Northeast Suburban Life 05/01/19

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Northeast

SUBURBAN LIFE Your Community Press newspaper serving Blue Ash, Montgomery, Sycamore Township and other Northeast Cincinnati neighborhoods

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 ❚ BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS ❚ PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK

Bombings leave local executive from Sri Lanka with ‘huge sadness’ Mark Curnutte Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Children participating in a Microsoft Store Harry Potter Creative Coding Workshop. MICROSOFT/PROVIDED

Microsoft off ering free summer day camps at Kenwood Sheila Vilvens Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Microsoft Stores are adding a little magic to the free lineup of summer camps for kids. The magical world of Harry Potter comes to life in the new Harry Potter Creative Coding Workshop and Camp. Also new to the Microsoft Store camps in 2019 are: Design and Create Your Own Video Games with MakeCode Arcade” (ages 8+ and ages 13+), and “Gaming Summer Camp: Grow Your Passion for Gaming and Learn Positive Life Skills” (ages 8+). The camps combine the best of two worlds, technology and imagination. Children can have fun while gaining technical and life skills needed for gaming, coding and beyond, according to a release from Microsoft Stores. This year’s Microsoft Store Summer Camps are: ❚ Gaming Summer Camp: Grow Your Passion for Gaming and Learn Positive Life Skills (Ages 8+ and Ages 13+) ❚ Design and Create Your Own Video Games with MakeCode Arcade (Ages 8+) ❚ Harry Potter Creative Coding Workshop (Ages 6+) ❚ Harry Potter Creative Coding Camp (Ages 8+) ❚ Code a Talking Robot with OhBot (Ages 8+) ❚ Make Hustle Happen, Start Your Own Business or Champion a Cause (Ages 13+) ❚ Creating Connections with Dear Evan Hansen (Ages 13+) Details about each camp can be found on the Microsoft Store website. The camps will be off ered May through August at various Microsoft Store locations including the one at Kenwood Towne Centre. Camp registration can be done online at the Kenwood Towne Centre's Microsoft Store website or in person.

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Children participating in a Microsoft Store camp for Design and Create Your Own Video Games with MakeCode Arcade. MICHAEL NAKAMURA/PROVIDED

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Arlene de Silva awoke Sunday, April 21 to a text message from an international delivery company. We are unable to deliver your packages due to the situation in Sri Lanka. What situation? she thought. She’d sent Easter gifts to family members and friends in her native Sri Lanka. De Silva went to her news feed to read preliminary reports that a series of bombs had exploded in her hometown of Colombo, killing and De Silva injuring several hundred, including at St. Anthony’s Shrine, where her mother took her as a child. “I had just spoken to my brother, 24 hours earlier,” said de Silva, 64, of Mount Lookout. “I know my family members are safe, but I do not know about my friends.” On April 23, the Islamic State on claimed responsibility for a series of bombings at churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 321 and injured 500. The group made the claim through its Amaq News Agency, USA TODAY reported. “It is a huge sadness because this is a country that has known peace for the past 10 years, after a 30-year civil war,” said de Silva, who completed college study in accounting and music in Sri Lanka and came to the United States and Cincinnati in 1978 for an extended visit with her sister, who studied at the time at Xavier University. “It was a whole diff erent world here, and I liked the look and feel of it,” she said. Yet Sri Lanka was never far from her mind and heart. She visits at least once a year and attended Mass at St. Anthony’s during the Christmas season in 2018. “It is a beautiful place of great meaning,” de Silva said of St. Anthony’s. “We belonged to another parish growing up, but my mother had a devotion to Mary, so she would drag us to St. Anthony’s all the time.” Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka, and its diversity – the land was ruled in succession by the Portuguese, Dutch and British – is refl ected in St. Anthony’s. The shrine, built over 22 years before opening in 1828, is considered a holy place by not only Catholics. “Buddhists and Hindus recognize it, as well,” See SRI LANKA, Page 2A

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