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Council discards garbage discussions
Abby Weyer and Kathryn Ball
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State Farm Insurance employees from left, Doug Van Winkle of Hebron, Tracie Schultz of Alexandria and Lisa Ripley of Hebron prepare a flower bed at Holly Hill Children's Services in California for mulching for a voluntary project for employees known as a Good Neighbor Service Day Wednesday, June 24. Schultz is an agent based in an office in Wilder.
YMCA offers summer fun for kids By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
A hole-in-one
Golf: It’s the exhilaration of a well-hit ball, and the camaraderie of time spent in the open air with friends that calls people back for one more whack at perfection. “It’s like a disease. Once you start playing golf you can’t not want to play,” said Tom Townsley, 66, of Bellevue. LIFE, B1
Miracles for Life
Tom Starr, who has received two transplants in the last 20 years, founded Miracles for Life in 2001, an organization devoted to raising awareness about being a blood, tissue and organ donor and sending children who’ve received transplants to summer camp. “The first mission was donor awareness ... We want people to know it should be an obvious thing, it’s the gift of life. It’s like I say, ‘If you don’t need it, donate it,’” Tom said. NEWS, A5
Summer fun is in full swing at the Campbell County YMCA. From day camps and swimming to activities and sports, the YMCA offers something for a variety of interests. “We just want kids to have somewhere to have fun in a wholesome environment,” said Shane Ruffin, director of the Fort Thomas location. “We do anything we can to get kids active and educate them on the importance of physical activity.” The YMCA offers full day camps weekly throughout the summer, half day pre-school camps, camps for special needs children and sports camps, said Alesha Meyn, Family Life director. “At all the camps we do enrichment activities, arts and crafts, outdoor activities and swimming,” Meyn said. “Our goal is to get kids off the couch and away from the video games.” On any given day, there are about 130 kids at the various camps, Ruffin said. A lot of the camp fees, which vary between camps, are paid for by the YMCA’s scholarship fund, which helps low-income families to still be able to take advantage of the programs at the YMCA, Ruffin said. “Just this year, we have raised $63,000 for our scholarships,” Ruffin said. “The need is so great right now, any little bit we get helps.”
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Day campers (from left) Anna Kiney, Riley Baker and Maria Warren take a break from swimming to pose for a picture. Ruffin said through a new collaboration with Highlands United Methodist Church, children at the camps get their lunch and a snack provided for free. A lot of the scholarship money comes from fundraising, which is done mainly at events like the upcoming Firecracker 5000, a race that is taking place at 8:15 a.m. Saturday, July 4. For more information about the programs at the YMCA and the
Firecracker 5000, visit http://www.myy.org/locations/ca mpbellcounty/index.shtml, call 781-1814 or visit the YMCA at 1437 South Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas.
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Lexie Crawford, 6, takes a ride down the slide at the Splash Park.
Chase Gordon (left) and Keilan Garrity, both participants of Campbell County YMCA's day camp, play in the Splash Park.
Cold Spring City Council has put a lid on a discussion of a potential city ordinance regulating the setting out of garbage for lack of agreement about what it would say. The idea of preventing garbage from being strewn across lawns had led council to begin discussing regulating garbage pickup in April. The discussions included requirements that garbage be secured in a container with a secure lid and also about limiting the amount of time garbage cans can be set out. But for lack of an agreement on council about what regulations would be fair, council “I don’t know has tabled the if you can ever issue indeficreate an nitely. C o u n c i l ordinance that member Bren- requires good da Helton said at the June manners and caucus meet- common ing that she sense.” gave writing Sandy Ross up the ordinance her best shot to address animals or the wind tossing loose garbage around. Helton said she doesn’t think the issue is that anyone is fragrantly violating any standards, but sometimes an animal gets into a trash bag when it’s set out and the loose trash doesn’t all get picked up right away. Council member Sandy Ross said people have asked her why the city is worrying about garbage. Ross said she questioned if an ordinance is what the city really needs, or if people should just try to pick up any loose trash on their own. “I don’t know if you can ever create an ordinance that requires good manners and common sense,” Ross said at council’s June caucus meeting. Council member Lou Gerding said the feedback he’s received is that people want to be able to take their bags out without having to put them in a can. If the effort is to truly stop garbage from being tossed around into yards, any ordinance would have to look at recycling, Gerding said. “If we’re not doing anything about the recycling, I’m done talking about it,” he said. Mayor Mark Stoeber said he recommended tabling the issue unless council could come to some general agreement about what an ordinance might contain. Stoeber said the only feedback he’s heard that seems to be shared is that there needs to be a time limit for when trash cans can be put out before trash collection and when the empty cans have to be taken away from the curb. Beyond that, council has no agreement on the issue, he said. “I think we kind of need to let this dog lie,” Stoeber said.