The school's Junior Honor Society led a week-long food drive with students, faculty, administrators, parents and staff to benefit low-income families in the area.

"Donations exceeded our greatest expectations and filled the pantry to the ceiling," said Karen Placke, Bridgetown art teacher. "What a wonderful sign of our students' generous spirits."

Sixth-graders in Scott Brown's classroom, seventh-graders in Deborah Grimm's room and eighth-graders in Christine Bredestege's room won gift certificates to Steak 'n Shake for the amount of canned food collected.

The Kroger Co., Bigg's and Steak 'n Shake contributed food for the drive.

St. Joseph benefit

The St. Joseph School Benefit Committee will raise money for the West End school and honor a graduate Dec. 5.

Linda Bates Parker, director of the Career Development Center at the University of Cincinnati, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award.

"Each year, the committee selects an individual to receive the alumni award," said Joyce Kinley, chairman of the Benefit Committee.

For information, call 381-4526.

St. Susanna collection

St. Susanna School and Parish families in Mason collected more than 100 boxes of food for the Harvest for the Hungry service project.

The food was taken to Shared Harvest Food Bank, Fairfield, and Reach Out Lakota, West Chester.

Academic all-stars: P&G scholarships

The following won $2,500 scholarships from the P&G Fund Scholarship.

McAuley High - Nicole Poulin; Newport Central Catholic - Joseph Scheper; Oak Hills High - Jeremy Center; Oldenburg Academy - Abigail Alford; Princeton High - Andrew Goodwin, Christopher Liu and Alanna Shipley; St. Henry High - Ryan Flick; St. Ursula Academy - Bridget Cornett, Sarah Maingot and Nicole Ratterman; Seton High - Erin Conroy, Chelsea Dodd and Amy Welch; St. Xavier High - Robert Doerning, Matthew Green, Matthew Grote, Kevin Hasse, Cesar Hernandez, Bryan Innis, Kenjiro LeCroix, David McCarthy, David Ostmann, John Rutherford and Michael Weber; Summit Country Day - Alexander Bien, William Kiefer, Susannah Overbey and Anna Schneider; Sycamore High - Sara Baum, Daniel Cheng, Kelli Daniels, Coralie Lannelongue, Katherine Lee, Amy Morris and Connor Sage; Seven Hills - Drausin Wulsin; Ursuline Academy - Sarah Baravetto, Anna Isfort and Meredith McDonald; Walnut Hills High - Ninnia Lescano; William Mason High - Rachel King, Joseph Stoffolano and Jordan Wilhelm; and Wyoming High - Cassie Barczewski, Matt Barczewski, Cassandra Jensen and Ashley Youkilis.

To submit an item, call 755-4165.

Our kids: Writer, illustrator

Kindra Kuntz, a seventh-grader at North Middle School, Mount Healthy, is among the students who prepared stories and illustrated books for patients at Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The student in the social studies class taught by Veronica Dean had to write and illustrate stories about science and social studies.

Kindra received an A and was singled out by her teacher for her illustration of two books: A Visit to the Wright Brothers Museum, and Career Day.

Career Day is about a student who brings her father, an archaeologist, to school.

"It was a fun project," Kindra said. "I didn't expect to get an A."

Kindra is the daughter of Shelly Kuntz.