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Dear Reader,
Best wishes on this, the last day of the year! We look forward to another year of sending you news of what's happening in College Hill. If you'd like to look over all that's happened over the past year, you can see our archive of previous issues here.
Today's a good day to think about who else would like to see the College Hill eNewsletter. Click here to send them a copy of this issue.
As usual, if you've got news--send it here.
Gail Finke & Ken Lyon, Co-Editors
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Facade Program Spotlight: Schwartz Jewelers
 The latest building to benefit from the Facade Program
arranged by CHCURC with the
City is Schwartz Jewelers. You may have noticed the brand new awning.
The Facade Program offers a matching grant from the city for
projects that make significant improvements to facades on buildings facing
Hamilton Avenue. Last year, the Schwartz
family completely remodeled the store's interior. Now the facade looks just as
good!
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 More Facade Improvements
While your editor was out taking pictures of the Schwartz facade this week, he noted other improvements being made on The Avenue. Workers pressure washing Patricia Marquet's building at the southeast corner of Hamilton & Cedar said that the owner plans to install all new windows and do some repainting, all in time to take advantage of the Facade Program before it ends in March. 
We also noted continued progress on two of Michael Cureton's properties. The building housing Sister's Restaurant is getting a whole new front, replacing the one destroyed by Ike, and work is also progressing on his property a couple of doors up the street next to National City Bank.
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Aiken Wins Springboro Tournament
 Aiken's varsity and junior varsity Falcons boys'
basketball teams both won in their respective tournaments at the Domino's Springboro Holiday Tournament last
week.
The varsity Falcons defeated Lakota East 71-52 in the
semifinals, and won 74-52 over Hughes High School in the finals.
Aiken's Darren Goodson was named to the all-tourney team,
and Nick McCoy was named the Tournament Most Valuable Player.
Go Falcons!
Thanks to Steve Rossi for this story.
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CHFA Volunteers Needed
 College Hill Fundamental Academy needs adult volunteers
to help in the library after school, particularly with several student clubs.
No experience is necessary--except the Chess Club, who could
use someone who knows how to play!
If you'd like to work with these fine young people, contact
Steve Hay (513-353-1657 or stevehays@mac.com).
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Performance Art at Town Hall
The Contemporary Dance Theater's first evening of
performance art for the 2009 season will take place at 8 pm January 9 and 10 at
College Hill Town Hall.
"Live Art Collision" will feature seven
"budding and abutting" performers in an evening of drama, dance, poetry, visual
art, new music, and video technology, all with social and personal messages.
Performance and Time Arts has brought adventurous and
experimental art to Cincinnati for 14 years. Isn't it time you saw one for
yourself? Performances may not be suitable for children and teens.
Tickets are $12 ($8 students and seniors) and are
available at the door. For information, click here.
While you're in the dance mode, mark your calendars for
January 23 and 24, when CDT presents Jane Comfort and Company's "An
American Rendition" at the Aronoff Center. Click on the link above for
information about this presentation and the rest of CDT's 2008-2009 season.
Finally, did you know that CDT also offers a range of dance classes in contemporary styles, including modern dance, hip-hop, musical theather dance, tap, yoga and belly dance, among others. You can see the class schedules here.
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Enquirer Wish List Helps College Hill Family
 A College Hill family got their Christmas wish this year
after being featured in the Enquirer's annual Wish List.
Working through Churches Active in Northside, an
anonymous donor provided beds for mom Shauna Mason and her children Demia and
Shallum.
"I'm shining through my hard times by the grace of
God," said Mason, pictured here in an Enquirer photo. Read the rest of the
Enquirer's coverage here.
If you'd like to help local families in need, one place
to call is the Feast of Love, an ecumenical ministry run through the College
Hill Presbyterian Church. Its "Find a Need and Fill It" program helps
provide families in need with furniture and other household goods. Click here for more information.
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Aiken Holds Third Annual Men on Campus Day
 Aiken High School held its third annual Men on Campus Day
last month.
Designed to bring local role models to African-American
boys, the program featured talks by Cincinnati City Councilman Cecil Thomas,
former police officer Thomas Dilllingham, Jr., and Convergys executive Tommie
Lewis.
Hamilton County Coroner O'dell Owens (pictured) told the
students that they high school offers them much more opportunities than he had,
and that they should seize them. "I had to beg to take algebra and
biology," he said, after a guidance counselor told him he was too "poor
and stupid" to go to college.
"You don't have to beg today. They would love for
you to take algebra and biology."
For the Enquirer's coverage of this event, click here.
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 McAuley Teacher Holocaust Expert
McAuley High School English teacher Pam Vissing (pictured
here at the Alamo) presented a paper on Holocaust literature at the
National Convention of Teachers of English in San Antonio this fall.
Vissing's 90-minute roundtable presentation explored how
to help students cope with the horrors of the Holocaust with readings and
activities. Vissing's class culminates in students creating their own Holocaust
Memorials--several of which she presented to the participants.
Pam Vissing has taught Holocaust literature for 20 years.
This is the second time she was a NCTE presenter.
Thanks to McAuley High School for this story and photo.
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College Hill-Based Group Members to March in Inaugural Parade
Five members of the Queen City Rainbow Band, which rehearses at Grace Church, have been invited participate in the inaugural parade. They will march and play as part of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association's 177-member marching band. This is the first time a gay or lesbian organization of any kind has been chosen to march in an inaugural parade.  Fred Martens (pictured right, performing in the recent QCRB Christmas Concert at Grace) said the band will form in Washington the weekend of the inauguration for two days of "intense" rehearsal. "It's a lot of work," Martens said, "but it really is an honor." Five QCRB members were selected to go: Mary Anthony, Fred Martens, Sarah Morris, Megan Neal and
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- Co-editors: Ken Lyon and Gail Finke
- Contributing Editor: Sarah Mann Wolf
- Backup Editor: Tom Strothers
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