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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
G’dale wants your 2 cents on new pool BY CHRIS MCHENRY Contributor Greendale residents will have a chance to hear tentative proposals for the city’s new swimming pool, and make suggestions of their own, at the regular city council meeting, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 11. City manager Steve Lampert said Branstetter Carroll, a consultant firm hired for a feasibility study of the pool, will discuss possibilities, and listen to other ideas during the public meeting. Lampert is urging residents to take part in the meet-
ing to be sure everyone has a chance to participate in the planning process. Among the suggestions under consideration would be handicap access, dedicated lanes for those swimming laps for exercise, a new concession stand which could also be used during games on the nearby ball fields, and perhaps a small water park feature. The city is seeking grants to help with the cost of the new pool. The current pool opened in 1950, and is in poor condition because of its age.
Bedbugs nightmare for single mom BY CHANDRA L. MATTINGLY Staff Reporter The Invasion of the Body Snatchers has nothing on what Greendale resident Cindy Banta Ward has been through. For Ward and many others whose homes have been taken over by bedbugs, Invasion of the Body Biters might be the more accurate title. “I've been dealing with this for over a year,” said Ward, 49. Her first encounter was with a bedbug in her child's book bag. Letters had been sent out from Lawrenceburg schools to watch for them, and when she looked, she found an adult, about the size of a brown tick, crawling out. Ward called the Dearborn County Health Department and hired a pest control company recommended by health inspector John Grace, she said. The company's owners looked through the house, including under the mattresses, but found no evidence of bedbugs. Nonetheless, they sprayed the one-story home. Ward felt everything would be OK. Thirty days later, she and her daughter were getting bites. So Ward called the exterminators back, and went through the process of vacuuming everywhere, putting everything possible in plastic tubs, “drying and washing everything in the house, bagging everything up,” she said. The company treated the house with pesticides and growth regulators, and, after three treatments, things started going back to normal, said Ward. Then she let the kids camp out on the family room floor, using their floor mats from kindergarten. The kids, especially her daughter, got bit. “I stopped counting at 70 bites all over her body,” said Ward. The room is the only one in the house with paneling and she theorized the bedbugs had survived in those cracks.
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So she evacuated the family room, closing it off and spraying it with poison. The pest control folks returned as well, treating the house for free far more times than the three Ward initially paid for. But eventually, they gave up. “We slept in the car, then we ended up pitching a tent by our driveway,” last fall, said Ward. But when it got cold, they returned to the house. Jobless, she had no money to hire another exterminator. Ward's mom Linda Banta tried to help then, hiring a second exterminator who swore “he likes a challenge” and promised not to give up, said Ward. “They fumigated our house I don't know how many times,” she said. Then they inspected all the rooms and, unable to find bedbugs, swore she no longer had them. He then mailed her key back, saying he would pray for her. “But we're still getting bit,” said Ward. Meanwhile, Ward's 12-year-old son moved in with his dad in Kentucky, leaving Ward and her 11-year-old daughter in Greendale. Then a county employee tried to tell Ward the bites she and her daughter had were caused by scabies, a mite which burrows into the skin, said Ward. At that point, angry, she went to Urgent Care in Lawrenceburg, where a doctor confirmed the bites were from bedbugs. Bedbug bites heal after a few days, often occurring in groups of two or three as the bug shifts when disturbed, but won't quit feeding until sated, said Ward. Scabies bites stay red and irritated for longer periods as the insects remain in the skin.
152ND YEAR
ISSUE NO. 14 75¢
ELBERT “BUD” KINNETT 1930-2012
Final Call Aurora Firefighter Chris Turner puts a comforting arm around Blayze Lane, son of Mark and Lisa Lane, at the funeral of Elbert “Bud” Kinnett. Turner and South Dearborn High School student Lane learned much from Kinnett. BY ERIKA SCHMIDT RUSSELL Editor Elbert Monte “Bud” Kinnett, 81, left behind two families when he died early Thursday morning, March 29. He left behind his biological family of five daughters, several nieces and nephews, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, and sisters-in-law. Bud also left behind a fire fighting family. A niece said her husband was surprised at his “real name - Elbert Monte. I told him you can’t pick your name ...” One of Bud’s daughters laughed “... but he did. He was Bud.” He was Bud to the firefighters in Aurora and other departments in the county. Bud rose to the rank of captain with the department. “He was never a chief, he didn’t want to be. But if Bud had wanted to be chief, he could have been,” said current Aurora Fire Chief Jeff Lane. Chuck Hagedorn joined the Aurora Fire Department in 1980; then it was two companies - number one downtown and number two in Cochran. There were two things to know about Bud in those days, said Hagedorn. “He always had a cigar and he always had to have the hose,” said Hagedorn. Bud was manning a hose on the night of the Michael Tandy rampage in downtown Aurora in August 1983. “Bud stayed on that hose until Tandy came up to him and pointed the gun at him and told him to drop it,” said Hagedorn.
PHOTOS BY ERIKA SCHMIDT RUSSELL & TOM PLACKE/The Journal-Press & Aurora Fire
A bagpiper and Lawrenceburg Fire Department’s color guard lead Aurora Fire Department Truck 525 carrying the late Elbert “Bud” Kinnett into Oakdale Cemetery, Dillsboro. After Tandy was shot ... “Bud picked the hose back up and went right back to fighting the fire,” said Hagedorn. The incident rattled him more than he ever let on, though, said Lane, adding Bud rarely talked about it. Bud could be found either at the firehouse in Cochran or out on the Ohio River on his pontoon boat fishing with Lawrence “Red” Hafenbridle and with
sheriff’s deputy Allen Holdcraft, said Hagedorn. Besides Bud’s heroism in the Tandy incident, Hagedorn also cherishes a funny story about Bud. “We had a fire call to Hillview up off of Sunnyside near the country club. Well, Bud and then Aurora Fire Company No. 2 Battalion Chief Ralph
See BUD, Page 12
SUBMTITED PHOTO
Above: Bud Kinnett, left, clowns around with daughters Veronica and Valarie, right, during a visit to Aurora in 2010. Below: Aurora Firefighter Chuck Hagedorn, left, and Lawrenceburg firefighter Jay Stewart remember a younger, heroic Kinnett.
Four of Kinnett’s five daughters say farewell Saturday, March 31, at the Aurora Fire Department. Below: Aurora Fire Co. No. 2 in the 1990s. Kinnett is in the third row, far left.
Still a nightmare
“I just wish our nightmare would be over with,” said Ward, who sleeps in a bed surrounded by sticky traps, her nightclothes soaked in pyrethrin, her sheets sprayed
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Above: Bud Kinnett with Red Hafenbridle in the 1980s. Left: Aurora Mayor Donnie Hastings, left, Deputy Fire Chief Mark Lane, center, and Fire Chief Jeff Lane watch a changing of the fire honor guard at Kinnett’s visitation Saturday, March 31.