St. Martin students had green eggs and hamin honor of Dr. Seuss.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS
Seton gears up for annual auction fundraiser By Kurt Backscheider
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It’s crunch time for Christine Kemper. Months of preparation and directing countless hours put forth by hardworking volunteers will soon pay off. Seton High School’s premier fundraising event is just days away – Saturday, March 31. “It’s an incredible amount of work, but it’s fun and it’s well worth it,” said Kemper, who is serving her first year as the coordinator of the school’s Setonsation event. The Delhi Township resident and Seton alumna is the school’s major events coordinator, and she’s been working on Setonsation 2012 since last summer. She said the planning process pretty much starts the first day of school – organizing gift gathering parties, seeking sponsors, contacting caterers and ordering decorations. “Setonsation is an annual dinner auction we have to benefit the young ladies at Seton High School,” she said. “One hundred percent of the proceeds go directly toward supporting our students.” Entering its 16th year, Kemper said the event is one of the school’s largest fundraisers. Roughly 325 guests typically attend the gala and about 100 volun-
Guests mingled and checked out the auction items before dinner at last year's Setonsation fundraiser. THANKS TO ERIN GRADY
teers step up to make sure the evening is successful, she said. Each year volunteers transform Seton’s gymnasium and commons area into an elegant venue decorated to align with a specific theme. Last year’s theme centered around Broadway shows. This year’s theme, “An Emerald Evening: There’s no place like Seton,” is inspired by “The Wizard of Oz.” “It’s an exciting evening,”
Kemper said. “It really is a wonderful scene.” Some of the auction items donors have contributed for the fundraiser this year include highend jewelry, Seton spirit wear, box seats to the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals tickets, an Elder-St. Xavier tailgate party and a backyard movie night, she said. There are also several gift baskets on which to bid and the always popular Seton quilts signed
by this year’s senior class, she said. Setonsation 2012 is set for Saturday, March 31. Festivities begin with a Mass in the Seton Performance Hall at 4:45 p.m., followed by cocktails and a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. Dinner starts at 7 p.m. and the live auction begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are still available. Visit www.setoncincinnati.org and click on the “Setonsation 2012.”
Waldvogel Viaduct project moving along By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
Progress is being made on the Waldvogel Viaduct replacement project, but motorists can expect lane closures and possible traffic delays for quite some time. “It’s moving along,” said Richard Szekeresh, Cincinnati’s principal structural engineer. “But it’s going to be a long project.” The 70-plus-year-old Waldvogel Viaduct, which Szekeresh said carries 50,000 vehicles a day as one of the main links between the West Side and downtown, is being replaced. The conditions on the deteriorating structure rank it as one of the worst bridges in Southwest Ohio. Construction to replace the viaduct began last August. The most recent work has involved installing the support pillars for new bridges connecting Elberon and Warsaw avenues to the Sixth Street Expressway. Improvements to the Sixth Street Expressway will also be
Some of the support pillars for new bridges connecting Elberon and Warsaw avenues to the Sixth Street Expressway are in place as the Waldvogel Viaduct improvement project takes shape. The existing viaduct will eventually be removed completely. KURT BACKSCHEIDER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS
completed as part of the $54.9 million project. The expressway was reduced to one lane in each direction in early March for work associated with the improvements. The lane reduction will remain in effect for about four months. Crews should begin installing beams to support the bridge deck on the new bridge from Elberon
Avenue in about a month, Szekeresh said. When the bridge deck is completed in July or August, he said traffic will be opened in both directions from Elberon Avenue to the Sixth Street Expressway. “At that point in time, that’s when the existing viaduct will be shut down and removed,” he said. Access from Warsaw Avenue to the expressway will also be
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shut down at that time to allow for construction of the new bridge from Warsaw Avenue, he said. Szekeresh said the new bridges and ramps were designed to meet modern standards. The area will look nothing like the viaduct West Siders have come to know, he said. “We’re going to new, standardlength bridges that provide more open space underneath,” he said. The bridges, as well as the lanes on the Sixth Street Expressway, will all be wider than the existing lanes, he said. When all the heavy construction work is finished, new concrete railings and new lighting will be added to complete the aesthetics of the viaduct. He said people who regularly travel that route will be able to watch the progress and see the new bridges taking shape. The viaduct project is expected to be completed by the end of 2013, and he said the Sixth Street Expressway improvements are scheduled to wrap up in late 2014.
Picture by Steven Easley
READING DR. SEUSS B1