By Andy Furman

NKyTribune staff writer

It was her heart that made her do it. Ruslyn Case-Compton made the trek from Wrangell, Alaska to help.

“I was a writer for the Wrangell Centennial, the oldest continuing newspaper in Alaska,” Case-Compton told the Northern Kentucky Tribune. “I came back home to Northern Kentucky to help my ailing mom.”

And others.

Case-Compton, born in Park Hills and a Dixie Heights High School graduate is the Interim CEO for the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky. And it is no coincidence.

“I always did work for non-profits,” she said, while overseeing the second-annual Donation Drive-Thru at the ESNKY offices – 436 West 13th Street, Covington, Thursday.

“This is our second year with the Drive-Thru,” she said, “Before, we would do an open house.”

And what

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