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Dayton schools lose literacy, GED funds

Thirteen Dayton Public Schools staffers lost their jobs this week after the state informed the school district it will no longer fund its adult literacy and GED preparatory program, district officials said Thursday, July 2.

Losing $729,000 in funding for the district’s Adult Basic and Literacy Education program also means the roughly 400 Dayton residents who use the program each year will have to look elsewhere for the services, said Linnae Clinton, the district’s director of career technical and adult education.

“As a district, we are going to work with other providers in the area as much as possible to mitigate the impact of this loss of funding,” Clinton said.

Clinton said she wasn’t sure why the district lost its funding, though it might have been victim to a first-time competitive grant process through the Ohio Board of Regents, which took over administering the ABLE program this year from the state education department.

Diane Brogan-Adams, executive director for Project READ, a literacy coalition serving Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties, agreed.

“It’s a change; I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a bad thing,” Brogan-Adams said. . . .

Stash of illegal fireworks confiscated in Darke County

State Fire Marshal investigators seized 3,942 pounds of illegal exhibition class fireworks in Darke County on Wednesday, July 1, that were stored on three separate properties, including one in a residential neighborhood.

The fireworks, which initial estimates place at a retail value into the tens of thousands of dollars, were destroyed upon confiscation pursuant to state law, said Shane Cartmill, public information officer for the State Fire Marshal’s office.

Authorities are urging citizens to attend licensed, professional displays and take proper safety precautions when using legal fireworks at home.

“Follow the law and make sure the fireworks you’re using are legal and you’re igniting them in a safe manner,” Cartmill said.

Safety measures are even more important this year as fireworks industry leaders are anticipating an increase in sales and use across the country.

“Historically when the Fourth of July falls on a Saturday, sales go up because consumers celebrate with fireworks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,” said Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association.

With the struggling economy and high travel expenses, people are more likely to stay at home and use their own fireworks, she said.

“People are looking for a distraction from what’s going on in the world right now, and fireworks provide that escape in an inexpensive way,” Heckman said.

She predicts consumer fireworks sales will reach $960 million by the end of 2009, a 10-year high and 2 percent increase from last year.

Ohio law prohibits the use of fireworks that are not trick and novelty items, such as sparklers, snaps and smoke bombs.

Firecrackers, bottle rockets and Roman candles as well as other exhibitor fireworks can be purchased legally in Ohio as long as the purchaser signs an affidavit stating the fireworks will be taken out of state within 48 hours. . . .

Aerospace trade and technology show takes shape

DAYTON — The list of companies committed to participating in a July 14-17 aerospace trade and technology show affiliated with the Vectren Dayton Air Show reads like a Who’s Who accounting of the business.

The companies include Lockheed Martin Corp., Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Co., Textron Systems, General Dynamics and others, along with major organizations from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The United States Air, Trade and Technology Expo offers a chance for Dayton to shine, as the organizers dust off and revive the aerospace trade and technology show that was first started in conjunction with the Dayton Air Show in the 1990s but faded away. . . .

4 extricated from cars after two separate wrecks

Two separate wrecks today within minutes of each other sent five people to area hospitals, law enforcement officials said.

About 3:40 p.m., a 61-year-old woman and a female child had to be extricated from a Cadillac that apparently was forced into a ditch after a Ford Taurus sideswiped it near Siebenthaler Avenue and Philadelphia Drive, Montgomery County sheriff’s Sgt. . . .

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