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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016

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Sharonville officers awarded Medal of Valor Kelly McBride kmcbride@communitypress.com

Two Sharonville police officers have been awarded the Medal of Valor for their part in apprehending a suspect who had drawn a knife on a Glendale officer along Interstate 75 in March. Police Chief Aaron Blasky, along with Mayor Kevin Hardman, presented the awards to Officer Damion Kelsey and Officer Jason Boyd during City Council’s May 24 meeting. The officers had responded after Glendale Officer Josh Hilling encountered a pedestrian along the highway. Javier Aleman was wanted by Baltimore County police in Maryland in connection with a fatal stabbing. He was walking along I-75 near the Sharon Road exit when Hilling came upon him and offered him a ride. Before allowing him in the cruiser, Hilling told Aleman he needed to pat him down as a standard procedure for officer safety. That’s when Aleman pulled a large knife and charged Hilling, who shot him once in the abdomen. Aleman continued to approach Hilling with the knife in his hand, yelling at the officer to kill him. By that time, officers from other police departments, including Sharonville, were responding to the scene. See OFFICERS, Page 2A

THANKS TO SHARONVILLE POLICE

Sharonville Mayor Kevin Hardman, with Officer Jason Boyd, Officer Damion Kelsey, Chief Aaron Blasky and Council President Vicki Hoppe after the officers received their Medal of Honor awards.

Community Press icon Ruthie Day remembered Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com

You could always count on being greeted with a bright smile and a sweet, “Hi, hon” whenever you walked into the West Side office of the Community Press. Seated there at the front desk to welcome you was Ruth Summe Day, a lively lady eager to help and even more eager to offer a warm hug. “She loved people. She never really knew a stranger,” Day’s daughter, Gina Schneider, said. “She gave hugs to everyone.” Day’s family and friends and her former Community Press colleagues are fondly cherishing those hugs, as the West Side lost a beloved matriarch. Ruthie, as she was affectionately known, died May 25 at age 86 af-

ter complications from a recent heart surgery. “She was an awesome lady and had a great life,” Schneider said. “She loved her family and friends and enjoyed life up until the very end.” Raised in Avondale, Day spent the majority of her adult life devoted to the West Side. She and her first husband, the late Eugene Summe, settled and raised their three children in Mount Healthy. Her career at the Community Press spanned nearly 40 years. She started designing display ads for what was then a combination of the Hilltop Press and the Northwest Press in 1968. She logged company moves to Cheviot, where her job changed to receptionist, and to offices at the old Crosley building in the West End. She fin-

ished her career as the receptionist in the newspaper’s White Oak office, retiring in 2007.“She loved the Community Press,” Schneider said. “She gave it her all.” Dozens of prayers and condolences from her former coworkers poured into a private Community Press & Recorder group page on Facebook upon news of Ruthie’s passing. Former advertising sales representative Marcia Bovard posted that she loved Day. “No one ever said my name like she did,” Bovard wrote. “Wish I could have seen her one more time.” Tim Cottrill, a former advertising sales manager, wrote that news of her death stopped him in his tracks.

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Ruth Summe Day, former longtime receptionist for the Community Press, died May 25.

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