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Community Calendar
Arts and Entertainment
March 4 Grandview Lights & Flights 5-9 p.m. The Candle Lab 1255 Grandview Ave. www.thecandlelab.com
March 4 UA Historical Society presents author Richard Rothstein 7-8 p.m. Jones Middle School 2100 Arlington Ave. www.uahistory.org
March 4-27 Concourse Gallery: Middle Schools Show Concourse Gallery & Arlington Hall 3600 Tremont Rd. www.upperarlingtonoh.gov
March 5-7 The Music Man Various times Grandview Heights High School 1587 W. Third Ave. www.ghschools.org
March 5-8 Arnold Sports Festival Throughout Columbus www.arnoldsportsfestival.com
March 7 OMN Synergy Conference 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Upper Arlington High School 1650 Ridgeview Rd. www.ohioministry.net
March 7 EveryDay Inspired MeetUp: GRL PWR + Self Defense 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Haven Collective 2025 Riverside Dr. www.thebeautyboost.net
High, Low, Fast, Slow: A Family Music Concert
March 10-17 Adventures Alive: Virtual Scavenger Hunt Grandview Center 1515 Goodale Dr. www.grandviewheights.org
March 15 2020 Spring Bridal Soiree 1-4 p.m. The Grand Event Center at Grandview Yard 820 Goodale Blvd. www.eventbrite.com
March 22 Semi-Annual Pub Trivia Contest 1-5 p.m. Smokehouse Brewing Company 1130 Dublin Rd. www.trivillagelionsclub.org
April 2-25 Concourse Gallery: High School Show Concourse Gallery & Arlington Hall 3600 Tremont Rd. www.upperarlingtonoh.gov
Reading to Rover
April 4 Central Ohio String Festival 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Upper Arlington High School 1650 Ridgeview Rd. www.uaschools.org
April 11 Easter Egg Hunt 10-11 a.m. Wyman Woods Park 1520 Goodale Blvd. www.grandviewheights.org
April 25 Northam Park Tennis Open House 1-5 p.m. Northam Park Tennis Courts 2070 Northam Rd. www.upperarlingtonoh.gov Photos courtesy of Arnold Sports Festival, ProMusic Chamber Orchestra and James DeCamp
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April 26 Columbus Dessert Festival 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Grand Event Center at Grandview Yard 820 Goodale Blvd. www.midwestdessertfests.com
April 29 UAHS Spring Band Concert 7-8:30 p.m. Upper Arlington High School 1650 Ridgeview Rd. www.uaschools.org
To submit your event for next issue’s calendar, contact rfalleti@cityscene columbus.com
Upper Arlington Public Library www.ualibrary.org
March 5 Cooking With Books 7-8:30 p.m., Tremont Road Library, Meeting Room B
April 2 Basics of Microsoft OneDrive Noon-1 p.m., Tremont Road Library, Meeting Room B
March 10 Reading to Rover 7-8 p.m., Miller Park Library
March 23-27 Last Minute Service Hours Main Library
March 26 Peeps Science 4-5 p.m., Lane Road Library
April 2 Cooking With Books 7-8:30 p.m., Tremont Road Library, Meeting Room B
April 14 Reading to Rover 7-8 p.m., Miller Park Library
April 25 High, Low, Fast, Slow: A Family Music Concert 2-3 p.m., Main Library, Friends Theater
Grandview Heights Public Library 1685 W. First Ave., www.ghpl.org
March 2-May 18 Monday Mash-Ups 3:15-4:15 p.m., Mondays except March 23
March 2-30 Game On film series 6-8:30 p.m.
March 3 Seed Starting with Tim McDermott 7-8 p.m.
March 10 1-on-1 Career Coaching 4-7 p.m.
March 18 Red Cross Blood Drive 1-7 p.m.
April 7 Hocking Hills Day Hikes with Mary Reed 7-8 p.m.
April 9 Super Smash Ultimate Tournament 3:15-5 p.m.
March/April 2020 • www.trivillagemagazine.com April 9 30th Annual Music in the Atrium Indoor Concert Series – Will Freed 7-8 p.m.
April 14 We Shall Overcome: Essays on a Great American Song with Victor Bobetsky 7-8 p.m.
April 16 All About Herbs with Stacey Bergmann 7-8 p.m.
April 18 ACT Crash Course 10:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
News & Information from Upper Arlington
UPPER ARLINGTON inside
A Factory of Leadership Leadership UA seeks to inspire the next generation of community leaders
By Brendan Martin
What makes a good leader? For more than 30 years, Leadership UA has led the way in identifying hundreds of them. This program guides Upper Arlington residents to understand their community and learn how to make a better impact.
“It was designed to educate, engage and inspire current and emerging leaders to take an active role in our community as an extension of services to the city and break down the infrastructure of how the city works,” says Natalie Boe, executive director of Leadership UA.
Starting every September, members attend three hour long meetings twice a month for eight months. Meetings often involve administrators from schools, public service providers and city councilors. These meetings provide valuable insight into the city of Upper Arlington.
“We try to challenge the classes to add value and try and enhance our community,” Boe says. “Some folks do it for networking, others are aspiring leaders, others have met the top.”
Last September, Mayor Kip Greenhill, acting City Manager Dan Ralley and Director of Finance Brent Lewis attended a Leadership UA meeting to discuss the inner workings of the city. Topics ranged from taxes to the community as a whole.
Residents can network with aspiring community leaders at Candidates Night.
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Meetings often involve administrators from schools, public service providers and city councilors.
“It’s so important, especially as our city council continues to be transparent to residents and it sheds additional insight into the community,” Boe says.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Leadership UA is its Candidates Night. The event brings together the community and candidates running for office. At this free, public forum, residents have the opportunity to listen and network with aspiring leaders of the community.
“Leadership UA provides a good diverse blend of community representation,” Boe says.
While this program has many benefits for its adult members, Leadership UA also leads a high school program. The Leadership UA Youth Program runs for eight weeks from January to April. Students get the chance to create and implement community projects. Proceeds are donated to various causes including the Mid-Ohio Food Collective and the American Red Cross.
“We hope participants become advocates and learn to understand what is happening in our community,” Boe says. “If I would ask the folks from last year, they would say they’ve built some tight relationships with people they may have never met.”
Reengineering the Cheer Marble Cliff residents use robotics to bring holiday tradition to life
While most kids spend the summer time relaxing and enjoying the much-deserved time off, two Marble Cliff residents and current seniors at Grandview Heights High School, Carter Taylor and James Elliot, took a different approach.
From June through November, the two were tasked with providing movement and lights for six giant nutcrackers for the BalletMet Nutcracker Ball held in December 2019. The nutcrackers were originally a part of the State Auto Insurance holiday display in downtown Columbus until 2018 when they were donated to BalletMet.
Elliot and Taylor are members of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics team for GHHS, coached by Grant Douglass. They were able to take the
March/April 2020 • www.trivillagemagazine.com James Elliot (left) and Carter Taylor (right)
knowledge gained from their experience and bring life to the once dormant decorations by adding moving parts and lights.
“We rebuilt the entire inside of the nutcracker,” Taylor says. “No one had any information on where they were manufactured or even the year. Leaving it up to us to search the internet to try and find parts and mechanisms that would fit together correctly.” The project began as a puzzle, putting pieces together and then making all new bearings, gears, and internal linkages. Elliot mentions that the power and light systems were replaced as well. Once the project wrapped in November, it was put on display at a fundraising event in December for BalletMet.
“We had no information manual to look at for the schematics of the nutcrackers,” Elliot says. “We created that based on the leftover parts, and then redesigned a similar system using modern components.”
The two plan on continuing their engineering education in college this fall. Elliot plans to attend The Ohio State University to study electrical engineering and Taylor plans to study mechanical engineering at Miami University of Ohio.
“Having to organize our project and create timelines for the work progress are valuable skills for college and our careers,” Taylor says. “We learned that you need to keep on pushing, sometimes we felt like we were going to give up, but we kept on going and, eventually, we got the job done.”
News & Information from the City of Grandview Heights
GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS inside www.grandviewheights.org
By Sarah Robinson
St. Patrick’s Day Challenge Discover the Lost Treasure of ZaGR
With St. Patrick’s Day quickly approaching, the luck of the Irish is in the air in Grandview. We all have our favorite Irish traditions, from green beer and leprechaun hunts to searching for a pot o’ gold at the end of a rainbow.
The Grandview Heights Parks & Recreation department gets into the spirit with a community Leprechaun Hunt. This year, the event is venturing into new, unexplored territory: virtual adventures.
With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Tuesday, Recreation Supervisor Taylor Lindsey says it is the perfect time for a change. The new adventure will begin March 10 and participants have one week to explore at their own pace.
Using an app and an adventure booklet with virtual clues, hunters will solve brain teasers and puzzles to unlock coordinates of significant locations throughout Grandview. There will be check-ins at each location to discover new clues in search of the Lost Treasure of ZaGR. Though there won’t be any leprechauns running around, there will be a pot of gold for the winners.
“I’m really excited to see the kids get out and explore the community just in time for spring,” Lindsey says.
The hunt is hosted by Adventures Alive and facilitated by Grandview Heights Parks & Recreation. Adventures Alive is a multimedia experience founded by Grandview Heights resident Joe Buscemi. He saw an opportunity for innovation in the way his kids engaged with devices.
Buscemi wanted to develop a fun, creative and enriching experience that would captivate their imagination and immerse them in learning. Clearly, he struck gold with this idea. Sarah Robinson is an editorial assistant. Feedback welcome at feedback@ cityscenemediagroup.com. Registration is now open. Sign up at www.grandviewheights.org/onlinereg. Pick up your packet from the Grandview Center March 1-10 and you’ll be sent a code for the app that will guide you through the adventure. You have until St. Patrick’s Day on March 17 to find the treasure. Let the hunt begin!
The virtual scavenger hunt will look to continue the success of the Leprechaun Hunt.
