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Volume 84 Number 29 © 2011 The Community Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Four more days
You have four more days – until July 17 – to vote for your favorites in the 2011 Community Choice Awards. Show all of your favorites how much you love them by voting. Go online to www.cincinnati. com/communitychoice. Everyone who votes is entered into a drawing to win a $250 gift card!
Just around the corner
The Delhi Township Fire Department is taking to the streets again this summer with its Operation Street Corner program. The department has been scheduling visits to various neighborhood events in its outreach program designed to give the department and the community an opportunity to interact with each other on a more personal level. Several neighborhood visits have already been scheduled on weekends throughout the summer. Firefighters encourage residents to stop to ask questions and take pictures with the kids and equipment Residents interested in scheduling a visit at an event such as a parade, block or birthday party, call the fire department at 922-2011.
Walking for Kristan
Hillebrand Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is once again honoring the memory of Kristan Strutz by helping raise money to provide for the future of her four children. “Kristan’s Walk” is Saturday, July 23. – SEE STORY, A3
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Delhi Skirt Game to help tot
By Heidi Fallon
hfallon@communitypress.com
His big, blue eyes can’t see the love that surrounds him. Christian Rainier is a 4year-old who will be one of this year’s Skirt Game recipients. Two years after he was born, Christian was diagnosed with septo optic dysplasia that means his optic nerves don’t connect with his brain. Shortly after that diagnoses, his parents, Cody and Melissa Rainier, were told their son has diabetes insipidus, which means he can’t walk or speak. “He’s my blue-eyed angel,” said his grandmother, Beverly Rainier. “As he gets older and bigger,” said his grandfather Derek Rainier, “it’s going to be harder for Melissa to be able to lift HEIDI FALLON/STAFF and transport Christian.” Clyde Kober, Skirt Game Perched on the lap of his mom, Melissa, Christian Rainier will be one of the Skirt Game recipients this year. Stopping to check in with the tot is Clyde Kober, Skirt co-chairman, said the Game co-chairman. financial boost his organization will be providing will go to help the truly disabled,” she said. Just how big a contribution the Skirt Rainier family buy a van with a lift. About the Skirt Game “He has therapy several days a week Game can give the Rainier family depends, Kober said, on the proceeds of and goes to a special needs day care,” This will be the 34th Skirt Game will be Friday, Aug. 5. at Delhi the Aug. 5 event. said Melissa. Township Park. This year’s theme is Ladies of Generation X vs. “We’ve changed how we assist people Ladies of Baby Boomers. Melissa moved to Blue Ash to have and instead of just doing it after the game, Kober said the Skirt Game festivities will start the night before access to the special schooling and therawe try to help people all year long,” Kober on Thursday, Aug. 4, with a tailgate party from 6-10 p.m. at the py her son needs. Plaza Vallarta restaurant parking lot, 4990 Delhi Road, adjacent Christian’s grandparents are former said. the Delhi Township Park entrance. Beverly Rainier, thankful for the Skirt Green Township residents who moved to “We’ll have food and activities for children and it will be a lot of Game’s help, is pitching in to sell raffle Delhi Township several years ago. fun and, hopefully, start our fundraising,” Kober said. Melissa said it wasn’t until they were tickets and accumulate prizes. The “ladies” of both teams could make an appearance along “They are such a wonderful organizaforced to acquire a wheel chair for Christwith Chris Goins and Rocking Ron Schumaker from WGRR. tion,” she said, “and we are so grateful for ian that the full extent of his disabilities The Skirt Game starts with pre-game activities at 5 p.m. their help for my blue-eyed angel.” became a reality. Along with the game, there will be raffles, a sports For more about your community, visit “Seeing him in that wheel chair, it memorabilia auction and fireworks. www.cincinnati. com/delhitownship. finally dawned on me that my son was
A water welcome
Citizens patrol gets new vehicle
By Heidi Fallon hfallon@communitypress.com
The water has been turned on and a bubbling fountain now serves as a welcome sign to the Delhi Township Park. The Delhi Business Association paid for the water feature and landscaping at the park entrance off Delhi Road as its contribution to the pike project. Steve Schott, association president, said his group will have an official dedication ceremony soon. “We will turn the fountain over to the township as our gift,” Schott said. “We designed it to be a low maintenance area.” The fountain is actually three individual rock posts circulating water from an in-ground basin. It’s surrounded by flowers and plants, and the brick pavers the association sold to help finance the fountain. “We sold 108 bricks and still have a few left if anyone is interested,” said Marty Schultes, association secretary. “We are so happy the water feature is completed.” Schott credits Schultes and association members Russ Brown and Chip Brigham, who was association president when the project began. Schultes said Premier Landscape and Irrigation Service donated $9,000 in materials and labor to the $15,000 project. “The fountain is an excellent example of the
By Heidi Fallon hfallon@communitypress.com
HEIDI FALLON/STAFF
Water is bubbling at last from the water feature the Delhi Business Association donated as part of the Delhi Road improvement project. Posing by the circulating fountain at the entrance to Delhi Township Park are Steve Schott, association president, and Marty Schultes, association secretary. commitment the Delhi Business Association has to the community,” said Trustee Al Duebber. “They’ve done a wonderful job and they are a great partner for the township.” Anyone wanting information about buying one of the remaining brick pavers can call Schultes at 347-0700.
It’s not a new car, but it’s new to the members of the Delhi Township Citizens on Patrol who will be driving it. The township police department turned over the keys to a used cruiser to the group last week. The car the group had been using, also an old cruiser, is headed for the auction block. Getting ready for their assignment for the day’s patrol, three members of the COP are grateful for the new set of wheels. “It really enables us to get around the township to be the eyes and ears for the police department, which is what our group is all about,” said Tom Winkler, COP president. Lt. Jeff Braun said the cruiser has more than 100,000 miles on it, which is beyond what the police department considers reliable for daily use by officers. “It’s perfectly safe and runs fine, but it just is starting to have maintenance and mechanical issues that make it unreliable for us, but perfectly fine for the COP,” Braun said. The group paid for the new decals on the cruiser. The only expense for the police department is in gas and insurance. Members of the Citizens on Patrol must have graduated from the citizens police academy. To get behind the wheel of the cruiser,
See PATROL on page A2