FLORENCE – Senior housing is popping up everywhere, Mall Road is rebounding and a community plaza is almost ready to go. That’s the good news from Florence Mayor Diane Whalen. The bad news is the heroin epidemic rages on, unabated. The mayor presented her annual update on the city’s well-being at the Florence Rotary Club on Monday, Sept. 25. The…
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Bunning Center Addresses Grief and Anger
FLORENCE – Place matters. That’s the assessment of Dr. James Ellis, a professional counselor, chaplain and the bereavement care coordinator at St. Elizabeth Healthcare. That’s why he began lobbying for a separate place at St. Elizabeth’s facilities in Edgewood for grief support as far back as 2009, Ellis said at a luncheon meeting of the Florence Rotary Club on August…
Read MoreShawn Marler Blazes Trails for NKY Boy Scouts
FLORENCE – Ask Shawn Marler about the impact of scouting in Northern Kentucky and he’ll tell you about a fourth grader in Newport and his Boy Scout hatchet. The youngster walks past gang members and people taking drugs on his way home from school, but he doesn’t carry the hatchet to protect himself, according to Marler. He carries it to…
Read MoreSt. Elizabeth Healthcare Network Expanding to Erlanger
FLORENCE – St. Elizabeth Healthcare plans to open a behavioral health facility with 197 beds off the Dolwick Connector in Erlanger in June or July 2017. “That will be a game-changer because there is such a great need in Northern Kentucky,” St. Elizabeth CEO Garren Colvin said. Colvin traced several game changers currently in play at St. Elizabeth Healthcare during…
Read MoreHomeless Children in Kentucky Increasing
FLORENCE – Kentucky has more homeless children per capita than any other state in the nation, and the problem actually may be greater than the numbers indicate, according to a staff attorney for the Children’s Law Center (CLC). The National Center on Family Homelessness ranked Kentucky worst in the nation on one scale of child homelessness (adjusted for state population)…
Read MoreOasis of Hope at DCCH Center for Children and Families
FLORENCE – The DCCH Center for Children & Families provides an oasis of hope and care for young people across Kentucky with emotional and behavioral problems. The 83-acre campus in Ft. Mitchell serves as a residential treatment center for children 6-14 who have been removed from their homes by the state because of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Up to…
Read MoreFlorence Rotary Sees ‘Critters in the Classroom’
FLORENCE – Under the watchful gaze of Mr. Kentucky, Dr. Tom Sproat tries to create excitement for science education. “Young people today don’t quite understand the importance of science,” said Sproat, executive director of Biology Integration and Outreach for Science Education (BIOSE). “This is a country that put people on the moon … and did it in less than 10…
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