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COMMUNITY RECORDER
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Your Community Recorder newspaper serving Bellevue, Cold Spring, Highland Heights, Newport, Southgate Volume 14, Number 22 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
On stage
As the summer heats up, so does a tradition that draws Campbell County residents south to Falmouth to join a regional cast for weeks on end and produce a play. The Kincaid Regional Theatre draws its audience, actors and stage workers from a multi-county region surrounding Pendleton County. The show runs daily at 2 p.m. Monday through Friday through the end of the month, in a schoolhouse theater at 400 Main St., Falmouth. NEWS, A3
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Green Derby raises funds for Madden family By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
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Russell Madden’s sons Jared and Parker and wife Michelle pose for a picture with Green Derby General Manager Tom Cardosi. The restaurant is donating $2 for every dinner sold through July to the Madden family.
The recent death of Bellevue soldier Russell Madden has affected many people in the area, including the employees at the Green Derby restaurant in Newport. With some of his employees having close connections to the Madden family, Green Derby owner David Hosea has decided to donate $2 for every dinner sold through July 31 to the Madden family, including Russell’s wife Michelle and sons Jared, 11, and Parker, 4. “He wanted to do something to
help the family,” said General Manager Tom Cardosi. “The money will go directly to Michelle to help her through this hard time.” Family friend Tina Bacon said Michelle went to school and only worked part-time, making Russell the main provider for the family. While Michelle will get benefits from the Army, those things take some time to go into effect, Bacon said. “This money will just help with the family’s daily living expenses until then,” Bacon said. Cardosi said the restaurant usually sells between 50 to 75 dinners a night, so he hopes to
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Making music
For Bill Klopp of Fort Thomas, music has offered him everything from opportunities to lifelong friendships. Klopp, the new band director at Dayton High School, is working to offer the same to students at the school. “I really love teaching kids and seeing them succeed and achieve their goals,” Klopp said. SCHOOLS, A5
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On tour
A week-long camp at the Fort Thomas Military and Community Museum is teaching children and teens about history and how to present it to others. At the Fort Thomas Junior Renaissance Camp’s Docent Training, participants are learning how to be a museum tour guide. The camp, which ran Monday, July 19 through Thursday, July 22, is going to be followed by the second Junior Renaissance camp, Fort Thomas - The Army Post, which will concentrate on the city’s military history, from Monday, July 26 through Thursday, July 29. LIFE, B1
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be able to raise enough money to make a big donation to the family. Russell, who joined the army to provide better medical care for Parker, who has cystic fibrosis, was killed in Afghanistan June 23 when his convoy was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade. Russell, a graduate of Bellevue High School’s class of 2000, was the second in his class to be killed overseas following Justin Scott, who died in Iraq in 2004. The Green Derby is located at 846 York St. For more information about the Madden fundraiser, call the restaurant at 431-8740.
Jake Melville, right, 14, a member of the Southgate Fire Explorers runs after filling a bucket with water during the old-fashioned bucket brigade event of the Northern Kentucky Firefighter’s Regional Firefighter Olympics in Alexandria Saturday, July 10. At left, filling another bucket, is Melville’s teammate Ross Adams, 14, of Southgate.
Commercial property values contested By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
Campbell County is experiencing a spike in the number of companies requesting property tax assessment values be lowered, and local government tax revenues including fire districts and schools will feel the pinch. The increase in requests for a downgrade in value is tied to the economy, said Property Valuation Administrator Daniel K. Braun. “Corporations are trying to save money any way they can,” Braun said. The three-member local appeals board, which meets annually to review cases in June, are all experts in residential properties and typically hear those types of cases, he said. “This year we really did have more commercial properties coming in, and I think a big part of that was how the economy is right now,” Braun said. Some of the appeals were either ruled upon by the local board and haven’t been appealed yet or were already settled, Braun said. So far, three corporate property
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The Sara Lee plant off U.S. 27 south of Alexandria is one at least three companies appealing the value of their property and requesting a downgrade in value through the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals in 2010. owners from Campbell County have appealed their cases to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals. “They'll set a hearing date eventually, it sometimes takes upwards of a year to get these things done,” Braun said. In the meantime, the lower value being sought by the property owner is the amount that will be taxed until the matter is settled, he said. If the property owner loses their appeal they are required to remit a check for the difference in value, Braun said. For 2010, the Sara Lee Corp. initially requested an assessed
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price of $8 million for its meat production facility off U.S. 27 south of Alexandria instead of the PVA’s $24 million assessment. The plant had been tax exempt through 2003 for about the first 20 years in existence because of government incentives. Sara Lee’s assessment in 2009 was $26.4 million and was $25.7 million for three straight years through 2008. The assessment was $19.1 million for both 2004 and 2005. Mike Cummins, spokesman
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The resignation of one council member has led to the appointment of Dave Guidugli back onto council in Cold Spring. Janis Reiman, who was elected in 2008, resigned June 25 after marrying and moving out of state, said Mick Vank, city administrative officer. Guidugli has previously served terms on council from 1995 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2008. He was sworn in as a member of council at the July 12 council meeting. Guidugli had recently been a member of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission until returning to council, Vank said. Guidugli will serve on the safety committee and serve out Reiman’s council term until it expires in November. Guidugli did not return calls. “I’m real excited to be back working with Dave again,” said Mayor Mark Stoeber. “He’s a good solid voice and understands the city, and I’m real excited about it.” Stoeber said it’s his understanding that Guidugli will run in the fall. The next meeting of council will be at the city building, 5694 East Alexandria Pike, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 19.
Roads on agenda
Council will decide which roads it can afford to pay to fix at the July 19 meeting, Vank said. “We will be opening bids for, I think, 12 roads to either be totally reconstructed or partially reconstructed,” he said. Vank said the expectation is that the bids for the road work will come in under the projected cost. “The issue is can we really get the ones that are in the worse shape done this season or are we really have to wait until spring,” he said.
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