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What is mofongo?

And why you need to go to College Hill to try it Keith Pandolfi Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Walking into MashRoot’s Mofongo Bar in College Hill feels like walking into a lot of newer restaurants in Cincinnati.

“A clean, well-lighted place,” Ernest Hemingway might’ve called it. The dining area is bright white. So are the chairs. The tables are, too. There are industrial light fi xtures. There are cool murals on the wall.

Take a closer look at those murals, though, and you see the raison d’être of MashRoots. Namely, the plantain, as well as the beachy pastel colors one might associate with the island of Puerto Rico, where mofongo is to natives what chili is to Cincinnatians.

In its most basic form, mofongo is simply plantains that are fried then mashed with garlic, oil, chicken stock, salt and, usually, chicharrones (fried pork rinds). It might also be served with various proteins, including chicken, pork or seafood, and served as a main dish or a side.

But MashRoots takes things a bit further, adding diff erent vegetable toppings and sauces. They also put the chicharrones on the side, a nod that they are vegetarian friendly.

The neutral tone of the restaurant was intentional, says co-owner Arnaldo Vazquez, a Puerto Rican native and engineer by trade who came to the United States after being recruited by Procter & Gamble. The other owner is his P&G colleague Guillermo Vidal, a Miami native of Brazilian and Cuban decent.

“From the beginning, we wanted a concept that didn’t feel polarizing,” Vazquez said. “We didn’t want to have a place you enter and think, ‘This is a Hispanic place.’ We wanted the food and the experience to speak for itself.”

I’m ashamed to admit this. But the fi rst time I ever tried mofongo was, well, last week. This, despite the fact that I

The owners of MashRoots, Guillermo Vidal (right) and Arnaldo Vazquez (left). PROVIDED

Mural on the wall at MashRoots Mofongo Bar, in College Hill. PROVIDED

“Our mission is to use mofongo to expose Cincinnati to the diversity of Latin American food beyond Mexico.”

Guillermo Vidal

MashRoot’s Mofongo Bar in College Hill

spent 16 years living in New York City, where it can be found in many of the city’s Puerto Rican restaurants.

I had no idea how much I was missing out.

The day I went, the restaurant’s manager, Matthew Handleton, took me through the process, one that might seem familiar to anyone who’s ever visited a Subway sandwich shop or a Chipotle, where you proceed down a line of ingredients and are asked to choose your preferences.

First, choose your base, which, aside from mashed plantains, can be mashed sweet potatoes, yucca or taro. Then your protein (chicken, skirt steak, an eighthour-cooked pork, shrimp or vegan beans). Next up, your vegetables (citrus carrots or slaw), and fi nally your sauce (pink mayo, siracha mayo, garlic cilantro, avocado lime or habanero guava BBQ. I went with a mofongo of plantains, chicken, citrus carrots and garlic cilantro. And I must say, I chose wisely. The mofongo itself had the consistency of mashed potatoes and tasted slightly garlicy, salty and sweet. The chicken

A chicken mofongo bowl with empanadas, from MashRoots Mofongo Bar, in College Hill. KEITH PANDOLFI/THE ENQUIRER

was pulled and cooked in a tomatobased sauce, which was given a citrussy awakening with the avocado lime sauce.

I devoured it the same way I once drunkenly devoured Comet burritos in my 20s. And once I was fi nished, I immediately wanted more until, minutes later, I realized just how stuff ed I was.

The idea of taking mofongo mainstream came about several years ago when Vidal invited Vazquez to a skiing

and snowboarding trip in Canada, which he’d turned into an annual event, often inviting a dozen or so friends to join. During the trip, each guest is asked to take a turn preparing dinner for the entire group. When Vazquez’s night came up, he went with a Creole seafood mofongo, a childhood favorite of his, which required him to haul 17 plantains See MASHROOTS, Page 2A

Finneytown Local School District’s Terri Noe retiring, announces new superintendent Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Finneytown Local School District’s superintendent Terri Noe is retiring at the end of July and will be replaced next school year by current assistant superintendent Laurie Banks, offi cials announced April 7.

“I’m looking forward to my new role at Finneytown,” Banks said in an email to The Enquirer. “As a district, we are focused and excited to carry our work forward to ensure all our students are making growth academically and socially.”

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School board president Chad Engleman said Finneytown was in a “very unique, positive situation” when Noe

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indicated earlier this year that she planned to retire to go camping with her husband full time. The district already had a licensed assistant superintendent who had been with the district for four years, working hand-in-hand with their current superintendent.

“We feel it is extremely important to continue the momentum we have built over the last fi ve years,” Engleman said.

The board is still negotiating a twoyear contract for Banks, Engleman said.

The district is also in the beginning stages of a $50 million-plus building project, Engleman said. Finneytown is partnering with the state of Ohio to

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build a new elementary school and middle school. A groundbreaking ceremony was scheduled for April 11 at Brent Elementary.

Noe is fi nishing her fi fth year as superintendent at Finneytown after about 32 years in education.

“Dr. Banks started in Finneytown the same year I did,” Noe wrote to The Enquirer. “She has been part of all critical decisions during that time. She will continue the work we have begun with her own style. She will be a great asset to Finneytown!”

Banks will take over as district superintendent this summer, offi cials said.

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Crossroads Church says Facebook, YouTube temporarily pulled video Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A Crossroads Church offi cial said they’re not starting a free speech argument with big tech companies over a video that depicts Jesus, but the headline of an article on their website calls out a pair of social media giants for using the word “censored.”

The church said the tech giants Facebook and YouTube temporarily blocked an Easter video showing reenactments of the crucifi xion of Jesus Christ.

The church claims the platforms fl agged the videos for violence in a post on its website.

“We had to make a few small tweaks to our online Easter service to use the video in the way we hoped on some social media channels,” Kyle Ranson, Crossroads online church community pastor, said in a written statement.

Facebook and YouTube did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The incident has sparked conversations on multiple topics, Ranson said.

“We’re not interested as much in making a statement about freedom of speech as we are interested in focusing on the value of Jesus’ brutal crucifi xion and what it tells us about how deeply God loves each one of us,” he said.

Ranson continued, “The intention of sharing what happened was to create understanding, not to condemn social media companies.”

The church has six locations around the Greater Cincinnati area, one in Dayton, Ohio, and three in central Kentucky,

Crossroads Church has shared a story of how an Easter video showing the crucifi xion of Jesus Christ was flagged for violence and blocked temporarily by Facebook. PROVIDED/CROSSROADS CHURCH

including one in Lexington.

Brian Tome, the senior pastor at Crossroads, introduced the nearly 50minute video available at the church’s website. The video includes scenes of a man portraying a bloodied Jesus Christ carrying the cross and close-ups of a wood peg being driven into a wrist as music plays.

There are songs, dance performances, fi rst-person testimonials and Tome’s preaching.

The church, in its website post, said the social media companies sent “rejec-

tion notices” April 1 over an appearance of profi ting from a tragic event with no clear benefi t to users. The church’s post, written by Ranson, notes at the end that Facebook and YouTube agreed to show the scenes after an appeals process.

“Facebook and YouTube censored our Easter video” was the title of the website post that takes on the idea that there can be resurrection without suff ering and the crucifi xion.

Crossroads pointed out that they edited out a portion of the church’s Easter video that YouTube fl agged for COVID-19

misinformation with a reference about the negative mental health eff ects of the pandemic.

“We merely agreed with their fi ndings and empathized with the diffi cult experience many of us have had over the past year,” Ranson wrote on the church’s website. “In the end, to ensure we had an Easter video published in time, we edited that section out.”

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – April 5. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

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through Canadian customs. According to Vidal, it was a hit. But it wasn’t until the next day, when Vidal was rummaging through the fridge looking for leftovers to eat that the eureka moment happened. That’s when he decided to mix together the mofongo with some borscht his Russian-born wife had made earlier in the week.

“Guillermo called and said, ‘You need to try mofongo with borscht!’” Vazquez recalls. Once he did try it, he realized just how versatile his birthright dish could be.

“That night, we were started drinking and talking about it,” Vidal said.

As the drinks kept fl owing, so to did their ideas on how to riff on mofongo. They could “mash” mofongo with just about anything, including Peruvian dishes and Cuban dishes. Heck, they could even mash it with Cincinnati staples such as Eli’s barbecue, or even Cincinnati chili.

As fate would have it, another one of the guests that week was Joe Hansbauer, president of Findlay Market. And once everyone returned to Cincinnati, Hansbauer put Vazquez and Vidal in touch with the operators of Findlay Kitchen, an incubator for food entrepreneurs, where the two of them honed the idea.

By the following spring, they served their fi rst MashRoots pop-up event.

In Puerto Rico, mofongo is a food that musters both love and passionate debate, Vazquez tells me.

“Everybody has a favorite place for mofongo,” he said. “Whether it’s from a food truck on the corner or a super fancy restaurant. It is very engrained in the culture.”

As far as enjoying it at home, Vazquez said it’s not the kind of thing that brings back any wholesome memories of his mother or grandmother

Inside MashRoots Mofong Bar, in College Hill. PROVIDED

frying plantains in the kitchen. That’s because his family thought making mofongo was too arduous to turn into a family tradition.

“It’s something you just don’t do at home very often,” he said. “But when you go to a restaurant, you’ve got to get it. That’s how it was for me. Almost every time I went to a restaurant, I would order it, at least as a side item.”

And like pizza or chili purists, everyone has an opinion on how it should be served. Some people insist it be made with only plantains, while others prefer yucca or sweet potatoes. There are variations on the base, which use two or three of the bases combined.

“Our mission is to use mofongo to expose Cincinnati to the diversity of Latin American food beyond Mexico,” said Vidal.

“How can we bring home here? Although we use a Puerto Rican base, every month we try and feature a diff erent country.” Last month, a mofongo bowl of sweet potato, steak and chimichurri celebrated Argentina. And this month, they are serving mofongo with ropa vieja, the national dish of Cuba, made with shredded beef,

tomatoes, vegetables and spices.

They also want to celebrate the cuisines of Peru, Nicaragua and, well, Detroit. At a pop-up in the Motor City recently, they served mofongo with beer brats and sauer-

kraut. And like they discussed in Canada, Vasquez and Vidal are indeed considering mashing it with Cincinnati-style chili one of these days.

“We want to serve everybody, including the Puerto Rican and Hispan-

ic community something closer to their roots,” said Vidal. “But we also want to serve locals who might not know anything about Puerto Rican culture. I think, with this restaurant, we found a middle ground.”

Vidal says the restaurant is attracting Puerto Rican and Latin American customers from all over the state, as well as Kentucky and West Virginia. Locally, most of their Puerto Rican customers are either employees of P&G or General Electric, as well as members of the military from Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton.

Of course, MashRoots isn’t the only place in town that serves mofongo. Several Cincinnatiarea restaurants serve it, including Maize in Overthe-Rhine, Lalo Downtown, Tano Bistro in Loveland and La Esquinita de Nagua, a Dominican restaurant in Middletown.

And now that I’m familiar with it, I can’t wait to try it in all of its variations. Though I’ll admit that I’m especially looking forward to that Cincinnati chili mashup Vidal and Vazquez are dreaming up.

MashRoots, 5903 Hamilton Ave., College Hill; 513-620-4126, www.mashroots.com.

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How to make a salad bowl garden in a colander

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Tip: growing radishes and carrots

Radishes and small carrots grow well in colanders. PHOTOS BY RITA HEIKENFELD FOR THE ENQUIRER

Rita’s Kitchen Rita Heikenfeld Guest columnist

My girls/chickens have been way too curious this spring. Now I don’t mind them making their way to the herb garden and pecking away at the chickweed, dead nettle and henbit. Or scratching in the newly tilled vegetable garden rows. But after they decided to decimate a huge pot that I seeded a couple weeks ago with mixed salad greens, those girls are on my naughty list. I have to replant it and cover it with some netting. The good thing is it’s an easy fi x.

And practical. Many greens are “cut and come again.” Cut them down to soil level and new growth starts quickly.

Grow in the ground, or in a container. Just about any container works, with good soil and drainage. This

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That’s what I’m doing with the little ones. I have enough colanders so we’re good to go (buy colanders at dollar or thrift stores).

Maybe you’d like to have a salad greens garden, too.

Choices are endless. You can plant a single variety or a mix. You don’t have to stop there, either. Think of companion vegetables, like radishes and perhaps small carrots. Plant those in another colander.

Make sure the container you use fi ts what you grow.

Most salad greens grow quickly, and do best in cooler weather, though there are some that are more heat tolerant. Read labels to fi nd which is best for you.

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Plant small variety carrots in center of colander (the deepest part) and radishes near outside edge.

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Who knew? Frank’s RedHot was founded in Cincinnati Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Frank’s RedHot Hot Sauce – that zesty cayenne sauce that’s the key ingredient in Buff alo wings, America’s No. 1 hot sauce, the one that’s advertised with the tagline, “I put that ___ on everything” – was created more than 100 years ago in Cincinnati.

If you didn’t know that last fact, you might be excused. Even the brand’s website doesn’t mention Cincinnati in its history, instead focusing on the Louisiana connection.

But make no mistake, Frank’s RedHot was born and bottled in the Queen City, produced by the Frank Tea and Spice Co., and fi rst put on shelves in 1920.

Before we get there, though, let’s start at the beginning.

Back in 1896, Jacob Frank decided to end his career as a traveling salesman and go into business in Cincinnati. He partnered with his brothers, Emil and Charles, to start a company at 20 W. Second St. selling small, shelf-sized packages of whole and ground spices, rather than in bulk.

As the company became the nation’s fourth largest manufacturer of spices, it also diversifi ed. In 1906, it introduced Frank’s Jumbo Brand Peanut Butter, which was a popular local brand, allowing the company to expand to a larger facility at Culvert and Third streets.

Then, in 1918, Jacob Frank traveled to Louisiana to learn about making hot sauce based on cayenne peppers, rather than the tabasco pepper used in Tabasco sauce.

Frank found a partner in Adam Estilette, who was from a Cajun family, and together they set up a pickling plant in New Iberia, Louisiana, to process and cure cayenne peppers before they were shipped to Cincinnati. Other spices, salts, garlic and vinegar were added to the peppers, which were then aged in oak casks.

“The secret of the famous sauce is in its special formula inspired by the spirited fl avor of the foods served in the early days of New Orleans,” read a Frank’s Red Hot Sauce ad from the 1940s.

An operational manager described the process to The Enquirer as it was in 1980: “Each year, we buy 4-6 million pounds of fresh cayenne peppers for this Red Hot sauce alone in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, California, North Carolina, Mexico and Venezuela. We take them to New Iberia, Louisiana, where we wash, grind and combine them with salt. Then we age them in oak barrels for a considerable

Frank’s RedHot Hot Sauce was created more than 100 years ago in Cincinnati.

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length of time. When they are suffi ciently aged, they are shipped to Cincinnati in a mash stage. We then combine them with other ingredients, according to our secret recipe, and go immediately into our cookers.”

After the sauce is cooked in 4,000gallon tanks, it is piped to a fi nisher, which removes the seeds, then is sent to a cooling system before assembly line dispensers pour them into bottles. At that time, the company fi lled and labeled 72,000 bottles of the hot stuff a day.

The most famous use of Frank’s RedHot came about the night of Oct. 24, 1964, at the Anchor Bar in Buff alo, New York. Bar owner Teressa Bellissimo needed to whip up a late-night snack for her son and his friends, so she deepfried some chicken wings she used for stock, added a dash of red sauce, then served them with celery and bleu cheese dressing.

That red sauce – Frank’s. And the Buff alo wing was born.

As Buff alo wings became a staple football food, so soared the popularity of Frank’s RedHot.

But it’s not the sauce’s only sports legacy. At Crosley Field, the Reds used to serve a spicy brown Dusseldorf-style mustard custom-made by the Frank Tea and Spice Co., mixed with Frank’s RedHot sauce. The special condiment was not sold to consumers, but Frank did sell a Dijon mustard, Mister Mustard, in stores.

Enquirer columnist Cliff Radel could

still remember the taste of Crosley’s mustard 30 years after the Reds moved to Riverfront Stadium without it. He helped convince the team to off er a similar signature spicy brown mustard when Great American Ball Park opened in 2003.

The fi rst choice was Uncle Phil’s Dusseldorf Mustard, then in 2013 the team switched to two types made by the Woeber Mustard Co. in Springfi eld, Ohio – Woeber’s Dusseldorf Mustard and Mister Mustard, which Frank had introduced in 1939 from a cousin’s recipe.

After moving to a plant in Sharonville in 1968, the Frank Tea and Spice Co. changed hands several times. It was bought by Frank Foods in 1969, by Durkee Foods in 1977, then by Reckitt & Colman in 1986. In 1992, the spice portion of the business was sold to Specialty Brands, so the hot sauce production was moved to a plant in Springfi eld, Missouri.

In 2017, McCormick & Co. added Frank’s RedHot and French’s mustard to their brands in a $4.2 acquisition of Reckitt Benckiser Group.

More than a century after the fi rst bottle was sold, Frank’s RedHot has a fanatic following.

“I think my blood is 50 percent Frank’s,” one person wrote in an essay for the National Buff alo Chicken Wing Festival. Another wrote: “No meal is complete without the exquisite taste of Frank’s running down my throat. The sheer euphoria can only be compared to going to heaven. I know I am the ultimate Red Hot fan because Frank’s completes me.”

“It’s especially a lifestyle brand for millennials,” McCormick chairman, president and CEO Lawrence Kurzius said in 2018. “Literally, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be a consumer.”

Not bad for a 100-year-old from Cincinnati.

Sources: Enquirer fi les, “Historic Restaurants of Cincinnati” by Dann Woellert; www.franksredhot.com

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Food brands you didn’t know are from Cincinnati Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

We know Graeter’s, Skyline, LaRosa’s, Montgomery Inn – local brands that have a following even outside of the Greater Cincinnati area. But there are a number of brand-name foods that we don’t typically recognize as being from around here.

Here are some famous food brands you probably didn’t know are from Cincinnati:

Pringles Procter & Gamble used to have a food division. P&G chemist Fredric J. Baur cooked up Pringles potato crisps when tasked with creating a potato chip that wouldn’t be broken or greasy. The saddle-shaped crisps are stacked in a cylinder, rather than in a bag. Released in 1968, they were originally marketed as Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips, but because they are made from potatobased dough rather than fresh potatoes, they couldn’t be called chips, so Pringles

The flavored icy drink Slush Puppie was created by Western Hills High School graduate Will Radcliff in 1970.

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uses the word “crisps.” The brand was sold to Kellogg’s in 2012.

Airheads The fl at taff y candy was invented by marketing director Steve Bruner in 1985 for Van Melle, Inc. (now Perfetti Van Melle) in Erlanger, where it is still manufactured. Bruner suggested taking the rice paper off a fruit chew being developed and use a mylar wrapper that the candy wouldn’t adhere to. For a name, he asked his kids what they called someone silly. Airheads stuck.

Slush Puppie

Airheads candy is manufactured at Perfetti Van Melle, Erlanger.

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The fl avored icy drink was created by enterprising salesman Will Radcliff in 1970. The Western Hills High School graduate bought a slushy machine at a restaurant trade show, then came up with the name and hound dog mascot with the help of his mother and sister, and started his own company with $970. He turned Slush Puppie into a $25

Cans of Pringles in a sampling of flavors sit outside the Procter & Gamble corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. MICHAEL E. KEATING/THE ENQUIRER

million dollar a year business with a factory on Price Hill’s Bald Knob. The brand is now owned by the Icee Co.

McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish Lou Groen, owner of the McDonald’s franchise in Monfort Heights, needed to do something to drum up business on Friday nights, when the 87 percent Catholic population would forgo meat.

He came up with a fi sh sandwich, battered halibut with a slice of cheese, in 1959, but McDonald’s owner Ray Kroc didn’t like the idea of his stores smelling like fi sh. Kroc had his own idea: the Hula Burger, a grilled slice of pineapple with cheese on a bun. They held a contest to see which sold more – and the fi sh sandwich won. The Filet-O-Fish, made of whitefi sh, was added to the menu for all McDonald’s stores.

Lou Groen invented the fast food fi sh sandwich at the Monfort Heights McDonald's. PROVIDED/MCDONALD'S

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CICADAS AND YOUR YARD:

Brood X will off er much more benefi t than harm Chris McKeown Special to Cincinnati Enquirer

The highest concentrations of cicadas will be where the older, established trees are located. Nobody needs to worry about large trees; they have been through this cycle many times.

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We are about a month away from the arrival of the 17-year cicadas. There is always a bit of excitement – but also a lot of unnecessary fear – during this phenomenon of nature.

The emergence of the cicadas should begin around the middle of May. In a recent article in this paper, Dr. Gene Kritsky, a leading cicada expert and entomologist from the College of Mount St. Joseph University, said that Cincinnati typically sees emergence after two days of temperatures in the low 80’s and a “soaking rain.”

Cicadas emerge from the ground as nymphs. They climb to a vertical surface, usually a tree but it could be any type of woody plant. Here, they shed their exoskeleton. Then the wings will fi ll with fl uid and the bodies will harden.

Now they are ready to fl y and sing. Their sole purpose on earth is to fi nd a mate and reproduce to begin the next 17-year cycle.

This is where our plants come into play. At the end of the mating process, the female cicadas will lay eggs into tree limbs. This happens at the end of the branches where the wood is soft and thin. During this process, these thin branches are frequently broken. The branches may also die back to the tip and the leaves will turn brown. This is referred to as fl agging.

The potential for this damage is what is concerning to people who value their trees and landscapes. In reality, this damage is actually benefi cial to the trees. Branches that are damaged or die were the weak ones, so the fl agging serves as a light pruning of the tree. The wind cleans the brown leaves and broken branches off the trees, which is the equivalent of a light pruning. Pruning stimulates growth, so where the fl agging takes place, the foliage of the trees will become thicker.

The highest concentrations of cicadas will be where the older, established trees are located. Nobody needs to wor-

Billions of Brood X cicadas are set to emerge this year, but don't worry; they provide more benefi ts than harm to your yard. WOODY MARSHALL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

ry about large trees; they have been through this cycle many times. Concerns about smaller, newly planted trees, however, are warranted because smaller trees have fewer branches to sacrifi ce. With this being said, it is still unusual for any tree to be killed by cicadas. It is also easy to protect smaller trees. Garden centers carry fabric-like material that can be used to cover smaller trees. This material allows light and air through to the leaves while the trees are covered.

The emergence will last 6 to 8 weeks.

If you choose to cover your trees, you should do so during the last week of April or the fi rst week of May. The trees

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should stay covered until mid-June.

Covering trees is not essential for the tree to survive; it is only necessary to prevent damage that in most cases the tree will recover from. There may be a few exceptions where the concentrations are the heaviest.

If you have been reluctant to plant new trees because of the cicadas, don’t be. The trees are living here in the area now, at the garden centers and nurseries. Any day is a great day to plant a tree.

The sooner you plant a tree in your yard, the sooner it starts to become a beautiful addition to your landscape. I would not put off planting a tree during spring weather when the selection at garden

stores is the best.

Cicadas are ugly and they will certainly make a lot of noise. They will also be extremely annoying when you are outside and they are fl ying around. Understandably, a lot of people try to avoid going outdoors during the cicadas’ visit.

Just remember that cicadas off er more benefi ts than harm.

When they emerge from the soil, they open up the soil, aerifying it. As previously mentioned, the fl agging is a benefi cial pruning to larger trees. Their bodies are full of nitrogen, so when they die, it goes into the soil, benefi tting our plants. Yes, cicadas leave plants healthier than when they arrived.

They are also an abundant food source for wildlife. Birds will feast on the cicadas. This will make them healthier and happier, and the bird populations will increase. This is also true of the mole population. This is why mole activity has greatly increased in recent years in the areas where the cicadas will emerge. After the emergence, the population of moles that have it so good in recent years will naturally decrease.

As I wrap this article up, you should know not everyone reading it will see the cicadas. The heaviest concentrations of cicadas from Brood X will mostly be in the western side of Hamilton County, Boone County in Kentucky, and Dearborn County in Indiana. The eastern side of Hamilton County as well as Butler, Clermont, Adams, and Brown counties will not see many of the insects. Those counties will get theirs in four years when Brood XIV emerges.

SPRING INTO ACTION!

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Interstate 75 is getting a lot of attention on the state’s summer construction to-do list.

The Ohio Department of Transportation released its plan for the 2021 construction season. For ODOT District 8, which includes Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont, Clinton, Greene and Preble counties, the state is planning a total of $760 million in construction for 95 new and ongoing projects.

Not all will be completed this year.

Statewide, ODOT is planning nearly $2 billion in infrastructure projects.

Below are some local highlights from the list. For a full list of projects, including carryover projects from previous construction seasons, visit the ODOT projects link on the state website.

Major highway projects, all in Hamilton County 1 Interstate 75 widening, I-75/Mill Creek Expressway: This project will widen the highway to four lanes between Monmouth Street and Clifton Avenue as well as improve the connection from eastbound I-74 to I-75. Cost: $87 million 2 Interstate 75 widening, I-75 Thru the Valley: This project will widen the highway, adding a fourth lane in both directions as well as auxiliary lanes from Sharon Road to Glendale Milford Road and from Sharon Road to I-275.

Cost: $45.7 million.

3 Interstate 71 paving/bridge repair: This project will repave 5.5 miles of the highway and replace the bridge deck on Stewart Road. It will also rehab other bridges from north of State Route 562/the Norwood Lateral to State Route 126/Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway. Finally, the project will widen the highway to three lanes between the Norwood Lateral and the Red Bank Ex-

The state is planning a total of $760 million in construction for 95 new and ongoing projects for ODOT District 8, which includes Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont, Clinton, Greene and Preble counties. STOCK

pressway, removing the northbound Ridge Road exit and adding a northbound exit to Kennedy Avenue. Cost: $36 million 4 Interstate 74/Mill Creek Expressway: This project will improve I-74 as part of the I-74/I-75 interchange reconstruction. It will also improve the ramps from I-75 to I-74 west.

Safety projects: Butler County 1 Constructing a roundabout at the intersection of State Route 73 and County Road 24, just west of Trenton.

Cost: $3 million 2 Constructing a roundabout at the intersection of U.S. 127 and State Route 73, just west of Seven Mile. Cost: $2.7 million

Clermont County 1 Constructing a Restricted Crossing U-Turn on State Route 32 at the Bauer Road intersection near Batavia.

The project will include building signalized median crossovers, allowing for left turns via legal U-turns. Cost: $6 million

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Peaceful protest is a right not a crime Your Turn Tim Kraus Guest Columnist

Editor's note: The following is an edited version of College Hill resident Tim Kraus' testimony to the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee on March 17 about House Bill 22.

I am very alarmed by the number of legislative bills many senators and House members have introduced in their respective bodies during this legislative session regarding the criminalization of civilian peaceful protest.

One of the defi ning characteristics of our American democracy is the idea that citizens have the right to publicly and peacefully assemble to protest or express their concerns regarding any issue or grievance they may have regarding the conduct of their government and their law enforcement. This provision in our Constitution is central to what we all are about. Our founders saw fi t to include this right in our governing documents because they had a rightful concern for the abuse of governmental power and the enforcement of the laws of that governmental power.

What sets us apart from other governments that are more authoritarian in nature is our legal ability to peacefully stand up against unjust laws and the unjust execution or enforcement of laws. To protest, in the original Greek, means to promote and testify for or against something. Our country was founded on protest for the right to selfgovern, and it has continually been made better by protest throughout our history.

What House Bill 22 and the other pending bills are intending to do is to narrow the defi nition and limit the boundaries of legal protest in order to criminalize many aspects of peaceful

People rallied outside Cincinnati City Hall Tuesday after lawyers representing protesters fi led motions to have the charges dropped for the more than 500 people arrested during demonstrations in late May and early June.

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assembly for addressing concerns and grievances. This has nothing to do with maintaining an orderly and civil society and everything to do with silencing and squashing constitutional civil dissent.

This is an attempt to establish authoritarian measures that will limit civilian public discourse about timely issues and give arbitrary power to criminalize and incarcerate people who express unpopular opinions in the eyes of law enforcement.

The wording in HB 22 that creates criminal penalties for diverting the attention of law enforcement is extremely vague, giving law enforcement a blank check in determining what behavior is considered "diverting." We are already living in a world where law enforcement in many places in our country has proven itself out of control and beyond the power of law to reign in its arbitrary power. This bill would add to that arbitrary power.

We have seen time and again

throughout our history and in recent times where law enforcement has been the problem that has incited civil unrest, not the moderating force of civility that restores order. This is nothing new.

Our founders recognized this tendency on the part of law enforcement and put checks and balances against capricious and arbitrary powers. That is why our legislative bodies exist in separation from our executive bodies in government at all levels. As legislators, your job is to protect the citizens against this kind of abusive power, not to hand over vague and very subjective discretion into the hands of law enforcement.

As an educator, I taught United States History and Government in secondary and university settings. I have great reverence for the eff orts, as imperfect as they were, that Thomas Jeff erson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of our founders put into creating our system of self-governance. It has served us well, and it has evolved

and been improved through confl ict and disagreement over the past 234 years. In that time, our country has, on many occasions, made serious errors in thinking that the public expression of concerns and grievances about how we govern ourselves and how we police ourselves is a problem to be crushed and silenced.

Every time we have done that, we have been proven wrong.

Our country thrives on the peaceful expression of dissenting ideas and movements for change. Anything that makes that harder diminishes us as a nation. We already have all the legal tools we need to control violence when and if it erupts in a protest, but this bill is not addressing that. It is criminalizing peaceful and legal protest.

We are at a critical juncture in the history of our country where we are trying to decide what kind of democracy we want to be. Laws like HB 22 say very clearly that some of us are ready to abandon democracy in favor of authoritarian styles of governance that hand over indiscriminate power to individual law enforcement personnel who, in the heat of the moment, can determine the legality of someone’s peaceful protest.

This opens the door for very discriminatory treatment, not determined by law, but by the subjective interpretation of one person with law enforcement power.

This is no way to run our democracy, and it will lead to serious abuses of authoritarian power. Jeff erson, Madison, Franklin, and their friends warned us of these kinds of excessive eff orts to control, regulate and crush social and political dissent by holding their own vigorous debates about it. And then they created a document to hold those points of view in tension with one another.

Please, do not make a mockery of that document.

Tim Kraus lives in College Hill and is a retired educator and former president of the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers.

He’s changed local politics.

But is Mark Miller a citizen activist or ‘nuisance?’

Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

You won’t see Mark W. Miller’s name on campaign signs or a ballot.

But Republicans and Democrats agree: He’s had a huge impact on Greater Cincinnati politics. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a heroic everyman fi ghting powerful forces or a progress-blocking hindrance gumming up the process.

The 55-year-old Hyde Park resident is the name on at least two dozen lawsuits and legal challenges going back decades.

Miller has fought Cincinnati’s streetcar, Gov. Mike DeWine’s COVID-19 restrictions, those behind the 2020 Hamilton County bus tax, red light cameras and a host of other issues since the 1980s.

He’s showing no signs of slowing down.

A recent challenge of a Cincinnati mayoral candidate called into question the candidacy of the other fi ve as well.

The Ohio Supreme Court tossed the case in March.

He’s currently accusing the Cincinnati Public Schools’ board of violating open meetings laws when members discussed business via text. That’s an encore to a similar eff ort that led to Cincinnati’s “Gang of Five” texting scandal.

In lawsuits, he’s usually identifi ed simply as a citizen or taxpayer. Sometimes he’s identifi ed as a conservative activist and founder or treasurer of the conservative anti-tax group Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST). He’s never run for offi ce.

“COAST and Mark Miller have had more impact on the charter of Cincinnati than any Republican, Democrat and Charterite in the last 30 years,” said local attorney Chris Finney, who co-founded COAST in the 1990s with Miller. “We’ve rewritten that charter over and over.”

Miller doesn’t act alone. He has often teamed up with Finney or attorneys in Finney’s law fi rm, such as Curt Hartman, in challenging authority.

‘Clogs up our legal system’ The bespectacled mechanical engineer has been a legal thorn in the side of politicians, often Democrats, for the past

30 years. Some Democrats also give him credit for having an impact, just not a positive one.

“I don’t know the man,” Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairwoman Gwen McFarlin said in a brief emailed statement when asked about Miller. “I just recognize the name as a politically motivated perennial plaintiff that clogs up our legal system with nuisance lawsuits to serve his own extreme, rightwing political agenda.”

A recent complaint fi led by Miller with the Ohio Elections Commission resulted in a $2,500 fi ne in February against the Hamilton County Democratic Party for accepting campaign contributions from the political action committee that pushed the bus tax.

“I wouldn’t dispute he has had some of a signifi cant impact,” said attorney Tim Burke, who served as chairman of the Democratic Party of Hamilton County for 24 years until 2018. Burke has never met Miller. But he knows the name.

He remembers cases with Miller’s name attached, such as when Miller and state Rep. Tom Brinkman in 2004 challenged Cincinnati City Council’s charter amendment that would make sexual orientation a protected class and protected from discrimination. It didn’t work. The voters ended up approving it later that year.

“He’s an activist,” Burke said. “On certain levels, I love activists. I’m not particularly impressed with what he chooses to be active about.”

A guy ‘who tends to piss people off’ So who is Miller?

He grew up in Delhi Township and now lives in Hyde Park, running his own engineering fi rm that designs heating and air conditioning, electrical and plumbing systems.

He’s never run for offi ce and said he never wants to. In an interview with The Enquirer, he described politicians as conformists.

“I’m not the kind of guy who is good at wearing a suit and showing up at these places and glad-handing people, slapping people on the back and saying nice pretty things in exchange for contributions,” Miller said. “I guess I’m more

Activist Mark Miller, who sought texts among Cincinnati City council members, rises in court during a hearing for a proposed settlement in the lawsuit involving secret texts and email, Thursday, March 7, 2019, in Judge Robert Ruehlman's courtroom in Cincinnati. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

somebody who tends to piss people off .”

A gadfly since high school He’s content to be a political gadfl y.

It’s a role he’s loved since his sophomore year at St. Xavier High School, when one day in 1980 Finney walked into his class. Finney, then a 19-year-old, wanted students to gather signatures for a petition to end partisan gerrymandering. A political fi rm was off ering 25 cents per signature.

Miller’s hand shot up. That was more money than he could make fl ipping burgers.

In the spring and summer, they drove around in Finney’s white Jeep going from Kroger to Kroger collecting signatures.

As they talked politics, his conservative ideals started to form, he said.

Miller graduated from St. Xavier in 1983 and remained friends with Finney.

“A couple of years later, there was something, I forget what it was, but we

wound up harassing Tom Luken all summer long,” Miller said with a laugh. “(Luken) hated us,” he said of the former Cincinnati mayor and Democratic congressman who served in the U.S. House from 1977 to 1991.

Finney and Miller formed a cadre of conservatives that would later include Brinkman, Hartman and a few others.

They would found COAST in 1999. They were angry about the 0.5% sales tax passed a few years earlier in Hamilton County that paid for the two riverfront stadiums, which was an issue supported and led by Republicans on the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners.

They wanted to stop anything like that from happening again.

They use the legal system to challenge politicians they disagree with, mostly Democrats, but also Republicans, for example DeWine and his COVID-19 restrictions.

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A man charged with murder who removed one of his eyes from its socket while he was in jail has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Aqeel Watson, 43, could be held at a state psychiatric facility for the rest of his life, offi cials said.

In a March 30 order, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway accepted a psychiatric report and found “by clear and convincing evidence that (Watson) is mentally ill.”

Hatheway committed Watson to Summit Behavioral Healthcare, a psychiatric hospital in Roselawn. Because he faced a life prison sentence had he been convicted of the most serious charge he faced, aggravated murder, he will remain under the court’s jurisdiction for life. A judge will review his case periodically.

A spokeswoman for the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Offi ce said the facility was the least restrictive means available that also keeps the community safe.

Watson was arrested in September 2019 at a Mt. Airy apartment, after offi -

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Gang of Five started with a phone call The Gang of Five text messaging scandal in 2018 in which fi ve Democratic Cincinnati City Council members violated open meetings laws with secret group texts? That started with a complaint fi led by Miller.

The case dominated headlines for a year in Cincinnati.

It started with a phone conversation one evening in March 2018 with his friend and attorney Brian Shrive. They found suspicious a press release issued by fi ve council members supporting then-City Manager Harry Black in a tiff with Mayor John Cranley. Cranley had asked Black to resign.

How did fi ve council members come out with a statement without meeting?

“It was clearly scripted, and they clearly went through 17 talking points to write it all down,” Miller said. “We were just kind of sitting there, scratching our heads saying, ‘Where’s the meeting? I don’t know, let’s do a records request.’ “ Sometimes it’s a matter of reading campaign fi nance reports and meeting minutes. But usually it is just a couple of them talking. He calls it “a cabal.”

“That’s kinda how a lot of these things start,” Miller said. “One of us notices something, calls up another one.

We talk about it between a few other people, and then at some point we have to get one of the lawyers involved to fi le a records request.”

What does he have against Pureval?

Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval has become one of Miller’s favorite targets.

If you ask Miller, he said he’s got nothing against him.

“I don’t dislike him or anything,” Miller said. “I don’t have any grudge against him. He seems like a perfectly nice guy.

He’s a political adversary of what I stand for. I think he would agree with that.”

Pureval didn’t return a message seeking comment.

Miller said he never met Pureval, but he did get within “waving distance” at a court hearing two years ago.

If you look at the legal record, it’s clear Pureval and Miller aren’t going to grab a beer together anytime soon.

Every time Pureval has run for higher offi ce in the past two years, Miller has been there to challenge him, fi rst in 2018 with a complaint he misspent campaign funds from his county campaign for his congressional run against Republican Steve Chabot.

The Ohio Elections Commission dismissed most of the complaints, but fi ned Pureval $100 for paying for a photographer with his clerk of courts campaign money.

Now, Pureval is running for mayor of Cincinnati. Within a week of fi ling his petition to get on the ballot, Miller fi led a challenge with the board of elections, saying he didn’t fi le the proper affi davit.

That created a problem for the entire ballot since Pureval fi led the same forms as the other fi ve mayoral candidates. It went to the Ohio Supreme Court, which

cials said he called 911 on himself. Court documents say he broke into an apartment at 2365 W. North Bend Road and fatally stabbed 45-year-old Lamont Palmer approximately 50 times in the torso and head.

Days later, while being held in a cell at the Hamilton County Justice Center, offi cials said Watson “removed his own eye” from its socket. Corrections offi cers discovered what happened while doing suicide watch rounds, and he was rushed to a local hospital.

At a bench trial last month, offi cials said both Watson’s attorneys and prosecutors submitted evaluations that said he met the criteria for a not guilty by reason of insanity fi nding.

In 2007, Watson was found not guilty by reason of insanity while facing arson charges, according to court records. He was committed to Summit Behavioral Healthcare for 10 years – the maximum he would have served in prison had he been convicted of the most serious arson charge he faced.

In March 2017, a judge dismissed the insanity proceedings, and Watson was transferred to Hamilton County Probate Court.

sided with Pureval.

Why did he single out Pureval?

“You’ve got to fi le against somebody,” Miller said. “You might as well go after the one who’s going to generate the headlines.”

Miller knows what it’s like to be on the other side, too. His alma mater St. Xavier sued him in 2010 for $9,097 in back tuition at the school for his sons.

He eventually settled and paid his debt.

He said he had some fi nancial diffi culty at that time when some clients didn’t pay.

“I got a little behind,” Miller said.

“Eventually I got it all caught up.”

Suspension from Twitter In addition to the legal system, Miller and his cabal have used social media to mock those they don’t like. It’s gotten them into legal trouble.

Using the COAST Twitter account in 2011, Miller tweeted: “3% of FDNY died 10 years ago by terrorism. Today Cincinnati lost 17.5 percent of fi re companies by brownouts to pay for a streetcar.

Which is worse?”

He later apologized for invoking 9/11.

But streetcar supporters, tired of tweets from the COAST account they said mischaracterized their plan, complained to the Ohio Elections Commission, saying the tweets violated state laws about false and misleading advertising.

The case garnered national attention, including from the New York Times.

The commission tossed the complaint, but COAST sued the state, saying the law was unconstitutional. It went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which tossed it back down to the appeals court.

A federal judge in a related case ultimately ruled the law unconstitutional.

The COAST Twitter account stopped tweeting in October. Miller said Twitter suspended the account after a tweet referred to President Joe Biden’s “drugaddled” son and “whore baby mama” doing coke in the Lincoln bedroom.

Miller said he didn’t write it. But he shared it on his personal Twitter page.

“It was actually fairly tame considering what was being said about Trump and Trump supporters,” Miller said.

He wouldn’t say who did it. About 10 people had access to the COAST account, he said.

He defended using such language, saying he sees value in shocking people.

“Snark can raise people’s eyebrows and force them to look at stuff that they otherwise wouldn’t look at.”

No plans to leave As a Hamilton County Republican, Miller sees himself as part of a dying breed. The county, like many other urban areas across the country, has turned blue, with a majority of city and county elected offi ces held by Democrats.

“Republicans have thrown up their hands and abandoned the city,” Miller said.

Messages to Hamilton County GOP Chairman Alex Triantafi lou and the highest elected Republican in the county, Prosecutor Joe Deters, were not returned.

But Miller plans to stay in Cincinnati for now.

“I live in the city,” Miller said. “I’m not ready to abandon ship just yet.”

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Alex Harrison Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

After a year without a lacrosse season, many 2019 freshman and sophomores are ready to return to play and lead their programs now as juniors and seniors.

Here are some players to watch for the return-to-play season of 2021.

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Brennan Pagan fi res the ball in for the Wyoming Cowboys. PROVIDED/TIM WILKING

Latest pitching gems include Wyoming no-hitter and Summit perfect game Pagan credits his curve as his go-to pitch but stuck with mainly fastballs against the Blue Devils knowing that he could go to the bender when needEditor’s note: Information included refl ects this ed. article’s original publication date – April 7.

“Reading put a lot of good balls in play and the WYOMING - The magical senior season of Wyo- defense had to be on their toes,” Wantz said. “Genming’s Brennan Pagan continues on as the multi- erally there is that one diving or astonishing play. threat Cowboy has seized yet another moment.

We didn’t have that. We had some good defense In the fall, as the quarterback who replaced Mr. around him to support him and he was defi nitely Football and Cincinnati Bearcat Evan Prater, who on top of his game. He kept his pitch count relareplaced Northwestern’s Andrew Marty, Pagan led tively low.”

Wyoming to its third straight Division IV semifi nal.

Based on his football acumen, Pagan will play at The Cowboys fell short, but several inches shorter Bowdoin College in Maine in Division III football. of his predecessors and moving from receiver to After passing for 1,012 yards and 13 touchdowns quarterback, Pagan did the job. and running for 454 and two more, he will return to He’s continued doing the job on the baseball his natural position at receiver. When he was fi eld where he’s been a starter since freshman year. catching passes from UC’s Evan Prater in 2019, he On April 5, against Cincinhad 39 for 596 yards and nati Hills League opponent seven scores and ran for 155 Reading, Pagan no-hit the yards. In 2018’s Division IV Blue Devils, striking out state title game he had an “I’ve never thrown a no-hitter. 18-yard eight and walking just touchdown in Wyothree. ming’s 42-14 rout of Girard.

I just go out there and focus “I’ve never thrown a no“There was a pretty good hitter,” Pagan said. “I just go on throwing strikes. I don’t guy before me here,” Pagan out there and focus on worry about strikeouts, I just said of now-UC Bearcat throwing strikes. I don’t Prater. “We had great tradiworry about strikeouts, I try to get outs.” tion. I just fi lled in and did just try to get outs. (It was) Brennan Pagan my job every day.” pretty solid, but I’m never Wyoming Wantz is aware of Pasatisfi ed. I just try to get betgan’s football talents but ter every day.” wonders aloud if he might not miss dealing on the Pagan hit .299 with a home run as a freshman diamond at some point. and .477 as a sophomore. Combined in two sea“He’s very talented in both,” Wantz said. “I think sons he struck out 21 batters in 14 innings. Like he was able to decide and kind of leaned with footmany, no one will ever know where his career may ball, but I think if you asked him right now he may have gone had their been a 2020 baseball season say baseball. But, that’s up to him and what he instead of a coronavirus cancellation. chooses.”

“It helps build relationships with other teamNot to be outdone, Summit Country Day sophomates when you go through four years,” Pagan more Nolan Miller fi red fi ve innings of zeroes in his said. “It builds a lot of camaraderie.” fi rst varsity start for the Silver Knights on April 6.

Said fi rst-year Wyoming coach Matt Wantz, “It Summit run-ruled Norwood 14-0, thus the abbreviwas fun to watch it (no-hitter) unravel. Brennan’s ated start, but he still kept the Indians off the basebeen an intricate part of the program the last four paths. years. He’s put in a lot of hard work and he’s defi Summit’s defense also came up big as just three nitely very deserving of it.” of the outs were strikeouts.

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Colin Willits, Lakota West – Willits was fi rst-team All-Greater Miami Conference as a freshman in 2019 after scoring 29 goals and assisting on 26 more. He will be a team captain for the Firebirds for the upcoming year.

Corey Gross, Fairfi eld – Gross was a second-team conference pick after his 2019 sophomore campaign where he scored 51 goals, making him the highest returning scorer in the GMC. Nathan Kissela, Sycamore – The Kenyon College commit had 42 assists in 2019, which was second-best in the GMC in 2019.

Alec Blessing, Sycamore – The junior defender had 13 interceptions as a freshman, one of two in the GMC to reach double digits and the only returner to reach the mark.

Ruben Schraff enberger, Sycamore - As a sophomore, scored 35 goals in 21 games played with 16 assists added on top.

Greater Catholic League Lane Miller, Moeller – Miller was named a player to watch in Ohio by Lax.com before Miller heads to Cleveland State for collegiate play.

Brendan Garry, Moeller – Garry joined Miller as Crusaders invited to play in the Nike Lacrosse National AllStar Games.

Luke Vrsansky, St. Xavier - As a freshman in 2019, Vrsansky led the state runner-up Bombers with 47 goals and 25 assists. Vrsansky committed to Air Force.

Miles Blenman, St. Xavier - The High Point commit was a sophomore on the 2019 squad and expects his contribution on off ense to grow heavily into his senior year.

Drew Britt, St. Xavier - A captain and three-year starter, Britt is a defensive midfi elder who runs the show on transition.

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Luke Vrsansky of St. Xavier runs with the ball against Dublin Coffman at the DI Boys Lacrosse Championship, Selby Stadium, Ohio Wesleyan University, Saturday, June 1, 2019.

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Mount St. Joe football springs ahead with locals Scott Springer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – April 8.

Between Nov. 16, 2019 and early March of this year, there was no football being played by the Mount St. Joseph Lions. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many Division III schools and leagues like the Heartland College Athletic Conference made the decision in late July 2020 to move to a spring football season.

Mount St. Joseph was set to kick-off with Hanover on March 6, but elected to make that a scrimmage-only situation, so their fi rst game back came on March 13, a 31-21 loss against Rose-Hulman.

Since then, head coach Tyler Hopperton’s team hasn’t lost, scoring 56, 41 and 47 points in wins over Franklin, Defi ance and Bluff ton, respectively.

Now with warmer April air, the spring birds chirping near Schueler Field and the periodic fl yovers courtesy of being in the fl ight path of the Greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Airport, the Lions have two games remaining in their season and a 3-1 record.

The roster is chock-full of athletes who played high school ball in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in addition to a mix of players from surrounding states. The starting quarterback is Josh Taylor who came to “The Mount” from Thomas More and Western Brown.

Taylor is thriving in off ensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator Caleb Corrill’s system. At Western Brown, he led the Southern Buckeye Conference in passing and rushing in 2018. Now in a familiar off ense, he threw for two touchdowns against Franklin and ran for 225 yards and fi ve more scores. Against Defi ance, he threw for three scores and ran for 89 yards and last Saturday against Bluff ton he racked up 222 throwing yards and ran for 188 yards and fi ve touchdowns.

“Coach does a pretty good job at making it simple for us and getting us comfortable into the system,” Taylor said.

“We have good guys like our off ensive line and our receivers do a great job of getting open and blocking down the fi eld. When you have great guys like that and a coaching staff to put a good game plan together it defi nitely helps.”

Helping Taylor is a receiving corps that came to the west side primarily from the east.

Anderson’s Joey Newton is second on the team with 15 catches for 199 yards and two touchdowns. He came from Mi-

Mount St. Joseph head coach Tyler Hopperton's team has won three straight games since losing its opener, scoring 56, 41 and 47 points in victories over Franklin, Defi ance and Bluffton, respectively.

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ami University after missing the game.

“I was at Miami and wasn’t happy there,” Newton said. “I was pretty bored and I was doing fl ag football. I wanted to play football again and I was looking at places that were close to home. I found a home here.”

Chandler Kinhalt from New Richmond has eight catches for 95 yards and a score and Milford’s Jake Ayler has seven grabs for 156 yards and a touchdown.

As high school seniors, Newton caught 78 balls at Anderson, Ayler 53 at Milford and Kinhalt 45 at New Richmond.

None of the three reach 6-foot without standing on a phone book.

“The off enses really connect,” Ayler said of his high school scheme and MSJ’s approach. “It’s really the exact same. I feel like I’ve been in the system for a really long time honestly.”

Also among the locals, Goshen’s Kyle Proffi tt is the back-up quarterback, Harrison’s Kyle Farfsing is the placekicker and Milford’s Grace Ertel has made a college extra point.

Among the off ensive linemen is Elder’s Collin Kandra.

Had top off ensive threat Cornell Beacham of Winton Woods not been hurt, the Lions may be averaging over 50 points per game. Beacham ran for 648 yards and had 53 catches in 2019 and was HCAC Male Athlete of the Year as well as an undefeated wrestler at 174 pounds whose shot at an NCAA Division III championship was cut short by the COVID-19 cancellations On defense is Oak Hills linebacker

Jonathan Finn who had 39 tackles and 1.5 sacks before an injury.

West Clermont defensive lineman Alex McQueen has eight tackles and two sacks while former Wolves teammate Austin Price has 13 tackles at safety. ExMoeller safety Noah Able has nine tackles and two tackles for loss.

“We have explosive systems not just on off ense but defense too,” Hopperton said. “We’ve scored some special teams and defensive touchdowns. Guys want to have fun. We rotate and play a lot of people and guys want to be a part of something like that.”

The Lions defense also includes Evan Schlensker from Badin, Natron Webster of Loveland, Nate Owens of Bethel-Tate and Brady Buller of Elder. You can also fi nd tight end Avery Harris of Little Miami, receiver Barry Daniels of Sycamore, linebacker Nick Stephenson of Sycamore, receiver Jarod Walpole of Taylor, Nate Webster of Loveland, Colin Colyer of Deer Park, Dakota Blum of Loveland, Nathan Martz of Batavia, Rashun Newbolt of Sycamore, Alex Smith of Little Miami, Sam Martin of McNicholas, Devin Salyers of Lawrenceburg, Andrew Marcum of Talawanda, Alex Byrd of Batavia, Calyn Asher of Dayton (KY), Matthew Briedis II of Indian Hill, Keegan Points of Ryle, Sam Martin of Wyoming, Brandon McGraw of South Dearborn and Ryan and Patrick Murray of Colerain listed on MSJ’s website.

Hopperton played at Simon Kenton High School then crossed the river to play linebacker at “The Mount”. He’s not

left since and is in his 13th season of meshing area kids with diff erent backgrounds. It’s his fourth year as head coach and his recruiting speech is pretty straightforward.

“A lot of it is homegrown kids and that’s our brand of football Cincinnatistyle football,” Hopperton said. “Bluecollar tough is what we’ve always said over the years. I think you have to match where you’re at. There’s a lot of good programs around the country but the best programs embrace who they are, where they are and who they get. We’re blessed the local football is some of the best in the country.”

Mount St. Joseph is on the road for the next two games starting with Saturday’s game in Indiana against Anderson University and winding up April 17 also in Indiana against Manchester.

Should they prevail and if Hanover falters in one of its fi nal two games, the Lions could win the HCAC. That they even had a season is an accomplishment in itself.

“It’s bean a neat experience,” quarterback Taylor said. “It’s defi nitely one I’ll remember forever. It just makes this season that much more special, having it be so diff erent.”

Added Ayler,” I’d rather play games than practice every day and not be able to play. Especially with them awarding a conference championship.”

They won’t have to wait long for their next season as everyone’s eligibility remains the same per NCAA coronavirus stipulations for the coming fall.

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Cincinnati Hills League Seth Greene, Mariemont – Greene was the CHL’s best in draw controls in 2019, winning 326 as a sophomore.

Will Klekamp, Indian Hill – A second-year captain at Indian Hill, the college football signee plays hard defense and got some early reps on varsity in his sophomore season in 2019.

Charlie Digennaro, Indian Hill – Also a two-year captain for Indian Hill, Digennaro plays all over the fi eld and easily handles defenders. Signed to play at Division I Jacksonville, Digennaro notched 23 goals and nine assists in 20 games as a sophomore.

Tyler Lay, Taylor – Lay marks the only CHL returner to account for over 100 saves in a varsity season.

Josh Walters, Taylor – Now a senior captain, a sophomore Walters snagged 10 interceptions in 2019 which was second-best in the CHL. Walters also caused 15 turnovers, had 64 draw controls and picked 70 ground balls while scoring 18 goals.

Mariemont midfi elder Seth Greene (23) chases the ball during their state semifi nal against Columbus DeSales, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Mariemont won 8-6. TONY TRIBBLE/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Eastern Cincinnati Conference Carson Geier, Milford – Committed to Ohio Wesleyan, Geier had good varsi-

Moeller's Lane Miller looks for a strategy against Mariemont's Justin Taylor (25) April 5. Mariemont prevailed 10-7. SCOTT SPRINGER/THE ENQUIRER

ty action in his sophomore year, scoring 28 goals with 11 assists plus 48 ground balls.

Jacob Smith, Milford – Smith missed out on his freshman campaign but is expected to be a solid defenseman for Milford in 2021.

Ethan Foster, Milford – Foster will follow Will Naylor as goalie for Milford, getting his fi rst varsity action as a junior.

Jake Moore, Little Miami – Moore is expected to lead Little Miami’s off ensive attack in its fi rst attempt at lacrosse as an ECC member.

Ryan Hummel, Anderson – Hummel scored 19 goals and caused eight turnovers as a sophomore.

Noah Habig, Anderson – Habig is projected to be a starting defenseman for the fourth time in his varsity career.

Austin Kroner, Anderson – As a freshman goalie in 2019, Kroner had 224 saves in 19 games played.

Ethan Lund, Loveland – Lund was a fi rst-team All-ECC pick as a freshman defenseman in 2019.

Miami Valley Conference Jack Wright, Cincinnati Country Day – Wright played seven games at the varsity level in his 2019 sophomore season, scoring nine goals with eight assists.

Cam Pohl, Cincinnati Country Day – Pohl was an honorable mention AllMVC selection following the 2019 year.

Hayden Bortz, Cincinnati Country Day – After his freshman year in 2019, was an Honorable Mention pick for the All-MVC teams.

Nathan Schramm, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – Schramm stood in goal for the Eagles, stopping 171 shots in 17 games in 2019.

David Schaefer, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – Schaefer’s 20 assists in 2019 make him the highest-returning in the MVC. Hayden Gilkinson, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – The senior scored 19 goals and had 14 assists in 2019.

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Davenport basketball family patriarch dies Kremer at Moeller and then at Winthrop.

Kremer heard of Davenport’s passing by Miles McBride”s mother.

Trey McBride had played with Josh and Miles was younger son Jeremiah’s teammate with the Crusaders.

“I talked to (wife) Sheila and all three boys right afterward,” Kremer said.

“It’s devastating. We’ve had a really tough run in our program. Good guy.

All three of his kids were really important kids in our program. He was a good Dad and a good man.”

Older sister Naomi Davenport was a standout at Mount Notre Dame for Dr. Scott Rogers and played at West Virginia.

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The father of four Division I college basketball players and possibly one on the rise is nearly always in a gym. Odds are, that’s where they’re most happy.

That’s where Darren Davenport was April 3 at Landmark Christian, refereeing AAU games of all ages.

Giving back.

He had a long conversation with fellow referee Cal Johnson, the current Deer Park High School football coach and former City of Cincinnati policeman. They talked about how kids from Cincinnati don’t always stay in Cincinnati anymore.

Though high school rivals as Davenport played at Mount Healthy and Johnson at Forest Park, they were friends, still running up and down a court, albeit offi ciating rather than playing.

Johnson so enjoyed his conversation April 3 he told Davenport he would post a photo of the two of them.

Before he had a chance to post it on Facebook, he learned Davenport, from the Mount Healthy Class of 1984, had died. The photo was posted but out of grief and confusion instead of the happiness it was meant to show.

“We had a game break and we just talked for a whole hour about how we grew up,” Johnson said.

“When you grow up, your kids move out, unlike us.

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just refl ected on a whole bunch of stuff .”

Davenport told him he might have had COVID-19 and he replied that he also had it and that maybe everyone had it. Johnson said Darren told him he was still recovering and his lung capacity wasn’t the same.

Still, the two old friends offi ciated three games together with Johnson not recognizing anything out of the ordinary. Even when Davenport was done, he stayed around watching Johnson call another game.

“I’m in shock to tell you the truth,” Johnson said.

“I have chills because I

told him I was going to post this picture on Monday. It was Saturday night and he was just sitting there relaxing.”

In remembering Davenport, Johnson recalled another picture from days gone by when Darren was a star player for Mount Healthy.

“There was a picture in the paper where he dunked over a dude from College Hill and his feet and everything was in the air sideways,” Johnson said. “It was above the rim and it was beautiful. If you knew basketball back then, you knew Darren Davenport. He could do it all.”

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Former Lockland High School and Ohio State Buckeyes standout and National Football League safety Mike Sensibaugh, recently died, his wife announced on Facebook. He was 72.

Sensibaugh was inducted into the Buddy LaRosa's High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1975 - the Hall's inaugural class.

The Cincinnati native played eight NFL seasons, including fi ve with the Kansas City Chiefs. He had 27 interceptions and 12 fumble recoveries in 92 career NFL games and was second in the league with eight interceptions during the 1972 season.

Sensibaugh was an All-American at Ohio State in 1970. He still holds Ohio State's all-time record with 22 career interceptions. He was part of the Buckeyes' national championship team in 1968.

More from ohiostatebuckeyes.com: The Ohio State Department of Athletics and football program is mourning the loss of Mike Sensibaugh, a member of Ohio State’s 1968 national championship team, an All-American and threeyear letterwinner from 1968-70. Sensi-

Mike Sensibaugh (3) was a three-year starter at Lockland High School in football, basketball and baseball. FILE

baugh passed away on Wednesday. He was 72 years old.

Sensibaugh was living in Wildwood, Missouri where he owned and operated Sensibaugh Pools. He is survived by three children: a son, Doug, and two daughters, Amy and Cara. He had fi ve grandchildren ranging in ages from 17 to 24 years old. Sensibaugh was also the step-father to Michael and Ben Krause, whose families included seven additional grandchildren. He and his wife,

Ohio State Mike Sensibaugh (3) in action against Purdue at Ohio Stadium in November 1969. WALTER IOOSS JR., SPORTS ILLUSTRATED VIA GETTY IMAGES

Dana, were married for 29 years at the time of his passing.

Donations to honor Sensibaugh can be made to the Concussion Legacy Foundation, 361 Newbury St., 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02115 or online at concussionfoundation.org.

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the bandwagon making reckless statements to everybody. He praised him for how he dealt with the controversy going on.”

Even a player who has left UC has had kind, comforting words for the Davenports as Zach Harvey reached out via Twitter.

“When I came across the country to go to Cincy, I didn’t really know anybody.

Darren and his family welcomed me instantly and even opening up his home for me. Made me feel like I had a family away from my own. These little things go a long way and I am forever grateful for this.”

Darren and Sheila’s youngest, Debo-

Moeller Basketball player Jeremiah Davenport (center) and his parents Sheila and Darren on the Red Carpet at the 2018 Greater Cincinnati Sports Awards Show at Music Hall. JIM OWENS/FOR THE ENQUIRER

rah Davenport had a stellar season at Woodward averaging 17.7 points and 10.5 rebounds per game as a 6-foot-2 junior.

“I put them in there as the fi rst family of Cincinnati basketball,” Kremer said.

“When you think about all three boys

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Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – April 5.

were Division I players. Mom was Division I, Dad was Division I and Deborah is right on the cusp. She’ll be a Division I. I’ve never heard of that before!”

Cal Johnson remembers Darren as a good family man who talked about his kids all of the time. Given their resumes, he had every right to praise their accomplishments.

“That’s what hurts even more, he was such a good guy,” Johnson said. “It hurts when somebody good like that goes.

Those kids didn’t just get to play; they were tremendous players.”

Johnson is still rewinding that Saturday night in his head.

“When you left talking to him, you left feeling good about talking, whatever it was,” Johnson said.

Said Kremer, “It’s hard to process.

Darren means a lot to me and our program. He’s been so good to us.”

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10 family-friendly bookstores in Cincinnati Charles Infosino Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Give a kid a book and you will give a kid a break. Taking your children to a bookstore will give them the opportunity select the books of their choosing.

The books that you buy for your children can educate, entertain and inspire them. Here are 10 of Cincinnati’s most salient family-friendly bookstores.

Blue Manatee Literacy Project Bookstore 3094 Madison Road, Oakley; bluemanatee.org.

Blue Manatee is a non-profi t organization that sells books, Jellycat plushies, new baby toys and bibs, stationery and art supplies, totes and local interest items. Their book selection includes board books, picture books, middle grade fi ction and graphic novels, young adult, adult and non-fi ction. Their prices range from $5.99 for a board book to $50 for a coff ee table book.

Blue Manatee has a virtual storytime program every Thursday at 9:30 a.m. on Instagram. The bookstore operates on a one-for-one model, which means that for every book purchased, they donate a book to a child in need in the community. This works with instore and online purchases. They are currently open from Wednesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Blue Marble Books 1356 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas; bluemarblebooks.com.

Blue Marble sells children’s books, plush, games, puzzles and some baby clothes. Their mission is to promote youth literacy and a joy for reading. The price of their books ranges from $1 to $40 or more. They are open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Book Rack 8315 Beechmont Ave., Anderson Township; cincybookrack.com.

The Book Rack sells new and used books, jigsaw puzzles, posters and tabletop/role playing games such as Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. They sell new books at cover price and used books tend to be half the cover price. Instead of giving out cash for trade-ins, they have an in-store credit system that gives customers a percentage discount on their purchases when they trade in used books.

They are open Monday to Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.

The Bookshelf 7754 Camargo Road No. 5, Madeira; cincybookshelf.indielite.org.

The Bookshelf sells books, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, children's games and plush toys. Children’s books range from $5.99 to $30 or more. They have a children's book buying program, in which after 10 books are bought, the 11th is free. They are open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Friends' Used Book Store at the Warehouse; 8456 Vine St., Hartwell. PROVIDED

Ohio Book Store 726 Main St., Downtown; ohiobookstore.net.

Ohio Book Store has fi ve fl oors of books and magazines. The store also has a book bindery where they repair and restore books, and a big part of that business is restoring children's books.

Most of their inventory is used and older books. Their children's books start at $2, typically cost $2 to $5, and can cost over $100. They are open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Duttenhofer's Books 214 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights; duttenhofers.com.

Duttenhofer's sells books, children's T-shirts and old illustrations. Children’s books start at $3 for Little Golden Books and range from $25 to $50 for antique, illustrated editions. They are open every day, except Monday, from noon to 5 p.m.

Joseph-Beth Booksellers 2692 Madison Road, Norwood; josephbeth.com.

Jo-Beth sells books, magazines, greeting cards, candles, fashion and style products, and other home decor.

The store carries a large selection of products made by local artisans, artists and authors. Joseph-Beth off ers virtual book fairs for areas schools and is working on summer programming. The bookstore is home to Bronte Bistro, which serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, specialized coff ees and alcoholic beverages. Joseph-Beth has bargain books starting at $1.99 for both adults and children. Most books range from $5.99 to $29.99.

They are open Monday to Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Roebling Point Books & Coffee 306 Greenup St., Covington; roeblingpointbooksandcoff ee.com.

Roebling Point off ers books, coff ee, hot chocolate, T-shirts, journals and greeting cards. The shop sells used children's books for $2.50, new children's

Ohio Book Store; 726 Main St., Downtown. PROVIDED

Blue Manatee Literacy Project Bookstore; 3094 Madison Road, Oakley. PROVIDED

Blue Marble Books; 1356 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas. PROVIDED

books starting at $5.99 and collectible children's books starting at $45. If you cannot fi nd what you are looking for, they can special order books easily and quickly, and most likely get it for you within a few days.

Roebling Point is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Roebling Point Books & Coffee; 306 Greenup St., Covington. PROVIDED

The store is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Smith & Hannon Bookstore

The Friends' Used Book Store at the Warehouse

1405 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine; smithandhannonbookstore.org.

Smith & Hannon is the only Blackowned bookstore in Cincinnati and is listed on Oprah’s list of Black-owned bookstores. The store sells books, sculptures, bookmarks, cards, prints, Tshirts, puzzles and a host of other things. Their inventory focuses on African American authors, though it features a wide variety of authors and genres. The store’s book selection includes photography, non-fi ction, biographies, cooking, children, young adult, politics and more.

Most books cost $2.99 to $28. Children's books range from $2.99 to $19.99.

They carry new and used books, and they special order books at customer request. They also mail books to various places. Smith & Hannon also features book signings.

8456 Vine St., Hartwell; cincylibraryfriends.org.

The Friends' Used Book Store sells used books, CDs, DVDs, board games, vinyl records, greeting cards, puzzles and graphic novels. Their main mission is to support the Cincinnati Library and its programs, especially library children's programing. They get their inventory from donations from the Cincinnati Library and the public. The warehouse sells thousands of children’s books for all ages. Most of their children's books cost $3 or less. The warehouse off ers memberships, which get members special discounts. Additionally, they have year-round promotions.

The Warehouse is open, by appointment only, on Monday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

tends a school in another district. Sons or daughters of a Club member are also eligible. Applications for the scholarship should be obtained from your high school guidance counselor.

Completed applications must be

mailed to: Forest Park Women’s Club, Attn: Pat Newman, P.O. Box 40638, Forest Park, Ohio 45240. The deadline for applications is April 26, 2021.

Diane Dunivant, Forest Park Women’s Club

SCHOOL NEWS Forest Park Women’s Club offering scholarships The Forest Park Women’s Club (Club) is off ering scholarships to students preparing for college. The Club has off ered

scholarships since 1967.

To be eligible, a student must be a senior in the Winton Woods School District, including home-schooled students, or a senior who lives within the Winton Woods School District but at-

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COMMUNITY NEWS Christ Church Cathedral Choir auditions

area students going into healthcare.

Nanette Bentley, Mercy Health

Christ Church Cathedral, 318 East Fourth Street, downtown Cincinnati, announces that auditions to sing with its renowned choir will take place this summer, July 19-23, or earlier by appointment.

Cathedral choristers sing at weekly Sunday morning services, monthly Evensong services, and other major liturgical observances in the church year.

Positions are open for paid and volunteer choristers, as well as substitute choristers.

The cathedral choir is known throughout the region for its excellence in sacred music. Cathedral choristers enjoy singing a wide range of repertoire, such as works by Tallis, Brahms and Howells, as well as spirituals and music of other cultures.

Those interested in auditioning for the 2021-22 season can fi nd complete details at cincinnaticathedral.com/ choir-auditions.

For more information or to schedule an audition time, contact Dr. Stephan Casurella, the cathedral’s director of music, at 513-621-1817 or scasurella@cccath.org.

Barbara Lyghtel Rohrer, Christ Church Cathedral

Santa Maria Community Services, Inc. promotes Julie McGregor to chief program officer

Wildflowers in the Preserves guided walks Join guided small-group walks through some of Great Parks’ most protected wildfl ower preserves. Learn about the area’s history and native spring wildfl owers during these free spring adventures.

Preregistration is required for all walks at https://www.greatparks.org/ calendar. Protocols from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health, physical distancing and sanitation recommendations will be followed.

Sunday, April 18 at 1 p.m.

Wildfl owers in the Preserves: Trillium Trails Glenwood Gardens Join us for a walk into the Trillium Trails Nature Preserve as we search for wildfl owers and other signs of spring.

This two-hour venture involves some steep areas and off -trail walking. Regis-

Christ Church Cathedral is accepting appointments for auditions to sing with its renowned choir during the 2021-22 program year. PROVIDED

ter by April 16.

Sunday, May 2 at 1 p.m.

Wildfl owers in the Preserves: Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve Walk the Pin Oak Trail to see and learn about the many kinds of spring wildfl owers in our area. Register by April 30.

A valid Motor Vehicle Permit is required to enter the parks. Cost for residents of Hamilton County: $10 annual/$5 daily; other visitors: $16 annual/$8 daily. Otto Armleder Memorial Park and Fernbank Park are cooperative ventures with the City of Cincinnati; a Motor Vehicle Permit is not required. A Motor Vehicle Permit is not required at Great Parks Nature Center at The Summit.

Kimberly Whitton, Great Parks of Hamilton County

The Auxiliary of Mercy Health West Hospital hosts its 8th annual Golf Classic on June 7 The Auxiliary of Mercy Health - West Hospital Auxiliary is hosting its eighth annual Golf Classic on Monday, June 7, at the Clovernook Country Club, located at 2035 W Galbraith Road in Cincinnati, 45239.

The annual Golf Classic is the Auxiliary’s largest fundraiser. All proceeds from this year’s event will benefi t the hospital’s Greatest Need Fund, which delivers funding throughout the year to hospital staff for educational, programmatic, equipment and capital needs. Your participation will support the continued

education of staff and advance clinical care at West Hospital.

The day’s schedule follows below: h 11 a.m. - Registration and lunch h 12:30 p.m. - Shotgun start, scramble format h 5 p.m. - Reception h 5:30 p.m. – Auction and prizes Registration includes 18 holes of golf, cart, refreshments on course, lunch, reception/heavy hors d’oeuvres, awards and contest hole prizes.

Foursomes sell out quickly so reserve yours now! Cost to register for lunch, golf and dinner is $200 per person. The Auxiliary also welcomes corporate foursomes for a $1,000 sponsorship (includes golf, lunch and hole sponsorship) and hole sponsors for $250. There are other sponsorship opportunities available.

Clovernook Country Club follows all Board of Health COVID-19 guidelines, recommendations and requirements for buff ets and any dining needs for members and guests. For more information and answers to direct questions please contact Harry Alexander at 513-5210333.

To register for the event or to fi nd out more about sponsorships, please contact event chairs Joan Reinhold at jmreinhold@zoomtown.com or Kim Goedde at KXGoedde@mercy.com.

The Auxiliary of Mercy Health - West Hospital raises funds for charitable care and capital purchases that help the hospital provide top quality care to the patients it serves. The Auxiliary also awards annual scholarships to talented

Santa Maria Community Services, Inc. is pleased to announce that Julie McGregor has been promoted and accepted a new position as chief program offi cer.

McGregor recently completed her fourteenth year of service with Santa McGregor Maria.

She fi rst came to Santa Maria as the Every Child Succeeds Program Director in 2007 and later became the Family Centered Services Director.

As such, McGregor not only managed Santa Maria’s Every Child Succeeds program and its team of family support workers, but also led Santa Maria’s shift to family-centered work that includes the integration of our various programs to serve families more eff ectively.

“I am excited to be starting on this new journey with Santa Maria Community Services,” McGregor said. “I am passionate about the agency and the community we serve and am thankful for this leadership opportunity.”

McGregor holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Cincinnati and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Spanish from Wittenberg University. McGregor is also a Licensed Social Worker who previously held a Program Manager position at Beech Acres and CRI. McGregor is currently completing the requirements to become a Licensed Independent Social Worker.

H.A. Musser, Jr., President and CEO of Santa Maria Community Services, Inc. welcomed McGregor to her new role, “We’re very excited to have Julie take on this new leadership role at Santa Maria.

Her depth of experience, knowledge and management capabilities are a complement to our management team. We are looking forward to great things to come.”

McGregor replaces Blair Schoen who retired on March 31, 2021 after more than 43 years of service at Santa Maria.

Christy Cauley, Santa Maria Community Services, Inc. See COMMUNITY NEWS, Page 11B

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Public forum: ‘Insights and Innovations: City, County, and Suburban Policing’ Woman’s City Club invites the public to a virtual forum: “Insights and Innovations: City, County, and Suburban Policing” on April 20, 6:30 p.m.

To receive the zoom link, please register at Eventbrite: Https://www.Eventbrite.com/insights-and-innovations-city-countyand-suburban-policingtickets-147195155673 Police departments everywhere continue to face the challenge of carrying out their charge to ensure community safety while providing fair and equitable law enforcement and criminal justice.

So it’s a good time to hear from our local police leadership about the issues they face in law enforcement and their

vision going forward. The Woman’s City Club is pleased to present: Charmaine McGuff ey, the newly elected Hamilton County Sheriff and the fi rst woman in that role, has promised “accountability, transparency and reform.”

Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaacs has been a strong leader this past year, dealing with civic disorder in response to the killing of George Floyd, gun and demands for reform of police practices.

Rickell Howard Smith is the Executive Director of Urban League’s new Center for Social Justice.

The center serves as the “regional catalyst for collaborative for collaborative police reform eff orts between communities and police departments in Southwest Ohio.”

The Cincinnatus Association is a cosponsor of the forum.

WCC invites the public to tune in on April 20 for what is sure to be an enlightening panel discussion about issues of

great importance to the community.

There will be ample time for comments and questions at the end of the presentations.

Woman’s City Club is a leading civic organization in Cincinnati celebrating its 106th year. The Club promotes a just and sustainable community through education, empowerment, advocacy, and service.

For more information: www.womanscityclub.org Sarah Gideonse

Forest-Aires Women’s Chorus Spring 2022 Show The Forest-Aires Women’s Chorus rescheduled its past two spring ENCORE! shows because of COVID. It was necessary to cancel the performances for both 2020 and for 2021.

However, things are looking brighter and we are looking forward to our 2022 spring ENCORE! show when we will

perform the fabulous “Welcome To The Sixties” at the Anderson Theater, 7850 Five Mile Rd. 45230.

Please be watching for details about our show, and visit the Forest-Aires Women’s Chorus at theforestaires.com.

Until then, enjoy Forest-Aire member, JoAnn Merrill’s modeling costumes from many of our spring ENCORE! shows throughout the years.

For more than 50 years, The ForestAires Women’s Chorus has awarded vocal scholarships to more that 250 high school student within the greater Cincinnati area. Proceeds from our ENCORE! show fund these lessons to students.

In addition to learning about us on our website, you may also contact Barbara Berner at 513-262-5358 or Jeanie Peter at 513-560-7093 for further information.

We eagerly await seeing you and entertaining you in April of 2022.

Barbara Berner

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Information provided by Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes

Colerain Township 10228 Spiritknoll Ln: Eschenbach Jeffrey W & Jamie L to Scherpenberg Robert A & Andrea R; $410,000 10703 Sunliner Ct: Rieman Barbara J to Buerger Christopher W & Caitlin M; $105,000 2465 Bracebridge Dr: Fehrenbach Steven L & Ashlynn M Hodge to Mann Natasha & Michael Smartt; $181,000 2566 Dolphin Dr: Gayle Stock Tr to Roberts Jennifer & Matthew; $158,900 2692 Barthas Pl: Popp Helen P to Downs Samuel K; $127,000 3161 Preserve Ln: Yeo Syn Kok & Li Leng Wong to Conroy Mark S; $94,000 3213 Rinda Ln: Eichelbrenner Robert A & Karen L to Briskman Real Estate LLC; $95,000 3399 Amberway Ct: White Tony to Johnson Channelle; $80,000 3491 Amberway Ct: Hafsa Ghulam to Dawson Edmund K & Shaunda N; $104,000 3513 Amberway Ct: John Kuhn Properties Ltd to Matos John E & Jhonny R; $85,000 3679 Twinview Dr: Herrmann Mary J & Kevin J to Herrmann Jonathan J; $160,000 3731 Sagebrush Ln: Martini Joseph Charles & Vanesa Fabiana to Bishop Sharon L & Gary M; $250,000 4080 Resolute Cr: Wilcher Gregory D to Hailstones Patrick & Karen; $137,500 4195 Intrepid Dr: Zoz Linda M to Kluener Andrew; $151,000 4210 Endeavor Dr: Bpct Real Estate LLC to Nottling Duane Werner & Linda Joan; $127,000 5517 Dry Ridge Rd: Blanton Starr Mercer to Nidey Grant & Nichole; $447,000

6948 Mullen Rd: American Sports LLC to O Esmena Stephani Ca & Joshua Morrison; $48,000 7013 Daybreak Dr: Fischer Single Family Home Iv LLC to Dobbins William; $392,900 7117 Memory Ln: Mueller Todd to Foster Joe L; $159,900 7230 Creekview Dr: Shelton Anne M to Focus Rentals LLC; $48,500 7230 Creekview Dr: Bedel John P to Pohlman Angela C; $83,000 7630 Cheviot Rd: Japarkulova Zamira B to Britton Felecia; $128,800 8452 Pollux Ct: At Cedar LLC to Thompson Adrian; $135,000 8463 Springlake Ct: Gambetta Anthony J to Rollbuhler Devon Elyse & Ryan Wayne Koons; $281,000 8711 Sarahs Bend Dr: Cincyreo LLC to Pearl William & Emma Louise; $188,000

College Hill 1188 Toluca Ct: Renaissance Men Properties LLC to Moore Gwendolyn; $128,500 6029 Argus Rd: Howell Thomas Jr to Fourth World Capital LLC; $48,900 6127 Faircrest Dr: Brown Mark A Sr to As Capital LLC; $135,000 6425 Hamilton Ave: 6425 Hamilton LLC to L&s Real Properties LLC; $65,000 6465 Devonwood Dr: Ross Christina H to Ferguson Lashonda; $94,000

Evendale 10195 Giverny Bv: Hettinger Joshua Q & Donna M to Bedinghaus Ryan Edward & Emily; $445,000 3630 Glendale Milford Rd: Lautenslager Jason J & Mindy S to Hatfield Craig & Susan; $218,400

Forest Park 10856 Carnegie Dr: Sph Property Three LLC to

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Sommer Suzanne E; $166,000 11393 Farmington Rd: Marks Leah Elizabeth & Anthony P Letizia to Sarpong Joycelyn & Felix Danso; $147,000 11413 Kenn Rd: Mitchell Kenneth J to Pelfrey David & Angela; $175,000 1251 Waycross Rd: Maren Kathleen Tr to Lions Rental Properties LLC; $160,500 1457 Kemper Rd: Zeik Bridget A to Andrews Norma J; $139,000 1865 Lewiston Ct: Gibson Zack to Parris Nicole; $182,500

Green Township Forestview Gardens Dr: Brown Richard E & Maranda L Monson to Wiley Tamiko M; $259,900 1610 Beech Grove Dr: Schlegel Daniel M & Mary A to Meyer Zachariah T & Casey J; $292,500 1770 Anderson Ferry Rd: Bauer Tracy & Sheri Maslyn to Bauer Tracy Lynn & Randal Kentron; $65,000 2247 Beechcroft Ct: Brown Scott J Ii & Julie K to Pilot Angela S & Sean A; $305,000 2300 Sylved Ln: Lipps Donna A @7 to Oakley William; $85,000 2433 Lourdes Ln: Reed Lawrence to Smith Sarah M; $110,000 3263 Bellacre Ct: Mccullough James Charles to Vissing Gary & Margaret Prince; $210,000 3366 Forestview Gardens Dr: Brown Richard E & Maranda L Monson to Wiley Tamiko M; $259,900 3436 Jessup Rd: Craftsman Properties LLC to Holbert Richard T Jr & Avian K; $114,000 3789 Sunburst Ridge Ln: Wischer Matthew L Tr to Schlegel Daniel M & Mary Ann; $525,000 3791 Lincoln Rd: Ward Henry A Jr to Lwmtmm LLC; $38,000 3860 Church Ln: George Thomas Homes Inc to Abbott Chris S & Amanda Stoffel; $180,000 3883 Tower Rd: Kassem Real Estate & Investments LLC to Hyden Charles A Jr & Carrie B Wagner; $210,000 4040 Ebenezer Rd: Laine Jerome & Joan to Laine Nicholas L; $205,000 4510 North Bend Rd: Kucera Katherine to Miller Roberta; $158,500 5151 Scarsdale Cove: Mitchell Charles to Pflum Edwin J; $93,000 5186 Parkvalley Ct: Tilley Brian to Gerhards Michelle Kay & Sascha Andreas; $327,000 5212 Peterborough Dr: Lord Stephen E & Katie M to Patel Suresh V; $460,000 5215 Eaglesnest Dr: Lyons Douglas Todd to Imhoff Kim; $85,000 5318 Chatelaine Ct: Koenig Mary Sue & James C

to Wietmarschen William C Ii; $258,000 5513 Childs Ave: Saunders David L & Diane M to Shaw Wayne III; $179,900 5513 Lawrence Rd: Dupps Connie T to Bellamy Angela & Kyle; $173,500 5550 Sunnywoods Ln: Krieg Brian P to Meiners Eric & Sarah Elizabeth; $155,000 5636 Karen Ave: Becker Sharon L & Glenn E to Pegues Dorothy L & Candace Williams; $135,000 5678 Karen Ave: Breunig Christopher S to Bsfr Ii Owner I LLC; $177,000 5770 North Glen Rd: Warren Jeffrey Donald & Lisa Ampleman Warren to Apuy Emily; $170,000 5856 Childs Ave: Johnson Marvin L & Joyce K Bennie to Parsons John M III; $133,000 6289 Eagles Lake Dr: Mcconnell Lakesha M to Eckstein Kerri; $141,000 6762 Verde Ridge Dr: Besse Brigid E to Besse Marie E; $203,000 6784 Harrison Ave: Patrustie Melissa D to Foote Kylee; $65,798 6830 Perinwood Dr: Brewer David Michael & Lori Ann to Bare Stephanie & Adam Willam; $350,000 7953 Oakbridge Way: Chisenhall Nicholas & Alexandra to Hayes Charrelle L; $153,500

Greenhills 117 Bayham Dr: Watters Mark A & Misty D to Kitchen Annie J; $157,000 129 Farragut Rd: Wackler One LLC to Wackler One LLC; $200,000

Lockland 402 Mcewing Dr: Cristo Homes Inc to The Entrust Group Inc Fbo Jeffrey Rose; $211,900 407 Mcewing Dr: Cristo Homes Inc to Anderson Alex G; $225,125

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North College Hill 1478 Larann Ln: Rogers Gary to Gillespie Timothy & Lisa; $127,900 1491 Southridge Ln: Quinn Steven F to Schoner Angela Patrice; $128,000 1530 Southridge Ln: Merkle Jonathan & Gary to Campbell Tarnysha; $119,900 1544 Galbraith Rd: Mulvaney Janice @4 to Mulvaney Janice @3; $7,500 1833 Sundale Ave: Hammons William T to Stone George W; $64,000

Reading 1321 Observatory Ave: Harper Gary W to Neely Cosette @3; $193,500 224 Columbia Ave: Davis Walter to Jv Properties Group LLC; $65,000 2266 Hunt Rd: Schmurr Taylor & Samantha to Jrs Re Properties LLC; $211,500 2405 Hunt Rd: Kaanapali Renovations LLC to Rp2ham LLC; $152,000 2613 Kathwood Cr: Snell Randall A to Ranson George Walter II & Sherri; $210,000 311 Bradley Ave: Chen Tian & Wan Chi Wu to Frederick Michele & Casey; $40,000

Sharonville Lebanon Rd: Barnett O Doyal & Judith A to Rj Pogo LLC; $390,000 10635 Plainfield Rd: Janusik Joseph to Farmer Jamie D & Darrin Mitchell Farmer; $150,000 11560 Rockfield Ct: 11560 Rockfield Court LLC to Eag 11560 Rockfield LLC; $1,650,000 11734 Lebanon Rd: Barnett O Doyal & Judith A to Rj Pogo LLC; $390,000 11740 Lebanon Rd: Barnett O Doyal & Judith A to Rj Pogo LLC; $390,000

Springdale

2640 Mt Airy Ave: Hicks Denis J to Barry Laura A; $115,000 4 Tanglewood Ln: Marcos Gayol to Kroner Mles & Sydney Barnes-kroner; $45,000 5 Tanglewood Ln: Gayol Marcos & Enrique to Kroner Miles & Sydney Barnes-kroner; $485,000 6 Tanglewood Ln: Gayol Marcos & Enrique to Kroner Miles & Sydney Barnes-kroner; $485,000

10992 Ashleigh Ct: Johnson Eddie Lamar & Monique A to Krzycki Todd & Suzanne M Schindler; $369,000 11510 Springfield Pk: Springfield Lease Inc to Morlde Jennifer & Alexander Batista; $210,000 11832 Van Cleve Ave: Oaks Property Group LLC to Rp2ham LLC; $130,000 514 Salzberg Ln: 7 Principles Investment Group LLC to Albrinck Karen F & Donald J; $265,000

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1536 St Clair Ave: Walter Ashley N to Watson Angela; $189,000 7272 Bernard Ave: Hugenberg Mark & Carla to Dudley Robert Priest Jr; $113,900 7831 Lincoln Ave: Sandow Jenna to Mumphrey Edward; $121,000 8021 Hamilton Ave: Creech Diane to 8021 Hamilton Ave LLC;

Safari Dr: Dexter Group Trust The to Orchid Trust #1; $30,175 1002 Hempstead Dr: Canning Thomas L & Sharon S to Webb Brian K; $105,000 10225 Hamilton Ave: Dexter Group Trust The to Orchid Trust #1; $30,175 1032 Vacationland Dr: Ewing Toni S @3 to Sofer

Kerri; $164,500 10378 Maria Ave: Goldick Mark A & Robyn M to Christie Michael & Kaitlin; $165,000 12002 Freestone Ct: Albrinck Donald J Tr & Karen F Tr to Meeks Jonathon D & Leah C; $231,000 12062 Elkwood Dr: Baker Scott A & Deborah D Hanna to Subba Dhan M Rai &; $245,000 12193 Deerhorn Dr: Mcgill Todd to Avery Katlyn D; $224,000 1493 Meredith Dr: Mahaffey Robert L Jr to Frye Nejala & Michael; $64,000 1943 Mistyhill Dr: Eden Penny F to Thompson Kiele; $150,000 1968 Edgewater Dr: Hogan Timothy B & Ruthie L to Bostick Bianca R; $144,000 2116 Garfield Ave: Sunanon Brenda to Henlin Marsha; $80,000 2150 Garfield Ave: Wheeler Crystal & Tyreesha Marbles to Illyria Investments LLC; $34,867 6868 Warder Dr: Mungur Krishna & Katherine A to Hays Kylie; $135,500 707 Ashford Ct: Haros Jose & Maria De Luz Moreno to Hatcher Tamara L & Andrew Rice; $235,000 7618 Pineglen Dr: Schell Robert J Tr to Pyles Randall M & Nicholas A Segretario Ii; $275,000 779 Reynard Ave: Ijara Community Development Corporation Tr to Dawn Jadeed LLC; $725,000 801 Sabino Ct: Nischwitz Robert W & Coleman Amanda Lee to Peters Thomas Sloan; $203,500 8881 Ebro Ct: Dwyer Leonard Jr & Valerie Shakespeare to Miranda Construction Services LLC; $58,000 935 Belsage Ct: Igel Stephen J & to Turner Jade A & James R Turnage; $185,700 9511 Millbrook Dr: Long James W to Hay Janice C; $253,000

St. Bernard 406 Jackson Ave: Tindall Beth L to 406 Jackson LLC; $98,500 422 Ross Ave: Rohrig Randall T to Groeschen Michael G & Cami G; $120,000

Woodlawn 49 Sheffield Rd: Slowik Gary to Ragan Michael & Alyssa M Mattson; $235,000 64 Mclean St: Moore John to Maiben Shamore; $5,000 93 Sheffield Rd: Grossman Jacob T to Dawod Jahed & Kim J; $170,000

Wyoming 1033 Crosley Ave: Slomel LLC to Mcconnell Mary Ann; $198,000 438 Oliver Rd: Gallick Leo J & Margaret M to Lienhart Elizabeth; $565,000

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