Monday, August 16, 1999
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School board to take second vote on levy
The Cincinnati Board of Education will meet at 4 p.m. today at district headquarters, 2651 Burnet Ave., Corryville, to vote for a second time on plans to ask voters in November to pass a 4.5-mill, or $24 million, levy.
School boards by law must vote on levy amounts twice; the second vote comes after auditors have reviewed the levy proposal.
Superintendent Steven Adamowski says the levy — which includes $21.3 million in a tax increase and $2.7 million in renewed taxes for building improvements — would allow the district to keep up with inflation and restore $10 million administrators cut in per-pupil spending this summer.
That amount assumes enrollment will continue dropping by about 500 students a year, as it has in recent years.
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers President Tom Mooney says 4.5 mills is far less than the district needs and will force another round of deep budget cuts within three years.
2 from local law firm added to plane crash case
Cincinnati lawyer Stanley M. Chesley and a member of his law firm, Jerome L. Skinner, have been named to the committee of attorneys representing families of the 229 people who died when Swissair Flight 111 crashed in September off Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia.
The appointment was announced last week by U.S. District Judge James T. Giles, a Philadelphia judge under whom all of the suits against Swissair have been consolidated.
The MD-11 jumbo jet went into the Atlantic after pilots reported smoke en route to Geneva from New York. Initial investigations focused on fire in the forward sections of the plane because some recovered aluminum melted before the crash.
Motorcycle crash injures woman's foot
A Groesbeck woman suffered a severe foot injury when the motorcycle she was driving crashed into an oncoming car on U.S. 52 in Cedar Grove, Franklin County, Ind.
Sherry Maloney, 31, of Zoellner Road was listed in critical condition Sunday at University Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
According to witnesses, Ms. Maloney's 1986 Yamaha was traveling east when she apparently went left of the center line at 11:59 p.m. Saturday and struck a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Mot Pham, 49, of Brookville, Ind., police said. Mr. Pham and a passenger were not injured. The condition of Ms. Malo ney's passenger was not available.
Ms. Maloney underwent surgery to repair the foot injury. No charges have been filed. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Orphan home holds reunion picnic Sunday
The annual Colored Orphan Asylum reunion will be Sunday at Gaines Methodist Church in Madisonville and at Winton Woods park.
Former orphan home residents and their families are invited to attend a 10:30 a.m. church service at Gaines Methodist, 5707 Madison Road. An all-day picnic will follow at the Butterfly Bluff Shelter in Winton Woods, off Winton Road.
Those attending should bring their own food, drinks, blankets, lawn chairs and a trash bag. The Colored Orphan Asylum, formally known as the New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children, operated for 123 years in Cincinnati. It catered to black children, who weren't allowed in other orphanages. It first opened on Ninth Street, downtown, then moved to Avondale in 1866. It closed in 1967.
For information, call 541-0071 or 281-8677.
Ohioans give $113,618 in legal aid to Clinton
COLUMBUS — Ohioans have contributed $113,618 to President Clinton's legal defense fund in donations ranging from $1 to $5,000.
The legal defense fund, set up Feb. 17, 1998, has brought in $6.1 million, including $2.4 million in the first six months of this year.
Ohio is the 13th-highest donating state, the Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday. California topped the list, with $1.4 million in 14,983 donations since the fund was set up.
Ohioans made 2,400 donations.
Three Ohioans have donated more than $2,000 to the fund, according to reports filed by the defense fund. They are Cincinnati lawyer and frequent Clinton fund-raiser host Stanley M. Chesley, $5,000; Chagrin Falls retiree Carter Kissell, $2,500; and Akron homemaker Dianne Powers Wright, $2,000.
The defense fund has paid off more than half of the $10.5 million the Clintons owe in legal fees.
Historical society raises money for flags
COLUMBUS — A campaign is under way to help the Ohio Historical Society save its collection of old battle flags, but a $125,000 state contribution alone won't be enough, organizers say.
The contribution from the state budget will not cover preservation costs that easily will be millions of dollars, said James Strider, spokesman for the society.
A Save the Flags Campaign is under way. Its first-phase goal is to raise $100,000 to pay for work on six flags, said Ann Frazier, spokeswoman for the society.
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