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 Attorney and Oakwood resident Greg Gantt has been selected to be chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party. He will be filling the post of State Representative John J. White, R-Kettering.
“I think Greg Gantt’s going to be a fine chairman and he will be able to devote the time and energy that our party needs to recover from local losses in November,” White said.
Gantt is a self-described political moderate and was unanimously voted in by the Republican Central Committee at their recent meeting at the Mandalay Banquet Center in December.
Gantt is a partner with the law firm Allbery Cross Fogarty and serves on the Ohio Legal Rights Service Commission, is a board member of the Montgomery County Investment Corp. and is a member of Holy Angels Parish pastoral council.
He will assume his new duties as GOP chairman on Jan. 1, 2007.
 On Sunday, Jan. 7 at 4 p.m., Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will celebrate the ordination of their interim minister Martha Hodges. The ceremony will be held at the Fellowship located at 8690 Yankee Street, Washington Township in the vicinity of the Dayton Mall.
Hodges, a native of Ithaca, New York, has been serving as interim minister to the Miami Valley UU congregation since the retirement of their former minister during the summer of 2005. After receiving her B.A. in French from Cornell University, she has since earned three graduate degrees including a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from Southern Illinois University, a Master of Library Science from Syracuse University, and a Master of Divinity from Meadville-Lombard Theological Seminary. She served her ministerial internship at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, and also received chaplaincy training in Lake Forest Illinois and Seattle, Washington.
Prior to her ministerial career, Hodges held several academic posts. At Cornell University she served as a reference archivist, and as coordinator of an adult literacy and student service learning program. She taught English as a second language at the University of Chicago and Cornell, and college writing at Tompkins-Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York.
Miami Valley UU congregational president Kriss Gang will conduct the formal act of ordination. The ordination sermon will be delivered by the Reverend David Bumbaugh of Meadville-Lombard.
The public is also invited to join the congregation of Miami Valley Unitarian Fellowship in its celebration of the ordination and welcome into the Unitarian Universalist ministry of Martha Hodges. A reception will follow the service.
Greg McAfee, president of McAfee Heating and Air Conditioning Co. Inc. has been selected as one of the five winners in the 2006 “Best Contractor To Work For” contest, sponsored by The Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration (AHR) News.
The “Best Contractor To Work For” honor, awarded annually by The News since 1999, is given to select heating and cooling contractors across the United States whom exemplify a strong relationship between owners/managers and employees. McAfee was the selected winner of the North Central Region.
Greg McAfee will be attending the AHR Expo in Dallas on January 31st, at that time he will be receiving this national award.
Prudential Residenz, Realtors, Ohio’s largest Prudential Real Estate affiliate, has announced that the company’s name has changed to Prudential One, Realtors.
“We are very excited about our future as Prudential One, Realtors,” said James M. Keyes, Chief Executive Officer of the company. “Our decision to change the name was not just a strategic business decision, but really more of a reflection of the quality and broad range of services that we are committed to offering our clients and customers.
The name change will affect 14 sales offices and over 300 agents serving Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Signs and advertising will retain the company’s existing look and feel, simply replacing the old name with the new.
Prudential One, Realtors, an independently owned and operated affiliate, joined the Prudential family of companies in 1996. Prudential One, Realtors is ranked by industry source Real Trends in the top 36 Prudential companies in the United States. The source also lists Prudential One among the top 300 real estate companies of any kind in the country.
 Cutie Patooties, a specialty store offering children’s fine apparel and gifts, located at 63 West Franklin Street in downtown Centerville has new owners. Caprice Freeman and Jill Bohaboy purchased the business in August 2006. Together they have twenty-five years of retail experience. Caprice and Jill met in Birmingham, Alabama while working for Parisian as buyers. Caprice then moved to York, PA to buy children’s clothes for The Bon-Ton while Jill moved back to her home state of Ohio to buy ladies apparel for Elder-Beerman. After three years in Pennsylvania, Caprice and her husband relocated to Dayton where Caprice joined Jill at Elder-Beerman. After the Elder-Beerman corporate office closed in spring 2004, Caprice continued in retail with Frontgate catalog while Jill shifted gears and went to work for Procter and Gamble. Both missed the enterpernerial side of buying. When the opportunity to purchase a specialty store presented itself it was a perfect fit.
The original owners opened the store in August of 2005. Having the name, store layout and format established allowed Caprice and Jill to focus on the assortment and services. They spent several days in Chicago shopping the children’s market for new lines and ideas. They also seek out vendors while traveling. Red Hen diaper bags, shopping cart nests, burp cloths and bibs were added when Caprice found them while researching online and Jill was in Denver where they are located. She stopped by the office and brought several items home with her. They have also added such lines as Haute Baby layette, Taggies products and other accessories. They search for vendors with one of kind products like wipe cases that are painted with a football and say “Born to be a Buckeye” and “Go Bucks”. Cutie Patooties now offers baby registery and shipping services. They hope to have their website complete by Spring 2007.
Cutie Patooties carries infant and newborn clothing, boys clothing up to size 7, girl’s clothing up to size 6x and many gift items. An assortment of Preemie sized styles will be added for the spring due to the lack of availability in the area. Vendors such as Giggle Moon, Diapees and Wipees, Bunnies by the Bay, Cach-Cach and Zutano can be found in the assortment. Caprice and Jill are exploring the idea of adding toys and books to the store.
Both owners continue to work full time. They meet in the evenings and can be found working the store on weekends. Caprice resides in Miamisburg with her husband, Murray, and two dogs, Ellie and Truman. Jill lives in Oakwood with her husband, Paul, two month old son, Ian, a dog, Phil, and two cats, Frankie and Lola.
 Dr. Christopher Yesso has joined Dr. Patrick Prikkel at the Chiropractic Health and Wellness Center of Dayton, Inc. located at 2301 Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood. Dr. Yesso obtained his pre-professional degree at Bowling Green University followed by a B.S. and Doctorate of Chiropractic from the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri.
“I got into chiropractic when I was in high school,” Yesso said when asked how he got started in the profession. “I was in sports and had some first-hand experience with sports injuries (playing tennis) that were relieved by my chiropractor.”
Dr. Yesso specializes in a number of modalities and his primary practice concentrates on back, shoulder and neck pain. He also offers rehabilitative therapy in his practice.
A current resident of Loveland, Ohio, Yasso is married to wife, Rachel, a special education preschool teacher in the Cincinnati school system.
 Lindsay Ann Smith is engaged to be married to Joseph Edward Budde, Jr. on July 14, 2007. Lindsay is the daughter of Bob and Holly Smith of Oakwood. Joe is the son of Joseph Budde and Susan Simmons of Columbus.
The bride-to-be is a 2001 graduate of Oakwood High School. She received her Bachelors degree from Miami University where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and actively involved with Campus Crusade for Christ. She graduated in 2005 with a degree in education and presently teaches sixth grade in the Mason City School district.
The groom-to-be is a 2002 graduate of Dublin Coffman High School. He attended Miami University where he became a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was an active participant in the Miami University Student Foundation. He graduated in 2006 with degrees in both finance and political science. Joe presently works for NCR in Dayton as a Sarbanes-Oxley consultant.
The couple will be married at Fairhaven Church and will reside in the south Dayton area.
Flight crews often resort to humor when speaking to their passengers on the intercom. The following reported excerpts have been culled from the Internet.
On a Continental Flight with a very “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.”
“Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride.”
“As plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice came over the loudspeaker: “Whoa, big fella. WHOA!”
“From a Southwest Airlines attendant: “Welcome aboard Southwest Flight 1293. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seat belt; and, if you don’t know how to operate one, your probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised.”
“Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we’ll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines.”
“Your seat cushions can be used for flotation: and, in the event of an emergency water landing, please paddle to shore and take them with our compliments.”
“As you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belonging. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses.”
“And from the pilot during his welcome message: “Delta airlines is pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight.”
Heard on Southwest Airlines just after a very hard landing in Salt Lake City: The flight attendant came on the intercom and said, “That was quite a bump and I know what y’all are thinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t the airline’s fault, it wasn’t the pilot’s fault, it wasn’t the flight attendant’s fault. It was the asphalt!”
Overheard on an American Airlines flight into Amarillo, Texas, on a particularly windy and bumpy day: During the final approach, the Captain was really having to fight it. After an extremely hard landing, the Flight Attendant said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. Please remain in your seats with you seat belts fastened while the Captain taxis what’s left of our airplane to the gate.”
An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile and give them a “Thanks for flying XYZ airline. He said that, in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally everyone had gotten off except for a little old lady walking with a cane. She said, “Sonny, mind if I ask you a question?” “Why no Ma’am,” said the pilot. “What is it?” The little old lady said, “Did we land or were we shot down?”
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