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The Miami Township Fire Department showed off a new training facility built in part from a $7,500 grant from the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. The training facility at the Live Oaks Career Center in Miami Township is a wooden maze built into a trailer. SEE LIFE, B1
Off they go
Loveland kids are helping the Young Performers of Mason celebrate five years of Acting Up in the production of “The Wizard of Oz” Sept. 2426. Ben Hoffman, a Loveland High School senior, leads the way as the Tin Man. The 18year-old Hoffman was in Acting Up’s production of “Mulan” last spring. He’s enjoying bringing a hint of sarcasm in his role as the Tin Man. SEE STORY, A2
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AP-plause for Loveland High
Courses earn school recognition By Jeanne Houck jhouck@communitypress.com
When Newsweek recently named Loveland High School one of “America’s Best High Schools” for 2010, it couldn’t have come as a huge surprise to the students and teachers involved. After all, Newsweek’s honor is based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement, college-level courses and 61 of the 264 Loveland High School students who took AP exams last spring earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the tests. Nonetheless, Loveland and other schools tapped by Newsweek are in an exclusive fraternity. The news magazine said just over 1,600 schools – only 6 percent of all the public schools in the United States – made its list. “The Newsweek award is not only a tribute to our high school staff and teachers, but to all our staff and teachers from kindergarten to elementary to middle school who have built the foundation that has given our students the ability to grow and to excel,” Superintendent John Marschhausen said. “This award showcases the academic rigor seen throughout all of our schools and we celebrate it as a district.” Loveland High School offers college level AP classes in biology, calculus, probability and statistics, chemistry, physics, English, American history, government, French, Spanish and art.
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Science teacher Jamie Allison, director of the biotechnology program at Loveland High School, helps students (from left, in white coats) Nate Fackler of Loveland, Mitko Karshovski of Loveland and Austin Dewees of Symmes Township – all juniors – test solutions.
What makes it one of the best?
A look at the noteworthy programs and people at Loveland High School. See Schools, A5 After completing AP courses, students receive high school credit – with grades weighted an additional point because of the work involved – and take a separate AP exam that determines whether they will also earn college credit and advanced placement in college. “The staff of Loveland High School is very pleased to have the rigor of its AP courses and the number of students who take those courses validated through the national recognition that Newsweek has brought us,” Love-
land High School Principal Molly Moorhead said. “Additionally, we appreciate the support that our parents and the community provides to us. We feel that our AP courses are just one of the many outstanding programs offered to our students.” The state has rated Loveland High School “Excellent with Distinction.” The district has a graduation rate of 96.5 percent. The Class of 2010’s 358 graduates earned a total of $12 million in scholarship offers.
Loveland High School science teacher Jamie Allison was the 2009 3C Consortium Teacher of the Year for the Greater Cincinnati area. The consortium is made up of the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University. Allison began a two-year biotechnology program, in which students can earn college credit, at Loveland High School in 2005. Last school year his students won first place in the biotechnology category and first place in the biochemistry category at the Greater Cincinnati Bioscience Capstone Competition. Loveland’s biotechnology program has won Best Practices distinction at both the state and national level and programs throughout Ohio are modeling their biotechnology programs after Loveland’s. Total scholarship money and awards received by Loveland biotechnology students in the class of 2010 totaled over $235,000. Allison also is Bioscience Pathway Manager for the Ohio College Tech Prep Greater Cincinnati Consortium, where he helps plan biotechnology programs across the state.
Rozzi construction on hold until next year By Amanda Hopkins ahopkins@communitypress.com
Construction on the Rozzi property park will have to wait another few months. The Symmes Township Board of Trustees voted to reject all of the bids for the current project on Lebanon Road and rebid the project at the end of the year. The start of construction was delayed both by permits and the location of some of the construction on wetlands on the Rozzi property. Township Administrator Gerald Beckman said the township officials have always been aware of the presence of wetlands, but did not know that playground equipment would be on part of a Category 2 wetland until just a few months ago. The plans have since been changed to move some playground equipment off of the wetlands, but township Administrator
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“You’ve lost ability to have make up time. The schedule is too tight.”
John Borchers Symmes Township fiscal officer
Gerald Beckman and Fiscal Officer John Borchers said that construction permits are still several weeks away from coming in. If the trustees had voted to start the project in December, the construction would have been on an accelerated schedule and it would increase the cost of the project by more than $246,000. “You’ve lost ability to have make up time,” Borchers said. “The schedule is too tight.” The trustees also approved a resolution to purchase threetenths of an acre of wetlands in Pike County, Ohio, at their Sept. 7 meeting. Part of the construction of the
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All that remains on the Rozzi property on Lebanon Road as of Sept. 8 is one building and several cones and orange fences. Construction has been delayed on the planned park and will not start until next year. park is planned on one of the Category 1 wetlands on the property. The township is required to buy two times the amount of wetlands in another area of the state. Beckman said that area of land is designated as a wetland and can “never be anything but wetlands.” Beckman said buying wetlands for the Category 2 required the
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space to be in Hamilton County, but Beckman said there was none available. The construction will be rebid in December of this year or in January. “We want to develop it right,” Trustee Jodie Leis said. “If it puts us behind six months, that’s OK.”
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