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Griffin Kelley tosses the Price Hill Press neighborhood weekly newspaper onto a client's porch on April 30, in West Price Hill. Kelley's route is part of the Cincinnati Enquirer junior carrier program. Kelley started helping his older brothers deliver papers when he was six-years-old and has been helping deliver them ever since. The program is scheduled to end at the end of May. ALBERT CESARE / THE ENQUIRER
Century-old Tradition Coming To An End Junior newspaper carriers, having served the Tristate for decades, are being retired
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We’re losing another piece of “the good old days,” as junior carriers stop delivering weekly newspapers in the suburbs. This newspaper has been using junior carriers since at least the 1870s, but more likely since its launch in 1841. During that time, young people delivering newspapers has become a touchstone of the American experience. May will be the last month The Enquirer and its network of Community Press and Recorder newspapers will use junior carriers, also known as paper boys and paper girls in Ohio. The Kentucky carriers will deliver their last papers in June. Some East Side carriers have already made their last rounds.
Ben Bergan is 10. He just lost his fi rst job. For the past two years, he’s been delivering papers near his home in Montgomery. “I decided I needed a continuous income because I didn’t like having a lemonade stand or two every year or so,” Ben
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A Turpin High School and Miami University graduate has been promoted to deputy director of legislative services by the Ohio School Boards Association. Will Schwartz joined the association as a lobbyist in 2018 after working eight years for the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, where he was the principal drafter on several key education-related bills, the association said in a press release. At the commission, Schwartz also staff ed several General Assembly committees, including the House Education and Career Readiness Committee, and full sessions of the House and Senate. As deputy director of legislative services for the school boards association, Schwartz will work with the division’s director to oversee its advocacy eff orts and supervise other members of the team. His other duties will include lobbying the General Assembly on behalf of Ohio public education, tracking legislation and testifying before legislative committees, the press release said. Schwartz also will present training sessions and write for Ohio School Boards Association publications.
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Ben Bergan is 10. He just lost his fi rst job.
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said. “I did not like having to ask my mom or dad for anything any time we went anywhere and I wanted something.” To say the elementary school student is entrepreneurial is an understatement. He started with one route, about 12 houses, but then picked up an extra route. “I’m really sad about losing my customers, all the people,” he said. He recalled an older couple would wave at him through the window every time he dropped off a paper. His father, Dave Bergan, said it has
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Ben Bergan, 10, delivers newspapers in Montgomery. He said started the job when he was 8 because he wanted "continuous income." PROVIDED/DAVE BERGAN
been an emotional experience for his son. “He wanted a job. For an eight-yearold to say they wanted a job, this is all we could fi nd,” Bergan said. “This was just his fi rst regular job and responsibility where he was serving his customers. That’s just a hard skill to replicate in other ways at young ages.”
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Ben said the job helped him connect with other people in his neighborhood and taught him “you have to be nice to people in order for them to continue talking to you.” But the 10-year-old has plans. He’s learning to run a lawnmower and See CARRIERS, Page 4A
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The annual Ohio River Sweep event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19, according to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, which organizes the event. "The fi rst priority of the program is the safety of our coordinators and volunteers," said Lisa Cochran, program manager for the event. The event was planned for June 20, but now the event will be split up into multiple dates. The Ohio River Sweep occurs in the six states which border the Ohio River. Organizers said each of these states has a diff erent timeline for allowing group activities to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. In the past, the sweep has happened across the region at the same time, but this year, each community will schedule its own date. More information can be found at www.ohioriversweep.org or by contacting local coordinators listed there.
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