Nominate a neighbor for a Kennedy Heights Landscape Award. This program rewards Kennedy Heights residents who go "above and beyond" in keeping their part of the community beautiful.

The Landscape Awards Committee received 25 landscape nominations from 15 streets. Nominations were received from neighborhoods north and south of Montgomery Road. The streets with nominees were Aikenside, Congreve, Crestview, Davenant, Edgeview, Iris, Mary Ann, Odin, Orchard, Rogers Park, Solar Vista, Tyne, Valley View, Wyatt and Zinsle.

The criteria for judging the landscapes were based on color/te"ture, design and maintenance. After over four hours of touring and discussing, the Committee chose the following

2009 Landscape Award Winners:

• Annie Adams, 3721 Zinsle Ave.
  
• Jennifer & Eddie Allen, 6415 Tyne Ave.
  
• Neal & Pam Glatte, 5713 Valley View Ave.
  
• Velma Rodgers, 3715 Zinsle Ave.
  
• Lorraine Sanders, 3509 Edgeview Dr.
  

The committee agreed that three additional landscapes deserved "Honorable Mention":

• Edith Holts, 3618 Solar Vista Ave.
  
• Julia & Matt Pentecost, 6406 Orchard Ln.
  
• Dorothy Stroud, 3851 Davenant Ave.
  

After judging, each winner was informed by letter that they were "landscape winners" and that yard signs and balloons would be placed on Saturday, August 1, 2009. The Committee will again visit the winners on Saturday, September 12, collect the yard signs and present each winner with a personally engraved crystal landscape award to keep. The winning landscape photos will be displayed at our annual Progressive Dinner and Silent Auction on Saturday, September 26, featured in our monthly newsletter and on our website, www.KennedyHeights.org

Kennedy Heights Landscape Hall of Fame

Annie Adams and Velma Rodgers have two beautiful e"pansive landscapes that sit side by side on Zinsle Ave. (the Committee calls them "the twins"). Both landscapes won awards in 1991 and 1996 and both are now three-time landscape award winners. They will be placed in the Kennedy Heights Landscape Hall of Fame in 2010.

Charles Johnson, a three-time landscape award winner last year, will be placed in the Kennedy Heights Landscape Hall of Fame this year.

Submitted by:

The Landscape Awards Committee. . .a continuous annual KHCC event since 1988

• Vicki Bishop, Kirkup Ave.
  
• Michele Dragga, Red Bank Rd.
  
• Carolyn Thompson, Dogwood Ln.
  
• Judy Barbeau, Kinoll Ave., Chair
  

Note: Collectively, the members have again volunteered over 50 hours to the landscape awards process.

Cincinnati Horticultural Society

In July, the Landscape Awards Committee nominated one of our Hall of Fame residents, Lee DeRhodes, for a 2009 "Amateur Garden Award" from the Society for the 2.5 acres surrounding the Kennedy Heights Arts Center that he voluntarily has turned into a gardener"s paradise on display for the public. We learned that Lee was visited by a panel of judges in August and we are awaiting the announcement of their award winners. Last year, four Kennedy Heights award-winning residents received awards from the Society.