Every year during the first weekend of August, families gather to celebrate National Twins Day at the Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio.
Founded in 1976, the Twins Days Festival, in its 50th year, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. In Hamilton County, one family that celebrates the annual tradition is that of Hamilton County Commissioner Mark Heirbrandt.
Heirbrandt, a Westfield resident, and his identical twin Mike, a Cicero resident, have an expanding family tree of multiples, with Heirbrandt the father of twins Ethan and Evan and Mike of triplets Chase, Joel and Tim…