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Hospitals ﬁ lling with virus patients As new cases increase, supply of beds, ventilators questioned as more encouraged to socially distance Anne Saker and Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

As the number of new coronavirus cases spirals, do we have enough hospital beds? Maybe. But probably not. Do we have enough ventilators? Maybe. But probably not. That’s why you’re staying in your house, practicing social distancing and isolating if you’re sick, washing your hands thoroughly. You are helping the health care system to eke out enough

capacity to take care of you or someone you love if the worst happens. Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky have at least 4,200 beds in 17 hospitals, an Enquirer review of industry and government documents shows. Before this month, that quantity more than satisﬁ ed the steadily rising demands of an aging population for heart care, cancer treatment, joint replacements and back surgery. Then came the novel coronavirus, a See SUPPLIES, Page 9A

Inside ❚ Meals still being delivered to seniors. 4A ❚ Restaurants getting creative with takeout. 5A ❚ P&G’s largest US toilet paper factory staying open. 6A

A temporary tent stands Friday near the emergency department at Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn. It isn't clear if the tent will be used for drive-thru COVID-19 tests or for patients. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE NEW CORONAVIRUS Chana Wolfson performs the Hakafot tradition of the wedding ceremony and circles Scott Smith seven times under the chupah at French Park in Amberley Village on Thursday.

❚ Medical marijuana stores ‘essential.’ 8A ❚ Yost orders stop to ‘non-essential’ abortions. 12A

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Good Morning! We are beginning chilly and dry this morning, with clouds increasing later this afternoon. Expect afternoon high temps in the upper 40’s. Light rain or sprinkles will move in late this afternoon or early evening and continue through much of the upcoming week. We will see wet weather off and on through Friday. It will be warmer, though, with highs in the 60’s beginning Wednesday. As far as the Ohio River is concerned, we will see the river rise to 48 feet by Monday evening. The river will remain below flood stage but will be high in spots. The levels will then slowly recede and should be under 40 feet by Thursday morning. — Jeff Creighton

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LOTTERIES OHIO

(Drawings: Mar. 21) Pick 3 (early): xxx Pick 4 (early): xxxx Pick 5 (early): xxxx

THE NATION w- weather: s- sunny, pc- partly cloudy, sh- showers, t- thunderstorms, r- rain, sf- snow flurries, sn- snow, i- ice.

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day

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Lexington Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Mobile Naples Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, Va. Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Maine Portland, Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno Richmond Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe St. Ste. Marie Seattle Sioux Falls South Bend Springfield, Ill. Syracuse Tampa Toledo Traverse City Tucson Tulsa Washington, D.C. Wichita Wilmington, N.C.

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IN THE SKY

NEW Mar. 24

FIRST Apr. 1

FULL Apr. 7

(Drawings: Mar. 20) Pick 3 (late): xxx Pick 4 (late): xxxx Pick 5 (late): xxxxx Rolling Cash 5: xxxxx Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $xx million.

U.S. FORECAST

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(Drawings: Mar. 21) Pick 3 (early): xxx Pick 4 (early): xxxx (Drawings: Mar. 20) Pick 3 (late): xxx Pick 4 (late): xxxx Cash Ball: xxxx, x

INDIANA

Cold

Warm

Stationary Showers T-storms

RIVER LEVELS RIVER

Flurries

Snow

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25.4 12.0 33.5 12.0 12.0

44.60 40.90 39.90 39.50 39.30

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28 17 18 20

Cincinnati Markland Dam Maysville Meldahl Dam Portsmouth

OTHER RIVERS

Rain

Licking (Falmouth) Little Miami (Milford) Great Miami (Hamilton) Whitewater (Brookville)

Ice

Levels as of 7 a.m. Saturday. Sunday’s forecast is for 7 a.m. Pool levels reflect the normal river level.

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ALMANAC

Rising

From Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport through 5 p.m. yest.

TEMPERATURE High/low ........................... 38/33 Normal high/low ............... 55/36 Record high ................. 83 (2012) Record low .................. 12 (1885) HUMIDITY High .................................... 75% Low ..................................... 61% PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours ...................... 0.00” Month to date .................... 4.70” Normal month to date ........ 2.55” Year to date ...................... 12.42” Normal year to date ........... 8.46”

Flood Stage

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Falling

Forecast

47.90 41.40 45.70 45.50 44.40 Forecast

8.80 8.10 10.30 5.20 Unchanged

AIR QUALITY Pollution..........................40/Good Main pollutant ............ Particulates Mold.................................. 92/Low Pollen ..................................7/Low Main pollen ............. cedar/juniper Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services

EXTREMES Saturday for the 48 contiguous states.

THE LOCAL BUZZ

(Drawings: Mar. 20) Daily 3 (late): xxx (SB: x) Daily 4 (late): xxxx (SB: x) Cash 5: xxxxx Hoosier Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $xx million.

MEGA MILLIONS

(Drawings: Mar. 20) xxxxx Megaball: x Megaplier: x Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $xx million.

POWERBALL

Saturday’s jackpot was an an estimated $xx million.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is March 22. On this date in: 1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) 1894: Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

Second blood drive added at Banks due to ‘amazing response’ Cincinnatians, you are amazing. You heard our local blood bank was in critical need and you stepped up to meet the demand. Due to the “amazing response” for this coming Monday’s blood drive, a second has been added at The Banks next week. All donation slots are ﬁ lled for Monday. But anyone who donates at the donor bus on Friday will receive a $5 gift card to the Holy Grail Tavern & Grill and two free lawn tickets to see Brad Paisley with special guests Jordan Davis and Gabby Barrett at Riverbend Music Center on June 18, courtesy of Music and Event Management Inc. Right now, blood banks across the country are experiencing a severe shortage, so every drop counts. Healthy individuals are asked to donate now so that the blood banks can be prepared for anything over the next several weeks. To be eligible for blood donation, donors must be at least 17 years of age (16 with parental consent), feeling generally well and healthy, and have no active cold or ﬂ u symptoms. The Hoxworth Blood Center’s donor bus will be parked on Freedom Way in

(Drawings: Mar. 21) Daily 3 (early): xxx (SB: x) Daily 4 (early): xxxx (SB: x)

1934: The first Masters Tournament opened under the title “Augusta National Invitation Tournament,” which was won three days later by Horton Smith. 1968: The first Red Lobster restaurant opened, in Lakeland, Florida. 1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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front of the Holy Grail Tavern & Grill (161 Joe Nuxhall Way, Downtown). Hoxworth ensures the donation center is safe. All staﬀ and donors have their tem-

perature taken prior to entering the bus; all employees wear face masks and gloves; hand sanitizer is provided and used throughout the donation process; social distancing protocol will be observed; and even more attention given to disinfecting surfaces and equipment. The bus will be onsite from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment time online at hoxworth.org/groups/holygrail. – Luann Gibbs

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1987: A garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in Islip.) 1988: Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act. 1991: High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murderconspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Changes keep meals coming to seniors Coronavirus issues don’t prevent home deliveries Terry DeMio

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Every day, well over 7,000 seniors in the Cincinnati region, including Northern Kentucky, receive visitors to their homes with life-sustaining food even in the best of times. In 2019, Council on Aging of Southwest Ohio partners alone provided 1.35 million home-delivered meals to more than 7,000 clients in Hamilton, Butler, Clermont, Warren and Clinton counties, records show. With seniors being vulnerable to COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, the numbers of those who need food are driving up. “We have been getting big increases in calls from seniors in the community who wouldn’t normally need our help,” said the area council on aging agency’s CEO Suzanne Burke. “But at this time, they’re ﬁ nding themselves with not enough food, not enough cleaning supplies… (or) toilet paper.” Do not despair, providers say. The meals will come. Arrangements are underway in both Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for food and other necessities. Meals on Wheels of Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky is among agencies stepping up its deliveries to its roughly 2,000 senior clients in the region. “We’re trying to send additional pantry items,” said executive director Jennifer Steele. The nonperishable food that her agency back-ordered is meant to help seniors in the event of emergencies for at least two weeks, in addition to the regular meal deliveries. “We’re hearing about people just unable to stand in long lines,” she said. “We don’t want them to go to the grocery stores. It’s a great place to get sick.” The regional Council on Aging is developing plans with all its partners to provide two weeks worth of nonperishable meals for its clients and others who may need them, said Burke. She also said staﬀ is brainstorming on ways to

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get toilet paper. One idea is to fi nd out whether area schools, closed to help keep people healthy, have extra toilet paper. Agency leaders also say they are not forgetting the thousands of seniors in the region who, until recently, were served meals at senior centers or other distribution sites, which have had to close because of the pandemic. In Northern Kentucky, seniors who once were served meals at nutrition sites and senior centers will receive meals in a diff erent manner, said Anne Wildman, associate director of human services for Northern Kentucky Area Development District. “It’s going to look diff erent at every site,” Wildman said, but she assured those seniors, “You will be contacted.”

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Any seniors with questions can call the Northern Kentucky Oﬃ ce on Aging and Disability Resources at 859-6922480, she said. In Southwest Ohio counties, seniors may call 513-721-1025 if they need help. The Council on Aging is also helping residents who met at various locations for meals. The Lower Price Hill-based Meals on Wheels currentlyuses staﬀ drivers taking meals to seniors, Steele said. They used to visit clients, too. Now, they have to stay outside the homes unless the client needs help putting away meals. The drivers have been taught by public health workers “how to sneeze, how to cough, how to wash their hands,” said Steele. Burke said that the agencies that pro-

vide meals are likely to need volunteers to help the seniors who are new to the program or who need extended services. The Council on Aging will put out a call for volunteers on social media and in other ways should that time come. In the meantime, the Council on Aging is seeking donations to help sustain services and needs through the pandemic. To make a tax-deductible donation, go to help4seniors.org. “This is a really critical time,” Steele said. In Northern Kentucky, Wildman agreed. “We need to make sure that the older adults in our community are safe and protected,” she said. “Right now, the best way for that is to stay in. We’ve got to bring help to them.”

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Restaurants getting creative with takeout Polly Campbell

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Running a restaurant is always challenging. But restaurant people are known for their resourcefulness, and this latest catastrophe will be no exception. Some restaurants and most bars are closing, but many are adapting to delivery and takeout operations. Here are some examples of what restaurants are fi guring out. It is a very partial list. If you want to order from a restaurant, call your favorite one or one in your neighborhood and fi nd out what they are off ering. Many will also include wine and beer in your order; some are even bottling cocktails. In early March, a car plowed into the front of the Farmstead Market and Cafe in Union, causing structural damage and closing down the restaurant. Owner Tricia Hudson was blindsided but she started making food to go until it could be repaired. So she was a couple of weeks ahead of everyone else when, on March 16, she was blindsided again. That’s when Governor Beshear ordered all restaurants in Kentucky closed for anything but takeout and delivery. She’s continued to make her entire menu available

for takeout and has started making family dinners to go: simple comfort meals for 4 people, like whole herb-stuff ed chicken with stuffi ng, baked potatoes, maple glazed carrots. These were very successful the fi rst night she did them, so she now is taking orders 24 hours in advance at tricia@farmstand.com Sacred Beast, Jeremy and Bridget Lieb’s restaurant on Vine Street, is temporarily becoming the Beast Mart. The breakfast-lunch-late night diner will now be a window where patrons can order food and beer and wine and White Claw and coff ee to go, Lieb hopes people will consider eating it in their car. “We have to do this. Everything in our life is tied up in this restaurant,” said Lieb. Jacob Trevino, owner of bars including the new La Ofrenda, along with the Overlook Lodge, the Video Archive and Tokyo Kitty, held an online “telethon” to sell gift certifi cates to his bars for when they re-open. He conducted it on Facebook Live and managed to raise $18,000 dollars to help employees and make it through the crisis. Cristian Pietoso’s casual Italian restaurants Forno in Hyde Park and Montgomery have always done quite a bit of takeout, so Pietoso’s been counting on them to get his company through this sit-

uation. He closed his Downtown restaurant Via Vite because his customers, offi ce workers, are working from home. So when he walked into the Hyde Park Forno at about 5 on Tuesday, he was happy to see it was busy, with a whole rail of tickets for to-go orders, both from the menu and his special, half pans of lasagne. So he counts that as lucky. But even with steady to-go orders, he had to lay off 90% of his staff . He can’t pay managers their salaries on the volume from takeout, and servers and bartenders simply have no one to serve and tend bar for. Lindsey Park has owned and run a food truck, California Tri-Tip, by herself for four years. COVID-19 has been messing with her in various ways recently. First, several big events she was planning on were canceled. She often parks her truck in the parking lots of big offi ces or manufacturing facilities. She did OK with that, and when restaurants were ordered closed, she thought she’d do even better. Then, everybody at the offi ce park started working from home, and one of the manufacturing facilities had to close down for a bit because they were waiting on a shipment of screws from China. It was delayed because the factory in China had closed down due to the virus. It’s a good thing her restaurant is on wheels.

She’ll be serving her tri-tip beef sandwiches and possibly whole roasted tritip at locations around Northern Kentucky. Find her and other local trucks on StreetFoodfi nder.com. Tela is a casual fi ne dining restaurant in Wyoming that you would not expect to have a drive-thru. But because their location was formerly a coff ee shop, they do. It could not come in handier under these new circumstances. They have edited their menu to the dishes they think will survive carryout and are off ering online ordering that you can pick up through your car window at the drivethru. Stephen Williams and Mitch Ahrens have been working on re-vamping the restaurants in Covington’s RiverCenter. They had just opened one sit-down called Kitchen and another called Butler’s Pantry, a sort of grab and go, with casual pre-made food and a few groceries. Well, they’ve closed Kitchen, but they’ve kept Butler’s Pantry open. They took out seating, put in shelves, added some more items, and are open for the Covington neighborhood to come get essentials. There are now staples like milk, bread, yogurt, fruit, and some veggies along with cleaning supplies and toilet paper.

Wyoming assembles ‘army’ of volunteers to help Cameron Knight

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A Facebook page was setup and a call went out. Now an “army” of more than 200 has assembled (digitally) to help deliver food and prescriptions to those stuck at home due to the novel coronavirus, city oﬃ cials said. The brain child of Wyoming City Councilman Zachary Green, the Wyoming Carryout Connection Facebook page is now connecting volunteers with those in need in Wyoming and surrounding communities. “I could not be more proud of our community. Matter of fact, I don’t even think

we should use the word community, because we are a family,” Green said on Facebook. “In under 36 hours, close to 200 of our neighbors have stepped up to answer the call to become part of this movement to help each other.” City Manager Lynn Tetley has begun to focus her eﬀ orts on managing the group. “Wyoming is just a community that rises up to help its neighbors,” Tetley said. “People are almost desperate to help.” Tetley said, as of Wednesday morning, the group had more volunteers than it had people to help. The group’s website went live Wednesday evening. She is also sending out a letter to her

community with her personal contact information. “Those who may be the most vulnerable may be unwilling to share that information in a social media setting,” Tetley said. Tetley said she’s hoping other communities will steal Wyoming’s model and put it into practice. “We’d be willing to help other communities set it up,” she said. She also wants to create an avenue for donations of grocery gift cards. At the same time, her staﬀ remains focused on city business to ensure any economic activity that is happening can continue.

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Since the World Health Organization has announced that the novel coronavirus is a pandemic, a lot of questions have emerged about the world’s vulnerable populations. Can your pet catch or transmit the coronavirus? Probably not, but no one knows for sure. The World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Organization for Animal Health for the most part have said probably not. “We do not have a clear answer as to whether SARS-CoV-2 can infect pets at this time. That said, currently, there is no evidence that pets become sick. Infectious disease experts, as well as the CDC, OIE, and WHO indicate there is also no evidence to suggest that pet dogs or cats can be a source of infection with SARS-CoV-2, including spreading COVID-19 to people,” according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. To protest yourself and your pets, here is a Q&A:

Can I catch COVID-19 from my pet? The World Health Organization stated: “While there has been one instance of a dog being infected in Hong Kong, to date, there is no evidence that a dog, cat or any pet can transmit COVID-19. COVID-19 is mainly

What should I do to prepare for my pet’s care if I become ill?

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spread through droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks. To protect yourself, clean your hands frequently and thoroughly.” The dog in Hong Kong tested “weak positive” for the virus. “Weak positive” suggests a small quantity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the samples.

pathogen (virus), making it harder to contract through simple touch. Because your pet’s hair is porous and also ﬁ brous, it is very unlikely that you would contract COVID-19 by petting or playing with your pet,” according to the AVMA. It is a good idea to groom your pet as well as clean their bowls.

Can the virus spread on pets’ fur?

How can dog owners protect them from coronavirus?

Oﬃ cials are saying that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted by contact with an infected person’s bodily secretions, such as saliva or mucus droplets from a cough or sneeze. The virus can also be transmitted by touching a contaminated surface or object and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth. “Smooth (non-porous) surfaces (e.g., countertops, door knobs) transmit viruses better than porous materials (e.g., paper money, pet fur), because porous, and especially ﬁ brous, materials absorb and trap the

Dr. Jerry Klein, chief veterinary oﬃ cer for the American Kennel Club, says, “The CDC has not reported any cases of pets or other animals becoming infected with COVID-19 in the United States or anywhere else in the world, including hotbeds like Italy.” If you are not ill with COVID-19, you can interact with your pets as your normally would including walking, feeding and playing. WHO and the CDC have advised that pet owners wash their hands before and after in-

If you are ill with COVID-19, pick a person in your home who is willing to care for your pet. AVMA also recommends preparing an emergency kit with at least two weeks’ worth of pet food and any needed medications. “Usually we think about emergency kits like this in terms of what might be needed for an evacuation, but it’s also good to have one prepared in the case of quarantine or self-isolation when you cannot leave your home,” AVMA said. If you are concerned about your pet’s health, call a veterinarian. To reduce the spread of germs, consider wiping your pet’s paws when they come in and out of the house with a paw cleaner and paw wipes.

Is testing for SARS-CoV-2 available for animals? IDEXX announced the availability of a test on March 13, according to AVMA. Neither the CDC, AVMA nor IDEXX is recommending pets be tested at this time. In announcing the availability of their test, IDEXX indicated that thousands of canine and feline specimens had been evaluated during their validation of the test and none had come up as being positive.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered “non-essential” businesses to close down amid the mushrooming new coronavirus outbreak, but cleared Procter & Gamble’s largest factory in the U.S. to continue churning out paper products 24/7. Located in Mehoopany, the plant manufactures Charmin toilet paper, Bounty paper towels and Pampers and Luvs diapers. Wolf exempted factories producing “lifesustaining” products from his business ban announced Monday. Maintaining production will come as a relief to American consumers: shortages of paper products, notably toilet paper and paper towels quickly occurred as consumers’ concerns about the pandemic grew. P&G has 2,200 workers at the Pennsylvania factory. California has given P&G a similar pass to keep churning out products at another plant in the Golden State. Demand for paper goods has been so intense P&G has ﬁ red up previously idled factory equipment in Georgia in a record two-weeks time (which normally would take months). P&G operates six paper products plants across the U.S., the other ﬁ ve are in: Albany, Georgia; Box Elder, Utah; Cape

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As public health offi cials have emphasized the need for social distancing, schools across the country have closed their campuses and dormitories. It’s left many students without a place to go. Michael Hunter, a fi rst-year University of Cincinnati student in the Gen-1 housing program, is still trying to fi gure out where he’s going to go after March 25, the deadline for most students to leave campus housing. He is currently attending UC free of charge, living in the 1mpact House, which provides tutoring services, mentorship and a free meal plan for certain fi rst-year students who qualify based on family background or race. Those in the 1mpact House are among certain groups of students at UC who will be particularly beleaguered by the order to leave campus. Those include international students, fi rst-generation students and low-income students, though UC does have plans to mitigate the eff ects to a degree. UC will close most housing buildings to stem the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Hunter says he has nowhere else to go but has spent the weekend calling former teachers and all other connections throughout the city, looking for a temporary place to stay. Nine people live in his mother’s house, and he says he wouldn’t be able to study or focus there. “All I know is I can’t go back there,” Hunter said. Hunter doesn’t have savings for rent or a deposit on a new place. “I had my housing plan fi gured out all the way to next year,” Hunter said. Then the virus hit. It’s not just where he’s going to sleep, it’s where he’s going to put all of the things he acquired in his fi rst semester of college. The one suitcase Hunter has is already full. Across his dorm are his nonperishable food items, clothes and bins for his

Savannah Steele, Samantha Steele and Angie Elliott pose for a photo outside of the 1mpact House in the University of Cincinnati’s Stratford Heights housing complex.

Michael Hunter poses for a photo with his packed belongings at the 1mpact House in the University of Cincinnati’s Stratford Heights housing complex in University Heights, Monday. PHOTOS BY ALEX MARTIN/CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

stuff . He has no idea how he’s going to pack his things or even how he’ll move them once he fi nds somewhere to stay. “I just need to make it to the fi rst week of May, literally,” Hunter said. He’s been chosen as a student orientation leader and will get to welcome new students to campus. The job comes with payment as well as free housing. But it is uncertain if the campus will reopen this summer. “These students are resourceful, smart, given any opportunity, they will take it,” said Suzette Combs said, Director of Gen-1/1mpact House. All students who are part of Gen-1 are eligible for a Pell Grant, are a fi rst-generation college student or are a self-identifi ed under-represented minority such as African American, American Indian or Pacifi c Islander. There are 120 students in the program. First-year students in Gen-1 receive scholarships that defray half their housing costs and all their meal plan costs. UC will refund a portion of housing payments that these students have made out of pocket, according to Combs. Refunds will be issued by the end of the school year.

“In this population, there are students who are homeless meaning this dorm is their only home. They stay on this campus year-round,” Combs said. UC did off er a waiver where students can petition to stay on campus past March 25. “The university will more than likely be relocating students to residence halls with more social distancing. No communal bathrooms or suite style housing,” Combs said. Two sisters, a UC student and Cincinnati State student, fi nally received some welcome housing news after a weekend of worrying. Savannah and Samantha Steele, both fi rst-year students, were accepted Monday morning to move into an apartment near UC’s campus. But the strain caused by the virus won’t end with their identifying a new place to live. “We have about $30,” Savannah Steele said. The deposit and fi rst rent payment at their new apartment will cost some $1,600. “We’ve been running ourselves ragged trying to come up with the money,” said Samantha Steele, a Cincinnati State student who until recently had se-

cure housing with a friend. And with her sister, Savannah Steele, learning she had less than two weeks to move out of UC’s housing for fi rst-generation students, it’s been a trying several days for the pair. They are working together to try to come up with the money. The status of Savannah Steele’s campus job is in question, but she will still receive a paycheck worth about $200 this week. Samantha Steele’s paycheck from her job at Chipotle will come Friday, and if they’re still short they may turn to driving for Lyft to make up the diff erence. It is the fi rst time either of them has sought housing on their own. Aside from funding the move, they also must worry about whether the apartment will even be available before the UC-imposed deadline to exit campus, March 25. They were told they can move in in a week or two, with the longer estimate extending right to, and possibly past, UC’s deadline. “We could be homeless,” Samantha Steele said. Once they can move, transferring their belongings to their new place in their shared sedan will be a challenge, yet another one in a series of daunting tasks before them. “It is putting a lot of mental stress on me,” Savannah Steele said, who broke down crying when UC issued its order to students to move out. “I feel like it’s going to be OK, it’s going to be fi ne. But having to stress where you’re going to go next, only giving you 10 days,” she said, trailing off

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Medical marijuana considered ‘medicine’ by state Ohio stores open to registered patients Jackie Borchardt Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

COLUMBUS – Yes, Ohio’s medical marijuana stores are open to the state’s 95,000 registered patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Ohio health offi cials have said that food, medicine and banking services are considered essential and will remain open. The state considers medical marijuana a medicine, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy confi rmed this week. But some of the program’s regulations have made it diffi cult for patients and caregivers to heed advice from Gov. Mike DeWine and health professionals that people limit trips outside the home. And many medical marijuana patients are considered high-risk for complications associated with COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the virus. Patients have conditions such as cancer and HIV/AIDS and may have weakened immune systems. In 2019, 29% of patients were age 60 or older.

Mike Todd of Hamilton said he’s worried that frequent dispensary runs increase his exposure to the virus, putting at risk his wife, who has an autoimmune disorder.

Difficulty stocking up The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends stocking up on enough medication to last 14 days. Ohio restricts patient purchases to a 90-day supply, but patients are often limited to a certain number of days at a time because of the way the state calculates that amount. For example, if a patient waits until the 10th day of their medical marijuana recommendation to make a purchase, they can only buy 80 days worth of product. And whatever they’ve bought in the last 90 calendar days is subtracted from what they can buy. For example, Todd said he couldn’t buy anything until Thursday. A purchase he made three months ago “dropped oﬀ ” the 90-day clock and he could buy 11 days worth of product. That could last him up to two and a half weeks – if he stretches it out – but he might not have enough days in the bank then to buy much more. The board, which regulates dispensaries and patient supply restrictions,

does not plan to make changes to the 90day supply at this time, spokesman Cameron McNamee said Thursday in an email. “We have not ruled it out but we are looking into the data regarding the number of patients who are at their 90-day supply limit,” McNamee said.

No delivery or curbside pick-up yet Unlike pharmacies, drive-thru and walk-up pick-up is not an option for medical marijuana purchases under Ohio’s rules and regulations. Several other states, including Michigan on Monday, have allowed those services in light of the current crisis. The Ohio Board of Pharmacy is working with dispensaries that want to oﬀ er parking lot orders. “However, we are still requiring folks to enter the dispensary to complete their transactions because we are concerned about having cash transactions completed outdoors,” McNamee said in an email. “For delivery, we also have similar concerns.” On Friday, the board released guidance allowing dispensaries to take order by phone. But the patient or caregiver still must enter the dispensary to pay.

Measures to keep dispensaries clean Several Ohio dispensaries have cut hours and canceled events with vendors in recent weeks. Dispensaries are required by law to notify patients of reduced hours through various means including phone messages and signs. If a dispensary decides to close for more than two days, it must notify the pharmacy board. On Tuesday, the pharmacy board sent additional guidance to dispensaries: ❚ limit waiting rooms to no more than 10 people ❚ serve older adults and other at-risk patients fi rst ❚ regularly clean and disenfect counters, ATMs, keypads and waiting areas every hour or after every 10 patients ❚ take employees’ temperatures once per shift and send them home if they have symptoms of a respiratory infection On Thursday, the Ohio Medical Cannabis Industry Association sent a letter to the DeWine administration outlining steps its member businesses – mainly growers and product manufacturers – have taken to align with guidance from the CDC and state offi cials and off ering to do more to help “fl atten the curve.”

Community collects food for NKU students in their dorms Max Londberg

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Debbie Buckley gathered an armful of bags brimming with food and packed them in her car. She’d heard of the many Northern Kentucky University students who, for various reasons, couldn’t leave campus as so many of their peers had done. She knew grocery stores’ shelves were often bare, and she knew some of the students had lost jobs as the university shifted to remote learning amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. So Buckley decided to help. She asked neighbors and friends and churches and

restaurants to give her some food that she then could drive over to NKU. On Friday, her fourth day doing this, Buckley swung by a home in Fort Thomas and gathered boxed mashed potatoes, pasta cups and microwaveable rice. In her car, she already had some black cherry barbecue jerky, grape tomatoes and Airheads candy. Buckley then drove the food to NKU before heading to Butler, Kentucky, an approximately one hour roundtrip, to collect more food. “The kids are so gracious,” she said. Among them are Lydia Schubarth and Michael Baker, two students still on campus. Schubarth hasn’t received any hours from her campus job in two weeks.

Baker left a previous job to focus on academics and now is struggling to ﬁ nd a new one. They grabbed granola bars, peanut butter and canned corn on Friday. The university food pantry is also donating goods. Hannah Cremering, a freshman, also expressed appreciation for the donations. Those interested in donating can email Buckley at dbbuckley70@gmail.com. Single-serving packages of food are required to limit students from touching others’ food. Microwaveable items are preferred.

Debbie Buckley, the city of Fort Thomas' economic development director, collects food to drop off to Northern Kentucky University students. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

37 years of leaving families’ worries at the door For over 37 years, our communities have been founded on providing the absolute best care for our residents. As with every flu and virus strain we’ve encountered, including COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we are diligent in adhering to the same protocols that have prevented and controlled seasonal illnesses and viruses in our communities. Our existing precautionary measures not only adhere to the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and all other national, state, and local governing bodies, but go beyond these standard protocols. Without the trust our residents and families place in us, we wouldn’t be here today. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve them and foster a community that’s loving and rooted in creating personalized experiences every day — and most importantly, that’s safe.

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pathogen that emerged in human beings about four months ago and against which people have no immunity. The virus spreads three times faster than the seasonal fl u. Public health offi cials have told Ohioans that chances are the virus has already spread across the state and that everyone should assume they may already be infected. About 20% of those infected will develop a respiratory illness called COVID-19 that can demand hospitalization and even intensive care, with mechanical breathing assistance with a ventilator. The group that’s most at risk to infection are people over 60. The American Hospital Association estimates that nearly 1 million Americans might need a ventilator to survive COVID-19. Demand would likely overwhelm the supply. A USA TODAY analysis of American Hospital Association bed data estimated that if the U.S. rates of severe and critical illness are the same as in China and Italy, there will be six patients for every hospital bed in the country. The same analysis fojnd that in Ohio, there could be more than 14 patients for every hospital bed. In Kentucky, there could be more than 12 patients per bed Apparently, no offi cial body knows today how many ventilators are in Ohio or Kentucky. The hospitals have not released their numbers, and neither state tracks them. The most recent count, by researchers working with the American Association for Respiratory Care, is 10 years old. The report estimated Ohio had 2,729 ventilators, or 23.8 for every 100,000 people, in 2010. Kentucky had 949, or 22.2 for every 100,000 people. Those rates are worse than the national rate of 20.4 for every 100,000. The bed shortage also is signifi cant. The American Hospital Directory says in 2018, 13 hospitals in Hamilton, Butler and Warren counties had 4,244 staff ed beds. About 65% of Southwest Ohio beds are occupied at any one time, which means 1,486 beds are empty right now. Northern Kentucky had 874 beds, with about 46% occupancy, which means 472 beds are empty on any given day.

Hospital ofﬁcials worry they will not have enough beds to care for all the potential patients critically sick with COVID-19. In Southwest Ohio, occupancy is on average about 65%, which means even fewer beds may be available. Facilities have trained to surge capacity by 20% to 50% in times of crisis. Gov. Mike DeWine ordered postponement of non-essential surgeries, but those actions alone might not be enough. Below are the numbers of staffed beds in regional hospitals according to the American Hospital Directory, along with The Enquirer’s calculation of 65% of each capacity. Total staffed beds

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350 392 365

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Seeking donations of protective gear for workers In recent days, more acute shortages turned up at hospitals. They do not have enough of the basics for doctors, nurses and other caregivers – face masks or shields, gowns, gloves, fabric booties and other protective gear. Friday, the Hamilton County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency put out a call for donations of personal protection equipment. And the Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice workers, after putting out an urgent request for help, learned

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available this month, they were missing important parts. The crimped supplies of tests and test supplies forced Christ Hospital to close a test site in Mason Friday. Christ offi cials on Thursday delayed the opening of a site at its Mount Auburn base. Eventually, offi cials told Ohio and Kentucky residents that for now, no one would be tested except for the critically ill and hospital workers. There were 23 confi rmed cases in the region as of 6 p.m. Friday with a few of them hospitalized. To put the case number in context, the region had its initial four cases announced a week earlier, on March 13. How many patients suspected of having COVID-19 are in the region’s hospitals isn’t known.

No panic, ‘but there is a need to act’ While the situation is daunting, hospital leaders said their workers have trained to deal with a pandemic, to move hospital beds around and even patients as needed. They have been saying their facilities are ready to “surge” and expand capacity as necessary. A surge could boost capacity from 20% to 50% depending on the hospital. If you apply those percentages to all the region’s beds, a surge could add as few as 840 beds or as many as 2,100. To illustrate what local hospitals are doing, the Cincinnati VA Medical Center moved 30 patients out of its Fort Thomas dormitory to make room for an anticipated patient population boom. Most hospitals in Ohio had at least slowed non-essential of elective surgeries when Gov. Mike DeWine and his health director, Dr. Amy Acton, stopped the procedures on March 17. Beshear issued his order March 14. The actions were a hard hit for hospitals because outpatient surgery is a lucrative revenue line. In 2019, the region that includes Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana’s Dearborn and Ripley counties saw about 170,000 outpatient procedures, according to the nonproﬁ t Health Collaborative, the trade group is working with the region’s hospitals to deal with the novel coronavirus. These are “unprecedented times,” said Dr. Richard Lofgren, chief execuSee SUPPLIES, Page 11A

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Couple marry against coronavirus backdrop Byron McCauley Columnist USA TODAY NETWORK

Chana Wolfson, of Cincinnati, and Scott Smith, of New York City, were married on Thursday evening under a chuppah at French Park in Amberley Village. The bride, holding a bouquet of multicolored fl owers, looked stunning. The groom, in traditional tux and tails, cut a fi ne profi le. The guests, less than 20 of them, practiced social distancing. Hand sanitizer was made available. Any other time, this would seem odd. However, the happiest day of the lives of Wolfson, 37, and Smith, 46, occurred during a downpour and against the backdrop of a pandemic that has changed life on Earth as we know it. None of this mattered, of course. Love won on Thursday. See, to get to this moment, when a wedding needed to happen in the midst of a pandemic and buckets of rain, Smith and Wolfson fi rst had to fi nd each other. This was a small miracle. Six months ago, Wolfson was about to ditch a dating app that had not worked out. But, before she got rid of it for good, she checked for prospects one last time. There was Mr. Smith. “It was pretty funny because his profi le popped up. I was tired of the dating site, and I was about to cancel my subscription,” Wolfson said. Smith was nice. He was handsome and fi t. He was a marathon runner. They dated remotely. They planned visits. Then, as luck would have it, Wolfson received a 10-week work assignment in New York, where she and Smith got to know each other better. They fell in love. He proposed in October. Wolfson began planning the wedding. It was originally scheduled for the end of March. On January 20, the fi rst known case of the COVID-19 virus was confi rmed in the United States, linked to a man who had returned from Wuhan, China. By March 11, the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic. Wolfson left New York on March 1 to come home to Cincinnati. The wedding was originally scheduled for March 29. Meanwhile, the nation was approaching a full-blown crisis over the virus. As the seriousness of the virus became apparent, out-of-town wedding guests began to cancel. There was talk of travel bans. More cancellations. Wolfson understood. “(The guests) main concern was the well-being of Scott and me and starting our lives together. They didn’t have to tell us why they couldn’t come to our wedding,” she said. Meanwhile, Wolfson was becoming anxious. Her husband to be was in New York, which was becoming the epicenter of the crisis in the United States. They had to move the wedding date and get married as soon as possible. The new date was set for March 19. Uncertainty proliferated in New York City. More positive tests for the virus were reported. There was a shortage of medical supplies. Airlines reduced the number of fl ights. And there was a chance that the groom would be trapped in New York away from the bride for the foreseeable future, the victim of possible travel restrictions or

Scott Smith and Chana Wolfson get married at French Park in Amberley Village on Thursday. The couple was supposed to get married at the end of the month but moved their wedding up due to the new coronavirus pandemic and concerns of travel restrictions. PHOTOS BY MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER

Chana Wolfson stands on a tarp to avoid getting her wedding dress and shoes wet before her wedding.

Rabbi Ezra Goldschmiedt uses hand sanitizer while he instructs the guests to practice social distancing for the wedding ceremony.

worse. “I wasn’t upset about the wedding. I was upset that I didn’t know when I would see this man I love again,” Wolfson said. Her worries were assuaged. Smith caught a ﬂ ight to Cincinnati on Wednesday and went straight to a local hotel where he waited to marry Wolfson the next day. It was the ﬁ rst day of spring. There was no wedding reception. Instead, guests ate boxed dinners under the shelter or took them home. “I feel like our getting together was God’s plan, and it helps me to continue to trust Him and His goodness,” Wolfson said. “We don’t know what God’s plan is. We can only see what is happening now, but I’m sort of keeping my faith and keeping calm and trusting that God’s plan will work out for us. It’s going to be OK.” The newly married couple will honeymoon later. Wolfson said they will live in Cincinnati as the virus continues to grip the nation. Eventually, they will have an interesting story to share with their children, she said. This was an understatement. Byron McCauley is an Enquirer columnist. Call 513-768-8565. Email: bmccauley@enquirer.com. @byronmc cauley.

Department of Health ‘going to war’ amid outbreak DeWine: ‘This is an absolutely critical time’ Jessie Balmert

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

COLUMBUS - Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton says she feels like she’s in a war zone. “I’m going to war, and I’m coming back home and wondering why everybody at home doesn’t see what I see,” Acton said during Saturday’s news conference. “You can’t see the scurry and the ﬂ urry of activity that’s happening on the ground at the local level.” Ohio is conserving its coronavirus tests for the most high-risk, hospitalized and front-line workers, Acton said. “We are withholding most of our testing in our lab because we are running out of reagent, (a chemical that helps process the tests.)” Ohio has far more cases of novel coronavirus than the 247 cases conﬁ rmed by

the Ohio Department of Health as of Saturday afternoon. That’s only “a snapshot of what’s going on.” “There is a fallacy that middle America is not impacted by this,” Acton said. “We had a seeding of this infection early on and we were one of the last states to get the reagents we needed to do testing.” In the past two weeks, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration has closed schools for at least three weeks, restaurants and bars except for carryout, delivery and drive-thru options, hair salons, tattoo parlors, gyms and more. DeWine has, so far, stopped short of mandating that all residents “shelter in place.” Some cities and states have limited people from leaving their homes except for essential activities, such as getting medicine and shopping for groceries. “This is an absolutely critical time,” DeWine said Saturday. “What we do now and not do will determine how many Ohioans die and how fast this will spread.”

He said to stay tuned for further announcements.

3 deaths, 247 cases confi rmed Ohio confi rmed three people had died of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, during Saturday afternoon’s news conference. But the Ohio Department of Health is investigating multiple other deaths. So far, 76-year-old attorney Mark Wagoner Sr., of Lucas County; a 91-yearold man from Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County and an 85-year-old man from Erie County have died from the virus. “This invader, this virus continues to infi ltrate throughout our state,” DeWine said. “Community spread at this point is now widespread.” Ohio Department of Health confi rmed 247 cases of COVID-19 – up from 169 cases the day before. Patients ranged in age from 1 year old to 91 years old. Of those individuals, 58 are hospitalized with several in the ICU. Ohio’s doctors aren’t deciding who has access to

ventilators and who doesn’t at this point, Acton said. Acton said there were hot spots of coronavirus at nursing homes in Dayton, Cleveland and Tuscarawas County.

Adult day services to close Ohio will close adult day services for people with developmental disabilities – except those that serve 10 or fewer individuals. About 26,000 people in Ohio use these services. State and local oﬃ cials will try to provide them in other ways.

Businesses can defer BWC payments Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will allow businesses to forgo payments for March, April and May. The next payments would be due June 1. By deferring those payments, that will leave $200 million in the economy, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted estimated.

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tive offi cer of UC Health, on a Friday webinar hosted by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Lofgren is among the state’s hospital offi cials advising DeWine and Acton in planning for the arrival of the virus. “We’ve got this,” Lofgren assured the business leaders. The region’s fi ve hospital systems are collaborating to mount the defense, he said, but the public must do its part. “There is no need to panic. But there is a need to act.” For the past two weeks, DeWine and Acton, as well as Beshear, have ordered increasingly stringent changing to everyday life: schools and universities closed, restaurants only on take-out, hair salons and tattoo parlors closed. Many private employers, including The Enquirer, have sent offi ce workers home to work there. Those state offi cials, plus political and health offi cials in the Cincinnati region and in Washington, D.C., have repeatedly said the goal of keeping everyone at home is to slow the spread of the virus, thus keeping down the number of people who get sick.

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to spread is through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes, and this is not a concern after death, according to the CDC. But people should consider not touching the body of someone who has died of COVID-19, the CDC says. There is no known risk associated with being in the same room at a funeral or visitation service with the body of someone who died of COVID-19, the CDC says. Kissing, washing and shrouding should be avoided before, during and after the body has been prepared, if possible, but holding the hand or hugging after the body has been prepared for viewing may pose less of a risk, the CDC says.

What is the value of testing for the coronavirus if there is currently no treatment? – Linda from Brevard County, Florida The value is very high value, according Jason Christie, chief of pulmonary medicine at Penn Medicine. That’s because there are many reasons why someone would seek medical care for their symptoms, and ruling out the coronavirus is very helpful in seeking other causes. “The biggest problem is we don’t have a quick and reliable test right now. Without that, we have to be smart and ration the testing to those people that need them most. So don’t go out and get tested right now unless you’re sick,” Christie said. Testing also helps health oﬃ cials ﬁ gure out how prevalent and contagious a virus is.

Do we have any idea how long an asymptomatic person might be contagious? – Patty from Elm Grove, Wisconsin We don’t know. CDC comments that it can be up to 7 days. The problem is we haven’t had enough testing to understand what the time course is in an asymptomatic individual.

Is it safe to get groceries during senior shopping hour? – Pamela from Wellsville, Pennsylvania Acknowledging that older adults and persons with underlying health conditions are more susceptible to COVID-19, a growing number of stores are dedicating time or opening earlier for senior shoppers and other at-risk groups. But Tania Elliott, clinical instructor of infectious diseases at NYU Langone, says she doesn’t advise it. “That gives a false sense of security,” she said. “By encouraging older people with chronic diseases to go out at a dedicated time, you’re still exposing them to a bunch of other people, and if one person in that crowd is infected, then the virus will spread.” Elliott said she’d rather see stores limiting the number of people who can enter during a given time period so that there are fewer people in the store. She also encourages healthy people to do the shopping.

Can the virus be transmitted through the mail? – Pam from Seven Lakes, North Carolina The chances of transmission through your mail is very low, Elliott says. “Parts

Angie Bold, left, walks with her son Austin Ridder as his home care nurse, Laura Lynn, pushes him through Mt. Echo Park in East Price Hill on Friday. Austin Ridder usually attends an adult day care but is currently staying at home full time due to the new coronavirus pandemic. ALBERT CESARE /THE ENQUIRER

About 80% of people who get infected will experience ﬂ u- or cold-like symptoms. But the other 20% will need hospital care. The goal now is for the sickness

to last a long time, so that the medical system can take care of people without overload. How long? No one really knows. Cin-

of the virus can fall on surfaces and survive on surfaces for up to 72 hours. But you have to have pretty good conditions for that to happen. So the likelihood would be very small, even with no precautions,” she said. Elliott advises people to put their mail down on a plastic plate instead of directly on a counter top or table, to use a letter opener, and to wash hands thoroughly after touching the mail. Research on how long a virus may live on surfaces is evolving. The CDC has said there is likely very low risk of transmission of COVID-19 from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks “because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces.” But a recent study found that viable virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

older than 16 years. At least one 14-yearold boy has died in China. Finally, it’s important to avoid getting and spreading the virus. While the young may not be the most at risk, they’re carrying the disease to those who are more vulnerable, such as older people and those with underlying conditions. Birx on Wednesday urged “the millennial generation” to take special precautions. “You have the potential to spread it,” she said.

Are plastic grocery bags considered the plastic that you have to wait hours to touch? – Elizabeth from Greenﬁ eld, Indiana You should would take precaution with any containers, Elliott says. “The plastic grocery bags I’d throw out right away, wash your hands and then clean your food. Chances (of infection) are low,” she said. “But better yet, bring your own bags! It’s better for the environment anyway.” They keep saying stay isolated for two weeks. But what happens after the two weeks?– Al from Topeka, Kansas Oﬃ cials suggest self-quarantining for two weeks if you’ve had exposure to somebody with the virus and might be infected. It’s a way to monitor if symptoms develop and, at the same time, avoid any possible spread to others. Since the incubation period for the virus is up to 14 days, you’re “cleared” for the virus after two weeks, Elliott said. After that, you still need to practice social distancing.

Is it advantageous for a younger healthy person to get the coronavirus to build immunity? – Danny from Sundance, Wyoming No, for several reasons, says Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. While a protective antibody is generated in those who are infected, scientists are not yet sure whether that immunity will last for a short period of time, for years or for life. Some say the possibility of reinfection is very likely. Moreover, while initial reports out of China suggested that the virus posed low risk to younger people, reports out of Europe are causing “concern” among top U.S. health oﬃ cials. “We have not seen any signiﬁ cant morality in the children, but we are concerned about the early reports coming out of Italy and France,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Wednesday. A recent study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics found that children at all ages are susceptible to COVID-19 and that young children, particularly infants, are vulnerable to infection. Of more than 2,000 child patients in China, about 10% of infants younger than 1 year old had severe and critical cases, followed by 7% among children 1-5, 4% among children 6-10, 4% among children 11-15 and and 3% for children

Does getting pneumonia shots given to elderly people help if you get this virus? – Linda from Hendersonville, Tennessee Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal vaccine and Haemophilus inﬂ uenzae type B vaccine, do not provide protection against the new coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization. The vaccines simply guard against those speciﬁ c bacterial infections. The COVID-19 virus can, in fact, cause pneumonia, but the vaccines cannot prevent this pneumonia.

I see people in my neighborhood out running, riding bikes and walking their dogs. Is that OK? – Patti from Carmel, Indiana Yes, that’s OK! Just be sure to maintain distance from other people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend a distance of about 6 feet of separaton. Even in some California counties where residents are being asked to stay home and “shelter in place,” it’s still ﬁ ne to go for a run, hike or do other outdoor activities, as long as proper social distancing is observed, according to local health oﬃ cials. Just remember: The White House recommends that you should avoid social gatherings involving more than 10 people, as well as all nonessential travel, shopping trips and social visits.

Are there any projections to estimate the spread of COVID-19 and a timeline of its passing? – Dennis from Las Vegas Yes, there are many projections, but scientists say they all hinge on how people behave. That’s why it’s essential to social distance and do what you can to prevent spread. A conservative USA TODAY analysis based on data from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CDC and WHO estimates that 23.8 million Americans could contract COVID-19, leaving almost six seriously ill patients for every existing hospital bed. One researcher at the Global Center for Health Security estimated last month that as many as 96 million Americans could be infected. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security estimated that 38 million Americans will need medical care for COVID-19. The CDC’s prediction for a “worst case scenario,” revealed by The New York Times, estimated that anywhere between 160 million and 214 million people could be infected in the U.S., and anywhere from 200,000 to 1.7 million could die.

Is it safe to get carryout food? – Debby from Omena, Michigan The CDC and WHO have not issued formal guidance on carry-out food. While the CDC says that there is no evidence to support transmission associated with food, a person may get CO-

cinnati Health Commissioner Melba Moore said last week that it could be June before the community will know whether it has turned a corner. Friday, Lofgren said he didn’t want to guess – “I don’t have a crystal ball” – but, “As the cases taper down, that’s when we’ll be able to see it taper down.” “I’m conﬁ dent, that with getting immunity and a vaccine, this will be behind us,” he said. “What’s the steps between here and there, I’m not sure.” Already some people feel the downstream anxiety of the tensions in the system. Angie Bold of Covedale has a son, Austin Ridder, 24, who lives with a rare condition called Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome and requires lifelong care. About a year ago, Bold said, her son developed a respiratory condition that causes him to aspirate, in which liquid goes into the lungs. “He’s able to clear his own airways now,” she said, but Bold said she worries that he may need a ventilator at some point. He also is at higher risk for COVID-19. “My concern is that with the current epidemic and his having frequent hospitalizations to care for his underlying diagnosis,” there might be no beds at hospitals, Bold said, “and that he may not be able to get the care he needs.”

VID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own face. The virus can, for example, survive on cardboard up to 24 hours, according to a recent study. The issue of carry-out food also raises concerns about the risk couriers are facing by interacting with customers during their shifts. That’s why some companies are now oﬀ ering “contactless” delivery options that help people maintain social distancing by allowing couriers to ring the doorbell and leave the package outside.

How soon after exposure can you test positive? – Pam from Easton, Maryland There’s no speciﬁ c data on this question yet, according to Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group. However, we do know that someone infected with the virus may begin showing symptoms anywhere between one and 14 days after catching the virus, most commonly around ﬁ ve days, according to the WHO.

Do the symptoms for COVID-19 come together or can you have separate symptoms showing up at different times? – Carlos from Los Angeles The most common symptoms are fever, tiredness and dry cough, according to the WHO. Shortness of breath is also among the most common symptoms, according to the CDC. In most cases where symptoms present, those symptoms come together, Hotez said. Some patients also have aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat or diarrhea. Some people do not have symptoms at all. A New York neurosurgeon is warning people against looking out for fever as the ﬁ rst tell-tale symptom of the virus. His symptoms began with a little bit of congestion and only later progressed to a fever, body aches and chills.

How do you actually die from the coronavirus? What happens? – Catherine from Carson City, Nevada In some cases, the virus ultimately damages tiny air sacs in the lungs, restricting oxygen to the bloodstream and depriving other major organs – including the liver, kidney and brain – of oxygen. In a small number of severe cases, that can develop into acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which requires a patient be placed on a ventilator to supply oxygen. However, if too much of the lung is damaged and not enough oxygen is supplied to the rest of the body, respiratory failure could lead to organ failure and death.

What is the age range of U.S. deaths from COVID-19? – Becky from Bentonville, Arkansas In the U.S., ages range from people in their 50s to 90s, according to state and local health departments. At least two people as young as 53 have died after contracting the virus. One was a Orleans Parish, Louisiana, resident who had underlying medical conditions, according to state health oﬃ cials. Another patient was a 53-yearold woman in New York City who had diabetes and heart disease, the mayor said. However, this range is not conclusive.

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More closures, ﬂ ight cancellations at CVG Randy Tucker

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A dramatic decline in passenger traffi c due to fears of the new coronavirus have led two more airlines to suspend fl ights at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron. Air Canada and Vacation Express - an Atlanta-based tour operator that fl ys to Mexico, Costa Rica and other popular vacation destinations - have both suspended their international fl ight operations, airport offi cials announced on their website. Delta Air Lines, which fl ew the only nonstop fl ight from CVG to virusplagued Europe, announced last week

that it was suspending the fl ight to Paris. “The airport is experiencing a sudden and signifi cant decline in passenger volumes. This is a fl uid situation, and airlines are making changes rapidly,” airport offi cials said in a statement. In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department on Thursday urged Americans not to travel overseas and to return to the United States if they can. But so far, no other international fl ights appear to have shut down because of the warning. “The U.S. State Department’s Level 4 travel advisory of March 19, 2020, is a recommendation, not a restriction, and we are not aware of suspensions or cancellations of other international fl ights

at present,” the CVG statement reads. Passenger fl ights that are still operating out of CVG have seen their load factors - or the total percentage of seats that are fi lled - drop from 80% and up to 20%-25%, according to airport offi cials. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not implemented enhanced passenger screening at CVG, but the airport has taken its own measures to help prevent the spread of the virus, which causes the COVID-19 respiratory illness. Most administrative employees at the airport are now working remotely. However, employees whose job functions are critical for safety and security, operations, as well as maintenance and cleaning continue to report for duty.

Yost orders clinics to stop ‘non-essential and elective’ surgical abortions Darrel Rowland Columbus Dispatch

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ordered abortion clinics in the state to close. They can remain open; they just can’t provide any treatment or procedures that are “non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures that utilize personal protective equipment.” Despite a state health order banning non-essential procedures during the coronavirus health emergency, Ohio Yost abortion clinics remained open last week. But after receiving complaints, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ordered two of them to follow Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton’s orders. “You and your facility are ordered to immediately stop performing non-essential and elective surgical abortions. Non-essential surgical abortions are

those that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient,” Yost said. “If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the (health director’s) order, the Department of Health will take all appropriate measures.” On Wednesday, Acton issued an order saying “all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures that utilized (personal protective equipment) should not be conducted.” The state is attempting preserve supplies of equipment needed in combating the virus. “Abortion care is a time-sensitive medical situation that cannot be signiﬁ cantly delayed without profound consequences,” NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Executive Director Kellie Copeland said in response to Yost’s letter. In a statement, Iris E. Harvey, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, and Kersha Deibel, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, said: “Under that order, Planned Parenthood can still continue providing essential

procedures, including surgical abortion, and our health centers continue to oﬀ er other health care services that our patients depend on. Our doors remain open for this care.” Ohio groups opposed to abortion rights questioned the clinics’ actions; one even recorded video of people going in and out to prove it was open. Michael Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, wrote Friday to Ohio Planned Parenthood President Iris Harvey, accusing the group of violating the state order. Although Yost’s letters went only to Women’s Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center, the two about which Yost’s oﬃ ce received complaints, Bethany McCorkle, Yost’s communication director, said the order to stop all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures that require personal protective equipment applies to all clinics. This report is excerpted from Capital Insider by Darrel Rowland for the Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network.

Regular deep cleanings for facilities and assets, such as parking shuttles, are ongoing, and the airport has shut down some facilities. CVG is reducing the number of restrooms and gate areas that are open, and the USO Lounges and CVG Career Center are temporarily closed. The economy lot has been temporarily closed to consolidate parking operations to ValuPark and the terminal garage. In addition, all restaurants and bars at CVG have closed their seating areas in accordance with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s order last week. Concessions that remain open are offering takeaway and carryout options for passengers.

Federal courthouses set to close for two weeks Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Potter Stewart Courthouse in downtown Cincinnati will close to the public beginning Monday, offi cials announced Friday. The order came from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in response to growing concerns regarding the spread of COVID-19. According to the statement, U.S. courthouses in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton will close for a period of 14 days. Attorneys and others involved in cases can fi le documents online or in paper by using the Court's drop boxes, according to the release. This change marks one week since offi cials suspended all civil and criminal trials for at least 30 days. For questions regarding the federal court closure, call (513) 564-7500.

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Ohio’s tourism industry facing huge losses Hotels close as well due to outbreak concerns Susan Glaser

(Cleveland) Plain Dealer

MILLERSBURG, Ohio – Jason Nies bought the Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg in 2009, in the middle of the Great Recession. He thought those were hard times. “I never anticipated having a complete shut down by the world,” he said. Recently, Nies made the diffi cult decision to temporarily close the inn, a popular retreat in the middle of Holmes County’s Amish country. He is hoping to reopen in the coming weeks, although he realizes any recovery is largely beyond his control. His is among a handful of hotels to close in Ohio, due to concerns about the widening novel coronavirus outbreak. Numerous other hotels in the state are likely to follow his lead, according to Joe Savarise, executive director of the Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association. “The numbers are just not there to support operations,” said Savarise. Some hotels in Ohio are reporting occupancy in the low single digits, he said. Already, large numbers of hotels have closed or are closing in several destination cities, including Las Vegas and New York City. Nationwide, hotel occupancy fell to 53%, down 24.4% from a year ago, for the week ending March 14, according to STR, a travel data fi rm. Statewide, occupancy in Ohio dropped to 46.1%, down 23% from a year earlier. In Ohio, only a handful of properties have closed completely, although many hotels have already laid off staff . The American Hotel & Lodging Association estimates that nearly 17,000 hotel-related jobs will be lost in Ohio in the coming weeks. Among the properties that have closed completely: Kalahari Resort in Sandusky – the state’s largest hotel, with 884 rooms – which is attached to a massive indoor waterpark and conference center. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered all waterparks in the state to shut down. The hotel closures are the latest blow

Honeycomb suites at the Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg, Ohio. The inn shut down this week because of coronavirus concerns. CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER FILE

to the tourism industry, which has been reeling in recent weeks. A report this week from Tourism Economics, a travel data ﬁ rm, predicted that total spending on travel in the United States could decline by $355 billion this year, or 31% – six times the impact of the Sept. 11 tourist attacks. Melinda Huntley, executive director of the Ohio Travel Association, said the impact in Ohio may not be as bad as some U.S. destinations. But it will be bad, she said. “We are primarily a drive market,” she said, and because of that, Ohio could recover a little bit faster than some areas – once recovery starts, which could be months away. “It’s very diﬃ cult because uncertainty is scary,” she said. “It’s scary for us all. What I do know is this industry is resilient. It’s comprised of some of the most creative people I know. We’ll see solutions that we can’t even dream of right now.” The tourism economy, she said, is responsible for 9% of all jobs in Ohio, the equivalent of 427,000 full-time employ-

ees. Those workers are not only hotel staff , restaurant employees and museum guides. “This will have an impact on people like accountants, offi ce supply companies,” she said. “Really, if you look at the impact of travel, it reaches almost every industry sector.” Both the Ohio Travel Association and the Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association are lobbying the state and federal governments for assistance to ease the blow, including adjustments to unemployment pay, loan forgiveness programs and emergency grants to small businesses. Nies, the owner of the Inn at Honey Run, has talked to the holder of his mortgage and is hoping to work out a plan to defer some payments. He’s also applied for a small-business loan. In the meantime, he continues to pay his staff of 40. This week, they have been busy cleaning and sanitizing the inn’s 39 guest rooms and public spaces. “And depending on how long this drags on, I will fi nd projects for them,” he said. “I’m trying not to disrupt their lives as much as possible,” he said. “My employees, like most of us, are living paycheck

to paycheck.” His staff , he said, tried to convince him not to shut down. But when the inn’s restaurant, Tarragon, was forced to close on Sunday, per the governor’s order, Nies said it seemed pointless to keep the inn open. “Yes, we do have beautiful grounds,” said Nies. “But you can’t eat. You can’t congregate in our common rooms. If you have to be separated, it doesn’t make any sense.” In an email to guests, he said the closure was eff ective until April 1, although he knows that date will likely be extended. In the meantime, he’s asking longtime customers to look ahead – to late spring, summer and fall, and consider making a reservation or buying a gift card. “Your deposit will help keep the business afl oat so that we can honor our employees and keep their hours and wages at their normal rates,” he wrote. Nies said the inn is getting some new bookings. “It’s a nice feeling to know that people out there support us,” he said. “After being cooped up, I’m hoping people will be ready to go.”

Prison system takes eﬀ orts to keep coronavirus at bay Marty Schladen

Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

COLUMBUS – Ohio’s prison system has taken fulsome measures to keep the nearly 50,000 it houses safe from coronavirus, the system’s top offi cial say. Piet van Lier, a researcher for the watchdog group Policy Matters Ohio, said it’s especially critical to protect those in state custody. “Prisons and jails can be disease incubators for both people who are incarcerated and staff ,” he said in a statement. “Workers who are exposed can carry the virus home, spreading disease to their families and communities. Incarcerated people are more likely to have chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19. “Because disease can spread quickly in crowded jails and prisons, they’re likely to produce large numbers of patients at the same time, overwhelming not only institutional healthcare systems but the capacity of nearby hospitals to which they may be transferred.” Working from and improving upon a 10-year-old pandemic plan, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction suspended visits early last week, stockpiled cleaning supplies, and issued guidance to wardens in lower-security facilities to organize prisoners into limited cohorts and keep them away from other groups, said Director Annette Chambers-Smith. “Each prison is trying to keep as much distance (between inmates) as possible and where they can’t, they’re trying to keep the same cohorts together as much as possible,” she said. Also, jails are under orders to screen inmates for COVID-19 before they’re sent along to state prison facilities and once there, they’re housed in reception centers for fi ve weeks. In addition, inmate work away from state property has been suspended. Meanwhile, sanitation teams made up of inmates are wiping down surfaces in the prisons daily, Chambers-Smith said. Prison health offi cials so far have tested fewer than 10 inmates for coronavirus, and “every single case we’ve tested so far

has come back negative,” ChambersSmith said. The Ohio Department of Health has been able to produce results from the tests in about eight hours, she added. Chambers-Smith also waived prison rules against alcohol-based hand sanitizer so they have a supply of that as well. The substance had been banned because it’s fl ammable. When sanitizer runs out, the prison system will fall back on an old standby. “We have plenty of soap, and we make soap,” Chambers-Smith said. Similarly, the Ohio Department of Youth Services has suspended visitation, curtailed staff travel and has been cleaning its facilities seven times a day. The system houses 458 youth at its three juvenile correctional facilities and its alternative placement centers. In addition to inmates, prison staff ers are being questioned about their health each time they come to work. Depending on what they say, some are having their temperatures taken and being sent home. So far, Chambers-Smith said, the prisons haven’t even experienced an outbreak of the normal seasonal fl u. But she said public-health projections seem to indicate that there will be COVID-19 cases in Ohio prisons. The system has a 2,000-person medical staff as well as protective equipment and quarantine and isolation plans, Chambers-Smith said. But if an inmate gets sick enough to require a ventilator, “that is not a level of care we can provide,” she said. The prison system has arrangements with Ohio hospitals to care for patients who become that ill. But whether the hospitals can provide that care depends on whether cases of COVID-19 surge among the general population to a point that overwhelms hospitals. That’s why health offi cials are urging Ohioans to stay home whenever possible, avoid large groups, keep a 6-foot distance from others, wash hands frequently and avoid touching your face. In the absence of visits, ODRC is providing inmates with extra calls, video visits and emails free of charge, Chambers-Smith said.

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Coronavirus stalls testing for public water systems Beth Burger

Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

Ohio’s testing of 90% of the state’s public water systems for so-called forever chemicals has come to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this month, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency began testing the state’s public water systems for the family of thousands of man-made perand polyﬂ uoroalkyl substances (PFAS) known as forever chemicals. The testing ﬁ rst started with schools and day cares that have their own water systems. Once consumed, forever chemicals can harm the immune system and development in infants and children, up the risk of cancer, lower fertility in women, interfere with hormones and increase cholesterol levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Ohio EPA has sampled 229 out of a total of 245 schools and day cares that have their own public water systems. These systems were prioritized under the action plan because they serve sensitive populations of children,” said Heidi Griesmer director of communications for Ohio EPA. “To date, Ohio EPA has received laboratory results from 121 schools and day cares, with 120 systems not showing any detection of PFAS chemicals.” The one positive sample for forever

chemicals so far was at the Manchester United Public Church/Here for You Preschool and Child Care Center in New Franklin, Summit County. Between PFOS and PFOA categories, testing levels found were at 42.3 parts per trillion. Collectively the totals between all categories tested was nearly 200 parts per trillion. Though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not regulate these chemicals, the agency has issued an advisory guideline of 70 parts per trillion (ppt) that Ohio is using. “If these are testing results and not below the detection limit, we would raise concern that the total concentration of PFAS is nearly 200 ppt,” said David Andrews, a researcher in chemistry and nanotechnology at Environmental Working Group, a health and environmental nonproﬁ t. “Many states have or are in the process of setting limits near 10 ppt for PFOA/PFOS and other (forever chemicals).“ Employees at the Manchester preschool reported to Ohio EPA that they have not used their well for drinking water for about 20 years, according to a statement. Because of that, “Ohio EPA does not anticipate any immediate response protocols to be issued for the site,” the agency said in a statement. However, Ohio EPA does plan to sample schools near the Manchester preschool site once testing resumes. The agency suspended sampling March 16.

being released at this time, but Quillen does say there was a family of four in the van and two adults in the pickup truck. He says it was dark and there was no lighting on the rural road. “The water is deceiving. The force of that moving water is deceiving, so obviously at this point it was strong enough to wash away that bridge, which caused a serious traﬃ c hazard,” Quillen said. Enquirer Media partner Fox19 provided these reports.

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Funeral sizes vary around city in age of coronavirus Chris Mayhew

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Many Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky funeral homes are limiting the number of mourners to 10 or fewer people during the novel coronavirus pandemic, while Spring Grove, one of Cincinnati’s most recognizable names, is continuing its limit of 50 people at least for now. In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine’s March 17 order limited gatherings to 50 people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) went further on March 16 by advising canceling any gathering of 10 or more people. Spring Grove Funeral Homes is currently keeping funerals to 50 attendees or fewer, said Skip Phelps, director of funeral operations. There were eight funerals scheduled for Saturday and none scheduled for Sunday at ﬁ ve diﬀ erent funeral home or church locations, he said. If an order is given for people to stay home and for non-essential businesses to shutter, it’s possible they will not be able to have funerals, he said. Spring Grove expects to have livestreaming of funerals for mourners ready on a Youtube channel by Wednesday, Phelps said. The funeral home will provide updates on Facebook when there are changes, he said. Westwood’s Neidhard-Minges Fu-

neral Home’s website alerts visitors to its policy of 10 people or less. Newcomer Funeral Homes, which operates three funeral chapels in Cincinnati and one in Erlanger, states on its website that the limits on gatherings for each state are being followed in addition to practicing social distancing by eliminating human contact and additional cleaning. Paul R. Young Funeral Home, with Mount Healthy, Hamilton and Oxford locations, has limited funerals to 10 people or fewer, according to a news release. “We are doing all we can to protect our families and also stay healthy so we can continue to be of service to Greater Cincinnati during this time,” said Sarah Young, director of communications in the release.

Kentucky In Northern Kentucky, several funeral homes including Middendorf-Bullock and Dobbling, Muehlenkamp & Erschell are advertising on their websites they are following Gov. Andy Beshear’s directive to keep funerals to immediate family. Dobbling, Muehlenkamp & Erschell, with funeral homes in Bellevue, Fort Thomas and Newport, has taken steps to encourage social distancing and washing hands, said Colin Muehlenkamp, one of the owners.

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Death, lies and uranium: How an Ohio man’s mysterious disappearance in 1984 still haunts family, friends Amber Hunt

Cincinnati Enquirer | USA TODAY NETWORK

CHAPTER 1: LOST

Harry Easterling was getting impatient. It was the end of his midnight shift, and he had an appointment scheduled before he could head home. That wouldn’t have been a problem, but Easterling carpooled to work and his co-rider was late. It’s the car-pooler’s dilemma: Everything works great until you’ve got to be somewhere on time. Easterling stood near the time clock at his rural Ohio job and waited. On the whole, he was a patient guy, but no one likes to miss appointments. He’d planned to check out a house for sale in a nearby township and hated

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the thought of the real estate agent sitting there, annoyed, twiddling her thumbs. So Easterling made a plan: He’d leave his car pool buddy a note, run to the appointment, then come back to get his friend David Bocks, who surely would surface by then. He scrawled a missive: Dave: I’ll be back after I go look at the house in Ross. - Harry When Easterling returned, his note appeared untouched. This was getting weird. “Have you seen David?” he asked the receptionist. Continued on next page

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The reply was perplexing: Nope, haven’t seen him. Easterling waited some more, then scratched out his fi rst note and wrote a new one: Dave: Waited till 10:45, fi nally went home, sorry. - Harry Easterling went home. As odd as the situation felt, he wasn’t worried. The place that employed Easterling and Bocks was a sprawling, 1,050-acre site, and the two worked the graveyard shift. David was probably immersed in a fi x-it project somewhere and lost track of the time, Easterling fi gured. The truth, he would soon learn, was more bizarre and gruesome than anything he could have imagined.

x The White Castle on Reading Road, in Sharonville, where w Harry Easterling and y David Bocks would meet to carpool. Easterling’s photo is a screen grab from Unsolved Mysteries.

❚❚❚ Driving through the stretches of green fi elds in rural Ohio, the sudden emergence of an ugly cluster of industrial factories was jarring. This was farmland – acre after acre of corn and soybeans and wheat and oats. The houses nearby would be politely described in real-estate listings as “rustic.” But the people who lived here liked it that way. They liked space between themselves and their neighbors. They liked their kids coming home with mud-covered knees. They liked that they could buy their milk from a dairy farm right down the street. They even liked those smoke-spewing factory buildings that jutted up from the landscape. It was a huge complex and it could look a bit foreboding to outsiders, what with the security fencing and barbed wire and armed guards. A lot of the neighbors didn’t know much about the plant. They saw the red-and-white checkerboard pattern adorning a water tower that loomed over the property and equated it with the nearly identical logo for Purina, a pet food brand. That the complex name was the Fernald Feed Materials Productions Center, and their impressions were solidifi ed. And why not? Wasn’t rural Ohio the perfect place to make dog chow? A few residents surely remembered the headlines from the 1950s when the plant was built, but those headlines had been vaguely about atomic power and fi ghting Russians. Those who did remember seemed to take pride in the notion that their biggest employer was key to protecting the country. Besides, there’s a lot of leeway given to big employers. Some 1,000 people worked at that plant, and it was known to pay well. Families depended on it. It provided them with food and braces and college educations. It allowed women to choose to stay home and raise families rather than work. The two-income households in the area weren’t just comfortable; they were well off . Whatever that plant produced, the locals were grateful it was there.

❚❚❚ David Bocks was a quiet man who wore thick glasses. When he was a child, he’d gotten sick – family lore pointed to measles as the culprit – leaving him legally blind in his right eye. It kept him from serving in Vietnam. He’d been born in Staten Island, New York, in 1944 to devout Catholic parents Anne and

Russell Bocks. He was the middle of three children, all boys. When the kids were still young, the Bocks moved from New York to Ohio, where all but one brother would stay until their deaths. In high school, David had a Buddy Holly look about him – a bit nerdy with horn-rimmed glasses. He wore his hair cropped short in a military-style buzz, making his protruding ears especially noticeable. By the time he was 20, he’d met and fallen in love with a petite and pretty brunette named Carline Noggler. When the two married soon after, they looked more like awkward kids playing dress-up than adults starting a life together. A carnation pinned to his suit, David beamed in photos next to his lace and tulle-adorned bride. Like David’s parents, the couple had three children. Tony was the oldest, born in 1966. Casey came next in 1968. Last came Matt three years later. David wasn’t much for book smarts, but he liked to work with his hands. Cincinnati was always a great place for work like that. The port city on the border of Ohio and Kentucky was home to dozens of internationally known companies like Procter & Gamble, Formica Laminates, the Cincinnati Type Foundry. For a while, David worked at the Cincinnati Industrial Machinery Co., a manufacturing company that made solutions for cleaning and coating applications. In 1981, he was hired on as a pipeﬁ tter at Fernald. His job was physically taxing, but straightforward enough. He was responsible for installing and maintaining pipe systems within the plant. The factories were 30 years old by the time he was hired, so pipes were cracked and leaking. Upkeep needs were constant. The work suited David, who stood about 6foot-1 and weighed between 180 and 200 pounds, depending on if you believed his bosses or his children. His son Tony remembers his dad as stocky with massive upper body strength and broad shoulders, no doubt an asset in a trade that required a lot of equipment lifting, hammering and tightening.

David took his job seriously. Far more was at stake than a tainted batch of dog food. As David and his coworkers well knew, the “feed” in Fernald’s title referenced the reﬁ ning of weaponsgrade uranium, one crucial step in the government’s creation of nuclear weapons. Fernald was a uranium processing plant. Uranium is used in bomb-making because it’s ﬁ ssionable – meaning it can be split in two and release the kind of energy that nuclear bombs need to go boom. When David applied at the plant, Republican Ronald Reagan had just walloped Democrat and incumbent President Jimmy Carter in a 489-49 Electoral College win. Reagan had been critical of the U.S. stance on arms control and promised to win the nuclear race that was underway with the Soviet Union. The new president helped ignite a wave of patriotism that fueled movies like “Rambo” and “Top Gun.” He also breathed new life into the nuclear industrial complex, causing a brief spike in hirings at plants like Fernald. David, for one, made good money there, where he worked from midnight to 8 a.m. The biggest downside to the job was its location, some 30 miles west of his home in Loveland. He soon remedied that by carpooling with coworker Easterling. The only thing vaguely amiss when the two men met up before the start of their June 20, 1984, shift was that David had missed a workday the prior week because his car had broken down. There was nothing to indicate this shift would be his last.

❚❚❚ While Easterling was wondering where his car pool buddy had gone, Fernald employee David Allen had arrived for his morning shift in Plant 6. His job was to ready a gnarly hunk of equipment called a NUSAL Vat. The vat was about 4 feet wide and more than 10 feet long. It was fi lled with a slurry of sodium chloride and potassium chloride kept at a sweltering 1,350 degrees Fahrenheit. The slurry’s job was to shape and mold chunks of uranium called ingots. Typically, a heavy concrete lid more than 3 inches thick covered the vat unless it was in use. Even when not in use, a small opening remained, measuring 221⁄ 4 by 9 inches – essentially the size of two sheets of notebook paper taped together length-wise. That opening was largely useless, save for employees playfully tossing in apple cores and watermelon rind to watch the fruit explode in the lava-like temperature. To either add salt to the slurry or to drop in the ingots, a hefty hoist had to lift off the hefty lid. Bill Welch was usually the fi rst worker to check the vat and start readying it for production. He peeked into the vat and noticed that the slurry inside looked odd. It was covered in a sooty crust that he’d never seen before. He spotted some odd, light-colored fl otsam in the mix, too, but thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. Soon, coworker David Allen lifted the lid off the vat, saw much the same and likewise shrugged it off . It wasn’t until later that day, when a proper search was underway for a missing employee, that Welch and Allen realized their earlier discovery was more than odd. It was what remained of David Bocks.

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Graphic novel online tells ‘Accused’ tale Just as there are many ways to skin a cat, there are lots of ways to tell a story — especially one as layered and complicated as that of David Bocks. The Enquirer spent more than a year reinvestigating the case, with the results presented three distinct ways: audio, print and graphic novel. The eight-episode podcast was released in December and January. The graphic novel, sampled below, is at http://bit.ly/a3graphicnovel

CHAPTER 2: FIRST AND LAST THOUGHTS Casey Bocks and her younger brother Matt had spent the weekend with their father. Tony, at age 17, was living on his own and married, so he tended to grab dinners and short visits with his dad rather than doing overnight stays. Casey said that last weekend with her father was completely ordinary. “We just hung out,” she said. “I mean, usually, we would go and eat someplace and then just hang around the house. It wasn’t anything extravagant. We never really did a whole lot of anything.” David bought groceries and stocked the fridge. A chain smoker, he slapped three packs of cigarettes on the kitchen table. He worried sometimes about being too sleepy on the job, so he took the kids home a little early to allow for a nap before his midnight shift. Looking back, Casey recalls nothing that stood out about the visit. There certainly had been no meaningful heart-to-hearts or unusual expressions of fatherly love. In fact, it was the opposite: David talked with Casey and Matt about some housekeeping matters as they planned an upcoming trip to Florida. The next day, her mom’s boyfriend took Casey and Matt to Churchill Downs, the racetrack that serves as home to the Kentucky Derby. The track’s in Louisville, about a 90-minute drive from Cincinnati. Carline had stayed home. As the trio walked around, Casey swore she heard someone over the loudspeaker paging her mom’s boyfriend. She told him so, but he didn’t believe her. Who would be paging him, anyway? So they stayed until all the races were over for the day and headed back home. Carline was waiting for them. Casey doesn’t know how her mom was told or by whom, but word had reached her that David hadn’t come home from his work shift. “At that point in time, he was just missing,” Casey said. “We didn’t know what had happened.” The story relayed was so bizarre, Casey couldn’t wrap her brain around it. How could someone go to work and simply disappear?

❚❚❚ The Fernald plant straddled two Ohio counties: Butler and Hamilton. When the call came in about a missing person, it was routed to the sheriff ’s offi ce in the latter county. Investigators fi rst heard from Lawrence “Larry” Devir, a police offi cer who worked security at the plant, who told them a worker had

gone missing. The second call came from a lawyer within Fernald’s legal department, according to handwritten notes within the department’s 351-page investigative fi le. Once investigators learned of the mysterious black sludge in the NUSAL vat, they ordered it to be cooled and drained. On June 23 – three full days after David disappeared – investigators were lowered into the furnace, where they inspected hardened slag measuring between 2 and 4 inches thick. Offi cers used chisels to break up the slag, then an air hammer to remove the chunks from the oven fl oor. As they carved and chipped away at the material, they amassed a list of unsettling fi nds: Pieces of a walkie-talkie radio. Wire from a pair of safety glasses. An alligator clip from a nametag. Steel toes and eyelets from work shoes. When investigators uncovered a ring of keys, Chief Deputy Sheriff Victor Carrelli lugged them to David’s toolbox, which he kept near his locker where he stored his street clothes. Carrelli fi shed out a padlock and tried the keys. Sure enough, one fi t. And, lest anyone think that maybe David’s belongings landed in the vat but not David himself, investigators chronicled one more disturbing discovery: multiple chunks of fragmented bone.

xx Pete Alderucci was the lead detective from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department on the David Bocks case, where bone fragments were found in a salt vat at the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. x The keys and the lock were also found in the salt vat.

❚❚❚ Hamilton County Sheriﬀ ’s Detective Pete w A part of the Fernald plant, pictured in 2001, was responsible for reﬁ ning uranium for nuclear weapons. ENQUIRER ARCHIVES

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Alderucci was among the main investigators assigned to fi nd David Bocks. He answered to Carrelli, second in command under Sheriff Lincoln Stokes. Carrelli, who died in 2007, had worked as an FBI agent for nearly 30 years before Stokes – a fellow FBI alumnus – announced in 1977 that Carrelli “can walk on water” and appointed him his second-in-command. Alderucci was plenty experienced in grisly cases. When a big homicide case hit the department, he was inevitably the guy sent out fi rst to gather evidence. But those cases, while disturbing, were always more typical fare – shootings, stabbings, strangulations. The Bocks investigation was something entirely diff erent. The thick investigative fi le bears this out. In it is page after page of instructions explaining the dangers of handling each bit of debris pulled from the vat. After all, hunks of radioactive uranium had been lowered into that slurry again and again. Everything inside had to be surveyed for radiation before leaving the plant. These tests were a far cry from those Alderucci usually saw in his investigations. These ones measured things like Beta + Gamma Exposure, Gamma-only Exposure and Alpha Contamination – and used instruments he’d never heard of – “pancake G-M with paper ‘alpha fi lter’” was one; Alpha Scintillation Survey Meter was another. The results varied slightly, but the bottom line was that investigators were instructed to be careful with the evidence in a way they’d never encountered in another case, not for fear of contaminating the evidence, but for fear the evidence would contaminate them. They couldn’t eat, drink or smoke while holding the samples, and they were ordered to wash their hands after each handling. If the samples had to be cut or crushed, investigators were told to wear a fume hood or “an air-purifying respirator with a radionuclide fi lter cartridge.” Even with these precautions, some of the evidence bore extra warnings: “Each individual should limit actual hands-on handling on sample to 13 hours of actual contact,” read several. That’s because uranium is no joke. It’s a high-density metal found in rocks that kicks off ridiculous amounts of energy. Its slow radioactive decay is where most of the Earth’s heat comes from. Uranium’s naturally occurring in small amounts, but to get the quantity needed for nuclear weapons, it has to be refi ned and enriched. When that’s done, it makes a powerful nuclear fuel. Fernald had just one customer for the uranium it processed: the U.S. government. The plant itself was run by a private company called National Lead of Ohio that everybody referred to as NLO. That company, in turn, was contracted by the Department of Energy. Fernald’s workers had to agree they wouldn’t talk about the top-secret nature of their jobs – not even to their own families. One employee, John Sadler, remembered: “You had to sign an agreement you wouldn’t talk about anything that you did there under penalty. I think it was $10,000 and fi ve years in prison.”

❚❚❚ Ice melts at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Chocolate, at 90 degrees. When it hits 130 degrees outside, a human’s likely to get heatstroke.

impression swayed his theory in David’s death. Because it wouldn’t have been possible for David to accidentally fall into the vat, that left two possibilities: that David was put there by someone else or that he chose to enter the vat to end his life. “Nobody could have killed him, carried him up,” Alderucci said. “What we determined was that he wanted to commit suicide. He had to get back, run up those steps and either jump or dive in that small opening.” Despite Bocks’ size, he explained, it was a simple matter of process of elimination. Homicide was never considered. “We had no reason to,” he said. “There was no indication, no evidence to show of any homicide.”

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The NUSAL vat was kept at a constant 1,350 degrees. It rarely varied by more than a degree, but when it did – say, by the lid being lifted and uranium ingots lowered in to be reshaped – electrodes immersed inside the vat kicked on to heat the slurry back to 1,350. The vat stood about 4 feet tall in the middle of a grime-and-rust covered factory ﬂ oor. On one end of the vat – the same end as the small opening – was a ladder that served as the only means of reaching the vat’s top, though there rarely was reason to do so. There was no plausible way for a worker to accidentally fall into the vat. When the lid was removed to make room for ingots, it was lifted by a hoist that attached to a hook atop the lid. The hoist followed a prescribed path to move the lid aside without setting it down. Harry Easterling, David’s car pool buddy, remembered the vat well: “It just looked like hell,” he said. “If you were to look down at hell and there was a big hole in the ground, that’s what it looked like – a big, open, red hole in the ground. Like a volcano.” The slurry was so hot it literally glowed red. Alderucci arrived before the vat was cooled. He remembers being struck by how hot it was to even stand near. “You couldn’t get within 10 feet of it,” he said. “It’d be so hot it would – you would just burn to death.” Longtime employees dispute this memory. It was hot, yes, they said, but not unbearable. Easterling likened it to a sauna – uncomfortable, but certainly not fatal. Alderucci remembers diﬀ erently, and his

xx The salt vat inside of Plant 6 at the Fernald Feed Material Production Center was kept at 1350 degrees Fahrenheit and, according to employee Harry Easterling, looked like “hot lava.” PROVIDED

x Fernald worker Frank Merrill, left, cleans mock “product” made from from the protective suit worn by fellow worker Darrell Kirby in 1991. ENQUIRER ARCHIVES

Anything radioactive is dangerous, of course, but processing uranium is also an exacting job. That slurry had to stay a constant 1,350 degrees Fahrenheit, so its temperature was regularly monitored and anomalies investigated. In the early morning hours of David’s disappearance, there was a dramatic anomaly. The temperature in the vat dipped twice in a 15-minute span. The fi rst dip, recorded at 5:10 a.m., was 28 degrees, lowering the slurry temp to 1,322 degrees. The temperature recovered slightly before dipping again to 1,324 degrees. After that, it crept back to normal and stayed put. To make matters more complicated, engineer Robert Spenceley told investigators that the time printed on the temperature readouts was about 10 minutes fast, so the double-dip likely began closer to 5 a.m. Spenceley did some back-of-the-napkin math: You need 980 BTUs of heat to boil a pound of water, and the human body consists of about 90% water. If David weighed 180 pounds like investigators thought, that would likely cause a 25- to 30-degree temperature drop. Problem was, no one had ever fallen into the vat before, so workers could only theorize how the slurry would react to a human body entering it. As disturbing as the thought was, they also didn’t know what trauma that body would endure. They only had their fruit tosses to go by, and when they tossed apples or watermelons – rind and all – into that slurry, the fruit exploded with a bang as loud as gunfi re. Human bodies aren’t quite the same as apples, however. It’s tough to fi nd an analogous scenario on which you can base an educated answer. Volcanologist Adam Kent, a professor at Oregon State University, said he suspects the slurry would have behaved similarly to lava. He pointed to a video online showing a couple of people tossing “organic waste” into a rumbling volcano. Viewers hear a loud pop, then see a series of violent explosions, one after the other, until the bagged items sink beneath the surface. Kent suspects a human body would elicit the same reaction. The reason comes down to pressure: The extraordinary heat of the slurry would cause all liquids in the human body to rapidly evaporate, turning into steam. The steam pushes against its encasement – which, in this situation, would be human skin. “Basically, the pressure becomes so much that the water can’t be trapped anymore and it

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explodes,” Kent said. Without a proper experiment, this is just a theory, but it’s one even NLO scientists suspected back in 1984. An internal letter from an in-house scientist named H.E. Fairman includes the line: “The violent expulsion of the salt due to the introduction of water would also have resulted in several limbs or fracture bones being ejected from the furnace.” But if David’s body exploded on immersion, how could he have ensured his entire body made it through the small opening? Why were there no limbs or bones found outside of the vat? And why were there two distinct drops in the temperature readout? David’s children think he was perhaps killed outside of the vat, then cut in two pieces and immersed in halves. Even if David had been suicidal, they say, he never would have chosen such a hellish way to do it. Alderucci said families left behind by suicide often can’t accept the ruling. It’s too heartbreaking and guilt-inducing. “I have investigated a lot of suicides, and people do it in very illogical ways,” he said. “Even people that know better – doctors, you know, people like that.” Plus, he said his theory was bolstered by something else: “He was despondent. We knew that he was having psychological problems.”

❚❚❚ It’d been a rocky few years for David Bocks. After he’d married Carline, things on the whole had gone like marriages are supposed to. The couple had three children, David had a steady job, everything was solid. But then David started drinking. He wasn’t a mean drunk or a dangerous drunk, but he was a drunk nonetheless. It caused strife in his marriage. Carline tolerated it until she couldn’t anymore. Then she asked for a divorce. David hadn’t wanted to split. He, like most married people, wanted a lifelong union – one much like his parents’. He tried to talk Carline into staying, promising things would get better, but the damage had been irreparable. She still loved him, she said, but it was time to move on. So while David hadn’t been able to enjoy a picture-perfect marriage, he got as close to a picture-perfect divorce as he could. He and Carline didn’t ﬁ ght, didn’t get nasty. He saw the kids regularly, he moved in with his parents and he sobered up, too. To get sober, he stopped cold turkey. That sent him into detox, which, his adult kids now say, caused hallucinations. In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, David was hospitalized three times, each stint shorter than the one before it – including a monthlong stay around the same time both of his parents died. What precisely was wrong with David is, of course, tough to determine 35 years later. He worked with a psychiatrist who, in 1976, diagnosed David with schizophrenia and suggested his drinking had been an attempt to self-medicate. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects how people process their thoughts and interact with reality. As with most disorders, there’s a sizable spectrum on which people might fall. Some people with schizophrenia hallucinate, but the only time David did so was when he was detoxing. Reading David’s psychiatric records, it seems his presented itself

through cognitive symptoms – speciﬁ cally trouble organizing his thoughts. Like 1 in 6 adult Americans today, David was on medication to treat his mental health. Once, in early 1980, David impulsively took 300 milligrams of Trilafon, his antipsychotic medication. Though that was 10 times more than he’d been prescribed, it wasn’t fatal. He spent about a month in the hospital, after which he continued seeing a psychiatrist, who gradually lowered his prescription to 8 milligrams a day. The medicine seemed to help. The 1980 hospital stint was David’s last known breakdown. He got his prescription reﬁ lled monthly. After he disappeared, police searched his home and found a prescription bottle with the appropriate number of pills remaining.

x Tony Bocks, the son of David Bocks. AMANDA ROSSMANN/ THE ENQUIRER

x David Bocks and family PROVIDED

“Even though our government knew that there were dangers, that was not something that folks who worked in the mines or worked in the mills in the ‘40s or ‘50s were notiﬁ ed about.” Stephanie Malin

Author of “The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice.”

Still, people with schizophrenia have higher rates of suicide than those without psychotic disorders. A study published in 2015 suggested that half of schizophrenics attempt suicide at some point in their lives, while 5% to 10% of schizophrenics will die by suicide. That, matched with Alderucci’s perception that homicide was impossible, led investigators to conclude that David killed himself. There was no other option.

❚❚❚ When a loved one dies by suicide, it can be diffi cult for family members who didn’t see it coming. Even when all the evidence points to a self-infl icted death – including notes saying goodbye – some insist they would have seen red fl ags. That was true with the Bocks family, but their doubts were supported by some odd developments in the months after David disap-

peared. In December 1984, a headline ran on the front page of The Cincinnati Enquirer: NLO Checking Possible Uranium Leak The story began: Unacceptably large amounts of uranium dust may have escaped from NLO’s Fernald uranium processing plant in northwest Hamilton County, NLO spokesman George Smith said Monday. If it really happened, the uranium slipped by a fl awed fi lter and pressure monitor in a work area exhaust system for three months, Smith said. But it may not have happened, he added. At the time, the news was curious and foreboding, but also in dispute. While it caught people’s attention, fears around the Fernald plant were, on the whole, assuaged by the company’s insistence that everything was fi ne. More than three decades later, however, and the truth is easier to suss out. Things were not fi ne at Fernald. Not only were thousands of pounds of uranium dust being released into the air, but water wells in the area were tainted, too. It would take years of investigative reporting, protracted lawsuits and scientifi c analysis, but the gist is this: The U.S. government had known for decades that long-term exposure to uranium was detrimental to people’s health. They knew this because uranium miners from the 1950s had higher rates of lung and renal diseases. “Even though our government knew that there were dangers, that was not something that folks who worked in the mines or worked in the mills in the ‘40s or ‘50s were notifi ed about,” said Stephanie Malin, an assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University. Malin has spent a chunk of her career researching the issue. She wrote a book called “The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice.” Disclosing the potential dangers might have stopped workers from doing things that, in hindsight, sound as crazy as they are dangerous – like tasting radioactive salts to decide if they would make good laboratory samples. Reporters starting to break stories in the mid-80s about Fernald weren’t experts like Malin, however. When company and government offi cials insisted the plant was safe, the reporters quoted them saying so and didn’t have the expertise to push back. But slowly, more and more experts worldwide began weighing in, and a pattern emerged: Scientists hired by the NLO or the DOE insisted everything was fi ne, but independent scientists – ones with no affi liation to the plant – said otherwise.

❚❚❚ D.C. Cole was a reporter drawn to a diff erent headline altogether. Widow sues over NLO tissue samples The story ran in August 1985 and described the death three months earlier of a 33-year-old man named Larry Hicks. Hicks had worked at Fernald since 1973. On May 15, 1985, he was walking in one of the plants when a piece of equipment malfunctioned overhead, dousing him with uranium particles. Uranium is colorless and odorless, and its eff ects on the human body usually take time. But Hicks began feeling ill within a day. On May 20, fi ve days after the dousing, he complained of fatigue and an irregular heart-

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beat. He died at the hospital. His wife, Diane Hicks, was suddenly widowed with three children. She suspected her otherwise healthy husband’s sudden death had to do with the mishap he’d had a few days earlier, but she’d need an expert to test his internal organs to help prove it. NLO insisted the uranium dousing was a coincidence. Through hired doctors, they said Hicks died of a potassium defi ciency and, therefore, his family wasn’t entitled to workers’ compensation benefi ts. When Larry’s body was being prepped by a mortician for a viewing, Diane learned more upsetting news: Larry’s chest was now visibly sunken and had to be internally padded to fi ll out his suit. Larry was missing bones, his liver, his kidneys and tissue from his spleen. He still had his heart. When uranium is absorbed by the human body, the highest levels are found in the bones, liver and kidneys, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If Diane was going to sue anybody over uranium exposure, she was missing the very organs she needed to make her case. She changed tacks and instead sued over her husband’s missing organs. The allegations were so ghoulish, they made headlines, though Larry’s actual death had not. The unsuccessful suit and failed appeals dragged on for years. In the early 1990s, D.C. Cole had been writing for free for local weeklies and wrote a story about the Hicks case for a now-defunct outlet called Everybody’s News. In reporting the Hickses’ story, he learned about another death at the plant – that of David Bocks nearly a year earlier. Cole became consumed by the story. He contacted David’s children and interviewed his coworkers. He was outspoken in his belief that Bocks was murdered and his death had been covered up by both NLO and the government. Cole had a personal connection to Fernald, according to John Fox, then the editor of Everybody’s News. He said Cole described ailing family members who lived near the plant. Cole even wrote a fi rst-person story about his sick mother and uncle. Cole was a character. He wore a cowboy hat and turquoise jewelry with his biker-themed black T-shirt. “If you met him and didn’t know he was a reporter, you’d think this guy’s just getting ready to go out to South Dakota for the bike rally out there,” Tony Bocks said. Both Tony and Casey remember big promises: Cole was going to expose the truth, in turn taking down NLO and maybe even the government. Tony already believed NLO was hiding something about his father’s death, so he was open to hearing Cole’s theories. But even he found them to be “a little bit overboard.” Cole was convinced that some other tragedies peripherally connected to the Bocks family might be part of the purported cover-up. He found it odd that David’s psychiatrist, Cliff ord Grulee III, died by suicide Oct. 2, 1985, before he’d been able to testify to what he told police – which was that he didn’t believe David was suicidal. In January 1988, David’s brother Peter was killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking to work at a motel in Milford. The driver was never found. Cole asked: If a company goes so far as to remove organs from a dead worker’s body without asking his family’s permission, is it really such a stretch to think they’d cover up the true cause of another death? Cole died in 2016. He never took down NLO or the government, but he did score one success: He got the case featured on a segment of the TV show “Unsolved Mysteries.” The national exposure sparked a slew of tips. Most were nonsense, but a few sounded plausible.

Arthur called for new procedures. Workers should not only be informed that they were dealing with plutonium, but they also should wear respirators and have regular urinalyses. His bosses told him there was no time to adopt new safety protocols. Arthur warned that if something went wrong, “We will get our ass sued off.” The police ﬁ le indicates Alderucci circled back to one employee who said he knew that David’s death was murder, and he even knew the killer. “Talk to that manager. He knows a lot more than what he’s saying,” the informant said. David’s manager at Fernald was a man named Charles Shouse. He happened to be the last man to have reportedly seen David alive. Alderucci never circled back to interview him.

CHAPTER 4: WHISTLE BLOWN Daniel Arthur’s job was to oversee safety at the Fernald site. Hired in 1984, he worked as “lead auditor,” charged with analyzing the operation and documenting any deﬁ ciencies. He answered to two immediate supervisors and found it odd that they ordered him not to audit several areas of the plant, but he went along. Arthur considered his an important job. He was the only one who did it and, when he was hired, production at the plant hit the highest levels since the 1950s. But after working nearly two years as auditor, he realized he’d never talked to a single DOE oﬃ cial about his audits. He started to suspect that no one was even reading them. Not only that, but he pieced together that half of the site’s routine maintenance operations were “terribly inadequate.” “To give you an idea of the situation as it stood on January 1st, 1986, 50% – one out of two of all maintenance procedures – had not been reviewed or revised since 1960. That is 26 years,” he said during a congressional hearing in April 1987.

x D.C. Cole was a self-described investigative reporter who wrote for a now-defunct weekly called Everybody's News. Cole also wrote a book about the David Bocks case and lobbied to get it on Unsolved Mysteries. This is a screen grab from Unsolved Mysteries. COURTESY OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

y Workers stand near the salt vat inside of Plant 6 at the Fernald Feed Material Production Center after it was drained following the disappearance of employee David Bocks in June 1984. PROVIDED

The fi rst time he even saw a DOE offi cial was after the headlines hit about dust releases. And even then, he only saw the guy on TV. “Many of the managers would comment about it and wonder why they were making such a fuss over the release in the fall of 1984 when they felt there were certainly bigger problems and larger releases just in the past two years before that time.” Arthur was hired one month before David Bocks died. The newly revealed safety issues at the plant had quickly overshadowed the bizarre tale of the missing pipefi tter. Arthur grew frustrated that he was fl agging problems no one addressed, so he got more vocal. Then, in February 1986, he learned that Fernald had been handling plutonium shipped from sites in Hanford, Washington, and the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina – but workers didn’t know it. Plutonium is highly radioactive. DOE regulations specifi ed that nothing more than 10 parts per billion plutonium was to be processed without special permission. Fernald had no such permission, yet processed 7,757 parts per billion in 1982, Arthur said. Arthur called for new procedures. Workers should not only be informed that they were dealing with plutonium, but they also should wear respirators and have regular urinalyses. His bosses told him there was no time to adopt new safety protocols. Arthur warned that if something went wrong, “We will get our ass sued off .” Days after that warning, Arthur got a letter from his bosses accusing him of taking “excessive time off ” and having a bad attitude “towards accepting more responsible assignments.” “I read the writing on the wall, that defi nitely was a paper trail leading to fi ring me,” Arthur said. He preemptively quit in March 1986 and wrote a three-page letter explaining why. “This resignation is solely based on the Health and Safety conditions that exist at the Fernald Site,” he wrote, before outlining 12 specifi c concerns, among them: ❚ Repeated violation of operating procedures and maintenance standards. ❚ Failure to preventatively care for scales, hoists and cranes to ensure their ongoing maintenance. ❚ Failure to inform workers the maximum amount of time they should be exposed to substances such as thorium. ❚ Using outdated alarm and messaging systems in violation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. It would ultimately be these issues, among many, that led to Fernald’s shuttering a few years later. One matter that played no role in the shuttering: David’s gruesome death in a cauldron reminiscent of hell.

❚❚❚ David Bocks was a stickler for the rules, his family and coworkers say. His direct manager, Charles Shouse, told police that David had complained about a worker named Earnie Gipson for sleeping on the job. Shouse caught Gipson snoozing soon after and suspended him. That suspension was underway when Bocks disappeared. Harry Easterling told a reporter that David often warned him about dangerous spots at the plant. Those hot spots weren’t a secret, coworker Melvin Karnes said. He said his sister worked for an Ohio politician and told Karnes she’d been instructed to visit the Fernald site. “I said, ‘Oh, hell no.’ You stay the hell out of this building, this building, this building,” Karnes said, rattling oﬀ spots he considered “hotter than ﬁ recrackers.” Employees repeatedly were told their jobs were safe. Bosses claimed the only harm to be caused by uranium billets was dropping one on your foot. But Karnes said no one believed that.

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Workers wore dosimeter badges that supposedly turned red when exposed to too much radiation, but the badges were so unreliable that they became the butts of jokes. “We used to take the dosimeter badges and lay them right on top of uranium and leave them there for damn near the whole shift,” he said. They rarely turned red. On the rare occasion a badge did detect radiation, bosses would declare it a false positive, saying the badge was defective. As Larry Hicks’ 1985 death showed, workers could literally be doused in uranium particles and managers would insist they were fi ne. In Fernald’s fi nal years, the site changed owners before ending production forever, but DOE remained the overseer. It set production goals and gave hefty bonuses for not reporting safety issues. Some employees claimed in lawsuits that if they did get hurt or sick, the company sent a car to their homes to take them to the plant, where they’d be kept in the infi rmary long enough to say they came to work. In short, production was king, and safety an afterthought. “We really should not have Dracula supervising the blood bank,” U.S. Rep. Thomas Luken, D-Cincinnati, said in 1987 at the hearing regarding Daniel Arthur. David Bocks’ children hadn’t known much about their father’s job when he disappeared. As the public scrutiny gained steam, they found themselves wondering if his death had been part of a cover-up: Maybe, they thought, their dad was killed by a coworker to stop him from blowing the whistle on Fernald.

❚❚❚ Lisa Crawford had never heard of David Bocks when Fernald forever changed her life a few months after the disappearance. Crawford had returned to the house she rented in Ross, across the street from the Fernald plant, in fall 1984. She learned a man had been poking around the water well in her backyard – and that she, her husband and her 7year-old son had all been drinking water contaminated by Fernald. “We were mad. How dare you, you know?” Crawford said. Homeowners near Fernald had been notiﬁ ed that their water wells were routinely tested for contamination. Because Crawford didn’t own her house, however, she had never been forewarned of the possibility. In late 1984, she learned hers was among a few contaminated wells. Her landlord tried to calm her fears, but Crawford asked both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Health to test her well and provide second opinions.

That they provided contradictory opinions did little for her nerves. The EPA told her to fi nd a new source of drinking water because hers was unsafe, while the health department said the water was fi ne. Crawford opted to follow the EPA’s advice, and she spoke to any reporter willing to hear her complaints. When the area’s biggest employer is suddenly under fi re, the community is inevitably divided. Workers who relied on Fernald for their very livelihoods got angry with Crawford for bad-mouthing their boss. She came home to death threats left on her answering machine. For months, she suspected her phone line was tapped – though she tried to handle it with humor. “I used to pick it up (and say), ‘I gotta call my mom now, you wanna listen?’ ” she said. “We became smart alecks mostly.” At fi rst, she was at odds with both managers and workers at Fernald. But in 1985, after the dust-release debacle, the union went on strike. Longtime workers began doubting managers’ assurances and believing naysayers like Daniel Arthur. Gene Branham, president of the Fernald Atomic Trades & Labor Council, supported Arthur in the 1987 congressional hearing. “For the last quarter of a century that I have been ac-

“We really should not have Dracula supervising the blood bank.” US Rep. Thomas Luken, D-Cincinnati At 1987 hearing regarding Daniel Arthur

xx Lisa Crawford founded FRESH to take on the government in the cleanup of the Fernald uranium processing plant in Crosby Twp. She is now a nationally known activist. Photo taken in 2001. ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

x An aerial view of the Fernald cleanup site in Crosby Township in 2005. PROVIDED

tively involved, the union has been treated like poor kin, a stepchild or what have you,” he told lawmakers. “We have normally sat on the back porch and while these fellows have sat out front and eaten the roasting ears and passed the corn cobs back to us. That situation is about to change, we hope.” Change did come, though it was clunky and incremental. In 1989, Fernald ceased production and started cleanup eff orts that would last nearly 20 years. Residents and workers battled for years in court to eventually win access to a medical monitoring program. As soon as the headlines quieted for a while, some new revelation would arise to shock the region all over again. Among them: ❚ In the early ‘90s, Branham said that Dr. Eugene Saenger, a key scientist testifying on behalf of the DOE in residents’ lawsuit against Fernald, had not only accepted federal money to conduct controversial radiation experiments, but said he was paid substantially for his testimony. Saenger also was accused of trying to persuade at least two doctors to change workers’ compensation claim reports on Fernald employees to favor the government. ❚ In 1995, reports were declassifi ed, exposing that NLO and the DOE off ered workers up to $500 to sign over their bodies to the company after death. The stated goal was to conduct research, though many believed it was really to avoid independent testing that might tie uranium exposure to the cause of death. This revelation came 10 years after the government took organs from Larry Hicks, who died fi ve days after being doused with uranium particles by a

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ACCUSED 3: DEATH, LIES AND URANIUM faulty machine – without his family’s consent. ❚ In 1996, an Enquirer investigation had found more than 1,000 serious safety-related problems in the prior three years that Branham alleged workers had been pressured to lie about. Those included repeated failure of radiation alarms and reports of missing or misplaced containers of uranium. Several employees reportedly had been caught high on cocaine and other drugs, but were allowed to continue working as long as they promised to stop. ❚ The same investigation found that the company hired to clean up the Fernald site had cheated the government out of millions of dollars by providing inaccurate ﬁ nancial and performance data. Despite one obstacle after another, the site eventually was cleaned well enough to become a nature preserve. Some of the most dangerous waste was shipped oﬀ -site by train and buried in Nevada. About 4.7 million tons of low-level waste, uranium-contaminated soil and building debris were buried at Fernald. Because of that, the land will never be clean enough for homes.

CHAPTER 5: WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND The police fi le detailing David’s death includes hundreds of pages of all sorts: handwritten scribbles on yellow legal paper; neatly typed formal reports; transcripts of interviews with Easterling and Shouse; and opinions from experts agreeing that the bone fragments found appear to be from an adult human. Some of the notes subtly express frustration, including a two-page document titled “Processing Low-Grade Uranium.” The typed memo explains how the NUSAL vat heat-treats ingots “to alter the grain or molecular structure of the metal.” The professional-looking document closes with a strange sentence: “It should be noted that the individual who wrote this treatise on the operation of this small section of the Fernald Plant is well versed in many technical fi elds, however he does not know a (expletive) thing about the processing of uranium.” Though Alderucci said nothing in the case suggested murder, the police fi les suggest otherwise. Investigators didn’t compile a timeline of David’s last shift, but according to the myriad law enforcement documents, the undisputed parts went like this: David met Easterling at the White Castle about 10:50 p.m. and the two drove to Fernald. They clocked in, changed from their street clothes to their work clothes, stepped through a sanitizing shower and attended a meeting, during which they were handed their assignments for the night. David fi nished his jobs, and then met back up with Easterling and their boss, Shouse, for a meal break at 4 a.m. David had packed his lunch in a brand new lunchbox, which Easterling noticed and complimented. After he ate, David clocked back in at 4:46 a.m. and disappeared soon after. But a closer reading of Easterling and Shouse’s statements highlight some odd discrepancies. Easterling said David was quiet, but no more than usual; that despite being tired, he seemed plenty upbeat, and that David was with him nonstop before his shift began. Shouse, meanwhile, said David seemed despondent. He said that he spotted David walking toward the NUSAL vat building before he

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was assigned his night’s work; that David ate an extra sandwich at lunch, as though it could be his last meal, and that after the break, Shouse spent about 10 minutes trying to get David to “open up” through conversation, but his eff orts failed. With the 4:46 a.m. clock-in documented on David’s time sheet, that would have meant Shouse was talking to David around 5 a.m. – the same time the NUSAL vat readout began its spike. According to the fi les, police dismissed Easterling’s version of events and embraced Shouse’s. No one else in the fi les – not David’s family or his friends or even his psychiatrist – believed David was suicidal. Shouse was never questioned for motive or asked to prove his whereabouts. Another apparent lead was back-burnered. Shouse told investigators that David’s complaints led him to suspend a worker named Earnie Gipson for sleeping on the job. Gipson, who’s described as a “troublemaker” in the fi le, was still suspended when David disappeared. A coworker thought he saw Gipson’s motorcycle around midnight of the night in question, so police went to Gipson’s house, saw that his motorcycle was inoperable and dismissed the lead altogether. They never asked for an alibi, checked to see if he had access to other transportation or questioned him regarding motive. Gipson did not return phone calls for this project. Shouse didn’t respond to phone messages or mailed letters, and when a reporter knocked on his door and asked to speak in person, a woman said he was sleeping. He never replied. The unfollowed leads could, of course, be red herrings, as is true with all leads in any investigation. But to David’s children, they serve as clear contradiction to investigators’ insistence that there was no reason to even consider that David was murdered.

“If I would die in that plant, I guarantee you there would be such an investigation of every second that happened during that day. Every step, every angle that I took would’ve been on record. That didn’t seem to be the case with my dad’s death.” Tony Bocks

Son of David Bocks

❚❚❚ Tony Bocks was 17 when his father died. Like most teenagers, he was too self-absorbed to think much about his dad as a man or a worker. He knew his dad had a job at Fernald, but that mostly was because David at some point had suggested he apply there. After his dad disappeared, Tony felt anger consume him. He’d always been a bit hot-headed, but now he was furious. He didn’t believe his father died by suicide, and his gut told him that the detectives were persuaded to call it one so they could quickly close the case. Tony’s fury led him to drink. Unlike his father, he would get violent, starting occasional

y The Fernald Nature Preserve, shown now, was once the home to former cold-war era Fernald Feed Materials Production Center located in Hamilton County, Ohio. AMANDA ROSSMANN/THE ENQUIRER

fi stfi ghts. “One thing I’ve learned about being an alcoholic is you self-medicate your depression,” he said. “I’m not blaming my alcoholism on my dad’s death, but it played a part of it because I was a bitter person for a few years after he died. I really was.” Tony managed to quit drinking before it ruined his marriage. He grew up, he had kids, he got a job working in a power plant. That experience reinforced his resolve. “If I would die in that plant, I guarantee you there would be such an investigation of every second that happened during that day,” he said. “Every step, every angle that I took would’ve been on record. That didn’t seem to be the case with my dad’s death.” Life moved on for Tony, but with an asterisk. He never felt at peace. He still keeps his dad’s Little League glove on his dashboard and wished through every one of life’s hardships that he had his dad for guidance. As the years passed, David’s story was reduced to folklore. The tale was always told with one of three possible explanations: that David had faked his death with animal bones misidentifi ed as human remains and run off to start a new life somewhere; that his mental health deteriorated without warning and he managed to cram himself into the vat’s slim opening; or that he was killed by a coworker who’d hoped the vat would conceal the crime. The fi rst possibility has faded with time. No evidence has surfaced that David is still alive, and his case has received international coverage thanks to The Enquirer’s “Accused” podcast, which reached 2 million downloads within two months. Alderucci, now retired, recently maintained that he still “100%” believes that David killed himself. No one who knew David believes that’s the case, and several workers – as well as an Enquirer experiment involving a replica of the vat – suggest that someone David’s size would have found it diffi cult, if not impossible, to force himself into the vat opening. To most who knew David, that leaves murder – though they don’t agree on a motive. Maybe the reason was fairly pedestrian; maybe not. Tony is careful to say he doesn’t think what really happened is a JFK-level conspiracy, but how could it be a coincidence that so soon after his dad disappeared in such a mind-bogglingly mysterious way that the company’s secrets are revealed? How could a man go to work and never be seen again David’s case is technically unsolved, despite investigators’ insistence he killed himself. With only bones to examine, the cause of death was never clear, much less the method. Technology’s come a long way, of course, and the family would love to have the evidence reexamined, but that’s not likely to happen for a simple reason: They don’t know where it is. The keys and metal and bits of bone were never returned to the family. While no one has been able to say for sure, the belief is the items were sealed in a drum and shipped to Nevada along with other radioactive materials. There, the remains were buried so that the radioactivity in them cannot escape and harm others. David’s children feel the disposal was designed to ensure the truth about his death stayed buried, too.

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States gird for coronavirus ﬁ ght New York seeks space for temporary hospitals Amy Forliti and Frank Jordans ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York state offi cials might establish temporary hospitals on college campuses and in New York City’s main convention center in preparation for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. Cuomo said the government is seeking to increase hospital bed capacity by 50% to 25,000 more beds. Offi cials have also found 2 million protective masks to send to hot spots. New York is reviewing four possible locations for temporary hospitals, which would be operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. Cuomo also said 1 million N-95 masks are being sent to New York City on Saturday, with another 500,000 masks going to Long Island. He is also trying to fi nd a supplier for more gowns, and clothing companies are converting to make masks. “Everything that can be done is being done,” Cuomo said, adding, “We are literally scouring the globe looking for medical supplies.” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted Saturday that he ordered residents to stay home and nonessential retail businesses to close by 9 p.m. Saturday. He also said all gatherings are canceled. “I take personal responsibility for the public health and safety of New Jersey,” Murphy tweeted. “If you are unhappy about our aggressive social distancing measures, I’m sorry. But your safety is my highest priority.” California started restricting residents Friday, and New York and Illinois were to follow this weekend. Connecticut and Oregon were preparing to follow. In Spain, almost a week into tight restrictions on movement and the closure of most shops, police intensifi ed eff orts

With the state’s residents ordered to restrict their movements, Times Square is almost empty in New York on Friday. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

to enforce confi nement rules with fi nes and extra patrols to stop city-dwellers with second homes in the country from leaving town for the weekend. Spain has the third-highest number of infections worldwide. On Saturday it reported about 5,000 new cases in the past day. The death toll rose almost to 1,400, up from about 1,000 on Friday. As hospitals and nursing homes buckle under the burden of the virus outbreak, Spanish health authorities said some intensive care units in the hardesthit areas are close to their limit, and warned that they expect infections to continue to rise before measures to reverse the trend have an eff ect. The army was building a fi eld hospital with 5,500 beds in a convention center in Madrid, where hotels are also being turned into wards for virus patients without serious breathing problems. Dr. Olga Meridiano, who treated victims of a 2004 jihadist bomb attack in

Madrid that killed nearly 200 people and wounded many times more, said nothing prepared her for the national health tragedy that Spain is enduring. “I have been through many situations,” she said from the central city of Guadalajara, where she works in a public hospital. “But nothing is like this.” “If we keep seeing daily increases of 23%, this cannot be withstood much longer,” Meridiano said. “We are doubling up on our shifts. We have strategies to hang in there this week, but beyond that we need the situation to improve because we professionals are bearing a lot of pressure, including emotional.” The number of conﬁ rmed cases of COVID-19 recorded in Africa rose above 1,000 Saturday, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 40 of Africa’s 54 countries have cases. Oﬃ cials in many countries are des-

Economic rescue swells past $1 trillion Andrew Taylor, Lisa Mascaro and Jonathan Lemire ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Negotiators from Congress and the White House resumed top-level talks Saturday on an economic rescue package to fi ght the coronavirus outbreak. President Donald Trump expressed optimism that the stimulus package could soon be forged. “They’re all negotiating and everybody’s working hard and they want to get to a solution that’s the right solution, I think we’re very close,” said Trump, who continued to strike a confi dent tone about the nation’s ability to defeat the pandemic soon. “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not-toodistant future.” On Capitol Hill, key congressional and White House offi cials reconvened Saturday for more talks on the sweeping aid package said to include paychecks for suddenly jobless Americans, money for hospitals and aid to industry. Though it had carried an initial $1 trillion price tag, when new clauses and other actions by the Federal Reserve were tallied, it could be a $2 trillion pump to the economy, offi cials said Saturday. The Senate was convening a rare weekend session with the aim of drafting the package Saturday, holding an

Between negotiating sessions Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it’s time to “close this out.” SUSAN WALSH/AP

initial vote Sunday and winning Senate passage Monday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that negotiators are making “important progress,” but urged talks to wrap up. “This is not a political opportunity, this is a national emergency,” he said. “It’s time to come together, ﬁ nalize the results of our bipartisan discussions and close this out.” McConnell said he wants to pass the aid package “as quickly as humanly possible.” It was a sentiment shared by White House legislative aﬀ airs director Eric Ueland. “We need to act with urgency,

we need to act with signifi cance, we need to act with boldness,” he said. Despite the enormous pressure on Washington for swift action, the challenges are apparent. Lawmakers and administration offi cials labored late into the evening Friday over eye-popping sums and striking federal interventions, surpassing even the 200809 bank bailout and stimulus. “Everybody is working very hard,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, exiting one closed-door session and heading into another. Mnuchin began negotiations with McConnell, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and senators from both parties using McConnell’s GOP off er as a starting point. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Friday called the GOP plan a “non-starter” but Schumer was optimistic Saturday, saying “we are making very good progress.” The GOP plan would send $1,200 directly to Americans and billions to small businesses to pay idled workers during the global pandemic. But Democrats called McConnell’s plan insuffi cient, arguing for greater income support for workers and a “Marshall Plan” for the U.S. health care industry, which is preparing for an onslaught of newly sick patients. At the White House, Trump welcomed the stimulus plan, believing it is needed to stabilize the economy.

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perate to prevent, or at least limit, a repeat of what has happened in China and southern Europe. The coronavirus outbreak overwhelmed medical services in the central Chinese city of Wuhan earlier this year and is pushing them to the limit in Italy, Spain and France. Italy’s grim tally of coronavirus cases and deaths continues to soar, with offi cials on Saturday announcing new day-to-day highs: 793 dead and 6,557 cases. More than 60% of the latest deaths occurred in the northern region of Lombardy, whose hospitals have been reeling under a staggering case load that has left intensive care beds hard to fi nd and respirators in dire supply. The new increases come nearly two weeks into a national lockdown in a desperate bid to contain the contagion. Offi cials said that on Sunday a team of 65 Cuban doctors and nurses, with experience in battling Ebola outbreaks, will arrive in northern Italy to help in the hard-hit Lombardy town of Cremona. Italian health offi cials realize they need to shorten the time between emergence of symptoms and diagnosis, said Silvio Brusaferro, the head of the national Superior Health Institute. Currently that lag is about fi ve days, he said. The surging case numbers have frustrated health offi cials. Statements by authorities earlier on in the outbreak had raised hopes that new infections might soon start dropping off . Health Minister Roberto Speranza called for a “great alliance” between citizens and institutions, saying “what counts more is the behavior of every individual.” Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan, capital of the hardest-stricken region of Lombardy, tried to rally the city’s 1.4 million citizens, tweeting that “by now, we have understood, this is a marathon, not a sprint.”

Africa cases exceed 1,000; travel limited Bashir Adigun, Sam Mednick and Cara Anna ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABUJA, Nigeria – Africa’s coronavirus cases rose above 1,000 on Saturday, while Nigeria announced it will close airports to incoming international fl ights for one month in the continent’s most populous country. Some heads of state appeared to defy the restrictions to attend another president’s inauguration. With cases reported in Angola, at least 40 of Africa’s 54 countries are affected. Congo reported its fi rst death; Burkina Faso reported two new ones. Somalia said it’s lifting its ban on international fl ights for two days so stranded citizens can return home. Nigeria’s international fl ight ban came a day after Africa’s busiest airport, in Johannesburg, blocked foreigners from disembarking, and Ethiopian Airlines and South African Airways announced sweeping cancellations of international fl ights. In Kenya, offi cials continued to disinfect crowded markets in the capital, Nairobi, to stop the virus’ spread. “It’s for the sake of us, it’s for the sake of the country,” said Simon Kimani, public health council chairman.

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Coronavirus tests divided nation Trump assertive now; did he wait too long? Claire Galofaro and Tamara Lush ASSOCIATED PRESS

LARGO, Fla. – As restaurants across the country stacked chairs on tables and shut their doors to try to contain the deadly coronavirus, what would be the fi nal visitors streamed into the Conservative Grounds coff ee shop in Largo, Florida. Fox News played on the televisions. Patrons posed for photos in a replica of the Oval Offi ce. An 80-year-old man, defying offi cials’ advice to stay home, beamed near a life-sized cutout of a grinning President Donald Trump. This Trump-themed coff ee shop embodies the right edge of the country’s political divide. Outside its walls, state offi cials put in place an unprecedented shutdown of public life and Trump scrambled to fi ght a virus that he had accused political opponents and the media of pushing as a “new hoax.” Criticism of the president’s preparedness was rampant. Inside, customers gave Trump an Aplus on his response to the spreading pandemic. “He’s doing great things,” the owner said Wednesday. In the earliest, head-spinning days of the pandemic, a fractured electorate largely viewed Trump’s performance through the lens they chose long ago. But the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been. The body count will rise; the economy almost certainly will crater. “This could be the coup de grace of his presidency. The way he handles this, history will judge, as well as the American people,” said Brandon Brice, host of a radio show called “Straight Talk” in Detroit, who supported Trump in 2016 and is looking to how he handles this crisis before deciding whether he will again. “This is the president’s moment, right now.” Trump for weeks denied the seriousness of the outbreak when it fi rst emerged in China. In January, he assured the nation that “we have it very

Grand Central Terminal is sparsely populated during Friday’s rush hour in New York. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

well under control” and he compared the virus to the seasonal fl u. Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, noted that throughout Trump’s presidency, his approval rating has hovered between 42% and 46%, with little change despite the endless cycle of controversy and chaos. Recent polling shows that has remained steady. “Attitudes about the president, both pro and con, are deeply ingrained and almost impervious to the eff ect of news,” he said. “Now, we’ve never had an event quite like this one.” At another time, a president might have expected to see his popularity rise. President Jimmy Carter’s approval rating skyrocketed in the weeks after Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. President George W. Bush was hailed for his unifying voice after the 9/11 attacks. Trump last week abruptly turned to talking about the virus as a signifi cant threat, and himself as a steady “wartime” leader. He shifted the blame to China and tried to rebrand COVID-19 as the “China virus.”

But presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said the shift from skeptic to wartime president may be diffi cult for Trump. He compared the president’s response with that of Republican President Herbert Hoover, who oversaw the Great Depression and dismissed the collapse of the stock market as exaggerated. When it proved disastrous, shantytowns came to be known as Hoovervilles. He was trounced in the next election by the Democratic governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who then steered the nation through the Depression and World War II. “He started off a Herbert Hoover and he’s done a 180 trying to be FDR,” Brinkley said. If the virus lingers through the summer, “he’s going to be left holding the bad soundbites and being seen as the leader who failed us when the bell rang – he was missing in round one for a 10round fi ght,” Brinkley said. Donald Scoggins, a retired real estate broker in Virginia who describes himself as a moderate Republican, was leaning against voting for Trump before

the virus hit. He said he’s seen nothing so far to change his mind. Trump was too slow to react, Scoggins said. “He’s just too divisive. We need a person at the helm that people can rally around, we need a sort of cheerleader who makes people feel confi dent, that can bring people together,” he said. Brian Johnson, a Democrat and semi-retired corporate executive in Boulder, Colorado, is much hotter. He’s watched Trump’s reaction since January, worrying about his dismissal of the disease. Now he’s infuriated. “Trump’s never been double-digit approval rating for me, and now it’s like, can you go lower than zero?” he said. But in Luzerne County, a historically Democratic area in eastern Pennsylvania that fl ipped in 2016 to vote for Trump, Lynette Villano said she thinks the economy is resilient. It started from an extraordinarily high point, she said, and Trump deserves credit for giving the country the economic strength to be able to take the punch. Villano, a billing clerk who wears a rhinestone Trump pin, has chronic lung disease and survived cancer twice. She says she’s not worried, she deeply trusts the president to look out for her, and she doesn’t think it’s time for political posturing and fi nger-pointing. “If anything, this is going to show him as a strong leader who stepped forward and took every action possible to make things better,” she said from her home, where she’s waiting out the pandemic. In Florida, the owner of the Trumpthemed cafe posted a message on its Facebook page: “Those on the LEFT have fought for our downfall since day 1 and now the Corona ‘CHINESE’ VIRUS is impacting our business.” Owner Cliff Gephart said he fully supports Trump’s handling of the crisis and trusts him to steer the country to calmer waters. One of his customers, George Latzo, 80, said he wasn’t concerned enough about the virus to abide the public warnings to avoid gatherings. “I’ve lived a long healthy life and I don’t know if this is going to be worse than the fl u,” said Latzo. “I guess we’ll have to wait and see.”

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Daughter’s housekeeping is a large issue Dear Carolyn: My daughter and her husband have a large home and when we visit we stay with them at their request. My issue is their housekeeping. Between the dogs, sinks overﬂ owing with dirty dishes, and rotting food in the fridge, I have no place to go to de-stress. Even our bedroom is full of stuﬀ . There is a nice hotel very nearby, so I could have my own space when I need it. But how to address this without hurting anyone’s feelings? – Anxious Anxious: Any situation like this, no matter what the details, presents you with two choices: put up with the discomfort, knowing it’s only for X days; or

make the change you want to make as kindly as you can, and hold cheerfully ﬁ rm through any fallout. The second choice might look like this: 1. As the next visit approaches, tell your daughter you booked a hotel. 2. Give a not-untrue, mildly self-deprecating, but also not-entirely-detailed reason for booking a hotel: “I really need my sleep these days, and this just works better for me.” Reframe her low-maintenance habits as your high-maintenance needs. Right? No need to specify that her chaos is why you can’t sleep. 3. If she pushes back or declares she’s hurt, keep it light and keep on message: “I don’t mean to oﬀ end, and I can’t wait to see you – I just need this to get my

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Composer Stephen Sondheim is 90. Actor William Shatner is 89. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 85. Singer Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy is 79. Singer-guitarist George Benson is 77. News anchor Wolf Blitzer is 72. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 72. Actress Fanny Ardant is 71. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 68. Country singer James House is 65. Actress Lena Olin is 65. Singer-actress Stephanie Mills is 63. Actor Matthew Modine is 61. Comedian Keegan-Michael Key of Key and Peele is 49. Actor Will Yun Lee (“Hawaii Five-0”) is 49. Actor Guillermo Diaz (“Scandal”) is 45. Actress Anne Dudek (“Mad Men”) is 45. Actor Cole Hauser (TV’s “Yellowstone”) is 45. Actress Kellie Williams (“Family Matters”) is 44. Actress Reese Witherspoon is 44. Drummer John Otto of Limp Bizkit is 43. Actress Tiffany Dupont (“Murder in the First”) is 39. Actress Constance Wu (“Fresh Off The Boat”) is 38. Guitarist Lincoln Parish of Cage The Elephant is 30.

Placido Domingo resigns from opera union, donates $500,000 Superstar Plácido Domingo has resigned from the U.S. union that represents opera singers and will contribute $500,000 to sexual harassment eradication programs and a fund that helps opera employees in crisis, the Domingo union says. The development came after investigations by the American Guild of Musical Artists and Los Angeles Opera found sexual harassment allegations against the famed tenor, now 79, to be credible. Multiple women had accused Domingo of harassment and abusing his power while he held management positions at LA Opera and Washington National Opera. The guild announced that its fourmonth investigation found Domingo

eight.” Dear Carolyn: Several months ago, a person who heads an organization to which I belong was carjacked and severely beaten. She let all of us know what had happened and then asked for us to respect her privacy because the whole family was traumatized and needed time together. When she returned to the organization, I noticed she embraced most of these closer friends, but barely spoke to me. Finally I asked how she was doing and the reply shocked me: “Well, you apparently didn’t care enough to call or keep in contact as they did, so I’m more than a little bit hurt.” My reply was that she speciﬁ cally asked that her privacy

be respected, and her response was, “Well, true friends would know better than to take that statement at face value.” Was I wrong to do so, or do I have a right to feel hurt and perhaps betrayed? – Mixed Message Mixed Message: You were not wrong to take her message at face value. Her position is not defensible. It may, however, be understandable. Traumatized people do sometimes aim their distress at other, easier, sometimes entirely unrelated targets. You could be merely convenient. If you can ﬁ nd it in you, then apologize for the part of this you can honestly regret without torching your integrity.

had “engaged in inappropriate activity, ranging from ﬂ irtation to sexual advances, in and outside of the workplace.” Details of the allegations were not released, but people familiar with the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said investigators found 27 people were sexually harassed or had witnessed inappropriate behavior by Domingo in the 1990s and 2000s.

he had given $100,000 to establish the “Tip Your Server” program, which aims to give $2,000 grants to food and beverage industry employees forced out of work by dine-in closures.

Actor steps in, religious outreach curbed amid coronavirus “Modern Family” actor Ty Burrell stepped in to help people forced out of work by the coronavirus in Salt Lake City. The virus has forced dine-in closures at restaurants and bars across Utah, and prompted a nearly 30% spike in unemployment claims last week, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Burrell, part-owner of Bar X and Beer Bar in Salt Lake, announced Thursday

Producer, actors lose appeal in Weinstein Co. bankruptcy A federal judge in Delaware has rejected an appeal by the producer and stars of the fi lm “Silver Linings Playbook” stemming from a ruling in The Weinstein Co. bankruptcy case. The judge on Friday upheld the bankruptcy court’s decision in a lawsuit fi led against producer Bruce Cohen by Spyglass Media Group. Spyglass bought The Weinstein Co.’s assets in bankruptcy for $289 million in 2018. The suit against Cohen was seen as a test case to determine how to handle claims asserted by several Hollywood stars who said they were owed royalties and profi t participation payments from various fi lm and television projects.

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Jordan goes on virus lockdown Omar Akour and Nasser Karimi ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMMAN, Jordan – Air raid sirens echoed across Jordan’s capital Saturday to mark the start of a three-day curfew, the latest mass lockdown in the Middle East aimed at containing the coronavirus, which has claimed another 123 lives in Iran, home to the region’s worst outbreak. The latest deaths pushed Iran’s toll past 1,500 amid more than 20,000 confi rmed cases, according to fi gures released by the Health Ministry. Iran has faced widespread criticism for its lagging response to the outbreak, which has infected and killed some senior offi cials. Jordan ordered all shops to close and all people to stay off the streets until at least Tuesday, when it plans to announce specifi c times for shopping. Authorities have arrested 392 people accused of violating the curfew, said Amer Sartawi, a spokesman for the Public Security Directorate. He warned that anyone violating the orders would face legal action. Several countries in the Middle East closed schools, universities and nonessential businesses. Egypt announced that museums and archaeological sites, including the famed pyramids at Giza, will be closed from Monday until the end of March. Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said authorities will sterilize sites during the closure. Egypt also announced the temporary suspension of Friday prayers and other congregations in mosques. The Coptic Orthodox Church canceled services and wedding parties, and said funeral processions will be limited to family members of the deceased.

Crossover country star Kenny Rogers, 81, dies Husky-voiced Texan charted his own path Kristin M. Hall

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his persona as “The Gambler” on records and on TV, died Friday night. He was 81. He died at home in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Keith Hagan, his representative, said Rogers was under hospice care and died of natural causes. The Houston-born performer with the husky voice and silver beard sold tens of millions of records, won three Grammys and was the star of TV movies based on “The Gambler” and other songs, making him a superstar in the 1970s and ’80s. Despite his crossover success, he always preferred to be thought of as a country singer. “You either do what everyone else is doing and you do it better, or you do what no one else is doing and you don’t invite comparison,” Rogers said in 2015. “And I chose that way because I could never be better than Johnny Cash or Willie (Nelson) or Waylon (Jennings) at what they did. So I found something that I could do that didn’t invite comparison to them. And I think people thought it was my desire to change country music. But that was never my issue.” Rogers’ “Islands in the Stream” duet partner Dolly Parton posted a video on Twitter on Saturday, choking up as she held a picture of of them. “I loved Ken-

Texas-born Kenny Rogers thrived for some 60 years in the music business before he retired from touring in 2017 at age 79. BOB GALBRAITH/AP

ny with all my heart and my heart is broken and a big ol’ chunk of it is gone with him today,” Parton said in the video. Rogers was a ﬁ ve-time CMA award winner, as well as the recipient of the CMA’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013, the year he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He received 10 awards from the Academy of Country Music and sold more than 47 million records in the U.S. A true rags-to-riches story, Rogers was raised in public housing in Houston Heights with seven siblings. His breakthrough came when he was asked to join the New Christy Minstrels, a folk group, in 1966. The band reformed as First Edition and scored a pop hit with the psychedelic song, “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).” After the group broke up in 1974, Rog-

ers started his solo career and found a big hit with the sad country ballad “Lucille,” in 1977, which crossed over to the pop charts and earned Rogers his ﬁ rst Grammy. “The Gambler,” the Grammy-winning story song penned by Don Schlitz, came out in 1978 and became his signature song with a signature refrain: “You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.” The song spawned a hit TV movie of the same name and several more sequels featuring Rogers as professional gambler Brady Hawkes, and led to a lengthy side career as a TV actor and host of several TV specials. Other hits included “You Decorated My Life,” “Every Time Two Fools Collide” with Dottie West, “Don’t Fall In Love with a Dreamer” with Kim Carnes, and “Coward of the County.”

NATION & WORLD WATCH United Airlines cuts nearly all of its international flights

Georgia coronavirus cases surpass 500 infections; death toll at 14

Greece sends nearly 600 migrants from Asia, Africa to locked camp

Conﬁ ned by virus, Frenchman runs marathon on his balcony

United Airlines announced late Friday it will reduce international fl ights by 95% in April in light of the travel advisories in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The last westbound trans-Atlantic fl ight is scheduled for Wednesday, except for a fl ight set to leave Cape Town, South Africa, for New York/Newark on Saturday. Trans-Pacifi c fl ights will also be cut starting Sunday. The last eastbound fl ights will be Wednesday, except for service between San Francisco and Tahiti and San Francisco and Sydney, which will run until Saturday.

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Coronavirus infections in Georgia surpassed 500 on Saturday, with at least 55 counties reporting at least one case. The Georgia Department of Public Health said the statewide death toll was 14. Metro Atlanta still has the most cases, with Fulton County reporting more than 90. But Dougherty County, in southwest Georgia, has reported at least six deaths and more than 45 cases. Infections in Bartow County northwest of Atlanta have surpassed 55. Two state legislators have tested positive for COVID-19.

THESSALONIKI, Greece – Almost 600 migrants arrested while crossing to three Greek islands from Turkey have arrived at a facility in northern Greece where they are required to remain pending deportation, authorities say. The 598 migrants will stay in tents and will not be able to leave the camp. The migrants are from a wide array of countries in Asia and Africa. Authorities would not provide a breakdown, but oﬃ cials said on condition of anonymity that the arrivals did not include Iraqis or Syrians.

PARIS – In the age of confi nement, Elisha Nochomovitz fi gured out a way to run a marathon anyway – back and forth on his 23-foot balcony. He shared the images online as a way “to extend my support to the entire medical personnel who are doing an exceptional job,” he said from his apartment in Balma, a suburb of Toulouse. Nochomovitz said he wanted to show others that it’s possible to stay fi t despite quarantine measures – and to lighten the mood. He didn’t exactly make record time. It took him six hours and 48 minutes.

PG&E, California governor OK bankruptcy deal Plan could allow state to take control later Don Thompson and Daisy Nguyen ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Paciﬁ c Gas & Electric and California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a deal Friday that removes one of the last hurdles for the nation’s largest utility to emerge from a bankruptcy triggered by its massive liabilities from wildﬁ res. PG&E agreed to overhaul its board and operations and to a process that would put the company up for sale – essentially allowing the state to take over – if it doesn’t get out of bankruptcy by June 30. “This is the end of business as usual for PG&E,” Newsom said in a statement. What makes the settlement unique is the company’s agreement to sell itself to the state or another buyer if the utility is unable to succeed after the reorganization, said Jared Ellias, a University of California, Hastings College of the Law professor who has been tracking the case. “I’m not aware of any utility that has agreed to such a thing. It’s pretty incredible they were able to work that out with the state,” Ellias said. That possibility will “cast a shadow

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed off on a plan to allow Paciﬁ c Gas & Electric to emerge from bankruptcy. BEN MARGOT/AP FILE

on the company” and motivate it to improve and maintain the safety to its equipment, he said. The utility said in a bankruptcy court ﬁ ling Friday that it will agree to increased regulatory oversight and commit billions of dollars in additional spending to prevent wildﬁ res, meeting a critical demand by the governor. “Through California’s unprecedented

intervention in the bankruptcy, we secured a totally transformed board and leadership structure for the company, real accountability tools to ensure safety and reliability and billions more in contributions from shareholders to ensure safety upgrades are achieved,” Newsom said. Newsom has unusual leverage over PG&E as it tries to emerge from one of

the most complex bankruptcy cases in U.S. history. The company needs state approval of its bankruptcy plan to qualify for coverage from a $21 billion wildfi re insurance fund that California created last summer. He rejected the utility’s earlier plan in December and wouldn’t agree to a revised version a month later. Now, with Newsom’s support, the company anticipates state regulators’ approval “so that we can exit Chapter 11, pay wildfi re victims fairly and as soon as possible, and participate in the state’s Wildfi re Fund,” CEO Bill Johnson said in a statement. The utility’s outdated system triggered a series of catastrophic wildfi res in 2017 and 2018 that killed so many people and burned so many homes and businesses that the company had to fi le for bankruptcy early last year. PG&E left millions of Californians in the dark for days at a time last fall as it shut down power in a bid to prevent its equipment from sparking more wildfi res. The San Francisco-based company faced more than $50 billion in claimed losses from the fi res, prompting the utility to fi le for bankruptcy for the second time in less than two decades. Democratic Sen. Bill Dodd, whose wine-country district was scorched by the 2017 blazes, praised an agreement he said will bring “transformational change.”

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Virus outbreak weakens charities Needs climb as donors, workers are sidelined David Crary

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NEW YORK – With its global scope and its staying power, the coronavirus outbreak poses unprecedented challenges for charities and nonprofi t groups that rely on donations. The American Red Cross faces a blood shortage due to the cancellation of nearly 2,700 blood drives. The Girl Scouts’ annual cookie sale, vital to the group’s fi nances, has been disrupted by a top-level plea to halt in-person sales. A 21-member coalition of major nonprofi ts is pleading with Congress to allocate $60 billion so charities can keep their staff on the job and ramp up assistance programs. The CEO of one of those groups, Brian Gallagher of United Way Worldwide, has worked with the charity since 1981, engaging in its response to the 9/11 attacks, the Ebola threat, Hurricane Katrina and other disasters. He said the COVID-19 outbreak has no parallel: “It’s as if a natural disaster is hitting in slow motion just about every country on Earth.” Foundations and other major donors have contributed more than $1.9 billion to combat the outbreak, according to Candid, a New York-based nonprofi t that tracks philanthropic giving. The total, including donations from individuals, is probably far higher. Yet nonprofi t leaders fear that the needs arising from the outbreak will outstrip even the possibility of future giving, let alone a possible drop in giving if a recession takes hold. “Even if we get this virus under control, there will be several months of recovery for many people,” said Patricia McIlreavy, president of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. “Business will have closed, many families will have exhausted every reserve.” Among the major charities bracing for future challenges is the Salvation Army, which said it annually receives about

Chad Conastser, a Vietnam veteran, accepts a meal at Northside Aztlan Community Center in Fort Collins, Colo. BETHANY BAKER/USA TODAY NETWORK

$2 billion in public support to serve about 23 million people living in poverty. “We expect that service number to rise exponentially in the coming months,” requiring “tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars to support our most vulnerable neighbors,” said Dale Bannon, the faith-based organization’s community relations and development secretary. He said the Salvation Army, like many other charities, has been forced to cancel numerous fundraising events because of the outbreak. It’s now focusing on online fundraising operations. Canceled blood drives have been devastating to the American Red Cross, which provides about 40% of the nation’s blood supply. The Red Cross estimated that there have been 86,000 fewer blood donations in recent weeks because of the wave of blood drive cancellations at workplaces, colleges and other venues as people were told to work or study from home and practice social distancing. Patients being treated in hospitals for the coronavirus do not generally need blood transfusions, but the worsening blood shortage could aﬀ ect surgery, cancer patients and victims of car accidents. Anticipating that blood drive cancel-

lations will continue, the Red Cross pleaded for potential donors to support drives or for donors to visit blood-donation facilities. The group outlined additional safety precautions being taken, including checking the temperature of staff and donors before they enter locations and requiring staff to change gloves each time they interact with a donor. For the Girl Scouts of the USA, calling for a halt to in-person cookie sales was momentous, given that the sales net roughly $800 million annually and are the core of the organization’s fundraising. Girls who had been selling cookies at booths outside stores and other locations were asked to focus on online sales. “The risk of interaction with large crowds is just too great,” Girl Scouts CEO Sylvia Acevedo said. The Girl Scouts are asking corporate supporters to consider making bulk cookie purchases. Spokeswoman Valerie Geiss said it would be several months before the fi nancial outcome of the sales campaign is known. Many local Girl Scout gatherings across the country have been suspended, though some units are meeting online. The Washington-based Girl Scouts of Nation’s Capital said it will be hosting

more than 40 “virtual troop meetings” next week, potentially serving about 5,000 girls. The Girl Scouts were among the 21 nonprofi ts appealing to congress on Thursday for support from the public coff ers. Their appeal said America’s charities employ 12 million workers, many working on the front lines of the coronavirus response. “The fi nancial impact of the crisis has put the very survival of many essential service providers at risk,” said Steven C. Preston, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. “Charities are our society’s shock absorber when crisis hits.” At the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, McIlreavy said there has been a surge of requests from would-be donors seeking guidance on how to give eff ectively in response to the pandemic. Her center urges donors to be wary of misinformation and do thorough research of charities before making gifts. It identifi es key areas that could interest donors: urgent medical response needs, long-term medical research and assistance to vulnerable people in the U.S. or abroad. For most people, the coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. For the United Way, a current priority is to strengthen and expand the 211 network that connects callers with providers of urgently needed social services. Gallagher said 211 specialists have answered about 12 million requests annually, and he predicts there will be an additional 200,000 calls per day in coming weeks because of the outbreak. Gallagher believes there will be a surge in charitable giving for the next few months, and then a downturn as a weak economy takes a toll. Big organizations like United Way will get through it, Gallagher said. “The smaller nonprofi ts – houses of worship, soup kitchens – they will struggle.”

Obituaries Ronald A. Ahrnsen

Emily Louanne Bilott

CINCINNATI - Ronald A. Ahrnsen, Beloved son of the late Anton and Antonia Ahrnsen and step-son of Clementine Ahrnsen. Loving brother of Rose (the late Bud) Reifenberger, Rita (the late William) Grimason and Robert Ahrnsen. Devoted uncle of Scott Reifenberger, Jill Dunstan, Michele Mills and Jamie Grimason. Dear friend of Sharon and Gary Herman. Passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 84 years of age. Memorial Mass to be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati, PO Box 633597, Cincinnati, OH 45263. www. bjmeyer.com

DAYTON - Emily Louanne Bilott, 77, of Dayton, Ohio passed away on March 17, 2020, following a courageous battle with cancer. Emily was born on July 1, 1942, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, to Alma Pearl Holland (White) and Russell S. Leeton. While growing up in Parkersburg, she was very close to her grandmother, Alma Boice Holland, grandfather, Thurl Otto Holland, and three Uncles, John, Donald, and Robert Holland. After attending Parkersburg High School, Emily attended Michigan State University for two years, and received both her Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Wright State University. Emily worked as a flight attendant for TWA, substitute teacher, personnel manager, cruise specialist, and rehabilitation counselor, but her primary love and passion was spending time with her family and traveling with them. She loved parties, holidays, cruises, and just any excuse to have her whole family together. Emily also loved the ocean, puzzles, big family dinners, the casino, music, comedy, and her cats, Samiam and Mikey. Emily is survived by her husband of 57 years, Lt. Col. Raymond L. Bilott (ret.) of Dayton, Ohio, daughter Bethany A. Lieberman (spouse Terry R. Lieberman) of Xenia, Ohio, and son Robert A. Bilott (spouse Sarah A. Barlage) of Crescent Springs, Kentucky, and her six grandchildren: Ariel V. Lieberman, of Washington, D.C.; Jordan A. Lieberman, of Vermont; Spencer L. Lieberman, of Vermont; Theodore R. Bilott, of Kentucky; Charles W. Bilott, of Kentucky; and Anthony A. Bilott, of Kentucky. Family is having a private service through Vaughan Funeral Home in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where Emily will be laid to rest near her beloved Mother, Grandparents, and Uncles at Mount Olivet Cemetery. If desired, in lieu of flowers, remembrances can be made to The Tenth Life cat shelter, P.O. Box 178, Alpha, Ohio 45301. Please visit www. vaughanfh.com to share a message of comfort with the family.

David “Stretch” Andres HARRISON - the son

of the late Vincent & Betty Lou (nee Smith) Andres. Brother of Vincent (Barbara) & Dennis Andres. Uncle of Tom, Doug, Eric, & Alex Andres. Also survived by Aunts, uncles, cousins & Legion friends. Stretch was a member of the Sons of the American Legion & retired from OKI. Visitation will be at Brater Winter Funeral Home, Harrison from 11 - 5 pm on Sun., Mar. 22, 2020. Graveside services Mon. at 11am for family & close friends at Glen Haven Cemetery. Memorials to Sons of the American Legion through the funeral home. www.braterfh. com

Richard A. Bodner LUDLOW - Richard Bodner, 93, of Ludlow, passed away on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at St. Elizabeth Hospice in Edgewood. Survivors include his sons; Kenneth (Carolyn) Bodner of Erlanger, Richard (Patricia) Bodner of Loveland and Donald (Peggy) Bodner of Villa Hills. To protect the wellness of family and friends, services will be held after COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted. Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home is serving the family. Online condolences to www. ronaldbjones.com.

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Name *Ahrnsen, Ronald A. *Andres, David“Stretch” Atkins, Stephen Randall *Bilott, Emily Louanne *Bodin, Michael Leonard *Bodner, Richard A. *Bolia, Edward G. *Brakvill, Maribeth McCord Byrd, Carolyn“CJ” *Carroll, Jr., Joseph James *Cooper, Glenn D.“Sluggo” Coppedge, Sonya *Deluse, Robert Carl‘Red’ Dettors, Rebecca“Becky” *DiPilla, Reginangelo A. Doud, Daryl K. Dumas, Jr, Albert *Eilers, Betty *Felss Hellming, Jeanette *Foraker, Jacqueline *Fowee, William (Bill) Merle Francisco, Domingo Francisco *Geers, Patty Ann Gilbert-Cheatham, Kenya Glenn, Sharlene Groh, Ronald *Heitzman, George William *Henning, Kathy Herrmann, Judy *Hoffman, Barbara A. *Howard, Dona *Hueneman, Larry Jones, Milton Jesse *Kincaid, Katherine Elizabeth *Kinsler, Tami L. *Kispert, Helen Marie“Mimi”(Gerdsen) *Kuhn, Reiner *Lane, Janice *Latessa, Patricia Thoman *Linemann , Edwin Love, Ethel Lovitt, Ronald Maccioli, Barbara *Martin, Marcia Anne Crosby *Moore, Donald C. “Don” *Nadaud, Jennie Neal-Mahan, Doris Jean *Neltner, Peter *Neumeister, Rose M. *Nolan, Conrad *Perry, Jerry *Pomerantz, Elizabeth M. *Rairden, Joan M. *Reeder, Rebecca *Rehring, Patsy Ruth *Rolf , Carol *Rosenstiel, Janet Runyon, Anna L. (nee Strange) Schweitzer, Donald“Don”Paul Shannon, Elaine“Sue’ Shepard Jr., Walter Silver, Donald A. *Smith, Pete *Stallkamp, Joseph Edward *True, Wendell Watts, Terrence *Weber, Barbara M. *Wessling, Joseph H. Wheeler, Diane Yost, Michael *Zielinski, Charles Anthony Zimmerman, Louis G.

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Town, State Death Date Arrangements Cincinnati 15-Mar B J Meyer Sons Funeral Home Harrison 18-Mar Brater Winter Funeral Home (Harrison) Lebanon 03-Mar Advantage Cremation Care Dayton 17-Mar Vaughan Funeral Home - Parkersburg Cincinnati 19-Mar Ludlow 19-Mar Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home Cincinnati 18-Mar Meyer Funeral Home & Crematory 19-Mar Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes Loveland Fairfield 16-Mar Preston Charles Funeral Home Cincinnati 17-Mar Weil Kahn Funeral Home Independence 19-Mar Chambers & Grubbs Funeral Home, Independence Amelia 20-Mar E.C. Nurre - Amelia West Chester 09-Mar Mueller Funeral Home Walton 19-Mar Chambers & Grubbs Funeral Home Cincinnati 26-Mar Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home Bellevue 15-Mar Advantage Cremation Care Forest Park 17-Mar Preston Charles Funeral Home 18-Mar Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home Milford 19-Mar T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home 19-Mar Hodapp Funeral Home, Carthage 10-Mar 13-Mar Preston Charles Funeral Home Fairfield Dry Ridge 18-Mar Stanley Funeral Homes – Crittenden Cincinnati 17-Mar Walker Funeral Home Cincinnati 17-Mar Walker Funeral Home Cincinnati 16-Mar Advantage Cremation Care Florence 19-Mar Linnemann Funeral Homes Satellite Beach, FL. --Ripley 19-Mar Cahall Funeral Home-Ripley 17-Mar Vitt, Stermer & Anderson North Bend 19-Mar Dennis George Funeral Home Bridgetown 18-Mar Rebold Cincinnati 12-Mar Preston Charles Funeral Home West Chester 11-Mar Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home, Evendale 23-Feb 18-Mar Sharp Funeral Homes Burlington 14-Mar Stith Funeral Homes Cincinnati 19-Mar Neidhard Minges Funeral Home Miamiville 17-Mar Spring Grove Funeral Homes Cincinnati 16-Mar Spring Grove Funeral Homes Mt. Healthy 17-Mar Preston Charles Funeral Home Golf Manor 15-Apr Evans Funeral Home - Milford Sharonville 10-Mar Advantage Cremation Care Carmel Manor 17-Mar 18-Mar Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Newport 20-Mar Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home Union Twp. 17-Mar Advantage Cremation Care Alexandria 20-Mar Alexandria Funeral Home Cincinnati 14-Mar Walker Funeral Home Harrison 18-Mar Neidhard Minges Funeral Home Bridgetown 18-Mar Rebold Delhi 18-Mar Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Cincinnati 17-Mar Gilligan ~ Kenwood Florence 15-Mar Stith Funeral Homes 17-Mar Neidhard Young Funeral Home Fairfield, OH Temple Terrace 13-Mar Blount Curry Terrace Oaks Highland Heights 18-Mar Newcomer Funeral Home, N. Kentucky Chapel Cincinnati 15-Mar Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home Latonia 14-Mar Serenity Funeral Care Rising Sun, IN 20-Mar Markland Funeral Home Harrison 17-Mar Dennis George Funeral Home Kettering 20-Mar Webster Funeral Home, Fairfield 11-Mar Craver-Riggs Funeral Home Newport 18-Mar Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home Cincinnati 15-Mar Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home Cincinnati 11-Mar Walker Funeral Home Delhi Twp. 04-Mar Dalbert Woodruff & Isenogle Funeral Home Virginia Beach, VA 13-Mar Middletown 18-Mar Newcomer Funeral Home, Northwest Chapel Cleves 16-Mar Dennis George Funeral Home Loveland --DeJohn-Flynn-Mylott Funeral Home Maineville 04-Mar Advantage Cremation Care

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Edward G. Bolia CINCINNATI - Beloved husband of the late Phyllis J. Bolia (Nee Klayer) for 63 years. Loving father of Sandy Heim and Linda (Rick) Hinds. Devoted grandfather of Michael Heim (Kelsey Hahn), Megan (Ryan) Shean, Andy (Brook) Heim, Nicholas (Amanda), Timothy (Kimberley), Samantha, Tanner Hinds and great grandfather Greyson, Brynlee, Olivia, Easton, Noah, Colten and Campbell. Dear brother of Kathy (the late Dick) Bishop and the late Harry (Jo) Bolia. Faithful companion of his dog, Winnie. Also survived by his nieces, nephews, other family and friends. Passed away surrounded by his family on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, at 85 years of age. Visitation at MEYER FUNERAL HOME, 5864 Bridgetown Rd., on MONDAY from 10:30 AM until time of Funeral Service at 12:30 PM. Memorials may be made to the SPCA, 11900 Conrey Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249. www.bjmeyer.com

Michael Leonard Bodin CINCINNATI - Michael Leonard Bodin, age 76 of

Cincinnati, passed away in his home surrounded by his family on March 19, 2020, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Mike Bodin was born June 7, 1943 in Walled Lake Michigan, the son of Michael and Magdelena Bodin and brother to Kristine (Rob) Fabian, Virginia and Diana (Sepp) Nader, Michigan, both of whom survive him. Mike graduated from Walled Lake High School in 1960. He began his career as an apprentice, and then journeyman, at a tool and die shop in Detroit, Michigan. He subsequently relocated to Cincinnati where he was employed at General Electric (“GE”) and rose through the ranks to become a regional sales manager. In 1983, he left GE to form his own company, Tech Rep, which successfully supplied the auto and aeronautical industry with production tooling supplied by Komet, Inc. He retired in 1998. He married Beverly Bodin, the love of his life, on December 12, 1977. His life was characterized by passion, energy and enthusiasm for everything and everyone around him. He was an accomplished pilot, a US Merchant Marine Officer and captain, and a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church. He enjoyed working on his many projects, but what brought him the most joy was working on and spending time with his family on his boat, “Bodin’s Buoys”, a Grand Banks trawler, harbored in Bradenton, Florida. He especially enjoyed cruising the Gulf of Mexico and eastern seaboard. Mike was a devoted husband and father who gave generously of his time, resources and love to all those around him, but most especially his family. He will be forever remembered for his sense of humor, selfless devotion and welcoming, generous spirit. He proudly served his country as a rifleman in an airborne unit for the Michigan National Guard. He is survived by his wife, Beverly, brother-in-law Harold (Kathy) Brooks, sister-in-law Brenda Merrick, and four children, Deborah (Kent) Worrell, Naperville, IL; Cheryl (John) Walsh, Mason, OH; John (Colleen) Bodin, Bellefontaine, OH; and Tom Bodin, San Francisco, CA, and grandchildren Caitlin, Harrison, Spencer, Damon, Mitchell, Winnie, Lottie, and Brooks, and many nieces, nephews and friends. A family and friends celebration of Mike’s life will be forthcoming upon resolution of the COVID-19 crisis.

Jeanette Felss Hellming Jeanette Felss Hellming, daughter of George and Caroline Felss, passed away on March 19th. She was 90 years old. She attended North College Hills High School in Mt. Healthy, and Deaconess School of Nursing where she became an RN in 1951. She married Clifford K. Hellming in 1952 and they were married 55 years. They lived Indianapolis, Indiana, Okemos, Michigan and Morris Town New Jersey before returning to Anderson Township in 1986. She was predeceased by her husband, Cliff, and her brothers Bud Felss and Charles Felss. She is survived by her daughter Barbara Jean Clark (Jim) of Cincinnati, son Bennett Clifford Hellming (Cathy) of Atlanta, GA. Jeanette was very proud of her grandchildren, Dr. Ryan James Clark, Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and Heather Jean Clark, RN, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Cincinnati. Jeanette recently celebrated her 90th birthday with family and received over 140 birthday cards. She was a lifelong volunteer and was Volunteer of the Year at Anderson Mercy Hospital in 2009. Jeanette had a passion for cooking and baking for friends; crafting, especially making greeting cards; and water aerobics. Jeanette has sponsored an Honor Flight with Dayton Honor Flight for many years as a tribute to her husband who was a United States Marine in WWII. Memorials to the Dayton Honor Flight, 200 Canary Ct. Enon, OH 45323. Service Private. The family will have a celebration of life for Jeanette at a later date. T P WHITE & SONS Funeral Home serving the family.

Robert Carl ‘Red’ Deluse WEST CHESTER - 92, passed away on March 9, 2020 with his family at his bedside. Red was born in Cincinnati to Andrew and Anna Deluse on March 7, 1928. Red was the beloved husband of Jo Deluse (nee Kroeger) for 69 years, devoted father of Jeri (Randy) Hendricks, Donna (Bob) Leslie, Kathy (Mel) Kaaa and Nancy Wilson, loving grandfather of Allison Hendricks, Natalie (Carl Staiger) Hendricks, Kevin (Kristen) Leslie, Kara Leslie, Mark Leslie, Kassie Kaaa, Kristie Kaaa, Eric Wilson, Carly Wilson and Clay Wilson, dear brother of Ann Richter and the late Carol Deluse and Gordon Deluse. Red was the founder of the Hamilton Safe Company in 1967 in Hamilton, Ohio, which grew into an international bank equipment and security company. In 2012, he was inducted into the Butler County Business Hall of Fame. He and Jo received the Philanthropist of the Year award in 2019 from the West Chester Community Foundation. Red had an infectious love of life that he shared with family, friends, and colleagues all over the world. He enjoyed golf, fishing, bridge, travel, and spending time with his family, especially his 10 grandchildren. Because of current restrictions, services have been postponed. A Celebration of Life Service and Reception honoring Red will be held later. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that Memorial Donations be sent to the Boys and Girls Club of West Chester, 8749 Cincinnati-Dayton Road., West Chester, OH 45069 or to Caring Like Angels & Heroes, Angel Fund, 9078 Union Centre Blvd., Suite 350, West Chester, OH 45069. To send a condolence, or to sign the online guestbook, visit Muellerfunerals.com

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William (Bill) Merle Fowee Bill passed away peacefully at the age of 81 in the care of Hospice and while surrounded by his family on March 10, 2020 in Naperville, Illinois. He was born on September 9, 1938 to his loving parents, John and Mirla (nee Leach) Fowee, in Falmouth, Kentucky. The family moved to Cincinnati in his youth, and he attended Hyde Park Elementary and Withrow Junior and Senior High Schools and was a proud Withrow alumnus graduating in 1956. After high school, he enlisted and served for three and one-half years in the Army Reserves. Through his service in the reserves, Bill made an acquaintance who opened the opportunity for Bill to start a 40-year career at P&G in Cincinnati. Bill was very proud and grateful to have worked for such a good company that provided well for his family and provided him with opportunities for advancement. Through his employment responsibilities and his own personal interests, Bill was very dedicated to preserving the environment and enjoyed numerous outings with his wife in the beautiful outdoors at the Cincinnati Nature Center. Every summer since retirement, he honed his farming skills and grew the most delicious garden plot of tomatoes. He always had some time for any friendly dog that he encountered. For a number of years, Bill was an active member in Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church. Bill also enjoyed listening to jazz and was a fan of WNOP radio during its heyday. Many years before personal computers became standard household items, he acquired, upon his own initiative, personal computer expertise dating back to when rudimentary pcs were first marketed by Apple. During his retirement, Bill would salvage pc parts to construct

Joseph James Carroll, Jr.

Maribeth McCord Brakvill

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84, died Tuesday, March 17, 2020, beloved husband of the late Margery L. Carroll nee Neiheisel, loving father of Beverly (Paul) Fink, Joseph (Barbara) Carroll and Julie (Kelly) Lowry, dear grandfather of Christopher, Stephanie, Charlie, Christie, Jay, Dean and Drew, great grandfather of Parker, Colton, Kaylee and Beckett. Services were held at the convenience of the family. www.weilkahnfuneralhome.com

day March 19, 2020 age 79. Services will be PRIVATE. To view service info and leave a condolence for the family please visit www. tuftsschildmeyer.com

Reginangelo A. DiPilla CINCINNATI - Reginangelo A. DiPilla, age 83. Graveside service and Military Honors, March 26, 11AM at St. Joseph New Cemetery, 4500 Foley Road, 45238,. Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home (rmdfuneralhome. com) serving the family.

Patty Ann Geers DRY RIDGE - Patty Ann Geers, 63, of Dry Ridge, KY, passed away unexpectedly at St. Elizabeth Medical Center – Grant County on Wednesday March 18, 2020. Born October 27, 1956 in Covington, KY, she was the daughter of Shirley Ann Casey and the late William “Bill” Casey. On August 27, 1988 Patty was united in marriage to her husband of 32 years, Donald Geers. She retired from Comair Airlines last year where she worked in the Human Resources Department. She loved decorating and spending time doing yard work, but her greatest joy came from spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren, who affectionately loved her as “Grammy”. She loved reaching out to others; “she always thought of everyone else before herself.” She leaves to remember her legacy, her husband: Donald Gerhard Geers; two sons: Joshua Ryan (Kelly) Ives of Lexington, KY, Jacob Gerhard Casey (Heather) Geers of Dry Ridge, KY; two daughters: Elizabeth Ann (Steven) Hamm of Independence, KY, Stephanie Lynn (Jason) King of Lexington, KY; one sister: Diana Lynn Casey of Florence, KY; her mother: Shirley Ann Lacefield Casey and her mother-n-law: Elfreida Geers. Nine grandchildren also survive: A Celebration of Life will be held Wednesday March 25, 2020 at 1:30 at Stanley Funeral Homes – Crittenden location. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.

George William Heitzman

Betty Eilers MILFORD - Betty Eilers, 92, of Milford, passed away on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at Laurels of Milford. Survivors include her son, Michael (Jill) Eilers; daughters, Joy (Paul) Berringer and Linda (Doug) Hillyer. To protect the wellness of family and friends, services will be held after COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted. Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home is serving the family. Online condolences to www. ronaldbjones.com.

FLORENCE - George William Heitzman, 92, passed away at Florence Park Care Center on Thursday, March 19, 2020. George was born on September 13, 1927 in Covington, KY to the late William and Mattie Mae Heitzman. He was former employee of Pogues as a warehouseman and was very involved at St. Henry Church. George was preceded in death by his wife Jeanette Heitzman (nee Finke). He is survived by his children Michael Heitzman (Nancy), Robert Heitzman, Gail Johnson, and Lynn Reams (Greg), 10 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren. Graveside services will be held privately by the family at St. Mary Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be sent to Magnolia Springs 7665 Ewing Blvd. Florence, KY 41042, St. Elizabeth Hospice 483 South Loop Rd. Edgewood, KY 41017, or Florence Park Care Center 6975 Burlington Pike Florence, KY 41042. Online condolences can be made at www.Linnemannfuneralhomes.com

cheap basic pcs to be donated for sale at local thrift stores in order to make affordable computers readily available to the public. He was also a strong advocate that STEM classes be taught in the local public schools, especially for female students. Bill was very active in local civic affairs, attending many city council meetings and events. Bill married his high school and neighborhood sweetheart, Sue, in 1957 and was a dedicated husband to her for 62 years until his passing. They had one child, Roger, and upon Bill’s retirement, Bill and Sue moved to the Chicago suburbs to be near Roger and his wife, Diana, and in order to dote on their only grandchild, Kate, who provided them with many proud and enjoyable moments through the years as they watched her grow up. Bill was involved in Roger’s youth as a coach for his soccer team at a time when soccer was still somewhat of a novel youth sport in the US, and Bill was very proud when Roger attained his engineering degree from Purdue. Bill was also close to his daughter-in-law, Diana, who over the years, treated Bill more like a father than a father-in-law. Finally, Bill was very proud of the many academic successes of granddaughter Kate who is currently a PhD. candidate in aerospace engineering. Bill was predeceased by his caring sister, Carolyn Fowee Noell, and leaves surviving Cincinnati relatives of brotherin-law, George Noell, niece, Cathy Noell, and nephew, Chris Noell. He also will be greatly missed by other relatives and friends in both the Cincinnati and Chicago areas. For all who knew him well, Bill had a wonderful sense of humor, an endless amount of curiosity, the skillset of a handyman, and he approached each new day with an open mind and a belief that every person was entitled to a fair chance in life. Please direct any memorial donations to the American Cancer Society and notify the family of the donation at dgfowee@gmail.com.

Jacqueline Foraker

Dona Howard

(nee Hoffman), loving wife of the late Frederick J. Foraker. Dear mother of Chris Foraker, Julie (Harry) Green and Frederick “Rick” (Judy) Foraker. Grandmother of Andy (Anna), Alan (Jessie), Christine, Matthew and Victoria (Zach). Great-grandmother of Ainsley and Avery. Sister of the late Rose Marie Craven and the late Ann Louise Tompert. Jacqueline passed away Thursday, March 19, 2020 at the age of 90. Private funeral services to be held. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati or to Ohio Living Llanfair. Condolences at HodappFuneralHome. com

NORTH BEND - Dona Jeannine Howard (nee Spronk), 79, Mar. 19, 2020. Beloved wife of 60 yrs. of Edward F. Howard, devoted mother of Linda J. Yoder (nee Howard) (Craig), Carolyn P. O’Shaughnessy (nee Howard) (Mark) & Donald E. Howard (Lisa), loving grandmother of Courtney, Zachary & Paul O’Shaughnessy, Kayla & Cody Messer, beloved daughter of the late Bernice (nee Myers) & Troy Spronk, dear sister of the late Calvin Lee & Gwendolyn Elaine Spronk. Donna was a ‘58 grad of Taylor High School & her memberships included the Dearborn Hills Un. Methodist Church, Marvin Chapter #376 OES & the SE Indiana Emmaus Community. She had served as the Chair of Ladies Activities of the Grand Lodge of Ohio F&AM in 2007 & was known much of her life as a vocalist in family groups, her school, church & community. There will be a private family interment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cleves & a public memorial service at a later date. Memorials may be directed to the Dearborn Hills Un. Methodist Church, 25365 State Line Rd., Lawrenceburg, IN 47025. www. dennisgeorgefunerals.com

Kathy Henning SATELLITE BEACH, FL. - Kathy (nee Fay)

Henning. Beloved wife of Richard Henning. Loyal dog owner of Dale, Nu-Nu and late Rusty. Loving daughter to late Robert J Fay Jr. and late Diane Eichstadt. Proud Aunt of one nephew and several nieces. Sister to Debbie Powell-Mark, Robert Fay-Rhonda, Linda Streitenberger (Fay), Cindy Fay-Gay. Kathy served her country for six years in the Army Reserve and continued to serve working for the Department of Defense for Patrick Air Force Base Satellite Beach, Fl. Kathy will be buried with her mother. Grave site service will be held Saturday May 30, 2020 10:00AM at the New St. Joseph Cemetery Section26, Lot 525, Grave 2. There will be a celebration of Life on Sunday May 31, 2020 from 12-4PM at the Delhi Lodge 5125 Foley Rd. Delhi Township.

Barbara A. Hoffman (nee Henzerling) beloved wife of the late Francis Hoffman, loving mother of Cheryl (Tony) Fritsch-Middleton, Gregory Fritsch, Wendy (Jake) Warren, dear grandmother of Sabrina and Elizabeth, dear sister of Betty Duwel, Philip Johnson and the late Joan Craig Rebensdorf, aunt of many nieces and nephews, passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2020. A memorial mass and celebration of life will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the America Heart Association or the Alzheimer’s Association. www.vittstermeranderson.com

Larry Hueneman BRIDGETOWN Lawrence J “Larry” Hueneman, beloved son of the late Harry and Anna Hueneman, brother of the late Ruth Shields, Betty Lally, Jean Stirrat, Evelyn Jones, Richard Hueneman and Melvin Hueneman. Uncle of many nieces and nephews, great and great-great nieces and nephews. Special thanks and tremendous appreciation to the staff of the Tehan House for their kindness and dedication to Larry for over three decades. Died, Wednesday, March 18, 2020 age 73. Private funeral mass and burial has taken place. Please make memorials to The Tehan House, 4420 Westwood-Nor thern Blvd, Cincinnati (45211). Arrangements entrusted to Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home. Condolences may be shared online at www.rebold. com.

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May 14, 2002 - March 11, 2020 Katie (Kt) is the beloved daughter of Valerie (Bott) and Daniel Kincaid and loving little sister of Matt. A Celebration of Life open to all will be held later this year when it is again safe for large gatherings. Katie’s legacy may be honored by making a contribution to the Katherine (Kt) Kincaid Scholarship at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy. Gifts are being accepted through CHCA’s website at www.chca-oh. org/ktscholarship or checks may be mailed to CHCA Advancement Office, Attn: Katherine Kt Kincaid Scholarship, 8283 East Kemper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249. www. mrfh.com

Janice Lane CINCINNATI - She passed away March 19, 2020 age of 80. Service held at First Baptist Church of Dent. Neidhardminges.com.

Kispert, Helen Marie “Mimi” (Gerdsen) - age 88, died March 18, 2020. Due to social distancing recommendations, a private Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, March 23, 2020. Those desiring may make memorial contributions to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Notre Dame Prayer Community, 701 East Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215 or the Alzheimer’s Association. Helen was born January 11, 1932, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. Harvey and Mary (Roser) Gerdsen. Her father was a private practice physician and her mother was his nurse. Helen graduated from Summit Country Day, then followed in their footsteps by becoming a registered nurse at Bethesda Hospital. Helen worked with her father before marrying Jack Kispert on April 28, 1953. She then began her career as a stay at home mom and caregiver. She was a devoted and much loved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother and friend. She’s had many nicknames: “Gerdie”, “Kidlo”, and more recently “Mimi”. Helen loved sports and games, beginning with fast pitch softball (as a pitcher); and then bowling, golf, and bridge, where she often kept scores and schedules for the group. In her modest manner she made her presence known by her pleasant disposition, smile and her many one-liners. She loved music and played the piano, singing and dancing until her last days. She loved most of all simply being with her family, and especially loved her 3 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. She was a member of San Marco Catholic Church, Marco Island, Florida and St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Fenton, Michigan. She converted to Catholicism in 1951. Helen is survived by her loving husband, Jack Kispert, Sr.; daughter, Susan (Bill) Himes; son, John (Mary) Kispert, Jr.; grandchildren, Christopher (Carrie) Himes, Brian Himes, and John Kispert III; great-grandchildren, Lucas and Nathan Himes; and many loving nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by: her parents, Dr. Harvey and Mary Gerdsen and her brother Dr. Robert (Pat) Gerdsen. Tributes may be shared at www.sharpfuneralhomes.com. Arrangements by Sharp Funeral Homes, Fenton Chapel, 1000 W. Silver Lake Rd., Fenton.

Tami L. Kinsler

Marcia Anne Crosby Martin

(age 54) Beloved daughter of the late Sol J. & Sybil P. Kinsler, cherished sister of Patricia Copeland, Lenna (Jeanie) Webb, Michael (Linda) Kinsler, Edward (Marilyn) Webb, the late Virginia (Ginny) Simmons, Carol Kinsler and the late Deborah Kinsler. Tami passed away suddenly on February 23, 2020. Memorials may be made to your favorite pet rescue facility. Arrangements are being made by the family.

CARMEL MANOR Marcia Anne Crosby Martin passed away on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at the age of 89 at Carmel Manor in Ft. Thomas, KY. Marcia was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri. She was a graduate of Hickman High School, Christian College (now Columbia College), the University of Missouri, and a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Upon graduation Marcia taught home economics at the high school in Hannibal, MO. Marcia retired from teaching upon her marriage to her husband, William R. Martin, III who has predeceased her. During their 65-year marriage, Marcia and Bill resided in St. Louis, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Cincinnati, OH; Union, KY; St. Petersburg, FL; Breckenridge, CO; Pinellas Park, FL; Sapphire, NC and finally Live Oak, FL. Marcia was a dedicated homemaker as well as an accomplished seamstress sewing for herself, her children and her grandchildren, including wedding dresses for both her daughters. Marcia is predeceased by her brother and his wife, Jim and Joan Crosby of Columbia, MO and her brother-in-law, Dr. E.K. Burk of Plano, TX. She is survived by her six children: William R. Martin IV (Kathy), Joseph C. Martin (Kathleen), Margaret M. Shouvlin (Patrick), James E. Martin (Carol), Howard C. Martin (Becky), and Anne M. Stepaniak (Mark); her eight grandchildren: Jessica K. Martin, Andrew J. Shouvlin (Olivia), William R. Martin V (Lauren), Mary Bridget Shouvlin, Dallas R. Martin, Allison S. Brucato (Anthony), Maximillian M. Stepaniak, and Heather C. Martin; her two sisters-in-law: Betty Martin (Robert) of Austin, TX and Marjorie Burk of Plano, TX and many nieces and nephews. In lieu of funeral services and to honor Marcia’s character, we ask that all who wish to participate make a donation to Carmel Manor where Marcia was well cared for in her final year of life.

Patricia Thoman Latessa MIAMIVILLE - Patricia Thoman Latessa, 58, of Miamiville, Ohio, died Tuesday, March 17, in the company of her family, after 23 years of living with cancer. She is survived by her loving husband Robert Latessa, son Matthew Latessa (Kelsey Parsons), daughter Lauren Latessa (Ryan Hearty) and brothers Richard and Henry Thoman. Patricia, a Cincinnati Country Day School graduate, won the 1979 OHSAA state title in the 880-yard race. From 1979 to 1983, she attended the University of Richmond, becoming an AIAW All-American. She then taught at Blair Academy in New Jersey, where she met her husband Robert. In 1987, she earned a master’s degree in history from Lehigh University. Her teaching career continued at Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, PA until returning to Cincinnati in 1995.A dedicated educator, Patricia taught history and psychology at Lakota West High School from 1998 to 2011, leaving a legacy of countless students who are now lawyers, doctors, teachers, professors and social workers across the country. Her teaching philosophy captures much about how she lived every day: appeal to the heart, challenge the mind and nourish the soul. Services will be scheduled at the convenience of the family. A public celebration of life will be scheduled for summer of 2020. Arrangements by Spring Grove Funeral Homes 4389 Spring Grove Ave. Cincinnati.

Edwin Linemann CINCINNATI - Ed-

win R. Lindemann, 88, passed away on Monday, March 16, 2020. He leaves his wife of 64 years, JoAnn (Hucksoll) Lindemann; his son Mark Lindemann and his wife Robin; his two grandchildren, Ian Lindemann of Denver and Lauren Levin of Phoenix; and his sister Doreen Johnson. He was a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, passionate in his support of family, church and multiple volunteer causes. As owner of Lindemann Printing Company he was active and a leader of Printing House Craftsmen. He was a Mason and sang in the Scottish Rite choir. A Memorial Service will be held at Spring Grove Cemetery at a later date. Memorial Donations be directed to the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Condolences at www. springgrove.org

Donald C. “Don” Moore beloved husband of Rosemary Moore (nee Schweppe), loving father of Barb MooreRolf, Donnie Moore, Carol (Ken) Hake, Paul (Michelle) Moore, Gary (Amy) Moore, grandfather of Eric (Daniell), Adam (Amber), Dylan, Lindsey, Lauren, Samantha, Paul, Josh, Elizabeth and Ella, great grandfather of Aubrey and Ian, brother of Rosemary (Ken) Carrier and Frank Moore. Passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at age 88. A memorial Mass will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to Honor Flight Tri-State or Queen City Hospice. www.vittstermeranderson.com

Rose M. Neumeister CINCINNATI - Rose M. Neumeister, 93, passed away, Sat., Mar. 14, 2020 in Cincinnati, OH. Visitation 11:00 a.m., Mon., Mar. 23, 2020 at Walker Funeral Home-Mt. Healthy Chapel 7272 Hamilton Ave., (45231) with 12:00 p.m. service. Interment in Crown Hill. Arrangements by Walker

Conrad Nolan HARRISON - Born

September 5, 1933. Life-long love and partner of Gertrude (nee Gaylor) Nolan. He passed away March 18, 2020. Age 86. Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. Neidhardminges.com

Joan M. Rairden CINCINNATI - Joan M Rairden (nee Maertz) passed peacefully on March 17th, 2020 Born on May 17th, 1951 in Cincinnati to Henry and Mary Adel Maertz. Survived by her mother, Mary Adel, husband, Greg & children Meredith (Jason Koterba), Scott (Erin) & Mark (Katie); grandchildren Collin, Emerson, Palmer, Piper & Domenico; Brothers James (Sandy), Gary (Sylvia), Tom (Kathy); sister in law, Terri (Robert Graff); nieces & nephews, cousins and many loving friends. A Mass of Christian Burial at Good Shepherd Catholic Parish and burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery will be held for the immediate family. A Celebration of Life will be scheduled for Summer 2020. Memorials made to: Hospice of Cincinnati: https://hospiceofcincinnati.org/donate/ & SPCA: https://www. spcacincinnati.org/donate/

Patsy Ruth Rehring FAIRFIELD, OH Patsy Ruth Rehring, of Fairfield, OH age 86 years, passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday morning, March 17, 2020. Beloved wife of the late Robert J. Rehring. Dear mother of Terry Rehring and Beverly (Jeff) Cochran. Loving grandmother of Joe Hayden, Brittany (Brandon) Herth and great grandmother of Elsie Willow Herth. Devoted sister of the late Bobby June Allen and Georgia Abbott. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Private funeral services have been held. Memorial donations may be sent to The Salvation Army. Neidhard Young Funeral Home serving the family. Online condolences at neidhardyoungfuneralhome. com

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Jerry Perry BRIDGETOWN Gerald N Perry, beloved husband of Helen Schweiger Perry, loving father of Mike (Dona) Flannery, Jan (Ron) Riggs and Barbara (Jeff ) Brandt, grandfather of 3, great grandfather of 6, proceeded in death by his parents and his 4 siblings. Retired, AT&T Electrical Engineer. Died, Wednesday, March 18, 2020 age 89. Private funeral services at the convenience of the family. Please make donations to Grace Hospice, 4850 Smith Road #100C, Cincinnati (45212). Arrangements entrusted to Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home. Condolences may be shared online at www. rebold.com

Elizabeth M. Pomerantz - (nee Ollinger) beloved wife of the late Charles Pomerantz, loving mother of Janice Engels, Dan Pomerantz, Ed Pomerantz, Laura Dickman, Nancy Smith, Sharon Opkins and the late Charles M. Pomerantz, dear grandmother of 7 grandchildren, dear sister of Mary Vollner and the late John Ollinger, Nick Ollinger, Catherine Knapp, and Sister Mary Grace CSA, aunt of many nieces and nephews. Passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020. A memorial mass will take place at a later date. Memorials may be made to your charity of choice. www.vittstermeranderson.com DELHI

Carol Rolf TEMPLE TERRACE - Carol Rolf, born to Rosemary and Vernon Rolf in Covington, Kentucky, passed away peacefully and gracefully with her family by her side on March 13 ,2020. She was an Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida until her retirement in 2005. Years earlier, she graduated with an MBA from the same institution. In retirement, Carol volunteered for Seniors in Service Of Tampa Bay, Inc., as well as the Hillsborough County School District. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Rosemary (Rolf) Lindsly and brother-in-law Gerald Vorholt. She is survived by her brother, Vernon Rolf, sister, Katheen (Rolf) Vorholt, brother-in-law, Gerry Lindsly, sisterin-law, Wendy Rolf, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, loving friends, neighbors and Cassie, her beloved dog. Carol was a beautiful, kind, and loving person. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. A family and friends celebration of Carol’s life will be forthcoming once the COVID-19 situation is resolved. The family gratefully acknowledges Life Path Hospice’s kindness and empathic care. Please feel free to remember Carol through donations to the Humane Society of Pinellas County, 3040 FL-590, Clearwater, Florida 33759.

Janet Rosenstiel HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - Rosenstiel, Janet Yvonne

(Reinheimer) age 85, of Highlands Heights, Kentucky and Cincinnati (Delhi), Ohio, passed away on March 18, 2020 at Highlandspring Care Center in Fort Thomas, Kentucky with the love of her life, and husband of 49 years, Edwin D. Rosenstiel, by her side. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles Robert Reinheimer and Ruth Terry Reinheimer; and her sisters-in-law – Willa Rosenstiel Pfriem and Lois Brabender Reinheimer. She came into this world with her lifelong best friend and twin sister, Jean Reinheimer Wilson, on September 19, 1934 in Foster, Kentucky. Janet was a 1953 graduate of Butler High School, in Butler, Kentucky and spent 40 years working for the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. In her retirement, she spent a great deal of time in both Bradenton, Florida and the Pass-a-Grille area of St. Pete Beach, Florida. An avid Cincinnati Bengals fan, she was a season ticket holder for over 20 years and attended the 1982 and 1989 Super Bowls to watch her Bengals play. Although she had no children of her own, she generously doted over her many nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews, never forgetting a birthday or a Christmas. Janet is survived by her husband, Edwin D. Rosenstiel of Highland Heights, Kentucky; her twin sister, Jean Reinheimer Wilson of Cincinnati, Ohio; her older brother Robert Terry Reinheimer, of Austin, Texas; 8 nieces and nephews; 11 grand-nieces and grand-nephews; countless cousins in Oneida, Tennessee; and many friends at the Asbury United Methodist Church in Highland Heights, Kentucky. A private memorial service will be held later in the spring. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made in her name to the Asbury United Methodist Church, 2916 Alexandria Pike, Highlands Heights, KY 41076. Arrangements have been entrusted to Newcomer Cremations, Funerals & Receptions, 4350 Dixie Highway, Erlanger, Ky. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.NewcomerCincinnati.com

Pete Smith Pete Smith, beloved husband of 56 years to the late Beverly C. Smith (whom he met at Wyoming HS) and attended The Ohio State University. He raised his family in Mariemont, Terrace Park and retired to Milford, OH. Pete died peacefully at Chesterwood Village on March 11, 2020, surrounded by his children, after a 5 year battle with Dementia. Pete was born in Gallipolis,Oh to Anne T. Smith and Richmond W.”Bud” Smith on August 20, 1935. Pete served in the U.S. Navy from 1955-1961. He then went on to sell Cessna airplanes at Lunken Airport with his brother, Mike and father. He was a member and officer with the Silver Wings Fraternity of Ohio. He enjoyed traveling with Bev to Florida, out west, and attending regional Blue Grass concerts and the annual EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh,WI. Pete was the devoted father of Viki (Greg) Dittrich, Deb (David) Quinones, Libby (Jim) Hammond, and Guy (Lynda) Smith. Dear grandfather of Laura, Hanna,and Peter Dittrich, Josh and Annie Quinones, Katie and the late Sarah Hammond, Ryan and Blake (Rachel) Smith, and great grandfather to Amelia Smith. He is survived by his brother, Mike (Myra)Smith, and sister, Laura Barrett (Mac Johnson). Many thanks to the entire staff at The Chesterwood Village, of W.C., OH and Queen City Hospice staff. Donations may be sent in his memory to Queen City Hospice, 8250 Kenwood Crossing Way, 20, Cincinnati, OH 45236 or Alzheimer’s Association of Cincinnati, 644 Linn St, Cincinnati, OH 45203 or to the charity of your choice. The family is planning a private celebration of Pete’s life. Memories of Pete’s life may be shared at www. craver-riggs.com

Wendell True CINCINNATI - Wendell C. True 85 of Cincin-

nati, Ohio went to his Heavenly home on March 15, 2020 from complications of a stroke. Wendell was born to the late Naomi and Lillard True on August 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio a city he loved and made his home. He attended Taylor University and the University of Michigan for his Masters followed by his service in the National Guard. Wendell diligently and passionately worked at Ohio National Financial Services for 35 years until he retired in 1995 as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Wendell married his wife Diane on June 2, 1956. Together they became pillars of a beautiful family. Rooted in Christ they lead by example creating a bond through four generations that is truly something to be revered. Whether you called him Wendell, Hooks, Poppop, or Dad to know him was to love him. He was funny, kind, and truly a remarkable person. His presence will never be replaced but fondly remembered by his many friends and family near and far. Wendell is survived by his wife, Diane; his son Dr. M. Scott True and wife Lori, his daughter Maribeth McPheters and Husband Robert ; his Grandchildren Ashley and RJ Beucler and their three children Bennett Emilyn and Evy; Eric and Alex True and their daughter Marlowe; Andrew and Lauren McPheters; Lauren and Doug Piper and their daughter Eliza; Aaron and Daniella McPheters. In light of Wendell’s well known generosity the family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Amigos for Christ an organization near and dear to his heart as his son Dr. True works closely with this nonprofit changing lives and sharing Jesus. www.amigosforchrist.org

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Joseph H. Wessling VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - Joseph H. Wessling

passed away Friday, March 13, 2020 in Virginia Beach, VA at age 90. Married 52 years to the late Adelaide Wessling (nee Lense). Beloved father of John J. Wessling, Sr. (Teresa). Grandfather of Sara Wessling and John J. Wessling, Jr. Brother of Rev. Jack Wessling and Ceal Bellman. Beloved uncle to eleven nieces and nephews, along with numerous great nieces and great nephews, one great-great niece and one great-great nephew. Professor of English at his alma mater, Xavier University, for 37 years until his retirement in 2000. Previously taught junior high and high school in the Cincinnati and Deer Park school districts. Over a distinguished career, Joe touched the lives of thousands of students. Joe will be remembered as an extraordinarily generous man of great faith. He was very active in the parish community of Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier University. He was a longtime resident of North Avondale until recently moving to Virginia Beach, VA. Joe donated his body to science. Memorial Masses will be scheduled at future dates at Bellarmine Chapel and at The Church of the Ascension in Virginia Beach. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Power Inspires Progress, an organization that Joe enthusiastically supported: PIP/Venice on Vine 1301 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 Online condolences may be sent to the family through hdoliver.com.

Barbara M. Weber DELHI TWP. - Barbara M. Weber passed on March 4th, at the age of 88. She is the wife of Edward Weber. Mother of her children: Paul, David and the late George Fieler. Grandmother of Tammy Duncan. Barbara was the secretary and bookkeeper for Ed Weber Excavating for many years and was a talented watercolor artist and quilt maker. All services were private, per Barbara’s wishes. www.dwifuneralhome. com

Charles Anthony Zielinski LOVELAND - Charles Anthony Zielinski age 85, of Loveland, Ohio. Beloved husband for 57 years of the late Catherine Marie (nee Lunney); loving father of Brenda Burton (Jay), Charles (Heather) and Michael (Mary); proud grandfather of 8 & great grandfather of 6. He was a leader in the military, a coach, a successful businessman, an athlete, a world traveler and most of all, a family man. His success came from being genuine and caring. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Charlie to the Cleveland Clinic’s Brain Tumor & Neuro-Oncology department. Cremation by DeJohn Crematory. Celebration of Life Service at a later date. Arrangements by THE DeJOHN-FLYNN-MYLOTT FUNERAL HOME OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS. Online obituary and guestbook at www. DeJohnCares.com.

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said Jim. “They gave stuff away, every day, to the Free Store. I learned then, you give to the community.” Gloria and Jim never say no. Framing, artwork, gift certifi cates for your silent auction. “Bring a letter explaining what you need. We’ll fi x you up with something nice for your event,” Jim said. Some of us are lucky enough to have lived in a place that would have cherished Jim and Gloria. We cherish those memories. They return us to a Mayberry-esque time before Walmart and Amazon. When the guy who cut our hair was an usher at our wedding. When the people who ran the hardware store would blow a foot of snow off our driveway, just because. Shelter in place has an ominous, doom-y ring to it, especially if you’re riding this storm out alone. Not so much when you’re part of a community where people know each other and do for each other. I asked Jim what Fort Mitchell would miss most if Ralice’s closed. He didn’t say the high-end framing he and Gloria do. (”Museum-grade matting,” he said. “Nine-

In a typical spring training, this is usually one of the busier times for managers in camp with Opening Day a few days away. Rosters are being fi nalized. Regular starters are playing full games. It’s still a busy time for Reds manager David Bell, but in a much diff erent way after the start of the baseball season was postponed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. At home with his family, he’s trying to communicate with players, coaches and front-offi ce staff about how to remain ready for whenever the season resumes. “A lot of time on the computer and a lot of time on the phone,” Bell said Friday. The coaching staff developed individualized plans for each player during the indefi nite hiatus. Teams are anticipating another version of spring training that will last three or four weeks before the season begins, so it will be an accelerated ramp-up period for pitchers. It’s important they don’t lose all their progress from the past two months. With players spread around the country, the coaching staff talked with each player to learn about their access to equipment in weight rooms and baseball fi elds. The Reds closed their spring training facility in Arizona after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, and Great American Ball Park remains closed. The Reds are prioritizing injured players to help them continue their rehab programs. For example, Eugenio Suárez plans to resume his throwing, swinging and fi elding programs next week. The club wanted to make sure he had somewhere where he could take swings. Suárez was scheduled to make his spring training debut as a designated hitter last week when MLB suspended camps. “Each one of the guys has friends, family, other players potentially to help them with these things,” Bell said. “Obviously, it’s a consideration to make sure when they are resuming these activities and trying to stay on track and get all the way back healthy,

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Jim Schlotthauer has owned the Ralice Custom Framing & Fine Art in Fort Mitchell with his wife Gloria for 24 years. Their small business, like thousands of others, have been a key fabric to our communities. PAUL DAUGHERTY/THE ENQUIRER

Small, yet vital In these trying times, neighborhood shops need our help Paul Daugherty Columnist Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

No high school gets a new scoreboard because of eBay’s generosity. When you’re looking for a donation for your silent auction, Amazon’s not on your call list. You would shop online all day, but you’d never ask Craigslist to work the concession stand at a junior varsity basketball game. Not long ago, Jim Schlotthauer had a young woman walk into Ralice Custom Framing & Fine Art in Fort Mitchell, the shop he and his wife Gloria have owned for 24 years, to solicit a charitable donation. She was very impressed with the store. Jim asked if she’d ever bought anything there. No, she said. “I do all my shopping online.” Jim made a donation, anyway. The person in need didn’t know of the young woman’s callowness. These are hard days for people who call

themselves Boss. They’re not getting easier anytime soon. “Everybody’s probably going to struggle pretty hard,” Jim Schlotthauer said. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of store owners and shopkeepers all over the country, saying silent prayers. They’ve invested their lives in the ﬂ oor under their feet and they’re feeling it move, an economic earthquake. Could you make it if your income stopped for two months or more? Even if you could, would it feel like starting all over? Gloria Schlotthauer emailed me a reminder last week. Essentially: Don’t forget your small businesses. We’ve never forgotten you. We all know that, intrinsically. How much do we practice it? “We are the backbone of every community in this country,” Gloria wrote. Jim met his future wife at her family’s bakery in downtown Cincinnati. Butterkist Bakery cracked 1,200 eggs a day. “I went in for a doughnut and came out with a wife,” Jim said. What struck him about Butterkist – beyond Gloria, of course – was its personality. “Everyone who came in, they knew,”

Rekindling the joy of being a hometown sports fan Special to The Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A few weeks ago, my wife and I fl ed the cold, depressingly grey Cincinnati winter and fl ew to Goodyear, Arizona to see if the sun still existed and to watch a few Reds’ spring training games. Until this winter we were never able to be so carefree because we were always working, Rose as a teacher and me as a sports writer, fi rst at the Cincinnati

Post, then for 12 years at the Enquirer, and later for ‘gobearcats.com’, the University of Cincinnati’s athletics web site. The sunshine and warm weather were everything we had hoped for. The games weren’t very compelling because the players we knew put in only a few innings of work before they were replaced by minor leaguers, but that’s part of the deal during spring training. I did, however, decline to pay $6 for a Mister Softee ice cream cone.

On our second day at Goodyear Ballpark we joined a few fans on the grassy slope behind the Reds’ bullpen to watch Luis Castillo warm up. We were only about 10 feet from Castillo as he poured fastballs into Tucker Barnhart’s mitt, with Reds pitching coach Derek Johnson observing nearby. Fans can’t do this sort of thing during the regular season, but during spring training the atmosphere is more relaxed. They can get closer to the players, who don’t seem to mind. Castillo even

casually ﬂ ipped souvenir balls to fans. Sadly, I didn’t get one. As I was telling Rose how cool this was, it dawned on me that I used to have this kind of access all the time as a working scribe and didn’t think anything of it. I spent hours waiting in clubhouses to talk to players. I stood around batting cages watching them hit. I was yelled at by Ken Griﬀ ey Jr. over a column I wrote and followed Pete Rose during See KOCH, Page 3C

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Third baseman Eugenio Suarez plans to resume his throwing, swinging and ﬁ elding programs next week as best as he can. ENQUIRER FILE

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still following guidelines as far as the coronavirus. That’s important and we’ve encouraged all of our guys to do that and putting that ahead of anything. “But there are ways we have strategized and made sure they can continue preparing and staying ready, and in these guys’ case, continuing their rehab and staying on track with that.” One of the benefi ts of a delayed start to the season is that the Reds should have all of their players healthy whenever the season starts. Bell provided an update on the team’s injured players: ❚ Eugenio Suárez (right shoulder surgery in January): “He’s feeling great. He’s starting to resume his throwing, fi elding and swinging next week. He’s kind of been transitioning to where he was trying to get. Right on track, and by next week he will be resuming all his throwing, fi elding and swinging. He’s a guy that we were pretty optimistic that he had a strong chance to be ready for Opening Day. Now, he’ll have a lot more time.” ❚ Nick Senzel (surgery to repair labrum in right shoulder in September): “There is no question over the last week things have slowed down. Guys have been transitioning. I mean, there has just been so much going on. If none

of this would’ve happened, he probably would’ve been a week ahead of where he is right now. But given that we’re probably going to have a much longer delay than a week, he’ll be able to get right back on track.” ❚ Freddy Galvis (left quad strain): “He’s feeling, really, 100%. He’s running, throwing and swinging. He’s ﬁ elding ground balls and throwing. He’s doing great. I spoke with him yesterday.” ❚ Josh VanMeter (tendinitis around left shin): “VanMeter is not feeling any symptoms at all, so I would consider him 100%.” ❚ Travis Jankowski (hamstring): “He’s continuing his running progression. Where he stands, we don’t expect any further limitations at all.” ❚ Joel Kuhnel (shoulder discomfort): “Depending on how he’s feeling next week will determine whether or not he picks up his throwing program.” The MLB season will be delayed until at least mid-May after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended there are no events with 50 people or more for the next eight weeks. For the Reds, they want to be ready at all times. “We’ve been in close contact with all our players, but especially these guys,” Bell said of the injured players. “Overall, I mean, there is a real good, strong possibility that they will all be healthy now whenever we get started.”

TAMPA, Fla. – New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge revealed he had a collapsed lung that has healed and said his broken rib is improving. Judge had a CT scan on Friday. The Yankees announced two weeks ago that Judge had a stress fracture to his fi rst right rib. “The bone is still about the same, slight improvement,” Judge said as he left Steinbrenner Field. “The bone is healing the way it should be, so probably another test here in a couple more weeks and go from there.” Judge added the scan showed a “pneumothorax came back completely gone.” “A little thing on the lung that we were having a little issue with, but that was all healed up.” Judge said. “Good to go. Which means I can fl y if I needed to go home.” The 27-year-old didn’t played in any spring training games because of soreness in his right pectoral muscle and shoulder. With opening day pushed back into mid-May at the earliest due to the new coronovirus, Judge has more time to recover without missing games. “That’s the silver lining in all of this, just having the ability to not feel rushed trying to get back for a certain date, especially since we really don’t have a date.” Judge said “Just trying to let it heal, don’t try to rush it.” Judge plans to continue working out and getting treatment at the Yankees’ spring training complex. “I got a place here, so I might as well just stay here and still work with the guys that we have as long as they don’t shut us down.” the California native said. “That’s the biggest concern, getting shut down.” “The great thing is they have this open so we can come here and still do some baseball activity and stay ready,” Judge added. “Just kind of feel like we’re still in baseball mode. But, when you go home, it’s helped me out a little bit. I’ve got some stuff around the

Yankees outﬁ elder Aaron Judge is still dealing with a a stress fracture to his ﬁ rst right rib that he says is slightly improved. USA TODAY SPORTS

house to do, put up some stuff on the wall, cleaning. But after I get all my stuff done on my apartment, I think I’m kind of going crazy a little bit.” Judge and the Yankees believe the star right fi elder hurt himself making a diving catch late last season. Removal of the bone is a possibility, depending on the healing process. Since winning the 2017 AL Rookie of the Year award, Judge has been limited to 112 games in 2018 because of a broken right wrist and to 102 games last year due to a strained left oblique. REDS: Fox Sports Ohio is going to rebroadcast regular season games from last season with an initial schedule of eight games beginning today at 8 p.m. with the Reds beating the Chicago Cubs 10-1 from August 10. The schedule will be updated over the coming weeks with additional games and programing. The Reds’ victory over the Cubs was highlighted by Aristedes Aquino homering in his fi rst thee at-bats, tying and MLB record for a rookie. Fox Sports Ohio will broadcast one game Wednesday and then a tripleheader on Thursday. Games will also stream on FOX Sports GO.

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ty-eight percent ultraviolet-light-fi ltered glass.”) “I think people would miss us as friends. The community would miss us personally,” Jim said. “Folks will come in and talk for hours and never buy anything. Don’t feel like you have to come in and spend money. Just come in and hang out.” They bought the business after seeing it listed for sale in The Enquirer classifi eds. They moved it from the West Side to Fort Mitchell. By now, they do have customers and longtime neighborhood associates who come in just to say hello. Former employees do the same, essentially to pay their respects to people who helped them become adults. “They learned how to answer a phone call courteously,” Jim said, “sweep a fl oor, treat a person with dignity when they walked into the shop.” My fi rst and only summer job, I was a waiter at Congressional Country Club outside Washington, D.C. Not exactly a small business, but not a corporate giant, either. I worked there seven summers and learned to deal with all manner of people, most of them rich. Women would snap their fi ngers at me and call me “Honey.” Assistant club managers would inspect my hard-soled shoes for the appropriate gleam. I learned to shut up, make myself useful, and not to quit one job before I had another. Valuable lessons. We choose to live where we do for reasons both quantifi able and intangible. It’s a good place, maybe a place you’ve grown to love. Think about why that is, then do things to keep it whole. We’ve got to be there for these folks. The way they’ve been there for us. “What we have, we fi nd a way to give back,” Gloria said. Maybe you need something framed. Something precious, intimate, irreplaceable. You’ve been meaning to get that done forever. Do it now. “Small businesses are part of the fabric, this quilt of something. The underlying fabric of the community is us,” Jim said. As I made my way out of Jim and Gloria’s shop, Jim said this: “Go to the Grandview Tavern when they open back up. Off of Buttermilk Pike. Talk to Colleen. Have a steak.” Done and done. Least I can do.

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his pursuit of Ty Cobb’s hits record in 1985. I even wrote a column about playing a game of one-on-one against thenUC basketball coach Bob Huggins. For the record, he won 10-6, although he tried to claim that it was 10-5. I grew up in Cincinnati following the Reds, the NBA Royals, UC basketball, even the Bengals. I was in high school when the Big Red Machine was just starting to blossom. As a 10-year-old I watched UC’s stunning upset loss to Loyola of Chicago in the 1963 national championship game on TV with my dad and my two brothers in our living room. I was all in as a Cincinnati sports fan. Then I became a sportswriter in my hometown and that all changed. I wasn’t allowed to be a fan anymore. I was a journalist and that meant writing and reporting with a level of objectivity that at fi rst I wasn’t sure I was capable of. When I covered Opening Day for the fi rst time in 1978 as a young reporter working for the Chillicothe Gazette on my fi rst daily newspaper job, I was

awed to be in the same clubhouse with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose. By then, Tony Perez had been traded to the Montreal Expos. But I learned fast. I did my best to play it down the middle to the point where at times I might have become too critical of the home teams because I feared being labeled a “homer.” I even ticked off Sean Casey, one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, when I interviewed him for a column shortly after he had been traded to the Reds from the Indians. I needed an angle for the column, so I asked him about the less than stellar power numbers he had posted in his young career. “What is this,” he said, “a negative interview?” As I got older, I fi gured out that some fans don’t always want sportswriters to be objective about their local teams. They want to read mostly positive stories about their heroes. But I held to the belief that a signifi cant number of readers really do want the real story of what’s going on from a dispassionate observer. I never wavered from my mission as a journalist, not a writer of puff pieces. Now that I’m retired, I’ve come full

circle. I realized as I watched Castillo warm up under those clear blue skies in Goodyear that I was back to being a fan. I’ve missed some of the perks that came with being a sportswriter – the travel (well, some of it), the access to players and coaches, even the press box food. But I’ve regained something valuable in return. I’ve rediscovered the joy of being a fan. I can unabashedly root for my hometown teams the way I did when I was young and had not yet seen and written about the blemishes that sometimes mar professional and major college sports. When I recently attended a UC basketball game, I heard a nearby fan complain about an oﬃ cial’s call. “I’m not a homer,” he said, almost apologetically, “but that was a terrible call.” “Don’t worry,” I told him. “You’re a fan. You’re supposed to be a homer.” Now I belong more to his fan fraternity than to the fraternity of scribes that I so proudly embraced for so many years. Perhaps I’m more jaded than most fans, but when I see some of the comments on Twitter these days, I doubt it.

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Matt DiBenedetto, known as “The People’s Driver,” has been with numerous teams during his 11 years competing in the NASCAR national touring series, but his ride this year comes with historical signifi cance. The Grass Valley, California native is driving the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford Mustang for the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series. While he’s still chasing his fi rst Cup Series win, the 28-year-old driver already tied his career-best fi nish this season with a second-place showing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He currently sits ninth in Cup Series points. With NASCAR currently on hold due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, along with all other sports across the United States and most of the world, DiBenedetto took time to talk about his current season, Sunday’s iRacing exhibition, charity work during the pandemic and what it’s like being the “people’s driver.” Enquirer: You’ve started off well this year, all top-20 fi nishes, and tied your all-time best fi nish with a second-place fi nish at Las Vegas, so how’s everything going with adjusting to the new ride with Wood Brothers Racing? DiBenedetto: It’s been great, they’re such a great family and great people. It’s so much fun driving for the Wood Brothers with all the history of the team. Our performance has been good, not perfect. We had a good secondplace run at Vegas and then fi nished 13th the last two races. The positive of that is we were very disappointed with running 13th – that was our bad day. So, when we’re on and we run well, I think we’ll be contenders week in and week out. It’s been awesome so far. We were just getting going and working on our communication and now we’re on hold. But, it’s OK, when we get back at it, we’ll be doing a whole lot of racing and having a whole lot of fun. E: How are you staying sharp during this break? Is it more time in the simulator, other types of racing? D: I’ll do diff erent things. Obviously this weekend we’re going to be doing

iRacing at Homestead on FS1 at 1 p.m. and that’s a fun way for us to still have some competition in our lives. We’re going to do something that’s fun and something we have to work at because you have to practice on there to get better – there are some things on the simulator that you have to get acclimated to. Some other stuff I’m doing is running go-karts down at the GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, North Carolina, and I run a shifter cart with Michael McDowell. So, all these things keep you sharp because you don’t want to sit and do nothing over all this time. It does help to stay sharp and obviously we’ll stay fi t. My wife and I work out together and we’ll go out and train with our friends. We’ve been doing that at home, which is a diff erent element. We’re lifting weights and working out in the driveway and stuff . So, it’s just a whole bunch of things to stay on top of our game. E: Speaking of the iRacing event this weekend, I know a lot of people are looking forward to it. Do you have a simulator in your house or a rig set up at the shop? What’s your setup? D: I’ve actually got one in my house. We’ve got a room that’s dedicated to just iRacing. I’ve got a simulator setup that was built by my friend Casey at Carolina Sim Works, so that’s all he does. He got me set up with the full simulator with the triple monitors and Fanatec wheel and pedals, so I’ve got all the good stuff to go out there. I haven’t run as much lately, or as much as I wanted to, so I’m not really on top of my game on iRacing. The next couple of days are going to be a lot of time put in for me as far as practicing and all that to get ready for the race on Sunday. We’re all drivers and we’re all competitive, but something, even if it’s just for fun, you know, we don’t want to be bad at anything. So everyone’s going to have fun but everyone’s going to want to win. The iRacing exhibition will feature a full fi eld of NASCAR drivers, including Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell. NASCAR legends Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Bobby Labonte also will compete.

E: Speaking of Sunday’s iRacing event, I’ve seen some of the chirping going back and forth and I was wondering how serious everyone’s going to take this race and how much smack talk you think we’ll see. D: I think drivers will take it more seriously than some would expect. I think some people would look at it and be like ‘Oh, they’re just hopping on iRacing. They’ll probably just take this and have fun.’ That’s not the case. So, I think people will take it more seriously. E: Just to go back to the move to Wood Brothers Racing, you’ve had rides for both Ford and Toyota, is there any diﬀ erence this year changing over to a diﬀ erent manufacturer? (DiBenedetto drove the No. 95 Toyota Camry for Leavine Family Racing last season) D: A lot of it is mostly about the support you get from the manufacturer. Having the Roush Yates engines is awesome with their support and just the level of support that our team gets from Ford is really nice. Also, driving a Mustang is cool because I drive a Mustang on the street every single day as my daily driver, so there’s a cool factor to that. It’s been a good switch over to Ford. The Ford folks have treated me like family. I was with Ford back when I was driving for Go Fas Racing in the No. 32. E: Lastly, with the novel coronavirus pandemic ongoing, a lot of people are stepping up to help others. You and Wood Brothers Racing are working to provide iPads to seniors in nursing homes. Can you walk me through that and explain how people that want to support it can pitch in? D: John Wood called me and he had spoken with the team and family. We wanted to do something good for people during this time and they called me with that idea and I thought “Man, this is such a cool idea” because just people that I know personally – even my neighbor – can’t go see their own mother or other relatives at a nursing home due to keeping everyone safe. I was like, “Man, that’s such a cool idea to connect them so they can see their families and connect them during this time.” If you want to donate, visit https:// woodbrothersracing.bigcartel.com /product/tablets-for-seniors

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The third chapter of Major League Soccer’s training moratorium was announced Friday when league offi cials extended it for at least one more week. After initially barring clubs from training Thursday, March 12 and later extending that to March 20, the league’s latest training directive came after offi cials stated regular-season play would not resume before May 10. “During this time, MLS players are expected to remain in each club’s respective market and have been advised to exercise safe social distancing measures,” league offi cials stated in a news release. “At this time, team training facilities may only be accessed for physical therapy purposes at the direction of club medical staff to ensure adherence to safety protocols. “MLS remains in close contact with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on this continually evolving situation and will provide further updates as they become available.” As of Wednesday, the only FC Cincinnati players using the Mercy Health Training Center in Milford were goalkeeper Bobby Edwards and winger Adrien Regattin. Both players are rehabbing injuries, FC Cincinnati General Manager Gerard Nijkamp told The Enquirer this week. FC Cincinnati’s other players are training individually, but it’s increasingly likely FCC and all MLS clubs will at least need an abbreviated preseason before they can safely retake the fi eld if regular-season play resumes. “If we are eight weeks out of (league play), then we have to start again,” Nijkamp said in a Wednesday interview.

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Busy Steelers adding Ebron and Wisniewski PITTSBURGH – Ben Roethlisberger is getting a little help. The defensive line is getting a little depth. The off ensive line a little veteran experience, all in the name of helping the Pittsburgh Steelers make some headway in the new-look AFC North. The Steelers have agreed to terms with tight end Eric Ebron on a two-year deal, providing Roethlisberger with another experienced red zone target. The team also agreed to terms with guard Stefen Wisniewski, bringing the Pittsburgh native home on a two-year deal just a month after Wisniewski won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs. The Steelers even executed a rare indivision trade, acquiring backup defensive tackle Chris Wormley and a seventh-round pick from Baltimore for a fi fth-round pick in this year’s draft. Ebron, 27, is nearly two years removed from a breakout 2018 in which he caught 13 touchdown passes in Indianapolis, reaching the Pro Bowl for the fi rst time in the process. His stats took a serious dip in 2019 while dealing with a lingering ankle injury that ended his season in late November. Ebron fi nished with just 31 receptions for 375 yards, his lowest totals in each category since his rookie year in Detroit in 2014. The Steelers reached out in hopes of giving Roethlisberger another proven option, particularly around the goal line. Pittsburgh has struggled to fi nd a consistent playmaker at tight end since Heath Miller retired in February 2016. Wisniewski grew up in Pittsburgh and played at Penn State before embarking on a nomadic pro career that’s seen stops in Oakland, Jacksonville, Philadelphia and Kansas City. His arrival gives the Steelers a dose of experience on the off ensive line after longtime guard Ramon Foster retired and versatile backup B.J. Finney signed with Seattle in free agency. Wisniewski, who turns 31 on Sunday, will be in the mix for the starting job at left guard. The Ravens used a third-round pick

on the 6-foot-5, 300-pound Wormley in 2017 but he’s spent the majority of his young career as a backup. Wormley has 21⁄ 2sacks and 54 tackles in 39 games, including 15 starts. While bringing in Ebron and Wisniewski address the team’s most glaring needs, they likely are still searching for some proven talent at linebacker after cutting Anthony Chickillo and Mark Barron and letting Tyler Matakevich sign with Buff alo. The depth behind the four starters – Dupree and T.J. Watt at the outside with Devin Bush and Vince Williams inside – is thin. SAINTS: Free-agent wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders has agreed to a twoyear contract with the Saints, general manager Mickey Loomis said Saturday. The 5-foot-11 Sanders, who turns 33 next week, caught 36 passes for 502 yards and three touchdowns for the 49ers last season. He also started all three of San Francisco’s postseason games, catching fi ve passes for 71 yards. His contract, fi rst reported by ESPN, is said to be worth about $16 million with bonuses that could push the total value as high as $19 million. The Saints struggled last season to fi nd consistent production from a receiver other than All-Pro Michael Thomas, who caught an NFL-record 149 passes for 1,725 yards and nine touchdowns. Free agent Ted Ginn Jr., who turns 35 next month, ranked second among Saints receivers with 30 catches – behind running back Alvin Kamara (81), tight end Jared Cook (43) and running back Latavius Murray (34). BRONCOS: Denver continued an impressive off season haul by agreeing to a two-year deal with former Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon. A person with knowledge of the deal told the Associated Press that it’s worth $16 million with all but $2.5 million guaranteed. That’s less than the $10 million annually that Gordon turned down from the Chargers during an unsuccessful holdout for a long-term extension last season. His $8 million annual salary so ranks fourth among running backs.

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Here are the fi nal Enquirer TriHealth athletes of the week In a vote ending March 20, Cincinnati.com readers voted for the Cincinnati Enquirer athletes of the week winners, March 9-15, presented by TriHealth. This is the last athlete of the week ballot until high school sports resume. Need some fun while we wait to see what’s next? The Enquirer will have a March Madness bracket of past high school championship teams vying against each other for a grand champion. Look for that next week. This week’s winners are: Basketball team of the week: Covington Catholic boys – The Colonels won the Ninth Region after beating Highlands 59-54 in the championship game. Ohio basketball player: Billy Southerland, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – The senior led CHCA with 18 points in the 57-56 loss to Deer Park in the DIII regional semifi nal March 11. Northern Kentucky basketball player: Neil Green, Covington Catholic – The senior was the MVP of the Ninth Region boys basketball tournament, scoring 15 points in the win over Highlands in the championship game. He also had 15 in the semifi nal win over Newport. Melanie Laughman

Duke sophomore guard Jones says he’s headed for NBA draft DURHAM, N.C. - Duke sophomore Tre Jones says he will enter the NBA draft. The point guard was named to the third team of the Associated Press AllAmerica team on Friday after being named Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year by the league and runnerup for the same award from the AP. Jones averaged 16.2 points and 6.4 assists for the Blue Devils, the highlight being his buzzer-beating shot oﬀ his own intentionally missed free throw to force overtime in a wild comeback win at North Carolina on Feb. 8. In a statement released by the school Saturday, Jones said his goal was to win a national championship and he had thought about “what if ” in light of the NCAA Tournament being

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Former UC coach Kennedy is the new head man at UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – UAB has hired former University of Cincinnati and Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy to lead its basketball program. A two-time Southeastern Conference coach of the year and the Rebels’ winningest coach, Kennedy remains the second-leading scorer in UAB program history. He spent the past two years as a commentator for ESPN and the SEC Network. Kennedy received a six-year contract through the 2025-26 season. The school didn’t disclose contract details. Kennedy led Ole Miss to the SEC Tournament title in 2013 with a 27-9 record and took the Rebels to two NCAA Tournament appearances. Kennedy scored 1,787 points in three seasons at UAB from 1988-91 and holds the school record with for career 3pointers made (318), 3-point ﬁ eld goal percentage (43.7) and free throw percentage (87.2). He averaged a schoolrecord 21.8 points per game in 1990-91.

USA Track latest to call for a postponement of the Olympics The U.S. track federation added its name to a growing chorus of calls to postpone the Tokyo Games because of the coronavirus. In a letter to the CEO of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, USA Track and Field CEO Max Siegel urged the federation to advocate for the postponement of the Games, which are to start July 24. USATF joins USA Swimming, which sent a similar letter to the USOPC on Thursday. The USOPC leadership has been in agreement with the IOC, that it’s too soon to make any decisions regarding postponing the games. Associated Press

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Despite recent trade wars, Ohio’s manufacturing sector has added jobs under President Trump – but at a slower rate than the rest of the nation. The manufacturing industry was in recession and dragging Ohio’s economy with it in 2016 when Trump narrowly seized his election win. His successful campaign relied partly on the pledge to restore Rust Belt factory jobs. After Trump’s election, a surge of factory activity ensued and growth in Ohio resumed – until late 2018 and 2019 as the president’s trade wars kicked into high gear, rattling the state dependence on exports. Still, America’s factories added 507,000 jobs on

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one was forced to close before the recovery, he said. “People who were using the products like ours went back to smoking,” Jarvis said. Sales of vape oils at Ohio’s medical marijuana dispensaries also have risen steadily since news of the outbreak receded. Vape oil sales went from $136,483 the week of Sept. 21, 2019, to $741,347 the week of Feb. 29, according to Ohio Department of Commerce records. E-cigarettes are one of the most popular delivery methods among medical marijuana patients. Vape oils

Many of Ohio’s already battered metro areas are losing jobs – again. Outside Ohio’s biggest cities, only Dayton had more jobs in January than it did a year ago, according to Ohio Department of Job and Family Services data. Some of the job losses over the past year in these smaller metros have been steep – 5,500 jobs in Youngstown and 4,300 in Akron. Some of the losses in the Youngstown metro area are tied to the closing of the General Motors plant in Lordstown last year. Other metro areas have suﬀ ered as well. Toledo and Mansﬁ eld, for example, have lost 1,200 jobs apiece over the past year. As has been the case for many years, Columbus posted the best job gains

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Vaping industry sales rebound Fallout from illnesses starts to ﬁ lter away Patrick Cooley

Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

Vape shops took a hit last year during a nationwide outbreak of lung injuries and hospitalizations attributed to e-cigarettes. The stores are just now starting to recover. Sales of e-cigarettes in Ohio plummeted last year as news spread of a nationwide outbreak of vaping-related hospitalizations. But the industry is starting to re-

bound. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2,807 vapingrelated hospitalizations and 68 deaths since the outbreak began in May. Cases started dropping in September, the CDC said in a notice on its website. Ninety-one people were hospitalized in Ohio, according to the state Department of Health. Sales at vape shops throughout Ohio dropped 50% to 70% from July to November, said James Jarvis, president of the Ohio Vapor Trade Association. Those sales are now approaching pre-outbreak levels, said Jarvis, who owns several Ohio vape shops. While the rebound is good for retailers, at least

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We’re in a bear market – now what? Simply Money Amy Wagner & Nathan Bachrach Guest columnists

Question: Jeﬀ in Colerain Township: I’ve lost a lot of money over the last couple weeks. Is this going to last a while? Should I be pulling money out of the market? This is getting really terrifying. A: We know that times like these can be really, really scary, especially when you see your hard-earned retirement savings quickly nosedive. But we want you to take a long, deep breath. Because, while it sure doesn’t feel like it right now, the stock market is resilient… just like America herself. Think about it. There have always been crises that have triggered market losses – the Great Depression, global wars, a presidential assassination, political scandals, terrorist attacks, the ‘dot com’ bust, the Great Recession. Yet, when you look at a graph of the S&P 500 Index (which tracks the biggest 500 companies in the U.S.) since 1930, what you see is something that looks like a person playing with a yo-yo while walk-

ing up some stairs: While there are frequent ups and downs, overall, the trajectory is upward. No matter what’s been thrown at it, the stock market has always bounced back. Sure, it’s taken a long time in some instances, but eventually, stocks head higher. Also, keep in mind, you actually haven’t “lost” money yet – as long as you haven’t sold anything. Right now, the losses are just on paper. We know these may seem like hollow words, but they’re the truth. Selling now means you’ll actually “lock in” your losses, which will likely only deepen your pain and anxiety. However, we also know that, despite everything we just said, you might still be thinking, “I don’t care, I just want to get out of the market. When things look better, I’ll get back in.” But do you know when that will actually be? It’s highly doubtful. On March 9, 2009, there were headlines saying things like: “Report Projects a Worldwide Economic Slide,” “Credit Markets are Seizing Up,” “Lean Factories Find It Hard to Cut Jobs Even in a Slump.” Things looked pretty bad. But guess what? That day was actually the start of the ‘bull’ market that we enjoyed for the last 11 years. Similarly, besides being hard to do, trying to time the market can be costly! At Allworth, we looked at a hypothetical $100,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1995. If that money was not

touched until the end of 2019, it would now be worth more than $1.1 million. However, even just missing the 10 best days of market gains over that same period would mean that money would have grown to only $568,000. Miss the best 20 days? Just $352,000. Markets can rally just as quickly as they fall down – and it’s practically impossible to know when those moments will happen. Do we know how long this decline will last? No. All we have is history as our guide. We know that the average ‘bear’ market (which means the market is down at least 20 percent from its most recent high) has historically lasted about 18 months. The recovery period is about 39 months. So, could things get worse from here? Yes. Will the recovery take a while? Potentially. No one has a crystal ball. So, what can you do right now? We recommend reevaluating your asset allocation, which is your mix of stocks and bonds, as well as your risk tolerance. Because if this large market drop has you losing sleep at night, one of those components of your ﬁ nancial plan (if not both) are likely not properly aligned for your needs. And remember, if you’re still years away from retirement, you need to keep your eye on the long term. If you’re currently in retirement and need income, this may be the time to use your “emergency” fund (that

you hopefully have) and allow your investment accounts the chance to recover. The Simply Money Point is that, through the years, we’ve always tried our best to be your fi nancial voice of reason. So please, listen to us when we say, we will get through this. Every week, Allworth Financial’s Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner answer your questions in their Simply Money column. If you, a friend, or someone in your family has a money issue or problem, feel free to send those questions to yourmoney@enquirer.com. Responses are for informational purposes only and individuals should consider whether any general recommendations in these responses are suitable for their particular circumstances based on investment objectives, fi nancial situation and needs. To the extent that a reader has any questions regarding the applicability of any specifi c issue discussed above to his/her individual situation, he/she is encouraged to consult with the professional adviser of his/ her choosing. Retirement planning services off ered through Allworth Financial, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Securities off ered through AW Securities, a Registered Broker/Dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Call 513-469-7500 or visit allworthfi nancial.com.

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Travelers should expect a travel insurance policy to cost between 4% and 10% of the total cost of their trip. But plans vary. MICHAEL PROBST/AP

Travel insurance usually can help, but has its limits Basic policies generally don’t cover pandemics Dee-Ann Durbin ASSOCIATED PRESS

Travel insurance can be a good investment if you have medical issues or you’re traveling to a volatile region, experts say. But it has its limits, as many travelers whose plans are aff ected by coronavirus have found out. Travel insurance is designed to cover fi nancial losses if you have to cancel or interrupt a trip. Some policies cover the loss or delay of baggage. They also may cover any emergency medical or dental care you need while you’re traveling. But basic policies generally don’t cover pandemics such as the coronavirus. Policies that do – called “cancel for any reason” – cost signifi cantly more and may only cover 50%-75% of a traveler’s losses. “Unfortunately, what consumers end up getting often is less than they expect,” said Octavio Blanco, who has researched travel insurance for Consumer Reports magazine. Blanco said travel insurance is a good idea if you’re traveling to a place where you feel more at risk of getting sick or if you have a medical condition that could force you to cancel your trip. But he doesn’t recommend buying it simply because you think you might want to call the trip off . Policies generally have a very specifi c list of covered reasons for cancellation – losing a job or a terrorist incident within 30 days of the date of travel, for example – but general concern about traveling isn’t one of

them. Travelers should expect a travel insurance policy to cost between 4% and 10% of the total cost of their trip. But plans vary. Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection off ers a policy starting at $26 that covers lost luggage and fl ight delays. A pricier plan for adventurous travelers will pay up to $750,000 for a medical evacuation. A plan that lets you cancel for any reason costs 40%-60% more than a standard plan, said Meghan Walch, product manager for InsureMyTrip.com, a website that lets shoppers compare travel insurance. Consumers have to decide if they want to pay $700 or so for “cancel for any reason” insurance on a $1,000 fl ight or just eat the cost of the fl ight if they decide to cancel the trip. Walch said the industry has seen a spike in sales of “cancel for any reason” policies since the new coronavirus hit. Travel insurance sales generally have tripled since January, she said. Last May, when American Airlines had a fare sale, Chandler O’Brien bought a round-trip ticket to Tokyo for $650. Her 10-day trip to Japan is scheduled to begin April 1. O’Brien, who does sales and design for an event rental company in Austin, Texas, said she doesn’t usually buy travel insurance. But since the ticket was purchased so far ahead of her travel, she added $60 for travel insurance through Allianz Global Assistance, which American off ered on its website. O’Brien recently decided to cancel the trip because of concerns about the outbreak. American Airlines waived its $250 cancellation fee and off ered her a credit on future travel. The catch? Her future travel must be completed by May

since that will mark a year since she bought the ticket. O’Brien thinks it will still be too soon to travel to Japan, and she’s frustrated that American won’t refund her money. “All of the Japanese hotels and restaurants I had booked very nicely canceled and gave me a full refund with no hesitation,” she said. Here are some recommendations if you’re considering travel insurance: ❚ Shop around: Resist the temptation to add on the insurance off ered when you’re booking a fl ight or a cruise. Instead, shop around for the best deal and the coverage you need on sites like InsureMyTrip.com and Squaremouth.com. Walch said you should typically buy travel insurance 10 to 21 days after you buy tickets for your trip. ❚ Check your wallet: Some credit cards or health insurance plans may already cover you while you’re traveling. Certain American Express cards come with automatic basic travel insurance, for example, which may cover fl ight cancellations, rental car damage, lost baggage or fl ight delays. Some health plans will cover international care at an out-of-network rate, but if you have a preexisting condition, you may have to purchase a waiver to make sure you are covered overseas, Consumer Reports said. ❚ Read the fi ne print: Before you buy, make sure the travel insurance you’re considering covers everything you think it should. Insurance paperwork can be a long, dull read, but it’s worth the eff ort. If you’re unsure, call the company.

made up 16% of all sales in December, second only to the unprocessed plant material. Representatives of vape shops and marijuana dispensaries are quick to point out that the hospitalizations were never directly connected to their products. Many of the cases were attributed to vaping cartridges ﬁ lled with THC and laced with vitamin E acetate, a substance that Jarvis said is not sold at vape shops but is available on the illegal market. State regulators banned vitamin E acetate from medical marijuana products late last year, but industry representatives said the substance was never included in vape oils sold at Ohio dispensaries. “This is what we expected to see for a number of reasons,” Alex Thomas, executive director of the Ohio Medical Marijuana License Holders Coalition, said of the increase in vape oil sales. “Certainly, some of it can be ascribed to the fact that it’s not in the news anymore.” A handful of individual dispensaries even reported an increase in vape oil sales during the outbreak. News reports might have boosted sales because Ohio law requires legal marijuana products to undergo rigorous testing, said Rony Sinharoy, the designated representative for the Botanist dispensary in the Arena District. “Patients who may have previously purchased vapes in the illicit market shifted to purchasing regulated products because they are tested, traceable and transparent,” Sinharoy said in a statement. The patients trusted state-regulated products because they understood the testing process, said Cindy Bradford, co-owner of the Ohio Cannabis Co. dispensary in Coshocton. “Patients love that security,” she said. Jarvis says his customers use e-cigarettes to quit smoking, and he cites a 2015 Public Health England study that shows vaping devices are roughly 95% less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Other public health experts have cast doubt on that study, and vaping critics cite research that says e-cigarettes increase overall smoking rates and encourage young people to adopt the habit. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted its most recent update on the outbreak Feb. 25. A statement on the agency’s website said that cases continue to decline and researchers are still investigating the cause. While most hospitalizations were attributed to vitamin E acetate, the CDC said there is not enough evidence to rule out other causes.

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Unconstitutional legislation proposed in Rhode Island Strictly Legal Jack Greiner Guest columnist

I like the state of Rhode Island. My wife and I spent our honeymoon on Block Island. One of my all-time favorite books is “Bottom of the 33d,” which details a minor league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings that went 33 innings. So, it is not with any animus toward the Ocean State that I write this article. But the Rhode Island legislature recently introduced legislation called the “Stop the Guilt By Association Act” that is unconstitutional on its face. The Act seeks to punish media outlets for failing to conduct follow up reporting on court proceedings. That is, according to the legislation, if a “media outlet reported

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over the past year, adding 10,800 positions. The region now has about the same number of jobs as Cincinnati. “It’s been the case for years. After a couple of years of expansion, the state slowed way down and a lot of metro areas slowed way down,” said economist Bill LaFayette, owner of economic consulting ﬁ rm Regionomics. “Basically, Columbus and, to a certain extent, Cincinnati, has been propping up everybody else.” Ohio lost 12,500 jobs over the past year, the worst year for the state economy since the end of the recession. The downturn for the metros comes as many have yet to recover the jobs they lost from the Great Recession. It also comes as the state is being locked down by the coronavirus, a move that ﬁ gures to slow Ohio’s economy.

on the facts of a case and controversy and the fi nal verdict provided less relief against the accused than originally sought by the petitioner or less than could have been obtained by the petitioner,” that outlet is required to provide equal coverage to the fi nal outcome upon demand by the “accused.” The Act applies to criminal and civil proceedings. It also requires the media outlet to take down any “unfl attering” photos or mug shots used in the original article. It even applies to settlements. So, if the media outlet reports that someone got named in a civil suit for $1 million, and the parties later settle for less than a million, the settling party can demand that the media outlet report on the settlement. But here’s the crazy part. According to the legislation, “the accused is not required to provide the terms of the private settlement agreement but can alert the media outlet that

So far, only Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Canton have recovered the jobs they lost during the recession, according to a U.S. Conference of Mayors report from last summer. Other cities, such as Mansﬁ eld and Toledo, aren’t expected to recover the jobs they lost until at least 2024, the report said. Many of the aﬀ ected cities are dependent on manufacturing, a sector of the economy that has lost 6,000 jobs in the past year in Ohio. Also, many have had little or no population growth for decades and residents tend to be older. The result is a combination of problems when it comes to jobs, LaFayette said. “You’ve got this weight on employment growth to begin with. Then there’s the slow growth in jobs. You have slow growth in population,” LaFayette said. “Layer on to that the population in a lot of those metros is relatively old. You have major workforce challenges that

the case and controversy was settled.” Which means, I guess, that the media outlet has to take the word of the settling party. It is not clear from the body of the legislation what planet the sponsor is from. If the media outlet doesn’t comply with the demand, it can be sued for statutory damages of $10,000. There are lots of problems with this bill. Among other things, it is impermissibly vague. What exactly is an “unﬂ attering” photo? I get it if we’re talking about that Nick Nolte mug shot from a few years back, but I’m not sure in less obvious cases. And in the case of a settlement, how is the media outlet supposed to determine if the settlement is better than the original demand? The money payout may be less, but there could be other onerous terms that make the settlement worse. And of course, since the demand doesn’t have to reveal the settlement

“We are told every time that they have job openings and that these are well-paying jobs. They just cannot get the workforce.” Alison Goebel executive director, Greater Ohio Policy Center

will be us for at least 15 years unless something truly drastic happens.” Employers in these cities regularly say they have openings, but can’t ﬁ ll them, said Alison Goebel, executive director of the Greater Ohio Policy Center, which tracks how these cities are doing. “We are told every time that they have job openings and that these are well-paying jobs. They just cannot get the workforce,” she said.

terms, there’s no way for the media outlet to know. And the bigger issue of course is the First Amendment. We typically think of the First Amendment as prohibiting the government from telling us what we can’t say. But it comes in to play just as much if the government tries to tell us what we have to say. And that’s what this bill does. As an interesting side note, techdirt.com reports that the bill was provided to a legislator by some man named “Chris” who she met after a state house hearing. According to the reporting, he literally handed her the bill, and that is what got introduced. Maybe Rhode Island legislators should consider not farming out their job to strangers. Jack Greiner is managing partner of Graydon law ﬁ rm in Cincinnati. He represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues.

These cities have urged companies to be more ﬂ exible in their hiring so that applicants that have a criminal background or struggle to pass a drug test, for example, could be considered for employment, she said. Companies could be “tapping into an underutilized resource of the existing population,” Goebel said. Many of the cities are trying to do more to make their cities attractive and serve as a lure to bring more employment to their regions, such as making their downtowns more attractive, she said. “They all realize their downtowns are historic and have an impact. They are major contributors to the quality of life. They are destinations for employers and employees,” she said. LaFayette said ongoing struggles with many Ohio cities is sad. “It’s terrible. These are areas we grew up in,” he said. “You want them to do well. You have a soft spot in your heart for them.”

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polls in the state primaries. Debashis Pal, head of the University of Cincinnati Economics Department, said Ohio’s job gains lag the nation but aren’t entirely surprising given the state’s dependence on autos, auto parts, metal products and exports overseas. “It’s expected given the trade war and the strong dollar – that hurts products made in Ohio,” Pal said. Pal added, along with other economists, that even Ohio’s modest job gains could slip away if the current coronavirus outbreak further disrupts business and beats down stocks leading to a broader recession. “The recession risks have increased with the stock market (drop since late February),” Pal said. Meanwhile, California has added twice as many factory jobs as Ohio and Texas has added ﬁ ve times. With nearly 77,000 new factory jobs in three years, Texas alone has added more manufacturing jobs than the Rust Belt states combined. And Florida, Arizona and Nevada states more associated with tourism than industrial production, have each added more factory jobs than Ohio since the 2016 election.

Susan Collins, a stitcher at National Flag Co. for 31 years, sews stars on a 48-star American flag that will be used in a movie. PHOTOS BY PATRICK REDDY/CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

Ohio factories: recession, rebound, restlessness Ohio’s manufacturing industry needed a boost by Election Day 2016. The sector had been in recession seven of the previous 10 quarters due to a slumping worldwide economy and soaring U.S. dollar that killed overseas demand and a worldwide oil glut that threatened the fracking industry. After he was elected, Trump delivered on his threats to levy tariff s and wage a trade war. The eff ects hit Ohio immediately. Marlon Bailey, president of Fairfi eld’s Art Metals Group, said tariff s on steel and aluminum raised the costs of his raw materials 20 to 40%. While his factory uses mostly American-produced steel, domestic suppliers also raised their prices during the escalating trade war. Bailey, whose plant makes components and subassemblies for the auto and other industries, had to boost his prices and he lost some business from customers that turned elsewhere. “That’s hard for a small company – we’ve been scrambling,” Bailey said, adding he had to let four of his 35 plant workers go. Bailey predicts his business will rebound in 2020 after Trump lifted the tariff s last year. The National Association of Manufacturers echos that sentiment. While the trade group is watching the unfolding coronavirus outbreak for its potential to disrupt supply chains – and the ongoing stock turmoil that could aff ect the broader economy, the association currently remains optimistic about the industry’s growth prospects. “We anticipate confi dence will creep up,” said the trade group’s CEO Jay Timmons told The Enquirer, adding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (which replaces NAFTA) and cooling of China tensions have added “regulatory certainty” for manufacturers. Manufacturing has rebounded to

Art Schaller, Jr., president of The National Flag Co., and general manager Artie Schaller III, pose outside their business in the West End.

growth territory in the ﬁ rst two months of 2020, according to The ISM manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index. While the latest reading is down to 50.1 from 50.9, any reading above 50 is considered a sign of continued growth. During the last ﬁ ve months of 2019, the closely-watched index had indicated American manufacturing was in a recession. Timmons blamed the lower February reading on the outbreak of the coronavirus. Still, some economists are not as optimistic, noting the coronavirus that has roiled the stock market and signs of slowing in the broader economy. If the U.S. economy slows, it will cut demand for production. “Things are looking dicier – it’s quite possible we could enter a recession in the next two to three months,” said Gary Clayton, the chair of the Economics and Finance Department at Northern Kentucky University. Clayton said that while the U.S. notched 2.1% economic growth at the end of 2019, he noted the biggest contributor to growth, personal consumption (consumer spending) had slowed to 1.7% growth and that the third-largest contributor, private domestic investment (business spending) shrank 6%. “The consumer is turning cautious

and businesses are cutting back,” Clayton said, adding that only government spending was on the rise. Joel Elvery, a policy economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Ohio’s factories, which rely on international exports, are already under pressure by a waning worldwide economy outside of the U.S. “The economies of our trading partners is slowing in Mexico, Brazil, Europe and China,” Elvery told The Enquirer last week. He added a surge for the manufacturing sector in 2017 and 2018 that goosed the economy might not have refl ected a rebound, but a “pull-ahead” eff ect as those businesses prepared for the trade wars threatened by the new president. “People were building up inventories before the tariff s kicked in,” Elvery said, adding that the slowdown in manufacturing activity in 2019 might have looked worse as a result of the comparison. As bad a rap as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) got, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. (and Ohio) were steady throughout the 1990s. While Trump made bashing the old trade pact with Canada and Mexico that took eff ect in 1994 a cornerstone of his campaign, American manufacturing jobs remained about 17 million jobs by

2000. But a third of manufacturing jobs –more than 5 million – swiftly evaporated after China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, fl ooding the U.S. and the world with cheap goods. China exports to the U.S. soared from $250 billion in 2000 to $2.5 trillion in 2018, according to the World Bank. Ohio was the biggest loser among the Rust Belt states (and second-hardest hit nationwide behind California). The Buckeye State has lost nearly 305,000 jobs since 2000 – more factory jobs than currently exist in Washington, Missouri or Alabama. Other big factors played a role in the loss of factory jobs: The Great Recession – the deepest downturn since the Great Depression – hammered the manufacturing sector; also automation, which is credited with keeping state-side production but employing fewer people. The eight Rust Belt states alone lost 1.7 million factory jobs in the New Millennium – about one-third of job casualties nationwide. Despite the carnage, manufacturing remains an outsized force in Ohio’s economy, accounting for 12.5% of employment or one in eight jobs statewide, compared with 1 in 12 nationwide. Art Schaller Jr., president of a small third-generation manufacturing fi rm in Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood, said foreign competitors got into his industry after the 9-11 attacks and have never left, forcing him to diversify and adapt. His factory’s workforce has shrunk from 48 to 28 in the last two decades. Schaller’s tale is hardly unique in the Rust Belt. The only thing that distinguishes his experience from legions of other Ohio small manufacturers is maybe his line of business: his company, The National Flag Co. makes American fl ags. “After 9/ 11... it did open doors for an infl ux of foreign-made imports and they have not gone away, Schaller said. “I get 3-4 emails a week (complaining) about China-made fl ags & banners.” For the latest on Cincinnati business, P&G, Kroger and Fifth Third Bank, follow @alexcoolidge on Twitter.

Apple bans nonoﬃ cial coronavirus apps Dalvin Brown USA TODAY

Apple publicized restrictions on coronavirus-themed apps over the weekend, and part of the tech giant’s decision bans games and entertainment related to the respiratory outbreak. The iPhone maker outlined its review process for apps related to the pandemic on Saturday, adding plans to allow only oﬃ cial health-related apps from trustworthy organizations and agencies. “We’re evaluating apps critically to ensure data sources are reputable,” Apple said in a statement on its developer website. The company said it will allow only coronavirus-focused apps from “government organizations, health-focused NGOs, companies deeply credentialed in health issues, and medical or educational institutions.” Because the coronavirus crisis is es-

calating, Apple also is giving apps that use reputable sources an expedited path to approval, the company said. Developers can choose the “time-sensitive event” option when submitting for App Store approval. It’s not just the App Store that’s grappling with the spread of misinformation in the aftermath of the deadly respiratory illness, which has killed thousands of people, mostly in China. The Google Play store has launched a dedicated section for coronavirus apps that lists oﬀ erings from trustworthy sources. “As cases of the coronavirus continue to be conﬁ rmed, these apps can help you stay prepared and informed,” the Google Play store says. The list includes apps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Red Cross. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter also have initiated bans on misinformation related to COVID-19.

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Virus response: Thumbs up, down The novel coronavirus is impacting every facet of life in Greater Cincinnati and around the nation, whether its going to the grocery store, your favorite restaurant or even your place of worship. Americans have been forced to hunker down in their homes and practice social distancing by a virus that has infected thousands. In the midst of the outbreak, we’ve seen our state and local government leaders make some tough decisions to protect citizens; meanwhile people and organizations across the region have risen to the occasion with acts of generosity and kindness to help those in need. Here is a special COVID-19 edition of our editorial board’s thumbs up and thumbs down, highlighting the good and the bad coming out of the pandemic response.

Arguably none more diﬃ cult than his decision to postpone Tuesday’s primary election until June 2. Everything DeWine has done to this point has been in the interest of public safety and saving lives. And while he likely did the right thing delaying the election, his plan wasn’t well executed. Elections are sacred in America, and attempting to suspend the primary 12 hours before voters were scheduled to go to the polls only created chaos and confusion. DeWine has had a lot on his plate to be sure, but he should have been more prepared for this eventuality, even possibly allowing all voters to cast their ballots by mail.

Thumbs up ❚ A hearty thanks goes out to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, police, fi re and other city workers who have remained on the job, hospital workers and everyone assigned to keep us safe and our city services functioning without delay or disruption. Thank you, for making the tough calls and exhibiting calm leadership in this chaotic time. Thanks for listening to the experts and encouraging us to do the same. Thanks for putting your health and safety at risk, so the rest of us don’t have to. You are the epitome of what it means to be a public servant. ❚ Bravo to the College Hill Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation for giving 14 neighborhood business district tenants a break on their rent in April due to the economic impact of the coronavirus. Taking this burden off of these small businesses that are in a fi nancial pinch because of the governor’s directive to close in order to thwart the

North College Hill High School’s counselor, Jamin Penick, shows Christina and Gavin Cunningham a packet so that school work can be done from home during the crisis. PHIL DIDION/THE ENQUIRER

spread of the virus will go a long way. ❚ Hats oﬀ to the thousands of teachers at every level who worked overtime to prepare and deliver curriculum packets for students for the rest of the year. It’s no simple task to switch up the pedagogy for that many people so fast. Once again, our public educators prove why they are so valuable to our kids and our community. ❚ Kudos to a pair of young people in Clintonville, Ohio, who staged a concert on the porch of their 78-year-old neighbor who was self-quarantining. Taran Tien, 9, and his sister Calliope, 6, put on their best suit and party dress and performed an assortment of music

on their cellos for Helena Schlam. These two youngsters provided a ray of sunshine amidst the gloomy headlines surrounding the virus. ❚ Thumbs up to the people posting on social media the information and phone numbers for the restaurants oﬀ ering carry out/delivery, and to the business owners who are adjusting their shifts in ways that will create more distance for their employees as they arrive/ exit work.

Thumbs down ❚ Gov. DeWine has made some hard choices as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly throughout the state.

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❚ Queen City Lounge, at 2196 Queen City Ave. in South Fairmount, was boarded up Tuesday for violating COVID-19 gathering restrictions. The business owners held a private banquet, despite Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s order banning gatherings of more than 50 people. These are tough times for small businesses with all of the clients and money that is being lost due to the governor’s orders, but people have to come before proﬁ ts. The owners of Queen City Lounge not only put these clients at risk of exposure to the virus, but their employees and the police who had to respond there as well. Police said the lounge has been “problematic” in the past and cited the operators under Ohio Revised Code. ❚ Americans need leadership when confronting crises like the novel coronavirus, not the kind of nonsense Northern Kentucky U.S. congressman Thomas Massie spouted last week on his social media platforms. Massie blasted novel coronavirus precautions taken by governments to slow the spread of the virus and was one of 17 Republicans who did not vote for the Coronavirus Relief Bill. “When this is over, the greatest See THUMBS, Page 7D

Your Turn John Cranley Guest columnist

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Postponing election may lead to voter apathy I volunteered last week to work the election polls and took the training class to ﬁ ll in where others felt they had to drop out. Even though I’m in a high-risk group (age 67) for the COVID-19 virus, I felt the need to don a face mask and surgical gloves Tuesday so that others could exercise their voting rights. I needed to arrive at the polls at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday and was disappointed to learn voting had been postponed until June 2.

I applaud Gov. Mike Dewine’s recent decisions regarding the novel coronavirus restrictions! In fact, I think he is a leader who is truly being proactive in making the diﬃ cult decisions we Ohioans need to stay safe. He is a GREAT example for President Trump and not afraid to do what is right instead of pushing it down the road until it’s too late to act in our best interest! What concerns me is pushing the voting date so far away that voters start to feel their vote really doesn’t mean anything in the national scheme of things. Ohio has always been a state that has inﬂ uenced the mood in national elections, but now we are pushed to

the back of the line. Our vote will become insigniﬁ cant in the future and voter apathy will become commonplace. As a lifelong Ohioan, I am not prepared to let this happen. I urge Gov. Dewine to reconsider other options such as mail-in ballots or have drop-oﬀ sites for mail-in ballots; either way to be due in just two or three weeks. It’s easy to call your Board of Elections to request a ballot, or just download it from their website. I encourage Gov. Dewine to continue his courageous leadership by making the right decisions for his constituents! Constance Conover, Cherry Grove

Cincinnati is a wonderful community that has always pulled together in times of need. The novel coronavirus is no exception. The city will provide the essential services that everyone depends on and will take unprecedented emergency actions to protect our community. If you also do what we need you to do – work safely if needed, practice social distancing, and reach out to those in need, then we will get through this by working together. I promise you the vital services of the city that keep us healthy and safe – water, police, fi re, health, sewer and sanitation – will continue throughout this crisis. We have put in place emergency practices including social distancing of staff to minimize the risk that if one fi refi ghter gets sick, they do not infect other fi refi ghters. Since these services are essential, and because we must be sure to maintain a suffi cient pool of qualifi ed workers, response times may be longer throughout this crisis. Accordingly, we ask for your patience. But I promise you that they will be there when you need them. Under the dynamic leadership of City Manager Patrick Duhaney, we are repurposing city employees to positions that are vital during the coronavirus emergency. For example, with schools closed, school-based health center employees are being trained as 911 call-takers in case of a shortage. All See PROTECT, Page 7D

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Opinion Pandemic will unite us or divide us Your Turn Ken Chen Guest columnist

I had plans to visit family in China over the summer. I’ll be graduating soon, and my mother thought this could likely be the last time I see my aging grandparents. We got our plane tickets refunded in full after the outbreak of the new coronavirus. Lucky us. I learned quickly that I shouldn’t mention the fact that my father had been in China when the outbreak had fi rst made headlines; it would only fan the fl ames of hysteria that already had been lit. It doesn’t matter if he was a thousand miles away from the epicenter, or that we had essentially quarantined him for two weeks after he returned. COVID-19 has now arrived in Ohio, and there's an odd sort of duality to the fallout. I can’t reconcile the suspicious remarks – "Aren’t you supposed to give me coronavirus?" – with the memes that have inundated my Instagram Explore page, or the Costco shelves bereft of any and all Clorox products with the jokes – "Someone needs to take one for the team so we can shut down the school." This virus seems to be simultaneously serious enough to infl ame racial tensions and hypochondriacs and humorous enough to become the internet’s next laughingstock. I marvel at the insularity and insensitivity when my peers laugh and cringe at videos of a woman eating a bat, while my grandparents are huddled in their tiny apartment in Beijing, having not left for weeks. They are locked down not only because of the government’s increasingly stringent measures, but also because, for octogenarians, the death rate is in double digits. Sure, thousands of people are dying,

Travelers wait in the security line at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky., on March 11. ALBERT CESARE/CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

but they’re decidedly not white and all seem to have a taste for wild animals. Their lives are therefore not worth even a shred of empathy. And this in and of itself would be enough, but some of my own family has decided to pile on. While posting photos of themselves in facemasks from their Guangzhou home, they condemn the American government for its mishandling of evacuations – which is valid – and they condemn us because by virtue of our American citizenship, we are somehow responsible for the Chinese government’s refusal of Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization aid.

My mother seethes at the increasingly unhinged nature of conversations, and I quietly respond that this isn’t new. Our international relations are rarely cordial, and sometimes 7,000 miles is too great a distance. Brainwashing runs deeper than blood. The CAM Asian Supermarket and Asian restaurants across Cincinnati are empty. Phone calls are no longer returned, and when I close my eyes, I can hear clipped, Cantonese shouting in one ear and cold, cruel laughter in the other. But I guess I’m a little used to it. To be Asian American is to be "other" from both the nation you call home and the

one you trace your heritage to. It’s just that today, the rifts are starker than usual, the middle ground that people like me inhabit lonelier. COVID-19 has exacerbated the fear, resentment and suspicion that has always been there, and, as it spreads, I can only assume that the process will continue. Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong. Perhaps people will realize that a virus does not discriminate on the basis of race. Perhaps the urgency of the situation will lead to the unity we need. We’ll have to wait and see. Ken Chen is a senior at Wyoming High School and managing editor of the school's newspaper, Horizon.

I’m blessed to have served city of Cincinnati Your Turn Amy Murray Guest columnist

I want to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thank you to my fellow Cincinnatians for allowing me to serve you on City Council for the past seven years. I moved to Cincinnati nearly 30 years ago when I was transferred by Procter & Gamble. Five days after my arrival, I was lucky to meet Wally Murray, the man who would become my husband. We happily settled down and raised our family here. I came to love this city and

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all it has to oﬀ er. I was honored to be elected by the people of Cincinnati twice to City Council and have appreciated the opportunity to serve on council and help our city to grow and thrive. One of the most satisfying areas I was able to impact was our Emergency Communication Center. By hands-on work with the department, we were able to put together many new programs that have an impact on every person in Cincinnati like Smart 911 and text-to 911. In 2019 after great collaboration with Manchester, New Hampshire, Interact for Health and our own health department, we introduced “Safe Places Cincy,” which instantly connects those

struggling with addiction to treatment. Another way to impact the heroin epidemic. As chair of the economic growth committee, I helped keep Cincinnati competitive, grow our economy and put people to work. I was a critical vote for many big projects like the FC Cincinnati Stadium and Children’s Hospital expansion. During our committee meetings, we regularly brought in and highlighted small businesses that had started in Cincinnati and were growing. Business is my passion, and I am fortunate that I will be able to continue is this area. Last month I accepted an appointment to become the director for the Department of Defense Small Busi-

ness Programs. I am truly excited about this opportunity to serve our country and the military. And I see this as a continuation of my public service. My last day on Cincinnati City Council was March 4, and at that time, Betsy Sundermann was sworn in to continue my term. Cincinnati will remain our long-term family home base, and I will always maintain my commitment to this great city. I am truly blessed to have served such a wonderful city. Amy Murray is a former Cincinnati City Council member and the new director for the U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Programs.

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Adapting to life in the time of COVID-19 Eugene Robinson Columnist

WASHINGTON – I was at the supermarket Sunday and ran into a colleague who lives nearby. We were chatting from a safe distance - about how the way we work has changed over the past week. Then a neighbor of mine, a longtime but not close acquaintance, walked up to say hello and extended his hand. Reﬂ exively, I shook it. Oh boy. My colleague must have noticed the panic in my eyes. When both he and the neighbor had drifted away, I made a beeline for the restroom, where I washed my hands far longer than the requisite 20 seconds. Then I went back to my cart, cleaned the handle with a sanitary wipe – for the second time - and was able to resume

my foraging for random food items that my wife and I might or might not need during a period of semi-isolation of open-ended duration. Decades ago, my favorite author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, wrote a novel entitled “Love in the Time of Cholera.” Today, someone needs to write a Netﬂ ix screenplay called “Life in the Time of COVID-19.” Our lives have changed. In my household, we understand and take seriously the mandate for “social distancing.” We understand that if, in six months or so, the disruption we’re experiencing now looks like an overreaction – if we don’t suﬀ er the horrors seen in China or Italy and end up with relatively few deaths - the measures we’re taking now will have worked. We will have bent the now-famous curve and kept the disease from overwhelming our health system. What we don’t understand – because nobody seems to know - is how long this

hunkering down has to last. We don’t fully understand the dimensions of our sequestration, because they keep changing. And it is clear by now that there will be no rational, reassuring leadership from President Trump. We’re on our own. My wife and I are in an age group that has to be more concerned about the prospect of contracting the virus than, say, our millennial sons. But we’re not so old or inﬁ rm that we feel we have to go beyond distancing to total isolation – and that wouldn’t be feasible anyway. Each day, then, involves a series of decisions. Do I really need to pick up the dry cleaning? If I wait until later in the week, will the dry cleaner still be open? The fact that the rules and restrictions keep changing is probably a good thing, because it means people are taking the threat more seriously. But it discourages procrastination. If there are

errands I believe I can run safely, there is an incentive to do today what I might not be able to do tomorrow – or, perhaps, for an indefi nite period of time. I miss going to the offi ce. I’ve worked in newsrooms all my adult life, and I miss the bustle and excitement. Somehow, perhaps counterintuitively, it helps me concentrate. But the sensible policy at The Washington Post is that those who can work at home should do so. This morning I wrote down my 16character password for the Post network on a business card and tucked it into my wallet, because I don’t know when I’ll get to my offi ce again and don’t want to have to go crawling to the IT folks because I’ve forgotten how to sign on. Maybe the trip to the dry cleaner can wait after all. Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

Socialism’s past serves to reveal its future Sen. Bernie Sanders’ call for socialism has resonated among many Americans, particularly young Americans. They’ve fallen prey to the idea of a paradise here on Earth where things are free and there’s little want. But socialists never reveal what turns out to be their true agenda. Let’s look at the kind of statements they used to gain power. You’ll note that all of their slogans before gaining power bore little relation to the facts after they had power. Vladimir Lenin promised, “Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.” That’s Friedrich Engel’s predic-

tion about “the withering away of the state.” Lenin also promised, “Communism is Soviet power plus electrifi cation,” and “No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.” Then there’s China’s Chairman Mao Zedong, who said: “Socialism must be developed in China, and the route toward such an end is a democratic revolution, which will enable socialist and communist consolidation over a length of time. It is also important to unite with the middle peasants, and educate them on the failings of capitalism.” Cuban dictator Fidel Castro said: “Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.” He added, “I fi nd capitalism repugnant. It is fi lthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it

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harm to society will have been the public’s unquestioning acceptance of the unchecked authority of governments to force private behavior and disrupt economies,” he wrote. Massie is right. The coronavirus has been disruptive to our lives and our economy. But mounting deaths, fear and panic wrought by the unchecked virus would be even more disruptive. Opinion Editor Kevin S. Aldridge writes this on behalf of the editorial board, which includes, President Eddie Tyner, Vice President/News and Editor Beryl Love, Senior News Director for Content Michael Perry, Consumer Marketing Director Denette McCloskey and editorial board members Byron McCauley, Christine Marallen, Gil Spencer and Bonnie Jean Feldkamp.

city employees are working hard for this city, have shown a great desire to be useful and ﬂ exible, and I am proud of them. You should be too. You also have a big role to play to get us through this crisis, and I am asking for your help. If you work in a vital industry that must continue to function, please practice social distancing and do not go to work if you have a fever and dry cough, or have been exposed to somebody who has tested positive for COVID-19. If you can work from home or stay home otherwise, please do so. Practice social distancing, which will save lives because if too many people get sick at once it will overwhelm our health system and cause more people to die because they won’t have access to care. Additionally, if you are experiencing symptoms, please call your physician or

Walter E. Williams Columnist

causes war, hypocrisy and competition.” Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez promised: “I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can’t guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.” Sanders’ statements are not that different from those of Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Chavez and other tyrants. Sanders says, “Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America,” and “We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.”

Mao Zedong didn’t mention that his People’s Republic of China would engage in brutal acts that would lead to the loss of 76 million lives at the hands of the government from 1949 to 1987. Professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii documented this tragedy in his book “Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.” Because socialism is a ﬁ ght against basic human nature, it requires brute force in the attempt to reach its goals. The best warning about socialism comes from Aesop, who said, “Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant … must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.” We shouldn’t ignore Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning, “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.” Walter Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

the coronavirus hotline before going in. They can help you determine what to do so you can get care but also not spread the virus to others. Even if you are stuck at home, you can spread love and care to others. We are social creatures and need human interaction to be fully healthy. Accordingly, use phones, texts, FaceTime and social media to “reach out and touch someone” you love, especially senior citizens who are most at risk and may be the most isolated. At this unique time, social media is a blessing that allows physically isolated people to have the opportunity to emotionally connect with loved ones. It is one of many things you can do to help keep our community healthier. If you are able, please use ﬁ nancial resources to help. Buy carryout food from the many restaurants that are suffering. Please also give money to help those in need. The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and United Way have formed the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund to provide food, shelter

and vital services needed at this time. You can donate by texting “RAPID” to 91999 or donating through the website, www.gcfdn.org/COVID-19. The United Way is also working to put together a volunteer hub. We know that these are diffi cult times for many, especially those facing job loss or closure of a business. The city is looking at actions it can take to support those who have been aff ected and to stimulate the local economy. I have and will continue to push state and federal offi cials to take immediate actions to directly provide fi nancial support to those impacted. Please write our members of Congress to demand that they provide additional unemployment compensation, emergency assistance and help stabilize businesses suff ering through this crisis. We will look for other ways to help. Please do the same. We will get through this together. John Cranley is mayor of the city of Cincinnati.

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She came home to carry on the legacy of her local-celebrity grandmother Polly Campbell Cincinnati Enquirer/USA TODAY NETWORK

hrissie Antenucci’s relationship to cooking and food is deep and personal and Italian, intertwined with her extended family, which has been food-crazy for several generations. Their example of warm, frequent gatherings around food turned her into a chef. Their example took her places, to New York, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Ultimately, it brought her home, back to the wellspring of her career to open her carryout restaurant, The Wheel. “I just wanted to be near people who knew my grandmoth-

er,” she said. Her grandmother, Norma Antenucci, died in 1986 at age 70, when Chrissie was only eight. But the years they had together made an impression. “We were best friends,” said Chrissie. Her beautifully dressed, gracious, busy grandmother took her everywhere and let her do whatever she wanted in the kitchen. “Going to the grocery with her was an adventure that I wanted to be on,” said Chrissie. And her grandmother, Norma, was a Cincinnati celebrity. She had hosted “The Kitchen Show” on Channel 9, an early See ANTENUCCI, Page 6AA

Chrissy Antenucci hosts pop-up dinners at The Wheel in Cincinnati's Oakley neighborhood. INSET: Norma Antenucci, Chrissy's grandmother, cooking on her show. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

Rare Rod Serling baseball script resurrected by WVXU Jeff Suess

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Baseball fans may not be tuning in to any games on the radio this week, but there’s something on the air to cheer about. Cincinnati Public Radio's 91.7 WVXU and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music have teamed up to adapt a forgotten Rod Serling television script from 1955 as a radio play. Four years before launching his iconic series “Twilight Zone,” Serling wrote “O’Toole from Moscow,” a Cold War comedy involving Russians and the Cincinnati Reds.

Rod Serling pauses for a cigarette and coffee between scenes during ﬁ lming of “The Twilight Zone” in this 1961 ﬁ le photo. AP

“O’Toole” will be back in the lineup for the ﬁ rst time since its initial broadcast in a special radio presentation on

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Wednesday, March 25, what was meant to be the eve of Opening Day before the baseball season was postponed due to concerns over the new coronavirus. WVXU’s TV and media reporter John Kiesewetter gets credit for the save. The longtime Enquirer reporter spearheaded the project to revive the Serling script for a new audience. He ﬁ rst heard about the baseball comedy while researching an article on Serling for The Enquirer back in 1989. “That just piqued my interest as a baseball lover and a broadcast history lover,” Kiesewetter said. After graduating from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Serling came to Cincinnati in 1950 and wrote shows for WLW’s radio and television programs.

His television show “The Storm” for WKRC-TV was a predecessor of the “Twilight Zone” in the same vein. Serling moved to Connecticut in late 1954 to be closer to New York as his writing career took oﬀ . But he would have been in Cincinnati earlier that year when Reds slugger Ted Kluszewski led the Major Leagues with 49 home runs, Kiesewetter noted – the possible inspiration for “O’Toole.” The one-hour episode of “NBC Matinee Theater” aired live at 3 p.m. on a Monday afternoon, Dec. 12, 1955, long before the era of video. It was not taped, not ﬁ lmed, not kinescoped, Kiesewetter said. See SCRIPT, Page 8AA

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Let’s talk about weeds Denny McKeown

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As of last Thursday, spring is offi cially here. Even though the winter was very mild, the arrival of spring is always a welcomed sign that better days are here. In the landscape we are starting to see swelling buds on our trees and shrubs. The foliage of the bulbs is coming out of the ground, except for the Crocus. They are blooming! The grass is turning green and starting to grow. With all these good things happening, there’s bound to be a few negatives. Let’s talk about weeds. The weeds you are seeing now are classifi ed as cool season weeds. Cool season weeds are exactly what their name indicates. They grow when temperatures are cooler, not in the summertime. The most common cool season weeds are Chickweed and Hairy Bittercress. Their seeds are produced from the plants in the spring. They lay dormant in the soil through the summer until the temperatures drop in the fall, then germinate. The plants remain small as they go dormant for the winter, then as spring temperatures start to rise, so do these weeds. If you want to break their cycle, it is important to kill them before they fl ower and then produce seeds. Chickweed and Bittercress are easy to kill with selective broadleaf herbicides. I would recommend using Fertilome’s Weed Free Zone. This product gives you two advantages: It can be used in temperatures as low as 45 degrees, and you can re-seed the areas a week after it is used. This is important because it is always a good idea to fi ll the voids with good grass. This is the best way to keep weeds from returning in the future. The other weed that is easy to fi nd this time of the year is a grass-like weed called Nimblewill. This is actually a warm season weed that grows in the heat of the summer. It is so easy to spot now because as your lawn is greening up you will see very distinct patches of brown underneath the green grass. This is the Nimblewill.

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Many people misidentify this weed as crabgrass. Crabgrass is an annual weed and goes away, returning from seed. Nimblewill is perennial and will continue to grow where you see it when the weather gets warm into the summer. It’s easy to see now – and you want to get rid of it – but this isn’t the time that it can be accomplished eﬀ ectively. Nimblewell has to be growing before you can kill it. Unfortunately, killing it isn’t easy. You won’t ﬁ nd any products in the garden store that will kill it without also

hurting the grass. This is because Nimblewill is a type of grass. The only way it can be eliminated is by using a non-selective herbicide and sacriﬁ cing the good grass growing in the areas where the Nimblewill is growing. The best time to do this is in late summer so you can re-seed the areas in the fall. Again, your goal should be to get good grass established in these areas. Then keep it thick and healthy to leave little room for the weeds to grow. These past weeks have been very difﬁ cult for many of us because of restric-

tions related to the new coronavirus. Nobody likes what is happening, but we are all working together to get through it. The authorities are advising us to avoid crowds and spend more time outdoors. To me this sounds like a description of our home gardens. Gardening can be very therapeutic. With spring arriving there are plenty of pretty ﬂ owers in the garden centers. In these stressful times I would recommend planting some Pansies. When you plant Pansies you always have a smiling face.

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I don’t recall ever before relishing so much those fi rst warm sunny days of spring. After wiping so many tears from little boys who wanted to play outside when it was simply not practical to do so in freezing temperatures, we won’t take beautiful weather for granted. A couple of weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon, Daddy suggested that we build a little fi re in the back yard and roast hot dogs and hamburgers, topped off with roasting marshmallows for s’mores. We were all tickled pink. The wind was a bit chilly, so he set up a piece of plywood to ward off at least most of the wind. As we sat together enjoying the fi re I could feel the chill of winter melting out of me. There is nothing like a cozy crackling fi re to relax and unwind. When I was a young girl, I especially enjoyed times with God, next to a fi re. Somehow it just felt like God was right there. No doubt He was, but we don’t always feel it as a

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reality. My favorite quiet moments with God are now my walks in the evening after supper. Since the weather has been so pleasant, I also enjoy sometimes taking the children with me on walks in the afternoon sunshine. They love rides in the double stroller or just running oﬀ all their pent-up energy. We are taking a turn hosting services at our schoolhouse, so the children and I have taken advantage of walking to the schoolhouse to clean and get ready for services. The highlight for them is, of

course, the swing and slide rides after Mama is done cleaning. While we enjoy hosting services at our house, it seemed like the practical thing to do to have it at school this year, since the option was available. Hopefully, next time it’ll work out to host it at our house. Now talking about church reminds me of another question that came on the mail from Pittston, Pennsylvania, this week. Thanks, Ronald, for taking the time to ask, “When you worship, do you have have a reverend oﬃ ciate?” Yes, we have ordained ministers who

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lead out in services and do the preaching. While they also take the lead in making decisions, they are not considered superior or better than anyone else. They live out the calling they have of servant-hood leadership, as they call it; called to serve the Lord as leaders. The other brethren in the church also participate in sharing devotionals, leading songs or giving testimony. Hey, we’d be tickled to have guests. Anyone is welcome to come to join in for our Amish church service! If you come, you may even get the chance of sampling our ham and cheese sandwiches with peanut butter spread, which is used in hundreds of Amish churches across America. Sweet or dill pickles are generally served with these sandwiches as well. When I was a little girl in the large Amish community in Holmes County Ohio, we used to also have pickled red beets alongside our church sandwiches. An assortment of homemade cookies with coﬀ ee and tea ﬁ nish this traditional Amish church menu.

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Everything’s closed. I’m not talking about restaurants and bars. I can cook for myself. But I am, like so many of you out there, a lover of arts and entertainment. And right about now, there is a HUGE vacuum in that portion of my life. I have accepted that live shows are out of the question. But thanks to enterprising artists and arts organizations, there are things out there to satisfy we arts-needy souls. And my guess is the number of options will grow as the length of this shutdown continues. But let’s start with some of the best things I’ve found. If you have other worthy candidates for this list, email them to me at davidlyman@gmail.com – we may just fi nd the need to update this. I’ve broken them down into several categories; fi lm, visual arts, dance, literature/reading, music and theater. And if you don’t fi nd anything that intrigues you here, you can turn to the Social Distancing Festival at www.socialdistancingfestival.com. It’s where you’ll fi nd everything else.

FILM This is the easy one. We all know where we can fi nd movies for a fee; Netfl ix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and others. But for those of us watching our pennies, there are loads of freebies, as well. And frankly, the free sites have a much more adventurous selection. The two best sites are available through the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (www.cincinnatilibrary.org). All you need is a library card for access to Kanopy and Hoopla. You won’t fi nd the newest releases there. But you will fi nd hundreds of slightly older fi lms, along with independent and foreign fi lms and documentaries. Three others are worth a look, too: ❚ Openculture.com/freemovies online - American classics, foreign masterpieces and quirky fi lms. ❚ Vudu.com – Much of this is a pay site. But click on “free” in the masthead

and you’ll fi nd a trove of popular fi lms – shown with ads. ❚ Pluto.tv – Lots of TV. But go to the dropdown menu on the left and click on “on demand” and you’ll fi nd a world of fi lm.

VISUAL ARTS Think what you will of Google, but back in 2011, it formed Google Arts & Culture and began committing the collections of many of the world’s greatest museums to high-resolution scanning. Today, the “collection” has works from more than 1200 museums and, for many of those institutions, off ers fascinating tours of the buildings. Just go to artsandculture.google.com . Click on those three horizontal lines at the top left of the page and select “collections.” There, you’ll fi nd links to museums all over the world, from the Van Gogh Museum and the Uffi zi Gallery to the Ge Garden in Yangzhou, China. The Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati Museum Center are in there, too. Want something more playful? How about museum coloring books? Head to bit.ly/2QpU30t and you can download hundreds of classy pages to color. Not playful enough? Cartoonist Mo Williams – an artist-in-resident at the Kennedy Center – is off ering 20-25minute doodling sessions on the Kennedy Center’s YouTube page every day at 1 p.m.

DANCE Loads of things have popped up in the past week. Unfortunately, other than the thousands of short dances and clips on YouTube and Vimeo, there is precious little in the way of dance performance available. That’s OK, though, because it looks like we’ll all be taking one of the scores of dance and exercise classes that are being off ered online. Some have a fee, like the classes at Cincinnati’s enormously popular DanceFix studio (www.dancefi xcincinnati. com/dancefi x-live). Classes are tough and wildly energetic and have the same wonderful camaraderie of the in-studio classes.

Others are free, such as the daily 10 a.m. ballet classes oﬀ ered by Dancewear Royale, the dance-supply company founded by Cincinnati Ballet principal dancer Sirui Liu and her husband, former principal, Rodrigo Almarales. Find them on Instagram at @dancewearroyale, then click on the “IGTV” link above the images. Classes will be archived, so if you miss the livestream, the class will still be there. Scout around, as there are others out there, too. Ashley Bouder, principal dancer with New York City Ballet, is livestreaming classes every day this week. Just search for her channel on YouTube. And Cincinnati Ballet will soon be oﬀ ering a daily class, as well.

MUSIC Oodles of options. You can download music through your local library. And you can listen to all manner of music on YouTube. But let’s get adventurous. The Metropolitan Opera has scheduled daily rebroadcast videos of past performances. But Monday night’s premiere was glitchy – too many takers overloaded the server. So let’s skip the Met and try some other musical centers. Here are a few others that are opening up their archives for free: ❚ Berlin Philharmonic – “Digital Concert Hall” – You have to redeem an online voucher – also free – by March 31. digitalconcerthall.com. ❚ Wigmore Hall – “Live Stream’ – London’s renowned concert hall, wigmore-hall.org.uk. ❚ Vienna State Opera – wiener-staatsoper.at, the look for “online every day.” ❚ Detroit Symphony Orchestra – “DSO Replay,” livefrom orchestrahall.vhx.tv. ❚ Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – from Sweden - www.gso.se/en/ gsoplay/. ❚ Budapest Festival Orchestra – The cleverly named “Quarantine Soirées” – bfz.hu. ❚ WGUC (90.9 FM) broadcasts Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts on Sunday evenings at 8 p.m. Find the coming schedule at www.wguc.

org/programs/?program=cso.

THEATRE Relatively slim pickings on the theater front. But if you’re an aspiring playwright, Lauren Gunderson – the most produced writer on the American stage (other than Shakespeare) – is teaching a weeklong playwriting course on her Facebook page. Got to Facebook and ﬁ nd her at “Lauren Gunderson – Playwright.” WVXU (91.7 FM) is presenting a recreation of Rod (“Twilight Zone”) Serling’s “O’Toole From Moscow” at 8 p.m. on March 25. Written in 1955, the Cold War comedy is about the confusion between Russians – “Reds” – and the Cincinnati Reds. The radio adaptation was written by former Enquirer media writer John Kiesewetter. CCM professor Richard Hess directs a cast of CCM students. Madcap Puppets will be releasing daily videos on its YouTube Channel and Facebook page. Among the titles: “Pinocchio,” “Jumping Over the Moon: A Puppet Musical” and “Saint-Saëns ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ (A Shadow Puppet Show).” Cincinnati’s Wump Mucket Puppets will stream every Thursday at 2 p.m. on its Facebook page. Sometimes, puppeteer Terrence Burke will perform a full show. Sometimes, he’ll add kid-friend lessons on puppet-building.

LITERATURE/READING The library, of course. The card catalogues may be gone, but the online offerings, both ebooks and audiobooks are voluminous. And with your library card – depending on which system you are part of – you have access to thousands more titles at services like Hoopla, Libby (formerly OverDrive), Kanopy and RBDigital. There’s no excuse for not indulging. Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg. org) was there at the dawn on the internet. Founded in 1971, it is an online library of copyright-free books. Most are old. Some are downright historic. As of the writing of this article, Project Gutenberg has 61,554 titles waiting for you.

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experiment in cooking TV, though that was well before she’d become a grandmother. The Wheel is a takeout restaurant in Oakley, where she bakes all the bread and makes sandwiches and pasta dishes to go. She also hosts more sophisticated pasta dinners a couple of times a month. The fi ve-or-six-course dinners incorporate every kind of pasta, including egg-based, hand-cut noodles like pappardelle or tagliatelle and handkerchief-thin stuff ed pastas like tortellini in broth The takeout part of the menu refl ects her rustic Italian roots; sandwiches on focaccia, lasagne and cannelloni. She serves pizza with thick crust with just tomato sauce, salads, lentil soup and meatballs. All of these fl avors were fundamentally cooked into her psyche by her relatives. “Every holiday was celebrated with food. It wasn’t Sunday without Sunday sauce,” she said of her childhood. It’s something she shares with her cousins, Caitlin Steininger and Kelly Trush, who own CWC The Restaurant and Station Family + BBQ. Their grandmother was Rita MacEachen, Norma’s sister, whose obituary mentions her meatballs. “We just thought about food all the time at our house,” said Kelly. They remember Aunt Norma for Easter and egg hunts at her house, and for stories about her and her food, woven through daily conversation. Norma was the kind of person who, it’s sad to think, is becoming harder to fi nd: the fabulous hostess, the woman whose recipes were begged for, who could put together a funeral dinner for a neighbor’s mother while everyone else was at the church. “Entertaining was made to look easy, “ remembers Chrissie. “And fun. Everyone was in the kitchen.” She did it for her husband, for her family and her friends, starting from the beginning of her marriage. In 1936, an Enquirer reporter got a tip that a Frank Antenucci, 22, had applied for a wedding license with a Norma Gallo, 21, in Covington. They had eloped from Columbus, where Frank was on the OSU football team, the one famous for the game they’d played in 1935 against Notre Dame, called the game of

The rosemary roasted carrot focaccia sandwich, with kale, garlic yogurt and sauce romesco at The Wheel in Cincinnati’s Oakley neighborhood. PHOTOS BY KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE ENQUIRER

the century for at least a while. The announcement of his elopement with a pretty young woman in a sealskin coat ran in newspapers across the country. The couple eventually settled in Cincinnati where Frank opened Big Tree market in Kenwood, which sold Italian food and produce, and Norma gained her reputation as a hostess. In 1948, her friend Lois Trautman invited her to be a guest on her television cooking show on WCPO. When Trautman left the show to start a family, Norma took over. “It was ﬁ ve days a week, live,” said her granddaughter. “I don’t think she had anyone to do prep for her, either.” This was before early in TV history, so cooking shows were brand-new. It was 10 years before Julia Child started “The French Chef.” The show was for housewives: women like her who wanted to add style and skill to meals they served family and friends. But she demonstrated dishes from her Italian repertoire that might have been new to her fans. They were

loyal. When she talked about her “Aunt Mamie,” Mary Nardini Zoantz, who was ill, viewers sent Mamie loads of cards and get-well messages. Eventually, she published a cookbook including recipes from the show. What’s quite lovely about the book is

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that many of the recipes are credited to relatives and neighbors or friends of different ethnic backgrounds. She off ers her Aunt Marguerite’s baked chicken casserole, her grandmother’s veal pocket with Italian stuffi ng. And Aunt Edie’s spareribs and kale. As well as Portuguese, German and Jewish recipes she’d learned from friends. She continued to teach cooking after the show went off the air, and was hired by Kahn’s to do promotional cooking classes, especially every year at the big, yearly Food Fair held at the Cincinnati Gardens. (In 1958, you could win the Grand Prize, a Ford Edsel Ranger.) One photo of her promoting the show refers to “The pretty Norma Antenucci” and is captioned “If the fairer sex try to impress males by busying themselves with only facial creams, hand lotions and stylish clothes, they’ve forgotten a most eff ective weapon. It cannot be denied that one of the best ways to a man’s See ANTENUCCI, Page 7AA

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heart is through his stomach.” Cooking was a domestic art, a woman’s skill. Women could be home economists or teachers, and obviously, cook at home. But they weren’t chefs. Her granddaughter Chrissie grew up in a diﬀ erent world, when cooking had been more professionalized when women were breaking into restaurant kitchens, when a woman could make money from cooking, not just make her husband happy. Chrissy liked to cook, and when she was studying psychology at the University of Kentucky, she worked in local restaurants. She went to the French Culinary Institute in New York, worked at Gramercy Park and Vong. She came home for a time and worked at JeanRobert at Pigall’s, then headed west. She worked in the heightened foodie culture of the Bay Area. Her most formative job was at Quince, where she satisﬁ ed a wish to learn all she could about fresh pasta and learned how to get the most of beautiful, fresh produce. But eventually, she realized she wanted to come home to Cincinnati. “It wasn’t an easy decision to make at

all,” she said. “But San Francisco just didn’t feel like home.” She came back, found a shop on Brotherton Avenue in Oakley, a little oﬀ the beaten track. “When I signed the lease on this space, I had no idea how things would unfold,” she said. “So I started cooking and I was fortunate enough to meet good people who would breathe life into this place and here we are.” When someone she’s related to comes in the store, or people send her photos of their signed copies of Norma’s cookbook, she realizes her choice was the right one. “There are deep roots here with incredible meaning,” she said. The Wheel’s takeout menu is family. Aunt Rita’s Italian crepes are the basis for Chrissie’s cannelloni. Rolled lasagne is inspired by Norma’s. And the thick, delicious pane, like a pizza with no cheese, is Uncle Bo’s. Sandwiches like the roasted carrot or porchetta on wonderful homemade focaccia are all her own. The Wheel also sells copies of Norma’s book. The Wheel, 3805 Brotherton Road, Oakley, 513-271-0291, www.thewheeloakley.com. As of press time, The Wheel is open for carryout, with some new pastas added to the menu. Pasta dinners are discontinued until the ban on restaurants is over.

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“This is a ‘lost’ Serling script that no one has seen or heard in 65 years and most people didn’t know existed,” Kiesewetter said. The story follows a couple of low-level staff members at the Russian embassy who run off to Cincinnati to fl ee their superiors. But one of them panics, looks up “Reds” in the phone book, and turns himself in, mistaking the Reds baseball team for the nickname used for communists. (That’s also why the Reds changed their name to the Redlegs in 1953.) The team thinks the muscular Russian is a slugger named O’Toole there for a tryout, and he winds up as powerful a hitter as Big Klu. The original show starred Chuck Connors from TV’s “The Rifl eman,” who briefl y played ball with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs, along with John Banner (Sergeant Schultz on “Hogan’s Heroes”) and Baseball Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher as the Reds manager. After 30 years of searching, Kiese-

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“Little Women” 8-11 p.m., PBS. A great story is worth re-telling and Louisa May Alcott’s tale is one of the best. It mixes unapologetic warmth and sentiment with bits of sibling rage and worldly ambition. The 2019 movie was masterful, but this longer version (2018) is also terriﬁ c. In her ﬁ lm debut, Maya Hawke (daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman) is a superb Jo.

Monday

“The Hidden Kingdoms of China” debut 8-11 p.m., Nat Geo Wild; reruns at 11, concludes March 30. We’re used to seeing China with great masses of people; it has 1.4 billion of them. But it’s a sprawling place – almost 20 percent bigger than the U.S., if you ignore Alaska – with lots of wilderness. Now that’s captured with stunning beauty.

Tuesday

“This Is Us” season-ﬁ nale and “Council of Dads” debut 9 and 10:01 p.m., NBC. As last week’s amazing “This Is Us” ended, Rebecca reluctantly agreed to go away for a clinical trial. That soothes one son (Randall), but may enrage the other (Kevin); now they collide at the ﬁ rst birthday party for their sister’s son. That’s followed by another passionate show. Based loosely on real life, “Council” has a dad, facing a grim prognosis, ask three friends to help raise his kids. Viewers will care about them … then will have to wait until April 30 for more episodes.

Wednesday

“CMT Crossroads” 10 p.m., CMT. These two had opposite starts: Kelsea Ballerini grew up on a farm near Knoxville and sang in church. Halsey is a city kid from New Jersey; she had some rough years and homelessness in New York. But they’re similar in age (26 and 25 respectively) and in the ability to propel a powerful ballad. Halsey has been a media event lately, including two spectacular “Saturday Night Live” stops.

Thursday

“A Million Little Things” season-ﬁ nale 10 p.m., ABC. This is a week for strong emotion, with “This Is Us” and “A Million Little Things” (it’s closest clone) wrapping their seasons. “Million” seems oddly close to a happy moment: Katherine and Eddie have worked through his affair with their friend Delilah. Now Katharine is starting a law office and they’re renewing their wedding vows … maybe. Eve goes into labor with the baby that Rome and Regina might adopt. Also, Maggie shocks Gary.

Friday

“Hawaii Five-0” 9 p.m., CBS. When basketball was canceled, CBS shoveled lots of reruns into the Thursday/Friday voids. Here are exceptions, new episodes of “MacGyver” (8 p.m.) and then – a week before the series-ﬁ nale – “Five-0.” McGarrett gets a coded letter from his late mother; also, Chuck Norris plays an ex-soldier, helping a witness hide. A ﬁ ne alternative is the TV debut of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019), at 8 on Starz. It’s long and quirky, but toys with history in clever ways.

Saturday

“The Kitchen” (2019) 8 p.m., HBO. What’s a woman to do when guys fail her? Logically, she should take over the local crime gang and run it correctly. That happens in this flawed but interesting movie. The plot makes it seem way too easy, but there are gifted stars – Elisabeth Moss Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy. With the shutdowns, cable is our movie theater, so there’s more: USA starts Harry Potter fi lms at 10:30 a.m. … E starts “Fast and Furious” fi lms at 2:30 p.m. … and AMC starts “Rocky” fi lms at 3 p.m.

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narrate. They recruited CCM acting and directing professor Richard E. Hess to direct, and he brought in eight CCM student actors along with dialect coach Sammi Grant to help with the Russian accents. “Nobody at CCM was available to