ILLUSTRATION BY HEEDAYAH LOCKMAN
There is nothing in the world so sweet as love. At least, that’s what Roland Boike, former president of the Loveland Area Chamber of Commerce, thought when he created the slogan for a special Valentine postmark in 1971.
Loveland resident (and Chamber Secretary) Doris Pfeister offered to assist in stamping the postages, and more than 1,000 Valentines were postmarked in the first year. Years later, an article referred to Pfeister not as a volunteer, but by a new name: a Valentine Lady.
“The name stuck, and each year since, the Valentine Committee selects a new Valentine Lady,” says Meredith Taylor, vice president of operations at the Little Miami River Chamber Alliance.
Today, Loveland celebrates its Valentine Ladies as part of a program that hosts poetry contests, art contests, and a kickoff ceremony with an annual Valentine Breakfast (celebrating love and unity, of course) in Loveland.
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