Loveland, Ohio – Are you a local business, organization, church, or school that is looking for an opportunity to give back to the community? Well now is your chance as LIFE Food Pantry needs your help!
During this time of the year donations to food pantries tend to slow down while the need for donations either stays the same or increases. This issue is a constant battle every year. In order for LIFE Food Pantry to continue serving the 45140 zip code by providing food, financial assistance, and additional programs for those in need, they are asking for the community to rally around one another and host food drives!
Food Drives not only help stock LIFE Food Pantry’s shelves but also raise awareness in the community and encourage groups of people to come together for a great cause. Anyone can host a food drive and anyone can participate, you just have to be willing to organize it and make it happen! In the past businesses and organizations such as Loveland High School’s Tiger Inc, the Loveland Symmes Police Department, Loveland’s Kroger, Paxton’s Grill, the Loveland Athletic Boosters, and many more have hosted successful food drives. Doing good can be fun as you can be as creative as you want to be when organizing and hosting a food drive!
Ready for the challenge?! If you would like to host a food drive visit LIFE Food Pantry’s website, call the pantry at 513-583-8222, or shoot them an email. You can always stop by to discuss food drive possibilities as LIFE Food Pantry is located at 541 Loveland-Madeira Rd, Loveland Ohio 45140 and their hours are Tuesday 10 a.m.-12 p.m and 4-6:30 p.m, Wednesday 10 a.m.-12 p.m, Thursday 10 a.m.-12 p.m and 4-6:30 p.m, Friday 10 a.m.-12 p.m, and Saturday 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
For the latest local news and updates stay tuned to the Loveland Salad With ME, Cassie Mattia!
The event will be livestreamed on Facebook so that you can cheer on your ducks as they race!
Loveland, Ohio – You can pick among charities to support and have a chance to win $750 if you enter the The Ducky Derby – Splash and Dash!
Hundreds of running events in the Tri-State have been cancelled in 2020 due to Covid-19.We all miss these events, especially the many charities that are supported through your participation.
The Ducky Derby – Splash and Dash is here to help fill the void!
The Ducky Derby is not like other virtual races, in this event a rubber ducky will be racing in your place and it will be a fully chip timed event!There will be up to 10,000 ducks racing down the Little Miami River.
The first three ducks to cross the finish line will win cash prizes ($750, $500, $250)
The fastest duck(s) in each category will be awarded prizes.
Choose your favorite animal (category) to race in your place:
The Ducky Derby will take place on October 11, at 9 AM
The ducks will be released into The Little Miami River in Loveland to begin the event. They will then race approximately ½ mile down the river. The ducks will go through a check point and a finish line. At the check point and finish line the “owner” of the duck will receive a text message of their current race time.
The Ducky Derby will be livestreamed on Facebook so that you can cheer on your ducks as they race!
Please note that this is a live event, but due to health department restrictions, spectators are encouraged to watch only online. All awards and shirts will be mailed to participants following the event.
Together we can support our favorite charities and maybe get a little “DUCKY” in the process!
We listened to your suggestions, and we thought this was the best one yet!
The 2019 Amazing Charity Race is entirely in Loveland & Miami Township. So, that means….No bus ride is needed to transport you back from finish line to the start line!
Dear Amazing Charity Race Volunteer Groups,
This year we have added a new challenge for a Company or Volunteer Group to take part in the fun! Two fabulous Prizes will be given out after the race, to the fastest Company/Volunteer Group team and also to the Company or Volunteer Group that has the most teams entered!
Soooo, talk to your Work-mates or your other Volunteer-mates and get some teams signed up today!!
NEW FAMILY CATEGORY If you have at least 2 teams from the same family, you could win a prize in our new category!
ABOUT THE RACE
The Amazing Charity Race started in 2005 as Loveland’s Amazing Race and has grown into one of the biggest races in the whole Cincinnati tristate area! With a a little bit of this and a little bit of that – we make you walk, run, ride, think and do – all for the fun of it!
All of your entry fees go straight to all of our charities after we pay off our expenses for the race.
WHAT IS IT??: It is a full day of good natured competition, music and food and laughs. The race committee is laughing itself silly coming up with fun challenges. It is not a triathlon or a 5K race. It is not limited to runners or highly athletic individuals. It is a race in that it has a start and finish line but along the way it challenges the contestants in many ways. It is a fun, quirky, adventure that challenges the contestants agility, balance, coordination, strength, intelligence, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, and most important their sense of humor. You are invited whether it is to compete or join our team of over 500 volunteers so come enjoy, have a great time for a good cause and as always expect the unexpected. Racers must be AT LEAST 13 years old to do the race with a parent. At 16 years old, racers can do the race with another 16 year old. Avai divisions: Parent/Child, Male/Female, Male/Male, Female/Female.
This year’s race will feature more fun, less stress and an all new course! Check back here often for race updates!
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Advertising is crucial for a successful community event or fund raiser. If you don’t have enough money to pay for advertising Loveland Magazine can help, however, we must receive something in return. Your return is to prominently recognize and promote Loveland Magazine as your “Media Sponsor” before, during, and after your event.
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Your organization will provide Loveland Magazine with logo recognition in print materials and on websites, priority access such as the first crack at interviews, backstage access, or other perks non-sponsors don’t receive. The Loveland Magazine logo will appear in press releases and event programs. You will plaster the Loveland Magazine logo on tee-shirts, print materials, signage and banners, and your emcee will heap praises on Loveland Magazine on event day. We will receive tickets to the event and reserved tables at the event.
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Loveland Magazine does not provide editorial coverage. We may be motivated to cover your event or organization as a result of our business relationship with you, however, your sponsorship agreement is with the advertising department, not the editorial side of Loveland Magazine. Loveland Magazine being your “exclusive media sponsor”, does not mean other news outlets will not be welcome to attend and cover your event.
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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.
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 is an investment advisory firm in Symmes Township, Ohio which offers private portfolio management and retirement services to high net worth individuals.
Ethan Kadish and his mother Alexia smile for a photo
“Do you remember that feeling when you would dive into a pool, and make the descent to the bottom? Once you reached the bottom you would tap out with your hand, turn your body around, and push off with your feet, heading up to the surface of the water. Your dad and I have reached this bottom, and we are making our way back.”
by Sam Smith
Loveland, Ohio – On June 29th, 2013, everything changed for the Kadish family.
It’s been nearly five years since then 12-year-old Loveland resident Ethan Kadish was struck by a rogue lightning bolt. After CPR, an induced coma and months in the hospital, Ethan survived. He will most likely never be able to walk or talk again and requires constant medical monitoring and assistance. He has been hospitalized eighteen times for over 380 days. His medical expenses total over $1 million yearly.
Ethan would have graduated a week and a half ago.
But nobody from the Kadish family was at the Xavier Cintas Center. Ethan will be unable to return to Loveland in the foreseeable future due to his medical hurdles. Instead, he will spend the next three years attending a school for individuals with significant medical challenges.
In a letter to Ethan that parents Alexia and Scott Kadish wrote, they expressed the pain they felt in seeing their son miss a milestone that had been assumed five years ago.
“A realization washed over us that this was supposed to be the start of your senior year of high school. That was not going to happen.”
The Loveland class of 2018 students celebrate as confetti falls. Ethan was unable to graduate with the class of 2018 due to his brain injury.
Five years after the disaster, the Kadish family has undergone pain and adapted to massive changes most could not even comprehend.
“Everything in our lives has to be scheduled; we’ve lost the ability to spontaneously go out, travel, etc., without significant scheduling of Ethan’s nurses to provide for all of his needs. When a nurse has to call off on a shift– we don’t always get a lot of notice– we have to drop whatever we have planned– work, social, sleep– to take care of Ethan. Most weekends we spend at home, as we only have nursing hours at night for Saturday and Sunday,” parents Alexia and Scott Kadish explained in a collaborative-response interview with Loveland Magazine.
The Kadish family said that, throughout the past five years of hardship, the local community has been exceptionally supportive. For example, Ethan’s former baseball coach, Carl Huether, has organized fundraising events including two Home Run Derbies and a whiffle ball tournament.
Similarly, in 2014, then fourteen-year-old Loveland resident Jacob Smilg invented a device that helps Ethan Kadish communicate. Kadish can now reply in yes an no to a group by means of a display over his wheelchair, allowing him to communicate with a group of people– something that he shows a strong positive reaction to.
Smilg spoke at TedxVienna, a conference for sharing innovative “ideas worth spreading”.
Although it is unlikely that Ethan will return to the Loveland School District, he has been welcomed by the community monthly at the afterschool Partner’s Club– a Loveland organization dedicated to the inclusion of students with special needs.
“He really seems to enjoy being around his typical peers,” Alexia Kadish explained.
“I created a cocoon around myself, and I welcomed the quiet space to mourn it all. I “saw” you in every imaginable location”
Ethan Kadish would have graduated from Loveland High School with his friends and peers on Saturday, June 2nd.
Instead, Kadish now frequents Bobbie B. Fairfax, a school specializing in helping and educating students with significant medical challenges. He attends with his nurse whenever he is not in the hospital, and will likely continue until he is 21 years old– the school’s age limit.
Ethan Kadish smiles in his wheelchair. Photo courtesy of Alexia Kadish.
“In sharing Ethan’s story, we find it serves as a healthy outlet, allowing us to express emotions that otherwise might remain bottled up inside us,” Alexia and Scott Kadish told Loveland Magazine.
Recently, the two shared what can only be described as a personal, painful, moving and honest letter to their son in a post titled Dear Ethan. They have graciously shared the letter with Loveland Magazine for publication.
Dear Ethan,
How do I even begin to express the emotions that have been pouring through my body, mind and soul this entire school year? Let me begin with a story:
When you were born, on July 19, 2000, we were so excited to welcome you into our growing family. Not long after (I’m not kidding here), I was asked on a number of occasions, “When will you start Ethan in kindergarten?” “Really?” I thought, while looking at my beautiful weeks-, and later, months-old baby. I never thought of your summer birthdate as providing such interesting dialogue. Your dad and I figured we would wait and see. See if you were ready to start a kindergarten program at the age of five and one month, or if you would benefit from waiting until you were six. Regardless, that was years away. Even as a toddler/preschooler, we were barraged with stories of what others had done with their children, and why we should follow the same path; start you “early,” wait an extra year—whatever was recommended was the absolute “best” plan, so we were told. As we had done with your older brother, Zakary, we poured into you our hopes and dreams for a future filled with wonder and exploration. Fast forward a few years and we discovered that, while you were quite inquisitive, you were also able to sit and listen well to your preschool teachers, and, by all accounts, ready to begin kindergarten in the fall of 2005. You thrived in school, loved learning and participating in everything that came your way, and were on track to be part of the Graduating Class of 2018…
Well, life changed. Drastically.
For the first few years after your injury, we were predominately focused on the rehabilitation part of your recovery. School took a place on the back burner. Whatever it would take to help you make the most gains possible, that’s where our attention remained. Nothing could sway us from giving you the best chance at coming back to us. However, your mounting medical challenges kept you returning to the hospital, for weeks, and sometimes months, at a time. Each hospitalization would hinder any positive gains, and, more often, would compound the growing list of challenges. All we could do was continue moving forward, keeping our eye on the goal of helping you achieve “more.” Eventually, the more whittled away. It’s ok if you remain wheelchair-bound, we reasoned, plenty of people lead successful lives without the use of their legs. The same reasoning was used when we thought of your use of your arms. And your ability to speak.
Slowly, painstakingly at times, the days, weeks, months and years passed, with increasing returns to the hospital, bringing us to late-summer 2017. A realization washed over us that this was supposed to be the start of your senior year of high school. That was not going to happen.
The 2018 Loveland graduation from a student’s perspective. Ethan Kadish was unable to graduate with his class.
How could we make room in our hearts for all that you had missed out on and all that you would be missing from this school year (and beyond)? I can tell you this, it has not been a positive year for me, emotionally. I did not deal with any of it very well. I retreated from friends and social gatherings, I created a cocoon around myself, and I welcomed the quiet space to mourn it all. I “saw” you in every imaginable location; participating in sport teams, theater, show choir, even walking across the school parking lot with friends. Senior pictures, applying and being accepted to college, school dances, youth group events, plans for being a camp counselor, the list goes on and on. I kept a low profile on social media, as it was too painful to see what friends posted regarding their “seniors.”
A crowd of parents, friends and family members cheer for the graduating class of 2018– once an anticipated future event for Ethan Kadish and his family
Loveland High School graduation took place a few days ago. You were not there. Neither were we, nor our extended family. In fact, your dad and I secured extra nursing coverage and took a 24-hour leave from the city. As heartbreaking as missing out on this milestone with you was for us, your dad and I wish great things to all of the Graduating Class of 2018—push yourselves beyond your wildest dreams, find where your passions lie, and take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way.
Our beautiful son, Ethan, you don’t need to worry about us. Do you remember that feeling when you would dive into a pool, and make the descent to the bottom? Once you reached the bottom you would tap out with your hand, turn your body around, and push off with your feet, heading up to the surface of the water. Your dad and I have reached this bottom, and we are making our way back. We have taken measures to strengthen our health, lift our spirits, and find the joy in the tiniest of things. We are emerging from this much-needed period of sadness. We love you and will always take care of you, assuring that you are able to reach as high as possible.
With love and strength, always and forever, Mom and Dad
Despite the Kadish’s suffering, the Kadishes have found solace in the Jewish community of Cincinnati and through the Loveland community. However, despite the outpouring from neighbors and friends, Ethan Kadish’s medical bill is still enormous. Only a portion of his medical bill is covered by insurance, leaving the rest to be paid by parents Alexia and Scott Kadish.
Jarvis Global is an investment advisory firm in Symmes Township, Ohio which offers private portfolio management and retirement services to high net worth individuals.
The Race Map is not made public until Friday night.
Here are the lane closures during the race starting at 7:45 AM until the race ends on these roads:
1) Southbound lane of Price Road from Paxton Ramsey Park to Ibold Road;
2) Westbound lane of Ibold Road from Price Road to Camp Friedlander entrance; and
3) Southbound lane of Price Road between Cub World entrance and Milford city line (just north of Miami Woods Dr in Milford).
(Note that both lanes between the Ibold and Price intersection to Cub World are open.)
This is a rain or shine event.
It’s so terribly hard to describe – that’s why we say, “Loveland Magazine is proud to present this LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video highlight reel of the 2016 Race.
You just have to SEE it to UNDERSTAND it.
The Amazing Charity Race started in 2005 as Loveland’s Amazing Race and has grown into one of the biggest races in the whole Cincinnati tristate area! With a a little bit of this and a little bit of that – we make you walk, run, ride, think and do – all for the fun of it!
All of your entry fees go straight to all of our charities after we pay off our expenses for the race.
WHAT IS IT??: It is a full day of good natured competition, music and food and laughs. The race committee is laughing itself silly coming up with fun challenges. It is not a triathlon or a 5K race. It is not limited to runners or highly athletic individuals. It is a race in that it has a start and finish line but along the way it challenges the contestants in many ways. It is a fun, quirky, adventure that challenges the contestants agility, balance, coordination, strength, intelligence, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, and most important their sense of humor. You are invited whether it is to compete or join our team of over 500 volunteers so come enjoy, have a great time for a good cause and as always expect the unexpected.
This year’s race will feature more fun, less stress and an all new course!
Loveland, Ohio – Paxton’s Grill located in the heart of the Loveland Historic Downtown area, organizes a 160 person golf outing each year for a local Loveland non-profit Cancer Free Kids.
Cancer Free Kids is a non-profit dedicated to research of children’s cancer.
Ralph Dunnigan, manager & part owner of Paxton’s Grill saw that his customers and staff wanted to be a part of the community. “ We have everybody come through our restaurant and they are such good, nice people, it just felt right to organize a fundraiser for Cancer Free Kids,” he said. “We put our heads together, formed a committee and each year hold a golf event named, Paxton’s Grill Golf Outing. To date, we have raised over $210,000 for Cancer Free Kids for their fight against childhood cancer.”
This year the annual golf outing will be at Hickory Woods Golf Course on June 9. “We invite everyone that would like to help raise funds to participate either as a sponsor or play in the tournament to go to our website at www.Paxtonsgrill.com. Players receive amazing goody bag items, a great day of golf, food, fun, beverages, and a silent auction all while helping a great local cause, said Dunnigan.
Relaxed atmosphere and friendly service welcomes you back time and time again! Located in the heart of the Historic Loveland District Just outside Cincinnati.
Panda Duck – Bear Duck – Elephant Duck – Giraffe Duck – Tiger Duck – Leopard Duck – Duck Duck
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