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Closure of largest revenue source puts Moscow citizens in bind Keith BieryGolick Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

MOSCOW – Danny Freeman stands outside smoking a cigarette, at least his fourth of the afternoon. A portable oxygen tank sits on his kitchen counter inside. His wife Lois just returned home from radiation treatment, hopeful it will be one of her last. On the sidewalk, Freeman looks at the monolithic power plant next door. The one he sued in 2005 and accused of emitting harmful and illegal pollutants. The one a few football ﬁ elds behind a playground and skate park near Moscow’s community center. The one with a 479-foot cooling tower, 23 feet taller than the tallest roller coaster in the world. Originally designed as a nuclear plant, the William H. Zimmer Power Station looks a little like something from “The Simpsons.” Or “Chernobyl.” See MOSCOW, Page 12A

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Kentucky patients turn to Ohio for abortion services ‘Camping’ in state could be short-lived, however Jolene Almendarez and Jordan Laird Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Last week, a 33-year-old mother of two living in Louisville called an abortion clinic in Cincinnati. Nobody picked up. She suspected she was around ﬁ ve

weeks pregnant and the window to get a legal abortion in Ohio was closing. Abortions are only permitted until fetal cardiac activity can be detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy. She next called a clinic in Columbus and was referred to a clinic in Dayton. A worker there told her she didn’t have much time and to come in the next day for a consultation. So, she drove two hours both ways to Women’s Med

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YOUR FORECAST High pressure keeps sunshine for Sunday with lower humidity in the tri-state. Some patchy fog could develop Sunday night into Monday morning, especially in river valleys and for those who received the most rainfall in the last week. Monday will be another day of sunshine, though humidity returns as well as the heat with highs in the upper 80s to near 90. Storm chances return Tuesday, though it appears to be low impact storms in the current forecast. When it isn’t storming, skies will be partly cloudy with muggy air. Skies clear out Wednesday with a stretch of sunshine through the end of the week!

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(Drawings: July 9) Pick 3 (early): 2 5 6 Pick 4 (early): 5 3 6 5 Pick 5 (early): 3 2 2 8 3 (Drawings: July 8) Pick 3 (late): 7 9 9 Pick 4 (late): 2 2 0 5 Pick 5 (late): 6 7 5 7 4 Rolling Cash 5: 1 9 15 26 30 Classic Lotto: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $30.8 million.

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KENTUCKY (Drawings: July 9) Pick 3 (early): 3 6 3 Pick 4 (early): 4 6 8 0 (Drawings: July 8) Pick 3 (late): 7 5 3 Pick 4 (late): 7 1 1 3 Cash Ball: 2 5 14 35, 6

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Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $48 million.

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wanted something that was transportable, whether it be by DoorDash or on the back of your bike,” Ranalli said. “Fried chicken travels well, and there wasn’t anything of that nature in this area.” Ranalli previously owned Son of a Preacher Man, a fried chicken and biscuit restaurant in O’Bryonville, from 2014 to 2016. LoveBird, she added, will use antibiotic- and hormone-free chicken. Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer

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(Drawings: July 9) Daily 3 (early): 1 3 5 (SB: 3) Daily 4 (early): 0 1 6 2 (SB: 3) (Drawings: July 8) Daily 3 (late): 4 5 6 (SB: 7) Daily 4 (late): 0 8 3 5 (SB: 7) Hoosier Lottery: Saturday’s jackpot was an estimated $15 million.

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LoveBird, a new fried chicken concept in Loveland, is now open. The restaurant offi cially opened Tuesday night and will be open Wednesday through Sunday for dinner. In a few weeks, it will also be open for brunch, owner Margaret Ranalli said. Located at 110 S. Second St. in Loveland, LoveBird resides in the former Enoteca Emilia space, an Italian restaurant that closed earlier this year. The new concept specializes in fried chicken, homemade biscuits, baked pies and Southern comfort staples. It will also off er a selection of bourbons, vegetarian dishes and seasonal sides. The brunch menu will include biscuit sandwiches, chicken and waffl es and more. After closing Enoteca Emilia earlier this year and learning to adapt through the pandemic, Ranalli wanted to pivot to more carryout-friendly fare. “With Loveland being such an outdoor- and adventure-based area, I

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Wright a pioneer of women’s rights in 1800s Also pushed against the ‘tyranny’ of marriage Our History Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer

servations in her 1821 book, “Views of Society and Manners in America,” which was complimentary. The success of the book brought her into the inner circle of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, and she accompanied him on his tour of America in 1824-25.

“Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. ‘All men are born free and equal!’ They are born, but do they not so live? Are they educated as equals? And if not, can they be equal? And if not equal, can they be free?”

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Wright was inspired by the socialist philosophies of Robert Owen and his communal town New Harmony, Indiana. She concocted a plan to end slavery with her own community, which she explained in her article, “A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South.” In 1825, she bought a patch of wilderness land near Memphis, Tennessee, and set up a community she called Nashoba. She also purchased slaves to work in the cotton fi elds during the day and be educated in communal schools at night. The proceeds from the plantation would be used to buy their freedom, probably after fi ve years or so. She planned to release the enslaved workers in a less hostile country such as Haiti. She wanted to free their minds as well, and she pushed her more radical ideas against the “tyranny” of marriage and advocated for relations between races and outside of marriage. Her views drew the ire of the press and clergy as well as religious abolitionists. They called her a “female monster” and the “high priestess of infi delity.” The Nashoba experiment failed, and in 1830, she took the slaves to Haiti and liberated them.

While in France, Wright married Phiquepal D’Arusmont and had a daughter, Sylva. When she returned to America, her ideas were out of step. She was criticized for her anti-religious views and for underplaying the importance of abolition when it became the most vital topic in the nation. Crowds dwindled, so she stopped lecturing. She divorced in 1850, amidst a very public lawsuit to retain her property rights, and settled in Cincinnati. In January 1852, she slipped on ice and broke her hip. After months of suff ering from the injury, she died of complications on Dec. 13, 1852. The New York Times obituary refl ected her reputation. “Her ‘free-thinking’ and infi delity … caused a prodigious stir, and made her name a by-word and a hissing among the better class of people. She … was no less famous as a politician than as an infi del.” Yet, times change. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1994. “Fanny Wright was a rebel who pursued equality for all,” her profi le reads. “She lived according to her own ideals rather than society’s dictates.” Frances Wright is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery. Her grave is marked by a time-worn obelisk featuring two of her quotes as an epitaph: “I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, me reputation & my life.” “Human kind is but one family. The education of its youth should be equal and universal.” Sources: “Frances Wright: First Female Civic Rhetor in America” by Robert J. Connors, “Searching for Freedom Through Utopia: Revisiting Frances Wright’s Nashoba” by Renee M. Stowitzky, “Life, Letters and Lectures” by Frances Wright, “Domestic Manners of the Americans” by Frances Trollope.

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Frances Wright was never one to hold her peace. With outspoken opinions on race, sex and marriage, women’s rights and religion that were radical for her time, she likely would have felt more at home in the 1960s than the 1820s. Known widely as Fanny Wright, she is credited as the fi rst woman lecturer in the United States, beginning with her debut lecture on July 13, 1828, at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati. A crowd of more than 200 people fi lled the Federal-style brick building at Court and Main streets. Many wanted to hear what she had to say, others were angry, others were just curious about the woman daring to challenge conventions. “This woman, famous though she might be, was by her behavior off ending some of their most dearly held ideals about the proper conduct of womanhood,” Robert J. Connor wrote in his essay on Wright. She could perhaps more accurately be described as notorious. Her opinions kept her outside of the rest of the 19thcentury women orators who were Christian-based and focused on reform, Connor argued. Instead, she was an atheist and a rationalist, always to be an outsider.

First views of America Frances Wright was born Sept. 6, 1795, in Dundee, Scotland. Orphaned at age 3, she was raised ﬁ rst by a restrictive aunt, then her great-uncle, a professor of natural history in Glasgow. She was fascinated by America from her readings on the recent revolution. Wealthy from her inheritance, Frances and her sister, Camilla, visited America in 1818 and spent two years traveling through the northeast, though they wouldn’t go to the South because they abhorred slavery. Frances wrote her ob-

‘This extraordinary orator’ Wright developed her ideas as editor of the New Harmony Gazette and the Free Enquirer. Then she launched her oratory career in Cincinnati in 1828 in response to the religious revival that had swept through the Queen City the year before. “The victims of this odious experiment on human credulity and nervous weakness, were invariably women,” she wrote in the preface to her collection,

Frances Wright, also known as Fanny Wright, was the ﬁ rst female lecturer in the U.S. and a vocal abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights in the early 19th century. FILE

“Course of Popular Lectures.” “A circumstantial account of the distress and disturbance on the public mind in the Ohio metropolis led me to visit the affl icted city; and since all were dumb, to take up the cause of insulted reason and outraged humanity.” Her friend, the English writer Frances Trollope (who was soon to build the short-lived Trollope’s Bazaar in Cincinnati), witnessed Wright’s fi rst lecture, writing: “That a lady of fortune, family, and education, whose youth had been passed in the most refi ned circles of private life, should present herself to the people as a public lecturer, would naturally excite surprise anywhere, and the nil admirari of the old world itself would hardly be sustained before such a spectacle; but in America, where women are guarded by a sevenfold shield of habitual insignifi cance, it caused an eff ect that can hardly be described.” Her lecture, “On the Nature of Knowledge,” lasted more than two hours and concluded with applause. “All my expectations fell far short of the splendour, the brilliance, the overwhelming eloquence of this extraordinary orator,” Trollope wrote. Wright went on to speak at packed theaters in cities all over. A major cause for her was the need for women’s education. From an 1829 lecture:

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Politics Extra Jason Williams Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Here’s a breakdown of three local and state political stories from the week:

P.G. Sittenfeld found guilty Headline: “P.G. Sittenfeld found guilty of two charges in corruption trial” (Cincinnati.com) Say what? The headline says it all. Analysis: The verdict is a sad ending to former Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld’s once-promising political career. But Friday was a victory for the citizenry – a moment that should send a stern message to politicians from Cincinnati to Columbus and all points in between and beyond. (Take note of the verdict, Larry Householder) The days of public corruption in Ohio are over. Hopefully. For years, accountability had been elusive at Cincinnati City Hall. Though only Sittenfeld was on trial, the jury’s decision provided accountability in Cincinnati politics that wasn’t coming from anywhere else. Not from Sittenfeld. Not from his wealthy enablers. Not from the Democratic Party, which controls City Hall. Not from other elected offi cials. A jury of regular, everyday citizens from across Southwest Ohio got to look behind the curtain and see the dark side of politics. Let’s hope voters follow in the jury’s lead and say: Enough of the backroom dealing and quid-pro-quo culture in politics and government. For individual politicians, the verdict not only provides a cautionary tale about how an elected offi cial should and shouldn’t conduct business. But it also should show anyone who’s looking to run for elected offi ce to gain valuable life experiences outside of politics. Sittenfeld was a career politician. He was raised in a bubble of wealth and privilege and told he could do no wrong. It set him on a dangerous path that led his existence to be wrapped up in always wanting power and money. There’s no other way to explain his illadvised run for the U.S. Senate in 2016. There’s no other way to explain his actions that put him in a courtroom for the past three weeks. Sittenfeld, fi rst elected to council in 2011, lost perspective. That’s assuming he ever had any. “I’m sure I’ll never be in politics again,” he told the jury on the stand earlier in the week. He won’t. State law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony in violation of the public trust from holding state or local offi ce. And Cincinnati is the better for it.

Campaigning on abortion Headline: “Ohio Democrats see abortion restrictions as opening against DeWine” (NBC News) Say what? Nan Whaley, the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, has gone all in on campaigning on abortion. It’s pretty much all she’s talked about

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since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe two weeks ago. Analysis: Pick your poll of choice. They all generally say the same thing: Abortion isn’t going to move the needle in November. Not at a time when gas prices and infl ation are at records highs. The economy and public safety motivate most general-election voters. A recent USA TODAY/ Suff olk University national poll showed that respondents by 2-1 said the economy is a more imporWhaley tant issue to them than abortion. Seven in 10 respondents said that the overturning of Roe will have no impact on whether they’ll vote. Those numbers probably accurately refl ect how voters feel in Ohio, a largely Republican state. Nonetheless, Whaley needed something to try to bolster her long-shot campaign. Gov. Mike DeWine has a strong anti-abortion track record. Whaley hopes the issue will resonate with suburban moms who’ve turned their backs on the Trump-controlled GOP. Remember all the talk about how suburban women were going to fl ip Ohio for Joe Biden in 2020? It didn’t work.

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Special delivery: Poop Headline: “Feces sent to Ohio senators in mail launching investigation” (Cincinnati.com) Say what? Ohio has 25 Republican state senators, and each of them received a package of poop at their Columbus oﬃ ces Thursday morning. Analysis: This is a sad indictment of today’s politics. You have to appreciate a spokesperson who doesn’t speak in talking points, and the Senate’s John Fortney laid the smack down. “These are the same scared, pathetic, little cowards who wouldn’t say s--t to your face, and instead hide behind an envelope or computer keyboard,” Fortney told The Dispatch. It’s not the ﬁ rst time poop has entered politics in recent years. Some January 6 rioters defecated inside the U.S. Capitol and smeared poop around the building, according to multiple media reports. In 2017, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice unveiled a pile of cow manure on a silver platter during a press conference to veto the state budget that lawmakers had sent to his desk. It was Justice’s overly dramatic way of saying the budget was a load of crap. “What we have is nothJustice ing more than bunch of political bull you-knowwhat,” Justice told reporters. Here in Greater Cincinnati, an attention-seeking doofus in 2016 dumped a truckload of manure outside the front door of the Warren County Democratic Party headquarters. Gross. Just like today’s politics. Contact columnist Jason Williams by email at jwilliams@enquirer.com and Twitter @jwilliamscincy

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Trouble ahead for Chabot with abortion issue, new district? GOP leaders say economy a bigger election topic Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Normally, a question on abortion wouldn’t be tough for U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot and other Republicans. That was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and before the boundaries of congressional districts were redrawn. Right after the Supreme Court decision, a Politico reporter asked Chabot whether he’d support codifying Roe v. Wade without expanding access, a proposal introduced by GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Instead of saying yes or no, Chabot told the reporter he had a ﬂ ight to catch “before diving into a waiting car,” Politico reported. Democrats believe the abortion rights issue could tip the scales enough to oust Chabot, a Westwood Republican who’s represented the Cincinnati region in Congress for 26 years. It’s not just in Chabot’s race. Democrats across the country, including President Joe Biden, have said abortion rights will be on the November ballot. Republicans have tried to emphasize the economy, gas prices and inﬂ ation. Chabot has one of the hardest races of his career against Democrat and Cincinnati City Councilman Greg Landsman. The newly redrawn district leans slightly Democratic, by 2 percentage points according to Dave’s Redistricting. It includes all of Warren County and the city of Cincinnati, as well as other parts of northeast Hamilton County.

Chabot supports gun safety bill The new district may have already forced Chabot into unusual votes. He was the only member of the all-Republican Greater Cincinnati U.S. House delegation to support the gun safety bill. He was one of only 14 Republicans in the House to vote for it. The vote came about a month after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 elementary school students and two teachers dead. The bill would require enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21 and would prohibit dating partners convicted of domestic abuse from owning guns. The bill would also provide grants to states that adopt “red fl ag” laws, which allow courts to remove fi rearms from those deemed a threat to themselves or others. Chabot, who had consistently opposed gun restrictions, explained in his blog the bill protected the 2nd Amendment while providing resources to the states. The bill will also provide money for more mental health services and school security. “My reason for supporting it was that I believe it safeguarded Second Amendment rights,” Chabot wrote, “and at the same time provided signifi cant resources towards keeping us all safer, particularly children in our schools.”

Chabot still opposes abortion Democrats have continued to ham-

mer Chabot on abortion. A billboard paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee claims Chabot’s agenda is to ban abortion. Chabot touted his opposition to abortion in a blog post this week, reminding readers he sponsored the partial-birth abortion ban. But he hasn’t said publicly what he’d do on future abortion legislation in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning the constitutional protections on abortion access. The Enquirer reached out to Chabot requesting an interview. Instead of an interview, he sent a statement affi rming his anti-abortion stance. “Everyone knows I am pro-life, and I make no apology for that,” Chabot said in the statement. “Many liberal and Democratic legal scholars have agreed Roe was always based on faulty legal arguments – and this is now a state issue that will be settled at the state level.” He then, in his statement, went on to blame the Democrats for rising gas prices and infl ation. The Enquirer followed up with an email and phone call to his campaign spokesman on how he would vote should legislation come forward to codify Roe. Chabot’s campaign did not respond. Landsman, in a statement after the Supreme Court decision, called on Congress to codify abortion rights. “Personal freedom is central to our democracy and denying women in the right to decide what happens to their own bodies is dangerous and will be deadly,” Landsman said in the statement. Chabot declining to answer whether he’d codify Roe perplexed Republican strategist Mark Weaver from Ohio. “I don’t see any political wisdom in Steve Chabot, who may be among the most pro-life legislators ever sent to Congress, to avoid an opportunity to talk about it,” Weaver said. “If his opponent wants to make the case (Chabot) is prolife, he has a couple hundred fl oor votes he can point to.” Weaver doesn’t think abortion will be a deciding factor. It will take a backseat to the economy and will be a distant memory in November, he said. And the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade won’t motivate many new people to vote Democrat, he said. “It has agitated people that were already blue voters,” Weaver said.

Dems: Abortion issue to linger Democrats appear to think the abortion issue will linger through November. Democrats in other races didn’t waste time using the Supreme Court decision to raise money. Minutes after the decision came out, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan asked his supporters to “help us defeat my anti-choice opponent, J.D. Vance.” Gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley, in an email that afternoon, wrote it’s time to elect a governor “who will protect the right to abortion in Ohio.” Chabot’s response, or lack thereof, shows he knows abortion will be trouble for him, said David Pepper, the former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. “I think he’s in deep trouble,” Pepper said. “The idea that he wouldn’t comment on that shows that.”

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Mason High student Candidates who faces writer, activist backed abortion bans now face each other in Ohio primary Candidates oﬀ er diﬀ erent platforms for voters

Grossmann, Mathews tout pro-life credentials

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A Mason freelance writer will face a rising high school senior in a Warren County Democratic primary this August. The new Ohio House District 56 includes Mason and Lebanon and is entirely in Warren County. The maps will apply for the Aug. 2 primary and the Nov. 8 general election, but new maps will be needed for 2024. The new district leans Republican, according to Dave’s Redistricting, a popular redistricting website. The seat is open as the area’s current Rep. Paul Zeltwanger, R-Mason, is term-limited. The winner of this race will face either Mason City Councilmember Kathy Grossmann or Lebanon Vice Mayor Adam Mathews, the two Republican candidates.

Two Warren County Republicans are hoping their eﬀ orts to ban abortion in their cities will lead voters to send them to the statehouse. Mason City Councilmember Kathy Grossmann is running against Lebanon Vice Mayor Adam Mathews. Both pushed abortion bans in their cities in 2021. The winner of this race will face either Mason resident Joy Bennett or Sam Cao, a Mason High School student, the two Democratic candidates.

Candidates: Joy Bennett, Sam Cao Joy Bennett is a Mason resident who works as a freelance writer. Bennett lived in Arizona and Indiana before moving to Ohio to attend Cedarville University, according to her campaign website. She and her husband have lived in Warren County since 2000. Bennett led a petition eﬀ ort to recall two Mason City council members in 2019 and an eﬀ ort in 2021 to repeal Mason’s abortion ban. She also ran for Mason City Council in 2019. She said multiple people asked her to run for state representative after her work with the petition to repeal the abortion ban. “I want to actively advocate for the

Mason residents Joy Bennett and Sam Cao will face each other in the District 56 Democratic primary on Aug. 2. PROVIDED, LIZ DUFOUR

interests and the concerns in my district. I want them to know they can reach me and I will do what I can to help or connect them to the people who can,” Bennett said. Sam Cao is a rising senior at Mason High School. He’s lived in Mason since 2016, when his family moved from Pasadena, California. At 17, Cao is one of the youngest ever candidates to run for a seat in the Ohio Statehouse. The youngest Ohio state representative was Derrick Seaver, according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s offi ce. Seaver was elected to an Auglaize County seat at 18 and served from 2001 to 2006. Cao will be 18 by the time of the general election. The Ohio Constitution requires candidates for offi ce to have the same qualifi cations as voters, which means they must be 18, be an Ohio resident and have been registered to vote for at least 30 days. Cao told The Enquirer in March that he wants to bring back a “feedback channel between the constituents and Columbus.” “I feel the urgency to run because I See DEMOCRATS, Page 9A

About District 56: Warren County The new District 56 is entirely within Warren County and includes Mason and Lebanon. The maps will apply for the August 2 primary and the Nov. 8 general election, but new maps will be needed for 2024. The new district leans Republican, according to Dave’s Redistricting, a popular redistricting website. The area’s current Rep. Paul Zeltwanger, R-Mason, is term-limited, so this is an open seat. Warren County has historically leaned Republican; Donald Trump won 65% of the vote in the 2020 presidential race. Zeltwanger won every general election since 2014 with over 60% of the vote, according to Warren County Board of Elections results.

The candidates: Kathy Grossmann and Adam Mathews Grossmann, 51, is currently serving her second term on Mason City Council.

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Mason Councilmember Kathy Grossmann is running against Lebanon Vice Mayor Adam Mathews in the District 56 Republican primary on Aug. 2. PROVIDED

She was fi rst elected to the council in 2015 and previously served as mayor. “I want to continue to be a strong advocate for the Republican Party platform and to uphold and advance those guiding principles,” she told The Enquirer. Grossmann grew up in Indiana and fi rst came to Mason as a high school student to perform in live shows at Kings Island, according to her council biography. She has lived in the Mason and Deerfi eld Township area since 1995. She has an education degree from Northern Kentucky University and worked as a fi fth-grade teacher at Sycamore Community Schools until 2001. Grossmann now manages a real estate business. She and her husband, Warren County Commissioner Tom Grossmann, have six children. Mathews, 34, has served on Lebanon City Council since 2019. “I am running so that Ohio can be a great state for my children to grow up to be virtuous young men and women, as well as have good economic opportunities no matter what they choose to do,” See REPUBLICAN, Page 9A

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don’t think that we can sustain the status quo much longer without our communities deteriorating. We just need to ﬁ gure out how to bridge diﬀ erent communities,” he said.

The issues Bennett said she wants to prioritize caring for children and families if she’s elected, by improving education, providing better healthcare support and addressing the needs of single-parent families. She said the COVID-19 pandemic

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he said. Mathews grew up in Mason and attended the University of Notre Dame. He returned to Warren County and settled in Lebanon after receiving bachelor’s degrees in political science and mechanical engineering and a law degree from Notre Dame Law School. He works as a lawyer with the law ﬁ rm Dearie, Fischer & Mathews. Mathews has also served on the boards of the economic development group Main Street Lebanon and the Cincinnati area Federalist Society.

The issues All four candidates across the District 56 primaries have taken public stances on abortion. Mathews was a co-sponsor of Lebanon’s abortion ban, which prompted a lawsuit ﬁ led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and Democracy Forward on May 11. The groups argued the ordinance is too vague and sweeping. In response, Lebanon agreed not to enforce parts of the ban against the plaintiﬀ s in the lawsuit. Grossmann introduced Mason’s abortion ban and voted for the ordinance. It was repealed by Mason City Council in December 2021.

demonstrated fractures in systems that provide support for families. “When their schools were closed many [children] were stuck in unsafe, unhealthy home situations. Our foster care system is overloaded and those are children are experiencing trauma and they will grow up to be adults who have a lot of needs,” she said. Cao has four policies outlined on his campaign website, including updating infrastructure, allocating more resources to dealing with mental health issues and including Asian American and other minorities’ history in the public school curriculum. (Illinois became the ﬁ rst state to require teaching Asian American history in 2021.) Cao said he decided on these policies because he believes it’s what he could

realistically accomplish within a twoyear term. He also feels these are the “most bipartisan issues so that is fully representative of what the majority of this district wants.”

Grossmann said she is passionate about ethics reform in Columbus and improving the culture of local government. She pointed to Mason’s city charter amendment passed in 2021 that requires council members and relevant city staﬀ to disclose in writing any potential conﬂ icts of interest with city real estate transactions before the council votes. “With stronger ethics laws that require more transparency in government transactions, we can improve cultures so we’re making sure those transactions are beyond reproach,” she said. Mathews said he hopes to address workforce development as he has in Lebanon by taking on interns with the Lebanon career development program and working with local packaging businesses to encourage hiring people who’ve been incarcerated. He said he’d also like to continue supporting and furthering the controversial “backpack bill,” which would give every school-age child a voucher for private school tuition or homeschool supplies if passed. Critics say the state can’t allocate money for the bill from education funds without making serious cuts.

Mathews has voted to extend Lebanon’s moratorium on new marijuana dispensaries, cultivators and processers, which he characterized as a ban on marijuana within the city. When asked if he supports legalizing marijuana statewide, Mathews said “currently, we don’t have the safeguards to legalize marijuana in Ohio.”

What about marijuana? Grossmann opposes legalizing marijuana. She noted Matthews is endorsed by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative activist group funded by Charles and David Koch that supports decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level.

Why it matters Either candidate will have a tough time defeating the Republican candidate as Warren County has historically leaned Republican. Zeltwanger won every general election since 2014 with over 60% of the vote, according to Warren County Board of Elections results.

How to vote Election Day is Aug. 2. Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Why it matters Abortion is now left to the state and local level after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Both Grossmann and Mathews pushed for municipal abortion restrictions before the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. “Adam and I are very alike, but I think the question is: who’s the best at advocating our position,” Grossmann said. “I’m a better pro-life candidate because I challenge the pro-choice narrative that laws protecting the unborn are antiwomen.” She said she has experience dealing with pressure from the opposition on Mason City Council, while Mathews has been in the majority on Lebanon City Council. “We need to have leaders that have delivered and provided successes in the pro-life movement in Columbus,” Mathews said given the Supreme Court’s ruling. Mathews said his term on Lebanon City Council delivered successes for “the

Early voting starts July 6. To check your voter registration or polling location or to request a mail-in ballot, visit voteohio.gov. Is District 56 your district? You can check the new maps at ﬁ ndmydistrict. ohiosos.gov. Erin Glynn is the watchdog reporter for Butler, Warren and Clermont counties through the Report For America program. The Enquirer needs local donors to help fund her grant-funded position. If you want to support Glynn’s work email her editor Carl Weiser at cweiser@enquirer.com to ﬁ nd out how you can help fund her work. Do you know something she should know? Send her a note at eglynn@ enquirer.com and follow her on Twitter at @ee_glynn.

pro life movement, for concealed carry, for respecting the medical choices of our staﬀ and volunteers” referencing ordinances allowing license holders to carry guns in the city building and prohibiting the city from instituting a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. “These successes distinguish me from any of my opponents and I plan on bringing those to Columbus,” he said. Cincinnati Right to Life has endorsed both candidates. Ohio Right to Life endorsed Mathews.

How to vote Election Day is Aug. 2. Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Early voting starts July 6. To check your voter registration or polling location or to request a mail-in ballot, visit voteohio.gov. Is District 56 your district? You can check the new maps at ﬁ ndmydistrict.ohiosos.gov. Erin Glynn is the watchdog reporter for Butler, Warren and Clermont counties through the Report For America program. The Enquirer needs local donors to help fund her grant-funded position. If you want to support Glynn’s work email her editor Carl Weiser at cweiser@enquirer.com to ﬁ nd out how you can help fund her work. Do you know something she should know? Send her a note at eglynn@ enquirer.com and follow her on Twitter at @ee_glynn.

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Private Greater Cincinnati ambulance services pummeled by high gas prices EMS owners concerned about cutting operations Brooks Sutherland Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

With a stoic look on his face, Steve Race drove down Main Street in Lebanon in one of his 14 ambulances. He was headed to do something he’s dreaded more than ever over the past few months: fi ll up his gas tank. “I’m never excited to go to the gas station lately,” Race, 51, said as he stuck a fuel nozzle into the 23-gallon tank of his ambulance. The price of gas at Speedway in Lebanon on this particular day: $5.06 per gallon. To fi ll only 13 gallons of the truck, Race, president of USAmbulance, a private emergency medical services company just down the road, shelled out $65.95. The fuel costs are adding up, he said. “These have 23-gallon tanks on them and I (previously) could fi ll them up for $40,” Race said. “Now, you’re in the $90s for a fi ll-up. And we’re fi lling up usually 2-3 times per day.” Many industries feeling the pinch of rising gas prices have the luxury to make up some ground from fuel costs by adding surge pricing or just increasing the cost of goods and services altogether. Ambulance services, which have rates set by the state and federal government can’t do that. Instead, the doubling price of gas eats into their bottom lines. And unlike public ambulance services, private companies don’t have a rainy day fund or money coming in from taxpayers to fall back on. The services are vital to communities, too.

Ambulance companies absorb high gas costs While public ambulances typically take injured or sick patients to the hospital or to emergency rooms, private EMS services often transport patients who need services beyond the hospital. For example, if a patient is taken to the hospital and then needs to go to rehab, a private EMS service is typically called. Or if a patient needs to be taken to another hospital, companies like USAmbulance often fi ll in that gap. Private EMS services employ a lot of up-and-coming fi refi ghters and emergency medical technicians. And because of staffi ng shortages stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, many have raised hourly rates for employees to try to stay competitive in attracting and retaining staff . Race said he and company vice president and business partner, Angel DeLao, have cut their own paychecks to avoid any cuts on employee hours or services they provide. The Lebanon-

Steve Race, president of USAmbulance, has taken a pay cut as rising gas prices have cut into the company's bottom line. PHOTOS BY DAVID KLENK/THE ENQUIRER

Race ﬁ lls up one of his ambulances while prices still hovered just above $5 a gallon.

based company, which employs 54 people, has taken calls as far away as Indianapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Race wants to keep that large footprint as long as he can and not reduce response areas based on gas prices. “If it cuts into my personal pay and Angel’s personal pay, that’s just how it is, we’ll recover it later down the road,” he said. “I just refuse to do that to my employees. And the patients. The nurse in me doesn’t want to let the patients wait, or suﬀ er.”

Difficult decisions Race isn’t the only private EMS executive making diffi cult business decisions lately. Mike Cramerding and cofounders Bruce Metzler and Dave Simonson of Cincinnati Medical Transport have forgone a paycheck from the ambulance service for the time being as well. The three also work full-time as fi refi ghters and put in more than 80 hours a week between the two services. “We’re running on very thin margins,” Cramerding said of Cincinnati Medical Transport, which employs 48 people. “We’re hoping we get some help

soon.” The company has also begun staging vehicles at certain locations where staff members are told not to make any trips until they get a call, a change from when they used to have more freedom to roam and check out hospitals and be prepared for any needs that arise. In the last year, fuel costs at Cincinnati Medical Transport are up 50%, Cramerding said. That’s due to the signifi cant increase in gas prices and also in part because the company has made 10% more runs so far this year. The rise in gas prices and the increase in runs have been compounded by lingering staffi ng issues from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have no people applying for jobs,” Cramerding said. “It’s so tough to get people in the door to start.” Brian Hathaway, chief executive offi cer of Greenville-based Spirit Medical Transport, which is a little over 30 miles north of Dayton, also serves as an appointed member of Ohio’s State Board of Emergency Medical Fire and Transportation Services. Though there’s nothing his board can do to rectify the situation, he’s hearing from private EMS owners all over the state about concerns related to fuel costs. Hathaway is also feeling the eff ects himself. Over the last 90 days, Spirit’s fuels costs are up $65,000. “The challenge to us, of course, is that Medicare and Medicaid have set our rates,” he said. “And they’re not providing us any relief. Based upon reimbursement rates, there are EMS organizations across the state that are already on life support. You put the fuel prices in there, and they’ve pulled the plug on us.”

A system on the edge The national average of gas prices

has thankfully continued to fall over the past 21 days, according to AAA, but is still lingering at a high amount, an average of $4.77, as of Wednesday. The average in Ohio is $4.70. Last July, the average was $3.13. In mid-June, the average was as high as $5.02. The small relief is welcomed for private EMS owners, but they need more of it to survive. Race said he will do anything he can to not cut back on services and employee hours, but admits operations have very much become a day-to-day process. Hathaway has reduced the number of extra miles his ambulances drive and is paying close attention to where calls come from. He, too, is determined to do anything but cut hours from employees as the shortage of new EMS workers persists and hiring a full staff becomes a challenge. “There’s help wanted signs on every street corner,” he added. He’s very concerned about sustaining operations under the current conditions. “We don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring, let alone what it’s going to look like a month, two months, three months, six months from now,” he said. “We just continue to try to make the very best of the situation we’ve been dealt.” Cramerding hopes the government will step up and provide some relief to businesses being crippled by the rising costs who can’t adjust rates to meet infl ation. “No matter what side of the issue you’re on, it really doesn’t matter, when the government sees this, they have to be quicker to change when your receipts are completely controlled by them,” Cramerding said. “When you’re not quick to change, then everybody suff ers. And what we do, I think, is a very important thing for elderly people in our country.” The owners are making adjustments for the time being but worry about sustainability should gas prices remain high. If one were to fall under, given the shortages of EMS workers, it would “immediately adversely aff ect the entire system,” Cramerding said. “Those patients are impacted,” Race added. “They can’t get them out of the hospital, hospital expenses go up because the patients are left in the hospital longer. Their treatment time getting to recovery is longer because they may be in the hospital two or three or four more days.” If the conditions remain long term, Race said he would have to consider how many trucks he would keep on the road and have to begin to make some more tough choices about operations. For now, the company presses on. “We just move on the best we can,” he said.

Wellmann to bid adieu to Japp’s with sale ‘I went to the eclipse of where I could l go’ Keith Pandolﬁ Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Molly Wellmann, Cincinnati’s most famous mixologs, announced that she is selling her iconic Over-the-Rhine cocktail bar Japp’s Since 1879 to Four Entertainment Group (4EG) eﬀ ective July 11. Wellman helped bring national media attention to the Cincinnati bar and restaurant scene, regularly appearing in publications such as the New York Times and Esquire, which named Japp’s one of the best bars in America in 2016. In 2019, the Bar and Night Club Association named Wellmann the best bar owner in America. “I knew my time was done as a bar owner,” Wellman told The Enquirer. I went to the eclipse of where I could l go. I won best bar owner in the country so I’m not sure where I could have gone from there.” Wellmann said the sale was contingent on 4EG keeping her staﬀ as well as the musical acts that appear each week on board. “The Bands that you love will still be playing! The same great cocktails will be served! But The time has come for

The interior of Japp’s Since 1879. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Molly Wellmann at Japp’s. ENQUIRER FILE

me where I’m ready for a change, a new chapter,” she wrote on a Facebook post Thursday night. She also said the challenges caused by the pandemic played a part in her decision to sell. “After two years of stress and a lot of anxiety, I decided this was the time,” she told the Enquirer. Wellmann leased the Japp’s space at 1184 Main Street in 2010. It was origi-

nally known as a wig and hair store opened by John G. Japp, a German immigrant, in 1879. While another bar named Japp’s opened in the same space in the early 1990s, under Wellmann, it became known for its drinks menu, which featured historic cocktails from Cincinnati and beyond. In a joint statement from Wellmann and 4-EG Bob Deck, 4EG’s managing

partners wrote, “Molly is a longtime friend of mine and an icon in the Greater Cincinnati bar and restaurant industry. We’re ecstatic she has entrusted us to keep the Japp’s brand alive through high-quality cocktails and historical storytelling. In addition to keeping the beloved Japp’s name, we plan to retain the existing staﬀ members and honor previously scheduled events, bands and DJs, to ensure a seamless transition.” Other 4EG properties include Pillar bar, Downtown, Keystone, Rosedale and the Lackman, among many others. When asked if she would host a farewell party, Wellmann told the Enquirer, “I didn’t want to do that. Because I’ll just cry. “I’m not leaving Cincinnati,” she continued. “I’ll still be here.”

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Center in Kettering, near Dayton. Ohio has a 24-hour waiting period, so she made the drive again for her abortion the next day. “I was so mad driving back up here,” the woman said. “I feel like it’s a woman’s choice.” She wasn’t the only one who traveled to Ohio for an abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned June 24 and Kentucky’s trigger ban took eﬀ ect. A 24-year-old nursing student from Northeast Kentucky made the same trip on the same days. They both asked that their names not be published, citing privacy and safety concerns. The women crossed paths in the waiting room of the Dayton clinic last week. They talked about their frustrations trying to book an appointment. They talked about traﬃ c and poked fun at the antiabortion advocates outside who yelled at them to reconsider their choice as they entered the clinic. And they talked about how hopeful they were to receive abortions – as long as the doctor did not detect fetal cardiac activity on an ultrasound. Otherwise, abortion isn’t an option in Ohio. They’d have to travel elsewhere. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana obstetrician-gynecologist, said she had to help a 10-year-old Ohioan get an abortion days after Roe v. Wade was overturned. A colleague who handles child abuse cases referred the patient to Bernard because the post-six-week abortion is still legal in Indiana. The child was six weeks and three days pregnant.

A nurse holds the hand of a patient as she undergoes an abortion at the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, near Dayton, on June 30. The woman, who had traveled from Kentucky, was only a little over ﬁ ve weeks pregnant. No heartbeat had been detected during her sonogram. When Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court on June 24, Kentucky shut down all abortions because of trigger laws. PHOTOS BY LIZ DUFOUR/THE ENQUIRER

‘Camping’ in Ohio – for now The two Kentucky women were able to drive themselves to an abortion provider out of state. But not everybody has the money or support needed to make the trip. It’s why people are doing what people on the internet call “camping.” Camping is one of the phrases some are using online as code to support those seeking abortions, though, national organizations warn the practice isn’t safe. One of those people in Cincinnati is Lindsey Swadner, 28, who had an abortion about a decade ago. She was ﬂ at broke, in a bad relationship, and had just found out she was pregnant, she said. A co-worker had to loan her the few hundred dollars she needed for an abortion. When she arrived at the clinic, protesters held signs and tried to stop her from pulling into the parking lot. “They were very vocally violent. They were very terrible. They had no idea that I was trying to get out of a very bad scenario myself,” said Swadner, who owns The Hub OTR in Over-the-Rhine and is vocal on social media. She credits having an abortion with having set her up to live a life of her choosing, and she wants to make sure other people have the same opportunity. She’s willing to open her home to people in need of a place to stay while they recover or travel to an abortion location. She’s also reached out to national organizations to get connected with those who have been providing abortion access assistance for years.

Dr. Catherine Romanos, with the Women’s Med Center, performs a sonogram on a woman from Kentucky on June 30. Romanos identiﬁ ed the amniotic sac and said the pregnancy wasn’t viable. There was no heartbeat from the fetus.

“Women traveling to another state to take the life of her own child shows you how tragic abortion is.” Laura Strietmann Executive director of Cincinnati Right to Life

What anti-abortion groups say Those who oppose abortion say they want to off er people diff erent options. In a statement, Ohio bishops called for people to care for women and children, “both before and after delivery, with both material resources and personal accompaniment so that they can fl ourish and contribute to the common good.” That includes helping women access “life-affi rming” pregnancy resource centers and other social services through organizations like Walking with Moms in Need. Laura Strietmann, executive director of Cincinnati Right to Life, said, the organization has worked for years to criminalize abortion and will continue the fi ght to end medicated abortions in Ohio. “And women traveling to another state to take the life of her own child shows you how tragic abortion is,” she said. It’s not illegal in Ohio or Kentucky to help a person fi nd information about legal abortions or to off er them transportation. It’s what the Kentucky Health Justice Network, and other abortion fund organizations, have been doing for roughly a decade. Erin Smith, executive director of the Kentucky Health Justice Network, warns that while many are trying to help those seeking abortions, people need to be careful. “I would not take that risk. I do not recommend it. I recommend calling all

Standing in front of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, near Dayton, Ohio, Dave Herbert, 84, of Centerville, waves as people honk their support June 24. Jerbert has been ﬁ ghting abortion at this spot for 15 to 20 years.

your state and local abortion funds,” Smith said. The same goes for people who want to volunteer. Smith says organizations like the network vet and train volunteers who work at call centers and oﬀ er transportation assistance to those in need. But online, there’s no telling who people are or what their motives may be. Kentucky Health Justice Network mostly serves eastern Kentucky and Appalachia, but anyone can contact the organization for help. Volunteers are especially needed in the northern Kentucky and Cincinnati area, Smith said.

teed through the state constitution. It’s a legal eﬀ ort similar to the ones in Louisiana and Utah, where abortion bans have also been suspended. The legal status of abortions also remains a ﬂ uid situation in Ohio. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled against abortion providers Friday, who requested an emergency stay on a 2019 law put into effect hours after the Supreme Court ruling. The law criminalizes abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. In addition, Gov. Mike DeWine recently said he wants to “go as far as we can” to prohibit abortion.

A changing legal landscape

Back to their lives

Kentucky’s “trigger law” immediately criminalized abortion on June 24. But Jeﬀ erson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry granted a request to lift the trigger law while it’s challenged in court. Attorneys for the two abortion providers in Kentucky say abortions are a right guaran-

The Louisville woman who needed an abortion says she was recently diagnosed with an immune system disorder and it’s not good for her health to be pregnant. She also has a strained relationship with the man who got her pregnant.

The day she got her abortion, she had to hurry back to Louisville for her evening shift at a hotel. The nursing student is engaged and has other responsibilities: two young children and she’s trying to fi nish school. Her partner knows about her choice to have an abortion. Money is tight for both women and they can’t aff ord to care for another child. “I’m ready to get this over with,” the nursing student said. At Women’s Med Center in Dayton, patients from Ohio can receive two pills to end their early pregnancies at home. The pills are taken 24-48 hours apart. But Kentucky patients cannot cross state lines with the pills and must receive a suction aspiration abortion instead. Dr. Catherine Romanos, an abortion provider at Women’s Med Center, said the clinic has always treated lots of patients from Kentucky, even before the Supreme Court ruling. That may be because Kentucky only has two abortion clinics, both in Louisville, serving the state. Romanos performed the abortion on the Louisville woman last Thursday. The 33-year-old gripped the nurse’s hand as she endured some uncomfortable pressure. The doctor tried to distract her during the approximately fi ve-minute procedure by asking her about plans for the long July 4 holiday weekend. The nursing student had her abortion before the Louisville woman. She said the day after her abortion she felt relieved. “I have peace of mind and I feel like I can fi nally function properly again.”

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The William H. Zimmer Power Station is visible from a playground next to the community center in the Village of Moscow. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

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On a hot June day, there is nothing billowing from the plant’s smokestacks. There is no drone of heavy industry. It is quiet, because the plant is closed. Permanently. “I’m glad it’s gone,” Freeman says. “But it’s going to hurt the town.” On May 31, Moscow’s largest revenue source ceased operations. Now, some residents are petitioning to dissolve the village entirely. In this idyllic small town along the Ohio River, tragedy and turmoil are nothing new. So will this be another example of the village’s resilience, or the beginning of the end? It depends who you ask. A few weeks earlier, Tim Suter is driving through Moscow. He points out some of the things the village has lost over the years. “That used to be a bank,” he says. “That was a church,” he says. “My grandparents’ restaurant was there,” he says. “All the way down by the river.” The drive only lasts a few minutes, because that’s all there is to see. Suter parks near the Ohio River and walks to a park bench. To his right is the coalburning power plant. He takes a deep breath. Suter is frustrated. A lifelong resident and village mayor for more than two decades, he’s done multiple interviews like this. He puts on a brave face, but he doesn’t have all the answers. He doesn’t know what’s going to happen. To the power plant, or the village’s money. There are questions about the plant’s tax bill, which makes up almost 90% of Moscow’s revenue. More bluntly, there are questions about whether the village will survive. Suter listens to these questions and responds calmly. In many ways, Moscow is a village deﬁ ned by tragedy. It always has been. But the newest disaster is harder to see. Still, Suter says oﬃ cials have been planning for years. He says the village only has two employees, and one works part-time. He says they’ve cut what they can and recently implemented a trash collection fee. He says Moscow will survive, because the people here are tough. He says Moscow will survive, because it always has.

Danny Freeman, 68, a former Moscow village councilman, searches through family photo albums at his home on June 14. SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

pummeled them with 160-mph winds. The tornado moved across the river and knocked down a church bell tower. The bell couldn’t be found. When Tracey emerged from her home, she saw streets that were once lined with greenery but now looked as if the trees had been thrown into a woodchipper. When she found her husband, she told him she was OK. Not everyone could say the same. Carol Forste was a councilwoman who didn’t like having her picture taken. But the Moscow native took tremendous pride ensuring the village always looked picturesque. Some of the trees she and others planted were among the few to survive the tornado. When the mayor reached what was left of Forste’s home, fi refi ghters grabbed him and pulled him back. Forste was with her son when their house collapsed on top of them. Her son crawled out and yelled for help. Offi cials found Forste, but they couldn’t reach her. They used a backhoe to clear debris. It took hours to dig out her body.

‘Moscow always recovers’

Flood water inundates the Village of Moscow in Clermont County in 1997. ENQUIRER FILE

A home in the Village of Moscow is damaged by a tornado in March of 2012. ENQUIRER FILE

The tornado on March 12, 2012, damaged 80% of the structures in Moscow and left one-third of the homes uninhabitable. Some would never be rebuilt, and some residents would never return. The tornado destroyed the last bar in town. It was not the ﬁ rst natural disaster to threaten Moscow’s very existence. The village was founded in 1816 and at one time had almost 1,800 residents. Today, less than 200 people live here. Continued on next page

‘Everything’s gone’ In 2012, Suter drove over debris and rubble for as long as he could. Eventually, he parked on the highway and walked. In some places, he crawled. With power lines and trees down everywhere he looked, there was no other way. When he ﬁ nally reached Moscow, he saw what his wife had told him on the phone. “It’s gone,” she said. “Everything’s gone.” A short time earlier, Tracey Suter huddled in the basement with her daughter, holding her granddaughter tightly. Outside, rain fell sideways and a tornado as wide as the village itself

An aerial view of destruction from a tornado in the Village of Moscow photographed in March of 2012. The tornado damaged 80% of the structures in Moscow and left one-third of the homes uninhabitable. ENQUIRER FILE

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In 1937, a fl ood washed away 20 homes and left mud spots that can still be seen today. In 1997, another fl ood inundated the town. The Ohio River gushed over riverbanks around Elizabeth Street, just east of Third Street. Within six hours, water reached the middle of the village and submerged 21 cars. Citizens on a hay wagon and tractor evacuated the post offi ce. The village rebuilt. Financially, it was in good shape. Village offi cials drew extensive tax revenue from the power plant. “Everyone thought it was going to be a godsend,” said Dennis Skeene, Moscow’s former police chief, about the Zimmer plant. Originally conceived as a nuclear plant, construction began in 1969. It was delayed again and again. On the same day offi cials approved safety plans in 1979, a nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania partially melted down, releasing radioactive gas into neighboring communities. With its future uncertain and millions of dollars already spent, Zimmer was converted to a coal-fi red power plant. It didn’t open until 1991. Before Zimmer, Skeene said, most village roads were gravel, and some people still used outhouses. But like Moscow itself, the power plant’s story has not been straightforward. During construction, engineers quit and there were accusations of safety violations. In 2005, a group of citizens fi led a class-action lawsuit against the former Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. It was settled in 2009, and 98 residents received $3,879 each. Plant offi cials pledged to upgrade equipment and facilities, as well as study other possible improvements. The village continued to run off the plant’s tax revenue, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last decade. And in 2016, Moscow celebrated its bicentennial. In one of the fi rst pages of a book documenting the occasion, the authors recounted the village’s tragic history. “Moscow always recovers,” they wrote. Later, in that same celebration of the village, the book featured a 1962 newspaper article. In it, a journalist interviewed a general store operator. She was less hopeful. “Moscow has been slowly dying ever since the riverboat days faded into history.”

Mayor Tim Suter sits in the village’s history room, which documents numerous natural disasters residents of Moscow have faced over the years. PHOTOS BY SAM GREENE/THE ENQUIRER

Tracey Suter, wife of Mayor Tom Suter, gives a tour of historic photos and artifacts on display at the Moscow Historical Society gallery in the Village of Moscow on May 11.

Effort to dissolve the village Danny Freeman used to hate Moscow, where one story about the village’s name comes from a boy yelling “ma’s cow.” Another involves Napoleon. Freeman grew up in Cincinnati’s East End, before moving to Clermont County with his wife when he was 17. He used to drive home from work, shower and drive back to Cincinnati. But over the years, he grew to love small-town life. He used to hunt rabbits and squirrels on the property Zimmer now occupies. After the tornado tore the top oﬀ his home, he and his wife moved to a farm in Monroe Township. “What’s next?” he asked his wife. “Locusts?’ ” What came next for Danny Freeman was a heart attack. When the 68-yearold could no longer keep up with the cows and pigs and chickens on his farm, he moved back to Moscow in 2019. Now, he is trying to dissolve the

Dennis Skeene, 70, a lifelong resident and former village police chief, at the home of his friend, Danny Freeman, on June 14. Skeene talks about his time on the police force and how the village has changed.

village. If that were to happen, it means there would be no village council and no mayor. It means tax money from the power plant would go to Washington Township, which would now be responsible for governing the village. It means maintaining the parks and running the community center would now be the township’s responsibility.

It means Moscow would become a story for the history books, but only an unincorporated place in Clermont County. Freeman started thinking about dissolving the village during Moscow’s July Fourth parade last year, which made him feel like he lived in a subdivision. Because of how many people live here, he says he only needed 19 signatures to get this on the ballot. Only 18 of his signatures were validated. He says he’ll try again this fall.

Even closed, power plant tied to village Freeman then takes out his cell phone and scrolls to pictures from a few weeks after he moved back to Moscow. The pictures show what appear to be white specks of limestone on his car. He says they came from the power plant, and he says signiﬁ cant dustings have happened three times since he moved back. Around here, people call them “touchdowns” and “white rain.” Times

when the wind and the weather are just right. Times when equipment malfunctions. Times when smokestack plume and dust cover parts of town. Times when, according to one resident, it tastes like aluminum to stand outside. When residents complained, Zimmer offi cials gave out car wash coupons. Sometimes, they paid for window cleanings. At least once, they purchased someone’s home. Freeman led the eff ort to sue in 2005. He set up a camera in his grandson’s room that took pictures of Zimmer. He attended “smoke school” to learn how to study visible emissions from the power plant. Even today, Freeman checks the wind direction when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Experts say living near coal-burning power plants can lead to asthma and breathing diffi culties, brain damage, heart problems, cancer, neurological disorders and premature death. They also say these health issues are never caused by just one factor. Throughout the lawsuit and its settlement, Zimmer offi cials denied any wrongdoing and said they spent billions of dollars on pollution controls. Vistra Energy, the plant’s current owner, did not respond to an interview request for this story. At a public meeting in March, a Vistra executive compared Zimmer’s closing to the death of an old friend. The executive said they’ve always tried to be good neighbors. Based in Texas, Vistra took over the plant after a merger in 2018 and announced plans to decommission it two years later. The company laid off 87 people. Years ago, the mayor says, the village received close to $1 million in tax revenue from the plant. Now, they receive $84,584 a year. That’s still almost 90% of the village’s revenue, Suter says. The owners of the power plant want to pay even less. They appealed Clermont County’s recent property valuation, arguing the property should be worth $28.5 million – $111.5 million less than what the county auditor appraised it for. If Vistra wins its appeal, the village could be forced to repay thousands of dollars.

‘You never get over it’

The William H. Zimmer Power Station is visible from the intersection of Walnut and Second streets in Moscow. Moscow’s largest revenue source ceased operations on May 31.

Christmas was her favorite holiday. Every year, Carol Forste began decorating the day after Thanksgiving. It took her weeks. Her husband, Butch, remembers ﬁ ghting about it. For her, everything had to be just right. Especially the two large trees on either side of their home. The ones Butch strung 7,000 lights on. Butch Forste was a custodian at New Richmond Schools, and he was at work when the 2012 tornado killed his wife. The tornado destroyed his home. It also took every picture he had of Carol, except one. In that framed photo, she sits in front of a Christmas tree. It’s opulently decorated in garland, tinsel and lights. She isn’t smiling. “You never get over it,” Butch says. He didn’t grow up in the village, but he’s lived here since 1968. Five months after the tornado, Butch moved into a new house on the same corner lot where his wife of 47 years died. In the basement, the 80-year-old holds the only remaining photo of his wife. He says he never considered moving. He only wanted to rebuild. Because Moscow was home. Moscow is home.

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ANALYSIS

Sittenfeld went from ‘boy wonder’ to felon Verdict a ‘dark, dark moment for Cincinnati’

hopeful side,” Niven said. “There’s a new council and a new mayor, who in some sense, owe their political beginnings to these charges and this series of embarrassments.”

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Before he was indicted in November 2020, P.G. Sittenfeld had been a Cincinnati city councilman for nine years and was poised to become the city’s next mayor. He was the number one vote-getter in his previous council race. Donors piled money into his coff ers. And some of the wealthiest people in the city supported him. On Friday, Sittenfeld, 37, looked like a shell of himself as a jury of 12 people found him guilty of felony charges of bribery and attempted extortion. Sitting between his two lawyers as the verdicts were read aloud, Sittenfeld slumped forward. His lawyer told reporters outside the courthouse that Sittenfeld was “crushed.” The jury’s decision, fi nding him guilty on two of six counts, means that under state law Sittenfeld will never be the city’s mayor or hold any local political offi ce again. The guilty verdicts sent shockwaves through the packed courtroom – where Sittenfeld’s wife and at least one other woman could be heard crying – as well as throughout the city. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Based on federal sentencing guidelines, Sittenfeld could face between 15 months and 31⁄ 2 years in prison, according to Chase College of Law professor Kenneth Katkin, who attended nearly every day of the trial. Sittenfeld is the second former Cincinnati city councilperson within the last two years to be convicted of federal charges. Last year, Tamaya Dennard pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 as part of an unrelated scheme to exchange her votes for money. Dennard was sentenced to 18 months in prison, a term she did not serve immediately because of COVID-19. She was recently released from

Former Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld walks into federal court alongside his wife, Dr. Sarah Coyne, on Friday PHIL DIDION/THE ENQUIRER

prison. Charges remain pending against a third former councilman, Jeﬀ Pastor, which span the same time period as the case against Sittenfeld.

Underbelly of Cincinnati politics The area’s top federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker, said his oﬃ ce worked alongside the FBI to hold Sittenfeld accountable for abusing his oath as well as the trust voters had placed in him. “It’s not about winning or losing,” Parker told The Enquirer. “It’s about seeking a particular judgment that’s going to lead to accountability.” The case exposed the underbelly of Cincinnati politics. The corruption extended far beyond Sittenfeld and how he obtained his campaign contributions. Jurors heard from a developer who said he felt “preyed upon” by politicians seeking money. A once-respected fundraiser stole $15,000 in cash that undercover FBI agents had given him, inter-

rupting an investigation into then-Mayor John Cranley’s campaign fi nances. In fact, Cranley was mentioned several times during Sittenfeld’s threeweek trial. He was accused of having vendettas against people as well as orchestrating illegal donations during his fi rst mayoral run in 2013. Also, in recorded conversations, Cranley was described as diffi cult to work with, “prickly,” and “a pain in the a--.” Throughout the trial, Cranley has been traveling out of the country and was unavailable for comment Friday. On Saturday, in an email, Cranley said, “I have always acted ethically and honestly and resent any implications to the contrary.” Last week, through a spokeswoman, Cranley denied any wrongdoing related to campaign donations. University of Cincinnati political science professor David Niven called the case a Shakespearean tale, “part tragedy, part farce.” “It’s a dark, dark moment for Cincinnati, from which folks will try and see a

When Sittenfeld dropped out of the mayoral race, it paved the way for Aftab Pureval to become mayor. Pureval, who last year was elected as Sittenfeld awaited trial, has kept quiet about the corruption allegations that preceded him. But he’s taking them seriously. Pureval told The Enquirer that city council as well as his administration has been focused on restoring the public’s trust in city hall. There is now mandatory ethics and confl ict-of-interest training, and a fi rst-ever code of conduct for elected offi cials and their offi ces. His administration also has established a public and searchable database of individuals associated with developments before the city, and established rules saying that elected offi cials can’t accept donations associated with developments that are before city council. “After today, we move forward even more committed to prioritizing transparency and ethics in our government,” he said. Niven said Sittenfeld’s fall from being on the verge of the city’s most powerful elected position was stunning. “From the moment he ran his fi rst city council race, he was the boy wonder of Cincinnati city politics,” Niven said. “And no matter what happened with the verdict, all that came crashing down with the indictment. His good name was gone.” Niven added that a comeback is improbable. “There have been folks who’ve made comebacks after legal trouble. But in almost all cases it was, in part, because they had kind of a roguish charm,” he said. “P.G. Sittenfeld did not present himself as having a roguish charm. He presented himself with having a Boy Scout charm. Boy Scouts don’t come back from federal convictions.”

Ohio

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La Salle mourns the loss of football teammate in crash

Investigation begins into feces sent by mail to Ohio senators

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La Salle High School junior Cameron Kerkhoff , 16, killed in a car crash on Wednesday afternoon, is being remembered as a hard worker who always had a smile on his face. La Salle principal Aaron Marshall alerted Lancer families and staff of the news roughly an hour before a 10:30 p.m. prayer service for the family of the rising junior at the De La Salle chapel on Wednesday night. “Please keep the Kerkhoff family in your prayers during this diffi cult time,” Marshall wrote. “Live Jesus in our hearts.” The Butler County Coroner’s Offi ce on Friday confi rmed Kerkhoff ’s death at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 6, at the 7400 block of River Road in Fairfi eld Township. According to Fairfi eld Township Police Department, athletic director Brian Meyer and head football coach Pat McLaughlin also found out the news late in the evening and were en route to the school. McLaughlin described Kerkhoff as a hard worker who always had a smile on his face. “He did everything you asked him to do,” McLaughlin said. “It’s just hard to put into words right now. We’re trying to piece everything together and rally our kids, the community and pray for Cam.” The Lancers had the Fourth of July week off for practice but are scheduled

La Salle football player Cameron Kerkhoff died tragically Wednesday afternoon. PROVIDED BY LA SALLE ATHLETICS

to reconvene Monday. “Our team is shook up,” McLaughlin said. “We’re just trying to fi gure it out. He’s a La Salle Lancer. He’s our brother. We’re all here for him and his family right now. When stuff like this happens, you want to be around the family, the team and the kids.” Funeral arrangements were released Friday morning. The visitation is Tuesday, July 12 from 5-8 p.m. in the De La Salle Chapel at La Salle High School. Mass of Christian Burial is Wednesday, July 13 at 11 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church on Dry Ridge Road. If sending fl owers, they request them to be delivered to Frederick Funeral Home, 2553 Banning Road by 2 p.m. July 12.

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Leo the Library cat, a big orange tabby and celebrity at the Glendale Community Library, died Wednesday. Glendale is fl ying its city fl ag at half-staff to honor the longtime resident of the library basement. Leo followed a strict routine in the Village Square of this Cincinnati suburb: wake up in his basement suite in the library, grab lunch at the Bluebird Bakery, visit his many friends and sample dinner at Meritage Restaurant. His favorite meal was salmon, but he wouldn’t say no to steak or chicken either, library volunteer Betsy Benn told The Enquirer. At the library, Leo held the offi ce of Mouser and Greeter. “He made a position for himself here that didn’t exist before and probably wouldn’t again with any other cat,” Benn said. “He was just very, very special. He truly loved people.” When she trained new volunteers, Benn said she told them to always open the door if the handle rattled but they couldn’t see a person. That meant Leo was ready to come inside. Leslie Moorhead, a Glendale resident, said she and her 3-year-old son, Leo, saw the cat named Leo often at the playground. “We go up there every day,” Moorhead said. Finding Leo was a highlight for her son and his friend. “They all walk around meowing trying to fi nd Leo the cat.” Moorhead said she and other Glen-

A federal investigation has been launched after all 25 Republican members of the Ohio Senate were mailed envelopes full of feces on Thursday morning. The packages were sent almost a week earlier from a Cleveland post offi ce. The packages were intercepted by Statehouse, Cleveland and Akron post offi ces before reaching the senators, according to a statement from Ohio House spokesman John Fortney. He wasn’t able to say whether similar envelopes had been sent to Ohio House Republicans as well. The incident is being investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service as a federal crime. Fortney wrote in a statement that the Ohio Highway Patrol has also been notifi ed. Sen. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, was

one of the intended recipients. “It’s gross and stupid; immaturity at its highest level,” Hottinger said. So far, there doesn’t seem to be a clear motive as to why the envelopes were sent. But both Ohio senators and representatives were warned to be cautious when opening mail at home. On a personal level as a Statehouse employee, Fortney said he felt the act was cowardly and not only impacted state senators but also state employees. Fortney called those who sent the envelopes “pathetic, little cowards.” “They should’ve just sent a selfi e, because it’s the same thing,” Fortney said. “I’d be more than happy to explain it to them in a parking lot or cornfi eld of their choice.” This isn’t the fi rst time Hottinger has experienced harassment. Several years ago, he received an anonymous death threat that led to an arrest. “Just another crappy day,” Hottinger said.

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dale parents are working out how to explain to their kids that Leo won’t be around anymore “It’s gonna be a hard lesson for these kids ... Leo the cat was like a little boy trapped in a cat’s body,” Moorhead said. Leo regularly attended monthly story time at the library, as well as yoga classes and the village’s Concerts on the Green. The only gathering he steered clear of, Benn said, was Barktoberfest, an annual fundraising event where residents brought their dogs. The library buried Leo at one of his favorite spots, a side garden with a bird bath he loved to lay under. Benn said the community center will mark the spot with a memorial plaque or an engraved rock.

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Celebration of Service event raises $576K for homelessness St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati honored Sherie Marek and Linda Mueller at its seventh annual Celebration of Service event, held on Thursday, May 19 at Anderson Pavilion and Carol Ann’s Carousel at The Banks. This year’s event generated a record amount of support. Nearly 300 guests gathered to celebrate Marek and Mueller’s longtime involvement with SVDP and their advocacy for Cincinnati’s neighbors in need. Through gifts made in their honor, sponsorships and ticket sales, this year’s Celebration of Service raised $576,000 to support SVDP’s Homelessness Prevention Program. Kristen Gallagher, St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati

Glorious Garlic open house It’s time for Glorious Garlic. Come out to our open house event Sunday, July 10 at Aberlin Springs. Join us for chef demos with Chef Rebecca Denney. These demos create easy to duplicate recipes that you can prepare at home. There will be plenty of fresh produce and artisanal products to purchase in our farmers market. Ttop by to see our beautiful decorated model home, luscious crops and adorable animals. Farm to table living at Aberlin Springs gives you the advantage of the farm, without the work. h Farm Tours from noon to 3 p.m. h Home Tours from noon to 5 p.m. h Aberlin Springs, 3396 Harvest Ridge in Morrow Beth Fontaine, Aberlin Springs

COLLEGE HILL Exploring history of College Hill The Westwood Historical Society meeting on July 13 will feature Ed Loyd, president of the College Hill Historical Society. He will explore the history of College Hill, which earned its name with the establishment of the Farmers’ College and the Ohio Female College. These institutions attracted talented, artistic and reform-minded leaders, including active supporters of the Underground Railroad. By the Civil War era, several Cincinnati industrialists began locating their estates in the neighborhood, and some grand homes and stories came to the community. The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at Westwood First Presbyterian Church (3011 Harrison Avenue – parking and entrance oﬀ of Koenig Avenue). Liz Kissel, Westwood Historical Society

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP Hamilton-Mason/Mauds Hughes intersection closing for changes A major improvement at the Hamilton-Mason/Mauds Hughes Road intersection will close it for nearly four months beginning July 12. The closing is for phase two of the Hamilton-Mason Corridor Improvement project. The project includes construction of a new traffi c signal with a coordinated signal placed at the narrow railroad underpass just east of the project. Left turn lanes will be added to the intersection, which will be realigned. Both Hamilton-Mason and Mauds Hughes roads will be closed and are expected to reopen by Nov. 1, barring weather or material delivery delays. The work will be done by Eagle Bridge Company at a cost of $2,012,838. Money will come from federal and county funds. Detour for Hamilton-Mason Road: Eastbound Hamilton-Mason Road motorists will detour south on Ohio 747, east on Tylersville Road and north on Cincinnati-Dayton Road. Westbound traffi c would reverse the route. Detour for Mauds Hughes Road: Northbound Mauds Hughes Road traffi c will be detoured northeast on Cincinnati-Dayton Road and west on Princeton Road. Southbound motorists would reverse the route. Information/updates: www.bceo.org Sue Kiesewetter, Enquirer contributor

WEST CHESTER Cincinnati Job Fair set for July 13 Time for a change of pace? Come see

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what inspiring, new careers may be on the horizon for you at the Cincinnati Job Fair on July 13. This is a unique opportunity for job seekers to get guaranteed face time and make personal connections with recruiters and hiring managers from some of Greater Cincinnati’s top companies and organizations. h When: Wednesday, July 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. h Where: Holiday Inn Cincinnati N West Chester, 5800 Muhlhauser Road, West Chester Township Register today and receive updates or changes to the event, as well as notiﬁ cations of upcoming job fairs in your area. In addition, by registering and uploading your resume, companies exhibiting at the job fair can access your information, increasing your employment opportunities. Tips for job fair success: h Dress professionally as if attending a job interview h Practice your personalized pitch, which should summarize your skills and experience h Make a good ﬁ rst – and lasting – impression with each recruiter h Bring several copies of your updated resume or work history to the event Parking and admission are free. For more information, call (513) 984-5724. Abbey Houghlin, Job News USA

BLUE ASH Historic Hunt House open house set for July 16 The Hunt House, located at 4364 Hunt Road in Blue Ash, will hold an open house on Saturday, July 16, from 1-4 p.m. Featured speakers will be Bernie O’Bryan, portraying Civil War General Lew Wallace, and Dave Moore, presenting Cincinnati Civil War 1862. Refreshments served. The event is free. Elaine Davis, Blue Ash Historical Society

WEST CHESTER EnterTRAINment Junction Christmas in July event It may feel like a hot summer outside, but inside EnterTRAINment Junction they are celebrating the cool, winter holidays as the popular Christmas in July event kicked off its fi ve-week run on June 25. The family-friendly event runs through Sunday, July 31. Visitors can beat the summer heat while enjoying the trappings of the winter holidays along with Santa Claus himself. Santa will be on hand, meeting kids and conducting his all-important evaluation of who has been naughty and who has been nice. EnterTRAINment Junction is open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. noon-6 p.m. EnterTRAINment Junction is located at 7379 Squire Ct., West Chester. (513) 898-8000. (877-898-4656.) www.entertrainmentjunction.com. William Meff ord, EnterTRAINment Junction

BUTLER COUNTY Wyenandt elected chair of Butler County Democratic Party The Butler County Democratic Party has a new leader and a new vision. Kathy Wyenandt of Fairﬁ eld Township was recently elected chair of the Butler County Democratic Party in a party reorganization meeting. Wyenandt is a long-time Democratic Party and Lakota School District volunteer and activist. “Our goal is to reestablish government for the average Ohioan and eliminate from oﬃ ce corrupt legislators who accept bribes in exchange for the passage of laws that line big corporations’ pockets and ignore the rights of citi-

zens,” said Wyenandt. “We want to build a bigger tent with the Butler County Democratic Party and let voters know that Democratic candidates are ethical, experienced and able to win the future for Butler County and Ohio.” To learn more about the Butler County Democratic Party, visit https:// www.butlercountydems.org; call (513) 896-5201; email the oﬃ ce at butlercountydems@gmail.com; or access its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ butlercountydems. Melinda Zemper, Butler County Democratic Party

MOUNT HEALTHY Cincinnati SAR members attended Field of Memories in Arlington Memorial Gardens On May 30, members of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution participated in the seventh annual Field of Memories at the Arlington Memorial Gardens in Hamilton County. This event is a patriotic exhibition of 1,000 American fl ags displayed to honor our military and fi rst responders. Each fl ag will carry the name of the honoree and is marked with colors of ribbons identifying the honoree’s status: a veteran, serving on active duty, a fi rst responder, a special someone interred at Arlington and those killed in action in the line of duty. Michael Gunn, Cincinnati Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution

SHARONVILLE Sharon Woods getting new Great Parks destination playground Great Parks has started the process to plan and build a large new destination playground at the Sharon Woods visitor center, which will be designed for fun and accessibility for a wide range of ages and ability levels. Public engagement activities planned for later this year will be an important part of the planning process for the new structure. The new playground will be several thousand square feet larger than the current playground, while oﬀ ering an inclusive play experience for children. The design will include play experiences for children of all ages, from toddlers to tweens, and will be accessible for users with a wide range of abilities. It will be located adjacent to Sharon Centre. Great Parks will conduct public outreach in the coming months to seek input from the community on the future of the play area. As planning moves forward, design concepts for the playground will be available to the public. The new playground will replace and dramatically upgrade the existing outdoor and indoor play areas at Sharon Centre. The small indoor play site at Sharon Centre will not reopen. Design and planning work for the new playground is scheduled to be complete by the summer of 2023, with construction to start shortly thereafter. Peter Osborne

MONFORT HEIGHTS Mercy Health – Cincinnati names Bertke president of West Hospital Mercy Health – Cincinnati has named Bradley (Brad) Bertke president of Mercy Health – West Hospital eﬀ ective Tuesday, July 5. Bertke replaces Michael Kramer, current president of The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health, and Jason Asic, who served as the interim president of West Hospital before recently being named the ﬁ rst president of the upcoming Mercy Health - Kings Mills Hospital being built in Mason. Bertke will be responsible for the

overall operational success of West Hospital, including achieving quality goals and maximizing opportunities for growth. Bertke is currently the president of St. Anne Hospital and during his tenure the hospital saw the opening of a freestanding emergency department, an open-heart surgery program, expansion into electrophysiology services and growth of the hospital’s orthopedic program. Prior to his time with Mercy Health in Toledo, Bertke was vice president and chief operations oﬃ cer at Mercy Health – Clermont Hospital. To learn more visit, mercy.com. Mercy Health

CINCINNATI Northeast Cincinnati Rotary Club improves Gower Park The city of Sharonville issued a proclamation on Tuesday, May 31 to the Northeast Cincinnati Rotary Club for their contribution to the purchase and installation of three saddle spinners at Webb C. Gower Park. This equipment is designed to provide safe enjoyment for all children, including those that may be physically challenged. More information can be found at NECRotary.com or Rotary.org. Greg Miller, Northeast Cincinnati Rotary Club

NORTH COLLEGE HILL Local women’s American Legion post celebrates 75 years Greater Cincinnati Women’s American Legion Post 644 celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding with an Open House on Sunday, May 22, at the Post’s home in North College Hill. The National American Legion awarded Post 644 its temporary charter on May 21, 1946. Thirty-ﬁ ve women veterans established the post after WWII. They chose to establish a women’s post, stating their problems were not the same as their male counterparts. Memorabilia from the post’s history were displayed for all to view. Members of Post 644 welcomed guests from Hamilton County, the American Legion Department of Ohio as well as members of other local American Legion Posts and their families. Post 644 plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of receiving its permanent charter in October 2023. Peg Albert, Greater Cincinnati Women’s American Legion Post 644

COLLEGE HILL Astra the Lonely Airplane selected as fi nalist for NIEA award The 16th National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) recently announced the winners and fi nalists from this year’s robust competition, and local author Julie Whitney’s picture book Astra The Lonely Airplane has been selected as a fi nalist in the “Picture Books For All Ages” category. Whitney’s book was just one of six books selected as a fi nalist in this category, after being meticulously judged by experts from various facets of the book industry profession. For more information on Astra The Lonely Airplane, or to contact the author, visit www.Astrathelonelyairplane. com. Julie Whitney, Phillippi-Whitney Communications, LLC

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP Ice cream social opens Liberty Twp. Historical Society meeting An ice cream social will open the July 14 meeting of the Liberty Township Historical Society. The 7 p.m. meeting will be held at the restored Hughes One Room School, Continued on next page

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6010 Princeton Road. Marlene Bolser Casey will talk about her experiences growing up on the Dudley farm of LeSourdsville-West Chester Road. The log house from the property has been reconstructed in Dudley Woods Park. Information: 513-678-8346 or ltfd81@aol.com or Liberty Township Historical Society on Facebook Sue Kiesewetter, Enquirer contributor

CINCINNATI Ohio River Foundation opens registration for programs With successful programs dedicated to protecting and improving the water quality and ecology of the Ohio River and its entire watershed, Cincinnatibased nonprofi t Ohio River Foundation (ORF) has opened registration for its popular hands-on educational programs for the 2022-23 school year. Along with improving academic STEM skills, the goal of these programs is to help kids foster a lifetime interest in protecting the environment in their communities and beyond. Registration is offi cially open for 2022-23 and area educators are encouraged to apply. This year, more than 4,700 students were able to take part in ORF’s Mussels in the Classroom and River Explorer programs. MIC is open to grades K-12, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis on the program’s web page. Availability is Sept. 1 through Dec. 15 and Jan. 15 through June 1. Registration for fall River Explorer fi eld trips is open through Monday, Aug. 15 on the program’s web page. Bethany Miller, Ohio River Foundation

HYDE PARK Hyde Park community UMC welcomes new co-senior pastors Bishop Palmer has again appointed co-senior pastors for Hyde Park Com-

munity UMC, beginning July 1. The new pastors are Rev. Dr. Suzanne Allen and Rev. Dr. Todd Anderson. They are a seasoned team, and this will be the third time they have been appointed together. Rev. Dr. Allen has served in the West Ohio Conference since 1998, and was the senior pastor of Springboro First UMC from 2007 to 2016. Most recently, she has served in the Ohio River Valley district – ﬁ rst as an assistant to the district superintendent, and then as a regional missional specialist. Rev. Dr. Anderson has served in the West Ohio Conference since 1991. He has served ﬁ ve local churches, and from 1999 to 2016 was the senior pastor at three of those churches. Since 2016, Todd has served as the district superintendent for the Ohio River Valley district. Shari Rust, Hyde Park Community UMC

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VILLA HILLS LinkedIn local Cincinnati event Professionals from the Greater Cincinnati and Dayton area are invited to attend a free meetup and networking event on Wednesday, July 13. In addition to meeting fellow LinkedIn members in person, a panel of local inﬂ uencers will share their insights on getting the most out of the platform and building a great personal brand. Registration is required and seats are limited. Secure your place at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ linkedinlocal-cincinnati-3ndannual-tickets-355170002037 Event details h Date: Wed, July 13 h Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. h Location: Kemba Credit Union headquarters, 5600 Chappell Crossing Blvd., West Chester Panelists h Danielle Lewis Jones, vice president, senior manager, public relations, Fifth Third Bank h Brian Wallace, founder, NowSourcing h Joseph Lewin, performance marketer, Proofpoint Marketing h Brian Burke, Chief Mac Man,

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Villa elementary principal celebrates 25th anniversary Villa Madonna Academy’s principal celebrated 25 years of service to the school. Soshana Bosley ﬁ rst served as a teacher at Villa. Her history with Villa predates her service at the school. Bosley was a 14year student starting preschool at Villa Madonna Montessori and then continuing through graduation from Villa Madonna Academy High School in 1991. Villa Hills Mayor Heather Jansen came to Villa to help celebrate. She declared Tuesday, May 24 as Mrs. Bosley Day in Villa Hills. Villa Madonna Academy

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP Local woman chairs Laurapalooza, a Laura Ingalls Wilder conference Little House on the Prairie was introduced to TV audiences in 1974, and since that ﬁ rst episode, the series has never been oﬀ the air. It has generated a fan base that rivals Star Trek.

The Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association selected Marc Galloway, a boardcertifi ed orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Mercy Health – Cincinnati, for the 2022 Ohio Team Physician Award. The award recognizes a team physician who has demonstrated professional excellence, is committed to the care of competitive athletes and works eff ectively with athletic trainers as part of an effi cient team to deliver care to athletes. This is the second time that he has been selected as the award recipient. Longtime Bengals athletic trainer Paul Sparling said that Dr. Galloway “fully understands the value and the role of the athletic trainer and admires and utilizes the skills and training of the Certifi ed and Licensed Athletic Training staff of the Cincinnati Bengals. He has come to rely on them daily and considers them as an essential part of the healthcare team.” Dr. Galloway has expertise in the treatment of athletic injuries as well as arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder. He serves as a consultant for the National Football League and is in his 12th year as the head team physician and medical director for the Bengals. Mercy Health

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The show introduced generations of viewers to the Little House series, and eventually to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author. That includes residents in Liberty Township like Lauri Goforth. LauraPalooza 2022, in honor of the books and show, will be held July 12-15 at Doubletree by Hilton in Burlington, Vt, with a conference-ending day trip to Malone, N.Y., the setting for the second book in the Little House series, Farmer Boy. It is the book that introduces readers to young Almanzo Wilder. For more information, visit the organization’s website at www.liwlra.org or our Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Facebook page. Lauri Goforth, Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association

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Abortion impact on adoption agencies New laws could strain Ohio child welfare sector Eric Lagatta Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

Seventeen-year-old Amanda waited until after Christmas to tell her family she was nearly seven months pregnant. The news came as a shock to her mother, Colleen, who wasted no time in getting her daughter to a doctor to fi nd out how the pregnancy was progressing. The Lewis Center family, who asked The Dispatch to not publish their last name to protect their privacy, later connected with Choice Network, a Worthingtonbased adoption agency that helped Amanda fi nd a Greater Columbus family to adopt the boy she gave birth to in March. Choice Network’s leaders say the agency is recognized as one of six abortion-rights agencies in the nation, meaning it off ers all-options counseling — including on abortion and parenting. But because Amanda waited until the end of the second trimester to break the news of her pregnancy, Colleen said her daughter’s options were limited. Still, Colleen said Amanda is happy with her decision and even made arrangements with the adoptive family to visit her son regularly. Yet had the option been available to her and Amanda made the decision to terminate the pregnancy, Colleen said she would not have wavered in her support. “I would have absolutely taken her to have an abortion because I knew she didn’t want to be a mom,” Colleen said. “Being a mom was not in the cards for her and I don’t want to see her be tied down.” It’s a choice that may not be available to pregnant people in Ohio now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ended Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft opinion last month fi rst indicated was likely to happen, and a federal judge lifted a three-year injunction late Friday on a 2019 state law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. With the 1973 ruling that made abortion a constitutional right overturned, Ohio lawmakers were already poised to eff ectively outlaw abortion in the state. Such laws will likely lead to more unplanned pregnancies being carried to term, which some experts and advocates

More than 1,000 people showed up in support of the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio “Ban Off Our Bodies” rally at the Ohio Statehouse on May 14. COURTNEY HERGESHEIMER/COLUMBUS DISPATCH

say could put a strain on the child welfare sector in Ohio as more young children become available for adoption or enter the foster care system. The percentage of children who have been put up for adoption declined in the decades since the landmark Roe ruling. About 9% of children born to never-married mothers under the age of 45 were put up for adoption prior to 1973, a percentage that dropped to 2% in the 1980s and 1% by 2002, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, that percentage is likely to rise again as more children are born into homes whose parents are unprepared to raise them, said Elinam Dellor, a senior researcher in the College of Social Work at Ohio State University. “We do know from history and from the work already done that the possibility of more unplanned childbearing has the potential to impact the amount of families having contact with child welfare,” Dellor said. “The thought of that number going up is scary, the thought of more contact with child welfare is scary.” In Ohio, any children born to people who no longer can choose to have an abortion may end up joining a list of well over 3,000 children available for adoption across the state, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ online dashboard. And those children not immediately put up for adop-

tion may be at high risk of becoming victims of abuse or neglect because their parents are unable to provide adequate care, Dellor said. “For all of us who work in child welfare one way or another … we all just want kids to grow up in a home that is safe, where they feel loved, and where they feel wanted,” Dellor said. “Any time one of those things may be aﬀ ected, we have reason to be concerned.” Several Columbus adoption and child welfare agencies declined to comment when reached by The Dispatch about whether or how they are preparing for a post-Roe world. Valancia Turner, a spokeswoman with Franklin County Children Services, said the agency is experiencing an increase in the number of parents or caregivers who are requesting assistance in supporting their families. “We will continue to support families with the assistance of our state and community partners if there is an increased demand for our services,” Turner said in a written statement. “We will continue to ask the community and our partners for assistance in serving children and families.” Bill Teets, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said in a statement that the state agency is focused on continuing its mission of serving families and children, but de-

clined to go into specifi cs about the anticipated ruling’s prospective ripple effect. “We have long-standing programs that provide resources to families and children, including food and cash assistance, as well as publicly funded child care,” Teets said in the statement. “We also work every day with our county partners to ensure stable settings for youth in the foster care system. We will continue our mission of supporting Ohio families.” Beth Vanderkooi, the executive director of the Greater Columbus Right to Life, an anti-abortion nonprofi t agency, said she was reluctant to speculate on whether adoptions will increase now that Roe v. Wade fell. But she said that the adoption process has evolved in the past four decades, empowering parents to have more of a voice. “Modern adoptions give birth moms and birth dads so much more opportunity to choose their babies’ families and choose what type of relationship there will or won’t be,” Vanderkooi said. “Certainly, we want to make sure that an array of life-affi rming options is available.” At Choice Network, which serves about 350 women and facilitates up to 20 adoptions per year, its staff of three has been working to raise funds to gain more visibility and boost the services it off ers in anticipation of the ruling. Choice Network Founder Molly Rampe Thomas said the nonprofi t agency is communicating with local and outof-state abortion providers about how to maintain access to abortion clinics for Ohio patients. The agency is hoping to build its patient navigation services as it expects that those who have the ability to travel out-of-state will do so, Rampe Thomas said. But Rampe Thomas fears a rise in “coercive adoptions” for those without the means to travel far for an abortion. And she cautioned that adoption is not a viable alternative to abortion because it’s not always in the best interest of the mother. “To me, if we see a drastic rise in adoption, it’s because we haven’t given women the resources to parent their children and access abortion,” Rampe Thomas said. “Women should have peace in the decision they make in their unplanned pregnancy, and that doesn’t happen unless they know all of their options.”

Americans’ true abortion stance complicated Most want some rights, yet also seek restrictions Darrel Rowland Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

Americans’ sentiments about abortion are complicated and sometimes contradictory, a complexity many public opinion polls on the highly charged topic fail to capture. With both sides loudly magnifying survey results to suit their emotionally charged talking points, nuances are often sacrifi ced for the sake of political expediency. That means voters and policymakers are often denied a true picture of where the public stands in the wake of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that abortion is not a constitutional right, experts say. “When most polls are used to justify support or opposition to abortion, they do not accurately refl ect the true state of public opinion about abortion,” said professor Andrew Smith, who formerly conducted the Ohio Poll and now is director of the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center. That’s not to say that years of accumulated polls haven’t established key points of consensus: • Most in the U.S. don’t want to end all rights to have an abortion. • At the same time, a majority wants some restrictions on the controversial procedure. The bottom line of most Americans’ stance on abortion: “It depends.” “The American people think there are good reasons for having abortions ... and generally less-good reasons for which they don’t support abortions,” Smith said. In 2020, fi ve sociologists at the University of Notre Dame undertook what was billed as the largest known, in-depth interview study of “everyday” Ameri-

cans’ attitudes toward abortion. Instead of short phone polls or online surveys, they completed 217 one-on-one interviews, averaging 75 minutes apiece. “Abortion attitudes are more complex than survey statistics suggest,” the researchers concluded. “Many interviewees gave us an initial answer to a surveystyle question before disclosing that that’s not really how they feel. Surveys miss the ways that Americans off er disclaimers and caveats, contradict themselves, hedge their responses, change their minds, and think through things in real time.” Others have come up with similar fi ndings. “In contrast to the claims of activists, and to divergent Democratic and Republican Party platforms, the ethical status of abortion is not a binary one for a great many Americans,” said a July 2021 study of questions used in the General Social Survey, performed for the past 50 years by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. Similarly, Politifact found in May 2022 after examining numerous polls that “public opinion data on abortion is murkier and more contradictory than either supporters or opponents of abortion rights would like to admit. Views on abortion are intensely personal, and often paradoxical.” The “it depends” attitude toward abortion showed up in the NORC/University of Chicago study: “When thinking about the morality or legality of a woman’s decision to have an abortion, Americans take into account the diff ering circumstances in which she does so, and position themselves in the middle ground.” How the complexities of those “diff ering circumstances” come into play are displayed in a Harvard-Harris Poll shortly after the high court’s 6-3 decision. While 55% opposed the ruling that wiped out a constitutional right to an abortion, 37% still wanted their state to

limit abortions to cases of rape or incest. Another 12% wanted them barred beyond the sixth week of pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreport in its most recent fi gures (2019) that 43% of abortions occur within the fi rst six weeks, when many women may be just fi nding out they are pregnant. Thus, while Americans solidly support abortion rights overall, this poll indicates that the country is almost evenly divided on whether they should be legal beyond six weeks – when 57% of abortions occur, per the CDC. That’s approximately the time when abortions are banned under Ohio’s newly enacted law based on cardiac activity. The CDC shows that more than seven out of 10 abortions in the Buckeye State take place after six weeks of gestation. Virtually all surveys show that approval for abortions drops dramatically the further along a pregnancy has progressed. A Monmouth Poll after the court ruling found 60% disapproved of overturning Roe v. Wade, versus 37% approving. Again, respondents were most comfortable with abortion during the initial weeks of pregnancy; 66% said the woman should have more rights than the fetus during the fi rst trimester. However, those numbers fl ip for the last two trimesters to give priority to the rights of the fetus. Likewise, a Suff olk University/USA Todaypoll just before the ruling showed that while 60% wanted abortion to remain legal for the fi rst trimester, only 30% backed “midterm abortions” and just 19% favored “late-term abortions.” Data provided to the Ohio Department of Health show that around 88% of surgical abortions occur within the fi rst 12 weeks of pregnancy. “Every question I have seen that asks whether the Supreme Court should overturn Roe shows a majority against,” Karlyn Bowman, a longtime polling analyst

now with the American Enterprise Institute, told PolitiFact. Even so, “Americans have always been willing to put signifi cant restrictions on its use.” Suff olk’s poll of Ohio indicated less support for keeping Roe v Wade than the country as a whole. A few weeks before the ruling, 48% of Ohio poll participants said they would oppose a court overthrow, while 44% would favor it. Nationally, the same polling fi rm found that 61% were against overturning Roe, and 28% for the change. In 2014, Pew measured Ohioans as basically dead even on the controversy: 48% said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 47% said the opposite. Nationwide that same year, Pew found 55% were in favor of abortion being legal in all or most cases, 40% opposed. Pew’s current breakdown: 61% for abortion rights, 37% opposed. A July 2019 Quinnipiac Poll showed that Ohioans opposed the state’s law banning abortions after six weeks based on cardiac activity by 52% to 39%. Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, said Ohioans are more opposed to abortion rights than those across the rest of the nation. He points to the election of solidly pro-life governors in every election but one since 1992, a period dominated by Republicans. “We’ve got to keep working to change hearts and minds,” he said. “We’re only one election cycle away from going back to pro-choice.” Kellie Copeland, executive director of Pro-Choice Ohio, said Ohioans are “absolutely not” more in favor of restricting abortion rights. “When it comes to the impact on upcoming elections and how people would vote, we have seen research indicating that when voters who support abortion rights believe that abortion is ‘on the ballot’, they are more motivated to vote and majorities support laws that would protect abortion from being banned,” she said.

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Hundreds gather for Walker vigil in Akron Protesters, at the site of deadly police shooting, process ‘our grief ’ Abbey Marshall Akron Beacon Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

Several activists sat in the grassy fi eld of Bridgestone Americas Technology Center at the corner of South Main Street and Wilbeth Avenue, snapping glow sticks that crackled to life just feet away from where Jayland Walker was shot and killed by Akron police. It was the second week in a slew of protests since Walker was shot at least 60 times by Akron police June 27. Protesters want accountability of the offi cers involved and police reform and have vowed to “continue to escalate” if their demands are not met. But that’s not what Friday night was about, said organizer and activist Destinee Stark. Stark gathered those hurting in the community — and from other states — to mourn Walker’s death and honor his life. “We’re going to take the focus off police tonight and honor Jayland and process our grief,” she told a group of nearly 300 people gathered at the 7 p.m. vigil. “We’re going to honor Jayland, and we’re going to reclaim the narrative of who he was.” Stark got emotional as she spoke and began to cry. “Thank you all for coming out here tonight,” she said. “You shouldn’t have to be here.” The group convened for a noise demonstration, reciting refrains from protests over the past few days and shouting, “Jayland’s life mattered!” They chose to honor Walker’s life where it ended, along Wilbeth Road in Firestone Park. After about an hour and a half, participants moved into the street and began marching alongside a caravan of cars, weaving through residential roads as people watched from their driveways and porches, some shouting in solidarity and cheering them on. “There’s no justifi cation for this,” said 59-year-old John Harrison, who

Demonstrators chant Friday at a vigil to honor Jayland Walker at the site in Firestone Park where he was killed by Akron police June 27. PHOTOS BY PHIL MASTURZO/AKRON BEACON JOURNAL

A protest march Friday followed a vigil to honor Jayland Walker at the site in Firestone Park where he was killed.

lives just around the corner from where Walker was killed. “It just shows where we’re at. It could’ve been me; it could’ve been my daughter.” The crowd reconvened at Bridgestone after a more than mile-long march. Protesters held glow sticks in raised ﬁ sts above their heads as dusk settled. They began to hang the glow sticks from a tree, where a sign declaring “Jayland Walker’s life mattered” was propped up in the mulch, surrounded by plastic tea candles.

“I’m just devastated,” said 42-yearold Akron native Amanda Wright, who now lives in Canton. “This is my hometown. “You know, Akron is known for LeBron (James) and basketball. Now we’re going to be known for this too.” Reporter Abbey Marshall is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Learn more at reportforamerica.org.

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Why shootings in Louisville are down City oﬃ cials hope their strategies are paying oﬀ Krista Johnson Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY NETWORK

The number of shootings in Louisville rose rapidly at the start of the pandemic. The number of people nonfatally shot in 2020 nearly doubled compared to the year prior, and they reached unprecedented levels last year. But thus far in 2022, those numbers are trending back down. While gun violence continues to be a major issue in the state’s largest city, law enforcement offi cials said they hope their strategies in targeting trigger pullers are beginning to pay off . Louisville Metro Police’s leadership labeled violent crime as its priority, and Metro Government promised last year to increase funding for specifi c violence prevention and response programs. Others working with victims of gun violence, though, say the numbers are still far too high to celebrate — the number of people wounded by bullets is still higher than pre-pandemic times and homicides this year are very likely to hit triple digits. “If we end up with 300 to 400 people wounded by gunfi re this year, how do we perceive that as a safe year?” activist Christopher 2X said about the decrease in nonfatal shootings and homicides the city has seen in the fi rst fi ve months of this year compared to the year prior. “How do we measure reductions in a decent and understanding way that we can say we’re going in the right direction?” he asked.

The numbers Shootings began rising sharply at the start of the pandemic, which began in March 2020. By the end of 2020, there would be 257 people nonfatally wounded by gunﬁ re in the city, according to Louisville Metro Police. There were also 173 homicides in 2020 — 160 of which were shootings. From March 2020 through February 2022, oﬃ cers responded to at least two

Mayor Greg Fischer locks arms with Rose Smith and Rev. Charles Elliott at a march protesting gun violence in downtown Louisville on June 11. JOSEPH COOKE/THE COURIER-JOURNAL

shootings per day. This year’s numbers more closely align to 2020’s — 151 people have been nonfatally shot in the fi rst fi ve months, compared to 153 in 2020. For further comparison’s sake, there were 81 in the same time period in 2019. The rise in violent crime that many cities across the country experienced has been attributed to many things — such as the pandemic and social unrest — but Louisville’s law enforcement leaders believe their eff orts have contributed to the recent drop. “My mission since I came here to the department has been, ‘Let’s focus on violent crime and illegal guns,’ ” LMPD Chief Erika Shields said. “That’s it. Everything will fall into place, but you have to focus on what aff ects the community the most.” Shields was sworn in as chief in January 2021, months after shootings began to skyrocket. In addition to the nonfatal shootings, the department investigated 188 homicides last year. At this time last year, there had been 95 homicides compared to 81 this year — and both of those numbers include homicides investigated by smaller departments in the Louisville area such as Shively. By the end of 2021, there were a total

of 211 homicides across the county. Shawn Morrow, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive’s special agent in charge of the Louisville fi eld division, pointed to the agency’s close partnership with LMPD as part of the reason the numbers are decreasing. “LMPD has really done an excellent job of focusing on violent off enders,” Morrow said. “Shields has made sure her specialized units are using technology and leveraging federal partnerships.” The ATF, Shields said, “has been essential in helping to reduce shootings in Louisville. We literally could not do it without their support.” Both Morrow and Shields pointed to their heavy reliance on the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which is run by ATF and allows offi cials to connect multiple shooting scenes to one fi rearm, and then often to a suspect. “That’s huge when you have gang members who are committing multiple acts of violence,” Shields said. The decrease in nonfatal shootings, she said, is mostly “attributable to connecting acts of violence through technology.” The technology has allowed investigators to discover how violent crime throughout the city is connected, they said. About half of this year’s homicide suspects have been between the ages of 18 and 34, according to LMPD data. About 65% of the homicide victims have fallen in the same age category. “We know that there’s a relatively small amount of individuals that are responsible for the violent crime (here), specifi cally for the nonfatal shootings,” Morrow told The Courier Journal. “It’s a small group of people, often young, who are responsible for shooting or are a victim of a shooting — and you can be both,” he said, adding that the violence often begins on social media. Aside from LMPD’s embracing of federal partnerships — which also includes the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service — their increased collaboration with other city stakeholders could be helping to curtail gun violence. Last year $15 million in federal American Rescue Plan funding was earmarked for the city’s Safe & Healthy Neighborhoods offi ce, which allowed for more

staff , new programming and grant money for community organizations working the city. The offi ce has been building the framework that will allow for a more collaborative eff ort by city staff , LMPD, state and federal criminal justice agencies and community organizations to prevent violence before it happens.

Is the drop in gun violence unique to Louisville? The drop in shootings is not only happening in Louisville. Just as many metropolitan cities experienced a spike since 2020, several are seeing a decline. Indianapolis numbers, for instance are trending down though they are still higher than in 2019. As of June 17, the city has seen its nonfatal shootings decrease to 263 this year from 302 a year earlier. Chicago also saw a decrease in nonfatal shootings during the fi rst three months of the year — down to 508 this year from 582 the year before, according to a report by The Chicago Tribune. Back in Louisville, 2X noted that nonfatal shootings in the city are on track to surpass 200 again this year, and he said that is bound to contribute to revenge violence. Plus a signifi cantly low number of suspects being arrested for nonfatal shootings will embolden shooters, he said. At the end of last year, the investigations of 80% of the nonfatal shootings for the year were open, according to LMPD data. “So that means there’s going to be anger, revengeful mindsets that keep this cycle of shooting going,” 2X said. Police have long stressed that they need cooperation from the community to help solve those crimes but have noted that people are reluctant to speak with them. Keith Miller, a trauma surgeon at University of Louisville Hospital who also works with young shooting victims through a program with 2X, was slightly more optimistic about this year’s numbers, though he is still very weary. “There’s reasons for hope because I think now you’re seeing a lot of eff ort on multiple fronts to put in the resources (needed) to addressing this issues,” Miller said. “But yes, the numbers are still unacceptable.”

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Making a splash Ohio’s water parks ideal for sliding into summer Steve Stephens Special to Columbus Dispatch | USA TODAY NETWORK

hio thrill-seekers undoubtedly are familiar with the state’s world-famous amusement parks, Cedar Point and Kings Island. But near those parks are also a number of other thrilling attractions that are fun, family-friendly destinations, especially if you don’t mind getting your thrills while wet. h Here are some of the biggest water parks to be found near or at Ohio’s two big theme parks.

Kalahari Resorts and Conventions Water Park The king of indoor waterparks, at least if judged by size, is Kalahari Resorts and Conventions Water Park (7000 Kalahari Drive, www.kalahari resorts.com/ohio) in Sandusky. The resort claims, at 173,000 square feet, to be the largest indoor waterpark in Ohio. It’s certainly one of the very few places in the Buckeye State where surfers or body-boarders can enjoy thrills in the middle of winter — and every other day of the year — at a waterpark comfortable 84 degrees. And with warmer weather, the resort’s outdoor Zambezi Water Park also opens for a zip or a dip or just sunbathing. Kalahari also features a Safari Outdoor Adventure Park with zip line, rope course, climbing wall, and animal park. And visitors will ﬁ nd a variety of on-resort restaurant options. The resort’s lodgings range from single rooms to three-bedroom suites to ﬁ ve-bedroom “entertainment houses”

— book two and you can bring along 43 of your closest friends. The water park is free to hotel guests, but those not staying the night can also purchase day passes to the resort and its activities.

Castaway Bay Indoor Waterpark and Hotel The newly renovated Castaway Bay Indoor Waterpark and Hotel in Sandusky (2001 Cleveland Road, www. castawaybay.com) features refurbished guest rooms off ering a variety of accommodations, including family suites complete with bunk beds for the kids. The indoor water park is restricted to guests of the 237-room hotel. A fi vestory vaulted ceiling covers the Caribbean-themed water park, with palm trees, huts and “lagoons” adding to the tropical feel. The park’s water features off er fun for every age and level of thrill-seeking. And a new crew of masSee WATER PARKS, Page 22A

Big ﬁ rms win many new marijuana licenses Opening dispensary in Ohio is risky, expensive Patrick Cooley and Haley BeMiller Columbus Dispatch USA TODAY NETWORK

Out-of-state and corporate money continues to fuel Ohio’s medical marijuana business, despite hopes from some small operators that changes to the program would boost smaller companies. The Ohio Board of Pharmacy earlier this year granted 70 provisional dispensary licenses, giving licensees permission to set up shop. The state currently has 58 dispensaries. At least 45 of the licenses went to corporations that already own marijuana cultivators, processors and dispensaries, and 25 are under the umbrella of an out-of-state company or have an ownership stake in a marijuana ﬁ rm from outside of Ohio, despite eﬀ orts to foster a home-grown industry. Whether the consolidation of the medical cannabis industry is good for patients is a matter of debate. Big businesses argue they can better control costs and keep dispensary prices down, while patient advocates worry that big businesses will charge more if they eliminate smaller competitors. Little research exists on the topic, but one thing is certain: getting started is expensive.

‘The process was really high risk’ Opening a marijuana dispensary can

The interior of the Amplify medical marijuana dispensary in Cleveland Heights. The dispensary’s parent company, Buckeye Relief, acquired a license to open another dispensary in Columbus. BUCKEYE RELIEF

take years and require millions of dollars. The rules governing the latest round of license awards also gave the most wellfunded applicants a leg up, according to licensees. “The process was really high risk,” said Derek Davis, who was awarded a license for a dispensary in Columbus’ Milo-Grogan neighborhood. “You have to secure the real estate, secure a site map, you pretty much need to put together everything to run the dispensary. It’s a very expensive process for

somebody who is new to cannabis.” Davis said getting started cost him around $1 million. The ﬁ rst dispensary licenses were awarded based on merit. The pharmacy board considered an applicant’s security system and business plan, among other things, and some applicants complained that a merit-based system disadvantaged those who could not aﬀ ord consultants and contractors. The new licenses were doled out through a lottery system intended to

shield state agencies from litigation. Lawsuits from unsuccessful applicants have cost the pharmacy board $231,000 in legal fees through January, pharmacy board spokesman Cameron McNamee said. “It’s not that we don’t expect to be sued,” he said. “It’s just that we certainly expect the issues around that subjective scoring piece will not be an issue because we used objective criteria.” Some aspiring marijuana entrepreneurs hoped the lottery system would level the playing ﬁ eld. Davis, for example, said a lottery is one of the “fairer ways” to divvy up licenses. But the wealthiest applicants still had an advantage. An application came with a $5,000 price tag that helps fund the medical marijuana program, and the board received over 1,400 submissions for 73 licenses. Applicants also had to prove they could open a dispensary at the address on each application, meaning they needed to either own the property or strike an agreement with the property owner. Klutch Cannabis CEO Adam Thomarios, whose Akron company submitted 73 applications and received two licenses, said their team knew they would need to be aggressive to have a shot at winning the right to open dispensaries. “Time will tell whether the lottery was the best way for the program to expand,” he said. If history is an indication, the number of new licenses owned by out-of-state conglomerates will grow. See LICENSES, Page 23A

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Investing 401(k) in bitcoin: Good idea or bad? Allworth Advice Amy Wagner & Steve Sprovach Guest columnists

Question: G.S. from Fairfi eld: I might be able to guess, but what’s your thought on investing 401(k) money in bitcoin? A: First and foremost, let us say that we’re all for having options when investing your retirement savings. And, of course, we’re all for diversifi cation. But this latest development in the world of fi nance makes us a bit uneasy. As you may have heard, Fidelity, the nation’s largest 401(k) plan provider, announced back in April that it would become the fi rst large administrator to start allowing participants to invest their 401(k) into bitcoin (there will be a 20% cap, though individual employers have discretion to lower that threshold). However, in our minds, this news actually translates to something more along the lines of: Fidelity will start allowing its 20+ million participants to contribute up to 20% of their hard-earned retirement savings into a highly risky asset.

But let us be clear, this is no slight at Fidelity. Bitcoin has gained mainstream interest over the last few years, and Fidelity is just following the trend and providing an additional option for their customers. (Though you could also argue that having such a high-profi le custodian now off ering bitcoin gives it more credibility in the eyes of the average retirement saver; credibility that might not be warranted. But we digress.) So this really comes down to you, the investor. Because just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Cryptocurrencies in general are quite volatile, and bitcoin is no exception. And yes, the stock market has its fair share of volatility as well – but the swings typically aren’t as big as what you’ll see with crypto. Not to mention that stocks have a proven, historical track record (bitcoin doesn’t). Another downside? There’s an increased threat of fraud and theft. According to the security fi rm Immeunefi , crypto investors overall lost more than $1.2 billion to scammers and hackers in the fi rst three months of this year alone (and when that money is gone – it’s gone; it’s not insured like other types of accounts). Granted, it would be Fidelity’s job to keep your bitcoin secure – but you can’t deny the risk. And did we mention it’s unregulated? Here’s the Allworth Advice: There’s a lot of hype around crypto and a whole

And yes, the stock market has its fair share of volatility as well – but the swings typically aren’t as big as what you’ll see with crypto. lot of FOMO. But in our eyes, putting any money in any cryptocurrency is still akin to gambling – not long-term investing. Unless you are extremely, extremely aware of what you are doing (and have an iron-clad stomach for risk), we don’t believe something as essential as retirement savings should be exposed to it. Try thinking of it this way: Do you really want a chunk of your retirement savings – the money you’ll have to depend on to live for 20, 30, or even 40 years – at the mercy of such a speculative asset? Q: Taylor in Pleasant Ridge: When interest rates rise, why don’t savings accounts follow suit as quickly as loan rates? A: Funny how that works out, right? During the pandemic banks saw a record level of deposits as Americans saved more, so banks feel like they don’t need to oﬀ er more attractive rates (i.e., higher rates) to gain new customers since they don’t need the money. Plus, oﬀ ering higher rates will cost them money. (Be-

cause remember, commercial banks are a business. And while they exist to serve their customers, at the end of the day they’re typically going to do what’s best for their bottom line.) The Allworth Advice is that if you’re looking for the highest possible rates on a savings account, an online bank (or local credit union) will still likely be your best option. Just make sure any institution you decide to entrust your money with is FDIC-insured. If you, a friend, or someone in your family has a money issue or problem, feel free to send those questions to yourmoney@enquirer.com. Responses are for informational purposes only, and individuals should consider whether any general recommendation in these responses is suitable for their particular circumstances based on investment objectives, fi nancial situation and needs. To the extent that a reader has any questions regarding the applicability of any specifi c issue discussed above to his/her individual situation, he/she is encouraged to consult with the professional adviser of his/her choosing, including a tax adviser and/ or attorney. Retirement planning services off ered through Allworth Financial, an SEC-registered investment advisor adviser. Securities off ered through AW Securities, a registered broker/dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Call 513-4697500 or visit allworthfi nancial.com.

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cots, headed up by Gordy the sea turtle, are on hand to make sure the fun never ends. Non-watery activities include mini bowling and a variety of dining options.

Cedar Point Shores Waterpark The outdoor Cedar Point Shores Waterpark (1 Cedar Point Drive, www.cedarpoint.com/cedar-point-shores) covers 18 acres adjacent to Cedar Point amusement park. Youngsters can enjoy Lakeslide Landing with minnow-sized slides and fountains, while older visitors get their thrills at Point Plummet, which releases riders on a nearly vertical drop onto a water slide that circles down from a height of six stories. After that, facing a sea monster (lake monster?) seems easy, especially when it’s the park’s own costumed — and friendly! — version of Lake Erie’s mythical cryptid, Lemmy, who haunts Lemmy’s Lagoon for the enjoyment of visitors. Guests can also lounge in one of the park’s newly redesigned cabanas — pleasantly private places for a snack or meal or for resting between watery plunges. Admission to Cedar Point Shores is separate from Cedar Point.

Great Wolf Lodge Great Wolf Lodge off ers resort lodges with indoor water parks near both large theme parks. The Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky (4600 Milan Road, www.greatwolf. com/sandusky) and the lodge in Mason (2501 Great Wolf Drive, www.great wolf.com/mason) both off er a variety of suites, including whirlpool, family fi replace and cabin-themed suites for all size families. Guests have use of the large attached indoor water park at each location. Day passes are also available for those not spending the night.

The roller coasters of Cedar Point provide a backdrop for the aquatic thrills at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark. SHORES & ISLANDS OHIO

Both water parks feature similar attractions, such as a four-story interactive water fort/tree house, although the name of the features sometimes diﬀ ers — Sandusky’s “lazy river” is Caribou Creek, while the one in Mason is Crooked Creek. (Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a caribou in Mason.)

Soak City Kings Island’s own outdoor water park, Soak City (6300 Kings Islands Drive, Kings Mills, www.visit kingsisland.com/soak-city), features a 650,000-gallon wave pool — surf ’s up! — plus 30 water slides, tropical lagoons and the circular Splash River, with a Coconut Cove Bar conveniently located nearby. Tadpoles can have safe, non-threatening water fun at Castaway Cove, while big brother or sister (or Mom or Dad) get some bigger thrills at Mondo Monsoon, a two- to four-person raft ride that drops from an enclosed ﬂ ume down 60 feet into an open tunnel. Admission to Soak City is included with admission to Kings Island and is not available separately. Many indoor water parks and resorts are open year-round while the outdoor parks often open on Memorial Day weekend. Be sure to call ahead or check the destination’s website for the latest info before your trip. Steve Stephens is a freelance travel writer and photographer. Email him at sjstephensjr@gmail.com.

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hard to follow. She contended, “the Obama family, Prince Harry, and Meghan are ‘allies’ and strong supporters of one another.” She provided the court with some details to back up this claim. Meghan met privately with First Lady Michelle Obama in 2018 and, in 2020, co-chaired a voter-registration drive with the former fi rst lady, whom Meghan called her “friend.” Samantha also pointed to the facts that Prince Harry visited the former president in the White House, welcomed the former president and former fi rst lady to Kensington Palace, and conducted “an intimate interview” with the former president. Samantha also noted that Meghan and Barack Obama share the same communications team lead. To prevail on a § 455 motion, the moving party must demonstrate that a reasonable, objective observer would entertain serious doubts about the judge’s impartiality. Samantha argued that Meghan had a relationship with the Obamas, President Obama appointed Judge Honeywell to the federal bench, and therefore Judge Honeywell couldn’t be impartial. Judge Honeywell didn’t agree. As she noted, although President Obama nominated her in 2009, she has never had any relationship with the Obamas, social or professional. Indeed, she has never met them. As the Judge noted, the mere fact that President Obama appointed her, without more, doesn’t justify recusal. I have always been of the mind that one should not suggest to a judge that they aren’t impartial unless there is some pretty solid evidence backing up that assertion. Samantha didn’t have any evidence but she fi led the motion anyway. Not a great fi rst impression. Jack Greiner is a partner at the Graydon law fi rm in Cincinnati. He represents Enquirer Media in First Amendment and media issues

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Samantha Markle ran into some tough luck recently in a lawsuit she’s fi led against her sister Meghan. Meghan, you may recall, is the Duchess of Sussex, and the wife of Prince Harry. In March of this year, Samantha fi led a defamation suit against Meghan, alleging that statements Meghan provided to the authors of the book Finding Freedom and in an interview with Oprah Winfrey defamed Samantha. These statements were to the eff ect that Meghan had had no relationship with Samantha growing up, and that Samantha cashed in on Meghan’s fame by, among other things, changing her name back to Markle.

These statements were to the effect that Meghan had had no relationship with Samantha growing up. Samantha ﬁ led suit in a federal court in Tampa. The complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages against Meghan, although the complaint does not specify an actual amount of damages. The case was randomly assigned to Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Honeywell to the federal bench in 2009. And that caused Samantha’s antennae to go up. She ﬁ led a motion under Federal Statute 28 USC § 455 asking Judge Honeywell to recuse herself. Samantha’s reasoning was a little

Dozens of Ohio marijuana companies have sold their licenses to cannabis corporations since the state’s ﬁ rst dispensary opened in 2019. Dispensary licenses can’t be sold for at least a year, but a wide-ranging investigation in 2019 ended in ﬁ nes for several companies accused of violating that rule. The exterior of the Amplify medical marijuana dispensary in Cleveland Heights. Amplify’s parent company, Buckeye Relief in Eastlake, was granted a provisional license for a Columbus dispensary this year.

Who are Ohio’s newest dispensary owners? The latest round of license winners cite a common set of reasons for seeking the right to open a dispensary in Ohio. “We’re always looking for opportunities to expand,” said Kepal Patel, chief operating offi cer of Shangri La Dispensaries, which is based in Missouri, has operations in fi ve states and won three dispensary licenses in Ohio this year — two in Monroe and one in Cleveland. Awardees also said they want to give Ohioans better access to alternative medicine. “I was always an advocate for cannabis,” said Chris Visco, founder of TerraVida, a Pennsylvania-based fi rm that operates the Terra Leaf dispensary in Huntington, West Virginia, and formerly owned two dispensaries in Pennsylvania. TerraVida won a provisional dispensary license in Proctorville, just north of the West Virginia state line. “We realized 58 dispensaries was not enough for the state,” said Leslie R. Brandon, a spokesperson for Buckeye Relief, a marijuana company with a cultivation and processing facility in Eastlake and a dispensary in Cleveland Heights that operates under the name “Amplify.” The company won a dispensary license on the East Side of Columbus. “Columbus is a great, vibrant city, and we wanted to be a part of that market,” she said.

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Some small operators acquired licenses in spite of the hurdles. Brian Wingﬁ eld sold his Coshocton marijuana dispensary to fund more applications and secured three licenses. “I have a lot of friends in the industry who put in more applications than we did and came out with nothing to show for it,” he said. “It literally was just the luck of the draw on all of these locations.” Dispensaries coming to the Columbus area are: h Trulieve OH, 8295 Sancus Blvd., Columbus h Cherokee Remedies 4, 4066 Morse Road, Columbus h Parkland Ventures, 2765 Gender Road, Columbus h GNCO 123, 3111 E. Main St., Columbus h OPC Retail II, 724 West Gay St., Columbus h Hempnotize, 342 Long St., Columbus h Elevated Growth OH, 7520 High Cross Blvd., Columbus h Amplify Dispensaries, 5304 North Hamilton Road, Columbus h Ohio Bound, 914 Cleveland Ave., Columbus h Bear River Dispensaries, 26 Moore St., Delaware

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Nothing says summer quite like carnival rides, farm animals and the sweet scent of fried food wafting through the air. That’s right, county fairs are back, bringing days of horse shows, track events, pageants and other family fun to a fairground near you. We’ve rounded up the dates, locations and ticketing information for county fairs in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Read on to plan your trip. See FAIRS, Page 6AA

From peaches to raw oysters, the best of summer at Findlay Market The goetta, egg and cheese sandwich at Eckerlin Meats

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My family is currently dealing with a prolonged kitchen renovation. And so, for the past six weeks, our cooking has been relegated to the basement where we prepare our meals with the aid of a toaster oven and a hot plate that tends to blow a fuse every time we turn it on. Yes, it’s an inconvenience. But it hasn’t stopped me from taking advantage of all the summer produce available at Findlay Market, whether it’s a bowl of cherries from ETC Produce & Provisions or freshly picked summer peaches from Scott Farms. Of course, there’s more than just pro-

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duce at the market. As you’ll see, I’ve also indulged in homemade pasta dishes, raw oysters and the best breakfast sandwich Cincinnati has to oﬀ er.

Now here’s an experience that always makes me feel tethered to this town: Sitting at one of those red metal tables at Findlay Market on a Saturday morning (you know the ones, right by the Mr. Red statue) and eating a goetta, egg and cheese sandwich from Eckerlin Meats for breakfast. Eckerlin has been open since 1852, a few years before the market itself was established. The recipe for their goetta is more than a century old and it’s cooked the way goetta should be cooked, mushy on the inside and crispy on the outside. Eckerlin lets the ﬂ avor of its goetta take control by not overload-

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6 THINGS FROM ATHENS COUNTY ... BESIDES JOE BURROW Taylor Burnette Cincinnati Enquirer/USA TODAY NETWORK

I get it. It's hard to look past him. The heartthrob of Bengals football, the hero of Cincinnati: Joe Burrow. But of course, he is also a kid from Southeast Ohio. Although he was born in Ames, Iowa, he grew up in the Plains, a town of about 3,000, a short drive from Athens, Ohio, and Ohio University, a region famed for the beautiful natural surroundings of the Ohio valley. Despite what you might have heard, there is a lot more that comes from the region than just our beloved Super Bowl quarterback. Here's a look at some of the standout products and people with deep roots in Athens County.

1. Jackie O's beer

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow takes questions from reporters at the conclusion of organized team activities practice, on June 14 at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati.

In Athens, Jackie O's is well-known for its variety of locally brewed beers. The brewery uses ingredients sourced from Southeast Ohio and makes over 50 varieties of beer at its Athens locations. Whether you're a fan of stouts, India pale ales, barleywines or ales, Jackie O's has a fl avor for you. However, if you're looking for something a little closer to Cincinnati, there's a good chance there's a store selling one of its more popular products near you. The Jackie O's website off ers a beer fi nder at fi nd.jackieos.com.

2. Sarah Jessica Parker Even though the actress, acclaimed for her role in "Sex and the City," began her acting career in the Queen City, she was born in Nelsonville, Ohio. The city of around 5,000 is located about 15 minutes from Joe Burrow's hometown of the Plains, home to Hocking College and the Nelsonville Star Brick. However, Parker moved to New Jersey after getting some acting under her belt in Cincinnati to be in her ﬁ rst Broadway production. She then went

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magnets, ornaments and more. The company's most famous piece is the Passion Flower, made from handpainted metal and delicately curled to create an iconic statue you can buy in just about any size. Each piece is unique and handmade by Passion Works artists, many of whom have disabilities. However, the studio is a collaborative space for those of all abilities, creating an inclusive community for all of the artists. You can order Passion Works art pieces from the website passionworks.org/collections.

6. Shagbark Seed & Mill on to star in Annie in the title role on Broadway in 1970s. After that, she headed to the screen with roles in "Footloose" and TV sitcom "Square Pegs" before she landed the main role of Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City".

3. Ohio University Bobcats While Cincinnati is home to its own well-known institutions of higher education, chances are a few of your friends, colleagues and neighbors are Ohio University alumni. Poised on the Hocking River, Ohio University is best known for its beautiful campus, party culture and outstanding academic programs. However, it can also rival the University of Cincinnati and Louisiana State University in its love for hometown hero Joe Burrow. A few famous faces who went to Ohio University over the years include late actor Paul Newman, Youtube celebrity Logan Paul,Nancy Cartwright (best known for voicing Bart Simpson), actor Ed O'Neill and entertainer Arsenio Hall.

4. Snowville Creamery Just down the road from Athens in Meigs County is Snowville Creamery, with production located in Pomeroy, Ohio. The company sells an array of dairy products, including milk, cream,

yogurt and cheese. What makes Snowville special? All the milk Snowville uses comes from cows with the A2 gene, the same gene human milk has, making it more easily digestible, according to its website. The cows are fed a non-GMO diet as well. Many Snowville products are available throughout the Cincinnati area, especially at smaller grocery stores. You can also ﬁ nd the products in select chain locations, like Meijer.

5. Passion Works Studios Using upcycled materials and creativity, Passion Works Studios produces an array of art pieces, including clothing items, accessories, cards,

Chances are, somewhere near you is a Mill Road, named for the mills that once dotted the country. Well, Shagbark is bringing local milling back while still spreading its products, made using regional staple crops, across Ohio. With a focus on locally grown, organic crops, Shagbark Seed & Mill makes tortilla chips, hot cereals, fl ours, popcorn, beans and more. The company aims to provide nutrientrich food not only to consumers but to schools and food pantries, off ering reduced rates for certain organizations. Shagbark Seed & Mill products are sold at markets throughout the Cincinnati region and can be found at shagbarkmill.com/where-to-fi nd-us.

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‘You have to make room for joy.’ Moving Arts returns to Cincy David Lyman Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Moving Arts is coming back to Cincinnati. Like many small arts organizations, the two-city, summer dance company wasn’t able to sustain its activities during the height of the pandemic. But with audiences returning to theaters, it seemed a good time to relaunch the series. “Our goal is the same that it always was,” said co-artistic director Cervilio Amador. “For artists to have work over the summer and for them to have a chance to continue developing their craft.” Amador is better-known to local audiences for his distinguished career as a principal dancer with the Cincinnati Ballet. Since retiring from the stage in 2020, he has been the company’s rehearsal director. Several years earlier, Amador reconnected with former Cincinnati Ballet dancers Anthony Krutzkamp and Jill Marlow, who had become members of the Kansas City Ballet. Along with their fellow Kansas City Ballet colleague, Logan Pachciarz, the couple had founded the Kansas City Dance Festival in 2013. One of the dancers they hired for the short summer gig was Amador. “From the beginning, it was such a great idea,” said Amador. “Within a couple of years, we started talking about the possibility of doing something like that in Cincinnati.” In 2017, the time seemed right. They changed the Kansas City Ballet name to Moving Arts and added Cincinnati as a second outpost, with Amador the producer for the Cincinnati dates. From an audience point of view, the result was exhilarating. Brand-new work from choreographers who were in some cases familiar – Heather Britt, founder of DanceFix – and in others completely new to Cincinnati. And there was the thrill of watching a pick-up team of dancers from a host of companies. Cincinnati and Kansas City ballets were represented. But there were also performers from Grand Rapids, Dayton

Moving Arts was founded to give professional dancers additional opportunities to develop their performance skills. It recruits dancers from several different companies, including Cincinnati Ballet. When the group performs at the Aronoff Center July 22-23, two of those performers on the stage will be Cincinnati Ballet’s Samantha Griffin, left, and Melissa Gelﬁ n De-Poli, right. JOE LYMAN/PROVIDED

and Oklahoma City. “This year, we wanted to move it forward in some way,” said Amador. They hired three choreographers. And rather than asking each of them to create works that had no connection with one another, they asked them to collaborate on an hour-long work built around a single theme: Joy. Never mind that none of them had ever choreographed with one another. The three – Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Andrea Giselle Schermoly and Cincinnati Ballet principal dancer Melissa Gelﬁ n De-Poli – all knew of one another. Sorzano and Schermoly were longtime friends. And De-Poli had danced in a work that Schermoly, Louisville Ballet’s resident choreographer, created for Cincinnati Ballet. But knowing one another and collaborating on a lengthy piece of chor-

eography are very diff erent things. And then there is the theme itself. In a time fi lled with confl ict and nonstop tension, what constitutes joy? “It really is a challenge,” said Sorzano, an active freelance choreographer and a member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. “There is no roadmap for it.” She has collaborated with choreographers before. But in that case, she was creating a work for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and, like her, her collaborators had trained at the Ailey School. “We were coming from a similar background,” she said. “In this case, we have three women from very diff erent backgrounds, all wanting to learn from each other. That’s what we’ve been navigating.” So far, she said, it’s been “a wonderful journey. I only wish we had more time.”

Their fi rst step was to talk – a lot. “We really dove into uncharted waters with this one,” said De-Poli. “But that’s kind of what Moving Arts is all about. This is about pushing the boundaries.” Occasionally, though it has been nerve-wracking as the magnitude of what they were trying to accomplish with just three weeks of rehearsal became increasingly apparent. “It’s a huge undertaking,” said DePoli. “Fortunately, we have a fantastic team of 11 dancers who are sharing the weight of it all. It’s too early to start reminiscing about what we’re doing, but I’m pretty sure this is an experience I will not ever forget.” This year’s ensemble is made up of dancers from Cincinnati, Kansas City and Louisville ballets, as well as a pair of performers from the University of Southern California’s Kaufman School of Dance, the noted institution founded by Jodie Gates, who becomes artistic director of Cincinnati Ballet on Aug. 1. “We had Zoom sessions that would go on for three or four hours,” said Schermoly. “I know – that sounds tedious. But they weren’t, not at all. We found that we had a lot that we wanted to talk about.” There was the pandemic, of course. But in the end, there was so much more that connected them with one another. “It’s ambitious, I know,” said Schermoly. “But I’ve really been impressed by how well we work together. Shocked, honestly. We’ve been very effi cient in learning how to work together. But we’ve learned to keep that theme of joy in front of us at all times. “The pandemic crippled a lot of people’s feelings of joy. There was just so much going on, locally and globally. It’s hard not to take on the weight of everything that’s going on. But the more we talked, the more we realized that you just can’t feel guilty about everything. You have to make room for joy.” Moving Arts will perform July 22 (8 p.m.) and 23 (2 and 8 p.m.) in the Aronoff Center’s Jarson-Kaplan Theater. Tickets are $25-$35 at Movingartsco.org or by calling 513-621-5282.

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The next supermoon with grace the skies on Tuesday night. ERIC AFRICA/PROVIDED

The ‘super-est’ supermoon is coming Tuesday night Dean Regas Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Solar astronomers around the world are monitoring our sun, 24 hours a day. The sun seems like a steady ball of light, but using safe solar viewing equipment and state-of-the art satellites, astronomers are able to detect dramatic explosions from sunspots, solar ﬂ ares and coronal mass ejections that arc oﬀ the surface and even blast into space. The sun’s activity has been slowly ramping up this year. After months of relative quiet, more violent magnetic storms are popping up. This increase is part of an expected 11-year cycle that astronomers have noted since the 17th century. When the solar activity peaks, it is called solar maximum. And although solar maximum is not expected until 2024 or 2025, solar activity should be on the rise this year, giving us dramatic images and videos from space telescopes.

Ready for the supermoon? On Tuesday night, astronomers celebrate perigee syzygy. But the moonloving backyard stargazers and general public have a catchier term for this regular astronomical event: a supermoon. About every 14 months the full moon makes a slightly closer pass to the Earth. When this supermoon occurs, the moon’s diameter can appear 14% larger and its surface shines 30% brighter than the furthest full moon of the year, also known as the puny moon. Celebrating the supermoon is not an ancient tradition. It became a mainstream term only in 2011 when the media picked up on this annual phenomenon. Since then, it has become a popular annual event, and the next supermoon is due to grace the night skies on Tuesday, July 12 and into the morning hours of July 13.

When is the best time to see the supermoon?

The most powerful and complex space telescope ever created by humankind, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, achieves its ﬁ nal form as a fully assembled observatory. Reaching a major milestone, technicians and engineers successfully connect the two halves of the telescope for the ﬁ rst time at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California. CHRIS GUNN/NASA

As the moon orbits the Earth, it slowly changes its distance from us. It varies from about 252,000 miles at its farthest, to around 221,000 miles at its closest. The best time to see the supermoon is just as it rises. Look for it cresting the southeastern horizon just after sunset. When it is low in the sky, the moon often takes on a reddish appearance. That tint is caused by the moonlight scattering through the Earth’s atmosphere much in the same way a sunset turns red. The moon always looks larger near the horizon, but it’s merely an illusion. Technically, the moon will be more than 1,000 miles closer to you just after midnight when it will be higher in the southern sky. So, stay up late to experience that “Super-est Moon.”

the planets, stars, galaxies and into the deepest regions of our universe. Launched from Earth on December 25, 2021, the JWST has made a onemillion-mile journey into space to circle the sun and study the distant universe. It’s the largest and most advanced space telescope ever made. Its mirrors can gather 6.5 times as much light as the Hubble Telescope. It will also be able to detect fainter energy by seeing in the infrared wavelengths, light not visible to the eye. The main focus of the telescope will be to examine distant galaxies and peer at the farthest objects in the universe. Astronomers hope to gain new insights on the earliest stages of the universe’s creation in unprecedented clarity.

What will the James Webb Telescope see?

The James Webb Telescope looks for ﬁ rst light

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is not designed to observe the moon, but is instead primed to peer to

Now that testing is complete, the JWST is ready to start imaging, what astronomers call ﬁ rst light. The ﬁ rst of-

fi cial picture is scheduled to be released on July 12. Placing a large telescope one million miles from Earth is a risky venture. If anything breaks, astronauts will never be able to visit it. Instead, engineers on Earth will have to conduct all repairs remotely. In June, NASA reported that a dustsized meteoroid (a tiny speck of space dust) struck the telescope and caused minor damage. The impact has not signifi cantly aff ected the resolution of the instruments but was noticeable to those monitoring data coming to Earth. Tune in Tuesday night to see the fi rst light pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, but then be sure to get outside and behold the closest full moon of the year, the supermoon. Dean Regas is the Astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory, and author of the books 100 Things to See in the Night Sky and How to Teach Grown-Ups About Pluto. He can be reached at dean@cincinnatiobservatory.org

Sunday Sun-day Sundae What: Learn all about the Sun, see it through safe solar-viewing equipment, and eat ice cream sundaes. Where: Cincinnati Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place. When: Sunday, July 10, 1-4 p.m. Tickets: $15, $10 children; $12, $7 children advance; cincinnatiobservatory.org.

That’s No Moon – It’s Supermoon What: Join us for supermoon viewing party. Bring blankets, lawn chairs, and set up outside on the Observatory hillside. Supermoon will also feature guests in costume from a galaxy far, far away Where: Cincinnati Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place. When: Tuesday, July 12, 8-10 p.m. Tickets: $15, $10 children; $12, $7 children advance; cincinnatiobservatory.org.

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GARDENING

Is summer boredom hitting? Take the family on a garden adventure During the middle of the summer, there is always the potential for a bit of summer boredom to hit some of us. If you feel that you might be vulnerable to this, consider yourself lucky to live in the Greater Cincinnati area. There is always plenty to do if you want to get away from the house for the day. If you like seeing ﬂ owers, there is no place better to visit than the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. The second half of the name says it all. The animals in our zoo are living in a paradise of gardens. The gardens at the zoo are not just a pretty show. All the gardens serve a purpose. The gardens create an ecological balance for the wildlife living at the zoo. This is not just a description of the areas where the animals live. Throughout the zoo you will see gardens for pollinators. These are gardens you can create in your own landscape. Many of the gardens at the zoo also contain plants that are being trialed. Many plant growers will send plants to the zoo to be tested to see how they perform. Our Midwest summer weather can be challenging. These trials help determine which plants will perform best in our home landscapes. At the end of the season on August 25, the zoo hosts its annual Plant Trials Symposium. This is a full day of the best speakers in the country talking about the best plants. You can attend this event in person or see it virtually. For more details, visit cincinnatizoo.org. If you have young children a great place to spend a day is the Highﬁ eld Discovery Garden. This is located at Glenwood Gardens. This 12-acre garden is a

Two adventurers explore the Highﬁ eld Discovery Garden at Glenwood Gardens of Great Parks. PHYLLIS KELLER

delight for any age. It is designed to encourage guests to explore the natural world in a fun, engaging environment. Along with the 25-foot Discovery Tree, there are seven smaller gardens to explore within Highfi eld Discovery Garden. We took our daughters to the Highfi eld Discovery Garden when they were younger. They were instantly fascinated as soon as we entered the gardens. I encourage you to take your young children, they will be amazed. Glenwood Gardens is part of Great Parks of Hamilton County. This park system is very extensive and truly has something to off er everyone of any age.

For more information, go to Greatparks.org. The Cincinnati Nature Center is also a great place to visit, especially if you want to learn more about protecting our environment. It is very important for all of us to learn more about sustainability. The Cincinnati Nature Center is the best place to learn. I should also mention that the Cincinnati Zoo is also a great place when it comes to focusing on sustainability. The Cincinnati Nature Center is a great place to visit on your own just to hike and get in touch with nature. They also oﬀ er many programs that are both educational and fun for people of all

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Kenton County Fair and Horse Show Enjoy 4-H horse and livestock shows, pageants including the Miss Kenton County pageant, track events and more at the weeklong Kenton County Fair. h When: July 11-16. h Where: 2836 Harris Pike, Independence. h Admission: General entry is $12. Kids 2 and under get in for free, but will need a $12 ride ticket to go on rides. Credit cards are accepted at the Harris and Wehrman Road entrance with a $2 transaction fee. h Find more information and the schedule at kentoncountyfair.com.

Warren County Fair This year’s fair includes a lineup of shows and events, 4-H exhibits, horse racing, drag racing, food vendors, live music and more. h When: July 18-23. h Where: 665 N. Broadway St., Lebanon. h Admission: General entry is $10. Kids 5 and under get in free. A weeklong pass is $30, track event seating is $5 and the Demo Derby pit pass is $20. h Find more information and the schedule at warrencountyfairohio.org. See FAIRS, Page 7AA

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Rooted Juicery. David recommended I try the homemade mafaldine (the fl at noodles with ruffl ed edges) with rabbit ragu, goat’s milk cheese and Castelvetrano green olives, the last of which provided a beautiful buttery fl avor and a meaty bite. The rabbit rendered the dish rustic with its mild gaminess, and the pasta itself was cooked perfectly. I also can’t say enough about the Jackmans’ pawpaw meringue pie, which is served more like a sundae with luscious pawpaw sorbet, crumbled graham cracker “crust” and meringue. I should give a shoutout to the bakery at Rooted, which made the truly outstanding vegan cinnamon roll that I picked out from the pastry case. I don’t know what makes it vegan, all I can say is that it hits all of the right notes that a perfect cinnamon roll should.

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ed, will be available in the next couple of weeks). I also found some beautiful yellow peaches at the Scott Farm stand on Saturday. Presently, they are ripening up in a brown paper bag on our dining room table (though I’ve already sliced at least one of them up and topped it with vanilla ice cream).

Blackberry Ale-8 I’m not sure how long it’s been a thing, but in recent years, Ale-8-One out of Winchester, Kentucky, has been selling special summer fl avors. Last year’s orange cream was so good that the company decided to make it a full-time staple. I hope the same thing happens with their blackberry fl avored soda, which has a tart berry fl avor and just the right amount of sweetness. Mix it with a little Kentucky bourbon (which I did just last night) and it might become your favorite summertime sipper. (Available at Madison’s.)

Black Walnuts from Lobenstein Farm If you’ve ever tried to crack a black walnut open from its shell, you know what an arduous experience it can be. You have to drive an SUV over them just to crack open the green hulls, and if you’re not careful, their black tannins will stain your hands for weeks. Then comes the curing (that takes about a month) followed by the several whacks of a hammer you’ll need to get them out of their shells. It’s work that’s best left to the pros. Which is why I always try to grab a small packet of shelled black walnuts from Lobenstein Farm, a ﬁ fth-generation farm in New Leon, Indiana, when I see them at Madison’s. I know black walnuts aren’t for everyone. Their ﬂ avor is intense, a little fruity, yes, but also reminiscent of something between a walnut and a musty attic. But once you understand their complexity and their ties to the Midwest (and the amount of work it takes to shell them), they might just become your favorite nut.

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ing down some fresh Blue Point and Moonrise oysters right there in the main market hall. There’s something about this raw bar that has taken Findlay to a diﬀ erent level. It oﬀ ers a pause in the chaos of the crowds, a chance to stop for a moment and focus on a cool and briny oyster or six. No, Cincinnati is not a coastal town, but Sen sure makes it feels like one.

Rabbit mafaldine, pawpaw meringue pie at Wildweed Pasta David and Lydia Jackman won over Cincinnati pasta lovers a few years ago when they started serving inventive pasta dishes at their Sunday Sauce popup at Oakley Wines. Thankfully, they’re back at it doing a similar (albeit even more ambitious) menu at their new pop-up, dubbed Wildweed Pasta, inside

Vietnamese tacos at Chino’s Outside Saigon Market, Nghiep Ho’s son, Nick, runs a pop-up serving Asian street food called Chino’s. I tried the Vietnamese taco, which was essentially a banh mi on a ﬂ our tortilla with sweetspicy marinated chicken, cucumber, carrots, jalapenos and fresh cilantro with a cilantro mayo. Like the best banh mi, it was crunchy, spicy, savory and sweet. I recommend ordering it along with Chino’s watermelon agua fresca, which is especially refreshing given the record temperatures we’ve been seeing this summer.

A nice haul from ETC Produce & Provisions At ETC, I picked up some beautiful (and bulbous) organic green onions from Lobenstein Farm, sweet Rainier cherries from Eshleman Farm in northern Ohio and some of ETC co-owner Toncia Chavez’s homemade ranch dip, which I’d been craving since I bought a container a few weeks ago. Chavez uses buttermilk, fresh herbs and ranch powder from Hen of the Woods (the potato chip guys) to create a creamy, addictive dip that’s perfect for chips, pretzels and all of the locally sourced vegetables ETC has to oﬀ er.

Tamales from Sabor Alaniz

Raw oysters at Sen by Kiki One of the highlights of my most recent visit to Findlay was standing at the counter at Hideki Harada and Ben Long’s new Sen ﬁ sh market and slurp-

With all of the changes to Findlay Market during the past decade, it’s important to remember the old-school places that have been around through thick and thin. That’s why I always try to stop by Saigon Market whenever I’m there. Owner Nghiep Ho’s parents immigrated to Cincinnati from Vietnam in 1976 and soon opened this market, which has been a mainstay for decades now. Since my daughter is an avid fan of Pocky (you know, those addictive cookie sticks dipped in chocolate), it gave me a perfect excuse to take her to Saigon this past weekend. The market carries a wide selection of Pocky ﬂ avors, as well as an assortment of Japanese chips and snack mixes that I’ve come to love over the years. My favorite might be the puﬀ ed shrimp chips, or the mix of Japanese rice crackers, peanuts and chili bits that I’m having a hard time putting aside as I write this.

Hideki Harada, co-owner of Sen ﬁ sh market, serves up a plate of oysters.

Toncia Chavez from ETC was adamant that I try the tamales at a new family-owned stand located just across from Rooted called Sabor Alaniz. So adamant, in fact, that she actually bought four of them (two pork, two chicken) for me to take home. I owe her one. I haven’t had tamales since I moved to Cincinnati and these didn’t disappoint. “Really reminds me of my grandma’s,” Chavez, a Mexican American who grew up in California’s Yuma Valley, told me. While I’ve never tried her grandmother’s tamales, if the ones I tried at Sabor Alaniz are any indication, they must’ve been good.

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Butler County Fair Livestock shows, demolition derby, antique tractor pull and more can be found at the annual Butler County Fair, a tradition since 1851. h When: July 24-30. h Where: 1715 Fairgrove Ave., Hamilton. h Admission: General entry is $9. Kids 6 to 12 are $4. On July 28, seniors and veterans get in free. h Find more information and the schedule at butlercountyohfair.org.

Clermont County Fair Enjoy a rodeo, demolition derby,

truck and tractor pulls and more at the Clermont County Fair. This year will feature live performances by country singer Craig Morgan and other artists. h When: July 24-30. h Where: 1000 Locust St., Owensville. h Admission: Early bird tickets for Craig Robinson’s concert are available now for $14.95, or $25 at the door. The cost of daily admission to the fair will be announced online closer to the date. h Find more information and the schedule at clermontcountyfair.com.

Hamilton County Fair The 167th annual Hamilton County Fair features a petting zoo, Third Eye Brewing Company beer garden, music, demolition derby and more. h When: Aug. 11-14. h Where: 7700 Vine St., Carthage.

h Admission: General entry is $10 and parking is $5. h Find more information and the schedule at hamiltoncountyfair.com.

Boone County 4-H & Utopia Fair A vintage vehicle parade, live music, ﬁ reworks, pageants, 4-H livestock shows, demolition derby and more. h When: Aug. 8-13. h Where: 5819 Idlewild Road, Burlington. h Admission: General entry is $12. Kids 3 years old and younger get in free. Credit cards are accepted at the gate. h Find more information and the schedule at boonecountyfair.org.

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events, pageants, local business vendors, activities for kids and more. h When: To be announced. h Where: 100 Fairgrounds Lane, Alexandria. h Admission: To be announced. h Find announcements about the Alexandria Fairgrounds Facebook page.

Little State Fair Last year’s Little State Fair in Brown County had a demo derby, horse shows, truck pulls and more. h When: To be announced. h Where: 325 W. State St., Georgetown. h Admission: To be announced. h Find announcements about the Little State Fair on its Facebook page.

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THINGS TO DO IN CINCY THIS WEEK

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Monday, July 11 FAIRS: Kenton County Fair and Horse Show, 2960 Wehrman Road, Independence. Runs July 11-16. kentoncountyfair.com. FAMILY: Christmas in July, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday, EnterTrainment Junction, 7379 Squire Court, West Chester. Runs through July 31. Admission starts at $9.95. 513-898-4656; entertrainmentjunction.com. FAMILY: The Science of Color featuring Prismatica, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. daily, Krohn Conservatory, 1501 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams. Runs July 2-Oct. 16. $10, $7 ages 5-17, free ages 4-under. cincinnati-oh-gov. FILM: Fanny: The Right to Rock, 7 p.m., Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. $15, $12 advance. cincyticket.com. FOOD: Cincinnati Burger Week, Monday-Sunday at participating restaurants throughout Greater Cincinnati. cincinnatiburgerweek.com. MUSIC: Jazz at the Park, 6-9 p.m., Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Overthe-Rhine. Carlos Vargas Trio featuring Emily Grace Jordan. Free. washingtonpark.org.

Tuesday, July 12 FILM: Rude Boy, 7 p.m., Woodward Theater, 1404 Main St., Over-the-Rhine. $15, $12 advance. cincyticket.com. MUSIC: Rod Stewart, Riverbend Music Center. With Cheap Trick.

Wednesday, July 13 FILM: Summit Cinema, dusk, Summit Park, 4335 Glendale Milford Road, Blue Ash. July 13: “Encanto.” summitparkblueash.com. MUSIC: Reggae Wednesday: Mighty Mystic, 7-10 p.m., Fountain Square, 525 Vine St., Downtown. Free. myfountainsquare.com. MUSIC: Tedeschi Trucks Band, PNC Pavilion. With Los Lobos and Gabe Dixon. SPORTS: FC Cincinnati vs Vancouver Whitecaps FC, TQL Stadium, 1501 Central Pkwy, West End. Orange Out Night. fccincinnati.com.

Al B. Sure performs a free show at Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine Friday night as part of the Friday Flow Series. PROVIDED

FILM: “The Day the Music Died,” 7 p.m. Thursday, 1 p.m. Sunday, Showcase Cinema de Lux, 12064 Springﬁ eld Pike, Springdale. Exclusive screening of the story of Don McLean’s “American Pie” before the documentary’s Paramount+ release. showcasecinemas.com. MUSIC: Crown Jewels of Jazz: Cincinnati Pops with Diane Monroe and Kathy Wade, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Corinthian Baptist Church, 1920 Tennessee Ave., Bond Hill. Free. MUSIC: The Cult, PNC Pavilion. With Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Zola Jesus.

Friday, July 15 COMEDY: Bobcat Goldthwait, Go Bananas Comedy Club, 8410 Market Place Lane, Montgomery. With Blake Hammond and Hanna Ljungholm. Runs June 15-16. gobananascomedy.com. COMEDY: Tony Roberts, Funny Bone Comedy Club, 7518 Bales St., Liberty Township. Runs July 15-17.

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Thursday, July 14 DANCE: Salsa on the Square, 7 p.m., Fountain Square, 520 Vine St., Downtown. Free. FAMILY: Circus in the Parks, 6 p.m., Wayne Recreation Area. 3757 Beekman St., South Cumminsville. My Nose Turns Red Youth Circus performs. Free. FESTIVALS: Bacon, Bourbon and Brew Festival, 5-11 p.m. Thursday-Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday, Festival Park, Newport. Free admission. cincinnatifestivalsandevents.com. FILM: NightLight513: Wedding Crashers, 7:30 p.m., Sawyer Point Park, P&G Pavilion, Downtown. No pets. Ages 21-up. $10. nightlight513.com.

liberty.funnybone.com. COMEDY: Brewery Comedy Tour, 8 p.m., Wooden Cask Brewing Co., Newport. $16. eventbrite.com. ENTERTAINMENT: War on the Catwalk Drag Show, PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation. EXPOS: Greater Cincinnati Numismatic Coin Show, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sharonville Convention Center, 11355 Chester Road, Sharonville. Learn about the coin business from experts. Runs July 15-16. Free admission and parking. FAMILY: Kids Outdoor Adventure Expo, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Winton Woods Harbor, 801 Lakeview Drive, Springﬁ eld Township. Free. greatparks.org. FESTIVALS: The Ohio Challenge, 410:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, special events 7-10:30 a.m. Saturday-Sunday, Smith Park, Tytus Ave., Middletown. $15 per vehicle with shuttle service from Middletown Regional Airport, $5 walkin. gettothebc.com. MUSIC: Fifth & Vine Live, 7-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Fountain Square, 525 Vine St., Downtown. Friday: Second Wind. Saturday: Kississippi, Sundae Drives. Free. myfountainsquare.com. MUSIC: Friday Flow: Al B. Sure, 6-10 p.m., Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. Free. washingtonpark.org. MUSIC: Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Great American Ball Park. SPORTS: Florence Y’alls vs Joliet Slammers, Thomas More Stadium, 7950 Freedom Way, Florence. Runs July 15-17. ﬂ orenceyalls.com. THEATER: Shakespeare in the Park, 7 p.m., Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park, 1600 Art Museum Drive, Mount Adams. Free. THEATER: Nunsense, 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Mason Community Playhouse, 5529 Mason Road, Mason. masonplayers.org.

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COMEDY: Helltown Comedy Showcase, 7:30 p.m., The Comet, 4579 Hamilton Ave., Northside. bombsawaycomedy.com. COMEDY: Highly Improvable Comedy Show, 8 p.m., Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 2728 Short Vine St., Corryville. Ages 13-up. $10. cliftonculturalarts.org. FAMILY: Laurel Park Family Fun Days, 7-9 p.m., 500 Ezzard Charles Drive, West End. With the CSO. Free. cincinnati-oh.gov/cincyparks. FAMILY: Owls Nest Park Family Fun Days, 4-8 p.m., 1984 Madison Road, East Walnut Hills. Free. cincinnati-oh.gov/cincyparks. FAMILY: Tractor Cruise, 9 a.m., Grants Lick Baptist Church, 941 Clay Ridge Road, Alexandria. Free. Information: Jason 513-633-1754. FESTIVALS: Cincy Blues Fest, 3-11 p.m., Schmidlapp Event Lawn at Smale Park, 124 E. Mehring Way, Downtown. $20, $5 ages 13-18, free ages 12-under. cincybluesfest.org. FESTIVALS: Bastille Day, 4-11 p.m., Downtown Montgomery. Free admission. montgomeryohio.gov. FESTIVALS: Darkness Brewing Summer Street Fair, noon-midnight,

Darkness Brewing, 224 Fairfi eld Ave., Bellevue. FESTIVALS: Summer Food Fest, noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Coney Island, 6201 Kellogg Ave., Anderson Township. Benefi ts Make A Wish Foundation. $25, free ages 10-under. Ticket holders can buy Sunlite Pool Water Adventure passes at discounted rate of $10. cincinnatimagazine.com. FESTIVALS: Whiskey City Challenge, 1 p.m., 135 W. High St., Lawrenceburg. Free admission. thinklawrenceburg.com. MUSEUMS: Escape the Village, 1:30 and 3 p.m., Heritage Village Museum, 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville. $25. heritagevillagecincinnati.org. MUSEUMS: Historic Hunt House, 1-4 p.m., 4364 Hunt Road, Blue Ash. Museum hosts open house. Free. MUSIC: Jazz Brunch: Haden Wright, 10 a.m.-noon, Inwood Park, 2308 Vine St., Mount Auburn. Runs June 1-Aug. 16. Free. cliftonculturalarts.org. MUSIC: Keehner Park Concert Series, 7-9 p.m., Keehner Park, 7211 Barret Road, West Chester Township. Jump ‘n Jive Band. Free. westchesteroh.org. MUSIC: Keith Urban, Riverbend Music Center. Speed of Now World Tour. With Ingrid Andress. SHOPPING: City Flea, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Washington Park, 1230 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. Free admission. thecityfl ea.com. TOURS: Backroads Farm Tour, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 8350 E. Main St., Alexandria. campbellkyconservation.org. THEATER: Rent, The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St., Covington. Runs July 16-Aug. 26. 859-957-1940; thecarnegie.com.

Sunday, July 17 COMEDY: Celeste Barber, Taft Theatre. CRAFT SHOW: Southern Ohio Summer Market & Pinata, noon-4 p.m., The Barn at Hidden Ridge, 6312 Fair Ridge Road, Hillsboro. FAMILY: Sunday Showtime: BiOkoto, 7-8:30 p.m., Hirsch Recreation Center, 3630 Reading Road, Avondale. Runs through Aug. 16. Free. cliftonculturalarts.org. FAMILY: OTR Performs: King Records, 6-8 p.m., Washington Park, Overthe-Rhine. Free. washingtonpark.org. MUSIC: Frankie & the Witch Fingers, Woodward Theater. MUSIC: Elf Power, MOTR Pub. With Er Jurken. OUTDOORS: Community Day: Great Parks’ Birthday, Great Parks of Hamilton County. Free entry at all Great Parks without the need for a motor vehicle permit. greatparks.org. SHOPPING: Burlington Antique Show, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Boone County Fairgrounds, 5819 Idlewild Road, Burlington. $6 early birds (6 a.m. entry), $4, free ages 12-under. burlingtonantiqueshow.com.

Looking ahead VOLUNTEERS: Valley View Foundation seeks volunteers to work in community garden throughout summer season. valleyviewcampus.org.

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STILL NOT SURE ABOUT SOUR BEERS? HOW TO JUMP IN ... THE RIGHT WAY Matt Koesters Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

As I’ve written about in the past, nothing helps beat the heat quite like an ice-cold beer. But when it comes to cooling off , not all beers are created equal. Sure, a crispy lager is going to hit the spot. A good West Coast IPA will provide some relief, too. But there’s a reason strawberry daiquiris, pina coladas and margaritas are so popular at beachside bars: They’re awesome. Unfortunately, they’re also kind of labor-intensive to make. You’ll need a blender. You’ll need a bunch of diff erent ingredients. And most importantly, you’ll need suffi cient motivation to actually get up and make one. Or, y’know, you could grab a sour ale. Those who know, know. They know that sours, by design, are usually quite refreshing. Think carbonated, spiked fruit punch. Sure, it’s a little tart. But it tastes darn good on a hot day. But for those who don’t know yet: Yeah, I get it. The word “sour” isn’t exactly appetizing in most contexts. “This milk has gone sour. I’m feeling sour about it.” Branding problems aside, sour beer is something Cincinnati does quite well. We have one of the few all-sour breweries in the country operating right under our noses, along with some of the most crushable sour off erings from our less-specialized brewmakers. Try them out – you may fi nd something that makes cooling off a bit more interesting for your palate.

the Gadget, my favorite from them – can come oﬀ as thick, which is not what I’d buy while stocking my cooler for an afternoon under the sun. But that said, Urban Artifact can do the light-and-refreshing thing as well as anyone. My recommendation for this time of year from Urban Artifact would be Spyglass, their lemon-lime golden sour ale. Or you could opt for Keypunch, UA’s key lime gose. Or if you’re interested in the sour experience without the fruit, UA has you covered there too with Finn, its sour pale ale.

MadTree When I think of MadTree, my mind immediately goes to their IPAs. They make a lot of them. They’re good at it. Then I think of Knotty Brown, my personal favorite local brown ale that I wish was still packaged and widely available. Alas. But then I think of Shade, Madtree’s blackberry tart ale brewed with sea salt. My word. Shade is so good. It’s arguably the most crushable sour ale

made anywhere around these parts. Speaking strictly anecdotally, Shade is responsible for several people I know accepting that there may be something to this sour beer business after all.

That being said, Braxton’s Summertrip passionfruit berliner weisse is among the more popular sours here in Cincinnati. It may not be for me, but if passionfruit is your thing, then it’s probably going to do the trick for you.

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Flavor matters. Sure, the kind of sour beer I’m covering here should be simple and straightforward, but it should also be delicious. That’s why Grainworks Cherry Pineapple Tart makes this list. It’s a traditional German berliner weisse made with real pineapple and cherries, and it really works. My palate tends to lean sweet, but there’s not too much of it here. Cherry Pineapple Tart is a great hot-weather beer.

Berliner Weisse: Originating in northern Germany, the berliner weisse is a tart wheat beer typically low in alcohol and moderate in acidity. Sometimes served with fruit syrup for ﬂ avor. Pairs well with a wide variety of breads, meats and cheeses. Gose: Pronounced “go-suh,” this centuries-old sour style also hails from Germany. Goses are made with sea salt and coriander, and derive their tart ﬂ avor from lactobaccilus – the same bacteria used in the manufacture of cheese and yogurt. They’re generally light and low in alcohol content. Midwest Fruit Tart: An invention of Urban Artifact, the Midwest Fruit Tart style is a moderate-to-high-ABV sour ale brewed with copious amounts of fruit puree.

Braxton I’ll confess right up front that I still have my picky moments. I’m not a fan of any fruit that has the word “fruit” right in the name. Maybe that’s a bit Ron Swanson-esque of me, but I’ve been called worse.

Urban Artifact Any conversation about Cincinnati sours should begin with Urban Artifact. The Northside brewery has made perfecting sours – particularly a proprietary style they call the “Midwest Fruit Tart” – to the exclusion of all other styles since 2015. To be clear, not all of their sours are the kind I’d turn to for summer refreshment. Their heavier beers – like

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Coney Island hosts its 22nd annual LaRosa’s Balloon Glow on July 3 at the park’s Moonlite Mall in Anderson Township. The tradition celebrates the Fourth of July and features a dozen tethered hot air balloons, inflatable obstacles, carnival food and games, followed by a grand ﬁ nale by Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks. STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH/THE ENQUIRER

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ABC, 9 p.m. h New Series Peyton Manning executive produces this new physical comedy competition series. The fresh, exciting format pits four teams of colorful contestants against tremendous tipping towers. Each life-sized themed tower is full of various objects, from basketballs to small kitchen appliances, as contestants try to successfully pull items from the stack without tipping it over. The last team standing will compete in the Mega Stack with a $250,000 grand prize on the line.

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CNN, 10 p.m. h Season Premiere Comedian/political provocateur W. Kamau Bell returns for Season 7 of his Emmy-winning docuseries in which he visits communities across America to explore race, class and the unique challenges each one faces. In the season premiere, “The Woke War,” Bell explores what is going on with “wokeness,” and how the term “woke” has become the focus of a massive political and ideological fight. Bell visits Arizona, an emerging swing state on the frontline of a culture war that is an epicenter of national polarization.

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Why would brother-in-law not tell you he supports your cause?

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Dear Carolyn: My husband and I have been together for 10 years and married for seven. I am very passionate about politics and current events, even more so after the past few years. My brother-in-law, “Brad” is silent on these topics. A few times I asked my husband what he thought and he just said Brad “wasn’t very political.” I volunteer for a local chapter of a national organization that aligns with my values. Last week I saw a donor list and Brad donated a substantial sum (unusual surname). I came home and asked my husband about it. My husband did not seem surprised at all and just said that I saw the donor list as a volunteer and I shouldn’t bring it into the family. I cannot shake the feeling that all of this, from Brad not being political to my husband knowing he made the donation, is really weird. Do you have any insights? – In-Law In-Law: I don’t know, but I have opinions. So many opinions. I think Brad is a private person. Even if he isn’t one in general, non-private people often choose to be private about their politics and personal wealth. (Or maybe I just wish they did.) I don’t think being private about something is weird when it’s entirely one’s own business and it costs no one anything not to know. I do think being private about something can be odd, even diffi cult, when someone else in the family is public and outspoken about the same thing – but it’s nothing beyond the reach of a little fi nesse. “A little fi nesse” might be the very defi nition of your husband’s remark that Brad “wasn’t very political” – because while it’s clearly not true in the old-fashioned sense (i.e., where we agree there is a reality to be known and proven), it’s true enough in the sense that Brad is not going to exist as a political person around you. Which is his prerogative. For all we know Brad is private about his politics around your husband as well. But I suspect this is more likely the case: The brothers have opted not to stand in your way but also not join you in openly demonstrating political passion. I think there is nothing wrong with this. There are many ways to be on board. And there are many reasons to be dis-

creet, including, for example, other family members. Maybe some back the other “side” and are highly reactive as well. But if you are picking up signals that the brothers aren’t on board with your methods, and/or Brad has opted for privacy because he speciﬁ cally doesn’t want to engage on this with you, then respect your instincts. If there is a chance that what you call “passionate” is what they’d call “strident,” then a little reﬂ ection couldn’t hurt. Rarely does. Even if you don’t change a thing. I think the most valid item in this entire scenario is your husband’s caution that you have proprietary info, meaning it is not for public debate or prying. Imagine if all our boundaries were so clear. Finally, I think in This Political Climate it is a minor miracle that Brad’s furtive activism is in support of your cause. Whatever energy you’re plowing into your “What’s with Brad?” inquiry could go into a discreet reservoir of joy. Email Carolyn at tellme@washpost.com.

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to light up. The fact is, I’m in love with one of my two friends. She ticks off all those boxes. It has been a while since my divorce, and when we are together, I feel comfortable, warm and safe. I guess I’m afraid her answer would be no. Advice? Taking a Chance in California Dear Taking: Oh, yes. Swing for the fences! Tell her how you feel. If her answer is no – and I’m betting it won’t be – go on a dating site THEN. In cases like this, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Dear Abby: I like to have buff ets for large numbers of guests, but during a recent party, the food and table were ready, but nobody started. Then a guest asked me – the host – to start so that everyone could eat. I was always taught that the host or hostess always went last. I tried to research the answer, but can’t fi nd one. What is polite? Who should start the buff et? Getting Started in Georgia Dear Getting Started: Because announcing, “Folks, the buff et is open” hasn’t worked, try this: Ask a couple of your closest friends to get in line and start helping themselves so the others will follow suit. Nothing stimulates the appetite like seeing others fi lling up. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, aka Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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How to cope with crazy summer travel season Christopher Elliott Special to USA TODAY

It’s going to be a crazy summer out there for travel. Are you ready? h If the projections are accurate, travel will be off the rails. We’re talking soaring prices, seemingly infi nite lines, and frayed tempers. Plus, there’s a war in Ukraine and a pandemic still raging in parts of the world. h I’ve traveled in Africa, Europe and the Middle East since the beginning of this year, interviewing tourism offi cials about their expectations for this summer. Almost without exception, they describe what’s about to happen in the same way: It’s like a tsunami that is slowly rising on the horizon and will soon engulf all of us. h “This summer,” says Cleous Young, a frequent traveler and author of “The Airport Adventure,” a children’s book about airport safety, “whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” h Yeah, it’s going to be an adventure, all right. h But by making a few expert adjustments, you can cope with the summer of 2022. If you slow down and take a minute to understand what’s happening, you’re halfway there. And there are internal adjustments that will also help you weather the busy travel season. Lower your expectations. After two years of going nowhere, many Americans are ready for a vacation. But experts say you shouldn’t look for 2020 service levels and prices – you’ll be disappointed if you do. “Lower your expectations,” advises Dr. Sandeep Vaishnavi, a psychiatrist with Mindpath Health. “The brain’s reward system gets particularly activated if results exceed expectations. In the case of a busy travel season and all that entails, if you lower your expectations and things actually go right sometimes, the brain will feel rewarded and have a boost of dopamine. This will leave you in a happier state of mind.” Let the world go by. The summer of 2022 will be a circus. Don’t become a part of it, say experts. Instead, just observe. “Travel gives you an opportunity to challenge your perspective on the world and yourself,” says Patrick Walsh, a psychotherapist from New York. “Consider adopting an observational rather than an engaged stance towards your fellow travelers.” Take care of yourself. That’s especially true if you’re traveling with kids. There’s a temptation to ignore your needs and focus on taking care of everyone else, which is not much of a vacation. “Be mindful,” says Andrea Anderson Polk, a licensed professional counselor from McLean, Virginia. She says travelers should regularly ask themselves what they need, what they’re feeling, and what they want. Watch what you eat and drink. It’s tempting to let

yourself go on your fi rst big trip, but that would be a mistake, warns Dan Meyer. director of Back & Pack, an experiential travel program. “It’s critically important to take care of your physical well-being while traveling,” he says. Repeat an affi rmation or mantra. A positive statement that helps you overcome negative thoughts can help you get through a stressful fl ight. “Pick a positive mantra and repeat it in your head at least 10 to 20 times,” says Henry Penix, CEO of Soaak, a wellness app. “I am patient, and I have enough patience to get through this day. Or, I love to travel and welcome new experiences. As you speak these words, your mind yields to what it’s being told, as the stress and tensions melt away.” Practice gratitude. This is one of the most-repeated pieces of advice from therapists and wellness experts. “Remind yourself of how lucky and privileged you are for being able to travel at all,” says Raff aello Antonino, a counseling psychologist with Therapy Central, a counseling center in London. “Gratitude may be the best way to regain your balance when frustration kicks in.” I agree that setting your expectations and modifying your travel habits can help. But you have other options. A few weeks ago in Turkey, I met with Funda Eratici, the Susona Bodrum hotel’s regional director of sales. She told me about Yellow Summer in the Bo-

drum area – the last two weeks of September and the ﬁ rst two weeks of October. “It’s still warm here,” she told me, “but the crowds are gone.” That may be the most practical expert coping strategy of the summer: avoidance.

Avoid these mistakes “Sometimes, we get a bit too ambitious and start feeling stressed out that we won’t be able to see all the sights we wanted to,” says Tasha Holland Kornegay, a licensed mental health clinician in Sanford, North Carolina. Her advice? Play it by ear. “Give yourself a few things to do every day, but also let the world take you where it may.” Forgetting to breathe. It’s how you breathe that matters when you’re dealing with travel-related stress. “Focus on deep, slow breaths, especially when you are engaging with technology or human beings on your trip,” says Ruth C. White, a wellness expert. Waiting until the last minute to book your rental car. Remember last summer, when rental cars were almost impossible to fi nd? “Be careful of the order in which you make reservations,” advises Mike Taylor, who heads up travel research at J.D. Power. “Given the rental car shortage and fl ight schedule disruptions, it may be best for travelers to reserve the rental car fi rst and then the fl ight, then the hotel.”

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The worst of COVID-19 may be over, experts say Transmission is up, but severity seems lower

Fight on Trump records continues

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Coronavirus cases are rising in the U.S. – again. Eighteen states reported more cases in the week of June 30 to July 7 than in the week before, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. That has also led to a rise in hospitalizations, with hospitals in 40 states reporting more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier. Thirty-eight states had more patients in intensive care beds, and 17 states reported more deaths than a week earlier. Although the increase in cases doesn’t appear to approach the meteoric levels of previous waves, health experts say what’s being recorded is likely an undercount because of underreported test results. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports about 66% of eligible people living in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and only about 47% have gotten at least one booster shot In June, federal authorities authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 6 months. The CDC has yet to report vaccination rates for that population, but polling data from April found only 18% of parents said they would vaccinate their younger children right away, 27% said they deﬁ nitely wouldn’t and 38% said they’d wait and see. Looking at vaccination rates among the next age group, ages 5-11, health experts worry vaccine uptake among

A pharmacist administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination to a 3-year-old in Lexington, S.C. In June, federal authorities authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 6 months. SEAN RAYFORD/AP FILE

children may be slow. As of June 29, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported only 29% of chidren ages 5-11 received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But experts advise parents to jump on these lifesaving vaccines sooner rather than later. A modeling study published in JAMA Network Open last week found vaccines may have prevented about 235,000 COVID-related deaths among people older than 18 from Dec. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021. “If you want your child fully protected in the fall ... I wouldn’t wait,” said Richard Besser, a pediatrician and president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Some experts expect another increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the fall, but said David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says there’s a chance

case rates could look similar to what they are now. “It seems like right now we’re at a high hum,” he said. “In the past, what has caused waves to subside has been our immunity to the virus, so I think it’s possible that our immunity will have a downward eﬀ ect,” or keep cases down. Aubree Gordon, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says the worst of COVID-19 may ﬁ nally be behind us, barring the emergence of any new variants. Experts say there have been no signs of a new variant. “Hopefully we will see that severity (of disease) continue to decrease and the rate of infections and number of cases will come down as well,” Gordon said. “We’re at the point in the U.S. where it is quite likely that the worst is over.”

WH seeks deportation policy approval Mark Sherman and Paul Weber ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to put in place guidance that prioritizes deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. The emergency request to the court follows confl icting decisions by federal appeals courts in recent days over a September directive from the Homeland Security Department that paused deportation unless individuals had committed acts of terrorism, espionage or “egregious threats to public safety.” The federal appeals court in Cincinnati overturned a district judge’s order that put the policy on hold in a lawsuit fi led by Arizona, Ohio and Montana. But in a separate suit fi led by Texas and Louisiana, a federal judge in Texas ordered a nationwide halt to the guidance and a federal appellate panel in New Orleans declined to step in. The administration turned to the Supreme Court in the latter case, asking that the policy be allowed to be put in place nationwide, or at the very least, everywhere outside Texas and Louisiana. The judge’s order “is disrupting DHS’s eff orts to focus its limited resources on the noncitizens who pose the gravest threat to national security, pub-

The guidance updated a policy that removed people in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or community ties. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP

lic safety, and the integrity of our Nation’s borders,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in the Supreme Court ﬁ ling. The guidance, issued after Joe Biden became president, updated a Trumpera policy that removed people in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or community ties. Even while disagreeing on many aspects of the immigration issue, the two administrations did ﬁ nd common ground in one respect: calling for the court to limit the power of “single district judges to dictate national policy.” Prelogar, following her predecessors in the Trump administration, be-

moaned an explosion of lawsuits fi led by states of one party against a president of the other party. Too many of those suits, she wrote, resulted in orders with nationwide eff ect. Judges typically decide cases in ways that only aff ect the parties before them. The states have until Wednesday to respond, and an order from the Supreme Court is not expected before late this week. The Biden administration request comes one day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order authorizing state forces to apprehend migrants and return them to the U.S.Mexico border, pushing the boundaries of their enforcement powers and the Republican’s escalating eff orts to curb the rising number of crossings. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asked Friday about the order, said “immigration enforcement is a federal authority and states should not be ... meddling in it. That is just, especially Texas Gov. Abbott, who has a track record of causing chaos and confusion at the border.” It remained unclear Friday how Abbott’s order would be carried out on the ground or whether any apprehensions or transports had already taken place. Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the state police agency could not discuss operational specifi cs.

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their yearslong investigation of Donald Trump’s fi nances. The decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won’t be the last word in the legal fi ght that began in 2019, when Trump was president and Democrats newly in charge of the House of Representatives subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump’s accounting fi rm, Mazars USA. A federal judge in Washington already had ruled that lawmakers were entitled to review a more limited set of records than they initially wanted. The appellate panel narrowed the request even more. It held that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform should be given records of fi nancial ties between foreign countries and Trump or any of his businesses for 2017-18. It also ordered Mazars to turn over documents between November 2016 and 2018 relating to the Trump company that held the lease granted by the federal government for the former Trump International Hotel located between the White House and the Capitol. “We determine here that the Committee has shown the requisite need for some, but far from all, of the presidential information covered by its subpoena,” Judge Sri Srinivasan wrote in an opinion joined by Judge Judith Rogers.

Report: Cuomo used resources from NY for book Maysoon Khan ASSOCIATED PRESS / REPORT FOR AMERICA

ALBANY, N.Y. – Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo improperly used state resources for a book he received $5.1 million to write, according to a report by a law fi rm. New York’s soon-to-be-disbanded ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, voted Thursday to make the report public. It had sought the investigation by the law fi rm to learn more about how the book deal was approved and the role played by the commission itself. The report says the ethics commission failed to assert itself as a watchdog agency against the governor and should have asked for more information from Cuomo’s offi ce. Cuomo had already written 70,000 words of what was expected to be an 80,000-word book before he submitted a request seeking approval by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics for the book in 2020. That meant Cuomo wrote and publicized the book at a time when it interfered with his responsibilities as a governor leading the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.

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Parole denied for Manson follower for 1969 slayings

Mexican prosecutors seize half-million fentanyl pills

Italy: All 11 hikers killed in glacier avalanche identiﬁ ed

NEWTOWN, Conn. – A Connecticut police offi cer will not be charged for fatally shooting a female black bear outside his Newtown home while off duty in May. The state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said in a news release issued Friday that it did not fi nd suffi cient evidence to bring charges against the man, who was suspended from the police department in nearby Ridgefi eld after the May 12 shooting, but has since been reinstated.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California panel on Friday denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a halfcentury ago. Bruce Davis was previously recommended for parole seven times, but those ﬁ ndings were rejected by three consecutive governors. Parole commissioners told the 79-year-old Davis to try again in three years. Davis has said he helped kill musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea in 1969. He was not involved in the killing of actress Sharon Tate.

MEXICO CITY – Mexican prosecutors announced Friday they have seized a half-million fentanyl pills in a raid at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan. The statement came one day after the army announced a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at another warehouse in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, home to the cartel of the same name. In the raid announced Friday, and carried out Thursday, soldiers also found 83 kilograms of powder fentanyl and about a ton of meth, in addition to bales of pills.

ROME – Italian authorities on Saturday put the fi nal death toll of the July 3 avalanche in northern Italy at 11 and said all the victims had been identifi ed nearly a week after a chunk of ice detached from a melting glacier and sent a torrent of ice, rock and debris on hikers below. Carabinieri Cmdr. Giampietro Lago, who headed a team of forensic experts identifying the remains, said the identity of the fi nal hiker had been established and “there are no elements” to suggest the death toll would grow. A day of mourning was observed Saturday.

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Pamplona: No one gored at bull run

Deadly ﬂ oods strike annual Hindu pilgrimage

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16 dead, thousands rescued in Kashmir

PAMPLONA, Spain – Thousands of thrill-seekers avoided getting gored Saturday during the bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival, offi cials said, revising an early report saying bull horns stabbed two men. Offi cials in the Spanish city corrected the preliminary report by Pamplona’s hospital to state that a man was scratched on the buttocks but not pierced by a horn. After the morning run through narrow streets ended, another man suffered a laceration when a wild cow was set loose in the city’s bullring for individuals to test their evasion maneuvers, according to the update. A total of seven men – six Spaniards and one Frenchman– needed to be treated at the hospital, according to authorities. None of the injuries appeared serious. While it turned out no one was skewered, the main event produced close calls for the human runners. Some of the massive bulls opted to knock aside people in their path instead of running them through with a potentially deadly horn. Several runners were stomped or bowled over by the half-dozen bulls and the six tame oxen that help guide them along the 956-yard course through Pamplona’s old quarter. There were no gorings on the fi rst two days of this year’s festival either. Saturday’s bull run was the third of eight scheduled and took 21⁄ 2 minutes. Thousands of runners, most wearing the traditional white clothes with red sash and neckerchief, scampered to avoid the charging animals. Many ended up piled on top of each other in the narrow cobblestone streets.

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SRINAGAR, India – Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after fl ash fl oods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir, offi cials said Saturday. At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured. Authorities suspended the pilgrimage for two days as rains continued to lash the region. Teams of rescuers from India’s military, paramilitary and police, as well as disaster management offi cials, combed through the slippery mountain tracks and used thermal imaging devices, sniff er dogs and through-the-wall radars to locate dozens of missing. They dug through mud, sand and rocks that swamped the campsites on Friday night after hurtling down with a gush of water near the cave shrine revered by Hindus. Civilian and military helicopters evacuated the injured to hospitals. Thousands of people were in the mountains when the rains struck. Offi cials said about 15,000 devotees were moved to safer locations and at least fi ve dozen injured were administered fi rst aid at base camp hospitals set up for the pilgrimage, which is undertaken by hundreds of thousands of Hindus from across India. Groups of pilgrims are staggered over 11⁄ 2 months for security and logistical reasons.

Cipollone gives Jan. 6 testimony, new info Trump counsel ‘did not contradict’ witnesses Lisa Mascaro and Farnoush Amiri ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone “did not contradict” testimony of previous witnesses as he appeared Friday before the Jan. 6 committee, a grueling daylong private session that produced new information to be divulged in future public hearings, one lawmaker said. Cipollone was a highly sought-after witness, especially after bombshell testimony that he tried to prevent Donald Trump from challenging the 2020 election results and worked to stop the defeated president from joining the violent mob that laid siege to the Capitol, they said. “He did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, said late Friday on CNN. Lofgren, a committee member, clarifi ed that “not contradicting is not the same as confi rming.” In some cases the former White House lawyer was not present for the events described or “couldn’t recall with precision” some details, she said. “He was candid with the committee, he was careful in his answers,” said Lofgren. “And I think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come.“ Cipollone’s central role came into focus during a surprise committee hearing June 28 when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described his repeated eff orts to stop Trump from joining the mob at the Capitol. In a stunning public hearing, Hutchinson testifi ed that Cipollone warned her that Trump would be charged with “every crime imaginable” if the defeated president went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, trying to stop the certifi cation of Joe Biden’s election. Hutchinson said Cipollone urged her to persuade her boss, chief of staff Mark Meadows, not to let Trump go to

the Capitol. Hutchinson testifi ed that she was told Trump was irate when he was ultimately prevented by his security team from going to the Capitol that day. The Secret Service has disputed parts of her account detailing Trump’s actions when she said he lashed out at the driver in the presidential motorcade. At another key juncture, Cipollone was also part of a meeting on the Sunday before Jan. 6 with Justice Department offi cials at the White House threatening to resign if Trump went ahead with plans to install a new acting attorney general who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud. During that meeting Cipollone referred to a letter that Jeff rey Clark, the attorney Trump wanted to install as head of the Justice DepartCipollone ment, had proposed sending to Georgia and other battleground states challenging their election results as a “murder-suicide pact,” according to previous testimony before the panel. Cipollone and his lawyer, Michael Purpura, who also worked at the Trump White House, did not respond to requests for comment. Once a staunch presidential confi dant who had defended Trump during his fi rst impeachment trial, Cipollone had been reluctant to appear formally for an on-the-record interview. Like other former White House offi cials, it is possible he claimed his counsel to the Republican president as privileged information he was unwilling to share with the committee. Cipollone appeared for some eight hours before the panel and its investigators. Cipollone was subpoenaed for his testimony, but Lofgren said he appeared voluntarily. “A grueling day,” she said. “But it was well worth it.” Trump responded to news of Cipollone’s cooperation on Truth Social, calling it bad for the country.

Soldiers carry a victim affected by the flash floods during the Amarnath pilgrimage near the Baltal base camp in Kashmir. ABID BHAT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Ravi Dutt, a 69-year-old Hindu ascetic from eastern West Bengal state, was camping near the cave on Friday night. He said water suddenly gushed down from a mountain “sweeping away men, women and our belongings, too.” “Everything was buried under a mountain (of mud and rocks),” Dutt said as he broke down. “I have never seen such an incident in my life.” Abdul Ghani, a Kashmiri porter who rents his pony to pilgrims, said it was chaos. “I just bundled a devotee on my pony and never looked back,” he said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the deaths. Manoj Sinha, New Delhi’s top administrator in the region, said: “Our priority is to save the lives of people. Instructions have been issued to provide all neces-

sary assistance to pilgrims.” The Amarnath pilgrimage began on June 30 and tens of thousands of devotees have visited the cave shrine where Hindus worship Lingam, a naturally formed ice stalagmite, as an incarnation of Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration. This year, oﬃ cials expected nearly 1 million visitors after a two-year gap because of the coronavirus pandemic. Worshippers trek to the cave along two routes through lush green meadows and rocky and forested mountain passes with a view of glacial lakes and snowy peaks. A traditional route via the southern hill resort of Pahalgam takes three days, and a trip through northeastern Baltal lasts one day. Some pilgrims use helicopter services to make quick visits.

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Abe’s death raises security questions Attacker was able to get close during speech Mari Yamaguchi ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO – A top police offi cial on Saturday acknowledged possible security lapses that allowed an assassin to fi re his gun into former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while he was addressing a campaign rally, raising questions how the attacker could get so close behind him. Abe was shot in the western city of Nara on Friday and airlifted to a hospital but died of blood loss. Police arrested the attacker, a former member of Japan’s navy, at the scene. Police confi scated his homemade gun. Several others were later found at his apartment. The attacker told investigators he acted because he believed rumors that Abe was connected to an organization that he resents, police said. Japanese media reported the man had developed hatred toward a religious group that his mother was obsessed about and that caused his family fi nancial problems. The reports did not specify the group. On Saturday, a black hearse carrying Abe’s body and accompanied by his wife, Akie, arrived at his home in Tokyo’s upscale area of Shibuya. Many mourners, including top party offi cials, waited for his remains and lowered their heads as the vehicle passed. Nara prefectural police chief Tomoaki Onizuka said Abe’s assassination was his “greatest regret” in a 27-year career. “I cannot deny there were problems with our security,” Onizuka said. “Whether it was a setup, emergency response, or ability of individuals, we still have to fi nd out. Overall, there was a problem and we will review it from every perspective.” Abe’s assassination ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election shocked the nation and raised questions over whether security for the former prime minister was adequate. Some observers who watched videos of the attack noted a lack of attention in the open space behind Abe as he spoke. A former Kyoto prefectural police in-

On Saturday, a black hearse carrying former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived at his home in Tokyo’s upscale residential area of Shibuya. Many lowered their heads as the vehicle passed. PHILIP FONG/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

vestigator, Fumikazu Higuchi, said the footage suggested security was sparse at the event and insuﬃ cient for a former prime minister. Experts also said Abe was more vulnerable standing on the ground level, instead of atop a campaign vehicle, which is usually the case but was reportedly unavailable due to his hastily arranged visit to Nara. “Looks like police were mainly focusing on frontward, while paying little attention to what’s behind Mr. Abe, and nobody stopped the suspect approaching him,” said Mitsuru Fukuda, a crisis management professor at Nihon University. “Clearly there were problems.” Fukuda said that election campaigns provide a chance for voters and politicians to interact because “political terrorism” was extremely rare in postwar Japan. But Abe’s assassination could prompt stricter security at crowded events like campaigns, sports games and others. During a parliamentary debate in 2015, Abe resisted suggestions by an opposition lawmaker to beef up his security, insisting that “Japan is a safe country.” In videos circulating on social media,

the 41-year-old attacker can be seen standing only a few meters behind Abe across a busy street, and continuously glancing around. A few minutes after Abe stood at the podium and started his speech – as a local party candidate and their supporters stood and waved to the crowd – the attacker can be seen taking his gun out of a bag, walking toward Abe and fi ring the fi rst shot, which released a cloud of smoke, but the projectile apparently missed Abe. As Abe turned to see where the noise came from, a second shot went off . That bullet apparently hit Abe’s left arm, missing a bulletproof briefcase raised by a security guard who stood behind him. Abe fell to the ground, with his left arm tucked in as if to cover his chest. Campaign organizers shouted through loudspeakers asking for medical experts to provide fi rst-aid to Abe. His heart and breathing had stopped by the time he was airlifted to a hospital, where he later was pronounced dead. Police on Saturday said autopsy results showed that a bullet that entered Abe’s upper left arm damaged arteries beneath both collar bones, causing fatal

massive bleeding. According to the Asahi newspaper, the attacker was a contract worker at a warehouse in Kyoto, operating a forklift. He was described as a quiet person who did not mingle with colleagues. A nextdoor neighbor at his apartment told Asahi he never met him, though he recalled hearing noises like a saw being used several times late at night over the past month. Japan is particularly known for its strict gun laws. With a population of 125 million, it had only 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, eight of them gang-related. Even though he was out of offi ce, Abe was still highly infl uential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and headed its largest faction. But his ultra-nationalist views made him a divisive fi gure to many. Abe stepped down two years ago blaming a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he’d had since he was a teenager. He said he regretted leave many of his goals unfi nished, especially his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia, and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution. That ultra-nationalism riled the Koreas and China, and his push to create what he saw as a more normal defense posture angered many Japanese liberals. Abe failed to achieve his cherished goal of formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifi st constitution because of poor public support. Loyalists said his legacy was a stronger U.S.-Japan relationship that was meant to bolster Japan’s defense capability. Abe divided the public by forcing his defense goals and other contentious issues through parliament. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who early on had a frosty relationship with Abe, sent a condolence message to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday, a day after most other world leaders issued their statements. Xi credited Abe with making eff orts to improve China-Japan relations and said he and Abe had reached an important understanding on building better ties, according to a statement posted on China’s Foreign Ministry website.

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AUSTIN, Texas – The mayor of Uvalde, Texas, on Friday disputed a new report that alleges authorities missed chances to quickly end the massacre at an elementary school, again refl ecting the lack of defi nitive answers about the slow law enforcement response to one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. Mayor Don McLaughlin said no Uvalde police offi cer saw the gunman outside Robb Elementary before he went inside and that none of them had an opportunity to fi re on the shooter. His comments contradict a critique of the decision-making by law enforcement that was released this past week by tactical response experts at Texas State University. The diff ering accounts and public rebuke of the report reiterated how, more than six weeks after the May 24 shooting, questions remain about how and why police armed with rifl es and bulletproof shields waited more than an hour before confronting the gunman in a fourth-grade classroom where 21 people were killed, including 19 children. It also widened a rift between Uvalde offi cials and the state, particularly the Texas Department of Public Safety, which had troopers on the scene and has directed much of the blame to the local school district police chief. The new report was requested by DPS, and the fi ndings were similar to the narrative and details that leaders of the state police force have previously given publicly. “There were dozens of DPS troopers onsite by the time of the breach in the classroom,” McLaughlin said in a statement. Representatives of the Department of Public Safety did not respond to requests for comment. But on Friday, the DPS told lawmakers that Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Busbee was not authorizing the agency to publicly release a 77-minute video of the school hallway before the classroom

Is that really happening? Uvalde, Texas, Mayor Don McLaughlin on Friday disputed a new report alleging missed chances to end the massacre at Robb Elementary and possibly stop it from ever happening. ERIC GAY/AP FILE

was breached. Busbee did not immediately reply to a message seeking comment. It is not the fi rst time McLaughlin has lashed out at the agency. He has previously accused it of publicly giving an incomplete and one-sided account at the same time he says local offi cials have been instructed to not divulge information while the investigation is ongoing. Col. Steve McCraw, who heads DPS, has largely blamed the inaction by law enforcement on Uvlade School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, describing him as the incident commander during the shooting. The report this past week was drafted by the university’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training program. Authors of the 26-page report said they were contacted by DPS shortly after the shooting to assess the law enforcement response and that they had an approximately one-hour briefi ng led by an “investigating offi cer” who is not named. McLaughlin said no Uvalde offi cer had a chance to shoot the gunman before entering the school, and that while an offi cer did see someone outside, the offi cer could not tell who it was.

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Inside Trump’s push to enter Capitol President’s plans to join mob foiled by security Lisa Mascaro ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – It would have been something never quite before seen in America – a defeated president, Donald Trump, standing at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a mob of supporters, some armed, contesting the election outcome. Trump intended to go there that day. His allies had been planning for the moment, envisioning the president delivering a speech outside the building or even entering the House chamber amid objections to Congress certifying the 2020 election results for Democrat Joe Biden. “He’s going to look powerful,” mused Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to a young White House aide four days earlier. But White House lawyers thought it was a “terrible” idea. Counsel Pat Cipollone warned that Trump could be charged with “every crime imaginable” if he joined a mob on Capitol Hill trying to interfere with the certiﬁ cation. In the end, Trump never made it to the Capitol on Jan. 6. His security refused to take him as rioters, some with weapons, laid siege to the building. Furious, and stuck at the White House, Trump watched the insurrection on television. The Jan. 6 hearings are providing dramatic new insight about Trump’s intentions as he told loyalists he would join them on a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to “ﬁ ght like hell” for his presidency. This account is drawn largely from the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Her recollections from her close proximity to the president and his inner circle suggest Trump’s demands were not the brash desires of an impulsive commander-inchief but part of his last-ditch plan for stopping Biden’s victory. Trump and his allies quickly disputed Hutchinson’s account, and the former president conducted his own interview days later disparaging her with derisive commentary and nicknames. This week, the committee is set to focus on Trump’s own actions and those of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in allegedly leading the Capitol attack. A look at what’s known about Trump’s plans to join the mob on Jan. 6:

Jan. 2, 2021 It was a Saturday night. Giuliani had been meeting at the White House with Trump’s chief of staff , Mark Meadows, and others. The White House and Meadows had placed some 18 calls that day to Brad Raff ensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, before Trump fi nally got the elections offi cial on the phone. Trump had been disputing the election results in Georgia, which he narrowly lost. He was demanding that Raffensperger “fi nd 11,780 votes,” exactly enough to tip the balance from Biden’s victory. The engineer-turned-civil servant declined. As Giuliani left the White House that night, he walked out with Meadows’ young aide, Hutchinson, a senior adviser. “Cass, are you excited for the 6th?” Giuliani asked, as Hutchinson recalled in testimony before the Jan. 6 committee. “It’s going to be a great day.” Hutchinson had heard discussions about Jan. 6 and the rally being planned outside the White House as

A video of former President Donald Trump speaking during a rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, is shown during a public hearing of the House select committee investigating the attack on Capitol Hill, on June 9 in Washington. ANDREW HARNIK/AP FILE

Congress was set to certify the election results. She also had heard, when Giuliani was around, mentions of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, two extremist groups. She looked at Giuliani and asked him to explain. “We’re going to the Capitol,” Giuliani told her. “It’s going to be great. The president’s going to be there. He’s going to look powerful.”

the White House. Meadows spoke with both Stone and Flynn that evening, Hutchinson said. Stone has disputed her account. Meadows also sought to join Giuliani and others who had set up a “war room” at the Willard Hotel close to the White House, she testiﬁ ed. “I had made it clear to Mr. Meadows that I didn’t believe it was a smart idea for him to go to the Willard Hotel that night,” she said.

Jan. 3 Jan. 6: The rally On Sunday, Cipollone privately raised concerns to Hutchinson about the president’s planned trip to the Capitol. Cipollone told her there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump went ahead as Congress was certifying the election. He urged her to relay the concerns to her boss, Meadows. “We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen,” Cipollone said, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. “This would be legally a terrible idea for us. We’re – we have serious legal concerns if we go up to the Capitol that day.” That Sunday was a busy day at the White House. The leaders of Trump’s Justice Department were threatening to resign if the president replaced the acting attorney general, Jeﬀ rey Rosen, with a lower-ranked civil division head, Jeﬀ rey Clark, to pursue the electoral challenge. And that same day, the U.S. Capitol Police issued a special event assessment, noting that the Proud Boys and other groups planned to be in Washington on Jan. 6. The police assessment indicated that “unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters ... but rather Congress itself is the target on the 6th.”

Jan. 5 On Tuesday, the eve of Jan. 6, according to Hutchinson, Trump asked Meadows to be in touch with two of the president’s associates – Roger Stone and Michel Flynn. Stone attended rallies for Trump in Washington and was photographed with multiple members of the Oath Keepers who were allegedly serving as his security detail, according to the committee. Both Stone and Flynn invoked their Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before the committee. The big “Stop the Steal” rally was planned for the morning of Jan. 6 near

The morning of the rally on Wednesday, Jan. 6, Cipollone pleaded once again with Hutchinson to ensure Trump did not head to the Capitol. “Please,” he said, “make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy,” she recalled. “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen.” Hutchinson’s desk at the White House was just down the hall from the Oval Offi ce, which was in one corner, and her boss Meadows’ offi ce in the other. But that day she was with the president backstage as he surveyed the crowd of supporters outside the White House. Trump was furious. The crowd was not as full as Trump wanted it. Supporters lingered outside the security screening, unwilling to have their weapons confi scated by the Secret Service to join the main rally area. Trump ordered his security to get rid of the metal detectors, known as magnetometers, insisting the armed supporters were no threat to him. The police radios crackled with information; a man in the trees with a rifl e or another with a handgun at his waist; three men with an AR-15 walking at 14th Street and Independence Avenue. Trump has disputed Hutchinson’s account. “I didn’t want guns,” he said in an interview with Newsmax that aired two days after the hearing. But Hutchinson had recounted to the committee what she heard. “They’re not here to hurt me,” Trump told his staff , Hutchinson recalled. “Let them in. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol after the rally’s over. ... Take the effi ng mags away. Then they can march to the Capitol.”

Jan. 6: The speech The president took the stage at the “Stop the Steal” rally complaining about the election outcome and the need to stop Biden from becoming president.

“We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you,” Trump said to the thousands of supporters at the grassy Ellipse. “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol,” Trump said. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness; you have to show strength.” Many people had already started peeling oﬀ toward the Capitol, and Trump encouraged the crowd to go. “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” he said. “Let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” A White House security log, revealed by the Jan. 6 committee, shows the scramble underway for Trump to go to the Capitol as well. “MilAide has conﬁ rmed that he wants to walk,” said one entry on the National Security Council chat. “They are begging him to reconsider,” reads another. The next entry was a discussion of the “current route” for Trump’s motorcade to take 15th Street, to F Street, to 6th Street, to Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. “So this is happening,” reads another entry. Hutchinson was still in the tent behind the rally stage when she got a phone call from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California. McCarthy sounded rushed, frustrated and angry, she said. “You told me this whole week you aren’t coming up here. Why would you lie to me?” he asked Hutchinson, a former House aide. “I’m not lying. I wasn’t lying to you, sir,” she replied. And McCarthy said, “Well, he just said it on stage, Cassidy. Figure it out. Don’t come up here.” The mob was breaking past the security fencing around the Capitol. “Capitol Police are reporting multiple breaches,” the security log reads. “Capitol is now calling for all available to respond.”

Jan. 6: Behind the wheel Trump climbed into the presidential SUV determined to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson recalled. The Secret Service now disputes her account, as does Trump. But Hutchinson testifi ed under oath that she was told later by Anthony Ornato, the deputy chief of staff for White House operations, that Trump was irate. “The president said something to the eff ect of, ‘I’m the effi ng president, take me up to the Capitol now,’ ” she recalled. When the driver, Bobby Engel, responded, “Sir, we have to go back to the West Wing” Trump grabbed at the steering wheel, and lunged at the driver’s “clavicles,” she said. Trump never made it to the Capitol. His motorcade headed back to the White House. In the Newsmax interview, Trump dismissed the idea that he tried to “commandeer” the car to go to the Capitol as “totally false.” He marveled at the “incredible size” of the crowd – one of the biggest, he said, he has ever attracted. But he did not dispute wanting to go to the Capitol that day. “I wanted to go so badly,” he said during an April interview with the Washington Post. At the hearing, the security log made clear just how close Trump came to creating that unseen image – a defeated president standing with the mob as an armed insurrection was laying siege to the Capitol. “Looks like he is coming home for now,” the security log stated.

Arizona law restricts the ﬁ lming of police Terry Tang ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX – Arizona’s governor has signed a law that restricts how the public can video police at a time when there’s growing pressure across the U.S. for greater law enforcement transparency. Civil rights and media groups opposed the measure that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed Thursday. The law makes it illegal in Arizona to knowingly video police offi cers 8 feet or closer without an offi cer’s permission. Someone on private property with the owner’s consent can also be ordered to stop recording if a police offi cer fi nds they are interfering or the area is not safe. The penalty is a misdemeanor that would likely incur a fi ne without jail

time. There needs to be a law that protects offi cers from people who “either have very poor judgment or sinister motives,” said Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, the bill’s sponsor. “I’m pleased that a very reasonable law that promotes the safety of police offi cers and those involved in police stops and bystanders has been signed into law,” Kavanagh said Friday. “It promotes everybody’s safety yet still allows people to reasonably videotape police activity as is their right.” The move comes nearly a year after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a widespread probe into the police force in Phoenix to examine whether offi cers have been using excessive force and abusing people experiencing homeless-

ness. It’s similar to other investigations opened in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville. The Phoenix Police Department, which oversees the nation’s fi fth-largest city, has been criticized in recent years for its use of force, which disproportionately aff ects Black and Native American residents. The law has left opponents like K.M. Bell, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, incredulous. Federal appellate courts already have ruled that recording police is “a clearly established right,” according to Bell. “We’re talking about people being in public and a place they have a right to be. We’re not talking about, like somebody breaking into the (National Security Agency),” Bell said.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a law that makes it illegal to record video of police officers within 8 feet or closer without permission. MATT YORK/AP

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Russian forces ‘raise true hell’ in east Ukrainian leader urges individuals to evacuate Maria Grazia Murru ASSOCIATED PRESS

KYIV, Ukraine – Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports claiming they were taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while another Ukrainian offi cial urged people in Russianoccupied southern areas to evacuate quickly “by all possible means” ahead of a Ukrainian counteroff ensive. Deadly Russian shelling was reported in Ukraine’s east and south. The governor of the eastern region of Luhansk, Serhyi Haidai, said Russia launched more than 20 artillery, mortar and rocket strikes in the province overnight and its forces were pressing toward the border with the Donetsk region. “We are trying to contain the Russians’ armed formations along the entire front line,” Haidai wrote on Telegram. Russia recently captured the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk, the city of Lysychansk. Analysts predicted Moscow’s troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup. But “so far, there has been no operational pause announced by the enemy. He is still attacking and shelling our lands with the same intensity as before,” Haidai said. In a later post, he claimed Russian bombardment of Luhansk was suspended because Ukrainian forces had destroyed ammunition depots and barracks used by the Russians. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, appealed to residents of Russian-held territories in the south to evacuate so the occupying forces could not use them as human shields during a Ukrainian counteroff ensive. “You need to search for a way to leave, because our armed forces are coming to deoccupy,” she said. “There will be a massive fi ght. I don’t want to scare anyone. Everyone understands all of this anyway.”

Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank through a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Friday. NARIMAN EL-MOFTY/AP

Speaking at a news conference late Friday, Vereshchuk said a civilian evacuation eﬀ ort was underway for parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. She declined to give details, citing safety considerations. It was not clear how civilians were expected to safely leave Russian-controlled areas while missile strikes and artillery shelling continue in surrounding areas, or whether they would be allowed to depart or even hear the government’s appeal. Five people were killed and eight more wounded in Russian shelling Friday of Siversk and Semyhirya in Donetsk province, its governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, wrote Saturday on his Telegram channel. In Sloviansk, named as a likely next target of Russia’s oﬀ ensive, rescuers said they pulled a 40-year-old man from the rubble of a building destroyed by shelling Saturday. Kyrylenko said multiple people were under the debris. Russian missiles also killed two people and wounded three others Saturday in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih, according to regional authorities. “They deliberately targeted residential areas,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk re-

gion, asserted on Telegram. Kryvyi Rih’s mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, asserted on Facebook that cluster munitions had been used and urged residents not to approach unfamiliar objects in the streets. More explosions were reported Saturday evening. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who visited Friday to meet with Vilkul and the brigadier general who commands troops in the region. Zelenskyy’s offi ce said he was briefed on the “construction of defensive structures,” the support of the troops, the supply of food and medicine to the city and the help given people who had fl ed to Kryvyi Rih after being driven out of their homes elsewhere in Ukraine. In northeast Ukraine, a Russian rocket strike on Saturday hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring six people, including a 12-yearold girl, authorities said. “An Iskander ballistic missile was probably used in the strike,” the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s offi ce said. “One of the missiles hit a two-story building, which led to its destruction. Neighboring houses were damaged.” The city has been targeted throughout the war, including several times in

the past week. Mykolayiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych reported in a Telegram post that six Russian missiles were fi red at his city in southern Ukraine, near the Black Sea, but caused no casualties. Russian defense offi cials claimed Saturday that their forces destroyed a hangar housing U.S. howitzers in Ukraine, near the Donetsk province town of Chasiv Yar. There was no immediate response from Ukraine. In other developments: h Zelenskyy dismissed Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, who has been an outspoken advocate of Kyiv’s cause but also ruffl ed feathers in Berlin. He was persistently critical of Germany’s perceived slowness to provide heavy weapons. He also faced criticism for an interview in which he defended Stepan Bandera, a controversial World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying Melnyk was only speaking for himself. The decree announcing his dismissal gave no explanation. Melnyk had served in the post since 2015. Zelenskyy dismissed several other ambassadors, as well. h Ukraine’s national police force said it was opening a criminal investigation into the Russian military’s alleged destruction of crops in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region. In a Telegram post, it accused Russian troops of not allowing residents to put out fi res in fi elds and otherwise sabotaging the harvest. “Because of the constant shelling, it is extremely diffi cult to extinguish (fi eld) fi res in the de-occupied territories, and in the occupied lands, the Russians deliberately do not allow the extinguishing of fi res,” the police force said. h A civilian woman in separatistheld territory in eastern Ukraine was injured in shelling in the village of Irmino, according to military offi cials of the selfproclaimed Kremlin-backed Luhansk People’s Republic. h The British Defense Ministry reported Saturday that Russian forces in Ukraine were now being armed with “obsolete or inappropriate equipment,” including MT-LB armored vehicles taken out of long-term storage.

Musk halts deal to buy Twitter Company says it will sue Tesla CEO to keep sale Barbara Ortutay, Tom Krisher and Matt O’Brien ASSOCIATED PRESS

Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion off er to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fi red back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal. The likely unraveling of the acquisition was just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most infl uential social media platforms, and it may portend a titanic legal battle ahead. Twitter could have pushed for a $1 billion breakup fee that Musk agreed to pay under these circumstances. Instead, it looks ready to fi ght to complete the purchase, which the company’s board has approved and CEO Parag Agrawal has insisted he wants to consummate. In a letter to Twitter’s board, Musk lawyer Mike Ringler complained that his client had for nearly two months sought data to judge the prevalence of “fake or spam” accounts on the social media platform. “Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information. Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustifi ed, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information,” the letter said. Musk also said the information is fundamental to Twitter’s business and fi nancial performance, and is needed to fi nish the merger. In response, the chair of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, tweeted that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon” with Musk and “plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confi dent we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”

Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter. SAUL MARTINEZ/GETTY IMAGES FILE

The trial court in Delaware frequently handles business disputes among the many corporations, including Twitter, that are incorporated there. Former President Donald Trump weighed in on his own social platform, Truth Social: “THE TWITTER DEAL IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE ‘TRUTH.’ ” Musk said in May that he would allow Trump, who was banned from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, back onto the platform. Much of the drama surrounding the deal has played out on Twitter, with Musk – who has more than 100 million followers – lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech. “This is a disaster scenario for Twitter and its board,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in a note to investors. He predicted a long court ﬁ ght by Twitter to either restore the deal or get the $1 billion breakup fee. On Thursday, Twitter sought to shed more light on how it counts spam accounts in a brieﬁ ng with journalists and company executives. Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day. The accounts represent well below 5% of its active user base each quarter. To calculate how many accounts are

malicious spam, Twitter said it reviews “thousands of accounts” sampled at random, using both public and private data such as IP addresses, phone numbers, location and account behavior when active, to determine whether an account is real. Last month, Twitter off ered Musk access to its “fi re hose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets, according to multiple reports at the time, though neither the company nor Musk confi rmed that. One of the chief reasons Musk gave for his interest in taking Twitter private was his belief he could add value to the business by getting rid of its spam bots – the same problem that he’s now citing as a reason to end the deal. “This whole process has been bizarre,” said Christopher Bouzy, founder of research fi rm Bot Sentinel, which tracks fake Twitter accounts used for disinformation or harassment. “He knew about this problem. It’s odd that he would use bots and trolls and inauthentic accounts as a way of getting out of the deal.” On the other hand, Bouzy said, the letter from Musk’s legal team makes some valid critiques of Twitter’s lack of transparency, including its apparent re-

fusal to provide Musk with the same level of internal data it off ers some of its big customers “It just seems as if they’re hiding something,” said Bouzy.. Musk’s lawyer also alleged Twitter broke the agreement when it fi red two top managers and laid off one-third of its talent-acquisition team. The sale agreement, he wrote, required Twitter to “seek and obtain consent” if it deviated from conducting normal business. Twitter was required to “preserve substantially intact the material components of its current business organization,” the letter said. Musk’s fl irtation with buying Twitter appeared to begin in late March. That’s when Twitter said he contacted members of its board – including co-founder Jack Dorsey – and told them he was buying up shares of the company and was interested in either joining the board, taking Twitter private or starting a competitor. Then, on April 4, he revealed in a regulatory fi ling that he had became the company’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9% stake worth about $3 billion. At fi rst, Twitter off ered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, Agrawal tweeted that Musk would not be joining the board after all. His bid to buy the company came together quickly after that. Groups opposing the takeover from the outset – including those advocating for women, minorities and LGBTQ people – cheered Friday’s news. “Despite what Musk may claim, this deal isn’t ending because of Twitter bots or spam accounts. This deal is collapsing because of Elon Musk’s own erratic behavior, embrace of extremists and bad business decisions,” said Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofi t watchdog group that’s been critical of Musk’s Twitter bid. Musk, he said, “made it clear that he would roll back Twitters’ community standards and safety guidelines, which would turn the platform into a fever swamp of dangerous conspiracy theories, partisan chicanery and white supremacist radicalization.”

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, walks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

US: China’s support for Russia muddies relations Matthew Lee ASSOCIATED PRESS

NUSA DUA, Indonesia – China’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine is complicating U.S.-Chinese relations at a time when they are already beset by rifts and enmity over numerous other issues, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Chinese counterpart on Saturday. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi blamed the U.S. for the downturn in relations and said that American policy has been derailed by what he called a misperception of China as a threat. “Many people believe that the United States is suff ering from a China-phobia,” he said, according to a Chinese statement. “If such threat-expansion is allowed to grow, U.S. policy toward China will be a dead end with no way out.” In fi ve hours of talks in their fi rst-to-face meeting since October, Blinken said he expressed deep concern about China’s stance on Russia’s actions and did not believe Beijing’s protestations that it is neutral in the confl ict. The talks had been arranged in a new eff ort to try to rein in or at least manage rampant hostility that has come to defi ne recent relations between Washington and Beijing. “We are concerned about the PRC’s alignment with Russia,” Blinken told reporters after the meeting in the Indonesian resort of Bali. He said it is diffi cult to be “neutral” in a confl ict in which there is a clear aggressor but that even it were possible, “I don’t believe China is acting in a way that is neutral.” The Chinese statement said the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on Ukraine but provided no details. The Biden administration had hoped that China, with its long history of opposing what it sees as interference in its own internal aff airs, would take a similar position with Russia and Ukraine. But it has not, choosing instead what U.S. offi cials see as a hybrid position that is damaging the international rules-based order. Blinken said every nation, China included, stands to lose if that order is eroded. The two men met a day after they both attended a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 rich and large developing countries that ended without a joint call to end Russia’s war in Ukraine or plan for how to deal with its impacts on food and energy security. However, Blinken said he believed Russia had come away from G-20 meeting isolated and alone as most participants expressed opposition to the Ukraine war. However, the ministers were unable to come to a unifi ed G-20 call for an end to the confl ict. On China, Blinken said he and Wang discussed a range of contentious issues from tariff s and trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea that have all been complicated by the Chinese position on Ukraine. Wang called on the U.S. to lift tariff s on imports from China as soon as possible, stop interfering in his country’s internal aff airs and refrain from harming its interests in the name of human rights and democracy. He also accused the U.S. of using “salamislicing” tactics on Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its territory and says should come under its control. The United States and China have staked out increasingly confrontational positions, including on Ukraine, that some fear could lead to miscalculation and confl ict.

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Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements 90 24-Jun Hodapp Funeral Home, Liberty Twp. 90 Cincinnati 07-Jul Arlington Memorial Gardens Funeral Home 68 Cincinnati 27-May Spring Grove Funeral Homes 06-Jul Tobias Funeral Home, Far Hills Chapel 100 61 Crittenden 07-Jul Newcomer Funeral Home, N. Kentucky Chapel 91 10-Jun Gulf Coast Cremations, Venice FL 85 Loveland 18-Jun Evans Funeral Home 75 Leonardtown 24-May 61 04-Jul Linnemann Funeral Homes 91 30-Jun Hodapp Funeral Home - 05-Jul Radel Funeral Service 80 Colerain Twp. 07-Jul Frederick Funeral Home 105 Oxford 06-Jul Frederick Funeral Home 03-Jul Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home 61 Cincinnati 64 Cincinnati 03-Jul Linnemann Funeral Homes 07-Jul Linnemann Funeral Homes 68 Taylor Mill 92 Fort Thomas 06-Jul Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home 16-Jun Hodges Funeral Home at Memorial Gardens - Naples,FL (4914) 85 Naples 86 Milford 27-May Evans Funeral Home - Milford 02-Jul T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home 61 Anderson Twp 77 Georgetown 30-Jun Cahall Funeral Home Georgetown - Cincinnati 14-Jun Crawford Funeral Home 87 Anderson Twp. 07-Jul T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home 70 Sharonville 04-Jul Moore Family Funeral Homes 83 Milford 27-Jun Advantage Cremation Care 53 Georgetown 01-Jul Cahall Funeral Home Mt. Orab 92 Anderson Twp. 05-Jul T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home 04-Jul Tufts Schildmeyer - Loveland 89 Loveland 80 04-Jul Vitt, Stermer & Anderson 16 Colerain Twp. 06-Jul Frederick Funeral Home 93 Colerain Township 03-Jul Frederick Funeral Home 89 Crestview Hills 01-Jul Linnemann Funeral Homes 67 Fort Thomas 06-Jul Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home 07-Jul Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home 90 Kenwood 70 West Harrison 01-Jul Jackman Hensley Funeral Home 84 Sunman 07-Jul Fitch-Denney Funeral Home 64 Delhi Township 01-Jul Advantage Cremation Care 07-Jul Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home 81 Cincinnati 87 Colerain Twp. 29-Jun Frederick Funeral Home 30-Jun - Cinncinnati 67 Memphis, TN 06-Jul Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Erlanger, KY 01-Jul Chambers & Grubbs Funeral Home 80 93 Cincinnati 03-Jul Arlington Memorial Gardens Funeral Home 98 Green Twp. 06-Jul Mihovk Rosenacker Funeral Home 85 Cincinnati 22-Jun Spring Grove Funeral Home - Elden Good 81 02-Jul Megie Funeral Home and Crematory 79 Fairfield 06-Jul Brater Winter Funeral Home 100 Park Hills 05-Jul Connley Brothers Funeral Home 79 Florence 02-Jul Don Catchen & Son Funeral Homes 101 04-Jul Radel Funeral Service 85 Sharonville 02-Jul Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Erlanger 72 Bright 05-Jul Brater Winter Funeral Home 82 Maineville 06-Jul Tufts Schildmeyer Family Funeral Homes 97 04-Jul Weil Kahn Funeral Home 86 Georgetown 24-Feb Cahall Funeral Home Georgetown 14 06-Jul Geo. H. Rohde & Son Funeral Home 50 Aberdeen 22-Jun Cahall Funeral Home Mt. Orab 79 Cincinnati 04-Jul Hodapp Funeral Home 85 Georgetown 28-Jun Cahall Funeral Home Georgetown 96 Georgetown 08-Jul Cahall Funeral Home-Georgetown 94 04-Jul Linnemann Funeral Homes 91 Milford 09-Jul Evans Funeral Home - Milford 70 Cincinnati 24-Jun 85 Cincinnati 03-Jul Meyer Funeral Home & Crematory 68 Williamsburg 05-Jul Evans Funeral Home - Goshen 86 04-Jul Neidhard Minges Funeral Home 79 Walton 07-Jul Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home 93 Ft. Thomas 08-Jul Floral Hills Funeral Home 65 09-Jun 77 Erlanger 06-Jul Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home 99 Cincinnati 04-Jul Spring Grove Funeral Homes

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Raymond F. Abaray of Mason, Ohio, passed away on Friday, June 24 after a brief illness. Aged 90 years, he was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years Clare (Tudy) Abaray, and by his loving son Terry Abaray, and by his seven older siblings. Survived by daughter-inlaw Janet Abaray, grandchildren Julie (Kent) McCullough, and John (Ashley) Abaray, and great-grandsons Jackson, Kellen and Eddie. Born in Verona, Pennsylvania, Ray was formerly an executive with the Kroger Co. and with Irwin Tool. He was an avid golfer and sports enthusiast. He and his wife Tudy were members of St. Susanna Catholic Church. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 12 at 1:00 p.m. followed by services at 2:00 p.m. at Hodapp Funeral Home, 6410 Cincinnati Dayton Road, Liberty Township, Ohio 45044. Memorial contributions may be made to the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association Scholarship Trust Fund or to St. Susanna Catholic Church.

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Marvin Kenneth “Ken” Brooks

Gorman Dillingham

LOVELAND - Marvin “Ken” Kenneth Brooks Beloved husband of the late Reva A. Brooks (nee Elkins); Devoted father of Carla (Wayne) McDonough, the late Michelle Barnett, and the late Mark Brooks; Loving grandfather of Jamie (Nick) Christian, Ryan McDonough, Shayne McDonough, Katie Barnett, and Kyle (Ariel) Barnett; Cherished great-grandfather of Sophie Christian, Tyce Christian, Lola Christian, Harlow Barnett, and Hudson Barnett; Dear brother of Douglas Brooks, and the late James Brooks, Joan Pippin, and Daniel Brooks. Ken loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. In his spare time, he could also be found on the golf course. Ken Brooks passed away on Saturday June 18, 2022, age 85 years; Resident of Loveland, Ohio. A memorial service will be held at Oasis Golf Club and Conference Center 902 Loveland-Miamiville Road Loveland, Ohio 45140 Saturday July 30, 2022, from 11:00 AM until time of service at 12:00 PM. Evans Funeral Home serving the family.

Gorman Lee Dillingham, beloved husband of Martha Evelyn Dillingham (nee Siler). Loving father of Jerry (late Karen) Dillingham, Dennis (Dawna) Dillingham, Sugail (late Jim) Stephens. Awesome grandfather of Carla (Terry) Aberle, Kelli, Brandon (Tara) Clark, Chase (Jen), Jacob (Elena) Dillingham and the late Jason Dillingham. Great grandfather of John, Matthew and Katie Aberle, Morgan (Gunner) Gambill, Kylie, Kirsten, Tamryn and Brooks Clark, Khloe, Lily, Elijah, Evelyn, Kate and Nolan Dillingham. Greatgreat grandfather Landon Aberle and Hudson Gambill. Brother of Modie (Augustine) Dillingham. Uncle of his many loving and devoted nieces and nephews. Son of the late Lance and Clarice Dillingham. Inherited his Heavenly Home on June 30, 2022, at the age of 91. Memorial donations may be made to Shriners Children’s Ohio 1 Children’s Plaza, Dayton, OH 45404

Louis Edwin Borgemenke

Timothy C. Doyle

Louis E Borgemenke, 91, passed away on Friday, June 10, 2022, at a long-term facility in Venice, Florida. Lou was born on May 20, 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Leo Harry Borgemenke and Eleanora Haunsz Borgemenke. Lou’s greatest passion in life was horse racing. As a young man, his racing career began as a Jockey at River Downs. He cherished those memories throughout his life, sharing his experiences with all. His dad, the “Old Man”, was an Owner/Trainer at that time. Throughout the years, many Borgemenkes found employment at the race tracks in various positions, including Lou’s son Kenny, as a Jockey, and his son Danny as a Valet. After many years of working at the tracks, Lou retired as a Valet – a job that he enjoyed - taking care of his jockeys and talking with racing fans at the paddock. After retirement, Lou and his wife Paulette moved to Venice, Florida to enjoy a relaxing life of sun, sea, and socialization. Beach time included fishing, searching for sharks’ teeth, running around on scooters and listening to local musicians on the beach at sunset. Later years included spending time at the Senior Center, with ballroom dancing being a favorite activity. Lou and Paulette were constantly on the go, from attending local parades to eating at local food establishments. Lou is survived by his wife of 36 years, Paulette Griffin Borgemenke; his brother William (Shirley), sisters Melva (Don deceased) and Patricia (Julius); children: Kathy (Steve), Kenny (Maureen), Pam (Jeff deceased), Gary (Jody) and Danny (Christie); step-children: Tonya (Stephanie), Anthony and Tray (deceased). Numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Leo, “BeBe”. A private ceremony for the family will be held at Clearwater Beach this summer.

Timothy C. beloved husband of Nancy (Nee: Meyer) Doyle. Loving son of Marian (Nee: Wallot) and the late Howard Doyle. Devoted father of Ashley (Chris) Greer, Sarah (Kyle Seibert) Doyle and Molli (Michael Thompson) Doyle. Cherished grandfather “Pappy” of Magnolia “Noli”, Willa, Selena and Maleah. Dear brother of Nancy (Rudy) Riesenbeck, Janet (Michael) Stiens, Chris Doyle and the late Teresa Elder. Also survived by numerous other family and friends. Tim passed away suddenly on July 5th, 2022 at the age of 58. Visitation will take place on Monday July 11th at Radel Funeral Home, 650 Neeb Rd. from 5pm until 8pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Teresa of Avila Church on Tuesday, July 12th at 10am. If so desired, memorials may be made to the James and Evelyn Meyer Scholarship Fund at Seton High School, 3901 Glenway Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45205. More information at Radelfuneral.com

Lillian M. Ferrante CINCINNATI - “Riders on the Storm, into this house, we’re born, into this world.” The Doors On Sunday, July 3, 2022, our beloved sister Lilly Ferrante, 64, left this world. She was born October 13, 1957, beautiful with the most remarkable delicate features; her soul had an iron will that kept her determined to attain what most would think unachievable. Lilly never allowed her challenges and tragedies to interfere with her work ethic and passionate loyalty toward all she served. She had this playful personality bigger than life with a mysterious smile to match, filling the room with laughter and joy. In many ways, she was fearless as she stepped out into this world to create a loving home with her son Andy, whom she loved with every breath. Andy Kuchar was the love of her life, and we find solace knowing that they are now joined together with our beloved parents, friends, and grandparents. Her greatest loves were her family and days filled with blue skies, high temperatures, an open road, with music that made her soul soar, giving her indescribable freedom. She discovered a type of love only animals can offer by adopting her dog Johnny Cash, who never wanted to leave her side; and welcomed a feral cat named Greyson into her heart and tamed him with her love. She leaves behind her loving siblings, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and devoted friends. Preceded in death by her beloved son Andrew Kuchar and her parents, Phillip and Annalee Ferrante She is loved by so many, and we ask that everyone take their love for her and create a place deep in your hearts where she will be kept alive, cherished, and remembered forever. Burial will be held at the convenience of the family at Richwood Cemetery in Union, KY. A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Lilly’s birthday Thursday October 13, 2022. If you would like to be included in this gathering please email your name and address to celebrationforlilly@gmail.com Memorials can be made to The Chip Terry Fund for First Responders at www.thechipterryfund.org or Holland Foundation for Sight Restorations, 1360 Dolwick Dr. Suite 205, Erlanger, KY 41018. Online condolences can be made at www.linnemannfuneralhomes.com

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Martha Anna Engler OXFORD - Martha

Anna Engler (nee Ott), beloved wife of the late Alfred Q. Engler. Devoted mother of Rosemary (Mike) Kilday, Fred Engler, the late Diane (Bill) Leeds, Linda (Jim) Hanson and Steve (Mary) Engler. Loving grandmother of Kelly, Dan, Joe, Craig, Laura, Kristin, Emilie, Alisha, Matt, Cecilia, Jake and Andy. Great grandmother of 20 and great great grandmother of 2. Martha passed away on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at the age of 105. Visitation at St. Mary Church (Oxford), 111 E. High St. Oxford, OH 45056 on Wednesday (July 13) from 9:30 a.m. until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Kolping Society, 10235 Mill Road, Cincinnati, OH 45231 or Alzheimer’s Association, 644 Linn St # 1026, Cincinnati, OH 45203. Special condolences may be expressed at frederickfh. com

Linda WhiteheadTruss Deatrick LEONARDTOWN -

Linda Whitehead-Truss Deatrick, 75, Leonardtown, MD passed away suddenly May 24, 2022. A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, July 16th in the Centennial Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, 318 East Fourth St., Cincinnati (parking provided at the Queen City Garage). Memorials to the Flower Guild Ministry or Plumb Line Ministry of Christ Church Cathedral, or to the Greater Cincinnati Foundation are appreciated.

James R. Hall, Sr. MILFORD - James R. Hall, Sr. passed away Friday May 27, 2022, at Bethesda North Hospital at the age of 86 years. Celebration of Life is at Kenwood Country Club 6501 Kenwood Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45243 Wednesday July 13, 2022, from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM. For full obituary see evansfuneralhome.com

James Efkeman COLERAIN TWP. -

James Edward Efkeman beloved husband of 53 years to the late Janice Lee Efkeman ( nee Schmidt). Devoted father of Andrew (Susan) Efkeman, Sally (Mark) Blessing and Todd (Corinna) Efkeman. Loving grandfather of William Efkeman, Samuel Efkeman, Emily (Seth) Hicks, Eric Blessing, Nolan Blessing, Elise Efkeman and Lauren Efkeman. Dear brother of Sr. Margaret M. Efkeman, OSU, Mary Lou Schuckmann, the late Lawrence Efkeman and the late Robert Henry “Hank” Efkeman. James peacefully passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2022 at the age of 80. Visitation at Frederick Funeral Home, 2553 Banning Rd., on Friday (July 15) from 5pm-7pm. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Ann Church, 2900 W. Galbraith Ave., on Saturday (July 16) at 10:30am. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Alzheimer’s Association of Cincinnati, 644 Linn St # 1026, Cincinnati, OH 45203. Special condolences may be expressed at frederickfh.com

Beverly White Hanselman CINCINNATI - Beverly White Hanselman passed away peacefully June 14. Born in Cincinnati, OH, March 15, 1932, she was daughter of the late Theodore and Jane White. She is survived by her daughter, Jane of Guilford, CT and her nephew, Mark Lewis of Washington, DC. Beverly is predeceased by her husband of 66 years, Richard Hanselman who died in October of 2021, as well as her son, Chuck who passed in 2013. Beverly graduated from The Lotspeich and Hillsdale Schools in Cincinnati. She went on to attend Connecticut College and completed her education with a degree in Economics from the University of Cincinnati. She was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. As the devoted wife of a dedicated corporate executive, several relocations were necessary throughout her life. With each, she made “a house a home” for her family, beginning in Cincinnati; then Indianapolis, IN; Denver, CO; and finally, Nashville, TN. Beverly was committed not only to her family, but also to voluntarism and community involvement. In her earlier years, she contributed her time to a variety of organizations. She served in the Junior League. She was an educator at the Denver Botanic Gardens. She assisted in outreach at Nashville’s Downtown Presbyterian Church. She was a great supporter of The Nashville Symphony. But it was in her later years that she poured her energy into her number one passion – Horticulture. She joined The Advisory Council of the American Horticultural Society as a board member and then as Chair. In addition, she became a Haupt Associate. To focus on the horticultural discipline in her beloved Nashville, she was also President of the Garden Club of Nashville, protecting its mission of plant education and conservation of the environment. As a personal pursuit, Beverly completed the intensive coursework and apprenticeships in order to become a rose judge. She adjudicated at events throughout the South and was well-respected for her precise and sensitive assessments of the flower she adored so much. Memorial Service will be held Sunday, July 17, 2022 2:00 pm at Westminster Presbyterian Church 3900 West End Avenue Nashville, TN 37205 Memorial Contributions may be made to: The American Horticultural Society, ahsgardening.org, 7931 E. Boulevard Dr., Alexandria, VA. 22308; Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, cheekwood.org, The Howe Garden, 1200 Forrest Park Dr., Nashville, TN 37205. or The Rochelle Center, rochellecenter. org, 1020 Southside Ct., Nashville, TN 37203 An online Guestbook is available at: www.crawfordservices.com. CRAWFORD FUNERAL HOME, 615-254-8200

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Betsy Ann Meyers Guttman NAPLES - Betsy Ann Meyers Guttman, 85, of Naples, Florida, passed away peacefully, in her sleep, on June 16, 2022. She was a loving mother, daughter, wife, sister, aunt and friend. Betsy was born September, 29, 1936 to the late Melville and Georgette Meyers of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married to the late Samuel L. Guttman, of Wilmington, Ohio. Betsy graduated from Walnut Hills High School and went on to get her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Cincinnati. Many years later, she went back to the University of Cincinnati to obtain her Vet Technician license. Betsy is survived by her children, son Scott Eric Guttman and daughter Kimberly Ann Guttman, her sister-inlaws Janet G. Cohen and Marianne Meyers and many caring nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements have not yet been determined.

Nancy L. Harris (nee Gee) age 87 of Anderson Twp., died July 7, 2022. She was the beloved wife of 50 years to the late William G. Harris Sr., devoted mother of William (Barbara) Harris Jr. and Gina (Charlie) Dietrich, loving grandmother of Carrie Hayden, William (Megan) Harris III, and Sarah (Zack) Grosser, caring great-grandmother of Jackson, Mia, Porter, and Quinn, dear sister of David “Duke” Gee and the late Ruth Bentley, Carl Gee, Norma Schilling, Glenn Gee, and Fran Imhoff, and special aunt of Sam (Jana) Gee. Also survived by many other loving nieces, nephews, and friends. Funeral service will be held at T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Ave., Mt. Washington, on Wednesday, July 13th at 11 am. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday from 9:30 to 11 am. www. tpwhite.com

James S. Jaun LOVELAND - James S. Jaun of Loveland, Ohio,

passed away at age 89 on July 4, 2022. Jim was born in the small town of Tionesta, PA., an only child of Carmen and Fred Jaun. He was the husband of Elaine, of Chicago for 62 years and the father of Dr. Gregory (Dr. Cindy) of Loveland, David (Judy) of Arizona, and Kathy (Dennis) White of Kansas City; and the proud grandfather of Christine, Sarah, Eric & William Jaun and Tricia, Tori, Michael, Matthew, & D.J. White. Jim graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He played baseball, loved music (especially Jazz), was an excellent photographer and carpenter. Worked for the Hoover Vacuum Co. in Akron as an auditor, then became a broker with DuPont Glore Forgan in Chicago. Came to Cincinnati to enter the retail business with a friend, Bill Watson. After several years, he returned to the financial field where he remained as a financial advisor for more than 40 years with Gradison & Co., Key Bank and UBS Financial. A kind and generous man with a great sense of humor whose family always came first. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Jim may be directed to the Little Sisters of the Poor. www.tuftsschildmeyer.com

Elizabeth Anne Hamilton ANDERSON TWP Elizabeth Anne Hamilton, age 61 of Anderson Twp., died July 2, 2022. She was the beloved wife of Tyrone Williams. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Guardian Angels Church on Friday, July 15th at 10:30 am. Friends may visit at the church on Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 am. The complete obituary is available at www.tpwhite.com,

Camille M. O’Leary GREEN TWP. - Camille M. O’Leary (nee Rizzo), loving wife of the late Charles J. O’Leary. Beloved mother of Chuck (Debby) O’Leary, Michael H. (Alma) O’Leary and the late Patricia Ann O’Leary. Dear grandmother of Jennifer (Jon) Rusco, Kelly Lynn (Andrew) Blanchet, Joshua, Micah, Jacob and Solomon O’Leary. Also survived by numerous great-grandchildren. Passed away Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Age 98. Visitation will be held Wednesday, July 13th from 9:00 – 10:30AM at Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home 5527 Cheviot Road (45247), followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00AM at St. Ignatius Loyola Church 5222 North Bend Road (45247. Memorial donations may be made to American Heart Association. Online condolences may be expressed at www.mrfh. com.

Thomas E. Joyce Beloved husband of Mary Ellen Joyce (nee Littelmann), loving father of Maureen (Todd) Niemeier, Ellen (Chad) Riley, Tom Joyce, Mike Joyce, and Kathleen (Ryan) McKeon. Grandfather of Maggie Niemeier, Katie Niemeier, James Riley, Neil Riley, Charles Riley, Frankie McKeon, and Mary McKeon. Brother of the late Terry Joyce. Fun uncle of several nieces and nephews. Proud member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and veteran of the U.S. Navy. Longstanding member (75 years) of Phillips Swim Club. Passed away from brain cancer on Monday, July 4th, 2022. Visitation on Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 from 9:30 AM until time of mass at 10:30 AM at St. Antoninus Church, 1500 Linneman Road. Burial following mass at St. Joseph New Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please have Masses said for Tom, or make donation of your choice to Pregnancy Center West, Inc. 4900 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, or Hospice of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 633597, Suite 210, 45263. www.vittstermeranderson.com

Barbara Himes ANDERSON TWP. -

Barbara Himes (nee Geist), of Anderson Twp., Ohio, July 5, 2022, age 92. Preceded in death by her husband of 69 wonderful years, Randall Himes, and daughter, Susan Himes. Barb was a bookkeeper, an expert seamstress, and craftsperson of miniature furniture rooms, along with her husband. She leaves her son, David Himes (Beth), daughter Kathy Himes, and son-in-law David Joswiak (Vicky Palm); grandchildren Naomi (Ryan), Andrew, Emily, Leah, Sarah, and Holly Himes; sister-inlaw Jan; Lukas, Alison, Janet, extended family, and beloved friends; all of whom were her joy. Her desired memorial was that they “love and take care of each other,” though contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association or the OSU James Cancer Center would be appropriate. A private memorial service is planned. Condolences may be shared through T. P. White and Sons Funeral Home. www.tpwhite. com

Howard L. Mees CINCINNATI - Howard

L. Mees passed away on Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 81. He was born on October 2, 1940, to the late Howard A. and Opal Mees. Howard is survived by four children: Carrie, Howie, Lance, and Wray Jean, six grandchildren, numerous nieces, and his brother, Lawrence E. Mees. In addition to his parents, Howard was preceded in death by his sister, Marilyn Mees Underhill. Howard operated as the second-generation president of Mees Distributors, Inc., an independent tile distributor founded in 1937 by Howard A. and Stanley Mees. Howard’s business accomplishments are many, including the creation of the limestone relief featured at Great American Ball Park, home of the Cincinnati Reds. Throughout the years he employed many and was a colorful character to work for. Howard will be remembered fondly as an avid fisherman and outdoorsman. He indulged in many fishing trips including trips to Canada, Michigan, and deep-sea fishing in the Gulf. Howard enjoyed sports such as basketball and softball – playing, sponsoring, and supporting local teams. He also was a lover of animals, particularly his dogs. Howard will be missed deeply by family and friends alike. Visitation will be held Thursday, July 14th from 5pm-8pm at Mihovk-Rosenacker Funeral Home, 5527 Cheviot Rd. (45247). Mass of Christian Burial will take place Friday, July 15th at 11am at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, 5222 North Bend Rd. (45247). It is requested that those in attendance please wear bright colors, a favorite fishing shirt, or hat. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are requested to the Cincinnati SPCA. Online condolences may be expressed at www.mrfh.com

Barry Raut CINCINNATI - Raut,

Barry, passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at the age of 85. Beloved husband of Shirley for 63 years, loving father of Meg (James) Howes and Andrew (Sue Ellen) Raut, happy grandfather of Nicholas (Kori) Castle, Clayton Alexander (Heather) Castle, Cameron and Ian Raut and delighted great-grandfather of Luna Jo and Ollie Castle. He was preceded in death by his parents, Earle and Vaneita Raut. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends and colleagues for his humor and loving attitude. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church. He will be inured in the Knox columbarium. Memorial donations may be directed to the Knox Presbyterian Church Music Series. Online condolences may be made at www.springgrove.org

Ann D. Metzger COLERAIN TWP. - Ann

(nee Weikel) Metzger, beloved wife for 60 years to the late John “Jack” V. Metzger. Devoted mother of the late John (Julie) Metzger, the late Steve (Linda) Metzger, Jill Folz and Mischelle “Missy” (John) Bick. Loving grandmother of Alyssa, Megan, John, Joey, Brandon and Zack. Preceded in death by her parents Leo and Ora (nee Middendorf) Weikel. Ann passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at the age of 87. Visitation will take place at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 5361 Dry Ridge Road on Tuesday (July 12) from 10:00 a.m until time of Mass of Christian burial at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Ohio Valley Hospice 11590 Century Blvd. Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45246 or the Alzheimer Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601. Special condolences may be expressed at frederickhfh.com

Louise W. Spiegel Spiegel, Louise W., neé Wachman, age 97, passed away July 4, 2022. Married to Hon. S. Arthur Spiegel for 69 years until his death in 2014, Louise made all those around her feel welcome, whether stopping by for a visit, attending one of her legendary dinner parties or a Sunday afternoon of tennis. Louise’s life was always full of excitement and joy, whether driving the family’s camping bus on cross country trips, co-piloting Art’s airplane, or riding horses through the Alps. Louise’s home was open to everyone, not just her four sons and friends, but numerous dogs and the family burro (Edward R. Burro). Louise still managed to make time to challenge the status quo, take on city hall, and empower the less fortunate. Louise was fearless, authentic, beautiful, strong-willed and always in motion. A private graveside service will be held. A celebration of her life for friends and family will be held at Louise’s home in Clifton on Monday, July 11 beginning at 3:30 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to a favorite cause would be appreciated. www.weilkahnfuneralhome.com

Adam Edwin Stevenson Adam Edwin Stevenson, born September 6, 2007, beloved son of Jill Alaine Stevenson (nee Younger) and the late Jon Ralph Stevenson; loving brother of Ashley Elaine Stevenson; dear grandson of the late Louis F. and Ruthann Younger and Elaine S. and the late Gary E. Stevenson; cherished nephew of Beth and Robert Keller, Gayle and James Gerhardt, Lynn Younger, Mike and Dana Stevenson, Kristin and Gerry Grogan, and the late Jeanne Keegan; beloved cousin of Abby and Claire Gerhardt, Keegan Younger, Max and Emily Stevenson, and Kelly and Sarah Grogan. Also survived by many other extended family members. July 6, 2022. Adam was a great student and athlete, and a loyal friend to many. He loved The Ohio State Buckeyes, The Kansas City Chiefs, and The Cincinnati Reds. No Visitation. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM at St. Mary - Hyde Park, 2853 Erie Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45208. In lieu of flowers, please send memorial donations to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by making a check to Vibrant Emotional Health and mail it to Attention: Development, 50 Broadway, Fl 19, New York, NY 10004 or online at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/donate/. Condolences to rohdefuneral.com.

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Lawrence A. Waters CINCINNATI - Cincinnati native, Larry Waters, died on June 24, 2022, with a garage full of BOGO beer. For most of his adult life, he enjoyed drinking a cold beer and acquiring Cincinnati brewery collectibles. Quick witted, open hearted, and generous with others, he passed at age 70, at a Hospice Care Center in Deland, Florida. Hard work never bothered Larry. From paper routes to pumping gas; from truck driving to mechanical engineer at GE Aircraft Engines; he was a dependable and valued employee. He eventually retired from Fluor Corporation in 2017, and moved to Deland, Florida, to be near his son and away from snow. Larry loved to drive. Many happy hours were spent driving with his son to sports stadiums from California to Texas and Pennsylvania to Georgia. Larry was also a lifelong reader. He read newspapers daily. He read Where the Wild Things Are to his son so often, that they both had it memorized. He shared his Hardy Boys book collection with his nephew and inspired the childhood goal of him reading every book. Larry passed away with his 50 year subscription to Readers Digest Magazine intact. Friends and family will miss his grilled beer sausage, garden tomatoes, jokes, pranks, and decades long birthday wishes scribbled on a $2.00 bill. Larry was born on March 3, 1952, in Cincinnati. He was the son of Kenneth and Wauneta Waters. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Lindy, and son, Edward; brothers, Randy (Sue) and Don (Patty); sisters, Nancy Drockelman (Duane) and Karen Waters; in-laws, Edward Ashbrook and Harriet Huschart; sister-in-law, Lizbeth Dietrich (David); nephew, Derek Drockelman (Molly) and niece, Heidi Drockelman; plus additional nephews and nieces. Donations may be made in Larry’s memory to Aussie Ark, www.aussieark.org.au – making a difference for endangered Australian wildlife. (Larry loved Tasmanian Devils) or to Alley Cat Allies, www.alleycat.org – dedicated to the protection and improvement of the lives of cats. (Larry loved his pet cats). Or your local no-kill animal shelter or rescue facility. A Celebration of Life for Larry will be held at the Villages of Northgate clubhouse on Aug. 7, 2022 from 1-to-4 p.m.

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bert Mitchell. Passed away on June 30, 2022 Memorial Sat July 23, 2022 10:00 AM Zion Baptist Church 639 Glenwood Ave Cincinnati, Ohio 45229

William “Bill” F. Rice William “Bill” F. Rice, passed away suddenly on July 2, 2022, at the age of 81. He was the treasured son of the late Norman and Evelyn Brown, beloved husband of 61 ½ years to Sally A. (née Gowans) Rice, loving, cherished, and kind dad of Carrie (Charles) Hughes and Tracy (Johnny) Burns, proud Pa of 6 grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, three sisters, and one brother. Please see megiefuneralhome.com for full obituary.

Karen S. Taylor CINCINNATI - Karen Sue Taylor was a much loved wife, mother, grandmother, cousin and friend. She died Monday, July 4th, 2022, receiving independence from her body and going into the arms of our Lord. Deeply loved by husband of almost 40 years Carl David Taylor, daughters Terri Sue and Melissa, grandchildren Claire and Seth, cousin Nancy, stepchildren Denny and Debbie and their families. Predeceased by granddaughter Bonnie, our littlest angel. Visitation at Hodapp Funeral Home, 6410 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, Liberty Twp, OH 45044, Wednesday July 13, 2022 11:00am – 1:00 pm, with interment following at Rest Haven Memorial Park, 10209 Plainfield Rd, Cincinnati (Blue Ash), OH 45241

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Joseph John Lubbers SUNMAN - He is survived by his 3 children, Theresa (Jerry) Forbes, Perry (Yvonne) Lubbers, Mike (Jackie) Lubbers; 10 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; 8 siblings, Jean Marshall, Bob (Mary Lou) Lubbers, Cookie Chambers, Sister Ruth Lubbers SND, Dot (Al) Trame, Jim (Karen) Lubbers, Judy (Steve) Kroger, Linda Schollmann; and his brother-in-law, Bill Hardman. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Crosstown Baseball, c/o Dave Epplen, 5 Anthony Lane, Ft. Mitchell, KY 41017. Visit us at www.fitchdenney.com

Jane A. Schehl Jane A. (Nee: Polewski) Passed away on July 4, 2022 at the age of 101. Visitation will be held at St. William Church, 4108 W 8th St, Cincinnati, OH 45205 on Mon. July 25, from 9:30am until the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30am. Please see radelfuneral.com for more information.

Anthony (Tony) Young Anthony (Tony) Young passed away June 9th 2022 age 65 to join his beloved wife Julia (nee Blum) A celebration of Life Monday July 11 2022 11:00 at Gate of Heaven Cemetery Montgomery Ohio.

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lies H. Zimmer (July 26, 1922- July 4, 2022) (nee Wünsch), beloved wife of 55 years to the late Hans W.; loving mother of Hans Martin (Brenda) of Miami Township; cherished grandmother of Heidi and Martin and dear aunt of Martina Makowski. Mrs. Zimmer was a chemist and worked alongside her beloved husband, Professor Hans W. Zimmer, at the University of Cincinnati where she earned her M.S. degree in Chemistry. She enjoyed supporting and attending the Dept. of Chemistry’s “Hans and Marlies Zimmer International Scholar Fund” yearly programs. Mrs. Zimmer was a lover of life and lived her life to the fullest enjoying sports, the arts, time with friends, the beach, and fine dining. She was a member of the Golf Club Konstanz (Germany), the Cincinnati Country Club, and The Club at Pelican Bay (Naples, FL) where she was an avid golfer well into her 90’s. She has sponsored a women’s golf tournament at the Golf Klub Konstanz for many years. She also enjoyed and was a supporter of the arts. Passed away July 4, 2022. The family would like to thank Penny Slone and Doris Lee for their care and friendship, being by her side to the end. A private family service is being held. Memorials may be directed to the Hans and Marlies Zimmer International Scholar Fund at UC.

Richard “Dick” Neal CINCINNATI, OH - Richard Joseph “Dick” Neal, noted in the scientific literature relative to the structure of dental enamel. P & G’s subsequent research & work-up of the finding, proposed a new dental age 93, passed away on July 3, 2022. Dick was born January 21, 1929, in Chillicothe, Ohio to George enamel model that significantly differed from the existing model. The new and Marie Neal (nee Ziegler). He was married Aumodel was overwhelmingly embraced by the scientific community & today gust 8, 1953, in Parkersburg, WV to Nancy Neal remains as the enduring and accepted model. Due to his lower tiered status (nee Ross), who preceded him in death in2020. as a lab technician, he received a lesser portion of the recognition for the They met working at Procter and Gamble, Miami resultant conclusion. Nevertheless, he felt a lifelong satisfaction that what Valley Laboratories in Cincinnati. They attended had produced a change in scientific knowledge, began with his empirical Mass at Twin Towers, as residents. Surviving are one finding. He fondly referred to it as his “15 minutes of fame”! Despite his son, Richard Paul “Rich” Neal. Two grandsons, Paul Irish heritage, red hair and freckled skin he was active & impactful, in the Richard Cencula and wife Lindsey, of Cincinnati, 1970s, with the local chapter of the NAACP & lectured on aspects of race Joseph Richard Neal and wife Madeline Schmidt, relations. He also enjoyed amateur community theatre with his wife, naof Cincinnati; three granddaughters, Laura Smart and husband Brandon, tional & international travel & the pursuits of his children, their spouses of Olean, Indiana; Maria Staudigel and husband Brett Reder, of Cincinnati, and grandchildren. He enjoyed local sports teams, auto racing, the outdoors, Bethany Shigemitsu and husband Syota, of Los Angeles, California; four especially fishing, as well as golf, tennis and hunting. His life was fulfilling great-grandsons, Elijah, Quinn and Zechariah Smart and Rodrick Joseph & contributory & all who knew him will remember his journey as such. Neal; one brother, Robert Neal and wife Judy, of Cincinnati; one sister, Patricia Visitation will be held Wednesday, July 13, 2022, from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM Neal Utz of Cincinnati. Also survived by nieces, nephews, and friends. He at The Arlington Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. (2155 Compton Rd. was also preceded in death by his brother George, a daughter, Barbara Ann 45231; Follow the blue line, to the left once you enter the cemetery gates) Staudigel (Rick) & a daughter in law, Pamela Fleckenstein Neal. Dick was Funeral service for Richard Neal will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, a 1947 graduate Roger Bacon HS, an Air Force veteran during the Korean at 1:30 PM at The Arlington Memorial Gardens Funeral Home with burial War & a 41 year employee of Procter & Gamble where excelled in the field to follow at Arlington Memorial Gardens. Memorial contributions may be of microscopy. As a technician in the microscopy lab, armed only with his made to Twin Towers Senior Living Community, https://lec.org/; Visiting HS diploma and “just a few science and math night school courses at UC” Angels Cincinnati West, https://www.visitingangels.com/cincinnatiwest/home (via the GI bill) he made a significant & enduring discovery. During his ex- or Hospice of Cincinnati, https://hospiceofcincinnati.org/ Condolences may tensive analysis of dental enamel using electron microscopy, (Crest & Gleem be made at www.amgfuneralhome.com toothpaste!) he observed & recorded a finding that had not previously been

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The Reds’ front offi ce began fi nalizing its draft board Saturday with scouts and other members of the amateur scouting department. The top of the draft is expected to be fi lled with position players because many of the best college and high school pitchers dealt with injuries this spring. “Everything has been unsettled with the number of college pitching injuries, so it’s diffi cult slotting those guys in,” Katuska said. “We’re not seeing the volume of college pitchers that are going to go in the fi rst round, or at least healthy ones. It’s a little bit more challenging in that regard. Those guys have almost been taken out of where they traditionally go.” The Reds have the 18th pick in the

Recruiting is an equation that’s constantly evolving and never-ending. Its navigation is a full-time endeavor and its outcome has a direct impact on the success or failure of a college basketball program. That’s why Ryan Anderson’s job is so critiAnderson cal. Anderson’s the new director of recruiting at Xavier. He joined the Musketeers in May, reuniting with his former coach at Arizona, Sean Miller. When Miller called Anderson it was an opportunity to progress from his role last season as a graduate assistant under Tommy Lloyd at Arizona. “When Sean called me it was a good opportunity to learn from a coach that I have really high respect for,” said Anderson, who started his college career at Boston College before transferring to Arizona. “I think I have a unique perspective as a guy that’s played for Sean and I know the type of player and the type of person and families that he would want to identify with here at Xavier.” It’s a new job for Anderson, but he feels up for the challenge. The ﬁ rst step has been building relationships and that extends to the rest of the coaching staﬀ , the current roster, and prospects in the upcoming recruiting classes. “My biggest thing right now is just building a network of people that I know, that I can connect with and build relationships,” Anderson said. “If you don’t have relationships with people it’s gonna be really hard to be successful.” One of Anderson’s primary

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It’s the busiest time of the year for the Cincinnati Reds’ front offi ce. It’s not enough that the Major League Baseball Draft is coming up in a week, but then the trade deadline looms in three weeks. For a team that wants to build its Major League roster through its farm system after slashing player payroll in the past two off seasons, it’s a huge month for the organization. The Reds will be sellers at the trade deadline, arguably the club with the most to sell, and the top of the draft is crucial for adding impact talent. The Reds have four of the top 73 picks in next week’s draft, including No. 18 overall. It’ll be the organization’s fi rst draft under amateur scouting director Joe

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WIMBLEDON, England – Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios used to not get along at all. Now the two men who will meet in the Wimbledon ﬁ nal on Sunday have developed a bit of a “bromance,” as the 40th-ranked Kyrgios put it.

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MLB FRIDAY’S BOX SCORES Seattle 5, Toronto 2 Toronto .............010 010 000 00 — 2 Seattle ..............011 000 000 03 — 5 Toronto

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Springer cf Bichette ss Guerrero Jr. dh Kirk c Hernandez rf Gurriel Jr. lf Chapman 3b Espinal 2b Biggio 1b Totals Seattle

5 5 5 5 4 5 5 4 5 43 AB

0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 12 2 3 12 R H BI BB SO

.247 .256 .270 .310 .259 .299 .222 .274 .220

Rodriguez cf France dh Crawford ss Santana 1b Suarez 3b Frazier 2b-lf Moore rf Haggerty lf b-Toro ph-2b Knapp c a-Raleigh ph-c Totals

5 4 5 4 5 4 3 2 1 2 2 37

1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 9

0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 5

0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 4

2 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 11

Avg. .277 .311 .269 .220 .243 .223 .192 .286 .181 .000 .200

No outs when winning run scored. a-struck out for Knapp in the 7th. b-struck out for Haggerty in the 9th. LOB: Toronto 13, Seattle 8. 2B: Springer (13), Guerrero Jr. (14), Rodriguez (17), Moore (4), Crawford (16). HR: Suarez (15), off Romo. RBI: Gurriel Jr. (35), Hernandez (33), Moore (16), Crawford (24), Suarez 3 (44). SB: Hernandez 2 (5), Gurriel Jr. (3), Espinal (5). Runners left in scoring position: Toronto 8 (Kirk, Springer 3, Bichette 2, Espinal 2); Seattle 4 (Suarez, Knapp 2, Rodriguez). RISP: Toronto 2 for 20; Seattle 3 for 11. Runners moved up: Bichette, Kirk, Espinal. LIDP: Chapman. GIDP: Gurriel Jr.. DP: Seattle 2 (Crawford, Frazier, Santana; Crawford, Toro, Crawford). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Toronto Stripling Garcia Cimber Mayza Phelps Romano Romo, L, 0-1

Seattle Kirby Murfee Munoz D.Castillo Giles Sewald Borucki, W, 1-0

5 1 1z Z 1 1 0

7 0 0 0 0 1 1

2 0 0 0 0 0 3

2 0 0 0 0 0 2

1 0 0 0 1 1 1

6 0 2 0 2 1 0

3.34 3.29 3.16 2.78 2.91 2.61 7.64

4 z 10 2 2 Z 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 z 0 0 0 1Z 1 0 0 2 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 1 0 0

4 1 3 0 0 3 1

3.78 1.87 3.31 4.35 0.00 2.51 5.29

Inherited runners-scored: Murfee 2-0, Sewald 1-0. IBB: off Romano (France), off Romo (Santana). Umpires: HP: Manny Gonzalez; 1B: Stu Scheuwater; 2B: Clint Vondrak; 3B: CB Bucknor. T: 4:08. A: 32,398 (47,929).

1-ran for Hosmer in the 8th. E: Kim (4). LOB: San Francisco 6, San Diego 10. 2B: Cronenworth (21). HR: Villar (1), off Snell; Belt (6), off Martinez; Machado (14), off Long. RBI: Villar (2), Belt 2 (15), Machado 3 (50), Mazara 2 (15), Cronenworth (44). Runners left in scoring position: San Francisco 2 (Crawford 2); San Diego 5 (Voit 4, Kim). RISP: San Francisco 0 for 3; San Diego 4 for 10. Runners moved up: Grisham. GIDP: Flores. DP: San Diego 1 (Kim, Cronenworth, Hosmer). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

San Francisco Long, L, 0-2 Ty.Rogers Littell Brebbia McGee Snell, W, 1-5 Martinez, S, 3-3

Morel 2b Happ lf Wisdom 3b Suzuki rf Hoerner ss Gomes c Higgins 1b Rivas 1b Velazquez cf Bote dh a-Ortega ph-dh Totals Los Angeles

4 4 3 4 4 4 3 1 4 2 1 34 AB

1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 R

1 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 5 H BI BB SO

.272 .281 .230 .250 .300 .211 .286 .236 .239 .217 .260

Betts rf T.Turner ss Freeman 1b Smith c Muncy 2b-3b J.Turner 3b 1-McKinstry pr-2b Lamb dh Bellinger cf Lux lf Totals

4 5 4 4 3 4 0 2 4 3 33

0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4

0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 6

.272 .300 .297 .257 .162 .246 .143 .267 .208 .296

1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3

0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 5 11

Avg.

No outs when winning run scored. a-grounded out for Bote in the 8th. 1-ran for J.Turner in the 9th. E: Suzuki (2). LOB: Chicago 3, Los Angeles 10. 2B: Happ (22), Freeman (26). 3B: Lux (4). HR: Hoerner (5), off Anderson; Lamb (1), off Martin. RBI: Hoerner (25), Happ 2 (40), Lamb (2), Betts (46), Smith (39). SB: Bellinger (11). SF: Betts. S: Wisdom. Runners left in scoring position: Chicago 2 (Hoerner, Velazquez); Los Angeles 6 (Betts, T.Turner 2, Lux 2, Muncy). RISP: Chicago 1 for 6; Los Angeles 1 for 9. Runners moved up: Rivas. Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Chicago K.Thompson Martin, H, 5 Effross, H, 11 Givens, H, 5 Robertson, BS, 12-17 Wick, L, 1-4

5 2⁄ 3 1 z 1 1 0

2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0

1 0 0 1 2 1

8 2 0 1 0 0

3.16 3.62 2.95 3.15 2.10 4.63

7 1 1 1

5 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

4 0 1 0

3.15 1.59 0.00 1.60

Los Angeles Anderson Almonte Ferguson Phillips, W, 3-3

Inherited runners-scored: Martin 1-0, Effross 1-0. IBB: off Wick (Freeman). HBP: K.Thompson (Lamb). WP: Anderson. Umpires: HP: Ryan Additon; 1B: Jordan Baker; 2B: Chris Guccione; 3B: Jose Navas. T: 3:01. A: 44,158 (56,000).

Colorado ...................100 121 100 — 6 Arizona.....................120 100 001 — 5 AB R

6 3

3 2

2 11 2 3

4.66 3.73

1 2

Houston

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Altuve 2b Diaz lf Alvarez dh Bregman 3b Tucker rf Gurriel 1b Meyers cf Dubon ss Maldonado c Totals Oakland

4 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 41 AB

0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 3 8 14 8 3 13 R H BI BB SO

.279 .231 .311 .242 .262 .233 .313 .203 .162

Machin 3b Laureano cf Brown 1b Murphy c Bethancourt dh Andrus ss Piscotty rf Kemp lf Allen 2b Totals

4 4 4 4 4 3 2 3 2 30

0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3

0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4

0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4

Houston

Blackburn, L, 6-4 Moll Selman Snead

8 1

4 3 3 0 0 0

1 0

2 2

4.08 0.79

4 2 1 2

7 6 6 2 0 0 3 2 2 2 0 0

1 0 1 1

6 1 2 4

3.36 2.10 4.91 6.35

Inherited runners-scored: Moll 2-0. Umpires: HP: Dan Iassogna; 1B: Ben May; 2B: Gabe Morales; 3B: Charlie Ramos. T: 2:57. A: 6,012 (46,847).

Rangers 6, Twins 5 Minnesota...............201 002 000 — 5 Texas.......................000 060 00x — 6 Minnesota Arraez 1b Correa ss Buxton cf Kepler rf Polanco 2b Kirilloff dh a-Garlick ph-dh Gordon lf b-Miranda ph Celestino lf Urshela 3b Jeffers c Totals Texas

Smith 3b Semien 2b Seager ss Garcia rf Lowe 1b Heim c Calhoun lf Garver dh Taveras cf Totals

AB R 4 5 4 5 5 3 1 3 1 0 4 4 39 AB

H BI BB SO

1 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 5 11 5 1 9 R H BI BB SO

4 1 4 0 3 1 4 0 4 1 4 1 3 1 2 1 2 0 30 6

1 0 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 8

1 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 6

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3

1 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 7

Avg. .352 .285 .214 .238 .243 .255 .282 .274 .241 .281 .262 .204

Avg. .236 .235 .237 .252 .284 .257 .230 .210 .273

a-flied out for Kirilloff in the 7th. b-flied out for Gordon in the 7th. E: Lowe (6), Seager (11), Heim (3). LOB: Minnesota 9, Texas 5. 2B: Gordon 2 (9), Arraez (15). 3B: Garcia (4). HR: Correa (10), off J.Gray; Jeffers (6), off J.Gray; Seager (17), off Thielbar. RBI: Correa 2 (31), Kepler (37), Jeffers 2 (23), Garver (23), Taveras (6), Smith (2), Seager 3 (42). SF: Taveras. Runners left in scoring position: Minnesota 5 (Miranda, Correa, Gordon, Buxton 2); Texas 2 (Lowe 2). RISP: Minnesota 2 for 13; Texas 2 for 5. Runners moved up: Kirilloff. GIDP: Polanco, Lowe. DP: Minnesota 1 (Polanco, Correa, Arraez); Texas 1 (Semien, Seager, Lowe). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Minnesota S.Gray, L, 4-2 Thielbar Cotton Pagan

4 2⁄ 3 z 2 1

4 5 5 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

2 0 1 0

0 1 4 2

3.03 5.52 2.73 5.16

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Blackmon dh Bryant lf Rodgers 2b Cron 1b 1-Joe pr-1b McMahon 3b Iglesias ss Hampson ss Grichuk rf Daza cf Serven c Totals Arizona

5 4 4 2 1 4 3 1 4 3 4 35 AB

0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 6 R

0 0 0 4 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 9 6 4 9 H BI BB SO

.262 .301 .258 .295 .268 .238 .297 .225 .248 .304 .284

Rojas 3b Thomas cf b-Marte ph Luplow rf Peralta lf Walker 1b Varsho rf-cf Hummel dh Perdomo ss Alcantara 2b Herrera c a-C.Kelly ph-c 2-Kennedy pr Totals

3 3 1 1 4 2 4 4 3 4 1 2 0 32

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 5

2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 9

.275 .246 .268 .168 .245 .213 .238 .176 .202 .163 .209 .161 .204

3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5

1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5

0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 8

Avg.

a-struck out for Herrera in the 7th. b-singled for Thomas in the 7th. 1-ran for Cron in the 5th. 2-ran for C.Kelly in the 9th. E: Serven (4). LOB: Colorado 7, Arizona 6. 2B: Cron (19), Serven (2), Iglesias (18), Bryant (7), Rojas (11). HR: Bryant (2), off Gallen; Bryant (3), off Nelson; Rojas (5), off Kuhl; Alcantara (2), off Kuhl. RBI: Bryant 2 (9), McMahon (40), Rodgers (42), Cron (66), Daza (18), Rojas 3 (23), Alcantara 2 (12). SB: Rojas (7). CS: Thomas (1), Iglesias (3). S: Rojas. Runners left in scoring position: Colorado 4 (McMahon 2, Joe, Iglesias); Arizona 3 (Thomas 2, Luplow). RISP: Colorado 0 for 8; Arizona 2 for 9. Runners moved up: McMahon, Grichuk, Alcantara. GIDP: Serven, Peralta, Varsho. DP: Colorado 2 (Rodgers, Hampson, Joe; Hampson, Rodgers, Joe); Arizona 2 (Herrera, Perdomo, Herrera; Perdomo, Alcantara, Walker). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

J.Gray, W, 5-4 Richards, H, 2 Burke, H, 4 Santana, H, 14 Martin, S, 1-2

5 1⁄ 3 Z 1 1 1

9 0 1 1 0

1 0 0 0 0

8 0 0 0 1

4.03 3.00 1.06 2.18 3.12

5 0 0 0 0

3 0 0 0 0

Inherited runners-scored: Thielbar 2-2, Burke 1-0. HBP: S.Gray (Garver), Richards (Buxton). WP: J.Gray. Umpires: HP: Adam Hamari; 1B: James Hoye; 2B: Alex MacKay; 3B: Angel Hernandez. T: 3:22. A: 30,392 (40,300).

Phillies 2, Cardinals 0 Philadelphia ............000 001 010 — 2 St. Louis.................000 000 000 — 0 Philadelphia

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Schwarber lf Hoskins 1b Castellanos rf 1-Vierling pr-rf Hall dh Realmuto c Gregorius ss Stott 2b Bohm 3b Herrera cf Totals St. Louis

4 4 4 0 4 3 3 3 3 3 31 AB

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 R

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 2 0 3 H BI BB SO

.221 .252 .251 .248 .257 .239 .247 .176 .269 .240

Donovan lf Yepez 1b Goldschmidt dh Arenado 3b Gorman 2b a-Pujols ph Carlson cf Edman ss Capel rf Knizner c Totals

4 4 4 4 2 1 4 4 3 3 33

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 6

.285 .268 .344 .295 .261 .198 .256 .258 .176 .173

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 5

Avg.

a-flied out for Gorman in the 9th. 1-ran for Castellanos in the 9th. LOB: Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 7. HR: Bohm 2 (6), off Wainwright. RBI: Bohm 2 (32). Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 0; St. Louis 3 (Carlson, Edman, Gorman). RISP: Philadelphia 0 for 0; St. Louis 0 for 3. GIDP: Castellanos. DP: St. Louis 1 (Arenado, Gorman, Yepez).

0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 10 5 1 3 R H BI BB SO

.211 .229 .000 .231 .257 .191

Nimmo cf Marte rf Lindor ss Alonso 1b McNeil 2b Canha lf Do.Smith dh a-Davis ph 1-Inciarte pr-dh Escobar 3b Nido c Totals

5 5 5 4 3 1 2 0 0 4 3 32

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

.277 .292 .240 .274 .317 .277 .216 .253 .167 .218 .211

1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 5

1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 9

Lopez, W, 6-4 Floro, H, 4 Bass, H, 14 Okert, H, 12 Scott, S, 11-13

5 1 1 1 1

4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

1 1 0 2 1

5 1 2 1 0

2.91 4.71 1.56 2.60 4.24

6 3 1

0 0 1

3 0 0

3.94 3.06 4.67

New York Bassitt, L, 6-6 Dr.Smith Rodriguez

6 1⁄ 3 1 2⁄ 3 1

2 2 1

Inherited runners-scored: Dr.Smith 1-0. HBP: Lopez (Canha), Okert (McNeil). Umpires: HP: Phil Cuzzi; 1B: Mark Ripperger; 2B: Shane Livensparger; 3B: Cory Blaser. T: 3:37. A: 25,208 (41,922).

Orioles 5, Angels 4 Los Angeles ............003 000 001 — 4 Baltimore ................000 000 113 — 5

Brewers catcher Victor Caratini tags out Pirates second baseman Kevin Newman to end the game in a 4-3 Milwaukee victory on Friday. JEFF HANISCH/USA TODAY SPORTS

7 1 1

5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0

5 0 0

2.46 1.69 2.33

Newman); Milwaukee 3 (Adames 2, Urias). RISP: Pittsburgh 3 for 9; Milwaukee 2 for 7. Runners moved up: Narvaez. GIDP: Caratini, Peterson. DP: Pittsburgh 2 (Newman, Cruz, Chavis; Cruz, Vogelbach). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

3.15

Pittsburgh

Umpires: HP: Rob Drake; 1B: John Tumpane; 2B: Todd Tichenor; 3B: John Bacon. T: 2:23. A: 41,100 (45,494).

Milwaukee

Pitching

r er bb so

era

Philadelphia Wheeler, W, 8-4 Dominguez, H, 12 Hand, S, 4-5

St. Louis Wainwright, L, 6-7

Braves 12, Nationals 2 Washington............002 000 000 — 2 Atlanta....................151 100 04x — 12 Washington

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Hernandez 2b Soto rf Bell 1b Cruz dh Garcia ss Ruiz c Hernandez lf Franco 3b Thomas cf Totals Atlanta

3 3 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 30 AB

0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 2 3 7 H BI BB SO

.246 .239 .306 .236 .316 .256 .273 .238 .218

Acuna Jr. rf Heredia rf Swanson ss Olson 1b Riley 3b Ozuna dh Rosario lf Contreras c Arcia 2b Harris II cf Totals

5 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 5 0 3 1 4 2 2 1 5 1 1 0 4 0 1 2 5 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 0 4 3 4 4 38 12 15 12

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 R

0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 4

1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 5

Avg. .275 .121 .302 .258 .275 .229 .100 .266 .250 .310

LOB: Washington 4, Atlanta 6. 2B: Ruiz (15), Harris II (8), Olson (33), Riley (21). HR: Soto (16), off Morton; Olson (13), off Fedde; Acuna Jr. (8), off Fedde; Contreras (11), off Fedde; Harris II (7), off Ramirez. RBI: Soto 2 (36), Olson (49), Harris II 4 (24), Acuna Jr. 3 (22), Contreras (22), Swanson (50), Ozuna 2 (37). SB: Rosario (1). Runners left in scoring position: Washington 2 (Franco, Hernandez); Atlanta 4 (Riley 2, Ozuna 2). RISP: Washington 0 for 2; Atlanta 4 for 8. GIDP: Bell, Acuna Jr.. DP: Washington 1 (Garcia, Hernandez, Bell); Atlanta 1 (Arcia, Swanson, Olson). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Washington Fedde, L, 5-6 Weems Ramirez Escobar

3 2 2 1⁄ 3 Z

8 8 8 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 2 2

3 0 0 1

1 5.01 3 5.91 1 4.70 0 27.00

7 1 1

4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

3 0 0

7 0 0

Atlanta Morton, W, 5-3 McHugh Stephens

4.21 3.50 2.93

Inherited runners-scored: Weems 2-0. WP: Fedde. Umpires: HP: Adrian Johnson; 1B: Ryan Blakney; 2B: Brennan Miller; 3B: Marvin Hudson. T: 2:51. A: 41,725 (41,084).

Brewers 4, Pirates 3 Pittsburgh ..............000 200 001 — 3 Milwaukee ...............010 200 10x — 4

Brubaker, L, 2-8 Banuelos De Los Santos Ashby, W, 2-6 Gott, H, 9 Milner, H, 4 Williams, H, 22 Hader, S, 26-27

5 1 2

5 3 3 1 0 0 3 1 1

5 1 0

6 4.34 2 33.75 2 3.07

5 1 1 1 1

3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1

2 0 0 1 1

3 1 1 1 2

4.52 3.86 2.25 1.93 1.88

WP: Ashby, Hader. Umpires: HP: Doug Eddings; 1B: Roberto Ortiz; 2B: Bill Miller; 3B: Jeremy Riggs. T: 3:01. A: 29,471 (41,900).

Detroit.....................000 002 410 — 7 Chicago...................200 000 030 — 5 Detroit

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Greene cf Baez ss Cabrera dh Haase c Grossman lf Schoop 2b Torkelson 1b Candelario 3b W.Castro rf Totals Chicago

4 5 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 35 AB

0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 7 R

0 0 1 4 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 8 6 3 11 H BI BB SO

.240 .215 .304 .241 .204 .210 .195 .191 .259

Anderson ss Pollock lf Robert cf Abreu 1b E.Jimenez dh Engel rf a-Sheets ph-rf Zavala c Garcia 2b b-Vaughn ph Moncada 3b Harrison 3b-2b Totals

4 4 5 5 4 3 1 3 3 1 0 4 37

1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 11

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

0 1 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 11

6 1 Z z 1

6 2 2 0 0 0 2 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 0 0

7 2 0 1 1

3.99 3.06 3.72 4.50 1.97

6 2⁄ 3 z 1 1

5 5 5 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

2 1 0 0

8 0 2 1

5.05 9.95 5.03 3.08

Chicago

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

3 4 3 1 0 4 3 3 4 4 2 1 32 AB

0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 R

0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 6 3 4 8 H BI BB SO

.247 .263 .238 .258 .154 .180 .200 .212 .250 .191 .111 .245

Avg.

New York

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Yelich lf Adames ss Tellez 1b McCutchen cf-rf Wong 2b Urias 3b Narvaez c a-Caratini ph-c Hiura dh Peterson rf b-Davis ph-cf Totals

4 4 4 3 4 2 1 2 3 2 0 29

0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 9

.248 .208 .234 .254 .242 .227 .256 .241 .235 .250 .189

LeMahieu 1b Judge dh Carpenter lf 1-Kiner-Falefa pr-ss Torres 2b Donaldson 3b Hicks cf Trevino c Gonzalez ss-lf Gallo rf Totals Boston

5 2 2 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 1 3 4 2 3 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 6 1 3 2 0 1 4 2 1 3 1 0 3 2 2 0 2 0 5 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 5 0 1 2 0 0 40 12 14 11 7 8 AB R H BI BB SO

.265 .282 .305 .272 .269 .231 .240 .255 .250 .166

Refsnyder cf-rf Devers 3b Cordero rf-1b Martinez dh Bogaerts ss Vazquez c Verdugo lf Story 2b

5 3 2 4 4 5 4 5

.339 .327 .251 .314 .306 .296 .253 .224

a-struck out for Narvaez in the 6th. b-walked for Peterson in the 6th. c-walked for Delay in the 8th. d-struck out for Chavis in the 8th. LOB: Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 7. 2B: Reynolds (11). 3B: Wong (4). HR: Castillo (10), off Ashby; Adames (17), off De Los Santos. RBI: Castillo 2 (23), Vogelbach (29), Hiura (17), Wong (22), Peterson (28), Adames (46). SB: Wong (10), McCutchen (6). CS: McCutchen (5). Runners left in scoring position: Pittsburgh 2 (Tsutsugo,

Inherited runners-scored: Alexander 2-2, Kelly 2-2. HBP: Fulmer (Anderson). Umpires: HP: Andy Fletcher; 1B: Bill Welke; 2B: Junior Valentine; 3B: Chris Segal. T: 2:56. A: 29,215 (40,615).

Yankees 12, Red Sox 5 New York.................412 200 111 — 12 Boston.....................200 201 000 — 5

2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

4 0 0 3 0 3 0 1

0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1

1-ran for Carpenter in the 8th. E: Vazquez (4). LOB: New York 10, Boston 12. 2B: Hicks (5), Carpenter (3), Trevino (5), Torres (16), Vazquez (16), Refsnyder (5). HR: Donaldson (9), off Seabold; Carpenter (9), off Feliz; Story (15), off Cortes; Dalbec (6), off Cortes. RBI: Torres 2 (37), Donaldson 3 (32), Carpenter 2 (20), Gallo 2 (21), Gonzalez (10), Kiner-Falefa (20), Vazquez 2 (33), Story (55), Dalbec (19), Bogaerts (35). SB: Hicks (9), Gonzalez (2). S: Gonzalez. Runners left in scoring position: New York 7 (Donaldson, Hicks, Gonzalez 2, Torres 2, LeMahieu); Boston 6 (Vazquez 2, Verdugo, Story 2, Devers). RISP: New York 4 for 16; Boston 2 for 9. Runners moved up: Judge, Trevino, Bogaerts. Pitching ip h r er bb so era

0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 2

Cortes Castro, W, 5-0 Abreu Luetge, S, 1-1

3 2⁄ 3 1 1⁄ 3 Z 3 1⁄ 3

8 4 4 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0

2 0 0 1

4 3 1 6

2.74 3.33 2.79 2.70

2 2⁄ 3 3 1⁄ 3 2 1

9 1 3 1

2 2 0 3

2 4 1 1

11.91 2.70 2.55 9.00

Boston Seabold, L, 0-2 Feliz Davis Bradley Jr.

7 2 2 1

7 1 2 1

Inherited runners-scored: Castro 2-0, Luetge 2-0, Feliz 1-0. HBP: Seabold (Carpenter), Castro (Bogaerts). WP: Abreu. Umpires: HP: Chad Fairchild; 1B: Jerry Layne; 2B: Tripp Gibson; 3B: Erich Bacchus. T: 3:51. A: 36,841 (37,755).

Cleveland ................010 000 200 — 3 Kansas City .............001 000 021 — 4

Hayes 3b Reynolds cf Chavis 1b d-Gamel ph Perez c Tsutsugo dh Castillo rf Suwinski lf Newman 2b Cruz ss Delay c c-Vogelbach ph-1b Totals Milwaukee

0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 6 10

.224 .305 .210

Royals 4, Guardians 3

Pittsburgh

0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4

0 1 0 1 1 2 3 14

.316 .239 .291 .292 .224 .233 .230 .345 .199 .296 .184 .244

Detroit

Giolito, L, 5-5 Kelly Foster Lopez

0 0 1 5

Avg.

a-singled for Engel in the 8th. b-struck out for Garcia in the 8th. E: Robert (1). LOB: Detroit 4, Chicago 8. 2B: Baez (14), Abreu (22), Harrison (10). HR: Candelario (6), off Giolito; Robert (10), off Skubal. RBI: Candelario 3 (22), W.Castro (15), Baez 2 (31), Robert 2 (45), E.Jimenez (11), Sheets (18), Zavala (12). SB: W.Castro (3). Runners left in scoring position: Detroit 3 (Cabrera 2, Candelario); Chicago 4 (Engel, Vaughn, Abreu, Anderson). RISP: Detroit 3 for 5; Chicago 3 for 9. GIDP: Schoop. DP: Chicago 1 (Anderson, Garcia, Abreu). Pitching ip h r er bb so era Skubal, W, 6-7 J.Jimenez Foley Alexander, H, 1 Fulmer, S, 2-4

4 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 40 5 13

New York

Tigers 7, White Sox 5

0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5

Arroyo rf-3b Duran cf Dalbec 1b-3b Totals

Avg.

Cleveland

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Kwan lf Rosario ss Ramirez 3b Reyes dh Gimenez 2b Miller 1b Jones rf 1-Mercado pr-rf Hedges c a-Naylor ph Maile c Straw cf Totals Kansas City

4 4 4 4 2 4 3 0 3 1 0 4 33 AB

0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 R

1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9 3 1 6 H BI BB SO

.273 .274 .285 .212 .295 .244 .667 .212 .156 .279 .184 .199

Merrifield 2b Benintendi lf Witt Jr. ss Melendez c Dozier 1b Pasquantino dh 3-Olivares pr Isbel rf Taylor cf Rivera 3b 2-Lopez pr-3b Totals

4 4 4 4 4 4 0 4 4 3 0 35

1 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 4 10

2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 7

Avg. .242 .318 .236 .218 .263 .147 .286 .212 .270 .219 .233

One out when winning run scored. a-singled for Hedges in the 9th. 1-ran for Jones in the 7th. 2-ran for Rivera in the 8th. 3-ran for Pasquantino in the 9th. E: Rosario (8), Isbel (2). LOB: Cleveland 7, Kansas City 6. 2B: Jones (1), Ramirez (28), Pasquantino (1). HR: Reyes (8), off Singer; Merrifield (5), off Morgan. RBI: Jones (1), Reyes 2 (24), Benintendi (34), Merrifield 2 (36), Taylor (24). SB: Witt Jr. (13). S: Kwan. Runners left in scoring position: Cleveland 4 (Hedges, Reyes, Kwan 2); Kansas City 3 (Melendez 2, Dozier). RISP: Cleveland 3 for 8; Kansas City 2 for 6. LIDP: Kwan. GIDP: Rosario. DP: Kansas City 2 (Merrifield, Witt Jr., Dozier; Dozier). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Cleveland Civale Morgan, BS, 0-4 Hentges, L, 2-1

7 1 z

6 2 2

1 2 1

0 0 0

6 0 1

6.28 3.05 3.60

7 1 1

6 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 0

0 0 1

5 1 0

4.25 2.86 2.33

Kansas City Singer Payamps Barlow, W, 3-2

HBP: Singer (Gimenez), Barlow (Gimenez). Umpires: HP: Chris Conroy; 1B: Ron Kulpa; 2B: Carlos Torres; 3B: Nate Tomlinson. T: 2:44. A: 19,611 (37,903).

Marlins 5, Mets 2 Miami .......................010 010 021 — 5 New York.................001 000 010 — 2 Miami

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Wendle 3b Berti 2b Cooper 1b Aguilar dh

4 0 4 1 4 1 4 1

0 1 1 1

.277 .257 .307 .246

1 0 2 0

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Los Angeles

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Villar 3b Trout cf Ohtani dh Ward rf Walsh 1b Stefanic 2b Velazquez ss Rengifo ss-2b Stassi c Marsh lf Totals Baltimore

5 5 5 4 4 3 1 4 3 4 38 AB

1 1 0 0 2 1 3 3 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 12 4 2 9 R H BI BB SO

.238 .271 .262 .302 .247 .286 .164 .241 .210 .226

Mullins cf Mancini dh Mountcastle 1b Hays lf Santander rf Urias 2b-ss Nevin 3b b-Arauz ph Chirinos c Odor 2b Mateo ss a-Rutschman ph-c Totals

5 5 4 4 2 4 3 1 3 1 2 2 36

2 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 5 10

1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5

0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13

5 1 1 1 1

6 0 1 0 2

4 0 0 0 1

3 0 1 1 0

4 1 1 1 1

5 Z 1 1 1 ⁄ 3 1

6 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0

3 0 1 0 0

7 3.62 0 3.91 0 2.00 1 2.45 1 10.32

Detmers Quijada, H, 2 Tepera, H, 15 Iglesias, L, 2-5, BS, 15-18

6 1 1 Z

2 0 0 2 1 1 2 1 1 4 3 3

1 1 0 0

7 3 2 1

4.22 2.63 4.19 4.50

4 1 1 2⁄ 3 1 1 ⁄ 3 1

6 3 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1

2 0 0 0 0

3 1 3 2 0

3.28 4.37 2.31 4.15 2.68

Baltimore Wells Baker Akin Sulser Tate, W, 1-3

Inherited runners-scored: Sulser 1-0. WP: Iglesias. Umpires: HP: Ted Barrett; 1B: Lance Barksdale; 2B: Nic Lentz; 3B: Nestor Ceja. T: 3:30. A: 27,814 (45,971).

Reds 2, Rays 1 (10) Tampa Bay..........001 000 000 0 — 1 Cincinnati............001 000 000 1 — 2 Tampa Bay

AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

Y.Diaz 3b Franco ss Choi 1b Ramirez dh Arozarena lf Kiermaier cf Paredes 2b Pinto c a-Mejia ph-c Lowe rf Totals Cincinnati

5 4 4 3 4 3 3 3 1 4 34 AB

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 R

1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 1 4 11 H BI BB SO

.293 .261 .282 .314 .255 .228 .248 .196 .221 .182

India 2b Drury 1b-3b Pham lf Farmer ss Solano dh Reynolds 3b b-Moustakas ph-1b 1-Kolozsvary pr Senzel cf Almora Jr. rf Papierski c c-Naquin ph Totals

4 4 3 3 4 1 1 0 3 3 3 0 29

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 4

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 12

McClanahan Poche Thompson Adam Wisler, L, 2-3

6 1 1 1 z

3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

2 1 0 0 1

8 1 2 1 0

1.73 2.08 4.94 1.35 2.65

7 1 1 1

4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

1 1 2 0

8 3 0 0

2.92 2.32 5.16 6.38

Cincinnati Castillo A.Diaz Strickland Kuhnel, W, 1-1

HBP: Adam (Farmer). Umpires: HP: Edwin Moscoso; 1B: Alfonso Marquez; 2B: Lance Barrett; 3B: Ramon De Jesus. T: 3:18. A: 26,529 (42,319).

Padres 6, Giants 3 San Francisco .........000 010 002 — 3 San Diego ................300 001 02x — 6 AB R

H BI BB SO

Avg.

3 0 3 4 3 3 1 3 4 3 1 4 32 AB

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 R

2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 4 14 H BI BB SO

.274 .264 .240 .250 .222 .253 .227 .224 .188 .155 .208 .196

Kim ss Cronenworth 2b-1b Machado 3b Voit dh Alfaro c Hosmer 1b 1-Abrams pr-2b Azocar rf Grisham cf Batten lf a-Mazara ph-lf Totals

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a-singled for Batten in the 6th. b-walked for Slater in the 8th. c-struck out for Estrada in the 9th. d-homered for Bart in the 9th.

Orioles designated hitter Trey Mancini points to his teammates in the dugout after hitting a walk-off single against the Angels on Friday. TOMMY GILLIGAN/USA TODAY SPORTS

.216 .269 .249 .268 .231 .245 .209 .091 .258 .239 .161 .255

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Inherited runners-scored: Nelson 1-0, Middleton 1-0. HBP: Gallen (Cron). WP: Kuhl, Colome. Umpires: HP: Brock Ballou; 1B: Bruce Dreckman; 2B: Paul Emmel; 3B: Pat Hoberg. T: 3:28. A: 15,524 (48,686).

Slater cf b-Pederson ph-rf Flores 1b Mercedes lf Ruf dh Estrada 2b c-Yastrzemski ph Crawford ss Villar 3b Bart c d-Belt ph Wade Jr. rf-cf Totals San Diego

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One out when winning run scored. a-flied out for Pinto in the 9th. b-struck out for Reynolds in the 9th. c-pinch hit for Papierski in the 10th. 1-ran for Moustakas in the 10th. LOB: Tampa Bay 8, Cincinnati 6. 2B: Y.Diaz (15), Senzel (6). HR: Drury (18), off McClanahan. RBI: Choi (38), Drury (48). SB: Kiermaier (6). S: Senzel. Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 2 (Arozarena, Mejia); Cincinnati 3 (Papierski, Almora Jr. 2). RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 7; Cincinnati 0 for 3. Runners moved up: Franco. LIDP: Franco. GIDP: India, Solano. DP: Tampa Bay 2 (Paredes, Choi; Y.Diaz, Paredes, Choi); Cincinnati 1 (Farmer). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

4.02 6.08 3.55 1.69 2.81

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.265 .282 .278 .264 .237 .237 .181 .118 .164 .205 .192 .218

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Arizona Gallen Poppen, L, 1-2 Nelson Middleton Weaver

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Two outs when winning run scored. a-struck out for Mateo in the 7th. b-struck out for Nevin in the 9th. E: Chirinos (1). LOB: Los Angeles 9, Baltimore 7. 2B: Mullins (23), Rutschman (13). HR: Trout (24), off Wells; Ohtani (19), off Tate. RBI: Trout 3 (51), Ohtani (54), Urias (21), Mountcastle (43), Rutschman (12), Mullins (36), Mancini (34). SB: Trout (1), Mountcastle (4), Odor 2 (3). CS: Ohtani (6). Runners left in scoring position: Los Angeles 5 (Villar, Rengifo, Stefanic 2, Marsh); Baltimore 2 (Santander, Rutschman). RISP: Los Angeles 2 for 9; Baltimore 5 for 10. Runners moved up: Walsh, Mancini. Pitching ip h r er bb so era

Colorado Kuhl, W, 6-5 Stephenson, H, 4 Gilbreath, H, 3 Bird, H, 2 Colome, S, 4-5

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.143 .246 .214 .225 .249 .232 .194 .208 .216

E: Snead (1). LOB: Houston 9, Oakland 2. 2B: Diaz (5), Alvarez (11), Gurriel (24), Bregman (18), Altuve (16), Murphy (18). HR: Alvarez (26), off Blackburn; Maldonado (8), off Blackburn; Andrus (6), off Urquidy. RBI: Alvarez (60), Maldonado 3 (21), Tucker (58), Gurriel (25), Andrus 2 (22), Piscotty (7). SF: Piscotty. Runners left in scoring position: Houston 5 (Dubon 2, Meyers, Maldonado, Diaz); Oakland 1 (Kemp). RISP: Houston 7 for 15; Oakland 0 for 3. GIDP: Bregman, Brown. DP: Houston 1 (Altuve, Dubon, Gurriel); Oakland 1 (Andrus, Allen, Brown). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

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a-walked for Do.Smith in the 8th. 1-ran for Davis in the 8th. 2-ran for Garcia in the 9th. E: Rojas (6). LOB: Miami 5, New York 10. 2B: De La Cruz 3 (9), Berti (9), Canha (7), Marte (18), McNeil (19). HR: Cooper (7), off Dr.Smith; Nimmo (8), off Lopez; Lindor (14), off Okert. RBI: De La Cruz (18), Wendle (14), Cooper 2 (40), Stallings (22), Nimmo (32), Lindor (58). SB: Hamilton (2). SF: Wendle. S: Stallings. Runners left in scoring position: Miami 4 (Berti, Wendle, Stallings 2); New York 5 (Nido, Escobar 3, Alonso). RISP: Miami 4 for 11; New York 0 for 7. Runners moved up: Stallings, Rojas 2, Lindor. GIDP: Stallings, Marte. DP: Miami 1 (Wendle, Berti, Cooper); New York 1 (McNeil, Lindor, Alonso). Pitching ip h r er bb so era

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Rockies 6, D’backs 5 Colorado

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Chicago...............000 012 000 0 — 3 Los Angeles .........000 001 101 1 — 4 Avg.

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Inherited runners-scored: Littell 1-0, Brebbia 2-0. WP: McGee, Snell. Umpires: HP: David Rackley; 1B: Dan Bellino; 2B: Sean Barber; 3B: Larry Vanover. T: 3:16. A: 42,861 (40,209).

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Dodgers left ﬁ elder Gavin Lux leaps but cannot reach a ball hit for a solo home run by Cubs shortstop Nico Hoerner in the sixth inning on Friday at Dodger Stadium. JAYNE KAMIN-ONCEA/USA TODAY SPORTS

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Reds ﬁ nd a new way to win, top Rays Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Tyler Naquin was lifted into the air by some of his Cincinnati Reds teammates after their walk-off win Friday, but all he did was wait for the next pitch. After a pitcher’s duel between Luis Castillo and Shane McClanahan produced no clear winner, the Reds outlasted the Tampa Bay Rays for a bizarre 2-1 walk-off win in 10 innings. The game ended on a balk called against Rays reliever Matt Wisler with pinch-runner Mark Kolozsvary advancing from third for the game-winning run at Great American Ball Park. It was the 23rd time a team won a game on a walk-off balk since 1920, according to Elias Sports Bureau, and the second time it’s happened in Reds history to the delight of the crowd of 26,529. A balk by Ernie Broglio helped the Reds to a win over the Chicago Cubs on April 28, 1965. “You don’t expect to end a ballgame like that,” said Rays Manager Kevin Cash. It was the fi rst MLB game to end on a balk since 2018. Wisler, running through the signs with his catcher in a 1-2 count vs. Naquin with one out, tapped his glove on his leg to ask for another pitch selection and he was immediately called for a balk. Fireworks went off as Kolozsvary jogged to the plate and Reds players streamed out of the dugout. Cash went onto the fi eld to speak with the umpires, but the call is not reviewable. When Kolozsvary was asked whether it was a balk, he responded, “I have no idea.” Before the balk-off , it was shortstop Kyle Farmer who played the hero in the extra inning. With runners on the corners and no outs in the top of the 10th inning, Farmer fi elded a ground ball and threw out a runner at the plate. “I owe him a drink,” Reds pitcher Joel Kuhnel said. “You can strategize all you want,” Bell said. “I try to put guys in the right position, a lot going into that. It really comes down to players making plays.” Farmer completed the top half of the inning with an unassisted double play after catching a soft line drive behind the second-base bag.

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fi rst round, but they have the eighthhighest bonus pool, which gives them additional fl exibility to sign players with higher bonus demands. The Reds picked UCLA shortstop Matt McLain with the No. 17 pick last year, but he received the ninth-largest bonus in the draft class. The MLB Draft is diff erent than the NFL or NBA. Signability concerns can have as much impact on where a player is drafted as their talent. The Reds have a higher bonus pool because they were awarded the No. 32 overall pick as compensation for Nick Castellanos departing through free agency and declining their one-year qualifying off er. The Reds had an additional compensation pick in last year’s draft too when Trevor Bauer left in free agency to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “A lot of freedom having a big bonus pool, it means you can target diff erent

Rays reliever Matt Wisler was caught off guard when he was called for a game-ending balk, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning Friday night. USA TODAY SPORTS

The Reds went the fi rst three months of the season without a walk-off win and now they have three in the last six days. The pitcher’s duel between Castillo, the top pitcher available on the trade market this month, and McClanahan, the favorite to start for the American League in the All-Star Game, was remarkably even. Castillo pitched one more inning (seven to six) and gave up one more hit (four to three). They matched each other in strikeouts (eight) and McClanahan issued one more walk (two to one). “If there are a better couple pitchers in baseball,” Reds Manager David Bell said, “I don’t know who they are.” Castillo was eff ective with his fastball, changeup and slider, but a gritty Rays lineup didn’t make anything easy on him. Castillo totaled eight strikeouts, but six of them came against the bottom three hitters in Tampa’s batting order. Tampa struck fi rst in the pitcher’s duel. Yandy Díaz, the leadoff hitter, lined a double down the right-fi eld line and scored on Ji-Man Choi’s two-out linedrive single up the middle in the third inning. Castillo, who stranded two runners in the fi rst inning, regrouped and retired 13 of his fi nal 14 batters after Choi’s single lined past him on the mound. Castillo’s last pitch, the 108th time he uncorked his right arm, was a 98-mph fastball for an inning-ending strikeout.

sorts of players,” Katuska said. “Everyone asks what players we’re targeting or if we have a group, and I couldn’t tell you. We have probably six to eight guys that we know are going to be off the board, then a big group of players. We’re really going to have to do a lot of work lining those guys up.” The early returns from the Reds’ 2021 draft class have been positive. McLain and second-round pick Andrew Abbott, a left-handed pitcher, are already in Double-A. Outfi elder Jay Allen, selected with Bauer’s compensation pick, is rated as one of the team’s top 10 prospects. Even their last pick in the draft, 20th-rounder Javi Rivera, was named the organization’s pitcher of the month for June after he posted a 0.48 ERA in 18 2/3 innings at Low-A. “We always start with up-the-middle athletes and starting pitchers,” Katuska said. “That’s where we’re trying to start from is those profi les. Really, just take the best player available at each pick, but we like going for the athletes defi nitely.” The Reds built the core of their Major

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The Reds’ last 10 ﬁ rst-round picks 2021: Matt McLain, SS, UCLA. 2020: Austin Hendrick, OF, West Allegheny HS (Pennsylvania). 2019: Nick Lodolo, LHP, TCU. 2018: Jonathan India, 3B, Florida. 2017: Hunter Greene, RHP, Notre Dame HS (California). 2016: Nick Senzel, 3B, Tennessee. 2015: Tyler Stephenson, C, Kennesaw Mountain HS (Georgia). 2014: Nick Howard, RHP, Virginia. 2013: Phillip Ervin, OF, Samford. 2012: Nick Travieso, RHP, Archbishop McCarthy HS (Florida).

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Gibaut 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.1 2 0 0 0 0 1 Overton 1 0 1.82 4 4 0 24.2 15 5 5 0 7 10 Díaz 2 0 2.32 28 0 2 31.0 14 9 8 3 17 39 Wilson 0 1 2.45 5 0 0 3.2 3 1 1 0 0 7 Castillo 3 4 2.92 12 12 0 71.0 55 26 23 5 23 74 Hoffman 1 0 3.15 30 1 0 40.0 33 16 14 3 19 43 Dugger 0 0 4.05 2 0 0 6.2 7 3 3 1 3 10 Lodolo 1 2 4.19 4 4 0 19.1 21 9 9 3 8 27 Detwiler 0 2 4.20 18 0 0 15.0 18 7 7 3 6 16 Ashcraft 4 2 4.35 9 9 0 49.2 55 24 24 5 9 29 Mahle 3 7 4.48 17 17 0 92.1 84 48 46 10 36 102 Strickland 2 2 5.16 32 0 4 29.2 30 20 17 3 20 26 Santillan 0 1 5.49 21 0 4 19.2 23 14 12 1 12 21 Greene 3 10 6.01 16 16 0 79.1 74 54 53 22 33 98 Kuhnel 1 1 6.38 21 0 1 24.0 27 17 17 3 6 25 Minor 1 6 6.63 7 7 0 38.0 42 28 28 12 12 32 Cessa 3 1 6.68 31 1 0 31.0 38 25 23 6 13 25 B.Farmer 0 0 6.75 10 0 0 12.0 15 10 9 2 7 17 Reynolds 0 0 6.75 2 0 0 1.1 3 1 1 0 0 0 Warren 2 3 6.91 31 0 3 28.2 26 22 22 5 15 30 Gutierrez 1 6 7.61 10 8 0 36.2 46 31 31 8 24 29 Hendrix 0 0 8.10 5 0 0 3.1 5 3 3 0 4 4 Moreta 0 2 8.22 24 1 0 23.0 25 22 21 9 9 25 Sanmartin 1 4 8.38 15 4 0 29.0 38 27 27 4 13 21 Sims 1 0 9.45 6 0 1 6.2 5 7 7 0 6 5 Duarte 0 0 10.13 3 0 0 2.2 3 3 3 1 3 2 Solomon 0 0 10.80 9 0 0 8.1 8 10 10 3 5 9 Diehl 0 0 11.12 5 0 0 5.2 8 7 7 3 3 3 Schrock 0 0 45.00 1 0 0 1.0 7 5 5 2 0 0 Team Totals 3054 5.33 84 84 15 734.2 730 454 435 117 313 730

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Cincinnati Reds vs. Tampa Bay Rays Game 3 of a 3-game series When: 1:40 p.m. Sunday Where: Great American Ball Park TV/Radio: Bally Sports Ohio/WLW-AM (700) The Skinny: Nick Lodolo is coming off of one of the most exciting starts of the Reds season. Against the Mets, Lodolo used his fastball and his breaking ball to shut down one of the best offenses in MLB. Reds: Nick Lodolo Throws: Left Record: 1-2 ERA: 4.19 Rays: Shane Baz Throws: Right Record: 1-1 ERA: 1.92

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League roster during their last rebuild with picks at the top of the draft from 2015-20. Now, to the fanbase’s frustration, the Reds are in another rebuild where they’ll need to identify talent well to avoid some of the dips that have plagued the organization throughout the last decade. The Reds will have four picks on the fi rst day of the draft, July 17: Nos. 18, 32, 55 and 73. “It’s defi nitely an exciting challenge going ahead,” Katuska said. “Obviously, I’ve been here for a while and been a part of a lot of drafts for the team, but it’s defi nitely diff erent. Probably don’t know all the challenges until you actually go through it, but excited to start the process.”

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“The fastball was located very well all night and through my past outings,” Castillo said through team interpreter Jorge Merlos. “I’ve been able to pinpoint it where I want.” It’s one thing that Castillo possesses three electric pitches, but his teammates are in awe of his steadiness. “He doesn’t get intimidated by anybody,” Farmer said. “Just out there having fun.” At least a few teams had scouts watching Castillo’s latest start, including the San Diego Padres. The Reds, who have the worst record in the National League, will fi eld off ers throughout the month and look for a package of players that can speed up their rebuild. Castillo, who missed the fi rst month of the season with a shoulder strain, has permitted two runs in his last 20 innings. In this three-start stretch, he’s compiled 25 strikeouts and a 0.90 ERA. “We knew it was going to be a battle against McClanahan,” Brandon Drury said. “I liked our chances. Any time Castillo is on the mound, you always have a good chance to win.” The Reds responded to their onerun defi cit in the bottom half of the third inning. In a 3-0 count, Drury rocketed a 95-mph fastball to the facing of the second deck in left fi eld for his team-leading 18th home run of the season. Drury has put two balls in play in 3-0 counts this year and both are homers. “He was throwing a lot of off speed all night,” Drury said. “I just thought that was going to be, maybe, my only opportunity that at-bat to get a fastball.” Farmer added: “Drury got a ball over the heart of the plate and that was the only ball he threw over the heart of the plate all night.” The left-handed McClanahan, who owns a 1.73 ERA through 17 starts, hasn’t allowed more than one earned run in any of his last six outings. The Reds had only one more hit following Drury’s homer, but it was, incredibly, a balk that put them over the top. “It is bizarre,” Cash said. “I’ve never seen that before.”

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Garcia gutted it out as long as he could before heading to IL Bobby Nightengale Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Aramis Garcia waited years for consistent playing time in the Major Leagues, so he tried everything over the past week to avoid a stint on the 10-day injured list with a badly bruised left middle fi nger. The pain fi nally became too much Thursday. During the fi rst game of the Cincinnati Reds’ doubleheader against Pittsburgh, Garcia aggravated his fi nger injury when he mishandled a changeup from Luis Cessa in the seventh inning. There was a runner on third base, and Garcia moved quickly enough to prevent the runner from attempting to score, but there was no mistaking the pain he felt. He winced and shook his left hand as he walked back behind the plate. Homeplate umpire Angel Hernandez recognized Garcia was in a lot of pain and gave him some extra time. Garcia caught another inning before he was removed for a pinch-hitter. He was placed on the 10-day IL between

games in the doubleheader and will be sidelined through the All-Star break. “It was hurting pretty bad,” Garcia said. “It was just getting to the point where I just felt like I was causing more harm than good. Not really do anybody justice by getting it good enough to play and then going out there aggravating it and not being able to hit or catch. It was just time to let it heal.” Garcia initially injured his ﬁ nger on a catcher’s interference in Chicago. “With Tyler (Stephenson) coming back and the All-Star break coming up, I was really just trying to grind to get there,” Garcia said. “It’s frustrating, for sure. We were just thinking of it too, it would really be unfortunate if we get to the All-Star break, you take the four days, and then afterward I’m still not right. I think it’s just better to take care of it now.” The injury was tough timing for Garcia. He ended June in his best offensive stretch of the season, delivering 11 hits in 27 at-bats (.407 batting average) in his ﬁ nal 11 games.

MLB All-Star Game starters: Ohtani, two Yankees sluggers Jesse Yomtov USA TODAY USA TODAY NETWORK

Major League Baseball announced the starters for the 2022 All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, the winning players from the fi nal fan vote joining the top vote-getters from each league in the fi rst round of balloting. After initial voting, each position was narrowed down to two players (four for outfi elders) and fans had the chance to pick ahead of Friday afternoon’s deadline. The Yankees (Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton), Blue Jays (Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.), Angels (Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani) and Dodgers (Mookie Betts and Trea Turner) each have two players voted as starters. Full rosters will be announced Sunday, with pitchers and reserves being voted on by players around the league. The 92nd Midsummer Classic is on Tuesday, July 19.

American League (All stats through Thursday) C – Alejandro Kirk, Blue Jays (fi rst appearance): The 23-year-old has been one of baseball’s best hitters in the fi rst half, batting .332 with a .980 OPS since May 1 for Toronto. His 3.2 bWAR was 10th in the AL through Thursday. Stats: .312 average, 10 HR, 33 RBI, .890 OPS in 74 games. 1B – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays (second): The AL MVP runner-up last year, Guerrero has struggled at times this season but is heating up with nine home runs with a .939 OPS in the month of June. Stats: .841 OPS, 19 HR, 54 RBI, 84 hits in 83 games. 2B – Jose Altuve, Astros (eighth): The veteran isn’t competing for a batting title these days but continues to produce for the Astros, who have already run away with the AL West. Stats: .280 average, .907 OPS, 17 HR in 66 games. 3B – Rafael Devers, Red Sox (second): The 25-year-old leads the league in hits and is near the top in average (up 51 points from last year) and OPS (up 96 points). He topped Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez in fi nal voting. Stats: .330 BA, .986 OPS, 19 HR, 51 RBI, 106 hits in 79 games. SS – Tim Anderson, White Sox (second): The 29-year-old missed most of June due to injury, but is batting over .300 for the fourth season in a row. Stats: .313 average, 5 HR, 20 RBI, 10 SB in 55 games. OF – Aaron Judge, Yankees (fourth): The AL’s leading vote-getter is having a huge contract year, leading the majors in home runs. Stats: .287 average, 30 HR, 64 RBI, 65 runs, .993 OPS in 80 games. OF – Mike Trout, Angels (10th): Limited to 36 games last season, the GOAT’s average is way down but he should push 40 home runs, 100 RBI and a four-fi gure OPS. Stats: .967 OPS. 23 HR, 48 RBI in 75 games. OF – Giancarlo Stanton, Yankees (fi fth): An All-Star for the fi rst time since being traded to the Yankees prior to the 2018 season, Stanton joins Judge in the AL outfi eld. Stats: .833 OPS, 21 HR, 54 RBI in 69 games. DH –Shohei Ohtani, Angels (sec-

ond): Ohtani isn’t putting up the same home run numbers as last year (46) but has been among the most dominant starting pitchers in baseball as well. He won with 52% of the vote against Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez. Stats: 18 HR, 53 RBI, 10 SB in 81 games // 8-4, 2.44 ERA, 111 strikeouts in 81 innings pitched.

National League C – Willson Contreras, Cubs (third): A free agent at the end of the season and one of the top players who could be traded before the deadline, the 30-year-old backstop is enjoying his fi nest season in the majors, primed to set career highs in home runs and RBI. Stats: .890 OPS, 13 HR, 35 RBI in 71 games. 1B – Paul Goldschmidt, Cardinals (seventh): The 34-year-old is having an MVP-type season, leading the NL in hits, runs, average and slugging. This is his fi rst All-Star appearance with the Cardinals after getting a nod every year from 2013-2018 with Arizona. Stats: .342 average, .619 SLG, 1.045 OPS, 19 HR, 65 RBI, 61 runs, 105 hits in 81 games. 2B – Jazz Chisholm Jr., Marlins (fi rst): The 24-year-old Miami infi elder has done it all this season and is being rewarded with his fi rst career AllStar nod. Chisholm is currently dealing with a lower back strain, though he’s expected to return before the break. Stats: .860 OPS, 14 HR, 45 RBI, 12 SB in 60 games. 3B – Manny Machado, Padres (sixth): Machado was hitting .347 through the end of May and has cooled off a bit, but beats out Nolan Arenado in fi nal voting for the starting spot. Stats: .315 average, 13 HR, 47 RBI, .920 OPS in 73 games. SS – Trea Turner, Dodgers (second): Expecting a $300 million payday this winter, Turner has been among the best shortstops in baseball and is on track for his fi fth year with 30 steals, edging Dansby Swanson in voting. Stats: .305 average, 11 HR, 59 RBI, 16 SB, 100 hits in 82 games. OF – Ronald Acuña Jr., Braves (third): After missing out on Atlanta’s World Series run after tearing his ACL, the 24-year-old’s return has lifted his team back into the NL East race and he was the NL’s top vote-getter. Stats: .272 average, 7 HR, 19 RBI, 17 SB in 50 games. OF – Mookie Betts, Dodgers (sixth): After something of a “down” year in 2021, the 29-year-old outfi elder is on pace to surpass his career-high 32 home runs and lead Los Angeles to the postseason yet again. Stats: .914 OPS, 20 HR, 45 RBI, 58 runs in 65 games. OF – Joc Pederson, Giants (second) – In his fi rst year with the Giants, the 30-year-old is in the midst of his best big-league season and gets his fi rst All-Star nod since he was a rookie in 2015. Stats: .882 OPS, 17 HR, 41 RBI in 72 games. DH – Bryce Harper, Phillies (seventh) – INJURED: Forced into the DH role by an elbow injury, the reigning NL MVP was hit by a pitch and broke his left thumb on June 25. Stats: .318 average, .985 OPS, 15 HR, 48 RBI, 9 SB in 64 games.

REDS NOTEBOOK

Inside the strategy of Farmer’s game-saving defensive play Charlie Goldsmith Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

With no outs and runners on fi rst and third base in a tie game in the top of the 10th inning on Friday night, Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell had to make a decision. Before every at-bat, the Reds adjust their infi eld defense depending on the situation and the hitter at the plate. In this situation, Bell had three choices. He could have the Reds line up in “double play” defense with the shortstop and second baseman deeper in the infi eld to give themselves the best chance to turn a double play. The Reds could put their infi eld in and sell out on getting the out at home. Bell chose neither of those options and made the most aggressive decision. “It’s a play that we have in our repertoire, I guess you could say, where it’s kind of in-between double play depth or infi eld in,” Reds shortstop Kyle Farmer said. “If it’s hit softly and they go home, I go home. But if it’s hit hard, I turn two. I just read it well.” On a short ground ball to Farmer, he made a rapid fi re decision to throw home. Farmer’s throw beat Tampa Bay Rays catcher Francisco Mejia to the plate. Bell called it the play that won the game for the Reds, who scored in the bottom of the 10th inning on a walk-off balk against the Rays. “(The in-between defense the Reds used) gives you the chance to make either play, which is putting it all on the infi elders to do something like (Farmer) did,” Bell said. “I’ve seen that a lot and rarely does it pan out like that. It was just a great instinctual play, athletic and a perfect throw. It’s being into the game and understanding what he needed to do.” This play showed Farmer’s strengths as a defender. Farmer’s

judgment on the play in the 10th inning on Friday is the type of split-second decision that few shortstops can execute. “Once I saw him get jammed – (reliever Joel Kuhnel) made a good pitch – I was going home all the way,” Farmer said. “It was a do-or-die play in that situation.” The fact that the game was in extrainnings added another dynamic to Farmer’s decision. Since each extra inning starts with an automatic runner on second base, Bell usually manages with the assumption that the runner is going to score. Allowing a run in the top of the 10th inning wouldn’t have been the end of the world because the Reds were going to start the bottom of the 10th inning with their own automatic runner on second base. But Farmer knew how much the out at home could change the game, so he went for it. He got the out, and the Reds won the game in the bottom of the inning. DIAZ BACK: Before Friday’s game, the Reds activated reliever Alexis Díaz from the injured list. He had been out since June 19 with bicep tendinitis, but Bell threw him right back into his role as the top relief pitcher in the Reds’ bullpen in Friday’s win over the Rays. Díaz pitched a scoreless eighth inning with two strikeouts to lower his ERA to 2.32. “Any time, he would make any bullpen better,” Bell said. “Just also the fact that he’s rested and available to pitch tonight. That will be helpful. Thankfully it wasn’t a long-term injury. He got a little reset, was able to heal up and hopefully can ﬁ nish the year staying healthy.” In a corresponding roster move, the Reds designated for assignment relief pitcher Robert Dugger. One day after Dugger pitched 3 2⁄ 3 scoreless innings to lead the Reds to a win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, he was designated for assignment.

FC CINCINNATI

Striker Santos to add a ‘different dimension’ to the club’s attack Pat Brennan Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

By his own admission, FC Cincinnati GM Chris Albright didn’t expect his club to be in a playoff chase in his fi rst year on the job. But seeing as they’re in the thick of the MLS Cup playoff hunt, and as head coach Pat Noonan had already indicated, that provided incentive for Cincinnati to use the ongoing secondary transfer window to pursue targets that addressed both short and long-term goals, provided the club’s future wasn’t mortgaged for a 2022 playoff spot. Sergio Santos was identifi ed as a player that could meet all those needs and on Friday offi cially became the fi rst personnel pursuit FC Cincinnati got across this fi nish line this window as the Brazilian striker joined FCC from the Philadelphia Union via trade. The Union receive $300,000 in 2022 General Allocation Money (GAM) with an additional $625,000 in conditional GAM if certain performance-based metrics or contract conditions are met, Cincinnati offi cials stated in a news release. Philadelphia Union would also receive a percentage of a future trade if Santos is traded to another club within MLS. “I don’t think you can have enough quality on a team as long as you can fi t it within the salary cap,” Albright said during a Friday conference call with reporters. “I think Sergio off ers a different dimension to our attack with his pace. You know, you’ve got scary pace. To add him to the group of current strikers … I think he’s diff erent from those guys. That’s how I see him complementing the group. “We have a lot of games. We’re in a position where we’re above the playoff line and I think it gives us a little juice to continue to push for a playoff position.” The idea of acquiring Santos had been batted around for some time prior to Cincinnati actively engaging with Philadelphia. It was thought to be too diffi cult of a move to pull off , though. Having found agreeable terms with Philadelphia and its GM, Ernst Tanner, Santos off ers Cincinnati MLS experi-

ence, a strong locker room presence and leadership qualities. Going forward in the window, Albright said he was aware of the club’s defensive needs. “We concede too many goals. However we address that, we’ll keep that internal but I think the group would tell you, Pat would tell you we want to concede less goals,” Albright said. “We’re in a position now that, frankly, I didn’t think we’d be in in year one, and there’s some opportunity now that comes with that. Perhaps we’re a little more aggressive given the position we’re in. That being said, the moves that we’re making continue to give us fl exibility going forward. We’re not going to mortgage the future for success this year. This is about being sustainable, having a sustainable product that fans can be proud of.” Santos brings 75 appearances and 19 goals worth of MLS experience, as well as time logged in the Concacaf Champions League with the Union during the club’s run to the semifi nal round of that competition. Similar to FC Cincinnati’s Calvin Harris, Santos has been unavailable in recent weeks for Philadelphia while attempting to acquire his green card. Santos, 27, originally of Brazil, is a 6foot striker who prefers to play as a center forward. He adds depth and speed to an FC Cincinnati attack that is already seeing sizable production through Brandon Vazquez, Luciano Acosta and Brenner Souza da Silva. The move, which doesn’t necessarily signal a forthcoming departure for Cincinnati’s striker corps, also gives FCC a play that MLS defenders won’t want to tussle with and match-up against. Santos’s contract runs through the end of the 2022 season and features an option year Cincinnati could pick up. It would be easy to group Santos with other FC Cincinnati players that came from the Union organization including Ray Gaddis, Haris Medunjanin, Alvas Powell and even Roman Celentano, who trained with Philadelphia in 2021 prior to fi nishing his intercollegiate career. Celentano was eventually drafted by Cincinnati in this past winter’s MLS SuperDraft as the No. 2-overall selection. Cincinnati, currently fi fth place in the east on a 7-7-4 record, is seeking its fi rst-ever playoff berth in MLS.

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ENQUIRER SPRING ALL-STARS The spring high school sports season saw plenty of state-championship performances as some of the area's top teams and individuals were recognized among the best in all of Ohio. On the diamond, Lakota West softball gave Southwest Ohio its first big-school state championship since 1985 when the Firebirds ran the Division I table. In boys tennis, Cincinnati had multiple individual and team state champions, which was also the case in track both in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Mariemont girls lacrosse continued its dynasty, rallying for an unlikely Division II state title. Last but not least, Moeller and Badin were boys volleyball champions. Now, it's time to honor the players and coaches of those teams as The Cincinnati Enquirer announces the 2022 Spring High School Sports All-Stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, also known as the all-city lists. Baseball The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky baseball. Ohio Division I Player of the Year Brenden Garula, Mason: The left-hander was named the Ohio Division I player of the year after going 9-0 with a 1.03 ERA. Garula led the Greater Miami Conference with 99 strikeouts, 17 of which came in a perfect game against Western Brown in a 1-0 Comets’ sectional tournament win. Garula also hit .365 with nine doubles, three home runs and 16 RBIs. Coach of the Year Curt Bly, Mason: Bly led Mason to a 27-4 record that included a league title, a regional championship and appearance in the state Final Four. He was named the GMC coach of the year. First team Brenden Garula, Mason Max Tramontana, Moeller Josiah Nelson, Middletown Noah Samol, Mason Andrew Edrington, Princeton Noah Prewitt, Talawanda Nate Earley, Moeller Luke Vaughn, Elder Colton Hartman, Lebanon John Calhoun Jr., Middletown Oscar Welsh, Little Miami Parker Dillhoff, Lebanon Brennan Hileman, St. Xavier Aaron England, Fairfield John Mairn, Little Miami Toby Hueber, Moeller Jacob Finley, Lakota East Drew Gavin, Anderson Gunner Kalkhoff, La Salle Jake Hanley, Mason Jordan Harley, West Clermont Chase Herrell, Milford Max Klare, St. Xavier Ty Beck, Lebanon Michael Murphy, Mason Parker Geshan, Talawanda Charlie Niehaus, Moeller Jack Smith, Kings Nolan Smoot, Little Miami C.J. Richard, Moeller Colton Hunt, Edgewood Dylan Hogberg, Loveland Abe Crall, Western Brown Devin Taylor, La Salle Logan Vogelgesang, Harrison Collin Sweeney, Lakota East Jeremy Ward, Elder Tyler Huff, Loveland Second team Mark Hulgin, Colerain Louden Hilliard, Milford Thomas Fleming, Western Hills Jake Isaacs, Sycamore Jordan Cain, Lebanon Jake Villarreal, Lakota East Ben Crall, Western Brown Ethan Mason, Colerain Jack Cecil, Lebanon Chris Kammerer, Elder Eddie Tanner, Talawanda Jacob Asbeck, Lakota West Callum McGill, Loveland Galen Combs, Withrow Tanner Back, Middletown Patrick Villamagna, La Salle Charlie Meckey, Loveland Nathan Manley, Moeller Max Mesler, Talawanda Trevor Ziegler, West Clermont Dylan Dye, Sycamore Bryce Perkins, Milford Trey Fetzer, Lakota West Kellen Sandhas, Elder Reed Rosebraugh, Turpin Braeden Fry, Lakota East Clint Moak, Hamilton Mitchell Rogers, Milford John Rodriguez, Fairfield Jake Murphy, Kings Noah Wagster, Fairfield Aidan Trowbridge, Anderson Kevin Hilton, Elder Ohio Division II Player of the Year Eric Rawlings, Badin: Rawlings was one of three Rams to be named first-team All-Ohio. The senior pitcher went 10-0 with a 0.52 ERA, a pair of shutouts and 60 strikeouts over 54 innings. Rawlings was named the Southwest Ohio Baseball Coaches Association (SWOBCA) pitcher of the year. Coach of the Year Brion Treadway, Badin: Treadway picked up his 200th career win this season and was later named the SWOBCA coach of the year after leading Badin to a 26-7 record, a regional championship and a trip to the state Final Four. Treadway was also named the Greater Catholic League-Coed co-coach of the year. First team Eric Rawlings, Badin Mark Snowden, Taylor Jimmy Nugent, Badin Reagan Burch, Blanchester Lucas Moore, Badin Brayden Fraasman, Ross Alex Hansen, Indian Hill Johnny Kearns, Taylor Brock Adams, Ross Ben Liebel, Indian Hill Wes Embry, Batavia Ben Voegele, Ross Lleyton Flamm, New Richmond Aiden Sargent, Monroe Nick Rinala, Indian Hill Danny Shockley, New Richmond Joe Stone, Waynesville Landyn Vidourek, Badin Carson Sova, Fenwick Adam Frisch, Clinton-Massie Jacob Riffle, New Richmond Luke Metzger, Fenwick Jared Teke, Batavia Donald Kennedy, Bethel-Tate Second team Hunter Rook, Ross Jaxson Little, Bethel-Tate Dominick Clark, Waynesville Zach West, Blanchester Caleb Vowell, Ross Adam Frump, Blanchester Gage Hall, Taylor Alex Bemis, Monroe Max Stewart, Batavia Nathan Beatty, Fenwick Jonathan Copfer, Indian Hill Sammy Roush, Blanchester Justin Hoevel, Badin Zach Cope, Batavia Drew Mouch, Wyoming Caleb Stephen, New Richmond Logan Rainwaters, Waynesville Cam Snider, Bethel-Tate Ryan Holmes, Monroe Seth Keith, Taylor Ian Bullis, Batavia Luke Taylor, Wyoming Luke Abbott, New Richmond Ohio Division III Player of the Year Jack Vogele, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy: Vogele led the Miami Valley Conference in batting average (.593), hits (48) and runs scored (47). The senior outfielder also had 26 extra-base hits, stole 15 bases and was named Ohio's Division III player of the year. Coach of the Year Tony Schulz, CHCA: Schulz was named Ohio’s Division III coach of the year after leading the Eagles on a 25-2 season that included league and district titles. First team Jack Vogele, CHCA Ben Bobo, McNicholas Cooper Robinson, CHCA Ty Snyder, McNicholas Jace Canter, Williamsburg Davis Campbell, Cincinnati Country Day Kris Jenkins, Clermont Northeastern Dylan Thatcher, Madeira Anthony Hoffmann, Roger Bacon Eli Jones, Williamsburg Colin Ames, CHCA Louie Hess, Reading Carter Sunderman, Williamsburg Will Murphy, CHCA Nick Heisser, Madeira Jake Tschida, Roger Bacon

Quinn Benner, Mariemont Austin Yeager, Clermont Northeastern Mason Perkins, Summit Country Day Casey Hinton, Reading Austin Heffner, Williamsburg Jonathan Russell, CHCA Max Miller, Mariemont Erik Deal, Summit Country Day Michael Napolitano, Mariemont Second team Brady O’Brien, McNicholas J.D. Long, Mariemont Nick Ciacco, Summit Country Day Caden Crawford, CHCA Pierce Taylor, McNicholas Alex Davis, Summit Country Day Nick Rose, Clermont Northeastern Benny Hess, Reading George Janzen, Roger Bacon Jayden Green, Clark Montessori Connor Yeager, Clermont Northeastern Zach DelBello, Cincinnati Country Day James Dunn, Madeira Luke Wagner, Roger Bacon Trey White, Purcell Marian Micah Bowman, Reading Ty Yelton, CHCA Ohio Division IV Player of the Year Titan Selvie, Cincinnati Christian: The senior was a first-team All-Ohio selection after finishing second in the MVC in batting average (.506), hits (41) and runs scored (31). He also ranked sixth in stolen bases, swiping 26 bags. Coach of the Year Russ Theisens, Miami Valley Christian Academy: Theisens was named the MVC-Gray coach of the year after leading the Lions to a 13-11 and a share of the league title. First team Titan Selvie, Cincinnati Christian Garrett Taulbee, Felicity-Franklin Jacob Hessler, MVCA Zach Birch, Cincinnati Christian Landon Easter, Felicity-Franklin Jared Kraus, Seven Hills R.J. Hudson, St. Bernard-Elmwood Place Cameron Helton, Felicity-Franklin Ethan Hyrne, MVCA Tug Jones, New Miami Will Schneider, Seven Hills Cody Willis, Lockland Andrew Rapier, New Miami Second team Austin Hutson, Felicity-Franklin Dominic Bonenfant, MVCA Leo Bonenfant, MVCA Nick Cohen, Seven Hills Kevin Oliver, St. Bernard-Elmwood Place Will Wiles, Seven Hills Trevor Allen, Cincinnati Christian Nate Cox, MVCA Northern Kentucky/ Indiana Player of the Year Gage Testerman, Conner: The senior shortstop hit .547 with seven home runs, 45 runs batted in, 47 runs scored and 36 stolen bases for the Cougars, who finished 29-7 to set a team record for wins. Testerman set several school single-season records, including average, total hits (58) and doubles (23). Coaches of the Year Kevin Gray, Beechwood, and Scott Schweitzer, Campbell County: Both coaches led their teams to the state quarterfinals. Gray led the Tigers to a 29-7 record and third-straight Ninth Region championship, losing to Russell County in the state quarterfinals, 1-0. Schweitzer led the Camels to the 10th Region championship for the second-straight season, finishing 24-11 after winning 16 of their last 19 games, most of them without leading hitter Aydan Hamilton, a University of Kentucky commit. Campbell lost to McCracken County in the state quarterfinals, 4-3. First team Mitchell Berger, Beechwood Ethan Bosley, Dixie Heights Cameron Boyd, Beechwood Cody Crawford, Conner Brice Estep, Beechwood Jack Hendrix, Highlands Brody Mangold, Conner Jake Napier, Campbell County Gage Testerman, Conner Greg Vineyard, Campbell County Logan Wilson, Dixie Heights Briggs Yuenger, Conner Second team Mitchell Combs, Bishop Brossart Samuel Cottengim, Beechwood Owen Eilerman, St. Henry Aydan Hamilton, Campbell County Brett Holladay, Beechwood Ayden Lohr, Conner Evan Moore, Bishop Brossart Mark Nowak, Cooper Matthew Resing, St. Henry Joe Ruwe, Calvary Christian Brayden Stewart, Ryle Gabe Thelen, Dixie Heights Softball The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky softball. Ohio Division I Player of the Year K.K. Mathis, Lakota West: Mathis led the Greater Miami Conference in batting average (.600), extra-base hits (32), home runs (10) and on-base percentage (.673). The James Madison University signee totaled 55 RBIs with 48 total hits, including six triples and 16 doubles. In the circle, Mathis was 22-3 with a 2.05 ERA and 189 strikeouts over 147 innings. She was named the GMC player of the year for the second-straight season, was a first-team All-Ohio selection and was named Ohio Gatorade player of the year after helping lead Lakota West to a state title. Co-Coaches of the Year Keith Castner, Lakota West, and Jackie Cornelius-Bedel, Oak Hills: Castner recorded his 500th career win during the season and capped the year off by leading his Firebirds to a Division I state softball championship, the area’s first big-school state softball title since 1985. Cornelius-Bedel was named the GMC coach of the year and the Southwest District Softball Coaches Association Division I coach of the year after leading Oak Hills to a share of the league title and its first district championship since 2012. The Highlanders finished the season as regional runners-up. First team Belle Hummel, Lakota West Sam Pennington, Mason Madison Henry, Mercy McAuley Katelyn Polido, Hamilton Lexi Sutton, Western Brown Avery Fielman, Milford Gabi Farris, Ursuline Bailey Manos, Harrison Regan Vunak, Lebanon Kyla Conley, Western Brown Abby Bode, Oak Hills Sophia Martin, Seton Avery Gottlieb, Oak Hills Anna Trimble, Little Miami K.K. Mathis, Lakota West Ella Teubner, Lebanon Kylie Goetz, Turpin Julianna Gonzalez, Lebanon Maeve Fink, Oak Hills Kendall Forren, Lakota West Niki Bode, Oak Hills Callie Allison, Milford Alisha Fox, Mason Brooklyn Stewart, Milford Molly Grace, Lakota West Madison Fugate, Milford Halee McDade, Talawanda Ella Pfaffl, Harrison Bekah Giel, West Clermont Lauren Holt, Little Miami Sophie Barrier, Harrison Kylie Cobb, Talawanda Ella Jansen, Seton Addie McBrayer, Mason Heather Lausche, Mount Notre Dame Ava Hensley, Fairfield Rachel Dsuban, Talawanda Evelyn Henson, Edgewood Haley Hibbard, Lakota West Madi Williams, Kings Taylor Stemmerding, Milford Molly Hudler, Harrison Lilly Iden, Talawanda Kylie Lockwood, Oak Hills Lexi Koenig, Kings Natali McGuire, Colerain Aubrey Smith, Lebanon Kadence Kimberlin, Edgewood Ellie Offner, Mason Abigail Noble, Kings Katie Wegman, Anderson Madie Patton, Talawanda Alyssa Riedman, Harrison Ainsley Herron, Kings Sophia Rohrs, Lebanon Kassidy Seger, Harrison Kaelyn Wright, Talawanda Ryleigh Peters, Fairfield Mya Jordan, Loveland Second team Jasmine Walker, Lakota West Nevaeh Woods, Hamilton Maddie Summers, Little Miami Cheruby Herbert, Milford

Lily Haynes, Oak Hills Lena Albright, Lakota West Camryn Tak Tak, West Clermont Mollie Bloom, Milford Kiley King, Mount Notre Dame Tionna Bright, Lakota West Bella Houillion, Little Miami Madison Dirksen, Edgewood Ashley Simko, Lebanon Madelyn Erskine, Oak Hills Cassidy Luttrell, Western Brown Olivia Basil, St. Ursula Jaycee Taylor, Hamilton Ashtyn Elbe, Mercy McAuley Lily Conley, Anderson Kailee Hebert, Oak Hills Shaudaja Ward, Withrow Lilah Flores, Western Brown Halina Schulte, Lakota East Grace Glaser, Seton Evelyn Reising, Northwest Brooke Miller, Fairfield Kadence Schmidt, Edgewood Natalie Brigoni-Marcano, Kings Lily Volmer, Lakota West Bryee Good, Princeton Kayden Krug, Mount Notre Dame Cameron Krull, Western Hills Morgan Schlosser, Western Brown Cara Stacy, Fairfield McKenna Weekley, Talawanda Kaylie French, Lebanon Jena Rhoads, Wilmington Audrey Gildea, Mount Notre Dame Becca Zilliox, Walnut Hills Kaylee Needham, Loveland Ohio Division II Player of the Year Camrynn Linneman, Taylor: Linneman is one of the top two-way players in the city and was a first-team All-Ohio selection as a sophomore last season. At the plate, she led the Cincinnati Hills League in RBIs (48) and tied for the lead with 10 homers. She was also Top-5 in the conference in batting average (.544), hits (49), triples (five), runs scored (46) and stolen bases (14). In the circle, she led the CHL with a 0.78 ERA, going 12-4 with 208 strikeouts in just 89 2/3 innings. Coach of the Year Craig Linneman, Taylor: Linneman was named the CHL coach of the year after leading Taylor to a 22-5 record, a league championship and a district finals appearance. First team Kayla Drake, Clinton-Massie Camrynn Linneman, Taylor Alayna Crouch, Ross Ashley Lykins, New Richmond Erin Beeber, Badin Chameron Vanden Eynden, Goshen Mikayla Rash, Batavia Sydney Doyle, Clinton-Massie Adi Johnson, Ross Kiera Kirk, New Richmond Sydney Feenstra, Badin Piper Willis, New Richmond Myrissa Combs, Ross Halle Klaiber, Badin Vanessa Rosander, Wyoming Daegan Flamm, New Richmond Jessica Bailey, Goshen Olivia Patel, Batavia Maura Taylor, Taylor Kiera Brightman, Clinton-Massie Sophia Thoma, Taylor Emma Galinger, Wyoming Mackenzie Schwartz, Roger Bacon Maggie Graham, Taylor Kortney Cummins, Badin Taylor Bowling, Batavia Kylie Burdick, Taylor Rachel Nusky, Badin Sammi Hoffman, Roger Bacon Rae Hartigan, New Richmond Aerianna King, Batavia Hazel Moon, Monroe Delaney Schneder, Clinton-Massie Second team Natalie Barth, Wyoming Riley Reynolds, Indian Hill Jaycee Bailey, Goshen Joli Boggs, New Richmond Kyleigh McClanahan, Goshen Emily Macey, Roger Bacon Emily Brunner, Ross Laney Clemons, New Richmond Landrie Layman, Batavia Joslyn Parker, Roger Bacon Gretchen Dineen, Monroe Samantha Iannarino, Ross Emilie Toney, Ross Jessica Mumper, Roger Bacon Ohio Division III Player of the Year Finley Payne, CHCA: Payne was named player of the year in the MVC for the third consecutive season after hitting .778 last season, the fourth-highest single-season batting average in Ohio High School Athletic Association history. Payne also joined the OHSAA single-season record books for home runs last season, belting 14 with an MVC-best 43 RBIs. In the circle, Payne led the league with a 0.67 ERA and tied for the MVC-lead in wins (nine) and strikeouts (121). Coach of the Year Terri Hoerth, Clermont Northeastern: Hoerth led the Rockets to a 15-7 and a share of the SBAAC-National title, Clermont Northeastern’s first league crown since 2013. Clermont Northeastern reached the district finals and Hoerth was named the SBAAC-National co-coach of the year. First team Rylyn Dyer, Georgetown Finley Payne, CHCA Savannah Smith, Reading Haley Johnson, Bethel-Tate Gina Wilson, Deer Park Kylie Bailey, Waynesville Natalie Jones, McNicholas Hannah Green, Norwood Alyssa Badger, Middletown-Madison Rylee Randolph, Bethel-Tate Nicole Koetter, Fenwick Alena Grubbs, Norwood Rianna Mueller, Blanchester Avery Neth, Williamsburg Gabi Roque, Finneytown Gabby Smith, Madeira Anistin Fender, Georgetown Madelyn Gilley, Clermont Northeastern Ava Hallows, Waynesville Annie Katuska, Seven Hills Savannah Young, Middletown-Madison Julia Tamal, Seven Hills Molly Brown, Clermont Northeastern Kaylie Noell, CHCA Laney Murphy, Norwood Tiffany Drewry, Clermont Northeastern Chloe Watts, Reading Maggie Arno, Williamsburg Isabella Bosley, Clermont Northeastern Ava Winchester, Norwood Madi Speeg, Williamsburg Second team Grace Reuss, McNicholas Lauren Reiger, Waynesville Caitlin Drew, Seven Hills Casey Boeckerman, CHCA Rhonda Borden, Clark Montessori Carly Kent, McNicholas Brogan Bell, Seven Hills Sophie Ward, Finneytown Lillian Braden, Clermont Northeastern Bailey Dawley, Blanchester Hadley Von Bargen, Fenwick Maddie Almeter, Waynesville Rylee Longbottom, McNicholas Hannah Heller, Clermont Northeastern Erin Perani, Seven Hills Lizzie Koehne, Finneytown Anna Kurz, Madeira Ali Winchester, Norwood J.J. Fischer, Deer Park Bryleigh Holden, Bethel-Tate Chrissy Kolar, CHCA Layla Vinson, Bethel-Tate Logan Schmidt, McNicholas Abby Staker, Georgetown Ohio Division IV Player of the Year Sarah Coyle, Cincinnati Country Day: The senior was fourth in the MVC-Gray in batting average (.535), third in total hits (23), second in runs (30) and first in stolen bases (15). Coyle was named the MVC-Gray player of the year. Coach of the Year Lou Coduti, Lockland: Coduti was named the MVC-Gray co-coach of the year. First team Sarah Coyle, Cincinnati Country Day Bailee Caudill, Felicity-Franklin Riley Finn, Ripley-Union Skylar Brandenburg, Felicity-Franklin Jordan Mechlin, Fayetteville-Perry Piper Farris, Cincinnati Country Day Jasmine Roberts, Lockland Izabella Waddle, Fayetteville-Perry Alexia Lander, Cincinnati Country Day Ava Wells, Fayetteville-Perry Second team Hadasha Golden, Lockland

Kaydence Cramton, Fayetteville-Perry Riley Williams, Cincinnati Country Day Stephanie Veldkamp, Cincinnati Christian Zoe Johnson, Lockland Madison Brockman, Fayetteville-Perry Kylee Hirschauer, Cincinnati Country Day Victoria Thompson, Fayetteville-Perry El Bowling, Cincinnati Christian Northern Kentucky/ Indiana Co-Players of the Year Dylan Scott, Cooper, and Anna Greenwell, Highlands: The senior shortstops were named player of the year in their divisions this season. Greenwell hit .467 with five home runs, 45 RBIs and 49 runs scored to lead the Bluebirds (26-15) to their first Ninth Region championship since 2016. She was named Division II Player of the year by local coaches and has committed to Eastern Kentucky University. Scott led Cooper to a 25-11 record and the Ninth Region semifinals. The NKU signee hit .483 with four homers, 50 RBIs and 41 runs scored. Coach of the Year Milt Horner, Highlands: He led the Bluebirds to their first Ninth Region championship since 2016, getting a young team to peak at the right time and win close games against Cooper and Dixie Heights in a tightly competitive Ninth Region Tournament. First team Kennedy Baioni, Highlands Kayley Bruener, Pendleton County Anna Greenwell, Highlands Riley Hopkins, Dixie Heights Brianna Knochelman, Grant County Ava Meyer, Dixie Heights Avery Parsons, Ryle Bri Patsel, Dixie Heights Emily Schmeltz, Cooper Ava Scott, Cooper Dylan Scott, Cooper Mollie Sharp, Conner Second team Alexis Baker, Simon Kenton Kendall Blau, Cooper Amber Chaney, Cooper Madison Goddard, Ryle Harper Kinman, Boone County Addy Mack, Notre Dame Larkin Mitchell, Simon Kenton Audrey Pollard, Walton-Verona Brooke Shewmaker, Bishop Brossart Ella Steczynski, Dixie Heights Paige Stewart, Campbell County Gweny Wessling, Cooper Boys Track and Field The Enquirer announces 2021 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky boys track and field. Ohio Division I Runner of the Year Ryan Chevalier, Loveland: Chevalier was the Eastern Cincinnati Conference's top distance performer this season and won a state championship in the 1,600 run. He was also on Loveland’s 4-x-800 state-champion relay team. Field athlete of the year Brett Brooks, Wilmington: Brooks won district and regional discus championships before finishing as the state runner-up in the event. Brooks also qualified for state in the shot put, as well. Coach of the Year Steve Nester, Loveland: Nester, the ECC coach of the year, led the Tigers to a fourth-place finish at regionals and a third-place finish at state. First team 4-x-800 relay: Loveland (J.P. Tew, Cayden Dyer, Brady Steiner, Ryan Chevalier) 100 dash: Brandon White, Moeller 110 hurdles: Malachi Snow, Northwest 4-x-200 relay: Fairfield (Jordan Jackson, Josiah Jackson, Isaiah Glover, Xavier Isaacs) 1,600 run: Ryan Chevalier, Loveland 4-x-100 relay: Moeller (Karson Hobbs, Tennel Bryant, Jake Peddicord, Brandon White) 400 dash: Mir Ashraf, Mason 300 hurdles: Malachi Snow, Northwest 800 run: J.P. Tew, Loveland 200 dash: Mekhi Lynn, Princeton 3,200 run: Will Goodrich, St. Xavier 4-x-400 relay: Mason (Aryan Tadwalkar, Mir Ashraf, Brady Messer, Jacob Messer) Discus: Brett Brooks, Wilmington High jump: Justin Ackerman, New Richmond Long jump: Austin Miller, Lebanon Shot put: Brett Brooks, Wilmington Pole vault: Henry Hoblitzell, Talawanda Second team 4-x-800 relay: St. Xavier (A.J. Graf, Brendan Krych, Will Goodrich, Alexander Gray) 100 dash: Tennel Bryant, Moeller 110 hurdles: Isiah King, Colerain 4-x-200 relay: Colerain (Isiah King, Jeremy Cheatham, Aaron Foster, Roosevelt Zeigler) 1,600 run: Gianni Allwein, Walnut Hills 4-x-100 relay: Colerain (Isiah King, Aaron Foster, Jordan Robinson, Roosevelt Zeigler) 400 dash: J.D. Leverette, Lakota East 300 hurdles: Joe Mitchell, Princeton 800 run: Calvin Kilgallon, Lebanon 200 dash: Timiko Jackson, La Salle 3,200 run: Jacob Fleig, Lebanon 4-x-400 relay: Lakota West (Kavelle Favors, Isaac Elliot, Kemen Norman, Benjamin Zimmerer) Discus: Mannie Arbabi, Sycamore High jump: Robert Hart, Oak Hills Long jump: Terrell McFarlin, St. Xavier Shot put: Mannie Arbabi, Sycamore Pole vault: Drew Williams, St. Xavier Ohio Division II Runner of the Year Summit Northrup, Clermont Northeastern: The senior starred in the 3,200, winning district and regional titles before finishing third at state. He was named the Southern Buckeye Athletic and Academic Conference-National runner of the year. Field athlete of the year Brandon Cromer, Taft: The senior won district and regional titles in the high jump, then finished as the state runner-up in the event. Cromer, the Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference field athlete of the year, also found the podium in the long jump, finishing eighth. He was third in the event at districts and fifth at regionals. Coach of the Year Susan Savage, Indian Hill: Savage led Indian Hill to a district championship and a third-place finish at regionals. First team 4-x-800 relay: Mariemont (Bennett Turan, Martin Eisenhauer, Ben Fahnestock, Henry Buck) 100 dash: Dwight Greene, Indian Hill 110 hurdles: Dylan Lanham, Taylor 4-x-200 relay: Indian Hill (Dwight Greene, Antwan Peek, John Podojil, Mitchell Ford) 1,600 run: Aiden Burt, McNicholas 4-x-100 relay: Indian Hill (Dwight Greene, Antwan Peek, Cerrious Boyd, John Podojil) 400 dash: Zach Fein, McNicholas 300 hurdles: Dylan Lanham, Taylor 800 run: Owen Larkins, Taylor 200 dash: Drew Lewis, Roger Bacon 3,200 run: Summit Northrup, Clermont Northeastern 4-x-400 relay: McNicholas (Jack Caccavari, Aiden Burt, Peter Carroll, Zach Fein) Discus: Joel Allen, Wyoming High jump: Brandon Cromer, Taft Long jump: Brandon Cromer, Taft Shot put: Joseph Walters, McNicholas Pole vault: Kentin Nichols, Clermont Northeastern Second team 4-x-800 relay: Reading (Julian Bemmes, Jonny Powers, Jaydon Bemmes, Eean Johnson) 100 dash: John Podojil, Indian Hill 110 hurdles: C.J. Boothby, Clermont Northeastern 4-x-200 relay: Waynesville (Zach Turner, Jake Duncan, Garrett Lundy, Alex Amburgy) 1,600 run: Ben Fahnestock, Mariemont 4-x-100 relay: Badin (Jack Walsh, Jackson Niesen, Kaden Starks, Braedyn Moore) 400 dash: Travis Edwards, Finneytown 300 hurdles: Conner Huffman, Waynesville 800 run: Nico Arraje, Wyoming 200 dash: Dwight Greene, Indian Hill 3,200 run: Bennett Turan, Mariemont 4-x-400 relay: Taylor (Hayden Ball, Ethan Weiherer, Zach Howard, Dylan Lanham) Discus: Collin Swope, Clinton-Massie High jump: Griffin Wilner, Mariemont Long jump: Antwan Peak, Indian Hill Shot put: Daelin Maple, Clinton-Massie Pole vault: Brendan Murphy, CHCA Ohio Division III Runner of the Year Braeden Austin, Summit Country Day: The junior was sixth at regionals in the 110 hurdles and was on the Silver Knights’ 4-x-200 relay team that won a state championship. Field athlete of the year Justyn Fuller, Williamsburg: The junior finished 16th in the state in the long jump. Coach of the Year Loren Kimble, Cincinnati Christian: Kimble led Cincinnati Christian to a district championship. First team 4-x-800 relay: Summit Country Day (Larkin Woodward, Alex Rojas, Hudson Ritch, Derek Kuang) 100 dash: Alex Underwood, Georgetown

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All-Stars Continued from Page 5C 110 hurdles: Braeden Austin, Summit Country Day 4-x-200 relay: Summit Country Day (Braeden Austin, Oren Jenkins, Oscar Loehrer, Matthew Shuler) 1,600 run: Garrett Hesselgesser, Cincinnati Christian 4-x-100 relay: Cincinnati Christian (Eddie Luckey, Noah Neu, Jacob Parnell, Caleb Settimo) 400 dash: Hayden Hollins, Williamsburg 300 hurdles: Marquez Whitehead, Spencer Center 800 run: Carter Stevens, Seven Hills 200 dash: Kendrick Sherrer, Gamble Montessori 3,200 run: Garrett Hesselgesser, Cincinnati Christian 4-x-400 relay: Williamsburg (Justyn Fuller, Kaiden Whisman, Haden Hollins, Trent Brooks) Discus: Jason Denson, Deer Park High jump: Trystan Gries, Williamsburg Long jump: Justyn Fuller, Williamsburg Shot put: Jackson Caldwell, New Miami Pole vault: Caiden Sailes, Williamsburg Second team 4-x-800 relay: Williamsburg (Josh Bickett, Alex Boland, Evan Hall, Zach Early) 100 dash: Kendrick Sherrer, Gamble Montessori 110 hurdles: Michael Beamer, Deer Park 4-x-200 relay: Cincinnati Christian (Matthew Caldwell, Noah Neu, Jacob Parnell, Caleb Settimo) 1,600 run: Micah Katz, Cincinnati Christian 4-x-100 relay: Williamsburg (Justyn Fuller, Bryce Lillie, Kaidon Whisman, Trent Brooks) 400 dash: Matthew Shuler, Summit Country Day 300 hurdles: Alex Underwood, Georgetown 800 run: Micah Katz, Cincinnati Christian 200 dash: Kameran Upshaw, Clark Montessori 3,200 run: William McClane, Summit Country Day 4-x-400 relay: Summit Country Day (Hudson Hollins, Trent Brooks, Matthew Shuler, Luka Bulla) Discus: Simeon Newsome, Clark Montessori High jump: Logan Owens, Georgetown Long jump: Jalen Fairbanks, Gamble Montessori Shot put: Oliver Deardoff, Clark Montessori Pole vault: Ethan Sackrider, Williamsburg Northern Kentucky/ Indiana Runner of the Year Natnael Weldemichael, Beechwood: The senior won the 1A state championship in both the 1,600 and 3,200 after a dominant run to the 1A state cross country championship in November. Field athlete of the year Jake Davidson, Lloyd Memorial: He won the 1A state championship in the pole vault for the fourth straight season, the first Northern Kentucky male athlete to win four in a row in any event. Coach of the Year Ryan Leopold, Highlands: He led the Bluebirds to second place in the 2A state meet for the second straight year check name First team 100: Jake Welch, Highlands 200: Jake Welch, Highlands 400: Jake Welch, Highlands 800: Thomas Gray-Torsell, Highlands 1,600: Natnael Weldemichael, Beechwood 3,200: Natnael Weldemichael, Beechwood 110 hurdles: Grady Shay, Walton-Verona 300 hurdles: Xander Ritter, Simon Kenton 4-x-100 relay: Holmes (Robert Cameron, Mayne White, David Commodore, Curtez Hill) 4-x-200 relay: Holmes (Robert Cameron, Mayne White, David Commodore, Curtez Hill) 4-x-400 relay: Cooper (Joshua Stepner, Elijah Harrison, Preston Winiger, Austin Liversgowdy). 4-x-800 relay: Bishop Brossart (Ryan Branch, Ryan Clines, Parker Losure, Nathan Ruth). Shot Put: Leo Maxwell, East Central Discus: Leo Maxwell, East Central Long jump: Benjamin Coker, Ryle Triple jump: Al Bessler, St. Henry High jump: Kaden Gardner, Ryle Pole vault: Jake Davidson, Lloyd Second team 100: Jackson Smith, Walton-Verona 200: Jackson Smith, Walton-Verona 400: Austin Liversgowdy, Cooper 800: Joshua Stepner, Cooper 1,600: Joseph Impellitteri, Conner 3,200: Will Sheets, Covington Catholic 110 hurdles: Xander Ritter, Simon Kenton 300 hurdles: Aiden Nevels, Highlands 4-x-100 relay: Covington Catholic (Seth Gruner, Zion Mason, Ty Rottinghaus, Reid Hummel) 4-x-200 relay: Walton-Verona (Wiley Baker, Christian Dingus, Jackson Smith, Wesley Lucas) 4-x-400 relay: Highlands (Thomas Gray-Torsell, Ben Hack, Alex Lacourt, Dominic Mills) 4-x-800 relay: Ryle (Samuel Webb, Jacob Line, Rian Gallagher, Evan Smith). Shot put: Joe Vormbrock, Simon Kenton Discus: Hunter Wiseman, Campbell County Long jump: James Cusick, Beechwood Triple jump: Benjamin Coker, Ryle High jump: Al Bessler, St. Henry Pole vault: Rilen Pinkston, Highlands Girls track and field The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky girls track and field. Ohio Division I Runner of the Year Azariyah Bryant, Lakota East: Bryant captured a pair of state championships in the 100- and 400-meter dash and was named the GMC runner of the year for the second consecutive season. Field athlete of the year Lauren Barnes, Sycamore: Barnes won a state high jump championship and found the state podium in the long jump, as well, finishing sixth. She was also on Sycamore’s 4-x-100 relay, which finished seventh at state. Coach of the Year Tony Affatato, Mason: Affatato was named the GMC coach of the year after leading the Comets to a regional championship. First team 4-x-800 relay: Loveland (Madison Conatser, Jessie Gibbons, Emmy Sager, Sarah Madix) 100 dash: Azariyah Bryant, Lakota East 100 hurdles: Myah Boze, Roos 4-x-200 relay: Princeton (Briasia Allen, Kelise Rabb, Kierra Morris, Bella Williams) 1,600 run: Sarah Madix, Loveland 4-x-100 relay: Colerain (Weslie Oliver, Keilani Broadnax, Aunaysia Poellnitz, Summer Swartwout) 400 dash: Jade Avance, Milford 300 hurdles: Myah Boze, Ross 800 run: Madison Conatser, Loveland 200 dash: Azariyah Bryant, Lakota East 3,200 run: Evelyn Prodoehl, Lakota West 4-x-400 relay: Princeton (Briasia Allen, Kierra Morris, Kelise Rabb, Jade Sinton) Discus: Kristen Berwanger, Mercy McAuley High jump: Lauren Barnes, Sycamore Long jump: Lauren Barnes, Sycamore Shot put: Jillian Yates, Oak Hills Pole vault: Nia Gruffydd, Loveland Second team 4-x-800 relay: Lebanon (Hannah Glassmeyer, Anna Packer, Milana McNamara, Grace Glassmeyer) 100 dash: Dashayla Worlaw, Mt. Healthy 100 hurdles: Mae Reed, Turpin 4-x-200 relay: Mason (Peyton Connelly, Abby Love, Emilia Capiello, Tessa Zecchino) 1,600 run: Avery Legault, Mason 4-x-100 relay: Sycamore (Lela Walker, Audrey Schmid, Laruen Barnes, Bella Delgado) 400 dash: Lizzie Sexton, Mercy McAuley 300 hurdles: Mae Reed, Turpin 800 run: Jade Stinson, Princeton 200 dash: Meredith Goff, Milford 3,200 run: Eva Hensley, Oak Hills 4-x-400 relay: Mason (Joy Resig, Carlie Condit, Abby Slife, Liza Borow) Discus: Aidan Orth, Anderson High jump: Zoe Lenney, Kings Long jump: Kierra Morris, Princeton Shot put: Aidan Orth, Anderson Pole vault: Olivia Andrews, Talawanda Ohio Division II Runner of the Year Elizabeth Whaley, Indian Hill: The senior capped her prep career with a Division II state championship in the 1,600 run, followed by a state runner-up finish in the 800 run. Field athlete of the year Penelope Webb, Wyoming: The freshman won a regional high jump championship before a state runner-up finish at the state meet. Coach of the Year Susan Savage, Indian Hill: Savage led Indian Hill to a district title, a fourth-place finish at regionals and a 10th-place showing at state First team 4-x-800 relay: Indian Hill (Annie Isphording, Hayden Withers, Ava Egnaczyk, Elizabeth Whaley) 100 dash: Cameron Bittermann, Taylor 100 hurdles: Khamia Brooks, Summit Country Day 4-x-200 relay: Waynesville (Baylee Williams, Kelcie Grayson, Leila Jacox, Savanna Amburgy) 1,600 run: Elizabeth Whaley, Indian Hill 4-x-100 relay: Roger Bacon (Leah Dukes, Laila James, Cammy Niesen, Mia Huber) 400 dash: Cameron Bittermann, Taylor 300 hurdles: Khamia Brooks, Summit Country Day 800 run: Elizabeth Whaley, Indian Hill 200 dash: Cameron Bittermann, Taylor 3,200 run: Hayden Withers, Indian Hill

4-x-400 relay: Indian Hill (Annie Isphording, Ava Egnaczyk, Ella Riggs, Elizabeth Whaley) Discus: Brooke Schoephoerster, Waynesville High jump: Penelope Webb, Wyoming Long jump: Molly Anthony, Badin Shot put: Brooke Schoephoerster, Waynesville Pole vault: Samantha Ringhand, New Richmond Second team 4-x-800 relay: Waynesville (Maria Gill, Samantha Erbach, Emme Greeley, Savanna Amburgy) 100 dash: Erinae Coleman, Clark Montessori 100 hurdles: Jillian Layne, Waynesville 4-x-200 relay: Summit Country Day (Maya Wood, Delaney Kintner, Karley Michel, Khamia Brooks) 1,600 run: Hayden Withers, Indian Hill 4-x-100 relay: Finneytown (Nijah Robinson, Sophia Roque, Denver Miller, Macee Moore0 400 dash: Ashley Yontz, Fenwick 300 hurdles: Jillian Layne, Waynesville 800 run: Delaney Kintner, Summit Country Day 200 dash: Macee Moore, Finneytown 3,200 run: Emma Bergmann, Wyoming 4-x-400 relay: Taylor (Lindsey Bauer, Marissa Tedesco, Madison Tedesco, Brock Bittermann) Discus: Tyriana Berry, Clark Montessori High jump: Tabbi Courts, Bethel-Tate Long jump: Samantha Ringhand, New Richmond Shot put: Moriah Humphrey, Taft Pole vault: Addison Hamilton, Wyoming Ohio Division III Runner of the Year Vivian Momper, Madeira: The freshman was sixth in the state in the 200 and was on a pair of Mariemont relay teams (4-x-200 and 4-x-400) that reached the state podium. She was fourth in the 200 at regionals. Field athlete of the year Casey Boeckerman, CHCA: The junior finished fourth in the state in the long jump. She was fifth in the event at regionals. Coach of the Year Josh Dooley, Madeira: Dooley led Madeira to a district team championship before a ninth-place finish at regionals and a 14th-place showing at state. First team 4-x-800 relay: Madeira (Cate LeRoy, Claire LeRoy, Ella Garza, Keira O’Cull) 100 dash: Casey Boeckerman, CHCA 100 hurdles: Anne Murphy, Fayetteville-Perry 4-x-200 relay: Madeira (Corinne Westbrook, Hannah Jung, Kate Schomaeker, Vivian Momper) 1,600 run: Kaitlyn Gregory, Williamsburg 4-x-100 relay: Madeira (Ainsley Westbrook, Kate Schomaeker, Olivia Bradley, Corrine Westbrook) 400 dash: Vivian Momper, Madeira 300 hurdles: Anne Murphy, Fayetteville-Perry 800 run: Cate LeRoy, Madeira 200 dash: Vivan Momper, Madeira 3,200 run: Savannah Faught, Georgetown 4-x-400 relay: Madeira (Kate Schomaeker, Hannah Jung, Keira O’Cull, Vivian Momper) Discus: Kennedy Cunningham, Madeira High jump: Clarissa Leggett, Fayetteville-Perry Long jump: Casey Boeckerman, CHCA Shot put: Lauren Barr, Cincinnati Christian Pole vault: Ava Kraft, CHCA Second team 4-x-800 relay: CHCA (Taylor Bacher, Abigail Connor, Keagan Sheanshang, Ava Hoffman) 100 dash: Paige Rempe, CHCA 100 hurdles: Corrine Westbrook, Madeira 4-x-200 relay: Seven Hills (Riley Jones, Laila Kerr, Margaret Schnirring, Callie Drew) 1,600 run: Savannah Faught, Georgetown 4-x-100 relay: Cincinnati Country Day (Emma Valentin, Maria Steppe, Sydney Hardesty, Payton Hughes) 400 dash: Nicohl Dicks, Purcell Marian 300 hurdles: Julia Hamstra, Madeira 800 run: Kaitlyn Gregory, Williamsburg 200 dash: Callie Drew, Seven Hills 3,200 run: Annie Meyer, Madeira 4-x-400 relay: Seven Hills (Riley Jones, Margaret Schnirring, Abigail Li, Callie Drew) Discus: Gracie Mitchell, Cincinnati Country Day High jump: Ava Kraft, CHCA Long jump: Lexi Adams, CHCA Shot put: Kennedy Cunningham, Madeira Pole vault: Emma Kate Schnieber, Cincinnati Country Day Northern Kentucky/ Indiana Runner of the Year Lexi Braun, Bishop Brossart: She won the 1A state championship in the 400 meters and ran on the state champion 4-x-200 and 4-x-400 relay teams, plus the second-place 4-x-100 relay team to help the Mustangs win the team state championship. Field athlete of the year Brooklyn Hammons, Grant County: The senior had a discus throw of 145-feet 3-inches at the 3A state tournament, winning the state championship and snapping her already previous set state mark. Hammons also won the shot put for the second-consecutive season, throwing 42-feet 9-inches. Coach of the Year David Schuh, Bishop Brossart: He led the Mustangs to a dominant performance to win the 1A team state championship, scoring 104 points to win by 62 over runner-up Fort Campbell First team 100: Chloe Hein, Bishop Brossart 200: Isabella Vonlehman, Conner 400: Lexi Braun, Bishop Brossart 800: Olivia Holbrook, Campbell County 1,600: Olivia Holbrook, Campbell County 3,200: Amy Klocke, Bishop Brossart 100 hurdles: Madison Rabe, Ryle 300 hurdles: Madison Rabe, Ryle 4-x-100 relay: Dixie Heights (Jade Calhoun, Jordan Faulkner, Kaylee Ollberding, Jayden Proffitt) 4-x-200 relay: Bishop Brossart (Kaitlyn Kramer, Hayley Hickman, Hannah Kramer, Lexi Braun) 4-x-400 relay: Bishop Brossart (Hannah Kramer, Emma Bezold, Lexi Braun, Sophie Neufelder) 4-x-800 relay: Bishop Brossart (Amy Klocke, Emma Bezold, Izzy Hummel, Claire Curtsinger) Shot put: Brooklyn Hammons, Grant County Discus: Brooklyn Hammons, Grant County Long jump: Chloe Hein, Bishop Brossart Triple jump: Natalie Bain, Notre Dame High jump: Maddie Neary, Lloyd Memorial Pole vault: Lauren Kent, St. Henry Second team 100: Isabella Vonlehman, Conner 200: Chloe Hein, Bishop Brossart 400: Abigail Kopp, Dixie Heights 800 Reganne and Mackenzie McMain, St. Henry 1,600: Claire Curtsinger, Bishop Brossart 3,200: Maddie Strong, Scott 100 hurdles: Natalie Hall, Walton-Verona 300 hurdles: Ava Mylor, Gallatin County 4-x-100 relay: Bishop Brossart (Lexi Braun, Hayley Hickman, Rylee Schultz, Chloe Hein) 4-x-200 relay: Dixie Heights (Jada Calhoun, Jordan Faulkner, Veronica Orr, Kaylee Ollberding) 4-x-400 relay: Dixie Heights (Harper Allen, Emily Bruns, Abigail Kopp, Veronica Orr) 4-x-800 relay: Ryle (Yasmin Garcia, Angelina Harris, Renae Kopser, Allison Kopser) Shot put: Maggie Buerger, Walton-Verona Discus: Maggie Buerger, Walton-Verona Long jump: Ellie Hill, East Central Triple jump: Haley Zell, Highlands High jump: Ja Nia Johnson, Holmes Pole vault: Abigale Bauer, Campbell County Boys volleyball The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati boys volleyball. Division I Player of the Year Drew Maune, Elder: Maune was named a first-team all-region and all-state pick for the second time and this campaign was named the Ohio Division I Player of the Year. Coach of the Year Sean Tierney, Elder: Tierney was named the state coach of the year after coaching Elder to its first solo Greater Catholic League-South title since 2008. The Panthers finished the season 27-2 as the state’s Division I runner-up. First team Drew Maune, Elder Will Patterson, Moeller Griffin Wheatley, Walnut Hills Joey Bianco, Elder Owen Walsh, Sycamore Bentley Meyer, St. Xavier Anthony Fago, Mason Ben Kirlin, Loveland Sebastian Navarro, Lakota East Noah Smith-Trondle, Walnut Hills Kyle Rees, West Clermont Jacob Downs, Milford Second team Will Busken, Elder Nate Renneker, Moeller Michael Harmeyer, St. Xavier Jacob Goldberg, Lakota West Jake Reisner, Lakota East Trajan Kress, Sycamore Abner Ramos, Middletown Nick Feldkamp, St. Xavier J.J. Rennekamp, Fairfield Division II Player of the Year Eli Halverson, Badin: The Division II state, region and conference Player of the Year led Badin to the first state championship in the program’s history. Coach of the Year Anitra Brockman, Badin: Brockman’s Badin Rams went 26-2, earning its first ever GCL Coed and Division II state championship.

First team Eli Halverson, Badin Nate Birck, La Salle Will Strasser, Taylor Jordan Brockman, Badin Jack Bush, Fenwick Harrison Hausfeld, La Salle Ethan Gundrum, McNicholas Peter Wilke, Roger Bacon Jack Wagner, Fenwick Second team Trent Herper, McNicholas Sam Vornhagen Badin Wes English, Fenwick Dominic Brink, Royalmont Academy Toph Albrinck, La Salle Andy Peters, Roger Bacon Jaxson Snell, Taylor Jackson Eichold, La Salle Boys tennis The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky boys tennis. Ohio Division I Singles Player of the Year Vignesh Gogineni, Mason: After a Division I state runner-up finish last year, Gogineni finished the job this year, winning a state championship. He also claimed a sectional title and was named the GMC athlete of the year for the second-straight season. Doubles Team of the Year Anish Gangavaram-Akshay Joshi, Mason: The tandem made it a clean sweep with sectional, district and state championships. Coach of the Year Mike Reid, Mason: Reid had Comets claim a state singles and doubles championship then led Mason to an OTCA Tournament team runner-up finish. First team singles Vignesh Gogineni, Mason Nicholas Choo, Sycamore Chad Miller, Sycamore Second team singles Rishi Dore, Springboro Sai Dore, Springboro Yusif Rustom, Milford Honorable mention singles Andrew Wittenbaum, Sycamore Eric Xu, Mason Jacob Eddingfield, Elder Ben Zhou, Anderson Beckett Enscoe, St. Xavier Max Jody, Loveland Anish Kandi, Walnut Hills Aidan Vogt, Kings Aly Daly, Anderson Tristen Staneck, Anderson Clayton Arnett, Moeller Silas Gleason, Turpin First team doubles Anish Gangavaram-Akshay Joshi, Mason Nick Meyers-Mark Karev, Sycamore Kevin Dong-Arjun Rajagopala, Sycamore Second team doubles Drew Evans-Tucker Berry, St. Xavier Vamshi Singidi-Aron Dornhecker, Mason Josh Satter-Linus Kennedy, Springboro Ohio Division II Singles Player of the Year Avi Mahajan, Seven Hills: Mahajan was named the MVC player of the year after winning a sectional title and district championship before reaching the second round of the Division II state singles tournament. Doubles Team of the Year R.J. Poffenberger-Tejas Pisati, Indian Hill: The tandem won Division II sectional, district and state championships. Coach of the Year Wade Ward, Indian Hill: Ward had a doubles team from the Braves win a state title before leading Indian Hill to a championship finish in the OTCA Tournament. First team singles Avi Mahajan, Seven Hills Will Stephens, Mariemont Ethan Camp, Indian Hill Second team singles Jack Pollack, Indian Hill Naikhil Shah, Cincinnati Country Day Mark Keller, Wyoming First team doubles R.J. Poffenberger-Tejas Pisati, Indian Hill John Corbett-Ethan Blatt, Seven Hills Max Berghausen-Michael Ryu, Indian Hill Second team doubles Gavin Isakov-Neel Parameswaren, Seven Hills Ethan Drago-Jack Nicoloff, New Richmond Teddy Sumnar-Graeme Barrere, Summit Country Day Northern Kentucky/ Indiana Singles Player of the Year Brady Hussey, Covington Catholic: He won his second-straight Ninth Region championship and advanced to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association state semifinals. Doubles Team of the Year Jackson Poulos and Alex Yeager, Covington Catholic: They won the Ninth Region championship and advanced to the semifinals of the state tournament. Coach of the Year Al Hertsenberg, Covington Catholic: He directed the Colonels to the Ninth Region championship and led three players to the state semifinals. First team singles Brady Hussey, Covington Catholic Eli Back, Highlands Nick Wittrock, Campbell County Nathan Warner, Covington Catholic Shayaan Ahmad, Villa Madonna Second team singles Joey Case, Villa Madonna Luke Dawson, Scott Matthew Pham, Dixie Heights Neal Reddy, Beechwood Matthew Zureick, Cooper First team doubles Chase Combs and Colin Combs, Campbell County Jackson Poulos and Alex Yeager, Covington Catholic Kalei Christensen and Daniel Kyntchev, Covington Catholic John Laskey and Jacob Clifton, Highlands Eric Hurst and Mason Hardy, Pendleton County Christopher Harpum and Matthew Marlette, Ryle Second team doubles Bennett Ahlers and Isaac Macke, Beechwood Griffin Derry and Zachary Forton, Dixie Heights Ben Schuh and Ryder Perme, Highlands Chase Fields and Josh Templeton, Newport Central Catholic Elijah Wells and Charlie Wells, Campbell County Wyatt Wassom and Nick McIntosh, Simon Kenton Girls tennis The Enquirer announces 2021 all-stars for Northern Kentucky girls tennis. Single Player of the Year Sara Watanabe, Covington Latin: She won her second-straight Ninth Region singles championship and advanced to the KHSAA state semifinals for the second year in a row. Doubles Team of the Year Taylor Meenach and Hailey Fullenkamp, Notre Dame: They won the Ninth Region doubles championship and advanced to the round of 16 of the state tournament. Coach of the Year Lyndsey Maynard, Notre Dame: She directed the Pandas to the Ninth Region team championship. First team singles Paetyn Ashcraft, Villa Madonna Martine Hue, Notre Dame Heidi Kane, East Central Isabella McDowell, Campbell County Honor Valentine, Highlands Sara Watanabe, Covington Latin Second team singles Kyah Andros, Ryle Cassidy Derry, Dixie Heights Kaylie Johnson, Cooper Elle McMullen, Lawrenceburg Payton Pies, East Central Rylee Ritter, Campbell County Alana Tinnell, Boone County First team doubles Elizabeth Wintersheimer and Mehr Brar, Beechwood Ally Rassenforss and Natalie Elleman, Conner Helen Halbauer and Olivia Hoffmann, Highlands Ella McAndrew and Lola Safaviyan, Lawrenceburg Taylor Meenach and Hailey Fullenkamp, Notre Dame Katelin Aulick Lily Brinkdpepke, Pendleton County Kailynn Hans and Eva Russo, Simon Kenton Second team doubles Abbey Sleet and Sadie Jones, Beechwood Ashley Coulter and Kate Carris, Highlands Sam Spellman and Clare Shay, Notre Dame Kelsey Holland and Bria Patel, Villa Madonna Hannah Schultz and Leah Collins, Campbell County Boys lacrosse The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati boys lacrosse. Division I Player of the Year Luke Vrsansky, St. Xavier: The senior attacker was a first-team All-American after leading the Bombers to a regional title. He is committed to play lacrosse at the United States Air Force Academy. Coach of the Year Nate Sprong, St. Xavier: Sprong guided the Bombers to their fourth straight regional title and sixth in eight years. First team Ethan Lund, Loveland

Zach Mulligan, Loveland Sam Neiger, Loveland Will Westermeyer, Loveland Gavin DeWitt, Mason Craig Wexelblatt, Mason Luke Barkimer, Milford Keegan Laughlin, Milford Luke Ray, Milford Jacob Smith, Milford Joe Ginetti, Moeller Jayden Stewart, Moeller Tommy Stines, Moeller Max Bonner, St. Xavier Jimmy Ryan, St. Xavier Luke Vrsansky, St. Xavier Clayton Wood, St. Xavier Alec Blessing, Sycamore Second team Max Stallmeyer, Elder Trevor Almanza, Fairfield Nick Hoying, Kings Colten Simkins, Lakota East JD Hale, Lakota West Collin Willits, Lakota West Drew Schrudde, LaSalle Jackson Newman, Lebanon Jake Moore, Little Miami Devin Traister, Little Miami Jay Christian, Loveland Cameron Delaney, Loveland Aiden Schramm, Mason Weston Simmons, Mason Bryce Burleson, Milford Nate Reichling, Oak Hills Zach Buddelmeyer, Springboro Ty Harris, Sycamore Division II Player of the Year Max Tepe, Mariemont: He was named an All-American and led Mariemont to the state semifinals. Coach of the Year Steve Peterson, Mariemont: He guided the Warriors to a 17-3 record in a season that ended with the Warriors' 11th state semifinal appearance. First team Ben Carter, CHCA Jonah Lang, CHCA Will Saxby, CHCA Colt Bradshaw, Fenwick Will Adair, Indian Hill Luke Folke, Indian Hill Robbie Gutman, Indian Hill Antwan Peek Jr., Indian Hill Cooper Wyler, Indian Hill John Baumgartner, Mariemont Luke Brennaman, Mariemont Boden Gall, Mariemont Barrett Lindell, Mariemont Evan Morgan, Mariemont Max Morgan, Mariemont Connor Souders, Mariemont Max Tepe, Mariemont Jackson Palermo, Wyoming Second team Tristan Davis, CCD Carson Yackey, CCD Roman Mahlerwein, CHCA Brady Nix, CHCA Will Grant, Fenwick Mathew Swisher, Fenwick Tommy Wimmers, Fenwick Robby Orr, Indian Hill Jackson Rabenold, Indian Hill Derek Edie, Madeira Owen Hilgeman, Madeira Elias Buttress, Seven Hills Colin Chen, Seven Hills Jack Good, Seven Hills Kye Uchiyama, Seven Hills Ian Conklin, Turpin Drew Covington, Turpin Dozer Ambrose, Wyoming Coleman Jeffers, Wyoming Girls lacrosse The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Greater Cincinnati girls lacrosse. Division I Player of the Year Corinne Baker, Sycamore: She scored 88 goals and recorded 12 assists, and was the only Division I player to be named an All-American. Coach of the Year Eddie Clark, Sycamore: He was named the Region 4 Division I Coach of the Year and led the Lady Aves to a 19-4 record and a state semifinal appearance. First team Corinne Folchi, Kings Katie Gabert, Kings Anna Wells, Lakota West Alex Nunn, Loveland Elle Cimini, Mason Ava Mahoney, Mason Ella Shemak, Mason Taylor Cox, MND Megan Pierani, Mercy McAuley Lucy Sander, MND Sutton Case, Springboro Caroline Ling, Springboro Katie Ling, Springboro Sophie Canter, St. Ursula Brynna Hall, St. Ursula Corinne Baker, Sycamore Liv Berke, Sycamore Aoife Black, Sycamore Sarah Lynn, Sycamore Laney Simons, Sycamore Carly Thiel, Sycamore Tyler Bowers, Walnut Hills Gabby Nelson, Walnut Hills Second team Ryan Armstrong, Anderson Kenzie Beck, Kings Maddie Saylor, Lakota West Katie Beasley, Loveland Allie Despotakis, Loveland Isabella Huff, Loveland Lyla Glinski, Mason Zoey Miller, Mason Sydney Minick, Mason Alexis Denman, Mercy McAuley Lilly Finamore, Mercy McAuley Zara Brown, Milford Kate Sullivan, St. Ursula Kelsey Heaton, Sycamore Lulu Cline, Walnut Hills Division II Player of the Year Delaine Oliviera, Mariemont: She scored 88 goals and had 12 assists, led Mariemont to their second straight state championship and was named and an All-American. Coach of the Year Kevin Ferry, Mariemont: Ferry coached the Warriors to a 20-1 record and their third state championship in four seasons. First team Cassie Larsen, Indian Hill Lexi Larsen, Indian Hill Sarah Comer, Mariemont Erika Dewey, Mariemont Piper George, Mariemont Brynna O’Brien, Mariemont Delaine Oliviera, Mariemont Caroline Soller, Mariemont Marley Valentine, Mariemont Kara Spritzky, Turpin Ainsley Benken, Wyoming Victoria Chesson, Wyoming Second team Katie Gallagher, Fenwick Maddie Strong, Fenwick Anna Ulland, Fenwick Emily Eckert, Indian Hill Alex Witsken, Seton Aly Young, Seton Biz Kohnen, Seven Hills Alexis Veldhuis, Seven Hills Kate Hooper, Turpin Claire Klimkowski, Turpin Quinn Cramer, Ursuline Aly Prasinos, Ursuline Bass Fishing The Enquirer announces 2022 all-stars for Northern Kentucky bass fishing. Northern Kentucky Players of the Year Brandon Smith and Sam Scroggins, Covington Catholic: The only state qualifiers out of Northern Kentucky, they finished 12th in the KHSAA state tournament after catching eight fish out of the maximum 10 allowed, for a total weight of 19 pounds, 4 ounces. In the Region 2 championships, they finished 10th with five fish totaling 11 pounds, 4 ounces. Coach of the Year Robb Schneeman, Covington Catholic: He directed CovCath’s top boat to a high finish in the regional and state tournaments. CovCath had two boats in the top 50 at the Region 2 meet. First team Brandon Smith and Sam Scroggins, Covington Catholic Hagen Conley and Patrick Theissen, Covington Catholic Andrew Worroll and Phoenix Parks, Covington Catholic Juliana Stewart and Ronni Glover, Simon Kenton Mason Stewart and Carter Cooper, Simon Kenton Mason Baker and Joseph Beckett, Walton-Verona

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Think you aren’t good enough at golf? Think again Mike Bass Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

You might kick yourself because you can’t swing like Someone Else. But Someone Else might be jealous of another person’s putting. And that person might be jealous of another golfer’s handicap. USA TODAY SPORTS

Me: “The hole over there is about 18 to 20 feet away. What percentage would you reasonably expect to make?” Ben: (Pauses.) “About 15 percent.” Which is about PGA Tour level. ****** What are we doing to ourselves, people? It is time to stop the insanity. True confession: I spent a lot of years comparing myself to Someone Else. At best, it could motivate me. How can I improve? I will feel better when I come out on top. At worst, it could tear at me. What’s the matter with me?I stink. Truth bomb: I am ﬁ ne, but my perspective was oﬀ . If I Someone Else always was better, what did that say about me? When would I be good enough? What if I thought of myself as good enough and better appreciated where and who I am? Would that be vanity? Or sanity? And so, I come to you to declare my independence from Someone Else Syndrome – or at least to keep working on it. Care to join me? ****** Ben hits his three 20-foot putts over a bit of uneven terrain. Two stop a few inches from the hole, one rests a foot and a half from it. Ben smiles, but not a happy smile. Ben: “See what I mean?”

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Me: “That actually looks pretty good, considering you only expect to make 15 percent.” ****** You might kick yourself because you can’t swing like Someone Else. But Someone Else might be jealous of another person’s putting. And that person might be jealous of another golfer’s handicap. And that golfer might be jealous of the balance in your life. And around and around we go. The grass might seem greener for Someone Else, but you don’t really know. What if you spend more time judging the greens and less judging yourself? Why not focus more on what you ARE doing? And what you CAN do? Competition can be healthy. It can inspire you to aim higher. It can test your skills. What if you set reasonable goals and expectations? What if you stop focusing on your score and take advantage of the moment? What if you view a wayward shot as an opportunity to work on a recovery shot? What if you succeed without winning? What if what you did was good enough? Comparison can be helpful. It can provide context and a benchmark. It can raise your awareness. How do YOU

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Outside, Ben is smiling. Inside, Ben is gnawing. The guy Ben taught how to play golf now keeps beating him, and so Ben is beating himself up a little. Because this is what we do to ourselves. I meet Ben (not his real name) by chance. We are on the practice green. I ask him which hole he is targeting, so our putts don’t cross. He smiles. “I’m going to miss, anyway,” he jokes. This intrigues me. So we talk. Ben seems like a nice guy, friendly, probably 40-something. He speaks softly, expresses frustration with selfdeprecating humor and a clear explanation of what he believes is wrong. Let’s call it Ben’s theory of relativity. He can occasionally sink a mediumrange putt, and so he expects to make them regularly. He can hit an iron shot straight and 140 yards on the range, and so he cannot fathom why it veers right and goes 110 yards on the course. And, yes, he judges himself against the former pupil who now schools him. Now he’s better than me,” Ben says. “But he plays a lot more.” This is not about logic. This is about what we do to ourselves. We compare. And fall short. “Someone Else” does it better. Someone Else putts better, makes more money, moves up faster, chooses smarter, adapts quicker, makes friends easier,handles adversity more conﬁ dently, writes more eﬀ ortlessly, makes the shots we don’t. This gnaws at us. “I should make those shots,” Ben says. “Golfers on TV make them all the time.” On some level, we know it is unreasonable to compare ourselves to the best, but we still do it. Or we compare ourselves to ourselves at our best. That shot of your life? Memorable. So why can’t you do that all the time? It is human nature. And it is madness. ******

change when the circumstances do – say, when transitioning from practice range to competition? What works for you to stay centered, and what doesn’t? How diﬀ erent will it feel to celebrate small steps instead of cursing the missteps? What if you turn your self-loathing into curiosity when you like how Someone Else handles a situation, and ask yourself (or that Someone Else) what would help you try that? See the world as it is. You are good enough, win or lose. But what if you can be nicer to yourself? ****** Ben: “You’re making me feel better.” Me: “Thanks, Ben. This is what I do. I love coaching people, including golfers.” Ben: “I’m sure you are a lot better than I am here.” Me: (Laughs.) “You should watch my putting. (Laughs.) I work with people more on the mental end. We focus on the process and what you can control instead of the result. When you do that, and just focus on the next shot, the results tend to improve, too. How does beating yourself up serve you?” Ben: (Laughs.) ****** Ben is clearly a better putter than I am. I resist the urge to feel bad about that. I used to be hard on myself around more advanced golfers. Now I can smile and wonder if any golfers beat themselves up for losing to me. When I play now, I usually don’t keep score, and I play multiple balls. I can have fun and work on my game. I have been dealing with injuries the last few years, and I am trying to slowly get myself back into playing shape. This is reasonable for me. This is enjoyable. I focus more on the good shots I hit instead of the clunkers. ****** Me: “Do you focus mainly on the shots you don’t like?” Ben: “No, I will remember that one birdie putt I made. It keeps me coming back. Of course, then I expect to make more of them.”

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LOCAL SCOREBOARD MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Tampa Bay

FRIDAY, JULY 8 REDS 2, Tampa Bay 1

Y.Díaz 3b Franco ss Choi 1b Ramírez dh Arozarena lf Kiermaier cf Paredes 2b Pinto c a-Mejía ph-c Lowe rf Totals Cincinnati

India 2b Drury 1b-3b Pham lf Farmer ss Solano dh Reynolds 3b b-Moustakas ph-1b 1-Kolozsvary pr Senzel cf Almora Jr. rf Papierski c c-Naquin ph Totals

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1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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2 .293 0 .261 2 .282 0 .314 0 .255 0 .228 2 .248 3 .196 0 .221 2 .182

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2 .216 2 .269 1 .249 1 .268 1 .231 1 .245 1 .209

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Tampa Bay 001 000 000 0—1 5 0 Cincinnati 001 000 000 1—2 4 0 One out when winning run scored. a-flied out for Pinto in the 9th. b-struck out for Reynolds in the 9th. c-pinch hit for Papierski in the 10th. 1-ran for Moustakas in the 10th. LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Cincinnati 6. 2B—Y.Díaz (15), Senzel (6). HR—Drury (18), off McClanahan. RBIs—Choi (38), Drury (48). SB—Kiermaier (6). S—Senzel. Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 2 (Arozarena, Mejía); Cincinnati 3 (Papierski, Almora Jr. 2). RISP—Tampa Bay 2 for 7; Cincinnati 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Franco. LIDP—Franco. GIDP—India, Solano. DP—Tampa Bay 2 (Paredes, Choi; Y.Díaz, Paredes, Choi); Cincinnati 1 (Farmer). Tampa Bay

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8 1.73 1 2.08 2 4.94 1 1.35 0 2.65

Castillo 7 4 1 1 1 8 2.92 A.Díaz 1 0 0 0 1 3 2.32 Strickland 1 0 0 0 2 0 5.16 Kuhnel, W, 1-1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.38 HBP—Adam (Farmer). Time—3:18. Attendance—26,529 (42,319). Tampa BayCincinnati Runs Rays third. Josh Lowe strikes out swinging. Yandy Diaz doubles to deep right field. Wander Franco grounds out to second base, Kyle Farmer to Brandon Drury. Yandy Diaz to third. Ji-Man Choi singles to center field. Yandy Diaz scores. Harold Ramirez grounds out to second base, Jonathan India to Brandon Drury. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 1, Reds 0. Reds third. Michael Papierski singles to left center field. Jonathan India grounds out to shallow infield. Michael Papierski out at second. Brandon Drury homers to center field. Tommy Pham walks. Kyle Farmer flies out to deep right center field to Josh Lowe. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 1, Reds 1. Reds tenth. Nick Senzel out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Yandy Diaz to Isaac Paredes. Mark Kolozsvary to third. Albert Almora Jr. walks. Albert Almora Jr. to second. Mark Kolozsvary pinch-running for Mike Moustakas. Mark Kolozsvary scores. 1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Reds 2, Rays 1.

REDS SCHEDULE July 9 Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. July 10 Tampa Bay, 1:40 p.m. July 12 at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. July 13 at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. July 14 at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. July 15 at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. July 16 at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m. July 17 at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m. July 22 St. Louis, 6:40 p.m. July 23 St. Louis, 6:40 p.m. July 24 St. Louis, 1:40 p.m. July 25 Miami, 6:40 p.m. July 26 Miami, 6:40 p.m. July 27 Miami, 6:40 p.m. July 28 Miami, 12:35 p.m. July 29 Baltimore, 6:40 p.m. July 30 Baltimore, 6:40 p.m. July 31 Baltimore, 1:40 p.m. Aug. 1 at Miami, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 2 at Miami, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 3 at Miami, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 5 at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Aug. 6 at Milwaukee, 7:15 p.m. Aug. 7 at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m. Aug. 8 at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 9 at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 10 at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m. Aug. 11 vs. Chicago Cubs, 7:15 p.m. Aug. 13 Chicago Cubs, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 14 Chicago Cubs, 1:40 p.m. Aug. 15 Philadelphia, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 16 Philadelphia, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 17 Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m. Aug. 19 at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 20 at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 21 at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m. Aug. 22 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 23 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 24 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 25 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 26 at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 27 at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 28 at Washington, 1:35 p.m. Aug. 29 St. Louis, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 30 St. Louis, 6:40 p.m. Aug. 31 St. Louis, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 2 Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 3 Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 4 Colorado, 1:40 p.m. Sept. 6 at Chicago Cubs, 7:40 p.m. Sept. 7 at Chicago Cubs, 7:40 p.m. Sept. 8 at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Sept. 9 at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m. Sept. 10 at Milwaukee, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 11 at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m. Sept. 12 Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 13 Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m. Sept. 13 Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 14 Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m. Sept. 15 at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m. Sept. 16 at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. Sept. 17 at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Sept. 18 at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m. Sept. 20 Boston, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 21 Boston, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 22 Milwaukee, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 23 Milwaukee, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 24 Milwaukee, 6:40 p.m. Sept. 25 Milwaukee, 1:40 p.m. Sept. 26 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m. Sept. 27 at Pittsburgh, 6:35 p.m. Sept. 28 at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m. Sept. 30 at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Oct. 1 at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Oct. 2 at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. Oct. 3 Chicago Cubs, 6:40 p.m. Oct. 4 Chicago Cubs, 6:40 p.m. Oct. 5 at Chicago Cubs, TBD 2022 All-Star Starters Tuesday, July 19 At Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles American League Catcher – Alejandro Kirk, Toronto Blue Jays First Baseman – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays Second Baseman – Jose Altuve, Houston Astros Shortstop – Tim Anderson, Chicago White Sox Third Baseman – Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox

Designated Hitter – Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels Outfield – Aaron Judge, New York Yankees Outfield – Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels Outfield – Giancarlo Stanton, New York Yankees National League Catcher – Wilson Contreras, Chicago Cubs First Baseman – Paul Goldschmidt, St. Louis Second Baseman – Jazz Chisholm Jr., Miami Marlins Shortstop – Trea Turner, Los Angeles Dodgers Third Baseman – Manny Machado, San Diego Padres Designated Hitter – Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies Outfield – Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves Outfield – Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers Outfield – Joc Pederson, San Francisco Giants Final percentages American League Catchers: Alejandro Kirk 74%, Jose Trevino 26% First basemen: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 66%, Ty France 34% Second basemen: Jose Altuve 57%, Santiago Espinal 43% Third basemen: Rafael Devers 60%, Jose Ramierz 40% Shortstops: Tim Anderson 55%, Bo Bichette 45% Outfielders: Aaron Judge (automatic starter after phase one voting), Mike Trout 39%, Giancarlo Stanton 22%, George Springer 20%, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 18% Designated hitters: Shohei Ohtani 52%, Yordan Álvarez 48% National League Catcher: Willson Contreras 65%, Travis d’Arnaud 35% First basemen: Paul Goldschmidt 67%, Pete Alonso 33% Second basemen: Jazz Chisholm Jr. 59%, Ozzie Albies 41% Third basemen: Manny Machado 51%, Nolan Arenado 49% Shortstops: Trea Turner 52%, Dansby Swanson 48% Outfielders: Ronald Acuña Jr. (automatic starter after phase one voting), Mookie Betts 37%, Joc Pederson 30%, Starling Marte 20%, Adam Duvall 14% Pitchers and reserves will be announced Sunday, July 10 LEADERS PRIOR TO SATURDAY’S GAMES NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING—Goldschmidt, St. Louis, .344; Harper, Philadelphia, .318; McNeil, New York, .317; M.Machado, San Diego, .315; Cooper, Miami, .307; Bell, Washington, .306; Swanson, Atlanta, .302; Hoerner, Chicago, .300; T.Turner, Los Angeles, .300; Freeman, Los Angeles, .297; Iglesias, Colorado, .297. RUNS—Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 61; Schwarber, Philadelphia, 59; Betts, Los Angeles, 58; Edman, St. Louis, 58; Yelich, Milwaukee, 54; Freeman, Los Angeles, 53; Cronenworth, San Diego, 52; Drury, Cincinnati, 52; Swanson, Atlanta, 52; M.Machado, San Diego, 51. RBI—Alonso, New York, 69; Cron, Colorado, 66; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 65; T.Turner, Los Angeles, 59; Lindor, New York, 58; Schwarber, Philadelphia, 56; Tellez, Milwaukee, 55; Arenado, St. Louis, 55; Riley, Atlanta, 51; M.Machado, San Diego, 50; Swanson, Atlanta, 50; Freeman, Los Angeles, 50. HITS—Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 107; T.Turner, Los Angeles, 100; Swanson, Atlanta, 98; Freeman, Los Angeles, 97; Cron, Colorado, 96; Bell, Washington, 94; Arenado, St. Louis, 92; Riley, Atlanta, 89; M.Machado, San Diego, 88; S.Marte, New York, 87.

DOUBLES—Olson, Atlanta, 33; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 28; Freeman, Los Angeles, 26; K.Marte, Arizona, 25; Happ, Chicago, 22; Cronenworth, San Diego, 21; Harper, Philadelphia, 21; Riley, Atlanta, 21; T.Turner, Los Angeles, 21; Arenado, St. Louis, 20; Cooper, Miami, 20; Profar, San Diego, 20; J.Turner, Los Angeles, 20. TRIPLES—Nimmo, New York, 5; Chisholm Jr., Miami, 4; Gregorius, Philadelphia, 4; Joe, Colorado, 4; Lux, Los Angeles, 4; Wong, Milwaukee, 4; 13 tied at 3. HOME RUNS—Schwarber, Philadelphia, 27; Alonso, New York, 22; C.Walker, Arizona, 21; Riley, Atlanta, 21; Betts, Los Angeles, 20; Cron, Colorado, 20; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, 19; Drury, Cincinnati, 18; 7 tied at 17. STOLEN BASES—Berti, Miami, 25; Edman, St. Louis, 19; Acuña Jr., Atlanta, 17; T.Turner, Los Angeles, 16; Bader, St. Louis, 15; Swanson, Atlanta, 14; Yelich, Milwaukee, 13; Chisholm Jr., Miami, 12; Bellinger, Los Angeles, 11; Estrada, San Francisco, 11; Realmuto, Philadelphia, 11. PITCHING—Gonsolin, Los Angeles, 11-0; T.Anderson, Los Angeles, 9-1; Fried, Atlanta, 9-2; Alcantara, Miami, 9-3; Wright, Atlanta, 9-4; Carrasco, New York, 9-4; Musgrove, San Diego, 8-2; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 8-4; T.Walker, New York, 7-2; Webb, San Francisco, 7-3; K.Thompson, Chicago, 7-3; Woodruff, Milwaukee, 7-3. ERA—Gonsolin, Los Angeles, 1.62; Alcantara, Miami, 1.82; Musgrove, San Diego, 2.09; Burnes, Milwaukee, 2.20; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 2.46; Fried, Atlanta, 2.52; J.Urías, Los Angeles, 2.57; Mikolas, St. Louis, 2.72; Rodón, San Francisco, 2.87; P.López, Miami, 2.91; Wright, Atlanta, 2.91. STRIKEOUTS—Burnes, Milwaukee, 134; Aa.Nola, Philadelphia, 120; Rodón, San Francisco, 112; Morton, Atlanta, 108; Alcantara, Miami, 107; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 104; Mahle, Cincinnati, 102; Strider, Atlanta, 102; Fried, Atlanta, 100; Gray, Washington, 99. AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING—Arraez, Minnesota, .352; Devers, Boston, .327; Benintendi, Kansas City, .318; France, Seattle, .315; J.Martinez, Boston, .314; Kirk, Toronto, .312; Alvarez, Houston, .311; Bogaerts, Boston, .306; Cabrera, Detroit, .304; Vaughn, Chicago, .296. RUNS—Judge, New York, 65; Devers, Boston, 59; Alvarez, Houston, 57; Trout, Los Angeles, 54; Arraez, Minnesota, 49; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 49; J.Rodríguez, Seattle, 49; Bogaerts, Boston, 48; LeMahieu, New York, 48; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 48. RBI—Judge, New York, 64; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 63; Alvarez, Houston, 60; Tucker, Houston, 58; Story, Boston, 55; Stanton, New York, 54; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 54; Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 54; Rizzo, New York, 52; Trout, Los Angeles, 51; A.García, Texas, 51; Devers, Boston, 51. HITS—Devers, Boston, 106; Arraez, Minnesota, 99; Benintendi, Kansas City, 97; Bogaerts, Boston, 91; J.Abreu, Chicago, 90; Bichette, Toronto, 90; J.Martinez, Boston, 90. DOUBLES—J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 28; Devers, Boston, 27; J.Martinez, Boston, 26; Gurriel, Houston, 24; Mullins, Baltimore, 23; J.Abreu, Chicago, 22; Bogaerts, Boston, 21; Espinal, Toronto, 21; Gurriel Jr., Toronto, 21; Andrus, Oakland, 20; Bichette, Toronto, 20; Hays, Baltimore, 20. TRIPLES—Rosario, Cleveland, 5; Witt Jr., Kansas City, 5; A.García, Texas, 4; J.Ramírez, Cleveland, 4. HOME RUNS—Judge, New York, 30; Alvarez, Houston, 26; Trout, Los Angeles, 24; Buxton, Minnesota, 22; Rizzo, New York, 22; Stanton, New York, 21; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 19; Guerrero Jr., Toronto, 19; Devers, Boston, 19; Altuve, Houston, 17; Seager, Texas, 17.

STOLEN BASES—Mateo, Baltimore, 21; J.Rodríguez, Seattle, 21; Arozarena, Tampa Bay, 18; Mullins, Baltimore, 16; Merrifield, Kansas City, 14; Semien, Texas, 14; Tucker, Houston, 14.. PITCHING—Verlander, Houston, 11-3; Gilbert, Seattle, 10-3; Taillon, New York, 9-2; McClanahan, Tampa Bay, 9-3; Manoah, Toronto, 9-3; Cole, New York, 8-2; Cimber, Toronto, 8-2. ERA—McClanahan, Tampa Bay, 1.73; Verlander, Houston, 2.00; Manoah, Toronto, 2.33; M.Pérez, Texas, 2.34; Cease, Chicago, 2.45; Gilbert, Seattle, 2.61; F.Valdez, Houston, 2.67; Cortes, New York, 2.74; Gausman, Toronto, 2.86; L.Severino, New York, 3.11. STRIKEOUTS—McClanahan, Tampa Bay, 141; Cease, Chicago, 133; Cole, New York, 124; Ray, Seattle, 117; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 111; Javier, Houston, 102; Gausman, Toronto, 100; Montas, Oakland, 100; Bieber, Cleveland, 99; Verlander, Houston, 98. This Date in Baseball July 10 1917 – Ray Caldwell of New York pitched 9 2-3 innings of no-hit relief as the Yankees beat the Browns 7-5 in 17 innings in St. Louis. 1932 – The Philadelphia A’s defeated Cleveland 18-17 in an 18-inning game in which John Burnett of the Indians had a record nine hits. Jimmie Foxx collected 16 total bases, and Eddie Rommell of the A’s pitched 17 innings in relief for the win, despite giving up 29 hits and 14 runs. 1934 – Carl Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin in succession, but the AL came back to win the All-Star game 9-7 at the Polo Grounds as Mel Harder gave up one hit in the last five innings. 1936 – Philadelphia’s Chuck Klein hit four home runs in a 9-6 10-inning victory over the Pirates, and it wasn’t in the cozy Baker Bowl. He hit them in Pittsburgh’s spacious Forbes Field, including the game-winning three-run shot in the 10th off Bill Swift. Klein almost homered in the second inning when he sent Pirates outfielder Paul Waner to the wall in right to haul in a long fly ball. 1947 – Don Black of the Cleveland Indians pitched a 3-0 no-hitter over the Philadelphia A’s in the first game of a twin bill. 1951 – The NL hit four homers en route to an 8-3 triumph at Detroit, giving the league consecutive All-Star victories for the first time. 1968 – The American League and National League agreed to split into two divisions in 1969. The twelve teams in each league will be divided and play a best-of-five games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner. 1982 – Larry Parrish of the Texas Rangers hit his third grand slam in seven days, off Milt Wilcox in the first game of a doubleheader against Detroit. The Rangers beat the Tigers 6-5. Parrish had hit his first on July 4 and his second on July 7. 2001 – Cal Ripken upstaged every big name in the ballpark, hitting a home run and winning the MVP award in his final All-Star appearance to lead the American League over the Nationals 4-1. Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez connected for consecutive home runs as the AL won its fifth in a row. 2007 – Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki went 3-for-3 with an inside-the-park home run to lead the American League to a 5-4 victory over the National League in the All-Star game. 2009 – Jonathan Sanchez pitched the majors’ first no-hitter of the season, recording a career-high 11 strikeouts in San Francisco’s 8-0 win over the San Diego Padres. The only runner the Padres managed came on an error by third baseman Juan Uribe in the eighth.

2012 – San Francisco’s Melky Cabrera and Pablo Sandoval keyed a five-run blitz against Justin Verlander in the first inning that powered the NL to an 8-0 romp over the American League in the All-Star game. 2013 – David Ortiz doubled in his first at-bat to become baseball’s career leader in hits as a designated hitter and hit a two-run homer an inning later, leading Boston Red Sox to an 11-4 victory over Seattle. Ortiz entered the night tied with Harold Baines for the most hits as a DH. 2014 – Derek Jeter, playing his final regular-season game in Cleveland, went 2 for 4 in the 1,000th multi-hit game of his career. Cleveland scored nine runs in its last two innings at bat to rally past New York with a 9-3 win. 2019 – The independent Atlantic League introduces a “robot umpire” to call balls and strikes at its annual all-star game in York, PA.

CYCLING Tour de France Results Saturday 8th Stage A 186.3-km (115-mile) Dole—Lausanne 1. Wout van Aert, Belgium, Jumbo-Visma, 4:13:06. 2. Michael Matthews, Australia, Team BikeExchange-Jayco, same time. 3. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates, same time. 4. Andreas Kron, Denmark, Lotto Soudal, same time. 5. Alberto Bettiol, Italy, EF Education-Easypost, same time. 6. Aleksandr Vlasov, Russia, Bora-Hansgrohe, same time. 7. Benjamin Thomas, France, COFIDIS, same time. 8. Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark, Jumbo-Visma, same time. 9. Bob Jungels, Luxembourg, AG2R Citroen Team, same time. 10. Thomas Pidcock, Great Britain, Ineos Grenadiers, same time. Also 23. Neilson Powless, United States, EF Education-EasyPost, 4:13:06. 34. Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE Team Emirates, :30 behind. 37. Sepp Kuss, United States, Jumbo-Visma, :42. 44. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Movistar Team, 1:21. 54. Joe Dombrowski, United States, Astana-Qazaqstan, 2:18. 150. Quinn Simmons, United States, Trek Segafredo, 9:22. Overall Standings 1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates, 28:56:16. 2. Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark, Jumbo-Visma, :39 behind. 3. Geraint Thomas, Great Britain, Ineos Grenadiers, 1:14. 4. Adam Yates, Great Britain, Ineos Grenadiers, 1:22. 5. David Gaudu, France, Groupama-FDJ, 1:35. 6. Romain Bardet, France, Team DSM, 1:36. 7. Thomas Pidcock, Great Britain, Ineos Grenadiers, 1:39. 8. Neilson Powless, United States, EF Education-EasyPost, 1:41. 9. Enric Mas, Spain, Moviestar Team, 1:47. 10. Daniel Martinez, Colombia, Ineos Grenadiers, 1:59. Also 30. Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE Team Emirates, 7:02 behind. 40. Sepp Kuss, United States, Jumbo-Visma, 13:36. 64. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Movistar Team, 16:55. 138. Joe Dombrowski, United States, Astana-Qazaqstan, 37:19. 153. Quinn Simmons, United States, Trek Segafredo, 49:55.

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SOCCER MLS Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 8 2 9 33 29 13 New York City FC 9 4 5 32 37 21 New York 9 5 5 32 29 20 CF Montréal 9 7 2 29 32 33 Cincinnati 7 7 4 25 29 32 Orlando City 7 7 4 25 23 28 New England 6 6 7 25 31 32 Charlotte FC 7 10 2 23 19 23 Inter Miami CF 6 7 4 22 18 26 Columbus 5 5 7 22 20 18 Atlanta 5 7 5 20 26 26 Toronto FC 5 10 3 18 24 34 D.C. United 5 10 2 17 23 37 Chicago 4 9 5 17 16 24 Western Conference W L T Pts GF GA Los Angeles FC 12 4 3 39 38 21 Austin FC 10 4 4 34 35 22 Real Salt Lake 8 5 5 29 22 22 LA Galaxy 8 7 3 27 26 22 Minnesota United 8 8 3 27 26 24 FC Dallas 7 56 27 28 21 Nashville 7 56 27 24 21 Seattle 8 7 2 26 26 19 Vancouver 7 9 3 24 20 31 Portland 5 68 23 29 29 Houston 6 9 3 21 22 23 Colorado 5 8 4 19 19 24 San Jose 4 76 18 27 35 Sporting Kansas City 4 11 4 16 16 33 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Friday, July 8 Philadelphia 7, D.C. United 0 Los Angeles FC 3, LA Galaxy 2 Minnesota 3, Vancouver 1 Saturday, July 9 New York City FC 4, New England 2 Portland at Seattle, late Austin FC at Atlanta, late Nashville at Charlotte FC, late New York at Cincinnati, late Sporting Kansas City at CF Montréal, late San Jose at Toronto FC, late Miami at Orlando City, late

Columbus at Chicago, late FC Dallas at Houston, late Colorado at Real Salt Lake, late Tuesday, July 12 Houston at Austin FC, 9 p.m. NWSL W L T Pts GF GA SD WAVE FC 6 2 3 21 18 9 Chicago 5 1 4 19 17 10 Portland 4 1 5 17 22 8 OL Reign 4 2 4 16 9 6 Houston 4 4 3 15 16 13 ANGEL CITY FC 4 4 2 14 8 10 Kansas City 3 4 3 12 10 14 Gotham FC 4 5 0 12 7 13 Orlando 3 5 3 12 12 26 Louisville 2 5 4 10 13 18 Washington 1 4 6 9 11 14 North Carolina 2 5 1 7 12 14 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Friday, July 8 Orlando 1, Houston 0 Gotham FC 2, Louisville 1 Saturday, July 9 San Diego Wave FC at Angel City FC, late Sunday, July 10 Kansas City at Washington, 5 p.m. North Carolina at Chicago, 6 p.m. Portland at OL Reign, 6 p.m.

TENNIS Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship Elena Rybakina (17), Kazakhstan, def. Ons Jabeur (3), Tunisia, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Men’s Doubles Championship Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell (14), Australia, def. Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

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Alex Noren 73-68-71- 212 +2 J.J. Spaun 70-71-71- 212 +2 C. Bezuidenhout 73-70-70- 213 +3 Stewart Cink 70-73-70- 213 +3 Harris English 71-71-71- 213 +3 Charley Hoffman 69-72-72- 213 +3 Matthew Jordan 68-74-71- 213 +3 Hao-Tong Li 70-73-70- 213 +3 Connor Syme 70-69-74- 213 +3 Nick Taylor 75-68-70- 213 +3 Marc Warren 71-72-70- 213 +3 Sam Burns 67-76-71- 214+4 Corey Conners 70-73-71- 214+4 Ewen Ferguson 67-76-71- 214+4 Troy Merritt 74-69-71- 214+4 Thorbjorn Olesen 73-69-72- 214+4 Jon Rahm 68-72-74- 214+4 Jason Scrivener 69-73-72- 214+4 Sami Valimaki 70-73-71- 214+4 Marcus Armitage 74-69-72- 215 +5 Nacho Elvira 70-73-72- 215 +5 Ryan Fox 74-68-73- 215 +5 David Law 72-71-72- 215 +5 Matthieu Pavon 72-70-73- 215 +5 Sean Crocker 68-75-73- 216+6 Justin Harding 65-74-77- 216+6 Chris Kirk 71-71-74- 216+6 Keith Mitchell 73-70-73- 216+6 Sebastian Soderberg 71-70-76- 217 +7 Justin Rose 68-72-78- 218+8 Guido Migliozzi 72-71-76- 219+9 Thomas Bjorn 75-78-DQ PGA Tour Barbasol Championship Completion of Second Round Matti Schmid 65-63- 128 -16 Max McGreevy 65-63- 128 -16 Adam Svensson 62-67- 129 -15 Ricardo Gouveia 64-65- 129 -15 Trey Mullinax 65-65- 130 -14 Kevin Streelman 66-64- 130 -14 Tyler Duncan 67-64- 131 -13 Mark Hubbard 65-67- 132 -12 Robin Roussel 64-68- 132 -12 Brandon Hagy 70-62- 132 -12 Michael Gligic 69-63- 132 -12 Sean O'Hair 68-65- 133 -11 Kramer Hickok 67-66- 133 -11 Yannik Paul 66-67- 133 -11 Dylan Wu 66-67- 133 -11 Hurly Long 68-65- 133 -11 Camilo Villegas 65-68- 133 -11 Michael Kim 65-68- 133 -11 Ben Kohles 67-66- 133 -11 Jason Dufner 67-67- 134 -10 David Hearn 67-67- 134 -10 Austin Cook 70-64- 134 -10 Julien Brun 67-67- 134 -10 Bo Van Pelt 65-69- 134 -10 Tom Lewis 66-68- 134 -10 Jonathan Byrd 67-67- 134 -10 Vince Whaley 70-64- 134 -10 Satoshi Kodaira 67-67- 134 -10 Cameron Percy 66-69- 135 -9 Santiago Tarrio 69-66- 135 -9 Espen Kofstad 69-66- 135 -9 Chris Stroud 69-66- 135 -9 Niklas Norgaard Moller 68-67- 135 -9 William McGirt 69-66- 135 -9 Greyson Sigg 66-69- 135 -9 Hugo Leon 67-68- 135 -9 David Skinns 65-70- 135 -9 Ryan Moore 68-68- 136 -8 Lucas Bjerregaard 70-66- 136 -8 Doc Redman 66-70- 136 -8 Josh Teater 68-68- 136 -8 Aaron Cockerill 71-66- 137 -7 Jim Herman 72-65- 137 -7 Justin Walters 66-71- 137 -7 Jacob Bridgeman 68-69- 137 -7 Dawie van der Walt 69-68- 137 -7 Seth Reeves 69-68- 137 -7 Hank Lebioda 71-66- 137 -7 Ryan Brehm 68-69- 137 -7 Austin Smotherman 69-68- 137 -7 Seung-Yul Noh 68-70- 138 -6 J.J. Henry 72-66- 138 -6 Ben Crane 69-69- 138 -6 Scott Jamieson 71-67- 138 -6 Josh Geary 71-67- 138 -6 Sebastian Rodriguez 71-67- 138 -6 Patrick Flavin 71-67- 138 -6 Conrad Shindler 68-70- 138 -6 Carlos Pigem 68-70- 138 -6 Richard S. Johnson 70-68- 138 -6

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responsibilities is to organize Xavier on the recruiting front. They have an online database to track players. He has pieces of paper with names, notes, schedules, and evaluation reports that detail his observations. “It’s a never-ending cycle of learning about a new player, trying to see where they’re at in their process, where we’re at in our process . . . every single day it’s a new kid, it’s a new opportunity,” said Anderson, who’s allowed to communicate with certain recruits depending on their class and the time of year when it’s allowed. Part of the organizational aspect means Anderson’s responsible for helping coordinate with Miller and Xavier’s other assistants who are out on the recruiting trail, making sure they’re aware of events and managing their schedules so they can get eyes on as many players as possible. When the assistants are on the road, Anderson’s involvement changes slightly. “I’m able to take the lead on some on-the-court development, which has been nice, being a younger guy that used to play . . . a guy that knows what

Sean’s looking for,” said Anderson. From tendencies to spacing to terminology, Anderson’s seen it and done it already for Miller, so there’s a comfort level in developing players the way Miller wants. A big part of Anderson’s job is looking to the future, but the most important part of his job revolves around the players who are already at Xavier. “You can never lose sight of prioritizing the people that are here on your team right now,” Anderson said. “Taking care of our players, making sure our players are getting better, making sure they have everything they need on campus to be their best. That’s my daily number one thing.” Anderson’s a former big man, who after college played professionally in Belgium, Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania and in the NBA’s G League. He’s one of only two players Miller’s coached who averaged a double-double for him. “(Ryan) developed skills in player development, speciﬁ cally working with front-court players,” Miller said. “He also has a great understanding of scouting, game preparation and the know-how to develop underclass recruiting. He will be a signiﬁ cant part of all these aspects of our program here at Xavier. I am excited about Ryan mentoring our Xavier players on an everyday basis.”

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Rybakina prevails at Wimbledon women’s final

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Elena Rybakina kisses the trophy after defeating Ons Jabeur in the women’s singles ﬁ nal at Wimbledon on Saturday. JULIAN FINNEY/GETTY IMAGES

ness more, honestly.” Jabeur also was participating in her fi rst Grand Slam fi nal. “She deserved this. Hopefully next time will be mine,” said Jabeur, whose exuberance on the court and personality off it have earned her the sobriquet “Minister of Happiness.” “Elena stole my title,” Jabeur joked, “but it’s OK.” By the match’s third game, Jabeur was reading Rybakina’s serves and creating fewer inviting opportunities for baseline power. One squash-style forehand drew a forehand into the net to earn a break point, which Jabeur converted to lead 2-1 by putting a 120 mph serve into play then watching Rybakina sail a backhand long. Jabeur turned toward her guest box, jumped and yelled. Rybakina’s miscues mounted. A volley into the net tape with the full court wide open. A netted forehand after Jabeur barely got a short return in. When another forehand went awry, Jabeur broke at love to take the opening set, yelled “Yalla!” – Arabic for “Let’s go!” – and threw an uppercut as she walked to the sideline. Jabeur was trying to become the fi rst Arab or African woman to win a Slam singles title in the professional era, which dates to 1968. “I love this tournament so much. I feel really sad. But it’s tennis. There is only one winner,” Jabeur said. “I’m really happy that I’m trying to inspire many generations from my country. I hope they’re listening.”

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ent to have beaten Djokovic, Federer and Nadal the fi rst time he faced each also has enough staying power to triumph at a major. He is 2-0 against Djokovic, albeit in a pair of matches on hard courts fi ve years ago. Even Kyrgios himself did not expect to see this day. “I never thought,” he said, “I’d be here at all, to be brutally honest with you.” The matchup off ers one key, intriguing confl ict: Djokovic’s returning against Kyrgios’ serving. Kyrgios has won 95 of 101 service games this fortnight. He is averaging 24 aces per match. He reached 137 mph during Wimbledon (only John Isner, at 138 mph, hit one faster). It’s not just the pace. “He disguised it pretty well. It’s tough to read his serve when he tosses the ball up,” said Brandon Nakashima, an American who lost to Kyrgios in the fourth round. “He could hit all the spots out there, diff erent speeds, diff erent spins.” With Kyrgios, it’s not just about the tennis, of which he says: “There’s defi nitely times where I hate this sport.” He has been fi ned a total of $14,000 during Wimbledon – $10,000 for spitting toward a heckling spectator after a fi rst-round win; $4,000 for cursing during his contentious victory over No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. A far more serious matter: Kyrgios is due in court in Australia in less than a month to face an assault allegation, something he has declined to discuss this week. It’s rare that he holds his tongue. It will be fascinating to see whether Kyrgios bottles things up on Sunday – and how Djokovic handles the moment, too.

WIMBLEDON, England – Too nervous to wave, Elena Rybakina stepped into the Centre Court sunshine before the Wimbledon fi nal Saturday and kept a fi rm double-grip on the blackand-red straps of the racket bag slung over her shoulders. No wave. Not much of a look around. Her play early on betrayed some jitters, too, which makes sense considering it was her debut in a Grand Slam title match. Nearly two hours of big swinging and plenty of sprinting later, she had won the championship at the All England Club with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Ons Jabeur – the fi rst singles trophy at a major tournament for her adopted country of Kazakhstan. Even then, Rybakina’s reaction was muted as can be, a little sigh, a hint of a smile. “Happy that it fi nished, to be honest,” the 23-year-old said, “because really, I never felt something like this.” She was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country off ered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch has been a topic of conversation during Wimbledon, because it barred all players who represent Russia or Belarus from entering the tournament due to the war in Ukraine. Since the WTA computer rankings began in 1975, just one woman ranked lower than the No. 23 Rybakina has won Wimbledon – Venus Williams in 2007 at No. 31, although she had been No. 1 and already won three of her fi ve career Wimbledon trophies. Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome the No. 2-ranked Jabeur’s varied style, with its mix of spins and slices, to put a halt to the 27-year-old Tunisian’s 12match winning streak, which came entirely on grass courts. “You have an amazing game, and I don’t think we have someone like this on tour,” Rybakina told Jabeur during the post-match trophy ceremony, then added this one-liner: “I ran today so much, so I don’t think I need to do fi t-

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios returns the ball to Chile’s Cristian Garin during a men’s singles quarterﬁ nal match at Wimbledon. ALBERTO PEZZALI/AP

top-seeded Djokovic described things. Kyrgios sounded a tad more excited. “We actually message each other on DMs in Instagram now and stuff . It’s real weird,” Kyrgios said. “Actually, earlier in the week, he was like, ‘Hopefully, I’ll see you Sunday.’” Well, they certainly will see each other at Centre Court on Sunday afternoon, with quite a bit to play for. For the No. 1-seeded Djokovic, a 35year-old from Serbia, it’s a chance to win a fourth consecutive trophy at the All England Club and seventh overall (Roger Federer’s eight singles championships at the grass-court major are a record for a man). It’s also a chance for Djokovic to claim a 21st Grand Slam title, which would move him one ahead of Federer and just one behind Rafael Nadal, who withdrew before his semifi nal against Kyrgios because of a torn abdominal muscle. And there’s this to factor in, too: Djokovic can’t know for sure the next time he will get to participate in one of the four major tournaments, the events that matter the most to him these days. As things currently stand, he is not allowed into the United States as an unvaccinated foreigner, which mean he couldn’t go to New York for the U.S. Open in August. His status for returning to Australia in 2023 is up in the air, too, after his visa was revoked this year. “Every match, every Grand Slam that I get to play at this stage of my career, there is a lot on the line. I don’t know how many Grand Slam opportunities to win the trophy I will still have,” Djokovic said after beating No. 9 seed Cam Norrie of Britain 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the semifi nals on Friday. “So, of course, I’m approaching it with positive attitude and self-belief and willingness to win. There’s no doubt about it,” said Djokovic, who is on a 27match unbeaten run at Wimbledon. “I don’t want to speak about all the details and routines that I have that make me feel well-balanced and prepared. But there are things that I do in order to make myself mentally, emotionally and physically well-prepared.” For Kyrgios, meanwhile, it is a chance to prove that someone with enough tal-

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Forest Hills board shows how to poison a district Your Turn Dan Sewell Guest columnist

Want to know how to quickly create bitter divisions in a peaceful community? Ask the Forest Hills School Board. Under the guise of rooting out critical race theory, a board majority in two months managed to turn neighbor against neighbor and make the district a regular source of negative news that’s reached a national audience. It started by canceling Diversity Day, prompting a walkout by high school seniors. It followed with passage of a “Resolution to Create a Culture of Kindness and Equal Opportunity,” an Orwellian exercise of double-think and Newspeak, which basically bars discussions of race, same-sex relationships, or anything else that could make someone feel “uncomfortable.” And so the cynical use of critical race theory and anti-diversity rhetoric by Republican politicians to scare and confuse voters for political gain has found a new home in the Forest Hills district, just as it has in Texas where educators might have to start calling slavery “involuntary relocation” and in Florida, where teachers have to try to work around the new anti-CRT and “Don’t Say Gay” laws. It took awhile for most people to ﬁ gure out that critical race theory is a graduate school-level academic examination of the role of systemic racism, not anything American children are exposed to after nap time in their schools. See SEWELL, Page 4D

Anti-racism eﬀ orts sustain, magnify racist stereotypes Your Turn Rachel Citak Guest columnist

I was six years old when I heard the n-word for the fi rst time used in anger, as an insult towards my father. I was about 10 years old the fi rst time that I was informed I talked “white.” I was in eighth grade the fi rst time a bully pulled my hair hard and demanded to know if it was “fake.” I was in law school the fi rst time I heard that box braids would not be a suitable hairstyle for a clerkship in the courthouse. I had barely been in a legal practice for a year the fi rst time I heard the n-word used in anger, as an insult towards myself. I had been married almost three years the fi rst time a hairdresser expressed apprehension at the prospect of dealing with my natural hair, and asked if my husband approved of me wearing my hair curly. The teachings of those at the forefront of alleged “anti-racism” methodology would likely say that the experiences I’ve described above could all be sourced to microaggressions, racism and white supremacy. It may be surprising to know that all of those experiences occurred among members of my own race. The so-called “anti-racist” position would hold that these intraracial experiences are still due to the eff ects of racism and white supremacy. In their view, racial minorities in society’s power structure cannot be guilty of racism, only prejudice and self-hate. Anti-racism argues that the only way for past discrimination to be remedied is with present discrimination See CITAK, Page 4D

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Being pro-life should be about more than giving birth Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio’s legislators are eager to pass laws restricting abortion rights. But I haven’t heard any of them proposing legislation that would help all these women and children. Where is the bill guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid parental leave? Who will propose the bill mandating universal quality daycare and preschool? Maybe Rep. Jean Schmidt, who sees even rape and incest as opportunities for women, would like to write legislation that gives mothers the “opportunity” to have nutritious food on the table for herself and her children three times a day, and a decent, aﬀ ordable place to live in which to raise all those kids. At the very least, I’d think at least one of our legislators, concerned as they are with potential life, would propose a bill to provide universal, free pre- and post-natal care. Being pro-life should be about more than just nine months of gestation and a moment of birth. Real pro-life should be about protecting, nurturing and most of all, loving each child every day. Andrea Herzig, East Walnut Hills

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Time for niceties behind us after Roe decision A protest starts outside the Hamilton County Courthouse and marches along Walnut Street in downtown Cincinnati June 24 after the Supreme Court voted to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling concerning abortions.

Your Turn Holly Brians Ragusa Guest columnist

As she stood fi erce, pitched forward atop the Hamilton County Courthouse steps, arms high with her hand-painted sign pressing toward the crowd, I wondered which women in her life helped her carefully paint that poster covered in red handprints made to look bloody. I imagined the kitchen fl oor covered in paper so as not to mess the linoleum, and I wondered which of her matriarchs added their bold, precise black Sharpie handwriting to the message, “Keep Your Laws Off My Body.” Unseasoned as she was, barely old enough to menstruate, I wondered if this girl knew how empowered, impactful and appropriately enraged she appeared for this cause as she seemed to fully understand was fundamental to her future. Amid her heightening protest cries, I sensed generational conversations carried across paint-covered hands and Sharpie stains, careful not to leave a mark anywhere it was not intended. Repeatedly screaming “My Body, My Choice,” “Abort the Court,” and “F--Mike DeWine,” she couldn’t have been more than 10 or 11 years old. Sweating profusely in the early July sun surrounded by a crowd from all

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walks of life, mid-civic duty, I watched this girl. Her ferocity, her age, her emboldened stance, struck me as I wondered under what circumstances I would have encouraged or allowed my youngest child, now 21, to use profanity for such a cause. Turning to my right, where a young woman, my daughter, stood, I didn’t need to wonder. She held a sign reading “If I wanted the government in my uterus I’d f--- a Senator!” and “Respect my existence or expect my Resistance!” My parental instincts could no longer include considerations for maybe, my daughter’s future was more limited and, therefore, her stake was larger than mine. In the wake of the recent SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v.

Wade, restricting women’s bodily autonomy, I realized that the time for niceties was behind us, and that our manners and polite language had taken us backwards. Young girls trapped will use profanity. Being civil has not helped me hold onto my rights, and it certainly has not and will not help her. That day, my city passionately stood up to this decision, calling out those who deem our lives to be less valuable than belief or men’s choices and actions. I do not and will not recognize authority on my bodily autonomy. Our nation is young, we have survived a messy 245 years riddled with wrongdoing and errant lawmaking, from slavery and bigoty to misogyny. We have seen the wrong side of history, and we are on it.

Playing by the rules won’t help that young girl screaming fervently on her own behalf on those courthouse steps, and it won’t help her children. Women are set on a more precarious path, allowing states to criminalize seeking abortion despite health concern, forcing women, especially those at ﬁ nancial disadvantage, to see unwanted or dangerous pregnancies to term. Despite a child’s age, or cases of rape or incest, states have determined forced birth for girls and women, as if we were livestock. One of the signs outside the courthouse read “This episode of The Handmaid’s Tale Sucks!” Acutely surreal to be reversing course, slipping into medieval thinking where women are made to once again obey their overlords. The saddest part is that this decision won’t stop abortions. It will stop safe abortions, it will stop important health care procedures being performed and women will be irreparably damaged and die as a result. This extremely complex, private decision, has been made into a battle between life and choice as if the two were divisible in a democracy. Stripping this right has never had anything to do with faith and babies, it has always had to do with control. These young women taught me the coming war will now decisively be waged to gain it back. Holly Brians Ragusa is a writer and poet who lives in Over-the-Rhine.

City Council must act on aﬀ ordable housing Your Turn Jennifer Arens Guest columnist

This is a decisive moment for housing policy in Cincinnati. Residents have advocated, organized and voted to push our city government to address our dire need for aff ordable housing. However, it’s clear that our work is far from over. We’re repeatedly hearing a troubling message from our city offi cials on this topic – that what Cincinnati needs is “housing at all price points.” This bears a striking resemblance to the “all lives matter” counter to the Black Lives Matter movement. Both statements are essentially meaningless on their own; they are off ered only in reaction to the naming of a pointed and urgent injustice. Both are woefully out of touch with reality and used to undermine righteous demands for action. Let’s be clear. In Cincinnati, housing is a crisis for people at the bottom of the economic ladder. We cannot honestly read our data any other way, and it’s not confusing to anyone paying sincere attention. Lives are at stake for those of us fi lling our shelters, sleeping in cars with children and threatened by ever-looming eviction. There are two pathways to the units

we need: extensively funding and managing our aff ordable housing trust fund, and implementing a smart, inclusionary housing policy, which would require a percentage of aff ordable units within some market-rate housing projects. Local advocates have researched, consulted with experts and proposed actionable plans for both. The call for $50 million into our Affordable Housing Trust Fund is backed by thousands of petition signatures, multiple studies and persistent public testimony. Demands for inclusionary housing ring out from hundreds of residents pressing developers to include affordable housing in exchange for tax abatements and bonus density, and from public pushback on an upzoning proposal that glaringly omitted aff ordability requirements. Why won’t City Council members put real funding for our trust fund on the ballot again? A similar move in Philadelphia last year won overwhelming support, and a small bump in our earnings tax – back to what we were paying two years ago – would do the trick. Our mayor’s new commitment of some budget surplus to the trust fund is good, but surplus funds are not guaranteed, and at best it will generate no more than $5 million – maybe 50 homes – annually. Most of the other committed funds are loans, not grants; repayment isn’t possible for aff ordable projects that keep

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rents as low as we need. Why, during this once-in-a-lifetime federal funding opportunity, has Cincinnati thrown a mere $5 million of American Rescue Plan money into our trust fund? St. Paul has committed $35 million; Nashville, $40 million; Denver, $28 million; and Minneapolis, about $30 million. Each received less ARP funding than Cincinnati. Why won’t City Council members commission national experts to do a feasibility study for inclusionary housing? Cincinnati is embarrassingly behind in this area. Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Nashville, Bloomington, Durham and New Orleans have smartly joined most major cities in realizing in-

clusionary housing policies, while we’re stuck on misguided theory and myths. Why are we still wasting public incentives on market-rate units? Why are we subsidizing “workforce” units, or those at the upper end of HUD’s aff ordability scale that don’t match our needs? City households, like mine, at or above 80% of the metro Area Median Income are already living in housing that is affordable to us by federal standards. Why are we on the “all housing matters” train to nowhere? Because it’s hard to challenge profi tseeking, and most offi cials would rather pass. When real solutions come within reach, distraction is a key tactic. Experts on profi t-maximizing growth have asserted themselves as experts on good housing policy, and persuaded us that this is simply about overall supply and demand, instead of the discrimination of the market. They count on us to sleep well, believing that investing in luxury housing is equivalent to investing in housing for working-class people, but we have to wake up. This cannot be the best that our supposedly progressive City Council can do. Let’s move them to do something actually signifi cant before the moment passes us by. Jennifer Arens is the community education coordinator at Peaslee Neighborhood Center and a Cincinnati resident of eight years.

Increasing density is vital to Cincinnati’s success Your Turn Brad Thomas Guest columnist

Cincinnati lost population for 60 years, but in the 2020 Census, we ﬁ nally turned the corner and started to grow again. Our city needs to continue to increase its density and adopt these strategies to repopulate our city, support our neighborhood business districts and make Cincinnati a better place to live. Population loss throughout the city was not equal. Most of the losses occurred where highways tore through neighborhoods and displaced residents, while some areas around the periphery of the city saw gains from 1950 to the present as new land was developed. Here are some strategies to help us increase our density. Let’s start with embracing urbanism. Cincinnati is an urban city with a dense core and compact, walkable neighborhoods, many of which are anchored with

a business district. We need to embrace this urbanism. We can’t “out-suburb” the suburbs, so we shouldn’t try to do so. We need to ban suburban building forms such as drive-thrus and big-box stores (unless they are part of a multistory development). We need to tax surface parking to encourage higher and better uses and use the funding for alternative modes of transportation and street calming. Next, we should remove parking minimums. Parking minimums add additional costs to housing, make in-ﬁ ll more diﬃ cult and encourage driving. Removing parking minimums will help us repopulate the city. This wouldn’t prevent property owners from providing parking, but it wouldn’t obligate them to do so either. At the very least, we should reduce or eliminate parking requirements around high-frequency public transportation. Upzoning around transit is another key. We should also increase density allowed along our busiest transit corridors. These corridors often intersect with our neighborhood business districts and in-

creasing the number of residents within walking distance (or a short transit ride) will help these districts thrive. We should upzone around bike infrastructure, too. Other cities, such as Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail and Atlanta’s Beltline, have seen new development along their high-quality bike trails. We should follow their lead and allow new multi-family housing along our bike infrastructure. No more highway widening. We’ve seen the damage that urban highways and conversions of streets into one-way couplets has done to our city, and for decades we’ve known that adding lanes will simply induce additional demand instead of solving the problem. We need to stop widening roads and provide alternative modes of transportation. Let’s right-size infrastructure projects and regain land. New projects should seek to reduce the impact of existing highways. We should narrow the footprint of the Brent Spence Bridge and reclaim some of the most valuable land in our region for more productive uses. We must also adopt a true form-based

code. Cincinnati has adopted a limited form-based code in some neighborhoods, but we should adopt a comprehensive form-based code that makes it legal to build the types of buildings that made our city the unique place it is and allow for a mix of uses and income levels in our neighborhoods. Lastly, we must build more housing. Fundamentally, increasing density comes down to building more housing. We should pursue every funding source to build more aﬀ ordable house units, but also incentivize the construction of housing at any price level. We need to add enough housing for 102 people per month, every month just to keep up with population growth. If we fail to build enough housing, displacement will occur. By increasing our density we can grow our tax base, repopulate our city, support our neighborhood business districts and make Cincinnati a better place to live. Brad Thomas is an attorney at J. Thomas Hodges & Associates and former SORTA Board member.

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Football culture not to blame for abusive behavior in NFL Your Turn Lindsay Cole Guest columnist

Deshaun Watson. Ray Rice. Ben Rothlesburger. Antonio Brown. Chad Wheeler. Adrian Peterson. The National Football League is riddled with men who have extremely poor judgment about the proper way to treat women. But liberal activists and media pundits, who don’t know the ﬁ rst thing about what it takes to be a part of the NFL, say the problem is the NFL’s “football culture.” They’re looking in the right place, but they’re dead wrong about the solution. To develop the men and women who will end sexual abuse, domestic violence and other abusive behavior in the NFL and elsewhere, let’s start with the savior complex espoused by both the media and the liberals. Anybody who survived domestic abuse knows the last thing survivors need is for someone to come save us. Transformation comes when we look

within, hold ourselves accountable, draw strength from people who have our backs, and make the big move from victim to survivor. Victims need saviors, survivors need cheerleaders. As a former NFL cheerleader for my beloved Cincinnati Bengals, when the players were being mercilessly beaten on the fi eld, I knew it would not help if I threw a helmet on and joined the huddle. The Bengals eventually stopped losing, and last season made it all the way to the Super Bowl. But that comeback trail started years ago during losing seasons. It started when players on losing teams looked to the 65,000 loyal Cincinnati fans cheering them on anyway, and somehow found the champion inside themselves. Why do the boys in the media or the girls in their elitist bubbles think it’s any diff erent when it’s women being beaten? If we want better people in the NFL, and in America itself, we need a culture that celebrates the best in people. American football culture may be “deplorable” to big-city elites who don’t understand it, but that culture, rooted in small towns in “fl yover states” like where I grew up, is

full of the things that bring out the best in both men and women. The truth is, real men don’t hit women, and strong women become survivors. Whether you’re wearing pads and a helmet or a skirt and pom poms, football culture will either make you into the man or woman you were meant to be, or it will break you down and wash you out. And the NFL is the ultimate proving ground for real men and strong women. To thrive in football demands dedication to never give up even when the odds are long and you perhaps doubt yourself. Football requires personal discipline, training and accountability to make one stronger, while nobody else is watching. And football humbles even the best of the best to rely on a teammate for help because they cannot survive on their own. This is personal for me. The only way I escaped and survived domestic abuse was by drawing strength from the lessons I learned from football culture: dedication, personal accountability, discipline and humility. I teach my children these same lessons and encourage them to lead by taking responsibility for them-

selves while also holding their peers to a higher standard. So, before you pat yourself on the back because you retweeted a journalist or activist condemning a “football culture” that victimizes women – check yourself and consider if you are part of the problem. When the Bengals take on Deshaun Watson’s Cleveland Browns this season, you can count on me showing up, cheering on the players, the cheerleaders, the coaches, the owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell himself. I know if they dig deep enough and embrace the American football culture that brought them to the world’s biggest stage, they will ﬁ nd there is no place in the NFL for anything but real men who know how to treat women the right way. Lindsay Cole lives in Terrace Park and is a businesswoman and working mom of two, a former professional cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals, and a survivor of domestic abuse. She is a candidate for Ohio State Representative and is the president of This Precious Messy Life, a nonproﬁ t dedicated to raising awareness to prevent domestic violence.

Electric buses a way for school districts to clean up ﬂ eets Your Turn Sarah Mostafa Guest columnist

As the mom of a toddler, I am frequently thinking about his health and safety. There’s a lot to think about, between the tragic news headlines that confront us too regularly. One issue that’s top of mind for me locally: our not-so-great air quality in Cincinnati. While the concerning rates of lead poisoning and asthma from our poor indoor air quality is getting more attention, many people still don’t know that Cincinnati continually ranks in the top 20 most polluted areas in the American Lung Association State of the Air Report, due to harmful emissions from power plants, cars and trucks. That is one reason why I was glad to learn about the launching of the EPA’s Clean School Bus Program. Wait. School buses? Yes, school buses. Every day, over 20

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The political answer? Broaden the deﬁ nition, so that anything can be pointed to as a gateway to CRT. The FHSD board majority slate elected last year with GOP backing has done so. A friend in a nearby community had warned me we had just elected a “QAnon board.” I laughed then. Not now. For Anderson Township, a largely afﬂ uent, usually friendly, bedroom community suburb, and the bucolic village of Newtown, the top-rated schools have long been a source of pride besides a drawing card. Now they are a source of

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– all exacted at the hands of discerning centered intersections and anti-racist allies. I disagree. In fact, I have endured some of the most vitriolic race-based attacks from local white proponents of socalled “allies” of “anti-racism” in Anderson Township occurring after my public opposition to so-called “anti-racist” curriculum and policies through public comment and testimony, radio interviews and op-eds. I receive threats to my Black-owned, woman-run law ﬁ rm and my physical well-being. My mailbox has been vandalized twice. Hate mail plagues my voicemail, mail, email as my name is tossed around the now-private “Anderson Township Liberals and Moderates” Facebook group. I have been doxxed, followed

million U.S. children ride to school on nearly 500,000 school buses, most which run on diesel. In Ohio alone, more than 800,000 children ride a diesel bus back and forth every school day. Diesel exhaust is a known human carcinogen. The tiny particles of pollution in diesel exhaust can lodge deep in the lungs and cause irritation, worsening respiratory illnesses like asthma. This is bad for both students and drivers. Put simply: Diesel pollution has no business being in the places where our kids live, learn and play. Now we have a solution right in front of us: electric school buses. The Clean School Bus Program, funded with $5 billion from the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will allow hundreds of school districts to begin the transition from dirty diesel-powered buses to zero-emission electric ones. This is a huge step toward cleaning up the nation’s iconic yellow school bus ﬂ eet. School districts and eligible contractors in Ohio and across the nation can apply now to the Clean School Bus Program to receive a rebate covering the cost of as many as 25 new electric school buses or

the price diff erential between such buses and diesel buses. The rebate can also be used to install electric bus charging infrastructure. Applications are open until Aug. 19, and the EPA is expected to announce recipients in October. This funding is available thanks to the federal bipartisan legislation signed into law last November, and it would not have passed without the leadership of U.S. senators like our own Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown. They understand that when funding for electric school buses is allocated to the school districts that need it the most, we see a signifi cant transition away from the dirty diesel pollution that can put children’s health at risk. Ohio has surrendered its place as a leader in clean energy development and climate action. Opportunities to advance renewable energy and effi ciency investments have been squandered, keeping us reliant on polluting fossil fuels. But electrifying our transportation sector is an opportunity we can’t ignore. While we do manufacture electric school buses and house distribution operations in the state, there is not a single electric school

bus on the road in Ohio today. If we can make them here, we should be able to drive them here and reap the rewards that come with cleaner vehicles. Our kids’ health is far too important for us to be left behind yet again. For the past year, I have been a volunteer with Moms Clean Air Force in Ohio. We have a membership base of more than 87,000 Ohio parents and grandparents who care about children’s health. We have strongly supported congressional action to establish and fund the Clean School Bus Program to move our bus ﬂ eet toward electriﬁ cation. As a result, we can now be in the driver’s seat when it comes to protecting our children’s health from diesel pollution. I encourage readers to visit www.epa.gov/ cleanschoolbus to learn more. Ohio, let’s get rolling toward the clean energy future that awaits us. Sarah Mostafa is a public sector innovation expert and has several years of experience working in urban sustainability. As a new mom residing in East Walnut Hills, she advocates with Moms Clean Air Force in Ohio for clean energy and a healthier planet for all children.

strife. At the most recent board meeting, scores of parents and students picketed outside ﬁ rst. “We want to learn about diversity,” said Anna Elfers, age 16. “That’s what education is about, learning about other people’s experiences.” Jamie Schifrin, a web designer, said residents underestimated how quickly “the extreme right” could take control of their schools. “We made a mistake,” he said. Inside the packed meeting room, some stood with signs such as “Protect Diversity in FHSD,” “Let Teachers Teach” and “Pro Anti-Racism.” At the end of the Pledge of Allegiance, many shouted “for ALL!” The board meeting was interrupted

several times by shouts of “Repeal the Resolution!” After warning the room could be cleared – two sheriﬀ ’s deputies were on hand – the board decided not to pursue passing a new school levy in the current community climate. “We’ve got to turn the temperature down,” said Leslie Rasmussen, a board member who predates the current majority. It was the latest board-caused setback. Earlier in the day, parents and students ﬁ led a federal lawsuit, charging that the resolution violated the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws. That will add to taxpayer-funded legal costs for a district already sued this year over Ohio’s Open Meetings Law.

Other fallout: The day after the resolution passed, Russ Fussnecker, Edgewood City Schools superintendent, withdrew his name from consideration for the FHSD job. And some in the community are concerned about the impact on property values from all the negative attention. Gathering material for this column, I was struck by how many people on both sides either didn’t want to be quoted or have their names used. That’s not a good sign. Maybe the board majority needs to learn a new version of the three R’s: repeal, resign and repent. Dan Sewell is a member of The Enquirer Board of Contributors who lives with his wife in the Forest Hills School District, as do four of their grandchildren.

and labeled with racially derogatory insults like “white man’s pet.” This is all because my inconvenient truth doesn’t fi t into the power dynamics alleged by so-called anti-racist proponents. But I won’t tailor my Black experience or my history to fi t anyone’s narrative. Let me be clear: I am proud to be Black, and my Blackness is not defi ned by anyone’s insults or labels. I have never denied that racism exists. I am adamant that intraracial and interracial hate can never be solved by “anti-racist” methods. Especially not in the classroom. “Cultural Sensitivity” and so-called “anti-racism” training won’t fi x students who are ignorant to any exposure to Black people besides what they see on television. It won’t heal the envy and strife that springs from the sharp socioeconomic divide at home in our township. It won’t increase tolerance or dissolve division. Instead, “anti-racism” and the like

tend to arm the white self-ascribed “allies” with a newfound sense of self-righteousness and aggrandizement. It enables the illusion that allies know the minority race better than minoritized individuals know themselves. It gives “anti-racist allies” confi dence to silence Black voices that fail to align with “antiracist” beliefs. “Anti-racism” encourages the exact opposite of its name – it perpetuates and magnifi es racist stereotypes, inventing societal obstacles that require white “allies.” “Anti-racism” does not aim to use history to empower or inspire – it twists historical perspective in order to suit an ideological position. As adults, we are free to explore theoretical answers and ideologies in response to national problems. But having grown up as a K-12 graduate of the Forest Hills School District, I can say with confi dence that so-called “anti-racist” eff orts are not the solution to any of the problems I endured in this school district.

Despite headlines claiming that the focus on critical race theory was born from political obsession, what I have seen ﬁ rsthand from clients and community members speaks to diﬀ erent origins. In the wake of COVID-19 remote learning and telecommuting, more parents were granted the ability to work from home and observe the inner workings of the classroom. And from board meetings to the ballot box, Anderson Township parents have given a resounding “no” to coparenting with the government. It’s time to stop weaponizing race to silence inconvenient viewpoints like my own. It’s time to stop exploiting ethnicity and gender for political sensationalism and eye-catching headlines. It’s time for so-called “anti-racist” allies to leave the division to math, and start solving real problems. Rachel Citak is an attorney and lives in Anderson Township. She is a member of the Enquirer editorial board. Twitter: @rachelrcitak

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SUNDAY+ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Using city resources to oppose abortion law a really bad idea

Rename McMicken Avenue after Oscar Robertson

Expending any city resources to challenge Ohio law is a really bad idea, especially on the abortion front. If the city has ample resources to pursue such an eff ort, the mayor should evaluate the fi nancial prudence for such resources. A reduction in headcount in the city’s law department is in order. Ohio permits cities to raise revenue, in particular, imposition of taxation on the earnings of non-residents. There is a long overdue and active eff ort underway in the Ohio Legislature and within professional trade associations to lobby for changes in how cities levy taxes. This “taxation without representation” is the means by which cities can pursue fi nancially reckless agendas at no incremental cost to its residents because the burden was shifted to non-residents/non-voters. The city’s unlawful and immoral COVID-19 taxation scheme only furthered “taxation without representation” by “deeming” people to be working in the city when they weren’t in reality. A case headed to the Ohio Supreme Court may be the wake-up call for Ohio’s cities. Approximately 85% of the city of Cincinnati’s income tax is paid by persons who don’t reside in the city and can’t vote in city elections. Cincinnati should stick to what city government is all about and stop the wasteful political grandstanding. The proliferation of single-party rule will not bode well for Cincinnati. John F. Michel, Hyde Park

Two major local stories concerned renaming buildings that feature Charles McMicken’s name, and potentially renaming Calhoun Street after Oscar Robertson. Why not eliminate the middleman and rename McMicken Avenue after Robertson? Two accomplishments with one gesture! Jim Waldfogle, Union Twp.

Forest Hills school board focused on education, not indoctrination I applaud the Forest Hills school board for their measure to ban “antiracism.” Hopefully, this will be an important ﬁ rst step of putting their schools back in the business of educating children, rather than indoctrinating them. But the other big win for Forest Hills was one of the ﬁ nalists for their superintendent dropped out because of the vote. At least this saved the school system much divisiveness that would have occurred had he been hired. D. Thomas Terwilliger, Monfort Heights

Mill Creek communities need more than police officers Scott Wartman’s article on Elmwood Place (“We just need cops,” June 24) sheds light on many small declining communities in Greater Cincinnati. These communities were once the heart of our region’s industrial base, which provided jobs to much of our population. What they have in common is loss of industrial jobs and tax base, aging out of the original ethnic population (as in Elmwood Place’s German Catholics and Appalachians) and turnover from owner-occupied to rental housing units. The closing of elementary schools, churches and small businesses weaken community life and morale and add to an increase in crime. There are variations. Lincoln Heights never was allowed to have an industrial base to lose. Millvale was created as a segregated public housing enclave. Elmwood Place got its independence but was landlocked and could not do much expansion of housing stock or population. Communities that are separately incorporated can beneﬁ t from sharing services with larger municipalities or Hamilton County. Elmwood Place, for example, shares a school district with St. Bernard. They are getting a new shared elementary school. I wish they would share policing with the county and fund their community development corporation instead. See more of my recommendations for Elmwood place at the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Research Committee site https://uacvoice.org/ wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Elmwood-Place-Report-Final-pdf.pdf. Michael Maloney, Kennedy Heights

Many wish for a viable pregnancy Forest Hills guarantees an education that ignores reality The Forest Hills school board has adopted a policy that would have made George Orwell proud, describing its ignorant, bigoted policy as “embracing a culture of kindness and equal opportunity for all students and staﬀ .” And, yes, it apparently includes among kindness a ban on teaching or advocating “antiracism” and “all related euphemistic surrogates.” I trust that real estate agents will now assure folks contemplating a move to Anderson Township that their children will be guaranteed an “education” that ignores the realities of history, civil rights, economics, international affairs, sociology and politics. Noel Morgan, Kennedy Heights

For as many who are railing at the Roe v. Wade decision, there are women wishing for a viable pregnancy. I, for one, am glad that three women decided to continue their pregnancies – both my children and my husband are adopted. Gail Giardina, Wyoming

Don’t elect another con man in J.D. Vance Please don’t be taken in by another con man. J.D. Vance never supported Donald Trump until he needed billionaire Peter Thiel’s money to ﬁ nance his campaign, and then he kissed the ring for an endorsement. Elect a real Ohioan who is currently already serving the people of Ohio, Tim Ryan.

Inﬂ ation is a global and temporary situation caused by COVID, then Putin’s war. Don’t throw democracy out the window for another con man seeking power. Elect oﬃ cials who want to serve their country instead. Cindy Johnson, Cheviot

Police chasing Akron man for traffic violation makes no sense I do not understand why police pursue a guy for a traffi c violation. Jayland Walker fl ed, but the Akron police had his license plate and knew where he lived. He will be caught. No need to chase him. If all that’s involved is a traffi c violation, why not just tow the car and wait at home? Terry Murray, Dent

Too many innocent lives sacrifi ced to gun violence According to the Gun Violence Archive organization, there have been 197 mass shootings in 2022 and 113 mass shootings between May 14 (the Buff alo supermarket shooting) and July 4 (the Highland Park shooting). How many more innocent human beings must be sacrifi ced, just so bold and moral decisions do not have to be made regarding gun safety? To our legislators and Supreme Court justices, are the ones you love most in life worth that sacrifi ce? Amy Neuzil, Pierce Twp.

Ban on assault rifles needed Congress has compromised on their recent bill addressing our country’s continuing crisis with gun violence. They are throwing taxpayer’s money at the problem but not addressing the elephant in the room. A simple bill, no pork, just the banning of assault rifl es and high-capacity magazines is needed. Assault rifl es were designed as weapons of war, intended only to destroy and annihilate. Why do non-military citizens require these weapons? Our senators and representatives are so fearful of the NRA, its members and, more importantly, losing votes, that they are willing to dance around the obvious. We can no longer safely go to the grocery store, church, holiday parades, large concerts or send our most-precious citizens, children, to school. I propose that Congress be required to personally view up close the horrifi c carnage caused by these weapons. With that, they might stop off ering prayers and condolences and get something done that will at least make it more diffi cult to obtain the weapons. Pamela Rizzo, Western Hills

Supreme Court needs Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson, earnest and deliberate, you answered questions calculated to ensnare, survived with clarity and perception around the law you love, about the people you defended by rights as Americans. You came, surprisingly, from urban Florida,

never a breeding ground for eminent jurists. You came with the subjugation of Black women written on your back. Now you face a greater quandary: to weave your way to the truth within a labyrinth of personalities and prejudices you could not choose. They arrived at the pinnacle of justice by paths foreign to you: three in the cheap seats, appointed by a minority, insurrectionist president. And now, with you, also three women, with disparate identities. Which minority opinion will you write? Justice Jackson, your long voyage fronts formidable storms and so I wish for you fair winds and following seas. We need your grace, your intuition, your truth, to address our needs for practical justice now, not based on imaginings from our sinful history. Ellen Frankenberg, Springﬁ eld Twp.

Appalled by priest’s hatred How can Rev. David Duseck lead a parish or parishes when he has such hatred in his heart? I was appalled to read the Enquirer article. Why would a new pastor to a parish want to start out this way? All of us are God’s children and should be treated as such. Why does he feel the need to attack LGBTQ+ members? Father, examine your conscience. Katherine Leroux, Ft. Wright

So much for majority rule Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe in a right to abortion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Women have now been stripped of the right to control their own bodies by “far-right” justices, appointed by two presidents who lost the popular vote, and conﬁ rmed by senators who represent a minority of the American population. So much for “the majority rules.” Dan Kuhnell, Covington

Moving predatory priests diabolic I ﬁ nd it quite ironic that a Catholic priest is calling out homosexuality as “diabolic and unnatural” when the Catholic Church as a whole has refused to accept responsibility for the sexual abuse committed over decades. Unnatural is a “man of the cloth” preying upon children who are taught to revere and trust him. Diabolic is moving these predatory priests to diﬀ erent parishes again and again to allow them to continue this abhorrent behavior. Terri Adkins, Mason

Supreme Court returned abortion decision to the people That the Roe v. Wade reversal has aroused the passions of people on either side of issue can’t be argued. What can be argued are the reasons some have put forth to justify their position. In point of fact, this Supreme Court actually returned the decision to the people (via their elected representatives to the state legislatures) because the 1973 court took it away from us for no constitutionally sound reason. Janice Wilson, Mason

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LIMITED TIME OFFER

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INSTALLATION LABOR THROUGH 7/31/2022

CALL NOW! (513) 538-2211 LEAFGUARD® BRAND GUTTERS ARE: • MORE DURABLE AND STRONGER THAN ANY OTHER GUTTER SYSTEM ON THE MARKET • MAINTENANCE-FREE AND CUSTOM-FIT TO YOUR HOME • MANUFACTURED WITH A 20% THICKER ALUMINUM THAT WILL NEVER RUST OR DETERIORATE • DESIGNED WITH A SLEEK, LOW PROFILE THAT WON’T INTERFERE WITH ROOFING PROJECTS OR WARRANTIES • PATENTED AND BACKED BY THE GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SEAL OF APPROVAL.

$250 * OFF

Quality Pet-Friendly Flooring Durable, pet-friendly flooring is a must-have in any space with animals. Floor Coverings International® offers many pet-friendly flooring options in a variety of styles - carpet, luxury vinyl, bamboo, laminate, and more! We install easy to clean, scratch-resistant and comfortable flooring for you and your pets to enjoy. We are proud to bring the shopping experience to your door with our Mobile Flooring Showroom®.

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We Make It Easy To Transform Your Kitchen!

In as little as 3-5 days! Our refacing process delivers a new look and upgraded functionality to your kitchen in a fraction of the cost and time!

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0% INTEREST

+ 10% OFF

513-434-5170

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*Offer expires: 10/15/2022. Offer valid with purchase of custom cabinet renewal from Kitchen Saver. Must be presented and used at time of estimate only. May not be combined with other offers or applied to previous purchases. Minimum purchase required. Terms of promotional ﬁnancing are 12 months of no interest from the date of installation and minimum deposit. If no deposit is made, terms begin on the date of sale. See representative for details. Qualiﬁed buyers only. Valid only at select locations. See location for details. Cabinet style and feature availability varies by location and may be different than pictured. PA HIC #PA063180, DE Contractor #2013605887, Ohio Registration #2219521, NJ HIC #13VH08343300. CE-GCI0902694-03

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3 ROOMS OF CARPET CLEANED FOR

109

Promo Code: CARPET109 Cannot be combined with other offers of same service. Discount only applies at time of booking. Service minimums, restrictions and fees may apply. Offer expires 7/31/2022

AIR DUCT CLEANING

30 OFF

$ 4.9

+ 15% OFF FILTERS & PURIFIERS

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Cannot be combined with other offers of same service. Discount only applies at time of booking. Service minimums, restrictions and fees may apply. Offer expires 7/31/2022