Wednesday, October 06, 1999
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p8 Substitute teacher charged with DUI
A substitute teacher in Cincinnati Public Schools was charged with driving under the influence — her third DUI charge in six years — after she caused a traffic accident Monday night, Cincinnati police said.
Julia R. Wolf of the 600 block of Probasco Street, Clifton, also was charged with driving without a driver's license and making an improper turn after the 11:18 p.m. accident on William Howard Taft Road in Mount Auburn.
Ms. Wolf is a long-term substitute teacher at Clifton Elementary School. Long-term subs are teachers who work for more than 20 days in one assignment, district counsel John Concannon said.
As a condition of employment, the district requires prospective employees to sign a pledge not to take drugs, in spirit with the district's anti-drug message to students, Mr. Concannon said. He wasn't sure whether that pledge included alcohol.
Four fined $313 each for romps at Cinergy
Four men who ran onto the baseball diamond at Cinergy Field during Monday's Reds-Mets game were charged with criminal trespassing and fined $313 each. All four paid their fines Tuesday.
Each had to be tackled by Cincinnati police, disrupting the game for several minutes.
Arrested were: Todd Houston, 26, of Taylor Mill; Jessie Mullins, 21, of Clifton Heights; Tucker
Moreland, 20, of Union Township in Clermont County; and Jason Beischel of Clifton.
Artists' group opposes moving shelter
A group of Cincinnati artists will announce today their opposition to moving a shelter for the homeless to make way for a school for the arts.
The group, Artists for the Drop-Inn Center will announce their opposition at 1 p.m. today at Washington Park, across from Music Hall.
Many arts institutions coexist in Over-the-Rhine with residents and social service agencies, said Barb Wolf, a videographer and member of the artists group. The group wants planners of the school to develop a proposal that respects the neighborhood and its residents.
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Conductor Erich Kunzel envisions an arts campus that would include a new School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Over-the-Rhine. Backers say the plan would move the Drop-Inn Center, 217 W. 12th St., a few blocks away and that costs would be picked up by them.
Students to rally at UC for looser rules on pot
Students will rally todayat the University of Cincinnati in support of financial aid. They'll be chanting slogans, carrying signs — and smoking marijuana.
The rally is organized by For a Better Ohio, a Columbus-based group committed to legalizing industrial hemp and medical marijua na. The group has local members at UC, said organizer Kenny Schweickart of Columbus.
Supporters will protest a provision to the federal Higher Education Act that denies federal grants and loans to students convicted of drug crimes. Some protesters plan to smoke marijuana in an act of civil disobedience, Mr. Schweickart said.
The group has rallied at Ohio State University, Ohio University and the University of Toledo.
“Murderers, rapists, burglars and pedophiles can get financial aid, but not people caught with one marijuana cigarette or a crumb of marijuana,” said Mr. Schweickart, 29, a full-time activist and part-time student at OSU. “Everybody should be able to go to school regardless of the crimes they've committed.”
Colerain license bureau extends hours on 3 days
Drivers will have a little extra time to get their licenses renewed or take care of other business at the North Colerain license bureau on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Starting Oct. 14, the bureau at 9904 Colerain Ave. will be open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. those three days. It will keep the 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. hours on Saturdays.
The bureau will try out the new hours on a two-month trial basis to see if they are popular with customers.
Board OKs funding for inmates to pick up trash
HAMILTON — Butler County commissioners last week approved funding for a new program in which inmates from the county's minimum-security jail will pick up trash along roads, in parks, dump sites and in other public areas.
Commissioners appropriated $1,000 for the remainder of 1999 and promised to give another $16,000 for next year.
The program, called PRIDE — Providing Responsibilities for Inmates through Duties for the Environment — was begun as an eight-week pilot project last year.
Company plans to move plant to Woodlawn
Progressive Die Stamping and Metal Finishing Inc. will move from West Chester to Glendale-Milford Road in Woodlawn.
Progressive has purchased an industrial facility at 1292 Glendale-Milford Road that was home to Cook Screen Technologies.
Two sister companies will join Progressive at the site: Carver Coating Products and Precision Die. The three operations are expected to be running at full capacity by mid-winter.
The move is expected to create 40 jobs, said Progressive President Greg Carver. It will increase Progressive's floor space to 66,000 square feet.
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