NORTHERN KENTUCKY HOSPITALITY EXECUTIVE GIVES “SHIRT OF HER OWN BACK” TO ASSIST HOUSE FIRE VICTIMS

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NORTHERN KENTUCKY HOSPITALITY EXECUTIVE GIVES “SHIRT OF HER OWN BACK” TO ASSIST HOUSE FIRE VICTIMS

Covington, KY/March 11, 2004-Losing your home to a house fire can be devastating.  A Northern Kentucky hospitality executive’s quick display of empathy to a local family that faced that situation helped ease that pain.

Julie Wainscott, Sales Manager at the Florence Courtyard, was moved by the news that a family in the hotel was placed there by the Red Cross after the January fire.  Wainscott not only sorted through some of her clothes and donated some to the family.  She also bought bathing suits (with her own money) for the family’s three young children, so they could swim in the hotel pool.

For her laudable efforts, Julie was presented today  (3/11 at the hotel, 46 Cavalier Blvd., 2:30 p.m.) with the Northern Kentucky CVB Bureau Hero Award which is presented monthly to salary and hourly hotel workers for going beyond the call of duty in serving guests.

The mission of the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau is that of an aggressive sales, marketing, service and informational organization whose primary responsibility is to positively impact the Northern Kentucky economy through conventions, meetings and visitor expenditures.  The direct economic impact of visitors’ spending in Campbell, Kenton and Boone Counties in 2006 was $263 million.