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They amble across busythoroughfares walking singlefile with little regard for on-coming traffic.

They make our sidewalkstheir personal lavatories, anddo not clean up behind them-selves.

And, this time of year whenCanada geese make their nestsin local office parks, apart-ments and public places, theiraggression has been known tosend people to the hospital.

If you think your geese en-counters are more plentifulthis year than most, you areprobably right.

Clay Smitson, a privatelands wildlife biologist with theKentucky Department of Fishand Wildlife Resources, saidthe department doesn’t surveycounties in Northern Kentuckyspecifically, but conducts astatewide survey. The surveyshows a stable to slightly in-creasing population, which isnormal, Smitson said.

“It is common for us to re-

ceive more complaints duringthe nesting season when geesecan become aggressive defend-ing nests, and when geese con-gregate in larger numbers toprepare for the moult, whenthey replace their flight feath-ers and become flightless,” hesaid.

Nancy Lanham of PaulHemmer Companies based inFort Mitchell, which operatesoffice properties throughoutNorthern Kentucky and Cin-cinnati, doesn’t need studies toconfirm what her eyes see ev-ery day.

“It seems to get worse yearafter year. This has been theworst year,” Lanham said. “Thegeese have been way more ag-gressive. I am an animal loverbut I think they’re really over-populated. I understand theyhave to be protected, but this isgetting out of hand.”

Last year, Lanham saidsomeone at one of Hemmer’sproperties suffered injuries af-ter being chased by an overpro-tective goose.

“She ran and fell, got hurtand had to be taken to the hospi-

tal,” she said. “The other prob-lem is that they make such amess. This increases our clean-ing costs which increases coststo our tenants. It’s also unsight-ly and unsanitary.”

The mess, according to TomWells, president of Cincinnati-based Away with Geese, canamount to three to four poundsof waste every day.

“Imagine having 50 geese onone property, that’s 200 poundsof waste every day. Somethinghas to be done,” Wells said.

Lanham said they’ve triedmany products to deter thegeese.

“We even tried coyote cut-outs,” she said. “Those didn’twork at all, the geese just satnext to them.”

Kenton County, she said, isthe “trouble hotspot.”

Nesting activities begin inearly April, and goslings starthatching around the beginningof May.

Smitson said there are noplans to combat geese in Ken-tucky.

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After grazing on an adjacent lawn, more than a dozen geese walk single file around one of the lakes at ErlangerLakes subdivision in August 2014.

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Primary Election Day is forDemocrats and Republicans, notregistered independent voters.

Democratic and Republicanvoters can cast votes at pollingprecincts across Kentucky from6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on primary elec-tion day, Tuesday, May 19.

Boone, Campbell or Kentoncounties have no local elections.Ballots in all three counties arethe same for choosing candi-dates for five state offices, in-cluding governor, ahead of aNov. 3 general Election Day. Fora sample ballot visitbit.ly/kyballots.

Republican and Democraticvoters will each see ballots tochoose gubernatorial and statetreasurer candidates. Republi-cans will have ballots with candi-dates for attorney general andcommissioner of agriculture.Democrats have a ballot withtwo candidates for secretary ofstate.

People need to remember tovote, said Campbell CountyClerk Jim Luersen.

“Historically, Northern Ken-tucky has always had a low turn-out for state races,” Luersensaid. “A lot that happens inFrankfort affects us, for betteror worse, and we need a voice inFrankfort that represents us.”

Primary election voter turn-out in Campbell County is not ex-pected to come close to the 42percent of registered voters forageneral election day with coun-ty and local offices up for grabslast November, he said.

“We are guessing between 12and 15 percent turnout,” Luer-sen said.

Boone County Clerk KennyBrown also expects a low turn-out.

“I expect voter turnout to bein line historically with the wayit’s been for these kind of state-wide races, very low. I’m expect-ing anywhere from 7 to 10 per-

cent,” Brown said. In the past three primary

elections for statewide constitu-tional officers, voter turnoutwas 6.8 percent in 2011, 11.08 per-cent in 2007, and 8.8 percent in2003, according to Brown.

“The tradition is that North-ern Kentucky really doesn’t turnout for these statewide constitu-tional races,” he said. “It’s sadbecause we’re missing a chanceto have an influence on thesestatewide offices.”

Brown said there are nochanges to Boone County’s 62precincts or their polling loca-tions since the last election. Hesaid voters who want to checkthose details can call the officeat 859-334-2130 or visitwww.booneclerk.com. Resi-dents can also check the site forelection results.

Party affiliation matters inprimary voting, Luersen said.

“It’s a primary so, you have tobe a registered Democrat or Re-publican to vote,” Luersen said.“Independents can’t vote.”

Voters had until Dec. 31 lastyear to switch their party affili-ation in time for the primary, hesaid.

People have to have a valid IDto vote.

“It should be either a driverslicense, Social Security card,credit card or personally knownby the poll workers that’s OKtoo,” Luersen said.

Polls close at 6 p.m., but vot-ing can continue, he said. “If youare in line at 6 p.m., you get tovote no matter how long the lineis in front of you,” Luersen said.

Campbell County will have264 poll workers operating ma-chines at 66 different voting pre-cincts, he said.

“It’s pretty much the sameamount of work for us regard-less,” Luersen said.

Kenton County Clerk Gabri-elle Summe said she can’t pre-dict the turnout.

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COVINGTON — AFort Wright man hasbeen sentenced to 106months in federal pris-on for heroin, cocaineand weapons offenses.

The announcementwas made jointly todayby Kerry B. Harvey,U.S. Attorney for theEastern District ofKentucky; SpecialAgent in Charge How-ard S. Marshall, Feder-al Bureau of Investiga-tion, and Fort WrightPolice Chief DanielKreinest, Fort WrightPolice Chief.

On Tuesday, U.S.District Judge David L.Bunning sentenced 27-year-old Michael Dan-iels for possession withintent to distribute her-oin and crack cocaineand possessing a fire-arm in furtherance of adrug traffickingcrime. Under federallaw, Daniels mustserve at least 85 per-cent of his prison sen-tence.

Following his re-lease, he will be underthe supervision of theU.S. Probation Officefor eight years.

Daniels pleadedguilty on Dec. 1, 2014,and admitted that hehad been selling heroinand crack cocainewhile staying at a hotelin Fort Wright in June2014.

Agents investigateda complaint about drugactivity in Daniels’ ho-tel room and located 36grams of heroin, 22grams of crack co-caine, money, a digitalscale and a loaded 9mmhandgun.

The investigationwas conducted by theFBI’s Safe Streets TaskForce and the FortWright Police Depart-ment. Assistant U.S.Attorney Tony Brackeprosecuted this case onbehalf of the federalgovernment.

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May 25.With the 70th anniver-

sary of the end of WorldWar II, the holiday takeson added significance.

And Kentucky’s gov-ernor has declared 2015“Year of the Woman Vet-eran.” At least one localtown, Florence, is invit-ing women veterans – aswell as men – to its May25 ceremonies.

Alexandria, Florenceand Park Hills are amongcommunities observingMemorial Day with a pa-rade.

The Alexandria Veter-ans of Foreign Wars Post3205 will have its paradeon Sunday, May 24. Line-up is at 1 p.m. and the pa-rade starts at 2 p.m. fromthe Campbell CountyMiddle School southparking lot. To partici-pate call Dennis Bush at859-750-7211.

The Park Hills Memo-rial Day Parade, takingplace on Monday, May25, starts at 11:30 a.m. atNotre Dame Academyand concludes at TrolleyPark with a flag raising

Northern Kentuckycommunities are firm-ing up plans for Memori-al Day which falls on

ceremony and a tributeto grand marshals Donand Missy Catchen.

Park Hills’ parade issponsored by the ParkHills Civic Associationand the city of Park Hills.To join the parade sendan email to [email protected].

Florence invites thepublic to join its paradeand ceremony honoringthe women and men whoserved in the ArmedForces to defend free-dom.

The parade begins at10 a.m. at Boone CountyHigh School and ends atthe Florence Govern-ment Center. A program

follows at 1 p.m. at theBoone County VeteransMemorial located on theFlorence GovernmentCenter campus.

Kentucky Gov. SteveBeshear has declared2015 as the “Year of theWoman Veteran” so Flor-ence is inviting all wom-en veterans to join thecity’s events, as well asmen. Call Florence Parksand Recreation at 859-647-5439.

CRESCENT SPRINGSA Memorial Day Ser-

vice is 2 p.m. SundayMay 24, at the KentonCounty Veterans Memo-rial at Buttermilk Pikeand Collins Road, Cres-cent Springs. The emceewill be John Lomax,early morning anchor ofChannel 12.

WALTONMemorial Day ser-

vices will begin at Wal-ton Cemetery at 9:30 a.m.Monday, May 25, and willadjourn to continue on atthe Veterans Memorialbehind Walton City Hall.

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Veterans Run takes placeon Armed Forces Day

CRESCENT SPRINGS — The Ken-ton County Veterans Memorial an-nual 5K/Run-Walk will be at 8:30a.m Saturday, May 16, at the Cres-cent Springs Community Park, 800Buttermilk Pike.

Registration starts at 7 a.m. The race, which takes place on

Armed Forces Day, is open to thepublic with a military participantschallenge trophy award for thewinner of the military division.

There will be 50 soldiers fromthe adopted unit of the 101st Air-borne, Fort Campbell, joining the

race. This unit was adopted by fiveNorthern Kentucky cities: Cres-cent Springs, Erlanger, Elsmere,Lakeside Park and Villa Hills. Theadopted troops have put out a chal-lenge for the military awards tro-phy to all active troops and veter-ans to participate in the race.

A buffet breakfast follows therace at 9 a.m. across the street atthe Crescent Springs/Villa HillsFire Department with proceedsbenefiting the Northern Kentucky9/11 Memorial. Admission is $8 foradults and $4 for children.

Visit the Crescent Springs web-site atwww.crescent-springs.ky.us/ for a

registration form and street clos-ing information.

NKU graduates one ofbiggest classes ever

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — NorthernKentucky University had a 43rdCommencement for 1,780 graduat-ing-students at The Bank of Ken-tucky Center on campus May 9.

This commencement was one ofNKU’s largest graduating classesever and included 141 graduatesfrom Chase College of Law, ac-cording to a news release fromChris Cole, director of universitycommunications.

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“If a landowner has aproblem, they can contactUSDA Wildlife Servicesto help with that prob-lem,” he said. “If prob-lems are experienced dur-ing the nesting, landown-ers may apply for and re-ceive a special freepermit from the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service to de-stroy individual nests.”

Lanham said Hemmerhas previously applied forand received such a per-mit for one of its proper-

ties on Grandview Drivein Fort Mitchell.

Phyllis Vetter, wholives on Harris Pike in In-dependence, said she hasmore than 60 geese on herproperty near a lake thisyear, but she doesn’tmind.

“You have a lot of goosepoop and they’re noisy,”she said. “But, we like towatch the geese. They’refun to watch.”

Vetter said the feath-ery creatures can alsocreate traffic issues asthey cross “single file”with their goslings to theother side of the roadwhere there’s another

body of water.“Our neighbors com-

plain, but there’s nothingwe can do about it,” shesaid. “They call them ‘ourgeese’ but they’re not ourgeese, they just show up.”

Meanwhile, Wells ofAway with Geese claimsthe company has a solu-tion to ruffle a few feath-ers. Its products feature asolar-powered light that isscarcely noticeable to hu-mans but is very disrup-tive to the sleep of thegeese, causing them tofind another habitat afterjust a few restless nights.

The solar-poweredlights charge each day

and flash 360 degrees, ev-ery two seconds fromdusk to dawn, at eye-levelof the geese. They requireno maintenance and thedurable plastic of theirbases will withstand anyweather conditions. Eachunit will get rid of geese ina 75-yard radius. There isa unit for every type oflandscape including roof-tops.

“Our business con-tinues to grow,” Wellssaid. “We’ve developedmore products as we’vegone along from deter-rents to use in pools torooftops. Geese adapt andthey move on to other

areas so we’ve expandedour product line. Our busi-ness increases everyyear. The geese popula-tion is totally out of con-trol.”

Smitson said the Ken-tucky Department of Fishand Wildlife Resourcescan provide limited tech-nical guidance to alleviategoose problems, but Can-ada geese are federallyregulated through the Mi-gratory Bird ProtectionAct.

Reporter Chis Mayhewcontributed to this story.

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“I wish I could give aprediction for the upcom-ing primary but it is diffi-cult in an election wheremany of the races are fill-ing an open seat, like thegovernor’s race,” she said.“I heard the prediction forthe whole state was 10 per-cent.”

The last governor’srace was in 2011. The turn-out in Kenton County was6,866 votes or a 6.5 percentturnout. It is likely to be

close to that percentagethis year, Summe said.

“The governor’s race isoften a year with low turn-out. That is why there wasa bill filed this year tomove the statewide racesto the presidential year,”she said. “This would im-prove voter turnout andalso (keep) money withinthe state since electionswould be conducted everyother year.”

Summe said there areseveral changes to pollinglocations. Voters havebeen notified, but to checkyour party affiliation andpolling location in Kenton

County, visithttps://vr.sos.ky.gov/vic/

People with questionsare invited to call theclerk’s office ahead of oron Election Day at 859-292-3885.

Republican Partyballot

Governor and Lieu-tenant Governor (votefor one):

» Will T. Scott and Rod-ney Coffey

» Matt Bevin and Je-nean Hampton

» James R. Comer andChris McDaniel

» Hal Heiner and K.C.

CrosbieAttorney General

(vote for one):» Whitney H. Wester-

field» Michael T. HoganState Treasurer (vote

for one):» Allison Ball» Kenneth Churchill

Imes» John LarsonCommissioner of Ag-

riculture (vote for one):» Ryan F. Quarles» Richard Heath

Democratic Partyballot

Governor and Lieu-tenant Governor (votefor one):

» Geoffrey M. “Geoff”Young

» Jack Conway andSannie Overly

Secretary of State(vote for one):

» Charles Lovett» Alison Lundergan

GrimesState Treasurer (vote

for one):» Richard Henderson» Rick Nelson» Neville Blakemore» Jim Glenn» Daniel B. Grossberg

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INDEPENDENCE —American Legion Post 275Moon Brothers extendsan invitation to celebrateAmerica’s “muscle” witha muscle car show onArmed Forces Apprecia-tion Day.

“We are having thisevent to show apprecia-tion for our muscle, ourmilitary muscle,” MoonBrothers member WayneLohmueller said. “Theday will be filled with ac-tivity to celebrate ArmedForces Day and refreshpeople’s awareness of ourservice members.”

The car show will beheld noon to 5 p.m. Satur-day, May 16, at the Inde-pendence Senior Center,2001 Jack Woods Park-way, Independence.

The car show will fea-ture a variety of classicand modern vehicles, aswell as vintage militaryvehicles. At 11 a.m. theAmerican Legion Riderswill begin their annual Po-ker Run. The Independ-ence-based band NoyzBoyz will perform at 3p.m.

Military displays, in-cluding a World War IIweapons collection, bothGerman and American,and a uniform collection,will be featured. A photobooth will be set up forfamilies to take pictures.

The photo booth will in-clude helmets, flight suitsand other dress-up op-tions.

The event is free andopen to all ages, said MoonBrothers member BillSchneider. However theMoon Brothers do ask fordonations.

“We really just wantpeople to come, have agood time and think goodthings about our militarymen and women,”Schneider said. “We real-ly can’t do enough forthem. This event and ourMemorial Day plans are alabor of love for us at thepost. We want to keepfolks in tune to what’s go-ing on with our militaryand veterans.”

The theme for all theMoon Brothers events is“If you love your Inde-pendence, thank a mili-tary member,” Schneidersaid.

According to WayneLohmueller, the city of In-dependence is full of ser-vice members, past andpresent.

“This is a day for ourmilitary and women tocome out and see howmuch we appreciatethem,” he said. “It’s a goodthing for people in ourcommunity to see that wehave actual heroes livinghere.”

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A new endowment has beenestablished at CovingtonCatholic High School to benefitthe school’s new STEM (Sci-ence, Technology, Engineeringand Math) program.

The endowment was estab-lished in the name of Greg Kel-ler, a 1980 graduate of Coving-ton Catholic. His lifelongfriend and fellow alumnusScott McKinley started the en-dowment in honor of Greg.

“In my opinion, the STEMprogram is the most importantnew academic discipline thatthe school has ever sponsored.It will expand the career hori-zons of every young man in theprogram,” McKinley said.

“I hope this endowment willhelp draw publicity about theprogram, garnering it more fi-nancial support, but also at-tracting bright students fromaround the area.”

According to McKinley,“Greg Keller emulated the es-sence of the program beforethe term STEM ever existed.”At Covington Catholic, Gregwas a member of the NationalHonor Society and a SecondTeam All-State linebacker forthe football team.

He attended Northern Ken-tucky University while work-ing at St. Elizabeth as a phle-botomist. He did graduatework at the University of Illi-nois on a teaching fellowship,earning an MS in biology basedon research of the effects ofheparin-binding proteins. Lat-er, he also received an MBAand worked as a quality controlmanager for Coca-Cola, LaCroix and Precision Packag-ing.

Greg died in August 2000 af-ter a three-year battle withHodgkin’s disease.

New endowment to aid CovCath STEM program

THANKS TO JILL FRANXMAN

Scott McKinley holds a photo of his friend and fellow classmate from the Covington Catholic High School Class of1980, Greg Keller, while visiting with members of the CovCath Robotics Club. McKinley has funded an endowmentin Greg Keller’s name to benefit the school’s STEM Program.

Lindsey Barriger wins a top Kentucky art awardThe Kentucky Art Education

Association hosts an art compe-tition for high school art stu-dents called the All-State ArtCompetition.

The competition starts at theregional level, then the top 20pieces from each region moveon to the highly competitivestate-level competition. At thatlevel work is juried by a profes-sional panel that includes arteducators, professors, profes-sional artists and graduate levelart students.

This year judges compli-mented the skillful level of art-work in the 13 categories, every-thing from drawing and paint-ing, photography and graphicdesign to sculpture and ceram-ics. Not only do judges select rib-bon winners in each category,they select one artwork for thetop “Best of Show” and one art-work for the “Cultural HeritageAward.”

Students from Boone, Camp-bell and Kenton qualified for thestate art show and claimed manytop awards.

“Our region, the NorthernRegion, is considered one of themost competitive regions in thestate when it comes to the All-State Art Competition,” said Ra-chael Burris, art teacher at Ran-dall K. Cooper High School.

“We have some of the bestrepresentations of digital art inthe state and always give othercompetitive regions a run fortheir money,” Burris said. “Thisyear’s artwork that made it intothe state competition was no dif-ferent. We had talented studentsfrom Boone, Kenton and Camp-bell counties that qualified forthe state art show.”

Emily Dickman and LindseyJasper of Dixie Heights HighSchool won first place and hon-orable mention in the drawingcategory. Olivia Storrs and Emi-ly Damon, both from Dixie aswell, received honorable men-tions in the digital media andfashion categories while Lind-sey Culp snagged third place inprintmaking.

Another Kenton County

award winner is Simon KentonHigh School’s Maggie Mullinswho finished third in ceramics.

From Campbell County HighSchool, Isaiah Deinlein and Oli-via Cassinelli both received

third-place awards in the pho-tography and video/film catego-ries.

The biggest news in the Northregion came from the BooneCounty award winners, Burrissaid.

In the digital media category,Adeline Hogan from Randall K.Cooper High School, who re-ceived Best of Show at region-als, claimed both a second andthird place at the state level.

In graphic design, Stone Pro-caccino and Sarah Langford,also Cooper students, receivedfirst place and honorable men-tion honors.

Finally, Cooper High Schooljunior Lindsey Barriger re-ceived one of the top awards giv-en at state-level competition, theCultural Heritage Award. Thisis given to an entry that has a cul-tural connection either on the lo-cal, state, national or interna-tional level. Lindsey’s photo-graph “Circle of Diversity” re-ceived the Cultural HeritageAward statewide.

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Lindsey Barriger’s photograph “Circle of Diversity” received the CulturalHeritage Award, one of two top awards at the Kentucky Art EducationAssociation’s statewide art competition. Barriger is a Randall K. CooperHigh School student.

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Campbell County High School’s Isaiah Deinlein won third place in thephotography and video/film category.

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Maggie Mullins of Simon Kenton High School earned a third-place award inthe ceramics category. The Kentucky Art Education Association hosts an artcompetition for high school art students called the All-State ArtCompetition.

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Emily Dickman of Dixie HeightsHigh School claimed first place inthe drawing category.

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Dinner at the Army-Navy Club. Guidedtours of ArlingtonNational Cemetery,

the World War II Memorialand other significant sites.

Four World War II veter-ans – three from KentonCounty and one from Indi-ana – attended the 70th anni-versary of Victory in EuropeDay May 8 in Washington,D.C., enjoying the specialtrip as guests of The Urol-ogy Group.

But the most strikingevent during the V-E Dayremembrance at the Nation-al Mall was the flyover byvintage airplanes as theveterans watched in awe.

“They had Flying For-tresses that took off fromReagan Airport and they hadsmaller other planes ... Alto-gether they had 53 planes,”said Navy veteran WalterKraus, of Crescent Springs,who watched from one of theVIP seats at the NationalMall.

“They flew in little sor-ties” of World War II-eraplanes, B-25s, B29s, NavyHellcats. “It was excellent,”Kraus said.

“It was excellent, I tell ya.Everything was so well orga-nized and so timely. Itamazed me. Being in themilitary I’m not used tothat,” Kraus said with alaugh.

After returning to North-ern Kentucky, Kraus, now94, reflected on his role inthe global struggle to defeatJapan and Germany from1941 to 1945. He volunteeredin 1939 to serve on a sub-marine after graduatingfrom Newport CentralCatholic High School in 1938.His first deployment was theUSS-36 submarine, the old-est sub in the Asiatic fleet. Itsustained damage fromdepth charges and despiterepeated efforts by the crewto keep the 23-year-old subafloat, S-36 ran aground on areef off the coast of Indone-sia on Jan. 20, 1942, the sec-ond submarine lost in thewar, he said.

Kraus was transferred toa newer submarine, the USSSnapper. By V-E Day on May8, 1945, he was in New Lon-don, Conn., preparing tolaunch a new submarine intocommission. Kraus served30 years in the Navy, risingto the rank of commander.

Noah Switzer, 89, of Tay-lor Mill, agreed that theflyover was a highlight ofthe trip.

“I really enjoyed the fly-over. It reminded me oftaking over Iwo Jima in1945,” Switzer said.

For 36 days Switzer, amedic in the 5th MarineDivision of the U.S. Navy,survived “the bloodiest bat-tle of World War II.”

Bullets flew constantly.Mortar shelling by the Japa-nese was so intense that forthree days he completelylost his hearing and commu-nicated with fellow medicsusing hand signals. Eventu-ally won by the Americans,the Battle for the island ofIwo Jima became known forthe iconic photograph ofsoldiers raising the flag atMount Suribachi.

Also on the trip wereHoward Requard, 89, ofEdgewood, a Marine whofought in the Battle of Oki-nawa, another major battleof the Pacific theater, andGerald Bentle, 90, of Milan,Ind.,who served in the Armyin Naples, Italy.

“I enjoyed the entire trip.

It sort of wore me out be-cause of my age,” Switzersaid. “Every minute I cher-ished. It was a great lifetimeopportunity.”

The four are patients ofThe Urology Group, whichplanned and paid for thetrip. “These men representthe courage and sacrifice ofan entire generation. It’sbeen a pleasure to get toknow them as patients andas people, and it’s our honorto help them enjoy this na-tional recognition,” saidGary Kirsh, president of TheUrology Group.

“I’m grateful to The Urol-ogy Group for inviting meand taking care of us. theyreally treated us royally.”Kraus said.

Flyover stirsmemories for World War II

veteransNancy [email protected]

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Walter Kraus, 94, of FortMitchell, holds a photo ofhimself at 21 during thesend-off ceremony at theCincinnati/NorthernKentucky InternationalAirport, for himself andthree other veteransheading to the nationalrecognition of the 70thanniversary of Victory inEurope Day. Kraussurvived the sinking ofthe USS S-36 offIndonesia and laterbecame a submarinecommander.

THANKS TO JULI HALE

Watching the flyover of World War II-era planes are, from left, Gary Bentle, Gerald Bentle, Howard Requardt, Noah Switzer and Walter Kraus.

THANKS TO JULI HALE

Northern Kentucky World War II veterans said the most striking eventof the Victory in Europe Day recognition ceremony on May 8 was theflyover by vintage airplanes as they watched at the National Mall.

AMANDA ROSSMANN/THE ENQUIRER

(From left) Walter Kraus, 94, of Fort Mitchell, Howard Requardt, 89, ofEdgewood and Gerald Bentle, 90, of Milan, Ind. stand during asend-off ceremony at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky InternationalAirport before taking off to D.C. to join the national recognition of the70th anniversary of V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.

THANKS TO JULI HALE

Howard Requardt, 89, of Edgewood, shows a rose and American flaggiven out during the V-E Day 70th anniversary celebration at theNational Mall. He is seated next to Noah Switzer, of Taylor Mill, right.

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FRIDAY, MAY 15Art ExhibitsFlight: Curated by Saad Ghosn,9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Covington Arts,2 W. Pike St., Flight featuresworks by three women (Shar-mon Davidson, Marsha Ka-ragheusian, Jan Nickum) fromGreater Cincinnati who specifi-cally reference flight in regard totime, space and experience.Exploring the notions of passage,memory and dialogue within thecycle of life, the exhibitionincludes mixed media construc-tions, collaged books and earth-enware ceramics. Presented byCovington Arts District. 292-2322;http://covingtonarts.com/. Co-vington.

Convocation: A RegionalShowcase of GraduatingArtists, noon to 5 p.m., TheCarnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd.,Exhibition organized aroundvery best of graduating seniorsand MFA candidates in region.Participating schools includeUC/DAAP, NKU, Art Academy ofCincinnati, University of Ken-tucky and more. Through June13. 957-1940; www.thecarnegie-.com. Covington.

Cooking ClassesDate Night in the Kitchen,6:30-8:30 p.m., Baker Hunt Artand Cultural Center, 620 Gree-nup St., Couples prepare meal inkitchen then enjoy candlelitdinner with wine in Baker Hunt’sdining room. $60 per couple.Reservations required. 431-0020;www.bakerhunt.com. Coving-ton.

EducationLittle Learners, 9-11:30 a.m., TheLively Learning Lab, 7500 Oak-brook Drive, Suite 10, Balance ofstructured, unstructured andself-directed play opportunitiesto help learners develop theirsocial, intellectual and communi-cation skills. Ages 3-6. $10.Registration required. 916-2721.Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 9:30 a.m.,4:45 p.m., Edgewood JazzerciseCenter, 126 Barnwood Drive, $38for unlimited monthly classes.331-7778; jazzercise.com. Edge-wood.

ExhibitsBuffalos and Bourbon: 200Years of Covington History, 10a.m. to 5 p.m., Behringer-Craw-ford Museum, 1600 MontagueRoad, There are many fascinat-ing stories about Covington:political intrigue, haunting tales,arts, athletics. Exhibit celebrates200 years of people, places andevents that shaped city, fromtrading of buffalo and bourbonfor land to building of Ascentand “alien house.” ThroughAug. 30. Included with museumadmission. 491-4003; bcmuseu-m.org. Covington.

FestivalsMaifest, 5-11:30 p.m., Main-Strasse Village, Main Street, Artsand crafts booths, German andinternational foods, music,children’s play area, amusementrides, street chalk art contest andmore. Music on four stages. Free.Presented by MainStrasse VillageAssociation. 491-0458;www.mainstrasse.org. Coving-ton.

RecreationBusiness Lunch Go KartingSpecial, noon to 2 p.m., Xhil-aRacing, 24 Spiral Drive, Go-Kartracing. $15. Through Dec. 30.371-5278; www.xrkarting.com.Florence.

SATURDAY, MAY 16Art & Craft ClassesCreating in Clay, 10 a.m. tonoon, Covington Clay, 16 W. PikeSt., Hand build various itemsfrom clay, decorate and glazethem. Items created vary withthe season, from mugs andplanters to small trays, plates andbowls. Ages 18 and up. $65.Registration required. Presentedby Communiversity at UC. 513-556-6932; www.uc.edu/ce/commu. Covington.

Beginners Oil Painting, 10 a.m.to 1:30 p.m., Hobby LobbyFlorence, KY, 7932 ConnectorDrive, All supplies included andno experience needed. Leavewith finished oil painting. Ages8-99. $55. Registration required.Presented by Taught By KimberlyVanlandingham. 640-5901;www.kimvanlandingham.com.Florence.

Art Exhibits

Convocation: A RegionalShowcase of GraduatingArtists, noon to 5 p.m., TheCarnegie, 957-1940; www.the-carnegie.com. Covington.

AuditionsSleuth! - Auditions, 1-3 p.m.,The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd.,Auditions by Appointment onSaturday, May 16th 1-3pm. Toschedule a time slot, pleasecontact Jessica Picado [email protected] a 1 minute monologuethat shows a British accent.Actors may also be asked to readfrom the script. Free. To schedulea time slot, please contact JessicaPicado [email protected]. 957-1940; www.the-carnegie.com. Covington.

CivicCommunity Shred Day, 10 a.m.to 1 p.m., Bosch Financial, 7620Dixie Highway, Participants maybring papers in bags, boxes orcontainer to be emptied. Paperclips, binder clips, staples, rubberbands, and other similar items donot need to be removed. Cannotaccept 3-ring binders, hard drivesor other non-paper media suchas floppy disks, VCR tapes,microfiche or other similar items.Free. 746-9110. Florence.

Cooking ClassesSushi Rolling and Dining, 7p.m., Sushi Cincinnati, 130 W.Pike St., $25 per person, threerolls, includes training and BYOB,reservations required. Reserva-tions required. 513-335-0297;www.sushicinti.com. Covington.

EducationNewspaper Writing for AllAges, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., TheLively Learning Lab, 7500 Oak-brook Drive, Suite 10, Studentsproduce online newspaper, tryout variety of journalism genres:news, opinion, features, in-terviews, reviews, sports. Learnheadline writing, editing, webpage design, advertising andother topics associated withproducing an online newspaper.Ages 5-18. $15. Registrationrequired. 916-2721; www.thelive-lylearninglab.com. Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 8:15 a.m.,9:30 a.m., Edgewood JazzerciseCenter, $38 for unlimited month-ly classes. 331-7778; jazzercise-.com. Edgewood.

ExhibitsBuffalos and Bourbon: 200Years of Covington History, 10a.m. to 5 p.m., Behringer-Craw-ford Museum, Included withmuseum admission. 491-4003;bcmuseum.org. Covington.

FestivalsMaifest, noon to 11:30 p.m.,MainStrasse Village, Free. 491-0458; www.mainstrasse.org.Covington.

Music - AcousticSaturday Morning AcousticMusic, 10 a.m. to noon, VelocityBike & Bean, 7560 BurlingtonPike, Free. Presented by VelocityBike & Bean. Through Jan. 2.371-8356; www.velocitybb.com.Florence.

Music - BluegrassNew Coon Creek Girls, 7-9 p.m.,Willis Music Super Center Audi-torium, 7567 Mall Road, Originalmembers of 1985-86 reunite forrare appearance celebrating bassplayer Vicki Simmon’s amazingrecovery from near-fatal aneu-rysm. Band players are WandaBarnett-guitar, fiddle and vocals,Pam Perry-mandolin, vocals, andNorthern Kentucky’s own PamGadd on banjo and vocals. Free.Presented by Northern KentuckyBluegrass Music Association.525-6050, ext. 5; newcooncreek-girls.com. Florence.

RecreationRyle Band Bingo, 5-10 p.m.,Erlanger Lions Club Hall, 5996Belair Drive, Doors open 5 p.m.Early games begin 6:30 p.m.Regular games begin 7:15 p.m.Ages 18 and up. Benefits RyleMarching Band Boosters. Pre-sented by Ryle Band Boosters.Through Dec. 26. 282-1652.Erlanger.

Golf Outing 4 Person Scram-ble, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., KentonCounty Golf Course, 3908 Rich-ardson Road, 18 holes of golf(includes cart). Lunch, door prizesand awards ceremony. BenefitsTaylor Mill Eagles Football andCheer. $80. Presented by TaylorMill Football including Scott HighSchool and Woodland MiddleSchool. 307-3312; taylormil-

leagles.org. Independence.

ShoppingCity of Edgewood Yard Sale, 9a.m. to noon, Freedom Park, 550Freedom Park Drive, Edgewoodresidents may reserve spot for$20. Cost includes one table andtwo chairs, a garage sale permit,advertising and hauling away ofany unwanted items after sale tocharity. Free. Reservations re-quired. Presented by City ofEdgewood. 331-5910; www.ed-gewoodky.gov. Edgewood.

Spring Plant Sale, 7 a.m. tonoon, Boone County Arboretumat Central Park, 9190 Camp ErnstRoad, Free admission. Presentedby Boone County Arboretum.384-4999; www.bcarboretu-m.org. Union.

ToursCavalcade of Homes, noon to 5p.m., Northern Kentucky, North-ern Kentucky, Scattered-site newhome show features 13 homes inNorthern Kentucky. ThroughMay 17. Free. Presented by HomeBuilders Association of NorthernKentucky. 331-9500; www.home-buildersnky.com. Covington.

SUNDAY, MAY 17Antiques ShowsBurlington Antique Show, 6a.m. to 3 p.m., Boone CountyFairgrounds, 5819 Idlewild Road,More than 200 vendors withantiques, vintage jewelry andfurniture, primitives, architectur-al elements, mid-century collect-ibles, American and memorabil-ia. Early buying, 6-8 a.m. with $5admission. $3, free ages 12 andunder. Presented by BurlingtonAntique Show. 513-922-6847;www.burlingtonantiqueshow-.com. Burlington.

EducationCollege and Beyond ACT TestPrep Course, 1-5:15 p.m., BooneCounty Education Association, 75Cavalier Blvd., suite 201, Enterbuilding at right side entrance.ACT test prep course. Ages 9-12.$399. Reservations required.Presented by College and Be-yond. 283-2655; candbtestprep-.com. Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 9:30 a.m., 4p.m., Edgewood JazzerciseCenter, $38 for unlimited month-ly classes. 331-7778; jazzercise-.com. Edgewood.

ExhibitsBuffalos and Bourbon: 200Years of Covington History,noon to 5 p.m., Behringer-Crawford Museum, Includedwith museum admission. 491-4003; bcmuseum.org. Covington.

FestivalsMaifest, noon to 9 p.m., Main-Strasse Village, Free. 491-0458;www.mainstrasse.org. Coving-ton.

Music - Big BandJammin’ at Jane’s, 3-6 p.m.,Jane’s Saddlebag, 13989 Ryle

Road, Outside next to WineShop. Live music by local artists.Free. Through Oct. 18. 384-6617;www.janessaddlebag.com.Union.

ToursCavalcade of Homes, noon to 5p.m., Northern Kentucky, Free.331-9500; www.homebuildersn-ky.com. Covington.

MONDAY, MAY 18Clubs & OrganizationsBoone County Alliance Meet-ing, 9-10:30 a.m., Florence CityBuilding, 8100 Ewing Blvd., Thesubstance abuse/use preventioncoalition for Boone County, KYwill be meeting to discuss pre-vention efforts to reduce/elim-inate drug abuse/use locally.Free. Presented by Boone CountyAlliance. 689-4496; BooneCoun-tyAlliance.com. Florence.

Dance ClassesLine Dance Classes, 5:30-6:30p.m., Elsmere Senior Center, 179Dell St., $3. Presented by HollyRuschman. 727-0904. Elsmere.

EducationLittle Learners, 9 -11:30 a.m.,The Lively Learning Lab, $10.Registration required. 916-2721.Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 6:15 a.m.,8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 4:45 p.m., 6p.m., Edgewood JazzerciseCenter, $38 for unlimited month-ly classes. 331-7778; jazzercise-.com. Edgewood.

Yoga, 10-11 a.m., The LivelyLearning Lab, 7500 OakbrookDrive, Suite 10, Yoga, music,meditation, movement, yogarelated games and songs. Eachchild has a turn to be leaderseveral times each session. Ages3-12. $5. Registration required.916-2721; www.thelivelylearnin-glab.com. Florence.


Health / WellnessOvereaters Anonymous, 7-8p.m., Union Presbyterian Church,10259 U.S. 42, Church officeentrance in back lot and followsigns to room. Program ofrecovery from compulsive eatingusing 12 Steps and 12 Traditionsof OA. Not a diet and caloriesclub and no weigh-ins. Free.Presented by Overeaters Anony-mous NKY. 525-6932; www.cin-cinnatioa.org. Union.

Literary - LibrariesCongenealogy, 6:30-8 p.m.,Kenton County Public LibraryCovington, 502 Scott Blvd.,Meeting Room 3, CovingtonBranch. Martin Schadler presentsinformation on Aviation Mu-seum of Kentucky, KentuckyAviation Hall of Fame, and first

powered flight in Kentucky.Ages 18 and up. Free. Presentedby Kenton County Public Library.962-4070; /www.kentonli-brary.org/genealogy. Covington.

RecreationBusiness Lunch Go KartingSpecial, noon to 2 p.m., Xhil-aRacing, $15. 371-5278;www.xrkarting.com. Florence.

TUESDAY, MAY 19Art & Craft Classes7-11 Club, 9:30-11:30 a.m., TheLively Learning Lab, 7500 Oak-brook Drive, Suite 10, Social clubfor homeschoolers. Make crafts,play games or create art. Ages7-11. $5. Registration required.916-2721. Florence.

Art ExhibitsFlight: Curated by Saad Ghosn,9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Covington Arts,292-2322; http://covingto-narts.com/. Covington.

CivicCity of Florence Public Ser-vices Night Out, 4:30-6:30 p.m.,Florence Mall, 2028 Mall Road,Lower level of Macy’s HomeStore. Free ballpark style foodand drinks, live demonstrations,see public works equipment upclose. Free. Presented by City ofFlorence. 647-5416; www.flor-ence-ky.gov. Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 8:30 a.m.,9:30 a.m., 4:45 p.m., 6 p.m.,Edgewood Jazzercise Center, $38for unlimited monthly classes.331-7778; jazzercise.com. Edge-wood.

Insanity Live Class, 9-10 a.m.,Faith Community United Meth-odist Church, 4310 RichardsonRoad, $5. Presented by Kick ItWith Kristin. 907-0188. Independ-ence.


Health / WellnessLunch-N-Learn Health andWellness Talks, noon to 12:30p.m., Homan Chiropractic, 713Scott Blvd., Weekly health topicsuch as back pain, neck pain,whiplash, pregnancy back pain,nutrition, importance of goodposture and proper lifting tech-niques. Water and dessert pro-vided. Free. Presented by Dr.Tracy Homan. 291-0333;www.homanchiropractic.com.Covington.

Music - AcousticRoger Drawdy, 8 p.m., MollyMalone’s Irish Pub and Restau-rant, 112 E. Fourth St., Irish music.Free. 491-6659; mollymalonesir-ishpub.com. Covington.

Music - RockDead Soldiers, 8 p.m., TheSouthgate House Revival, 111 E.Sixth St., With Arlo McKinley andThe Lonesome Sound. Ages 21and up. $7, $5 advance. 431-2201;www.southgatehouse.com.Newport.

Recreation10-Minute Tuesdays, noon to 9p.m., XhilaRacing, 24 SpiralDrive, Go-Kart racing. $15-$20for 10 minutes of racing. 371-5278; www.xrkarting.com.Florence.

Business Lunch Go KartingSpecial, noon to 2 p.m., Xhil-aRacing, $15. 371-5278;www.xrkarting.com. Florence.

SportsSenior Night at Florence Free-dom, 6:30 p.m., UC HealthStadium, 7950 Freedom Way,Giveaways, door prizes, split thepot, jersey raffles, more. Seniordiscount using code: seniornight.Gates open 5:35 p.m. BenefitsNorthern Kentucky Senior Ser-vices. $10 for seniors if purchasedby May 15. Presented by FlorenceFreedom Professional Baseball.513-330-4460; www.florencefree-dom.com. Florence.

Support GroupsCelebrate Recovery, 6:30-8:30p.m., Vineyard Christian Church,7101 Pleasant Valley Road,Healing for all hurts, hangupsand habits. Free. 689-0777;vineyardchristian.org. Florence.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20Art ExhibitsFlight: Curated by Saad Ghosn,9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Covington Arts,

292-2322; http://covingto-narts.com/. Covington.

Convocation: A RegionalShowcase of GraduatingArtists, noon-5 p.m., The Car-negie, 957-1940; www.thecarne-gie.com. Covington.

Community DanceLine Dance Class, 7:30-8:30 p.m.,Boleros Dance Club, 8406 U.S. 42,For beginner to advanced. $7.Presented by Holly Ruschman.Through May 27. 727-0904.Florence.

Dining EventsCincinnati E.A.T.S., 7:30 p.m.,Otto’s, 521 Main St., Bring twocans of non-perishable food todonate. Three-course dinner plusminiature dessert platters. Cashbar. Social hour at bar 6:30 p.m.Ages 21 and up. Benefits Fre-estore Foodbank. $46.30, priceincreases by $5 on May 19.Reservations required. Presentedby Cincinnati E.A.T.S.. No phone;www.cincinnatieats.com. Co-vington.

EducationLittle Learners, 9-11:30 a.m., TheLively Learning Lab, $10. Regis-tration required. 916-2721.Florence.

Newspaper Writing for AllAges, 2-4 p.m., The Lively Learn-ing Lab, $15. Registration re-quired. 916-2721; www.thelive-lylearninglab.com. Florence.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 9:30 a.m.,5:10 p.m., 6 p.m., EdgewoodJazzercise Center, $38 for unlim-ited monthly classes. 331-7778;jazzercise.com. Edgewood.


Karaoke and Open Mic

Literary - LibrariesClassic Book Discussion: KarlMarx’s Communist Manifes-to, 7-8 p.m., Kenton CountyPublic Library Covington, 502Scott Blvd., Influential politicaldocument. Ages 18 and up. Free.Presented by Kenton CountyPublic Library. 962-4071. Coving-ton.

Genealogy Tech: Using Fold3,6:30-7:30 p.m., Kenton CountyPublic Library Covington, 502Scott Blvd., Local History Depart-ment, 2nd Floor, CovingtonBranch. Learn about variousmilitary resources availablethrough this database. Ages 18and up. Free. Registration re-quired. Presented by KentonCounty Public Library. 962-4070;www.kentonlibrary.org/genealo-gy. Covington.

RecreationBusiness Lunch Go KartingSpecial, noon to 2 p.m., Xhil-aRacing, $15. 371-5278;www.xrkarting.com. Florence.

THURSDAY, MAY 21Art ExhibitsFlight: Curated by Saad Ghosn,9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Covington Arts,292-2322; http://covingto-narts.com/. Covington.

Convocation: A RegionalShowcase of GraduatingArtists, noon to 5 p.m., TheCarnegie, 957-1940; www.the-carnegie.com. Covington.

Exercise ClassesJazzercise Classes, 6:15 a.m.,8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 4:45 p.m., 6p.m., Edgewood JazzerciseCenter, $38 for unlimited month-ly classes. 331-7778; jazzercise-.com. Edgewood.

ExhibitsCanyon Falls, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,Newport Aquarium, $23, $15ages 2-13, free children under 2.800-406-3474; www.newporta-quarium.com. Newport.

Buffalos and Bourbon: 200Years of Covington History, 10a.m. to 5 p.m., Behringer-Craw-ford Museum, Included withmuseum admission. 491-4003;bcmuseum.org. Covington.

Health / WellnessOvereaters Anonymous, 7-8:30p.m., Epworth United MethodistChurch, 1229 Highway Ave.,Basement of church. Offersprogram of recovery from com-pulsive eating. Not a diet andcalories club; no weigh-ins. Free.Presented by Overeaters Anony-mous NKY. 491-6266; www.cin-cinnatioa.org. Covington.

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ABOUT CALENDARTo submit calendar items, go to Cincinnati.com/share, log in

and click on “submit an event.” Send digital photos [email protected] along with event information.Items are printed on a space-available basis with local eventstaking precedence. Deadline is two weeks before publicationdate.

To find more calendar events, go to Cincinnati.com/calendar.

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Maifest will return to Covington with arts, crafts, German andother international food, music, children’s play area,amusement rides, street chalk art contest and more. Music willbe performed on four stages. The festival is 5-11:30 p.m. Friday,May 15; noon to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16; and noon to 9p.m. Sunday, May 17. MainStrasse Village, Main Street,Admission is free. The festival is presented by MainStrasseVillage Association. Call 491-0458; visit www.mainstrasse.org.

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I’m pretty sure you won’t see a photo like the mo-rels pictured here just anywhere.

What a bounty! Of course, I can’t tell you where weforage for them, but take my word forit: they were huge and a gourmet treat.

Morels are going for about $60 apound right now. Jean Robert de Cavelhas them on his menu, and other chefslucky enough to have a source are do-ing the same thing. But it’s fun to knowthat a country girl and her friends canenjoy the whole process, from foragingto eating.

Here’s my simple recipe with op-tions for using other mushrooms.Mushrooms contain antioxidants and

vitamin D, which lots of folks have in short supply.

Readers want to knowWhat is an easy way to chop mint and basil without

making it turn dark?The reason herbs turn dark after chopping is that

they oxidize – the cut parts exposed to air turn dark asthey sit. To quickly chop a lot of mint or basil, stackseveral leaves and roll them up tight long ways, like acigar. Then slice width-wise into narrow pieces tomake long thin strips, also called julienne slices. Chopthe strips again for smaller slices, or leave them as isand you’ll get pretty ribbons of herbs.

Rita Nader Heikenfeld is an herbalist, educator, Jungle Jim’sEastgate culinary professional and author. Find her blog onlineat Abouteating.com. Call 513-248-7130, ext. 356.

Rita has a secret morel patch, whip up lasagna for 2Sauteed gourmet mushrooms

Delicious as a side, or an appetizer on good qualitytoast. Try them as a topping for grilled steak. If you arelucky enough to have morels, let them soak about 10minutes in water with a bit of salt added. This makes allthe little creatures that might be in the mushrooms leavetheir happy abode.

Then drain, rinse and drain again. Dry thoroughlyand cut into halves or quarters. If you are using the mixedwild mushroom blends, slice as necessary.

Now this is a go to taste recipe. Use a large skillet sothat mushrooms cook quickly without steaming. I tossed insome watercress from our spring-fed pool right at the end.

Jean Robert adds a splash of liqueur. I sometimes adda splash of brandy while the mushrooms are cooking.

8 ounces mushrooms1/4 cup butter or bit more if needed – I usually add

more1 small shallot, minced1 teaspoon garlic, mincedSalt and pepper to tasteHeavy whipping cream, unwhipped (optional)Parsley chopped (optional)

Heat butter and add shallots and garlic together.Cook over low heat until shallots are tender but notbrown. Add everything but cream and cook over mediumheat until mushrooms are tender. Add cream to taste andlet it cook a bit until desired consistency is reached.

Lasagna for twoCorey, an East Side reader, needs recipes for two.

So if you have some to share, please do. “We’re newlymarried and both busy with careers. I like to cook butdon’t want to have to eat leftovers for a week,” shesaid.

1 cup ricotta cheese1/2 cup Parmesan cheese1 large egg2 generous cups pasta sauce with meat4 no-cook lasagna noodles1-1/3 cups mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 400. Mix cheeses and egg. Setaside. Spread 1/3 cup sauce in bottom of sprayed loaf/bread pan. Top with one noodle. Spread another 1/3cup sauce to edges. Top with 1/3 cup cheese mixtureand 1/3 cup mozzarella. Repeat layers twice, toppingwith remaining noodle and sauce. Bake, covered, 25minutes. Uncover and sprinkle on rest of mozzarella.Bake 10 more minutes and let stand 10 minutes beforeserving.

THANKS TO RITA HEIKENFELD

Morels are going for about $60 a pound right now. Jean Robert de Cavel has them on his menu, and other chefs lucky enough tohave a source are doing the same thing.

Rita HeikenfeldRITA’S KITCHEN


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Back before city waterwas widely available, alltowns had serious concernswith fire. Illumination andheat were by open flame.Houses were mostly of wood.Neighbors were “closer”back then and could be morereadily depended upon, how-ever efficiency at a fire wasproblematic without organi-zation and pecking order.

Walton Fire Department’swebsite lists 1880 as the dateof their “Bucket Brigade.” Itis known that a dozen ded-icated fire cisterns wereplanned and constructedalong the streets; some arestill there.

Records from 1898 showthat Chief Taylor Stilley andassistant Chief Eugene De-Moisey were the only paidfirefighters. They got $2 forevery fire they responded to.On June 4, 1902, Walton Trust-ees appointed “Mr. AlfordStephens to take charge ofthe fire engine for one yearfor $15 and $1 for each timehe takes it out for fire provid-ed if said Stephens does not

keep saidengine cleanand primedand in work-ing order atall times he isnot to haveany compen-sation what-ever.”

The firecisterns wereactively useduntil 1936

when Walton got its firstrunning water. As an aside,during the 1937 flood, Waltonwas one of the few local citieswith fully functioning run-ning water. When the electricpower failed, Walton FireDepartment’s new 500 gallon-per-minute pumper was usedby John Stephenson to fill theelevated supply tank from itssource.

The Walton Volunteer FireDepartment was organized in1947 and most able-bodiedmen were members. TheWoman’s Auxiliary – orga-nized in 1952 – as a vital ad-junct. Notable events: 1957,

train derailment in Waltoninvolving white phosphorous;1966 Verona derailment andpropane boiling liquid ex-panding vapor explosion; 1971trash fire spread to drugstore, barber shop, a houseand the Walton Garage; 1977carpet mill fire; 1983 fire atWalton’s City Building.

The Walton Fire Districthas greatly expanded andcovers 44 square miles and12,000 residents in parts ofBoone, Kenton, Gallatin andGrant Counties. Exposure isto two major interstates, twomajor railroads pipelines andaircraft carrying nearly ev-erything moving in com-merce plus countless peopledaily. Residences, barns,warehousing, industrial andcommercial housing are cov-ered.

Walton has two firehouses, a large fleet of mod-ern equipment, six personson A Shift, five on B Shift,three on C Shift and a num-ber of volunteer EMT’s. Ser-vice now includes ambulance,hazardous material and other

emergencies. If you thinkbeing a fireman is waitingaround to fight a fire, you’regrossly misinformed. Train-ing, inspections, cleaning,maintaining and even moretraining fill your days and/ornights.

Chiefs since 1947 havebeen: Russell Groger 1947-1956; Charles Worthington1956-1973; Ed Berkemeier,1973-1974; Ken Berkemeier,1974-1976; John Taylor 1976-1977; Tom Webster 1977-1977;Bobby Joe Glen 1977-1978;Don McIntire 1978-2006; TomOllier 2006-present. See theirwebsite(www.waltonfireky.com) formore information.

The Boone County Historic Preser-vation Review Board meets at 4p.m. the second Thursday of mostmonths. Meetings are open to thepublic. For more information abouthistoric preservation in BooneCounty please contact the reviewboard at 859-334-2111 [email protected]. Thereview board is online atwww.boonecountyky.org/pc.

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Last week’s questionHow do you think the Su-

preme Court will rule on the is-sue of same-sex marriage? Howshould they rule?

“Ehhh just let them getmarried and be as miserableas the rest of us, plus I wouldwatch gay divorce court onTV all day long, that would behilarious.”

Matt Berry

“They aren’t asking forspecial rights, they are askingfor equal rights, not sure howanyone can be denied thatpurely based on whom theylove.”

Donnette Ryan Plunkett

“Of course they should al-low it. Same-sex marriagedoes not affect my life in anyway. If it was about corruptingthe institution of marriage,well, straight people corrupt-ed that long ago with marry-ing for money/sex/and a wholehost of other reasons besideslove ... I just went to a beauti-ful same-sex couple’s wed-ding this weekend. There wasmore love, family values, andjoy present there than at a lotof weddings I have been to.Sexual orientation has nobearing on your ability to havea happy, healthy marriage andfamily.”

Jen Schultz

“Keep it out of the churchand I see no problems.”

James Bartley

“Our society has seems tohave turned into quite a per-missive society where any-thing and everything is OKand acceptable. I’ve got mixedfixed feelings about it all.”

Karen Swanson Dietz

“Well I know not that longago in our history the mar-riage of mixed race coupleswas up for debate. I’m gladthat my love/relationship sta-tus is no longer up for debateand I appreciate the strugglesof same sex couples to be ac-cepted and be recognized I’msick of people and their judg-ment.”

Ashley Nicole

“Against.”Mary Ann Maloney

“I hope they rule in favor ofit. It really is the final move-ment towards civil rights forall. With the court split interms of right and left it willcome down basically to Jus-tice Kennedy’s vote and hope-fully he will chose to be on theright side of history.

“People can use the Bibli-cal passages as their defensefor heterosexual union, how-ever in one of the oft-citedpassages, one should not notwork on Sundays, wearclothes of mixed thread or eatshell fish. From that standpoint Red Lobsters should bepicketed daily, yet I don’t seeit.

“Gay marriage will in no

way diminish heterosexualmarriage. I don’t understandthat argument. I feel that reli-gious institutions can stillcome out against it, but to doso will only point out how big-oted the institutions are.

“I look towards the newcovenant teachings of Christand he had nothing to say ongay marriage. He did havesomething to say about thedifficulty of the rich gettinginto heaven comparing it tobeing more difficult than acamel passing through theeye of a needle. I don’t see peo-ple picketing mansions orstanding next to luxury autosover in Kenwood telling peo-ple to repent.

“It is time to gay marriageis accepted and religious in-stitutions either accept it oradmit that they are selectivein terms of what they chooseto focus on Biblically.”

C.S.

“I believe they will ruleagainst it, as they should in re-spect for the thousands ofyears of societal norms, rath-er than trying to prove theyhave a ‘better idea.’ The legalramifications of allowing thisnew legal status opens toomany possibilities for long-es-tablished taboos on animal af-fection, pedophilia, close rela-tive unions and concerns overwidespread abuse of the taxsystem and destruction ofhealth care systems.”

D.B.

“I believe the SupremeCourt will recognize marriageas the union of two people wholove, honor, support and re-spect each other. Such faithfulpartnerships benefit all cul-tures and societies contribut-ing to harmony and worldpeace.”

Marie Hill

“I feel that the SupremeCourt will approve same sexmarriage. Why?, because it isgoing to be pushed and pusheddown our throats until wehave every state accepting it.That does not make it right.And I am against it b/c one ofthe reasons man and womanget married is to have a fam-ily. Children need a mom whois female and a dad who ismale, period. Not two menwho say they are mom and dador two women who say theyare mom and dad.

“And I do not think thatpeople are born gay. It is achoice they make. The sameholds true with transgenders.Why can’t we be happy withthe gender that our Lord madeus to be. Kids are being sub-jected to this kind of thinkingthat there is something wrongwith them so they want to begay or transgender. I feel sosorry for my grandchildren tolive in a culture where any-thing goes with no restric-tions or laws. I am totallyagainst the Supreme Courtruling in favor of same sexmarriage.”

D.M.H.

“In 2013 the U.S. SupremeCourt ruled that marriedsame-sex couples were enti-tled to federal benefits and, bydeclining to decide a casefrom California, effectivelyallowed same-sex marriagesthere. I suspect they willagain rule ‘in favor’ of samesex marriage across all 50states. The United States wasfounded on the separation ofchurch and state. While theremay be religious teachingsagainst this practice, thecourt will look at the U.S. Con-stitution not the Bible.”

T.D.T.

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Dems, remember tovote May 19

Over 70 years ago thismonth, World War II ended inEurope with the surrender ofGermany and the Axis Powers.In that war, the men and wom-en who are now our veteransfought to protect many of ourrights including the right tovote.

As leaders in the Democrat-ic Party in the region, we re-mind the almost 100,000 Demo-crats in the Northern Ken-tucky region to vote in theDemocratic Primary nextTuesday. Democrats have theopportunity by their vote to se-lect their candidate for Ken-tucky governor and Kentuckystate treasurer.

Our World War II veteransspent up to five years in for-eign lands under harsh condi-tions to literally save the worldfor freedom. Next Tuesday,take a few minutes of yourtime to honor a veteran notonly of World War II but allAmerican veterans from theWar for Independence to thewars in Iraq and Afghanistanto cast your votes for Ken-tucky governor and treasurer.

Boone County party chairCarole Register

Bracken County chair CraigMiller

Campbell County chair Paul L.Whalen

Grant County chair Bill AdkinsKenton County chair Col Owens

LETTER TO THEEDITOR

U.S. SenatorsMitch McConnellWashington, D.C., phone: 202-224-2541Local phone: 859-578-0188Website: http://mcconnell. asenate.gov.Rand PaulWashington, D.C., phone: 202-224-4343Local phone: 859-426-0165Website: http://paul.senate.gov

U.S. HouseThomas Massie, Fourth DistrictWashington, D.C., phone: 202-225-3465Local phone: 426-0080

State RepresentativesDiane St. Onge, District 63Frankfort phone: 502-564-8100 Ext. 701www.lrc.ky.gov/legislator/h063.htmThomas Kerr, District 64Frankfort phone: 502-564-8100 Ext. 694Local phone: 859-431-2222Website: www.lrc.ky.gov/legislator/h064.htm

Email: [email protected] Simpson, District 65Frankfort phone: 502-564-8100 Ext. 695Local phone: 859-261-6577Website: www.lrc.ky.gov/legislator/h065/htm

Email: Arnold.Simpson@ lrc.ky.govAdam Koenig, District 69Frankfort phone: 502-564-8100 ext. 689Local phone: 859-578-9258Website: http://www.adamkoenig.com/

Email: [email protected] SenatorsChris McDaniel, District 23Frankfort phone: 5-2-564-8100 ext. 615Website: chris-mcdaniel.comEmail: [email protected] Schickel, District 11Frankfort phone: 502-564-8100 Ext. 617Website: www.lrc.ky.gov/legislator/s011.htm

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PARK HILLS — It was guaran-teed to be a championship dayfor the Covington Catholic ten-nis team at the Ninth RegionChampionships at CovCath.With singles and doubles final-ists for the first time in programhistory all hailing from the ParkHills school, it was just a matterof who beat whom to determinewhich Colonels would holdchampionship trophies.

In the end, a long-reigningchampion prevailed in singles,and new champions werecrowned in doubles. All finalistsadvanced to the state tourna-ment May 14-16 in Lexington.

Top-seeded senior AustinHussey won his fourth consecu-tive regional singles title with a6-0, 6-0 win over freshmanteammate Max Cook, who start-ed the season at No. 3 singles,dabbled in doubles, then re-turned to singles. The pluckyCook, a Nos. 5-8 seed, gave upthree years in experience andseven inches in height to the 6-foot-2 Hussey, the 2013 state sin-gles champion and last year’sstate runner-up.

Hussey, a University of Ken-tucky recruit, is the first four-time Ninth Region singleschamp since CovCath’s JimmyRoebker won four in a row in2007-10.

Anthony Bosch, formerly atNo. 2 singles, and partner BlakeHeimbrock rallied to beat Colo-nels teammates, brothers Jakeand Jared Haught, 4-6, 6-2, 1-0(10-4) in the doubles final.

Head coach Al Hertsenbergsaid it’s the 10th year in a rowthat CovCath has swept the re-gional singles and doublescrowns. He didn’t have toscramble through the historybooks to find out. Many of hisformer players and regionalchampions were in attendanceon the second day of action atCovCath’s six-court facility,which opened for play at the re-gional semis.

“This is such an awesome fa-cility,” said Hussey, whosegrandparents are one of thesponsors. “You already have lit-tle kids running around wantingto play here, and that mightmake them want to go to Cov-Cath. Before, we were practic-ing everywhere, including peo-ples’ back yards.”

Hussey played in front ofnearly 200 in attendance Mon-day, including the first CovCathregional champion, Dave Feigh-ery (1971), who returned to cam-pus to see one of the six courtsdedicated in his name.

After losing to Brooke War-den a few weeks ago, NotreDame Academy junior tennisplayer Francie Case received anextra homework assignmentfrom her head coach, Rob Har-din.

Case aced the next examagainst Warden, a Dixie Heights

junior and defending Ninth Re-gion singles champion, beatingher 6-4, 7-6 (5) to win the girls re-gional title May 6 at Lloyd Me-morial High School. It is Case’sfirst individual regional title.

“I’m so excited, honestly,”Case said. “It’s so awesome.”

Case got aggressive to hit akey winner in the second-set tie-breaker, in which the first play-er to seven points wins the set.With the players tied 5-5, Casepounced on a Warden return andvolleyed it back to Warden. TheDixie junior returned the ballback, but Case was able to volleythat past her for a 6-5 lead. Onthe next point, Case gave War-den an offensive opportunitywith a short return, but Wardenbackhanded the ball into the net

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TEAM TOURNEYBoth Notre Dame and Coving-

ton Catholic advanced from thesectional round of the KHSAAteam tournament by winningtwo dual matches on May 9.Both teams will play in the statesemifinals on the UK courtsThursday, May 14, beginning at5 p.m. The finals begin at 5 p.m.Friday.

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EDGEWOOD — Sean Kingsays there is a big differencebetween bass fishing and othermore traditional sports. It’sthat one day can be extremelydifferent than the next.

King, a Dixie Heights HighSchool senior, will compete fora Kentucky High School Ath-letic Association state champi-onship in the sport May 15-16 atKentucky Lake in Gilberts-ville. He and freshman team-mate Nick Tekulve make upone two-person team and willbe the only Northern Kentuckyrepresentatives in the tourna-ment. Notre Dame Academyhad two pairs of competitorscatch a fish in the tourney.

“It’s pretty exciting know-ing I can do it for my school af-ter all my years of doing it,”King said. “I never got to getrecognized for it and be affili-ated with a school team.”

King and Tekulve finishedfifth in the Region 2 champion-ships April 18 to advance. Theycaught the maximum allowedfive bass, one of only two pairsto accomplish that, and theplacement was determined bytotal weight.

Tekulve and the two otherColonels who participated inthe sport, Zach Demoss and Ar-ic Scheben are rookies to tour-nament fishing. Demoss andScheben did well in the region-al and barely missed qualify-ing for state. Meanwhile, Kinghas been at it for about sixyears and been fishing overallsince he was 3.

Tekulve’s father Mike andDixie head football coach Dave

Brossart are the official coach-es for the program, but King isthe key “coach on the field.”

“It’s our first year in it,”Mike Tekulve said. “The funnything is Sean has been doingthis for years. He knows every-thing. He’s taught us a lot abouttournament fishing. Thankgoodness he’s with us, andthat’s why we made it to state.”

King scouts a fishing sitethe same way coaches in bas-ketball and football studygame film of their competition.He and Brossart went to the re-gional site the day before tostudy the lake. He said condi-tions change from day to dayand bass hang out in differentspots and behave in differentdays depending on the weath-er.

King said bass generally

like to camp out around under-water structures, where theycan either lay their eggs orhide out to prey on other fish.

“You got to break it down,”he said. “Fish are hungry allthe time. Once you find theirfood source, you find the bass.”

King said fish have generalbehaviors depending on theseason of the year but are stillhard to predict.

“My favorite thing is it’sever-changing,” he said. “Youcan’t ever go to a body of waterand have one thing that’s goingto work all the time. The fisharen’t going to be in the samespot. There are variables thatyou control in football and bas-ketball. The goal doesn’t movethe whole game and you have

Dixie pair angles for state titleJames [email protected]

THANKS TO MIKE TEKULVE

Sean King, left, and Nick Tekulve with their catch from the reigonal meet.

When senior Hayden Moli-tor graduates at the end of themonth, Lloyd Memorial HighSchool might have to form asearch committee to find a re-placement for him. He is thestarting quarterback and de-fensive back on the footballteam, a starting guard for thebasketball team and currentlyhe’s the top pitcher, catcherand center fielder for the base-ball team.

Molitor isn’t just a three-sport athlete; he’s a three-sportstandout. And he’s been lead-ing the Juggernauts on variousplaying surfaces for a whilenow. A three-year varsity play-er on the baseball team; he’shitting around .380 at the plate,has taken the mound in Lloyd’sbiggest games this spring andis an elite fielder.

“In my years of coaching atLloyd, there have been a selectfew guys that if a ball is hittheir way I don’t even have towatch it, and he’s one of them,”Lloyd baseball coach AaronMoore said. “When the ball is inthe air headed his way, I don’teven look. I’m starting to thinkabout the next batter or inning.It’s a done deal.”

“The most impressive partis the fact that he is able to do

everything at such a high level.There’s nothing really that hedoes that isn’t 100 percent. Hisgrades are outstanding, he’sthe captain of multiple teams,and everything that he goes af-ter he succeeds in it.”

According to Moore, Moli-tor is as great of an influenceoff of the field as he is on it.He’s always been a good modelfor teammates to emulatesince he started catching onthe varsity team as a sopho-more, but he’s expanded thatrole over the last few years.

“He’s learned to assert him-self more,” Moore said. “He’salways been more of a lead byexample kind of guy, but this

year he’s started to take thereigns a little bit more vocallywith his teammates. He’s nev-er been a rah-rah kind of guy,almost stoic in his approach,but he’s definitely becomemore of a guiding force insteadof a just watch what I do kind ofleader.”

The biggest challenge forMolitor at this stage of his lifeseems to be finding free time.With so much of his day sched-uled out, he’s taken to wakingup earlier in the mornings tofinish schoolwork just so hehas some time to relax aftergames or practices in the eve-nings. When he gets the chanceto hang out with his friends,they’re usually watching orplaying more sports.

“We like sports a lot, so we’llplay a lot of backyard basket-ball or even break out sometennis just messing around,”he said. “It’s hard sometimes. Ijust try not to put too muchstress on myself and remem-ber to enjoy the experience. Ilike to think that when I go tosports practice or a game afterschool that’s my break andtime to have fun.”

Those time managementskills are something he hopeswill pay off in the next stage ofhis life as he plans to join the

Molitor’s busy career winding down Rick [email protected]

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Lloyd’s Hayden Molitor iswrapping up his prolific highschool career as a three-sportstandout. He will attend the AirForce Academy after graduation.

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See MOLITOR, Page 2B

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Freedom Trail» The Frontier League

professional baseball sea-son will begin this week.The Florence Freedomwill play their first sixgames at home, May 14-16and May 19-21, at UCHealth Stadium. Thehome game Friday, May15, will honor CincinnatiReds legends JohnnyBench and George Foster,paying tribute to their jer-sey numbers of 5 and 15.Bench and Foster will bebase coaches during thegame.

Baseball» Covington Catholic

beat Holy Cross 12-2 May8. Brian Haughey im-proved to 6-2 on themound. Zach Stegmanand Tyler Langguth eachhad two hits and threeRBI.

CovCath beat HolyCross 10-0 in the districtseeding game. Noah Gal-vin had three hits andfour RBI. It was CCH’s20th win, the 28th straightyear head coach BillKrumpelbeck hasreached that milestone.

» Dixie Heights beatLloyd 1-1. Ethan Harrison

had three hits. » Scott beat Pendleton

County 6-4. Scott’s JakeOhmer earned his secondsave after striking out thefinal batter with basesloaded. Starting pitcherAndrew Trame took a no-hitter into the fifth butlost the bid with two outs.

» St. Henry back froma 6-1second inning deficitto defeat CovCath 12-9.Junior catcher Kevin Fla-herty accounted for fiveof St. Henry’s runs aftergoing 3-for-4 with twodoubles. Junior firstbaseman Michael Ridillawent 2-for-4 with a doubleand two RBI.

Softball» Dixie Heights, No-

tre Dame and St. Henrywill participate in the an-nual Strike Out Cancerseries Saturday, May 16 atDixie, with the threeteams playing each otherthroughout the day.

» Simon Kenton beatScott 19-9. Haley Perryand Kylie Kennedy eachhad three hits and threeRBI. SK is 21-11 throughMay 10 and has won six ina row.

» Villa Madonna is13-5 through May 11, hav-ing suffered its first con-ference loss May 7 toDayton, 10-2.

Soccer» The Scott Christian

Memorial Soccer Foun-dation announces the2015 winners of the ScottChristian MemorialScholarship:

Carissa Dyer, NotreDame Academy: Carissawas a leader and captainof the Notre Dame Acad-emy women’s soccerteam, which captured theKentucky state soccerchampionship, as well asbeing a member of theKentucky State OlympicDevelopment Team and amember of the KingsHammer Academy pro-gram. In addition to hersuccess on the pitch, Ca-rissa was selected as athree time Academic All-State selection. Carissawill attend the Universityof Southern Indiana in thefall where she will be amember of the women’ssoccer team.

Jacob Hensley, New-port Central CatholicHigh School: Jacob’s highschool career culminatedin his selection as the 2014Kentucky DefensivePlayer of the Year whilealso being selected as atwo time First Team All-State selection. Jacobalso is a member of theNorthern Kentucky Soc-

cer Academy programand was placed on the All-American watch list. Cur-rently ranked in the top 3of his senior class with a5.87 GPA, Jacob has com-piled an outstanding aca-demic record while bal-ancing a collection of sixAdvanced Placementclasses. Jacob will attendThomas More College inthe fall where he will be amember of the men’s soc-cer team.

NKU Notes» Northern Kentucky

men’s basketball headcoach John Brannen hascompleted his staff, add-ing David Ragland, Ron-ald Nored and SeanDwyer as assistant coach-es and former NKUstandout Tony Rack as di-rector of operations.

TMC Notes» Thomas More Col-

lege had five student-ath-letes named to the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence (PAC) Softball All-Conference team by theconference’s 10 headcoaches.

Junior pitcher MameeSalzer (Erlanger, Ky./St.Henry), junior shortstopAna Walter (Lebanon,Ohio/Lebanon) andfreshman utility player

Sammy Sagers (Cincin-nati, Ohio/Oak Hills)were all named first teamAll-PAC. Salzer has a 2.30earned run average and a16-9 record in the pitchingcircle as she has pitched167.2 innings and hasstruck out 118 batters. Atthe plate, she is batting.346 with a team-leading30 runs batted-in and 11doubles and three homeruns. Walter leads theteam in batting with a .375average with a team-best18 doubles, two triples,one home run and 19 RBI.In the field she has a .926fielding percentage with44 putouts and 82 assists.Sagers is hitting .355 with19 RBI, eight doubles, onetriple and one home run.She has a .886 fieldingpercentage with 13 put-outs and 18 assists.

Senior outfielder Ca-tie Luck (Maineville,Ohio/Little Miami) andfreshman outfielder Lau-ra Finke (Fort Wright,Ky./Notre Dame Acad-emy).Luck has started all41 games for the Saintsand has a .248 batting av-erage with 16 RBI, sevendoubles, two triples andtwo home runs. In thefield she has a .958 field-ing percentage with 46putouts. Finke is secondon the team in batting

with a .346 average as shehas nine RBI, four dou-bles and one home run.She is eight-for-nine instolen base attempts andhas a .936 fielding per-centage.

» Thomas More Col-lege junior shortstop AnaWalter (Lebanon, Ohio/Lebanon) was named All-Central Region by the Na-tional Fastpitch CoachesAssociation.

Walter was a thirdteam selection by theNFCA. She led the team atthe plate with a .359 bat-ting average. Walter was52-for-145 at the platewith one home run, twotriples, 18 doubles, 19runs batted-in and 39 runsscored. She had a .531slugging percentage to gowith a .429 on-base per-centage and a .927 field-ing percentage. Walterwas seven-for-10 in stolenbase attempts.

Walter and the Saintsfinished the season with a27-17 record, including a13-5 mark in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence. The team sharedthe PAC regular-seasonand won the PAC Champi-onship Tournamentwhere it advanced to theNCAA’s Greencastle, In-diana Regional and post-ed a 1-2 record.

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Dixie Heights softballlost 9-4 to defending NinthRegion champ HighlandsMay 7. Dixie, 13-12, hostsNewport Central Catholic

May 14 then the annualStrike Out Cancer show-case with St. Henry andNotre Dame Saturday,May 16.

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Dixie Heights senior Kaylin Metzger swings the bat.

Colonels fallto Bluebirds

ERLANGER — Theyneeded to get momen-tum back after seeing asix-game winning streakend two days before.

With big assists fromsome of their youngerplayers, the St. HenryDistrict High SchoolCrusaders notched oneof their biggest wins ofthe season, beating Lud-low 3-2.

St. Henry improved to11-11, but more impor-tantly, clinched the topseed in the 34th DistrictTournament.

“Hopefully, peoplewill start seeing that St.Henry is a ball club,”sophomore Nick Ferrarosaid.

“Some people don’ttake us that seriouslyand hopefully they starttaking us seriously. It’sbeen years since we’ve

had this opportunity.”St. Henry got the op-

portunity with a 4-2 winover perennial districtfavorite Dixie Heightsand also made recentnoise with a 12-9 win overperennial power Coving-ton Catholic.

With the top seed, St.Henry will play neighborLloyd in the semifinals,whom the Crusadershave beaten 9-3 this sea-son.

Ferraro knocked inthe winning run with oneout in the bottom of theseventh inning. JuniorJoe Kroger, the No. 9 hit-ter in the order, hit a sin-gle to start the inning andwas bunted over by sen-ior Evan Lyons, the lead-off hitter.

“Our nine hitter has agood at-bat, gets on base,and that changes the toneof the whole inning,”head coach Kent Shartz-er said. “I’m not a big fan

of bunting, but I felt weneeded it there with Nickcoming up. He’s beencarrying us offensivelyfor three weeks.”

Ferraro deliveredwith a single to the out-field.

“I just have to keephitting the ball and keepit going for the team,”Ferraro said. “We don’tgive up. We keep going.We just have to keepplaying.”

Ludlow loaded thebases in the top of theseventh with no one outoff junior pitcher CollinJohnson.

Johnson struck outthe next batter, then gotthe next hitter to groundthe ball to the shortstopKroger, who initiallybobbled the ball but re-covered in time to throwout the runner at theplate, with junior catch-er Kevin Flaherty mak-ing a nice stab. The next

batter then flew out toright fielder DakotaGraue.

“Mainly with my de-fense,” Johnson said.“We got the out at homeand the big play by Dako-ta in right field. We’vehad a lot of close games,we can play defense andwe know how to hit theball in clutch time. Weknow how to clutch upand get the winning hit.”

After a 4-10 start, theCrusaders are starting tolearn how to win.

“We start someyounger guys,” Shartzersaid. “The seniors havedone a good job leadingthe way and the under-classmen have done agood job following. Wehave to make sure weshow up every gamewith a chip on our shoul-der.”

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Crusaders making noise in baseballJames [email protected]

to end the match.“(At 5-5), I went and

took an overhead out ofthe air,” Case said. “Thatwas an exciting point; itwas big. I hit a good shot. Iwas ready for it. Patiencewas the key. It’s hot out-side. Brooke is a reallygood player. She’s awe-some. I knew I needed tokeep as many balls in as Icould and take advantageof when she hit a reallyshort ball so I could comein and take it out of theair.”

While Case was the twoseed upsetting the one, thedoubles final went accord-ing to form, as the top-seeded Panda team of sen-iors Abigail Kennedy andMaryann Meadows de-feated third-seeded team-mates Sarah Frisch andKylie Moellering, 6-0, 7-5.It’s the first doubles titlefor both. Kennedy wasrunner-up last year withthis year’s NDA’s No. 2singles player, EmmaHughes.

“I think we had fun,”

Kennedy said. “Even if wewould have lost it wouldhave been a good time.We’re used to that in prac-tice every day.”

The matchup markedthe 11th year in a row and17th out of 19 that the Pan-das have had both doublesfinalists. All the semifinal-ists and finalists will com-pete in the KHSAA indi-vidual state tournamentbeginning May 14.

That includes both Dix-ie doubles teams, who lostin the semifinals: AlainaMoore/Kristen Snyderand Annie Atkinson/AnnaStarosciak.

Moellering’s older sis-ter Abbey was a recent

graduate of the NDA ten-nis program. Going far-ther back was Frisch’s old-er sister Amy, who was inattendance at Lloyd towatch Sarah provide thewinning point. Amy, a 1998graduate who helped thePandas to the state titlethat year by reaching thefourth round of the singlestournament, was on the1996 team that started the20-year streak.

Case’s aunt Kerrie Kra-mer was also a senior in1998 with Amy Frisch.Kramer and then-juniorLindsay Dressmanreached the semifinals ofthe state doubles tourneythat year.

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Austin Hussey of Covington Catholic returns a serve May 4.

the same number of peo-ple out there. Fishing,you’re going out therefor eight hours and thereare no rain delays. Thefish adapt to those condi-tions and you have to fig-ure it out. It’s a game allthe time and that’s wherepractice and pre-fishingand doing your home-work really helps out.”

Tournament fishing

requires an adult to runthe boat with the twoteammates.

“We’ve been fishingfor years, but this is hisfirst time tournamentfishing,” Mike Tekulvesaid of his son. “It’s reallycool. It’s tough getting itorganized. You have tohave a boat, get there thenight before. It’s a lot oflogistics.”

King has had a lot ofsuccess in youth fishingtournaments, most nota-bly qualifying for the Ju-nior World Champion-

ships last summer inSouth Carolina. He willattend Eastern KentuckyUniversity and get busi-ness and marketing de-grees, which he hopesputs him on a path to be aprofessional in the sportof bass fishing.

“I want to learn how topromote myself,” hesaid. “I’m going to give ita shot and go pro. I wantto see if this dream pansout.”

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Air Force Academy nearColorado Springs, Colo-rado after graduation.

“I don’t have a hugemilitary background, butmy grandpa did serve inthe Army for over 20years. It was just some-thing that kind of struckme,” Molitor said abouthis decision to head to theAir Force Academy. “Ijust kind of felt like it fitme with the structured

environment and the life-style. It’s a pretty bigchallenge with thecourse load and the mili-tary environment, but Ilike to challenge myselfand think it’s something Ican do well while alsoserving my country. Ithink I can take away alot of the life lessons thatyou learn from sportsand apply it. Sports havebeen such an importantpart of my life.”

His well thought outfuture may be bright, butfor now Molitor is fo-cused on the present and

enjoying the last days ofhis jam-packed highschool career. He and histeammates have unfin-ished business with the34th District tournamentlooming just a few weeksaway.

“Reaching the NinthRegion tournamentwould be the ultimategoal for our team,” hesaid. “It would meansomething personallyfor me just to advance tothe region, because Ihaven’t had the opportu-nity to do it in any sportyet.”

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Vitamin D has gottena lot of media coveragelately as various studieshave tied normal levelsof vitamin D to certainhealth benefits and lackof the vitamin to certaindiseases.

While many of thesecurrent studies provideconflicting messages, itis generally understoodthat vitamin D is neededfor optimal health. Ithelps us absorb calciumand phosphorus, so wecan have strong bonesand teeth. The vitaminalso regulates theamount of calcium in ourblood, helps strengthenour immune system andhelps regulate cellgrowth.

It also decreases therisk of falls in olderadults by as much as 20percent. A lack of vita-min D can cause yourbones to soften and in-creases your risk of bonefractures.

Our exposed skinproduces vitamin Dfrom sun exposure. Our

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We can get our daily-recommended amount ofvitamin D by addingfoods to our diets thatnaturally contain vita-min D or are fortifiedwith the vitamin.

Fatty fish such assalmon, cod and tunanaturally contain highlevels of vitamin D. Thevitamin is also found inegg yolks in smallerquantities. Foods forti-fied with vitamin D in-clude most milk, someorange juices, yogurt,cheese, cereal, breadand soy drinks. A refer-ence to vitamin D isusually only found onfood labels of fortifiedfoods.

Vitamin D supple-ments are also availablefor those deficient in thevitamin. Check withyour doctor before add-ing any kind of supple-ment to your diet.

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Luegeringappointed chair

ReSource appointedMark Luegering of Mess-er Construction as boardchair of its board of trust-

ees to con-tinue to ex-pand itsmission ofpracticalsustaina-bility andof engag-ing, edu-cating andservingthe non-

profit community. Luegering has been a

part of ReSource’s boardsince 2012, and he mostrecently served as vicechair. He is senior vicepresident of Messer Con-struction, where he leadsproject operations andperformance in Messer’sOhio and Indiana regions.

Luegering is active

with the Spirit of Con-struction, where he is thecurrent, past president,and he also chairs one ofthe Cincinnati SymphonyOrchestra’s developmentsubcommittees. He pre-viously served the com-munity in a number ofboard leadership roles,including Kicks for Kids,Allied Construction In-dustries, Cincinnati Sym-phony Orchestra and theUniversity of CincinnatiCollege of EngineeringAlumni Association.

Crystal ClearCleaning honored

Crystal Clear Clean-ing was honored as “Em-ployer of the Year” by IK-RON Corp., for employ-ing hard-working peoplewith physical disabilitiesand social challenges, atIKRON’s annual meetingon April 2.

IKRON Corp. (Inte-gration of Knowledgeand Resources for Occu-pational Needs) is an or-ganization that partnerswith the city of Cincin-nati to provide employ-ment services and jobplacement for adultswith employment chal-lenges.

Each year, IKRONrecognizes a companycommitted to hiring indi-viduals who face employ-ment issues because ofphysical disabilities andsocial challenges.

NKY SHRM honoredwith award

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Legion Logistics’president namedfinalist for award

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United Way of GreaterCincinnati-Northern Ken-tucky staff, board mem-bers and volunteers at-tended Live United Day atthe Capitol in Frankfort onFeb. 24.

More than 100 repre-sentatives from UnitedWays statewide gatheredto meet with legislatorsand bring awareness to is-sues facing their localcommunities.

Representatives fromUnited Way of GreaterCincinnati-Northern Ken-tucky were on hand toback a bill that passed theHouse and Senate and wassigned by the governor.House Bill 234 will devel-op a rating system forchild care, Head Start andstate-funded preschoolprograms.

Lawmakers took up thegovernor’s request to addaccountability and trans-parency to all of Kentuck-y’s early child care facili-ties by implementing thegoals of the AcceleratingLearning StatewideThrough an AdvancedRating System, or All-STARS. HB 234 requiresearly child care and edu-cation programs to followthis state quality-basedrating system. All-STARS

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United Way of GreaterCincinnati-Northern Ken-tucky was among groupsfrom United Way of Ken-tucky who gathered totake a unified stand on theimportance of quality, ac-cessible and affordablepreschool education; help-ing low-income familiesobtain family-sustainingemployment with incomesupports and financialeducation; and promotinghealthy communitiesthrough policies address-ing obesity, substanceabuse and child poverty.United Way of GreaterCincinnati-Northern Ken-

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of Erlanger, died April 27 at St.Elizabeth Florence.

She was a tax specialist forthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,and Firearms of the U.S. Gov-ernment and an active memberof First Church of Christ inBurlington.

Her husband, Thomas Beck;and sisters Georgia McGuire,Mildred McLean, and JackiePetrocy, died previously.

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Memorials: Wounded War-rior Project, 301 Grant St., Suite900, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Janice BoltonJanice Lee Bolton, 73, of

Elsmere, died May 5 at RosedaleGreen in Latonia.

Survivors include her sons Tim“Mary” Bolton and Jeff “Jerri”Bolton; brother, Virgil Bush; and

seven grandchildren along withfour great-grandchildren.

Burial was at EvergreenCemetery in Southgate.

Rose ConleyRose Mary Leinmiller Conley,

94, of Erlanger, died May 2 ather home.

She was a homemaker, mem-ber of St. Anthony Church, andone of the founders of Prome-nade Palace Square Dance Hall.She traveled and square dancedall over the world. She alsoworked on the production ofbombsites during World War IIat the Powell-Crosley Building.

Her husband, James O. Con-ley; and granddaughter, CathieDeaton, died previously.

Survivors include her daugh-ters, Linda Messmer of Edge-wood and Karen C. Hegener ofErlanger; and five grandchil-dren along with great grand-children.

Interment was at Mother ofGod Cemetery.

Memorials: St. AnthonyChurch, 485 Grand Ave., TaylorMill, KY 41015; or St. ElizabethHospice, 483 S. Loop Road,Edgewood, KY 41017.

Amanda ElamAmanda Paige Elam, 23, of

Taylor Mill, died May 4 at herhome.

She was an employee atFrisch’s Big Boy Restaurant inIndependence and a graduateof Simon Kenton High School.

Survivors include her childrenLandon Combs, Harley Combs,and Tyler Combs; parents,Christa Fowee Elam and DerekElam; brother, Jon Elam; andgrandparents, Allen and SueElam and Charles Fowee andJudy Wittich.

Interment was at Floral HillsCemetery.

Memorials: To Chambers andGrubbs Funeral Home on behalfof Amanda Elam’s children.

Harold EversHarold “Buzz” Evers, 94, of

Kenton County, died April 30 atCarmel Manor Care Center.

He was a U.S. Army veteranof World War II, was a doublePurple Heart recipient, and hadfought in the Battle of Norman-dy. He was a bartender atMaisonette and La Normandie.

Survivors include his wife,Bernadine T. Baus Evers.

Entombment was at St. MaryCemetery Mausoleum.

Memorials: Carmel ManorCare Center, 100 Carmel ManorRoad, Fort Thomas, KY 41075;or American Heart Association,5211 Madison Road, Cincinnati,OH 45227.

Robert HackmanRobert “Bob” Joseph Hack-

man, 87, formerly of FortWright, died May 4.

He was a U.S. Army veteran

of World War II, former FortWright councilman, past presi-dent of Lookout Heights CivicClub, and was an active at theformer Campbell Lodge.

His brother, Paul Hackman;and sister, Mary CatherineHackman, died previously.

Survivors include his wife,Thelma Spellmeyer Hackman;son, Jerome “Jerry” Hackman;sister, Laverne Boing of Jackson-ville, Florida; and three grand-children.

Burial was at Mother of GodCemetery in Fort Wright.

Memorials: St. ElizabethHospice, 1 Medical Village Drive,Edgewood, KY 41017.

Jessie HamiltonJessie C. Hamilton, 85, of Villa

Hills, died May 3 at St. ElizabethHospice.

He was a heavy equipmentoperator with Carlisle Construc-tion for 33 years and an avidgardener, who enjoyed huntingand collecting guns.

Survivors include his wife,Jean Hamilton of Villa Hills;children Debbie Bailey of FloydKnobs Indiana, Tere Banet ofLanesville, Indiana, Bill Hamil-ton of Greenville, Indiana,Angela Smith of Union, BarbDeLong of Walla Walla, Wash-ington, Jeff Hamilton of Inde-pendence, Dave Hamilton ofBurlington, and Laurie Leon-hard of Villa Hills; brother,Bobby Hamilton of Brooksville,Kentucky; and 14 grandchildrenalong with nine great-grand-children.

Memorials: Ella Reid Memori-al Fund, C/O any Fifth ThirdBank.

Charles Hammons Jr.Charles C. Hammons Jr., 72, of

Taylor Mill, died April 28 at hishome.

He retired from The KrogerCompany after 46 years ofemployment. He enjoyed camp-ing, sitting on the back porch,four wheeling, and UK basket-ball.

Survivors include his wife,Phyllis Hammons; childrenMichelle Hartline of Hudson,Ohio, Mike Hammons of Crest-view, and Gary Hammons ofTaylor Mill; brother, Don Ham-mons of Taylor Mill; and threegrandchildren.

Interment was at Floral HillsMemorial Gardens.

Memorials: American CancerSociety, Hope Lodge, 2008Charlotte Ave., Nashville, TN37203.

Edward HeilemanEdward W. Heileman, 73, of

Morning View, died April 27 athis home.

He was a U.S. Army veteranand retired security officer forNorthern Kentucky University,Campbell County Jail, CincinnatiPolice Department, and Hamil-ton County Sheriff Department.He was also an instructor ofconcealed gun certification andcontributed many articles tolocal newspapers and maga-zines on the subject.

His daughter, Sherry Stansell,died previously.

Survivors include his wife,Gilda Murchison Heileman;daughter, Michelle Barkan ofErlanger; sister, Kathryn Cafazoof Mason, Ohio; brother, JohnHeileman; and three grand-children.

Interment was at Forest LawnMemorial Park in Erlanger.

Memorials: Taylor Mill Chris-tian Academy, 5235 Taylor MillRoad, Taylor Mill, KY 41015.

Sheila KingShelia Ann King, 65, of Park

Hills, died April 29.Survivors include her brother,

Kevin King.Memorials: Kenton County

Animal Shelter, 1020 MaryLaidley Drive, Fort Mitchell, KY41017.

Elizabeth KletteElizabeth Marie Klette, 34, of

Latonia, died May 2 at herhome.

Survivors include her sonsJordan Gregory and JustinGregory; mother, Kim Roden ofFlorence; father, Michael KletteSr. of Newport; brother, MichaelKlette Jr. and Matthew Klette;and sister, Jamie Frakey.

Burial was at Highland Ceme-tery in Fort Mitchell.

Nicholas KnaselNicholas “Nick” J. Knasel, 91,

of Erlanger, died May 2 at St.Elizabeth Edgewood.

He was a U.S. Army veteranof World War II and worked formore than 40 years with Cincin-nati Gas and Electric Company.He was a member of AmericanLegion Post 20 and the SundayMorning Club.

His wife, Esther A. Knasel,died previously.

Survivors include his daugh-ters Paula Green and VickiCassidy; brother, Ken Knasel;and four grandchildren alongwith four great-grandchildrenand seven step-great-grand-children and five step-great-great-grandchildren.

Entombment was at High-land Cemetery in Fort Mitchell.

Memorials: Disabled Amer-ican Veterans, P.O. Box 14301,Cincinnati, OH 45250.

Roy PflughRoy Pflugh, 60, of Erlanger,

died May 6.

Dorothy PooleDorothy “Dottie” Jean Poole,

79, of Erlanger, died May 1 at St.Elizabeth Hospice.

She was a square dancer for29 years and a member of theKY Kuzzins and CrescentSquares dance clubs. She en-joyed bowling for 40 years andwas a supervisor for Dixie Newsdelivery service.

Her sister, Pat Powers, diedpreviously.

Survivors include her hus-band, Lou Poole; children CarolDerry of Cary, North Carolina,Diane Bowdler of Loveland,Ohio, Janet Plunkett of FortMitchell, Ken Poole of FortWright, and Kevin Poole ofCovington; and eight grand-children along with threegreat-grandchildren.

Interment was at St. MaryCemetery in Fort Mitchell.

Memorials: St. Henry Church,3818 Dixie Highway, Elsmere,KY 41018; or St. Elizabeth Hos-pice, 1 Medical Village Drive,Edgewood, KY 41017.

Michael RechtinMichael Rechtin, 57, of Lud-

low, died April 29 at his home.He was a retired receiving

clerk with St. Elizabeth Edge-wood, an avid UK fan, memberof the Kehoe Council No. 1764Knights of Columbus in Ludlow,and a member of Sts. Bonifaceand James Church in Ludlow.

His parents, Paul and DoloresBennett Rechtin; and sister,Eileen Sarver, died previously.

Survivors include his wife,Peggy Schwier Rechtin; son,Paul Rechtin of Ludlow; daugh-ter, Katie Rechtin of Ludlow;sisters Barbara Toadvine ofErlanger and Paulette Ruttle ofFort Mitchell.

Interment was at Mother ofGod Cemetery in Fort Wright.

Memorials: National KidneyFoundation, 615 Elsinore Place,Suite 400 Cincinnati, OH 45202.

Donna RobertsonDonna Kay Ashby Robertson,

49, of Independence, died May2 at St. Elizabeth Edgewood.

She enjoyed collecting knickknacks and was an animal lover.

Her mother, Mona Ashby,died previously.

Survivors include her son,Steve Robertson; sister, BeckyWinsett; brothers Danny andHerald Robertson; boyfriend,Guy Patrick Blankenship; andtwo grandchildren.

Memorials: Paws and ClawsAnimal Rescue Inc., P.O. Box223, Hebron, KY 41048.

DEATHS

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Eugene StarnesEugene Starnes, 81, of Inde-

pendence, died May 1 at hishome.

He was a retired contractorand member of Taylor MillPentecostal Church. He was anavid hunter of raccoons andhad won many trophies over

the years participating in rac-coon hunting competitions andtraining dogs to hunt. His otherinterests were fishing, playingthe fiddle, singing, and teach-ing Sunday school.

Survivors include his wife,Dorothy Starnes; childrenMichael Starnes, Saundra Wha-len, Douglas E. Starnes, VickieUnthank, and Becky Kendall;and 13 grandchildren along

with 25 great-grandchildrenand two great-great-grand-children.

Interment was at Independ-ence Cemetery.

Memorials: Taylor Mill Pente-costal Church, 5336 Taylor MillRoad, Taylor Mill, KY 41015; orSt. Elizabeth Hospice, 1 MedicalVillage Drive, Edgewood, KY41017.

DEATHS

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Scalise-Smithnamed NKU dean

Dr. Dale Scalise-Smithwas recently named dean

of the NKUCollege ofHealth Pro-fessions.

Scalise-Smithserves asvice presi-dent of theUtica(N.Y.) Col-lege School

for Online & ExtendedStudies and External Part-nerships.

She will begin at NKUon Aug. 1. She will play animportant role in the cre-ation of the Health Innova-tion Center and will over-see a team of three depart-ment heads, the NorthernKentucky Nursing Re-search Collaborative di-rector, an assistant dean, abusiness officer, a simula-tion facilitator and a labcoordinator.

Scalise-Smith will workto expand and enhance theNKU College of HealthProfessions to meet theneeds of the population,shift care toward preven-tion and champion an inte-grated approach to health-care and healthcare edu-cation.

Dr. Scalise-Smith andher husband Christopherhave three children, Jil-lian, Brendan and Emily;and two grandchildren,Madison and Nixon.

Independencewoman in runningfor ‘Woman of theYear’

A little less than a yearago, Christy Alwell of In-dependence lost one of herbest friends to leukemia.

Her friend had such agiving heart and was sucha selfless person, Alwellfelt this campaign wouldbe the perfect way to re-member his loving spirit.

Alwell is nominated asa candidate for the Leuke-mia & Lymphoma Soci-ety’s Woman of the Yearafter competing with oth-er candidates across thecountry to raise the most

funds forblood can-cer re-search.

As acandidate,Alwell willraise fundsthroughMay 29. Ev-

ery dollar she raises willcount as one “vote” in herfavor. Male and femalecandidates with the most“votes” will be awardedthe titles Cincinnati Man &Woman of the Year at aGrand Finale Celebrationon Friday, May 29 at theHilton Cincinnati Nether-land Plaza. Visitwww.MWOY.org/Cincy.

Schworer amongUnited Way ‘Heroes’

Philip J. Schworer,member of Frost BrownTodd in Florence, was rep-

resentedamongUnitedWay ofGreaterCincin-nati’s 100Heroes asthe organi-zationkicked offa year-long

celebration of its 100th an-niversary with the “Gath-ering of Heroes Reception& Dinner” at Duke EnergyConvention Center onApril 21.

Schworer has been in-volved in United Way formany years. He hasserved as chairman, vice-chairman and divisionleader for the annualNorthern Kentucky Unit-ed Way Campaigns, co-chair of the Greater Cin-cinnati Tocqueville Soci-ety Campaign and mem-ber of the foundationboard.

Schworer is an attor-ney in Frost Brown Todd’sEnvironmental practicegroup.

Hebron authorcrafts magicaldetective story

Since she was a littlegirl, Hebron author Von-nie Mateer Campbell

dreamed of becoming anauthor and an artist, butshe waited 30 years to pur-sue her interests.

She is now releasingher new mystery-fantasychildren’s book.

“The Tree” tells the en-tertaining story of a tree, alegend and one crazyneighbor.

After fulfilling herdreams, she encourageschildren to not wait as longas she did to pursue theirGod-given abilities. Camp-bell, who grew up in SouthAmerica, lives in North-ern Kentucky with herhusband, Daniel; and hertwo daughters, Abby andJenna.

Published by Tate Pub-lishing and Enterprises,the book is available atwww.tatepublishing.com/bookstore, or by visitingbarnesandnoble.com oramazon.com.

Kenton Countyeducators are‘Teachers Who Madea Difference’

JoAnna Loechel, ofWalton, and Traci Zimmer-man, of Taylor Mill, werehonored April 18 as“Teachers Who Made aDifference.”

The University of Ken-tucky College of Educa-tion’s Teachers Who Madea Difference programgives people an opportuni-ty to thank a teacher, prin-cipal, professor, coach orother educator who has in-spired and motivatedthem to succeed.

Loechel was honoredby Patrick Allen and Zim-merman was honored byLauren Trame.

The 17th annual Teach-ers Who Made a Differ-ence program honored 168educators this year fromacross Kentucky and oth-er states.

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2 Convenient Locations! Covington, KY

16th & Russell 431-2622M-F 8a - 5p | Sa 8a - 1p **

Edgewood, KY 122 Dudley Road 341-5110

M-F 8a - 5p | Sa 8a - 1p ****Extended spring hours on Saturday, until 3p

**Call for extended Sunday hours at our Edgewood Store!

BULK MULCH “You Pick Up” SpecialCOVINGTON STORE ONLY

*1 SCOOP = 15-18 two cu. ft. bagsPRICES GOOD MAY 8th - 23rd, 2015

ANY VARIETY

$3 off per scoop*

BULK MULCH DELIVERY$3 OFF

*per scoop of our regular delivery price from the Covington store.

2 scoop minimum.Within our delivery area.

PRICES GOOD MAY 8th - 23rd, 2015

Just $16.95 for a 20-lbCylinder - Fill-up*

GAS GRILL PROPANE TANK FILL UP

*Offer Good at Convington Location Only with Coupon.Expires 5/23/15

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*Off*Off

LANDSCAPE SELECT HARDWOODOR CYPRESS MULCH

PICKED UP3 bags (2 cu.ft.)

$10.95

DELIVERED$3.95 per 2 cu.ft. bagplus delivery charge*

BLACK PLATINUM, GOLDDIAMOND PREMIUM MULCH

PICKED UP3 bags (2cu.ft.)

$12.95

DELIVERED$4.50 per 2 cu.ft. bagplus delivery charge*

*Pick-up or delivery from the Covington Store only. Call for details.

Brittany Caldwell, 25, of FortThomas and Shannon Hinsdale,35, of Cincinnati, issued April 13.

Shelly Morgan, 22, of Panamaand Jonathan Ammer, 26, ofEdgewood, issued April 13.

Sila Williams, 34, and DanielPap, 33, both of Cincinnati,issued April 14.

Lisa Fries, 42, and JamesBrewer II, 40, both of Independ-ence, issued April 15.

Melissa Caudill, 41, of Paints-ville and Donald Stamper, 53, ofCovington, issued April 15.

Nova Sinclare, 23, of Coving-ton and Amir Mohamed, 24, ofAfrica, issued April 15.

Kim Johnson,48, of Tacomaand Earl Schwing, 52, of Hamil-ton, issued April 15.

Megan Perry, 25, of Edge-wood and Christopher Fleek, 28,of Cincinnati, issue April 16.

Dannita Luster, 45, of Cincin-nati and Albert Mann, 60, ofCovington, issued April 16.

Brittany Ritter, 23, and DonHouser Jr., 26, both of Coving-ton, issued April 16.

Shemeka Douglas, 29, andRobert Stone III, 31, both ofHamilton, issued April 16.

Erika Rawls, 28, of Cincinnatiand Steven Smith, 30, of Coving-ton, issued April 16.

Jennifer Long, 21, and Benja-min Griffiths, 35, both of Lud-low, issued April 16.

Brandi Woods, 27, of Edge-wood and Spencer Havlin, 31, ofCovington, issued April 17.

Jennifer Mattingly, 19, andJoseph Chandler IV, 20, both ofErlanger, issued April 17.

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