2015–16 Guide To Yellow Springs by Yellow Springs News

COLLEGE & COMMUNITY C O O P E R AT I O N

2015 THE

C O LL A B OR AT I O N

COMMON GROUND

GUIDE TO YELLOW SPRINGS 2016

A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS • 253½ XENIA, YELLOW SPRINGS OH 45387 • YSNEWS.COM

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EMERGENCY SERVICES

Fire, police, ambulance ................................................. 911 Anonymous hotline ............................................... 767-1604

MIAMI TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT

Margaret Silliman, �scal of�cer .......................... 767-2460 ....... 67

VILLAGE GOVERNMENT

Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs ........................... 67 John Gudgel ..................................................... 605-8754 Village of�ces, general information .................... 767-3402 ....... 67 Bryan Center scheduling and renting ............. 767-7209 Parks and recreation......................................... 767-3401 Village manager ................................................ 767-1279 Zoning/Code enforcement ............................... 767-3702 Clerk of Council ................................................ 767-9126 Clerk of courts ................................................. 767-3400 Economic development .................................... 767-1279 Gaunt Park Pool ................................................ 767-9172 Fire department, non-emergency .................... 767-7842 Police, non-emergency ..................................... 767-7206 Public works ...................................................... 767-3401 Utility billing ....................................... 767-7202, ext. 221

ARTS & RECREATION

Antioch Writers’ Workshop .................................. 769-1803 ....... 32 Art & Soul, Lisa Goldberg .................................... 767-7285 ....... 32 Bridge, Ken Huber ............................................... 767-1160 ....... 32 Susan Freeman ................................................. 767-0235 Chamber Music in Yellow Springs reservations ... 374-8800 ....... 32 Community Band, James Johnston ............................................ 33 Community Chorus, James Johnston......................................... 33 Carol Cottom ..................................................... 767-1458 John Bryan Community Pottery ................................................. 33 Krystal Luketic, studio director ....................... 767-9022 Shakespeare Reading Group ...................................................... 33 Deborah McGee ................................................ 823-8073 Little Art Theatre .................................................. 767-7671 ....... 33 Weavers’ Guild, Diana Nelson ............................. 767-9487 ....... 33 Would House Choir, Catherine Roma .......... 513-560-9082 ....... 34 Yellow Rockers, Ralph and Melanie Acton ......... 767-8951 ....... 34 Yellow Springs Artist Studio Tour ...................................... ....... 34 Lisa Goldberg .................................................... 767-7285 Yellow Springs Arts Council ................................ 679-9722 ....... 34 Yellow Springs Community Orchestra ....................................... 34 James Johnston Yellow Springs Contra Dance ..................................................... 34 Ben Hemmendinger .................................. 646-373-2361 Yellow Springs Strings, Shirley Mullins .............. 767-3361 ....... 35

COMMUNICATIONS

Antioch Review, Christina Gabbard .................... 769-1365 ....... 69 Channel 5 .............................................................. 767-1678 ...... 69 WYSO Public Radio .............................................. 767-6420 ....... 69 Yellow Springs News ............................................ 767-7373 ....... 69

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

365 Project ...................................................................................... 8 AACW, Faith Patterson ......................................... 767-9114 ......... 8 African-American Genealogy Group ............................................ 8 Robert L. Harris ............................................... 767-1949 Alcoholics Anonymous .................................................................. 8 Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, Susan Jennings ........... 767-2161 Better Health Co-op, Billie Eastman ................... 767-1511 ......... 8 Bryan High School Alumni Association ....................................... 8 Mickey Harwood .............................................. 629-3862 Charlie Brown Patient & Caregiver Support Group ................... 8 Rubin Battino .................................................... 767-1854 Community Resources .................................................................. 9 Christine Monroe-Beard .................................. 767-4820 Corner Cone Farmers Market ...................................................... 9 Phil Hagstrom ................................................... 265-5411 Enhance Worldwide ....................................................................... 9 Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp ............................. 708-0144 Feminist Health Fund, Sue T. Parker .................. 767-9146 ......... 9 Marianne Whelchel .......................................... 767-1033 Food Co-op, Luan and David Heit ....................... 767-1823 ......... 9 Friends Care Community ..................................... 767-7363 ......... 9 Great Books, Ken Huber ...................................... 767-1160 ......... 9 Green Environmental Coalition ........................... 767-2109 ....... 14 Grinnell Mill Foundation, Chris Mucher ............ 767-1391 ....... 14 James A. McKee Association ...................................................... 14 Harry Lipsitt ..................................................... 767-8061 Kent Bristol ....................................................... 767-7773 Bill Bebko ......................................................... 767-1521 La Leche League, ........................................................................ 14 Laura Ann Ellison .........................767-1097 or 708-6392 Sylvia Ellison ..................................................... 708-6252 Lions Club, Carol Gasho ...................................... 767-2168 ....... 14 Masonic Lodge, Don Lewis .................................. 901-6211 ....... 14 McKinney/YSHS PTO ......................................... 708-0559 ....... 14 Mills Lawn PTO, Nancy Sundell-Turner .................................... 14 Morgan Family Foundation, Lori M. Kuhn ........ 767-9208 ....... 15 Narcotics Anonymous .......................................... 505-0705 ....... 15

C O M M U N I T Y D I R E C TO R Y

National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) ............................. 15 Donna Sorrell ................................................... 767-8622 Neighborhood Gardens ....................................... 767-2729 ....... 15 Odd Fellows, Brenda Kelly ........................... 937-318-4105 ....... 15 Ranch Menagerie Animal Sanctuary .......................................... 15 Nick Ormes ....................................................... 231-1046 Riding Centre ........................................................ 767-9087 ....... 24 Senior Center ........................................................ 767-5751 ....... 24 Tecumseh Land Trust, Krista Magaw ................. 767-9490 ....... 24 Tenant Cooperative, Paul Buterbaugh ................ 767-2224 ....... 24 Threshold Choir, Theresa Sapunar .............937-234-SING ....... 24 UNICEF, Joy Fishbain .......................................... 767-7724 ....... 24 Winter Farmers Market ...................................... 767-7560 ...... 24 Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce ..................................... 24 Karen Wintrows ................................................ 767-2686 Yellow Springs Farmers Market ................................................. 25 Michelle Burns ................................................. 319-6076 Yellow Springs Community Foundation ..................................... 25 Virgil Hervey..................................................... 767-2655 Yellow Springs Historical Society ............................................... 25 David Neuhardt ................................................ 767-7106 Nancy Noonan .................................................. 767-7773 Yellow Springs Home, Inc., Chris Hall ................ 767-2790 ....... 30 Yellow Springs Tree Committee ......767-2981 or 767-2162 ....... 30

EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL

The Antioch School .............................................. 767-7642 ....... 52 PRESCHOOL

Community Children’s Center ............................. 767-7236 ....... 53 Community Children’s Center After School Care .............................................. 767-8145 ....... 53 Friends Preschool Program ........................................................ 53 Kathy Harper ......................................767-1303, ext. 119 PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Yellow Springs Public Schools .................................................... 54 Mario Basora, superintendent ......................... 767-7381 Mills Lawn Elementary .................................... 767-7217 Matt Housh, principal Y.S. High School, McKinney School ............... 767-7224 Tim Krier, principal Greene County Career Center ............................. 372-6941 ....... 53 Greene County Educational Service Ctr ............ 767-1303 ...... 54 Greene County Learning Center ................................................ 54 Jason Miller ........................................ 767-1303, ext. 141

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Yellow Springs Friends Meeting (Quakers) ....... 767-8486 ....... 61 Yellow Springs Havurah, Steve Green ................ 767-9293 ....... 61 Yellow Springs United Methodist Church .......... 767-7560 ....... 61 Rev. Rick Jones

YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS

Boy Scouts, Scott Fletcher ................................... 863-0298 ....... 44 Cub Scouts, Chris Wyatt ...................................... 767-0112 ....... 44 Fair Play 4-H Club........................................................................ 44 Kathleen Galarza ....... ....................... ...............838-7411 Girl Scouts, Susan Hyde ....................................... 767-7756 ....... 44 Perry League, Jimmy Chesire ............................. 767-7300 ....... 44 Sea Dogs ....................................................................................... 44 Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association ........................... 47 Youth Baseball ............................................................................ 45 Tim and Jennifer Sherwood ............................ 767-8702 Youth Soccer ................................................................................ 47 Bill and Lynn Hardman .................................... 767-8433 Bob Curley ........................................................ 767-7070 YS Kids Playhouse, Ara Beal ............................... 767-7800 ....... 47

STORIES A college village in Antioch’s Future? ..........................4 Ideas, enthusiam abound at Antioch’s Charette Event ..........................................5 Wellness for body, mind, community .........................11 Pickleball picks up fans at Wellness Center ..............13 Villagers walk for climate change ..............................16 A multi-lens look at water needs ................................20 Public art is the focus of TAG! ...................................22 Last class enters on a full Horace Mann tab ..............26 $1 million donation targets “�rst-gen” students ........29 Herndon hosts Civil Rights photographer ................31 Big rabbit big deal at new Foundry Theater .............38 On race and community ..............................................40 A focus on diversity and social justice .......................48 Antioch Review still surprises ....................................50 Carrying on the Antioch College Legacy of Activism ...................................................51 Glen now protected into perpetuity ............................56 College a ‘real food’ leader .........................................58 President Roosevelt to leave in December 2015 .......62 College’s �rst class rose to challenges ......................65 Antioch College commencement inspires .................66

HIGHER EDUCATION

Antioch College .................................................... 767-1286 ....... 52 Antioch University ................................................ 769-1345 ....... 52 Antioch University Midwest ................................ 769-1818 ....... 52

GLEN HELEN NATURE PRESERVE

Glen Helen Ecology Institute ............................... 769-1902 ....... 18 Outdoor Education Center & Raptor Center .... 767-7648 ....... 18 Nature Shop ...................................................... 767-1902 ....... 18 Trailside Museum and Visitor Center ............. 767-7798 ....... 18 Glen Helen Association .................................... 769-1904 ....... 18

LIBRARY

Yellow Springs Community Library .................... 352-4003 ....... 57 Yellow Springs Library Association ............................................ 57 Beatrix Karthaus-Hunt

LOCAL INDUSTRY

ElectroShield, Inc. ................................................ 767-1054 ....... 63 EnviroFlght, LLC .................................................. 767-1988 ....... 63 Morris Bean & Company ..................................... 767-7301 ....... 63 S&G Artisan Distillery, LLC ....................................................... 63 Vernay Laboratories ............................................. 767-7261 ....... 63 Yellow Springs Brewery ....................................... 767-0222 ....... 63 YSI/Xylem Brand ................................................. 767-7241 ....... 63

SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

Bahá’í Faith, Roi and Linden Qualls .................... 767-7079 ....... 59 Bethel Lutheran Church ............................................................. 59 Pastor Larry Bannick ...................323-8954 or 284-3947 Central Chapel A.M.E. Church ............................ 767-3061 ....... 59 Rev. Timothy E. Loggins, pastor First Baptist Church .........................767-7659 or 767-7623 ....... 59 William Randolph, pastor First Presbyterian Church, of�ce ........................ 767-7751 ....... 59 Rev. Aaron Saari, paster Grandmother Drum Healing Circle ........................................... 60 Grandmother Wolfheart ................................... 767-9331 Grandmother Moon Fire .................................. 767-1170 Heart Rhythm Meditation Class & Circle .................................. 60 Denise Runyon & Tom Malcolm ..................... 767-2293 Pleasant Grove Missionary Church .................... 767-8011 ....... 60 Pastor Matt Ransom ........................... (home) 372-8110 St. Paul Catholic Church ...................................... 767-7450 ....... 60 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship .......372-5613, 767-1603 ....... 60 Yellow Springs Assembly of God Christian Center ................... 60 Pastor J. Ray Tyson .......................................... 767-9133 Yellow Springs Dharma Center ........................... 767-9919 ....... 61

ELECTED OFFICIALS (as of 10/2015) U.S. SENATORS

U.S. HOUSE, 10th DISTRICT

Washington address: Senate Of�ce Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-3121

Mike Turner (R) 2239 Rayburn Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: 202-225-6465 Fax: 202-225-6754 Web: turner.house.gov Dayton Of�ce 120 West 3rd St. Suite 305 Dayton, Ohio 45402 Phone: 937-225-2843 Fax: 937-225-2752

Sherrod Brown (D) 713 Hart Senate Of�ce Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-2315 Fax: 202-228-6321 Web: brown.senate.gov Columbus of�ce: 200 N. High St. Room 614 Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614-469-2083 Fax: 614-469-2171 Toll Free 888-896-6446 Robert “Rob” Portman (R) 448 Russell Senate Of�ce Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-3353 www.portman.senate.gov Columbus of�ce: 37 West Broad Street Room 300 Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614-469-6774 Toll-Free: 800-205-6446

STATE SENATE, 10th DISTRICT

Chris Widener (R) Senate Building Capitol Square, 1st Floor Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614-466-3780 Email: SD10@senate.state.oh.us Web: ohio senate.gov/widener STATE HOUSE, 73RD DISTRICT

Rick Perales (R) 77 S. High St. 13th Floor Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614-644-6020 Fax: 614-719-3970 Web: ohiohouse.gov/Rick-Perales

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS T H E G U I D E TO Y E L L OW S P R I N G S is created by a dedicated team including Robert Hasek and Suzanne Szempruch in advertising; Suzanne Szempruch and Matt Minde in design; Matt Minde who contributed overall vision, design and cover art; Lauren Shows, who organized and edited submissions; Megan Bachman, Jenn Wheeler, Lauren Heaton and Diane Chiddister who wrote the stories; and Carol Simmons in proo�ng. We thank our advertisers for taking part in this effort, and we hope you enjoy this year’s Guide to Yellow Springs.

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS A-C Service Company ...........................................13 Adoption Link, Inc.................................................36 Al Kahina Middle Eastern (Belly) Dance Studio ......................................41 Aleta’s Cafe ............................................................69 Andreae, Kristen M., R.N., L.Ac. .........................56 Anthrotech, Inc. ....................................................26 Antioch College .....................................................72 Antioch School, The..............................................63 Antioch University Midwest ..................................5 Antioch Writers’ Workshop ..................................12 Arbor-Care of Ohio ...............................................11 Arthur Morgan House .........................................54 Asanda Imports .....................................................49 Atomic Fox.............................................................32 Axel Bahnsen Gallery ...........................................18 Battino Counseling Services ................................49 Battle, Esther S., Ph.D., Inc. ................................44 Bauer Stoves and Fireplaces ................................61 Bentino’s Pizza ......................................................51 Bing Design ...........................................................52 Black Pug Bike Repair ............................................6 Body Wisdom ........................................................56 Julie Pies, P.T.A., M.F.R.T., L.M.T. Patti Mielziner, M.F.R.T., cP.T. Bradstreet & Associates, Inc. ..............................59 Brandeberry Winery ............................................68 Bryce Hill Inc. .......................................................56 Chamber Music Yellow Springs ..........................65 Clifton Garden Cabin ............................................12 Clifton Opera House .............................................62 Coldwell Banker Heritage Realtors Jan Augenstein ................................................67 Luciana Lieff ....................................................62 Craig Mesure ...................................................57 Bambi Williams, Sam Eckenrode, Minerva Bieri ..............................................26 Community Children’s Center.............................21 Community Physicians of Yellow Springs, Inc. .........................................64 Bobbi Barth, D.O. Cliff Fawcett, M.S.N., C.N.P. David Hyde, M.D. Neha Patel, D.O. Community Solutions, Arthur Morgan Institute for ..........................59 Complete Building Service, LLC .........................55 Conner, Susan, C.C.R............................................43 Corner Cone ..........................................................63

Creative Explorations ...........................................49 Current Cuisine .....................................................34 Dark Star Books & Comics ....................................9 Design Sleep ..........................................................39 Donna Jean’s Bulk Food.......................................65 Downing’s Do it Best Hardware .........................27 Dunphy Real Estate, Inc. ......................................20 Jo Dunphy Sheila Palotta Teresa Dunphy Ear, Nose & Throat of Spring�eld ......................50 Earth Energy Medicine ........................................62 Abigail Cobb, R.N. Earth Rose .............................................................68 EdenWorld Wellness Center ................................67 Ehman’s Garage ....................................................58 Eldridge Roo�ng, Inc..............................................7 Emporium Wines / Underdog Cafe ......................8 Enon Veterinary Hospital .....................................65 EnviroFlight, LLC .................................................69 Flying Mouse Farms ............................................67 Friends Care Community .....................................46 Funderburg, Pamela, L.M.T. ................................36 Gailz Tattooz ..........................................................61 Glen Garden Gifts & Flowers ..............................39 Glen Helen .............................................................36 Glen House Bed & Breakfast ..............................42 Green Environmental Coalition ...........................42 Greene County Career Center...............................5 Greene County Combined Health District .........48 Greene County Council on Aging .......................29 Greenleaf Gardens ................................................54 Grinnell Mill Bed & Breakfast .............................31 Ha Ha Pizza ............................................................62 Hawthorne Place ...................................................21 Hearthstone Inn & Suites ....................................33 Holser, J. Marc, D.D.S. .........................................40 House of Ravenwood ............................................47 Humanist Center Massage Therapy ...................54 Iona Boutique ........................................................15 Jackson Lytle & Lewis Funeral Homes ..............44 Jailhouse Suites .....................................................51 JCox/Basho Apparel.............................................66 Jennifer’s Touch Fine Jewelry ............................33 John Bryan Community Pottery .........................59 Kadis, Paul P., Psy.D., LLC ...................................48 Kismet ...................................................................68 Legendary Roo�ng Co., The................................41 Little Art Theatre ..................................................53

T H E G U I D E t o Y E L L O W S P R I N G S 2 0 15 –16 Live & Let Dye, LLC .............................................69 Meadowlark Restaurant .......................................10 Miami Township Fire-Rescue ............................28 Miami Valley Equine Acupressure ......................60 Miami Valley Pottery ............................................38 Mills Park Hotel ...................................................60 MinDesign .............................................................44 Mindfully Well Center ..........................................40 Mr. Fub’s Party “Toys and More” .......................48 Nightingale Montessori School ...........................41 Ohio Silver Co. ......................................................48 Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital ..............................45 Orthodontic Specialists of Ohio ..........................43 James Tetz, D.M.D. Pangaea Trading Company ..................................30 Peifer Orchards .....................................................16 Pleasant Grove Missionary Church ....................52 Positive Perspectives, Inc. Counseling Centers ........................................29 Re/Max Victory ....................................................41 Chris & Rick Kristensen Shelly Blackman Reichley Insurance Agency..................................66 Rita Caz Jewelry Studio ........................................34 Rumpke Waste Removal & Recycling .................16 S & G Artisan Distillery, LLC ..............................38 Sam & Eddie’s Open Books .................................32 Servlet Internet Services .....................................35 Smoking Octopus, The ...........................................9 Soin Medical Center .............................................37 Solid Gold Self Storage .........................................24 Southtown Heating, Cooling, Electrical & Plumbing ....................................30 Spring�eld Arts Council .......................................17 Spring�eld Museum of Art ..................................53 Spring�eld Symphony Orchestra ........................49 Springs Healing Massage ....................................25 Kerri Speck, LMT Amy Spurr, LMT St. Paul Catholic Church ........................................7 Star Pediatrics .......................................................26 Thaddene Triplett, M.D. Nancy Hesz, M.D. Stoney Creek Garden Center ..............................19 Sunrise Cafe ...........................................................18 Super-Fly Comics & Games .................................30 360° Private Training Studio................................37 Melissa Heston, cP.T. Tibet Bazaar...........................................................38

Tom’s Market ........................................................34 Town Drug.............................................................31 Twin Coach Apartments ......................................70 Un�nished Creations ............................................22 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs .................................................22 Urban Gypsy ..........................................................70 Van Lehn, Laura ......................................................6 Village Artisans .....................................................43 Village Automotive................................................25 Village BP ..............................................................24 Village Cyclery ......................................................21 Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs ...61 Village of Yellow Springs ......................................15 Vitamin Outlet, The ..............................................18 Wagner Subaru......................................................47 Wavelength Beauty Wellness Centre ..................42 Wellness Center at Antioch College, The ...........14 Wheat Penny .........................................................10 Winds Café, The ....................................................68 World House Choir ...............................................23 Wright State Physicians Family Medicine ...........7 WYSO Public Radio ................................................4 Xenia YMCA ..........................................................23 Ye Olde Trail Tavern & Restaurant .....................18 Yellow Springs Brewery .......................................14 Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce........11, 57 Yellow Springs Chiropractic.................................20 Erika Grushon, D.C. Katherine Duckwall Hubert, D.C. Yellow Springs Community Foundation ...............8 Yellow Springs Country Bed & Breakfast ............4 Yellow Springs Farmer’s Market .........................15 Yellow Springs Home, Inc. .....................................8 Yellow Springs News ......................................61, 68 Yellow Springs Obstetrics & Gynecology ..........70 Keith Watson, M.D. Yellow Springs Pottery ...........................................9 Yellow Springs Psychological Center ...................7 Bob Barcus, Ph.D. Aïda Merhemic, M.S. Yellow Springs Tree Committee ............................7 Yellow Springs United Methodist Church..........23 Young’s Jersey Dairy ............................................32 YS Building Science ..............................................20 YS Federal Credit Union ......................................12 YSI/Xylem Brand ..................................................27 YSKP—Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse ..............6

The College and the Community Like most college towns, Yellow Springs is changed because of Antioch College. But this town-gown story is different because of both the progressive education the college’s ﬁrst President Horace Mann designed for its “frontier ivy league” and the commitment to community college President Arthur Morgan designed into the college’s mission in the 1920s. Antioch College and Yellow Springs were to become like a single organism, living symbiotically to each other’s social, ethical and economic advantage. After the college closed in 2008, the village lost a signiﬁcant number of spaces and services and much of the intellectual stimulation the college had traditionally provided. Performance and recreation spaces such as Curl gym, the Foundry theater and the concert hall in main building were no longer available. Research in rare books and the college’s own history was no longer possible at the library. And the mix of new ideas became less a part

4A B O U T T H E C OV E R : Panoramas of Antioch College’s iconic main building and downtown Yellow Springs composited as a “little planet” projection, symbolic of their symbiosis.

of the village culture as students and faculty moved up and out of the village. That three-year void has made the

past four-year ressurgence even more momentous. Since the college reopened in 2011, thanks to a league of faithful alumni, it has come back fast and furious with a focus on sustainability, global interdependence and socio--economic equality. Faculty and students have mixed well with the Yellow Springs community to create artistic, political and intellectual events. And resources have been strategically invested in a physical plant designed to sustain a growing campus and village community for decades to come. Some of these activities are evidenced in the Yellow Springs News stories, written by News staff during the 2014–15 academic year, and selected for the 2015–16 Guide to Yellow Springs. The opening of the much anticipated Wellness Center in the summer of 2015 was punctuated by the college’s announcement that fall that it was rezoning part of its property in preparation for a potential college village residential community on campus.

The Foundry Theater hosted its first year of college and village performances and events, and the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom collaborated with villagers on social justice events such as Hands Up Walk Out and the Martin Luther King Jr. march and celebration. The college’s Miller Fellows continued to serve community organizations such as the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the Community Children’s Center and Home, Inc. And the year wrapped up with an actual charrette on the College Village design, as well as the first commencement ceremony for the first graduates of the revived college. Yellow Springs and Antioch College are both better for their enduring collaboration. As the college rounds the bend toward the hiring of a new president in 2016 and striving toward accreditation, the town and the gown should create more opportunity to grow their deep and historic interconnection. —LAUREN HEATON, Acting Editor

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THE ANTIOCH VILLAGE

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS

A college village in Antioch’s future? B y L AU R E N H E ATO N

On a visit to Antioch College in 2013, accreditors from the North Central Association Higher Learning Commission noted the unique level of integration between the college and the village of Yellow Springs. According to Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, the visitors said “they had never been to a college as closely tied to a village as we are.” From Olive Kettering Library and Curl Gym to Rockford Chapel, the tennis courts and WYSO, the spaces and services

that are shared between the college and village are both deep and historic. And the tradition has worked so well for so long, that Roosevelt for one sees value in perpetuating the overlap. “We’re a small college and a small village, and there are a lot of things it makes sense to do together — it would be kooky not to share these between the college and the village,” he said in an interview at the time. So while the college and the village collaborate to fund the Wellness Center, the Foundry Theater and the Glen, there

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is one more horizon of integration the college has begun planning for: community housing on the college campus. An Antioch College village would be an opportunity for multigenerational residents to live on campus and engage as generative members of the community. It would also help the college to become more ﬁnancially sustainable. “This is offering people an opportunity to contribute and be part of something — because people have a yearning to be part of a community,” Roosevelt said. In 2013, the College began talking about an energy-efﬁcient single and multi-family housing complex on its campus for faculty, staff, alumni and villagers who want to be part of the college community. And in the spring of 2015, the college held a week-long charrette to get community input on the whole concept. Developing housing on campus would not be unprecedented at Antioch. According to Antioch archivist Scott Sanders, the college has a tradition of providing housing for its faculty and staff as a way of attracting the best minds to campus. The college established apartments for young faculty as early as the 19th century in Birch Hall and North and South halls. In the early 1920s, the college began buying homes within the Limestone, Phillips, West Davis and West Whiteman blocks for its faculty and staff. In

the late 1930s, the college worked with Hugh Taylor Birch to purchase land for faculty homes south of campus as well, along Rice Road and President Street. The college also purchased homes in the village for student housing, such as the former Mills House (on Mills Lawn) and Greywood (now owned by Anthrotech). But building the kind of campus community Roosevelt wants is different from the college’s previous models. And because it’s an undeﬁned concept so far, “there is no language for it because it doesn’t exist yet,” he said. But Roosevelt knows what the community is not: a retirement community. According to a 2007 article in the Journal on Active Aging, Universitybased retirement communities have been on the rise for 20 years and currently exist on over 60 campuses both small and large across the country, including Oberlin, Dartmouth, Penn State and Lasell College in Massachussetts. But those models stress the cultural advantages for seniors “in their golden years” and often include continuing care facilities, infantalizing their aging residents into passive, restful roles. What Roosevelt envisions is something much more dynamic, for a wider range of lifestyles, including “next chapter individuals” who are “at retirement age but have no interest in retiring,” he said.

4Several hundred villagers took part in the Antioch College Village Charrette, a collaborative design event in March 2015 that aimed to create a plan for a new housing development on campus. Villagers gave input to designers who created a plan. This draft version shows many kinds of tiny houses, cottage courts, apartment buildings and co-housing that would be located on the currently vacant area around North College and Livermore streets.

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS

THE ANTIOCH VILLAGE

T H E G U I D E t o Y E L L O W S P R I N G S 2 0 15 –16

Ideas, enthusiasm abound at Antioch charette event By DIANE CHIDDISTER

• A variety of pathways on the Antioch College campus to promote walking and biking • A diversity of housing models, including cottages, townhouses and co-housing • Edible landscaping • Places for children to play • Incubator space for artists and tech businesses • Buildings that promote interactions between people • The highest green standards in design and construction • Ways to encourage knowledge sharing between generations • Affordable homes • Hammocks and tree swings These were only a few of the many ideas, both big and small, that emerged at the Antioch College Village Charrette on March 1, 2015. Organizers of the Antioch College Village, a proposed project to create about 160 multigenerational residential units on campus, had invited the community to join in this design activity, and the community responded: about 200 people attended the three-hour event on a snowy Sunday night. A talk by Oberlin professor David Orr was canceled due to the bad weather. “We live in an interesting time. The

dream of what a home looks like is being redefined,” said design consultant Victor Dover, of the firm Dover Kohl of Cora Gables, Fla., which organized the charrette. The firm has hosted about 200 such design events, according to Dover. Three other consulting groups also gave brief presentations: the international Integral Group, a “deep green” engineering firm; Biohabitats, a Baltimore interdisciplinary group that includes biologists, ecologists, civil engineers and landscape architects with a mission to “inspire ecological stewardship;” and Sandy Wiggins, of Consilience, who is overseeing the Antioch College Village project. In her introduction, Wiggins, the former head of the U.S. Green Building Council, emphasized the importance of environmental sustainability to the project. The Antioch College Village aims to use the Living Community Challenge as its framework, which calls for buildings not just “less bad” than traditional construction, but ones that “actually contribute to the health and vitality of natural systems,” including net positive energy, he said. The Sunday event featured small groups engaging with each other to identify priorities for the project, as well as locate potential sites for the homes. According to consultant Dover, the activity was “in the spirit of a barn-raising, neighbors getting

together to help each other out.” Later, spokespersons for each table reported on their “three big ideas” to the whole group. The following day, participant Toni Dosik said she came away very impressed with the event, and with the Antioch College Board of Trustees for “choosing to spend what it must have cost to bring in such a professional team — it was a high caliber of consultants.” Dosik was also impressed with the inclusiveness and transparency of the process, and disappointed only that the group lacked racial diversity.

Also impressed, Jane Baker said of the consultants running the event, “They ﬁgured out how to get the community involved, and to get feedback efﬁciently. It was very exciting, and something Yellow Springers are obviously enthusiastic about.” For Amy Magnus, the introductory remarks from the consultants helped to provide a framework for the participants to consider a wealth of ideas without arguing. C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 6 > > >

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THE ANTIOCH VILLAGE

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS

4In March 2015, about 200 villagers took part in the Antioch College Village opening design event at the South Gym, at which groups of participants and facilitators engaged in an exercise to establish priorities for the proposed neighborhood. P H O T O B Y A M Y M A G N U S < < < C O N T I N U E D F R O M PAG E 5

“It worked well in our group,” Magnus said. “We were given good guidance.” Magnus was also impressed that or-

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ganizers offered a variety of methods to identify preferences, including drawing, writing and an oral report from each table. “They had a good way of capturing people’s input,” she said. The five-day event continued Monday through Thursday, with a design studio in the South Gym open to the public. On Tuesday, consultant Wiggins reported that “things are going fabulously” at the event. Along with the enthusiastic participation on Sunday, many villagers have been stopping in to the weekday design studio, along with attending special meetings around the topics of housing, schools and business, among others, Wiggins said. “Participation is outstanding,” he said. The designers are working “late into the night” to capture ideas and at this point, “there’s clearly a pattern of development emerging,” he said. Following the charrette, the designers planned to further refine their designs before doing a financial analysis of the project. Those were scheduled

to be presented to the Antioch College Board of Trustees in spring or early summer, “for their approval, and hopefully, we’ll move forward,” Wiggins said. LITTLE SET IN STONE The idea for the Antioch College Village emerged several years ago during a visit to renowned architect and Antioch alum Robert Davis, the creator of the planned community Seaside, Fla., according to Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt in his opening remarks Sunday evening. Davis urged Roosevelt to ﬁnd ways to incorporate adults into the college community because, according to Davis, “integrating adults into your campus is the next big thing in American higher education.” The concept resonated with Roosevelt, who initially saw the project as targeted toward “next chapter people,” those in their mid 50s to their 80s who “want to belong, want to be active, want to be part of something that matters,” he

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said. Many of that demographic came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, a time of great idealism and, “we’ve been pretty disappointed,” Roosevelt said. “Many would like to spend their later years together, reaffirming those values.” When Roosevelt has asked “next chapter” alums and others if they find such a concept appealing, the response has been overwhelmingly favorable, he said. And to the organizers’ surprise, a feasibility study indicated that the Antioch College Village attracts not only Baby Boomers, but those of diverse age groups, so that the original market has broadened. Little of the Antioch College Village is “set in stone” at this point, according to Roosevelt, but one thing is clear. The project has to be income-producing in a way that benefits students at the college, which has a far smaller endowment than most liberal arts colleges. “We need to think creatively about other sources of revenue,” he said. So it makes sense to consider the assets of Antioch College, including Glen Helen, WYSO Public Radio and a close relationship with the village, as attributes that might also meet the needs of “next chapter” individuals, along with the financial needs of students, Roosevelt said. “Our vision is to bring together people interested in finding new and better ways of living together and on the planet,” he said. “And to help support students.”

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C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z AT I O N S 365 Project John Gudgel jwgudge@sbcglobal.net

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The 365 Project is a local volunteer organization that ser ves as a catalyst organization that challenges and supports the people of Yellow Springs and Miami Township to engage critically and respectfully in dialogue and action that promotes and sustains diverse African-American heritage and culture and educational equity, 365 days a year. The 365 Project meets monthly and has sponsored the annual

Elaine Comegys Film Fest, community conversations and myriad other activities. For more information, contact John Gudgel at jwgudge@sbcglobal.net or P.O. Box 165, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.

AACW Faith Patterson, 767-9114 www.aacw.org

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on celebrating cultural diversity and working with other organizations to develop understanding of diversity in Yellow Springs, Wilberforce, Spring�eld, Xenia and neighboring communities. The group has held more than 50 events at various times of the year, including the annual Blues Fest, which has been successful, in part, because of the increasing collaborative efforts of many individuals and organizations in Yellow Springs and the surrounding area.

African-American Genealogy Group Robert L. Harris, 767-1949 rharris25@woh.rr.com www.aaggmv.org

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The African-American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley is a nonpro�t ser vice and educational organization devoted to the promotion of African-American genealogy and the study of black and family histories. The organization’s main goals are to search for ancestors, their identi�cation and their documentation. Activities include lectures, networking, workshops and �eld trips for genealogical purposes. The organization also encourages the writing of personal family histories and historical and genealogical societies. Membership is open to everyone. Meetings are held monthly at various locations throughout the Miami Valley and southwestern Ohio.

Alcoholics Anonymous 222-2211 centralof�ce@aadaytononline.org www.aadaytononline.org

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Here to Make a Difference For over forty years the Yellow Springs Community Foundation has managed funds from our generous donors so we could most effectively make grants for education, arts, wellness, public recreation, conservation, research, environmental improvement and many other areas that are important to our community.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who meet to attain and maintain sobriety. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no membership dues or fees. Meetings are held in Yellow Springs on Sundays at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; Mondays at 8 p.m. at Bethel Lutheran Church; Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at United Methodist Church and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus.

Trustees* and Members Lisa Abel* Rich Bullock Matthew Denman Leigh Duncan Emily Fine Mary Fisher* Terry Graham

Tia Huston Ellis Jacobs* Lisa Kreeger* Chris Kristensen Maureen Lynch* Rachel McKinley* Sandy McHugh

Susan Miller* Evan Scott Tim Sherwood* Mary Kay Smith Malte vonMatthiessen Sterling Wiggins*

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Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions Susan Jennings, 114 E. Whiteman Street, 767-2161 E M A I L : info@communitysolution.org W E B : www.communitysolution.org, www. pluginscam.org, www.powerofcommunity. org, www.passivehouserevolution.org C O N TA C T:

The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (CS) was founded in 1940 as Community Service, Inc. The Community Solutions program, started in 2003, provides knowledge and practices to support low-energy lifestyles, with a primary focus on reducing CO2 emissions in housing, transportation and food. The organization designs or locates solutions to the current unsustainable, fossil-fuel based, overly centralized way of living. The guiding principle for the organization is that small community living is optimal for society’s health. Community Solutions has presented �ve Peak Oil and Solutions conferences, written three books, including “Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change,” and produced the award-winning �lms “Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” and “The Passive House Revolution.”

Better Health Co-op Billie Eastman, P.O. Box 262, 767-1511

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The Better Health Cooperative, Inc., is a lay organization working to achieve physical and mental well-being through emphasis on nutritional balance, physical exercise and spiritual awareness. The co-op’s main program is hair analysis. Membership is open to anyone interested in working on maintaining and improving their health. Membership fee is $10 a year for individuals, $12 a year for families and can be sent to the co-op’s post of�ce box.

Bryan High School Alumni Association C O N TA C T:

Mickey Harwood, 937-629-3862

The Bryan High School Alumni Association, formed in 1997, meets the �rst Thursday of February, April, June, August and October at 10 a.m., in meeting room A, Bryan Center. Any person who attended Bryan when it was a high school (1929–1963) or anyone who attended junior high there is encouraged to attend meetings and become a member. An event/reunion is held annually at Bryan Community Center for all eligible persons and their guests.

Charlie Brown Patient & Caregiver Support Group Rubin Battino, 767-1854 rubin.battino@wright.edu

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The Charlie Brown Exceptional Patient and Caregiver Support Group meets the �rst and third Thursdays of every month from 7–8:30 p.m. in the Senior Center great room. The group provides support for anyone who has (or has had) a life-challenging disease, and also for caregivers. The service is free.

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Meetings provide an opportunity for attendees to share in con�dence what is going on in their lives. Group members listen respectfully and attentively to each other’s stories. Meetings end with a healing meditation. There is a free lending library.

Community Resources Christine Monroe-Beard, Chairperson, P.O. Box 214, 767-4820 E M A I L : communityresources@yellowsprings. com W E B : www.yellowsprings.com/cr C O N TA C T:

Community Resources is a nonpro�t community improvement corporation whose aim is to foster economic and community improvement by supporting projects, businesses and ideas in Yellow Springs and Miami Township, and to make this region a vibrant, economically healthy, diverse and affordable place to live and work. The group is focusing on development of the 46-acre Center for Business and Education at the northwest corner of Dayton Street and East Enon Road. Village and township residents with projects, ideas and proposals or who wish to help with one of the projects are encouraged to contact Community Resources.

Corner Cone Farmers Market Phil Hagstrom, 265-5411; Louise Berrier, 605-8765

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The Corner Cone Farmers Market is in its seventh season and welcomes small and large growers to sell their produce and homemade products. There are 13 spaces, and at times, par ticipants will squeeze together to accommodate an additional vendor. This market supports economic diversity and openness with as few rules as possible. The Corner Cone Farmers Market does not require rent or dues and is made possible by the generosity of Bob and Sue Swaney, owners of Corner Cone, located at the Corner of Dayton and Walnut streets. The market is open 7–11 a.m. Saturdays.

Enhance Worldwide Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp, 937708-0144 E M A I L : enhanceworldwide@gmail.com W E B : www.enhanceworldwide.org C O N TA C T:

Enhance Worldwide envisions communities where girls and women have the

C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z AT I O N S skills to lead meaningful, digni�ed lives and where each individual has agency, autonomy and aspirations. Working toward this vision, Enhance Worldwide helps girls, women and their communities discover strategies to navigate the challenges to their well-being in order to develop as individuals in their own right. The organization currently ser ves 150 direct bene�ciaries across three programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Activities focus on minimalizing the risk of child marriage, forced labor, violence and traf �cking through family support, access to education and life skills development.

Feminist Health Fund Sue T. Parker, P.O. Box 323, 767-9146; Marianne Whelchel, 767-1033; Board Members: Denise Cupps, Elizabeth Danowski, Esther Hetzler, Sue T. Parker, Kathy Robertson, Janet Jenks Ward, Marianne Whelchel.

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The Feminist Health Fund grew out of a local woman’s need for alternative health care during her struggle with cancer in 1978, and was founded by local feminist Gene Trolander. Funds are raised yearly or as the need arises, and grants have ranged from $100 to $3,000. An average of eight to ten women are helped each year. To apply for help or to discuss a donation, contact us at our post of�ce box listed above.

Food Co-op/Buying Club C O N TA C T:

Luan Heit, 767-1823

dent living homes. Friends Care is located on a 22-acre campus. Friends is owned and operated by the Friends Health Care Association and has been a nonpro�t community for over 30 years. Friends Care is a 66-bed skilled and longterm nursing facility. In August of 2011, Friends completed construction on a new, 16 private room rehabilitation center, providing a distinct unit for care of short-term stay rehab and nursing services. Friends Assisted Living Center is a licensed 20-unit facility designed to enhance independence, security and socialization in a quiet setting. Friends Independent Living Homes are senior living duplexes. Buyers can choose between two- and three-bedroom units and two building design plans. Each duplex fea-

Great Books Ken Huber, 767-1160 kenneth.huber@att.net

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Currently, meetings are held September through June on the �rst Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the �replace room of the Y.S. Senior Center, 227 Xenia Ave. The Great Books Foundation, a pioneer of book discussion, brings together people whose love of reading is part of their zest for lifelong learning. The group uses the Foundation’s method of shared inquiry. This C O N T N I U E D O N PAG E 1 4 > > >

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The Yellow Springs Food Co-op is a local buying club. The group orders natural and organic food and other household products at affordable prices, with a minimum of work for its members. Members place orders online from a wide selection of products. Delivery is every four weeks on Wednesday afternoon.

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In its former life, the Antioch College gym had lots of windows but most were covered with boards. Now, the boards have been removed and the windows upgraded. Light streams through the 26 large, newly visible windows in the building’s east and west wings (formerly the east and west gyms) while more light cascades from the swimming pool’s south wall of glass, as well as from new windows added to the pool’s north side. And light pours from new windows into the multipurpose room where yoga and tai chi classes are held, as well as additional studios for other classes and gatherings. After an $8 million, year-long renovation, the new Antioch College Wellness Center opened in September 2014 with an abundance of light. And that light now serves many purposes, according to renovation project lead Dorothy Roosevelt. It illustrates the revived college’s goal, in restoring its aging facilities, to highlight the strengths of a building while upgrading for improved functionality and energy use. The light conveys naturalness, spaciousness and openness, the qualities that leaders seek in the new facility. And light can also be seen as a symbol for the revived college. “It’s a metaphor for an opening up, an expanding,” Roosevelt said in an interview last year. “It’s the col-

lege expanding into the community.” HASEK DIRECTOR Walking in from the front entrance, a visitor ﬁrst sees the lobby with couches and chairs arranged into groupings that provide space for people to come together, or just to hang out. And unlike many ﬁtness facilities, instead of piped in music or TV, there are the sounds of people jogging or playing ball — the low hum of human voices, sharing ideas. “I’d like things to bubble up here around wellness in the broadest sense, not only physical but social and emotional, and the wellness of the community,” Roosevelt said. It’s a place where students and villagers, the old, the young and all in between, will be welcome. “We’re excited to strengthen the connection between the village and college, to provide a meaningful way for people to come together around wellness,” Roosevelt said. The hiring of Monica Hasek, for 10 years the co-owner of Yoga Springs, as the center’s director in May 2014 was a step toward strengthening that bond between college and community, Roosevelt believes. “That Monica is a villager is fabulous,” Roosevelt said, citing also Hasek’s C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 1 2 > > >

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business experience, energy and expertise around wellness and enthusiasm as strengths she’ll bring to the job. Thinking big is one of her specialties, Hasek said, and she brings to the job a vision of Yellow Springs as a wellness destination, which she has nurtured for many years at Yoga Springs. “I feel I’m a pioneer in the community in bringing wellness practitioners together,” she said. Having collaborated with local yoga teachers for the past 10 years at Yoga Springs, which closed in August 2014, she’s ready to expand her vision to create beneath one roof a central location for a wide variety of wellness trainers, facilitators and educators. FLEXIBILITY IS KEY Roosevelt and Hasek agree that what villagers care about the most is the pool, which now meets standard competition length, and includes a new therapeutic whirlpool. The room has been upgraded in many ways, with new lighting, new windows and the new glass wall to the south, out of which swimmers can see an expansive view of the outdoors, including a patio with tables and chairs. The former east gym, once home of local volleyball leagues, will be the new home for basketball, volleyball, pickleball and badminton games. The building’s open ﬂoor plan allows those in the lobby to watch what’s going on in the gym and makes space for social interaction.

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“The idea is to create a community center where you come to see others, a way to draw people together,” Roosevelt said. The former west gym, once home of basketball leagues, is now the fitness area, which houses fitness equipment along with a walking/running track around the perimeter. In between the east and west wings, a multipurpose room with a sprung dance floor that can hold 40 people is availble for a variety of uses, including dance, yoga, tai chi and aerobics. Like many of the center spaces, it is designed to fit many possible uses. “We’re trying to create spaces that have as much flexibility as possible, to meet the needs of both the college and the community,” Roosevelt said, stating that the center illustrates the philosophy behind the whole campus renovation, in which fewer buildings will be used, but uses will be multipled, “so that rooms don’t sit empty.” The building’s locker rooms have been upgraded top to bottom, and the second floor also offers a multipurpose studio space, where classes in such wellness activities as yoga or zumba might be offered. Along with new windows, the floors were refinished and lighting upgraded. In the whole building, project leaders aim for energy efficiency and hope to meet the standard for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification.

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It’s like ping-pong if you were on top of the table. That’s how Al Schlueter described the fast-growing racquet sport with a silly name that is a whacking success at the Antioch College Wellness Center. It’s called pickleball, and enthusiasts describe it as a cross between tennis, racquetball and ping-pong. Played with a Wiffle ball and solid paddle, the game is fast-moving and fun — and it’s a good workout, according to Franklin Halley. “It’s quick, it takes hand-eye coordination, it’s a reasonable workout, it’s really social, and it gets you smiling,” Halley said of the sport’s benefits. With six courts striped for play at the new wellness center, pickleball is attracting lots of players. Enthusiasts say that anyone of any age or ability can pick up the game quickly and start to compete. And since it’s usually played as doubles, it’s very social. The makeup of the dozen or so villagers who came out for the popular Sunday pick-up game last winter included three newbies and a host of regulars eager to teach them. There were young adults and septuagenarians. It included pickleball player of six years and Senior Olympic competitor Deloria Jacobs, who donned her own high-tech paddle and gloves; Halley, a swimmer who started offering pickleball clinics at the center, and Tjioe Kwan, who now plays pickleball three times per week between the wellness center and the Xenia YMCA, where he first picked up the sport. A longtime tennis player, Kwan finds pickleball similar but with its own benefits. “It’s good exercise, it’s a very social game and it’s easier than

tennis because the paddle is shorter,” Kwan explained. Pickleball is on the rise in the U.S. in part due to its attraction to seniors. The U.S.A. Pickleball Association claims it is the fastest-growing sport in the country with more than 100,000 players and 5,600 courts in the U.S., according to its website. Wellness Center Director Monica Hasek said in an interview that they chose to offer pickleball because they had heard from area YMCAs how popular the sport was with seniors, while it attracts players of all ages. Pickleball has become huge at the center, which surprised her since hardly anyone had heard of the sport when she gave tours of the newly renovated center. “It has gone rampant,” Hasek said. “People are excited.” There are several pickleball pick-up games at various times throughout the Wellness Center; go to wellnesscenter. antiochcollege.org for the most recent schedule. Members can come during any open gym time and check out the pickleball equipment from the front desk. There are three additional pickleball courts striped in the East Gym. While pickleball is easy to pick up, the rules can be a bit perplexing. Games are played to 11, only the serving team can score and an area just in front of the net is off-limits for volleying. A pickleball player who violates the no-volley zone, also known as the “kitchen” or “danger zone,” is a “volley llama.” Another difficult rule is the “double bounce” rule, where both a return serve and the return of the return must first bounce before a player strikes them. Balls that must bounce are called “flapjacks.” Otherwise, it is similar to tennis and ping pong.

Pickleball can be played indoors or outdoors. In fact, Halley and a small group of other locals have played pickleball on the tennis courts for the past ﬁve years, marking out the smaller court in chalk or tape and dropping the net slightly. But the pickleball community is now growing fast. Among the regulars is Tod Tyslan, who learned pickleball while a student at Antioch College in the mid90s. It wasn’t too popular then, but Tyslan got his start. He went on to competitive badminton before returning to pickleball recently when the community just “sprouted up,” he said. Tennis player Reggie Stratton recently started playing pickleball for a good workout but also believes it could be helping his tennis game. “You sweat and sometimes you go to bed sore,” Stratton said. “It’s also going to help with my net reaction in tennis.” In a particularly competitive game one Sunday, Tyslan and Stratton were down 10–3 to Kwan and Jim Johnson. The plastic wifﬂe ball on the wooden paddles was delivering a satisfying whack sound, and as the volleys quickened, the waiting players on the sidelines became rapt.

“You guys are getting greedy on points,” Stratton joked when the score was called out. “You’re not so good at math,” Tyslan added. Tyslan and Stratton won back-toback game points to keep themselves alive, then lost three straight, with Tyslan barely missing a volley into the net on game point. Even in defeat, Tyslan had what Halley calls the “pickleball smile,” saying of his fault: “I got most of it.” Pickleball was started in the mid1960s in Bainbridge Island, Wash, according to the U.S.A. Pickleball Association. The game was ﬁrst improvised using a badminton court, ping-pong paddles and a Wifﬂe ball. Eventually they lowered the net and started playing on a hard surface. The name is shrouded in legend, but according to some accounts, it was named after the inventor’s cocker spaniel, Pickles. The Antioch Wellness Center, which opened in September 2014 after an $8 million renovation, has approximately 1,750 members, including Antioch students, faculty and staff, and the community at large, according to Hasek.

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Green Environmental Coalition P.O. Box 553, 767-2109 gec@greenlink.org www.greenlink.org

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The Green Environmental Coalition (GEC) is a grass-roots activist group founded in 1990. The coalition’s mission is to have a positive impact on local, state and regional environmental issues. Currently GEC is involved in several projects in the area, including: • Supporting the ban on toxic herbicide use on village owned land and on toxic pesticide spray to control mosquitoes. It also encourages citizens to eliminate these toxic substances from their yards and on their lawns. • Working to make Yellow Springs a Zero Waste community by encouraging citizens to reduce, recycle, reuse and compost. It also supports a plastic bag ban in the village. • Supporting the citizens of Spring�eld in their effort to get the USEPA to clean up the Tremont Barrel Fill Site, where over 51,000 barrels of toxic waste were buried over the Mad River aquifer, threatening to contaminate the drinking water of over 80,000 Clark County residents. • Assisting Greene County residents in their opposition to the annexation of Cemex into the city of Fairborn, and the resultant

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rezoning which would allow another quarry near a residential area. • Continuing to conduct a major campaign against hydraulic fracking for natural oil and gas, which includes educational outreach and working with state government. GEC helps support neighbors involvement in a range of local environmental issues, as well as becoming involved in state and federal environmental regulation efforts. Interested persons are welcome to attend the regular business meetings on the �rst Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., on the �rst �oor of the Union School House, 314 Dayton St.

Grinnell Mill Foundation Chris Mucher, 767-1391 www.grinnellmill.org

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The Grinnell Mill Foundation is a nonpro�t foundation comprised of Miami Township, Glen Helen and the Yellow Springs Historical Society. Its purpose is the preservation and promotion of the historical and educationally valuable Grinnell Mill located at 3536 Bryan Park Road. For more information, please visit grinnellmill.org.

James A. McKee Association Harry Lipsitt, president, 7678061; Kent Bristol, secretary, 767-7773; Bill Bebko, treasurer, 767-1521 W E B : www.45387.org C O N TA C T:

The James A McKee Association, aka Jim’s Group, formerly known as the Yellow Springs Men’s Group, was organized by the late James A. McKee, the longtime police chief of Yellow Springs who was known to many villagers as simply “Chief.” At Jim’s Group’s bi-monthly meetings a guest speaker is invited to help keep the group informed about some element of the community — Village, Township or school representatives, business owners, and representatives from community organizations. The regular meeting agenda includes updates on Village, Township and school governance activities, as well as local business news. Jim’s Group sponsors the annual James A McKee Scholarship award to deserving graduating high school seniors who have demonstrated both academic achievement and leadership skills. Jim’s Group also sponsors the annual Founders Award to recognize individuals and/or groups (nominated by villagers) who’ve made a significant contribution to the community through voluntary effort. Jim’s Group also supports the annual Martin Luther King Jr. oratory contest, the Lions Club �reworks fund, as well as other community organizations. Jim’s Group continues to sponsor Candidates Night — a forum for candidates for local of�ce to present their views to and to interact with voters.

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS private consultation, home visits and hospital visits. La Leche League is a mother-to-mother breastfeeding support group. La Leche League leaders are accredited through La Leche League International. Leaders stay informed of current medical research and best practice. Leaders encourage the sharing of personal experiences from mother-to-mother.

Lions Club C O N TA C T:

Carol Gasho, 767-2168

Chartered in 1951, the Yellow Springs Lions Club aids the blind and visually disabled and supports community projects. For many years the club has funded eye exams and glasses for local needy individuals, primarily schoolchildren. The club administers the $3,500 Foos Scholarship, which goes to a high school senior planning to major in math or science. Most Lions Club funds raised in Yellow Springs are returned to the community, but regular support is also given to area and state eye banks, Ohio Lions eye research and helper dog programs. A special effort every year to collect and recycle eyeglasses and lenses for the use of people in other countries is an ongoing project, and collection boxes can be found in several locations throughout Yellow Springs. Dinner meetings are held at the Friends Care Assisted Living facility on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, except in July and August, and include a brief program on a topic of interest from a guest speaker.

Masonic Lodge Don Lewis, 937-901-6211 www.yellowsprings421.org

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The Yellow Springs Masonic Lodge was chartered in 1868. Its mission is to provide a fraternal brotherhood that supports the principles of brotherly love, relief and truth. Masonr y is a place where one can find unlimited opportunities to acquire leadership experience, self-development and personal growth while enjoying fellowship and service to the community.

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All parents/guardians of students attending the McKinney School or YSHS will be considered members of the PTO. There are no membership dues. The PTO meets monthly; the regular meeting time will be announced at the beginning of the school year. Discussion, speakers and events are planned to strengthen the community and develop parent and educational success. For additional information, email yshspto@gmail.com.

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Laura Ann Ellison, 767-1097 or 708-6392; Sylvia Ann Ellison, 708-6252 E M A I L : ellisonla@mindspring.com; sylvia. ellison@wright.edu W E B : www.llli.org

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The Mills Lawn Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is a volunteer organization that strives to support students, families and teachers in the educational process by providing educational enrichment programs and services, as well as social activities for the Mills Lawn Elementary School community.

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The Morgan Family Foundation is a private family foundation based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and funded in December 2003 by Lee and Vicki Morgan. The foundation believes in: • building stronger, more inclusive communities; and • broadening horizons and inspiring action through the power of education and experiential learning. The foundation awards grants to public charitable organizations that primarily serve Yellow Springs and St. Cloud, Minn., and their immediate vicinity. In addition, other communities and organizations that are supported by board and family members may receive grants from time to time. Through June 2019, unsolicited grant requests are being considered only from St. Cloud.

beyond. We �ght against the stigma often associated with mental illness through community outreach and educational programs. We advocate for bene�cial change in the current mental health system, both locally and throughout the State of Ohio. NAMI Connection Recover y Suppor t Group is a free and ongoing recovery support group for adults with mental illness. Participants can safely and con�dentially talk about their mental illness, learn new coping skills and �nd hope for a realistic future. Meetings are held weekly on Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m., at the John Bryan Center, rooms A and B, located at 100 Dayton St. in Yellow Springs. NAMI Family Support Group is a free and ongoing support group for family and friends of individuals who live with mental illness. Participants share their experiences and offer mutual encouragement. Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month, from 7–8:30 p.m., at the John Bryan Center, rooms A and B. Contact Kathy Adams at 938-450-2903 or Kathryn Hitchcock, 937-4083678. For more information about NAMI or to �nd out about special events, educational programs and how to help with our mission, please contact us as listed above. In case of any medical emergency, dial 911.

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The PTO sponsors fundraising events to pay for these activities, programs and services.

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Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for achieving recovery from addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using drugs. The program has found that one addict helping another works to achieve that, when all else fails. An open meeting is held in the basement of the Yellow Springs Methodist Church Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Donna Sorrell, 767-8622 info@namigreenecounty.org www.namigreenecounty.org

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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a nonpro�t, grass-roots organization offering support, education and advocacy for persons living with mental illness and their families, friends and caregivers throughout the U.S. Learn more at www.nami.org. NAMI Yellow Springs is part of it, as well as the large NAMI Greene County af�liate serving Fairborn, Xenia, Yellow Springs and

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Neighborhood gardening is based on a simple idea: to have places within walking distance of one’s home where neighbors can garden together. Presently, �ve neighborhood gardens are open: at Friends Care, Bill Duncan Park, Corry Street, Fair Acres Park and Glass Farm. This year, 70 gardeners signed up for plots. Most of the present gardeners do not own land, or do not have suitable sites for gardens because of shade. Currently, no fees or deposits are required, in order to promote a central value of affordability. The group’s steering committee is comprised of representatives selected by each neighborhood garden group, liaisons with the Environmental Commission and Village manager and experienced garden mentors. For more information, or to sign up for a plot, contact Thor and Friends at 767-2729.

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pendent Order of Odd Fellows dates back to 1855. Odd Fellows follow the precept to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bur y the dead and educate the orphan.” The local lodge sponsors annual scholarships for Yellow Springs High School seniors and contributes to charitable organizations. Recent activities include sponsorship of the Fourth of July parade and Fourth of July �reworks at Gaunt Park, road cleanup, park maintenance, Street Fair participation and various fun social activities. IOOF Lodge #279 meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the Lodge Hall, 261 Xenia Avenue, starting with a social hour at 6:15 p.m. Men and women over the age of 16 are welcome to join.

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During a single week in August 2014, climate change news included record rains pounding the Southwest desert, a new study that half of the birds of North America could go extinct by the end of the century and a new documentary about the corporate interests and citizen apathy hampering efforts to address climate change, asking: “When it comes to climate change, why do we do so little when we know so much?” Concerned Yellow Springs residents and Antioch College students were asking themselves the same question. In September 2014, a group of them took to the streets of New York City to demand the U.S. and world take action to forestall dangerous climate change. About 60 locals (including 30 Antioch students) were among the several hundred thousand people participating in what organizers billed as the largest climate change march in history — the People’s Climate Change March on Sept. 21. Yellow Springs was one of three Ohio locations chartering a bus to take protestors to the historic march. The People’s Climate Change March came days before a U.N. climate summit in New York organized by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “galvanize and catalyze climate action” ahead of the 2015 climate talks in Paris, according to the U.N. Locals believed that marching en masse would show world lead-

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ers that “the people are not apathetic and are beginning to push back,” according to Eric Miller, an annual fund officer at Antioch. “We want to push a legislative agenda,” Miller said. “I’m not about yelling and screaming to make myself feel good — I want tangible progress.” Antioch student Sean Allen said that the climate change issue has not been “given the stoplight it needs” and that the time to act to address climate change is now. “It’s crucial that we act while we still have time to change it or stop it without adverse effects occurring,” Allen said. According to the U.N., 192 countries in the world have already agreed as part of the Kyoto Protocol to cut their carbon dioxide emissions with a global goal of keeping carbon dioxide concentrations at 400 parts per million, so that the world temperature doesn’t rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. However, not only did the U.S. fail to ratify that treaty (along with four other countries), scientists are increasingly alarmed about the pace at which the climate is changing and the need for potentially more drastic cuts. NASA climate scientist James Hansen, for example, sees many “tipping points” already underway and urges policymakers to consider a new goal to return to 350 ppm as soon as possible. And in an August 2014 report, Price Waterhouse Cooper argued that countries need to cut emissions at more than five times their current rate for economic growth to continue. Ki-moon hoped to get new pledges from major nations at the New York climate meeting to deeper cuts that would limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. At the current rate of carbon dioxide emissions, the world is on track for a 4-degree Celsius temperature rise, which the World Bank recently said must be avoided because it would be “marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and lifethreatening sea level rise” and would hurt the poorest the most. Meanwhile, only about one-third of Americans say they worry a great deal about global warming, according to a 2014 Gallup poll, a contrast that local climate change activists find concerning. But locals who participated in the march also see the power in collective action to push for change. Allen, for one, hoped that the march would “get people excited” and help them see how to “incorporate their passions to support the movement.” As a performance major at Antioch, Allen wants to use art to make cultural changes. “This people’s march is great because it’s starting to get into the culture,” he said. “You can make as many documentaries as you want and teach it in schools, but what you really need to do is change the culture.” March organizer Eric Johnson, a local video editor, hoped to use the rally as a way to embarrass Ohio politicians who

C L I M AT E C H A N G E M A R C H voted to gut Ohio’s renewable energy portfolio standards in 2014, he said. “Ohio is the only state that has gone backwards in support of renewable energy, which is horrifying,” Johnson said. Johnson said the movement needs to reframe the climate change issue as a fossil fuels issue, since fossil fuels are responsible for the vast majority of the global CO2 increase since the industrial revolution. “Whether it’s mountain top removal, fracking, destroying water, streams, creating earthquakes or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we just need to look at the fact that fossil fuels are destroying the environment,” Johnson said. Antioch College is part of a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations that worked together to put on the march. That the college ofﬁcially endorsed the protest was signiﬁcant to Miller, an Antioch grad who sees much potential in Antioch’s ability to be politically active on a national level on the climate change issue. While Antioch students can sometimes focus too much on campus affairs, the school also has a long reputation of political involvement from the 1960s through the 2000s, Miller added. “I have tried to get people to look outside of our own parochial campus issues to the bigger problems that the world faces,” Miller said. “Our students have begun to become organizers again.” Allen said that Antioch’s protest history was legend and a big draw for him to come here and that he has recently seen students full of passion on many issues. For example, many students have protested at the Beavercreek WalMart where a black man was fatally shot by police while holding a pellet gun. Allen added that he felt a sense of pride going into the rally hailing from a college that is trying to cut its own environmental and climate change impact. “I will be speaking as a student who goes to a school where we grow a lot of food we eat and live in a dorm that is powered from geothermal and solar energy,” Allen said. In the fall of 2013, Antioch broke ground on a 1-megawatt solar farm on campus and projects it will use 90 percent renewable energy by 2018, according to a college press release. Johnson, who attended Antioch in the early ‘70s, sees that today’s students are less sectarian compared to student activists during his time on campus. At meetings to organize the bus to the march, students have all been on the “same page,” he said. Today’s protestors will travel on a fancy charter bus with a DVD player to watch movies together, while Antiochians would have traveled on a school bus with no air conditioning, singing all the way, Miller said. But despite the differences, the protest tradition at Antioch lives on. “Every generation of Antiochians has much more in common than what separates them — the only real difference is more on style than on substance,” Miller said, adding: “And even the style is not that different.”

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Glen Helen is the legacy of Hugh Taylor Birch, who donated a wooded glen to Antioch College in memor y of his daughter, Helen Birch Bartlett. With this gift, Antioch accepted the responsibility of preser ving the land into perpetuity. Today, the privately funded Glen Helen Ecology Institute manages the land and coordinates educational programs for the surrounding community. Along with private donations, the individual members of the Glen Helen Association strive to keep Glen Helen available as a resource for the community. The scenic 1,000-acre preser ve is rich in natural formations and �xtures, accessible from a twenty-mile trail system. Even on a short walk, visitors can witness spectacular blooming wild�owers, majestic 400-yearold trees, imposing limestone cliff overhangs, beautiful waterfalls and the amazing yellow spring for which the town is named. These trails are open year-round during daylight hours. Glen Helen’s quarterly list of public programs — including guided hikes, invasive species removal, after-school programs, public lectures and public workshops — can be accessed at www.glenhelen.org. The Ecology Institute depends on the support of individuals through the Glen

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The Water Crisis in Turkey. Women and Water: Personal Explorations of Impact. Compost Toilet Construction: a Feasibility Report. The Weaponization of Water. Impacts of Antioch College Water Damage. Social, Cultural and Environmental Aspects of Lake Management. These are a few of the presentations that villagers were invited to attend in September 2014 during the Antioch College Water Symposium. The symposium consisted of 26 presentations made by 74 Antioch College students who took part in the college’s Global Seminar on Water. The course was team-led by instructor of cooperative education Brooke Bryan and writing instructor Robin Littrell. “Antioch College students in the Global Seminar on Water offer to look into our most pressing water issue and seek to address local, regional, national and global water crisis with innovative solutions,” according to seminar leaders in the class syllabus. The current global challenges regarding water use and accessibility make it a natural topic for Antioch College students, according to Littrell.

“The college’s focus on and commitment to sustainability demands that we engage those that can drive conversations that both inform us and serve as avenues for our students to affect change in the world,” she wrote in an email. And it’s important to include the wider Yellow Springs community in the conversation, according to seminar leader Bryan. “It provides a high stakes environment for our independent research because we are accountable to our peers in the community and imagining an audience beyond the classroom helps us learn how to locate our work when dealing with complicated, interconnected issues like water,” she wrote. “It also helps us forward our social justice and sustainability missions because we are able to catalyze important conversations in our community.” The Global Seminar is an Antioch College class that offers students an interdisciplinary look at issues critical to sustainability and social justice issues, including water, energy, food, governance, health and education, according to Global Education Dean Hassan Rahmanian, who oversees the seminars. In their course of study, students are required to take four Global Seminars. The seminars “introduce students to multiple ways in which a selected problem area/theme can be approached, understood and investigated,” Rahmanian wrote in an email.

The interdisciplinary approach was meaningful to student Perin Ellsworth-Heller. “This has been a really eye-opening experience/class in the sense that it covered water not only from a scientiﬁc and environmental point of view but also from a philosophical and humanistic perspective,” he wrote in an email. “I feel like the class has given me a cross-disciplinary look at a subject that is incredibly relevant to the modern world. I am now more convinced than ever that the only reasonable solutions to the world’s water problems will arise from a combination of many different ways of thinking.” Many of the previous global seminars introduced students to a variety of perspectives on the topic, and the water seminar continued that tradition. The class included 17 speakers, including Allen Hunt, Wright State professor of geology and physics; Antioch University Midwest anthropologist Jim Malarkey; Rahmanian, speaking from a political perspective; activist Maya Nye, on the environmental crisis in the Appalachian hills; WYSO Environmental Reporter Lewis Wallace on “Pressures on the Great Lakes,” University of Dayton philosopher Bill Marvin on “Ethics, Technology, Water and Community” and Sarah Hippensteel, of the Miami Conservancy District, on getting engaged with regional policy. The variety of speakers offer the opportunity for “a slightly different dynamic

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in the classroom,” according to Bryan. “Through the multimedia presentations, we glimpsed into the lives of squatters in Peru, women water carriers in West Africa who became permit-holding water managers in their community, Russian conservationists and Americans rethinking their relationship to the tap.” Student Maya Canaztuj took the water seminar after working a co-op as a seasonal hydrologist with the Cleveland Metroparks. “This job sparked my love for water, and I knew this class would be a great opportunity to learn more,” she wrote in

an email. “The lectures have been great with so many knowledgeable people. My main gain was meeting the speakers, getting more information about their jobs and making those connections that could possibly be useful in the future.” And for student Julia Bates, the seminar didn’t so much open her eyes to new problems, since her parents both grew up living next to polluted bodies of water, as it sparked new energy to tackle a critical issue. “Seeing what others have done and are doing does give me hope,” Bates wrote.

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4The public works of local artists, from left, Travis Tarbox Hotaling, Zane Reichert and Pierre Nagely, were part of a street art exhibit that depicted a 2014 confrontation over use of the “free wall” in Kieth’s Alley. The exhibit, “TAG! Territorial Negotiations,” was curated by Antioch College art faculty and staff with a reception for the over 30 village street artists involved at the college’s Herndon Gallery in December 2014. P H O T O B Y S U Z A N N E S Z E M P R U C H

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Spray painted on a wall somewhere is a quote about grafﬁti: Art in a frame is like an eagle in a birdcage. Since local youth were permitted to paint on a single back wall of a downtown business more than 20 years ago, Kieth’s Alley has become a constantly changing brick canvas for “out of the frame” free expression. Elaborate painted murals, inspirational quotes written in simple marker and stylized “tags” of grafﬁti artists decorate the walls, giving artists a space to share their work while creating a visible community aesthetic. But who has the right to paint on those walls, and what should they be allowed to paint? How long should street

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art be left untouched, and when can other street artists paint over their work? Should tags — letters spelling a graffiti artist’s handle — be considered art as much as image-based work? Those were among the questions addressed at a panel discussion as part of an exhibit at Antioch College’s Herndon Gallery celebrating street art. TAG! Territorial Negotiations, which features the street art of several local and national street artists, opened in December 2014 and ran through Feb. 13 of 2015. Herndon Gallery coordinator Jennifer Wenker said she organized the panel after learning about a controversy in Kieth’s Alley, where street artists were painting over each other’s work. “The public muralists that had been using Kieth’s alley for years are feeling threatened that their work they could spend weeks and weeks on could be tagged overnight,” Wenker said. “But who determines what is art? If a person has a creative impulse to make ‘I am here’ [with a tag], isn’t that art?” Panelists included local muralists Pierre Nagley, Travis Tarbox Hotaling and Zane Reichert along with the Jafa Girls — Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu — who made national news in 2008 for their sweater-wrapped “knit-knot” trees. In the fall of 2014, Reichert was at the center of the controversy when graffiti artist Zac Daniels, known as Rac, painted over his towering Godzilla mural on the so-called free wall in Kieth’s Alley with a tag of his name in stylized letters. Reichert painted a response to the graffiti that featured muscular figures smashing the tag with a sledgehammer, which Daniels considered “a huge insult” and immediately painted over. Daniels, who did not attend the panel, said in a later interview that the Godzilla was untouched for months and that other graffiti that had recently been added to the mural made it look like a “mess of nonsense.” Reichert felt that Daniel’s piece wasn’t integrated into the existing work and was more like it was “copy and pasted,” he said. A three-panel installation in the exhibit re-imagines the Kieth’s Alley conflict, with Reichert’s Godzilla figure confronting the stylized letters of a graffiti tag in an otherwise bland cityscape. The “diorama of street art,” as Reichert calls it, evolves from an artist tied to a machine with his manufactured images creating an idyllic landscape that is destroyed by “demonic forms” as men in gray suits who obliterate the creative images to erect a gray urban wasteland. The piece was produced by Hotaling, Nagley and Reichert. Hotaling, who has painted murals outside of HaHa Pizza and in the Sunrise Café, said his take is that tags can seem “formulaic and forced” while other artists engage in a more responsive process that continues to evolve. But he added that criticizing graffiti is troublesome. “It’s hard to generalize and say mural

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work is a higher end form of art and graffiti is a degradation of a neighborhood and a symptom of things being disheveled,” Hotaling said. But Daniels, who has also done private murals at the Highlander Laundromat and behind Mr. Fub’s Party, argues that street art includes tags and the use of nonsanctioned space. Daniels has been a part of graffiti culture for more than 20 years, learning the art from New York graffiti artists and subway painters who attended Antioch College or visited the college in the early 1990s. Having painted around town for two decades, Daniels said he believes there is room for both styles, even though he has been discouraged from using local walls again. The “free wall” behind Kieth’s Alley is the rear of a downtown building owned by Bruce and Carol Cornett that hosts the stores Pangea, Dark Star Books and Current Cuisine. In 1988, the Cornetts gave local youth permission to paint the wall and it has been an open space since. Cornett said there have been no prior artist controversies and few neighbor complaints, with the artwork there typically changing several times per season. Cornett only has two rules for using the space — “Don’t put something up there that would offend my mother,

and respect the other artists,” he said. While Cornett doesn’t prefer the style of tagging, he believes in the right of anyone to express him or herself, even if the type of art doesn’t move him. “It’s not necessarily my art but that doesn’t mean it’s bad,” Cornett said. “I also like listening to the radio just to hear what people are listening to — it’s how we understand our culture.” After Cornett opened his free wall, other downtown businesses and private residences along Kieth’s Alley commissioned local artists to paint decorative murals for their rear walls, including the Emporium, the Little Art Theater and the Winds Café, Cornett recounted. At the panel and in a later interview, Mellon defended the value of public art and spontaneous street art in Yellow Springs, where “you never know what is going to show up,” even though she feels like much artistic energy has been squelched by recent efforts to regulate downtown busking and art shows in public spaces. “When people put something up in the public area that is not expected and it gets a reaction, whether it’s your kind of art or not, it is good for everyone,” Mellon said. “It just makes their lives more interesting.”

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by appointment or invitation. All volunteers must be 18 or older. Once again, we would like to thank everyone so very much for past and future support.

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The Riding Centre was established in 1960 by Louise Soelberg as an educational, nonpro�t project dedicated to the teaching of horsemanship, the care and management of horses and the training of young teachers. Located on a portion of Glen Helen, Riding Centre facilities include a large outdoor ring, a lighted indoor ring, a cross-country hunt course, several trails and two stables, which house the school’s horses, boarders and the Therapeutic Riding Program. The Therapeutic Riding Program, started in 1974, ser ves adults and children with developmental disabilities. Carolyn Bailey is the riding teacher for the program. The Riding Centre also features summer riding day camps, in which children attend a four-hour-daily schedule for one week, learning about the care of horses and the skills of riding.

Senior Center 227 Xenia Avenue, 767-5751 ysscof�ce1@gmail.com www.seniorcitizenscenter.org

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C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z AT I O N S life for seniors in Yellow Springs and Miami Township and has been a mainstay of the community since 1959. The Senior Center is located in the heart of Yellow Springs on Xenia Avenue. The Senior Center provides assistance in the following areas: • Support Services — assists seniors with navigation of available bene�ts, assists in �nding solutions for seniors to remain in their homes, assists caregivers and provides linkages to services through the Greene County Council on Aging and other Greene County services. • Transportation — assists seniors with transportation to and from medical appointments, personal care appointments or tasks and Senior Center activities and programs. • Homemaking Services — assists seniors with homemaking tasks such as cleaning, laundry, food preparation and errands. • Activities — provides activities at the Senior Center and other locations to assist seniors and others with enjoyable socialization, physical exercise and learning new skills. Membership in the Senior Center is open to ever yone. Family members are encouraged to join and become aware of the resources available. A bi-monthly newsletter is produced that provides information on all the activities and programs available at the Senior Center. The Senior Center is open Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.

Tecumseh Land Trust Krista Magaw, P.O. Box 417, 767-9490 E M A I L : krista@tecumsehlandtrust.org W E B : www.tecumsehlandtrust.org C O N TA C T:

Tecumseh Land Tr ust is a nonprofit conservation organization serving Greene and Clark counties and surrounding areas. The purpose of the organization is to preserve agricultural land, natural areas, water resources and historic sites, in voluntary cooperation with landowners, and to educate the public about permanent land preservation. The organization assists landowners in navigating state and federal easement programs and accepts donated easements on farmland and natural areas. Tecumseh Land Trust has helped preserve over 24,000 acres of land in the area. Landowners may contact the organization’s of�ce to learn more about the potential tax and economic bene�ts of conservation options.

Tenant Cooperative Paul Buterbaugh, 767-2224 paulbuterbaugh@sbcglobal.net

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The Tenant Cooperative of Yellow Springs and Miami Township offers free consultation on matters of tenant/landlord disputes. Typical problems relate to security deposit return, maintenance, eviction and discrimination in rental offerings.

Threshold Choir Theresa Sapunar, 937-234-SING (7464) E M A I L : yssingers@gmail.com W E B : thresholdchoir.org/yellowsprings C O N TA C T:

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Through bedside song, the women of the Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs bring compassion and comfort to those struggling with the thresholds of living and dying. When invited, a small group (two to three) of

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS our volunteer women come to sing quietly at the bedside for a comfortable length of time (perhaps 20–30 minutes) in hospitals, nursing homes and private homes. We are sensitive to the physical and emotional needs of the individual and always respect the desire for privacy and family time. The singing is usually quiet and tender, and is meant to soothe, nourish and inspire, Family, friends and caregivers are welcome to listen quietly or join in. There is never a charge for the group’s services. The Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs is open to all women who feel called to this volunteer service. Neither musical training nor a “fancy voice” are necessary — only a desire to sing from your heart and blend your voice with other singers as we learn the Threshold Choir repertoire. Since this is not a performance choir, participants work on learning to sing quietly together, carefully listening to one another and blending their voices. Singing at bedsides comes in time, when one is ready. At most rehearsals, there is time for members to rest in a reclining chair in the center of the circle and experience being sung to by others. Rehearsals are on three Sunday afternoons a month, and on the fourth Sunday, the group sings at Friends Care, the local assisted living/nursing home. To schedule a visit, or for information about joining, please email or call 937-234SING.

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UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has worked since 1946 to protect the lives of children around the world. Assistance is provided in the areas of health care, safe water supply, sanitation, nutrition, education and training. The Yellow Springs community has given generous support to UNICEF. Many residents make an effort to purchase Unicef cards and children collect donations during Halloween “Trick or Treat for Unicef.” The holiday card consignee program has been discontinued, but cards can be purchased from Hallmark Gold Crown Stores, Pier One Imports or by contacting Joy Fishbain for assistance.

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Located in the Senior Center Great Room at 227 Xenia Ave., the winter market is open every Saturday morning, January–March, 9 a.m.–noon. The market features hoop-house produce, baked goods, jellies, honey, eggs, pork, cheese, maple syrup, granola and more items from many of the same vendors who attend the summer markets. Some Saturdays feature local musicians. Follow the market on Facebook at “Yellow Springs Winter Farmers Market.”

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Yellow Springs Community Foundation Virgil Hervey, foundation administrator, 767-2655 E M A I L : info@yscf.org W E B : www.yscf.org C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Community Foundation is a tax-exempt, public charitable foundation established to bene�t the citizens and community of Yellow Springs and Miami Township. The foundation’s mission is to enhance community life by providing means for charitable giving and grant-making that fund a broad range of activities. Created in 1974, the foundation has assets of $10 million. Endowment funds account for most of those assets, and bene�ciaries include Glen Helen, Community Children’s Center, Senior Citizens, educational scholarships and awards, community athletic and music programs, YS Endowment for Education, YS Kids Playhouse, Yellow Springs Library, a student-run youth philanthropy program, the Women’s Park, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Home, Inc., Chamber Music Yellow Springs, Friends

Care Community, Greene Environmental Coalition and Tecumseh Land Trust. The Richard and Nolan Miller Endowment bene�ts Antioch students demonstrating commitment to working with nonpro�ts in Yellow Springs. The work of the foundation is made possible by the contributions of communityminded donors. Gifts may be made for general or speci�c purposes. Donors may choose direct donations, bequests and a wide variety of other planned gifts. Families may choose to honor a loved one through a memorial fund.

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For over 30 years, the Yellow Springs Farmers’ Market has provided locally grown produce, meats, eggs and much more, all from area farmers and businesses. Conveniently located behind the Trail Tavern in the Kings Yard parking lot, the market is open every Saturday, except the second Saturdays in June and October, when the market moves to Sunday. Hours: April from 8 a.m.–noon; May–October from 7 a.m.–noon; second Saturday in October–November from 8 a.m.–noon. “Like” us on Facebook for weekly offerings.

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The Yellow Springs Historical Society is dedicated to telling the stories of Yellow Springs’ histor y. The society looks for fresh ways of making the history of Yellow Springs, Miami Township and the region real and exciting to local residents and visitors. The society plans four or more programs a year at which a different story is told. In addition, the society seeks to make these stories accessible to a wider audience through other means. These other efforts have included photo and other exhibits at the Street Fair and other public events; publications, including the popular reprint C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 3 0 > > >

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mission is to promote economic development and maintain and improve the prosperity of its member businesses and organizations, thereby improving the quality of life in the Yellow Springs area community. The Chamber supports more than 300 members. The Chamber hosts member events on the third Thursday of every month. Chamber Chats are informal member gatherings to discuss areas of interest for members. Seminar series bring in professionals to present educational programming. Meetings are held either at 9 a.m. or noon in the Bryan Center, rooms A and B. Business After Hours is a series of networking events held at member locations as an opportunity for them to highlight their business, which are held 5:30–7:30 p.m. With its of�ces centrally located in the Yellow Springs Station on the Little Miami Bike Trail, visitors and residents can also stop into the of�ce for information and brochures. Chamber employees and volunteers staff the of�ce 9 a.m.–5 p.m. week days, and noon–5 p.m. on weekends. Twice a year — on the second Saturday in June and October — the Chamber sponsors the Yellow Springs Street Fair to showcase the community. Other major events include YS Pride and Holiday in the Springs, plus numerous smaller events throughout the year.

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The class that entered Antioch College in the fall of 2014 may be more diverse, more international and more committed to saving the world than the three classes above them. They are also the last to receive the full tuition scholarship known as the Horace Mann Fellowship. According to Antioch Dean of Admissions Micah Canal, 40 percent of the new class are nonwhite or Hispanic, while nearly one-third are the ﬁrst generation of their family to attend college. Students with dual citizenship hail from Egypt, Mexico, Liberia, Nigeria, Canada, Burundi, Kenya, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom and Germany. And many also have already committed to making an impact on the world. The exceptional qualities of the revived college’s fourth class are reasons for optimism at Antioch, which also celebrated the opening of its Wellness Center and Foundry Theater in 2014. Meanwhile, a massive solar ﬁeld connected to a geothermal heating and cooling system came online that fall, and a new Science Building opened that winter. Joining the 71 new students who settled into North Hall at the beginning of 2014 were nine new faculty members and several new administrators, including a new vice president of academic affairs,

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a new dean of community life and a new director of the Coretta Scott King Center. But after a flurry of major building and infrastructure projects and administrative expansions, growth at Antioch could soon be slowing. Partly because students will start paying partial to full tuition, the 2014–15 enrollment of 246 students is only expected to grow to around 500 by 2022. And while faculty hires are expected to continue to rise, the administration won’t likely grow as fast as it has been, according to Vice President of Finance and Operations Andi Adkins. Reflecting on Antioch’s progress since reopening in 2008, Canal, who was originally one of eight people working to first purchase the college from Antioch University and then reopen it, is awed. “The amount the organization has grown and what we have done is Herculean and I feel honored to be part

of this effort,” Canal said. “We are still a 160-year-old startup that is trying to reinvent higher education.” Antioch President Mark Roosevelt addressed the challenges that Antioch faces while acknowledging Antioch’s efforts to redeﬁne higher education in a fall 2014 address to students, faculty and staff. “You’re coming to a college that is re-creating itself in a time where there is an enormous amount of skepticism of higher education in America,” Roosevelt said. Today most undergraduates are “drifting through college with no clear sense of purpose,” Roosevelt added. At the same time many colleges are simply producing “excellent sheep” while focusing on sports and fancy facilities and turning a blind eye to the “party culture.” But Antioch, he said, is a “very different kind of place.”

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Antioch does not attract or produce excellent sheep, Roosevelt said, and Antioch is not a place to “hibernate with other people,” as happens at many small liberal arts colleges. Instead, Roosevelt called Antioch a “four-year engagement with the world — not a retreat.” Through co-op experiences and impacting an institution that is still a work-in-progress, Antioch students “architect their own education.” “We are still a work in progress and still establishing our systems and culture,” Roosevelt said. “We’re also a sensitive place because what you do and what you say can have a more profound effect here than at any other school you would attend.” Admitting the kind of students that can do the academic work (oft-described as “rigorous”) and who want to contribute to rebuilding the college has been an important task for Canal’s ofﬁce. But once again, Canal said he believes that the right students are here for the right reasons, despite the fact the college received only 10 percent as many applications (around 300) as it did in 2012 after news of its full tuition scholarship went viral. Looking ahead, Canal said the Horace Mann Fellowships have been de-emphasized during recruiting in recent years. The fellowships will be phased out starting in 2015, when they will be reduced by 50 percent. “The value of the Horace Mann Fellowship is something we don’t talk

HORACE MANN SCHOLARSHIPS about anymore,” Canal said. Instead, “we talk about the rigor of the academics and the vision that we have empowering the students to practice what they learn in a classroom environment in four co-ops.” Retention of students at Antioch is also not a concern, despite the first class dropping from an initial 35 students to 22, 21 of whom graduated in the spring of 2015. The Class of 2015’s attrition rate was not surprising, Canal added, considering they were an “extraordinary pioneering group” who had just six faculty members and three open buildings and were without a dining hall for two months. “They did some of the heaviest lifting,” Canal said. Today’s Antioch students are taking a much lower risk, he added, especially since the school was granted candidacy for accreditation status in early 2014. As its students began courses and co-ops last fall, administrators at Antioch were also moving the Antioch College Village concept forward, finalizing campus stormwater management and landscape plans and planning for the next self-study on the path to accreditation. With the completion of the Science Building, renovations on campus will finally slow down as a new residence hall isn’t needed for two years and renovations of Main Building aren’t projected to begin for at least 10 years. While progress at the college may be less visible in coming years, the work continues apace, administrators said.

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4Thirty-eight members of the Antioch College class of 2019 who arrived on campus in October, 2015, received the Antioch Opportunity Scholarship for students who are the ﬁrst in their families to attend a four-year college. Above, from left, are some members of the college’s ﬁfth class, Emily Langhardt, Kaitlin Staggs, Jonas Mufson, Rachel Isaacson, and Helena Balcerzak. P H O T O B Y L A U R E N H E AT O N

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Antioch College announced in the winter of 2014 that it received an anonymous donation of more than $1 million earmarked for scholarships. The gift was not an anomaly for a college almost entirely dependent upon donations, but it is significant in that it supports the college’s mission to enroll those who wouldn’t typically be able to afford a private liberal arts education, college leaders said this week. The gift, which was received in December 2104, is designated for scholarships for students who are the first in their family to attend college — so-called first-generation college students — as well as selfdeclared environmental science majors. Dean of Admissions Micah Canal said the scholarship, along with other recent donations, will help the college “serve communities that are under-served,” including students who are ethnic minorities or are from low-income households. “In short, we are really putting the opportunity of a private college education in the hands of those who are otherwise not able to contemplate it from a financial

standpoint,” Canal said. The scholarships will be especially important as the college begins to phase out the full-tuition Horace Man Fellowships in fall 2015, when they will be cut in half, Canal added. President Mark Roosevelt said that all ﬁnancial gifts it receives are important because the college relies more on fundraising compared to other colleges, which operate largely from student-derived revenue and interest on their endowment. He added that while $1 million gifts are not unheard of at the college, they are signiﬁcant. “What’s different about us is that our scholarships and all the rest of our work is being driven by philanthropy — and, yes, $1 million is a big donation for us,” Roosevelt said. The donor, who preferred to remain anonymous, has contributed to the college previously and the gift was “not out of the blue,” Roosevelt added. For the next few years, Antioch must raise between $15 million and $19 million to pay for student scholarships and capital expenses on top of its regular operations, according to Roosevelt. He

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estimates that in four or five years, once facility renovations are mostly complete and the college is accredited, fundraising needs will drop to only $9 million per year, an amount he called “doable.” Roosevelt said new data showing that the majority of American public school students are now low-income and minority gives the college additional impetus to be accessible. “The world is changing demographically very fast and we want to be ahead of that curve rather than behind it,” Roosevelt said. “And all the research is showing that experiential education is particularly powerful for lowincome and ‘first-gen’ students.” Antioch already may be more diverse than similar small liberal arts colleges, with first-generation college students making up nearly one-third of the class that entered in the fall of 2014, according to Canal. The college estimates that between 40 and 50 percent of the Antioch student population is eligible for a need-based federal Pell grant, an amount that is double that of Vassar and Grinnell, which are hailed as the most economically diverse top colleges, Roosevelt said. Antioch has a current enrollment of 270 students. While Antioch already provides needs-based scholarships to its students that cover up to 95 percent of

the direct costs of attending the college, the scholarship money will allow Antioch to better market its accessibility during recruiting, Canal explained. Because Antioch received its candidacy for accreditation in 2014, the school was able to begin offering federal ﬁnancial aid to all of its students in fall 2015. A half-tuition Horace Mann Fellowship will be continued through at least 2016, Canal added. Canal said that not only does more diversity lead to richer classroom interactions, but learning to relate — and live with — one another can build relationships that affect students for the rest of their lives. Canal added that a student’s education shouldn’t be based upon whether their parents went to college or whether they have money but because of what the student has accomplished. “It’s a unique college — a college for thinkers and doers — and we think that it makes sense to deliver that model to as many different sorts of people as possible,” Canal said. Meanwhile, the environmental science scholarships will allow the college to target high school seniors interested in that major. The scholarship will cover about 10 students per year, Roosevelt said. He added that the recently renovated Science Building will accommodate the program.

�� Support for Greene County Seniors & Caregivers • Information and Assistance Seniors and caregivers can call/e-mail the Yellow Springs Senior Center or Council for information on senior/caregiving issues and services. The Council’s Directory of Services and Support is available at the Center. • Partners in Care (PIC) Program Designed to keep seniors (60+) in their own or family member’s home for as long as possible. Depending on need, in-home services are purchased from local agencies. Council staff works with the Yellow Springs Senior Center when assisting Yellow Springs seniors and families. • Caregiver Support Caregiver Resource Center – information and materials on a wide variety of topics to review, borrow & keep. Caregiver support groups, educational and wellness programs and respite care.

937-376-5486 or 1-888-795-8600/www.gccoa.org Programs provided by the Council on Aging are possible through a countywide senior services levy.

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of Harold Igo’s local ghost stories from the Yellow Springs News and a biography of William Mills by Jane Baker; cooperation with local history programs in schools; stories and announcements on the website and Facebook; community events and celebrations; support of oral and video history projects; advocacy for the preservation, and for collecting the stories, of historic structures and maintenance of the Antioch Bookplate archives. Future projects include walking tours with supplemental brochures, a formal inventory of a growing collection of artifacts, in-depth research on the historical houses of Yellow Springs and the long-term vision of a museum and research center.

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The Historical Society is a co-sponsor of the Grinnell Mill Foundation, which promotes the preservation of the mill. The historic Grinnell Mill Museum is open to the public year-round on Sunday. Membership fees are modest, and the group’s public programs are free and open to the public.

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Yellow Springs Home, Inc. (Home, Inc.) is a nonpro�t organization whose mission is to strengthen community and diversity in Yellow Springs and Miami Township by providing permanently affordable, sustainable housing through our Community Land Trust model. Home, Inc. accomplishes its mission through four major areas: • Working with low- and moderateincome households to prepare for home ownership • Building and rehabbing homes and rentals affordable to low- and moderateincome families • Supporting homeowners in the program through stewardship activities • Advocating for sustainable development Home, Inc. has built or rehabbed 18 housing units and has not had a single foreclosure since founding. Home, Inc. is organized as a membership-based Community Land Trust (CLT)

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The Yellow Springs Tree Committee was founded in 1982 with these goals: • To provide leadership in the planting and care of trees on the public lands of Yellow Springs • To serve as an advisory group to the public on tree and shrub care, selection and removal • To promote the improvement of private property through the wise selection and use of trees The Tree Committee grew out of two community tree-planting projects: a 1976 planting of trees on the Mills Lawn school grounds to honor Yellow Springs News editor Kieth Howard, and a continuing beautification program of tree plantings throughout the village. The committee offers a tribute and memorial tree-planting program to honor a life, a service or a signi�cant event. New members are always welcome to join the Tree Committee.

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In June and July 2014, the Herndon Gallery hosted the photo exhibit “Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement” featuring 1960s photos by Lyon, who started his career as the ﬁrst staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national group of college students that played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement. The opening reception featured slam and performance poetry readings, music and screenprint art of local #BlackLivesMatter artists. A second reception during Antioch College reunion weekend followed with an appearance by Lyon and Antioch alumni and trustee David Goodman and Steve Schwerner, who reﬂected on Antioch’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Lyon’s photos depicted the cultural and political milieu during which the “Freedom Summer” black voter registration campaign took place in Mississippi. The Gallery hosted a conversation with Goodman and Schwerner, brothers of Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, who along with James Chaney were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Miss. during the Freedom Summer campaign. The second publishing of “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Lyon’s out-of-print memoir of his years working for the SNCC, was made possible by Antioch College Trustee David Goodman ‘69 and The Andrew Goodman Foundation. The Lyon exhibition also featured archival slide montage of a local protest known as the Gegner Incident. The dis-

play created by Brian Springer included archival newspaper clippings and photographs of a local civil rights citizen protest around racism in a local barbershop in Yellow Springs in the 1950s. According to the Antioch archives, “Lyon captured some of the civil rights movement’s most compelling moments, from the March on Washington, to the aftermath of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. A self-taught photographer and graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s” with SNCC, which organized after the first sit-in by four AfricanAmerican college students at a North Carolina lunch counter (photo above). Lyon once said of his work, “I wanted to change history and preserve humanity, but in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.” According to Herndon Gallery Director Jennifer Wenker, Lyon later became a well-known producer of post-war documentary photography and film and “helped create a mode of photojournalism in which the picture-maker is deeply and personally embedded in his subject matter,” she wrote in a press release. His photographs were published in “The Movement,” a written record of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and later in his own memoir. Lyon has won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and 10 National Endowment for the Arts awards. He is affiliated with Magnum Photos, and his work has appeared at MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Center for Creative Photography.

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The Antioch Writers’ Workshop (AWW), in partnership with Antioch University Midwest, presents writing programs including its annual week-long summer workshop. The workshop was initiated in 1985 by two retired professors — Judson Jerome, a well-known poet, and William Baker, an experienced college administrator, dean and teacher — who aswered a call for summertime campus ideas from Antioch College. From the beginning, the workshop created a community of writers that mingled faculty and students informally throughout the day as well as during classes and seminars. Its mission was to encourage good writing, and the AWW organized a summer weeklong workshop as well as (in some years) a one-day fall workshop. In 1993, �ve trustees formed the Yellow Springs Writers’ Workshop as an of�cial 501(c)(3) nonpro�t; these trustees were Susan Carpenter, Jimmy Chesire, Suzanne Clauser, Ed Davis and Sandra Love. Starting in 2009, AWW is presented in partnership with Antioch University Midwest. AWW has brought many well-known and talented writers to Ohio over the years, including Sue Grafton, Ellen Gilchrist, William Least Heat-Moon, Joyce Carol Oates, Melissa Fay Greene, Natalie Gold-

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berg, Sena Jeter Naslund and Nicholas Delbanco. The organization has also highlighted prominent Ohio authors, including Allan W. Eckert, John Jakes and Virginia Hamilton. AWW embraces diversity and strives to meet the high professional and artistic expectations participants bring to ever y program. By cultivating excellence in all the workshops, AWW works to ensure Yellow Springs remains at the forefront of writing communities nationwide.

Art & Soul, Yellow Springs Art Fair Lisa Goldberg, 767-7285 Lisa@YSArts.org www.ysarts.org/artSoul.html

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Art and Soul: A YS Art Fair, a YS Arts production, entered the art scene in Yellow springs in November of 2012. It is held on the third Saturday of November from 10 a.m.–-5 p.m. at Mills Lawn Elementar y School, 200 S Walnut St. It is an intimate juried ar t fair with 30 ar tists from the region that gather in Yellow Springs to exhibit and sell their �ne arts and crafts for the day. The name Art & Soul was chosen because “artists put their souls into the making of their work.” Artists have plenty of potter y, jewelr y, �ber, paintings, photography, wood, glass, and mixed media work available for sale. Traditionally, art work produced by students attending the Yellow Springs school system has been on display for patrons to admire. During the �rst three years of Art & Soul, show promoters have donated over $2,300 to the Yellow Springs school system and Police Coat Fund. In addition, in 2014 they began to donate to the Lisa Goldberg/YS Arts Scholarship Fund held by the YS Community Foundation.

Bridge Ken Huber (Tuesday group), 7671160; Susan Freeman (Wednesday group), 767-0235

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Two informal bridge groups meet weekly in the village. On Tuesdays, 1–3:30 p.m., a group meets for party bridge in the Lawson Place common room. On Wednesdays, 6:30– 10 p.m., a group meets for duplicate bridge in the great room of the Senior Center, located at 227 Xenia Ave.

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Chamber Music Yellow Springs 374-8800 info@cmys.org www.cmys.org

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Chamber Music in Yellow Springs has been bringing professional ensembles from all over the world for over thirty years. Founded in 1983, the organization’s mission is to enrich the musical life of the community. Funded by generous donors, local advertisers, and subscriptions, CMYS is also the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council sustainability grant. Each season the local booking committee selects chamber music ensembles and chooses a theme. This year’s theme is “A Season of Variety,” because each group represents something a little different in chamber music fare. Most performances take place on Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs (314 Xenia Ave.). The 2015–16 season opened on Sept. 27 with the Telegraph Quartet, the 2014 Fischoff Grand Prize-winning string quartet from San Francisco. Something more local, Percussion Group Cincinnati, requires the second concert to change venue to the Yellow Springs United Methodist Church at 202 S. Winter St., where on Oct. 25 the banked hall will allow audience members to see as well as hear the unique chamber music stylings of this allpercussion group founded in 1979. The next three concerts will move back to the First Presbyterian Church. Feb. 21, 2016, brings the unique programming of the Grammy-nominated Imani Winds quintet back to Yellow Springs, and on March 20 the internationally recognized Zodiac Trio (violin, clarinet and piano) will play a concert. The piano trio is a favorite of the season for many CMYS audience members, but this year the instrumentation takes us in a new direction. The season comes to an end on April 24 with the �nals of the 31st Annual Competition for Emerging Professional Ensembles. Two finalist groups (from among many entrants judged locally in the �rst round) present a double concert before a live audience and three distinguished judges who will award �rst and second prize. CMYS subscription concerts are recorded by SoundSpace Yellow Springs for broadcast on “Live and Local” at WDPR-FM (88.1) and WDPG-FM (89.9), at 10 a.m., usually

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YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS on the Saturday morning before the next concert, These broadcasts can also be heard anywhere in the world on streaming audio at www.discoverclassical.org. This season’s broadcast dates are: The Telegraph String Quartet, Oct. 17, 2015; Percussion Group Cincinnati, Feb. 13, 2016; The Imani Winds, March 12, 2016; The Zodiac Trio, April 16, 2016; and the 31st Annual Competition, Aug. 20, 2016. Concerts are preceded by a free pre-concert talk by musicologist and WSU Professor Emeritus Charles Larkowski or another music exper t. There is a post-concer t gourmet dinner and reception for the artists open to the public with a reservation and donation. CMYS concert season subscriptions are $100 for adults and $25 for students. Individual tickets are $25 for adults and $7 for students. Tickets are available online at www. cmys.org or can be reserved by phone at 937-374-8000.

Community Band James Johnston, Brian Mayer delphi@ameritech.net ; bmayer@ysschools.org

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The Community Band is open to all woodwind, brass and percussion players without audition. Music reading is necessar y. The band plays about seven concerts a year: two in fall, two in winter/spring and three outdoor summer concerts in June and July. The repertoire includes standard marches, medleys of Broadway and Hollywood songs, big band and jazz sets and other works for concert band in a variety of styles. Rehearsals are held Monday evenings, 7:30–9 p.m., in the high school band room.

Community Chorus James Johnston, Carol Cottom, 767-1458 E M A I L : delphi@ameritech.net C O N TA C T:

Founded in 1972, the Yellow Springs Community Chorus is open without audition to all who enjoy singing, can attend rehearsals regularly and are able to learn and perform the music. The ability to read music is desirable, but not required. The chorus usually gives two or three performances a year, often with orchestra, and sings music from a variety of styles, periods and genres. Rehearsals are on Sunday evenings, 7–9 p.m., in the YSHS band room. The chorus gratefully receives United Way funds and other donations through the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

John Bryan Community Pottery Krystal Luketic, studio director; Todd Hickerson, studio technician; Geno Luketic, wood kiln manager, 100 Dayton St., 767-9022 E M A I L : jbcp.ys@gmail.com W E B : www.communitypottery.com C O N TA C T:

John Bryan Community Pottery (JBCP) is a community studio that offers an extensive array of classes, workshops and studio rentals. The potter y also features a gallery, exhibiting and selling the work of its members and other contemporary ceramic artists. For nearly 40 years, the nonpro�t studio has been providing opportunities for learning

and working with clay to the Yellow Springs community and surrounding areas. The studio is well-equipped with a newly built wood kiln, a gas reduction kiln, raku kiln, electric kilns, 12 wheels, a slab roller, extruder and glaze room. Renters have 24hour access to the studio. Visitors are always welcome to stop in at the Penguin Building and take a tour. Gallery and open studio hours are Saturday and Sunday, noon–4 p.m. A schedule and description of upcoming classes is available at www. communitypottery.com.

Little Art Theatre 767-7671 littleart.ys@att.net www.littleart.com

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The Little Art Theatre has provided �lm entertainment and enlightenment — and so much more — to Yellow Springs and the surrounding Miami Valley for over 80 years. A donor supported 501(c)(3) nonpro�t facility, it made the leap into the digital age with a $500,00 renovation completed in 2013, but remains very much a hometown, single screen experience that cannot be replicated at the multiplexes. The Little Art takes pride in its mix of independent and mainstream of ferings, with commercial favorites not being prioritized over important low budget documentaries. The diverse programming is ver y much a re�ection of the diverse local community. The Little Art is among the most recognizable and beloved landmarks in Yellow Springs, and the iconic houselights, the classic marquee and the one-of-a-kind concession treats all represent an experience that is more personal than in large for-pro�t venues. The Little Ar t is also known for its special programs, such as “Community Presents,” which encourages local filmmakers, organizations and community members to utilize the theater in numerous ways, including bringing documentaries that champion their cause. “Let’s Talk Movies” is a new program featuring area educators discussing �lmmaking and �lm analysis. And thanks to the renovation, the Little Art now offers “National Theatre Live” events, bringing the famous London theatre’s rebroadcasts, as well as the Bolshoi Ballet, to its screen. Also popular are the monthly “Retro Matinees” with classics like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Additionally, the Little Art hosts community events, including an Oscar party and New Year’s Eve celebration, and collaborates with other local nonpro�ts, such as the Tecumseh Land Trust, Green Environmental Coalition and WYSO, as well as others from the greater Miami Valley, such as the Dayton International Film Festival. The theater is available for people to rent for their own special events as well. For more information or to become a Friend of the Little Art, email littleart.ys@att.net, call 767-7671 or visit www.littleart.com.

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Deborah McGee, 823-8073

Ever y Sunday, a number of villagers gather to revel in the English language at its richest, as written by The Bard. They sit at a table in a circle, and each person reads the next character’s lines — at one round

T H E G U I D E t o Y E L L O W S P R I N G S 2 0 15 –16 you might be Othello, and at the next, Iago. Occasionally they stop to discuss or debate. Meetings last one-and-a-half hours, but once in a while, the magic of a play holds participants for two hours. Several members have attended for many years, but people often drop in just for the day. Sometimes the group reads well-known plays like “Hamlet,” or pick a less familiar play, like “Pericles.” At this writing, they are reading “King Lear” for the third time in two years, because it is so compelling. Meetings are at Friends Care Community, either in a member’s home or the Assisted Living meeting room — call for current location. New and former members are always welcome. For more information, contact Deborah McGee, or see the Community Calendar on page two of the YS News.

Weavers’ Guild Diana Nelson, P.O. Box 825, 767-9487 W E B : www.wgmv.org C O N TA C T:

The Weavers’ Guild of the Miami Valley, organized in 1949 to promote interes-t in handweaving and spinning, moved to Yellow Springs from Dayton in 1998. The guild is a nonpro�t educational organization that promotes handweaving, handspinning and the textile arts. The guild offers education programs in �ber techniques and processes and encourages artistic awareness through topical lectures, discussions, exhibits, workshops and demonstrations. C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 3 4 > > >

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For more information about rehearsal times, locations and performances, contact choir director Catherine Roma at 513-5609082, or caroma129@gmail.com

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The World House Choir is a diverse, multicultural, mixed-voice choir, whose repertoire is drawn from different traditions, including world music, spirituals, gospel, folk and peace and justice. The choir’s mission is to perform music that motivates and inspires communities toward justice, diversity and equality in the pursuit of peace. New members are welcome.

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Yellow Springs Yellow Rockers is a western square dance club that dances at the plus level. Club dances are held on the second Sunday of each month, 7:30–10 p.m., in the Bryan Community Center. Square dancers who have completed the plus-level dance lessons — both singles and couples — are welcome.

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Lisa Goldberg, 767-7285 Lisa@YSArts.org www.ysarts.org

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Fall 2015 will be the 15th and �nal tour. The Yellow Springs Artist Studio Tour provides visitors the opportunity to explore artists’ studios while getting a glimpse into the inner workings of technique used by local artists. The tour also allows visitors to see the latest creations of some of the premier painters, sculptors, jewelers, woodworkers, glass artists, potters and �ber artists from the region. The tour includes eight local studios, with each host artist inviting two to four guest artists to join them for the weekend. The self-guided driving tour is held for two days, usually the third weekend of October, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., both days. Come visit new and returning artists each year. For more information or to download a tour map, visit www.ysarts.org.

Yellow Springs Arts Council Street address: 111 Corry Street; mailing address: P.O. Box 459, 937-6799722 E M A I L : ysartscouncil@gmail.com W E B : www.ysartscouncil.org C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Arts Council supports local arts infrastructure through program opportunities, publicity, education, advocacy and coordinated par tnerships

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS across the community. Each year, the YSAC supports over 200 local creative workers. The organization began in the 1950s as the Yellow Springs Arts Association. In 1972, it incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonpro�t and adopted the full name, Yellow Springs Arts Council. In 2008, the YSAC expanded its mission to encompass all arts disciplines and launched the YSAC Community Galler y and Multi-Arts Center. YSAC increased its arts advocacy role in 2012, which led to the Yellow Springs Village Council’s adoption of a Public Arts Policy in January of 2013. Regional publicity for YSAC suppor ted events, in partnership with the YS Chamber of Commerce, brings thousands of visitors to Yellow Springs annually for arts-related events. The Arts Council provides many opportunities for local ar tists to share and develop their work. Monthly exhibits in the galler y provide a diverse range of visual artists with a space to show and sell their work. Once a month, Arts Alive! showcases musicians, comedians, dancers, stor ytellers, poets and more in live per formances in the Multi-Ar ts Center or on the outdoor stage. In September, the focus shifts to arts collectors with the Art House Hop. Art classes are offered periodically for children and adults in the Multi-Arts Space, which is available to the community as a class, meeting and performance space. YSAC also participates in public art projects, such as the Mills Park Hotel Fence Art Galler y Project and the National Bronze Sculpture Trail. YSAC is a member organization which relies on membership dues and donations and the dedication of a marvelous group of volunteers. The organization is also supported through grant writing and fundraising projects. Artists, appreciators and supporters of all arts disciplines are welcomed and encouraged to participate in the organization.

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Yellow Springs Contra Dance Ben Hemmendinger, 646-373-2361 E M A I L : contra@benhem.com W E B : yscontra.wordpress.com C O N TA C T:

Contra dance is a blend of old and new cultural in�uences ranging from northern Europe to Africa. The heart of the dance is social interaction, meeting people, and making new friends, set to music. The rest is just details. There aren’t many moves, and ever y dance begins with a walk-through. Contra dance has a gentle learning curve, but holds great potential

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YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS for creativity and experimentation for more experienced dancers. It’s energetic, the live music is exciting, and it is a generally joyous experience! Dances are held once per month, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Xenia Avenue, and a suggested $5 donation helps pay for the venue. Please check the website for the most current details. Absolutely all ages and experience levels (including zero) are welcome. Bring others or come alone. Most dances are open-band and open-calling; musicians and callers of all experience levels are welcome to join the band or call a dance. This is a great place to practice your skills.

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Yellow Springs Strings C O N TA C T:

Shirley Mullins, 767-3361

Yellow Springs Strings is a string orchestra for adults that meets Tuesdays, 7–8:30 p.m., at the Yellow Springs Senior Center’s great room. Players of modest-to-advanced levels of pro�ciency are welcome. There are no fees for participation. The ensemble is conducted by Shirley Mullins. Children and young adults join with the ensemble for special occasions, such as the Celebration Concert. Membership is �uid; college students home for vacation, children of orchestra members, etc. are welcome. The Yellow Springs Strings is assisted by the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association.

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A main character in the fall 2014 Yellow Springs High School play wasn’t a student — or even a person. An invisible six-foot, three-and-a-halfinch tall rabbit took center stage in the high school drama troupe’s “Harvey,” the 1944 Pulitzer prize-winning play written by Mary Chase. In the comedy, Elwood P. Dowd (Josh Seitz) causes grief for his socialclimber sister Veta (Anna Knippling) with his constant talk of seeing an imaginary friend, Harvey, who may be a pooka — a mischievous fairie spirit in animal form from Celtic mythology. When Veta tries to commit Elwood, a “comedy of errors” ensues, and she is taken into the sanitarium instead. To the YSHS students in the show, the message of “Harvey” is still relevant today as the play addresses the stigma of mental illness, the idea that people have different realities and the importance of acceptance. “The boundaries about what is real and what isn’t are not so strict,” said Knippling, who plays Veta. “It’s about accepting different mindsets and being open minded.” Ultimately, Elwood, who assistant director Shannon Lewis describes as

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To Jerome Borchers, who has been working on a community performance space for nearly a decade with the Center for the Arts Steering Committee and the Yellow Springs Arts Council, the staging of “Harvey” was a signiﬁcant moment for the local arts community. “We’ve been working on having a venue in town since 2005 and it’s actually happening,” Borchers said. “This is a really big deal.” Antioch completed the ﬁrst of four phases of renovations at the Foundry Theater in 2014 for around $1 million, Borchers added, about half of which came from local donors ($200,000 alone from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation.) A new Antioch Area Theater Advisory Group is acting

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as a liaison to the college to represent the community’s needs for the space. For director Cindy Lincoln, who was participating in her fourth YSHS show, the new Foundry Theater space meant an extra challenge learning new lighting and other technical details. But it was nice to have a “dedicated space for theater” compared to the stage in the Mills Lawn Elementary School gymnasium/cafeteria, which has hosted high school plays for the last 10 years, she added. Lincoln said that YSHS students found much to relate to in “Harvey,” which was also the ﬁrst full-length non-musical play the YSHS Drama Troupe had done in two years. While the previous show, the musical “Pirates of Penzance,” was a “sweet, cute and fun story of boy meets girl,” she said, “Harvey” is a play that has deeper meaning, and students were “ﬁnding interesting things in it.” “These students are really good at

looking into a script and pulling out of it different things,” Lincoln said. “They are just amazing kids — caring, talented, smart and open minded.” Lincoln spent much rehearsal time with students doing “desk work,” or exploring their character’s personalities and the playwright’s motivations. Antioch College assistant philosophy professor Lew Trelawny-Cassity even led actors in a discussion about the work. As a result, actors were impressive in their depictions of characters, even while they were a little behind in memorizing their lines, Lincoln said. For example, Josh Seitz, who plays Elwood, has a “very sweet approach to Elwood — like milk toast.” Meanwhile, his relationship with Harvey, the rabbit, is utterly convincing. “When I walk onto the stage, I actually see a rabbit — I visualize him,” Seitz said.

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Lincoln said. During Knippling performances, there are “moments of brilliance,” she added. “She has put some work into it you don’t often see from high school students,” Lincoln said. Kaila Russell, in the role of the Veta’s daughter Myrtle, is “really good at playing a sassy, young, cute teenager” from the 1940s, Lincoln said. For Russell, the ’40s speech has been difficult to master, as Russell is adept at modern slang. “I have to work on saying phrases like ‘you couldn’t dream,’ which I would say as ‘you can’t believe,’” she said. Alex Kellogg, who played the female lead of Ruth in “Pirates of Penzance,” plays a convincing young, handsome male doctor, while Simone Cole does a “beautiful job” as a creepy, smarmy male character, Lincoln said. Seitz, Knippling, Russell, Kellogg and Cole were all seniors playing in their final nonmusical play at YSHS, Lincoln added. Lincoln promised that audience members would find something valuable in the play, which she said is “very applicable to our community.” “What is your perception of reality? How do you see yourself through other people’s eyes? How do other people see you? [Audience members] won’t go home without any meaning.”

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On race and community By DIANE CHIDDISTER

When most historians have written about Harlem, they’ve focused on the hostility of early white residents when blacks began moving into their upper Manhattan neighborhood, and the area’s evolution into an African-American ghetto known for its violence and dysfunction. But Kevin McGruder has a different, more nuanced story to tell about the neighborhood he came to love as a resident, churchgoer, business owner and historian. Specifically, he tells the story of early white Harlem residents who appeared to hold diverse views of their African-American neighbors. And he believes there’s evidence that Harlem was originally a place of aspiration for the blacks who moved there, who created churches, neighborhood organizations and other components of community. “The ghetto emphasis focuses on disarray,” McGruder said in an interview. “I’m not sayng that didn’t happen, but there hasn’t been enough emphasis on community formation. What was the goal of people moving there?” For the past several years, McGruder has studied old newspapers and historical documents to find answers to that question. And the result of that research, “Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 to 1920,” was published in June, 2015 by the Columbia University Press. The book is an extension of his doctoral dissertation. The dissertation grew out of McGruder’s longtime interests in real estate, Manhattan and African-American history, he said in a recent interview. Before getting his Ph.D from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, he had worked in community development nonprofits in Cleveland and New York City, along with serving as director of real estate of the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, of which he’s a member. He was also co-author of a previous book, “Witness: Two Hundred Years of African American Faith and Practice in the Abyssinian Baptist Church.”

Research for “Race and Real Estate” involved combing through many historical estate documents in the City Registry in New York, supplemented by stories in newspapers of the time, which he found on microfilm in the Schombeurg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, where he was scholar in residence during 2011– 2012. Not surprisingly, as a historian, having access to so many original documents “was paradise,” McGruder said. What McGruder found in his research was that Harlem at the turn of the century was a place of some fluidity for blacks, many of whom moved there from other African-American enclaves, such as Greenwich Village and the district now known as Chelsea, formerly the Tenderloin. Harlem was at the time on the edge of developed Manhattan and was surrounded by fields, so that the neighborhood provided a more expansive, country-like atmosphere compared to the inner city. When blacks began moving into Harlem, the area was mainly white. While the conventional history of the African-American migration to Harlem is that whites responded with hostility, McGruder was surprised to find that while there was hostility, there was also evidence of cooperation between the races. For instance, bank loans were largely unavailable to blacks, so that those seeking to buy homes depended on getting loans from the property sellers, who apparently didn’t resist selling to blacks. The evidence of fluidity and cooperation between blacks and whites indicates a time when race relations were considerably better than they became later in the 20th century, McGruder believes. This complex relationship between the races at that time seems to belie the assumption that difficult social problems such as race relations inevitably get better with time, McGruder said. Rather, his book shows that progress in race relations ebbs and flows over time, with more mutual understanding and cooperation evident in some periods than others.

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“The notion that things get better just because time has passed — there’s no evidence of that,” he said. In “Race and Real Estate,” the story of how blacks and whites interacted as neighbors and business associates in Harlem is told through the perspectives of four actual men. There was white businessman Henry Koch, retired white policeman John Taylor, African-American Pastor Hutchins Bishop and Phillip Payton, an African American who became a leading Realtor catering to black families. Telling the story through the perspectives of these actual individuals “makes the story more real” McGruder said. Around the time McGruder ﬁnished the book, he was hired by Antioch College. Coming to Yellow Springs, he took to heart the stories of those early African-American families establishing community in a new location. McGruder, too, sought membership in a church community, the Central Chapel A.M.E. Church, and also became a member of the World House Choir, to deepen the connection to his new home. While McGruder is sinking roots into his new home, he will always have a soft spot for Harlem, where he maintains a membership in the Abyssinian Church. And it’s likely he’ll return often, as his next project is a biography of Phillip Payton, the Realtor who made a difference to many African-American families when he helped them ﬁnd homes in turn-of-the-century Harlem.

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4About 120 members of the Antioch College and village community joined a Hands Up Walk Out in August 2014 to commemorate the funeral of Michael Brown, who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 of that year. The event, organized by a group of Antioch students, was held in conjunction with dozens of other walkouts at other campuses across the country on what would have been Brown’s ﬁrst day of college. Community members read aloud the names of 32 other black citizens who had been killed by police, including John Crawford, who was shot by police in a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek on Aug. 5 that year. Demonstrators urged the community to stay engaged in issues of violent injustice locally by attending several demonstrations in Dayton and Beavercreek. Check the Antioch Student Union Facebook page for future local action steps. P H O T O S B Y L A U R E N H E AT O N

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Local Boy Scout Troop 78 has been in existence for more than 60 years, meeting regularly at the First Presbyterian Church. Outdoor activities are the highlight of the program. The troop is also involved in community service, leadership training and fostering cooperation. Recent and planned activities include backpacking in southern Ohio and Kentucky, caving, summer camp,

an 80-mile bike trip, whitewater rafting and a four-day canoe trip. The troop sells Christmas wreaths in late November and December to raise money for trips and conducts the annual Christmas tree removal in January, which is its largest community project.

whole family. The Cub Scouts in Yellow Springs are represented by Pack 578, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church. Pack 578 is grouped into dens of Webelos, Wolf, Bear and Tiger Cubs. Boys in the �rst grade may participate in the Tiger Cub program. Den meetings are held twice a month, with a pack meeting once a month at the Presbyterian Church. The Cub Scout program helps boys grow through character development, craft skills, citizenship training and activities that involve skits and games and physical �tness skills. Pack events include a Pinewood Derby and other races, an overnight camp, Cub Scouts Days at Camp Birch and a family picnic. Currently, individual den leaders run the dens in Yellow Springs. Volunteers are always welcome and needed.

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The Fair Play 4-H Club includes boys and girls ages 5–18, and helps them grow into productive, contributing members of society. Fair Play 4-H Club offers fun, active oppor tunities for personal learning and growth through club meetings, projects, hands-on learning, leadership opportunities, fairs and activities. Participants are encouraged to explore their own unique interests and share their knowledge with others in the club.

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The Girl Scouts of the USA strive to develop self-esteem, a strong personal value system, skill in interpersonal relationships and the ability and desire to contribute meaningfully to society. Locally, girls 5 to 17 can participate in a variety of activities such as camping, earning badges, community service and product sales. Troop camping, resident and day camps are available for all ages. Leaders for troops are needed every year; leaders do not need to be a parent of an active scout. Volunteers are welcome.

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Perry League, Yellow Springs’s unique, hilarious and wonderful T-ball program, is a noncompetitive beginner’s baseball program for girls and boys ages 2 to 9. Two- and 3year-olds are welcome if accompanied on the diamond by an adult. There is no fee, no registration. Children can begin to play on any of the 10 Friday nights, and there is no requirement to play every week. Organizers try to keep it simple, try to make it fun and are serious about keeping it noncompetitive. There are no outs, no runs, no scores and no one ever strikes out: you get a 1,000 strikes in T-ball. Every child gets a chance to �eld and to bat a couple of times each evening. Organizers try to be as tender, patient and loving as possible. The program is open to all children regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, ability or disability or spiritual inclination. Children come out to play ball, to play in the water at the drinking fountain, to play in the grasses around the two �elds, to hang out with their old and or new friends and they often come out to just sit and play in the dust of the Gaunt Park ball diamonds. The Perry League is a self-sustaining, all volunteer program. Donations from parents, grandparents, loving aunts, ugly uncles, big brothers, big sisters, friends of the program, the children themselves, the sale of T-shirts, and a special gift from the Yellow Springs Lion’s Club, for the last ten years, and now, for 2015–16, the Odd Fellows, which pays for the children’s trophies each summer, allow the program to pay for itself. Perry League is held every Friday night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Gaunt Park. The season runs for 10 weeks beginning on the �rst Friday in June and ending on the �rst or second Friday in August with a wiener roast potluck picnic, at which we award every child a Perry League trophy. It’s great fun for kids and adults alike, so why don’t you come on out and play?

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Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Tim and Jennifer Sherwood, 767-8702

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SNAPSHOT: A good sign 4In the summer of 2014, villager Connie Crockett was shopping at the Springﬁeld Antique Show and Flea Market and came across a historic sign for Antioch College. The sign, which was either the one that went missing from the corner of Xenia Avenue and East North College Street or an uncanny lookalike, was too expensive to buy. Crockett started a collection from friends and college supporters. The seller, Jim Kingsolver, lowered his price, and together they salvaged the historic marker. The sign stayed in Crockett’s garage until the winter, when a group of college supporters and local alumni returned it to its rightful spot at the corner of Xenia Avenue and West North College Street. At left is Tom LaMers, who helped install the sign. Also instrumental in the sign’s return were Crockett, Evelyn LaMers, Jim Spangler, Megan Trolander, Joshua Miller, the late Roger Husbands, Ken Huber, Reggie Stratton, Mike Gruber, Dustin Wulfeck, Corey Slavitt, David Vincent, Conrad Zagory, Jim Kingsolver, Jenny Cowperthwaite, Mark Roosevelt, Bob Baldwin and Bambi Williams. SUBMITTED PHOTO

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The Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association, or YSYOA, was formed in 1964 as an organization interested in promoting and supporting music education and activities for the youth of Yellow Springs. This is accomplished through loan and repair of instruments, scholarships and concerts. YSYOA of fers a two-week summer music camp for students who have played an instrument for at least a year. The camp includes group and individual instruction, and ends with a grand finale concert for the public. In recent years, the YSYOA has expanded to include intergenerational playing groups such as Yellow Springs Strings, a strings group which meets on Tuesdays at the Yellow Springs Senior Center. Email ysyoa@yellowsprings.com for more information.

Yellow Springs Youth Soccer Bob Curley, 767-7070; Bill and Lynn Hardman, 767-8433 E M A I L : hardmansoccer@sbcglobal.net W E B : www.facebook.com/YellowSpringsSoccerInc C O N TA C T:

The mission of Yellow Springs Soccer, Inc. (YSSI) is to encourage and assist in the development and growth of community leagues, associations, organizations, programs and teams, so that soccer is made available to more people at all levels of competition. Since its inception in 1964, the recreational soccer program has offered accessible soccer every fall and spring to the children of Yellow Springs and nearby communities. The program continues to be run entirely by volunteers and is funded by donations — no registration fees are charged for inclusion on a recreational soccer team. There are currently four age levels of recreational youth soccer that form groups or teams after an annual late summer registra-

tion clinic: • Copper Cup — pre-K to kindergarten • Bronze Cup — �rst to third grade (or similar age) • Silver Cup — fourth to �fth grade • Gold Cup — sixth to eighth grade Traveling teams also form as interest warrants. Please contact YSSi for more information. YSSi, a 501(c)(3) nonpro�t organization, bene�ts from monetary donations and an annual soccer camp each June. If you’d like to contribute, please make checks out to YSSI and mail to: YSSI, P.O. Box 813, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.

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Mila Cooper has spent the past 25 years serving as diversity and community outreach director at over half a dozen colleges and universities around the country, but never has she felt responsible for as much as she does as the director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College. On a small campus with an outsize legacy in social justice, Cooper knows there is much demand to be part of the solution to diversity issues both on and off campus here, she said in an interview in December 2014. But she is taking her time to get to know the community before committing herself to the role she is shaping as head of the center. “I want to get this right,” she said. Supporting a diverse and socially just campus is one part of getting it right. Currently at Antioch there is no diversity plan, and creating one typically involves implementing best practices in admissions and retention, curriculum planning, training for students, staff and faculty, multi-cultural programming, and intentional hiring practices. But supporting a diverse and socially just community off campus is another project entirely — and one Cooper feels partly responsible for. 4In the fall of 2014, Mila Cooper became the new director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom on the Antioch College campus. She comes to the village after 12 years as director of community outreach at BaldwinWallace College. P H O T O B Y L A U R E N H E AT O N

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Partly it means instilling in others the leadership skills to push for change wherever it is needed. “There is a legacy of social justice on our campus, and I can’t separate that from the Coretta Scott King Center, knowing who she was and who Martin Luther King was,” she said. “They very much stood for social justice and social change, and we couldn’t honor that without equipping our students to make an impact.” Cooper jumped in at the deep end at Antioch. She started her job in September, 2014, a year after previous director Derrick Weston vacated the post, and one month into the national uproar over issues of police brutality against the black community. Since she came she has supported student organizing and demonstrations around the August police shooting of John Crawford at the Beavercreek Wal-Mart. And through this week, the CSK center has been used as a gathering space for organizing, making signs and sharing about issues of race and the justice system. Cooper has also spent her time so far reaching out to multiple groups on campus to ﬁgure out how she can make the overall college environment as welcoming as possible to people of

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different cultures and backgrounds. She is now part of the campus diversity committee, which has focused on programming since Weston left. She meets with the admissions team and the senior (administrative) leadership team; attends faculty meetings, community life, and student programming board meetings; as well as helps in preparations for the community’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in February. Through her work so far, Cooper has made some observations. The college has made a good start to serving diversity needs through its admissions policies (the class of 2018 has 71 students, 21 of whom are nonwhite or mixed race members, including nine Hispanic and eight African-American students), community life staffing, and curricular programming, such as an intercultural communications course, social justice and literature course and its language programs. Cooper also wants to make the center “a vibrant place that people are drawn to to learn, celebrate and discuss the tough issues of our time” in a way that stimulates critical thinking among the students, she said. Cooper, 50, came from Baldwin-Wallace College, where she spent 12 years as the director of community outreach and service learning. Prior to that, she moved a lot with her husband, an attorney and minister in the AME Church, and worked as a diversity ofﬁcer at Penn State, Capital Univer-

sity, Xavier, and Kenyon, where she started out as assistant dean in 1989 and went on to create the school’s office of multicultural affairs. She originally hails from Philadelphia and holds a master of divinity degree from Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce and a graduate certificate in nonprofit management. She and her husband live in Englewood with their two daughters.

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When Bob Fogarty became editor of the Antioch Review in 1977, his goal in maintaining the college’s literary magazine was to keep surprising readers with fresh, lively work. And while this little magazine with a circulation of 3,500 can’t compete in size with the likes of The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Atlantic, it does hold ground in the quality of the work it publishes. Fogarty believes the Review’s strength comes from its openness to unvetted submissions, otherwise known as “the slush,” which is where the most uncanny, surprising work appears. Critics must agree. In 2015, the Antioch Review was nominated for its fourth “Ellie” award from the American Society of Magazine Editors, which, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, honors dozens of magazines each year in categories ranging from photography to fiction, essays and magazine of the year. The awards ceremony was hosted in February of that year in New York City, and while the Review did not walk away with a National Magazine Award, being nominated multiple times as a finalist shows Fogarty that the publication is on the right course. “It’s a little magazine and a literary magazine. The fact that a little publication can compete against big ones feels to me like David and Goliath,” Fogarty said in an interview. “The fact that they’ve chosen us is really quite amazing.” The Review was nominated for Rick DeMarinis’ short story “Afternoon in Byazantium,” which appeared in the 2014 summer issue. The other nominees for fiction were The New Yorker for “The Emerald Light in the Air,” by Donald Antrim, and for “Scheherazade,” by Haruki Murakami; The Paris Review for “Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets,” by Zadie Smith; and Virginia Quarterly Review for “Serve-andVolley, Near Vichy,” by Greg Jackson. The week of the ceremony, the Huffington Post reported that the New Yorker had won this year’s fiction award for “Emerald Light,” which ran in the Feb. 3, 2014, issue. While the New Yorker’s circulation is over 1 million readers, the Paris Review and the Virginia Quarterly, with 16,000 and 3,000, respectively, are more comparable to the Antioch Review. And according to Fogarty, DeMarinis stands out as a stylist of short thrillers hinged on deep character development without the dryness of predictability. “We’ve been publishing DeMarinis’ work since 1986 and most of the stories he writes — they’re mystery stories with something deeper,” Fogarty said. “In this one, a man dies at the bottom of a swimming pool, and he’s very conscious of this. His character is fleshed out over the course of the story, and it doesn’t matter what happens to him because it’s irrelevant to his sense of reverie. That’s what makes it true to life.” That’s the quality of work that draws the eye of Fogarty, who, except for an

advisory board of notable authors such as T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gordon Lish and Sylvia Nassar, along with Antioch College alumni writers, is the final judge of prose submissions. Poetry editor Judith Hall, who resides in California, chooses the magazine’s 16 pages of poetry each quarter, and Christine Gabbard is the magazine’s business manager. Per tradition, the Review has always used a bevy of volunteer readers from the Dayton area who write reviews for Fogarty. His only stipulation for the job is that the readers love to read. While some magazines take only solicited work, the Review is one that accepts unsoliciated submissions, including high quality work from literary agents, which Fogarty believes is very important to maintaining the review’s freshness. “What you want to get is many different kinds of eyes on something so you don’t fall into the trap of being kind of monochromatic and just publish this or that kind of story,” he said. The Antioch Review receives about 4,000 manuscripts a year and publishes less than 1 percent of them. And to those who ask what the magazine is looking for, Fogarty’s standard response is, “‘I’m looking for your best work.’ My credo is it’s open to all comers. The best writing in America is published in small magazines.” That open approach means a lot more reading than Fogarty and certainly the volunteer readers get paid for. But for Fogarty, that’s off point. “There’s no end to the reading — the manuscript file is endless. I never get to a point at which I don’t have manuscripts to read, and it becomes difficult to manage the volume,” he said. “We’ve talked about stopping reading the slush, but I’m loathe to do that. There should be venues that are open to anyone — that’s one of the important facets of the literary magazines, and we should maintain that.” The Review resides in the Antioch College library and receives a subsidy from the college, whose faculty started the magazine in 1941 as an alternative to the Facist/Communist movement, according to Fogarty. The magazine has since taken a more literary turn and generated a $700,000 endowment that helped sustain it during the college’s closure from 2008 to 2011. And though the magazine, published by Jane Baker and designed by David Battle, is committed to print for the long haul, the digital subscriptions sold through the JStor online not-for-profit magazine store, have increased international readership significantly — a sign that it is possible for the Review to grow. And as long as the magazine continues to be able to run with the more heavily endowed competition, it will stick with its proven method of judging submissions. “I don’t look at credentials. It’s not the cover letter and the associations — that doesn’t mean anything,” Fogarty said. “It’s really the work itself. It’s the qualitative question.”

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Carrying on the Antioch College legacy of activism struggles, according to the participants. “The conference organizers were very intentional about not having the main focus be on looking back,” said McGruder. The emphasis on the importance of ongoing struggles prompted the students to question what they could be doing to help, several said. Several involved said that they were struck by how young the people involved in the Freedom Summer project had been, and felt they were doing little important work by comparison. But it was also inspiring to know that students had played a large role in such an important movement.

4Antioch College students and faculty at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change in Atlanta, Ga. on their way to Jackson, Miss. for a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer voter registration campaign. From left, residential life coordinator Nick Daily, Eric Rhodes, Kijin Higashibaba, IdaLease Cummings, Louise Lybrook, Ciana Ayenu, Rebecca Smith, Associate Professor of Art Raewyn Martin, Lauren Gjessing, Professor of American History Kevin MacGruder.. S U B M I T T E D P H O T O

SOCIAL JUSTICE LEGACY In a 1965 article for Antioch’s student paper, the Record, 1965 graduate Terri Shaw described her experiences participating in Freedom Summer. She took a car full of other participants in the Freedom Summer project down to Hattiesburg, where she collected information on intimidation and harassment as well as desegregation following the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Shaw also described a particularly difﬁcult experience driving on the way to Hattiesburg, she heard on the radio the news of the disappearance of three civil rights activists, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who had been investigating the burning of a church in Longdale. She had been introduced to Schwerner at their training in Oxford, Ohio, and Meridian was only about an hour away from Philadelphia, where the three had gone missing. This news, she said, set the tone for the beginning of her work on the project, just as the discovery of the men’s bodies a few

weeks later loomed over the Democratic national convention in Atlantic City. Early in 2014, David Goodman, a member of Antioch’s board of trustees, contacted Kevin McGruder, professor of history at the college, to tell him about the conference for Freedom Summer’s 50th anniversary. Goodman’s brother, Andrew, was one of the three activists killed outside of Philadelphia, Miss. The conversation led McGruder and two other Antioch staff members to accompany seven Antioch students to this conference to understand how they relate to the current Antioch. QUESTIONS RAISED Freedom Summer 50 took place on the campus of Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., one of the historically black colleges most involved in Freedom Summer. The conference hosted workshops on civil rights work in education, health, voting rights, and labor rights. The conference offered students an opportunity to learn about the role played by Antioch students previously and to think about how to apply past lessons to ongoing

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In the summer of 1964, a number of Antioch College students and alumni joined activists from all over the country to converge on Mississippi as a part of Freedom Summer. This project was aimed at establishing and supporting Freedom Schools throughout the state as a response to the segregation laws in the south and to help register African-American voters, particularly to participate in the 1964 Democratic national convention after they had been prevented from participating in the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party. The Freedom Summer project and the events that followed in 1964 left their mark on Antioch. In many ways, the participation of Antioch students and graduates in the project was a continuation of the school’s commitment to social justice, but the experiences of that summer affected many of the participants deeply. For some, this chance to put beliefs into action served as inspiration for a lifelong commitment to activist work. And the college soon gave more students the opportunity to act on their convictions by offering credit for co-op work at organizations like COFO, the Council of Federated Organizations, which included the groups that made Freedom Summer possible. “That was sort of a formalization of this work,” said Scott Sanders, Antioch’s college archivist. Fifty years later, in 2014, seven young Antioch students participated in this Antioch tradition by traveling to Mississippi during an academic break to attend a conference on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer. Like Antioch students of ﬁve decades ago, the current students also found themselves inspired in unexpected ways. When Kijin Higashibaba, a graduate, came to Antioch, she was skeptical

about the usefulness of social activism in the current political situation. She signed up for the conference and the community engagement class to learn more about the civil rights era, when she thought that the protest movement had been more effective. However, Higashibaba found something unexpected in the workshops and conversations she had with other attendees. Over the course of the conference her cynicism about the validity of taking a strong stance on issues of civil rights diminished. The workshops at the conference helped convince her that it was possible for her to engage in activism around issues that concerned her. “That was new and different for me,” she said. “I don’t know what the solutions are, but there are things that are just wrong.”

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CONFERENCE LEADS TO CLASS In the fall of 2014, the seven Antioch students participated in a class on community engagement taught by McGruder and Nick Daily. The class encouraged them to apply what they learned at the conference to issues concerning the Antioch community as well as other communities to which the students are connected. While the conference and class were both intended to help produce leaders in community engagement, they both emphasized that leaders don’t necessarily work in the spotlight or have all the answers. In many ways the class facilitated the retention of the connections drawn between Antioch’s activist past and the role these students will play in its future.

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Since entering its �rst class in 1853, with the eminent scholar Horace Mann as its �rst president, Antioch College has been a pioneering liberal arts college preparing students for lives of signi�cance, service and engaged and effective citizenship, whether they choose to pursue graduate education or embark directly on a career. The newly independent Antioch College continued this tradition when it welcomed its �rst class in the fall of 2011 and graduated this class in June 2015. The mission of the college is to provide a rigorous liberal arts education on the belief that scholarship and life experience are strengthened when linked, that diversity in all its manifestations is a fundamental component of excellence in education and that authentic social and community engagement is vital for those who strive to win victories for humanity. The college rede�ned liberal arts education by initiating an entrepreneurial and experiential curriculum through the development of its hallmark cooperative work program. Many of the now common elements of today’s liberal arts education — self-designed majors, study abroad, interdisciplinary study, and portfolio evaluation — had an early start at Antioch College. The college was also among the �rst to make a commitment to community governance and the authentic

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participation of students in institutional decision-making. Throughout the generations, Antioch College faculty, students, staff and alumni have committed themselves to important causes. Consistent with its mission, Antioch College has always given equal weight to understanding theory, to engaging in practice and to taking action. An Antioch College education has always encouraged independent thinking and invention. As a result, the college has earned signi�cant notoriety for producing alumni who make signi�cant contributions. These include two Nobel Laureates, seven MacArthur Foundation Fellows and numerous Fulbright Scholars. There are 200 acres and 25 buildings on the Antioch College campus, which �ts easily and comfortably into Yellow Springs, melding effortlessly into the surrounding neighborhoods. It incorporates the Romanesque and Greek revival architecture styles that were popular in the latter part of the 1800s. The campus opens onto a huge park of ancient trees, which leads the eye easily to the 1,000-acre Glen Helen Nature Preserve, the legacy of Hugh Taylor Birch, who, in 1929, donated the wooded glen to Antioch College in memory of his daughter, Helen.

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the United States, the Antioch School was founded in 1921 by Arthur Morgan, then president of Antioch College. In 1951 the school moved to its current idyllic setting, nestled in beautiful green space neighboring the Glen Helen Nature Preserve. The building was designed by architect Eero Saarinen to connect the indoors with the outdoors and was renovated in 2007 to be more energy-ef�cient and environmentally friendly. The Antioch School is a place where childhood is respected and children are encouraged to pursue their innate curiosity wherever their abilities take them. The Antioch School offers programs for children aged 3½ to 12 based on the ideals of respect and trust and “challenge and choice” — a wide variety of educational opportunities are provided, with students encouraged to involve themselves in their own choices, matching their needs and abilities to resources for learning and growth. The children are grouped in the Nursery, for 3½- to 5-year-olds; Kindergarten, for 5to 6-year-olds; the Younger Group, for 6- to 8-year-olds; and the Older Group, for 9- to 12-year-olds. The Nursery and Kindergarten offer half- or full-day programs. The school also offers art and science programs, music instruction and an after-school program. Development of reading, writing and mathematics abilities is emphasized, along with social and self-discipline skills — the interaction of children as a means for self-de�nition and growth is valued. Individualized instruction works two ways at the school: teacher-tochild and child-to-child. In addition, there are opportunities for the children to participate in a variety of activities, such as unicycling, drama, music and art, including pottery, painting, sculpture and stained glass. An emphasis is placed on physical activities, with children playing together on the school’s expansive grounds and swimming and skating �eld trips. The children attend school-day performance at the Victoria Theatre and Schuster Center in Dayton, and Kuss Auditorium in Spring�eld. Directing the school’s operations is a board of directors consisting of parents and faculty members, facilitated by a full-time manager. Family involvement is vital to the school’s learning environment. Because the Antioch School is small, our group size and enrollment numbers are limited. Tuition is comparatively low among area private schools. Applications are accepted throughout the year and �nancial aid is available. Tuition rates are available

upon request. Visitors to the school are always welcome.

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Antioch University’s mission is to provide learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice. Focused on core values of inclusiveness, social justice, experiential learning and socially engaged global citizenship, Antioch’s emphasis on community involvement distinguishes us from other institutions. Each of the Antioch campuses maintains strong regional identities, brought together and guided by the values set by the Antioch University mission statement. Through a wide range of delivery modalities, from on-line to face-to-face to hybrid models, Antioch University offers programs at its �ve campuses in four states (California, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Washington) as well as through University programs such as the Ph.D. in Leadership and Change, Antioch Education Abroad, and Antioch University Connected. Antioch University’s administrative of�ces are located in Yellow Springs.

Antioch University Midwest Enrollment Services, 769-1818 admission.aum@antioch.edu antiochmidwest.edu

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Founded in 1988, Antioch University Midwest (AUM) empowers its adult student community to demonstrage the core competencies required not only for career success, but to instigate change and have a positive impact on the world. With the purpose of being an innovative center of real-world teaching and lifelong learning, AUM’s goal is to be the destination for those who seek exceptional career preparation for today and the future. Whether you are seeking to improve your skill sets, change careers or simply enhance your life, AUM offers a wide range of professional development, bachelor completion and master’s degree programs that are responsive to emerging societal needs in industries such as healthcare, education, business and management.

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YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Each AUM program features classroom and/or online learning, as well as service learning goals that connect students with industry professionals and their communities. Faculty encourages students to draw on past experiences, share their own goals and take what they learn and put it to the test in the most challenging scenario of all: the real world. A prime example of AUM’s exceptional programs are those in the School of Education, which is nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), and its graduates boast a 100 percent teacher licensure pass rate. A key element that leads to the success of AUM students is its distinguished faculty members, who are as diverse as the student body and include esteemed professionals, acclaimed authors and Fulbright Scholars committed to helping adult learners achieve their career goals. Antioch University Midwest also supports opportunities for community ser vice and partnership, from its 200-seat auditorium to its classroom facilities, which host events such as the annual Antioch Writers’ Workshop.

Community Children’s Center 767-7236, 320 Corry St. E M A I L : info@ysccc.org W E B : www.ysccc.org C O N TA C T:

The Community Children’s Center is a not-for-pro�t, high quality program offering education and care for children 18-months to 12 years of age. Licensed by the state of Ohio, the center is star-rated through the Job and Family Services Step Up To Quality program. The program meets high program and staff standards. The philosophy of the Children’s Center is based on the belief that children learn through play experiences. The teachers prepare hands-on learning activities to challenge and encourage children at each developmental level. A variety of open-ended materials, activities and social experiences are provided in an environment of comfort and security. Children choose activities, interact with each other, try new roles, experiment with their own ideas, build on their experiences and solve problems. Individualized attention is promoted by small groupings and a low childto-teacher ratio. Parent and community par ticipation enhance program offerings. Staff and enrollment policies encourage diversity of racial, religious, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Children’s Center operates Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a late program until 6 p.m. Full- and half-day programs from two to �ve days a week are designed to meet the needs of three age groups: 18 months through 36 months, 3 years through kindergarten and kindergarten through 12 years of age. The early morning and afternoon program for schoolage children provides a secure environment, light snack, variety of group and individual enrichment activities and access to community resources. Governed by an elected board of trustees, the Children’s Center is funded through private tuition, United Way allocations, contracts with Greene, Clark and Montgomery county departments of Jobs and Family Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and support from the community. The center staff

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Children’s Center After School Program, located at Mills Lawn School and administered by the Community Children’s Center, is a recreational program offering after-school care for students ages 5 to 12. The program is designed to provide a safe, stimulating and enriching environment that is child-centered. Children may choose activities according to their own interests, including inside and outside play, organized games, sports, arts and crafts and homework support. In addition, a daily snack is provided. After School Program is a nonprofit organization with a community-based board of trustees. The program offers full-time all-year care and is staffed by a director and child care teachers licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Fees, kept as low as possible, range from $100 to $200 a month. The program also accepts Title XX tuition assistance. For registration materials or more information, leave a message at 767-8145.

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Friends Preschool program is a public school program operated by the Greene County Educational Service Center. Located at Friends Care Community, the program provides rich educational experiences to children with delays in development. A few slots are also available for tuition students from the community. Therapy services are available as needed. The program is dedicated to helping seniors and children learn together through the development of intergenerational programs. The program includes a strong educational component with structured teaching, as well as a health, nutrition and social service component. Class sizes are small. All staff have bachelor’s or master’s degrees in education. The program follows a comprehensive curriculum that aligns with Ohio’s Early Learning Content Standards. Bus transportation is available. The program is free to children with disabilities. There is a nominal tuition charge for private pay children. Friends Preschool serves children ages 3–5 from both Yellow Springs and Cedar Cliff school districts.

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Greene County Career Center has served as the region’s premier provider of careertechnical education for high school and adult students since 1967. The center serves as a hub for high school juniors and seniors who seek career and college preparation in a hands-on environment. Approximately 60 percent of those completing a career-technical program at GCCC go on to a two- or four-year college or university, a career or trade school or an accredited apprenticeship program. C O N T I N U E D O N PAG E 5 4 > > >

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In addition to programs offered on the main campus, the career center also provides instruction at all seven school districts in Greene County in addition to the new Equine Science and Veterinary Science offered at the Agricultural Research Center. At Yellow Springs High School the agriculture business and science classes are provided by Greene County Career Center. The school also is the home of one of the premier adult programs in Ohio, the Peace Officer Basic Training class. Each year, dozens of new police of�cers earn their certi�cation thanks to this program. Additionally, Greene County Career Center also provides refresher courses for current law enforcement professionals and runs an academy for upcoming corrections of�cers. Beginning in 2014, a partnership through Clark State allows adults to take HVAC and Welding classes at the GCCC campus on West Enon Road.

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The Greene County Educational Service Center (GCESC) is located in the Arthur Morgan Building next to Yellow Springs High School and has been at this site since 1990. The GCESC provides a variety of educational services to Greene County school districts and other regional agencies. The GCESC employs over 170 workers in the areas of education and therapy and is one of the largest employers in Yellow Springs.

E D U C AT I O N The mission of the GCESC is to promote widespread success for our students by providing essential, effective, specialized and innovative services that foster collaborative, valued partnerships amongst all stakeholders. The Greene County Educational Service Center provides high quality special education and instructional services to the districts. The services provided to each district vary depending on the size of the district and the special needs that each district has. The ESC contracts with each district on a yearly basis. By coordinating services for the districts, the GCESC is able to help them reduce duplication of personnel and programs, therefore, reducing costs for the schools. The Center is considered to be a premier provider of therapy services for students — including Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Adapted Physical Education. The GCESC also provides school-based mental health therapists to all of the county’s school districts. Further, the mental health staff has been working in speci�c districts on the PAX Good Behavior Game — a positive, disruptionreducing classroom management program that increases engaged learning and is considered to be a best practice by the American Federation of Teachers, the Surgeon General, and the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention. The Greene County Educational Service Center also provides educational programs for students with emotional and/or behavioral issues at the Greene County Learning Center in Yellow Springs and an Outdoor Education Program for students in grades 6-8 as well as an alternative high school for students in grades 9–12 both of which are located at our site in Bellbrook, Ohio. At the Bellbrook site are also the Intensive Needs Classrooms for students with severe communication disorders and behavioral issues. To �nd out more about the GCESC and updates on what is being offered, please visit the website at www.greeneESC.org.

Greene County Learning Center Jason Miller, Director of Education, 360 E. Enon Rd., 767-1303, ext. 141 E M A I L : jmiller@greeneesc.org C O N TA C T:

The Greene County Learning Center, or GCLC, is a public “separate facility” school program for students in grades K–12. It serves students from all school districts in Greene County. The caring staff at GCLC work as a team to meet the academic and emotional needs of the youth that they serve. The major objectives of the program are to help the individual gain self-awareness skills, learn new coping skills, increase the ability to make appropriate choices and improve social-interpersonal interaction with peers and adults. An additional objective is to help the students achieve academically to the best of their abilities. The ultimate goal of the GCLC is to help each student to successfully return to the home school environment and to function more fully in the world around them.

Yellow Springs Public Schools Mario Basora, superintendent, 767-7381; Matt Housh, Mills Lawn principal, 767-7217; Tim Krier, McKinney School/Yellow Springs High School principal, 767-7224 W E B : www.ysschools.org C O N TA C T:

Students in Yellow Springs have the opportunity to pursue an education in three Blue

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Ribbon National Schools of Excellence: Mills Lawn Elementary School, McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School. The district is proud to announce that in 2014, the entire school district was chosen to join the Ohio Innovative Learning Network, a selective group (2 percent of districts statewide) of schools doing innovative work in public education. The schools are dedicated to helping students become the global change leaders of the future. Through the implementation of the 2020 Strategic Plan, students are getting the tools necessary to make a positive impact on our world and achieve their personal goals and dreams. The schools have a longstanding reputation for encouraging critical thinking, individual creativity, respect and appreciation for diversity, and authentic learning in science, the �ne arts and the humanities. The public schools are a vital and integral part of the Yellow Springs community and provide an education based on the belief that small schools can provide big opportunities. More recently, the schools have been noted for an instructional shift to Project-Based Learning, using inquiry and student voice/choice to guide learning. Yellow Springs High School provides a comprehensive and varied curriculum for ninththrough 12th-grade students. Advanced placement courses, college prep courses, vocational courses (through the Greene County Career Center), Post Secondary Options Education (PSEO), and a variety of electives are offered in many subject areas. Numerous co-curricular oppor tunities are available to students: athletics, including a dozen varsity sports; band/orchestra; a theater program; academic clubs; the School Forest Club, Poetry/Spanish Night, Charlotte Drake Youth Philanthropy Group, S.P.I.D.E.E., the Bulldog Contemporary Dance Competition and other activities. All students are required to perform 45 hours of community service and to complete a senior project as graduation requirements. Students in grades seven and eight attend McKinney Middle School, which is under the same roof as the high school, but McKinney School students have their own band and orchestra programs and participate in seasonal interscholastic sports activities. Emphasis is placed on assessing and accommodating the uniqueness of the early adolescent child in a middle school environment. Considerable effort is made to incorporate interdisciplinary studies through thematic units. McKinney students are afforded a variety of co-curricular opportunities including: athletics, Power of the Pen, Student Council and other activities. Mills Lawn School focuses on excellence and quality in its mission to educate students in grades kindergarten through sixth. The school offers a safe and engaging environment that promotes inquiry and problem-solving. Mills Lawn School encourages students to “own” their learning and take pride in their work, as well as their school. The school ensures that students develop strong reading and math skills by focusing on the individual and using data to drive instruction. Mills Lawn School pursues an integrated academic approach that helps students see the connections between subject areas. The school’s focus on arts education and problem-based learning allows students to learn by doing, thinking and creating. Classes regularly leave the building to explore nature or visit important places that inspire their learning. The school actively recruits and welcomes guests to the school to help students understand their world from many perspectives.

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A nine-year effort to protect Glen Helen ﬁnally came to a successful conclusion in August 2015, with the Glen now preserved as a wild place into perpetuity. “There is no greater treasure here than Glen Helen,” Tecumseh Land Trust Executive Director Krista Magaw said in a press release. “It is the ecological and spiritual anchor for our Miami Valley. It’s an honor to do our part to protect it, for today and for our future generations.” The outcome is especially satisfyng because it was a collaborative effort between a variety of federal, state, regional and local entities that joined together to preserve the Glen, according to Magaw. “Thanks to everyone for sticking with the process,” she said. “This is a great outcome and something to celebrate.” A celebration will take place at the Outdoor Education Center in the Glen, on Nov. 8, 2015, at a time to be announced. Altogether, the effort to preserve all 973 acres of the Glen, which took place in several stages, cost a little over $3 million, according to Glen Helen Director Nick Boutis. The funding included $940,650 from the the Clean Ohio Fund; $567,500 from the federal Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program; $100,000 from the Village of Yellow Springs; $1.2 million from the Ohio EPA’s Water Restoration Resource Sponsorship Program and $200,000 from the Upper River Fund of the Dayton Foundation. The commitment of Antioch College to the preservation effort was also criti-

cal to its success, according to Boutis. “The college didn’t have to make preserving the Glen a priority in its reinvention, but it did,” Boutis said, also thanking the Morgan Family Foundation and Antioch University for their contributions. “Ultimately, this moved forward because everyone loves the Glen,” Boutis said. Glen Helen was established in 1929 when college alum Hugh Taylor Birch donated the land to the college in memory of his daughter, Helen Birch Bartlett. At the time, College President Arthur Morgan and Birch were concerned about conserving the Glen as green space, according to Boutis, and the deed from Birch included the restriction that the nature preserve be protected. But the restrictions had no “teeth” according to attorney and TLT board member Dave Neuhardt in 2004, after looking over the historic papers. And indeed the Glen has faced significant threats since it was established, including a state plan in the 1950s to locate a highway through the preserve, which Village and Glen officials managed to beat back. “That would have destroyed not only the Glen but the fabric of Yellow Springs,” Boutis said. After Neuhardt’s assessment in 2004 that the Glen was vulnerable, TLT Director Magaw made it her mission to protect the nature preserve, according to TLT member Bob Barcus. Magaw’s first attempt to preserve the Glen was a 2006 grant request to the Ohio EPA, which just missed being funded. But soon after Boutis, having arrived as the Glen’s new director, also took a

major interest in the project. Together, the two in 2008 resubmitted a grant proposal, which was funded in 2009. But the situation became more complex with the closing of the college in 2008 — officially, the Glen was owned by Antioch University. At a series of meetings of Glen stakeholders, convened by Magaw, it was determined that the best path to conserving the Glen was purchasing the land from the university, placing a conservation easement on it and gifting it to a newly created nonprofit to operate. The nonprofit Trust for Public Land was brought in to assist, according to a TLT document. The situation changed again with the successful purchase of the college and Glen by an alumni group. The college board held onto the Glen, but also wished to place a conservation easement on the nature preserve to ensure its protection. The first success of the conservation effort took place in 2013, when areas around the land’s creeks and the Little Miami River were protected by an easement funded by the Ohio EPA grant, along with funds from the Upper River Fund at the Dayton Foundation. The process continued when the Trust for Public Land acquired $1 million from the Clean Ohio Open Space fund to protect remaining areas. Tecumseh Land Trust succeeded in obtaining about $567,000 from the federal Farm and Ranch Protection Program for areas around the Riding Centre, School Forest and the pine forest. And the final phase of protection, which includes the Outdoor Education and Raptor Centers, was funded by the Clean Ohio Open Space fund. The protection of the Glen was a long time coming partly due to many delays and staff changes, according to Magaw. “The many changes in key players at the government agencies certainly slowed the process,” she stated. In the end, the almost $3 million proceeds from the Glen easements went into two endowments at the Dayton Foundation, which will benefit Glen operations. Tecumseh Land Trust received $50,000 for its stewardship efforts and to fund its job of maintaining the easements each year. And while final papers were signed in July 2015, the process didn’t conclude until Aug. 7, when the easements and other official documents were delivered and recorded at the office of the Greene County Recorder. While the process was long, complicated and often frustrating, the end result of preserving Glen Helen is definitely worth it, Magaw and Boutis agree. And those who made small contributions, such as membership in TLT, also played a significant part in protecting the Glen. “Member contributions allowed TLT to hire staff and made it possible for staff and volunteers to complete this huge project over nearly nine years,” Magaw said. “Thanks to our members and our community for your investment in saving the place we love.”

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LIBRARY Yellow Springs Community Library Connie Collett, head librarian; Janet Ogden and Ara Beal, youth services librarians, 352-4003 E M A I L : ccollett@gcpl.lib.oh.us W E B : www.greenelibrary.info C O N TA C T:

Do you need entertainment that is free and close to home? Do you need a fast Internet connection? Do you need a learning and social time for your baby, toddler or preschooler? Do you need something for your kids or teens to do? Do you need a good book to read? Do you just need some answers? Your local library provides all of this for free! The Yellow Springs Library houses almost 60,000 items including books, movies, audiobooks, music, magazines and newspapers. Millions more can be borrowed from other libraries, including six other public libraries right here in Greene County. Quickly gaining popularity are free, downloadable e-books, audiobooks, music and videos for your iPad, e-reader or other device. Computers for the public and a high-speed Internet connection make the library the place to go when there’s slow or no Internet at home. Wireless for your own laptop lets you connect to the Internet and use all the library’s online services. One-on-one instruction for computer novices ensures that no one is left behind. Story times for babies, toddlers and preschoolers are a fun way to make sure your child gets an early start in reading. Children ages 0-5 can sign up for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and receive a free book in the mail each month until they’re ready for kindergarten. Special activities for older kids and teens — including a Teen Advisory Group — keep them busy, connected and reading. The Summer Reading Program keeps people of all ages reading over the summer, educates and entertains with great programs and prizes to keep everyone motivated. If you have questions, there’s always someone to help �nd an answer, whether in person, by phone or online. The library’s subscriptions to premium databases often make getting answers easier than Googling on your own. If you’re homebound and can’t make it to the library, the library’s Outreach Department will bring books and other materials to you. All these services are available to you for free, paid for by your tax dollars. When our community joins together to fund a public library, the payoff for each of us is much greater than the cost of our individual contributions. More use means more value. Don’t miss out! The Yellow Springs Community Library is located at 415 Xenia Ave. Hours of operation are: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays (September through May), 1 to 5 p.m.

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anyone interested in serving the community and willing to pay the small annual membership fee of $5. YSLA assists the Yellow Springs Community Library in many ways, providing funds for many of the extras that make the library so useful and appealing. The YSLA: • Publishes a newsletter, Ex Libris, four times per year • Provides refreshments and prizes for library programs • Funds speci�c projects such as repairs to the roof, new bike racks, updated media shelving and meeting room lighting improvement • Supplies supplemental activities for the summer reading program • Gives a book to local newborns • Augments the librar y’s collection of DVDs, CDs, toys and books • Helps the library with the purchase of equipment and furnishings • Maintains and expands the Corky Shiff Circulation Art Collection • Raises funds through such activities as the Founders’ Daycelebration and used-book sales • Works on library landscaping, including removal of invasive honeysuckle and maintaining garden plots The YSLA has a long history of volunteer achievement. The doors of the �rst library in Yellow Springs opened in 1899 through the efforts of a group that, in 1901, incorporated as the YSLA. The group was responsible for maintaining every aspect of the library until 1926, when the library became part of the Greene County library system. In 1980, the association produced “This Town Is Our Town,” a slide and tape history of Yellow Springs, and in 1978 it founded the Corky Schiff Circulating Art Collection and established a local authors shelf. The association commissioned Jon Barlow Hudson to create “Tree of Knowledge,” an outdoor sculpture that was dedicated in 1993. All are invited to �nd the YSLA on its Facebook page, facebook.com/YellowSpringsLibraryAssociation. Annual membership dues are $5 per household, with the opportunity for lifetime membership for $100. YSLA borchures with membership application forms are available at the entrances to the library The YSLA is now a “Friends of the Library” organization. The governance of the library and its day-to-day operation are the responsibility of the Greene County system.

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At the Antioch College dining hall one week in May, the kitchen was serving turkey melts with pasture-raised poultry from New Carlisle, eggs from a family-owned farm in Xenia and organic salad from the college farm about 500 yards from the kitchen. In the world of institutional dining, and in particular in institutions of higher education, food considered “real,” meaning sourced from locally owned, ecologically sound, humane farms with fair employment practices, is apparently quite difﬁcult to obtain. That’s why a national student group is challenging campuses across the country to commit to serving at least 20 percent real food by 2020. The standards of the so-called Real Food Challenge are ones Antioch College has built its campus culture around since rebooting in 2011. And the college is already well beyond the minimum needed to meet the challenge goals. According to Antioch Food Service Coordinator Isaac Delamatre, 56 percent of Antioch’s food is considered “real” by the Challenge standards, which is second in the nation only to Sterling College in Vermont, which consumes 74 percent real food. For the challenge, Antioch has committed to 60 percent real food by 2020. By comparison, Oberlin and UC Santa Cruz committed to 40 percent real food by 2020, while other campuses such as University of Massachussetts Amherst, George Washington University and 21 others signed on to the minimum 20 percent — out of just 35 schools that made a commitment at all. The Antioch farm, currently producing the kitchen’s kale, greens, onions and asparagus, has something to do with the college’s high real food score. Of the campus’s total food purchases, 28 percent comes from the farm. That makes that portion not only “real” by Challenge standards (grown within 150 miles of the institution), but grown 1,500 feet from where it is consumed. Students work and help manage the farm, a fair em-

ployer, and grow and raise the vegetables, fruit trees, chickens and ducks organically and humanely, surpassing USDA organic and Animal Welfare Institute standards. Delamatre is the other reason for Antioch’s high real food score. Instead of hiring a food service provider, such as Sodexo, a multi-billion dollar global corporation, when it opened in 2011, the college hired Delamatre, who has always sourced local foods from growers he knows and whose farms he visits regularly. “My main objective is to buy directly from the producer because then they dictate the price, it holds them accountable for their products and it supports the local infrastructure and economy,” he said. In addition to what comes off the campus farm, 13 of the college’s 14 food suppliers are within 30 miles of Yellow Springs, including Buck-I-Hillz and Flying Mouse farms in Yellow Springs, Ed Hill chicken farm in Xenia and Keener pork and beef farm in Dayton. Instead of having produce, meat and grains from across the country trucked to campus by an industrial supplier, Delamatre and fourth-year student Sara Brooks drive the Antioch truck to make their own pickups. Sustainability is part of the global seminar that every student takes at Antioch because it touches all the academic disciplines and is a worldwide problem that will need solutions. According to Delamatre, having students involved on the farm and in the kitchen enables them to apply their classroom learning in the tradition of the Antioch College co-op to start solving some of those issues. “If you just started serving real food, you’d miss the opportunity to have a grassroots push where a lot of education happens,” he said. “You don’t want to move too fast because you miss out on the meat of it — it’s a natural progression to learn about it and then ask, ‘Why aren’t we doing it?’” At Antioch people are doing it, and setting higher standards for peer institutions. “Our goal is to push the model and to act as a catalyst for others,” Delamatre said of the sustainable food movement.

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SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Bahá’í Faith Roi and Linden Qualls, 767-7079 E M A I L : ysbahai@gmail.com W E B : www.ohiobahai.org C O N TA C T:

In the words of Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í faith, “The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” Bahá’u’lláh taught that there is one God who progressively reveals his will to humanity. Each of the great religions initiated by one of God’s divine messengers — Moses, Zoroaster, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad — represents a successive stage in the spiritual development of humankind. All religions are seen as one in spirit because, essentially, they share a common aim and origin. Bahá’ís regard Bahá’u’lláh as the most recent of these messengers, whose teachings address the ethical and spiritual challenges of the modern world. For more than a century, Bahá’í communities around the globe have worked to dissolve prejudices based on nationality, race, religion and gender. They have collaborated with other like-minded organizations to promote social justice, world peace and love for all humankind. Bahá’ís living in Yellow Springs meet regularly for worship. Their holy day celebrations, devotional services, children’s classes and study circles are all open to the public. The Bahá’í Center in Yellow Springs is located at 502 Dayton St.

Bethel Lutheran Church Paster Larry Bannick, 2731 W. Jasckson Road, 323-2471

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Bethel Lutheran Church was founded in 1844 by Ezra Keller, who was also a cofounder of Wittenberg University. It is the oldest Lutheran church in Clark County. This ELCA church has developed from its traditional country heritage to serve a diverse congregation. It is a small, family-oriented church in which every member or visitor is valued. Sunday School is held at 9:30 a.m. and church services are held at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings. The Rev. Larry Bannick became the pastor in Januar y of 2006. In addition, the Kay Glaesner Community Center was completed and is available to rent for receptions, etc. The center has full kitchen facilities and accommodates up to 90 people. For rental information, contact Lois Pelekoudas at 325-7781.

Central Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Timoty E. Luggins, M.Div., pastor; Ernestine Benning, administrative assistant and public relations, 411 S. High St.; Church of�ce, 767-3061 E M A I L : TheChapelOne@aol.com C O N TA C T:

Central Chapel is a local church in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) denomination. It began in 1866 in the Old Central School House on State Route 370; the church moved twice before settling at High and Davis streets. Members now worship in the second sanctuary located at that location. In order to better serve the congregation and community, the church family erected an addition, the Education and Family Life Center. The church has and will continue to address the spiritual, civil rights, physical and educational needs of all persons in Yellow Springs and beyond. The A.M.E. motto is “God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, The Holy Spirit our Comforter, Humankind our Family.” Sunday church school is held at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday morning worship begins at 11 a.m.; Bible study takes place Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church William E. Randolph Jr., pastor, 600 Dayton St., Church of�ce, 767-7659 or 767-7623

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The First Baptist Church was originally called Zion Baptist Church when it was founded in May 1863. According to its records, it was formed to meet the needs of freed slaves. In 1876 members were able to purchase the new former First Baptist Church located on Xenia Avenue. After 134 years at the Xenia Avenue site, members held a �nal service on Aug. 17, 1997, and departed to the new location on 600 Dayton St. On March 25, 2006, the church, by God’s grace, achieved the extraordinary by celebrating the mortgage burning for the new building. Besides many groups and events ser ving its members, the church is noted for annual community events, the most noteworthy of which is the annual Calendar Tea, which has taken place for 55 years. The church is a member of the Yellow Springs Christian Association. The church also has an AWANA Program

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held each Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. AWANA is a Bible-based club for youth, kindergarten through seventh grades. AWANA combines fun, physical activity, Bible memorization and the basis of a relationship with God. Sunday worship service is held at 10:45 a.m. and Sunday school for adults and children meets at 9:15 a.m. Bible study is held each Wednesday at noon, with prayer and Bible study also held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. The church prescribes for itself a core belief in the love of all mankind generated by the love of God.

First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs Rev. Aaron Saari, pastor, 314 Xenia Ave. Of�ce hours: 9 a.m.–noon, Monday–Friday. Pastor’s hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Church of�ce, 767-7751 E M A I L : �rpys@gmail.com W E B : www.facebook.com/FPCYS C O N TA C T:

The First Presbyterian Church was organized in Yellow Springs in 1855. Its presence in the community has been a very visible one, and the addition built in 1958 was dedicated for ministry oriented toward the community. A strong musical emphasis has brought excellence and diversity to its own musi-

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cal program, as well as making the church a center for community music programs. It also offers space for meetings by many community groups as a part of its ministry, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts, Monday Morning Artists, Chamber Music, Montessori School, Dayton Mandolin Orchestra, support groups, social justice and peacemaking and dance and movement classes. The church offers diverse styles of worship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., Sunday school for children and youth and both adult and children’s choirs. The church is an inclusive community of God’s people continuing Christ’s ministry of justice, mercy and love in the world.

Grandmother Drum Healing Circle Grandmother Wolfheart, 7679331; Grandmother Moon Fire, 767-1170

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The Grandmother Drum Healing Circle holds monthly gatherings on the Saturday nearest the full moon, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus. The group draws from indigenous spiritual practices that recognize and honor the wisdom of female elders, the healing power of the drum and the importance of our connection to the earth. The group aims to build community and support one another. Each gathering begins with a silent meditation, followed by a �re ceremony and

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SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY drumming. Colored cloths represent the four directions, and these colors swirl together to form pastels that �ow out in all directions with a voice for peace. The circle is open to everyone to honor the sacredness of the full moon. Following drumming, participants share �nger foods and conversations.

Heart Rhythm Meditation Classes and Meditation Circle Denise Runyon and Tom Malcolm, 937-623-2047 E M A I L : darun@sbcglobal.net W E B : friendsoftheheartcenter.com C O N TA C T:

Heart Rhythm Meditation is a heart-centered form of meditation, based on mystical teachings and scientific research, which focuses on the breath and heartbeat. It brings rhythm and balance to our physical, emotional and spiritual being. This practice offers an authentic experience of one’s heart at all levels. As an engaged meditation, Heart Rhythm Meditation yields stillness, healing, joy, insight and harmony which can be applied in everyday life for our personal development, relationships with others and work in the world. As our hearts open we develop heart consciousness, which is very much needed today. Heart Rhythm Meditation is universal. All hearts are welcome. No one is asked to be a believer of any doctrine, only a believer in living from the heart. Denise Runyon and Tom Malcolm, Institute of Applied Meditation graduates, lead weekly guided meditations on Tuesdays, 7–8 p.m., at the Friends of the Heart Center, 794 Dayton St., Yellow Springs. Classes and personal instruction are also available. For more information, visit friendsoftheheartcenter.com, email darun@sbcglobal. net, or call 937-623-2047.

Pleasant Grove Missionary Church Paster Matt Ransom, 491 W. Hyde Road, Church of�ce, 767-8011 E M A I L : pleasantgrovemc@gmail.com W E B : www.pleasantgroveMC.org; www. facebook.com/pleasantgrovemc C O N TA C T:

The Missionary Church is an Evangelical denomination, committed to church planting and world missions. The Pleasant Grove Missionary Church has been a part of this community since 1945. A warm welcome awaits visitors by the people of this country church. Adult Bible Fellowship, Elective Class and Sunday School classes for children are held on Sundays at 9:30 a.m.; worship service for adults and children’s church are held at 10:30 a.m. Sundays; a nursery is available for all Sunday morning services. Sunday evening service is held at 6 and includes worship, training, music, ministry opportunities, choir practice and kid’s Bible quizzing. Adult Bible Fellowship is held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., and small groups meet on Fridays at 6:30 p.m.

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The cornerstone of the first St. Paul Catholic Church was laid in 1856 on a lot at

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS the corner of West North College and High streets. In 1908 the current church at the corner of Phillips and Elm streets was dedicated in a building that once housed the First Christian Church. St. Paul has 310 registered family units on its roster, a religious education program for approximately 40 children and youth, and adult education programs offered throughout the year. The parish praises God in word, song and Eucharist in its masses on Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. The church has an outreach to various groups and persons in the area. It rejoices in the richness of the Roman Catholic tradition and in the diversity of a worshipping community drawn from the variety of Yellow Springs and its environs.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs 372-5613, 767-1603 www.uufys.org, www.uua.org

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Unitarian Universalists value a free search for truth, the importance of reason and the right of conscience, drawing inspiration from science, history and all world religions. Unitarian Universalists believe that spiritual wisdom is ever-changing, and seek to act as a moral force in the world, putting faith into action through social justice work in the community and the wider world. Unitarian Universalists are united by seven principles: • The inherent worth and dignity of every person. • Justice, equity and compassion in human relations. • Acceptance of one another and encouragement for spiritual growth. • A free and responsible search for truth and meaning. • The right of conscience and the democratic process. • Peace, liberty and justice for all. • Respect for the interdependent web of life. Individuals of all races, ethnic origins, religious philosophies, life styles, abilities and gender orientations are welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs. The fellowship is located two miles south of Yellow Springs at 2884 U.S. 68 in Goes Station. Services are held at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays year-round, with religious education for children and youth and child care for babies and toddlers. The building is wheelchair accessible. All are invited to explore the UUFYS website, visit the fellowship and discover the inclusive community of Unitarian Universalism.

Yellow Springs Christian Center Pastor J. Ray Tyson, 324 E. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, 767-9133 E M A I L : yscc@ag.org C O N TA C T:

The assembly is a small family church where the special unique quality of each individual is cherished and nurtured. The body of believers is warm and supportive with strong belief in the Bible as God’s manual for everyday living. Worship is informal and participatory. The Yellow Springs Assembly of God

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YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Christian Center began in 1975 as an independent fellowship, and in 1977 associated with the Assemblies of God Fellowship.

Yellow Springs Dharma Center 502 Livermore St., 767-9919 E M A I L : info@ysdharma.org W E B : www.ysdharma.org C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Dharma Center is a Buddhist meditation center supporting practice in the traditions of Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. The center seeks to create an environment that suppor ts the development of calm, compassion, and generosity; to encourage an awareness of one’s own thoughts; and to consider how one’s words and actions impact the world. To this end, the center sponsors many activities at the big brown house on Livermore Street. Daily silent meditation is offered at 7 a.m. every Monday through Friday, and at 7 p.m. every evening except Saturday. Zen meditation is offered on Saturday, 7:30–9:30 a.m., and Vipassana meditation is offered on Sunday, 8–9:30 a.m. Information about Vajrayana practice is available on the website. Those new to meditation and wanting to familiarize themselves with a beginning practice are invited to attend a brief orientation session held on the second and fourth Mondays of every month at 7:45 p.m. Additionally, six-week Basic Meditation Courses are offered throughout the year by senior practitioners at the Dharma Center. Half-day retreats at the center and residential retreats of up to one week duration are held at various times during the year as well. The Book Discussion Group meets regularly on Thursday evenings at 7:45 p.m. Schedules, titles, and leader information are posted on our website. A lending library is available for community use, with the contents posted on our website. Visiting teachers from the three traditions frequently hold teachings and practice retreats. Please visit www.ysdharma.org for additional information, changes and updates to the schedule, and follow the center on Facebook.

Yellow Springs Friends Meeting (Quakers) Rockford Chapel, 515 President St. on Antioch College campus, 767-1312 W E B : www.yellowspringsfriendsmeeting.org C O N TA C T:

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) meet each Sunday at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus. Meetings for worship are held in silence at 8:30 and 11 a.m., with individuals delivering spoken ministry when led by the spirit. Quakers recognize a measure of divine presence in every person, and their quiet worship times, called meetings, are intended to deepen devotion to this Spirit. Religious education is offered for children and adults Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m., September through May. An additional meeting for worship is held at Rockford Chapel each Wednesday from 7 to 8 a.m. The meeting sponsors a peace witness every Saturday at noon on the corner of Limestone Street and Xenia Avenue. Yellow Springs Friends have been active in peace and social concerns at local, national and international levels. In the 1970s, this body initiated formation of an extended-care

facility in Yellow Springs now known as Friends Care Community; assisted living and independent living accommodations have been added.

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Steve Green, 767-9293

The Yellow Springs Havurah provides Jewish spiritual, religious, cultural, social and educational experiences. The Havurah holds Shabbat services the �rst and third Saturday of each month at 10 a.m., at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus. A schedule of Havurah activities is posted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yellowspringshavurah/.

Yellow Springs United Methodist Church Rev. Rick Jones; Linda Shook, 202 S. Winter St., 767-7560 (church) E M A I L : pastor-ysumc@yellowsprings.com W E B : www.yellowspringsumc.com C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs United Methodist Church is a warm, friendly, communityoriented congregation. The membership is diverse and consists of professional, working class, and farm people, theologically representing the entire spectrum of faith understandings, from conservative to progressive. The congregation is also racially and ethnically diverse. The force that holds the group together is love: the love of Christ and a love for humankind. The United Methodist Church has been a presence in the village since 1837. Its

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Roosevelt to leave in December, 2015 By DIANE CHIDDISTER

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At a meeting attended by several hundred in the Antioch College community on May 5, 2015, College President Mark Roosevelt announced that he will no longer lead the college when his five-year contract expires at the end of 2015. “We’ve taken a dream and made it a reality,” Roosevelt said to college faculty, staff and students, stating that he’ll leave his job “with enormous regret and mixed feelings.” However, he said, he believes, “it’s the right time. This gives the college the opportunity to find a new leader to take the college to the next level.” The decision to leave is clearly Roosevelt’s, said Board of Trustee Chair Frances Horowitz of New York City. “You have exceeded our expectations — which were high — and set us on a path of momentum that we have every confidence will be maintained in the years ahead,” Horowitz wrote in a statement presented at the meeting. Hired as the college’s first president after its reopening, Roosevelt faced the daunting task of relaunching a liberal arts college at a time when liberal arts colleges are closing their doors. When he came to Antioch College, “there were no students, no faculty, no dormitories, no farm, no solar arrays, no identified means for renovating the campus,” Glen Helen Director Nick Boutis said at the event. “It’s extraordinary what we’ve accomplished. I’m deeply grateful that you’ve positioned the school to succeed.” At the event, Roosevelt also announced that the Morgan Family Foundation has donated $6 million to the college, the largest single gift since Antioch’s rebirth, and perhaps its largest gift ever. In an interview in May, Roosevelt said that while the task of reviving the college is not complete, “I feel a certain sense of completion. I will have finished what I tried to do for as long as I could.” And it’s time, Roosevelt said, “to take a deep breath and to consolidate our gains.” And there have been considerable gains, Roosevelt said. First and most important, the college is well on its way to accreditation. The process, which provides criticial legitimacy to colleges and universities, has been unexpectedly long and difficult but after

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a successful 2013 site visit from the North Central Association, or NCA, accreditation team, Antioch became an official candidate for accreditation, which allows students to receive federal aid. The second and last site visit will take place in November, 2015, when Roosevelt will still be on the job. The college could receive full accreditation in June 2016, he said. “I’m very hopeful. I feel confident,” he said, stating his confidence is linked to the progress the college has made addressing concerns raised by the NCA team. Those concerns centered on financial instability, and the Morgan Foundation gift of $6 million helps to stabilize finances, he said, stating that the college budget will be in the black for 2015, as it has been each year since he arrived. The need to raise money has been a constant pressure for Roosevelt. By the end of 2014–15 fiscal year, $75 million had been raised, and the college had also received about $30 million from the sale of YSI stock. Along with operations, the funds have financed large renovations on a campus that had for years been allowed to deteriorate, with the largest renovation being that of the Science and Art building ($30 million) followed by the Wellness Center ($8 million), Birch and North Hall dormitories (about $11 million) and the construction of geothermal and solar energy installations. The college also is renovating West Hall for additional student housing, along with ongoing improvements to the Foundry Theater. But the need for campus improvement remains huge, Roosevelt said. The complete renovation of facilities is estimated to cost about $100 million, rather than the $30 million estimated cost made by earlier college

leaders, because the deterioration of campus buildings was so profound. The unexpectedly high cost of upgrading the campus was one of several surprises for Roosevelt when he took on the job, he said. The other two were the difficulty of achieving accreditation and “the woundedness of the community,” around the issue of former faculty of the college, with strong voices raised both for and against rehiring former faculty members. In the end, while former faculty were not hired to teach, several were brought in to the revitalized college in administrative positions. While the need for ongong fundraising remains critical, significant progress has been made in the depth and breadth of contributors. Before its closing, about 3 to 4 percent of alumni donated to the college, and that number is now up to 30 percent. The college has received in five years about 40,000 individual donations from 8,500 contributors, Roosevelt said. What all of these challenges have in common has been the need for supporters to believe in the viability of the reborn Antioch College, Roosevelt said, and convincing them has been his biggest challenge: “My job was to build belief in the possibility of the college’s success,” he said. In May 2015, Roosevelt accepted a job as president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M. He is expected to start that job in January 2016. Horowitz said that the college revival will continue on pace regardless of Roosevelt’s leaving. “I think we’re committed to maintaining the momentum already established,” she said. “While a new person may have their own vision, nothing already accomplished will be undone.”

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LOCAL INDUSTRY ElectroShield, Inc. 767-1054; 708 S. High St. www.electroshield.com

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ElectroShield was founded in 1976 as a manufacturer of burglar alarms. Over time, the company transitioned into distribution and has grown to be the largest stocking distributor of Fujikura (formally DDK) and Conxall commercial circular connectors. ElectroShield’s connector lines are used in industrial manufacturing, including prominent use in the automotive assembly, automation and agricultural industries. Among many other applications, its products are used on servo motors, encoders, sensors, control boxes and scales to connect them with both signal and power. ElectroShield employs more than 15 empowered people, who are focused on enhancing customers’ business by providing quick, knowledgeable service and excellent delivery of commercial connectors.

EnviroFlight, LLC 303 N. Walnut St., 767-1988 info@enviro�ight.net www.enviro�ight.net

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EnviroFlight harnesses the power of the black soldier �y (Hermetia illucens) through applied technology for nutrient recovery. It uses co-products from breweries, ethanol production and pre-consumer food waste as feedstock for black soldier larvae to produce cost-effective, sustainable, high quality nutrients and fertilizer.

Morris Bean & Company 777 E. Hyde Road, 767-7301 www.morrisbean.com

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Morris Bean & Company had its beginnings as a co-op work project of Antioch College. It was once known as the Antioch Foundry and occupied what is now the Antioch Theater on Corry Street. Morris Bean was assigned to the project as student manager in 1928, and the business incorporated with Morris as president and part-owner in 1946. The company supplies precision castings with extraordinary performance characteristics to manufacturers of commercial refrigeration, locomotive turbochargers, medical and cryogenic equipment. Morris Bean & Company is recognized as the source for castings exceeding normal industry capabilities. The company celebrates its 69th anniversary in 2015.

S & G Artisan Distillery, LLC, sandgartisandistillery@woh.rr.com www.sandgartisandistillery.com

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S and G Artisan Distillery, LLC is a true hand-created, small-batch distiller y dedicated to hand-crafting �ne spirits, unusual liqueurs and traditional European schnaps. S and G was founded in 2011 and made its home in the community of Yellow Springs. Founding members Meg Solomon-Gujer, Steven Gujer, Hajo Scheuner and Kerr y Scheuner work collaboratively in the creation, manufacturing, and business of the distillery. S and G’s brand, “The Spirits of Yellow Springs,” �agship products of Apple Pie Moonshine, made with S and G’s own

exceptional rum have proven to be fan favorites, and the 44 proof version was voted a top pick of Ohio’s new products in 2015 (Ohio Magazine Readers’ Poll, January 2015). S and G’s tasting room offers tastings of all current products and some samplings of items in research and development. Located in the Millworks Complex, 305 N. Walnut St., Yellow Springs, the tasting room is open Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturdays from noon to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. More information is available online at www.sandgartisandistillery. com and on Facebook under The Spirits of Yellow Springs. Cheers!

Vernay Laboratories 120 E. South College St., 7677261 W E B : www.vernay.com C O N TA C T:

Vernay Laboratories is a world leader and innovator in the design and manufacture of sophisticated fluid-handling components. Since Sergius Vernet’s invention of the waxexpansion element that revolutionized the automotive thermostat in 1938, the company has been dedicated to meeting and exceeding the specialized needs of the global marketplace. Vernay ser ves the industrialized world through sales and manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Georgia, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Brazil, Japan, Singapore and China. Vernay’s headquarters and research and development operation remain in Yellow Springs at its facility on East South College Street. Vernay produces precision rubber products for the automotive, appliance, consumer, small engine and medical industries. Products include duckbill check valves, umbrella check valves, v-balls, diaphragms, bidirectional valves, combination valves, check valve assemblies, �ow controls and a variety of precision molded inserted products, such as the v-tip needle valves, poppets, solenoid armatures and seals. Vernay was incorporated in 1946 and celebrates its 68th anniversary in 2015.

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YSI, Incorporated, a Xylem brand, is a manufacturer of precision scienti�c equipment. The company was founded in the village in 1948 by graduates of Antioch College. YSI’s global headquarters, research and development lab, and largest manufacturing facility is located in Yellow Springs. YSI employs over 200 people locally and has additional employees who work in YSI facilities all over the world. YSI’s major instruments and sensors are focused on environmental monitoring, namely water quality and velocity. These systems deliver high-quality data to governments and independent professionals who are actively maintaining our natural resources and ecosystems. The Life Sciences division of YSI also manufactures bio-analyzers for pharmaceutical, health care and alternative fuel processing applications. YSI’s slogan — “Who’s Minding the

Planet?” ® — asks one to consider the commitment made by those who use YSI products to protect the planet and ensure a rich, sustainable future. Citizens who drink clean water, receive �ood warnings, enjoy recreational �shing, and patients with diabetes have all encountered the bene�ts of dedicated professionals utilizing YSI products. Connect with YSI on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many other social media sites. To read more about how customers are using YSI instruments to manage local and global environmental issues — please visit the company’s blog at: ysi.com/blog. YSI is both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 registered.

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Yellow Springs Brewery is an award-winning microbrewery committed to crafting high-quality artisanal beer for the village and the region. Founded in 2013 by Nate Cornett and Lisa Wolters, Yellow Springs Brewery boasts a 15-barrel production brew house and public taproom at its location in the MillWorks business park. Yellow Springs Brewery has set itself apart in the growing craft beer market by brewing well-balanced beers that are unique takes on traditional styles, winning a silver medal at the prestigious Great American Beer Festival in its �rst year of operation. It has produced a wide variety of beers, including pale ales, stouts, saisons, IPAs, brown ales, barrel-aged beers, wheat beers, cream ales, milds and more. In 2015 the brew house doubled in capacity, and will soon churn out 4,000 barrels of beer per year. Yellow Springs Brewery is also expected to begin canning two of its �agship beers for the retail market. More than 100 bars and restaurants in the Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati areas already carry Yellow Springs

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College’s ﬁrst class rose to challenges B y M E G A N B AC H M A N

Pioneers. Risk takers. Antioch’s poster children. “The chosen ones.” There are many names for the revived Antioch College’s first graduating class, and much to be said about them. They laid the foundation of the new Antioch. They were constantly under a microscope. They endlessly championed Antioch to potential donors and prospective students. They relit the flame of activism at the college. And they diminished; from the initial 35 students who entered in fall 2011 they were down to 22, 21 of whom graduated in June 2015. Far from the typical college experience, the inaugural class of Horace Mann Fellows received an education in how to rebuild a college. It wasn’t easy, but it was formative. “Antioch was definitely a formative experience, but in the most challenging way possible,” explained Sara Brooks, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. “The opportunities for student leadership, the grassroots nature of the project we stepped into, made us have to grow. ... We had to do things we wouldn’t have had to anywhere else.” The first class restructured a community governance model that wasn’t working, pushed to overhaul the block course schedule, successfully lobbied for transgender bathrooms, amended family leave policies, set up recycling programs, pushed for disability services, molded majors, shaped the food offered and more — all while taking classes, working co-ops, setting up clubs and sitting on committees. To Guy “Jack” Matthews, who studied anthropology and political economy, the Antioch experience centered around reconciling differing ideas for the institution. Antiochians, Matthews now believes, can change the world. “We have seen that individual Antioch students are devastatingly effective, but when we work together we are even more effective than that,” Matthews said. “Even in the small numbers we have, we can change the world.” The achievements of Antioch’s first class after reopening were celebrated at a commencement ceremony on June 20, in the Wellness Center’s South Gym; the ceremony had been moved from outside because of inclement weather. Dr. Clarence Thomas, civil rights lawyer and advisor and speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stepped in to give the commencement address when U.S. Congressman John Lewis could not come because of a family emergency. In addition, six students in the Class of 2015 spoke to their college experience. The historical moment for Antioch, which hadn’t held a commencement ceremony in seven years, is pivotal, according to Vice President of Academic Affairs Lori Collins-Hall. The first class did a lot of heavy lifting at the rebuilding college, took a risk on an unaccredited upstart institution and didn’t have many resources

or facilities at their disposal, but nevertheless showed a lot of perseverance and patience, Collins-Hall said. They shaped, and were shaped by, the nascent college. “They were a phenomenal group in the sense that they took a chance on us, they came in and invested a lot of their own time and energy to co-create a lot,” Collins-Hall said, adding, “I don’t know how empowered they felt. There was a feeling they had to fight for everything.” When the first class arrived in 2011, there were just six tenure-track professors, one dormitory — where students slept, studied and ate — and one classroom building. For the first quarter they ate only take-out food. The class waited three years for a Wellness Center and three years for an Arts and Science Building, taking science classes out of a trailer until it opened. By the end of the first year, four students had left; by the final year, another eight had departed. The students graduating in 2015 may be the only ones to leave Antioch with a degree from an unaccredited institution. They still received Bachelor’s degrees in art or science. By the 2016 graduation, the college will have received word about its accreditation. Speaking of the challenges, and the Class of 2015’s ability to overcome them, Ryann Patrus, who is deaf, found some difficulties accessing her courses in the first two years. “There were a lot of roadblocks to accessing my courses and it took a long time of me voicing that I needed certain things,” Patrus said. But Patrus went on to pave the way for others with hearing disabilities by working with the Center for Academic Success to set up disability services for them (there is currently another hearing-impaired student). Patrus, who received a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, plans to go on to graduate school after a year break to further pursue disability studies. Brooks also said Antioch influenced her life direction. She continued through the summer as the assistant food services coordinator, and it was her time in the Antioch kitchen that made her want to be a cook. Brooks plans on looking for a cooking position, perhaps at a collectively owned restaurant. She also wants to be involved in union organizing and admits that, as a first-generation college student, she likely wouldn’t have earned a college degree had she not attended Antioch. At the same time, Brooks has had her share of challenges at Antioch. The initial dearth of resources for students, including health services and student success services, was frustrating. “It was bare bones,” Brooks said. Brooks said she learned that it is easy to point out the negatives of an institution to improve it, but it’s more useful to do the hard work in fixing the problems. As for the legacy of the Class of 2015, Brooks believes it is in “bringing forward the history of Antiochians in activism and social justice.” Matthews was mostly encouraged by the change in community governance

the Class of 2015 enacted, which was “an enlightening experience in how a school can be run with first-year students and the administration acting on equal terms.” Matthews even went on to form his first political party at Antioch. The former chair of the Council of Conveners is looking to get a job as a paralegal for a year before going on to law school. After a coop at a law firm specializing in labor law in New York, Matthews found the type of law he wanted to practice. In fact, several students cited their four co-op experiences and other experiential learning as a highlight of their time at Antioch. Diana Zavala-Lopez had an “eye-opening” experience teaching English and sports in India, and she affirmed her desire to work in criminal justice as a forensic psychologist after an “Inside Out” class where Antioch students learned alongside prison inmates. Kellaway co-oped at EnviroFlight, where he will work after graduating, and also spent co-ops at a sled dog kennel and glass blowing shop after being encouraged to choose co-op jobs not just on career aspirations but to “explore a passion.” Students went on four coops during their time at Antioch. To Dean of Admissions Micah Canal, who was among the graduates at Antioch’s last graduation in 2008, the first graduation of the reborn Antioch feels “a bit bizarre” because it doesn’t seem that long ago that he walked across the stage. In the meantime, Canal, one of the original founders of the new Antioch, has helped the college grow from a “total embryo to something graduating students and raising $20 million per year,” he said, adding, “and we’ve only just begun.” Asked to describe the Class of 2015, Canal said “they were brave,” and many were transformed by their times at Antioch, including the difficult ones. “The skill set of facing imperfection and drawing out a more perfect solution is one that is going to serve them well for their lives, and one the world is in dire need of,” Canal said. Looking at the future of the institution they invested in so heavily, and now depart, students are optimistic. Matthews said the most recent demonstration around accessibility issues showed him “this school is going to go on making the same difference it always has, both on and off campus.” Patrus urged future classes of Antiochians to be gentle with one another, since everyone is growing and changing so fast in their college years, and also to not get too discouraged about slow progress towards change on campus. “It gets discouraging when you can’t mold this place to what you want it to be when you come in thinking you’re going to have all this power,” Patrus said. “But you pay attention, and work diligently your four years here, you will see the change.”

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Antioch College commencement inspires By DIANE CHIDDISTER

Inspiring, rousing, uplifting — each component of the Antioch College commencement on June 20, 2015, fit these descriptions, as the college celebrated its first post-revival graduating class while reaffirming its social justice legacy in the light of the recent massacre of nine African-Americans. “We will not abide people coming into a sanctuary and killing us,” shouted Dr. Clarence B. Jones, the commencement speaker, to spirited

applause from the packed house at the college’s South Gym. Jones, an attorney and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke in response to the shootings that took place in June at black church in Charleston, S.C. While Jones made clear that he was not calling for violence, he emphasized that this country’s current level of racism and violence demands far more massive and effective protest than has been recently seen. “We have to creatively think of different forms of protest. We’re not going to stand

by idly and carry signs. We have to end this mess,” he said, adding that “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” The audience of students, parents, college leaders and staff and Yellow Springs community members responded in kind to Dr. Jones, having been invigorated by the World House Choir’s powerful renditions of “Glory,” with local rapper Issa Walker, “We Are Here,” “Tshotsholoza,” a South African freedom song,” and “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” by Bernice Johnson Reagon. But the 21 Antioch College graduates, who received thunderous applause and a standing ovation as they entered the gym, were clearly the stars of the show. “Very few will know what this class did for this college,” President Mark Roosevelt stated in his welcome. Even more important than creating new college practices and traditions and re-creating old ones, the young people “allowed this college a chance. By being here, they showed this can be done ...” In his invocation, Professor Emeritus Al Denman called on the graduates to heal the ailing environment, and also to “Listen to each others’ songs, devise your own songs and sing, sing, sing!” In their talks, the six graduates selected to speak were, in very different ways, articulate, passionate, creative and occasionally pointedly critical of their alma mater — just what you’d expect from graduates of Antioch College. In his remarks, Guy Jack Mathews lauded his peers for their desire to do good but especially for their perseverence.

“We have proven time and time again that we can be devastatingly effective,” Mathews said, concluding that, “Together, we can change the world.” While the official education Elijah Blanton received focused on political economy and the Spanish language, his most significant learning at Antioch involved “how to be here with each other and make things work,” he said in his speech. And though Blanton acknowledged failures in the college community that led to the loss of a significant number of the original entering class, he also said, “I’m convinced I received the best education anyone has ever gotten.” Speaker Nargees Jumahan, a graduate who was raised in Afghanistan, spoke of her high hopes coming to a college reputed to be a beacon of social justice. However, she said, “I’ve still been subjected to racism and classism in this institution.” Graduate Brendan Deal of Yellow Springs spoke of his search for the definition of an “Antiochian,” including “people who don’t have bags under their eyes — they have luggage,” those who “engage in passionate discussions on the future of the college at 3 a.m. every night,” and those who “can be dropped off in any city or country and within two days have a job and a place to stay.” Deal concluded that he ended his four years at Antioch with “no idea of what an Antiochian is but I’m glad to be one,” and that he leaves the college more wise and empathetic and “more prepared to face the world.”

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT Miami Township Miami Township of�ces, 225 Corry St., 767-2460 E M A I L : trustees@miamitownship.net W E B : www.miamitownship.net C O N TA C T:

Miami Township, which includes Yellow Springs and Clifton, is governed by a three member Board of Trustees — currently Mark Crockett, Chris Mucher and Lamar Spracklen — and a Township Fiscal Of�cer, Margaret Silliman, The Township is zoned, and the trustees oversee and appoint the �ve members of the Zoning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. The Township zoning code and map are available online. The trustees also see to the maintenance of 14.35 miles of Township roads, all of which are hard surfaced, and the operation of three cemeteries: the Township cemetery in Clifton, the Glen Forest Cemetery and the private Grinnell Cemetery. The Township also owns the historic Grinnell Mill, which is open to the public Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. For information regarding the Grinnell Mill Bed and Breakfast, please call 767-0131. The Board of Trustees meets the �rst and third Mondays of each month at 7 p.m., at the Township of�ces, located at 225 Corry St. in Yellow Springs. Township residents are invited to attend the meetings, which traditionally have an “open agenda” format. Meeting minutes may be viewed by visiting miamitownship.net.

Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs John Gudgel, 605-8754 mediation@vil.yellowsprings.oh.us

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The Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs provides peaceful and productive methods of addressing con�ict in the Yellow Springs and Miami Township community. Skilled volunteer mediators provide free mediation sessions to assist community members with their disputes. Free facilitation and consultation services are available for nonpro�t, community service and education organizations. VMP offers a variety of workshops and training opportunities for local residents and organizations. New mediators are always welcomed.

Village of Yellow Springs Bryan Community Center, 100 Dayton St., 767-3402 W E B : www.yso.com C O N TA C T:

An engaged, active citizenry and a responsive government are a tradition in Yellow Springs. The Village of Yellow Springs is a political subdivision of the State of Ohio, governed by a home-rule charter adopted in 1950. The Village operates under the Council-Manager form of government, operating several departments including police, streets maintenance, parks, water treatment and distribution, sewer and storm water collection, water reclamation, refuse/recycling, and electrical service. Fire and EMS service are provided by Miami Township. The Village of�ces are located in the Bryan Center, at 100 Dayton St.

The Village Council is a nonpartisan, �ve member governing elected body. The Council serves as the policy-making body of the Village, with the Village Manager assisting Council with policy decisions through insightful analysis on policy alternatives, implementing policy decision and carrying out other duties as described in the Charter. Three of the �ve Council members are elected every two years, in the November general election in odd-numbered years. The two candidates receiving the most votes are elected to four-year terms, and the candidate with the third-highest total receives a twoyear term. Village Council is presided over by the Council President, who is a Council member elected by Council members with each newly elected Council. The Village Council meets on the �rst and third Monday of each month at 7 p.m., in the Bryan Center. Council provides time at each meeting for public input, on both matters being discussed before Council and on matters not on the agenda, but of interest to the community. Meetings are televised live via cable TV on Channel 5. The Planning Commission meets on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Bryan Center. The Planning Commission is presided over by an elected chair and consists of �ve members who are appointed by Village Council, including one Council representative. The commission provides time at each meeting for public input on matters being discussed before the commission. These meetings are also televised on Channel 5. The Board of Zoning Appeals, or BZA, meets as needed to hear variance and other zoning matters. BZA is presided over by an elected chair and consists of �ve member, appointed by Council. BZA meetins are open to the public and are televised on Channel 5. Council also has established citizen advisor y committees and commissions who advise Council on policy matters. Membership is appointed by Council, but meetings remain open to the public for input and comment. These are the Library Commission, Human Relations Commission, Environmental Commission, Energy Board, Public Art Commission and Community Access Panel. The Village works with other local groups on speci�c projects. Village partners have included the Chamber of Commerce, Community Resources, Home, Inc., Tecumseh Land Trust, Bicycle Enhancement and Safe Routes to School Committee, the Senior Center, Yellow Springs Arts Council, the Tree Committee and several others. The Village oeprates a mediation program to help resolve disputes and foster peace in the community. The Bryan Center is a multi-use facility that provides space for Village government of�ces, Mayor’s Court, conference and meeting rooms, a youth center and a number of recreational and educational areas. The center is accessible to all citizens per the use policy. Facilities for tennis and basketball, as well as a pottery shop, toddler playground and the skate park are located at the rear of the Bryan Center property. Recreational activities in the village include numerous parks and the Bryan Center. Gaunt Park, located on West South College Street, is the Village’s largest park and is home to the public swimming pool. The Village’s swim team, the Seadogs, competes regionally. The two softball diamonds at Gaunt Park are used

by men’s and women’s leagues and the Perry League, the local T-ball program. The Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Program also plays at Gaunt Park every summer. Ellis Park on the north end of town is a passive recreation park and patrons enjoy strolling through the Lloyd Kennedy Arboretum and/or using the �shing pond. Ohio’s longest bike trail, the Little Miami Bike Trail, is adjacent to the Bryan Center parking lot. Residents and visitor use the trail for bicycling, walking, running, skating, horseback riding and other nonmotorized recreation. The Village manages its section of trail in conjunction with the Greene County Parks & Trails department.

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B O A R D S, C O M M I S S I O N S The following is a list of volunteer public governance boards, commissions, task forces and other organizations that allow villagers to serve the community in speci�c areas. Not all groups meet regularly or are always active, and some are called into action on an as-needed basis. Check the Yellow Springs News for monthly updates to meetings, times and availability of positions. Village meetings are held at the Br yan Center, 100 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, unless otherwise noted. Check the Yellow Springs News for holiday rescheduling.

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Librar y Commission Meets �rst Tuesday of every even numbered month, 7 p.m. at the Yellow Springs Library, 415 Xenia Ave.

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Village Board of Zoning Appeals Scheduled as needed by Planning Of�ce Village Council Meets �rst and third Monday, 7 p.m. YELLOW SPRINGS SCHOOLS Mills Lawn P.T.O.

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Human Relations Commission Meets �rst Thursday, 7 p.m.

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Village Board of Tax Appeals Scheduled as needed by Administration Member

Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund Committee Meets as required by Village Treasurer

Environmental Commission Meets third Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.

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Public Arts Commission Meets second Wednesday, 7 p.m.

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Energy Board Meets second and fourth Tuesday, 6 p.m.,

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Planning Commission Meets second Monday, 7 p.m.

Community Access Panel Meets third Wednesday, 7 p.m.

Economic Sustainability Commission Meetings suspended until further notice.

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Miami Township Board of Zoning Appeals Scheduled as needed GREENE COUNTY/REGIONAL Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission Meets �rst Thursday, 8:30 a.m., 11040 W. Third St., Dayton Regional Planning and Coordinating Commission for Greene County Meets third Tuesday of each month, 1:30 p.m., County Building, Dayton/Xenia Road, Xenia. Full commission meets the fourth Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. as needed.

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C O M M U N I C AT I O N S Antioch Review Christina Gabbard, managing, P.O. Box 148, 769-1365 E M A I L : cgabbard@antiochreview.org W E B : www.antiochreview.org C O N TA C T:

The Antioch Review is a quarterly publication of critical and creative thought that prints award-winning �ction, essays and poetr y from emerging and established writers. It is variously identi�ed as a literary journal, a scholarly quarterly and a little magazine. Established in 1941, the Review has attracted an international readership with an active interest in our culture as it is re�ected in the arts, politics and current affairs. For more than 70 years, creative authors, poets and thinkers have found a friendly reception in the Review, regardless of formal reputation. Antioch Review authors are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes. The Review was a �nalist for the National Magazine Award in 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the �ction and essay categories. Subscriptions and single copies are available from the website or P.O. Box 148, Yellow Springs. Single copies are also available at Tom’s Market and Sam & Eddie’s Open Books. Excerpts from the current and upcoming issues can be viewed on our website.

Channel 5 Council Chambers, John Bryan Community Center, 767-7803; of�ce hours: 10 a.m.–noon each Saturday E M A I L : communityaccess@yso.com W E B : www.cap.yso.com C O N TA C T:

Yellow Springs Community Access Television Channel 5 is the public access station for the village. The station regularly broadcasts meetings of Village Council and its commissions, Township Trustees, School Board and other organizations. In addition, local groups and residents provide shows of interest to the community. Between shows, Channel 5 volunteers broadcast announcements of local events. Forms for announcements are on the website and in the Bryan Center lobby. E-mail your favorite pictures, and Channel 5 will use them. The station’s cameras, editing equipment and training are available to the community to create content to show on the station. An informal group of villagers is forming to help put together productions. A wide range of training is also available through the Miami Valley Communications Council. Channel 5 can use help from the general public in taping meetings and events, working with others to create shows and operating the station.

WYSO Public Radio 767-6420 wyso@wyso.org www.wyso.org

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WYSO Public Radio, 91.3 FM, is the most listened-to public radio station ser ving the Miami Valley. It is the area’s primary source for National Public Radio programming, including “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” Entertainment favorites include “Car Talk,” “This American Life” and “Fresh Air.” For its overnight schedule, WYSO features news programming from the

BBC World Service. WYSO produces news reports and features for its Miami Valley listeners as well as its own weekly magazine, “WYSO Weekend” and many other locally hosted music programs. Programming, membership information and audio streaming are available online. WYSO is licensed to Antioch College and broadcasts at 50,000 watts from the Antioch campus to a weekly audience of almost 70,000 persons. WYSO depends on listener and business support for most of its operating budget. Businesses interested in reaching WYSO’s audience through underwriting messages may contact the station for more information.

Yellow Springs News P.O. Box 187, 253 Xenia Ave., 767-7373; fax 767-2254. E M A I L : ysnews@ysnews.com W E B : www.ysnews.com C O N TA C T:

For more than 130 years, the Yellow Springs News has re�ected the myriad activities in Yellow Springs and Miami Township, from coverage of the local governments and schools, to stories about interesting people who live here, to the many events that take place throughout the year. Published every Thursday, the News is read regularly by more than 80 percent of Yellow Springers. Over the years, the paper has consistently won state and national journalism awards for its reporting, editorial writing, advertising, typography and community service.

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FALL STREET FAIR Sat., Oct. 10, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (downtown) ART STROLL Fri., Oct. 16, 6–10 p.m. (downtown) Y ELLOW SPRINGS ARTIST STUDIO TOUR Sat. and Sun., Oct. 17–18, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

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ART AND SOUL: AN ART FAI R

Sat., Nov. 21, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Mills Lawn)

YELLOW FRIDAY Fri., Nov. 27 (downtown)

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ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR Fri., Nov. 27 (Yellow Springs Senior Center) LEGENDARY LIGHTS OF CLIFTON Nov. 27–Jan. 1 (Clifton, OH) DEC

SANTA PANCAKE BREAKFAST Sat., Dec. 5, 9–11:30 a.m. (United Methodist Church)

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HOLIDAY FEST Dec. 12 (Downtown; details TBA)

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SCHOOL FOREST FESTIVAL Sat. and Sun., Dec. 5–6, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. (Bryan Park Road)

FRIENDS MUSIC CAMP SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT CONCERT Mon., Dec. 28 (Antioch Foundtry Theater) YS ARTS COUNCIL JUMBLE SALE Dec. 5–31 (111 Corry St.) JAN

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PEACE WALK Mon., Jan. 18, 10:30 a.m. (downtown)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS Sun., Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS Sun., Mar. 20, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS Sun., April 24, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

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SPRING STREET FAIR Sat., June 11, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (downtown) ART STROLL Fri., June 17, 6–10 p.m. (downtown)

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YS KIDS PLAYHOUSE (Dates & location TBA) AN TIOCH WRITERS’ WORKSHOP July 11–17 (Antioch University Midwest) F RIENDS MUSIC CAMP GLEN HELEN BENEFIT CONCERT Sat., July 30 (Location TBA)

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BOOK FAIR Sat., Aug. 6, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (Mills Lawn School) ART ON THE LAWN Sat., Aug. 13, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (Mills Lawn School)

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CLIFTON GORGE ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Fri. and Sat., Aug. 26–27 (Clifton, OH) CYCLOPS FEST Date TBA (Bryan Ctr. lawn) CORNER CONE FARMERS MARKET Saturdays, 7 a.m.–noon, April–Nov.(Corner Cone parking lot) YELLOW SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET, APRIL–NOV. Saturdays, 7 a.m.–noon, April–Nov. (Kings Yard parking lot) YELLOW SPRINGS WINTER MARKET Saturdays, 9 a.m.–noon, Jan.–March (Senior Center Great Room)

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