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Thank you Loveland Magazine reader, Libby Fisher for pointing out to us that we had incorrectly identified the Loveland High School Cross Country runners in the story:
Here is the photo again, this time with the correct caption:
The 2009 Loveland Athletic Boosters Homecoming Parade, celebrating Loveland High School’s Homecoming, is Thursday, October 1st at 6:30 PM. The parade route will proceed west on West Loveland Avenue to Rich Road, ending at Loveland High School.
To participate you can register at www.lovelandathleticboosters.com.
A Powder Puff Football game will be held at the stadium immediately following the parade.
The Homecoming Game is Friday, October 2nd at 7:30 PM against Glen Este. The Homecoming Court will be presented at half-time and the Homecoming Queen will be announced.
And You Can Help the Former Loveland H.S. Grad
Joanna Bateman graduated from Loveland High School and is now a 21 year old Senior at Elon University in North Carolina. Bateman was a star musical performer in many Loveland school productions as well as performing when she had the chance at Paxton's Grill where she worked during her High School years. Bateman stared in the 2005 Loveland High School production of Footloose and received high praise for her work
The Late Night With Jimmy Fallon TV show is looking for interns that will do reporting from their college campus. Bateman has produced a video to introduce herself to Fallon, and the video has already been featured on the national TV show.
You can view Joanna's full video here and help her by leaving a comment urging Fallon to make the right choice. The winner will be announced September 18th.
Playing Elgar’s Concerto in E minor for Cello and Orchestra, at the Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra's (BAMSO) Labor Day concert was cellist Anne Richardson.
She was the first place winner in the 12 and under division of the 2008 Young Artist Competition. The 11-year-old has already soloed three times with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, and was a first place winner in the 2007 Concerto Competition at Strings International Music Festival of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra. Richardson has won multiple competitions and has performed live recitals on six occasions on WUOL Lunchtime Classics. Anne’s chamber group, The Faerie Trio, has received high honors in the Macauley Chamber Music Competitions for the past three years. She is principal cellist with The Louisville Youth Orchestra.
LOVELAND, OHIO - This memorial to First Responders was erected in 2004 by Loveland/Symmes Firefighters to honor those who lost their lives in rescue efforts when murderers flew passenger airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It sits in a small pocket park near Loveland's Nisbet Park along the Loveland Bike Trail. The steel on the monument is from the wreckage of the Twin Towers and is intentionally meant to leave rust stains on the concrete pillar. This photo was taken on Sunday. You can click on the photo to see a larger image and read the inscription.
Last year, a family, The Bennett's, lost their daughter, Elli, due to complications of Cerebral Palsy. Like Timmy, she used a DynaVox. With the Perlman Center's strong support, and with optimal insurance options, Timmy and Elli were able to 'find their voice's with their communication devices. Thus opening their world, giving them both more independence, while breaking down barriers. “Timmy's DynaVox is crucial to him and to us who know and love him,” said his mother Amy. “There are some families whose children do not have insurance or the money to buy these very expensive communication devices.”
When Elli passed away on October 19, 2008, her parents asked friends and family to donate to the Perlman Center in her memory. Those generous donations marked the birth of the Find a Voice Fund.
What can you do? By sponsoring Timmy in the upcoming Cincinnati Children's Walk on October 10th, you can help other kids find a voice.Sponsoring Timmy is easy. Any amount is helpful; no amount is too small.
Amy Clawson said, "Timmy has been so blessed, he wants to give back."
Timmy Clawson said, “Your support in the cause is greatly appreciated. Thank you.”
Here is Timmy's webpage link: http://giving.cincinnatichildrens.org/netcommunity/timmyCincinnati Walks for Kids is on Saturday October 10 at Coney Island. This non-competitive walk is approximately 3 miles long. A 1-mile option is also available. After the walk, you can enjoy the festivities and celebrate, have lunch, listen to world music, and walk around the Kids Carnival, an area created for all to enjoy. Children can have their faces painted, snack on popcorn and enjoy a photo opportunity in the Harvest Hangout.
Get a Glimpse of the Fun
Hurricane Force Winds Knocked Loveland September 14, 2008
LOVELAND, OHIO - To many, the event of one year ago seems to too eerie and otherworldly to have ever have happened. To others, the event is still very vivid and bone-chilling. It was one year ago on September 14, 2009 that remnants of hurricane Ike coming from the gulf coast and Texas, collided with a cold front from the north, producing category 1 hurricane force winds in Loveland. It was Sunday afternoon, a rainless day with plenty of sunshine, that turned worlds upside down for weeks as residents lost electric, cable service, the Internet, and land based phone lines. Food that could be cooked on outdoor grills was salvaged from freezers for unplanned cook-outs, and a hot cup of morning mud became a luxury. Hot showers the morning after were taken at a close friend's house. Where to buy gasoline or ice became a closely shared secret shared by cell phone, if you could find a place to plug in your charger.
Loveland school buildings escaped the wind storm with relatively minor damage, however local schools closed because none of the buildings had power. The wind storm did extensive damage to the Dave Evans Baseball Field at
Loveland High School when set of aluminum bleachers became air born and
destroyed the backstop.The High School Homecoming Parade scheduled for the coming Thursday was canceled by the Loveland City Manager.
Loveland/Symmes Fire Chief, Huber said that there were no fires during or after the storm and there was no loss of life or injuries requiring ambulance assistance, however during the four hours of the windstorm the Department made 62 fire/EMS runs in Loveland, and 70 in Symmes Township. “132 is a lot of runs,” said Huber. He estimated that they received 280 calls for service or information during the four hours of the storm. Huber said the department received calls as residents experienced anxiety in the storm's aftermath. He said his department was able to “settle” down emotions and then they could help with getting residents the help they needed. He said the department helped a few residents whose needs were food, shelter and medications, and many calls were received because of anxiety related, heart or breathing problems.
Huber said that on September 14, 2009, all of Loveland, and a majority of Symmes Township were without electricity
The Clermont County Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS) offered extended hours to assist low income famlies impacted by the massive windstorm. "We were able to assist more than 1,500 families,” said Clermont DJFS Director Tim McCartney.
Epiphany United Methodist Church offered showers, electricity and Internet access to the community.
Governor Ted Strickland declared a "State of Emergency" and asked President George W. Bush for federal aid to assist local communities with clean-up and recovery. In Clermont County, current Food Stamp recipients could request replacement food stamp
benefits for perishable food lost as a result of the power loss. Families with children, and the elderly and disabled individuals who were not at the time receiving Food Stamp benefits could apply for assistance to replace food loss. Ohio Tax Commissioner Richard A. Levin granted extensions to individuals and business taxpayers
who had tax returns or bills due.
Hoxworth Blood Center issued an emergency plea for donors to replenish their group O positive and O negative blood inventory.
Two days after the storm, and while clearing debris, Chris Kubicki, a co-owner of the Loveland Greenhouse said , “Well at least no one was hurt.” On that Sunday afternoon, she saw a large piece of metal roofing come off her Loveland Greenhouse building on Lebanon Road. She said it was “just floating” through the air, and then was caught perilously high in a nearby tree. She and her fellow workers at the time were trying to put their stock of fall plants inside to protect them from the high 50-60 mph wind. It was then that she ordered her employees to run away from the building that was loosing its roof, and the other buildings that are made of glass. They took shelter in a nearby car in the parking lot. The next thing Chris saw was a utility pole with a transformer crash to the ground. She then started to think the auto wasn't the safest place to be, but with the building coming apart, and electric lines scattered about, couldn't think of another place to go.
Chris Springborn and Casey Smeller had been practicing the new sport of “Rip-Sticking” on Wall Street for months and were becoming quite proficient. During the height of the windstorm, Springborn and Smeller, taking advantage of the wind and the closed street, took a picnic canopy top, and did some wind-surfing up Wall Street. Springborn later cooked steak, chicken, and vegetable shish-ka-bobs on his gas grill. He and his wife enjoyed the candle-lit (well... Colman lantern-lit) dinner on their back porch, under an almost full moon that kept Loveland relatively well lit throughout the night. Their son Cas, later invited other neighborhood boys to camp on the porch for the night.
All Loveland neighborhoods were filled on Monday with couples and families on walking tours, grilling their midday meals on gas grills, sitting just inside their garages reading, or eating outside in the sunlight. At almost every house, homeowners were doing the unwelcome yard clean-up, many had only debris to rake to the street, the one, or two-foot end sections of tree limbs that were damaged by last summer's cicada brood. Where the cicadas had cut slits to lay eggs during August, the tree limbs were ready to shed the weakened branches. Many trees, already under severe stress from many too wet springs in recent years, and 2007 severe drought, were an easy target for the high winds. Most, uprooted trees had virtually no visible root system at all. Many strong trees lost large branches, landing on cars, houses, play-sets, and out buildings. Some utility poles cracked in-half, with the help of leaning trees.
Almost every neighborhood had at least one street closed because of downed trees and power lines. St. Rt. 48 in Clermont County had two such sections closed, with large downed trees hanging in power lines and crossing the roadway. Fallis Road was closed early in the storm on Sunday when a tree fell across the road, with some branches breaking the top of a utility pole. The road, leading to Loveland High School, was still closed to traffic, late on Tuesday morning.
When the sun began to settle on Monday, and electric service was returning to sections of town, the inside work began in many households, as there were refrigerators, and freezers to clean, guessing which food items had weathered the storm, and which had to be tossed. It was time to pack the dishwasher, run a load of clothes, and check to see whether cable service was on yet. At 8 PM a sense of normalcy was drifting over town, when the silenced, carillon bells at City Hall again sang out the hour, and the full moon's brightness was helpful to those many parts of the community still without electric service.
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