Race Against the Odds: Bike Accident Survivor Runs Cincinnati Marathon
A 29-year-old ran along the streets of Greater Cincinnati on Sunday, keeping pace to complete the 14th Annual Flying Pig Marathon in a little over three hours and coming in fourth among all women runners. 18-months-earlier she was lying in the same streets with a cracked jaw, broken clavicle and sternum, bruised lungs and heart, and a devastating head injury that lead to a near fatal aneurysm. Sunday’s marathon wasn’t her first (she won the Flying Pig in 2005), but considering her condition a year and a half earlier, running it was an amazing feat of self-determination. On a sunny day in...
continue readingTwo Dead and Another in Critical Condition after New Richmond Motorcycle Accident
This past Tuesday afternoon, the intersection of US-52 and Adamson Road in New Richmond was the scene of a terrible crash involving three motorcycles and a cement truck. The three motorcyclists were traveling together, eastbound on US-52, when one of them lost control and veered into oncoming traffic striking a cement truck. The cement truck overturned and then hit the other two riders, according to a Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Wayne Price. Officials stated that two of the motorcycles caught fire and one man, 53-year-old Larry Gillinger of Fayetteville, was badly burned but...
continue readingFree Community Dinner on Jan. 29 at Refuge Coffee Bar!
This Sunday, Jan. 29, the Refuge Coffee Bar on Glenway Ave. in Cincinnati is hosting a FREE community dinner! Refuge and the Vineyard Westside Church in Cheviot are teaming up to provide a turkey dinner to community residents between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. For more information, call (513)...
continue readingAnnual Power-Pack-Athon Slated for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Volunteers are invited to gather on Fountain Square from 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 16, for Freestore Foodbank’s 4th Annual Power Pack-a-Thon! Participants will help pack food items into Power Packs, which provide nutritious meals to local school children who are at risk of chronic hunger on weekends. Each Power Pack contains up to 12 shelf-stable food items that children can prepare themselves. Students in the Power Pack program receive boxes each Friday so they have something to eat when they’re away from school. Food for Power Packs is chosen based on nutritional...
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