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August 11, 2011
Florence Recorder
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Boone pools see increased attendance By Stephanie Salmons ssalmons@nky.com
PATRICIA A. SCHEYER/CONTRIBUTOR
Visitors to the Union Pool prepare to take a dip on a summer day. The facility is operated by Boone County Parks and Recreation.
With temperatures soaring, some local pools are seeing an increase in visitors. According to Boone County Parks director David Whitehouse, the Union pool had 7,156 visitors as of July 25, compared to last year’s
The Union pool had 7,156 visitors as of July 25, compared to last year’s 5,404. 5,404. Whitehouse attributes this rise to “just the sheer heat itself.” This has been one of the
hotter summers “in a long time,” he said. The Union Pool, operated by the parks department, has a maximum capacity of 150. A few times this summer, they’ve had to close the gates because they’ve hit that number, Whitehouse said. They’ve even seen an
increase in concession sales as well, he said. The R.C. Durr YMCA in Burlington has also noticed an increase in pool visitors this year, executive director Trisha Rayner said. “It’s been up,” she said. “We’ve had a really good string of hot weather (that has) driven people to come cool off in our pool.”
Northern Kentucky father, son among Akron shooting victims ship from Kentucky to help work out the property dispute. They were visiting neighbors Gudrun “Gerdie” Johnson, 64, and her husband Russell, 67, when the shooting occurred, Eshleman said. Police say Hance went next door to the Johnsons, where he shot and killed the couple, Craig Dieter, the Johnson’s 16-year-old granddaughter Autumn Johnson and an unidentified girl from Copley Township. Gilbert Elie, 76, lives across the street and heard gunshots as he got ready for church. In an account that differed slightly from the police version, Elie said he went to the house and found victims in the driveway, near the garage and in a vehicle. A woman – apparently Becky Dieter – came out of the house next door and tried to talk to Elie, but their brief exchange ended abruptly when a man came up behind her and shot her. Elie ran for cover behind a truck. “I figured, maybe I’m next,” Elie told the Associ-
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Beth Dieter, who was unharmed, witnessed the shootings, according to the Rev. Chris Torrey, pastor of Lakeside Presbyterian Church in Lakeside Park, where he said the family has belonged since 2002. “She is in shock,” he said. Hance was described by Robin Hancock, 53, of Akron, as a “quiet and strange” man. Hancock was the Johnsons’ caregiver. She said Hance’s confrontational behavior caused her to leave her job. Beth Dieter is a paraeducator at Burlington Ele-
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Two of the seven people killed by a gunman Sunday morning just west of Akron, Ohio, were residents of Northern Kentucky. Craig Dieter, 51, and his son Scott, 11, of Richwood, were shot to death in Copley Township. “We lost a really good kid and a very well-respected dad in the community,” said Thomas Hummel, principal at Gray Middle School where Scott would have started sixth grade next week. Craig Dieter, according to his Facebook page, was a plant engineer at RockTenn, a consumer packaging company with locations in Cincinnati. He was originally from Copley Township, and a 1984 graduate of the University of Akron with a mechanical engineering degree in military science. Hummel said Craig was a Boy Scout leader for his son’s troop and an assistant coach for the Lego team at New Haven Elementary School, where Scott attended last year.
“I understand Scott took it upon himself to raise the flag at New Haven every morning,” Hummel said. “He was a quality young man who was the victim of a horrible tragedy.” Police in Copley Township held a news conference Monday afternoon at which they said they were unsure of the shooter’s motive in the killings, including the brutal slaying of the child. They said Michael Hance, 51, was the boyfriend of 49-year-old Rebecca “Becky” Dieter, Craig’s sister and Scott’s aunt. Police said Hance had no known criminal record. Neighbors told the Associated Press the violence was the culmination of a dispute over a home that once belonged to Becky and Craig Dieter’s parents. Hance had recently grown angry over neighbors’ comments about the property, neighbor Carol Eshleman said. The carnage on Goodenough Avenue began just before 11 a.m. Sunday. Craig and his wife, Beth, had driven to Copley Town-
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