CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A Tri-State nonprofit, Forward Quest, Inc., has been chosen to receive $100,000 from Humana.  The winner was announced Tuesday evening at the Cintas Center on the Xavier University campus. 

Two runners up will also receive smaller grants. The three award finalists were selected from more than 50 applications: 

• Forward Quest, Inc. made the winning proposal for an urban greenway and multi-use trail system from the mouth of the Licking River in Northern Kentucky to I-275. The trail will address the significant need for increased health and recreation areas for Tri-State residents. 

• Dan Beard Council, Boy Scouts of America was seeking the award to help build a health wing at its camping properties in Loveland, Ohio.

COLUMBUS (FOX19) - The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) today announced a new comprehensive beach safety Web site www.odh.ohio.gov/healthybeaches.  On the site Ohioans can check to see if a bacteria advisory or harmful algal bloom advisory has been posted at the 62 monitored Lake Erie beaches or at an inland lake state park beach.

The site includes three beaches in Clermont County: Two at East Fork Lake State Park and one at Stonelick Lake State Park.  Conditions at all three were okay as of Tuesday evening.

The site was developed with funding from U.S. EPA’s BEACHES grant and is a part of ODH’s expanded bathing beach monitoring communications efforts.   Earlier this year, ODH started at healthy beaches Facebook page (www.Facebook.com/ohiohealthybeaches) and sponsored a healthy beaches poster contest.

Each year between Memorial Day and Labor Day, selected public beaches are sampled for E.

CINCINNATI, OH(FOX 19)-  The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County was awarded a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Special Grant to expand its successful digitization program.