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Stress, anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of depression can be a trigger for drinking
Since the stay at home order went into place, people are sharing the fact they are drinking more. by Tonya Schaeffer, M.Ed, LPCC-S April is Alcohol Awareness Month. According to the Ohio Division of Liquor Control, people in Ohio bought 1.11 million more gallons of adult beverages than they did last year at this…
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Should Loveland school taxes increase while residents Lose their livelihoods?
by Kim and Rick Donaldson While many in Loveland are losing their jobs and their businesses, our school board persists in asking us to raise our taxes. As it stands today, they may very well get their way simply by virtue of low voter turnout. So, if you Kim and Rick Donaldson live on Paxton…
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Linda Kiernan asks Board to withdraw levy from upcoming ballot
by Linda Kiernan Loveland City Schools, I respectfully ask you to withdraw the levy from the upcoming ballot. In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, many families in our community are, and may suffer, devastating financial consequences: jobs furloughed, businesses closed, some possibly forever, retirement income severely decimated, and a very uncertain economic future. Right…
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Loveland Counselor: How to protect children and adolescents who have experienced abuse during this ‘Stay at Home Order’
by Elizabeth Greller, M.A., LPCC Children and adolescents who have experienced abuse (physical, sexual and/or neglect) and/or traumatic events (examples – parent death, witness to domestic violence, parent addiction, separation from a parent, scary/painful medical treatment, etc) have additional needs than children and adolescents who have not experienced such life events. This is especially important…
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Jerry Wilson invites you to join The Loveland Veterans of Foreign Wars
by Quartermaster Jerry Wilson As yesterday’s defenders of freedom, we want to welcome today’s military service members into our ranks to become part of our elite group. Our common bond is the battlefield, whether it is service in the Persian Gulf, Korea, Kosovo, the Global War on Terrorism, or peace-keeping expeditionary campaigns. Your courage and…
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Old age – who cares? Get to the end of the line
by Laurence C. Gumina, CEO, Ohio Living Ok, here we are again, and this time I’m speaking up! As the CEO of Ohio Living, the state’s largest not-for-profit provider of life plan communities (senior living/long-term care), we are on the front lines of the COVID-19 battlefield. I’m frustrated and angry to say that we do…
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I’ve never been afraid of death, I’m not now, but I DO want to live
The photo above was taken from a whiteboard I wrote on five years ago that I now keep at the entrance to Loveland Magazine to serve as a reminder of what is ahead and why we keep on keeping on. An Editorial by Publisher David Miller I‘ve accomplished much and am quite satisfied with my…
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Please, Loveland, let’s put away our signs, and enjoy the spring season as best we can
by Marla Witouski Spaeth, Since the election has been postponed until June, would it be possible to respectfully request that anyone who posted an election-related sign please remove it, at least temporarily? Doing so would help declutter our beautiful neighborhoods and allow us to more fully appreciate the beauty of spring. Many of us are…
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From an insider’s view…
by Judy Leamy RN, BSN, LSN Crisis reveals leadership. I wish I could capture the commitment for kids, compassion for our community, and leadership of our administrators over the last few weeks. COVID-19 hit our beautiful country like a category 6 hurricane and now is in our region. Although we as a team in Loveland…
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C is for Consumer by Jason Hubbard
Loveland contributes less as a percentage of income than 90% of schools A third levy attempt is 1.6x more likely to fail than the original attempt by Jason Hubbard As we know from previous posts and articles, because of HB920 even when inflation drives costs up, schools don’t receive additional local revenue from voted in…
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