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PRICE HILL PRESS

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

FAIR TIME B1 Scenes from the 153rd Harvest Home Fair.

BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS

Price Hill once again showcasing its homes Show points ut affordable housing Price Hill is working closely with real estate agents on two innovative programs to get their listings noticed in the improving real estate market. The popular Price Hill Showcase of Homes presented by Price Hill Will returns Sunday, Sept. 30, giving home shoppers the opportunity to tour affordable, high-quality homes

throughout Price Hill. The showcase is from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A broad range of home styles and pricing will be open for viewing, and all within one neighborhood. “The market is starting to rebound and you can see the beginnings of it in Price Hill sales,” said Matt Strauss, director of marketing and neighborhood promotion for Price Hill Will. Homes for sale across Price Hill will be open for viewing during the showcase. Refreshments

and a free map of showcased homes will be available at Price Hill Will offices, 3724 St. Lawrence Ave., beginning at 10:30 a.m. on the day of the event. Maps with the addresses and opening times of the listings will be available that weekend online at www.PriceHill Living.com. The event is free and open to the public. Also this fall, to help real estate agents become more aware

This home Price Hill Will renovated at 4067 West Eighth St. is one of several homes featured in the upcoming Price Hill Showcase of Homes. The showcase for interested homeowners runs 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. THANKS TO MATT

See HOMES, Page A2

STRAUSS

Blighted homes razed in East Price Hill By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com

Dwight Young said the neighborhood surrounding McPherson Avenue can now begin to heal. Two abandoned, blighted homes that have had a negative impact on the East Price Hill street will no longer be eyesores or epicenters for problems. Through the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program initiated by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, the homes at 936 and 938 McPherson Ave. were razed following a press conference Tuesday, Sept. 18. “A piece of healing starts today,” said Young, who is the founder of BLOC Ministries and runs a community center in an old church across the street from the dilapidated properties. He and his staff at BLOC Ministries aim to strengthen the community by offering free activities and programs to area students, giving them a positive alternative to running the streets and engaging in risky behaviors. Young said the people who used to hang out at the blighted homes across the street weren’t always so hospitable toward Cincinnati jazz musician Mike Wade, who plays the trumpet, performed at last year’s East Price Hill Jazz Festival. This year’s festival begins at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Dempsey Park. THANKS TO RAY BUSCHE

Jazz on the hill

Festival has music all day Saturday By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com

Dempsey Park will come alive with the sounds of jazz. The third annual East Price Hill Jazz Festival will be 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at the park, 3200 Price Ave. The free music festival is

sponsored by the East Price Hill Improvement Association. “This is the only all-day event dedicated to jazz in Cincinnati,” said festival organizer Ray Busche, a member of EPHIA’s board of directors. “We give students the opportunity to perform, as well as seasoned professionals. This event hires the best talent in the region. There is no event in town that has better music for over six hours, continuously, and this is free.”

An early set at 10:30 a.m. at the Price Hill Branch Library kicks off the festival, which then continues the rest of the day at Dempsey Park, which is behind the library. Busche, a longtime jazz enthusiast whose love of the genre grew while living in New Orleans for 15 years, said he volunteered to organize the jazz festival and apply for grants to fund it when

NEIGHBORS

RITA’S KITCHEN

Seton-Mercy battle across the net. See photos, A8

Fall is the time to turn on your oven. See story, B3

See JAZZ, Page A2

A bulldozer razes a blighted home at 936 McPherson Ave. The abandoned East Price Hill house, along with the vacant house next door, were demolished Sept. 18, as part of the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program. KURT BACKSCHEIDER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

BLOC and its mission. “We’ve had guns drawn in our faces from (occupants of) these houses,” he said. “That changes today. “You’ll see a lot of healing in this neighborhood just by these two buildings coming down,” Young said. DeWine created the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program in February, and its goal is to help stabilize and improve communities hit hard by the foreclosure crisis by removing blighted and abandoned homes. The program uses funds the See RAZED, Page A2

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