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16 Apr CINCINNATI REDS PARTNERSHIP REINFORCES “PIECES OF HOPE” CAMPAIGN
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Little did we realize when we signed on as an official sponsor of the Cincinnati Reds earlier this year that the team would align so strategically with our April “Pieces of Hope” for Autism cookie campaign in the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky market.
05 Apr Panera/Covelli Partners With Autism Society Northwestern Pennsylvania
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Neither Tish nor Dave truly understood what this diagnosis really meant. Tish was working full-time as an administrator at a law firm and Dave was working as a HVAC-R Industrial Service Technician. They were a young married couple with an 8 year-old neuro-typical son, Kameron.
26 Jan UPDATE: The Power Pack-a-thon was a major success
Volunteers, including Panera associates from the Cincinnati area, packed a whopping 4,500 sacks of food at the Ninth Annual Power Pack-a-thon, on Martin Luther King Day in Cincinnati. The food will benefit chronically hungry children in the Cincinnati area.
04 Jan Panera joins Power Pack program to help childhood hunger
As the director of training for Covelli Enterprises/Panera Bread operations in the Cincinnati area, Ken Bloebaum works with hundreds of people each year and travels to the company’s 21 different Panera Bread restaurants in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky.
23 Aug Covelli Enterprises supports Books for Breakfast in Columbus
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At the start of the 2013 school year, only 42 percent of the third-graders in Columbus City Schools passed the state-mandated reading test required to move on to fourth grade. Two years later, 92 percent of them passed.
15 Aug PANERATHON PRODUCES PERFECT PARTNERS
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Melissa Hale, the president and owner of Leiden Cabinet Company in Twinsburg Ohio, will be running in this year’s Panerathon; the same way she has for all but one of the seven years Panerathon has existed. She won her age group nearly every year and has placed in the top 10 overall women, but Panerathon is much more than a race to her. It is a way to support a cause she strongly believes in, as well as a way to promote the importance of health and wellness to her employees.
02 Aug Panera-Covelli fuel riders’ fundraising journeys for Pelotonia
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Paula Garrett-Malaska died 10 years ago and her only son, Matt, will ride his bike 50 miles to help raise money for a cure for cancer – the disease that took his mother’s life. “She was a great woman who was simply selfless,” Matt Garrett said, explaining that he was only 24 years old when he lost his 50 year-old mother. “My hope is that we get to a cure and I feel like I am contributing by this ride.”
20 Apr Akron youth places second in state
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The 17 year-old, who was selected as Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Western Reserve, said he does not want to be anyone except himself. “It is always better to be an original than to be a copy,” Davontre said. The Bud Rogers Youth of the Year contest, a program sponsored by Covelli Enterprises, recently sent Cohen to Troy, Mich. to compete against nine other Youth of the Year winners from Boys & Girls Clubs throughout Ohio.
23 Feb Confidence is key ingredient for ultimate baker competition
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Izzy Caminero wasn’t nervous when he sat in front of dozens of people, reporters and television cameras in early February at the South Park Mall in Cleveland to compete in the Panera Bread Ultimate Baker Junior Competition.