For Cincinnati firefighters, helping raise money for Jerry's Kids this weekend is more than doing a good turn. It's answering a challenge, too.
They'll be standing at intersections all over the city for the next three days, collecting money in their boots for muscular dystrophy programs and research.
Firefighters across the country have partnered with the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 50 years. Cincinnati firefighters were not involved.
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Corey Vaughn, 12, looks on as Mayor Charlie Luken laces a dollar in each of four fire boots at Cincinnati Fire Division headquarters Tuesday
(Glenn Hartong photo)
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But today and Friday, firefighters will stand at 26 Cincinnati intersections from 3 to 6 p.m.and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Money raised here will help programs at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and will help send kids to summer camp. Corey Vaughn, 12, of Price Hill, a muscular dystrophy patient, helped kick off the program.
Casting bells
To help celebrate Ohio's 200th birthday, the Verdin Co. of Cincinnati, the world's largest supplier of bells and clocks, will exhibit the world's first mobile foundry for bell casting at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Sept. 4 to Nov. 15.
Verdin is based in the Pendleton neighborhood near downtown, and has manufacturing centers in the East End and Columbia Tusculum.
"We have been in 77 counties with the world's first mobile foundry, casting bells in each county," said David Verdin, vice president of the company. "We will not cast a bell at the library, but will present an exhibit about bell casting history."
Senior wheels
Senior Citizens Inc. is giving its first "Young as You Wheel" car show from 5-8 p.m. Sept 12 at Ross and C streets in Hamilton.
Information: 867-1998.
OUR KIDS
She'll play violin
in soldiers' honor
Whenever there's a need for volunteers to raise funds for disaster relief, needy families, or for children of deceased soldiers, Alexandra Amend chips in.
The 9-year-old Green Township girl will play the National Anthem on her violin at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Reds game, dedicating the song to the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund for children of soldiers killed or injured in Iraq. She has already raised more than $500 for the fund, playing at various locations around town this summer.
Alexandra is a fifth-grader at Summit Country Day school. She and her family have adopted a platoon of soldiers serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Alexandra raised $2,000 for the Red Cross Disaster Relief after 9-11.
She is the daughter of Kenneth and Maureen Amend. The family is urging anyone who attends the game to make a banner with a message of support for the troops, because a video will be made and sent overseas.
BEHIND THE BADGE
Cops honored for valor, performance
Cincinnati's Rotary Club will give its annual awards today to four Cincinnati police officers:
• Officer Michael Schulte, for valor during a February incident in Northside in which he chased suspected burglar Andre Sherrer and fatally shot him after Sherrer got the officer's baton and hit him with it.
• Veteran canine officer Spc. David Kennedy, for career enhancement after a year in which he started working with a new dog, Scout, and became a certified trainer and evaluator of other canine teams.
• Investigator Patrick Galligan, for a body of work. To name all his qualifications, his supervisor wrote, "would literally demand a small journal."
• Lt. Theresa Theetge, honored for treating people fairly, reorganizing the system of filing use-of-force reports, and for soundly defeating her opponent in an April charity boxing match.
The winners were nominated by their supervisors, with Chief Tom Streicher making the final choices. They'll be treated to lunch today at Xavier University's Cintas Center.
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