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Charges fi led in Philadelphia against local photographer and veteran Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Anternitia O'Neal speaks to supporters outside Walmart on June 3, in Colerain. O'Neal was accused of not scanning all her items by a Walmart employee on May 18. According to Walmart the employee who accused her has been terminated.

O'Neal believes she was racially profi led by the employee. PHOTOS BY ALBERT CESARE/THE ENQUIRER

Protesters gathered against racial profi ling at Colerain Walmart, employee fi red Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Community members gathered outside of a West Side Walmart on Thursday to take a stand against what organizers called a racial profi ling incident.

Anternitia O'Neal was shopping at the Walmart at 10240 Colerain Ave. on May 18 when she says she was accused of stealing. Members of the Anti-Police Brutality Coalition and O'Neal gathered outside the Walmart on Thursday in an act of solidarity.

O'Neal streamed a portion of the interaction on Facebook Live. Employees confi rmed during the video that O'Neal did not steal anything.

O'Neal and members from the AntiPolice Brutality Coalition believe that she was targeted because of the color of her skin.

"People don't understand how this makes Black people feel. My life was put at risk. I didn't know if the police were going to come and start shooting or cause harm," O'Neal told the Enquirer on June 2.

Around 10 protesters gathered Thursday in dreary weather, rain fell during most of the protest and caused organizers to stand under the awning in front of the Walmart entrance.

Shoppers engaged with protesters, some saying they that they had known this was happening. According to Walmart offi cials, some shoppers complained that protesters were blocking the front door.

Photographer and veteran Isaac Wright was arrested in Colerain Township May 21 on more accusations he broke into buildings to take photographs. This time in Philadelphia.

This makes the third arrest since December and at least the fi fth jurisdiction to bring charges against the Colerain native, photographer and U.S. Army veteran.

In Cincinnati, he faces fi ve felonies after police said he broke into PNC Tower, Great American Tower and Great American Ball Park to take photos.

Prior to his fi rst arrest in Arizona, Cincinnati offi cers told other law enforcement agencies Wright had “special forces training,” suff ering from Post Traumatic Stree Disorder and was potentially armed, Wright’s lawyer said.

Wright, known online for his work under the moniker DrifterShoots, is a Colerain High School graduate and a military veteran. He served for six years and was honorably discharged. He was last assigned to work as a chaplain’s assistant at Fort Polk, he told The Enquirer. Since then, his journey across the country making photos from the tops of buildings and bridges has been documented in his Instagram feed.

“We believe the excessive force that’s been used to apprehend Isaac continues to put him in danger. He’s proven to be non-violent and he’s never been found with a weapon.”

Laurence Haas

Attorney for Isaac Wright

Anternitia O'Neal tells a shopper why she is protesting outside Walmart on June 3, in Colerain.

The organizers did not hold posters or do chants, but instead gathered together while O'Neal and Cory Brown from the Anti-Police Brutality Coalition talked with the media.

Walmart offi cials confi rmed that the employee who accused O'Neal of stealing was fi red after how she handled the situation. O'Neal is now seeking compensation for damages and is demanding bias and diversity training for all Walmart employees. Walmart offi cials off ered O'Neal an apology.

Protesters said this won't be the last protest. They mentioned John Crawford

III, who was shot by police in a Walmart in Beavercreek while he was carrying a MK-177 BB/Pellet Rifl e. They also mentioned O'Neal's son, Dontez O'Neal, who was shot by police during a drug traffi c stop.

"We're talking about the policing of Black bodies and we know this comes with the potential death sentence," Brown said. "She was picked because of the color of her skin."

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – June 3. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

His attorney, Laurence Haas, has repeatedly argued that Wright has been overcharged and in court Wednesday said the repeated physical arrests involving large numbers of offi cers were harming his client.

He said on May 21 about a dozen offi cers surrounded the apartment of Wright’s father where he is staying despite Wright having a GPS-tracking ankle monitor.

“We believe the excessive force that’s been used to apprehend Isaac continues to put him in danger,” Haas told Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Lisa Allen. “He’s proven to be non-violent and he’s never been found with a weapon.”

Haas said if there are future charges fi led against his client that he could be called and would turn Wright in. HamSee WRIGHT, Page 2A

Protesters gather to support Anternitia O'Neal outside Walmart on in Colerain.

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Tamaya Dennard walks into the federal courthouse in Downtown Cincinnati for her sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to wire fraud on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020.

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Tamaya Dennard: ‘No one will EVER take my pride, my hope’ Kevin Grasha and Sharon Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

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Former Cincinnati City Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard told supporters in a Facebook post June 1 – the day she was scheduled to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence – that she “will remain strong and as focused as ever” and “nothing or no one will EVER take my pride, my hope or my smile.”

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dennard, 42, was not yet listed as being in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons. It is expected that she will serve her prison term at a minimum security facility for women in West Virginia.

When she was sentenced in December, she was initially allowed to report to prison in March. But because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the increased risk of contracting the illness in a prison, her attorneys successfully

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ilton County Assistant Prosecutor Anne Flanagan disagreed with Haas’s assessment.

“It wasn’t a use of force, it’s a presence of offi cers to maintain an arrest for someone who’s been charged with serious off enses from out of state. That’s an appropriate procedure. We’re not about to hamstring law enforcement,” Flanagan said. “This defendant was not harmed.”

“You’re right. He’s not physically harmed,” Haas replied. “He has mental health issues. He has PTSD. You do not see the harm that is being caused.”

Judge Allen did not weigh in on the matter saying: “I’m not going to get involved in telling law enforcement how to do their job.”

The prosecutors on the case requested a high bond on May 26, but on this matter, Allen sided with the defense saying Wright showed up for his court appearances. His bond was set at $1,000, of which he needs to pay 10% of to be released.

convinced a federal judge to delay that reporting date until June 1.

Dennard was arrested in February 2020, accused in a pay-to-play scheme in which she sold a vote related to The Banks riverfront project. Dennard promised the favorable vote to a local attorney who tipped off federal authorities and then worked with them to record his conversations with Dennard, a key element of the case.

For her vote, prosecutors said Dennard took a $10,000 cashier’s check and $5,000 in cash.

In November, Dennard pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of honest services wire fraud.

Dennard is one of four Cincinnati City Council members indicted in the last 15 months in separate cases, two of them in alleged pay-to-play cases like hers. The other cases are still pending.

Dennard was elected to council in 2017 and served two years and two months, before resigning in March 2020.

Enquirer media partner Fox19 contributed to this report.

“If your family’s house got broken into, would you want them to take it seriously?”

Captain Doug Weisman Cincinnati police

Allen ordered Wright to address his charges in Philadelphia and return for a hearing in about a month.

Rachel Black is representing Wright in Philadelphia. He faces four felonies there for several alleged break-ins.

“The city of Philadelphia is battling real problems. They were not looking for Isaac Wright,” Black said. “Detective Ruberg’s conduct in acting as some sort of self-appointed deputy to law enforcement is a burden on the Philadelphia justice system that is already stretched thin handling real issues.”

Cincinnati Detective Jeff Ruberg has contacted law enforcement agencies across the country after securing videos and photos seized from Wright at the time of his fi rst arrest in Arizona. As a result, charges have been fi led in Louisiana, Kentucky and Michigan, though

Fourth of July death leads to federal charges for illegally selling fi reworks Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The death of a Mount Healthy man on the Fourth of July last year has led to the arrest of an Indiana man for illegally selling fi reworks.

A federal grand jury has charged Paul Eberhard, 64, of Shelbyville, Indiana, with dealing in explosive materials without a license and distributing explosive materials to a person without a permit or license. Each crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The investigation began after 63year-old Glenn Powell, of Mount

Healthy, died on July 4, 2020. The man was struck in the head by a fi reworks explosive, according to reports. The Hamilton County Bomb Squad confi scated fi reworks from the scene.

The indictment says that Eberhard illegally sold display fi reworks between 2018 and 2020.

Under federal law, a person must have an ATF license or permit to receive or use display fi reworks. Eberhard had only a permit and was not allowed to sell or distribute display fi reworks.

Eberhard’s case was unsealed May 27 during his initial appearance in federal court.

Here’s who the Democrats are endorsing for Cincinnati City Council candidates Snubbed Dillingham says her criticism of Mayor Cranley hurt her Scott Wartman and Sharon Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – June 1 (updated June 2).

After a closed-door debate June 1 night, nine city council candidates emerged with the coveted endorsement of the Cincinnati Democratic Committee.

The Democratic slate consisted of six men and three women; six of the nine are Black. All three women are Black.

Eff orts on June 1 to put activist Brian Garry and Cincinnati Federation of Teachers organizer Michelle Dillingham on the slate failed. The Democrats

the charges in Michigan were quickly dropped and he only faces a misdemeanor in Kentucky at this time.

Captain Doug Weisman, who supervises Ruberg, spoke to The Enquirer Wednesday and praised Ruberg’s efforts and said other jurisdictions have thanked him for alerting them to Wright’s activities.

“Jeff is doing a fantastic job helping these other city’s law enforcement agencies and skyscrapers and businesses fi gure out who’s doing all of this,” Weisman said. “I want to give the guy a commendation.”

In regards to the arrests, he said that Ruberg and Cincinnati police have not led the operations in Arizona, Kentucky or Colerain Township. He said if Wright or his lawyers believe he is being treated unfairly that they can fi le a complaint with the appropriate agency.

“If your family’s house got broken into, would you want them to take it seriously?” Weisman asked. “Wouldn’t you want Jeff Ruberg on the case?”

Weisman also said that the general public may not understand the seriousness of the crimes Wright is facing. He said Wright has caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage and has sto-

had endorsed Dillingham in her runs for city council in 2013 and 2017.

She blamed it on “party politics.”

“I will run as a Democrat,” Dilligham told The Enquirer after the vote June 1.

“I plan to win as a Democrat. And I will govern as a Democrat.”

Democrats recently passed the slate recommended by the nominating committee.

So who got endorsed?

Here’s the Democratic slate of city council candidates: Two incumbents: h Greg Landsman, 44, of Mount Washington, elected in 2017. h Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, 65, of North Avondale, appointed in 2020 One former Hamilton County Commissioner h Victoria Parks, 63, of College Hill See COUNCIL, Page 4A

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“His pictures are amazing. It’s just what it takes to get to that,” Weisman said. ‘He’s putting people at risk. It’s not safe. He needs to stop.”

Weisman said several people have died doing what Wright does. Two notable “rooftoppers,” Andrey Retrovsky and Wu Yongning, both died falling from buildings and there are media reports of several more.

“What he’s doing is extremely dangerous,” Weisman said. “Although he’s probably an expert climber and he’s proven that, people that are following him aren’t.”

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – May 27.

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Cincinnati State renews 5-year contract with president Monica Posey Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College’s board of trustees renewed president Monica Posey’s contract for another fi ve years during a May 25 meeting.

Posey became president in 2016 and has spent a total of 29 years with Cincinnati State, according to a news release from the college. She previously served as assistant dean, director of institutional research, academic vice president and provost before she was named interim president in September of 2015.

She is the fi rst Black female president of a major educational institution in the Cincinnati area.

“It is my honor to serve as President of Cincinnati State with a very supportive Board of Trustees during this era of strong collaboration with our faculty, staff and administration,” Posey said in the news release. “Going forward, my goals include continuing to modernize the college’s teaching facilities, providing additional supports to enhance student success, and off ering new programs and services to meet employer needs.”

Cincinnati State, the fourth largest college in Greater Cincinnati, will reopen its four campuses in Clifton, Harrison, Evendale and Middletown for in-person classes in the fall, offi cials said. Most classes have been off ered online during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The college served about 11,900 students in the past year.

Posey will earn an annual salary of $260,000 under the new contract, according to Cincinnati State spokesperson Richard Curtis. The Enquirer has requested Posey’s renewed contract once it is fi nalized.

The release says Posey led the college’s eff orts to become one of the fi rst community colleges in Ohio to off er bachelor’s degrees. The fi rst students to receive bachelor’s degrees graduat-

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And six newcomers h Reggie Harris, 39, of Northside. h Meeka Owens, 42, of North Avondale. h Scotty Johnson, 58, of Mount Airy. h Mark Jeff reys, 51, of Clifton. h Jeff Cramerding, 48, of West Price Hill. h Phillip O’Neal, 33, of Avondale.

Why is it important?

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College’s board of trustees have renewed president Monica Posey’s contract for another fi ve years. MARY STRUBBE

ed this spring through Cincinnati State’s land surveying program.

“We are delighted to announce the renewal of President Posey’s contract.

Her service to Cincinnati State has been exemplary and we look forward to her leadership over the next fi ve years,” George Vincent, president of the Cincinnati State Board of Trustees, said in the release.

Posey is a Philadelphia native and earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University. She holds a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in educational foundations from the University of Cincinnati.

Posey lives in Green Township and serves on the boards of United Way of Greater Cincinnati, the Health Collaborative, ArtsWave, the Holocaust & Humanity Center and Grad Cincinnati.

The Democratic endorsement is considered the Holy Grail of endorsements for Cincinnati politics, particularly as the city has trended more Democratic.

In 2017, six of the party’s nine endorsed candidates won election and it raised the profi le of the three who didn’t win.

These candidates will benefi t from the coordinated campaign and funds of the Democratic Party, including joint fundraising with the other candidates on the slate.

Candidates will need all the help they can get to stand out in what promises to be a very crowded and heated fi eld of city council candidates.

Dozens of candidates will likely compete for the nine seats on city council. As of June 1, the Hamilton County Board of Elections has certifi ed 19 city council candidates for the November ballot.

But more than 90 people have shown interest in running by picking up petitions.

Who didn’t make the cut?

Of those candidates, 17 sought the endorsement from the Democratic Party.

The Cincinnati Democratic Committee did not provide a list of candidates who sought endorsement. The biggest controversy was leaving Dillingham off the slate.

Some Democrats on Tuesday supported a motion to put Dillingham on the slate to replace Phillip O’Neal, the athletic director of Western Hills High School. The motion was voted down.

Dillingham told The Enquirer her support of Issue 3 was used against her. Issue 3, opposed by the Democrats and labor unions, would have required the city to put at least $50 million a year into an

aff ordable housing trust fund. The labor unions, which had supported Dillingham in the past, opposed the issue because it would have likely decimated the city’s operating budget and led to layoff s. The issue failed.

But Dillingham doesn’t think Issue 3 was the only reason. She thinks her criticism of the city and Mayor John Cranley played a role.

“I think some of these other Democrats used that as fuel,” Dillingham said.

“It’s no secret I’ve been a critic of Mayor John Cranley for years.”

Why did some not seek the endorsement?

The Democratic Party’s endorsements have come under criticism. A memo sent out by the Cincinnati Democratic Committee in February warned candidates to not seek the endorsement of other political parties, including the Charter Committee, a local party that has endorsed candidates from both major parties in the past.

Some candidates and politicos blasted the rule as drastic. At least one candidate, Stacey Smith, said it led to her decision to not seek the Democratic endorsement.

“I feel this move by the Democratic Party is too exclusive and partisan,” Smith tweeted in February, “So I will not be pursuing their endorsement, but wish luck to those who do.”

The Democratic slate endorsed in 2017 also has come under criticism.

Three of the nine endorsed candidates of the 2017 slate have been indicted: Tamaya Dennard, who pleaded guilty in a bribery case and began on June 1 an 18month prison sentence, Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, who was suspended from council after being federally indicted in a pay-to-play scheme; and Councilman Wendell Young, who was arrested on a felony tampering with records charge, accused of deleting text messages about city business. He remains on council after a recent eff ort to suspend him failed.

Who did the Dems endorse for school board?

The Cincinnati Democrats endorsed four people for Cincinnati Public Schools Board: h Mike Moroski h Mary Wineberg h Brandon Craig h Kareem Moncree- Moff ett

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19 Cincinnati-area gun shops had violations in 2015-17 Briah Lumpkins Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A now-closed Clermont County gun shop was a record-setter. A newly compiled database of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives inspections reveals that Arcade Antiques in Bethel had 23 violations between 2015 and 2017. The shop was one of a handful of establishments across America that lost licenses during that period.

USA TODAY and the Trace, a nonprofi t newsroom devoted to gun-related news in the U.S., built a database of nearly 2,000 ATF inspection reports from locations with violations.

Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders are required to account for any weapons or serialized components in their possession at all times and have to call the the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) for approval before selling or transferring a weapon or serialized part such as a lower receiver for a semiautomatic rifl e.

Calls to the NICS are required for each individual sale or transfer the FFL holder conducts.

The database includes 15 locations in Southwest Ohio, including the license of Russ Whitley, owner of Arcade Antiques. Whitley's license as a fi rearms dealer was revoked or denied for renewal in May 2017. Whitley could not be located for comment. Arcade Antiques is now closed. The Enquirer could not confi rm the exact date the establishment closed.

The 23 violations his store was accused of included the sale or transfer of a fi rearm to a prohibited person, failure to obtain separate licenses for multiple business locations, and knowingly making false entries in the acquisition and disposition record.

Out of the 144 inspections that were conducted in Ohio, 136 resulted in warning letters, six resulted in a warning conference and two resulted in revocation/ denial of renewal.

In Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky, 19 gun shop locations/dealers had inspections with violations between 2015 and 2017, according to the USA TODAY/Trace database. FILE PHOTO

In Southwest Ohio, there were 15 locations that had inspections with violations, according to the USA TODAY/ Trace database. They included: h GC Sporting Goods, a manufacturer in Blue Ash (12 violations). h Dino Costanzo, a dealer in Springfi eld Township (eight violations). h Robinson's Fine Gun, a dealer in Hamilton licensed to Howard Robinson

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(seven violations). h Lighthouse Gunsmiths LLC, a dealer in Fairfi eld (seven violations). h Lawrence E. Manns, a dealer in Monroe (six violations). h Hunter Den of Ohio, a dealer in Amelia licensed to Roy Lynn Eicher (six violations). h Gunsmoke Firearms, a dealer in Middletown licensed to Michael J. Mur-

phy (fi ve violations). h Treasure Grove Auctions, a dealer in Fairfi eld licensed to Richard A. Grove (four violations). h Jaeger Firearms and Accessories, a dealer in Harrison (four violations). h D Alan Firearms LLC, a dealer in Loveland (four violations). h Comrade Arms, a manufacturer in Sharonville (four violations). h Knighthawk Firearms LLC, a manufacturer in Hamilton (three violations). h Shootin' Shack, a dealer in Waynesville (two violations). h Onling Guns, a manufacturer in Loveland (two violations).

All received warning letters; none of their owners could be reached for comment. The Enquirer attempted to call each of those locations. Some numbers were out of order, some numbers were reassigned and people who answered at two locations refused to answer questions. Messages were left; none were returned. Not all are still open for business.

Their violations included: sale or transfer of a fi rearm to a prohibited person, failure by a dealer to properly maintain a record of the receipt and disposition of fi rearms and conducting business away from the licensed premises among other violations.

Out of the 62 inspections that were conducted in Kentucky, 53 resulted in warning letters and two resulted in a warning conference.

In Northern Kentucky, four locations had inspections with violations. They included: h Quick-cash Inc., a pawnbroker in Florence (eight violations). h Garland Enterprises, a pawnbroker in Walton (fi ve violations). h Shooters Supply and Sporting Goods, a dealer in Independence (four violations). h Peter Garrett Gunsmiths, a dealer in Newport (four violations).

All four received warning letters; none of the owners could be immediately reached for comment.

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Deborah Hayes once was a student nurse at Christ Hospital. Today, she’s the CEO.

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ast month, the Christ Hospital Health Network took the next logical step in its long relationship with Deborah Hayes. The board of directors put her in charge.

While Hayes, 58, is a pioneer at Christ Hospital, her groundbreaking resists simplistic labels. She is not the fi rst woman to lead the system. She’s not the region’s fi rst medical boss who is a Cincinnati native. But Hayes is the one chief executive offi cer who has worked more than three decades in the hospital she now leads.

As a Christ Hospital nurse, information technologist and operations boss, Hayes has poked into nearly every inch of the 132-year-old institution from its basement to its white tower at the peak of Mount Auburn to its sweeping balcony of the new Joint and Spine Center with its eye-popping vista of the Queen City. Since November, as interim CEO, she steered the facility and its nearly 7,500 workers through the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“There are a few people in my life who I would walk through fi re for, and Debbie is one,” said Julie Holt, Christ Hospital’s vice president and chief nursing offi cer. “Because she’d be right there leading the way through the fi re.”

Now with Christ Hospital in her hands, Hayes confronts the challenge facing every hospital leader: What happens next?

Her answer: We’re going to help you take care of yourself.

“From the time that I arrived here, this institution has embraced creativity, innovation and ideas,” she said in a May 25 interview at the hospital. “It’s always been about promoting people who take initiative. You put all that opportunity together, there’s no reason to go anywhere else.

“When I tell people that I work for the Christ Hospital Health Network, they say, ‘You do?’ Then almost immediately come the stories of the extraordinary care that someone got here, a parent, a spouse, a brother.”

‘She’s relentless and she’s tireless’ People who know Hayes describe a wellspring of positive thinking with a monster work ethic and an expert’s ease with a hospital’s folkways.

“Does working 24 hours a day count as a workaholic?” said Mike Keating, Christ’s CEO from 2012 to 2018.

“Debbie was known to be one of the last two out of the executive suite every day. She’s relentless, and she’s tireless, and I mean that respectfully.” Keating’s predecessor, Susan Croushore, was the fi rst woman CEO at Christ.

Said Holt, “Debbie has this uncanny way of taking a very diffi cult situation and seeing it as a challenge and fi nding the bright side, the silver lining. We laugh a lot about those kinds of things: ‘OK, here we go! We’re going to do it!’”

“Someone with a clinical background has a unique advantage over the rest of us who don’t,” said Craig Brammer, CEO of the nonprofi t Health Collaborative, the regional health care conference board. “The value in understanding the vernacular and culture, coming from that clinical culture, is something we’ve seen time and again.”

Hayes’ arrival in the corner offi ce puts two Cincinnati natives at the top of hospital systems. Mark Clement, CEO of TriHealth, was born at Good Samaritan Hospital. Hayes was born at the original Bethesda hospital in Avondale.

She grew up in Dillonvale and credited her path into health care to her parents. Ed, who still lives in the family home, retired as a foreman for the legal press the Cincinnati Court Index. Hayes bargained on her good grades with her dad to let her 9 p.m. bedtime slide on Wednesdays for the TV drama “Medical Center.”

Her mother, June, stayed home until her younger brother, Steve, went to school, then she got a job at the McDonald’s on Cornell Road. The fast-food chain hired mothers for lunch shifts so they could be home for children after school.

“She worked the line. She did everything,” Hayes said, and June worked at that McDonald’s until her 2014 death. The restaurant closed for the day of her funeral.

Hayes attended the elementary school at St. Saviour Catholic Church in Deer Park and Mount Notre Dame High School in Reading, where a science teacher pushed her. She made countless hospital corners on

Deborah Hayes is the new CEO of the Christ Hospital Health Network. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

countless beds as a candy striper and a care aide in nursing homes. She earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in biology at the University of Cincinnati.

Then, out on her own with bills to pay, she chose nursing school at Christ Hospital, which meant 24 straight months of classroom work. At the same time, she got a job at the hospital, “so I would change clothes after class and work from 3 to 11.”

“There are a few people in my life who I would walk through fi re for, and Debbie is one. Because she’d be right there leading the way through the fi re.”

Julie Holt

Christ Hospital’s vice president and chief nursing officer

She specialized in critical care nursing “because I’ve always been a scientist,” Hayes said. Her curiosity led her to seek out opportunities: clinical nurse manager, director of critical care, chief nursing offi cer, chief information offi cer, chief hospital offi cer and, from 2014 until November, chief operating offi cer.

She also earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Xavier University and a master’s degree in nursing and business informatics from Northern Kentucky University. She has a son, Peter, who graduated from law school at Rutgers University on May 28.

“My one wish for him,” Hayes said, “is that he fi nds a job that he loves.”

Present at a ‘big bang’ Keating said he saw what Hayes was made of when the former Health Alliance collaboration of Christ and other local hospitals fell apart. Christ Hospital had to establish a host of administrative functions from scratch. “Debbie took on the role of overseeing us standing up technology.”

“I could see that we were on the cusp of learning what technology could bring to health care,” Hayes said. Electronic medical records were the coming thing, and she put together Christ Hospital workers with the Epic Systems software builder for a year of planning. The entire enterprise was set to switch over June 1, 2008, because the hospital would likely be quiet. “Instead, we were full all weekend,” Hayes said, but at midnight, all interfaces went live without a bump, making Christ Hospital “the fi rst system in the country to go ‘big bang.’”

Christ Hospital has been building with bricks and mortar as well, with Hayes’s oversight for the $280 million expansion including the Joint and Spine Center in Mount Auburn, the Montgomery Outpatient Center and the Liberty Medical Center, not far from Hayes’ West Chester Township home.

Brammer remembered the night before the Liberty opening in January 2018, Hayes “had gone out for the

last-minute walkthrough and was aggravated that it was not suffi ciently clean, or there was a bed cover with a wrinkle, something like that, and she had the cleaning crew out there in full force. … That, to me, means there’s nothing that happens that she’s not aware of.”

When he was CEO, Keating often visited patients with hospital doctors, and often arrived to fi nd Hayes already at the bedside. “We’ve become known for the exceptional patient experience, and Debbie is the author of that,” Keating said. “She really shaped that culture.”

“It’s inspiring to nurses and really clinicians in general,” said Holt. “We have someone who is in the offi ce who actually knows what happens at the bedside, woo hoo!”

Holding well-stocked skill sets In October, Keating’s successor as CEO, Arturo Polizzi, returned to Toledo just as public health offi cials were sounding air-raid alarms about the fi rst winter with COVID-19. The Christ Hospital board of directors made Hayes interim CEO in November. “We didn’t miss a beat,” Holt said. “She was there, she stepped up, and we just pushed forward and got through it.”

As the Cincinnati area, the state and nation come through the pandemic, hospitals are assessing how to proceed. The constant stress of 15 months hammered the workforce. Reluctant patients still defer medical care. Medical fi nancing has long needed an overhaul, but it’s not clear how that would happen yet.

“Being a hospital CEO is harder right now than it has ever been in the history of hospitals,” Brammer said. “If I were to be asked about some of the requisite skill sets, I think Debbie has those.”

Hard as Hayes works, she maintains outlets. She plays tennis and more recently pickleball. Since 1989, she’s held end-zone season tickets to the Cincinnati Bengals. She served on boards and committees of the American Heart Association, ArtsWave, LifeCenter, Matthew 25 Ministries. In 2018, she was named YWCA Career Women of the Year.

On a recent Tuesday, Hayes arrived at Christ Hospital at 6:15 a.m. and left after 6 p.m. The pace suits her, she said, because the future isn’t slowing down. Accelerating technology will be a critical factor in health care, better connecting patients and providers on a common goal.

“As hard as it was, the pandemic, COVID-19 is just another disease process,” Hayes said. “What is it teaching us? Because something like this will happen again.

So how can we help the community better next time?

How do we help the community prevent disease and help them deal with the disease in the most eff ective manner? We want to help them live a healthier life.”

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Extension Staff Assistant for Kenton County RE27980 Deadline: 6/15/21 Apply online at: http://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/332674 For assistance call 859.356.3155 Before being named interim CEO in November of 2020, Deborah Hayes was the chief operating officer. She joined Christ Hospital in 1987 as a student nurse.

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Cincinnati executive in nationwide college admissions scam gets prison sentence paying Singer $500,000 to get their two daughters accepted into the University of Southern California as fake crew recruits.

Huff man, who prosecutors said paid $15,000 to have someone correct her daughter’s test score, was sentenced to 14 days in prison.

Kevin Grasha and Sharon Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The founder of a Cincinnati-area private equity fi rm who was among more than 50 people charged in a nationwide college admissions scandal that also involved Hollywood celebrities was sentenced May 27 to two months in prison.

Mark Hauser, 60, who has a home in Indian Hill but also lives and works in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty last year to federal fraud charges. He is the founder of Hauser Private Equity, which has offi ces in the Cincinnati area, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Until recently, he ran that fi rm as well as an insurance company, court documents say.

Hauser paid the mastermind of the admissions scheme, William “Rick” Singer, $40,000 to improve his daughter's ACT test score. The money was disguised as a business consulting fee paid

by Hauser’s insurance company to Singer’s company, the Edge College & Career Network.

Prosecutors said in court documents that the off ense “was born not of desperation but of privilege.” Hauser corrupted a system, prosecutors said, that already is “greatly skewed in favor of his children.”

Also, according to prosecutors, Singer allowed Hauser to pay $35,000 less than initially agreed upon because Hauser introduced Singer to other clients, including Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer who is actor Lori Loughlin’s husband.

Hauser, in a letter to the federal judge overseeing the case, apologized and said he accepted “complete responsibility” for his actions.

“My actions were inexcusable, and I deeply regret my involvement,” he wrote.

The case is in U.S. District Court in Boston. As part of his sentence, Hauser was ordered to pay a $250,000 fi ne and perform 300 hours of community service. He will self-report to a federal pris-

“My actions were inexcusable, and I deeply regret my involvement.”

Mark Hauser Indian Hill

In this photo from 2006, Margie and Mark Hauser of Indian Hill prepare to host President Bush at their home during a fundraiser. CRAIG RUTTLE/THE ENQUIRER

on in August.

In 2016, Hauser was able to move his daughter’s ACT exam from her high school in Los Angeles to a testing center at a school in Houston, Texas that Singer controlled. As part of the scheme, according to court documents, Hauser’s wife, Margie, lied to their daughter's high school, saying there were confl icts with a summer camp counseling job and that a school in Cincinnati would “accommodate her.”

But the scheme involved a test administrator who worked at a public school in Houston. Prosecutors say the test administrator, Niki Williams, allowed another man involved in the scheme, Mark Riddell, to supervise the exam. Williams was paid between $5,000 and $10,000 in cash, court documents say.

Riddell corrected answers on the test so that Hauser’s daughter scored in the top 5%, according to prosecutors. She had no knowledge of the plan, according

to Hauser’s attorney. Riddell was paid $10,000.

Prosecutors revealed in documents fi led in advance of Hauser’s sentencing that he went along with a cover story regarding the payment – that it had been a donation to Singer’s alleged sham charity.

In a 2018 phone call made at the direction of law enforcement, Singer said: “I want to make sure that you and I are on the same page…that our stories are together.”

Hauser replied: “Like I said…of course…That’s what it was…I want to help you help the kids,” according to court documents.

Among those charged in what was called “Operation Varsity Blues” were more than 30 parents, including Loughlin and Giannulli as well as actor Felicity Huff man. All three pleaded guilty.

Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison and Giannulli was sentenced to fi ve months. They were accused of

How a Boehner-backed suburban Cincinnatian went from cop to Ohio’s high court Jason Williams and Sharon Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Sharon Kennedy may have a great political last name, but the Republican Ohio Supreme Court justice grew up in a working-class home in Colerain Township.

Kennedy has often refl ected on those humble beginnings as she’s ascended from police offi cer to local judge to the state’s high court. She is mindful to credit mentors along the way for helping her to overcome doubts about being able to make it in politics since she’s not from a wealthy, well-known family.

Among those mentors: fellow Butler County resident and former Speaker of the House John Boehner – himself having come from a working-class home in Reading.

Kennedy, a one-time Hamilton police offi cer, could be heading for a GOP primary clash next spring against perhaps the biggest name in Ohio politics – DeWine. She has been preparing to run for chief justice in 2022, a race that fellow supreme court justice Pat DeWine also is considering. He is the son of Gov. Mike DeWine.

No candidates have declared for the race, but insiders call it the biggest Ohio political story that no one’s talking about.

In a wide ranging interview to discuss her life and career with The Enquirer’s “That’s So Cincinnati” podcast, Kennedy declined to specifi cally address a possible head-to-head battle against Pat DeWine. But Kennedy is aggressively trying to position herself to succeed Maureen O’Connor, who can’t run again because of age restrictions.

“Right now I am making my case across Ohio, giving speeches, talking to state central committee members, chairmen who run the local county parties,” said Kennedy, elected to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2012. “So in all honesty, yes, I am asking for their support to be the endorsed candidate to run for chief justice in 2022.”

That’s far from Kennedy’s original career plan.

She grew up dreaming of being a police offi cer and spent the fi rst four years of her career as a cop for the city of Hamilton. But a brief conversation that Ken-

Republican Ohio Supreme Court justice Sharon Kennedy grew up in a workingclass home in Colerain Township.

A one-time Hamilton police officer, Kennedy could be heading for a GOP primary clash next spring against fellow supreme court justice Pat DeWine with a run for chief justice in 2022.

nedy had with a teacher during her senior year at Northwest High School resonated years later.

From “That’s So Cincinnati:” “When I was 10, all I wanted to do was be a police offi cer. I credit television for this. I was getting off the big yellow school bus, running into the house, grabbing my afternoon snack and I was watching (‘Adam-12,’ a 1960s and 1970s TV drama series about two Los Angeles police offi cers).

“Yes, they responded to criminal complaints, but they settled neighborhood disputes. They got a kitten out of the tree. They helped a little old lady. And all of that to me, just really spoke to my heart of service. That was all I wanted to do.”

Sharon Kennedy

Speaking on how the TV series ‘Adam-12’ inspired her to be a police officer

“I really believe it was that moment and those police dramas that drove me into wanting to be a police offi cer. What I really saw is a noble and honorable profession, people who dedicate their life to helping others and their community, answering calls for service. They didn’t win every day. They didn’t catch the criminal every day, but they did a wide variety of activities. Yes, they responded to those criminal complaints, but they settled neighborhood disputes. They got a kitten out of the tree. They helped a little old lady. And all of that to me, just really spoke to my heart of service. That was all I wanted to do.

“But it was Mr. Schiering in my high school. I tell students everywhere across Ohio, it was a 5-minute throwaway conversation perhaps for him, but it was something that stuck with me my entire life. I had taken his general law class and he stopped me in the hallway as I was getting ready to leave. He said, ‘Sharon, I

Hauser is a graduate of St. Xavier High School and Miami University. He has been active in the Cincinnati investing and insurance industry for more than 30 years.

His attorney, Mark Beck, said in court documents that Hauser started a blacktopping company as a teenager, later bought a small insurance company from his father and grew it into a national entity, the Hauser Group, and built the private equity fi rm.

Beck didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.

In recent months, Hauser has reached out to Cincinnati State’s president to fi nd out how he could work with students there as part of required community service.

Beck described Hauser as a loving husband and father of four children.

Beck said Hauser’s daughter had medical challenges that aff ected her academics. He said Hauser was preyed upon by Singer, calling him a “malevolent and opportunistic con-man.”

“The off ense conduct occurred in the context of a parent’s agony over his child’s challenges,” Beck said. “Although Mr. Hauser is not a victim, it is equally fair to say that he was preyed upon by Mr. Singer.”

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You could do this.’

“I can remember at 17 laughing at Mr. Schiering and said, ‘That’s not really possible for someone like me.’ I saw socioeconomic barriers with my parents really being that line of where that ceiling against rising. Even though my parents said, ‘Decide. Commit. Work hard. Have fortitude. That’s how you achieve your dream.’ I really thought there were some other barriers out there. And as I went off to college, I was the fi rst to go to college in my family. My parents grew up poor in the Great Depression. So we were of very modest means.

“I just thought to be a lawyer or judge you would have to be wealthy, elitist. You would be the son or daughter of a doctor or a dentist. But law enforcement became the great equalizer. Because after graduating the University of Cincinnati with a school of social work degree and then engaging in law enforcement, it’s when I really met a lawyer and a judge. There were some exactly what I thought at 17.

They were wealthy. They were elitist.

They were the sons and daughters of doctors and dentists and lawyers themselves. But there were a lot of kids that had made it, even becoming judges that grew up just like me – parents grew up very poor in the Great Depression. They found a pathway out.”

Kennedy went on to UC law school and worked as a Butler County judge. One of her mentors in the Butler County courthouse, long-time judge Matthew Crehan, encouraged her to get involved in politics and consider going for the Ohio Supreme Court someday. Kennedy joined the local Young Republican Club, where she met then-Speaker Boehner and his team.

“It was that relationship with ‘Boehnerland’, what we aff ectionately call it, and volunteering at all of those (Boehner and GOP) events that really gave me what I say are the chops to run for political offi ce. (Boehner and his team) have helped me all along my journey.”

How did Kennedy ultimately make the transition from police offi cer to lawyer and judge? What role has Boehner played in her political career?

Find out more by listening to Kennedy’s full interview on “That’s So Cincinnati,” which is available for free on Cincinnati.com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most other major listening platforms.

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Berry mixture after cooking – red and translucent. PHOTOS BY RITA HEIKENFELD FOR THE ENQUIRER

Rita’s Kitchen Rita Heikenfeld Guest columnist

Talk about a gift without ribbons. My neighbor across the road, Erin Phillips, invited me to pick strawberries from her berry garden.

I could hardly cross the road fast enough.

Now I have strawberries, too, but they’re planted in 2 big pots near the kitchen door for the little ones to pluck as they walk by, and I never get enough at one time to do much with.

My granddaughter Eva helped me pick strawberries, enough for jams and a pie.

Yesterday was jam making day with my family, and today was pie day.

Now, I’ve shared a couple or more good strawberry pie recipes with you through this column.

So today I wanted to mix things up a bit. I fi ddled around with several recipes to come up with the one I’m sharing today.

All of the recipes called for cornstarch. Some called for lemon. Several included strawberry jam. Bingo. I sure have plenty of that.

And I have to say, this strawberry pie recipe has everything going for it: easy to make, beautiful to look at, and a 2 thumbs up in the taste department.

After sitting in the refrigerator several hours, I was able to slice the pie into nice wedge shaped pieces.

Sensational strawberry pie Seasonal, ripe juicy strawberries are stars here.

pounds), hulled and cut in halves or fourths

You basically cook strawberries with sugar, cornstarch and lemon juice to a jammy consistency, then stir in strawberry jam, though jam is optional. But I think it adds to the thickening power and flavor element of the pie. After that cools, mix it with more strawberries. That’s it.

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Put 2 1⁄ 2 cups berries in a pan and smoosh down with a potato masher until berries are crushed. Stir in sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice.

Whatever suits your fancy - 8-9” plain pie crust, graham cracker, cookie crust.

Crust should be baked and cooled before fi lling. Can be done a day or so ahead.

Ingredients fi lling 6-7 cups strawberries (about 2

It starts out looking opaque and pinkish, then when done it turns bright red and translucent.

⁄ 2 cup sugar

Stir in jam if using. Add remaining strawberries.

⁄ 4 cup cornstarch

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3 tablespoons lemon juice

Cool a bit and pour into prepared crust.

2 tablespoons or so strawberry jam (optional but good)

Put in refrigerator to set up, several hours or more.

Instructions fi lling

Cook over low heat, stirring constantly so mixture doesn’t burn, until cooked and very thick. You may have to add a bit of water (a tablespoon or so) if it gets too thick to stir. This depends on the juiciness of the berries. It cooks in just a few minutes.

To serve With sweetened whipped cream, of course.

Just beat 2 cups whipping cream with 1 teaspoon vanilla and 4-5 tablespoons confectioners sugar until it’s stiff.

I like to make swirls on pie around edges to decorate it, then pass rest of whipped cream so everyone can add more to their piece.

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SUMMERTIME SHORTAGES:

Why you can’t fi nd chicken wings, chlorine, or a new washer this summer Alexander Coolidge Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Summertime is perfect for bike rides, cookouts, home improvements and relaxing by the pool.

But a COVID-19 hangover from 2020 is threatening many of those traditions as shop owners struggle with shortages and higher prices created by snarled supply chains.

Last year, manufacturers stopped producing in-demand items in healthrelated shutdown. Now, many are having trouble returning to full production because of a nationwide labor shortage.

In some cases, there’s no shortage of product – but it’s not available because it’s stuck on a ship in the Port of Los Angeles, where there aren’t enough laborers to unload boats.

On top of those challenges, the supply of popular items has been aff ected by some additional calamity just as demand has taken off .

And after being stuck at home in 2020, consumer demand is ravenous – and fueled by unspent vacation money and government stimulus dollars.

Here are some major items seeing price increases, shortages and delays in 2021:

Chicken wings and other meat products Food prices are spiking across the country and meat products are some of the hardest hit, including chicken wings.

“We’re having a problem getting them – I’m shorted all the time,” said Jason Esterkamp, co-owner of O’Bryan’s Bar & Grill in Cincinnati’s O’Bryonville business district, adding his chicken wing prices have more than doubled since last year.

The pub owner said he’d be tempted to take them off his menu if they weren’t a signature dish.

“It would be like going to Graeter’s to get a piece of cake,” Esterkamp said, referring to the iconic Cincinnati-based ice cream chain.

He’s got plenty of company.

Restaurateurs face a triple-whammy on meat costs: there’s plenty of chicken for meat, but processing plants are short-staff ed and can’t keep up with demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also hurting the supply: the deep freeze that hit Texas early this year killed a lot of livestock. Lastly, chicken wings’ popularity has invited a raft of added competition even by restaurants that typically didn’t off er them.

“The prices are the highest I’ve seen in 15 years,” said Nader Masadeh, chief executive of suburban Cincinnati-based regional chain Buff alo Wings & Rings.

“It’s a big problem – every week, we thought we’d seen the ceiling, but then it would go up.”

Masadeh said the chain with a dozen local restaurants and dozens more in the Midwest, Texas, Florida and internationally, is currently eating the added costs. That might change if costs remain high and larger competitors increase the price of their menu.

The bottleneck at processing plants is also aff ecting prices and availability for

Wood prices have soared 300% since last year, according to trade group the National Association of Home Builders. That’s enough to add almost $36,000 to the average cost of construction of a new home. DAVE GRANLUND

some pork products.

Dan Glier, president of Glier’s Goetta in Covington, Kentucky, said pork chops aren’t in short supply, but a lot of meat byproducts used for sausage-making aren’t getting the same production priority. Meat processing companies are short-handed and have cut back some operations.

The shortfall has forced Glier to hustle to fi nd needed supplies to maintain his usual production of goetta, a Cincinnati staple made of sausage with oats.

“We’ve run into things like suppliers sending half a truckload,” Glier said.

Chlorine shortage stings Pool owners getting ready to plunge into the water this summer are learning there’s a nationwide shortage of chlorine in 2021.

That’s after the pandemic prompted American consumers to install nearly 100,000 new swimming pools last year – a 24% increase in construction activity that shattered a nearly 40-year-old growth record for the industry, according to Alexandria, Virginia-based trade group the Pool and Hot Tub Alliance.

While there are more consumers looking for the chemical to keep pools clear there’s another major complication: one of the nation’s big producers, Bio-Lab, saw its production capabilities hobbled last summer by a major fi re in Louisiana.

“The last skid I got was gone in eight hours,” said Mark Hauser, owner of Riley’s Pools & Spas in the Cincinnati suburb of Green Township. His suppliers have resorted to rationing clients to

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2020 levels. “I’ve sold 90% of what I’m allowed.”

Hauser said his suppliers know he needs more chlorine tablets sold in 25pound buckets. When they become available, his supplier calls saying it’s available - but it’s been a couple of weeks since the last one.

“The Bio-Lab factory burnt to the ground – it simply went ‘Bye-bye,’ “ Hauser said, adding the shortage has shifted some customers toward switching to salt-water pools.

Lumber demand and costs soar Local builders say America is nesting, spending money on their homes after spending much of 2020 inside with their families.

“We had no idea what we were getting into last year (headed into the pandemic) and it just exploded on us,” said Tom Allison, project manager at Blackrock Construction in Cincinnati’s Over-TheRhine neighborhood. “People said the building boom was spurred by restless residents stuck in their houses. ‘If we’re going to be stuck at home, we might as well enjoy it.’”

Wood prices have soared 300% since last year, according to trade group the National Association of Home Builders.

That’s enough to add almost $36,000 to the average cost of construction of a new home.

Allison, who focuses on kitchen and bathroom remodels and home additions, said the strong demand has driven wood costs sky-high. On top of that, a labor shortage constantly threatens delays in the industry.

Freezers, washers and appliances on back order

Megan Ausdenmoore pushes a bike from the back of the store to the front, Thursday, May 21, 2020, at Jim's Bicycle Shop in Deer Park, Ohio. There has been a surge in bicycle sales since the beginning of the new coronavirus pandemic.

Since many are manufactured overseas, incoming store inventory was fi rst snarled by pandemic conditions – then labor shortages at international ports.

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That nesting urge by homeowners with stimulus money burning a hole in their pockets is also blamed for a shortage of household appliances. But other factors have come into play.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many consumers hoarded food loading their pantries. But they also bought chest freezers to store other perishables.

“Early on, it was a running joke that if we’d ordered more freezers ahead of time we could have retired with all the money,” said Kevin David, owner of the Appliance Loft in Cincinnati’s Oakley neighborhood. He had one day where his

store got 17 calls about freezers and has had as many as 40 on backorder.

After that came weeks of families stuck at home with loads and loads of laundry. Washers and driers were the next appliances to take off in sales.

Demand spread to just about every kind of appliance there was as people sought upgrades to their homes. Then the supply chain started having big problems.

Shutdowns and quarantines during the pandemic not only aff ected retail stores but factories and shipping ports.

With many appliances and other goods imported from China, shiploads have been caught in the snarled traffi c in the Port of Los Angeles and other ports that don’t have enough labor to unload all the in-demand cargo. That’s frustrated a lot of customers anxiously awaiting delivery.

“People seem to think we are making these products in the backroom – that’s not the case,” David said.

While many customers can manage through the delays by ordering ahead, those dealing with a sudden breakdown are getting pinched badly.

“It’s your ‘My washing machine just died’ customer who’s really getting hurt by this,” David said.

New bicycles remain a rarity Consumers looking for more exercise and a fun way to commute will fi nd it diffi cult to buy a new bicycle.

Since many are manufactured overseas, incoming store inventory was fi rst snarled by pandemic conditions – then labor shortages at international ports.

“The demand is there but the product is not. I haven’t gotten a new bike since last March,” said Ron Keilholz, owner of Bicycles & More in suburban Green Township, outside Cincinnati. “Ninetyfi ve percent of our stuff comes from China and it’s not getting unloaded from the cargo ships. It’s not getting to our suppliers.”

Normally, this time of the year, his shop would have more than 100 bicycles in stock. Right now, there are fi ve – three older ones that his shop repaired and two new ones, including one built for a rider about 6-foot-6 in height.

A lack of new bikes has boosted demand for repair services the shop does, he said. But he added they’re starting to have problems getting news parts too.

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The Indiana Jones of cicadas lives in Cincinnati, and it’s crunch time Keith BieryGolick Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Gene Kritsky had food poisoning.

In 2004, he went to a cicada-themed happy hour at a TGI Fridays that has since been torn down. The next morning, a photographer drove from Chicago to take his picture for People magazine. The photographer off ered to cancel, but this was People. And for a professor at a small college on Cincinnati’s west side, the publicity was priceless.

Kritsky, who was 50 at the time, spent eight hours with the photographer that day. By then, cicadas had already emerged from the ground, climbing out of tunnels where they had lived for 17 years. Kritsky remembers the photographer catching bags of bugs and dumping them on him.

Between shots, Kritsky would walk into the woods and throw up.

In the end, the magazine used one picture. Kritsky was standing in the grass, hands folded across his stomach like he was holding a baby. He wore a brown safari hat with a khaki shirt that had two chest pockets. In the photo, around 100 cicadas crawled up his shirt.

Some crawled on his hat. Some crawled on his neck, through a beard that had started to gray.

In the magazine, the headline splashed across the page in bold letters: “Big Bug Man.” And in the picture, Kritsky was smiling. …

In Green Township, one woman is wearing a cicada T-shirt. Another takes pictures. Others gasp.

“They’re back!” the screen says.

Gene Kritsky holds a microphone close to his computer. He wants the crowd to hear it. It’s a love song, he says, except with lawnmower buzzes replacing guitars. It’s the song of the cicada – their mating call, their 17-year itch. Kritsky, 67 now, pulls the microphone away from the computer and mimics the call himself. He treasures that sound. He drives around listening for it in a car with a specialty cicada license plate.

Kritsky has been called the Indiana Jones of cicadas, and he takes a safari hat with him almost everywhere he goes.

But what drives someone to devote their life to an insect most people hate?

When Kritsky came to Mount St. Joseph in 1983, there was no biology major.

Now, it’s the biggest department at the school.

Cicadas helped him build it.

In 1991, The Enquirer described cicadas as “horsefl ies on steroids” and a “gawd-awful looking thing with a black body, red eyes and hairy legs.” The periodical insects, which are members of the same family as bed bugs, live underground and only emerge once every 17 years or, depending on the type of cicada, once every 13 years.

Here’s the good news: They don’t sting, don’t bite and can actually help your lawn.

Yet some people fear them, and they’re often mistaken for locusts. In parts of Cincinnati, roads can become slick with cicada carcasses. And when they die, because of the sheer number of them, it stinks. But in other cultures, cicadas are an almost holy symbol sometimes used at funerals. In the 1700s, people believed cicadas could predict war.

Their genus, or generic scientifi c name, is magicicada.

In short: They are weird, and they are wonderful. At least to Kritsky, a dean at Mount St. Joseph University, who jokes the insects got him tenure.

“Anybody who deals with cicadas eventually meets up with Gene,” said Dan Mozgai, a 52-year-old online marketer in New Jersey who started a cicada website after a wedding in the ’90s.

At that wedding, where children collected the bugs in buckets, bagpipes were the only thing that could cut through the cacophony of cicadas, he said. Years later, after becoming fascinated with the animals, Mozgai remembers watching cicadas crawl out of the ground in a cemetery at night. Kritsky was there, walking around and explaining to those gathered with fl ashlights what was happening. The man couldn’t help himself.

“Maybe he doesn’t inspire you to love cicadas,” Mozgai said. “But maybe he can

Gene Kritsky, dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University, stands with a case of preserved cicadas in his office. Kritsky has a collection of thousands of samples, dating back decades. SAM GREENE/ THE ENQUIRER

help you fi nd your own passion.”

On this morning in April, about a month before billions of cicadas will fl y around Cincinnati and several other states on the east coast, Kritsky is speaking to a garden club at the Western Hills Country Club. Even for a formal presentation, he wears a tan jacket, and his mustache curls up beneath his circularrimmed glasses.

“I’m a big fan of cicadas,” says Sue Ann Vogt, the garden club member who booked Kritsky. “Some of the other ladies are not.”

During the presentation, Kritsky shows pictures of a cicada wriggling out of its shell on a tree. It looks like alien yoga. The cicada is creamy white, except for piercing red eyes. Its exoskeleton is soft at fi rst, but will harden and darken over the next few hours. That hard skin is why dogs can sometimes get sick if they eat too many.

Kritsky fl ips to a picture of two cicadas mating, wings overlapping and facing away from each other. He tells the garden club that female cicadas have a serrated metal rod inside a slit in their abdomen. They use this to burrow into trees and deposit their eggs.

“Oh my God,” someone says.

In the back of the room, lunch is being prepared.

“Isn’t it great?” Kritsky says.

For a few weeks in May and June, the insects sing, have sex and die. But before they die, each female cicada will lay an average of 500 eggs. This is how they survive. By overwhelming their predators – and some of us.

In Cincinnati, there is a Facebook support group to help those dreading the noisy phenomenon. At the country club, Kritsky tells the women they are all cicada scouts now, and he asks them to help document where the insects emerge.

“We don’t know when the pandemic will end,” Kritsky says. “But we know the cicadas are coming in May.” …

About a month before the cicadas show themselves, Kritsky interrupts a campus tour near his offi ce. He does this whenever he sees one. Kritsky wasn’t always a people person – as editor of the insect journal American Entomologist, he only wanted pictures of bugs on the cover.

Now, he can talk to anybody.

“My life is all about cicadas right now,” he tells the prospective students. “But that’s beside the point.”

One student is wearing a Batavia High School sweatshirt. Kritsky asks if she plays any sports, and they talk about softball. Then, he tells her about a species of cicadas in Clermont County. It doesn’t seem like she knows what he’s talking about.

“He’s got dinosaurs on his mask,” her mom whispers.

When Kritsky came to Mount St. Joseph in 1983, there was no biology major.

Kritsky captures a photograph of a cicada at his Delhi Township home.

THANKS TO GENE KIRTSKY

Now, it’s the biggest department at the school. Cicadas helped him build it.

After the People magazine article, Kritsky says the school had its largest freshman class ever. Now, the insect scientist responds to about 80 emails a day, and that number will likely increase in the next few weeks. In 2004, the last time this type of cicada brood emerged, the professor documented 736 media contacts.

If Kritsky hates these interviews, you can’t tell by talking to him.

When he was a kid, born during a cicada year, Kritsky and his dad attended a Margaret Mead speech. A famous anthropologist, Mead was the kind of scientist who appeared on “The Tonight Show” and advocated for women’s rights. Kritsky asked for advice about school, and she gave him some. Then, she told him to learn how to take pictures of his work.

Share them with the public, she told him.

And so when cicadas fi nally emerge later this month, Kritsky will go behind his house with a fl ashlight, tripod and camera. He’ll probably take a glass of scotch, too, and sit for hours.

Because this is a time to savor. This is a time to remember where you are, and where you were.

In 2004, during the last large emergence, Kritsky was only a few years into his second marriage. This year, he’ll celebrate his 20th anniversary with a woman who sells insect jewelry. Seventeen

years ago, he never thought he would still be at Mount St. Joseph. Now, he’s the longest-serving faculty member.

At the college campus in Delhi Township, Kritsky and I sit close to where there will eventually be a cicada mural. A group of his colleagues walks by.

“There he is,” a woman shouts.

“There’s the superstar.”

Kritsky was telling me about his time in England examining Charles Darwin’s personal collection of bugs and notes. He said Darwin’s handwriting was so terrible it gave him a headache by 1 p.m. every day. For a break, Kritsky researched Egyptian beekeeping.

He told me about books he wants to write. And he told me about his favorite dinosaur, a stegosaurus. He told me his dad was an insurance adjuster who would often take him to farms in North Dakota for work. Afterward, they’d go fossil hunting.

Clearly, we had moved beyond the cicada portion of our conversation. In fact, we spent a lot of time not talking about cicadas.

“This is what you’ve been waiting for, right?” his colleague shouts.

“I have,” Kritsky almost sighs.

It’s not the eager response I’ve seen him give to reporters or garden clubs or students. Indiff erent would be the best way to describe it. It’s a reminder that this is work for him, no matter how enthusiastic his demeanor. This is his job.

And like any job, even the best jobs, there are parts that grate.

Watching his response, I think back to the fi rst email he sent me.

“I would welcome some new questions,” he said. …

Since the last cicada emergence of this kind, LeBron James left Cleveland, came back and then left again. There have been four diff erent U.S. presidents and three diff erent actors who played Spider-Man. Kritsky used to have a dedicated hotline to report cicada sightings. This year, he has an app. A month ago, he did a virtual interview with a local television station. His Zoom background featured a cicada.

The world has changed a lot since 2004, and cicadas refl ect this – sometimes coming up early in small numbers, experts believe, because of global warming and deforestation. But if you’ve been reading closely, you know by now this is a story about the passage of time as much as it is about cicadas. Because while so much of our world can feel uncertain, cicadas seem inevitable.

In this way, these red-eyed insects are a reminder to embrace life. Don’t be afraid, be passionate. They will be gone in a few weeks. And when these cicadas emerge again in Cincinnati, the year will be 2038.

Kritsky will be 84. He often wonders if he’ll ever hear them sing again.

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SPORTS St. Xavier lacrosse falls to Upper Arlington in state semifi nals Shelby Dermer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

BELLBROOK — When St. Xavier lacrosse met Upper Arlington in the Division I state semifi nals June 1 at Bellbrook High School, the fi rst Golden Bear shot of the evening narrowly missed, colliding off the far post and ricocheting out of play.

It seemed like an early positive omen for the Region 4-champion Bombers. Instead, a fi erce Upper Arlington off ense continued to attack the goal, scoring three times in the opening period to take a lead they would not relinquish for the

remainder of the night en route to an 11-7 win.

St. Xavier fi nishes the year at 10-11 but had a murderers’ row of opponents on the docket this season, something that helped carry them to a third consecutive state Final Four. The Bombers upset Moeller and Springboro (two opponents they lost to in the regular season) to win Ohio’s Fourth Region.

“No one probably expected us to be here a month ago,” St. Xavier head coach Nate Sprong said. “I’m proud of them for continuing to battle and sticking with it.

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Marco Landolfi , left, of Upper Arlington battles Miles Blenman of Cincinnati St. Xavier during the Golden Bears' Division I state semifi nal win on Tuesday.

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Cincinnati gets some top honors in boys volleyball all-state teams Alex Harrison Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Ohio Boys Scholastic Volleyball Coaches Association recently released its All-State teams, including a Cincinnati sweep for Coach of the Year and Player of the Year honors in Division II.

Division I

Milford High School’s Kelsey Seitz fi res to second base attempting to throw out a Walnut Hills High School runner April 21 last year. MARK D. MOTZ FOR THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Former area prep softball standouts making an impact for college teams Shelby Dermer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – May 22 (updated May 24).

This spring brought the long-awaited return of high school softball in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. It also let college athletes return to the fi eld after playing just a handful of contests the previous season due to the pandemic.

Across several college rosters in and around Ohio, there are former local softball standouts making an impact.

Here’s a rundown of some.

(Did we miss one college player with local ties? Email Shelby Dermer at sdermer@enquirer.com) Kelsey Seitz, Travecca Nazerene Seitz helped lead her club to the regionals this spring, hitting .277 in 29 games with a .329 on-base percentage.

Before going to Nashville, Seitz was lighting up Eastern Cincinnati Conference pitching. She was a four-time fi rstteam ECC selection, fi nishing with a prep batting average of .504 with 141 RBI and 170 hits.

Arianna Layne, Wilmington College As a freshman, Layne led the Quakers in batting average (.357), hits (45), doubles (7), homers (8) and RBI (25) in her fi rst season of softball since she was a junior at Middletown.

With the Middies in 2019, Layne hit .568 with 19 extra-base hits and 15 RBI and was named fi rst-team Greater Miami Conference.

Emily Young sprints to fi rst base on a hit for Ursuline against Mercy on April 28, 2017. ADAM BAUM/THE ENQUIRER

Alecia Kemp, Wilmington College The senior hit .315 with 35 hits, fi ve doubles and 15 knocked in for the Quakers this spring. Wilmington fi nished 1624.

Kemp is a Little Miami alum, where she was two-time Southwest Ohio Conference fi rst-team selection. In 2016, she hit .423 with the Panthers with 10 doubles and 18 RBI. Alehia Tucker, Mount St. Joseph’s Tucker, a senior shortstop, led Mount St. Joseph’s in virtually every off ensive category, including average (.439), runs scored (42), hits (58), doubles (18), tri-

ples (4), home runs (7), RBI (30) and stolen bases (28).

Prior to college, Tucker was a threetime fi rst-team Division I selection from the Northern Kentucky Softball Coaches Association while attending Holy Cross.

Rachel Gabbard, Mount St. Joseph’s Gabbard helped Mount St. Joseph’s to an HCAC championship this spring and a 30-9 record so far. Gabbard, a sophomore infi elder, was second on the club to Tucker in average (.409) and hits (38). She also had nine doubles, a pair of homers and knocked in 20.

Gabbard hit .506 for Highlands in 2019 with 41 hits and 39 RBI, helping lead the Bluebirds to a 36th District title.

Casey Bramble, Mount St. Joseph’s A sophomore outfi elder, Bramble hit .382 with nine extra-base knocks and 13 RBI. Bramble recently played at Lakota West, where she was a two-time second-team GMC selection. In 2018 as a junior, she hit a career-high .349 with 20 RBI, helping lead the Firebirds to a state championship game appearance.

In 2019, she hit .346 and led Lakota West to a regional championship appearance.

Elle Buff enbarger, Youngstown State University The senior pitcher was lethal in the circle this season, fi nishing 20-4 with a 2.16 ERA, fi ve shutouts and 212 See SOFTBALL, Page 2B

Player of the Year: Jonah Gilbert, Hilliard Bradley Coach of the Year: Brian Lawless, Thomas Worthington First team Jonah Gilbert, Hilliard Bradley; JJ Beckelhimer, Moeller; Ethan Stuart, Centerville; Henry Kastner, St. Xavier; Sam Etter, Massillon Jackson; Drew Maune, Elder; Cole Young, Olentangy Liberty.

Second team Tyler Nutting, Dublin Jerome; Ben Carmosino, St. Xavier; Sam Little, Beavercreek; Owen Vogelpohl, Walnut Hills; Luke Little, Olentangy Orange; Mitchell Adkins, Hudson; Logan Burrell, Gahanna Lincoln.

Honorable mention Matthew Reinhold, Moeller; Mitch Kaplan, Kettering Fairmont; Josh Culpper, Beavercreek; Dominic Smith; Northmont; Carson Junker, Massillon Jackson; Ben Albers, Elder; McCord Riegler, Gahanna Lincoln; Hondo Gray, New Albany; Brendon Buis, Fairfi eld; James Thoma, St. Ignatius; Grant Hubbard, Lakota East; Andrew Pugh, Olentangy Liberty; Jack Carroll, Moeller; Caleb Lipscomb, Walnut Hills.

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Moeller’s JJ Beckelhimer is on the Division I First Team.

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strikeouts in 158 2⁄ 3 innings. She helped lead Youngstown State to a 36-15 record and a trip to the Horizon League Championship.

In two seasons at Mason High School, Buff enbarger went a combined 45-7 with a 1.13 ERA and 449 strikeouts.

She was the GMC athlete of the year in 2017 and the year prior led the Comets to a regional title and a state Final Four berth.

Andrea Gahan, Thomas More University Gahan, a senior corner infi elder, led the Saints in batting average (.362), hits (51), doubles (15), home runs (6) and RBI (35).

At Oak Hills, Gahan was a two-time fi rst-team GMC member. As a senior in 2016, she hit .489 with a conferencebest seven homers and 35 RBI. Hailey McAdoo, Thomas More University McAdoo was with Mercy McAuley in 2019 for the school’s inaugural softball campaign. She made it a memorable one, hitting .534 with 14 extra-base knocks and 34 RBI. This season for the Saints, the sophomore hit .357 and was one of two players with 50-plus hits, joining Gahan.

She also registered 21 RBI. Elana Harrison, Thomas More University Harrison hit .355 this season for the Saints, who fi nished 17-28, falling in the opening round of the Mid-South Tournament April 30. The junior fi rst baseman had double-digit two-base hits and was second on the team with 27 RBI. At Mason, Harrison hit .439 over her career. As a senior, she hit .429 with 18 extra-base hits and was third in the league with 43 RBI. Brooklynn Linneman, Florida International University As a freshman, Linneman made 21 starts for FIU this spring, fi nishing with a 4.10 ERA and tied for the team lead in wins.

She had her best start on May 7 vs.

Middle Tennessee State, when she tossed 12 innings and gave up just one unearned run and did not walk a batter.

Linneman won double-digit games in all three prep seasons at Taylor. She fi nished her career after the 2020 season was canceled due to the pandemic with a 38-11 record, a 1.60 ERA and over 500 strikeouts.

As a junior in 2019, she went 18-4 with fi ve shutouts, a 0.56 ERA and 225 strikeouts over 113 innings.

She also hit .518 with 15 doubles and eight home runs en route to secondteam All-Ohio honors.

Linneman led Taylor to a 62-14 overall record, three consecutive conference titles and she was twice named the CHL player of the year.

Allie Cummins, Miami University Cummins was All-Ohio at Lakota West, leading the Firebirds to the 2018 Division I state championship game.

She hit .554 over her career at Lakota West. As a senior, she hit .591 and was the conference player of the year.

At Miami this season, she has led the RedHawks with a .441 average over 54 starts. Miami sits at 46-8 and is currently in the NCAA Tournament. She also has a club-best 63 hits, 15 doubles, 58 RBI, 49 walks and 16 home runs.

We never gave up. Upper Arlington is just a great team and they made a few more plays than us tonight.”

Three times in the second half, St. Xavier cut the Upper Arlington lead to just a single goal. But each time, the Golden Bears had an answer.

Senior Miles Blenman scored for the Bombers to make it 5-4 Golden Bears with 3:28 left in the third. Just eight seconds later, Upper Arlington won a draw, leading to a breakaway goal from Marco Landolfi to make it 6-4.

With 1:42 left in the third, Luke Vrsansky, the Region Four Attackman of the Year, fi nished off a one-on-one with a bouncer to make it 6-5. The Golden Bears’ Landolfi answered yet again just 18 seconds later to make it 7-5. Over a minute after that, Blenman notched his second tally of the night to make it 7-6 with just four ticks remaining in the third stanza.

It appeared the Bombers had the momentum going into the fi nal dozen minutes of regulation, but they were called for an illegal body contact to the head penalty as the clock hit all zeroes in the third quarter. The two-minute infraction left St. Xavier down a man to start the fourth and Upper Arlington took advantage.

Chris Mazzaferri’s scored goals at the 10:35 and 8:45 mark to give the Golden Bears a 9-6 lead. Tanner Gillie and Will Cohen joined in with tallies, sending the Upper Arlington faithful into celebration mode over the fi nal couple of minutes.

“That was a tough call in such a physical game,” Sprong said. “They obviously had a better view than me on the sideline. That was pivotal. That happens.”

Gillie, Mazzaferri and Landolfi each notched hat tricks and Cohen added a pair of goals. Leo Caine had a game-high four assists.

St. Xavier senior John Langworthy scored a goal with 37 seconds left, leading to the 11-7 fi nal. He was one of nine seniors playing their fi nal game. “(The seniors) were a great group,” Sprong said. “It probably wasn’t their favorite senior schedule having to battle every game, but their leadership helped us get better and better throughout the year and we just didn’t have enough gas in the tank tonight. I’m still so proud of that group.”

Resiliency was a key factor in St. Xavier’s 2021 season. Each time they were down this spring — including four-game and fi ve-game losing streaks during the regular season — they bounced back.

The Bombers showed it against an Upper Arlington team that is undefeated against in-state opponents. St. Xavier became just the fourth Ohio program to stay within six goals of the Golden Bears, and they got off the mat in a hurry to do it.

In the second period, Vrsansky got the Bombers on the scoreboard with a nifty left-handed bouncer at the 3:34 mark. About 100 seconds later, Andrew Andsager slipped past his defender and found Nicholas Langenderfer sneaking behind the net undetected for a goal that pulled St. Xavier within 4-2 at the intermission.

“We wanted to leave everything on the fi eld,” Sprong said. “This is what it’s about. Have no regrets when you walk off that fi eld and you never know what can happen.”

The off ensive breakthrough was much-needed for St. Xavier after struggling to fi nd quality looks in the fi rst quarter against an aggressive, opportunistic Upper Arlington defense.

“We were in an open set and tried to get some sweeps and clear-throughs, then we went into more of a 1-4. We’re supposed to have a guy peel off the crease a little bit more than we did and spread it out, but it created some matchups and got us some goals,” Sprong explained of the off ense.

Vrsansky, who scored seven times against Moeller in the regional semifi nals, led St. Xavier with a hat trick. Blenman fi nished his prep career with two goals. Langenderfer and Langworthy each found the net once.

“It’s never fun to lose your last game, but we gave them everything we had,” Sprong said.

Upper Arlington 11, St. Xavier 7 Goals: SX- Vrsansky 3, Blenman 2, Langenderfer, Langworthy. UA- Mazzaferri 3, Landolfi 3, Gillie 3, Cohen 2.

McAuley's Hailey McAdoo delivers a pitch in relief against Mount Notre Dame on May 1, 2017. ADAM BAUM/THE ENQUIRER

Mason's Elle Buffenbarger pitches a complete game shutout against Anderson. JIM OWENS/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Ava Lawson, Northern Kentucky University The redshirt senior outfi elder is a two-time fi rst-team Horizon League selection. This season for the Norse, she hit .300 and led the squad with 33 hits, eight doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 28 RBI. When she was a senior at McAuley, Lawson was fi rst-team GGCL and second-team All-Ohio. She was a lifetime .449 prep hitter and led McAuley to back-to-back conference championships.

Ava Lawson hit .638 her senior season at McAuley and was a fi rst-team GGCL selection three times. ADAM BAUM/THE ENQUIRER

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Division II Player of the Year: John Luers, Fenwick

Coach of the Year: Anitra Brockman, Badin First team John Luers, Fenwick; Will Hortz, Worthington Kilbourne; Andrew Larkin, Badin; Will Heeney, Walsh Jesuit; Nick Bennison, St. Charles; Cannon Tucker, Carroll; Will Richards, Fenwick.

Second team

Emily Young, Stanford Young, a junior, earned third-team All-Pac 12 honors for the second time after hitting .316 in 55 games this spring for Stanford.

Young had 50 hits, 11 doubles, three homers and 32 RBI and led the squad in on-base percentage (.411), helping lead Stanford to a 33-22 season and a trip to regionals.

At Ursuline, Young was a two-time GGCL athlete of the year (2016, 2017). In four season with the Lions, she hit .556 with 27 doubles, 24 triples, nine homers and 89 knocked in.

As a senior in 2018, she led the league with a .627 average and tied teammate Jane Kronberger, a freshman at the time, for the lead in homers (5) and RBI (33). She also notched 25 extrabase hits.

Rachel Lewis, Northwestern The senior infi elder helped lead Northwestern to a 30-17 record and a trip to regionals this spring. She started in all 47 games, hitting .336 while leading the Wildcats in on-base percentage (.492) and OPS (1.098). Lewis also led the Big Ten in stolen bases with 30. She was a unanimous fi rst-team All-Big Ten selection.

As a freshman at Northwestern, she was second-team All-American, a fi nalist for National Freshman of the Year and fi rst-team All-Big Ten. As a freshman and sophomore at Lakota East, Lewis hit .546 each year with a combined 19 doubles, 10 triples, 13 home runs and 80 RBI. She was fi rstteam All-Ohio in 2015 and honorable mention the year prior.

After missing her junior year with an injury, Lewis hit .604 as a senior and led the GMC in homers (11) and RBI (56).

Abby Elliott, Ohio Northern The junior catcher and outfi elder hit .318 this season and was one of four players to collect 40-plus hits. She had 13 extra-base knocks and 21 RBI to help lead the Polar Bears to a 24-18-1 mark and an NCAA DIII Regional berth.

At Ursuline, Elliott was a three-time fi rst-team GGCL selection.

As a senior in 2018, she hit .560 with 11 extra-base hits and 18 RBI. A fouryear player, Elliott was a lifetime .419 prep hitter with 26 doubles, 15 triples and 100 knocked in.

Ursuline senior Abby Elliott makes a play from shortstop against Mercy on April 19, 2018. ADAM BAUM/THE ENQUIRER

Michael Bowler, Brecksville-Broadview Heights; Jake Maziarz, Bishop Watterson; Ryan Bollhauer, La Salle; Michael Schweinefuss, Badin; Michael Cavanaugh, St. Francis DeSales; James Darnieder, Alter; Monty Peterson, Briggs.

Honorable mention Sam Kaylor, Olentangy; Sam Mar-

chio, St. Francis DeSales; Tanner McKown, Kent Roosevelt; Zack Mowery, Carroll; Ben Luers, Fenwick; Sean Stepanek, Walsh Jesuit; Luke Wilson, Alter; Mang Sian, Northland; Miller Kuntz, Bishop Hartley; Aiden Novotny, Worthington Kilbourne; Will Stasser, Taylor; Hayden Cutright, Chillicothe; Cameron Hoying, St. Francis DeSales.

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Here are the top golf courses you can play near Greater Cincinnati Jason Hoffman

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Golfweek published its annual ranking of the best public courses across the country and there are plenty that Tri-State residents can play.

While none of the courses in the top-100 public courses are within 100 miles of Cincinnati, there are still plenty that made the cut for the best public tracks in our region.

The rankings listed here will only account for courses within 100 miles of Cincinnati.

Here are the top courses you can play in the TriState area, as ranked by Golfweek (see honorable mentions after the Golfweek list):

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1. Stonelick Hills – 3155 Sherilyn Ln, Batavia, OH 45103 (513) 735-4653 https://stonelickhills.com/ Stonelick Hills was the only local course in Ohio to make the list. Here are fi ve of the other best public courses in Greater Cincinnati: Blue Ash Golf Course – 4040 Cooper Road Blue Ash, Ohio 45241 (513) 686-1280 https:// www.blueashgolfcourse.com/ Elks Run – 2000 Elklick Road Batavia, OH 45103 (513) 732-0295 http://www.elksrun.com/ Legendary Run – 915 E Legendary Run Cincinnati, OH 45245 (513) 753-1919 https:// www.legendaryrungolf.com/# Shaker Run – 1320 Golf Club Dr, Lebanon, OH 45036 (513) 727-0007 https://www.shakerrungolfclub.com/ Walen Ponds – 6090 Golf Club Ln, Hamilton, OH 45011 (513) 785-2999 https://waldenponds.com/

1. Lassing Pointe – 266 Double Eagle Drive Union, KY 41091 (859) 795-1622 https://www. boonecountygolf.com/lassing-pointe/home 2. Kearney Hill – 3403 Kearney Rd, Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 293-1981 https://www. lexingtonky.gov/kearney-hill-golf-links 3. Cherry Blossom – 150 Clubhouse Drive Georgetown, KY 40324 (502) 570-9849 https:// www.cherryblossomgolf.com/ 4. Marriott Griffi n Gate Resort & Spa – 1800 Newtown Pike, Lexington, Kentucky 40511 (859) 231-5100 https://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotelinformation/golf-courses/lexky-lexington-griffi ngate-marriott-golf-resort-and-spa/ Honorable mentions: Boone Links – 19 Clubhouse Dr Florence, KY 41042 (859) 592-4001 https://www.boonecountygolf.com/

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COMMUNITY NEWS Tennis: A sport for life It is not every day we are in the presence of greatness. On April 28, Andrés Gómez walked out onto Western Athletic Club’s courts to talk to a group of junior tennis players. Does the name ring a bell? Andrés seized the 1990 French Open title against Andre Agassi.

Andrés did not simply stumble into Western Athletic Club but rather he followed his daughter, Rafaela, one of the Club’s tennis professionals.

Rafa, a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati, has been teaching at Western for the past year while she worked her way through her master’s degree in Finance.

Andrés grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador and began playing tennis at the age of 7. After playing soccer and basketball he found the sport of tennis and instantly fell in love.

Andrés instilled in his fi ve children the importance of college at young age and motivated Rafa to play along with her four siblings.

“Tennis and life are the same, you have to work hard, make sacrifi ces but enjoy what you do,” says Andrés. Gómez currently runs a tennis academy in Ecuador with approximately 80 junior tennis players with dreams of becoming the next generation of professional tennis players.

Gómez is the fi rst Grand Slam tennis player to visit Western Athletic Club. Western is on a mission to spread the love of tennis to the Westside.

Mayo Clinic recently published fi ndings suggesting that playing tennis can increase the average person’s life expectancy by 9.7 years, more than any other sport. “We have kids as young as four and adults well into their eighties playing on our courts, proving the statement that tennis is truly a sport for life,” says Adult Tennis Coordinator, Amy Abell.

The Club will be off ering TennisNow, a 3-week long clinic set on teaching the basic principles of tennis. Participants will meet weekly for an hour.

Western will host two sessions running June 825 and July 6-24.

Participants will have the option to attend classes on Tuesdays 6-7 p.m., Fridays 10:30-11:30 a.m. or Saturdays 11 to noon during the session. The cost is $39 per person/session. The last class of each session will include pizza sponsored by LaRosa’s.

Western Athletic Club is located in Western Hills, at 5490 Muddy Creek Road and open 7 days a week. The club hours are Monday-Thursday: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday: 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday-Sunday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit westerntfc.com for more information about Western Athletic Club.

Kirsten Whittemore, Western Athletic Club

Great Parks Rangers host kids Bike Rodeo Join the Great Parks Rangers for a fun-fi lled day of bike riding and safety! A free Bike Rodeo will take place on Friday, June 11 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Miami Whitewater Forest Harbor.

Kids ages 4 to 12 will get to hang out with Rangers and enjoy fun activities, contests, learning stations and receive a free bike helmet. Kids should bring their own bikes for

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Miami Whitewater Forest is located at 9001 Mt. Hope Road, Crosby Township, OH 45030.

Kimberly Whitton, Great Parks of Hamilton County

Monfort Heights resident obtains pilot certifi cate at University of Cincinnati - Clermont College Dustin Koloc has earned his commercial pilot certifi cate.

Koloc is enrolled in the Aviation Technology Program at the University of Cincinnati - Clermont College. The laboratory portion of the Program is taught at the Clermont County Airport.

Koloc resides in Monfort Heights, Ohio, and is the son of Dan and Cathy Koloc. When Koloc completes the two-year program through the University of Cincinnati - Clermont College, he will have also earned an Associate of Applied Science degree and is considering completing a Bachelor’s program from the University of Cincinnati.

For more information about professional pilot training in the Aviation Technology Program at the University of Cincinnati - Clermont visit www.ucclermont.edu or call 513-732-5200.

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Kinetic Vision celebrated by HCDC with the Ron Schallick Economic Development Award Every year we celebrate the organizations and individuals that have partnered with us to help grow our local economy.

Due to COVID-19, we were unable to host our Annual Meeting & Business Development Awards Ceremony. This year we celebrated the Award recipients at their place of business.

The Ron Schallick Economic Development Award is awarded to a local company that has a long history, and a commitment to our community through investment and job creation.

This year, Kinetic Vision was celebrated as the Ron Schallick Economic Development award winner due to its longevity of growth over the last 11 years.

Kinetic Vision is an advanced technology company focused on product development and accelerating innovation for their clients. They serve over 50 of the Fortune 500 and are focused on several industry sectors including medical, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, electronics, and transportation.

Kinetic Vision’s multimillion dollar investment in a new, state-of-the-art headquarters is a major commitment to Evendale and Hamilton County.

When Kinetic Vision moved to Evendale back in 2010, they had 26 employees. They currently have 153 employees, and with their proposed new multi-million dollar investment in a new stateof-art headquarters project, they plan to increase their employee base to over 200 employees.

Their previous eff orts with us continue to provide well-paying jobs for a growing workforce of engineers, programmers, designers, and innovative thinkers.

“The team at Kinetic is not only committed to their community but to green initiatives that will make a positive impact on Evendale and Hamilton County,” said HCDC President Patrick Longo.

Given Covid precautions, the award was presented at Kinetic Vision’s campus in Evendale Ohio.

“We’re committed to helping this region claim its place as a global powerhouse of top talent and HCDC has helped us greatly with that commitment. We’re thrilled and honored to receive this year’s award,” said Jarrett.

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Honoring the legacy of Fr. Jim Willig Heart to Heart – a Catholic Media Ministry, www.htoh.us, founded by Fr. Jim Willig in 1991, will dedicate the month of June to The Sick and Suffering.

Inspirational quotes and videos will be sent daily in June to all those who sign up on the website.

On Thursday, June 24 at 1 p.m., a gravesite prayer service is scheduled at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. On Sunday, June 27 at 11 a.m. Fr. Michael Sparough, SJ, will celebrate the Holy Sacrifi ce of the Mass from Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House Chapel, Barrington, Illinois. The Mass will be live streamed on YouTube and from the Heart to Heart website www.htoh.us.

After Fr. Jim’s ordination to the priesthood in 1977, Fr. Jim pursued an extensive study of Scripture. He received a second Master’s degree in Spirituality from the University of San Francisco and completed a threemonth sabbatical study in the Holy Land. In 1991, Fr. Jim began preaching locally and nationally. Fr. Jim became widely recognized as an inspiring preacher, gifted storyteller, and true evangelist.

In 1999, Fr. Jim was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer with lung metastasis. He lived another two years. An aggressive course of cancer treatment followed, including several rounds of chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation. With the assistance of others, Fr. Jim remained active in his ministry.

Eventually, the cancer spread to the bones, requiring two surgeries to implant metal rods into his deteriorating leg bones. Fr. Jim worked up until his fi nal two weeks of life. Fr. Jim passed away peacefully at his parent’s home on June 24, 2001.

While Fr. Jim was Pas-

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Fr. Michael Sparough, SJ, President of Heart to Heart states “Fr. Jim had a rare gift of total honesty with God in prayer. His book inspires us all to have that same complete trust in God’s mercy.”

Emily Davis states, “Through Fr. Jim’s true humility, humor, perseverance and honesty, I have been greatly impactSee COMMUNITY NEWS, Page 5B

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Crossroads pledges $2.5M in donations for its 25th anniversary Kaitlin Lewis Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – May 23.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Crossroads Church announced that it will be donating $2.5 million to local, national and international nonprofi ts

over the next 25 weeks.

Local nonprofi t City Gospel Mission, as well as international nonprofi ts Jeevan Aadhar and Restavek Freedom, were the fi rst recipients of donations, receiving $100,000 each, according to Crossroads.

Crossroads Church, which was started in Cincinnati in 1995, holds 10 locations throughout Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Lexington, as well as an on-

line platform. Its weekly attendance was estimated at 35,253 in 2018, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier.

The church was started with the mission of “connecting seekers to a community of growing Christ followers who are changing the world,” according to information recently released by the church.

Crossroads Church has taken part in local community giveback eff orts in the past, such as distributing free Thanks-

giving meals during Fall Feast.

“God has blessed Crossroads over the past 25 years and we don’t take that lightly, so we want to use what we’ve been given to bring positive change in the communities we serve,” said founder and Senior Pastor Brian Tome in the press release. “That means sharing our resources with partners who are doing good work. Where God is moving, we want to be investing.”

CDs, DVDs, downloads, podcasts, and several links for webcasts.

For more information or to sign up to receive a daily email during the month of June, check out the Heart to Heart website, www.htoh.us.

Cheri Lehrter, Heart to Heart - a Catholic Media Ministry

h Cincinnati Boychoir h Cincinnati Brass Band h Ensembles from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra h Melodic Connections h Preston Charles III h Queen City Freedom Band h School of Rock Cincinnati h Young Professionals Choral Collective h Many local bands At least 40 venues, including several Cincinnati Parks, have agreed to host Make Music Cincinnati experiences.

The venues include the following locations: h Ault Park h Eden Park h Fountain Square h Hyde Park Square h Riverfront Parks h Washington Park h Wyoming Village Green Park and Gazebo Artists and venue can continue to sign up until June 18 by visiting makemusicday.org/cincinnati. And everyone can follow the organization’s Facebook page, @makemusiccincinnati, for upto-date event information.

How to help: Founded in 2018 by Hayley and Brandon Voorhees, Make Music Cincinnati will be bigger and better in 2021 due to funding and support by ArtsWave, Buddy Roger’s Music, Cincinnati Arts Association, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the NAMM Foundation, and more.

ArtsWave has also agreed to make a matching grant of up to $5,000 by June 21.

Music fanatics, advocates, and enthusiasts everywhere can join in the joy of Make Music Cincinnati by becoming Ambassadors, the offi cial cheerleaders of Make Music Cincinnati.

For a gift of only $30, Ambassadors will receive special graphics to help spread the word about Make Music Day and be recognized on the organization’s website and Facebook page.

Make Music Cincinnati is also looking for volunteers to be event site managers.

Make Music Cincinnati is part of Make Music Day, the global music celebration occurring in more than 1,000+ international cities throughout the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Italy, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom.

It’s a free, citywide, outdoor day of music held annually on the summer solstice, June 21. Make Music Cincinnati turns the city into a stage, welcoming a full spectrum of performers.

Make Music Cincinnati was founded in 2018 by Hayley and Brandon Voorhees. The two met while working together at Buddy Roger’s Music, a retail store in Cincinnati.

Hayley participated in the University of Cincinnati Bearcat Bands while receiving bachelor’s degrees in psychology and fi ne arts. Brandon studied marketing at the University of Cincinnati.

Make Music Day originated in France in 1982 as Fête De La Musique, a true national holiday where the government shuts down and musicians take over the streets.

Hayley Voorhees, Make Music Cincinnati

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ed to meet the demands of my cross, my leukemia.” John Coff aro, who was diagnosed in 2019 with ALS, calls Fr. Jim “my spiritual hero.”

Many people prayed for a miracle to heal Fr. Jim. At the beginning of Fr. Jim’s cancer, Archbishop Pilarczyk requested all Cincinnati parishes to pray for a healing for Fr. Jim. When Fr. Jim died two years later, many wondered why the miracle did not happen.

Today, 20 years later, the great realization is another miracle is happening.

Fr. Jim’s writings and talks are fi nding a growing number of followers.

Since Fr. Jim’s death, his book, Lessons from the School of Suff ering, has sold thousands of copies and is now translated into Spanish, Korean and Chinese languages. This book also has become a popular study guide in church ministry programs and in sick and suffering support groups.

Fr. Jim’s books, videos and talks are available on the Heart to Heart website, www.htoh.us.

Fr. Jim Willig’s sister, Laura Fisher, states, “My brother’s deepest heart’s desire was to help as many people as possible by preaching the Good News of the Gospel. Today, Fr. Jim’s dream is a reality. The miracle is happening. Fr. Jim’s ministry is alive and lives on.”

Heart to Heart’s website www.htoh.us provides a wide variety of the inspirational resources. The website off ers weekly Gospel Studies by Fr. Jim Willig, weekly homilies by Fr. Michael Sparough, SJ, daily seasonal videos, spiritual books, Lenten and Advent booklets,

Cincinnatians to celebrate music, summer solstice June 21 Live music will once again reverberate throughout Cincinnati on Make Music Day, June 21.

Occurring annually on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, Make Music Cincinnati is a free outdoor music celebration with performances created by anyone and enjoyed by everyone.

Parks, coff ee shops, restaurants, front porches, and businesses all over Cincinnati will fi ll their locations with song.

“What better day to go out to the streets and make some music,” says Hayley Voorhees, Make Music Cincinnati co-founder. “The mission of Make Music Cincinnati is to support music education and musical activities by making music accessible to all people.”

How and where to participate: Make Music Cincinnati is a participatory experience, open to music makers of all ages, skill levels, genres, and persuasions. Any musician – professional or amateur – can sign up to perform or to lead programs such as drum circles or sing-a-longs.

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Hyde Park - Hyde Park single family homesite. Convenient to I-71/Dana Ave. Perfect spot to own a piece of Hyde Park. $30,000 H-1665

Brian Bazeley

Tiffany Lang

Miami Twp. - 4 AC! Approved 22,500 sq ft dev w/120 parking spaces & outdr seating!

Abuts Miami Twp park & comm center! 3 single fam homes on property. $650,000 H-1616 The Jeanne Rieder Team

Monfort Hts. - Updated 2 bdrm brick ranch surrounded by woods & privacy! Open floor plan! All appl stay!

Covered side porch! 1 car gar! Move-in ready! $134,900 H-1739 The Lisa Ibold Team

PENDING Monfort Hts. Mixed usage.

Residential, office.

Could be 5 separate residential lots. Public sewer available. Level. $199,900 H-1708 Steve Florian

Price Hill - 2 City view lots with water & sewer tap. Lots must be sold together.

5-minutes to downtown. $35,000 H-1325

Sedamsville - 3 River view lots to be sold together. 75’ total frontage. Area of potential redevelopment. $30,000 H-1329

Mike Wright

Mike Wright

Villa Hills, KY - Stunning custom 5 BD, 5.5 BA 2 sty on cul de sac in Villa Hills! 3 car ovsz side entry gar.

Remod kit, mstr ba, & updated mech thruout! $995,000 H-1706

Westwood - Classic Westwood Charmer, 3 Bd + study, 1.5 BA, 2 car gar. Huge covered porch. Move-in condition. $155,000 H-1744

Westwood - 7 rm, 2 ba 1500+ SF office bldg. in high traffic area.Off st pkg for 8 cars & 2 car det gar & carport.

New garage roof 2021. $144,900 H-1732

Mike Wright

Doug Rolfes

Tina Rieder

Westwood - Charming 3 bd brick Cape Cod! Hdwd flrs!

All appl stay! Enclosed patio! 1 car det gar!

Updated & move-in ready! Near dining & shopping.

The Lisa $139,900 H-1740

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SCHOOL NEWS

Mt. Healthy High School students in Robotics and Automation show their self-driving cars. PROVIDED

Mt. Healthy High School engineering and robotics students test their creations Students in Mt. Healthy High School’s Engineering Essentials and Robotics and Automation classes have been working all semester learning about, designing, and creating self-driving cars, robots, and clawbots. Recently, they had the opportunity to put their designs and creations to work.

In the Engineering Essentials class, students learned about self-driving cars. As the population continues to increase and the urban areas become dense, the amount of cars on the road could decrease by sharing automobiles that self-drive. In addition, this could reduce pollution as well. The students built a track style car that has a sensor in the front to detect objects. The cars can also avoid a collision by reversing and going a diff erent direction. They tested the cars through a couple of races in the high school parking lot.

The students in the Robotics and Automation classes had to build and program a clawbot to pick up water bottles and small golf balls. Each bottle had diff erent amounts of water for weight challenges. The heavier the bottle, the more points groups received. The golf balls had to be dropped in the yellow container to gain the points.

Students in these classes gained a wealth of knowledge and understanding in engineering properties as well as physics, movement, design, and much more Videos of the projects and students designs may be found on the website: https://jrsr.mthcs.org/apps/video/ watch.jsp?v=317955 Missy Knight, Mt. Healthy City School District

Princeton Community Middle School instructor earns Compassion Award

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Gary Schuster, a satellite instructor at Princeton Community Middle School for the Great Oaks Career Campuses, was honored by the Great Oaks Education Foundation with the 2020 Eric

Taking part in the presentation of TOOLS Scholarship checks at Oak Hills High School were, from left, OHHS Principal Travis Hunt, scholarship recipients Blake Erskine and Evan Malone, and Nicholas J. Smiley, outreach coordinator for the Associated Builders and Contractors of the Ohio Valley. PROVIDED

Scott Compassion Award.

Schuster has been an instructor in the Project Lead The Way program off ered to students at PCMS since 2016-2017. Currently, 1,004 students are enrolled in the program or have completed it.

“We are so proud to have Mr. Schuster as part of our PCMS family,” said Dr. David Mackzum, Princeton Community Middle School Principal. “He is very deserving of the compassion award - he consistently goes above and beyond for the students in his program and has a deep respect for his peers as well.” Dr. Mackzum added “Mr. Shuster can consistently be seen at after-school activities supporting students outside the classroom. He is also committed as a girls softball coach at PCMS.” The Great Oaks Board of Directors and Foundation said Schuster was nominated for the award by Miranda Spivey, a fellow instructor. Spivey cited Schuster’s work with his students, the Great Oaks Equity Council, and a professional development program called One Degree Shift in her nomination.

“He cares about ALL students, mak-

ing many modifi cations to assignments and fi ghting for them to get supplies they deserve to receive,” Spivey wrote in her nomination letter. “He has proven to care about ALL staff , especially the underdog.”

Great Oaks Career Campuses says the award is named in memory of Eric Scott, a long-time Great Oaks Career Campuses associate who passed away in March 2017. Scott was a founding member of the District Equity Council, a group dedicated to promoting respect, equity, and success at each of the Great Oaks campuses. He served on the leadership of the Equity Council for nearly ten years.

Tricia Roddy, Princeton City Schools

Wyoming/Great Oaks students pitch marketing ideas to Maple Knoll Village After their plans were presented, two teams were chosen as winners, but all gained real-world experience.

Jon Weidlich, Great Oaks Career Campuses

Oak Hills seniors awarded scholarships for careers in construction Oak Hills High School seniors Evan Malone and Blake Erskine have been awarded the 2021 TOOLS Scholarships, presented to students planning careers in the fi eld of construction.

The Associated Builders and Contractors of the Ohio Valley awards the scholarships, which were funded by HGC, one of Greater Cincinnati’s largest construction companies and a professional partner to Oak Hills High School.

HGC has also helped OHHS design a new construction class — off ered next fall — that will provide students the opportunity to earn professional credentials in the construction fi eld.

“This not only provides students with the chance to jump into a job opportunity after high school but to see, during high school, it it’s a career they’d enjoy,” says Brady Faust, OHHS career counselor.

Krista Ramsey, Oak Hills Local Schools

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Information provided by Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes

Colerain Township 10043 Glenknoll Ct: Bickel Russell F to Nwaka Paulinus Ndubuisi; $175,000 12034 Spalding Dr: Phou Nathan & Allison to Aiken Joseph; $162,250 2464 Grant Ave: M A V Investments LLC to Sfr3 020 LLC; $70,000 2466 Grant Ave: M A V Investments LLC to Sfr3 020 LLC; $70,000 2523 Impala Dr: Bbc Venture Properties LLC @4 to Bbc Venture Properties LLC @3; $8,238 2523 Impala Dr: Bbc Venture Prperties LLC @5 to Bbc Venture Properties LLC @4; $8,238 2523 Impala Dr: Donnelly Sylvia Diane @ 6 to Bbc Venture Properties LLC @6; $8,238 2565 Highwood Ln: Primroseu-

sa LLC to Braxton Leshawn; $149,000 2711 Lincoln Ave: Cms Estates LLC to Yin Rongwei; $125,000 2777 Cornwall Dr: Scemama Yves to Bush Charles W & Christine E; $60,000 2777 Cornwall Dr: Scemama Yves to Bush Charles W & Christine E; $60,000 2953 Compton Rd: Land Sue & Timothy Ivey to Land Sue; $50,000 3306 Harry Lee Ln: Redford Jonathan & Christy to Arrequin Mario B Jr & Taylor Paige Sharp; $155,000 3325 Grovewood Dr: Robers Kathleen A to Heise Frederick M Tr & Paula S Tr; $150,000 3390 Amberway Ct: Brusaw Carol D to Demiduk Vicki L; $130,000 3436 Redskin Dr: Future Freedom I LLC to O'hair Ashely & Ryan; $65,000 3436 Redskin Dr: O'hair Ashely & Ryan to Miller Sara M;

$130,000 3609 Woodsong Dr: Fleckenstein Gary & Greg to Corman Donna & David; $158,000 3659 Sandralin Dr: Kelso Sheressa & Steven L Albrinck to Libell Eric; $194,000 4996 Blue Meadow Ln: Sunderman Christina M & Brian C to Karr Daniel Michael & Alexandra Grace; $326,000 5146 Pebblevalley Dr: Threm Robert & Linda to Ferraru Justin M & Sarah E; $359,000 6384 Conifer Ln: Peet Lawrence & Joyce to George Thomas Homes Inc; $25,000 7033 Daybreak Dr: Grand Communities Ltd to Fischer Single Family Homes Iv LLC; $213,000 7165 Longwood Ct: Miller Leslie K to Jones Mercedes Breon; $190,000 7222 Creekview Dr: Scott Susanne G & Bereford Robert Pearce to Southworth Michael S; $75,000 7315 Hunters Ridge Ln: Koehl

Edward M Tr & Adam C Koehl Tr to Johns Ashley & Joshua Barefoot; $290,000 7857 Sheed Rd: Nieman Brian J to Gruber Nicole Lynn & Timothy James Daniel Jr; $88,500 8324 Ridgevalley Ct: Buttry Christopher D & Denise A to Hede Kyle R & Amanda M Myers; $330,000 8349 Pippin Rd: Perrmann John W to Divvy Homes Warehouse A LLC; $135,498 8350 Chesswood Dr: Chesswood Real Estate LLC to Bocaback LLC; $110,000 8509 Moonglow Ct: Grand Communities Ltd to Fischer Single Family Homes Iv LLC; $213,000 8776 Pippin Rd: Wcc Construction LLC to Hoffman Jacob A; $154,000 9196 Gila Dr: Hanavan Danny L & Kathy A Wullenweber to Flattum Allison & Chad; $150,000 9210 Maverick Dr: Hughes Brian D to Buy Save Now LLC;

$68,200 9224 Comstock Dr: Niederbaumer Josh J & Britainy P Gober to Adkins Joshua Thomas & Rachel Ray; $150,000 9360 Coogan Dr: Rohrer Daniel S & Susan E Roever to Bsfr II Owner I LLC; $110,000 9570 Pippin Rd: Sexton Ronald G Sr Tr & Rose M Tr to Real Property Mavens LLC; $38,000 9648 Cedarhurst Dr: Rafferty Kathleen E to Roberts Christopher R; $80,000 9790 Condor Dr: Coconut Cove LLC to Strader Anthony; $140,000 9850 Regatta Dr: Yataco Carolina L & Flor De Maria Ciriaco to Levesque Nicole; $125,900 9913 Voyager Ln: Precision Homes Of Cincinnati LLC to Nabors Zachorey M & Kristina A; $273,000

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What you can and cannot recycle:

Rumpke updates list of acceptable materials Emily DeLetter Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Rumpke Recycling, which provides waste and recycling services in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, has added new items to its list of acceptable recyclable materials.

While the full list may vary in some locations, Rumpke says residents can typically recycle these items, h Glass bottles and jars in all colors. h Metal cans: Aluminum cans, steel cans and lids, empty aerosol cans with lids and tips removed. h Plastic bottles that are empty, crushed with the lid reattached, bottles and jugs that have a small mouth and

Rumpke Recycling has added new items to its list of acceptable recyclable materials. GETTY IMAGES

wider base, such as milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, water bottles, shampoo bottles and contact

solution bottles. h Plastic tubs, including containers for butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, gelatin dessert and fruit slices.

Lids should be reattached before recycling. h Paper, including newspaper, magazines, cardboard, mixed offi ce paper and envelopes, paperboard, cereal boxes, pizza boxes free of food debris and grease, telephone books and catalogs. h Cartons, including food and beverage, like milk, juice, wine, soup, broth and others.

Tips on how to recycle: h Mix all items together, no separation required.

h Empty all bottles, jugs and cans. h No need to remove labels. h Empty, crush and reattach lids to plastic bottles. h Remove plastic caps and straws of cartons. h Never place medical sharps or needles in recycling. h Don’t use plastic bags.

Items not for recycling: Plastic bags, cassette tapes, bed sheets, hangars, metal chains, garden hoses, batteries, needles, syringes, electronics, polystyrene foam, buckets, car parts, food, yard waste, light bulbs, drinking glasses, ceramics, pots, pans and scrap metal.

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College Hill 1067 Roxie Ln: Britten Rebecca L to Bsfr Ii Owner I LLC; $142,000 1154 Atwood Ave: Case Bryan W & Lindsey to Freaky Fast Homebuyers And Investments LLC; $43,500 1184 Liveoak Ct: Benton Doniece L to Owen Bryce Steven & Ashley Wassom; $251,000 2035 Connecticut Ave: Assefa Yohannes & Hanna Amare to Knisley Amy; $154,500 6407 Edwood Ave: Property Neighbors LLC to Baas Wesley; $345,000 7003 Locker Ct: Hutsell Gregory J & Jacqueline S to Bonine Roger L & Mary; $345,000

Evendale 10020 Reading Rd: Local 647 United Automobile Workers to Soil And Stars LLC; $1,250,000 10530 Wyscarver Rd: Fehrenbach Robert G & Elaine M to Larsen Daniel R & Pamela M; $950,000 3101 Exon Ave: Luxury Living By Lorinn LLC to Wr Real Estate LLC; $400,000 3739 Renoir Pl: Adibhatla Gagan & Alpana Ranade to Weinstein Marc G & Eleanor L; $470,000 3746 Sherbrooke Dr: Steinberg Marna J Tr to Brown David B & Laura N; $425,750

Forest Park 10884 Carnegie Dr: Sams Erinn R to Weidl Christopher; $170,000 11017 Corona Rd: Lindeman Randi Kay to Xirum Julio Ramos; $201,500 11419 Rose Ln: Hurt Elena to Oaks Property Group LLC; $120,000 11503 Southland Rd: Lucas Delbert E & Jean M to Perez Julio Cesar Arzate; $85,000 11576 Flagler Ln: Ostendorf Enterprises LLC to Rp2ham LLC; $145,000 1227 Waycross Rd: Welch

Kevin U & Juanita M to Wallace Sonya & Daniel D; $265,000 1412 Karahill Dr: Kindoh Violet N to Diao Zhenyi & Michael Comperchio; $180,200 1548 Lemontree Dr: Jessie Poole Sr Tr & Arlinda Harrison to Harrison Arlinda; $65,000 650 Cranford Dr: Barth Kimberly J to Bsfr Ii Owner I LLC; $160,000 739 Kemper Rd: Vo Hiep Kiem to Zillow Homes Property Trust; $186,900 761 Halesworth Dr: Jones Dolores to Neeplo Johnny; $145,000 761 Halesworth Dr: Neeplo Johnny to Rp2ham LLC; $163,000

Glendale 1111 Jefferson Ave: Neville Mary J to Stentz Jacob & Alyssa P; $265,900 161 Sharon Rd: Adkins Janet S to Augenstein Sandra S; $179,000 322 Willow Ave: Schmidt Sydney Marie to Bond Nathan; $167,000

Green Township Clearpoint Dr: Edw Niehaus Builders Inc to Grgas Anthony S Jr & Susan R; $55,000 2810 Westbourne Dr: Margraff Thomas E to Brunk Joshua T; $175,000 2841 Blue Rock Rd: Bourne Jason to Pathways to Home; $218,000 2860 Carroll Ave: Oake Properties Ltd to Pruitt Tracey C & Anthony; $148,000 3213 Deborah Ln: Kern Sarah E to Bodkin Eric M; $200,000 3243 Pegroy Ct: Mills Andrew Dane & Abigail Marie to Lampert David C; $252,000 3340 Stevie Ln: Steele Timothy J to Ozolins Amanda P; $150,000 3707 Vollmer Pl: Oliver Christine Jennifer & Adam Fredrick Huff to Oliver Christine Jennifer; $11,000 3881 Weirman Ave: Schoenfelder Robert to

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Heckman Colton; $135,000 3972 Boomer Rd: Lunsford Jeffrey & Richard Graff to Schneider Owen Robert; $123,000 4170 Quakerhill Dr: Evans Melanie Michelle to Hayes Devan Virginia &; $235,000 4314 Rybolt Rd: Burton Joyce F to Acree Michele L; $63,500 4337 School Section Rd: Kroger Thomas R Tr & Arlene A Tr to Kroger Elaine Evelyn & Brent Robert; $195,000 4689 Hampton Pointe Dr: Drees Company The to Veerkamp Jennifer & Timothy; $590,215 5315 Jessup Rd: Bellanger David M to Stone Wall Properties LLC; $160,000 5366 Werk Rd: Beard Geraldine to Smith Jessica A; $114,000 5420 Sidney Rd: Lind William M to Tr State Homes LLC; $125,500 5433 Bluesky Dr: Williams Dan & Marlis to Schmitz Caroline C; $90,000 5515 Reemelin Rd: Thomas Alex & Brittani Mapes to Wedding Jacob & Chet J Kastle; $149,900 5609 Fox Ridge Ct: Burk Cindy A & Kathy C Bohi to Burk Cindy A; $260,950 5862 Weston Ct: Leveridge Glenda to Boyers Shelia Ann & Anthony Earl Boyers Iii; $113,525 5942 Harrison Ave: Tiemann Kenneth E to Hinkel Joseph Robert; $81,400 6122 West Fork Rd: Weber Rachel & Armbruster Matthew R to Abusway Ronnie M; $215,000 6180 Colerain Ave: Boland Juanita to Perez Carlos; $155,000 6186 Jimbet Ct: Niehaus Joseph R to Otoole Shannon N; $174,000 6236 Ashbourne Pl: Niermann James A & Julia A to Betchel Eric & Laura; $355,000 6782 Harrison Ave: Miller Kent J to Reyarts Investments LLC; $65,000 6939 Aspen View Ct: Belton Sean Tr to Hekler Donald P & Julie A; $275,000 6942 Bridgetown Rd: Huseman Stephen D Tr to Yamaguchi Zachary B & Robert B; $420,000

Greenhills 18 Avenell Ln: Fink Calvin E Jr to Wagner Fallon; $201,000 49 Hadley Rd: Perrmann Linda J to Verlin Kurt & Heather R; $190,000 6 Drummond St: Horan Julianne to Chilton Kyla Q & Hunter C Grumman; $182,000 6 Fdr Walk: Blakely Mark Tr & Karen Albright Tr to Fish James K & Carolyn; $200,000

Lincoln Heights 1089 Simmons Ave: Crawford Bobby Jr @3 to As Capital LLC; $36,000

Lockland 122 Washington Ave: Oleson Homes LLC to Jds Holdings Ix LLC; $75,000 329 Westview Ave: Richman Todd S to Greenwave Real Estate LLC; $135,000 347 Williams St: Lane Colleen & Patricia Hebenstreit to Albanese Sarah; $152,000 410 Cooper Ave: Real Estate King Inc to Catron Jeffery; $148,000 413 Shepherd Ave: Taylor Mark to Kenjoh Outdoor Advertising LLC; $190,000 419 Arlington Ave: Durham Jessica A & Virginia L Penter to Moy Holdings LLC; $42,500 529 Wayne Ave: Penter Zoe N to Vo Management Group LLC; $265,000

Mount Airy 2609 Chesterfield Ct: Sanders Gerald @3 to Redeemed Investments LLC; $100,000 2624 Mt Airy Ave: Abt Brian to Gardner Kyle W; $159,000 2634 North Bend Rd: Croxton Sierra to Coleman Catrice L; $200,000

Mount Healthy 7221 Clovernook Ave: Leigh Vivian to Aci Properties LLC; $50,000 7428 Bernard Ave: Coy Kaycie R to Williams Karly & Marisa Etris; $133,000 7700 Harrison Ave: Shaffer Michael W to Jones Lauren; $121,500 7868 Perry St: Housetrader Properties LLC to Fitzpatrick Odell L; $165,000 7924 Perry St: Gresham Brian A to Weisenberger Julia; $173,000

North College Hill 1544 Galbraith Rd: Mulvaney Janice @3 to Mulvaney Janice & Kelly Mulvaney; $7,500 1544 Galbraith Rd: Tyler Gwendolyn to Dunn Candice; $75,000 1820 Sterling Ave: 4b Properties LLC to Lift Properties LLC; $58,000 1947 Cordova Ave: Banfield Ernest H to Shelley Brian Daniel; $56,500 2020 Dallas Ave: Fields Jokena to Strayhorn Bennie; $70,000 6530 Baywood Ln: Mills Lawrence M & Cynthia D Tr to Sargent Brooke & Torey Ashcroft; $275,000

Reading 106 Gebert St: Gregory Teresa K to Way Joshua; $114,977 1904 Hunt Rd: Ritenour Steven J to Springstein Morgan & Andrew; $240,000 224 Harvest Ln: Mather Ryan Jeffrey & Sarah Frieda to Woody Gillian; $252,500 2428 Galbraith Rd: Equity Trust Company Custodian Fbo Claire Leugers Ira to Docena Jeffrey P;

$295,000 316 Westcrest Dr: Summerville Laurie L to Robinson Steven J; $120,000 444 Columbia Ave: Potts Mildred L to Lantz Doug & Paula; $102,000 539 Jefferson Ave: Hensley Rhonda Sue to Johan LLC; $66,000 601 Jefferson Ave: Amyx Gregory E & Cynthia to Mcclellan Paul R; $220,000 70 Orchard Knoll Dr: Kwb to Evans Larry; $158,500 8050 Reading Rd: Pisati Enterprises Ltd to Agape Love Ministries; $290,000 8423 Reading Rd: Hilton Michael R & Jennifer C to Herzhaus Kitchens & Cabinetry LLC; $156,000

Sharonville 11122 Main St: Moseley John H & R Victoria to Ahmadzai Laila; $165,000 11789 Caerleon Ct: Mcgrath Gerald G to Mcgil Patricia L; $325,000 11927 Algiers Dr: Payne Sarah A to Rp2ham LLC; $170,500 4056 Malaer Dr: Vanmeter Norma Jean to Baczyk Edward; $155,000 4208 Beavercreek Cr: Rental Biz LLC to Rp2ham LLC; $218,500 5610 Kemper Rd: Hinojosa Ricardo J to Freund Broerman Evan W & Amanda J; $239,000

Springdale 109 Harter Ave: Wagers Lea Ann to Timberlake Darrian L & Kristin N; $205,000 269 Kemper Rd: Shaver Christopher D to Hadden Quinell & Brittany; $241,089 886 Summerfield Ln: Boyd Joe F to Montgomery Jovon & Anthony Jr; $220,000 925 Kemper Rd: Skaff Emile Tr to Cft Nv Developments LLC; $1,300,000

Springfield Township 10475 Maria Ave: Colson Josiah & Marie M to Kent Sarah Marie; $120,000 12034 Gaylord Dr: Grieve Ellen to Fairman Ruben; $139,000 1725 Forester Dr: Harper Marvin E Sr to Anderson Joshua & Jocelin Lanae Culbreath; $235,000 18 Ridgeway Rd: Tucker Marilyn Ann to As Capital LLC; $20,000 469 Whitestone Ct: Fox Wayne Porter & Betty Jean to Darling Brandon J & Lindsay M; $285,000 6600 Ridgefield Dr: Erbs Robert S to Paisley Bran-

don; $150,000 7 Laurel Ave: Caland Properties Ltd to Eee Real Estate LLC; $325,000 773 Finney Tl: Schumacher Isaac D & Trustworthy to Cunningham Jonathan Edward & Ashley Marie Baker; $160,611 7907 Ramble View: Isburgh Dane Karl to Siebert Denise; $153,000 7907 Ramble View: Isburgh Dane Karl to Siebert Denise; $153,000 8373 Cottonwood Dr: Cottonwood Apts LLC to Pokhrel Bhima @ 4; $276,400 8699 Empire Ct: Black Ann L Tr to First Financial Bank Tr; $240,000 8733 Woodview Dr: Kraner Brian & Lynn to Burgess Zachary & Rachel; $178,000 9075 Cherry Blossom Ln: Gordon Joan M to Dunn Sarah & Tyler Vordenberg; $215,000 967 Lakeshore Dr: Plamondon Gregory D & Jacqueline M to Stubenbord Derek J & Wei Sun; $232,000 9847 Playtime Ln: Kaanapali Renovations LLC to Aproject LLC; $69,900 9847 Playtime Ln: Brown Carol Y to Kaanapali Renovations LLC; $60,000

St. Bernard 415 Jackson Ave: Hicks Tasha Lee to Taylor Made For You Properties LLC; $112,000 611 Woodside Heights: Engel Joseph & Andrew Engel to Boddie Andrea T; $198,500 91 Albert St: Lawson Terry K to Hajjar Andy Khaled; $115,400

Woodlawn Springfield Pk: First National Bank Cinti Us Bank Tax Department to Karoun Holdings LLC; $375,000 155 Novner Dr: Blc Investments LLC to Rendale LLC; $635,000

Wyoming 127 Mills Ave: Osgood Richard D & Zibute B to Schartung Charles & Julia; $387,000 30 Sherry Rd: Hauth Lynne Woodrow to D & P Dorothy LLC; $177,400 418 Compton Rd: Bonadonna Lindsey M to Haugan Matthew & Jessica; $369,000 502 Compton Rd: Isphording Richard C Tr & Carol H W Isphording Tr to Hand William III & Nancy; $520,000

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