Monday, April 26, 1999
March to protest abuse of women, children
The 10th annual “Take Back the Night” march and candlelight vigil will be Friday, to protest violence against women and children.
It begins at 7 p.m. at Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point in downtown Cincinnati, with music by MUSE and Rebecca Vie.
The march to Newport will begin at 7:30 p.m.
The local Clothesline Project will be displayed at Sawyer Point. It includes color-coded shirts decorated by survivors of assault, rape, incest and sexual abuse as children. Other shirts are dedicated to victims who did not survive, or to women attacked because they are lesbians or were perceived to be lesbians.
People wanting to hang shirts on the clothesline should bring them to the Women's Crisis Center, 835 Madison Ave., Covington, before the program.
Information: Maureen Rich, 655-2652.
Kids to get details on private-school vouchers
About 500 low-income children who received vouchers for private schools from the Children's Scholarship Fund last week will gather today at the Marva Collins Preparatory School in Roselawn to be honored.
Students will also learn how they'll receive the scholarships, which will start in September and average $1,000 a year for four years, Cincinnati City Councilman Phil Heimlich said. Mr. Heimlich co-chaired a local effort to raise matching scholarship funds.
“We had 12,000 applications in Cincinnati alone, which illustrates the demand by families in this city to get the best education for their kids,” Mr. Heimlich said.
The Children's Scholarship Fund gave out 40,000 scholarships worth $200 million nationally.
Kroger to match $12K for Sycamore schools
More than $12,000 in tornado relief has been raised for Sycamore Community Schools, spokeswoman Kimberly Sullivan reported, and Kroger is matching it.
Money was raised with bake sales, car washes, dances and other events. Donors included students, teachers, staff and other friends of the schools.
2 panels to delve into situation in Kosovo
Two free programs this week will discuss the troubles in Kosovo.
The first will be noon today in Room 204 of the University of Cincinnati College of Law at Clifton Avenue and William Howard Taft Road.
Panelists will include Professor Gordon Christenson, a former dean who specializes in international law; Professor Bert Lockwood, director of the college's Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights; and Mary Ellen O'Connell,a visiting law professor who has studied NATO operations, including those in Albania.
At 7:30 p.m. Friday, a community forum will be sponsored by the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center at the Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, 103 William Howard Taft Road.
Speakers will include assistant professor Richard Harknett, UC political science department; Valerie Libby, a member of the center's international policy committee; Dr. Boris Lushniak, a public health physician and member of a refugee aid mission; and assistant professor Willard Sunderland, UC history department.
Question periods will follow both panels.
Mount Lookout apartment burgled
District 2 police are investigating a burglary in which someone entered a home on Linwood Avenue in Mount Lookout and left behind a baseball cap and a flier titled “Peace with God.”
The burglary occurred Friday at an apartment in the 3500 block of Linwood.
The door was not locked.
Police did not release information on whether anything was stolen.
Five injured in wreck on Ohio 125 in Amelia
A 74-year-old Amelia man was listed in good condition at University Hospital following an accident Sunday morning in which he apparently pulled onto Ohio 125 in Amelia and struck a car carrying four teen-agers, the Ohio State Highway Patrol in Clermont County said.
The four juveniles were treated at Clermont Mercy Hospital and released.
Ohio 125 was closed briefly following the 9:02 a.m. accident so an emergency helicopter could land. It flew Bert Wilson to University.
Mr. Wilson failed to yield and was expected to be cited, police said.
Mr. Wilson's 1983 Datsun pickup entered Ohio 125 from the driveway of a business and struck an eastbound 1989 Chevrolet Beretta driven by Crystal S. Wainscott, 17, of Georgetown, Brown County.
Crystal's passengers were: Andy Pierce of Bethel; James Baird, 17, of New Richmond; and Samantha McKinzie, 16, of Georgetown.
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