July 21, 2011
More I-71 ramp cleanups possible By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Revamp the Ramp has grown an “s.” It’s now Revamp the Ramps, plural. And more and more civic organizations are signing on to help. Separately, Northland Community Council vice president Emmanuel V. Remy and James R. Blazer II of the Clin-
tonville Area Commission envisioned a cleanup effort at one Interstate 71 interchange that led to both neighborhoods. Together, they have forged an effort that could lead to the cleanup and possible total landscaping makeover of the I-71 ramps stretching from downtown to East Dublin-Granville Road. Even before the first ramp cleanup, at Cooke Road, took place on June 25,
the North Linden Area Commission had jumped on the bandwagon. Now that a second one has been scheduled, this one at the North Broadway interchange on Saturday, July 30, starting at 9 a.m., the Milo Grogan Area Commission’s members have voted unanimously to join in and add the Fifth Avenue ramp to the mix, according to Remy. “We’ve also approached South Lin-
den and the University District (area commissions), and we’re just basically waiting for their meetings to take place to get them on board,” Remy said. “Now we’ve got a broad coalition of the north area commissions and the Northland Community Council. “If we’re successful, all of a sudden we can say every ramp from downtown out to I-270 is redone. It’s pretty excit-
ing. It seems to be taking on a life of its own.” “It’s picked up that kind of popularity and it’s been a very nice opportunity to meet a lot of other commissioners and other commissions and have a joint effort working with ODOT,” Blazer said. “It’s a very popular project.” See MORE 1-71 RAMP, page A2
Consultant, coach to address chamber By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
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Cheryl London, an associate professor of veterinary biosciences, kneels beside one of her patients, Justice. London is a member of the Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics program in the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute and is involved in research into ways that treating cancer in dogs could translate to care for humans. Justice has thyroid cancer and is participating in a clinical trial.
Dog cancer research might help humans By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Cheryl London’s dog, George, has cancer. The Clintonville resident fails to see any irony in that, even though she’s among those involved in research that seeks to determine if treatments which work on cancers in animals might have implications for treating similar cancers in humans. It’s not that London, who has a Ph.D. from Harvard, doesn’t recognize the ironic when it crops up in her life. It’s just that as a veterinarian, she saw a lot of cancer in pets and now as a researcher she sees even more. “We see it so much, I wasn’t even surprised,” London said of her dog developing the disease. And she’d very much like to be a part of people not having to see cancer in animals or people at all. “Cancer is cancer,” London said
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Cancer is cancer. It’s a crappy disease on the human side and it’s a crappy disease on the pet side.
CHERYL LONDON
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— associate professor of veterinary biosciences at OSU
last week. “It’s a crappy disease on the human side and it’s a crappy disease on the pet side.” George, by the way, has been through chemotherapy and is doing fine, other than having to good-naturedly put up, as dogs will, with the sometimes rambunctious play of London’s young daughter. “George is a hound and he is not a smart dog, but he’s great with my 2-1/2-year old,” she said. London is an associate professor
of veterinary biosciences at OSU and a member of the Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics program in the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Sometimes in academia the title is a lot more complicated than what the person describing it does. Not in this case. London and others in the program at Ohio State, as well as similar programs elsewhere, are involved in what is called “comparative oncology.” This doesn’t involve inducing cancer in mice and testing drugs to cure it, but instead devising treatments for cancers that develop on their own in pets. Viewing the different types of cancer — and there are dozens of kinds of breast cancer alone — at the molecular level enables researchers to pinpoint similarities between the disease in animals and humans.
This work has the potential for speeding up the delivery of viable cancer treatments in people, according to London, in part because of how much more rapidly clinical trials can be started for pets. In part, too, dogs make better subjects for comparative oncology studies. For example, mice can’t throw up; they simply lack the mechanism. Dogs, as owners well know, can throw up, and sometimes seem to do so for the heck of it. This alone means dogs can help eliminate some treatment or drug regimen that induces nausea or vomiting, something that testing in mice would fail to reveal, London said. It’s one of the failings of what she called “mouse modeling.” “There are clear areas when we can contribute,” London said. Cheryl London was born in See DOG CANCER, page A5
Grant to help UCAN with ‘Night Out’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers Thanks to a grant from the city, the fifth annual observance of National Night Out for United Crestview Area Neighbors should be one for the books. The $500 from the Coalition for a Nonviolent Columbus will enable the neighborhood civic association to provide free food for those who come out on Tuesday, Aug. 2, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Crestview Presbyterian Church, 350 E. Tulane Road. The money will also cover the cost of printing fliers and a road closure permit, according to United Crestview Area Neighbors president Beth Fair-
man Kinney. “Then we invite people to come on out,” Kinney said last week. “We have a little bit of entertainment. The police will be there and a fire truck and McGruff the Crime Dog always shows up. We’ll have some coloring books.” Weather permitting, tables will be set up outside the church, she added. The Coalition for a Nonviolent Columbus was formed by Mayor Michael B. Coleman in January. The group of 25 citizen volunteers advises on the distribution of $40,000 set aside to pay for community anti-violence initiatives. The maximum any group of organization can receive is $1,000.
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“We were excited,” Kinney said of receiving word the UCAN grant application had met with success. “That means I know for sure we’re going to have a great event and I have the funding to provide the free food. That was something that I was concerned about. When people have food, they come and gather, and this is an event for everyone to gather in the community and meet your neighbors. “If you know your neighbors in the community, it keeps the dialogue going and makes for a safer community.” UCAN, according to its website, was formed in
The next Clintonville Area Chamber of Commerce “Business Networking Luncheon” will feature an appearance by a motivational speaker, an author, a coach, a consultant and an expert on interpersonal communications. And it’s all the same person. The gathering is scheduled for Thursday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m. in the Clintonville Woman’s Club, 3591 N. High St. The guest speaker will be Lillian Zarzar, founder of the Lillian Zarzar Columbus-based Zarzar Group, which provides coaching and counseling programs for chief executive officers, middle managers and business owners, according to the firm’s website. “We’re just looking for some business-related messages, things to help our members improve the way they do business, an educational meeting, so to speak,” chamber president Jenny Smith said last week. Smith belongs to the Central Ohio Council of Chambers and said that she has heard Zarzar speak before that group in the past. In addition, Smith said, Zarzar’s business manager called the Clintonville Chamber office to offer her as a speaker. “It’s always nice when we can get someone who helps our members and calls us, too,” Smith said. In the press kit available online for the Zarzar Group, Baker Creative public relations specialist Holly Sternberger describes Lillian Zarzar as a “multi-dimensional speaker.” “Education is one of her highest values, and helping others tap into a new way of thinking by going beyond themselves helps her clients see the world more authentically as it relates to them,” Sternberger wrote. “She views the challenge that transpires with leaders as the ability to have clarity of life’s mission and to frame messages effectively See CONSULTANT, page A2
Residents near bar may seek permit parking By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
People living along Leland Avenue might take action to have their street covered by some form of permit parking. It’s all because a very few patrons of the self-proclaimed “Cultural Hub of the Midwest” fail to be considerate when parking their cars on Leland Avenue. They also engage in the far more distasteful kinds of behavior people in their cups sometimes will, according to John Bennett, president of the Delawanda Residents’ Association. “There have been a number of complaints about parking in front of driveways, trash, occasional belligerent patrons, property damage and so on from some of the customers leaving Bob’s Bar,” Bennett said last week. The establishment, on its sign and rather
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