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Big Bone Lick's 42nd Salt Festival opens Oct. 16 in Union

Big Bone Lick State Historic Site in Boone County hosts its 42nd annual Salt Festival from Friday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, featuring frontier demonstrations, live music, a petting zoo and the park's resident bison herd.

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Stone park entrance sign flanked by mammoth sculptures and colorful flowers

Chick-fil-A food drive collects meals for 1,300 NKY students

Area Chick-fil-A restaurants are collecting nonperishable food through Friday, Oct. 16, for GO Pantry's weekend meal program that serves about 1,300 Northern Kentucky students weekly. Donors who return filled bags receive a Chick-fil-A meal card while supplies last.

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Chick-fil-A in Hillsboro, Oregon, which formerly housed a Newport Bay restaurant. This location was the first in Oregon in over a decade and opened in March 2016.
Two girls in orange soccer shirts hold a GO Pantry Food Drive sign on a turf field.

Ryle girls soccer challenges rival teams to feed hungry kids before school starts

Ryle High School's Lady Raiders soccer program is running a competitive inter-team fundraiser called Soccerama through Saturday, August 8, challenging 18 participating teams and their fans to donate to GO Pantry to fight student food insecurity before Boone County Schools resume August 19.

Mason nonprofit wins $100,000 AmeriCorps grant, seeks Boone County volunteer partners

Lifepath Apostolic AGAPE House of Prayer has secured up to $100,000 in federal AmeriCorps funding to launch a year-round volunteer corps across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, and is actively recruiting churches, schools, and nonprofits in Florence, Union, Burlington, and Hebron to join as partners.

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