February 24, 2011
CAC election panel calls for candidates By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
The members of the Clintonville Area Commission’s election committee late last week issued a formal call for candidates to run in Districts 1, 2 and 9. The formal election date will be Saturday, May 7, but the committee members decided upon two additional in-person voting days and, after some reluc-
tance, a mail-in balloting process. Potential candidates must be over 18 and reside in the district in which they wish to run. These districts are defined as follows: District 1 is bounded on the south by the Glen Echo Ravine, on the east by the railroad tracks just east of Indianola, on the north by the center line of Weber Road, and on the west by the center line of North High Street.
District 2 is bounded on the south by the Glen Echo Ravine, on the east by the center line of High Street, on the north by the center line of Orchard Lane, and on the west by the Olentangy River. District 9 is bounded on the south by the north line of Sharon Township and the eastward projection of the south line of Sharon Township, west of North High Street, and by the center line of Georgetown Drive and its westward projection
and the south line of the State Schools for the Blind and Deaf, east of North High Street, on the east by the railroad tracks just east of Indianola, on the north by the city limits of Worthington, and on the west by the Olentangy River and the east line of Sharon Township. Those districts are currently represented, respectively, by Mike McLaughlin, Sarah Snyder and D Searcy. To declare candidacy, interested per-
sons may pick up a candidate packet, including nominating petition, at the Whetstone Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, 3909 N. High St. The 2011 election will be held May 7 at the Whetstone Library beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. The votes will be counted by members of the committee, beginning at 2:15 at the library. See CAC CALLS, page A5
Tagger’s jail sentence termed ‘step in the right direction’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
By Chris Parker/ThisWeek
The Clintonville Historical Society has installed a display along the wall inside the Longview Barber Shop, located at 3324 N. High St., that depicts the history of the community. (Below) The barber shop is the oldest business in the neighborhood.
Clintonville’s oldest business ‘keeping it basic’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Right about the time people were being cut off from legally drinking liquor in the United States, the first head of hair was cut at Longview Barber Shop. Prohibition has long been a thing of the past, but Clintonville’s oldest continually operated business is poised to carry on into the future. Mark Twain wrote: “All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. These never change. What one experiences in a barber’s shop the first time he enters one is what he always experiences in barbers’ shops afterward till the end of his days.” “I think for us it starts with keeping it basic, focusing on good haircuts,” Dave Carty said last week. Carty is the current and seventh owner of
92-year-old Longview Barber Shop. This is not only an old barber shop, but also an old-school one. The “bzzz” of clippers mixes with the buzz of conversation as sports and sports figures get kicked around by the barbers, the customers in the chairs and those waiting their turns.
Ohio State men’s basketball coach Thad Matta was in for a trim last week, the day after his squad beat Michigan State to avenge their first loss of the season. Was it true, a customer wanted to know, that star freshman Jared Sullinger was spit on by fans in Wisconsin after the team went
down to defeat on the road? Matta’s barber neglected to ask. Current owner Carty, 36, grew up in the village of Plymouth outside Mansfield. He jokes that he became a barber because his teachers used to inform him he would never be able to make a living talking and watching television. He attended barber school in Shelby. “There’s quite a legacy in this shop,” Carty said last week. “It’s something that we’re really aware of through our customers. “They keep you honest.” To celebrate that long legacy, the Longview Barber Shop is currently celebrating the legacy of the entire Clintonville neighborhood. Adorning the walls of the shop at 3325 N. High is a timeline display, courtesy of the Clintonville Historical Society, that traces from Northwest Territory days to 1919, the year
A total of 14 people turned out for last week’s introductory meeting to the Safe Routes to School effort in Clintonville. Elizabeth Smith, chairwoman of the committee of the nonprofit organization Safer Streets for All, said she was delighted. She was hoping that maybe five people would show up.
“I was thrilled to see how many people were there,” Smith said. “Everybody was very positive, very excited about Safe Routes to Schools. It looked like it got off to a good start.” Among those attending was Clintonville Area Commission District 1 representative Mike McLaughlin, who serves as liaison to the education committee. “I think there was enough enthusiasm there … that another meeting was scheduled to continue the conversation,” McLaughlin said. “All those at-
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See SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, page A4
See PORTAL PARKS, page A4
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Meeting set for business owners near Portal Park
tending came away more educated, but I know that we need to get more organizations involved. There’s a lot more work that needs to be done.” That next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the offices of Consider Biking, 4041 N. High St. Safe Routes to School is a national program based at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. Its goals are not only
Leader felt first meeting was a success ThisWeek Community Newspapers
See TAGGER’S JAIL SENTENCE, page A3
A meeting has been scheduled to advise business owners along North High Street in the vicinity of Clintonville Portal Park on how best to handle panhandlers, vagrants and homeless people who sometimes congregate there. The information session is set for Thursday, March 3, at 3 p.m. in the Charity Newsies building, 4300 Indianola Ave. The gathering grew out of an ongoing series of meetings that have been held between Columbus Recreation and Parks officials with representatives of the Clintonville and University area commissions over perceived problems relating to the .15-acre facility. City officials stepped in early in 2010 to settle a growing dispute between the two area commissions relating to Portal Park, which was paid for and created under the auspices of the Clintonville panel,
See LONGVIEW, page A5
Safe Routes to School By KEVIN PARKS
When Dave Southan became a member of the Clintonville Area Commission nearly seven years ago, graffiti was, at it is today, a problem in the neighborhood. Through connections he made with members of the University Area Commission, Southan got involved in a program that paired adults with juvenile offenders ordered to do community service for “tagging.” After a 20-foot “mural” of a woman’s face, her long, dark hair containing the signatures or “tags” of the youths who had created it, appeared on a building south of Studio 35 on Indianola Avenue, Southan was asked to supervise a young boy ordered to cover it up. The youth was reluctant to do so because the “mural” was the work of others, Southan recalled. “ ‘We have a code. This is art,’ ” Southan said the youth informed him. “I said, ‘No, this is graffiti. It’s vandalism, and it’s criminal.’ ” The boy spent the next two hours applying enamel paint with a roller to cover up what even Southan admitted was a beautiful piece of artwork — if it weren’t for the tags.
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