrime a reality. Keep up the goodwork. It will be curious to see what im-pact on crime the ill-advised streetcarwill have, when and if it is ever com-pleted.”

M.J.F.

“Pre riots, during the lunch hour Iwould often go grab lunch at restau-rants on Main Street in Over theRhine. That area seemed to be on theupswing with many independent oper-ators and owners. I never felt threat-ened.

“However, after the riots, I stoppedheading into Over the Rhine and losttrack of what happened to many of thebusinesses, taking most of my lunchhours down south more into the Cen-tral Business District, FountainSquare area.

“Now, however with so much rede-velopment happening in parts of Overthe Rhine, such as the Vine Street cor-ridor, north of Central Parkway, Wash-ington Park and the new WoodwardTheater opening on Main Street, Ihave ventured back into the area.

“There is a sense of safety in num-bers and there are many people nowpartaking in the entertainment andrestaurant offerings in the area. Thatlong with some very secure parkinggarages and lots has made me feelvery safe when venturing down there.

“Also, it helps to talk to folks wholive or work down in that area as theycan still tell you what areas to avoid orwhere not to park, like side streets offthe main roads. Right now I feel verysafe from Central, north up Vine, uptill you get to around the Kroger'sstore. It can get a bit intimidating fromtheir on up towards UC. As for MainStreet, from Central on up to MOTRand the Woodward Theater seemssafe, although the density isn't thereyet that exists on Vine, so I am morecautious when walking that area.

“Washington Park is also anothergreat area now and the undergroundparking there is amazing.

“I hope that an upward trend oflower crime and higher economicgrowth and development continues sothat all residents of Cincinnati, and thesurrounding areas can benefit fromit.”

C.S.

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONThe governors of Ohio and Kentuckylast week announced a new plan tohelp pay for a new Brent-SpenceBridge, which includes a 50 percenttoll discount for daily users of thebridge. Is this a good idea? Why orwhy not?

Every week we ask readers a question they canreply to via email. Send your answers [email protected] withCh@troom in the subject line.

Let’s suppose you oryour children want to geta well paying job. In thispolitically divisive econo-my there are many fac-tors against reasonablesuccess.

Before we begin, Ihave to assure you that Iam not being political. Iam using economic reali-ties that have becomemore prevalent ever sinceI first studied economicsin college. They are reali-ties that I used in businessfor many years. It is alsotrue how they changed inmy later business endeav-ors.

To begin, the employeerelationship has greatlychanged over the years.In my relatively smallbusiness, employees werea big asset. If you treatedthem well and paid rea-sonable wages, they tend-ed to stay with you. Thismeant that training costswere low and they werenot going to miss workwithout good reason. Theyalso encouraged theirchildren to work for me.

Sadly, things havechanged greatly. Both thegovernment and theunions have transformedemployees from assets toliabilities. The best de-scription of this is greed.Politicians rely on dona-tions from unions to keeptheir jobs. In turn theymake organizing easier.They also pass laws that

are sup-posed tohelpworkingpeople,but inreality,theymake itmorecostly tohireworkers.

As mandated wages goup, the associated taxeson business go up by thesame percentage. Thismakes automation muchcheaper and more depen-dable. It also creates in-centives to move produc-tion to Right To Workstates or overseas. Salesare starting to move toautomated warehousesand automated shippingfurther reduces costs andemployment.

It used to be that em-ployers had to offer thebest jobs and conditions toget the best and mostsuitable employees. Nowpotential employees com-pete with each other toget almost any job avail-able. Those who find jobsalso learn that there islittle advancement to agood career.

Older workers aredelaying retirement in-creasing the problem foryounger ones. Many whotake minimum wage jobsand become good workerswill usually find slow but

steady advancement ifthey are lucky.

We also have to consid-er the problems in theeconomy that affect all ofus. The rapidly expandingdebt will have to be great-ly reduced. There are twoways to do it. We can re-duce all government andstate expenditures. Youcan imagine how popularthat will be when servicesand pensions are cut. Or,we can print more money.Many of us have seen howthat affects other econo-mies. Either way, it will bethe working people whowill suffer greatly. Thewealthy will have variousmeans of avoiding thecatastrophe. Many willleave for well run econo-mies.

The loss of their pur-chases will further harmthe economy. Belize, forone, has offered somegreat inducements. Oth-ers will simply ride it outby living on safe invest-ments and reducing pur-chases.

As I have tried to ex-plain, our tax and employ-ment policies have onlyhurt working people andwill continue to get worseif they are not reversed.In a future essay, I willdiscuss how you can avoidthe coming financial di-saster.

Edward Levy is a resident ofMontgomery.

What it takes toget a good job

Edward LevyCOMMUNITY PRESSGUEST COLUMNIST

Recently, Cincinnatihas seen gasoline pricesfall below $2 per gallon.Thankfully, prices at thepumps have followed thecollapse of crude priceson the world market. Thiscoupled with a continuingdrop in unemploymentform the basis on whichPresident Obama maydeclare: “The shadow ofcrisis has passed, and theState of the Union isstrong.”

During a simpler age,the chieftain is regaled asa god during times ofplenty, but is sacrificed tothe gods during times offamine. My point is toquestion how much con-trol does the presidenthave over the cost of oil?Or on a deeper level, whyhave oil prices fallen sodramatically?

The pundits have of-fered a smorgasbord ofreasons. One is the in-crease in domestic oil andgas production throughfracking. Another reasonis the steadfast reluc-tance of Saudi Arabia andother gulf oil states toreduce their productionof oil. Yet another shakierexplanation is the dump-

ing of blackmarket oil.These factsare for allto see.What is notso readilyseen is theanswer tothe ques-tion “why?”

Is itmere coin-

cidence that oil prices arefalling since the dramaticincrease of civil strife inthe Middle East, a war inwhich the Islamic State inIraq and Syria (ISIS) isbut the tip of the iceberg(simply imagine icebergson the burning sands)? Ittakes less imagination tosee this conflict as aproxy contest betweenthe two regional powersof Saudi Arabia and Iran.The battleground is Iraqand Syria. The popularbut lethal pretext is thesectarian difference be-tween Sunnis and Shiites.The real prize is controlof the oilfields of Iraq.

Oil continues to be theeconomic lifeline of Iran.Although the UnitedStates has an embargo onIranian oil, it is pur-

chased by most countriesin Asia and Europe. Oilaccounts for 60 percentof total government reve-nues and 80 percent ofthe total annual value ofboth exports and foreigncurrency earnings ofIran.

We are self-mistakento believe the UnitedStates can deliberatelydrive down the price ofoil with our domesticproduction to punishPutin for his adventuresin the Crimea and Uk-raine. The more plausiblereason for cheap energyis the resoluteness ofSaudi Arabia and herregional gulf state alliesto bankrupt Iran.

A collateral benefit isgasoline retailing in Cin-cinnati for under $2 pergallon. The collateral costis the death of civiliansand refugees in the hun-dred of thousands in theMiddle East.

Charleston C.K. Wang lives inMontgomery. He is an at-torney practicing immigrationand nationality law whichincludes the law of asylumand protection of refugees.

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SPORTSSPORTSHIGH SCHOOL | YOUTH | RECREATIONAL CommunityPress.com

TRI- COUNTYPRESSEditor: Melanie Laughman, [email protected], 513-248-7573

Boys basketball» Wyoming beat Read-

ing 56-42 on Jan. 23. Soph-omore Lonnie Graysonled the Cowboys with 20points.

On Jan. 27, the Cow-boys downed Madeira 61-41. Senior Walker Lewisled with 17 points.

» Moeller beat La Sallein overtime Jan. 23, 42-38.Senior Kurtis Hoffmanled the Crusaders with 11

points.The Crusaders defeat-

ed Western Hills on Jan.27, 46-32. Junior SamMcCracken led with 12points.

Girls basketball» Wyoming defeated

Seven Hills 49-29 on Jan.26. Junior Clair Mellotthad 12 points and eight re-bounds.

On Jan. 28, Wyomingbeat Finneytown 34-20.Sophomore Clair Ernyand junior Haley Stewarthad eight points each.

» Mount Notre Damedowned St. Ursula 64-24

on Jan. 27. Senior NaomiDavenport led the Cou-gars with 15 points.

MND beat McAuley44-31 on Jan. 29 with sen-ior Dani Kissell scoring 13points.

Boys bowling» Wyoming beat Lako-

ta East on Jan. 26. SeniorJoe Rominger led theCowboys with a 366 se-ries.

The Cowboys rolled byWinton Woods Jan. 27.Senior Sam Wiethe hadthe high series of 444.

SHORT HOPS

By Scott Springerand Nick [email protected]@communitypress.com

THANKS TO JASON MILLER

Wyoming's Carson Burt (second from right, first), Max Chou (far right, second), and StephenBarrett (third from the right, third) swept the 200 Free at the Cowboys final regular seasonswim meet against Indian Hill. Wyoming's boys won 208 to 76, and the girls won 348 to 190.

Mason visitedPrinceton Jan.28 and trouncedthe Vikings 64-37 in a GreaterMiami Confer-ence game.

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Princeton lines up before taking on Mason at home Jan. 28.

Mason tops Princeton


Princeton freshman guard Jasmine Ballew gets ready to enter the gameagainst Mason Jan. 28.

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Princeton coachAnthony Johnsontalks to theVikings after thefirst quarter in a64-37 loss toMason Jan. 28.


Princeton junior guard MarkaylaSherman, right, defends Mason’sMakenzie Dixon in a game atPrinceton Jan. 28.

The high school wrestlingseason is long, it is grindingand it takes an absurd amountof dedication to compete in ev-ery practice and every match.The goal is always to win. Ex-cept, sometimes, there is agreater victory at stake.

On Jan. 17, at the WyomingDuals, two young men dis-played a level of sportsman-ship that can often be forgot-ten amidst the hours of sweatand struggle to reach the med-al stand at the end of the sea-son.

Wyoming High School ju-nior Luke Kremzar and DeerPark High School junior Jere-my Heglin compete in the 182-pound weight class. One of theteams competing at the Wyo-ming Duals had a specialneeds student-athlete who alsocompetes at that weight class.Without any prompting fromtheir respective coaches, bothKremzar and Heglin compet-ed against this wrestler and al-lowed him to get the pin.

“Although wrestlers wantto win, sometimes winningisn’t getting your hand raisedor getting a ‘W’ in the win col-umn; it is the character youpresent to others,” said Wyo-ming head coach Brian Pit-man. “The opponent theywrestled struggles and theyboth witnessed that fact. Theyallowed him to feel like achampion and nothing canever take that from him.”

Deer Park head coach Ja-son Lambers said, “As a coach,you hope that your kids arelearning life lessons throughthe sport of wrestling. Jeremyis an outstanding young man.What surprised a lot of peoplethat day is something that I seein him every day. He’s the typeof kid that is selfless and seesthe bigger picture in situationslike that.

“In the end, we all want towin and be successful, but Jer-emy’s display of sportsman-ship was the most honorableact and even greater than anindividual win.”

Pitman said it was a special

moment.“It is nice to see in today’s day

and age where professional, col-legiate, and high school athletescelebrate after a win, score, orwhat have you, that we have ath-letes that still show compassionand sportsmanship to others,” hesaid.

In addition to his sportsman-ship, Heglin might be the mostimproved member of this year’steam. He dedicated himself togetting stronger and put in thework in the weight room in theoffseason. He placed seventh atthe Coaches’ Classic in a chal-lenging weight class. He boasts a16-7 record and recentlyavenged two of his early seasonlosses by winning rematches.His classmate Jesse Potts (113pounds) also placed seventh inhis class at the Coaches’ Classicand continues to improve. Hehas a record of 15-7.

These two juniors give theWildcats depth behind their out-standing seniors, Tyler Good-paster (19-5 at 138 pounds) andAustin Siemon (27-3 at 160pounds). The seniors’ leadershipin the wrestling room has im-pacted the entire program. Theybring a sense of urgency and en-thusiasm to every practice andmatch.

“A couple of our seniorswhose goals are to be on the podi-um at the end of the season sensethat the end of the year is ap-proaching and are putting in ex-tra time and extra work,” saidLambers. “We talk about howquick the season is going andhow this is it for their high schoolcareers. They don’t want any re-grets on how they finish. Thattype of leadership has rubbedoff on our underclassmen and in-experienced guys.”

The Wildcats have benefitedfrom a difficult schedule, buthave also been hit by the injurybug. They have rallied to post a5-1 record in dual meets andplaced 20th out of 40 teams at theCoaches’ Classic. They placed35th out of 55 teams at the Great-er Miami Valley Wrestling Asso-ciation holiday tournament inDayton. As they prepare for thestretch run, they are going to re-ly on the extra efforts they put induring the spring and summer.

Deer Park, Wyomingwrestlers show classBy Adam [email protected]

THANKS TO DEER PARK SCHOOLS

The Deer Park wrestling team went 5-0 at the Wyoming DualTournament Jan. 17, beating Wyoming in the final 45-24.

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nal at University of Day-ton Arena, the Spartansshot 58 percent from thefield for the game, includ-ing a perfect 10-for-10from the field in thefourth quarter, to turn a48-43 deficit into a 65-57lead before holding on fora taut 69-67 win behindSchildmeyer’s 21 points,Knolle’s 18 and 17 from the5-10 Bierman.

That set up a fourthmeeting of the year withMoeller, whose seniorshad never beaten RogerBacon. The Crusaderswere missing 6-7 Tim Jol-ley, sidelined with an an-kle injury suffered in theprevious game, but ByronLarkin was averaging al-most 28 points per gamein his brief varsity career.

The Spartans, who hadallowed a city-best aver-

Twenty years beforeRoger Bacon’s “ChosenOnes” delayed the corona-tion of “Chosen One” Le-Bron James in 2002, an-other group of Spartanswrote their own less-her-alded page of local highschool basketball history.

Roger Bacon’s 1981-82team strung together astreak of heart-stoppingfinishes, completing therun with a 71-67 overtimewin over Barberton atOhio State’s St. John Are-na to capture the ClassAAA – at the time, the big-school designation – statechampionship.

Despite having justone player taller than 6-foot-4 – 6-7 Don Hausfeldcame off the bench –coach Bob Callahan’sSpartans found the rightcombination of grit andluck to become just thethird team and secondschool from HamiltonCounty in the 60-year his-tory of the tournament towin a big-school title.

“For four years, theypracticed hard together,and they’ll tell you theydeserved to be statechampions,” said Call-ahan, who teaches mathe-matics at Taylor. “Itwasn’t something theythought about originallywhile they were goingthrough school or even go-ing through the season,but the closer we got, themore they believed theywere good – and theywere. We didn’t have anygreat players, but wewere a great team.”

Said Bruce Knolle, whowas a leader in the lockerroom, “They forget aboutus. We never had a nick-name.”

The heart and soul ofthe senior-dominatedSpartans were the 6-4Knolle, whose knack foroffensive reboundingproved invaluable downthe stretch, and 6-3 for-

ward Greg Schildmeyer,who was named MostValuable Player of thestate tournament afterscoring 14 points in the 49-47 semifinal win over Li-ma Senior and 22 withnine rebounds beforefouling out in the final.

“There weren’t a wholelot of egos, because I don’tthink Greg Schildmeyeror Bruce Knolle wouldhave allowed it,” Callahansaid.

That humility alsocould be attributed to theteam’s lack of true basket-ball talent. The Spartanswere a collection of tre-mendous athletes. Schild-meyer played football atNavy, Mike Morrisseyplayed college baseball,and Rob Niehoff and then-junior Adrian Breen bothwere members of theBengals’ replacementteam during the 1987 Na-tional Football Leaguework stoppage.

A regular-season finaleloss to La Salle left RogerBacon at 16-4 and in athree-way tie for secondwith the Lancers and St.Xavier in the Greater Cin-cinnati League.

Knolle, who’d aver-aged 8.6 points over Rog-er Bacon’s last four regu-lar-season games, scoredexactly 23 in each of thesecond-seeded Spartans’

first three tournamentwins. Meanwhile, thebracket was shaping upquite nicely for them. LaSalle lost to Woodwardwhile both St. Xavier andAnderson were upset by aMoeller team that hadbeen energized by thelate-season promotionfrom the Crusader juniorvarsity of sophomore By-ron Larkin.

Even Callahan admitsthat the turning point forhis team’s tournament runcame in a game in whichthe Spartans didn’t evenplay. While Roger Baconwas beating Woodward inone sectional champion-ship game, MountHealthy was eliminatingElder in another.

According to the Elderwebsite, the Panthers hadwon 14 consecutive gamesagainst Roger Bacon – astreak that stretched backseven years.

“When Mount Healthybeat them, we were like,‘We can beat MountHealthy,’” Callahan said.

First, Roger Bacon hadto get past Lebanon,which had done the Spar-tans a favor by beatingKettering Their 58-45 winset up their matchup withthe Owls, who had “put aspanking” on Roger Ba-con in the pre-seasonscrimmage, Biermansaid.

In the regional semifi-

age of 50.5 points pergame during the regularseason, yielded just nineto the precocious Larkin,but they still needed a put-back by Knolle with 11seconds left to squeezeout a 54-53 win in the first-ever Southwest Districtregional championshipgame between two teamsfrom the same league.

The win propelled Rog-er Bacon to just its secondappearance in the statesemifinals and first since1939. On March 25, theSpartans found them-selves locked in anothertight battle with LimaSenior, also nicknamedthe Spartans. Again, itcame down to Knolle’swell-honed reboundingskills.

“Now, of our startingfive, Robbie Niehoff wasnot the guy you wanted toshoot, but he was open,”Callahan said. “He shot itand missed it. I’ll alwaysremember this. GregSchildmeyer and two ofthe Lima guys all game to-gether going for that re-bound, and they bangedinto each other. All threewent down to the floor, theball went to Bruce Knolle.He just turned around andlaid it up at the buzzer.

“You’ve got to belucky.”

After three nail-biters,Roger Bacon seemed tobe in good shape afteropening up a 13-point leadwith 1:58 left in the thirdquarter of the champion-

ship game two days lateragainst Barberton beforea crowd of 13,420. TheMagics stepped up theirpress and forced enoughturnovers to come backand take a 63-61 lead.

Magically, Knollecame through again withyet another putback of aSchildmeyer miss to tiethe score at 63 with 28 sec-onds left, setting up thefirst overtime game in the12 years since the OHSAAhad gone to three divi-sions.

That’s three straightgames in which a Knollestickback played a defin-ing role. He was kind oflike a basketball versionof television’s MacGyver– using whatever washandy to save the day inthe nick of time.

Schildmeyer, who nowlives in the Chicago area,gave the Spartans a 65-63lead with two free throws,but Barberton tied thegame. Hausfeld made twofree throws with 33 sec-onds left to give Roger Ba-con the lead for good, andSchildmeyer and Bier-man each added two freethrows in the last 17 sec-onds to clinch the win.

“It really didn’t hit meuntil it was over,” Knollesaid. “It was like, ‘Whatdid we just do?’ The week-end was so exhausting.After we won, it was like,‘We didn’t think we’d everdo that’ – a little team outof St. Bernard.”

Grit defines Bacon’s ’82 champsBy Mark SchmetzerEnquirer contributor

TAKEN FROM ROGER BACON

YEARBOOK

Roger Bacon 6-3 forwardGreg Schildmeyer, holdingthe trophy, was named MostValuable Player of the statetournament after scoring 14points in the 49-47 semifinalwin over Lima Senior and 22with nine rebounds beforefouling out in the final.

MARK SCHMETZER FOR THE

ENQUIRER

Coach Bob Callahan, now amath teacher at Taylor HighSchool, displays thescorebook from the statechampion Roger Bacon boysbasketball team from1981-82.

MARK SCHMETZER FOR THE

ENQUIRER

Bruce Knolle, who lives inFairfield and is plantmanager at BrightonTru-Edge Heads inSharonville, was one ofcoach Bob Callahan's leaderson the floor and locker roomfor the 1981-82 Roger Baconbasketball team.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 • TRI-COUNTY PRESS • B3LIFE

After a very longstruggle against Alz-heimer’s disease, mycherished mother, EmmaJones died 12 days afterher 99th birthday and Iwas unable to write mycolumn for a couple ofweeks.

Editor Dick Maloneygraciously invited me tosend one in about Mom,as she was a product of

our read-ershiparea. Itwas diffi-cult notto be sad,but itfinallyoccurredto me towriteaboutsomefunny,

joyful memories. Emma knew how to

make lemonade out oflemons long before thephrase became popular.Born on Dec. 22, shedidn’t seem to bemoanthe fact that she wascheated out of two sep-arate celebrations. Sheeven chose Dec. 26 as herwedding date, and thenmade the entire holidayseason her own specialcelebration.

Mom’s energy wasphenomenal. While work-ing full time, faithfully

attending church andmany board and commit-tee meetings, she caredfor my father at home for16 years until his deathfrom Alzheimer’s in 1979.Several years later, sheunselfishly did the samefor her only sister, afterwhich Emma began herown decline.

I wanted to get mar-ried at her house – asmall affair with closefamily and friends only.

Mom sent me 250 in-vitations, the names andaddresses of whom shewanted invited, regis-tered me at Shillito’s andselected my silverware,stemware and china,picked my wedding gownas well as the brides-maid’s dresses, and I(she) had a formalchurch wedding andreception. My dad wasstill alive then, and Idon’t know how she did

it.Emma played tourna-

ment level contractbridge, traveled exten-sively to Europe, theMiddle East, the Car-ibbean and Alaska aswell as many of the lower48 states. Her love ofgardening kept rheuma-toid arthritis from com-pletely overtaking herlife.

We bought an oldhouse in Wyoming thatneeded extensive reno-vation. She asked Dad toput shelving in the pan-try using old wood thathad been left behind. Dadargued that it wasn’t sosimple; he needed tomeasure extensively,find the wall studs, go toSutherland Lumber (re-member it?), and on andon. Mom waited until hewent out of town on busi-ness, sawed the old woodand nailed it to the walls,

where it remained formore than 40 years.

Mother disliked cook-ing, but loved cookwareand had a ton of it. How-ever, Emma did havegood culinary skills thatshe put to use on Christ-mas day when the housewas full of friends andrelatives for her annualdinner. Everyone re-ceived a gift. The nextday she loaded her carwith plates of food andChristmas gifts andmade the rounds of nurs-ing homes. Each Memori-al Day she put flowers ongraves at four cemeter-ies.

A skilled card player,she taught her pre-schoolgrandson to play CrazyEights. He was always atthe Pokeno, poker andbridge games at herhome. He remembersplanting trees in thespring, learning good

manners, lunching at RedLobster, going to see“The Nutcracker” everyChristmas, all with Mom,his buddy.

Mom was respectedfor her diligence, kind-ness, dignity and intelli-gence. She had taughtelementary school andformer students stillremember the click,click, click of her highheels, her erect bearingand perfect diction.

God bless my “SecretSanta” and all of you whokindly supported methrough Mom’s illnessand passing.

Evelyn Perkins writes aregular column about peopleand events in the Tri-CountyPress area. Send items for hercolumn to 10127 ChesterRoad, Woodlawn, 45215, orcall her directly at 772-7379.

Remembering Mom’s (too short) 99 years

EVELYN PERKINS FOR THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Evelyn Perkins' mother, Emma Jones, in fine fettle as shecelebrated her 90th birthday at her daughter's home withfamily and all the Christmas decorations she so loved.

Evelyn PerkinsCOMMUNITY PRESSCOLUMNIST

The Friends of the Pub-lic Library of Cincinnatiand Hamilton County an-nounced their 2015 sched-ule of used book sales.

The book sales are themajor source of fundingfor the group, which pro-vides thousands of freeprograms at the Libraryfor adults and children, aswell as support for thesummer learning pro-gram and adding books tothe Library’s collection. Itis a nonprofit group estab-lished in 1957.

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Sharonville UnitedMethodist ChurchThere are three services: tradi-tional services at 8:15 a.m. and11 a.m.; a contemporary serviceat 9:30. Sunday School classesand study groups are offered at9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

There is now a new director ofyouth ministries, Jami Nathan.

Canines for Christ is continuingtraining dogs to be service dogswho can bring comfort to thosewho are shut-ins at home or inthe hospital.

Healing Touch meet for lunchthe first Thursday of the month.

Serendipity Seniors meet forlunch the fourth Thursday.

A group which went to Haiti tohelp is back with good report.

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St. Paul United Church of Christ5312 Old Blue Rock Rd., off Springdale

Phone: 385-9077Rev. Michelle Torigian

Sunday Worship: 10:30amSunday School: 9:15am

Nursery Available/Handicap Accesswww.stpaulucccolerain.org

www.facebook.com/StPaulUCC

FLEMING ROADUnited Church of Christ

691 Fleming Rd 522-2780Rev Pat McKinney

Sunday School - All Ages - 9:15amSunday Worship - 10:30am

Nursery Provided

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Northwest CommunityChurch

8735 Cheviot Rd, by Colerain HSRev. Kevin Murphy, Pastor

513-385-8973Worship and Sunday School 10AM

Handicap Accessible/Nursery Available

Salem White Oak Presbyterian

Northminster Presbyterian Church703 Compton Rd., Finneytown 931-0243

Growing Faith, Sharing Hope, Showing LoveSunday Worship Schedule

Traditional Services - 8:00 & 10:30amContemporary Services - 9:00am

Student Cafe: 10:15amChildcare Available

Jeff Hosmer & Nancy Ross- Zimmerman - Pastors

PRESBYTERIAN

EVANGELICALCOMMUNITY CHURCH

Sunday School Hour (for all ages)9:15 - 10:15am

Worship Service - 10:30 to 11:45am(Childcare provided for infants/ toddlers)

Pastor: Rich LanningChurch: 2191 Struble Rd

Office: 2192 Springdale Rd542-9025

Visitors Welcome www.eccfellowship.org

At CHURCH BY THEWOODS

www.churchbythewoods.org3755 Cornell Rd.,

Sharonville , Ohio 45241You have a choice of Ministry:

1 . Traditional Sunday Worship at10:00 AM. Language: EnglishMulti-cultural, multi-generational, andmulti-ethnic.2 . Contemporary Sunday Worshipwith Freedom Church at 10:30 AM.Language: English

It’s not about Religion; it’s aboutrelationships!

www.freedomchurchcincinnati.com3. Taiwanese Traditional SundayWorship st 2:00 PM. Language:Taiwanese, UC Campus Fellowship onSaturdays,

www.cincinnatitaiwanese.org4 . Seventh Day Adventist SaturdayWorship at 10:00 AM.Language: Spanish

Loving - Caring - and SharingGod’s Word

Notes: Nursery School isprovided at each Worship time

English as a Second Language (ESL) istaught on Saturday 10-12 AM.

Various Bible Studies are available.

EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN

FEBRUARY 4, 2015 • TRI-COUNTY PRESS • B5LIFE

Imagine this: you’redriving along when sud-denly you hear a bang.You pull over and findone of your tires hasgone flat. You open thetrunk of the car to get outthe spare tire and findthere is no spare!

That’s happening tomore and more driversas some manufacturershave decided to drop thespare to decrease weightand increase fuel econo-my. It has made driverslike Nancy Stahl, ofBridgetown, quite upset.

Stahl writes, “I wasstranded with no sparetire in my car 20 milesfrom home late at night. Iwas put in a position thatI had to have my cartowed. I had to get into atow truck with a perfectstranger to get my cartaken to a place that

could re-place mytire.”

Stahlsays shehad no ideathe newcar shejust boughtdidn’tcome witha sparetire. She

writes, “I believe thatthis situation is not onlyunsafe, but also danger-ous. I did not know thetow truck driver and Ifelt uncomfortable notknowing what could havehappened. I was put in aposition that I had nocontrol (over) and I wasvery upset. “

Rather than includinga spare tire, the manu-facturer has a can ofsealant in the trunk, but

Stahl says that did nogood because she had apiece of steel in her tireso she couldn’t drivehome. She adds, “I wouldrather pay for the extragas that it costs to have aspare tire in my car thenbe put in danger.”

Stahl says, “The deal-er informed me that Icould purchase a kit formy car for $480 if I want-ed a spare tire. I was, andam still, very angryabout the situation that Iwas put in that night. Ipaid enough for the carand I feel it is unfair tohave to pay that much forsomething that has al-ways been part of a vehi-cle.”

Manufacturers used toput a small “donut” tirein the trunk and youcould use it to driveabout 50 miles or so until

you got to a safe location.Even that is being re-placed by some manu-facturers in favor of thetire repair kit. Some tiredealers say that repair kitmay allow you to get toyour destination, butmany times that tire hasto be replaced becausethe sealant was used.

Stahl says she’s veryunhappy with the deci-sion to discontinue usingspare tires. She writes,“When I mention this factto other people, they can’tbelieve it and they run tocheck their car to makesure they have a sparetire.”

Howard Ain appears as theTroubleshooter on WKRC-TVLocal 12 News. Email him [email protected].

No spare tire in some new cars

Howard AinHEY HOWARD!

SHARONVILLEIncidents/investigationsAssaultReported at 100 block ofViking Way, Dec. 8.

Menacing3200 block of E. Kemper Road,Nov. 26.

TheftReported on 1000 block ofCrowne Point Drive, Sept. 23.

Reported on Viking Way, Dec.9.

SPRINGDALEIncidents/investigationsBreaking and enteringReported on 11000 block ofPrinceton Pike, Dec. 23.

Criminal damaging11000 block of Princeton Pike,Dec. 19.

DomesticReported at Glensprings Drive,Dec. 21.

Reported on GlenspringsDrive, Dec. 23.

TheftReported on 100 block of

Silverwood, Dec. 23.Bag and contents valued at$4,152 removed from 11000block of Commons, Dec. 23.

Purse and contents valued at$200 removed from 11000block of Princeton Pike, Dec.23.

Car batteries valued at $450removed from 300 block ofKemper Road, Dec. 22.

Reported at 400 block ofKemper Road, Dec. 22.

$2, 800 removed from 11000block of Princeton Pike, Dec.22.

Counterfeit money passed at1300 block of Kemper Road,Dec. 20.

Wallet and contents valued at$901 removed from vehicle at11000 block of Princeton Pike,Dec. 19.

Unauthorized use of motorvehicleReported 11000 Princeton Pike,Dec. 19.

POLICE REPORTS

GLENDALE109 Hetherington Lane: Cengia,Scott & Kelly C. to McCormick,Susan N.; $585,000.

SHARONVILLE11098 Allenhurst Blvd.: Perry,Patricia to Nichols, David B. &Michele L.; $273,000.

Champion Way: Neyer LandHoldings I. LLC to Champion WayLot 6 LLC; $70,420.

3780 Creekview Drive: Kemp,Jeffrey C. & Gloria to Long,Thomas R. & Elizabeth H.;$157,000.

4919 Fields Ertel Road: McKinney,Sean P. to Mastruserio, Nicholas;$113,000.

11445 Lebanon Road: Fair WayServices LLC to Soras, SharonWoods Collis & Service LLC;$575,000.

3849 Sharonview Drive: Head,Joseph T. to Barnhizer, Bronc C.D.; $117,000.

SPRINGDALE12084 Greencastle Drive: Allen,Jerry & Jacqueline to Wright,David & Mary; $134,000.

909 Yorkhaven Road: TrentonProperty Management LLC toMcElroy, Thomas J.; $136,900.

WOODLAWN217 Joliet Ave.: Kramer, Mary A. toDisney, Peggy A. Tr.; $76,670.

WYOMING131 Grove Ave.: Swing, Heather K.to Duffner, Cassandra M. & Kelly;$101,500.

346 Shoshone Court: Gerbus,Timothy & Audrey M. to N. P.Dodge Jr. Tr.; $580,000.

346 Shoshone Court: N. P., DodgeJr. Tr. to Zammit, ChristopherGeorge & Krista; $580,000.

177 Wyoming Woods Lane: Piocos,Elizabeth A. & Ioannis C. Constan-tinides to Hudson City SavingsBank; $520,000.

331 Ardon Lane: Martin, Watson T.& Betty J. to Cinquina, Paul A. &Faydra A.; $205,000.

397 Circlewood Lane: Mitchell,Jacob S. & Abby B. to McFadden,Mary & Kevin W. Lawson;$405,000.

493 Flemridge Court: Adkins,Alyssa C. to Rensberger, Seth &Catherine Zimmerly; $345,000.

505 Oliver Court: Graham, JeffreyL. & Elizabeth I. to Hale, DallasRyan & Holly Ayn Bante; $413,500.

713 Reily Road: Murdock, Jack A.to Copper Creek Homes Inc.;$385,000.

130 Springfield Pike: Tobias, JohnE. Jr. & Jeannie to Mouch, Benja-min & Jenine; $238,000.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

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» Check your supplyof flashlights, batteries,bottled water, non-per-ishable foods, medicines,etc.

» Ensure a portable,battery-operated radio,TV or NOAA weather ra-dio is on hand.

» Do not attempt toheat your home with agas grill or by bringing agenerator inside.

» Check on familymembers, friends andneighbors who have spe-cial medical needs orwho are elderly to ensurethey have necessaryemergency supplies.

Customers who expe-rience an outage shouldcall Duke Energy’s auto-mated outage-reportingsystems for their respec-tive utility:

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Winter weatherenergy-saving tips

During times of ex-treme temperatures,customers will use morepower, which generallyresults in a higher bill thefollowing month.

Electric heating andcooling can account foras much as half of an en-ergy bill, so controllingthe home’s thermostat isone of the best ways tomanage energy usageand cost. Customers cansave around 10 percent ayear on heating and cool-ing bills by simply turn-ing the thermostat backby 10 to 15 degrees foreight hours a day.

» Set ceiling fans in aclockwise direction topush warm air down intorooms.

» Open drapes andblinds to allow the sun towarm rooms during theday. Close them at night.

Find these and othertips at duke-energy.com.Just click on the “saveenergy and money” link.

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