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September 23, 2020 THE OAKWOOD REGISTER www.oakwoodregister.com Vol. 29, No. 28 September 23, 2020 2020 Homecoming Court Joe Hix of Oakwood hopes to con- vince officials at SpaceX to carry a fragment of the 1903 Wright Flyer to Mars. Oakwood man hopes to send piece of Wright Flyer to Mars Joe Hix wants to send a little piece of the Wright Brothers’ legacy to Mars, but he’s having a hard time getting anyone planning on visiting the Red Planet to take him seriously. The Oakwood man recently acquired a fragment of fabric reported to be from the original 1903 Wright Flyer that took to the air at Kittyhawk, N.C., in the world’s first-ever airplane The 2020 Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned at this Friday night’s football game at Mack Hummon Stadium. The Homecoming Court, above, flight, and he’s hoping to convince consists of, back row: Sam Stack, Andrew Lunne, Lane Bokros, Ben Goeller and Andy Bourne. Front row: Margie Conrath, Ellie Duwel, Lauren Jacomet, Tionna Moore and Izzy Caruso. The Oakwood High School Student Council will sponsor a free “Homecoming Mask-erade Photo-Op Event” for all OHS Elon Musk and officials at SpaceX to seniors, juniors, sophomores, and their families from 4-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at Alumni Plaza on Schantz Ave. The event will include music and put it on their Starship spacecraft when socially-distanced pictures on the red carpet with OHS Homecoming signs. the company launches its eventual planned mission to Mars. Hix has tried corresponding with became an art dealer after inspire the Gem City to anyone - at SpaceX to hear his propos- “I was sitting around in quarantine, Musk, writing local lawmakers and the war, and died in 1978. even greater innovations al. He’s considered taking out a large racking my brain trying to think of Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, as well His collection, including a in the coming century. advertisement in the L.A. Times, hiring what I can do for the city because I as members of the SpaceX board of large cache of Wright cor- But it appears no one aerial banners to fly over the compa- love Dayton,” he recalled “What is directors, but to no avail. Attempts respondence, photographs is taking his offer seri- ny’s headquarters, or hiring sign boats going to bring us back is inventiveness by The Oakwood Register to contact and other artifacts, was ously, and an increas- to take to the water when SpaceX and the Wright Brothers exemplify SpaceX for a comment on Hix’s pro- sold at Sotheby’s auction ingly frustrated Hix, retrieves their booster rockets from that. I’d like to convey how the spirit posal also went unanswered. house in New York on a 1979 graduate of other launches. of the Wrights is still alive today.” The fabric from the origi- June 14, 1993. Oakwood High School Hix, who returned to Ohio in Hix acquired the fabric sample, nal 1903 Flyer, now housed in the Hix hopes including a who earned a degree 2018 after retiring from the Postal which he believes is stained from Smithsonian’s National Air and Space piece of the 1903 Wright in history at Kentucky Service in California, says the idea the 1913 flood, through an online Museum, purportedly came from a Flyer on the planned Wesleyan College, is for putting a piece of the Wright Flyer sale this past summer. After making collection of early aviation artifacts SpaceX mission to Mars considering mounting on a mission to Mars came to him their historic flight in December 1903, assembled by Otto Kallir. Kallir flew will both pay homage to The fabric was from the a full-on advertising while he was in quarantine due to the the Wrights packed up the Flyer and as an observer during World War I, the Dayton inventors and Otto Kallir collection. blitz to get someone - coronavirus pandemic. See Flyer on page 6 u 6+,1(21(9(17 PRQWKVLQWHUHVWIUHHILQDQFLQJ /HW\RXUVSLULWDQGVW\OHUDGLDWH )DU+LOOV$YH'D\WRQ2+_ VKRSHGFFRP 6HHVWRUHIRUGHWDLOV'LDPRQGSXUFKDVHVUHFHLYHPRQWKVLQWHUHVWIUHHILQDQFLQJ :DWFKHVH[FOXGHGRWKHUH[FOXVLRQVPD\DSSO\ 2 THE OAKWOOD REGISTER September 23, 2020 Suicide Prevention Month raises awareness This is a hard time for everyone whom Mr. Rogers told us to look for help them get off that ledge. Yelling and my wish is that we all come out in times of trouble. If someone tells “Don’t jump!” does not help. on the other side of COVID togeth- you they are having problems, listen. If you are worried for yourself/ er. Whatever your politics, religion, Let them know you care and you hear someone or you want to learn more sexual orientation, race, etc., we are all them. Don’t say things “like tomorrow about suicide, I invite you to join Sallie part of this big beautiful planet togeth- is another day,” “things always get Wilson Luther and me as we pres- er, and I urge everyone to be kind and better,” or “you have so much to live ent “Talk Saves Lives” this Thursday, retain hope. September is suicide pre- for”—these statements are not helpful Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. via Zoom with vention month, and it is imperative we for people in despair. David Foster Wright Memorial Public Library. You look out for one another. The COVID Wallace describes the mental state of will learn about the statistics, risk virus is taking many lives, but the a person with thoughts of suicide as factors, signs, what you can do to help isolation, anxiety, etc., caused by this someone standing on a balcony of a a person with thoughts of suicide, pandemic is also taking a toll on ALL burning high-rise building. Jumping is and the research that the American of us. Suicide, like COVID, does not a very scary proposition, but the flames Foundation for Suicide Prevention is discriminate, and it is up to all of us to behind them are just as scary. When financing with the goal of reducing help each other. you reach out and listen to a person suicide 20 percent by 2025. For infor- What can you do? Reach out to who is struggling, you are letting them mation about how to join our Zoom your neighbors, friends, family, know you are a person who cares and meeting, contact Brian Potts at potts@ coworkers, people you meet in the you are willing to help them find their wrightlibrary.org. grocery line, etc., and let them know way through the fire to safety or you If you can’t attend this Thursday’s Thank you to pool staff will help them find someone who will you are one of the “good people” See Month on page 18 u For 21 years, my husband and prepare for the request, first to city I have enjoyed swimming at the council and then in compliance with Oakwood Community Center pool. health commission requirements. The Newspaper should be a force for unification Early impressions have not changed: result was that pool staff were hired Glenn Stoops still has a regal and dis- early, clearance from the “powers that You’re in a unique position. You a pandemic disenfranchises millions of experiencing the exact same reality tinguished dive, there are extra bags of be” was granted, and the pool was publish a small community paper that our fellow citizens, while the very idea from different vantage points. Trust popcorn laid out at day’s end, and chil- opened! It was evident that there is delivered to the doorstep of every of culture and society seem perfectly me, the angry voices are well account- dren amuse themselves all afternoon, was support at every level and cre- Oakwood household. It’s a charming, poised to crumble, our best hope it ed for, the media and the internet have wearing goggles and making up their ative planning in every aspect of pool if not bygone Rockwellian intimation. would seem is to look inward, to redi- given those aggressive viewpoints a own games. The guards and pool staff administration. A little Wednesday rag, rolled up and rect our focus on the very foundation loud enough bullhorn. So when I open are friendly, competent, and enjoy the So we say a heartfelt Thank You waiting for curious and nosey eyes, of it all: our local communities. up The Oakwood Register and inad- work they do. to everyone who worked together to informing us of community events, vertently read the Letters to the Editor Every news channel and website, The difference this year is that make the pool season such a success. highlighting the accomplishments of giving neighbors the opportunity to every talk radio station, every tweet, many communities made the decision For many, travel has been limited. For our neighborhood kids, pictures of insult each other through publication every Facebook post, are submersed not to open their pools over the sum- us, the U.S.-Canadian border remains manicured lawns and gardens, and so with their plagiarized left and right in political opinion, dripping with dis- mer. We heard of this reality early in closed and our native land of lakes, on. And while our country and world conspiracies, I have to wonder to dain and vitriol for one another. As spring and were so bold as to stop by pines, and rock has been just out of grow ever more politically divisive, as if somehow, we aren’t all living and See Force on page 18 u during our morning run to chat with reach.