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SECTION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 CONTACT US CALL THE NEWS DESK AT 513-768-8600 Editors: Joe Fenton, jfentonfenquirer.com; David Caudill, dcaudillenquirer.com Breaking News Updates on your cell phone Text OHNEWS to 44636 (4INF0) for breaking news headlines, as they happen. (Carrier charges may apply) CincyMobiIe.com Get your personalized mobile edition. Text CINCYMOBILE to 513859 JQ. inpi he I nM I pi Tilii iiffi iii mi i ZOO CATS ARE ALL WET Three fishing cats so named because they lunge into water to capture fish were born June 30 at the zoo. It's the first litter of fishing cats born in Cincinnati since 1993, the zoo said.

Story, B3 FN OKTOBERFEST HAPPY ENDING AS BOY TAKES RISKY TREK V't'tVA Angel walks to the rescue mm, -Hp or -MB porch, relaxing with her sister-in-law. They were enjoying the stillness of a late summer night. Inside the red-brick home she shares with her husband, Robert, their 2Vt year-old son, Raspberry, was fast asleep. "We almost went in the backyard and built a fire," Wolfe said. As she spoke, she sat on her front porch.

Her bare feet touched a chalk drawing by her son. He had drawn a heart, an appropriate sign at By Cliff Radel cradelenquirer.com MADEIRA Late one night, Mathew Cook decided to fetch his dog, Potter. But there were four wrinkles: 1. Potter, a Lab-Golden Retriever mix, sat 3.7 miles away in Madeira. 2.

Mathew was spending the night in Madison Place with his older brother and sister-in-law. 3. Mathew is 8 years old. 4. He has Down syndrome.

But, he went anyway. And that's how he met his guardian angel, a 30-year-old cake decorator named Erin Wolfe. I A The EnquirerMichael E. Keating Mathew Cook, 8, was staying with his brother overnight and decided to hike 3.4 miles to get his service dog. See ANGEL, PageB2 Triple amputee has of lessons learned; powerful message and despite it all, ZtvcH Until help arrived, she watched over him for the length of his one-hour, two-mile trek.

She followed him along heavily traveled, unlit streets with no sidewalks and plenty of weeds taller than a blond, blue-eyed, 8-year-old boy. "It took me a minute to catch up to him," Wolfe remembered. "He was hoofing it down the street." He was dressed for a walk, shorts, T-shirt, red-and-black Crocs. She was not Wolfe was barefoot. Before she took off after Mathew, she had been sitting on her front 7 I iff i I 4' I I '13b AV By Mark Cumutte mcurnutteenquirer.com Alcohol cost Cameron Clapp both legs and his right arm eight years ago.

Thursday, he danced in front of students in a St Ursula Academy classroom. The 23-year-old California native, in Cincinnati to mentor other double-leg amputees at University and Shriners hospitals, delivered a heartfelt and unflinching presentation to two sophomore health classes at the high school in East Walnut Hills. "Impossible is an opinion, not a fact," said Clapp, wearing blue shorts and a short-sleeved golf shirt to reveal his prosthetic legs and arm. Accompanied by video, still photographs and audio, he detailed his injury, recovery and interests and challenged the students to set goals, overcome obstacles and reap the benefits of positive choices and realize the consequences of negative ones -messages all rendered genuinely. "He never lost his California surfer-dude attitude," was what impressed Lauren Harper, a St Ursula sophomore from Golf Manor.

The first obstacle he had to overcome, Clapp said, was his parents' divorce, even before his accident. He showed a photograph of his family, including identical twin brother Jesse. "He's a good-looking guy," Cameron said. The brothers were active, playing soccer and baseball and surfing and running in their hometown of Pismo Beach. But they made a bad choice Sept 15, 2001.

They were 15 at the fit) It's a sure sign of fall: Oktoberfest Zinzinna-ti, two days of celebrating expected to draw half a million people to Cincinnati's downtown streets. We've got all you need to know. Search: Oktoberfest flews Briefs 'SURVIVOR' Local contestant first sent home The tribe has spoken, and Marisa Calihan of North-side has become the first person sent home on the premiere of "Survivor: Samoa" Thursday. Calihan, 27, was eliminated be- cause she challenged i Houston oil company owner Russell Hantz, who emerged as the show's villain by Callhan secretly dumping drinking water and lying to contestants about being a Hurricane Katrina victim. When she suspected him of being "pretty slimy," he got a majority in camp to vote her out, 7-3.

Boasted Hantz: "My tribe will believe anything I tell them because they're stupid. You can call me the puppet master." MONTGOMERY Kiwanis art show will be Sunday More than 50 artists are showing off their paintings, photographs, ceramics, sculptures and jewelry at the Kiwanis Art Show, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. High school students will compete for a $500 art school scholarship. The winner and Best of Show will be announced at 4:30 p.m.

at Universalist Church, Montgomery and Remington roads. Montgomery Road between Cooper and Taulman will be closed 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday. The event benefits Kiwanis community service projects. Space remains for last-minute artists.

Information: 513-910-7068. $100,000 AWARD Money to set up autism program Stepping Stones Center, which serves children and adults with disabilities at locations in Indian Hill and Batavia, has been awarded $100,000 from health insurer Humana to expand an education program for school-age children with autism. The money will be Used to renovate existing space and construct additional facilities for the center's Step-Up program. Humana also awarded $10,000 each to ProKids and Wesley Community Services. CINC5NNATI.COM Play a game, read the funnies or do the crossword.

SEARCH: comics Yl 1 KEVIN LE, 16 StX junior hit by car dies By Carrie Whitaker cwhitakerenquirer.com Kevin Le, the 16-year-old St. Xavier High School student who was hit by a car last week in Fairfield, died Thursday afternoon. The honor roll student with singing, wrestling and Rubik's-cube-dominating talents died at University Hospital after spending nine days there in a coma. "Obviously we are deeply saddened by this loss of a bright young man in the springtime of his life," said the Rev. Tim Howe, president of St.

Xavier High School. "Our first and best thoughts are prayers for Kevin and his family. It's hard to comprehend a tragedy like this, but our hope and our faith point to the Resurrection." The young Kevin Le man from Liberty Township was hit by a car on Dixie Highway in Fairfield on Sept 8. His family told The Enquirer in earlier stories that Kevin had had hundreds of visitors. Nearly 800 people joined his medical page at www.carep-ages.com.

The comment section on Kevin's Web page erupted in remorse as loved ones learned of the loss. Thursday afternoon, Kevin was to undergo a "brain death test," his older brother Bryan Le wrote in his most recent update, which came at 12:17 p.m. St. students received a recorded message Thursday afternoon informing them of Kevin's death. "He had a really quick grin," said Lori Anne Fother-gill, who works at St Michael Church in Sharonville, which Kevin's family attends.

"He was easy-go-lucky and always quick to crack a joke but he knew the appropriate time to do it He was a really sweet person." Fothergill said Kevin was a quiet leader and always encouraged other youth in the church to stand up for their faith. She said he got his selflessness from his mother. "On the (online) care page, Diane even in her time of grief always said if you want to do anything, do something for St Michael's or St. Xavier High School," Fothergill said. "Kevin was like that, too.

He learned it from his family." This week Fairfield police released the traffic report that said the Hamilton wom- See LE, Page B2 IK nix 4 'I I The EnquirerGary Landers to recover not only to their own school a day after Amber was killed. Two juniors were arrested on felonious assault charges for allegedly beating another student and breaking his jaw between classes early Friday. Principal Richard Hamilton said the fight happened because the juniors felt the 16-year-old sophomore boy knew the brawl at the North Pointe complex was going to happen but never told anybody to put a stop to it Even so, Hamilton, students and parents alike agreed the overwhelming feeling at Lakota this week has been overwhelming sadness along with a sense of quiet order. "It was kind of scary that that happened at school," said Kendra Williams, 16. Tension has calmed, she said, and "now it's just been See AMBER, Page B2 Cameron Clapp shows the "robot legs" that helped him his mobility, but his spirit.

See AMPUTEE, PageB2 AMBER ROBINSON Hundreds mourn stabbing victim, 15 The EnquirerLeigh Taylor of Amber Robinson, gets the funeral Thursday. apartment complex. Witnesses told police Amber was trying to play peacemaker. The students scattered throughout the crowd not only lost a friend and honor student classmate, but saw the violence of the night she was fatally stabbed trickle over in By Sheila McLaughlin nqmrer.com WEST CHESTER TWP. A tragic week for family and friends of Amber Robinson and for the larger community at Lakota West High School came to an end Thursday with a grief- stricken mother's shrill scream.

Tascha Robinson's wails pierced the stifling Amber sanctuary at Global Ministries Zion church as funeral home attendants gently closed the white casket on the 15-year-old homicide victim. "My baby. No," Tascha Robinson sobbed as family members rushed to help her into her seat two rows from her daughter's casket. Tascha Robinson (left), mother a hug from a mourner during The emotional display prompted the same reaction from the overflowing crowd of more than 500 students, friends and relatives of the Lakota West sophomore who died a week ago when she was stabbed in the back during a brawl at a West Chester.

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