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The Market Basket, St Rte 123 Carlisle, Ohio will host the 2nd Annual Nancy Williams Car & Bike Benefit Show. The show will be September 19th from 1pm-6pm with a rain make up set for September 26. The show is a benefit for the Make A Wish foundation and all rides and bikes will have a $10 registration fee.

Trophies will be awarded to the top 25 cars and 5 bikes. First 50 will get dash plaques. The show will have a 50/50 raffle and many door prizes!! Judging for the event will be at 4pm!

There will be food and games for all ages. The Band B-Caged will be performing, as well!

Proceeds go to Make A Wish Foundation.

Railroad Days was a delight this year even though it had the annual heat to bear with. The two day event had many different bands, contests, raffles, inflatables, booths, and of course food.

It was a joy to see all the kids of Carlisle enjoying all the games, inflatables, and fun that Railroad Days had to offer. This year they rearranged the booths and the paths that made things more convenient and stand out more!

The stage was assembled in a perfect place for lawn seating and was more strategic for the audience! All in all what a great year!

Thank you to all that made this year's festivities happen for our great city!!

Enjoy just a few pictures of this year's Railroad Days!

Directly from the City of Carlisle Website:

The City of Carlisle has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas of the City in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices).

The system is capable of dialing 50,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers our recorded message to a live person or an answering machine, making three attempts to connect to any number.

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED

THIS SYSTEM WILL ONLY BE USED FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES.

Examples of times when the CodeRED system could be utilized:

• Drinking water contamination
• Utility outage
• Evacuation notice & route
• Missing person
• Fires or Floods
• Bomb threat
• Hostage situation
• Chemical spill or Gas leak
• and other emergency incidents where rapid and accurate notification is essential for life safety.

As we have stated before, this will be one wild election year for our small town of Carlisle!! The petitions had to be in and finalized by 4:00pm on August 20th to the Warren County Board of Elections in order to be eligible to candidate for the open and challenged City Council seats. There are an outstanding nine petitions that were turned in by the deadline on the 20th!

This is the most activity we have seen in the City Council election in what we can tell the history of Carlisle. There has been much chatter, gossip, and competitiveness already coming out of the challenges for this election year. Hold on to your seats it will be a wild election year in the City of Carlisle.

Bottom line though is this, everyone in Carlisle needs to take it upon themselves to be educated on the candidates and be sure to actually go out and VOTE!!! Let's make this not only a historic amount of candidates but a historic amount of VOTERS!! BE INFORMED AND VOTE!!

Mayor Tim Humphries has told us that four years ago all the seats of City Council were unopposed and this will generate potential new changes to the face of our City Council.

Carrie Branson did not turn her petition in and bowed out of a race against her two challengers for Ward 2, Scott Boschert and Sharon Shelton.

Here are the City Council races as they have been turned in:

Chad Johnson (www.votechadjohnson.com) and Cheryl Sweezy are challenging incucumbent Dennis Bowles in the At Large Seat.

Bryan Green (www.votebryangreen.com) will challenge Mary Thompson, who has served the community for 20 years at the Ward 1 seat.

Scott Boschert and Sharon Shelton will run against each other for the Ward 2 seat that was vacated by Carrie Branson.

Richard "Rich" Smith will challenge Randal "Randy" Winkler, who has served 8 years at the Ward 3 seat.

Chad Johnson organized a meet and greet the At Large candidates last night at the Whistle Stop as previously reported by Carlisle Daily. We will post an article later today on how that meeting went.

See other articles on this year's City Council election:

Carlisle Daily City: This will be one wild election year for ...

Meet Your At Large City Council Candidate on August 20th

Updated look at petitions in for City Council Candidates

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The Support Our Library Levy Committee NEEDS YOU as a VOLUNTEER! Please come to see how you can help campaign for the library's 1 mill levy on the November ballot, to raise operating money desperately needed for the Franklin-Springboro Public Library. Come to the next meeting with ideas on getting the word out, and to see if there are things you want to help with.

When: Thursday, August 20 6:30 p.m.

Where: 50 Tahlequah Trail -- that's in the business buildings behind Edwards Furniture on Route 73, across from McDonald's.

Who needs to be there: YOU! And please bring a friend or two!

As you probably already know the library is going to have a 1 mil levy on the ballot on November 3. They are having a meeting to gather volunteers for the campaign on August 20th @ 6:30pm to begin the process for the campaign. There are all kinds of jobs available-- big or small.

Thank you for your help!

2008 Carlisle Graduate, Josh Russell has passed the first part of his Army training in Huntsville, Alabama, he is now on to Eglin Air Force Base, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida to finish up. Father, Jeff Russell said, "I think he finished with the highest test average too, great job couldn't be more proud of Josh". Josh may be home for Labor Day to spend time with his family before leaving again for Ft. Walton.

Great job Josh! We are proud of you!

The election campaign is already begun. Some running for City Council already have their campaign websites set and under way www.votechadjohnson.com and www.votebryangreen.com and buzz is getting around of how BIG this election year will be.

Chad Johnson is running for At Large City Council seat against Cheryl Sweezy and Dennis Bowles and has invited them to join in him in a public meet and greet. All three will be present to introduce themselves, field a few questions, and simply meet the public.

Here is the press release from candidate Chad Johnson:

At Large City Council Candidate Chad Johnson is hosting a public "meet and greet" at the Whistle Stop in Carlisle on Thursday, August the 20th from 7 pm - 8 pm. This event is an opportunity for the community to come out and meet the candidates. Chad says, "I have opened this invitation to the other two candidates running for this seat and hope they will be able to attend. Openness to discuss ideas and availability are fundamental to what I will bring to the Council."

Folks, come early. Get a seat. Meet your candidate.

Whistle Stop
Thursday, August the 20th
From 7 pm - 8 pm


If you are running for City Council or School Board and have a campaign website please contact us today so that we can share with the community. Thanks!

Here is an updated list from the Warren County Website for candidates for City Council. The petitions will be certified August 25th. Carlisle Daily will be covering all election information and candidate profiles as we lead up to the election this year. Stay tuned!!

AtLarge
Dennis Bowles 130 Nikki Ct Carlisle, OH 45005
Chad S. Johnson 610 Beachler Dr Carlisle, OH 45005 7/31/09
Cheryl Sweezy 720 Joshua Ct Apt B Carlisle, OH 45005

Ward 1 Bryan Green 8473 Meadowlark Dr Carlisle, OH 45005
Ward 1 Mary Thompson 280 Nikki Ct Carlisle, OH 45005 8/6/09
Ward 2 Scott Boschert 800 Roberts Ct Carlisle, OH 45005 7/23/09
Ward 2 Sharon Shelton 210 Chrsitina Way Carlisle, OH 45004
Ward 3 Richard Smith 305 Aspen Ct Carlisle, OH 45005
Ward 3 Randal Winkler 89 Janet Ave Carlisle, OH 45005 8/4/09

A source close to Carlisle Daily has informed us that last week Greg Wallace has resigned from the City of Carlisle. Mr. Wallace has served as Fire Chief of Carlisle for many years. He has been seen all around town investing time into about every event that Carlisle Daily has been able to attend.

He has obviously served in a key position in the City. We wish Mr. Wallace the best as he moves on in his life and wish him well in his endeavors.

We will keep the City posted as we hear how and when the City plans on dealing with his departure and potential candidates that will arise.

The resignation is effective Sept. 1, 2009.

If you didn't hear or missed the opportunity the City hosted a "Community Night Out" this past Saturday night. The original date was rained out from a week ago and rescheduled this past Saturday, August 1st at Roscoe Roof Park.

Carlisle Daily stopped by for a few minutes and mingled with the crowd and was able to talk with many familiar faces and some new. It was a great event hosted by the City and City Council. Many of the members of council were present along with a few that are running for City Council. The Fire Department, Police Department, and Franklin Township departments were present, as well.

The City was giving out free hot dogs and water, providing hayrides for the family, games for the kids, and cornhole for all ages. It was a great night to just get out and hang out with other residents of Carlisle.

There was also a booth set up by Western Southern Financial Group for Children's Fingerprinting kits and many families were taking advantage of this free service. It is safe to say that you have not been able to get your children fixed up with a fingerprint kit somewhere, please do not hesitate and do it for the safety of them. Thanks to Western Southern for providing this FREE service to our community's children.

The City of Franklin, also, brought over their Fire Safety House for families to gain knowledge and information about Fire Safety in your home and area.

All in all it was a fantastic opportunity to take advantage of some FREE fun in these times were many families are tight on money and getting a night out or a vacation is extremely costly.

Thanks to the City and its Council for providing this FREE event to the community! Hopefully, we will see more events such as these to take advantage of and that it will be heavily promoted so that the entire community can be involved.