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Marc Leone
Volume 14, Number 36 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Luca Kazanjian, 6, of Cold Spring, seated on a bale of hay, reads a book while waiting for a storybook reading during the annual “Hay Read” literacy event at Campbell County High School Thursday, Oct. 21.
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Find out how local candidates and issues fare on election day, Nov. 2, with our online coverage. Stories and results will be posted online election day and evening at Cincinnati.com (NKY.com) and local stories will appear on your community’s Web page, which you can find at Cincinnati.com/community (NKY.com/community).
Stay safe
Halloween night tips from the Kentucky State Police: • Children should carry a flashlight, glow stick or wear reflective tape on costumes • Young children should be accompanied by an adult or older sibling • Children should not to eat treats until they have been checked • Make sure your child is able to see out of their mask properly and can walk in their costume without tripping. • Remind children not to enter a strange house or car • Inspect children’s candy before they eat it. Discard any unwrapped or suspicious looking goodies • Talk to your children about stranger-danger • Be extra cautious of pedestrians when driving
Letters to Santa
Hey kids! It’s time to start writing your letters to Santa and send them in to the Community Recorder where they will be published Thursday, Nov. 25. Please send your brief letter to Santa to Melissa Hayden, Santa’s Helper, 394 Wards Corner Road, Loveland, OH 45140 or via e-mail to mhayden@communitypress.com. Be sure to include your name, age, the community you live in and the Community Press/Community Recorder paper you read, as well as a telephone number we can use to contact you if we require additional information. You may also include a nonreturnable photograph (or email a JPG image) that may appear with your letter. Letters and photos are due no later than Friday, Nov. 12.
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Northern Kentucky uncorks wine trail By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
The idea of a first ever wine trail in Northern Kentucky has ripened as five area wineries, including three in Campbell County, are uniting under a joint tourism endeavor. The Back Roads Wine Trail of Northern Kentucky is planning a grand opening the second week of November, said Dennis Walter, who owns Stone Brook Winery on 6570 Vineyard Lane in Camp Springs. Walter said it’s the first wine trail in all of Kentucky. The five founding members got serious about starting a wine trail after a couple of newer Campbell County wineries, the Camp Springs Vineyard, and Seven Wells Winery, opened tasting rooms in the last year, he said. “It started because we had enough wineries within a comfortable drive to start a wine trail,” Walter said. The other wine trail members are Atwood Hill Winery in Morningview, and the Baker-Bird Winery in Augusta. “All these wineries can be visited, probably in an afternoon,” Walter said. Visitors to the trail will receive “passport” cards. With a validation date stamp from each of the five wineries before Dec. 31 each year, a visitor will receive a special commemorative coaster with the name of the trail and the winery
they visited last, he said. A flyer with times each winery is open is available at all of the participating wineries. Except for the Baker-Bird Winery, which is open Saturday and Sunday hours, all four of the other wineries are open Friday evenings in addition to Saturday and Sunday. Seven Wells Winery, 1223 Siry Road, near Grant’s Lick, has the newest tasting room on the tour, having opened on July 17. People can taste more than wine, they can sit down and drink in the ambiance of the inside of the tasting room or sit outside on the deck overlooking their six acres of grapes, said Bill Wehrman, who operates Seven
Wells with his son Greg. The Wehrman’s started their vineyard six years ago, and the first vintage made there was in 2009. The six wines being served this year include a Chambourcin blush, standard Chambourcin, a Vidal Blanc, Chardonnay and a Cabernet Franc, he said. Wehrman said visitors will find that each winery and vineyard on the Back Roads Wine Trail have their own unique personality and flair. “It’s just nice to have five of them to go to, it’s going to be something different for people to experience at each one,” Wehrman said.
County renews Crime Stoppers fee By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
Campbell County Fiscal Court will continue to assess the $1 fee on court costs in the county that has been in place since 2006 to help finance Crime Stoppers. The organization forwards information from anonymous tips received to police to help solve crimes. Crime Stoppers pays for useful tips up to a maximum $1,000 per tip. Fiscal Court renewed the $1 fee through June 30, 2012, at the Oct. 20 meeting in Newport.
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The $1 fee has raised $1,778 through Oct. 20, 2010, said Campbell County Administrator Robert Horine. “We don’t see that money, it’s my understanding that it goes directly from the Circuit Court to Crime Stoppers,” Horine said. The amount of money collected, while small, shows the county’s commitment to Crime Stoppers’ mission, said Chuck Kreimer, director of Crime Stoppers. The largest portion of the organization’s funding comes from “luck” and private fundraisers like the Sunday, Nov. 28 “Crime Stop-
pers & The Shield Entertainment Classic,” Kreimer said. For information visit www.crime-stoppers.us. Kreimer delivered an almost 50-page report to the Fiscal Court, filled with pages primarily listing rewards given to anonymous tipsters month-by-month from January 2009 through October 2010 in connection to crimes solved in the Greater Cincinnati area. So far in 2010 through Sept. 30, Crime Stoppers has rewarded $69,295 to tipsters, according to
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Study to look at traffic issues
By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
After residents brought up issues about traffic and speeding on West Walnut Street in Southgate, the city is looking to address the problem by conducting a traffic study of the area. Residents of the street, including Jeff S t r i c k l e y, said that d r i v e r s and After putting speeding running stop signs have up a stealth made them box on the feel unsafe have street police and been trying found that to work with the city and drivers’ police to improve the speed is situation. averaging “We’ve about 16-17 been working on this miles per for eight weeks, but hour on the the problem 15 mile per is the same, it hasn’t gothour street. ten any better,” Strickley said. After putting up a stealth box on the street, Mayor Jim Hamberg said police found that drivers’ speed is averaging about 16-17 miles per hour on the 15 mile per hour street. “While there is some speeding, we do not believe there is a speeding issue on the street,” Hamberg said. Instead the study, which is costing the city $2,570, is going to focus on traffic issues, including signage and parking. The study, which will take 30 days, is being conducted by CDS Associates Inc. “We are looking for a permanent improvement on the street, so we’ll have to wait and see what the study says,” Hamberg said. Strickley said he’d like to see an increased police presence on the street, which he feels is dangerous for the residents. “I just want to see something done,” Strickley said. Hamberg said his expects to have the study results to present to council by the first or second council meeting in December. Council meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the city building, 122 Electric Ave.
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