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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
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Oak Hills enhances website By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Elder High School Principal Tom Otten arrives at school at 4:30 a.m. the second Wednesday of every month to begin flipping pancakes in the Elder kitchen. He’s hosted a pancake breakfast for students every month since September 1997. This month marked Otten’s 150th pancake breakfast.THANKS TO JP OWENS
Elder principal serves up his 150th pancake breakfast By Kurt Backscheider
kbackscheider@communitypress.com
PRICE HILL — If stacked on top of one another, the amount of pancakes served in the Elder High School cafeteria during the past 16 and a half years would stand almost three quarters of a mile high. To put that into perspective for Cincinnatians, it’s about the equivalent of seven Carew Towers stacked on one another. “We’ve served a lot of pancakes,” Elder Principal Tom Otten said. “I know if you add it up it amounts to 28 million calories, with the syrup.” On the second Wednesday of each month, Otten arrives at Elder before sunrise, typically around 4:30 a.m., to begin mix-
ing batter and flipping hotcakes on the griddle in the school kitchen. It’s a monthly ritual he’s carried out since September 1997, the year he started the Principal’s Pancake Breakfast. This month’s breakfast, which took place April 9, marked the 150th Principal’s Pancake Breakfast. Otten said he started the breakfast shortly after becoming the school’s principal as a way to build community and a sense of family among Elder students and staff. “We wanted to do something families do,” he said. “The American family, more often than not, tends to gather in the kitchen.” See PANCAKE, Page A2
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Elder High School senior Josh Enginger gives his approval of the pancakes served at the school’s monthly pancake breakfast. Elder Principal Tom Otten started the tradition in September 1997.THANKS TO JP OWENS
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The Oak Hills Local School District is upgrading its website to make it easier for parents, staff and community members to use. Oak Hills spokeswoman Emily Buckley said the district constantly updates its website to offer the most relevant information in an easy-to-find layout, and the district is enhancing its website design, changing to a responsive design, while students and teachers are on spring break the week of April 14. “These changes are necessary to keep the district’s inFirst formation sharing modern and efficient,” she said. The new site will launch Monday, April 21. In the meantime, she said the district asks visitors to the site to please pardon any redirects or delays in access while the website is reconfigured. Buckley said John First, the district’s multimedia designer, is performing the enhancements, which saves Oak Hills from spending money to hire someone from outside the district to do the work. First said the change was prompted when a parent encountered some difficulty trying to access information on one of the individual school sites within in the district’s website. “Our sites need to be available for our community, parents, students and stakeholders – anytime, anywhere,” he said. “We will continue to stay on the cutting edge of technology.” Buckley said when the reconfiguration is finished the website will conform to the user’s device, making it easier for users to browse from their device of choice. In addition to easier access from any device, she said the most important changes being implemented include live Twitter feeds from @OHLSDWeather and @OHLSDUpdates in one spot and reports via Superintendent Todd Yohey’s Twitter account. The Oak Hills website is at ohlsd.us.
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