Lisa Desatnik
Metro Bus Operators To Be Honored For Rescuing Children
The quick thinking of two Cincinnati Metro bus operators might have saved the lives of two children in separate incidents less than a week apart in late February and early March.
Operators Ella Holloway and Dianne Wyly drive different Metro bus routes in different communities, but they both had similar experiences when they saw very young children walking alone near busy streets. They both jumped into action to keep the little ones from harm:
Cincinnati Metro bus operator Ella Holloway
Feb. 28, 2013: Operator Holloway was driving toward downtown on Rt. 33 on Glenway Avenue near Olivia Lane when she noticed a 2- or 3-year-old boy walking alone on the sidewalk. The child wasn’t wearing a coat, just shorts and shoes in 30-degree, windy weather. She stopped the bus, brought the child on board, and called for assistance. The Cincinnati Police Department responded and took the boy to the Cincinnati Fire Department on Glenway. Holloway has been a Metro bus operator for 22 years.
March 6, 2013: Operator Wyly was driving toward downtown on Rt. 43 when she saw a 3-year-old little boy walking alone on Reading Road near Asmann Avenue. It was a snowy, icy day and his shoes were on backwards and coat barely on. She brought the child onto her bus and called for assistance; Cincinnati Police took the child to a safe location. She has been a bus operator for 18 years.
Cincinnati Metro bus operator Dianne Wylyoperator for 18 years, lives in Roselawn.
“Metro bus operators are eyes on the community,” said Metro’s CEO Terry Garcia Crews. “Operators Holloway and Wyly demonstrated outstanding sensitivity and judgment; their actions helped prevent these children from being injured. They are heroes for keeping the children safe, and their actions deserve commendation.”
Holloway and Wyly will be presented with the CEO’s STAR Award at the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Board meeting.The STAR Award for “Service That Attracts Recognition” is a selective award is presented by, and at the sole discretion of, Metro’s CEO. The award acknowledges and rewards employees who demonstrate exemplary service to Metro and the community.
Metro is a non-profit, tax-funded public service of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, providing about 17 million rides per year in Greater Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Know Theatre Hosting Micro-Granting Potlucks
I love creative ideas for raising money!
Know Theatre has announced that once every quarter, it will host a micro-granting potluck dinner called the Artists Supper Club and will award small community sourced grants to support individual artist projects and initiatives that help create, build, or strengthen our Greater Cincinnati community.
How does it work?
At the dinner, everyone in attendance contributes $10 and brings an entree or side dish to share. Everyone who contributes is invited to submit a one-paragraph project proposal.
Throughout the dinner attendees will review the proposals and vote on the project they think should be funded. At the end of the dinner the project with the most votes will be awarded the money raised that night. It’s that simple.
Through the generous support of the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, Know Theatre will also match each grant award up to $500, thus increasing the impact of these micro-grants.
“We’re excited about the impact this could have in the longer term. We want these dinners to be about the sharing of ideas, and the building of a stronger community. We believe that this is a great tool for local artists who are interested in sharing ideas and building a stronger Cincinnati”, says Eric Vosmeier, Producing Artistic Director.
Dates:
Sunday, March 24 @ 4 pm
Sunday, June 23 @ 4 pm
For more information, please visit the Know Theatre website at this link.
Curtis Enis Named Marvin Lewis Coach Of The Year
Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis, at left, with Marvin Lewis Coach of the Year Award recipient Curtis Enis of the Bradford High School.
Congrats to Curtis Enis, head football coach at Bradford High School, for being named the Marvin Lewis ‘Coach of the Year’. From a write-up in The Cincinnati Herald, “Coach Enis focuses on teaching young men life lessons that will go much further than football. He teaches his players the values of work ethic, support, determination, pride, heart, effort, attitude, family and, most importantly, they are students first and athletes second.”
He is one great coach and role model. Thanks to Coach Enis for all he does!
The Marvin Lewis Community Fund is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based nonprofit organization that empowers, educates, and inspires individuals in the Greater Cincinnati area through their ongoing outreach programs. The Marvin Lewis Community Fund invests in the Greater Cincinnati community through several outreach programs including: Coach of the Year Award.
Cancer Survivor, Tami Boehmer, To Share Story At Event
Life doesn’t always make sense to me. I don’t understand how someone so special, so filled with love, and with so much to live for, is forced into war against a vicious enemy.
That enemy is breast cancer. And the brave warrior of whom I am speaking is my dear friend, Tami Boehmer. It was in February 2008, just months after celebrating her five year, cancer free anniversary with her husband (Mike) and daughter (Chrissy) by her side that Tami received the news – she was diagnosed with metatastic breast cancer recurrence.
To cancer – I have this to say, you have crossed the wrong person!
Tami interviewed survivors nationwide who have lived far beyond what the medical establishment predicted, and compiled their stories in an internationally acclaimed book, From Incurable to Incredible: Cancer Survivors Who Beat the Odds. Tami shares these stories, as well as valuable information on healing the body, mind and spirit; on her web site and blog, www.MiracleSurvivors.com.
Recently, Cision Navigator named Tami one of the Top 10 Most Influential Breast Cancer Bloggers on Twitter. Her blog was also named one of the top 23 breast cancer blogs by www.Healthline.com.
From Incurable to Incredible was named the winner of the Health-Medical category of the 2011 Readers Favorite Awards and award-winning finalist in the 2012 Indie Book Awards and 2011 International Book Awards. Best-selling author Bernie Siegel, MD, who wrote a foreword to her book, called it “A book everyone should read.”
This Saturday, at the New Thought Unity Center in East Walnut Hills (1401 E McMillan St; Cincinnati, OH 45206) from 5 to 6 pm, she will be sharing her story. And it is a great story to be told.
Nonprofit Spotlight – FUEL Cincinnati Providing Micro-grants
Have you heard about FUEL Cincinnati? It is an all-volunteer committee of young professionals in Greater Cincinnati that is part of Give Back Cincinnati.
Fuel Cincinnati provides micro-grants in amounts ranging from $250 to $2,000 to fund non-profit projects in the Greater Cincinnati region, including the city of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and contiguous communities. Its central mission is to involve young professionals in the region in nonprofit projects in four core areas: (1) education, (2) community building, (3) the environment, and (4) diversity.
If an applicant has a great idea for improving the greater Cincinnati region through a nonprofit project related to one of FUEL’s core areas, and if all that’s standing in the applicant’s way is the lack of a few hundred or a couple of thousand dollars, FUEL exists to remove that obstacle. This is why FUEL prefers to provide the majority of the budget for projects it funds; FUEL’s mission is to make great things happen that wouldn’t happen without it. FUEL fills a gap by making capital available for projects smaller in scale than those typically funded by traditional foundations.
Fuel is supported by generous grants from The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile US Bank Foundation and from The Mayerson Family Foundations.
