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Homebound identifi ed for in-home COVID-19 vaccine eff ort Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – March 11. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

A new eff ort is underway to get homebound, older adults in Southwest Ohio vaccinated for COVID-19.

The Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio (COA) announced March 11 that it is drawing up a list of the most vulnerable in this group who meet the current criteria to be vaccinated.

If you are among these individuals or know someone who is, call the Council on Aging at 513-721-1025 to be screened for eligibility.

To qualify for an in-home vaccination, an individual must meet all these criteria: h Be an Ohio resident. h Meet the defi nition of homebound as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. h Be eligible in accordance with Ohio’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

In addition, the individual must answer yes to at least one of these questions: h Does the individual fi nd it challenging to leave the home for medical appointments, even with assistance from a family member or caregiver? h Is the individual bedbound and unable to transfer to a wheelchair without impeding individual safety or comfort? h Does the individual receive health care in their home (from visiting physicians, home health aides or otherwise)?

The agency has created a fact sheet with the above details on how to refer an individual for the program.

The council has been helping older adults since Ohio’s Phase 1B vaccination plan went into eff ect on Jan. 19, said Ken Wilson, vice president of program operations, in a statement. “Since that time, we’ve been working to fi nd a way to vaccinate older adults who cannot leave their homes. Because COA provides in-home care services to See EFFORT, Page 6A

Erin Finn (left) and Aidan Finn (right) are the founders of Tutor Teens, an organization providing free, virtual tutoring to Cincinnati students. PROVIDED/ERIN FINN

Local teens off er free online tutoring for students in need Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Kerry Favia's fourth-grader, Matteo, throws a fi t if she tries to sit down and read with him, she says. But ever since Matteo’s weekly tutoring sessions with a local high school athlete, her son has turned into an A/B student.

“Because he’s set up with another football player, and that other football player has shown him that it’s OK to be

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Council Spokesperson

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Fish sandwich of the week: the cod sandwich at Arthur's Keith Pandolfi

“Each week, we’ll coordinate with local health departments to share new individuals who have been added to the list.”

Tutor Teens was launched March 31, 2020. PROVIDED/ERIN FINN

an athlete and to be smart, I think he’s more willing to do the work,” Favia says.

Matteo, who attends Forest Hills School District's Sherwood Elementary, was paired with a Tutor Teen, one of more than 80 local teenagers volunteering their time to tutor Cincinnati area students. The organization is run by Seven Hills School sophomore Erin Finn and her brother Aidan, a senior at St. Xavier High School.

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This week's fi sh sandwich of the week is the cod sandwich served at Arthur’s, one of our city’s most iconic old pubs; a place you know and love. Even if you go to the Anderson Township location, which isn’t as iconic or old, but you know and love anyway.

It is the fi sh sandwich that always

comes to mind when you are craving a fi sh sandwich. It reminds you of all the best fi sh sandwiches you’ve ever eaten, even the ones that weren’t the best, but just managed to hit the spot.

It is beer-battered cod, fried until golden, not bronzed, mind you, but golden. There’s a crunch when you bite into it; and you will feel a sense of appreciation, almost relief, when that crunch See FISH, Page 2A

The cod sandwich at Arthur's, which has locations in Hyde Park and Anderson Township. KEITH PANDOLFI

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Bethel’s mayor drops campaign to fi re police chief over BLM protests, other issues Dan Horn Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The mayor of Bethel, Ohio, dropped his campaign to fi re the village police chief March 8 after arguing for more than a month he was unfi t for the job.

In a memo to Police Chief Steve Teague, Mayor Jay Noble said he was withdrawing the administrative charges he fi led against the chief in early February and would instead issue him a written reprimand. He said Teague could return to work as early as March 9.

Noble could not be reached for comment when this article was originally published. Teague’s attorney, Kelly Lundrigan, provided a copy of the mayor’s memo but did not respond to questions about it.

Noble’s reversal is the latest twist in a saga that began last June when the village of 2,800 residents was thrust into the national spotlight during Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Small protests in the village turned ugly when bat-wielding, gun-toting counterprot-

“We welcome all of them, as long as they’re peaceful,” says Steve Teague, police chief of Bethel, Ohio.

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esters descended on the demonstrators.

An independent audit concluded in January that Teague mishandled the demonstration and was unprepared for the counterprotesters who confronted the Black Lives Matter protesters, at times pushing, shoving and threatening them. Several people were injured and

police arrested about a half dozen counterprotesters.

The audit found police had ample warning that motorcycle gangs and others intended to disrupt the demonstration, possibly with violence.

At an administrative hearing last month, Noble said Teague’s mistakes gave the village a black eye and made it the target of scorn nationwide. He said thousands of people who’d watched the counterprotests on TV and social media bombarded village offi cials with emails and voicemails criticizing the community.

“It was an ugly day,” Noble said at the hearing. “It was a bad day for our town.”

The administrative charges against Teague included a litany of other accusations. Noble, citing the fi ndings of the audit, said Teague bullied village employees, failed to follow safety protocols related to COVID-19 and mishandled an incident involving two runaway cows, one of which was shot as many as seven times with handguns and a shotgun before dying.

Lundrigan, Teague’s lawyer, argued at the hearing that his client was being

made a scapegoat and that the charges, which were not criminal, were fi led because the mayor has a personal vendetta against the chief. He said Teague had worked as a police offi cer in Bethel for 17 years and never been disciplined.

“This is a hatchet job that is masquerading as a fair hearing process,” Lundrigan said at the hearing.

It’s unclear whether the memo is the result of a negotiated settlement or whether Teague would contest the written reprimand. It’s also not known when he will return to work.

Noble’s memo, however, indicated the chief is expected back March 9. The mayor did not explain his reasoning for dropping the administrative charges in the memo, but he said he would address the matter with Teague.

“I am dismissing the pending charges seeking your removal and will issue a written reprimand, which we will review and discuss upon your return to work,” Noble wrote in the memo.

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – March 8. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

Judge sets $1 million bond for former Loveland offi cer facing rape charges Natalya Daoud, Jared Goffinet, and Alison Montoya Fox 19

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A judge set the bond at $1 million March 6 for a former Loveland offi cer who is facing rape charges.

Anthony Pecord appeared in court Match 6 for an arraignment after he was arrested and charged with two counts of rape.

According to Hamilton County Sher-

Tutor Continued from Page 1A

The idea for Tutor Teens was sparked last spring while Erin tutored her younger cousin over FaceTime.

“You know, this kind of works,” Erin said she thought at the time.

She and Aidan rounded up some friends, created a logo and a website and got to work. Their eff orts landed them in Forbes’ magazines 8 Under 18: The Young Trailblazers Stepping Up During The Pandemic in May. The siblings say the company has doubled in volunteers since then.

Free, virtual tutoring for the COVID-19 era Erin and Aidan say there are now Tu-

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iff Charmaine McGuff ey, the incident occurred on Jan. 24 but was reported the very next day.

Court documents state that Pecord used an Percord “intoxicant” to impair the victim’s ability to consent.

The next day, a memo from the Chief of Police Dennis Sean Rahe with the Loveland Police Department said Pecord was informed of “a formal investi-

tor Teens from 14 local high schools tutoring students in over 70 local schools.

Together, the teenagers put in more than 1,300 tutoring hours as of March 1.

The program has always been virtual and always free, Aidan said. The Finn siblings plan to keep it that way.

“Something that I think both of us have discovered is just how much teens are willing to do this,” Erin said. “No one gets paid in this program and though some get service hours, a lot of our teens are doing this just because they enjoy tutoring and they want to help.”

Tutor Teens offi cially launched on March 31, just after schools shut down across the region due to the coronavirus pandemic. Aidan says they have been in high demand since then.

“Our base customers only probably started coming to us because in-person tutoring wasn’t safe. And then they could realize our value," Aidan said.

"We’ve gotten a following from that, and now hopefully we’ll be able to sustain that past COVID.” Virtual sessions are good for the tutors, too. The youngest Tutor Teens are eighth-graders, Erin said. Not all of them can drive, so it's much easier to meet with their students over Zoom or Google Meets. Plus, tutors can be more fl exible with online sessions. Erin said she connected with some of her students during school hours while classes were virtual.

Building connections Parents fi ll out a survey when they sign their child up for Tutor Teens. It asks what subjects they need help with, what their personality is like and asks for other details to best match the student with a tutor.

Angelo Geis, a senior at Walnut Hills High School, tutors two students through Tutor Teens. He said he's a good fi t with his students, which is important.

"A student can lose interest if they

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reveals the fl aky perfection of the cod inside. Because you’ve had bad fi sh sandwiches before, and you know how heartbreaking they can be.

The cod sandwich is served on soft,

gation into allegations involving a claim of sexual assault.”

He was placed on paid administrative leave before submitting his resignation eff ective Feb. 26.

According to the Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, a warrant was issued for Pecord’s arrest, and he turned himself in March 5.

A statement from the City of Loveland says Pecord was placed on administrative leave as soon as allegations related to off -duty conduct were reported

to the city.

The city also says it immediately hired an outside investigator and is cooperating with the Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Offi ce and Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Offi cer in the matter.

Enquirer media partner Fox 19 provided this report.

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – March 6. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

Aidan Finn (left) and Erin Finn (right) say there are now more than 80 tutors in the program. PROVIDED/ ERIN FINNN

don't connect with the tutor," Angelo said. "That's the case with teachers, if you're not able to understand their line of reasoning, it's very hard to understand the content and also just have a good time."

This pairing aspect is the best part of Tutor Teens, Favia says. The survey helped her fi nd someone Matteo could relate to. She says Matteo is now excited about school, and much more concerned with impressing his Tutor Teen than he is about impressing his family.

Another two students have worked with Tutor Teen Caitlin Jimmar, a senior at Purcell Marian Catholic High School in East Walnut Hills. She told The Enquirer she's enjoyed watching her students grow throughout the school year.

They discuss things outside of school,

too, she says, like their social lives and dreams for the future.

Caitlin says it's also been a fun experience getting to know other Tutor Teens through the program, which was mostly recruited by word of mouth.

Caitlin only knew the Finns through a friend of a friend. Now, she says, they've grown closer and all 80-plus teenagers can interact and bounce ideas off of each other during their monthly staff meetings.

"I think that most of us, including me, are doing it because it's really clear to see the impact that it has on the community," Caitlin said. "And we've spent so much time working so hard in school, and to be able to share what we've gained from our education with younger students(...) has been really great."

smashable marble rye bread, and the tomato and the lettuce are cold and fresh.

Spread on some tartar sauce, squeeze it all together and devour it with two hands.

Wash it down with a cold beer or an ice-cold Coke, not a Diet Coke, but an actual Coke.

Sit back, refl ect like you're supposed to do during the season of Lent.

Refl ect on your thankfulness for life; on you love for this great old pub, and, once you've fi nished eating, on the perfection of this blessed fi sh sandwich, the fi sh sandwich that's as delightfully good as a fi sh sandwich needs to be.

Amen.

Arthur's is located at 3516 Edwards Road, in Hyde Park, and 8221 Beechmont Ave., in Anderson Township.

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2 Cincinnati-area groups merge to form new Meals on Wheels Jeanne Houck Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Two local nonprofi ts that serve older adults have merged to prevent the duplication of services and better meet challenges.

Meals on Wheels Southwest Ohio & Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati Area Senior Services will operate under the Meals on Wheels moniker.

The new Meals on Wheels said it expects its 150 employees and 800 volunteers to serve more than 10,000 seniors annually.

And the number of meals delivered to seniors’ homes per year is likely to exceed 1.4 million, a press release said.

“This merger makes a bold statement – and a promise: Working with our communities, our combined organization

will tackle the challenges facing us so that every senior enjoys the support and dignity that they deserve,” Jennifer Steele, CEO of the new Meals on Wheels, said in the news release.

Seniors need these services now more than ever because of the pandemic and exponential growth in their population, Meals on Wheels said.

The work will be bolstered by a $4 million grant the former Meals on Wheels received last year from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

“This is a great day for seniors and together we are going to do amazing things,” Tracey Collins, chief integration offi cer of the new Meals on Wheels, said in the release.

“It just makes sense with limited funding to join forces and strengthen our services for seniors.”

Meals on Wheels Southwest Ohio & Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati Area Senior Services have merged. Here, volunteer Amen Posey packs meals in Lower Price Hill for Meals on Wheels. ALBERT CESARE

‘Filthy, nasty, obscene’: Personal ads riled 19th-century Cincinnati Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Think dating is hard these days? Try the 1800s.

Singles looking for love nowadays have a wealth of online dating apps to make connections. Social media allows people to share their life stories – and then some – before they even meet. And all they have to do is swipe right.

It was a little harder to meet new people when dating was not yet a common practice, and men and women didn’t attend work or school together.

So, the 19th century version of Tinder or Bumble was the personal ad.

In the 1880s, The Enquirer ran a popular, if scandalous, “Personal” column in its classifi ed advertising section.

People could post a few lines, at no cost, for missed connections, arranging appointments to meet, or seeking a lady

A cartoon in the Cincinnati Post, August 24, 1885, shows a father kicking out a “masher” calling on his daughter, then handing her The Cincinnati Enquirer, where the man has sent her a personal. Scanned from microfi lm. THE CINCINNATI POST

or gentleman correspondent. The ads were usually anonymous and signed with initials or a phrase. Replies could be sent to letterboxes at the Enquirer offi ce.

Local historian Greg Hand, who writes the blog “Cincinnati Curiosities,” stumbled upon The Enquirer’s column while

researching newspaper archives.

“The more I got looking at it the more I realized the other papers weren’t running ads like this. It was strictly a practice of The Enquirer,” Hand said.

Hand wrote that the personals column had drawn the ire of the local clergy and the competing Cincinnati newspapers, who raised moral objections. The Cincinnati Post wrote editorials decrying the column as “a terrible evil.” The Commercial-Gazette called for readers to boycott The Enquirer.

The Post also published a quote from Archbishop William Henry Elder saying The Enquirer was “unfi t to be read by any human being, much less a Christian. Every day it is fi lled with reading matter that is fi lthy, nasty, obscene and abominable.”

— “The acquaintance desired of gent with sandy beard who noticed lady in Vine st. car as it passed down Walnut st.

Thursday at 8.30. Address ZETTA, En-

quirer offi ce.”

“A refi ned lady wishes to form the acquaintance of a respectable gentleman, aged 50; one out of the city preferred. Address VASHTIE, Enquirer offi ce.”

“CW: Meet me at same place as usual to-morrow night. M.” — Some of the ads seem harmless enough. But in the rigid, repressed Victorian era, such casual fl irtations and personal interactions between the sexes were fl agrant assaults on the social morals of the day.

In the mid-19th century, couples got to know one another through courtship. A woman would meet prospective marriage partners at social events or through friends, then the gentleman caller would visit her at home for a prearranged meeting.

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Is air pollution linked to teen depression?

Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

When you think of teens with depression or anxiety, you might question if there was a family history of mental health problems. Maybe you think about hormonal changes, or bullying, or maybe the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

Did you ever consider air pollution as part of the cause?

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center scientists made the link with 12-year-olds in two studies that started in the early 2000s. Now, they've received a $5.3 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to advance their research with

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going out together to public places to have fun – outrageous behavior that challenged the conventions of courtship and marriage.

“Changes in women’s gender expectations and industrialization provided a bulk of the movement behind this shift. Higher education, service sector work and other opportunities allowed women to develop identities apart from being wives and mothers,” Erica Hunter wrote in “Encyclopedia of Gender and Society.”

Yet, even by the changing standards, personal ads seeking a meeting

Eff ort

both studies' kids in a number of ways.

With 1 in 5 adolescents likely to get a mental health disorder, including anxiety or depression, and with suicide the second-leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States, the research is needed, say the scientists.

"There is a noticeable increase in that prevalence now," said Kimberly Yolton, Cincinnati Children's director of research in the division of general and community pediatrics. "The repercussions of that are huge."

It might surprise some people, but the researchers say that the link between air pollution and depression or anxiety onset and persistence in

children makes sense.

"We know that air pollution aff ects the lungs, the heart. It makes sense that air pollution travels to the brain," said Patrick Ryan, of the division of biostatistics and epidemiology at Cincinnati Children's and one of the researchers.

The scientists' original research shows that as air pollution increased, anxiety and depression scores among the children studied increased.

Added to that, neuroimaging shows that the children exposed to higher levels of air pollution early in life had changes in brain structure.

That was all fi gured out with two studies, the Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution Study (CCAAPS) and the Health

Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) study. Both included children followed from birth who were evaluated at age 12 for mental health symptoms and changes in brain features.

With the new funding, the scientists will combine forces to collect new air pollution exposure studies and analyze their impact on newly collected information about the adolescents' mental health and their brain structure, organization and function. The researchers will follow the same children – from both original study groups – into young adulthood to learn how air pollution might infl uence the persistence of mental health symptoms and create more changes

in the brain.

Kim Cecil, director of radiology research for Cincinnati Children's Imaging Research Center, said the new funding gives the researchers the much-needed opportunity to expand their work, both in duration and in numbers of children. "We are strengthening our power and ability to look at this." The scientists will be working with 500 kids, through age 18, for the study.

Ryan said few studies have looked at environmental exposures such as air pollution on mental health. He called the research "a critical fi rst step" to understand the links – and to guide the future in public health policy.

with complete strangers they had seen on the street – as many of them written by women as by men – were shockingly brazen, if you read between the lines.

— “LCP: Be at the corner of Court and Race at 8 P.M. STRICTLY PRIVATE.” “VENUS: Letter in the Enquirer offi ce for you.

RAG BABY.” “BUTTONS: I would like to see you, same place, tomorrow evening. HOLES.” — “The Personal column of the Enquirer, which is designedly maintained as a mere assignation column, is a crime against society,” the Cincinnati Post editorialized in August 1885. “It is not only a daily proclamation that

Cincinnati swarms with women of loose morals, and with men of lascivious desires, but it furnished the medium through which inexperienced girls are in the fi rst instance enticed from their homes, and taught to underrate parental advice and set parental authority at defi ance.”

Hand noted that the term “assignation column” was used deliberately to refer to assignation houses, which were places that rented rooms by the hour for prostitutes and clandestine meetings for couples having aff airs.

The Post basically called the women who read or posted in the personals column prostitutes, Hand said.

—

“DEVIL: Can your imp see you Tuesday evening?

R.” “The two gentlemen from carriage-works who were at Hunt’s Grove last Sunday may meet same young ladies at Highland House Sunday afternoon.

SUPERFINK.” “WAIT TILL THE ROSES BLOOM: Be at the same place. LIFE’S TOO SHORT.” — After all the editorials and letters denouncing The Enquirer, the personals column did not stop, but the complaints did.

“It was a cause célèbre for about a year, then people lost interest and went back to their business,” Hand said.

And evidently, couples continued to get together.

Pam Epstein, whose blog “Advertising for Love” shares Victorian personal ads from the New York Herald, wrote in a 2010 New York times op-ed, “Though the ads … are certainly less racy than what readers might fi nd in publications today, they also feel surprisingly familiar, reminding us, perhaps, that we are not so diff erent from our 19th-century counterparts – at least when it comes to looking for love.”

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The agency partnering with United Way of Greater Cincinnati to help identify eligible individuals and uses CDC's guidelines for vaccinating homebound individuals and a locally-developed screening tool, offi cials said. Depending on vaccine availability, caregivers who live in the same home may also be vaccinated, offi cials said. Ohio’s current guidelines for COVID-19 vaccinations don’t explicitly make caregivers eligible to receive the vaccine. Only caregivers who already meet requirements based on their age, medical conditions or occupations can get vaccinated at this point.

The Council on Aging is partnering with the Hamilton, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and Warren county health departments.

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How COVID-19 might permanently change the restaurant world Keith Pandolfi Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

This story is part of an Enquirer series focusing on how life has changed – and will continue to change – because of the pandemic.

It’s dinnertime at Turner Farm in Indian Hill and Casey Santi is running orders out to soil-and-rock saltsplashed cars as they arrive to pick up transportable feasts of roasted chickens, Guinness-braised beef stew and root-vegetable salads. It’s warm outside; a recent February snowfall is melting away, leaving the long and winding road to the farm’s take-out kitchen looking like mud season in Vermont.

The meals being served here were prepared by Michael Eddington, former executive chef at Muse, in Mt. Lookout, in a teaching kitchen the farm shut down last March as it shifted its focus from teaching people to feeding people.

The response to that pivot has been overwhelming.

So overwhelming that Santi, who aside from running orders works as the farm’s marketing and communications manager, says they’re thinking of making the pivot permanent. She said the farm’s executive director, Robert Edmiston, decided it was important to keep feeding the community throughout the pandemic Not just the toney community where the farm is located, mind you, but the community in general.

“We’re getting a lot of gratitude from our customers because this gives them a reason to get in their cars and drive to an actual farm to pick up food,” said Santi.

Indeed, arriving here can feel like an enormous exhale at a time when so many people are dealing with the everyday stresses of working at home, teaching at home, and simply living at home. It’s also just another example of how the pandemic has changed our ideas of what “going out to dinner” can mean. And how many pivots like these will remain permanent for restaurants.

A year into the pandemic, Greater Cincinnati’s restaurant industry has pivoted, swerved, sweat, and, miraculously – knock on wood – survived. That’s not to say there haven’t been losses, but not nearly as many as some feared.

At least so far.

During the past 12 months, Cincinnati chef David Falk, owner of Boca, Sotto, and Nada, introduced a meal kit service via the “virtual restaurant” he calls Domo (Latin for “home”). Hideki Harada turned a portion of his College Hill restaurant, Kiki, into a market selling Japanese snack foods and condiments, and Anthony Sitek, owner of Crown Republic, downtown, off ered pasta kits, take-and-bake dinners, and cocktail- to-go.

But after the pivots and the patience, when diners can go back to, well, dining, will things return to as before or will something have changed?

Easy answer “We will never go back to normal,” said Stephen Williams, owner of Bouquet restaurant in Covington.

Once the pandemic hit greater Cincinnati, Bouquet struggled to fi nd its footing, creating a retail component that sold everything from house-made hot sauces to actual makeup, something the restaurant’s FDA license allowed it to do.

“To be honest, it got kind of gimmicky,” Williams said. “At the end of the day, we realized we needed to go back to who we are and what we believe in.”

With restrictions on the number of customers he could serve during the pandemic, Williams came to realize that, in the Before Times, he might have been stretching himself, and, perhaps, his staff , thin. Something he plans to remedy in the post-pandemic world.

“We’re not looking to do as many covers as we did before,” he said. “We used to have [seating for] about 180 people in here, and now we have about 100. We really like that since it gives the team more time to interact with the customers.”

Williams has noticed that, when the pressure to turn tables over quickly disappears, customers tend to stay longer, and, in turn, spend more money. It’s part of his more general strategy to focus more on the hospitality and the food aspects of his business, something he says was getting lost in recent years.

Williams, and his wife, Jessica, are also moving ahead on their latest concept, Spoon Kitchen & Market , a combination grocery store, restaurant, and bar that, after years of delays, is scheduled to open inside the new RiverHaus development in Covington in the next three weeks.

To Williams, the concept of a “grocer-aunt” couldn’t come at a better time given the public’s shifting attitudes toward dining out. He sees Spoon as less of a restaurant, and more of a corner store. “I don’t know if I would be opening a straight-up restaurant right now,” he said

Going it alone Last month, Lou and Gene Turner, both longtime veterans of Cincinnati restaurant stalwarts Boca, Salazar and Please, decided to leave traditional restaurants behind and open MOXY, a takeout-only spot located in Newport’s Incubator Kitchen Collective.

The restaurant specializes in comfort foods inspired by Lou’s childhood growing up in Pennsylvania Dutch country, and Gene’s knowledge of French cooking techniques. MOXY's menu is broken down into four categories: Pasta kits, vegetarian kits, family meal kits, and breakfast kits. MOXY also does a weekend popup at Oakley Wines, off ering a Sunday dinner kit.

“We off er restaurant-quality dining in your home,” Gene said. “All of our meals are very interactive. By the time our guests pick it up, it’s 85 to 95 (percent) complete.”

The Turners thought about opening a traditional brick-and-mortar spot, but "we had to shift this model

Turner Farms Chef Michael Edington prepares food for pickup orders in Indian Hill. Turner farms offers lunch and dinner takeout every Tuesday through Friday with a menu that changes every month. PHOTOS BY PHIL DIDION

Turner farms offers lunch and dinner takeout every Tuesday through Friday with a menu that changes every month.

to fi t the times,” said Gene. He believes the concept will still have legs once COVID fi nally makes it into our rearview mirrors. “There will probably be a dip in business when people start going out again, but I think the interactivity of our meal kits will be around for a while.”

The Incubator Kitchen Collective off ers restaurants like MOXY services that are attractive to restaurant entrepreneurs right now, including education, belowmarket kitchen facilities, mentorship and, according to director Rachel Grubbs DesRochers, a sense of community.

“For a lot of people, I don’t think the goal is to get the brick-and-mortar storefront anymore,” DesRochers, who is also the founder of vegan graham cracker company Grateful Grahams, said. “If you are in a collective, you are surrounded by people doing what you are doing , not alone and isolated. You can ask people for advice. That is the culture we are trying to create here.”

Takeout improving Changed buying habits are what chef Derek Dos Anjos and his business partner Jeff ery Miller are predicting for their new business venture, Parts & Labor.

The company, which started last year as a takeout and delivery service, serving Dos Anjos-caliber meals, will soon reopen at a stall in Oakley Kitchen, a new foodhall concept slated to open in April.

“Our focus is to continue what we started with the original Parts & Labor by focusing on quality food meant for pickup or delivery,” Miller said. “That is our out-of-the-gate plan.” He adds that even as the number of vaccinations increases, people will still be wary of restaurants, and that even when COVID-19 has all but vanished, customers might be so used to quality takeout that the demand for it will continue.

Before Parts & Labor temporarily shut down so Miller and Dos Anjos could prepare for their relocation to Oakley Kitchen, Miller said, they perfected the art of making carryout food that looks and tastes as good as it would at a restaurant. “Everything on our menu has been tested,” he said. “We wanted to see how it would hold up through the pick-up or delivery process, and how it will look the next day.”

Miller and Dos Anjos would leave their food in the fridge for a couple of days, just to make sure it would make for appealing leftovers. "We just didn’t want it to be goopy,” Miller said. They are also making all of their packaging compostable and/or recyclable, so customers don’t have to feel a surge of guilt for throwing away the containers

Move civility DesRochers said the pandemic has given many restaurant workers an opportunity to reevaluate their jobs in an industry that often requires ridiculously long hours and, in some cases, toxic environments that can do serious damage to their mental health.

“One thing I hope changes after all of this is over is how people treat service industry workers,” said Joshua Aaron Miller, a bartender at Longfellow, in OTR. One of the disturbing trends Miller has witnessed during the pandemic is customers refusing to follow simple mandates and guidelines regarding social distancing and wearing masks. While he saw restaurant

Turner Farms' Casey Santi brings takeout orders out to hungry patrons. Turner farms offers lunch and dinner takeout every Tuesday through Friday with a menu that changes every month.

workers being treated poorly before the pandemic, what he’s seeing these days is off the charts.

“There is just the arrogance that comes with disobeying a rule,” he said. “Be it a house rule or a state law. There’s a self-entitled feeling a person must have to question you as a service industry worker because they think you’re a certain rung of society. I get it: The whole world is cooped up and angry. But there are some behaviors, unrelated to the pandemic, that workers shouldn’t have to tolerate anymore.”

“Addiction and suicide are through the roof in the restaurant industry,” DesRochers said. “But there is a diff erent way of doing things. It comes from slowing down and doing what you really want to do. That is the downside of the food world. You show up and your brain hurts, then you get screamed at when the chives aren’t on the right part of the plate.

"But there is another way of doing things, one that doesn’t involve getting screamed at every day.”

That's a change customers should consider when the privilege of dining out returns.

Employee rethink Jennifer Rattenbury, who started working in restaurants to help pay her tuition at Indiana University in the late 1980s, and has worked as a server and a manager at restaurants such as Jeff Ruby’s Waterfront, and most recently Boca, where she served customers with fi ne-dining-level professionalism for nearly a decade.

These days, you can fi nd her navigating a forklift through an Amazon warehouse in Northern Kentucky.

When Rattenbury was furloughed from Boca last March, she found herself refl ecting on her nearly 30year career in the industry. She said she made “an amazing amount of money” working 35 hours a week at Boca, but once she stepped away from it, she realized some of the things that were missing from her life.

“I played in my garden and I got to know my neighbors who I’d never met because I always worked weekends and nights. I took walks and got into myself because in the restaurant business, it’s always about everyone else. It was nice just to be selfi sh for a change, and do things just for myself.”

The restaurant industry is great,” she said. “If you work at a good place, you can make amazing money.

But what the pandemic taught her is that money and job security aren’t nearly as reliable as she once thought.

And it's a job you can't do from home.

Stephen Williams has also seen several of his employees at Bouquet leave the industry for good, not so much because of bad customers or toxic environments, but because, like Rattenbury, they simply need a change.

“A handful of them went on to other careers,” he said, adding that two of his managers took jobs in the fi nancial sector. “And I fully support that. I told some of [his employees] that this is your time to refl ect, and if you want to change [your career] now is the time to do it.”

But he’s not worried about fi nding replacements. “I actually have more resumes right now than I’ve ever had before.”

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Jeanne’s Pancakes My friend Jeanne shared this recipe a long time ago. Simple enough for little ones to help.

Ingredients

Instructions Whisk egg and buttermilk together.

Whisk dry ingredients together.

Stir into egg mixture and mix gently.

Stir in butter. Mix again but don’t over mix. A few lumps are OK.

1 egg 1 cup buttermilk

Let batter rest 10 minutes or so before frying.

1 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda

Pour about 1⁄ 3 cup of batter onto hot greased griddle for each pancake.

1 teaspoon double acting baking powder

They’re ready to turn over when golden brown on bottom and bubbles appear around edges and middle.

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1 teaspoon oil

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From left: Clear sap from tree; sap boiled down half way; sap boiled down to syrup. PHOTOS BY RITA HEIKENFELD FOR THE ENQUIRER

‘I feel like a modern pioneer’

Whole-wheat pancakes Daughter-in-law Jess makes these in a big batch, then warms them up later in the microwave or toaster. “Pancakes last a week in the refrigerator,” Jess said.

Ingredients 2 cups milk 2 eggs

Rita’s Kitchen

4 tablespoons sugar

Rita Heikenfeld

2 tablespoons walnut or other oil

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1 cup whole wheat flour

I feel like a modern pioneer. The past few weeks we’ve been tapping maple trees. And we harvested gallons and gallons of sap. Guess how much maple syrup we got? Well, here’s a hint: it’s a 40:1 ratio.

We boiled sap from morning to late afternoon, and watched it turn from clear to a golden brown as the water evaporated. Our bounty of maple syrup was about 3 cups total.

Well, maple syrup calls for pancakes, don’t you think? Have breakfast for supper one evening. Pancakes with a side of bacon or sausage. Warm maple syrup?

Or maybe a smear of maple pecan butter on the pancakes? Yes, please.

Tips: Single acting vs double acting baking powder For pancakes, use double acting.

Single acting is activated by moisture only; double is activated by moisture and heat. You need both for pancakes to

Whole-wheat blueberry pancakes.

1 cup all-purpose or pastry flour

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1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon double acting baking powder ⁄ 2 teaspoon salt

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frying.,

Instructions

Maple sap drains into a bucket.

turn out well.

Rested batter = better pancakes Resting gives the liquid time to soften/hydrate/relax the fl our and dissolve any lumps that remain.

Resting also allows leavening time to get mixed in evenly in the batter.

Even leavening produces air bubbles that puff pancakes as they cook.

More pancake recipes: Check out my site. Lois Boekley, a Sharonville reader, is what I call a “scientifi c” cook. See what I mean with her buttermilk and sweet milk pancakes.

You’ll love these simple instructions from Jess: “Whisk wet together; whisk dry together, then combine, but don’t over mix.” A few lumps remaining are OK. Let batter rest 10 minutes or so before

Pour about 1/3 cup of batter onto hot greased griddle for each pancake.

They’re ready to turn over when golden brown on bottom and bubbles appear around edges and middle.

Turn pancakes only once.

Maple pecan butter

Blueberry pancakes

Whip together 1 stick softened butter with 1⁄ 3 cup pecans, toasted and fi nely chopped and 1⁄ 4 cup maple syrup.

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The people who care: How harm reduction bloomed here with the opioid epidemic Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Daryl Hams saw a discolored bandage poking out from the man’s sleeve. The bandage covered a festering abscess. A wound from a contaminated needle. The man had had it cleaned at a hospital but hadn’t yet picked up antibiotics prescribed for him. Daryl, who had never met the man before, handed the stranger fresh bandages, cleansing packets, and urged him to get and take all the antibiotics.

Still, Daryl could not stop thinking about the young man.

A nurse, Daryl bought wound-care supplies and carried them in a kit for three weeks, hoping to see the man again.

Then one day, at the Hamilton naloxone-giveaway site: “Are you the guy with the wound?” Daryl asked a man in a cloth mask. “I was worried about you.”

The man proudly showed off a wrist no longer bandaged, the abscess healed.

He started to walk away. Then stopped and turned back.

“It’s been a long time,” the man said, “since anybody worried about me.”

---Molly B. True was a 19-year-old college student in the late 1990s when she started using heroin. This was before the epidemic settled into the region. Heroin chic was fashion. Kurt Cobain, idolized.

Now 41 and living with her boyfriend in Bellevue, Molly has seven broken-off needles in her body – arms, groin, neck – scarred over, there forever. It makes it tough to get an MRI. Tough to forget that she once had no place to go when she wanted to protect herself from infections.

Molly had always tried to use safely.

She tried, after getting hepatitis C, not to spread the virus to others. She’d buy syringes when pharmacists would sell them to her.

She cared about her health. She says she was addicted to heroin but wasn't ready to get treatment.

Molly knew of places across the country where people who injected drugs could get sterile syringes, no judgment.

“I remember thinking, ‘Gosh, that’ll never happen in Cincinnati,’” she says.

Because, in the late 1990s through the early 2000s you were on your own.

Today, you are not.

Today, there are Daryls.

--It has taken Greater Cincinnati something like two decades to understand what Daryl and people like him off er. It’s called “harm reduction,” a host of strategies to minimize negative physical and social outcomes from drug use. It’s what those who use drugs can do between prevention and treatment: That place where most people who use drugs simply are.

With the heroin epidemic grew the understanding that addiction is a health issue. And fi xing a health problem by locking it in jail, or even by scolding it, was not terribly eff ective. That maybe fi xing it, or starting to, requires being there. Being kind. Helping people stay safe.

The epidemic grew. Understanding grew. Life got better for the Mollys of the world.

Not everyone understood.

Syringe exchange – trading used syringes for sterile ones – still feels wrong to a lot of people, who think it enables drug use.

But there is no scientifi c evidence to suggest that people who inject drugs will stop using because they can’t fi nd sterile syringes. They will use what is available.

“I remember using needles to inject my drugs that … were bent and it looked like something you’d pulled out of a garbage can, really,” Molly says.

Scattershot needles back then led to a groundswell of complaints from neighbors who’d fi nd the syringes in playgrounds, grocery store parking lots and even their own lawns.

The hepatitis C virus can live in the barrel of a syringe for up to six weeks.

People started to realize they, or their children, could get the bloodborne disease.

It was this threat to the general public that led some to begrudgingly accept the idea of the harm reduction strategy syringe exchange.

“Everybody (who used), pretty much, had hepatitis,” Molly says. “A few people had HIV. “But your life is in such shambles from addiction that you don’t care.”

--Dr. Judith Feinberg, an infectious disease expert who at the time was a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, cared.

She is the pioneer of harm reduction in Cincinnati. She saw hepatitis C cases rising and, by 2006, thought it was time for

Daryl Hams is a registered nurse and a project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative.

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Billy Golden, a harm reduction coordinator at Caracole, in Northside, stands outside during a drive up exchange program the organization hosts weekly.

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syringe exchange.

Feinberg gathered research to point to the positive results of harm reduction elsewhere. Syringe exchanges had been going on for years, most notably after the AIDS crisis evolved in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Feinberg took that evidence and met with public health offi cials, city leaders, neighbors. Steadily, she pushed for syringe exchange.

Her analysis showed what newer studies amplify: Syringe services have been associated with a 50% reduction in HIV and hepatitis C. They cost less than $2 a day per person, research shows.

Compare that to the lifetime cost of HIV treatment which is about $350,000 per person. The annual cost of hepatitis C treatment? About $84,000 per patient.

That, and this: “People who use drugs are fi ve times more likely to enter treatment” if they use harm reduction, Feinberg says, noting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

In 2014, Feinberg got the go-ahead to start a needle exchange. The fi rst attempt failed from community pushback, but The Cincinnati Exchange Project was operating a few months later, outside Church of Our Savior in Mount Auburn.

The Cincinnati health board approved the exchange. UC College of Medicine covered major costs. Interact for Health supplied a grant.

And as the mobile exchange expanded into several Cincinnati neighborhoods, Molly caught wind of it. “I’m like, ‘Impossible,’” she recalls.

“I did a little investigating, because that’s what I do,” the former Northern Kentucky University journalism student says.

“I went,” Molly says. “And I met some of the greatest people that I’ve met in years.”

--The exchange was a place to get things: sterile syringes, drug-cooking devices and clean wipes, naloxone, HIV and hepatitis C tests, condoms.

But it was not just about things. It was about treating people with dignity – an underpinning of harm reduction strategy, says Feinberg.

“You have a totally supportive, nonjudgmental rapport so that if, or when, they are ready (for treatment), you are there.”

For Molly, that support had a name: Billy Golden.

Billy Golden – everyone calls him Billy – prefers to stay out of the spotlight and just do his job.

When he worked for The Cincinnati Exchange Project you might fi nd him on the streets, picking up used syringes, at

Dr. Judith Feinberg, a specialist of infectious disease who started the region's fi rst syringe access program, The Cincinnati Exchange Project, pauses from work in her home office in Amberley, Ohio, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Feinberg now is with West Virginia University. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

the van or working at a table in some alley. Always, he made sure the exchange was a safe space for people who use drugs. If a client was there for three minutes, Billy says he made sure, “for three minutes of the day, that person was more than their drug addiction."

“That that person can come and just breathe.”

Once, when Billy was working in a Walnut Hills alley, his 100-pound German shepherd mix Wylie in tow, a woman asked if she could brush his dog.

“She stayed for the whole shift and just brushed him and brushed him,” Billy says. “When she left, like, there was this lightness. Like, this break.”

Sometimes Molly brought her dog, Fiona, to play with Wylie while she and Billy talked.

“And, no matter what kind of mood I’d be in, he would always ask how I was doing. And it wasn’t about, ‘Are you clean yet?’ It was about, ‘Are you OK today?’

And that just felt right.”

“I mean, my whole life it was like, my family and my friends and my ex-boyfriends were all like, ‘are you clean yet?’”

Molly says. “I would always be ashamed.”

Billy was diff erent. “He knew that I was strung out and was just off ering me help for what I needed at that moment.”

Billy helped Molly get a doctor who understood addiction. He laughed with her, listened to her. Once, when she was overwhelmed, Billy sat at a picnic table with Molly, off ered a notebook and pen and stayed while she thought through her priorities.

But Billy says now it never occurred to Billy that Molly felt so strongly about his help.

In 2018, Hamilton County Public Health took over The Cincinnati Exchange Project with sure funding. It was a signal to the region: County leaders believe in harm reduction. The service wends through Cincinnati, Hamilton County and even reaches into Butler and Clermont counties.

Molly has been in methadone treatment since September 2020. She manages her drug use, using maybe twice a week instead of what used to be several times a day. She still stops at the Exchange Project, as it’s now called.

One sunny Wednesday, Molly drove to the van at McMicken Avenue in Overthe-Rhine. Masked clients fi led in and out. A man carried a foot-tall, red plastic tub fi lled with used syringes. From a parking lot, Molly pointed out the van to a fi rst-timer.

Then she walked over, disappeared

behind the door and returned with two small bags. They held syringes, stretchy blue tourniquets, a plastic case for used syringes, disinfecting wipes and a plastic zip with more odds and ends. She would use some and provide some for a friend who has no transportation.

But for Molly, the most comfortable place to spend time and fi nd help is Caracole, in Northside.

Molly used to volunteer at the nonprofi t, but it suspended volunteer work when the COVID-19 pandemic started.

Billy is there, working as a harm reduction coordinator.

One recent evening, he parked his pickup in the lot and beelined to folding tables set up outside where co-workers stood. He’d come straight from a Northern Kentucky exchange, where he’d given clients HIV and hepatitis C tests. The Caracole exchange runs 5-7:30 p.m.

Thursdays. Billy grabbed a clipboard, smiled through his mask and waved over cars that were idling in the lot.

About 25 miles north of Caracole, Daryl is project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative. Funded through the Butler County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services Board with a state opioid response grant, it hosts harm reduction services, some new, in Butler, Warren, Clinton, Brown and Clermont counties.

Daryl says he looks to Billy and other Caracole workers as harm reduction role models.

“The people we see aren’t used to being seen,” Daryl says, tearing up. He learns clients’ names. He asks them about them. He advocates for them.

The art and science of harm reduction and its menu options are evolving in Greater Cincinnati. Sometimes a city won’t allow needle exchange but offi cials will say OK to naloxone giveaways.

Daryl hands out cards for Never Use Alone, a toll-free number that off ers safety by phone. Rob Goeller from Caracole off ers messaging on You Tube for how to use safely during the pandemic. Alexis Deatherage and Beth Bullock walk Clermont County streets checking on people and handing them water bottles, naloxone and snacks. There are myriad services with multiple funding streams, sometimes consisting of just donations.

Molly embraces it all, though she no longer can keep track of everything available. She is excited for others who will benefi t from harm reduction. Like she has.

“My life is exponentially better,” Molly says. “I am a diff erent person. I buy Christmas presents. I have a bed now.”

“My ultimate goal (is) to continue to volunteer, and maybe it will lead to some actual, real job in harm reduction,” Molly said. “I feel like that’s where I belong.”

In mid-January, Molly was unanimously appointed to the Harm Reduction Ohio board of directors.

Her position is indicative of another pillar that the National Harm Reduction Coalition advocates: Ensuring that people who use drugs and those with a history of drug use routinely have “a real voice” in programming and policy designed to serve them.

“We’re going to use Molly's knowledge and talents to make the world a better and safer place for people who use drugs,” says Dennis Cauchon, the nonprofi t’s founder.

She can’t wait.

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Anderson HS reveals new mascot

Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Anderson High School has a new mascot: The Raptors.

The school announced the new mascot and logo March 5 in a video. The Redskins logo was retired over the summer after students, parents and faculty protested it was racially insensitive.

“Since we began, we have been overwhelmed by the level of community and parent support for our transition eff orts,” Anderson principal Rob Fellows said. “We are excited to continue the rich tradition of excellence in the areas of academics, the arts, and athletics, at Anderson High School for years to come. Go Raptors!”

The Raptors were chosen after multiple rounds of voting by students, staff and alumni. Some of the other options were Admirals, Bears, Bison, Comets, Dragons, Lions, Phoenix, Ravens and Riverhawks.

Why did Anderson get a new mascot?

On July 2 the Forest Hills Board of Education voted to retire the old logo.

The mascot debate has surfaced multiple times over the years, dating back to at least 1999.

This summer, a petition to change Anderson’s mascot said the old name is the “moral equivalent of the N-word.” The petition received more than 18,000 sig-

“We are excited to continue the rich tradition of excellence in the areas of academics, the arts, and athletics, at Anderson High School for years to come. Go Raptors!”

Anderson principal Rob Fellows

natures.

A social media post circulated at the same time, written by 47-year-old Anna Hunter, said the mascot is “off ensive” and claimed Anderson Township’s “predominantly white community” has “no business using another person’s skin color as our good luck charm.”

“I don’t send my kids to Anderson because of this,” Hunter told The Enquirer.

The district ultimately voted to change the mascot.

On March 5 district offi cials said the school has raised nearly $300,000 for rebranding eff orts. The school’s goal is $375,000.

The logo will be phased out in stages.

Anderson will offi cially identify as the Raptors beginning in the 2021-2022 school year.

Meyer on Norwell: ‘I love the guy’ Dave Clark Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – March 10.

Any Cincinnati Bengals fans hoping the team might pursue Jacksonville Jaguars guard Andrew Norwell - a former Anderson High School standout who starred for the Ohio State Buckeyes - might have underestimated what a huge Norwell supporter Jags head coach Urban Meyer is.

From Jaguars team reporter Ashlyn Sullivan: Norwell, 29, played at OSU from 2010 to 2013. Meyer was the Buckeyes' head coach from 2012 to 2018.

Norwell, one of 17 NFL players from Greater Cincinnati high schools, became the highest-paid guard in league history when he signed with Jacksonville in March 2018.

Norwell has two years remaining on his contract. Recent reports - including one from CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora and another from SI.com's Albert Breer have suggested that the Jags could look to trade or release Norwell.

The Jags also could approach their highest-paid player about restructuring his contract.

Jacksonville Jaguars offensive guard Andrew Norwell (68) is introduced during pregame against the Tennessee Titans at TIAA Bank Field on Sept. 19, 2019. REINHOLD MATAY-USA TODAY SPORTS

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Check out who made all-district boys basketball teams Shelby Dermer, Scott Springer and Alex Harrison Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The Ohio Sportswriter's Association recently released its Southwest District All-Stars for Divisions I-IV boys basketball with several Greater Cincinnati athletes honored.

Division I First team Gabe Cupps, Centerville 6’2”, So.: 16.2 ppg, 5.1 apg; Rich Rolf, Centerville 6’7”, Jr.: 15.1 ppg, 11.1 rpg; Logan Duncomb, Moeller, 6’9” Sr. F: 13.4 ppg, 9.1 rpg.; Alex Williams, Archbishop Moeller 6’4”, Sr.: 16 ppg.; Kobe Rodgers St. Xavier 6’3” Sr.: 18.1 ppg, 7.6 rpg; Nate Johnson, Lakota East 6’3” Sr.: 17.0 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 4.2 apg; Prophet Johnson, Huber Heights Wayne, 6’4” Sr.,: 20.1 ppg, 3.9 apg PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Kobe Rodgers, St. Xavier COACH OF THE YEAR: Michael Noszka, St. Xavier

CCPA forward Gi' Marrion Jones (1) drives to the basket during their overtime win over Gamble to win the small school CMAC championship, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. TONY TRIBBLE/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Division IV

Second team

First team

Tom House, Centerville, 6’5, Jr.: 18.1 ppg, 4.0 rpg; Nathan Dudukovich, West Chester Lakota West, 6’3”, So.: 21.3 ppg; Justin Lovette, LaSalle, 6’0”, Sr.: 18.5 ppg, 5.2 rpg; Trey Killens, Mason, 6'0” Sr.: 22.7 ppg., 5 rpg; Avante Martin, 6’2”, Sr., Sidney: 13.4 ppg, 12.3 rpg; Bowen Hardman, Princeton, 6’5”, Jr.: 13.5 ppg.; Logan Woods, Fairfi eld, 6’4”, Jr.: 16.4 ppg.

Third team Sam Feldman, Springboro, 6’4”, Jr.: 17.6 ppg, 11.1 rpg; Aidan Noyes, Archbishop Moeller, 6’6” Sr.:11.9 ppg.; Evan Mahaff ey, Archbishop Moeller 6’5” Jr.: 9.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg; Deshawne Crim, Fairfi eld 6’1 So.:15.6pts, 3.2rpg.; Josh Tolliver Springfi eld, 6’1”, Sr.: 18 ppg, 3 rpg,; Lawrent Rice, Wayne, 6’3” So.: 13.7 ppg.; 4.8 apg.; Andrew Harp, Elder, 12.9 ppg, 4.2 rpg.

Honorable mention Ben Southerland, Sycamore; Nate Paarlberg, Franklin; Noah Rich, Franklin; Tez Lattimore, Franklin; ZyonTull, Western Brown; Drew Novak, Western Brown; Alex Ball, Miamisburg; Allen Lattimore, West Carrollton; Sam Walker, West Carrollton; Stanley Shrivers, West Carrollton; Aidan Tuner, Cincinnati Archbishop Moeller; Brady Weber, Lakota West; Kelvin Turner, Lakota West; Adonis Caneris, Oak Hills; Dominic Cantrella, Turpin; Brady Hardewig, Turpin; Ayden Schneider, LaSalle; Namaray McCalley, Mount Healthy; Iyashu Adams, Mount Healthy; Caleb Allen, Edgewood; Mason Young, Harrison; Elijah Horton, Northwest; Patrick Ivory, Clayton Northmont; Jordan Smith, Clayton Northmont; Jackson Lewis, Hamilton; Alex Morton, Mason; Matthew Smith, Mason; Joe Kirby St. Xavier; Louie Semona, St. Xavier; Collin O'Connor, New Carlisle Tecumseh; Jack Kronauge, Lakota East; Kobe Peck, Lakota East; Jadon Coles, Lakota East; AJ Gillespie, West Clermont; Tywan Hall, Middletown; Will Williams, Middletown; Craig James, Talawanda; Jonathan Richter Talawanda; Jack Webster, Goshen; Alex Hannah, Milford; Malcolm Curry, Huber Heights Wayne; Adam Duvall, Beavercreek; Siloam Baldwin, Beavercreek; Gabe Phillips, Beavercreek; Josiah Harding, Xenia; Isaiah Rogan, Xenia; Dylan Hoosier, Xenia; Dwight Lewis, Fairborn; Julius Pulllen, Fairborn; Shaeden Olden, Troy; Jaden Owens, Troy; Dre'sean Roberts, Piqua; Tyler Mckinley, Walnut Hills; Owen Murray, Walnut Hills; Max Poynter, Walnut Hills; Colin Miller, Walnut Hills; Devin Taborn, Sidney; Camden Vordemark, Sidney; Michael Keehan, Elder; Sean Keller, Elder; David Larkins, Elder; Austin Coldiron, Anderson; Zach Weber, Lebanon; Anthony Johnson, Kettering Fairmont; Rodney Harris, Princeton; Aaron Frazier, Edgewood;

Division II First team AJ Braun, Fenwick, 6’10”, Sr.: 16.6ppg, 10 rpg; Brayden Sipple, Blanchester, 6’4”, Sr: 33.9 ppg, 10.7 rpg; Ben Knostman , Tipp City Tippecanoe.

6’4”, Sr.: 15.4 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 9.9 apg,; Paul McMillan IV, Woodward, 6’2” Jr.: 28.2 ppg, 5.2 apg,; Isaiah Walker, Wyoming,

Smith, Carlisle; Rhett Burtch, Jamestown Greeneview,; Ethan Rimkus, Tipp City Bethel; Batai Lease, North Lewisburg Triad; Ayden Spriggs, North Lewisburg Triad; Jake Hamilton, Covington; Cole Allen, Springfi eld Northeastern; Dale Bush, Springfi eld Northeastern; Nick Burden, West Liberty-Salem; Mason Martin, Clermont Northeastern; Bryce Reece Clermont Northeastern; Collin Klopfstein, Williamsburg; Dan Jones, Williamsburg; Jaden Journell, Springfi eld Greenon; Connor Stonebraker, Versailles; Jaydon Litten, Versailles; Zion Crowe, Springfi eld Shawnee; Wes Enis, Casstown Miami East; Sam Zapadka, Casstown Miami East; Michael Norton James H. Gamble Montessorri; Dalon Owensby, James H. Gamble Montessori; Jeremiah Neblet, James H. Gamble Montessori; Sean Caldwell, James H. Gamble Montessori; Logan Stidham, Reading; Jaden Jeff erson, North College Hill; Tejay Bouldin, North College Hill; Antonio Harmon, North College Hill; Jake Goubeaux, Arcanum; Quinten Tolle, East Clinton; Zander Barnes, Indian Lage; Luke Jackson, Indian Lake

Moeller guard Evan Mahaffey attempts a jump shot in the game between Elder and Moeller high school Feb. 5, 2021.

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6’6”, Sr.: 22 ppg., 11rpg.; Anthony McComb, Trotwood-Madison, 6’2”, Sr.: 26.6 ppg., 6 rpg; CamRon McKenzie, Hughes, 6’2”, Sr.: 22.9 ppg, 8.1 rpg.; , 3apg.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Ben Knostman, Tipp City Tippecanoe COACH OF THE YEAR:David Lane, Ross

Woodward guard Paul McMillan (34) drives to the basket against Taft forward Rayvon Griffith (3) during the Bulldogs' 60-56 win, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. TONY TRIBBLE/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Marshall; Will Richards, Bishop Fenwick; Luke Blessing, Wilmington; Kohl Todd, Waynesville; Jonathan Powell, Dayton Chaminade Julienne; Dan Nauseef, Dayton Chaminade Julienne; Hunter Warner, Bellefontaine; Davonte Fahle, Bellefontaine Benjamin Logan; Brady King, St. Paris Graham.

Division III

Trent Koning, Cedarville, 6’2, Sr.; 18.8 ppg., 4.4 rpg, 4.4 apg.; Layne Sarver, New Madison Tri-Village, 6'6", Jr.: 23 ppg, 6 rpg.; Jonathan Riddle Legacy Christian 19.3 ppg, 7.9 rpg.; Aidan Reichert, Jackson Center, 6’5”, Sr.: 19.1 ppg, 7.6 rpg.; Jacob Pleiman, Botkins, 6’6”, Jr.: 16 ppg., 7 rpg.; Deanza Duncan, New Miami, 5’8”, Sr.; 20.4 ppg., 4.2 rpg.; Gi'Marrion Jones, Cincinnati College Prep Academy, 6’4”, Sr.: 21.4 ppg., 11.4 rpg.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Layne Sarver, New Madison Tri-Village COACH OF THE YEAR: Josh Sagester, New Madison Tri-Village

Second team Isaiah Ramey, Cedarville, 6’5”, Sr.: 16.1 ppg, 6 rpg; Cody Germann, RipleyUnion-Lewis-Huntington, 6’1”, Sr.: 14.1 ppg.; Carson Crozier, Felicity-Franklin, 6’3”, Jr: 20 ppg, 4.9 rpg.; Caeleb Meyer, Fort Loramie, 6-2, Sr.: 12.7 ppg., 3.5 rpg; Jordan Robinette, New Miami, 5’10”, Sr.: 13.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg; Tre Munson, Cincinnati College Prep Academy, 6’3”, Sr..; 21.4 ppg., 4.8 rpg.; Chandler Peters, Pleasant Hill Newton, 5'9" Jr.: 19.4ppg, 3.0 apg.

Second team

First team

Third team

Max Stepaniak, Ross, 6’8” Sr.: 15.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg; Mason Weisbrodt, Batavia, 6’8”, Jr.: 19 ppg., 9.1 rpg; Danny Austing, Taylor, 6’0”, Jr: G: 17.8 ppg.; Jakada Stone, Aiken, 6’1” Sr.: 19.7ppg, 5.6 rpg.; Sam Nunn, Ross, 6’0” Sr.: 13.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 5.7 apg; Justin O’Neal, Dayton Dunbar, 6’4”, Sr.: 16 ppg., 7 rpg.; Jacob Connor, Kettering Alter, 6’9”, Jr.: 10.7 ppg., 9.5 rpg.

Conner Cravaack, Madeira 6'4", So.: 20 ppg., 10 rpg; RT Adkins, Cincinnati Country Day, 6’4”, Sr.:15.8pts, 11.0 rpg.; Jamon Miller, Springfi eld Shawnee, 5’11”, Sr.: 15.3 ppg., 4.3 rpg.; Ben Kovacs, Anna, 6’3, Sr,: 18.2 ppg, 7.9 rpg; Rayvon Griffi th, Taft, 6’5”, So.: 23.5 ppg,; Mekhi Elmore, Taft, 6’0”, Jr.: 21.8 ppg, 4.4 rpg.; Mason Shrout, Camden Preble Shawnee, 6’4”, So.: 22,7 ppg, 7 apg.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Rayvon Griffi th, Cincinnati Taft COACH OF THE YEAR: Nate Barhorst, Anna

Josh Scantland, New Madison TriVillage, 6'6", Jr.: 10 ppg, 7 rpg.; Parker Davidson, Bradford, 6’2”, So.: 19.5ppg, 6.7 rpg.; Jason Channels, Springfi eld Emmanuel Christian Academy, 6'1”, Sr.: 18.6 ppg, 6.1 rpg.; Ashton Piper, Sidney Fairlawn, 6’3”, Sr.: 15.5 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 4.2 apg,; John Zumberger, DeGraff Riverside, 5’11”, Sr.: 18.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg; Zykeem Hunley, St. Bernard-Elmwood Place, 6’2”, Sr.: 15 ppg, 8 rpg; Jayden Priddy-Powell, Botkins, 5’10”, Sr.:15ppg 4 apg, 4 rpg.

Second team

Levi Wiederhold, Fayetteville-Perry; Jayden Bradshaw, Fayetteville-Perry; Gabe Fyff e, Ripley-Union-LewisHuntington; Braiden Bennington, Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington; Garrett Taulbee, Felicity-Franklin; Dalton Delong, New Madison Tri-Village; Cavin Baker, Arcanum Franklin Monroe; Aidan Luchini, Arcanum Franklin Monroe; Ky Cool, Arcanum Franklin Monroe; Mitchell Montgomery, Pleasant Hill Newton; Harold Oburn, Pleasant Hill Newton; Matthew Cardwell, Cincinnati Christian; Reece Stammen, Ansonia; Isaac Barga, Ansonia; DeAndre Cowen, Yellow Springs; Tyler Galluch, Springfi eld Catholic Central; Ashton Young, Springfi eld Catholic Central; Ian Galluch, Springfi eld Catholic Central; Parker Penrod Troy Christian; Ben Major, Troy Christian; Hayden Quinter, Russia; Caleb Maurer, Fort Loramie: Grant Albers, Fort Loramie: Luke Frantz, Sidney Lehman Catholic; Justin Chapman, Sidney Lehman Catholic; Carter Pleiman, Botkins; Trey Robinette, New Miami.

Third team Zach Frederick , Tipp City Tippecanoe, 6’5”, Sr.: 16.1 ppg, 9.1 apg; Kyle Smith, Bethel-Tate, 6’5”, Jr.: 16.8 ppg., 9.4 rpg.; Dayjaun Anderson Dayton Ponitz Career Technology Center, 6’2” So.: 17 ppg., 9 rpg; Wyatt Wachs, Indian Hill, 6’2”, Sr.: 14.6 ppg., 7.2 rpg; Kevin English, Norwood, 6’4”, Sr.: 18.5 ppg., 7.5 rpg.; Carson Seemann, Archbishop McNicholas, 6’3”, Sr.: 12.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg.; Ronald Smith III, Dayton Thurgood Marshall, 6’2”, Jr.: 22.5 ppg.

Honorable mention Troy Coulter, Germantown Valley View; JT Ferguson, Germantown Valley View; Matthew Butcher, Wilmington; Cole Coppock , Tipp City Tippecanoe; Damien Crayton, Wyoming; Collin Deaton, Lemon Monroe; Adam Ploeger, Lemon Monroe; Max Applegate, Batavia; Justin Ackerman, New Richmond; Shep Lansaw, New Richmond; Kadin Pollard, New Richmond; Tyler Sininger, New Richmond; Harry Hilvert, Taylor; Mitchell Zieverink, Taylor; Ashton Ault, Bellbrook; Johnny Deep Dayton Carroll; Sean McKitrick, Dayton Carroll; Blake Brumbaugh, West Milton Milton-Union; Sam Case, West Milton Milton-Union; Andrew Larkin, Badin; Mateo Lopez, Indian Hill; Ty Thornton, Indian Hiill; Jaesean Martin, Hughes; Robbie Cass, Aiken; Caden Conrad, Archbishop McNicholas; Nick Schulte, Archbishop McNicholas; Clay Badylak, Archbishop McNicholas; Darian Leslie, Dayton Dunbar; Randy Latham, Dayton Dunbar; Jaylan Spann, Dayton Thurgood

Carson Miles, Georgetown, 5’10” So.: 13.3 ppg, 4.6 apg,.; Cole Allen, Jamestown Greeneview, 6'3''. Sr.: 16.6 ppg, 4.3 rpg; Cameron Harrison New Paris National Trail, 6’0”, Sr.: 19.1ppg, 6.2 rpg.; Jacob Roeth, Casstown Miami East, 6’1”, Fr.: 16.6 ppg., 5.4 apg.; Zyon Scott, Reading, 6’0”, Sr: Guard 17.2 ppg.; AJ Eller, Brookville, 6’0””, Sr.: 20.5 ppg,; Gates Flynn, Summit Country Day, 6’1”, Sr,: 10.7 ppg., 4.9 apg.

Third team Brady Woodall, Miamisburg Dayton Christian, 5’11”, So.: 10 ppg., 6.3 apg.,; Branson Smith, East Clinton, 6’1”, Sr.: 18.1 ppg., 4.9 rpg.; Casey Keesee, Tipp City Bethel, 5’8” Jr.: 17.4 ppg, 4.8 rpg,; Mason Mack Cincinnati Country Day 6’5”, Sr.: Forward 13.4 pts, 10 rpg.; McKane Finkenbine, Anna, 6’0”, Jr.:16.6 ppg, 7.5 apg.; Bryce Singleton, Camden Preble Shawnee, 6’3”, Sr.: 18.1 ppg, 11.5 rpg.; Will Trubisky, Mariemont, 6'4" Sr.: 13 ppg, 3 rpg, 3 apg.

Honorable mention Isaiah Masteller, Anna; Nate Kratzer, Georgetown; Blake Tolle, Georgetown; Blaise Burrows, Georgetown; Devin Dreier, Miamisburg Dayton Christian; Junior, Dakota Collom, East Clinton; Roman Newsome, Carlisle; Nolan Burney, Carlisle; Isaiah Dean, Carlisle; Connor

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SCHOOL NEWS Coronavirus pandemic: The year that challenged us all When it comes to crisis and disaster response, school administrators are well-trained.

Even so, their crisis/disaster response skills were pushed to the limit last year as Ohio schools made a hard pivot to remote learning due to the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic. Over the last 12 months, school districts have seen beloved traditions upended. However, with the support of engaged families and community members, they’ve continued to devise ways to keep students engaged in meaningful learning while keeping virus spread in check.

The past year has been much like the often-used analogy of fl ying an airplane while building it, New Richmond Exempted Village School District Superintendent Tracey Miller said. Around every corner, there’s a new and unexpected challenge. The trick is trying to stay one step ahead.

From the start of the pandemic, Mr. Miller has worked to stay informed on what’s happening locally and at the state level. He challenges the teachers and staff to be innovative and take chances as the district remains focused on the academic and physical health of its students, teachers/staff , and guests.

Planning for the 2020-2021 school year was a community eff ort with Mr. Miller forming a Fall Planning Committee which included representation from community members and district staff .

Together they agreed, NREVSD should provide in-person learning for as long as possible. Additionally, the committee members felt students should also have the choice of an online learning option.

With mask and social distancing protocols in place and an inventory of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizers available, New Richmond Schools students have received in-person learning for the vast majority of the 2020-2021 school year.

The Fall Planning Committee also wanted after-school activities to continue. The goal was to make every eff ort to make the 2020-2021 school year look and feel typical.

For after-school activities, maintaining some sense of normalcy has been a stretch exercise, especially for athletes and performing art students.

Among the more obvious changes, the ongoing limited event access for fans/audiences. Then there is the task of enforcing health and safety protocols.

“Please keep your mask on” is a phrase Athletic Director Doug Foote and coaches continue to ask sporting event spectators.

The role of mask monitor is not one Mr. Foote, coaches, or other district administrators enjoy. In this year of a pandemic, however, it is a necessity. State rules must be followed, Mr. Foote said. If a school district doesn’t, in good faith, implement the rules/guidelines that include the wearing of masks then their students may miss out on the opportunity to participate in their favorite activity.

When the pandemic hit last winter, Mr. Foote watched helplessly as the end of the winter sports season was interrupted. Spring athletes never suited up.

It was a lost season. An AD for 13 years, it’s an experience Mr. Foote doesn’t want to relive.

“The stakes are too high to risk,” he said.

School music programs face similar challenges. Last school year, spring and end-of-school-year concerts and competitions were placed on hold. This year, things are diff erent but the shows go on.

Choir programs moved concerts outdoors to the stadium and recorded music indoors while masked and socially distanced. When weather permitted, band programs practiced outdoors. Activities continued with appropriate coronavirus protocols in place.

Mr. Miller is complimentary of the fl exibility and eff orts on the part of district teachers and staff , families, and students.

“This has been the most unique and challenging time of my 35 years as an educator. There was no training for the drills we’ve lived in real-time in our schools late last school year and this year. And unique challenges continue to

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“Despite it all, we are fi nding ways to make it work,” Miller said. “Learning is happening and after-school activities continue. Is it perfect? Probably not. But everyone is doing the best they can under the circumstances.

“There were many lessons and takeaways from the 2019-2020 school year.

Thanks to those lessons, we returned stronger and better prepared for the 2020-2021 school year.

“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the pandemic-related closure of schools, we move ahead eyes wide open to the new skills gained by staff , the resiliency of our students and families, and our abilities to deliver quality educational opportunities even under pressure from signifi cant challenges.

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CHCA celebrates AP Art with its annual Drawn Gallery Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy’s AP Art students displayed their recent works at Gallery Veronique in Montgomery, Feb. 26-27.

Taught by CHCA Upper School Art Teacher Tim Hilderbrand, the students focused their work on “Sustained Investigation” – producing a series of sequential visual forms to explore in greater depth a particular visual concern. Each student submitted a written commentary, which helps to explain this approach, and their work.

“When thinking about what my Sustained Investigation should be, I knew I wanted to incorporate a diff erent form of the fi ne arts into my art. This caused

me to pick my next favorite form of the arts, which would be music. For each of my pieces, I chose a particular song from which to base it, especially the way the song makes me feel. I believe that music is up for interpretation, just as art is. This forced me to explore the meaning I found within the song and [to] decide how I would convey that in my piece. This, in a way, created a game similar to ‘telephone’, because the viewer of my art must decipher their personal interpretation as I did with the song. In my attempt to convey the song, I use several diff erent methods to decide how my piece will look. If I am using colors in a piece, I make sure that they refl ect the song’s mood. For an example, if the song sounds light and beautiful, I try to make sure that the piece reads the same way. If I am using a certain object or person in my piece, I make sure that it/they match the vibe of the song. I have defi nitely enjoyed creating these pieces because it gives me reason to revisit old songs that I used to love. For college next year, I am undecided on where I am going, but I am planning to major in Horticulture Science.”

– senior Alyssa Conley (of Symmes Twp.) “One thing that continually fascinates me is that diff erent people can see the same situation, event, object in unique ways. Art is a way to capture a moment and freeze time so that others can see the artist’s perspective. The artist’s style, experiences, and culture have a strong impact on the piece and ultimately on the viewers of that piece. In this way, art is a powerful tool which can shift or change the perspective of others. I see my art as a way to convey my

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In this body of work, I used art to showcase the unique perspective I have as both American and Japanese. I also see art as a way to show others what I think is beautiful. I use simple patterns, unique perspectives, and muted colors to bring out clean, simple beauty. I focus on the contrasts between textures, colors, and shadows to make my art give the illusion of being 3D.” – junior Megumi Fukuda (of Mason) “I have never been one for expressing myself verbally, so my art for many years has been a refl ection of where my words always seemed to fail. From where I struggled to fi nd a correct mix of vocabulary to articulate myself, my art began to tell the stories I could not. My art is rooted in the things I want to say, but often can’t bring myself to or feel incapable of expressing properly, and has become akin to another language. Art has been the outlet for my confusion and anger, but also my bliss and enthusiasm. My creativity fl ows with my moods and is now an integral part of how I process information and emotions. I cannot wait for future projects as I get to express myself more and more clearly as a creative.”

– junior Alexa McFawn (of Loveland) “I have been studying fi ne art for 10 years, but in these 10 years, I have never created a work of my own. My work has always been copying the work of others.

It makes me feel like I am just a printer, not an artist. It is this desire to create that motivates me. My sustained investigation is a combination of China and the world. My works mainly refl ects the national characteristics of China combined with elements of Western culture.

In the future, I want to learn more kinds of art, create more works, and form my own style.”

– sophomore Sarah Pan (of Loveland) “In art, and in life, I enjoy creating in order to embody my emotions. Taking bold chances and unusual routes, my art tends to express the wild thoughts I have. I use a variety of materials to encompass the vast messages I am trying to present, which is why many of my pieces are crafted from mixed media. Although it can be hard, I like to express beauty in all of my pieces. The beauty of culture, faces, age, and nature are just some of the thematic experiences you will see in my art. I want people to see my art and begin to think about what it could represent. Often, I leave my pieces openended in order to encourage participation from the audience. I view art as another form of language, however it’s unspoken. Art can breathe life, cut deep, and make you feel more than words alone. For this reason alone, I create. My hope for my portfolio is to embrace the wonderous life of my grandmother. I created pieces to encapsulate her life by representing Greece, immigration, broken English, and other struggles that have formed her into the woman she is.

Using traditional Greek symbols and media, I have used personal memories to show others the art that is her.”

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Howdy folks, I had a surprise at the Lions Club meeting on Monday night March 1. The Van Scyocs presented me an emblem of the Lions club. I have been a member for 50 years and Ruth Ann joined in 1986 or 87, the fi rst year ladies could join.

The 50 years of Lions work has been great. Ruth Ann was secretary for several years along with me being president several times. The Lions Club is a wonderful organization and the biggest organization in the world. The clubs do so much. Their motto is “We serve the world over.”

I talked to Wendy and Mike at the

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their food supply and they want that personal connection that comes with shopping local.

“It’s proved a lot of our theories correct,” Otto said, “that in a crisis, it’s the community that steps in to have your back. The idea that we should have relationships with the people that grow our food just makes so much sense. … If there’s ever issues with food shortage, you literally have the number of the person that’s growing your food.”

Mary Hutten, who manages the Lettuce Eat Well farmers’ market in Cheviot, said that in 2020, demand was so high that some of her farmers ran out and had nothing left to sell at the market. Hutten attends national market meetings, and that story is common, she said.

“We’re running out of food,” she said.

“But I don’t want that to be alarming – I think this is a good thing to happen.

People are doing what I’ve wanted them to do for years. I wanted them to take responsibility for their food supply.”

Not your typical farm If you’re picturing a traditional farm with expansive fi elds, rolling hills, tractors, combines, grain silos and barns, you are way off . Eden Urban Gardens is set on a regular Cincinnati street, just like any other in the city. There are houses and apartments and then, on one plot of land, Eden Urban Gardens.

On this plot, instead of a manicured front lawn with fl owers and bushes, there are long garden beds with spearmint, oregano, lettuce and radishes.

Instead of a house, there’s a high tunnel, a 30-foot by 48-foot enclosure that protects plants from the elements and helps extend the growing season.

Part of the calling of urban farming is to turn otherwise-unwanted land into productive space. This plot of land was vacant until Pandora bought it at auction. Now, with this plot plus one other and a small garden at her house, Pandora is farming just over half an acre.

In 2020, Eden Urban Gardens grew about 1,575 pounds of produce. And that was before the high tunnel, which was just installed in December and will allow an extra 2,000 pounds every year.

For context, 2,000 pounds is one ton.

“Are we going to feed 20,000 people with our farm? No, but we’re not trying to,” Pandora said. “We are partners and part of the local food system.”

The USDA estimates that worldwide, about 15% of food is grown in urban

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areas. USDA service centers across the country are hearing from people who are starting to grow their own food because of the pandemic, according to a spokesperson, but it's unclear how many of those new growers are in urban areas. In general, the spokesperson said, the percentage of urban-grown food is expected to increase as most of the world's population resides in cities.

The benefi ts of urban farming, according to local farmers, include more nutrient-rich food, more money circulating in the local economy and more stability in the local food system. If there’s a disruption in the national or global supply chains – a threat that came up during the coronavirus pandemic – local farmers would still be able to provide food for local residents.

The ideal solution is to have a balance of local, national and international food sources, said Michaela Oldfi eld, director of the Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council for Green Umbrella.

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With a mix of sources, there’s plenty of variety in what’s available, Oldfi eld said, and if there’s a problem with any one source of food, the region will still be well supplied by the other sources.

is the Ole Fisherman.” There were a lot of people there getting their shots and there were a lot of folks using walkers.

The bus that Clermont Senior Services have to take people diff erent places is a blessing.

We will have a Grange meeting on Friday, March 5, in the Grange Hall in Nickelsville. This is the fi rst one we have had in several months. I am the master and it will be good to see all the people and hear how they have been during this pandemic. I have talked to about all of them and they seem to be OK. I was talking to Dan and he said his brother-in-law and friend were fi shing by the Ohio River at Neville standing on a dirt mound and they caught a blue catfi sh that weighed 78 pounds. They also just caught several smaller catfi sh. The mound was several feet above the river.

Dan said they were using 50-pound fi shing line. I bet it gave him a good fi ght.

I talked to Bill and he said he will have vine ripened tomatoes and cucumbers from the Grants Greenhouse. They are just now planting the tomato and cucumber plants at the greenhouse on State Route 131 above Williams Corner.

The young lady at the Grants Farm Greenhouse is planting all kinds of fl owers so keep a watch on the Grants Greenhouse. Danny said they hope to set some tomatoes out next week.

I went over to the Shepherds Place this morning to visit the crafters and they sure had plenty of wonderful items to sell. It was good to see the folks that have been there before and the lady that does a lot of baking and it is good. Robin does a super job of taking care of this place.

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Petra, 11, crawls into a low tunnel covering to harvest a handful of radishes at Eden Urban Gardens in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

‘Standard suburban kid’ Gorman, the Sharonville farmer, said he didn’t even have a garden as a child.

He grew up in Springdale and was a “standard suburban kid.”

Then in 2012, he switched to a plantbased diet, and he started to get more interested in where his food was coming from. He built one raised garden bed in his front yard, then he built a couple more. Fast forward to today, and Gorman’s entire yard is covered with garden beds. He bought a small strip of empty land next to his house, and he uses two small patches of space at a local farm just up the road in West Chester.

Gorman’s home/farm is right across the street from Sharonville Elementary School, and he loves that young students see him out working. He loves when they stop and ask him questions and he gets to teach them a little bit about gardening.

He builds his beds right up to the edge of his property and lets people pick tomatoes from the sidewalk.

“My whole thing is to inspire people, whether it’s just to grow one tomato plant or to add a raised bed to their landscaping,” he said. “I just want people to get their hands dirty. If I can inspire one person a year, I’m happy.”

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Notice is hereby given that Classic Storage L.L.C., 1692 St, Rt. 28, Goshen, OH, the undersigned, will sell at public sale, the personal property stored with the undersigned: Michael Garrard 129 S Front St. Williamsburg, OH 45176, bin#356 (Furniture, art work, misc); FJW, 6889 Wes Court Goshen, Ohio 45122 bin#313 (Work tables, 4 commercial sewing machines, Fabric spool racks , misc); Lynn Halecomb, 23 Park Ave. Loveland, Ohio 45140 bin#706 (Furniture, shelves, totes, misc); Paula Ober, 306 Oakwood Ln. Goshen 45122 bin#708 (Furniture, antiques, misc); Gary Langford Sr., 60 Barmil. Loveland, Ohio 45140 bin#724 (Furniture, antique desk, totes, boxes, misc); David Jeters 3004 Sheldon Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45239 bin#749 (Furniture, washer, totes, misc); Patricia Walz 1785 St Rt 28 #224 Goshen, Ohio 45122 bin#752 (Ladder, tent, fishing poles tool box, misc); Steve Reynolds 1304 Cross Creek Dr. Loveland, Ohio 45140 bin#415-437 (Tools, 6 step ladders, extension ladder, power tools, misc items); William Scott 888 Glasgow Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45240 bin#616 (Furniture, outdoor furniture, misc); Sherry Harris 1170 Eunita Dr. Milford, OH 45150 bin#112 (Tool box, ladder, lawn mower, furniture, bags, misc); Julie Harris 14 Gateway Dr. Loveland, Ohio 45140 bin#158 (Furniture, totes, misc); Sandy Robinson 1785 St Rt 28 #127 Goshen, Ohio 45122 bin#254 Sewing machine, boxes, totes, misc); Marlena Hendrigsman 1785 St Rt 28 #419 Goshen, OH 45122 bin#153 (Furniture, totes, misc); Shannon Zapf, 4477 Eastwood Dr. Apt. 18114 Batavia, Ohio 45103 bin#234 (Misc household items); Ken Worstell, 1851 Wendy Oak Cr. Melbourne, FL 32935 bin#438 (Furniture, fishing poles, totes, misc.); Tyler Justice 2479 Mason Montgomery Rd. Mason, OH 45040 bin#105 (misc household items): Angela Hundley, 629 Redman Dr. Loveland, OH 45140 bin#804 (Tubs, boxes, misc, tubs of baseball cards): Esther Loveless 309 Oakwood Ln. Goshen, OH 45122 bin#232 (Toys furniture, misc); Your property may be obtained by you for the payment of the balance due plus all other expenses within 14 days of this notice or the same will be sold at public sale on April 1ST 2021 at 9:00 am until finished at 1692 St. Rt. 28, Goshen, OH 45122.

Your last day to obtain your property will be March 30TH, 2021 at noon at: Classic Storage L.L.C. 1692 St. Rt. 28 Goshen, OH 45122-9705 CCJ,Mar17,24’2021#4638926

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COMMUNITY NEWS Ohio River Foundation to offer summer conservation program High school students with an interest in science and conservation won’t want to miss Ohio River Foundation (ORF)’s new Student Conservation Leaders program this summer.

Participants will fi sh, hike, wade, sample, observe and engage in restoration activities in our Ohio River Watershed, developing their abilities in leadership, stewardship and conservation in the process. The program includes lessons about macroinvertebrates, chemistry, fi shing and mussels that ORF employs for its successful River Explorer and Mussels in the Classroom education programs, along with other hands-on ecological explorations. Under the guidance of ORF staff , students will learn what it takes to be an environmental steward and discover their power to lead their school and community towards conservation solutions.

Applicants can choose from two sessions: h June 21-25 at Nisbet Park, 126 Karl Brown Way, Loveland h June 28-July 2 at Avoca Park, 7949 Wooster Pike, Columbia Township Both locations will allow students to use diff erent sections of the National Wild and Scenic Little Miami River for their exploration and learning. Program times are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily.

“We’re excited to launch this unique and immersive summer experience for high school students,” said Evan Banzhaf, the program manager. “Students will build science skills and gain a greater understanding of local and regional conservation issues.”

Participation is open to students who will be entering tenth through 12th grade for the 2021-2022 school year.

Applications must be received online or in the mail by April 15. Applicants will be notifi ed of their acceptance by April 30.

The course fee of $100 (payable upon student acceptance) covers all instructional, travel and activity expenses, as well as an Ohio River Foundation T-shirt.

Lunch and snacks are not included; participants must bring their own food and water each day.

Scholarships are available to students who need fi nancial assistance.

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Applications and additional information are available at www.ohioriverfdn.org.

Ohio River Foundation (ORF) is dedicated to protecting and improving the water quality and ecology of the Ohio River and all waters in its 11-state watershed. ORF works towards these goals through environmental education and conservation activities that serve to inspire environmental stewardship for the benefi t and enjoyment of current and future citizens. Established in 2000, the organization has reached 50,000 students with its freshwater education programs; restored and reconnected more than 200 miles of rivers; removed four dams; planted 6,000 trees; and removed more than 300,000 invasive plants.

Rich Cogen, Ohio River Foundation

Amelia resident obtains Instrument Rating at the University of Cincinnati - Clermont

Nick Keene earned his Instrument Rating on his pilot certifi cate. With his Instrument Rating, Keene is now approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to fl y aircraft solely by reference to instruments.

Keene, a resident of Amelia, OH, is enrolled in the Aviation Technology Program at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College. The laboratory portion of the Program is taught at the Clermont County Airport.

When Keene completes the two-year program through the University of Cincinnati - Clermont College, he will have earned an Associate of Applied Science degree and a Commercial pilot certifi cate.

For more information about professional pilot training in the Aviation Technology Program at the University of Cincinnati - Clermont visit www.ucclermont.edu or call 513-732-5200.

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Crops grow inside a high tunnel greenhouse on the property of Andy Gorman at Cincy Urban Farms in Sharonville, Ohio, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.

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Pandora started her farm in 2016 with a spade, a trowel, a hoe and a 20year-old truck, she said. It’s hard work, physically exhausting, and for as many as there are who support her mission, she also runs into opposition.

There are people who don’t like the way it looks to have a farm in the middle of a residential street, she said, or who think the food should be free, like a community garden, even though the farm is how Pandora supports her family.

More than once, Pandora said, people have called the city to report her for farming her land, thinking she’s breaking the law.

But those troubles pale in comparison to the satisfaction Pandora gets from farming her land and providing fresh food for her family and her Cincinnati neighbors.

And little by little, especially lately, Eden Urban Gardens and other farms like it are growing and gaining support.

Interested in starting your own garden or farm?

Cincinnati's city code allows gardens – less than 20,000 square feet of land – in all zoning districts.

Farms – 20,000 square feet or more of cultivated land – are also allowed with "conditional use approval" according to the code. That approval is designed to address any potential adverse eff ects a farm might have on the immediate neighborhood.

Raising farm animals is subject to diff erent rules governing the number of animals and their various shelters.

It's important to note this code only applies to the city of Cincinnati. If you live elsewhere, check the zoning rules for your specifi c jurisdiction. Urban farmers also have to follow any state/ federal laws.

The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati can be a starting point for new gardeners, with classes and a horticultural library. More information is available online at civicgardencenter.org.

About the farms: Eden Urban Gardens, LLCis a certifi ed organic farm with small plots in Avondale, North Avondale and Pleasant Ridge. The farm grows and sells herbs, shoots, vegetables and fruits.

Eden Urban Gardens sells at local farmers’ markets and also has a subscription service for regular produce deliveries in select Cincinnati neighborhoods. For more information, visit See FARMERS, Page 11B

“At the age of seven, I saw a bird that changed my life forever. Although only a common Northern Cardinal, that bird sparked an interest in me that sent me on a lifelong journey of love for birds and the environment. After high school, I plan on majoring in environmental science and pursuing a career in that fi eld. I have always enjoyed using my art to inspire awareness rather than just to make something pretty and aesthetic, so I decided to combine my two greatest passions of art and ornithology for my Sustained Investigation.

Each one of my pieces highlights a different bird species and environmental issue—whether that be pollution, anthropogenic global warming, habitat loss, etc. Through my art, I hope to call attention to the practical ways in which humanity’s mistreatment of the earth aff ects birds. Global biodiversity is shrinking at an alarming rate as more and more species are lost - and we are running out of time to stop it. It makes me sad to think that some of the bird species that I so enjoy watching could one day be lost forever - never to be seen again.”

– senior Anna Treadway (of Amelia) “A lot of the time, people use song writing, poetry, or essays as an outlet for their emotions. Giving them a chance to just let loose and say what they need to say with no hate or judgement towards them. While most people take a more literal approach, I use art. A lot of the time I have a lot to say, however I just can’t get the words out to say.

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Everyone has that one song that has so much emotion imbedded into it, that it leaves them absolutely jaw-dropped. I want to be able to put emotion after emotion into my pieces, say all I need to, so that it leaves the person viewing my piece speechless. I am not trying to get validation from others with my art, all I want is a source where I can fi nally say what I need to.” – junior A.J. Vibberts (of Loveland) “There is an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to prepare for a gallery show,” shares Hilderbrand.

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preparing descriptions for their pieces, to matting their work and hanging the work – a lot of thought and energy goes into what culminates into an extraordinary event. Their portfolios presented beautifully! I could not be prouder of this group of students!”

Tammy Rosenfeldt, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy

MND partners with Stanley Black & Decker Mount Notre Dame (MND) students are leading the way in STEM education by partnering with Stanley Black & Decker as part of its “For Those Who Make the World” high school engineering program.

Students in Mrs. Mary Beth Rieth’s Foundations in Engineering classes worked with Stanley Black & Decker engineers over a six-week period.

The students were tasked with a variety of engineering challenges including tool designs for cars of the future, aluminum car parts and tools, attracting new tool users, wall mounts for laser levels, designing new torque/ratchet design, addressing packaging, instructions and marketing of tools for future users and “DIYers”, and designing of more durable tape measures.

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Each team had 15 minutes to present their journey and a question and answer session followed with the engineers.

“We were excited to partner with Mount Notre Dame on this project,” noted Jillian Shute, VP of Industrial Automotive Solutions. “The students in Mrs. Rieth’s Foundations in Engineering classes brought solutions and ideas that were equivalent to what we typically see from many college interns. These impressive young women are well on their way to be our future leaders in STEM-related fi elds.”

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56 Runner Sebastian who once held the world record for the mile 57 What you might get from a trailer 59 Sport played at British boarding schools 60 Post production?

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Information provided by Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes

Anderson Township Forestedge Dr: Coldstream Area Development LLC to Christopher's Financial Inc $265,000 Parkside Lake Dr: Coldstream Area Development LLC to Christopher's Financial Inc $235,000 Grand Oaks Dr: Rice Clint E & Kelsey J to Rohan Edward Michael Jr & Katelyn P $690,000 1163 Witt Rd: Moon Janet R to Fawbush Kevin Scott $92,229 1310 Schirmer Ave: Forsha Richard Ii to Huggett Wallace $164,000 1329 Coolidge Ave: Azbill Cynthia D Tr to Cornell Katie $163,000 1349 Rambling Hills Dr: Grever Joseph R & Jayne K to Orme Ryan E & Karoline L $235,000 1411 Grand Oaks Dr: Rice Clint E & Kelsey J to Rohan Edward Michael Jr & Katelyn P $690,000 1418 Beacon Rd: Wagner Joseph to Amster Jonathan & Elizabeth Amster $182,500 1506 Cohasset Dr: Downey Lou Ann Tr to Ward Susan J & Peter J $228,000 1794 Kingsway Ct: Anderson Robin to Adams Maegan N & Danielle R $287,000 1846 Eight Mile Rd: Hare Norman C Tr to Powell Sheree L & James A $130,000 1872 Robinway Dr: Anderson Robin to Adams Maegan N & Danielle R $287,000 1930 Wolfangel Rd: Sheeran Joseph W Iii to 11b Rei Ltd $100,000 2 Cottage Ct: Lawrence Guy E & Marilyn J to Hoodin Joseph Martin $95,000 2174 Eight Mile Rd: Rodriguez Liber Gonzalo to Sph Property Three LLC $248,000 2574 Montchateau Dr: Gray Maura Hoffman & Charlotte L Willoughby to Borejka Karen A & Victor A $361,000 373 Hawkinsridge Ln: Forsthoefel Arlene J Tr & David P Tr to Stipanovich Daniel & Emily Stipanovich $77,500 547 Rollingrock Ln: Franklin Dawn R & Robert to Ehlers Joel & Marcy $600,000

7575 Five Mile Rd: Mmac Ht Ii Mercy Anderson Oh LLC to Five Mile Road Oh Mob Owner LLC $14,450,000 7665 Bowen Ave: Parsons Yoshiko to Arnold Jacob Matthew & Haley Nicole Ryan Arnold $171,000 7779 Asbury Hills Dr: Ward Susan J & Peter J to Uebel Jason J & Emily Sberna $415,000 7939 Lancelot Dr: Dubois Beth Aileen Tr to Class Brian E & Melanie E $364,500 812 Laverty Ln: Shimon Dahan Properties LLC to Schmitz Alissa & Mark $120,000 8582 Holiday Hills Dr: Davis Mary B to Montgomery Brandon C Tr $145,872 891 Laverty Ln: Briedis Lesly F to Bsfr Ii Owner I LLC $200,000 950 Woodlyn Dr: Heckler Jennifer to Hinkle Tracy $142,000

Columbia Township 2783 Losantiridge Ave: Livingston Marcia G & Clifford H to Kurtzman Lawrence $160,000 6930 Grace Ave: Seney Alex to Grace Jacob Aubrey $65,000 7018 Bramble Ave: Nerl Elizabeth Louise to Nerl Eric G $147,000 7244 Mariemont Crescent: Gumbert Fred B & Eileen to Robbins Marisela Ruano $220,000

Columbia Tusculum 3209 Golden Ave: Mccafferty Michael P & Colleen M to Solomon Jennifer & Adam $625,000 3607 Morris Pl: Ward Amanda to Jaeb Brennen Bradley & Karah $140,000 3716 Stevens Pl: Franklin Robert A & Rachel to Null Jacob Daniel & Ellen Christine Wilshire $209,500

East End Walworth Ave: East End Development LLC to Dauner Louis Markham & $234,900 216 Setchell St: Emmich Diane L Tr to Emmich Yvette $5,590 239 Worth St: Hickey Kathie to Metz Joshua $245,000 262 Setchell St: Riverside Lots LLC to Motz Proeprties LLC $40,000

903 Adams Crossing: Weiss Jeffrey S Tr to Pender Richard F & Joan M Kaup $600,000

Loveland 1007 Loveland Ave: Carlson Daniel S & Kimberly A Taylor to Taylor Joel K & Brooklin N $174,000 1301 Main St: Miller Kathleen M to Ike Property Group LLC $85,000 1412 Bellwood Dr: Hall Sharon to Moran Robert W Jr $120,000 222 Cherokee Dr: Fitzpatrick Dorothy L to Wombles Kenneth R & Michelle M $185,000 280 Albright Dr: King David W to Endurance Capital Management LLC $99,000

Mount Washington 1191 Meadowbright Ln: Kraemer Harrison & Laura Kraemer to Bravard Steven A & Rebecca R $245,000 1293 Moonkist Ct: Lee Braden M & Cecelia S to Brinck Courtney & Eric H Jinn $182,500 1434 Antoinette Ave: Pbj Elite LLC to Grob Timothy Carl $119,000 1637 Winchester Ave: Dickerson Daniel & Fay to Ruschman Timothy & Sarah $53,000 2375 Kenlee Dr: Musgrave Andrew J & Ana M to Tarvin Paul D & Marguerite $286,000 2547 Coveyrun Ct: Badgett Timothy L & Sarah J to Baker Maureen & Doug Baker $327,525 6013 Bagdad Dr: Schalk James A & Marilyn L to Davis Constance G & Tatum E Davis $181,000 6130 Benneville St: Work Of Our Hands LLC to Nathan Sexton $215,000 6522 Ambar Ave: Cagle Barbara T Tr & James Tr to Hyson Craig & Tara Clark $97,500 6526 Ambar Ave: Cagle Barbara T Tr & James Tr to Hyson Craig & Tara Clark $97,500

Newtown 3390 Ivy Hills Bv: Thomas Jarrod & Isabelle to Republic Bank & Trust Company $540,000 6951 Olentangy Ln: Andrews Jennifer to Aci Properties LLC $108,000

What will Greater Cincinnati malls become?

Randy Tucker

Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

COVID-19 is just the latest blow for many shopping malls struggling to draw customers to their stores when they can more easily shop online.

The pandemic stunted already fading foot traffi c and sped up the exodus of mall anchors including Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Dillard's, leaving cavernous empty spaces in their wake.

In Springdale, Tri-County Mall will lose its last anchor tenant when Macy's shuts its doors in April, following exits by Sears and Dillard's.

Every major mall in the Cincinnati area has been hit with bankruptcies by smaller tenants too, like J. Crew and Forever 21, so replacing closed stores with new stores may not be the best plan in today's environment, experts say.

As a result, mall owners in Ohio and across the country are coming up with creative ways to fi ll the glut of empty space with tenants they hope will revitalize dying malls and produce steady foot traffi c.

Here are fi ve examples:

Supersized arcades Taking a cue from the behemoth Mall of America in Minnesota, an increasing number of malls have adopted a "go big or go home'' mantra to attract shoppers.

That includes the Mall at Tuttle Crossing in Columbus, which in 2019 opened a supersized arcade with games, rides and other amusement park-like attractions in a space formerly occupied by one of its anchor tenants, Macy's.

The 225,000-square-foot, two-story indoor entertainment center, called Scene75, features an indoor roller coaster, go-kart track and drop-zone ride, as well as a full-service bar and restaurant, according to Scene75 Marketing Director Maggie McCartney.

Scene75 operates four other venues in Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland and Pittsburgh in abandoned bigbox or grocery stores, McCartney said.

But the Columbus site was the company's fi rst foray into an enclosed shopping mall, which has been a resounding success, she said.

"We bring traffi c to the mall, and the mall brings

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traffi c to us,'' she said. "We just threw in the go-karts and drop tower, and now we have a really upscale and exquisite entertainment facility. It's defi nitely an improvement over moving into a big Kmart.''

Indoor golf centers Nationwide, there has been about a 6% increase in the amount of large shopping center space fi lled by tenants in the recreation business over the past fi ve years, according to industry tracker CoStar Group.

And the Southern Park Mall in Boardman Township, Ohio, near Youngstown is yet another mall turning to entertainment and recreation to fi ll empty anchor spots.

Southern Park recently announced it would open an indoor golf center, the Bunker, in a 36,000-squarefoot space formerly occupied by Sears.

Sears announced it was closing at Southern Park in 2018 as part of the nationwide shutdown of more than 70 Sears stores, including stores at Northgate, TriCounty and Florence malls in the Cincinnati area.

The mall's owner, Columbus-based Washington Prime Group, is planning to spend $30 million to redevelop Southern Park, including the addition of a slate of new nontraditional mall tenants.

When the Bunker opens this year, it will feature a dozen golf simulators, Bogey’s Bar and Grill and an outdoor patio overlooking the new DeBartolo Commons entertainment and event venue under construction.

"Washington Prime Group is committed to delivering on what our guests and communities want while continuing to bring energy and dynamism to the overall experience,'' said spokeswoman Kimberly Green.

Auto showrooms Automakers have regularly showcased one or two of the fastest and fl ashiest of their latest models in mall food courts or atriums for decades.

But the concept may be shifting into high gear as some carmakers have opened full-service showrooms and dealerships inside malls.

A couple of years ago, Tesla began selling its electric cars directly to consumers in high-end shopping malls in lieu of free-standing dealerships.

More recently, Ford Motor Co. has been testing a new showroom concept called Smart Labs in shopping malls in Europe, Canada and South America.

You can't buy cars there, but Ford puts its cars in mall atriums and other open areas so "the masses can interact with the brand in casual, dealer-free settings,'' according to the company's website.

Locally, many mall atriums that were once bustling

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with activity are now basically big empty hallways that could easily accommodate satellite showrooms for local auto dealers.

However, many auto industry analysts remain skeptical about the appeal of mall showrooms and auto dealerships in malls that fewer people visit now.

Sports complexes At Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, FieldhouseUSA will replace the former Sears department store location between Macy's and J.C. Penney.

Fieldhouse specializes in sports leagues and off ers year-round play and tournaments in team sports such as basketball, volleyball, pickleball and futsal, which is like miniature soccer played on a hard court.

Fieldhouse, which is geared for both recreational and competitive athletes, also off ers performance training in cheerleading, martial arts, fi tness and other individual sports.

The facilities can be rented out for birthday parties, corporate meetings and other events as well.

The Polaris Fieldhouse will be one of three new mall locations opening this year that could deliver a huge shot in the arm in terms of foot traffi c at the malls.

Fieldhouse facilities average more than 1.6 million visitors annually, according to the Texas-based company.

Grocery stores Grocery stores have anchored strip malls and lifestyle shopping centers for years.

Now some mall operators are beginning to look at the viability of replacing anchor tenants at traditional enclosed shopping malls with groceries.

In 2018, Aldi opened a grocery inside Markland Mall in Kokomo, Indiana. The store opened in a space formerly occupied by Sears, which was demolished in 2017.

Even with the advent of online order and pickup options, grocery stores remain a regular destination for millions of Americans.

More than 90% of adults have continued to buy most of their groceries in physical stores during the pandemic and plan to do so even after the pandemic has waned, according to a recent survey from the International Council of Shopping Centers.

And research by mall operator General Growth Properties found that nearly 50% of shoppers are open to the idea of having a supermarket located in the mall.

Groceries can provide stability for shopping malls by bringing people in on a more consistent and predictable basis, experts say.

Cheviot on Cincinnati’s West Side. The market is currently on its winter schedule, which means it is open the fi rst and third Friday of each month. Lettuce Eat Well is pre-order only, which means buyers put in their order ahead of time via email and pick it up the day of the market. For more information, visit lewfm.org.

Our Harvest Cooperative has two farms, one in College Hill and the other in Morrow, Ohio. It’s a worker-owned cooperative whose mission is to give people access to healthy, local food grown by fairly compensated workers.

Our Harvest Cooperative has a food subscription service, with pickup sites throughout the city plus one in Newport.

For more information, visit ourharvest.coop.

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