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Fired worker seeks reinstatement By NATE ELLIS ThisWeek Community Newspaper A former Pickerington building inspection administrator fired after pornography allegedly was found on his work computer is appealing the termination and asking to be reinstated to his job. An attorney for former Pickerington employee Paul Lane told a three-judge panel of Ohio’s Fifth District Court of

Appeals on Feb. 10 his client should be permitted to challenge his November 2009 firing before Pickerington’s Personnel Appeals Board. A decision from the court is expected within 60 days. The ruling will determine if Lane’s case can go before Pickerington’s Personnel Appeals Board, at which time he would seek reinstatement and back pay, his attorney said.

“If you give this guy his day in court, he can refute things,” attorney Michael Moses said. “If you don’t give the guy his day in court, you’re stuck with the city’s allegations.” During an approximately 40-minute hearing before the Fifth District Court of Appeals held Feb. 10 in Delaware, Ohio, Aaron Granger, an attorney for Pickerington, said Lane can’t appeal his termination to the city’s Personnel Ap-

peals Board because he was a department director. As such, Granger said, Lane was an “unclassified” employee and could be fired for any reason. He said the personnel appeals board doesn’t have jurisdiction over unclassified employees. “If he’s unclassified, he has no right to a hearing,” Granger said. “I think that’s clear.” Lane was fired Nov. 5, 2009 by Pick-

erington Police Chief Mike Taylor, who was serving as acting city manager at the time. Lane, a 10-year employee of the city, received a $63,068 annual salary. According to a termination memo, Taylor stated Lane was dismissed for “prohibited use of the Internet and viewing and retaining of pornographic materials on a city computer,” as well as See FIRED WORKER, page A2

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August levy may cost PLSD more than $50K By NATE ELLIS ThisWeek Community Newspapers An August levy likely will cost the Pickerington Local School District more than $50,000. Over the next three months, the PLSD Board of Education will seek to determine how much it will ask voters to pony up for its planned Aug. 2 levy. In the meantime, it appears the special election will cost the district up to $55,500, according to the Fairfield County Board of Elections. Brian Schwartze, deputy director of the board of elections, last week said the district will pay $1,200 to $1,500 per voting precinct to finance the special election. There are expected to be 37 voting precincts in the district by Aug. 2. Schwartze said the total price tag could decrease slightly if other entities also seek an August election, but this likely wouldn’t result in a significant reduction in cost. The filing deadline for the election is May 4. “In general, it probably would go down if someone else files for a special election in August, but it wouldn’t go down that much,” Schwartze said. The district, as opposed to a levy campaign committee, would finance the election, PLSD treasurer Dan Griscom said. He said the estimated $44,400 to $55,500 the district might be required to pay for the election will come from the general fund budget for the 2011-12 school year. “We do have money in the general fund for that,” Griscom said. “We have not yet finalized the budget for the coming year, but it would be coming out of next year’s budget. It would be money that would be set aside for this purpose.” Pickerington likely would have spent more than $55,500 to place a levy on the ballot this spring had the school board gone through with initial plans to put a 9.5-mill levy before voters on May 3. That’s because no other issues will be on that ballot, and there will be 39 voting precincts in the school district for the earlier levy. “You have to bear the costs to put a levy on,” Griscom said. “It would not make sense to not put a levy on because we’re concerned about costs. “(Financing the levy) is the only option we have in order to get a levy passed.” Board members voted 3-2 on Jan. 31 to move forward with that levy, which would have cost homeowners in the district an additional $290.94 in annual taxes per $100,000 home valuation. However, “no” votes by board President Lisa Reade and member Cathy Olshefski prevented the matter from having the supermajority of votes it needed to be placed on the May ballot. The previously proposed levy would have generated approximately $10.14-million in new revenue for the district, had it passed, but Reade and Olshefski said they’d prefer to wait for an August

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Hawaiian luau (Above) Eight-year-old Madison Crosby dances with her father, Nate, during the second annual Sycamore Creek Father Daughter Dance on Feb. 11. (Left) Six-year-old Kailyn Smith looks at the crowd as she competes in the hula-hoop contest. The dance is sponsored by the school’s PTO and this year’s theme was a Hawaiian luau.

Pickerington will initiate a new effort next month to ensure that foreclosed properties in the city don’t become eyesores. On Feb. 1, Pickerington City Council unanimously approved legislation to manage and address “nuisance” vacant land and buildings within the city. The measure, which takes effect at the beginning of March, will require banks to register properties for which they’ve inherited maintenance responsibilities because those homes or parcels have gone into foreclosure. The goal, according to city officials, is to ensure those properties are maintained and don’t become blighted. In addition to improving the aesthetics of the city, officials hope the new ordinance will help maintain or increase local property values and make Pickerington more appealing to prospective developers and other investors. “We have, like most places right now, a large number of vacant properties,” Pickerington City Councilwoman Cristie Hammond said. “This ordinance, hopefully, will clarify (who owns a property) and keep those properties in repair.” The new ordinance stipulates properties shall be kept free of weeds, overgrown brush, dead vegetation, building materials, trash and other debris. It also requires owners to rid their properties of graffiti. Pools and spas will be required to be kept in “working order” so water remains free and clear of pollutants and debris. Owners also must keep their properties secure so they are not accessible to unauthorized persons. Failure to satisfy the conditions of the new ordinance could result in a bank or other owner being issued a code enforcement violation. Penalties would include fines of up to $250 and up to 30 days in jail for each offense. Because Pickerington currently doesn’t have a property ownership registry, city manager Bill Vance said city officials currently don’t know the precise number of foreclosed homes or otherwise vacant properties in the city. See COUNCIL, page A2

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Pickerington launches new economic development website By NATE ELLIS ThisWeek Community Newspapers The city of Pickerington recently launched a new website to guide and spur local economic development. On Feb. 7, the Pickerington Development Services Department unveiled a new website at www.pickeringtondevelopment.com.

The site, which the city established for $4,000 with the help of beckhamXMO, seeks to promote Pickerington as a viable place to locate or expand a business, and provides help to developers planning a commercial or residential project in the city. “A website geared toward the needs of businesses and site selectors is an important part of our marketing and out-

reach plan for economic development,” said Susan Crotty, Pickerington’s development services director. “We wanted to provide site selectors and businesses looking to locate (in Pickerington) with one place where they can find comprehensive information on the business environment and development opportunities in Pickerington.” The city is hoping the site will gar-

ner attention from development site selection consultants, real estate professionals, developers and businesses looking for new locations. It seeks to showcase the city’s assets by pointing out, among other things, that 74 percent of all adults living in Pickerington are employed in management, professional, sales and office occupations. The site also touts Pickerington’s prox-

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COUNCIL the alleged porn was from 2005 and could have been accessed by someone using Lane’s computer. “There were no safeguards on the computers,” Mahaffey said. “My computer stayed on throughout the day so people in the office could check my cases.” Throughout his tenure, Lane was lauded in employee performance evaluations for his helpfulness and ability to work with others. He received congratulations from former city managers for using fewer than 16 hours of sick leave during a 12-month period on several occasions. He also was awarded eight hours personal time for his contributions to a renovation project at 51 E. Columbus St. in 2003, and received a $750 bonus for a “job well done” in December 2004. Lane’s department was responsible for building and construction plan inspection. Department employees also answered questions, met with property owners to help them understand the requirements of the building code, reviewed plans, issued permits and inspected structures to ensure they were safe for human occupancy. nellis@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

Granger argued that Lane could have challenged his employment status with the personnel appeals board, but instead requested a hearing to challenge his termination. “Certainly, after (Lane) receives the letter (from Hartmann) he has the ability, I believe, to go before the personnel appeals board to say, ‘Wait a minute. I didn’t know I was an unclassified employee,’” Granger said. “All employees would have the ability to challenge their classified status with the personnel appeals board.” Following the hearing, Moses disputed the claim that Lane accessed the porn, but declined to elaborate. He said his client’s defense would be presented if a hearing with the city’s personnel appeals board were granted. “These are facts that are complicated,” Moses said. “Unless you have the ability to subpoena people and have them testify under oath, it’s more difficult to get to the truth. “We don’t know because we’ve never had an opportunity to review the evidence.” In addition to Lane, three former Pickerington employees whose positions were not funded in the city’s 2011 budget attended the Feb. 10 hearing. Danny Mahaffey, a former city code enforcement officer, said

Continued from page A1 “misuse of city property in an inappropriate and offensive manner.” The memo alleged Lane viewed porn approximately 30 times. A personnel file document stated Lane admitted during an Oct. 30, 2009 disciplinary hearing to looking at pornography on a city computer. However, the document states Lane said “he wasn’t aware (the material) was pornography, as he was checking his home e-mail from work.” According to Moses, Lane requested a hearing before the personnel appeals board 12 days after his termination. Lane’s request was denied on Dec. 1, 2009, after Phil Hartmann, an attorney for the city, issued a letter stating the city’s personnel appeals board had no jurisdiction because of Lane’s unclassified status. Moses maintains Lane was a classified employee because he didn’t have policymaking authorities, but rather was charged with day-to-day management and supervision of his office. He also noted all city records indicated Lane was a classified employee, but said he was told by former Pickerington human resources director Linda Fersch the designation was a typographical error.

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He said the new ordinance will allow Pickerington to find out the extent of vacancies, as well as force banks to maintain those properties. “Banks now having to register their inherited property owner responsibilities immediately provides city staff with the contact information we need to expedite the correction of any future adverse private property maintenance situations involving bank-owned properties,” Vance said. “Pickerington code enforcement employees have found that without having a registration requirement in place, contacting the appropriate bank official in charge of making sure bank-owned properties remain in good shape and do not negatively affect property values in Pickerington’s neighborhoods could take weeks. “In the meanwhile, city funds would be used

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Continued from page A1 special election. By then, they said, the district will have a better idea of how much funding it will receive in the upcoming two-year budget and could put a more suitable levy before voters. By moving forward in August, Reade said, the district still will have another chance this year to pass a levy, should the special election effort fail. If that occurs, she said, the district will try again

to pass a levy in November, at which time more issues are expected to be on the ballot and the district’s election costs would go down. “We have been planning, obviously, to go on more than once,” Reade said. “The cost of an election is much smaller than taking a chance of only having a levy on the ballot once. “In the scheme of things, $55,000 isn’t a terribly large amount, given what’s at stake for the district.”

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Columbus’ rivers did not provide a useful waterway With the opening of the Scioto Mile, the Scioto River will once again be an attraction that will draw people both to downtown and the city as a whole. After all, people were drawn to the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers a couple of centuries ago because the water was clear and clean. And it was widely believed that a place where two rivers came together would soon be a center of profitable river trade. The water was clear and clean and had been drawing people to its banks for several thousand years. Native Americans lived here for centuries and built large Indian mounds nearby. Mound Street is named for one of them. Thousands of deer came down to the river to drink in molting season and covered the water in a blanket of shedding deer fur. With a wry directness, Native American gave the stream a new name — “Hairy River.” But the profitable river trade the pioneers expected to undertake with huge cargo laden flatboats was not to be. The river was too narrow in many places and the current too treacher-

ous. Only at a few times of year was the water high enough to carry the great flatboats. And at ED that time the current was LENTZ so swift that many boats were lost. The pioneer settlements of central Ohio were rather isolated for a number of years. Until the canal came. Canals are not a new idea. One can find them at any number of places in the ancient world where people needed an artificial waterway for one reason or another. But canals are expensive to build and costly to maintain. For that reason they are often built by governments and not by private enterprise. As the land across the Appalachian Mountains began to be settled after the American Revolution, men like Henry Clay began to argue that government should finance “internal improvements” like roads, canals and river work to “open the West” to commerce. And all of this should be

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financed by the federal government. Of course many people in the East were not thrilled with the idea that their taxes should subsidize public works that would help the Ohio River valley compete with their own commerce. So canals were more a dream than a reality for a number of years. Then the extraordinary success of the Erie Canal linking the East to the Great Lakes captured the imagination of the country in the years after the War of 1812. Soon many Ohioans were talking about canals and building one in the state. But talk was really the only result. Like many other times in the state’s history, forceful leadership was needed to bring canals to Ohio. In this case, that leadership was provided by Ethan Allen Brown. As early as 1816, Brown, a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, had written to Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York seeking information about the canal system of that state. When Brown was elected governor in 1818, he proposed building a canal and continued to press for its construction. In the end the Ohio General Assembly agreed and studies were made as to possible locations. Two major canal systems — the Miami and Erie in the west and the Ohio and Erie in the east — were built with the support and supervision of a number of people as committed to the project as Gov. Brown had been. Important among them was Alfred Kelley. Kelley had come to Columbus in 1816 to represent Cleveland in the assembly. He served for the next several decades, eventually representing Columbus as well. As a member of the Canal Commission he personally supervised the construction of much of the canal. When the economic depression of the 1830s threatened Ohio’s ability to pay interest due on its canal bonds, Kelley would pledge his own Columbus home as collateral to ensure payment on the bonds. Through the efforts of Kelley and many others, Columbus was linked to the main line of the Ohio and Erie Canal by a Feeder Canal

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By DAVID S. OWEN ThisWeek Community Newspapers Reynoldsburg’s first community garden not only won first-place honors from the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association, it received the group’s first Governor’s Award, presented during its annual conference Feb. 9-11 in Cincinnati. The Livingston Community Garden was a collaborative effort by Truro Township and the Reynoldsburg Parks and Recreation Department. In December, the OPRA announced the garden had won a first-place award for environmental programming, which made it eligible to receive the Governor’s Award. Out of the 24 eligible entries, the top

Continued from page A4 provided a high-quality education and paid high taxes to support it. If they didn’t want to pay these taxes, they would have moved into a struggling school district with lower property values. (Districts whose communities don’t support their schools tend to have plummeting property values.) I benefited tremendously from the education I received, as well as the extracurricular activities I participated in. If one asks, “Did this get you an athletic or music scholarship?” the answer would be no. If one asks, “Did this teach you invaluable lessons on teamwork on the field and opening your ears and mind to those playing around you to create something special?” the answer would be a loud, “Yes!” One of the most valuable lessons my football coach taught us was not to operate on a “screw your buddy” basis. Stay on your block and keep the opponent away from the runner until the whistle blows. Keep moving and contribute on every play; don’t be caught standing around while your teammate gets clobbered. Unfortunately, too many of us say, “I already got my education” then proceed to rationalize why they shouldn’t support those kids who can’t vote for the levy. My vision for Pickerington is for every kid willing to pick up an instrument, run “suicides” or go 100 percent through two-adays to be able to participate. If the community continues to turn its back on our youth, I predict a mass exodus to school districts where communities care about the children. Then I’ll be reading letters to the editor with incessant complaining about decreasing values in property and a deteriorating community.

To the editor: Another levy has come and has been voted down. Since I moved here in 2002, I’ve grown to expect the mindless gripes from others in my community who don’t want to pay for the quality education that I moved here for. The latest letter I read said it was unfair to use property taxes to fund schools (“Funding schools with property taxes is unfair,” ThisWeek Pickerington, Feb. 3.) The writer voices his outrage (mind you, after the levy failed and many fine educational staff will be losing their jobs) at the money the staff is making. He then goes on to say that “if the board can eliminate nearly 150 positions and operate the district effectively, then these positions were not necessary to begin with.” Wow. Let’s think about that for a moment. Say I had a problem that required money — say an expensive part to my car that leaked oil — and it would cost $1,000 to fix. Now say my income was drastically reduced and it was all I could do to buy oil by the case and keep putting it in my car to keep it running for the sole purpose of going to work, and spent money only on necessities. By Michael A. Crocco’s logic, the fact that I could keep the car running with $20 in oil weekly proves that I never needed my engine fixed to start with. I’ve been disappointed since I moved here with the lack of support some have for the children who depend on the schools to enhance their lives. When I grew up, I played football and was in the marching band my freshman year. I played a couple years of basketball and was in the wind ensem- Richard Evans ble. These activities didn’t require any pay-to- Pickerington play contingencies. See AS IT WERE, page A5 My parents moved into a school district that

— that was very attractive,” Woodward said. “By comparison … they have a small parks and rec department but they beat out some of the real Cadillac parks and rec programs that are well known around the state. It was exciting to see them receive this award.” Reynoldsburg Parks and Recreation Department director Jason Shamblin said receiving the Governor’s Award was “incredibly exciting.” “It means we were able, in 2010, to affect the community in a good way,” he said. “One of the factors was the collaboration we had with Truro Township and all the volunteers that put a lot of time and energy in working on it.” He said the joint venture with the township also involved residents and businesses, including Fisher’s Gardens,

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three finalists were Reynoldsburg, Westerville and Kettering. OPRA executive director Woody Woodward said the Governor’s Award was established to show how parks and recreation departments around Ohio are affecting people’s lives. “The chiefs at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources chose what they felt was the best in show among the 24 and they selected Reynoldsburg,” Woodward said. He said one factor that led to Reynoldsburg winning top honors was the level of partnership used to complete the project. “It was the project and the work they were able to do over there and making it one that changed a lot of folks’ lives in the community for very little dollars

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will not experience in the next 10 years. The hype of “For the Kids” is as factually false as it is emotionally biased. We are building and financing a lifestyle for the PLSD school administrators and employees. Seems like the PLSD needs to do significantly more belt-tightening, like the rest of the community. Hopefully, Gov. Kasich will break the teachers unions, dramatically reduce the cost of the medical insurance for school employees, reduce the number of school districts and the resultant overhead. This might allow the reality and refocusing of what really improves academics to sink into the mentality of our school board. Excessive buildings, sports complexes, road trips are niceties that benefit the school employees, not the students and should be dramatically reduced. Money doesn’t improve education; parents improve education! Buying high-priced administrators, expensive buildings and fancy equipment merely provides a nice work environment for the school employees. The nicer the environment, the less they focus on education of children. Parents that care and are involved in their children’s education make the difference in how the kids learn, perform and, ultimately, the child’s success in life. The schools have little to do with a child’s long-term success. It is the community, the parents and the extended family that set the expectations and standards of performance in life that create successful students. If what made students successful were perpupil expenditures, then we would see all of the school employees trying to send their children to schools in Cleveland and Youngstown. Save your tax dollars and spend time with your kids, God, family and country. Things never change that make great, successful citizens.

To the editor: An Op-Ed piece in a recent Columbus Dispatch dispels the thought that spending tons of money per pupil results in any improvement in the educational process and ultimate life outcome for individual pupils. Let me recap the statistics from this article: Cleveland and Youngstown spend $14,573 and $13,823 respectively per pupil, per year to provide a K-12 education. Cleveland and Youngstown have a 54.3-percent and 58-percent graduation rate, respectively. Pickerington spends an average of $10,800 per pupil per year. The national average spent per pupil per year is $10,800. Seems like we’re spending just about the right amount per pupil but our population of students is declining. The Pickerington school board/administration wants a 9.5-mill increase. I haven’t seen any school population statistics presented in the local papers showing the reduced number of students expected to be served over the next five years. Housing permits for new homes are almost nonexistent in the PLSD geographic area. Foreclosures and empty homes are on the upswing and not expected to decline for the next few years. No major employers are moving into the area to “soak up” the excess housing. If anything, the number of state, federal and local jobs will be declining, meaning less children entering our schools. One-hundred teachers and other employees will be let go in the next year. That translates into the ability to realign students and close two schools. The community has overbuilt based on the Daniel C. Pillitteri incorrect projections of student growth that we Pickerington

Reynoldsburg High School’s Green Teens Club, Sustainable Reynoldsburg, Crossroads Community Development Corp., Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church, East Livingston Baptist Church and the Girl Scouts of America. “We’re doing a lot of positive things here in the community and it’s good to get some recognition for that,” Shamblin said. “Sometimes it gets overshadowed with everything else that’s going on.” The Livingston Community Garden behind the Truro Township Fire Station 162 at 6305 E. Livingston Ave. takes up about a quarter-acre of a 5.5-acre plot owned by Truro Township. The township donated the land and the city was responsible for promoting and maintaining the garden.

AS IT WERE Continued from page A4 that entered the city near the place where Bicentennial Park is today. In 1860, a state arsenal — now the Cultural Arts Center — would be built next to the canal to permit easy movement of arms and ordnance in and out of the capital city. The canal and the recently arrived National Road transformed Columbus. As late as 1832, Columbus was a frontier village of a few thousand people. By 1834, Columbus was a city of five thousand people. Large numbers of travelers and immense quantities of freight arrived by both road and water and more than a few Columbus residents made their fortune in the new crossroads capital city. The canal and its people captured the imagination of the city. Longtime resident Emily Stewart later remembered, “The first canal boats seemed like fairy palaces. They were painted white and the windows had green shutters and scarlet curtains. The inside panels of the cabins contained pictures and mirrors. The officers of the passenger boats were gentlemen. The cabin was a dining and sitting room in the daytime, but was converted into a sleeping apartment at night. There were staterooms at each end for the ladies, whose comfort was further promoted by the attentions of a polite and diligent stewardess. For years after the canal was opened, the boats always came in with a band of music playing on

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Organic baby food is a hit for Bébo By GARY BUDZAK ThisWeek Community Newspapers Necessity might be the mother of invention, and three sisters’ Hilliard-based baby food business was born out of a mother’s need. “My son got to the point where he didn’t like the foods that I was picking up at the grocery store,” said Cintia Ulloa-Hays. “I started making my own and he was eating those pretty well. At the day care center, the other moms liked the food that I was sending over with my son to eat, and I started selling things.” Cintia and her sisters, Ariana UlloaOlavarrieta and Tania Ulloa-Malavé, a Pickerington resident, have young children and day jobs, and they reasoned if other moms are having similar trouble feeding their babies, perhaps they should go into business together. “We couldn’t have had better partners,” Cintia said. “Ariana is the business mind, I’m more of the operations person and then we have our designer Tania. So we make a good team.” Bébo Organics went into business last August, with its products being sold at the Worthington Farmers Market. They will be at the fifth annual Baby Bonanza and Kids Expo on Sunday, March 27 at the Aladdin Shrine Event Center. And the sisters recently launched a website, www. beboorganics.com, on Facebook and are taking orders.

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The Ulloa sisters, Cintia Ulloa-Hays (left), Tania Ulloa-Malavé, a Pickerington resident, and Ariana Ulloa-Olavarrieta, run Bébo Organics, a baby food business. They make and sell all nine flavors of the stage three and four baby food.

About the name: Bébo (pronounced BAY-boh) is a Spanish term of endearment for a baby. The sisters make nine baby food products — five in stage three (sweet potato chicken delight, black bean sweet potato blend, harvest turkey stew, mango

tango puree, appleberry blast) and four in stage four (grandma’s noodle soup, chunky beef with veggies, creamy chicken bisque, perfect peach puree). Each container costs $2.50. Cintia explained the four stages of baby food. One is single-ingredient

items that can be drunk through a straw; stage two is similar, but a blend of ingredients; stage three is a little chunkier; and stage four is extra chunky, a bridge between baby and adult food. Bébo Organics’ products are made in a commercial kitchen in Athens. After

simmering the all-organic ingredients at low temperatures, they are flashfrozen to preserve vitamins and nutrients. “A lot of the containers that you buy at the grocery store are shelf stable, so they can sit right on the shelf without refrigeration for about a year,” Ariana said. “It just didn’t sit with us very well. We started looking into it, and we found out food has to be cooked for very high temperatures for an extended period of time, and it actually cooks out a lot of the vitamins. We wanted to provide our kids with better than that.” Long-term, the sisters hope to put bar codes on their products and sell them to area day cares and grocery stores. “We’ve been getting a lot of very good feedback at the farmers markets the last few months that we’ve been there. Everybody that walks by goes, this is such a great idea,” Ariana said. “Now with our website, I think we’re really going to start branching out to a larger audience.” No matter how the business fares, the sisters’ four children have been eating healthy food. “We’re constantly using them as our four guinea pigs,” Tania said. “I think Cintia’s kids are the ones that had to taste the bad ones, but I think my son has got to reap the benefits, because he gets the ones that have been filtered out by his cousins.”

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Meetings Pickerington AmSpirit, 8:309:45 a.m. Fridays at Pizza Cottage, 1000 Old Diley Road. This is a business networking and referral group meeting. Visitors are welcome. Visit amspiritpickerington.com. Pickerington Toastmasters, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the first floor conference room at Kroger, 1045 Hill Road N. Visit pickerington.freetoasthost.net. Pickerington Lions Club, meets the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. For location and time, call 920-0800. Reynoldsburg/Pickerington

Rotary Club, noon Tuesdays at Wesley Ridge Community Center, 2225 state Route 256. Visit www.rprotary.com or e-mail viperoffice@viperprotectionservices.com for more information. Pickerington Area Kiwanis Club, noon the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Romeo’s Pizza, 80 W. Church St. All are welcome. Call Deblin Jennings at (614) 833-3803. Violet Grange, 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays of the month at the Grange Hall, 36 Lockville Road. Central Ohio 9-12 Project, 5 p.m. the second Wednesday and 7 p.m. the fourth Saturday of the month. Meeting location varies. For information, call Mike Lyons at (614) 561-4040 or e-mail info@CentralOhio912.com.

Support groups MOMS Club Pickerington North Chapter, 10 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at Peace United Methodist Church, 235 Diley Road. This is a support group for stay-at-home moms living in Pickerington north of Refugee Road, Etna, Reynoldsburg and Pataskala. E-mail momsclubpn@ yahoo.com. Southeast Moms Group, 10 a.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month at Peace United Methodist Church, 235 Diley Road. For information, visit http://pickeringtonmoms.tripod.com. Fairfield County Autism Resource Group, 6:30-8:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Early Childhood Center, 1592 Granville Pike, Lancaster. Call 653-4489 or 862-6171.

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Event Walk-in clinic offers required immunizations Franklin County Public Health will offer a childhood immunization clinic from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at Pickerington Public Library, 201 Opportunity Way. Required immunizations are

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College notes • Central Ohio Technical College has announced its fall 2010 honors list. Pickerington residents named to the list were Benjamin Kolevski, Whitney Shaw, Mary Spence and Eric Vancourt. To earn honors list recognition, students must receive at least a 3.5 grade point average. • Colleen J. Carpenter of Pickerington was named to the fall 2010 dean’s list at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. To be named to the list, freshman must earn at least a 3.25 grade point average and upperclassmen must earn at least a 3.5 GPA. • Ohio University has announced its fall 2010 dean’s list.

Pickerington residents named to the list were Raquel Alvarez, Tessa Barman, Ashley Beatty, Aundrea Bentley, Megan Boham, Brittany Bosch, Stephen Buchana, James Butler, Amanda Cassady, Zachary Chamberlain, Aaron Guy, Alan Guy, James Holloway, Dana Householder, Zachary Justus, Joshua Kristoff, Marrett Laney, Maria Little, Kevin Lobe, Nicole Niemi, Ugonna Okpalaoka, Britnee Pankey, Christine Preiner, Kaitlynn Rausch, Brian Rossi, Eric Schafer, Patrick Seders,Andrew Sewell, Eric Smith, Kevin Snider, Tyler Spivey, Caitlin Tarantelli, Jacob Tennant, Patrick Terry, Kaleigh Thomas, Charles Tracy, Elizabeth Vanschepen, Jared Waugh,Austin Way, Jessica Widener and Andrew Winslow.

Neighbors in the news Calloway crowned Miss Kuamka at UC Sophia Calloway, a 2008 graduate of Pickerington Central High School, was crowned Miss Kuamka 2011 during the Kuamka Festival at the University of Cincinnati. “Kuamka” means “beginning” in Swahili. She is the daughter of the Rev.

Ernest and Inga Calloway II. Calloway is an accounting major at UC. She is president of the UC chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants and treasurer of the Lambda Society, which recognizes the achievements of minority women at UC. Calloway completed an accounting internship at Deloitte in Cincinnati. Sophia Calloway

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Hintz leads North boys into district meet By PAUL BATTERSON ThisWeek Community Newspapers

After finishing 13th in the 50-yard freestyle and 14th in the 100 free at the Division I district meet a year ago, Paul Hintz of the Pickerington High School North swimming and diving team is confident that this season will be different. The senior heads to the district meet on Saturday, Feb. 19, at Ohio State seeded fourth in the 100 free after swimming the event in 48.81 seconds at the sectional meet on Feb. 12 at

Thomas Worthington and seeded sixth in the 50 free (22.56). The top three finishers in each swimming event at district and the top four divers automatically qualify for the state meet Feb. 24-26 at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium. In addition, 11 atlarge state berths in each event are awarded based on the times statewide. “The taper is working really well,” Hintz said after placing fourth in both events at the sectional. “I did my job for this meet. Next week, I am going to drop even more time because I haven’t hit all of my taper.”

The boys team scored 122 points at the 12-team sectional to finish fourth, behind champion New Albany (238), Thomas (195) and Olentangy Liberty (163). The girls team placed sixth (131) of 14 teams, behind champion Thomas (194), Liberty (173), New Albany (148), Delaware (142) and Dublin Jerome(136). The boys team had seven individuals and two relays advance to district. In addition to Hintz, other Panthers who are in position to qualify for state are Jacob Griffith in the 200 individual medley (2:02.32, seventh seed)

and 100 butterfly (54.87, eighth) and the 400 free relay (3:21.84, fourth). All three of the girls relays are seeded in the top 10 for district. The 200 medley relay is seeded seventh (1:54.36), the 200 free relay is seeded eighth (1:43.48) and the 400 free relay is 10th (3:49.33). Also seeded in the top 10 are Logan Griffith in the 500 free (5:28.27, eighth) and Morgan Grodesky in the 50 free (25.39, ninth). •Central coach Nicole Miller rarely has to tell sophomore Maddie Martin anything.

Martin, who won the Division I state title in the 100 butterfly (54.85) last year, heads to district as the top seed in 100 fly (57.76) and the second seed in the 100 free (53.7). Martin’s time in the 100 fly is nearly a half-second faster than it was at this point a year ago. “She is very focused and she knows what she needs to do,” Miller said. “We don’t have to tell her she still needs to swim the meet of her life. She already knows.” See SWIM, page B2

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I don’t see it happening this year, but it certainly would be no big surprise if all three Division I girls basketball district-champion trophies awarded March 5 at Olentangy Liberty High School go to members of the OCC-Ohio Division. That was the case a year ago when KURTIS Reynoldsburg, ADAMS Pickerington North and Gahanna emerged from their respective brackets to turn the regional at Otterbein into a de facto OCC-Ohio postseason tournament. The Raiders won it in classic March Madness style, too, stunning North 45-34 in the final as coach Dave Butcher lost to a Reynoldsburg team for the first time in his career. Now, the top-seeded Raiders are looking like a virtual lock in their bracket. They swept North during the regular season to capture their first OCC-Ohio title and show that last year’s upset was no fluke. Moreover, nobody from central Ohio has beaten them yet. North, meanwhile, is seeded fifth and is the second-lowest seeded team in its bracket behind third-seeded Olentangy Orange, which I think might be in over its head should the Pioneers advance to meet the Panthers in the final as the seedings indicate. Butcher has won seven consecutive district championships at North, 22 in a row overall and 24 in 27 seasons over the course of his career. There’s little reason to believe those streaks won’t continue, especially given that senior post player and Villanova-signee Kavunaa Edwards is one of the area’s best players right now. That brings us to the other bracket, where second-seeded Northland could be the team that eventually crashes the OCC-Ohio postseason party. Despite Northland’s 60-52 loss to Africentric in the City League championship game Feb. 12, there’s a lot to like about the Vikings, who finished 18-1 in the regular season. They have a group of proven scorers, veteran leadership and enough size on the baseline to thwart the challengers in their bracket, seventh-seeded Gahanna included.

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Central’s Chad Nelson passes as North’s Jake McCullough closes in on Jan. 25. In the first round of the Division I district tournament, the Tigers will play Marion-Franklin on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at Heath. The fifth-seeded Panthers will play Central Crossing on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at Hamilton Township.

The Pickerington High School North boys basketball team doesn’t want to get caught looking ahead to the Division I district tournament. The Panthers, who were voted the fifth seed, still have to defeat visiting Grove City in the regular-season finale on Friday, Feb. 18, if they want to share the OCC-Ohio Division title. Winners of 13 consecutive contests since a 61-41 loss at Gahanna on Dec. 22, the Panthers are 18-1 overall and 12-1 in the league. Gahanna, which closes the regular season by playing Groveport on the same night, also is 12-1 in the OCC-Ohio. The Cruisers are the 42nd seed in the 42-team Division I postseason field. “I don’t think we’re going to get any help, so we’ve got to go beat Grove City,” senior Michael Klamo said. “We have to focus on that first and worry about the tournament later.” The Greyhounds, who are seeded 29th, were 7-11 before playing Westerville Central on Feb. 15 and are 5-8 in the OCC-

Ohio. They didn’t go quietly in the first-round meeting with North. The Panthers prevailed 64-60 on Jan. 14 after trailing 37-35 at halftime. “They threw a lot of different defenses at us. They kind of junked it up on us like a lot of teams do,” coach Pete Liptrap said. “The league comes down to one game now and we’ve put ourselves in a good position. “It’ll be senior night, and these seniors have won 35 games the last two years. Hopefully, we’ll make it 36.” Westerville South was voted the top seed in the district tournament and was followed in order by Northland, Upper Arlington and Gahanna, which was undefeated when the Panthers derailed its bid for a perfect regular season with a 58-48 win on Feb. 4. The Lions, who had won 44 consecutive regular-season games, advanced to a state semifinal a year ago after knocking off nationally ranked Northland in a regional final. The Panthers open the postseason by playing Central Crossing in a first-round game at Hamilton Township on

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Tigers seek confidence as postseason opens By KURTIS ADAMS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The Pickerington High School Central girls basketball team just needs to believe in itself. That’s the stance coach Wade Brockwell is taking as the Tigers prepare to open the Division I district tournament following an inconsistent regular season. They play Walnut Ridge in a first-round game on Saturday, Feb. 19, at Hilliard Davidson. “It’s all about playing with confidence right now,” he said. “You have to believe you can win before you do.” The Scots went just 5-11 overall during the regular season and haven’t played since losing 57-30 to Briggs on Feb. 4. “We didn’t get a chance to scout them; their season was done before the draw (meeting),” said Brockwell, whose team would advance to meet either fourth-seedSee ADAMS, page B3 ed Watterson or Whetstone in the second

round on Feb. 25 with a win. “We’re going in somewhat blind, but we’re really more concerned with our own play anyway.” The Tigers concluded the regular season with a 56-48 victory over Grove City on Feb. 11 to even their overall record at 10-10. They went 6-8 in the OCC-Ohio Division to finish fifth behind Reynoldsburg (14-0), Pickerington North (12-2), Gahanna and Newark (9-5 each) and ahead of Lancaster (4-10), Groveport and Grove City (1-13 each). The Tigers, who are 4-2 outside the OCC-Ohio, have won five of their past eight games and have posted seven victories since Jan. 7. Jasmine Henshaw, a 5foot-11 junior post player, is averaging a team-high 12.4 points. She finished strong with a 19-point, 18-rebound effort against the Greyhounds. Henshaw and senior Katie By Paul Vernon/ThisWeek Stevens are proving to be the team’s emotional catalysts, too. Central’s Alexis Newsome passes in front of North’s Kavunaa Edwards on Jan. 25. Central will play Walnut Ridge at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, at Hilliard David-

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At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Pickerington Central and North boys basketball teams: CENTRAL *Feb. 8 — Lost to Newark 61-58. Zach Beaver scored 13 points to lead the Tigers. Kris Kern and Chad Nelson had 12 points apiece, and Kern made four of Central’s 10 3pointers. *Feb. 11 — Defeated Grove City 54-42. Caris Levert posted seasonhighs in points (27) and 3-pointers (six) for the Tigers, who outscored the Greyhounds 34-19 in the second half. Feb. 15 — Played Chillicothe *Feb. 18 — Home vs. Reynoldsburg. The Tigers, who will be playing their regular-season finale, won the first-round game 50-46 on Jan. 14 as Jae’sean Tate scored 13 points. They outscored the Raiders 18-7 at the free-throw line. Feb. 22 — 11th-seeded MarionFranklin in first round of Division I district tournament, 8 p.m. at Heath. The teams did not meet during the regular season. The winner will play either Independence or Reynoldsburg in the second round, 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at Worthington Christian. Of note: The Tigers were 9-9 overall before Feb. 15 and are 7-6 in the OCC-Ohio. NORTH *Feb. 8 — Def. Lancaster 40-17. Coming off a victory over previously-undefeated Gahanna, the Panthers led only 13-10 before holding the Gales scoreless in the third quarter while outscoring them 27-10 in the second half. Evan Mills had a gamehigh 12 points. *Feb. 11 — Def. Newark 51-40. Jake McCullough scored a seasonhigh 22 points. Feb. 12 — Def. Worthington Kilbourne 51-45. Tyler Kelly scored 12 points while Trent Waybright added 11 for the Panthers, who posted their 13th consecutive victory. *Feb. 18 — Home vs. Grove City. The Panthers, who will be playing their regular-season finale, won the first-round game 64-60 on Jan. 14 as Kelly scored 18 points. Feb. 23 — Central Crossing in first round of Division I district tournament, 8 p.m. at Hamilton Township. The teams did not play during the regular season. The winner advances to play either Teays Valley or Dublin Scioto in the second round, 8 p.m. Feb. 26 at Heath. Of note: The Panthers are 18-1 overall and 13-1 in the OCC-Ohio. *OCC-Ohio game

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Central’s Paige Martin was a member of the winning 400-yard freestyle relay during the Division I sectional at Thomas Worthington on Feb. 12. Martin, who competes here in the 200 individual medley on Jan. 8, was joined in the relay by Ashley Stewart, Lindsey Inkrott and Maddie Martin. Maddie Martin won the 100 butterfly and the 100 free.

SWIM Continued from page B1 Last year, Martin was the Tigers’ lone district qualifier. This year, Central had five girls qualify for nine individual events. Lindsey Inkrott is seeded fifth in the 100 backstroke (1:00.35), the 400 free relay is seeded third (3:43.52) and the 200 medley relay is seeded sixth (1:53.87). The boys team advanced two By Tim Revell/ThisWeek of its relays to district. The 200 free relay is seeded 29th (1:51.61) Central’s Ashley Stewart will compete in the 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 400 free relay in the and the 400 free relay is seeded district meet at Ohio State. 27th (4:11.57). The girls team scored 128 At a glance points at the Worthington sectional to place seventh. The boys Below are the district qualifiers with sectional time and Paul Hintz: 50 free (22.56, sixth), 100 free (48.81, team did not score at sectional. district seeds for the Central and North boys and girls swim- fourth); Adam Ingram: 50 free (23.78, 25th); Justin “They didn’t come in with the ming teams: Mathews: 100 breast (1:04.82, 17th), 200 IM (2:11.98, 26th); Matt Riordan: 50 free (23.2, 14th), 100 free intention of having the meet of CENTRAL BOYS their lives, but they did,” coach 200 free relay (1:51.61, 29th); 400 free relay (4:11.57, (51.07, 14th); James Ross: 100 breast (1:06.55, 23rd); 200 medley relay (1:51.17, 15th); 400 free relay Miller said. “They haven’t gone 27th) (3:21.84, fourth) their best times yet and they know CENTRAL GIRLS NORTH GIRLS that. We just know next week is Lindsey Inkrott: 500 free (5:38.66, 19th), 100 back Katelyn Fisher: 100 back (1:04.95, 27th), 100 fly (1:03.25, (1:00.35, fifth); Maddie Martin: 100 free (53.7, second), 18th); Carlie Focke: 100 breast (1:14.81, 29th), 100 fly going to be even better. 100 fly (57.76, first); Paige Martin: 100 breast (1:10.98, “Over the last four months, 13th), 100 fly (1:02.77, 13th); Sara Sams: 100 breast (1:05.06, 25th); Logan Griffith: 200 free (2:02.87, 12th), free (5:28.27, eighth); Morgan Grodesky: 50 free we’ve done all that we can do for (1:11.65, 16th); Ashley Stewart: 100 free (57.29, 19th), 500 (25.39, ninth), 100 free (57.52, 22nd); Jessica Kaiser: 50 them. At this point, it’s just us 100 back (1:03.21, 16th); 200 medley relay (1:53.87, free (26.36, 19th), 100 free (57.7, 23rd); Kelly Mason: sixth); 400 free relay (3:43.52, third) 100 fly (1:04.69, 23rd); Kathryn Wilson: 200 free (2:13.05, cheering them on.” pbatterson@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

NORTH BOYS Matt Greene: 100 breast (1:07.19, 29th); Jacob Griffith: 100 fly (54.87, eighth), 200 IM (2:02.32, seventh);

29th), 500 free (5:44.25, 24th); 200 medley relay (1:54.36, seventh); 200 free relay (1:43.48, eighth); 400 free relay (3:49.33, 10th)

Wednesday, Feb. 23. The Comets, who are seeded 35th, are 4-15 overall. The winner advances to play either Teays Valley or Dublin Scioto in the second round. North’s bracket also features Westerville South and eighthseeded New Albany. “We split with Gahanna, but they’ve won more than us the past couple years so I’m sure that had something to do with (the seeding),” Liptrap said. “We like where we are. We may see Newark, New Albany or (Worthington) Kilbourne (in a district semifinal) and we’ve played them all.” •Central, which landed in North’s bracket, will play 11thseeded Marion-Franklin in the first round at Heath on Tuesday, Feb. 22. The Tigers are seeded 25th. The winner advances to play either Independence or Reynoldsburg in the second round on Feb. 25. Another matchup with the Raiders would be Central’s second in eight days and third this season. Marion-Franklin poses quite a challenge, however. The Red Devils finished second in the City League-South Division and were 13-6 before playing Brookhaven on Feb. 15. They feature an impressive front court anchored by 6-foot-8 Elijah Macon. Nate Spears, a 6-5 forward, also will present matchup problems, as he is a threat on the perimeter. The Tigers played just one City League opponent this season, falling 75-54 to Brookhaven in first-year coach Jerry Francis’ debut on Dec. 3. Central held off Reynoldsburg 50-46 in the first league meeting on Jan. 14. The Raiders were 8-11 overall entering the regular season 12-8. second meeting between the schools on Friday, Feb. 18. kadams@thisweeknews.com Independence finished the www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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Area players not selected No high school basketball players from central Ohio were selected for the 2011 boys and girls McDonald’s All-American games that will be played March 30 at the United Center in Chicago. The rosters, announced Feb. 10, included 24 boys and 24 girls. Ten players from the area were among the nearly 2,000 nominees. The eight area boys nominees were Nate Anderson of Teays Valley, Dwayne Bazemore of Walnut Ridge, Trey Burke of Northland, Traevon Jackson of Westerville South, Jalen Ragland of Chillicothe, Brian Sullivan of Upper Arlington, Stevie Taylor of Gahanna and Austin Traylor of Walnut Ridge. The area girls nominees were Kavunaa Edwards of Pickerington North and Raven Ferguson of Africentric.

At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Pickerington Central and North girls basketball teams: CENTRAL *Feb. 8 — Lost to Newark 44-38. Marley Hill scored 12 points to lead the Tigers. *Feb. 11 — Defeated Grove City 56-48. Jasmine Henshaw scored 19 points and grabbed 18 rebounds as the Tigers concluded the regular season by winning two of their final three games. Feb. 19 — Walnut Ridge in first round of Division I district tournament, 8 p.m. at Hilliard Davidson. The teams did not meet during the regular season. The winner plays fourth-seeded Watterson or Whetstone in the second round, 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at Davidson. Of note: The Tigers are 10-10 overall and went 6-8 to finish fifth in the OCCOhio. *OCC-Ohio game

NORTH *Feb. 8 — Def. Lancaster 67-32. Kavunaa Edwards scored a careerhigh 37 points to lead the Panthers. She scored the game’s first eight points and North’s first 10 as it led 14-1 after the first quarter. *Feb. 12 — Def. Newark 53-38. Edwards had 30 points in the regularseason finale for the Panthers, who limited Newark to 11 field goals. Feb. 17 — Franklin Heights in first round of Division I district tournament, 6 p.m. at Hamilton Township. The teams did not meet during the regular season, but North prevailed 75-11 in a first-round tournament game last year. The winner will play Olentangy Liberty or Worthington Kilbourne in the second round, 8 p.m. Feb. 24 at Hamilton Township. Of note: The Panthers are 15-5 overall and went 12-2 to finish second behind Reynoldsburg in the OCC-Ohio. *OCC-Ohio game

They advanced to a district final as the ninth seed in 2005 and to a district semifinal as the 10th seed the year before that. But that isn’t to say Central is playing well enough to win games on reputation alone. “Tradition is great and all, but right now we’re focusing on the present and this particular group of girls,” Brockwell said. “The

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Still, Central’s lineup has grown younger over the course of the season. Freshmen twins Amari and Aajah Hawkins have established themselves on the perimeter while classmate Allie Luther, a 5-8 post player, is providing added depth inside. Phylicia Johnson, a sophomore guard, has enjoyed her moments as well, especially during the second half of the regular season. “They’re much better than their record,” Newark coach J.R. Shumate said of the Tigers after his team defeated Central 44-38 on Feb. 8. “They’ve got length inside, and all those young guards are gaining confidence. I think they’re having a little trouble finishing right now, but that’ll come with time.” The Tigers, who are the 18th seed overall, also have tradition to fall back on in the postseason. Henshaw totaled 46 points in three tournament games a year ago as Central advanced to a district semifinal before falling 5646 against New Albany. They won four consecutive district championships from 2006-09 and have reached a semifinal every year since 2004.

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In a relatively short amount of time, Africentric has built a winning tradition in girls basketball. In its eight years of existence, Africentric has won two state championships and five City League titles under coach Will McKinney. The Nubians’ fifth City championship came Feb. 12 in a 60-52 victory over previously unbeaten Northland before a large and enthusiastic crowd at Mifflin. Africentric’s senior star, Raven Ferguson, led the way with 22 points, nine rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals. It was her fourth consecutive City championship game and her third victory. “This one really means a lot to me because we ran the City League for a while, but we didn’t get it done last year (against Brookhaven) and that was hard,” she said. “At Africentric we have a tradition of winning, so bringing the trophy back to our school after missing it a year ago is great and, since this is my senior year, it makes it even better.” Talking about her team’s performance against Northland, Ferguson said, “Beating a great team like Northland meant we had to compete hard on every play of the game and every second of the game up and down the court. We wanted to be the team who could say that we beat an unbeaten Division I team. We wanted to be the team who could say that Northland is now 18-1 and we are the one, and it truly took a full team effort to do it. “Every player on our team stepped up this week. Players that didn’t see action in the game worked so hard in practice to get us ready. Everyone has a role on this team and as long as we are all working toward the same goal we will be just fine. I know that experience means a lot and we have been in so many big games and in tough situations in those big games, and I think that helped

The Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio held a meet on Jan. 16 at Columbus Academy. Pickerington-area competitors included: 8-and-under girls •Christy Paige: 25 free (18.43, fourth); 25 back (21.50, second); 25 breast (27.84); 25 fly (22.61, sixth) •Regan Turnbull: 25 free (18.21, third); 25 back (21.68, third); 100 IM (1:34.71, first); 25 breast (23.42, first); 25 fly (21.86, fifth) 8-and-under boys •Michael Sentivany: 25 free (19.33, sixth); 25 back (22.09, third); 25 breast (23.76, second); 25 fly (21.70, first); 50 free (43.70, fourth) 9- to 10-year-old girls •Lauren Mason: 50 free (42.67); 50 back (56.41); 100 free (1:43.56) •Samanth Nappi: 50 free (32.55, first); 50 back (40.45, fifth); 50 breast (45.17, third); 50 fly (37.27, first); 100 breast (1:25.52, second) •Caroline Ramos: 50 free (38.08); 50 back (39.01, second); 100 IM (1:23.13, second); 50 fly (37.96, second); 100 free (1:18.17, fourth)

•Kennedy Turnbull: 50 back (42.55, seventh); 100 IM (1:34.02, eighth); 50 breast (48.64) 9 to 10-year-old boys •Benjamin Mason: 50 free (43.50); 50 back (1:03.91); 50 breast (1:13.17); 100 free (1:43.20) 13- to 14-year-old girls •Rachel Sentivany: 100 back (1:19.31, first); 100 free (1:07.74, third); 100 breast (1:28.05, third); 100 fly (1:13.79, second) 13- to 14-year-old boys •Kyle Howell: 100 back (1:16.25, third); 100 free (1:04.67, first); 100 breast (1:25.86, second); 200 free (2:20.68, first) •Jonathon Kluczynski: 100 IM (1:11.90, first); 50 free (27.94, second); 50 breast (37.18, second); 50 fly (31.34, first)

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Visit ThisWeekSPORTS.com for complete coverage of central Ohio high school basketball. Throughout the week, Hoop It Up offers previews of top games, recaps of great performances, polls, slideshows, videos and player features on Top stories the more than 150 boys and Boys Basketball: Westergirls basketball teams in ThisWeekSPORTS.com’s ville South is setting its sights on the postseason after earncoverage area. ing the top seed in the Division I district tournament Feb. 13. Top games Girls Basketball: Reynoldsburg’s best regular season in GAMES OF THE WEEK BOYS: Northland vs. Walnut program history is now comRidge, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, plete. Next up: The Raiders’ Feb. 19, at Columbus East. quest for a Division I state title. Hockey: Liberty became the This is the City League chamfirst team outside Dublin to pionship game. GIRLS: District tournament win the Blue Jackets Cup. Commentary: Mr. High games are under way. School Sports, Larry Larson, Top performances profiles Will McKinney’s Africentric girls basketball team, which has become a local and BOYS Olentangy Liberty’s Jake statewide powerhouse in eight Bischoff scored seven of his seasons. game-high 27 points during overtime as the Patriots edged Quotable Beechcroft 55-54 in a non“I went to the net hard, like league game Feb. 12. Liberty improved to 13-6 with the we’re taught to do, and when I saw the puck sitting there in victory.

us a lot against Northland. I feel like I have played in that atmosphere all four years that I have been at Africentric. “This team is very special because it has lots of talented girls who can compete at a high level. Earlier in the year the younger players were trying to LARRY learn about high school basLARSON ketball and us five seniors had to teach them how to play Africentric basketball and how to play hard and play under pressure. Since this is our last chance, we as seniors want to win so bad and we push each other and we push our teammates, but as the year has worn on, the younger players have grown and now they are pushing us. There are no slackers on this team.” Looking ahead to the postseason, which begins Tuesday, Feb. 22, for Africentric, Ferguson said, “The City League title is a wonderful boost for us going into the district tournament because once you win a championship, all of us want the next title even more and there are three more we can win. We have the district, regional and state tournaments ahead and, of course, we have coach McKinney leading the way. He is a great coach and a father figure for all of us. He is just not a coach, he teaches us about life. I love the family feeling at Africentric and always have loved it. We are all in this together.” Look out Division III. I’ll see you at a game. Larry Larson is a former athletics director at Grandview High School. He can be heard as “Mr. High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM.

GIRLS Africentric’s Raven Ferguson had 22 points, nine rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals as her team beat previously undefeated Northland 60-52 in the City League championship on Feb. 12 at Mifflin.

If the seedings hold, we’ll see Gahanna and eighth-seeded Newark clash in a district semifinal. Pay attention to that one because the future of the OCCOhio will be on display. Gahanna’s four sophomores, including point guard Quiera Lampkins, are playing key roles for the Lions, who might be 0-4 against Reynoldsburg and Pickerington North, but they are a combined 14-2 against everyone else. On the other bench, Newark has been rejuvenated by a bevy of promising underclassmen, including sophomore post player Paige Cashin and freshman shooting guard Maggie Mitchell. Newark also is 14-2 when losses to North and Reynoldsburg are subtract-

ed from the equation. That isn’t to say Reynoldsburg is going anywhere anytime soon, either. The Raiders start only one senior, and the rapid development of sophomores such as Destini Cooper and Alyssa Rice gives Reynoldsburg plenty of staying power. “It’s great to be young and good,” Newark coach J.R. Shumate said recently. “(Raiders coach) Jack (Purtell) has got it figured out.” In fact, the overall youth I see in the OCC-Ohio tells me that the league will continue to be showcased at the local regional for years to come. There’s history to consider, too. Under the current alignment, teams from the OCC-Ohio have combined to take 12 of the

past 15 regional berths, with Dublin Coffman standing as the lone exception as it won district titles from 2007-09. Current members of the OCC-Ohio also swept the district championships in 2006 when Pickerington North, Gahanna and Pickerington Central won their respective brackets. Central captured the first of four consecutive district titles that season, and a stable of young guards coming up through its program tells me a similar run could be forthcoming. I don’t see that happening this year, but the route to Otterbein will run through the OCC-Ohio nonetheless. kadams@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

Schools announce coaching vacancies The following schools are seeking coaches: Delaware — Football. Send résumé to athletics director Clint Fetty at fettycl@dcs.k12.oh.us. Hamilton Township — Assistant softball, middle school baseball. Send résumé to athletics director Mark Beggrow at mbeggrow@hamiltonlocal.k12.oh.us. Hilliard Darby — Girls golf, assistant junior varsity boys soccer. Send résumé to Chad Schulte, athletics director, Hilliard Darby High School, 4200 Leppert Road, Hilliard, 43026 or e-mail chad_schulte@hboe.org. Johnstown-Monroe — Track, junior varsity baseball. Contact athletics director Mike Carter at (740) 967-2721 or wmcarter@johnstown.k12.oh.us. Olentangy — Girls soccer. Send résumé to ath-

letics director Jay Wolfe at jay_wolfe@olentangy.k12.oh.us by March 4. Thomas Worthington — Assistant track and field specializing in pole vault. Send résumé to athletics director Dan Girard at dgirard@worthington.k12.oh.us or fax to (614) 883-2275. Upper Arlington — Field hockey. Send résumé to girls athletics director Jodi Palmer at jpalmer@uaschools.org. Watterson — Assistant boys track and field specializing in sprints and jumps. Contact coach Matt McGowan at runohio@ee.net or (740) 5870376. Westerville South — Assistant boys and girls soccer. Contact athletics department at (614) 7976004.

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The Beat Arts, eats and fun in central Ohio “Cradle of Filth at the Newport.” The Beat figures we wouldn’t go that far. The club’s actually kind of nice.) Tickets are $20/$22. Call 1800-745-3000.

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7 In an incredible marriage

1 Into its 16th year, RIVER-

DANCE still rules. It’s been seen live by more than 22 million people in 40 countries, has played more than 10,000 performances – and been written about by tens of thousands of Joe Moriarty arts writers all looking for the next clever play on words for something to do with feet and fast and Irish. Columbus native Joe Moriarty is the current lead in the dance spectacular, which plays five shows at the Palace Theatre Feb. 18-20. Tickets are $62.50-$22.50. Call (614) 469-0939.

2 Three days after Valentine’s

Day, The Orlando Consort presents “Amoré: Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance” at Capital University’s Mees Hall. Timeless and universal, these themes have inspired artists throughout history. The Orlando Consort will share some from but a brief period. Featured composers are Ciconia, Busnoys, Desprez, Mouton, Arcadelt and Verdelot. Tickets are $27/$22/$12. Call (614) 469-0939.

3 We’ll admit we had no idea

what Biffy Clyro was about when we got word they were planning a Friday, Feb. 18, gig at The Basement. But The Beat is an admitted sucker for cool and/or interesting band names, and this def-

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initely fits the bill. The British trio hasn’t gotten as much traction as compatriots like Coldplay or Muse, but Biffy boasts no less a flair for the dramatic. Moving Mountains opens for the Friday show. Tickets are $10/$12. Call 1-800-745-3000.

4 You’ve heard Broadway vet Liz Callaway’s voice even if you don’t know it. She’s also handled singing parts in animated features including Anastasia (performing the Academy Award-nominated Journey to the Past), Aladdin and the King of Thieves and Beauty and Liz Callaway the Beast, among a host of others. Of course, if you’ve seen the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers or The Look of Love, you’ve seen her and known it. Callaway joins the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for a pops concert celebrating the works of Stephen Sondheim (this year marks his 80th birthday) and Frank Loesser (marking the 100th an-

niversary of his birth) Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $66.50-$20.50. Call (614) 228-8600.

5 Pakistan-born and SoCal-

raised, jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi is a leading voice in bringing modern sounds of his native land to audiences in the U.S. and around the globe. His instrumental jazz outfit, Invocation, joins Abbasid for a performance of his program “Motherland” at the Wexner Center for the Arts Saturday, Feb. 19. The program sets Pakistani qawwali music in Abbasi’s contemporary jazz world. Tickets are $17. Call (614) 2923535.

of two powerful elements of popular culture, Brooklyn rock n’roll quartet Atomic Tom is perhaps best-known, and at least was initially-known, as a result of the video posted to YouTube of the band performing its song Take Me Out on four iPhones on the New York subway. Presumably, for the band’s Tuesday, Feb. 22, show at The Basement, they’ll have more traditional instruments and amps and what-have-you. Tickets are $10. Call 1-800745-3000.

8 It’s fair to say that Amy

Grant and Michael W. Smith were among the 4-5 artists that ushered in the modern era of Christian music. Arguments can be made on every side concerning whether that was a good thing, but their relevance to popular music can’t be denied. And now they’re on tour together again for the “2 Friends” tour, which makes a stop at Grove City Church of the Nazarene TuesWow. We wracked our day, Feb. 24. 6 brains trying to think of Tickets are $75-$25. Call 1ways to enhance for your reading 800-965-9324. pleasure a reasonable description of British metal band Cradle of 9 Pop-rock singer-songwriter Filth not already summed up niceJeffrey Gaines writes tunely in the band’s moniker. ful, well-crafted songs of yearnSo anyway CoF is headlining ing, confession and insight. the “Creatures from the Black The kind of stuff that ought to Abyss” Tour, also featuring Nacht- get his music played all the time mystium, Turisas and Daniel Li- on the radio. But as we know, it oneye, which stops at the New- doesn’t always work that way. port Music Hall Tuesday, Feb. 22. Gaines will play Newark’s Mid(The best part, and we’ve told land Theatre Thursday and Friyou about this before, is getting day, Feb. 24-25. Tickets are $27.50. an e-mail with the subject line Call (740)-345 LIVE.

Tiempo Libre will play the Lincoln Theatre Friday, Feb. 18. Tickets are $30. Call (614) 469-0939. Read more from The Beat’s interview with Jorge Gomez in the BeatBlog at www.ThisWeekNews.com.

10 Jorge Gomez and his mu- traditional Cuban forms with Latin

sical compañeros were going to make timba music, despite what people told them about the challenges of finding audiences for the hybrid form among U.S. audiences. In 2000, Gomez found himself in Miami, reuniting with many friends from their days playing the clubs around Havana, Cuba. They had each had classical training alongside their cultural accumulation of Latin and Afro-Cuban musical styles like son, salsa and even santeria. And from Cuba, each had traveled with their families via a different geographical path to Miami — pianist/keyboardist Gomez first to Guatemala, others to far-flung places like Argentina, Italy and Spain. The friends were making music separately, in supporting bands for a number of top acts, but decided “we had to play this music we left behind,” Gomez told The Beat. “The first thing that came into my mind was that (timba) was the only thing we could do,” he added. “That or nothing.” Timba is a modern hybrid of

jazz, featuring instrumentation not typically found in Cuban music, resulting in something “a little deeper sounding and more energetic,” Gomez explained. The friends named their new band Tiempo Libre, or “free time,” as it started out as a side project for each. Despite what they were told about their music’s potential appeal to American audiences, Tiempo Libre didn’t stay a side project for long. “In 2004 we released our first album and got our first Grammy (Award) nomination. In 2006 we released our second album and got our second Grammy nomination,” Gomez related, with a chuckle that indicated he was being less than self-aggrandizing. Of course, those who told him it wouldn’t work had to be saying “OK, OK. We get the point.” Tiempo Libre has since earned a third Grammy nomination, and timba has taken Gomez and mates around the world. “U.S., Europe, Israel, Australia. We’re always getting a lot of support,” Gomez said. “It’s like ‘Wow, we know we’re doing the right thing.’”

Lots of vino and voluptuous food at Tucci’s in Dublin The first thing you notice when you tread into the terrific Tucci’s is a chalkboard with 16 special wines listed on it. These are all available in two-, four- and sixounce pours that will never be overoxidized because Tucci’s owns a fancy Enomatica machine. If you’ve never seen one, they’re sleek, state-of-the-art appliances that feature high-tech wine preservation systems and deliver automated pours. Given this fact — and the existence of about 150 more wines on Tucci’s menu — it’s clear vino is big here. But you could have gathered that from all the burgundyred accents in the casually elegant restaurant or from the convivial laughter bubbling up from its bustling, bottle-laden tables. Don’t think that Tucci’s is consistently busy just because of its hooch, though. No, this prettily

MENU by G.A. Benton golden-glowing eatery with both intimate and communal seating serves some of the best food around. Toss in a friendly and knowledgeable waitstaff, and you have one of the top-tier restaurants in the area. Tucci’s menu is big but not overwhelming. It’s filled with influences from Italy, Asia, California and even Hawaii. Most of these influences surface in the huge Outrigger Canoe Combo appetizer ($17). That fun, fry-happy app came with a boatload of: spicy scallops (perfectly “blackened,” served with a mustardy sauce and cooling gorgonzola); calamari laced with ba-

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The Outrigger Canoe Combo and Chorizo-Crusted Grouper at Tucci’s.

nana peppers and Parmesan (matched with a sort of Italian salsa); colorful Big Island Chips (made with root veggies like taro and lotus); and a shiitake, tomato and onion filled eggroll with a cit-

rusy soy sauce. For a more modest starter, pick the Bibb Salad ($7). Like an elegant upgrade from that popular and still-resurgent iceberg wedge, its tender leaves of bibb lettuce were coated in a horseradishy gorgonzola dressing and further flattered by crispy bacon lardons and diced tomatoes. Some of the best dining deals here are Tucci’s good, handmade pizzas ($10-$12) and stylish pastas ($10-$18, available in smaller sized and priced portions). From the latter, the Spaghetti Bolognese ($10 for the “small” — it was big) was a winner. A chunky, believable and completely delicious bolognese sauce was tossed with whole wheat pasta. The sophisticated entree had a complex, parmesan-enhanced richness slightly leavened by bits of bright tomato.

Tucci’s 35 N. High St., Dublin 614-792-3466 Web: tuccisbistro.com Cuisine: Italian Price: $$$ ($20-$30 per person) Patio: Yes Hours: 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday lunch, 5-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday Tucci’s proudly serves organically raised, grass-fed beef. This makes its great 14-ounce New York Strip Steak ($35) a relatively guiltrestrained splurge. Beautifully grillseared, it was thick and lean but super juicy and had a mild but nice “chew.” Its very fine plate mates (garlicky sauteed spinach and mushrooms, fingerling potatoes and a fruity “cabernet demi”) were

cleverly designed to keep the focus on the high-grade meat. Seafood’s prevalent here, too. It comes in various varieties and styles, but even fish eschewers probably couldn’t resist the refined fish-n-chips treatment of the Chorizo-Crusted Grouper ($23). I loved its crunchy crust (with bits of spicy sausage) and goat cheese potato cake as well as its spicy “tomatoscallion emulsion.” To finish, the buttery and caramel-y Apple Tartlette ($7) — with big clusters of candied nuts plus smoky, spicy and gingery notes — was more complex than I might’ve thought. Ditto for this excellent restaurant. To read G.A. Benton’s blog visit ColumbusDiningGuide.com.

Professional kitchen hopes to attract food entrepreneurs A vacant warehouse on the city’s East Side soon will be transformed into commercial kitchen for bakers, candy-makers and mobile push-cart operators. The Economic and Development Policy Institute is developing the 8,000-square-foot space as a way to encourage job growth through entrepreneurship, said Bob Kramer, director of food services and safety for the nonprofit agency. “The basis of the community bakery and commissary area is to provide a commercial setting for those food entrepreneurs who want to start a business,” said Kramer, former food-safety supervisor for Columbus Public Health. “At the same time we can provide them a menu of services, including business training, food-safety training, marketing and also loans, if necessary.” The facility, off I-670 at 1655 Old Leonard Ave., is expected to open by June 1. The space will be split up into to two areas. The bakery will have four

separate bake stations, each equipped with a convection oven, large mixer, preparation table, reach-in cooler, sinks, stovetop range and other necessary equipment. The mobile food-cart commissary will have individual cart storage units equipped with a secure fence and locked door, and other essential kitchen amenities. In addition, the warehouse will have a walk-in cooler and freezer available for cold storage along with an area for dry storage available for all who use the facility. State law allows some home-based companies to produce food – jellies, jams, pretzels and bread, for example – for resale. The EDPI facility, meanwhile, provides those businesses with an opportunity to expand by working with commercial equipment in a larger space that’s licensed by the Ohio Depart-

This computer-generated image depicts a commercial kitchen being developed by the Economic and Community Development Institute.

ment of Agriculture and Columbus Public Health, Kramer said. Push-cart operators, which are not self-sufficient and need to work from a base of operations, also could find the new facility attractive, he said. Kramer said that although a pricing structure has

not been set, the organization is looking at hourly rentals for the bakery and longer-term leases for the mobile food-cart commissary “We’re going to be open to whatever their needs are,” Kramer said. For more information, call 614-732-0896.

■ Dietitian Jennifer Burton offers helpful tips to those are trying to lose weight and ■ Geri Ziemba has taken her passion for keep it off. comfort food to the Dublin Village Tavern. was founded, she was Several of her recipes have named general manager. elevated the place’s standing Back then it was known as Jennifer Burton in the local pub world. a bar with food, she said. Ziemba, general manager “Now we’re known as an eating establishof the 11-year-old restaurant, ment more than a drinking establishment,” created one of the hottest she said. items – the Irish egg rolls, Ziemba said she enjoys the challenge of which are basically Ruben Geri Ziemba developing recipes for the tavern. sandwiches wrapped up in won ton skins and “I kind of treat this place like my baby,” she deep-fried. said. “I’m always looking for ways to make it But that’s not all. The latest chef to con- better.” tribute recipes for Food & Wine developed Recipe of the week the recipes for meatloaf, crab cakes and other tavern favorites. As for the other pub classics, the kitchen makes the sauce for the chicken wings. Burgers are hand-patted, never frozen. In the summer, Ziemba uses real key limes for key lime pie. It all goes back to her childhood, when her parents owned a comfort-food restaurant in suburban Detroit. She held every job in the Wishing Well, from busing tables to working in the kitchen. See Geri Ziemba’s recipe for carrot cake at In 2000, when the Dublin Village Tavern www.ThisWeekNews.com/foodandwine

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Sr. Consultant, App Development Sr. Consultant, App Development, Cardinal Health, Dublin OH. Qualifications: Req. BS in Comp. Sci., MIS, Eng’g, Math. or related and 60 mo. progressive ly responsible systems programming and analysis exp. (or MS plus 36 mo. exp.), including: 36 mo. working with business analysis skill set, 24 mo. with ERP and 4 mo. with Vastera. Also requires demonstrated knowledge of HTS classification, country of origin determination, expert license evaluation and international trade and logistics supply chain. All experience may have been gained before, during, or after degree. Send resume to elizabeth.norman@ cardinalhealth.com or Cardinal Health, Inc. Attn. Elizabeth Norman, 7000 Cardinal Place, Dublin, OH 43017. EOE M/F/D/V Diversity Works Here.

Sr. Project Mgr Positions For cent OH systems consulting/ development co. Duties: develop through business research & business analysis quality software plan based on objectives, coordinated w/project plans; using variety of software tools & technologies; develop innovative approaches; plan for impact of projects; anticipate factors likely to create change, & take appropriate action; break complex projects down into meaningful subprojects; assess project design/implementation; maintain control of accepted changes; resolve project issues; apply project life cycle methodology; provide reports; hold regular meetings; ensure team members understand project purposes; provide feedback; build/maintain commitment by seeking appropriate participation; identify individuals who can expedite project; take budgetary cycle into acct; obtain sufficient factual information. Requirements include master’s degree in computer science or any engineering field; 3 yrs. exp. in/with/using Informatica, Teradata, Oracle & Workload Manager, or 3 yrs. exp. in/with/using Informatica, Netezza, MQ Series & Facets. Qualified applicants send resume to ICC, attn: K. Clementz, 2500 Corporate Exchange Dr. 320 Columbus, OH 43231.

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