LOVELAND, OH (FOX19) – This is the time of year when people in general and kids in particular start to spend more tmie in and around swimming pool, ponds, and other bodies of water.

Loveland Deputy Fire Chief Billy Goldfeder has sent out this fairly comprehensive manual to preventing your child from drowning, and reducing the odds that a child drowns in your pool.

Child Drowning Season Information

The Spring has traditionally been celebrated across our beautiful greater Cincinnati area as the beginning of the summer season. This time of year means vacations and many families take their first dip in the backyard, neighborhood or community swimming pool. Many vacations or stay-cations revolve around water whether it is at the community pool, clubs, local beaches, or even water-parks.

DAYTON (FOX19) - Dayton Power and Light is encouraging their customers to switch to compact fluorescent bulbs, and is offering a discount to do that, although for Warren County customers it may require a trip to Germantown or Wilmington.

DP&L says that incandescent light bulbs that use four times more energy than efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s), and that replacing one inefficient bulb with a CFL – which lasts 10 times longer - could save you $30 over its lifetime.

CFL’s cost more up front, though. DP&L is giving Miami Valley shoppers three chances over the next few weeks to spring into savings by buying a CFL at a reduced price and getting one free at area retailers.

•             On Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lowe’s, 2900 Martin’s Drive, West Carrollton. Radio station WMMX-FM (107.7) will be broadcasting live from the store.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, WARREN COUNTY, OH (FOX19) -- The St. Jude Dream Home house, located at 6813 Gray Wolf Drive in the Miami Bluffs community in Hamilton Township, opened for public viewing on Saturday.

The house will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. every Sunday until the giveaway on June 29 on FOX19. Visitors to the house can register free for a chance to win a $10,000 shopping spree to Morris Home Furnishings. A limited number of $100 tickets for a chance to win the home will also be available during the open houses.