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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FN WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2004 C3 Overheard "This is much, much more than a mistake. was a breach of trust It was felonies that just can't be overlooked." Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, in declining to expunge Stanley Broadnax's record GREATER CINCINNATI'S PEOPLE AND PLACES GOOD THINGS happening 0 lousing to join stores Mixed-use town square planned for Columbia Tusculum Columbia CINCINNATI DpJ Square 'v MT. ri LOOKOUT negie Center. No tenants have been announced. The project will bring at least 160 full-time jobs, city records show.

Plans also call for a landscaped center median and traffic light along Columbia Parkway between Delta and Stanley avenues to slow i f. i 4 'aCt'-'-j- Alms Park By Jennifer Edwards The Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBIA TUSCULUM Housing is now part of a $24 million urban downtown that will mix shops, restaurants and offices in this East Side neighborhood. Columbia Tusculum's Columbia Square project will hold about 60 condominiums andor apartments on the second and third stories of one building and make up an entire other building. The project will consist of four buildings. Three of the buildings will rise on the southeast corner of Delta Avenue and Columbia Parkway, including where a YMCA branch now sits.

The YMCA is moving to the East End Community School under construction at Stanley and Kellogg avenues. The school should open in fall 2005. The fourth structure, a three-story office building, will emerge on the intersection's northwest corner and, eventually, town homes could rise near-by. Columbia Square will be built in at least two phases over about a decade. The project hit a milestone recently when the developer, Al Neyer Inc.

of Blue Ash, bought the land necessary to build it. "Columbia Square presents a u-nique opportunity to re-knit this important community by creating a pedestrian friendly, vibrant town square," said Dave Neyer, the company's president. Construction could begin later this year or in 2005, depending on the market, Neyer officials told residents gathered late Monday for Columbia Tusculum's monthly community council meeting at Car v-'V, vehicles. Neighbors long have anticipated the development. They say it would boost property values and reinvigorate Columbia Tusculum.

"It marks a rebirth in the community," said resident Ralph Aust, vice chairman of the Columbia Tusculum Community Development Corp. "In years past, we had strong infrastructure of banks, shops and delis and all sorts of things that supported neighborhoods," he said. "Over the years, those have all closed. This brings back the op- THOMAS E. WITTE for The Cincinnati Enquirer Jaszmln Pitts, a third-grader at Jane Hoop Elementary School, shows off a cicada shell as her sister Cierra Sears (left), a fifth-grader, and fourth-grader Alexis Aleshire pull her home from school in a wagon.

Jaszmin gets the special treatment because she broke her foot in a bicycle accident two weeks ago. Little red wagon gets her to class W'M'Scs. J. gnJlil I Photos by GLENN HARTONGThe Cincinnati Enquirer Former Loveland Mayor Roland "Doc" Boike carries trays of flowers at the Loveland Veterans' Memorial on Tuesday morning as he and several other people work to plant nearly 3,000 flowers. He has been planting flowers there for 10 years.

former mayor a tireless civic COLUMBIA TUSCULUM East Lunken End AirPn The Cincinnati EnquirerRANDY MAZZOLA portunity to reinvent our neighborhood with a new shopping area." E-mail jedwardsenquirer.com 26 hit big one: lottery By Jim Hannah Tlte Cincinnati Enquirer HEBRON Steve Gies had just strolled onto the 14th green of AJ. Jolly Golf Course when his coworker and golfing buddy's mobile phone rang. Gies' heart raced as he overheard key words of the conversation: Lottery. Office pool. Winners.

He interrupted his golfing buddy: "You know I'm a part of that pool." Gies, 37, was more than a part. He was the one who had the winning ticket. He was one of 25 employees at Wild Flavors Inc. in Erlanger who won Saturday's $12.6 million Lotto South jackpot. After deciding to take the one-time lump sum, subtracting taxes and splitting it 25 ways, each will receive $177,791.40.

Gies is splitting his share with a 26th person. Gies turned in the ticket Tuesday afternoon at lottery headquarters in Louisville. "It's not a giant windfall that allows you to go hog-crazy," Gies said. "You can't retire and sleep all day, but it is a big chunk of change." They purchased the winning ticket at Save On Cigs at 670 W. Third St.

in Covington. The winners Darren Shuman, Dillsboro, Ind. Robert Taylor, Cincinnati Steve Gies, Newport Ronald King, Blanchester John Bechtel, Cincinnati David Roberts, Erlanger Robert Seitz, Cincinnati Bobby Joe Hudler, Addyston Joseph Gribbons Cincinnati Vernell Elliott, Cincinnati Kenneth McNeal, Cincinnati Samuel Davis, Fort Mitchell Pedro Alicea, Cincinnati Linda Mann, Burlington Bob Woods, Florence Lonnie Rucker, Cincinnati Stephen Kohl, Fairfield William Smith, Butler Thomas Stanko, Mason Donald Hicks, Cincinnati Jerry Siereveld, Southgate William Singleton, Cincinnati Danny Niece, Florence Samuel Monds, Warsaw, Ky. Johnny Copeland, Cincinnati Clifton Kerr, Cincinnati Girls 14-17 invited to self-defense class PRICE HILL "Watch Yourself," a free self-defense workshop for girls 14-17, will be 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at The Women's Connection Learning Center, 4022 Glenway Ave.

A professional self-defense coach will teach the importance of personal safety, how to be assertive, and how to physically protect yourself in a bad situation. A light dinner will be provided. To register, call Shannon Lively at 471-4673 or e-mail 7 local club. Adams graduated from Xavi-er University in 1960 and from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1963. He won a special recognition as the Cincinnati Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyer of the Year in 1998.

He was appointed to a nine-year term on the Ohio Board of Regents by Gov. Bob Taft in 1999 and serves as vice chairman. The board is the coordinating agency for higher education in Ohio. Mason honors workers Ten employees of the city of Mason have received the 2003 Employee Excellence Awards. Recipients included Mike Middleton and Eric Lykins, public works; Marlene Bur-nell and Troy Applegate, parks and recreation; Bill Bar-nett, engineering and building; Karen Manning, fire department; Keith Collins, public utilities; Cathy Frazier, finance department; Paul Lindensch-midt, police department; and Barb Ilering, administration.

Cystic fibrosis month Last month, the U.S. Senate declared May as National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. This month will be highlighted locally by the Sixth Annual 2004 Boomer Esiason Sporting Clays Pro-Am, sponsored by Cincinnati Bell. The event will be held Thursday at the Elk Creek Hunt Club, 1860 Georgetown Road, Owenton, Ky. It is expected to raise $250,000 for the Boomer Esiason Foundation and the fight against cystic fibrosis.

Esiason, a former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, will attend the event. His son, Gunnar, suffers from the disease. Tours of the police station also will be available. Officer DeLow Williams will present information about children and strangers, including a 30-minute video and group discussion. A bicycle safety course and inspection also will be conducted.

Displays of police and related agencies will be set up and brochures will be available at no cost. Vwmpson, David Eck Wednesday: Behind the Badge Thursday: Acts of Kindness Friday: Academic All-Stars Saturday: Volunteers Each day at 7:45 a.m., two kids arrive at Jane Hoop Elementary School in Mount Healthy pulling a little red wagon. The passenger is 9-year-old Jaszmin Pitts, who broke her right foot two weeks ago in a bicycle accident. "When she broke her foot, I had no idea how I was going to get her back and forth to school," said Jaszmin's mother, Dawn Sears. "We live near the school, and my children walk to school, but it is too far for someone with a broken foot." Sears, a single mom with three children, said they discussed how to get Jaszmin to school.

"First we thought of getting a baby buggy, but it seemed too small," Sears said. The solution came from Sears' mother, Cheryl Sears, 45, who bought a red wagon so that the other siblings, Cierra Sears, 11, and Keonta Pitts, 7, could pull her to school. "Jaszmin didn't want to when we first decided that this was the best way to get her to school, but she has accepted it now," Sears said. Notre Dame award The highest honor of the Notre Dame Club of Greater Cincinnati will go to attorney Edward J. Adams with the Law firm of Frost Brown Todd LLC.

Adams will receive the club's 2004 Award of the Year at Universal Notre Dame Night, onight at the Radisson Cincinnati Riverview Hotel, Covington. The ceremonies begin at 6 p.m. The award recognizes a local graduate who has made extraordinary contributions to the community and Notre Dame, especially through the BEHIND THE BADGi Police open house GLEN DALE The Police Department will hold its third annual open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the village's historic police station, 301 W.

Sharon Road. Top officers will be available to explain daily operations of the department, and visitors will be able to meet the entire staff of patrol officers and court clerks. Contributors: Janinne Daily topics Sunday: Faith Matters Monday: Giving Back Tuesday: Positively Kids gem "Doc" Boike rolls up guide string for flower planting at the memorial. As a city official, he pushed for the memorial at Riverside Drive and West Loveland Avenue, and he's credited with civic improvements such as expanding the park system. He also came up with the idea to stamp Valentine's Day cards with the Loveland postmark.

'Doc' Boike File Name: Roland "Doc" Boike Born: Oct. 28, 1930, in Madeira Career: Retired chiropractor Education: Withrow High School; University of Cincinnati; Western Kentucky University; Lincoln College of Chiropractic, Indianapolis Personal: Wife, Lu; four children, Cindy, Lori, Carolyn and Stephen (who died in April 1994); and seven grandchildren Valentine cards with the Loveland postmark. E-mail smclaughlinenquirer.com out against a proposed 6-mill property tax increase to pay for it. The Recreation Commission had proposed building a $16.6 million community center to replace the current recreation and civic centers, a new municipal pool and renovating a high school athletic field. The report presented Monday night instead recommended Wyoming City Schools handle any improvements to the athletic field.

Vicky Zwissler, a councilwoman who sits on the commission, said officials now are considering a new $2.4 million pool as part of the next two years' budgets. By Sheila McLaughlin The Cincinnati Enquirer LOVELAND If it takes 12 years to make a good garden, as a gardening enthusiast once wrote, then Roland "Doc" Boike is almost there. For about a decade, the former mayor and retired chiropractor has toiled in the soil -along with a handful of volunteers to clear and plant flowers at the Loveland Veterans' Memorial that he pushed to build at Riverside Drive and West Loveland Avenue. Tuesday, the knees of his blue jeans glazed with mud, the 73-year-old Korean War veteran flitted around, restaking a planting line here, then grabbing another flat of yellow marigolds so he could drop in flowers behind a volunteer with an auger who was" drilling planting holes in the dark, rich dirt. By week's end, Boike hopes to have 3,000 marigolds and purple and red periwinkles planted.

For Boike, organizing the affair is part of a history of service to the city he adopted in 1965. "As the old saying goes, a boy can't do well in his own hometown," Boike said, referring to his Madeira roots. "I get a lot of satisfaction out of it." As a former councilman, mayor and vice mayor in the 1970s and 1980s, he was part of a group that pushed to modernize the Neighborhood briefs Libertarians back property owners NORWOOD Officials of the Libertarian Party of Ohio will demonstrate Thursday on the steps of the Hamilton County Courthouse to show support for the property owners involved in an eminent domain fight with Norwood. Developers want to build the Rookwood Exchange an office, retail and housing complex on property between Edwards and Edmondson roads and Williams Avenue, where 67 houses and four businesses are located. Sixty-five homeowners want to sell to the developer, but three city, preparing it for an eventual influx of subdivisions and businesses.

They expanded the park system and developed a commerce park, as well as the city's trailhead on the Little Miami Scenic Trail. But, civic resume aside, Boike might be better known as the man who put the love in Loveland. As co-founder and president of the Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce, Boike capitalized on Valentine's Day as a way to draw attention to the city. First, he penned the city's Valentine slogan, "There is nothing in life so sweet as love." Then he came up with the idea to stamp small-business owners, a homeowner and a landlord want to stay where they are On Thursday, Judge Beth Myers will listen to oral arguments from both sides. She will decide if Norwood has the legal right to take those five properties for urban renewal through eminent domain.

Wyoming won't build new recreation center WYOMING City Council has adopted a report recommending plans for a $20.8 million recreation complex be dropped, a month after a number of residents, snoke If you have a story about a student, resident or volunteer group that's making a difference, contact Allen Howard at 768-8362, ahowardenquirer.com or 768-8340 (fax). Photos are welcome; digital is preferred, or mail to The Cincinnati Enquirer, 312 Elm Cincitmati 45202..