by Michael Monks
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THE RIVER CITY NEWS MORE COVINGTON NEWS THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE
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CORRECTION: On Tuesday, The River City News posted photos from a this tour of the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower and cited the tour as part of a "Friends of Covington" event. That was an error. The event was part of "Covington After Hours" and was sponsored by the Mainstrasse Village Association which alternates organizational responsibilities for After Hours with the Center for Great Neighborhoods, the Latonia Business Association, and the Friends of Covington. The River City News regrets the error.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
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CORRECTION: On Tuesday, The River City News posted photos from a this tour of the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower and cited the tour as part of a "Friends of Covington" event. That was an error. The event was part of "Covington After Hours" and was sponsored by the Mainstrasse Village Association which alternates organizational responsibilities for After Hours with the Center for Great Neighborhoods, the Latonia Business Association, and the Friends of Covington. The River City News regrets the error.
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Covington After Hours offered a rare look inside the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower in Mainstrasse. The Covington After Hours event at one of Covington's signature structures was highlighted by a quick guided tour to the top of the tower and remarks by Suzanne Sizer, marketing director at the Verdin Company, the Cincinnati business that built the landmark in 1980. "One of those best and worst places to live lists came out and somehow Covington made the worst list," Sizer said. "Governor (Julian) Carroll didn't like this fact so he got involved in this project."
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The Verdin Company was sent to Germany to find a suitable glockenspiel to inspire the design of one back in Covington. A Munich glockenspiel that featured The Pied Piper of Hamelin was selected. Construction began in Goebel Park and seven months later the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower was completed. Its version of the pied piper story features motorized figurines cast in clay made in fiber glass, and covered by polyurethane. Forty-three bells fill the top. When the tower first opened to tourist during a time in which Covington first hoped to turn Mainstrasse into a tourist destination (although with an original intent of a German-themed community like Frankenmuth, Michigan), the bells were played manually by a performer at a piano. They are electronically programmed now, though at Tuesday's event Latonia businessman Marvin Wischer tickled the ivories for the crowd.
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