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good afternoon everyone and thank you
for being here today it's truly an honor

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for me to stand before you and recognize
and honor J V stone who devoted many

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years of his life to public service as a
member of the set interval City Council

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for more than 30 years and serving as
mayor from 1980 to 1984 during his time

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on city council J V also served for 16
years as Representative what was then

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referred to as the Miami Valley cable
council JB's last term on Centerville

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council and communication council ended
in December 1999 and sadly passed away

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in August of 2007 I was talking to to
Scott earlier and I said since they

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purchased this building in 1990 I've
probably been through those doors 200

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times and 200 times I said to myself why
does this building not have a flag and

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so when I became executive director
shortly after the first of the year I

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posed that question to the staff here
and they said well you know we've talked

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about it any number of times but nothing
ever happened when you walk through the

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doors there there's a hutch and there is
a a plaque on it and the plaque has

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jayvees name on it since he was the
chair of the building committee when the

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building was purchased in 1990 that
along with love for his country and the

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fact that he had a flagpole installed in
the front yard of his Centerville home

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many years ago in the hopes that others
in the community would follow suit got

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me to thinking that it would be very
appropriate for this building to have a

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flagpole in his memory to recognize the
many hours he devoted to MVCC business

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so today we are here to honor J V and
witnessed the presentation and raising

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of the flag of our country
here to give the invocation today is

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pastor Harvey Smith pastor Smith moved
to this area in 1965 and spent seven

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years at Normandy United Methodist
Church besides his pastoral duties

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pastor Smith has been very involved in
the community affairs having served one

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term on Centreville school board 23
years on the Centreville washington

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township park board was a founding
member of the Centerville Rotary Club

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and is currently on the board of
trustees of the United Theological

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Seminary here in Dayton
coincidentally when I called pastor

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Smith and asked him to speak he says oh
I knew JV very well he and I were very

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good friends so that would that warmed
meet to hear that he knew JV so with

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that as an introduction pastor Smith I

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appreciated jayvees sense of humor as I
said to the family a little bit ago

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he he wasn't to somebody who had a dour
face or anything like that at all he was

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always
ready for our joke or ready for a happy

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time and I appreciated that so much
about him we did work together in this

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community I as I said I moved to here
and 65 and met him shortly thereafter

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let us pray
eternal and everlasting God we thank you

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for this community for this day in which
we celebrate j:v stone for his life

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for his activities for his
concern for this community for his

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willingness to serve many many years

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we know that JV is with you now
but we are grateful for his life and for

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all that he has done for this community
and and for us as individuals bless us

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now as we honor him even though he is
not here we believe he knows that this

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is happening bless us now through this
service we pray it in Jesus name Amen

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we have a number of distinguished guests
with us today and let me start with the

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matriarch of the stone family jayvees
wife Elnora Lauren JV were married for

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15 nine years and moved to Centerville
in 1964 when JV began his private law

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practice at a very spry ninety-five
years young Elnora still resides in that

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same home on New England Avenue javion
Eleanor's three children are here today

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Sharma stone
Jeff stone Scott stone and Scott is

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joined by his wife Mary Ann son Sean and
I'll say a few words about Sean a little

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later on
granddaughter Jodie Roscoe

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barks not here yet
great-grandchildren Maddie and Ryan

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granddaughter Ashley stone and
great-grandson Julianne a

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Cubs fan

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from the MVCC board our is our
chairperson Joanne Ralph who also

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happens to be Centerville City Council
member

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representing the cities we have Wayne
Davis city manager from from Centerville

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and noir plops my former boss city
manager VOC wood was kind enough to join

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us today as well the
reading today is to be done by Sharma

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stone and it's our flag by Margaret
Sangster Sharma

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hi everybody this is very appropriate if
you knew my father he loved the flag we

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do have a pole in our front yards it's
almost this big

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so this is the poem he would have loved
if he had known about it I don't he

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never showed it to us so I don't think
he maybe knew this one it's called our

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flag fling it from the mast and steeple
symbol or land and sea of the life of a

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happy people gallant and strong and free
proudly we view its colors flag of the

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brave and true with the clustered stars
and the steadfast bars the red white and

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the blue flag of the fearless hearted
flag of the broken chain flag in a day

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dawn started never too pale or Wayne
dearly we prized its colors with the

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heaven light breaking through the
clustered stars and the steadfast bars

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the red the white and the blue
flag of the sturdy Father's flag of the

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loyal sons beneath its fold it gathers
Earth's best and noblest ones boldly we

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wave its colors our veins are thrilled
anew by the steadfast bars the clustered

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stars the red white and the blue now if
he were here he would already be on his

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feet and probably saluting
thank you

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thanks sharp it's remarkable in this
area the number of individuals who have

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devoted a significant portion of their
lives to the honorable work of public

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service JV did that and our guest
speaker today Centerville mayor Brooks

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Compton has charted a similar path JV
held Brooks in the highest regard having

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served with him on Centerville City
Council for 14 years I believe Brooks is

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completing his 30th year on Centerville
City Council and has served as mayor

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since 2016 as if he didn't already have
enough meetings to attend since becoming

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mayor Brooks also sits on the on the
Communications Council and it's nice

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having him on that board as well with
that Brooks

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well thank you I'm honored to be here
and talk just a couple minutes about JD

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stone find it interesting JV also served
as the chair of the building committee

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for what is now restoration Church of
Center Bell but was Centreville United

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Methodist Church and the addition he was
in charge of I I know he kind of bailed

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that operation out because one chairman
had to move and JV stepped in and

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completed that
well JV stone a council member mayor of

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Centreville and then a council member
again was always an excellent citizen

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Centreville celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary back in 2018 and for the

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many thousands had called Centerville
home during the first 50 years and those

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who call Centreville home today we owe a
great deal to those that got the city of

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Centreville off to a great start senator
voted not be the place today were not

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for those who did all of the early and
really hard work required of committed

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local council members and volunteers to
take a community from a village to a

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city and put in place the standards by
which that City would operate many

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volunteered to help set the tone for how
a small City could develop and prosper

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and become today the successful city
that Centreville is when one looks back

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one will without question see the JV
stone who we honor today was one of

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those individuals who got the city off
to a great start a

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1968 JV stone became a member of
Centreville Council and served the

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Centreville council from 1968 through
2000 Centreville was lucky to have his

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leadership during those 32 years and he
was instrumental in taking Centreville

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from a village to a successful city
JV served as a council member starting

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in 1968 until 1978 when he was elected
mayor JV served four years as mayor and

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returned to Council where he served an
additional 16 or 17 years

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JV served in so many capacities as Jay
mentioned for the city of San Terrell he

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was president of the mayors and Managers
Association he was director of senior

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zinc he was a delegate to the Miami
Valley Regional Planning Commission

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delegate to the National League of
Cities and chairman of what we now call

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Miami Valley communications Council
which was then Miami Valley cable

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council JV as Jay mentioned was
instrumental in establishing for what

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has been a tremendously an effective
successful Council of Governments

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I do know that JV would be pleased to
see under Joanne's leadership and Jays

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leadership that if he was here in person
but I'm certain he's looking down upon

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us today sees what Miami Valley
Communications Council has accomplished

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over these many years and would be of a
strong supporter particularly pleased

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with what has become the fiber optic
network for Miami Valley Communications

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Council cooperated by all members of
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think we all could go on for
significantly more time than JV stone

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would be comfortable having us do so
about a successful career as a tenure as

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a mayor and council but I'd like to tell
just three quick stories which I believe

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tell us a lot about who JV stone was as
the public person

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first I had a lot of contact with JV
when he was running for judge in 1983

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and I was this young kid running for
Centreville Council he was nothing but

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helpful and supportive and helped me be
successful and after I was elected I

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talked to him several times about what
it meant to be a council member and he

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assisted and that greatly but that's not
the real story JV ran for judge and was

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unsuccessful and he did not run from a
protected seat as mayor and thus he had

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to give up the mayor's position when he
decided to run to be a judge of the

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Kenner Municipal Court so at the start
of 1984 JV stone one of the premier

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public servants in our area was no
longer a mayor there was no longer a

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council member or a judge but more than
a little luck then hit the city of

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Centerville
fortunately in January in 1984 at my

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very first meeting as an elected council
member and newly elected Shirley Hines

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first meeting as mayor one of our
council members abruptly resigned their

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position as council member but then five
minutes it was moved and seconded that

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JV stone be asked to fill the open
position within 10 minutes she had been

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contacted by phone and thankfully for
all of us he accepted and was back on

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Council serving Centreville with about a
week or two absence as a member of

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Centreville City Council the tremendous
personal and legal skills that the

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judiciary missed out on without judge JB
stone Centreville were certainly

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received ten times over with JB stone is
a council member on Centreville City

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Council although I doubt that JV would
believe it to be the case or agree with

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me I do believe that there was a little
divine intervention with all exceptions

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of Pastor Smith who stepped in and
restored JV stone is a member of

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Centreville council for all that was
ahead for the city recognising the need

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and importance of his leadership
JV stone was absolutely a statesman in

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this environment and I've never seen a
better example of statesmanship than

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what I witnessed of the interaction
between JV and mayor Hinds Shirley being

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the brand new mayor serving with the old
mayor JV at no time did JV ever do

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anything but publicly support mayor
Hinds even though JV had been a net roll

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just the day before he led by example is
how to work as a team letting his own

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personal disappointment and not be an
elected judge not to stand in the way of

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the good work that was going on as the
Centreville council and staff as a team

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he earned the respect of all of us who
saw him on council and followed him on

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council he showed us that a team works a
lot better as a team than his seven

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individuals
secondly JV was a silent collaborative

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leader in the early 1990s as Scott will
well no and Sharma well-known and mr.

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stone also Yankee Trace was just a corn
field waiting to be developed or at

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least some of us on council thought that
was to be the case a solid plan was put

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together to purchase an X and develop
the land into a public asset many in the

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community doubted that it could be
accomplished or as some said it would

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take Centreville into bankruptcy and
some entities fought it for years in the

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courts but JV stone was adamant in a
support of the project

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we met many many Saturday mornings and I
remember him comment he many times to

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all of us and to me personally about the
naysayers of that project and telling us

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in meetings and privately that we were
all in it together and if we stuck

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together would be a successful project
we did and it is a successful project

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his leadership in support of the city
leadership crucial to the success of

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yankee trace and the outstanding
development that it is today and third

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as I know the stone family will
acknowledge JV loved dessert

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Mayer Heinz thought it'd be a good idea
one one year to take a retreat out of

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the city so we all went to Houston woods
where counsel would meet on Friday

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before dinner we would work through
dinner and we'd have dinner and spend

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the night and finish work on Saturday
morning knowing jayvees love of dessert

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we made arrangements to have a special
dessert for JV stone when dessert

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arrived all of the rest of us there that
day had a small scoop of ice cream with

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just a little bit of chocolate sauce on
it JV got nothing

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there was about four or five minutes
later that out came the chef from the

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Houston woods bringing a bowl of about
ten scoops of ice cream loaded with more

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chocolate than any of us had combined on
our ice cream set it in front of JV we

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all expect to JV dental a flirt he
didn't flinch and one bit got out of

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spoon started right into that massive
bowl of ice cream and chocolate not

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saying a word we were all confident when
JV saw lemons he knew he could turn him

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into lemonade and he would not ask why
he would just simply enjoy that it was

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lemonade we all enjoyed that story he
finally acknowledged it but he got

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through about five scoops of ice cream
before but I know he loved ice cream

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very much and finally when you walk into
the center of a municipal building

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there's a sign above the council
chambers which says the JV stone council

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chambers there's not much more you can
say than that to the respect that this

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community has for JV and all that has
have served with them I was personally

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fortunate to be on council to work with
such a quality gentleman and public

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service and learned so much from him
when people look back and ask who made

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Centreville such a successful City they
want us to surely see the name of JB

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stone among those few names
it's an honor to be here on behalf of

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those members of council he served with
the former and current staff of the city

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of Centreville in the past current and
future residents of Centreville to help

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dedicate this flagpole in the name of a
truly outstanding public servant JB

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Stone am honored to be here for this
well-deserved honor 4jv thank you very

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much

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Thank You Brooks
our next speaker is Scott stone Scott

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followed in his father's footsteps into
the practice of law and had an

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opportunity to practice with his dad for
10 years Scott still has an active law

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practice in the area and one of his two
sons Shaun who is with us today is

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currently enrolled in Capitol
University's School of Law so I'm sure

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javi is a very proud of that
in the interest of full disclosure as

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most of you know Scott is my cousin he's
my golfing buddy and I consider him and

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his brother Jeff to be the two brothers
I never had Scott

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good afternoon everyone if you notice
when I came up here despite the heat I

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put on my jacket I did this because dad
never went anywhere in a public forum

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without wearing a jacket so in respect
for him I put it on

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I am missing thank you point that out
Sharma

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I'm the baby of the family although I
received notification from my insurance

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company today that a neither's start
thinking about Medicare so I give you

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some idea the age group you're dealing
with but we wanted to take this

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opportunity on behalf of our family to
extend our deep appreciation

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it's the Miami Valley communications
counsel and J for making this dedication

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possible you know you've heard a little
bit about dad and and there's no

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question dad which is simply a flag guy
he loved flags I think he had a little

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bit of Neil Armstrong in him because
wherever he went he wanted to plant a

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flag
for example when we would take our trips

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down to South Carolina for family
vacations

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we're all getting out of the car we're
in getting unpacked we're getting used

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to the house now dad's out front
searching for a place to put the flag

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that he brought all the way from
Centreville and if there wasn't a place

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to put the flag there was no issue
because he always carried a spare flag

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holder screws and a screwdriver and in
short order there was a flag flying on

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the front of every cottage we ever
stayed at in South Carolina he did the

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same up at a lake house we had up at st.
Mary's all the neighbors would know when

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dad was and mom were both there because
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quarters the first thing he did he got
out he put up the American flag then he

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got out the Canadian flag then he got
out the German flag these are in honor

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of senator Mills sister cities then he
put out the Centreville city flag and

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finally the state of Ohio flag so he was
a little crazy about flags the the one

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thing that I remember thinking of
yesterday on the anniversary of

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September 11th and how dad felt about
flags

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there was there was a commercial it ran
right after that event took place and

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and some of you might remember this
commercial but what it was is it was a

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picture of a street
and he looked at this street it was a

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typical American Street rural houses no
flags

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the announcer said something the effect
on September 11th the terrorists wanted

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to change America's attitude forever
it faded out it stayed it back

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every house had a flag on an
announcer and simply said it worked and

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dad thought that that was such a
powerful message that the flag conveyed

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to people and that's how he felt about
it which is which is one of the reasons

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why he did what he did with flags so we
think this is a tremendous honor for him

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we appreciate it again extend our thanks
and we appreciate everybody coming out

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today thank you
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we are very pleased and honored to have
with us today members of the city of

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Centreville Police honor guard for the
presentation of the colors and

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flag-raising while the flag is being
raised please join us in the singing of

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the national anthem

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while everyone is standing please join
me in the Pledge of Allegiance

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and
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eternal and everlasting God
you have given us many joys many

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privileges many opportunities of service
we thank you for JV stone whom you sent

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to us who served us many many years with
great distinction we are grateful for

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his life and
we pray father that we may emulate the

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kind of service that he offered to us as
a community

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bless us each one we pray now in your
Holy Name Amen

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thank you all for attending that
concludes today's ceremony

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