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January 23, 2011

New prosecutor, recorder take office

By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Newly named county prosecutor Carol O’Brien and county recorder Melissa Jordan were on the job Thursday, Jan. 20, having been chosen Wednesday night by the Delaware County Republican Central Committee.

They succeed outgoing prosecutor Dave Yost, who is now state auditor, and

outgoing recorder Andrew Brenner, who is now the 2nd District Ohio House Representative.

O’Brien has worked in the prosecutor’s office since 2007, and previously worked for the Franklin County prosecutor and state attorneys general Betty Montgomery and Jim Petro.

O’Brien said one of her first priorities is to alleviate a growing civil caseload at the prosecutor’s office.

“The civil division is extremely overworked, and one of my goals is to help them catch up,” O’Brien said.

“We have two extremely talented attorneys in that section and I want them to stay.”

The county prosecutor acts as attorney for all jurisdictions in the county that lack other legal representation, including about 75 individual elected officials and various political subdivisions

such as county offices and townships.

O’Brien said she had not yet decided if additional civil staff would be required, outside counsel would be hired to help with the caseload, or other measures are needed.

“I think our budget is perfectly adequate,” O’Brien said.

She said she plans to return money to the general fund at the end of this year.

“Whether the office needs to be small-

er, I don’t think so. I just think we need to do some reorganization and some cost savings other than salaries,” she said.

On the criminal side of the office, O’Brien said complex white-collar crimes are increasingly common.

“We’re seeing an increase in the investigation of the white-collar crimes, the more labor-intensive prosecutions,” See TAKING OFFICE, page A2

County officers delay Columbus 2020 move

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By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Photos by Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek

(Above) Sandy Wicker, a volunteer librarian for the Delaware County Historical Society, talks about some of the items on display at the historical society’s library.

The Nash House (left) and the historical society’s library winter hours are 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.

Wednesdays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Other times are available by appointment. See story, page A3.

Delaware County commissioners on Jan. 20 delayed a decision to pay $16,199 as an annual membership fee to a central Ohio regional development effort being promoted as Columbus 2020.

The organization would join other efforts that receive varying amounts of federal, state and local funding, such as the Delaware Regional Planning Commission, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission and the Mid Ohio Development Exchange.

The commissioners had heard an extensive presentation Jan. 18 from Kenny McDonald, senior vice president and chief economic officer of Columbus 2020, and Eric Phillips, MODE president and the economic development officer for Union County.

The commissioners were prepared Thursday to join Columbus 2020 until commissioner Ken O’Brien raised questions about the basic purpose of the effort.

Ken O’Brien “Regionalism has its advantages, but in this particular situation what we are doing is allowing Columbus 2020 to pick the winners and losers,” O’Brien said. “Although it is true it’s not good to battle with the other (communities over business development), it’s not good to concede (the power to attract businesses) at the very beginning.”

O’Brien also challenged whether Columbus 2020 could provide valid data that would allow the commissioners to judge whether the effort was effective.

“The information we will receive will not be disaggregated so we will not have a metric that indicates how we fare compared to other members of MODE and its surrogate Columbus 2020,” O’Brien said.

Commissioner Tommy Thompson said he was See COMMISSIONERS, page A2

Village of Sunbury Parks board continues splash Employees to pay more for medical insurance pad discussions

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The Delaware Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Jan. 18 discussed YMCA construction and options for a splash pad or other water features at city parks.

Allen Rothermel, interim parks director, said construction costs at the YMCA are coming in below estimates, which means that money likely will available to build amenities such as water features.

The Y is being built on Houk

Road between William Street and Pittsburgh Drive “From a financial standpoint we’re tracking very well,” Rothermel said.

Board member Aaron Cook said the board should be careful to ensure a splash pad does not come at the expense of other priorities.

“Splash pads are great, but the parks committee has not gotten together (to discuss it),” Cook said.

“We had a list of things to prioriSee PARKS BOARD, page A2

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Sunbury Village Council plans to increase village employees’ health insurance costs.

Council on Jan. 19 agreed to pay Medical Mutual insurance $24,409 per month for village employee benefits.

The new benefits package would increase the employees’ deductible from $3,000 to $5,000.

Which means an individual employee’s out of pocket expense could potentially jump from $700 to $1,000.

“A little deeper in the pocket, but not so huge,” Jennifer Witt

council member Jennifer Witt said.

“It’s more of a burden on the employee.

We are saving more on the overall premium. …

It’s a good middle spot,” councilman Tom Hatfield said.

Council had Frank Harmon, a broker with Ohio Insurance Services Tom Hatfield Agency Inc., petition Medical Mutual for a lower monthly premium for the village in December.

Harmon was able to get a lower monthly premium, but told council on Jan. 19 it may cost village employees more money.

Witt said she was leaning toward a greater out-of-pocket expense for employees com-

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pared to increased village premiums.

“We’ve had a wonderful program for our people here,” Witt said.

“Unfortunately, the way medical expenses are going now, more and more even public companies and private companies are leaning more toward having their employees be contributors.”

Harmon said his only concern with the new benefits package would be for employees who have their entire family on the plan.

“If they go from a potential $900 out of pocket today to a $3,000. that’s a bigger difference,” Harmon said.

Hatfield said he also was hesitant about See SUNBURY, page A2

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Commissioners delay Columbus 2020 move ate membership, which would cost $1,000 annually. strongly in support “I’m inclined to inof the regional effort. vestigate that differCommissioner Denence (between the nis Stapleton said he two membership levalso was inclined to els),” Stapleton said. Dennis join Columbus 2020, “I was ready to vote Stapleton but agreed the comon this today, but with missioners should Tommy that huge a difference a (in cost) I bewait until Jan. 24 so Thompson lieve it’s something we should look at.” they can investigate Ultimately, Stapleton said he likely the difference between full membership in Columbus 2020 and an associ- would support full membership, so that Continued from page A1

Delaware County was not considered second-tier in the Columbus 2020 membership.

“Our involvement needs to be from strength rather than a secondary position,” Stapleton said.

County economic development director Gus Comstock said he supports the cooperative approach.

“Past practice was the Columbus Chamber (of Commerce) would find a prospect that was looking and it was as if they would turn the hounds loose,” Comstock said. “We would all fight over

the prospect and tear each other apart and steal companies from one community to go to another community. Columbus 2020 is going to be a much more sophisticated, well-funded effort.”

Comstock on Jan. 18 said Columbus 2020 was expected to raise $30-million in private sector money to promote central Ohio economic development over five years.

Also Jan. 18, O’Brien asked what evidence would be available to judge whether Columbus 2020 was a success, but presenters Phillips and McDonald

said they could not be specific.

“A lot of what we’re doing is on such a different scale that we don’t have a very good benchmark of what we might accomplish,” McDonald said. “We’re researching that, looking at historical activity and things like that to set some of those benchmarks. Our effort will be literally four- or five-fold over what it has been over the last year. Our budget, our staffing, we’ll be on the road some 30 times this next year. We think we can do some grand things. We’re starting to set those benchmarks.”

Parks board discusses splash pad TAKING OFFICE Continued from page A1 tize and the splash pad was on there as a lower one in the group. Even if we could come up with the operational money from year to year, what are we giving up? We have to give up something to get that.”

Rothermel said that final funds are not yet known because the YMCA is still under construction.

“So far we have not given up anything,” Rothermel said.

Dave Berwanger said the advisory board had always considered a splash pad an option. “My recollection is that the splash pad was always a topic at the new recreation center, along with the climbing wall,” Berwanger said.

Kathy Shelton said a series of smaller water features could expand public interest in the parks.

“It would be nice to highlight other parks and have people go there,” Shelton said.

“Maybe sometime down the road we can add amenities at these other parks that do not get as much love or recognition.

“I can remember easily 100 to 150 moms with strollers and babies down at Powell every single day” visiting the splash pad there.

Rothermel said the staff report likely would consider the possibility of multiple sites.

“Initially, the thought was one site, but I think from a staff perspective we might do a multiple site (study),” Rothermel said. “If you want to do chlorine treatment at each one, that’s probably not feasible. But maybe with

some of the smaller ones you can put a timer on it or limit the date and time it is used so (the water) just runs off. That is a possibility.”

Rothermel said a full-fledged splash pad with re-circulating water and chlorine treatment could have significant maintenance costs.

“We have levy monies that can be used for the capital purchase, but the thing to keep in mind is there are two kinds (of water features),” Rothermel said. “You can either use the water, have it run off to the drain and literally waste it, or you could have a package treatment plant like a pool and treat it with chlorine, but you need someone checking chlorine levels once an hour. That costs $25,000 or $30,000 a year, and there are not operating monies associated with any of these improvements.”

Sunbury employees to pay more for medical insurance Continued from page A1 increasing potential out-of-pocket expenses for employees with family members on the plan, but said it would be $1,000 maximum per person and only up to three people.

“In a family situation, you’d have to have three people maxing out on that, and I think in most cases it’d be somewhat unlikely,” Hatfield said.

Village employee Dave Martin said he felt the new plan was fair.

“We have really good insurance so I’m happy with it,” Martin said.

“I’d love for it all to be free. I’m an employee, but the village has to be responsible and operate within their budget, too.”

Martin said employees would

still have to pay co-pays and partial prescription costs.

“It’s reasonable for the village to spread that exposure out a little bit if they can,” Martin said. “I don’t think they did it in such a way that’s terribly burdensome on the employees.”

Witt said it’s also important to not burden Sunbury residents with extra expenses.

“We as a council need to not only be responsible and accountable to the people that work for our village, but also to the village individuals who elected us into the office,” Witt said.

Also at the meeting, council was told Sunbury United Methodist Church will host an all-youcan-eat charity breakfast to benefit the family of PJ Bennett, called “Pancakes for PJ,” from 7-11 a.m.

Continued from page A1 O’Brien said.

“And we’re continuing to see an increasing trend in drug crimes.”

Jordan, wife of state Sen. Kris Jordan, is filling her first political office.

“I’m used to being on the campaign trail for him,” Jordan said.

“I’m used to it, and I like going door to door.”

Her first priority is to complete a software project to update the recorder’s recordkeeping infrastructure.

“The very first thing, of course is I want to clean up the (software) contract that has been covered in the news the last several months,” Jordan said. The county prosecutor’s office in October recommended the contract be rebid Jordan is in her second year at Capital Law School.

“I’m an evening law student and I’ve worked nearly the entire time I’ve been in law school,” Jordan said.

“It’s not uncommon for me to hold down what I consider a full-time job, even though by statute this is a part-time job. I’m used to juggling a job and law school,” she said.

O’Brien will be paid $115,000 annually and Jordan will be paid $53,322 annually.

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January 23, 2011

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Nash House provides historical perspective

By BONNIE BUTCHER ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Every year, about 3,000 school children tour the Delaware County Historical Society’s Nash House Museum and Library at 157 E. William St. When giving tours, society librarian Sandy Wicker said she likes to give the students a thenand-now perspective, “putting things into their concept so they can connect them.”

“We have books with a book strap like ‘Little House on the Prairie’ that I tell them was the original backpack. You had to start (inventions) somewhere. There had to be a number one,” Wicker said.

The students also learn the phonograph was the original iPod. “It definitely is, because you had portable music that way,” she said.

A folding lap-desk from the early 1800s, shown in the men’s study, is compared to today’s laptop computer.

“It’s the forerunner to the laptop computer because you did your work on it and carried your work in it,” Wicker said.

Students love the old 1928 GE Monitor refrigerator, one of the first pieces students see on entering the museum. The motor on the top of it looks like a cheese box and the appliance was named after the USS Monitor warship that was called a “cheese box on a raft,” Wicker said.

“They like the lady’s spittoon that’s upstairs. You would not know it’s a spittoon. It’s a little square thing with a handle that you push and the lid comes up and the ladies could spit discreetly. The ladies used snuff — ground up tobacco — under their lip,” she said.

Learning that the bathroom was a chamber pot always gets an “eeew” out of the children, Wicker said.

“And I say, “Well double ee-ew because you kids would have had to clean the chamber pot and the spittoon back then,’” she said, which makes cleaning one’s room look like a delightful task.

Another favorite attraction is a doll house made in 1860 that’s in

Photos by Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek

(Above) A tin type, of Tullis C. O’Kane, is one of several on display at the Delaware County Historical Society’s Nash House.

O’Kane was a composer and the first music instructor at Ohio Wesleyan Female College. (Right) Maggie Webb, the volunteer curator, said that the old-fashioned children’s underwear with a back flap always receives many laughs from school groups visiting the house. (Below) The music room at Nash House holds the first piano, left, used at Ohio Wesleyan Female College, and a Swiss music box, center, which plays eight tunes.

the children’s room. It has the original furniture and is in pristine condition, she said.

Wicker’s favorite part of the Nash House is the upstairs bedroom, which reminds her of her grandmother’s bedroom.

“That’s where the human-hair wreath is,” she said.

Making crafts and decorations from one’s hair was a big fad in the 1880s. Craft books on how to make wreaths and flowers out of human hair were sold, Wicker said.

The wreath is another item that draws an “ee-ew” from the children.

Wicker is concerned that stu-

dents today don’t learn cursive handwriting at the level they once did, because it might hinder their ability to read old records.

More than 500 people visit the society and museum each year outside of the school tours she said, though their interests tend to differ.

“This summer, we had several authors asking for historical information for their books. And people come in and want to know about the history of their property and if they live in a historic house. Or they want to know what happened in the part of the county they live in. It’s just fascinat-

ing,” she said.

Winter hours for the facility are days. For more information, call The house was built in 1878. In 10 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. the society at (740) 369-3831 or 1990 the house, furniture and many Wednesdays and 2-5 p.m. Sun- visit www.delawareohiohistory.org. of the museum’s items were donated to the society by Pauline Nash.

The society recently acquired the house and two barns dating to 1812, in which Garth’s Auction House had been doing business at U.S. Route 23 and Stratford Road.

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Tours of the Nash House Museum and Library are free. The society is funded with membership fees, fundraising and a grant from Delaware County.

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Genoa Township trustees on Jan. 20 agreed to seek an Ohio Department of Natural Resources grant to add features at Center Green Park, 7846 Center Green Drive.

The township is surveying residents on their use of Center Green Park to obtain information that will be used in the grant application.

If approved, the grant would be used to install basketball courts and a pier for fishing, said township administrator Paul Wise.

Trustees also: • Discussed the planned purchase of three police cruisers.

The trustees earlier agreed to buy the cars for $64,701, from which $7,000 would be deducted by trading in three old cruisers.

Trustees learned the auto dealership now wants to pay only $6,800 on the trade-in.

Trustee Karl Gebhardt said trustees ne ed more information because the lower trade-in alters the deal.

• Agreed to pay Downes Fishel Hass Kim LLP $5,192 for contract negotiations with the police and fire unions.

Trustees are expected to vote on the contracts at a special meeting 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26. The negotiations began last year in late summer.

• Approved a $2,831 invoice to Verizon Wireless for the monthly use of all township cell phones.

• Agreed to pay $4,446 in property taxes on recently acquired township properties that are going through the exemption process.

• Said the Delaware County auditor has certified the township’s three-year, 0.7-mill road levy that will be on the May 3 ballot.

The levy is a renewal and won’t increase taxes to residents, Gebhardt said.

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The house that picked us Twenty minutes before the alarm went off this morning, I slipped my arm around my husband’s middle. Some seconds later, he rearranged himself, and I wondered if my arm was in his way.

“Do you want me to move?”

I said.

“No,” my husband answered.

“I don’t think I could handle the house payment all by myself.”

Of course, I thought when I had finally composed myself again (my husband’s talent for making me laugh can be a mixed blessing) our so-called house payment would have long since been a memory, like leg warmers and pay phones, had we not added on and installed various improvements late in the game, so to speak.

Not that I’m complaining about the improvements. One of them was to double the size of our living room, so that we now have bookcases where we used to park the car.

Since our old living room was just a little larger than a standard shower stall – the house’s former owners were hard workers who had no time for living — the new living room was hardly gymnasium-sized. Nevertheless, it made a difference. These improvements were begun, oh, years ago now, roughly when our older daughter left for college, which I understand is when many people go in for big-money projects, but my appreciation for this no-longer-as-new-as-all-that living room continues unabated.

Of course, having seen it done once I find myself speculating about more undertakings: doubling the size of the dining room, say, and while we’re at it knocking out the west wall of the kitchen and building it up again some eight feet closer to the asparagus patch.

All this is unlikely to happen, however, partly because we have no more daughters about to leave for college and partly because any serious talk of home renovations brings up the harsh facts of that difficult time: having no place to hang out after dinner and before bed, having all the living room furniture piled in the dining room, which not only eliminated any possibility of hanging out in the dining room instead but also made what was now our only path to the stairway almost un-negotiable.

Furthermore, we had dust. Not

dust dust, which I began to regard almost fondly, as a person regards mice after tarantulas invade, but MARGO spackling dust, BARTLETT the very worst kind. It covered everything: furniture, walls, ceiling, doors, fixtures and anything else we were so careless as to leave out.

Add to these the inevitable delays — days during which our contractor worked other jobs, days spent waiting for an inspector’s OK, days during which our carpet was supposed to arrive and didn’t — and you may wonder how we survived, why we didn’t surrender to degradation and death, like the Donner party.

Even as I write, I can hear my own daughters chiming in. “Yes, Mom, why didn’t you?” they’re saying. I’m reminded of the first time we showed them our slides — yes, slides, which we keep next to the tintypes — of our house just after we bought it, when it was devoid of paint, plumbing and the kind of electrical wiring that doesn’t kill a person.

They’d asked to see the slides, and all was merry and noisy as we set up the equipment. Then the first pictures came up, and they were shocked silent. They were stunned, we saw — stunned that we had purchased this house, whose most recent occupants

had been a swirl of feral kittens, a house that looked like one that Scouts selling candy bars would skip, just to be on the safe side.

I don’t deny that I was a little rattled myself — the house in the pictures looks so extremely needy — but then I bucked up.

It doesn’t look all that needy now, after all. We have plumbing and appliances. We have electricity flowing in on wiring manufactured after the Eisenhower administration. We have a garage and new siding and a living room larger than the house’s former occupants ever imagined it would be.

Even more important, it’s our home. We’ve raised two daughters in this house, even as the well ran dry — once on Christmas Eve — and snowdrifts closed the driveway and crickets appeared every fall as if invited.

Both daughters chose to be married here, out in the yard where guests gathered under trees since lost to lightning and age.

A beloved dog is buried near a patch of wildflowers.

It might have been easier to buy a new house, a house that was less trouble, whose pictures didn’t cause the blood to drain from our daughters’ faces, I thought. But we couldn’t. This was our house.

Then the radio made a clicking sound and the alarm began to blare. It was time to get up.

Margo Bartlett is a ThisWeek staff writer. E-mail her at mbartlett@thisweeknews.com.

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Volunteers needed for meals program The Delaware County Council for Older Adults is seeking kitchen volunteers.

A COA press release said the need has increased for the volunteers who make the Meals on Wheels program possible.

Volunteers work in the kitchen at the Council for Older Adults, 800 Cheshire Road in Delaware.

Kitchen volunteer jobs are flexible.

Volunteers can work the hours they want and do the jobs they prefer.

Training is provided.

For information, call Erin MacLellan at (740) 363-5730 or (740) 803-9992 or e-mail: erinmac1@frontier.com.

to the state board of education for a term ending in 2014.

Also named were C. Todd Jones of New Albany, Tess Elshoff of New Knoxville, Joseph L. Farmer of Baltimore and Thomas W. Gunlock of Centerville.

Students to compete in mock trial

On Friday, Feb. 4, students from Delaware Hayes High School, Big Walnut High School, Village Academy in Powell, and Marysville High School will participate in the 2011 Ohio High School Mock Trial Competition.

The competition is a statewide event in which more than 3,500 high school students participate each year.

In Delaware County, the disKasich picks trict competition will be held in Shelton for board the new courtrooms at the juveGov. John Kasich has named nile court in the Hayes Building.

Dr. Dennis Shelton of Delaware Four student mock trials will

take place from around 9:15 a.m. until 11:15 a.m. on Feb. 4, and then another four trials will be held from around 1:15 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. that day.

The high school students who participate in the program are given written materials that enable them to portray witnesses and lawyers on both sides of a fictional legal dispute.

They present their cases to three-member panels of local attorneys who have volunteered their time to serve as judges for the competition.

District winners from throughout the state will advance to a regional competition on Feb. 25.

The state finals will be March 10-12 in Columbus.

The competition is sponsored by the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education, which in turn is funded by the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio Attorney General’s office, the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the ACLU of Ohio.

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Community events Humane society’s Fur Ball coming up

shelter or call to schedule a pickup by Feb. 2.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.hsdcohio.org, call (740) 369-7387 or The Humane Society of Delaware County stop by the shelter at 4920 state Route 37. will host its 11th annual Fur Ball charity auction and Valentine’s Day celebration on Satur- Dinner to benefit day, Feb. 5, at the Medallion Club, 5000 Club local free store Drive in Westerville.

The theme this year is “Love is a Four-Legged A Sweetheart Dinner is planned for Saturday, Word.” The doors open at 5 p.m. NBC-4 mete- Feb. 12, at Andrews House, 39 W. Winter St., orologist Bob Nunnally will serve as master of Delaware. ceremonies. Appetizers will be accompanied by The dinner is a fundraiser for the Common live piano music and exotic animals from the Ground Free Store.

Columbus Zoo. Raffle drawings, a special ValenTwo seatings will be held, at 6 p.m. and at tine’s dinner and a live band will be included in 7:30 p.m. A dinner of Italian chicken over the evening’s activities. spaghetti marinara, zesty green beans, strawOne of the events will be the Parade of Dogs, berry-almond green salad with raspberry vinaifeaturing some of the 89 dogs recently rescued grette, roll and butter, a decadent fudge brownin the county. ie and a beverage will be served.

Tickets are $55 per person and include a rafMusic and a silent auction will be featured fle ticket. Seating is limited to 200. Tickets must during the evening. A raffle package will inbe purchased before Jan. 31. clude an overnight stay at the Welcome Home HSDC is still seeking corporate sponsors for Inn in Powell. the event. Call Julie Long at (740) 369-7387 to The cost of the dinner is $39.95 per couple. discuss sponsorship packets. Auction items still To reserve seats or for more information, call are being accepted. Drop off your items at the 740-816-3491.

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OWU news Sharon Robinson to read at Beehive Sharon Robinson, daughter of Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, will read from her most recent book, “Jackie’s Gift,” from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, at Beehive Books, 25 N. Sandusky St., Delaware.

Robinson will be in Delaware to participate in Ohio Wesleyan University’s Branch Rickey – Jackie Robinson Week Jan. 24 through 27.

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OWU designated the week to celebrate the legacy of the men responsible for breaking MLB’s color barrier and settling the stage for the U.S. Civil Rights movement. Rickey is a 1904 OWU graduate.

The celebration includes awarding the university’s Branch Rickey Award to Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s widow and Sharon Robinson’s mother. In a private ceremony, Sharon Robinson will accept the award on behalf of her mother.

At the bookstore, Sharon Robinson also will sign copies of “Jackie’s Gift,” a children’s book published in October. “Jackie’s Gift” tells a true story of Christmas and Hanukkah.

Robinson has written several other books, including “Testing the Ice” and “Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Values to Live By.” These books and others will be available for purchase at the Beehive.

For more information, call the bookstore at (740) 363-2337.

Stratford Ecological Center news Stratford Ecological Center 3083 Liberty Road For more information on the following programs, to register or to volunteer, call (740) 3632548 or e-mail treebeing@aol.com (registrations) or SECVolunteer@aol.com (volunteers) or SECEarthShare@aol.com.

Several volunteer opportunities are available in 2011.

• Maple sugar tour guides: Training will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18 for both new and experienced guides, who will help with field trips in February and March. Call SEC to register.

• Maple sugar season helpers: Volunteers will assist with tapping, hauling and cooking.

• Farm and nature guides: Volunteers will guide small groups of children on “learning adventures” at SEC. Farm and nature guide training will be offered in two parts: from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 16; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18.

Other positions include farmer’s helpers, garden and greenhouse helpers; volunteers to help remove invasive species, landscape helpers, story readers, “Sunship Earth” volunteers and trail maintenance. SEC also is in need of a weekday and/or Saturday receptionist.

The following programs are offered at the Delaware County District Library, 84 E. Winter St. For information, contact www.delawarelibrary.org or call (740) 362-3861. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Registration not required unless noted.

• Froggy comes to the DCDL, 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Meet the frog from Jonathan London’s “Froggy” series, including “Froggy Gets Dressed” and “Froggy Goes to Bed.” Froggy stories and activities will be part of this family program.

• Open Story Time, up to age 6, 6:30 p.m. Mondays.

• Toddler Story Time, ages 2-3, 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

• Picture Book Time, ages 4-6, 10 a.m. Thursdays.

• Baby Time, for ages birth to 24 months, 11 a.m. Thursdays.

To download e-books onto computers or iPods, visit www.delawarelibrary.org and click on the “e-books” link on the home page.

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Grady Hospital news Grady Memorial Hospital 561 W. Central Ave. For more information on the following programs or to register, contact the Grady Life Center at (800) 837-7555, (614) 4-HEALTH, or visit www.ohiohealth.com. Classes are held at the hospital unless otherwise noted.

Please note: Grady offers a cancer support group for survivors and their families. The group offers information, education and emotional support.

For more information, call Vicki Maggard at (740) 615-2402.

• Body Fat Testing by MED-FIT, 15-minute appointments from 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at Grady Medical Office building.Cost is $15 per person.

• 15-minute seated massage, 3:30 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9. Licensed therapist will ease tense shoulders and necks. Cost is $12 per person. Appointments required.

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• Sunbury Diabetes Support Group, 7:30 p.m.on Monday, Feb. 14. Groups offeres people with diabetes the chance to share their experiences with others.Meets at Sunbury, 100 W. Cherry St., Sunbury. Free.

• Fibromyalgia support group, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Monday,Feb. 14. monthly meeting. Family, friends and the medical community also are encouraged to attend. Free.

• Babysitting, for 11- to 14-year-olds, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19. Grady and the American Red Cross will offer safety tips, information and games and activities. Bring a sack lunch and a doll or stuffed animal approximately the size of a newborn. Bottles, diapers and bandages will be provided. Cost is $50 per participant.

• Tai Chi, six-week series for ages 12 and up, 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Feb. 22. Taught

by Grady and the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Ohio.Cost is $45 per person.

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Delaware’s Kristen McMillen tries to dribble past Brooklyn Harris of Westland during the visiting Pacers’ 60-27 victory Jan. 15.

Hayes Roundup

Close calls not good enough for boys coach

By BRAD EMERINE ThisWeek Community Newspapers

When does the glass half-full theory become the glass half-empty theory?

Apparently for Delaware Hayes High School boys basketball coach Jordan Blackburn, it changes after 60 percent of the regular season has been played and his team is continuing to follow a trend.

A 54-45 loss to Gahanna on Jan. 15 looked all too familiar to Blackburn, whose Pacers fell to 7-5 overall. The loss to the state’s third-ranked team in Division I marked the fourth time this season that Delaware lost in the final 60 to 90 seconds of the game.

“Coming close without getting it done is no longer acceptable,” Blackburn said. “At this stage of the season, there are no moral victories. In four of our five losses, we’ve overcome double-digit deficits and have had the ball with a chance to win or tie in the last minute. We’re 0-for-4 in those situa-

tions. In order to be the team that I think we are, we’ve got to close things out with a victory.

“Am I proud of the way we played and how hard we’ve fought? Absolutely. But we need every one of our guys to play with a sense of urgency for all four quarters. We decide to play our hardest once we’re down.

Maybe finding a way to win those close ones is to play with that urgency from the opening tip-off and have the lead down the stretch. That would put the pressure on our opponent to play behind and try to scratch back the entire game.”

Against the visiting Lions, Delaware trailed 37-25 at halftime but held Gahanna to 27 percent shooting in the second half. The Pacers trailed 48-45 late, but Gahanna closed the game by scoring layups on its final three possessions.

The loss, Delaware’s third in a row, came one night after losing to host Olentangy Orange 57-54. The Pacers

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Madison Arseneau of Hayes performs on the uneven bars during a meet against Dublin Scioto and Buckeye Valley on Jan. 13. The Pacers will return to action Friday, Jan. 28, against the Barons, Olentangy Orange and Grove City.

rallied from a 13-point deficit in the final six minutes and took a 54-53 lead with less than a minute remaining.

Trailing 55-54 with 14 seconds left, Matt Bingaya, who scored 10 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, was triple-teamed. He passed to Zach Parsons, whose shot was short. Orange added two free throws with 1.7 seconds left.

Delaware also lost 41-40 to host Olentangy Liberty in the Larry Eberst Classic on Dec. 29 and to visiting

Mount Vernon 44-42 on Dec. 10. The Pacers’ other loss was to New Albany 55-34.

Delaware has won only one game decided by 10 points or fewer, 41-38 over Marysville in the opener Dec. 3.

Before Jan. 21, the Pacers’ seven wins had come against teams with a combined 20-60 record, with not one of those opponents being above .500. Their losses had been to teams with a combined 47-7 record.

“Winning breeds winning, and we’ve

got to beat a quality team to gain some confidence,” Blackburn said. “They need to see that they can do it.

“The one good thing being close does is it gets them to understand that execution is so important. If we just execute one or two more plays on offense, make one or two more defensive stops, get a putback or a key defensive rebound, or have one fewer turnover, it can make the difference at the end of See PACERS, page B2

Big Walnut Roundup

Offseason basketball work paying off for Myers

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Big Walnut’s Clayton Hill competes in a match against Westerville North on Jan. 14 at Capri Lanes. The boys lost to the Warriors 2,136-2,101 and the Golden Eagles girls team fell 1,533-1,266.

Big Walnut High School boys basketball coach Mike DeLaney had high expectations for firstyear varsity player Seth Myers before the start of the season.

So did the 6-foot-3 sophomore forward.

“Last year I played freshman basketball and this year my goal was to start on varsity,” Myers said. “The first three games I didn’t start, but I averaged eight points (coming off the bench) and then I moved into a starting spot.”

Myers likely will be a fixture in the starting lineup the rest of the season — and the rest of his prep career, for that matter. He was averaging 7.9 points through 10 games, ranking second on the team in scoring behind junior guard Tyler Beam (11.6).

Junior forward Seth Wandling was third on the team in scoring, averaging 7.4 points, followed by senior forward Joel Craig (7.1) and junior guard Grant Beam (6.0).

“He played AAU basketball and the amount of work he put in (last) summer, I knew he would contribute this year,” DeLaney said of Myers. “He’s still learning that you have to do things a certain way to be successful against the caliber of teams we play, but for a sophomore, I’m really pleased with the way he’s

At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Big Walnut boys basketball, girls basketball, bowling, gymnastics and wrestling teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Defeated Franklin Heights 58-49. Seth Myers scored 16 points and Tyler Beam scored 14. *Jan. 21 — Played Watkins Memorial Jan. 22 — Played Licking Valley *Jan. 25 — Home vs. Olentangy Orange.

Big Walnut lost to the Pioneers 59-47 on Dec. 10. *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Hilliard Bradley.

Big Walnut lost to the Jaguars 60-41 on Dec. 17.

Of note: The Golden Eagles were 3-7 overall and 2-5 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Def. Franklin Heights 6328. Eleven players scored for Big Walnut, including Alexis Newman with 14 points and Tabatha Piper with 10.

Jan. 15 — Lost to Upper Arlington 5553. Newman and Piper scored 21 points apiece. *Jan. 21 — Played Watkins Memorial *Jan. 25 — At Orange. Big Walnut lost to the Pioneers 58-30 on Dec. 10. *Jan. 28 — At Bradley. Big Walnut lost to the Jaguars 44-32 on Dec. 17.

Of note: The Golden Eagles were 10-3 overall and 6-2 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21. *OCC-Capital game

playing.

“He’s athletic, he can play inside and out, and he can handle the ball, which allows us to play him on the perimeter some.”

Myers led the team with a season-high 16 points in a 58-49 win

BOWLING *Jan. 14 — Boys: Lost to Westerville North 2,136-2,101. Tyler Fifer had a team-high 410 series; Girls: Lost to North 1,533-1,266. Sara Roach had a teamhigh 247 series.

Jan. 19 — Boys: Def. Olentangy Liberty 2,251-1,835; Girls: Lost to Liberty 1,803-978 Jan. 24 — Hilliard Darby at Ten Pin Alley Jan. 28 — Worthington Christian at Capri Lanes Of note: The boys are 7-4 overall and finished 2-3 in the OCC-Cardinal. The girls are 0-9 overall and finished 0-5 in the OCC-Cardinal. *OCC-Cardinal match GYMNASTICS Jan. 17 — Finished third (118.4) behind Thomas Worthington (131.45) and Olentangy (129.55) and ahead of Mount Vernon (105.225) Jan. 22 — Competed in Worthington Kilbourne Invitational Feb. 5 — Delaware, Liberty, Olentangy and Orange at Central Ohio Gymnastics and Cheer WRESTLING Jan. 14-15 — Finished 20th (85) in 25team Marion Elgin Invitational, behind champion Liberty (278.5) *Jan. 20 — Meet against Bradley postponed and has yet to be rescheduled Jan. 22 — Competed against DeSales and West Jefferson *Jan. 27 — Home vs. Delaware *OCC-Capital match

over visiting Franklin Heights on Jan. 14. The win ended a sixgame losing streak for the Golden Eagles, whose previous victory was Dec. 14 when they deSee EAGLES, page B2

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PACERS Continued from page B1 the game. That is why we have to play poised and focused for 32 minutes.”

Braxton Coleman had 14 points and 10 rebounds against Gahanna. Bingaya had 13 points and Mike Wells added 10. Bingaya also limited Gahanna standout Stevie Taylor, an Ohio University signee, to seven points.

The Pacers are searching for someone to step up and provide the team a third scorer behind Bingaya (21.6 points per game) and Wells (16.4). Parsons is averaging 5.6, followed by Coleman (5.1) and Jacob Bosiokovic (4.3).

“Other than Bingaya and Wells, the rest of the team is shooting 26 percent from the field and they’re much better shooters than that,” Blackburn said. “Until that gets ironed out and we find someone to step up, Bingaya and Wells will continue to see box-and-one, triangles-and-two and man-anda-half defenses.

Against Orange, Bingaya had 29 points, Wells had 10 and Parsons added eight.

Delaware’s next game against a winning team is Tuesday, Jan. 25, at Mount Vernon. The Yellow Jackets were 9-2 overall and 61 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21.

Entering play Jan. 21, New Albany was 7-0 in the OCCCapital, followed by Mount Vernon at 6-1, Orange at 5-2, the Pacers at 4-3, Hilliard Bradley at 3-4, Franklin Heights at 2-5, Big Walnut at 1-6 and Watkins Memorial at 0-7.

•The girls basketball team is having similar thoughts about its season.

The Pacers fell to 7-6 overall after a 64-41 loss at Olentangy on Jan. 18.

Delaware’s wins had come against teams with a combined 17-59 record before Jan. 21. The losses were against teams with a combined 50-13 mark.

“The competition level we’re playing is either way up or way down,” coach Erin Margraf said.

“When we win, we get a false understanding of where we are as a team. We struggle to be disciplined against teams that force us out of our comfort zone. We need to play our game, stay with our philosophy. So the consistency isn’t there.”

Delaware had lost four of its previous five contests before Jan. 21 and was fifth at 3-5 in the OCC-Capital. One of those losses was 68-39 to Orange on Jan.

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At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Delaware Hayes boys basketball, girls basketball, swimming and diving, wrestling, bowling and gymnastics teams, as well as the Delaware club hockey team: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Lost to Olentangy Orange 57-54 Jan. 15 — Lost to Gahanna 54-45 *Jan. 21 — Played Franklin Heights *Jan. 25 — At Mount Vernon. The Yellow Jackets won 44-42 on Dec. 10.

Mount Vernon was 9-2 overall and 61 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21. *Jan. 28 — At Watkins Memorial. The Pacers won 81-41 on Dec. 17. The Warriors were 1-11 overall and 0-7 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21.

Of note: The Pacers were 7-5 overall and 4-3 in the OCC-Capital before Jan. 21.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Lost to Olentangy Orange 68-39. Cindy Bowman scored 10 points and Caroline Welker added eight.

Jan. 15 — Defeated Westland 60-27.

Welker had 16 points and Kristen McMillen added eight as 10 Pacers scored.

Jan. 18 — Lost to Olentangy 64-41.

Welker had 22 points and Bowman added eight. *Jan. 21 — Played Franklin Heights *Jan. 25 — Home vs. Mount Vernon.

The Pacers won the first meeting 5930 on Dec. 10. *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Watkins Memorial. Delaware won the first matchup 49-42 on Dec. 17.

Of note: The Pacers were 7-6 overall and 3-5 in the OCC-Capital before Jan 21. *OCC-Capital game SWIMMING & DIVING Jan. 14 — Boys: Def. Euclid 115-61, lost to host Warren Harding 93-88, lost to Mentor 112-73. Cameron Hackett won the 100 butterfly (1:01.15).

Girls: Def. Euclid 87-80, def. Warren Harding 119-43, lost to Mentor 9288. The Pacers won four events in pool-record times, including Jessica Ward in the 100 back (1:02.21) and Brittany Puthoff in the 100 breast (1:08.64). The 200 freestyle relay of Puthoff, Ward, Susan Thomson and Abby Kremer won in a pool-record 1:46, and the 200 medley relay set a pool mark of 1:54.59 with a lineup of Regan DeWitt, Puthoff, Lindsey Norris and Thomson.

Jan. 15 — Seven girls competed in the 58-team Northeast Classic at Branin Natatorium in Canton. Puthoff finished third in the 100 breast (1:07.65) and the 200 medley relay of Ward, Puthoff, Norris and DeWitt was third in a school-record 1:52. DeWitt was 10th (1:03) in the 100 back, Ward was 11th (1:00.32) in the 100 fly and the 400 free relay of Ward, Kremer, Puthoff and DeWitt was 11th (3:50.24).

Jan. 15 — Boys: Lost to Warren Harding 78-49; Girls: Lost to Harding 10182. Mary Kate Kuchers won the 100 breast (1:24.51) and the 400 free relay of Sydney Michalak, Emily Baker,

14. The Pioneers lead the league at 8-0. Big Walnut, Bradley and New Albany were all 6-2, followed by the Pacers at 3-5, Mount Vernon at 2-6, Watkins Memorial at 1-7 and Franklin Heights at 0-8.

In many of the losses, the Pac-

Harlee Mollenkopf and Enya Granados won in 4:52.31.

Jan. 21 — Westerville North Jan. 22 — Dublin Coffman Jan. 28 — OCC-Capital diving championships at New Albany Jan. 29 — OCC-Capital swimming championships at New Albany WRESTLING Jan. 14-15 — Finished 18th (106.5) in 25-team Marion Elgin Invitational as Olentangy Liberty (278.5) won.

Seth McCurdy pinned Jonathan Alder’s Conner Blacka to finish third at 119 pounds after losing 11-4 to eventual champion Thomas McLaughlin of Nelsonville-York in a semifinal. Andrew Sierawski placed seventh at 171 after pinning Heath’s Gunner Loughman in his placement match.

Jan. 22 — Competed in New Albany tournament *Jan. 26 — Home vs. Mount Vernon in match rescheduled from Jan. 20 because of snow *Jan. 27 — At Big Walnut Of note: The Pacers are 1-3 in OCCCapital duals. *OCC-Capital match BOWLING Jan. 15 — Boys: Finished 13th (3,062) in 19-team Central District Preview Classic as Chillicothe (3,644) won.

Josh Jones rolled a 683 (222-246215) and was named to the all-tournament team. Ray Getz (530), Austin Simmons (506) and Alex Hohe (484) followed for the Pacers. Girls: Finished 12th (2,528) of 16 teams behind champion Westerville Central (3,751).

Ashleigh Keller (520) and Katie Fleming (454) led the way.

Jan. 17 — Boys: Lost to Marion Harding 2,319-1,950. Simmons (347), Getz (343) and Jones (327) led the Pacers. Girls: Lost to Harding 2,2101,846. Keller rolled a 412 (199-213) for the Pacers and Shanon Evans added a 291.

Jan. 19 — Boys: Def. Dublin Coffman 1,800-1,677. Jones (316) and Getz (314) led the way. Girls: Def. Coffman 1,646-1,377. Keller (366), Jordan Sierawski (278) and Fleming (276) led the way. *Jan. 21 — Competed against Westerville Central Jan. 25 — Olentangy at Delaware Lanes *Jan. 28 — Westerville North at Colony Lanes in regular-season finale Of note: The boys team was 4-10 overall and 0-3 in the OCC-Cardinal before Jan. 21. The girls team was 5-9 overall and 1-2 in the OCC-Cardinal before Jan. 21. *OCC-Cardinal match GYMNASTICS Jan. 28 — Buckeye Valley, Olentangy Orange and Grove City HOCKEY *Jan. 22 — Played Hilliard *Jan. 23 — Westerville at Dublin Chiller *Jan. 28 — PRPC at Chiller Dublin *Jan. 29 — Newark at Chiller Easton Of note: The Tribe was 2-18 overall and 0-16 in the GCHSCHL before Jan. 22. *GCHSCHL game

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EAGLES Continued from page B1 feated Licking Heights 62-49.

“It was a long stretch between victories,” said DeLaney, whose team improved to 3-7 overall and 2-5 in the OCC-Capital Division with the win over the Falcons. “We definitely needed it. It was good for our confidence.”

Heading into a game against Watkins Memorial on Jan. 21, Big Walnut was sixth in the OCC-Capital behind New Albany at 7-0, Mount Vernon at 6-1, Olentangy Orange at 5-2, Delaware at 4-3 and Hilliard Bradley at 3-4, and ahead of Franklin Heights at 1-6 and Watkins Memorial at 0-7.

With the league championship likely out of reach, the Golden Eagles are focusing on improving their play in the second half of the season.

“Our goal is to get above .500 and we’re going to do everything we can do to get that goal,” Myers said.

•The boys and girls swimming teams will spend this week preparing for the OCCCapital meet on Saturday, Jan. 29, at New Albany.

In the league meet last season, the boys team scored 61 points to finish fifth behind New Albany (368), Delaware (255), Mount Vernon (201) and Olentangy Orange (87) and ahead of Watkins Memorial (38) and Hilliard Bradley (29). The girls team finished sixth (85) behind New Albany (399), Delaware (192), Mount Vernon (192), Orange (180) and Watkins Memorial (96) and ahead of Bradley (70).

“Our goal is to get as many

points as we can,” coach Andy Chatterton said. “We want to at least compete. I think we’ll have a good showing.”

Big Walnut competed in the Worthington Sprint Invitational on Jan. 15. The girls team scored 243.5 points to finish fourth of nine teams, behind Orange (347), Columbus School for Girls (342) and Pickerington North (247.5), and the boys team finished sixth (128) of eight teams, behind Marysville (342), North (336), Central Crossing (290), Watterson (284) and Orange (283).

Carson Chatterton was the only member of the boys team to place in the top five, winning the 50-yard butterfly (27.8 seconds) and 100 fly (1:01.74).

Placing in the top five for the girls were the 200 medley relay of Michelle Stefaniak, Jessica Osburn, Natalie Chatterton and Aria Dockham (second, 2:11.17), the 400 free relay of Kelsey Peterson, Stefaniak, Osburn and Chatterton (second, 4:14.29), Osburn in the 100 breaststroke (second, 1:19.34) and 50 breast (fourth, 36.99), Chatterton in the 100 fly (third, 1:11.71) and 100 breast (fifth, 1:24.18) and Peterson in the 100 free (third, 1:01.13) and 50 free (fifth, 28.67). “(The teams’ places) don’t show how well the kids did personally,” coach Chatterton said.

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They were very excited. I think it was one of the most enjoyable meets we’ve been a part of and I really liked our team atmosphere and team camaraderie right now. We’re building chemistry and building commitment and the kids are cut-

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The Golden Eagles competed against Marion Harding and Lima Bath on Jan. 22.

•Two members of the wrestling team — juniors Jason Griffith and Tyler Schenz — were ranked in the Division II area coaches poll released Jan. 19.

Griffith was third at heavyweight behind Hamilton Township’s Chris Settles and Canal Winchester’s Nathan Pressley, and Schenz was tied for third at 140 pounds with Whitehall’s Matt Straight behind Olentangy’s Anthony Fosco and London’s Galo Santos.

Griffith improved to 24-4 after placing sixth at the Marion Elgin Invitational on Jan. 14-15. Schenz also placed sixth in the meet, improving to 168. He also has competed at 152 and 145 this season.

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