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Thirteenth Amazing Charity Race a success [Video]

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.

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Jun 25, 2018

Loveland Board of Education approves Kevin Hawley as treasurer/chief financial officer

Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland City School District has announced that Kevin Hawley will be the new treasurer/chief financial officer (CFO). In a unanimous vote, the Loveland Board of Education approved a contract for Hawley at the June 21 business meeting.

In a press release, Board President Art Jarvis said:

“Trustworthy and thorough – Kevin Hawley brings a remarkable combination of solid experience and genuine enthusiasm to the senior leadership team. These are the qualities we were searching for as the district is engaged in Building Tiger Nation – our year-long commitment to the assessment of our academic and facility needs; Mr. Hawley is the perfect leader to navigate the financial management of these game-changing conversations Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse is directing. These two leaders will be a fantastic professional complement to each other.”

Hawley joins the district after serving three years as the treasurer at North College Hill City Schools where he earned the Ohio Auditor of State Award for exemplary financial reporting (2016 and 2017). Prior to that Hawley served as the school accountant/licensed treasurer for the Warren County Educational Service Center (2013-2015), and he worked in financial planning with Fidelity Investments (2007-2013). Hawley earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Miami University, and in addition to his Ohio School Treasurer’s Licensure, Hawley is also a Certified Financial Planner.

Hawley’s contract will begin August 1, 2018; he replaces former Treasurer/CFO Brett Griffith who announced his retirement in January 2018.

Jun 22, 2018

Loveland celebrated Tigers State Champion Soccer Team with ring ceremony

Loveland, Ohio – Loveland High School (LHS) and the Loveland Athletic Boosters joined Tiger Nation in celebrating the success of the Tigers State Champion Soccer Team with a State Championship Ring Ceremony Friday, May 4, in the LHS Gym. The Loveland Athletic Boosters purchased the championship rings for the entire team and coaches.

“We are proud to celebrate our 2017 Lady Tigers State Champion Soccer Team and their historic accomplishments,” said Athletic Director Brian Conatser. “This season is a product of competing with excellence every day, overcoming adversity and countless hours of hard work. The Loveland community is remarkably proud of the way these student-athletes represent themselves with Respect, Responsibility, Integrity and Pride. It was an honor and privilege to recognize these student-athletes and their achievements! Go Tigers!”

2nd Annual Symmes Township Food Truck Rally on Sat. June 23

Jun 20, 2018

[They Celebrate] Meet the Loveland High School 2018 Graduates

This LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video is from the Xavier University Cintas Center on June 2, 2018, as the 136th graduating class of Loveland High School exits their graduation ceremony.

Jun 18, 2018

Board President Art Jarvis at Loveland High School Commencement

This LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV video is from the Xavier University Cintas Center on June 2, 2018. The 136th graduating class of Loveland High School.

Jun 18, 2018

#TigerCare: Hope Squad comes to Loveland Schools

By Eric Dool, Loveland Director of Student Services

It is built into our district goals: Tiger Care. When considering all that Care could embody for our students, resilience – the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness, and self-efficacy – one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task, stand out as being of paramount importance in preparing our children for life’s challenges. Unfortunately, for some students, a lack of resilience and self-efficacy, combined with episodic and/or long-term mental-health needs, results in suicidal ideation. The reality is frightening, and has touched every single school throughout the nation. However, we are not without hope.

Loveland is truly blessed with a wealth of caring staff and mental-health supports to meet the ongoing needs of our students. Yet, when considering the danger posed by suicidal thought, even those supports do not feel like enough.

Loveland is truly blessed with a wealth of caring staff and mental-health supports to meet the ongoing needs of our students. Yet, when considering the danger posed by suicidal thought, even those supports do not feel like enough. We must do more. We will do more. To that end, over the next several months, Loveland will be embarking upon a partnership with Grant Us Hope (https://www.grantushope.org/) and Hope Squad (https://hopesquad.com/) to provide our students with the tools needed to join us on the front line in doing all that we can to identify and intervene with suicidal thought and behavior.

Hope Squads – are trained to identify suicide warning signs in their peers, and to alert adults to those signs.

Grant Us Hope, the official Hope Squad Founding Agency of Ohio, has partnered with Hope Squad’s founder, Dr. Greg Hudnall, to bring the model to the Greater Cincinnati region, and eventually the entire state. Building upon a researched-based model, student groups – or Hope Squads – are trained to identify suicide warning signs in their peers, and to alert adults to those signs. District staff are also trained in the model, and serve in the capacity of organizing and guiding as advisors. To be clear, Hope Squad members are empowered to seek help and save a life; Hope Squad members are not taught to act as counselors. This group of students will be educated on how to recognize signs of suicide contemplation, and how to properly and respectfully report this to an adult.

This group of students will be educated on how to recognize signs of suicide contemplation, and how to properly and respectfully report this to an adult.

In May, school counselors from Loveland Intermediate School, Loveland Middle School, and Loveland High School will receive training to equip them with the skills to serve as advisors. Staff training, parent meetings, and student selection and training will follow in the late fall of 2018. Hope Squad will then launch as an official Tiger Care program in January 2019.

If you have any questions about Loveland’s participation in this program, I invite you to contact me directly.

Eric Dool dooler@lovelandschools.org

Director of Student Services
Loveland City School District

Wildflower House — where women & girls bloom!

Jun 7, 2018

Loveland Middle School Weekly Awards

7th Grade:

Social Studies: Katianne Napier

Math: Mozen Shalash

Science: Amelie Pillai

English: Emma Ramsey

8th Grade:

Social Studies: Julia Parker

Math: Aleah Reiger

Science: Mollie Fogel

English: MK Walther

Electives:

Phys Ed/Health: Nathan Klein

Foreign Language: Trevor Hoffman

Fine Arts: Caleb Roberts

Music: George Jewell

Staff:

Gerald Bess, Paraprofessional

Jun 3, 2018

Loveland Magazine Intern Sam Smith accepted into New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Loveland, Ohio – Sam Smith has been a paid intern at Loveland Magazine since the fall of 2016. He has been doing news writing, opinion writing, videography, editing, and producing stories. Recently, he was among ten Loveland High School (LHS) seniors who were honored at the Fine Arts Signing Day on May 3.

Smith will go to the New York University Tisch School of the Arts this fall to further his passion for filmmaking.

In this first video, you can watch teacher James Barrett talk about Smith’s accomplishments both inside and outside the classroom while attending LHS. In the second, Smith talks about why he chose, and why he is excited to attend the Tisch School.

May 21, 2018

Loveland first-graders: Will Hillenbrand is happy when he draws

Collaborative story written by Jennifer Miller’s first-grade class at the Loveland Primary School,

**Will Hillenbrand visited Jen Miller’s 1st grade class to teach her students how he writes and illustrates his famous children’s books.**

Loveland, Ohio – Will Hillenbrand is an author and illustrator. Will is a story-teller. He draws and writes. Will draws what he dreams and imagines. He is happy when he draws.

Will uses tape, his magic pencils, and glue to create. His studio is in Terrace Park, Ohio.

Will’s art makes me happy.

EDITOR’S NOTE ABOUT THIS STORY:

Will Hillenbrand is a nationally acclaimed illustrator of children’s literature. After first-grade teacher, Ms. Miller found out Hillenbrand was coming to visit the Loveland Primary School to tell students how he writes and illustrates his famous children’s books, he was asked if he would make a special visit to her class and take part in their on-going writing collaborative with Loveland Magazine. The children used the time to write notes about the author – to use for writing their own story and also showed Hillenbrand how they are taught in the classroom to write stories.

The class visited the office of Loveland Magazine later that month to jointly write a story about Hillenbrand. The story above is the culmination of the lesson plan on writing and how newspapers can be a tool for telling stories about events in the community.

The photos below were taken while the students were at Loveland Magazine to work on the story they have published.

Below those photos is the art the children created using the skills they learned from Hillenbrand to help tell their story.

Wildflower House — where women & girls bloom!

May 21, 2018

[Photos] Inaugural 2nd Sunday Singer & Songwriter Jam

To honor Mothers Day last week’s event was re-shuffled… the next round will be held this Sunday May 20

Loveland, Ohio – To promote community through song with an acoustic singer/songwriter round, on April 15 Loveland Magazine hosted the inaugural 2nd Sunday Singer & Songwriter Jam at their offices in the West Loveland Historic District.

One of the organizers, Ellen Mershon said afterward, “I was inspired and feel my creative batteries were recharged.”

The event focuses on original material, and song writing through creative collaboration of songwriting and music.

The public is invited. 1-4 PM at 514 West Loveland Avenue, this Sunday May 20 which is the 3rd Sunday, but will return to the 2nd Sunday in June.

Follow the event and group here on Facebook.