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Unveiling planned for historical marker
Rick Graham
Volume 13, Number 48 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Relief efforts
The recent earthquake in Haiti has people across the area asking how they can help. We want to know: • What are you doing to help relief efforts? No deed is too small. • Do you know anyone in Haiti, or from Haiti? • Have you ever been to Haiti? What were your impressions. E-mail your responses to: mshaw@nky.com. Include your name, community and daytime phone number. We welcome any photos you might have.
By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
Alexandria Police Chief Mike Ward said at the Jan. 14 meeting he thought the I-Net is a great service to offer, but wanted to know in the event Insight’s service is down what assurances there are that connectivity can be restored quickly or maintained. During the wind and ice storm events Alexandria had no Insight service for four days, Ward said. Brett Ruschman, IT director for Campbell County, said if Insight’s service is down, the county could still maintain service if by rerouting computer networks over other existing lines running into the county building by services, including Time Warner, which come from Cincinnati.
A group of Campbell County residents are commemorating the area’s history with the unveiling of a new Kentucky Historical Highway Marker outside Evergreen Cemetery. The marker includes information about four U.S. Congressman including Brent Spence, John Wooleston Tibbatts, Thomas Laurens Jones and Albert S. Berry as well as Confederate Congressman George Baird Hodge, who are all buried in Evergreen. Marker Committee Chair Paul Whalen said while the marker will commemorate the congressman, it is also meant to honor the late John Eidemiller and Ray Roberts, U.S. military veterans and wellknown community volunteers. “This is a way to honor them as well as let people know who is buried in Evergreen Cemetery,” Whalen said. Whalen said the group raised the money for the marker from friends of Eidemiller and Roberts and got approval from needed parties before planning the unveiling, which is at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Beyond being congressmen, Whalen said the men being commemorated are important in many different aspects of history. Tibbatts, for example, sponsored the bill to annex Texas while Berry served as the mayor of Newport and was one of the founders of Bellevue, Whalen said. The program will be emceed by State Rep. Dennis Keene and will include remarks by Paul Whalen and former congressman and current Kentucky Commissioner of Veteran Affairs Ken Lucas. A reception will follow the unveiling at Fischer Homes Lifestyle Center in the Fort Thomas Plaza Shopping Center.
ment forever, and it will allow cities to connect to servers maintained by the county that are cooled and have a back-up generator to run off, Ruschman said. “So, it’s not going to go down, it’s a reliable system,” he said. But while the cities will have access to the county’s servers, there’s nothing preventing each city from keeping existing or buying new servers, Ruschman said. “It took us a long time to negotiate this contract,” said Chuck Melville, chairman of the cable board. Melville said the board thinks its great contract for the cities and is the future for communications. The whole goal was saving money for cities on their phone bills, Internet service and cable, he said. “We really did fight for this, and we thought it is important, and it is a cost savings,” Melville said.
Evergreen Cemetery, located in Southgate, will soon have a historical marker commemorating former congressmen who are buried there.
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Taking a dip
In a lesson about how native arctic animals use fat to insulate them from the cold, St. Mary School’s lead preschool teacher Jayne South, left, asks Lily Henry, 3, of Alexandria, if the ice water dipped hand protected in a bag of vegetable shortening or the hand not in a bag is colder during a classroom exercise Wednesday, Jan. 13. For more about St. Mary’s preschool see A5.
Helping Haiti
When Grant’s Lick Elementary students heard about the 7.0 scale earthquake that hit Haiti, they didn’t wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. Within hours, each school and department in the Campbell County School district was invited to collect bottled water which will be distributed to Haitians through Matthew 25 Ministries in Cincinnati. SCHOOLS, A5
Sub Pop singer
Since Cold Spring resident Daniel Martin Moore sent out an unsolicited demo to the label Sub Pop in January 2007 he’s been signed and recorded two albums, with his second album due out this February. Moore’s second album “Dear Companion” is a compilation album of songs about mountain top removal co-written and recorded with Louisville cellist Ben Sollee. The album was produced by Yim Yames, an alias for Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and is scheduled for release Feb. 16. LIFE, B1
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Cities reaping tech service benefits By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
Member cities of the Campbell County Cable Board are preparing to receive free equipment and three years of Internet services from Insight Communications. The new equipment and service are part of a compliance with the franchise agreement the cable board reached with Insight Communications. The equipment and service will enable the creation of what cable board officials call the I-Net (Institutional Network). The I-Net will allow cities to communicate over a single network and enable services including secure instant messaging and Web site hosting. The cable board had a public question and answer session about the I-Net that drew about a dozen officials from cities including Wilder, Alexandria, Cold Spring and Southgate to the former Highland Heights Elementary Thursday, Jan. 14.
Cable board details
The Campbell County Cable Board serves its member cities with a media center in Highland Heights available for the public to record programs. Member cities’ council and commission meetings are also broadcast on government access channels by the cable board. Dayton, Fort Thomas and Newport are not members of the cable board. For information about the media center and government meeting broadcasts visit the Web site www.campbellmedia.org or call 781-3495
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Southgate Mayor Jim Hamberg said he wants to use the new system to link the computer systems of the city building, community center and maintenance garage all together – something that’s not the case now. “We want to do that and take a look at the police and or fire in the same way,” Hamberg said. The I-Net will also help cities communicate with each other during emergencies, he said. “If the phone lines are down and this is up, we want to use this,” Hamberg said. The technical answers at the Jan. 14 meeting were provided by cable board members Brett Ruschman, the Information Technology director for Campbell County, and Thomas P. Quirk, a manager of security operations for General Electric’s global infrastructure. In technical terms, Insight will provide cities with access to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) through VPN concentrators and endpoints. Cities will have the option to save money by converting phone lines to voice over IP (Internet Provider), Ruschman said. The first 10 sites that Insight will connect to the county building will be city buildings, the second tier of sites will be police and fire stations, and the third tier of connections will be maintenance offices. Ruschman said the deadline for Insight to connect the first 10 sites is Jan. 28, and that within a few months all the sites will probably be connected. “What we’re doing is creating one county-wide network for 30 sites around the county,” he said. The cities get to keep the equip-
What if the I-Net goes down?
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