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New ManagementSpecial

Members of the MountHealthy board of education arestarting monthly forums to en-couragemembers of the commu-nity to talk with them.

Steve Harness, president ofthe Mount Healthy City SchoolDistrict Board ofEducation, saysit’s time to try new ways to en-gage the residents of the district.“We need to go above and beyondto to try to reach out to our resi-dents,” he said. “I don’t think we

have done a reallygood job withthat.”

One way Har-ness says theboard will beginto remedy thecommunicationgap is by startingmonthly, informalconversations with a couple ofboard members and any resi-dents who attend that will givepeople in the community thechance ask questions about is-sues or rumors and get informa-

tion about what’s going on in thedistrict. The programkicks off inJanuary.

Harness says there will onlybe twoboardmembers present ateach one, so it won’t have a quo-

rum and won’t be an officialmeeting. “One reason we are do-ing this is that our residentsmight be intimidated to get upand speak at an official boardmeeting,” he said. “We hope thiswill make things more comfort-able for our residents. It will beless formal.”

At least one district residentsays while he’s OK with talkingwith board members, theyshouldn’t hold their breaths ifthey are hoping to soften hisstance toward levy requests.“These tax levies take money

from my pocket and food off mytable,” said district residentSteve Colonel. “I am opposed totax increases of any kind.”

Harness said the board is try-ing to make the operation of theschool district more visible toresidents. Putting board meet-ings on television, pushing backmeeting times to 7 p.m. so peoplewho work during the day can at-tend andmovingmeetings to oth-er buildings thatmay be closer towhere residents live are exam-ples of the board’s push to reachout to residents.

By Jennie [email protected]

Mt. Healthy board wantsface time with community

Harness

IF YOU GOThe board will kick off this

new program at 7 p.m. Monday,Jan. 7, in the conference roomby the main entrance at theMount Healthy Junior/SeniorHigh School, 8101 Hamilton Ave.

Colerain Township ZoningAdministrator Geoff Milz is of-fering residents a chance tomark their mark in the commu-nity.

There are vacancies on theColerain Zoning Commissionand the Colerain Board of Zon-ing Appeals, andMilz says bothpanels present opportunities tomake a lasting contribution tothe township.

The Colerain Zoning Com-mission, which makes recom-mendations to the ColerainTownship Board of Trustees,meets on the third Tuesday ofeach month at 7 p.m. The com-mission deals with land use,zonechanges, text amendmentsto the township zoning code,map amendments and prelimi-nary and final developmentplans. One commissioner andtwo alternates are needed.Commissioners are appointedfor five years, alternates fortwo-year terms. Alternates at-tendmeetings and hear the pro-ceedings. They replace com-missioners for deliberation anda vote if there is a conflict of in-terest or absence.

The Colerain Board of Zon-ing Appeals needs one commis-sioner and one alternate. TheBZA,whichmakes decisions in-dependently of the board oftrustees, meets on the fourthWednesday of eachmonth.Milz

describes theBZA as a “reliefvalve” of sorts,deciding wheth-er variances tothe townshipzoning code willbe granted,hearing appealsto administra-

tive decisionsmade byMilz andinterpreting the zoning code.

“What we’re doing here isputting out a call to service,”Milz said. “The best board willhave diversity. People with abusiness background, real es-tate or builders, civic activity –all those viewpoints are impor-tant. It is in the best interest ofthe community that the boardlook like the community.”

Milz said the township is ac-cepting letters of interest andresumes now. Interested town-ship residents should send theirinformation to the ColerainTownship Planning and ZoningDepartment, 4200 SpringdaleRoad, Cincinnati, Ohio 45251.

He hopes to make a recom-mendation to the ColerainTownship Board of Trustees atthe meeting Tuesday, Jan. 8.

Milz says serving on theboards is an opportunity to par-ticipate.

“These people have thechance topart of shaping the fu-ture of this community,” hesaid. “It’s wonderful to play arole in the growth and develop-ment of the township.”

Colerain is looking forzoning board candidatesBy Jennie Keyjkey@communitypress

Milz

CHRISTMAS MEMORYDonna Reis takes a photo of her son Jack, 3, at the Monfort Heights Elementary School Santa Night.Families had pizza, made holiday crafts, played games and even got to visit with Santa during the Dec. 5event. JENNIE KEY/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

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Two area scout troopshope thatmoney does growon trees. Specifically,Christmas trees.

Troops at St. JamesChurch in White Oak andGroesbeckUnitedMethod-ist Church are in the midstof their annual Christmastree sales. The fresh-cutfirs are the main moneyproducer for both troopsand the profits pay fortrips, camping and fees.

Troop 24 at St. JamesChurch sells trees at the St.James Athletic Fieldsparking lot at 6429 CheviotRoad. The lot is open Mon-day through Friday from5:30 or 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. OnSaturday and Sunday, thelot operates from9a.m. to 9p.m.

Assistant ScoutmasterAndy Barry said the troophas about 40 scouts on theroster and started withabout 265 trees on the lot.The troop recently had atrailer filled with campinggear stolen and AssistantScoutmaster Joe Schwier-lingsaid the theftbroughtastrong response from peo-ple who wanted to help.“We were fortunate thatthe trailerwas insured,” he

said. “But if people want tohelp us, they can supportthe tree sale.”

Schwierling said thetroop asked the Father’sMinistry at St. JamesChurch if anyone knew ofsomeone in need that thetroop could buy a Christ-mas tree for with donatedmoney the Scouts had re-ceived. A family in PriceHill that justmoved into an

apartment fromthe shelterat Bethany House was therecipient.

Troop 828 at GroesbeckUnited Methodist Churchsells its trees from thechurch parking lot at 8871Colerain Ave. The lot isopen from 6 to 9 p.m.Wednesday, Thursday andFriday, from9a.m. to9p.m.Saturday and from 11 a.m.to 9 p.m. on Sunday.

The troop has soldChristmas trees at thechurchforat least30years,according to ScoutmasterRobert Riccardi. His son,11-year-old scout MichaelRiccardi, says the troop of-fers Scotch, Frasier andWhite pines on the lot. Thetroop started the seasonwith 258 trees.

Robert Riccardi saysthescoutsdoasmuchof the

work as possible: talkingwith customers, selling,trimming, handling themoney and getting thetrees onto vehicles for thetrip home. He says histroop has an active rosterof about 16 Scouts right

now.Customers are loyal.

Robert says one womantold him she had broughther now 30-year-old son tothe sale to pick out the treefor his first Christmas andshe’s been back every year.One customer on the lot,John Bassett, worked thesalewhenhewasamemberof the troop. Now he’s backlooking for a tree for hishome.

The sales have a limitedrun, of course.Groesbeck’ssale is open until the treesare gone or Sunday, Dec.23. St. James is open untilthe trees are gone or Mon-day Dec. 24.

Tree sales make it a green ChristmasBy Jennie [email protected]

Tina and Judith Miller watch Boy Scout David Mattingly and his dad Jason prepare theirtree to leave Troop 24’s lot in White Oak. JENNIE KEY/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Boy Scouts Thomas Unger and Joe Kluener tie a tree to theroof of a vehicle preparing to leave Troop 24’s lot in WhiteOak. JENNIE KEY/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Cub Scout Jack Riccardi, 8, talks with John Bassett, aformer member of Boy Scout Troop 828 at GroesbeckUnited Methodist Church about the merits of the tree hepicked out. JENNIE KEY/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

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Ulta, an Illinois-basedbeauty retailer, is openingits newest location atNorth-gateMall.

ClaireAnderson, spokes-woman for the TabaniGroup Inc., the mall’s own-ers, said the 12,000-square-foot store will open its new-est location with Marshalls

and DSW in the reconfig-ured space formerly occu-pied by Dillard’s in 2013.Construction has alreadystarted in the building andthe first store is scheduledto open as early as Febru-ary.

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more than 537 stores in 45states.Theone-stopshopof-fersvarietyandvalue inonelocation.

There are Ulta stores atBridgewater Falls, Deer-field Towne Center, Syca-more Plaza and FlorenceSquare.

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TA to add more variety toNorthgate Mall, and giveshoppers a complete shop-pingexperience.”saidZesh-anTabani,managing princi-palof theTabaniGroup, Inc.fromDallas.“Thistimenextyear will be an entirely newshopping experience atNorthgateMall.”

This artist’s rendition of the new Northgate Mall facade along Colerain Avenue show the locations for Ulta, Marshall’sand DSW’s in the former Dillard’s space. THANKS TO CLAIRE ANDERSON

Ulta coming to Northgate

In November, theMcAuleyHighSchool com-munity collected food andmoney to support theChrist’s Community FoodPantry.

All year, each familyhomeroom, every Wednes-day, collectsmoney for dif-ferent causes and organi-zations. For example, dur-ing October, McAuleyansraised $1,555.20 for breastcancer research. In No-vember, the collections in-

cluded not just cash, butfood items as well to pro-vide Thanksgiving mealsto needy families in Col-lege Hill.

The school as a wholecollected enough food andmoney through the McAu-ley Emergency ReliefFund meals collection toput together 34 Thanksgiv-ing dinner baskets, eachcomplete with money for aturkey and all the trim-mings. The meals, plus

$223. in cash, were donatedto Christ’s CommunityFood Pantry.

Christ’s Community’sFood Pantry is sponsoredby College Hill Presbyteri-an Church, College HillChristian Church, FirstUnited Church of Christ,

Good News Church of Godin Christ, Grace EpiscopalChurch, Hilltop UnitedMethodist Church, Houseof Joy, St. Clare RomanCatholic Church and NewLife Missionary BaptistChurch.

McAuley donates meals to Christ’s Community

Putting together meal baskets are, from left, Andrea Trach,Abby Chaulk, Judy Pearce, Cara Walden and GabbyStepaniak. PROVIDED.

TREECROSSING

Any idea where this mightbe? We didn’t think so. Timeto go hunting in theneighborhood to see if youcan find it. Send your bestguess to [email protected] orcall 853-6287, along withyour name. Deadline to callis noon Friday. If you’recorrect, we’ll publish yourname in next week’snewspaper along with thecorrect answer. See lastweek’s answer on B6.

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The Colerain HighSchoolMarchingBandpre-sents a One Day Scrap-booking Event and fund-raiser.

The event features 13hours to scrapbook from 8a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday,Dec. 15, at Northwest Com-munity Church, 8735 Chev-iot Road.

For your prepaid $50reservation, you get lunch,dinner, and the help of con-sultants who will be avail-able to help. Registrationalso includes a pack of holi-daypaper fromClose toMyHeart.

Therewill also be scrap-booking vendors on site.Bring your scrapbookingsupplies, equipment, pho-tos and plan to spend theday. Youmaywant to bringextra money to shop thevendors, and purchase raf-fle tickets.

For a reservation, call513-706-7487 or send anemail to [email protected]. The eventwill only accept the first 40paid reservations.

CincinnatiKinderballetpresents ‘AChristmas Carol’

The Cincinnati Kinder-ballet dances its renditionof Charles Dickens’ “AChristmas Carol” begin-ning at 3 p.m. Saturday,Dec. 15, at the Groesbeckbranch of the Public Li-brary of Cincinnati andHamilton County, 2994 W.Galbraith Road.

The Cincinnati Kinder-ballet is the performancegroup of the Anneliese vonOettingen School of Balletorganization, founded in

1948.The program is present-

ed by the Friends of thePublic Library of Cincin-nati and Hamilton County.

Call the branch at 513-369-4454 for information.

Chorus in concertThe Southern Gateway

Chorus, silver medalists atthe recent World ChoirGames, will be presenting“Little Angels, Little Shep-herds” on Saturday, Dec.15, at McAuley HighSchool.

Joining themwill be theSeason’s Grand Chorus.These will be men fromthroughout the GreaterCincinnati area that wouldlike to sing and perform“Deck The Halls” and“Auld Lang Syne” with thechorus on the show. Re-hearsal dates for the grandchorus will be Nov. 13, Nov.27, Dec. 4, and Dec. 11 atHarmony Lodge. Interest-ed men may call Jim Ram-sey at 513-782-8258, or visitsoutherngateway.org.

Southern Gateway hasdesignated the FreestoreFoodbankas thecharity forwhich they will raise mon-ey in this year’s Holidayconcert.

Gingerbreadstorytime

The North Centralbranch of the Public Li-brary of Cincinnati andHamilton County sponorsGingerbread Storytime foryoungsters 3 to 6.

Enjoy fun holiday sto-ries and decorate a yummycookie.

The family storytime isat 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec.15, at the branch, 11109Hamilton Ave.

For information, call

513-369-6068.

McAuley Spa DayAll eighth-grade girls

are invited to McAuley’sDay at the Spa from 9a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28,at the school, 6000 Oak-wood Ave.

Girls are encouraged tobring their friends andmake some new friends.

Admission is free, butregistration is required atmcauleyhs.net/spa2012.Formore information, con-tact Marie Knecht at 513-681-1800, ext. 2272, [email protected].

E-reader tryoutThinking of buying an

eReader or tablet for thebook lover on your holidayshopping list?

When it comes to pick-ing the right device, thechoices can be overwhelm-ing. That’s why the PublicLibrary of Cincinnati andHamiltonCounty isholdinga series of eReader “Pet-ting Zoo” programs at se-lect branches.

Stop by and try out aniPad, Nook Tablet and Kin-dle Fire and learn moreabout the library’s down-loadable books and music.Staff members will beavailable to answer yourquestions.

E-reader “Petting Zoo”branch sites:

North Central – 3:30p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, 11109Hamilton Ave., 513-369-6068.

GreenTownship – 7 p.m.Monday, Dec. 17, 6525Bridgetown Road, 513-369-6095.

Look for more informa-tion in early December atwww.cincinnatilibra-ry.org.

BRIEFLY

Asachildgrowingup inrural Northeast Ohio, na-ture was Penny Borg-man’s playground. Evenher family vacations werespent in the country’s na-tional parks.As a child shedecided to devote her lifeto theoutdoors.Shegradu-ated from Ohio State Uni-versity in 1982 with abachelor’s degree in natu-ral resourcesand tooksea-sonal part-time jobs in Co-lumbus area parks. Thenshe nabbed a full-timenat-uralist position with theHamilton County ParksDistrict in 1985, a positionthe Colerain Townshipresident holds to this day.

She said family influ-enced her career path.

“My dad and grandpa

had lots ofnaturewis-dom and Ialways ad-miredthat,” shesaid.

“When Iwas 12 myfamily va-

cationed out West where Imet naturalists helpingpeople learn about ouramazing national parks,.

“Naturalists help peo-ple learnabout ournaturalworld which ultimatelysupports our life on earth.Knowledge leads to appre-ciation and appreciationleads to people taking thesteps to preserve and pro-tect. This to me is the bot-tom line.”

Part of the HamiltonCounty Park District’s

mission is to preserve andprotect natural resourcesand to provide educationabout those resources.

Borgman said shethinks sometimes peopledon’t realize that theHam-ilton County Park Dis-trict’s property remains inan 80 percent naturalstate, so the picnic areas,visitor centers, golfcourses, parking lots, andother developed areas arealways offset by the di-versenatural habitats thatare being preserved forposterity.

“ I am a fortunate per-son to have spent a careerin this line of work with agreat organization. Noth-ing beats a child looking atup at you and declaring-.this is the best field tripever!’’ she said.

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SCHOOLSSCHOOLSACHIEVEMENTS | NEWS | ACTIVITIES | HONORS CommunityPress.com

NORTHWESTPRESSEditor: Jennie Key, [email protected], 853-6272

ST. XAVIER HIGHSCHOOLThe following students haveearned honors for the first quar-ter of the 2012-2013 school year.

FreshmenFirst honors: John Bubenhofer,John Cunningham, Peyton Curry,Ronald Fago, Scott Flynn, KyleGibboney, David Girmann II,Peter Glassmeyer, Daniel Hanson,Zachary Heilman, Brady Hesse,David Homoelle, Brian Kemper,Daniel Klare, Donald Korman,Blake Litzinger, Michael Nichols,Jared Patterson, Samuel Peter,Benjamin Peters, Patrick Raneses,Jacob Robb, Andrew Schuer-mann, Nicholas Seifert, ZacharyThomas, Alexander Weller andDavid Wimmel Jr.Second honors: Austin Andwan,Aaron Brickner, Carlos Inigo DeVeyra, Jacob Edwards, MichaelGerbus, Nicholas Gerdes, Max-field Girmann, Luke Haffner,Patrick Hobing, Kyle Jasper,Nickolas Jung, William Jung,Andrew Kaiser, ChristopherLindsay, Joseph Ludmann, Con-nor Maciag, Anthony Morgan II,Matthew Sander, MaxwellScherch, William Tolliver, AxelVallecillo and MatthewWittrock.

SophomoresFirst honors: Kevin Ballachino,Justin Blake, Guido Discepoli,Jackson Donaldson, Aidan Fries,Michael Hartmann, CameronJohnson, Paul Klusmeier, BrianLambert, Ian Melnyk, Cory Parks,John Popken IV, Patrick Reynolds,Thomas Roth, Simon Schaefer,Andrew Schmidt, Isaac Scroggins,John Siegel, Thomas Slayton,Brent Taylor, Jacob Thomas,Stephen Tonnis, Kevin Unkrichand Benjamin York.Second honors: Andrew Ahlers,Frank Bauer V, Rodney Burton,Brandon Copenhaver, AaronCramer, Alexander Dahl, DamianDiCarlo, Alexander Dwyer, HenryFischesser, Samuel Garrity, Benja-min Glines, Griffin Hargis, Spen-cer Helwig, John Klare, JustinLennon, Daniel Luken, MichaelMcClelland, AndrewMooney,Theodore Piercy, Michael Rich,Justin Roenker, Nicholaus Urbae-tis and KhameronWilcox.

JuniorsFirst honors: Andrew Berling,Isaac Busken-Jovanovich, Nathan-iel Chipman, Carson Curry, JackEllerhorst, Benjamin Fahey,Nathan Haberthy, Ryan Hadley,Matthew Hein, Justin Hobing,Timothy Kemper Jr., BenjaminKlare, Benjamin Kleeman, ArthurLynch, Conner Murphy, NoahOlson, Kevin Polking, CraigSander, Austin Scroggins, JohnTalbot, Austin Tinsley, MatthewWeiskittel, MatthewWhitacre,Ryan Yeazell and Jason Zheng.Second honors: Chad Arch-deacon, Nicholas Betsch, Benja-min Brookhart, Mason Brunst,John D'Alessandro Jr., AlexanderEyers, Matthew Hanson, AlexHelmers, Joseph Heyob, GlenHird, Jonathon Jung, Kyle Jung,Robert Jung Jr., Joseph Kluener,David Kraemer, Kevin Kraemer,Matthew Kuhlmann, MichaelLanter, AndrewMartin, MatthewMoore, Jorge Naciff-Campos,Bradley Osuna, Marvin Raneses,Zachary Schmucker, JosephSchneider, Matthew Schramm,Bryce Schwierling, Evan Stifel,Rowan Villaver, Evan Wethingtonand Samuel Worpenberg.

SeniorsFirst honors: Matthew Ahrnsen,Julio Almanza, Paul Bissmeyer Jr.,Alexander Burgess, ThomasCallahan, Robert Crawford,Samuel Day, John Delisio, Domin-ic DiCarlo, Stephen Haffner, RyanHelmers, Nikita Latushka, GrantLynch, Christopher Merz, ThomasMitchell, MatthewMooney,Mark Panning, Jack Schanz,Michael Sohngen, MichaelSpoelker, Michael Tekulve, RobertThomas, De'SeanWeber, JohnYork and Eric Zins.Second honors: Patrick Armbrus-ter, Joseph Bergmann, CharlesBowman, Jesse Clark, BrendanDay, Kyle Denman, WilliamDeters, Brian Feist, Jacob Garbon,Adam Greivenkamp, MichaelHautman, Devon Hoesl, JosephHuhn, Matthew Keller, ZacharyRuter, Mitchell Sander, JoshuaSchirmer and Adam Schupp.

HONOR ROLLS

La Salle High School studentsturned teacher Mike Knueven’s2004 white Nissan pickup truckinto a Peter Max-inspired rollingpiece of pop art.

Thesenior-levelArt4classandthe school’s Art Club collaboratedon theproject, but itwasKnuevenwho selected the artist to studyand imitate. He chose the Ameri-can illustrator and graphic de-signer,whose1960sworkfeaturedpsychedelic shapes and colors.

“This truck is groovy, man!”Knueven said.

“In the previous year, 2011, westudied a particular artist, ClaudeMonet,andpaintedacar inMonet-style. The students found this newcanvas to be a very exciting wayto express art,” said Knueven.That car, a Ford, belongs to LaSalle drama teacher Connie Saho.

Students got to work duringlast winter and spring on Knue-ven’s pick-up. They studied thework of Peter Max and createdbrightly colored scenes that in-clude ayellow submarine andSgt.Pepper, and added a “Cincinnati

flavor” with the city’s skyline andsteamboat.

Falhaber Nissan sanded andprimedbothSaho’sandKnueven’svehicles, then added a seal to pro-tect the art.

Knueven described the educa-tional aspect of the project, whichtakesaboutsixweekstocomplete.“Through this art project not onlydid the students learn about thehistory of ‘60s pop art and artistPeter Max’s style, but how tomake decisions on placement,paintingstyle,composition,studio

art, painting on a three-dimen-sional plane and group work,” hesaid.

“Designs were enlarged to fitthe form of the truck. We decidedhow we would control color andform so that each artwork wouldtransition to the next area seam-lessly,” he said. “This was a funchallenge, but not an easy task.”

Studentswillworkononemorevehicle next spring: A Vincent“Van”Gogh. It belongs to thewifeof another La Salle teacher, so shechose the artist.

With teacher Mike Knueven, at the driver's door, are Daniel Meymann, left; in truck, from left, MatthewWolke, Zach Sharpe, Josh Meyer and AlexDesch; outside truck, from left, Alex Kurzhals, Jon Leonard, David Sacha, Taylor Healey, Joey Milazzo and Sam Herbers. Tyler Carroll, John Leonard,Jacob Lunning, McCoy Lambing and Anthony Stenger, all 2012 graduates, also worked on the truck, but are not pictured. THANKS TO JONATHAN

GRAYSON.

LA SALLE STUDENTS CREATE

ROLLING ART

Pleasant run Middle Schoolhas a student recognition pro-gram that honors students for go-ing above and beyond.

Students earn a “NobleKnight” slip when they is seen“goingaboveandbeyond,”givingextra effort, helping someonewithout being asked, building upa person through positive com-ments or compliments, demon-stration of care and respect forthe students, staff, program,building.

When students are presentedwith a Noble Knight they bring itto the office and place it in the“bucket of recognition.”

Each day students that place aslip in the bucket are recognizedduring afternoon announce-ments.

At the end of each monthnames will be drawn from the“bucket of recognition” for priz-es. At the end of each quarter onename will be drawn for a “BIGprize”.

Names of those earningNobleKnights are written on a posterand displayed on the window inthe office for all to see. When aposter is filled it is hung in themain hall and a newwindowpost-er will be started.

This year, students and par-ents can honor a teacher or staffmember as well.

Pleasant RunMiddle SchoolrecognizesNoble Knights

Before heading home for the realthing, first-graders at St. James Schoolenjoyed a Thanksgiving feast at school.

The meal included popcorn, corn muf-fins and juice.

Pictured in their Pilgrim bonnets are, from left, Brinna Evans, Ally Drake and Allie Lammers.PROVIDED.

Pictured from left are first-graders JJZang, JD Bronstrop, Nick Munro and

Michael Stewart. PROVIDED.

THANKSGIVINGFEAST

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SPORTSSPORTSHIGH SCHOOL | YOUTH | RECREATIONAL CommunityPress.com

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

Time to brag» The Northwest Press again

will present “Home for the holi-days: Catching up with collegeathletes.”

Parentsofathleteswhoplayedin the college ranks during the2012 calendar year can submit byemail a few paragraphs and aphoto to share where they are,what they’re playing and howthey did. Be sure to include theathlete’s name, parents’ namesand the community newspaperthey get at home. The submittedinformation will run the issue ofDec. 26-27 .

You can send links to collegewebsites as background but notas the submission. Write the in-formation as you’d want to see itin print. Send photos as a .jpg at-tachment to the email, not em-bedded in a Word document.

Send theemail to [email protected] by Monday, Dec. 17.Questions can be directed tomlaughman @community-press.com or 248-7573.

MVP» Colerain’s Milton Davis

takes the firstwinter award afterscoring 25 points in the Cardi-nals’ 57-53 win over Ryle Dec. 5.

Boys basketball» Roger Bacon beat Winton

Woods 68-56Dec. 4. Austin Frent-sos scored 23 points,whileCarlasJackson chipped in 20.

»Mt. Healthy lost 59-46 toAmelia Dec. 3. Sophomore Bran-donBirch led the Owlswith eightpoints.

Girls basketball»McAuley came from behind

to defeat Sycamore 54-47 Dec. 4.TaylorBove led the squadwith14points, while MacKenzie McFe-lea and Franki Harris combinedfor 21 points off the bench. TheMohawks followed up with a 59-32 victory over St. Ursula Dec. 6.EmilyVogelpohlhadagame-high13 points.

»Mount Healthy dropped itsfirst game of the year 56-47 to Ta-lawanda Dec. 1. Sophomore Ane-tra Owensby scored 13 points tolead the Owls.

TheOwls reboundedwith a 51-36 victory over Fenwick Dec. 3.The sophomore finished with 16points.

Boys bowling» Roger Bacon beat McNick

2,598-2,480 Dec. 4. Lindsey Don-tez rolled a 413 high series.

» La Salle rolled past MountHealthy2,630-2,161Dec. 3. JuniorWillMullen had a 438 high series.On Dec. 4, La Salle junior MattNichols bowled a team-high 448,as the unbeaten Lancers (6-0)handed St. Xavier (5-1) its firstdefeat of the season.

» St. Xavier defeated North-west3,076-2,735,Dec.6.Weinber-ger rolled a 486 high-series andwas one of four Bombers to rollover 400.

PRESS PREPSHIGHLIGHTS

By Nick [email protected]

McAuley’s Margaret Egbers putsup a shot in traffic during theMohawks’ 54-47 win overSycamore Dec. 4. JEFF SWINGER/THE

COMMUNITY PRESS

See HIGHLIGHT, Page A7

The La Salle High Schoolhockey team skated into a newseason looking to contend in theCincinnati Amateur Hockey As-sociation.

The squad didn’t start the sea-son the way it wanted with lossesto Walnut Hills, Lakota East andNorthern Kentucky, but headcoachKenHandley remains opti-mistic, thanks to thesquad’sworkethic.

“…Everyone continues towork hard andwewill get headedin the right direction in the verynear future,” he said.

With more depth, speed and

size, the Lancers will try to buildoff last year’s 7-19-1mark.

The Lancers’ offense shouldget some strong play from seniorcenterA.J.Mahon,whowill sharethe attack with freshmen wing-ersAlex Smith andKevinBrown.

Junior defender Garret Lietteand sophomore Jake Ottawaywill do their best to shore up thedefense.

Other returning starters, suchas Justin Rost and goalie DevonScheuermann, will also play keyroles.

TheLancersplaymost of theircontests at Cincinnati Gardensand will play a holiday tourna-ment at the BondHill venue Dec.26-28.

Lancer hockey optimistic for seasonBy NickDudukovichndudukovich @ communitypress .com

La Salle freshman forward Kevin Browne and the Lancers compete inthe Cincinnati Amateur Hockey Association. THANKS BARRETT COHEN OF

THE LA SALLE BROADCASTING NETWORK

After capturing their fourth-straight and 33rd overall state ti-tle a year ago, the St. XavierAquaBombers are reloaded foranother run at state in 2013.

Their season got off on theright foot after winning the Ma-son Invitational Dec. 1.

“The kids at Mason were re-markable,” coach Jim Browersaid. “They showed a lot of spiritand grit. A lot of their swims inthefinalswerefaster than (in theprelims).”

Senior Ian Wooley is back af-ter he finished as the state run-ner-up in the 100-yard butterflylast season.

“To Ian’s credit he didn’twantto be runner-up,” Brower said.“So that is motivation for biggerand better things for him thisseason. The individual who won(state last season) is back so hehas his hands full. He’s beenlookingreallygood inpractice sohe’ll be in the mix.”

Brower knows if his squad isgoing tomakearunatstateagainthey will need help from morethan just the senior class.

“The junior class, as fresh-men, probably didn’t come inwith a lot of credentials and weare starting to see thememerge,” he said. “They are theclass that has to fill in (for thosewho graduated), so we are reallyimpressed with their progressthey’ve made as a group.”

On Cheviot Road, the Cole-rain High School swim teamcontinues to grow in numbersunder head coach CarolineMcIver,who is entering her fifthseason.

McIver said there are manyyoung leaders on the team, andthat the squad has more year-round swimmers than ever be-fore.

For the Lady Cardinals, diverKayley Tepe, and swimmers Ra-chel Borchers, Samantha Goe-bel, Kelsey Kaake and AlexisWildt should add to the point to-tal, while the boys should bepaced by juniors Tim Thomasand David Sweeney, as well assophomore Jonah Lewis.

La Salle coach Mike Lienhartenters anewseasonwitha roster

double the size of last year’ssquad.

Andwhile the turnoutmay begreater, the Lancers won’t havemuch experience.

Instead, La Sallewill count onswimmers who qualified for dis-tricts last winter as those stu-dent-athletes strive for morepostseason success.

On thedivingboard, theLanc-ers will rely on Jimmy McMa-hon, who nearly qualified forstate.

In the racing lanes, Lancerseniors Jake Brabender andBlake Brauning, along with ju-nior Julian Souder, will look tobuild off their district appear-ances.

The same could be said forsophomoresSamReddandDrewMeister, who made an impres-sive run to districts during thefirst year of their prep careers.

In St. Bernard, Roger Baconwill depend on depth and astrong senior class.

That combination couldmakefor an exciting season as theboys try to repeat the squad’sfirst-place finish in theGCLCen-tral.

Key swimmers to watch in-clude Kevin Anneken (butterfly,free), Joey Anello (200 free, 100back), Kyle Suffoletta (free) andChris Blake (50, 100 free).

The girls return looking tobuild off last year’s third-placefinish in the GGCL Central.

Kelly Boland (100 back, 500free) and Claire Devlin (50 free,100back) shouldbeconstantcon-tributors to the scoreboard..

Lots of swimmerswillmake asplash in College Hill if McAu-ley’s firstmeet of the seasonwasany indication.

TheMohawksplaced fifth outof 18 teams at the Mason Invita-tional Dec. 1.

The 200 freestyle teamofEri-ka Lucas, Morgan Hennard,Gabby Dangel and Abbey Meis-ter had a strong showing in the200 freestyle relay.

Meister, along with AmandaDeller, swam the 200 free relayat last year’s state meet.

At Northwest High School,the Knights will try and fill thevoid left by the graduation ofDanielle Reed, who was last sea-son’sFAVCWestSwimmerof theYear. Reed now swims for Ursu-line College.

Head coach Kim Peters hassix returning swimmers, but theKnights’ roster will also field sixcompetitors new to the varsitypool.

Returning junior, Abby Kleiwill be the squad’s top competi-tor in 200 free and 100 breast-stroke. In addition to her rolewith the Knights, Klei alsoswims for the Clippard YMCA

club.For the boys, junior Jayme

Ahr should be intriguing towatch because he’s entering justhis secondyearof swimming.Hewill swim the 50 and 100 free-style events, according to Pe-ters.

Ricky Glunt andManuel Fog-gie will also compete for the 100butterfly.

Northwestarea swimmers

SPLASHinto season

By Tom Skeenand Nick [email protected]@communitypress.com

Colerain High School diver Kayley Tepe returns this season and shouldbe a big contributor on the diving board. FILE PHOTO

Saint Xavier High School’s Ian Wooley pumps his fist after hissecond-place finish in the boys 100-yard butterfly in the final of thestate meet last season. Wooley is part of a talented senior class thatwill look to lead the AquaBombers to their fifth-straight state title.GARY LANDERS/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

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Girls bowling» Colerain beat Hamilton,

2,379-2,019Dec.5. JuniorKaireeBedinghouse rolled a 388 highseries.

»McAuley beat Fairfield,2,410-2,402, Dec. 5. L. Bakerrolled a 435 high series.

Boys swimming» St. Xavier won the Mason

Invitationalwith367pointsoverMason (324) and 13 otherschools. The Bombers accom-plished the featwithoutwinninga single individual event.

St. Xavier-Blue and Whitedefeated Lakota East and West

Dec. 5. Senior Cam Young andfreshman Nathan Jonas eachwon two events for the Blueteam.

Wrestling»Mt.Healthy lost toLebanon

60-21 and Princeton 57-12 intheir opening meet of the sea-son. Junior David Kuhlman wasvictorious via a decision at 145pounds against Lebanon but losta close one, 9-8, against Prince-ton.

» St. Xavier opened its sea-sonwith a second-place finish atthe Olentangy Invitational. TheBombers finished 56 points be-hind Centerville.

PRESS PREPS HIGHLIGHTS

Continued from Page A6

TOUGH SHOT

Colerain’s Courtney Merritt, right, tries to disrupt a shot by Ryleguard Rachel Storer during the Cardinals’ 63-46 loss Dec. 6. TONY

TRIBBLE/FOR THE COMMUNITY PRESS

SPRINGFIELDTWP.—St. Xavi-er hockey coach Adam Tramonteknew going into the season hewould have a good team.

What he didn’t know is hisBombers would start 7-0.

“It’s great,” Tramonte said.“We figured we would be prettygood. We have a lot of seniors, sothere’s good leadership in theprogram right now.”

Goalie Matt Thornley of WestChester has been part of a goal-keeping duo that has allowed justeight goals through seven games,while senior forward MitchBlank of Cincinnati is getting itdoneoffensively for theBomberswith 17 points through Dec. 7.

“(Mitch) has been playing(hockey) for a long time,” Tra-

monte said. “He loves the sportand is really dedicated.Hecomesfrom a hockey family… It helpswhenyourwholefamily isaroundthe sport. He lives it.”

Other members of the seniorclass that are contributing areRobbyThomas ofMountHealthyand Will Rinaldi of Sharonville,who are both teamcaptains alongwith Blank.

Senior defenseman Will Shan-ley ofMadeira andBrett Holdingof West Chester are also leaderson the ice for St. X.

WhileTramonteknewthissen-ior class was going to be specialfrom the time they steppedon theice as freshmen and sophomores,it’s what the current underclass-men are doing that could makethisBomber squad really special.

“We got a good influx of youngguys last year,” Tramonte said.

“We knew we would be good, butyou don’t know how good untilyou see those kids on the ice.”

Some of the young guys con-tributing are sophomore AaronCramer of Colerain Township –who is currently out with an inju-ry but will be back by Christmasaccording to Tramonte - sopho-more Justin LeFevre of WestChesterandfreshmenJoeyLuffyof Loveland and Zach Thomas ofMount Healthy.

As a freshman, Thomas issplitting time with Thornley innet, according to Tramonte.

“He’s pretty good,” Tramontesaid aboutThomas. “…It’s nice tosee competition at every spot andto see a freshman step-up.”

Other boys on the team live inWestern Hills, Newtown, Mason,Liberty Township and PleasantRidge.

By Tom [email protected]

St. Xaviersenior goalieMattThornleyprotects thenet againstSycamorelast season.Thornley hasbeen part ofagoalkeepingduo withZach Thomasthat hasallowed justeight goalson theseason.THANKS TO ST.

XAVIER

ATHLETICS

Undefeated Bombersicing the competition

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NORTHWESTPRESSEditor: Jennie Key, [email protected], 853-6272

Closing Skyline centeris the right decision

Thanks to Colerain’s ad-ministration and trustees forno longer using Colerain prop-erty taxes forSpringfield resi-dents through the operation ofthe Skyline Community Cen-ter.

Springfield Townshipstopped supporting the Sky-line center in 2009 eventhough themajority of attend-ees at the center were fromSpringfield Township.

Closing thecenterprovidesopportunities for those pro-grams to move to churchesand schools where the Spring-field residents live and attend.Parents can organize and runprogramsandhomeworkhelp.

Nursing homes could offerknitting classes. Residentswould enjoy a reading clubwhere students could read to awilling listener. And whatpleasure the students wouldgain from visiting with olderpeople.

North Central Libraryserved free lunches in thesummer.

Colerain Township hassponsored a popular summercamp for years at ColerainPark.Churchesandschoolsof-fer after-school programs.Colerain’s community centerand Clippard YMCA offer awide variety of programs forall ages.

It is long overdue for Cole-rain tax payers to stop payingfor Springfield residents’ ac-tivities – that is the responsi-bility of Springfield tax pay-ers.

As Colerain’s fiscal officerHeatherHarlowremindsus: “.. . tough but necessary deci-sions must be made to sustainthe core functions of our localgovernment.”

Janet LockwoodPeach Grove

Residents can’t affordmore school taxes

This is in response to a col-umn penned by the presidentof the Mount Healthy SchoolDistrict.

I wish to humbly offersome thoughts as to why thereis such difficulty in passing atax levy.

In my nine years as a resi-dent here in Mount Healthy, Ihave learned that themajorityof the people here are God-fearing, hard-working heroesand patriots.

These good people have adeep and secret fear of thefederal government and thewildly socialist administra-tion.

With a tight grip onourwal-let we see the way they runroughshod over the constitu-tion and the bill of rights. Tothe source of the anger is anevent.

Specifically, many timesthe good people said no tothese new school buildings,and on a day of ice and snowthe levy to raise the old build-ings narrowly passed. A razor-thin margin in favor and thesuperintendent called it a fairvote and ran with it.

The new buildings weren’teven finished before theywere after us formoremoney.The people demand honestyand accountability in electedofficials and are resentful ofthe way they have been treat-ed.

Steve ColonelMount Healthy

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The numbers released thisfall were almost unimaginable:one in five children in our re-gion is growing up in poverty.That is 167,000 children in pov-erty – enough to fill Paul Brownstadium two and half times.

That disturbing statistic isnot a bit surprising to St. Vin-cent de Paul volunteers. Lastyear, we visited the homes ofneighbors in need more than9,000 times in Hamilton Countyalone. We visit tiny apartmentsin inner city neighborhoods,humble homes in working classcommunities, trailer parks inrural areas, and, increasingly,homes in neighborhoods thatmight surprise you.

Inside those homes we seehuman suffering at its mostheart wrenching. When a familyslips into poverty, the pain isalmost palpable. Our volunteerssee adult men in tears, ashamedbecause they cannot feed theirfamilies. We see mothers worndown by worry over bills theycannot pay, middle-aged cou-ples who can’t afford their in-sulin, and elderly people whokeep the thermostat set at 62degrees to lower their utilitybill.

Increasingly, though, the

invisible andsilent victimsof these un-certain eco-nomic timesare children.Inside homesall across ourcommunity, St.Vincent de Paulvolunteers seechildren who

never know if there will be foodfor dinner on any given day. Wesee children who sleep on lino-leum floors with only a thinblanket to keep them warm. Wefind children who move fromschool to school as their fam-ilies seek stable housing – andthere are few things as hard asbeing the new kid at school whoalso wears the same two outfitsday after day.

And yet, these very samechildren show remarkable cour-age and grace. There is the boywho goes to school hungry sothat his little brothers and sistercan eat. Or the big brother whogave his bed to his little brother.Or the little girl who asked fordiapers for her baby brotherinstead of a Christmas gift. Ourvolunteers are blessed each dayto witness powerful lessons of

love among the children thatwe, as a community, should beprotecting and caring for.

They are lessons that meanall the more during the Christ-mas season. For a child – anychild – Christmas is truly aseason of hope. There is some-

thing profoundly moving aboutproviding a special gift to achild who still believes inChristmas miracles or food fora family that is struggling.Those are kind acts that liveand grow in the heart of a child.It is a gift each of us can give.

You can make this Christmasspecial for a family in need by:

» Supporting “Food From theHeart” the next time you visityour local Kroger. Ask yourchild to pick out their favoritenon-perishable food and place itin the barrel at the door. Ourneighborhood volunteers willgather the food and take it to alocal family in need.

»Making a donation in honorof a loved one to provide Christ-mas gifts to a child in need. Adonation of just $50 will allowus to purchase new gifts tomake a child’s Christmasbrighter this year.

» Visit our website,www.SVDPcincinnati.org, orcall 513-421-HOPE to find outmore about ways you can givethe gift of hope this Christmasseason.

Liz Carter is the executive director ofthe Society of St. Vincent de Paul –Cincinnati.

You can help make Christmas special

Liz CarterCOMMUNITY PRESSGUEST COLUMNIST

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In the simplest terms, refi-nancing your home mortgageallows you to apply for a newterm and interest rate to helpyou pay off an existing loan.

By taking advantage of alower interest rate, you may beable to reduce your monthlypayments and lower your over-all mortgage costs. This can beespecially helpful for underwa-

ter borrowersstruggling tomake currentloan paymentsdue to a changein a financialsituation orwhen facedwith othersignificantexpenses. Mon-ey saved

through refinancing also mayincrease your individual cashflow and help you pay off orconsolidate other debt, includ-ing credit cards.

Refinancing also may allowyou to shorten the length ofyour mortgage term. If youhave additional funds available,you may be able to adjust yourloan to a shorter term with alower interest rate, which canultimately help you pay offyour mortgage loan faster.

Many homeowners may beeligible for the government’senhanced Home Affordable

Refinance Program (HARP),which was designed in 2009 tohelp underwater borrowersrefinance. During the fourthquarter of 2011, the FederalHousing Finance Agency an-nounced significant modifica-tions to this program, calledHARP 2.0, which has been ex-tended until December 2013.This program continues tochange, and some borrowerswho were not qualified underthe former program may qual-ify under HARP 2.0.

The HARP 2.0 program canbenefit borrowers, who arecurrent on their mortgage pay-ments and have not had a latepayment in the past six monthsand no more than one late pay-ment in the past 12 months.This program is designed forborrowers whose existing loanhas been sold to Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac on or beforeMay 31, 2009. HARP 2.0 alsobenefits borrowers who are notcurrently paying private mort-

gage insurance (PMI) or areinsured through national mort-gage insurance providers in-volved in the HARP programincluding Radian, Genworthand MGIC.

To help you understand ifrefinancing is right for you, youshould contact your currentmortgage lender or anotherfinancial institution to reviewyour available options.

As a financial institutionfocused on helping borrowersachieve homeownership andstay in their homes, Fifth Thirdcan provide additional informa-tion about refinancing by call-ing (877) 841-7513. If you arenot sure if your loan was sold toFannie Mae or Freddie Mac,you can see if your mortgagequalifies for the HARP 2.0program by visitingwww.53harp.com.

Bob Lewis is senior vice presidentand head of Fifth Third MortgageCompany.

Is it time to refinance your mortgage?

Bob LewisCOMMUNITY PRESSGUEST COLUMNIST

Dec. 5 questionWhat is your favorite Cincin-

nati-area holiday event or tradi-tion? What makes it special?

“Westart theholidayswith thearts. The Cincinnati Playhouse inthe Park’s “A Christmas Carol,”the Cincinnati Ballet’s Nutcrack-er and the annual Christmas con-cert by Cincinnati’s own OverThe Rhine at the Taft Theater.That puts the whole family in aholiday mood! Church on Christ-masEve, followedbyavisit to thelive nativity at Paul R. Young Fu-neral Home in Mount Healthymakes the holiday complete forus. Merry Christmas to you!”

T.A.R.

“I plan on spending time thisholiday season in Downtown Cin-cinnatiwithmyentire familyonaweekend afternoon or evening.For those bah-hum-buggers whosay that Downtown is unworthy

and unsafe, check it out this holi-day season.

“It’sagreatplace togrababiteto eat at one of the many new oralready established restaurants,take the family ice skating onFountain Square, grab a carriageride, and enjoy a lively and fes-tive environment. Park for freeon the streets or at the Square fora couple of bucks!”

Mike M.

“Opening Day with the Find-lay Market Parade and other re-

lated events means more to methat seeing the first red robin ofspring.”

R.V.

“Well, bothofusare inoursen-ior years now and the kids are allgrown up and gone, so our cele-bration of the Christmas holidayis rather subdued.

“When we were younger, wewould go to the display at KingsIsland, or Fountain Square, or theCincinnati Zoo, and really enjoyour experience.Acouple of yearsago I went to the train displaydown atDuke, and it was fun, too.

“Our most fun tradition,though, involved just the familyand itwasdone as a prank, butwekept it up for quite a few years. (Ithink it was in humorous rebel-lion to the notion that you aren’t‘normal’ if you don’t have a tradi-tion.)

“So my wife and I would holdopposite ends of a broomstickand one of our kids would hang

upside down from the knees untilall of them did it.

“Andwe called that our ‘tradi-tion.’ Yes, I know – we werescrewballs (and still are).”

Bill B.

“My favorite holiday event isin Lebanon – it’s the annualChristmas Horse and CarriageParade. It was last weekend. Myhusband and I shared it withfriends from out-of-state. Welove this parade and the wonder-ful people in Lebanon.

“Wealways begin the daywitha delicious lunch at the GoldenLamb cooked and served by thefinest people, shopat thewonder-ful shops filled with uniqueChristmas gifts and then marvelat the beautiful carriages, horsesand people that make it all hap-pen. I can’t think of a better wayto start the month of December.We plan to go again next year.”

E.E.C.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

Monfort Heights ElementarySchool families kicked off the Christ-mas season with a holiday event at theschool. They had pizza, made holidaycrafts, played games and even got tovisit with Santa during the Dec. 5event.

Photos by Jennie Key/The CommunityPress

Christmascelebration

Lillian Niehaus, 5, a kindergartener, works on a candyproject at the Monfort Heights Elementary School SantaNight.

Eli Bogan, 3 decorates a cookie at the Monfort HeightsElementary School Santa Night.

Grace Ruter, 5 works on a candy train engine at theMonfort Heights Elementary School Santa Night.

Dylan Gibson, 12, a seventh-grader at White Oak MiddleSchool, gets his face painted by Morgan Correll, aclassmate, at the Monfort Heights Elementary SchoolSanta Night.

Sixth-graders Grace Matre, Kayla Lindner and Jenna Leek were rocking the holiday headgear at the Monfort HeightsElementary School Santa Night

This job requires focus. 5-year-old Seth Bogan wants tomake sure the candies are exactly right on the cookie he isdecorating at the Monfort Heights Elementary SchoolSanta Night.

Jack Reis, 3, was happy to tell Santa and Mrs. Claus what he would like forChristmas: a barracuda.

Anna Coleman comforts her little sisterCaroline, 2, after she decides facetimewith Santa is too overwhelming at theMonfort Heights Elementary SchoolSanta Night.

Retired teacher Cindy Swillinger readsduring storytime at the MonfortHeights Elementary School Santa

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THURSDAY, DEC. 13BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,7390 Colerain Ave., Mission tofill semi-trucks with personalcare items, blankets, sheets,coats, boots, gloves, baby for-mula, canned food, dishes, andmany other clothing.Only new items accepted withthe exception of slightly worncoats. Benefits SONMinistries.Free. Presented by Fill the Truck.250-4116; www.fillthetruck.org.Colerain Township.

Community DanceRoyal Rounds, 2-4 p.m., Green-hills Community Church Presby-terian, 21 Cromwell Road, PhaseIII-V round dance club for expe-rienced dancers. Ballroomfigures: waltz, two-step, chacha, rumba, tango and bolero.$6. Presented by SouthwesternOhio/Northern Kentucky SquareDancers Federation. 929-2427.Greenhills.

Dance ClassesSquare Dance Lessons, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Forest Park ActivityCenter, 651W. Sharon Road,Low-impact activity to improveyour mind, body and spirit. Ages9 and up. $5. Presented byHappy Time Squares. 232-1303.Forest Park.

Exercise ClassesZumba Fitness Classes, 7 p.m.,Colerain Township CommunityCenter, 4300 Springdale Road,Greg Insco, instructor. Ages 18and up. $5. 741-8802; www.col-eraintwp.org. Colerain Town-ship.

Health / WellnessMobile Mammography Unit, 7a.m.-3:30 p.m., Kroger North-gate, 9690 Colerain Ave., Fif-teen-minute screenings. Costvaries per insurance plan. Fi-nancial assistance available forqualified applicants. Appoint-ment required. Presented byJewish Hospital. 686-3300;www.e-mercy.com. ColerainTownship.

Music - ConcertsHandbell Concert, 6:30 p.m.,Twin Towers, 5343 HamiltonAve., Gulden Community Center.Handbell soloist Kristine Stoutof Joybell Theater. Kristinecombines form of ballet, soloand ensemble weaving tech-niques and use of digital key-board to create musical experi-ence. Free. Presented by JoybellTheater. 853-4100; www.lec.org.College Hill.

On Stage - TheaterThe Butterfingers Angel, Mary& Joseph, Herod the Nut, &The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carolsin a Pear Tree, 8 p.m., NorthCollege Hill City Center, 1500 W.Galbraith Rd, Dealing with thestory of Mary and Joseph andthe birth of Jesus from a freshand richly creative point of view,the author combines a series ofdeftly constructed short scenes,traditional Christmas music, andoften antic characterizationsinto a wholly original theaterpiece. $15; $12 students, seniorsand active military. Presented byCenterStage Players of Ohio.588-4910. North College Hill.

Senior CitizensExercise toMusic, 10-11 a.m.,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, $1. ThroughDec. 27. 385-3780. Green Town-ship.Open Bridge, 12:15-3:15 p.m.,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, Free. 385-3780.Green Township.

Support GroupsCaregiver Support Meeting,5:30 p.m., Triple Creek Retire-ment Community, 11230 PippinRoad, Dunlap Station. Open toanyone who feels they wouldbenefit from this type of sup-port. Free. 851-0601. ColerainTownship.

FRIDAY, DEC. 14BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

EducationPublic Library’s eReader Pet-ting Zoo, 3:30 p.m., NorthCentral Branch Library, 11109Hamilton Ave., Try out an iPad,Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire andlearn more about library’s

downloadable books and music.Staff members answer ques-tions. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Public Library ofCincinnati & Hamilton County.369-6068; www.cincinnatilibra-ry.org. Colerain Township.

Farmers MarketLettuce Eat Well Winter Farm-ers Market, 3-7 p.m., CheviotUnited Methodist Church, 3820Westwood Northern Blvd.,Locally produced food items.Free. Presented by Lettuce EatWell. 661-1792; www.lewfm.org.Cheviot.

Music - ChoralHolidayMusic, 7 p.m., Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve, 3455Poole Road, Music by the St.Ursula Academy vocal ensemble.Free, vehicle permit required.Presented by Hamilton CountyPark District. 521-7275;www.greatparks.org. ColerainTownship.

On Stage - TheaterBlack Nativity, 7:30 p.m., Wordof Deliverance Family LifeCenter, 693 Fresno Road, Pro-duction tells original biblicalstory of the Nativity throughscripture and verse. Inspirationalmusic and dance and poetry ofLangston Hughes. $25, $18students and seniors, $15 groupsof 10 or more. Presented byCincinnati Black Theatre Compa-ny. 241-6060; www.cincinna-tiblacktheatre.org. Forest Park.The Butterfingers Angel, Mary& Joseph, Herod the Nut, &The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carolsin a Pear Tree, 8 p.m., NorthCollege Hill City Center, $15; $12students, seniors and activemilitary. 588-4910. North CollegeHill.

Senior CitizensPinochle, Noon-4 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Through Dec. 28.385-3780. Green Township.Arthritis Exercise, Noon-12:45p.m., Green Township SeniorCenter, 3620 Epley Road, Work-out to videos geared to helplessen arthritis symptoms. Forseniors. Free. 385-3780. GreenTownship.Taking Off Pounds Sensibly,10-11 a.m., Green TownshipSenior Center, 3620 Epley Road,Weight loss support and ac-countability. For seniors. $28annual fee. 385-3780. GreenTownship.

SATURDAY, DEC. 15Exercise ClassesZumba Kids Dance FitnessClass, 10:30-11:15 a.m., GreatCommission Bible Church, 10200Hamilton Ave., Family LifeCenter. Healthy program featur-ing explosion of music, danceand energy. Ages 4-12. $4.851-4946; DebsFitnessParty.com.Mount Healthy.

Holiday - ChristmasEasy-to-Make, Last MinuteGift Ideas, 12:30 p.m., MonfortHeights Branch Library, 3825West Fork Road, A different andsimple craft idea to take home.Learn to make homemadewrapping paper or gift bags,too. Free. Presented by PublicLibrary of Cincinnati & HamiltonCounty. 369-4472; www.cincin-natilibrary.org.MonfortHeights.

Karaoke and OpenMicKaraoke with Uncle Don, 9:30p.m., Poor Michael’s, 11938Hamilton Ave., Free. 825-9958.Springfield Township.

NatureWild About Reptiles, 3 p.m.,WintonWoods, 10245 WintonRoad, Winton Centre. Join thenaturalist to discuss the differ-ent reptiles that live in Ohio,what it means to be cold-blood-ed and reptile adaptations. Free,vehicle permit required. Present-ed by Hamilton County ParkDistrict. 521-7275; www.great-parks.org. Springfield Township.

On Stage - TheaterBlack Nativity, 2 p.m. and 7:30p.m., Word of DeliveranceFamily Life Center, $25, $18students and seniors, $15 groupsof 10 or more. 241-6060;www.cincinnatiblackthea-tre.org. Forest Park.The Butterfingers Angel, Mary& Joseph, Herod the Nut, &The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carolsin a Pear Tree, 8 p.m., NorthCollege Hill City Center, $15; $12students, seniors and activemilitary. 588-4910. North CollegeHill.

SUNDAY, DEC. 16Community DanceFunfest Christmas Ball, 1-5p.m., Lakeridge Hall, 7210 PippinRoad, Ages 50 and up. Admis-sion includes beer, soft drinks,snacks, photo and door prizes.Visit with Santa. Music by DJLarry Robers. $10. 521-1112.Colerain Township.

Holiday - ChristmasBrunch with Santa, 10 a.m. and12:30 p.m., Mill Race BanquetCenter, 1515 W. Sharon Road,Made-to-order omelets, bottom-less refills and more. Santa giveschildren the opportunity to tellhim their wish list and take afree picture with Santa. $14.95,$7.95 ages 2-12; vehicle permitrequired. Reservations required.Presented by Hamilton CountyPark District. 825-6467;www.greatparks.org. Spring-field Township.

NatureOwls Up Close, 2 p.m., Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve, 3455Poole Road, Ellenwood NatureBarn. Learn why owls may beeasier to find this time year andmeet some live owls. Free,vehicle permit required. Present-ed by Hamilton County ParkDistrict. 521-7275; www.great-parks.org. Colerain Township.Dog Star Walk, 2 p.m., WintonWoods, 10245 Winton Road,Winton Centre. Did you knowthe brightest star in the sky inthe “Dog Star,” or Sirius? Eventhe ancients valued their caninecompanions. Dogs must be on aleash no longer than six feet.Free, vehicle permit required.Presented by Hamilton CountyPark District. 521-7275;www.greatparks.org. Spring-field Township.

MONDAY, DEC. 17BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

Dance ClassesMovingwithMommy/Danc-ing with Daddy, 6:30-7 p.m.,Cincinnati Dance and MovementCenter, 880 Compton Road, Theclass focuses on basic movementand dance skills to developcoordination, balance, musical-ity, timing, and flexibility. Anadult must participate with the

child. Ages 2-4. $36 a month orpro-rated at time of registrationif needed. Registration required.521-8462. Springfield Township.

Exercise ClassesFitBodz, 6:30 p.m., ColerainTownship Community Center,4300 Springdale Road, Instruct-ed by Gary Terry, West Pointgraduate, Army master fitnesstrainer and certified personaltrainer. Focusing on helpingindividuals improve theirstrength, stamina, flexibility andweight loss. Bring mat, 3- or5-pound dumbbells and water.$8. 741-8802; www.coleraintw-p.org. Colerain Township.Zumba, 5:30-6:30 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Wear comfortableworkout attire and gym shoes.Bring water. $5. Presented byDeb’s Fitness Party. 205-5064;www.debsfitnessparty.com.Green Township.Strengthening, Flexibility andCore Class, 1:30-2:30 p.m.,Guenthner Physical Therapy,5557 Cheviot Road, Enter at rearof building. Enhance flexibilityand strengthen all major musclegroups and core using bands,balls and weights. $7. 923-1700;www.guenthnerpt.com.Mon-fort Heights.Cardio Dance Party, 7:45-8:45p.m., Cincinnati Dance andMovement Center, 880 ComptonRoad, Incorporates variety ofdance styles, including jazz, hiphop, latin, jive and more dancedto popular music. $10. Regis-tration required. Presented byCardio Dance Party. 617-9498;www.cardiodanceparty.com.Springfield Township.

Music - BluesBlues Jam, 8:30 p.m., PoorMichael’s, 11938 Hamilton Ave.,With Tristate blues artists. Free.825-9958. Springfield Township.

Senior CitizensChair Volleyball, 10 a.m.-noon,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, 385-3780.Green Township.Indoor Cornhole, 10 a.m.-noon,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, 385-3780.Green Township.Pinochle, Noon-4 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 385-3780. Green Township.

TUESDAY, DEC. 18BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8

a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

Community DanceContinentals Round DanceClub, 2:30-4 p.m., Trinity Luther-an Church, 1553 Kinney Ave.,Phase III-V level round danceclub. $6. Presented by South-western Ohio/Northern Ken-tucky Square Dancers Feder-ation. 929-2427.Mount Healthy.

Dance ClassesTap Class, 7-7:30 p.m., CincinnatiDance and Movement Center,880 Compton Road, Tap Class Ifor ages 5-9. $36 a month; orwill be pro-rated at the time ofregistration if needed. Regis-tration required. 521-8462.Springfield Township.Ballet 1, 6:30-7 p.m., CincinnatiDance and Movement Center,880 Compton Road, $36 amonth or pro-rated at time ofregistration if needed. Regis-tration required. 521-8462.Springfield Township.

Senior CitizensQuilting, 9:30-11:30 a.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Make blankets todonate to Project Linus andChildren’s Hospital. For seniors.385-3780. Green Township.Exercise toMusic, 10-11 a.m.,Green Township Senior Center,$1. 385-3780. Green Township.Ceramics, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, 385-3780.Green Township.Stability Ball, 9:30-10 a.m.,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, Bring yourown stability ball and work onstrengthening your core. Forseniors. 385-3780. Green Town-ship.Euchre, 12:30-3:30 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Open game. Forseniors. 385-3780. Green Town-ship.Pattern Dancing, 1-2:30 p.m.,Green Township Senior Center,3620 Epley Road, Learn linedancing and have fun whileexercising. For seniors. Free.385-3780. Green Township.Billiards, 1:30-3:30 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Free. 385-3780.Green Township.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

Exercise ClassesFitBodz, 6:30 p.m., ColerainTownship Community Center,$8. 741-8802; www.coleraintw-p.org. Colerain Township.

Senior CitizensPinochle, Noon-4 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 385-3780. Green Township.Vintage Artist, 9 a.m.-12:30p.m., Green Township SeniorCenter, 3620 Epley Road, Placefor artists to paint together.Beginners welcome. Bring ownsupplies. For seniors. Free.385-3780. Green Township.Knitting and Crocheting,10-11:30 a.m., Green TownshipSenior Center, 3620 Epley Road,Knit or crochet blankets forProject Linus. Yarn provided. Forseniors. Free. 385-3780. GreenTownship.Wood Carving, 1-3 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Carve with Green-wood Chippers. Many differenttechniques used: relief carvings,scroll saw, figurines. Bring owntools. For seniors. Free. 385-3780. Green Township.Wii Bowling, 2-3:30 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Free. 385-3780.Green Township.Zumba Gold, 1-2 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 3620Epley Road, Modified Zumba forseniors with standing and chairparticipation. For seniors. $3,$25 for 10 classes. Presented byDeb’s Fitness Party. 205-5064;www.debsfitnessparty.com.Green Township.

THURSDAY, DEC. 20BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

CivicHamilton County Park DistrictBoard of Park CommissionersMeeting, 1 p.m., Winton

Woods, 10245 Winton Road,Free. Presented by HamiltonCounty Park District. 521-7275;www.greatparks.org. Spring-field Township.

Community DanceRoyal Rounds, 2-4 p.m., Green-hills Community Church Presby-terian, $6. 929-2427. Greenhills.

Dance ClassesSquare Dance Lessons, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Forest Park ActivityCenter, $5. 232-1303. ForestPark.

Exercise ClassesZumba Fitness Classes, 7 p.m.,Colerain Township CommunityCenter, $5. 741-8802; www.col-eraintwp.org. Colerain Town-ship.

Senior CitizensExercise toMusic, 10-11 a.m.,Green Township Senior Center,$1. 385-3780. Green Township.Open Bridge, 12:15-3:15 p.m.,Green Township Senior Center,Free. 385-3780. Green Township.

FRIDAY, DEC. 21BenefitsFill the Truck Initiative, 8a.m.-4 p.m., Clippard Industries,Free. 250-4116; www.fillthe-truck.org. Colerain Township.

Community DanceCincy A2, 8-10:30 p.m., TrinityLutheran Church, 1553 KinneyAve., Advanced level squaredance club for experienceddancers. Family friendly. $5.Presented by SouthwesternOhio/Northern Kentucky SquareDancers Federation. 929-2427.Mount Healthy.

Farmers MarketLettuce Eat Well Winter Farm-ers Market, 3-7 p.m., CheviotUnited Methodist Church, Free.661-1792; www.lewfm.org.Cheviot.

Health / WellnessMobile Mammography Unit, 7a.m.-3:30 p.m., Kroger Finney-town, 8421Winton Road, Fif-teen-minute screenings. Costvaries per insurance plan. Fi-nancial assistance available forqualified applicants. Appoint-ment required. Presented byMercy Health Partners. 686-3310; www.e-mercy.com. Fin-neytown.

On Stage - DanceThe Nutcracker, 7 p.m., St.Xavier High School, 600 W.North Bend Road, PerformanceCenter. Holiday ballet featuringmarching toy soldiers, waltzingsnowflakes, mischievous miceand score of Tchaikovsky. $20,$15 ages 11 and under andseniors ages 65 and up. Highschool and college students withproper ID can purchase $12tickets for Friday show only.Presented by Ballet TheatreMidwest. 520-2334; www.ballet-theatremidwest.com. Finney-town.

Senior CitizensPinochle, Noon-4 p.m., GreenTownship Senior Center, 385-3780. Green Township.Arthritis Exercise, Noon-12:45p.m., Green Township SeniorCenter, Free. 385-3780. GreenTownship.Taking Off Pounds Sensibly,10-11 a.m., Green TownshipSenior Center, $28 annual fee.385-3780. Green Township.

SATURDAY, DEC. 22Community DanceSkirts and Shirts SquareDance Club, 7:30-10 p.m., JohnWesley United MethodistChurch, 1927 W. Kemper Road,Western Style Square DanceClub for experienced square andround dancers. Plus level squaresand up to phase III round danc-ing. $5. Presented by Southwest-ern Ohio/Northern KentuckySquare Dancers Federation.929-2427; www.sonksdf.com.Springfield Township.

Exercise ClassesZumba Kids Dance FitnessClass, 10:30-11:15 a.m., GreatCommission Bible Church, $4.851-4946; DebsFitnessParty.com.Mount Healthy.

Holiday - ChristmasEasy-to-Make, Last MinuteGift Ideas, 12:30 p.m., MonfortHeights Branch Library, Free.369-4472; www.cincinnatilibra-ry.org.Monfort Heights.

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Dr. Robert R. Burgerof Green Township is theNotre Dame Club’s 2013Exemplar Award winner.

The award will be pre-sented to1981graduate ofNotre Dame at the club’sannual CommunionBreakfast Sunday, Dec.30, at St. Xavier HighSchool, beginning withMass at 9 a.m. and fol-lowed by a buffet break-fast.

The Mass will be cele-brated by the Rev. PaulKollman, C.S.C.

The event is open tothe public and breakfasttickets may be purchasedon the club’s website(www.ndcincy.com).Prices are $10 for adults,$5 for children 6-12 andfree for children ages 5and under or members ofa religious order. For res-ervations or more infor-mation, contact DonKarches at [email protected] or 513-317-5836.

The Notre Dame Clubof Greater Cincinnati es-tablished the ExemplarAward in 2002 to promoteandhold up as an examplethe achievements of indi-viduals who have provid-ed exemplary, life- longservice to humanity in amanner consistent withthe ideals of the Univer-sity of Notre Dame.

Burger is with BeaconOrthopaedics & SportsMedicine and has been amember of its executivecommittee since joiningthe practice in 1997, andserved as president from2004- 2009. He has alsobeen orthopaedic surgerysection head at Good Sa-maritan Hospital since

2005. Inaddition tohis prac-tice, healsoserves asthe medi-cal direc-tor andhead teamphysicianfor XavierUniver-sity and isone of theteam phy-siciansand ortho-paedicconsult-

ants for the CincinnatiReds and the College ofMount St. Joseph.

Burger also providescoverage for La SalleHigh School and the Cin-cinnati Steam baseballteam.

He graduated from LaSalle in 1977 and earned abachelor’s degree magnacum laude in chemical en-gineering from NotreDame in 1981 before at-tending the University ofCincinnati College ofMedicine. He made theNotreDamefootball teamas a walk-on player hisfreshman year andplayed all four years,eventually earning a fullathletic scholarship andFirst Team Academic All-American honors. HewasnamedaNationalFootballFoundation Scholar-Ath-lete and won the NFF’sDolly Cohen Award forthe nation’s top footballscholar-athlete, amongmany other honors.

Bob and his wife, Feli-cia, are the parents offour sons.

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It’s interesting howyour requests coincidewith current events. The

Ruth LyonsChildren’sFund is infull swingand I’vehad severalrequestsfor herfamouscoffeecake.It’s a spe-cial way tohonor this

woman who has had such apositive impact on us.

Ruth Lyons’coffeecake

I have a few versions ofthis recipe, but this is theone that’s supposed to beRuth’s original. I’ve madethis twice now, once fol-lowing the recipe belowand once making it with21⁄4 cups flour, 11⁄2 tea-spoons cinnamon, 1⁄4 tea-spoon salt, 1⁄2 cup oil, 2teaspoons vanilla and novinegar. (The vinegar isused to “sour” the milk,making it more like but-termilk). I made a thinicing to glaze it, as well.The difference betweenthe two was slight. This isa straightforward, simplecoffeecake. If you want aricher tasting one with athicker cinnamon topping,I have my holiday over-night coffeecake on myblog.

1 cup sugar1 cup brown sugar, darkpreferred

21⁄2 cups flour1 teaspoon cinnamon1 teaspoon nutmeg1 teaspoon salt3⁄4 cup oil1 teaspoon vinegar1 cupmilk1 egg, lightly beaten1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350degrees. Mix the first sixingredients. Add oil andstir until crumbly. Re-serve and set aside 3⁄4 cupfor topping. Add vinegarto milk, then add to sugarmixture. Add egg andsoda; mix well. Pour into asprayed 13-inch by 9-inchpan. Sprinkle with top-ping. Bake 30 minutes.

Amish friendshipbread/cake

Check out my blog forthe starter and a goodrecipe.

My best clone ofWilliams-Sonomapeppermint bark

You didn’t think I couldlet the holidays go bywithout sharing yet anoth-er version, did you? Someof you have had trouble inthe past with the barkshattering/separating.That happens somewhateven with the purchasedbark, but this recipe keepsthat to a minimum, if atall. Out of all the recipesI’ve made for barkthroughout the years,using different meltingmethods and chocolates,I’ve come back to myclassic way of teachingstudents. By the way,check out the photo. Canyou tell which is mine andwhich is Williams-Sono-ma’s? I used Kroger realsemi-sweet and whitechocolate morsels.

2 cups semi sweet chocolatechips, divided into 11⁄4 cupand 3⁄4 cupmeasures

11⁄2 teaspoons peppermintextract, divided into 1teaspoon and 1⁄2 teaspoonmeasures

23⁄4 cups white chocolatechips, divided into 21⁄4 cupand 1⁄2 cupmeasures

1⁄4 cup crushed peppermintcandy

Line a cookie sheetwith one piece of foil,about 10 inches by 12 inch-es. Or do the same in a13-inch by 9-inch pan.

Put 11⁄4 cups semi-sweetchocolate in heat proofbowl. Set over a saucepanthat has 1 inch of steamingwater, making sure bowldoes not touch water. (Thisis a makeshift doubleboiler). Heat should beturned to low. Stir untilchocolate is just aboutmelted, then remove bowlfrom pan and stir 3⁄4cupmore in rest of semisweetchocolate, a bit at a time,until all is melted. If nec-essary, put the bowl backon the pan to help melt. Ifthere’s any moisture onthe bottom of the bowl,wipe it dry. Stir in 1 tea-spoon of the extract andpour onto foil, spreadingin even layer. Tap pan oncounter to remove any airbubbles. Let sit at roomtemperature until just

about set, anywhere from15-20 minutes. When youpress your finger into thechocolate a very slightindentation will remain.

Put 21⁄4 cups white choc-olate in clean bowl andrepeat process for melt-ing, stirring in remaining1⁄2 cup chips after remov-ing bowl from pan. Stir in1⁄2 teaspoon extract. Pourover chocolate layer andspread.

Sprinkle with candy. Ifnecessary, gently pressinto chocolate. Let set atroom temperature untilcompletely firm.

Peel bark off foil andbreak into pieces. Store,covered, at room temper-ature up to a month or so.If it’s extremely warm inthe house, store, covered,in refrigerator and bringto room temperature be-fore eating.

Clarification forMoist & FlavorfulRoast Beeftechnique

The initial browning ofthe beef should be on topof the stove.

Rita Nader Heikenfeld is anherbalist, educator and au-thor. Email her at [email protected] “Rita’s kitchen” in thesubject line. Call 513-248-7130,ext. 356.

Holiday recipes: Ruth Lyons’coffecake, peppermint bark

RitaHeikenfeldRITA’S KITCHEN

One of these is Williams-Sonoma’s peppermint bark, one is Rita’s clone. Which do youthink is which? THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD.

Rita answers several reader requests for Ruth Lyons’famous coffecake. THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD.

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In the spring of 2012, JoeGerth had just about everythinghe always wanted. He was teach-ing history – his passion – at a re-spected high school. He had justbeen honored as the state’s “Out-standing Teacher of AmericanHistory” by the Massachusettschapter of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution. He wasliving inwhat he calls “Americanhistory’s backyard” and he wasrecently married.

There was just one thing. Hemissed his hometown.

Gerth, 31, knewhewas in trou-ble when he hung the Ohio state“flag” in his classroom and keptfinding himself telling his NewEngland students that “it’s not aflag, it’s a double pennant!” Hereminded them often that Ohioproduced the second-greatestnumber of American presidents.But he really knew it might betime for a change when he toldhis students to go home andcheck their toothpaste, assuringthem it was probably made by aCincinnati company.

Then the phone rang. The his-tory department head at RogerBacon High School – one ofGerth’s former teachers – had anopening. A legendary teacher,one of Gerth’s favorites, wasleaving. Would he be interestedin moving away from his Massa-chusetts success to take a job forwhat Gerth calls “significantlyless” pay?

There are only three types ofCincinnati natives. There arethose who never leave. There arethose who leave and never comeback. And there are those wholeave but feel compelled to re-

turn. Gerth was about to find outwhich kind he was.

Talking to students,changing his mind

Roger Bacon is not the fanci-esthighschool in town.Thebuild-ing in St. Bernard is lovely, but itis old and has no air conditioning.

“There is racial and ethnic di-versity. There is economic diver-sity. It is co-ed,” Gerth said. “Thestudents also have diversity inwhat their talents are.”

He remembered his days atRoger Bacon and the ways histeachers challenged him to dobetter work. He recalled the les-sons on humility and the Francis-can values of faith and reason.

At his school in Massachu-setts, Gerth was doing goodwork.

But if he was going to try tomake the world a better place,one student at a time, maybe heshould do it at home.

Roger Bacon was not justGerth’s school, it was also theschool of his brothers and sisters,his father and uncles.

After the phone call with hisformer teacher, Gerth talked tohis wife, Marta.

For Gerth it felt like a conver-sation he once hadwith his fatherwhen he was graduating fromhigh school. They were sitting ata Skyline Chili and Gerth told hisfather he wanted to be a historymajor at college. He was not ex-pecting this to go well.

“I still remember sitting un-der the photo of Oscar Robert-son,” Gerth said. “And then mydad said tome, ‘If that’s what youwant to do, then do it.’ ”

His father said that if Gerthwanted to be a history major, he

should expect to be either a law-yer or a teacher.

Neither sounded just right toGerth, so after graduating fromMiami University in 2004, he ap-plied for graduate schools so hecould eventually work at a mu-seum. “I didn’t want to keep thisinformation in my head,” Gerthsaid. “I wanted to share it.”

In the year between collegeand graduate school, however,Gerth worked in the admissionsdepartment at ThomasMore Col-lege in Crestview Hills. In thatjob he routinely spoke to highschool students and he wasstruck by how many good stu-dents were deeply affected bytheir best teachers.

In the fall of 2005, Gerth wentto the University of Massachu-setts to pursue a Ph.D. in history.Buthekept thinkingof thosehighschool students. And his highschool teachers. He began torealize he was not following hispassion.

In 2006, he switched pro-grams, and began to pursue amaster’s in education.

He student-taught for a yearand began to believe hemade theright choice. Then he began hiscareer at Seekonk High Schooland knew he was right. And ev-erything was great – until thephone rang – and Gerth and hiswife decided to come home.

A relaxed butchallenging method

On the first day of school atRoger Bacon Gerth walked intothe former classroom of one ofhis favorite teachers, Jim Uhrig.

Uhrig was an accidental rolemodel for Gerth. Uhrig was aRoger Bacon graduate who cameback to teach at his old highschool. He taught there for 42years.

On a recent Wednesday after-noon Gerth was in his second-floor classroom teaching a U.S.history class to a room full of 20juniors. Walking among the stu-dents, they discussed whetherPaul Revere’s 1770 engraving ofthe Boston Massacre was propa-ganda.

Gerth’s teachingmethod is re-

laxed but vigorous. Students’ an-swers were challenged and re-fined. It felt more like a bunch ofpeople just talking about historythan instruction.

Gerth reminded his studentsthat propaganda was defined as“the spreading of ideas, informa-tion or rumor thatwill either helpor injure a cause.”

They talked about the imageand the sneering faces of theBritish soldiers and the innocentappearances of the colonists.

Then they moved on to thesubject of geopolitical battlesamong the original states andhow that shaped the landscapestill in place today.

Finally, Gerth handed backthe results of a test. This was adifficult test with questions like“Which event lead to an in-creased use of slave labor in theChesapeake region?” (The an-swer: Bacon’s Rebellion by in-dentured servants in Virginia in1675, which ultimately resultedin land owners turning to slaveryfor labor.)

The results were not good. Heasked the students howhard theyhad worked, how much they hadstudied.

“You need to be honest withyourself. Did you try your hard-est? Did you give yourself thechance to really learn this? Didyou do all the reading?” The stu-dents looked down and said theyhad not.

After the class he said he re-membered sitting in one of thesesame seats when he was a stu-dent. He rememberedwhat a badtest felt like.Andherememberedwhat it was like when a teacherrespected him enough to demandhis best.

“Whenyou see a student grow,when you see a student take thechance to work hard, it is so ful-filling,” Gerth said. “You can seethemdogreat things. It’swonder-ful. It’s inspiring.”

Who ever said you can’t go home again?

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Joe Gerth graduated from Roger Bacon High School in 2000. He wantshis students to become critical thinkers so they don’t just memorizefacts.

Roger Bacon alumnus returns to the halls ofhis alma mater to pursue his passion forhistory, helping students succeed

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For the third time in asmany years, Frame USA isparticipating in the Fill theTruck program, helpingprovide local charities thegoods they need to helptheir clients.

The campaign started inDecemebr 2010 when DanRegenold, the CEO ofFrame USA, filled a semi-truck full of personal careitems for TheHealing Cen-ter in Springdale, with thehelp from vendors, retailstore customers, and thecommunity. Last year, theprogram expanded aroundthe Interstate 275 loop.

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The Hatton Foundationhas awarded Beech AcresParentingCenter a $20,000grant for Beech Acres’unique strength-based andgoal-oriented therapeuticmentoring program thatnurtures success in someof Hamilton County’syouth at greatest risk foracademic failure and de-linquency.

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Beech Acres Therapeu-ticMentoringservesabout100 youth each year inHamilton County who areages 7 to17, andwhohaveamental health diagnosis.Many of them are also in-volved in the child wel-fare, mental health or ju-venile justice systems.Contracted therapeuticmentors are professionals

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Beech Acres also re-ceived a $2,500 grant fromthe Cincinnati RotaryFoundation toward theTherapeutic MentoringProgram.

Beech Acres ParentingCenter supports parentsand caregivers. With amission of inspiring andequipping today’s parents,families, and communitiesto raise capable, caring,contributing children,Beech Acres providedover 17,000 services forchildren, parents and edu-cators across greater Cin-

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Joseph FerrarelliJoseph R. Ferrarelli, 84, Green

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children David (Denise), Mike(Karen) Ferrarelli, Kim (Jim) Aug;four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Preceded indeath by brother Angelo Ferra-relli.

Serviceswere Dec. 5 atDalbert, Wood-ruff & IsenogleFuneral Home.Memorials tothe CheviotElks or Hospiceof Cincinnati.

Dennis FrayDennis L. Fray, 60, Colerain

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Incidents/reportsAggravatedmenacing2672 W. North Bend Road, Nov.25.Aggravated robbery5324 Eastknoll Court, Nov. 28.5488 Bahama Terrace, Nov. 30.Assault5434 Colerain Ave., Nov. 26.5869 Renee Court, Nov. 24.6128 Hamilton Ave., Nov. 30.Breaking and entering8130 Daly Road, Nov. 28.Burglary1187 Cedar Ave., Nov. 29.1357 W. North Bend Road, Nov.26.1500 Groesbeck Road, Nov. 26.2343 W. North Bend Road, Nov.27.5488 Bahama Terrace, Nov. 23.5887 Monfort Hills, Nov. 28.6032 Connecticut, Nov. 26.6373 Heitzler Ave., Nov. 27.Criminaldamaging/endangering1441Hillcrest Road, Nov. 29.1512 W. North Bend Road, Nov.29.4976 Hawaiian Terrace, Nov. 23.5057 Hawaiian Terrace, Nov. 24.Domestic violenceReported on Hillvista Lane, Nov.23.Reported on Kirby Avenue, Nov.27.Robbery1532 W. North Bend Road, Nov.25.1532 W. North Bend Road, Nov.25.Theft1641 Larch Ave., Nov. 28.2446 Kipling Ave., Nov. 27.4510 Colerain Ave., Nov. 26.5530 Hamilton Ave., Nov. 27.5823 Hamilton Ave., Nov. 23.6031 Connecticut Court, Nov. 24.6127 Hamilton Ave., Nov. 29.6210 Center Hill, Nov. 26.6610 S. Oak Knoll Drive, Nov. 23.7945 Cherrywood Court, Nov.27.

COLERAIN TOWNSHIPArrests/citationsCecelia Power, 45, 3271 RockerDrive, aggravated burglary at3271 Rocker Drive, Nov. 14.Juvenile male, 16, truancy at8801 Cheviot Road, Nov. 14.Natasha Carlton, 41, 2781W.Galbraith Road, failure to sendchild to school at 8801 CheviotRoad, Nov. 14.Juvenile male, 16, truancy at10761 Pippin Road, Nov. 14.Mary Chidlow, 41, 11727 Ketter-ing Drive, failure to send childto school at 10761 Pippin Road,Nov. 14.Juvenile male, 15, drug pos-session at 8801 Cheviot Road,Nov. 14.Juvenile male, 15, drug pos-session at 8801 Cheviot Road,Nov. 14.Donna Farmer, 21, 846 Oaks St.,theft at 8451 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 14.Amanda Shafer, 37, 7955 PippinRoad, failure to send child toschool at 3242 Banning Road,Nov. 15.DavonWilliams, 19, 2372 Blue-lark Drive, theft at 9531 Col-erain Ave., Nov. 15.Alex Hagerman, 28, 6934 Terry-lynn Lane, open containerprohibited, drug possession at5633 Old Blue Rock Road, Nov.16.James Spitznagel, 26, 9083Zoellner Road, operatingvehicle intoxicated at 8428Coghill Lane, Nov. 16.

Shannon Turner, 30, 3179 Stef-fens Ave., theft at 9505 Col-erain Ave., Nov. 16.Michael McCray, 32, 1379 BiloxiDrive, drug possession, traffick-ing in drugs at 10240 ColerainAve., Nov. 16.James Hazel, 28, 9647 Sacra-mento St., drug possession,trafficking in drugs at 10240Colerain Ave., Nov. 16.Ashley Ast, 25, 8407 PippinRoad, possession of drug para-phernalia at 8407 Pippin Road,Nov. 17.Danny Harris, 49, 6260 ZoellnersPlace, theft at 3681 StonecreekDrive, Nov. 17.Kevin Wydner, 27, 3507 NiagaraSt., carrying concealed weaponsat 7960 Colerain Ave., Nov. 17.Brandon Hale, 28, 4788 Sha-dycrest Drive, theft at 8451Colerain Ave., Nov. 17.Faye Graham, 50, 2930 JonroseAve., aggravated robbery at2930 Jonrose Ave., Nov. 17.Trina Smith, 39, 2964 HighForest, robbery at 2964 HighForest Ave., Nov. 17.Briana McDonald, 22, 2994Regal Lane, theft at 9451 Col-erain Ave., Nov. 19.Lisa Mastin, 32, 8256 SandyLane, robbery at 8451 ColerainAve., Nov. 18.Juvenile female, 17, robbery at8451 Colerain Ave., Nov. 18.David Lewis, 27, 5474 BahamaTerrace, possessing drug abuseat 9000 Pippin Road, Nov. 19.Dominick Greer, 32, 11036 Quail-ridge, open container prohib-ited at 8500 Pippin Road, Nov.16.Matthew Adams, 33, 5641Carlsbad Court, theft at 3711Stone Creek Blvd., Nov. 20.Keith Lewis, 42, 11965 Wincan-ton Drive, theft at 9505 Col-erain Ave., Nov. 20.Cameron Morton, 20, 5106Madison Road, criminal damag-ing at 3295 Erie Ave., Nov. 20.Teresa Dryer, 28, 228 S. WayneAve., theft at 3711 Stone CreekBlvd., Nov. 20.Maiya Carrington, 18, 3456Statewood, menacing at 8801Cheviot Road, Nov. 20.Christopher Dumas, 27, 3868 St.Catherine Place, drug pos-session at 6400 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 19.

Incidents/reportsArsonFlag set on fire at residence at3177 Lapland Drive, Nov. 14.AssaultVictim reported at 3018 Comp-ton Road, Jan. 18.Victim struck at 10361 Fay Lane,Nov. 14.Reports of people shooting ateach other at 2445 Bluelark,Nov. 17.Victim struck at 7625 ColerainAve., Nov. 19.Bad checksVictim reported at 7641 ColerainAve., Nov. 3.Breaking and enteringGarage entered at 3154 LaplandDrive, Nov. 13.Attempt made at Blue RockRoad, Nov. 13.BurglaryResidence entered and heatpump of unknown value re-moved at 2876 SprucewayDrive, Nov. 12.

Residence entered at 2484Wenning Road, Nov. 15.Residence entered and televisionof unknown value removed at2373 Merriway Lane, Nov. 15.Residence entered and propertyof unknown value removed at2550 Ontario Street, Nov. 16.Residence entered and propertyremoved from residence at2473 Schon Drive, Nov. 19.Criminal damagingFrames damaged at 3151Hyan-nis Drive, Nov. 6.ForgeryVictim reported forged check at9690 Colerain Ave., Oct. 31.Identity theftVictim reported at 2578 AlturaDrive, Nov. 6.MenacingVictim threatened at 8801Cheviot Road, Nov. 20.Misuse of credit cardVictim reported at 9321 Lor-alinda, Nov. 14.RobberyVictim reported at 8451 ColerainAve., Nov. 18.TheftWindow damaged and purseand contents of unknown valueremoved at 8920 Cheviot Road,Nov. 14.Vehicle removed at 4495 DryRidge, Nov. 14.Vehicle entered and pressurewasher removed at 3461 JosephRoad, Nov. 13.Victim reported at 10643 InvictaCircle, Nov. 15.Merchandise of unknown valueremoved at 9775 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 17.$250 removed at 10240 ColerainAve., Nov. 17.Wallet and contents of un-known value removed frompurse at 9501 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 17.$58 in merchandise removed at8451 Colerain Ave., Nov. 17.Merchandise of unknown valueremoved at 8451 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 18.

Medication of unknown valueremoved at 8407 Pippin Road,Nov. 19.Reported at 10220 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 19.Wallet and contents of un-known value removed at 8500Pippin Road, Nov. 12.

GREEN TOWNSHIPArrests/citationsJuvenile, 16, falsification at 3710Monfort Heights Drive, Nov. 16.Charles D. Roberts, 32, 4469Colerain Ave. No. 3, drugparaphernalia at 2859 DiehlRoad, Nov. 17.Kenneth B. Spurgeon, 49, 5529Raceview, aggravated menac-ing at 5529 Raceview, Nov. 17.Peter C. Denuzio, 27, 3195 BlueRock Road, possession of mari-juana at 5984 Cheviot Road,Nov. 18.Robert J. Forbes, 62, 3873 Tower,building code violation at 3873Tower, Nov. 18.Alexandria M. Clayton, 18, 373Robin Lane, theft at 6580Harrison Ave., Nov. 19.Delfon Blair, 25, 1417 W. NorthBend Road, criminal trespass at5444 North Bend Road, Nov. 19.Joseph P. Adams, 26, 860 Nebras-ka, theft at South Cove andSouth Road, Nov. 20.Daron R. Ard, 45, no addresslisted, theft at South Cove andSouth Road, Nov. 20.David Welch, 43, 9522 Wood-land Hills, possession of drugabuse instruments and drugparaphernalia at 6500 HarrisonAve., Nov. 21.Walter D. Hayes, 32, 820 SuireAve., theft and criminal trespassat 6300 Glenway Ave., Nov. 21.Howard L. Moore, 45, 6712Harrison Ave., theft at 6550Harrison Ave., Nov. 22.

Incidents/reportsAssaultVictim reported being assaultedby five unknown suspects atSurrey Avenue and GlenwayAvenue, Nov. 17.Suspect struck victim in the faceat 3519 West Fork Road, Nov.20.Breaking and enteringAir conditioner and copper pipes

stolen from home at 3976 RaceRoad, Nov. 17.Restroom ventilation paneldamaged, four light globesbroken and four patio lightfixtures broken at GeneralCuster’s at 3325 WestbourneDrive, Nov. 19.BurglaryTwo bracelets and prescriptionmedicine stolen from home at5183 Rybolt Road, Nov. 20.Purse and contents stolen fromvehicle parked inside garage at3166 Lancer Lane, Nov. 21.Criminal damagingChristmas lights cut on home at2129 Rollingridge, Nov. 18.Delivery truck and exterior wallspray-painted with graffiti atColerain Furniture at 5915Colerain Ave., Nov. 18.Rear bumper and hatch doordamaged on vehicle at 3382Moonridge Drive, Nov. 20.Three sections of wooden fencedamaged at 5939 Colerain Ave.,Nov. 20.Air conditioning unit damagedat vacant business at 6525Glenway Ave., Nov. 20.Window broken on vehicle at4417 Bridgetown Road, Nov. 20.Fence line, three light fixtures,two boats, wooden bench, airconditioning unit and concretestatue damaged at GeneralCuster’s at 3325 WestbourneDrive, Nov. 20.Concrete and wooden benchdamaged behind home at 3390Bellehaven, Nov. 21.Rear window broken on vehicleat 5541 Raceview, Nov. 22.Criminal mischiefEgg thrown on vehicle at 6062Benken Lane, Nov. 20.Domestic disputeArgument between spouses atRace Road, Nov. 16.Argument between grandpar-

ent and grandchild at ReemelinRoad, Nov. 17.Argument between two womenat Jessup Road, Nov. 18.Argument between man andwoman at Colerain Avenue,Nov. 19.MenacingSuspect threatened to harmvictim at North Bend Road andInterstate 74, Nov. 19.TheftMoney and a pocket knife stolenfrom one vehicle; and sunglass-es and mace stolen from secondvehicle at 5706 Biscayne, Nov.16.Debit card stolen from vehicle at4296 Runningfawn, Nov. 18.Three pairs of underwear andfour women’s wallets stolenfrom Dollar General at 5700Harrison Ave., Nov. 17.Digital camera, money andashtray stolen from vehicle at3326 Boca Lane, Nov. 17.Suspect attempted to steal onecase of beer and two bottles ofwine from Kroger at 3491North Bend Road, Nov. 17.Money, backpack, assortedfishing equipment and a ham-mer/drill combination toolstolen from vehicle at 5556Fairwood Road, Nov. 17.Money stolen from vehicle at5573 Fairwood Road, Nov. 17.Two packs of T-shirts stolen fromDollar General at 5700 HarrisonAve., Nov. 18.Suspect attempted to steal a cartfilled with toys from Aldi at5740 Harrison Ave., Nov. 18.Extension ladder stolen fromhome’s carport at 1699 Brunner-wood, Nov. 18.Vehicle stolen from in front ofhome at 5327 Timberchase

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charged with offenses. The information is a matter ofpublic record and does not imply guilt or innocence.To contact your local police department:

» Colerain Township: Chief Daniel P. Meloy, 245-6600» Green Township: Chief Bart West, 574-0007; vandalismhotline 574-5323» Hamilton County: Sheriff Simon Leis, 825-1500» Springfield Township: Chief David Heimpold, 729-1300

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Court, Nov. 18.Apple iPod and a credit cardstolen from vehicle at 4459Hickory Bark Court, Nov. 18.Groceries, digital camera andmoney stolen from one vehicle;money and GPS stolen fromsecond vehicle; money, twotarps, assorted hand tools anddigital camera stolen from thirdvehicle; and money, two impactdrills, hammer drill, angle drill,circular saw, five batteries,assorted hand tools and seventool clips stolen from fourthvehicle at 5486 WhisperingWay, Nov. 18.Baby stroller stolen from vehicleat 5400 Douglas Fir, Nov. 18.Money, soccer bag, socceruniform and assorted soccerequipment stolen from vehicleat 5541Whispering Way, Nov.18.GPS stolen from vehicle at 5404Bluepine Drive, Nov. 18.DVD player stolen from vehicleat 5522 Whispering Way, Nov.18.Money, two aluminum pans andassorted clothing items stolenfrom vehicle at 5474 Whis-pering Way, Nov. 18.Portable video game playerstolen from Dollar General at5700 Harrison Ave., Nov. 18.Two pairs of sunglasses, phonecharger and a sweatshirt stolenfrom vehicle at 5942 Cedaridge,Nov. 18.Driver’s license and debit cardstolen from vehicle at 5318Timberchase Court, Nov. 18.GPS, Apple iPod, money, driver’slicense, two gift cards and anATM card stolen from vehicle at5409 Bluepine Drive, Nov. 18.Jacket stolen from vehicle at5403 Bluepine Drive, Nov. 18.Money, Social Security card anddriver’s license stolen fromvictim’s purse at Speedway at6537 Glenway Ave., Nov. 19.Pair of glasses and an Apple iPadstolen from vehicle at 5476Karen Ave., Nov. 19.Money stolen from victim in anonline scam at 6228 CheviotRoad No. 4, Nov. 19.GPS stolen from vehicle at 4364Harrison Ave., Nov. 19.

Speaker, amplifier and backpackstolen from one vehicle; and asubwoofer and amplifier stolenfrom second vehicle at 3713Meadowview Drive, Nov. 20.Debit card stolen from victimwhen lost at Rave MotionPictures at 5870 Harrison Ave.,Nov. 20.GPS, tool bag, two electricscrewdrivers and 50 assortedhand tools stolen from vehicleat 3759 Meadowview Drive,Nov. 20.Purse and contents stolen fromvictim when left behind atMcDonald’s at 6590 HarrisonAve., Nov. 21.Two rings and two personalchecks stolen from home; andthe checks were later forgedand cashed at 2243 Sable Drive,Nov. 21.Computer and a chair stolenfrom home at 5395 Lee’s Cross-ing Drive No. 2, Nov. 21.Unauthorized use of vehicleSuspect took victim’s vehiclewithout permission at 6740Towering Ridge Way, Nov. 17.

SPRINGFIELDTOWNSHIPArrests/citationsCraig Wellman, 44, 3075 BuellRoad, criminal damaging at11952 Hamilton Ave., Nov. 18.Michael James, 27, 906 EscalonRoad, domestic violence at 986Norbourne, Nov. 18.Richard Brown, 37, 9139 CherryBlossom, disorderly conduct,assault, Nov. 19.Gregory McClendon, 18, 1718Lakenoll Drive, disorderlyconduct at 8101Hamilton Ave.,Nov. 19.

Incidents/reportsTheftTools valued at $1550 removedat 275 and Hamilton Ave., Jan.9.Credit cards of unknown valueremoved at 823 Jabino Court,Nov. 19.Air conditioning unit valued at$4,000 removed at FlemingRoad, Nov. 21.Reported at 8764 Munsanto,Nov. 21.Reported at 8916 Fountainebleu,Nov. 20.

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The building is fin-ished, the ribbon was cutand in a month there willbenewresidents in theRe-serve on South Martin inMount Healthy, a Cincin-natiMetropolitanHousingAuthority senior livingcommunity.

Representatives fromtheHousingAuthority, thecity of Mount Healthy andadvocates for the housingproject addressed thecrowd at a ribbon cuttingceremony Wednesday,Dec. 5. and there was anopenhouseThursday,Dec.6, for people to tour andlearnmore about the hous-ing project.

“This was our largestproject in terms of dollars

inHamiltonCounty,” chiefoperating officer ReemaRuberg said.

The project cost nearly$12millionandwasfundedwith $10 million from thesecond phase of a neigh-

borhood stabilization pro-gram grant with the re-maining funds a result of a4 percent tax credit, shesaid.

The 60-unit buildingserves adults age 55 and

older who have an adjust-ed annual income less than$59,900 for a single personrenting and less than$68,450 for two-person oc-cupancy.

The Reserve on SouthMartin sits on a lot where15 blighted propertiesonce stood. Mayor JoeRoetting said the vacantapartment buildings werea high crime area in thecitywithmany police runsfor drugs and violence.

“We’re just so happywith thepartnership of thecity and CMHA to developthe city of Mount Healthy.It’s just a good fit for thecommunity,” Roettingsaid. “We’re excited to seewhat this brings.”

There is a waiting listfor the building.

Senior housing in MountHealthy opening soonByMonica [email protected]

The Reserve on South Martin was ready for guests after, from left, Assistant Hamilton County Administrator JefferyAloutto, District Director for U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown Rachel Miller, CMHA Commissioner WilliamMyles, CMHA BoardChairman Pete Witte, Mount Healthy Mayor Joe Roetting, CMHA Executive Director Gregory Johnson, U.S.Department of HUD representative James Cunningham, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing representative HalKeller and Ohio Housing Finance Agency representative Guy Ford cut the red ribbon. MONICA BOYLSON/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Mount Healthy Mayor Joe Roetting addressed the crowdat the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Reserve on SouthMartin. MONICA BOYLSON/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

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