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April 14, 2011

Winery seeks OK to erect large tent

By BRITANY BYERS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The April 11 Canal Winchester Planning and Zoning Commission meeting focused on one topic: the Hidden Lakes Vineyards and Winery on Winchester Pike.

Owner Damon Pfeifer is seek-

ing a variance to the village zoning code to allow an accessory structure — a 30-foot by 36-foot tent — to be located within the rear and side yard setbacks at the winery. He also filed a preliminary development plan for 12 additional parking spaces.

The commission voted to table action on both applications until

the May 9 meeting, but not before an hour’s worth of discussion, most of which focused on Pfeifer’s request to keep the tent erected on winery property for most of the summer.

“We need the parking to accommodate the tent for small weddings, banquets and family reunions,” Pfeifer said.

Andrew Dutton, planning and zoning administrator, pointed out that the parking spaces on the plan do not reflect the correct angles and the width for the drive lane is only 12 feet.

The existing 12-foot private drive that spans the length of the parking lot needs to be 18 feet wide so a car can safely back out,

he said.

Pfeifer said it’s “absolutely not a problem” to comply with the parking requirements and the planning commission’s request for him to submit a new drawing.

The majority of Monday’s discussion focused on the proposed “accessory structure” — the large tent.

According to Pfeifer, it costs $1,500 to rent a tent for an event on this property. Currently, a permit is required for each tent larger than 10 feet by 10 feet. Dutton said the permits can allow the use of the tents for a weekend to three days.

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Canal Winchester’s Jaquan Ransome runs in heat four of the 100-meter dash at the Stingel Invitational at Pickerington North on April 9.

Scouts preparing for April 16 food drive

By BRITANY BYERS ThisWeek Community Newspapers Organizers and participants in this year’s Scouting for Food project hope to surpass last year’s efforts in collecting items for the Canal Winchester Food Pantry.

Members of Cub Scout Pack 103, Boy Scout Troop 103 and the Girl Scouts of Canal Winchester will conduct the fifth annual food drive from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 16.

Nearly 100 volunteers will canvass village neighborhoods for donations of nonperishable food items, personal care items and cash. All donations will benefit the Canal Winchester Food Pantry, which serves families in need in Canal Winchester, Lithopolis and Carroll.

“This is probably our No. 1 community event that we’ve done throughout the year,” said Thomas Obert, Pack 103 Cubmaster. “It benefits so many people See LOCAL SCOUTS, page A2

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When we’ve done this in the past, we’ve had such great success with it that it’s typical for the pantry to be full. We stock the shelves.

THOMAN OBERT —Pack 103 Cubmaster

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The Canal Winchester Board of Education voted unanimously last week to refuse Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) funding and indefinitely delay several construction projects.

The OSFC had offered the district $17.5 million to be used for building projects, treasurer Joyce Boyer said. In addition, Superintendent Kim MillerSmith reported at an April 5 special board meeting that the OSFC had notified the district that based on its current ranking in the commission’s Expedited Local Partnership Program, Canal Winchester was in line to receive an additional $2.2million credit toward building projects.

Those included a new pre-kindergarten/kindergarten building, an addition to Canal Winchester Middle School and renovations to Canal Winchester High School.

“It’s their opinion that we can build those two buildings without having to ask the voters for any money,” Miller-Smith said.

However, the OSFC’s funding offer would require the district to pass a 0.5-mill maintenance levy in 2012. Board members said they believe the community would be unlikely to support the maintenance levy, especially since the district is asking voters to renew a three-year, $6.4-million emergency levy on May 3.

“To me, the deal-breaker is going to the voters with a half-mill levy when we’re struggling to pay the bills now,” board member David Brobst said.

“I think this is the wrong time to do it.”

Boyer pointed out that although the district did not plan to hire additional staff if the building projects went forward, the new facilities would require See BOARD, page A3

Good Friday procession ‘profound in its simplicity’

By BRITANY BYERS ThisWeek Community Newspapers Canal Winchester’s annual Procession of the Cross, hosted by the Canal Winchester Ministerial Association, will begin at noon on Good Friday, April 22, at the Prentiss School House, 10 W. Oak St. Participants will process down High Street to Hope United Methodist Church, 83 E. Columbus St., where a

brief midday service will be held.

The Rev. David Long-Higgins, president of the CWMA and co-pastor of David’s United Church of Christ, is looking forward to Good Friday’s events.

“This cross walk procession … has been going on for easily 20 years,” he said.

Its purpose is “to commemorate one of the holiest days in the Christian church year,” according to Long-Hig-

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gins. “It’s a reminder, obviously, of the day of the death of Jesus.”

In addition to the event’s religious significance, Long-Higgins is looking for the cross walk to interrupt the ordinary coming and going of everyday lives, in an intentional way.

“We all get busy, don’t we, in our lives?” he asked. “You move from one thing to the next, quickly … and one weekend leads into the next week. Occasionally, it seems to me, it’s helpful

for us to have our lives interrupted in ways that make us stop and think of the big picture of our lives, however we may consider that.”

Long-Higgins said he expects those who pass by the Good Friday procession will take a moment and let their lives be interrupted, as well.

“As we go along the way, oftentimes, cars will pull over to the side of the road and pause while we walk by,” he said.

At one time, participants would sing

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hymns as they walked, but that became difficult since people become spread out during the walk, he said. This year, attendees will be accompanied by a solemn “drumbeat” of clapping as they walk, which Long-Higgins said will add something haunting or compelling to the procession.

Long-Higgins said community turnout for the walk has depended on See FRIDAY, page A2

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According to Susan Tomlinson, chairperson for Scouting for Food, there were 355 people served by the food pantry last month.

“When prices are going up, and gas prices are going up, there’s a big need,” Tomlinson said.

The scouts range in age from first grade to 12th grade, and Obert said even the young scouts recognize the significance of this event.

“My son is now in second grade, and he understands very well that what he is doing is helping the people that are currently unable to provide for themselves and their families,” he said.

Obert’s son, Tommy, is “very excited” to take part in Scouting for Food.

“It feels really good,” Tommy Obert said of stocking the shelves of the food pantry. “It’s helping people … It helps people live and gives them a real good meal.”

Last year, the scouts collected more than 3,000 food items and raised more than $300 in cash donations.

According to Obert, past success is the underlying reason why Scouting for Food has become an annual event.

“When we’ve done this in the past, we’ve had such great success with it that it’s typical for the pantry to be full,” he said. “We stock the shelves. “We always try to strive to do better than we did the year before,” Obert said.

Tomlinson said she thought

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The cross walk is scheduled to proceed, even if it rains, he said.

The Procession of the Cross is a nondenominational community event.

“Anyone is welcome,” LongHiggins said. “You don’t have to be a member of any church.”

The nondenominational aspect of the annual event is something Long-Higgins welcomes.

“Anything that various churches work on together, I think is a good thing, because it manifests the fact that the church is one,” he said. “We get use to thinking that we’re different denominations … but this is a beautiful illustration that we’re called into a shared journey; a journey together that follows the way of the Christ.”

Long-Higgins encourages the community to take part in this year’s cross walk.

“Anyone who’s looking for a meaningful way to contemplate the Christ-gift of sacrificial love, and wants to have a holy pause in the midst of their day is welcome and encouraged to come and join with us,” he said.

“We’re enriched by the variety of people who come,” he added.

“It’s a very simple thing we do, but profound in its simplicity.”

scout participation was low last year, but she has high expectations for this year.

“I think we’ll go 5,000 (donated items) or over,” she said. “I just feel that we’re going to have a lot of participation this year.”

Scouting for Food is an opportunity for people to give back to the community, Obert said.

“We’re hoping for a good turnout,” he said. “We’re not asking for anybody else to donate their time, we’re not asking for anybody else to donate huge sums of anything. Just a little bit from everybody will make a great impact on this food drive.”

Obert has been involved in scouting since he was a child, and he, too, plans to donate items to this year’s food drive.

“I’m fortunate enough that I don’t need their (the food pantry’s) services now, but someday, if I did, I would hope somebody would be there to do what we’re doing to help me out as well,” he said.

Tommy Obert agrees and encourages the community to donate.

“It’s a nice thing to do,” he said.

“This might be you someday,” he added. “So you should help out and help us.”

The local Lions Club is sponsoring the food drive and will be assisting the scouts in transporting collected items to the food pantry. The Canal Winchester Food Pantry is in need of cereal, boxed dinners, Jello, baking items, pastas, chunky soups, crackers, Manwich, canned fruit, shampoo, deodorant and laundry soap.

Cash donations will be used by the pantry to secure items that have not been donated.

Residents can leave their donations on their front porches for pickup. Items should be labeled with a note stating they are for Scouting for Food.

Donations also can be dropped off at the food pantry at David’s United Church of Christ, 80 W. Columbus St.

Approval of this application would allow Pfeifer to keep a tent up during the summer months and offer a reduced rental cost.

Commission member Jennifer Solomon said she sees the demand, “especially for that location.”

Solomon said a lot of her friends who are getting married this summer are choosing weddings with tents.

However, Pfeifer’s current plans violate setback requirements, she said.

Setback requirements — the distance from a permanent structure to neighboring property lines — must be 20 feet from the side and 25 feet from the rear, according to Dutton.

“It’s too close to the property lines,” Solomon said of the site where Pfeifer wants to locate the tent. “And even though they (Pfeifer) own the adjacent properties, we don’t like to set precedent. We just try to stay away from all that because it turns into a mess.”

Commission member Mike Vasko is opposed to the tent proposal. He explained he was against the winery in the past because he didn’t think the site was the appropriate size for the business.

“Instead of continuing the practice of getting a permit … you’re going to have a temporary tent as a permanent structure on this piece of property … for the convenience of not having

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It’s (the site) too close to the property lines. And even though they (Pfeifer) own the adjacent properties, we don’t like to set precedent. We just try to stay away from all that because it turns into a mess.

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to come back and ask us for permission,” Vasko said. “Again, it’s trying to squeeze more onto this site than our requirements allow.”

Of the requests he has received, Pfeifer said people are looking specifically for tents.

“It’s just a tent right now, but it won’t stay that way,” commission member Jeff Graber said, noting that flooring could become an issue in the future. He recommended a more permanent structure be built.

“I would rather see an actual shelter structure,” Graber said. “I think it would look nicer longer.”

Pfeifer plans to return to the planning commission May 9 with a new proposal for the accessory structure, one that is more permanent.

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Study planned of Pickerington’s Kerr Mound

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A Pickerington resident and an Ohio State University archaeologist hope to uncover clues to the past by studying a local American Indian mound.

Pickerington City Council on Tuesday, April 5, unanimously agreed to allow Kevin Nolan, an OSU Department of Anthropology lecturer, to launch an evaluation of the Kerr Indian Mound in Pickerington.

Plans for the study were initiated by Vince Malone, a Mackenzie Drive resident who last fall contacted city officials and the Ohio Historical Society Archaeological Department about investigating the mound.

Although the mound is listed in the Ohio Archaeological Inventory, Malone said there is no data available about its origins or uses. He hopes the study will answer those questions, and possibly lead to including the mound on the National Register of Historic Places.

“My interest is turning what’s now a bicycle ramp and groundhog home into a respectable historical site that’s cherished by the community,” Malone said.

Nolan will lead the study of the mound. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology Inc. will provide radar and sensory equipment and assistance to enable the sub-

terranean examination of the mound to determine soil variations, which could suggest if the site was used for ceremonial burials or cremations, as well as other domestic purposes.

“It will be interesting … just to see the variability in how the mound is structured,” Nolan said.

“We don’t know anything really about this area.

“It’s probably at least 2,000 to 3,000 years old.”

The mound is located on the north side of state Route 256 between two homes near Simsbury Park. Malone said it’s approximately 70 feet wide and eight feet tall.

In August 1982, suspected looters were discovered by former Pickerington Police Capt. Terry Dunlap, now a Violet Township trustee. Nolan said three small holes had been dug into the mound, but nothing was believed to have been taken from the site.

Depending on Burks’ availability, the work could begin by mid-May, Nolan said.

In addition to a remote scan of the mound, Nolan plans to dig 50centimeter holes in various areas of the mound to help discover information about who built the mound and when it was constructed.

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Upon conclusion of the study, Nolan said he could share his findings with the Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society or provide a written report to city council.

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“I know a lot of people have a curiosity about the mound,” said Councilwoman Cristie Hammond, who chairs the committee. “I think it would be a benefit to find out more about the mound.”

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During a special meeting Monday night, the Canal Winchester Board of Education discussed the possibility of reinstating several teaching positions that the board voted to eliminate last month as part of a $3.7-million “budget reduction plan” for the 2011-2012 school year.

District treasurer Joyce Boyer said board members discussed reinstating eight to 11 teaching positions out of the total 49 jobs that are scheduled to be eliminated due to state funding cuts. The district would also keep the extracurricular activity fee at the current $140 per student instead of increasing it to $300 next school year.

Reinstating the positions and maintaining the activity fee are contingent upon voters approving the three-year emergency levy that the district has placed on the May 3 ballot, she said.

The salaries of the reinstated positions have yet to be determined, Boyer said.

If passed, they levy would cost $469 per $100,000 of home value and would not increase the amount that voters already pay, she said.

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Canal Winchester entered the OSFC’s Expedited Local Partnership Program in 2001 and deferred funding once before, Boyer said. Miller-Smith said the district’s decision to defer OSFC funding once again means there is no guarantee that funding will be offered in the future.

Board member Michael Yonnotti noted that in the current economic climate, other districts are also deciding to delay building projects, which means the OSFC may have excess funds to offer in the future.

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Foos lobbied for capital to be named Columbus It was a time when numbers of people in central Ohio seemed to be larger than life and among those early settlers, Joseph Foos was — in more ways than one — a bit larger than most.

He was part of the restless generation that grew up during and shortly after the American RevoluED tion and evenLENTZ tually began to move over the mountains into the Ohio Country.

Born in 1767 in Chester County, Pa., Foos moved with his family first to Tennessee and then to Kentucky. By the time he was 30, he had become a strong and experienced frontiersman, but he was a man still looking for a place to call his own.

Having just married young Lydia Nelson, he heard in 1797 that an acquaintance named Lucas Sullivant was establishing a town at the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers in the Northwest Territory.

Deciding to seek his fortune in Ohio, Joseph Foos arrived in frontier Franklinton in 1798 with his wife and infant son, Nelson. There were not many people in the village. The few who had arrived in the fall of 1797 saw their homes and possessions inundated in a flood in March 1798.

The whole town had relocated itself to higher ground to the west of the river and it was here that Foos built his own cabin. To make a living for his family, he soon opened a tavern and inn at his home and later operated the first ferry across the Scioto to the Refugee Tract east of the river.

The tract had been set aside for refugees from Canada and was virtually unoccupied.

Joseph Foos had not had much formal education, but that lack was remedied when an itinerant Irish schoolmaster arrived in town looking for work and a place to stay.

Having no money, the schoolmaster provided Foos with lessons in return for room and board and an occasional libation.

With his new ability to read and write with some fluency, Foos soon found his niche: He went into politics.

Foos would serve as one of the three judges in the first Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in 1803. In 1808, he was elected to the state senate and would serve — with an occasional interruption — until 1828.

As a member of the Ohio General Assembly, Foos lobbied hard to have central Ohio become the site of a relocated state capital.

After the “High Banks opposite Franklinton” was selected as the place for a new capital city, Foos was appalled to learn that a number of people thought the new town should be named Ohio City. He disagreed. A great admirer of Christopher Columbus, Joseph Foos believed the town should be named for the explorer. After using the tried-and-true method of persuasion accompanied by liberal amounts of strong drink, Foos convinced a majority of the assembly to name the town Columbus.

During the War of 1812, Foos raised a militia company. He quickly rose from a captaincy to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.

Perhaps one of the reasons he moved up in rank so quickly was his ability to give stirring speeches to his troops, albeit a bit different than the ones we might hear today.

Arriving at Camp Barr on the Sandusky Plains, he addressed his men, in part, as follows: “This cruel and relentless foe, instigated by the enemies of liberty, would gladly imbue their hands in the blood of your wives, your Courtesy of Columbus Metropolitan Library mothers, your sisters, your A statue of Christopher Columbus in its original children and location at Pontifical College Josephinum, circa traffic their 1932. scalps for British trinkets. These considera- tion of canals in Ohio. Foos suptions induced me, under the di- ported the building of canals in rection of His Excellency, the gov- Ohio but he had other ideas, as ernor of the state, to collect and well. He introduced a resolution in the Ohio Senate “to apply to the march you to this place.”

Foos went on to say the armies court at Madrid for the privilege of the United States “were rolling of examining the ground and openon, like an impetuous torrent, to- ing a canal for the passage of vesward the Canadas,” and that “the sels from the Spanish Main across sons of liberty will subdue that the continent to Lake Nicaragua, land of despotism and knock off or such other point in that quarter that may be found most practicathe manacles of her slaves.”

Arriving back from the war in ble.”

He then published a pamphlet 1816, Joseph Foos took up his seat in the Ohio Senate and returned explaining his proposal in greater as well to the operation of his tav- detail. The idea was ridiculed by ern and ferry. The proprietors of many as being totally impractical Columbus were thankful to Foos and it came to be called “Foos’s for his help and gave him a lot in Folly.” But to the end of his life, downtown Columbus. Foos ac- Joseph Foos held to his view that cepted the lot but preferred to re- a canal across Central America main among his friends and ac- could and would eventually be built. quaintances in Franklinton.

And, of course, he was right.

Lydia Nelson Foos had died in Joseph Foos died in 1832. He 1809, leaving the general with five children. In 1812, Foos had mar- had lived long enough to see ried Margaret Phifer of London Columbus grow from a small vilin Madison County and six more lage in the forest to become a thrivchildren would be born to that mar- ing town of several thousand peoriage. In 1816, Foos was defeat- ple. The canal had arrived and in ed in a campaign for Congress and the year of his death, the Nationmoved to Madison County and al Road had reached the capital “took up farming.” He continued city.

It must have given a certain satto serve in the Ohio Senate and in 1825 was appointed major gen- isfaction the man who gave Columbus its name. eral of the Ohio militia.

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Events Plant and Flower Sale, sponsored by Gender Road Christian Church, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. May 5-7 at Gender Road Christian Church, 5336 Gender Road. For information, call the church at (614) 834-5973.

Lithopolis Spring Thyme Shop Hop, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. April 14-16. Shops will offer refreshments and specials for hoppers.

Call (614) 837-1929.

Indoor Yard Sale, sponsored

by Gender Road Christian Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 6 and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. May 7, at 5336 Gender Road. For information, call the church at (614) 8345973.

Government Canal Winchester Village Council, 7 p.m. the first and third Mondays of the month at Town Hall, 10 N High St. Planning and zoning commission, 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Town Hall.

Old Town committee meetings, 5:45 p.m. the second Monday of the month at Town Hall.

Finance committee meetings, 5:45 p.m. the first Monday of the month at Town Hall.

Safety committee meetings, 9 a.m. the first Wednesday of the month at Town Hall.

Service committee meetings, 5:45 p.m. the third Monday of the month at Town Hall.

Landmarks commission, 7 p.m. the fourth Monday of the month at Town Hall.

Madison Township Board of Trustees, 6 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month in the Community Center, 4575 Madison Lane, Groveport.

Meetings Eastland-Fairfield Records Commission, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the office of the superintendent, 4300 Amalgamated Place, Groveport. The meeting, conducted in open session, will address the disposal of public records as mandated by Ohio Revised Code 121.22.

Canal Connections, a networking group, meets the second Tuesday of the month from 8:309:30 a.m. at the Canal Banking Center, 6360 Prentiss School Drive, and the fourth Tuesday of the month from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Winchester Tea Room, 25 N. High St. Call Karen Stiles at (614) 920-3090.

Canal Winchester Rotary Club, noon-1 p.m. every Thursday at Shade on the Canal Restaurant, 19 S. High St. Individuals interested in learning more about Rotary are invited to attend. Visit www.rotarycanalwinchester.org.

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Indians Touchdown Club, 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month in the Canal Winchester High School media center, 300 Washington St. For more information, visit www.canalwinchesterfootball.com.

Main Street Canal Winchester, coffee networking group, 8 a.m. the third Friday of the month at Harvest Moon Coffee House. Visit www.mainstreetcanalwinchester.org/coffee.asp.

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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.

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Southeast Moms Club, 10 a.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month at Peace United Methodist Church, 235 Diley Road. For information, visit http://pickeringtonmoms.tripod.com.

Reformers Unanimous International Addiction Abstinence, a faith-based program, 7 p.m. Fridays at Heritage Baptist Church, 470 Groveport Road.

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Have a plan. If you decide to save, break it up into more manageable pieces and write down your plan. Reaching $5,000 means saving roughly $420 per month. Then figure out how you can trim about $100 a week from your expenses (bringing lunch from home, skipping the lattes, etc.). By breaking it up, the big number will seem reachable.

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This year’s show house is a Spanish-revival home built in 1928, located at 4125 Oxford Drive in Upper Arlington.

Catch a first look at the DSH and celebrate with food, spirits and jazz music at the Preview Party, to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 28. Dress is festive. Tickets are $100 per person, or $175 for two and are available online at columbusmuseum.org.

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Franklin County Public Health and the Columbus Academy of Veterinary Medicine will offer a low-cost rabies immunization clinic from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, April 15, at the Capital Area Humane Society, 3015 Scioto Darby Executive Court.

Dogs, cats and ferrets are welcome. The cost is $5 per shot, cash only. No appointment is necessary. Animals must be on a leash or in a carrier.

All dogs, cats and ferrets in Franklin County are required to be vaccinated against rabies and are required to wear their rabies tag. For more information, call Franklin County Public Health at (614) 525-3160 or visit www.myfcph.org.

Thurber House offers writing camps Thurber House is accepting registrations for their 16th summer writing camp program, which will begin in June.

Children entering grades 2-8 are invited to explore the world of creative writing in week-long sessions taught by professional writers. Special guests and field trips are included.

All camp sessions are held at the Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Ave. Each week of camp is limited to 40 students.

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Kimberly Meredith, daughter of Scott and Susan Meredith of Lorain, Ohio, and Gregory Grundey, son of William and Susan Grundey of Canal Winchester, have announced their engagement.

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Preacher followed his sterling opening performance by high jumping 6-8 the next weekend in the Wildcat Premier at Hilliard

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ThisWeek Community Newspapers At a glance “My early season success has surprised me some because I Canal Winchester High hadn’t jumped a whole lot enSchool softball coach Randy tering the competition,” said Hinton was concerned about Preacher, who was third in the his team’s lack of offensive Below are the recent results and high jump (6-7) and 11th in the production after the Indians coming schedules for the Canal long jump (21-4 3/4) at state last scored just one run in their first Winchester baseball and track & year. “My goal this year is rather field teams: three losses. simple. I want to get the gold Thus, Hinton was pleased BASEBALL medal in the high jump at the *April 5 — Defeated Amandaand somewhat relieved to see Clearcreek 10-9 state (meet) and I want to place his squad score 36 runs in five *April 6 — Lost to Bloom-Carroll in the long jump.”

8-6 games last week.

Preacher, who moved to *April 8 — Def. Circleville 10-7 “The girls have been workColumbus a year ago after atApril 9 — Lost to Granville 9-8; ing really hard on their swings lost to Granville 7-2 tending Pontiac Northern High in practice and our hitting has *April 12 — Played Fairfield Union School near Detroit, said his atbeen coming around,” said Hin- *April 13 — Played Teays Valley titude toward jumping is kind of ton, whose team was 4-5 over- *April 15 — Home vs. Logan Elm unusual, but it works for him.

18 — At Hamilton Township all and 3-1 in the MSL-Buck- *April “Most jumpers are way more *April 20 — Home vs. Amandaeye Division before playing Clearcreek serious in competition and pracleague games April 12 at Fair- Of note: The Indians were 3-5 tice than I am,” he said. “I acfield Union and April 13 at overall and 2-1 in the MSL-Buckeye tually think I am kind of a goofball and joke around more than Teays Valley. “That extra work before April 12.

I should, but my relaxed attitude we’ve done in batting drills is TRACK & FIELD *April 5 — Boys: Finished first seems to help me under pressure really paying off.”

(105.33 points) ahead of Bloomand my success, especially in In a 5-1 win over Amanda- Carroll (45.66) and Circleville (23); the high jump, has made me Clearcreek in a league game Girls: Finished first (93) ahead of much more self-confident. I reApril 7, Alyxis Moore hit a solo Bloom-Carroll (42) and Circleville member when I started high home run in the top of the (38) April 9 — Boys: Finished ninth jumping in the seventh grade I fourth inning to give the Indi- (46) in 15-team Stingel Invitational didn’t think I was very good at ans a 2-0 lead and Andrea Peer at Pickerington North behind chamall, but my coaches said I had hit a two-run home run in the pion Lancaster (106); Girls: Finished 12th (23) in 15-team Stingel lots of promise. When I started fifth to make it 5-0.

Invitational behind champion Picktrack in the ninth grade, I added In a 5-4 nine-inning victory erington Central (117.5) the long jump because I loved over New Albany on April 9, April 12 — Competed against watching my older teammates Moore hit a two-run home run Granville and Brookhaven compete in it. and Mariah Rock went 4-for- April 16 — Heath Invitational April 19 — Home vs. Jonathan “My success in the long jump 4, including a two-out single Alder hasn’t come as easy, but that that drove in Peer with the win- *MSL-Buckeye game challenges me even more. I have ning run in the ninth inning. a long stride, which helps me in Rock also hit a solo home ton said. “We already have four the long jump and I actually like run during a 9-7 loss to Cir- home runs after we hit five it better than the high jump, but cleville in a league game April home runs all of last year. I I’m not as skilled at it.”

8. think one reason our home run A year ago, Preacher high Kaleigh Whitlatch had at production is up is because they jumped 7 feet in a meet at Mifleast one hit in the five games moved the pitchers’ (circle) flin. He said he owes all his poslast week, including three sin- back three feet, which gives the itive results to his coach, Steve gles against New Albany, a kids more time to react to the Ayers. triple against Circleville and a ball.”

“My coach has prepared me double and single against so well for track,” Preacher said.

While Hinton is pleased with Amanda-Clearcreek.

“He has made me do a ton of his team’s hitting, he is unhappy conditioning and it takes a lot “Mariah’s a freshman who with the way it played defense more running than you would is slender and isn’t even 5-feet against Circleville and during think to excel at both the high tall, but she’s one of the fastest a 5-4 loss to Hartley on April jump and the long jump.” girls on the team and she 9.

By Paul Vernon/ThisWeek showed us she has some power See LARSON, page A9 The Indians’ Corey Bell clears the bar on a pole vault attempt at the Stingel Invitational.

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The Indians made six errors and gave up eight unearned runs against Circleville and made a costly error that allowed an unearned run against Hartley. In a 15-8 league win over Bloom-Carroll on April 6, Canal Winchester had three errors.

“We’re having too many errors and that’s what’s costing us games,” Hinton said. “Even my most solid defensive players are struggling defensively.”

Hinton said his team must play better defense to be successful when it plays league games Thursday, April 14, at home against Logan Elm, Monday, April 18, at Hamilton Township and Wednesday, April 20, at home against AmandaClearcreek. The Indians also will play Saturday, April 16, at Watkins Memorial.

Peer believes the Indians will rise to the challenge as the players grow more accustomed to playing their new positions.

“Our main focus in practice is going to be to reduce our defensive errors and the unearned runs we’re giving up,” Peer said.

“Our shortstop (Morgan White) is the only returning varsity player who is playing the same position that she played last year, and I think that’s been one of the reasons for our slow start. But we’re

Ayers said Preacher works hard at his craft.

“Nigel has a very good work ethic. He trains hard and his willingness to be great is what makes him a good jumper,” Ayers said. “The experience that Nigel had last year at the state championship meet has helped him a lot. There are many kids who freeze up under that kind of pressure and Nigel embraced that situation and took his (natural) ability and used it.”

Preacher, whose twin brother, Aryton, is one of the top sprinters in central Ohio, said the more Larry Larson is a former athletics director at pressure he faces, the better he competes.

Grandview High School. He can be heard as “I really love it when I know I have great com- “Mr. High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM.

petitors against me. It always makes me want to jump higher and higher,” he said. “I love the atmosphere at big track meets and I love the excitement that the crowds bring. I know I clown around a lot of times, but I used to be a real quiet kid and with this success in track it has bumped my personality up and it has made me much more confident in everything I do. Track has really made a difference for both Aryton and myself.

We are lucky to have it in our lives.”

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Schools announce coaching vacancies The following schools are seeking coaches: Bexley — Girls soccer. Send letter of interest and résumé by Friday, April 15, to Molly Feesler, athletics director, 326 S. Cassingham Road, Bexley, Ohio 43209, or email molly.feesler@bexleyschools.org.

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The OHSAA sparked emotion in more than one direction April 7 when it denied a proposal from the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association to allow a two-week period of skill instruction in May. According to the official OHSFCA release that has been posted online by several news outlets, including JJHuddle.com, the proposal asked for two weeks of football instruction during the final two weeks of May. The timeframe for the workouts would have been a maximum of 10 hours and would not have exceeded more than two hours per workout.

Also as part of the proposal, athletes participating in an OHSAA spring sport would have been required to complete their season before participating in the football workouts.

For spring sport coaches such as A.J. Auld of the Dublin Jerome High School boys lacrosse program, the OHSAA’s unanimous rejection relieves the continuing pressure for prep athletes to specialize.

“I encourage my guys to be multi-sport athletes because it’s good for a number of reasons,” Auld said. “I know the OHSAA promotes all sports and not just football. If they approved this, why would they just allow one sport to be able to do that? Why wouldn’t they allow basketball to do it? I have a good relationship with the football coach at Jerome, and us sharing players has been mutually beneficial. I know I can’t simulate the intensity (during a practice) that one of my players can have going up against one of their rivals on a

Friday night, and the same is true in the other direction.”

For others such as Brookhaven’s Steve Ayers, the OHSAA’s decision to deny the proposal was “kind of disappointing.”

In its official release, the OHSAA cited “concerns over the impact it would have on other spring sports, as well as the requests that would come from other sports.”

The OHSAA indicated, however, that it is examining the possibility of expanding the 10 days of coaching currently permitted over the summer in all team sports.

Some of the nation’s most recruited football states, including California, Florida and Texas, are among those that have some format that includes spring football practice.

“We really don’t get that many days in the summer,” said Ayers, who is an assistant football coach with the Bearcats and the school’s head coach for wrestling and boys track and field. “Down south they all have spring football, and as a state it kind of puts us behind. It seems like another thing to hold us back. We kind of felt good that they were thinking about it. When coaches collaborate, they can work it out.”

Among the reasons the OHSFCA created the proposal was a concern regarding AAU flag football programs and their influence on OHSAA-sponsored football.

In addition, it cited a lack of opportunity for Ohio high school football players to display their skills to college coaches during the May recruiting period.

“I know a lot of people might be against it, but obviously I’m a football coach and I’m also a football fan,” Dublin Coffman football coach Mark Crabtree said. “Anything that can be done to promote the sport of football I’m in favor of doing. During the last two weeks of May, most of our players are doing absolutely nothing unless they’re competing in a regional tournament in their spring sport,

and those are the kinds of athletes that we’d want to be competing at that time.

“Football is the one sport that gets the short end of the stick because all of the other sports you can do year-round in some form. We’re limited the most, yet it’s the biggest sport with fans and them being fanatical about it.”

•The OHSAA voted 6-3 to approve a proposal from the soccer coaches association to expand the girls soccer state tournament from two divisions to three beginning this fall. Girls soccer surpassed the 501-team benchmark during 2010.

Twenty-three teams from the Central District competed in Division II last fall, producing one district champion.

Although the OHSAA has not announced breakdowns by division, teams such as Worthington Christian (116 girls) and Wellington (77 girls) likely would be among those that would drop to Division III. Worthington Christian was seeded third for the district tournament and Wellington was seeded eighth last fall.

“That gives us a better chance once we get into the tournament,” Worthington Christian athletics director Kevin Weakley said of his team’s likely drop.

“The challenge in Division II is that there are a lot bigger schools than us in it like Bexley and Hartley. When we made the jump to Division III with the boys, it helped us significantly.”

Another effect of the increase in divisions is that schools such as DeSales and Watterson as well as some Columbus City Schools would drop from Division I to II. DeSales and Watterson have been perennial powers in boys soccer while competing in Division II, but neither school got past the district semifinal round while competing in Division I in girls soccer last fall. julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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