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Voters in Warren County overwhelmingly approved mental health and senior services levies with 172 of 172 precincts reporting, according to unofficial Warren County Board of Elections results.

The Mental Health Recovery Services, five-year, 1-mill renewal levy, or Issue 11, received nearly 68 percent of the vote.

Also winning by a margin of more than 72 percent was the five-year, 1.21-mill renewal levy for the Warren County Elderly Services Levy, or Issue 12.

Both levies are renewal levies, meaning property taxes will remain the same.

The owner of a $100,000 home will continue to pay $26.34 a year for the Mental Health Recovery Services levy.  The Elderly Services Levy will continue to cost the owner of a $100,000 home $36.14 a year.

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Traffic in some corners of Warren County and Mason might seem louder than usual Friday.

Supporters of Warren County Issue 12, a renewal of a $1.21 mill levy for the county’s elderly services program, will hold a “honk-in” from noon to 1 p.m. that day at 20 intersections throughout the county.

In Mason, supporters will be at the intersections of Mason-Montgomery and Columbia roads; Mason-Montgomery and Socialville Foster roads; U.S. 42 and Tylersville Road, U.S. 42 and Mason-Montgomery Road; and on U.S. 42 near Houston’s Inn at 4026 U.S. 42.

The levy funds 91 percent of the county’s elderly services program, which assists more than 2,300 seniors a year with services like meals on wheels, housekeeping help, wheelchair ramps and transport assistance, among other services.

If it passes, property taxes would remain the same: It currently costs the owner of a $100,000 $36.14 a year.

For more information, go to www.helpourelderly.com.

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Help Our Elderly, the senior services tax levy campaign for Issue 12 in Warren County, will hold a campaign kickoff on Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Mason Senior Center.

The kickoff begins at 1 p.m. that day with remarks by Help Our Elderly honorary chairman Mike McMurray, a broadcaster for 40 years and current host of The City Show on Lebanon Cable Channel 6.

Suzanne Burke, CEO of the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio, will speak about the levy and the Warren County Elderly Services program, which it funds.  The council administers the program for Warren County.

The $1.21 million renewal levy is on the Nov. 8 ballot.  If passed, it will not raise taxes.

The Mason Senior Center is in the Mason Community Center at 6050 Mason-Montgomery Road.  For more information about the campaign, go to www.helpourelderly.com.

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