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Building a city
Volume 83 Number 3 © 2010 The Community Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Seton students use faith to show a rebuilt By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Near perfect
The Seton High School bowling team is nearly perfect on the season. Five seniors are leading the team on the lanes. – FULL STORY, A6
Team definition
The Lady Scots are at fighting for the top spot of the Greater Miami Conference basketball with the GMC’s leading scorer. They have a long home-game stretch where they will find out if they have a defining moment. – FULL STORY, A6
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A group of sophomores at Seton High School are learning the concept of how faith can rebuild a people from the inside out. Just as Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, students in Eric Green’s Hebrew scriptures class are hoping to inspire a community by feeding it. Students recently spent a few days using canned goods they collected to create a scale model of Jerusalem during the time of Nehemiah’s restoration. Green said the “Can-struct” scale model project has the potential to be both enjoyable and educational for the students, as they conducted research to learn about Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the ancient city and learned a lesson in giving back to the community. He said the more than 520 canned goods the students brought in to construct the scale model are being donated to the food pantries operated at local parishes in Price Hill. “My goal with this project is to pull ourselves stronger together as a school, and at the same time bring us closer together with the larger community we are serving here in Price Hill,” Green said. Sophomore Kaitlyn Cappel, of Delhi Township, said she thought the project was a neat experience. “I think the fact that it’s hands on will help us learn more about how the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed,” she said. “It’s a lesson of how, even in times of despair, if you have faith pretty much anything can happen.” Shelby Wauligman, a sophomore from Bridgetown, said she enjoyed researching how the walls of Jerusalem were destroyed and what Nehemiah did to help rebuild the city. She said constructing the scale model provided a great visual, and the canned goods the students used to build the model represented how they were helping to strengthen their own community.
KURT BACKSCHEIDER/STAFF
Seton High School sophomores Olivia Carroll, left, Taylor Heim, Emily McDonald, Brooke Moorhead and Leanne Nieberding use canned goods to build a scale model of the city of Jerusalem for their Hebrew scriptures class.
“My goal with this project is to pull ourselves stronger together as a school, and at the same time bring us closer together with the larger community we are serving here in Price Hill.”
Eric Green Seton High School teacher of Hebrew scriptures class
“It feels good knowing we can give the food away to other people,” she said. Cappel added, “That’s the best part of the project.” Green said the “Can-struct” model of Jerusalem would be displayed in the school’s library for a few days after students finished the project, and then he and a group of students were going to deliver the canned goods to the local parish food pantries.
KURT BACKSCHEIDER/STAFF
Sophomores in Eric Green’s Hebrew scriptures class at Seton High School construct a scale model of Jerusalem with canned goods for a class project. After being displayed in the school library for a few days, all the canned goods used in the project will be donated to local food pantries.
Selling of census begins in Cincinnati Gannett News Service When the U.S. Census Bureau drew up a $340 million campaign to remind, implore and nag Americans to fill out their census forms, Cincinnati was first on the map. The national public awareness campaign launched last week with two events in Cincinnati, inaugural stops on a regional road tour designed to bring top-of-mind awareness of the 2010 count to
every household in the country. As part of that effort, the census bureau christened “Statistics,” a van and trailer combo designed to take its promotion to the people. • See the Census questions • How to apply for a Census job If that’s not exciting enough, the census bureau used the allure of free stuff, job testing – and even the possibility of a national television appearance – to lure people to
Here are some of the questions The U.S. Census Bureau touts a new, 10-question form that officials say should take the average household 10 minutes to complete. But the 10 questions are just for the first person, with seven more questions for each additional person. Up to 12 people can be included on one form. The instructions require respondents to count all people, including babies, who live and sleep in the household most of the time. Respondents should not count people living away at college, in the armed forces, in jail or prison, or in a nursing home. But respondents should include anyone without another permanent place to stay. 1. How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or
mobile home on April 1, 2010? 2. Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in Question 1? 3. Is this house, apartment or mobile home 4. What is your telephone number? 5. What is Person 1’s name? 6. What is Person 1’s sex? 7. What is Person 1’s age and what is Person 1’s date of birth? 8. Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin? 9. What is Person 1’s race? 10. Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else? 11. How is this person related to Person 1?
Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center. Census organizers promised that people who showed up to the road tour’s inaugural visit – in 22 degree weather at 7 a.m. after a holiday weekend – might get on NBC’s “Today” show. That didn’t materialize. Some visitors were drawn to the events by free stuff – pens, Tshirts, refrigerator magnets, all emblazoned with the date “April 1, 2010.” The city of Cincinnati allocated $98,730 in last year’s budget just on materials to promote the census. Cincinnati was one of 12 cities around the country to launch what the Census Bureau calls its “Portrait of America Road Tour.” It was the only city that doesn’t host a regional census office – recognition, census officials said, of the work that Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory has done in raising awareness of the census. Road tour visitors hear how important it is to be counted in the 10-year census, which determines representation in Congress and state legislatures and helps allocate federal money. But the main draw on the road tour is jobs.
Tour stops Jan. 16 Morning – Eastgate Mall, 4601 Eastgate Blvd. Afternoon – Forest Park Kroger, 1212 W. Kemper Road. Jan. 18 Cincinnati Music Hall for Martin Luther King Day commemoration. April The national census vehicle, which began its trip from New York City on Monday, is tentatively scheduled to come to Cincinnati April 6 or 7. The Cincinnati office has hired about 500 census takers, most of whom will work in the field to follow up on the mailed surveys. But it needs another 500 or so. About 50 people took the test for enumerator jobs Jan. 4 Downtown, and about 90 more applied and took the test six hours later at Cincinnati State. Naila Young, a 32-year-old West Price Hill resident studying surgical technology at Cincinnati State, took the test. “I’m a people person. I want to be out in the field, knocking on doors, talking to people,” she said. Starting pay for census-takers in Cincinnati is $16 an hour.