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DAYTON ›› CONTENTS

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Dayton demonstrates resilience while dealing with traumatic events in 2019. By Abby Hofrichter

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3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

By Eric Spangler

4 DIALOGUE

Tweets, posts and letters from our readers.

5 UPFRONT

Fall Farm Fest highlights scarecrows and plenty of family fun. By Eric Spangler

26 STYLE

A stroll on Courthouse Square in Sidney reveals unique shops. By Laura Leavitt

MIDWESTERN TRAVELER

29 Fall is the ideal time for a quick trip to Indiana, Kentucky or Tennessee. By Corinne Minard

37 INSIDE DINING

6 COMMENT

Canal Street Arcade and Deli repurposes Dayton’s iconic music venue, plus listings.

By Jim Bucher

40 ENTREPRENEURS

Brimstone Haunt at Renaissance Park brings the high-intensity scares to those who dare enter.

8 HISTORY

Edwin D. Smith was the leading light in the “City of One Thousand Factories.” By Leo DeLuca

9 Q&A

8 Questions with Dayton Chocolate Festival’s Melody Morris. By Noah Tong

10 SCENE 15 DAYTON LIVE

A 6 0 -year- old theater group f inds home in Springboro. By Laura Leavitt

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By Ginny McCabe

BBB shines the spotlight on millennials making a difference in business. By Abby Hofrichter

DAYTON HOME

41 Ductless heating and cooling systems can solve cold or hot rooms in homes. By Eric Spangler

46 CAN’T MISS

Whether helping out, dining out or just playing don’t miss these 25 local attractions and activities.

By Tim Walker

60 ACTING

Sideshow performers a family on and off the stage.

By Tim Walker

62 VENUE

Canopy Creek Farm in Miamisburg attracts more than weddings. By Beth Langefels

63 SHOPPING

Warm Glow Candle Co. is thriving by embracing artisan community. By Kevin Michell

LIVE WELL DAYTON

65 Understanding bone health is important as

women age. By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

72 FAMILY

Elizabeth’s New Life Center helps people become good parents. By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

74 GUIDE TO RETIREMENT 2019

Be happy in retirement by simply planning for the future. By Noah Tong

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DAYTON ›› LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Time to Show the Nation Dayton’s True Resilience I t’s tough when the nation turns the spotlight on Dayton for all the wrong reasons.

But that’s exactly what happened twice this year— the first when 13 tornadoes hit the Dayton area Memorial Day evening flattening bu i ld i ngs a nd i nju r i ng more than 200 people and the second when a gunman killed nine people and injured 27 in the Oregon District during the early morning hours of Aug. 4 before he was shot and killed by police.

Like looking into a mirror and not liking what is staring back we all had to take stock of what needed to be done during both of those horrific moments. And what needed to be done was to stand up and push back.

Dayton won’t back down.

That’s exactly what has happened. The communities in the Dayton area have shown time and again that they are resilient. Volunteers stepped up to the plate to

help the survivors of both incidents heal and move forward.

This quality of resilience has never been stronger.

Our newest staff member, Abby Hofrichter, roaming editor, beautifully captures this community strength in her Dayton Stronger story in this issue, just as our longtime freelance writer Tim Walker detailed the harsh reality of hundreds of tornado survivors through his own personal experience in our last issue.

Dayton’s strength is in its people. And through its people Dayton will once again prove that nothing can hold it down. And when that time comes we hope the nation’s spotlight is once again focused on Dayton—this time for all the right reasons.

Eric Spangler Managing Editor

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THANKS FOR SHARING LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS Please thank Leo Deluca for his article “A Small World” in the August/September 2019 issue of Dayton Magazine. I always appreciate reading little-known facts about the Wright brothers.

I knew most of the information in Mr. Deluca’s article, but then I should since I call myself a Wright brothers’ scholar. I did NOT know that Orville Wright and Paul Laurence Dunbar are buried so close together at Woodland Cemetery.

I had forgotten that Maya Angelou took her title I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from Dunbar’s poem Sympathy. I love the picture of the Central High School Class of 1890 too.

Thanks Mr. Deluca. And thanks to editors of Dayton Magazine.

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DAYTON ›› CONTRIBUTORS Jim Bucher has covered every local business, nonprofit, higher education institution and family event across the Miami Valley on WDTN Channel 2 for more than 25 years. Honors include induction in the Dayton Area Broadcasters Hall of Fame and as a “Dayton Original” from the city of Dayton. In addition to his column here in Dayton Magazine ‘Buch’ handles marketing and PR with his business Buchtvguy.com.

Leo DeLuca’s writing has been featured by Ohio Magazine, Aviation for Women, Pitchfork and more. DeLuca is also a radio reporter for WYSO and WVXU. His work has won several awards.

Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti is a writer, speaker and owner of Hilltop Communications.

She is the author of four published books, including Fast, Cheap, and Good: Sustainability, One Choice at a Time. She and her husband, Dan, have lived in Dayton for more than 20 years and are active ballroom dancers.

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Beth Langefels has been a freelance writer in the Dayton area for more than a decade, publishing in the Dayton Daily News, the Vandalia Drummer News and the Dayton B2B Magazine. She works for the Miami Valley Division of the American Heart Association as the communications and marketing director.

Ginny McCabe is a best-selling author, an award-winning journalist, media professional, speaker and teacher. Her work may be seen in publications like Journal-News and Reuters. Her books have been published

by Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins & Standard Publishing. She has spent decades covering topics like news, business, real estate and entertainment. She serves on the board of Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists.

Laura Leavitt is a writer and editor living just north of Cincinnati in Hamilton. She specializes in writing about sustainable living, food/drink, nonprofits and small businesses.

Timothy Walker is a 51-yearold writer who lives in Dayton with his wife, Elizabeth, their two children and a houseful of dogs. He was born and raised in West Virginia and he sold his first story in 1988.

In his spare time he enjoys writing and reading weird fiction, offbeat films, jazz music and cooking chili. He is also an ordained minister.

DAYTON ›› UPFRONT

A No-Brainer

Fall Farm Fest highlights scarecrows and plenty of family fun

BY ERIC SPANGLER

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ttending Miami County Park District’s Fall Farm Fest is a “no-brainer” for those who adore scarecrows and family fun.

That’s because one of the highlights of the 11th annual event, set for Oct. 12-13 at Lost Creek Reserve & Knoop Agricultural Heritage Center, 2385 E. state Route 41 in Troy, is the annual scarecrow contest, says J. Scott Myers, executive director of the Miami County Park District.

He says about 30 to 40 groups, organizations, businesses and families create scarecrows on posts lining “Scarecrow Lane” and vie to be crowned one of the top creations in several categories by the voting public.

“People get very elaborate,” says Myers. “I mean they really go to town on these things.”

He says the scarecrows are a great op-

portunity for groups, organizations and businesses to advertise and have a fun activity for their employees at the same time. “We’ve done that since the beginning and it’s a pretty cool deal.”

The rest of the events at the Fall Farm Fest are pretty cool as well. Agriculturaloriented activities include wagon rides, old-fashioned children’s games, pony rides, corn maze, corn shooter, horse and sheep demonstrations and kiddie tractor pulls, just to name a few, he says.

There’s also live music both days, lots of food for those who get hungry during the event and a pumpkin patch, courtesy of Fulton Farms, for those who want to grab an orange member of the cucurbitaceae plant family to carve at home, says Myers.

The Fall Farm Fest is the Miami County Park District’s largest event, he says. “We’ll get anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 people for the weekend,” says Myers. “It is our biggest event of the year.”

The 11th annual Fall Farm Fest is set for Oct. 12-13 at Lost Creek Reserve & Knoop Agricultural Heritage Center in Troy.

The reason for the popularity, he says, is because the event is family friendly. “It’s an event for all ages,” says Myers. “You have grandparents with their kids and their grandkids … three generations of folks wandering through everything making it a tradition, something they do every year and for everyone to enjoy.”

The Fall Farm Fest celebrates the county’s agricultural heritage, he says. And there’s no better place to conduct the event than the Lost Creek Reserve & Knoop Agricultural Heritage Center.

That’s because the facility, which consists of a total of about 456 acres, includes a working 200-plus-acre farm. Much of the land, 1883 Victorian house and barns were donated and bought from the Knoop family, whose five generations farmed the property since about 1800, says Myers.

“There’s a lot of historical structures, a lot of history with this property,” he says.

Admission to the Fall Farm Fest is free, including parking, says Myers. Most of the activities are free, except for certain ones such as the pony rides, food or the corn maze, says Myers. n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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DAYTON ›› COMMENT

A HAUNTING WE WILL GO …

Brimstone Haunt at Renaissance Park brings the high-intensity scares to those who dare enter

BY JIM BUCHER

“T

he scariest moment is always just before you start.”—Author Stephen King Boy, ain’t that the truth, especially beginning a column. But I digress. In this case I’m talking about starting a journey through Brimstone Haunt. It’s the Miami Valley’s newest “Scream Themed” Halloween attraction with roots from the past.

“The Springboro Haunted Hayride & Black Bog closed after 28 years at the end of the haunt season in 2016. We (Renaissance Park) were approached because of already being in the events business,” says Cheryl Bucholtz, the marketing director for Brimstone Haunt and Ohio Renais-

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sance Festival.

“After a few months of working out the details we purchased most of their assets.

By the fall of 2017 it all came alive with Brimstone Haunted Hayride and Forgotten Forest walk through. We are very appreciative that the operations crew from Springboro Haunted Hayride & Black Bog came over to bring Brimstone Haunt to life,” she says.

Brimstone Haunted Hayride features a 20-minute trek riding on a wagon through the Brimstone Farm, full of long-lost memories, stories and curses. It’s fun and frightening at the same time to anticipate what’s waiting around every twist and turn through the cornfield.

“The hayride has gotten an overhaul.

Riders will see some new scenes and new scares this year. We’ve developed a relationship with a local puppeteer who has been busy creating props and puppets to add to the experience. Get ready to be surprised,” Bucholtz says.

Brimstone Haunt at Renaissance Park is the Miami Valley’s newest “Scream Themed” Halloween attraction.

For the braver folks, The Forgotten Forest features a high-intensity scare. Many people have gone searching for answers to the unnatural events that occur in and around the forest, but none have ever returned. Only the fearless should dare enter these trees and IF you make it back out you will not be the same as when you went in.

Whew, can I open my eyes now? At any rate, they don’t rest in their graves … I mean, rest on their laurels because there’s all new mesmerizing macabre thrills.

“New this year is Psychosis where around every corner awaits disturbing scenes of horror that will leave you in a state of psychosis. Get the ‘yell’ scared outta you as you twist and turn through the dark maze-like pathways trying to find the exit. It is Brimstone Haunt’s most intense scare and I am so excited for customers to experience it this year,” Bucholtz says.

And the Zombie Assault is a zombie attack simulator where you’re trying to escape the hot zone inside a van with aforementioned zombies trying to enter.

The van rocks and rolls and … that’s it, can’t give anymore away.

But this columnist got a sneak peek of both and they are truly awesome. If you love Halloween—and who doesn’t—you’ll love this. Bucholtz says she loves to hear the enjoyment from kids of all ages and an occasional scream or two—which includes staff.

“Speaking for myself—I do get a kick out of the haunt. I never in my life thought that I would be interested in the haunt industry other than an occasional visit to a haunted attraction or Halloween party.

I have grown to love it from being in it! I think there is an art to creating a haunted attraction and a science to delivering scares. Not only that, but there is a sense of community that comes from working so closely together to pull it off from the buildout crew to the actors to the concession workers. There is also camaraderie among haunted attractions from the owners to the actors to the build-out crews. It’s refreshing to experience that,” she says.

With the huge success of the Ohio Renaissance Festival, celebrating 30 years this year by the way, why branch out in a

completely different direction? Easy, it’s location, location, location.

“The property the Ohio Renaissance Festival operates on is called Renaissance Park. With Renaissance Park comes a good amount of land that’s usable for things like a mile-long hayride trail. There has been a desire to use the property for other events since I have been involved with the business. Brimstone Haunt was an easy choice to utilize what I call ‘the back 40’ of the property—enough space to allow us to run two events simultaneously with adequate parking,” Bucholtz says.

Halloween is big business for consumer spending near to, you know, the jolly old elf, but here it’s all about the experience for the entire family.

“I’d like people to leave with the feeling they won’t sleep that night … I’m kidding but only just a little. Honestly, we want them to leave with a feeling that it was time and money well spent and that they want to do it again and bring others to experience the same,” says Bucholtz.

And finally, what scares Bucholtz?

“Clowns. Ever since I was a little kid I have had a fear of clowns—happy, sad, scary, making balloons, circus, doesn’t matter.

From being immersed in the haunt industry I feel I have overcome the fear a little bit, but I still have a way to go!”

I’m witness to that, as Bucholtz and yours truly experienced Stephen King’s It on the big screen. Lots and lots of girl screams.

Hope I didn’t hurt her ears. n Cheers!

Jim BOO!-ker ‘Buch”

MORE INFORMATION Brimstone Haunt is located at Renaissance Park. The entrance is at 472 Brimstone Road in Massie Township, near Harveysburg. The attraction is open Friday and Saturday nights now through Oct. 26. Visit brimstonehaunt.com for hours and information.

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DAYTON ›› HISTORY

Changing the Face of Dayton

Edwin D. Smith was the leading light in the ‘City of One Thousand Factories’

BY LEO DELUCA Edwin D. Smith Elementary School is a symbol of Smith’s legacy in the community.

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n Aug. 19, 1940, Orville Wright celebrated his 69th birthday in Dayton at the dedication of the Wright Brothers Memorial. As an homage to Dayton’s greatest sons, no expense was spared in the monument’s design.

The Olmsted Brothers, the famed landscape architectural firm responsible for Central Park, designed the surrounding grounds; sand from Kitty Hawk and dirt from Huffman Prairie helped form the foundation; and the memorial itself was constructed by one of Orville’s good friends—a man with a monumental life himself—Edwin D. Smith.

During a time when Dayton was internationally known as “the city of one thousand factories,” its citizens had Smith to credit for the nickname. The right-hand man of legendary Dayton industrialist Col. Edward A. Deeds at National Cash Register, he worked alongside Deeds as NCR’s plant manager.

Smith brought immeasurable prosperity to the Dayton region. Uniquely Dayton moments—picnics beneath Deeds Carillon, golf on the NCR course and fond memories of halcyon summer days at Old River Park—can be traced to Smith’s great talent.

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“During his 32 years with NCR Mr. Smith supervised building of sales offices and factories throughout the world. He also supervised construction of the Old River recreation center, Deeds carillon, Carillon park, Sugar camp and NCR golf courses,” wrote The Dayton Journal Herald in its Saturday, June 27, 1959, edition under the headline “Edwin D. Smith is Dead; Engineer, Civic Leader.”

But Smith’s impact rippled well beyond buildings, golf courses, bell towers and monuments.

ementary school, now known as the Edwin D. Smith school,” wrote Dayton Daily News reporter William M. Sanders in its Friday, Jan. 21, 1955, edition.

Designed by Schenck & Williams, the same architectural firm behind Hawthorn Hill, Shafor Boulevard Elementary opened in 1928, but was quickly renamed for Oakwood’s greatest champion of academia. Edwin D. Smith Elementary School remains the most immediate symbol of his legacy, but Smith’s impact is intrinsically tied to the civic and cultural fiber of the entire Dayton region.

SMALL CITY GIANT

A LASTING LEGACY

In the small city of Oakwood E.D. Smith was a giant. Over nearly two decades on the Oakwood School Board—the vast majority spent as board chair—he led the charge as the now nationally recognized school district exploded from 194 students and one building to 1,305 students and four buildings.

“Upon his retirement from the board at the end of 1939, Smith … was honored for his service by the Oakwood community and the Board of Education. The top honor was the renaming of the Shafor Blvd. el-

In later years, Smith served as Dayton sanitary engineer, and while working for the county he completed the Beavercreek and Bear Creek sanitary projects. He was president of the Engineers Club and Civitan Club; chairman of Community Chest campaign’s industrial division; a Miami Valley Hospital board of trustees officer; registered civil, mechanical, and electrical engineer; Spanish-American War veteran; Mason and a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Edwin D. Smith forever changed the face of Dayton. n

DAYTON ›› Q&A

8 Questions with Dayton Chocolate Festival’s Melody Morris

BY NOAH TONG

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he annual Chocolate Festival, conducted at the Fairgrounds & Event Center of Montgomery County and hosted by Faith and Friends Radio, is back again for its 17th year on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Faith and Friends Radio is an internetbased Christian radio station.

This year’s theme is “One Giant Leap for Chocolate,” a tribute to the 50th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon. We spoke with Melody Morris, a co-director of the event and co-manager of Faith and Friends Radio, to learn more.

What is the history of the Dayton Chocolate Festival?

Well, I began noticing all the festivals in the area. Dayton had everything from sauerkraut to pork to marigold festivals but nothing at all for chocolate. I was affectionately labelled the resident chocoholic. A listener to the radio station suggested we create a chocolate festival, and I thought it was a great idea.

What can guests expect when they attend?

It’s very family friendly. This is a free parking, free admission event. It is also handicap accessible for anyone from any walk of life at any age. Last year was the first year we had food trucks so there could be

chocolate sold outside w ithout it melting too q u i c k l y.

Outside will also be the Christian Motorcycle Association and dog agility demonstrations.

Arts and crafts are indoors.

What kind of chocolate products will be there?

It varies. In the past, we’ve had chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate filled doughnuts, cupcakes and moon pies.

Will there be music and entertainment?

Yes. Each year we have one nationally known artist anchor the stage along with 20-minute sets of local artists. This year we have Dave Boyer performing.

He’s a big-band singer from the Jersey scene. He’s a Christian artist.

How will this year’s theme impact the event?

In the past we’ve done everything from movie themes, to a southern Pacific theme, to a patriotic theme.

Since this year’s theme is “One Giant

Melody Morris is co-director of the annual Chocolate Festival.

Leap for Chocolate,” song likes “Moon River” and “Fly Me To The Moon” will be performed. Vendors can choose to decorate to the theme too.

The event is put on by Faith and Friends Radio. What is their role in this event?

We are the organizers. We get our sponsors and sell vendor spots. We basically run and manage the event.

Is there anyone else who ensures the Chocolate Festival runs successfully?

Bill Mance. He is my morning show co-host on the radio station from 6-9 a.m. I also want to give a big shout out to all our sponsors. There’s a nonpaying admission and vendors keep what they make. Without the sponsors this event couldn’t happen. We have probably about 10 sponsors.

What is your favorite part of the Chocolate Festival?

I like seeing the wide variety of people that attend. We have a wide offering of chocolate, food trucks, arts and crafts, and entertainment. I enjoy watching them have a good time. n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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DAYTON ›› SCENE Craft Beer & Aircraft: A Perfect Combo at 2nd Annual Hops in the Hangar

After a successful, sold-out, first-year event, a volunteer event team again gathered a blend of craft beer fans and aviation enthusiasts in an airplane hangar for Hops in the Hangar—the epic craft beer event in the Tristate area.

Over 90 different types of craft beer were featured from over 30 breweries, including many local favorites. Over 1,000 attendees were entertained with aerobatic airshows, skydivers, historic planes and other aircraft onsite creating an incredibly unique environment for a craft beer event.

New attractions this year included airplane rides during the event and a grand finale at the close of the event featuring a never-before-seen pyrotechnic show presented by Team Fastrax and Start Skydiving.

This event is a fundraiser for Downtown Middletown Inc., a non-profit organization committed to the ongoing revitalization and preservation efforts in the downtown district.

Attendees got to sip and stroll, viewing historic planes, helicopters, hot air balloons and more up close.

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Over 90 different types of beer were offered and served as a perfect opportunity to make your own “flight.”

Airplanes flying overhead in formation were just one example of the airshow highlights at the 2019 Hops in the Hangar event.

A sparkler salute to all the skydivers, pilots and organizers was a perfect way to end the night.

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DAYTON ›› SCENE Dayton Celtic Festival

The Dayton Celtic Festival, presented by the United Irish of Dayton Inc., was conducted July 26-28 at RiverScape MetroPark. The 18th annual Dayton Celtic Festival, Dayton’s largest downtown festival with more than 100,000 people attending the three-day event, included plenty of music, food, soft drinks, beer, whiskey, a children’s area, cultural area, parade of kilts, Celtic breakfast and Sunday mass.

Bagpipers entertained the crowd.

Dance performances were part of the Dayton Celtic Festival activities.

Just about everyone had the Irish spirit.

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Phantom Dances Oct. 24-27

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Beethoven’s 5th and Tchaikovsky

The Show Must Go On A 60-YEAR-OLD THEATER GROUP FINDS HOME IN SPRINGBORO

BY LAURA LEAVITT

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ctors and actresses learn to be many different people, wearing the hats they need to wear in order to get the job done. A plucky, can-do spirit is valuable in many contexts, but in live theater this spirit can create a legacy.

Such is the case for the 60-year-old community theater group that has recently found its home in downtown Springboro’s brand-new Performing Arts Center, which opened in mid-September.

The group has gone by many names: Playhouse South, Kettering Community Theatre and more. Over the years since its founding in 1960 this group has seen the value in continuing to produce highquality performances even when it had

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to operate in unusual spaces and places before settling down in Springboro.

“I don’t know that other theater companies around here have moved as frequently as we have while staying in business,” says Jim Brown, president of Springboro Community Theatre. “It’s a significant accomplishment to have the long history of our organization and to have finally found this thing we’ve been aspiring to for decades.”

Over the years it’s performed outdoors and indoors, in a bowling alley and in a retirement center, and while not every location has been easy every location has proven the resilience of the team and its vision.

“It’s symbolic of this organization that we are always finding a way to keep putting theater out to the community. This means adapting and taking advantage

The Springboro Community Theatre has a new home in downtown Springboro’s Performing Arts Center. of the opportunities when they present themselves,” says Brown. “We have always chosen to continue exploring new avenues, including nonconventional locations.”

The move to Springboro began with a positive connection between the leadership of Playhouse South and the city management of Springboro.

“Springboro had built North Park Amphitheater and we have taken outdoor theater to North Park and Springboro for the last 12 years,” says Brown. “Over the many years we’ve had an ongoing dialogue with Chris Pozzuto, now city manager of Springboro, about the idea of us eventually moving to Springboro because of the strength of our partnership.”

This partnership led to the brand-new Performing Arts Center, which is located in the heart of downtown Springboro.

The benefits of a brand-new building are substantial and are likely to have rippling positive effects on the company. Among the

The Springboro Community Theatre’s new home in Springboro’s Performing Arts Center will allow it put on largecast shows in the future. advantages are having a dedicated area for box office and concessions, climate control for storage and better wing space.

“We brought a theater design consultant here and he helped the designers and the theater and the city all collaborate on what makes good technical sense for the facility itself,” says Brown. “It is specifically designed with a theater audience in mind, from the stage to the seating to the space where the orchestra will be performing.

The design elements are done intentionally to provide the optimal atmosphere.”

The first show to open in the new Performing Arts Center is The Marvelous Wonderettes, a musical jukebox show, meaning that the cast will go through a

storyline but along the way they will sing favorite songs that will be recognizable to audiences.

“It’s about four women who are together at the end of high school, as well as a look at how their lives have changed 10 years later,” says Brown. “It’s a great feel-good kind of show that explores a variety of topics and we have some incredible singers.”

After the first show the theater company will gear up for an ambitious, glamorous performance of Chicago: The Musical in November. The larger stage, wing space and cast areas will make it possible to put on ambitious, large-cast shows like Chicago in future seasons as well. Brown credits the team it’s built over the years as a major source of the high production value it can showcase.

“We have an intact music team for our productions so it’s like having a band that continues to play together over the years and gets better and better. It’s going to be really fun for them to tackle the music in Chicago,” says Brown.

Through it all, the leadership of Springboro Community Theatre has been integral in holding both artistic passion and business sense in high regard.

“We’ve been able to assemble a team that has a unique mix of passion for the theater, while their vocations are in something complementary,” says Brown. “I, for example, work for an investment company and I’ve run my own business and have an MBA specific to operations management, but at the same time I’m a performer myself and I have been a professional singer. I think that’s the case for everyone on our board and leadership team; they bring

The Springboro Community Theatre has performed outdoor and indoors, in a bowling alley and a retirement center before finding a new home in Springboro’s Performing Arts Center.

real-world experience and combine it with passion for the theater to provide a balanced course of direction.”

The city of Springboro’s Pozzuto sees real value in anchoring downtown Springboro with a source of high-quality theatrical performances.

“The Springboro Community Theatre will be a great addition to the Performing Arts Center and the new Wright Station development because they will offer an opportunity for residents to see some live entertainment and then go out after to our many eateries, such as Warped Wing, that are planned for Wright Station, or the eateries and shops in our historic downtown area, which is within walking distance right down South Main Street,” says Pozzuto. “Anytime you can offer live performances or live entertainment in a certain area that will always have a positive impact on businesses that are in close proximity.”

With a committed board, passionate and experienced leadership staff and a local downtown that is a canvas full of potential the future looks bright for Springboro Community Theatre. It will also share the building with both the Chamber of Commerce and Center Stage Academy for the Arts, which offers dance programming.

“The city is so crucial to making this happen,” says Brown. “By having organizations collaborating together it really creates this amazing core of opportunity right in the heart of the city.” n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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A&E Calendar of Events

OCTOBER

Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Oct. 5 Lace up your shoes and walk 2 miles for a good cause. All of the funds raised through the walk benefit the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Registration starts at 8 a.m., the ceremony is at 10 a.m. and the walk is at 10:30 a.m. Fifth Third Field, 220 N. Patterson Blvd., Dayton. 610-7014, act.alz.org.

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Beethoven’s 5th and Tchaikovsky

Oct. 4-5 Nothing says “classical music” like the opening of Beethoven’s most famous work.

Add Tchaikovsky’s lush, romantic piano harmonies and this concert is sure to be a feast for the senses. Accomplished Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear joins the DPO for this performance. 8 p.m. $12-$66.

Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton.

888-228-3630, daytonperformingarts.org.

Oct. 5-6 Young’s Dairy Farm has activities for everyone in the family during its 43rd annual Fall Farm Pumpkin Festival. Humongus Gus, the farm’s giant pumpkin, pumpkin cinnamon sugar doughnut holes and pumpkin bowling will all be featured at the event. Prices vary depending on activity.

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Dayton Philharmonic with Amjad Ali Khan

Oct. 11 Amjad Ali Khan will perform the stunning and acclaimed concerto for sarod, Samaagam, with the Dayton Philharmonic. The work creates a seamless and exhilarating bond between East and West. 8 p.m. $12$66. Mead Theatre - Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-228-3630, daytonperformingarts.org.

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kins, pony rides and a corn maze shooter.

Free. Sa 12-7 p.m., Su 12-5 p.m. Lost Creek Reserve & Knoop Agricultural Heritage Center, 2385 E. state Route 41, Troy. 335-6273, miamicountyparks.com.

Suffragettes: With Liberty And Voting For All

Oct. 17 Experience the empowering history of the brave women who made triumphant strides through sacrifice and determination. 9:30 & 11:30 a.m. $5. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Brass Transit: The Music of Chicago

Oct. 12 A perfect reincarnation of the “rock ‘n’ roll band with horns,” Brass Transit brings its brass, guitars and dead-on vocals back to Dayton to celebrate Chicago. 8 p.m. $24-$82.

Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton.

888-228-3630, daytonperformingarts.org.

Jesse Cook: Follow The Road

Oct. 12 Widely considered one of the most influ-

ential figures in nuevo flamenco music, Cook incorporates elements of flamenco, rumba, jazz and many forms of world music into his work. 8 p.m. $29-$49. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Fall Farm Fest

Oct. 12-13 The historic Knoop homestead at the Lost Creek Reserve celebrates Miami County’s agricultural heritage. There will be pump-

Calling All Cooks!

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Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group

Oct. 18 A singer, composer and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. 8 p.m. $52-$109. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Messiaen’s Turangalîla

Oct. 18-19 The mind-blowing Turangalîla Symphony is ecstatic, otherworldly and completely original. A devout and steadfast faith inspired all of Messiaen’s music. 8 p.m. $12-$66. Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-228-3630, daytonperformingarts.org.

PhilharMonster Halloween Concert

Oct. 20 Gasps, giggles and costumes abound during this afternoon when everyone prepares for the hauntingly hilarious Halloween season. 3 p.m. $22. Mead Theatre - Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-2283630, daytonperformingarts.org.

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Once On This Island: The Musical

Cosmic Bowl

Nov. 3 Celebrate Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton at its annual Cosmic Bowling at Poelking-Woodman Lanes.

A ll registered bowlers receive an event T-shirt and will be able to enjoy complimentary pizza and door prizes. Net proceeds will benefit the Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton. 1-3 p.m., registration starts at noon. Poelking-Woodman Lanes, 3200 Woodman Drive, Kettering. 258-5537, hospiceofdayton.org.

Oct. 22-27 The sweeping, universal tale of Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl in search of her place in the world and ready to risk it all for love. T-Th 7:30 p.m., F 8 p.m., Sa. 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Su. 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. $26-$99. Mead Theatre - Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-228-3630, daytonperformingarts.org.

Phantom Dances

Oct. 24-27 Dayton Ballet presents four works for the artistry from four imaginative female choreographers. Th 7:30 p.m., F-Sa 8 p.m., Su 3 p.m. $15-83. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 2283630, victoriatheatre.com.

NOVEMBER Something Wonderful: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Black Violin: Impossible Tour

just entertain they sent theatergoers out of the auditorium singing, whistling and excited to hear music again. 8 p.m. $24-$82.

Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton.

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Nov. 1-2 Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals didn’t

Nov. 5 Classically trained string players Wil B. (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin) along with drummer Nat Stokes blend classical and hip-hop music to break down cultural barriers. 11:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. $28-$51. Mead Theatre - Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

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Classic Albums Live: The Beatles— Abbey Road

Nov. 8 Not a cover band, not an impersonation, these world-class musicians go to great lengths to faithfully re-create every sound on the original album in a concert setting. 8 p.m. $25-$36. Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Strange Magic: The Music of ELO

Nov. 8 Jeans ’n Classics and the DPO devote an evening to Electric Light Orchestra, “the English band with the big fiddles,” who lit up pop music in the 1970s by fusing rock ‘n’ roll rhythms with stellar orchestral arrangements. 7:30 p.m. $24-$82. Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-2283630, daytonperformingarts.org.

Oregon District Barstool Open

Nov. 9 Put together a team of four and join United Rehabilitation Services of Greater Dayton for a crazy-fun, nine-hole indoor miniature golf outing in 10 bars throughout the Oregon District. Various bars in the Oregon District. 233-1230. info@ursdayton.org.

Johnny Peers & The Muttville Comix

Nov. 9 Ringling Brothers Clown College graduate Johnny Peers and his personality-plus canines are coming to tickle your funny bone. Sa 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. $17. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Blue Note Records 80th Birthday Celebration: The State of Jazz 2019

Nov. 12 Get ready for three artists in a spectacular cel-

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ebration of the label and jazz music today. 7:30 p.m. $29-$49. Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. 228-3630, victoriatheatre.com.

Holiday Gift Gallery

Nov. 14-Dec. 21 The Contemporary Dayton’s popular Holiday Gift Gallery is the premier fine art and fine craft professional gallery show and sale in the region featuring the work of 50+ local and regional artists. Tu-Th 10 a.m.-6 p.m., F & Sa 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Contemporary Dayton, 118 N. Jefferson St., Dayton. thecontemporary.org.

La Boheme

Nov. 15 & 17 Come prepared to laugh and cry and whet your appetite for all the festive activity at Café Momus. You’ll leave knowing why La Boheme remains Puccini’s most popular opera and ranks in the world’s top three opera favorites. F 8 p.m., Su 3 p.m. $30-$98.

Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton.

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Dayton Holiday Festival

rade. Throughout the event, there will be the Virginia Kettering’s Holiday Train Display, Uno’s pizza with Santa and holiday films at The Neon. Free admission. Downtown Dayton. 224-1518 x227, downtowndayton.org.

Nov. 29 The Dayton Holiday Festival kicks off Thanksgiving weekend with the Grand Illumination and the Dayton Children’s Pa-

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The SpongeBob Musical

The Sugarplum Festival of Trees

Nov. 22-24 It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Volunteers have worked to create gorgeously decorated Christmas trees. All proceeds benefit the Terrific Women in Giving Auxiliary’s $1 million pledge for the Mills Family Center for Cancer and Blood

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Nov. 19-24 Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe—until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. Tu-T 7:30 p.m., F 8 p.m., Sa 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Su. 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. $26-$99. Schuster Center, 1 W. Second St., Dayton. 888-2283630, victoriatheatre.com.

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Learn more at daytonfoundation.org or call Michelle Lovely or Joe Baldasare at (937) 222-0410.

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DAYTON ›› STYLE

Charm and Fun

A stroll on Courthouse Square in Sidney reveals unique shops

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he historic community of Sidney offers dining, shopping and beautiful natural areas for visitors to explore. We stopped by a few unique shops to see what kinds of trends are popular lately in Sidney.

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VIN & JOY With blouses, pants and dresses, as well as accessories to dress an outfit up or down, this local boutique offers a wide variety of soothing hues, soft fabrics and much more.

Prices vary.

THREADS If the trendsetters in your family prefer their style casual Threads has a wide variety of locally themed and fun T-shirts. With a print shop right there on site this store always has something new to offer. Tank tops and T-shirts, $18-$24.

THE IVY GARLAND

GALLERY 2:TEN An art gallery with wine and beer onsite Gallery 2:Ten offers unique gifts and art from a wide variety of local artisans, alongside dozens of types of beer and wine available for carryout purchase. Prices vary for art pieces and gifts.

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A flower and gift shop, The Ivy Garland is the perfect place to gather some fall décor items and fill your home with cozy candles and soaps. Its wide selection means you’ll find something new in every display. Prices vary for home décor and gifts.

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CMC is grateful for the support of the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, the Farmer Family Foundation and the Harold C. Schott Foundation.

DAYTON ›› MIDWESTERN TRAVELER

The Season to Get Away Fall is the ideal time for a quick trip to Indiana, Kentucky or Tennessee

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ummer may have ended, but that doesn’t mean the time for a vacation is over, too. Fall is the ideal time for a quick trip to many locations in the Midwest—including Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee—thanks to the cooling weather, changing leaves and autumn flavors. In fact, fall fun is just a short car trip away.

AN ARTY GOOD TIME Brown County, Indiana, which started as an arts colony in the early 1900s, has become a destination for those who appreciate art and the beauty of the outdoors.

“We still have a lot of the art as far as like art galleries and handmade items all throughout downtown (Nashville),” says Aubrey Sitzman, public relations coordinator for the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We also are a really big outdoor destination… We have Indiana’s largest state park, state forest and part of the national forest.”

This mix of art and nature can be enjoyed together during the Back Roads of Brown

County Studio Tour Oct. 1-31. During this month-long event 19 local artists will open up their home studios to visitors.

“People can get out and drive around and stop by their different studios and houses and kind of talk with the artist face to face, a lot of times see them working. It’s a great way to kind of explore the whole county,

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Nineteen local artists will open up their home studios during the Back Roads of Brown County Studio Tour Oct. 1-31. see a lot of foliage (and) hit those back roads that you usually don’t see when you’re here,” says Sitzman.

And those back roads offer quite a sight.

Sitzman says that the county is in the south-

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ABOVE AND RIGHT: The pinnacle overlook in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park gives visitors views of the changing colors, the historic gap and even North Carolina on clear days.

ernmost tip of the Maple Belt, which is why the region’s trees have such vibrant colors.

“We have a lot of places like overlooks (and) vistas for people to park their car and go get pictures and admire. We have a lot of back roads kind of off the beaten path—places that people can just drive around and be surrounded with the leaves and everything,” she says.

When not taking in the trees, visitors can enjoy live music at the new Brown County Music Center, tastings and tours at Bear Wallow Distillery and Hard Truth Distilling Co. and visiting the 54 businesses that make up the Arts Village.

“It’s a fun place to come in the fall just because of all the leaves and the hustle and bustle. Everywhere you go there’s fall

decoration, fall flavors, people having apple cider and pumpkin flavor everything,” adds Sitzman.

AN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE Those looking to immerse themselves in the outdoors can head south to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The park’s 24,000 acres include land in Kentucky,

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“Cumberland Gap is the very first doorway to the west. It’s the route that Daniel Boone and 300,000 pioneers journeyed O N - T H E - L AK E through as they headed out west,” says OH I O ’S W I N E COUN T RY R E SOR T Carol Borneman, chief of interpretation and education at the park. As a natural path in the Appalachian Mountains, migrating animals, Native Americans and westbound T H E L O D G E AT pioneers used the gap to safely cross the mountains. Later, the area’s minerals and O N - T H E - L AK E resources were used to make charcoal and OH I O ’S W I N E COUN T RY R E SOR T iron and Civil War soldiers traveled its path.

Today, the park continues to honor its history. For example, Oct. 18 and 19 the park will celebrate the 200th anniversary T H E L O D G E AT of the Iron Furnace, the oldest manmade The Cumberland Gap was used by many to object in the park. In its heyday, the furnace cross the Appalachian Mountains and is O N - T H E - L AK E produced three tons of iron a day, most of considered to be the OH first gateway to the Twest.

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Cumberland Gap also gives visitors the chance to take in its natural beauty.

“What most people do is drive the 4-mile long road to the top of the mountain to the pinnacle overlook,” says Borneman. “That (Cumberland Gap) passageway is located right below the viewing platforms and on really clear days we can see the Smokies and North Carolina, so that’s a good 100mile view.”

Through the end of September visitors can take guided tours of Gap Cave. “ (It’s) a cave that is still very much alive with a tremendous amount of water flowing through it. We see cave salamanders that are bright red with black spots and now as the days have become more cool bat sightings are starting to increase as they prepare for hibernation,” adds Borneman.

And on Oct. 26 visitors can take a guided hike to what are known as the White Rocks.

The white rocks are a significant landmark located 3,500 feet above the valley floor.

The white rocks signified to pioneers that they were only a day’s journey from the

Cumberland Gap, she says. The hike will also stop by Sand Cave, a rock shelter that features a waterfall during rainy seasons.

A FAMILY-FRIENDLY TRIP In Chattanooga, Tennessee, families can enjoy the changing colors of the season while taking in events and attractions of a major city.

“Chattanooga is laid back but we have so many things happening and so many different things to do,” says Candace Li-

tchfield, director of public relations and advocacy for the Chattanooga Convention & Visitors Bureau.

To take in the fall leaves visitors can walk around the city or across the Walnut Street Bridge, take a short trip out of the city to Signal Mountain or Missionary Ridge, cruise down the Tennessee River on the Southern Belle riverboat, or ride a train through the mountains at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. “It’s beautiful and you have a lot of different vantage points that you can see

LEFT: Visitors to Chattanooga can enjoy big-city attractions and outdoor recreation.

ABOVE: The Southern Belle riverboat offers tours of the Tennessee River, with views of the changing colors of the trees. the colors,” adds Litchfield.

In town, visitors can take advantage of ChattaBOOga all October long. Families can enjoy the Chattanooga Zoo’s Boo in the Zoo, Lake Winnepesaukah’s WinnpeSPOOKah! and the Tennessee Aquarium’s ODDtober while those looking for something a bit scarier can take a Chattanooga Ghost Tour or visit Dread Hollow.

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The Chattanooga Zoo’s Boo in the Zoo brings Halloween fun to the animals.

Chattanooga also hosts about 50 festivals in the fall, including the new Big Nine Roots Festival in the MLK District on Oct. 5. “MLK Boulevard used to be called Ninth Street. It’s where a lot of our musicians got their start, legendary musicians from Chattanooga.

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And that festival will be a daylong music festival for families, they’ll have food and it’s free to the public,” says Marissa Bell, public relations manager for the Chattanooga Convention & Visitors Bureau.

While the temperatures are dropping at

home, destinations like Chattanooga, Brown County and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park are still offering plenty to do.

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Sandwiched in History Canal Street Arcade and Deli repurposes Dayton’s iconic music venue

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nside Canal Street Arcade and Deli patrons will find vintage games like Centipede and a minisoccer game from the 1950s as well as dozens of classic and newer arcade games alongside gourmet sandwiches, personal pizza’s, craft beers— and much more. The establishment has brought new energy into one of Dayton’s former iconic music venues—the former Canal Street Tavern.

“It’s been a very positive experience.

Obviously, people love the free games and the food. We keep getting busier and busier,” says manager Heather Kelley. “We have good reviews. We focus on being kind and doing a good job.”

Just over two years ago Canal Street Arcade and Deli opened in the former Canal Street Tavern location at 308 E. First St. in Dayton. The building became Canal Public House when Canal Street Tavern closed.

Canal Street Tavern founder Mick Mont-

gomery opened the eclectic music venue in 1981 and sold the club in 2012.

“The deli (5th Street Wine and Deli) used to be over on Fifth Street for about 10 years.

Rob Strong owned that as well. When he bought this place the two were merged together. So, we’ve been creating these sandwiches for a long time. With it being a bar, too, it’s very new to a lot of people. We still get people every day who say, ‘This is my first time in here,’ and we’ve been open for over two years,” says Kelley.

Of course the food is a huge draw.

Kitchen manager Jason Watkins, the mastermind behind the menu, has been with the deli aspect of the business since the beginning—when it was in the Oregon District as well as at the current location.

The deli makes homemade soups, salads and pasta salad. Noah Worthington serves as the assistant kitchen manager.

Canal Street Arcade and Deli also has 12 different taps of beer—domestic and craft beers—as well as a full bar.

The Champ is among the popular sandwich selections. The sandwich features grilled roast beef, corned beef, baby Swiss cheese, horseradish cheddar cheese, grilled red onion, banana peppers and Thousand Island dressing on toasted white bread. Sandwiches are available in small (half sandwich), medium (full sandwich), and large (more meat) for $6.25, $8.25 and $9.25.

Some sandwiches are served hot pressed

Canal Street Arcade and Deli has brought a new energy to one of Dayton’s former iconic music venues— the former Canal Street Tavern.

while others are served cold. There are also video-game themed offerings like The Mario, Face Invader and Pizza Jam (pizzas), which cost $8 (gluten-free crust is available for $2 more). House beer from Jackie O’s is $2.50 a pint.

Other specialties include the Hari Curry (vegetarian), Yellow Springs, Nuclear Sub, Summer Jam, Motown Philly, the Reuben and a B.L.T. Guests may build their own breakfast sandwiches, which are served all day.

I tried The Sinatra, which is quite tasty.

The sandwich has salami, capicola, mortadella and provolone cheese with diced onion, tomato and lettuce on a sub roll with red pepper flakes and olive oil (served cold). To sample a variety, I also enjoyed a chicken salad sandwich that was equally delicious.

As far as the décor, the corner, wooden pews are gone, but there are other remnants from Canal Street Tavern throughout the building such as a sticker wall, which pays tribute to many of the band’s that have played at the venue over the years.

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DAYTON ›› DINING through here. We found vouchers of bands that got paid and lots of oldschool stuff. It’s not like it was a run-of-the-mill music place it was ‘the’ music place in Dayton for a long time,” she says.

T here a re severa l tables and chairs set up in the deli area or guests can order food from the bar. Customers can also Canal Street Arcade and Deli has dozens of classic and newer arcade games for patrons to enjoy. lounge in comfortable furniture, which is set up updated. Ms. Pac-Man is painted on the on the bar’s former stage. Nearby there is a towering, old-time jukebox that features wall in the ladies room.

“We do a lot of vintage things. At the bar classic and modern music. there’s a tape player, which plays cassettes Pinball has made a huge resurgence. The when people aren’t playing the jukebox. arcade features 25 to 30 games, including On one big screen over the bar we always pinball, a claw game, several multicade play VHS tapes. We could probably open a games and a big-screen game with 500 Blockbuster with the number of VHS tapes games on it. Some of the games are the we have now. Customers see it and they newest machines, while other games go bring in their old VHS tapes,” Kelley says. back a few years. Strong collects some of “This was an iconic place in Dayton for so the vintage games and he’s also a huge long. So many amazing bands have come pinball enthusiast.

“All of the video games are free. The only thing you have to pay for is pinball and that ranges from 50 cents to a dollar. As far as the deli goes we have daily specials and we feature top-quality products like Smoking Goose and Boar’s Head meats and cheeses.

We have our bread delivered fresh every day from Rahn’s Artisan Breads. His bread is amazing,” says Kelley.

Canal Street Arcade and Deli has an expansive outdoor patio with tables and chairs. Neighborhood regulars stop in from Delco Lofts, Lock 27 Brewing or after a Dayton Dragon’s game—it’s a growing area.

Kelley says the clientele is pretty diverse, chill and respectful. There are a lot of repeat customers and some guests get the same sandwich every day. University of Dayton students stop in on the weekends.

Deli hours are Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Canal Street Arcade and Deli is open every day of the year (holiday hours vary and are posted online). n

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BAKERY

RAHN’S ARTISAN BREAD 215 Kiser St., Dayton 937-602-3422 rahnsartisanbreads.com SMALES PRETZEL BAKERY 210 Xenia Ave., Dayton 937-253-7482

BARBECUE

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ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFE 3450 Rigby Road, Miamisburg 937-866-4510 anotherbrokenegg.com FIRST WATCH 2614-A Colonel Glen Highway, Fairborn 937-431-9150 firstwatch.com

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COFFEEHOUSE/TEA GHOSTLIGHT COFFEE 1201 Wayne Ave., Dayton 937-985-2633 ghostlightcoffee.com

DELI

FLYBOY’S DELI 2515 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood 937-723-6135 flyboysdeli.com

DESSERT

ASHLEY’S PASTRY SHOP 21 Park Ave., Dayton 937-293-1719 ashleyspastries.com

DONUTS

DANIEL’S DONUTS 1878 S. Maple Ave., Fairborn 937-878-0166 danielsdonuts.com

GREEK

GRECIAN DELIGHT 1300 Cincinnati Dayton Rd, Middletown 513-424-5411 greciandelightmiddletown.com GYRO PALACE 57 S. Springboro Pike, Miamisburg 937-436-2770 thegyropalace.com

HISPANIC

EL MESON 903 E. Dixie Drive, Dayton 937-859-8229 elmeson.net

ICE CREAM/FROZEN YOGURT GRAETER’S 2330-A N. Fairfield Road, Beavercreek 937-427-4700 graeters.com

YOUNG’S JERSEY DAIRY 6880 Springfield Xenia Road, Yellow Springs 937-325-0629 youngsdairy.com

INDIAN

MAHARAJA 3464 Pentagon Blvd., Beavercreek 937-431-1414 maharajadayton.com

EL TORO 6770 Miller Lane, Dayton 937-415-0940 eltorobarandgrill.com

THE PINE CLUB 1926 Brown St., Dayton 937-228-7463 thepineclub.com

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CEDARLAND BAKERY AND RESTAURANT 4515 Linden Ave., Dayton 937-610-2888 cedar-land.com

CARILLON BREWING COMPANY 1000 Carillon Blvd., Dayton 937-910-0722 carillonbrewingco.org

THAI

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SALAR 400 E. Fifth St., Dayton 937-203-3999 salarrestaurant.com

PIZZA

AL’S PIZZA 13 S. Weston Road, Troy 937-335-2100 alspizza.biz BEPPO UNO PIZZERIA & TRATTORIA 414 W. Water St., Piqua 937-615-1100 beppouno.com

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MARION’S PIAZZA 711 Shroyer Road, Dayton 937-293-6991 marionspiazza.com

THAI SILVER SPOON 249 W Central Ave., Springboro 937-550-9214 thaisilverspoon.com

SPINOZA’S PIZZA & SALADS 2727 Fairfield Commons Blvd., Beavercreek 937-426-7799 spinozas.com

TIK’S THAI GRILLE 4459 State Route 725, Bellbrook 937-310-1049 tiksthai.com

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WHITE LOTUS 327 E. Third St., Dayton 937-222-7030

ITALIAN

SUSHI HANA 1501 Lyons Rd, Centerville 937-434-2070 sushihanadayton.com

KOREAN

YUNG’S CAFE 1328 Kauffman Road, Fairborn 937-879-2880

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YAFFA GRILL 2844 Colonel Glenn Highway, Fairborn 937-429-4959

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ACAPULCO MEXICAN RESTAURANT 88 Xenia Towne Square, Xenia 937-374-0582 acapulcomexres.com

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SWEENEY’S SEAFOOD 28 W. Franklin St., Centerville 937-291-3474 sweeneysseafood.com

STEAKHOUSE

THE OAKWOOD CLUB 2414 Far Hills Ave., Dayton 937-293-6973 theoakwoodclub.com

TURKISH

PASHA GRILL 72 Plum St., Beavercreek 937-429-9000 pashagrill.com

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Sparking the Imagination BBB shines the spotlight on millennials making a difference in business

BY ABBY HOFRICHTER

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ring up almost any cultural, socioeconomic or business topic at a dinner and it is likely the conversation will, at some point, turn to millennials.

Rather than focus on how millenials are changing the social media landscape or what once-gone fashion trends they’re resurrecting the Better Business Bureau of Dayton and the Miami Valley is focusing on how millennial entrepreneurs are making a difference in the Miami Valley.

The Spark Award, an award for entrepreneurship, recognizes business owners 35 years old and under or business owners

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The Better Business Bureau celebrates the Spark Award Class of 2019 at the Eclipse Integrity Awards on May 14, 2019.

of any age that have been in operation for less than three years who demonstrate a higher level of character, are generating a culture that is authentic about their mission and connect with their community.

“BBBs all across the nation have been trying to engage and recognize young entrepreneurs for the value that they bring to our community,” President and CEO John North says. “We look at the character that they have in running their business, the culture they establish within their business with their employees and their consumers, but also the community they created.

“Millennials are notorious for giving back to the community,” North says.

The BBB awarded the first Spark Award to Dayton-area entrepreneurs in 2019 at the 2019 Eclipse Integrity Awards. The 2019 Spark Award recipients include Matthew Sliver of Catapult Creative, Amy Strozier of Goldfish Swim School and Justin Tyler of Scratch Bakery by Justin Tyler.

The 2019 awardees were chosen from a pool of entries and nominations. Applications were submitted to demonstrate in detail how each entrepenurer leads with the values of character, culture and community, as well as to establish that the business was in good standing with the Better Business

Bureau, holding a “B” rating or better and having met financial obligations.

Owner and Manager of Goldfish Swim School Amy Strozier saw the Spark Award as an occasion to spread her mission while connecting with fellow entrepreneurs.

“I value any opportunity we can take to celebrate this brand and this family,” Strozier says. “Things like networking and grassroots connections are going to do more than paid advertising ever could.”

Goldfish Swim School provides swim lessons to children using what the company calls “The Science of Swim Play” to give kids a platform to build life skills outside of the water as well. Strozier started as a sales and service manager at Goldfish Swim School, excited about the opportunity to meld her marketing background with her growing passion for her family and children, and became an owner and manager in less than a year. The Spark Award presented an exciting opportunity to continue that forward momentum for her and her community.

“It’s a matter of not being afraid of your passion,” Strozier says. “It’s a great opportunity to keep manifesting your dream.”

The deadline for 2020 Spark Award Nominations is Feb. 3, 2020, and all entries must be sent by March 2, 2020, in time for the 2020 Spark Award class and winners to be announced at the Eclipse Integrity Awards on May 12, 2020. n

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Split Decision

Ductless heating and cooling systems can solve cold or hot rooms in homes

BY ERIC SPANGLER

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any residential air conditioners and heating units do an excellent job of keeping the majority of the home cool in the summer and warm in the winter. But in many homes there’s that one room that’s never quite cool enough in the summer or warm enough in the winter.

“That’s a hot topic,” says Amanda Kinsella, marketing director for Logan A/C and Heat Services. “They may have a truly properly working system for their home but there’s this one hard to reach or hard to cool or heat up room,” she says.

Because each house is different the solution is not always the same. But there’s one system that seems to solve the problem in the majority of the homes—ductless heating and cooling units.

Comprised of a small outdoor unit and one or more indoor units that require nothing more than a mounting location and

access to electricity, ductless heating and cooling units offer a cost-effective way to replace inefficient window air conditioning units, space heaters and electric baseboard heaters, says Chris Cantrell, service manager with Logan A/C and Heat Services.

Also known as split systems, minisplit systems, multisplit systems or split-ductless systems, ductless heating and cooling units deliver cool air in the summer and warm air in the winter directly to those problem-area rooms.

“It’s not like we just go in and we design a system to do the same thing for every single person because every house and every person is different,” says Cantrell.

“It’s kind of individual to the house and to the people because we customize the system for their comfort.”

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the heat or cool air directly to a particular room allowing the homeowners to have different heating and cooling “zones” within the home.

The ductless heating and cooling systems are particularly good in sunrooms and bonus rooms, says Cantrell. “Let’s say your master bedroom is warmer than the rest of the house. The rest of the house and

all the other bedrooms upstairs are nice and cool, everything is comfortable, but your one bedroom just will not cool the way you want it to.”

That’s where the ductless heating and cooling system shines. “Same with like a sunroom,” he says. “You’ve got a sunroom you like to sit in or a four-season room or something like that you know you want to

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condition that air space so you can use it all year round instead of just maybe a couple months out of the year. So that way you can actually enjoy it and use it.”

Cantrell says the ductless heating and cooling systems can be installed just about anywhere in the home as long as there is access to get the lines set and the drain outside. “All it is is just one small hole

and that’s it.”

It really is the ultimate solution to heating and cooling a certain room without having to rip down walls, add more ductwork or upgrade the entire system, says Kinsella. “It really helps turn unused square footage into valued living space,” she says.

Another popular topic for homeowners these days is tune-ups for their existing heating or cooling system, says Cantrell.

Logan A/C and Heat Services offers a maintenance program that includes two tune ups per year—one for the heating season and one for the cooling season—in addition to 10% off parts and labor and priority service if you break down in the middle of the night or the weekend, he says.

How important are tune-ups? “It’s kind of like required stuff that you need to do on like your car like oil changes and stuff like that,” he says. “It’s to make sure the system is working as efficient as it should and that it is operating safely for the customer also.”

Before deciding on a heating and cooling company it’s important to check for refer-

rals. Checking referrals is as easy as looking at the comments about the company that customers leave on websites.

Logan A/C and Heat Services actually wants potential customers to read comments about its company. “We recommend or encourage any new customer is to check out our reviews either on Google or Facebook,” says Kinsella. “There they can see what other customers are saying and get a good feel for how we can help them with their heating and air conditioning needs.”

A ductless heating and cooling system can solve the problem of specific room in a home being too hot or too cold.

Like most small, family owned businesses Logan A/C and Heat Services rely on referrals to keep it busy, she says. “I think when you’re able to have companies like Google and Facebook offering third-party information and not solicited information you can see or you can verify what people are recommending to you.” n

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GIVE SOMETHING BACK—VOLUNTEER

Opportunities abound for volunteers in the Miami Valley to help others and 2019’s tragedies have magnified how important it is to reach out to those in need. Interested local residents who want to donate their time, money or material goods can contact the House of Bread (937-226-1520), the United Way of Greater Dayton (937-225-3001), the Foodbank (937-4610265) or Project Read (937-461-7323) to find out more information. SICSA, the Dayton Metro Library and St. Vincent de Paul’s local shelters are also always in need of helping hands from those looking to give a little something back to their community.

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EXPLORE THE U.S. AIR FORCE MUSEUM

Located at 1100 Spaatz St. in Dayton, right off Springfield Street, the National Museum of the United States Air Force is a destination point for Miami Valley visitors from around the globe and every Daytonian needs to see it. The world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum, it features more than 360 aircraft and missiles on display in more than 17 acres of indoor exhibit space. Open daily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., the museum offers free admission, free parking and free Wi-Fi and is only closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.

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CHECK OUT THE OREGON DISTRICT

The Oregon District is Dayton’s oldest historic district, featuring a variety of nightclubs, restaurants, retail shops and architecture dating clear back to the 1800s and early 1900s. From the cobblestone streets to the craft beers, the Oregon District offers something unique for every visitor. Check out the books (and the one-of-a-kind decor) at Bonnett’s Bookstore, take in a meal at the Trolley Stop, Thai Nine, Roost Modern Italian or the nearby Dublin Pub, or just relax and take a stroll through the beautiful streets and soak up the atmosphere.

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TAKE IN A DAYTON DRAGONS GAME

For 20 seasons now, the Dayton Dragons baseball team has been selling out Fifth Third Field and entertaining crowds.

A Dragons game promises a great time for every family and whether you’re there for the food and the beer, for the fun and special activities or just to watch the game you’re guaranteed to have a blast. The Dragons, who play in the Class A Midwest League, are affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds and hold the record for the most consecutive sellouts for a professional sports team. As the song goes, take me out to the ball game!

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VISIT THE PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR HOUSE

The Paul Laurence Dunbar House, located at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar St. in Dayton, is owned by the state of Ohio and operated by Dayton History on behalf of the Ohio Historical Society.

The historic museum is also a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The house was the home of beloved writer Paul Laurence Dunbar from 1904 to 1906 and it was his residence at the time of his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 33. The house features memorabilia relating to Dunbar’s life and work and should definitely be on your list of places to visit.

20 VOTE!

Make your voice heard! Too many Dayton residents choose not to exercise their right to vote especially when you consider all those who have died to protect that right. Whether in the primaries, the general elections or those hotly contested presidential elections that come along every four years your vote and your opinion do matter. Stand up and be counted. Contact the Montgomery County Board of Elections to find out whether you are registered to vote or to get registered if you are not. You can reach them at 937-225-5656 or by visiting their office at 451 W. Third St. in downtown Dayton.

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SUPPORT THE ARTS

Dayton has a wonderful community of homegrown artists from all disciplines and they deserve the support of all local residents. Whether you follow the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the Human Race Theater, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Dayton Opera or artists from elsewhere on the spectrum of fine arts, music, dance, theater and performance Dayton boasts something to enrich your soul and brighten your life. Take advantage of all that this area has to offer and find yourself transformed.

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E N JOY FI V E RIVERS METROPARKS

Established in 1963 to preserve and protect o p e n space and natural areas for the citizens of Montgomery County, the Five Rivers Metroparks system now protects over 15,400 acres of forest, grasslands and wetlands. There are a total of 25 facilities with a host of different amenities and activities. From Germantown to Englewood, from Cox Arboretum to Riverscape, if you’re a fan of the outdoors chances are you will love paying a visit to one of Dayton’s beautiful Metroparks. Also, keep in mind the 2nd Street Market, which is open on weekends and is also operated by the Five Rivers Metroparks system.

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VISIT YELLOW SPRINGS

Why wait till Street Fair? While that event—held on the second Saturday of every June and October—always draws tens of thousands of visitors to the tiny village of Yellow Springs there is plenty to do and see there all year round. Check out the amazing handcrafted goods at Urban Handmade, browse the wonderful book selection at Dark Star Books, have a drink or a meal at Peach’s Grill or Current Cuisine and take in the beauty of the natural world by hiking in Glen Helen and visiting their incredible Raptor Center.

Or pay a visit to nearby Young’s Jersey Dairy to feed the goats and enjoy some hand-dipped ice cream. Whatever you’re in the mood for the Yellow Springs area offers just what you need.

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EAT!

All of this sightseeing makes a body hungry and the Dayton area has a selection of food that’s wide and deep and can satisfy culinary tastes of every kind. While all of your favorite chain restaurants are nearby, locally owned favorites like the renowned Amber Rose on Valley Street, the Corner Kitchen and Lily’s Bistro on Fifth Street, the Wheat Penny Oven and Bar on Wayne, or El Meson in West Carrollton are great places to patronize. If Italian food is your preference don’t miss out on Mamma DiSalvo’s, located on Stroop Road in Kettering. The manicotti, the gnocchi, the rigatoni alla abruzzo…divine. Mamma mia, indeed!

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EXPERIENCE CARILLON HISTORICAL PARK

Featuring a sprawling 65-acre park and museum on Carillon Boulevard in Dayton, Dayton History operates the Carillon Historical Park—and what a destination it is for local residents.

From the incredible historical buildings to the technological displays, from the always amazing carillon to the Carillon Brewing Co., there is something here to keep visitors of every age interested and enthralled. Check out its website for special events and festivals. And make sure you visit the incredible gift shop before you leave!

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EXPLORE THE MARIAN LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

The Marian Library, located within the Roesch Library at the University of Dayton, is an internationally renowned center of scholarship on the Virgin Mary. The library’s holdings include thousands of circulating books, periodicals, rare books, incunabula, artwork and other materials in over 100 languages. The library’s website includes information on exhibits and events that are open to the public.

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TOUR THE DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

A U.S. National Historical Park in Dayton, the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park celebrates the work of three men—Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and their lives in the Miami Valley. The park includes the Wright Cycle Co. Complex, the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, the Wright Brothers Aviation Center, Hawthorn Hill and the Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial (see #21). Anyone who lives in Dayton is well aware of our area’s place in the history of aviation and this national historical park commemorates that.

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ENJOY SUNWATCH INDIAN VILLAGE

The SunWatch Indian Village and Archaeological Park, located next to the Great Miami River on West River Road in Dayton, is a wonderful place to take the family if they’re interested in how the earliest residents of our area lived. SunWatch is a reconstructed Fort Ancient Native American village and the educational site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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APPRECIATE AULLWOOD AUDUBON CENTER AND FARM

Aullwood’s farm, sanctuary and center make it one of the premier Audubon centers in the United States. The center and farm focus on environmental education and sustainable agriculture, and provide activities that increase understanding and preservation of the planet by children and adults through education and recreation. Aullwood offers families the opportunity to experience and appreciate the natural world through experience-based education.

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TOUR CLIFTON MILL

Historic Clifton Mill is one of the largest water-powered grist mills still in existence. The first mill at the site was constructed in 1802 and it was built on this location to take advantage of the natural power of the concentrated water funneled into the gorge. Make sure you visit the restaurant and gift shop while there and, of course, a visit to view the annual Christmas light display during the holiday season is mandatory.

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TASTE SOME DOUGHNUTS— BILL’S DONUT SHOP AND JIM’S DONUT SHOP

Is there anyone in Dayton that doesn’t love a good doughnut? These two shops have become local institutions and regular stops at both of them are mandatory if you want to call yourself a true Daytonian. Bill’s Donut Shop, located at 268 N. Main St. in Centerville, and Jim’s Donut Shop at 122 E. National Road in Vandalia are true local treasures and no day is complete without a visit to one of them. (Or both!)

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SHOP SMALL

Opportunities for retail therapy abound in the Dayton area and there are national retailers represented everywhere you look. But real Daytonians understand the importance of shopping small and patronizing locally owned and operated boutiques, gift shops, bookstores, theaters and coffee houses. Don’t miss Hart Mercantile on your next trip to the Oregon District (see #23). Take in a film at the Neon Movies or Little Art Theatre. Visit any one of the number of local entrepreneurs who will be sure to provide you with exactly what you need, along with the pleasant and helpful customer service that locally owned shops are known for. Shop small and enjoy!

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HANG OUT WITH THE B-MAN

John “The B-Man” Beaulieu has been one of Day ton’s favorite radio personalities for decades and no one is more visible when it comes to representing Dayton and all the fine things our area has to offer. Whether he’s a celebrity judge at a chili cook-off, enjoying a festival or hanging out at the local Harley shop The B-Man always has a smile and a handshake for his many listeners. If you love Dayton and classic rock then you love John Beaulieu and chances are your drive-time radio dial is preset to WTUE 104.7 FM.

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VISIT THE LIBRARY

Downtown Dayton may have the new showcase of the main library, but all of the libraries in the Dayton system are getting upgrades and facelifts. With helpful staffs, free computer time, classes, story hour for toddlers and—oh, yes—lots and lots of books your local libraries are always there for Montgomery County residents.

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EXPERIENCE COX ARBORETUM

With 189 acres, the Cox Arboretum and Gardens Metropark deserves its own entry in this list of 25 things every Daytonian must see. Located at 6733 Springboro Pike in Dayton, Cox Arboretum was established in 1962 and is open daily without admission fees. Enjoy the trees, shrubbery and flowers, commune with Mother Nature in a quiet, peaceful setting and don’t miss the butterfly house and garden. Also, make sure you check out the 3.5 miles of walking trails.

DO THE FESTIVALS

There are so many annual festivals in the Dayton area it’s impossible to hit them all. But that doesn’t stop most of the Miami Valley from trying! From the Troy Strawberry Festival to the Preble County Pork Festival, from the Beavercreek Popcorn Festival to Fairborn’s Sweet Corn Festival, from Enon’s Apple Butter Festival to the Waynesville Sauerkraut Festival, there’s a taste and a flavor for every body and budget. Don’t miss out on all this great area has to offer!

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TAME THE MAD RIVER

Tubing, kayaking, or canoeing—there are as many ways to tame the Mad River as there are people willing to do it! With a number of area canoe liveries in operation spending a day on the water with family or friends is a real no-brainer and the prices are extremely reasonable.

Make sure you wear your safety equipment and follow all the livery’s rules and you’ll be sure to have a wonderful time with your loved ones. Just don’t forget that sunscreen!

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ENJOY THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY FAIR

A new location hasn’t stopped the people of Montgomery County from supporting their beloved county fair. When the fair moved to Arthur Fisher Park in Jefferson Township there was some concern from local residents that the move might affect attendance, but that hasn’t been the case. From the farm animals to the rides, from the fair food to the games and displays, nothing beats the Montgomery County Fair for fun times and great memories.

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THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE

The Dayton Art Institute is a museum of fine arts overlooking Dayton and located in the city’s historic Grafton Hill area. It has been rated as one of the top 10 U.S. museums for children and it features a fun-filled interactive area designed specifically for families and children. Founded in 1919, the museum has over 20,000 pieces of artwork and is the perfect destination for those seeking an educational, enlightening, and thought provoking local experience.

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Dayton STRONG(ER)

BECAUSE OF

a Caring Community

DAYTON DEMONSTRATES RESILIENCE WHILE DEALING WITH TRAUMATIC EVENTS IN 2019

BY ABBY HOFRICHTER

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ajor Wendy Stiver has not had a day off since Aug. 3, the day before she awoke at 1 a.m. to the sound of gunshots in the Oregon District. Despite spending the weekend attending birthday celebrations for her volunteers, navigating a car crash that damaged her police cruiser and facilitating a team of officers and safety measures for Dave Chappelle’s Gem City Shine concert, Stiver walks into the coffee shop at 9:30

The Fairfield Lake Apartments were still under repair in August after severe structural damage resulting from the Memorial Day tornadoes.

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Mike Parks, The Dayton Foundation president

Chef Margot Blondet of Salar Restaurant created a special menu the week of Aug. 5, donating 100% of proceeds to The Oregon District Tragedy Fund. a.m. and offers me a Tupperware container of homemade butter curry chicken. In addition to wondering how she has managed all this in 72 hours it is her gift that begs the question: why?

The answer, in short, is resiliency.

In addition to her job at with the Dayton Police Department, where she covers the territory that includes the Oregon District, Stiver works part time for the National Institute of Justice. One of her current projects focuses on studying resiliency and resiliency-based trainings as it can be applied to law enforcement.

Her research has provided support and guidance this year in the aftermath of Dayton’s Memorial Day tornadoes and Aug. 4 mass shooting.

“Essentially what the military did was to build these offices of resiliency,” Stiver says, “to create systems that do a better job for caring for people.” Stiver paints a picture of the support systems that often grow in military installations of her childhood where family members of service members live, learn, play and work.

“The military has learned to provide very good support systems not just for service members but for their families,”

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Stiver says. “Because if they’re taken care of then when they’re on job they can be full focused on the job.”

Stiver believes caring for each other through small acts, such as cooking or cleaning, and large efforts, like grassroots fundraising, builds resiliency.

To The Dayton Foundation President Mike Parks resiliency looks like 6,000 gifts to the Disaster Relief Fund and Oregon District Tragedy Fund in just 60 days. In all of 2018 The Dayton Foundation received about 8,000 gifts, spread across 3,800 different funds.

“You have two terrible tragedies and there is no good that comes out of either of those, but one heartening thing is to see how people rally and how resilient Dayton is,” Parks says.

“It doesn’t surprise us in that we know these people and how much they care,” Parks says, “but you have to ask, in 60 days, how much can you deal with as a community? And it’s just been so heartening.”

Both tragedies require immediate and long-term action, Parks explained. The Greater Dayton Disaster Relief Fund was established after the tornadoes to quickly distribute funds to charitable organizations

that were providing food, clothing and shelter to residents affected by the storm.

In the months that followed funds were, and continue to be, used to assist nonprofit organizations in address longterm recovery efforts like working with the Miami Valley Regional Planning to address redevelopment issues at a regional level which, according to FEMA, can be a two- to 10-year venture.

The Oregon District Tragedy Fund was set up as a victims compensation fund to help individuals directly affected by the Aug. 4 shooting, and is being overseen by a committee consisting 16 volunteer community leaders.

“You do have longer-term community issues beyond the immediate recovery that you have to be concerned with,” Parks says. “You have trauma, so in our case as a community we’ve had two traumas in 60 days and we have to mobilize.”

Mental health and addiction are primary concerns in long-term trauma care, Parks explained. Many communities see a rise in addiction rates and opioid use as well as divorce rates and suicide, which is why the foundation is working with community consultants to address those needs and raise the topic of mental health support with other community organizations just weeks after the shooting.

“The good news is Dayton is a small enough community that we can get our hands around that,” Parks remarks. “We’re fortunate to have a strong nonprofit and government infrastructure.”

Many of these efforts to address mental health concerns and trauma have been long underway for those affected by the

ABOVE: Thousands of Dayton residents gathered on Aug. 25 for a free concert in the Oregon District hosted by Dave Chappelle. LEFT: Nan Whaley, mayor of Dayton.

Memorial Day tornadoes. Beavercreek resident Amy Rice lives just a quarter mile from one of the 15 tornado’s direct impact.

“Quite a few of our trees were destroyed, which is what we could hear hitting the house during the storm,” Rice says. “We had drag strips and holes on the roof in addition to fence damage, but compared

to what I witnessed and worked with afterwards it feels like nothing.”

After the immediate work of volunteering around the neighborhood Rice and her children began the arduous task of emotionally healing from the storms.

“I am trying to process and work through storms so they feel normal to me again,” Rice says. “I’ve tried to start a tradition with myself to grab a cup of coffee and go out on my back patio and force myself to watch the storm roll in… for myself and my children.”

Each of Rice’s six children is processing the event in their own way, she says, ranging from a new fear of storms to a newfound fascination with tornado videos on YouTube. Rice was relieved to learn that her youngest, a fourth grade student at Shaw Elementary, would not be forced to relive the events of May 27 through tornado drills at school.

Shaw Elementary opted to do a talk-

through version of the state-mandated fire and tornado drills this fall, spending extra time on safety precautions, says Shaw Elementary Principal Susan Peveler.

The school also provided teachers with additional trauma-informed trainings and connected families to work through traumatic experiences, such as storms.

How does a city build it’s own office of resilience? Well, the research may not be finished yet, but it appears that steps taken

by Shaw Elementary, over 100 sanctioned fundraisers for The Oregon District Tragedy Fund, a trending hashtag on twitter, a community concert headlined by music legend Stevie Wonder and a Tupperware of Indian food all seem to a part of the effort.

“I believe it has everything to do with connectivity,” Mayor Nan Whaley says.

“One of the social determinants of health is the connectivity to your community… and I knew that but I witnessed it in a very different way in how we came together.” n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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, Don’t Try

THIS AT HOME! SIDESHOW PERFORMERS A FAMILY ON AND OFF THE STAGE

BY TIMOTHY WALKER

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hen it comes to raising kids one rule holds true for parents—siblings, quite simply, don’t always get along. They’ll fight over the last taco shell. They’ll bicker in the back seat. They’ll argue over the video game controller.

When it comes to throwing knives at each other, however, well, that’s something most parents never have to worry about, thankfully. That is, unless you’re Thomas Nealeigh and Alice Bartlett, the parents of Dayton’s very own FreakShow Family.

They deal with dangerous situations most parents would only face in their most unpleasant dreams. But, whether it’s eating fire, resting on a bed of nails, knifethrowing or finishing a pesky homework assignment it’s all the same to them.

Their son Grennan Bartlett-Nealeigh, 14, is a student at St. Albert the Great Catholic School in Oakwood. He and his sister, Charlotte Bartlett-Nealeigh, 11, also a student at the school, hold the record as the world’s youngest professional sideshow performers and one of the acts that they’re best known for is Grennan’s knife-throwing performance, in which he throws razor-

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Thomas Nealeigh, left, and his wife, Alice Bartlett, bottom, perform a sideshow act with their son, Grennan, and daughter, Charlotte. sharp knives at his little sister as she stands against a wooden target.

The act has been performed all over the world, earning the family spots on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Steve Harvey’s Little Big Shots, as well as the Australian version of Little Big Shots and the German television show Superkids.

“Grennan has show business in his blood,” says his father, known professionally as “The Reverend Tommy Gunn.”

“He was born in East L.A. and he took his

first steps at the Empire Amusement Hall in Hollywood, the venue we owned and operated there. He would be in his little pumpkin seat in the booth, propped up there next to Alice, his mom, who was running the sound and lights.”

Nealeigh, who hails from Greenville, is the founder and owner of FreakShow Deluxe and is also a writer and an ordained minister. He has published a variety of plays, articles and books, has a master’s degree in theater, has appeared on MTV, the Discovery Channel and Univision, among many other shows, and has performed on stages and in clubs from Canada to Mexico and from Coney Island’s Sideshow by the Seashore in Brooklyn to the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood.

“The FreakShow Deluxe had its very inauspicious beginnings 20 years ago in Xenia, actually,” Nealeigh says. “As a matter of fact, we’ll be celebrating 20 years of mayhem in October of 2020.

I was involved in Blue Jacket back then, both as an actor and in the marketing department.” Those earliest days of the FreakShow Deluxe featured Nealeigh and a friend performing a handful of stunts and the shows involved the two busking and entertaining crowds who were waiting to get into the PsychoPath Haunted Trail at the Caesar’s Ford Amphitheater Park, just outside Xenia.

“We didn’t even have a name for it, then,” laughs Nealeigh. “It was just me and Wolf trying to keep all of those people entertained while they waited in lines, which sometimes

Parents Thomas Nealeigh and Alice Bartlett, along with their children Grennan and Charlotte, perform a sideshow act that has appeared on TV and stages and clubs from Canada to Mexico and from Coney Island's Sideshow by the Seashore in Brooklyn, New York, to the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. held them for two hours. Then it began to grow and people started coming in just to see us perform.”

A bit later on, Nealeigh left the Blue Jacket organization and moved to Los Angeles with Alice Bartlett. There he worked for a lawyer during the day while the two started a family, opened the Empire Amusement Hall and worked hard at night to build their unusual sideshow business into a professional touring company.

Alice Bartlett, aka “Miss mAlice Aforethought,” is the beautiful matriarch of the FreakShow Family and brings her own unique flair for the bizarre to the family’s act. A 1994 graduate of Xenia High School, Bartlett earned her degree from Central State University in 2013, where she was valedictorian of her class and also won the title of “Miss CSU Dayton West.”

Onstage during the family’s performances she can be found lying on beds of nails, climbing ladders of machetes while barefoot and eating fire while cracking jokes with the audience and keeping the rest of her family focused and the show always moving forward.

The youngest member of the troupe, Charlotte Bartlett-Nealeigh, is known onstage as “La Pequena Aranita” (in Eng-

lish, the “Little Spider”), and has been performing on stage since the tender age of 3. Her specialties—when she’s not the target of knives being thrown at her—are contortions, such as manipulating her body through the opened end of a tennis racket.

The family’s first big performance together on stage was at the 9th annual Sideshow Gathering in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in November of 2010. There is a photo from that show that the family still uses, showing Thomas lying on a bed of nails, with Grennan on another bed of nails on top of him and Alice holding a tiny Charlotte, who is standing on top of her brother. Years later, the first official FreakShow Family performance would be held at Therapy Cafe on Third Street in Dayton in 2017.

Sideshow performers or not, however, the group is still a family, and Mom and Dad, while firmly in charge, deal with exactly the same disciplinary problems all parents deal with—like kids getting in trouble at school, for instance. Son Grennan—who performs under the name “Grennan the Green Monster” —found himself grounded last year when his school contacted his parents about his cell phone use.

“We got a call from the school, and so we grounded him and took his cell phone

away,” says Nealeigh. “So, bored, he decided to learn how to juggle. Any three objects lying around became a target for him to hone his juggling skills.”

Laughing, Nealeigh says, “So then we got another call from the school. And when I called them back and asked what was going on, they told me, ‘Now he won’t stop juggling!’ So we went from our son being in trouble over his cell phone use to being in trouble over inappropriate juggling.”

Obviously, whether throwing knives, juggling or talking on the phone, kids will still be kids, FreakShow veterans or not. n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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DAYTON ›› VENUE

PHOTO BY CHILDERS PHOTOGR APHY

Andy Chance and his wife, Danette, (left) own Canopy Creek Farm in Miamisburg. The event center hosts weddings, parties and family events.

Country Chic

Canopy Creek Farm in Miamisburg attracts more than weddings

BY BETH L ANGEFELS

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fter a successful career with the Iams Co. Andy Chance of Miamisburg retired and immediately bought a pet food ingredient business—which he ended up selling. After that he found himself bored and, like many retirees, looking for the next opportunity.

Chance and his wife, Danette, who both grew up in and raised their daughters in Miamisburg, decided to embark on a new business adventure and bought a 24-acre property on Benner Road in Miamisburg in 2012.

“It was an old, run-down farmhouse that had been owned by an elderly gentleman who had passed away years before,” Chance says. “There was not much that could be salvaged except for the 150-yearold stone building.”

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The couple ordered a barn kit from a company in Nebraska, hired a local builder to erect it and before long a brand new “country chic” event venue was ready for its first guests.

Canopy Creek Farm opened officially and hosted its first wedding in December of 2013.

That first year the venue hosted more than 100 events, mostly weddings, and the business just exploded. Since then hundreds of weddings, parties and family events have been conducted on the property year round.

“Misty Sander is our sales and marketing manager,” Danette says. “She is the first person any customer will speak with—our ‘face’ if you will.”

With an event planning and marketing background, Sander works with each family or business, introducing them to an event coordinator contracted to help plan and manage each event. Fifteen hours of coordinator services is included

with each event.

Sander spends much of her time with brides, who often book the venue two years ahead of their ceremony. But because most brides and grooms prefer Saturday dates and are also now booking Fridays and Sundays many weekdays remain open.

“We block out holidays but otherwise we do business any day of the week,” Chance says.

“We do have a lot of graduation parties in May and June, but we are reaching out to local businesses to do more corporate events.”

The big barn, which has a capacity for up to 250 guests, is heated and air-conditioned. There is a brides room for dressing and prepping hair and makeup and they are adding a grooms room, which will open soon. They have also improved the paths around the large pond and down to the creek, paving them for easier access to outdoor events.

“80% of couples have their ceremonies here as well as receptions,” Chance says.

“They really like the character and they can show their originality.”

That includes bringing along dogs and cats as the venue is completely pet-friendly.

And since they don’t hold a liquor or food service license customers may bring in their own food and beverages.

After years of working long hours on their business, the couple says they feel ready to slow down a bit. They recently hired their son-in-law to help manage Canopy Creek Farm so they can take some time for themselves.

“This is definitely not a part-time retirement job,” Chance says. “We’ve grown so much that we don’t really have to advertise.

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A Bright Light

Warm Glow Candle Co. is thriving by embracing artisan community

BY KEVIN MICHELL

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hen Alan and Jackie Carberry moved from Valparaiso, Indiana, to Richmond, Indiana, in the opposite corner of the state neither foresaw their future in the business of selling candles.

The origin of Warm Glow Candle Co. lies in the early 1990s when one of Jackie Carberry’s coworkers—who she describes as like a second mother to her—retired and moved to Richmond. The Carberrys soon followed, inspired to move by the beauty of an autumnal visit to the area.

But not long after they moved Jackie was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It was a grim outlook that had doctors preparing the Carberrys for the worst. Thankfully, an experimental chemotherapy treatment was effective and Jackie Carberry has since been cancer-free.

“I guess God had a different plan for me,” she says. After the ordeal the Carberrys considered what to do next, which led to Jackie opening a small antiques shop in Richmond after they researched business opportunities.

“We knew from the beginning that we wanted this to be a business,” says Jackie.

“We never started this as a hobby.”

But they were still surprised when candles became the most popular product, something they had stocked in part to add fragrance among the occasionally musty antiques.

By 1995 the couple were making what would become their signature “lumpy, bumpy” candles in their basement. They attended their first trade show that year,

driving a trailer full of candles up to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

“Within the first two hours we were totally sold out,” Jackie recalls. “And then when we got home there were already orders on the recorder.”

Warm Glow was off and running, leading to the purchase in 2000 of a much larger retail space in nearby Centerville, Indiana, just off Interstate 70. In the years since the Centerville outlet store and Warm Glow’s business model has grown to the point that the Carberrys are able to give other fledgling artisans and crafters a chance to succeed.

“Our sense of community has been very strong from the get-go,” says Jackie. “It was this community that brought us to where we are today so we’ve always been sensitive and appreciative of the surrounding area.”

As part of that appreciation, the Carberrys opened up Artisans & Java in the building next to Warm Glow’s Centerville outlet. There artists and creators sell their wares alongside premium coffee provided

by Dayton’s Boston Stoker Coffee Co. In addition, three annual events bring visitors to Warm Glow in droves.

The biggest of them—the Fall Festival— takes place in late September. The autumn event celebrates the beauty that initially brought the Carberrys to Richmond and the surrounding community that has supported them since.

Jackie Carberry and her husband, Alan, own the Warm Glow Candle Co. and Artisans & Java in Centerville, Indiana, just off Interstate 70.

Nearly 150 vendors join food trucks and other attractions for the sixth festival, which has grown so large so fast that the Carberrys have to use an 8-acre lot just for parking. The Centerville store also hosts open houses in the springtime and near Christmas.

Warm Glow candles are now sold in hundreds of stores across 41 states, including retailers in Xenia and Yellow Springs.

But after all the company’s growth and success, Jackie Carberry most appreciates her and her husband’s role in promoting local entrepreneurs and artisans.

“A strong part of who we are is community,” she says, “and it is so important for people to remember to shop local.” n DAYTON MAGAZINE . October/November 2019

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tudies have proven that beginning screening mammograms at age 40 saves the greatest number of lives. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2015 only 65.3% of women age 40 and over had a mammogram within the past two years. Discomfort, fear and anxiety can all contribute to a woman’s hesitation in scheduling her yearly screening.

A mammogram appointment will never rival a visit to the spa, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a more pleasant experience. To that end, Kettering Health Network now offers mammography units with special features designed to reduce anxiety and increase comfort.

These features, along with 3D imaging technology, are helping to remove the barrier women sometimes feel toward scheduling their yearly mammogram.

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patient’s breasts have gentle, rounded corners. The system features comfortable armrests that relax the pectoral muscles to simplify positioning and compression. The new units also allow women to use a remote control device to adjust the degree of compression with guidance from the technologist, if they wish. Studies actually show that many women will apply more compression themselves than they would allow a technologist to apply.

Each new mammography unit comes with a sensory suite that includes a 48-inch flat panel monitor. During a mammogram women have the option to watch a series of images from nature and listen to relaxing music. A scent diffuser infuses with air with a calming Extra Support for Women with Dense fragrance.

Breasts “Standing in an exam room with your mammography breast in compression can cause anxi- Three-dimensional is particularly important for women ety in some women,” says Sally Grady, with dense breasts, which means their director of Kettering Breast Evaluation Centers. “By stimulating two or more breasts have relatively high amounts of senses simultaneously we can distract glandular tissue and fibrous connective patients from the perceived discomfort, tissue and relatively low amounts of fatty tissue. “There is emerging consenpain and anxiety of a mammogram.” sus that 3D technology detects breast Additional features also improve com- cancer more accurately than 2D mamfort. All components of the imaging mography,” says Dr. Meghan Musser, unit that come into contact with the Kettering Health Network breast radi-

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ologist. Traditional 2D images are flat and breast tissue can be overlapping, making abnormalities harder to detect.

Three-dimensional mammograms produce a layered 3D image of the breast tissue that provides improved clarity and detail.

“We’re developing tools to help women understand what their personal breast density level is, how that correlates to their breast cancer risk and how to mitigate that risk,” says Musser. “This could include using software that assigns a specific density level for each breast and creating educational materials—we hope to have those in place later this year.”

To learn more about Kettering Breast Evaluation Centers or to schedule an appointment, visit ketteringhealth.org/ breasthealth.

LIVE WELL DAYTON ›› WOMEN’S HEALTH

Getting a Break

Understanding bone health is important as women age

BY JENNIFER PAT TERSON LORENZET TI

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hances are you don’t think a lot about your bones. This living tissue grows and changes throughout life, supporting one’s body and allowing for all of the activities that we enjoy. Yet, most people don’t realize they are losing bone density until they break a bone.

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, “about 54 million Americans have osteoporosis and low bone mass.”

The foundation estimates that “one in two women and up to one in four men age 50 and older will break a bone due to osteoporosis,” with annual related costs soaring to $19 billion every year.

Bone health “is a big public health issue” says Dr. Jennifer Jerele, an orthopedic surgeon with Premier Health. She says that white women of northern European descent and post-menopausal women are the most at risk for loss of bone density.

However, often, “you don’t know until you break something,” she says.

Those breaks can have serious consequences. Most often breaks occur in the hip, spine or wrist, and the break can cause loss of height, changes in posture and decreases in mobility. For many, it is

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a life-altering injury. “You can wind up losing independence,” says Dr. Soumya Nadella, a family medicine physician at the Years Ahead Health Center, a part of Kettering Health.

UNDERSTANDING, PREVENTING AND TREATING BRITTLE BONES Osteoporosis is on a continuum that progresses from normal bone to osteopenia before becoming full-blown osteoporosis.

Osteopenia is when bones are weaker than normal but they have not progressed to the point of breaking easily.

Bones are not solid structures; instead, they are made up of a matrix of tissue that looks something like a honeycomb. The body is always in the process of adding and losing bone, with the time of greatest bone density coming at about age 30. If the body loses more bone than it creates the bones become weaker and more likely to break.

This is particularly true of women, who lose the benefit of estrogen after menopause and who tend to live longer than men giving them more time to develop brittle bones. Additionally, Nadella explains that some factors within a person’s control, like

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smoking, consumption of alcohol, and having a low or high BMI can increase the risk of developing brittle bones.

However, there are steps that can be taken to decrease the risk of brittle bones.

Jerele says that getting enough calcium (1,200 mg. per day) and vitamin D (800 IU per day) can decrease the risk of osteoporosis by up to 25 percent. Nadella agrees, adding that the calcium can come from dietary sources and the vitamin D from sun exposure, or supplements are available.

Both experts also recommend weightbearing exercises like walking, running or other exercises that cause the bones to support weight. The process of making bone support body weight and withstand impact will cause the body to lay down more bone and to increase muscle. Low and no impact exercises are typically not sufficient for this purpose.

Osteoporosis is often called a silent disease because many people don’t realize that they are losing bone density until a broken bone calls the situation to attention.

However, there is one test, called a DEXA scan, that can help measure bone mineral density. Standing for “dual energy X-ray absorptiometry,” a DEXA scan uses two X-ray beams of differing energy levels to measure the amount of X-ray that passes through the bone allowing for a calculation of bone density.

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LIVE WELL DAYTON ›› WOMEN’S HEALTH Nadella recommends this test for women 65 or older or for patients on certain prescription medications, like prednisone or proton pump inhibitors. Certain kinds of chemotherapy, especially that for breast cancer, can also weaken bones and may warrant closer bone density monitoring.

“Patients will say they’ve never had a fracture, but they still need screening,” Nadella says.

There are several possible treatments for low bone density and osteoporosis.

These range from first-line treatments that also have preventative effects to those that stimulate bone growth and those that replace the hormones lost during menopause.

SIMPLE PREVENTION Dr. Soumya Nadella

Although osteoporosis and brittle bones are relatively common, there are many things people can do to prevent the broken bones that characterize the disease. In addition to weight-bearing exercises de-

signed to build muscle and bone, there are activities that can help improve balance and prevent falls. Yoga and tai-chi are two of these and Nadella says that there are studies supporting these activities’ role in fall prevention.

Additionally, there are simple steps people can take to prevent falls at home, including removing throw rugs, stowing power cords and removing boxes or other items sitting on the floor. Taking care of these at-home hazards means that one is less likely to trip and fall, causing a break and future limitations in mobility.

Brittle bones, osteoporosis and bone breakage may be relatively common, especially among post-menopausal women, but that doesn’t mean that these are inevitable. Taking simple steps ahead of time may ward off those breaks for good.

“Know your family history so you can be more proactive,” Jerele says. When it comes to bone health a bit of prevention really is easier than attempting a “cure.” n

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UNDERSTANDING RISK FACTORS FOR OSTEOPOROSIS Osteoporosis is relatively common, but some factors increase a person’s risk. The National Institutes of Health divides these into risk factors a person cannot change and those they can.

• RISK FACTORS YOU CAN’T CHANGE • SEX: women are at a greater risk due to less initial bone and the effects of menopause AGE: bones become weaker with age BODY SIZE: small, thin boned people are at greater risk ETHNICITY: White and Asian women are at a greater risk

FAMILY HISTORY: those whose parents have a history of fractures may be at increased risk themselves • RISK FACTORS YOU CAN CHANGE • SEX HORMONES: low levels of estrogen in women and testosterone in men

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DAYTON ›› FAMILY

Creating Strong Bonds

Elizabeth’s New Life Center helps people become good parents

BY JENNIFER PAT TERSON LORENZET TI

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ow in its 30th year, Elizabeth’s New Life Center is dedicated to helping people dealing with a crisis pregnancy to become good parents. As a pro-life, Christian, nonprofit organization the center starts with saving babies from abortion and provides services to support and help parents through their child’s first years.

The center started when it located near an abortion clinic, hoping to change the minds of women who felt they had no other choice. Soon, it relocated right next to the abortion clinic to provide ready access and support to these women. Today, it has six women’s centers throughout Ohio, as far north as Sidney and as far south as Forest Park. Three of these centers are located in Dayton.

“We serve 15,000 clients a year,” says Terry Miller, director of human resources.

“We’ve saved 35,000 babies over the past 30 years,” she says, explaining that this counts only children who were saved when their mothers changed their minds about a planned abortion or were considered vulnerable to choosing that option.

But saving babies from abortion is only the first step toward giving that child a good life and a path forward. This is why Elizabeth’s New Life Center provides a variety of services to create strong families.

It hosts Marriage Works! Ohio, a program designed to strengthen and improve rela-

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Elizabeth’s New Life Center serves 15,000 clients a year at its six women’s centers throughout Ohio.

tionships. For women, the center provides pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and other prenatal services, all free of charge.

The center also offers over 100 classes dedicated to helping families build skills they need. Through an “earn while you learn” program individuals attending these classes can earn Baby Bucks, which can be used to buy items in the center’s shops.

These include anything a parent might need from cribs and strollers to diapers.

A five-week “Love Your Baby” class helps to build parenting skills and many of the classes target the entire family. “We want to help people,” Miller says. She notes that support and education is available not just for mothers but for fathers, grandparents and others who will be helping raise a

child. Additionally, the center provides middle and high school students with evidence-based abstinence curricula and it provides a support program for women recovering from abortion.

Elizabeth’s New Life Center has built an impressive array of services that support entire families in making the choice for life and then creating a healthy environment for the children and the adults. However, they cannot accomplish this without the support of the community. Miller invites those who would like to get involved to volunteer, attend an event or donate to help provide these services that make such a difference in the lives of families. More information is available on the web site at elizabethnewlife.org. n

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DAYTON ›› RETIREMENT GUIDE 2019

Don’t Worry

Be happy in retirement by simply planning for the future

BY NOAH TONG

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veryone eagerly looks forward to the day they can quit working and begin the retirement lifestyle of their dreams.

But are people truly prepared for retirement once that day comes? Luckily for Dayton residents there are a host of services to help adults implement reliable strategies so their retirement future is strong.

One of these services is the award-winning Adams Wealth Management Group where financial professionals try to answer the most pressing retirement questions such as “Can I retire early?”

Dwayne Adams, president and wealth adviser at Adams Wealth Management, says, “Our goal is to create an approach that is designed to address your individual situation. To pursue your goals we address investing principles and strategies, retirement investing and distribution strategies, estate conservation issues and risk management.”

Adams has been a financial adviser for over 24 years. Before creating Adams Wealth Management Group he started out with Edward Jones. As a certified financial planner, registered financial consultant and accredited investment fiduciary, he specializes in working with retirees and their special needs.

Most retirement anxiety relates, unsurprisingly, to financial matters. In fact, Adams finds that the No. 1 concern clients have is how to structure their investments to provide a paycheck once they retire.

“We closely work with them to create a plan that alleviates the fear of the unknown,” he says.

Perhaps it’s no surprise one of Adams’ biggest tips for retiring comfortably is creating

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a comprehensive, up-to-date plan.

Whether or not individuals believe it is necessary to seek outside retirement guidance is a matter of opinion. Adams Wealth Management, however, prides itself in objective financial advice and a range of financial services to give the best support it can. Retirement today is not identical to the retirement of the past. It is Adams’ job to understand industry trends to best provide expert advice.

“There are a lot of things that have changed in retirement,” he says. “I would say first that people are living longer so they are spending more time in retirement.

“Also, the number of people who have traditional pension plans has declined,” Adams says. “So, more people need to be aware of the need to create a nest egg independent of company benefits.”

If someone feels uneasy about his or her retirement future Adams has a simple piece of advice.

“At any stage you can work to make your retirement picture brighter,” he says. “Start now; do not wait until tomorrow.”

Of course, it is common for seniors to be concerned about issues besides finances. It is normal for all aspects of the retirement transition to feel unsettling and confusing for retirees.

“A lot of times seniors feel overwhelmed and do not know where to start,” says Allen Nelson, owner of Next Step Seniors Transitions. “It is hard to get momentum.”

Next Step Seniors Transition has offered specialized moving services and expert advice for seniors and their families since 2010. It covers clients in the Springfield, Greater Dayton, Cincinnati and southwest Ohio markets. Licensed, bonded, and insured, Next Step agrees to handle the details related to a smooth retirement that often cause emotional and physical distress.

“We downsize seniors from large homes to smaller, easier homes like a one-floor plan,” he says. “We also offer sorting, packing, unpacking, moving, making beds, hanging pictures and monitoring the movers.

“Then we go back to the original house to get things to family and friends, take care of shredding items, auction and do a cleanout of anything left,” Nelson says. This includes painting, carpeting and minor repairs that need finished.

“Afterwards we make a recommendation to the Realtor of the house,” he says. Clients can choose to use any or all of its services, allowing retirees to pay only for the services they want completed.

Companies such as Next Step Seniors Transition anticipate and attempt to solve problems that senior citizens face after a changing lifestyle. That can mean taking as long as necessary to complete a move or even accommodating interstate relocations.

But oftentimes it is not just the elderly parents that need guidance on this challenging path. In situations like these Nelson tries to help both the parents and their children as best as possible.

“We work with a high percentage of adult children,” he says. “I can’t convince the parents to move, but the family can.”

And by helping seniors transition to a new home that is better suited to their new lifestyle, in some instances, Next Steps brings new business to retirement communities, assisted living and nursing facilities. Meanwhile, other seniors just need assistance “aging in place” by not moving anywhere, yet improving their quality of life through expert organizational skills.

No matter what path retirees believe is appropriate for their situation, Nelson stresses the importance in developing a plan early.

“A lot of seniors wait until it is too late,” he says. “That means they are sometimes taken out of the equation by their adult children or people who make the decisions for them. Do not wait when you know it’s coming down the road.”

Overall, Nelson says the general public is trending toward becoming, “more comfortable using our retirement services,” which bodes well for retirees in the future.

“You do not have to do this alone,” Nelson says. “We can be with them every step of the way to make it a smooth transition in a reasonable amount of time.” n

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600 W National Road, Englewood 45322

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1010 Taywood Road, Englewood 45322

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405 Grafton Ave, Dayton 45406

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711 Dayton-Xenia Road, Xenia 45385

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695 Wycliffe Drive, Xenia 45385

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694 Isaac Prugh Way, Kettering 45429

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1500 Villa Road, Springfield 45503

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590 Isaac Prugh Way, Kettering 45429

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10400 Randall Park Drive, Centerville 45458

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2655 W National Road, Springfield 45504

937-881-1623

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937-399-8311

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937-667-7500

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8100 Clyo Road, Centerville 45458

937-433-0480

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Sycamore Glen Retirement Community

317 Sycamore Glen Drive, Miamisburg 45342

937-866-2984

ketteringhealth.org/seniorliving

The Carlyle House

3490 Far Hills Ave, Dayton 45429

937-293-3490

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The Oaks of West Kettering

1150 W Dorothy Lane, Kettering 45409

937-293-1152

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The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place

264 Wilmington Ave, Dayton 45420

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2656 W Alex Bell, Dayton 45459

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3000 McGee Ave, Middletown 45044

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3218 Indian Ripple Road, Beavercreek 45440

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600 W National Road, Englewood 45322

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2150 Montego Drive, Springfield 45503

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150 E Herman St, Yellow Springs 45387

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5790 Denlinger Road, Dayton 45426

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1010 Taywood Road, Englewood 45322

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147 N Detroit St, Xenia 45385

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2780 E Dorothy Lane, Kettering 45420

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1500 Villa Road, Springfield 45503

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316 N College St, Piqua 45356

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102 E. Main St, Springfield 45502

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317 Sycamore Glen Drive, Miamisburg 45342

937-866-2984

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601 W State St, Trenton 45067

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2150 Montego Drive, Springfield 45503

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1956 N Fairfield Road, Beavercreek 45432

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17 W Johnson Ave, Springfield 45506

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2615 Derr Road, Springfield 45503

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300 Astoria Road, Germantown 45327

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5040 Philadelphia Drive, Dayton 45415

937-278-0404

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8212 N Main St, Dayton 45415

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Dayview Care Center

1885 N Dayton-Lakeview Road, New Carlisle 45344

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320 Albany St, Dayton 45417

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2150 Montego Drive, Springfield 45503

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421 Mission Lane, Franklin 45005

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150 E Herman St, Yellow Springs 45387

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1567 Garbry Road, Piqua 45356

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6898 Hamilton Middletown Road, Middletown 45044

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1010 Taywood Road, Englewood 45322

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Grafton Oaks Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

405 Grafton Ave, Dayton 45406

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711 Dayton-Xenia Road, Xenia 45385

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1301 N Monroe Drive, Xenia 45385

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1120 S Dunaway St, Miamisburg 45342

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694 Isaac Prugh Way, Kettering 45429

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4830 Salem Ave, Dayton 45416

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3109 Campus Drive, Dayton 45406

937-278-0761

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8130 Miller Farm Lane, Dayton 45458

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1096 N Ohio St, Greenville 45331

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937-278-0723

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Shiloh Springs Care Center

3500 Shiloh Springs Road, Trotwood 45426

937-854-1180

capitalhealthcarenetwork.com

Springfield Masonic Community

2655 W National Road, Springfield 45504

937-881-1623

ohiomasonichome.org

Springfield Nursing & Independent Living

404 E McCreight Ave, Springfield 45503

937-399-8311

saberhealth.com

SpringMeade HealthCenter

4375 S CR 25A, Tipp City 45371

937-667-7500

springmeadehealthcenter.com

St. Leonard

8100 Clyo Road, Centerville 45458

937-433-0480

homeishere.org

Stonespring of Vandalia

4000 Singing Hills Blvd, Dayton 45414

937-415-8000

carespring.com

The Oaks of West Kettering

1150 W Dorothy Lane, Kettering 45409

937-293-1152

capitalhealthcarenetwork.com

The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place

264 Wilmington Ave, Dayton 45420

937-256-4663

ahfohio.com

Trinity Community

3218 Indian Ripple Road, Beavercreek 45440

877-589-0075

unitedchurchhomes.org

Urbana Place

609 E Water St, Urbana 43078

937-240-5034

enlivant.com

Village at the Greene

4381 Tonawanda Trail, Dayton 45430

937-426-5033

villageatgreene.com

Walnut Creek Campus

5070 Lamme Road, Kettering 45439

937-293-7703

wcreekoh.com

Widows Home of Dayton

50 S Findlay St, Dayton 45403

937-252-1661

widowshome.org

Wilmington Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

75 Hale St, Wilmington 45177

937-382-1621

saberhealth.com

Wood Glen Alzheimer's Community

3800 Summit Glen Road, Dayton 45449

937-436-2273

communicarehealth.com

Wright Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

829 Yellow Springs Fairfield Road, Fairborn 45324

937-878-7046

covenantcare.com

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Expert Care In Women’s Health

When it comes to your health, you want to make sure you’re getting the best obstetrical and gynecological care available.

At Wright State Physicians, we educate tomorrow’s physicians while providing exceptional comprehensive care, including urogynecology, minimally invasive and robotic procedures, in-office procedures, high-risk obstetrics, and pediatric and adolescent gynecology. Our physicians provide expert care for women of all ages.

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16 school districts.

1 vision.

Brookville | New Lebanon Northmont | Trotwood-Madison

Education in Montgomery County thrives with collaboration and connectedness.

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The Mad River | Northridge combined Vandalia-Butler reach of parents, teachers, administrators, caregivers and employers all communicating needs, resources, and lessons learned strengthen the fabric and future of our community.

From Preschool Promise to early college credit, from career awareness to career tech education, we are identifying pivotal accomplishments and tasks, and building paths to achieve them.

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We are inventors, creatives and entrepreneurs consistently improving what we do and how we do it to provide a positive experience for everyone — and a great education wherever you go!

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#BreastFriendsForever

Join us for the #BreastFriendsForever challenge by getting your mammogram and challenging your friends to get theirs, too. If you’re over 40 and have no symptoms of breast problems, you can schedule a screening mammogram without a physician’s order. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

3 Ways to Schedule a Mammogram: 1. Immediately schedule through your Premier Health MyChart® account at premiermychart.com 2. Contact the scheduling team at (855) 887-7364 3. Request an appointment online at premierhealth.com/requestmammo Once you’ve scheduled your mammogram, we encourage you to challenge a friend to get their mammogram! Visit premierhealth.com/BreastFriendsForever and send an email reminder.

Share your story to social media to inspire more friends and loved ones to get their mammograms!

Use #BreastFriendsForever to challenge friends, share your story, and inspire others.