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These competitors fight illness with golf clubs

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Sunday, May 13th, 2012, 7:01am
These competitors fight illness with golf clubs

 

 

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati Golfers for Charity (CGC) will hit the links Friday, May 18th with a goal of raising more than $100,000 for area kids. This is the fifth annual 100-hole golf challenge for the CGC, adding to the more than $420,000 raised in the past four years to help afflicted children in the Greater Cincinnati community. The event will be held at The Vineyard golf course in Anderson Township.

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Group holds rock-n-roll prom for the elderly

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, May 10th, 2012, 8:01pm
Group holds rock-n-roll prom for the elderly

FAIRFAX, OH (FOX19) - Northside-based charity Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) and the Cincinnati Sports Club are hosting a Rock-n-Roll Senior Prom Friday night.  

300 elderly and volunteers from about a dozen nursing homes are coming together for this Rock-n-Roll prom at the Cincinnati Sports Club.  There will also be a number of guests who are people that LBFE regularly visits in their homes.

Seniors will be transported back to the good old days with the Rock-n-Roll themed event with DJ Matt Fry.  Dinner tops off the dance giving area seniors a night to enjoy friendship and fun.

LBFE, a nonprofit group that focuses on bringing socialization to otherwise isolated elderly is joined by Mercy Health Partners, MACY'S, CareSource & Hyde Park Health Center will be sponsoring the event.

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Father Anthony Muller served on west side, and Mt. Healthy, Forest Park, Hamilton, Colerain

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, 3:39pm
Father Anthony Muller served on west side, and Mt. Healthy, Forest Park, Hamilton, Colerain

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – The Mass of Christian Burial for Rev. Anthony J. Muller was celebrated Tuesday by Most Rev. Dennis M. Schnurr, archbishop of Cincinnati, at St. Ann Church in Groesbeck.

Fr. Muller died last Wednesday morning, May 3, at age 69. Visitation was held the previous evening. Ft. Muller was buried at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Cemetery in Bridgetown.

Fr. Muller was born on September 8, 1942, in Cincinnati. He did his preparatory studies at St. Gregory Seminary in Mt. Washington and studied theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West in Norwood. He was ordained on May 25, 1968 at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral by Auxiliary Bishop Edward A. McCarthy.

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City workers can win cash awards for innovative ideas

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012, 3:00am
City workers can win cash awards for innovative ideas

CINCINNATI (FOX19) – Nine city workers who come up with new ideas are in line for prizes supported by a grant from a local foundation and judged by local business leaders.

Monday the City of Cincinnati, with grant support from the Seasongood Good Government Foundation, launched the 2012 City of Cincinnati Innovation Awards program. The City and Seasongood wish to recognize and encourage City employees whose creativity and tenacity positively impact the Cincinnati community. “The Seasongood Foundation is pleased that this award-winning program is being restarted in a new format,” said David Altman, Executive Secretary of the Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation. “The project will offer another incentive for public employees to innovate and enhance services for our citizens. This effort is at the very heart of the “good government” that the Foundation seeks to stimulate.”

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Public lecture addresses African-American vocations

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, March 15th, 2012, 1:52am
Public lecture addresses African-American vocations

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Monsignor Eugene Morris, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, will give the George Findley Memorial Lecture at the Athenaeum’s Bartlett Pastoral Center at 7:30 p.m., March 21. The lecture will be the second in the Athenaeum’s annual series of public lectures.

Monsignor Morris’s presentation will discuss the history of African-American vocations in the United States.

The monsignor is a faculty member at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, where he serves as director of sacred liturgy for the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Theology. In St. Louis, he has served as a pastor; was a commentator for the archdiocese’s Catholic radio station, director of liturgical formation for the permanent diaconate, and an adjunct professor at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, where he was also assistant professor and director of worship from 2001-2006.  From 2006-2009, he was the resident director of St.

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Chamber Seeks Nominations for Honorees at Citizen of the Year Banquet

Submitted by Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, March 8th, 2012, 10:41am
Chamber Seeks Nominations for Honorees at Citizen of the Year Banquet

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, OH (FOX19) - The Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Citizen of the Year Banquet presents the opportunity to recognize outstanding achievement by business leaders and organizations, educators, students and volunteers who contribute to the success of the Chamber, as well as the communities it serves.  The Chamber is proud to honor the individuals and businesses that make the Anderson Area a great place to live and work.

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Wesley Community Services, AARP, Walgreens, NASCAR and Jeff Gordon hold peanut butter drive

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Monday, February 20th, 2012, 5:18pm
Wesley Community Services, AARP, Walgreens, NASCAR and Jeff Gordon hold peanut butter drive

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A group of local and national group is conducting a two-pronged "Drive to End Hunger" among seniors this weekend. 

Part of the drive is that they are asking people to bring donations of peanut butter to four specific Walgreen's stores this weekend, in Delhi, West Price Hill, Norwood, and Anderson Township.  They are looking for both regular and low-sodium peanut butter. 

For those who can't make it to those stores, or who want to help more, they are asking for $24 donations, in honor of NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon's #24 "Drive to End Hunger" Chevrolet. 

The sponsors say nearly 9 million older Americans face the risk of hunger each day, and for the last 20 years Wesley Community Services has helped older adults in Cincinnati remain at home with Meals-On-Wheels, Specialized Transportation, and Home Care and Personal Care Services. 

Peanut butter is one of the most concentrated sources of protein and calories,

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