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Fort Thomas resident Misty Lindle, left, shows off her daughter Shelby Simmons’ dog Tini, who won the best costume contest at the second annual Dog Show at the Fort Thomas branch of the Campbell County Public Library Sunday, June 6. Barry Margulis (below, left) and his dog Calahan, Adult Services Librarian Ryan Stacy, Cillay Peter and her dog Silver and event emcee Marsie Hall Newbold stand in front of the crowd during the best looking competition at the dog show.
Votes are still being cast in Ohio and Kentucky for the 2010 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year and there’s not much time to add yours. Go online to www.nky. com/preps and find the yellow and green Community Recorder Sportsman of the Year icon on the right-hand side of the page. Find your ballot by newspaper and vote as often as you like through midnight Thursday, June 10. On the ballot for the Sportsman of the Year: Ricky Buckler, Bellevue; Cody Collins, Newport; Austin Collinsworth, Highlands; DeMarkco Foster, Newport; Ryan Hahn, Highlands; Grant Pangallo, Newport Central Catholic; Jacob Rieger, Bishop Brossart; Robbie Scharold, Campbell County Sportswoman of the Year candidates are: Megan Arnzen, Bellevue; C.C. Centers, Dayton; Allison Dilts, Dayton; Anne Marie Dumaine, Campbell County; Lindsay Griffith, Bishop Brossart; Natalie Penrod, Campbell County; Sammy Powell, Dayton; Casey Reinhardt, Campbell County; Courtney Sandfoss, Newport Central Catholic.
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Students’ note cards a ‘towering’ success By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com The stone tower in Tower Park is starting to look better these days, thanks in part to the firstgraders at Moyer Elementary School. When first-grade teacher Tracey Malone read that the tower needed repairs, she thought this need would make a good service learning project for her students. In October, the school’s 96 first-graders began the project, which included visiting the tower, drawing a picture of it, and selling note cards featuring some of the drawings. “All the students took part in this project in some way,” said teacher Mary Kinsella, who
worked with Malone and teachers Becky Brady and Amber McDowell on the project. “We thought it was important for the students to be able to give back to the community through something they could see and feel connected to.” Kinsella said the note cards were sold at various school and city events, raising $500 toward the tower repairs. The group presented the money to city council at a meeting Monday, June 7. “These students have worked so hard,” Mayor Mary Brown said at the meeting. “This is a wonderful way to be part of the city, and we’re delighted they’re here.” The repairs of the tower are currently under way.
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From left: Renaissance Manager Debbie Buckley, Moyer Elementary first graders Lin DeGraaf, Jeanne DeGraaf and Jennifer Harrah, teacher Becky Brady, teacher Mary Kinsella and Mayor Mary Brown stand in front of city council as the Moyer representatives present the Mayor with a check for $500 to help pay to fix the tower in Tower Park.
Church hosts student volunteer groups By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
Aneurysm survivors form support group
After surviving a brain aneurysm hemorrhage in 2000, Cold Spring resident Sandy Ross had to adjust to what she calls a “new normal” in her life with few people to guide her through that process. In 2002 Ross was one of the founding members of the TriState Brain Aneurysm Support Group Inc. Ross is now, along with three other Campbell County residents, a member of the group’s steering committee. Other committee members include Fort Thomas residents and survivors Linda Reller and Bob White, and Laura Sauerbeck, the group’s facilitator and a nurse and brain aneurysm researcher at University Hospital in Cincinnati. NEWS, A3
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In the next two months, more than 550 high school students and chaperones will call Fort Thomas’s First Presbyterian Church home. The groups are made up of volunteers with Youthworks, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization. While each group spends a week living at the church, they
will be traveling around the Cincinnati area working with various charities. “It’s a huge blessing to have a church that comes on board and supports us and lets us take over a huge part of their church for the summer,” said Melissa Bonetti, midstates area director for Youthworks. The church’s pastor Terry Webster said he is happy to host the group. “We like being able to offer our
Each week, about 72 volunteers will be staying in the various rooms at the church and using the kitchen facilities. facility to them and having the opportunity to participate in their mission,” Webster said. “They do a great job, and I’m really impressed with their work,”
he said. Each week, about 72 volunteers will be staying in the various rooms at the church and using the kitchen facilities. The groups will be working with many different organizations during their time in the area, including the Boys and Girls Club of Cincinnati. This is the fourth year Youthworks has come to the Cincinnati area, but the first year staying at First Presbyterian Church.
Little change found in partial recount By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
A partial hand recount of some of the votes cast in the May 18 primary election was completed Tuesday, June 8 at the county administration building in Newport with almost no change in the results. Kevin Sell, a candidate for Campbell County Judge-executive, had filed and was granted by a judge a request for a hand recount after losing by 169 votes to incumbent Judge-executive Steve Pendery in the Republican primary. In the eight precincts recount-
ed, the vote totals remained exactly the same in seven of the precincts. In the eighth and final precinct counted, Sun Valley south of Alexandria, Sell picked up a vote, increasing his vote total from 197 to 198 and trimming Pendery’s total lead to 168 votes. Campbell Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward approved the partial recount agreement, which had been agreed upon by Sell and the county’s Board of Elections. The partial recount lasted from about 9:30 a.m. until almost noon with six workers from the Campbell County Clerk’s office counting votes.
Ken Moellman Sr., Sell’s representative at the recount, said the eight precincts examined were the ones Sell was concerned with. Moellman said after speaking with Sell on the phone, he thought the issue of the recount was now settled and a full recount will not be pursued. Sell, who could not immediately be reached after the recount has the option of withdrawing the petition or pursuing a full recount. The recount found that the eScan machines at the heart of Sell’s request for the recount read all 82 of the “X” marks and check marks, about 7.3 percent
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of the 1,299 votes cast in eight precincts recounted. “It proves that the machines will pick up the ‘Xs,’” said Campbell County Clerk Jack Snodgrass. Voters were instructed at the top of the ballot and also on the front of the machines to shade in the box next to a candidates’ name completely. There had been unverified allegations in Sell’s recount request that some volunteer poll workers at the precincts had not properly instructed voters, Snodgrass said. “We’re going over our training process with the poll workers,” Snodgrass said.