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RICE ILL RICE ILL PRESS COMMUNITY MATTERS Your Community Press newspaper serving Price Hill and Covedale Vol. 88 No. 18 2015 The Community Press A LL IGHTS ESERVED News 923-3111 Retail advertising 768-8404 Classified advertising 242-4000 Delivery 853-6263 See page A2 for additional information Contact The Press WE ARE COUNTING STARS ONLINE Get all of your All Star Game news at Cincinnati.com in.ci/1J0jJUT CHEESO DE MAYO Rita shares chili cheese dip recipe. A 5 In the next few days your Community Press carrier will be stopping by to collect 3.50 for delivery of his Delhi ress and Price Hill Press Your carrier retains half of this amount as payment for his or her work. If you wish to add a tip to eward the good ervice, both the carrier and he Community Press appreciate your generosity.

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COLLECTION TIME Craycroft DELHI Apiece of land at Hillside Avenue and Cleves Warsaw could someday play host to soccer and lacrosse games. elhi Township trustees vote to purchase a 5.75-acre site at 6 850 Hillside Ave. for future park purposes. The township, which is under contract to buy the land but has yet to close on he property, will pay $100,000 or the land. The money will ome from the tax i ncrement financing funds.

excited about this Delhi Parks Recrea- ion Director osh Torbeck said. a great pace, clear and flat. Finding flat land in Delhi is a He said the land owner, Dr. Ferdinand Niehaus, bought the roperty about 35 years ago ith the vision of developing it i nto park space for the youth of elhi. Over the years, Torbeck aid Niehaus put a great deal into improving the land a making it a usable site.

Improvements have included raising the land out of the flood plain, adding roughly 7 of parking urface, installing sewer lines a nd installing culverts, headwalls and drainage ditches. The site has an access driveway on Cleves Warsaw and Niehaus Delhi to buy land for future park purposes Kurt Backscheider Torbeck GREEN For Oakdale Elementary School parent ecky Meyer, the possibility of making a school playground accessible for special needs stud ents like her son has been her dream since the day they toured the school when he was in kindergarten. means that they can be part of something as basic as she said. are so many limits in the world for these children, and the playground should not be one of Meyer and other parents of special needs students shared a ream of an inclusive playground with smooth surfaces, ramp entrances and swings here students with disabilities can play and socialize with their peers at recess rather than sit a nd watch from the side, unable to join their friends. Those dreams are becoming areality thanks to a dedicated team of teachers, parents and community volunteers at Oakdale, who set out this past fall to begin raising $180,000 for a new i nclusive playground called the Scottie Yard.

The playground planning ommittee found big supporters of the project this week in Green Township officials. The Green Township trustees voted unanimously March 23 to provide $100,000 toward he playground. The money the township is contributing will come from the tax increment financing funds. many years the township has set aside certain doll ars to be used for special Trustee Chairman Tony Rosiello said. taking into consideration the fact this project will benefit children with special eeds, we certainly felt it was a great project and will be a good fit for the Much of existing playground is not accessible for students with a variety of dis- a bilities, including those who Green Twp.

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