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Bill Brooks, buyer of Brooks Attic in Fort Wright, stirs macaroni and cheese from his mother’s compound that he serves at alms angle chips at his shop.(Photo: The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy)Buy Photo

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At a little afore 11 a.m., workers bustle about advancing for the cafeteria blitz any minute. There’s a band 20 bodies or so abysmal cat-and-mouse to bore their teeth into what they affirmation is the best adorable angle in town.

“The angle is the best you can get in the Tristate,” says Eric Krumpelman of Taylor Mill.

Just one of abounding angle chips this Lenten season, it’s clashing best others because it’s not in a church, academy or borough club. This one’s in a attic store. Packed with bodies bedlam and communicable up, the atmosphere is balmy and friendly, aloof like a adjacency restaurant.

Interspersed amid carpeting and asphalt samples at Brooks Attic Inc. in Fort Wright are long, cafeteria-style tables abounding with businesspeople, architecture workers, firefighters and retirees.

In one corner, you’ll acquisition the arch of the Fort Mitchell badge and in the other, a bounded media personality who fabricated account in 1991 for active aloft a Downtown advance for 61 canicule until the Bengals won a game.

The army is diverse, but everyone’s actuality for the aforementioned acumen – what they account absurd angle and abutment of bounded charities.

Last Friday’s alms was The Point/Arc of Northern Kentucky, which assists bodies with bookish development disabilities through educational and amusing programs, as able-bodied as finds apartment and job placement.

The Brooks Attic angle fry is the conception of Bill Brooks, who has endemic the business for 17 years with his wife, Suzie. It began six years ago to accompany barter into the store, which was ahead amid added aback in Tower Hill Plaza on Ashwood Circle.

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“The aboriginal year bodies were abrogation money and we didn’t apperceive what to do with it, so my babe said to accord it to the beastly shelter,” Brooks said as he pushed in chairs and best a napkin off the floor.

The abutting year they set out donation jars, and the third year they absitively to allure a altered alms anniversary anniversary during Lent to participate.

They serve at atomic 300 bodies anniversary anniversary against about 20 aback they started.

Nonprofits such as the Reid Rizzo Foundation, Northern Kentucky Association Action Commission, Jovante Woods Foundation, Crime Stoppers, and the Rose Garden Home Mission accept benefited.

On April 4, The Point fabricated $2,550, beyond its ambition by $50.

“Community abutment is priceless to us,” said Judi Gerding, admiral of The Point in Covington. “We’re beneath than 20 percent government-funded so we await heavily on donations and contest such as this put on by volunteers.”

Gerding, whose career there began in 1972 as a allotment member, said the angle fry raises money and acquaintance about the bounded charities.

The Point hopes to advance the chat about casework it offers, alignment from amusing activities such as a cine night, karaoke, vacations and dances to application opportunities at The Point Commercial Laundry and the anew opened Point Logo and Design, a full-service awning press and adornment shop.

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Additionally, the Point maintains nine accumulation homes, offers case administration and teaches educational programs including Amusing Thinking, which is accessible to anyone, but can be benign abnormally for those with autism and Asperger syndrome.

Without association ally like Brooks Flooring, the Point couldn’t anon advice the 700 individuals it assists anniversary year or the 8,000 it impacts alongside through assorted educational programs.

Another partner, Celeste Mackey, buyer of Fassler Florist in Tower Hill Plaza, donates floral centerpieces and cole slaw for anniversary event.

“I adulation it. It’s giving back,” Mackey said. “And you will be in shock at how acceptable the angle is.”

Tim Pangallo, a Fort Mitchell badge administrator who brought his three sons in for cafeteria on his off day, agreed.

“I alone anticipate it’s the best fish,” said Pangallo, whose mother works for Brooks and prepares the desserts. “I don’t go to abounding angle chips in the black afterwards I’ve had his fish.”

And they’ve got it bottomward to a science. Brooks spends almost $8,000 anniversary year for aliment and aliment and has a full-service kitchen in the back, accountant by the lath of health.

He purchased abysmal fryers for the fish, which is adapted beneath cloistral tents abaft the architecture by volunteers. His mother’s abstruse compound macaroni and cheese bowl bakes in the oven. Runners shuttle the aliment to alms volunteers in advanced who serve the throngs of bodies clarification through the advanced door.

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“It’s allowance the association and bringing bodies calm who maybe haven’t apparent anniversary added in 10, 15, 20 years,” Brooks said. “I acquaint them it’s free, you can accomplish a donation and appear aback abutting anniversary but you’ve got to accompany somebody new.”

Brooks said generally the charities will stop by alike if it isn’t their week.

Gene Bishop, carnality armchair of Crime Stoppers of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, came to analysis out the crowd.

“A lot of these bodies came out to ours,” Bishop said.

Crime Stoppers, which rewards bearding tipsters with banknote and relies 100 percent on donations, was the featured alms the additional anniversary of Lent and aloft $2,300.

“For Crime Stoppers it agency money we can use to accumulate abyss off the street,” Bishop said.

With two Fridays larboard this season, Brooks hopes to accession a absolute of $20,000 for the charities this year. The Diocesan Catholic Children’s Home will account abutting Friday, followed by Shriner’s Hospitals for Children on Acceptable Friday. ⬛

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