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February 24, 2011

Resolution would protect city police

By BONNIE BUTCHER ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Powell City Council member Don Grubbs has introduced a resolution to “reject the disbanding of the city of Powell police department and its assimilation by the Delaware County Sheriff’s office.”

Grubbs’ resolution will be on council’s March 1 agenda. Grubbs provided copies of the resolution to fellow coun-

cil members at their Feb. 15 meeting, but not in time for it to get on that meeting’s agenda.

The resolution references council member Sara Marie Bren- Don ner’s Feb. 8 presenta- Grubbs tion to an unofficial citizens advisory committee, in which consolidating the police department was

mentioned as one of a number of ways city services could consolidate or privatize.

The committee has met three times since Nov. 30. The next meeting, which is an- Sara Marie ticipated to be the last, Brenner will be at 7 p.m. March 8, in council chambers, 47 Hall St. The group was organized by Brenner

as a way to find funds for such capital improvements as roads, sewers and sidewalks.

This approach is an alternative to the income tax increase city voters rejected on Nov. 2. The proposed increase would have generated funds for capital improvements.

Brenner helped a group of residents called Friends of Powell campaign against the increase. She said the city should find the money by trimming its

operating budget and using bond issues that are project-specific and eventually would expire. An income tax increase would be permanent.

Discussions about trimming the city’s operating budget by downsizing staff or outsourcing services prompted loud remarks by those at the meeting. City council members, residents and city staffers attended.

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City’s CVS annexation hearing set for March 1

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Construction of the Orange Township branch of the Delaware County District Library. The building is on schedule for a mid-May opening. Library staff will begin shelving the more than 90,000 books, games and movies in April. (Below) The branch is at 7171 Gooding Blvd.

Powell’s annexation of the CVS property on the southwest corner of Sawmill Parkway and Seldom Seen Road will be heard by city council at its March 1 meeting.

Under state statutes, the city has until March 3 to accept or reject the proposed annexation, city manager Steve Lutz told city council at its Feb. 15 meeting.

The annexation has been about a year in the making. In March 2010, council approved a pre-annexation agreement for the 2.5-acre property at 3488 Seldom Seen Road. The property is currently in Liberty Township.

The annexation process has hit a stumbling block because of CVS’s proposed use of an electronic sign, or reader board, which would change no more often than every 30 minutes.

The pre-annexation agreement includes a sign package that permits uses beyond city code in number and square footage, as well as the use of changeable LED’s in a monument sign.

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The interior of the Orange Township branch of the Delaware County District Library is taking shape at 7171 Gooding Blvd.

Many of the interior walls are up, dividing the 33,000-square-foot building into sections for children, ’tweens, teenagers and adult patrons.

The space includes two meeting rooms, one designed for children’s activities, the other for community groups.

The large, two-sided fireplace made from blue limestone is constructed in what will be the “comfychairs” area, where people can relax, said library spokesperson, Shea Alltmont.

The library, slated for a May opening, includes a business section where patrons can scan documents, use reference materials and work on computers.

Each section of the building will have computers, 50 in all, with desks sized for the users.

“You’ll be able to tell what part of the library you’re in — children’s to adults’— by the size of the furniture and shelves,” said Alltmont.

The library will offer a drive-through drop-off for patrons, as well as a drive-through pick-up window.

“I think we’re the first one to offer drive-through pick up,” Alltmont said. “It will be great after a

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long day’s work to pull up to the window and pick up your (reserved) books or videos.”

The new building also will provide an office for the Friends of the Delaware County District Library, a volunteer group that helps support library activities such as the summer reading program and touring exhibits.

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The district library’s outreach services department also will be housed in the Orange branch.

The department delivers library materials to daycare centers, senior centers and people unable to travel to the library. A large garage and work area

The Promise Church will hold the first meeting of its new job networking group from 9 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 3, at the church, 9012 Cotter St., Lewis Center.

The Promise Jobs Network will have weekly meetings, said program organizer and church member Bruce Bernard of Worthington.

Attendance is free, Bernard said. The program is part of the church’s outreach to help people in tough economic times.

The meetings will help people learn what Bernard calls the “soft skills” needed to find employment.

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February 24, 2011

Resolution would protect city police Continued from page A1 Brenner’s Feb. 8 presentation looked at outsourcing ideas for every city department. They included combining the police department with the Delaware County sheriff’s office. Many among the audience voiced objections.

The ideas from the presentation are to be wrapped up at the March

8 meeting and presented in council as ways council could save money that could then be used toward capital improvements.

Grubbs’ proposed resolution would halt that process and further discussion by removing Brenner’s ideas regarding the police department from consideration.

“This is an important one, I think, and should be taken off the table,” Grubbs said.

Brenner had said that the $2.3million cost of the Powell police department could be cut by $1.5million by consolidating with the sheriff’s department and contracting for deputies, similar to Orange Township’s eight-year contract with the sheriff’s department. Orange Township pays the deputies wages and some of the overtime, and sheriff Walter Davis pays for training, equip-

ment and other costs.

Residents present at the Feb. 8 meeting said consolidating with the sheriff’s department wouldn’t be a true savings because the county would be picking up roughly 50 percent of the law enforcement cost for the city.

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At the meetings, people seeking employment will look at their skill sets, their last job and what their target companies are seeking, Bernard said.

Attendees also will learn about other group opportunities and public services available to people seeking employment.

Meetings will include speakers who focus on the skills needed in the job search.

The speaker for the March 3 meeting will be Jack Windsor of Windsor Consulting. His presentation is “Three Must-Knows to Find Your Next Job.” Bernard said the idea to start the group came from his wife, Lisa, who had read about other grassroots, faith-based networking groups focused on helping people find employment.

The meetings will also offer support for people dealing with under-employment or unemployment, said church pastor Darryl Bell.

“One thing we hope to accomplish is a sense of encouragement and support for people experiencing unemployment,” Bell said.

Aside from the new networking program, the church has other programs that relate to people’s business and financial life, Bell said.

“We’re offering a course called ‘Financial Peace University’a (13-week video course) that helps people with personal finance, and we have weekly ‘Power Lunches’ with presentations for business leaders on improving one’s business and a round table discussion afterward,” Bell said, noting that both are open to anyone who wishes to attend.

“With those things in place, we recognized with the economy what it’s been and the unemployment levels where they are that this might be another area where we could offer a related program that would help more people,” Bell said.

“We see it as part of what Jesus did and calls us to do to meet practical human needs; recognizing that the love of God is not just an emotional thing, but has practical consequences; this is one way we can offer the love of God in a practical hands-on kind of way.”

For more information visit www.thepromisechurch.net or call (740) 549-1716.

CVS representative Michael Stoner repeatedly has said over the year that flexibility on the business’sign package has been “the motivating factor” to its joining the city.

Stoner has said the smaller and limited number of signs called for in the city and the township code puts the store at a disadvantage because the signs are not visible enough to attract customers.

The sign package was approved as part of the preannexation agreement by city council in March 2010.

All council members, save Richard Cline who arrived after the vote, approved the agreement.

The city planning and zoning commission approved the combined preliminary and final development plan, which included the sign package, in October 2010.

Throughout the hearings on the annexation and signage plan, some council and city planning and zoning commission members objected to the use of an electronic sign. The package was approved at each step, however.

In November 2010, as council discussions for final approval of the annexation began, council members Brian Lorenz and Sara Marie Brenner said they could not support the use of an electronic sign A number of residents in the area of the CVS attended council meetings, objecting to the electronic sign.

On Feb. 15, resident Frank Semetko said he was elected to speak against the electronic sign by homeowner associations of a number of area condominium complexes. He said he also was speaking on behalf of the newly formed Sawmill Corridor Group and for the Community Oversight Foundation (COF).

The COF is a nonprofit organization that monitors Powell-area development. The organization, along with Liberty Township, opposed Powell when it granted a zoning certificate for a Target store in Powell.

Delaware County Court of Common Pleas judge W. Duncan Whitney recently dismissed Liberty Township’s appeal against the planned Target.

“Basically what we’re looking for is orderly development in the community. ... This community is business-oriented. We welcome CVS. We need you, and we’re your customers. We want CVS to succeed, but we want them to be a good neighbor too. The concept of LED’s — bright red — just grinds the living daylights out of our people,” Semetko said.

The CVS is a neighborhood business, not a regional business, and needs only neighborhood-style signs, Semetko said.

A document dated Feb. 10 lists several conditions the city has requested of CVS. They include limiting sign changes to once per day and turning the sign off when the store is closed.

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Privatization is ‘no panacea’ To the editor: At a recent budget advisory commission meeting my fellow Powell City Council member Sara Marie Brenner heightened the public’s awareness of using privatization and consolidation to reduce Powell’s expenses.

Privatization and consolidation are not new concepts to Powell council and city manager Steve Lutz. Powell has been quietly and effectively using privatization and consolidation for many years to reduce Powell’s expenses.

The most visible evidence of privatization is Powell’s use of Rumpke to provide waste removal and recycling. In addition, Powell uses private providers for custodial services, fertilization and weed control, vehicle maintenance and repairs and printing documents. Rather than having a lawyer, registered architect and surveyor on staff or expanding the building or engineering departments, Powell engages private providers of those services, in part because those services are not needed on a full-time, consistent basis.

Powell also uses consolidation to be more costeffective. Powell residents will recognize the Regional Income Tax Authority, or RITA, as the most visible of sign of consolidation. Powell has joined with over 160 Ohio municipalities to provide municipal tax collection services. In addition to RITA,

Powell has engaged the Delaware County prosecutor to prosecute its criminal actions, uses the state purchasing program to buy police cruisers, participates in a joint purchasing program for salt and recently has joined the Central Ohio Risk Management Association to reduce its liability insurance cost.

Privatization and consolidation are trendy buzzwords in the political scene today. They are not a panacea and have greater implications than just saving money, as Brenner learned when she presented the idea of eliminating the Powell Police Department and putting our officers under the control of the Delaware County sheriff.

Residents attending that meeting voiced great concern over a potential loss of control over the police department and a reduction in service. They expressed skepticism because the bulk of that savings would come from shifting the burden of officer benefits from Powell to the county, as occurs with officers allocated to Orange Township.

Privatization and consolidation have worked well for Powell in the past, but must be well thought out to obtain value and not just a reduction of dollars.

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Just thinking

It never rains but it pours and pours It had been a quiet week, until the last three minutes.

That's what I thought after a four-car accident left me standing, with five or six others, on the side of the road.

Two minutes earlier - that's a real-time estimate - I had tripped over something on the sidewalk, fallen down and (a) scraped my knee and (b) broke my hand.

Of course, I didn’t know I had broken my hand when the car accident happened. I just knew that my knee was stinging and probably bleeding through my pants and that my hand was scraped and throbbing. It made waiting for the police officer to finish taking pictures of every car from every angle seem a little surreal.

I felt like a character in an action movie, the kind that never gives the audience a chance to sit back and eat popcorn for a few minutes. No, it was going to be a spectacular tumble onto concrete followed by a four-car pileup followed by a train derailment (the track was right there) followed by, who knows, an invasion of space monkeys.

Having been told to stand by my car, I stood by it, wondering what my bleeding knee looked like. I probably could have gotten the EMTs to give me a BandAid, but since I didn’t scrape my knee in the course of this precise accident that wouldn’t have been fair.

Besides, the EMTs were busy.

Right in front of me they were helping a young woman onto one of their wheeled beds, bracing her head with rolled-up towels and then — on a count of three — raising the bed waist high before rolling it across the street to the ambulance.

It reminded me of the time our car was hit from behind when I slowed down to turn into our driveway. The impact drove our car into the ditch, while the car that hit us traveled a little farther on before going into the ditch on the other side of the road.

“We’ve been in an accident!

We’ve been in an accident!” my daughters immediately cried.

They were young at the time — maybe 9 and 11 — and I thought they were displaying amazing presence of mind. Certainly I had yet to think such a lucid thought as “We’ve been in an accident!”

MARGO BARTLETT

I was just beginning to connect the loud CRACK from behind with the fact that the car — having just missed a utility pole — was suddenly nose-down in

years ago, of course, not to mention several cars ago, though not as many cars as you might think.

Meanwhile, I contemplated my suddenly exciting life. I'd probably get home to find our refrigerator broken, I thought sourly. The refrigerator is, after all, older than our daughters, and my husband and I have been expecting it to croak for years now.

The police officer, whose grasp of the collision's particulars was impressive, asked a lot of questions. I answered them politely, as if by being a model citizen I could earn prizes, perhaps a boat.

Several days later, I realized that I wasn’t the only person to look at a minor accident and see prizes. Each day, the mail brings another offer from area attorneys who are distressed to hear about my troubles.

“Let me fight for you!” one lawyer begs. Another assures me that he’ll handle all the paperwork. “Your only job will be to get well,” he writes italically.

Since I wasn’t injured — well, not in that accident — I concluded that I could handle the paperwork without outside assistance.

However, I’m keeping these offers on file, since the way things are going I expect to be eaten by a circus lion any day now.

First, though, the refrigerator will break.

the ditch.

When I turned to say as much to the girls they launched without a pause into the next verse: “You’re bleeding! You’re bleeding!”

In fact, I was bleeding — it was just a head wound, nothing serious, and yes, I do love saying that — but because I’d hit the framework of the car, the medics, when they arrived, insisted on putting me on a backboard, bracing my head with towels, and, on a count of three, pulling up the bed to waist height.

I didn't get to watch that time, didn't get to see how neatly the bed's wheels folded up underneath like the limbs of a longlegged bird. I saw now, though, as the medics gently slid the table holding the woman into the back of the ambulance. I also saw how the medics put the young woman's purse and other belongings on her midsection before taking her away. They did that for me too, put my purse on my chest, which made me feel faintly ridiculous, like a holiday Margo Bartlett is a ThisWeek turkey being borne off to the staff writer. E-mail her at oven, garnishes intact. That was mbartlett@thisweeknews.com.

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Study finds zoo hotel would benefit Delaware County

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A hotel at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium complex could raise about $315,100 in annual net tax revenue for Delaware County.

That’s according to Randall Gross’ economic impact study, which he presented Feb. 17 to the county commissioners.

The county had awarded an $18,900 contract to Gross to conduct a zoo hotel economic impact study. Community Development Block Grant revolving loan funds paid for the project.

Gross has offices in Washington, D.C. and South Africa.

According to contract specifications, Gross delivered two presentations, one focusing on the present economic impact of the zoo and the other focusing on the impact of the proposed hotel.

Gross based his hotel findings on the market feasibility study conducted by David Sangree of Cleveland-based Hotel and Leisure Advisors.

Gross projected that a 175room hotel would create 223 direct and 136 induced jobs, for a total of 359 jobs. Induced figures are generated throughout the economy, or what Gross described as “the multiplier effect.” Including sales, income and bed

tax, Delaware County would receive a total of about $315,100 in tax revenues. Franklin County would receive about $919,500 in tax revenues. Those figures include direct and induced amounts.

If done correctly, the hotel could be an attraction in itself, Gross said. The hotel could be themed to match the zoo complex, and visitors could possibly have nighttime zoo privileges.

The establishment would offer themed restaurants, retail, arcade and family entertainment and a 15,000 square-foot meeting space.

Amenities including mini-golf, spa, pool and shuttle would also be available.

County economic development director Gus Comstock told ThisWeek the location and funding for the hotel are still being discussed. Delaware County wants to cooperate with Franklin County on the project, he said.

“It’s kind of an exciting time as we’re coming out of this recession,” he said.

Comstock said the county could partner more with the zoo.

“The zoo contributes to people coming here,” Comstock said.

Though the hotel would be in Liberty Township, the zoo could apply for public incentives through the county, Comstock said.

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LIBRARY OPENING Continued from page A1 were constructed to accommodate the department’s vehicles and staff.

The library will hold a collection of more than 90,000 new materials, including books, DVDs, magazines, CDs and digital books.

The collection costs about $1-million.

The cost of the building, parking area and the land purchase amounts to $8.1-million. Around $620,000 is being spent on furnishings for the building.

Construction by Elford Inc., a Columbus company, will cost $5.6-million. The architectural work was done for $802,419 by MKC & Associates, a Lewis Center company.

In 2009, voters approved a 10-year, 1-mill levy to help pay for the new building and provide operating costs for the entire library system.

Thompson said he is enthusiastic about the project and the idea of a themed hotel. The project would be good for Franklin County and “it won’t hurt us either,” Thompson said.

Jerry Borin, special projects director at the zoo, told ThisWeek the board committee in charge of the hotel evaluation could take the remainder of the year to make a recommendation to the board.

“There’s no hard and fast timeline on this,” Borin said, describing the process as a lengthy one. The committee is speaking with hotel developers and operators to look into possible partnerships. The zoo would need a partner to have the hotel, he said.

Additionally, Borin said the market study the zoo is using might have to be updated, since it was done in mid-2008, before the economic downturn.

“It’s a different market out there now,” Borin said.

In 2008 the zoo started exploring the possibility of a hotel, Borin said.

Plans for an African savannah are included in the zoo’s master plan. Borin said the savannah is still in the planning stages, and estimates that it will arrive within a couple years. It was discussed that the hotel’s success would depend on the completion of the savannah.

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Preservation Parks events Preservation Parks of Delaware County For more information about Preservation Parks, visit www.preservationparks.com or call (740) 524-8600. The offices of Preservation Parks are at 2656 Hogback Road in Sunbury.

• Register for Build-A-Box Workshops. Learn how to build bird boxes in two separate programs. Building a box for bluebirds will be taught from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 24; building a box for robins, phoebes and barn swallows will be taught from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 3. Both programs will be at Deer Haven Preserve, 4183 Liberty Road.

The Feb. 24 bluebird program will be led by guest expert Dick Tuttle. Registration for the March 3 program on robins, phoebes and barn swallows is due Feb. 24.

The materials cost per box is $5, payable the day of the program.

• Warm Weather Withdrawal: Butterfly Oasis, 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22. Learn how to create a backyard oasis for a variety of butterflies. Ages 16 and up. The Lodge at Deer Haven Preserve, 4183 Liberty Road.

• Creature Feature, “Wile E Coyote, 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 26. Learn about the shy, misunderstood coyote. The Lodge at Deer Haven Preserve, 4183 Liberty Road.

Preservation Parks news Two top awards go to county parks Preservation Parks of Delaware County received two firstplace awards at the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association (OPRA) Conference & Trade Show, held Feb. 9-11 in Cincinnati. The awards were given for The Lodge at Deer Haven Preserve, and for protecting the Olentangy Watershed.

The Lodge at Deer Haven Preserve, which opened in October 2009, was named best facility in the $0- $2.5-million category. The Lodge’s engaging and creative design – including a floor-to-ceiling mural of natural habitats – and its environmentally sound construction methods were factors in its first-place finish. The Lodge includes a nature center, a library, and a combination classroom and community meeting space, and provides space for many Preservation Parks programs.

The park district also received a first-place award in the Natural Resources category, for “Protecting the Olentangy River Watershed” through property acquisition and the restoration of wetlands. The 2010 purchase of 104 new acres in Big Run Preserve allows Preservation Parks to preserve Olentangy River tributaries, which support a wide variety of birds and other wildlife. The property also is a buffer between development along U.S. Route 23 and the Olentangy River. Wetland restoration projects at Gallant Woods Preserve create wetland areas that filter sediment and other pollutants from runoff, thereby also contributing to the river’s health.

In all, the OPRA gave 23 first-place awards at the ceremony, in categories ranging from facilities, park development and law enforcement, to programming, marketing campaigns and special projects. Projects were judged in a two-tiered process, which included a panel of parks and recreation professionals from around Ohio, as well as the association’s Board of Directors.

Preservation Parks, the natural areas park district for Delaware County, has preserved more than 1,000 acres of wildlife habitat and open space, and has opened eight parks since its first tax levy passed in 1999.

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Police reports Powell police Feb. 17 • After a traffic stop at East Olentangy Street and Bennett Parkway, a driver was cited for speeding.

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Feb. 8 • After a traffic stop at AshFeb. 13 moore Circle and Ashmoore • Officers approached a suspi- Drive, a driver was cited for excious vehicle on South Liberty pired plates.

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Library news The following programs are offered at the Powell branch of the Delaware County District Library, 460 S. Liberty St. For information, call (614) 888-9160. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Registration is not required for any story time unless noted.

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Meetings March 30 in the Alford Centrum, AmSpirit Business Connec3081 U.S. Route 23. Buddhist tions, Powell Chapter, 7:45 a.m. and Catholic nuns will share inWednesdays at Shamrock Golf sights about their respective reClub, 4436 Powell Road. Conligions. Free and open to the pubtact Shawn at (614) 305-7001 or lic. shawn@awfprinting.com.

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Sawmill Road Toastmasters, 11:45 a.m. on the first and third Mondays of every month at Flyers Pizza, 3967 Presidential Parkway. Visitors are welcome. Members focus on improving public speaking skills. Visit http:// sawmill.freetoasthost.us. Guests are welcome.

Christian Marketplace Network Delaware Chapter, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. the second Friday of each month at Asian Garden Buffet, 8633 U.S. Route 23, Lewis Center. Christians in the marketplace are invited to attend for lunch, fellowship, prayer, networking and business presentations. All are welcome. Registration fee is $2. Call Jim Deer at (614) 888-5325 or visit www.cmn-usa.org.

Kiwanis Club of Powell, 11:30 a.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Liberty Tavern, 50 S. Liberty St. Call Lynn Hanna at (614) 885-7309 or Don Grubbs at (614) 804-8916.

Lewis Center-Polaris Rotary, 7:45-9 a.m. every Friday for

breakfast, at the North Pointe Conference Center (Nationwide facility) at the corner of state Route 750 and U.S. 23. Call Mark Robertson at (740) 548-4739.

Friends of Concord Township, 7:30 p.m. the third Monday of the month at the Shawnee Hills Civic Association, 36 W. Mohawk Drive. For more information, visit www.foct.org or e-mail cyndie722@yahoo.com.

Olentangy Rotary Club, 7:30 a.m. Thursdays, at Bridgewater Banquet and Conference Center 10561 Sawmill Parkway in Powell. Visit www.olentangyrotary.org or call Steve Ussery at (614) 7648993.

Powell Sertoma Club, noon Wednesdays, at Liberty Tavern, 50 S. Liberty St. Call Dave Betz at (614) 202-0235.

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Swimming & Diving

State legacy on mind of Liberty’s Clay

By AARON BLANKENSHIP ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The Olentangy school district has established a tradition of success in the Division I state diving meet over the past 12 seasons. Olentangy Liberty senior Kellie Carmendy won the state title in 2010, and Olentangy graduate Carrie McCambridge captured state championships in 1999, 2001 and 2002, and finished second in 2000.

Liberty junior Alex Clay will try to become the third girl from the district

to win a state diving title when she competes in the Division I state meet at Canton’s C.T. Branin Natatorium.

The event begins Thursday, Feb. 24, with the diving competition and concludes Saturday, Feb. 26, with the swimming finals.

Clay finished fifth (402.15 points) in last year’s state meet behind Carmendy (418.65).

Carmendy, an Ohio State recruit, chose to compete in the USA Diving Winter National Preliminary meet on Jan. 30-31 at the University of Iowa

instead of diving for her high school team in the postseason.

Liberty senior diver Ali Swafford also will compete at state after finishing 24th (149.5) at state a year ago.

“A lot of great divers have come out of our (school district) and I’m going to do my best to try to follow in their footsteps and continue their legacy,” Clay said.

“I quit competing in gymnastics this year so I could concentrate on diving, and I realized I should be going for a state championship after I finished sec-

ond (with 428.4 points) in the Northeast Invitational (on Jan. 15 in Canton behind Cuyahoga Falls’Haleigh Bartlett, who scored 456.2 points).

“That’s what made me realize that I could be competitive with the best divers in the state.”

Clay finished first in the district meet Feb. 19 at Ohio State with a career-high 448.2 points, ahead of runner-up Maggie Heller (408.9) of Dublin Jerome, Upper Arlington’s Jordan Russell (407.45) and Swafford (406.3). Liberty scored 145 points at district to finish

sixth behind champion Upper Arlington (505) and ahead of 18th-place Olentangy (18) and 21st-place Orange (8).

Clay is seeded fifth behind Centerville’s Morgan Mullins (480.05), Avon Lake’s Morgan Srail (478.95), Bartlett (471.2) and Solon’s Sivan Mills (462.2).

Swafford is seeded 15th.

“I’ve been training 15 hours or more per week and I think I just stepped up my game and wanted it more than the other girls,” Clay said. “I was more See SWIM, page B2

Girls Basketball

Braves feature more balance

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Anthony Fosco is one of 13 district qualifiers for the Olentangy wrestling team, which will compete in the Division I district tournament Feb. 25-26 at Columbus East.

Wrestling

Braves send 13 to district tourney

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Olentangy High School wrestling coach Matt Hammons believes his team is stronger than a year ago when it scored 135.5 points to win the Division II district tournament at Uhrichsville Claymont ahead of runner-up Lisbon Beaver (119.5).

But with the Braves finishing behind Claymont in two regular-season tournaments this season, Hammons said it will be difficult for his squad to defend its title at district on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26, at Columbus East.

Olentangy finished ninth (101) in the

Medina Invitational Tournament on Dec. 28-29 behind sixth-place Claymont (126) and fifth (136.5) in the Alliance Top Gun Invitational on Jan. 14-15 behind fourthplace Claymont (139).

“It was tough to win our first district title and it’s going to be even tougher to stay on top, because we’re going to get everyone’s best shot since we’re the defending champion,” Hammons said. “Claymont has a solid team top to bottom and they’ve already beat us twice this year, so it boils down to what each of us has done since then.”

Hammons said each of his 13 district qualifiers will need to score to give his team an edge over the Mustangs.

The top four placers in each weight class will advance to state March 3-5 at Ohio State.

“We’re going to be neck-and-neck with Claymont,” Hammons said. “We both have studs who should do well, so it will come down to our supporting cast.

We need our second-tier guys to step up and wrestle like our first-tier guys, because there’s not much of a difference between our first-tier and second-tier guys anyway. It was fun to win our school’s first district title last year, but it would be even more meaningful to do it two years in a row.”

The Braves scored 292 points to win the 13-team sectional at Hilliard Bradley

on Feb. 19 ahead of runner-up Jonathan Alder (199) for their second consecutive sectional title and third in four years.

Placing first for Olentangy were Al Caserta (4-0, 130 pounds), Trevor Fiorucci (4-0, 119), Andrew Torti (4-0, 103) and Bryan Young (3-0, heavyweight).

“Having a blowout victory for another sectional title is a fun moment and a nice springboard, but it’s just a stepping stone on the way to district,” Hammons said.

•Liberty scored 239.5 points to win the 13-team Division I sectional at Pickerington Central on Feb. 19 ahead of runSee WRESTLE, page B3

Boys Basketball

Patriots avenge loss to South, edge unbeaten Wildcats

By SCOTT HENNEN ThisWeek Community Newspapers

After a lopsided loss in the first meeting with Westerville South, the Olentangy Liberty High School boys basketball team was ready to prove itself.

Both teams were unbeaten in the OCC-Cardinal Division before the Patriots lost at South 68-33 on Jan. 14, but they rebounded for a 66-64 win over the Wildcats on Feb. 18.

The victory snapped South’s 45-game winning streak in the regular season as well as a 31-game league unbeaten streak.

“Last time, I think we got caught up in it being a battle for first place and didn’t really play our game,” said senior Frank Longhino, who scored eight points. “It was senior night, everyone was pumped up and the crowd was really great. They gave us a lot of energy to feed off of.”

Jake Bischoff led Liberty with 23 points and five 3-pointers. Andy Yazrombek had 19 points and Nick

Archer added eight points as the Patriots finished the regular season at 14-6 overall.

“We played good defense and we made shots,” coach Greg Nossaman said. “When you play defense and make shots, you’ll win a lot of games.”

Bischoff scored 20 points in the second half and made six free throws down the stretch. “(The Wildcats) do a good job getting pressure on you, but we were able to skip the ball through pressure,” Nossaman said. “But this is a confidence-builder. They were the No. 2 team in the state and are the top seed in our district. Plus, we have won 14 games, which is more than any (boys basketball) team has won here at Liberty. We’re hoping to add to that.”

South won the OCC-Cardinal title at 13-1 with Liberty, Westerville Central and Westerville North tied for second at 10-4. Dublin Jerome and

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek

The Olentangy High School girls basketball team once relied on 3-pointers for the majority of its offense.

“Back when we were terrible, we’d fire it up all the time,” coach John Feasel said. “My philosophy then was, ‘Shoot it before you turn it over.’ Now that we’re a little bit better, we’re trying to take it inside a little more.”

However, when a team tries to take away the inside, the Braves still are more than capable of hitting shots from behind the arc.

Columbus South found that out in the first round of the Division II district tournament on Feb. 15.

When the Bulldogs deployed a 2-3 zone, six Braves knocked down 3-pointers as Olentangy rolled to a 73-10 victory.

The 73 points and six 3s matched season highs for the Braves, who were 18-3 overall before facing Hamilton Township in the second round on Feb. 23.

Olentangy has made 33 percent of its 3-point attempts and is averaging 2.6 3s a game. Only one team, Westerville Central, shut out the Braves from behind the arc this season, in Olentangy’s 53-47 win on Feb. 8. Emily Ratliff (55 percent) and Jamie Richardson (45 percent) have the team’s best 3-point shooting percentages.

“Sometimes we get into a funk offensively, but if we get a 3 on the next possession, it really helps us get going again,” said Brigid Feasel, who hit a late 3 to help beat Westerville North 48-44 on Jan. 14. “It’s a nice asset to have.”

“We’ve got some girls who are shooting in the 40 percent range, but generally, we’re not chucking up 3s,” coach Feasel added.

“We’re working it around to get a better shot.”

•After defeating Worthington Kilbourne 39-26 on Feb. 17 for its first Division I district tournament win since a 36-35 victory over Hilliard Darby in 2005, Liberty meets fifth-seeded Pickerington North in the second round on Thursday, Feb. 24, at Hamilton Township.

The Panthers have won their past five games, including an 8217 victory over Franklin Heights in the first round of the tournament on Feb. 17 to improve to 16-5 overall.

Coach Ron Florey said his team, which is 5-16 overall, will need a stronger first half against the Panthers than it had against the Wolves. Liberty made only five of 20 shots in the first half against Kilbourne but still led 115 at halftime.

“I think we were a little bit nervous,” Florey said. “We didn’t have good shooting in the first half. Fortunately, our defense was pretty solid. Our defense has held us in all year.”

The Patriots made eight of 12 shots in the second half. Allyson VanGundy scored 10 points and

Liberty’s Frank Longhino drives past Stephen Walczak of Olentangy during their game Jan.

See BOYS, page B2 29. The Patriots tied for second in the OCC-Cardinal at 10-4.

See GIRLS, page B3

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Hockey

Braves, Patriots set to meet in district tourney

By SCOTT HENNEN ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Rob Sangster just wanted to take a deep breath.

The co-coach of the Olentangy High School hockey team needed to relax after his team notched a second finalminute victory in as many days of the district tournament. This time, Kyle Hickman scored with 49.9 seconds remaining for a 2-1 win over eighth-seeded Upper Arlington in the second round on Feb. 20 at the Dispatch Ice Haus.

Olentangy advanced to play Olentangy Liberty in a third-round game at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Ice Haus. “That was fun to watch, especially after (the first-round win),� said Sangster, who is co-coach with Masin Habash. “All games are tough when the district tournament begins.�

The Braves, who are 21-14, rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat Beavercreek 7-6 on Feb. 19 at Chiller Dublin.

Josh Stein scored the winner with 6.2 seconds remaining. “(The Braves) have good skill players and because they are in our school district, it will make for a formidable battle,� said Liberty coach Jack Hoogeveen, whose team is 24-8-1. “They can score some goals and they will test us on the defensive end of the ice.�

SWIM Continued from page B1 consistent than usual. Getting top five at state again would be great, but I’m hoping I can get better than fifth. I think I can do well as long as I hit all of my dives. It will be a big challenge, but I think I’ll be up for it.�

Liberty’s boys team finished seventh (123) in the Division I district meet behind champion Upper Arlington (432). Orange didn’t score.

Senior Dmitry Dolgov won the 200-yard individual medley in 1 minute, 54.25 seconds ahead of runner-up Christopher Depietro (1:55.02) of Lancaster. He finished second in the 100 breast (58.61) behind Adam Rabe (58.29) of Upper Arlington. “My times were pretty good, but I think I could have done better in the 100 breast,� Dolgov said.

At state a year ago, Dolgov placed ninth in the 200 IM in 1:57.01 and finished 10th in the 100 breast in 59.49.

He is seeded 12th in the 100 breast and fourth in the 200 IM for state. “I’d definitely like to make the podium (top eight), but we’ll see,�

Dolgov said. “My dad (seventime Soviet national backstroke champion Vladimir Dolgov) says I could go a 57 in the 100 breast.

I’m just going to try to drop time and see where that puts me.�

Olentangy’s boys team finished third (202) in the Division II district meet behind Granville (256) and Columbus Academy (209).

Senior Trevor Askins won the 200 free in a district-record time of 1:43.44 ahead of Conrad

BOYS Continued from page B1

The Patriots were the second seed and had a first-round bye. They defeated Troy 5-0 in the second round, but the game was scoreless after two periods. Christopher Bergamesca, Ethan Hollingsworth, Kyle Horner, Michael Oja and Alex Vidrick all scored.

The game was delayed midway through the second period when junior forward Reed Slinger suffered a neck injury. He was transported to a hospital and had movement in his extremities. His status for the Olentangy game is uncertain. “He could have a concussion and that could keep him out, but right now I doubt if he’ll play,� Hoogeveen said after the Troy game. “That (injury) really sparked our kids and got us going.

We were a little flat to start the game.

We won’t be able to do that against Olentangy.�

On Dec. 31 in the Capital Hockey Conference meeting, Liberty won 122. Jimmy Ruska scored four times and both Hollingsworth and Oja had two goals. Noah Allmaras, Drew Ash, Horner and Nick Ramsey had one goal apiece. Brian Finneran had 25 saves.

Hickman and Connor Laughlin scored for the Braves. “We changed around our defensive system and it’s really helped us a lot.

That’s why we won (the UA) game,�

Sangster said. “We knew we could score,

At a glance ORANGE •Record: 13-13-3 overall, 6-4-3 (seventh, 15 points) in CHC •Seniors lost: Scott Bowers, Robbie Lindeman, Jimmy Lomeo, Adam McHugh, Matthew Pennington, Alex Titus and Alex Victor •Key returnees: Dino Capoccia, Dar Faroughi, Clayton Horvath, Mitch Knapp, Nick Murley, Kevin Peters and Jake Shephard

but if we were going to go anywhere in the district, we had to play better defense and we have been doing that.�

The winner advances to a district semifinal against third-seeded Dublin Coffman or seventh-seeded St. Charles at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Ice Haus. The district final is 5 p.m. March 5 at the Ice Haus.

Liberty beat Coffman 3-2 on Dec. 5 during league play and 3-2 in the final of the Blue Jackets Cup on Feb. 13. St. Charles split with Liberty, winning 42 on Dec. 11 in the Adam Allgeyer Memorial and losing 8-3 on Feb. 6 in league play.

Olentangy went 2-1 against St. Charles. The Braves won 8-7 on Dec. 5 in the Wolves Invitational and 4-3 in the Blue Jackets Cup on Feb. 11. The Cardinals won 10-1 on Jan. 28 in CHC play.

The Braves lost to Coffman 11-1 on

Dec. 10 in the Adam Allgeyer Memorial and 7-4 in CHC play on Jan. 21. •Orange finished 13-13-3 overall with a 2-1 loss to St. Charles in the second round of the district tournament on Feb. 20 at the Ice Haus. Junior forward Dar Faroughi scored and senior goaltender Alex Victor had 26 saves. “I told the guys that you need to have a good effort when you get to the district level and we got that against St. Charles,â€? said coach Tim Pennington, who completed his third season leading the program. “We had good effort and it gave us the opportunity to win.â€?

In the opening round of district on Feb. 19, Orange beat Thomas Worthington 5-2 at Chiller Dublin. Scoring goals were senior forward Scott Bowers, Faroughi, senior forward Robbie Lindeman, senior forward Matthew Pennington and senior defenseman Alex Titus. Victor had 10 saves.

Junior forward Jake Shepherd led Orange with 17 goals and 19 assists, followed by Lindeman (13, 10) and junior forward Nick Murley (11, 8).

In the CHC, Orange went 6-4-3 (15 points) to finish seventh of 14 teams.

Dublin Jerome and Liberty tied for the title at 12-1 (24 points), with Cincinnati Moeller third at 11-2 (22) and Coffman fourth at 10-2-1 (21). St. Charles (7-4-2) and UA (7-4-1-1) tied for fifth with 16 points, followed by Orange,

At a glance Below are the state qualifiers with district result and state seed for the Liberty, Olentangy and Orange boys and girls swimming and diving teams: LIBERTY Boys — Dmitry Dolgov: 100 breast (58.61, 12th), 200 IM (1:54.25, fourth); Alan Thornhill: 50 free (21.82, 20th); 400 free relay (3:15.63, 15th); Girls — Alex Clay: diving (448.2, fifth); Taylor McCabe: 100 breast (1:06.94, 18th); Ali Swafford: diving (406.3, 24th); 200 medley relay (1:50.93, 19th) Others who competed at district: Boys — Nathan Blaine: 200 free (1:56.01, 22nd), 500 free (5:16.11, 26th); Tommy Dawson: 200 free (1:56.65, 23rd), 100 back (59.52, 19th); Matthew Lennon: 50 free (22.61, 15th), 100 free (49.58, 14th); Matthew McMahon: 100 free (51.06, 23rd), 200 free (1:51.01, 15th); Thornhill: 100 fly (54.15, 13th); 200 free relay (1:29.45, sixth); 200 medley relay (1:49.85, 16th); Girls — Olivia Bentley: 200 free (2:05.65, 22nd), 100 breast (1:09.55, 16th); Samantha Gaiss: 500 free (5:25.87, 12th), 100 fly (1:00.58, 13th); Erin Groves: 50 free (26.52, 27th), 100 back (1:01.28, 18th); Kendall Haas: 50 free (26.95, 30th); Cameron Hiltner: 200 free (2:03.43, 17th), 500 free (5:25.83, 11th); Alexa Kaufman: 200 free (1:56.92, ninth), 500 free (5:14.96, seventh); McCabe: 200 IM (2:13.58, 11th); Audrey Penza: 100 back (1:03.76, 26th), 200 IM (2:18.42, 14th); Katelyn Penza: 200 free (2:06.53, 23rd), 500 free (5:42.41, 26th); Ashleigh Rissmeyer: 100 back (1:01.73, 19th), 100 fly (1:04.12, 26th); 200 free relay (1:46.39, 12th); 400 free relay (3:46.58, 13th)

Wuorinen (1:45.21) of Academy.

Askins, who is seeded fifth for state, is aiming for what coach Steve Gipe said is Jay Haney’s program-record time of 1:53.03. “My goal is to break our school record and make the state podium for the first time,� Askins said.

Askins, William Paull, Greg Guidarelli and Eric Evans also

OLENTANGY Boys — Trevor Askins: 200 free (1:43.44, fifth), 100 fly (52.58, 10th); Eric Evans: 100 breast (1:01.82, 14th), 200 IM (2:04.43, 24th); 400 free relay (3:21.16, 10th); 200 medley relay (1:42.1, 14th); Girls — None Others who competed at district: Boys — Quentin Bowden: 100 free (53.92, 28th), 100 breast (1:10.85, 24th); Colby Brothers: 200 free (2:04.06, 28th), 500 free (disqualified); Aaron Diestler: 100 back (59.43, ninth), 500 free (4:58.71, fourth); Greg Guidarelli: 100 free (50.06, ninth), 50 free (22.7, seventh); William Paull: 200 free (1:54.31, 15th), 500 free (5:08.41, eighth); 200 free relay (1:38.68, 13th); Girls — Madeline Alexander: diving (279.25, 14th); Kaitlin Hetterscheidt: 500 free (5:49.9, 26th); Julie Jefferis: diving (330.5, ninth); Victoria Langwasser: 100 breast (1:08.46, 11th), 200 IM (2:23.52, 21st); Colleen McHugh: diving (114.65, 22nd); Mara Nebraska: 100 breast (1:12.18, 19th), 200 IM (2:22.51, 18th); Madison Wolfe: 100 back (1:00.93, 15th), 100 fly (1:01.31, 17th); 200 free relay (1:48.71, 13th); 200 medley relay (1:58.15, 16th) ORANGE Boys — None; Girls — None Others who competed at district: Boys — Brad Haney: 100 back (1:02.03, 26th); Robert McHale: 100 fly (58.26, 25th); 200 free relay (1:39.13, 16th); 400 free relay (3:42.12, 17th). Girls — Kaitlin Milburn: 200 free (2:07.85, 26th), 500 free (5:36, 18th); Brooke Pulkrabek: 200 IM (2:25.18, 23rd); 200 free relay (1:37.57, 17th); 400 free relay (3:37.66, 18th); 200 medley relay (2:08.6, 26th)

Dublin Scioto tied for fifth at 4-10, followed by Olentangy (3-11) and Marysville (2-12).

Liberty opened Division I district tournament play Feb. 23 against Hilliard Darby. The winner plays Jerome or Delaware at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at Jonathan Alder.

Jerome went 7-13 in the regular season and was swept in league play by Liberty. The Patriots won 55-44 on Dec. 10 and 56-55 on Jan. 25.

Delaware went 14-6 in the regular season. Liberty beat the visiting Pacers 41-40 on Dec. 29 in the Larry Eberst Classic.

The second-round winner plays second-seeded Northland, Groveport or Franklin Heights in a district semifinal at 4:15 p.m. March 5 in the Fairgrounds Coliseum. •Olentangy dropped to 6-14 by falling to North 71-54 in the regular-season and league finale on Feb. 18.

The Braves entered the Division II district tournament after playing 17 games against Division I opponents. They were 2-1 against smaller schools, with a 41-38 win over Division III Marion Pleasant on Dec. 3 and a 57-42 win over Division II Big Walnut on Dec. 29 in the Larry Eberst Classic.

Olentangy also lost to Division II Jonathan Alder 59-45 on Dec. 23, which was before the return of forward Joshua Perry. The 6-foot-4 junior missed the first nine games with a knee injury.

The Braves opened postseason play Feb. 22 against Hamilton Township. The winner plays Hilliard Bradley or 11th-seeded Bexley in the second round at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, at Grove City.

Olentangy has not played either team this season.

Bradley was 9-11 in the regular season and Bexley was 10-10.

The second-round winner will play at 8 p.m.

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Sports briefs Bengals to appear at fundraiser Members of the Cincinnati Bengals are scheduled to participate in a basketball game fundraiser benefiting the Olentangy Liberty High School baseball program.

The game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, March 18, in the Liberty gymnasium. An autograph session is planned for halftime. A pasta dinner will be served from 5 to 6:45 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased through the Liberty athletics department.

Soccer officiating classes offered The Licking County Soccer Officials Association will offer classes for prospective high school officials beginning March 5.

Classes will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Sundays and Wednesdays at Headley Park in Gahanna. Instructors are Howard Lewinter and Dennis James, both of whom have more than 20 years experience as high school soc-

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Students who complete the course and pass the tests receive a license from the OHSAA to referee high school soccer.

To enroll or for additional information, call Lewinter at (614) 235-6544 or James at (614) 563-8376.

GCSTO offers lessons, training The Greater Columbus Swim Team of Ohio (GCSTO) is offering swimming lessons, camps and training sessions, as well as lifeguard training, this winter and spring at various locations around Columbus.

For more information on swimming camps and training, contact GCSTO coach Steve Nye at (614) 478-5445 or stevenye@sbcglobal.net. For more information on lessons and lifeguard training, contact GCSTO instructor Erin Harris at (614) 582-2597 or harriserin@ymail.com.

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the Braves with 23 points and Stephen Walczak added 10 points. Nugen, a senior guard, has averaged 16.4 points in his past seven games. “I think it’s more the fact that Stephen has been playing well and that we got Josh back,â€? Nugen said. “When Stephen is on, it opens things up for me and the same thing happens for him when I’m hitting shots.â€? •Orange was seeded 10th in the Division I district tournament and was 14-6 overall before opening with Hilliard Davidson in the first round on Feb. 22.

The winner plays at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, against 12th-seeded Mount Vernon or Westerville Central in the second round at Bradley. The Pioneers did not play Westerville Central, which ended the regular season 14-6.

Orange split with Mount Vernon, which was 155 in the regular season. Orange lost 52-39 at Mount Vernon on Dec. 7 and won 56-48 at home on Jan. 21.

The Pioneers went 9-5 in the OCC-Capital and finished fourth behind champion New Albany (13-1), Delaware (11-3) and Mount Vernon (104), and ahead of Bradley (7-7), Big Walnut (4-10) and Franklin Heights and Watkins Memorial (both 1-13).

The second-round winner advances to a district semifinal against third-seeded Upper Arlington, Thomas Worthington or Briggs at 2:30 p.m. March 5 at the Fairgrounds.

The Pioneers lost three of their last four regular-season games, including their final two.

Orange lost at Thomas 51-37 on Feb. 14 as Andy Bosley scored 15 points and Josh Wintermantel added nine points. In the league finale, the Pioneers lost at Delaware 55-44 as Matt Kurelic had 13 points with three 3-pointers and Jordan Combs had nine points.

Olentangy (7-6, 14), Thomas (5-7-1, 11), Gahanna (4-9, 8), DeSales (3-90-1, 7), Worthington Kilbourne (2-11, 4), Dublin Scioto (1-12, 2) and Watterson (0-13, 0).

Orange loses seven seniors in Bowers (3, 8), forward Jimmy Lomeo (3, 4), Lindeman, defenseman Adam McHugh (5, 10), Matthew Pennington (7, 16), Titus (4, 11) and Victor. “Our seniors were all there when we started the program three years ago,� coach Pennington said. “They brought a lot of enthusiasm and were the cornerstone of the program. Everything that comes in the future is because of their hard work.�

Expected to return are juniors Nathan Fischer (forward), Jacob Green (defenseman) and Taylor Hardy (forward; 5 goals, 4 assists) as well as sophomores Chris Pennington (forward) and Jacob Potts (defenseman; 7, 9). Chase Green was a freshman goaltender and Dino Capoccia (2, 7) was a freshman forward. “The juniors will be our first fouryear players next year,� said coach Pennington, whose j.v. team won its version of the Blue Jackets Cup with a 32 overtime victory over Moeller. “They will have a lot of varsity experience and should be good leaders for us.�

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GIRLS Westerville South’s Morgan Neighbors scored 32 points to lead the Wildcats past Teays Valley 52-39 on Feb. 19 in the first round of the Division I district tournament.

Visit ThisWeekSPORTS.com for complete coverage of central Ohio high school basketball. Throughout the week, Hoop It Up offers previews of top games, recaps of great performances, polls, slideshows, videos and player features Top stories on the more than 150 boys District Preview: ThisWeek and girls basketball teams in ThisWeekSPORTS.com’s staff writer Jarrod Ulrey gives his take on the wide-open Dicoverage area. vision I district boys basketball tournament.

Top games Boys Basketball: Northland guard Trey Burke reacts to finGAMES OF THE WEEK BOYS: Third-seeded Upper ishing his City League career Arlington and sixth-seeded Wal- undefeated.

Girls Basketball: Pickeringnut Ridge are among the Division I teams opening district ton North is led by Kavunaa tournament play Friday, Feb. 25. Edwards, but the Panthers’ role GIRLS: Top-seeded Reynolds- players must contribute.

Bowling: ThisWeek has comburg, fourth-seeded Watterson and sixth-seeded Brookhaven plete coverage of all three secare among the Division I teams tional tournaments. that will play second-round district games Friday, Feb. 25.

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Top performances BOYS Granville’s Ryan Green scored 21 points to lead his team to a 68-59 win over Whitehall on Feb. 18. The win gave Granville a share of the

“This was a great experience. I love that our guys got to experience something like this. This is what you picture when you think of high school basketball.”

— Dublin Coffman coach Jamey Collins, whose team

GIRLS Continued from page B1 Emily Perry and Karla Levering each scored eight.

“This was a big win for the program and for the seniors,” Perry said. “We played good defense and got off good shots. We knew they were going to come out and go at us in the second half, so we had to shut them down.”

•After having a 13-game winning streak snapped with a 4533 loss to Hilliard Bradley on Feb. 11, third-seeded Orange took out its frustrations on Westland in the first round of the Division I district tournament on Feb. 17.

The Pioneers jumped out to a 41-4 lead at halftime and cruised to a 75-16 win.

“Since it was the first game of the tournament, we wanted to come out strong and on the right foot,” said Ashley Bassett-Smith, who scored 15 points. “Everyone contributed at that game.”

Orange, 19-2 overall, plays 912 Central Crossing in the second round on Thursday, Feb. 24, at Westerville Central. The Comets outscored Independence

ner-up Dublin Coffman (187) for its second consecutive sectional title.

Placing first for the Patriots were Jarrod Boone (4-0, 125), Nick Kaczkowski (4-0, 160), Anthony Michael (3-0, 135), Ethan Snyder (3-0, 145) and Craig Thomas (4-0, 152).

“The kids have been working hard in practice and we’ve been wrestling real well the past couple of weeks,” coach Mark Marinelli said.

With 10 district qualifiers in his lineup on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26, at Hilliard Darby, Marinelli hopes the Patriots can win their first district title.

The top four placers in each weight class will advance to state March 3-5 at Ohio State.

Last year, Liberty finished eighth (52.5) in the 44-team Division I district at Darby behind champion Marysville (188.5).

Snyder went 3-2 at 145 to place fourth and become the Patriots’ first Division I state qualifier.

“I think we’ve got as good a chance as anybody to win it,”

Note of the week The Upper Arlington and Westerville South boys basketball teams lost their respective regular-season finales.

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At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Liberty, Olentangy and Orange girls basketball teams: LIBERTY Feb. 17 — Defeated Worthington Kilbourne 39-26 in first round of Division I district tournament. Allyson VanGundy had 10 points.

Feb. 24 — Pickerington North in second round, 8 p.m. at Hamilton Township. Winner plays Upper Arlington or Watkins Memorial in district semifinal, 6 p.m. March 1 at Olentangy Liberty. District semifinal winner vs. Central Crossing, Dublin Scioto, Logan or Olentangy Orange in district final, 4 p.m. March 5 at Liberty.

Of note: The Patriots are 5-16 overall and finished 3-11 (tied for seventh) in the OCC-Cardinal.

OLENTANGY Feb. 15 — Defeated Columbus South 73-10 in first round of Division II district tournament. Katie Heath, Brooke Zwayer and Jamie Richardson each scored in double figures, and the Braves made six 3-pointers.

Feb. 18 — Defeated Big Walnut 5331 in regular-season game rescheduled from Feb. 1. Jamie Richardson

36-18 in the second half en route to a 60-35 win in the first round on Feb. 17. Jalynn Graham, who scored 22 points against the 76ers, has averaged 16 points in the last five games.

“Jalynn is a good driver and good on the boards,” said Bas-

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beat host UA 55-49 in overtime Feb. 18 in front of a soldout crowd. The win gave Coffman a share of the OCC-Central title with UA.

had 10 points.

Feb. 23 — Played Hamilton Township in second round of tournament.

Winner plays Hartley or Lakewood in district semifinal, 8 p.m. March 1 at Pickerington North. District semifinal winner vs. Bexley, DeSales, Hilliard Bradley or Licking Valley in district final, 8:30 p.m. March 3 at Ohio Dominican.

Of note: The Braves were 18-3 overall before Feb. 23 and finished 12-2 (first) in the OCC-Cardinal.

ORANGE Feb. 17 — Defeated Westland 75-16 in first round of Division I district tournament. Ashley Bassett-Smith had 15 points and Kayla Young added 11 points.

Feb. 24 — Central Crossing in second round, 8 p.m. at Westerville Central. Winner plays Dublin Scioto or Logan in district semifinal, 8 p.m.

March 1 at Liberty. District semifinal winner vs. Liberty, Pickerington North, Upper Arlington or Watkins Memorial in district final, 4 p.m. March 5 at Liberty.

Of note: The Pioneers are 19-2 overall and finished 13-1 (first) in the OCCCapital.

sett-Smith, who plays on the AAU’s Ohio Lady Jayhawks with Graham during the summer.

“She’s one of the players we’re going to have to focus on.”

Below are the sectional results for the Liberty, Olentangy and Orange wrestling teams: LIBERTY Feb. 19 — Finished first (239.5) in 13-team Division I sectional at Pickerington Central ahead of runner-up Dublin Coffman (187). District qualifiers were Jarrod Boone (125, 4-0, first), Luke Fleming (heavyweight, 31, third), Ken Hamre (171, 3-1, third), Nick Kaczkowski (160, 4-0, first), Anthony Michael (135, 3-0, first), Giuseppe Penzone (112, 2-1, second), John Pfleiderer (119, 2-1, second), Jake Ryan (130, 2-2, fourth), Ethan Snyder (145, 3-0, first) and Craig Thomas (152, 4-0, first). Others competing were Matt Casey (215, 1-3), Matt Cubberly (189, 3-2), Mitch Himmelstein (140, 1-2) and Josh Snider (103, 1-2).

Feb. 25-26 — District tournament at Hilliard Darby. The top four in each weight class advance to state March 3-5 at Ohio State.

OLENTANGY Feb. 19 — Finished first (292) in 13team Division II sectional at Hilliard Bradley ahead of runner-up Jonathan Alder (199). District qualifiers were Eric Bridges (140, 3-1, third), Al Caserta (130, 4-0, first), Ryan Dean (171, 3-2, fourth), Trevor Fiorucci (119, 4-0,

Marinelli said. “We don’t have as many big hammers as some of these other teams like Springboro, Beavercreek and Hilliard Davidson have. But we have some guys who have the poten-

first), Anthony Fosco (135, 3-1, second), Joey Gadd (160, 3-1, third), Caleb Hetterscheidt (152, 2-1, second), Ryan Lucas (125, 3-1, second), Travis Massey (112, 4-1, third), Brandon Sheppard (189, 2-1, second), Alex Stinemetz (215, 2-1, second), Andrew Torti (103, 4-0, first) and Bryan Young (heavyweight, 3-0, first). Also competing was Ryan Brady (145, 2-2).

Feb. 25-26 — District tournament at Columbus East. The top four in each weight class advance to state March 3-5 at Ohio State.

ORANGE Feb. 19 — Finished sixth (120.5) in 13-team Division I sectional at Westland behind champion Lancaster (180). District qualifiers were Dan Dawson (135, 3-2, fourth), Lenns Kamba (189, 3-2, fourth), Mike Moore (152, 1-1, second), Jacob Selbe (215, 3-2, fourth) and Josh Toprani (145, 30, first). Others competing were Hayden Fath (130, 1-2), J.J. Jurcisek (119, 3-3), Jordan King (112, 0-2), Yun Kang (heavyweight, 2-2), Matt Kiplinger (160, 1-2), Waylen Simpson (125, 2-2), Grant Stewart (103, 1-2), Dakota Taylor (171, 1-2) and Dante Ventresca (135, 3-3).

Feb. 25-26 — District tournament at Darby. The top four in each weight class advance to state March 3-5 at Ohio State.

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The Hartley High School boys bowling team will look to build on the first sectional title in program history when it competes in the district tournament on Saturday, Feb. 26, at HP Lanes.

The top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team advance to the state tournament, which will be at Wayne Webb’s Columbus Bowl.

The boys will compete March 5 and the girls will compete March 4.

Hartley won the sectional championship on Feb. 18 at Eastland Lanes with a score of 4,231, ahead of runner-up Westerville South (4,174). Also qualifying for district from the sectional were Groveport (4,052), Brookhaven (3,996), Whitehall (3,830) and Granville (3,751).

The top six teams and top six individuals not on a qualifying team from each of the three sectionals advanced to district.

“We’ve been bowling pretty good all year, so I was pretty confident,” Hartley coach Dennis Backus said. “I told the guys that they are ready to take it to the next level. We’ve always been just good enough to get to the next round, but I told them I want to win this sectional. I told them they were ready to do it.”

Senior Nick Owens led Hartley with a 681 series and sophomore William Ball had a 586.

Hartley won the Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference-Central Division at 13-0 and finished the regular season 16-0 overall.

Qualifying individually for district from the Eastland sectional were Northland’s Trent Ranson (632), Buckeye Valley’s Michael Davenport (610), Worthington Christian’s Ben Smith (593), Teays Valley’s Nick Evans

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(585), Delaware’s Ray Getz (584) and Independence’s Lamont Venable (582).

At the sectional at Wayne Webb’s, Jonathan Alder (4,056) finished first, with Circleville (3,922), Big Walnut (3,881), Westerville Central (3,834), Gahanna (3,759) and Hilliard Bradley (3,719) also advancing to district.

Qualifying individually for district were Walnut Ridge’s Wayne Russell (648), Pickerington North’s Brittany Beeghley (632), Newark’s Jon Sears (612), Chillicothe Unioto’s Dallas Johnson (612), Walnut Ridge’s Brandon Dye (585) and Hilliard Davidson’s Jacob Costin (582).

Beeghley is competing with boys because North does not have a girls team.

At the Tiki Lanes sectional, Utica (4,013) finished first, with Zanesville Maysville (3,992), Zanesville (3,866), Mount Gilead (3,808), Lancaster (3,695) and Marion Elgin (3,640) also advancing.

The individual qualifiers were Williamsport Westfall’s Anthony Martin (656), Gilead Christian’s Jason Zeigler (643), Logan’s Alex Erb (615), Chillicothe Huntington’s Anthony Broughton (611), Worthington Kilbourne’s Cort Wilson (608) and Watterson’s Clark Sabula (602).

•While the Westerville Central girls team successfully defended its sectional title at Wayne Webb’s, Briggs was celebrating its first district berth in its threeyear history.

The Warhawks won the sectional with a score of 3,574, followed by Olentangy Liberty (3,243), Gahanna (3,232), Cardington (3,132), Groveport (2,979) and Briggs (2,903).

Central, which finished second to Youngstown Boardman at state last season after losing 3-1 in the best-of-five final, has its sights set on putting together another successful postseason.

“The regular season is all about getting ready for the postseason, because this is where you get everything you worked for,” Cen-

tral coach Julie Wells said. “I think this team is ready. It’s hard work out there, but we still came in first and by a significant number. The conditions were that you’re not going to score a lot, but you just have to score more than everybody that’s here.”

Liberty coach Linda Ridolfo also hopes for a strong postseason, as the Patriots seek their first state tournament berth.

“The goal was to get out of the sectional,” Ridolfo said. “Westerville Central is an excellent team.

You obviously want to bowl with the better bowlers.”

Briggs went 8-3 in the COHSBC-South and 10-6 overall in the regular season.

Qualifying individually for the sectional were Thomas Worthington’s Maggie Taylor (511), Olentangy Orange’s Rachel Bartram (499), Circleville’s Macie Sawyer (475), Orange’s Kaitlin Milburn (466), Bradley’s Alicia Wolfe (455) and Watterson’s Alexa Gainer (451).

At the Eastland sectional, Westerville South finished first (3,531), with Buckeye Valley (3,486), Whitehall (3,373), Delaware (3,194), Newark (3,177) and Sparta Highland (3,135) also advancing.

Qualifying individually from the sectional were Chillicothe’s Summer Finley (584), Ready’s Allison Lichwa (583), Northland’s Bradishia Foster (516), Pickerington Central’s Sarah Grim (492), Brookhaven’s Maddison Morris (470) and Beechcroft’s Nellie Jones (464).

At the Tiki Lanes sectional, Zanesville (3,559) was first, with New Lexington (3,460), Maysville (3,454), Mount Gilead (3,434), Fisher Catholic (3,416) and Elgin (3,273) also advancing.

The individual qualifiers were Jonathan Alder’s Ashley Thomas (543), Chillicothe Zane Trace’s Sarah Endres (532), Logan’s Christi Castle (523), Logan Elm’s Tiffanie Harmon (508), Utica’s Jenny Bricker (499) and Westerville North’s Megan Patterson (491). www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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Schools announce coaching vacancies The following central Ohio schools are seeking coaches: Delaware — Football. Send résumé to athletics director Clint Fetty at fettycl@dcs.k12.oh.us.

Hilliard Darby — Girls golf, assistant junior varsity boys soccer. Send résumé to Chad Schulte, athletics director, Hilliard Darby High School, 4200 Leppert Road, Hilliard, 43026 or e-mail chad_schulte@hboe.org.

Johnstown-Monroe — Track, junior varsity baseball. Contact athletics director Mike Carter at (740) 967-2721 or wmcarter@johnstown.k12.oh.us.

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Upper Arlington — Field hockey. Send résumé to girls athletics director Jodi Palmer at jpalmer@ uaschools.org.

Watterson — Assistant boys track and field specializing in sprints and jumps. Contact coach Matt McGowan at runohio@ee.net or (740) 5870376.

Westerville South — Assistant boys and girls soccer. Call athletics department at (614) 797-6004.

Westland — Volleyball. Send résumé to Greg Burke at greg.burke@swcs.us.

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Editor’s note: This show is sold out.

By Jim Fischer

jfischer@thisweeknews.com We hope you enjoy our feature story on Rodney Crowell.

Since his show is sold out, we’re giving you a full additional five Fab shows (plus a bonus).

BONUS REPLACEMENT SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOW: Dig a pair of Austin-based writers/performers in Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin S a t u r d a y, Feb. 26, at the Columbus Performing Arts Center. Tickets are Carrie Elkin $20/$23. Call (614) 470-FOLK.

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Ready Set. TRS is the stage name for Indiana-born pop artist Jordan Witzigreuter, who, faced with the need to tour, has since formed a more formal “band.” You have likely heard, if nothing else, last year’s hit tune Love Like Woe, which we assume is a purposeful double-meaning.

With openers Allstar Weekend, The Downtown Friction and We Are in the Crowd, The Ready Set plays The Basement SaturDo you like to move it day, Feb. 26.

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Tickets are $15. Call 1-800Then you’ll be glad to know 745-3000. that the good folks at Dreamworks Theatricals are bringing If a symphony orchesthe company’s first-ever live tour- 3 tra is an orchestra constiing show, Madagascar Live, to tuted for the purpose of perthe Palace Theatre for five shows forming symphonies, then the Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 26- Columbus Symphony Or27. Alex, Marty, Melman, Glo- chestra’s Saturday and Sunday, ria, King Julien and the Penguins Feb. 26-27, concerts at the Ohio will all be on hand for this orig- Theatre hit the nail on the head. inal story full of high jinks, music Former artistic consultant and all the Alex the Lion snow Gunther Herbig conducts a proglobes you could ever want. gram that includes Mozart’s Sym(NOTE: Alex the Lion snow phony No. 36 (“Linz”), Schuglobes unconfirmed.) bert’s Symphony No. 8 (“UnfinTickets are $82.50-$12.50. ished”) and Dvorak’s SymphoCall 1-800-745-3000. ny No. 8. The lives of these three Smile and wave, boys. central European composers miss overlapping by a handful of years In that glorious place at either end - the program pro2 where Justin Bieber meets vides a chronology of the fourFall Out Boy, you find The movement (save in, obviously,

Schubert’s case) form.

Tickets are $66.50-$20.50.

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The Pete Yorn/Ben 4 Kweller show Wednesday, March 2, at the Newport Music Hall, strikes The Beat as one of those “makes sense” headliner-opening act bills.

Yorn has always reminded The Beat a bit of Lindsey Buckingham - more clever than Jackson Browne and more literate than John Mayer, less earnest than either. Pixies mastermind Frank Black produced Yorn’s latest release, a self-titled effort that came out last fall.

He’s complemented by Tom Petty-meets-Matthew Sweet rocker Kweller.

Tickets are $22/$25. Call 1800-745-3000.

The daughter of Texas

5 blues guitarist and singer

Liz Callaway

Johnny Copeland, Shemekia Copeland got her start singing the blues at age 16.

Still young in her early 30s, she has

The Chinaberry tree was, for a time, a popular, low-budget tree used for ornamental purposes, most often in the southern United States.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell recalled how the trees lined the housing development in the Houston neighborhood in which he grew up — a significant enough memory that he named his new book, a memoir of sorts, Chinaberry Sidewalks.

“The book is not at all about Rodney Crowell the songwriter,” he said. “It’s about my childhood growing up in Houston.

“It’s mostly about the arc of my parents’ marriage,” he said. “My mother and father were the son and daughter of sharecroppers, with seventh/eighth grade educations. They migrated to Houston, and lived in a housing development where a lot of that workforce lived. The place was landscaped with Chinaberry trees, which had these green berries. As kids, we used to have Chinaberry wars.”

Crowell said he was deliberate in moving the content of the book away from his career as a singer and songwriter — a career that has seen him boast hit records and have his songs recorded by countless artists, including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Crystal Gayle, Heart, Keith Urban, Bob Seger, the Oak Ridge Boys, Tim McGraw and more.

The book, he said, is not merely a companion piece to his records for fans.

“There are stories (in the book) about music, but only as it applies as part of my environment,” Crowell added, explaining that he didn’t feel a book of stories about his career “was going to garner a readership.”

“I don’t want to sound insulting to the loyalty of my fans, but I don’t think of myself as an iconic star,” Crowell said. “I was going to sustain a relationship with readers with my ability to tell stories.

Crowell is hardly shelving his songwriting career. In fact, he said that working on the book both sharpened his songwriting senses and changed his understanding of songwriting. torn up the blues circuit, but would sound equally at home if rock radio should ever be is ready for a new blues diva in the Tina Turner/Bonnie Raitt mold.

The Harlem-born blues

Rodney Crowell will play the Columbus Maennerchor Saturday, Feb. 26. Tickets are $30.

Call (614) 565-6130.

“With the book I discovered I couldn’t slack off,” he said, further explaining that “the narrative has to be maintained.

“That kind of day-in-day-out work is a sharp thing for a songwriter to do, to maintain.”

His one-man tour is not your standard book tour, either.

“I read excerpts from the book, I tell stories, I sing songs,” he said. “It was a lot of work on presentation and pacing.”

Crowell did the audio version of the book himself, which gave him the opportunity to hear how stories and segments of stories sounded out loud.

Additionally, he was able to make notes on how he would present the excerpts, both finding a balance between serious and humorous selections and also how he would weave the elements together into a live show.

“I have to kind of free-form a background of a story into the different segments of the book,” he said. “Then those passages had to be extended so that the audience is given a similar taste of each song.”

For more from The Beat’s interview with Rodney Crowell, read the BeatBlog at www.ThisWeekNews.com.

songstress displays pipes seasoned beyond her years, blazing a white hot vocal trail with her well-bodied alto.

“For as long as I live, my father’s music will live through

me,” her bio states.

Copeland will play Vonn Jazz & Blues Thursday, March 3.

Tickets are $20. Call (614) 4315200.

Get your Irish up at P.K. O’Ryan’s in Worthington Unlike several of its competitors, P.K. O’Ryan’s wasn’t built in Ireland and reassembled over here. And this tiny Irish-themed pub doesn’t feature self-consciously eccentric seating in a splashy and sprawling setting.

No, P.K. O’Ryan’s is just a neighborhoody place where actual locals gather to sip, chat and sup. Maybe that’s why P.K.’s feels more like an authentic Irish pub than its built-in-Ireland, chainy brethren.

Located in quaint Old Worthington, P.K.’s is the kind of place where on a lazy Sunday, gentlemen have lunch with a pint and The New York Times and ladies roll in for an entree salad.

On a weeknight with the Buckeyes on TV, the comfy pub — which appropriates a cozy, pilsner-colored glow for evening lighting — gets a bit more ani-

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by G.A. Benton mated. But just a bit, mind you.

While P.K.’s is connected to a larger, more regulation restaurant, since I prefer its taverny aspect, I suggest you sit on that side (unless you’ve got the peewee basketball team in tow) — just follow the shamrocks to the pub entry. Then plop down at a semirickety (in a good way) wooden bench with a padded back or belly up to the well-used wooden bar, which is the color of Guinness stout.

P.K.’s food is just solid pub grub, but some of its stuff stands out. The “so wrong they’re right” Irish Nachos ($8) fit that standout category.

By Jodi Miller/ThisWeek

Irish nachos and Irish stew in a bread bowl at P.K. O’Ryan’s Restaurant and Pub.

A massive pile of just-fried, dark and crispy kettle-style potato chips arrived decorated a la reuben sandwich. Yes, shredded

bits of commendably houseroasted corned beef (though I would have liked more), sauerkraut, a decent Swiss cheese sauce and snipped scallions lent tons of salty and irresistible character to the good chips (Thousand Island was on the side for dipping).

Also good — if less wild — was the homemade chili ($4).

Meaty, thick and hearty, it was made with black beans and seemed about 85 percent ground beef — a righteous ratio.

For a lighter starter, the house salad ($4.50) wasn’t bad. While it’s not something you’ll be thinking about long afterward, neither is it a total blowoff. Good sized and assembled with fresh romaine (no iceberg), it was sprinkled with shredded cheese, tomato, onions and boxed croutons and got a bit of distinction from

P.K. O’Ryan’s Restaurant too. My favorite was the salty Black & Bleu ($10), jacked up and Pub 666 High St., Worthington 614-781-0770 Web: pkoryans.com Cuisine: Irish & British pub Price: $ (up to $10 per person) Patio: No Hours: 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday -Thursday, 8 a.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday the sweet and salty house poppyseed feta dressing.

Want more of that crave-worthy house-roasted corned beef?

Of course you do, so order one of P.K.’s excellent Grilled Reubens ($10). They’re not overly greasy, are judiciously proportioned and come with extracrispy french fries.

Made with Carfagna’s ground beef, the burgers are solid here,

on Cajun seasonings and enriched with blue cheese.

The homemade Irish Stew ($11.50) was a big standout. A huge, housemade bread bowl was loaded with a soulful, potatoheavy stew of tender pot roast, sweet onions, carrots and a thick, Guinness-sloshed beefy gravy.

What’s a homemade Irish sheet cake?

It’a a giant block of chocolate cake with nuts and a sweet fudgy icing ($5). In other words, what you’d call a nice Texas sheet cake when eaten in a pub that feels accommodatingly Irish.

To read G.A. Benton’s blog, visit ColumbusDiningGuide.com.

Restaurant with Southwestern flair opens in Merion Village Robin Emrick is happy to say there isn’t anything quite like Coyote Jane’s in her immediate neighborhood — or beyond.

The Merion Village restaurant, 1586 S. High St., is based on a simple premise: affordable, homemade Santa Fe cuisine and festive drinks in a laid-back environment.

Emrick, the chef and co-owner, said that while the cuisine has its roots in the artsy New Mexico capital, it melds global ingredients.

“My cooking style is to mesh different flavors that nobody else would think of putting together,” she said.

Yet the bill of fare, in which everything is currently priced less than $10, has been subject to vast interpretations.

“It’s not Mexican,” she said. “The menu right now is a little misunderstood.”

So, in short, expect the unexpected.

The “Hop Sing” green chili burger, for example, uses 8 ounces of Angus beef topped with deep-fried jalapenos, sharp cheddar and green chili agave pesto on grilled brioche. The steak chili uses a splash of Jack Daniels and is touched off with a drizzle of Mexican chipotle chocolate.

There are tacos, burritos (called burros) and deep-fried burritos, otherwise known as chimichangas. Many have Coyote Jane’s signature touch, such as the “poppy shrimp” tacos, filled with deep-fried buttermilk popcorn shrimp, a traditional garnish and cayenne mayo.

The signature cocktail is the grilled watermelon sidecar —– tequila, agave syrup, grilled watermelon and fresh mint. An unconventional version of a bloody Mary offers shrimp and pickled egg.

After leasing the building in March, the

restaurant had a few stutter steps because of liquor license and permitting issues. It is open dinner only until March 1, when lunch hours are introduced. Emrick said she will have an entirely new lunch menu while adding some entrees at dinner.

Emrick is a partner and chef in the Banana Bean Café, which got its start in Schumacher Place and later moved to Greenlawn Avenue. Her other business associates are Angela Caskey, also part of the founding partnership of Banana Bean and Skillet, and Jane Ann Wentzel, whose name served as the inspiration for the new restaurant.

The building, at the northeast corner of High and East Morrill Avenue, had been home to Craters Restaurant and Bar for about 25 years. Then, the Eagle bar had been in business for about six months before Coyote Jane’s moved in. Emrick said she liked the look of the place: wooden floors, exposed brick and a cozy dining space. She shortened the bar and added several Southwest appointments for a rustic look. The dining room seats about 30 and the bar space seats another 25.

“I’ve been down here for 15 years,” she said. “I’ve seen Merion Village grow in the last 10 years. And the people want something different.”

Coyote Jane’s is open five days a week, closed Sunday and Monday. For more information, call 614-444-5460.

Correction: Because of a reporter’s error, the Economic and Community Development Institute was incorrectly identified in last week’s edition of Table Talk.

■ The Powell dining scene has grown dramatically in recent years.

Keile Baney isn’t worried.

The chef of the Liberty Tavern says he tries to stay on top of the competition by giving diners a large variety of dishes at reasonable prices.

“We have a regular crowd and they’re not afraid to tell us what they Keile Baney want,” he said.

Customers can get everything from grilled mahi mahi over risotto to the Tavern “stacker” – a burger crowned with barbecue pork, bacon, cheddar and onion rings.

“We have a little bit of everything,” said Baney, now a contributor to Food & Wine.

Baney said his real passion is smoking. Tavern patrons are treated to frequent smoked specials, including brisket, turkey and pork shoulder.

A native of rural Erie, Penn., Baney is a 12-year veteran of the restaurant industry, working in Pennsylvania, Michigan and locally at such places as Hyde Park.

To read more on Baney and see his recipe for fish tacos, go to www.ThisWeekNews.com/foodandwine.

Recipe of the week

By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek

Robin Emrick, the chef at Coyote Jane’s, is seen with some of the restaurant’s dishes including chips and raja salsa, burro with soffrito red sauce and a grilled watermelon sidecar. Coyote Jane’s, 1586 S. High St. in Merion Village, features Santa Fe-style food.

See Keile Baney’s recipe for fish tacos at www.ThisWeekNews.com/foodandwine

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Neighbors in the news Children to benefit from YMCA project

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The girls, all Powell or Lewis Center resMembers of the YMCA Princess Panther idents in kindergarten through fourth grade, Pass Tribe collected nonperishable food filled the decorated boxes with child-friend-

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The Princess Panther Pass Tribe’s chief is Robert Susi.

Members of the YMCA Princess Panther Pass Tribe completed a service project by filling boxes with items for children who use the Mid-Ohio Foodbank’s services. The members who helped are: (front row, left) are Victoria Susi, Ava Billy, Giovanna Spallino, Larissa Spallino, Avery Kruest, Kate Hagemeier, Jaden Law, Kendall Amodeo, Olivia Miller; (back row) Sarah Hertenstein, Haley Kruest, Ava Guagenti, Madigan O’Brien, Abigail Ryan, Abigail Miller and Emma Irvin. Not pictured: Melissa Adamczak and Kaitlyn Jurawitz.

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Musical to benefit Children’s Hospital The Pleasure Guild of Nationwide Children’s Hospital will present “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” March 11-13 at the Palace Theatre.

Proceeds will benefit central Ohio’s only pediatric hospice and palliative care program.

“Joseph” is the Pleasure Guild’s 54th production. The annual play is the organization’s signature fundraising event.

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Metro Parks District The following is a list of Metropolitan Park District of Columbus and Franklin County programs for this week.

Blendon Woods Metro Park 4265 State Route 161 E., Westerville • Just for Kids: Polluting the Planet, 1 p.m. Saturday at the Nature Center. Use the Enviroscape, an interactive miniature model of the Earth, to discover how pollution affects the environment and all living things. For ages 6-12.

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Highbanks Metro Park 9466 U.S. 23 N., Lewis Center • Owls: Stealth Hunters of the Night, 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Nature Center. Search for owls on a one-mile hike.

Sharon Woods Metro Park 6911 Cleveland Ave., Westerville • Cold-Blooded Critters, 2 p.m. Sunday at Spring Hollow Lodge, 1069 W. Main St, Westerville. Meet the park’s reptiles and amphibians and watch them feed.

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