March 3, 2011
Health panel’s major event has new name By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
It’s a new season and a new name but the same goal for the North Side Health Advisory Committee’s signature event. At last week’s monthly meeting of the panel, created by Columbus Public Health officials to help improve the wellbeing of residents in, initially, the Northland area, members learned that what had been the Northland Walk to
event subcommittee chairwoman Dawn Patterson, who represents the North YMCA on the advisory group. The event, which now incorporates in its title the sale of books, DVDs and The Y Walk Northland Wellness and Media Fair, which now incorporates CDs as a YMCA fundraiser that was in its title the sale of books, DVDs and CDs as a YMCA fundraiser that also held at the facility on Oct. 2, will was also held at the facility on Oct. 2, will take place on Saturday, March take place on Saturday, March 14, be14, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. tween 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Instead of asking civic associations, the Y when it was first held Oct. 2 has The purpose of the event is still to en- churches, senior centers and other orbeen redubbed the Y Walk Northland courage people to get out and exercise. ganizations to form walking teams to Wellness and Media Fair. “This is the official new name,” said converge on the Sandalwood Place
A closer look
YMCA, as was done last fall, Patterson said that this time around people will start out from the Y to travel through Forest Park on mapped out courses of differing lengths. Patterson reported that she and the other members of her subcommittee were working on finding between five and 10 additional partners, including churches and senior centers, to participate in putting on the event. Once again, See HEALTH PANEL’S, page A2
First ‘Meet Your Council’ event draws about 50 By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
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Shayla Ferguson, a chef with Two Caterers, makes a fruit salad Feb. 23 at the facility in the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 9. Ferguson is placing the scraps from the cantaloupe in a bucket that will go into the compost.
Copper Lodge both banquet hall, lodge for ‘coppers’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
Although only one of the women who launched Two Caterers Contemporary Cuisine is still involved in the business, the name remains the same. “I tell people it’s my split personality,” joked company president Angela Stoll Petro, who lives in German Village. In a way, though, that’s highly fitting, since her enterprise is based out of a split facility in the Northland area just outside of Westerville. On one hand, it is home to the offices of Two
Caterers and is the Copper Lodge banquet facility, available for wedding receptions and corporate events. On the other hand, it’s a lodge for coppers. The former Schmidt’s Restaurant and Banquet Facility off Schrock Hill Court is owned by, and is the headquarters for, the Fraternal Order of Police, Capital City Lodge No. 9. It was purchased almost four years ago for $1,087,500, according to Franklin County Auditor’s Office records. It replaced the former FOP Lodge in Gahanna. How did a catering business and a union hall for police officers come to coexist under one roof?
“Our realtor was the realtor for FOP,” said Petro. After nine-and-a-half years operating out of first one, then two and then three units in a strip shopping center in Linworth, Two Caterers needed more space, Petro said. When the FOP purchased the long-closed restaurant across from a Ramada Inn, the realtor suggested that Petro write up a proposal for managing the facility and providing the police union with a portion of the profits from catering events held there. “It’s an extra income-producing sector for both
It WAS like speed-dating. Northland Community Council president Dave Paul’s playful description of the format for a series of “Meet Your Columbus City Council” events, the first of which took place last week at the Fedderson Recreation Center on Dresden Street, proved to be fairly accurate. Dave Paul Only instead of, “Do you find me attractive?” over the course of several minutes of conversation, it was a case of, “Can you fix this problem?” and “Do you understand my concern?” Last week’s gathering, which is to be followed by four others through mid-April, was held at the recreation center not far from the intersection of Karl and Cooke roads to attract residents from Clintonville, the Northland area, North Linden and the Northwest Side. Several Northland Community Council representatives were on hand, as were some members of the Clintonville Area Commission. The format involved a brief introduction from Council President Andrew J. Ginther, during which he outlined the committee assignments of the various council members so people with specific concerns would know who best to approach: • Michelle M. Mills, public safety • Zachary M. Klein, development and recreation and parks • Eileen Y. Paley, public utilities and public services and transportation • Priscilla R. Tyson, finance • Hearcel F. Craig, health, housing and human services, as well as minority, business and work-
See COPPER LODGE, page A2 See FIRST ‘MEET YOUR COUNCIL,’ page A3
Health group’s nonprofit designation ‘still in the works’ By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers
The North Side Health Advisory Committee is the newest of four such panels, but the first to seek the designation of a nonprofit corporation. The committee was established in the fall of 2009 by Columbus Public Health officials to address the specific concerns of, eventually, the entire North side. Initially, the panel is focusing on the Northland area.
Previously, advisory committees were created for the Near East, West and South sides. None of the three has yet gotten around to seeking nonprofit status, according to Mathew S. Baldwin, the Columbus Public Health management analyst who advises the advisory committee. At last week’s monthly meeting of the panel, Baldwin said that Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Teresa C. Long expressed surprise that the North Side committee was in the process
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of determining how best to become a nonprofit. Baldwin explained that the members of the committee feel they can accomplish more toward their mission of improving the health of North Side residents by being in a position to apply for grants and other sources of funding. “It will be so beneficial once we do, so we can get some money,” committee co-chairwoman Sandy LaFollette said last week.
It’s not a done deal yet, according to retired registered nurse Chris Rudin, who is on the subcommittee exploring nonprofit status. It’s “still in the works,” Rudin said. She reported that she and LaFollette, along with the other committee co-chair, Scott Dowling, would be holding further meetings toward the goal of achieving 501c3 status. Dowling, who was unable to attend the February meeting, has been working on crafting a set of
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bylaws for the advisory committee, just one of the many steps required by the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofit status. Professional assistance may eventually be necessary, said committee member Gretchen Ratliff. “It’s involved,” she said. At a “Meet Your Columbus City Council” event earlier in the week, LaFollette said she took the opportunity speak with several members of council and their staff and got some leads on where to find guidance in filing the correct pa-
perwork to become a nonprofit. In the meantime, Baldwin said that a check for $1,000, the North Side Health Advisory Committee’s share of a $5,000 grant from Ohio State University, is on the way. The money is being split between the four health advisory organizations and the Weinland Park Civic Association. An existing nonprofit organization, a local settlement house, is serving as the fiscal agent to enable the advisory committees to receive the funds.
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