Thursday, February 04, 1999
Cow born free in Amberley
BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Do we have this right? There's a cow wandering the very residential and very upscale Amberley Village? And she's been there since last March?
A cow??? As in moooo?
Oh my. Turns out we do have it right. Seems the cow, according to Amberley Village police, escaped from a farm owned by the George Musekamp family. Originally, the Rollman family's 200-acre estate, it's now 70-acres and Amberley's last remaining farm.
Minus one cow. Don't know if it has a name, nor what the Musekamps think about its neighborhood romp. Our phone calls weren't returned.
Nevertheless, “She's out there,” says Amberley resident and Enquirer “Ask the Builder” columnist Tim Carter. “She's been seen as far away as Montgomery Road at 3 a.m.
“A lot of properties back up to French Park, so she has room to roam.” And room to disappear. “But we see her a lot. I just saw her eating out of my compost heap. Plus, we see evidence of her visits.” (Don't ask about that.)
Amberley Village police chief Jack Monahan also knows the cow's out there. He has had officers respond to every cow call.
“She's always gone by the time we get there,” the chief says. “She sees a human and runs back into French Park and hides in the woods.
“We're determined to handle this in a humane way. Our goal is to somehow get the animal back into a fenced area on the farm and let the owner take care of it. But it's a cow and it's big and hard to find.”
What the police worry about are the traffic problems a cow in the street could cause.
What now? “We're working with the SPCA,” the chief says. “Maybe they can help herd her back.”
Meantime, didn't Ms. Cow pick a nice neighborhood?
SING IT: So then, looks like a round of applause is in order.
Clap it, please, for vocalists Pam Myers, Deb Girdler and Shelley Bamberger, and pianist Scott Wolley, the foursome who make up the cast of Love and Shrimp. The fairly plotless cabaret-style musical comedy plays now and then, here and there around town.
Wellsir, turns out Shelly Markham, the composer, heard the above said cast do it a couple years ago and loved it. Just the right combination, he told people.
Flash forward to today: Markham is looking for people to record the official cast album and hears that the cast is reuniting in March and April to do the show for Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.
Sounded to Markham like a marriage made in heaven, so he booked them. Date and site of the recording session are yet to be decided, but indications are it will be sometime this spring.
CHEER ON: Take a good look at the cheerleaders on the field at Sunday's Pro Bowl and you might see a familiar face. Or at least familiar to Bengals fans.
That would be Angela Miller, a BenGal for the past two years and the only local delegate to this year's squad. It's her first year to get the call. (No one on the team, as in the Bengals, got a similar call).
Miller, a 23-year-old nursing student at the University of Cincinnati, left for Hawaii Monday to meet the squad and start rehearsing. She'll return home Tuesday.
So how does somebody in Cincinnati get a pom-pom gig in Hawaii? BenGals coordinator Charlotte Jacobs explains:
“Applicants submit a video, a picture and a biography. The video had to be a 2-minute dance routine . . . I think that was the basis for judging.”
We tried to find out where exactly Miller would be in the line, but it was still taking shape at press time.
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