Eastside Messenger - December 2nd, 2018

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Messenger holiday schedule
The Eastside Messenger will alter its
publication schedule for the upcoming holiday
season. The Messenger will publish
print editions of the newspaper that will
be delivered to your home on Sundays on
Dec. 2, Dec. 16, and Jan. 13. Thank you
for reading the Messenger!
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Big cookie and candy sale
Thousands of cookies and candy, including
buckeyes, cutouts, assorted holiday
cookies and gingerbread girls and boys will
be on sale on Dec. 15 starting at 9 a.m. at
Hope United Methodist Church, 83 E.
Columbus St., Canal Winchester.
Breakfast with Santa
On Dec. 15, Canal Winchester will host
Breakfast with Santa at the Frances
Steube Community Center, 22 S. Trine St.
CHRISTMAS
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arriving downtown at 6 p.m.
•Christmas carols by CWHS Choir at
Stradley Place, 36 S. High St., 5:30-6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 8, only:
•Santa procession begins at 4:30 p.m.
with Santa arriving downtown at 5 p.m.
•Winchester Chimes holiday performance,
96 N. High St., 6:30-8 p.m.
•CWMS Vocal Ensemble holiday performance
at Faith United Methodist
Church, 15 W. Columbus St., 5:30 p.m.
•Visit Santa’s reindeer in Stradley
Park, 36 S. High St.
Historic Downtown Business District activities,
both nights:
SPEEDERS
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Three breakfast sessions will be offered.
The first session will take place from 8:30-
9:30 a.m., the second session will run from
10-11 a.m., and the third will run from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Only 80 tickets are
available for each session. Tickets available
at the city’s municipal building and
community center on weekdays between
8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Each $5 ticket
admits one adult or child (children under
age one free) for continental breakfast.
Contact Amanda Lemke at 614-834-9915
for information.
•Cookies and Cardmaking at Faith
United Methodist Church, 15 W.
Columbus St.
•Meet Frosty the Snowman at e-Merge
Realty, The Megan Bell Group - 11 N. High
St.
•Pet pictures with Santa hosted by
Friends for Life Animal Haven at Vasko
office- 19 N. High St. A $10 donation suggested.
•Meet the Grinch at HER Realtors,
Smith Home Group, 25 N. High St.
•Meet Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
at Rise Realty, CW, 36 N. High St.
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speed limit signs.
“Based on our speed studies, East
Waterloo had the highest amount of vehicles
speeding,” said Public Works Director
Matt Peoples, who had the high-profile
sign installed at a cost of $1,500.
“Comparatively, it is about the same as
other notification measures–feedback
devices, but more expensive that other
non-feedback signage. It would also be less
expensive than most of the physical measures
such as road diets, medians, and
bump outs.”
The new device is already having an
impact on speeding.
During the Nov. 19 Canal Winchester
City council meeting, Peoples said the
flashing sign is helping slow down traffic
by nearly 10 percent, according to rudimentary
data.
“We base if off the 85th percentile
speed, meaning the speed in which 85 percentile
of the vehicles are traveling at or
below (posted speed limit),” said Peoples.
“For the study we did before the flashing
sign went up, the 85th percentile was 33.6
and for the study after installation it was
30.2.”
While council and Peoples discussed the
possibility of moving the sign around to different
areas of the city as need dictates–
according to a guidance policy–he said the
city will make that determination if and
when the present location no longer makes
a positive impact.
“There are plenty of speed limit signs
that drivers apparently don’t pay attention
to now and we do not want them to become
complacent with this sign,” said Peoples.
While speeding has long been a problem
on the active thoroughfare, Peoples said an
increase in the amount of vehicles in the
area makes speeding more noticeable.