Adams, a Rabbit Hash native, has practiced law for several years and is an adjunct professor with the College of Business at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches legal environment for the Department of Accountancy. “I’m very excited at the opportunity to work for the betterment of Boone County,” she said. She is a graduate of Conner High School, Northern Kentucky University and NKU’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law. The conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of parks and protection of land with unique or significant recreational, natural, scenic, historical and/or cultural value.

“Sherry Hempfling and other founding members have done a tremendous job of transforming the conservancy from vision to reality in three short years,” said the conservancy board’s chairman, Carl Cassell. “To meet the challenge of protecting Boone County’s natural resources during a time of unprecedented growth, we now need a full-time dedicated person to work with the conservancy’s board.”

Thomas More breaks ground, Thomas More College and the Bank of Kentucky are sponsoring groundbreaking ceremonies on Thursday for the future college observatory on the Thomas More campus. The conveyancing company here to manage your complexities in the area of real estate property transfer mission. The luncheon will take place at noon in the Holbrook Student Center in Steigerwald Hall with groundbreaking on the site at 1:15 p.m.

Taxes on agenda
The City Commission has set a public hearing for 6 p.m. Monday at the city building to discuss setting the new real estate property tax rate. Proposed is $1.75 per $1,000 assessed property value, which should bring in $544,011. The tax rate last year was $1.638 per $1,000 and it generated $497,406.

The commission also proposes a personal property tax rate of $2.910 per $1,000. That should generate $66,322. Last year’s personal property tax rate was $2.745 per $1,000. It brought in $60,875.

Point Pleasant

Public hearing set
The Point Pleasant Fire Protection District has scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the firehouse, 3444 Turfway Road, to discuss setting the new tax rate. Proposed is a rate of $1 per $1,000 assessed property value, which is projected to bring in more than last year’s tax — which was also $1 per $1,000 — due to some increased property values.

Carrollton

Water District meets
The West Carroll Water District has scheduled a meeting for 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Carrollton Municipal Building.

Independence

The Independence branch of the Kenton County Public Library will host a discussion on the book “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton at 7 p.m. Tuesday. To register call 363-0200. The Independence library is located at 6477 Taylor Mill Road.

The library also will host a Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Sept. 24. The program will include a living history presentation of President Lincoln by actor Chip Smith.

   Glenn said the park will feature a picnic shelter, a playground, a basketball court, designated neighborhood garden areas, a bike and pedestrian pathway with a wetland boardwalk around the perimeter of the property and an extensive green space buffer between the site and adjoining neighborhoods. The parking lot will hold about 30 cars.

The park’s bike and pedestrian trail will connect to the nearly one-mile trail that will eventually go around the city’s Government Center property at Ewing Boulevard. “We’re hoping to kind of create a linear park-type situation,” Glenn said. The city’s only other park on the east side is off Banklick Street, he said. The city bought the Ky. 18 property last spring for $532,000 from the estate of longtime Florence resident Isabelle Schmidt. The property included a house that was damaged in a fire in 2000 and has since been torn down, said Mayor Diane Whalen.,

Hoping to get every Cincinnatian involved in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, promoters Monday announced a new fund-raising campaign aimed at generating $1.5 million through thousands of small donations. You can contact us any time to get Real Estate conveyancers or settlement agents. Built around the theme “Heroes are Everywhere,” the fund-raising drive seeks to dramatically broaden community involvement in the project by “celebrating the ordinary people who make things happen,” Freedom Center president Ed Rigaud told a Fountain Square rally.

With the Freedom Center having already raised more than $80 million of its $110 million goal, the dollars raised in the new drive will be relatively insignificant, barely more than 1 percent of the total cost of the complex that is scheduled to open in the summer of 2004 on Cincinnati’s downtown riverfront. But organizers believe it will have a symbolic value that far exceeds its dollar amount.

“By supporting this campaign to build the Freedom Center each person will be making a personal investment in building a hallmark to freedom whose time has truly come,” Rigaud said. “We also are saying, with every $1 or $10 we donate, that the Freedom Center’s inspirational mission is a necessary part of this region’s future.”

U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park, who has been the Freedom Center project’s major supporter in Congress, said he believes the museum couldhelp to narrow the racial divide in Cincinnati in a way that also could help neutralize much of the negative national attention the city has received in the past 18 months over racial issues. “This is almost an antidote to some of our problems,” Portman said.

The 158,000-square-foot museum, the centerpiece of a $2 billion riverfront renaissance, will commemorate the 19th century history of the Underground Railroad, the term given to the perilous paths toward freedom taken by fugitive slaves and abolitionist “conductors” who helped them cover routes stretching from the Deep South as far as Canada and Mexico.

The City Commission took an initial step Tuesday to adopt a personnel policy. The commission also was told that the foundation is now finished on the new city public works garage. The commission also set swearing-in ceremonies for the recently elected mayor and four commissioners for after the Dec. 10 council meeting. Also, house judging for the city’s holiday lighting contest will take place Dec. 21.

Bids for two projects were received Tuesday by the city. They include eight bids, ranging from $10,2000 to about $22,000 for construction of six storm water catch basins and two bids — $2.11 a pound and $2.31 a pound for material to fill cracks on streets throughout the city. The bids were referred to committee, which should make a recommendation at City Council’s 7 p.m. Nov. 19 meeting. Even in high school, Claire Sorrell exhibited the traits — optimism, compassion, kindness — that would make her loved through the rest of her life. “She was as beautiful and pleasant as a person could be,” said her husband, Bill Sorrell. The two began dating when they were in high school, he at Dayton High School, she at Notre Dame Academy.

“She was very optimistic and always looked for the good in people, but she would say her piece,” he said. “Her children and grandchildren were everything to her.” Other survivors include daughters, Theresa Meloche of Fort Thomas and Gina Sorrell of Dayton; sons, Jerry Sorrell and Will Sorrell, both of Dayton, Rick Sorrell of Kaysville, Utah, and Tim Sorrell of Fort Thomas; her father, Howard Fahrubel of Dayton; and six grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at Gardnersville Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Dobbling Funeral Home, Bellevue. Memorials are suggested to Dayton High School Scholarship Fund, 200 Greendevil Lane, Dayton, Ky. 41074.