Protect your heart - Walking can reduce your risk of heart disease by 30%. Brisk walking provides similar benefits as running for reducing three key risk factors: blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. Slim Down - Regular brisk walking, when combined with healthy eating, is hugely effective for weight loss, helping you burn extra calories. Walking also helps to reduce visceral fat (AKA belly or abdominal fat), which is especially dangerous to our health. Keep your memory sharp - A study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the hippocampus - the part of the brain that is key to memory - can be expanded through regular walking. Improve your mood - Exercise helps release endorphins that instantly improve your mood and trigger a positive feeling in the body. When performed regularly, exercise helps ease stress, anxiety and has even been shown to be as effective as psychotherapy at relieving moderate depression. Sleep better - Exercise such as walking boosts the effect of natural sleep hormones such as melatonin, helping you doze off faster and sleep more soundly.
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7780 S. State Route 48 Maineville, OH 45039 Phone: (513) 683.8520 Fax: (513) 683.4325 Joe Rozzi - Board Chair Mark Sousa - Trustee Darryl Cordrey - Trustee Kurt Weber - Fiscal Officer Township Administrator Brent Centers (513) 239.2372 Police Department Scott Hughes - Police Chief (513) 683.0538 (Non Emergency) Fire & Emergency Services Jason Jewett - Fire Chief (513) 683-1622 (Non Emergency) Public Works Director Kenny Hickey (513) 683-5360 Economic Development and Zoning (513) 683-8520 Assistant Fiscal Officer Ellen Horman (513) 239.2377 Human Resources Kellie Krieger (513) 239.2384 Zoning Administrator Lindsey Gehring (513) 239.2379 Community Development Coordinator Nicole Earley (513) 683.5320 Administrative Assistant Allison Hampton (513) 683-8520
April 2022
Spring is finally upon us! Our moods are bound to improve with the beautiful blooms, bright blue skies and temperatures we wish we could have the entire year. Under these conditions, it can be a little bit easier to get in the physical activity our bodies crave. While we're all not built to be workout fanatics, there are some healthy habits we can create for ourselves just by getting outdoors. Going for a walk, getting the kids to the playground and tossing ball in the backyard are just a few simple ideas. Did you know that setting aside just 20 minutes a day to go for a walk can improve your overall health dramatically? Sounds like a good plan, but we know it can be hard to get motivated. Perhaps if we don't look at physical activity as exercise, we won't dread it so much. Think of your walk as your way of saying hello to your neighbors, listening to your favorite podcast, or even just 20 minutes of quiet time away from the hustle and bustle of life. Walking outdoors offers the added benefit of Vitamin D which will do wonders for boosting your mood. Each day will get a little bit easier and we're sure you'll begin to look forward to that 20 minutes and most likely result in even longer walks! Read on to see what our departments are doing to create healthy habits and be sure to check out this issue's delicious (and healthy) recipe!
healthy habits
Newsletter
5 benefits of walking your way to better health
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The policy of the Hamilton Township Police Department is to prioritize member wellness to foster fitness for duty and support a healthy quality of life for department members. Our Police Department maintains a wellness program that supports its members with proactive wellness resources, critical incident response, and follow-up support. The department has members who are knowledgeable in identifying wellness supporters (e.g., licensed psychotherapists and external peer support providers). HTPD also has an Employee Physical Fitness Program that allows officers the ability to work out during their shift. The gym is furnished with a TRUEFORM non-motorized treadmill, a rower, a stationary bike, free weights, and a ROGUE Rig/ Power Rack that is equipped for back squats, bench press, wall balls, dips, cable movements, and more. Additionally, we have a machine for core strength development and midline stabilization to lower back rehab and spinal decompression. Every year in October, our Department hosts a 5k called “Back the Boo” to promote physical fitness on The Little Miami Scenic Trail. Everyone is welcome to participate! We will post more information on the 5K as fall 2022 approaches.
fit for duty
Our officers receive regular education and training on topics related to member physical and mental health and wellness, including but not limited to: The availability and range of department wellness support systems Suicide Awareness Recognizing and managing mental distress, emotional fatigue, post-traumatic stress, and other possible reactions to trauma Countering sleep deprivation and physical fatigue Benefits of physical exercise and proper nutrition
Being a Firefighter or Medic is a physical job and requires our personnel to be able to act at peak performance at any given moment. Tasks of a Firefighter and Medic can include, but are not limited to being able to walk, crawl, climb ladders and lift heavy objects. It also requires the ability to work at a high heart rate for extended periods of time (up to 15-20 mins) all while wearing heavy and specialized gear for firefighting. Due to the high demand of the job, HTFR is dedicated to providing the best tools for our staff to make them successful. HTFR requires all employees engage in a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity while on duty. In the commitment of achieving peak performance, the department has hired a trainer from EVO FIT, who works with each shift, one day a week to improve their functional fitness. Functional fitness of a Firefighter includes core strength, cardiovascular capacity, flexibility, and ability to push, pull, lift, carry, and drag. This fitness regimen reduces their chance of injury and improves fireground performance. Physical fitness not only benefits job performance, but has also proven to reduce stress, aid in sleep, improve cognitive functions and most importantly, reduce the chance of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Physical fitness is very important to being a Firefighter/Medic, but mental health is just as important to address. HTFR offers an EAP Plan, which is completely confidential, to assist with mental, emotional, or psychological issues that a member may encounter. The last key in our personnel staying healthy is a mandatory annual physical. This physical ensures our employees are in good physical shape and fit for duty. The physical tests vision, hearing, heart rate, and also screens for indications of medical issues such as cancer and pre-diabetes. Everything required of Fire Rescue personnel requires a foundation of physical fitness that we strive to achieve. We're committed to being Firefighter fit for our HT residents! Click here to learn more about the HTFR .
FIrefighter fit
built in benefits
Carrying buckets of cold patch for filling potholes = Farmer's walk with kettlebell Carrying buckets full of materials in front of you strengthens your glutes, quads and entire midsection. Raking Rock, Gravel, and Asphalt = Row exercises Works entire upper body, but specifically back and pectoral muscles. Rows are like inverse push-ups. Everything a push up does for your chest and pushing ability, rows do for your back and pulling ability. Mowing = Prowler Sled Engages your glutes, quads, hamstrings, core and upper body all at once, making it a tough full-body workout, similar to using a cross trainer machine. Digging = Strength Training The motion of pressing a shovel down with your foot and turning over the soil engages a whole range of muscle groups in both the lower and upper body from the quads to the shoulders. Installing a new Sign Post = Resistance Training Helps to improve muscular endurance in back, shoulders, traps, core and arms.
Some jobs come with advertised perks such as gym memberships, offices with windows and a team atmosphere; and some jobs have this built into the job description. When you work in the Public Works Department, your daily workout is taken care of while you're on the clock AND you're not confined to an office. Being able to incorporate physical activity, a constant change of scenery and build comaradie with your co-workers into your day to day isn't so bad. A daily dose of Vitamin D doesn't hurt anything either! Our days are full of what most would call manual labor. When you do it day in and day out, you try to look at it from a different perspective; a perspective that sees each work assignment as an opportunity to not only complete the task, but to get your workout in. Here are just a few benefits from some of our day to day work. We're sure you can incorporate some of these workouts at home as you manicure your lawns and do home improvement projects around the house this spring!
public works
a day in the life
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Construction is anticipated to begin in June of 2023 and take 15 months. The project plans to have two lanes plus all existing left turn lanes remain open during peak travel times and road closures are not anticipated. Traffic impacts due to relocating utilities are still to be determined.
As most of us are well aware, The Warren County Transportation Improvement District, in partnership with ODOT, is planning an improvement project involving State Route 48 from Saddle Creek Lane and Willow Pond Boulevard. The project proposes widening State Route 48 from Saddle Creek Lane and WIllow Pond Boulevard to a consistent five-lane roadway with two through travel lanes in each direction and a center turn lane. The project is necessary to improve safety, ease congestion, maintain effective connectivity, accommodate existing and future traffic and travel demand, and support a variety of other established community goals.
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ECOnOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING
PROJECT BENEFITS
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state route 48 improvements
*Reduce Travel Time through the Corridor *Improve Safety/Reduce Accident Frequency *Anticipate Future Growth *Increase Multimodal Connectivity
Northbound SR 48: The project will add a thru-lane just North of Willow Pond Boulevard continuing to just North of Ridgeview Lane/Saddle Creek Lane intersection with a transition to existing.
US 22/3: The project will convert existing shoulder and right-turn lane Eastbound to a thru lane in order to accept the added Southbound SR 48 left turn lane onto US 22/3.
Southbound SR 48: The project will add a thru-lane beginning at Ridgeview Lane/Saddle Creek Lane intersection and ending at existing right-turn lane at Willow Pond Boulevard south of US 22/3.
The 2017 to 2020 data in this overview was accumulated from he Township's audited financial statements. The 2021 data was accumulated from the Township's unaudited financial statements. The summary data is not intended and does not present the Township's financial position as a whole.
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The General Fund accounts for and reports all financial resources not accounted for and reported in another fund. The general fund balance is available to the Township for any purpose provided it is expended or transferred according to the general laws of Ohio.
finance update
Ellen Horman is our Assistant Fiscal Officer and maintains the day-to-day operations of the fiscal office. She has led us through 7 perfect audits!
JUne 27 - july 1
junior police academy
Pack the family, a blanket, and a picnic lunch for this family fun day at Mounts Park. Games include a backyard obstacle course, sack races, water balloon toss and a scavenger hunt on the trails. FREE Kona Ice! Don't forget your fishing rods!
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
july 4th
Easter Egg Hunt 4.9 | 11:00 am | Testerman Park
Get your bunnies ready to hop around and fill their baskets with over 6,000 candy and treat filled eggs. Find a ticket in your egg to redeem for special prizes. KONA Ice will be part of the fun!
joint MAINEVILLE/hamilton township freedom parade & festival
AUGUST 2nd
AUGUST 20th
Touch-A-Truck 6.11 | 10:00 am-2:00 pm | Fellowship Baptist
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Hamilton Township & The Village of Maineville have created a wonderful partnership and will be hosting some community events jointly to benefit all of our residents together!
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than getting your hands dirty for a park cleanup? This is a great way for individuals, families, and groups to get involved to help care for our local parks. Lunch provided by Sign up here!
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May 7 22
Picnic in the Park 5.7 | Noon-3:00 pm | Mounts Park
lma cardboard boat regatta
April 9 22
EVENT CORNER
Earth Day Park Cleanup 4.22 | 9:00 am-2:00 pm | Mounts Park
Touch-A-Truck is a family fun event! This event gives you an opportunity to have an up close look, learn, and interact with dozens of vehicles. Fun for all ages with loads of exhibits, food trucks and demonstrations every hour.
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Tales of the Township
Historic
When Ohio entered the Union in 1803 as a free state, many Quakers who opposed slavery purchased land grants in the Virginia Military District. This was after the first land grants were given to men who fought for Virginia in the Revolutionary War. One such person was abolitionist, Benjamin Butterworth who sold his farm in Virginia and purchased the 1,500 acre Sackville King survey, site unseen, in Hamilton Township shown in red box on the map. After traveling for a month by wagon with wife, Rachael and the youngest of his ten children, Benjamin was disappointed to discover his purchase was hilly and heavily wooded. So he took his family to stay at the home of oldest daughter, Polly and her husband in Waynesville. A week later he purchased 285 acres near the mouth of Caesar's Creek and settled his family there. Benjamin ignored the 1,500 acres in Hamilton Township until his oldest son, Moorman, then 22, took some apple and peach seedlings to plant there and found a squatter who had cleared 5 acres, built a cabin and planted a crop. After removing the squatter, Moorman moved into the cabin and soon after his sister, Milly and her husband, John Dyer moved in with him. Together the two men built 2 large cabins for the Butterworth family to live in temporarily. Once the family moved into the cabins, Moorman and brothers Benjamin & Samuel, along with the freed slaves that had followed the family to Ohio, built a 3-level stone house into the hillside with stone from a quarry on the property. This stone house, completed in 1820, was soon known as Butterworth Station; the southernmost station on the Underground Railroad in Warren County. For many years, runaway slaves who arrived drenched from fording the Little Miami River were fed, clothed, and sheltered at great personal risk to youngest son Henry Thomas and wife Nancy. Henry Thomas and brother William who lived nearby were the conductors at Butterworth Station and were responsible for transporting the runaway slaves to the next station. These transports were carried out by night and were often accomplished by placing the runaways in wagons covered with sacks of sweet potatoes, which were grown in considerable volume on the farm. Sheltering and transporting runaways was extremely risky because a person could lose their property if caught.
the butterworth family
Thank you to Dr. Karen Dinsmore for her contributions to 'Historic Tales of the Township.'
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f a c t s The Butterworths had a tobacco barn, a dairy barn, and a large chicken barn which was essential for providing Kosher chickens and eggs for the Jewish community of Cincinnati. The original Butterworth stone house was enlarged in 1845 by incorporating the space of a barn that sat next to the house to provide more bedrooms for Henry Thomas Butterworth, wife Nancy, and their 10 children. Henry Thomas made his own coffin and had one of his daughters decorate the inside of it before storing it away. He lived to 85 and wife Nancy until 100. His obituary appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Moorman Butterworth had a contract with the Little Miami Railroad to provide wood for the steam engines which was stacked in piles at certain locations along the tracks. The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad also used Butterworth Station as a water stop as it had trackage rights to use the LMRR tracks between Morrow & Cincinnati.
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In 1842 a different railroad came through Butterworth Station; The Little Miami Railroad, Cincinnati's first railroad. When the railroad was struggling financially causing constant construction delays, Henry Thomas Butterworth generously donated the right of way across his land, housed workers, assisted with the construction, and built a stone water tower to provide water for the steam engines from the natural springs on his property. For his overwhelming support at such a critical time, the railroad made Butterworth Station an official stop and gave Henry Thomas and his wife lifetime passes plus three days (+3 days was for burial purposes after their death). Benjamin Butterworth died in 1836 and is buried in the family cemetery with a simple marker that says BB. His stone house, still owned by Butterworth family descendants stands proudly after 200 years as a symbol of hope. In 2015 an Ohio Historical Marker was placed beside the bike trail on the site of the Butterworth Station water tower to honor the Butterworth Family. Walk on the trail 2 miles south of Foster and you can view Butterworth Station across the field and read about the many accomplishments of this family. (Be sure to read future issues of Tales of the Township to find out about the Butterworth Family's prestigious addition to our area.)
Ashlee Rector joined HTFR in February as the new Administrative Assistant. She graduated from Clinton Massie High School in 2000 & then enlisted in the US Army and served as an air traffic controller from 2000-2005. While serving, she was stationed in Germany where she deployed to Iraq to help in the efforts of Operation Enduring Freedom. After her enlistment, she continued to serve others by becoming a 911 dipatcher and working for both Clinton and Warren County Communication Centers for a combined 14 years of service. Ashlee is married to Sgt. Tim Rector of HTPD & they have 3 kids, Hollie (27), Mason(20) and Peyton(14). In her free time, she enjoys boating, volleyball and spending time with family and friends.
Dan Berkebile was sworn in as our Assistant Fire Chief in January. He lives in Goshen Township with his wife of 21 years, Sonya and 3 kids, Kaylyn, Conner and Kinsley. He started his fire service journey with Union Township Fire Department in 1996 as a cadet. After obtaining his certifications as a firefighter/EMT in 1997, he was hired on in a part-time capacity and then transitioned to full-time in 1999. He completed paramedic school in June of 1999. In May of 2001, he accepted a full-time position with Miami Township Fire and EMS and remained there until accepting the position of Assistant Fire Chief of Hamilton Township Fire Rescue.
Police Officer Shelby Davis joined the HTPD in January. She is a 2016 graduate of Madison High School and worked as a dispatcher at Warren County Communications Center for 4 years prior to attending the Butler Tech Police Academy where she graduated in 2020. While attending the academy, she was presented the Brian Dulle Award. This award honors Sgt. Dulle, Badge 822, WCSO, who ws killed in the line of duty on May 10, 2011. His family has chosen to honor his memory by establishing this award and presenting it to students who best exemplify his characteristics: his ability and desire to serve and lead above and beyond the call of duty, his compassion and concern for others, and his love for and commitment to his family and friends. Shelby began her careet at the Franklin PD before joining HTPD. She enjoys working out, spending time with family and spending the summers at Dale Hollow Lake.
Matthew Cunningham joined HTFR in January and is a Firefighter 2 and Paramedic. He graduated from Oakwood High School in 2019 while concurrently attending Kettering Fairmont CTC for his Fire & EMT certifications. He went on to Sinclair Community College and completed paramedic school. Matthew has been in the fire service for 2 years. Matthew earned his Eagle Scout in 2017.
Please Welcome
Allison Hampton joined our Administrative team in February as our new Administrative Assistant. She is excited to be a part of such a friendly community and is looking forward to serving the Township! She likes to spend her free time outdoors in nature hiking, gardening, riding her bike and exploring new destinations with her family. Allison has a husband, Mike of 21 years and two kids, Ella (15) and Luke (13).
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2 lbs. Chicken Breast 1/2 Head Cauliflower 3 Tbsp. Greek Seasoning (Recipe follows) 3 Tbsp. Lemon Juice (Approximately 1 lemon) 2 Tbsp. Olive Oil
Want to get involved with your community? Volunteering is a great way to meet your Hamilton Township neighbors! Have a special skill or hobby you'd like to share? Volunteering is a great opportunity to develop these skills.
Greek Seasoning Mix well in bowl and store in an airtight container
volunteer corner
Earth Day Park Cleanup Friday, April 22nd 9am - 2pm Mounts Park Sign up here!
1. Roughly chop the chicken and cauliflower into 1 inch pieces 2. Combine chicken breast and cauliflower with Greek seasoning, lemon juice and 1 Tbsp of olive oil. Mix well to combine. Allow to marinate for a minimum of 10 minutes. 3. Heat a large skillet with remaining 1 Tbsp of olive oil over medium high heat. Once oil is hot, add chicken and cauliflower mixture and cook on one side for 3-4 minutes without turning. Then cook for an additional 3-5 minutes stiriing one or twice, until chicken is cooked through (165° F internal temperature) *Note- Don't overcrowd the pan - if the pan is too crowded, the chicken and veggies will steam rather than sear. Cook in smaller batches if necessary. 4. Once done, remove from heat and serve immediately. **We recommend serving with a cucumber tomato salad (Chop cucumbers, tomato and onion and mix with red wine vinegar, EVOO and salt & pepper)
upcoming opportunities
Chicken Cauliflower Skillet
Terry Viel is a Sergeant for HTPD and has served the Township for 22 years. His favorite part of his job is interacting with our community and he is thankful for the upgrades made in technology for policing over the years. He makes his healthy food choices by basing them around plants + protein + low sugar.
Freedom Parade & Festival Monday, July 4th 10am - 3pm Testerman Park Games, inflatable spotters, parade route, parking, etc. Click here to sign up
Directions
One Pan + Healthy Dinner Use the Greek seasoning on salads and roasted vegetables, in marinades, and elevating your hummus and other dips!
Ingredients
Terry's Table
Picnic in the Park Saturday, May 7th 12pm - 3pm Mounts Park Face painters, assist with games Click here to sign up
1 Tbsp Kosher Salt 2 tsp Dried Basil 4 tsp Dried Oregano 1 tsp Dried Thyme 4 tsp Onion Powder 4 tsp Garlic Powder 2 tsp Onion Flakes 2 tsp Dried Dill 2 tsp Ground Pepper 2 tsp Dried Parsley 2 tsp Dried Rosemanry 1 tsp Cinnamon 1 tsp Nutmeg