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January 23, 2014
At 95, Marsh still a devoted public servant By LORI WINCE THISWEEKNEWS.COM
Coach Mike Fenster talks to players on his Ohio Sled Hockey team, the Ohio Blades, during a practice Friday, Jan. 10, at the Dublin Chiller. Fenster’s wife, Kelly, is general manager of the organization, and his son, Michael, 14, played on the Blades junior team that competed last weekend in the 11th annual Aladdin Invitational Sled Hockey Tournament at the OhioHealth Ice Haus in the Arena District. BARBARA J. PERENIC/THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Sled hockey emphasizes players’ abilities
By LORI WINCE THISWEEKNEWS.COM
Junior hockey players from all over Ohio and beyond took the ice last weekend in Columbus, but they didn’t use skates. The young athletes were participants in the 11th annual Aladdin Invitational Sled Hockey Tournament Jan. 18-19 at the OhioHealth Ice Haus in the Arena District. Sled hockey was developed for young athletes with disabilities that prevent them from skating. Players sit in bucket seats attached to sleds with skate blades. Most standard hockey rules apply to the game. For example, five players and a goalie are allowed on the ice for each team, and penalties are enforced. The biggest difference is that players do not use a single hockey stick. Instead, they use the butts of two shortened hockey sticks to propel themselves across the ice and shoot a puck. Last weekend’s tournament, sponsored by the Aladdin Shrine Hospital, featured teams from Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland as well as two teams from
Michael Fenster lines up a shot during the Aladdin Invitational Sled Hockey Tournament Jan. 18 at the OhioHealth Ice Haus in the Arena District. RYAN M.L. YOUNG/THISWEEKNEWS
Pennsylvania and one from Michigan. Ohio Sled Hockey, a nonprofit organiSled hockey tournaments have two zation that supports the junior hockey divisions divided by skill level, according to Kelly Fenster, general manager of SLED HOCKEY >> A9
tional knowledge about the community,” said Bill Ebbing, president of the New Albany Co., Glyde Marsh is entering his the area’s largest developer. “The quality of advice and seventh term on New Albany City Council as one of the old- the information he brings is est elected officials in the state. priceless,” said Dave Olmstead, He joked he is “still foolish who served on City Council enough to run for office” at age with Marsh from 2004 to 2007 and took office as a PlainTown95. “I continue to serve prima- ship trustee in 2009. “He rily because I have the charac- remembers what we did years teristic of concern about the ago and why we did it, and there’s real value in future,” Marsh said. that community “I see things that need memory.” to be done and need Marsh, who was attention in the future, born in 1918, is a and I want to influnative of northern ence what happens.” Ohio. He arrived in Marsh is being NewAlbany in 1946 recognized at 1:30 after serving four p.m. Feb. 12 by the years in the U.S. Ohio House of RepArmy. resentatives for his Glyde Marsh He came with his service. “I wanted to recognize Dr. wife, Margaret, whom he met Marsh for his commitment to while she was coordinating a the community and his dedica- dance for the USO. They were tion to public service after all married 53 years until Margaret these years,” said state Rep. died of cancer in 1995. Marsh said he enrolled in Anne Gonzales (R-Westerville). “I look forward to his visit to medical school at the Ohio State the House of Representatives, University after leaving the milwhere he can be publicly rec- itary. Having grown up on a farm, ognized for his exceptional devotion to the people of New Marsh said, he knew chickens would help put him through Albany.” Gonzales’staff checked with school, so he and Margaret the Ohio Legislative Service bought 3,400 hens and started Commission to determine if delivering eggs to three groMarsh is the oldest elected offi- ceries and several homes in cial in the state. Her aide, Columbus and Sunbury. Though the original 45-byChristopher Corder, said the commission did not know of 45-foot henhouse is gone, Marsh anyone older than Marsh cur- continues to raise chickens on his property in a smaller setting rently in office. Marsh might not walk as and regularly gives eggs to quickly as he once did, but he friends and colleagues. Marsh said he eventually rarely misses a New Albany City Council meeting, and changed from the study of medeveryone who knows him says icine to veterinary school at his memory is a strong asset to Ohio State and ended up teaching at his alma mater, where he the community. “All of us respect his intel- retired in 1985 as a professor lect, his love for the community and we rely on his instituMARSH >> A3
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