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(From left) New police officers Josh Silverman, Bradley Ramsey and Pete German were sworn in by Pataskala Mayor Steve Butcher July 15. Ramsey and German will be full-time officers and Silverman will serve in a part-time role.
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City bolsters force with new officers By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Two years after having to shrink its police force because of budget cuts, the city of Pataskala has added two full-time officers and one part-time officer to its ranks. Mayor Steve Butcher swore in the three officers July 15 at the Sterling Theater. Butcher said the city income tax allowed the department to expand. “The income tax is exactly the reason we are able to do this,” Butcher said. “Probably the worst part of my job has been the need to cut back on the department for the past five years. If there was any privilege to serving here, it is the ability to see the department be able to rebuild instead of dismantling it.”
Chief Bruce Brooks said the force will now have 17 full-time officers, one part-time officer and five auxiliary officers who serve without pay. “It helps alleviate the stress on some of the other officers,” Brooks said. Two of the officers sworn in July 15 have the rank of police officer. Bradley Ramsey, who left the Pataskala force three years ago during the budget contraction and has been working at the Licking Heights Local School District, will be named detective, Brooks said. In addition to Ramsey, Joshua Silverman will be the part-time officer and Pete German is the other full-time officer. Ramsey and German were born in Newark, while Silverman originally is from Columbus. All three officers said the job market for law
enforcement is enormously competitive. “A lot of departments will give a test and have five, 10 positions open and have two or three thousand people show up to take the test,” Silverman said. Said German: “Once you’re in, you really need to consider yourself fortunate. For every person they are hiring, they’re probably turning down 10, more than 10. Once you’re in, you need to make sure you stay in and do your job right. It’s very competitive.” Butcher said the city is fortunate that it has been able to rebuild the department quickly. “It is a pretty quick turnaround, but it’s quick because we did not let the problem get larger than our budget,” Butcher said. “We started See NEW OFFICERS, page A6
The Licking Heights school board met twice last week in executive session to begin working through applications for the superintendent post vacated when Thomas Tucker accepted the superintendent’s job at Worthington City Schools. Interim Superintendent Nelson McCray, director of the Licking County Educational Service Center, said the school board was pleased by the number and quality of applications. “I think they’re satisfied with the number of individuals who have shown interest,” McCray said. “I think they’re making progress. It’s a speeded-up process to have someone there by the middle of August, but I think they’re on target for that right now.” Board president Matt Satterwhite said the board was optimistic that it could fill the position by the time school starts, but that the board would not rush the process. “We don’t know yet (if the post will be filled by the first day of school),” Satterwhite said. “The applications just closed. If we can narrow it down and get a couple of good candidates and we like one, we can move quicker. “But we want the right process. We start Aug. 15, which is earlier than most schools, but we have to get the right person. We’re hopeful.” Satterwhite said the quality of the applicant pool pleased the board. “We are glad to see we got a wide spectrum of applicants,” Satterwhite said. “We have current superinSee SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH, page A3
Southwest Licking
Board developing superintendent-evaluation process By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The Southwest Licking school board met July 12 to begin a superintendentevaluation process that is expected to be developed during an extensive process of meetings and retreats. Superintendent Forest Yocum said the Buckeye Association of School Ad-
ministrators, of which most Ohio superintendents are members, recently received a grant to develop an improved evaluation process for superintendents. “It’s prompted by evaluations being put together by the (Ohio) Department of Education and the governor’s office,” Yocum said. “This is done at no cost to the district. In the past, evaluations have been more checklists. This involves goal-
setting, where we’ll have three or four major goals, and then specific objectives in support of those goals.” Consultant John Thomas told the school board it was important to distinguish between broad goals and more concrete, data-based objectives. “Goals are sometimes very grand, not measurable,” Thomas said. “An example would be to secure the financial fu-
ture of the district. An objective would be to develop a plan to present to the community about financial options to help secure the funding to the district. That’s something the superintendent can control and (it) can be measured.” Thomas said that a mistake in such planning is to set goals that are outside the control of the responsible person. “Let me tell you what an objective is
not: Saying the superintendent will pass a levy,” Thomas said. “If the superintendent got to cast all the votes, that would be within his control. But he can only cast one vote. The best you can ask anyone is to develop a plan to explain to the community what the ramifications are to passing or not passing a levy.” See EVALUATION, page A2
State report cards
Preliminary scores show ratings bump for Southwest Licking By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers Preliminary state report card results from the Ohio Department of Education indicate that the Southwest Licking Local School District will receive a boost in its rating from “effective” last year to “excellent” when final results for 2010-11 are released in August. The ODE has not yet released valueadded measures for all districts in the state. According to the results, the district met 25 of 26 total performance indicators, missing the requirement that 75 percent of fifth-grade students test proficient in math. The district had 71.4 percent of fifth-grade students meet the standard.
Superintendent Forest Yocum said the district was pleased with its preliminary results, even though the goal is always to do better. “Our reading scores and our math scores were very good,” Yocum said. “We improved in practically every area.” Director of curriculum Kristi Thompson also said the district is pleased with the results, but is not yet certain of the effect of “adequate yearly progress” (AYP) requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which can affect district rankings. “Our preliminary rating is ‘excellent,’ but when I look at our AYP report, I hesitate to comment on AYP until I get a look at final growth measures (which See REPORT CARDS, page A2
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Nine-year-old Tre Rine goes through warm-up drills at the Big Red Football Camp on July 14 at Denison University in Granville. The two-day camp was open to players in grades 4-8. The camp, which was run by the Denison football coaches and some Denison players, was being held for the first time.
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Camp’s art to promote New Albany symphony orchestra By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community Newspapers The New Albany Symphony Orchestra has chosen this season’s guest artist: Todd Camp of Newark. Camp’s original piece, “The Sounds of the Symphony,” will be used in promotional and marketing materials and will be auctioned off at the end of the season to raise money for the symphony. The 2011-12 season begins in October and runs through April. “It’s kind of our face for the year,” said Heather Garner, executive director of the orchestra. “We use it on the front of our season program and incorporate it in all of our season ads and posters.” Camp grew up in Ashland and earned his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1985. After graduation, he began teaching art and eventually decided to work on it full time. He has since gone back to work after the birth of his first child and now serves as the education director of the King Arts Complex in Columbus. To create the piece for the symphony, Camp said he thought about what he hears in symphonic music: timpani, a French horn and a bassoon. The bassoon is a prominent instrument in the children’s story, “Peter and the Wolf,” which has stayed in his mind, he said. “It’s the sounds I hear and kind of what sound looks like to me,” he said of the painting. Camp combined several types of art in what he
says started out as a collage. Using old photographs of people with instruments and drawings of instruments, Camp placed those on the piece first, then covered them with raw beeswax that he infused with color from Crayola crayons. The use of wax is an old type of art called “encaustic” that dates back to the Egyptians. He continued to layer the piece, using circles of color and swatches of black and white to represent sound and instruments, such as piano keys. The wax gives the piece translucence and luminosity and makes it “beautiful and waxy,” Camp said. The layers add textures and give the piece a different look from various angles. “You keep discovering something new,” Camp said. “When you look at it, you see something that you haven’t seen before.” Garner said the symphony works with the Hayley Gallery of New Albany to choose an artist-inresidence each year. She said she has always admired Camp’s work, which is on display at the Hayley Gallery, and is glad to have him working with the symphony. As part of the residency, he will attend symphony performances and be available during other symphony events to talk to guests about his work, she said. The New Albany Symphony Orchestra was founded in 2007 by Garner and features more than 120 musicians from all over Ohio. lwince@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com
EVALUATION Continued from page A1 The process of evaluating the superintendent would include five steps, including a job description; objectives; a work plan with a time line; a “formative” evaluation during the middle of the school year to gauge interim progress; and a summative or concluding evaluation to take stock of achievements. Board member Don Huber said setting realistic goals would be important. “What’s the one in (the) No Child Left Behind (Act)? One hundred percent of the country will be proficient? That’s absurd,” Huber said. “We don’t want to give him absurd objectives, we want to give him realizable objectives.” Thomas said the board’s involvement was important so that the members would be invested in the superintendent’s actions, rather than passively observing during the process and reaching judgments after the fact. “Superintendents left to their own devices will work on the things they are interested in and excited about, but they might not be the things the board wants done,” Thomas said.
will affect final report card results),” Thompson said. “As a district, we were effective last year, and five of our six buildings were excellent. If we meet AYP this year, we will be out of district improvement, which is exciting.” Yocum also noted the effect AYP requirements have on the final results. “If you don’t meet AYP, then no matter how good your test scores are, you’re going to go down in performance ratios,” Yocum said. “We have real concerns about that, because sometimes our kids score higher than other kids did in other schools, but their rating would be higher than ours (because of AYP limitations). They’ve made this thing so complicated it’s difficult to explain to someone.”
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Thomas cited examples of school boards that would set more than two dozen goals, when it would have been better to set half a dozen goals, with multiple objectives for each. One method of paring the number of items down would be to treat specific actions as evidence of goals, rather than as goals in and of themselves. “Instead of things to be done, they became evidence of objectives being accomplished,” Thomas said. “There are ways to do this so things can get done, but you put them out there as evidence as opposed to end tasks.” Once the board sets goals, the superintendent would write objectives for the board to review. “Writing a measurable objective is tedious and time-consuming, and that’s the job of the superintendent and leadership team,” Thomas said. Huber said board members cannot be involved in administrative details. “Even after 18 years on the board, I don’t know all the internal operations of this place and I never will,” Huber said. “But (the administration) does.” www.ThisWeekNews.com
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Economic-development committee
Etna still eyeing biodiesel program, development plan By MICHAEL J. MAURER ThisWeek Community Newspapers The Etna Township economic-development committee met July 14 to review efforts to develop a biodiesel pilot program along township rights of way and discuss whether to adopt a formal economic development plan in light of changes to the Ohio Department of Development. Committee member Dave Goll reviewed recent changes in the Licking County and Ohio departments of development, and also a central Ohio, chamber of commerce-led effort known as “Columbus2020!” Goll said New Albany was receiving the lion’s share of economic-development attention and Etna Township should increase its share. “We need to do something to get it into our neighborhood,” Goll said. “A lot of the new business development lately in Licking County is centered up in the New Albany corridor. We need to go back to our original mission statement and get development in Etna and the surrounding township.” Township zoning administrator Chris Harkness said the committee had initially discussed developing a comprehensive economic-development plan, but had not yet done so. “We need to go back to our original mission statement, as far as getting economic development done here,” Goll said. Committee member Bob Stamper agreed. “Establishing a written plan and goals is a good idea,” Stamper said. Committee member Mark Schaff reviewed
progress on a proposal to use roadway rights of way to grow biodiesel crops, such as sunflowers and canola. One of the largest obstacles to such programs is obtaining funding, but Schaff said the township already had funding because the roadways have the expense of being mowed, in the case of state roadways, by the Ohio Department of Transportation. “The money is there, paying for mowing,” Schaff said. “We don’t want new money. It’s already in the budget. We just want to reallocate it. That solves the biggest problem right there.” Other issues that will have to be explored include the potential for the biodiesel crops to become an invasive nuisance. “Canola is a long-distance pollinator,” Schaff said. “That’s something we have to worry about and study carefully.” Ultimately, the project will work only if the economic benefits of harvesting the biodiesel crops exceed any marginal increase in costs, Schaff said, quoting biodiesel project documents from North Carolina. “We know what it costs to mow a mile. Now we’d like to know what it costs to till, plant and harvest a mile,s” Schaff said. “I think that might be your bottom line. What’s the cost to mow a mile? What’s the cost of biodiesel for a mile?” Stamper said the process is relatively uncomplicated. “It’s a fairly simple process,” Stamper said. “Unlike ethanol, you don’t have to distill it. You just crush the grain into an oil. You extract the oil from the seed.” www.ThisWeekNews.com
College • Nicholas Joseph of Utica was among the spring 2011 graduates at the University of Akron. He earned a bachelor’s degree in education. • Luke P. Webster, the son of Steven and Cheryl Webster of Pataskala, was named to the spring 2011 dean’s list at Bucknell University. He is a 2009 graduate of Newark Catholic. • Tristan M. Thrasher of Granville was named to the spring semester dean’s list at Virginia Military Institute. To eligible for the list, cadets must earn at least a 3.0 grade-point average, with no grade below C. Thrasher is a junior majoring in biology. • The University of Akron has announced its spring 2011 dean’s list. Nicholas Joseph of Utica and Elizabeth Dunfree and Sean Kennedy, both of Newark, were on the list. To be eligible, students must earn at least a 3.25 GPA.
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Ohio Department of Education, Columbus. Ten candidates are from elsewhere in Ohio: • Don Armstrong, superintendent, Fairfield Union Local Schools, Rushville. • Randall Cotner, consultant, LW & Associates Inc., Ashville. • Michael Edwards, high school principal, East Clinton Local Schools, Lees Creek. • Bruce Kidder, superintendent, Frontier Local Schools, New Matamoras. • Guy Parmigian, director of curriculum and career technology, Greenville. • S. Kevin Roseberry, assistant superintendent, Bellaire Local Schools, Bellaire. • Kenneth Schmiesing, superintendent, Virtual Schoolhouse, Cleveland. • Vaughn Thacker, administrator, Victory and STAR Academy of Toledo, Toledo. • Philip Wagner, assistant superintendent, Beachwood City Schools, Beachwood. • Denise Ward, assistant superintendent, Painesville City Local Schools, Painesville. The remaining nine candidates are from other states: • George Bauman, doctoral candidate, Ball State University; internship, Northwest Allen County Schools, Fort Wayne, Ind. • David Benak, supervisor of curriculum and instruction, Elkhart Community Schools, Elkhart, Ind. • Thomas Gay, president and chief executive officer, The Quality Schools Group, Lapeer, Mich. • Marvin Honeycutt, director of schools, Loudon County Schools, Loudon, Tenn. • Thomas Little, superintendent, Yancey County School System, Burnsville, N.C. • David Martin, middle school principal, Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, Tenn. • Gail Mitchell, executive director of curriculum and instruction, Allendale County Schools, Allendale, S.C. • Douglas Thoburn, high school principal, Bradford County School District, Starke, Fla. • Phillip Williams, superintendent, Rangely School District RE-4, Rio Blanco County, Colo. www.ThisWeekNews.com
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The Licking County Family YMCA Western Branch, 355 W. Broad St. in Pataskala, is a Silver Sneakers provider. Silver Sneakers is a program that helps older adults take greater control of their health by encouraging physical activity and offering social events. Health plans around the country offer Silver Sneakers to people who are eligible for Medicare or to group retirees. Silver Sneakers provides a Licking County Family YMCA membership. This benefit includes access to conditioning classes and exercise equipment; customized Silver Sneakers classes designed specifically for older adults; health education seminars and other special events; a program adviser to help participants get started; and online support to help participants lose weight, quit smoking and reduce stress.
MHALC receives SOPHE grant Mental Health America of Licking County has received a grant from the Society of Public Health Educators. MHALC one of three organizations that received grants in the area of tobacco use education and prevention. Kristen Frame, MHALC’s Compeer coordinator, said tobacco-related illness is the leading cause of death for individuals who experience severe and persistent mental illness. The SOPHE grant will support efforts to educate policymakers and community leaders about evidenced-based tobacco control and prevention policies. More information about Compeer is available at http://www.mhalc.org/compeer.html.
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Two hotel bathrooms an unbelievable find My husband and I went away for the weekend. It was thrilling enough to escape the dishwasher and the laundry and the growing grass for 60 hours or so, but imagine our delight when the hotel, without fanfare or explanation, upgraded us to a suite. “Oh, look, it has a little sitting area,” I said as we entered our room on the 24th floor. Then we realized that the sitting area was, in fact, a separate room, divided from the bedroom by charming French doors. “Two televisions,” my husband discovered. “Two closets,” I said. Who wouldn’t jump around a little to discover two closets in her hotel room? While I was jumping, I made another discovery. “Oh! Two. Bath. Rooms,” I said. “No,” my husband said. “Yes!” I said. “Look! One by the door where we came in, and one off the bedroom.” I looked again. “And they’re both full bathrooms: tub, shower, the works.” This was like opening a hotel room door and discovering a redwood forest behind it — a redwood forest with splashing brooks and singing birds and two bathrooms. “Unbelievable!” I said for perhaps the fifth time. We tried to decide if one of the bathrooms was bigger than the other. At first I thought mine was — mine had instantly become the bathroom near the door, and then I thought my husband’s — the one in the bedroom — was. “We’ll use them both, then?” my husband asked. Oh. For an instant, I considered not using them both. One was all we needed, after all. One was all we’d expected. And while we were accustomed to having two bathrooms at home, we were resigned, while away, to being a little smooshed, a little cramped, a little inconvenienced, as it were. So shouldn’t we go ahead and be inconvenienced, since we’d expected to be, and keep one of these bathrooms all clean and shiny? It might be less work for the chambermaids, I thought loftily. And then, I’m glad to say, I came to my senses. Less work for the chambermaids? My husband and I caught
glimpses of the chambermaids — they were actually men and women — here and there around MARGO the hotel. They were BARTLETT knocking themselves out, and any decisions we might make about using or not using our windfall bathroom weren’t going to change their lives or their workweek. The best thing we could do for the chambermaids was to leave the room untrashed, which I hope you’re not surprised to hear we already do. I don’t know the first thing about trashing a hotel room, in fact. How does a person do it? By piling the extra blankets in a heap on the bed? By scattering hotel stationery around? At home, I feel like I’ve trashed the place if I go off and leave the ironing board up, but somehow I doubt the chambermaids would see an upright ironing board and call security. Back to the bathroom, though. Or rather, the two bathrooms. Flirting for even a couple of seconds with the notion of pretending one bathroom didn’t exist would have been dangerous, indeed. Because if we had passed on the second bathroom — which was an incredible luxury, thank you, Hilton — what was to stop us from concluding that we didn’t need two closets, either, and from squishing all our
clothes into one? Having decided we didn’t deserve more than one closet and one bathroom, we’d no doubt have concluded we had no reason to mess up two rooms, so we’d have pulled our suitcases and other miscellanea into, say, the bedroom, and used the other room for merely an entrance and an exit. No, wait. We’d have used the sitting room only, because it was closer to the door, and when it was time to sleep, we’d have just gone down to the parking garage and slept in the car. Well, that’s where you end up when you start thinking along those lines: You end up sleeping in the car and eating peanuts out of a vending machine for dinner because why should you bother a waiter who probably wants to get home to his family? We loved having those two bathrooms all weekend. And we loved using two closets, too, and although we didn’t watch television, we did love having two sets of windows from which to look down at the street. You’d think we never left the room, but, in fact, we were hardly there. And going home again had its pleasures as well, since we’d emptied the dishwasher and finished the laundry and mowed the lawn before we left. … What? You figured we had? Now, how on earth did you know that? Margo Bartlett is a ThisWeek staff writer. Email mbartlett@ thisweeknews.com.
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In brief LMHS sponsors 5K run, mile walk Licking Memorial Health System will sponsor a “For Your Health” 5K and Fun Walk Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Dawes Arboretum, 7770 Jacksontown Road. The 5K will begin at 8:30 a.m., with the 1-mile Fun Walk to follow at 8:40 a.m. Awards will be given for the top three male and female finishers in each age division. Registration may be completed online at www.secondsoleracing.com through July 29. The cost to register online is $15. Race-day registration is $20. All participants will receive Core Performance Wear shirts. For more information, call Beth Anderson at (740) 3484108.
Island Tour will benefit museum Those who visit the homes of Circle Island and NorthPoint Island on July 29 will be helping to support the Buckeye Lake Historical Society. Guests will ride the Queen of the Lake II, which will depart from Buckeye Lake State Park North Shore at 5 p.m. Circle Island has never been open to the public. The Hennessey Family will host visitors who will be able to walk through the home. Light food and beverages will be served. The guests will then board the Queen to head to NorthPoint Island, owned by William Schottenstein. A buffet meal will be catered by John Doneff’s Island House. The cost is $100 per person or $175 per couple. Proceeds will benefit the Buckeye Lake Museum. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (740) 929-1998 or visit www.buckeyelakehistory.com.
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The ceremonial drenching — and the victory — must have been quite refreshing for Ohio Elite 14-and-under baseball coach David Lee. Ohio Elite beat the Ohio Force of Cincinnati 7-1 in the Buckeye Elite Showcase Tournament 14-and-under championship game on July 10 at Olentangy High School. As the team celebrated in the outfield on a hot afternoon, players poured a cooler of water over Lee.
Ohio Elite improved to 41-9 this season. Pitcher Brad Wilson, who will attend Northridge, pitched a complete game. He allowed six hits, struck out eight and walked one. “We’re starting to come together as a team,” Wilson said. “We’ve been having trouble the first couple of weeks, but everybody is starting to hit at the same time, everybody is fielding, all of our pitching is coming together. We’re coming together very well.” Cameron Comer’s RBI single scored Kyle Galyk with the game’s first run in
the fifth inning. “We just came out and hit the ball like we knew how to, played like we knew how to and we knew we’d win,” said Comer, who attends Olentangy Liberty. Ohio Elite added three runs in the sixth, highlighted by Tyrell Harris’ tworun single, and three runs in the seventh, with Comer delivering a two-run single. Second baseman Evan Lee, the coach’s son, made a key defensive play when he caught a line drive and doubled off Force leadoff batter Jordan
Ramey at third base in the fourth inning to keep the game scoreless. Ohio Elite advanced to the title game by beating the East Side Irish 18-5 in six innings, the Great Lakes Giants 102, the Academy Stars of Buffalo 3-2 and Team New Era of Buffalo 16-5 in five innings. Ohio Elite received a championship T-shirt, plaque and commemorative bat. “We’ve really peaked the last couple of weeks,” coach Lee said. “Brad pitched a complete game. We knew coming in he was one of our top pitchers. ... The best thing with our staff is we’re eight,
nine deep and they all throw.” •The Columbus Cobras 18-andunder team reached a semifinal but lost to the Lookouts of Alliance 4-1 on July 10 at Dublin Jerome. The Cobras advanced to the semifinal round with a come-from-behind 54 win over Steve’s Sports of Mayfield. Trailing 4-2 with two outs in the seventh inning, the Cobras’ Kendall Johnson hit a routine fly ball to left fielder Drew Teller, who dropped it, allowing the tying runs to score. See BASEBALL, page A8
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One of the most critical aspects in the development of a young person comes when an older individual provides a model on how to grow and be successful. While parents set the standard for influencing their daughters and sons, coaches can have an enormous impact on how student-athletes LARRY perceive themLARSON selves, how hard they want to work to get better and how they make adjustments when things go right or wrong. This week, the high school student-athletes writing in my summer series detail the qualities they like best in their coaches. Napoleon Bell, Hartley, football and wrestling: “I like a coach whose top goals are not only the success of the team but also are geared towards the betterment of the athletes and people around him.” Morgan Ransom, Columbus Academy, golf: “I love having a coach who wants what is best for me and is willing to push me to be the best. It is also important that a coach is there for you on a bad day.” Mary Wells, Westerville Central, bowling: “To me, the key things for being a successful coach is knowledge of the sport and being patient with the athlete.” Michela Paradiso, Upper Arlington, soccer and basketball: “I like an intense coach who coaches me to improve every day and who knows the potential of his or her players and refuses to let them fall short.” Jimmy Gammill, New Albany, football: “I like coaches who have a sense of humor and who are relaxed, but at the same time with that coach, you know you can’t slack off and always have to work hard.” Jake Blankenship, Gahanna, pole vault: “What is important to me is that a coach has experience in pole vaulting and has had multiple different inputs from other coaches and how to be successful in vaulting.” Austin Cuervo, St. Charles, golf: “I like a coach that is laid back and easy going, but is always confident in their team and always wants to compete at the highest level of play.” Chase Delande, Hilliard Davidson, football and wrestling: “What is important to me is that a coach is willing to get you to be the best and puts time into your effort. Also, I like coaches who will help you prepare for the next level of your sport.” Faith Washington, Reynoldsburg, track: “I like to see motivation and sometimes frustration from a coach because it shows that they care about their athletes and want to bring out the best in them.” Next week, the student-athletes will write about one of the vital crossroads in their careers: how to handle defeat and disappointment. I’ll see you at a game.
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Northridge junior football players Devin Moore (left) and Levi Hatfield separate the paper and plastic from DVD holders on July 12 as part of a program in which athletes sorted recyclables to earn money to offset the $500 pay-to-participate fee.
Working in a muggy warehouse was not what Kyle Lambright had in mind for portions of his summer break. But the junior at Northridge High School was one of 28 prospective athletes sorting recyclables to help earn money toward pay-to-participation fees for the fall sports season. “(Sorting recyclables) is actually a little harder than I thought it would be,” said Lambright, a wide receiver and defensive back on the football team. “It also can be a little boring doing the same thing over and over, but it’s helping us so we can play sports this fall.” The student-athletes and adult volunteers were sorting items for SBC Recycling at a warehouse off Commerce Drive, north of Johnstown. “We had 28 (on July 11) and about that many (on July 12) and we probably sorted enough in the two days for the (pay-to-participate) fees for four athletes,” said Wayne Howard, Northridge athletics director and president of the school’s athletics boosters. “We did pretty well once we got over the confusion of what goes in what bin.” When a 1 percent income tax levy was voted down on May 3, the school board said that all extracurricular activities would be eliminated to allow the district to balance its budget. But on May 23, the boosters proposed a plan to pay for athletics through payto-participate fees and donations. The fee to participate in high school will be $500 per athlete, up from $125 in the 2010-11
school year. Middle school athletes will pay $250, up from $50 the past school year. “We get to be a team and we are working together to earn money to pay for pay-to-participate fees,” said Kyle Wilbur, a junior wide receiver and defensive back. “It’s not just helping (the football team) but other (athletes) as well. It shows people how much we want to play when we come here to work.” The Vikings have six fall sports: cheerleading, cross country, football, boys golf, boys soccer and girls volleyball. Howard said the approximate number of athletes needed to ensure sufficient funds are 45 for football, 25 for soccer, 23 for volleyball and 12 for golf. Cross country would need a combined 24, or 12 each for the boys and girls teams. Cheerleading also would need 24 participants. “Volleyball looks good, football looks good, golf looks good and cheerleading looks good, but I am concerned about cross country, but it should be OK. We’re having a little more difficulty with soccer,” Howard said. Soccer coach Abby Skoda resigned to become an assistant coach at Bluffton but still organized a soccer camp for students on July 12 at the high school. She also will work toward her master’s degree at Bluffton. Her departure has left Northridge without a coach and limited the recruiting of players for the program. “You can’t fault Abby for following her dream to coach in college and earn her master’s,” Howard said. “We’re still looking for someone to coach the See NORTHRIDGE, page A8
Top Individual Performances: No. 5
Backes powered Golden Bears to state title By PATRICK DOLAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers
In the days leading up to the 2000 Division I state championship game between the Upper Arlington High School football team and Solon, Golden Bears running back and safety Jeff Backes was named Ohio’s Mr. Football. More than 10 years later, Backes admits that he felt some additional pressure to play well because of the award. However, he didn’t let the pressure get the best of him as he rushed for 183 yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries and preserved a 15-9 victory on Dec. 2, 2000, at Fawcett Stadium in Canton with an interception with less than a minute remaining. UA finished 15-0 and became the first central Ohio team to win the big-school state title since the inception of the playoffs in 1972. “No other Mr. Football (honorees) had won the state championship, so in a way there was some added pressure,” said Backes, a 2001 UA graduate who went on to play for Northwestern University. “But I was confident in
testament to his toughness because he rose to that challenge. “It was a tremendous performance on his part. He had a great supporting cast, but nonetheless it was a great performance. Any time you rush for 180 yards in a Division I state championship game, I think that’s a superior performance.” Backes, who was 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds in his senior season at UA, opened the scoring in the championship game with a 15yard touchdown run with 8 minutes, 23 seconds left in the first quarter. The two-point conversion gave UA an 8-0 lead. On the touchdown run, Backes took the handoff from quarterback Brian Ramey on a draw play and broke a tackle by Solon safety Steve Watson at the 5-yard line. Solon, which finished 14-1, The Columbus Dispatch file photo reached the end zone in the second quarter but failed to convert Jeff Backes, who was named Mr. Football the week of the 2000 Division I state final, rushed for the two-point conversion and 183 yards and had a game-saving interception in a 15-9 win over Solon. trailed 8-6 at halftime. The my teammates and my own abil- nouncement to have been made a big game like that,” said Mayne, Comets got the ball to start the ities.” after the championship game. who coached the Bears from second half but went three-andDarrell Mayne, who was UA’s “As a coach, you don’t want 1998-2004. “That just adds to the out, and the ensuing punt gave coach at the time, would have one of your (players) to have that adrenaline flow of the opponent. See BACKES, page A8 preferred the Mr. Football an- honor bestowed on them before But what Jeff did that game is a
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Continued from page A7 UA the ball on its own 38. On the Bears’ first offensive play of the second half, Backes took the handoff from Ramey and ran to the right behind left tackle Simon Fraser and left guard Matt Lisi, both of whom pulled on the play. Backes got to the outside and outraced Solon linebacker Marc Leighton and Comets cornerbacks J.T. Staiger and Justin Bitner down the right side to the end zone for a 62-yard touchdown. The extra point by John Tarpy gave UA a 15-6 lead with 10:53 left in the third quarter. “It was a beautiful lead block by Simon Fraser, and Jeff popped it and went down the sideline,” Mayne said. “They weren’t going to catch him.” “Two linemen were pulling on the play,” Backes said. “We had an athletic line, which allowed us to do a lot of counter plays. (The linemen) made their blocks, and it turned into a footrace (to the end zone).” Solon cut the deficit to 15-9 on a 36-yard field goal by Tim Echan with 4:18 left in the third quarter but wouldn’t cross into Bears territory again until its final possession, which started from its own 30 with 1:40 remaining in the game. The Comets needed just five plays to reach the UA 22. Then, after an incomplete pass on first down, Solon quarterback Jay Price tried to hit running back
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downs on 19 carries. 9. LATOYA TURNER, Pickerington girls basketball (March 19, 1999) — The 6-foot-4 senior helped the Tigers advance to the Division I state final with her 29-point performance in a 5135 win over Wadsworth. The Ohio State recruit made 12 of 14 shots from the floor and was 5-for-6 from the freethrow line while adding five rebounds, four steals and two assists. 8. DARCY FISHBACK, Upper Arlington girls swimming (Feb. 27-28, 2009) — During preliminaries Feb. 27, Fishback broke the state record in the 100-yard butterfly when she finished in 53.38 seconds. She won her fourth state title in the event the next day in 54.17 seconds. Fishback also swam on two state-record relays, the 200 medley (1:43.59) and the 200 freestyle (1:34.24). 7. CHARLES JOHNSON, Watkins Memorial boys basketball (Feb. 24,
NOS. 6-10: 10. MAURICE HALL, Brookhaven football (Oct. 27, 2000) — During a season in which he rushed for 3,057 yards to rank fifth on Ohio’s all-time list, Hall’s most memorable individual performance came during the final week of the regular season. The Bearcats beat Briggs 75-16 as Hall rushed for 411 yards and eight touch-
Scott Greenberg, who had lined up as a receiver, down the middle of the field in the end zone. However, Backes stepped in front of Greenberg and intercepted the pass at the goal line, returning the ball to the UA 11 with 46 seconds left. “They were in a four-receiver set and were trying to stretch the field and get one of the seams,” Mayne said. “The quarterback put a little bit of a loft on the ball and right away I thought, ‘Man, I think Jeff will pick this off.’ Of course, he did, and he had the presence of mind to not try to be a hero and try to return it (for a touchdown).” “Someone turned to me in the huddle and said, ‘Make a play, Jeff,’” Backes said, “and a couple plays later, I made a read on the ball and the rest is history.”
1995) — There have been few more surprising performances than what this 5-8 senior guard accomplished in leading the Warriors to a 93-87 overtime upset of second-seeded and stateranked London in the second round of the Division II district tournament. Watkins Memorial was just 1-19 entering the matchup but got 57 points from Johnson, who made 19 of 34 from floor, including eight 3-pointers, and was 11-for-15 from the free-throw line. He added eight rebounds, six steals and five assists. 6. KHALILAH CARPENTER, Brookhaven girls track and field (June 2-3, 2000) — At the 2000 Division I state meet, the junior broke the meet and state records in the 100 meters with a time of 11.59 seconds on June 2. The next day, she won the 100 in 11.71 and the 200 title in 23.69, a time that lowered the state mark she already held.
UA’s offense came onto the field and, after two kneel-downs by Ramey, the game was over and the celebration began. “After Jeff scored (in the third quarter), from that point on, both sides couldn’t move the ball,” said Ramey, also a 2001 UA graduate. “Then, all of a sudden, (the Comets) go to the no-huddle offense and start moving the ball. You start to get nervous, but then out of nowhere (Backes) makes the interception. It was pandemonium on the sidelines.” During the postgame celebration, a UA fan held a sign that read, “Backes is God.” “He’s been telling us all year that the offensive line is his savior,” Lisi said after the game. “Tonight ... he was our savior.” Backes finished the 2000 season with a then-state record 3,353
yards rushing and 44 touchdowns. According to the OHSAA, he now ranks third in state history in rushing yards in a season, behind Bedford Chanel’s Tony Franklin (3,439) and Williamsburg’s Jason Bainum (3,386), both of whom surpassed his total in 2001. “He just continued to produce over and over again,” Ramey said of Backes. “It’s pretty amazing what he did (in the championship game).” Backes now is 28 years old and a third-year medical resident in orthopedic surgery at Mount Carmel West. He and his wife, Marissa, have two daughters — Leighton, 23 months, and Brooklyn, 7 months. pdolan@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
BASEBALL real well again. The other team took advantage of our three errors and we only had four hits, so we didn’t deserve to win that game.” The Cobras are 35-6 heading into the Pastime Best of the Midwest Tournament at Wright State and the University of Dayton on Thursday, July 14. •The Ohio Elite 17-and-under team finished 2-1-1 in the 18-and-under division. Ohio Elite opened the tournament with a 5-1 win over the Ohio Orioles Black before losing to North Canton 3-2. “It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get it done against North Canton, but that’s the nature of tournament play,” coach Chris Huesman said. “You have to win them to move on. We didn’t get that done.” Ohio Elite rebounded to beat the JBR
Continued from page A7 Gahanna graduate Josh Bokor, who recently completed his freshman season at Ohio State, singled to score Johnson with the winning run. Teller’s two-run double helped Steve’s Sports take a 3-0 lead in the fourth. Grove City graduate T.J. DeVore’s pinchhit triple in the sixth scored Johnson and closed the Cobras to 3-2. Russ Hogue earned the win in relief. He then pitched a complete game against the Lookouts. “We were flat all day, even the first game, and then we put it together at the end,” Cobras coach Harry Huskey said. “We got our emotional high and then we sit around for 45 minutes and we came out and didn’t play
Rays of Green Bay (Wis.) 8-0. Hilliard Davidson’s Mike Scaglione allowed two hits, struck out five and walked one in a complete-game effort. Ohio Elite and the Columbus Cobras 17and-under team were tied at 10 on July 9 at Granville when the game was suspended because of darkness. Ohio Elite opted not to return to Granville on July 10 to complete the game in the silver championship bracket. Other champions were the Stark County Terriers in the 18-and-under division, the North Georgia Barons in the 16-and-under division and the North Coast Vipers in the 15-and-under division. fdirenna@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
Sports briefs Classes set for volleyball officials
from Monday, July 18, through Aug. 15 at Westerville North High School. Call (614) 901-8495.
Classes are being offered to those interested in becoming a high school volleyball referee. The classes, with instructors Steve and Barb Strome, are scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays
Diebler, Lighty to help direct camp Former Ohio State basketball players
July 17, 2011
Jon Diebler and David Lighty will help direct the fourth annual Buckeye Stars Basketball Camp from 9 a.m. to noon July 2729 at Worthington Kilbourne High School. The camp is open to boys and girls ages 7 to 18. Visit www.BuckeyeStars.com or call (888) 389-2267.
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tic and other materials such as cellophane,” Roberts said. “At first it was trial and error when we were separating things because it was the first time we had done it. “We found out one plastic case is different from another and one can be recycled and one can’t. We have been sorting them into boxes and if one piece is in there that shouldn’t be, we lose credit for the entire container. That’s what takes more time is making sure we don’t make any mistakes.” Roberts has an all-volunteer staff, none of whom are teachers. They include offensive coordinator Dallas Williams, defensive coordinator Rob Ballinger, Jamie Barker, Jeff Dingess, David Hinerman, Ron Hossler, Justin Kibler, Adam Mooney, Eric Potts, Tony Stanley and Keith Straight. Lambright is happy to have the chance to still play football. “I think (sorting recyclables) is a team-building experience as much as it’s helping us with our pay-to-participate fees,” Lambright said. “We get to see the results of hard work. It’s not like we just show up and be on a team for that. We have to work just to play.”
team.” Rebecca Brechbill, the assistant cross country coach last season, will not move up to become head coach this fall. Brechbill, a physical education teacher, was reassigned to Alexandria Elementary and believed it would be difficult for her to coach at the high school. The cross country program will be led by Jennifer Ulery, a middle school teacher with the district. “I have to make a decision in the next (week) or so about whether we will have soccer,” Howard said. “The board of education (wanted) me to give them numbers for each sport on (July) 15, but that still will be kind of a guess. There’s no way I can have figures chiseled in stone at that time. “I would say we have 42 kids saying they are committed to football, but kids still can say they are going to play a sport and we really can’t count them until they pay their fees and those aren’t due until Aug. 1.” Football coach Tom Roberts helped sort recyclables July 1113. He said sorting became quicker once everyone learned what shennen@thisweeknews.com items went in each bin. “We separate paper and plas- www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com
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PATASKALA RECREATION ASSOCIATION (PRA) FALL SOCCER REGISTRATION is taking place now through August 1st. On site registration will be held Sat, July 23rd from 10am-2pm at the Foundation Park Soccer Field Garage. Cost is $60 per player, $180 maximum per family. Jerseys are $20 & players may wear the City reversible jerseys.Visit pataskalarecreation.org to download a form and read frequently asked questions or email prasoccer@yahoo.com. ThisWeekSPORTS.com
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