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Green Township honors WWII vet’s 100 birthday Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A procession of vehicles pass the hearse carrying Bob James in front of Elder High School on April 14 in West Price Hill.

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A PARADE AND A VIEWING AT THE PIT

Green Township offi cials were determined that a decorated World War II veteran in the community would not spend his birthday alone.

So keeping in mind the need to not gather in large crowds, they invited a few select guests to convene around World War II Battle of the Bulge veteran Edward Burke’s home.

April 9 was Burke’s 100th birthday.

When he was a 25-year-old tank commander, Burke quietly crossed a river in a rowboat to scout ahead during the battle where the Germans eff ectively threw everything they had at the Allies, according to a Dec. 15, 2019, Enquirer article.

“I’m sorry for being so emotional today, but Green Township has come out in a big big way for our hero, World War II hero Ed Burke,” said trustee Anthony Rosiello in a video from the gathering shared by Green Township.

“He celebrates his 100th birthday today, and while we couldn’t have a huge celebration, we’ve asked some select of the people to come out,” Rosiello continued.

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A hearse entered through the front gates of Elder High School just before 11 on Tuesday, April 14, followed by a line of cars that snaked down Vincent Avenue.

It parked under the fl agpole, atop the stairs that mark the entrance to The Pit – Elder’s longtime football stadium – and for nearly an hour that’s where it sat before its last stop at St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

One by one, cars slowly passed to pay their fi nal respects to beloved West Sider Bob James, who died from heart complications on April 6, 10 days shy of his 78th birthday.

Aware a conventional funeral wasn’t an option due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Bob’s family did what Bob would have done: One way or another, bring everyone together.

It took more than a half-hour for the entire procession to pass by the casket and off er support to the family. Some of those in line made signs, some

Frisch's Big Boy in Western Hills posted the sign, “Thank you, Uncle Bob.”

honked their horns, others waved and yelled, “We love you.” One car passed through playing Elder’s fi ght song for all to hear.

They came to say goodbye to a man who made it See FUNERAL, Page 2A

A procession of vehicles pass the hearse carrying Bob James in front of Elder High School.

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World War II veteran Edward Burke waves to a gathering of well-wishers Thursday outside his Green Township residence.

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Birthday Continued from Page 1A

Fire and police department members, township offi cials and neighbors came out to tell him “thank you and we love you,” Rosiello said.

People tried to observe social distancing guidelines as best they could, according to a release from Green Township.

A short procession of police cars and fi re trucks with lights and sirens Burke blaring paraded down the road past Burke’s house as he watched from a back deck.

Burke came out and waved as people sang “Happy Birthday.”

Rosiello said it’s not the celebration the township had planned.

“We originally had planned a celebration and open house at Price Hill Chili,” he said in an email. “Of course things have changed.

Green Township Trustee Anthony Rosiello holds a microphone as he speaks outside World War II Battle of the Bulge veteran Edward Burke while wishing him happy birthday.

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Green Township’s release stated that despite the COVID-19 virus outbreak, many people were not going to let the milestone pass unnoticed.

Rosiello said the plan was to be safe, short and respectful.

Family, friends, and veterans from Green Township Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10380 were among those

Funeral Continued from Page 1A

his mission to never meet a stranger.

Whether you walked by him in a grocery store, or passed by his house when he happened to be outside, Bob always wanted to talk.

“He’s just so infectious with everything he did,” said son Craig. “It almost got the point where it was sort of embarrassing how much he loved to talk to people and he loved to get to know them even if it was a stranger.”

If he wasn’t making homemade pizzas with his family or working on

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Homemade signs for Bob James were posted along the route that his friends and family drove from Our Lady of Lourdes to Elder High School to pay their fi nal respects.

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achieving his black belt in Tae Kwon Do – which he earned at the age of 55 – he was often outside “grilling what we called the All-American meal of brats, metts, burgers, and dogs,” said Scott.

“I can’t tell you how many times people passed by – and we lived in a house with two streets on it – people would honk or stop to talk and I would say, ‘Dad, who was that?’ and he would say, ‘I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. Being nice, saying hi, doesn’t cost you a

With social distancing in mind, a small group gathered April 9 to honor Edward Burke in Green Township.

there to wish Burke happy birthday, according to the release.

Balloons and signs decorated the area around his home while the crowd

sang happy birthday.

“He is truly a war hero and is alone during this pandemic,” Rosiello said.

“We can’t let the moment go by.”

thing.’”

This, then, was Bob’s wish – one last drive down Glenway Avenue, one more trip to The Pit, and one last chance to see the people he loved and for them to see him.

He was an Elder man.

In 1960, Bob graduated from the Price Hill institution. In high school, he cultivated two loves – fi rst with his future wife, then Elder football – and both lasted a lifetime.

Purple and white fl owers were placed on his hearse, bookended by a photo of Bob in his Elder hat and a photo of Bob and Barb, his wife of 57 years and herself a survivor of pancreatic cancer and a brain aneurysm.

Barb and their fi ve children – Tracey (Duwel), Jeff , Scott, Bobby and Craig – parked ahead of the hearse.

Their plan was simple: “What if we do a parade and we curl through Our Lady of Lourdes, because that’s where he went to church, and pick up the procession there, then bring him down (Glenway) to the opening of the stadium and just let people drive by,” Bobby said.

Elder principal Kurt Ruffi ng approved the plan and helped execute it. Police offi cers were present to lead the proces-

sion and Ladder 17 from the Cincinnati Fire Department stopped by. Banners with pictures from Bob’s life were hung on a fence for cars to see as they drove past, and a camera live-streamed the procession online for those who couldn’t make it.

Parked with windows rolled down, the family thanked everyone who drove past.

The day Bob died was like many days he lived. “He was having a fabulous morning,” said Scott. “He was bee-bopping around, he spent some time on the fence by the street talking to some passersby. One of his grandsons was over. It was just a typical day in his life. He had one goal and that was to talk to other people, tell them stories and put smiles on their faces and that’s what he did until his last day.”

When the heart he was known for gave out in the early afternoon. “The ultimate irony,” read his obituary, “is that he had a heart problem.”

There was crying on Tuesday. Smiles and prayers from too many people to count. Some even drove through the line twice, eager to be with Bob one more time.

“He would love it,” Craig said.

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Here’s how a Camp Washington Easter Bunny became a White House favorite David Lyman Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A recent Monday was supposed to be Jonn Schenz’s 40th consecutive White House Easter Egg Roll.

Every year since 1981, the owner of Camp Washington’s Schenz Theatrical Supply has traveled to Washington, D.C., with three human-sized Easter Bunny costumes destined to become the stars of the event, which has taken place in one form or another since the days of Abraham Lincoln.

But as with so many other traditions this year, the egg roll has been canceled, one more victim of the novel coronavirus.

Schenz’s pilgrimages to D.C. are not moneymaking operations. Schenz foots the bills for everything from creating the costumes to travel to housing while he and a couple of assistants are in D.C. He won’t venture a guess as to how much he’s spent through the years to keep the kids on the White House lawn happy.

“It’s a privilege and an honor,” says Schenz. His sincerity is notable since, if you dealt with Schenz at any other time of the year, you might describe him as nononsense. Or opinionated. Sometimes, you might even call him rigid. They’re fair descriptions. But you’d be overlooking the part of him that believes in doing things the right way, even if they are much more diffi cult and demanding.

Back in 1981, a Washington costumer asked if he could supply a costume to fi t a 6’ 3” Secret Service agent who would accompany President Ronald Reagan. The event was just seven days away, an absurdly tight window for a costume that would normally have to be ordered weeks in advance.

Schenz had no such costume. But the businessman in Schenz saw an opportunity, so he said “yes.” And so it was that a Schenz costume made its debut on the White House lawn.

When the event was done, the organizers prepared to pack away the bunny costume and store it until the next year. Schenz was horrifi ed. In his eyes, it needed to be cleaned and spruced up before it went into storage.

“It had drawstrings hanging down the back and green spots on its knees,” he recalls. “I walked back into the visitors offi ce and said ‘Ms. McCain, who’s in charge of that costume?’”

McCain was the recently divorced wife of John McCain, a future U.S. politician and presidential candidate. She told Schenz that there was no one in particular responsible for overseeing the costume.

“I told her that ‘I will take that bunny with me. I will repair it and clean and ship it back to you. And I will be here next year with two more bunny costumes’.”

The room fell silent. McCain was the head of the White House Visitors’ Bureau and was unaccustomed

President Bush hugs a person dressed as the Easter bunny at the start of the annual Easter Egg Roll on March 24, 2008, overlooking the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. GERALD HERBERT, AP

Cincinnatian Jonn Schenz, on the south lawn of the White House with one of the three costumed characters he has been providing for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll since 1981. SONA VIRDI

to being spoken to quite so directly, especially by someone she had never met before.

But when the following January rolled around, Schenz received a letter from McCain saying she looked forward to seeing him and his two new bunny costumes when Easter came around.

For the record, Schenz doesn’t design the costumes.

That’s the role of his longtime business partner Stephen A. Rausch who was, at one time, the designer for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

Schenz is the wheeler dealer of the team, the guy who spent a lifetime on the stage and is only too happy to tell you about every bit of it. He toured the country with huge tent musicals, performing with the likes of Ginger Rogers and Donald O’Connor. He danced with the Cincinnati Opera when it was at the Cincinnati Zoo. He performed in a traveling burlesque show and danced with strippers. “But I left the stage before they pulled their clothes off .”

With Schenz, it’s one fascinating tale after another.

The one thing he won’t talk about is politics. That’s bad for business, especially when you have a regular gig at the White House. The Egg Roll is about the kids, no one else.

“Presidents come. Presidents go. The bunnies stay.”

The snapshots on his offi ce walls prove it. There’s Schenz with Barbara “Mama” Bush. And with the Rea-

gans. And the Clintons. There’s even one of him with Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s fi rst press secretary.

In 2018, a widely distributed photo showed Donald Trump posing on the White House’s Truman Balcony with a bunny. Schenz’s bunny, of course. And there’s the YouTube video of the Obamas, Broadway performer Idina Menzel and – you guessed it – one of Schenz’s bunnies.

It’s clear that Schenz has had his favorites along the way. After all, he’s served six fi rst families. The diplomat in him won’t allow him to badmouth anyone. But when he goes through the list of people he’s dealt with, Barbara Bush and her daughter-in-law Laura come up time and again. “They were two of the most gracious people I ever met in the White House,” he says.

Sona Virdi was an intern in the Clinton White House when she crossed paths with Schenz more than 20 years ago. The interns had been asked what area of the Easter Monday festivities they wanted to be involved with. Though she had been a political junkie since her days growing up in New York City, Virdi had seen the Easter Egg Roll many times on the television and was rapt by the easy interaction between run-of-the-mill Washingtonians and their elected offi cials.

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American culture,” says Virdi from her D.C.-area home. “I know it must sound ridiculous, but helping with the bunnies was the icing on the cake of my whole internship.”

Like Schenz, she has tales of seeing cabinet members and high-ranking military offi cials gleefully take their turns inside the bunny costumes.

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This year, of course, there was no White House Easter Egg Roll. Hosting upwards of 35,000 children on the White House lawn was incompatible

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ered Chris a lot. Gary was a good man – a “gentle giant” is how people described him – who’d raised two children and two stepchildren. He had grandkids, a girlfriend and friends all over town.

All Chris could think was how much his big brother deserved a funeral, and how much everyone who loved him deserved to be there.

A few days later, the news got worse. Scott was improving, but his son, Brian, was now sick.

Brian, 34, has cerebral palsy and needs full-time care. He splits time with Scott and Scott’s ex-wife, Karen Kuhlman.

Karen said Brian tested positive for the virus, too, and was still in the hospital late April 9.

Karen is coughing now, and running a fever.

She said she and her husband started feeling ill this week and were told to quarantine at home by the health department.

Everyone seems to assume they have the virus, she said, and she has no reason to think otherwise. She’s been tired and her throat hurts. She struggles to breathe walking up and down the steps.

Speaking by phone April 9, she paused several times to cough, and to listen to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s afternoon press conference about the pandemic on her TV. “I never thought this thing would hit home like it has,” she said. “It hit this family big time.”

She’s worried now about who will take care

of her son if he gets out of the hospital and his caregivers are still sick. He needs to be fed and bathed. At 66, she said, it was getting hard for her to do the job when she was healthy.

“If I wasn’t living through this,” she said, “I wouldn’t believe it.”

Chris is struggling to process it all, too. The days and weeks of the past month run together in his mind. He checks a calendar, with help from his wife, to remember when everything happened, how everything changed so fast.

On his front porch, Chris said he’s feeling better, physically, at least. He’s grateful his wife never got sick and that his brother Scott appears to be on the mend.

He’s grateful he has two siblings who haven’t fallen ill.

But his family is changed. His big brother is gone, and he misses him. They were born 18 months apart and worked together for more than 30 years. They knew everything about each other and could talk about anything. Anytime.

It’s not always that way with brothers, but it was with them. They shared so much, Chris said, right up until the end.

“There’s really nothing you could do,” he said.

“This thing will kill you.”

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – April 10. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

with social distancing.

But Virdi is confi dent that the event will return.

“It is literally a timehonored tradition,” she says. “It came back after the Spanish fl u 100 years ago. It came back after World War II. It has survived dozens of budget cuts. This is the one White House event that is still open to the public, even after all the security changes and the mayhem

of politics and government shutdowns. This is something that has passed the test of time.”

And what about Schenz? He’s 80, after all, and has spent much of the past six months dealing with a broken hip and COPD from a lifetime of smoking. “I’ll be back,” says Schenz. “Someone has to take care of those costumes and do it the right way.”

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Now, they were all sick and getting sicker.

By March 29, Chris’s wife, Cindy, had seen enough. His fever was rising and his heart rate was up. “You’re sick,” she told him. “You’ve got the virus.” Then she drove him to Good Samaritan Hospital in University Heights, where he was admitted.

Around the same time, Scott went to Mercy West and was put in a room not far from his brother, Gary.

Soon, both were placed on ventilators to help them breathe.

Chris’s breathing was labored, but he wasn’t as bad off as his brothers.

His fever, though, hit 103 and he was about as miserable as he’d ever been.

The day after he was admitted, Chris said, a doctor came into his room and told him he’d got the results from his drive-thru test the week before.

“Mr. Hahn,” he said, “you tested positive for COVID-19.”

“I don’t doubt that,” Chris said.

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How many students here not participating in distance learning? ‘I am completely worried’ Max Londberg Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

In two decades as a teacher, Judi Nortman hasn’t experienced an attendance challenge as unique as the one she now faces.

Nortman, who teaches fourth grade math at Mount Healthy South Elementary School, has only received completed assignments from about one-third of her 40 students since education shifted to remote learning.

“Today I’m almost like begging,” she said last week, the fourth since Ohio shuttered school buildings, on March 17, to stem the spread of COVID-19. “I’m heartbroken. I am completely worried.”

Nortman’s students are about on par with the school as a whole. Recently, only about one in four of the school’s approximately 900 students had completed work, according to fi gures shared by Superintendent Reva Cosby. Cosby said the participation rose after many students received devices. Now slightly less than half of students have attended at least one virtual class.

Educators have lost contact with some students. At Mount Healthy’s second elementary school, North Elementary, 15% of the roughly 900 students haven’t responded to various communication attempts, Cosby said, when this article was originally published.

About 45% of North students have completed work.

Cosby said about 100 total students at the junior high and high schools haven’t been reached since the closure, out of roughly 1,250.

Teachers are straining to engage students remotely, but economic and health troubles, poor tech access and separation from teachers are barriers, particularly in low-income schools.

Nortman said she sympathizes with her students’ home situations given the crisis, “but the teacher side of me understands how devastating this can be academically to some of these kids.”

Mount Healthy serves one of the highest percentages of economically disadvantaged students in the state, at 99.7%, according to the Ohio Department of Education.

Armand Tatum, Western Hills High School football coach and teacher, helps hand out learning packets with Lezlie Christian, Western Hills High School theater and dance teacher, on April 13 outside Western Hills High School.

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A national survey of more than 1,700 educators found about 20% of students aren’t participating in school, with higher truancy rates in low-income communities.

Normally, missing a few days of school time correlates with lower math and reading test scores, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. For example, fourth grade students who missed three or four school days a month scored fi ve points below the national average on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math. Missing more than 10 days correlated with a 28-point drop.

Fourth grade math is a struggle even when students are able to attend class, Nortman said, as problems develop a complexity beyond the basic tasks of previous grades. Falling behind now, Nortman said, could have lingering effects for years to come. “It takes intensive intervention for a year in order to close a gap,” she said.

Cosby said the Mount Healthy district has now distributed computers to lower grade students, and educators are going “above and beyond in trying to connect with each of their students.”

“We still believe as a district that we must do whatever we can to keep our students learning,” she added.

‘A lot of people quit school’ Cincinnati Public Schools, the largest district in the area with more than 35,000 students, did not share data with The Enquirer for this story.

But interviews with teachers and a student indicate the district faces similar problems as Mount Healthy.

“I think a lot of people quit school, basically,” said Corinne Lerma, a junior at Walnut Hills High School.

Many of Corinne’s peers have expressed that, with their schoolwork not being graded, there’s little incentive to complete assignments, she said.

Attendance in Corinne’s Advanced Placement art history class has been steady. But in her other course that meets online regularly, statistics, Corrine said her teacher has shown frustration over students’ lack of participation.

Fran Russ, a CPS spokesperson, said by email that teachers are expected to communicate with families at least once a week and hold offi ce hours to

provide academic support.

For some Cincinnati Public students without tech tools at home, certain classes have been entirely derailed.

Armand Tatum teaches a course on Microsoft Offi ce at Western Hills University High School. The class requires a 2016 version of Offi ce or newer. Tatum estimated about 5% of his students have the right program at home.

With the class stalled, students are missing his planned PowerPoint lessons for this quarter. Tatum, also the high school football coach, had been eager before the closure to teach students to edit images of their own heads onto professional athletes’ bodies.

Now it’s an obstacle just to communicate with students. Tatum said less than half of his approximately 80 students respond to his messages, which he sends to check on their well-being.

About 15% of CPS students don’t have a computer at home, according to Census estimates, and Superintendent Laura Mitchell said earlier this month that some devices remain in schools because the district closed due to the virus on the day they were to be distributed to students.

Isabella Guinigundo, a senior at Bishop Fenwick High School in Franklin, said some of her classmates have dealt with spotty WiFi, fl agging device batteries and other issues.

Isabella worked on the tech help desk while in school. She still holds the role, but troubleshooting problems from afar is harder. For example, her school provided a Microsoft Surface Pro computer to each student, but the hard-to-fi nd batteries for the pens made for the touch screen have died for some. The pens are important for math requiring students to show the steps to solve problems.

Normally Isabella would simply give her classmates new batteries from the school’s stock, but the closure has made that impossible. For those students struggling with tech problems, “I’m sure it’s probably really, really hard to get work done when it’s entirely online,” Isabella said.

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Making jellies and jams out of wildfl owers Master recipe wildflower jelly Makes about six jars, 8 oz. each.

Ingredients 3 cups wild flower infusion ⁄ 4 cup lemon juice

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1 box powdered pectin 41⁄ 2 cups sugar Instructions Boil jars 10 minutes. Keep in hot water.

Keep seals and rings in hot, not boiling, water.

Place infusion, lemon juice and pectin in big pot.

Over high heat, bring to rolling boil, one that cannot be stirred down, stirring constantly.

Continue stirring, add sugar all at once and bring back to rolling boil and boil 1 minute.

Pour into hot jars, 1⁄ 8 inch from top. Remove foam.

Wipe rims with clean, wet cloth.

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Place seals on jars, screw on rings.

Invert 5 minutes. Turn upright. Cool from drafts. Check seals after one hour.

Refrigerate unsealed jars.

Rita’s Kitchen Rita Heikenfeld

Keeps in pantry up to 6 months.

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One thing that has me smiling is how many of you responded with interest for making wildfl ower jellies and jams.

My guess is while sheltering in place, you’re noticing what Mother Nature has to off er right in your yard.

Like purple violets (leaves make a healing tea) and dandelions. Red bud blossoms. On my little patch of heaven, honeysuckle is a useful plant, holding the hill from eroding and providing fl owers for jelly.

So how about going wild in the kitchen, even if you only toss a few wild edible fl owers in your salad? Or go big and bold, and make these beautiful and yes, gourmet, treats.

First, pick blossoms Pick blossoms only. No leaves, no stems.

For dandelions, remove as much bitter green bottom as possible.

For honeysuckle, remove green tips off but leave stamens in.

Infusion Coax fl avor and color out by making an infusion. Measure fl owers before

Process sealed jelly in boiling water bath 5 minutes. Cool away from drafts.

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Place fl owers in bowl. Pour boiling water over. Weight down with saucer to keep petals under water. Infuse 12 hours at room temperature.

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Mr. Football Evan Prater

Shelby Dermer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

From state championships, recordbreaking performances and buzzerbeaters, there was no shortage of thrilling moments in Cincinnati prep sports in the 2019-20 school year.

The 2019-20 season is not offi cially over, but it is hanging in the balance as concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus have postponed winter state and regional tournaments, as well as tentatively delayed the beginning of the spring season.

Here are, in no particular order, the 10 best moments in Cincinnati high school sports from the 2019-20 season.

La Salle, Elder football runs to Canton “This year we’ve got something up our sleeves for everybody,” La Salle defensive back Jaylen Johnson told The Enquirer in August. “We have something to prove this year.”

The junior, who committed to Ohio State in January, turned into a prophet by season’s end.

La Salle went undefeated in the Greater Catholic League-South for its fi rst conference title since 2016, then coasted in the playoff s. The Lancers won fi ve postseason games by an average of 27.6 points, a run capped with the program’s fourth state championship in six years.

Northwestern signee Cam Porter ran for 10 postseason touchdowns behind an off ensive line coached by Tom Doerger, who had a liver transplant in early September.

Making La Salle’s run even more remarkable was how it bounced back from its 2018 season, when the Lancers fi nished 4-5 and missed the playoff s for the fi rst time since 2013.

The Lancers’ defense gave up just 30 points in the fi rst half of the regular season, then surrendered just 10.6 per game in the postseason en route to the title.

La Salle head coach Pat McLaughlin said the plan was to get La Salle fi rst-year quarterback Zach Branam’s feet wet with a solid rushing attack. But the junior jumped headfi rst into varsity action, leading the team in rushing (1,394 yards) to go with 21 passing scores.

The third-team All-Ohio selection ran for 133 yards and accounted for four touchdowns in La Salle’s regional fi nal victory over Toledo Central Catholic.

While La Salle sprinted to decisive playoff wins, GCL-South foe Elder had a more dramatic run to Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. After a 42-17 fi rst-round win over Lakota West, Elder would endure a trio of heart-wrenching fi nishes.

In the second round, quarterback Matthew Luebbe’s 70-yard touchdown run with 1:20 remaining lifted Elder to a 28-24 victory over St. Xavier. The Bombers’ pass to the end zone as time expired

The La Salle sideline reacts to a video review crediting running back Gi'Bran Payne with a touchdown in the fi rst quarter of the OHSAA Division II State Final game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Dec. 5. CANTONREP.COM / RAY STEWART

fell incomplete, sending the Panthers to the regional championship game.

In the regional fi nal rematch against Colerain, Elder scored two touchdowns in the fi nal fi ve minutes to edge the Cardinals, 28-21.

One week later in Piqua, Elder got fourth-quarter touchdown runs by Joseph Catania and Cooper Johnson, then held off Springfi eld’s last-second drive to win its fi rst regional championship in 11 years.

“You’re the fourth team that has had the opportunity to do this,” Elder head coach Doug Ramsey said to his squad following the 31-24 win. “It’s pretty special. We’ve fought through a bunch of stuff this year. Yet we keep fi nding ways to win this game and we’ll be playing Week 15.”

Elder’s run was spoiled in the Division I state championship game, losing to Pickerington Central, 21-14.

Mary Jo Huismann collects 700th career win The Talawanda girls basketball team won just nine games this season. But the Braves’ victory over Ross Jan. 4 was monumental.

That night, Talawanda head coach Mary Jo Huismann became the third girls basketball coach in Ohio High School Athletic Association history to win 700 games.

Huismann went 696-337 at Mother of

Mercy High School from 1973-2018. Over that span, she led the Bobcats to three state runner-up fi nishes (1980, 1989, 1990), 18 league championships and 15 district titles.

Huismann joined Talawanda in May 2018 after Mother of Mercy merged with McAuley. After a 2-21 fi nish in her fi rst season, the Braves improved to 9-14 in 2020. “It’s been fun here,” Huismann told The Enquirer. “It’s a challenge. Every year is a challenge. You get new kids in, everything changes and every year it’s a challenge. I think that’s part of why you do it (coaching). It has to be fun or why in the world would you be doing this?”

Indian Hill boys win program’s 1st state swimming title Matt Harrison’s fi rst season as the head swimming and diving coach at Indian Hill could not have gone better.

Harrison, a former Moeller assistant, led the boys team to the program’s fi rstever state team championship in February at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium.

“We knew we had a chance, but we knew we had to do our job,” Harrison told The Enquirer. “I was going crazy. I couldn’t even contain myself.”

The Braves got two individual state championships to climb to the top of the team standings. Freshman Gibson Holmes won the 100 butterfl y to start a career that should feature him as a frequent podium visitor every winter.

Holmes was part of Indian Hill’s state-winner 200 free relay squad, one that was bolstered by junior Dan Edmonson. “I was hoping I could contribute in a signifi cant way and clearly I was able to,” Edmonson told The Enquirer. “It’s kind of a surreal experience being able to win state.”

Area boys headline state cross country as St. X, Summit win titles Cincinnati-area runners headlined the state cross country meet in Hebron as St. Xavier and Summit Country Day boys captured team titles.

It was St. Xavier’s fi rst state team title since 2013. The Bombers were led by regional champion Nathan Mountain. The junior logged a fi fth-place fi nish at state.

It was a fi rst-team experience for Summit Country Day, which won it all after fi nishing as the runner-up in 2018.

“I know Northeast Ohio always comes here and dominates the state meet, so these guys had a chip on their shoulder and they ran with it today. They wanted to come back here and prove they belong,” Summit head coach Kurtis Smith told The Enquirer.

Kiner leads Roger Bacon’s historic season Roger Bacon junior Corey Kiner had See MOMENTS, Page 2B

La Salle grad Doerger builds surgical shields with 3-D printer Dave Clark Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Former La Salle High School Lancers standout and current University of Toledo Rockets center and mechanical engineering major Luke Doerger found a way he could help front-line workers during the new coronavirus pandemic – applying his knowledge and donating his time, eff ort and resources to build surgical shields and print surgical mask adjusters.

More from a utrockets.com story, which includes a photo of the 3-D printing assembly line Doerger created: “Obviously, there is a high demand

for surgical masks and shields that is not being met at this point,” said Doerger, who is the starting center on the Rockets’ football team.

“So there is an online community of people with 3-D printers who are trying to fi ll the gap. It’s a slow process so a lot of them have their printers going 24/7.”

Doerger found a three-piece design for a surgical face shield and went to work. His printer can make the visor and the fi tted head band out of plastic; he purchases in bulk elastic bands that attach to the head band.

So far he has produced 30 shields and hopes to make more if he can acquire the necessary plastic supplies. In the

meantime, Doerger is now printing surgical mask adjusters, which are needed because some medical personnel are developing sores from wearing the protective masks for such long stretches at a time. He is in the process of donating the facemasks to hospitals in the Toledo area.

“You hear a lot about facemasks, but surgical shields are very important, too,” said Doerger. “There are a surprisingly large number people with 3-D printers who are doing the same thing as me, many on a much bigger scale. I’m just a small part of it. But I feel like even a small number of shields can make a diff erence.”

Toledo center Luke Doerger (65) sets during a game between the Toledo Rockets and the Kentucky Wildcats in 2019. ICON SPORTSWIRE VIA GETTY IMAGES

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vision II state fi nal.

“It doesn’t feel real,” Conley told reporters. “It hasn’t sunk in, but the fact that our seniors – their last high school match was a W. They’re the only team in Division II that can say that. I’m so proud of that group and the group that was in our locker room.”

In the state fi nal, senior setter and All-Ohio selection Grace Maziar had 51 assists to become the fi rst recorded player in OHSAA history with more than 4,000 in a career. Senior Julia Gardon had a team-high 18 kills, including fi ve in the fi nal set that helped Fenwick pull away.

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one of the greatest seasons for a Cincinnati running back in 2019.

In Week 3, Kiner became the school’s all-time leading scorer with a threetouchdown performance against Woodward. Four weeks later against Meadowdale, he became the program’s alltime leading rusher.

On Oct. 18, Kiner became the fi rst Ohio player to score eight touchdowns in a game since 2015 in Roger Bacon’s 58-32 win over CHCA. Mount Healthy quarterback Brandon Lanier had eight touchdowns the same night in a win over Northwest.

Kiner’s 323 rushing yards against CHCA is a school record and he became the program leader in all-purpose yards.

Kiner’s seemingly weekly highlight reel led Roger Bacon to new heights. The Spartans clinched a playoff spot for the fi rst time in 10 years. In the fi rst round, Roger Bacon sprinted past higher-seeded Waynesville behind Kiner’s six touchdowns for its fi rst postseason win in since 2010.

Devin Taylor’s buzzer-beater helps La Salle win district title All hope seemed lost for La Salle basketball when it trailed by 16 points in the third quarter of its Division I district championship game against St. Xavier at Cintas Center March 8.

The Lancers battled back but still trailed 44-41 with 2.1 seconds remaining in regulation.

La Salle turned to a play called “UC,” essentially a Hail Mary. Two passes moved the ball up the court to sophomore Devin Taylor, who banked in a 30foot heave as time expired to send the game into overtime, where La Salle would eventually pull away from St. Xavier for a district championship.

“We do work on that play almost every other day. Devin (Taylor) is just one of those types of dudes. He’s so athletic and it was a great shot,” La Salle head coach Pat Goedde said. “It’s better to be lucky than good sometimes.”

Colerain’s GMC dominance continues One of the biggest coaching moves in recent years was when Tom Bolden decided to leave Colerain for Lakota West

Lakota West Thunderbirds celebrate Kailyn Dudukovich's game-winning goal in Columbus Saturday Nov. 9.

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in December 2018.

Stepping in at the helm of one of the state’s premier programs was defensive coordinator Shawn Cutright. While many believed the Greater Miami Conference would be up in the air, Colerain still remained atop the conference, albeit a close call in the regular-season fi nale.

Colerain and Fairfi eld were on a collision course throughout the season with each team starting 7-1 in conference play. In Week 10 with the GMC title on the line, Fairfi eld’s fi nal fourth-down pass to the end zone was incomplete and the Cardinals held on for a 16-10 win .

“I give them (Fairfi eld) great props; they played a good game,” Colerain’s Deshawn Pace told The Enquirer. “But, GMC championship, that’s 20 straight and it ain’t going to leave.”

The victory gave Colerain its 20th consecutive GMC championship and pushed its conference win streak to 83 games. That streak would increase to 85 with playoff victories over Princeton and Fairfi eld.

Fenwick volleyball wins fi rst state title since 2010 Fenwick head volleyball coach Tyler Conley led the Falcons to the state tournament in 2015 and 2018 but bowed in the Final Four on both trips.

This fall, though, Fenwick broke through, winning the program’s second state volleyball championship with a four-set victory over Highland in the Di-

Dudukovich named Ohio Ms. Soccer, leads Lakota West to state title Lakota West junior Kailyn Dudukovich scored 50 goals in 2019, none bigger than her game-winner in the Division I state championship game with 13 seconds left to lift the Firebirds to a 2-1 win over Anthony Wayne.

It marked Lakota West’s fi rst state title since 1999.

“This entire team’s earned it,” Lakota West head coach Brigit Reder said. “The senior class went out and worked their butts off and at the end of the day, we have an extremely talented player in Kailyn Dudukovich.”

One day later, Dudukovich was crowned Ms. Soccer by the Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association.

Wyoming’s Prater becomes area’s 1st Ohio Mr. Football since 1992 Wyoming football had a perfect regular-season and won a regional championship for the second year in a row.

The Cowboys fell short of repeating as Division IV state champs, though, falling to Clyde in the state semifi nals.

But Wyoming quarterback Evan Prater still made history.

The senior UC signee fi nished with 1,816 passing yards, more than 1,500 rushing yards and 49 total touchdowns en route to becoming Cincinnati’s fi rst Mr. Football winner since 1992.

“A second state title would have been great, but winning this award was a huge personal goal for me,” Prater told The Enquirer. “Bringing it back to Cincinnati is huge, not just for me, but my family and the community. Coach (Aaron) Hancock did a great job just supporting me and pushing me to be my best.”

Jim Frey at his Florida home. PROVIDED

Former MLB manager, West High grad Frey dies Dave Clark Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Former Western Hills High School standout Jim Frey, who managed the Kansas City Royals in 1980 and 1981 and the Chicago Cubs from 1984 to 1986, died at the age of 88.

Frey also served as the Cubs’ general manager from 1987 to 1991, hiring former West High teammate and lifelong friend Don Zimmer as the Cubs’ manager in 1988. The Cubs reached the NLCS with Frey as manager in 1984 and with Frey as GM in 1989. The 1980 Royals, managed by Frey, lost in the World Series.

Frey played fi rst base for West High’s 1948 state championship team. Enquirer contributor Mark Schmetzer talked to Frey in 2018: “What I remember most about playing is that we practiced a lot,” recalled Frey, who played in the minor leagues before embarking on a coaching career that included stops on the staff of the 1970s Baltimore Orioles before managing the Royals and Cubs. “We would practice or play almost every day all summer. What distinguished that team from most amateur kids’ teams is we practiced defense a lot. We would go out into the fi eld for an extended period of time. We were well-trained.... We played with pretty much the same fellows. We all started playing Knothole together – me, Glenn Sample, Gannon, the Zimmers (Don and his cousin Bill), a lot of the others. We just had a big group of kids who kind of grew up together and went from winning in Knothole to winning in Legion ball. We won the (Legion national championship) in 1947. “

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system responses is global. UNESCO estimates that 1.5 billion students are aff ected by school and university closures due to COVID-19. In response, the United Nations organization has launched a Global Education Coalition to establish approaches to develop more open and fl exible education systems.

“School closures widen learning inequalities and hurt vulnerable children and youth disproportionately,” UNESCO states on its website.

Recently, on StrivePartnership’s Saturday morning radio show, “Class in Session,” the leaders of four institutions that provide care and learning to urban youth – the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the Cincinnati Recreation Commission, and Cincinnati Pre-

school Promise – shared new ways they are being compelled to engage families. With their neighborhoodbased facilities closed, they are deploying novel approaches to promote student development using social media, technology and other interactions.

The YMCA is streaming programs online, starting with fi tness classes for all age and ability levels. The library hosts virtual reading time with its children’s librarians and curates the best online content being produced elsewhere. The CRC is distributing “Rec to Go” packets full of activities and information for elementary and middle school children. Preschool Promise is providing remote learning materials for preschoolers on its website.

While these eff orts are useful to get us through the crisis, the most eff ective ones being developed by these organizations and other providers will still be needed going forward. Junia Howell, an urban sociologist and researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, recently shared through a webinar hosted by StrivePartnership that the real inequalities will show up down the line.

“The long-term is where we’re going to see detrimental results from all this,” said Howell, a native Cincinnatian whose research has tracked inequalities along race and class that emerge following natural disasters.

We will need every innovation at our disposal to make up lost ground for black, Latino and low-income students. StrivePartnership is prepared to help identify and sustain the most eff ective eff orts emerging from this crisis as our community continues its drive toward education equity.

Byron P. White is executive director of StrivePartnership. Marina Hopkins is StrivePartnership’s director of operations.

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For organizations and school districts that have been focused on reducing education inequities by race and class, the coming months will produce an inevitable setback.

With schools closed and learning happening primarily in quarantined homes, children from economically privileged families will fare better through the COVID-19 outbreak. Those children are more likely to have access to technology needed for instruction.

Their parents tend to have jobs that allow for consistent, hands-on educational support.

Since economically disadvantaged children – who are disproportionately black and Latino – generally perform academically at lower levels than their white and more affl uent counterparts, the achievement gap will only worsen.

However, as we prepare to regroup when social isolation ends, this crisis also will have spurred innovations for how to connect with students at home and new ways to implement distance learning. When physical distancing subsides, we will have no excuse to go back to the education ecosystem that has perpetuated racial and economic disparities for decades.

StrivePartnership is looking to help inventory these new practices, assess their impact and advocate for their sustainability as we go forward.

The imperative to address this sudden, unprecedented educational disruption with equally disruptive

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COMMUNITY NEWS Rotary invites COVID-19 heroes to dinner at home every night They come wearing scrubs and masks after long shifts at hospitals.

Some are coming off an ambulance shift.

As they pick up their children from YMCA Pandemic Child Care Centers across Hamilton County, these parents are stressed and weary. They’re also suddenly smiling as, along with their children, they are picking up dinner – prepared packaged, and purchased to feed their whole family.

The smile-maker is called the Community Heroes Family Dinner Project – conceived by the Rotary Club of Cincinnati to make life a little easier for those essential workers during the COVID-19 health crisis.

The Rotary Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the Rotary Club of Cincinnati – is managing and funding the project. The foundation buys meals from local restaurants, which then deliver them to the eight YMCA pandemic child care centers in Hamilton County.

When parents pick up their children, they also pick up a hearty meal for the whole family.

The project gives families more time together and also supports local restaurants and their workers, said John Fahrmeier of Anderson Township, president of the Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati.

The foundation expects to spend more than $90,000 on the program that started April 6 and runs through May 1.

In its fi rst week, the Foundation provided more than 1,400 meals for 133 families.

Rotary volunteers coordinate with restaurants near the YMCAs. The project budget is $10 per meal and the Rotary adds a $2 tip per meal for the workers.

“I love that it isn’t just the children and the families that we are helping, it is the restaurants and the workers,” said Nancy Riesz, Rotary Club board member who is one of the restaurant recruiters and liaisons for the program.

Riesz, of North Bend, coordinates about 50 dinners a day for families at the Nippert Gamble YMCA in Western Hills. “We have a diff erent restaurant for each day,” said Riesz.

“I was concerned because some of the restaurants are a little higher priced,” she said. But that hasn’t been a problem. “One owner told me to not look

Rachel Appenfelder of Bridgetown, packs dinner bags at her Dunlap Café in Over the Rhine’s Brewery District. PROVIDED

at the prices, just tell him what I wanted.”

Several restaurants are adding desserts as special gifts.

Rachel Appenfelder, owner/manager of Dunlap Café in Over the Rhine, is providing dinners for families at the Carl H. Lindner YMCA in the West End on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays.

“First responders have a special place in my heart,” Appenfelder said.

“This is a good way to give back to the community and it’s helping us, too. Last Tuesday, the Rotary dinners were pretty much the only business we had for the day,” she said.

Appelfelder decorates the meal bags with hearts and smiley faces and talks with some of the families when she delivers the meals.

“I ask what they like,” she said.

“We’re trying to do a comfort meal at the end of the day, and something the kids will eat. Macaroni and cheese is a kid favorite.”

One Monday she paired mac and cheese with barbequed chicken, salad and a dessert. Tuesday was Chicken Fettucine Alfredo with garlic breadsticks and York Peppermint Patties.

Matt Huesman, owner of Maury’s Tiny Cove Steakhouse in Western Hills, called the dinner project “an opportunity to pay it forward.”

“Maury’s has always been a community-driven restaurant,” he said. “These meals are going to people who are serving others. We like being involved.”

Sara Overstake, group vice president of the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, is coordinating the program on the YMCA side.

“These dinners through the Rotary Foundation are a great way to acknowledge that, yes, these people working at the hospitals and labs and other essential jobs in this pandemic are heroes,” she said.

“This is not only a convenience.

Some of these families are making minimum wage or very low wages. A good family dinner every night makes a huge diff erence.”

Malachi Henderson of West Price Hill has a 9-year-old daughter. “I’m considered an essential worker,” he said. “But I don’t make that much money. Having those dinners is a Godsend. Not only does it help spread what groceries we have at the house, but it keeps me from having to cook when I get home and having to go to the grocery so much. I have more time with my daughter.”

The Rotary has been getting thankyou notes from parents.

“Providing meals to my family during the critical time in our history takes a ton of stress off my shoulders,” wrote a

Jennifer Hacker, flight nurse for UC Health, picks up her children, Gianna and Giovanni, both 6, and Everly, 3, and their dinner at the Blue Ash YMCA child care center. PROVIDED

mother and medical worker from East Walnut Hills.

“As my caseload rises to heights I hope I never see again due to COVID-19, I can take one more thing off my to-do list . . . I can now spend extra time with my children who are also feeling the effects of isolation and overall unease.”

Carrie King of the Carl H. Lindner YMCA in the West End said time is one of the greatest gifts these families can get.

“Our families were taken aback when I told them about the program,” said King, When I told one mom, she got tears in her eyes. She said ‘You mean you can give me dinner every night for my kids?”

After the fi rst week, the mom told King “I don’t know where we would be without you.”

Peggy Hodgson, Rotary Club of Cincinnati

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