THE RIVER CITY NEWS MORE COVINGTON NEWS THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE
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by Michael Monks
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***NOTE: APOLOGIES FOR THE FORMATTING ERRORS IN THIS POST WHICH SEEM TO ORIGINATE AT BLOGGER.COM AND WHICH WILL BE FIXED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.***
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMERICA!
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FOURTH OF JULY PARADE IN PEASELBURG
Covingtonians are invited to celebrate the birth of our nation at the annual parade in Peaselburg. Residents, businesses, organizations, and politicians are expected to walk the parade that starts at 11:00AM at Saint Augustine Church. There will be awards for children dressed as important Americans, the best decorated bike/wagon/stroller, and the best decorated float/car/truck. Following the parade, there will be a social gathering at St. Augustine.
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The City of Covington urges you to use safety and caution while celebrating with fireworks today.
Other municipalities have decided to ban personal fireworks this year because the hot, dry conditions and possible high propensity for fires but City Manager Larry Klein says Covington has not taken any steps to quell personal celebrations. Instead, Covingtonians are alerted to use caution this year. Check out the information supplied by the City through the Kentucky League of Cities at the link below.
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SEE ALSO: Fireworks may be to blame for house fire in Cincinnati's Finneytown neighborhood WXIX
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WORLD CHOIR GAMES OPEN TODAY
The "singing Olympics" may be among the largest events ever hosted by the Queen City. The opening ceremony is set for today:
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and May Festival Chorus headline the Opening Ceremony which includes the ringing of the Peace Bell, the presentation of flags and a performance of "I Can - the Official Song of the 2012 World Choir Games" by nine-time Grammy winner and gospel star Kirk Franklin and the Cincinnati One in Song Choir, consisting of members from Voices of Unity, the Fort Wayne, Indiana 2010 Gospel & Spiritual Champion of the World Choir Games; and Cincinnati's two Champions Competition Gospel Choirs - Peace & Serenity, a group with members in Cincinnati and New York; and Calvary Choir, regional winner of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Verizon "How Sweet the Sound" competition.
Read more about the competition, its schedule, and ticket information here: WXIX COVINGTON MAN WAS INTEGRAL IN LANDING WORLD CHOIR GAMES
Todd Duesing, a graduate of Holmes High School and Northern Kentucky University, is the director of operations at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. In 2007/2008, he was researching opportunities to fill seats at the arts center during the typically slow months of summer when he stumbled upon something called The World Choir Games:
He called Venus Kent, sales manager for the cultural arts market at the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), whom he’d worked with on past occasions to coordinate arts and cultural events in the Cincinnati area. While Duesing held a strong knowledge of the city’s arts infrastructure and history, Kent brought to the table a set of connections in the regional hospitality industry that would prove instrumental in setting the framework for a cohesive, citywide effort to accommodate the massive influx of people and cultures from the games.
Much like the Olympics, applying to host the Choir Games requires an extensive bid process, including creating a thorough, well-researched proposal. For the next several months, Duesing and Kent spent time exploring the city’s potential for such a massive tourist undertaking; by far the largest and most significant international event ever to take place in Cincinnati. “We both believed in it and we were ambitious … we both knew this was going to be huge,” says Kent.
From there, Kent and Duesing began soliciting unanimous go-aheads from key community stakeholders, including the mayor, police and other arts and choral venues across the city. Kent’s confidence continued to rise as she pieced together the key components necessary to unite for an event that would permeate the entire downtown landscape.
Full story: CityBeat/Hannah McCartney
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More on Duesing's role in landing the Games via WCPO:
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Singers arrive for World Choir Games WKRC |
Men's prison choir to compete at Games WXIX |
COVINGTON TO HOST FRIENDSHIP CONCERTS
The series of Friendship Concerts are free to the public and there will be three hosted in Covington:
- Saturday July 7 at the Children's Home of NKY at 4:00PM
- Saturday July 7 at the Devou Park Ampitheater with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra at 7:30PM
- Sunday July 8 at the Goose Girl Fountain (6th & Main Streets) in Mainstrasse Village at 4:00PM
- Sunday July 8 at Mother of God (Mutter Gottes) Church at 7:30PM
- Thursday July 12 at
Mary Ann Mongan Library (502 Scott Blvd) Erlanger branch of Kenton Co Library at 6:30PM (official website was incorrectly reporting that the event woul dbe held at Covington branch)
Friendship Concerts in Northern Kentucky are also scheduled for Newport on the Levee (Thursday July 5 at 7:30PM and Thursday July 12 7:30PM), the World Peace Bell in Newport (Saturday July 7 at 3:00PM), and the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (Thursday July 5 at 2:30PM).
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WATERFRONT MAY BE CLOSER TO REOPENING AT COVINGTON LANDING Reposted from Tuesday:
JEFF RUBY: UPDATE FRIDAY ABOUT WATERFRONT AT COVINGTON LANDING
The Cincinnati-based restaurateur spoke with the Business Courier about the recent failure of his Walnut Street Grill, but at the end of the piece, this was mentioned:
As for Ruby, he will focus on getting The Waterfront reopened and opening a Jeff Ruby’s steakhouse in Lexington. He said he should have an update this Friday about opening The Waterfront at Covington Landing.“My stable is not big enough to hold all these horses,” Ruby said.
The Waterfront has been closed since breaking loose from its mooring earlier this year and since then Ruby has been waiting for tax incentives to reopen his floating restaurant and has on occasion disparaged the City of Covington. The River City News is working to get more information on this development. Business Courier/Tom Demeropolis
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UPDATE: The River City News spoke with Covington City Manager Larry Klein about new developments possibly involving the Waterfront restaurant moving to Covington Landing. "I think the project is coming along to a conclusion soon but there is no announcement planned or any decision made by the Commission," Klein said. "We have preliminary recommendations from staff for the City Commission and hope to take that up in the next thirty days but nothing like that will be announced on Friday."
| DON'T MISS THE REST OF TUESDAY'S HEADLINES Covington ranks among lowest in NKY with households that make over $100,000 a year; Police seek a one-legged murder suspect in Kenton County; Would burying our power lines help prevent power outages?; Plus, who walks off with a cash register drawer from a Covington liquor store? One guy did -- and police need your help in locating him. Those stories and more at the link.
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KENTUCKY BILLIONAIRE: "I'M AN ENEMY OF THE STATE"
As Americans deal with the widest income gap between rich and poor since the Great Depression, one billionaire with Kentucky roots says he feels like an enemy of the state. Self-storage magnate B. Wayne Hughes, who lives on a working stud farm in Lexington and is among the richest in the country with a net worth approaching $2 billion, and lives on $625,000 a week (which is how the article breaks down its profiles):
Wayne's avuncular manner deserted him when he talked about what to do about the have-nots. "I remember an advertisement with an Indian in a canoe in a river," he said, "and tears are running down his face because he sees all the trash in the water, and he sees what's happening. That's how I feel about America. It's an emotional thing for me." He paused, and that's when he said, "I'm a little surprised to find out that I'm an enemy of the state at this time in my life. They talk about your 'fair share.' 'Are you paying your fair share?' Fair is in the eyes of the beholder." He paused. "I hope I don't come off like some big person...so conservative.... I believe in spreading it around, but I believe in doing it myself." "So the trash in the river is higher taxes?" I asked. "It's the idea of entitlement," he snapped. "That idea wasn't there in the history of this country. When the politicians said, 'Everybody is entitled to a house,' you saw what happened. And now you have 'Everybody is entitled to go to college.' Which is stupid! When I went to college, I had to drive a truck to pay. I had a partial scholarship, but I took care of myself." "So you're saying everybody is entitled to college but should have to pay his or her own way?" I asked. "Some people don't belong in college!" he said. "That should occur to you."
Hughes, as the article notes, is a multi-million dollar donor to Republican causes this election cycle. Read the full story at the link: GQ | DON'T FALL INTO THE "BUSY TRAP" An interesting editorial from The New York Times on just how busy all of us are all the time in twenty-first century and why we should consider taking a break:
Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. “Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,” wrote Thomas Pynchon in his essay on sloth. Archimedes’ “Eureka” in the bath, Newton’s apple, Jekyll & Hyde and the benzene ring: history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments and dreams. It almost makes you wonder whether loafers, goldbricks and no-accounts aren’t responsible for more of the world’s great ideas, inventions and masterpieces than the hardworking.
Read it: NYT | ARE MERMAIDS REAL? No, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
But are mermaids real? No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples? That’s a question best left to historians, philosophers, and anthropologists.
Anyone else know a ton of friends from college who will be sorely brokenhearted over this fact?
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"Hi there. I'm a mermaid and you will never,
ever have me because I AM NOT REAL." |
