August 22, 2023 • 30 mins
The SOAR Expo is a joint venture, bringing together cutting-edge healthcare products, services, mobility devices, adaptive sport & recreation for people with disabilities. UC Physical Medicine and Rehab, May We Help and The Bridge bringing this comprehensive event back to the Tri-State on Sat. Sept. 23, 2023, 10 am - 2 pm. Free admission. https://maywehelp.org/soar-expo/
Lots going on in Blue Ash. Rachel Murray, the city's Communications Coordinator, is back with upcoming opportunities and fun for everyone in the region.
https://maywehelp.org/
https://www.uchealth.com/physical-medicine-rehabilitation/
https://www.thebridgeadaptive.org/
Lots going on in Blue Ash. Rachel Murray, the city's Communications Coordinator, is back with upcoming opportunities and fun for everyone in the region.
https://maywehelp.org/
https://www.uchealth.com/physical-medicine-rehabilitation/
https://www.thebridgeadaptive.org/
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This week on iHeart Cincy. Today'sshow is for those tri Staters who live
with disabilities. You just come tous with your challenge and these teams of
folks will figure it out for youand then they will design, built,
and deliver the solution to you foryour charge. Whether you have a lifelong
challenge, a recent onset of difficultygetting around, or worsening symptoms that get
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in the way of living your life, you're going to want to attend the
SORE Expo and listen to this program. SORE stands for solutions, opportunities,
adaptations and recreation. That's the beautyof what we all do here is that
we meet people where they are.My guest today are here to talk about
this one day free event the SOREExpo in September to connect those who need
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a little help find it. Thereis a call right now for firefighters first
responders to come and join the climb, and later Rachel Murray from Blue Ash
is back with a community update anda call to honor the nine to eleven
firefighters who perished in New York twelveyears ago. Now on iHeart Cincy with
Sandy Collins, Welcome to iHeart Cincy. A public affairs program bringing out the
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issues that we face here in theCincinnati region and the solutions that we're finding.
First up, Rob Sideman, BreeWilkerson from May We Help, and
doctor Danny Meyer from Cincinnati Children's representinghis charity The Bridge. All right,
well, welcome to all three ofyou here to iHeart Cincy. We're gonna
give some really interesting information to ourlisteners about the SORE Expo twenty twenty three,
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which is coming up at the LincolnAirport. And you're saying, what
is the SORE Expo? Does ithave to do with aviation? And Rob
Sideman from May We Help the answerto that question is, well, it's
for people with disabilities. So ifyou want to know what's going on in
our region in terms of products andservices that are available to you, and
because you've got a disability, youjust got to go to this one stop
shop and you'll get to visit withand interact with all these different vendors who
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represent the different products and services availablein our region for people with disabilities.
It's super interactive, super fun.It's not like your typical expo where you
just visit one booth and talk tosomebody and put a little something in your
swag bag and moved to the nexttable and do the same thing. It's
not like that at all. Infact, there's just such a great energy
they're discovering and they're experiencing joy,and they're experiencing hope, and when you
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see all that on their phases,it's pretty rewarding. So let me get
you caught up to speed here.Rob Seideman is the executive director of May
We Help, and this is anamazing nonprofit group that helps folks that are
living with disabilities. We're also joinedby the executive director of The Bridge Adaptive
Sports and Recreation, doctor Danny Meyer. Danny, thank you for being here.
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Yeah, thanks for having me.And Brie Wilkerson, she's the program
director of May We Help. Tellus a little bit about the Bridge,
Adaptive Sports and Recreation nonprofit. So, the Bridge is a nonprofit that we
started maybe a couple of years agoin the midst of COVID. It happened
sort of organically with a bunch ofhealthcare providers coming together and deciding that we
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needed to do better in terms ofgetting our people that we see in the
clinic out into the community and doingthings that are meaningful and you can find
an identity in. And so mostof our team that came together to form
this nonprofit our healthcare providers, butwe also have some adaptive athletes and community
advocates who are ready and excited tojust connect people, which is why we're
called the Bridge. And so themission of the Bridge is just that to
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make sure that we are spreading awarenessand providing opportunities for people with disabilities to
experience recreation and leisure activities. Soas far as things that we do,
the possibilities are endless. One ofmy favorite things ever is when someone comes
to me and says, hey,is this sport here in Cincinnati? And
if it is, it's great.We get them connected to that group and
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we make sure that they have allthe tools that they need. But I
love it when someone says, hey, skydiving in Cincinnati or is water skiing
in Cincinnatty, And so when thathappens, I say no, but let's
figure out how we're going to bringit here and we make those connections.
So, for example, this Sunday, we have adaptive water skiing going on
out in Harrison, Ohio, wherewe have a group coming from Pennsylvania bringing
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their adaptive water skis to help usput on an event for people so so
many opportunities, and we're just happyto be a part of these sore XPO
and make this a comprehensive opportunity forpeople at disabilities. Doctor Mayer, your
background is in the physical therapy,correct, So I'm a physical therapist.
I've been working out since Night Children'sfor about the past six years, and
I co lead a program they're calledb Well, which is very similar to
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the Bridge, but really focused onkids. My background is in outpatient narrow
rehab, so I primarily see traumaticbrain injury and spinal cord injury throughout the
rehab after they get off the inpatientafter their initial injury, and they need
higher frequency of therapy on the outpatientside of things. And so my goal
in therapy, and it really workspretty well, is to say I'm not
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just going to get you to apoint where you feel confident to transfer from
your bed to a chair or achair to the toilet. I'm going to
get you confident to transfer from achair to your car so you can get
the basketball practice to transfer from yourcar or your basketball chair, whatever it
takes. To get you to feellike you can be a part of a
community that's beyond just your little pocket. That happens pretty often after an injury,
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when you're stuck and you've got thiswhole new life that you're trying to
figure out. It's hard to getout of your comfort zone, and so
we want to make sure that thatis not a barrier. How common is
traumatic brain injury? That is agood question. Tens are there hundreds?
In Cincinnati? There are thousands andthousands of traumatic brain injuries and varying from
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you know, a mild to severeand traumatic brain injury. And I think
not a lot of people realize,but a concussion is considered a mild traumatic
brain injury. And so there isa full spectrum of people who are affected
by brain injuries. And I thinkthat's beauty of what we all do here
is that we meet people where theyare. Bree Wilkerson, she's a program
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factor. May we Help. Howdo you two work together to start fulfilling
these needs? Yeah, so wehave a great working relationship and depend on
each other often a lot of theactivities that the Danny's Group participates in.
May we Help is able to stepin and create those devices that actually lend
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themselves to being able to participate inthe activity. We recently did a flying
disc device that allowed up someone witha not able to throw the disc to
just push a button and the discwould launch and then they were able to
participate in frisbee golf. So thatwas one of the most recent projects that
we did together. That's very cool. I'm sure there's a lot of people
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that want to visualize that. Canyou tell me a little bit more about
how do you do that? Soit's actually on a moving platform. We
basically just have a cart that youwould push around through through the lunch room,
but we set on this, Yeah, we set on this rig that
has a board on it with aspinning wheel with a motor, so it
hooks up to a battery and it'sset up so that a frisbee would fit
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perfectly in, so you can justeven if you have subtle movements. We
had a buddy just with a littlebit movement of his leg kick it into
the slot where it's supposed to slide, and then the wheel catches it and
shoots it right out. And sowe took it around up at Burnett Woods,
a temporary disc golf course on thepavement around the grand stand there and
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played a full nine holes of discgolf with people in chairs. We've got
so many people that play disc golfand I'm bet they're just going, oh
my gosh, Now my friend soand so back from college can come out
with us because this kind of technologyis now becoming more available exactly. I
mean, like I think most ofthe things we do, we don't want
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it to be siloed to just thedisability community. We want it to just
be part of the community. Sohowever, everything we do we try and
make sure that we have an optionfrom a bridge standpoint. If we're going
to do a sport and we wantbrother and sister to come along, we
want them to be able to doit as well, and not be just
for the person with visibility. It'sfor everyone. Yeah, I can build
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on that relationship too between the threeentities. So just and I'm simplifying this
a little bit, but in essence, you see, will treat the patient.
Then when that patient's released, theygo to see Danny as a physical
therapist and he gets them out intothe community. And then if they need
a device adapted for them to helpthem get into the community like a transfer
device like Danny was referencing, ora disc golf thrower or whatever they might
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need. Then they'll come to me, we help, and we'll build it
for them. So we work reallyclosely, the three of us, in
order to to see through this onegoal of getting people out. You have
proven the adage necessity is the motherof invention. So you're going to get
all three of you together, yousee, and may we help and the
Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation and havethis expo. It's coming up in September.
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This is a free event and youwill have adaptive displays and booths and
people to talk to and resources allin one place for folks that have someone
in their life with a disability,and you might have been living with it
for a while, right or itmight have just been a sudden thing exactly.
And the reason for the expo isno matter what your situation, you're
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going to find something that's gonna bemeaningful to you. Maybe maybe you're a
farmer. We'll actually have trucks therewith lifts that can lift you from your
pedestrian truck into a tractor that's twentyfeet off the ground. If you need
that sort of assistance, so you'llbe able to talk with those folks there,
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but you'll also get to meet aservice dog organization. So if you've
ever considered having a service dog,maybe you just had this accident, like
you said, and you want toknow what it'd be like to have a
service dog or to train one,you'll be able to experience that too there.
Or maybe you you're like, ohmy god, how do I cook?
Now I've got this this my lifeis a lot different than it used
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to be. There's an adaptive cookingboost there too. And once again,
they're not just talking to you,they're letting you participate, and so you'll
learn all the different gadgets that areout there that could help you in the
kitchen. Brie, I'm going toput you on the spot because of this,
my left arm is broken. Doyou have anything that could help put
your brawl on when you're getting dressed? We don't currently leave that. That
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is something we would definitely be ableto explore. You know, it's so
funny. I was just teasing becauseI just fractured my wrist, and you
know, just that little bit ofdisability you have to then shift and adapt
and thankfully as mine is temporary,it does. It made me think of
your adaptive cooking fellow who had astroke and he couldn't cook anymore because he
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couldn't lift the ball up and emptythe bowl out, And so you build
him a little wooden platform to attachthe bowl too, so he could use
his one good hand and empty thebowl out. And I was thinking of
him last night when I was tryingto open the dog food pouch and I
couldn't get it all out, andI just thought, you know, this
is just it's the smallest of needsthat can be met and the biggest of
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needs as well. With May WeHelp and this great sore ex bot that's
coming up, let's see. WellI can't speak directly to the bra obviously,
but May We Help has created manywhat we refer to as dressing trees
or dressing hooks, which do allowpeople with limb differences or in the limbs
at all to get dressed by themselves. The one that we created a young
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woman use. She's got no armsat all. She's traveled through Europe with
it. She's one independent getting dressedwith this device. And in fact,
we showed it to the therapist occupationaltherapist at Children's Hospital, and they were
so blown away by it they askedfor one for each of their locations,
so we had to make eate moreand they use it every day elderly people
who now suddenly are weaker, theylack of ability to dress themselves. Good
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questions. So that's, you know, just we're giving you a little nuggets
of ideas of what you can exploreand find out here at the SORE Expo.
You're going to have let's see that. We'll give them the dates.
You want to run that down forme, Bree, do you have Yeah,
that is going to be September twentythird at Luncin Airport. We're in
one of the hangars there, bigspace, so lots of opportunities to move
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around and try different things like we'vementioned, and the time is from ten
am to two pm. Rain orshine. Rain or shine because you're in
a hangar as well, Shine isthe preference. Because we also plan to
have outdoor activities as well as foodbooths and there's going to be someone doing
balloon animals and magic tricks and thosekind of things. So adds a little
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extra fund for everyone to I askyou this before rob from the previous conversation,
but I want to bring it upagain. When people have a need,
they don't have to know what thesolution is. They don't have to
be able to envision what kind ofhelp they need. They just need to
come to you and say, thisis my problem. It's so important because
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yes, our team is about Imean we help is about seventy five volunteers
whose skill sets range from being engineersand industrial designers and inventors, with another
subset of volunteers who are doctors andoccupational and physical therapists, and yet another
subset of volunteers who are welders andwoodworkers and seamstresses. So to your point,
no, you do not have tocome to us with your solution.
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You just come to us with yourchallenge and these teams of folks will figure
it out for you and then theywill design, build, and deliver the
solution to you for your charge.And doctor Meyer, you were talking about
not just having people learn the basicsof independence or be able to manage that,
but actually get out into the community. Some different examples that I can
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think of. This past year inthe Flying Pig Marathon, we worked with
them to introduce hand cycling for thefirst time into the ten k. It
wasn't in it previously, and weworked with the Cincinnati Recreation Commission with some
of their hand cycles, which isessentially a seated bike that you're peddling with
your hands. And we had thirteenathletes finished the ten k this year,
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and prior to that, I don'tthink any of them had ever raced in
a race. Maybe one individual hadraced. So we do things like that.
But like I mentioned before, youname it, we'll do rock climbing.
We work closely with the wheelchair basketballteam here, the sled hockey team,
which is hockey played in a seatof position using sticks that have ice
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picks on the end so you canpush with your arms. Wheelchair tennis,
indoor skydiving, boxing, and alot of these we have worked together with.
Maybe we help to help put on. So yeah, I think the
possibilities are endless when it comes torecreation. You just got to be open
to the idea. What about somethinglike shopping. You know, let's say
a woman has had a stroke andshe is still mobile, and you get
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her up to speed and you gether strong so she can get out.
What kind of adaptive things could helpher with her shopping. I think that's
what maybe helped us so well,along with the bridge, is it's really
individualized. So we're looking at eachperson that's coming to us and asking us
to help shop, or to playa sport, or to take a shower
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independently, all of those things,we're looking at them on an individual basis.
A lot of the things that areavailable commercially are for the masses,
right, each individual and each disabilityis different, and so we're really focusing
on that individual and what does thatspecific person need for shopping, especially for
little kids especially. I saw anadapted cane for this little child who was
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maybe two feet tall two and ahalf feet tall, and it's like an
elderly person's cane if I just sayit like that, where you buy it
at the CBS or the pharmacy andit's got the four little pads on the
bottom so that the cane will standup and you can stop and pay your
bill at the pharmacy or whatever andit stands up. So I saw an
adapted version of that, a biggerbase and much shorter for a child because
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those things are not available, Andthat was just it was the cutest thing
to see this little kid just nowsuddenly, you know, being able to
toddle around and do it safely.Yeah, and with less equipment. Right,
So there's tons of pieces of equipmentout there that can help a little
child learn to walk, but thetherapists are really working on the least restrictive
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So how can we get them towalk hopefully eventually independently. The little kne
that you're mentioning was actually built fora little guy that they knew didn't need
a full walker, and two weeksafter he received the cane, he was
walking independently because he just needed thatlittle extra support to get him to the
next level. And then he wasthere. Whether that's muscular strength or whether
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that's just maybe just confidence, youknow exactly, doctor Mayer. So you're
gonna have demonstrations throughout the day.It's from ten to two on the twenty
third of September at lunk In theAirport. No admission cost at all,
plenty of parking. What kind ofdemonstrations are going to have throughout that for
our period? We definitely have wheelchairbasketball, wheelchair tennis, adaptive gaming,
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disc golf demonstration. Like we mentionedbefore, with that piece of equipment,
and I'm hoping, I'm trying toWe got to figure this out, but
I want to do rock climbing therebecause we have a device that the Bridge
purchase called the Wellman ARC system,which is a seated sling with a pulley
system, and if we can figureaway to rig it up in that airport
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hanger, I'd love people to experiencejust going upward and ascending and it's it's
pretty cool device. So a lotof different opportunities and there could be more
than that as well. Were stillgot to figure out the schedule, all
right. Your website has all thelatest information. Where's that so you can
find it two places. One willbe at Maywehelp dot org and there will
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be a link directly to all ofthe information that's needed, and then the
Bridge Adapted dot org will have itunder our events to have on our website.
Just one more thing, Sandy,after we get through the Sore Expo
on October twenty second, Sunday,October twenty second, maybe hope we'll be
hosting a all inclusive, open tothe community, free of charge Halloween festival.
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We create about twenty five to thirtycostumes, four children in wheelchairs and
turn their wheelchairs into the costume oftheir dreams and then they debut those costumes
at our Halloween festival. We'll havefood, adaptive games, service dogs,
all kinds of opportunities for people tocome have a fun festive day. Rob,
Do you have any closing thoughts hereon this great collaboration that you've been
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working on for the longest time.Well, I sure, I'm just grateful
to the other organizations that are involvedwith this because previously, you know,
you see been doing an abilities expofor years and maybe help was doing a
mobility expo, but for people disabilities, that meant they had to go to
two expos to find out everything inour region that's going on for them.
And by merging the two, we'vecreated a bit better expo for everybody.
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It's a lot more fun and it'sjust like Danny said, it's it's comprehensive.
There's nothing that you'll miss out onnow, so it's a one stop
shop. Well, thank you somuch for being in here and good luck
with the Sore Expo September twenty three. Want to thank doctor Danny Meyer,
the executive director and a physical therapistat Cincinnating Children's Also Bree Wilkerson and Rob
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Sideman from May We Help. ThanksSandy, it's always a treat to be
with you. Than There is acall right now for firefighters first responders to
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state public affairs program produced right herein Cincinnati. I am Sandy Collins today.
My next guest is a good friend, the communications coordinator for the City
of Blue Ash, Ohio Cincinnati suburb, Rachel Murray, is here to bring
you an update on what's happening atSummit Park and in the City of Blue
Ash. See blue Ash Bulletin iswhat we're gonna call this show from Noah.
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Yes, I like Blue Ash Bulletinat work, a little update on
what's happening in one of the finestcommunities in the United States of America.
Absolutely. And the roundabouts have beenfinished, from what you're telling me.
I've been driving them and they're verynice. Yes. So it was called
the Ham Plainfield Roundabout Project. Itconsisted of three roundabouts, one at the
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Kroger entrance on Hunt Road. Thenwe have Plainfield and Hunt and Plainfield and
pepper Mill and Plainfield and pepper Millwas the last roundabout to be completed.
But they're all done. There's stillsome you know, pretty work that needs
to be done, some landscaping,and they've got to put in a decorative
wall and all that but they aredone, and it's been really interesting to
see some of the people who hadspoken out against them now saying, you
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know what, it's not so bad. I don't have to wait in all
these traffic lights. Like things aregoing really well and it's pretty smooth.
So it's been really good. Right. It's a little confusing. The Hunt
Road one by the Kroger is alittle scary when you first go through it
because it's it's a little bit moreintricate than some of the others. It
seems okay, but once you figureit out, it's easy. So you
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just when you're coming up on thesethings, you just got to slow down,
look at the signs and figure outwhere everybody's going, when to yield
and things like that. But youhad told me that that intersection there at
Hunt and Playefield had terrible bad accidents. Yeah, for this round of it
was one of the worst crash areasin the state of Ohio at one point,
like with serious injury crashes. Sonow that that roundabout is in there,
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I mean, we've had some crashes, but no injuries as of the
last check that I've heard. Becausethey're going much slower, much slower,
and I think one of the hiccupsthat people are experiencing when they're going through
these roundabouts is that they think thatwhen they're in the right lane they can
go around the whole roundabout, andyou're just supposed to either go right or
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go straight. You can't go leftfrom the right lane. And if you
think about circle through right, rightright, if you think about like a
traditional intersection, you're not going togo left from the right lane. So
why do people for some reason thinkthat in a roundabout you can do that
right? So we're trying to reallyeducate people that just because you're going around
doesn't mean you should Just because itlooks like you should go around, it
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is not what you should be doing. So no left turn from the right
lane. If you think about itlike your traditional intersection, you're not going
to do that from the right landif you just put it in your head,
like you said, if a roundaboutisn't one of those things where you
can just circle through it right,if you've got if you missed your turn,
you can't just go in a circleagain, Which, yeah, a
lot of people, I could seewhy they would think that, But well,
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that's really good to hear I'm gladto know that that has reduced the
traffic crashes. By the way,do roundabouts cause tornadoes? Despite what some
may think, I believe that allthe experts have weighed in and discovered that
no roundabouts do not cause tornadoes.This is not my hypothesis. This is
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something that we heard earlier today.We both just left. Will have to
play the clip is some online?Yeah, here, here's a clip.
We didn't have tornados here until westarted putting into traffic circles. Because I'm
the counter. You want to knowwhy when people go round and rounded circles
that causes disturbance in the atmosphere andCAUs of tornadoes. Well, you know,
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some people here he might have beena genius. You might you know,
anything's possible, But I don't thinkcars spinning around is going to dust
up a tornado. And the expertsagree. What else is happening out there
in Blue Ash that you want totalk about today? The stair climb is
coming up. Yes, So everyyear we have an amazing firefighter, Scott
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Reid, who puts together the nineto eleven stair Climb, and it's basically
a tribute to all the firefighters wholost their lives. They do this at
Summit Park. They climb the observationtower. I believe it's a total of
ten times up and down, whichis equivalent to the steps the fire fighters
took to get to victims of theWorld Trade Center attack. So it's a
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very moving thing. They do aceremony beforehand at eight o'clock. There's some
concern this year because it's on aweekday, like usually this falls on a
weekend and so we get a bigcrowd. But because it's on a weekday,
we're really trying to encourage some schools, businesses to bring, you know,
their employees over to participate and watch. But there is a call right
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now for firefighters first responders to comeand join the climb. So we have
a link on our website where peoplecan sign up and it's free this year
for first responders to do. Thepublic is invited to come and watch.
But it really is it's a trulymoving ceremony and just to watch them do
that and how hard it is,you know, how difficult it is to
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gear up to they do, Likethey're wearing shorts and a T shirt exactly.
Now. It depends like some ofthem get full gear. Some of
them just have like the firefighter outfiton. But I mean it is grueling,
you know. I get to goup to the top and take some
photographs and things and to see that, you know, and they're you know,
sweating and you know, can hardlycatch their breath and these are fit
people, you know, and tothink about, you know, what those
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firefighters went through on nine to elevenis just heartbreaking and horrible. But it
is a really good tribute and Ithink it's a good way to remember nine
to eleven. So if students orteachers want to come out and watch that,
they don't need to pre register oranything. Now it's free. But
that's a good idea for teachers tomaybe get a field trip together now that
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school's back in session and take abus or two over there at Summit Park
in Blue Ash. Check that out. What else you got. So Also,
we've got our police Department open housethat is coming up on September thirteenth.
This is a really fun event,so kids get to you know,
meet the police department. There's differentactivities. We do tours of the police
department. Our police chief and oneof our lieutenants gets in a dunking booth
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so people can dunk the police chief. And he was dunked to so many
times times last year that he wasso sore from like climbing the ladder and
everything. Like the next day hewas like exhausted. He was exhausted,
but it was so much fun tosee him getting dunked. And he's a
great guy, so it's a lotof fun and he really enjoys it.
So that's one of the things thatthey do. They've got a lot of
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display so you know, the kidscan see like the kind of you know,
equipment that they have as far aslike the batons and you know,
pepper spray and the tasers and thingslike that. We do a canine display
so they get to see the caninesin action and like how they you know,
can stop a bad guy and howthey are you know, called off
from the bad guy. It's it'sa really interesting thing and they get to
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meet the dogs and see them inaction. And you're inviting folks from other
communities to come in. Yeah,anybody can come. It's open to the
public and it's it's a great learningexperience. You know, I mean every
police department's unique, but I meanI think Blue Ash is a great one
and you can really learn a lotabout how it all works. And it
must be fun too to know thatyou're going to inspire some of those kids,
you know. Yeah, however littlethey are, some day they'll say,
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I remember I went to an openhouse and yeah, now I want
to be a police officer. Yeah, it's really cool. And another big
thing that's been announced is that weare getting a Mad Tree brewing at Summit
Park. This is huge. Sowe have there is an old airplane hangar,
you know, because Summit Park usedto be an airport that's now currently
used by our Parks and Wreck facilitiesmaintenance. So they store you know,
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lawnmowers and things in it, andoffices are in there as well. And
Mad Tree came along and presented someconcepts and it's gonna be a brewery.
It's gonna be amazing. It's rightat the entrance to the park on Glendale
Milford Road. It's gonna be titledParks and Wrecks, so it's Mad Tree
Parks and Wreck So they're gonna haveThey're gonna they're thinking, you know,
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maybe some pickle ball, maybe somecornhole, maybe you know, some outdoor
activity type things and a lot ofoutdoor seating, so it just kind of
flows right into the park. Andof course it's a door there, so
you can grab a drink anywhere andwalk around the park and it's it's really
awesome. Real is growing like exponentiallyout there. It's yeah, yeah,
it's awesome. I mean I thinkonce it's done, you know, we've
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got there's a new development of townhomes that's being built right now, and
it's going to be like a minicity there. I mean, it's it's
incredible. And you know, thepark's got all the restaurants out there.
We've got sugar and spice out therenow, which is amazing. We've got
you know, a couple of icecream places, and now we're going to
have a brewery. It's going tobe incredible. Well, thank you very
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much. Oh by the way,when will we know about the headliner for
next year's Red, White, andBlue ash? I want to. I
want an exclusive and I want it. I want it to be announced right
here. That date will be announcedat a later date. Fine, seems
like friendship just doesn't get me anywherein this. Thank you, Rachel,
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This week on iHeart Cincy. Today'sshow is for those tri Staters who live
with disabilities. You just come tous with your challenge and these teams of
folks will figure it out for youand then they will design, built,
and deliver the solution to you foryour charge. Whether you have a lifelong
challenge, a recent onset of difficultygetting around, or worsening symptoms that get
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in the way of living your life, you're going to want to attend the
SORE Expo and listen to this program. SORE stands for solutions, opportunities,
adaptations and recreation. That's the beautyof what we all do here is that
we meet people where they are.My guest today are here to talk about
this one day free event the SOREExpo in September to connect those who need
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a little help find it. Thereis a call right now for firefighters first
responders to come and join the climb, and later Rachel Murray from Blue Ash
is back with a community update anda call to honor the nine to eleven
firefighters who perished in New York twelveyears ago. Now on iHeart Cincy with
Sandy Collins, Welcome to iHeart Cincy. A public affairs program bringing out the
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issues that we face here in theCincinnati region and the solutions that we're finding.
First up, Rob Sideman, BreeWilkerson from May We Help, and
doctor Danny Meyer from Cincinnati Children's representinghis charity The Bridge. All right,
well, welcome to all three ofyou here to iHeart Cincy. We're gonna
give some really interesting information to ourlisteners about the SORE Expo twenty twenty three,
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which is coming up at the LincolnAirport. And you're saying, what
is the SORE Expo? Does ithave to do with aviation? And Rob
Sideman from May We Help the answerto that question is, well, it's
for people with disabilities. So ifyou want to know what's going on in
our region in terms of products andservices that are available to you, and
because you've got a disability, youjust got to go to this one stop
shop and you'll get to visit withand interact with all these different vendors who
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represent the different products and services availablein our region for people with disabilities.
It's super interactive, super fun.It's not like your typical expo where you
just visit one booth and talk tosomebody and put a little something in your
swag bag and moved to the nexttable and do the same thing. It's
not like that at all. Infact, there's just such a great energy
they're discovering and they're experiencing joy,and they're experiencing hope, and when you
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see all that on their phases,it's pretty rewarding. So let me get
you caught up to speed here.Rob Seideman is the executive director of May
We Help, and this is anamazing nonprofit group that helps folks that are
living with disabilities. We're also joinedby the executive director of The Bridge Adaptive
Sports and Recreation, doctor Danny Meyer. Danny, thank you for being here.
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Yeah, thanks for having me.And Brie Wilkerson, she's the program
director of May We Help. Tellus a little bit about the Bridge,
Adaptive Sports and Recreation nonprofit. So, the Bridge is a nonprofit that we
started maybe a couple of years agoin the midst of COVID. It happened
sort of organically with a bunch ofhealthcare providers coming together and deciding that we
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needed to do better in terms ofgetting our people that we see in the
clinic out into the community and doingthings that are meaningful and you can find
an identity in. And so mostof our team that came together to form
this nonprofit our healthcare providers, butwe also have some adaptive athletes and community
advocates who are ready and excited tojust connect people, which is why we're
called the Bridge. And so themission of the Bridge is just that to
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make sure that we are spreading awarenessand providing opportunities for people with disabilities to
experience recreation and leisure activities. Soas far as things that we do,
the possibilities are endless. One ofmy favorite things ever is when someone comes
to me and says, hey,is this sport here in Cincinnati? And
if it is, it's great.We get them connected to that group and
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we make sure that they have allthe tools that they need. But I
love it when someone says, hey, skydiving in Cincinnati or is water skiing
in Cincinnatty, And so when thathappens, I say no, but let's
figure out how we're going to bringit here and we make those connections.
So, for example, this Sunday, we have adaptive water skiing going on
out in Harrison, Ohio, wherewe have a group coming from Pennsylvania bringing
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their adaptive water skis to help usput on an event for people so so
many opportunities, and we're just happyto be a part of these sore XPO
and make this a comprehensive opportunity forpeople at disabilities. Doctor Mayer, your
background is in the physical therapy,correct, So I'm a physical therapist.
I've been working out since Night Children'sfor about the past six years, and
I co lead a program they're calledb Well, which is very similar to
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the Bridge, but really focused onkids. My background is in outpatient narrow
rehab, so I primarily see traumaticbrain injury and spinal cord injury throughout the
rehab after they get off the inpatientafter their initial injury, and they need
higher frequency of therapy on the outpatientside of things. And so my goal
in therapy, and it really workspretty well, is to say I'm not
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just going to get you to apoint where you feel confident to transfer from
your bed to a chair or achair to the toilet. I'm going to
get you confident to transfer from achair to your car so you can get
the basketball practice to transfer from yourcar or your basketball chair, whatever it
takes. To get you to feellike you can be a part of a
community that's beyond just your little pocket. That happens pretty often after an injury,
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when you're stuck and you've got thiswhole new life that you're trying to
figure out. It's hard to getout of your comfort zone, and so
we want to make sure that thatis not a barrier. How common is
traumatic brain injury? That is agood question. Tens are there hundreds?
In Cincinnati? There are thousands andthousands of traumatic brain injuries and varying from
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you know, a mild to severeand traumatic brain injury. And I think
not a lot of people realize,but a concussion is considered a mild traumatic
brain injury. And so there isa full spectrum of people who are affected
by brain injuries. And I thinkthat's beauty of what we all do here
is that we meet people where theyare. Bree Wilkerson, she's a program
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factor. May we Help. Howdo you two work together to start fulfilling
these needs? Yeah, so wehave a great working relationship and depend on
each other often a lot of theactivities that the Danny's Group participates in.
May we Help is able to stepin and create those devices that actually lend
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themselves to being able to participate inthe activity. We recently did a flying
disc device that allowed up someone witha not able to throw the disc to
just push a button and the discwould launch and then they were able to
participate in frisbee golf. So thatwas one of the most recent projects that
we did together. That's very cool. I'm sure there's a lot of people
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that want to visualize that. Canyou tell me a little bit more about
how do you do that? Soit's actually on a moving platform. We
basically just have a cart that youwould push around through through the lunch room,
but we set on this, Yeah, we set on this rig that
has a board on it with aspinning wheel with a motor, so it
hooks up to a battery and it'sset up so that a frisbee would fit
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perfectly in, so you can justeven if you have subtle movements. We
had a buddy just with a littlebit movement of his leg kick it into
the slot where it's supposed to slide, and then the wheel catches it and
shoots it right out. And sowe took it around up at Burnett Woods,
a temporary disc golf course on thepavement around the grand stand there and
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played a full nine holes of discgolf with people in chairs. We've got
so many people that play disc golfand I'm bet they're just going, oh
my gosh, Now my friend soand so back from college can come out
with us because this kind of technologyis now becoming more available exactly. I
mean, like I think most ofthe things we do, we don't want
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it to be siloed to just thedisability community. We want it to just
be part of the community. Sohowever, everything we do we try and
make sure that we have an optionfrom a bridge standpoint. If we're going
to do a sport and we wantbrother and sister to come along, we
want them to be able to doit as well, and not be just
for the person with visibility. It'sfor everyone. Yeah, I can build
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on that relationship too between the threeentities. So just and I'm simplifying this
a little bit, but in essence, you see, will treat the patient.
Then when that patient's released, theygo to see Danny as a physical
therapist and he gets them out intothe community. And then if they need
a device adapted for them to helpthem get into the community like a transfer
device like Danny was referencing, ora disc golf thrower or whatever they might
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need. Then they'll come to me, we help, and we'll build it
for them. So we work reallyclosely, the three of us, in
order to to see through this onegoal of getting people out. You have
proven the adage necessity is the motherof invention. So you're going to get
all three of you together, yousee, and may we help and the
Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation and havethis expo. It's coming up in September.
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This is a free event and youwill have adaptive displays and booths and
people to talk to and resources allin one place for folks that have someone
in their life with a disability,and you might have been living with it
for a while, right or itmight have just been a sudden thing exactly.
And the reason for the expo isno matter what your situation, you're
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going to find something that's gonna bemeaningful to you. Maybe maybe you're a
farmer. We'll actually have trucks therewith lifts that can lift you from your
pedestrian truck into a tractor that's twentyfeet off the ground. If you need
that sort of assistance, so you'llbe able to talk with those folks there,
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but you'll also get to meet aservice dog organization. So if you've
ever considered having a service dog,maybe you just had this accident, like
you said, and you want toknow what it'd be like to have a
service dog or to train one,you'll be able to experience that too there.
Or maybe you you're like, ohmy god, how do I cook?
Now I've got this this my lifeis a lot different than it used
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to be. There's an adaptive cookingboost there too. And once again,
they're not just talking to you,they're letting you participate, and so you'll
learn all the different gadgets that areout there that could help you in the
kitchen. Brie, I'm going toput you on the spot because of this,
my left arm is broken. Doyou have anything that could help put
your brawl on when you're getting dressed? We don't currently leave that. That
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is something we would definitely be ableto explore. You know, it's so
funny. I was just teasing becauseI just fractured my wrist, and you
know, just that little bit ofdisability you have to then shift and adapt
and thankfully as mine is temporary,it does. It made me think of
your adaptive cooking fellow who had astroke and he couldn't cook anymore because he
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couldn't lift the ball up and emptythe bowl out, And so you build
him a little wooden platform to attachthe bowl too, so he could use
his one good hand and empty thebowl out. And I was thinking of
him last night when I was tryingto open the dog food pouch and I
couldn't get it all out, andI just thought, you know, this
is just it's the smallest of needsthat can be met and the biggest of
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needs as well. With May WeHelp and this great sore ex bot that's
coming up, let's see. WellI can't speak directly to the bra obviously,
but May We Help has created manywhat we refer to as dressing trees
or dressing hooks, which do allowpeople with limb differences or in the limbs
at all to get dressed by themselves. The one that we created a young
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woman use. She's got no armsat all. She's traveled through Europe with
it. She's one independent getting dressedwith this device. And in fact,
we showed it to the therapist occupationaltherapist at Children's Hospital, and they were
so blown away by it they askedfor one for each of their locations,
so we had to make eate moreand they use it every day elderly people
who now suddenly are weaker, theylack of ability to dress themselves. Good
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questions. So that's, you know, just we're giving you a little nuggets
of ideas of what you can exploreand find out here at the SORE Expo.
You're going to have let's see that. We'll give them the dates.
You want to run that down forme, Bree, do you have Yeah,
that is going to be September twentythird at Luncin Airport. We're in
one of the hangars there, bigspace, so lots of opportunities to move
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around and try different things like we'vementioned, and the time is from ten
am to two pm. Rain orshine. Rain or shine because you're in
a hangar as well, Shine isthe preference. Because we also plan to
have outdoor activities as well as foodbooths and there's going to be someone doing
balloon animals and magic tricks and thosekind of things. So adds a little
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extra fund for everyone to I askyou this before rob from the previous conversation,
but I want to bring it upagain. When people have a need,
they don't have to know what thesolution is. They don't have to
be able to envision what kind ofhelp they need. They just need to
come to you and say, thisis my problem. It's so important because
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yes, our team is about Imean we help is about seventy five volunteers
whose skill sets range from being engineersand industrial designers and inventors, with another
subset of volunteers who are doctors andoccupational and physical therapists, and yet another
subset of volunteers who are welders andwoodworkers and seamstresses. So to your point,
no, you do not have tocome to us with your solution.
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You just come to us with yourchallenge and these teams of folks will figure
it out for you and then theywill design, build, and deliver the
solution to you for your charge.And doctor Meyer, you were talking about
not just having people learn the basicsof independence or be able to manage that,
but actually get out into the community. Some different examples that I can
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think of. This past year inthe Flying Pig Marathon, we worked with
them to introduce hand cycling for thefirst time into the ten k. It
wasn't in it previously, and weworked with the Cincinnati Recreation Commission with some
of their hand cycles, which isessentially a seated bike that you're peddling with
your hands. And we had thirteenathletes finished the ten k this year,
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and prior to that, I don'tthink any of them had ever raced in
a race. Maybe one individual hadraced. So we do things like that.
But like I mentioned before, youname it, we'll do rock climbing.
We work closely with the wheelchair basketballteam here, the sled hockey team,
which is hockey played in a seatof position using sticks that have ice
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picks on the end so you canpush with your arms. Wheelchair tennis,
indoor skydiving, boxing, and alot of these we have worked together with.
Maybe we help to help put on. So yeah, I think the
possibilities are endless when it comes torecreation. You just got to be open
to the idea. What about somethinglike shopping. You know, let's say
a woman has had a stroke andshe is still mobile, and you get
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her up to speed and you gether strong so she can get out.
What kind of adaptive things could helpher with her shopping. I think that's
what maybe helped us so well,along with the bridge, is it's really
individualized. So we're looking at eachperson that's coming to us and asking us
to help shop, or to playa sport, or to take a shower
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independently, all of those things,we're looking at them on an individual basis.
A lot of the things that areavailable commercially are for the masses,
right, each individual and each disabilityis different, and so we're really focusing
on that individual and what does thatspecific person need for shopping, especially for
little kids especially. I saw anadapted cane for this little child who was
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maybe two feet tall two and ahalf feet tall, and it's like an
elderly person's cane if I just sayit like that, where you buy it
at the CBS or the pharmacy andit's got the four little pads on the
bottom so that the cane will standup and you can stop and pay your
bill at the pharmacy or whatever andit stands up. So I saw an
adapted version of that, a biggerbase and much shorter for a child because
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those things are not available, Andthat was just it was the cutest thing
to see this little kid just nowsuddenly, you know, being able to
toddle around and do it safely.Yeah, and with less equipment. Right,
So there's tons of pieces of equipmentout there that can help a little
child learn to walk, but thetherapists are really working on the least restrictive
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So how can we get them towalk hopefully eventually independently. The little kne
that you're mentioning was actually built fora little guy that they knew didn't need
a full walker, and two weeksafter he received the cane, he was
walking independently because he just needed thatlittle extra support to get him to the
next level. And then he wasthere. Whether that's muscular strength or whether
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that's just maybe just confidence, youknow exactly, doctor Mayer. So you're
gonna have demonstrations throughout the day.It's from ten to two on the twenty
third of September at lunk In theAirport. No admission cost at all,
plenty of parking. What kind ofdemonstrations are going to have throughout that for
our period? We definitely have wheelchairbasketball, wheelchair tennis, adaptive gaming,
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disc golf demonstration. Like we mentionedbefore, with that piece of equipment,
and I'm hoping, I'm trying toWe got to figure this out, but
I want to do rock climbing therebecause we have a device that the Bridge
purchase called the Wellman ARC system,which is a seated sling with a pulley
system, and if we can figureaway to rig it up in that airport
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hanger, I'd love people to experiencejust going upward and ascending and it's it's
pretty cool device. So a lotof different opportunities and there could be more
than that as well. Were stillgot to figure out the schedule, all
right. Your website has all thelatest information. Where's that so you can
find it two places. One willbe at Maywehelp dot org and there will
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be a link directly to all ofthe information that's needed, and then the
Bridge Adapted dot org will have itunder our events to have on our website.
Just one more thing, Sandy,after we get through the Sore Expo
on October twenty second, Sunday,October twenty second, maybe hope we'll be
hosting a all inclusive, open tothe community, free of charge Halloween festival.
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We create about twenty five to thirtycostumes, four children in wheelchairs and
turn their wheelchairs into the costume oftheir dreams and then they debut those costumes
at our Halloween festival. We'll havefood, adaptive games, service dogs,
all kinds of opportunities for people tocome have a fun festive day. Rob,
Do you have any closing thoughts hereon this great collaboration that you've been
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working on for the longest time.Well, I sure, I'm just grateful
to the other organizations that are involvedwith this because previously, you know,
you see been doing an abilities expofor years and maybe help was doing a
mobility expo, but for people disabilities, that meant they had to go to
two expos to find out everything inour region that's going on for them.
And by merging the two, we'vecreated a bit better expo for everybody.
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It's a lot more fun and it'sjust like Danny said, it's it's comprehensive.
There's nothing that you'll miss out onnow, so it's a one stop
shop. Well, thank you somuch for being in here and good luck
with the Sore Expo September twenty three. Want to thank doctor Danny Meyer,
the executive director and a physical therapistat Cincinnating Children's Also Bree Wilkerson and Rob
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Sideman from May We Help. ThanksSandy, it's always a treat to be
with you. Than There is acall right now for firefighters first responders to
come and join the climb. StanBeheiemore, iHeart SINCI is coming right up.
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won't want to miss Welcome back.This is I Heard CINC, a tri
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state public affairs program produced right herein Cincinnati. I am Sandy Collins today.
My next guest is a good friend, the communications coordinator for the City
of Blue Ash, Ohio Cincinnati suburb, Rachel Murray, is here to bring
you an update on what's happening atSummit Park and in the City of Blue
Ash. See blue Ash Bulletin iswhat we're gonna call this show from Noah.
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Yes, I like Blue Ash Bulletinat work, a little update on
what's happening in one of the finestcommunities in the United States of America.
Absolutely. And the roundabouts have beenfinished, from what you're telling me.
I've been driving them and they're verynice. Yes. So it was called
the Ham Plainfield Roundabout Project. Itconsisted of three roundabouts, one at the
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Kroger entrance on Hunt Road. Thenwe have Plainfield and Hunt and Plainfield and
pepper Mill and Plainfield and pepper Millwas the last roundabout to be completed.
But they're all done. There's stillsome you know, pretty work that needs
to be done, some landscaping,and they've got to put in a decorative
wall and all that but they aredone, and it's been really interesting to
see some of the people who hadspoken out against them now saying, you
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know what, it's not so bad. I don't have to wait in all
these traffic lights. Like things aregoing really well and it's pretty smooth.
So it's been really good. Right. It's a little confusing. The Hunt
Road one by the Kroger is alittle scary when you first go through it
because it's it's a little bit moreintricate than some of the others. It
seems okay, but once you figureit out, it's easy. So you
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just when you're coming up on thesethings, you just got to slow down,
look at the signs and figure outwhere everybody's going, when to yield
and things like that. But youhad told me that that intersection there at
Hunt and Playefield had terrible bad accidents. Yeah, for this round of it
was one of the worst crash areasin the state of Ohio at one point,
like with serious injury crashes. Sonow that that roundabout is in there,
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I mean, we've had some crashes, but no injuries as of the
last check that I've heard. Becausethey're going much slower, much slower,
and I think one of the hiccupsthat people are experiencing when they're going through
these roundabouts is that they think thatwhen they're in the right lane they can
go around the whole roundabout, andyou're just supposed to either go right or
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go straight. You can't go leftfrom the right lane. And if you
think about circle through right, rightright, if you think about like a
traditional intersection, you're not going togo left from the right lane. So
why do people for some reason thinkthat in a roundabout you can do that
right? So we're trying to reallyeducate people that just because you're going around
doesn't mean you should Just because itlooks like you should go around, it
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is not what you should be doing. So no left turn from the right
lane. If you think about itlike your traditional intersection, you're not going
to do that from the right landif you just put it in your head,
like you said, if a roundaboutisn't one of those things where you
can just circle through it right,if you've got if you missed your turn,
you can't just go in a circleagain, Which, yeah, a
lot of people, I could seewhy they would think that, But well,
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that's really good to hear I'm gladto know that that has reduced the
traffic crashes. By the way,do roundabouts cause tornadoes? Despite what some
may think, I believe that allthe experts have weighed in and discovered that
no roundabouts do not cause tornadoes.This is not my hypothesis. This is
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something that we heard earlier today.We both just left. Will have to
play the clip is some online?Yeah, here, here's a clip.
We didn't have tornados here until westarted putting into traffic circles. Because I'm
the counter. You want to knowwhy when people go round and rounded circles
that causes disturbance in the atmosphere andCAUs of tornadoes. Well, you know,
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some people here he might have beena genius. You might you know,
anything's possible, But I don't thinkcars spinning around is going to dust
up a tornado. And the expertsagree. What else is happening out there
in Blue Ash that you want totalk about today? The stair climb is
coming up. Yes, So everyyear we have an amazing firefighter, Scott
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Reid, who puts together the nineto eleven stair Climb, and it's basically
a tribute to all the firefighters wholost their lives. They do this at
Summit Park. They climb the observationtower. I believe it's a total of
ten times up and down, whichis equivalent to the steps the fire fighters
took to get to victims of theWorld Trade Center attack. So it's a
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very moving thing. They do aceremony beforehand at eight o'clock. There's some
concern this year because it's on aweekday, like usually this falls on a
weekend and so we get a bigcrowd. But because it's on a weekday,
we're really trying to encourage some schools, businesses to bring, you know,
their employees over to participate and watch. But there is a call right
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now for firefighters first responders to comeand join the climb. So we have
a link on our website where peoplecan sign up and it's free this year
for first responders to do. Thepublic is invited to come and watch.
But it really is it's a trulymoving ceremony and just to watch them do
that and how hard it is,you know, how difficult it is to
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gear up to they do, Likethey're wearing shorts and a T shirt exactly.
Now. It depends like some ofthem get full gear. Some of
them just have like the firefighter outfiton. But I mean it is grueling,
you know. I get to goup to the top and take some
photographs and things and to see that, you know, and they're you know,
sweating and you know, can hardlycatch their breath and these are fit
people, you know, and tothink about, you know, what those
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firefighters went through on nine to elevenis just heartbreaking and horrible. But it
is a really good tribute and Ithink it's a good way to remember nine
to eleven. So if students orteachers want to come out and watch that,
they don't need to pre register oranything. Now it's free. But
that's a good idea for teachers tomaybe get a field trip together now that
(26:29):
school's back in session and take abus or two over there at Summit Park
in Blue Ash. Check that out. What else you got. So Also,
we've got our police Department open housethat is coming up on September thirteenth.
This is a really fun event,so kids get to you know,
meet the police department. There's differentactivities. We do tours of the police
department. Our police chief and oneof our lieutenants gets in a dunking booth
(26:53):
so people can dunk the police chief. And he was dunked to so many
times times last year that he wasso sore from like climbing the ladder and
everything. Like the next day hewas like exhausted. He was exhausted,
but it was so much fun tosee him getting dunked. And he's a
great guy, so it's a lotof fun and he really enjoys it.
So that's one of the things thatthey do. They've got a lot of
(27:15):
display so you know, the kidscan see like the kind of you know,
equipment that they have as far aslike the batons and you know,
pepper spray and the tasers and thingslike that. We do a canine display
so they get to see the caninesin action and like how they you know,
can stop a bad guy and howthey are you know, called off
from the bad guy. It's it'sa really interesting thing and they get to
(27:37):
meet the dogs and see them inaction. And you're inviting folks from other
communities to come in. Yeah,anybody can come. It's open to the
public and it's it's a great learningexperience. You know, I mean every
police department's unique, but I meanI think Blue Ash is a great one
and you can really learn a lotabout how it all works. And it
must be fun too to know thatyou're going to inspire some of those kids,
you know. Yeah, however littlethey are, some day they'll say,
(28:00):
I remember I went to an openhouse and yeah, now I want
to be a police officer. Yeah, it's really cool. And another big
thing that's been announced is that weare getting a Mad Tree brewing at Summit
Park. This is huge. Sowe have there is an old airplane hangar,
you know, because Summit Park usedto be an airport that's now currently
used by our Parks and Wreck facilitiesmaintenance. So they store you know,
(28:22):
lawnmowers and things in it, andoffices are in there as well. And
Mad Tree came along and presented someconcepts and it's gonna be a brewery.
It's gonna be amazing. It's rightat the entrance to the park on Glendale
Milford Road. It's gonna be titledParks and Wrecks, so it's Mad Tree
Parks and Wreck So they're gonna haveThey're gonna they're thinking, you know,
(28:45):
maybe some pickle ball, maybe somecornhole, maybe you know, some outdoor
activity type things and a lot ofoutdoor seating, so it just kind of
flows right into the park. Andof course it's a door there, so
you can grab a drink anywhere andwalk around the park and it's it's really
awesome. Real is growing like exponentiallyout there. It's yeah, yeah,
it's awesome. I mean I thinkonce it's done, you know, we've
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got there's a new development of townhomes that's being built right now, and
it's going to be like a minicity there. I mean, it's it's
incredible. And you know, thepark's got all the restaurants out there.
We've got sugar and spice out therenow, which is amazing. We've got
you know, a couple of icecream places, and now we're going to
have a brewery. It's going tobe incredible. Well, thank you very
(29:26):
much. Oh by the way,when will we know about the headliner for
next year's Red, White, andBlue ash? I want to. I
want an exclusive and I want it. I want it to be announced right
here. That date will be announcedat a later date. Fine, seems
like friendship just doesn't get me anywherein this. Thank you, Rachel,
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