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Loveland, Ohio – Beginning Monday, Feb 3rd from 10 AM until 4 PM, the Loveland Valentine Ladies will be at the Loveland Post Office stamping your Valentine’s with a special cache stamp as well selling the 2020 Valentine card, by designer, Lilly Hummer.
The last day to get your cards stamped will be Thursday, Feb 13 at 4 PM.
In the video above, council member Andy Bateman sits down to talk about his new experience at the job, the future of Loveland, and how he sees our city.
Loveland, Ohio – Fresh from getting newly elected, Andy Bateman has grown in popularity with his youthful presence and warm demeanor. Ever since the Loveland community has witnessed his election and presence in the city’s governing body, the locals expect the best to come from his ambition.
We met for the first time back in December when he was inducted in the city’s governing body and we were excited to see what could come next for our city. You can see our coverage and our first quick interview with him HERE (begin at 0.54).
In our interview with Andy (his name preference contrast to Mr. Bateman or Andrew), we learn more about his origin of ambitions, his outlook on Loveland, and what he could change if given the chance.
Loveland City Council will hold a special meeting on Saturday, February 1, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. to discuss their goals, strategic priorities, and any other business as may properly come before the municipal body which may be considered and acted on. The meeting will be held at the Loveland Safety Center, located at 126 S. Lebanon Road and is open to the public.
Hints that tiny shafts of light can pierce the seemingly unending night
by David Miller
I took the photo above in 1994 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. To get from floor to floor, I and my family had to walk through this cattle wagon.
As World War II erupted, the Nazis deported millions of victims to ghettos, concentration and extermination camps, and gas chambers in railroad cars like these – beginning their state-sponsored program of the genocide of Jews, Roma (Gypsies), gay men, Soviet prisoners of war, the disabled, and religious opponents. Nearly the whole Jewish population of Poland was forced into these cattle cars and later died in these camps.
Elie Wiesel, in his book Night, described his experience when he was liberated from Buchenwald as a sixteen-year-old. His mother and his youngest sister had already been sent to the gas chambers, and Wiesel became his father’s caregiver at the concentration camp and watched him die, just weeks before the Allies liberated the camp.
The cattle car was so crowded there was no room to sit or lie down, room was made for the living by throwing the dead onto the tracks. Out of 100 Jews in Wiesel’s cattle car, only twelve survived
In his book, Wiesel wrote about the cattle car:
The doors were closed. We were caught in a trap, right up to our necks. The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed. With every groan of the wheels on the rail, we felt that an abyss was about to open beneath our bodies.
When liberated from the concentration camp, he said, “I wanted to see myself in a mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”
Robert AcAfee Brown writing in the preface to Night, talks about breathing life into that corpse. “Most will want to continue with Wiesel on his painful journey through the darkness, through false days, until there are hints that tiny shafts of light can pierce the seemingly unending night that Auschwitz has imposed upon the earth.”
My family and I were able to exit the cattle car, but the emotion of walking where others like Elie Wiesel had been, was burned into my subconscious by that blinding shaft of light that day.
And now, as still more families are on the painful journey through a hateful darkness… might we see that we are all on this cattle car together. And, even though we must squint to see even the tiniest shaft of light – can we show each other where it is at?
– David Miller is Publisher of Loveland Magazine
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Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland City School District has invited the community to attend the 2019-20 State of the Schools student-led open house to experience the teaching and learning that takes place in the district.
“This is the third consecutive year that we put our students front and center to lead the State of the Schools,” said Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse. “There really is no better way to illustrate education at Loveland. The students will showcase programs and activities that make the Portrait of a Tiger come alive, highlighting the skills they learn here.”
You will have the opportunity to interact with students of all ages and there will be music performances by nationally recognized groups like the Loveland Show Choirs, Mallet Madness, and the Jazz Program. There will be robotics team demonstrations and a wide variety of exhibits and displays from the classrooms.
In case of inclement weather, the events will take place on Thursday, February 6.
The Student-led State of the Schools Open House is Wednesday, January 29, 6 until 7:30 PM at Loveland High School (1 Tiger Trail, Loveland, Ohio, 45140).
Mike Dunlap is a Loveland High School teacher, soccer coach, and father of Delany Dunlap
by Mike Dunlap
Cassie, thank you for choosing Delaney and doing a wonderful job with the article. (11 Year Old Local is “Tumbling” into a Bright Future!
My Mom, her grandma, had to talk me off the ledge when we found out about her condition 5 months before she was born. I was beside myself with thoughts of my child not fitting in, or being made fun of, or not doing what other kids can do… and all my Mom kept saying was, “She will be awesome, she will inspire others”. I brushed it off as Mom speak – don’t know why I did that since she was right most of the time, but I did. I do see now what she meant..
Delaney is strong-willed and independent and I couldn’t be more proud watching her have a conversation with you about it.
It really is a testament to this community, her friends, and her teachers just to name a few, who have nurtured her growth along the way.
Thanks again to you and David Miller for stepping out and showcasing what makes Loveland such a great place to live.
1 Year Old Local is “Tumbling” into a Bright Future!
The Bionic Tigers have now qualified for two state competitions
Loveland High School’s FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Team 10464, The Bionic Tigers, competed at the Mountain Qualifier that took place in the scenic mountains of Western Maryland. On January 11, 25 teams from Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia came together to compete for three advancements spots to the Maryland/D.C. FIRST Tech Challenge Championship.
To start the day, The Bionic Tigers presented to the judges about their community outreach, involvement with industry professionals, programming, robot design, and other related topics for evaluation for awards. They then competed in five qualifying matches—going undefeated—overall being ranked second place. As a result of being ranked second, 10464 got to pick two teams to join them for elimination rounds, and chose one team from West Virginia and one from Maryland.
To close out the exciting day, the awards ceremony took place. The Bionic Tigers were nominated for or won five out of seven awards: 3rd Think, 2nd Connect, 2nd Innovate, 2nd Motivate, and 1st Inspire. Due to winning the highly coveted Inspire award, The Bionic Tigers were one of three teams to receive an advancement invitation to the Maryland/D.C. FIRST Tech Challenge Championship taking place on March 1. The Bionic Tigers have now qualified for two state competitions: the Maryland/D.C. FTC Championship on March 1 and the Ohio FTC Championship on March 14.
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Board of Education’s “Organizational Meeting” is scheduled for Thursday, January 9, at 6 PM in the LMS/LIS Media Center.
No agenda is yet published for the meeting, however, the Board is expected to elect a President and Vice-President for 2020, make various committee assignments and approve a meeting calendar for the 2020-21 school year.
The Board is expected to discuss a range of issues in January, including the contract for the option to purchase the Grailville land; the structure, membership and objective of a community-based committee; expenditure reductions and various fees and tuition increases for the school year 2020-21.
The next Business Meeting for the Board will be on January 22.
by David Miller
We will almost certainly never surpass the 1.3 million readers we had in 2017 (combined on lovelandmagazine.com, Facebook, and Twitter) on the day and the day after the fire in the Historic District. And, we quite frankly never want to surpass that record unless it’s much better news. (Early morning fire destroys 2/3 block in Historic Downtown Loveland)
#1
The most-read story by a wide margin in 2019 involved the levy the school district put on the ballot. Actually, we only published a few stories that were informational, the Five Ws (Who, What, When, Where, Why) of the levy vote. We provided public documents, notices of public meetings, etc.
Interesting is what drove readership… we let our readers tell the story through Guest Columns and Letters to the Editor.
Letting our readers, and District staff tell the story in balanced thought-provoking columns proved that we had no need to publish “she said-he said” stories filtered through our eyes and we are extremely grateful to those who submitted columns and the reflective social media comments that followed. We published each and every opinion piece we received and only occasionally felt the need to delete some of the social media comments that were inappropriate.
Topping all of the levy stories was a Guest Column by Juliet Tissot, “We should not thumb our noses at the less fortunate just because we want nice stuff.” We did nothing special to promote Tissot’s column, however, are extremely proud of the Loveland community taking such interest in the subject she raised, because the plight of the “less fortunate” is rarely if ever discussed here in the Loveland area. I hope in 2020 this subject is revisited often inside the institutional framework of school board meetings, city buildings, and township halls.
LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV also produced several videos of school board meetings where the District and local residents discussed the levy which added to making the levy by far the most looked at topic of 2019.
#2
“Public Advised Not to Enter Little Miami River South of Old 3C Highway Until Further Notice” and “Canoe liveries warn of dangerous river conditions this weekend“.
#3[VIDEO] Parking garage coming to Historic Downtown and Council executes purchase agreement for 1.15406 acres of land on First Street in Historic Downtown
#4 Buy the original White Pillars home
#5 Loveland Magazine “Local Voter Guide” to issues and candidates
#6 Loveland’s Rails Trails & Ales Festival is Sept. 6 thru 8
#7 Beloved Loveland High School educator: Charles R. Schmidt passes
#8 It only took 8 minutes a story about flash flooding on Loveland Maderia Road.
#9 Arrest made for scattering screws and nails on the roadway at SR 131 & Betty Lane
#10 [Breaking] W. Loveland/Loveland Madeira area is being evacuated (Crews are investigating a natural gas leak at the intersection of W. Loveland/Loveland Madeira. The area is being evacuated and Duke is on scene.) Exact source of natural gas leak still not pinpointed – evacuation still in place
by Mihaela Manova