BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT B6
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Chamber launches advocacy website
By Jeanne Houck
jhouck@communitypress.com
Volume 93 Number 22 © 2011 The Community Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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You can find these stories on our Web site this week: • A giant plastic Christmas candy cane was among the garbage pulled from the Scenic Little Miami River during a river clean up Sunday, July 10. Rivers Unlimited teamed up with Little Miami Inc and Loveland Canoe & Kayak locally to join in the weekend river clean up. Cincinnati.com/Loveland • As construction on the park at the Rozzi property continues, a resident in an adjacent neighborhood wants more accessibility to the park for township residents. Cincinnati.com/ SymmesTownship
B-cause, just B-cause
The Cincinnati Horticultural Society hosted a “Birds, Butterflies and Bees” class through the Fresh Air School at the Meade House in Symmes Township June 29. SEE LIFE, B1
Passing muster
Veterans, their families and members of the community gathered at Miami Meadows Park Saturday, July 2, at the Spirit of ‘76 Memorial Garden & Arboretum. SEE STORY, PHOTOS, A4
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LOVELAND – The Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce has launched a business advocacy website called “Loveland Business Votes.” “Loveland Business Votes is a one-stop website with links to contact your local, state and federal government officials, learn about legislative issues and candidates running for office, register to vote and to discover more of what you need to make an informed vote,” said Jodi Inabnitt, who became president of the chamber last November. “Its purpose is to serve as a resource of election and legislative information of importance to the Loveland community.” Loveland Business Votes includes sections about federal issues such as health care and trade expansion and about state and local issues, including ways to track state bills and check state legislators’ voting records. K.J. Lawler of Loveland, manager of Loveland Bike Rental on Railroad Avenue, thinks it’s a good idea. “I think it’s really important to know what’s going on around you that directly impacts business,” Lawler said. Greater Cincinnati has a historic tie to business advocacy. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was established in 1912 after William Howard Taft of Cincinnati, then president of the United States, told Congress that
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The Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce has launched a business advocacy website called Loveland Business Votes with information about legislative issues and links to contact local, state and federal government officials. K.J. Lawler, manager of Loveland Bike Rental, thinks it’s a good idea. there needed to be a national group to represent the interests of businesses throughout the country. Business advocacy was also a priority with Paulette Leeper, whom Inabnitt succeeded as president of the Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce. Leeper – who resigned from the
chamber and was later named to fill an empty seat on Loveland City Council in February – won a scholarship to attend the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Regional Government Affairs Conference in 2009 after writing a resolution opposing federal climate-change legislation she felt was anti-business.
“I think it’s really important to know what’s going on around you that directly impacts business.”
K.J. Lawler Loveland Bike Rental manager
No class system at mega reunion
Loveland event welcomes all alumni, regardless of school, year By Jeanne Houck jhouck@communitypress.com
LOVELAND – The Loveland Schools Foundation will sponsor its first Loveland Schools Mega Reunion Friday, Sept. 30, through Sunday, Oct. 2. “Most of us have fond memories of where we grew up and our roots,” said Linda Slusher, executive director of the foundation, a non-profit group established in 2000 to support the Loveland City Schools’ academic, cultural and capital-improvement projects. “It’s fun to return, if only for a weekend.” Here, Slusher discusses the Loveland Schools Mega Reunion.
What is the Loveland Schools Mega Reunion? “Anyone who has ever attended Loveland City Schools on any level, elementary school through high school, is invited
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Anyone who wants to attend the Loveland Schools Mega Reunion must pre-register and pay in advance. No walk-ins will be accepted during the reunion, to be held Friday, Sept. 30, through Sunday, Oct. 2. A registration form and an information pamphlet are posted on the Loveland Schools Foundation website: www.lhstigersalum.com. To receive registration forms and pamphlets in the mail, email the foundation at LSF@lovelandschools.org or call (513) 774-6228.
to return for this event to reconnect and reminisce with former classmates, old friends and teachers. A weekend of events is planned by the Mega Reunion committee for returning alumni and each attendee can elect to attend all events or select one or two.”
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The Loveland Schools Foundation will sponsor its first Loveland Schools Mega Reunion Friday, Sept. 30, through Sunday, Oct. 2. Linda Slusher, executive director of the foundation, is encouraging people to register as soon as possible. What will people do at the reunion and what will it cost? “The reunion kicks off with an informal reception in the Loveland High School cafeteria at 6 p.m. (Friday,) Sept. 30. Football tickets will be on sale for the home game at 7:30 p.m.
Cost for the reception is $2 per person and $6 per person for the football ticket. “(The Oct. 1) dinner-dance will be held at the Oasis (Golf Club and) Conference Center on Loveland-Miamiville Road (in
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