January 23, 2011
Northridge schools
Board puts income tax on May ballot By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Superintendent John Shepard said he was touched when he received a call last week from parents who noticed the tax was no longer on their paycheck, and wanted to donate the amount to the district. “On Friday, I received a call — and this doesn’t happen very often, so I might get a little emotional about it because it’s quite outstanding — but a husband and wife called me and asked to whom they would make out a check,” Shepard said.
The Northridge Local School District Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 17 to put a 1 percent income tax on the May ballot. Twice last year the board attempted to renew an existing 1 percent income tax and both times the issue failed, resulting in the loss of $1.7-million annually when the tax expired on Dec. 31.
“They got paid on Friday and noticed it was the first paycheck that did not have the 1 percent income tax. They wanted to donate it to the district despite not having to pay it.” Shepard said the couple has children in the district. “I was shocked, surprised, proud that someone would call me and say, you know, we’re not going to miss it, so we’re going to write you a check,” Shepard said. “They have two children in
our district, both of (the parents) work, they come to a lot of activities, and they said they don’t need it as badly as you do. “That told me the type of community we live in.” Board members also approved a special meeting for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 31 to discuss cuts to be implemented this year and next year to prepare for the loss of income tax revenues for 2011. The district’s community finance
committee has been examining ways to save money throughout the fall, in areas including transportation and extracurricular activities. Among potential cuts could be eliminating high school busing, which could save $40,000 to $50,000; eliminating sports subsidies, which could save $126,000; and eliminating student club subsidies, which could save $25,000. See INCOME TAX, page A2
Village at risk of losing grants for 2 projects By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers
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(Above) Five-year-olds Abby Adams (left) and Keyara Rausch watch the snow fall from the window of the Mary E. Babcock Library in Johnstown on Jan. 20. Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools closed early because of the snow. (Below) Two-year-old Chloe Adams and her mother, Jennifer, work on a puzzle at the library Jan. 20.
Library begins year with new funds By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Julie McElhaney’s year is off to a good start. After an extended maternity leave, McElhaney returned to work this month as branch manager of the Mary E. Babcock Library following the birth of her daughter. And it’s a library that is now funded by a significant countywide property tax levy approved last fall. “We already had fewer copies of books and fewer authors coming in, and we weren’t as able to provide as many things without the levy,” McElhaney said. Staffing levels at the branch will remain the same, with three full-time employees and one part-timer, but life will be a bit easier now that other branch managers will not be required See LIBRARY, page A2
Members of Johnstown Village Council learned at their Jan. 18 meeting that the village is at risk of losing more than $300,000 in grant funding for a pair of local projects. Both of the grants were previously approved. Reimbursement for one might not be forthcoming because the village completed the work too soon. The other is at risk because the work might be too late. A grant in the amount of $67,550 for the construction of sidewalks compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act at Hannah’s Memorial Park might not be available from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, despite its having been awarded in 2008 through the NatureWorks and Land & Water Conservation Fund. In a letter, ODNR said that because the work was both awarded and completed before the federal grant monies were made available by the National Park Service, the village may not seek reimbursement of the $77,805 project cost. Village administrator Jim Lenner and finance director Larry Heiser said the village was working with ODNR to attempt to recover $67,550 of the amount. But they described the effort as a long shot. “We had applied in 2008, but started work before getting the OK,” Heiser said. “ODNR is trying to help us out to try to get us those funds. We started prior to the date you were allowed to start based on the grant terms.” Council member David Keck said the grant should have been sought earlier, but he praised the administration for making the effort. “It was kind of put on the back shelf by the prior administration and sort of resurrected by Jim Lenner,” Keck said. “It’s a long shot, but well worth pursuing.” Another grant, this one in the amount of $250,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation under the “Safe Routes to Schools” program, was threatened when the ODOT central office asked District 5 to pull the grant. But Lenner and service director Jack Liggett met See GRANT, page A2
Planning and zoning
Commission to focus on land-use map before development scenarios By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The Johnstown Planning and Zoning Commission met Jan. 19 for its monthly work session, continuing work on its update of the village strategic plan. The commission has been working on the final sections of the plan, which includes future development scenar-
ios, goals and objectives for future village planning. The task is expected to be finished later this year when the final step, defining implementation steps for the administration to carry out the plan, is completed. Because some of the work necessary to defining alternative future development scenarios requires an updated planning map, the commission
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decided to spend its next two monthly work sessions in February and March updating the land use map. “Development scenarios are all about the different sections of the planning area, such as Beech Road, the northeast, the southwest,” said Jim Lenner, acting village manager. “We’re going to revisit those, but we decided we needed to do that after we complete the future land use map.
“It’s too difficult without having the map to refer to,” he said. “We’ll work on the map the next work session and maybe next two work sessions.” The commission meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Usually the first session is dedicated to pending business, such as zoning applications, while the second ses-
A closer look The Johnstown Planning and Zoning Commission has been working on the final sections of the village strategic plan, which includes future development scenarios, goals and objectives for future village planning.
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Columbus to Licking County to Pittsburgh
CVBs to promote destinations along routes By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Nine county convention and visitors bureaus between Columbus and Pittsburgh have collaborated to launch a travel website this month. The idea is to promote a corridor of back roads between the two cities, including businesses and tourist attractions on state Routes 161 and 16. Susan Fryer, director of the Greater Licking County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the various bureaus each pitched in about $2,000 to establish the website, TriStateRoadTrip.com, which is intended to be self-sustaining
with sponsorships. “It was a collaboration starting off with Licking County and Dennison Railroad in Tuscarawas County, and we knew that along this corridor of state Routes 161 and 16, it becomes Route 37 for a while. There is a terrific tourism product along that route that has never been promoted as a region,” Fryer said. “We wanted a website where people could go and find wonderful destinations, for weekends or even a weeklong trip to connect Columbus and Pittsburgh. As we worked, we found more and more hidden treasures along the route.” Linda Linham, a business consultant who returned to Ohio after working in
the United Kingdom and Chicago, built the website through her company, Successful Ventures. “I wanted to do something that would make a difference for towns east of here that I’ve known all my life and visited all my life,” Linham said. The economic downturn has hit visitors bureaus particularly hard, she said, because most of them rely on a “bed tax” for funding, and the drop in tourism and travel has hurt their budgets. “In Licking County, the only marketing dollars they get come from the bed tax,” Linham said. “When people don’t travel, the bed tax begins to decline. The money to market Licking
INCOME TAX Shepard said that while special meetings do not ordinarily include public comment, the Jan. 31 meeting would set aside 30 minutes for members of the public to address the board. The board also authorized the superintendent to apply for a
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waiver from a state mandate to require all-day kindergarten. The waiver would be for two years, ending in 2013. The General Assembly has introduced a bill that would permanently eliminate the mandate. “Due to lack of funding, lack of space, I am requesting a waiver for 2012 and 2013 for all-day
kindergarten,” Shepard said. “While philosophically we know it is a great opportunity, fiscally and physically we are not able to offer that to our students at this time. It is quite a costly undertaking with the additional staff and the instructional space that is required to offer allday kindergarten.”
COMMISSION Continued from page A1 sion is a work session. Among changes to the goals and objectives section of the strategic plan is to take into account various changes in the zoning code during the past year, such as landscaping standards and changes to the sign code. Lenner said the commission is also considering whether a previous version of the plan that showed a U.S. Route 62 bypass running to
GRANT Continued from page A1 with District 5 officials who agreed to continue the grant so long as progress continued to be made on the project. “The state was ready to pull it because it has been lingering, but they are working on another solution where we could finish this by the end of summer,” Heiser said. “It won’t be as extensive as originally planned, but we should be able to work with the right of way easements and the things we need to do.” Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Lenner reported that ODOT would change the Pratt Street traffic light to a flashing light Feb. 1 and begin to install signage indicating that the light would be removed as part of improvements to the U.S. Route 62 intersection with state Route 37.
“There is a place called Old Home Architecture,” Linham said. “They have things like a brass doorknob from a 1920s house. That’s the kind of thing they’ve got.” Fryer said the route was more pleasant and interesting than the interstate highways. “Come out and drive the route and see how beautiful the back roads in Ohio are,” Fryer said. “You leave Columbus and come out state Route 161; it’s so easy now to get out this way. You’ll go through Roscoe Village, the Longaberger Homestead, Amish Country, on in to Pittsburgh. It’s just beautiful and an undiscovered route.”
the west side of the village was still practicable. “Something we need to look closer at is the bypass, to decide if it is in the right location, and if it is even feasible,” Lenner said. “We don’t know what the scenario for a bypass is at this point. We need to look at that a little bit more.” Members of the commission are Phil Burgel, Pat Kramer, Sean Staneart, Ron Danne, and Marvin Block.
said. “You can no longer read it after the expiration date. There are waiting lists for e-books.” Some of the electronic versions are audio only, while others are electronic readers. “People can download all kinds of formats,” Wofter said. “With an audio book you might listen to it in your car or on the treadmill. With the readers, a lot of people like large print books, and you can increase the font size on a reader. You can click on a word and it will give you the meaning of it. It really enhances the reading experience.” Wofter said the libraries were also upgrading their systems to accept credit card payments, because cash is becoming less common. “We’re finding people just don’t carry cash much, even for a 50-cent library fine,” Wofter said. McElhaney said she hoped to reinvigorate some reading clubs for elementary school students and to continue teen activity programming. Library Story Time continues to be popular for pre-schoolers, who attend Tuesday morning story readings for 10-week sessions. The next Story Time session will begin in February, McElhaney said.
Continued from page A1 to shoulder some of the workload. “The staff by and large covered the hours, and people from other branches helped cover,” McElhaney said. “They have been troupers, because we’ve been short staffed.” Licking County library director Babette Wofter said the levy provides about half of the library system’s operating budget — money that was sorely needed after severe cuts from the state during the past few years. The levy raises about $2-million annually toward a total county library budget of $3.8-million. “With the passage of the 1-mill operating levy, all our locations can look forward to an increased materials budget, things like books and audio books,” Wofter said. “We’ve added a line item for e-books, which have really taken off.” Electronic books are becoming highly popular, Wofter said. “With an electronic book, you can decide how long you want to check it out for, seven, 14, or 21 days, and then, depending on what device you are using, it just sort of disappears,” Wofter
PLANT OPERATOR/CHIEF OPERATOR The Village of Johnstown Service Department is accepting applications for a full-time plant operator/chief operator employee. Job duties include but are not limited to the following: laboratory testing, pump and plant maintenance, general housekeeping of plant and grounds, meter reading, meter repair and installation and main and service line repairs. Candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent. Candidates must also have a valid Ohio’s Drivers License. Successful candidates must also obtain a CDL License within 18 months of employment. A background in pipe fitting and plumbing is desirable. A Water Supply Class 2 or Class 3 is required. The candidate needs to have good computer, peer to peer networking skills, and be able to create and modify sheets in Microsoft Excel and/or Access. This is a day-shift position working four ten hour days from 7:00am to 5:00pm. Salary range is as follows: Class 2 $15.68 to $22.06 per hour, Class 3 $17.76 to $24.99 per hour, and Chief Operator $19.47 to $27.40 per hour. Benefits include health insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, paid sick leave, and PERS retirement plan. Apply in person at the Village of Johnstown Administration Offices located at 599 South Main Street, Johnstown, Ohio 43031. Applications will be accepted until February 23, 2011.
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County has diminished.” Linham said the visitors bureaus responded to the crunch by pooling their resources. “We have more than 110 communities so far, and we thought it would be 30 communities,” Linham said. “It’s places to eat, stay and play that people can hear about from local experts.” Linham said the site has had visitors from California and China. There is no charge for using the site, either for travelers or for businesses that want to be included in the site listings. An example of a unusual business on the site is an antique-hardware and homesupply store in Tuscarawas County.
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In brief Ascension K of C hosts free-throw event The Knights of Columbus of Church of the Ascension will hold its annual free-throw competition on Saturday, Jan. 29, at Adams Middle School. The event is open to boys and girls ages 10-14. Registration, which is free, is from 8:15 to 8:45 a.m., when the shooting starts. All participants will receive a mini-basketball. Winners in each category will receive a regulation basketball.
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Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt” begins at 7:30 p.m. According to information from the Midland, Lovett and Hiatt offer “intimate acoustic shows that … feature the artists performing onstage together and alternating songs from throughout their careers.” Tickets are $46.50, $52.50, $62.50 and $74.50. Call (740) 3455483, visit www.midlandtheatre.org or stop by the box office at 36 N. Park Place in Newark.
Midland to host Mystic Drumz Mystic Drumz will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Midland Theatre in Newark. The Mystic Drumz comprise a group of creative musicians and teachers who weave together musical lessons and fantastic stories that involve audience participation. Also involved in the show are audio/visual technicians, costume designers and stage crews whose efforts contribute to the interactive family show. Tickets are $7.50, $10, and $14. Call (740) 345-5483, visit www.midlandtheatre.org or stop by the box office at 36 N. Park Place in Newark.
Tickets for Johnstown-Monroe High School’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” will be available beginning Jan. 29 in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center. Box office hours will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. each Saturday. Tickets may also be purchased by downloading a ticket order form from www.jhschoir.org and mailing the completed form with payment to the Johnstown Choir Boosters at the address indicated on the form. Order forms are also available in the high school office. Tickets are $10 each. The performance is scheduled ‘Drumz’ preview for Friday through Sunday, March at Works Jan. 29 11-13, at 7 p.m. each evening. A A sneak preview of Lorne matinee will be offered at noon Lampert’s interactive Mystic on Saturday, March 12. The show is not recommend- Drumz performance will be ed for small children, as the themes are at times dark and frightening.
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shown at The Works: Center for History, Art and Technology on Saturday, Jan. 29. Admission to the 1 p.m. preview is free to Works members. Non-members will pay the museum’s general admission price. The Mystic Drumz one-hour preview will give the audience a taste of the full-length, handson interactive family show that will be performed at 7 p.m. that day at the Midland Theatre. Mystic Drumz blends multicultural music themes and audience participation with stories that introduce world percussion instruments on a journey to Marshmallow Island. According to a news release from The Works, the performance links “geography to sounds, rhythms to science and laughter to learning.”
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Works to host local science fair The Works: Center for History, Art & Technology will host the Licking County Local Science Fair competition from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30. Participants in kindergarten through grade eight will show their projects. Students in grades five through eight who receive a superior rating will advance to the district science fair, to be held later in the year. For more information, visit www.attheworks.org.
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ATTENTION The Village of Johnstown Old Town Committee will be hosting a Community Forum on February 1st, 2011 at 6:30 pm in Council Chambers. The purpose of the Forum is to discuss many upcoming projects that will be affecting the downtown area. Business owners, residents and anyone concerned with the downtown Johnstown is encouraged to attend this informational Forum.
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Kent exhibit up through April The Denison Museum’s spring semester exhibit, “The Rockwell Kent Project,” will be displayed through April 18. According to information from Denison University, Kent’s long career as a painter, illustrator, satirist, writer, muralist, printmaker and activist exemplifies the changing roles of the 20thcentury visual artist and writer. The exhibition includes original prints from Denison’s permanent collection as well as objects on loan from Kent State University, Smith College Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum and the Columbus Museum of Art. The museum is free and open to the public. For more information, call Megan Hancock at (740) 587-6255 or visit www.denison.edu.
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Columbus magic show highlights art of illusion By GARY SEMAN JR.
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“If people really want to find He said he’s watched participa- ternet,” he said. “People can get
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Ron Spangler remembers the trip to his first Magi-Fest well. He didn’t make it. In 1978, he was headed there with a friend but a terrible snowstorm forced his mom to turn the car around and go home. Three years later, he successfully attended what he says is one of the biggest and oldest magic conventions in the country, and he hasn’t missed once since. Spangler, an Upper Arlington resident, has been named director of the 79-year-old convention, to be held Jan. 27-29 at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel. The Columbus convention, established in January 1932, is expected to draw about 600 people from across the country.
gler, a mechanical engineer. “One of our particular angles is we want to be a family-friendly convention. We want to be known for that.” While the convention is generally for practitioners and devotees of magic, the general public is invited to attend the convention’s annual magic show at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Veterans Memorial. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children. They are available online at www.magifest.com or will be on sale at the box office the night of the show. The headliner is Greg Frewin, who has his own theater in Niagara Falls. Spangler described it as a Las Vegas-style magical review, complete with a juggler, dancers and assistants. Meanwhile, the convention in-
chandise. The origins of Magi-Fest can be traced to two Ohio magic dealers, Sylvester Reilly and Robert Nelson. They co-founded Ring No. 7, a local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, in 1928. Spangler, 47, described the convention as a sort of family reunion, with a lot of veterans of the convention introducing their children to the craft. “With a lot of kids, it just sticks. It stays with them. It stayed with me,” he said, adding that he doesn’t get to perform as much as he did in the past. Magic has changed over the past few decades, especially with the arrival of the Internet, which has revealed many closely guarded secrets, Spangler 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 reMARGO gards mice BARTLETT after tarantulas invade, but spackling dust, 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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Cumin Indian Restaurant a fine replacement for Bayleaf When I heard Bayleaf was going out of business, I grimaced. The Polaris-area restaurant was one of my favorite places for Indian food. But when I heard the Cuisine of India people were taking over, I cheered up. You see, like Bayleaf, Cuisine of India is modern and authentic, serving both beloved classics and lots of contemporary-style dishes popular in cosmopolitan Indian cities. So when I waltzed into Cumin Indian Restaurant my expectations were pretty high. After a few visits, I realized this newbie was destined to shoot to the top of my Indian food list. Other than closing off the formerly open kitchen, Cumin’s owners haven’t performed any drastic cosmetic makeovers. It’s still a big, modern, open and airy room with few, if pleasant, decorations (chiefly multi-hued, saucer-shaped chandeliers) to distract visitors from
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Post-chaat, there’s a dizzying array of buffet choices — the thing goes on forever. I counted six meat entrees (two in kabob form); five veggie entrees; two soups; two rice dishes; a large salad/condiment bar and four desserts. I liked everything I tried, but was especially fond of the Baigan Bharta (wonderful eggplant stew),
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($15, easily feeds two). Like a giant platter of mixed Indian fajitas, it’s a great way to sample several items on Cumin’s large menu. The “grill” was a round-up of about five kinds of smokily seared, delicious kabobs, my favorites of which were Haryali Tikka (juicy, boneless chicken chunks in a zesty pesto) and Lajwab Seek kabob (huge logs of ground lamb with minced green pepper, onion and cilantro). The mammoth dinner came with fluffy basmati rice and excellent dal. While none of Cumin’s desserts disappointed, the Gajar Halwa ($4 — milky, cardamomy, nutty and fruity shredded carrots) — was especially fun to munch. To read G.A. Benton’s blog, visit ColumbusDiningGuide.com
Greek diner near UA takes simple approach to food, ambience Yiagos and Stratis Kostoglou had simplicity in mind when opening Greek to Me. The menu, for the time being, is a small and manageable collection of breakfast and lunch fare served in a humble dining room with blue and white gingham tablecloths and some Greek accents. “We want to make sure we serve good Greek food. We don’t want to make things complicated,” said Stratis, who opened the store with his father at 4697 Reed Road in Northwest Columbus. The breakfast items consist of the familiar – omelets, pancakes, French toast and typical sides, such as bacon, links and home fries. The lunch menu offers similarly approachable dishes, such as gyros,
subs, moussaka, pastitsio and souvlaki. They wanted prices to be inviting, too, as most entrees run between $6 and $8. It is the first restaurant for the pair. Yiagos worked as a steward on Greek cargo ships, helping coordinate three meals a day, not to mention private functions, for 30 hungry sailors. He eventually opened A Matter of Steak in Westland Mall, which he later sold. Meanwhile, his son was an assistant kitchen manager at Texas Roadhouse. Greek to Me takes over 1,300 square feet of space that was most recently occupied by Pizzano’s. It seats 50.
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The Kastaglous have loftier ambitions for their bill of fare. They want to slowly introduce daily specials and hope to have a beer-and-wine license in place by this spring. They also plan to have dinner services available by summer. The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch daily. For more information, call 614-725-4323.
including falafel, babagannoush and hummus, plus soups, salads, kebabs and fish dishes. It also serves up several Greek classics, such as pastitsio and moussaka, and an array of desserts. He stresses freshness in his products. For example, he is grinding the meat in-house for his kebabs and burgers. Most items are $6 to $10. Large entrees are in $12 range. There is no alcohol. Lashish, the Greek, offering a large and reaThe restaurant is open for lunch and dinner hours sonably priced Mediterranean menu, has opened in daily. For more information, call 614-457-5800. Northwest Columbus. The restaurant, owned by Mohammad Ballouz, has taken over 1,200 square feet of space at 788 Bethel Road, ramping up the international flair of the Olentangy Square shopping center, which includes Banana Leaf (vegetarian Indian), Min-Ga ■ Even wine connoisseurs (Korean) and Bamboo Café (Vietnamese, Thai). find refreshment elsewhere. The cornerstone of the menu is genuine shawarWine Wisdom columnist Chris ma: skewered sheets of lamb and beef, marinated Dillman recommends Jolly for 48 hours, cooked on a vertical rotisserie. The Pumpkin Brewery’s Oro de Caljuices of tomatoes and lemon, placed at the top of abaza online at www.thisweekthe assemblage, gloss the meat and add flavor. news.com/foodandwine. Chris Dillman “You’ve got to go to New York to get this,” Ballouz said. Recipe of the week With the pita option, he brushes the bread with hummus and adds Bermuda onion, mint and tart sumac. He finishes it off on a Panini grill to crisp the bread. A shawarma platter is an alternative. Ballouz is a familiar face on the central Ohio restaurant scene, having worked for a number of years for Niki Chalkias, the proprietor of Fisherman’s Wharf restaurants. Ballouz left the restaurant business and was a cultural adviser for the defense industry. But the restaurant business kept tugging at his apron strings. Raspberry brie chicken, courtesy of John Lashish offers a variety of Middle Eastern sides, “Guido” Magnacca of Cimi’s Bistro.
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Northridge junior softball player Kara Barclay, who has started wearing glasses to improve her hitting, attended the Queen of Diamonds Showcase North on Jan. 8-9 at Kent State. She works on her game every night in her basement.
Considering the commotion Kara Barclay makes in the basement each night, it’s amazing her mother gets anything done upstairs. Ping! Ping! Ping! Thwack! “Kara is down there pitching or hitting every night downstairs, so you get used to hearing the noise, but sometimes she hits the wood-burning stove pretty hard,” Tricia Barclay said. “It’s a good thing it’s made of cast iron so it can take it.” Kara Barclay, a junior on the Northridge High School softball team, has been preparing for the upcoming season with nightly practice in the basement, where she has set up a protective net. She also is taking private lessons and attending camps. Her most recent camp was a trip Jan. 8-9 to Kent State for the Queen of Diamonds Showcase North, an invitation-only event. “My pitching (and hitting) coach (Randy Moziejko) mentioned some camps that I should look into and I had gone to the Kent State camp last year and heard about Queen of Diamonds North,” said Barclay, who played third base last season for the Vikings. “I had to fill out an application that considered GPA and other things before I could be accepted.” Barclay said the event had several collegiate coaches to help her improve her game, including pitching. “One thing I learned was how to throw my screwball better,” she said. “I learned how to turn my body into the pitch to have a better outcome. “I also got help with my curveball. It’s good when you hear a college coach tell you that she likes the rotation on your curve.” Barclay has been working to improve her hitting and may have made her biggest adjustment off the diamond. She recently began wearing glasses at the plate and quickly noticed a difference. “My teammates would ask, ‘Did you pick up the rotation on the ball and see it was a curve?’ I could never see that until now. I was just guessing,” said Barclay, who hit .179 last spring with 28 strikeouts but a teamhigh 13 walks. “From pitching, I
Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Northridge boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling and swimming teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Defeated Utica 45-44. Caleb Higgins scored 13 points with three 3-pointers and Aaron Estep added nine points. Jan. 18 — Def. Liberty Union 59-40. Justin Howard led with 17 points, Estep scored 12 points and Connor Burke had 11 points. *Jan. 21 — Played Fredericktown *Jan. 25 — At East Knox *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Centerburg *Jan. 29 — At Loudonville in game postponed from Jan. 11 *Feb. 2 — At Fredericktown in game postponed from Dec. 10 Of note: The Vikings were 6-4 overall and 4-1 in the MBC before Jan. 21. GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 15 — Lost to Fredericktown 39-38. Keilah Ketron had 14 points and Lauren Cornwell and Sara Pribonic added seven points apiece. *Jan. 20 — Game with East Knox postponed because of bad weather. No makeup date has been announced. *Jan. 22 — Played Centerburg Jan. 24 — Home vs. Hamilton Township in game postponed from Jan. 12 Jan. 26 — At Sparta Highland *Jan. 29 — At Johnstown *Feb. 3 — Home vs. Danville Of note: The Vikings were 5-7 overall and 3-5 in the MBC before Jan. 22. WRESTLING Jan. 14-15 — Finished second (256) in 13team North Union Classic behind champion Benjamin Logan (275) *Jan. 19 — Def. Centerburg 54-21 and Johnstown 42-24 Jan. 29 — Jimmy Wood Memorial at New Lexington Feb. 5 — John Deno Classic at The Plains Athens *MBC contest SWIMMING Jan. 15 — Boys: Finished ninth (44) in 17team Teays Valley Invitational behind champion Westerville Central (440); Girls: Finished eighth (44) in 15-team Teays Valley Invitational behind champion Westerville Central (351) Jan. 22 — Competed in Zanesville Invitational Jan. 24 — At Coshocton with Newark Catholic *Feb. 5 — SEOSL meet at Ohio University *SEOSL meet
know what the spin on each pitch is and now I can see it. If the ball is a drop ball, I know that the ball will be at my knees or lower or where it’s going if it’s a rise ball. It really has See VIKINGS, page A8
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The Johnstown-Monroe High School wrestling team has been taking its lumps, but coach Jared Writesel believes the Johnnies will be prepared for the postseason. The Johnnies finished ninth (63 points) in the 10-team Larry Remmert Memorial at Thornville Sheridan on Jan. 15 behind champion Licking Valley (273.5). They were one of only two Division III teams at the event. “Sheridan was a tough tournament,” Writesel said. “It was all Division I and Division II schools except for us and Amanda-Clearcreek. It was a really good test for the kids.” Junior Joey Dismuke finished fifth at 189 pounds, going 4-1 in the two-pool tournament to push his overall record to 18-4. Junior R.D. Williams went 3-2, finishing fifth at 215 and moving to 17-6 overall. Junior heavyweight Nick SanFillipo and freshman 171-pounder Clayton Bullard both finished sixth. “Things are really picking up. We’re definitely in the toughest part of our schedule and being a young team makes it pretty difficult,” Writesel said. “We (were) the only Division III team at the 29-team Austintown Invitational (on Jan. 2122).”
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Joey Dismuke of Johnstown-Monroe tangles with Northridge’s Jacob Burke in a match at 189 pounds during a meet Dec. 30. The Johnnies will compete at New Lexington on Saturday, Jan. 29.
pete Saturday, Jan. 29, in the Jimmy Wood Memorial at New Lexington. “Instead of wrestling in easy tournaments, we go to these types of tournaments to get ready for sectional,” said WriteBy Tim Norman/ThisWeek sel, whose team will compete in the Division III sectional FriThe Johnnies’ Clayton Bullard works on Zach Rudy of Northridge day, Feb. 18, and Saturday, Feb. in a match at 171 pounds during a meet Dec. 30. 19, at Madison Plains or CardOn Jan. 19, Johnstown lost Writesel said. “We do well in ington. “Those (easy) meets are MBC duals to Centerburg 63- the upper weights, but the good confidence-builders, but 10 and Northridge 42-24. younger kids are learning at the they really don’t help you pre“Dual meets kill us because lower weights.” The Johnnies will next comwe don’t have a full team,” See JOHNNIES, page A8
At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Johnstown-Monroe boys and girls basketball teams: BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 14 — Lost to Centerburg 4939. Matt Smith scored 20 points with four 3-pointers and Patrick Wilson added eight points. Jan. 18 — Defeated Lakewood 62-56 *Jan. 21 — Played Danville *Jan. 25 — Home vs. Utica *Jan. 28 — At East Knox Feb. 1 — At Whitehall Of note: The Johnnies were 4-7 overall and 1-5 in the MBC before Jan. 21.
GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 15 — Def. Danville 56-44. Holly Sammons had 19 points with two 3pointers and was 9-for-10 on free throws. *Jan. 20 — Game with Utica postponed because of bad weather. No makeup date has been announced. *Jan. 22 — Played East Knox Jan. 26 — At Licking Valley *Jan. 29 — Home vs. Northridge *Feb. 3 — At Loudonville Of note: The Johnnies were 3-10 overall and 2-6 in the MBC before Jan. 22. *MBC game
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playing other sports.” Sophomore forward Sam Scovell scored 13 points against Lakewood, junior point guard Patrick Wilson had 10 points and senior post player Taylor Atwood added eight points. “Patrick has been playing at a high level at point guard and has been doing a great job of getting guys where we need them to be for our offense to be successful,” Martin said. “It’s his first year at the varsity level and he’s in a position that’s physical to play. He’s starting to gain control of the game and understand what he can and cannot do from his position.”
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Top performances BOYS Upper Arlington’s Brian Sullivan scored 29 points to lead his team past Dublin Coffman 53-52 in a meeting of undefeated teams on Jan. 14. GIRLS Africentric’s Raven Ferguson scored 36 points to lead her team to an 80-59 win over Eastmoor Academy on Jan. 11 in a matchup of first-place teams.
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