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Beekeepers swarm into Clermont. B3 Advocates for the poor feel more resistance in budget battles. B2 OCAI Editor: Julie EngebncK jengebrechtenquirer.com, (513) 768-8600 SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2005 NJiJ VY mm News Briefs mm mm A tn W3 mnesiis Hi WGUC, WVXU will alter programming Xavier officials accepted less money from WGUC than other bidders because the local station had promised to retain the call letters and some local programming, says Richard Eiswerth, WGUC president and general manager. Several national religious broadcasters also were interested in the station, says Xavier University President Rev. Michael Graham.

fices and studios on Central Parkwav, across from Music Hall. WGUC, which has 26 full-time employees, expects to add about 10 staffers, Eiswerth says. The station expects its first-year operating budget to be about $5.5 million. WGUC currently operates on a $3 million budget; WVXU has a $3.5 million budget. See SALE, Page B2 By John Kiesewetter and Janelle Gelfand Enquirer staff writers WVXU-FM's eclectic mix of nostalgic radio shows, local talk, National Public Radio programs, BBC news and jazz could change when WGUC-FM takes control of the station sometime this summer.

Classical music WGUC-FM (90.9) announced Friday it agreed to purchase Xavier University's WVXU-FM (91.7) and the seven-station X-Star network in Ohio and Michigan for $15 million. Crunch "I- time for school nutrition program Budget task force, CPS make The deal will become official upon approval of the Federal Communications Commission, which could take about 90 days, Eiswerth says. Xavier's decision to sell WVXU and the network -three more stations in southwestern Ohio and three in northern Michigan was based on a universitywide budget review. The school will use the proceeds for the new James E. Hoff Academic ft headway 1 MY WVXU-FM network WVXU-FM (91.7), Xavier University, Cincinnati.

WVXC-FM (89.3), Chillicothe, Ohio. WVXR-FM (89.3), New Paris. Ohio, and Richmond, Ind. WVXW-FM (89.5), West Union, Ohio, and Maysville, Ky. WVXH-FM (92.1), Harrison, Mich.

WVXA-FM (96.7), Rogers City, Mich. WVXM-FM (97.7), Manistee, Mich. force reviewed its 24-page proposal with the school board. School board members who attended the meeting either did not return calls or deferred comment to board president Florence Newell. She could not be reached for comment The commission, made up of local business and education leaders, hired Texas-based consultant McConnell Jones Lanier and Murphy, to examine the district's budget, financial procedures and governance structure.

Several members of the Texas firm probably will stay in Cincinnati for a month to do the review, Steger said. Some community members have criticized the task force. Mount Washington resident Ann Lugbill, an attorney and Cincinnati Public School parent, said the commission should include parents and teachers, too. Lugbill also said the Steger task force should have used a local consultant. "I do not think there should have been consultants from Texas that don't know anything about our system, our schools and our state laws brought in from the outside to meet in secret," she said.

Steger said the Texas consultant was chosen to avoid perception of bias. He said he plans to speak with members to gauge whether they want the group's meetings open to the public. E-mail Quadrangle on the main campus, projected to cost more than $45 million. "It is a very sad and disturbing day," says Jim King, who started WVXU in 1976. He left the station in December, and resumed teaching at Xavier, rather than prepare the necessary paperwork to sell the station.

WGUC will consolidate the engineering, programming and business staff into its of DIET, Page B2 if MEMORIAL Mass honors nun slain in Brazil A memorial Mass for a nun who was murdered in Brazil last month will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at the Mount Notre Dame Chapel in Reading. The event will honor Sister Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, who was shot to death Feb. 12 in Brazil's Amazon rain forest. Sister Dorothy, 76, was born in Dayton, Ohio, and moved to the Amazon 22 years ago to help poor farmers in disputes with loggers and large landowners.

GOVERNMENT Buying cigarettes online not tax-free The Ohio Department of Taxation has started mailing nearly 1,200 letters to Ohio residents charging them for unpaid taxes on cigarette purchases made online. The highest individual tax bill was for a Columbus man who racked up $803. The fifth-highest bill, $495, belongs to a New Richmond man. "Our object is not to punish people. It is to collect the tax they legally owe," said Gary Gudmundson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Taxation.

The state is able to identify residents who buy tobacco over the Internet because of a federal law that requires Internet firms to provide the names, addresses and number of cigarettes purchased. SCHOOLS CPS joins suit on disabled cuts Cincinnati Public School District, two parents and 11 other districts and education centers filed suit Friday against the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in Franklin County seeking to prevent the state from ending a program that gives districts federal reimbursements for care to disabled students, said Cincinnati district treasurer Michael Geoghegan. An Ohio legislative committee on Thursday decided to end the program that gives about $200 million in federal money to help schools and counties treat people who are mentally retarded and developmentally disabled. Cincinnati Public could lose more than $3 million. HOSPITALS Middletown, Anthem settle Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Middle-town Regional Hospital have agreed to extend their contract through the rest of this year, which prevents a months-long contract dispute from affecting patients.

The a-greement allows the hospital to be used by people covered by Anthem's Blue Access, Blue Preferred Primary Plus and Blue Preferred Primary health plans. Middletown Regional is part of Premier Health Partners, which has been in a contract dispute with Anthem since last year. An edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer Too busy to read the classified ads this week? You can search or place ads online at Cincinnati.Com. Keyword: classifieds Photos by Craig RuttleThe Enquirer Sixth-grader Quan Tran (right) and Bunrith Seng prepare baskets with fruit at the Academy of World Languages. State grants allow schools to offer students at least one new fresh fruit or vegetable daily.

Three cheers for veggies and fruit: raw, raw, raw By Jennifer Mrozowski Enquirer staff writer Cincinnati school officials and a budget task force analyzing the district's finances have reached common ground on what the group will do, according to the head of the task force. Joseph Steger, the former University of Cincinnati president who is heading the group, said the task force met with five members of the seven-member school board Thursday. Board members seemed receptive to the scope of the commission's work, he said. "It went very well," Steger said. "By the end, everyone was in sync.

A lot of the animosity disappeared." School officials expressed reluctance last month to have the commission proceed with its work. Mayor Charlie Luken and former district superintendent Alton Frailey created the budget task force in August, the same month the district acknowledged overspending its $436.4 million 2003-04 budget by nearly $22 million. In a letter to Steger last month, interim superintendent Rosa Blackwell asked the commission to postpone its work until the district completed several cost-cutting plans. The district's reluctance prompted strong words from Luken, who accused school officials of breaking the public's trust. Steger said he invited school board members to meet with the commission, and on Thursday the task Vegetable Program grant from the Ohio Department of Education.

Sands Montessori School in Mount Washington and Clark Montessori High School in Hyde Park also are recipients. The grants, which totaled $138,495 for Cincinnati, allow the schools to offer students at least one new fresh fruit or vegetable daily to encourage the consumption of healthy foods. One of last week's offerings at the academy was jicama, the white root of a Mexican vine. Monday was raspberries and tangerines. Tuesday was broccoli.

Some items coming soon are sugar snap peas and ugli fruit, a Jamaican citrus fruit that is thought to be a crossof an orange, a grapefruit and tangerine. By Jennifer Mrozowski Enquirer staff writer EVANSTON Mary Alexis Katu-big, 5, wrinkled her nose at the idea of trying raw broccoli. "I only like hot dogs and eggs," she told Barb Wiley-Kroner, the school nurse, at the Academy of World Languages. But minutes later, the preschool student dipped a floret of broccoli into a small plastic cup of ranch dressing and then bit into the vegetable. Most of her 14 classmates did the same.

By the end of the break on Tuesday, Mary Alexis had added broccoli to the small list of foods she likes. The Academy of World Languages is one of three Cincinnati Public Schools, and one of 25 schools statewide that received a Fresh Fruit and tmrM imlWli iTrtttflliM.ntoiirlll mrill KUllmih i Fourth-grader Abdellahi Ndiaye delivers tangerines at the Academy of World Languages. happen in our courts, too say you can't fully protect against desperate people It could Judges, sheriffs By Dan Horn and Sharon Coolidge Enquirer staff writers Judges and court employees across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky were ask ing the same question Friday after a fatal shooting in an Atlanta courthouse: Could it happen here? Barnes I See Leis said, they can find a way to beat nearly any security system. The attack in Atlanta seems to prove his point. A defendant on trial for rape grabbed a deputy's gun Friday morning and opened fire, kill ing the judge, a court reporter 'WWCTfpf1 For most, the answer was, Tes.

Despite extensive and costly security im ton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Din-kelacker. "Part of the job is dealing with people who are dangerous." Municipal Judge William Mallory was reminded of that Thursday, when a man he had just sentenced to 30 days in jail for selling fake crack cocaine threatened to "bash his head in." Damon Barnes, 29, was charged with retaliation. "It's getting crazy," Mallory said. "I never thought when I took this job I'd have to be concerned about my own personal safety." Federal Bar Association President Thomas R. Schuck said Friday he expects judicial security to take center stage at Wednesday's semiannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, a high-level body headed by U.S.

Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. provements in the past few years, ment officials say courtrooms always will be vulnerable to a determined or desperate law enforce said Hamilton "It could happen anywhere," and a deputy. Several others were wounded as the gunman, identified as Brian Nichols, made his escape. The slayings came just two weeks after the husband and mother of a federal judge were shot to death in their Chicago home. The suspected killer, who later committed suicide, left a note saying he was upset because the judge had thrown out a lawsuit he filed.

"Yes, this could happen here. If someone wants to get you, they'll get you," said Hamil County Sheriff Simon Leis, who is in charge of security at the Hamilton County courthouse and several other county buildings. The EnquirerGary Landers Hamilton County Sheriffs deputies keep their weapons in a safety holster at the Hamilton County Courthouse as one of many precautions against possible violence. Leis said security at the courthouse is fight, with metal detectors and dozens of armed deputies. But if someone is determined enough, See COURTS, Page B9 Don't Miss the "GRAND TASTINGS" at the Cincinnati Convention Center Today, March 12th 6:30 p.m.

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