December 10, 2009We're number One! Go Stivers!
Contact: Jill Moberley, Public Information Officer
For Immediate Release
Stivers honored by U.S. News & World Report for second year Dayton high school for the arts among best in America for 2010
Stivers School for the Arts ranks among America’s best public high schools for the second year in a row and has moved up from bronze to silver, according to U.S. News & World Report in a study released Dec. 9.
“It’s wonderful news,” Dayton Public Schools Superintendent Kurt Stanic said. “Principal Erin Dooley, her staff, students, parents and the seedling Foundation are to be commended for their work.” Dooley, who heard the news from a parent as the school day began, was taken by surprise, but cited arts integration as one of the many factors she believes contributes to effective teaching and learning at Stivers.
“Our arts program provides opportunities for students to be creative, to be expressive, to pursue their passion, and to develop the whole person. That has a major impact on learning,” Dooley said.
The Dayton high school, located at 1313 E. Fifth St., is the only school in Montgomery County to receive the national honor this year and is one of only six schools in Ohio to be named a 2010 Silver Medal School. Nationally, Silver Medal Schools comprise 2.5 percent of the 18,743 schools analyzed in the study.
Criteria used to judge schools include the degree to which they serve all students across different ability levels, academic performance as measured by state achievement tests, and the degree to which students are prepared for college as measured through Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses.
Dayton Liederkranz Turner presents:
Christkindlmarkt 2009
Dec 5th - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Dec 6th - 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Here’s a great opportunity for you to start the Christmas season with a wonderful event to help with your Christmas gift giving needs. We invite you to experience the centuries old German Christmas Market here in Dayton!
Quality vendors will offer hand carved European style Santas and cookie molds, handmade bath soaps and accessories, hand crafted ornaments, German collectible items, antiques, children’s books in German and English, embroidered items, jewelry, gifts, raffle items and more.
The kitchen will be open with homemade Goulash soup, bratwurst and more. We will have European pastries, desserts, homemade German cookies, specialty Kaffee, and Glühwein. Don't miss the woodcarving demonstrations by David Bignell.
The public is invited and admission and parking are free.
Dayton Liederkranz-Turner
1400 E Fifth St, Dayton OH 45402
www.daytongermanclub.org
BierFest!-
If you are a purveyor of good beers, you don’t want to miss our upcoming Bierfest beer tasting on Friday, November 20th! Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. for Gemütlichkeit before the tasting begins at 7:00 p.m. You’ll have a chance to sample 10 beers in many varieties, both German and Winter Craft. This event will be led by beer aficionado and Liederkranz Member Mike Schwartz, who will inform us on the beers while we make our taste buds happy. It’s a guaranteed good time! Email John Koerner to pre-register. Pre-registration price for members is $13 & $15 for non-members. $18 at the door.
Stivers Piano Department Proudly Invites you to:
The Four Pianists - In Concert!
November 12, 2009, 7 P.M.
Stivers School for the Arts
Concert Hall 1313 E. Fifth Street
--Welcoming Wednesdays
October 28th is the kick-off for Welcoming Wednesdays. The Dayton Liederkranz Turner Rathskeller will be open from 7:00pm to 10:30pm for members and guests. On the 28th there will be a special event, an informal German Wine Tasting featuring five wines for a nominal fee! Admission to members is free, guest pay $1.
Contact Rick Ordeman at 558-6993 or rdordeman@gmail.com for additional info.
Come enjoy the GEMÜTLICHKEIT!
Dayton Liederkranz-Turner
1400 E Fifth St, Dayton OH 45402
www.daytongermanclub.org
DSPS Annual Member Show at 48 High Street Gallery
All St. Anne residents are invited and welcome to all DSPS gallery openings and shows held at 48 High Street Gallery.
Our next show is our annual judged member show featuring the best works by DSPS members. It will be open on Sunday, October 4 and run through October 18, 2009; gallery hours limited to Saturday and Sunday 1-5 PM for this free public exhibition. Opening reception to be held on Sunday, October 4 from 1-5 PM; awards presented at 3 PM.
DAYTON — The city’s department of recreation and youth services has teamed with Culture Works to launch a series of arts programs for children, teens and adults.....
SMAG Dance Collaborative: A bi-weekly teen urban dance program for teens 13 to 17, which will meet for six to eight weeks at the Dayton Bomberger Teen Center, 1306 E. Fifth St. The program, with up to 25 participants, will expose youth to the fundamentals, history, and forms of contemporary dance....
So what does that mean for Steve? Well, read on!Guitar Player Magazine Superstar Finalists
August 24th, 2009Guitar Player Magazine has announced its top ten finalists in the Guitar Player Superstar Competition for 2009.
Guitarists from all over applied, and the editors of the magazine whittled them down to these ten finalists:
- Steve Langemo
- A jazz guitarist from Dayton, Ohio
These players will perform in front of a packed audience and a panel of world-famous guitarists including Elliot Easton (The Cars), Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson/Jeff Beck), Steve Lukather (Toto) and Greg Hampton, (producer of Alice Cooper, Ronnie Wood, Lita Ford). The host of this year’s event is Brendon Small, co-creator of Metalocalypse.
The celebrity judges will evaluate each original performance, and rate each contestant on technique, creativity, charisma and overall vibe. At the end of the night, the 2009 Guitar Player Guitar Superstar will be crowned, along with two runner-ups.
The Theatre Guild is moving from its location on Salem Avenue into the former Dayton Gym Club at 430 Wayne Ave. — an increase of space from 2,700 square feet to 30,000 square feet.
The all-volunteer theatre guild has produced more than 400 plays with volunteer casts, crews and administration since 1945. The organization was located for more than 45 years on Salem Avenue.
The guild’s first show of the season “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” compared to the Real Housewives of Paris, France, will debut at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students.
The Missing Peace Art Space opens Sept. 4 at 234 S. Dutoit St. in a 1900 carriage-house building that stood vacant and trashed for years. Near Fifth Street and across from Stivers School for the Arts, the two-story structure has been beautifully renovated by Steve Fryburg and Gabriela Pickett and their friends.
Next, there is the possibility of bringing a fresh new perspective to the St. Anne’s Hill district, with the addition of a new art gallery. With Stivers and the High Street gallery nearby, and the Front Street artists’ colony a stone’s throw away, it would be neat to see this neighborhood emerge as a livelier, busier Dayton art spot.
“St. Anne’s Hill wants to become more of a culturally active area with the arts,” Pickett said. “We think we’re part of that.”
A century and a half ago, Xenia Avenue was known as “Dutch Boulevard” for the German Catholic immigrants who settled in near East Dayton and founded its brand-new parish, St. Mary.In 1906, they built a magnificent Romanesque church that 70 years later would grace the National Register of Historic Places.Like many churches, they are facing financial challenges...
St. Mary was built in 1906 by Dayton’s Requarth Lumber Co. for $127,951.60 — less than the average suburban home of today. Its current replacement value is about $30 million...
Deeper cleaning, like refinishing the bronze communion gates and resurfacing the marble holy water basins, will have to wait until the parish can raise more money. The congregation already has spent $60,000 over the last two years, and will spend that much again, for repairs needed prior to repainting the interior and original frescoes, a project estimated at between $350,000 and $500,000.Please read the article and take a moment to learn more about our shared history. There is no doubt that many of the residents of St. Anne's Hill have taken refuge in this church over the last 150 years.
The Ruskin prototype is a 40-feet-by-40-feet garden that contains tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, squash and other vegetables. Local kids involved with Street Peace, an after-school program overseen by Ruskin teacher Julie Mcglaun, donated $1,000 in seed money to get the project off — or into — the ground.
That children and teachers were spending from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on their spring-break days in school preparing for standardized tests had much to do with the school becoming an intrinsic part of the neighborhood. A sign in a commons area proclaimed: “Change the Streets. Study.” A message being sent to the students, said Devon Berry, a 2007 UD master’s in education grad and Ruskin principal, was, “Nobody wants to send kids to a school with poor test scores.” If the students achieve, then people want to move into the neighborhood, and the streets indeed change.
Side note: this page has a great summary of how the new Ruskin School was built, as told by the architects, with an impressive investment of over $10 million by Dayton Public Schools.New pizza restaurant opens in Dayton
By Mark Fisher [Dayton Daily News]Friday, June 12, 2009
The New York Pizzeria Restaurant has opened at 1430 E. Fifth St. at LaBelle St. in Dayton’s St. Anne’s Hill Historic District. The dine-in or carryout restaurant seats 20 and also offers free delivery within five miles.This is the second location for New York Pizzeria, which operates an eatery at 498 E. Main St. in Trotwood. Co-owner Raman Ispakhev said he and his family wanted to open the second location because they live in the neighborhood. The new restaurant opened earlier this week, but is still awaiting outside signage, Ispakhev said.
The New York Pizzeria’s menu includes pizzas, calzones, wraps, subs, sandwiches, wings, pasta dinner entrees, and fried chicken and seafood entrees. The restaurant also bakes and sells loaves of Turkish bread for $2 a loaf.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call (937) 222-0321.
The sculpture was created by students under the direction of [Jason] Dryden and fellow adjunct Justin Teilhet. It was cut from a 6-foot by 8-foot piece of quarter-inch plate steel weighing more than 400 pounds.The sculpture is located in front of the school on East Fifth Street.
12 to 6 pm. $10. Tour begins at 1810 Harvard Avenue.
The 36th annual World AFair
When: 5 to 11 p.m. May 15; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. May 16, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., May 17.
Where: Dayton Convention Center
For more info: www.aworldafair.org
Presale tickets are available from all Kroger stores, AAA Miami Valley, Siebenthaler Garden Center, La Llama Place in Yellow Springs, the Second Street Market in Dayton and all participating member organizations.
Presale admission is $5 for adults and seniors and $3 for youth (6-18). Door sales are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $4 for youth (6-18). Active military personnel are admitted free of charge.-----------------------------------------------------------------
urban nights: may 15, 2009!
Walk on downtown's creative side!Get ready to rock at our spring Urban Nights event on Friday, May 15, from 5 to 10 p.m. More than 25,000 people are expected to pack the streets, so come down and join us!
What is Urban Nights?
Businesses and restaurants offer special discounts, artists and galleries open their doors to the public, musicians and entertainers of all kinds perform throughout the center city, and downtown’s most impressive urban living options are open for tours. More than100 creative places and spaces will be a part of the event, including locations throughout downtown, the Oregon Arts District and the Wright-Dunbar Business Village.
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FILMDAYTON FESTIVAL
May 15, 16 & 17th
Visit http://www.filmdayton.com/ for a complete list of all the great films and events taking place with this year's FilmDayton Festival!!
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BIERFEST! A Celebration of Summer Style Beers
FridayMay 29th, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Come enjoy the next edition of the Liederkranz’s highly successful beer tasting parties. Sample some 10 different German and Craft Summer Style Beers in our Authentic Rathskeller. Our Sampling Tour will begin at 7:00 p.m. led by Liederkranz member, Mike Schwartz, beer aficionado, home brewer, and owner of Belmont Party Supply, Dayton’s leading purveyor of fine beers.The Bierfest will include free snacks and door prizes. Food, including the famous Liederkranz brats, a variety of beers, and other drinks will be available for purchase.
Preregister for a Discount
$13 Members $15 Guests
Contact John Koerner to preregister 937.429.9251
jabkoerner@aol.com
Price at the door $18
Admission for Designated Driver is FREE!
Dayton Liederkranz-Turner1400 East Fifth Street • Dayton, Ohio 45402
SPAVA, the four day Stivers Performing and Visual Arts Festival, begins this Thursday, April 31.-
The Ceramics Department Fundraiser on Friday Evening, Soup Dressed Up, is $10. (keep the bowl)
Tickets for the musical Little Shop of Horrors (Friday & Saturday) are also $10.
All other events are free.
Half hour tours of the buildings will be conducted hourly on Saturday commencing at 1:00 pm.
For details call Cissy Matthews @ 542-7427 or view the SPAVA web site at:
http://www.spava.info/
School district officials say the balcony's slope prevents a full view of the stage, and there are other architectural problems that could cost up to $2 million to fix.....
Home to 850 students in grades seven to 12, Stivers continues to use the lower part of the theater, which seats 400, but not the 200-seat balcony.
-Vacant to Vibrant: Town Hall Explores Urban Beautification
Dayton residents and businesses are invited to participate in a public discussion focused on conversion of vacant lots and properties into useful and attractive community assets.
The “Vacant to Vibrant” event is the first of several upcoming Dayton Beautiful Town Hall meetings and is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, from 9:00 a.m. to noon, at the Dayton Convention Center (22 E. Fifth St.).
Session topics include maintenance and landscaping alternatives, homeowner land acquisition opportunities, and visioning new green spaces for neighborhoods. Admission is free, and passes for Transportation Center parking will be provided.
Future Dayton Beautiful Town Hall topics include “A Pedestrian- and Bicycle-Friendly Dayton” and “The Future of Historic Preservation.”
Hearing on Strickland plan for schools set for Dayton
By William Hershey
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
An Ohio House subcommittee on Monday, March 16, will hold a hearing in Dayton to review Gov. Ted Strickland’s education reform plan.
The Primary and Secondary Education Subcommittee of the House Finance Committee will meet at 4 p.m. at the Stivers School for the Arts, 1313 E. Fifth St. The hearing is open to the public.
Those submitting written testimony for committee records, should supply it to lauren.mcmillin@ohr.state.oh.us 24 hours in advance, a press release said. For questions, call 614-466-1790.
Strickland has proposed an “evidence-based” method of funding and overhauling schools which he says will make the system constitutional. Critics have raised doubts, however, about whether there is enough money in the budget to fund the plan and about how state money is distributed among schools districts. Backers of charter schools also have raised objections.
“This hearing will be an important outlet to discuss the future of education in Ohio,” Rep. Clayton Luckie, D-Dayton, a Finance Committee member, said in a press release.
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ARTICLE 4 A. There shall be three classes of memberships:1) Voting Member2) Associate Member (non-voting)3) Business Member
B. Definition of Voting Member:Voting memberships are open to any individuals interested in the goals and principles of the Society, who reside in or own property in St. Anne's Hill and whose dues are current. Each voting member shall be entitled to one vote.
C. Definition of Associate Member:Any individual interested in the goals and principles of the Society who is not a resident or owner in St. Anne's Hill.
D. Definition of Business Member:Any firm or corporation in or adjacent to St. Anne's Hill interested in the goals and aims of the Society and whose dues are current. Business Member may be chief executive officer, owner, or designated representative and is entitled to one vote.
The Dayton Metro Library is presenting a series of gardening programs this April. Your own Matthew Allison will be one of the presenters. If you have questions about the programs, you can contact the library's main switchboard at 463-BOOK.
Tue Apr 14
7:00 p.m.
Main Auditorium
Small Yard Landscaping
Matthew Allison of Malachi Landscaping in St. Anne's Hill
Narrow side yards, need for privacy, lots of shade, & limited space are all challenges to the owner of a small yard. Matthew Allison, resident of St. Anne's Hill and owner of Malachi Landscaping specializes in designing for the urban landscape. Come take a look at his latest renovation of a McPherson Town yard and he'll offer ideas for your landscaping challenges, too.
City wants feedback on giant billboard for commuters
Monday, January 26, 2009
DAYTON — City officials want to know what residents think of a proposed mega, electronic billboard along U.S. 35 that would include a gateway feature welcoming commuters to the city.
"We need to make sure people know about this, before it surprises them one morning on the way to work," City Planner Tony Kroeger said.
Dayton-based Key-Ads Inc. has asked the city for waivers from height, setback and distance from residence requirements for the proposed 396-square-foot billboard to be located on U.S. 35 at Todd Street, near Linden Avenue.
This is a privately funded project, with no tax dollars being used to support it. The billboard would be located on the north side of the highway in an industrial area.
"It truly would be state of the art, with the newest digital technology," Nick Keyes, Jr., vice president of Key-Ads.
The company, a family-owned business operating in Dayton since 1955, plans to allow some public service messages on the billboard and they would have the ability to quickly post Amber Alerts.
Two public meetings have been set to discuss the proposed sign. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 6:15 p.m. at the Southeast Priority Board, 2160 E. Fifth Street. The city of Dayton Plan Board will have the proposed billboard on its agenda at 4:30 p.m. in City Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Key-Ads initially agreed to remove a billboard at Hoover and Verona in exchange for the waivers, but the Plan Board felt removal of that 72-square-foot billboard would not result in an equitable exchange for the new one.
The Plan Board also expressed concern that the billboard would affect a major view of downtown from the highway and that it would be visible from homes on Carlisle Avenue.
"We designed the billboard to be a part of the vista," Keyes said. "The nearest home is across the highway 300 feet away."
In response to these concerns, Key-Ads modified their application to offer three proposals, each including the removal of multiple billboards so that the waivers could be granted for the U.S. 35 sign.
Strickland to visit Stivers on Thursday
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
DAYTON — Gov. Ted Strickland will visit Stivers School for the Arts on Thursday, Jan. 29, a day after his State of the State speech in which he is expected to lay out his plans for education reform and funding, a Dayton school official said.
Strickland is scheduled to tour Stivers at 1313 E. Fifth St. for 45 minutes beginning at 5 p.m., said Jill Moberley, spokeswoman for Dayton Public Schools. Strickland's office declined Tuesday to confirm the visit.
In December, Stivers made U.S. News & World Report's annual list of America's best public high schools, capturing a bronze award. It joined three other high schools in Montgomery County that made the list — Centerville, Oakwood and Dayton Early College Academy, a Dayton district-sponsored charter school developed in partnership with the University of Dayton.
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Stivers hosts special fund-raiser at local restaurant
A local restaurant has teamed up with Stivers musicians to create a unique fund-raiser that's food for the spirit and stomach!
Coco's Bistro, 515 Wayne Ave., will host Savor Your Sunday, a special brunch series featuring performances by young musicians from Stivers School for the Arts. The restaurant will be open especially for the occasion, and Coco's chefs are crafting a special menu for the brunches. A different group from Stivers will perform each Sunday.
The schedule is:
Feb. 1: String Quartet
Feb. 8: Chamber Choir
Feb. 15: Jazz Trio
Feb. 22: Concert Pianists
The brunches will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost is $30 per person; $20 of this is a tax-deductible donation to the seedling Foundation, which supports the arts at Stivers.
U.S. News & World Report recently named Stivers one of the nation's best public high schools. All funds raised during the Sunday brunches will support arts instruction at the school.
Only 100 seats are available each Sunday. Advanced reservations are required; call 228-COCO (2626).
East End Community Services partners with Ruskin Pre-K-8th Elementary School in East Dayton with the goal of helping all students achieve academic success. In April students in grades 3-8 will take the Ohio Achievement Tests to determine degrees of proficiency in Reading, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Writing as defined by the Ohio Department of Education. East End is supporting Ruskin’s teachers in preparing children for the test by making ourselves available for one-on-one tutoring. We are recruiting others to join us in tutoring children – particularly in the areas of Reading and Math.
If you can spare an hour a week, after 2:00 until 5:00 we can match you with a child at Ruskin. The child’s academic needs have been assessed, and a tutoring plan has been tailored to meet the needs of the student. You will attend an orientation program that includes information about how to effectively tutor a child, and you will be equipped with a tutoring kit that includes flashcards, worksheets, and other academically relevant materials. Prior to being matched you will need to go through a background check that takes just a few minutes of your time.
Please contact Stephanie Smith at East End Community Services for more information and to receive an application form. Thanks for considering this opportunity to change a child’s life.
Stephanie Smith, Volunteer Coordinator
East End Community Services
937 259-1898
ssmith@east-end.org
624 Xenia Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45410
Do you have a child who is very interested or gifted in the fields of Science, Engineering and Math? The New Dayton Regional STEM School (DRSS) is taking applications through March 2nd for the new class of 9th graders that will start in August.
This is a public school and is hosted by Wright State University and the Air Force Research Lab, with additional support from the University of Dayton, Clark State University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). It will serve Greene, Montgomery and Clark Counties.
Here is the school's website - http://www.daytonstemschool.org/ as well as a few great articles about this school and the other six that Ohio has created this year. These articles explain how these schools are key to helping Ohio migrate from an industrial age to an information age economy.-
