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Columbus Community Coalition rebooting

By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

A movement is afoot to try to once again have the Columbus Community Coalition coalesce.

“It’s something that we believe will come and should come back,” Northland Community Council president Dave Paul said last week.

He was among those who helped start the organization, aimed at fostering and improving communication and cooperation among local civic associations, area commissions and community councils, in early 2008. It grew out of a working group convened the previous year

by city council to make recommendations on ways citizen groups can better work together and with city officials.

Paul, along with former Northwest Dave Paul Civic Association president Jennifer Adair, who recently helped form the new Maize Road Civic Association in North Linden, served on the task force, representing not only their organizations but civic associations in general.

“Once we were done, those of us involved said, ‘You know this has been

very beneficial, to come together and talk like this,’ ” Paul said.

More than 50 people gathered in February 2008 seeking to determine what form a new group might take, and what issues it would address.

“We’re not looking at a really formalized structure,” then-Clintonville Area Commission chairman Chris Gawronski said at the time. “We’re not looking at creating more bureaucracy.

“I see this as very fluid and changing as it needs (to be) changed.”

“The objective was to bring not just the area commissions but all the 300, at See COLUMBUS, page A2

Former coalition roster Prior to the Columbus Community Coalition going on hiatus, membership roster included: • Clintonville Area Commission • Far Northwest Linden Neighborhood Association • Far South Columbus Area Association • Fifth by Northwest Area Commission • Friends of the Hilltop • Glen Echo Neighbors • Greater Hilltop Area Commission

• Livingston Avenue Area Commission Task Force • Marion-Franklin Area Civic Association • Northland Community Council • Northwest Civic Association • Scioto Southland Civic Association • United Crestview Area Neighbors • University Area Commission • University Area Enrichment Association • Western Lakes Civic Association

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President seeks to expand times, topics of programs

By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek

Northland High School business instructor Jaime Elledge talks to her students Wednesday, Jan. 19. Elledge has been formulating a program to allow her students to shadow as well as be mentored by business owners in the area.

NHS students to learn business skills hands-on

By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

The humble lemonade stand is, for many children, a first and often tart introduction to the world of business and finance, success and failure.

Sophomore and junior business students at Northland High School will be bringing a new twist on the old beverage sale concept when they introduce “Lemonade Day” to Columbus on May 1 at the Mall at Tuttle Crossing.

“Lemonade Day is a nationwide event that teaches kids the skills they need to be successful in the future,” according to the website of the Houston-based organization.

“Youth learn to set goals, develop a business plan, establish a budget, seek investors, provide customer service and give back to the community.

“Lemonade day is the perfect opportunity for a community to show kids they care and train the next generation of entrepreneurs through a free, fun, engaging, experiential activity,” the website states.

NHS business instructor Jaime Elledge said last week that having her students participate in Lemonade Day is part of a broader effort to involve them with the community, particularly the local business community.

The students are all enrolled in the “High School of Business,” an

initiative of the Columbus-based MBA Research and Curriculum Center. Those who successfully complete a total of eight classes under the program are eligible for five college credits at Columbus State Community College or the Central Ohio Technical College in Newark, according to Elledge.

“They don’t get that it’s a big deal yet,” she said.

High School of Business started at Northland last year, Elledge said, but the teacher became ill and was eventually forced to retire. Elledge underwent training and is now shepherding the juniors who got started earlier and the sophomores who are now in their second course, focusing on wealth management.

That’s where Lemonade Day comes in.

Groups of Northland High students setting up lemonade stands in Tuttle Mall might not generate such enormous wealth that it needs a lot of management, but they might produce a nice contribution to either a charity of their choice or possibly a scholarship.

During a teleconference last week, Elledge and her students heard from Julie Eberly, chief expansion officer at Lemonade Day National Headquarters. The event was created by the nonprofit organization Prepared 4 Life, which Michael and Linda Holthouse founded in 2005.

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By KEVIN PARKS ThisWeek Community Newspapers

When the remnants of Hurricane Ike blasted through central Ohio on Sept. 14, 2008, many Columbus residents were plunged into darkness for days on end as a result of extended power outages.

The Kraft family of Clintonville was already in the dark as to what was ailing dad Brian.

By Chris Parker/ThisWeek The Philadelphia native and freelance illustrator, who once worked in that capacity for ThisWeek Community Newspa- Area residents Nicole, Danny and Brian Kraft show the book Brian pers, was awakened in the middle of the night weeks earlier wrote “The Year My Dad Went Bald: A Tale of Cancer, Chemo and by searing pain in his groin. It was like nothing he’d ever ex- Coping with a Cold Head” after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Brian used his experiences to write the book, which is told from the

See DAD’S BOUT WITH CANCER, page A2 perspective of a child to help others in a similar situation.

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The Northland Area Business Association held a recent breakfast meeting for members to get some advice from tax professionals.

The event was scheduled in the morning because not everyone’s schedule permits them to attend the quarterly luncheons or occasional after-hours gatherings, according to president Roseann Hicks.

In fact, Hicks herself was un- Roseann Hicks able to be on hand for the breakfast session; it chanced to land on her morning for opening the family business, Yogi’s Hoagies and Dairy Bar on Morse Road.

But, she said last week, that’s precisely the point in scheduling events intended to benefit members, and boost membership, at different times of day.

Around 15 people did attend the breakfast meeting, which Hicks found to be “very much” encouraging.

Hicks is uncertain if the turnout was the result of scheduling a morning event before many NABA members go into work or because the concept of getting some free tax advice was so enticing.

“I think it was probably a little of both,” she said.

One thing the business organization president, now in her second term, is certain of is that there is a need to expand the offerings and times of events intended to help members.

“As a business organization, we have to recognize that not everybody can attend a lunch, not everybody’s going to be able to attend a breakfast, not everybody’s going to be able to attend an afterhours,” Hicks said.

Taking into account the varied schedule of so many who belong to NABA is important to ensure

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There’s strength in numbers.

A joint meeting of two Northland civic associations on Nov. 9 drew a large crowd and a great deal of media coverage.

The topic — the increase in heroin trafficking in residential neighborhoods around Northland’s major traffic routes — undoubtedly had something to do

with that, but the notion of combining forces to hear topics of widespread interest caught on.

“The November meeting was such a success that we decided to do it again,” said Emmanuel V. Remy, president of the Clinton Estates Civic Association.

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Columbus Community Coalition rebooting Continued from page A1 the time and perhaps more, civic associations in Columbus together,” Paul said last week.

“The reason that the coalition was formed was just to make sure that neighbors were talking,” Adair said.

The mission statement for what organizers decided to dub the Columbus Community Coalition, still up on its dormant website, states: “The Columbus Community Coalition fosters and enhances relationships among community groups by advocating to improve the quality of life in Columbus, Ohio.”

The coalition did have four quarter-

ly meetings and participated in putting on a July 20 debate regarding the income tax hike which voters approved in an Aug. 4 special election. Eventually, however, other citywide issues and local matters pulled those active in the organization in different directors, Paul said.

“On hiatus is probably the best way to describe how it has been, since at least 2009,” he said.

Before that took place, the NCC president said that the coalition developed an e-mail list of 200 or so people and created a website to provide a clearinghouse for community issues affecting the entire city, the way the community council does for the specific Northland

area.

“We think it’s a good time to sort of dust those tools off and reestablish contact with the folks who had sort of expressed interest in being involved before,” Paul said.

At an informal meeting last week, coalition participants from the outset determined not only that now was the time to jumpstart the organization but also the date for a meeting at which the group would sponsor a presentation on the local Project Safe Neighborhoods effort being jointly undertaken by the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney and the Public Defender’s Office, according to Adair.

The meeting will take place on March 31, she said, with a location to be de-

termined, and it is intended to see if representatives of neighborhood groups want to try to implement Project Safe Neighborhoods in their parts of the city.

“Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide commitment to reduce gun and gang crime in America by networking existing local programs that target gun and gun crime and providing these programs with additional tools necessary to be successful,” according to its website.

“Since its inception in 2001, approximately $2 billion has been committed to this initiative,” it states. “This funding is being used to hire new federal and state prosecutors, support investigators, provide training, distribute gun lock safe-

ty kits, deter juvenile gun crime, and develop and promote community outreach efforts as well as to support other gun and gang violence reduction strategies.”

“This seemed like a very good opportunity to make the CCC an agent again in the community to share information and bring the neighborhoods together,” Paul said.

It won’t be easy, the NCC president conceded.

“We do need to almost start from ground zero,” Paul said.

Nevertheless, according to Adair, it’s going to happen.

“It definitely is,” she said. kparks@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNews.com

Dad’s bout with cancer, baldness leads to book County auditor to Continued from page A1 perienced before.

Luckily, Brian Kraft said last week, he already had a routine physical scheduled. Presuming he’d somehow developed a hernia from playing basketball, Kraft kept the appointment, only to be told that wasn’t it at all.

He eventually had a CAT Scan and other tests, and then, still in the darkness of the power failure, Brian and Nicole Kraft sat in a doctor’s office and were told, “You either have lymphoma or leukemia.”

It’s not the sort of thing anyone ever wants to hear.

“You can’t believe it’s happening to you,” Brian Kraft recalled last week. “I was more worried about my wife freaking out.”

“I guess I blanched,” said Nicole Kraft, a journalism professor at Ohio State University.

“I got really hot and really cold.”

She also got really frustrated; her every instinct told her to go home, go online and research the heck out of both forms of blood cancer. But with the power out, she couldn’t.

Eventually, Brian Kraft was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

He got treatment.

And he got better.

But that’s not what this story is about. This is about what Brian Kraft did after he and Nicole could not find any books to help them in explaining things to their then-7-year-old son, Daniel Levi Kraft.

He wrote and illustrated his own book on the subject. Titled “The Year My Dad Went Bald: A Tale of Cancer, Chemo and Coping with a Cold Head” is told from the perspective of Danny, who will turn 10 in February.

A portion of the profits from

the often-touching tome, which is intended to help children between 6 and 12 cope with a cancer diagnosis of a parent, will be donated to the charities Hockey Fights Cancer and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

“I’m going to be all right,” dad said.

I knew he was trying to sound brave and he didn’t want me to worry, but I could tell he was scared.

“The chances for a cure are really good. Mario Lemieux had it and he came back and play for the Pittsburgh Penguins.”

Finally, something I could understand. I’m a big hockey fan, and I knew that Mario was one of the best ever.

— From “The Year My Dad Went Bald”

bated in Brian’s case due to an allergic reaction to one of the drugs.

“The first one is absolute the worst thing that can happen to you,” Brian Kraft said.

The medicine was really strong and it made dad feel worse than the cancer. When he came home he didn’t look so good, and all he could do was lay on the couch.

Dad started to throw up and couldn’t stop hiccupping. I hate the hiccups. He threw up a bunch of times.

Mom was getting worried and she decided to take him to the emergency room.

— From “The Year My Dad Went Bald”

again, I could get sick again.’You live life to the fullest.”

Brian Kraft has been cancerfree since January 2009. He wrote and illustrated the book, using a journal his wife kept of his illness.

“I could not be more thrilled with it,” Nicole Kraft said.

Some copies of “The Year My Dad Went Bald” have been given to the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Nicole Kraft said that she just recently learned of the book being given to one family after the father was diagnosed with cancer.

“I’m so proud of him,” she said of her husband.

In spite of the setback from He was never really sick bethe allergic reaction, Brian Kraft fore his cancer, and he didn’t like “I never felt that I wasn’t going managed to get out of the hosto get better,” Brian Kraft said pital just in time to attend Danny’s hanging around the house. We didn’t wrestle or play around like soccer game the following day. last week. we used to, and he seemed pretNevertheless, he and Nicole ty sad.

As the game started I was havknew that his diagnosis and treatBut then things started to turn ment were going to have a big ing a hard time getting into it. around. The Phillies made the impact on Danny. Brian Kraft Then I saw dad and mom walkWorld Series – and they won the was a stay-at-home dad at the ing across the field. Dad looked whole thing. I even got to stay up sick and weak, but he had come late to watch the final game. time.

“We’re pretty charmed peo- straight from the hospital to watch I hadn’t seen him so happy in ple, and life had been as good as my game. a long time. Mom and dad even I was so glad to see him. I tried let me taste champagne. Yuck! it could get,” Nicole Kraft said.

“Team Kraft,” as Nicole puts to play my best.

— From “The Year My Dad — From “The Year My Dad it, decided to tackle Brian’s illWent Bald” Went Bald” kparks@thisweeknews.com ness together, with everyone knowing everything, nothing held www.ThisWeekNews.com “Our relationships have back.

“It was complete honesty, no changed forever, and we’re a betsugarcoating,” Brian Kraft said. ter family by far than we were,” “We just laid it out for him,” Nicole Kraft said.

A worrier by nature, Nicole his wife added.

The big thing they sought to Kraft used to worry about the get across to Danny, Nicole Kraft small things. Now, she knows said, was: “You’re life’s not going firsthand there are much bigger to be as much fun. You’re not things to worry about.

“Life is just too short,” she going to be the center of the unisaid. verse. Dad is.”

“You take it day by day,” Brian The initial chemotherapy treatment is often the roughest on can- Kraft said. “It always in the back cer patients, which was exacer- of your mind: ‘I could get sick

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Continued from page A1 tion, the Maize-Morse-TriVillage Civic Association will also participate.

The joint meeting, which will take the place of the regular monthly gatherings for the Clinton Estates and Karmel Woodward Park groups, is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the Haimerl Center, 1421 Morse Road. It will get under way at 6:30 p.m., and the featured speaker will be Franklin County Auditor Clarence E. Mingo II. “He will speak to us on two timely topics, the property tax revision process for homeowners and the 2011 residential property reappraisal, all as a means to lower our real-estate taxes in these trying economic times,” Remy wrote in announcing the meeting.

Bill Logan of the Karmel Woodward Park Civic Association arranged for Mingo, who was chosen in August 2009 by the Franklin County Republican Party to replace retiring auditor Joe Testa, to appear to the joint gathering of civic groups, Remy said. He said he believes having an audience of three such organizations played a role in getting such a high-profile speaker.

“Absolutely,” Remy said. “It allows us to bring in bigger name speakers, maybe up the food chain. Having the combination makes it more enticing for elected officials.”

“Certainly having the multiple civic associations together and therefore a larger audience helps in terms of the speaker and making it worth their time from our perspective, as well as giving them an audience in a more efficient manner,” Logan said. “It works to benefit both the speaker and the civic groups by having a combined audience.”

While civic organizations tend to focus primarily on their own backyards, Remy said that he feels it’s good for them to get together from time to time regarding topics of mutual interest.

“It’s a chance for communities to get together and share some commonalities,” Remy said.

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Growing community finds all levels of entertainment There are many ways to learn about a place and its past. I have always had the strong suspicion that how people entertain themselves can tell us a lot about who they were and what was important to them.

With that as both an explainer and probably a bit of a warning, let’s take a look at how Columbus amused itself in its first few decades.

Isolated from the East and South from where ED most of its LENTZ early residents arrived, it appears that the small frontier community of Columbus pretty much entertained itself in the first few years after it was founded in 1812. Carving a village out of a forest was not all that easy and the added diversion of the War of 1812 meant that most people did not have much leisure time.

The time they did have was often occupied with family and visits to close friends nearby. After the Ohio General Assembly began to meet in Columbus in 1816, there was a decided increase in the number of taverns in town and in the number of people frequenting them — much to the chagrin of local ministers and the temperance advocates in their congregations.

To understand early public entertainment in Columbus, it is important to remember that, then as now, there were several different “arts communities” in the capital city. Some of the early residents were quite well-educated and sorely missed the music, drama and literary world they had left behind.

Several of these people formed what later came to be called “the first musical organization in Columbus.” The Handel Society apparently performed for the assembled multitude on the occasion of Independence Day in 1821 and 1822, and according to an account from that time, performed with “a superior degree of elegance.”

How the singing of Handel’s work went over with the frontier folk who had never heard of him or his music was probably summed up with, “Handel was handled quite well” or something similar.

For the rest of the people of Columbus, there were military organizations with their fifes and drums and the occasional entertainment of an itinerant musician.

But there was not much else — until 1827.

On April 21, 1827, Tippo Sultan, the Great Hunting Elephant, came to town. Tippo was accompanied, according to a local poster, by “The Mammoth Lion, Tiger, Cat, Lynx, Shetland Pony, Dandy Jack, etc. etc. The above named animals will be seen at Mr. Russell’s tavern, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 27th, 28th and 29th inst. The exhibition will be accompanied by good music. Admittance 25 cents — children under 12 years of age half price.”

Presumably, Mr. Russell felt his tavern would benefit by the arrival of Tippo and his friends.

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was locked up in the tavern backyard where, during one of the nights of his sojourn, he broke loose, and for a time amused himself by pumping water at the well.

Finally he broke the pump handle and looking around for some new pastime, spied two barrels of flour standing on the back porch. Breaking into these, he, for a while, ate flour and drank water alternately until he converted the residue of the flour into paste.

“Awakened by the noise, Mr. Russell descended and was received by the elephant with a fusillade of dough. Beating a retreat, the discomfited host aroused the keeper of the frolicsome beast, who, after some effort, succeeded in getting him tied again.”

As a counterpoint to the arrival of Tippo Sultan and his friends, the more elevated culture group in town welcomed a “Mr. and Mrs. Harper” who, with a few friends and associates , were happy to perform Oliver Goldsmith’s classic play, “She Stoops to Conquer” for any who cared to come and pay to see it.

Apparently, a number of people did, since the play was performed in the only place big enough to hold them — the public market building at State and High streets. Presumably, the live chickens, pigs and cows who occupied various stalls in the market were removed for the evening.

The clash between “high culture” and, shall we say, “not-sohigh culture” continued apace. In 1833, one Rufus Beach organized the Franklin Harmonic Society, looking to improve “the vocal and instrumental music” of the city. Shortly thereafter, S. Butler and Company came to Columbus with a menagerie that included “the great hunting or war elephant, Hannibal.”

Apparently Columbus really liked elephants in those days.

By 1835, Columbus had seen the arrival of the Ohio Canal and the National Road and had become a city of more than 5,000 people. The rapid growth in size and influence of Columbus evidently convinced enough investors to permit the construction of the first real theatre in the city.

Built of wood, the Columbus Theatre stood on the west side of High Street just a few hundred feet north of Long Street, where the Brunson Building is today.

Over the next several years, the theatre saw performances of classic plays, including Shakespeare and such titles as “St. George and the Dragon,” “Mazeppa” and “The Cataract of the Ganges.”

For the less refined, the Columbus Theatre was also the home of Miss Honey, a “danseuse.”

Of Miss Honey, a local paper reported, “Her most piquant dances were frequently followed by a shower of silver quarters.” It was also reported that “Miss Honey had considerable talent as an actress, and in whatever part she took evoked applause.”

In later years, it was noted that “towards the end of 1841, the Columbus Theatre seems to have degenerated both financially and morally, and its evil influence upon the young people of the city, resulting particularly from its ‘bar’ for the sale of intoxicants, was loudly complained of.”

The clash of culture between “legitimate” and not-so-legitimate entertainment would continue for much of the rest of the history of the city — and for that matter, down to our own time as well.

Tippo Sultan would likely be amused.

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There might not be a better point guard in central Ohio this season than Northland High School senior Trey Burke.

The problem for opponents is that Burke isn’t alone in terms of Vikings who have taken a step forward in their playing abilities.

In particular, Northland has developed a pair of inside players in 6-foot8 juniors Devon Scott and Jalen Robinson. They have helped offset the loss of 2010 Naismith National Player of the Year and current Ohio State freshman Jared Sullinger.

In addition to being one of the area’s leaders in assists, Burke averages more

than 22 points a game. He scored 19 points during a 77-69 victory over Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary on Jan. 22 in the Ohio Play-By-Play Classic at Capital University.

Scott and Robinson, meanwhile, contribute in multiple ways. Both players have been shooting 75 percent from the floor, and Scott is averaging more than nine rebounds.

Through 10 games, Scott was averaging 12.1 points and Robinson was averaging 11.6.

Robinson earned team MVP honors at the Play-By-Play Classic by scoring a team-high 25 points.

“Me and Devon play together a lot, and that’s helped the whole team,” Robinson said. “I’ve worked a lot on my conditioning and I’ve tried to get

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Jalen Robinson of Northland goes up for a jumper over Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary’s Rickey Johnson during the Vikings’ 77-69 victory in the Play-By-Play Classic on Jan. 22 at Capital University. Robinson scored a game-high 25 points.

stronger. I’ve also worked on my rebounding, playing defense and just playing harder.”

Scott and Robinson have been “receptive to coaching,” coach Satch Sullinger said. “Before they took it as a personal attack, but they understand now that I’m trying to make them better. They’ve been willing to receive the info and not take it as a personal attack. We’ve been teaching them a lot about footwork.”

The Vikings have non-league games

remaining Saturday, Jan. 29, at Logan (W.Va.) and Feb. 5 at Lakewood St. Edward.

Logan is led by senior Paul Herbert Williamson, who averages 23.8 points.

•The Brookhaven boys team should get a boost for the remainder of the regular season from a pair of inside players.

Jalen Harris, who had been on junior varsity, is a 6-5 senior who recently began seeing playing time with the Bearcats. He scored nine points dur-

ing a 57-53 victory over Columbus East on Jan. 18.

Maurice Camara is a 6-7 post player who coach Hali Robinson said is expected to become eligible.

That duo should help take pressure off the guard-oriented approach the Bearcats have used this season, with DeVon Montgomery, Khalid King and Randal Clarkson leading the way.

Brookhaven was 6-1 before losing See ROUNDUP, page A6

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DeSales’ Charles Chandler tries to maneuver past Connor Geraghty of Watterson during the Stallions’ 36-32 victory Jan. 21 at Otterbein.

The DeSales High School boys and girls swimming and diving teams will compete at the CCL meet on Saturday, Jan. 29, with a lineup led by what coach J.R. Fourqurean calls the “big four.”

The DeSales boys team might not have the depth of St. Charles and the same could be said about the girls team compared to Watterson, but with the “big four,” the Stallions have proven statelevel swimmers.

With Cooper Staton of the boys team and Andrea Acquista, Andrea Devakul and Suzanne Hrabowy of the girls team, the Stallions have been able to focus on filling in the gaps for the postseason.

“With some help from some key individuals, we should be able to get four relays as well as some individual events at the state level,” Fourqurean said.

“They will make a big impact on the Central District meet as well as the state meet.”

Staton, the defending Division II state champion in the 50yard freestyle (20.98 seconds), will be looking to take home his third CCL title in the 50 free and second in the 100 free. Staton’s winning performances in the 50 free (21.87) and 100 free (49.38) last season set CCL meet records.

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Stallions boys basketball coach Blair Albright (right) is congratulated by former coach and current principal Dan Garrick during a ceremony before the game against Watterson on Jan. 21. Albright surpassed Garrick’s school record of 121 wins on Jan. 14 when the Stallions beat St. Charles 44-42.

He appears to be on his way to another strong postseason after placing second (21.54) in the 50 free behind Strongville’s Michael Meldon (21.23) at the Northeast Classic on Jan. 15.

He also was eighth (50.45) in the 100 free behind Hudson’s Jimmy Dagley (47.9).

The boys team scored 204 points at last year’s CCL meet and finished second behind St. Charles (437). Watterson was third (194) and Hartley was fourth (181).

Fourqurean said the Stallions should have a shot to place sec-

ond again, with Hartley also being a strong contender.

The Stallions’ finish could come down to where swimmers like Eddie Cordek, Will Gish, Kris Hallam, Santino Sanfilipo, James Walsh and Kevin Walsh place. They will have to make an impact, Fourqurean said.

The girls team is looking for strong performances from Devakul and Hrabowy, who were part of a 200 medley relay that was 11th (1:53.98) at state last year. Hrabowy also was sixth See STALLIONS, page A6

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ROUNDUP Continued from page A5 four of its next five. “(Harris) is a big help to us because he’s a tough rebounder and somebody who can finish around the basket,” coach Robinson said. “We’ve just been a team of peaks and valleys this year. Our rebounding has gotten a lot better, but we’re finally getting there. We’ve been incredibly small around the basket at times.

“I really like what (Montgomery and Clarkson) are doing.

They’re doing a fantastic job playing off one another.”

•Things also have been coming together for the Beechcroft boys basketball team.

Senior Martise McLaurin was averaging more than 22 points through 10 games and scored 21 of the Cougars’ first 27 during a 54-51 victory over Whetstone on Jan. 18.

Senior Austin Davenport has been filling a key role on defense inside for the Cougars, and freshman Tyrek Pugh has been starting at point guard.

Sophomore guard Khaleed Franklin and freshman guard Maurice Hale also have become contributors. “(Davenport’s) an accomplished athlete here at our school, and I think he knows his limitations on the basketball floor,” coach Scott Davis said. “He’s a football-first kid, and we need kids like that that are tough. He brings a sense of calm for us and does a good job playing defense and rebounding.”

According to Davis, the Cougars felt “pretty bleak” after they began the season by losing five of their first six.

But Beechcroft appears to be setting itself up for an upperechelon finish in conference play.

“Tyrek Pugh has done a great job starting at point guard for us, and he had 10 points against Whetstone,” Davis said. “We do have the advantage of having some seniors coming off our bench as well. We have some kids who are starting to settle into roles, and at the beginning of the year we didn’t know what they were going to do.”

•Coach Aaron MacCaughey believes both the Northland boys and girls swimming teams have shown improvement since the beginning of the season.

Freshman Clay Siens’ best time in the 100-yard breaststroke is four seconds off the school record. Sophomore Viet Nguyen’s best time in the 500 freestyle is about 10 seconds off

STALLIONS Continued from page A5 (58.57) in the 100 butterfly and sixth (52.78) in the 100 free. Acquista was fourth in diving (381.55 points).

Acquista won the CCL diving title last year with 409 points.

Hrabowy was one of several Stallions swimmers who didn’t compete in their normal events at last year’s CCL meet. She ended up placing third (25.16) in the 50 free despite training heavily for the 100 fly and 100 backstroke. In 2009, Hrabowy won the CCL championship in the 200 individual medley (2:20.28).

At the Northeast Classic, Hrabowy was ninth (53.8) in the 100 free behind Massillon Jackson’s Chase Kinney (52.58) and 13th (1:00.53) in the 100 fly behind Akron Firestone’s Katie Miller (56.08). Acquista was eighth (380.9) in diving behind Cuyahoga Falls’ Haleigh Bartlett (456.2).

The Stallions also expect strong contributions from Kara Goodman, Erica Hegedus, Abby Moonis, Katie Murray and Amy Shomo.

The girls team was third (236) in the CCL last season behind Watterson (395) and Hartley (336) and ahead of Columbus School for Girls (144).

“All the teams top to bottom are tough (on the girls side),” Fourqurean said. “I think you have to look at Watterson being the favorite with Hartley giving them a run for their money. I’d like to see us land in third, but CSG will be a tough group to beat out. We always go into this meet to be competitive and to change our mindset from dual meets to tournament mode and to make any corrections we need before sectionals start.”

•The hockey team earned a much needed 10-1 win over Watterson on Jan. 22.

At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the Beechcroft, Brookhaven and Northland boys basketball, girls basketball, bowling, swimming and wrestling teams:

BEECHCROFT BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Defeated Whetstone 54-51 *Jan. 24 — Lost to Northland 85-51 *Jan. 25 — Played Centennial *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Mifflin *Feb. 1 — At Brookhaven Of note: The Cougars were 5-6 overall and 4-4 in the City League-North Division before Jan. 25.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. Whetstone 74-50 *Jan. 24 — Lost to Northland 84-27 *Jan. 25 — Played Centennial *Jan. 28 — At Mifflin *Feb. 1 — Home vs. Brookhaven Of note: The Cougars were 9-5 overall and 7-3 in the City-North before Jan. 25.

BOWLING *Jan. 20 — Boys: Lost to Northland 1,912-1,732; Girls: Lost to Northland 1,560-1,112 *Jan. 25 — Boys, girls: Competed against Haugland Learning Center *Jan. 26 — Boys, girls: Competed against Brookhaven *Feb. 1 — Boys, girls: Columbus West at Sequoia Lanes *Feb. 2 — Boys, girls: Columbus Academy at Eastland Lanes Of note: The boys were 3-6 overall and in the Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference-Central Division and the girls were 2-7 overall and 2-6 in the COHSBC-Central before Jan. 25.

SWIMMING Jan. 26 — Boys, girls: Competed at Bellefontaine vs. host Chieftains and Northland Jan. 29 — Boys, girls: Columbus South at North YMCA

BROOKHAVEN BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. Columbus East 5753 *Jan. 24 — Def. Whetstone 64-37 *Jan. 25 — Played Mifflin *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Linden-McKinley *Feb. 1 — Home vs. Beechcroft Of note: The Bearcats were 8-5 overall and 5-3 in the City-North before Jan. 25.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. East 57-43 Jan. 22 — Def. Lima Bath 57-52 (OT) *Jan. 24 — Def. Whetstone 63-38 *Jan. 25 — Played Mifflin *Jan. 28 — At Linden Jan. 29 — At Harvest Prep *Feb. 1 — At Beechcroft Of note: The Bearcats were 11-2 overall and 9-1 in the City-North before Jan. 25.

BOWLING *Jan. 21 — Boys, girls: Match vs.

Ready postponed because of bad

the school record.

The boys team’s 200 medley relay recorded its best time during MacCaughey’s tenure when it swam a 1:55 earlier this season.

Chloe Siens, Madelyn Smith, Emily Aldridge and Erin McClary have been among the standouts for the girls squad.

The Vikings compete Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Centennial Stars Invitational at the Colum-

weather. No makeup date has been announced. *Jan. 25 — Boys, girls: Competed against West *Jan. 26 — Boys, girls: Competed against Beechcroft *Jan. 31 — Boys, girls: Haugland Learning Center at HP Lanes Of note: The boys were 7-2 overall and 5-2 in the COHSBC-Central and the girls were 5-2 overall and 4-2 in the COHSBC-Central before Jan. 25.

WRESTLING Jan. 22 — Finished ninth (147) in 10team Robin Drumm Invitational at Heath behind champion Dresden TriValley (308) Jan. 29 — Benjamin Logan Invitational

NORTHLAND BOYS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. Mifflin 100-57 Jan. 22 — Def. Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary 77-69 in Ohio Play-By-Play Classic at Capital University *Jan. 24 — Def. Beechcroft 85-51 *Jan. 25 — Played Whetstone *Jan. 28 — Home vs. Centennial Jan. 29 — At Logan (W.Va.) *Feb. 1 — At Linden Of note: The Vikings were 11-0 overall and 8-0 in the City-North before Jan. 25.

GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. Mifflin 54-18 *Jan. 24 — Def. Beechcroft 84-27 *Jan. 25 — Played Whetstone *Jan. 28 — At Centennial *Feb. 1 — Home vs. Linden Feb. 2 — At Westerville North Of note: The Vikings were 14-0 overall and 10-0 in the City-North before Jan. 25.

BOWLING *Jan. 18 — Boys: Def. Haugland Learning Center 1,839-1,080 *Jan. 20 — Boys: Def. Beechcroft 1,912-1,732; Def. Beechcroft 1,5601,112 *Jan. 27 — Boys, girls: Ready at Sequoia *Jan. 31 — Boys, girls: Columbus Academy at Sequoia Of note: The Vikings are 7-4 overall and 5-4 in the COHSBC-Central and the girls are 9-1 overall and 6-1 in the COHSBC-Central.

SWIMMING Jan. 18 — Boys: Finished first (111) ahead of Eastmoor Academy (64), South (35) and East (6); Girls: Finished second (109) behind Eastmoor (115) and ahead of East (21) and South (17) Jan. 22 — Boys: Lost to Central Crossing 56-37; Girls: Lost to Central Crossing 55-24; and Caledonia River Valley 38-36 Jan. 29 — Centennial Stars Invitational at Columbus Aquatic Center WRESTLING Jan. 21-22 — Finished 10th (59) at 15-team Grandview Invitational behind champion Whitehall (319) Jan. 27 — At Columbus Academy *League contest

bus Aquatic Center and swim at the City League meet Feb. 5 at the same site.

“I’m excited to see how things pan out with the City meet and the sectional,” MacCaughey said.

“The team looks like a team of swimmers for the most part. I think we’ve progressed a great deal.” julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

At a glance Below are the recent results and coming schedules for the DeSales boys basketball, girls basketball, gymnastics, hockey, swimming & diving and wrestling teams: BOYS BASKETBALL Jan. 18 — Defeated Granville 67-44.

Clinton James scored 16 points and Sam Borghese scored 11. *Jan. 21 — Def. Watterson 36-32.

Kenny Cooper had eight points.

Jan. 22 — Def. Urbana 53-38.

Charles Chandler scored 11 points and James added 10.

Jan. 26 — Played Beechcroft Jan. 28 — At Worthington Christian.

The Stallions won 72-48 and 81-60 last year. *Feb. 1 — Home vs. Ready. The Stallions won 60-40 on Dec. 17.

Of note: The Stallions were 9-3 overall before Jan. 26 and are 3-1 in the CCL. GIRLS BASKETBALL *Jan. 18 — Def. Columbus School for Girls 53-38. Maddie Lockhart scored 17 points and Tyler Craig scored 12.

Jan. 22 — Lost to Watterson 5552. Craig scored 18 points and Lockhart scored 12.

Jan. 24 — Def. Logan Elm 66-46 Feb. 1 — At Granville Of note: The Stallions are 7-6 over-

It was the Stallions’ first Capital Hockey Conference win this season. DeSales is 1-6-1 with 1 point in the CHC, which places them 13th in the 14-team league ahead of Watterson (0-11).

Dublin Jerome is first at 8-1 (16 points).

“The Watterson game came at a wonderful time for us,” coach Bob Heine said. “For the first period, it was 0-0 and then we had some upperclassmen that were able to step up and turn the tide for us. Watterson has made some strides and for us it was a confidence builder.”

At 5-17 overall, the Stallions already have surpassed last season’s win total. DeSales was 418-3 overall and 1-10-1 in the CHC last season.

With a large freshman class that consists of Hunter Chapman, Colm Crotty, Thomas Gorman, Danny Helin, Tyler Klutch, Kyle Ghiloni, Ben Risinger and

all and 3-2 in the CCL. *CCL game GYMNASTICS Jan. 22 — Finished first (134.4) ahead of Painesville Riverside (132.175) at Worthington Kilbourne Invitational. Kate Miltko won vault (9.1).

Jan. 29 — Brecksville-Broadview Heights Invitational HOCKEY *Jan. 22 — Def. Watterson 10-1 *Jan. 23 — Lost to Coffman 10-0 *Jan. 29 — Olentangy at Chiller North *Jan. 30 — St. Charles at Chiller Easton. The Stallions lost 8-1 on Dec. 4.

Of note: The Stallions are 5-17 overall and 1-6-1 in the Capital Hockey Conference. *CHC game SWIMMING & DIVING Jan. 25 — Competed at Columbus Academy Jan. 29 — CCL championships at St. Charles WRESTLING Jan. 19 — Tied Licking Heights at 42 Jan. 22 — Lost to West Jefferson 56-15; def. Big Walnut 40-28 Jan. 29 — At Lakewood St. Edward

Josh VanCuyk, the Stallions have had to deal with inexperience.

The Stallions have relied on seniors J.P. Mazzocco, Joe Eierman and Eddie Levin to provide the leadership.

Some games like a 10-0 loss to Dublin Coffman on Jan. 23 have been tough, but the Stallions also have suffered close losses. The Stallions lost to Thomas Worthington 4-3 in overtime on Jan. 2 and five days later lost to Gahanna 3-2.

“We’ve really worked hard in just about every game,” Heine said. “The work ethic and the enthusiasm has been the high point. It’s just a lack of experience. We have a lot of freshman and they’re learning every day. We haven’t given up on anything. We’re going to keep going and continue to work hard.” www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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Commentary

‘Tradition’ part of OHSAA divisional proposal unfair It’s not hard to imagine the confrontational feelings that were created when the OHSAA released a statement Jan. 13 announcing that it was tackling the seemingly age-old debate regarding competitive balance among the state’s public and private schools.

The proposed referendum, to be voted on by OHSAA member schools in May, initially would reset divisional alignments in football, baseball, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball and softball based on a school’s sport-by-sport “athletic count.” That figure would be calculated using mathematical factors that take into account economics, school enrollment policies and tradition.

On one side of the debate are public schools that won only eight of the 27 state team titles — one of six in football — that the OHSAA awarded during the 2010 fall season.

Many in the private-school camp, meanwhile, are left to wonder whether rules changes, which seemingly would bump them into larger divisions, are fair.

There are many reasons for the disproportionate number of titles won by private schools, but the primary one is that some of those schools can assemble virtual all-star teams from fiveand six-county areas.

With that in mind, it does seem reasonable for the OHSAA to visit the issue of boundaries when determining the divisions for private schools, and some large public schools.

The biggest problem I have is with the “tradition factor” that would increase a school’s “athletic count.”

The OHSAA says this aspect would be determined by “state championship game appearances, state tournament appearances and regional finals appearances.”

The implication of this sounds more like a step toward eventually giving participation medals to everyone as opposed to rewarding the best of the best.

Few people want to see Delphos St. John’s beat Shadyside 77-6 for the Division VI state football title, and having Youngstown Ursuline win three consecutive Division V state championships is less than ideal when talking about keeping the field balanced.

The problem is that if the OHSAA moves St. John’s up to Division V and Ursuline to Division IV, the same problems will persist, but with different teams.

If Hartley would have been in Division III instead of Division IV last fall, it would JARROD have been a strong candidate ULREY to win that title instead because Watterson, according to the proposed plan, likely would have been in Division II instead of Division III. Schools that could end up getting hurt unintentionally by a change are the Division I public schools.

A perennial central Ohio football power such as Hilliard Davidson not only has to overcome fellow area public-school powers such as Pickerington Central and Dublin Coffman, but a team such as Cincinnati St. Xavier, which has 1,171 boys, could be looming later in the playoffs.

The new formula potentially also would move state powers such as Mentor Lake Catholic and Toledo Central Catholic into Division I, making a tough field even tougher.

Some have suggested separating into privateschool and public-school tournaments, but that only would hurt the spirit of competition that should exist when determining the state’s best.

Is there an obvious solution to the issue?

Not exactly, but it doesn’t seem like radical change is necessary.

Tradition should be kept out of the equation.

Teams like DeSales and Watterson have earned their success by creating programs that teach winning football. This shouldn’t be penalized, but emulated by other programs.

Keeping in mind the boundary issues, the OHSAA should choose to tweak, rather than revamp, the way it determines its tournament divisions.

Let the rest of the arguments be settled on the field. julrey@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekSPORTS.com

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BOYS Gahanna’s Stevie Taylor Quotable scored 28 points Jan. 22 as the Lions blew past Chillicothe “I didn’t know what I was 68-43 at the Ohio Play-By-Play doing. I had to learn how to do

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— Upper Arlington’s Vito DiBenedetto, who after eight years of martial arts joined the wrestling team last year.

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Hilliard Darby — Boys cross country, girls golf, assistant junior varsity boys soccer. Send résumé to Chad Schulte, athletics director, Hilliard Darby High School, 4200 Leppert Road,

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Thomas Worthington — Assistant track and field specializing in pole vault. Send résumé to athletics director Dan Girard at dgirard@worthington.k12.oh.us or fax to (614) 883-2275.

Upper Arlington — Field hockey, assistant track and field specializing in pole vault. Send résumé to girls athletics director Jodi Palmer at jpalmer@uaschools.org for field hockey and coach Joe Cutler at jcutler@uaschools.org

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Sinus infections can be frequent

Frequent sinus infections in ications such my of the sinuses and determine children are a common problem, as anti-hista- if the openings of the sinuses are especially for children in daycare mines. blocked. If sinus openings are settings. The average child can In a small blocked, they can be enlarged in the beverage sales effort, which involves Continued from page A1 have six to ten upper respiratory percentage of using special instruments and a budgeting and marketing and many other astract infections a year that have children, sur- small camera called an endoscope.

This was after Michael Holthouse sold his pects of entrepreneurship, Elledge has set up symptoms including nasal disgery may be This is called endoscopic sinus business to Sprint for $400-million, Eberly told a steering committee of NHS administrators charge and blockage. necessary to surgery. The natural openings are and Northland business people to introduce the the students.

Other factors that contribute to CHARLES relieve the widened and preservation of norFrom a mere 2,000 students selling lemon- students to some real-life experiences. frequent sinus infections are en- ELMARAGHY blockage and mal anatomy is the goal.

One of the requirements of the High School ade in 2006, the program had grown to 38,000 vironmental allergies, exposure open the siNationwide Children’s Hospiyoung participants by last year, according to for Business curriculum, the teacher said, is for to second-hand smoke, immun- nuses or nasal passages. Prior to tal’s Rhinology Clinic is unique each student to participate in a 20-hour inEberly. odeficiency, congenital craniofa- any surgery, a thorough work-up in that it offers allergy testing and Sales of lemonade last year brought in $4.2- ternship during senior year. This must be, she cial anomalies and some inherit- is necessary in order to determine endoscopic evaluation during the million, of which $1-million went to charities said, with a “real” business person, not a relaed conditions. Children with lung the appropriate treatment course. same visit. This allows both the tive or friend. chosen by the children. problems such as asthma and cys- Younger children do not typical- allergist and otolaryngologist to “We want the community to know about us “This is huge,” Eberly said. tic fibrosis often have related sinus ly need surgery on the sinuses as determine an appropriate treatShe predicted that the entire Columbus com- because they’re involved,” Elledge said. “I also problems. their sinuses are still developing. ment plan. munity would be watching the NHS business want to do away with the stigma attached to Most viral infections will reYounger children with frequent You should always seek the adstudents, working in conjunction with students Northland High, make it known for something solve without treatment. A small sinus infections often have their vice of your physician or other from Woodward Park Middle School, as they other than basketball.” percentage will progress to bac- adenoid, a patch of tissue locat- qualified health care provider prior kparks@thisweeknews.com launch the local Lemonade Day. terial sinusitis that will require an- ed where the nose and throat join, to starting or stopping any treatwww.ThisWeekNews.com In addition to involving her young charges tibiotics for treatment. Narrow- removed. The adenoid can be a ment or with any questions you ing or blockage of the nasal pas- haven for bacteria and can often may have regarding a medical sages or sinus openings may in- block the nasal passages. Re- condition. crease the chances that a cold will moving the adenoid is a simple progress to bacterial sinusitis. and painless surgery that can be Dr. Charles Elmaraghy is a memOften, children may need med- very effective. ber of the Department of Otoication to help treat sinus probWhen the sinus problem is laryngology at Nationwide Chillems. This could include nasal more involved than an enlarged dren’s Hospital and an assistant steroids, nasal saline, mucous- adenoid, the sinuses need to be professor of clinical otolaryngolContinued from page A1 Northland area, along with parts She’s hoping to find someone thinning medications called mu- imaged via a special X-ray called ogy at the Ohio State University of Gahanna and New Albany, from American Electric Power colytics, and some allergy med- a CT scan to investigate the anato- College of Medicine. equal benefits to all, she said. more than a year ago. who can address ways in which • Restaurant reviews and Hicks, who is due to give birth Intended to assist consumers gridSMART can help business industry news to her first child any day now, in reducing their demand upon people save money on their power • Recipes from local chefs doesn’t have another special mem- the power grid at peak times, bills. expand your tastes • Local chef bios ber-benefit event planned – she’s Hicks said that gridSMART pre“We need to find a balance of been more than a little busy – but sentations before the Northland topics that are going to help busi• Staff Q & A she does have an idea for the next Community Council and other ness owners save money, gain and • Guest columns venues have concentrated on ways retain customers,” Hicks said. one.

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