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COTA facility

Meeting set on replacement location

By KEVIN PARKS

followed weeks of angry meetings and accusations and store owners fearing being put out of businesses.

In the wake of that special meeting, to The meeting, according to State which several dozen north Clintonville Rep. John Patrick Carney, D-Clinresidents traveled by bus, president and tonville, will take place on Monchief executive officer Bill Lhota called day, Jan. 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. at for creation of an advisory panel of local the North Community Church citizens to help COTA find an alternaEvangelical Lutheran Church, 114 tive location. In presentations leading up Morse Road. to the board vote, COTA officials had ter at North High Street and East Kanawha said representatives of the Casto Co., Avenue to allow northbound buses to turn owners of the Graceland Shopping Cenaround and head back downtown. This ter, indicated the parking lot would soon

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The hot-button issue from July of COTA’s proposed bus turnaround on North High Street will finally be revisited in the cold of January.

Some of those who opposed the effort in the summer will probably be offering a cool reception to any new ideas from transit authority officials.

The Central Ohio Transit Authority board of directors on July 22 unanimously rejected purchasing a strip shopping cen-

no longer be available for use to turn buses around.

That was in September.

It’s taken until now to pull it together.

The meeting, according to State Rep. John Patrick Carney, D-Clintonville, will take place on Monday, Jan. 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the North Community Church Evangelical Lutheran Church, 114 Morse Road.

“This is an effort to sit down with them and talk with them a little bit about what our needs are and have that conversation,” COTA vice president of commu-

nications, marketing and customer service Robert M. “Marty” Stutz said.

Carney has agreed to serve as “facilitator” for the session. Stutz said Carney’s availability for a meeting was part of the reason for the delay.

“This has just been the first opportunity that we’ve been able to sit down with those folks,” Stutz said.

“I guess my initial hope is first I want COTA to explain what they are hoping comes out of this, how the community See MEETING SET, page A2

CAC mail-in balloting dropped

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The members of the Clintonville Area Commission election committee won’t be delivering a mail-in ballot procedure.

At a special session of the panel on Monday, the five volunteers on the panel voted unanimously to cancel the concept.

Try as they might, chairwoman Mary Rodgers and members Terry Sharkey, Justin Goodwin, Retta Semones and Nancy Stewart finally conceded that no process they could devise would be secure enough that someone determined to commit fraud would be prevented from doing so.

The committee’s report, without any means by which people, even the homebound, may vote by mail is to be delivered to the full CAC at the February meeting. It will also include no means for absentee voting, but instead offer two additional days Mike of in-person voting along with McLaughlin the actual election day in early May. All three commission members whose districts are up for election this cycle, Mike McLaughlin of District 1, Sarah Snyder of District 2 and D Searcy of District 9, were on hand at Monday’s special sesSarah Snyder sion of the election committee, and all three expressed concerns about the integrity of any of the various mail-in proposals that came up for discussion.

“We’ll never come up with something that’s foolproof,” Rodgers had already cautioned commission members at their D Searcy Jan. 6 regular meeting.

See CAC, page A2

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New council president Andrew J. Ginther laughs after council member Hearcel Craig mistakenly calls him by former president Michael Mentel’s name during a recent meeting.

New council president

Ginther cites teacher as inspiration

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When the late Ruth Colleen Saddler-Hale retired from a 25-year career with Columbus City Schools, then-Superintendent James G. Hyre told her: “We are sure that you have been a great inspiration to many boys and girls who have attended our schools.”

She most definitely was to one of them.

A boy no longer, but still boyishlooking at age 35, new council President Andrew J. Ginther says the woman who taught him in the fourth

grade was “the best teacher I ever had.”

“I think I learned more in the fourth grade than I have since,” Ginther said during an interview last week.

He recalls in particular a book report Mrs. Hale had him do in the fourth grade, one of a wearying many book reports she had her students do at the old Brentnell Elementary School, on the life of the late Robert Kennedy.

“She really pushed me to think about ways to serve and act on behalf of the public and the community,” Ginther said.

Ruth Hale, the wife of Ohio State

University vice provost and professor emeritus Frank W. Hale Jr., for whom the Black Cultural Center on campus is named, died on Nov. 23, 2001.

Andy Ginther was born on April 27, 1975, in Riverside Hospital. He grew up in Clintonville, the third of four children born to a social worker mother and a father who was an attorney specializing in helping foster parents. Foster children were on hand most of the years he grew up, Ginther said, sometimes as many as four at a time.

After graduating from Whetstone High School, where he had played

several sports, Ginther said that he was too slow to make the football squad at Ohio State, but there was room for his athletic abilities on the team at tiny Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. It was founded in 1947 by the Religious Society of Friends, more commonly known as Quakers.

Teachers and administrators at Earlham strongly encouraged students to study abroad, Ginther said, and the only added cost was the plane ticket. Ginther’s was to Ireland, where he studied peace and conflict resolution at the University of Ulster and See GINTHER, page A2

North High draws new business, relocated enterprise

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North High Street in Clintonville is home to two relatively new businesses, one a relocation of an existing enterprise from the northern fringes of the Short North and the other, the owner hopes, an innovation.

Christy Clagg recently moved her High Street Furnishings from the vicinity of Fifth Avenue and North High to the former Once Upon a Pet store at 3615 N. High St. Late last month, Columbus College of Art and Design media studies graduate Stephanie Kylee Bair-Garant launched her new

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I think it’s becoming a really nice little hub for shoppers who would shop in my location. It just has a lot of great things to offer in terms of dining and just individual entrepreneurial kinds of things.

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business, The Gangway, at 3341 N. High St. Clagg, who originally opened her business in the Short North’s northern gateway in December 2009, said that it is “all about reclaimed, reused home furnishings,” as well as home and gar-

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“It’s just a fun way to be green and environmentally conscious,” Clagg said.

“The Gangway will continue to evolve just like any project, See NORTH HIGH, page A3

New gallery-workshop seeking submissions The owners of the new combination gallery and workshop business called The Gangway have already scheduled a first exhibition and are calling for submissions.

“Sweet Nothings” will have an opening party on Monday, Feb. 15, but the deadline for entries in the show is Saturday, Feb. 5.

“Feel free to write a love letter, share an old one, draw a picture, make a photo, profess your secret love for someone, share the most embarrassing thing you’ve done for a crush, your new love or an old flame, grab one of those drawings you inked on a napkin for your lady friend; you get the picture,” Stephanie Kylee Bair-Garant wrote on a Facebook page announcing the event.

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that it comes from the heart.”

The suggested donation for submissions, other than postcards which are free and encouraged, is $10, which will go toward hanging fees and opening supplies.

“If artwork is for sale, have items priced at drop-off,” the Facebook entry states. “The Gangway will take 45 percent of sale, price accordingly. Please have pieces ready to hang. Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the show, although we hope to share everyone’s story.”

Items may be dropped on by Feb. 5 between noon and 6 p.m. Mailed items need to be postmarked by that day.

The Gangway is located at 3341 N. High St. — Kevin Parks

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Meeting set on replacement location Continued from page A1 is going to benefit from what they’re doing,” Carney said last week. “And I want to give the community members the opportunity to say what they would be com- John Patrick fortable with to ac- Carney commodate COTA’s needs, and hopefully come up with a winwin solution.”

Carney knows feathers got ruffled on both sides of the controversy last summer, but feels he can provide an independent presence to bring them together.

“I guess only time will tell,” he said, “but my hope is to keep the conversation civil and get the parties to understand what the concerns are from the two sides and get them to come to some sort of agreement.”

“COTA’s going to be aboveboard,” Clintonville Area Commission chairman John DeFourny said.

CAC District 9 representative D Searcy, who was vocal in leading the opposition to the proposal to take out the strip center for the COTA facility, isn’t so sure.

“First of all, I think that if COTA is looking to build anything like what they originally proposed, they should call it actually by what it is, which is a bus terminal, not a turnaround,” Searcy said.

“One of the things that I’m hoping they

will be clear about is exactly what is it that they are looking to build.”

DeFourny predicted that Searcy “will certainly want a spotlight” at the Jan. 24 meeting, although he said he hopes questions and responses are limited between members of the advisory panel and COTA officials.

“This is the first meeting for a presentation,” he said. “In speaking with Mr. Lhota, this should be a COTA meeting not a CAC meeting – it would be shorter — and it should be based on how the transit authority met and they all discussed it and the stakeholders can go back to the huge crowd of people and discuss it in their neighborhood and membership groups.

“It’s a do-over, so this is the first phase,”

DeFourny added. “If some of it’s repetitive, the community demanded a doover.”

“My question is do they even need a terminal?” Searcy said. “Let’s think outside the box. Rather than tearing down existing stuff, are there places they can use existing right-of-way?”

“It’s a little overdue, but hopefully we can move forward,” another member of the advisory panel, Sharon Heights Community Association Keith Beveridge, said of the Jan. 24 gathering.

Searcy and Beveridge both complained that a list of 10 questions submitted to COTA a month and a half ago to help them prepare for the meeting have still not been answered.

“Marty Stutz only said that by the time

of the meeting they would get us a response,” Beveridge said. “So we have no idea which direction they want to take this in. We felt like we had some momentum with really committed community members back in July or August, and now it’s January.”

“I think COTA is going to need to come to us and somehow or other very specifically and clearly say what their needs are,” Searcy said. “In all farness, that’s the only way the process can move forward, is if everybody is clear what they think their needs are.

“They’re going to need to bring proof to the table,” Searcy added. “They’re going to need to prove their case.” kparks@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

Ginther cites fourth-grad teacher as inspiration Continued from page A1 Queen’s College while teaching at public schools in Belfast and Derry, the very center of “The Troubles” where peace has often proven to be elusive and conflicts never seen to get resolved.

However, Ginther said that the “best, most powerful examples” of the areas in which he was studying were to be found in places like Belfast and Derry.

Ginther vividly recalls participating in a panel discussion involving former terrorists who tortured and killed Catholics and Protestants because that’s what they were taught to do, only to later realize, sometimes in prison after meeting their opposite num-

CAC Continued from page A1 At that session, McLaughlin praised the work of the committee on devising what he termed the best mail-in balloting concept so far, but then proceeded to find many faults with it and said he could not support the proposal.

“I’m not seeing the tweaks,” he said.

“I think you’re on the right track, and I think we have to assume the people of Clintonville are honest,” District 5’s Nick Cipiti offered.

The mail-in concept quickly went off track Monday and no one seemed willing to rely on honesty as a protection against potential voter fraud, or at least accusations of it.

Monday’s meeting opened with Stewart saying she was troubled about mail-in balloting for any and all who requested it, and instead suggested concentrating on providing the homebound with a means of participating in the election, possibly by committee members making personal calls.

“I’m just very leery because I want this commission to have a good reputation,” she said.

But committee members ran into difficulty about how much verification people who say they are actually unable to leave their homes should be required to produce. Also they expressed reluctance to invade the homes of people, perhaps accompanied by candidates and their designated witnesses, meaning parties of between six and four people.

“I am not excited about going to people’s houses,” Rodgers said.

Although Semones and Sharkey both expressed grave concerns about disenfranchising shut-ins by doing away with voting by mail altogether, no one on hand at Monday’s meeting could cite an instance of any asking to be able to cast their ballot from home.

“I know of none we’ve ever received,” Searcy said.

“I don’t think we’re there,” Goodwin said of finding the right mail-in formula.

Members then voted to drop that from their report, and agreed to a next meeting on Monday, Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m., at the recreation center.

That will be after the full CAC goes over the committee’s report on Feb. 3. kparks@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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bers on the other side of the religious divide, that they had been “sold a complete lie.”

Ginther, who earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Earlham, also served in consecutive internships at the Carter Center in Atlanta, where he taught nonviolence and dispute resolution to children.

All that peace and conflict resolution and nonviolence studying and teacher has had an affect on how he handles himself, Ginther said.

“Some folks say that I’m too reserved, laid back,” he admitted.

“I’m a deliberative person, not an emotional, reactive person. I’m always trying to figure out how the most people can benefit from a situation.”

After college, Ginther was a legislative aide to state Sen. Dan Brady, D-Cleveland, which is how he met his wife, Shannon. The two just had their first child, Clara Caroline, five and a half months ago. Ginther said that his future wife was working for a state representative from Richland Coun-

ty and they were introduced by a mutual friend. The two dated for a year, during which time Andrew made his first bid for elective office, an unsuccessful run for the Columbus Board of Education.

“She cannot blame buyer’s remorse,” Ginther said of Shannon.

“She knew what she was getting.”

What she was getting was someone who, at the age of 24, wanted to go to bat for the school system that had produced him.

“I was tired of listening to people talk poorly about Columbus schools,” Ginther said. “As a matter of fact, I had a great experience in Columbus City Schools.”

Although he finished in the middle of the pack of a crowded field that first political campaign, the onetime coordinator of the of violence prevention for local nonprofit organization Strategies Against Violence Everywhere was elected to the school board on a second try. He remained there for six years, until being appointed to city council in February 2007.

He was elected in his own right that fall and chosen as president

on Jan. 3, succeeding Michael C. Mentel.

“There’s probably not a more fascinating place to serve a community than city council,” Ginther said.

Any given day can involve issues as varied as trash pickup and job creation and everything in between, he added.

In light of his rise from school board to council and now council president, Ginther said that people often ask if he’s interested in moving even further up the political scale.

“Washington has absolutely no appeal to me, and probably never will,” Ginther insisted.

This, he added, is a good thing, since Shannon has no desire to be a single parent with him off in the capital.

Partisanship is what Washing-

ton is all about, in Ginther’s view, and that’s not the case with Columbus City Council, and not just, he added, because all of the members and even the mayor are Democrats.

“There’s not a Republican way or Democratic way to plow the streets,” Ginther said.

Ginther works as community outreach coordinator for Triumph Communications Inc., a central Ohio consulting company that provides services in public relations and political campaign management.

“This is a pretty special place, Columbus,” Ginther went on, citing the willingness of the city’s voters to increase the income tax to help fund city services.

During one of the “worst economic recessions in my life, the people were willing to embrace

the future,” he added.

To that end, Ginther said that he and the others on council must “remain diligent” in fulfilling pledges made in the campaign leading up to voter approval of the income tax increase. Those include reforming city government, saving money by creating fair compensation packages for city workers and an “unprecedented economic development agenda” to retain existing jobs and bring in new ones.

“People always ask me,” Ginther said, “what’s the most important: People working and working good-paying jobs.”

The Ginthers live in Clintonville, two streets away, the council president said, from the street on which he grew up. kparks@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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Nominations sought for awards The deadline is nigh for nominations to the 11th annual Celebrate Clintonville Awards Dinner and Silent Auction.

The event itself is set for Friday, Feb. 18, but nominations in the categories of Community Volunteer of the Year, Business of the Year and Business Person of the Year must be received by the Clintonville Area Chamber of Commerce by 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 21.

The volunteer honor is intended to go to a local resident “who has made a special impact on Clintonville through his or her volunteer activities in 2010,” according to a flyer

distributed by chamber president Jenny Smith.

John Umpleby was the honoree in this category last year.

The Business of the Year “is given to a Clintonville business whose owners and managers have had a positive impact on the economic growth of Clintonville,” the flyer states.

“In addition, the business has provided support and volunteer efforts in 2010 to community projects and organizations. This community support may include leadership, financial resources or a commitment of employees’ time and talents.”

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Finally, the Business Person of the Year “will go to a Clintonville business leader whose involvement in the community, leadership and business success in 2010 have helped Clintonville to grow and prosper.”

The most recent recipient of this award was Dr. Brian Kvitko and Associates.

Nominations may be taken to the Clintonville Area Chamber of Commerce by 4 p.m. Friday. The office is located at 4219 N. High St. Nominations may also be faxed to 262-2791.

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North High draws new, relocated businesses but it isn’t your typical retail space,” Bair-Garant wrote in an e-mail. “In the past, the space has served as an incubator for numerous local businesses; most remember it as a record store. The narrow space is perfect for a gallery, but is also small enough to transform quickly to operate as a pop-up shop and showcase edited versions of artwork, new product lines and handmade goods.

“There is also a detached space available for classes, workshops and soon we will be hosting private dinner parties.”

High Street Furnishings started out many blocks south of its new location at 1201 N. High St. “It did OK at that location,” said Clagg, who has been doing home decoration for 11 years.

“That spot kind of chose me. It wasn’t on my short list of locations, originally.”

While she liked the “artsy feel” of the Short North and the crowds that routinely assemble for Gallery Hop, her shop was in an area that’s a bit of a stretch from what’s traditionally viewed as the arts district.

“I was hoping to be a little

ahead of the curve,” Clagg said.

“That block or two is still in the midst of a transition, if you will.

It has just been a very slow transition, not one that I was necessarily will to wait out.”

When customers began to ask if they were safe in the area, Clagg said that she knew it was time to look elsewhere.

“A string of unexpected events happened last fall that led us to The Gangway,” Bair-Garant wrote. “Initially, I was looking for studio space to share with a friend who makes jewelry. Another friend, a seamstress who works at Seagull Bags, told me about a quirky little space next to them that was available. I inquired, saw the space and was instantly inspired by the untapped potential. The spring had sprung and the ideas began to flow.

“Art sales among other things may be suffering during the recession, but, being curious, living inspired and learning new things shouldn’t. I instantly saw the opportunity for a great community builder and the excitement from those who know about The Gangway proves this. I look forward to the spring when things thaw a little and the community can start to get involved and ex-

perience the happenings at The Gangway.”

“I love Clintonville,” Clagg said. “I love Clintonville’s vibe.

It’s a mix of all things good, in my opinion.”

Within first week of the store being open, the owner said that she has had numerous neighbors and folks just passing by drop in.

“It’s been hugely cordial, very welcoming,” Clagg said. “I can’t say enough good things about it.

“I think it’s becoming a really nice little hub for shoppers who would shop in my location. It just has a lot of great things to offer in terms of dining and just individual entrepreneurial kinds of things. When this opportunity presented itself, I knew it wouldn’t last long and I needed to make a decision very quickly.”

Bair-Garant grew up in Westerville, but her stepfather lived around the corner from Studio 35 “so I have great childhood memories of walking there to watch movies and exploring Walhalla,” she wrote. “Landing in Clintonville feels a bit like coming home.

“I feel my path has been leading to something like this for quite some time,” she added. “I am an artist with a rich background

working in galleries and museums, doing visuals and installations for retail companies and love to help nurture others in their creative endeavors. My partner is an untrained artist who has found a passion for photography just from hanging out with me long enough. His enthusiasm is infectious and he will be helping me teach photography classes using the film cameras I still use in my photography. I’ve also been freelancing and working with children part time for a few years.

I always wondered what/when was the jumping off point for other entrepreneurs. I quickly found that no one can answer this for you. We came across the space and decided to go for it.”

High Street Furnishings is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday hours are noon to 6 p.m.

A “grand reopening” to celebrate the new location is scheduled for the weekend of Jan. 2930.

The Gangway’s hours are Thursday through Saturday 2 to 6 p.m., as well as “by chance or appointment,” according to the website. kparks@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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Columbus in the early days of 1861 was a town with a very good feeling about itself. Over the past few decades, Ohio’s capital city had grown from an almost invisible village of fewer than 2,000 inhabitants into a thriving city of more than 18,000 people.

Other cities in Ohio were doing considerably better, to be sure. Cincinnati was the largest city in the state and ED indeed in the LENTZ region. It was “the Queen City of the West.”

And Cleveland to the north was growing rapidly as well. It was not as large as most other Ohio cities, but it soon would be.

But Columbus in 1861 was doing quite well and showed every sign of even greater progress in the next few years to come.

It was not hard to see why.

In the early 1830s, Columbus was a village of fewer than 3,000 people. Since it was created by the Ohio General Assembly in 1812, the town had grown slowly but surely. Then, in the early 1830s, the Ohio Canal and the National Road arrived in Columbus. In less than two years, Columbus moved from being a village of 3,000 to a city of 5,000.

And the growth of the city was far from over.

In the 1840s and 1850s, Columbus became a major center of transportation and trade.

And most of the growth of those years had little to do with canals or the national road. It was the coming of the railroad that made all the difference.

In 1850, the Columbus and Xenia Railroad chugged into Columbus and established itself at the northern boundary of the city, where the convention center is today. In case one might wonder why a railroad was built to Xenia — a nice place, but rather small — the answer lay with people who had little to do with the town.

Xenia was a terminal point for the Little Miami Railroad. Board a train in Columbus and with a change, one would soon be in Cincinnati — where perhaps one wanted to be in the first place.

What was it like to live in Columbus in 1861? In a few words, it was smelly, noxious and a little on the dangerous side.

If we could take you back right now to the Columbus of 1861 and put you down at Broad and High streets, you would immediately notice several things.

First, you would probably notice that your eyes were watering. The reason for this was not hard to find. Columbus in 1861 is a city that runs on coal. Burning coal heats one’s house, powers one’s business and is commonly used for many other purposes.

Over the city hangs a pall of black smoke. The ash from that smoke clings to clothing and hair and seeps into the lungs. It will stain the brick of German Village houses and cling to the gravestones in the Old North Graveyard, where the North Market is today.

Second, you would probably notice the smell of the city.

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Columbus in 1861 is a city where most people walk most of the time. The residents walk to school and to church. They walk to the market and walk to their business and other interests.

When the people of Columbus are not walking, they are riding in a conveyance pulled by horses. The streets are full of horses — pulling carriages, and wagons and simple buggies. And all of those horses leave in the city streets a lot of what horses leave behind. A whole crew of convicted criminals spends most of their days walking the streets and picking up the detritus of the horses.

But the most dangerous part of Columbus was the part most people never saw.

The average life expectancy of an adult male in Columbus in 1861 was considerably less than 50 years. Unlike our own time, the life expectancy of adult women was even less. The death rate among women was higher because of complications of childbirth. The death rate among both men and women was higher because of a number of ailments for which vaccines and other curative medicines had yet to be discovered.

In spite of all of these dangers and disagreeable aspects, people continued to come to the city of Columbus. They came for the same reasons people have been coming to cities for the past several hundred years: The city was where opportunity was waiting.

To really appreciate the wonder of a city like Columbus, all one had to do in 1860 was wander to the middle of town and gaze across Statehouse Square.

Rising from the middle of the square was one of the great buildings in 19th-century America.

More than 20 years earlier, in

1839, the small, frontier state of Ohio had decided to build a new statehouse. It was thought the building would be done in two years and cost about $200,000.

The Statehouse took 22 years to build and cost $2,200,000. But now it was finally done. Occupied in 1857 after the old Statehouse burned in 1852, the new Statehouse was finally completed in 1861.

It was worth the wait. It is one of America’s truly great buildings and a reflection of the strong and dedicated people who built it.

On Feb. 13, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, soon to be inaugurated as President of the United States, passed through Columbus. After speaking to the Ohio General Assembly, he moved to the steps of the state capitol and spoke to the people.

He concluded his brief remarks by saying, “I am doubly thankful that you have appeared here to give me this greeting. It is not much for me, as I shall soon pass away from you, but we have a large country and a large future before us, and the manifestations of goodwill towards the government, and affection for the Union which you may exhibit are of immense value to you and your posterity forever. (applause) In this point of view, it is that I thank you most heartily for the exhibition you have given me and with that allow me to bid you an affectionate farewell.” (deafening applause and cheers) In less than two months the “affection for the Union” of Columbus, Ohio, and the rest of the nation would be tested as never before with the beginning of the American Civil War. Ed Lentz writes a history column for ThisWeek.

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Events All appointments are scheduled Bishop Watterson High in advance by calling the ColumSchool Open House, 1-3 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 23, at the school, 99 bus Cancer Clinic at (614) 263E. Cooke Road. Principal Mari- 5006. an Hutson will speak at 1:30 p.m.

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Whetstone Health and Wellness Fair, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at Whetstone Community Center, 3923 N. High St. Vendor specialties will include reiki, reflexology, polarity therapy, hypnotherapy, nutrition and more. Admission is $5.

CCS Elementary and Middle School Information Fair, 67:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, at the Arts Impact Middle School, 680 Jack Gibbs Blvd. For more information, visit www.columbus.k12.oh.us.

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Informational Meeting, sponsored by the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Ohio, 7 p.m. the last Monday of the month at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Road. Non-profit, non-denominational information about end-of-life issues. Free.

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Central Ohioans for Peace, 7 p.m. Mondays at the Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave. Visit www.centralohioansforpeace.org or call (614) 436-3531.

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The Beat Arts, eats and fun in central Ohio that same display to the Southern Theatre Saturday, Jan. 22. Their program includes selections by Bach, Debussy, Bernstein, Praetorius, Rossini and Mozart.

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jfischer@thisweeknews.com A busy week for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra begins at the Ohio Theatre Friday and Saturday, Jan. 21-22, with the second in the CSO’s winter Russian Masterworks programs.

Associate conductor Peter Stafford Wilson takes the podium for the concerts, which include Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

(Does it get any bigger?) Guest cellist Julian Schwartz joins in, as well.

Tickets are $20.50-$66.50.

The orchestra celebrates its 60th anniversary with a gala performance featuring guest pianist Lang Lang Thursday, Jan. 27.

(More on Lang in the BeatBlog.)

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Cleveland-based Burning 2 River Brass has traveled the world over sharing the kind of power and majesty that only brass and percussion can bring.

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in-their-own-right members of The Flatlanders has a role to play.

Joe Ely is the performer — dude makes records and plays out. Jimmie Dale Gilmore is the mystic — he even looks the part, with his flowing gray mane and weatheredand-wise countenance. Butch Hancock is the poet — a songwriter’s songwriter through and through.

The trio played here on its “reunion tour” but will appear this time without band in tow — just Ely, Gilmore and Hancock in a stripped-down, acoustic master show.

The Flatlanders will play the Columbus Maennerchor Sunday, Jan. 23. Tickets are $30. Call (614) 462-2636.

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chamber shredders. friends/colleagues who’d played off-the-wall rock n’ roll tunes.

4 Rootsy That’s what we’ve decid- in various combinations over the Touring in support of their ed is an ideal way to describe Punch Brothers, the quintet fronted by mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile, formerly of Nickel Creek.

Grown organically out of

5 Anberlin guitarist Christian McAl-

haney offered that one of the best things about their current co-headlining tour with Circa Survive is keeping the sets to a controlled length in order to save the singers’ voices.

When it’s suggested he would need no such favor, he deadpanned, “Right.

My fingers never get tired.”

A good thing, given the amount of time the modern rock quintet spends on the road. McAlhaney said the band won’t rehearse together for this upcoming tour because of the length of the previous one and the shortness of the break between.

“We just played these songs a bajillion times in a row, so we’ll likely just have an e-mail exchange about a set list and that’s it,” he said.

McAlhaney said he’ll fly in to Richmond (Virginia, the next tour stop) and meet the rest of the band a day before the show.

Anberlin, with co-headliner Circa Survive and opener Foxy Shazam, will play the Newport Music Hall Saturday, Jan. 22. Tickets are $18.50/$21. Call 1800-745-3000.

The heavy touring schedule is dictated in part because the band has a new record out — Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place hit late in 2010 and debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 Albums.

“The last record (New Surrender), we felt like it was rushed,” McAlhaney explained. “We signed with Universal Republic just after Cities came out, and they wanted new material. We were tour-

years, Punch Brothers combines traditional acoustic instruments (mandolin, guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass), players with mad skills and repertoire from extended, composed pieces to covers of

ing and writing — it ended up being OK. “But we decided for Dark to really take our time,” he said. “It was very planned-out. We had a clear idea of what we were trying to get at.”

Which was a record more moody and challenging while retaining the band’s anthemic approach.

Another way Dark finds the band stretching itself is in arrangements. McAlhaney said one of his favorite songs on the record is Pray Tell, which is very percussion-heavy.

“At one point in the recording process, there were seven people playing drums in the studio,” he said. “It was very cool mixing all that percussion.”

The title of the album is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem, and McAlhaney said he was sold right away.

“We are just poachers (of the line), but to me, it’s a dark but hopeful phrase,” he explained. “This record has more of

2010 release, Antifogmatic, Punch Brothers return to the Lincoln Theatre stage Monday, Jan. 24.

Tickets are $26. Call (614) 469-0939.

a darker feel, but no matter how tough life is, there’s a light at the end.”

McAlhaney said signing with a major label wasn’t necessarily planned, but it fit with the group’s goals.

“There’s a saying that if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans,” McAlhaney said. “But obviously, in everything you do, you have goals and a plan to achieve them. We have a group agreement on what we’ll do and what we won’t do. As long as there’s growth and momentum — we just don’t want to spin our wheels.

“The bigger the band gets, the better,” McAlhaney said with a laugh. “I love the idea of art for art’s sake, but art doesn’t pay the rent.”

For more from The Beat’s interview with Anberlin guitarist Christian McAlhaney, read the BeatBlog at www.ThisWeekNews.com.

Cumin Indian Restaurant a fine replacement for Bayleaf When I heard Bayleaf was going out of business, I grimaced. The Polaris-area restaurant was one of my favorite places for Indian food.

But when I heard the Cuisine of India people were taking over, I cheered up. You see, like Bayleaf, Cuisine of India is modern and authentic, serving both beloved classics and lots of contemporary-style dishes popular in cosmopolitan Indian cities.

So when I waltzed into Cumin Indian Restaurant my expectations were pretty high. After a few visits, I realized this newbie was destined to shoot to the top of my Indian food list.

Other than closing off the formerly open kitchen, Cumin’s owners haven’t performed any drastic cosmetic makeovers. It’s still a big, modern, open and airy room with few, if pleasant, decorations (chiefly multi-hued, saucer-shaped chandeliers) to distract visitors from

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While buffets aren’t usually my thing, Cumin’s is, especially on weekends. That’s when the chaat station gets cranking, and I’m an inveterate fan of chaat.

If you’ve never had them, chaats are Indian street-sold snacks that are meat-free riots of bold condiments, wild flavors and manifold textures. Fortunately, this generalization held true on a recent — and blissfully lengthy — lunchtime stopover at Cumin’s great buffet.

In front of a longish line and manning a mammoth round pan, the buffet’s chaat guy began with a crispy puck of a potato pancake.

To that he added a scoop of soupy,

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The Mixed Kabob Platter at Cumin: lamb, mixed grill and chicken.

highly seasoned chickpeas. Then came the garnishing : tart yogurt; chutneys of coriander (spicy) and tamarind (sweet); diced raw onion, tomato and cilantro; plus a finishing dusting of exotic, eggy-tasting chaat masala. It’s a crazy mess to eat, but I find its push-me/pullme flavors and textures to be an incomparable delight.

Post-chaat, there’s a dizzying array of buffet choices — the thing goes on forever. I counted six meat entrees (two in kabob form); five veggie entrees; two soups; two rice dishes; a large salad/condiment bar and four desserts.

I liked everything I tried, but was especially fond of the Baigan Bharta (wonderful eggplant stew),

Aloo Cabbage (addictive mixed vegetable curry), and spicy, sweet and sour chicken dumplings.

As for non-buffet appetizers, the huge, dense and firm chilimarinated homemade cheese kabobs (Paneer Shaslik, $9) had a great grilled flavor but their accompanying veggies (onion, garlic, peppers) were disarmingly uncooked.

For an explosive curry, go for the Cumin Melthi Harydi ($12).

Featuring a complex, aromatic, rich, carrot-colored gravy with a sneaky heat, the head-spinning dish was cleverly equipped with refreshing, mouth-cleansing sticks of ginger. Awesome.

On the tamer side, but still terrific, was Cumin’s sizzling grill

($15, easily feeds two). Like a giant platter of mixed Indian fajitas, it’s a great way to sample several items on Cumin’s large menu.

The “grill” was a round-up of about five kinds of smokily seared, delicious kabobs, my favorites of which were Haryali Tikka (juicy, boneless chicken chunks in a zesty pesto) and Lajwab Seek kabob (huge logs of ground lamb with minced green pepper, onion and cilantro). The mammoth dinner came with fluffy basmati rice and excellent dal.

While none of Cumin’s desserts disappointed, the Gajar Halwa ($4 — milky, cardamomy, nutty and fruity shredded carrots) — was especially fun to munch.

To read G.A. Benton’s blog, visit ColumbusDiningGuide.com

Greek diner near UA takes simple approach to food, ambience Yiagos and Stratis Kostoglou had simplicity in mind when opening Greek to Me. The menu, for the time being, is a small and manageable collection of breakfast and lunch fare served in a humble dining room with blue and white gingham tablecloths and some Greek accents.

“We want to make sure we serve good Greek food. We don’t want to make things complicated,” said Stratis, who opened the store with his father at 4697 Reed Road in Northwest Columbus.

The breakfast items consist of the familiar – omelets, pancakes, French toast and typical sides, such as bacon, links and home fries. The lunch menu offers similarly approachable dishes, such as gyros,

subs, moussaka, pastitsio and souvlaki. They wanted prices to be inviting, too, as most entrees run between $6 and $8.

It is the first restaurant for the pair. Yiagos worked as a steward on Greek cargo ships, helping coordinate three meals a day, not to mention private functions, for 30 hungry sailors. He eventually opened A Matter of Steak in Westland Mall, which he later sold. Meanwhile, his son was an assistant kitchen manager at Texas Roadhouse.

Greek to Me takes over 1,300 square feet of space that was most recently occupied by Pizzano’s. It seats 50.

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek

Yiagos Kostoglou shaves gyro meat in his new restaurant, Greek to Me, at 4697 Reed Road in Northwest Columbus on Jan. 13.

The Kastaglous have loftier ambitions for their bill of fare. They want to slowly introduce daily specials and hope to have a beer-and-wine license in place by this spring. They also plan to have dinner services available by summer.

The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch daily. For more information, call 614-725-4323.

restaurant business kept tugging at his apron strings.

Lashish offers a variety of Middle Eastern sides, including falafel, babagannoush and hummus, plus soups, salads, kebabs and fish dishes. It also serves up several Greek classics, such as pastitsio and moussaka, and an array of desserts.

He stresses freshness in his products. For example, he is grinding the meat in-house for his kebabs Lashish, the Greek, offering a large and rea- and burgers. Most items are $6 to $10. Large ensonably priced Mediterranean menu, has opened in trees are in $12 range. There is no alcohol.

Northwest Columbus.

The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner hours The restaurant, owned by Mohammad Ballouz, daily. For more information, call 614-457-5800. has taken over 1,200 square feet of space at 788 Bethel Road, ramping up the international flair of the Olentangy Square shopping center, which includes Banana Leaf (vegetarian Indian), Min-Ga (Korean) and Bamboo Café (Vietnamese, Thai).

■ Even wine connoisseurs The cornerfind refreshment elsewhere. stone of the menu Wine Wisdom columnist Chris is genuine Dillman recommends Jolly shawarma: skewFor a video of this restau- ered sheets of Pumpkin Brewery’s Oro de Calrant, visit www.thisweek- lamb and beef, abaza online at www.thisweeknews.com/foodandwine. marinated for 48 news.com/foodandwine.

Chris Dillman hours, cooked on a vertical rotisserie. The juices of tomatoes and Recipe of the week lemon, placed at the top of the assemblage, gloss the meat and add flavor.

“You’ve got to go to New York to get this,” Ballouz said.

With the pita option, he brushes the bread with hummus and adds Bermuda onion, mint and tart sumac. He finishes it off on a Panini grill to crisp the bread. A shawarma platter is an alternative.

Ballouz is a familiar face on the central Ohio restaurant scene, having worked for a number of years for Niki Chalkias, the proprietor of FisherRaspberry brie chicken, courtesy of John man’s Wharf restaurants.

“Guido” Magnacca of Cimi’s Bistro.

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Netotian rolls first 300 game for Rams There are magic numbers in every sport. These are numbers that define great achievement in that particular endeavor.

As most of us know, 300 is the magic number in bowling. It’s a perfect game, all strikes.

When it is done, it is etched in one’s sports storybook forever.

For Whitehall senior LARRY Nick Netotian, LARSON magic time came on Dec. 10 at Holiday Lanes in a match against Eastmoor Academy.

For the first time in his young life, Netotian knocked down all the pins on his first throw every frame and nailed down his first 300 game.

“It is what you dream of and you shoot for from the time you start bowling,” said Netotian,

By Jeff Mills/ThisWeek who is averaging 222.6 a game Kayla Cook of Watterson drives past Hilliard Darby’s Bri Rispress during the host Eagles’ 49-29 victory Dec. 28. Watterson travels to DeSales on Saturday for a refor the Rams. “My highest before match with the Stallions. The Eagles prevailed 54-50 in overtime on Dec. 18. was a 279. At the beginning of my perfect game I felt pretty good, but it wasn’t really anything special until after the eighth frame when I knew the possibilities that were ahead.

“I got nervous and then this crowd formed behind me, which added to the pressure. I tried really hard to focus on my mark and let my ball do the work.

When I came to the final frame I was a little bit shaken. I was a bit lucky in the frame before, so I felt a little more confident, and when I rolled the last ball I knew I had missed my mark, but I knew I didn’t miss it by

By AARON BLANKENSHIP heading into a league game last much and my dream of a 300 ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday against Columbus game was realized. When the School for Girls. pins all fell, I felt so unbelievThe first game this season be“Their offense is based on ably relieved and it was just tween the Watterson and Depenetration and we can’t allow so sweet. I hope to bowl for Sales high school girls basketball Tyler Craig to beat us off the my lifetime and hopefully I will teams left the Eagles’ defense drive as often as she did the last get another 300, but no doubt I with plenty to work on for Sat- time we faced DeSales,” Woodwill always remember this first urday’s CCL rematch at DeSales. ford said. “Craig went to the one.”

Watterson won the first free-throw line a lot and she set Talking about his strengths matchup 54-50 in overtime on up a lot of good looks for Deas a bowler, the Whitehall Dec. 18, although the Stallions’ Sales with her passing, so we’ll standout said, “I think that offense found success in driv- need to take away her driving being able to adjust to differing to the basket and then pass- lanes with good team defense. ent lane conditions is one of ing the ball to open players after They have a lot of good athmy plusses and bowling good Eagles defenders reacted. letes who move well, so all of when it matters is another posThe Eagles forced overtime our kids will need to guard itive. Bowling is a very intense when Kayla Cook made two foul everybody well.” game and you absolutely have shots with 12 seconds left to tie Craig was 9-for-13 from the to stay on track. Confidence, the game at 45 and Celeste free-throw line and scored 15 like all sports, is so important.

Cantwell blocked a shot at the points in the first Watterson-DeYou are taught what to do to buzzer.

Sales game. be successful, but how you Watterson then hit nine of 13 The Eagles beat Hilliard apply that teaching is what free throws in overtime, with Davidson 57-47 last Saturday counts. You have to trust your Gabby Byorth making six of to improve to 11-1 overall headthrow more and more as you those. Byorth finished with 17 ing into last Tuesday’s nonget more experienced. points and Ashley Andracki had league game against Gahanna.

“I started bowling when I was 14 to lead the Eagles.

Andracki scored 13 points, Regi6 years old over at Main Lanes.

Watterson coach Tom Wood- na Smith had nine points and My parents bowled every Friford said his team has to do a Emily Byorth, Gabby Byorth day night and my dad coached better job of stopping the Stal- and Cantwell each scored eight me a lot when I was just startlions from driving to the basket against Davidson. ing. As I got stronger personin the rematch.

Watterson, which is 4-0 in ally my throw got stronger, and The Stallions beat Ready 55- the CCL, made 22 of 30 foul at about the age of 13, I began

By Jeff Mills/ThisWeek 52 last Saturday to improve to See LARSON, page A8 The Eagles’ Regina Smith shoots a jumper over Molly Bretz of Hilliard Darby on Dec. 28.

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City League Notes

South Division boys race in upheaval, up for grabs

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The race for the City League-South Division high school boys basketball title hasn’t taken shape as expected.

Marion-Franklin returned an experienced cast after winning the league and was a Division I district runner-up a year ago, but the Red Devils stumbled in the first round of conference play with losses to Independence (84-77 on Dec. 14) and Eastmoor Academy (7263 on Dec. 17).

The Red Devils then underwent a coaching change when 13-year veteran Orlando McCoy resigned Jan. 11 for what athletics director Scott Williams called “personal reasons.”

In the midst of the adversity that Marion-Franklin has endured, Walnut Ridge was leading the conference at 6-0 and Independence was 5-1 before

last Tuesday, when the Scots played Marion-Franklin and the 76ers faced Africentric.

Marion-Franklin (4-2) was followed in the league standings before last Tuesday by Africentric and Eastmoor (33), Briggs (2-4), Columbus West (1-5) and Columbus South (0-6).

“We’re just now getting to the halfway point, so hopefully we can keep it going,” Scots coach Jason Bates said.

The leadership of 6-foot-4 senior forward Austin Traylor and the improved play of 6-10 post player Dwayne Bazemore have helped the Scots take a step forward this season.

Traylor, who is expected to sign in February to play football for Wisconsin, is averaging 19 points, 10 rebounds and more than three assists. Bazemore also is averaging more than 10 rebounds.

Senior Rico Spears and junior Fred Hardgrove have been other key contributors.

Bates is looking forward to his team’s game at 2 p.m. Saturday at Capital University against Dublin Coffman in the Ohio Play-By-Play Classic.

While the Scots were 8-2 overall before last Tuesday, the Shamrocks are 7-2 and received votes in the first Division I state poll.

“It’s a chance to redeem ourselves against the OCC,” said Bates, whose team lost to Pickerington North 60-59 on Dec. 27. “It’s important because it helps you when it comes to tournament time.”

Independence has found success this season behind a more balanced offense.

After 2010 graduate Brandon Tyler was the team’s leading scorer last season, senior guards Allen Gulick, Savaughn Collins and James Young

and 6-7 junior post player Terry Hopewell all have had a hand in the team’s offense.

During a 108-83 win over West last Friday, Young scored 30 points, Gulick had 22 and Collins (13) and Hopewell (12) also finished in double figures.

The 76ers entered last Tuesday on a four-game winning streak after nearly upsetting state-ranked Gahanna (6867 loss) on Dec. 29.

“We played well that night and I’m sure they didn’t play quite as well as they had been playing,” coach Tom Cripe said of the game against Gahanna. “We did everything but win that game. But we’ve kept playing well since then. Our defense has kind of picked it up and we’ve had different people do it on different nights.”

Lebanon Spann IV, who had been serving as Marion-Franklin’s junior varsity coach, is now the interim var-

sity coach.

Under McCoy, the Red Devils went 18-5 overall and 12-2 in the City-South last season. He also led Marion-Franklin to the City-South title in 2006.

The Red Devils, who feature one of Ohio’s top 2012 recruits in 6-8 junior Elijah Macon as well as senior guard Jeremy McCoy and senior forward Nate Spears, had won four of five before playing the Scots last Tuesday.

•NUBIANS GIRLS CHARGE AHEAD — The Africentric girls basketball team seems poised to win a sixth consecutive City-South championship.

The Nubians had little trouble beating expected title contender Eastmoor 80-59 on Jan. 11 and outscored the other six teams in the conference by an average of 82.6 points during the See CITY, page A8

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Including the state football championships won by Hartley and Watterson, non-public schools won five of the six state football titles and 19 of the 27 total state team championships awarded by the Ohio High School Athletic Association during the 2010 fall season.

If the OHSAA has its way, it could be tougher in the future for non-public schools — which comprise just 12 percent of the OHSAA’s more than 800 members — to dominate at such a high level.

On Jan. 13, the organization’s Board of Directors unanimously placed a new bylaw up for vote based on recommendations from the OHSAA’s Competitive Balance Committee that would be the first step toward chang-

ing how schools are assigned to tournament divisions.

The proposed new bylaw, which initially would be instituted for football, boys and girls soccer and girls volleyball in the fall, boys and girls basketball in the winter, and baseball and softball in the spring, will be voted on

by OHSAA member schools in May. The proposal states that each school will be placed into tournament divisions based on its sport-by-sport “athletic count,” which would be based on a three-part formula.

If approved, implementation of the formula would begin no later than the 2013-14 school year and would be determined every other year by the Board of Directors.

“The meetings we have conducted with the Competitive Balance Committee have been both productive and professional, and I believe the pro-

EAGLES Continued from page A7 shots in the first meeting with DeSales.

“One of our goals is to get to the foul line 20 times a game, and we made it there a seasonhigh 30 times against DeSales last time, so I’d like to see us keep that up,” Woodford said.

He said the Eagles will use various defensive schemes to try to create turnovers. Through 12 games, the Eagles were giving up just 36.4 points per contest.

“We have five different presses, and we use three to four of them every game,” Woodford said. “We’re going to continue to be aggressive on defense.”

Gabby Byorth said the Eagles will look to score in transition as much as possible.

Leading Watterson in scoring average through 12 games were Gabby Byorth (8.1 points), An-

posal from the group is fair and equitable and we will see some leveling of the playing field,” OHSAA Commissioner Dan Ross said in a press release. “Ohio is unique in that our public schools have the option to approve open-enrollment policies, but, at the same time, there’s no question that most non-public schools in the state have no geographical boundaries in which they can secure students, and the result has been a disproportionate number of championships won by those schools.”

All OHSAA schools currently are placed into tournament divisions based strictly on enrollment figures that the schools submit to the Ohio Department of Education.

The proposed three-part formula to establish “athletic counts” would require the OHSAA to include factors in three areas: school boundaries, socioeconomic

At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Watterson boys basketball, hockey, swimming and diving, and wrestling teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Last Friday — Lost to Hartley 34-32. Brad McCurdy scored 10 points. *Friday — DeSales at Otterbein Monday — Home vs. Zanesville Rosecrans Of note: The Eagles are 3-8 overall and 1-2 in the CCL. *CCL game HOCKEY *Friday — Dublin Scioto at Chiller Dublin

dracki (6.6), Cook (6.5), Margaret Masty (6.5), Emily Byorth (5.5), Cantwell (5.2) and Smith (4.8).

“We don’t have many post players, but we have fast guards, so we like to push the ball and score on fast breaks,” Gabby Byorth said.

Emily Byorth said that boxing out for rebounds will be crucial

*Saturday — DeSales at Chiller Easton Of note: The Eagles are 0-12 overall and 0-7 in the CHC. *Capital Hockey Conference game SWIMMING & DIVING Last Friday — Boys: Lost to Westerville Central 122-44; Girls: Def. Central 96-90 Friday — Centerville Invitational Saturday — Olentangy Liberty at St. Charles WRESTLING Jan. 12 — Lost to Centennial 74-6 Saturday — Amanda-Clearcreek Invitational Wednesday — Home vs. Whetstone

since the Eagles will be at a slight height disadvantage against DeSales.

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noticing that I could put a hook on my throw and get the ball into pockets, and from that time on I have done pretty well. If there is a weakness that I have it is that I haven’t done particularly well in tournament play and now as a senior I want to make major improvements in that aspect of my sport.”

Speaking about what bowling has done for him, Netotian said, “Bowling has taught me the importance of sticking with something and that Larry Larson is a former athletics director at carries over into lots of other aspects of my life. Grandview High School. He can be heard as I love my sport and I love being around people “Mr. High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM.

factors and tradition factors.

The “school boundary” factor would be divided into the categories of nonpublic schools with no boundaries, non-public schools with limited boundaries, public schools with statewide open enrollment, public schools with adjacent open enrollment and public schools with no open enrollment.

The “socioeconomic factor” would be determined by the number of free lunch participants.

The “tradition factor” would be determined by state championship game appearances, state tournament appearances and regional finals appearances.

Once all three factors are applied to the enrollment count, each school would have a sport-by-sport “athletic count” for purposes of tournament division assignments.

In central Ohio, schools that likely would be affected by some of the

changes would include DeSales, St. Charles and Ready, as well as Hartley and Watterson from the CCL, Columbus Academy from the MSL, traditional boys basketball and boys soccer power Worthington Christian and members of Columbus City Schools.

The OHSAA’s Competitive Balance Committee was formed in January 2010 in response to concerns raised by a group of school administrators in northeast Ohio. The committee met numerous times throughout 2010 in an attempt to identify competitive balance factors and to propose changes.

It was comprised of 29 school administrators and coaches from across the state from public and non-public schools. julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

CITY Continued from page A7 first round of league play. Africentric was seventh in the Division III state poll released Jan. 12 and is first in the area coaches poll.

Senior Raven Ferguson finished with 36 points, including three 3-pointers, in the win over Eastmoor. Seniors Kaylyn Daniel, Chelsea Chambers and Brittany Thomas, junior Kiyana Black and freshman Ayrielle Stith also have been key contributors.

Africentric, 11-2 overall and 8-0 in the league before playing Independence last Tuesday, lost to Brookhaven 42-38 on Dec. 2 and Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown 55-52 on Dec. 11.

Senior Brien Babbs has been out sick and junior Quanita Fair recently returned from an injury.

“We dropped a couple tough ones to Brookhaven and Hathaway Brown, but that was early when we were still trying to find our identity,” coach Will McKinney said. “We like to play some full-court man-to-man and mix a little matchup (zone) in there, and the first few games we were running primarily a

matchup.

“Raven is playing incredibly.

She’s just kind of started to get it together. I was pleased with how we played as a group (against Eastmoor).”

Eastmoor coach Jim Miranda wasn’t disappointed with his team’s performance against Africentric. The Warriors trailed 3222 at halftime before giving up 29 third-quarter points.

Senior forward Chelsey Radcliff, who finished with 25 points against the Nubians, has led a cast that also includes sophomore post player Tajanee Wells, senior post player Sade Lindsay and senior guard Brittney Boone.

Radcliff averages more than 19 points, and she and Wells each average nine rebounds.

Boone is among the area’s assists leaders at four per game.

The Warriors are second in the Division II area coaches poll behind Olentangy, with Big Walnut, Jonathan Alder and Hilliard Bradley rounding out the top five.

“We were only down by 10 at the half (against Africentric), and the girls played well in a good playoff-caliber type of game,” Miranda said. “We like

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