BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Your Community Press newspaper Serving Price Hill and Covedale
B1
E-mail: pricehillpress@communitypress.com We d n e s d a y, J u l y 2 9 , 2 0 0 9
Eckert Woods by Schneller Homes
Collection time
In the next few days your Community Press carrier will be stopping by to collect $2.50 for delivery of this month’s Price Hill Press. Your carrier retains half of this amount Siemer as payment for his or her work. If you wish to add a tip to reward the carrier’s good service, both the carrier and The Community Press appreciate your generosity. This month we’re featuring Danny Siemer, who will be a seventh-grader at Walnut Hills High School. Siemer hobbies include camping, biking and reading. He also enjoys fencing and rock climbing. If you have questions about delivery, or if your child is interested in becoming part of our junior carrier program, please call 853-6263 or 8536277, or e-mail circulation manager Sharon Schachleiter at sschachleiter@community press.com.
Arty entrance
Where in the world of Price Hill is this? Bet we got you this week. Send your best guess to pricehillpress@communitypres s.com or call 853-6287, along with your name.
To place an ad, call 242-4000.
kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Earl Oakes said he’s proud of the way his fellow Kiwanis members have responded to the Holy Family Food Pantry’s request for help. “We have a great group of people here,” said Oakes, a Covedale resident and board member of the Price Hill-Western Hills Kiwanis Club. “I’m just tickled to death with how our club members stepped up to help the people at Holy Family.” He said Diana Penick, the coordinator of the Holy Family Food Pantry, came to a Kiwanis meeting earlier this year to talk to the club members about the pantry’s needs, and she mentioned how the pantry really needed toilet paper. Oakes said the pantry was running so low they were splitting rolls in half and passing them out to clients. “Well, you know that doesn’t go very far,” he said. To help the pantry out, Oakes organized a toi-
let paper drive within the Kiwanis Club. Once a month members bring in packs of toilet tissue, and Oakes loads it all into his minivan and delivers a supply to the pantry. “We took 400 rolls down there two weeks ago,” he said. “They call me the toilet paper man now.” At the club’s meeting Tuesday, July 21, which was this month’s toilet paper collection day, club president Sandy Flick read a note from Penick thanking the Kiwanis members for their continued support of the pantry. “Just when our supply was very low, we come in and see you have been there, blessing us with your gifts,” Penick said in the thank you note. “The pantry continues to grow as do the many needs of our clients. How fortunate we feel to be the beneficiary of your kindness.” Oakes said in addition to toilet paper, the club also collects and delivers shampoo, conditioner, soap and other toiletries to the pantry. He said the club donates $1,000 to the pantry each year
Price Hill-Western Hills Kiwanis Club member Earl Oakes gathers up the packs of toilet paper club members collected for the Holy Family Food Pantry. Oakes delivers the toilet paper to the pantry each month. The club also donates money to the pantry twice a year to help them buy food and supplies.
KURT BACKSCHEIDER/STAFF
as well. “We’re just glad to be able to do it,” he said. “It doesn’t hurt to step forward and help people who aren’t as privileged as you. I’m very proud of this group we have here.”
Ceremonies honor fallen Marine ˙By Heidi Fallon hfallon@communitypress.com Tim Roos’ blue eyes and beaming smile radiate from the portrait. It’s just perfect and it’s going in a special spot in their home, said Rick and Jan Roos, parents of the fallen Marine corporal killed in action in 2006. It was an emotional moment for the family as well as artist Phil Taylor. The Texan stopped several times fighting back tears as he presented the family of Marine Cpl. Tim Roos with the oil portrait. Tim’s parents, his widow and daughter, Sara and Annaliese; his sister-in-law and niece, Michelle and Ava Roos, along with a parking lot full of family and friends gathered to see Taylor unveil the portrait. Taylor said Tim’s is the 53rd portrait he’s completed for the American Fallen Soldiers Project.
More photos from the ceremonies – page A5
HEIDI FALLON/STAFF
Texas artist Phil Taylor embraces the widow of Marine Cpl. Tim Roos, Sara, and the 3-year-old daughter, Annaliese, the Delhi Township solider never saw except for a photograph. Taylor said a Cincinnati-based company, Loew Cornell, provides him art supplies, which prompted
him to look in this area for his next portrait. “I read Tim’s story and his
family’s story and I knew,” Taylor said. Members of the Delhi Township Veterans Association helped to arrange the military ceremony at the township’s Veterans Memorial Plaza. “We need these symbols,” said association secretary Jeff Lefler whose brother died serving in Vietnam. “It helps us heal as a family and it helps our nation and veterans. “Losing a loved one in the military leaves a would that never heals, but ceremonies like this, help us move on.” Taylor also presented a portrait to Sara and a third to go to his brother, Adam, currently awaiting deployment to Iraq. Jan and Rick Roos plan on putting Tim’s portrait on the mantel in their family room.
Art fair, concert features Price Hill women By Katie Hull Bring on the art and entertainment. The Price Hill Women’s Art Fair, sponsored by Price Hill Will’s Arts Community Action Team, is scheduled to take place at Seton High School at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The organization is sponsoring a free concert after the art fair on the front lawn of the high school, where The Kentucky Struts, an indie/country music group from Cold Spring, Ky., will perform. “The key is that all the women involved are those who either live
or work in the neighborhood,” said Kara Ray, Price Hill Will’s community organizer. The concerts began last year when Price Hill Will got the idea from residents. “We had numerous individuals recall when they were kids they would go to different summer concerts,” said Ray, “so we thought, why not start?” This concert will be the third in Price Hill Will’s summer concert series this year and is free. “One of the main goals is to bring the arts back to the community and make it accessible to the neighborhood,” said Ray. “The
THE WEEKLY ADS: NOW CLICKABLE. Browse the weekly ads from your favorite stores any day of the week, all in one place - online at Cincinnati.Com/weeklyads. Great deals and great features, like your own shopping list, are just a click away.
» Shop now at Cincinnati.Com/weeklyads Search: weekly ads
50¢
Kiwanis lend hand to pantry
khull@communitypress.com
Deadline to call is noon Friday. If you’re correct, we’ll publish your name in next week’s newspaper along with the correct answer. See who guessed last week’s hunt correctly on B5.
Web site: communitypress.com
B E C A U S E C O M M U N I T Y M AT T E R S
By Kurt Backscheider Volume 82 Number 31 © 2009 The Community Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRESS
concert is one way we do that.” Price Hill Will had a great turnout at their concert earlier in July, where Magnolia Mountain performed, and they hope to draw even more people, not only for the entertainment, but for the art fair. “It is more about community and hoping that women would feel comfortable coming out sharing what they’re doing with other people,” said Caren Theuring, Arts Community Action Team volunteer who is in charge of running the Price Hill Women’s Art Fair this year. Theuring said she hopes the art fair will encourage those in the
Ray
Theuring
community that they have not met before to bring out their creative work. “I hope that we get to know more of our neighbors and people in the community,” she said. “Anybody can be an artist,” Ray said.