Tuesday, August 10, 2010 By David Eck ST. MARGARET MARY DEANERY — Every weekday morning Alma Panzeca bustles about the pharmacy in a Walgreen’s store, counting pills and waiting on customers. Panzeca, 75, has been working at Walgreen’s part-time for about three years to bolster her finances.

Monday, August 9, 2010 By David Eck ARCHDIOCESE — From maintenance-free cottages for independent seniors to skilled nursing care, senior living communities offer older adults a variety of lifestyles to accommodate their specific needs. Some senior communities offer cottage or garden-type individual homes. Targeted to active people as young as …

Friday, August 6, 2010 By Eileen Connelly, OSU ST. ANDREW DEANERY — It takes a person of strength and deep faith to turn personal losses into an opportunity to help others. Lois Martin, a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Reading, has managed to do just that through the …

Friday, August 6, 2010 By David Eck ARCHDIOCESE — In 2001 Donna Long and her two siblings realized that their 78-year-old mother, Ruth Graf, needed to move from her southeastern Indiana home, where she lived alone, into a senior living community.

Friday, August 6, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Mary Ann Stansfield, a retired teacher and administrator at St. Rita School for the Deaf, was honored recently by the Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council with a Voices of Giving Award. The school made the nomination.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 Harvey Tombragel, 70, a member of St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Bridgetown, died Aug. 2. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Aug. 10 at St. Jude Church. Dalbert & Woodruff Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — Eight members of the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Ind., with ties to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati are celebrating their golden jubilees in 2010.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 By David Eck ARCHDIOCESE — When Father Barry Windholtz reads of a holy site in the Gospel or speaks of a shrine in Europe, he’s probably been there. For more than a decade, Father Windholtz has been leading pilgrimages to religious sites in various parts of …

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES DEANERY — Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz will be keynote speaker on Saturday, Aug. 28, at a program sponsored by the Athenaeum of Ohio’s Lay Pastoral Ministry Program (LPMP) addressing the church and marriage.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE — The Catholic Ministries Appeal of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will host three Masses of thanksgiving for those who participated in the CM in 2010. Each will be celebrated by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr.