August 4, 2011
Former Scotts division
City trying to lure Everiss with tax breaks By JENNIFER NOBLIT
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Dublin officials are trying to attract a former Scotts Miracle-Gro division. Dublin City Council on Aug. 1 heard the first reading of a $44,000 incentive package that could convince Everris to
open in Dublin. Economic de velopment manager Colleen Gilger said the Scotts division was sold to an Israel-based company that specializes in fertilizer and chemicals. “They needed a new location,” she said, adding that Scotts had set a dead-
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line for the division to move out of its Marysville office by year’s end. Everris would develop plant-nutrition products, according to the staff report to council. The economic development agreement before council includes a six-year, 15-percent performance incentive on
income-tax withholdings collected by the city, capped at $37,000. According to the agreement, the company could collect up to $37,000 of income tax paid into the city over six years. In turn, the company must retain 20 jobs and create 10 new jobs in Dublin by the end of 2017.
The company also would have an opportunity to receive a $7,000 bonus performance payment in 2018 for a threeyear extension on its lease in Dublin, Gilger said. She said the company is considering See COUNCIL, page A2
BRIHI ARTWORK
By JENNIFER NOBLIT
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A path along Brand Road that w ould stretch from Dublin Road to Muirfield Drive is a step closer to reality. After months of debate and public input,Dublin City Council on Aug. 1 moved to approve the $1.2million trail that would be for pedestrians and bicyclists. No bike lanes, however, would be installed on Brand. Some sort of trail along Brand Road initially was part of the capital improvement plan in 2008, and city manager Marsha Grigsby said money has been budgeted for the work. City staff members brought options to council in March, with a leisure trail separate from a bike lane. Since then, staff members have been working with residents to gauge public opinion. One option that would have provided for the future installation of bike lanes on Brand Road was removed from discussion. Council voted unanimously to not leave space to widen Brand Road for bike lanes, meaning the only path w ould be constructed off-road — for bikes and pedestrians. Staff members recommended building an east and west portion of leisure trails from Muirf ield Drive to Bristol Parkway and from Brandonway Drive to Dublin Road. According to city engineer Paul Hammersmith, cyclists and pedestrians could co ver ground between Bristol and Brandonway by using existing leisure trails on Earlington and Brandonway drives, traveling through neighborhoods south of Brand. Brand Road residents who were at the meeting voiced support for omitting bike lanes and for the staff recommendation. “We’ve heard about this project since 2008. My wife and I have lost lots of sleep over this,” Brand See BRAND ROAD TRAIL, page A2
By Chris Parker/ThisWeek
Statesman of the Plains, a bronze statue by artist Allan Houser, waits to be installed at BriHi Square, at Bridge and High streets July 26. The artwork was installed on the plaza as part of the agreement between the city and developer Stonehenge in the public-private partnership that developed the Historic Dublin mixed-use development. See story, page A3.
Celtic sports bring Highland games to festival By JENNIFER NOBLIT
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Kilts are required attire for the Highland Heavy Weight Games. The games event will make its inaugural appearance at the Dublin Irish Festival on Saturday, Aug. 6, in the greenfields sports area. “What they’ll do is an athletics showcase of throwing weights of var-
ious sizes: putting, pushing, throwing, hurling and tossing weights of various sizes,” events administrator Mary Jo DiSalvo said. Brian Huntley, a member of the Great Lakes Scottish Athletes Association, is organizing the games at the Dublin Irish Festival and said more
than 30 athletes would compete. “We have four different classes: the amateur A’s, which are higher-skilled athletes; amateur B, which is a novice class; the master class is for athletes over 40; and there’s a woman’s class,” he said. Huntley said athletes compete in all of the events: braemar stone, weight over bar, open stone, sheaf toss, heavy weight for distance, caber toss and
light weight for distance. “We have a lot of guys with track and field backgrounds,” Huntley said. “The stones especially lends itself to a shot-put event. Actually, the Highland games event was the father of shot put, as well as the Olympic hammer. A lot of Olympic events are from the Highland games. Lightweight for See CELTIC SPORTS, page A8
Festival to recognize Civil War anniversary By JENNIFER NOBLIT
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PHITathalon
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Cynthia VonSchriltz of Dublin works to get over a wall obstacle at Mill Creek Park in Marysville as she participates in th PHITathalon, a 5-mile physical endurance race, on July 30.
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War won’t go unnoticed at this year’s Dublin Irish Festival. Historian and musician David Kincaid will perform Civil War songs of the Irish Brigade onAug. 6 and 7 and will share some history in honor of the anniversary. “We are at the Irish festival, observing in the area where they have Irish music archives and, in the cultural area, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War,” events administrator Mary Jo DiSalvo said. “David Kincaid is returning to perform Civil War songs of the Irish.” Kincaid is no stranger to the Dublin Irish Festival or other Celtic celebrations across the world. “I’ve been doing this particular presentation since 1998,” he said, adding that his first album with Irish songs from the Civil War came out the same year. “I do a lot of Irish and Celtic festivals, historic sites, folk-music societies, historical societies, libraries and performing-arts libraries. One of the things about this year with the
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Irish Festival expects 100,000 attendees The 2010 Dublin Irish Festival attracted about 102,000 people, and organizers are planning for a crowd for the 24th annual festival this weekend. The Dublin Irish Festival will be held from 4 p.m. to midnight Aug. 5, from 11 a.m. to midnight Aug. 6 and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 7 at Coffman Park. With thousands expected, bike parking will be offered to minimize traffic. Dublin Methodist Hospital is sponsoring a bike parking lot west of the Dublin Community Recreation Center 150th anniversary, I am booked every weekend.” In his performances, Kincaid, dressed in a uniform of the Irish Brigade, performs songs and talks about history, giving the songs context. “The Irish Brigade is the most famous unit on either side of that war and had a huge impact on the Irish being accepted (in America),” he said. “When they first arrived, they experienced horrible prejudice. So when they were fighting the Civil War, they had two
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wars to fight: one for the union and one for acceptance.And it really worked and changed the perception. It really helped to turn things around and be recognized as legal citizens.” When Kincaid started his search for Irish tunes from the Civil War, he wasn’t given much hope. “I was told by self-proclaimed experts I would never find anything,” he said. Research and more research, however, led him to broadsheets, which are papers with song lyrics
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