A new one-page English and Spanish monthly newsletter, the Northern Kentucky Latin Affairs Reporter, will be full of events, announcements and practical information, such as where to go when sick and how to find other support services, said Mark Gable of Westwood, a co-writer of the newsletter.

Publication of the first edition should happen within a month, Gable said. He announced the new publication Tuesday at a ceremony at the World Peace Bell in Newport for the closing of Hispanic American Heritage Month, which ends today .

There will be news from what is happening at Northern Kentucky University's Latino/Multicultural Center for Regional Development, the Diocese of Covington and from Florence's Latin Citizens Police Academy, Gable said.

"It will be very consolidated information," he said.

Gable said he hopes it will be a valuable resource for people who volunteer and provide services to the Hispanic community.

Plans are to print and distribute it monthly, but special issues may be found when there are urgent issues facing the Hispanic community, Gable said.

It will be found in Northern Kentucky restaurants, clinics, bakeries and groceries that cater to the Hispanic population, said Teresita Lewis, the other co-writer of the newsletter.

Columbia-born Lewis works with Housing Opportunities Made Equal in Cincinnati, and he previously was the office manager of Su Casa Hispanic Ministry in Carthage.

"We want the Hispanics to know what is going on," she said.

Reaching out to the Hispanic community was a challenge for Florence police Lt. Tim Chesser when he started the department's Latin Citizens Police Academy two years ago.

"One of the things that I didn't even realize was how do we get information out into the Hispanic Community," he said.

When starting the academy, Chesser said, he didn't know the Cincinnati-based Spanish Journal, a newspaper, existed.

"Anything that gets information out to that community is a very good thing," he said.

Running the academy has almost been a basic class in government, Chesser said.

"They have a thirst for knowledge - for things that we take for granted," he said.

There are plans to expand the academy into an outreach program, with speakers discussing issues at places like Centro de Amistad, known as the friendship center, at the Catholic Center on Donaldson Road in Erlanger.

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