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2B MONDAY, DECEMBER to. IWft DAY I ON DAILY NEWS OBSERVANCE Flight anniversary panel revs plans First Flight luncheon WHO: 2003 Committee, Aviation Trail Inc WHAT: Annual luncheon to celebrate Wright brothers' first powered flights FEATURED SPEAKER: U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio WHEN: Noon, Tuesday WHERE: Dayton Convention Center RESERVATIONS: Call 222-0065. COST: $20.03 Bravada, provided by General Motors Dayton Operations and GM's Oldsmobile Division.

Despite its preoccupation with the region's bicentennial anniversary, the 2003 Committee made progress with several first-flight projects over the past year. Two accomplishments Iseli singled out were improved relations with their counterparts on North Carolina's First Flight Centennial Commission, and work with that group to draft legislation for a federal commission to support their efforts. its first membership drive with an eye toward assembling a volunteer work force to carry out even bigger plans seven years from now. While CD '96 enlisted more than 300 volunteers, "We're going to need thousands of volunteers in 2003," said executive director Madeline Iseli. Plans range from cultural activities to academic symposia to the world's biggest air show.

The committee will offer a range of membership levels from $25 to $1,000, Iseli said. Each membership will include a chance to win a 1997 Oldsmobile The committee will launch its first membership drive and begin seeking volunteers. By Timothy R. Gaff ney DAYTON DAILY NEWS With responsibility for planning Dayton's bicentennial celebration behind it, the 2003 Committee is returning to its original mission: planning celebrations for the 100th anniversary of powered flight. The committee will mark the switch at the annual First Flight luncheon on Tuesday, which it is co-sponsoring with Aviation Trail Inc.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn will speak. The luncheon commemorates the first successful powered flights, 93 years ago, by Dayton brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright on Dec. 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, N.C.

The luncheon will formally wrap up the committees's work on Celebration Dayton '96, a yearlong series of events that marked the 200th anniversary of the city's founding. At the same time, the committee will launch Ilk SOCIAL SERVICES 'DALE IN DAYTON' Agency marks first century Radio column to showcase holiday music ame changes Dale in Dayton The annual show will air this week on STAR 98 during the noon hour. 4 WHAT: An hour of holiday radio programming hosted by Dayton Daily News columnist Dale Huffman. LOCATION: Community 'Tis the season for happy times and holiday music and visits from jolly guests. We promise it all.

Today at noon I will kick off my Family Service Association has been known by various names since it was founded Dec. 17, 1896, as the Associated Charities of Dayton: 1928: Name changed to Dayton Family Welfare Association. 1934: Name changed to Family Welfare Association of Montgomery County. 1945: Name changed to Family Service of Montgomery County. 1953: Family Service and the Children's Bureau of Dayton consolidate as the Family and Children's Service Association of Montgomery County.

1972: Name changed to Family Service Association. Children Services becomes a separate agency. Dale Huffman Room Theater of the Elder Beerman Court House Plaza store in downtown Dayton. The theater is on the third floor adjacent to the dining room. TIME: Noon to 1 p.m.

this week, today through Friday. RADIO: WONE-AM which is found at 980 on the AM radio dial, and goes by the name STAR 98. MORE INFO: The program is open to the public, is free of charge, and seating will be on a first-come basis. The Family Service Association says its mission is still to encourage people. 3y Wendy Hundley IjJVTON DAILY NEWS 1 A small group of citizens met in Dayton's opera house, now the Victoria Theatre, a century ago (o find ways to help 2,000 people left jobless by the Depression of 1893.

From that town meeting came the Associated Charities of Dayton, the city's first social work agency, known today as the Family Service Association. It set up the city's first work relief program, helped poor people grow their own food and began a day-care system. The agency will mark its first 100 years with a private party from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Victoria, where planners mapped out its mission Dec. 17, 1896.

Events marking Family Service's centennial, including a family photo contest and display, and fund-raising campaign will continue into 1997. While the agency has changed its name several times, "our mission has remained the same to encourage people toward self sufficiency, which is important to a person's dignity and self-esteem," Penny Hawk, Family Service's director of marketing and development, said. Hawk learned about the agency's early history by poring through the yellowed, fragile pages of a ledger containing minutes of the charity's first meetings. It's one of just two documents about the charity that survived the 1913 flood that left its 231 S. Jefferson St.

offices under more than nine feet of water. To help ease the unemployment problem, Hawk learned, the fledgling group appealed to wealthy citizens to hire jobless workers for household repairs. The association also initiated the city's first work relief program. Under the Pingree Potato Patch Plan, vacant lots became garden plots for poor people to grow their own food. In 1910, the charity formed a day nursery where "careful matrons" watched children of working mothers who paid "but a TOM UHLMANASSOCIATED PRESS Icy afternoon fun mmmmmmmm annual column on the air series and you are invited to come down and be in the audience or to listen on the radio in your car, your office, your home.

The program is called Dale in Dayton and it is part of the holiday fare being offered on WONE-AM (980) radio, STAR 98. From shortly after noon until 1 p.m. each day, we will broadcast live from the third floor community room theater in the Courthouse Plaza Elder Beerman store downtown. Buck Braun, the popular host of the morning show on STAR 98, will be our announcer and sidekick. The guest list for our program today will include Wayne Dam-mert, who was the manager of the Beverly Hills Country Club in Northern Kentucky 20 years ago when 165 people died in a fire, including 51 from the Dayton area.

Dammert has just written a book on the tragedy and will share some inside stories. Soprano Linda Snyder of the University of Dayton music department, who has performed at Carnegie Hall, will sing Christmas songs accompanied by Eric Street. Burma Rai of the Red Cross Emergency Food Bank will drop by to talk about the need to help others during the holiday season. Meghan Moore, Dayton actress, model, dancer and singer is scheduled to perform her version of the classic hymn Amazing Grace. And we hope to get a full report from the Elder Beerman clerk who waited on President Clinton when he shopped in the store during a campaign stop in Dayton a few weeks ago.

We plan to update you daily as our guest list grows, but here's a sneak preview of some highlights for later in the week. We have scheduled a perfor- Children try to keep their balance as they make their way around the skating rink on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati Sunday. The rink is open through January. trifle" for the service, the ledger recorded. The agency changed with the times.

After automobiles became widespread, it established a Travelers Aid Society in 1919 to help stranded motorists. Two years after the 1929 stock market crash, it formed an Unemployment Relief Bureau that later became a public agency. The agency set up a homemaker program in 1930 to do temporary cooking and cleaning for ill or absent mothers. The homemaker's program and Traveler's Aid were dropped last year but now the agency has services for teen parents, people with AIDS and divorcing couples. As the organization starts its second century, Hawk expects its services to focus more on neighborhood development.

It has already begun programs to help Dayton neighborhoods. "We've always established programs in response to the community needs," Hawk said. The future of families and communities will be addressed Tuesday at a breakfast meeting for Dayton business leaders by Peter Goldberg, president of Family Service America, a national advocacy and research organization. mance by the Dayton Boy's Choir on Friday, and the Kettering Banjo Society on Wednesday. Remember the Centerville Tower Heights Middle School choir which got bumped from the Victoria stage when the performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was cancelled? Well, it might not be as memorable as being in a Broadway musical, but choir director Beth Hill said her 35 kids are excited about singing for us Wednesday.

A Sweet Adelines octet will perform Thursday, as will Nashville singer Rob Gray. Friday we'll spotlight the talents of baritone Ryan Roth, and Dayton Police Chief Ron Lowe will sing a Christmas song. During the week Mayor Mike Turner, just back from Bosnia, will stop by. Montgomery County Commission President Don Lucas will join us to bring holiday greetings and Dayton poet Herb Martin will share his talents. Singers Tom Scheidt, Juletta Aycock and Chad Beach plan to perform.

The series of programs will be rich with live holiday music all week long. Please consider spending your noon hour with us this week, either by coming down to the Elder Beerman theater or by listening to your radio. Expect some neat surprises. DEPRESSION: Issue in the workplace TARGET: Vote tonight in Washington Twp. POLLING Voinovich leading Glenn in rating survey 'It's the largest commercial development, as far as retail, that the township has DAVID DOUGLAS Washington Twp.

planner CONTINUED FROM IB higher. Clinical depression costs businesses nearly $24 billion a year in absenteeism and lost productivity, the EAPA estimates. Grandview is one of 75 organizations nationwide participating in a three-month confidential telephone screening project for employee depression, sponsored by a half-dozen mental health organizations. Callers take a prerecorded, interactive screening test and, if necessary, are directed to get help. Employee assistance officers say a greater awareness of depression and its symptoms is probably the main reason more employees are seeking help for the problem.

But another reason is the changing environment of the workplace. "I think people are probably a lot more insecure (about their jobs) than they used to be," Little said. "The old contract is gone where, if you worked hard and did a good job, you could stay on somewhere for 30 years." Christine Close, manager of the employee assistance program at Miami Valley Hospital, agreed, and added that employees are facing more stresses at work and home. "With all the pressures of downsizing, people are expected to do more than they have ever been expected to do," she said. "That, coupled with the phenomenon of two working parents, is hard on both men and women.

We could all use a 'good housewife' at home, to take care of all the things that need to be taken care of." Depression takes a toll on job performance. Close said. "People make more mistakes than they usually do. Absenteeism goes up. Dave Brittingham, employee assistance coordinator for IUE local 801, which represents 8,000 employees in local General Motors plants, cited the example of one 40-year veteran who suddenly lapsed into depression.

"He had a good track record. But something overwhelmed him and he just couldn't get out of bed in the morning. Suddenly, everybody thinks he's a work problem," Brittingham said. "With the help of counseling and proper medication, he's living a somewhat normal life again." Close said Miami Valley will soon train its supervisors to recognize the signs of depression and to refer employees for help. "There are definite changes in (employee) behavior.

They're more irritable. They start isolating themselves from other employees, where before they enjoyed having lunch with them," she said. "If it gets worse, they might actually change in physical appearance. Maybe their personal hygiene starts to slip." The good news is that there is now more help for the clinically depressed than ever, including new families of anti-depressant drugs. "About 80 percent of people who are depressed respond very favorably to medication, especially when it's accompanied by counseling and therapy," Close said.

The drugs help boost patients past the inertia and list lessness caused by depression, she said. "Then it's much easier for that person to do the things they need to do to really feel better, whether it's exercise or a hobby or going out with friends again." 1974. The poll showed about 62 percent of registered voters had a Li ni i CONTINUED FROM IB "It's the largest commercial development, as far as retail, that the township has had," said David Douglas, township planner. Douglas said the fact that Target's center would be surrounded by streets on all four sides "is unusual for retail sites." That aspect has raised concerns among zoning commissioners and other project opponents, who say the Target store is not compatible with the area and would worsen traffic flow near the site, just south of Ohio 725. Company officials, who have remained mostly tight-lipped Ihroughout the process, could not be reached for comment.

I A division of Dayton-Hudson one of the nation's largest general merchandise retailers, Target opened its first store in 1962 in Roseville, a suburb of St. Paul. Target now operates 673 stores in 33 states, and Employs about 125,000 people. I The Target store nearest to bayton is in Middletown, near Interstate 75 and Ohio 122. Target Jdso has stores in Columbus and Richmond Meanwhile in Trotwood, some A poll also found a favorable image of Bob Taft among respondents.

CINCINNATI (AP) Gov. George Voinovich, a candidate for U.S. Senate in 1998, had a higher favorability rating among voters than Sen. John Glenn, according to the Ohio Poll. The poll also showed that voters had a favorable image of Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft, the only announced candidate for governor.

The poll, released Sunday, showed 70 percent of Ohio's registered voters had a favorable opinion of Voinovich. while 19 percent had an unfavorable opinion. Voinovich, a Republican elected to a second term in 1994. cannot run for a third consecutive term. He will run for the U.S.

Senate seat first won by Glenn in loose ends remain to be tied up concerning Target's plan for a store on Shiloh Springs Road, near the intersection with the Northwest Connector, a highway now under construction. But the proposal has not attracted any opposition, and city officials are confident the project will move ahead. "The zoning permit has not been issued and will not be issued until everything is completed to our satisfaction," said Eric Phillips, Trotwood's director of planning and community development. "It's just a matter of cleaning some things up. 'Target has been very helpful and responsive to our concerns," he added.

They will be an important part of our community." 22 percent had an unfavorable opinion. Glenn, a Democrat, is expected-to announce early next year 1 1 whether he will seek re-election The Ohio Poll was conducted by telephone from Nov. 6 througji Nov. 15 among a random sample of 696 registered voters state- wide. The poll was sponsored by Th Cincinnati Enquirer, WLWT-TV! and the University of Cincinnati" It was conducted by the school's; I Institute for Policy Research.

I The poll had a margin of ern of plus or minus 3.7 percentage -points. The U.S. Senate race will not lie the only high-profile contest in Ohio in 1998. The governor's office is open and there are a 1 number of politicians who are pondering a run for governor. i -J-.