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Thursday, June 6, 2024, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Crossroads East near Jungle Jim’s in Eastgate

HUUC member and author of the text Getting Older Ain’t for Sissies, Terri Gaitskill, will join numerous other experts at a free, drop in expo entitled “Preparing for Transitions.” Experts available for conversations during this event will cover topics associated with lifetime transitions including Medicaid, finances, elder law, real estate, hospice, home care, mental health, and funeral planning.

For more information on the expo contact Mary at 513-967-2456 or email her at:

Books & Bling & Other Things, this year’s church sale, was a success, thanks to the efforts of close to thirty volunteers and extensive donations from members of the congregation.

The sale, held on April 26 and 27, was a merger of the annual book sale and a rummage sale. It netted over $2,700. The bulk of this total –– $2,200 –– goes toward the church’s 2024 operating budget, while $500 is going to the Clara Barton Guild. The guild underwrites special church projects.

Besides raising needed cash for our church, the sale is helping our congregation build relationships with community members. Some are regulars who like to come to our sales year after year. Others are unfamiliar with Heritage Church and Unitarian Universalism, making these events an important outreach to our surrounding neighborhoods.

Barbara Rohrer
2024 Church Sale Coordinator

Images source: courtesy of Barbara Rohrer

For at least the past ten years, a Unitarian Universalist team (led by St. John’s UU Church) has participated in Cincinnati’s “Out of the Darkness Walk.” This walk is in support of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and is designed as a journey of remembrance, hope, and support. On October 1, Heritage Church’s Rebecca Pace (first person on the left in the picture below) participated in the 2023 walk.

When the school year began last month, a student-painted mural at Nagel Middle School was painted over at the behest of the Forest Hills School Board and Superintendent Larry Hook. Though it no longer adorns a wall at Nagel, the mural—which had been specifically designed by middle school students as an expression of diversity and welcoming inclusion—has taken on a second, much more visible life.

Much like the word “diversity” did a couple of years ago when the same School Board cancelled Turpin High School’s Diversity Day, the image from the mural is now appearing all around the district, on yard signs (like this one at the church), on T-shirts, on bumper stickers, etc. In fact, it has become a conspicuous symbol for local students and parents who are concerned about hatred, bullying, exclusion, and a lack of awareness and sensitivity to diversity issues in our local school system.

Copies of the mural design are available in the lobby at church.