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Author Cassie Bendel

Cassie Bendel

Cassie Bendel was born in Wheeling and raised in Bellaire. A graduate of St. Vincent College, she began her writing career as a reporter with The Times Leader and the Steubenville Herald-Star before writing content for SiriusXM Satellite Radio and a national faith-based consulting company. After more than a decade in Pennsylvania, she recently moved back to the Ohio Valley with her husband and two sons.

More Than Just Fish Fridays: The Catholic Way Through Lent in 2019

Cassie Bendel
March 29, 2019
Mention the word Lent, and a thousand memories come to mind for me. I remember celebrating Fat Tuesday with a King Cake as a second-grader at Mt. de Chantal. I remember feeling solemn the next day to receive as...

Mountain State Students Celebrate Catholic Schools Week

Cassie Bendel
January 27, 2019
Funny socks, volleyball games and dressing up like a firefighter. What do they all have in common? These are just some of the ways students across West Virginia will transform a cold, otherwise ordinary week of...

Coach Helps Fantasy in Lights Parade Swing Into Season of Miracles

Cassie Bendel
November 16, 2018
In the sports world, it’s not unusual to hear a certain catch, a well-orchestrated play or a come-from-behind victory referred to as a miracle. Christmas is a season for miracles. Not the kind that get a team i...

Mt. Calvary Cemetery: A Place to Remember on a Day for All Souls

Cassie Bendel
October 31, 2018
Meditate much on death, that you may not be too attached to this life. — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ___________________________________ At this time of year, when the sky turns gray, the air makes you shiver, an...

More Than Just ‘Say Cheese’: Finding Magic in the Moment With Erin Yaeger Photography

Cassie Bendel
June 19, 2018
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Vision is something that both limits and expands our human experience. We experience the world around us through what we see, but our perspective is always limited to what our eyes alone can take in. Erin Y...

Creating the Wheeling Feeling: How Design Helped a Mount Alumna Embrace Her Hometown

Cassie Bendel
May 16, 2018
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If we were ever to learn anything from the story of the phoenix, it’s that we sometimes have to use the dust of what were to create what we’ll become. On a chilly morning last September, Vanessa Govindan sta...
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