Entries are accepted until 4:30 p.m. Oct. 8, and winners will be announced in the fall. Each category winner will receive $500, and each category second-place winner will receive $200.
Households can enter the two categories ― best interior improvement project and best exterior/landscaping project ― but can only win one of the two categories.
Other rules include winning projects must have obtained all needed permits and inspections; have started the projects by Jan. 1, 2020, and finished by the time of submission, and include a before and after picture.
“The city wanted to recognize and celebrate those who have invested their time and money in our community,” he said. “Improvements to their individual homes contribute to the overall health and vitality of property values throughout the city.”
For questions, call 513-896-8169 or email [email protected].
FAIRFIELD HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTEST RULES
- City residents only
- While households can enter the two categories, households may only win one category. Categories are: Best interior improvement project and Best exterior/landscaping project
- Winning projects must have obtained all necessary permits and inspections to be considered
- Home improvements must have been started after Jan. 1, 2020, and be completed by the time of submission.
- Must include at least one before and one after picture
- Entries are accepted until 4:30 p.m. Oct. 8, and winners will be announced in the fall. Each category winner will receive $500, and each category second-place winner will receive $200.
It is with deep, deep sadness that we have to do this, but as of October of this year, we will be shutting our doors...
Posted by The Almond Sisters Bakery on Thursday, August 26, 2021
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The most cases are at West Elementary (8), Crossroads Middle School (7), Senior High School (5), and Creekside Middle School (4), according to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard."},{"_id":"QCYQFW3LKFBT5FLZOK263VJTZQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812020},"type":"text","content":"School spokeswoman Gina Gentry-Fletcher said while the positive cases are scattered throughout the district, “our quarantines have higher numbers in our two middle schools and at West Elementary.” Over the past week (Aug. 20 to Aug. 26), 263 students were under quarantine, according to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard. The district reports a total of 83 quarantining students at Creekside and Crossroads middle schools, 55 at West Elementary and 48 at the high school."},{"_id":"UR6OV76SLFDLFOAIOQ6J7N323Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812021},"type":"text","content":"While masking is not mandatory in Fairfield, Gentry-Fletcher said the school board has said it “would be willing to have additional dialogue about masking once the district had its own data to analyze.”"},{"_id":"QDVBHIA44BH2ZBEBBKO3E7JRVM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812022},"type":"text","content":"Fairfield’s school year is less than two weeks old, so she said “this continues to be a very fluid situation.” The district sent a reminder to students and staff that if they wear a mask correctly and consistently they will not need to quarantine, she said."},{"_id":"Q6CJFMZYEVDMDIHYBCD4TUXT54","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812023},"type":"text","content":"“We will continue to strongly recommend facial coverings for all students and staff, regardless of vaccination status and will monitor our own data and consider a change if the data indicate a need to do so,” Gentry-Fletcher said."},{"_id":"MO2ZWGDVONFWFITV6XZTIPK75U","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812024},"type":"text","content":"In the Hamilton City Schools, there were 38 new COVID cases among students, according to the state health department. The district’s COVID-19 dashboard reports the past two weeks’ worth of data, and as of Friday afternoon, the district had 396 students quarantining over that time frame with 42 positive student cases."},{"_id":"DC3WBQML3NCBPM6BFEZY3XJ3DE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812025},"type":"text","content":"Like Fairfield, Hamilton’s quarantining students are scattered across the district, but most are at the high school (94) and freshman school (58), but there were also high numbers of quarantining students at Highland (66) and Bridgeport (46) elementary schools."},{"_id":"7NHZVZMVWRA6JNE7L5GZGEITMA","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"PIREIH35FZFIXJ7IVC54NTPCWM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Hamilton City School District Board of Education Work Session 8-26-21","url":"https://www.facebook.com/hamiltoncityschools/videos/298385212049907"},{"_id":"ZYXYCGY4RFGD7NXRTCI2XH5PRE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099812027},"type":"text","content":"Crawford Woods Elementary had eight cases and Fairwood Elementary had five cases. 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The incident has caused “a general sense of anger, and frustration, resentment, there’s a lot of emotions going on,” Vet Board member and Afghanistan War veteran Jim Eriksen told the Journal-News."},{"_id":"JSZ35VVRSNCOPLR7FOF5GBJKFQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096259},"type":"text","content":"Eriksen served in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 training Afghani soldiers. Eriksen said he doesn’t blame their Army for fleeing after President Joe Biden set his Aug. 31 evacuation deadline. 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He is the newest member of the vet board appointed in January. Vet Board Executive Director Mike Farmer said it is not just veterans who served in Afghanistan who are “devastated” by the recent attacks. Even in the short period of time the events have been unfolding they’ve seen an uptick of calls from veterans who just want to talk to someone."},{"_id":"DQAEJEZKMRBPLNORMRJEGW6NJU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096262},"type":"text","content":"“We have posted to all our social media platforms number they can text, or hotlines they can call 24/7, the Butler County board of mental health if they’re not comfortable going to the VA,” Farmer said. “If they call our office during the day the front desk is filtering those directly to me because a lot of times they just want a lended ear.”"},{"_id":"EPEKPFGHQZDPHOE37HJWDMFYNA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096263},"type":"text","content":"He said vets who struggling with their emotions can call the Veterans’ Crisis Line at 800-273-8522 or text the six-digit code: 838-255 to reach someone who can help."},{"_id":"O7BOPXSRHZCLBKPYESOVPSDM4Y","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"ANE2OUDTM5BUTC2RUADZY6PJUQ"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Newest commissioner hopes to reach more younger veterans in Butler County","url":"https://www.journal-news.com/news/newest-commissioner-hopes-to-reach-more-younger-veterans-in-butler-county/72CHMI4BYBDUJFQ7XB5GC2MSTA/"},{"_id":"JBGS55DV7NBWJFNZOLZFSQ6MFA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096265},"type":"text","content":"The situation is likely to escalate. The White House released a statement Friday that another terrorist attack in Kabul is likely. Eriksen acknowledged most of the country has wanted to exit the 20-year war, but he believes a small arsenal of American troops was necessary to keep the terrorists at bay."},{"_id":"IRCL7HG2XRBBTOJH4UKXF24JLA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096266},"type":"text","content":"“It didn’t take a lot to keep the barbarians outside the gates,” he said. “I was always of the opinion a small number of forces and some Air Force would keep our sacrifice worthwhile right, it’s not going to become the training ground central for terrorists, which is exactly what’s going to happen, everyone can see it.”"},{"_id":"ZMSE23YE2ZFTJMYNBB55CID4BA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096267},"type":"text","content":"Eriksen said he and his fellow Afghan vets “resent the fact that we’ve become the new Vietnam generation and it literally happened almost overnight.”"},{"_id":"B7RGLPQCB5CCJEXRSL4JZBGAM4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096268},"type":"text","content":"“This is Vietnam all over again,” former vet board member and Vietnam veteran Dave Smith said. “What was it all for.”"},{"_id":"PCC3KIFRG5EIDGTML57ROIWMA4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096269},"type":"text","content":"Vet Board President Chuck Weber is also a Vietnam War vet and he said he is furious about what has unfolded. “It’s deja vu all over again and I can’t believe our leaders don’t learn the lessons of the past.” Most Americans were against that war and Weber said he is reliving those feelings."},{"_id":"PT2HMY6E3BAPNNWP2VOHLCZDKM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630099096270},"type":"text","content":"“We went in to rid ourselves of the Al Qaeda folks and once that was accomplished I think we should have come home and just said mission accomplished,” Weber said. “Instead we stayed 20 years and decided we wanted to build nations. 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His projects totaled $76.7 million and were awarded $53.7 million in state and federal grants."},{"_id":"WMH6YHVQ5NG47EFVJT6XB6LCYM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565035},"type":"text","content":"Wilkens said the secret to his success is “knowledge” and experience with matching projects to available grants and local match money is always a plus."},{"_id":"GTLSA4GP6NAZ7FKATNCH4WQ4HY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565036},"type":"text","content":"“It’s an art and a science getting these grants,” Wilkens told the Journal-News. “Just because you’ve got a project doesn’t mean you’re going to get money.”"},{"_id":"DI77LEZBLFC5DHDNGUGBV4PDTA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565037},"type":"text","content":"His largest win in recent years is $11.6 million, nearly half the cost for the “fix” to the Liberty Way interchange at Interstate 75 that is under construction now."},{"_id":"Y5EU4RHQLRGNXI6KZBCC2W6EB4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565038},"type":"text","content":"It rankles officials here that a change is even necessary since the $40 million interchange is only a decade old. When the interchange was first imagined the design being built now was preferred by locals, but rejected by the state because it terminates into a local road."},{"_id":"4274AUUNSFAQ7G2KQHPF2HFNMQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565039},"type":"text","content":"Wilkens surmises the large grant is at least partially due to the state’s original mistake."},{"_id":"ARSFENDR4NGZJD2F44GP2N45PE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565040},"type":"text","content":"“I don’t know the total thinking, the numbers matched, the numbers worked, the traffic volume’s high enough, the accident history is great enough,” Wilkens said. “The state recognized there is a problem now, the weave and so forth, was it a portion of it, yeah I’d say that was a big portion of it.”"},{"_id":"JXMTAHDNVRBHLMZBEFOHUMTCDI","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"JMSY4UOMMVGHHHIEIIKIUPJAGA"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Butler County engineer secures $8.5 million in grants for future projects","url":"https://www.journal-news.com/news/butler-county-engineer-secures-85-million-in-grants-for-future-projects/TTPZKWRCRJBXTJ323QNPOTVTC4/"},{"_id":"5F2KTMWY2VDRJPAVTQ6BKANFS4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565041},"type":"text","content":"Wilkens has secured several other large grants in recent years like $5.6 million for the $7 million improvement to Ohio 747 in Liberty Twp. and $5.3 million for the $7.8 million widening of Cincinnati-Dayton Road in Old West Chester. The county only had to pay $82,535 for the $4.8 million Yankee Road in Liberty Twp. five years ago."},{"_id":"GGVCYSIODZA33BT3SGXKQK3NMU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565042},"type":"text","content":"The vast majority of the grant-worthy projects have been in the two largest townships, Liberty and West Chester have the financial ability to put up matching money through their tax increment financing districts and fit other criteria smaller jurisdictions for the most part can’t."},{"_id":"CY7GR262QNBLJDF46GASBQSAUY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565043},"type":"text","content":"“When we’ve got TIFS available that has helped,” Wilkens said. “But when you put it into perspective those are the high growth, you’ve got the high volume, high accidents and they qualify easier. The bulk of the projects being in those townships is because the bulk of the traffic is in those townships.”"},{"_id":"4TBRZGDWEVDQXNQVT75AWQWYAM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565044},"type":"text","content":"Wilkens handles projects on county and township roads but the cities do their own roadwork. Hamilton Director of Engineering Rich Engle said since 2017 they have spent $48.4 million on street resurfacing, bridge replacements and upgrades, South Hamilton Crossing, the Jim Blount overpass, Main Street improvements and traffic signal upgrades. They won $28.3 million in grants to support these projects."},{"_id":"XKKGWSIAXFABXEVJMABTGXY7WE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565045},"type":"text","content":"“The city of Hamilton recognizes these grant funds as taxpayer dollars and utilizes them prudently,” Engle said. “We would not have been able to accomplish the list of projects completed in the last 5 years without the grant funding. This is especially true of the South Hamilton Crossing which received 56.3% grant funding for the construction cost.”"},{"_id":"HYITITBIQJG2BC7VEH7DTBYDCA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":152,"comment":" percent"}],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565046},"type":"text","content":"Middletown has spent $21.3 million and grants covered 65% of the cost or nearly $14 million. Middletown’s biggest road problem was solved with the 0.25%, 10-year income tax levy voters approved last November. It is allowing the city this year and next to launch a blitz of road resurfacing including $51.6 million to fix a third (217) of the 621 lane miles in the city."},{"_id":"WLTBLL36FZH3LG6236IFM554NM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565047},"type":"text","content":"Scott Tadych, director of Public Works, explained why the city could not have sought grants to help with this campaign."},{"_id":"5HFASAOBIZHPLKEJMWVPHAQST4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565048},"type":"text","content":"“That project is almost exclusively local residential streets, so there are very limited funds out there as far as grants for that because they don’t have high traffic,” Tadych said. “It’s not a highway, it’s not a major arterial so there’s very little if any grant funds available for that type of project.”"},{"_id":"CKDXQYSYNJE2FOXJTOIOH2YYSA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630004565049},"type":"text","content":"Fairfield has received outside funding from the state, the Ohio Public Works Commission and federal funds covering 52% of its $14 million in major projects over the past five years. 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The board of elections was notified, but council was told the ordinance had to receive five votes, according to the Ohio Constitution."},{"_id":"WJPE2CMMKVDILKP6QTOXLM4VQM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630008202741},"type":"text","content":"Council member Christina McElfresh, who supported the ordinance twice, asked Phillip Callahan why the council wasn’t notified in July that it did something “inappropriate,” according to the constitution."},{"_id":"VLAEE6QXFJEM3IXXOSM2QKKXRQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630008202742},"type":"text","content":"He said: “I take responsibility for that.”"},{"_id":"E53QJRT75NGA7M2XZ5JJP4TSNU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630008202743},"type":"text","content":"Tom Callahan and Anna Hale voted against the ordinance and it failed, 4-2."},{"_id":"DMTGRDKSEFEYXCN4GUJBPFQN6E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1630008202744},"type":"text","content":"Hickman contacted the council and said he wanted members to reconsider two charter amendment changes that were rejected 3-3 at the July meeting. 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