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…
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Circus Mojo Comes to Rotary
FLORENCE – What do you do if your mojo isn’t working and your life appears to be spinning out of control? Well … uh … you might try spinning a plate to get your mojo going again. That’s what Paul Miller says. Miller is the founder of Circus Mojo in Ludlow. One of the ways his troupe brightens the spirits…
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 MoreChrist Hospital Health Plans Redevelopment of Drawbridge Inn
FLORENCE – The Christ Hospital Health Network’s plans for redevelopment of the Drawbridge Inn site in Ft. Mitchell include an outpatient surgery center. The surgery center will part of a mixed-use development featuring a 75,000 square-foot medical building at the intersection of Buttermilk Pike and Interstate 75, according to Vic DiPilla, vice president and chief business development officer. In addition…
Read MoreInstant Racing Coming to Turfway Park
FLORENCE – Chip Bach doesn’t expect an immediate turnaround in Turfway Park’s fortunes, but he is betting on instant racing to raise the stakes. Bach, the general manager at the Florence track, said thoroughbred racing facilities in Kentucky have struggled financially because of competition from casino gambling and slot machines at tracks in neighboring states. An electronic horse racing game…
Read MorePresident’s Inn Introduced to Rotarians
FLORENCE – Nancy Carver is sharing her family’s love of food service and zeal for hospitality with Northern Kentucky. She and her family also are introducing a “Kentucky tapas” style of dining to Boone County at President’s Inn in Burlington. “Tapas is a style in which you serve small portions on small plates to share with the family,” Carver said.…
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 MoreDistrict Governor Cindy Legg Addresses Florence Club
FLORENCE – How can you provide clean water to impoverished families scattered across the rugged mountains of Eastern Kentucky and beyond the reach of municipal water systems? All it takes is a little help from your friends, said Rotary District 6740 Governor Cindy K. Legg. A little help from friends in Rotary clubs throughout the eastern half of Kentucky, including…
Read MoreHistorical Reverence at Big Bone Lick
FLORENCE – Is Big Bone Lick a local recreational park or hallowed scientific ground? Depends upon whom you ask, actually. But the truth is, it’s really both. “We (Northern Kentuckians) see it as a great recreational park and it is that, but it’s so much more,” said Pat Fox, president of Friends of Big Bone. Watching a group of 25…
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