The inaugural Wolf Creek Smoke Sizzle and Sounds Barbeque Contest has added bluesman Michael Locke and the Repeat Offenders to headline the Saturday, September 10th affair, at Madison Park in Trotwood. Amateur barbeque aficionados will compete with best chicken and best pork ribs receiving cash prizes of; 1st-$500, 2nd-$250, 3rd $175.
Entertainment will be offered throughout the day including local musicians, dancers, and a Karaoke open mike beginning at 3pm. Michael Locke and the Repeat Offenders deliver original blues with hints of jazz and a smattering of rock. They tour nationally but are from right here in the Dayton area. You might have seen them warm up for BB King, The Fabulous Thunderbirds or Chuck Berry.
Judging begins at 4:30 and prizes will be awarded at 6pm. Last minute contestants are welcome.
Presented by the City of Trotwood. Admission is free. Gates open from 11am to 7pm. Food and beer is available. Madison Park is located at 310 S Broadway. For entry forms, please pick up at the City Government Center, 3035 Olive Rd.. For more information, please call 854-7217.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Picket In Front of Trotwood Post Office Saturday
The grassroots group ‘Save The Trotwood Post Office’ will hold an informational picket in front of the post office on Saturday August 27th from 9:30-10:30am. The group will be raising awareness within the community about the possibility of closing the Trotwood Post Office.
The USPS recently announced a list of 3,700 post offices being considered for closure. Trotwood is one of 6 area post offices included in that list. Post office officials are expected to select as many as 2,000 locations to be closed sometime this fall.
Information will be distributed to let residents know how they can help in the fight to save the office from closing. The demonstration coincides with the launch of a petition drive by the city to collect signatures to be delivered to the post office and elected officials in Washington DC. Copies of the petition will be available during the picket. Beginning next week residents desiring to sign the petition will be able to do so at many area businesses.
The group welcomes anyone wanting to join in. Participants may start gathering at 9am in the vacant parking lot at the corner of Main St and Beardsley. Do not park on Beardsley or in the Post Office parking lot so customers will not be impeded. Picketers should be careful not to block the drive entrances to the Post Office for the same reason. Signs will be available. Information will be distributed about the closing study with addresses to mail comments.
Save The Trotwood Post Office spokesman Bruce Kettelle said, “We just want to keep the Trotwood Post Office Open.”
For more information contact Bruce Kettelle at 837-6401.
The USPS recently announced a list of 3,700 post offices being considered for closure. Trotwood is one of 6 area post offices included in that list. Post office officials are expected to select as many as 2,000 locations to be closed sometime this fall.
Information will be distributed to let residents know how they can help in the fight to save the office from closing. The demonstration coincides with the launch of a petition drive by the city to collect signatures to be delivered to the post office and elected officials in Washington DC. Copies of the petition will be available during the picket. Beginning next week residents desiring to sign the petition will be able to do so at many area businesses.
The group welcomes anyone wanting to join in. Participants may start gathering at 9am in the vacant parking lot at the corner of Main St and Beardsley. Do not park on Beardsley or in the Post Office parking lot so customers will not be impeded. Picketers should be careful not to block the drive entrances to the Post Office for the same reason. Signs will be available. Information will be distributed about the closing study with addresses to mail comments.
Save The Trotwood Post Office spokesman Bruce Kettelle said, “We just want to keep the Trotwood Post Office Open.”
For more information contact Bruce Kettelle at 837-6401.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Trotwood Post Office May Close
If the United States Postal Service has its way Trotwood residents will be driving an extra 5 to 7 miles, one way, to find a post office next year. The USPS released a list of over 3,600 post offices this week they are studying for permanent closure. Trotwood made this dubious list.
For the next three months the post office will conduct a study to see which of the post offices will be recommended for closing. By closing post offices the USPS hopes to trim costs as they face declining revenues lost to competition like the Internet and other delivery services.
After the final list comes out the Post Office will hold a community meeting for public comment and will accept written comments for 60 days. The earliest any of the offices might actually be closed is December.
Trotwood’s Post Office has experienced a drop in traffic over the last few years and is evidenced by a reduced number of tellers. The local office could not release their actual counter sales figures.
Trotwood like the rest of the country has experienced the effects of the economic recession. It is estimated there is over 200 fewer businesses in town than existed in the late 1990s. Since the 2010 census the city has lost 2,989 residents.
The Trotwood post office is the only post office in this 4th largest city of Montgomery County with a current population of 24,431. Covering nearly six square miles it has the second largest land area in the county.
This is not the first time a post office has closed in Trotwood says Regina Klinehanz of the Trotwood Madison Historical Society. The Taylorsburg Post Office on Salem Av near Gettysburg closed in 1915. Prior to that there were also offices in Hays Corner, Air Hill, Amityville, and Mummasville.
Since the late 1800’s the Trotwood post office has occupied space in several grocery stores, from a boxcar on a siding at the Trotwood Depot, and then in 1936 it occupied part of the Farmers Citizens Bank (now 5th/3rd Bank) at Main and Broadway. In 1975 the USPS built their present facility on Beardsley.
The Trotwood City Council has indicated preserving the Trotwood branch is a high priority. A local citizen’s group is also working to fight the closing. Readers can participate with that group by joining the ‘Save The Trotwood Post Office’ Facebook group.
For the next three months the post office will conduct a study to see which of the post offices will be recommended for closing. By closing post offices the USPS hopes to trim costs as they face declining revenues lost to competition like the Internet and other delivery services.
After the final list comes out the Post Office will hold a community meeting for public comment and will accept written comments for 60 days. The earliest any of the offices might actually be closed is December.
Trotwood’s Post Office has experienced a drop in traffic over the last few years and is evidenced by a reduced number of tellers. The local office could not release their actual counter sales figures.
Trotwood like the rest of the country has experienced the effects of the economic recession. It is estimated there is over 200 fewer businesses in town than existed in the late 1990s. Since the 2010 census the city has lost 2,989 residents.
The Trotwood post office is the only post office in this 4th largest city of Montgomery County with a current population of 24,431. Covering nearly six square miles it has the second largest land area in the county.
This is not the first time a post office has closed in Trotwood says Regina Klinehanz of the Trotwood Madison Historical Society. The Taylorsburg Post Office on Salem Av near Gettysburg closed in 1915. Prior to that there were also offices in Hays Corner, Air Hill, Amityville, and Mummasville.
Since the late 1800’s the Trotwood post office has occupied space in several grocery stores, from a boxcar on a siding at the Trotwood Depot, and then in 1936 it occupied part of the Farmers Citizens Bank (now 5th/3rd Bank) at Main and Broadway. In 1975 the USPS built their present facility on Beardsley.
The Trotwood City Council has indicated preserving the Trotwood branch is a high priority. A local citizen’s group is also working to fight the closing. Readers can participate with that group by joining the ‘Save The Trotwood Post Office’ Facebook group.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Trotwood Army Corporal Killed In Afghanistan
Donald R. Mickler Jr, formerly of Trotwood OH, was one of two soldiers killed Saturday in a small-arms exchange in Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. They were assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, in Vilseck, Germany, the Defense Department announced late Sunday.
Details are sketchy, but Cpl. Donald R. Mickler Jr., 29, and Pfc. Rudy A. Acosta, 19, of Canyon Country, Calif., were allegedly shot “by an individual from a military security group,” the DOD said in a news release.
Wounded in the same incident were Sgt. Christopher J. Hemwall from Monroe, Mich.; Sgt. Zack Hombel from Deer Park, Wash.; Sgt. Patrick W. Shelley from Marana, Ariz.; and Spc. Curtis L. Cole from Kingsport, Tenn., all assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd SCR, according to the 2nd Cavalry Association website.
The incident is under investigation.
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| Donald Mickler graduated from Trotwood Madison High School in 1999. |
Details are sketchy, but Cpl. Donald R. Mickler Jr., 29, and Pfc. Rudy A. Acosta, 19, of Canyon Country, Calif., were allegedly shot “by an individual from a military security group,” the DOD said in a news release.
Wounded in the same incident were Sgt. Christopher J. Hemwall from Monroe, Mich.; Sgt. Zack Hombel from Deer Park, Wash.; Sgt. Patrick W. Shelley from Marana, Ariz.; and Spc. Curtis L. Cole from Kingsport, Tenn., all assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd SCR, according to the 2nd Cavalry Association website.
The incident is under investigation.
[Rewritten from Stars and Stripes]
Editorial - New Census Should Sound Regional Alarm
By Bruce Kettelle
The new census numbers sound an alarm that Ohio continues to experience rapid population decentralization. An effect we commonly call urban sprawl.
Youngstown, Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Toledo and Akron all lost over 8% of their urban population while the state as a whole grew.
People migrate for many reasons such as rural lifestyles, better schools, seemingly lower taxes, or to be closer to work. But the long-range pitfalls of unregulated sprawl are catching up with Ohio and left unfettered will be difficult to reverse.
One of the biggest real-time costs is providing the ever-expanding transportation and utility network to support these deltas of settlements around our cities. New roads, bridges, and highway widening projects consume valuable resources, and limited state and local budgets.
Rural development stresses limited water supplies. Growing auto usage consumes precious oil and pollutes our air. Deserted housing and commercial areas create blight and encourage crime.
Meanwhile futurists have warned us for over a century that the world population will grow larger than our planet’s ability to provide food for our billions of people. This year we received a wakeup call with droughts in Russia and a below average crop in the US and Ohio. We will not run out of food this year but the supplies are so tight that corn, for example, has tripled from $2 to over $6 a bushel in a few short years.
Capitalism may already be trying to slow the development of rural areas as the price for farmland is rising. Farms that sold ten years ago for $2,200 an acre are now bringing $5,500 and more. That is still far less than the tens of thousands developers are willing to pay, but it is getting closer. And once land is soiled by development it loses its agriculture productivity.
We have a choice. We can wait until food prices skyrocket putting the value of farmland out of the reach of developers or we can be proactive and develop sensible regional growth strategies now to preserve arable land for our food needs. If we wait there is no guarantee the markets will adjust in time and we will have already invested much more in new infrastructure costs.
Smart policies will create demand for vacant buildings and factory sites. Creative redevelopment of these assets will utilize the existing infrastructure already in place. This practice is already proving to work in places like Portland, Oregon and Louisville, Kentucky. Why shouldn’t we do it here in Dayton and all of Ohio?
Regional cooperation and planning is a sound idea whose time has come and it will save taxpayers money.
The new census numbers sound an alarm that Ohio continues to experience rapid population decentralization. An effect we commonly call urban sprawl.
Youngstown, Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Toledo and Akron all lost over 8% of their urban population while the state as a whole grew.
People migrate for many reasons such as rural lifestyles, better schools, seemingly lower taxes, or to be closer to work. But the long-range pitfalls of unregulated sprawl are catching up with Ohio and left unfettered will be difficult to reverse.
One of the biggest real-time costs is providing the ever-expanding transportation and utility network to support these deltas of settlements around our cities. New roads, bridges, and highway widening projects consume valuable resources, and limited state and local budgets.
Rural development stresses limited water supplies. Growing auto usage consumes precious oil and pollutes our air. Deserted housing and commercial areas create blight and encourage crime.
Meanwhile futurists have warned us for over a century that the world population will grow larger than our planet’s ability to provide food for our billions of people. This year we received a wakeup call with droughts in Russia and a below average crop in the US and Ohio. We will not run out of food this year but the supplies are so tight that corn, for example, has tripled from $2 to over $6 a bushel in a few short years.
Capitalism may already be trying to slow the development of rural areas as the price for farmland is rising. Farms that sold ten years ago for $2,200 an acre are now bringing $5,500 and more. That is still far less than the tens of thousands developers are willing to pay, but it is getting closer. And once land is soiled by development it loses its agriculture productivity.
We have a choice. We can wait until food prices skyrocket putting the value of farmland out of the reach of developers or we can be proactive and develop sensible regional growth strategies now to preserve arable land for our food needs. If we wait there is no guarantee the markets will adjust in time and we will have already invested much more in new infrastructure costs.
Smart policies will create demand for vacant buildings and factory sites. Creative redevelopment of these assets will utilize the existing infrastructure already in place. This practice is already proving to work in places like Portland, Oregon and Louisville, Kentucky. Why shouldn’t we do it here in Dayton and all of Ohio?
Regional cooperation and planning is a sound idea whose time has come and it will save taxpayers money.
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