LOCAL TRAGEDY: Madeira High School Spaghetti Dinner cancelled due to devastating snow storm.

CINCINNATI - The tragic effects of this week’s snow storm ripped through the Tri-state leaving a trail of devastation and heartbreak. Countless residents faced extraordinary challenges as the storm interrupted the rhythm of daily life.

Residents of Campbell County were grief stricken and helpless when the Fiscal Court holiday program was cancelled. Norwood’s Our lady of the Woods Sunday Pancake Breakfast was cancelled despite heroic efforts by city leaders to make alternate arrangements. McCauley High School students wept in hopeless sorrow when the 2007 Spirit Quilt planning meeting was cancelled.

After surveying the devastation, Mayor Mallory offered words of consolation, "The resilience of our people will help us to return to normalcy and recover from the devastation of this snow storm just like we recovered from the great snow storms of 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, etc".