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INSIDE Oprah highlights local boy's gift-giving. C3 SECTION I 1 I i I 1 3 Ik.m-li Am FN Editor: Julie Engebrecht, jengebrechtenquirer.com, 513-768-8BCO TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 20QB PHOTOS chief search By Ben Fischer bfisckerenquirer. com Board says 'there is no fix in' for next superintendent CORRYVILLE The UrV neighborhood groups, called the timeline for the search "aggressive" and said it might be too short to enable a comprehensive search. Another member, Over-the-Rhine resident Jim Berry, disagreed. He said about half of the committee is made up of people familiar with the district and those members will be able to lead the discussion quickly enough to meet the proposed time frame.

The board hopes to name a new leader by the end of June. consultants were taking to ensure a broad applicant pool to include non-educators. Despite Bolton's assurances, and the search firm's promise that the committee would play a major role, some members were apprehensive about their own significance. Sofia Moyano-Kleckner, director of Su Casa Hispanic Center, was unhappy to learn that the committee would not The 20-member panel will be expected to name four to sue candidates, out of a still-developing pool, to come to Cincinnati in June for interviews with the school board. For about an hour, committee members asked pointed questions of two consultants from Hazard, Young, Attea Associates, an Illinois-based search firm, about their role in the search and what steps the case.

Bolton's comments came during the first meeting of an independent panel empowered by the board to name a semifinalist pool for the job. At the meeting were Cincinnati Vice Mayor David Crowley, NAACP President Christopher Smitherman and other regional power players, representing a list of civic groups picked by the board. be meeting candidates in person before naming semifinal-ists. Instead, they will be relying on the search firm to provide interview notes. "If we are convening here, and we're not meeting them, how can I say something regarding their charisma, their passion, their integrity as a person?" she said.

Westwood resident John Eby, representing West Side search for a new Cincinnati schools superintendent is genuine, school board President Eve Bolton insisted Monday, addressing what she called a persistent distrust of the board's intentions. "There is no fix in," she said. "Nobody's been going through some rigamarole, and we already know who it's going to be. That's not the MOUNTED MENTOR fb Universities study how to save energy, teach others f7v 1 i i it lA VyK JJ Check Cincinnati.Com for a collection of beautiful photos by Enquirer photographers. Search: photos News Briefs DOWNTOWN 'Green' groups honored today More than 60 organizations that have taken the "Go Green Challenge" will be honored this moming by Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune and Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory.

The challenge encourages businesses to reduce their environmental impact The recognition breakfast at Paul Brown Stadium coincides with Earth Day. HAMILTON CO. New buildings to be eco-friendly Any future new construction by Hamilton County's government will be environmentally friendly. The county plans to adopt a policy Wednesday that requires new construction or renovation attain "silver" status on a national rating system by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Projects are rated based on how environmentally friendly they are. The county is also creating a "Green Team" that will work to reduce its energy consumption. The county spends $5 million a year on electricity, natural gas and fuel. By Cliff Peale cpealeenquirer.com Real sustainability takes more than recycling and turning off lights when leaving a room, Ann Gunkel says. As colleges and universities across the country celebrate campus-wide programs on Earth Day today, the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College official thinks the real progress will come when materials all around campus are bought, recycled and then bought again.

"You have to close the loop," says Gunkel, chairwoman of environmental engineering technology. "You can put your cans out to the curb, but if you're not buying products that are made from recycled materials, you're not doing any good." Like many colleges around Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati State hasn't yet made that leap. The school recycles about 4 tons of cardboard and paper a month and is trying to increase that by 30 percent in the coming year. It's also trying to cut energy costs and consumption by 20 percent during the next four years, 7 1 if Hf The EnquirerGaiy Landers Cincinnati Police Sgt. Elena Moton's partner had little to say when she brought him to Mount Healthy Junior High School Monday.

But the quarter horse was a formidable presence anyway inside Roni Dean Mann's classroom. Joseph nuzzled up to seventh- and eighth-graders who are in the school's Delta Force Mentoring Program. Mann and students gathered around Moton and Joseph to learn more about their jobs on the police department's mounted patrol. "A and to develop a campus-wide program to buy recycled products. With plenty of environmentally aware students and professors researching the latest in power systems and renewable energy, campuses are proving to be laboratories for the latest environmental progress.

That Earth Day: Learn Old hand picked to lead Banks City's former transportation director named project executive how to reuse or recycle your rubbish to keep it out of landfills. LIFE, Dl means not only programs to save energy or waste, but also new degree programs. ONLINE The Enquirer The engineer who oversaw reconstruction of Fort Washington Way is returning to Cincinnati to oversee The Banks. Go to Cincinnati.Com to view a special section on The Banks. Search: Banks John Deatrick, who was Cin cinnati's transportation director when he oversaw the expressway's $330 million reconstruc tion, is expected to assume his INSIDE A city park at The Banks will have to wait until a parking garage is built C2 Banks Steering Committee, which is charged with implementing policies relating to the project He worked for the city from 1973 to 2002.

He most recently was chief engineerdeputy director of the District of Columbia's Department of Transportation. While there, Deatrick established and managed the team working on the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative. The multiagency effort is rebuilding part of the city to accommodate the Washington Nationals' new stadium and the redevelopment of vacant industrial land and abandoned public housing near the Anacostia River into a mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhood. gap between downtown and the riverfront, freeing up part of the 18 acres of land that will be The Banks a mixed-use development of residential, office and retail structures being built by developers Harold Dawson Co. and Carter Real Estate, along with a new riverfront park.

He will be employed by Hamilton County, but his salary of $175,000 will be shared joindy by the city and the county, partners in The Banks. "John Deatrick is a talented public servant who brings a wealth of experience to the Banks project," County Administrator Patrick Thompson said. City Manager Milton Doho-ney said: "There are only a handful of professionals in the country who can navigate the duties as project executive June 2. The Fort Washington Way The average university campus generates more than 2,000 tons of solid waste each year, which costs about $350,000 to collect and process. Students at several universities are participating in the nationwide contest called RecyleMania, and presidents including those at Cincinnati State, the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University have signed a climate commitment to model ways to eliminate global-warming emissions and educate graduates to achieve "climate neutrality." Most colleges still are devising the best ways to measure and reduce their own emissioniand energy use.

At UC, for example, organizers hope a new assessment of energy use will lead to a program to cut energy consumption, find new ways to generate power and eventually switch the university's vehicles to ethanol-based fuels. UC also will start a minor in sustainability this fall, said Dan Oerther, director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Engineering. Cincinnati State is in its first year with a major in renewable energy that has drawn about 40 students, said Larry Feist, the program chairman in job, begun in 1998 and ended in 1 CINCINNATI Streetcars get I another chance Cincinnati City Council members will take another swing at passing a street- car plan Wednesday, first at a special Finance Com- mittee meeting, then in a full council session. Last-1 minute negotiations over language that would au-'. thorize city staff to start work on a proposed sys-tem forced the committee to cancel its plan to vote on the issue Monday.

The i city plan would use capital i funds, bonds and private contributions to link Downtown, Over-the- Rhine and Uptown. Cost is estimated at $182 million. 2001, was the biggest local highway project since the original Fort Washington Way was con structed in 1958. complex arenas of a project like this. John can do it and keep his eye on the finish line.

We're excited to have him on board." Deatrick will report to Doho-ney and Thompson regularly as well as the Joint City-County The reconstruction refur bished the expressway and removed many short entrance and exit ramps. It also narrowed the electro-mechanical engineering. Thousands of yellow ribbons have that educational mission, so the onus falls on us to educate both our students and the public at large," Feist said. to guide Maupin's procession At Miami University, cleaners dormitories 4 LI IT! By Tony Lang Uangenquirer.com Yellow ribbons and other patriotic fare line the fences surrounding the business corridor along East-gate Boulevard on Monday in Clermont County's Union Township. The funeral procession will pass by Saturday morning.

have started using environmentally friendly products and will use them in all residence halls by fall. In university dining halls, disposable plates are being replaced with plates made from sustainable products including bamboo and sugarcane. Saturday's the day Clermont County all week to tie up many more to utility poles and fence lines, parking meters and hedgerows, redbud trees and guardrails most 6 to 12 feet apart at eye level for the passing procession. Organizers want members of the public to pick a spot along the way, bring a candle and light it as a tribute to Maupin and others. Cincinnati States Gunkel said activity should only increase.

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