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Alicia Lang loses battle with CF – Alicia Lang, a 2010 Lakota West High School graduate, died from cystic fibrosis Friday, March 8 at the Cleveland Clinic, where she underwent a double-lung transplant on Feb. 11. She would have turned 21 on March 20. The family shared the news early last week.

West Chester hospital to address mental health needs – Millions of Americans experience mental illness each year and there aren’t nearly enough psychiatric beds or funds to combat the region’s growing mental health problem. Beckett Springs Hospital, scheduled to open in July in West Chester, will help address that need, said David Polunas, chief executive officer.

YRC Freight to close West Chester hub – One of the nation’s largest trucking companies is planning to shut down its West Chester hub and distribution center, leaving almost 300 workers in limbo. YRC Freight has informed a local union last week that the company plans to close a significant portion of its local operations as part of a nationwide strategy to consolidate operations, Jason Williams of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

Lakota West student wins Overture Award – Lakota West senior Abby Koch (pronounced “cook”) was recently named this year’s Cincinnati Overture Award winner for Visual Arts. WestChesterBuzz shared the senior’s story last week.

Lakota West hires Jan Bennett as its new girls’ soccer coach – The Lakota West Athletic Department recently announced that it has hired Jan Bennett as its new head girls’ soccer coach for its varsity program. Bennett takes over the position that was held by Tara Schafer-Kalkhoff, Lakota West’s first and only head coach for girls soccer. Schafer-Kalkoff announced her retirement in December.

Voice of America Museum Board gets official go ahead – The West Chester Township trustees, once again, agreed to enter a five-year lease with the Board of the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. This agreement, which was made official last Tuesday night at the latest trustee meeting, will put the museum’s board in charge of maintaining the landmark and will allow them to raise funds as a non-profit corporation.

West Chester neighbors don’t want Kroger – A West Chester Township neighborhood has hired an attorney to prevent a shopping center, which would be anchored by a 133,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace, from being built near their homes. The group is preparing for its meeting with the Zoning Commission this Monday.

New Enquirer – West Chester and Liberty townships, as well as the rest of Greater Cincinnati, saw a new-looking Cincinnati Enquirer last week. The Enquirer’s new edition unfolded last Monday.

Many crimes kept secret in small Ohio college towns – Sheila McLaughlin continued to report for The Cincinnati Enquirer on how 40 percent of college students in Oxford walk out of courtrooms with a criminal record that is sealed from public sight. Meanwhile, the rest of Butler County lives under different rules.

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Jason Williams reports:

One of the nation’s largest trucking companies is planning to shut down its West Chester hub and distribution center, leaving almost 300 workers in limbo.

YRC Freight has informed a local union that the company plans to close a significant portion of its local operations as part of a nationwide strategy to consolidate operations, according to a 132-page document YRC Freight sent to union leaders across the nation this week.

The plan would leave 279 local truck drivers, mechanics and dock workers with the option to relocate hundreds of miles away or be out of work by late spring, said union representative Butch Lewis.

“It’s devastating,” said Lewis, president of the Teamsters Union Local No. 100 in Cincinnati. “This has always been a profitable location. Our guys are shocked, and they’re very, very angry, too.”

Lewis said YRC Freight’s plan calls for all of the local workers to be given the option to relocate, with Indianapolis being the closest option. The document, obtained by The Enquirer, says employees would receive between $2,500 and $4,000 to cover relocation expenses.

“A lot of our guys have already been transferred into the city from Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, Akron and Columbus” during other restructuring phases, Lewis said. “Now they’re going to have to pick up and go somewhere else in the company if they choose to.”

Lewis said he is not sure how many employees would look to relocate.

YRC Freight, a subsidiary of Overland Park, Kan.-based YRC Worldwide, confirmed in a news release that it’s working with union leadership on “realigning” its network. The company said it is working on scheduling a meeting with union representatives in April and expects the realignment to begin in May. The plan requires union approval.

Lewis said YRC has about 450 local employees, and the company plans to continue its local delivery operations. The proposal is to close the bulk terminal – used as part of the national freight network – at 10074 Princeton Glendale Road. Most of that freight would be redistributed to the Indianapolis hub, according to the document.

YRC has undergone several significant changes in recent years. In 2008, YRC Worldwide merged its two largest trucking brands, Yellow and Roadway. In 2011, YRC reportedly nearly avoided having to file for bankruptcy after struggling during the economic downturn. In recent months, the Fortune 500 company has restructured regional offices and leadership.

“The ongoing effort to optimize our network is a key part of our sustainability efforts as we reduce mileage and emissions,” Jeff Rogers, president of YRC Freight, said in a news release. “Better density means fewer empty miles and less emissions.”

YRC Worldwide is the nation’s fourth-largest trucking company in terms of revenue, according to Transport Topics, a publication of the American Trucking Association. The company generated $4.9 billion in revenue in 2011. UPS, FedEx and Con-way are the largest companies.

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Cindi Andrews reports:

The O’Gara Group Inc., a maker of armored vehicles and other security products, completed its purchase of BAE Systems’ Fairfield-based commercial armored vehicles division on Monday, the company announced.

Fewer than 20 BAE employees were laid off prior to the $10 million sale, O’Gara Group CEO Bill O’Gara said; the remaining 110 employees will remain. The Fairfield facility will continue to make armored SUVs for diplomats, as will the company’s other plant in San Antonio, Texas.

“It expands our capacity,” O’Gara said. “Our focus will be global.”

The company will be renamed O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Co. LLC – the same name the Fairfield business carried before it was sold in 2001. O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt was one of the world’s largest armored vehicle makers, with 220 employees, when a company called Kroll-O’Gara sold it to Armor Holding in 2001 for $56.5 million in cash and stock.

BAE acquired Armor Holding in 2007, but the global defense giant has been reducing its U.S. workforce the past couple of years, citing the wind-down of several long-term projects and cuts in government defense spending.

Brothers Bill and Thomas O’Gara, who had been in leadership positions at O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring, began the O’Gara Group in 2003 to provide security products and services. In 2012, the O’Gara Group leased a 36,000-square-foot Fairfield facility to expand Protection Devices Inc., a San Antonio-based armored-vehicle business it bought.

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Marlin and Ray’s in Voice of America Center in West Chester has closed, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Polly Campbell.

It opened in early December of 2011, after Ruby Tuesday Inc. converted its old West Chester Ruby Tuesday location, by the intersection of Cox and Tylersville roads, into a new seafood restaurant.

When it opened, the West Chester Marlin & Ray’s was the company’s sixth converted Ruby Tuesday location. At that time, there was one other location in Ohio (Hilliard), one in Tennessee (Maryville), one in Virginia (Manassas) and two in Georgia (Acworth and Lithonia).

Since then, Marlin & Ray’s locations have opened a total of seven additional locations in Southeast states.

“West Chester is a great market,” assistant general manager Ian Murray said just before the West Chester restaurant opened. “If you look around, there a ton of businesses, a solid source of income from the families we are looking for and most importantly the amount of traffic that is coming through here. It is just a perfect location.”

According to an Associated Press story, Ruby Tuesday, Inc. has posted a second-quarter loss and is selling the entire chain, along with 24 Ruby Tuesday locations.

When the West Chester store opened, the company had high hopes for its seafood restaurant idea.

“We don’t know were the idea is going to go from here. If this thing takes off and blows up, we could sprout out across the country,” Murray said in December of 2011.

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Appeals over ‘waver’ rules cost township $60K

Sheila McLaughlin reports:

Kyle Garth isn’t giving up his fight to put a costumed Lady Liberty on Tylersville Road to wave customers into his Liberty Tax Service.

After losing a decision in Ohio’s 12th District Court of Appeals, Garth is taking the case to the state’s highest court in a legal battle that’s already cost township taxpayers $60,000 in legal fees, according to records obtained by The Enquirer.

It will now cost even more given Garth’s appeals. And the township could wind up paying Garth’s legal fees if he wins.

The issue has created friction among township officials.

The controversy, triggered by a ticket from the township soon after Liberty Tax’s opening in 2009, prompted Trustee George Lang to set up a committee of residents and business owners to review the zoning ordinance and recommend changes.

He noted that he can put a political sign anywhere in the township all year, but the same doesn’t apply to people like Garth who are trying to do business in the township.

“I hope we lose. I hope the Supreme Court proves that what we are doing is unconstitutional,” Lang said. “On any nice day you can drive throughout the township and people are doing it. Why they singled this guy out for harassment, I don’t know.”

Garth’s attorneys asked the Ohio Supreme Court to take the case while they wait for an answer from the 12th District court about whether judges will reconsider their first appeal. Garth is still waiting on answers from both courts.

The township claims that Garth’s live costumed “waver” at the corner of Cox and Tylersville roads – his family business’ primary marketing tool – is a violation of the sign code. Liberty Tax Service sits back in an L-shaped shopping center anchored by Big Lots and Twin Dragon restaurant.

The case has been in one court or another since February 2011 after zoning officials rejected Garth’s request for a variance to allow the waiver.

Joel Frederic, one of two attorneys representing Garth, said the township’s sign regulations don’t address costumed figures.

He maintains that West Chester zoning officials are “overzealous” and trying to “over-regulate business.”

Zoning code highlights

West Chester Township’s zoning code defines signs as “any device, structure, fixture, or placard using graphics, symbols, and or written copy for the primary purpose of identifying, providing directions, or advertising any establishment, product, goods or services.”

Prohibited signs include: pennants, banners, streamers; signs that revolve, rotate, whirl or spin; all portable business advertising signs; beacons and searchlights; signs on parked motor vehicles or trailers; real estate signs anywhere except on the private property for sale; promotional balloons affixed to a building, vehicle or the ground.

The township does allow businesses to put out temporary signs of a specific size three times a year for 14 days each.

Garth’s business neighbors don’t have a problem with Lady Liberty.

“I really don’t find that it is a distraction or anything. He’s not in anybody’s way,” said Erica Huntsman, who manages Tobacco Discounters in the same strip center.

Records obtained by The Enquirer show that West Chester has paid Frost Brown Todd law firm $57,392 in outside legal fees from February 2011 through October 2012.

Township officials say the figure has topped $60,000 by now.

Garth won’t say how much he’s spent on legal representation. But West Chester could be stuck paying his legal fees if he wins, Frederic said.

“They are wasting money on both sides,” Garth said, emphasizing that he’s running a family business with his wife and help from his parents. “It isn’t something that we have a big corporation that helps fund us and makes sure we are running.”

Township trustees Catherine Stoker and Lee Wong say tens of thousands in legal fees is money well spent.

“You have to defend your own regulations. You cannot opt to not enforce a particular regulation,” Stoker said. “The intent of the zoning board was to ensure that we don’t have so much visual clutter that it becomes unattractive and difficult for people to even find what commercial entities they are looking for.”

Wong says the township has no choice but to keep spending money on the case.

“They sued us,” he said. “We have to defend ourselves. If we don’t, we’ll have a shanty town (spring up) next to the nice downtown area.”

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Sheila McLaughlin reports:

The fight to put Lady Liberty back out on a busy street corner in West Chester Township next tax season isn’t over.

The 12th District Court of Appeals has ruled against Liberty Tax Service’s “waver,” saying West Chester gave the company a fair shake in hearings to decide whether the mascot was allowed under the township’s sign code.

Appeals judges sent the case back to Butler County Common Pleas Court to decide whether the waver dressed like the Statue of Liberty constituted protected speech.

On Tuesday, the company’s lawyer asked the appeals court to take another look at the case before the constitutionality question is broached.

“We think they are simply wrong on the law, with all due respect,” said Anthony Covatta, who represents Liberty Tax franchisees Kyle and Lorraine Garth.

The gist of the court filing is that the 12th District should have decided whether the West Chester Board of Zoning Appeals even had authority to rule on a sign variance for the Liberty Tax Service mascot before deciding if the township’s zoning process was properly applied.

Covatta maintains that the waver was not a sign as defined by the township zoning code, so the zoning appeals board didn’t have any authority to decide the case. Last week’s decision also conflicts with a decision in the Sixth District Court of Appeals in Toledo, Covatta contends.

The sign battle between the Garths and West Chester began in late 2009, soon after the Garths opened their Liberty Tax Service franchise in a strip center at the southwest corner of Tylersville and Cox roads.

The Garths say their costumed waver isn’t a sign and that West Chester’s sign regulations violated his right to commercial free speech. The wavers are considered Liberty Tax’s primary marketing tool.

West Chester officials say costumed characters as advertising are banned by the zoning code.

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To let West Chester and Liberty Township residents catch up with the news that they need to know, WestChesterBuzz.com will list and link to all of last week’s top local stories every Monday.

MetroParks breaks ground on VOA athletic complex – The Butler County Visitors Bureau and MetroParks of Butler County held an official ground breaking ceremony last Wednesday for their $3 million project that will add 22 multipurpose natural grass athletic fields on 100 acres of Voice of America Park in West Chester Township. The fields, which border Butler-Warren and Tylersville roads, are expected to be available for use by September of 2014.

Lakota Local Schools maintains rating – Michael D. Clark reported on the annual Ohio Report Cards – Southwest Ohio’s second-largest school system maintained its top state ranking while the area’s longest financially embattled district finally dropped a category, according to the annual Ohio Report Cards, released last Wednesday. Butler County’s Lakota Schools earned an Excellent with Distinction rating despite historically deep budget cuts in recent years.

BAE to sell commercial armored vehicles business – In a $10 million deal, defense contractor BAE Systems announced it is selling off its locally based commercial armored vehicles business that employs 134 workers, Alexander Coolidge of The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last Tuesday.

Zoning Commission approves ‘high end’ apartments in West Chester – Last week, the West Chester Zoning Commission approved two proposed apartment developments that could possibly feature rents greater than $1,200 per month. One of those developments, currently called The Cascades, will have its zoning change go before the West Chester Township Board of Trustees on Nov. 13.

White House Inn becomes Casa Bianca – The owner of Symmes Tavern in Fairfield has bought the venerable White House Inn in West Chester and has turned it into an Italian restaurant, Polly Campbell of the Cincinnati Enquirer reported last week. The name is simply a translation: Casa Bianca. The restaurant will have traditional Italian and traditional American on the menu.

Colerain defeats Lakota West in battle of unbeatens – In a battle of the top two teams in The Cincinnati Enquirer coaches’ poll, senior quarterback Alfred “L.A.” Ramsby carried Colerain from an early 17-0 deficit to a 57-44 win against Lakota West at Cardinal Stadium on a wet and chilly night in Colerain Township.

Supreme Court OK’s Ohio early voting – The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Ohioans to cast early in-person absentee ballots on the final three days before the Nov. 6 election, Barry M. Horstman of The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last Tuesday.

Bridge replacement on Rialto Road is complete – The Butler County Engineer’s Office announced last Tuesday that Rialto Road in West Chester Township is now open. A portion of the road had been closed since early July as the Rialto Road bridge over Mill Creek was replaced.

Lakota teen’s been to Barrackville and Romney – Matthew King, a 17-year-old Lakota East High school senior, recently created a Youtube Video highlighting two small towns in America, that just so happened to be named Romney and Barrackville. In the video, King talks to people on the street, through car windows, and people putting groceries in their cars about their views on the towns name, asking questions with only slight political implications.

Phoenix will phase out West Chester, Florence campuses – The University of Phoenix will phase out classes in West Chester and Florence, impacting 236 students, Cliff Peale of The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last week. The sites have stopped accepting applications, and current students will have the choice of finishing their programs in traditional classrooms or converting to online classes.

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Alexander Coolidge reports:

In a $10 million deal, defense contractor BAE Systems announced on Tuesday it is selling off its locally based commercial armored vehicles business that employs 134 workers.

The acquiring company is Sycamore Township-based O’Gara Group Inc., which provides security equipment and services to commercial and government clients. The transaction will close by the end of the year.

The deal marks something of a reunion for chairman Thomas O’Gara and chief executive Bill O’Gara. Both helped build O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Co. into one of the world’s largest armored vehicle makers before selling it to Armor Holding in 2001, which was acquired by BAE in 2007.

CEO Bill O’Gara vowed to grow the business.

“We look forward to continuing the growth of our commercial armoring business and expanding the transparent armor business,” he said in a statement. “This acquisition not only restores our heritage, it also advances our position and agility in the commercial armor market.”

Earlier this year, the O’Gara Group leased a 36,000-square-foot Fairfield facility to expand an armoring business it acquired, Protection Devices Inc. of San Antonio, which makes fully armored passenger vehicles, mostly for government officials working in dangerous circumstances.

If the latest deal reflects O’Gara Group ramping its business up, it also marks BAE Systems dialing its business back.

The commercial sale comes less than three weeks after BAE Systems announced it would lay off 160 workers by March 31 as it shut down local military production and transferred the work designing and making armored cabs, turrets and accessories to a factory in Sealey, Texas, outside Houston.

BAE Systems has been cutting positions over the past two years as it experiences a marked decrease in production volumes. Factors include the winding down of some long-standing programs, leaner defense budgets and the recession.

“The decision to sell the commercial armored vehicles business and transition our remaining production work from our West Chester site to Sealy improves our competitiveness,” said Erwin Bieber, president of BAE Systems Inc.’s land and armaments, in a statement.

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Jack in the Box opens first Ohio location – Southern-California based Jack in the Box opened its first Ohio location in West Chester last Monday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and special giveaways. People lined up to be among those first in line, while others created a traffic jam trying to get in line for the drive-thru.

Is Lady Liberty mascot considered a sign? – Is the Lady Liberty mascot that waves customers into Liberty Tax Service considered a sign? Sheila McLaughlin of The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last week that West Chester Township thinks it is. The business’ owner says that’s bunk. And a man familiar with signage issues nationwide says he has never heard of such a dispute.

‘High-end’ apartments coming to Union Centre in West Chester? – Two proposed apartment developments, with rents greater than $1,200 per month, will be presented to the West Chester Zoning Commission next month for consideration. Both proposed developments are aimed at appealing to couples and individuals who choose to rent rather than own. Furthermore, both properties will be within walking distance of restaurants, retail and other amenities, as well as some of West Chester’s biggest employers.

Focus13 Learning Center opens in Olde West Chester – Former intervention and reading specialist Thomas Spotts grew tired of teaching students to tests. Instead of helping the school district achieve better scores, Spotts decided that he would much rather help children become better students. That was his reasoning for leaving teaching after 25 years in different school districts throughout Ohio to open the Focus13 Learning Center in Olde West Chester.

Butler County child services leader replaced – Sheila McLaughlin reported last Thursday that Butler County Commissioners appointed a new leader to manage the children services agency after social workers were accused of ignoring calls that a 12-year-old Middletown girl was being locked in a basement.

Lakota West guard Ali Barnes nets a pair of collegiate offers – Lakota West senior guard Ali Barnes recently netted offers to play college basketball at Findlay and Saginaw Valley State, according to Lakota West head coach Sean Van Winkle. Barnes has already received an offer from Fairmont State and recently visited Lake Erie College. He also has received interest from Eastern Kentucky.

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Eric Gibbons moved from California at a very young age and he is sure he has eaten at Jack in the Box before, but can’t remember what it tastes like.

To find out, Gibbons decided to among the first to eat at the fast-food chain’s first location in Ohio, when Jack in the Box celebrated the grand opening of its West Chester restaurant Monday morning.

Gibbons of Springboro was among the many in line, which wrapped around the restaurant prior to the opening, who was there for a special reason.

Also among the crowd was Aaron Hildebrand, his wife Amy and their two children. Aaron had grown to like Jack in Box while spending time in San Diego and Los Angeles. And on a recent family trip to Houston, their five-year-old Jude tried and loved the chain’s burgers.

Ever since, Jude has made his parents drive by during construction of the West Chester restaurant – pointing out updates – anxiously waiting for it to open.

“It was really exciting for him,” Aaron said. “He would say, ‘oh man, they put the sign up’ or ‘oh my gosh, they have benches out.’”

At times, prior to the opening, Jude’s parents had to convince him that construction workers were just taking a lunch break and food is not being served yet.

Jude said that his favorite things are the hamburgers and cheeseburgers. Meanwhile, his dad likes the milkshakes and said, “There is something about those tacos.”

He is not the only one who likes the tacos, which are 99 cents for a pair. According to Sean Lockovich, who is a regional marketing manager with Jack in the Box, the tacos and the all-day full menu (customers can order breakfast at night or a burger in the morning) are the main reasons people flock in the restaurant.

“People come in and want to order, 30, 60, 100 tacos in the drive-thru,” Lockovich said. “It is pretty impressive.”

It didn’t take 100 tacos to back up the drive-thru on Monday, as cars clogged the Tylersville Road exit off I-75 before the restaurant even opened.

If you wanted to go to the restaurant today or avoid the traffic, the West Chester location, 7425 Tylersville Road, is located off I-75 (off the Tylersville exit), in an old gas station lot that is directly next to a Long John Silver’s. The restaurant features 24/7 drive-thru and dining-room service.

In addition to that location, Jack in the Box is planning to open its second restaurant in Cincinnati at 5234 Ridge Ave. across the street from Burlington Coat Factory, off I-71. That location is projected to open in mid-October.

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