July 9, 2025 • 14 mins
Willie talks with Blue Ash Mayor Jill Cole about what really happened at the Red, White, and Blue Ash event on Friday.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Billy coming in the Great America and welcome this Wednesday afternoon.
In the Try Stage, Reds baseball kicks off about six
oh five tonight, because I thought that maybe Trevino should
start the game because he seems to have more results
in the starting pitching crew. Looking at the last two
games at my ballpark, the Great American, the Reds on
Monday night lost five to one. They lost last night
(00:27):
twelve to two. That means collectively they're seventeen and three.
This isn't a football score, a baseball score. Seventeen and
three against Miami, not exactly the seventy six Reds, but nonetheless,
they try again tonight. We'll see what happens tonight with
Avan on the mound, and then they have one more
game tomorrow with Miami than three with the Rocks in
town and getting ready for the All Star break and
(00:48):
the trade deadline. Maybe one of the other good teams
won Trevino to pitch for them, because he seems to
be the best pitch of the Reds half. But until then,
there's all hell breaking loose throughout the Try State in
many different quarters. I have a guest on tomorrow to
talk about what happens in Clifton in front of the
fire station, the skyline chill. On a regular basis. We've
had on guests from Covington about the what's happening on
(01:09):
the riverfront there and also in Cincinnati. But Red White
and Blue Ash is a signature event in Hambleton County's
We're going on for about thirty years, and until a
few days ago there was no difficulties whatsoever. Then all
hell broke loose. Joining you and I now is Mayor
Jill Cole, and Mayor Cole is in charge of the
city of Blue Ash, the little tree that grew, and
(01:32):
Mayor Cole welcome, i think for the first time to
the Bill Cunningham Show. So first of all, can you
tell me tell the American people the event itself, the
planning for the event before the events took place later
on in the evening that were terrible. Now just talk
in general about what Red White and Blue Ash seeks
to do for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Thanks for having me on, Billy. Yes, it's my first
time talking with you, and I'm really grateful to be here.
You know, Blue Ash is an amazing city. We have
a long history of being safe and welcoming and we're
in the we have the ability to do a lot
of amazing things, including our annual Fourth of July celebration.
As you said, we've been putting these on for over
thirty years, and I've always been so proud that despite
(02:12):
the thousands and thousands of people that attend, there have
rarely been any problems. However, last Friday night, a small
group of individuals made poor choices and they frightened the
people around them. I know I had one of my
family members that was right in the middle of it,
and it was very scary. Fortunately, our police officers were
nearby and they were able to quickly respond to the situation.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Fortunately, Yes, very serious injury, and there's other serious injury
or deaths or nothing at some of these events. As
far as the entry of the facility, I was last
there about ten to twelve years ago and it was
easy to get into, easy to go. Is there an
entry point where people were more or less checked a
little bit or not ors simply catches catch can just
come in for any any quarter that you desire.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It is just to catches catching Can. It's ad over
one hundred acre park and we do want to keep
it very opening and welcoming, and so we don't have
a checkpoint. And you know, obviously we're going to look
at this and see what safety measures we might need
to implement for next year. I think that one would
be a difficult one to do because of the size
of the park and also again we just want to
(03:20):
keep the welcoming, family friendly environment of it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
As far as what occurred that night, I know you've
been working on this with the city manager and the
police chief. Tell the American people what happened Friday night
that caused the injury to the police officer, and just
give us the facts of what happened that turned out
not so well for that particular event.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sure, you know, I just want to reiterate though that
we're still doing research on this, that we're still analyzing
you but what we know is that again, there was
a small group of individuals that were throwing fireworks at
each other under the canopy area, which if you've been
to the park, you're familiar with that. And then unfortunately
they ran through the crowd saying that gunshots had been fired,
(04:01):
so they added confusion and upset to the area. Again.
The people that witnessed it were very upset, rightfully, so,
fortunately it was fairly well contained and again the police
responded quickly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
As far as injuries, what was the injury to the
police officer.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He had a burn on his legs from a firecracker
that hit him. He was treated at the hospital and released.
In fact, he was back on duty last night.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And as far as I read somewhere in the media
that juvenile court, which in my editorial opinion, often does
a terrible job relative to holding juveniles accountable for serious misbehavior,
is it true that juvenile court dismissed most of the
charges against the individual that injured the police officer.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That is true, and unfortunately we can do our part,
but we can't control what happens after that, which is
really unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Did that happen with your permission? With you're okay?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wow, I wasn't there. Would have to talk with the
people that were there. But I don't know that we
have a choice in that. That's the magistrate's decision and.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The police officer. I would assume it was. I just
understand it's without prejudice, which means that it could be
brought again. And the magistrate in the media said that
they can't identify the person who did this because it's
a juvenile. But nonetheless it was over the objections of
the police officer and according to media accounts, the city
(05:28):
of Bluish was not involved in the greeing to the dismissal.
The magistrate did it on her own. Is that your.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Understanding, that's my understanding.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
As far as going forward, one of the council members
has come forward about monitoring social media, almost like a
CIA function in which you're going to have large numbers
of people monitoring social media of individuals who may come
to the party, may not come to the party. As
far as entry points and searches of bags, have you
begun the planning yet to do? What number one, is
(05:57):
the event going to continue next year and if so,
how will it be different?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, you know the event will continue next year. At
this point, you know, we're just beginning to look at this,
and we have a whole year and so we work
closely with our law enforcement, our parks and w REC
people and we'll carefully look at what happened and see
what we can do if we need to make adjustments
or changes to ensure that it's a states and welcoming event. Unfortunately,
(06:23):
you know, we do as a policy in our council
appoint the mayor and the city administration as official spokespeople.
But unfortunately we had a council member that's gone out
on his own and has made statements that are not
reflective of the views or the values of the city,
describing the individuals as you know, just confusing language that
(06:47):
stigmatizes and dehumanizes these people, which were just young kids.
They made stupid mistakes, but that was no real you know,
we shouldn't be out ahead of this event without understanding
all of what happened and criticizing the young people that
were there.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, that council member was almost Cosloane. A couple of
days ago. He talked about the punks, about individuals that
don't deserve to come to events like that. He was
very accusatory of those being charged. And so you're saying
that does not reflect the viewpoint of city council in
blue Ash nor the mayor.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What I'm saying is that we shouldn't be talking about
individuals like that. First of all, we need to leave
the communication, particularly to the administration, So what was released
is clear and factual and doesn't conflict with other people
are said, and I just personally think and I know
that my council members share my view that his statements
were inflammatory and were not necessary or helpful and just
(07:43):
made the situation worse.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Some of the charges were kept inside the City of
Bluish and Mayor's Court. As you know as the mayor
that there are misdemeanor charges that could be brought and
kept in Mayor's court and if it's a juvenile it
must be sent down to Hamlin County Juvenile Court, which
is a history of dismissing charges against those charges with crimes.
And I will and Nelly basis are you going to
(08:06):
is there a sense of pursuing the charges in the
City of blue Ash Mayor's Court to it to their
logical conclusion and not to dismiss them.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know, I don't have any information about what the
plan is. As you know, we have a magister. You
may know that we have an outside person run our
mayor's court now a lawyer, so that it's handled completely appropriately,
of course, and so I have not been engaged in
any conversations talking about what what will be this is
the decision about these charges.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So as far as the planning for the future. The
idea of having a place where people are checked is
almost impossible to do because I've been there many times
and you can come into that park from three sixty
You can come in from almost any angle. Secondly, to
have a weight line for people to come in starting
in the afternoon until ten thirty pm at night, which
(09:00):
take forever to get through the line, that would be
a problem. And so there's been comments made by some
about parents that aren't possibly being the kind of parents
they should be relative to their children. There were comments
made by state officials and I know police officer and
chiefs of police and other cities have said where are
the parents? How come parents on supervising their own children?
(09:23):
As far as the age of those involved in these activities?
Is the number about ninety because the police chief said
it was about ninety people, What can you tell us
about that?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
How many people? I've heard media reports that there were
four hundred people that I haven't heard anything official from
our folks that determine that that was the number of
this group. But again, it was a very small number
of young people that made these poor choices and use
these actions that scared people.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, no question and I think ninety might be a
small number. At one point it was four hundred and
as far as the tenants is ninety thousand people, I've
heard some say there's ninety to one hundred thousand people
attending it. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You know? I've heard varying numbers from fifty to sixty
to seventy in the park to the numbers that you're
talking about when you consider the people that watch the
fireworks from around the park and then surrounding commercial buildings.
So it is a big event, you know, in a
Blue Ash we only have about thirteen or fourteen thousand residents.
So we put on this event for the whole community,
(10:24):
the whole region, and we're happy to do it and
just will work really hard for next year to make
sure that we can do anything possible to minimize any
events like that's happening to disrupt what's otherwise an amazing
event and a.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Mayor cole it's fair to say the great majority of
those attending this event are not from the city of
Blue Ash. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Can't bember the numbers speak for themselves?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yes, what does everybody park? I mean, I look at
numbers of fifty to sixty thousand people. That's like a
that's almost up to the level of paid course stadium.
Where do people park? How do you get there?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We have well, we have a lot of commercials, a
commercial areas around sum At Park, and so the office building.
Some of the office buildings, not everyone, but many of
them allow us to have visitors park there. We put
up portlets and so forth, you know, to accommodate the
needs of the people. But you know, we have good
relationships with our surrounding businesses. We try to take really
(11:19):
good care of our businesses and they help us out
from time to time with situations like this.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, going forward, how does this hurt you as the
mayor of this city, which I think Blue Ash is
fabulous that it's a motto is the little tree that
grew it's now a fabulous community. How does this hurt
your heart when there's something like this happens.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, again, I said, it just hurts my heart because
I've been so proud of the fact that, you know,
as you were talking about earlier, crazy things are happening
all over that we've always been able to host this
event that has been pretty much trouble free and it
is discouraging that this wasn't the case this year, But
I really have a lot of confidence in our team,
and I know that we will carefully look at every
(12:03):
angle of it and will develop a very effective, safe
plan going future, you know, going forward. So we'll also
still keep it welcoming and family oriented events.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So the event will go on no matter what. The
planning will continue. You can't let these few individuals, which
might be half of one percent or less of those
who attend, can't let them ruin it for the other
ninety nine point eight percent of the people that attend.
I often reference this. Then it's not exactly the same.
But when something happens terrible in Israel and some terrorist
blows up a pizza parlor, the next day, the pizza
(12:34):
parlor is filled with customers because you can't let the
myscreyants determine your activities. As an American, we have to
stand up to this stuff, and we can't back down
and say, Okay, we're not going to do this anymore,
because someone may get hurt. Someone may get hurt just
walking across the street, for God's sakes. And so when
these things happen, whether it's on the Banks, whether it's
Washington Park, whether it's in Covington, whether it's in Middletown,
(12:57):
whether it's in Blue Ash. When these events take place,
we must stand up together and say not on my watch,
and we're going to continue to have this event. We're
going to police it maybe a little bit a little
bit better. But I don't know how you could have
anticipated this from occurring. It hadn't happened in thirty years.
And nonetheless your head over one hundred police officers present,
and at this point the planning must go on. Is
(13:17):
it your attitude that as long as you're the mayor
of Blue Ash, this event will transpire.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, that is my sincere hope. And I've heard no
one on staff mention at all the idea that this
would not go forward. And this is a very important
community event we're very proud to put on celebrating our countries.
So I have no information at all that discontinuing it
is being considered, all.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Right, Mayor Joe Cole, thanks for coming on. And Friday
night was a good night until at the last thirty
or forty minutes, and then a few individuals acted up,
made fools of themselves, committed crimes and next year it
will be more prepared. But Mayor Joe Cole, once again,
thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and thank you.
Mayor thinks Bill. Let's continue with more, and there you
(14:03):
have it, and fortunately no one was seriously injured, no
one was hurt seriously, no one was killed, fortunately, but
nonetheless had the potential of some serious injuries from individuals
that don't know how to act in public. Let's continue
with more. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW
Billy coming in the Great America and welcome this Wednesday afternoon.
In the Try Stage, Reds baseball kicks off about six
oh five tonight, because I thought that maybe Trevino should
start the game because he seems to have more results
in the starting pitching crew. Looking at the last two
games at my ballpark, the Great American, the Reds on
Monday night lost five to one. They lost last night
(00:27):
twelve to two. That means collectively they're seventeen and three.
This isn't a football score, a baseball score. Seventeen and
three against Miami, not exactly the seventy six Reds, but nonetheless,
they try again tonight. We'll see what happens tonight with
Avan on the mound, and then they have one more
game tomorrow with Miami than three with the Rocks in
town and getting ready for the All Star break and
(00:48):
the trade deadline. Maybe one of the other good teams
won Trevino to pitch for them, because he seems to
be the best pitch of the Reds half. But until then,
there's all hell breaking loose throughout the Try State in
many different quarters. I have a guest on tomorrow to
talk about what happens in Clifton in front of the
fire station, the skyline chill. On a regular basis. We've
had on guests from Covington about the what's happening on
(01:09):
the riverfront there and also in Cincinnati. But Red White
and Blue Ash is a signature event in Hambleton County's
We're going on for about thirty years, and until a
few days ago there was no difficulties whatsoever. Then all
hell broke loose. Joining you and I now is Mayor
Jill Cole, and Mayor Cole is in charge of the
city of Blue Ash, the little tree that grew, and
(01:32):
Mayor Cole welcome, i think for the first time to
the Bill Cunningham Show. So first of all, can you
tell me tell the American people the event itself, the
planning for the event before the events took place later
on in the evening that were terrible. Now just talk
in general about what Red White and Blue Ash seeks
to do for the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Thanks for having me on, Billy. Yes, it's my first
time talking with you, and I'm really grateful to be here.
You know, Blue Ash is an amazing city. We have
a long history of being safe and welcoming and we're
in the we have the ability to do a lot
of amazing things, including our annual Fourth of July celebration.
As you said, we've been putting these on for over
thirty years, and I've always been so proud that despite
(02:12):
the thousands and thousands of people that attend, there have
rarely been any problems. However, last Friday night, a small
group of individuals made poor choices and they frightened the
people around them. I know I had one of my
family members that was right in the middle of it,
and it was very scary. Fortunately, our police officers were
nearby and they were able to quickly respond to the situation.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Fortunately, Yes, very serious injury, and there's other serious injury
or deaths or nothing at some of these events. As
far as the entry of the facility, I was last
there about ten to twelve years ago and it was
easy to get into, easy to go. Is there an
entry point where people were more or less checked a
little bit or not ors simply catches catch can just
come in for any any quarter that you desire.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It is just to catches catching Can. It's ad over
one hundred acre park and we do want to keep
it very opening and welcoming, and so we don't have
a checkpoint. And you know, obviously we're going to look
at this and see what safety measures we might need
to implement for next year. I think that one would
be a difficult one to do because of the size
of the park and also again we just want to
(03:20):
keep the welcoming, family friendly environment of it.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
As far as what occurred that night, I know you've
been working on this with the city manager and the
police chief. Tell the American people what happened Friday night
that caused the injury to the police officer, and just
give us the facts of what happened that turned out
not so well for that particular event.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sure, you know, I just want to reiterate though that
we're still doing research on this, that we're still analyzing
you but what we know is that again, there was
a small group of individuals that were throwing fireworks at
each other under the canopy area, which if you've been
to the park, you're familiar with that. And then unfortunately
they ran through the crowd saying that gunshots had been fired,
(04:01):
so they added confusion and upset to the area. Again.
The people that witnessed it were very upset, rightfully, so,
fortunately it was fairly well contained and again the police
responded quickly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
As far as injuries, what was the injury to the
police officer.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
He had a burn on his legs from a firecracker
that hit him. He was treated at the hospital and released.
In fact, he was back on duty last night.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And as far as I read somewhere in the media
that juvenile court, which in my editorial opinion, often does
a terrible job relative to holding juveniles accountable for serious misbehavior,
is it true that juvenile court dismissed most of the
charges against the individual that injured the police officer.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That is true, and unfortunately we can do our part,
but we can't control what happens after that, which is
really unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Did that happen with your permission? With you're okay?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wow, I wasn't there. Would have to talk with the
people that were there. But I don't know that we
have a choice in that. That's the magistrate's decision and.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The police officer. I would assume it was. I just
understand it's without prejudice, which means that it could be
brought again. And the magistrate in the media said that
they can't identify the person who did this because it's
a juvenile. But nonetheless it was over the objections of
the police officer and according to media accounts, the city
(05:28):
of Bluish was not involved in the greeing to the dismissal.
The magistrate did it on her own. Is that your.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Understanding, that's my understanding.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
As far as going forward, one of the council members
has come forward about monitoring social media, almost like a
CIA function in which you're going to have large numbers
of people monitoring social media of individuals who may come
to the party, may not come to the party. As
far as entry points and searches of bags, have you
begun the planning yet to do? What number one, is
(05:57):
the event going to continue next year and if so,
how will it be different?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, you know the event will continue next year. At
this point, you know, we're just beginning to look at this,
and we have a whole year and so we work
closely with our law enforcement, our parks and w REC
people and we'll carefully look at what happened and see
what we can do if we need to make adjustments
or changes to ensure that it's a states and welcoming event. Unfortunately,
(06:23):
you know, we do as a policy in our council
appoint the mayor and the city administration as official spokespeople.
But unfortunately we had a council member that's gone out
on his own and has made statements that are not
reflective of the views or the values of the city,
describing the individuals as you know, just confusing language that
(06:47):
stigmatizes and dehumanizes these people, which were just young kids.
They made stupid mistakes, but that was no real you know,
we shouldn't be out ahead of this event without understanding
all of what happened and criticizing the young people that
were there.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Well, that council member was almost Cosloane. A couple of
days ago. He talked about the punks, about individuals that
don't deserve to come to events like that. He was
very accusatory of those being charged. And so you're saying
that does not reflect the viewpoint of city council in
blue Ash nor the mayor.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What I'm saying is that we shouldn't be talking about
individuals like that. First of all, we need to leave
the communication, particularly to the administration, So what was released
is clear and factual and doesn't conflict with other people
are said, and I just personally think and I know
that my council members share my view that his statements
were inflammatory and were not necessary or helpful and just
(07:43):
made the situation worse.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Some of the charges were kept inside the City of
Bluish and Mayor's Court. As you know as the mayor
that there are misdemeanor charges that could be brought and
kept in Mayor's court and if it's a juvenile it
must be sent down to Hamlin County Juvenile Court, which
is a history of dismissing charges against those charges with crimes.
And I will and Nelly basis are you going to
(08:06):
is there a sense of pursuing the charges in the
City of blue Ash Mayor's Court to it to their
logical conclusion and not to dismiss them.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know, I don't have any information about what the
plan is. As you know, we have a magister. You
may know that we have an outside person run our
mayor's court now a lawyer, so that it's handled completely appropriately,
of course, and so I have not been engaged in
any conversations talking about what what will be this is
the decision about these charges.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So as far as the planning for the future. The
idea of having a place where people are checked is
almost impossible to do because I've been there many times
and you can come into that park from three sixty
You can come in from almost any angle. Secondly, to
have a weight line for people to come in starting
in the afternoon until ten thirty pm at night, which
(09:00):
take forever to get through the line, that would be
a problem. And so there's been comments made by some
about parents that aren't possibly being the kind of parents
they should be relative to their children. There were comments
made by state officials and I know police officer and
chiefs of police and other cities have said where are
the parents? How come parents on supervising their own children?
(09:23):
As far as the age of those involved in these activities?
Is the number about ninety because the police chief said
it was about ninety people, What can you tell us
about that?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
How many people? I've heard media reports that there were
four hundred people that I haven't heard anything official from
our folks that determine that that was the number of
this group. But again, it was a very small number
of young people that made these poor choices and use
these actions that scared people.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, no question and I think ninety might be a
small number. At one point it was four hundred and
as far as the tenants is ninety thousand people, I've
heard some say there's ninety to one hundred thousand people
attending it. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You know? I've heard varying numbers from fifty to sixty
to seventy in the park to the numbers that you're
talking about when you consider the people that watch the
fireworks from around the park and then surrounding commercial buildings.
So it is a big event, you know, in a
Blue Ash we only have about thirteen or fourteen thousand residents.
So we put on this event for the whole community,
(10:24):
the whole region, and we're happy to do it and
just will work really hard for next year to make
sure that we can do anything possible to minimize any
events like that's happening to disrupt what's otherwise an amazing
event and a.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Mayor cole it's fair to say the great majority of
those attending this event are not from the city of
Blue Ash. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Can't bember the numbers speak for themselves?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yes, what does everybody park? I mean, I look at
numbers of fifty to sixty thousand people. That's like a
that's almost up to the level of paid course stadium.
Where do people park? How do you get there?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We have well, we have a lot of commercials, a
commercial areas around sum At Park, and so the office building.
Some of the office buildings, not everyone, but many of
them allow us to have visitors park there. We put
up portlets and so forth, you know, to accommodate the
needs of the people. But you know, we have good
relationships with our surrounding businesses. We try to take really
(11:19):
good care of our businesses and they help us out
from time to time with situations like this.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, going forward, how does this hurt you as the
mayor of this city, which I think Blue Ash is
fabulous that it's a motto is the little tree that
grew it's now a fabulous community. How does this hurt
your heart when there's something like this happens.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, again, I said, it just hurts my heart because
I've been so proud of the fact that, you know,
as you were talking about earlier, crazy things are happening
all over that we've always been able to host this
event that has been pretty much trouble free and it
is discouraging that this wasn't the case this year, But
I really have a lot of confidence in our team,
and I know that we will carefully look at every
(12:03):
angle of it and will develop a very effective, safe
plan going future, you know, going forward. So we'll also
still keep it welcoming and family oriented events.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So the event will go on no matter what. The
planning will continue. You can't let these few individuals, which
might be half of one percent or less of those
who attend, can't let them ruin it for the other
ninety nine point eight percent of the people that attend.
I often reference this. Then it's not exactly the same.
But when something happens terrible in Israel and some terrorist
blows up a pizza parlor, the next day, the pizza
(12:34):
parlor is filled with customers because you can't let the
myscreyants determine your activities. As an American, we have to
stand up to this stuff, and we can't back down
and say, Okay, we're not going to do this anymore,
because someone may get hurt. Someone may get hurt just
walking across the street, for God's sakes. And so when
these things happen, whether it's on the Banks, whether it's
Washington Park, whether it's in Covington, whether it's in Middletown,
(12:57):
whether it's in Blue Ash. When these events take place,
we must stand up together and say not on my watch,
and we're going to continue to have this event. We're
going to police it maybe a little bit a little
bit better. But I don't know how you could have
anticipated this from occurring. It hadn't happened in thirty years.
And nonetheless your head over one hundred police officers present,
and at this point the planning must go on. Is
(13:17):
it your attitude that as long as you're the mayor
of Blue Ash, this event will transpire.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, that is my sincere hope. And I've heard no
one on staff mention at all the idea that this
would not go forward. And this is a very important
community event we're very proud to put on celebrating our countries.
So I have no information at all that discontinuing it
is being considered, all.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Right, Mayor Joe Cole, thanks for coming on. And Friday
night was a good night until at the last thirty
or forty minutes, and then a few individuals acted up,
made fools of themselves, committed crimes and next year it
will be more prepared. But Mayor Joe Cole, once again,
thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and thank you.
Mayor thinks Bill. Let's continue with more, and there you
(14:03):
have it, and fortunately no one was seriously injured, no
one was hurt seriously, no one was killed, fortunately, but
nonetheless had the potential of some serious injuries from individuals
that don't know how to act in public. Let's continue
with more. Bill Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW
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