ThisWeek Clintonville 5/19

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May 19, 2011

Former Tan Pro building

Site now slated for ‘adult boutique’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Clintonville found itself elevated to town status last week. Unfortunately, in the eyes of many residents, this was on the website for Adult Video News, a trade magazine for an industry that seems an unlikely fit for the neighborhood. The item about onetime Ohio magazine publisher, and Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt’s plans to open an “adult boutique” in the former Tan Pro building at 2761 N. High St., just inside the boundary for Clintonville, appeared

under the headline: “Hustler Hollywood Store Planned for Clintonville, Ohio” The online piece, cribbed liberally from, and only occasionally crediting, a story by Tim Feran in The Columbus Dispatch, got it more or less correct in the text. “Clintonville, the unincorporated north-central area of Columbus, Ohio, is about to get its own Hustler Hollywood store, and residents are not exactly jumping for joy at the prospect, according to local media,” AVN writer Tom Hymes began. “Still, there seems to be little they can do about it.”

He definitely got that right, according to Clintonville Area Commission District 3 representative James R. Blazer II. “A number of you have called to question how such a thing could happen in Clintonville,” Blazer wrote in an e-mail distributed to his constituents last week. “Unfortunately, there are no zoning variances required by Mr. Flynt to open such an enterprise in our neighborhood at that particular location,” he added a little later, after explaining the role of the CAC.

Remodeling permits failed to reveal nature of new tenant “I think people are still sort of digesting this,” Clintonville Area Commission District 2 representative Sarah Snyder said last week. “This” was news that a Hustler Hollywood “upscale adult boutique” is slated for the former Tan Pro building at 2761 N. High St. Snyder said that constituents not at all pleased by the prospect of a store owned by Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, and one, moreover, with a motto “Relax ... it’s just sex!” could sneak

up on commission members. Easy, she said. “The permits that were filed were mostly filed by contractors and the permits refer to work on the building, not necessarily to work in the building,” Snyder said. “They were pretty routine items. “None of that really relates to the business.” See REMODELING PERMITS, page A3

See SITE SLATED, page A3

New ice cream store planned for location of closed shop

EXCEPTIONAL SCIENCE FAIR

By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek

(Above) Susanna Raftery, Columbus Alternative High School science teacher, reacts as Abdi Gelle demonstrates his catapault during the annual Columbus City Schools Exceptional Science Fair held at Beechcroft High School May 13. (Right) Teacher Maggie Fry highfives Courtney Mitchell, a student at Beechcroft, after reviewing her science fair project.

Here’s the scoop: Mozart’s Bakery and Piano Café is going into the ice cream business. Vienna Ice Café is scheduled to open in July in the former location of Denise’s Ice Cream, 2899 N. High St., according to Anand Saha, owner with wife Doris of Mozart’s. The bakery is located at 2885 N. High St., just a few doors south of the planned new enterprise. Anand Saha said he recently struck a deal with the landlord of the former ice cream shop. “I just thought it would be perfect,” he said. The Sahas and their employees have already been creating flavors of ice cream to try out on customers in anticipation of the expansion. “Our techniques for our ice cream are pretty unusual because we’re using all our chocolates and ingredients from Europe,” Saha said. In fact, Saha added that he had initially hoped to open Vienna Ice Café in June, but instead he and his family will be traveling to Europe around that time to pick up ice cream ideas in four countries, France in particular. Ice cream and gelato shops can be found practically everywhere in Europe, according to Saha. “Every nook and corner,” he said. Vienna Ice Café will serve not only gelatos but also desserts in a family-oriented, distinctly European atmosphere, according to Saha, who opened the first Mozart’s Bakery in Clintonville with his wife more than 16 years ago. They also have a location in the North Market. Other ice cream shops, one especially, have put Columbus “on the map” in terms of ice cream, Saha said, so he decided to give crafting his own a shot. That’s a contention borne out by an August 2006 story in The Denver Post by food and dining writer John Henderson. “One of my favorite memories of Rome is sitting in my little neighborhood piazza on a steamy Roman night eating black cherry and lemon gelato with fresh whipped cream,” Henderson wrote. “The cherries and lemons tasted as if they were picked off a tree that day, which they almost were. “The only place in the United States I’ve managed to find tastes that accurate is, of course, that See NEW ICE CREAM STORE, page A2

School ‘bus’ will rely on pedal power Friday, May 20 By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers The wheels on this “bus” will definitely go round and round. No internal combustion will be involved. The members of the Clintonville chapter of Safe Routes to School are planning to put on the “Indianola Bike Bus” on

Friday, May 20. These involve adults, either parents or volunteers from the bicycling community, accompanying students to and from Indianola K-8 on East Weber Road, according to committee chairwoman Elizabeth Smith. At least four separate groups of students will be led by two adults each, one in front and the other in back, in the in-

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augural Bike Bus for the local chapter of Safe Routes to School. Safe Routes to School is a national program based at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. Its goals are to encourage children walk or ride their bikes to school while making certain that they do so safely. “(T)here are plenty of great reasons to walk and bike to school — less traffic,

safer streets, cleaner air — but one of the best is that children and parents will be healthier,” according to the website of the national center. “With obesity rates skyrocketing and only one quarter of Americans getting the Surgeon General’s recommended daily dose of exercise — just 30 minutes — it’s an ideal time to encourage people to walk and bike to school for their own health and well-being.

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“Walking or biking to school protects the environment and your health. When children decide to lace up their sneakers to walk or strap on their bike helmets to pedal to school instead of riding in a car, they reduce the amount of air pollutants emitted by automobiles.” Rounding up participants for the iniSee PEDAL, page A2

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