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Holly Golightly Hey, Ever, got any recommendations on the steelpan orchestras ? My Gregorian chant days are way in the past.

Did I hear someone mention foot longs ? mmmmmmmmmm Putz's

Bet your mom sells the lot of 'em for $5 at a garage sale ?

heh, I did some offroad riding in a cemetery at night once. Yes, I was a teenager. Yes, I was stupid. Yes, I hurt mightily for days. Stuftodo at Spring Grove http://www.springgrove.org/sg/calendar/EventCalendar/EventCalendar.shtm

This is the info The Friends of Wesleyan Cemetery were handing out t the recent Memorial Day Service at the cemetery. We thought this would he a good time to bring you up-io-dale on the happenings regarding Wesleylan Cemetery this pasi year- We are vei-y pleased although still cautiously opiimislic about the future of Wesleyan Cemetery. As you recall. Mr Robert Merkle and his board signed a Settlement Agreement before Judge Sieven Martin in the Court of Common Pleas which required them to give up control of Wesleyan Cemetery. At that point Attorney General for the State of Ohio Jim Petro filed suit by Assistant Attorney General Mike Rzymek against the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County regarding their joint responsibilities tor maintaining Wesleyan Cemetery in the future. Cincinnati provided equipment to cut the grass and Hamilton County provided individuals from the Welfare Department and olhers to cut the grass This agreement ran through the Summer of 2005. Attorney General Jim Petro requested that Judge Martin rule as to who is responsible for maintaining Wcsleyan Cemetery tor the future. Last Summer Judge Mariin ruled that it is the City of Cincinnati's responsibility to maintain Wesleyan Cemetery. In his wisdom, Judge MArtin ruled that during the entire appeals process the City of Cincinnati should maintain Wesleyan Cemetery. Last year, 2006 Cincinnati gave monies to the Park Board to maintain Wesleyan Cemetery. Dave Gamstetter and his crew did a beautiful job. This budget year beginning January 2007 Wesleyan Cemetery was removed from ihe Cincinnati budget although there is a court order stating ihe City must maintain Wesleyan and several members of The Friends ol Wesleyan had spoken before the Finance Committee ol ihe City of Cincinnati. The City of Cincinnati appealed Judge Martin's decision to the Court of Appeals. We are very happy to report that the Court of Appeals on April 20. 2007 ruled that it is the City nt Cincinnati's responsibility to maintain Wesleyan Cemeiery in the future. The Friends of Wesleyan has heard that the city will appeal this decision to the State Supreme Court. But, again, because of the decision made hy Judge Steven Martin, the City must maintain Wesleyan during this process. The Friends of Wesleyan Cemetery, Inc. would like to thank our attorneys, Taft, Siettinius und Hollister and the Attorney General's Office ot the State of Ohio. Without their combined efforts we would not be wherc we are today. It has been a very long siruggle. Finally, we would very much like to thank Judge Steven Martin. We are so very grateful. Please remember to vote for Judge Martin! We are Still awaiting the news of the source of the funds from the Cily's budget for this year to maintain Weslevan Cemetery. It is our understanding thai Assistant City Manager Scutt Styles is the indlvidiiiil who is responsible lor seeing that Wesleyain is well maintained. It is our understanding that the City Finance Committee (all of which are City Council members) consisting of John Cranley, Chairman (352-5302), Jeff Berding Vice-Chairman (253-3283), Chris Bortz (352-3249), Laketaq Cole (352-3466), David Crowley (352-2453), Leslie Ghiz (352-3352), Jim Tarbell (352-3604) and Cecil Thomas (352-3499) are working to decide where the monieswill be coming from. Please get involved! Call your Cincinnati Finance Committee members These are the individuals who will he making decisions about where ihe monies to maintain Wesleyan Cemeiery will he coming from in the future. Lei your voices he heard! Please tell them it is their responsibility to see that Wesleyan Cemetery is properly maintained. We hope very much next year to inform you that our long struggle is over and our loved ones will finally receive the respect they so deserve. We want a permanent solution and not a lernpdrary one from year to year. We are almost there. but not quite yet! Our Very Best Wishes to All of You on Memorial Day, 2007. The Fuends ofWesleyan Cemetery, Inc. Debbie Redmon, President Pal Jaeger, Vice President and Secreiary Helen Fornash. Trustee Helen Grigg. Trusteec Betty Krieg. Treasirer Will Redmon, Trustee William Surgener, Trustee

Wesleyan Cemetery in Cincinnati has been abused and abandoned over the years and, while the remains of veterans of every war the United States has been involved in, including the American Revolution, are interred there, services have been absent for years. This year a Kiwanis chapter organized a Memorial Day service. The Queen City ainbow Band provided the tunes Something I have never seen in this cemetery - a lack of parking. There were publishers, preachers and politicians in attendance Decorations Zombies Meanwhile over at Spring Grove Cemetery things were less lively but more colorful. The guy outside the cemetery selling decorations

ah yes, the Belmont Cafe Where the roaches crawl on the shaky bartenders who ignore them - assuming they are probably just those damn hallucinations again. memories ...... :-)

^They are forecasting rain after 4 now. That means it will be weird random pop up showers. The Cinti bubble might hold true. I am probably not coming - if I do, it will just be for an hour or so.

^There ya go. Insult the server and then change your name .....

Strickland won't sign strip bill 'Silly' no-touch issue has gotten too much attention, governor says COLUMBUS - A bill that puts new strip-club regulations in place in Ohio, including a ban on patrons and dancers touching each other, will become law without Gov. Ted Strickland's signature, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Senate on Tuesday voted 25-8 to adopt the House version on the measure that includes a rule prohibiting patrons from touching dancers rather than keeping them 6 feet away at all times, as originally proposed. There was no debate. In light of economic, educational and other problems Ohioans face, the debate over the bill was "silly," Strickland said before the Senate voted. "I think this issue has consumed too much time and attention." Read More...

Time to put the marathoners to work.

FWIW the weather goons are babbling about rain on the 26th

Offhand, I would say no you might drop these guys a line. http://www.myspace.com/mobobicyclecoop The Cinti Cycle Club has classifieds, too http://www.cincinnaticycleclub.org/

"Bortz, committee chairman and a developer, says a streetcar loop would be a success even before it's built. As soon as the route is finalized, he says, investors will snap up properties along the line. "You will see enormous real-estate activity," Bortz predicts." This is actually something that kinda worries me. I can see speculators buying up properties and then putting them back on the market unimproved and at exorbitant prices, thus retarding development.

Man, that's my kind of town

Man, I hardly ever read this thread. thanks, mrnyc

"You're so much more happy and alive when you get to work" amen !

What's up with the zigzaggy lines in the streets ?

Springfield - er - Springtucky is only mentioned in relation to Wittenberg: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wittenberg_University I would have thought Ink would have told us about the vampire defender of the school.

^ If a guy can't navigate this intersection, he probably won't be able to use mass transi. Wonder if Mr Diebold has heard any jokes about opening a drive thru ?

PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS: UP IN SMOKE? By Scott Ryan Nazzarine, Esq. “There is no fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution of the United States or in the Constitution of Ohio to smoke in public, and this court declines to fabricate such a right.” So said a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in ruling on our challenge to Ohio’s Smoking Ban last week, and a phrase oft-quoted in the local media when discussing the case. But with all due respect to the Court, the problem with this “holding” is that it simply misses the mark on so many different levels: legally, factually, and constitutionally. The first major problem with this statement is that we NEVER argued that there is a constitutional right to smoke. This was a straw-man argument, set up to burn the instant it came into contact with a smoldering cigarette carelessly tossed upon it. In fact, we consciously and intentionally avoided ever raising such an argument because it is only too easy to reject–courts love to say that there is no constitutional right to do this or that specific act and thus dispose of an argument under a deferential standard before the claim ever has a fighting chance (of course, we libertarians know that the 9th & 10th amendments to the US Constitution mean that ours is a government of limited, enumerated powers and that the absence of a reference to a specific act in the Constitution does not mean that we don’t have that right, but, to the contrary, that the government has no power to regulate that act; however, the courts these days are not too fond of quoting the ninth or tenth amendments–but, alas, that is a subject for another article). Link unavailable.

Hearing times & locs Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Bond Hill Recreation Center 1501 Elizabeth Place Cincinnati, Ohio 45237 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Sharonville Convention Center 11355 Chester Rd Cincinnati, Ohio 45246

This article is kind of interesting to me as one of the more important musicians in my introduction to chamber music was Ronald Crutcher, a black Cincinnati native who was a professor at Wittenberg University. He is now the president of Wheaton College. Lack of color at the classics Minorities rare at symphony, opera, May Festival by janelle gelfand | [email protected] Santino Ellis-Perez, a 17-year-old student at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts, soars through the virtuosities of Tchaikovsky's difficult Violin Concerto. His dream is to be a member of a symphony orchestra. Ellis-Perez, whose father is Mexican, is one of a minuscule percentage of minority musicians striving to become professionals. He's up against tough odds. Click on link for more information.

WHAT?!?!!?? How can anyone charge for internet service...especially at the Westin. There is FREE wifi available most places downtown (and specifically at Fountain Square), from the Lilly Pad service. Seems kind of ridiculous to me. I could see the LillyPad network from the Cinti Westin but it appeared to be blocked - that is, I got some weird message that was different than just trying to log in to somebody else's network. A little hotel in Rapid City, SD had a setup that was kind of clunky but you could send a URL to an email address & the front desk would print web pages out & you could then go to the desk to pick up the prinouts. I saw no similar service at teh Westin.

I stayed at the Westin a couple days this past winter when my house died on me. I was amazed at the lack of amenities at the place. I had breakfast at Ingredients one AM & was not impressed. The Westin actually charges for internet service & has no method of providing printing either.