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Symmes Township, Ohio – The Township will host an evening of remembrance for those who sacrificed and died in our nation’s service on Friday, May 24th from 7 until 8 PM at Home of the Brave Park.
This year’s speaker will be Lt. Col. Rob White, a resident, who served in the military for 33 years.
For more information, contact the Township office at (513)683-6644.
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Whistle Stop Clay Works (WSCW) is pleased to announce the second annual Pottery Affaire happening Saturday, June 15 from 11am. till 4pm.
The show highlights local potters who create unique, hand made, functional and sculptural work. The artists will be offering functional wares like serving and soup bowls, mugs, platters and plates, and vases.
In addition, there will be unique clay sculptures, wall hangings, and whimsical fairy and toad houses. There will also be demonstrations on the potter’s wheel, a children’s craft area, and studio tours.
by Ann Barfels
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Stage Company has announced the 2019-2020 season which will be the community thespian group’s 40th consecutive season of quality live theater.
The summer youth production will be “Bugsy Malone Jr.” and will be directed by Pia Rader with Jill Gornet and Jonathan Eckman producing. This 1976 musical gangster comedy will be presented July 12-21 at the theatre at 111 SW. 2nd St (Rt.48) in Loveland.
“Mamma Mia” will be the summer musical production scheduled for August 16-25. Deirdre Dyson will direct this musical which is based on songs of the pop group ABBA. Glenna Knapp will be technical director with Steve and Theresa Kovacs producing.
The 40th Anniversary celebration will feature “Cole, An Entertainment” scheduled for Nov. 1-17. The musical tells the story of the life and fabulous music of Cole Porter. Gregory Carl Smith will direct, Chris Lee will be technical director and K. Buckler and Pat Furterer will be producers.
As part of Christmas In Loveland, the stage company will present a free family-friendly production entitled “An Olde Fashioned Christmas” on Dec. 14. This will be directed by Pat Furterer and is always the group’s gift to the public!
“Gypsy” will be presented March 6-22, 2020. This popular musical is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and her mother, Rose. The show will be directed by Michael Kiser and produced by Tom Cavano, Becky Cole and Jill Gornet.
The last show of the season will be “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” which is a side splitting comedy and promises a good time for the entire audience! This will be directed by Becky Cole and produced by Jill Gornet and is scheduled for May 15-24, 2020.
Supplemental auditions for Mama Mia will be held at the Loveland Stage Company Theater on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 6-8 pm. If you’re interested, please prepare 16 to 32 bars of a song in the same style as the show to showcase your range. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes for a dance audition. There will also be cold readings from the script. Interested parties will find additional details on our Auditions Page.
Season tickets will be available in June for $72.00 for the 4 shows. Tickets for individual shows are $20. Season tickets offer first choice in seating and performance date as well as reduced price per show.
For more information go to www.lovelandstagecompany.org or call the ticket line at 513-443-4572.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to see quality theater in a unique setting in beautiful downtown Loveland!
Loveland, Ohio – The Powell’s just rocked the 2nd Run Like a Tiger 5K on Saturday, April 20 held at the Loveland Bike Trail! Mom, Kandice got 1st place Adult, and Shannon and Charity received the Parent/Child Team 1st Place medal. They all got PR’s as well.
Congrats to all the Loveland Tigers that came out to race! All proceeds go to the Loveland Middle/Intermediate Schools PTSA to further support mental and emotional health programs.
You can see photos from the race at the Run Like a Tiger Facebook page.
Did you know you can train with the Powell’s for free, two times a week in Loveland? They also give mindset coaching, and advice for fitness and food/ supplemental nutrition at those events. Follow @riseupspartans and check the event tab for more details.
Loveland, Ohio – The City of Loveland’s Charter Review Commission is holding a public hearing to present their proposed revisions to the Charter of the City.
The “Charter” can be thought of as Loveland’s constitution and is the very base foundation of how our City government operates. It provides for duties, obligations, and responsibilities of various appointed and elected positions such as City Manager, Council-members, and Finance Director. The Charter also outlines how elections are conducted and zoning decisions are decided. It provides for the separation of powers for office holders and appointed officials and debt obligations.
The ballot question will be an all or nothing, “YES” or “NO” vote, so any suggestions about the individual proposed changes that you like or dislike should be expressed before the Charter Review Commission makes its recommendation to City Council who will likely forward the proposal to the local Boards of Election as a ballot question this Fall.
Clicking the link below you will see a “red-lined” version of the proposal that will likely be put before the voters at the General Election this November. The “red-lined” version will let you see the Charter as it is today vs. the proposed changes.
The proposed revisions are available by Clicking Here. To request a hardcopy of the proposed revisions you can contact the City Manager at 513-707-1454 or via email at dkennedy@lovelandoh.gov.
For those who want to submit comments but cannot attend the meeting, you can direct comments via email to either Councilman Ted Phelps or City Manager Dave Kennedy.
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Loveland, Ohio – The Spring Sports season at Loveland High School is nearing a close. Here is a recap and continuing play for each team.
Sectionals took place on May 7th at the ATP (Lindner Tennis Center). Advancing from Sectionals to Districts are Senior Captain, Matt Huether and Junior, Alex Ditchen in Men’s Doubles. Sophomore, Connor Ruble, has a District qualifying match this Friday, 5/10, versus Fairfield. District seeding matches will take place on Saturday, 5/11 at the ATP at 8:30 AM.
Baseball hosts Hamilton on May 14th in their First Round Sectional matchup. The team currently sits at 10-11 (5-8 in the ECC) but have won 7 of their last 8 games.
Fastpitch currently sits at 4-19 (3-9 in the ECC) and look to close out the season strong. They are led by Junior, Katelyn Kramer who is hitting .462 with 5 home runs.
Both Men’s and Women’s Track have their ECC Conference meet tomorrow, 5/8 and Friday, 5/10 at Anderson. Loveland looks to win the ECC Championship for the first time since 2017 (Men’s) and for the first time as a program (Women’s). (No results are available on the Conference Web Site, however you can find the latest Tiger results as the meet progresses on Twitter. Loveland Athletics LovelandAthletics @LovTigers_AD)
Men’s Lacrosse currently sit at 4-11 (2-2 in the ECC) and have won 2 of their last 4 games. They are currently tied with Turpin for 3rd in the ECC.
Women’s Lacrosse currently sit at 10-2 (3-1 in the ECC) and have won 8 of their last 9 games. They currently sit in 2nd in the ECC and look to finish off their regular season on a strong note.
Mt. Everest – Everest has always been the dream for Loveland resident of 26 years, Matt Brennan. He is currently trying for the 2nd time to complete the 80-day climb that has only been completed by about 4,000 people in history. Brennan would be the first in the Cincinnati area to make the trek.
Brennan would be the first in the Cincinnati area to make the trek.
Brennan has a goal of climbing the “Seven Summits” – the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. He’s conquered Mt. Aconcagua, Mt. McKinley, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Elbrus, and Denali. Less than 500 people have completed the challenge, and less than 150 Americans have summited all seven. Last December he climbed to the summit of Mt. Vinson in Antartica.
1. Mount Everest
Known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolungma in Tibet, the western world knows the tallest mountain as Everest. Named after Edmund Hillary – the first confirmed climber to reach the peak in 1953, the mountain used to be called simply Peak XV. Accompanied by a local Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, it took the two men a total of seven weeks to summit.
“I dreamed of this as a kid. I had posters on my wall of Mt. Everest as a kid. I’ve dreamed about it, so the opportunity to climb it is really quite emotional,” Matt Brennan told Loveland Magazine in March of 2018 during his 1st Everest expedition. Brennan explained that if something unfortunate happens above 21,000 feet, it could very well mean death. Something like 1.5% of Everest climbers die. It’s not uncommon to see corpses along a trek.
The thousands of hours of training and years of work lead up to one potential 5.5 mile-high peak.
On March 30 all of Matt’s team of 11 climbers had arrived in Kathmandu to begin their journey to the Everest summit.
On April 8 Brennan arrived at the Everest base camp at Lobuche and moved into his tent – His home for the next 7 weeks. He wrote on Facebook, “We have our Puja ceremony tomorrow asking the mountain for permission to climb and it looks like we will tentatively head up the mountain for our first rotation on April 19. All good. #unfinishedbusiness.” Lobuche (or Lobuje) is a small settlement near Mount Everest in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
On April 28, Brennan reported, “Good morning from basecamp. Well, the temperature can go from -10 degrees to 80 degrees with a simple sunrise.”
Hello from basecamp. We have been spending the last few days on acclimatization “hikes” up to Pumori Camp 1 at 18,500’ and enjoying the views of Everest and the Khumbu Valley. We are fairly well rested now and it looks like rotation 2 has been pushed back to May 5 or 6. This is in part due to an impending weather issue but also an attempt to avoid other teams on the mountain. It’s a strategy game right now. The lines have not yet been fixed to the summit so nobody has “summited” Everest this year from the south side. That’s likely to change in the next week to 10 days – at least we hope.
Until then we’re hanging in basecamp, eating 3 meals a day, and spending 4 hours a day hiking/climbing in the worlds greatest mountain range. Not bad. #unfinishedbusiness.
Follow Brennan’s pursuit of Everest on his Facebook page: Matt Brennan of Cincinnati and Mount Everest or: MOUNT EVEREST CYBERCASTS
Read about Brennan’s first attempt to conquer Everest:
“I WAS IN THE GREATEST CLIMBING ARENA IN THE WORLD. I CLIMBED UP THAT MOUNTAIN, I JUST DIDN’T MAKE IT TO THE TOP”
Loveland, OH- For Loveland resident, business owner, and mountaineer Matt Brennan, failure is just another step to greater success. On March 25th, Brennan set out with one goal: to summit the world’s tallest mountain. Through a nearly lifetime of training and months of rigorous preparation, Brennan attempted what no other Cincinnati-area resident had. Although he didn’t reach the top (due to an injury) he plans to utilize his defeat in order to push himself to a new height next year, when he will attempt again. Read on…
“But when I say our sport is a hazardous one, I do not mean that when we climb mountains there is a large chance that we shall be killed, but that we are surrounded by dangers which will kill us if we let them.”
No one knows exactly how many bodies remain on Mount Everest today, but there are certainly more than 200. Climbers and Sherpas lie tucked into crevasses, buried under avalanche snow and exposed on catchment basin slopes – their limbs sun-bleached and distorted. Most are concealed from view, but some are familiar fixtures on the route to Everest’s summit. Read the full article at BBC Future…
Columbus, Ohio – Ohioans will soon have an option to spread the “Stop Bullying” message on license plates, and an Ohio child will be the artist responsible for the design.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has announced his office is joining with the Ohio Education Association offering a design contest for students to create the logo and slogan that will appear on Ohio license plates later this year. Children enrolled in kindergarten through the fifth grade in the current school year are eligible to participate.
“No one likes a bully,” Yost said. “Through the creativity of our children, we can offer Ohioans this new way to push back against bullying behavior.”
The contest entry asks students to come up with a logo (drawing) and a short slogan related to the “Stop Bullying” theme.
The winning child will receive a certificate, and his or her artwork will be used on specialized interest Ohio license plates. Contributions collected when vehicle owners select these plates will fund grants for nonprofit organizations, schools and school districts to provide bullying prevention training programs or similar educational opportunities.
State Representative Dave Greenspan (R-Westlake) was a primary sponsor of legislation introduced in 2018 to create the “Stop Bullying” license plates. A measure implementing that idea became law in March 2019.
Entries must include an artwork sheet and the student’s name, grade, school and school district, plus the phone number and email address of a parent or guardian of the student. All entries must be postmarked by Fri., May 31, and sent via U.S. Mail to:
Ohio Attorney General
Attn: License Plate Contest
30 E. Broad St., 14th Fl.
Columbus, OH 43215
A video with more information can be viewed here. For complete contest rules, visit www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/StopBullyingLicensePlateContest.
Stop Bullying License-Plate Design Contest Entry Form
Stop Bullying Rules, Disclosures, and FAQs
Loveland, Ohio – Students at Loveland High School (LHS) have been nominated for 21 Cappies for the 2018 production of The Drowsy Chaperone. The awards will be announced at the Cappies Gala on May 23 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati.
Students nominated for the Cappies include:
Hair & Make-up
Sound
Props
Lighting
Sets
Orchestra
Stage Management & Stage Crew
Ensemble in a Musical
Featured Actor in Musical
Female Dancer
Male Dancer
Female Vocalist
Comic Actress in a Musical
Comic Actor in a Musical
Supporting Actress in a Musical
Supporting Actor in a Musical
Lead Actress in a Musical
Lead Actor in a Musical
Song
Musical
Male Critic
The Cappies Critics and Awards Program strives to recognize Greater Cincinnati’s talented young writers, performers and technical crews. High school theater and journalism students in the program become trained as critics, then attend shows at other schools to write and publish reviews. At the end of each school year, these student critics vote on awards for their fellow students in a list of categories, including outstanding productions, group and individual performances, as well as achievements in various technical categories.
Loveland, Ohio – On Senior Night, April 26 during the Dawn Dahart Track and Field Invitational, Cooper Smeller cleared 14’9” to break the school pole vault record by an inch.
