Magnet schools to hold registration

        Registration for Cincinnati magnet schools begins at 6 a.m. Monday at each of the schools. This is a change from previous years when sign-up locations were kept secret until a Saturday race to sign up.

        The change requires individual schools to market themselves and their programs, and registration continues until places are filled.

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Rally aims to help region's uninsured

        People without health care insurance will get support at a speak out rally from 7-9 p.m. Monday in Cincinnati City Hall Council Chambers, 801 Plum St., downtown.

        “We just want to put a face on the people who care about people who do not have health insurance,” said Trey Daly, a Legal Aid Lawyer, one of the sponsoring groups.“We want to speak out about this crisis and talk about ways to bridge the gap for the uninsured.”

        The rally is sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Healthcare Access Project (G-CHAP).
       

Nominees sought for service awards

        HAMILTON — Altrusa International of Hamilton is accepting applications until Friday for its “Leaders in Service” awards for outstanding achievement in community service.

        Any non-profit organization with local membership based in Butler County is eligible to nominate a service project started during the 1999 calendar year.

        Awards will be announced and presented Jan. 9 at the Altrusa meeting at the Hamiltonian Hotel. First place award is $250; second place award is $100.

        Entries must be postmarked by Nov. 17. For an application, call Joyce Pinter at 895-9270 or Joan Witt at 856-8065.
       

'90 grad to speak at Cincinnati State

        A 1990 graduate will return to Cincinnati State Technical & Community College as commencement speaker on Nov. 17.

        Brian S. Kelly earned his two-year degree in business management while playing basketball for the school and serving as student government president.

        He went on to Georgetown University where he played for coach John Thompson and earned his bachelor's degree before moving to Pepperdine University for his law degree and joining a California law firm.
       

Dinner to benefit Milford-area needy

        The American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American Legion of Victor Stier Post 450, 111 Race St. in Milford, will hold their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner on Sunday.Dinner will be served from 11 a.m to 6 p.m. and is open to the public.

        The cost for adults is $6 and $3 for children under 12 years old. Carryout will be available.

        Proceeds will benefit needy families in Milford and surrounding areas. Information: 831-9876.
       

Nobel laureate to visit Cincinnati

        Author and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka of Nigeria will speak about his craft after students present a scene from one of his plays at the University of Cincinnati on Nov. 30.

        The program will be in Werner Recital Hall at the College-Conservatory of Music on the main campus from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

        At 8 p.m., Mr. Soyinka will read from his works, at Ensemble Theatre Co., 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. Tickets are $10. ETC will be host to a reading of Mr. Soyinka's “Death and the King's Horsemen” at 7 p.m. Nov. 20. Tickets, $5.

        His visit is sponsored by UC's Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwrighting as part of its 10th anniversa ry. Cosponsors include ETC's Theatre of the Mind.

        Mr. Soyinka, who also is a poet and novelist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
       

Kiwanis to hold charity Pancake Day

        The Kiwanis Club of Mason will hold its 42nd annual Pancake Day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Mason High School, 770 South Mason-Montgomery Rd. The club uses funds raised from the breakfast and its annual golf outing to provide school programs including scholarships for Mason High School students.

        The menu will include pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy, and a choice of milk, coffee or juice. Tickets, on sale at the door, are $5 per person. Children under 3 years old may eat for free. For advance ticket information, call Dee Schuessler at 398-4646.
       

Boy gets 30 days for sedative attack

        FINDLAY, Ohio — A teen-ager who put sedatives in cupcakes made for a church lunch — making 17 people ill — will spend 30 days in a juvenile detention center.

        Judge Stephen Rule on Thursday ordered the boy, 15, to begin serving the time immediately in the Wood County juvenile detention center.

        The boy, of Findlay, had pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of inducing panic. He told police he put Ambien, a sleep inducer, in the cupcakes after having a disagreement with his sister, hoping she would be blamed.

        His stepmother had taken the cupcakes to a lunch June 22 for Mormon missionaries at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Perrysburg, a suburb of Toledo.

        Those who ate the cupcakes complained of nausea and lightheadedness. The 17 people were treated at hospitals.
       

Ohio parole official acquitted of bribery

        ELYRIA, Ohio — A state parole hearing officer has been acquitted of charges that he was part of a bribery scheme to help prison inmates get early release.

        Mr. Miller, 63, of Cleveland Heights, was acquitted Thursday of five counts of bribery and one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity between 1996 and 1998.
       

Ohio University gets $20M donation

        ATHENS, Ohio — A Texas businessman said on Friday that he will donate $20 million to Ohio University, the largest single gift in school history.

        Frank P. and Margaret Krasovec's gift will primarily benefit the business college.

        Mr. Krasovec is the chairman, chief executive and president of Austin, Texas-based Norwood Promotional Products Inc. The company makes promotional products. He earned his bachelor's degree from the school in 1965 and a master's in 1966.

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