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  • News and Events at the Loveland, Symmes, and Blue Ash Libraries

    News and Events at the Loveland, Symmes, and Blue Ash Libraries

    Use this MAP to find a library in your neighborhood.

    EVENTS AND CLASSES

    Memory Cafe

    The Memory Cafe is a welcoming place for for people with Alzheimer’s or dementia and their care partners.  Each month there will be an opportunity to socialize and enjoy music, games or other fun activities.  Activities will vary each month.

    Registration is recommended.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Monday, December 02, 2019 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Movers and Shakers

    You and your child will shake it together! Sing, dance and enjoy music, movement and fun.Recommended for ages 1 – 4. No registration required.

    Loveland Branch Meeting Room

    Monday, December 02, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

    Library Babies

    Fun for you and your baby with songs, rhymes, stories and movement. Recommended for ages birth – 18 months.

    No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Monday, December 02, 2019 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

    Preschool Storytime

    Enjoy books, songs, activities, and more while learning early literacy skills. For preschoolers and their caregivers. Ages 3-6. No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Monday, December 02, 2019 1:30 PM – 02:30 PM

    Introduction to Essential Oils: presented by Martha Hill

    Please join us for an introduction to Essential Oils with Martha Hill of Nana’s Got Oils, specializing in therapeutic grade essential oils. Martha is the co-owner of Hill’s Compounding/Milford Pharmacy & Wellness Center. Everyone will make a roll-on blend to take home!

    Loveland Branch Meeting Room

    Monday, December 02, 2019 6:30 PM – 07:30 PM

    Library Babies

    Fun for you and your baby with songs, rhymes, stories and movement. Recommended for ages birth – 18 months. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Tuesday, December 03, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

    Preschool Storytime

    Enjoy books, songs, activities, and more while learning early literacy skills. For preschoolers and their caregivers. Ages 3-6. No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Tuesday, December 03, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

    Chess Club

    Learn strategies & tactics or just play for fun!

    No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Tuesday, December 03, 2019 6:30 PM – 08:30 PM

    Movers & Shakers

    You and your child will shake it together! Sing, dance and enjoy music, movement and fun. Recommended for ages 1 – 4. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

    Preschool Storytime

    Enjoy books, songs, activities and more, while building early literacy skills. Recommended for ages 3 – 6. No registration required.

    Loveland Branch Meeting Room

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

    Toddler Storytime

    Encourage emerging language skills with books, rhymes, music and fun. Recommended for ages 18 months – 36 months. No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

    Movers & Shakers

    You and your child will shake it together! Sing, dance and enjoy music, movement and fun. Recommended for ages 1 – 4. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

    Toddler Storytime

    Encourage emerging language skills with books, rhymes, music and fun. Recommended for ages 18 months – 36 months. No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Spanish Club

    Learn to speak and read Spanish!

    Introduction to Speaking and Writing Spanish (for beginners) @ 1PM

    Reading Spanish Literature (for intermediate to advance) @ 2PM

    Brush Up Your Spanish: Refresh Your Proficiency (for intermediate to advance) @ 3PM

    No registration is required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 1:00 PM – 04:00 PM

    An Evening of Jazz

    Relax with an evening of impromptu jazz music with Cincy Jazz Train. No registration required.

    Symmes Township Branch Meeting Room

    Wednesday, December 04, 2019 7:00 PM – 08:30 PM

    Preschool Storytime

    Enjoy books, songs, activities and more, while building early literacy skills. Recommended for ages 3 – 6. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Thursday, December 05, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

    Library Babies

    Fun for you and your baby with songs, rhymes, stories and movement. Recommended for ages birth – 18 months. No registration required.

    Loveland Branch Meeting Room

    Thursday, December 05, 2019 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

    Sycamore Book Club

    Join us every 3rd Tuesday of the month to discuss and share Genealogy tips and techniques for general Genealogy research.  Everyone is welcome from beginners to experts.  No Registration is required.

    Blue Ash Branch Meeting Room

    Thursday, December 05, 2019 1:30 PM – 02:00 PM

    Fun with Food

    Make a powdered doughnut snowman!

    For tweens and tweens ages 10 and up.

    Loveland Branch Meeting Room

    Thursday, December 05, 2019 4:00 PM – 05:00 PM

    Girls and Books @ Blue Ash

    Do you love to read fabulous books? Join us for great book discussions and activities.  For girls ages 7-9. Registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch Meeting Room

    Thursday, December 05, 2019 7:00 PM – 08:00 PM

    Toddler Storytime

    Encourage emerging language skills with books, rhymes, music and fun. Recommended for ages 18 months – 36 months. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Friday, December 06, 2019 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

    Toddler Storytime

    Encourage emerging language skills with books, rhymes, music and fun. Recommended for ages 18 months – 36 months. No registration required.

    Blue Ash Branch

    Friday, December 06, 2019 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

    Amazing Race Library Edition

    Calling all Teens for the Amazing Race!  Teams of two will race through the Symmes Library to complete a series of thrilling challenges.  Do you have what it takes?  Sign up and find out!  Prizes and giveaways will be awarded! Food and drink provided!

    Ages 12-17.

    Registration Required

    Symmes Township Branch

    Saturday, December 07, 2019 6:30 PM – 09:00 PM

    LIBRARY NEWS

    Igniting a Brighter Future with The Library Foundation

    For Sharon Borntrager of Westwood, libraries are a place to connect to big ideas. See how the Library has impacted Sharon’s family. Consider joining her to support your Library by contributing to The Library Foundation.

    The Measure of Our Lives

    Place your hold on the print or eBook version of The Measure of Our Lives by Toni Morrison!

    Children of Virtue and Vengeance

    Place your hold on the print, eBook, or eAudiobook version of Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi.

    Featured Books of the Month

    Check out the new Featured Books of the Month for December! Our librarians have selected titles for all ages.

  • Thirteenth Amazing Charity Race a success [Video]

    Thirteenth Amazing Charity Race a success [Video]

    by Sam Smith

    Since 2005, The Amazing Charity Race has brought fun and philanthropy together. Through running, cycling, walking and an array of challenges, individuals compete for the fastest time in four categories.

    Parent/Child, Male/Female, Male/Male and Female/Female contestant pairs completed an all-new course starting at Paxton Ramsey Park and ending at the Valley View Foundation barn. This year’s Amazing Charity Race featured twenty challenges including hauling greased watermelons into a lake, lawn bowling and Slip N’ Slide kickball.

    Over the past thirteen years, the Amazing Race has donated $600,000 to various charitable organizations both large and small and local organizations including Loveland Magazine help sponsor the event.

    Watch Loveland Magazine‘s video coverage of the event:

    Produced by Loveland Magazine 

Directed/Edited by Sam Smith 

Second Shooting and Drone Operation by Jack Sexton 

Music: “Prologue” written and Performed by Loveland's own Ryan Mangan/Pocket
From the EP L'Appelle Du Vide. 
Featuring Loveland Graduates DK Dews on bass and Drew Lowry on drums.

    The 2018 Amazing Race gathered 545 participants. Although the exact amount of money raised is not yet known, according to organizer Doug Portman it has been around $70,000 the past few years. It will go to over 50 charities ranging from funding boy scout troops to bigger charities like the St. Vincent DePaul Society.

    In addition to the participants, local charity organizations volunteer their time to coordinate, run water stations, direct events, ensure safety and more in order to receive donations. The Amazing Charity Race website states to prospective volunteers that the role entails “no pay, hard to define benefits and you’re already late for work”. One volunteer receives the Chief John E. Cooper Amazing Volunteer Award, earning their nonprofit $500 more than the initial donation. The winner will be announced at the awards banquet.

    The 2018 Amazing Race map and challenges

    The results of the race are as follows:

    MALE MALE

    Male – Overall
    Bib Name Chip Elapsed Pace City
    1 390 JACKSON MILLS JACOB DELUCA 01:38:59 08:59 min/mile LOVELAND
    2 180 GREGORY FASIG GARRETT FASIG 01:47:13 09:44 min/mile LOVELAND
    127 JOE CRAFT PETE CRAFT 01:49:27 09:57 min/mile LOVELAND

    FEMALE FEMALE

    Male – Overall
    Bib Name Chip Elapsed Pace City
    1 389 KATIE MILLER MAGGIE BREITENSTEIN 01:53:34 10:19 min/mile LOVELAND
    2 458 KATIE PHELAN VANESSA MALONE 01:54:53 10:26 min/mile LOVELAND
    3 208 JULIA GIBSON BRANDI ALIAGA 01:59:21 10:51 min/mile LOVELAND

    PARENT CHILD

    Male – Overall
    Bib Name Chip Elapsed Pace City
    1 530 JAY SEGURA DANIEL SEGURA 01:52:30 10:13 min/mile COLUMBUS
    2 154 MIKE DOHERTY LEXI DOHERTY 02:00:29 10:57 min/mile MIDDLETOWN
    3 290 MATTHEW IMM TINA IMM 02:04:07 11:17 min/mile CINCINNATI

    MALE FEMALE

    Male – Overall
    Bib Name Chip Elapsed Pace City
    1 258 TAYLOR HELMES RYAN MASON 01:50:37 10:03 min/mile HAMILTON
    2 190 DILLON FREES CORYNNE SWIFT 01:50:58 10:05 min/mile LOVELAND
    3 461 JUSTIN PLUMMER CARA PLUMMER 01:51:03 10:05 min/mile SPRINGBORO

    More results can be found here.

    At the end of each Amazing Charity Race, participants rush to sign up for coveted and limited spots in each coming year’s race. Next year, head organizer Doug Portman claimed the race will end in Loveland again with a totally new course and twenty new challenges.

    Those interested in running in the 2019 Amazing Charity Race can sign up here. The earlier individuals sign up, the earlier their start time.

    Jarvis Global Investments, LLC

    Jarvis Global is an investment advisory firm in Symmes Township, Ohio which offers private portfolio management and retirement services to high net worth individuals.

  • Campaign Statement of Neal Oury

    Campaign Statement of Neal Oury

    EDITOR’S NOTE:
    Neal Oury is a candidate for Loveland City Council and provided this Candidate Statement to Loveland Magazine.
     

    Loveland Magazine invites all candidates for public office in the 45140 zip code or within the Loveland City School District boundary to send a similar Candidate Statement for publication. Send to lovelandmagazine@cinci.rr.com

     

    Neal Oury aspires to serve our community

    After being asked many times by several people, I have decided to run for Loveland’s City Council. It is time to give back to the community where I was raised and currently live. I remember Loveland before I-71 or I-275 existed. Loveland was rural, quaint, quiet and residents were involved in their community. Today, Loveland is still quaint, with many changes. The railroad track is now the Bike Trail, Rolke’s is now a multi use development, the Crist Theater is now the Loveland Stage Company. The current Loveland Early Childhood Center was Lloyd Mann School, where I attended starting in the 2nd grade.

    My father worked at the railroad tower that was located behind today’s Cindy’s Tavern. I remember going to work with him, watching him pull large wooden levers in order to switch the tracks. We saved cardboard milk cartons for Harry Andrews to make the bricks to build the Loveland Castle. As a child; I played LYO baseball, enjoyed Eats & Treats candy store and shopped at Millitzer’s that was our “mall” located where Pizazz’s is today.

    My wife Lynn of 34 years and I have lived in our Loveland home for thirty years where we raised our two children. We are parishioners at St. Columban Parish where I served on Parish Council and as Chairperson, Spiritual Director for the Christ Renews His Parish program, coached girls & boys basketball and volunteered with the HANDS program. I have maintained a Real Estate Brokers License since 1980 and started my business in 1984. I served as Secretary, Treasurer, President, Past President for the Greater Cincinnati chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management. I have served on the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Apartment Association. I have managed portfolios in excess of 7000 units, as well as, for Fortune 500 Companies. I served on the Loveland Finance Committee, volunteered with the Loveland Farmers Market, The Loveland Amazing Race, the Loveland Stage Co. and Lowe’s Heros. I was awarded the Business Enhancement Award from the City of Loveland in 2005. My company rebuilt Loveland Stage Company after the devastating fire in. 2008.

    Communication with people is important to me. Understanding your concerns and opinions on issues, programs and development will help move our community in the direction WE desire. Together we can make it happen through dialogue and resident engagement. Transparency will be visible as we openly discuss future development and other priorities. I envision neighborhood meetings to openly listen to what’s on your mind. I want to get to know resident and personally inviting neighborhood representatives to attend council meetings.

    If elected, as a member of Loveland’s City Council, I will listen and respect the opinions of all council members. I will bring to this body a skill set of organization, rational decision making and a inclination to detail with honesty, common sense and integrity.

    I ask for your vote November 7th.

     

    Pizazz Studios and Gifts in Historic Downtown

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