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Oakdale Elementary School and the fourth- and fifth-grade All Boys Book Club hosted the first Family Math Night for K-5 families.
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Hospitals staying open
No levy this year The Oak Hills Local School District will not seek a tax levy in 2012. Oak Hills school board decided April 9 not to ask for an income tax levy. See story A3
Current buildings handing outpatients
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The new Mercy hospital being built in Green Township is on schedule to be completed next year. See photos of the construction on B1
By Kurt Backscheider
Drug dropoff
kbackscheider@communitypress.com
The day is set for a local drug collection created by a national initiative. Delhi and Green township police departments will be two of several collection sites in Hamilton County for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s fourth National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone can bring expired and unused prescription drugs, including medications, medication samples, pet medications, vitamins, medicated ointments, lotions, inhalers, patches and liquid medications. They must be dropped off in a leak-proof container. The police department ask that personal information be blacked out on bottles and other containers with medications, and needles, either used or unused, will not be accepted. You can go to: » Green Township Police Department headquarters, 6303 Harrison Ave. » Delhi Police Department at Remke/Biggs, 5125 Delhi Road. The list of other drop-off sites, as well as additional information about the national initiative, visit http://tinyurl.com/46jpask.
Mercy Health will maintain services at its campuses in Western Hills and Mount Airy when its new hospital opens in October 2013. Mike Stephens, president and market leader for Mercy Health West, gave a presentation on the health care system’s strategic vision for the West Side on Friday, April 13, and said Mercy will continue offering some services at both its Mercy Western Hills facility and Mercy Mount Airy facility. He said the center of Mercy’s health care network will be its
Mercy Health will continue to offer services at its Mercy Western Hills location in Westwood after its new Mercy Health - West Hospital is completed in Green Township. Plans include constructing a new emergency care center on the Westwood campus, maintaining the Mercy HealthPlex and two medical office buildings, and tearing down the section of the facility now housing patient rooms FILE PHOTO new 250-bed hospital in Green Township, but its existing campuses in Westwood and Mount Ai-
ry will be retained and used as comprehensive outpatient centers.
“Our vision encompasses creating a network of health care services in locations where people live,” Stephens said. “It’s about an easily accessible network of care on the West Side.” Mercy’s mission to enhance access to quality medical care includes operating primary and specialty care physician offices, 24-hour emergency centers, imaging and testing centers and senior living communities, he said. When the health care group See HOSPITALS, Page A2
Taylor alumni taking stage
Performance supports scholarship fund
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By Kurt Backscheider kbackscheider@communitypress.com
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The members of the Taylor High School Alumni Chorus are back at it. The men and women in the chorus have been hard at work since September preparing for their annual performance benefiting the Taylor High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. “We have a great group,” said Martha Seymour, who has been a member of the chorus since it was formed 15 years ago and now serves as its music director. “They all take pride in doing a great job.” Each year the chorus takes the stage to raise money for the scholarship fund. This year the group will present “Broadway Blast” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21, in the auditorium at Taylor High School. “All the music is from a Broadway show or connected in some way to a Broadway show,” Seymour said. The show features a variety of songs performed by the entire 23member chorus, as well as sever-
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Taylor High School Alumni Chorus members, from left, Leah Cordova, Barbara Wylie and Jim Hughes look through their song books as they prepare for the group’s upcoming concert benefiting the alumni association's scholarship fund. KURT BACKSCHEIDER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS
“It’s a good mix with a little bit of comedy thrown in on the side.” MARTHA SEYMOUR
Taylor alumni chorus music director
al dance numbers, solo numbers, duets and trios, she said. “It’s a good mix with a little bit of comedy thrown in on the side,” she said. Charles Peak, who founded the chorus in 1997, said the group presented its first show benefiting the scholarship fund in 2002. Except for taking a year off in 2005, he said they’ve performed a show every year since then. “We had been doing small gigs
in the community here and there for $100 or $200, and I thought, ‘Why not do a big show to support the alumni association’s scholarship fun,’” he said. “Everyone was very enthusiastic about it and we somehow pulled it off that first year. We all said, ‘Let’s do it again.’” The proceeds from the show have allowed the alumni association to award either a $2,000 or $3,000 scholarship to two or three
Taylor High School seniors each year, Peak said. Seymour said she enjoys helping put the show together each spring because it supports such a good cause, and the camaraderie among the members of the chorus make it fun as well. “We’re a family on and off the stage,” she said. Last year the show raised more than $4,200 for the alumni association, she said. “Hopefully we can do even better this year,” Seymour said. “We’d like to see a full house.” Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for students and children. For more information, call the Three Rivers district office at 941-6400.
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