February 24, 2011
Grandview Heights Planning Commission
Approval of art studio’s site plan considered By ALAN FROMAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers Grandview Heights Planning Commission Feb. 16 tabled a request for approval of a major site plan of the building and site at 1050 W. Goodale Blvd. Open Door Art Studio, an adult day rehabilitation center that operates as an art studio for adults with developmental disabilities, is planning to move its operations to the Goodale site. The studio is a program of Columbus
Center for Human Services, Inc. Open Door is now located at 1365 W. First A closer look Ave. The center is purchasing the building Open Door Art Studio, an adult on Goodale. In November, the comday rehabilitation center that mission granted Columbus Center for operates as an art studio for Human Services a conditional use and adults with developmental disabiliparking variance for the Goodale site. ties, is planning to move its operaWhile pleased with Open Door’s plans tions to the Goodale site. to move to the Goodale site, commission members expressed concerns about Commission members suggested the the art studio’s plans for the building’s studio could do more to make its operexterior.
ation more noticeable to motorists and pedestrians traveling along Goodale. Suggestions included locating a larger entrance door at the front of the building and enlarging the front windows. Representatives of the studio agreed to meet in a workshop setting with commission members Robert Wandel and George Acock in advance of the commission’s next meeting to review the concerns about the design. The studio could then present a revised design at the commission’s
March meeting. In other business last week, the commission approved three requests relating to Dr. William Thompson’s plan to purchase the building and lot adjacent to his Grandview Dental Care practice at 1220 Grandview Ave. The commission approved a lot consolidation, conditional use to add a residential component to the property and a parking variance to the requirement See APPROVAL, page A3
Portrait recognizes Cincione’s long service By ALAN FROMAN ThisWeek Staff Writer The Grandview Heights Public Library recently honored library board of trustees president Al Cincione with the unveiling of a portrait. The portrait of Cincione was painted by former Grandview resident and library staff member Peggy Eagle. The painting is temporarily on display by the elevator on the library’s second floor. It will be moved later to its permanent location in the quiet reading room. Cincione has served on the library board for 40 years and as the board’s president since 1990. “It’s a very nice tribute and a great honor,” he said. “I appreciate it very much.” It was particularly meaningful to have Eagle paint his portrait, Cincione said, because he and her husband were boyhood friends. “I grew up in Grandview and I’m sure I must have spent a lot of time at the library as a kid,” he said. “I know what an important role in this community the library plays. It’s a pleasure to be able See CINCIONE, page A3
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Phoebe Baker, left, a freshman at Grandview Heights High School, sophomore Lauren Jones and juniors Claudia Esber and Brenna McLaughlin portray photographs in a mansion during a rehearsal of the musical “The Secret Garden” at the school Feb. 19. The school will present the show March 3-5.
GHHS to stage musical ‘Secret Garden’ By ALAN FROMAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers Grandview Heights High School will present “The Secret Garden” as its spring musical March 3-5. Performances will be held at 8 p.m. March 3 and 4 and at 2 and 8 p.m. on March 5. Center section general admission tickets cost $10 and side section tickets are $8. Students can purchase general admission tickets for the March
3 performance for $5. “The Secret Garden” is based on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It tells the story of Mary, an orphan girl who comes to live at the home of her uncle and cousin where she discovers a magical secret walled garden. “It’s a departure from the kind of shows we’ve been doing in recent years,” vocal music director Andrew Grega said. “If you’re looking for the big exciting choreographed dance numbers, you won’t find it here. ‘The Secret Garden’ has some seri-
Edison students learn a lesson about science in the workplace
ous themes about the living and the dead. There are parts of the story dealing with loss that everyone at some point has to deal with in their life.” The original plan was to mount a production of “The Wiz” this year, artistic director Hillary Billups said. “We didn’t decide to change to ‘The Secret Garden’ until the week of call backs,” she said. “The kids came to the auditions prepared for ‘The See GHHS, page A4
By ALAN FROMAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Friends of Library The public sale will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 12 and 1 to 3 p.m. March 13. The price for hardback books will be $1 at the preview sale and $2 at the public sale. Paperbacks will cost 50 cents each throughout the weekend. The sale items include discarded materials from the library’s collection and donations from library supporters, Freudenriech said. “The book donations are actually
Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Edison Intermediate/Middle School learned more about how people use science in their jobs Feb. 18 during the school’s first Science Career Day. Sixteen presenters who work in a variety of fields — some directly related to science, others not — participated in the event. “We wanted to help students see the practical uses of science, that it’s not just something you learn in the classroom or use to answer questions on a test,” said sixth-grade science teacher Vicki Dunlevy. Dunlevy coordinated the career day program with fifth-grade science teacher Jill Walker. The professionals who participated in the program included everyone from a chemist and emer-
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Book sale will also offer discarded computers By ALAN FROMAN ThisWeek Community Newspapers Along with the usual assortment of books, DVDs and compact discs, the upcoming Friends of the Grandview Library book sale will offer something different for bargain hunters. A number of computers discarded by the library will also be for sale, said Ben Freudenriech, fundraising chair for the Friends. “These are computers that are about five years old. They still work fine on
the Internet, but have a small problem, like the floppy disk drive not A closer look working quite right,” he said. Although the price of the computers has not been set, Freudenriech said The semi-annual book sale will he expects they will be available for take place March 11-13 at the library. A preview sale for memaround $100. bers of the Friends will be held “Quite a bargain,” he said. The semi-annual book sale will take from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March place March 11-13 at the library. A 11. preview sale for members of the Friends will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 door and get to choose from the best p.m. March 11. selection before the regular sale be“You can join the Friends at the gins,” Freudenriech said.
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