The Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Primerica offices will donate $500,000 over five years to the agency, a division of the Cincinnati FreeStore/FoodBank.

The presentation will take place at 11:45 a.m. on Fountain Square. Scheduled to take part are Mayor Charlie Luken; Lucy Crane of United Way; Steve Gibbs, director of the Free-

Store/FoodBank; and Chris Koob, senior national sales director of Primerica.

Kids Cafe feeds hungry children in an evening program and also offers training, emotional support and safety for the children in the program.

"This means we can take the facilities we already have and expand those programs," said Mary Sehlhorst, Kids Cafe coordinator. "Some of our sites are feeding children once a week. Those sites may be able to expand to three or four times a week."

Sehlhorst said Kids Cafe served about 20,000 meals last year through its evening meal program.

"We are excited about adding another 10,000 meals to our rolls," Sehlhorst said.

Travis Fliehman, regional vice president of Primerica, said the company is excited and honored to support the program.

Cheers in Madisonville

Karen Hewitt , 22, of Madisonville, was one of the winners of the 2004 Mr. and Miss Frankie Awards at St. Francis University, Loretto, Pa.

The awards, presented since 1936, go to male and female seniors with outstanding scholastic achievement.

Hewitt made the university dean's list and is listed among Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

She made the Northeast Conference Honor Roll and is an Arthur Ashe Scholar Athlete. She is a recipient of the National Collegiate Math Award.

A math major, Hewitt has joined the athletic staff at St. Francis as an assistant coach on the university women's basketball team.

She holds records for assists in a season and single game on the team. She was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was named a regional Academic All-American.

She shared the Mr. and Miss Frankie Awards honor with Charles Wolfe of Conyngham, Pa. Hewitt is the daughter of Denise Hewitt and granddaughter of Lillian Gingsby of Madisonville.

Finalist for commercial

For the second time, Holland Communications downtown has been named a finalist for the Telly Awards.

The downtown firm was named in the retail store category for the Pella Windows & Doors General Choices television commercial.

The Telly honors commercials and programs, video and film productions.

POSITIVELY KIDS: Drug-free champions

Leah Chilton, a senior at Mount Healthy High School, attended the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America National Leadership Forum in Washington. She and Viki McCorkel, Mount Healthy's safe schools and drug-free coordinator, were invited as representatives of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati.

The forum is the largest gathering of substance-abuse prevention and treatment professionals in the country, offering more than 75 workshops on topics from underage drinking and substance abuse to how to change schools and communities.

Leah is daughter of Karen and David Chilton of Mount Healthy.

Poetry contest winner

Shannon Werle of Fenwick High School was a winner in Freedom's Answer's "If I Were President ..." competition, and received a $1,000 scholarship for her winning poem.

Freedom's Answer is a student-run, nonprofit, nonpartisan program seeking to set an all-time voter turnout record this November.

Visit www.FreedomsAnswer.net for more information.

Young musical winners

Lakota Ridge Junior School seventh-grade band members participated in the Annual Junior High Solo Competition sponsored by the Dayton Philharmonic Volunteer Association. Students performed scales and a solo from memory.

Winning first place in their divisions were: Mark Ferris, trumpet, 7th Grade Brass Division; Cameron Hammel, flute, 7th Grade Woodwind Division; Mackenzie Hammel, harp, 7th Grade String Division.

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