Every day Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel put their lives on the line in order to help the public. This coming week kicks off National EMS Week (May 20-26) and their theme this year is "EMS: More Than A Job. A Calling".  EMS personnel are comprised of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Nurses, Emergency Medical Technicians, Paramedics, Firefighters and Educators. EMS personnel truly have a calling to do what they do when it comes to acting as medicine's "Front Line" and providing their lifesaving services 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. While most communities have full time EMS personnel who have chosen this as their career, their are still many communities where these services are provided by volunteers. Their primary job is to provide quality medical care to those who experience sudden illness or injury in order to dramatically improve the survival and recovery rate of those that they help. We at Dial One Security see this first hand through the calls that come into our monitoring central station and through the dedication of one of our own employees, Rob Singer, who serves on the City of Reading, Ohio's fire department and provides these services daily.

None of us really know when we will be in need of EMS services, but we all can be assured that they will be there for us in our time of need. It is because of their dedication and passion to help others, we should all go out of our way to thank an EMS worker next week!

Dial One Security is proud to sponsor one of our Madisonville neighbors, Ohio Alleycat Resource and their Annual A'Cat'Emy Awards Extravaganza on Saturday, February 25, 2012. Ohio Alleycat Resource & Spay/Neuter Clinic is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that promotes the non-lethal control for feral cat colonies and humane methods to reduce the population of feral cats. They practice Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and also offer a low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter service for cats. OAR has made a difference in the lives of thousands of abandoned cats and kittens by placing them in loving homes and by caring for feral colonies throughout the Greater Cincinnati area. For more information about the services OAR provides goto http://www.ohioalleycat.org/

Dial One Security was recently recognized for their outstanding efforts in giving back to the community, their contribution to the life saftey of those in the community and furthering the our business by promoting the First Alert and Honeywell brands. We received the 2011 Community Service Award for the eight consecutive year for the work we do in and around the Madisonville community. The Circle of Excellence Award was given to us for our contributions, and quality of service, in the residential and commercial sercurity market.

 Dennis Toon was recognized for being a top sales leader of the year in the first Alert Professional Dealer Network. 

We also received awards recognizing the critical work our central station does in protecting the life safety of our clients and for our marketing excellence in promoting Honeywell products.

Dial One Security received these awards at the International First Alert Professional / Honeywell convention in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dial One Security is supporting youth education and the St. Peter and Paul Academy with its donation to the Running Scared 5K Race. The race takes place on October 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the Reading Veteran's Memorial Stadium. The race is 3.1 miles long and enters a "spooky" cemetery and concludes with a Halloween party and live music. The race started in 2008, and to date has raised $80,000 to help the children in the Cincinnati Valley area. Last year 178 children participated in the Kids Fun Run, and 332 participants finished the 5K race.

On Saturday August 6, the community of Madisonville held it's annual Streetfest. Dial One Security was once again proud to be a sponsor of this great event. The event is put on every year by local organizations, businesses and churches to give the children of Madisonville an opportunity to come out for a day of totally free fun and food. The children were able to earn a free backpack full of school supplies once they collected stamps in their passport book from each sponsor's activity. The Cincinati SWAT team showed off their equipment and the Cincinnati Fire Department allowed the children to work an actual fire nozzle. Several members of the local churches provided live music for the afternoon.

One of the main events of the day was the Izzy's Reuben eating contest. Dial One Security fielded one of the four teams of four, nicknamed the "The Reubenators",  which competed to eat a 5 1/2 lb reuben sandwich divided up amongst the four team members. Our team was comprised of John Lindberg, Cynthia Hoffman, Roy White and Jeff Payne. We put up a strong effort and lead much of the contest but were denied the win by seconds in the end by ArmstrongChurch.

In the end, everyone had fun, and the children of Madisonville were the real winners!

Dial One security is proud to sponsor Junefest. The event is a major fundraiser for Our Lord Christ the King Church and Cardinal Pacelli School in Mt. Lookout. The event which occurs June 3-5, includes live entertainment, auctions, raffles, festival games, food and more. Summer Starts with Junefest!

The employees of Dial One Security gave back to the Madisonville community this past Saturday when ten of our employees volunteered their time during the Great American Cleanup. The Dial One Team branched out on its own to tackle three main projects in the community.

The first project was the cleanup of the traffic island along the Redbank Expressway. Three Dial One Security employees picked up and removed the accumulated trash and debris and then swept the island clean. This is part of our routine Adopt-a-Block program cleanup.

The second project that we tackled required all hands on deck as we cleaned up the gateway to Madisonville at the railroad underpass along Whetsel Ave. Years of gravel and dirt had spilled down on the sidewalks from the railroad above and the Dial One Security employees shoveled 6 cubic yards of debris off of the sidewalk and hauled it away. Years of overgrown vegetation was also removed and the trash picked up to beautify this particular entrance to the community. We intend to put this on our yearly list of projects.

The third main area that was addressed was the lot at the corner of Madison and Whetsel, which is at the heart of the community. The overgrown grass was cut and the sidewalks cleaned in anticipation for a much bigger improvement of the lot coming up during the month of May.

It is often the small things that you do in the community that make a big difference in the civic pride and Dial One Security is always there to make a difference.

This past Friday night, Dial One Security was pleased to be the Presenting Sponsor for the MEAC (Madisonville Education and Assistance Center) Wine and Wheels Fundraiser. Everyone enjoyed comparing various bottles of wine in a blind taste testing. The tasting was led by Mike Rosenberg, Sommelier for the Common Man and author of “The Naked Vine”. MEAC was able to raise $4500 to benefit low-income individuals and families who reside in and around the Madisonville Community. Congratulations to all involved for a job well done!

Dial One Security is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the annual MEAC (Madisonville Education and Assistance Center) Wine and Wheels fundraiser on April 8 at Volvo of Cincinnati. Come support the fantastic work that MEAC does in and around the Madisonville community.