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Tap & Screw Brewery opening in Madisonville Shauna Steigerwald ssteigerwald@enquirer.com
THE ENQUIRER/SHEILA VILVENS
The Clermont County Domestic Courts is partnering with the Literacy Council of Clermont and Brown Counties to help low-level readers and nonreaders get through paperwork they encounter in the court system.
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JOINING FORCES Goal is to help low-level readers and nonreaders Sheila Vilvens svilvens@enquirer.com
Rick has a secret. It’s one he’s hid all of his adult life. “It’s embarrassing,” he said. Rick, a Mount Washington man who wishes to keep his last name anonymous, can’t read. Or couldn’t until a year ago when he finally sought help from the Literacy Council of Clermont and Brown Counties. They paired him with a reading partner, Tom McAndrews of Union Township. Every Wednesday for the past year the two have met for hour long reading sessions. Recently Rick finished the book “Hatchet”. “I read the last two chapters by myself,” he proudly announced. This is the type of success story the Clermont County Domestic Courts hopes to facilitate through a new partnership with the Literacy
Council of Clermont and Brown Counties. At the very least the courts hope to help nonreaders and low-level readers who are unrepresented by attorneys get through upwards of 40 online papers involved in proceedings like divorce, Judge Kathleen Rodenberg said. The idea began with compliance officer/mediator Kay Heile. She deals with a lot of people without lawyers, Rodenberg said. “I had never given it much thought, that we might have people who have trouble reading,” she said. But it was something Heile was seeing along with her colleagues and was tasked with addressing. That’s when Heile reached out to Susan Vilardo, the executive director of the literacy council. Through the partnership, Vilardo said they hope to help people navigate their way through their court proceedings and at the same time make them aware of the services provided by the literacy council. Identifying nonreaders and low-level readers can be a
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challenge, she said. Like Rick mentioned, they are often embarrassed by their lack of reading skills and might resist admitting they need assistance, she said. Instead they offer excuses such as they left their reading glasses at home or that their handwriting is bad. Through the partnership, Vilardo and her team are training the domestic courts staff on ways to identify nonreaders and low-level readers in a sensitive way. Once identified a volunteer from the literacy council will be made available to help individuals through the computer process by reading legal documents to them. “My hope is, we’ll get somebody there to read legal papers to them and maybe help them to take that next step to improve their reading skills,” Rodenberg said. It won’t be easy, cautioned Rick, who was a cabinet maker for 38 years before retiring with a disability. People have to want help before they accept it. For years, he hid his il-
After closing its Westwood location back in February, Tap & Screw Brewery has reopened in Madisonville. A grand opening is planned for July 6. The new 7,000-square-foot space at 4721 Red Bank Road (across from the under-construction Dolce Hotel) will serve as a production brewery and also houses a 1,500-squarefoot tap room. The latter has an artistic look, said Adam Lorenz, coowner and head brewer. That’s thanks to a large, brewerythemed mural and metal sculptures created by local artist John Vosel. Tables are made of maple and Purpleheart wood, to complement the brewery’s purple logo. There is seating for about 100 people. Beer will flow from eight or 10 of the tap room’s 15 taps at the opening. (A list of offerings is available at the brewery’s website, www.tapandscrew.com.) Although there isn’t a kitchen, BrewRiver GastroPub will provide a limited menu of its Cajun offerings in the tap room. Lorenz said moving the brewery was necessary to allow Tap & Screw produce more beer. That will allow for things like canning, which he said is in the works for later this summer. He said he and his partners, which include his father, Tom Lorenz, and Rick and Gloria Santoro, also plan to distribute draft beer to more local bars and restaurants. “The brewery was stuck in 600 square feet in Westwood,” he said. “Here (in Madisonville), we have 5,000, with 20foot ceilings and docks.”
Tables at Tap & Screw Brewery's Madisonville location are made of maple and Purpleheart wood, to complement the brewery's logo.
Lorenz said moving the brewery was necessary to allow Tap & Screw produce more beer. Plans to open a brewpub in Oakley are still ongoing, Lorenz said, but have been delayed by permits. That location will have a kitchen from which Brew River will serve a full menu. Tap & Screw will brew small or test batches of beer there. Hours for the new tap room are still not set, but the brewery will be open Wednesdays through Sundays to start, likely from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m. or as late as 1 a.m., depending on the day. Information: www.tapandscrew.com
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