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The Loveland community will sponsor a benefit Oct. 26 for Loveland Police Officer Ron Worley, who is fighting two rare forms of lymphoma. In September, 48 people joined Worley’s team during a “Light the Night” walk in downtown Cincinnati, a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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Election opinions
Loveland Herald will accept election-related letters and guest columns until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, for publication Oct. 20. The only election-related letters and columns the Herald will publish Oct. 27 – the final edition before the election – are those responding directly to previously published letters and columns. The deadline for those letters and columns is 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20. For more information, see Viewpoints, A10.
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Get in the Halloween spirit by visiting CincinnatiMoms LikeMe.com and entering the online Halloween Photo Contest. You can enter in three categories: Best Baby/Toddler; Best Kids; Best Adult. Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, and voting will begin at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 18. To enter the contest and for official rules, visit the Contests page on CincinnatiMoms LikeMe.com.
Sweet compromise
It’s a good thing adults worked out a last-minute compromise that allowed candy to be thrown from floats in the Loveland High School Homecoming parade, because hundreds of children showed up with bags to carry home the sweets. SEE LIFE, B1
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Loveland luminaries will be guest bartenders at a benefit Oct. 26 for a Loveland police officer who has been fighting two rare forms of lymphoma for the past three years. Officer Ron Worley, 59, is the only documented case of someone who has both rare forms of this cancer, said his daughter, Melissa May. People who know him say Worley is special for much more positive reasons. Worley has been a part-time Loveland police officer since 1996. He’s worked in road patrol
writing the Explorer manual. Since that time he has put countless hours of his own time into making the program a source of pride for our agency. “More than a facilitator, Ron passes on to (the young people) a sense of duty, responsibility and respect that has become increasingly rare in young adults,” Rahe said. “Our officers are so proud of the program that most of them volunteer to help Ron with training the Explorers on Saturday mornings, giving up valuable family time.” Worley was diagnosed with anaplastic large T cell lymphoma and blastic NK cell lymphoma in
August 2007, May said. May said Worley has had tumors removed from his chin and left bicep and has undergone radiation and chemotherapy. “His treatments are very expensive because much of it is experimental and not covered by insurance,” Rahe said. “He has been flying to New York multiple times each year to receive treatment. It is the only hospital that was willing to take the case.” Carol Hall, operations assistant with the Loveland Police Division, said, “We are all on board to help him win the fight and want to help
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Carroll: Waste contract has solid savings By Jeanne Houck jhouck@communitypress.com
Loveland City Council approved a contract for solidwaste and recycling services with Rumpke Consolidated Companies of Colerain Township through the Southwest Ohio Regional Refuse consortium that Loveland City Manager Tom Carroll says will save Loveland residents about $320,000 over the next three years – with no change in the level of services. Carroll talks about the process that led to the contract, which runs from Nov. 1 through March 1, 2014. Participants have the option to have two, one-year extensions.
What is the history of Loveland’s solid-waste collection contracts? “The city of Loveland has had a contract with Rumpke for solid waste and recycling services since Nov. 1, 2006. The original contract was for a threeyear term, and the city’s first of two one-year extensions expires Oct. 31. The second and final extension to the contract includ-
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and trained officers in the use of protective equipment but probably is best known for heading the department’s Police Explorer proWorley gram for young people interested in a career in law enforcement. “Ron exemplifies what it means to be role model and leader in the Loveland Police Division,” Assistant Police Chief Sean Rahe said. “He built our Explorer program from scratch in 2007 – everything from uniforms and equipment to
ed a 5-percent rate increase. City council has worked consistently over the last four years to minimize any sanitation-rate increases to benefit ratepayers. This has had the effect, however, of reducing the working capital in the Sanitation and Environment Fund. This fact seemed to have ensured the necessity of a rate increase in 2011.” What did Loveland do when faced with the rate increase? “In April, staff advised council of three options regarding sanitation and recycling services: Exercise our fifth and final one-year contract extension, which would necessitate a 70cent increase in our monthly sanitation rates; rebid our services to determine if the price could be reduced or participate in the Center for Local Government’s Southwest Ohio Regional Refuse consortium-bidding process. At the meeting June 22, council directed staff to participate in SWORRE with the understanding that if the consortium bidding was not suc-
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cessful, the city would exercise its final contract extension on Nov. 1 and presumably increase rates in January.” What happened next? “Four communities participated in the SWORRE process. The village of Fairfax, the village of Greenhills and the city of Springdale all joined the city of Loveland in this consortium. Together the four communities have slightly more than 10,000 households, significantly more market share than any one jurisdiction has on its own. Although five companies took out bid specifications, only Rumpke and CSI bid on the consortium with bids opened on Sept. 14.” How will the consortium’s decision to chose Rumpke affect Loveland? “The city currently pays Rumpke $13.30 per month per household for trash and recycling services. The city charges $16.70 per month to the consumer, with the difference supporting the twice-per-year curb-
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side brush collections, leaf collection, historical-landfill closure costs, and other relat- Carroll ed expenditures. Starting on Nov. 1, the city’s Rumpke charge would have risen to $14 per month per household, and presumably the city’s 2011 residential rate would have risen 70 cents to pass along this rate increase to our customer. Rumpke’s base bid price starting Nov. 1 will be $12.25, a savings of $1.05 over today’s pricing and $1.75 savings over the charge the city would have had from Nov. 1 through Oct. 31 of 2011. The $12.25 charge will be held constant through March 1, 2014. This represents a collective savings of $322,700, assuming the $14 per household per month charge had been in effect through March 1, 2014. The actual price probably would have been higher, so these savings are actually understating the true benefit to the city and our ratepayers.”
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