LOVELAND HERALD
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
Fire training tower, sidewalks coming to Loveland mlee1@communitypress.com
The Loveland-Symmes Fire Department has broken ground on its new fire training tower. The tower will be at 127 E. Loveland Ave. and be a shared training facility for the Northeast Fire Collaborative, which includes the LovelandSymmes, Sharonville, Blue Ash and Mason fire departments. “The Northeast Fire Collaborative has been in existence between these communities for over eight years and has served as the catalyst to improved service and reduced cost for all communities involved,” LSFD Chief Otto Huber said, in a news release from the department. The tower will cost $600,000 and will be shared by the communities that will pay a subscription to use the tower. A portion of East Loveland Avenue will be getting sidewalks as part of the fire tower construction. “We wanted to get the sidewalks done in a timely manner. As part of this project we are going to add some lighting around that sidewalk, which will open up some opportunities,” Loveland City Manager
Dave Kennedy said. The sidewalk construction will cost about $22,000 and was budgeted with the construction of the fire training tower. The project will continue the sidewalk that ends at about 209 E. Loveland Ave. about 440 feet east. The parking in that area has been deemed long-term parking by the Downtown Parking Advisory Committee and will be marked as such with the upcoming wayfinding project. Members of the parking committee talked about how parking could be utilized, specifically for the Loveland Stage Company, but the lack of sidewalks and lighting was an issue. “One of the advantages I saw was it will allow the Natural Preserve, which now has the new bridge over it, to be more accessible. We are just trying to connect that park and make the parking more accessible by adding lighting and events and places like Loveland Stage would be able to benefit from this parking,” Kennedy said. Want to know more about what is happening in Loveland? Follow Marika Lee on Twitter: @ReporterMarika
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Members of the Loveland-Symmes Fire Department break ground on the fire training tower in Loveland.
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Loveland robotics team growing Marika Lee
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he Loveland High School robotics program is growing and looking for a permanent space. “In the past four years, Loveland High School robotics has stayed consistent at about 10 people, but this year we had two spots open and we had 40 people apply,” team member Haley Dues said. The program now has two teams, Team 0540, which is in its fifth year of competing, and Team 10464, the new team. Each has about 20 members. “Both teams have done rather well. Both teams went to state this past year,” Dues said during the teams’ presentation to the Loveland Board of Education. The teams design, build and program robots to compete in autonomous and driver-controlled periods of play. The highest level at which Loveland teams can compete is state, but the members said they would like to be able to advance to the Super Regional competition or the World Championship. About 20 students have already expressed interest in
Members of the Loveland Robotics Team work on one of their robots.
joining the teams next year and with the increased numbers the teams are need of a larger space. “We have temporary areas
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