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Merchants: Changes OK, loss of parking not

By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Downtown business owners in general support the coming improvements to the intersection of state Route 37 and U.S. 62, but they have some concerns as well.

Several of them told The Independent that they worry about losing business during the construction period, and they were nearly unanimous in protesting the loss of several parking spaces in an already crowded downtown parking area.

“The turn lanes need to be widened and actual turn lanes put in, and they should definitely do that,” said Gary Brown, a barber who has been downtown for 43 years. “But they want to take away parking across the street for that whole area, and to me that’s not good because we don’t have enough parking as it is.

“To take away five or six spaces — you can’t say you want to bring business to downtown and take away parking,” he said. “That’s not logical.”

Jim and Cathy Wolgamot, owners of

Main Street Café since 1999, said planned upgrades to Post Office Alley behind the downtown businesses probably won’t help their business because they cannot have a rear entrance.

“I’m a little concerned about the loss of parking,” Wolgamot said. “It’s been discussed a little bit (among business owners). I don’t think the traffic makes a lot of difference. Parking is the big issue.

“They talk about the alley, but that won’t help us because I can’t have a rear entrance through my kitchen. A lot of

our customers are not spring chickens any more.”

Cliff Shellenbarger, whose father opened Shellenbarger Oil at the corner of Main and Coshocton in 1952, said that the state of Ohio does not have a good outreach manner with property owners, but he supports the upgrades.

“It’ll hurt us while they’re doing it, but in the long run it will help us,” Shellenbarger said. “Traffic will flow through a lot easier.

“But I think the time they’re giving themselves, six to eight months, is ridicu-

Musical production

lous for a time limit. I’d like to see it done quicker. I’m not sure we’d survive the slow-down we’re going to have. I mentioned that to the state and their concern was, Who cares? With the economy the way it’s been I don’t know if we’ll survive that.”

Phil Burgel, a member of the village’s planning and zoning commission and a downtown real estate agent at Key Properties, said he was looking forward to Post Office Alley being imSee MERCHANTS, page A2

Monroe Township

SCHOOL SPIRIT Director: ‘Phantom’ challenges students at JMHS

Trustees eye salt storage, volunteer EMTs, zoning updates

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A darker musical production proves to be challenging for Johnstown-Monroe High School students, who will perform Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” in March.

Director Jeff Rings said he’s thrilled his students have the opportunity to perform such an intricate musical.

“We are just one of four schools in the state of Ohio that has rights this year to perform it and this is the first year its been released for schools to perform,” Rings said.

With difficult musical ranges, an elaborate set and sophisticated costuming, Rings said it’s a much bigger production than students are accustomed to performing.

“The music itself is very difficult. Ranges are extreme and harmonies are unusual and challenging,” Rings said. “It is very much an opera, so the youth of their voices do not lend themselves to that big opera sound. It’s a challenge to try and create an opera kind of sound in a high-schooler’s voice safely.”

Rings said the play’s intense acting also challenges students.

“Between Phantom and his mind control over Christine, and Christine kind of being this emotionally damaged young girl who’s confused about everything in life — they’re just pretty intense characters for kids to develop,” Rings said.

Rings’ son, Evan, will play The Phantom.

“The music is fairly challenging,” Evan Rings said, “however, the dancing and getting into such a dark role is a great step against my personality.

“As high-schoolers this is far over our

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek

Northridge High School senior Tony Stanley cheers as the Vikings get a foul called in their favor during the second half of their game at Johnstown-Monroe High School on Feb. 4. Northridge won, 52-48. To read more about the game, see Sports, page A5.

At their Feb. 7 meeting, Monroe Township Trustees discussed building a new salt tipple for storage, revising the township zoning resolution, and reviewing the fire department budget in anticipation of submitting the township’s annual budget, due April 1.

Township maintenance supervisor Bill Smith said the trustees are just beginning to evaluate the potential cost of a new storage facility for road salt and do not yet have estimates.

“We have not run the numbers yet, so we really do not have an idea,” Smith said. “We’re hoping we can do it for less than $25,000 but we really have not started yet. We’ve never built one before. What we build it out of will dictate the cost, so until we get some hard figures back I can’t really say.”

The township is responsible for 22 miles of road, which it can ordinarily cover in about three hours using two trucks in its fleet of three. The major roadways in the township are state or county maintained. In heavy weather, the township might do additional roads, but the state and county do not cover township roads, Smith said.

“Typically they won’t touch a township road,” he said, “but if I’m on my way somewhere from one road to another and it needs it I’ll drop my plow to open it up. But we don’t do it all the time.

You just exercise your common sense.”

Trustees also discussed the township zoning resolution. Smith said there were no particular changes under consideration, but the resolution has not been updated since 2001.

“We’re hoping to begin that in the next two months,” Smith said. “We’re going to go over the whole thing and take advice from the (Licking County) planning commission. They know all the See TRUSTEES, page A3

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J-M, Northridge superintendents

Districts hope state can balance student needs, climate realities

By JENNA GANT ThisWeek Community Newspapers Johnstown-Monroe and Northridge Local Schools both have both seen their calamity days dwindle during the last several weeks as the area received multiple snow and ice storms.

As of Feb. 8, both districts canceled school five times due to inclement weather. After the first three, according to current state law, any school days canceled must be made up.

The General Assembly may help districts like Johnstown-Monroe and Northridge get a reprieve on their snow

days. Ohio lawmakers are debating two bills that would increase the number of schools’ calamity days from three to five.

The Senate Education committee started discussing Senate Bill 18 last week.

Similarly, State Rep. Casey Kozlowski, of the 99th district, helped introduced House Bill 36, which would also increase calamity days from three to five.

“I have a few school districts that have used six calamity days,” Kozlowski said, “We’ve had a long harsh winter and we still have the rest of Feb-

ruary and March to get through.”

Northridge Local Schools superintendent John Shepard said his district would be “grateful for any help that we might get.

“I believe we should be making up that time, however when you’re the person who has to make that decision… you keep the safety first,” Shepard said, “You don’t really worry about the instructional time that you are losing.”

He said he would ask legislators to give districts flexibility.

“What works in an urban school may not work in a rural district,” Shepard said. “I think allowing districts the flex-

ibility and the responsibility for making up the time without having to jump through the hoops of adding it to the end of the year.”

Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools superintendent Damien Bawn said he doesn’t have a problem with three calamity days.

“I know I’m not necessarily in the majority on that,” Bawn said. “I think there are a number of different ways that they can enable for making them up. Maybe adding time to the day and that sort of thing.”

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West Licking Joint Fire District

2.5-mill property tax levy slated for May 3 ballot

By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The West Licking Joint Fire District met Thursday to discuss its annual budget, which is due April 1. Fiscal officer Elisabeth Krugh reported that the board had submitted to the board of elections a five-year, 2.5-mill property tax renewal levy for the May 3 ballot. If approved by the voters, the levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $76.56 annually. The levy would raise $2.4-million annually of the district’s total budget of $9.1-million, Krugh said.

In other business, human resources of-

ficer Terra Woolard told board members the district had been quoted an increase in health insurance premiums of 38 percent, based upon a particularly bad year for claims, but that it was likely that the insurance coverage and deductibles would be adjusted to bring the proposed increase to 15 percent or even as low as 7 percent.

“It’s across the board,” Woolard said.

“We had a wide spectrum of medical conditions last year.”

The district has 63 fulltime employees eligible for the health insurance plan and another 28 part-time employees who are not eligible for health insurance.

Fire chief David Fulmer said that this

year’s increase should be compared to last year’s increase of zero percent, when the claims experience was better.

The board also approved a staff recommendation by assistant fire chief Harold Williams to contract with a new medical director at Mt. Carmel East. The medical director is responsible for writing prescriptions and procedures that are followed by fire fighters and EMT technicians during emergency responses.

“It’s standing orders, where if you see this condition, this is what I want you to do,” Williams said.

Currently, the board pays $12,000 annually to contract with Ohio State Uni-

versity for medical director services.

Williams recommended that the district contract with Dr. Paul Zeeb at a cost of $7,300 annually, as part of a cooperative communications and support district, the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Center.

The primary job of the medical director is to write the medical protocols that must be followed by EMTs, including the administering of drugs and procedures to be followed during responses.

“It’s the ABC’s of what you should be doing,” Williams said. “If you have someone having a heart attack, you assess them, maintain their airway, check their vitals.

Paramedics, you start your IV, do an EKG, it’s just a prescription, a list of steps you take.”

Williams said it was more appropriate to work with Mt. Carmel, because the district uses that hospital system much more frequently than any other, with 47 percent of runs to Mt. Carmel East, 9 percent to Licking Memorial Hospital, 4 percent to Children’s Hospital, 3 percent to Grant and 1 percent to OSU, with the balance to different facilities around the area.

In other business, the board recommended 3 percent pay increases to nonunion employees, to match increases given last fall to union firefighters.

Merchants: Intersection changes OK, loss of parking is not Continued from page A1 proved and utilities upgraded.

“They’ve been patching (the roadway) out here and that seems to be a never-ending task,” Burgel said. “Getting Post Office Alley

done is going to be a big benefit for the business owners on this side. It’s very congested and tough to navigate, and it’s really bad with snow and ice the way we’ve had recently.

“Right now traffic is an issue

for anyone trying to exit Post Office Alley onto Coshocton. Traffic flies by pretty quick.”

Despite any misgivings, all the business owners supported the turn lanes.

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Brown said when he first opened his barbershop in 1968, downtown was an active retail area. Virtually all of that business is gone now, but he believes the downtown exodus might have bottomed out.

“I’d like to hope so,” Brown said. “You see people moving into town, but it’s different types. It’s more service than retail, and maybe that’s okay. There are a lot of things you can put downtown. But you need parking no matter what.”

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only dinner is to raise funds for new bleachers, new grills and repairs to the shelter houses at Parker Park. The park board is working on plans to upgrade the entire park.

Parker Park can be accessed off Main Street in downtown Alexandria.

Cream of the Crop 4-H Club, a newly formed club embracing a full range of projects, will meet at 3 p.m. on Sundays, Feb. 20 and March 20, at Highwater Church, 1213 Dutch Lane NW in Newark.

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Fire Chief Dudley Wright said the township was reviewing the department’s annual budget of $2.2-million following the passage last fall of a 3 mill increase in property tax. He said negotiations to continue service in Liberty Township are continuing; Liberty contracts with Monroe rather than operating its own fire service.

Trustees approved the purchase of two interoperable radios that will allow the department to communicate with hospitals and Delaware and Franklin County emergency responders.

“They authorized that purchase,” Wright said. “It’s a 50-50 grant from the volunteer fire system program of Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the fire department.”

Wright said he is also exploring whether to expand the township’s volunteer program to include emergency medical technicians.

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the people who came to Columbus looking for work, with few, if any, resources, and just simply ED needed a LENTZ place to stay.

In January 1902, a reporter for the Columbus Press-Post followed several of these people and wrote a rather lengthy story about what he discovered about their lives: “There are several men in Columbus who are each worth $1,000,000, which at 6 percent interest, means an income of $60,000, or nearly $200 per day … But it is not with the rich man this article is intended to deal …

The poorest man is the one who lands in the city with 25 cents in his pocket, and must live upon this until he can find something to do that will bring him another 25 cents, if no more.

“The man with 25 cents still views the world hopefully. He discovers that it will carry him through one day in comparative comfort. There is 5 cents for his breakfast, 5 cents for his dinner, 5 cents for his supper and 10 cents remaining for a bed in a lodging house.

“There are numerous lodging houses in Columbus, whose signs say that a night’s lodging may be secured within at prices ranging from 10 to 15 cents. To put it in round figures, a canvass was made of ten of these ‘hotels’ and it was learned that an average of 20 men per night — all the year round — lodge in each of these establishments.

“There is a sitting room, dignified by the title of ‘office,’ usually upon the walls of which the far-seeing proprietor has hung framed rules and regulations,

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Columbus and America have spent much of the last quartercentury attempting to come to grips with the problem of people with little or no money and very few places to spend the night.

But this is not a story about America today. I will leave that story to others. Today I would rather look a little more closely at how people with few resources lived a century ago.

One-hundred years ago, some people who had lost everything due to bad decisions, bad attitudes or simply bad luck left their old world behind and hit the road.

They became known as “tramps,” “hoboes” or “vagrants” and lived off the land and by their wits.

As far as I know, the definitive history of the vagrant in America has yet to be written. But a lot of good historical research seems to point to the simple fact that outsiders and other just plain unlikable people have a long history in our country. More than one historian has noted that more than a little of this country was founded and settled by such people.

Eventually, many — if not most — of these people settled down, found a calling, a living or a career and no longer drifted across the land.

Every town of any size in America has had its share of people who simply did not fit in.

Many lived on the edges of the town, did their best to stay out of the way and got on with their lives.

In the early history of Columbus, a number of rather disreputable types — nominally led by a man named Jones — founded a settlement of their own called “Jonesburgh” near the intersection of Naghten Street and Cleveland Avenue, a place that was then “out in the country.” It soon became an open marketplace for thieves, robbers and other nasty people. The “village,” such as it was, became a local center of drink, dissolution and disease and was in short order closed down by local residents who did not like to have such a place so close to the state capital.

One could assume that the good citizens of Columbus who drove out the bad people of Jonesburgh thought they had rid the city of its unwanted residents once and for all. If, indeed, they thought so, they of course were sadly mistaken.

Columbus, like every American city, would always have a vice district — an area that through much of the 1800s would come to be called the “Badlands.” The state capital would also always have people who literally lived at the edges of the town and who subsisted on whatever they might scavenge.

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made up in style somewhat like Sunday School mottos, reading thus: “‘Anyone retiring with his shoes on will forfeit his bed.’

‘Sleeping in the office strictly forbidden.’ ‘Beds must be paid for in advance.’

“There are, however, permanent lodgers also in the 10- and 15-cent hostelries. The majority of these have the 15-cent beds.

These beds are located in small rooms hardly larger than the private lockers in the athletic clubman’s club house … In the rooms or stalls, there is a single iron bed, one chair and hooks for hanging up clothing … The lodgers who expend 15 cents a night for a sleeping place are many of them clerks on small salaries, some of them from the great army of men who work in the wholesale houses and other big establishments where hundreds of men are employed.

“The ambitious and manly boy who came to the city from his country home last autumn to find work in town writes to his mother dating his letter ‘hotel’this and that, and little does the good woman dream of how dreary is the place called hotel, where her son is spending the long winter nights, sending home every cent he can spare.

“Of course, there are better things in store for the boy, for he is gritty, but at present he is bravely doing the best he can and does not find a cheap lodging house unendurable.”

For many young people coming to a town growing and changing in early 20th-century America, the 10- to 15-cent hotel was a first step to a better life.

Perhaps in our own time, similar places still are.

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Other lead performers are seniors Katelyn Mansell, who will play Christine, Casey Miller will play Raoul, Kaitlyn Sapp will portray Carlotta and junior Alex Moore will be the tenor opera singer.

The lead actors all have understudies who will perform at the Saturday matinee.

Johnstown resident Inalee Tan is choreographing the musical.

Rings designed the elaborate set and some of his students and their dads are helping construct the backdrop.

Rings said everyone should have a great time at this year’s musical.

“They’ll enjoy the aspects of the special effects and the scenery and the costuming is over the top,” Rings said. “The music’s amazing and it’s just going to be the biggest show that we’ve

ever had here in Johnstown.”

A big production does means bigger costs.

Rings said an average school musical costs around $11,000 to $13,000. “Phantom of the Opera” will cost about $20,000.

Choir boosters hosted a silent auction last fall to help pay for part of the production costs, but Rings said the music program wouldn’t likely see a profit.

“As long as we get the house full for all of the performances we should at least break even,” he said.

Tickets at $10 are available at the Performing Arts Center lobby from 9 to 11 a.m. each Saturday. They may also be purchased online at www.jhschoir.org and mailing the completed form with payment to the Johnstown Choir Boosters.

The performances are scheduled March 1113 at 7 p.m. each evening.

A matinee will be offered at noon on Saturday, March 12.

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Kozlowski said House Bill 36 would allow schools the flexibility to make up calamity days by lengthening the school day in 30-minute increments.

It also has an emergency clause that would make it effective immediately, Kozlowski said.

If that occurred, J-M and Northridge wouldn’t, as of now, have to make up any days at the end of the year.

Bawn said he would encourage the General Assembly to “balance the need for time for students to be focusing on academics and working with their teachers with the type of weather and road conditions that we often face here in Ohio.”

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5 YEARS. 1 PRICE. 0 CONTRACT. Obituaries BERKLEY Todd Allen Berkley, 45, of Johnstown, OH, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. A Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, February 7, 2011 at CR O U S E - K A U B E R SAMMONS FUNERAL HOME, 225 N. Main St., Johnstown, OH with Pastor Kenn Barton officiating.

Interment to follow at Green Hill Cemetery, Johnstown, OH. Todd was born on January 31, 1966 in Columbus, OH. He graduated from Johnstown-Monroe High School in 1984. Todd was employed by The Shelly Co. of Thornville, OH as a Plant Manager. He was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and fishing.

Todd enjoyed attending his son’s sporting events through the NYAA. Todd is survived by his loving wife of 14 years, Candy Berkley; his sons, John Allen and Daniel Stone; his mother, Ruth (Tavener) Berkley of Johnstown, OH; sister, Debbie (Jason) Wharton, brother, Chad (Magen) Berkley all of Centerburg, OH; nephew, Zachary Wharton; niece, Rileigh Collins; along with many good friends. Todd is preceded in death by his father John Berkley and nephew Caleb Berkley. Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday, February 6, 2011 from 2-5 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Todd Berkley Memorial Fund at PNC Bank, 39 S. Main St., Johnstown, OH 43031. An online memorial can be located at www.cksammons.com

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Johnstown-Monroe High School girls basketball coach Connie Allen has an idea of what to expect from fourth-seeded Marion Elgin.

The Johnnies face the Comets at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, at Gahanna in the opening round of the Division III district tournament. The Johnnies also played Elgin during a preseason scrimmage.

Allen expects the Comets will be

improved since the preseason meeting, but the scrimmage does give her a gauge on her team’s opponent.

“They have a really good point guard (5-foot-2 junior Jordy Ute) and a really good inside player (5-10 senior Haleigh Blevins) and good shooters to go with that,” said Allen, whose team was 4-15 overall and 3-10 in the MBC before playing Centerburg on Feb. 12. “I thought our draw was favorable for where we were seeded (26th of 28 teams). We had three choices on the bracket, and I thought we

went to the spot that was best for our team.”

The winner will play LindenMcKinley at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at Dublin Scioto in a second-round game.

Elgin is 15-4 overall and 9-4 in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference-Red Division.

In a 48-38 victory over Buckeye Valley on Feb. 8, Ute scored 22 points with four 3-pointers to lead the Comets, and Blevins added 11 points.

Kayla Mohr, a 5-10 senior forward, scored seven points and 5-7 junior for-

ward Paige Donahue had six.

“We need to do a good job defensively and be able to shut down their key players,” Allen said. “We need to be able to box out and get good rebounds on the defensive end as well as limit turnovers. We need to value the ball.”

Allen said a perfect example of that was on display in a 40-32 win at Fredericktown on Feb. 5. The Johnnies had a balanced attack with Laiken Valentine scoring nine points, Marissa Sheets and Sarah Thomas each scoring eight

points and Holly Sammons adding six.

“We need to play like we did at Fredericktown. If we play like that, we can compete with just about anyone,” Allen said. “We had balanced scoring, and we did a good job of not only taking care of the ball but also taking the best shot. We waited to take the best shot instead of taking the first shot. We also contained their shots and were getting points off steals.”

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Taylor electric on, off court Stevie Taylor is a whirlwind.

The dynamic and diminutive leader of the Gahanna Lincoln High School boys basketball team seems to be everywhere on the court when he plays.

The 5-foot11 point guard is either setting up a teammate, scoring a basket or causing conLARRY fusion for opLARSON ponents with his defense — and it has been that way for four years.

I recall hearing about Taylor when he was in middle school and his reputation has continued to build throughout his high school career.

In his last 44 games, the team that he has led has lost just two times — 58-48 to Pickerington North on Feb. 4 and 62-50 in a

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek Division I state semifinal last March against eventual cham- Matt Smith of Johnstown-Monroe shows his frustration after the Johnnies committed a foul in the final seconds of a 52-48 loss to visiting Northridge on Feb. 4. pion Massillon Jackson.

Taylor is a winner. His drive and passion for basketball are obvious. He has passed those attributes onto his teammates at Gahanna, and he will do the same next season when he begins playing at Ohio University.

By SCOTT HENNEN said. “We just didn’t do the lit“My drive to be successful ThisWeek Community Newspapers tle things we needed to do to begins with my family,” Taylor win.” said. “I feel like I have a lot of After clinching its first win“It was a tough loss,” junior responsibility carrying my last ning season under coach John Connor Burke said. “It was a fight name. My brother, Robbie, was Wheeler, the Northridge High for the MBC and we let it go.” a Gahanna Lincoln graduate in School boys basketball team Northridge started slowly 2008 and he paved the way for found itself in the race for the against Danville, trailing 14-9 me to be who I am, and I also MBC title. after one quarter. But senior Tony feel great responsibility to repBefore playing Loudonville Rios, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound cenresent the community of Gaon Feb. 11, the Vikings were ter, scored all seven of his points tied for second in the MBC with in the opening period. hanna. Our community has been Utica at 9-3, behind Frederick“I think our senior leadership behind everything that I have town (10-1). Centerburg was has really been great. I have aldone and I want to always exfourth at 7-5, followed by East ways been told that you win emplify what is good about our Knox (5-7), Loudonville (3-9), with senior leadership and we school and town.

Johnstown-Monroe (2-9) and have a lot of that this year,” “The other thing that pushes Danville (2-10).

Wheeler said. “Our seniors have me to succeed are my critics.

“For the first time in a long really been the difference beSome people look at the fact time, we’re in a title race, and cause they have the experience; that I am under 6 feet tall and that means a lot,” senior Justin they have great attitudes and sort of skinny and think that Howard said after the Vikings work really hard.”

I’m not physically strong improved to 11-6 overall by deIn addition to Howard, Nixon enough to compete at a high feating Danville 67-34 on Feb. and Rios, the seven-player senlevel and I am always out to 8 in an MBC contest. “It feels ior class includes Bill Andrews, prove them wrong. I have been great to be a part of a winning Caleb Higgins, Cody King and provided with the opportunity to team. In the last couple of years Cody Waller. show younger students that if we lost a lot of close games, so “We have pretty good team you make the most of what abilit feels good.” chemistry,” Burke said. “We ity you have, then you can be Northridge had its last windidn’t have that before and we successful. I try to use my abilning season in 2007-08, going have really started to jell toities to the fullest each and every 14-7 in the program’s final sea- gether.” time I play and since I am cerson under Brett Cahill. The Junior Aaron Estep led the tainly not a person of anger, I Vikings were 8-13 in their first Vikings with 20 points against channel all of what I do through season under Wheeler and 5- Danville. Howard added 12 my heart and through my brain.

16 last year. points and Burke had 10 points.

I try to handle every circum“We’re not in the driver’s seat Northridge held the Blue stance I face with composure (for a league title), but there is Devils to seven points in both and maturity and most of the still a chance,” Wheeler said the second and third quarters time it has worked. after the Danville game. “We and six in the fourth quarter.

“By being successful over the can’t really look ahead, only to “I could tell in warm-ups that last four years, I have taken on our next game. We don’t want we were going to start a little more and more responsibility to lose our sights on what we slow. It’s didn’t feel like we on the floor with my team and want to do.” came out hard. It took us a counow, in my last days as a GaThe Vikings’ title chances ple of quarters to get ready,” hanna Lincoln Lion, I feel more were made more difficult with Howard said. “Then we startand more pressure is on me to a 45-35 loss at Fredericktown ed to play good defense. We perform. As point guard and as on Feb. 5. Senior guard Nick were getting out in the passing our leader, I take personally Nixon was hit by a Frederick- lanes and getting loose balls for how we do on the court. If we town player and had one of his easy points.”

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek teeth go through a lip. lose, I feel like I have failed my Howard said he wasn’t surNorthridge’s Justin Howard (10) looks on as teammate Aaron Estep fights for the ball with Tim “It was a really hyped up See LARSON, page A8 Sayer of Johnstown on Feb. 4.

See ROUNDUP, page A8 game for both teams,” Howard

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Johnstown-Monroe seniors Frank Chambers (left) and Patrick Benton recently signed letters of intent to play college football. Chambers, a linebacker, is going to Morehead State and Benton, a punter and kicker, is headed to Dayton.

GIRLS Continued from page A7 •Northridge will open Division III district tournament play against Caledonia River Valley at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 16, at Scioto.

River Valley, which also is the Vikings, is 10-8 overall and 9-4 in the MOAC-Red Division.

“We tried to stay away from our own league, and I didn’t want to play on a Saturday,” said coach Ashley Holmberg, whose team is 9-10 overall and 6-7 in the MBC. “We don’t play well on Saturdays after a week of practice without playing a game.”

River Valley snapped a fourgame losing streak with a 44-28 win over Buckeye Valley on Feb. 4. Senior Taylor Bradley scored 14 points and sophomore guard Courtney Rengert added 10.

In a 67-66 loss to Elgin on

ROUNDUP Continued from page A7 prised by how well the Vikings have been playing.

“I think we have jelled because (Wheeler) had us do different things in the offseason from going to camps and working out,” he said. “We have really come together as a team.

Now we know what to expect from each other on the court, our spacing has been good and we talk a lot on the court. Everything has been coming together.”

Wheeler said the team also was getting great support from the community and students.

“Our crowds have been really getting into it,” Wheeler said.

“The support from the community has been great and it’s something that is great for the community and school.”

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At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Johnstown-Monroe and Northridge girls basketball teams: JOHNSTOWN *Feb. 5 — Defeated Fredericktown 40-32 *Feb. 12 — Played Centerburg Feb. 16 — Marion Elgin in first round of Division III district tournament, 6 p.m. at Gahanna. Winner plays Linden-McKinley in second round, 6 p.m.

Feb. 23 at Dublin Scioto.

Of note: The Johnnies were 4-15 overall and 3-10 in the MBC before

Jan. 27, sophomore Abby Guinther scored 18 points, 6-0 senior Hilary Klingel had 11 points and Bradley added 10 points.

The winner plays ninth-seeded Mount Gilead at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at Granville.

On Feb. 5, Northridge lost to Loudonville 56-50, giving up 40 first-half points to trail by 10 at the break. Keilah Ketron scored 16 points and Kelsey Garrabrant added 10 points with three 3-pointers.

Feb. 12.

NORTHRIDGE *Feb. 5 — Lost to Loudonville 56-50 *Feb. 10 — Def. East Knox 42-37 in game rescheduled from Jan. 20 *Feb. 12 — Played Utica Feb. 16 — Caledonia River Valley in first round of Division III district tournament, 6 p.m. at Dublin Scioto. Winner plays Mount Gilead in second round, 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at Granville.

Of note: The Vikings were 9-10 overall and 6-7 in the MBC before Feb. 12. *MBC contests

Northridge had won three of four before losing to the Redbirds.

“I’m really happy with the way we are playing,” Holmberg said. “We were playing really well except against Loudonville.

We were playing the best we had all year against Danville and Johnstown, but we didn’t show up in the first half against Loudonville.”

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Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Johnstown-Monroe and Northridge boys basketball and wrestling teams, and the Northridge swimming team: JOHNSTOWN BOYS BASKETBALL *Feb. 4 — Lost to Northridge 52-48.

Matt Smith scored 26 points and Taylor Atwood added 10 points. *Feb. 8 — Lost to Loudonville 44-43.

Smith led with 12 points and William Orr added eight points. *Feb. 11 — Played Fredericktown Feb. 14 — At Whitehall in game rescheduled from Feb. 1 and Feb. 2 because of bad weather *Feb. 16 — Home vs. Fredericktown in game rescheduled from Jan. 11 because of bad weather *Feb. 18 — Home vs. Centerburg Of note: The Johnnies were 5-11 overall and 2-9 in the MBC before Feb. 11.

NORTHRIDGE BOYS BASKETBALL *Feb. 4 — Defeated Johnstown 5248. Justin Howard scored 17 points and Nick Nixon added 15. *Feb. 5 — Lost to Fredericktown 4535 in game postponed from Dec. 10 because of football and Feb. 2 because of bad weather. Connor Burke scored 12 points and Howard added 11 points. *Feb. 8 — Def. Danville 67-34 *Feb. 11 — Played Loudonville Feb. 15 — At Tree of Life *Feb. 18 — At Utica Of note: The Vikings were 11-6 overall and 9-3 in the MBC before Feb. 11. *MBC contests

JOHNSTOWN WRESTLING Feb. 5 — Finished 12th (32) in 13-team All-North Tournament at Dublin Jerome behind champion Lancaster (236.5) *Feb. 12 — Competed in MBC tournament at Centerburg Feb. 18-19 — Division III sectional at Madison Plains NORTHRIDGE WRESTLING Feb. 5 — Finished 12th (129) in 23team John Deno Classic at The Plains Athens behind champion Athens (296.5). Thomas Williams was champion at 130 and both Jeffery Maynard (119) and Shane Mulligan (125) finished third. Bradley Verhovec (152) and Anthoney Verhovec (heavyweight) both were sixth and Wade Stischok (140) was eighth. *Feb. 12 — Competed in MBC tournament at Centerburg Feb. 18-19 — Division III sectional at Cardington *MBC contests NORTHRIDGE SWIMMING Feb. 5 — Boys: Finished tied for 11th (18) with Cambridge, New Concord John Glenn and Zanesville in 17-team Southeastern Ohio Swim League meet at Ohio University behind champion Granville (331). Beau Hammock was eighth (2:08.8) in the 200 freestyle; Girls: Finished 15th (15) in 18-team SEOSL meet behind champion Granville (400) Feb. 12 — Competed in Division II sectional at Columbus Academy Feb. 18 — Division II district meet at Ohio State

talks basketball with you, he displays that same electric personality he shows when he is on the court.

“Oh how I love the atmosphere of basketball,” he said. “I love having a team all having the same goal and that is simply to win. I will cherish all the wonderful memories this sport has provided me — going to Italy, playing AAU ball all over the country and, most of all, playing for Gahanna Lincoln. I have traveled the world by bouncing a basketball and bouncing that ball has provided me a chance for a college education and maybe what I love most; maybe when my mind is most free of problems and I am most relaxed is when it is just a hoop, the ball and me.”

Anyone who has seen Taylor play will understand. Anyone who hasn’t seen him play should do so in the coming weeks. Gahanna is lucky to have him.

I’ll see you at a game.

Johnstown residents to play college football helped Academy win its first MSL-Ohio Division title in 2009 and was named second-team allleague and special mention alldistrict. As a senior, he completed 94 of 164 passes for 1,184 yards and was named first-team all-league and honorable mention all-district.

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teammates, my school and my community, so I continue to hope I can take the excellent coaching I have had and use it to execute our game plan.”

In its run to a state semifinal last season, Gahanna upset Northland, the No. 1 team in most national polls at the time, 71-45 in a regional final, snapping the Vikings’ 37-game winning streak.

“Last year made such a difference in all of our basketball lives,” Taylor said. “We found out that hard work and believing in yourself truly pays off and that has resulted in a great team attitude this year. We are a cohesive group and we have nine seniors who relate well with each other. We all back each other up and we enjoy being with each other, and we really enjoy bringing students together within our school and helping to unify our Gahanna community.”

In my long tenure interviewing high school athletes, there are a great number who light up and Larry Larson is a former athletics director at visibly show you how much they love their sport, Grandview High School. He can be heard as and Taylor is a perfect example of that. When he “Mr. High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM.

Johnstown residents Josh Hill and Austin Peterman, members of the Columbus Academy football team, will play college football for Walsh University in North Canton and Valparaiso University in Indiana, respectively.

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The Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra and the Midland Theater will collaborate on Sunday, Feb. 27, for what organizers call “an amazing ride into outer space.�

The 7 p.m. concert “Voyage of Discovery� features Holst’s “The Planets,� synchronized with images from NASA space probes such as the Hubble telescope and the Mars rovers projected on a giant screen above the stage.

According to information from the orchestra, the show “will keep the audience on the edge of their seat for a wonderful ride through outer space,� accompanied by the orchestra.

Pop singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeffrey Gaines will perform at the Midland Theater at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 24 and 25.

Since Gaines’ self-titled debut recording was released in 1992, he has toured with Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, Sting and Tori Amos.

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Participants will learn about associate degree and certificate offerings in nursing, sonography, radiologic technology and surgical technology.

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Tickets, $25 general admission and $5 for students, will be available at the door or by calling the Midland Theater box office at (740) 345-5483.

In addition to the concert, a special performance and a “virtual workshop� supported by PNC Arts Alive funding will be offered via a live web feed to participating schools on Monday, Feb. 28. After the concert, students will have the opportunity to e-mail questions to conductor Timothy Weiss.

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