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Girl, horse are quite a team Indian Hill’s Olivia Weaver, 16, is nationally ranked By Rob Dowdy
For 10 years the John L. Magro Foundation has offered local residents a unique gathering that funds a worthy cause. The foundation’s autumn celebration, in its 11th year, returns Sunday, Nov. 7. The event, which once again will be conducted at Peterloon Estates, 8605 Hopewell Road, will feature performances by local music students and a student art exhibit. Students from the University of Cincinnati’s CollegeConservatory of Music will be performing as students from the school’s department of art, architecture and planning will have various works on display. SEE STORY, A3
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Positive precedent
The student government at Indian Hill High School hopes to start a positive precedent. This school year it created a contract emphasizing a “commitment to excellence.” The contract, which was signed by more than 60 students who are part of student government, is similar to an athletic code of conduct. The idea, though, was generated by the students themselves. SEE STORY, A4
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Olivia Weaver, and Indian Hill resident, is a nationally ranked horse rider who competes in several tournaments each month. Inset, Weaver practices jumping with her horse “Yes Indeed” in preparation for a competition.
Olivia Weaver is hoping years of hard work continue to pay off as she prepares for yet another horse show. Weaver, 16, has been riding horses since she was a child, and for the second time in as many years she’s ranked in the national top 10 among riders. The Indian Hill resident spends six days each week training at Branch Hill Farm in Loveland. “I’ve just gotten better since I got here,” she said. Weaver is currently training for the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, which only allows the country’s top 20 riders to participate. From there, she’ll be competing in the Syracuse Invitational, which is for the top eight riders in the country. “It’s an honor to get to go to those and compete with the very top riders,” said Patty Rogers, trainer at Branch Hill Farm. Weaver said she really came into her own as a rider once she began riding “Yes Indeed,” the horse she’s ridden for the past three years. Rogers said the horse had competed prior to Weaver, and helped the teen advance farther in the rankings. “He sort of put her in contention,” Rogers said. Weaver said despite a hectic schedule that places her in two to three events each month, she maintains a 3.7 grade point average. She said she hopes to ride horses in college after graduation.
Bench honors former Indian Hill classmate By Forrest Sellers fsellers@communitypress.com
Indian Hill alumni have found a unique way to honor a former classmate. Alumni from the class of 1979 have prepared and donated a bench in memory of Mark Groene, who died several years ago. The bench was designed by former classmate Tim Englert, a devel- Klinedinst opment specialist for the Palisades Interstate Park Commission in New York. Englert has made several of the benches for New York parks, but this is the first time he has created one which will be displayed in the Tristate. The bench will be placed near the football field at Indian Hill High School.
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A red cedar bench prepared and donated by Indian Hill alumni from the class of 1979 will honor former classmate Mark Groene, who died several years ago. The bench will be located in front of the stadium at Indian Hill High School. Groene had played on the school’s football team. Lori Klinedinst, executive director of the Indian Hill Public Schools Foundation, said alumni
came up with the idea during a 30th class reunion last year. Englert and other alumni created the bench from a red cedar taken from Groene’s and a neigh-
bor’s yard. “It was a labor of love,” said Klinedinst, who is a resident of Indian Hill. The Indian Hill Foundation helped coordinate the preparation of the bench. “It really represents a community effort to recognize a classmate who was very well thought of,” said Superintendent Jane Knudson during last Sharp night’s Board of Education meeting. Board President Tim Sharp complimented the work of the Foundation and the alumni. “(The bench) will be a beautiful addition to the grounds,” he said. The bench is 7 feet long and 15 inches in diameter. The bench was dedicated prior to the start of the Oct. 15 football game.
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