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Fundraiser honors fallen Marine Roos
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Clean up Delhi
A spring cleaning is in store for Delhi Township. The Delhi Civic Association has its annual Great American Cleanup Saturday, April 24. Volunteers are needed to pick up litter, plant flowers and tackle other to-do items. STORY, A2
By Heidi Fallon hfallon@communitypress.com
It’s an event designed to raise money and to remember. One weekend every year, Dolores Morris donates $1 from every haircut at her Great Clips salon on Delhi Road to the family of Timothy Roos. Roos was killed serving in Iraq with his Marine unit in 2006. His parents, Rick and Jan, and brother, Adam, established a foundation in his memory. With the money they raise through a variety of events, the family donates the money to community organizations, charities and schools. “We keep it in the community,” said Adam, getting his usual military cut from Morris.
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“We really appreciate what they do here at Great Clips to help us.” Adam enlisted with a Dayton Marine unit after his younger brother’s death. He recently returned from a deployment to Iraq. “I’m home now, until they call me up again.” With the money from the Great Clips weekend event, the family is giving the proceeds to St. Dominic School for the library. Past donations have gone to Delhi Middle, Delshire and C. O. Harrison schools. “They’re such a good family and Tim’s death was such a terrible, terrible thing,” Morris said, adding that she remembers cutting Tim’s hair when he was just a youngster. “We just don’t want anyone to forget the sacrifice he made.”
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Ava Roos, 5, keeps an eye on the clippers and her dad, Adam. Just back from a deployment in Iraq, Roos said his family appreciates the Great Clip fundraisers to help his family help their Delhi Township community.
Dale Brooks, Delhi Township, hopes he has the winning raffle ticket to help raise money for the Timothy Roos family which, in turn, will be donated to the St. Dominic School library.
Delhi veteran cooks up chili for community fest By Heidi Fallon
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Howard Brinkdoepke doesn’t think small. The Delhi Township man is cooking up enough of his popular chili to feed the 1,000 people he and fellow Delhi Township Veterans Association members hope will attend their Saturday, April 17 chili fest. The Cincinnati-style chili will be served from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Delhi Township Senior/ Community Center, 647 Neeb Road. Proceeds from the dinner will go toward the association’s efforts to build another Wall of Honor memorial. There will also be a military display. Brinkdoepke, a Vietnam veter-
Howard Brinkdoepke bases his Cincinnati-style chili on the original Twin Trolley recipe. After years of “tweaking” his father-in-law’s recipe, Brinkdoepke’s own concoction includes apple vinegar, unsweetened baking chocolate and crushed crackers. He advises never to eat the chili the same day it’s cooked. The “true taste,” he said, isn’t the same until it’s an and association trustee, has been refining his chili recipe for 30 years. He bases his batches on the original Cincinnati-style chili his father-in-law, Ed Morford, used at the Twin Trolley Restaurant. “Having made many, many batches and keeping many, many notes, I continued to adjust and modify Ed’s recipe to get a very
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refrigerated for at least one day. When he’s done cooking for the veterans’ chili fest, Brinkdoepke will have used: • 280 pounds of ground beef • 224 tablespoons of mild chili powder • 140 teaspoons of ground cloves • 112 teaspoons of chocolate • 112 tablespoons of pickling spice similar taste and texture to that of Empress, Skyline and Gold Star chili that I grew up on,” Brinkdoepke said, “I finally hit the taste I wanted in 2006 and refuse to ever change it again.” He’s been brewing his chili for weeks in preparation for the fest. “Chili really tastes better after it’s been refrigerated at least a
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Howard Brinkdoepke stirs up another pot of his popular chili that will be served at the Delhi Township Veterans Association’s all-you-can chili fest. day,” he said, while wearing his Grill Sergeant apron and stirring up another pot. “If you eat the chili the same day, you may be disappointed.”
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