The Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad is offering a family-friendly Hobo Camp today and Sunday. The event will include tales from hobos of riding the rails, a train ride and a campfire. A bluegrass band will be on site today.
The LM&M Railroad encourages customers to come dressed as hobos. The best dressed hobo of each ride will win a LM&M Railroad Family Pass for a future train ride.
Ride times are 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. today and Sunday at 127 S. Mechanic St. in historic downtown Lebanon.
Tickets are $19 for adults, $16 for seniors and children under 16, $10 for toddlers. Infants under 1 year are free.
To purchase tickets, go to lebanonrr.com/hobo.html. STAFF REPORT
MONROE
Cemetery clean-up scheduled for next week
The Public Works Department is set to clean all grave sites in the cemeteries in Monroe of all decorations next week, beginning Monday.
If there are any artificial or seasonal decorations on graves that people would like to preserve, they need need to be removed prior to the cleaning.
For more information, call the Public Works Department at 513-727-8953 or visit monroeohio.org.
LEBANON
Closures on Fields-Ertel Road to begin Aug. 17
Starting Monday, Aug. 17, the west leg of Fields-Ertel Road at the intersection of Fields-Ertel Road and Columbia/Lebanon Road Intersection will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for utility work for about five weeks. The project limits will begin at Columbia Road and reach 3,000 feet west. Local residents will have access to their driveways.
G.M. Pipeline and KS Energy are completing the work in preparation for safety improvements which include the construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Fields-Ertel Road and Columbia/Lebanon Road. This is Phase 3 of a four-phase utility relocation project.
The detour will be Fields Ertel Road — Montgomery Road (U.S. 22/Ohio 3) — Columbia Road.
For more information, visit www.wceo.us/ or contact WCEO at 513-695-3302. STAFF REPORT
LEBANON
Event honors friendship between Japanese, Lebanon parks
An event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in Miller Park, 755 Miller Road, to recognize the ongoing friendship efforts between a park in Lebanon and a rebuilt Japanese park after one was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
A Lebanon family with strong ties to both Lebanon’s Miller Ecological Park and the tsunami-devastated region of Japan helped build a park and playground in Japan. A formal friendship bond between Miller Ecological Park in Lebanon and Matsunami Park in Ishinomaki, Japan, is now under way.
The event will include displays of the arts, crafts, and culture of the people of Japan. Paper theater storytelling, martial arts demonstration, origami lessons and more are planned. Japanese snacks and small trinkets will be available for cash purchase.
For more information, go to www.millerecopark.org. STAFF REPORT
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