Nearly 550 students and supporters will walk 6.5 miles to raise money for the school.

To support the Cavalier Walkathon send donations to: Cavalier Walk Purcell Marian High School 2935 Hackberry St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45206. Make checks payable to Purcell Marian High School Walk.

For more information call (513) 751-1230.

Grace Christian to hold open house

WESTWOOD - Grace Christian Academy and Grace Christian Child Development Center will have an open house from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday ) at the school, 3628 Boudinot Ave.

The school is registering students in grades P-8. Information/registration: (513) 661-8467.

St. Gabriel PTO's sale raises $10,000

GLENDALE - St. Gabriel Consolidated School is $10,000 richer thanks to the PTO-sponsored M&M sale fund-raiser.

Five students tied for top-seller honors, each selling $288 worth of candy. Top sellers were Michaela Fetter, Liam Davis, L.J. Driscoll, Austin Bullock and Emily Motz.

McNicholas students volunteer in Kentucky

MOUNT WASHINGTON - Sixteen McNicholas High School students spent a week in August as volunteers at the Glenmary Farm in Vanceburg, Ky.

Glenmary is a Catholic society of priests and brothers dedicated to the spiritual and material needs of people in Appalachia and the rural South and Southwest.

Pioneer Day Oct. 18 at Miami Christian

NEWTOWN - Third- and fourth-grade students at Miami Valley Christian Academy will participate in Pioneer Day, an all-day, outdoors event on Oct. 18.

Students will dress in period clothing and complete projects to learn how pioneers lived.

Pioneer Day will be from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on the soccer field.

Sue Kiesewetter, Perry Schaible

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