Loveland, Ohio – What better way to celebrate love than by attending the annual Valentine’s Day breakfast this Friday! This honorary event will pay homage to the “Sweetheart of Ohio” and the community’s most loved individuals!
On Friday, February 11th from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance (LMRCA) will be hosting the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast at the Oasis Conference Center. While enjoying a beautiful hot breakfast the LMRCA will be presenting to you the 2022 Valentine Lady, the Valentine Card Designer, the Poetry Contest Winners, and the Valentino Coloring Contest Winner. In addition to all the heartfelt fun, there will also be special entertainment! The cost for the event is $30. Platinum Chamber Members will be able to enjoy the Valentine’s Day breakfast for free. Sign up for the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast here.
Jeannie Shumaker, the 2022 Valentine Lady, and Valentine’s Day Card designer Nancy Sullivan.
Be sure to purchase your 2022 Valentine’s Day Cards designed by Nancy Sullivan from the LMRCA Office (113 Karl Brown Way 2nd floor), your favorite Valentine Lady, or any of the following local businesses:
Valentine’s Day Cards are $1.50 each or you can purchase 4 for $5.
Get Your Valentine’s Day Cards Stamped by the Valentine Ladies at the Loveland Post Office!
Once you grab your Valentine’s Day Cards stop by the Loveland Post office anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. beginning on January 31st to get your cards officially stamped by the Loveland Valentine Ladies! Stamping will be available until February 12th.
If you have any additional questions about the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast contact the LMRCA at 513-686-1544.
Valentine’s Day Card designer Nancy Sullivan
For more local event updates stay tuned to the Loveland Salad With ME, Cassie Mattia!
Loveland, Ohio – What better way to celebrate love than by attending the annual Valentine’s Day breakfast! This honorary event will pay homage to the “Sweetheart of Ohio” and the community’s most loved individuals!
On Friday, February 11th from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance (LMRCA) will be hosting the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast at the Oasis Conference Center. While enjoying a beautiful hot breakfast the LMRCA will be presenting to you the 2022 Valentine Lady, the Valentine Card Designer, the Poetry Contest Winners, and the Valentino Coloring Contest Winner. In addition to all the heartfelt fun, there will also be special entertainment! The cost for the event is $30. Platinum Chamber Members will be able to enjoy the Valentine’s Day breakfast for free. Sign up for the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast here.
Jeannie Shumaker, the 2022 Valentine Lady, and Valentine’s Day Card designer Nancy Sullivan.
Be sure to purchase your 2022 Valentine’s Day Cards designed by Nancy Sullivan from the LMRCA Office (113 Karl Brown Way 2nd floor), your favorite Valentine Lady, or any of the following local businesses:
Valentine’s Day Cards are $1.50 each or you can purchase 4 for $5.
Get Your Valentine’s Day Cards Stamped by the Valentine Ladies at the Loveland Post Office!
Once you grab your Valentine’s Day Cards stop by the Loveland Post office anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. beginning on January 31st to get your cards officially stamped by the Loveland Valentine Ladies! Stamping will be available until February 12th.
If you have any additional questions about the 2022 Valentine’s Day breakfast contact the LMRCA at 513-686-1544.
Valentine’s Day Card designer Nancy Sullivan
For more local event updates stay tuned to the Loveland Salad With ME, Cassie Mattia!
Loveland, Ohio – Love was most certainly in the air on Thursday in Downtown Loveland’s Sweetheart Alley as some of the sweetest people in Loveland gathered to witness the 2021 Valentine Art and Card Reveal!
Valentine’s Day of course is one of the most coveted holidays in Loveland for obvious reasons…the city has the word “love” in its name and the city has been given the “Sweetheart of Ohio” title! With that title comes a long standing tradition that dates back to 1972; Loveland’s Valentine Program. This lovely program has significantly grown over the years adding more community activites focusing on the celebration of Valentine’s Day and a NATIONALLY recognized “catchet stamping and postmark program.”
The Loveland Valentine Program includes opportunities to volunteer for various Valentine’s Day activities, the nomination of a Valentine Lady (women who have distinguished themselves in the Loveland community, school, or family endeavors and acts as the ambassador for the Chamber’s Valentine Program, while visiting local businesses, nursing homes, and schools), the Valentine Card Design Competition, the Valentine Breakfast, the Valentine Poetry Contest, the opportunity to purchase Valentine Yard “Heart” Signs, a Business Window Decorating Contest, a Kids Valentino Coloring Contest, and volunteer opportunities to stamp Valentines at the local post office as well as purchase them. Because of COVID 10 the annual breakfast has been cancelled for this year.
With the 2021 Loveland Valentine Program activites set to kick off at the Loveland Post Office on February 1st with the stamping of Valentine’s Day cards, here at Loveland Magazine we decided to share with you our loyal readers, the 2021 Valentine Art and Card Design Reveal as well as the introduction of the winning artist!
Although both the introduction of the 2021 Valentine Lady and the Card Design Artist is typically celebrated with a much larger audience the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance President, Cee Cee Collins, wanted to be sure to keep everyone safe making the reveal a much smaller gathering. The celebration included the Valentine Ladies, who were thrilled to honor this year’s and next year’s (due to COVID-19 restrictions this year the Chamber decided to give the 2021 Valentine Lady the 2022 title as well in hopes that she could be more celebrated next year) Valentine Lady, Jeannie Shumaker, several members from City Hall and the LMRCA, and the 2021 Valentine Card Design Artist Cindy Wilmes.
Click below to witness the 2021 Valentine Art and Card Reveal presented to you by Loveland Magazine TV!
Shortly after the Valentine Card Design reveal Loveland Magazine had the opportunity to chat with the 2021-2022 Valentine Lady herself, Jeannie Shumaker, and the 2021 Valentine Card Artist, Cindy Wilmes about how it feels to represent the “Land of Love.” Nothing in the world is as sweet as these two very special women! Click below to watch the interview!
Here is a list of the 2021 Valentine Program activities and contests you can get involved in!
Enter the 2021 Valentine Poetry Contest. Submissions are due by January 26th (Download the Entry Form >).
Purchase and send out a Loveland Valentine Card! You can purchase your card at the LMRCA Office, the Loveland Post Office beginning on February 1st, MILE42 COFFEE, the Loveland Kroger, Busy Bee Boutique, Trailside Provisions, Lemons and Limes Boutique, Blume, Alley’s Boutique, Hometown Cafe, and some local banks.
The Valentine Lady tradition goes back to 1971 when the Loveland Chamber of Commerce created a Valentine postmark. Doris Pfiester, chamber secretary at the time, mailed 1,000 Valentines for Loveland residents that had a special Loveland, Ohio postmark that year and was referred to as the “Valentine Lady” until a formal selection process began in the 1980s.
Pfiester was named the very first Valentine Lady in 1992. The Chamber re-mails thousands of cards they receive from around the world for people wanting their cards mailed from “Loveland” with the slogan, “There is nothing in the world so sweet as Love.” Chamber president in 1972, Dr. Roland Boike, coined the phrase, inspired by Samual Johnson.
The official announcement of Loveland’s 2021-2022 Valentine Lady, Jeannie Schumaker, will occur at Loveland City Hall on January 26th.
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Loveland, Ohio – “Jeannie Shumaker embodies and lives all those wonderful characteristics and attributes we use to define the title of Valentine Lady. And with her lifetime of giving and caring within the Loveland community, she is a most deserving candidate to represent Loveland as the 2021 Valentine Lady,” said Peggy Goodwin in her nomination letter for the 2021 Loveland Valentine Lady. Goodwin was the 2006 Loveland Valentine Lady.
On Tuesday morning this week, the Valentine Ladies met at the Loveland Museum Center to welcome and surprise the 2021 Valentine Lady – Jeannie Shumaker. (Jeannie Shumaker is in the center photo above.)
Here is the full nomination letter…
If you’ve ever attended an event at the Loveland Museum Center, then you have most certainly met this delightful lady. And once you’ve met her, Jeannie Shumaker’s warmth and engaging smile makes you feel like you’ve known her forever. That was my experience a few years ago while volunteering for an event at the museum – both Jeannie and I arrived well before the others; we struck up a conversation and before long were chatting away like old friends while she steered me through the nuances of our tasks at hand.
A lifelong Loveland resident, Jeannie has given of her time and talents to our community in so many ways – without fanfare but accomplishing so many great things along the way. Jeannie spent 35 years as a Certified Medical Assistant, first with Dr. Sood here in Loveland, then later at Bethesda North. The care and compassion she devoted to her patients pervades everything she does as evidenced by the many ways she has quietly served the Loveland community.
She gives very generously of her time to the Loveland Museum Center; pick most any event and you’ll find Jeannie’s name within the list of volunteers. And she actively supports the Museum by attending just about every activity and event offered. She is currently one of the Docents who welcomes visitors to the Museum on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Over the years, she has also contributed quite a number of artifacts of local significance to the Museum’s collection.
Jeannie is a member of the Loveland Woman’s Club; in the past she has held the position of Treasurer as well as serving on the Ways and Means Committee. One of her favorite projects was a hugely successful bridal show to raise funds for the scholarship program. She vividly recalls her home being filled with bridal gowns as she collected items for the event. She laughingly recalls her employer, Dr. Sood, not scheduling appointments that would conflict with Jeannie’s participation in Woman’s Club meetings!
Jeannie was actively engaged in getting libraries set up at the former Little Miami and Lloyd Mann schools – it requires quite a bit of work to get each book ready to go on the shelf, so this was no small feat. Once established, she volunteered at those libraries every week helping the children select books and also reading to the kids. Even today she’s still good at reading a book upside down!
Jeannie also volunteered in the schools, tutoring 1st through 4th graders (mostly little boys) in reading and social studies. Her purse was always crammed full of socks, gloves and Kleenex to give to the kids who needed them. She also assisted the school nurse in screening young girls for scoliosis. And she was one of those treasured “room mothers” that we all fondly remember from our grade school days.
At Loveland United Methodist Church, Jeannie is a member of 2 Bible study groups. She is also the “snack lady” during Vacation Bible School, coordinating this very popular part of the program. For years in preparation for the church’s annual holiday turkey dinners, Jeannie has baked the pies (from scratch!) to accompany the more than 400 dinners served every year. And she’s ready to do it again this year!
If you check out Jeannie’s Facebook page, you’ll find no self-promotion there. Instead her Facebook page is almost exclusively a showcase of dogs and cats available for adoption at area animal shelters. (But she does slip in an occasional recipe to share with her friends!) She volunteers weekly at the SPCA in Sharonville. When she signed up to help at the SPCA, 39 of the 40 volunteers specified they wanted to work with the dogs – so tender-hearted Jeannie opted to help with the cats and kittens. Each week she cleans cages and launders the bedding – but most importantly she helps socialize the animals and assists people in choosing the perfect furry little companion for their families.
Jeannie is also deeply devoted to her family, and her care for them is second to none. Years ago, while caring for her own family, Jeannie brought her two young nephews to live with her so their parents could focus their time and energy on caring for another young son who was hospitalized due to a serious injury.
Jeannie Shumaker embodies and lives all those wonderful characteristics and attributes we use to define the title of “Valentine Lady.” And with her lifetime of giving and caring within the Loveland community, she is a most deserving candidate to represent Loveland as the 2021 Valentine Lady.
Respectfully submitted by,
Peggy Goodwin
Because of COVID, the schedule of events for the annual kick-off of the formal introduction of the new Valentine Lady and the unveiling of the 2021 Valentine Card at the Loveland Kroger store is a bit up in the air. Details will be announced by the Little Miami River Chamber of Commerce at a later date.
