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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Memorial honoring Marines coming to Harrison A traveling memorial honoring 23 Buckeye Marines killed in Iraq will be on display at jawad@registerpublications.com Harrison High School Activity Center from Friday, May 9, through Sunday, May 11. Called the Eyes of Freedom Lima Company Memorial Display, the traveling tribute has generated international attention for featuring eight life-size paintings and a pair of boots of all 23 soldiers who died for their country in bitter conflicts carried out to stabilize the country in the wake of hostile Syrian intervention in 2005. The display will be open to the Greater Harrison community and Tri-State from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. “There was a lady from Columbus, who followed this and was touched by it. She spent two years painting pictures of those twenty-three servicemen. She contacted all the family members, and they all contributed a set of boots,” said Harrison High School Principal Dave Baker. Joe Awad Harrison Press Editor
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“Now it is an exhibit that travels all over the country, and it is coming here to Harrison. Our ROTC young men will unload them Friday morning, help them set up, and then it will be on display Friday, Saturday and Sunday.” R+L Carriers Trucking Company will deliver the display free of charge, he added. The program also will feature planned assemblies at which a member of Lima Company will address the high school students, said Baker. “One of the gentlemen who was part of the company was on one of the Humvees on which four servicemen were killed. He was the only one who survived that blast. … He is going to come and speak.” Lima Company-Third Battalion, 25th Marines, based out of Central Ohio, lost 23 men in 2005. A few months later, artist Anita Miller had a vision the night of a memorial. Two and a half years later, with the help of the families of the fallen, the work was unveiled in the Ohio State House Rotunda in 2008. According to composite media reports, Lima Company was deployed to Iraq as part of Iraqi Freedom Three to help stabilize the Anbar Province, often called the Wild West. Over seven months of weapon seizures and urban combat, the 150-man company had neutralized the area but lost more
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A traveling memorial honoring 23 Buckeye Marines killed in Iraq will be on display at Harrison High School Activity Center from Friday, May 9, through Sunday, May 11. Americans than any other unit during the protracted war. In association with the display, the City of Refuge at Hooven, a faith-based nonprofit organization, will host the Seventh Annual Operation Outreach 5k & Pancake Breakfast Saturday, May 10, beginning at 9 a.m. The cost of the race is $25 until Friday, May 2, then $30 beginning Saturday, May 3, through race day. The course starts at Highland Plains Picnic area at Miami Whitewater Forest; proceeds down West Road and then circles back on West to finish at Harrison Junior High for breakfast.
All participants will meet at Harrison Junior High, 9830 West Road, to register. A shuttle bus will take runners and walkers to the picnic area starting line. “We ask that each walker/runner help raise money for this event by asking local businesses and/or family members to sponsor them. The price of the pancake breakfast will be $4 and is open to the community,” said Nancy Lusford, City of Refuge secretary. Part of the proceeds will benefit a military person, past or present, and/or family, who will be honored at the breakfast.
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Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Richard Ross, right, visited Harrison Junior School and High School Wednesday, April 16. Ross and Junior Principal Christian Tracy enthusiastically converse with students in Angela Elsasser’s Gateway to Technology classroom. “I saw excited students, engaged students … learning skills and things that can be applied in their careers later on,” said Ross, who said Harrison are a model for other schools in Ohio.
Patricia Huelseman Harrison Press Staff Writer phuelseman@registerpublications.com
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Schools lauded for career programs Ohio superintendent impressed with partnership Patricia Huelseman Harrison Press Staff Writer phuelseman@registerpublications.com
Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Richard Ross said programs at Harrison Junior School and High School to prepare students for career opportunities are models for other schools statewide. Through their partnership with career campus Great Oaks, the Harrison schools are the ideal model for other schools across the state, said Ross, who visited the Harrison schools Wednesday, April 16. Gov. John Kasich, in his effort to reduce unemployment in Ohio, has put together a 3,500-page package of reforms covering workforce development and education. To give students better opportunities for careers, schools must be reformed to educate in a more career oriented manner, which is the focus of Senate Bill 316: Education and Workforce. “What they’ve done here in the past
with Great Oaks in this school district and other school districts is provide a model that we think needs to be replicated,” said Ross. Ross said he visited Harrison schools because of their “quality career and technical education programs and services.” Five years ago, the high school jumped on board with the Great Oaks program. The junior high followed shortly thereafter. Great Oaks has instructors in two classes at the junior school. Under the Gateway to Technology program, seventh- and eighth-graders learn concepts of pre-engineering. Instructors also teach IT foundations. Pre-engineering and bio-medical engineering at the high-school, taught by Great Oaks instructors under the Project Lead the Way program, offer hands-on, real-world applications. Students in the bio-med classroom learn about various diseases and functions of the body, and observe and partake in a autopsy. Students of the Introduction to Engineering Design program learn the basics
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of design and have the opportunity to see their designs come to life under the high school’s 3D printer. “That was just a hands-on engaging type of learning, it’s just a wonderful opportunity for the students, I’m excited about it,” said Ross. The school is in the process of expanding their successful program in order to offer even more engineering classes. There is also a strong effort to create more dual enrollment classes. “Next year, we’ll have 18 classes that are dual enrollment where they’re earning high school and college credits at the same time,” said Harrison High School Principal Davis Baker. “We think that we’re among the most progressive schools in Ohio.” Ross visited each Great Oaks classroom where he was impressed by the direct correlations between what students were learning and the real-world application. Michael Fritz, Great Oaks’ dean of satellites, explained that Hamilton County residents pay taxes to Great Oaks so students can obtain career programs at their home schools.
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Lawanda Corman, Whitewater Township trustees president, has accepted a request to take part in the inner workings of the Hamilton County Board of Health (HCBH). Corman recently accepted the role of secretary of the District Advisory Board to the HCBH. The board meets yearly. The meeting was held in March where the board voted on and appointboard of ed members to the board of “The health. health is very, very “I got a call from the health commissioner to see good at giving us if I was interested in that,” information. I get said Corman, who already had a strong presence at the information all the board of health meetings. time.” “If they ever had any other meetings, they would Lawanda have to get us together, give Corman us the information,” she Whitewater Township said. Trustee Corman said there was no strategy behind her acceptance of the position, and does not believe being secretary of the board will open more doors for stronger communication between Whitewater Township and the health board. “The board of health is very, very good at giving us information. I get information all the time,” she said. She noted the board has been gracious and accommodating to Whitewater throughout the years. Corman is not the only member hailing from Whitewater Township. Former trustee, Jim Brett, has served on the Hamilton County General Health District Board since 2002. The environmental projects director of Westland Development Ltd., was re-elected as president of the board and will remain in office until March 2017. “The board has the authority to adopt rules, regulations and resolutions, which have the same status as law and to enact policies with Hamilton County Public Health,” according to the HCPH.
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