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THE ENQUIRER LOCAL NEWS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 B7 CONNECTING COMMUNITIES Submit your news at Cincinnati.ComShare DOWNTOWN LOVELAND Race, street name to honor fallen hero mi rn If you go A ceremony renaming Ohio 48 in Loveland for U.S. Ma- -rine Corps Capt. David "Seth" Mitchell will begin at 9:30 a.m. Oct 1 at Nisbet Park on Railroad Avenue near the Loveland Bike Trail. The second annual Seth Mitchell Hero 5K race will begin at 10 a.m., with the starting and finish lines at the park.

Registration the day of the race will begin at 8 a.m. with entry fees of $18 for young people 18 years old and younger, $22 for adults and $60 for families. The fees include T-shirts for participants and a lunch ticket that can be used at a festival with food and games that will be held in conjunction with the race. All participating young people will receive Hero 5K wrist bands. The top three male and female walkers and runners in each age category -19 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59 and 60 and older -will receive awards.

By Jeanne Houck Jhouckcommunitypress.com Steve Mitchell thinks his son would be bowled over by all the ways the Loveland-area community is planning to honor him Octl. Residents will hold the Second Annual Seth Mitchell Hero 5K race in downtown Loveland that day to raise money for scholarships awarded in the name of U.S. Marine Corps Capt. David "Seth" Mitchell, a helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan in October 2009. Loveland and state officials also will conduct a ceremony renaming the stretch of Ohio 48 that runs through the city for Mitchell, who grew up in Miami Township and graduated in 1997 from Loveland High School, where he was on the varsity football team, class president his senior year and named "Mr.

Personality" by his fellow students. "As a man that never liked to call attention to himself, I'm sure Seth would be taken aback by all of this attention," said Steve Mitchell ofCary.N.C. Organizers behind the Oct 1 events say they want to recognize Seth Mitchell for the way he lived his life, not just for the way Enquirer file The Rusty Griswolds headline at the Rusty Ball on Oct. 22 at the Duke Energy Convention Center. The concert benefits area charities.

Rusty Griswolds tuning up to play annual fundraiser COLUMBIA TUSCULUM Provided Capt. David "Seth" Mitchell he died at age 30. "I got to coach Seth at Loveland High School. He was a 'Rudy' type of player, as he would do anything for you," said Denny Johnson of Loveland. "He was not that big of a player, but he would run through a wall if you asked him do.

"Every time his name comes up, tears come to my eyes," Johnson said. Mitchell's former classmates at Loveland High School started the annual 5K race in his honor, placed honoring "Ruth respected (women's) intelligence and shared their interests, which went beyond the traditional household chores and child-rearing," Banks wrote. Resident Lesley Daley presented the proposal in August to buy an Ohio Historical Marker to commemorate Lyons' contribution to Cincinnati and for being a pioneer in her field. The Community Council approved $2,200 for the historical marker at its September meeting. Daley said the marker would likely be on lower Tusculum Avenue, near the intersection with Morris Place, two streets where Lyons once lived.

Daley said she would apply for a $750 grant to help buy the marker. CINCINNATI -vr, By Heidi Fallon hfalloncommunitypress.com It's a party with a purpose. More than 100 local charities will benefit from this year's Rusty Ball on Oct 22 at the Duke Energy Convention Center, Downtown. It's the fourth year the West Side band The Rusty Griswolds have taken to the stage to raise money for nonprofit groups like the Riverview-Delhi Hills Kiwanis Club and St. William's autism program.

Joseph Jones, a Delhi Township resident, is working behind the scenes to help the band. "I went to high school with Steve Frisch back when his band was the Free Reins," Jones said. "We've been friends ever since. "We wanted to have some sort of organization that would help provide assistance to people and groups right here." After lots of conversations, the Spirit of Cincinnatus was launched as a charitable organization. "We picked Cincinnatus as our icon of sorts because he is such a heroic figure and, I think, a figure the city doesn't utilize enough." COUNTY ROUNDUP BUTLER WESTCHESTER Library hosting five tax info programs The West Chester Library will host five programs, facilitated by Liberty Tax Service, to provide information and tips on understanding tax forms.

The library is at 9363 Centre Pointe Drive.Information: 513-777-3131. MIDDLETOWN Community action agency gets grant Quaker Chemicals has awarded a $2,500 grant to Butler County's community action agency to teach skills that help lift people out of poverty. HANOVER TWP. Chabot staff to visit community center Members of Congressman Steve Chabot's staff will be on hand from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hanover Township Community Center, 2595 Old Oxford Road, to meet with area residents who are having problems with federal agencies.

Anyone who cannot attend may call Chabot's district office at 513-684-2723. ACROSS THE RIVER to to we Jones said the idea for the Rusty Ball was prompted by the numerous requests the band received to perform for fundraisers. "There were so many, they couldn't do them all, so we decided have one really big concert to benefit as many organizations as possible," Jones said. To date, Jones calculates the one-night concert has raised almost $600,000. The first year, he said, raised $87,000 for 52 charities.

Last year, the sold-out event raised $302,000. This year, 119 charities will split the proceeds. "From the start, this has been our way of saying thanks by giving back the community that has supported the Rusty Griswolds for so many years," Frisch said. Together for 12 years, The Rusty Griswolds are, as Frisch describes, "middle-aged men in parachute pants. "We won't be playing forever and want to use our talents to do something positive," he said.

Tickets available at www.therusty ball.com. WARREN DEERFIELD TWP. Alliance celebrates arts at car dealer The Mason-Deerfield Arts Alliance will hold "Celebrate the Arts" from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Oct. 11 at Performance Lexus, 4328 Kingswater Drive.

Cars will be cleared from the showroom for 12 artists to showcase and demonstrate their work. Artwork will be for sale. The event is free and complimentary beverages and appetizers will be served. Sign up at by Oct. 8 or call 513-309-8585.

Information: www.maso-narts.org. MASON New residents invited to coffee at center Residents who recently moved to Mason or Mason City Schools are invited to a coffee at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 5 at the Mason Community Center, 6050 Mason-Montgomery Road. Refreshments will be provided.

Tours of the community center will be given. Those attending receive a one-day family pass to the center. Children are welcome. workforce preparation gap, scope of the college completion crisis and the value of higher education. Sessions can be viewed at www.educa-tionnation.comlivewebcast.

LOUISVILLE Full bridge replacement not needed, officials say A full replacement won't be needed for the closed Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River between Louisville and southern Indiana, Indiana's highway department The Enquirer Joseph Fuqua I Karima Sanadl, of Columbia Tusculum, picks sunflowers Friday at Gorman Heritage Park in Evendale. Ruth Lyons The EnquirerCarl Wellinger Ruth Lyons held sway, first on radio, then on TV. Lyons retired in 1967 and died in 1988. linn -f Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 2950 Gilbert Walnut Hills, will be open to showcase its new exhibits. To see details for registering, visit www.Stowe-HouseCincy.org.

or email PRICE HILL Town hall meeting focuses on bedbugs A town hall meeting concerning the bedbug problem in Cincinnati will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Price Hill Recreation Center, 959 Hawthorne Ave. Ohio Reps. Denise Driehaus, D-Price Hill, and Dale Mallory, D-West End, and Dr. Susan Jones, an entomologist from the Ohio State University Extension, will participate.

FLORENCE Gymnasts set record for simultaneous handstands Students from MJM Studios in Florence were part of a group of 20,478 gymnasts who set the world record Sept. 17 for the most handstands performed simultaneously. The Florence studio contributed more than 40 handstands for the attempt. The effort was organized by the USA Gymnastics Association to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network and break the six-year-old record of 2,402 set in i Marker to be By Lisa Wakeland lwakelandcommunitypress.com The Columbia Tusculum Community Council is moving forward with a proposal to install a historical marker for one of its famous former residents. Ruth Lyons, a radio and television broadcaster in Cincinnati during the mid-20th century, lived in two houses in the Columbia Tusculum neighborhood.

She founded the Ruth Lyons Children's Fund in 1939, a charitable organization that exists today. Lyons is often credited with "ushering in the new medium of television and pioneering what we know today as the TV talk show genre," wrote Michael Banks in his book about Lyons. CLERMONT MOSCOW Steamboating focus of bicentennial event The Western Rivers Steamboat Bicentennial will be celebrated in Moscow with a presentation about steamboats and steam-boating. Music by Stephen Foster will begin at 10:30 a.m. Oct 12 followed by the program at 11 a.m.

at the Riverval-ley Community Center, 30 Wells St. Admission and parking are free. For more information, call Susan Jones at 513-553-4200. MILFORD Actors to liven up cemetery tour Take a walk through the historic Milford Greenlawn Cemetery from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct 9.

Those buried at Milford's historic Greenlawn Cemetery reflect the long history of the city. The tour will be lively with members of the Milford Theatre Guilde portraying the Rev. Phillip and Elizabeth Gatch celebrating the 200th anniversary the 1811 burial of Elizabeth Gatch. Additional re-enactors dressed in period costumes will share stories. This event costs $10 in advance, $15 the day of the event.

Purchase tickets at Promont House or at www.eventbrite.com event1867125623. For information call 513-248-0324 or email infomilfordhistory.net said Friday. Engineers don't yet know what needs to be done to repair the nearly half-century-old steel span that carries Interstate 64, the agency said. Testing is expected to be completed by early October. "Nothing we have seen indicates that replacing the bridge is necessary," Cline said in a statement State officials closed the 50-year-old bridge that carries Interstate 64 over the river on Sept.

9 after inspectors found a crack in a load-bearing steel support beam. Traffic has shifted to the area's two other Ohio River bridges, causing delays along Interstate 65. DOWNTOWN Conference honors Stowe's birthday A conference in honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 200th birthday will be Thursday through Sundayat five different Cincinnati locations. David S. Reynolds, author of "Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America," will give the free keynote lecture at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut Downtown. Other sessions are scheduled from mid-morning to late afternoon Friday and Saturday require registration and a fee. Friday sessions cost $20 per person, and Saturday is $25; Student tickets are $10. From 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, the FORT WRIGHT Museum sponsors antique appraisals The James A Ramage Civil War Museum will sponsor an antiques appraisal fair from 14 p.m.

Saturday in the parking lot of Community of Faith Presbyterian Church, 1400 Highland Ave. At least six licensed appraisersauctioneers will verbally appraise two items for $5. No furniture will be appraised. All proceeds will benefit the James A Ramage Civil War Museum, 1402 Highland Ave. For information, visit www.fortwright.com, or call Kathleen Romero at 859-331-2499.

NORTHERN KENTUCKY Gateway president to be on NBC education panel Ed Hughes, president of Gateway Community Technical College, will be part of a national panel of higher education professionals in an NBC News "Education Nation" event next week. Hughes will join Harvard University President Drew Faust and others on the panel at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, with discussion focusing on the- I.