Cincinnati Ranked "The Place to Be" in 2012
Lonely Planet, the travel experts, ranked Cincinnati #3 in their list of places for travel in 2012. We're in great company!
They rated the US Virgin Islands #1 and the Hudson River Valley, New York # 2. Following us in the ranking are the Four Corners Region in southwest USA; Culebra, Puerto Rico; California gold Country; Boulder, Colorado; Hawaii's, Big Island; Chicago; and Yellowstone National Park.
Cincinnati was recognized for more than just its river city attributes. They praised it as a worthy venue for a weekend away. Particularly recognized were Mt. Adams, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Over the Rhine's Italianate architecture and Findlay Market. They claimed the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was one of the primary reasons for our ranking. It's certainly exciting when you add the 2012 World Choir Games to this list!
CNN Money Ranks Mason and Springboro among "100 Best Places to Live"
Warren County cities, Mason at #24 and Springboro at #42, were ranked among the top 100 Best Places to Live by CNN Money.
Mason is popular because of the Mason schools that placed fifth out of 613 Ohio school districts in 2010. It is also cited for access to Cincinnati, proximity to interstates, plus the Beach and Kings Island. The median income is $101,034 and median home price is $173,000.
Springboro is known for its Main Street where 33 structures are on the Historic Register, many former stops on the Underground Railroad. It's small town character is notable. The median family income is $105,681 and median home price is $191,145.
Buy a Book for a Child and Help Set a Record - October 6, 2011
Once again, the Cincinnati Team (Saralou Durham, Mary Elsener and Julie Harms) is helping set a Reading Record with the organization, Jumpstart. (www.jstart.org) Your donation can help!
This year’s featured book is Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. 
You may have seen previous book selections being read on the Today show.
Why are we doing this?
Every child deserves the chance to succeed, yet studies show that children from low-income neighborhoods are at a greater risk of school failure. Most lack access to high quality early education, live in poverty and start kindergarten 60% behind their wealthier peers.
Jumpstart is a national early education organization that recruits and trains college students and community volunteers to help these disadvantaged children develop the language and literacy skills they need to be ready for school.
The Cincinnati Team has committed to adopting and reading to the children at Peaslee Neighborhood Center downtown. Each child will receive their own book. More books donated = more children we can read to.
Will you join us in this project? There are two ways to participate:
Picture from our day reading Corduroy in 2009.
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· Millions of children in low-income neighborhoods are at risk of school failure because they lack access to a high quality early education. · More than six million children in the U.S. under the age of six live in poverty. · In low-income neighborhoods, children start kindergarten 60% behind their wealthier peers – and research shows that most will never catch up. |
Great Theater - Playhouse in the Park and Ensemble Theater
God of Carnage on the stage at the Playhouse through October 1
You're always hearing about the fights on the playground. Here, you'll see what happens when two sets of parents meet to try to work out the problems...sounds like the problem just got bigger! There have been great reviews for this show. It won the 2009 Tony for Best Play. A great start to Ed Stern's last year as Artistic Director.
Next to Nowhere on the Ensemble Theater stage through September 25
I loved this show and I wasn't the only one...it's just hard to see such raw feelings on stage, especially in a musical. The Goodman family - such a prophetic name - experiences the ups and downs that most families with a bi-polar mother will endure. As theater, it is spectacular! This show won the 2009 Tony for Best Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Lynn Meyers pulled off a real coup when she made arrangements for its regional premier here in Cincinnati.
Great Outdoor Weekend - September 24-25
The Cincinnati Great Outdoor Weekend, an initiative of Green Umbrella presents a diverse sampling of nature activities in Greater Cincinnati the weekend of September 24-35. There will be environmental education and outdoor recreation activities at over 51 sites around the area. It's all part of a push to get all of us, especially kids, enjoying the outdoors. Activities that sounded fun to me:
For a copy of the brochure, detailing over 75 activities, go to great outdoor weekend brochure
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