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 47 residential landscape nominations and one business nomination from 18 streets. The streets with nominees were Aikenside, Bantry, Congreve, Davenant, Edgeview, Glen Edge, Iris, Kinoll, Odin, Orchard, Robison, Rogers Park, Red Bank, Skyview, Welton, Woodford, 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

2010 Residential Landscape Award Winners:

• Lisa and Eva McGowan, 3539 Glen Edge Ln.
  
• Julia and Mat Pentecost, 6406 Orchard Ln.
  
• Barbara Shells, 3824 Congreve Ave.
  
• Kathy and David Snyder, 6140 Robison Rd.
  
• Norma Turner, 5821 Wyatt Ave.
  

2010 Business Landscape Award Winner:

Designer’s Desk Exteriors, Inc. –a landscaping business located at 3550 Woodford Rd. Tasteful landscaping has been done around the building and curve on Woodford Rd. next to Ewers.

Yard signs were placed in all residential winners' yards (on July 31). We are in the process of getting photos of our winners and their landscapes for display at annual Kennedy Heights events (such as the 27th Annual Progressive Dinner) and on our web site.

The Committee is having another great year. All our winners are thrilled about the recognition. Each winner will be visited again and presented an engraved crystal award (on Saturday morning, August 28).

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.