Sign off: Neighborhood looks for fix

FAIRBORN, Ohio (WDTN) - Welcome to Rona Hi-ls.

It used to be Rona Hills and still is actually, unless you're driving by on Yellow Springs-Fairfield Road because the sign facing drivers there is missing an "L".

"The bricks are crumbling, the letters are falling off, basically it's just an eyesore," says Emily Haynes with the Rona Hills Women's Club.

Those with the Rona Hills Women's Club can see the writing on and off the wall and know it's time for an upgrade to the neighborhood's 25-year-old sign.

"We want to keep Fairborn looking like we're a respective community and one that is growing and prospering," Haynes says.

So they've pledged $1,000 to the project, but the other $1,000 needed is going to take another kind of sign.

"We've been going door to door with these flyers," Haynes says of the efforts to raise the money.

The sign is also a memorial to the man who developed the area, Arthur Roehner.

According to neighbors, aside from a developer, he was a craftsman who enjoyed working with his hands, so not only would he have liked to see the sign fixed, he probably could have done it himself.

"Many of his works are displayed in the homes in the area," Haynes says.

The sign is also unique in another aspect.

"A time capsule was embedded in the side here," Haynes says.

But now the newspapers inside that capsule aren't the only things out of date.

But getting the additional $1,000 to update the sign will take donations, like the one made Wednesday by Fairborn's mayor.

Only then will the sign spell success...and Rona Hills.