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Tours of the Wright home Hawthorn Hill will be conducted on Wednesdays and Saturdays for those who have made advance, prepaid reservations. Tours will depart Carillon Historical Park via shuttle van promptly at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The regular ticket price is $12 per person. A special combination ticket for admission to both Carillon Historical Park and Hawthorn Hill is available for $15 per person. Dayton History members receive a discounted ticket price of $10 per person. Call Guest Services for additional information or to make a reservation: 937-293-2841 or toll-free at 1-877-BE-HISTORY.
Due to an exciting partnership between Dayton History and The Wright Family Foundation, Hawthorn Hill, the Oakwood mansion that Orville Wright called home for nearly 35 years, will be available for educational tours. Dayton History will conduct the tours while the Foundation will continue to own and manage the stately property. This joint venture marks the first time that the structure will be accessible on a regular basis for members of the general public.
The Four Seasons Garden Club in conjunction with The Sierra Club, Miami Group is presenting a FREE Energy Film Mini-Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at The Neon Movies, 130 East Fifth Street.
Coffee will be available at 9:30 a.m. during which time attendees may pick up the free tickets they have reserved.
The screening of films will begin at 10:00 a.m. Attendance to the entire series is not necessary. Attendees may view the films depending on seat availability. The films vary in length and the series will conclude around 1:30 p.m. after a question and answer session with a panel of experts.
Featured in this series will be: The True Cost of Food – a cartoon exploring the hidden costs of mass-produced food,
Rising Waters – Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands - revealing how the Pacific Islands may be the “canary in the coal mine” for the global warming issue,
Nobelity – interviewing three Nobel Prize winners regarding the world environment and the situations our children will inherit,
Power Shift – narrated by Cameron Diaz showing activists who share steps you can take
to reduce global warming, and
Too Hot Not To Handle – an HBO documentary demonstrating how businesses, local governments and citizens can take action regarding global warming.
To attend the film festival, contact Evie Evers Kling at 299-5080 or gekeoek@hotmail.com to reserve your FREE ticket to the film festival. Last minute attendance is welcome if seats are available.
The kids have gone off to college and beyond, the yard seems to be growing in size with each day, and you are looking to the next stage of life. With schooling no longer an issue, is there somewhere else to go when it is time to downsize?
The national trend for baby boomers has been relocation to the city. The yards are small to none, the real estate costs can be very compatible to future fixed incomes, and the lifestyle is exciting and full of suprises. Here in the Miami Valley, the trend is catching on with movement to the city by a growing number of empty nesters, including Oakwood residents. Linda and Dick Staley recently packed up their Dell Park Avenue home and moved to Dayton’s Historic South Park. “We love it! There is a real sense of community here, and we are glad we made the move,” Linda exclaims after ten months in the city.
Yes, people are moving from Oakwood to Dayton. If you are wondering why, or if a lifestyle change is something you are contemplating, GET URBAN MIAMI VALLEY can give you some insight. Kyle Ezell is coming to Dayton to lead the GETURBAN seminar. He is a speaker with a passion for educating that subset of suburban dwellers who are thinking of making a lifestyle change, or just curious about urban living. Kyle Ezell is founder of Get Urban, Ltd., an Ohio based urban planning and marketing firm. He is a renowned author of two books about urban living, a certified city planner and a professor in the Ohio State University ’s City and Regional Planning Program.
The event will run from 5:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4 at Top of the Market at the Webster St. Market downtown. Refreshments and a cash bar will be included. Admission is free, but reservations are requested by RSVP to mostmetro.com/geturban. For more information, call 224-1518 or visit the website at www.dayton.mostmetro.com
Chabad of Greater Dayton invites you to join them for a special evening of dancing in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, or Rejoicing with the Torah in Hebrew.
A Kiddush with a deli meal will be served followed by Hakafot and dancing culminating with outdoor dancing.
The festivities will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4 at Weprin Family Center for Jewish Life & Learning, 2001 Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood.
The holiday of Simchas Torah is the completion of the year-round reading of the Torah (Bible) scroll in synagogues. Simchat Torah has always been traditionally associated with joyous dancing.
There will be a special program for children, with Simchat Torah flags and stuffed Torah scrolls to be distributed to all kids attending.
For more information, visit www.ChabadDayton.com or call (937) 643-0770.
Paul Jacobs, the 30-year-old virtuoso organist, will perform in Dayton for the first time on at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Saturday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. in a program of works by J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Louis Vierne, Schumann, Max Reger, and John Weaver. Admission is free.
Concert Program:
Fantasia for Organ John Weaver (b. 1937)
Trio Sonata in G Major Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in F minor, Op. 65, No. 1 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Berceuse from 24 Pieces en style libre Allegro Molto from Symphonie No. 6
Louis Vierne
(1870-1937)
Three Canons, Op. 56 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasy and Fugue on BACH, Op. 46 Max Reger (1873-1916)
The Edwin D. Smith Elementary School PTO Harvest Festival will take place on Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9 to 4 p.m. The Festival is about pumpkins, baked goods, scare crow making, pumpkin seed crafts, meeting families and building good memories.
This year it’s also about setting a Guinness World Record for the most people wearing their favorite team spirit apparel at an elementary school PTO pumpkin sale. The official count will take place at exactly 12:12 p.m. Be there and be counted.
On Friday, Oct. 5, 1905, Wilbur Wright took flight from Huffman Prairie Flying Field, and a new age of aviation was born. He flew for more than 24 miles in just 39 minutes, completing more than 29 rounds of the field, at an average speed of 38 miles per hour. This flight, the longest of 1905 and longer than all of the previous years’ flights combined, marked the achievement of practical flight. The Wright brothers’ Wright Flyer III had become, on that day, the world’s first practical airplane.*
To celebrate 102 years of Practical Flight, the National Park Service, the Aviation Heritage Foundation, the United States Air Force, and many other park partners will be hosting a weeklong celebration at Huffman Prairie Flying Field Oct. 1 to Oct. 6.
On Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, a replica 1905 Wright Flyer III will take flight after a ceremony that begins at 9 a.m. Come and see what a Wright flyer looked like flying over Huffman Prairie Flying Field 102 years ago. A static display of replica Wright airplanes will also be on the field from Oct. 1-5, noon to 4 p.m., and Oct. 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Educational activities by request.
Don’t forget to also visit the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center across from the Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill, where you can learn more about the Wright brothers and where you can fly a 1911 Wright Model B simulator. The facility is open from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily.
For more information go to our web site at www.nps.gov/daav or call 937.425.0008. Those attending should enter via Gate 16-A, off of Route 444 and should plan to come early. Please allow enough time for parking and walking to the ceremony. Seating limited — folding chairs recommended. Carpooling is encouraged. All events are free and open to the public.
Wellness Connection of the Dayton Region in collaboration with The Wellness Community will host a free workshop for Advanced Breast Cancer patients entitled: The Patient Active Guide to Living with Advanced Breast Cancer. The program will focus on the needs of women newly diagnosed with advanced (metastatic) breast cancer, and also includes information relevant to women who have lived two to five years with metastatic breast cancer. This free workshop will take place on Oct. 16, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at El Meson Restaurant, 903 E Dixie Drive. Advanced reservations are required by Oct. 8. To make a reservation please call 937-223-4117, Ext. 107. Light Tapas Hor d’oeurves will be served.
Workshop presenters include:
Jhansi Koduri, MD from Hematology & Oncology of Dayton, Inc.
Irma Johnston, PsyD.
Kathleen Bonie, PhD.
Diane Butler-Hughes
Jan Lively
There will be a panel discussion with breast cancer survivors from Noble Circle.
Clear and unbiased information will be provided about survivorship issues, new treatments, and concerns for women newly diagnosed with metastatic cancer, in order to empower them to be active participants in their cancer journey. The Patient Active Guide to Living with Advanced Breast Cancer is created by The Wellness Community - National in collaboration with Living Beyond Breast Cancer and made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline Oncology.
The Department of Leisure Services is again thrilled to announce Oakwood’s Fifth Annual Scarecrow Building Contest! The City is hosting this fun filled fall community event in October which is open to Oakwood scout troops, church and school organizations, businesses, individuals and families. Pick a theme and start building from there! Make sure you come up with a great name for your scarecrow.
Just think of how neat it was last year to see Shafor Boulevard (Scarecrow Row) filled with scarecrows and cornstalks. This year we hope to see more scarecrows around the community. The more participants we have the more fun the event will be.
Registration packets are now available from the Oakwood Community Center business office. Each packet contains the rules and regulations for the program as well as the building guidelines and an entry
form to be completed and returned to the OCC for an assigned location. The building and placement of scarecrows will take place on Sunday, Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Judging will take place promptly at 3:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded to First, Second and Third place winners and announced at Oakwood’s Fall Festival at Shafor Park.
For questions concerning this event, please call the Oakwood Community Center at 298-0775.
Oakwood’s Family Fall Festival, sponsored by the Department of Leisure Services will be held on Sunday, Oct. 14, at Shafor Park. The hours are from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The afternoon will be filled with old fashioned activities and game for the whole family including a costume parade, diaper derby, pumpkin painting, three legged races, donut dive, wheelbarrow races, pumpkin bowling, potoato golf, pumpkin toss and much, much, more. And din’t forget there will be hay rides for the whole family going along Scarecrow Row. You can see the new 2007 scarecrows along Shafor Boulevard. Also included in the day’s entertainment are local musical groups. Enjoy an afternoon full of fun games, food and entertainment for the whole family.
Family 8-on-8 Soccer Tournament, Saturday, Oct. 20. This Round Robin 8-on-8 medium field tournament is open to any Oakwood children in third through sixth grade, and any related adults 18 years of age or older. Grade divisions will be coed. This tournament is limited to 16 teams, and grade divisions may be combined due to low enrollment. Pick up rule packets and rosters sheets upon sign up. Multiple Oakwood families will make up one team. Teams can be all boys, girls, or coed. Team must consist at a minimum of (example) four children in third grade and four adult family members 18 years of age or older. Call the Oakwood Community Center at 298-0775 for more information.
Do you like carving Jack-O-Lanterns? Want to learn to make a great Jack-O-Lantern? Join us Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Oakwood Community Center and learn how to carve, or decorate a pumpkin. This program is for the whole family; please join us for some spooky fun. Call the Oakwood Community Center at 298-0775 for more information.
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