ON JANUARY 1ST OF 2011, SUZANNE HOPPER, A CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WAS INVESTIGATING A REPORT OF GUNFIRE AT A TRAILER PARK IN ENON AND WAS FATALLY SHOT. ONE OF HER PASSIONS FOR WHICH SHE DEDICATED TIME AND MONEY WAS THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS. IN HER MEMORY, AN INVITATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, MARCH 15TH BEGINNING AT 6:30PM AT TECUMSEH MIDDLE SCHOOL. THERE WILL BE ELEVEN TEAMS REPRESENTING VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS FROM CLARK COUNTY. THIS IS THE SIXTH YEAR FOR THE TOURNAMENT. SERVING THE FIRST BALL WILL BE SUZANNE’S MOTHER, MRS. BONNIE BAUER AND DAUGHTER, EMILY. DURING THE EVENT, THERE WILL ALSO BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DONATE MONEY TO CLARK COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT ANITA BILES OF THE CLARK COUNTY COMBINED HEALTH DISTRICT AT 937/390-5600, EXTENSION 224.
THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND VETERANS SERVICES HAVE RELEASED 22 NEW SUBMISSIONS TO THEIR WAR ERA STORY PROJECT SHARING THE AUTHOR’S UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF THAT TIME AND EVENTS. THESE STORIES JOIN 65 OTHERS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN POSTED. THE AGENCIES WILL CONTINUE TO RELEASE THE WAR ERA STORIES IN SMALL GROUPS UNTIL ALL HAVE BEEN SHARED. THE WAR ERA STORY PROJECT IS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGING’S AWARD-WINNING 2009 GREAT DEPRESSION STORY PROJECT. AN INTERESTING FACT: OF THE AUTHORS WHO PROVIDED THEIR AGE, THE OLDEST WAS 100 AND THE YOUNGEST WAS 25 WITH THE AVERAGE AGE OF THOSE WHO SHARED THEIR STORIES AT 83. TO SEE THESE STORIES, GO ON-LINE TO: WWW.AGING.OHIO.GOV/NEWS/STORYPROJECTS .
THE WILMINGTON POST OF THE OHIO STATE HIGHWAY PATROL IS INVESTIGATING A ONE-VEHICLE FATAL CRASH THAT OCCURRED WEDNESDAY MORNING JUST AFTER 8:00 ON STATE ROUTE 72 IN RICHLAND TOWNSHIP IN CLINTON COUNTY. 30 YEAR OLD JESSICA HOWARD OF SABINA LOST CONTROL ON THE ICE COVERED ROAD AND WENT OFF THE ROADWAY, STRIKING A DITCH, THEN OVERTURNED, EJECTING MRS. HOWARD. HOWARD’S FIVE YEAR OLD SON WAS IN THE VEHICLE AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH AND WAS IN A CHILD SAFETY SEAT AND WAS ALERT AND RESPONSIVE WHEN EMERGENCY PERSONNEL ARRIVED ON THE SCENE.
AN ATTORNEY WHO PRACTICED IN XENIA UNDER THE NAME ADRIENNE BROOKS WAS ALMOST HOME TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN SHE WAS KILLED IN A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH IN CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP IN WARREN COUNTY. 33 YEAR OLD ATTORNEY ADRIENNE HRENKO WENT OFF THE ROAD AROUND 8:15PM, STRUCK A UTILITY POLE AND FOUR TREES AFTER TOPPING A HILL NEAR FIVE POINTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SHE LIVED JUST OUTSIDE OF SPRINGBORO WITH HER HUSBAND, DOUG AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO LOOK AT POSSIBLE FACTORS THAT CAUSED THE CRASH. CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP POLICE OFFICER DANIEL MORGAN SAID THE ROADS WERE WET FROM A LIGHT RAIN. ADRIENNE GRADUATED FROM BROOKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, THEN RECEIVED HER LAW DEGREE FROM TULANE UNIVERSITY. SHE PRACTICED CRIMINAL AND FAMILY LAW IN XENIA.
MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL HAS CONFIRMED TO THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS THAT IT WILL CLOSE ITS 43 YEAR OLD KIDNEY TRANSPLANT CENTER BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL CHALLENGES AND LOW PATIENT VOLUMES. MIAMI VALLEY PRESIDENT AND CEO BOBBIE GERHART SAID THEY PLAN TO SHUT THE TRANSPLANT CENTER DOWN MAY 13TH. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 90 PATIENTS ON THE WAITING LIST TO HAVE TRANSPLANTS AT THE CENTER AND 1,110 ADDITIONAL POST-OPERATION PATIENTS WHO WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CARE AT THE HOSPITAL. THOSE PATIENTS WAITING FOR TRANSPLANTS WILL BE REFERRED TO OTHER REGIONAL TRANSPLANT CENTERS INCLUDING THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER AND CENTERS IN INDIANA AS WELL.
IF YOU HAVEN’T GOTTEN YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKES BY THIS SUNDAY…THAT’S IT…THEY ARE GONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR! GIRL SCOUTS HAVE COOKIE BOOTHS SET UP IN VARIOUS BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE MIAMI VALLEY. BY THE WAY…DID YOU KNOW THAT THIS WEEK IS GIRL SCOUT WEEK? ELEVEN LOCAL GIRL SCOUTS RECEIVED THE GOLD AWARD FROM GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO AT A CEREMONY HELD THIS PAST SUNDAY. THOSE EARNING THE GOLD AWARD INCLUDE: KAITLIN APPLE AND MEGAN WOOLF FROM XENIA, RACHEL BARNES AND LEAH SIMON FROM BELLBROOK, BARBARA KIDD, JASMINE PRINCE AND CAROLINE TINSLEY OF FAIRBORN AND FROM BEAVERCREEK: DIANA HARVEY AND LAUREN SAXE. ALSO WINNING THE AWARD WERE KAITLIN LIRE OF YELLOW SPRINGS AND FROM CENTERVILLE, CHRISTINE STAPLETON. CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF THESE GIRL SCOUTS!
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS CLOUDS WILL ROLL INTO THE AREA TONIGHT AND LOWS WILL DROP TO 27 DEGREES. IT WILL BE A LITTLE WARMER FRIDAY WHEN TEMPERATURES RISE TO 51 DEGREES, ALTHOUGH STILL CLOUDY. THERE IS A 70 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF RAIN FRIDAY OVERNIGHT AND THAT RAIN COULD EXTEND INTO SATURDAY. SATURDAY’S HIGHS WILL PEAK AT 49 DEGREES, THEN GO DOWN TO 42 ON SUNDAY. WE MIGHT SEE SOME SUNSHINE ON SUNDAY TOO.
