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To ensure Lovelandstays a destination forleisure and entertain-ment, city council ishoping to add a com-

munity entertainment districtin 2015.

During its work session onMarch 30, the Loveland citycouncil decided getting thecity a community entertain-ment district and drafting acomprehensive plan would betwo of its goals for 2015.

“We really have to startlooking strategically at how weachieve these things and whatwe want Loveland to look likein 20 years,” CouncilwomanPam Gross said.

Multiple members of coun-cil said the city getting a com-munity entertainment districtshould be a top priority.

City Manager Dave Kenne-dy said a community entertain-ment district must be a mini-mum of 20 acres and the dis-trict gets a liquor license foreach five acres. The districtmust also have a minimum of

$70 million ofdevelopment in-side it, accord-ing to the OhioRevised Code.

The commu-nity entertain-ment districtwill allow thecity to havemore D-5 liquorlicenses, which

allows restaurants and bars toserve individual drinks, at acheaper cost. A D-5 licensecosts about $2,350, accordingto the Ohio Revised Code.

“Next step would be to de-fine the boundaries. We arestill trying to see much moneythere is before we hit thebridge. It would be a signifi-cant benefit if we can come upwith the money,” Kennedysaid.

He added the $70 million ofdevelopment can include po-tential developments and thecost can start being calculatedfrom a set point. Kennedy saidthe city of Monroe, which hasbeen helping him with theprocess, started calculatingfrom 2009.

“I think this should be a toppriority. There has been somuch effort to put Lovelandforward as a hub for leisuretime and entertainment,” ViceMayor Mark Fitzgerald said.

The city is also consideringa revised open container lawthat would allow open contain-ers in certain parts of down-town Loveland.

Members of council alsosaid they would like the city todraft a comprehensive plan.The city has not had one since2002.

Councilman Rob Weisger-ber said a comprehensive panwould give the city an opportu-nity to enact “big picture”strategy for economic devel-opment and enact policychanges to the sidewalk pro-gram and the road resurfacingprogram.

“We need to look at it more.Everything stems from thecomprehensive plan,” Fitzger-ald said.

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Loveland is working to create a community entertainment district, which would allow the city to have moreliquor licenses at a cheaper cost. The boundaries have not been set, but Downtown Loveland will be included.

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Romantic comedy playedout in music and dancetake you back to 1985 as

the Loveland High School stu-dents present “The WeddingSinger” April 8-11.

Set in New Jersey 1985, withbig hair and shoulder pads,“wannabe rock star” RobbieHart (Aaron Marshall) is a wed-ding singer who just got left atthe altar. It’s bittersweet forMarshall, one of several Love-land High School seniors per-forming their last show beforegraduation, recreating the rolemade popular by Adam Sandlerin the “Wedding Singer” movie.

“I’ll try to do my very best,”he said. “I’ve never seen themovie because I didn’t want tobe Adam Sandler in this role.”

Marshall said he is usingsome of the vocal inflectionsfrom the Broadway production.This is not a natural for him, butdirection from Shawn Miller,without forcing the character,has been helpful to him. He hasto portray a wide-range of emo-tions from coolest guy, to bro-ken-hearted, angry, and deter-mined to make everyone’s wed-ding miserable. Then he meetsthe lively loveable waitress Ju-lia (Cameron DeVille), but dis-covers she is engaged to awealthy Wall Street hunknamed Glen (Peter Hoffman).

“I’m the bad guy. The guypeople are going to hate,” Hoff-man said. “Eventually they (Ju-lia and Robbie) fall in love. Theyrealize I’m the bad guy. ThenI’m out of the equation and they

end up together. That’s ‘TheWedding Singer.’”

Hoffman said the challengeis becoming a “genuinely mean”Glen. This will also be the lastperformance for him. He’s go-ing to miss it after years ofworking with Miller and assis-tant director Ginger Kroncke.Next up is college, but he’ll car-ry fond memories of theseshows with him to film school inCalifornia.

“We have a really talentedcast,” he said. “It’ll be a greatperformance.”

Cameron DeVille brings herlively personality and love forsong and dance to the role of Ju-lia. She was in “Shrek” last year,but also performs with theLoveland High School ShowChoir too. In her vision, Juliawants the man of her dreams,Prince Charming to come rideher off on a white horse.

“Oh my gosh I’m having somuch fun,” DeVille said. “I lovesinging and dancing.”

The opening and closingsong are her favorite. It’s thesame song, but completely dif-ferent situations. The openingis Robbie working at a weddingand he hasn’t even met Julia. Atthe end, they’re getting mar-ried. DeVille said the choreog-raphy of Jarad Voss is fun, chal-lenging, and very exciting toperform.

Senior Keegan Redslob isplaying a more prominent rolethan he has in the past as Rob-bie’s best friend Sammy. Morelines than ever offered a new

Spring means musicalas ‘Wedding Singer’comes to LHS stage

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About 80 Loveland High School students make up the cast, crew and pitorchestra for the spring production of “The Wedding Singer” at LovelandHigh School auditorium April 8-11.

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Loveland City Schoolsis looking for a way tocombat its damaged ten-nis courts.

Though the tenniscourts are beside Love-land High School and actas the home court for theschool’s tennis teams,they are part of BoikePark and are owned bythe city of Loveland.Loveland City Schools areonly responsible for pro-viding mats, nets andkeeping the courts lined.

Superintendent ChadHilliker said he met withCity Manager Dave Ken-

nedy and Loveland Ath-letic Boosters PresidentJeff Williams to discussthe courts.

“(Members of the city)are going to meet withsomeone from the United

States Tennis Associationand they are going to lookat the courts to see ifthere is some money orsomething they will beable to do to help,” Hillik-er said at the school board

meeting March 24. He said the district is

considering two tempor-ary solutions.

Hilliker said he hascontacted the LinderFamily Tennis Center, inMason across Interstate71 from Kings Island,about the boys team hav-ing their home matchesthere.

“It is close enough. It isa nice facility. They seemto be willing to help out. Ido believe there is goingto be a price involved,”Hilliker said.

Hilliker said if theboys are able to playthere, he will see aboutthe girls playing there.

Girls tennis plays in thefall.

“We have also talkedabout a temporary sur-face that we could put onit or a surface that wecould use to play on. It hasbeen discussed that may-be we put one tennis courtin place, see how it worksand if it is something thatis viable to put in there,”Hilliker said.

The district talked inAugust about getting newtennis courts at a schoolboard meeting. It was es-timated that new courtswould cost between$250,000 and $300,000.The courts would alsohave to be in a different

location because of theground being too saturat-ed from water. The courtsare on the lowest point ofthe 75-acre property thatincludes the high schooland Boike Park.

“We are down to justone court that is viable toplay on. We are kind of inemergency mode rightnow. But, I think we aregoing to get through it forour boys tennis team thisyear,” Hilliker said.

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Loveland City Schools is looking for a solution for damagedtennis courts before boys tennis starts in the spring.

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Best Feature Film, Au-dience Choice Award andBest Original MusicScore were awarded to“Polycarp,” the moviewritten by Jerica Henlineand directed by herbrother Joe Henline.These are very excitingresults for the brotherand sister filmmakingteam from Loveland.

It isn’t the Oscars atthe Academy Awards, butit is top honors at theChristian WorldviewFilm Festival in San Anto-nio in early March. Joejust turned 20, Jerica is22, but they’ve beenworking in the film indus-try since Joe was 15. Itstarted with an online mu-sic video competition fora film called “The Wid-ows Might.”

“We decided to enter amusic video,” Jerica said.“We won that competi-tion.”

Winning that national

competition led to a se-ries of events that landedthem an invitation towork on “Ace Wonder”with the film company.Jerica was 17 and Joe was15. It was their first expe-rience being on a film set.

“We were young,” shesaid. “We learned a lot. Itwas kind of like walkingin a foreign country. Itwas a totally differentworld we never experi-enced before. It was in-credible.”

As interns on the film,they learned everything

that goes into making afilm; how important ev-ery person and piece is.Home schooled, the twoyoungest children of fiveborn to Jerry and CarolHenline were gaining aneducation in filmmakingthat no school could offer.

The film tells the truestory of a young womangiving her life to stand upfor her faith. It wonawards at every film fes-tival where it was shownincluding Italy. By 2012Jerica said the idea ofPolycarp had already

come up. He was an earlyChristian martyr whowas burned and stabbedto death for refusing torenounce his faith inChrist and worship Cae-sar.

“I really did enjoy theidea of the young man(Germanicus) standingfor his faith,” Jerica said.

It was the same thingthat attracted her to LadyJane Grey. Not sure theywere ready to produce afeature length film, theyplanned a series of short-er films about Polycarp.Then they went to workon “Beyond the Mask,”which is in theaters be-ginning April 6.

She put together awriting team. The proc-ess was not easy. Theyprayed about casting“Polycarp.” Not unlike to-day’s headlines aboutmass killings and perse-cution of Christians,“Polycarp“ is a story isabout religious persecu-tion, courage and faith inthe second century. Usingtalented actors and creat-ing realistic sets in a Go-shen warehouse, the Hen-lines bring the Biblical“Polycarp“ to life.

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challenge to go along withhis enjoyment of the thea-ter environment and thebond with the cast. Hismost important bond iswith Julia’s cousin Holly(Chloe ten Brink). She’s aJersey Girl, loose girl whofights with Sammy all theway through “until theyrealize they’re in love,”ten Brink said. What’s thelesson in this story?

“Love’s not about themoney, not about a ma-terial thing, it’s about therelationship,” Redslobsaid. “You’ll be able to tellhow much fun we’re hav-ing on stage.”

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on the stage and get theright costuming. Costum-ing is very important intrying to take us back tothe big hair and shoulderpads look of the 1980’s.

“It’s like neon colorsand tuxes,” she said. “Thegirls have gigantic shoul-der pads. It has been fun,lots of costume changes.It is intense.”

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Loveland High School drama presents “The Wedding Singer”April 8-11 in the school auditorium.

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The Yellow Ribbon Sup-port Foundation 10th annu-al “Let Us Never Forget”scholarship dinner is Satur-day, April 11, at the OasisConference Center inLoveland.

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Organizers of the an-nual Spring Litter Clean-Up in Clermont Countyare hopeful of having up-ward of 600 volunteers tohelp clean the water-ways and other greenspaces throughout thecounty.

This year’s clean-up is9 a.m. to noon Saturday,April 18, at various loca-tions throughout Cler-mont County and theEast Fork Watershed,Becky McClatchey, wa-

tershed coordinator forClermont Soil and WaterConservation District,said. Anyone interestedin volunteering can visitwww.springlittercleanup.com to register.

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Fork Rivers, she said.There will also be sitesaround East Fork andStonelick state parks.Volunteers are expectedto be out in force in areassuch as the villages ofWilliamsburg and Ame-lia cleaning up differentpublic areas.

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More than 600 highschool students fromSouthwest Ohio, includ-ing Clermont Northeast-ern, Goshen and Milfordhigh schools, will competeApril 28 at Camp Frie-dlander in the annual En-virothon.

“Students will be test-ed on their environmentalknowledge in five areas,including aquatics, cur-

rent environmental is-sues, forestry, soils andwildlife,” said Judy Krebsof Clermont Soil and Wa-ter Conservation District,one of this year’s co-hosts.”The testing is rigorous,and students must be ableto apply their knowledgeto real-world situations.”

The top four teamsfrom the event will ad-vance to the Ohio Envi-

rothon, where they willcompete with top teamsfrom four other areas inthe state. Team memberswill meet on a regular ba-sis to work with local re-source professionals toprepare for the stateevent, which will be June8-9 at Mohican State Park.

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company the team, but isnot permitted to assist theteam during the competi-tion. Besides field testing,teams at the Ohio Envi-rothon will also be given aproblem to solve and mustdevelop a presentation ontheir recommendation.

Sponsors for the AreaIV Envirothon includeHonda of America and the18 Soil & Water Conserva-

tion Districts in South-west Ohio. Warren CountySWCD is also a co-host.Pictures and tests frompast events can be viewedat www.areaivenvirotho-n.org.

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sources – Division of Soil& Water Resources.

Students who preparefor and participate in theEnvirothon gain a greaterawareness of natural re-sources and environmen-tal issues, Krebs said.They meet a wide range ofprofessionals and are ex-posed to various points ofview on environmental re-sponsibilities.

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» Children’s Meeting HouseMontessori School hosted aMaple Sugaring Festival wherefourth- through sixth-gradersshared the maple sugaringprocess with their families andthe Greater Loveland commu-nity.

Students taught attendeesabout the history of maple sug-aring and how native peoplesused hot stones to boil sap intosyrup. Students demonstratedhow maple sap is collected bytapping trees and the processused to make maple syrup.Most people were surprised tolearn that it takes 40 gallons ofmaple tree sap to get just onedelicious gallon of maple syr-up.

The event culminated in adelightful pancake and maplesyrup breakfast with morethan 500 pancakes beingserved. Families and friendsfrom the community were ableto sample and enjoy differentgrades of pure maple syrup tofind which type they pre-ferred.

The students tap trees on theeight-acre campus of CMHSchool, located just minutesfrom downtown Loveland. Thisyear, the students collectedabout 55 gallons of maple treesap resulting in a gallon and aquarter of syrup.

“The learning process alonemakes the small syrup returnworth it. The children have adeep understanding of thewhole process and it’s history,”teacher John Phenix said. “Ionly wish the weather had beencolder and brought a bit ofsnow for maple syrup icees!Maybe next time.”

Loveland EarlyChildhood Center

The auditorium was set foraround 125 Loveland EarlyChildhood Center first-gradestudents to be center stage atthe annual LECC Fine Arts

Night. “It was a terrific perfor-

mance,” LECC Principal KyleBush said. “This is a really cre-ative way to open our doors forparents and guardians, siblingsand family members to get toexperience our building andthe talent of our young Tigers.”

In addition to the studentperformance, LECC teacherswere on hand to offer an openhouse to those in attendance.Student work was displayedthroughout the halls of LECCand inside the classrooms.

“They can’t be here to watchthe students work, but this is agreat way to engage our fam-ilies in what the students arelearning,” said Bush. “We lookforward to this event everyyear.”

Mount Notre Dame HighSchool

» Mount Notre Dame heldits Senior Capstone ShowcaseEvening.

As part of MND’s signatureCapstone initiative, seniors are

challenged to create a serviceproject that demonstratesleadership and initiative whilebenefiting a nonprofit organi-zation. The senior year Cap-stone Project involves a signifi-cant investment of both timeand talent as the seniors com-bine both service and leader-ship to impact agencies and in-dividuals’ lives.

It is the culmination of afour-your journey for MNDstudents under the MAP (MyAction Plan) program. TheMAP program is designed to

engage students with experi-ences during their high schoolyears that will foster leader-ship skills and empower themin all areas of their lives.

This year, all of MND’s 179seniors completed their pro-jects, impacting nearly 100non-profit organizations andcountless families in Cincin-nati and beyond. The SeniorCapstone Showcase Eveningprovided an opportunity foreach senior to share her experi-ence and celebrate the impacther project made in the com-munity. More than 130 profes-sionals served as panelists forthe event, representing thebusiness, education and socialservice communities.

Panelists provided verbaland written feedback to theseniors on their work andasked questions related to theirprojects.

“St. Julie Billiart, the found-ress of the Sisters of NotreDame de Namur, believed inthe importance of educatinggirls and the belief that weneed to ‘teach them what theyneed to know for life,’” saidChristine Mencer, MND facul-ty member and MAP coordina-tor. “The entire project utilizesreal-life skills, from communi-cation to organization to prob-lem solving. These are skillsthat follow them through life.”

Karen Day, MND associatehead of school and dean of aca-demic development, said,“Capstone Evening fills ourcommunity with pride. Weknow that every senior hasgrown in responsibility, leader-ship and service and yet hastravelled a personalized path-way to that empowerment.This is yet another way that theMND experience is uniquelyspecial.”

Now in its fourth year,MND’s Capstone initiative hasbeen widely praised and MNDhas become a valuable re-source for other schools (local-ly and nationally) who are seek-ing to begin a similar program.

SCHOOLS NOTEBOOK

THANKS TO HEATHER HIGDON

LECC first-grade students perform at the annual Fine Arts Night.

PROVIDED

Lori Walker asks Calvin Medeiros how many flap jackshe would like. In the background, teachers andvolunteers work to flip pancakes for Children's MeetingHouse Schools pancake breakfast and Maple SyrupFestival. The school served an estimated 500 pancakesto festival attendees.

PROVIDED

Teacher John Phenix talks to several young childrenabout the wood fueled evaporator used to boil mapletree sap down into maple syrup.

PROVIDED

More than 130 professionals served as panelists forMount Notre Dame’s Capstone Showcase Evening.From left: Phyllis Callahan, Miami University Provost;Mark Meinhardt, president of Star One Realtors andSophies Angel Run, and Katie Hoekzema, MND alumnaand science teacher at DePaul Cristo Rey High School.

PROVIDED

Ryan Eicher teaches Wyatt Glassmeyer how to use ahand drill to tap trees for sap.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 9Business SeminarsMontgomery Chamber ofCommerce Lunch, Learn &Leads: “Changes in WorkersComp”, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,Wright Brothers Inc., 7825Cooper Road, Free. Presentedby Montgomery Ohio Chamberof Commerce. 502-6975;www.montgomeryohiochambe-rofcommerce.com. Montgo-mery.

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

Yoga: Align Level 1, 8:45-10a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. Appro-priate for seasoned beginners.Plenty of challenge that buildsstrength and stamina. Attentionto alignment detail is priority.Experience helpful but notnecessary. Ages 35-65. $120 per9 weeks unlimited. Register atfirst class or drop-in. 706-9802;www.karenjohnsyoga.com.Mariemont.

Literary - LibrariesTeen Writing Club, 6 p.m.,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Forteen writers interested in meet-ing other teen writers or look-ing for feedback from others.Ages 12-17. Free. 369-4476;www.cincinnatilibrary.org.Loveland.

Sensory Storytime, 10 a.m.,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Pro-gram for children with dis-abilities or special needs andtheir families. Family friendly.Free. Registration required.369-4476; www.cincinnatilibra-ry.org. Loveland.

Music - BluesSonny Moorman, 8 p.m. tomidnight, HD Beans and BottlesCafe, 6721 Montgomery Road,793-6036. Silverton.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10Art & Craft ClassesArt in Bloom After School ArtClass, 4-5:30 p.m., Woman’s ArtClub Cultural Center, 6980Cambridge Ave., The Barn.Draw, paint, and make clevercrafts in this after school classwith art teacher Patty Horwitz.Ages 8-13. $100 for 4 classes.Reservations required. 272-3700; www.artatthebarn.org.Mariemont.

Learn to Weave on a RigidHeddle Loom, 9 a.m. to noon,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,Students will finish a scarf bythe end of second class. Ages 21and up. $60. Registration re-quired. 272-3700; www.artat-thebarn.org. Mariemont.

Cooking ClassesHealthy and Hearty Breadswith Kathy Lehr, 6-9 p.m.,Cooks’ Wares, 11344 Montgo-mery Road, $65. Reservationsrequired. 489-6400. SymmesTownship.

SATURDAY, APRIL 11Art & Craft ClassesLearn to Sew with CarolePrice, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Woman’sArt Club Cultural Center, 6980Cambridge Ave., Tack room atThe Barn. Introductory sewingclasses that focus on techniquesincluding getting to know yoursewing machine, projects withzippers and linings and garmentsewing. Classes geared forchildren aged 7 and up. Adultswelcome. Ages 7-99. $20 perclass. Registration required.Presented by Carole Price.272-3700; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

Cooking ClassesPizza Napoletana with KathyLehr, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cooks’Wares, 11344 MontgomeryRoad, $65. Reservations re-quired. 489-6400. SymmesTownship.

EducationHunt House Open House, 1-4p.m., Hunt House, 4364 HuntRoad, Learn more about thishistorical icon of Blue Ash. Free.Presented by Blue Ash HistoricalSociety. 324-7145; blueashhis-toricalsociety.org. Blue Ash.

Health / WellnessSimple Health-Smart Cooking

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

Who is That in the Mirror?, 11a.m. to 1 p.m., The Kenwood bySenior Star, 5435 KenwoodRoad, Theatre. Dr. Robert Keyespresents types, stages andtreatments for dementia andwhat to expect along way foradults who have loved oneswith cognitive decline. Lunchprovided. Sponsored by HomeCare Assistance, Alzheimer’sAssociation, Christ Hospital andThe Kenwood. Free. Reserva-tions required. Presented byChrist Hospital Health andAging Center. 272-7926;www.homecareassistancecincin-nati.com. Kenwood.

Practical Ways to Cope withChanging Senior Behaviors,11 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Kenwoodby Senior Star, 5435 KenwoodRoad, Paula Kollstedt will shareperspective on having loved onewith dementia. Includes lunch.Ages 30-70. Free. Reservationsrequired. Presented by ChristHospital. 272-7926. Kenwood.

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

Personalized Chia Pet, 3 p.m.,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Teens,make your own Chia Pet. Ages12-17. Free. 369-4476; www.cin-cinnatilibrary.org. Loveland.

On Stage - Children’sTheater

Playhouse Off the Hill: BirdBrain, 6:30-9 p.m., Blue AshRecreation Center, 4433 CooperRoad, Bird Brain by Vern Thies-sen, based on story Vogelkoppby Albert Wendt. Snacks andbeverages available for pur-chase. Ages 5-99. Free. Regis-tration required. Presented byArtsWave. 745-8550. Blue Ash.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12Art & Craft ClassesLearn to Weave on a RigidHeddle Loom, 1-4 p.m., Wom-an’s Art Club Cultural Center,$60. Registration required.272-3700; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

MONDAY, APRIL 13Exercise ClassesYoga: Align Level 1, 8:15-9:30a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. Taughtby Karen Johns. Appropriate forBeginners with some yogaexperience. Emphasis on properalignment, self-care, safestretching, sense of humor andall yoga has to offer. Ages35-60. $120 for 9 weeks unlim-ited. Register at the first class.706-9802; www.karenjohnsyo-ga.com. Mariemont.

Yoga for New Beginners, 10-11a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. Sessiontruly for those brand new toyoga. Ages 35-65. $120 for 9weeks. Register at the first class.706-9802; www.karenjohnsyo-ga.com. Mariemont.

Yoga for Teen Girls, 4-5 p.m.,Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. In-troduction for young women toexplore what yoga has to offer.For Teen girls grades 7-12. $80for 8 weeks. Please contact meto register. 706-9802; www.ka-renjohnsyoga.com. Mariemont.

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

Literary - LibrariesPreschool Storytime, 10-11a.m., Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Enjoy books, songs, activities,crafts and more, while buildingearly literacy skills. For pre-schoolers and their caregivers.

Ages 3-6. Free. 369-4476;www.cincinnatilibrary.org.Loveland.

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

TUESDAY, APRIL 14Exercise ClassesZumba Class, 7-8 p.m., HartzellUnited Methodist Church, $5.917-7475. Blue Ash.

Gentle A.M. Yoga, 7:15-8:15a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. Gentlemorning class occurs mostly onfloor, moves spine in all of itsdirections, opens hips andshoulders. Poses alternatebetween stabilizing, stretchingand strengthening. Good foreveryone from newbie toadvanced practitioner. $120 for9 weeks unlimited. Register atthe first class or drop-in. 706-9802; www.karenjohnsyoga-.com. Mariemont.

Yoga: Align Level 2, 8:45-10a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,The Gallery at The Barn. Forwell-seasoned beginner orintermediate student. Ages35-60. $120 per 9 weeks unlim-ited. Register at first class ordrop-in. 706-9802; www.karen-johnsyoga.com. Mariemont.

Health / WellnessHealthy-U Chronic DiseaseSelf-Management Program,1-3:30 p.m., Madeira City Build-ing, 7141 Miami Ave., communi-ty room. 6-week course to helppeople with chronic conditionstake control of their health, feelbetter, do more, and savemoney on health care costs. Forseniors. Free. Reservationsrequired. Presented by MadeiraSenior Commission. 561-7228.Madeira.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15Art & Craft ClassesFAB Collective, 6-9 p.m., Wom-an’s Art Club Cultural Center,6980 Cambridge Ave., Meetingwith intent of forming monthlysocial/sharing meeting group.Group members share projects,successes and failures, up-coming shows and fiber artsclasses. Ages 21-93. $25 for year.Part of series, meets thirdWednesdays. Presented byWoman’s Art Club Foundation.272-3700; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

Drink TastingsBurger and Beer Wednesdays,9:30 p.m. to midnight, FiftyWest Brewing Company, 7668Wooster Pike, Burger and pintfor $10. 834-8789; fiftywest-brew.com. Columbia Township.

Health / WellnessTax Day Stress Relief for LocalTax Payers and Preparers, 5-7p.m., H&R Block, 8041 HosbrookRoad, Free chair massages tolocal taxpayers and tax prepar-ers by local, licensed massagetherapists from Massage EnvySpa Kenwood. Ages 18 and up.Free. Presented by MassageEnvy Spa Kenwood. 215-825-9658. Sycamore Township.

Literary - LibrariesMovers & Shakers, 11 a.m. tonoon, Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Singing, dancing and music. Forages 1-4. Free. 369-4476. Love-land.

Support GroupsAl-Anon Meeting, noon to 1p.m., Good Shepherd LutheranChurch Kenwood, 7701 Ken-wood Road, Room 101. Fellow-ship of relatives and friends ofalcoholics who share theirexperience, strength and hopein order to solve commonproblems. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Kenwood Al-AnonFamily Group. 947-3700. Ken-wood.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16Art & Craft ClassesLearn to Sew with CarolePrice, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Woman’sArt Club Cultural Center, $20per class. Registration required.272-3700; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

BenefitsA Taste of Art and Wine,5:30-8 p.m., Eisele Gallery of

Fine Art, 5729 Dragon Way,Original art, white wines byBarefoot Wines and food bites.Artists include John Ruthven,Frank and Dianne McElwain,Robert Hagberg, MaryBethKaraus and Cindy Nixon. Ages21 and up. Benefits MercyNeighborhood Ministries. $40.Reservations required. Present-ed by Mercy NeighborhoodMinistries Inc.. 751-2500 ext.204; www.mercyneighborhood-ministries.org. Fairfax.

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

Yoga: Align Level 1, 8:45-10a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, $120 per 9 weeks unlim-ited. Register at first class ordrop-in. 706-9802; www.karen-johnsyoga.com. Mariemont.

Home & GardenRaised Garden Bed, 6:30-8p.m., Turner Farm, 7400 GivenRoad, During this class in-structor Peter Huttinger willbuild 4’x8’ cedar garden bed.Additional topics: choosingright lumber amd soil mix,building healthy soil usingcompost and green manurecrops, and basics about growinghealthy produce naturally. $15.Registration recommended.561-7400; tunerfarm.org. IndianHill.

Music - BluesSonny Moorman, 8 p.m. tomidnight, HD Beans and BottlesCafe, 793-6036. Silverton.

FRIDAY, APRIL 17Art & Craft ClassesArt in Bloom After School ArtClass, 4-5:30 p.m., Woman’s ArtClub Cultural Center, $100 for 4classes. Reservations required.272-3700; www.artatthebar-n.org. Mariemont.

Spring Soul Collage OpenStudio Series: Emerging, 10a.m. to 1:30 p.m., WomenWriting for a Change, 6906Plainfield Road, Let’s explorethrough our card-makingtogether what is present andemerging for us this spring. ForAdult Women. $35. Registrationrequired. 272-1171; www.wo-menwriting.org. Silverton.

EducationAdult and Pediatric First Aidand CPR/AED, 9 a.m. to 3:30p.m., Blue Ash RecreationCenter, 4433 Cooper Road,Become certified in adult andpediatric first aid and CPR/AED.$85, $55. Registration required.Presented by American RedCross Cincinnati Area Chapter.800-733-2767; redcross.org/take-a-class. Blue Ash.

FestivalsMariElder’s Italian Festival,5:30-9:30 p.m., Fairfax Recrea-tion Center, 5903 HawthorneAve., Music by Pete WagnerBand..Dinner includes spaghet-ti/ravioli with meatballs, salad,Italian bread, dessert, tea andcoffee. Beer and wine extra.Heads or Tails at 7 p.m., rafflebaskets, split the pot and ring

toss. Benefits MariElders, Inc..$12, $10 advance, $5 children 12and under. Reservations re-quired. Presented by MA-RIELDERS, INC.. 271-5588. Fair-fax.

RecreationTGIF at Kids First, 6-10 p.m.Spring has Sprung, Kids FirstSports Center, 7900 E. KemperRoad, Pizza, indoor swimmingand night-time snack. $30, $20each additional child. Reserva-tions required. 489-7575;www.kidsfirstsports.com. Syca-more Township.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18Art & Craft ClassesFiber Arts, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30p.m., Loveland Branch Library,649 Loveland-Madeira Road,Enjoy company of other crafterswhile working on your ownsmall project. Open to any kindof needle (or hook) crafters.Ages 18 and up. Free. 369-4476;www.cincinnatilibrary.org.Loveland.

Weekend Weaving Workshopon Rigid Heddle Loom, 1-4p.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, 6980 Cambridge Ave.,Woman’s Art Cultural Center.Learning to weave on portablerigid heddle loom. Learn tech-nique and complete a scarf withworsted or bulky weight yarnthat you choose. Looms avail-able to rent for $10.The basicsexplored in this two-day work-shop. Ages 12-90. $60. Regis-tration required. 272-3700;www.artatthebarn.com. Marie-mont.

EducationPlay in a Day, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,Blue Ash Recreation Center,4433 Cooper Road, Workshoppresented by Ensemble Theatre.Write, design, build and per-form original play. $5. Regis-tration required. Presented byEnsemble Theatre Cincinnati.745-8550. Blue Ash.

Babysitter’s Training, 9 a.m. to4:30 p.m., Blue Ash RecreationCenter, 4433 Cooper Road,Become certified in babysitter’straining. $85. Registrationrequired. Presented by Amer-ican Red Cross Cincinnati AreaChapter. 800-733-2767; red-cross.org/take-a-class. Blue Ash.

Health / WellnessSimple Health-Smart CookingClass, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,Cincinnati Nutrition CounselingCenter, $139. Registrationrequired. 556-6932;www.uc.edu/ce/commu. Silver-ton.

Holiday - Earth DayEarth Day Celebration, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m., Children’s MeetingHouse Montessori School, 927O’Bannonville Road, Free elec-tronic recycling, kids crafts,games, hikes, campfire andpond water study. Tree plantingin honor of former CMH Schoolstudent at noon. Free. 683-4757; www.cmhschool.com.Loveland.

Literary - LibrariesCelebrate Chinese New Year

with Yan, 11 a.m. to noon,Loveland Branch Library, 649Loveland-Madeira Road, Year ofthe Goat. Listen to Yan explainwhat Chinese New Year is allabout. Stories, crafts and Chi-nese snacks. Free. 369-4476;www.cincinnatilibrary.org.Loveland.

Music - ClassicalMusic at Ascension, 7:30 p.m.The Mike Wade Jazz Quartet.,Ascension Lutheran Church,7333 Pfeiffer Road, Sanctuary.Free, donations accepted.793-3288. Montgomery.

Gabriel Faure’s Requiem, 7p.m., Blue Ash PresbyterianChurch, 4309 Cooper Road,Immanuel Presbyterian Churchand Blue Ash PresbyterianChurch perform. Benefits BakeMe Home. Free, donationswelcome. 791-1153; www.bapc-web.net. Blue Ash.

Music - Concert SeriesLinton Music’s Peanut Butter& Jam Sessions: Music Mak-ing with Madcap: The Storyof the Ugly Duckling, 10-10:45a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.,1-1:45 p.m., Good ShepherdLutheran Church Kenwood,7701 Kenwood Road, Clarinet,cello, piano and Madcap Pup-pets tell story through music ofBeethoven. $5 or four for $15;free under age 2. Presented byLinton Peanut Butter & JamSessions. 381-6868; www.linton-music.org. Kenwood.

On Stage - TheaterHeaven Can Wait, 7-10 p.m.,Schoolhouse Restaurant, 8031Glendale-Milford Road, Upstairs.Interactive dinner theatre. $35.Reservations required. Present-ed by P.L.O.T.T. Performers.201-7568; http://www.plott-performers.com/. Camp Denni-son.

ShoppingCommunity Yard Sale, 8 a.m.to 5 p.m., Blue Ash YMCA, 5000YMCA Drive, Registrationdeadline for vendors is April 10.Fee: $25 for 10x10 space plus 8foot table and 2 chairs.:. Bene-fits YMCA. Free admission.Registration required. 791-5000.Blue Ash.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19Art & Craft ClassesWeekend Weaving Workshopon Rigid Heddle Loom, 1-4p.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, $60. Registration re-quired. 272-3700; www.artat-thebarn.com. Mariemont.

On Stage - TheaterHeaven Can Wait, 2-5 p.m.,Schoolhouse Restaurant, $35.Reservations required. 201-7568;http://www.plottperform-ers.com/. Camp Dennison.

MONDAY, APRIL 20Exercise ClassesYoga: Align Level 1, 8:15-9:30a.m., Woman’s Art Club CulturalCenter, $120 for 9 weeks unlim-ited. Register at the first class.706-9802; www.karenjohnsyo-ga.com. Mariemont.

THINGS TO DO IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

THANKS TO RAY PERSING

Playhouse Off the Hill: “Bird Brain,” is coming to the Blue Ash Recreation Center from 6:30-9p.m. Saturday, April 11, 4433 Cooper Road, Blue Ash. “Bird Brain” by Vern Thiessen, is based onthestory “Vogelkopp“ by Albert Wendt. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase.The play is for ages 5-99 and is free. Registration is required. Presented by ArtsWave. Call745-8550.

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You’ve heard the old saying“one person’s misfortune isanother person’s blessing.”

That happenedto us this weekwhen our neigh-bor Bobby, wholives down theroad, called andsaid he had alarge ash treethat had died. Afamiliar story inour area. Frank,Bobby and ourboys made quickwork of the tree.

We’ll be glad next winter thatwe took the time in the springto get it cut and stacked.

Food is like that, too. Rightnow we’re marking rows in thegarden for produce we’ll plantnow and harvest in fall. Andthere’s a renaissance of sortsgoing on with canning andpreserving. All part of theawareness of eating healthyand controlling what’s in thefood we eat. So as we go intowarmer weather, this columnwill be a good resource foreasy home canned goods, likejellies, jams, salsas, vinegars,etc. If you have a favorite,share and I’ll publish it.

Rita Nader Heikenfeld is an herb-alist, educator, Jungle Jim’s East-gate culinary professional and au-thor. Find her blog online atAbouteating.com. Email her [email protected] with“Rita’s kitchen” in the subject line.Call 513-248-7130, ext. 356.

Healthy, tasty reasons to gonuts with spring recipes

Rita HeikenfeldRITA’S KITCHEN

Easy candied nuts

Spring is the time to take pantry inventory. I was doing just that when I ran across ajar of pecans that were near the expiration date. I tossed some in a nonstick skillet andmade a batch of candied pecans for our salad. They turned out so nice that I wanted togive you the recipe, too.

3 tablespoons packed light or dark brown sugar - I used light1 tablespoon water1 teaspoon vanilla1/4 teaspoon salt2 cups pecan halves

Mix together sugar, water, vanilla, and salt. It will look grainy. Set aside.Toast pecans in dry skillet for several minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burn-

ing. They’re done when they give off a nice aroma. Drizzle sugar mixture on top, stirringas you drizzle. Keep stirring until nuts are all coated. This takes about a minute. Immedi-ately spread nuts on sprayed pan in single layer to cool. They’ll look sticky but coating willharden and nuts can be broken apart after they cool completely. Store in airtight contain-er at room temperature.

Tip: A wonderful appetizer or ice cream topping, as well.

Chicken and black bean enchiladas

One of my students told me her daughterenjoys reading my recipes. “You have a new gener-ation of readers”, she said. That made me feelpretty good as that’s been my goal all along, toget everyone cooking together. Since her daughterlikes Mexican foods, here’s one of our favorites forher to try.

1-1/4 pounds chicken tenderloins, thinly sliced4 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled (leave

drippings in skillet)2 teaspoons minced garlic or more to taste24 oz. Picante sauce16 oz. black beans, drained, rinsed and

drained1 red or green bell pepper, diced1 generous teaspoon cumin or more to taste -

I usually add moreSalt to taste1 generous cup thinly sliced green onions,

both white and green parts12 flour tortillas, 6-inch size16 oz. Mexican cheese blend, shredded

Garnish: Tomato, sour cream, shredded ice-berg, guacamole, or diced avocado, more Picantesauce or salsa, shredded cheese.

Cook chicken and garlic until chicken iscooked. Stir in 1/2 cup Picante sauce, beans, bellpepper, cumin and salt. Simmer until thickened,stirring occasionally. Stir in green onions andbacon. Taste and add more Picante sauce, cumin,etc. if desired.

Spoon about 1/4 cup down center of eachtortilla and sprinkle on a heaping 2 tablespoonscheese. Roll up and place seam side down in asprayed 9x13 casserole.

Pour rest of Picante sauce over enchiladasand sprinkle with rest of cheese. Tent with foil andbake in preheated 350 degree oven until hotthroughout, about 30 minutes or so.

Serve topped with garnishes.Tip: Add a cup or so of frozen shoe peg corn

with the beans.

THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD

Candied pecans are an easy to make topper for a salad.

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When PresidentObama declared to thenation that he had a“phone and a pen,” themessage was clear: ifCongress didn’t act ashe wanted, he wouldact unilaterally.

This built on hischoice phrase from2011 of “We Can’tWait,” seeking to by-pass Congress with alitany of executive orders,recess appointments and bu-reaucratic rule-making.

When he said he would actwithout Congress during lastyear’s State of the Union, mycolleagues across the aisledidn’t speak up for the legisla-tive branch’s role. Rather,most Democrats stood up andapplauded the executivebranch taking over their role.

These elected members of

Congress were signal-ing to their constitu-ents that they are finewith being irrelevant.

Irrelevant repre-sentation is what hap-pens when membersof America’s mostrepresentative branchconcede their electedrole as the legislatorsin our government.

The will of “We thePeople” is diluted by everyact to circumvent Congress:executive actions, regulatorydecrees and discretionaryenforcement.

From rewriting immigra-tions laws to explicitly elbow-ing out the Senate from re-viewing a possible Iran treaty,this administration has stakedout a governing course con-trary to the Constitution.

Even on supposedly in-

dependent commissions, theObama agenda is being fol-lowed lock-step in his marcharound Congress. Last month,the Federal CommunicationsCommission passed a 317-page secret report to regulatethe Internet after PresidentObama indicated his support.This will have legal effectwithout a vote in Congress!

When the public does no-tice in due time, these legalrewrites are sometimes re-versed. The Bureau of Alco-hol, Tobacco and Firearms’attempt to ban certain bulletsis a recent example. Theagency attempted to ban cer-tain bullets by simply omit-ting particular language in adraft regulatory framework.The public noticed, and theATF backed off.

As elected officials, wetake an oath to uphold the

laws of the land. If a law isflawed or disliked, we have aprocess to change it legally.Until it is changed by thelegislative branch and signedby the president, it is the law,and it is to be upheld.

Our time-tested Constitu-tional framework to separatepowers, with strong checksand balances, is in jeopardy.

When our nation wasfounded, the ExecutiveBranch had only three depart-ments; State, War and Trea-sury. Today, it’s up to 15, not tomention various other agen-cies, administrations andcommissions.

These executive bureau-cracies have authorities tocreate regulations and penal-ties that were never voted onby the citizens or their electedrepresentatives.

One strong check Congress

can impose to rebalance exec-utive power is the REINS Act,short for Regulations fromthe Executive in Need ofScrutiny.

The REINS Act would re-quire a congressional vote onany new federal regulationthat has an estimated nega-tive economic impact morethan $100 million

This bill is an opportunityfor Congress to recoup someof its legislative authority thathas drifted away.

May our generation leave arestored legacy on the com-mitment to our founding prin-ciple: government doesn’tgrant power to the people,“We the People” must consentto be governed.

U.S. Rep. Brad Wenstrup representsOhio’s Second District in the U.S.House of Representatives.

Congress has irrelevant representation

BradWenstrupCOMMUNITY PRESSGUEST COLUMNIST

Transparency andaccountability arequalities that citizensshould expect fromtheir government.

In an era of in-creasing access toinformation, it is im-portant that our stategovernment is openabout how it spendsOhioans’ tax dollars. Iam proud to haverecently introduced legislationin the Ohio House with mycolleague State Rep. MikeDovilla that would increasegovernment transparency andallow Ohioans to keep tabs onhow the state government isspending their money.

House Bill 46 would requirethe Ohio Treasurer of State toestablish the Ohio State Gov-ernment Expenditure Data-base. This online, searchabledatabase would include in-formation about expendituresmade by state entities duringeach fiscal year. These stateentities, such as the General

Assembly, the OhioSupreme Court, state-wide elected offices,and executive depart-ments, would providemonthly expendituredata to the Treasurerof State.

Monthly updateswill ensure that Ohio-ans have the most cur-rent information pos-sible regarding their

government’s spending. The information on this

database will be provided tothe public free of charge, in anorganized and easily-acces-sible manner. In the interest oftransparency, it is not enoughfor this information to beavailable. It must also be easi-ly searchable, with the abilityto sort and filter the data intorelevant categories.

As your state representa-tive, I take my responsibilityto look after your tax dollarsvery seriously. HB 46 willprovide Ohioans with the op-portunity to learn more about

their state government andhow it spends their money.The bill has been voted out ofthe House State Governmentcommittee and I expect thefull House to vote on it soon.

If you have any input orquestions on HB 46, or anyother state government relat-ed issue, I encourage you toattend my district office hoursnext month:

Monday, April 6, 10 a.m. to11 a.m., Blue Ash Library, 4911Cooper Road

Monday, April 6, 1 p.m. to 2p.m., Forest Park Library, 655Waycross Road

If you are unable to attendmy office hours, please do nothesitate to contact my officewith suggestions of how I canbetter serve as your staterepresentative. By workingtogether, we can make Ohio abetter place to live, work, andraise a family. I look forwardto hearing from you.

Jonathan Dever represent Ohio’s28th District. He may be reached bycalling 614-466-8120, [email protected] or writing toState Rep. Jonathan Dever, 77 S.High St., 11th Floor, Columbus, Ohio43215.

Ohioans deserve transparency

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House Bill 46 would require the OhioTreasurer of State to establish the Ohio StateGovernment Expenditure Database. Thisonline, searchable database would includeinformation about expenditures made bystate entities during each fiscal year.

In 2015, PeopleWorking Cooperativelyis celebrating 40 yearsof making criticalhome repairs and pro-viding energy conser-vation and weather-ization services to thelow-income, elderlyand disabled citizensof Greater Cincinnati.

This spring, we areencouraging homeowners touse the following tips to maketheir homes more efficient, tohelp prevent flooding, and toconserve energy and re-sources.

There are a few simplethings you can do on your ownto improve or maintain theefficiency of your major homeappliances.

For example, while water-ing your garden, spray thedust off your outdoor centralair unit-cleaning the fins pro-tects your unit and allows it torun more efficiently.

Checking your furnacefilter monthly helps your fur-nace to stay in great shape,

and it’s an importantsafety measure aswell. Additionally,dusting off vents dur-ing spring cleaningand ensuring that theyare not blocked byfurniture helps in reg-ulating your home’stemperature appropri-ately, without havingyour heating and cool-

ing systems running constant-ly.

The Tristate has experi-enced its fair share of rainfalland flooding this year, and theseason has only just begun. Toprevent flooding in your homethis spring, make sure guttersand downspouts are clear ofleaves and debris. You canalso check your downspouts toensure that they are directingwater flow away from yourfoundation. This helps to pre-vent additional groundwaterfrom reaching your basement.

Energy conservation isimportant for homeowners toconsider, because it savesmoney and prevents wasteful

use of resources. One simplething homeowners can do tosave energy is to open thedoors and windows to create across breeze during the dayrather than using central airconditioning. Also, using ceil-ing fans on warm days canreduce the temperature feel-ing in a room by four degrees,and it uses less energy than acentral air system. If you pre-fer to keep your system run-ning, save money by loweringthe thermostat during the dayand setting it back one to fourdegrees at night.

You can also use the seasonto your advantage. A springbreeze makes it convenient to

hang dry your clothes out-doors on a nice day, and longerdaylight hours allow you toopen the blinds and curtainsfor light. Turn off lights inrooms not being used and dustlight bulbs. You’d be surprisedat the increased light theygive off.

Last but not least, get out-side! Save electricity by ven-turing outdoors during niceweather. Cincinnati has morethan 100 parks and greenspaces comprising more than5,000 acres.

Nina Creech is senior vice presidentof operations, People Working Coop-eratively

Spring weatherization tips from PWC

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To prevent flooding in your home thisspring, make sure gutters and downspoutsare clear of leaves and debris. You can alsocheck your downspouts to ensure that theyare directing water flow away from yourfoundation. This helps to prevent additionalgroundwater from reaching your basement.

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Loveland High School’s boysvolleyball team, started by coachTerri Swensen six years ago, is notofficially a league sport in the East-ern Cincinnati Conference, but theboys do play league partner Mil-ford over the course of the season.

Last year, the Tigers and Eaglessplit, so the Loveland boys like tosay they “shared the league title.”

The program initially beganwith several soccer players whowere seniors. Rather than playclub soccer in the spring, they opt-ed for volleyball. From there,Swensen has coaxed more Tigersout around the net.

“This is the first year I didn’thave someone on varsity thathadn’t played before,” Swensensaid.

It’s still tough to get guys in-doors in the spring with baseball,track and field and lacrosse of-fered, but Swensen has picked upmore players as the years havegone by. Often it’s in their sopho-more and junior years as the fresh-men tend to go out for the spring“name” sports.

The Tigers play many of theGreater Miami Conferenceschools like Sycamore, Mason andFairfield and some of the Catholicschools. However, they do not takeon the ultra competitive GreaterCatholic League-South.

“We don’t have a great feederprogram yet, even though we havesome Catholic schools at theyounger grades,” Swensen said.“They pretty much feed to St. X,Moeller and McNick.”

The Tiger captains are PeytonTerry and Michael Viox. This yearthe athletic squad is stocked withan ex-basketball players, a pair ofsoccer players, some multi-sportguys and a few members of Love-land’s well-known show choir.

If a recorded version of the Star-Spangled Banner is not available,Loveland’s versatile volleyballguys can deliver.

Loveland boys volleyballshares mythical league title

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Loveland’s Naoki Take sets the ball for the Tigers.

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Baseball» Loveland beat Russellville

(Kentucky) 6-5 March 30 atDodgertown in Vero Beach,Fla., as junior Jay Wilsonbrought in the winning run. Intheir second game, the Tigersdefeated Henry Clay (Ken-tucky) 9-3 with Wilson pickingup the win.

On March 31, Lovelanddowned Plymouth-Whitemarsh(Pennsylvania) 13-1. Senior Ja-cob Timmerman got the win.Junior Wilson was 2-3 with adouble, home run and threeruns batted in. Freshman CalConley was 3-3 with a double,triple and four runs batted in.

On April 1, the Tigers defeat-ed Middleton (Wisconsin) 8-1 toround out their Florida trip 5-0.Junior Drew Steinbrunner gotthe win and sophomore Luke

Waddell was 3-4.» Moeller beat Ryle 5-1 on

March 30 as senior Mitch Baultstruck out eight and senior JoeVranesic was 2-2.

The Crusaders defeatedGlen Este 11-2 on March 31. Ju-nior Chris Stock got the win andsenior Kyle Dockus was 3-5.

On April 1, Moeller defeatedSt. Xavier 4-2 behind seniorGrant Macciocchi as Dockusdoubled and drove in two runs.

» Cincinnati Hills ChristianAcademy moved to 2-0 afterwins against the CincinnatiTrailblazers March 30 andWestern Brown March 31. TheEagles outscored those twoteams 28-4.

The April 2 game againstMilford was postponed.

Softball» Loveland beat Mercy 10-1

on March 30. Senior BrittanyMiller got the win and juniorClaire Ruben was 2-2 and junior

Caroline Prifti had a triple andwas 2-4.

» (submitted) Mount NotreDame jumped on Turpin earlyMarch 29 and coasted to win13-3 in six innings, after aneight-run explosion in the firstinning. MND scored in the firston an RBI single by senior Mer-edith Shaffer - then a hit bypitch, a fielder’s choice, a wildpitch, a two-run single by Shel-by Nelson, and another RBI sin-gle by Meredith.

MND piled on three moreruns in the top of the third in-ning, after a single by sopho-more Macy Taney ignited theoffense.MND increased itslead with two runs in the sixth,which both scored while theteam had two outs. Macy Taneykicked things off with a double,scoring freshman AbbyBrickner.

Sophomore Shelby Nelsonracked up two RBI on three hitsfor the entire game. Senior

Meredith Shaffer also had agreat game, going 3-4, with 2RBI. Junior pitcher SydneyZeuch got her first game win,only allowing one earned run,and pitched 65 percent strikes.

On March 30, Zeuch struckout six as MND beat St. Ursulain five innings 14-3. Junior LexiRipperger was 3-3 and drove intwo runs.

On April 1, MND beat Mercy6-1 behind Zeuch as Nelsonwent 3-3.

» Cincinnati Hills ChristianAcademy fell to 0-2 after an 11- 1loss to Western Brown March31 and a 12-2 loss to St. HenryApril 1.

» Ursuline Academy pickedup the 12-3 win April 1 againstGirls Greater Catholic Leaguerival St. Ursula after splittingits first two games againstSpringboro and Glen Este.

Tennis» Moeller blanked Wilming-

ton 5-0 on March 30. Sweepingsingles were sophomore MaxBerky and juniors Kelley Peterand Alec Hoelker

» So far, CHCA is 0-3 follow-ing losses to Chaminade-Juli-enne (March 27), La Salle(March 30) and St. Xavier(March 31). The Eagles re-turned to the court againstSummit Country Day April 7.

Volleyball» Moeller defeated Beaver-

creek March 31, 25-11, 25-19, 25-21.

Girls lacrosse» MND beat Indian Hill 10-8

on April 1.» CHCA defeated Miamis-

burg 13-12 March 24.

Boys lacrosse » Cincinnati Hills Christian

Academy lost 5-4 to the EaglesLacrosse Club March 27. CHCAis now 0-2 on the season.

SHORT HOPS

Scott Springer and Nick RobbeCommunity Press staff

After finishing 7-9 last sea-son, the Loveland High Schoolboys tennis team would like toreturn to its 2013 form whenthe boys won the Eastern Cin-cinnati Conference champion-ship. The Tigers were 4-2 in theECC last season for third place.

In his 20th year, coach JeffSharpless returns four start-ers in seniors Johan Harris andZak Kadish and sophomoresChristian Harris and Ali Syed.Sharpless also looks for contri-butions from junior Ryan Lutz.

Johan Harris was ECC firstteam in doubles a year ago,while the doubles team ofChristian Harris and Zak Kad-ish were honorable mention.

“We have a nice combina-tion of veterans and new‘blood’,” Sharpless said. “All ofour players have worked dili-gently throughout the year toimprove their game.”

Upon their return fromspring break, Loveland hostsOak Hills on April 8 and Mil-ford April 10.

Cincinnati Hills ChristianAcademy had a smattering ofits players including NathanielHipsley, Chris Bolinger, An-drew Breeze-Stringfellow,John Wells, Justin Sikkema,David Humphrey and MichaelO’Brien receive all-Miami Val-ley Conference recognitionlast season.

No further information wasavailable as of press time.

The only place to go is up inthe Greater Catholic League-South for Moeller HighSchool’s tennis team as St. Xa-vier has had a stranglehold onthe championship dating backto when The Beatles were stillplaying concerts (1965).

The Crusaders tied for sec-ond in the league at 3-3 andwere 14-5 overall last seasonunder coach Alex Thompson.They have had four consecu-tive winning seasons.

The roster is young with

five juniors andtwo sopho-mores. JuniorsMichael Tepe,Kelley Peterand Alec Hoelk-er are returningstarters alongwith sophomore

Max Berky. Sophomore Mi-chael Keyser also should fig-ure into the equation and ju-niors Joe Burns and JustinCashman are also on the squad.

Tepe was GCL-South sec-ond team in singles in 2014, go-ing 4-2 in the league and 17-3overall in second singles. Ber-ky played third singles and was4-2 in the league and 12-6 over-all. Peter, Keyser and Hoelkerwere mainly doubles players ayear ago.

“This is a very fun, youngteam who really wants to win,”Thompson said. “They havebeen putting in a ton of workthat will hopefully pay off.”

Moeller returns after theirspring break to take on Spring-field April 13.

St. Xavier High School hasendured a long, and seeminglyendless reign at the top of thetennis world in the GreaterCatholic League South. TheBombers have won the confer-ence every year since 1967 andthis year doesn’t look any dif-ferent.

With four returning start-ers, the Bombers look formida-ble again. Junior Andrew Nie-haus resumes his spot at firstsingles. Last season, Niehauswas the GCL South Player ofthe Year and a Division I statesingles qualifier. SophomorePeter Schulteis is another re-turning singles starter alongwith junior Waqas Tanveer.

Senior Connor Aronoff andjunior Neil Bostick return asstarters, both were first teamAll-GCL South last season.Also back are seniors NateJohns and J.P. Bosse with soph-omore Cameron Geoppinger –those three will rotate depend-

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The following are sub-mitted Loveland varsitybaseball game recapsfrom their spring breaktrip to Dodgertown in VeroBeach, Fla., former springtraining home of theBrooklyn/Los AngelesDodgers this week.

Game 1 – Sunday,March 29 vs. StevensonHigh School, Lincoln-shire, Ill.

The Loveland Tigersopened the 2015 seasonunder warm, sunny skieswith a 1-0 victory.

Junior pitcher TrentSpikes (1-0) threw a com-plete game shutout scat-tering 5 hits over 7 in-nings, while striking out 6,with no walks and 1 HBP.Junior Jay Wilson drovein the game’s only runwith a triple, followingsenior Josh Mazsaros’ sin-gle in the bottom of thesixth.

The game started outas a classic pitchers’ dualwith neither team threat-ening to score through thefirst five innings. In thesecond inning the Tigershad back-to-back one-outsingles by senior AdamBeran and junior CadeWoolston but each werestranded. In third inning

the Patriots put a man onthird with two outs on asingle, stolen base andground out but the runnerwas stranded at third.

As it happened thegame was decided quicklyon back to back pitches inthe Loveland bottom ofthe sixth. Senior JoshMezsaros hit a long flyball into the wind, whichcarried just over the rightfielder for a lead-off sin-gle. Junior Blake Schlesn-er came off the bench torun for Meszaros. Then onthe first pitch thrown tohim Jay Wilson hit a shotdown the right field foulline, short-hopping the340’ sign on the fence for atriple, bringing Schlesneraround to score.

WP: Spikes (1-0, 7 K’s,Complete Game) Hitting:Wilson 1-3, 3B, RBI, Mez-saros 1-3, Beran 1-2, Wool-ston 1-3, Schlesner R

Game 2 – Monday,March 30, vs. the RussellRed Devils, Ky.

The Loveland Tigersimproved to 2-0 on the sea-son with a 6-5 win over theRussell.

The Tigers jumped outto a quick 3-0 lead in thefirst inning beginningwith a leadoff single bysophomore Luke Waddelland a walk to Josh Mezsa-

ros Then it was a little bitof déjà-vu all over againas Jay Wilson scalded a hitdown the right field linefor a two-run triple. Wil-son scored on a wild pitch.In the second, the Tigersadded another run whenCade Woolston reachedfirst base on a HBP. An outlater senior Zach Robertswas also hit by a pitch put-ting runners at first andsecond. A wild pitchmoved them to second andthird where Woolston wasbrought in to score on asacrifice fly by Luke Wad-dell making the score 4-0

Loveland sophomoreMitch Robinson was thestarting pitcher going sixstrong innings. He raninto a little trouble in thethird when Russelltouched him up for a cou-ple of runs on a couple ofhits trimming the Love-land lead to 3-2. The Ti-gers got one of those runsright back in their half ofthe third again without thebenefit of a hit. Wilson andjunior Colton Lakes tookadvantage of more RedDevil wildness drawingback to back walks to startthe inning. Senior ChrisSackett then sacrificedeach up a base with a buntputting runners at secondand third. Adam Beran

then laid down a textbooksuicide squeeze bunt scor-ing Wilson for a 5-2 lead.

After the third, Robin-son settled right in retir-ing 11 straight batters be-fore giving way to thebullpen in the seventh,where the game got inter-esting. A bloop single wasan ominous start for theRussell offense, whichsaw them score three runsto tie the game and put thewinning run in scoring po-sition with one out andthen on third with twoouts. Junior Chris Dum-broski (W, 1-0) came in andfaced only two battersgetting ground ball outson each, the second ofwhich was an excellentplay by Josh Mazsarosfielding a high chopper onthe short hop and throw-ing the batter out at firstto keep the score tied.

In the bottom of theseventh Mezsaros lead offthe inning with a HBP andwas replaced at first bysophomore Cameron

Beck. Jay Wilson doubledmoving Beck to third andthen scored on a throwingerror by the outfielder forthe 6-5 Loveland win.

WP: Dumbroski 1-0.Hitting leaders: Wilson2-3, 3B, 2B, 2R, 2 RBI;Waddell 1-2, 1R, 1 RBI;Beran SB, RBI; Mezsaros1R; Woolston 1R; Beck 1R.

Game 3– Monday,March 30, vs. Henry Clay,Ky.

The Loveland Tigersbeat Henry Clay 9-3 in thesecond game of Monday.

Georgia Tech commitJay Wilson started thegame for the Tigers andfought control problemsearly yielding two runs inthe top of first to the freeswinging Blue Devils wholooked like they were go-ing to provide a formida-ble challenge to the Tigersso far charmed life inFlorida. But there aremore aspects to the gameof baseball than hitting,most notably fielding andin that regard the HenryClay team was not quite soadapt, and it showed earlyand often.

With two outs in thebottom of the first JayWilson got things goingwith a double. ColtonLakes then reached on athrowing error by thethird baseman with Wil-son coming around toscore and Lakes movingto second. Chris Sackettwalked. Blake Schlesnercame in to run for Sackett.Runners advanced on awild pick-off attempt ofSchlesner with Lakesscoring and Schlesner ad-vancing to third. AdamBeran reached on an errorby the shortstop scoringSchlesner. With CadeWoolston at the plate Ber-an stole second andscored on a single byWoolston.

In the second inningJosh Mezsaros doubledwith two outs. Jay Wilsonfollowed with a flyball tocenter, which fell for anerror with Mezsaros scor-

ing and Wilson advancingto second. Lakes then hit asharp single to left centerdriving in Wilson to in-crease the lead to 6-2.

In the 3rd inning Beranand Woolston had back toback singles, followed byan RBI single by TrentSpikes scoring Beran. Anout later another RBI sin-gle by Luke Waddellscored Woolston makingthe score 8-2

Henry Clay scoredtheir third run in thefourth, 8-3.

In the 4th the scoringconcluded with anotherRBI single by Woolstonafter Sackett had walkedand Beran reached on an-other Blue Devil error. 9-3

Jay Wilson(1-0) pitched5 solid innings for his firstwin of the season. SeniorJacob Albin finished thelast 2 innings pitchingshutout ball with 2 K’s.

WP Wilson 1-0. Hitting:Woolston 2-2, BB, R, 2RBI; Lakes 2-4, R, RBI:Beran 1-3, 3 R: Sacket 3BB, R.

Game 4 – Tuesday,March 31, vs. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Penn.

The Loveland Tigerscontinued their winningways with a 12-1, five-in-ning run-rule shortenedvictory over Plymouth-Whitemarsh.

The Tigers, battingfirst and the “visitingteam” for the first time atDodgertown, got out to anearly lead on the Colonialswhen with one out, JoshMezsaros sent a drive intothe left-center field pow-er alley for a stand up dou-ble, which was followedby a walk to Jay Wilson.An out later Chris Sackettcrushed a pitch down theleft field line for a doubleand driving in Mezsarosand Wilson for a 2-0 lead.The Tigers added to theirlead in the 2nd on a lead-off triple by Cade Wool-ston followed by a singleby Freshman Cal Conleyscoring Woolston andConley moving to 2nd.Luke Waddell singledscoring Conley with Wad-dell moving to 2nd on thethrow. Back to back wildpitches brought homeWaddell. Jay Wilson thenlaunched a blast tostraightaway center fieldwhich cleared the fence,400 feet away, for a homerun to make the score 6-0.

The Colonials scoredtheir only run of the gamein the bottom of the sec-ond on a lead-off triple toright-center and the run-ner scoring on a ground-ball to the right side of the

Loveland baseball goes undefeated in Dodgertown tourney

THANKS TO JULIE RENNER/LOVELAND

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infield. In the 3rd the Tigers

got that run back and add-ed another on a lead-offsingle by Chris Sackettand Adam Beran reachingon a fielder’s choice. Wool-ston reached base on anerror by the center fielderputting runners at secondand 3rd. Conley double toleft-center scoring Beranand Woolston, making it

8-1.In the fifth the Tigers

put the Colonials awayscoring 4 more runs forthe run rule victory on aleadoff single by juniorDrew Steinbrunner. Con-ley then tripled him in,Waddell reached base onan error by the centerfielder scoring Conley.Chris Dombroski singledscoring Waddell and Wil-son singled scoring Dom-broski.

Senior Jacob Timmer-man (1-0) started andpitched all five innings for

the win giving up just onerun on two hits whilestriking out four.

WP: Timmerman 1-0.Hitting; Conley 3-3, 2B,3B, 2 R, 4 RBI; Wilson 2-3,HR, 2R, 2 RBI; Sackett 2-3,2B 2 RBI; Dombroski 1-2,2B, R, RBI; Waddell 1-4, 2R, 2 RBI; Mezsaros 1-2, R2B; Woolston 1-3, 3B, 2 R;Steinbrunner 1-3, R:.

Game 5 – Wednesday,April 1, vs. Middleton,Madison, Wisc.

Loveland capped offtheir week at Dodgertowntraining facility in Vero

Beach, Fla., with an 8-1victory over Middleton togo undefeated on theweek.

Junior Drew Stein-brunner (1-0) pitched sev-en innings, scatteringfour hits while giving uponly one run with fivestrikeouts. The only runMiddleton scored came inthe top of the first andfrom that point on it wasall Tigers getting that runback on a leadoff single byLuke Waddell and a field-er’s choice by Cade Wool-ston. Woolston then stole

second and scored on asingle by Jay Wilson.

In the second the Ti-gers took the lead on a sin-gle by Chris Sackett.Adam Beran was then hitby a pitch. Both runnersadvanced 2 bases withSackett scoring and Ber-an moving to third on anerror on a pick-off at-tempt got by the firstbaseman. Junior ZachChapman came up to hit asacrifice fly scoring Ber-an to make the score 3-1.

In the 6th Lovelandbroke the game wide open

scoring five runs begin-ning with a triple by Col-ton Lakes. Sackett thensingled scoring Lakes.Beran reached on anotherHBP. Josh Mezsaros sin-gled scoring Sackett andBeran. Conley then tri-pled scoring Beck, whoran for Mezsaros, fol-lowed by Waddell singledto plate Conley.

WP Steinbrunner (1-0).Hitting: Waddell 3-4, R,RBI; Lakes 2-2 Triple, 1R,Sackett 2-3, R, RBI; Beran2R, Meszaros 1-1, 2 RBI,Conley 1-3, 3B, R, RBI.

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“We have in the past,”Swenson said laughing.“We had to sing the nation-al anthem since weweren’t supported by theschool (financially). Theboys just sang and did anawesome job. This year, Itold them they’re going tosing the national anthembecause they’re talentedand have the ability.”

This is the second yearthe team has been sup-ported with buses, uni-forms, court time andequipment.

“I think we’re going tohave a good season,”Swensen said. “The onlyreward they’re going toget is to play in the tourna-ment, since we’re not in aleague. I have a lot ofstrong hitters, it’s just amatter of whether we canput it all together.”

Loveland will host Col-erain April 8 at 7 p.m.

Like many of their of-ferings, Moeller HighSchool has had tremen-dous success in boys vol-leyball. The Crusadershave state championship

trophies from 1997, 2004,2005, 2007, 2009 and 2012.

They were Division Istate semifinalists in 2013and coach Matt McLaugh-lin is looking to get themback in the state hunt thisseason after finishing sec-ond in the Greater Catho-lic League-South last sea-son. Moeller finished be-hind St. Xavier and tiedwith Elder at 3-3 in theleague and 18-8 overall.

Returning starters forMoeller are senior liberoChris Hackman, senioroutside hitter JustinDeyhle, senior middleNick Wright, junior mid-dle Jason Bruggemannand junior outside hitterDavid Wernery. Juniorright-side hitter ConnorMcNamara is always ex-pected to be a factor.

Hackman made GCL-South first team last yearas a junior.

McLaughlin, comingback from an off-seasonappendectomy himself, isproud of his team’s off-season work ethic.

“We added condition-ing to out off-season pro-gram and I think our play-ers have come into theseason in great shape,” hesaid. “They’re a very ath-

letic group of players andI think it’s going to paydividends for them.They’re push themselvesin practice and are hungryafter a bit of a roller-coast-er season last year. Theypush the each other inpractice and are settingthe bar high as a team.”

Also on the Moeller ros-ter are defensive special-ist Johnny Rickert, defen-sive specialist ConnorPeed, defensive specialistHarry Savarese, setterRyan Frank, setter ChadMustard and defensivespecialist Logan Sheets.McLaughlin is assisted byKevin Brandner and MikeChandler and studentcoaches Gus Vogel andBrad Buller.

Moeller visits La SalleApril 10 and then is in a tri-match with Lakewood St.Edward and Hilliard Dar-by April 11 outside of Co-lumbus.

There’s another talent-ed, experienced volley-ball team out on NorthBend Road this year at St.Xavier High School. TheBombers finished runner-up in the state last year torival Elder, but St. X re-turns some serious talentand adds some newcom-

ers that could spell trou-ble for its opponents.

St. X has six seniors onthe roster and three arereturning starters. Senioroutside hitter Nick Talbotis the returning regionaland Greater CatholicLeague South Player ofthe Year. Senior setterPatrick Beer is another in-tegral spoke in the Bomb-ers’ wheel.

Coach Bill Ferris, nowin his 14th season with theschool, said Beer and Tal-bot have long been team-mates and even thoughTalbot garnered the acco-lades last season, Beerwas equally important totheir success. Senior mid-dle hitter Michael Hart-mann is the third return-ing starter and Ferris saidHartmann’s athletic and ajumper with a fast armswing. According to Fer-ris, Hartmann didn’t pickup the sport until highschool, but because of hisathleticism he’s been ableto catch up in terms of tal-ent.

The other three sen-iors, all expected to helplead, are middle hitter Er-ic Spoelker, right-side hit-ter Greg Martini and de-fensive specialist Victor

Viacava. Another key ad-dition is junior outside hit-ter Evan Bretel who hasthe ability to play the frontor back row and he’ll becharged with helping re-place the hitter spot oppo-site Talbot who graduated.

“Having that experi-ence (back) is very helpfulto us,” Ferris said. “Ourother seniors are ready tostep in and they’re lookingforward to it.”

Every year, St. Xtrades shots with its con-ference foes and one ofthem usually brings homethe state title or finishessecond. The reason, Fer-ris said, is he doesn’t haveto spend time motivatinghis guys.

“In my experience, andI presume it’s the same atElder and Moeller, I don‘thave to do a lot of motivat-ing of these guys,” Ferrisexplained. “They come inmotivated. I don’t spendany time getting them ex-cited or making themwant success, they’re highachievers that alreadywant that.”

The Bombers openedconference play immedi-ately with La Salle onApril 7 and then againwith Elder on April 10.

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ing on how they’re play-ing, said coach RussKing, now in his 31st sea-son with the Bombers.

“I like how young (theteam) is, and we have anumber of good, youngkids coming in nextyear,” said King.“They’re coachable andthey listen; I’m lookingforward to seeing howthey mature.”

The Bombers willhave their work cut outfor them this season.

“Our schedule thisyear is horrendous,we’re playing all the topteams in the state,” Kingsaid.

King would also liketo see his young teamgrow and hit the weightroom.

“They’re all youngand they’re not real bigguys; normally we havebigger guys,” said King.“The goal this year is toget them bigger, andthey swear they’re gon-na do it but saying it isone thing and doing it isanother.”

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Consumer Action re-ports, parts needed torepair a defect are inshort supply leavingpotentially dangerousvehicles on the roadindefinitely. Sometimesrecall notices don’treach owners becausethey have moved or theowners don’t get therepairs done becausethey may not feel therecalls are very impor-tant.

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UC Clermont is of-fering a summer in-centive to new, currentand visiting students –register for six credithours and you only payfor five. UC ClermontCollege Summer Classesbegin on May 11.

Summer courses area great way to pick upsome electives so theupcoming fall and springcourse loads are not soheavy. This is also agreat option for Cincin-nati college studentswho are home for thesummer. UC Clermontoffers one of the lowesttuition rates in the state-—only $222 per credithour!

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Summer classes be-gin May 11 and runsthrough Aug. 8. Shortersessions are offeredwithin the semester thatallow you to complete afull semester of work inan accelerated format.For frequently askedquestions about summersemester, visit http://www.ucclermont.edu/summer/summer-faqs.html.

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U.S. Rep. Brad Wen-strup is inviting all highschool students in Ohio’s2nd Congressional Dis-trict to enter the 2015Congressional Art Com-petition. The winner willhave his/her artworkdisplayed in the U.S.Capitol for the next yearand will receive twoplane tickets to Wash-ington, D.C., for anawards ceremony.

Students may submittheir original, two-di-mensional artwork toWenstrup’s district of-

fices in Cincinnati orPeebles for judging.

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Sharonville United MethodistTraditional worship services at 8:15am & 11:00amContemporary worship service at 9:30amFaith development opportunities for all ages!3751 Creek Rd. 513-563-0117www.sharonville-umc.org

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The church is at 5878 Cook Road,Milford.

Grace BaptistChurchA free breakfast is served from 9a.m. to 10:30 a.m. each Sunday.No reservations are needed.

The church is at 1004 Main St.,Milford; www.gracebaptist-milford.org.

LovelandPresbyterian ChurchWorship times are 9:15-10 a.m.,Sunday school; 10:30-11:30 a.m.,worship; and 11:30 a.m., fellow-ship.

A coffee/snack bar has beenstarted in the Narthex onSunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.Come join the fellowship.

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Loveland UnitedMethodist ChurchCome spend your weekendswith friends and neighborsfrom Loveland and the sur-rounding communities as we

join in worship, fellowship andservice at one of our threeworship services:

Saturdays 5:30 p.m. – Contempo-rary service with a coffee caféstyle. “All Together Now”programming for children agesbirth – sixth-grade. Communionoffered weekly.

Sundays 9 a.m. – Traditionalworship with music featuringour chancel choir, bell choirsand other musical ensembles.Childcare is available for chil-dren birth – 5 years of age.Communion offered on the firstSunday of each month.

Sundays 10:30 a.m. – Contempo-rary service with music providedby our Praise Band. Full SundaySchool programming offeredfor children birth – 18 years ofage. Adult Sunday School also

available. Communion offeredthe first Sunday of the month.

The church is at 10975 S. Leba-non Road, Loveland; 683-1738;www.lovelandumc.org.

Milford First UMCThe annual auction is April 19.The silent auction begins at 5:30p.m., while the live auctionbegins at 6 p.m. Proceeds willbe equally divided betweenMilford Miami Ministry, GreaterCincinnati Habitat for Humanityand New Life Furniture. Itemsup for bid include YMCA mem-bership, tickets for the Reds andBengals, vacations, gift certif-icates, homemade goodies andother desirables. Free pizza,drinks and desserts will beserved. All are invited to comesupport these ministries.

The church is at 541 Main St.,Milford; 831-5500.

Northstar A Communityof GraceQuest children’s ministry isavailable at both celebrations.Junior high ministry (grades fiveto eight) is available only at the11 a.m. celebration.

Worship times are: Sundaymorning at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

The church is at 11020 S. Leba-non Road, Loveland; www.go-lovelive.com.

Prince of PeaceLutheran ChurchWeekly worship services are 5p.m. Saturdays; 8:45 a.m. and 11a.m. Sundays; and SundaySchool at 10 a.m. Sundays.

Wednesday morning Bible studyis at 10 a.m. in the Atrium. Amonthly women’s Bible study isthe first Tuesday of each month.

Supper Club is a missional com-munity which provides a mealto the Loveland community at5:45 p.m. on the second andfourth Tuesdays of the month.

Zumba Fitness classes are free tothe public and offered in theParish Life Center at 6:30 p.m.every Monday and Thursday.

The church is at 101 S. LebanonRoad, Loveland; 683-4244;www.popluther.org.

SycamorePresbyterian ChurchSunday worship services at 9:15a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Childcare isavailable at both services forinfants through age 2; Sundayschool is at 10:45 a.m. for pre-school through 12th-grade.

Additional childcare is availablefor parents in adult educationclasses: preschool and older,meet in room 113 during the9:15 a.m. service.

Check out the webcast eachSunday at 10:45 a.m.

Think Spring: Women’s DaffodilLuncheon is 11 a.m. Saturday,April 11, in the fellowship hall.A buffet lunch will be served.The speaker will be LindaWallpe of the Southwest OhioDaffodil Association. Cost is a$10 ticket donation.

An exploration of the Book ofJudges began March 1 and isoffered at 10:45 a.m. in Room120.

Women’s Monday Group meets

10:30 a.m. to noon in room 120.The group is reading “What’s soAmazing About Grace” byPhiliip Yancey.

Lenten Study: Examine the 12Disciples in their on-the-jobtraining to become Disciples ofJesus: 9:15, Room 120; 10:45 inthe Manse; Wednesday night at7 p.m., Media Center.

Beth Moore Women’s Study:Children of the Day: 1st and 2ndThessalonians is being studied.Meets Wednesday, Room 120,9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Watoto Children’s Choir fromKampala, Uganda, Africa, willperform a free concert with afree-will offering at 7 p.m. May14, in the main Sanctuary.Orphans themselves, the choirtravel world-wide advocatingfor children whose familieshave been touched by HIV/AIDS, war, & poverty. There willbe a free-will offering that willbe given to the General fund ofWatoto.

Women of the New Testament:meeting 9:30-11:30 a.m., on thefirst and third Tuesdays of eachmonth in Room 120.

Harmony Group is studying TheFamily of Jesus by Karen Kings-bury from 7-8:30 p.m. on thethird Tuesday of each month, inRoom 120.

Lamplighters, a self-led smallgroup, is studying II Corinthians.Join the group from 7 p.m. to8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, in theMedia Center.

Men’s Bible Group meets onWednesday mornings from 6:45a.m. to 7:30 a.m. in Room 120,studying I Corinthians.

The fourth Sunday of eachmonth, the church family willconnect together at the 10:45service. No Sunday Schoolexcept for Preschool - Kin-dergarten.

Mother of a preschooler? Jointhe MOPS group (Mothers ofPreschoolers). Free childcare isprovided. The group meets9:30-11:30 a.m., the secondWednesday of each month,Room 229.

Stone Masons Men’s SaturdayBible Study is discussing“Twelve Ordinary Men,” a bookabout the disciples, will bestudied. Meets in Room 120,8:30-10 a.m. Coffee and donutswill be served.

The church is at 11800 Mason-Montgomery Road, SymmesTownship; 683-0254;sycamorechurch.org.

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GRRAND – Golden RetrieverRescue and Adoption of NeedyDogs takes in needy displaced,abandoned or unclaimed straygolden retrievers and placesthem in volunteer foster homesuntil adoptive families arefound. Call 1-866-981-2251 andleave your name and phone.Visit www.ggrand.org. emailwww.cincygrrand @yahoo.com.

League For Animal Welfare – Ano-kill shelter needs volunteers16-and-older to help socializecats and 18-and-older to social-ize and walk dogs. Otheropportunities available. Call735-2299, ext. 3.

Save the Animals Foundation –Needs people 18 and older tostaff its shelter for homelesscats and dogs. Call 378-0300 forcats and 588-6609 for dogs.

Spring Grove Cemetery andArboretum – has a new horti-culture volunteer program.Volunteer opportunities in-clude working side by sideSpring Grove’s nationally-renowned horticulture team atthis National Historic Land-mark. Groups of volunteers willbe developed to help in thefollowing areas: keeping thefront entrance area lookingspectacular, controlling invasivespecies, taking care of the treeand shrub collection. They arealso looking for a volunteer, orvolunteers, to help with thehybrid tea roses. New volun-teers join the volunteer docentswho are ambassadors for thecemetery and arboretum.Information sessions, conduct-ed the last Saturday and firstWednesday of each month, willexplain the volunteer opportu-nities. Sessions are at 10 a.m. inthe Historic Office, just insidethe main entrance to thecemetery. For more informa-tion, contact volunteer coor-dinator Whitney Huang, SpringGrove horticulturist, at 853-6866.

Tri State County Animal Re-sponse Team (CART) – Is at11216 Gideon Lane in SycamoreTownship. Meetings are opento the public. Visitwww.tristatecart.com formonthly subjects or moreinformation. Call 702-8373.

Winton Woods Riding Center –is in need of volunteers to assistwith the Special Riders Pro-gram, which provides trainingand competition opportunitiesfor children and adults withdisabilities, and to help withbarn duties, horse shows and avariety of other tasks. Noexperience is necessary andtraining is provided. Interestedindividuals ages 14 and olderare invited to contact theWinton Woods Riding Centerat 931-3057, or [email protected].

PROFESSIONALSERVICES

Executive Service Corps ofCincinnati – Professionals canuse their administrative skills tohelp a busy, growing nonprofitmanage its projects and mem-bers. Executive Service Corps ofCincinnati is looking for some-one with experience in Word,Excel, Power Point and Outlookto assist in the Blue Ash office.Volunteers set their own daysand hours and enjoy niceworking conditions and friend-ly, bright volunteers and staff.Help the ESCC help othernonprofits succeed. ContactDarlyne Koretos for moreinformation at 791-6230, ext.10. ESCC is at 10945 ReedHartman Highway, Suite 108.

HEALTH/WELLNESSAmerican Diabetes Association– Seeks volunteers in its areaoffice Downtown for clericalsupport, filling requests foreducational materials fromphone requests, data entry,special events support andcoordinating the health fair.Call 759-9330.

American Heart Association –Volunteers needed to assist

with the American HeartAssociation’s cause campaigns,Power to End Stroke, Go RedFor Women, Start!, and theAlliance for a Healthier Genera-tion. Assignments includeclerical work, event specificduties and community out-reach. Contact the AmericanHeart Association at 281-4048or email [email protected].

Bayley Place – is looking forvolunteer drivers to help pro-vide transportation to areaseniors. Volunteers will receivetraining and scheduling can bean afternoon each week or justa few hours each month. It isvery flexible. Call 559-2200, orvisit www.ITNGreaterCincinna-ti.org.

Bethesda North Hospital – hasopenings for adult volunteersin several areas of the hospital.Call 865-1164 for informationand to receive a volunteerapplication.

Cancer Free Kids – is looking forkids who need service hours todo an “Athletes For Alex” usedsports equipment drive in theirneighborhood or at yoursporting event, and fightchildhood cancer. VisitCancerfreekids.org and click onAthletes for Alex for moreinformation.

Captain Kidney EducationalProgram – Needs volunteersone or more mornings orafternoons a month during theschool year to educate childrenin first- through sixth-gradesabout kidney function anddisease. Training provided. Call961-8105.

Crossroads Hospice – CrossroadsHospice seeks compassionatevolunteers to join its team of“Ultimate Givers,” who striveto provide extra love andcomfort to terminally ill pa-tients and their familiesthroughout the Cincinnatiregion.

“Ultimate Givers” visit withpatients in their homes, assist-ed living facilities and nursingfacilities, and help with clericalduties at the Crossroads office.They provide emotional sup-port and companionship topatients and family members,assist with errands, or providerespite for those caring forterminally ill loved ones.

Crossroads welcomes studentvolunteers 16 years or older.Activities may include readingto patients, playing cards,participating in arts and craftsand providing office help. Bydonating as little as 45 minutesper week, students can helpfulfill community service hourrequirements.

Crossroads Hospice is also seek-ing volunteers, includingstudents, to support its signa-ture programs inspired by JimStovall’s novel, “The UltimateGift.” The “Gift of a Day”program asks patients whattheir perfect day is and staffand volunteers work to make ita reality.

For more information or to signup as an “Ultimate Giver,”please call 793-5070 or com-plete an application online athttp://bit.ly/Uw5bSX.

Before becoming a CrossroadsHospice “Ultimate Giver,”participants must complete anapplication, TB skin test, andtraining session lead by mem-bers of the Crossroads team.Volunteers must wait a mini-mum of one year after thedeath of an immediate familymember or loved one beforeapplying.

Destiny Hospice – is seekingcaring and compassionatepeople to make a difference inthe life of a person living withterminal illness. No special skillsor experience needed; simply awillingness to help providecomfort and support. Ori-entation is scheduled to fit thevolunteer’s schedule. Opportu-nities are available throughoutthe Cincinnati, Middletown andButler County area. ContactAngie at 554-6300, or am-claughlin@destiny-hospice. com.

Evercare Hospice and PalliativeCare – is seeking volunteers inall Greater Cincinnati communi-ties. Evercare provides care forthose facing end-of-life issuesand personal support to theirfamilies. Volunteers needed tovisit with patients and/or assistin administrative and clericaltasks. Volunteers may providecare wherever a patient resides,whether in a private home ornursing facility. Call 1-888-866-8286 or 682-4055.

Grace Hospice – is looking for

volunteers to share their time,skills and talents with patientsand families facing end-of-lifechallenges and needs. Volun-teers are offered many oppor-tunities, including offeringemotional support and com-panionship by visiting patientsin their homes, nursing homesor assisted living communities;reminiscing or participating inlife-enhancing activities withveterans; playing a patient’sfavorite tune, reading a favor-ite book; providing respite careto the caregiver, assistingadministrative office staff, fromfiling and copying to designingand editing. Grace Volunteersreceive training to ensure thatthey are prepared for theirassigned tasks. Assignments aremade according to the volun-

teer's location preference andpersonal schedule. Trainingclasses are free of charge andare now forming. ContactShelby Duncan, volunteercoordinator, at 513-458-5545 oremail [email protected] register.

Heartland Hospice – is seekingvolunteers to assist with pa-tients and their families. Heart-land will train interested per-sons who are needed to sittingat the bedside and providingvigils for persons withoutfamilies available. They couldalso use some extra people towork in the office. Call Jacque-line at 513-831-5800.

Hospice of Southwest Ohio –Seeks volunteers to help inproviding hospice services.Volunteers share their time

with patients and/or families inmany activities, such as read-ing, singing, reminiscing andother life-enhancing activitiesas well as providing respite careto the caregiver themselves.Volunteers are encouraged toshare ideas to enhance the livesof individuals experiencing thisimportant journey, Call 528-8144, or e-mail [email protected].

Hoxworth Blood Center –Hoxworth is recruiting peopleto help during communityblood drives and blood dona-tion centers in the area. Posi-tions include: Blood drive hosts,greeters, blood donor recruit-ers and couriers. Call HelenWilliams at 558-1292 [email protected].

iTNGreaterCincinnati – is look-

ing for volunteer drivers totake seniors and visually-impaired adults to many differ-ent destinations around thecity (work, grocery store,doctor appointments, beautysalon, church, etc.) Volunteersdrive within the Interstate 275loop, and to the airport. Driverschoose when they drive, andrides are given close to wherethey live. Contact Nancy Schus-ter at 559-2200.

The Jewish Hospital – 4777 E.Galbraith Road, Kenwood,needs adult volunteers. Shiftsare available 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.Monday through Friday. Volun-teers receive a free meal ticketfor each day he or she volun-teers four or more hours, plus

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

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Xavier University isseeking applicants fromyoung adult faith-basedgroups coming togetherto receive up to $500 toundertake a collabora-tive service projectsthat will benefit thelocal community.

2015 marks the 50thanniversary of NostraAetate, an innovativeCatholic Church docu-ment proclaiming theimportance of coopera-tion among people ofdifferent faiths for thebetterment of society.

To celebrate thisimportant teaching,which hits at the core ofXavier’s Jesuit tradi-tion, the University andneighboring faith com-munities are sponsoring

The Interfaith Initia-tive: Caring and Cele-brating 50 Years with 50Service Projects.

Here’s how it works:Groups of youth andyoung adults of diversefaith traditions are in-vited to join together toform an interfaith work-ing group to engage in acommunity serviceactivity. Through thegenerosity of an anony-mous donor, each com-bined group is eligibleto receive up to $500towards their serviceproject.

The type of activityis open: working withissues impacting theunderserved, such aspoverty, the environ-ment, the disabled, ani-

mal rights, the aged,immigrants and refu-gees, etc. Any activitythat seeks to make achange for the better-ment of our regionalcommunity will be con-sidered.

The Archdiocese ofCincinnati, Center forHolocaust and Human-ity Education, HebrewUnion College-Instituteof Religion and TheIslamic Center of Great-er Cincinnati as well asthe Xavier Universitycommunity, are all sup-porting the call to actionand encouraging partic-ipation through theirmember networks.

An application re-view process is under-way. For more informa-

tion as well as the appli-cation form visit thejesuitresource.org orclick on this link: http://goo.gl/iPm0Ii. Followthe Interfaith Initiativeprojects on Twitter at#InterfaithCare.

“This unique cele-bration of Nostra Aetateallows Xavier to show-case and expand ourcommitment to commu-nity engagement andmission of forming menand women for others,”said Xavier PresidentThe Rev. Michael J.Graham. “I stronglyencourage every faith-based organization inour community to par-ticipate in this rare andunique opportunity.”

Funding available for localyouth service projects

High school studentswho are interested inengineering are invitedto a special presentation

Tuesday,April 14,hosted bythe Uni-versity ofNotreDameClub ofGreaterCincin-nati.

The featured guestspeaker from NotreDame’s College of Engi-neering will be Cather-ine Pieronek, associatedean for academic af-fairs and director, Wom-en’s Engineering Pro-gram.

The event will befrom 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. inthe Mt. Notre DameHigh School library, 711E. Columbia Ave. inReading, a half mile

north of the Ronald Rea-gan Cross County High-way at the Ridge Roadexit). It is free and noadvance registration isrequired.

Pieronek will discussopportunities for engi-neering students at theUniversity of NotreDame, present an over-view of the admissionsprocess, and share in-formation about “IEP:Introduction to Engi-neering” – the two-weeksummer program of-fered at Notre Dame forrising high school sen-iors.

The April event isespecially targeted tocurrent sophomores andjuniors and their par-ents, but interestedfreshmen all also wel-come. For more infor-mation, contact the clubat [email protected] 513-703-5107.

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free parking. Call 686-5330.Mercy Health-Anderson andClermont Hospitals – areseeking volunteers for morethan 50 roles. Volunteers workaround their personal sched-ules. Volunteers will receiveorientation and training tohelp them become comfort-able in the hospital environ-ment. Some areas in need ofvolunteers are the gift shop,patient partnering, emergencydepartment, diagnostic center,reception desks, dietary serviceand other departments.Compassion and respect forothers guide the MercyHealth’s volunteers as theysupport hospital staff in pro-viding the highest quality care

to our patients and visitors.Contact Volunteer Services byphone or stop by the office at:Anderson Hospital, located at7500 State Road, AndersonTownship, 624-4676; ClermontHospital, located at 3000Hospital Drive, Batavia, 732-8582. Visit e-mercy.com, thenclick “Volunteering” on thetop navigation bar (http://e-mercy.com/volunteering.aspx)for additional information oran online application. Volun-teer opportunities are avail-able to adults and teens overthe age of 16. We interview allapplicants to assess interestsand skills. We strive to create asensitive and appropriatematch between the volunteerand the area of need. Freeparking is offered.

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Pollen and moldcounts are again avail-able. This is a publicservice provided by theSouthwest Ohio AirQuality Agency eachyear during pollen andmold season, from Feb-ruary through the endof November.

Pollen and moldcounts are reportedafter 10 a.m., Mondaythrough Friday.

There are severalways that residents canaccess pollen and moldcounts:

1. Visit Southwest-OhioAir.org.

2. Follow Twit-ter.com/swohioair.

3. Like Face-book.com/Southwest-OhioAir.

4. Call the Pollen andMold Hotline at 513-946-7753.

“During May, we seea rise in pollen fromhickory, pine, oak andwalnut trees,” monitor-ing and analysis su-pervisor Anna Kelleysaid. “Ragweed is theprimary pollen aller-gen in the fall, usuallyappearing in late Au-gust through most ofSeptember.”

Molds tend to bemore active during thewet, rainy periods ofspring and again in the

fall as nature begins todecay before winter.

There are steps al-lergy-sufferers cantake to ease theirsymptoms. One of theeasiest tactics is toavoid being outdoors inthe morning when pol-len counts tend tospike. It may be helpfulto take a shower at theend of the day to re-move pollen and moldfrom one’s hair andskin. Additional sug-gestions can be foundin the Agency’s free,downloadable bro-chure, Living WithAllergies.

The Southwest OhioAir Quality Agencyworks with govern-ment agencies, busi-nesses, communitiesand citizens to achieveand maintain healthyair quality for South-west Ohio. The agencyis a division of theHamilton County De-partment of Environ-mental Services, whichalso encompasses theHamilton County Recy-cling and Solid WasteDistrict.

For more informa-tion, visit the South-west Ohio Air QualityAgency online at South-westOhioAir.org or onFacebook and Twitter.

Pollen, moldcountingresumes forallergy season


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Kenzie’s Closet, theunique nonprofit bou-tique that provides com-plete prom outfits forfinancially-disadvan-taged girls in the GreaterCincinnati region,kicked-off its 10th year ofservice at the Kenzie’sCloset boutique locationin O’Bryonville, with 15prom shopping daysscheduled for this year.Kenzie’s Closet hashelped more than 3,000financially-disadvan-taged students over thepast nine years.

Approximately 450girls from 65 areaschools will be servedduring this 2015 springprom season. The schoolsinclude those from ur-ban, suburban, and ruralOhio, Indiana and North-ern Kentucky schools –as far north as Dayton,Ohio, and south to theMaysville, Kentucky,area. Most students havefamily household in-comes of less than$22,000.

Kenzie’s Closet’s exec-utive director KathySmith, pointed out that“The numbers are just asmall part of the wholestory. Every young stu-dent who has been able toattend her prom becauseof the mission of Kenzie’sCloset over these pastnine years has had herown unique life story. Weknow that the opportuni-ty to feel special, beauti-ful, and loved for onevery important highschool memory means sovery much in those stu-dents’ lives.”

She continued, “Weask the students whattheir dreams are, whattheir vision of a perfectprom dress would be.They tell us their visionand then are guidedthrough the ‘shoppingexperience’ with theirown personal shopper.They leave Kenzie’s Clos-et with their “perfectoutfit” – dress, shoes, awrap, a purse, and jewel-ry. The students canattend their high schoolprom with their head

held high, feeling proud,and know that they areindeed beautiful.”

Smith voiced the im-portance of the energet-ic, devoted group ofmore than 300 volunteersannually, the donations ofprom dresses, jewelryand wraps over theyears; and financial gen-erosity of individuals,families, and the localbusiness community.

Junior and senior highschool women who havebeen referred to Kenzie’sCloset from their schoolprincipal, counselor orsocial service agencywill enjoy an once-in-a-lifetime magical after-noon and select theircomplete prom outfit. Ontheir scheduled “Shop-ping Day,” the studentsare greeted by a volun-teer who walks themthrough the process ofselecting their perfectdress, shoes, a purse,jewelry, and a wrap fortheir special night, withinthe setting of a beautiful-ly-decorated privateboutique setting. There isno cost to the student.

The idea for Kenzie’sCloset was planted whenBrynne Coletti discov-ered that one of herdaughter's classmates atSt. Ursula Academywould not be attendingher prom because of theexpense. Coletti anony-mously provided re-sources to help that stu-dent, and the seed wasplanted for developing aprogram that would helpmany more girls.

“I never dreamed thatthe idea for Kenzie’sCloset nine years agowould become such anintegral nonprofit organi-zation in the GreaterCincinnati community. Iam grateful for the in-spiring contributions ofso many who help uscontinue with this mis-sion,” founder BrynneColetti said.

Kenzie’s Closet wasnamed after Makena“Kenzie“ Anne Comisar,who was killed in a sin-gle-car accident in 2002

before she was able toattend her senior prom.

For information Ken-zie’s Closet, visitwww.kenziescloset.org.

Kenzie’s Closet is at2010 Madison Road.

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Holly Lesan ofLoveland andBekah Goldie ofLoveland at theannual Kenzie'sCloset fundraisingevent, "Girls' NightOut," at Hyde ParkCountry Club.

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LOVELANDIncidents/investigationsCriminaldamaging-knowingly500 block of Loveland MadeiraRoad, March 11.

Disorderly conduct-intoxicated annoy or alarm300 block of W. Loveland Ave.,March 13.

Drug abuse- possess/use100 block of W. Loveland Ave.,March 15.

Drug paraphernalia -marijuana11800 block of Rich Road, March11.

400 block of Carrington Lane,March 11.

Drugparaphernalia-use/possess100 block of W. Loveland Ave.,March 15.

Misuse of credit card-fraud1800 block of S. TimberridgeDrive, March 11.

Possession drugs

11800 block of Rich Road, March11.

Re-cite other department100 block of S. Lebanon Road,March 11.

100 block of S. Lebanon Road,March 12.

Theft - deception300 block of Loveland MadeiraRoad, March 12.

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INCIDENTS/INVESTIGATIONSAssaultMale was struck by vehicle at6000 block of Catherine Drive,March 9.

Female was assaulted at Circle Kat Ohio 28, March 11.

Juvenile was assaulted at 1100block of Hayward Circle, March13.

Breaking and entering

DVR recorder taken from Pre-mier Bandag; $500 at MeijerDrive, March 10.

Entry made into office at 500block of Wards Corner, March11.

Alcoholic drink taken fromMacadu’s at Ohio 28, March 13.

BurglaryJewelry taken at 6600 block ofWest Knollwood Circle, March12.

Criminal damageVehicle driven through yards at1200 block of Monticello,March 11.

Headstones tipped over atEvergreen Cemetery at CenterSt., March 14.

Criminal trespassTrespassing on property at 900block of Long Lane, March 13.

Disorderly conductMale acting in disorderly man-ner caused road hazard at 500block of Ibold, March 10.

Fighting reported at MilfordHigh at 1 Eagles Way, March 10.

Drug possession,paraphernaliaMale possessed items in vehicleat traffic stop at area of Ohio28 at Woodville, March 11.

FraudFemale stated ID used with noauthorization (IRS tax related)at 700 block of Cedar Drive,

March 11.Misuse of credit cardFemale reported offense at 1000block of Bayhill Lane, March 12.

TheftBottle of vodka taken from CVSat Ohio 131, March 9.

Wallet taken at 1100 block ofSpring Ridge Court, March 10.

Carpet washer, etc. taken fromMeijer; $220 at Ohio 28, March10.

Lottery money taken from VFW;$800 at Ohio 131, March 11.

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To contact your localpolice department: » Loveland, 583-3000» Miami Township, 248-3721» Symmes Township,774-6351 or 683-3444

LOVELAND1 Apache Court: Edgar Construc-tion LLC to Drake PropertyManagement LLC; $39,900.

1 Apache Court: U.S. Bank TrustNA Tr. to Edgar ConstructionLLC; $31,500.

125 Lakeview Court: Maceachen,Rod to Rath, Kelly A.; $331,000.

849 Marbea Drive: Vail, Tina D.to Bachtell, Michele; $117,000.

418 Park Ave.: Bonnell, Terry W.& Linda K. to Lail, James J. &

Amanda L.; $157,000.185 Wall St.: Williams, James R.to Williams, Bryan Sucessor T.;$75,000.

SYMMES TOWNSHIP8833 Chapel Square Drive:Keystone Capital Group LLC toDEA Property ManagementLLC; $312,500.

8798 Redcloud Court: Mohan,Jaison & Priya to Hueil, Geof-frey C. & Kimberly S.; $397,500.

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