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Earth Mother Market moves indoors
By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
Volume 11, Number 23 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Unlike most farmer’s markets, Fort Thomas’s Earth Mother Market won’t be closing up shop during the winter months. Instead, approximately 10 vendors from the market are taking their booths across the street to the Nevada building, which will be the new home of the weekly market starting Wednesday, Nov. 3. “We’re doing this for two reasons, vendor interest and customer demand,” said organizer Gretchen Vaughn. “A lot of us have greenhouses, so we can keep growing in the winter.” Like the outside market, the indoor market will offer everything from fresh vegetables and breads to poultry, cheese and beef, all certified organic and certified
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Fort Thomas’s Earth Mother Market is moving inside the Nevada building, 1049 South Fort Thomas Ave., starting Wednesday, Nov. 3. naturally grown. Amber DePrez, founder of Dutchgirl Enterprises who leases the first floor of the Nevada building, is working with the market to keep it open.
St. Elizabeth offers room service meals
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Halloween night tips from the Kentucky State Police: • Children should carry a flashlight, glow stick or wear reflective tape on costumes • Young children should be accompanied by an adult or older sibling • Children should not to eat treats until they have been checked • Make sure your child is able to see out of their mask properly and can walk in their costume without tripping. • Remind children not to enter a strange house or car • Inspect children’s candy before they eat it. Discard any unwrapped or suspicious looking goodies • Talk to your children about stranger-danger • Be extra cautious of pedestrians when driving
By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com
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“Everyone here gets so disappointed when the market is closed in the winter months,” DePrez said. “Now the residents will be able to continue getting the products they want.”
Vaughn said even though it’s only in its second year, the market has a good customer base already. “We love Fort Thomas, and want to continue to building customer loyalty,” Vaughn said. “This way we can stay connected with our customers throughout the winter season until we move back outside.” Vaughn said as long as the vendors keep producing and the customers keep buying, the market will stay open indoors until it’s time to move back outside in May. The hours of the market, which are usually 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., will be shortened once it moves inside, likely only staying open until 6 p.m., Vaughn said. For details about the market or to sign up for the e-mail newsletter, contact organizers at earthmothermarket@gmail.com.
Library haunt
Laura Winkler uses pudding, gummy worms and other ingredients to make a scary snack during the Haunted Library event at the Fort Thomas branch of the Campbell County Public Library.
St. Elizabeth Fort Thomas has revised its food service and is now offering a room service program called Culinary Creations. The program, which features fresh cuisine made-to-order breakfast, lunch and dinner, offers patients more food options anytime throughout the day from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. “This is something we’ve been looking at for quite some time,” said Guy Karrick, public relations manager at the hospital. “It’s one of the ways we’re trying to improve the overall patient experience.” Through the program, trained room service “ambassadors” visit each patient to explain the menu and ordering process, which offers a more personal touch, Karrick said. Patients can choose from 16 different menus, geared towards specific dietary needs to ensure
patients’ nutritional needs are being met. For example, one menu is designed for patients with diabetes. The new program includes some old favorites, like St. Elizabeth’s signature pot roast and grilled chicken salad, but also includes some new, more contemporary additions like bruschetta chicken. Along with the patient’s meals, each patient can now order food for one visitor during each mealtime for a modest cost. Karrick said that patients on specialty units such as intensive care may have to continue to have their meals served a set times accommodate treatment, therapy and rest schedules, but can still order from the room service menu. The plan is to expand the program to St. Elizabeth Florence by the end of the year and St. Elizabeth Edgewood sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
Fort Thomas USO Dance to honor veterans By Amanda Joering Alley ajoering@nky.com Fort Thomas is once again celebrating its history and honoring veterans with the third annual USO Dance and Salute to Veterans event. “The heritage in Fort Thomas has so much to do with the fort and the veterans,” said Debbie Buckley, the city’s renaissance manager. “We want to show our gratitude and let veterans know that what they did means a lot to us.” The city’s USO Dance, featuring the Swingtime Big Band, is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Fort Thomas Community Center, 100 Cochran Ave. Tickets are $25 a person and $40 a couple with veterans in uniform getting in free and all other veterans for $10. Following the dance, the weeklong Salute to Veterans event will
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Tim Ledford poses for a picture by a diorama of World War II by the Six Scale Collectors at the Salute to Veterans in 2008. offer military displays, re-enactors, military dioramas and guest speaker Lisa Tracy. Tracy is the great-granddaughter of Colonel Harry Eckert, who was based in Fort Thomas and died in the Spanish American War.
Eckert is featured on a bronze plaque that hangs on the water tower in Tower Park. After inheriting some family items that had been passed down to her parents, Tracy said she began learning about her family
history , who her ancestors really were and what they did. She shares this journey in her new book, “Objects of Our Affection.” Tracy will speak to local school children and other event patrons throughout the week about her family and how their lives were “intertwined with American history.” “I’ll also be talking about how we are all part of American history and encouraging people to document their history for future generations,” Tracy said. The Salute to Veterans event is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14. Tracy will speak at 11 a.m. both days. For more information about either event visit www.ftthomas.org/Renaissance/ Happening.html or call Debbie Buckley at 572-1225.