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August 4, 2011

City scales back Main Street project Limited grant money removes Second Street from planned improvements

By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community Newspapers New Albany’s planned improvements to Main Street and Second Street have changed as a result of the amount of state grants awarded to the city for the project.

The resurfacing of Second Street was removed from the project “because of our inability to get funded at the original amount through OPWC (the Ohio Public Works Commission),” city manager Joseph Stefanov said.

The project originally included East Main Street from High Street to Second Street and the resurfacing of Second Street using environmentally friendly initiatives. Stefanov said the city was approved for only $349,495 in grants and loans through the OPWC, which caused the city to reconsider the work on Second Street. The total project cost now is $844,190.

New Albany City Council was expected Aug. 2 to consider a resolution to accept the funds from OPWC. To read about the meeting, visit ThisWeek-

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The improvements to East Main Street will extend from Eagles Villa Pizza north to the curve in Johnstown Road near the intersection of Third Street. Stefanov said this is the fourth phase in a fivephase project to improve the city’s historic center, adding street trees and sidewalks, new lighting and improved stormwater systems.

“The stormwater system is going to be a combination of traditional stormwater management,” Stefanov said. “We actually have some stormwater pipes al-

ready in ground that will accommodate a lot of the storm water in terms of quantity. In terms of quality, we are going to be incorporating some devices into the system and also looking at some other alternative drainage infrastructure available for the adjacent property outside of the right of way if and when it would ever redevelop.”

There is vacant land in the area, southwest of the New Albany Exchange, and some smaller parcels along Johnstown Road that currently are being used as residences and businesses.

“Anything on either side of Johnstown Road that could tie into the water-quality infrastructure helps reduce the amount of on-site water-quality area that we are required to have,” Stefanov said.

He said the city is looking at sidewalks that could have semi-permeable beds beneath them that would filter pollutants from the water before it reached the stormwater drains. Mechanical devices to filter the water are also a possibility.

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Lightning storm sparks concern over ungrounded gas lines

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Nine-year-old Mackenzie Hall (left) and 10-year-old Lucy Samson, who both swim for the Plain Township Gators, play hand games prior to heading to the bullpen at the GCSL 2011 championships July 26 at the Plain Township Aquatic Center. For photos and a story, see Sports, page B1.

Sonoco Plastics

Local tax break could secure new business

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A closer look

New Albany City Council on Aug. 2 considered tax incentives to help persuade Sonoco Plastics to build a 120,000-square-foot production facility on 10 acres in the city’s personal care and beauty campus.

The project would have “a capital investment of approximately $14.6 million,” according to council’s legislative report, and would “create 60 new employees with an annual payroll of approximately $2.1 million.”

Jennifer Chrysler, the city’s community development director, said the project would generate $42,000 a year for New Albany in incometax revenue.

New Albany community development director Jennifer Chrysler said Sonoco Plastics is eligible for a 100-percent abatement on real property taxes for 7 to 10 years.

Sonoco is a company that has been in business for over a century,” she said. “This company has a reputation for innovation and quality. They are a great addition to the New Albany business park and, specifically, the personal care and beauty campus.”

Council was expected to vote Aug. 2 to au-

thorize the city manager to sign an agreement with the company for tax incentives. Visit ThisWeekNews.com for details of council’s vote.

Chrysler said the company is eligible for a 100-percent abatement on real property taxes for seven to 10 years. The length of the abatement would depend on how the building is constructed. Chrysler said the personal care and beauty campus encourages companies to use environmentally friendly technology. The city has developed a program called Environmental Criteria and Opportunity for Sustainability (ECOS), which gives companies in business park east credit for environmentally friendly construction.

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Annual Taste of New Albany slated Aug. 14

By LORI WINCE McCormick & Schmick’s, Mezzo, ThisWeek Community Newspapers the New Albany Country Club, New Albany Gardens and Care Center, This year’s Taste of New Albany New Albany Links, Rooster’s, Rusty features 25 restaurants and cater- Bucket, Sam’s Club, Smoothie King and Sunny Street Café. ers showcasing specialty foods.

Each vendor brings a few differThe event begins at 5 p.m. Aug. 14 and will feature: Asian Gourmet ent dishes for people to taste, every& Sushi Bar, Bon Vie Bistro, Can- thing from appetizers to main dishtina Laredo, Cherry Valley Lodge, es and desserts.

“Each one of the restaurants will City Barbeque, Costco, Creekside Conference and Event Center, John- have a different menu or multi-menu son’s Ice Cream, Laura’s Catering, items with small taste servings,”

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said event chair Andee Swartz. “We have 25 restaurants participating this year and you could never eat all of the food.”

In addition to different foods, the Taste of New Albany also offers information about local businesses, such as Furniture Physicians, Ohio Family and Sports Chiropractic, T. Bears Florist and Chocolatier, Telhio Credit Union, Wayside Flowers and Windsong Massage and Therapies.

One of the biggest changes this year is the music. Swartz said the Tim Cummiskey Jazz Ensemble would perform throughout the event.

The band will set up by the New Albany library branch at Market Square.

Ticketed seating under tents will be nearby but Swartz said people don’t have to be part of the reserved seating. Anyone can buy a tasting

Five electrical surges in New Albany Links subdivision homes the weekend of July 23-24 have raised some issues about improperly grounded gas lines.

“Plain Township firefighters responded to 17 calls in an eight-hour period over the July 23 weekend due to summer lightning storms,” said Terry Guthrie, the township’s fire marshal. “Five of those calls were of particular interest, as it appears that lightning-induced electrical surges had traveled through the gas line.”

Only one of the five homes had a fire.

“They got very lucky,” Guthrie said.

The home’s gas lines, which are made from corrugated stainless steel tubing, were used to save on the cost of gas-line installation of homes built in 2004 and 2005, Guthrie said.

He said the state building standards at the time did not require the gas lines to be electrically bonded to the home’s electric system, thus grounding the entire system. The Ohio building code was changed in 2006 after the new International Fuel Gas Code was adopted. State codes often use international codes and standards.

Though the building standards were changed in 2006, Guthrie said, some homeowners might not know what type of gas lines they have.

“We can’t prevent lightning strikes but we can take steps to check their homes,” he said.

When lightning hits a gas line, electricity surges through the line, rupturing it at the ground inside the house. A rupture in the line usually creates a hole about the size of a piece of pencil lead.

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Council meeting

City planning demolition at five properties

By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community Newspapers New Albany City Council was scheduled to appropriate $75,000 during its Aug. 2 regular council meeting for demolition projects at five cityowned properties.

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City manager Joseph Stefanov said three of the properties are at the intersection of Central College Road, Kitzmiller Road and U.S. Route 62 (Johnstown Road). The former Zeros Pizza and the two houses next to it will be torn down later this year to improve visibility at the intersection.

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Licking County voters

Conservation district levy to appear on Nov. 8 ballot Licking County voters in November will decide on a 0.1-mill operating levy request by the Licking County Soil and Water Conservation District.

County commissioners passed a resolution July 28 to place the five-year levy on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Conservation district officials anticipate the levy would generate about $370,000 per year.

It would cost property owners $3.06 per year for every $100,000 of assessed valuation, according to the county auditor’s office.

Officials say the levy is necessary to support the conservation district’s programs and services, which have been reduced because of decreases in state and county funding. Additional reductions in funding are expected as a result of cuts in the state’s Local Government Fund over the next two years.

Jim Kiracofe, program administrator for the conservation district, said the county cannot adequately fund all its discretionary agencies unless additional sources of revenue are utilized.

“It doesn’t look good for us long-term unless we can find other sources of revenue,” Kiracofe said.

He said the conservation district also would search for grants to fund programs.

The conservation district “is really about making sure soil and water resources remain sustainable for future generations,” Kiracofe said.

“Without a local presence of well-trained people, it would be very easy to slip backward.”

The mission of the conservation district is “to promote conservation of natural resources through local leadership, education and technical assistance,” according to its website.

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DEMOLITION Continued from page A1 “It will have a pretty significant impact on the streetscape,” Stefanov said.

The city already installed a traffic signal at the intersection and prevented some turns to improve what used to be called “five corners.” Stefanov said by taking a business away from the corner, the city would be able to “reduce the potential traffic conflicts that existed when the pizza shop was open.”

It should “resolve the remaining traffic issues there,” he said.

Stefanov said the city could also consider installing signage at the entrance to the city so motorists would know they are entering New Albany.

The other two houses slated for demolition are on Kitzmiller Road, near a wetlands park created when Abercrombie & Fitch came to New Albany. Stefanov said the land to be added to the park was acquired with grant funds.

He said he hopes the demolitions projects are completed by September.

Council had several other items on its Aug. 2 agenda that originally were on the agenda for the July 19 meeting, which was canceled for lack of a quorum. Council was expected to: • Vote on a supplemental appropriation to accept insurance funds of up to $8,000 to allow the city to purchase another police dog. The police department is looking at a 1-year-old Belgian

Malinois to replace Bungee, the department’s first canine officer, who was killed in a May 25 accident.

• Vote on a resolution to allow a liquor permit previously contested by the city to be used by a potential new business at 9765 Johnstown Road. The permit is held by Domingos Tios LLC, which operated both Don Patron Mexican Restaurant and Three Amigos at the site. Both of those operations ran into problems with the New Albany Police Department, which made several arrests while they were in business.

• Vote on legislation to allow truck fleet parking on alternate sites for companies in the business campuses. Council heard first reading of the legislation in July.

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MAIN STREET Continued from page A1 Stefanov said the fifth phase of the street improvements was planned to the north on High Street, near the entrance of the Windsor subdivision. But, he said, the city might need to consider going farther north because of develop-

ment in that area and add another phase to the project. Similarly, on Johnstown Road, the street improvements may need to extend farther north.

“We’re trying to get additional grant money and loans to leverage our local dollars and continue to renovate the original historic village center,” Stefanov said.

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Board approves bus route for St. Matthew students

By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community Newspapers Parents of St. Matthew Catholic School students who live in the New Albany-Plain Local School District will have access to school bus transportation for their children, though it is different from what they had expected.

The school board approved the bus routes for the 2011-12 school year at its regular meeting July 25. The approved routes include transportation for some students attending schools outside New Albany.

Ken Stark, director of operations, said

the district is required to provide transportation for children who attend schools outside the district. He said if the board declares it to be impractical to bus students to another school, the district could pay parents a fee in lieu of providing transportation. But, he said, that fee doesn’t pay for very many trips.

“Last year, I think the state set $195 per kid for the school year,” Stark said.

During the June 22 school board meeting, three St. Matthew parents complained about their bus route potentially being eliminated. Stark said prior to the July 25 meeting that the district has found a way to offer transportation to

the St. Matthew students, by combining their route with another trip to Marburn Academy.

“It is a longer route,” Stark said.

More than 15 students are eligible to ride the bus to St. Matthew, but Stark said there often are not that many riders. By combining those riders with the Marburn students, the bus will have more students. He said six to eight students typically ride to Marburn Academy.

The St. Matthew parents were split on the issue last week.

Amy Golian of Whyte House Lane said she was pleased the district found

an innovative way to provide another bus route.

Teresa Parker of Aspinwall South said the St. Matthew students will have to be picked up earlier and she still thinks the district is not using its money wisely for transportation.

Parker said the district saves an estimated $10,000 per student for each of her four students who do not attend New Albany schools. District officials previously have estimated the cost to educate one child in the district as $11,400.

Parker also said she doesn’t like that some New Albany teachers and other workers can send their children to New

Albany schools with free tuition, even if they do not live in the district.

That arrangement was part of a previous agreement with the teachers union that was passed prior to 2008 and does not apply to all staff, Stark said. He said the arrangement once was used as a recruiting tool but is no longer part of union contracts.

Stark said the St. Matthew bus route would remain in place this school year but he could not guarantee that it would be possible to continue next year. lwince@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

College notes • Andrea E. Ebeling and Brent A. Hillenbrand, both of New Albany, were named to the spring 2011 dean’s list at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. To be eligible for the list, students must earn at least a 3.4 grade-point average.

• Lauran Young of New Albany was named to the spring 2011 dean’s list at the University of Findlay.

She is a psychology major.

To be eligible for the list, students must earn at least a 3.5 GPA. Young earned a 4.0.

• New Albany residents Dominic Cocco and Holly Marth were among the spring 2011 graduates at the University of Cincinnati.

• The University of Cincinnati has announced its spring 2011 dean’s list.

New Albany residents named to the

dean’s list were Madeline Adams, Jenelle Bortz, Allison Eaton, Miranda Granche, Holly Marth, Raleigh Pierson, Joseph Radloff, Lane Rudolph, Kevin Smith, Teresa Smith and Lauren Sural.

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its spring 2011 dean’s list.

New Albany residents named to the dean’s list were Jillian Bowers, Kevin Brand, Chad Call, Alexander Damico, Allison Holehouse, Emily Puleri, Maighdlin Shumaker and Benjamin Trimbur.

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Early ‘lady journalist’ was a newsroom-savvy editor There are still a few places in American life where all of the work is done by people of one gender — modeling men’s or women’s clothing comes to mind — but there are not many. Most of the professions, trades and occupations in our society are practiced by women as well as men.

This is not to say that women are always treated the same in these lines of work. It is not too hard to find professions where women are still paid less than men. Why that might be the case, I will leave to writers about the current scene considerably wiser than I. Suffice to say, 100 years ago there were not all that many women working in the skilled professions outside the home.

One of them was Elise Fitch Hinman. And while one might make the case that the kind of work she did was still in the throes of becoming a profession, no one ever said that Elise Fitch Hinman was not very good at what she did.

And what she did was write professionally for a local newspaper in Columbus.

To appreciate how remarkable this was at the time, we should probably take a quick look at the “newspaper trade” of a century ago.

At the turn of the twentieth century, there was no radio, no television and the movies were still machines vaguely resembling an ATM into which one put a nickel to see flickering images of people doing presumably interesting things. Hence the name, nickelodeon.

Most people got most of their news from newspapers. In Columbus in 1900, there were several to choose from. The town of more than 125,000 people had several daily papers and a number of weeklies as well. Most papers in that era professed a pronounced political viewpoint — in their news pages as well as their editorials.

The Ohio State Journal was the official voice of the Ohio Republican Party. For many years, the old Ohio Statesman had done the same thing for the Democrats. It was gone by 1900. By that time, what would become the Columbus Press-Post was trying to be the Democratic paper. In the midst of these partisan struggles were, among other papers, the Columbus Dispatch and the Columbus Citizen.

The newspaper trade was a tough business. Whole bundles of newspaper to be sold on one corner or another were sometimes stolen. Paperboys from one paper often literally fought for a lucrative corner with paper boys from another paper. And reporters — a rather hard-living crew — sometimes fought with their rivals from other papers with fists rather than words.

The high point, or low point, depending on one’s point of view,

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of these conflicts had come in 1888 when the two Elliot brothers marched up High Street from the office ED of their newsLENTZ paper and shot dead the editor of a competing paper in broad daylight. The brothers went to jail, but the incident reminded people just how seriously newspaper people took their jobs.

Into the midst of all of this came Elise Fitch Hinman. Born in 1863, Elise Hinman was almost 35 in 1898. Educated, literate and frankly a bit bored, she came from an old Columbus family and was looking for something to do. In 1898, she found it. Writing in 1911, she remembered her early career.

“In the autumn of 1898, it became evident that a woman editor was needed on the staff of the Ohio State Journal, and the writer was invited to take that responsible position, with duties of the most varied description including many which have since been specialized into separate departments. Having the usual feminine distaste for monotony, I had no complaint to make of assignments which covered art exhibitions, concerts, lectures…and all organizations for the women, of the women, by the women, for the women.

“The Federation of Women’s Clubs moved upon Ohio just then, and a skillful and never tiring promoter of that body lived in Columbus, who cajoled, coerced and compelled nearly every woman who could read and write into clubs of one sort or another, all of whose meetings must be announced aforehand and praised afterwards.

“A very successful feature of

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Elise Fitch Hinman, circa 1911.

the woman’s page was a daily menu, compiled from recipes signed by well-known Columbus women; a daily fashion plate appeared (against the remonstrance of this particular woman, who thought it beneath the dignity of the Journal). Also, for some inscrutable reason, marriage licenses and burial permits were printed in her department.

“Mr. Mosgrove was the editor under whom I worked, and I extend many thanks for his clear intent and definite directions as to newspaper technicalities…”

Ms. Hinman went on to describe her days in the newsroom.

“Newspaper work taught me how to boil down and condense in a way that has proved invaluable when I have been asked to aid in correcting and revising a manuscript for publication.

“Never have I forgotten the constant injunction, ‘Be brief, be brief, and evermore be brief.’And my natural feminine tendency to carefully conceal the meaning under many words has been effectively curbed.

“As the only woman in the office, I learned to sharpen my own pencils, to suppress sarcasm, to cultivate humor, to dress with neatness and severity, to omit slang from my vocabulary and not to mind tobacco smoke.

“Thus may one command the trust and confidence of one’s fellow-workers of the sterner sex.”

Elise Fitch Hinman in her time was one of the best known women in Columbus. When she died in 1921, she was remembered in a publication of her alma mater, Ohio State University.

“HINMAN, Elise Fitch Hinman, ex-’82, died at her home in Columbus, December 18, following a short illness. Mrs. Hinman was prominent in many philanthropic orders in Columbus, and was especially active during the years of the war (World War I) when she worked unceasingly with the Junior Red Cross. She was one of the first women students to attend the university.

“Mrs. Hinman leaves no survivors. She is the last of her family, one well-known in the early history and settlement of Columbus. A sister’s death about four years ago left her alone out of a family of three children.”

Elise Fitch Hinman was one of the first woman journalists in the capital city. And she remains one of the best.

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Domine, board eye amended policy for exchange students

By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community Newspapers The New Albany-Plain Local school board is considering a change in the district’s exchange-student policy.

“I would like to amend the prohibition of more than two students per year if we have space in the classes and they meet the strong criteria for placement,” Superintendent April Domine told the board July 25.

Domine was requesting feedback from the school board before formally

proposing a policy change. The board did not vote on any action related to the proposal.

She said the district’s policy already has strong guidelines on accepting exchange students, requiring the district to work with the highest-quality providers and requiring the students to have strong skills.

But the policy only allows the district to accept two exchange students per year.

Domine said to effectively expose local students to peers from other coun-

ANNUAL EVENT Continued from page A1 ticket Aug. 14 and feel free to wander from booth to booth.

“Every year, we try to get all the new local restaurants involved so they can get their name out there and the general style of food,” Swartz said.

She said the Taste of New Albany also provides catering services with a venue to show off what they can do.

“It’s a perfect time of year for people to showcase catering menus before the holidays,” she said.

The event features a cash bar with Lander Jenkins chardonnay and Enrique Foster “Ique Malbec” merlot from Argentina, the New Albany Country Club’s Pilsner draft beer, soft drinks and water.

Swartz said because August is usually warm, the event also features a sangria bar this year.

“It’s a summer, cool fruity kind of drink,” she said.

Tickets are $35 each or 10 for

tries, the district must change that policy.

“To truly have an impact, we need to add as many international students as possible,” she said.

If the number is determined annually by space considerations, Domine said, the district could accept 10 students this school year.

Board member Natalie Matt said she is not opposed to changing the policy “as long as there is the ability to screen the applicants and it does not put a strain on the classes.”

Board member Michael Klein said he has a good perspective on exchange students, since his family hosted more than 20 students during his childhood.

He said he has remained friends with many of those students and has traveled to visit them often.

“It profoundly changed my life,” he said.

Klein said meeting students from other countries teaches people to view other cultures differently and provides “an opportunity to enrich the lives of our students.”

Board member Cheri Lehmann asked how increasing the number of exchange students could affect the district’s budget.

Domine said a study from 2010-11 estimated the cost to educate one student as $11,400.

Lehmann said she would be interested in increasing the number of exchange students but probably wouldn’t go up to 10 because of the increased cost. lwince@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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$300. They are available through the New Albany Chamber of Commerce.

Those who want to visit the non-food vendors or listen to music also are welcome to join the celebration at Market Square.

The Taste of New Albany is one of two annual fundraisers that the New Albany Chamber of Commerce holds to support its programming.

It raised $16,000 last year, supporting the chamber’s mission of promoting “business and civic success and a strong local economy.”

Eileen Leuby, the chamber president, said the chamber is a nonprofit organization that holds “monthly networking events and produces community information products and distributes them to residents.”

For information, call (614) 8554400 or visit www.newalbanychamber.com.

Guthrie said gas leaving the line could ignite and cause a fire, usually in the basement or near the first-floor supports. Or, he said, the hole can begin to fill the house with gas.

Guthrie posted on the township’s website last week to alert homeowners to the danger and encourage them to start preventative measures. Those guidelines included: • Having an electrician or the homebuilder check to ensure the “gas meter and associated outside metal piping is bonded to a ground.” Guthrie said grounding may not prevent all lightning surges but it will be a “good first line of defense.”

• Checking all smoke detectors twice a year and practicing an escape plan for the family. In the case of a house filling with gas, the family could stay with a neighbor, but Guthrie said the family needs an alternate plan in case a neighbor isn’t home.

The plan should include provisions for any type of weather.

Families could escape outside, but they might not be able to stay outside in a lightning storm, he said.

• Adding lightning rods to a home. Lightning rods help absorb energy from lightning strikes by harmlessly directing it to ground.

For more detailed plans, visit www.plaintownship.org or contact the Plain Township Fire Department at (614) 855-7370.

The New Albany Links homeowners association is managed

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Chrysler said companies that earn 30 percent of the total credits available are eligible to receive an abatement for seven years.

Companies that earn 45 percent or more of the credits can receive an abatement for 10 years.

Sonoco Plastics was founded in 1899 and manufactures “industrial and consumer products.”

It provides packaging services from 300 locations in 85 countries, according to the information from the state.

The company has another facility in Columbus that supplies packaging for Ross Labs, but the project in New Albany is a new manufacturing facility.

“This project will not negatively impact that (Columbus) facility and will be a complement to the other companies lo-

cating in the personal care and beauty campus,” the legislative report said.

Sonoco already is eligible to receive state incentives if it builds in New Albany. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on July 25 approved a 50-percent, 8-year tax credit on the company’s proposed annual payroll at the site. The incentive, called a job-creation tax credit, is valued at $297,198.

The job-creation tax credit is refundable, which means Sonoco will pay all of its income taxes and be refunded 50 percent annually for the term of the incentive. To receive the credit, the company must agree to maintain operations on site for 11 years, according to information from the state. lwince@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers No house stays pristine for long.

Wood rots. Foundations subside. Paint peels.

Metal rusts. Shingles slide.

Many other unpleasant and potentially expensive things can go wrong with the parts and pieces of a house.

At the half-century mark, even the best-built home is going to show its age and require some tender, loving care.

Because much of the local housing stock falls into that category or is even considerably older, the Columbus Landmarks Foundation has been embarked on a local preservation initiative.

The next in a series of “Old House DIY Workshops 2011” will be held Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Community Properties of Ohio training facility, 933 E. Gay St. For $5, owners of older homes may attend a session from 9 to 11 a.m. to find out how to identify and resolve common maintenance issues. The fee for a session on wood restoration that afternoon from 1 to 5 costs $10. During the latter hands-on workshop, attendees will learn how to stabilize rotted wood, use wood consolidants and epoxies and prepare restored wood for painting.

The workshops, titled “Nuts and Bolts: the Basics of Home Maintenance,” are being put on with funding received from the United Way of Central Ohio and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, according to Columbus Landmarks Foundation executive director Kathy Mast Kane.

“The premise being that if we, as owners, learned to do this routine maintenance and inspection, we prevent major expenses down the road and make home ownership more attractive,” Kane said last week.

Nathalie Wright, a field representative for both the Columbus Landmarks Foundation and National Trust for Historic Preservation, will provide staffing for the initiative.

The term “older homes” is loosely defined, according to Kane, but it generally refers to homes that are approaching 50 or possibly well beyond.

That covers a lot of territory in neighborhoods such as Clintonville and in many of Northland’s

subdivisions, Kane pointed out.

“There are a lot of ranch subdivisions and they are approaching that 50-year mark,” Kane said.

“Maybe the message is for residents in those neighborhoods — they may not be thinking of their homes as ‘older’ but truly, they are approaching a 50th birthday or are just past it.

“It doesn’t have to be a turn-of-the-century home for this to be applicable.”

A home doesn’t necessarily have to be even very old at all, the foundation executive director said.

“The truth of the matter is, I believe these workshops would have pertinent content for owners of any home,” Kane said.

Funding from the United Way and the National Trust helps hold down the costs of putting on the workshops so as many people as possible can and will attend. With luck, Kane said, this will lead to houses getting the attention they need and being preserved because they are well worth the effort.

“I think fundamentally what we know about homes, particularly those that are 50 years or older, they come with great bones in terms of what they were originally constructed with and the craftsmanship that went into them,” Kane said.

The workshops encourage participants, whether tackling repair and restoration projects themselves or hiring someone, to bring that same attention to craftsmanship, rather than just doing something cosmetic, she added.

“It’s kind of demystifying the process and making it more manageable,” Kane said. “And at the same time, through that educational process, people will learn more about the process and more about themselves, so they can learn if it’s something they want to take on themselves or if they want to hire a professional.”

The presentations include pointers on finding the right contractor.

“It’s about getting multiple opinions and bids, and it’s about understanding what you want to have done … that’s in the best interest of your pocketbook and your house,” Kane said.

Space is limited for the Aug. 13 workshops and early registration is encouraged. For more information or to register, call (614) 221-4508 or visit www.columbuslandmarks.org.

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Metro Parks The following is a list of Columbus and Franklin ages 6-12 can take a two-mile hike and look for County Metropolitan Park District programs for critters while wading in Blacklick Creek. this week.

• Preschoolers: Turtles, 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Wednesday at the Ash grove Picnic Area. Learn Battelle-Darby Creek about turtles and take a short walk to see them at Metro Park Ashton Pond.

1775 Darby Creek Drive, Galloway • Brown Bag Special: Cold Bloods, 11:30 Blendon Woods Metro Park a.m. Friday at the naturalist’s office. Meet some 4265 State Route 161 E., Westerville of Ohio’s reptiles and amphibians. Bring lunch.

• Photo Prowl, 9 a.m. Saturday at the Nature • Bison, 10 a.m. Saturday at the naturalist’s Center. Join other photographers and learn about office. Take a two-mile hike and see the park’s photographic techniques. Call (614) 895-6221 resident bison. for more information.

• Bats, 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the naturalist’s • Metro Five-0: Ravine Ramble, 1 p.m. Satoffice. Use a bat detector and learn about the only urday at the Nature Center. Follow Ripple Rock mammal that flies.

Creek on a two-mile, off-trail creek exploration.

• Mammals Display, 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the • Audubon Bird Hike, 9 a.m. Sunday at the naturalist’s office. View a display of items relat- Nature Center. Join Audubon Society members ed to and from Ohio mammals. and search for summer birds.

• Preschoolers: Happy Hoppers, 9:30 or 11 • Preschoolers: Caterpillars and Trams, 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Cedar Ridge Lodge. Discover a.m. or 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Nature Center. Take the life of a grasshopper through story, craft and a tram ride and learn how caterpillars use their song.

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Metro Parks Continued from page A6 fessional storytellers will share funny and heartwarming stories around the campfire. Bring seating.

• Kids in the Woods: Fishing, 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday at the fishing decks for ages 15 and younger.

Catch fish from the pond fishing decks. Limited poles and bait available.

Society of America Central Ohio Unit will answer visitors’ questions.

• Summer Children’s Program: Pollination Nation, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Education Pavilion for ages 8 and younger, accompanied by an adult. Learn about pollination through a variety of activities and learn how pollinators attract birds, bees and other pollinators.

Highbanks Metro Park 9466 U.S. 23 N., Lewis Center Prairie Oaks Metro Park • Brown Bag Special: Geol- 3225 Plain City-Georgesville ogy, noon Wednesday at the NaRoad, West Jefferson ture Center. Learn about the • Mussels Among Us, 2 p.m. park’s geology and take a walk Sunday at the Sycamore Plains in the ravines.

Trail. Take a one-mile hike to Big Darby Creek and search for freshInniswood Metro Gardens water mussels.

940 Hempstead Road, Westerville Three Creeks Park • Sunny Sundays, 1:30-3:30 3860 Bixby Road, Groveport p.m. Sundays at the Herb Garden • Firefly Campfire, 8:30 p.m. entrance. Members of the Herb Friday at the Heritage Nature Cen-

ter, 551 Wirt Road. Learn about these glowing beetles and fetch a container to catch and release them.

Bring seating and food to cook at the campfire.

• Creek Explorations: Blacklick Creek, 4 p.m. Sunday at the Confluence Trails bulletin board.

Use nets to discover the animals that live in the creek.

• Family Ride Night, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Confluence Trails bulletin board. Join the park ranger and take a slowpaced bike ride.

Pickerington Ponds Metro Park 7680 Wright Road, Canal Winchester • Dazzling Dragonflies, 2 p.m.

Sunday at the Glacier Knoll Picnic Area. Catch and release dragonflies and damselflies and learn about them on a one-mile walk.

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Slate Run Metro Park 1375 state Route 674 N., Canal Winchester • What’s That Bug?, 1-3 p.m.

Saturday at the Buzzard’s Roost Picnic Area. View an insect collection and catch and release live insects in a nearby prairie.

• Puppet Hike, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Buzzard’s Roost Picnic Area. Watch for puppets on the trail and hear their stories on a short hike.

• Nature for Kids: Skulls & Bones, 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Buzzard’s Roost Picnic Area. See animal skulls, bones and fur and hear a story about them.

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On the way to its first losing season in 12 years last fall, an already young and undersized Ready High School football team was hindered further when it lost an expected two-way starter to a broken leg.

The fact that Christian Knapper went down on the second play of the Silver Knights’ final preseason scrimmage to end his senior season virtually before it started was all the more painful.

The 2011 preseason gets under way

Tuesday, Aug. 9, with a series of matchups that includes Grove City traveling to Upper Arlington and Gahanna playing host to Olentangy Liberty.

From Aug. 9-20, coaches and players will compete in various scrimmages throughout central Ohio in preparation for the coming season.

They’ll be crossing their fingers that they won’t face a similar situation to what the Silver Knights and Knapper did last fall.

“Injuries like that usually are freak accidents where somebody twists somebody or gets pretzeled underneath a

pile,” Ready coach Larry Wolf said. “(Knapper’s injury was) where the kid tried to stop and cut. Most of the time freak injuries are a total accident where there’s no rhyme or reason to them.

Our kids are well-conditioned and wellprepared and we just tell them to go out and play hard.”

After three seasons in which his team stayed mostly healthy over the course of each season, DeSales coach Ryan Wiggins watched last year as several key regular-season injuries, including one to running back Warren Ball that lingered much of the fall, hindered his

team’s success.

Like Wolf, however, Wiggins isn’t planning to keep his players from giving their best effort just to try to keep them from getting injured, and that includes when they’re competing in a preseason scrimmage.

“It’s a delicate balance,” Wiggins said. “It always bothers me when a kid gets hurt in practice, but you’ve got to prepare physically. You’re trying to be smart when it’s your own guys, but when you play a different-colored jersey, you’ve just got to play. Usually when injuries occur they are freak things

and you can’t worry about them.”

Most of central Ohio’s teams are competing in two scrimmages, although a few will play two scrimmages from Aug. 9-16 and a third that the OHSAA deems a “jamboree” scrimmage from Aug. 18-20.

Because the OHSAA requires all schools to pay $250 to its Catastrophic Insurance Fund if they choose to compete in a third preseason game, schools may charge admission to the jamboree.

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Commentary

Athletes share thoughts, advice For more than a decade, I have had student-athletes write in this summer series and the three questions that I enjoy hearing their responses from the most are what advice they would give to younger students who are beginning their sport, who their heroes are and what their future plans are LARRY at this time of LARSON their life.

The final three weeks of this summer’s columns deal with those topics, beginning with the one on advice.

As young people grow, they are faced with decisions on activities they might want to try.

Whether it’s music, science, art, drama, sports or any other extracurricular activity, I highly urge them to give things a chance and see if it is the right fit for them.

Here are suggestions from student-athletes who are among the best in the area, if not the state, at their sport.

Michela Paradiso, Upper Arlington, soccer and basketball: “I would encourage the need to make sure you take responsibility for yourself in the sport. You can’t blame other people, coaches, parents, referees or other players for your downfalls and losses. Remember that there is a lot of time to play soccer and you have to keep the passion alive and keep teammates as the most important thing.”

Austin Cuervo, St. Charles, golf: “I would tell a young athlete in my sport to have a good head. Golf is just about the least amount of strokes, not what strokes may or may not look like.”

Chase Delande, Hilliard Davidson, football and wrestling: “Work hard at your sport. When it gets really tough, fight through it and keep going.”

Napoleon Bell, Hartley, football and wrestling: “You will experience failure and defeat. The key thing is this: If the endeavor was a defeat, it was also a learning experience.

It does not make you a failure.”

Jake Blankenship, Gahanna, pole vault: “No matter what happens, make sure you give it your all and don’t quit. Pole vaulting is not an easy sport, but when you become successful, you learn you can do anything.”

Mary Wells, Westerville Central, bowling: “Try the sport because you like it and not because someone else wants you to try it. If you are not sure whether you will enjoy the activity, make sure you at least give it a try.”

Faith Washington, Reynoldsburg, track: “I would tell a young person beginning running to stay hydrated and always, always listen to what your body is trying to tell you during your

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Emily Toppari of the Plain Township Gators swims in the girls 12-and-under 50-meter butterfly during the GCSL meet July 26 at the Plain Township Aquatic Center.

Swimming & Diving

Darts roll to sweep at GCSL meet

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The Gators’ Zeke Christiansen swims in the boys 8-and-under 25-meter breaststroke during the GCSL meet July 26.

Having to report to the Delaware Darts swimming practice at 7 a.m. five days a week this summer, Brooke Glesenkamp hasn’t had many opportunities to sleep in this summer.

But after the Darts swept the junior and senior titles at the Greater Columbus Swim League championships July 2226 at the Plain Township pool, she said the early morning practices paid off.

“I get up early and do this because I love doing it,” said Glesenkamp, who competed in the girls 11-12 age group.

“Sometimes I have to miss doing things with my other school friends, but I think getting the championship made it all worth it.”

The Darts won the combined championship with a total of 3,121.5 points, finishing ahead of the Northwest Tigersharks (2,388.5), the Highland Otters (2,123.5), the Worthington Waves (1,979.5), the Westerville Jaycee Poolcats

(1,687.5), Olympic (1,632), the Plain Township Gators (1,180.5) and the Gahanna Sea Lions (960).

Delaware captured its third consecutive junior title in the 6-and-under, 7-8 and 9-10 age groups, scoring 1,357 points to finish ahead of Olympic (854.5), Highland (825.5), Westerville (799.5), Worthington (737.5), Northwest (720.5), Plain Township (580.5) and Gahanna (397).

The Darts won the senior division, which consisted of the 11-12, 13-14 and 15-18 age groups, for the first time since 2004. Delaware compiled 1,764.5 points to finish ahead of Northwest (1,668), Highland (1,298), Worthington (1,242), Westerville (888), Olympic (777.5), Plain Township (600) and Gahanna (563).

“This is the first time in our 33 years both the juniors and the seniors won the league meet,” said Darts coach Bill Rietz, who also coaches the Delaware Hayes High School swimming and diving teams.

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Warriors’ Wilson ran to glory at state in ’98

By JARROD ULREY ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Even before Ryan Wilson entered high school, his mother, Cynthia, got a glimpse of the kind of competitor who was emerging under her roof.

“He might have been 12 or 13 years old, and he told me, ‘I’m going to go to the state track meet all four years in four events,” his mother said. “That’s exactly what he would do, and he scored in 14 of those 16 events.”

Perhaps his greatest feat as a prep athlete occurred in the 1998 Division I state meet, as the Westerville North junior lived up to his own high expectations in many aspects, winning the long jump (23 feet, 1 inch) on the first day of competition and coming back on day two with titles in the 110meter hurdles (13.95 seconds) and 300 hurdles (37.1).

Even with a weekend full of accomplishments, there was a disappointment that is just as memorable to Wilson: He had to settle for seventh place in the 200.

See LARSON, page B3 Although athletes now receive two

points for finishing seventh and one point for eighth in an event, a different point system was in place at that time in which no points were given for seventh or eighth.

The three titles he won that weekend gave North 30 points and a cochampionship in Division I with Brunswick.

“The interesting thing is that what I remember most about it is the lesson I learned,” Wilson said. “The 200 was my last event and was definitely my weakest event. I had chosen to run the 200 instead of the (1,600 relay) that year and I remember I got seventh because I didn’t run all the way through the line. I remember when I watched the replay on the screen that someone was able to pass me right at the end.

That extra point I didn’t get was what I remember the most because my team didn’t win the (outright championship).”

Wilson’s performance in the 1998

By Mike Munden/The Columbus Dispatch state meet was part of one of the most remarkable prep careers of any cen- Ryan Wilson won three events — the long jump, 100-meter hurdles and 300 hurdles — in the 1998 Division I state meet, scoring all of Westerville North’s points to secure a share tral Ohio track athlete.

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of the state title with Brunswick. The 1999 North graduate advanced to state in four events each of his four seasons, scoring in 14 of the events.

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FOOTBALL Continued from page B1 Olentangy Orange opens its scrimmage schedule Aug. 13 against visiting Kings Mills Kings and plays host to Westland on Aug. 16 before playing host to Reynoldsburg on Aug. 19 in a jamboree.

According to Pioneers coach Brian Cross, the scrimmage against Westland will be a “passing scrimmage.”

Although both teams will have 11 players on the field unlike in the 7-on-7 passing tournaments during the summer, at least seven of every 11 plays will be passes. Cross considers it to be a sign of the times as teams continue to develop more complex passing offenses.

Westland’s new coach, Steve White, was an assistant under Cross when the two were on the same coaching staff at Grove City.

“I don’t know what other people are doing, but having two scrimmages when we tackle and run the ball is enough,” Cross said. “This gives us a chance to have the defense see more passing, and we’ll mix in a few draw plays.”

While some teams prefer to play a neighborhood school that could bring unique intensity during their scrimmage opener, others will enter their first scrimmage with an eye on keeping it simple.

Perennial playoff contender Eastmoor Academy and defending Division IV state champion Hartley will meet in the opening scrimmage for both teams Aug. 13 at Hartley.

The matchup of East-side schools is one that Warriors coach Jim Miranda looks forward to because of the toughness that his team will get to face as it pre-

WILSON Continued from page B1 In 1996 as a freshman at Columbus Academy, he took second in the long jump, was fifth in the 110 hurdles and ran the anchor leg of the winning 1,600 relay in the Division III state meet. That performance followed a boys soccer season in which he helped the Vikings win the 1995 Division II state title.

Wilson transferred to Westerville North midway through his sophomore season and immediately became a standout at the Division I track level. In the 1997 state meet, he took fourth in the long jump, fourth in the 110 hurdles and fourth in the 300 hurdles and helped the 1,600 relay finish third.

In 1998, during the final state track meet held at Ohio Stadium, he was one of five North athletes competing but the only one who scored. The 3,200 relay of Nathan Aichele, Jared Conley, Jason Conley and Tyler Pensyl also represented the Warriors but didn’t place.

In 1999 at Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Wilson defended his titles in the 110 hurdles (13.7) and 300 hurdles (36.46) and finished third in the long jump (23-7 1/4).

He also competed in the 1,600 relay that failed to place.

“It was amazing, watching Ryan perform the way that he did,” said Pensyl, who went on to run for Denison University and has been working for the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease as an associate for five years. “He rose to the occasion. We only lost one meet all year, and we had a number of outstanding individuals. It really felt like a team championship and I thought it was a reflection of everything that we did that year.”

According to Bob Cavin, who was North’s coach in 1998 and currently serves as an assistant football and track coach at New Albany, a now-famous T-shirt was produced after the first day of the state meet.

On the front, the shirt read, “Get outta my way. I’m on Ryan Wilson’s team.” On the back, it read, “I made it to the state meet, too.”

“It was a great team accomplishment and Ryan was just the leader,” Cavin said. “For Ryan to score all of our points, that was just the icing on the cake.”

“Even though I happened to score all of the points, that was one of the best teams we’ve ever had,” Wilson said. “Even though it’s an individual sport, I still have a lot of friends from that team.

That was the last meet in ‘The Horseshoe,’and I’m really proud I was able to be a part of people sending the track out in style.”

Wilson comes from a family of track athletes. His brother, Glen, was a three-time state meet com-

At a glance Below is a list of scrimmages involving central Ohio high school football teams throughout the ThisWeek Community Newspapers coverage area (times and dates are subject to change): AUG. 9 Gahanna vs. Olentangy Liberty (9 a.m.); Grove City Christian vs. South Charleston Southeastern (6 p.m.); Teays Valley vs. Columbus Academy (9 a.m.); Thomas Worthington vs.

Beechcroft, Marysville and Walnut Ridge (5 p.m.); Upper Arlington vs.

Grove City (noon) AUG. 10 Bexley vs. Licking Heights (10 a.m.); Buckeye Valley vs. Ready (9 a.m.); Jonathan Alder vs. Brookhaven (8:30 a.m.); Marion Elgin vs. Grandview (10 a.m.); Pickerington North vs. Dublin Coffman (9 a.m.)

AUG. 12 Canal Winchester vs. New Albany and Liberty (10 a.m.); Central Crossing vs.

Columbus East (7:30 p.m.); Gahanna vs. Lakewood St. Edward (11 a.m.); Olentangy vs. Brookhaven (7 p.m.)

AUG. 13 Bexley vs. Fairbanks (10 a.m.); Briggs vs. Ready (10 a.m.); Delaware vs.

Westland (10 a.m.); Dublin Coffman vs. Marysville (9 a.m.); Dublin Jerome vs. Independence, Pickerington Central and Worthington Kilbourne (11 a.m.); Dublin Scioto vs. Hilliard Davidson (7 p.m.); Grove City vs. Hilliard Darby (10 a.m.); Grove City Christian vs. Africentric (9 a.m.); Hartley vs.

Eastmoor Academy (6 p.m.); Hilliard Bradley vs. Groveport, Hamilton and Northland (10 a.m.); Johnstown vs.

Licking Valley (10 a.m.); Licking Heights vs. Heath (10 a.m.); Marion Harding vs. Watkins Memorial (10 a.m.); Olentangy Orange vs. Kings Mills Kings

pares for the coming season.

“Hartley’s got a good, sound program with well-coached kids,” Miranda said. “(Hawks coach Brad Burchfield) enjoys the team speed we have. For us, they have a quick-paced offensive set and disciplined kids, so it makes us have to play sound.”

DeSales plays at Westerville South on Aug. 13 in what Wiggins calls a “controlled” scrimmage. It then plays host to Upper Arlington on Aug. 19.

(10 a.m.); St. Charles vs. Big Walnut (10 a.m.); Troy vs. Reynoldsburg (10 a.m.); Upper Arlington vs. Watterson (9 a.m.); Westerville Central vs.

Granville (10 a.m.); Westerville South vs. DeSales (10 a.m.); Whetstone vs.

Westerville North (10 a.m.)

AUG. 16 Bloom-Carroll vs. New Lexington and Northridge (10 a.m.); Orange vs. Westland (5 p.m.)

AUG. 17 Grandview vs. Academy (6 p.m.)

AUG. 18 Canal Winchester vs. Newark (6 p.m.); Coffman vs. Gahanna (7 p.m.); Pickerington Central vs. Dover (noon); Sparta Highland vs. Hartley (7 p.m.); Westerville South vs. Pickerington North (7 p.m.)

AUG. 19 Big Walnut vs. Teays Valley (7 p.m.); Brookhaven vs. Lancaster (7 p.m.); Central Crossing vs. Columbus South (6 p.m.); DeSales vs. Upper Arlington (7 p.m.); Jerome vs. Thomas (6 p.m.); Eastmoor vs. Olentangy (7 p.m.); Grove City Christian vs. Fisher Catholic (7 p.m.); Davidson vs. Findlay (6 p.m.); Johnstown vs. Zanesville Maysville (6 p.m.); Kilbourne vs. Grove City (7 p.m.); Liberty vs. Marion-Franklin (6:30 p.m.); Licking Heights vs. Utica (6 p.m.); Marion Harding vs. Delaware (7 p.m.); Marysville vs. Darby (7 p.m.); New Albany vs. Whetstone (7 p.m); Northland vs. Walnut Ridge (7 p.m.); Northridge vs. Independence and Philo (6 p.m.); Orange vs. Reynoldsburg (7 p.m.); St. Charles vs. Scioto (6:30 p.m.); Watkins Memorial vs. Bexley (10 a.m.); Watterson vs. Lexington (6:30 p.m.); Westerville Central vs.

Beechcroft (7 p.m.); Westerville North vs. Bradley (6 p.m.); Westland vs.

Franklin Heights (7 p.m.)

“The first scrimmage is against somebody other than ourselves and it’s when you’re going to see real speed for the first time,” Wiggins said. “We know we’re going to see kids with good size and good athleticism, and we’re looking to see how physical we are and how well we’ve learned our assignments.” julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

Counting down to No. 1 ThisWeek Community Newspapers has been around for 22 years. That timeframe was used as the basis to compile a top-10 list of the top individual performances we’ve covered.

Along with the experienced sports staff at ThisWeek and Steve Blackledge, high school reporter at The Columbus Dispatch, we arrived at a top-10 list. Below are Nos. 3-10.

Check back next week for No. 1 and let us know your thoughts at ThisWeekSPORTS.com.

NOS. 3-10: 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 touchdowns 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 51-35 win over Wadsworth. The Ohio State recruit made 12 of 14 shots from the floor and was 5-for-6 from the free-throw 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, 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 state-ranked London in the second round of the Division II district tournament. Watkins Memorial was just 1-19 entering the matchup but got 57

petitor for Academy who later competed in track for Yale. His mother coached track in the 1980s and early 1990s, making stops at Columbus Central, Centennial and Academy, and remains a teacher at Academy.

After Wilson graduated from North, he competed for the University of Southern California, winning an NCAA title in the 110 hurdles in 2003. He also was the bronze medalist in the IAFF World Athletics Final in 2008.

Wilson has been a professional track athlete since 2004. In the USATF Outdoor Nationals on June 25 in Eugene, Ore., he finished 16th (13.52) in the semifinals of the 110 hurdles senior race as the top eight advanced to the final.

He then traveled to Europe to compete in meets in Switzerland and France in July. He also was expected to travel to Sweden for a meet in late July.

Now 30 years old, Wilson expects to continue competing professionally for at least two years and possibly as many as six.

He has lived in Los Angeles since 1999.

“It’s a lot of fun to compete in

points from Johnson, who made 19 of 34 from floor, including eight 3-pointers, and was 11-for-15 from the freethrow 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.

5. JEFF BACKES, Upper Arlington football (Dec. 2, 2000) — In leading the Golden Bears to the Division I state title, the 5-9, 180-pound senior turned in a performance worthy of the Ohio Mr. Football award that he had received days earlier. Backes rushed for 183 yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries and preserved a 159 victory over Solon at Fawcett Stadium in Canton with an interception with less than a minute remaining.

4. COURTNEY SMITH, Hilliard Davidson softball (May 17 and 19, 2006) — Smith brought to a close what remains the longest OHSAA softball tournament game, hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the 22nd inning for a 4-1 victory over Olentangy Liberty and a Division I district championship for the Wildcats. It was Smith’s first career home run. She also stood out in the circle, striking out 29 while pitching a complete game. She didn’t allow a run until the top of the 22nd.

3. GREG AVERY, Newark boys basketball (March 15, 2008) — Avery led the Wildcats to a 65-52 victory over Lakewood St. Edward in the Division I state championship game.

The 6-3 senior forward tied his career high of 33 points on 14 of 18 shooting and added 11 rebounds, three assists and four steals as the Wildcats captured their first state title since 1943. Avery made third-team all-state his senior season as he averaged 18.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists. He became the sixth player in program history to score more than 1,000 points, finishing with 1,131 career points.

Europe,” he said. “It’s always nice to know that there’s a knowledgeable fan base over there that really appreciates you. It’s refreshing. I definitely feel fortunate to be able to travel like this, and I’m trying to enjoy the parts that I can. Not a lot of people are able to see the world like I have.”

Although he’s competed in track meets in front of as many as 75,000 fans in Europe, the sheer magnitude of winning three state titles is something Cynthia Wilson believes will live on in the memories of track fans throughout Ohio.

“The further you get away from it, the more you realize what a big deal it was, especially since it was in Division I,” she said. “It was the last time the meet was held at Ohio State, so that was fun, too.

He’s always set all of these goals for himself and some of those goals have eluded him, but he’s been able to run at the highest levels. He loves the hurdles and he really loved Westerville North and loved coach Cavin and the support from the community.” julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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13-14, David Kile in the 50 breast (36.76) in boys 13-14 and Dan Fay, Erick Bey, Atticus Jordan and Mike Hicks in the 200 medley relay (1:56.91) in boys 15-18; Olympic’s Lauren Sawyer in diving (122.95) in girls 11-12, Hans Kabelka in the 50 fly (33.6) in boys 11-12 and Joseph Rivera, Connor Flanagan, Perry Finnegan and Kabelka in the 200 free relay (2:14.23) in boys 11-12; Plain Township’s Derek Jones in the 50 free (31.24) in boys 11-12; Westerville’s Colin White in diving (143.95) in boys 11-12, Ashley White in diving (143.95) in girls 13-14 and Chloe Medrriss in diving (200.45) in girls 15-18; and Worthington’s Sam Reeder in the 100 IM (1:02.95) in boys 15-18, Nicholas Spargrove in the 100 fly (1:00.56) in boys 15-18, Sean Spargrove in the 50 fly (30.13) in boys 13-14 and Jackie Wachtel in the 50 fly (31.05) and 50 breast (37.07) in girls 13-14.

•William Elsrod and Ava Row led the Darts in the junior division.

In the boys 7-8 age group, Elsrod placed first in the 25 back (21.36), 25 fly (19.56) and 25 breast (22.91) and teamed with Dylan Fisher, Zach Ward and Ryan Smudz to win the 100 free relay (1:17.34) and 100 medley relay (1:27). Row set a meet record in the 25 back (24.93) in girls 6-and-under.

Other winners for the Darts were Smudz in the 25 free (17.1) in boys 7-8, Dani Ward in the 50 fly (36.97) in girls 9-10 and Dani Ward, Esther Lawrence, Lauren Ertz and Katy Koons in the 100 medley relay (1:19.24) and 100 free relay (1:06.47) in girls 9-10.

Also finishing first in the junior division were Gahanna’s Brayden Sanders in the 25 back (meetrecord 29.23) and 25 free (22.76) in boys 6-andunder; Highland’s Macey Swearingen in the 25 free (17.65), 25 breast (23.63) and 25 fly (19.38) in girls 7-8 and Swearingen, Kayla Fisher, Katherine Blais and Elizabeth Blais in the 100 medley relay (1:30.63) and 100 free relay (1:18.06) in girls 7-8; Northwest’s Drew Nederveld in the 50 back (39.3) and 50 fly (40.46) in boys 9-10 and Nederveld, C.W. Hess, Max Fulop and Matt Robinson in the 100 medley relay (1:18.91) and 100 free relay (1:06.84) in boys 9-10; Plain Township’s Carly Meeting in the 25 free (23.9) in girls 6-and-under; Westerville’s Nate Stadler in the 50 free (33.4), 50 breast (43.66) and 100 IM (1:22.4) in boys 9-10, Jonathan Chambers in diving (147.8) in boys 9-10, Lena Morgan in diving (50.35) in girls 7-8 and Amanda Poorbaugh in the 25 back (21.64) in girls 7-8; and Worthington’s Rachel Rinaldi in the 100 IM (1:23.48) and 50 breast (43.73) in girls 9-10, Rebecca Taylor in the 50 breast (37.71) and 50 free (32.7) in girls 9-10, Megan Burris in diving (119.25) in girls 9-10 and Owen Graham in diving (44.7) in boys 7-8.

“I told the kids, ‘Just because we won all (five of) the dual meets doesn’t mean we’re going to win the whole ball of wax.’”

Glesenkamp seemed to take Rietz’s message to heart, as she placed first in the 50-meter backstroke (33.68 seconds), 50 freestyle (29.58) and 100 individual medley (1:13.65) and teamed with Ally Braun, Kristen Puthoff and Marissa Sulek to win the 200 free relay (2:06.28). All four times were team records.

Others winners for Delaware in the senior division were Regan Dewitt in the 50 back (32.45) and Dewitt, Kara Miller, Allyson Fomich and Samantha Curtin in the 200 medley relay (2:12.44) and 200 free relay (1:56.62) in girls 13-14, Remy Curtin in the 50 breaststroke (41.04) and Curtin, Craig Klumpp, Mitchell Garnett and Connor Derstine in the 200 medley relay (2:37.24) in boys 11-12, Brittany Puthoff in the 100 breast (1:16.77) in girls 15-18 and Colby Brothers, Skyler Pollock, Keanan Fomich and Andrew Davis in the 200 medley relay (2:10.58) and 200 free relay (1:50.69) in boys 13-14.

“It’s a tribute to the kids. They are down at the pool at 7 a.m. while most of their buddies are still in bed,” Rietz said. “This must be something they enjoy. I know they enjoyed it quite a bit last night.”

Winners for Northwest in the 15-18 age group were Joey Long in the 100 free (meet-record 53.54) and 100 breast (1:09.54), the 200 free relay of Long, Jordan Krumpleman, Alex Chin and Michael Robinson in the 200 free relay (1:41.16) and Alex Chin in the 100 back (1:00.65) for the boys and the 200 free relay of Camey Rabold, Emily Boone, Amy Trace and Abby Chin (meet-record 1:55.87), the 200 medley relay of Rabold, Elizabeth Long, Boone and Abby Chin (meet-record 2:05.86), Rabold in the 100 free (1:00.65) and 100 back (1:06.64) and Abby Chin in the 100 butterfly (1:05.26) and 100 individual medley (1:07.42) for the girls. “(Setting meet records in 200 free and 200 medley relays) was a good way for us seniors to go out,” Abby Chin said. “We have that one last good memory of competing with each other.”

Other winners for Northwest in the senior division were Thomas Trace in the 50 back (28.96), 50 free (26.01) and 100 IM (1:05.09) in boys 1314, Cristina Chiocca in the 50 fly (32.93) in girls 11-12, the 200 medley relay of Chiocca, Justine Kenny, Caroline Hess and Julie Trace (2:22.13) in girls 11-12, Gracie Long in the 100 IM (1:10.52) and 50 free (28.47) in girls 13-14 and Caroline Hess in the 50 breast (39.33) in girls 11-12.

Also finishing first in the senior division were Gahanna’s Sam Wiedemann in the 50 back (34.87) and 100 IM (1:17.57) in boys 11-12 and Michael Arnold in diving (220.75) in boys 15-18; High- pbatterson@thisweeknews.com land’s Michael Denzel in diving (120.15) in boys www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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Junior Tennis

Area team captures Midwest championship

By PAUL BATTERSON ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Eric Brunton and his doubles partner, Blake Byrns, towered over the other members of the Columbus team in the Midwest City Team Tennis Championships on July 15-17 in Indianapolis.

But according to the 6-foot2 Brunton, a Clintonville native and 2011 Watterson High School graduate, it was the younger, smaller players who stood tall as Columbus captured the team title.

“It was nice to have won it, but to be honest, I wasn’t a huge factor,” Brunton said. “It was mostly the little kids who helped us win. I was definitely impressed with them. I know I wasn’t able to play that well when I was their age.”

Columbus went 2-1 in the round-robin portion of the eightteam event and defeated Jasper, Ind., 24-16 in a semifinal and Indianapolis Red 28-12 in the final to win the championship outright for the first time in eight years.

Columbus was comprised of 21 players in five age groups and coached by Jim Criswell, Scott Gerber and Max Quinton.

“It was funny,” Criswell said.

“We had Byrns from Westerville Central who is like 6-foot-8 and then we had some guys on the 10-and-under squad who weren’t even 4 feet tall. I was going to get a picture of three or four of the 10-and-unders standing like a totem pole next to Blake.

“You didn’t know from match to match who was going to step

up. We had really strong 10-andunders, but sometimes we ran into teams who had really good 10-and-unders and it’d be the 18-and-unders that came through. Other times, the 18and-unders got cleaned out and the 10-and-unders would come through.”

Joining Brunton and Byrns on the Columbus team were Westerville’s Ryan Wahl and Upper Arlington’s Will Reynolds in the boys 10-11 age group, Powell’s Chloe Sidick and Dublin’s Emma Ferguson in girls 10-11, Lancaster’s Colton Clark, Upper Arlington’s Alex Hulka and Westerville’s Jacob Kotik in boys 12-13, Pataskala’s Lexi Steer and Dublin’s Reagan Resor in girls 12-13, Upper Arlington’s Ty Holsopple and Powell’s Austin Karbler (Olentangy High School) in boys 14-15, Hilliard’s Mary Anne Click (Columbus School for Girls) and Upper Arlington’s Anna Marie Reynolds in girls 14-15, Pickerington’s Patrick Yen (Pickerington North) and Upper Arlington’s Aaron Treglia in boys 16-17, Granville’s Alyssa Moreau and Westerville’s Paige Quinton (CSG) in girls 16-17 and Meghan Letizia (Dublin Coffman) and Upper Arlington’s Lauren Gerber (CSG) in girls 18-and-up.

The players qualified for the Columbus team by finishing first or second in their respective age group in the Bernard Master Junior Satellite Circuit tournament held during the winter.

In the Midwest City Team Tennis Championships, each

player had to play one set of a singles match, doubles match and mixed-doubles match, with each match being worth one point. A team had to score more than 20 points to win the match.

Columbus started the tournament by defeating Indianapolis Blue 32-8 and Chicago 22-18 and losing to St. Louis 21-19 in round-robin play. Although three teams tied for first with identical 2-1 records, Columbus won its flight with 73 points, finishing ahead of Chicago (71) and St. Louis (69).

Columbus’ 14-and-under players dominated in singles and mixed doubles, going 30-0.

Click, Holsopple, Karbler and Reynolds each won all five singles and mixed doubles matches.

Letizia went undefeated in the girls 18-and-under singles play and teamed with Gerber to win four doubles matches. Steer and Resor teamed to win four matches in 12-and-under doubles, and Treglia and Quinton teamed to win four matches in 16-andunder mixed doubles.

Criswell said what impressed him the most about his team’s performance was the team unity.

“It didn’t matter what age group was playing, there was someone from our team there cheering the players on,” he said.

“You would have a 10-and-under (player) out there playing and there were the 18-and-under boys cheering him on. It’s such a team-oriented thing.” pbatterson@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

LARSON a young athlete, you need to work hard athletically and academically. You are only going to workouts.” be as good as you want to be.”

Morgan Ransom, Columbus Academy, golf: Next week the student-athletes tell us who “When I was younger and even today, my dad their hero or best role model is. would ask me after every round of golf that I I’ll see you at a game. played if I had fun and if I tried my hardest.

Hopefully the answer to these two questions is Larry Larson is a former athletics director at always yes.”

Grandview High School. He was known as “Mr. Jimmy Gammill, New Albany, football: “As High School Sports” on WTVN 610 AM. Continued from page B1

Members of the Columbus team which competed in the Midwest City Team Tennis Championships included (front row) Ryan Wahl; (second row) Emma Ferguson, Lexi Steer, Chloe Sidick, Reagan Resor, Will Reynolds, Jacob Kotik, Alex Hulka, Colton Clark and Austin Karbler; (third row) head coach Jim Criswell, Patrick Yen, Mary Anne Click, Ann Marie Reynolds, Alyssa Moreau, Meghan Letizia, Lauren Gerber, Tyler Holsopple, Paige Quinton, Aaron Treglia and assistant coach Max Quinton; (back row) Eric Brunton, Blake Byrns.

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teams and application forms, visit the Fan Zone/Game Entertainment section of www.bluejackets.com or call (614) 246-3037.

The 17-and-under Columbus Sharks baseball team will hold tryouts at 1 p.m. Aug. 20 and 21 at New Albany High School.

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Schools announce coaching vacancies

Jackets to audition promotion teams The Columbus Blue Jackets are accepting applications for the chance to audition for the hockey club’s official promotion teams — the Pepsi Power Patrol, Ice Crew and Cannon Crew.

Applications are due Aug. 11, with invitation-only auditions to be held at 9 a.m. Aug. 14 at Chiller North.

Candidates for the three teams should be high spirited, outgoing, athletic, physically fit, comfortable on camera and enjoy interacting with fans. Participants must be 18 or older and must be a high school graduate or hold a GED. For additional information about the three

The following schools are seeking coaches: PRPC high school club hockey — Varsity assistant for 2011-12 season. Qualifications include previous playing and/or coaching experience. Email hockey résumé to Prowler Hockey Association secretary Debbie Andrews at dandrews58@me.com.

Wellington — Boys soccer, girls soccer, girls tennis. Email cover letter and résumé to athletics director Elizabeth Clapacs at clapacs@wellington.org.

Westerville North — Girls club lacrosse.

Contact Rick Matsumoto at (614) 895-1902 or rmatsumo@rrohio.com.

Westerville South — Pole vault. Contact Jim Gaul at (614) 797-6004 or gaulj@wcsoh.org.

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The Beat Arts, eats and fun in central Ohio

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During The Beat’s interview

1 with Keith Roberts of The Young Dubliners (see bit on Dublin Irish festival, this page), we asked him how he holds up vocally during an especially busy stretch, in light of having had surgery on his vocal cords a couple of years back.

First off, he told us, he’s been at this for so long, most nights for 20 years, he wasn’t concerned. Second, he said, was that his band is about the band, not about his voice.

“I’m not going out there and doing a Josh Groban impression.”

But never fear, Groban himself will be doing Josh Groban Friday, Aug. 5, at the Schottenstein Center. The tenor is touring in supJosh Groban port of his latest CD, Illuminations.

Tickets are $86/$66. Call 1-800745-3000.

Beneath Tab Benoit’s

2 debonair exterior lies a rip-

snorting, firebreathing heart.

The Beat is hardpressed to decide whether his ache is better expressed in his classic Bayou vocal delivery or his whine and wail on the six-string.

The Cajun bluesman earned his stripes in New Orleans clubs and has long since made friends at clubs around the U.S. — including Vonn Jazz, where Benoit plays an early and late set American Idol Live on Friday, Aug. 5. Long Tall Deb our perception of AI is shaped largeopens. ly by our own consumption of it.

Tickets are $25. Call (614) 431In other words, when we weren’t JAZZ. watching, we figured others weren’t either, meaning the franchise was 3 For the first time in a few headed toward irrelevancy. Apparseasons, The Beat actually watched ently, Steven Tyler and Jennifer a good bit of the most recent season Lopez re-energized the show, at least of American Idol. As usual, we from a judging standpoint. Who watched our favorites fall prior to knew? the final show (James Durbin and Still, isn’t it a talent competition?

Casey Abrams, if you must know), Judge for yourself when Ameriwhich was followed by much head can Idol Live hits the Schottenstein shaking and hand wringing.

Center Tuesday, Aug. 9. Tickets are We have to admit, though, that $62/$42. Call 1-800-745-3000.

Everyone’s an O’.

As in the wearing o’ the green or the raising o’ the wrist.

The Dublin Irish Festival is three days (Aug. 57) o’ music and merriment (and lots of other stuff, but we’re primarily concerned with those two). Live entertainment on seven main stages, plus a handful of other dance, music and cultural programming, makes for a weekend with something for everyone.

Dervish, Teada and the festival debut of Beoga for the traditionalists; Gaelic Storm, Scythian and The Young Dubliners (see our interview with frontman Keith Roberts at www.ThisWeekNews.com – we’ll be BeatBlogging from that interview as well) for the rockers; Moya Brennan or The Step Crew for something perhaps not quite as easily defined; plus the North Coast Pipe Band, Liz Carroll, the intimacy of the Celtic Music House, plenty of dancing, a host of local Celtic acts like Knot Fibb’n and Lone Raven … we could go on.

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Beoga

It’s a labor of love for Entertainment Committee chair Morton O’Kelly (who suggests charting out your musical day in advance, so as not to miss anything) and his mates.

All the details are available at www.dublinirishfestival.org.

Genre-bending banjo 5 player Bela Fleck and his Flecktones mates Victor Wooten and Future Man reunited with original fourth member, harmonica player extraordinaire Howard Levy, a couple years back and the band is now touring in support of the original lineup’s first new record in almost 20 years.

Fleck was kind enough to respond to some questions posed by The Beat in advance of the band’s Aug. 9 date at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion ($28/$32; 1-800-7453000) with Bruce Hornsby and his band. Read additional Qs and As in the BeatBlog.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

The Beat: How have you felt about the Flecktones through the years — as a sort of home base musically or as one equal piece of each player’s larger puzzle?

Bela Fleck: The Flecktones has been my most consistent musical outlet. I (along with Victor and Future Man) have played in this group for 24 years. And it is built around our strengths.

Chick Corea talks about a band being like a mother ship for the members to orbit. That analogy may work. Sometimes we leave the mother ship for long periods but we always have come back.

The Beat: It’s well documented that the lineup was originally assembled for a one-off gig. Can you explain how you put the players together and what triggered the idea to take it beyond that original plan?

Bela Fleck: Originally, the band was put together to play for 30 minutes on a one-hour PBS show that I was fortunate enough to land.

When we hit the stage the magic was palpable, and it gave all of us something to think about. I was playing in a band called New Grass Revival at that time, so it was hard to find time to get together till after Christmas.

I put together four clubs for us to play, so we could see what happened. It got even better, so we decided to record. That album was picked up by Warner Brothers, and I left New Grass to go full time with the Flecktones. I could see that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity.

The Beat: Talk about reconnecting with Howard Levy and what he means to the Flecktones.

Bela Fleck: Howard is a genius, and what he has done with harmonica in particular, is unprecedented. When Howard left, he was

very hard to replace, and the music changed a lot, and in some attractive ways. All the musicians who played with us over the next 17 years brought so much to the music.

These four guys are the band that I put together. The music was really envisioned with these guys. And having Howard back completes the original intention of the group. So it is feeling great to all of us.

The Beat: How is making Flecktones music the same and how is it different from when you started 20 or so years ago?

Bela Fleck: The process was a bit different making the recording, since we were not on tour, rehearsing at sound-checks. But we fell quickly into our old rhythm of working together, and really agreed most of the time on what worked best.

The Beat: How difficult is it to set list with the amount of material you have from which to draw? With Howard back will there be a greater emphasis on the first few records?

Bela Fleck: The set list is fun. We are playing two-thirds of the music from the new album, and everything is from the first three albums. We have been mostly playing the same tunes from night to night, but that is because once the tour started, there hasn’t been much rehearsal time. As we continue, we will work up the rest of the new album, and some different old tunes.

The Beat: Touring with Bruce Hornsby — can we expect plenty of cross-pollination in your sets?

Bela Fleck: Yes, we intend to set up the stage so that both bands can be on stage simultaneously and anyone can sit in with anyone. Bruce and the Flecktones have a long and rich friendship, and we are all very happy to finally be doing a major tour together.

Harvest Pizzeria: New spot serves superlative pies On an opening-day visit, I was so blown away by the great pizzas and general sophistication of Harvest Pizzeria I couldn’t believe it had only been in business for a few hours.

Ergo, I went back the very next day to confirm what I ate was in fact that sensational. Well, it was, and frankly it’s a good bet I’m perched on a seat there right now, buzzsawing through marvelous Harvest munchies while you’re reading this.

Man, the German Village pizza scene has gone from famine to feast at warp speed.

So what was formerly an area of town blessed with a wealth of terrific restaurants but cursed with a dearth of pizzerias is now home to the very best place to eat pizzas in Columbus. That’s because not only does Harvest crank out phenomenal ’zas, but from top to bottom, from its cute, Euro-ish patio to its tastefully

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by G. A. BENTON understated and hip, openkitchen-equipped dining room, Harvest exhibits extraordinary smarts and style.

First of all, the building looks like an — and I never use this adjective — adorable brick cottage. Secondly, the non-pizza portion of the menu includes an engaging and non-cliche wine list; cocktails made with topnotch liquids; and excellently sourced, handmade appetizers and desserts.

As a small plate, the WildCaught Galician Sardines ($8, but not on the menu the last time I went) ate like an elegant little salad. I loved its hefty hunks of white-fleshed and salmon-like fish, fresh fennel fronds, tender

By Jodi Miller/ThisWeek

The Ohio Bacon pizza at Harvest Pizzeria in German Village.

lettuces and tongue-tinglingly citric dressing.

But I had plenty more love to give when it came to the housemade Warm Ricotta ($8). Drizzled with balsamic vinegar plus lavender honey and brightened by lemon zest, this impressive, fresh-cheesy curd-fest tasted like the kind of Italian-style cheesecake you might eat in a real and real fancy Italian restaurant.

While far from bad, the House Chopped Salad ($9) suffered by comparison. Similarly, this colorful, crunchy and fun-to-munch ensemble had elements — salty and evanescent shaved ricotta salata curls and killer tomatoes from an owner’s Canal Winchester farm — that outclassed others (canned olives and chickpeas and iceberg lettuce).

OK, those game-changing piz-

zas. I’ve eaten dozens of pizzas in Italy, where crust is king, and these Harvest pies are excitingly close to the real thing. They’re thin and delicate in the center but sexily puffy, charred and woodsmoke scented on their perfectly chewy edges. Yet whereas crusts and the (crushed-tomatolike) house sauce are classically Italian, toppings are up-to-theminute chic American.

Here are a few highly recommended pies I tried.

• Ohio Bacon ($14): Slightly sweet and salty, this beauty contained: Canadian-style bacon made with Ohio swine, milky fresh mozzerella, roasted red peppers and a garnish of superfresh marjoram.

• Goat Cheese ($15): Thinly sliced sopressata (lusty salami), Ohio goat cheese, caramelized onions and lots of jammy oven-blistered tomatoes make this pizza soar.

Harvest Pizza Address: 495 S. 4th St., German Village Phone: (614) 824-1769 Web: harvestpizza.com

• Yuma ($13): This zesty, Southwestern model’s designed for spice lovers because its smoky chipotle-accented sauce strikes fire with jalapenos and clumps of chorizo; corn, havarti cheese and roasted red peppers tame the flames a bit.

• Fennel Sausage ($15): Rich, sharp and bold with local gouda, smoked provolone, excellent sausage, onion and fennel pollen.

Homemade desserts can wow too, such as the surprisingly fancy Butterscotch Budino ($6).

Kinda like a dense pudding parfait with a lovely — and barely sweet — scorched sugar character, it has tart creme fraiche plus toasted hazelnuts and vanilla-scented Maldon sea salt for extra depth and texture.

Latest Bethel Road restaurant puts emphasis on sushi Yun Hui “Yumi” Wada wouldn’t put her new restaurant in just any area of town.

But Northwest Side residents have shown their fondness for sushi and other Asian fare, so she’s comfortable opening her new, sophisticated Japanese restaurant in the busy Bethel Road corridor.

“A lot of people here know how to eat sushi,” she said.

And Wada will put their appetites to the test with her latest venue, Aoi, which opens Aug. 8 at 876-878 Bethel Road.

On Wednesdays and Thursdays, the restaurant will offer all-you-can-eat sushi

— maki rolls, nigiri and sashimi — for $29.

Aoi, meaning blue in Japanese, is a big-ticket venture that transformed the 5,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Einstein Bros. Bagels and Boston Market, a move that required Wada had to get a rezoning for the property. The interior features two distinctive dining rooms.

One is the bar area, with a granite bar that seats 15 and another 100 or so in a casual space that will offer TV sets, eight beers on draft and deejay-spun music seven days a week. The other room is a more formal dining area, with an extended blue granite sushi bar and also seating for 100.

Indeed, the immediate area is flush with sushi options, including Akai Hana, Basho, Yoshi’s and Blue Ginger. Wada said the demand is obvious, so she’s not worried about saturation. She will have four sushi chefs so customers can avoid

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek long waits. The bill Yun Hui “Yumi” Wada is opening Aoi, a Japanese restauof fare also will inrant with a focus on sushi, at 876-878 Bethel Road. clude tempura,

teriyaki, katsu and noodle dishes, all competitively priced, she said. However, hibachi will not be offered.

The restaurant has made use of a leftover drive-through window, but orders must be placed 30 to 60 minutes in advance.

Wada and her family are the operators of three successful restaurants: two Genji Japanese steakhouses and San-Su, a Korean barbecue that Wada opened earlier this year on Bethel Road. Wada said they will soon start construction on Genji Go, a takeout restaurant on Brice Road.

Aoi will be open lunch and dinner hours daily. For more information, call (614) 824-2664.

Speaking of Bethel Road, Buckeye Pho Asian Restaurant is slated to open next month in the Olentangy Plaza. The owner is Max Tat, a Spagio and Molly Woo alumnus and classically trained chef.

It will become one of three restaurants on Bethel that specialize in Pho, the Vietnamese noodle soup. The other two are Bamboo Café and Lac Viet. A key difference: Buckeye Pho also will offer a full Chinese menu. The restaurant is just around the corner from the new Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

Belle’s Bread will replace Crescent Bakery in the Kenny Center. Takashi Takenaka, who www.ThisWeekNews.com/foodandwine also owns Akai Hana and Tensuke Market in the center, said Etiquette expert Nora Cline his new Japanese café is slated to open in October. He’s puts the debate to rest: It is not also expanded the storefront OK to text at the dinner table. to 4,500 square feet. He said Nuts are a a team of female employees great source named the café, which will be of protein open for breakfast, lunch and and other es- Nora Cline dinner. sential nutrients, Calorie Countess Jennifer Burton Marlin & Ray’s Seafood says.

Jennifer Burton Bar & Grill is replacing Ruby Tuesday at 1840 HilliardRecipe of the week Rome Road.

The concept, part of the Tennessee-based Ruby Tuesday chain, is expected to open by the end of the year.

Marlin & Ray’s is a dinneronly casual restaurant with a host of seafood specialties, pasta, sandwiches and such.

Most entrée prices are in the $12 to $17 range. It’s a relatively new concept, as there currently are only two Marlin & Ray’s, one each in Ten- Buckeyes, courtesy of Kathleen Murchison of Kathleen’s Café. nessee and Virginia

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Economic downturn draws attention to distressed homes

By GARY SEMAN JR. ThisWeek Community Newspapers Columbus city attorney Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr. stood at a busy intersection on Indianola Avenue in the University District on July 19, pointing out a distressed property with disjointed sidewalks, rotten wooden eaves, a dilapidated porch, overgrown weeds and boarded-up windows.

It’s not a new problem for the city of Columbus, but the distressed property is endemic of perilous economic times and a soft real-estate market. In some cases, it’s more evident in the summer, when foliage starts to grow and people spend more time outside.

Columbus has 6,100 vacant properties, about 1,000 of which are distressed.

Neighbors complain that the city isn’t doing enough to eradicate the problem.

Pfeiffer said correcting those issues takes time, sometimes involving a lengthy court process to bring owners into compliance or, eventually, getting the problem properties into city hands.

Even small things, such as painting over graffiti, can’t be done without the owner’s permission, even if a house is

By Adam Cairns/ThisWeek

Columbus city attorney Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr. points out problems at a vacant distressed property on Indianola Avenue on July 19. He said resolving the issues associated with such properties could take some time.

vacant. Neighbors who are willing to cut grass on a vacant property are advised not to do so because it’s considered trespassing.

The cost to purchase and sell is also a challenge.

Bulldozing a single-family home costs a minimum of $10,000 to $15,000, which can include asbestos removal.

Aside from $4.69 million for demolition through one-time federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds,

code enforcement has $250,000 for demolition in 2011. (Another $3.92 million of NSP money, all of which must be spent by 2013, goes toward acquisition of properties.) That means the city simply doesn’t have adequate money to maintain those properties, let alone demolish them, Pfeiffer said.

“Everyone’s looking for the easy answer but there aren’t any because it involves money, and money is scarce,” Pfeiffer said.

Pfeiffer holds out hope for the Indianola Avenue property, despite its appearance. The property is in a pretty strong residential market and has potential to be purchased, rebuilt and rented or sold. That is not the case in some blighted neighborhoods, where there are clusters of distressed properties.

Last year, the city foreclosed on 14 properties, 10 of which didn’t sell.

“If money is going to be invested in property it can’t be lost,” Pfeiffer said.

“You have to get your money back. But investors are walking away.”

Sometimes, finding the owner is difficult. Making him or her bring the property up to code is another issue altogether.

“What we found is some of these properties aren’t selling because nobody wants them,” Pfeiffer said. “So we still have the nuisance.”

Joseph Carifa, who lives across from the dilapidated property in the University District, said he has hope for the house.

“I’d like to see the neighborhood get better,” he said.

ThisWeek’s attempts to contact the property owner, Four Corners Investments LLC, were unsuccessful.

Jennifer Adair, a member of the North Linden Area Commission, said an entire section of Myrtle Avenue is plagued with vacant houses. That brings a host of other problems, such as people living in the houses illegally. Police are routinely called to deal with the squatters and homeowners worry about the effects on their property values.

“It’s a huge issue,” Adair said.

However, she said, she doesn’t fault the city for lack of effort.

“There’s not much that can be done tomorrow,” Adair said. “That’s the problem. I think we have to be patient. We have to work within the system.” gseman@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

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Coming up Happy Feet Walking Club, To add, remove or update a listing, email editorial@thisweek- 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Saturdays through Sept. 24. Group meets news.com. in front of the Rusty Bucket on Market Square. Meet friends, get Events fit and enjoy New Albany. The Used book sale, 9 a.m. to 4 rain location is Ultimate U Total p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at All Health, 5791 Zarley St. Email Saints Episcopal Church, 5101 Krista at kheisler@ultimateu.org.

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Morse Road. Business and proNew Albany farmers marfessional leaders who live or ket, 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays through work in the New Albany comSept. 8 at Market Square. Visit munity are welcome. www.nafarmersmarket.com.

Christian Marketplace Network Westerville Chapter, 11:30 Meetings a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Friday of Columbus Area Military each month at MCL Restaurant, Wives Club, Wednesday, Aug. 60 Westerville Square. Christians 10, at Kensington Place, Luther- in the marketplace are invited to an Village, 100-1 Parkview Blvd., attend for lunch, fellowship, Bexley. Social hour begins at prayer, networking and business 11:30 a.m., lunch begins at noon. presentations. Visitors are welNancy Wheeler will discuss her come. Call Jerry King at (614) experiences in China. For reser- 899-9870 or visit www.cmnvations, call Ann at 837-6283 or usa.org.

Mabel at 866-2625.

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of Commerce meets the third Thursday of each month. Visit www.newalbanychamber.com for the meeting time and location. To RSVP, call (614) 855-4400 or email office@newalbanychamber.com.

New Albany Communicators, a Toastmasters International Club, 6:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays of each month at Nazarene Church, 6000 Johnstown Road. Call Tammy O’Neill at (614) 551-7146 or email jtkoneill@gmail.com.

Soroptimist International of Northeast Suburban Franklin County, an organization for professional women, 6:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Mifflin Township Administrative Building, 155 Olde Ridenour Road.

Friends of Big Walnut Creek and Tributaries, 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at 4991 Johnstown Road. Contact R.C. Bostard at (614) 470-9699.

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Softball Board, 7 p.m. the first Sunday of each month at the Plain Township Fire Station, 9500 Johnstown Road.

Columbus Christian Writers Association, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at the New Albany library branch, 200 Market St. For more information, email Barbara Taylor Sanders at BTSanders@columbus.rr.com or visit www.cwacolumbus.com.

New Albany Lions Club meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 6916 Central College Road. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and a meeting follows at 7 p.m. Call (614) 855-1973.

American Legion YoungBudd Post 171 and Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the post, 393 E. College Ave. in Westerville. Guests are welcome. Call Mike Etling at (614) 891-9388 or Kim Mann (Auxiliary) at (614) 899-6052.

Network Professionals of New Albany, 8 a.m. every Tues-

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New Neighbors League of Columbus, monthly luncheon the second Tuesday of each month, get-acquainted coffee the third Wednesday. Visit www.newneighborscolumbus.com for meeting times and locations. To join, email nnlcolumbus@yahoo.com.

Power Lunch Columbus, a weekly workplace lunch-hour ministry, 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

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Clara Ave 43211 / Call Salary: $11/hr., Monday 614-863-6666 thru Friday, 8am-4:30pm.

Option of four 10-hour HELP WANTED work days after 6 months available.

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ond Monday of each month at Village Hall, 99 W. Main St. New Albany Village Council, 6 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays of each month at Village Hall, 99 W. Main St. Rocky Fork Blacklick Accord, 7 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at Village Hall, 99 W. Main St. Plain Township Board of Trustees, 7 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the Plain Township Fire Station, 9500 Johnstown Road.

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No dents/damage. AC, power windows/locks and mirrors. AM/FM disc, cruise, tilt, newer tires (35k), alarm system, new battery, new brakes (3k), 87,600 miles. $8,000.Original owner must sell - moving to Chicago and don’t need a car.Call 312-985-6030

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DRIVERS Cadillac Deville DTS, 03 Excellent condition - One Owner - Full Power Pkg, Leather. ABS brakes, Full power package (seats, locks, steering, windows), Leather interior, Simulated wood interior trim package, Front/rear air conditioning/climate control, Heated seats, Auto-dimming mirror, Bucket seats, CD/cassette, Compass, Cornering lamps, Cruise control, Daytime running lights, Fog lamps, Front/side air bags, Heated mirrors, Independent suspension, Intermittent wipers, Keyless entry, Leather steering wheel, Massaging lumbar system, Memory seating system, OnStar Communication System, Premium Bose Sound System, Premium alloy wheels, Chrome exterior trim package, Tire pressure monitoring system, Satellite Radio, Tachometer, Thermometer, Tinted windows, Traction control ACROSS 1 Look up to 7 “Zen and the __ Motorcycle Maintenance”: 1974 best-seller 12 Tournament slots 18 Gradually removed (from) 19 When Lear banishes Cordelia 20 University of Delaware mascot 21 Charity that rewards golf talent?

23 Jockey Angel 24 __ Rebellion: 1786-’87 insurrection 25 Liqueur avoring 26 Rim 27 Overly 28 Stitching on Li’l Abner’s towel?

29 Enemy 30 Feeds amply 32 Phenom 33 Treat a Saudi king with TLC? 38 Travesty 39 “Hang on a sec,” online 42 Off 43 Forearm bones 44 More than just worry 45 ’70s Struthers co-star 47 Tiffs 48 “Go y __!”

49 Sitting still 50 Terrible twos, one hopes 51 Coach Parseghian 52 Big petrol seller 55 Danish explorer Bering 56 Timid officer?

58 Hoosegow 59 Durham sch.

60 All-time RBI leader 62 Diarist Nin 64 Medical suffix 65 Cruci x 67 Miniature B-17?

71 Army doc 73 __ Romeo Spider 74 NYC-based securities gp.

75 After-school treats 76 Player with an orange and black-striped helmet 77 Junk 79 Did well on the quiz 80 “What’s My Line?” regular Francis 81 Pennsylvania university 83 Like some casks 84 Aromatherapist’s sup-

$850-$970 per week Home daily - Col OH 859-824-4050

HELP WANTED SKILLED TRADES Commercial HVAC Techni cian Needed Commercial HVAC Techni cian Must be able to pass back ground and drug test. Will be working 4-10 hour days weekly out of town.

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91 Lobster house freebies 92 Wicked one 94 Hall of Fame pool player __ Mataya Laurance 95 West Coast sch.

99 Handy communication syst.?

100 Allure rival 101 When repeated, “Hungry Like the Wolf” band 103 Greek promenades 104 Noxious fumes 106 Padding in an Easter basket?

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15 Stuffy trio?

16 Daring rescue, say 17 Grabs some shuteye 19 When many a whistle blows 20 A train?

22 “Bananaphone” singer 26 SFO listings 30 South Carolina river 31 Clicking sounds?

32 Fails to recycle 34 Black Sea port 35 Cartoonist Walker 36 Rapper __ Shakur 37 Lab container 38 “Most Wanted” org.

39 Dazzling performance 40 Vitamin A 41 Onset of boredom?

44 Giraffe relative 46 Fresh out of the box, in Berlin 47 Freshly minted 48 Like a loud crowd 50 Suffix for techno 51 Dermatologist’s cases 53 Monkeys, e.g.

54 They have all the answers 56 Computer problem 57 Big cheese 61 Bring shame to 63 Bond nemesis 66 Persian king, 522-486 B.C. 68 Unavailable, as for appointments 69 “Coffee __?”

70 Wherewithal 72 Like mil. volunteers 76 __ Cynwyd, Pa. 78 38-Down employee 79 Former Utah senator Jake who ew aboard Discovery in 1985 81 Ritchie Valens biopic 82 Apostrophe’s purpose, often 83 Curved molding 84 Role in Stone’s “JFK” 85 “Brusha, brusha, brusha” toothpaste 89 Ump’s call 90 Eggnog topping 92 Distinctive style 93 “Casablanca” heroine 96 Becomes safe to eat, in a way 97 Cornea-reshaping surgery 98 Test for purity 100 Former “Fashion Emergency” host 101 19th-century French book illustrator 102 West Coast sch.

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OWNER OPERATORS Needed to operate out of our new Columbus terminal to Chicago and return. Top pay, plate & fuel program. Tired of being treated like a robot or a number? Call us or stop by Whitacre Logis tics, LLC 2100 Watkins Rd. 614-497-2331.

HELP WANTED MEDICAL/DENTAL Dental Assistant Starting up to $1 8/hr + med + bonus, hol/vac. MF, no eves. Min 3yrs clinical exp. Must be cert.

Geriatric denistry in Cols area. Fax resume to: 440-237-3199 or Jakmieck@sbcglobal.net

FINISH DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR As a result of growth at our prescription eyewear man ufacturing lab, VSP has an opening for a Finish Department Supervisor.

The ideal candidate will typically have the following: ∂ Three years’ supervisory experience in a production/manufacturing environment utilizing lean, six sigma principles ∂ Optical experience a plus To see complete details/ apply visit www.Columbusjobs.com The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the posi tion. They are only a sum mary of the typical func tions of the job, not an ex haustive or comprehensive list of all possible job re sponsibilities, tasks or du ties. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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Must be 18 yrs or older with valid DL& proof of ins. Call 1-800-733-9675 Grounds Technician Lifestyle Property Manage ment is now hiring full-time Grounds Technicians to join our Columbus, Ohio, team! Regular work schedule is Monday through Friday. Competi tive pay, comprehensive benefits and 401k availa ble. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit: www.lifestylec ommunities.jobs, fax your resume to 614-918-2615 or email your resume to jobs @lifestylecommunities.co m.

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GROUP HOME WORKER Full-time and temporary workers needed to assist in residential program. Must be HSG or equivalent. Du ties include housekeeping, cooking and assisting cli ents in day-to-day living skills. Students encour aged to apply. Must have Ohio driver’s license/auto.

Full-time includes benefits, $8.25/hr with shift differen tial for 2nd/3rd shifts, Tem porary $10/hr., no benefits/ May work 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts, weekdays/weekends. Ap plications accepted at NCMHS, 1301 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43201; email hr@ncmhs.org or fax to 614-298-2227 EEO

HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTER

Educational organization is seeking public speakers to provide motivating presentations to high schools throughout Ohio. Individuals must be highly motivated, have excellent communication, organizational and time management skills, attention to detail, ability to travel and a positive attitude.

Excellent compensation. Average of $100 + per day and expenses 3-5 days per week work schedule.

Paid Training No cold calls Several positions available Public speaking, drama or sales backgrounds a plus Must have reliale transportation If interested call Bradford School @ 4166233

Journalism Management level with journalism background.

Computer & internet expe rience, strong writing & website mngt skills. $21.40/HR. 20 HRS/wk.

Fax resume to: 740-467-0984.

Fairfield county.

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Pawn Shop Music Sales 2740157 00-00-04

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HELP WANTED GENERAL

FT position for mature, de pendable person in music and electronics depart ment for a large, busy pawn shop. Must have re tail sales experience and knowledge of vintage & current instruments, pro sound, electronics, audio & video equipment. Pawn shop experience a plus.

614-221-7296. Email re sume to unclesams@ sbcglobal.net or FAX 614-221-6659.

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MACHINIST Industrial Pattern & Mfg. a manufacturer of Molds, Patterns, and Models located in Columbus, Ohio is recruiting for a machinist.

Requirement include: Set-up and operate various tool room equipment including but not limited to lathes and milling equipment.

Read and interpret blueprints, sketches, and drawings to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work pieces.

Ability to work independently.

Please send resume and references to Industrial Pattern & Mfg. 899 N. 20th Street Columbus, OH 43219

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Warehouse Operator A growing sign mfg. co. in Plain City is looking for a professional with ma terial handling & record keeping exp. Forklift cert. a plus. Email careers@ md-signs.com or fax 614-873-2220.

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Minimum BS/BA degree in social work/social sciences and LSW/LPC, computer proficiency and 3 yrs direct supervisory experience required. Cover letter, resume, and three current reference letters required.

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3 Famiy Garage Sale Aug 6, 9a-5p, Gahanna 158 Imperial Dr, Off Agler Royal Manor Subdivision Lots of clothes never worn., furn., movies & misc Academy Ridge Community Sale Gahanna Hamilton/Beecher Rd Saturday Aug 6th 9a-4p

GIGANTIC Multi Family Garage Sale Aug. 5 & 6, 8am-1pm 1201 Smoke Burr Dr. Westerville, Ohio 43081 Tools, toys, bb gloves, glassware, garden equip., golf clubs, cllctbls, log bed clothing, shoes, hh items and MUCH MUCH more!

Huge 3 Family Sale Olde Mill Community Sat. August 6, 9am-4pm 700 Pepper Ct, WV Tons of stuff!!!

BIG TYPE Makes you look twice!

MULTI FAMILY SALE 6794 Havens Corners Rd, Blacklick 43004. Fri. Aug 5Sat Aug 6, 8a-4p. Electron ics, DVDs 4/$10, couch, dressers, end tables, bikes, excercise eqpt, entertainmt stands, washer, collectibles, home decor & more!

APPLE VALLEY Waterfront Home - on 1.5 lots,4 BR/ 3 BA, 4 seasn snrm 3-cr grg, 3 boat slps, $330,000 OPEN HOUSE Sun 8/14, 1-3 pm. 2863 Apple Valley Dr. 740-326-1937 7 week old goldendoodle puppies range from cream to red. Vet checked, first shots, de-wormed, heartguard, and frontline. $500.00Call 614-668-7162

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ELLIPTICAL SPORTA 805P. SPORTA 805P EL LIPTICAL - LIKE NEW CONDITION- VERY LITTLE USE - ORIGINAL PRICE $1,999.00. ASKING $900.00FOR MORE IN FORMATION CALL 740/524-5671

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F1B LABRADOODLES. Chocolate & Charcoal. M & F. Vet checked w/shots. 2 year health gaurantee.

Family raised. CKC. MUST SEE!!6148326021 or 6148322631 Norweigan Elkhound Puppies AKC, 6 wks old, shots & wormed, cute & adorable Females $350 Males $300 330-897-7761 Pomeranian male 2 months old . ckc reg. 250.

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NEW ALBANY LINKS Great 1st flr mstr pln on quiet street across from park area in NA Links! Dramatic foyer & GR w/amazing windows & built-ins flanking frplc opens to casual DR & kit. 1st flr library/den w/glass French drs, white kitchen, corian cntrs, hdwd flrs throughout 1st flr, neutral decor.Loft on 2nd could convert to BR #4. Full excav. LL.

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Offered at: $149,900 M. Kate & Tony Thomas, 939-1234

Offered at $892,000 M. Kate & Tony Thomas, 939-1234

NEW PRICE! Just North of New Albany. A beautiful lot for This one has it all! Remarkable home backing to woods on a wonderful home! New Albany Plain Local School quiet street with no thru traffic. Amazing architecture detail throughout with walk out lower level, carriage District & Westerville Taxes. suite, chef’s kitchen, cherry floors, screened porch, upper and lower patios, four fireplaces breakfast sun room.

Really a stunning home!

Offered at $319,900 M. Kate & Tony Thomas, 939-1234

Beautifully maintained and updated home in sought after Pembrooke neighborhood. Flooded with natural light, this open floor plan is great for daily living and entertaining.

Gourmet kitch, study, carriage suite, hrdwd flrs on 1 + MB suite. Current owners added LL, bar and theater, expanded and enhanced the patio.

Offered at: $798,000 M. Kate & Tony Thomas, 939-1234 2-4 NA AY AN ND , GAH U S E EN TO OP ISTLE M 638

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Well kept, updated bi-level home on a quiet cul de sac. This comfortable home has been painted & updated with new appliances, flooring, fixtures, doors, landscaping, railings, and more.

Conveniently located.

Come take a look Sunday Aug 7th Open House 2 – 4.

A true gem in Pickett Place with over 3900 SF above ground! This lovely, immaculately kept home offers a 1st floor master suite, large gourmet kitchen with granite counters, hardwood flooring, ample natural light, 2nd floor loft space, 1st floor laundry, fully excavated LL & back patio with lovely gardens.

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Stately home with private backyard and golf course views. 1st fl. master with sitting area and fireplace, dual WIC’s and large master bath, private back yard and patio. Dual staircase to large kitchen with center island, SS appl. Family room with fireplace. Wood paneled den, finished LL.

Well kept, updated bi-level home on a quiet cul de sac. This comfortable home has been painted & updated with new appliances, flooring, fixtures, doors, landscaping, railings, and more. Conveniently located. Come take a look Sunday Aug 7th Open House 2 – 4.

Offered at $411,000 Jean Lesnick @ 537-5376

Offered at $519,900 Jean Lesnick 614-537-5376

Offered at $889,000 Jean Lesnick @ 537-5376

Offered at $139,999 Jean Lesnick @ 537-5376

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NORTH OF WOODS

NORTH OF WOODS

North of Woods all brick 5bdrm 4.1bath 3 car garage home steps away from ogden woods park.

Fresh New Carpet, New Paint. 5209 sqft finished including LL w/ full bath. Large owners suite w/ sitting area & built-ins. Kitchen open to morning room & family room. Formal living room, formal dining room, formal study.

Perfect home in North of Woods. 5 Bedroom, 5.5 bath home with new flooring, paint, kitchen & more. Vaulted great room, vaulted master suite, perfect condition inside & out. Finished lower level w/ media area & walk-in wine cellar.

BRANDON

Classic Georgian-Palladian Home steps from the Golf Course, NACC & Market Street shopping.

6333 sqft finished in this 6 bdrm 6.1 ba home.

4 car garage. 3 frplc. Marble Entry & Brazilian Cherry floors. LRG Kitchen w/ new appliances.

Finished Lower Level w/ full bath, bedroom, exercise room, media room.

Offered at $849,800 Alan Hinson at 348-8000

Offered at $585,800 Alan Hinson at 348-8000

Offered at $679,800 Alan Hinson at 348-8000

Offered at $2,050,800 Alan Hinson at 348-8000

ASHTON GROVE

FENWAY

LAMBTON PARK

WIVELISCOMBE

Shows like an art gallery! Owner invested over 250k in remodeling! Virtually every inch redone inc amazing kitch/ hearth rm/great rm combo. Spa mstr w/hdwd flrs & frplc.

3 Season rm w/ high ceilings, slate flrs & frplce. Outdoor living w/ blue slate patio, 4th fpl, incredible outdoor oasis.

Close stroll to trails/village.

Charming cape cod home on wooded lot across from private permanent reserve space! First floor master w/ updated master bath, private 1st floor den w/ fireplace, beautiful hardwood floors, huge formal dr, spacious updated kitchen w/ granite counters & stainless appliances, two story great room! New a/c & generator!

Stunning estate home on 1.054 Acre lot w/stream. Over 400k in 2011 remodeling and additional land acquisition!

Brand new chef’s kitchen, large formal dr, open gr w/fplc, sunny florida rm w/exposed brick wall, beautiful bridal staircase, private 1st flr den, master retreat w/fabulous new walk in closet/dressing room.

Beautiful custom built one owner home in semi gated enclave, close stroll to market st, nacountry club & leisure trails. Great condition & neutral throughout. Large ktchn open to gr, exc master w/frplc + 2 suites w/private ba’s on second flr, 2nd flr laundry! Guest ste/4th br over garage, natural landscape & terrace!

Offered at $625,000 Call Mark Neff at 402-8929

Offered at $539,000 Call Mark Neff at 402-8929

Offered at $1,500,000 Call Mark Neff at 402-8929

Offered starting at $999,000 Call Mark Neff at 402-8929

BEXLEY

WATERSTON

TIVERTON

No detail overlooked in this complete 2001 renovation.

Enjoy the character and detail of an old house with all of the technology of a new house. Breathtaking oversized lot with complete privacy. Potential live in apartment over detached garage and amazing master suite and upstairs study.

Custom built w/ in-ground saltwater pool on lrg lot!

Elegant appts inc. flr-to-clg wd panld study, lrg granite/ stainless chef’s kitchen, 1st & 2nd flr laundry, generous rm, luxry MBR w/sittg rm,carr. ste w/ LR/BR/ BA & priv stairs. Fnsh LL w/ bar, 5th BR, BA, theatre & huge rec rms.

Private fenced backyard w/ patio, & pool & outdr FP!

LOOK AGAIN! Extensive work just completed Jan 2011.

Quality Guzzo custom build beautifully fnshed w/ awesome views of NACC golf course, lrg crnr lot, rare 3rd flr w/ full bath, granite/stainless kitchen w/ Viking applcs inc. prof. range, wrmng drwr, wine refrig; fnshed LL w/ home theatre. Motivated SellerBring Offer!

CLINTONVILLE

Offered at $2,900,000 Jane Kessler Lennox @ 939-8938

Offered at $1,399,000 Jane Kessler Lennox @ 939-8938

Offered at $1,199,000 Jane Kessler Lennox @ 939-8938

Exceptional home built by Kevin Knight on a golf course lot w/ sweeping views of water, woods & wetlands. open floor plan with detailed woodwork throughout. 1st floor owner suite w/ private screened porch. Terrific lower level w/ exercise room, media room, bar & vented card room w/ built in humidor & wine locker.

Cutest House in Clintonville! Lots of upgrds-updatd kitchen w/ new counters, sink & ss applcs, great brzway off kitchn, deep shelvg in MBR clsts, new clset orgnzrs, 2nd lvl blcny/deck, freshly painted interior, new glass blck bsmt wndws, lrg frnt prch w/ new stone garden bed, deck & patio & large fncd bckyrd, well-maintained.

Offered at $239,999 Jane Kessler Lennox @ 939-8938

Alan Hinson

Mark Neff

Jane Kessler Lennox

Kate & Tony Thomas

614-348-8000

614-402-8929

614-939-8938

614-939-1234

614-537-5376

AlanH@newalbanyrealty.com

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Jean Lesnick