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Columbus, Ohio – Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has certified the results of the 2018 General Election. The official results are now available via the link below and on the Secretary of State’s website.
December 22 and January 5
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland Robotics is hosting two tournaments during the 2018-19 season.
The first is the Loveland Robotics VEX Holiday Tournament on December 22, 2018, and it is a VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) Tournament for Middle School and High School VEX teams. Forty teams from across Ohio can sign will compete to advance to the Ohio Vex Robotics Championship. It will take place at Loveland High School with matches starting around 9 AM. Loveland 
has 4 high school VEX teams and 3 middle school VEX teams that will be participating in the tournament.
VEX Robotics is a competitive robotics program, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, for middle schools, high schools and colleges around the world. The VEX Robotics Design System is used in many classrooms around the world. There are currently more than 10,000 teams from 32 countries participating in more than 750 VEX Robotics Competition events worldwide. The competition season culminates each Spring, with the laudable VEX Robotics World Championship event, uniting top qualifying teams from local, state and international VEX Robotics Competitions.
The second tournament Loveland Robotics is hosting is the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Cincinnati District Tournament on January 5, 2019. It is hosted by the two Loveland teams, FTC Teams, Team 10464 The Bionic Tigers and Team 5040 Nuts & Bolts to help promote STEM in our community. The FLL District tournament is a second level tournament for teams who have advanced from a regional qualifying tournament. Thirty teams of students in grade 4-9 from across the area will be competing, and the top teams will advance to the Ohio FLL Championship.
innovation, and that foster well-rounded capacities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. The sequence of FIRST programs in the United States begins with the FIRST LEGO League Jr. program serving elementary school-aged youth (ages 6-9), followed by the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) program serving primarily middle school-aged youth (ages 9-14), the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) serving grades 7-12, and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), serving high school-aged youth (grades 9-12). In the 2018 FIRST Longitudinal Study, FIRST reported that over 515,000 young people participated in its programs on more than 59,000 teams, competing in more than 2,900 tournaments worldwide.
Cleveland, Ohio – Ball State Sophomore quarterback Drew Plitt came away with the Ray Louthen Award. This award, which honors the memory of the former Ball State head football coach (1962-67) and school’s athletics director (1970-81), is bestowed upon the team’s most improved player(s).
Plitt was thrust into the team’s starting quarterback role in late October after an injury sidelined Riley Neal for the rest of the season. Plitt, a native of Loveland, Ohio, threw for a career-high 340 yards and a touchdown at Toledo on Oct. 31. He then led the Cardinals to an exciting 42-41 overtime win over Western Michigan on Nov. 13. Plitt was named MAC West Offensive Player of the Week after that win thanks to tossing three touchdown passes and completing 80.8 percent (21-of-26) of his pass attempts versus WMU.
Read on at ballstatesports.com…
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Police Department have reported that approximately 3:32 AM on Thursday December 13 several shots were fired into a home on Marbea Drive. No one was injured.
The Loveland Police Department is at the home processing evidence and visiting neighbors.
Anyone with any information is encouraged to contact Detective Anthony Pecord: Phone: 513-583-3000 apecord@lovelandoh.gov
District recognized for impact on students and community through
environmental sciences coursework
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland City School District, through the nomination of Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Sciences Teacher Amy Aspenwall, has earned the Sustainability Award by the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance. The award recognizes the district and Aspenwall for her work with students, and the devotion to developing environmental leadership for the future.
“It’s an honor to be recognized for work that means so much to me and my colleagues at Loveland,” said Aspenwall. “We promote sustainability by developing environmentally educated and responsible leaders, and are committed to continuing to create programs that heighten awareness not just for our students at school, but for them as Loveland citizens and stewards of our world.”
The AP Environmental Sciences course at Loveland offers authentic, hands-on opportunities for students to understand water quality and biodiversity, consumer habitat design, and the impact of a population that shifts the needs and municipalities of the community. Students examine solutions to various environmental issues and are empowered to develop new ways to solve problems. Loveland Schools has a long-established, integrated recycling program, but the course work now offered helps develop a greater understanding of consumer goods, product development, and the power to choose sustainable methods. Students track their carbon footprint in the areas of food and fuel consumption, waste generation, and water and electricity use, and learn about ways that small changes can have a large impact for the benefit of the environment.
The AP Environmental Sciences course was implemented at Loveland High School (LHS) in the fall of 2016, resulting in a perfect 100 percent CollegeBoard passage rate in 2017. The program has doubled in size every year since its inception and is now filled to capacity until new sections can be added. Many students who completed the course have gone on to major or minor in environmental studies in college.
“APES challenged the typical AP class by making students think in a different way,” said Maddie Craft, a 2017 LHS graduate. “I’m about two years out of the class now, and I can still see how the topics that we discussed impact not only me personally but the world around me. I am going into Logistics Management and one of my goals in my career is to help build a more sustainable supply chain. This really stems from things that I learned in APES and the values that the class made me realize I have.”
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Loveland, Ohio – FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Teams 5040 and 10464 both competed in the West Virginia FTC State Championship on December 2 in Fairmont, WV. Team 5040 (Nuts & Bolts) was captain of the winning alliance and qualified to move on to the FTC World Championship in Detroit in April. This is the third consecutive year that the team has qualified for the world competition. 5040 also received third place for the Design Award.
Team 10464 (The Bionic Tigers) won the Connect Award for “the team that most connects with their local science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community.” 10464 also received second place for the Motivate Award and second place for the Think Award. (Detailed descriptions of the various awards can be found here.)
Both teams will be competing again this month. Team 10464 will compete on December 8 in Pennsylvania and 5040 will compete in Dayton, OH, on December 15. Loveland FTC teams are supported by their many generous sponsors, including Blue Chip Consulting, P&G, Jarvis Global Investments, Loveland American Legion, GE Foundation, Johnson Controls, and the Loveland Robotics Boosters. The program is always in need of sponsors and mentors. For more information, go to lovelandrobotics.com or email stewaram@lovelandschools.org.
Loveland Magazine photo from the May, 2017 Memorial Day Weekend fire
Loveland, Ohio – At their October 23 meeting, City Council approved a program that would incentivize owners of commercial, office, and industrial structures to retrofit existing buildings with fire sprinkler systems by waiving connection, permit, and inspection fees.
The purpose of this program is to protect structures within the City by offsetting a portion of the expenses related to installing a sprinkler system into an existing building. City Manager David Kennedy said, “Any added fire protection to the City’s commercial, industrial, or office building stock is added safety to the community, it’s occupants, and our firefighters.”
Following the May, 2017 Memorial Day Weekend fire in Historic Downtown that almost destroyed the two affected buildings that did not have sprinklers, City Council waived all fees associated with the installation of sprinkler systems including water connection and inspection fees for the damaged buildings when they were remodeled.
After the fire, Loveland/Symmes Fire Chief, Otto Huber reinforced the importance of sprinkler systems and the need to incentivize more building owners within the Downtown Historic District and the adjacent West Loveland Historic District to retrofit their buildings to include sprinklers. This led to discussions of the feasibility of creating a Fire Sprinkler Installation Assistance Program. At a recent City Council meeting, Huber said that a sprinkler system typically utilize a six-inch water tap/connection which based on the City’s current fee schedule would cost $21,500. Additional city costs include a building permit fee of $210 plus $.63 per square feet. Huber said that these city fees, along with the owner’s installation costs are largely the reason why very few existing buildings are retrofitted with sprinkler systems.
The intent of the proposed program would be to waive city fees for existing commercial, office, and mixed-use structures if approved Fire Sprinkler Systems are installed within the designated area.
The program is not for new construction.
Anyone can apply. To qualify for participation in the assistance program, a completed application is required and submitted to the Office of the City Manager. All applications for participation in the city’s Fire Sprinkler Installation Assistance Program are to be reviewed by a three (3) person panel consisting of the following:
Applications will be reviewed based upon the age and condition of the building and its economic contributions to the City. Appeals of the decisions made by the three (3) person panel shall be submitted within forty-five (45) days in a written form to the City Manager.
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Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Mens and Womens Bowling teams have started the season strong.
Their seasons got underway last week when they both played Reading. The Mens team won with a score of 2270 to Reading’s 1974. Leading the way for Loveland was Freshman, Alton French who Bowled a series of 371. Alton is averaging 193.5 pins a game over his first six games and has a series high of 441. The Womens team lost to Reading 1999 to 1986 but have made a come back and have won their last two matches. Most recently, beating Anderson by scores of 1918 to 1729, and 2002 to 1602.
The Womens team is led by Senior, Maria Reich, who averages 153.3 pins a game over her first six games and has a series high of 318.
The Mens team is 3-0 so far this season (2-0 conference), and the Womens team, 2-1 (2-0 conference).
Both teams will take on the Kings Knights December 4th and the 5th of at 3:30 PM at Mason Bowl and Crossgate Lanes. Loveland will look to continue their early season success and try to be the first Loveland Bowling team to take home the ECC Championship since Loveland split the title with Glen Este in 2012-13.
