Above: The Beaver Valley Center water tower as it appeared in 1999.
Below: First day of dismantling the old water tower. Workers cut the tower apart and lowered it in sections to the ground to be further broken down into smaller pieces.

Photos © 2010 Craig Barhorst

Enter Here -The new entrance to Sam’s Club, now on the side of the building. Barriers still block areas under construction. A newly planted tree still bears it’s tag. Photo © Craig Barhorst

Paving the Way Ahead - The old parking lot in front of Sam’s has been removed, ready for a newly designed lot featuring medians and islands with trees. Photo © Craig Barhorst

The party is the beginning of three days of open houses, special activities, sales and prizes at various area merchants, Thursday November 12 through Saturday November 14. Businesses participating include Bruning’s Clock Shop, Home Accents Store & Wine Cellar, Cake Craft, Central Carpet and Interiors, MVP Video Creations, Piano Preparatory School, Pinnacle Home Care, Puzzles Plus, Travelplex and The UPS Store.

In conjunction with the open houses, merchants are hosting a “Basic Necessities” drive to benefit the United Way of Greene County. Each participating business is a drop off point and is collecting donated “shelter” items such as blankets, sheets, coats, hats, mittens and gloves. Additional drop-off points include Barney’s hardware and The Color Wheel.

The party and subsequent events are sponsored by the Retail Merchants of the Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce.

Source: 2009 Holiday Kickoff Party, Open Houses… Buy Beavercreek Campaign and the Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce.

Below: The flyer being distributed to advertise the 2009 Holiday Kickoff Party and Open Houses.

The long awaited episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition featuring the Terpenning family from Beavercreek premiered last night on ABC. The episode was filmed in late July and early August in Beavercreek, Ohio.

The family along with many others attended a viewing party at the Hilton Garden Inn in Beavercreek. ABC Channel 22 also ran an half hour special before the episode aired and another after the 11:00 pm news cast featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the event.

Waving to the Crowd – The Terpenning family waves to a crowd of hundreds with Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Photo © Craig Barhorst

Move That Bus! A large crowd showed up for the big reveal in August when Extreme Makeover Home Edition visited the Terpenning family in Beavercreek, Ohio. Photo © Craig Barhorst

The episode highlighted the family’s struggles with having two members with disabilities living in a house that was not very handicap accessible. But as the episode made clear, being disabled doesn’t mean giving up on dreams or accomplishments. James Terpenning, confined to a wheelchair, is a gold medal winner, plays on a wheelchair basketball team and also has a list of goals to accomplish throughout his life. One of those goals was to go scuba diving and that goal was fulfilled in the episode when he got to go scuba diving in Disney World.

The description for the episode read as follows: “The team rebuilds the home of a family whose father is a wheelchair sports champion and mentor to disabled Iraq War veterans; Kellie Pickler is the celebrity volunteer.”

According to the church, the change comes after a number of recent incidents of people coming into the parking lot & building asking for money. With the holiday season and other events picking up this time of year, the church felt the change was necessary. The church will institute the new policy starting November 9, 2009.

In an email sent to parents and local groups with morning events scheduled, the church explained, “Our main concern is the safety and well being of all the children that are in our care along with our staff.”

In the same email the church instructs guests, “If you are approached in the parking lot by anyone asking for money please do not give them anything and let us know so that we can contact the police. Any information that we can pass on to the police would be greatly appreciated such as car make, color, license plate number along with a description of the individual.”

Work is progressing on renovations for Fire Station 62 on 3777 Dayton-Xenia Road. The renovations are designed to bring the station up to current building codes and increase space to accommodate additional firefighters.

Updates to the living quarters of Beavercreek Township Fire Station 62 include additional bunk rooms for mixed genders, new kitchen appliances and cabinets, multiple bathrooms with showers for mixed genders, separate laundry rooms for uniforms and linens and soiled fire gear, a fitness room, and ADA compliant public restroom.

Hot Renovation: Fire Department Station 62 undergoing renovations. Photo © Craig Barhorst

Other renovations include new plumbing and electrical, roof repair and building structure reinforcements to comply with current building codes. The station, built in 1963, was originally designed as a volunteer fire station. New additions to the original building are being added to accommodate the additional personnel of a full-time fire department and to modernize the facility.

Voters in Beavercreek showed strong support for renewing levies this election, passing all with a margin of at least 20 points each. County levies enjoyed similar support. In fact, the only issues that were even close were two of Beavercreek’s proposed Charter Amendments dealing with appropriations. The county voted against State Issue 3, but the issue gained enough votes elsewhere in Ohio to pass. See below for election results.

GREENE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS NOV 3, 2009
(Winners highlighted in red)

Source: Election Results… Greene County Board of Elections