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July 21, 2011
SR-161 litter collection event set for July 30 By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Dave Cooper scratched his head. “I really don’t remember if I got less or more,” the chairman of the Northland Area Business Association’s SR-161 Task Force said last week. More is always better when it comes to a regularly scheduled Northland Community Cleanup Day on state Route 161. The next one is set for Saturday, July 30. Cooper couldn’t recall if the summer months and accompanying vacation times mean he gets fewer volunteers, but in any event, plenty of hands are needed between 9 a.m. and noon on July 30. Volunteers should assemble at
the Sharon Woods Center behind the Jiffy Lube at 1800 E. DublinGranville Road to receive bags, gloves, safety vests and pickup tools before heading out to collect trash and debris from shoulders and culverts along a stretch of one of Northland’s main corridors between Interstate 71 and Ponderosa Drive. Brightly colored clothing and study footwear that’s waterproof is recommended for volunteers. The cleanup days are scheduled in advance of city personnel mowing the medians so that the materials aren’t shredded. The community project is presented by the Northland Community Council’s landscaping and beautification committee, with support from Keep Columbus
Beautiful, the Northland Area Business Association and the SR-161 Task Force. “If someone who normally volunteers is not going to be available, could they ask someone to step in for them?” Cooper said. “That would be very helpful.” Newcomers are also welcome, he added. “We certainly want to encourage anyone who hasn’t done it before to take advantage of this beautiful weather and step up to help us,” Cooper said. “Because the weather is nice, there are a lot more people out and about, so there’s a tendency for the litter to increase.” For more information, contact Cooper at 888-2201 or cleanupday@myncc.org.
Artists form group to have studio, with lots of extras Continued from page A1 But that’s exactly what popped out of Ryan Agnew’s mouth during a group interview last week about a recent installation by absent member Jesse Hemminger, who created mobility in the work using the small electrical charge that can be derived from pickled cabbage. For one thing, none of these artists ARE just one thing. “We all have broader practices,” Sones said. “Each of us has more than one medium or more than one practice we’re interested in.” The current lineup of itlookslikeitsopen members includes Sones of Columbus, Herb Vincent Peterson of the Westgate neighborhood, Northland resident Jessica Larva, Agnew of Old North Columbus and Clintonville residents Shiflet, Josephson and Hemminger. They’re all in their 30s, but just barely; Agnew, at 33, is the oldest while the rest are all either 31 or 32. What has become an intriguingly named nongallery in the former home of Skreened T-shirt shop, now on North High Street, dates back several years to a time when Peterson and fellow founder Jamie Boyle, who has since moved away, were working together at a studio south of German Village. They would, as friends will, “come up with crazy ideas,” Peterson recalled. “Really, it was all about trying to make money in some crazy ways,” he said. “One day I said, ‘Well, we need a place to make all these things. I need a place or I’m going to die.’ ” They couldn’t let that happen so Boyle and Peterson began searching for a place, soon assisted by Agnew. “Really, what it was about, I missed the camaraderie of graduate school,” Peterson said. “We knew that as a group we could pull (money) together and have a place worth being at.” The first place they found, near the intersection of Maynard Avenue and Summit Street, didn’t quite come up to that threshold. “It had some structural problems,” Peterson said, and they soon got out of the lease. Another one time itlookslikeitsopen member since departed, Adele Mattern, used to live a short distance from the original location for Skreened and became aware when the space became vacant. “We lucked out,” Agnew said. Larva joined itlookslikeitsopen after one of the
previous members moved on. She knew Peterson from their days at Ohio Dominican University. “I wanted to be part of the conversation they were having,” she said. “Those conversations are really important to our practice,” Peterson said. These artists use a broad brush for what they consider art to be. Josephson, for example, leads monthly meditation classes in the East Tulane space. Since opening itlookslikeitsopen, the members have put on shows — although it’s definitely not a gallery — had yoga classes, held “video support group” meetings, hosted improvisation gatherings, put on concerts and more, according to Sones. The key to their identity, she said, is that they have no specific identity. That clears that up. But what about the name? “We never wanted to be a brand, but we branded ourselves,” Peterson said. “I don’t really know how to explain it. We needed a website. We wanted a website.” Since everyone had separate ideas of what they wanted and needed the space to be other, other than not a gallery, many different ideas were kicked around, and somehow itlookslikeitsopen came out on top. “We never wanted to be one specific space,” Peterson said. What they would like to be, in the words of Shiflet, who holds Tuesday evening events for sound artists, is the “epicenter for young, emerging artists.” “I think the emerging part is a very important part of that,” Sones commented. To that end, itlookslikeitsopen members have hosted receptions for shows by young artists. “Sometimes it’s more important for the artists to see their work more than anyone else,” Larva said. “When they can see their own work on the wall, it helps them even if there wasn’t a reception.” By the same token, it hasn’t been all young artists. “We’ve also allowed this space to be a forum for older artists who have mentored us,” Agnew said. One thing they don’t do is rent out the space. “No weddings or bar mitzvahs,” Larva said. People interested in seeing art and experiences happen might want to stop by 13 E. Tulane Road sometime. It might be open, looks notwithstanding.
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SHARON WOODS Continued from page A1 Out Gathering from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2. It will be held at Church of the Good Shepherd, 6176 Sharon Woods Blvd., and will feature hot dogs, games and, as a special treat for children, Nate the Magician doing tricks and making balloon animals, according to Roger D. Heckel of the Beechcroft Lions Club, which is providing the entertainment. “It’s the support of the Lions Club or we probably wouldn’t be able to do that,” Wood said. Featured speakers this year will include City Attorney Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr. and Assistant City Attorney Brandon Shroy, Northland Community Council president Dave Paul, former Northland Area Business Association president Dave Cooper and neighborhood liaison officer Larry Geis of the Columbus Division of Police. Some of the speakers will be offering updates on business and neighborhood activities along nearby East Dublin-Granville Road, according to Heckel. Sharon Woods and many other Northland-area neighborhoods will join in observing the 28th annual National Night Out, a crime- and drug-prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch. The yearly gatherings, according to the sponsoring organization’s website, are intended to: • Heighten crime- and drugprevention awareness.
• Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs. • Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships. • Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. The Sharon Woods Block Watch event, which will take place rain or shine, is open to all residents. “Learn all you can about protecting your family and your community,” states a sign that went up throughout the neighborhood. In her time as Block Watch coordinator, Wood said Sharon Woods residents have come to recognize her. They stop on her
the street and tell her what they’ve observed and what they’re looking out for as a result of communicating with their neighbors, she said. “It’s helping, I think, to reduce crime in our area,” Wood said. “I think knowing what to do is very key. I give them four phone numbers that are the important ones. You don’t have to know the number of every department. “Maybe you have a minor crime, something’s missing from your yard or your car was broken into. You don’t have to take up the time of a police officer,” she said. “You can go online and file it. We try to stress the importance of reporting, and we have had super response from the police department.”
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