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Cincinnati parish pushes back when new priest brings change Dan Horn Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Jenna Beall Mueller and Adam Mueller stand in front of their 2015 Shasta Airflyte Reissue camper with their three dogs Margot, Dewey and Gus on August 27 in Pleasant Ridge. The couple purchased the camper in June in the midst of the pandemic as a way to travel safely. MEG VOGEL/ THE ENQUIRER

1 COUPLE, 3 DOGS AND A CAMPER NAMED CHANICE Couple takes to the road during the pandemic

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hose of us with a penchant for wanderlusting have suﬀ ered in our own unique way these past months. Penned in by not only our four walls, we feel hemmed in by the invisible boundaries on the map that COVID-19 has drawn for us, dictating where we can – and where we mostly cannot – explore, experience, trailblaze. Airplanes? Hotels? Europe? Forget it. Jenna and Adam Mueller of Pleasant Ridge found a solution to pandemic travel challenges (along with a lot of other people), and they call her Chanice. Chanice the Shasta. Dressed in turquoise and white, Chanice is a 19foot-long replica 1961 Shasta Airﬂ yte camper, carbon-copied from the 1961 blueprints. Only 1,941 were made (to honor the year initial production began on the camper), and the Muellers managed to track one down for sale in Dayton this spring. She’s a dead ringer for the true vintage model, and the Muellers often get compliments from folks who are certain of her age. “We’ve had so many people stop and just like randomly taking pictures of it. ‘Oh we’re sorry we’re not being weird, but, like, we grew up with one of these things, like exactly the same color,’” said Adam. There are updates, of course, like air conditioning (“Thank God,” says Adam). (Oh and Chanice? It’s taken from one of the cou-

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ple’s favorite movies, “Uncle Buck,” which happens to be the nickname they’ve given the truck that pulls her.) Jenna took inspiration from her love of tinyhome shows to organize and deck out the woodpaneled interior in ﬁ tting retro fashion. Adam took his love of tinkering and sunk it into the new hobby of owning and maintaining a camper. Plus, he grew up camping. She did not. A camper, they’re discovering, is a wonderful compromise. Chanice is a means to go on the adventures Jenna and Adam missed during the pandemic. Traveling is a big part of what makes them happy. But it’s something that became an impossibility during these See CAMPING, Page 3A

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Parishioners at St. Anthony’s Church in Madisonville are used to being asked why they do the things they do. Why do they play African drums and clap to gospel music at a Catholic Mass? Why do they stand for the entire service? Why do dancers in white dresses and colorful sashes lead the procession into church? For years, they’ve given the same answer to all those questions. “It’s the St. Anthony way,” said Gloria Parker-Martin, a parishioner there for 25 years. But now the way is changing, and so is one of Cincinnati’s most diverse and progressive Catholic parishes. The arrival of a pastor with a more traditional approach has brought a new way of doing things that has riled some parishioners and divided St. Anthony’s congregation. The changes at St. Anthony’s are part of a broader debate in the American church over the role regular Catholics, or lay Catholics, should play in the day-to-day operation of their parishes. But they also have ignited an intensely personal ﬁ ght over what it means to be a religious community and what it means to be Catholic. At St. Anthony’s, the community has for years been guided by the belief that lay Catholics can and should be empowered to do important work in the parish, including, at times, work typically left to priests. “The way we did it meant a lot to me,” said Kay Brogle, a parishioner for 30 years. “What it becomes, we don’t know. But it isn’t what it was.” Disagreements between pastors and their ﬂ ocks are neither rare nor unique to Catholics, but what’s happening at St. Anthony’s isn’t a typical disagreement. Since arriving in 2016, St. Anthony’s pastor, the Rev. Jamie Weber, changed several long-time practices at the church, replaced the elected parish council with his own appointees and removed dissenters from the choir and the list of Sunday lectors. Some parishioners, meanwhile, challenged Weber’s decisions, sometimes openly in church, and aired their grievances last month in a half-page ad in The Enquirer declaring they’d lost their parish to an “authoritarian model of church leadership.” See ST. ANTHONY, Page 4A

The front entrance at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in the Madisonville neighborhood on Sept. 9. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

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Ohio nursing home residents data taken by hackers Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Hackers have taken personal information including birthdates and names of some the residents of Ohio nursing home and senior living communities ran by Life Enriching Communities, according to a release from the company. The Loveland-based Life Enriching Communities operates Twin Towers in College Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati, Twin Lakes in Montgomery and Concord Reserve in Westlake, a city just west of Cleveland. The senior living center operator is notifying the public since the taking of the information was a violation of the federal medical privacy law HIPPA. HIPPA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The third-party data breach happened In May through the LEC Foundation, which receives donations on behalf of Life Enriching Communities. The third-party vendor, Blackbaud, Inc., was the victim of a ransomware attack, according to the release. Blackbaud paid a ransom demand and received conﬁ rmation the copy removed by the cybercriminal had been destroyed, according to the release. Blackbaud provides technology, software, donor databases and online

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was taken included information including name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth (and/or date of death in the case of an estate gift), resident status, and various notes about some residents, according to the release. LEC Foundation has asked people who have questions or concerns to contact them by calling 513-719-3540.

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A Walnut Hills man who pointed a gun inches from a waitress’s face during a robbery at Pleasant Ridge Chili has been sentenced to three years in prison, his attorney said. Christopher Binford, 19, pleaded guilty last month in Hamilton County

Common Pleas Court. Binford was seen on a surveillance video, pointing a gun about two inches from the waitress’s face. He then demanded money from the cash register, court documents say. The robbery happened in 2017. Binford’s attorney, Clyde Bennett II, called Judge Patrick Foley’s sentence “very fair.” “It gives Chris a chance to salvage his life,” Bennett said.

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Jenna Beall Mueller and Adam Mueller's 2015 Shasta Airflyte Reissue camper features a three burner cooktop, microwave, refrigerator with freezer, sink, and storage.

Camping Continued from Page 1A

times due to Jenna’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Chanice helps them avoid the crowds and having to touch public surfaces but still be able to travel. “This was a way for us to get on the road and travel in a self-contained way. And it’s my tiny house dream, too, getting to live tiny a little bit at a time,” said Jenna. And then there’s one of the big reasons they bought the camper: so their dogs Margot, Gus and Dewey can all share the camper with them on their journeys. Working on the road will be an added bonus since both Jenna, a copywriter, and Adam, self-employed in digital marketing, are working from home due to the pandemic, trading between conference calls and caring for the dogs. They’ve tested it by taking the occasional conference call in the camper, or working inside of it while it’s parked at home when it’s nice outside. The real test comes during their weeks-long adventure this month to Vermont and the Adirondacks in New York, a spot full of childhood memories for Adam, whose grandfather grew up nearby.

Jenna Beall Mueller and Adam Mueller's 2015 Shasta Airflyte Reissue camper features the original Shasta logo magazine rack.

Now, Adam says, Jenna loves it even more than he does. “What diﬀ erence does it make where

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Jenna Beall Mueller and Adam Mueller's 2015 Shasta Airflyte Reissue camper features a full-size bed and an LED lamp that was produced to look like the original 1961 gas lamps. PHOTOS BY MEG VOGEL/ THE ENQUIRER

you work from as long as you have an internet connection? It’s the big experiment if we can do it. Hopefully, the weather is nice and I’ll be working from a picnic table outside,” said Adam. He’s planning to build a desk in the camper that pulls down from the wall to further equip it for on-the-road work. This will be their longest trip yet, inching farther and farther from home each time, starting with a few in-state excursions to Cowan Lake and Hueston Woods just north of Cincinnati, then a state park near Cleveland, then Petoskey, Michigan, before the big drive to New England. They’ve also joined Harvest Hosts, a network of more than 1,100 farms, wineries, breweries and museums that off er free stays on their grounds in exchange for the purchase of some of their goods. And most of these places are dogfriendly – perfect for Gus, Margot and Dewey to get some zoomies out on the farms and vineyards. The Muellers used those early trips to work out the kinks. As they’re discovering, camper ownership can be ... fi ddly. Jenna has recounted the misadventures on their fi rst camping trip and all about how fi ddly camper ownership can get on her blog, where she gives an honest account of an activity social media has glamorized. “If you look at a lot of people that do the glamping kind of thing, everything

they put on Instagram is always those highly stylized best moments of things,” said Adam. “I think Jenna’s blog certainly has some stylized moments, but it also talks about those things that people don’t expect the fi rst time they buy one of these things. “She’s really good at documenting,” he said. “Like the fi rst day we pulled it back in the driveway here. That was pretty comical.” Their narrow Pleasant Ridge street and driveway has been one of the big anxieties of owning a camper, Jenna said. Adam adds: “Neighbors watch.” Towing? Adam’s not as nervous about that. “I’m more nervous if the electrical fuse goes wrong.” It’s one of the reasons the Muellers went with a new camper with vintage looks: no vintage mechanics. “It’s a steep learning curve with camper camping. It feels like a hobby you have to learn and practice,” said Jenna. Thankfully, they’ve found RV campers to be friendly and super helpful. Everything is a little smaller, and nothing is fast with owning a camper, either, said Adam. “Whether it’s taking it down, cleaning it out, setting it up, fi xing something, driving in it. You’ve got to go slower, you’ve got to be more patient with your surroundings. But once you’re there, wherever the heck you’re going, it’s really relaxing.”

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Everyone involved has said they’ve acted with the best intentions, but the divide runs deep. Meetings in the past year with a private mediator and with Archbishop Dennis Schnurr both failed to bridge the gap. The way forward for St. Anthony’s isn’t clear. Those who worship in the red brick church at the corner of Desmond and Chapman streets say they know their parish is changing, whether they like it or not. They just aren’t sure how far that change will go and what, exactly, “the St. Anthony way” will mean in the years to come. “Clearly, the way things used to be, with a lot of lay involvement and consultative leadership, that’s going away,” said Malachi Lawrence, a St. Anthony’s parishioner for 50 years and the newly appointed chair of the parish council. “My job is to do what I can to heal the parish.”

Looking for a shepherd, ‘not a dictator’ Not long ago, few at St. Anthony’s would have guessed such a job would be necessary. For decades, the parish had operated with more autonomy than many Catholic parishes, in part because a priest shortage gave members little choice. Priests still presided over Sunday Mass, but they often had duties at other parishes, too. St. Anthony’s roughly 200 families embraced the challenge of playing a larger role. They adopted gospel music and colorful altar cloths that reﬂ ected the heritage of the parish’s Black members, who make up between 10% and 20% of the congregation. They instituted practices such as standing throughout Mass, hugging during the greeting and holding hands during the Our Father. They added African drums and liturgical dancers. They made social justice and racial equality a cornerstone of their mission. And they encouraged the kind of clapping and singing during services that isn’t often seen in Catholic churches. “When the spirit hits you, you move,” said Parker-Martin. “You don’t just sit

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there. You do something.” Parker-Martin and others said they believed much of their work was sanctioned by the church through the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, which in the 1960s encouraged a larger role for lay Catholics. But there are limits to those reforms, and conservative Catholics have pushed back against changes they see as misinterpretations of Vatican II. That larger battle came home to St. Anthony’s when Weber arrived four years ago. Already the pastor at St. Cecilia, a larger and more traditional parish in Oakley, Weber was put in charge of an eastern region that included St. Anthony’s. He soon began making changes he believed were more in line with church teaching. Weber declined comment, but Archbishop Schnurr said in a statement the pastor has his support. The pastor relieved Parker-Martin of her duties as church decorator and replaced the African-themed altar cloth with one similar to those used in other Catholic churches. He disbanded the elected parish council after concluding it was not acting as the “consultative body” required by the church. And he instructed parishioners to kneel, as most Catholics do, after the Profession of Faith and during the prayers before Holy Communion. Other changes were more subtle – the introduction of religious statues and imagery, for example – but the cumulative eﬀ ect was to erode the culture some parishioners spent years building at St. Anthony’s. Parker-Martin, who is Black, said she’s particularly concerned about the church’s long-term commitment to diversity and social justice. While American Catholics are a diverse group, with Hispanics making up one-third of the population, Blacks account for just 3% of the total. The old way of doing things at St. Anthony’s ensured Black voices were heard, Parker-Martin said, but she fears those voices could be silenced with less lay involvement. “Now it’s more structural, or hierarchical,” she said of the new decisionmaking process. “That causes conﬂ ict in a parish. People are looking for a shepherd, not a dictator.”

A private dispute goes public The Catholic Church, however, is a

structured, hierarchical institution. Its line of authority runs from the Pope to bishops to parish priests and its basic rules and teachings, including those governing the conduct of Mass, have been in place for some 2,000 years. As Weber noted in a letter to the parish last week, Vatican II didn’t fundamentally change those rules or teachings, and only the church can interpret their meaning. “There is no private interpretation of the second Vatican Council,” Weber wrote. “Some people do not understand the nature of the Church and some people do not accept the nature of the Church.” In a statement, Archbishop Schnurr said he “fully supports” Weber. He did not say St. Anthony’s previous way of doing things violated church teachings, but he implied the changes Weber has made were necessary. “The sacraments are a gift entrusted by Christ to Schnurr the Church, not to any one individual or group,” Schnurr said. “They must always be celebrated in accord with the Church’s tradition and laws.” It’s the job of priests, as spiritual leaders, to help Catholics understand those traditions and laws. Though he wouldn’t talk about it, Weber appears to have tried to do that with the dissenting parishioners. He met with them on several occasions and agreed to join them in mediation. Brogle, who was among those dismissed from the parish council, said she believes both Weber and the parishioners made an honest eﬀ ort. But in the end, she said, the pastor and the archdiocese rejected the “collegial model” that had worked in the past. “When Father Jamie came, the model was very diﬀ erent,” Brogle said. “It was, ‘I’m the pastor and this is how it’s going to be.’ ” Robert Ehrsam, a St. Anthony’s member for 30 years, said Weber’s patience with parishioners who objected to the changes grew increasingly thin over time. At one point, Ehrsam said, Weber accused him and other former parish council members of “doing the work of the devil.” Brogle said the decision to publish the ad in The Enquirer in August was born of frustration. “We just kept running into brick walls,” she said.

The ad pulled no punches. Headlined a “Eulogy for Saint Anthony Catholic Church,” it was an open letter that claimed the parish’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and social justice was in danger. “We have lost what we cherished for many years. We anticipate even further loss,” said the letter, which was signed by more than 50 current and former parishioners. “We now know it is time to say goodbye.” Several who signed the letter, including Parker-Martin, said they aren’t leaving the church and were instead saying goodbye to the St. Anthony’s they used to know. But Weber, in his written response to parishioners a week later, seemed prepared to take them literally. “Those who publicly disagreed with our mission and our evangelical direction have bid us good-bye,” the pastor wrote. “They should be in our prayers.” According to several parishioners, Weber then removed anyone who signed the letter from the list of lectors and choir members, concluding it would be inappropriate for them to be in the church sanctuary. Neither Weber nor the archdiocese would comment on those moves, but parishioners say they were punitive. “I tell people I’ve been ﬁ red from my volunteer job,” said Parker-Martin, a former lector. Lawrence, the current parish council leader, said the ad created hard feelings among parishioners, including those who may have sympathized with the message but not the very public delivery of it. “We didn’t feel there was any healing from that,” he said of the ad. Weber, in his response to the ad, described the fracture in the parish as a “sad and tragic scandal.” The work of repairing that fracture has been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, which has limited church attendance and activities. It won’t be clear if more change is coming and what it will look like until everyone can gather again at St. Anthony’s. It’s also unclear who will be there when the church returns to a normal schedule. Brogle, who drives across town from College Hill to attend St. Anthony’s, said she’s considered looking for a new parish, as some others have done. But after 30 years at St. Anthony’s, it’s diﬃ cult to let go. “It’s a hard thing to start over,” she said.

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A dad knows overcoming trials will build character Congratulations to Mick O’Connor and his daughter, Grace ("Despite COVID, dad wants his daughter to have chance to play basketball her senior year," Sept. 6) He has much to be proud of – a daughter who is a team player, worked hard at her game and took pressure-packed shots in a big game last year. I was a soccer dad – the nut on the sidelines. I still remember some 20 years later that beautiful day in Erie Pennsylvania when my daughter's skills as a center midfi elder shone as bright as the sun. But that memory is not “one of the proudest moments of my life“ and not hers either. Her career ended after two ACL tears, right then left six months apart. The second one occurred on her fi rst day back after rehabbing the other knee. She was just doing foot drills and came down wrong. She played the next year, her senior year and she fi nished her select soccer career at that time as well. Her proudest moments have come since then-college, medical school, marriage, childbirth, and childrearing. My proudest moments of her come when I can show what she learned from soccer – generosity, team spirit, a work ethic, the beauty of the game of soccer, and the wonders of her body – fl ows through her life. My wish for Mick and Grace is that they get to see moments like that. Not playing her senior year in high school will have no eff ect on that.

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Not leaving a good legacy for our kids My niece had her fi rst child this summer. What future are we leaving for her? She was born in the middle of a pandemic for which the present administration bears a heavy burden of responsibility. First, they did away with the expert panel to fi ght pandemics, then denied and dithered, then took no responsibility and forced states to handle a worldwide pandemic, pushed dubious unproven cures, and now suggest herd immunity that could kill hundreds of thousands more. The present occupant of our highest offi ce does not care about anyone who serves their community or their country. He has contempt for people who dedicate their lives to keeping people informed, safe, or healthy. His only concern is what will enhance his wealth and power and keeping the set of people who share that content. He and his cronies are not fi t for offi ce. Steve Schumacher, Northside

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There are no overall letter grades for school districts or buildings. There is no information about students’ performance on standardized tests, because most didn’t take any this spring. And those hoping to compare districts’ academic successes at the nittygritty level will have to wait until next year – or perhaps longer. Like many things, Ohio’s state report cards for K-12 schools, released Sept. 15, will look dramatically diff erent this year, following waivers from the state’s usual testing requirements this spring. While much of the local data that was available was fairly comparable to 2019, there were some areas of improvement. For example, Cincinnati Public Schools improved its four-year graduation rate by 1.5 points, from 77.9% last year to 79.4% for the Class of 2019. CPS improved its fi ve-year graduation rate by more than 5 points, from 77.9% to 83.5%. Graduation data lags a year behind on report cards. Meanwhile, four-year graduation rates fell in North College Hill, Hamilton, Lockland, Norwood and Winton Woods. The newly released data also lists the number of third-graders advancing to fourth grade with the literacy skills required under the state’s third-grade reading guarantee program. Of 49 districts in Southwest Ohio, 36 advanced 100% of third-graders in 2020, compared to 22 districts in 2019. No district advanced less than 98.5%. But those fi gures are likely skewed because the state relaxed the program’s requirements due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s one example of the oddities to be expected in this year’s cards. In late March, shortly after Gov. Mike DeWine ordered all Ohio school buildings to abruptly shut down to prevent the spread of the newly emerging coronavirus, state legislators passed a bill waiving standardized testing requirements and the state report-card ratings that are based on them for the 2019-20 school year. The thinking was that the rankings, which can come with consequences for

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poorly performing school districts, wouldn’t be fair assessments of what students had learned. The spring, when they and educators were facing unprecedented challenges, is the typical time for testing. While most students were expected to learn remotely from home, many lacked the technology, internet access and family support to do so. “Schools across the state of Ohio worked very hard to provide quality experiences for students, but you just can’t deny that it doesn’t replace in-person education, where teachers can really react to students and students can really react to teachers,” said Kevin Miller, director of governmental relations for the Buckeye Association of School Administrators. “We had kids all over the place as far as their engagement level with schools and the challenges that schools faced.” The Ohio Department of Education was still required, however, to report any data it had collected by Sept. 15, though nothing is punitive. “While schools have less information available than in years past, we still emphasize the importance of gauging where students are in terms of academic achievement and using available district data to inform improvement to in-

struction,” state Superintendent Paolo DeMaria said in a statement. Though the report cards, which typically list the data in an easy-to-digest, easily comparable A-F letter grade format, are sparse, they do provide some demographic information about students and educators and a snapshot of district spending. The report cards also list data on chronic absenteeism, as well as high school students’ graduation rates and their success in earning industry credentials and passing college entrance tests like the ACT and SAT. Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, said this year’s mostly empty report cards indicate the state is over-reliant on testing. “We’re not doing enough to report on the opportunities that our schools are providing, as opposed to their standardized test scores, which tell us what we already know: Kids in high-poverty districts perform worse than schools in low-poverty districts,” DiMauro said. DiMauro’s association issued a statement Tuesday once again calling for an overhaul of the “broken” system. Some assessment and performance data is necessary to inform instruction.

But the state should also spotlight educator turnover; class sizes; the number of counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers available to students; and the richness of a district’s curriculum, DiMauro said. He said this data would be more helpful to families, and called letter grades “punitive labels” that should be removed. Ohio’s report cards ﬁ rst started phasing in letter grades for various academic measurements years ago, but each district just started receiving overall letter grades fairly recently, in 2018. As educators digest this year’s report card data, the status of next year’s remains in limbo. A bipartisan bill in the Senate’s education committee would again lift state testing requirements and direct the Ohio Department of Education to seek a waiver from federal testing mandates, to keep students and teachers focused on learning, instead of evaluating. It received its ﬁ rst hearing Sept. 1 and has not had another yet. If the bill became law, the department would not issue state report cards for the 2020-21 or 2021-22 school year. Enquirer investigations and enterprise editor Mark Wert contributed.

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In an online Cincinnati Public Schools board meeting Monday, Sept. 14, board members decided to resume extracurricular activities, including high school sports. A board member said, “Play ball,” as the vote was taken to allow athletics. In a special vote proposed by board member Eve Bolton, the school board voted to allow athletics to return. Last week, non-contact sports returned to full competition while contact sports began intra-district (CPS against CPS) games. Contact sports returned to full competition this week. “This is what we’ve been asking for this whole time,” said Erin Hawk Upp, a parent who has two kids who play

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Ohio high school volleyball preview Shelby Dermer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

With the start of the high school volleyball season underway, here are the top teams and storylines to watch for this season in Greater Cincinnati.

Girls Greater Catholic League All eyes will (rightfully) be on the Girls Greater Catholic League, which is considered to be one of, if not the toughest, conference in Ohio. You can usually pencil in one of these fi ve squads for a regional championship and trip to the state Final Four at Wright State. Last year, Mount Notre Dame went 25-3, defeating conference foes Mercy McAuley and Ursuline in the regional tournament. The Cougars lost in the state semifi nal, but return standout outside hitter Carly Hendrickson, who led the GGCL in kills last season and was a fi rstteam All-Ohio selection. Fellow AllOhio pick Megan Wielonski is returning, too, after leading the GGCL in assists. Ursuline, which won a state title in 2018, is happy to welcome back Hailey

Green, who led the GGCL in kill percentage (.540) and kill eﬃ ciency (.441) last season and was fourth in total kills (293). St. Ursula, which also won 20 games last season, has Emma Grome returning. She was a second-team AllOhio selection last year. Seton and Mercy McAuley will each try to improve on 1-7 records against the GGCL last season. Julia Marr is Seton's top returner after registering the second-most kills in the GGCL in 2019. Ohio University commit Caroline Clippard is back for Mercy McAuley after helping her club capture a district title.

were at the hands of Fenwick, including back-to-back regional championships. Can the Spartans get over the hump? They will return honorable mention AllOhio selection Cammy Niesen and senior Grace Wilking. Badin, 17-8 last season, returns Sarah Newberry, who had nearly 200 kills as a freshman in 2019. Senior Emma Trusock also returns for the Rams. McNicholas thrived in the GCL co-ed's central division from 201318. The Rockets will try to rebound from last season's 11-13 campaign.

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Mason enters the 2020 season on a 46-game winning streak against GMC opponents dating back to Sept. 15, 2015. The Comets have won four consecutive conference crowns, but have seen their season end at the hands of a GGCL program six years in a row. Mason has another talented cast coming back, including seniors Marilyn Popplewell and Chloe Pearce and juniors Kalli Wall and Brooklyn Darby.

You have the big three teams in the GCL Coed in Fenwick, Roger Bacon and Badin. That trio combined for a 68-13 record while the other ﬁ ve went 36-83. Fenwick is the area's only defending state champion after winning a Division II crown in 2019. The Falcons lost plenty to graduation but will return junior Kate Hafer, who had 153 kills last season. Roger Bacon has gone 49-5 over the last two seasons, but four of those defeats

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Former Moeller High School standout Brent Suter of the Milwaukee Brewers was a good sport about a tumble off the mound and somersault he executed when he lost his balance during a recent wind up against the Chicago Cubs at Miller Park. Suter tweeted that a retweet from Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, made the laughs his maneuver generated worthwhile. The tweet she retweeted off ered side-by-side video of Suter's fall and a performance from Biles. Suter was facing Cubs outfi elder and former Cincinnati Bearcats standout Ian Happ when it happened. Recently, Suter shared via Twitter that he was celebrating National Baseball Hall of Famer and former Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente on Roberto Clemente Day by wearing Clemente's No. 21 with the Clemente family's blessing. Suter added that he hopes Major League Baseball will retire Clemente's number league-wide, as they've done with Jackie Robinson's No. 42. Suter also was named as the Brewers' nominee for the 2020 Roberto Clemente Award, an annual recognition of the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the fi eld.

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Former Moeller High School standout Thomas MacVittie got good news when he found out he’d be the starting quarterback for the Kansas Jayhawks against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 12. The bad news: His name was mis-

spelled “MacVitte” on the back of his jersey. KU also used Miles Kendrick at quarterback in their season opener. MacVittie, a 6-foot-5 senior, appeared in two games as a junior at KU. He started his college career at Pitt and transferred to Mesa CC before joining the Jayhawks.

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Lakota East has been conference runner-up back-to-back years, winning every GMC contest sans Mason. The Thunderhawks lose kills leader Sarah Norcom and libero Caroline Garda, but will return solid outside hitter Emily Mason and last season's GMC block leader Nina Blount. Oak Hills and Lakota West each ﬁ nished below .500 last season but went 6-3 in GMC play. Fairﬁ eld went 12-12 and will return outside hitter Emma Miller.

Eastern Cincinnati Conference The story? Six teams went over .500 last season in the ECC. Loveland has won the conference three straight seasons. The Tigers lost two-sport star Jillian Hayes but will return senior Diana Clark and Audrey Planner. Turpin has been consistent with six consecutive winning seasons. The Spartans welcome back ﬁ rst-team alldistrict selection Julie Wittekind, who

Kansas Jayhawks quarterback Thomas MacVittie (7) throws a pass against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers during the ﬁ rst half at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Sept. 12.

was top-10 in the ECC in kills (217) and digs (284) and was fourth in aces with 54 in last season. Jules Fink, a Utah Valley commit who was third-team All-Ohio last season, is theconference player of the year and is looking to lead Kings toward the top of the standings after ﬁ nishing 6th in 2019.

Miami Valley Conference The duo of Katelyn Grimes and Rylie Wichmann helped lead CHCA to its fi rst-ever regional championship last season. Both return this year, hoping to get the Eagles to a state fi nal. Grimes was the Division III, District 16 player of the year and Wichmann was fi rst-team all-district. Seven Hills and Summit will look to threaten CHCA in the MVC scarlet. In the gray division, Cincinnati Christian went undefeated in divisional play last season. The Cougars will look to hold off St. Bernard and Clark Montessori again.

Cincinnati Hills League Wyoming enters the 2020 season with an absurd 143-game winning

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Mount Notre Dame player Carly Hendrickson advances the ball during practice on Aug. 5.

streak (three in postseason) against CHL opponents that dates back to 2009. Wyoming is coming oﬀ a district title and returns sophomore Allie Cordes, who was fourth in the CHL in kills last season. Indian Hill has won 18-plus games in each of the last three seasons and reached the district championship game in 2019. Kyla Hackman is a key returner for Reading, which went 17-7 last year.

Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference Williamsburg was the only SBAAC program last season to advance past the fi rst two rounds of the playoff s, falling in the district fi nal to Versailles. The Wildcats have won 63 straight against SBAAC foes, dating back to the 2014 season. Williamsburg returns senior Paige Fisher and Clermont Northeastern, runner-up in the SBAAC National fi ve straight years, returns top off ensive threat Lexi Eyre. In the SBAAC American, Western Brown is looking for backto-back division titles behind junior Olivia Young, the conference kills leader from last season.

Southwest Ohio Conference Little Miami was consistently one of the top teams in the SWOC, including an outright title last season, but is now in the ECC. That could open the door for Harrison, which has gone 52-20 over the last three seasons combined (29-7 in SWOC play), including a share of the SWOC title in 2018. Senior outside hitter Lucy Banks will be key for the Wildcats this season. Edgewood went 18-6 last season and returns senior outside hitter Callie Hunt.

Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference Hughes is back hoping to defend its CMAC Red division title. The Big Red went 13-2 overall and 9-1 in conference play and welcomes back player of the year Kayla Williams. Gamble Montessori ran the table in the CMAC Blue a season ago, going 9-5 overall and 6-0 in conference action. Aiken's Mercedes Bowman led the CMAC in kills last season and is hoping to lead the Falcons up the standings.

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The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is welcoming all “hometown heroes” free of charge during the month of September. This year, the free admission will be oﬀ ered to all front-line health care workers, active ﬁ re and police personnel, active and retired members of the military. “We decided to extend our Hometown Heroes celebration from a week to a whole month so we could in-

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1 Curse 5 Unit of current 8 Developer of 1982’s E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill 13 Stealing attempts on the diamond? 19 Look extremely stylish, slangily 20 ____ People’s Democratic Republic 21 Classic actress Sophia 22 Lacking freshness 23 Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat? 26 Printed cotton fabric 27 Think of together 28 Perfectly placed ‘‘Batman’’ punch? 30 Behind the line of scrimmage 32 Pried, with ‘‘in’’ 33 Look ahead 36 Unfilled spaces 40 Part of New York City’s Museum Mile, with ‘‘the’’ 43 Charlatans 46 ‘‘Catch you later!’’ 47 Buddhist temple structure 50 Penny going through the wash once again? Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

53 Subject of Walter Lord’s ‘‘A Night to Remember’’ 54 Epson product 55 Facebook profile feature 56 Soup served at the church social? 58 Persuade by force 61 Sheep’s kin 63 Commencement 64 Church officer 65 Grape-Nuts maker 66 Ark groupings 68 Feudal workers 72 In a lively manner 74 What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by 76 California in San Francisco, e.g. 77 Afternoon gatherings of Mensa? 81 Force at sea 83 Monk’s title 84 Withdrew 85 Having no feeling in one’s texting hand? 89 Assumed name 90 One of the so-called ‘‘Three Crowns of Florence,’’ along with Petrarch and Boccaccio 91 Source of the idioms ‘‘fat of the land’’ and ‘‘fire and brimstone’’ 92 As we speak 93 Small anatomical opening, as in a bone 96 These can go for a lot of bucks 97 Check for mistakes

100 Party tray meat 103 Ad for heartburn medication? 109 Puts forward 114 State you’ll never get to 115 ‘‘Quit your snickering, Damon!’’? 117 Hitting the floppy disk icon, say 118 Islamic rulers 119 Hill resident 120 Soup pod 121 Dangerous fly 122 Dividing membranes 123 ____ flour 124 ‘‘No man hath ____ God …’’ DOWN

1 Labor-regulating org. 2 ‘‘Such a pity!’’ 3 Bugs 4 Doc’s needle 5 Without reserve 6 Yucatán natives 7 Fancifully worded 8 Drink rarely drunk with a straw 9 ____ Bora, area of Afghanistan 10 ____ American Heritage Month (April) 11 Foul rulers 12 Says without feeling 13 Start of a magician’s phrase 14 Send over the moon 15 Waited at a red light, say 16 FedEx, maybe 17 Order by the border

MaryEllen Uthlaut is a writer and homemaker in Charleston, S.C. Some years ago she was at her local library doing research for an article when she stumbled across a book about crosswords that had been misshelved. She checked it out, read it and started constructing. Her first-ever puzzle appeared in The Times in 2010. This is her third crossword for the paper and her first Sunday. — W.S.

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18 ‘‘Please ____ your tray tables’’ (plane request) 24 World-renowned 25 Sanskrit scripture 29 Part of many California place names 31 Get out of Dodge, so to speak 33 Caustic compound 34 Needing a passcode, maybe 35 Even one 37 Latin clarifier 38 Easy-to-bend metal 39 Greek vowel 40 Lead-in to rail 41 Computer menu with Undo and Redo 42 Dash gauge 43 Word with freeze or fixing 44 Choice word 45 ‘‘Don’t just ____ there!’’ 47 Digital passcodes 48 Viewed optimistically 49 ____ snake 51 Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered 52 Classic muscle cars 53 Cards with the most pips 57 Bread 59 Map section 60 Irascible 62 Some Hollywood up-and-comers 65 Responded in court 67 Cowardly sort 69 Turn down

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70 Units of distance in physics 71 Sticks a fork in 73 Piece of news 75 Drinks usually drunk with straws 76 Compos mentis 77 Stark who was crowned king in the ‘‘Game of Thrones’’ finale 78 Eight-year member of Clinton’s cabinet 79 State

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80 Glance at, as headlines 82 Animal for which the Canary Islands are named 86 Opposite of WSW 87 -s or -ed 88 Modern prefix 90 Practices lexicography 93 One vain about his looks 94 ‘‘You ____?’’

95 Greetings to some mainlanders 97 Ground-dwelling songbird 98 Bit attachments 99 Old enough 101 Kind of acid 102 Like most mouthwashes 103 Brownish shade 104 Greek vowels 105 Classic pop-art sculpture with a slanted ‘‘O’’

106 ‘‘Personally …’’ 107 Cut out 108 Male deer 110 Singer/songwriter Lee 111 Appropriate 112 ‘‘Suis’’ is part of its conjugation 113 Comic book publisher Lee 116 Where to find MA and PA

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