Volume 2 | Issue 8 | No. 23 | August 7, 2015

COMMUNITY NEWS DEVELOPMENT FOOD CULTURE EDUCATION 5 6 10 17Free Energy Assessment For Northside Homes

Northside Equitable Development Survey

Making Rain In This Food Desert

Wordplay Cincy Rolls Out Its New Fall Lineup

FEATURE TWO NEW WOMAN OWNED BUSINESSES 12 SPOTLIGHT CINCY SUMMER STREETS RETURNS TO NORTHSIDE 14

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VOLUME 2 ISSUE 8 | CONTENT4 COMMUNITY COUNCIL NEWS

NORTHSIDE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION NEWS

5 COMMUNITY NEWS -FREE ENERGY ASSESSMENT FOR NORTHSIDE

HOMES CONTINUES IN AUGUST

6 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -NORTHSIDE EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT

INTENSIVE -SURVEY

8 HEALTH & WELLNESS -TOUCHING ME, TOUCHING YOU

9 FOOD CULTURE-HAPPENINGS AT APPLE STREET MARKET

-MAKING RAIN IN THIS FOOD DESERT -NORTHSIDE FARMER’S MARKET SWEET SUMMER TREATS

12 FEATURE - WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESSES -JENIFER SULT - OWNER OF CUT AND SEWN

-SARAH FISHER - OWNER OF THE HOOP AND NEEDLE

14 EVENT SPOTLIGHT -CINCY SUMMER STREETS RETURNS TO

NORTHSIDE

16 EDUCATION -HAPPEN’S FIRST URBAN FAIR

-WORDPLAY CINCY ROLLS OUT ITS NEW FALL LINEUP

18 OPINION -WHY IS A PATIENT NAVIGATOR NEEDED FOR

CANCER PATIENTS?

19 NORTHSIDE TIDBITS

20 EVENTS CALENDAR-AUGUST

21 MAP OF NORTHSIDE

22 SCREEN | HAPPEN NORTHSIDE-HAPPEN’S FILM CRITICS

Mission statement:As an independent monthly communication, The Northsider’s mission is to

engage and inform about life and culture in the Northside Neighborhood. As such, The Northsider is committed to providing timely, quality and

informative community news and opinions while embracing the diversity of the neighborhood.

Organizational structure:Northsider, LLC. is a Nonprofit Limited Liability Company overseen by the Northside Community Council. The Northside Community Council is a volunteer, community-based organization that provides an opportunity for all individuals and groups in the community to participate in Northside’s present and to chart Northside’s future. As such, it is committed to bringing people of diverse backgrounds and opinions together in an atmosphere

that fosters cooperation and communication.

The Northsider Monthly newspaper is published on the first Friday of the month and is distributed to businesses and residents in the

45223 zip code.

WRITERS: Ollie Kroner, Jim Swafford, Maria Dienger, Flequer Vera, Mati Senerchia,

Matt Luken, James Heller-Jackson, Cynthia M. Allen, Heather Sturgill, Caroline Baker, Ana Bird, Kamal E. Kimball, Libby Hunter, TT Stern-Enzi &

the Happen Film Critics, Steve Sunderland

Artwork: Rebecca Brunner, Happen Inc., Chris Glass, Tommy Reuff, CAIN, Sue Wilke,

Jeni Jenkins, Stephanie Kodakya Phillips, Future Life Now.

Publisher, layout, Design and managementJeni Jenkins of Uncaged Bird Design Studio

Northsider management teamOllie Kroner, Mati Senerchia, Karen Andrew, Zach Mingie, Jarrett Shedd,

Kamall Kimball, Jonathan Sears

paper rollersHappen Inc. Volunteers led by Tommy Reuff

delivery teamRiccardo Taylor, Karen Andrews, Sue Wilke, Stephen Davis, SaraLynne

Thoresen, ThoraLynne McKinney, Mati Senerchia, Noeli Senerchia, Jacob Walker, Daisy Walker, Evan Hunter-Linville, Owen Hunter-Linville, Lauren

Shockley-Smith, Meredith Shockely-Smith.

Contact us: [email protected] northsider.northside.net

CONTRIBUTORS

Rebecca is a Northside resident, a mother of one, Aidan, and owner of Essentials Green Cleaning. Along with drawing, she enjoys biking and walking around Northside and Spring Grove Cemetery, gardening, eating at the wonderful restaurants in the city, and watching the neighborhood grow and change. Currently she is passionate about growing her business and making fun summer plans with family and friends. You can find her sipping coffee and reading a good book on her porch on any given day.

COVER ART | FEATURED ARTIST

REBECCA BRUNNER

CALL TO ARTISTS | COVER ARTThe Northsider is seeking monthly cover art submissions from local artists. Artists will be paid $40 for published covers. All 2 dimensional pieces will be considered. One stipulation of publication is that the piece or a print be donated to The Northsider Annual Art Auction Fundraiser. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will be reinvested in a fund to support art projects in Northside. The remainder will help support the paper. If you are interested in having your artwork considered: email: [email protected] Subject line: Cover Art Submission

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World’s Longest Yard Sale

Every year Northside participates in the World’s Longest Yard Sale which stretches along State Route 127, also known as Hamilton Avenue around these parts. Organized by ParProjects, this year’s August 8 mar-ket will include an art market along Hoffner St. Registration and more info available at www.northsideyard-sale.com.

Cincy Summer Streets

The street festival is back August 23! Hamilton Avenue will be closed to cars, and Northside will party in the streets! Skateboarding, dancing, jousting, sidewalk painting, putt put-ting - lots to do...www.cincysummer-streets.org.

Sustainable Northside

Maybe you have noticed Northside home prices increasing? In an effort to maintain an econom-ically diverse neighborhood, NCC was awarded a grant to analyze strategies for preserving affordable housing options. We will be having two community summits August 24 and 25. Please participate!

4000 Block of Hamilton

Working with Northside Business Association, NEST, and the City, NCC is working to make improvements to the 4000 block of Hamilton. Efforts include landscaping, painting, and property improvements. Have more ideas for improvement? NCC would love to hear them!

Blue Rock Improvements

Blue Rock Street has become a major entry point into the neighbor-hood from the Colerain exit of I-74. Blue Rock will be undergoing some major improvements in the upcoming months. The sidewalks be widened, street trees will be planted, and the lanes will be reconfigured at the intersections.

MORE INFO:Meeting: Next Community Council Meeting - 7PM August 17th at McKie Rec Center. The Northside Community Council meets on the third Monday of the month (Fourth Monday January and February) at McKie Recreation Center 1655 Chase Ave. Get involved with issues that directly affect our

community! The NCC is a volunteer, community-based organization that provides an opportunity for all indi-viduals in the community to participate in Northside’s present and to chart Northside’s future. Online: www.northside.net/northside-community-council/For frequent updates, find us on Facebook!

northside community council news|NEIGHBORHOOD UPDATES

ollie kronerOllie is president of the Northside Community Council. A resident of Northside most of his life. He is an environmental scientist for TERA, Inc.

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The NBA parking lots on Hamilton Avenue have finally received the much needed maintenance to the pavement, and all parking spaces have been clearly identified. Lighting has been updated and signs will be added before summer’s end.

These public parking utilities are critical to our continued success in the redevelopment of our business district. Without clean, safe and affordable parking our retailers, eateries, and entertainment businesses would suffer significantly.

Please support the Northside parking program through each and

every one of us doing our part in paying the small fees, educating our employees and customers of their great value and convenience, and by spreading the word to everyone that Northside has the best parking pro-gram around. Everyone’s support helps to maintain and expand our community parking program. More convenient parking equals more room for custom-ers that patronize all of our businesses. Without all of your loyal patronage, we couldn’t continue to make this pro-gram successful.

A big thanks to Happen Inc. and their youth programs who have been cleaning our sidewalks this summer twice each week. Their hard work and

diligent efforts have made a marked improvement in the cleanliness of our business district sidewalks. Make sure to thank them when you see them pass-ing by. Please encourage everyone to “pitch-in” and help support these fine young folks who are supporting all of us. We can all do our share by taking the time to sweep up in front of our businesses in between their clean-up sweeps, and to remind everyone that litter hurts all of our businesses. This is OUR neighborhood, let’s keep it clean!

There are a lot of good things go-ing on, and a revitalized focus on the curb appeal and overall appearance of the business district. Great strides have been taken, many improve-

ments have been made, but there still remains much to be done. As long as we all work together towards these common goals and participate in our business district, collectively we can make a big difference. Keep up the good work!

MORE INFO:Meeting: The NBA meets the first Monday of the month at Happen, Inc, 4201 Hamilton Avenue. Enter the building through the door on Chase at Hamilton.Online: www.northside.net/nba

northside business association news|PARKING LOT UPDATES

Northside Business Association President

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community news|CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE SUSTAINERGYFREE ENERGY ASSESSMENT FOR NORTHSIDE HOMES CONTINUES IN AUGUST

Last month, you learned about the ground breaking effort led by the partnership of the City of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Union Coop

Initiative (CUCI), Empower Gas & Electric, the Green Umbrella, and Sus-tainergy Cooperative to help North-siders cut their energy bills, increase their home’s comfort, while reducing their CO2 emission and creating local jobs. A win-win for everyone!

To accomplish this, in July, Sus-

tainergy Cooperative and Empower offered FREE energy assessments to the first 30 homeowners who called. Due to how successful these first ener-gy audits proved to be, FREE energy assessments (valued at $150) will continue to be available in August. After the assessment, the homeowner will be given low cost, high impact energy upgrade recommendations to significantly reduce their energy bills, such as attic insulation, Wi-Fi Thermo-

stats, and LED lighting. This unprecedented effort in

Northside is due to the leadership of Sustainergy and CUCI who have been working on behalf of the neigh-borhood to persuade this city-wide initiative to start its energy-saving efforts here. Not only will Sustainergy improve the neighborhood’s car-bon footprint and save homeowners money, it is a Northside business and will create family-sustaining jobs in Northside!

For Northsiders who have not already heard about Sustainergy Cooperative, it is the newest social enterprise launched, by the CUCI just as it has launched or is working on launching Sustainergy’s sisters busi-ness, Apple Street Market and Our Harvest Cooperative. Sustainergy will also be a worker-owned business in which the profits are fairly shared among its worker-owners.

Sustainergy is a residential energy savings company (ESCO). The cooperative specializes in help-ing homeowners reduce their utility costs and increase indoor comfort. It provides low cost, high impact home improvements that are engineered to quickly pay for themselves through

the heating and cooling savings. Ad-ditionally, homeowner can receive up to $750 in rebates. Typically these upgrades, can save homeowners up to $900 per month.

Currently, Sustainergy is looking to hire experienced insulation in-stallers and salespeople. If you are interested in becoming a worker-own-er of the cooperative, we would love for you to apply. If interested, contact Additional training will be provided!

If you want to cut your energy bills and improve your home comfort call 614-371-8298 for your FREE assess-ment ask for your Northside business, Sustainergy Cooperative; or go online use the promo code: SUSTAINERGY at http://empowercincy.com/sustainergy/.

FOR MORE INFO:If you want to learn more about democratically owned business mod-el or want a carrier with Sustainergy Cooperative contact Flequer Vera:Call: (513) 295-7241Email: [email protected]: www.sustainergy.coop

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community development|NORTHSIDE EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT INTENSIVEWHAT DO WE DO NEXT TO KEEP NORTHSIDE DIVERSE AND AFFORDABLE?

A decade ago, Northside’s hous-ing issues were vacancy, blight,

absentee landlords and foreclosure. After years of hard work and plan-ning, the pattern is shifting. Today, many Northsiders are concerned that success-ful new developments and a trend towards higher housing prices could make the community too costly for some neighbors.

Anticipating these questions, Northside Community Council sought assistance from the US EPA Office of Sustainable Communities to explore

new tools for equitable development, a process for working together to create a stable neighborhood that meets the needs of all residents. This work builds on the 2014 Comprehen-sive Land Use Plan Update, a massive community planning effort in which Northsiders showed strong support for safe, accessible new and rehabbed housing affordable to all income levels, as well as continued growth of the independently owned businesses that make Northside’s business district unique.

The project team (Ollie Kroner, NCC president; Mati Senerchia, NCC board member; and Heather Sturgill, Northside-based community plan-ner and consultant) has completed a comprehensive self-assessment in

preparation for a two-day community listening session and implementation intensive August 24-25 (see sidebar).

Please take a few minutes take the survey on page 7 and discuss your ex-periences, concerns, and preferences about change, growth, and making a home in Northside. Survey responses will be entered into a drawing for gift cards to Northside businesses. Thank you!

WHO: You!

WHAT: Northside Equitable

Development Intensive

WHY: To plan for long-term

affordability in our community

WHERE: McKie Recreation Center,

1655 Chase Avenue

WHEN: August 24, 5:30pm-

8pm Community Listening

Session; August 25, 11am-6pm

Implementation Intensive

Mati serves on the Northside Community Council and is a writer grounded in sustainable urban planning in Cleveland and Washington, DC, where she grew up in an old streetcar suburb a lot like Northside. She has been blissfully in love with this place for eight years.

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What is special about Northside?

Is the neighborhood changing? If so, how are those changes affecting you and your neighbors? Y____ N____

What do you think this community could do to bring about positive change and preserve the things that make it special?

Where do you get information about changes in the neighborhood? Where do you share your questions, concerns and ideas about goings on in Northside?

Has your/your family’s housing situation changed in the last two years? Was it easy or difficult to find a home to rent or buy that meets your needs?

Does your current housing seem affordable to you? If not, what percentage of your monthly income goes to your rent/mortgage?_____ to utility costs?_______

What do you like and dislike about your current housing?

Do you see your/your family’s housing situation changing in the next two years? Why?

Looking ahead to your future, do you see yourself living in Northside for more than five years? More than ten years? Why or why not?

Do you expect to move or to remodel your current housing to meet your/your family’s future needs? What changes would be necessary (ie substantial repairs, increased energy efficiency, making the home accessible, adding space)? Do you feel able to make/afford those changes?

Are there types of housing that Northside needs and does not have, or does not have enough of? Are there housing models Northside should explore (ie, co-housing, Renter’s Equity, tiny houses)?

Please share any additional thoughts or questions:

Please share your contact information (optional):Name: Phone:Email: Address:

Please drop this survey off at the Northside Library or Happen, Inc. Survey responses may be shared anonymously with workshop participants, in local media, and online. Sponsored by the Northside Community Council

NORTHSIDE EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT INTENSIVE SURVEY


health & wellness| TOUCHING ME, TOUCHING YOU

Recently I was reunited with two friends. We met many years ago when we each were going through deep crises. We spent

days together in a kind of sweet inno-cence. We touched, hugged, played and breathed together. Like chil-dren, we would lie beside each other looking up at the sky, reflecting on the state of our lives and wondering how we would put them back togeth-er again. All these years later, as we hugged, I felt us melt into each other. Experiencing this particular sensation of human companionship, it awoke in me a kind of longing and a curiosity about whether connection is felt deep-est when times are rough.

Though one could say that as a Feldenkrais practitioner I touch people for a living, I was raised without much in the way of hugging. It probably wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I came to enjoy almost every opportunity to connect with a person in this way. My family wasn’t unique. Parents of the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s were schooled

to keep some physical distance from their kids once they were past the tod-dler stage. The New Yorker recently published an article on touch in which one of the original behavioral psy-chologists, John B Watson, is quoted as saying, “Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit on your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning. Give them a pat on the head if they have made an extraordinarily good job on a difficult task.” How spartan that seems to us now.

Yet even today, I believe we re-main a touch-deprived society. Social grooming is almost non-existent. Cou-ples fall into habits over time where they do very little touching. Single people may have even less opportuni-ty to feel the warmth of a hand or sit close to someone watching TV. But as primates, we were likely designed to touch those in our close tribe and gaze into each other’s eyes.

GOING TO THE DOGS

My friend, Carol Hauser, visits people in hospice with her therapy dog duo. She has many profound sto-ries on the power of her dogs’ touch. She recently told me of Jan, a wom-an in her mid-forties with only 25% lung function for whom talking and breathing is difficult. Carol, along with miniature poodle Gus, enter the room. Immediately Carol notices that Jan has particularly labored breathing. After exchanging greetings, Jan manages to say she does not want a visit. Carol un-derstands and offers to sit in the cor-

ner with Gus. “Gus?” she pants slowly and heavily. “Bring him over here.” As Gus settles in beside her on the bed and she reaches out to touch him, her breath settles. It becomes easier for the next 30 minutes. The touch of a warm poodle does something medications can’t.

IMMUNITY BOOSTER

Back in the day when I taught 2- and 3-year-olds in Sunday school, I actually wore a dress and hosiery. One of the most delectable things was when a wee one would sit down right next to me and rub a tiny hand along my leg. They loved the feel of the silky pantyhose, much like we enjoy the feel of babies’ silky skin. And I dare say that if someone was measuring my immune response after one of those impromptu touching gifts, it would have been favorable. Studies show that massage therapy or intentional touch has positive effects on elderly, new-borns and adults, the healthy and not so healthy.

IMPROVING TOUCH IN YOUR LIFE

When you touch in order to help people heal, you become very away of the different qualities of touch and how they build or destroy relation-ships. We know that not all touch is created equal. There is creepy, pushy, loving, greedy, warm and detached. There is light, hard, stroking, tickling and poking. How much touch do you

give and receive? Is there a way to improve the quality of your touch as well as the quantity? Just today a client shared how pleasant she found to glide her hands along her torso and face as I have taught for a particular exercise. Always there are options to explore.along my leg. They loved the feel of the silky pantyhose, much like we enjoy the feel of babies’ silky skin. And I dare say that if someone was measuring my immune response after one of those impromptu touching gifts, it would have been favorable. Studies show that massage therapy or intentional touch has positive effects on elderly, newborns and adults, the healthy and not so healthy.

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expert in walking, joint health and just about anything related to movement as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence. Reach her at 513.541.5720, www.futurelifenow.com, or email at [email protected].

Cynthia M. Allen


Local architects are hard at work completing the drawings required by the city for the nec-essary construction permitting.

AWG, the market’s main contracted distributor is working to complete the cost estimates for purchase of all needed store equipment, including deli areas, shelving, refrigeration, display areas, carts, checkout count-ers, etc.

Interviews are finishing up for Apple Street Market’s first General Manager and a hire should be an-nounced in the very near future.

Keep an eye open for “Apple Street Greets” from 5:30-8pm on 2nd Saturdays at lots of Northside venues, including the Chameleon (Aug. 8th) and Boswell Alley (Sept. 12th); the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in Hoff-ner Park; the Northside Art/Yard sale (Aug. 8th) on Hoffner; Summer Streets – Northside (Aug. 23rd) and many other local events happening in the neighborhood this summer. Our ded-icated volunteers at these events will not only be selling owner shares and loans, they will also be displaying a great variety of Apple Street Market merchandise, including t-shirts, yard signs, pins and now aprons, all proud-ly displaying the Apple Street Market logo and available for purchase at these local events and locations.

As of July 28, 2015, Apple Street Market is only 40 owners away from a goal of 1,000 Com-

munity Owners! That commitment of ownership is one of two big keys to unlocking a $1M loan from Cincinnati Development Fund to begin construc-tion of Northside’s new neighborhood grocery store!

As the 1,000 owner shares approaches, volunteers are shooting for another big goal, an additional $140,000 in owner loans and gifts, which completes the financial goal of $500,000 to open the store. That money is the financial “cushion” for operational expenses the first lean years of the store’s operation. Owner loans can be as small as $1,000 and as large as $10,000+ with terms of 0-3% based on length of loan (5, 7 or 9+ years). Balloon repayments will be made at the end of the term in-cluding interest compounded annual-ly. Gifts can be as large or small as desired and can be tax deductible. If you know anyone who hasn’t become an owner yet, or you could make an extra loan or gift to Apple Street contact us.

Invite friends to become an Owner Today!

• Purchase a share for $100• No annual fee• Available to everyone• Subsidized for applicants who qualify for SNAP or free & reduced lunch• Online Community-Ownership shares are available at www. ap-plestreetmarket.coop• Or, you can invite people to download the contract from our website and pay with check or Money Order to the following address:Apple Street Market Cooperative

P.O. Box 24192Cincinnati, OH 45224

FOR MORE INFO:Email: [email protected] Call: (513) 818-2328 / (513) 818-2eat.Online: www. applestreetmarket.coop

food culture| JULY/AUGUST HAPPENINGS AT APPLE STREET MARKET

Heather SturgillApple Street Market

Community-Owner Board Representative

THE NORTHSIDER IS STILL LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS TO HELP MANAGE AND RUN THE NORTHSIDER MONTHLY NEWSPAPER AS A TEAM. ARE YOU INTERESTED?

Positions Include: Managing Editor; Graphic Deisgner; Social Media Coordinators; Ad Manager; and a Delivery Manager. We are also looking for contributors to submit articles, poetry, short stories and artwork/photography. Additionally, we are open to ideas for content or special projects. We want to hear your voice! This is also a good way to gain exposure for your work and be involved with a grassroots newspaper. While this is a small budget grassroots volunteer run newspaper with limited funds available now, there is potential for this to change in the future. If you are interested or would like to find out more please send an email.

CALL TO INTERESTED EDITORS/WRITERS/JOURNALISTS/POETS/PHOTOGRAPHERS/GRAPHIC DESIGNERS

email: [email protected] Subject line: Northsider Team


Learn how you can support CAIN, Northside Farmers Market and Apple Street Market efforts to make local, healthy food more readily available in Northside.

With all the rain that we have had this summer you wouldn’t believe me if I told you that

Northside is in a desert, would you? Northside is a food desert. There is no grocery store in the entire 45223 zip code. If residents need to visit a grocery store they have to travel to neighboring communities.

CAIN-Churches Active in Northside is committed to increasing food access and providing nutrient-dense food to residents who are food insecure. CAIN was the driving force to have SNAP (food stamp) acceptance at the weekly Northside Farmers Market and promoting the double-up incentive “Produce Perks” program.

CAIN’s Executive Director MiMi Chamberlin remarks “ When a food pantry is the largest provider of fresh produce in a neighborhood, it indicates a breakdown in our common collective community life together.

An easily accessible quality grocery store is important to all residents and even more so to people with limited transportation options.”

However, there is hope for Northside. Local organizations and residents are working together to bring more food sources to this community. And the best part is that you can help too.

Every week all year round, residents can pick up fresh food at the Northside Farmers Market. Each week CAIN has a representative ready to accept donations for a campaign called “Another for a Neighbor.” This is how it works: when you are at the Market purchasing your favorite food item, buy an extra. Bring it over to CAIN’s booth and it will be taken back to the pantry and made available the next day for families in need. Your donation will ensure that fresh and healthy food is available to everyone in the Northside food desert.

Another way to help your neighbors is through the Apple Street Market. You have probably seen the yard signs in your neighbor’s lawn,

ran into your friend wearing an Apple Street Market button, and seen them marching in the 4th of July parade. Supporters of the market are working hard to bring not just rain but a monsoon to this desert.

CAIN is doing their part. Thanks to the Apple Street supporters, CAIN’s guests can sign up to be owners with a fee as little as $1. As of July 28th, CAIN has signed up over 100 owners. The Apple Street Market is still in need of your support. Please visit their website for more information.

With your help and support Northside will be able to turn into the beautiful oasis it is meant to be. In the meantime as we watch the weather, so to speak, help out those neighbors who are struggling to get food. Carpool to the grocery store. Invite them to the farmers market. Do what you can to make sure every Northsider is taken care of properly and is receiving the healthy and nutritious food they deserve.

FOR MORE INFO:Each Wednesday the Northside Farmer’s Market partners provide fresh produce & baked goods for the CAIN Choice Food Pantry. CAIN needs volunteers to manage the donation booth, gather donations at the end of the evening and help to transport the donations to the CAIN pantry a few blocks away. The time commitment is from 3:30pm to 7:30pm on Wednesday. Please contact Judy Radina. Email: [email protected] Online: www.cainministry.orgCall: (513) 591-2246

Caroline Baker is working this summer through the Scripps Howard Foundation Nonprofit Internship Program for Churches Active in Northside. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she is a junior marketing student at University of Cincinnati.

Caroline Baker

food culture| MAKING RAIN IN THIS FOOD DESERTLOCAL ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO MAKE FOOD ACCESSIBLE TO NORTHSIDERS

Some of the beautiful produce donated through “Another for a Neighbor” at the Northside Farmers Market.

HOW IT WORKSYou purchase and donate an additional item from

the market to CAIN

CAIN gives the items to our Northside neighbors who would otherwise

go without.

This program is designed to encourage customers at the Northside Farmer’s Market to purchase an additional item and then donate it to

CAIN. The food donated is offered to our Northside neighbors the very next morning at the CAIN food pantry. Your generosity allows CAIN to offer local & nutritional food options to those who aren’t able to affort

it while also supporting our local farms and businesses! With your generosity we help hundreds of households a year!


Fresh summer produce is the star of farmers markets, but any good market team works to round out the selection to

include as many locally made items as possible so that customers can com-plete more of their weekly shopping in one place.

Since the Northside Farmers Market opened for the 2015 outdoor season, it has added several new vendors. To compliment the current 14 farmers, 4 bakers, 3 prepared food vendors, one coffee roaster, one soap maker, and three food trucks, the market added Baudry, LLC, which specializes in Éclairs, and Aunt Flora’s, Cincinnati pie maker. Desserts found at the farmers market can be health-ier than processed cookies and pies from a grocery store. The artisan bakers and cooks of the Northside Farmers Market prefer natural and whole ingredients, and work to source ingredients locally when possible.

Here is a list of vendors who sell sweet treats at your local farmers market:

AIM SpecialtyThis young family from Adams

County drives to our market every other week to whip up sourdough donuts for market customers. Aunt Flora’s

The market’s newest vendor sells

whole pies in fresh flavors.Baudry, LLC

Baudry attends the market every other week with exquisite Éclairs and cream puffs. Perhaps the most dec-adent dessert at the market, Baudry offers multiple flavors of fillings, like Lime and Chocolate. Blue Oven Bakery

Maker of the city’s tastiest choc-olate or almond croissants, Blue Oven also serves up seasonally flavored Danish.Carriage House Farm

Some of the best honey in town. Natural and delicious.Chocolats Latour

Chocolats Latour frequents the market in the spring, fall and winter, when the weather is cool enough to have chocolate out without melting. Chocolate bars feature local ingre-dients in unusual flavor combinations and the candies are works of art.Cluxton Alley

Hidden among locally roasted coffee beans, you can usually find some decedent coconut macaroons on their table.Cucina Della Patrizia

Patrizia gives you good reason to stop by her booth every week. She makes authentic Italian desserts like

her lemon scented ricotta dish and fruit tarts made with fresh berries she picks herself on a farm in Indiana.Early Bird Garden and Bakery

Emily from Early Bird lives in Northside and bakes gluten free and vegan cookies, muffins, and scones that are full of flavor.Running Creek Farm

Starting around February and March, Running Creek has maple syr-up for sale tapped from local trees. It doesn’t last till summer, so make sure to visit the market in winter 2016 to get a bottle.Shadeau Breads

Shadeau brings pecan rolls and scrumptious blueberry Danish.Street Pops

For something cool and refreshing

to eat at the market, try a Cincinnati made popsicle in fun flavors.

FOR MORE INFO: The Northside Farmers Market is held every Wednesday, from 4-7pm, year round. Market Location: May - Oct 15: Jacob Hoffner Park, 4101 Hamilton Ave Northside. Visit us Online: www.northsidefm.org

food culture - Northside Farmer’s market| SWEET SUMMER TREATS

(Left) Cream Puffs from Baudry LLC. (Above) Summer Berry Tart from Cucina Della Patrizia. Photos: Jacqueline McClintock.

Ana Bird works at Northside Farmers Market as Market Manager, and at Imago, as program coordinator in environmental education, and authors Cincinnati food blog Our Local Kitchen. She also teaches youth ballet classes at UC and Baker Hunt Cultural Center.

ANA BIRD


feature | WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS

JENIfER SUlTOwNER Of CUT aNd SEwN

Cincinnati’s Fashion Tradition Gets a 21st Century Update

At the turn of the 20th century, Cin-cinnati’s downtown garment dis-trict was a thriving hub of fashion manufacturing that was unrivaled

anywhere else in the region. Over the years, textile manufacturing waned and the vibrant network of milliners, tailors, and dressmakers was replaced with cheaper, outsourced pro-duction. Unlike our grandparent’s wardrobes, modern closets now bulge with disposable and often ill-fitting clothes. Jenifer Sult, owner of Cut and Sewn on Hamilton Ave, hopes to help “bring a little bit of the old way back”—but with her own modern twist.

Harkening back to an earlier era, Cut and Sewn creates custom, made-to-order clothes for individual clients, just like the dressmakers and tailors of old. In addition to creating hand-made clothing, a large portion of Cut and Sewn’s business is focused on helping design entrepreneurs prototype and produce tex-tile goods on a small scale before they hit market. Though Cut and Sewn has only been in the space since June, Jenifer isn’t new to the world of fashion. She started sewing as a child and hasn’t stopped since. This lifelong interest led her to start her business five years ago out of her Northside home. When sewing projects began taking over every room in the house, Jenifer knew it was time to move Cut and Sewn to its own space, and the Hamilton Ave. studio was born.

These days, she’s not only staying busy with

her existing business and individ-ual clients, she’s also working on a line of sewing patterns that she plans to bring to the DIY enthu-siasts of Cincinnati. She hopes her patterns will be part of the movement towards what she deems “slow fashion,” a lot like slow food. “We are all becom-ing more aware of what’s going

on environmentally,” Jenifer says, but it will take “growth between designers and consumers coming to the realization that we need to change.” From pesticide use to the water waste in cotton pro-duction to the unsafe working conditions in textile factories, the global impacts of the fashion indus-try are sizable.

By helping people learn to make their own clothes and by bringing small-scale manufacturing to local start-ups, Cut and Sewn is making fash-ionable strides towards a more ethical and envi-ronmentally-conscious future. Jenifer has recently added a composter on premises for muslin and paper scraps. She is also working on a clothing

line called ‘Mend and Make Do,’ an homage to the 1940s waste-not-want-not mentality. This eclectic line is made exclusively of vintage textile and left-over fabric scraps, creating something totally new that also has a smaller carbon footprint.

Though Cut and Sewn is not a retail space and is open by appointment only, Jenifer has ambitions to engage the community through pop-up shops, special arts and music events, and by opening up for Second Saturdays. Follow Cut and Sewn on Facebook and at jsult.com and cutsewn.com to stay up to date on upcoming special events. If you’d like to add a Cut and Sewn original to your ward-robe, stop by the shop during September’s Sec-ond Saturday (9/12) for the debut of the ‘Mend and Make Do’ line, or check out Cut and Sewn on Etsy. Cut and Sewn welcomes collaboration, and is currently on the hunt for the right tailor to begin offering alteration services to the community out of the Hamilton Ave. workshop. Prospective collabo-rators are encouraged to reach out.

FOR MORE INFO: Location: 4183 Hamilton Avenue Call: (513) 832-8706Online: www.cutsewn.comFacebook: JSultHandmade

“We are all becoming more aware of what’s going on environmentally but it will take growth between designers and consumers coming to the realization that we need to change.”

Kamal E. Kimball

Kamal has called Northside home since February and loves all that the neighborhood has to offer! When she’s not stuffing her face at Melt or Django, she can be found listening to

live music at Northside Tavern and Tacocracy.


DIY Crafts with Attitude

The term “cross-stitch” may conjure up images of blue-haired elderly ladies making hokey little “Bless This Mess” wall hangings, but The Hoop and Needle on Hamilton Avenue

is a far cry from traditional. Proprietor Sarah Fisher creates snarky, irreverent cross-stitch pat-terns that juxtapose cute little hearts, flowers, and flourishes with phrases such as “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” and, one of her bestsellers, “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Sarah first started in the world of subversive crafting back in 2009 with her original cross-stitch design company, Purple Hippo Stitches. Though she picked up cross-stitching as a child, she found the conventional cross-patterns featuring teddy bears and angels less than inspiring. When she picked cross-stitch back up as a graduate student at

Indiana University, she found that cross-stitch and embroidery had come a long way from the samplers of the past. Quirky new designs had

begun gaining popularity among a younger crop of stitchers. As she began to create modern cross-stitch patterns in her free time and travel with her designs to DIY and craft shows (including Cincin-nati’s own Crafty Supermarket), Purple Hippo Stitches grew into a full-time pursuit.

In June of 2014, the success of Purple Hippo Stitches led Sarah to open a brick-and-mortar storefront in Over-the-Rhine called The Hoop and Needle. The shop focuses on providing ironic and whimsical, but still beginner-friendly, embroidery and cross-stitch supplies, classes, and resources. A quick primer for the uninitiated: Embroidery is a free-form technique for hand-sewing designs onto fabric which uses hundreds of different possible stitches. Cross-stitching is a specific type of em-broidery stitch which involves mapping a design onto gridded fabric and filling in the design with a series of Xs. The Hoop and Needle offers supplies

for both techniques, as well as much more for the needlecraft-enthusiast.

Though the OTR shop was a great first start, the space was on the small side and the creative community is so strong in Northside that it seemed a natural fit for The Hoop and Needle. Sarah, her husband, and three cats have a home in Northside, and “half of the people I know that are involved in the DIY craft scene live in Northside,” she says.

The Hoop and Needle joined the Hamilton Ave. business district in

June of 2015, and the new space is much larger, allowing the shop to begin offering an increased selection of DIY kits. The shop also holds classes for beginning and experienced stitchers, including monthly BYOB Sip and Stitch nights. Curious stitch-ers are encouraged to come see what it’s all about at the next one, scheduled for Thursday, August 27 from 6-9 pm. Upcoming classes include an embroi-dery-stitch basics class and a plush toy-making session.

FOR MORE INFO: Location: 4019 Hamilton Avenue Call: (330) 715-6064To see a full list of events and to stay up to dateVisit: www.thehoopandneedle.comFacebook: hoopandneedle

feature | WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS

SaRah fIShER OwNER Of ThE hOOp aNd NEEdlE

Kamal E. Kimball

Kamal has called Northside home since February and loves all that the neighborhood has to offer! When she’s not stuffing her face at Melt or Django, she can be found listening to

live music at Northside Tavern and Tacocracy.


event spotlight|CINCY SUMMER STREETS RETURNS TO NORTHSIDE AUGUST 23 — FUN, FREE ACTIVITIES


For the second year in a row, Cin-cy Summer Streets will open up Northside’s largest public place – the streets – and create a car-

free space for everyone to walk, bike,

mingle and play. Special, fun and free

activities will take place at “play-

stops” along Hamilton Avenue.

“At each event this summer, a ma-

jor street in the neighborhood will be

closed to cars and opened to the pub-

lic to bike, run, walk, skateboard, play

and create art,” said Margy Waller,

co-founder. “You can rent bikes at the

event or bring your own. We’ll also

be filling a crosswalk with art in the

neighborhood—and everyone gets to

be an artist too.”

A climbing wall, bike skills course,

lawn bowling, mini golf, jousting, hula

hooping, yoga, dancing, art-making,

crosswalk painting and more will take

place in the heart of Northside. Spun

Bicycles, WordPlay and Galaxie

Skateboard will have demonstra-

tions and activities at stops out on

the street. The Apple Street Market,

Chicken Lays an Egg, North Church,

Family Enrichment Center, Taylor

Jameson Salon and Northside Farm-

er’s Market are also participating

with a presence outside on Hamilton

Avenue.

“Cincy Summer Streets was a

blast last year,” said Judi LoPresti,

who owns Spun Bicycles with her hus-

band, Dominic. “We love the opportu-

nity to show kids and adults what BMX

is all about. Cincy Summer Streets is

a fantastic way to bring a community

together and celebrate summer totally

and completely car free.”

• NORTHSIDE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 23,

11:00 AM TO 3:00 PM – HAMILTON

AVE. BETWEEN PULLAN AVE. AND

SPRING GROVE AVE.

• OVER THE RHINE: SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 26, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

– PLEASANT ST. FROM WASHINGTON

PARK TO FINDLAY MARKET (WEST

14TH STREET TO GLASS ALLEY).

“In 2015, our second year, we’re

thrilled to bring Cincy Summer Streets

to Walnut Hills, Northside and Over-

the-Rhine, three of Cincinnati’s most

vibrant neighborhoods,” said Anne

Sesler, co-founder. “We had a great

event in Walnut Hills in June and we

know the Northside community will

have a strong presence again this

year.”

Parking will be available near

each route and on side streets

throughout the neighborhoods. Also,

it’s easy to bike and take Metro to the

events.

Cincy Summer Streets 2015 is

sponsored by Interact for Health, The

Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./US

Bank Foundation and John A. Schroth

Family Charitable Trust, PNC, Trust-

ee with support from Topic Design.

Northside’s Summer Streets is sup-

ported by the Northside Community

Council, Northside Business Association,

Art on the Streets and the Cincinnati

Development Fund.

MORE INFO:

Visit www.cincysummerstreets.org,

follow Summer Streets at facebook.

com/CincySummerStreets, Twitter @

cincystreets and Instagram/cincystreets

with #cincystreets.

James is a Northside resident and business owner, member Northside Community Council Executive Board, member Northside Business Association Executive Board, and member, Northside Farmers Market Advisory Board. Professional Northside Shill.

James Heller- Jackson


Happen, Inc. held its first Urban Fair on Saturday August 1st to celebrate their project to make Happen’s Do Goods

Garden totally accessible to all mem-bers of the community. This event also coincided with the 25th anniversary celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act which took place on Fountain Square on July 25th. “We are starting over, from the ground up to make our garden fully wheelchair accessible” said Happen Director,

Tommy Rueff. For over four

years Happen has been producing educational programs and fresh vegetables from the Happen’s Do Goods Garden Program. Last year children harvested over 200 pounds of vegetables for the CAIN food pantry. They also grew 32

native oak trees from seed which were then adopted and planted by people throughout the communi-ty. “We built a great garden with wonderful programs for the community but we didn’t make it accessible,” said Rueff “Now we have a goal to not only make it accessible but to create a garden that can educate and inspire the entire community. If we believe in our Happen theme that ‘Community is not just where you live, it’s how you live with other people’, then we need

to do everything we can to make our gardens accessible to everyone.”

Over the last 18 month, Happen has been working with community leader, Heather Sturgill and Engi-neers Without Borders to redesign the garden. The plan is not only to meet ADA polices and standards, but in typical Happen fashion, to create new garden features that will allow anyone to be totally immersed in nature. Happen and its partners hope the new garden will bring attention to smart, creative and simple features that other community gardens can incorporate to make their own spaces more accessible. Saturday’s Urban Fair celebration was the first public announcement of the garden redesign and included a display of the new garden’s layout and features. Over 200 community members attended the event that included seven tents of activities and information, a petting zoo, horseback rides in the Happen Outside space and a community grill out. The urban surroundings on Gulow

Street were transformed on Saturday with people and animals celebrating the environment, sustainability and the entire community. “It was awesome to see” said Rueff.

FOR MORE INFO:An incredible amount of work remains for Happen to meet its goal of a first harvest from the new garden in the fall of 2016. If you would like to get involved or find out more information about Happen’s outdoor programs, please contact us. Call: (513) 751-2345 E-mail: [email protected]: www.happeninc.org

Happen Inc. Art activities for parents & children4201 Hamilton Ave (& Chase) HOURS: 3:30 - 7:30PM (Tue.-Thu.) 10AM - 5PM (Sat.)

education|HAPPEN’S FIRST URBAN FAIR

Matt Luken


education|SPOKEN WORD, SCIENCE FICTION, AND... PHILOSOPHY?WORDPLAY CINCY ROLLS OUT ITS NEW FALL LINEUP

Just inside the front door, past shelves full of type-writers, a complete set of Nancy Drew myster-

ies and curiosities from days gone by, are a pair of old, patterned curtains marking the entrance to the WordPlay writing center.

On any given day, chil-dren stroll past these vintage relics to a magical space where they are celebrated as Writers, Poets, Scholars and Artists. Not to mention, Philosophers... where else will you find children from vastly different backgrounds, neighborhoods and income levels collaborating in group discussions about metacog-nition, issues of self and identity, ethics and the art of compassion?

Afternoons at WordPlay are a beautiful cross-section of our big-picture goals: teach children about the power of a diverse and inclusive community, inspire a deep and lasting love of learning, and build the confidence necessary for this young generation to shape a successful future both in and beyond the classroom.

This August, as most children are squeezing all they can out of these last carefree weeks of summer, the staff at WordPlay is hard at work preparing for the start of the school year, ready to roll out an exciting lineup of weekday and Saturday offerings. As always, all of our pro-grams are free to all who participate.

Our Summer Scholars after-school program offers students in grades K-8 homework help, literacy skills, creative writing, and this year we are including Drop Everything and Read time (D.E.A.R) into our daily routine, thanks to a partnership with literacy specialists at the University of Cincin-nati’s School of Education.

The “Happy Hour” meets Monday

- Thursday from 5-6 pm and is also open to students in grades K-8. These creative workshops feature multi-dis-ciplinary artistic themes blending the visual, performing and literary arts, and are led by notable area writers, artists and educators.

Thanks to generous funding from a local family foundation, our Writ-er-in-Residence Program will continue to grow in its second year, enhancing both WordPlay Scholars and the Happy Hour and Saturday young writers circles.

WordUP, our innovative academ-ic intervention and creative writing program with Aiken New Tech High School resumes in September. We are very proud to announce that 5 students from our first WordUP cohort graduated from Aiken in May and are headed to college this fall! We are looking forward to another very successful year ahead.

WordPlay Saturdays continue from 12-4 pm, with writing workshops boasting weekly themes in Science

Fiction writing, current events, and experiences in self-discovery. Our partnership with Northside non-profit Visionaries + Voices also extends into the school year, when their Teach-ing Artists will visit one Saturday a month to lead the children in a visual art project. Students will then pro-cess their experience with a writing prompt and self-reflection.

For teenagers, WordPlay’s spo-ken word program led by Teaching Artist Desirae Hosley will meet each Saturday from 12-2 pm, giving high school students in-depth experience in the craft of bringing their poetry to the stage, including preparation for the 2015/16 Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry slam. We will also have drop-in time at the Homework Table from 2-4 pm, where volunteer tutors skilled in all subjects are ready to help students of all ages from Kin-dergarten through 12th grade with assignments, school projects, and literacy skills.

And because building community

is at the core of all that we do, we encourage our Northside neighbors to consider how you can join our efforts. You can be a volunteer tutor, contribute your talents to creative and organizational needs behind-the-scenes, or assist at one of our off-site awareness-raising events throughout the year.

FOR MORE INFO: Registration week is August 24 - 27 from 3-6 pm, and regular programming begins on Monday, August 31. Space is limited, and income restrictions apply for select programs. Visit www.wordplaycincy.org to see our calendar of programs.

To learn more about enrolling a student or how to get involved as a volunteer, please contact us. You can also find us at the Northside Block Party on August 8th, and Cincy Summer Streets on August 23rd.Visit: 4041 Hamilton Ave.Call: (513) 541-0930Online: www.wordplaycincy.orgFacebook: wordplaycincy

List poem by WordPlay’s Typing Pool young writers circle: Dear WordPlay: Thank you for being so lovely to us; We’ve met lots of fascinating people through you; You turn misanthropes into happy readers and writers; We love to play with words; You may be slightly disorderly at times but you

are still impeccable; You are peonies in bloom to our hearts. Love, Typing

Pool. Photo: WordPlay.

Co-founder and Executive Director of WordPlay Cincy

Libby Hunter


IntroductionThe following is a story that

could take place. It is sadly fictional. No hospital in Cincinnati currently provides the services you will read about. This could change. Here is the story:

Imagine you had a funny feeling in your body, a kind of ache you were not familiar with. It could be called a pain. You visit a friend and ask him what it might be.

“You’re getting old,” the friend says, “and it’s probably nothing.”

The pain persists, maybe even gets worse. Finally, you go to an agency in the community and ask one of the staff about a continuing pain.

A look of confusion is on their face when you describe how the pain has been growing. “Wait a second,” the staff member says, “I want you to meet our patient nav-igator.” He leaves and comes back with Maria, a young women in her twenties with a smile on her face.

You go with her to her office and describe what has been happening to you. She listens. You share even more details about your family’s his-tory with this kind of problem. She listens. After a while she says, “I am a patient navigator. I help people in our community get medical answers by helping them, if you want, in getting some answers from our local health clinic. I will go with you to the clinic, stay with you during the examination, and, if you want, be with you when you hear the results from the doctor or nurse.”

“I have never heard of a pa-tient navigator,” I say. “Are you a doctor or nurse or part of a medi-cal team?” Maria says she is not a doctor or nurse but she is trained to help people find medical treat-ment as quickly as possible. She also shares that her major interest is in helping people get examined and treated for cancer as quickly as possible.

“I am afraid,” I share, “that I may have cancer. So many of my family

have had cancer. What do I do?”

Maria says she will check and see the schedule at the clinic and she will call me with some options for times to visit and get examined. If, following the exam, she continues, it does turn out that I need treat-ment, she will accompany me to the hospital and stay with me during the initial discussion about my condition with a doctor or a nurse. She will also help me find out the key people for paying for any medical bills.

I agree to go with Maria to the clinic for an examination. She comes to my house and we go to the clinic together. After a screening by clinic staff, I am told to go to the hospital for further examinations. I am worried. How will I cope with the stresses of having more exam-inations and what if they do find cancer? How will I tell my family? What ways will I pay? What about keeping my job? Who will help with transportation if I have to return to the hospital for treatment? Who will help me get a second opinion if I need one? Who will help me if I run into roadblocks at the hospital, with a doctor, or a nurse? Who will make sure I understand the medical terms related to my cancer? Who will make sure that my treatments are covered by either insurance or some other form of payment? Who will be my friend in this process, help me gain the strength to face whatever is in my future?

I share these concerns with Maria. She listens. And says, “This is what a patient navigator is for. We are here to be a member of your team, no matter what the kind of prob-lem you are facing. I will make sure that you are not lost in the complex hospital system. I will go with you, if you would like, on every step and we will find the best path for your successful treatment.”

I am beginning to feel relieved of some of my stress. I realize that I can face the possibility of cancer with a person who will be with me for every step.

The Patient Navigator Has A Road Map of Support

Currently, suspecting you have cancer is a frightening experience. The steps to getting examined and treated in a sure and rapid way are unclear to patients. The basic questions about finding the right services, having the key questions answered, and finding help for the essential needs of everything from finances to personal support, are unknown, especially if a person is poor, a minority, or unfamiliar with how hospitals and insurance work.

Even if a person has a doctor, he or she might not know just how to approach the next steps. Doctors know that early and rapid testing for possible cancer is critical for survival. The longer the person waits, delays, and misses appointments, the greater the chance of undermining a success-ful treatment. Many people have put off going to doctors and hospitals due to fears about how they will be treated or about how the costs for treatment cannot be paid.

Many people, especially poor people, are unaware of the resourc-es of the American Cancer Society, or the Cincinnati Health Clinics, or the monies provided by Hamilton County for poor people to be treated at the hospital. Very few people know about options for free transporta-tion to health related meetings that are provided by the State of Ohio. Many people have been frightened of going to the emergency rooms of hospitals for treatment that they feel they cannot afford.

People with cancer need a per-son with a personalized roadmap that can easily take them into the health system with the major ques-tions answered before and during treatment. Such a person, in other cities, at select hospitals, is called a “patient navigators.” The patient navigator is a critical member of the patient’s team. Every step along the way toward screening and treatment is mapped out with each individu-al, whether it involves payment for transportation, visiting clinics and hospitals, or helping with family or

occupational barriers to effective and rapid care. The patient quickly realizes that there are systems in place that can accelerate treatment along with systems that can help with critical financial and family needs. The patient navigator is educated to know both how to work with individ-uals with the frightening possibility of having cancer and with, too often, the fearful system of finding health-care. The patient navigator, with the full cooperation of the patient, creates a roadmap to health, a plan, and a relationship that assists the person in getting full treatment. Every step of the way to cancer treatment can seem obscured by both personal fear and bureaucrat-ic language that needs translation. The patient navigator is right at the shoulder of the person, listening for what is known, and assisting with the unknowns. Together, they enter a world that needs to be under-stood rapidly and with effectiveness if the patient is to have a chance at survival. The patient navigator understands that everyone may be different, may have an unusual set of requests, and may have resourc-es for solving problems that can be used in certain situations. The patient navigator acts to build on the strengths of the person, and ties these strengths to the possibilities in the clinics, and hospital. The patient navigator understands that cancer as a diagnosis can affect people very differently. People who felt strong may be so devastated as to need great help. People with few

opinion| WHY IS A PATIENT NAVIGATOR NEEDED FOR CANCER PATIENTS?


financial resources may have great inner strengths. The patient navigator, over time, helps the patient find the most ef-fective way of surviving, both personally and health-wise.What Needs To Be Done to Have Patient Navigators?

Every person with cancer in Cincin-nati needs to be given the opportunity to have a patient navigator. Some peo-ple may choose to not have one for a lot of reason. But, for everyone who wants a patient navigator, a person should be available in local community organiza-tions, hospitals, and at the health de-partment. Cancer can be fought at many different levels. We are aware and grateful for the many research projects underway to find out the how cancer works as a disease. We are grateful for the doctors and nurses and adminis-trators that tirelessly work for patients in all of the stages of the disease. Yet, a gap exists: too often, for too many people, at just the worst time in their lives, people with cancer are alone and facing difficult if not impossible decisions all by themselves. If we are to improve the health of all of our citizens, if we are to have a clear set of standards for helping people find their best treat-ment options, if we are to provide some reduction in unnecessary fears about finances, transportation, and treatment options, then the patient navigator must become a critical part of our communi-ty’s response to preventing and treating cancer.

Steve Sunderland is director of the Peace Village Cancer Project.

Steve Sunderland

• August 7 Liquid Hologram feat. Wizard Eyes Visuals (DJ, dub, psychedelic) 9pm-12:30

• August 8 The Brad Myers Jazz Puppet Regime (jazz, rock, improvisation) 9pm-12:30

• August 9 Steven Leroy Mingus II (DJ) 3pm-6pm

• August 12 Blue Wisp Big Band (big band, jazz) 8:30-11pm

• August 13 John Zappa Quartet (jazz) 8pm-midnight

• August 14 FRESH FUNK presented by the Marburg Collective (funk, soul, dance) 9pm-midnight

• August 15 Eric Harland & Rude Unkal + Brandon Coleman Quartet (jazz, garage, fusion) 8pm-12:30

• August 17 Lyrical Insurrection (open-mic, hip-hop, spoken word) 8pm-11pm


• August 20 Screeching Owl (jazz, fusion) 8pm-midnight

• August 21 Ricky Nye Inc. (blues, boogie-woogie) 9pm-12:30

• August 22 “Charity Concert” feat. Ryan Fine & The Media + Clifton Collective + Jazz for Kids + The Busters (jazz, rock, fusion) 7pm-12:30

• August 23 Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles (funk, soul, jazz, fusion) 8pm-midnight


• August 27 Rick Van Matre Quintet (jazz) 8pm-midnight

• August 28 Offbeat Collective (hip-hop, jazz, improvisation) 9pm-12:30

• August 29 Curio Key Club (jazz, rock, fusion) 9pm-12:30

• August 30 One Day Steady + The Space Merchants + Near Earth Objects + Speed Bird (indie rock) 7pm-11pm

• August 31 Lyrical Insurrection (open-mic, hip-hop, spoken word) 8pm-11pm

ALL SHOWS ARE NO COVER & ALL-AGES PLEASE CONTACT DOMINIC MARINO IF YOU’D LIKE TO RUN A FEATURE ON ANY OF THE SCHEDULED PERFORMANCES OR ACTS.

august Events at Urban Artifact|1660 Blue Rock st. | (513) 978-1956 | www.artifactbeer.com

Wump Mucket Puppets will bring their zany puppet show to Clifton Fest 2015 for two free performances on Saturday September 26th at 2 PM, and Sunday September 27th, again at 2 PM at the Clifton Fest KidsZone, located at the corner of Burnet Woods at Digg’s Plaza. Both performances are free and open to the public.

A meet & greet with the puppets and their puppeteer will follow the per-formance.

Created and performed by Terrence Burke, the Wump Mucket Puppets are a colorful cast of fun-loving puppet characters based in Northside that have been bringing their songs and silliness to children and families since 2010. Audiences around the country all agree that Wump Mucket Puppets ROCK!

For more information visit WumpMucketPuppets.comCONTACT: Terrence Burke (513) 370-9803

WUMP MUCKET PUPPETS RETURN TO CLIFTON FEST!

NORTHSIDE TIDBITS

ONGOING EVENTS: First Monday – Northside Business Association Monthly Meeting @ Happen, Inc. 4201 Hamilton Ave. (6PM) The Northside Business Association is a resource for all Northside Businesses and works to continually improve the neighborhood. More info: call 513-541-4745 or email: [email protected]

Third Monday (Fourth Monday January and February) – Northside Community Council Monthly Meeting @ McKie Rec Center 1655 Chase Ave. (7PM) Get involved with issues that directly affect our community! The NCC is a volunteer, community-based organization that provides an opportunity for all individuals in the community to participate in Northside’s present and to chart Northside’s future.

Every other Monday – The Qtet @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) Influences range from Miles Davis to Van Halen. Jazz. Front room. Cost: Free www.northsidetav.com

Every other Monday – Northside Jazz Ensemble @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) From Funk, Reggae and Soul to Rock, Free Jazz, Blues and straight-ahead Jazz and back again, this tight four-piece puts familiar tunes in a brand new bag. Jazz. Front room. Cost: Free. www.northsidetav.com

Every Monday – Afternoon Games @ Northside Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library 4219 Hamilton Ave. (3PM) For information, call 513-369-4449

Every Monday – Toddler Times @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center 4244 Hamilton Ave. (10:30a.m. to 1p.m.) FREE. www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every Monday – Crawlers & Climbers @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center 4244 Hamilton Ave. (10:30-11:15am) $10 per class. Children are offered an array of fun motor activities in an encouraging, safe, soft environment. www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every Monday – Whale of a Tale / Storytime @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center 4244 Hamilton Ave. (12:00 - 12.30pm) FREE. Interactive bilingual story time. Instill the love of reading within your child from infancy upward by participating in our multi-sensory

story time. Weekly themes incorporate story telling, singing, and a simple take-home craft, if desired. www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every Monday – Dawg Yawp (Vinyl DJ Sets) @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. Free. Rock/electronic. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Monday – The Marburg Collective @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Jazz. www.cometbar.com

Every Monday – Trivia @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (8PM) Cost: Free. www.northsidetav.com.

Every tuesday– JitterBugs @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center (10:30-11:15) Ages 18 months to 3 years. $10 per class. This unique movement class for beginners introduces basic terminology and the fundamental movements of ballet, modern, African and creative dance! www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every tuesday– Crawlers & Climbers @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center (10:30) www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every tuesday– Movers & Shakers @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center (11:30) 3/24 - 5/26. www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every Tuesday – Zumba @ McKie Center (6PM) 1655 Chase Avenue. ”If you are perfect don’t come”- you’ll ruin our demographic.

Every Tuesday – Bike Night @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (7pm) Motorcycle enthusiasts gathering. Free. Bikes, Burritos and Brews. www.cometbar.com

Every Tuesday – Artist In Residency w/ Jennifer Simone @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Indie/Folk. www.cometbar.com

Every Tuesday – DJ Nick Perkins @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Hip-Hop/Electronic. Every Tuesday

Third Tuesday– Square Dance @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (8-10:30 pm) All dances taught. Live music by the Northside Volunteers. Beer on tap. Suggested donation $5-10 to caller.

First wednesday– The Chris Comer Trio @

The Listing Loon 4124 Hamilton Ave. (8PM) A piano based jazz trio. Cost: Free. More info: www.ChrisComerTrio.com

Every Wednesday – Northside Farmers Market @ Northside Presbyterian Church 4222 Hamilton Ave.(4-7PM) This twelve-month market brings tri-state farmers to the city of Cincinnati to sell their produce, meat, eggs, crafts and fruit. NFM prides itself on bringing fresh and locally produced food to the vibrant community of Northside. www.northsidefm.org

Every Wednesday – Karaoke @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (8pm) Free. Karaoke. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Wednesday – Sexy Time Live Band Karaoke @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9PM) Live band karaoke. Back room. Cost: Free. www.sexytimekaraoke.com

Every Thursday – Zumba Class @ Northside Presbyterian Church Thursday (7PM) 4222 Hamilton Ave. ”If you are perfect don’t come”- you’ll ruin our demographic.

Every Thursday – International Folk Dancing @ Clifton Community Arts Center, 7-9 PM. Line/circle dances from Eastern Europe/Middle East. No partners necessary, no experience necessary. Teaching available. For information, call 541-6306 or e-mail [email protected]. Cost $3.

Every Thursday – Karaoke with Bree @ Boswell’s, 1686 Blue Rock. (8pm) Free. Great food, great drinks, great karaoke!www.facebook.com/hotwheelsentertainment

Every first & third Thursday – Comedy Night w/ Andrew Rudick @ Chameleon, 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. www.thechameleonclub.com

LAST Thursday – Folk & Fiction @ The Listing Loon 4124 Hamilton Ave. (6-11PM) Reading and musical performances. Cost: Free. More info: facebook.com/folkandfiction

Every Saturday – Signing Safari @ Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center (11:30-12:15) Ages 6 to 35 months. $10 per class. Join your child in singing, signing, playing, & rhyming! www.theplaceforfamilies.com

Every SATURDAY – Zumba @ McKie Center (12PM) 1655 Chase Avenue. ”If

you are perfect don’t come”- you’ll ruin our demographic.

Every Saturday – International Folk Dancing @ Twin Towers’ Hader Room (8:30-10:30 PM). Line and circle dances from Eastern Europe/Middle East. No partners necessary, no experience necessary. Teaching available. For information, call 541-6306 or e-mail [email protected]. Cost: $5.

Every Second Saturday – Northside Second Saturdays (6-10PM) Come see art, shop, imbibe and eat in one of Cincinnati’s most creative and diverse neighborhoods.

Every Second Saturday – Hook & Ladder (Vinyl Night) w/ Margaret Darling (The Seedy Seeds, Devout Wax) @ Chameleon 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Vinyl / Variety. www.thechameleonclub.com

Every Second Saturday – Jill Cleary Galaxie Art Show & Skate Park Fundraiser @ Galaxie Skate Shop, 4202 Hamilton Ave. (6pm) Free. Art. galaxieskateshop.blogspot.com

Every Second Saturday – Basement Reggae w/ Abiyah & Grover @ The Comet, 4579 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. www.cometbar.com

first sundays – Bulletville @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Live music. Front room. Free. www.northsidetav.com

third sundays – Vegan Potluck @ Clifton United Methodist Church 3416 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, 45220 (2pm potluck|3 pm program) Please bring a vegan dish. www.veganearthus.org

Final sundays – The Tillers @ Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Live music. Front room. Free. www.northsidetav.com

every sunday – SUNIGHT w/ Josiah Wolf (of Why?) @ The Comet 4579 Hamilton Ave., (10:30 PM) Free. Indie/Improvisational. www.cometbar.com

Every Sunday – Comet Bluegrass Allstars @ The Comet. (7:30PM & 9PM) The Comet house band plays two sets every Sunday. Cost: Free. 4579 Hamilton Ave.

EVERY OTHER SUNDY – Dance & Draw w/ MULAMBA (Cinthesizer) @ Chameleon 4114 Hamilton Ave. (9pm) Free. Art/DJ/Indie/Electronic. thechameleonclub.com

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SCHOTTMONUMENT

BUD HERBERT MOTORS

BONOMINI BAKERY

OFF THE AVENUESTUDIOS

BOSWELLS

URBAN ARTIFACT

NORTHSIDE FARMERS MARKET(WEDNESDAYS 4-7)

LUR APPAREL

DOJO GELATO (2015)1735 Blue Rock St

NORTHSIDE YACHT CLUB4227 Spring Grove

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NORTHSIDE FARMERS MARKET(SUMMER, WEDNESDAYS 4-7)

TILLIE’S LOUNGE

PALLET 23

BARRIO

FANMAIL

ARCADE LEGACY THE LITTLEFIELD

CASABLANCA VINTAGE Awesome Time Shoe & Leather Repair

Bar Edition (2015)

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VISONARIES & VOICES

WHITE CASTLECECIL

LOCK & KEYNORTHSIDE

CHOP SHOP

THE GOLDEN TAJINE

HOFFNER PARK

WORDPLAY

PAR PROJECTS

HAPPY CHICKS BAKERY

FISHER DESIGN

SHAKE IT RECORDS

NORTHSIDE TAVERN

MELT

SIDEWINDER

PINNOKIO’S HAIR SALON

NORTHSIDE HARDWARE

DESIGNS BY DANA

OMS PHOTO

THE KITCHEN FACTORY

SCHAEPER’S PHARMACY

HAPPEN’S TOY LAB

HAPPEN INC

LIBRARY

BARTENDING SCHOOL

NORTHSIDE BANK

CHASE PUBLIC

NORTHSIDE ZEN

PARK CITY CHILI

BLUE JAY RESTAURANT

HAZELGLAS

HAMILTON MARKET

PNC BANK

KFC+TACO BELL

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CHAMELEON

LISTING LOON

SPUN BICYCLES

HOFFNER LODGE

APPLE STREET MARKET

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HERO GYM

MCKIE RECREATION CENTER

BLACK PLASTIC RECORDS

RUTH’S PARKSIDE CAFE

Cluxton Alley

AMERICAN CAN LOFTS

THE GANTRY (2015)

CHICKEN LAYS AN EGG

TICKLE PICKLE (2015)

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Happen’s film program has now expanded to include a film critic session for teens. Sessions meet twice a month on Wednesday afternoons at 4:oopm. If you would like to be a Happen Teen Film Critic please visit Happen, Inc. during normal business hours or email [email protected]. Look for Happen’s Teen Reviews each month in the Northsider!

SHORTER NARRATIVE FILMS

Kicking off the late-summer Happen’s Teen Critics Film Club with an exploration of shorter narrative forms, the

group surveyed an eclectic program featuring commercials and music videos (“Rabbit in Your Headlights” - UNKLE with Thom Yorke) from director Jonathan Glazer (who moved on to full-length filmmaking with Sexy Beast & Under the Skin), a warm rom-com-inspired musical clip (For the Record) from short-film director Maurice Dortch, and a pair of punchy and darkly comic takes (Lucky & Spider) from stunt-man turned director Nash Edgerton (whose brother Joel is set to release a new feature - The Gift - where he co-stars with Jason Bateman

and Rebecca Hall). An eager trio of Teen Critics set their developing critical sensibilities on content from these filmmakers and provide brief comments here on their favorites, attempting (in almost Twitter-like format) to address what specifically captured their attention. .- TT Stern-Enzi, Cincinnati Film Critic

Marvel & ESPN Films Present 1 of 1: Genesis

Once upon a time, we looked to mythic gods and heroes for inspiration, to make us aspire to be

the best we can be as human beings. Now, our heroes are either super (as in super-powered) or athletes on various fields of play. Comic books provide a seemingly never-ending stream of storylines for film and television that will dominate our screens for easily the next decade or more. And in between those tales of iron men and defenders of the night, we will turn our attention to sports figures with chiseled bodies performing improbable feats. So, it should come as no surprise that Marvel and ESPN would team up (especially since both brands exist under the larger Disney umbrella) for a project combining Marvel’s signature animation stylings with

ESPN’s access to the wide world of sports. Genesis examines the notion of athletes (like Brandi Chastain, Tony Hawk, Tim Howard, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, and Colin Kaepernick) as real-life heroes, archetypes comparable to Marvel’s legendary comic book icons (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Daredevil, and The Hulk) and attempts to make a compelling case. This documentary (available on Netflix) also kicks off a featured series of shorts, currently running on the ESPN network, that focuses on the individual stories of athletes and the odds they have encountered and overcome. Find out what Happen’s Kid Critics (our very own superheroes) think about Genesis.

- TT Stern-Enzi, Cincinnati Film Critic

Each month, Happen’s Kid Film Critics received their own official Happen film critic packet and a press badge. TT Stern-Enzi, Cincinnati film critic, provided insight about the films and guided the critics as they wrote this month’s film reviews. Read the reviews, and be sure to watch Marvel & ESPN Films Present 1 of 1: Genesis.

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Happen’s Kid Film Critics – Ages 8 to 12 Marvel & ESPN Films Present 1 of 1:

Genesis

“This inspiring documentary about the comparisons between athletes and mar-vel superheroes has some good messages about reaching your goals and the physical limits of your body. This is a good film for the family, because it has strong messages about pushing your body to the highest extreme and to keep on practicing until you go beyond your goals and to keep going beyond everyone else’s expectations. True superheroes and true athletes are not worried about themselves, they want the team to win. I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars.”-Henry

“This seems to try and pound the same idea into your head, which can be annoying. The movie is very uplifting and it’s and interest-ing concept.” -Maxwell

Happen’s Teen Film Critics – Ages 13 to 17

Lucky & Spider – (Short Film)

“My favorite one was the last one. It’s funny! ”-Christian

For The Record – (Short Film)

“I liked where they were in the record store. I liked what they did with the music and making it all come to together.”-Maurice

Rabbit In Your Headlights – (Short Film)

“It was funny because the man kept getting hit by the car, but on the contrary he was really trying to get out of the tunnel.”-Mykell


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