Sunday, August 23, 1998
Ohio Goodwill Valley Industries has opened a new donation center in Loveland.
The new facility is located at 330 Loveland-Madeira Road and features a variety of clothes, housewares, furniture, toys and more. It also contains a large drop-off area for donors.
Goodwill offers services to men and women with disabilities, and donated items that are re-sold earn 50 percent of the money used to provide home services.
Man hit by two cars in serious condition
A Mount Airy man was hurt after being hit twice by separate vehicles Saturday afternoon.
The 29-year-old was in serious condition at University Hospital Saturday night. Cincinnati police were not releasing his name pending notification of his family.
According to authorities, the man was crossing to the north side of Glenway Avenue in the 5300 block about 1:21 p.m. when he was struck by a vehicle heading west on Glenway Avenue. The force of the impact knocked the man into the path of a second vehicle and was struck again.
The drivers were not injured, and no charges have been filed.
Jewish Hospital program changes name
The Jewish Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program has changed its name to the Jewish Hospital Stem Cell Transplant Program.
The name more accurately reflects the full range of procedures available at the 23-bed unit at the Kenwood hospital, said program director Randy Broun.
Outdoor pavilion to aid patients in therapy
The Drake Center has begun construction on a $450,000 outdoor pavilion to be used for patient therapy and recreation.
The patient and family pavilion will feature gardening areas accessible by wheelchair, a picnic grill area, spaces for family visits and a variety of surfaces for rehabilitation patients to practice walking.
The project, expected to be complete in early October, replaces an outdoor pavilion that was eliminated during the center's 1994 renovation project.
A Day at the Beech starts with 5K race
Beech Acres will open its campus to the public Sept. 12 for A Day at the Beech.
The day begins with a 5K walk - run, with the top finishers winning prizes. A raffle will be held to benefit the agency, and games, entertainment and food will be available. Beech Acres is a social service agency that helps troubled children and families. For more information, call 231-6630.
Results of children's autopsies expected
The Hamilton County coroner's office is expected to release autopsy results Monday for two children who fell into buckets of water at their homes and died Friday at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Nine-month-old Dezmen Dean of Union Township and 13-month-old Jahzion Sebastian of Dayton, Ky., fell into buckets of water at their homes Monday in unrelated cases, police said.
Dezmen got into a bucket used for a remodeling project, police said. She was found by her mother in their Union Township home, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati in Clermont County.
Jahzion's mother was bathing another child about 2:30 p.m. Monday in their Dayton apartment when Jahzion got out of his crib and fell into a full bucket of mop water, police said. He was found by his sister.
Hospitals add new Hospitals adding mobile care units
TOLEDO -- More hospitals are sending intensive care services on the road. In the past two months, northwest Ohio health systems have added three mobile intensive care units to their transportation systems. ProMedica Health System merged with Defiance Hospital this month and placed a unit there. It now has seven such vehicles.
The St. Vincent and Medical College Critical Care Transport Network, added two units to its eight-vehicle mobile ICU stable. The vehicles began operating in July in Sandusky and Bowling Green, Director Barbara Pasztor told The Blade for a story Saturday.
The expansions mirror trends in the rest of the country, said Jane Wynn, past president of the Association of Air Medical Services, which also covers the ICU vehicles.
Students to join Twain at Blossom
SHAKER HEIGHTS -- Shaker Heights High School's choir director may not realize Shania Twain is "still the one," but his students do.
Nine singers from the school's a cappella choir and four drummers from the band have been chosen to perform with the country music star Tuesday at Blossom Music Center, between Cleveland and Akron. Dr. Robert Schneider, choir director and chairman of the school's music department, wasn't familiar with the name when the singer's publicist called last week.
"Shania, who?" Dr. Schneider asked.
"I went out and announced it to the choir, and they all went wild," he said. Ms. Twain will perform Friday in Cincinnati at Riverbend.
Ky. community colleges
may be on their own
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- An agreement that would phase out the University of Kentucky's authority over the community college system -- and remove UK's name from most community college students' diplomas in a few years -- has passed its first step.
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents approved the agreement, which would remove the last remnants of UK's control of the community colleges.
The change was prompted by a requirement from the community colleges' accrediting association, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The action "has done what the governor wanted to do all along," said Rep. Stan Cave, R-Lexington, who opposed removing the community colleges from UK's auspices.
