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CNOtes are blog articles about weekly Tuesday noon lunch meetings and monthly CNO 2.0 evening meetings.

HOLIDAY PARTY – Yankee Trace

Tonight we celebrated the holiday season. Everyone got their pictures taken by the holiday tree. After dinner we were entertained by “Center Stage,” a 9-lady chorus. There was a poinsettia as the centerpiece on each table. A prize ticket taped to the bottom of one chair at each table determined who got to take the poinsettia home. Special thanks to the social committee Beth Duncan, Diane Arehart, Val Huff, Sue Jessee, and anyone else that helped make tonight happen. The room decorations were beautiful and it was a festive night!

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Beth Gully – “The Other Side of Christmas”

Gully is known as the upside-down book speaker. She is one of 100 ambigram artists in the world. She has created over 400 logos, has set marketing trends, and has won many prestigious awards for her creations. From Wikipedia: “An ambigram is a word, art form, or other symbolic representation whose elements retain meaning when viewed or interpreted from a different direction, perspective, or orientation.

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Judge Walter Rice

Starting in 2004, Rice along with Debbie A. Lieberman, studied the issue of re-entry after prison. The “office of Ex-Offender Reentry Welcome One-stop Reentry Center was opened in Montgomery county 9 years ago. Thousands have received help that was previously unavailable. They are working with other counties to change legislation to avoid collateral consequences. There are odd laws. If you have a felony record, you could not be a barber and can’t own a construction company. Most of these laws have no relationship to the crime that was committed.

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Vail Miller – Heidelberg Distributing – Chappy’s Social House

Heidelberg is comprised of nine warehouse and office facilities located in Cincinnati (two companies), Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Lorain, Toledo, Youngstown, and Northern Kentucky. Heidelberg has 1,600 associates and two million square feet of warehouse. They have 18,000 beverages and 740 suppliers. They serve 26,000 retailers throughout Ohio and Kentucky.

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Lance Detrick – President, Goodwill Easterseals

Both Goodwill and Easterseals are national organizations. They each target different and shared groups. Easterseals focuses only on those with disabilities and helps them be independent in all areas of their lives. Goodwill helps those with additional challenges that might not just be physical or mental. Goodwill, for example, helps those with economic disadvantages. Their mission is to find or provide employment for its clients and their families.

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D. Ralph Young – “Forgotten Heroes”

Young made a commitment to himself to write a book about forgotten warriors. “Forgotten Warriors: The Amphibious March Across the Pacific During World War II” was published in 2016 and a second revision will be release in time for Christmas 2019. There were 16 million American WWII soldiers. At the end of 2018 there were 496,777 still living. If he has it his way, Ralph said he plans to be the last man standing.

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John Carroll – Centerville High School Principal

Carroll has worked in the Centerville School District for 26 years. He has been CHS coordinating principal for the last 4. He originally taught math. He feels blessed and is excited to go to work each day. He wants to be accessible to students. Much of the day he tries to stand out at the front desk so that he is accessible to students and staff. He explained that the high school provides academics, social-emotional learning, and career advising.

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UD Men’s Basketball Coach Anthony Grant – JD Legends

Coach Grant thanked us for having him here to speak today. He said he was asked to talk about the path his life took to get to where he is now as head coach of UD’s Basketball team since 2017, He graduated from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida in 1983. At the age of 17, Anthony came to Dayton to attend the University of Dayton. He was a business major at UD. Don Donoher was his coach and Anthony knows coach Donoher has been there for him.

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