A Kid Again

Local Endurance Athlete Goes the Distance for Sick Kids

August 3, 2015 By Bryan Suddith

Runners and athletes in the Miami Valley and beyond know Tim Rieger. Tim is both a Centerville High School and University of Cincinnati standout distance runner. Tim’s running accomplishments include winning the Flying Pig Marathon in 2005 and long list of top finishes in 50 and 100k races.

Recovering from an injury, Tim found himself on an Eliptigo bike. The Eliptigo is powered by an eliptical type machine that moves the wheels on a bike. Tim recently decided to go the distance on the bike for A Kid Again. Since 2010 Tim has served the children’s charity as a board member here in Southwest Ohio.

Tim shares some history and the inspiration for this challenge in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BASW5uxe1U&feature=youtu.be

A Kid Again strives to foster hope, happiness and healing for families raising kids with life-threatening illness. This statewide Ohio charity just celebrated 20 years of serving these special kids and their families. Tim had a big goal of raising $10,000.00 for the charity by riding his bike 250 miles in 24 hours.

It only took Tim, a Vice President at Dayton based McGohan Brabender, three weeks to reach his goal. He is now looking to meet a new goal of $15,000.00 before his 24 hour challenge in just 3 more weeks.

Here is an update from Tim this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-aEaS0Q_Sk&feature=youtu.be

Tim says this 24 hour 250 mile challenge is the toughest he has attempted to date. In the past he has biked 200 miles, and once ran over 40 miles in 6 hours.

On August 21st, Tim starts his 24 Hour 250-mile journey on an ElliptiGO to raise money and awareness for the charity. The ride will start at the Home Office of A Kid Again at 777-G Dearborn Park Lane in Columbus and will travel through Dayton. From Dayton Tim will bike to Cincinnati where he will finish out the remaining distance of the 250 mile distance at Lunken Airport on the Lunken Playfield Loop.

Observers are welcome to come out and encourage and cheer Tim on the Lunken Playfield Loop. Tim has asked for your help to give Illness a GIANT Time Out for the kids and families of A Kid Again!

Dayton’s First Ever Sweet Treats Festival

January 15, 2013 By Lisa Grigsby 1 Comment

Get ready to satisfy your Sweet Tooth at the inaugural Sweet Treats Festival presented by Dayton Most Metro! Guests will have a chance to indulge in cupcakes, candies, and cookies on Sunday, January 27th. This epicurean adventure will showcase over 20 of the area’s top bakeries, chocolatiers, pastry artisans or home-based businesses known for creating decadent desserts. Attendees will be asked to help select Dayton’s Best Sweet Treat by voting for their favorite at the event. The line up for treats so far includes cookies, cupcakes, candies, truffles, whoopie pies, biscotti, chocolate dipped fruit, fudge, toffee, peanut brittle cake pops, brownies, baklava and so much more!

Whoopie Pies from Thistle Confections

Held at Commander Aero, located just south of Austin Road on St Rt 741 in Miamisburg, the event will run from 1 – 4pm. Tickets will be sold for $25 in advance, $30 at the door. There is even a special group ticket deal- buy a bakers dozen (13) for the cost of just 10 tickets ($250). Admission covers a taste from each vendor, a bottle of Aquafina water and insights and lessons from the vendors on the Kroger Demonstration Stage. Tim Horton’s will be on hand serving up coffee as well.

Sweet Treats was originally conceived as an opportunity to showcase the growing number of small independent cup cake shops that have popped up in the Miami Valley in the last couple of years. As Dayton Most Metro started researching possible participating bakeries, we were amazed that there were well over 50 locally owned shops in the area. We quickly reached and exceeded our goal to have 20 participating vendors and already have a waiting list and a number of entrepreneurs asking to be kept in the loop for next year. We’ve got bakers that will be offering up sugar free treats, gluten free goodies and even vegan sweets like the whoopie pies pictured to the right at Sweet Treats.

Cupcakes from Cake, Hope & Love

Sweet Treats is made possible with support from Tim Hortons and Austin Landing. Part of our mission in creating this festival is to give back to our community. As our first charity partner we’ve chosen A Kid Again.

Their mission is enrich the lives of children with life threatening illnesses and their families by providing healing times of respite through our fun-filled group activities and destination events, which we call adventures. They offer year round adventures that foster laughter, joy, normalcy and supportive networking opportunities. Their goal is to offer our children, siblings and parents a cost free occasion to enjoy quality time together and to create lasting memories. Representatives from A Kid Again will be on hand at the festival to share more about their program and ways you can help.

Tickets available online at www.SweetTreatsFestival.com and will be available at participating vendors by 1/12/13.

Moore Dessert Please award winning cupcakes as seen on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars.

Can’t make the festival? Dayton Most Metro’s Food Adventure team, SuperFry and The Big Ragu will be on hand to taste on your behalf and will be sharing their votes for best Sweet Treats in a wrap-up article on the fest.

For those of you who are trying to keep that New Year’s get in shape resolution, but still want to support this event, you can make an online donation on the Sweet Treats website.

Jane’s Best Bets (10/20 – 10/24)

October 20, 2010 By Dayton937 Leave a Comment

Photo Credit: Alli Shillito

If you haven’t yet, it’s time to begin celebrating Halloween…or at least time to begin thinking about your costume! I had my first Halloween party this past weekend, and although I don’t like to brag, I was definitely someone you could count on (my mom, not so much, as evidenced by the picture below). So hopefully you were counting on me and not my mom to give you an update as to what is going on in Dayton this week! And for the record, in real life, my mom is someone you can totally count on!

On Wednesday, find out the Keys to Character at the Dayton Metro Library’s Main Branch as part of their fall writing series. If you are worried about your health (or someone else’s), get a fitness assessment/consultation as part of Holten Wellness Center’s promotion in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as it is estimated that many cancer cases are linked to things like poor diet and physical inactivity. (If you don’t like going to the doctor, just reward yourself afterwards with one of their wonderful massages!) In the evening, be sure to use your La Comedia discount in your Entertainment book before it expires at the end of this month and see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. And if you have cold feet, you’ll be in like company at Oregon Express, as the band Frozen Feet will be playing. While there, be sure to experience some of their amazing pizza!

On Thursday, get in the spirit of Halloween by creating a Pumpkin Flower Arrangement at the PNC 2^nd Street Market. If fashion is your thing, consider supporting Clothes That Work by attending their 10th Annual Fashioning Futures Luncheon at Sinclair’s Ponitz Center. Are you looking for something fun and educational for your kids to do? If so, consider taking them to the 9th Annual Mad Scientists’ Lab @ Wright Library, where they will be able to see some wacky science experiments demonstrated by Oakwood High School Students. In the evening, all young professionals in Miami County will want to join HYPE (Helping Young Professionals Emerge) for their Third Thursday at The Caroline. And finally, be sure to head to downtown Miamisburg, costume in tow, for Boo in the Burg!, a super fun, great people watching, adult pub crawl. Just to warn you, there might not be “two” many people you can count on there.

On Friday, come out to Generation Dayton’s ‘4th Friday Lunch’ at Amber Rose. In the evening, take the kids and head to Hallow’s Eve at Patterson Homestead. If you would love to see an outstanding musical performance, experience the sounds of Guitarist Robert Belinic when he performs at the Dayton Art Institute as part of the Vanguard Concert Series. If theater is your thing, you have several options, including The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs at Town Hall Theatre, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at La Comedia, Moon Over Buffalo at Playhouse South, Once On This Island at Sinclair’s Blair Hall Theater, The 39 Steps at the Loft Theatre, and The Sugar Witch at the Dayton Theatre Guild. Couldn’t they have all agreed to spell “theater” the same way?!?! I’m just sayin’.

My Mom (someone you "can't count on") and I

On Saturday, start your day off right with Centerville Rotary Pancake Day at the Hithergreen Center. Afterwards, all you shoppers will want to go to the ATM so you will be able to “check out” at the Shop ’til You Drop event at Hara Arena. If you’re interested in doing some Halloween-esque activities with the kiddos, depending on their ages, there are many events from which to choose. Cowvin’s Corny Maze, Pick Your Own Pumpkins, and Haunted Wagon Rides are all things you will be able to do at Young’s Jersey Dairy. Also happening on Saturday are Hallow’s Eve at the Historic Patterson Homestead, Howl-O-Ween at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, the Windmill Farms Fall Festival at Windmill Farms, and Salem’s Lot Haunted Carnival at the Old Salem Mall. In the evening, drive your Porsche on over to the Taj Ma Garaj for opening night of Miracles & Magic 2010, a premiere variety show, where all proceeds will benefit A Kid Again, an area non-profit whose mission is to enrich the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. And finally on Saturday, if you’re like me and love to laugh, you’ll definitely want to see Second City’s performance Fair & Unbalanced at the Victoria Theatre. Any extra tickets can be sent my way!

Now to Sunday…in the morning/afternoon, enjoy a delicious Sunday Brunch at Yankee Trace Golf Club. If you are fascinated by all the gorgeous older homes in Oakwood, head to the Wright Memorial Public Library for a talk entitled, The Classic Architecture of Oakwood Homes. If you enjoy classical music, you’ll want see the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra Fall Concert at Kettering Fairmont High School’s Auditorium. At Fairmont’s rival, Centerville High School, you will be able to have another opportunity to see A Kid Again’s Miracles & Magic 2010. And to end the weekend on a really sweet note, there is no other place to be except for the Bellbrook Chocolate Shoppe for their All You Can Eat Chocolate Party! Plus, the money raised will help fund mammograms for those in need through the Kettering Health Network Foundation’s Women’s Wellness Program!

And now it’s time for the Dumb Joke of the Week. Drum roll please…

Why did the ghost go into the bar?

For the booze.

These are just a few best bets from the DMM Calendar. There are plenty more events listed there, so if you haven’t, I encourage you to check it out today! Also, if you have an event to share or promote, please submit it– it’s great marketing and better yet, it’s FREE! And finally, if you have a dumb joke to share, I’m all ears!

Have a great week Dayton!