Grove City Messenger - October 31st, 2021

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Spooky Sights 

Messenger photos by Dedra Cordle 

Monterey Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Association 

conjured up a good time for the community when it hosted its 

annual Fall Festival on Oct. 22. For close to two hours, dozens 

of little ghouls and goblins played games, scored free candy, 

and burned off some of their sugar-induced energy by accessing 

the haunted playground. Among the night’s attendees taking 

part in the latter activity was Savannah Lines, (top right) a 

9-year-old vampiress who wanted to hone her climbing skills. 

While legend has it that vampires can scale buildings intrinsically, 

the hidden truth is they have to practice from time-totime. 

Bottom right, dinosaur tamers Logan Latoski (left) and Freddie 

Clary (right) gather for a quick photo before they went chasing 

after treats. 

Donning a monkey costume, parent volunteer Jay Curcillo 

(below) scares a group of children as he passes out candy. 

To see more photos, visit columbusmessenger.com. 

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Renaming two 

middle schools 

By Dedra Cordle 

Staff Writer 

The South-Western City Schools board 

of education asked the community for their 

input regarding the potential renaming of 

Brookpark Middle School and Pleasant 

View Middle School as the second phase of 

the Ohio Facilities Construction 

Commission project nears completion. 

Of the four middle schools being 

replaced, only these two are being relocated 

— Brookpark Middle School, currently 

located on Southwest Boulevard, will open 

the 2022-23 school year in the Beulah Park 

Living subdivision while Pleasant View 

Middle School, currently located on Kropp 

Road, will open the 2022-23 school year on 

Holt Road, adjacent to Bolton Crossing 

Elementary. Finland Middle and Norton 

Middle are being constructed near its 

existing locations. 

According to district officials, more than 

4,000 members of the community, including 

students and staff, participated in the 

renaming survey. Of that number, more 

than 1,600 participated in the survey to 

rename Brookpark Middle School while 

more than 2,400 participated in the survey 

to rename Pleasant View Middle School. 

Among those who participated in the 

survey to rename Brookpark Middle, 59 

percent said they preferred renaming the 

building Beulah Park Middle School. It 

was followed by 16 percent preferring to 

keep the current name, and 8 percent stating 

their preference to call the school 

Demorest Middle. 

The issue that would have arisen if the 

community decided to retain the name of 

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Election Day lunch 

The Grove City Community Club will host an 

Election Day lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 2 at 

3397 Civic Club Drive. 

Mattress fundraiser to 

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The Westland High School band and orchestra will 

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MIDDLE SCHOOLS 

Continued from page 1 

Brookpark Middle, said Superintendent Dr. Bill Wise, 

would be confusion as there are no plans to demolish 

the building on Southwest Boulevard. 

“It would not make sense to have two Brookpark 

Middle Schools,” he said during the Oct. 25 board of 

education meeting where the survey results were 

unveiled. “There would be confusion over the new one 

versus the old one.” 

He also mentioned the agreement that was reached 

between the district and the city of Grove City in 2019 

regarding the use of the site. Under the terms of that 

agreement, the city purchased land in the Beulah Park 

Living subdivision for the construction of the new middle 

school in exchange for the use of the building on 

Southwest Boulevard. The district will retain 20 percent 

usage of the building for educational purposes, if 

needed. The city has yet to determine how it will utilize 

the space. 

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Among those who participated in the survey to 

rename Pleasant View Middle School, 58 percent said 

they preferred to keep the name as is. It was followed 

by 22 percent preferring the name Pleasant Crossing 

Middle, and 14 percent stating their preference to call 

the school Pleasant View Crossing. 

No members of the board expressed any objection to 

the survey results. Lee Schreiner said he liked that 

Brookpark and Beulah Park have the same acronyms. 

“I think it is fitting that it’s in Beulah, and we’re 

keeping the ‘Park’ aspect of it,” he said. 

The board intends to make a final recommendation 

at its meeting in November. 

Wise said the next step in the process is the determination 

of school colors and mascots at the new 

Beulah Park Middle School. He added that the decision 

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Showcasing the bands 

Messenger photos by Pat Donahue 

All 217 members of the Grove City High School Marching Band took the field on Oct. 19 when the school 

hosted a marching band showcase for the community. Here, the band members march to their fight song 

in front of a packed house. The high school bands from the South-Western City Schools District all performed 

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By Andrea Cordle 

Grove City Editor 

The city of Grove City is planning to repair the 

Demorest Road corridor, but officials will need to 

acquire property to do so. 

At the Oct. 18 meeting, Grove City Council passed 

legislation authorizing the appropriation of property 

and easements from multiple properties for the road 

improvement project. 

According to Stephen Smith, the city’s law director, 

this legislation includes 35 properties, though some of 

the land is already city-owned. Smith said the city is 

negotiating with 25 property owners. He said thus far, 

six have signed contracts with the city and he expects 

a few more in the coming days. Ten property owners 

have yet to settle with the city. 

“I feel like we’ve done everything we can to work 

this out,” said Smith. “I’m going to continue to negotiate 

until the last possible minute to try to get this done 

amicably.” 

According to Smith, there are a few property owners 

who do not wish to sell their land to the city. He 

believes the city will have to use eminent domain to 

obtain the property. 

Eminent domain is a legal term for the government’s 

power to take private property and change it to 

public use, according to the Ohio Attorney General. 

Cities can take private land for public roads, sidewalks, 

bike paths, or multi-use trails. The municipalities 

are required to pay the property owner fair market 

value. 

The City Beat 

City needs property for road project 

Smith said Grove City has a quick-take power. 

“This is a law that will not allow one property owner 

to hold up a city project,” said Smith. 

The law director said most property owners are 

excited about the road project, but others fear that the 

road is going to take up too much of their front yard. 

He said the project is adding about six feet of pavement 

on each side of the road. 

The project will include full pavement reconstruction 

of existing roadway, an additional center turn 

lane, a multi-use trail and sidewalk with ADA 

(Americans with Disabilities) compliant curb ramps, 

and replacement of existing storm sewer with a curb 

and gutter system. 

Earlier this month, city council approved funding 

for the first phase of Demorest Road improvements. 

Council voted to appropriate about $5.6 million from 

the city’s capital improvement fund for Demorest Road 

improvements. This cost includes the land acquisitions. 

The legislation passed allows the city’s law director 

to file for eminent domain in court. The court process 

would then negotiate a price with the property owners 

who did not settle with the city. 

The only council member to vote against the ordinance 

was Aaron Schlabach. 

“I do believe Demorest Road needs widened but I 

have a problem with eminent domain,” he said. 

Smith said he does not want to file a lawsuit, but 

said in some cases, it is necessary. 

“It’s not for lack of effort,” said Smith. “We are taking 

every step we can not to go down that road.” 


around town 

Blood drives in Grove City 

The American Red Cross will host several blood drives in Grove 

City. The drives include: 

• Grove City Kingston Center, Nov. 3 from 1 to 7 p.m. 

• The Naz, Nov. 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

• Grove City YMCA, Nov. 16 from 1 to 7 p.m. 

• Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Nov. 18 from 1 to 7 p.m. 

• Grove City United Methodist Church, Nov. 20 from 8 a.m. to 

2 p.m. 

To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-448-3543 or visit 

www.redcrossblood.org. 

Leaf Collection 

The city of Grove City offers residential leaf collection beginning 

Monday, Oct. 18. Each of the city’s four defined areas is 

scheduled two collection weeks through Friday, Dec. 17. Crews 

travel each street once during the designated week. 

Prior to 7 a.m. the Monday of the designated collection week, 

homeowners should rake only leaves to the grassy area between 

the street and sidewalk, or to the edge of the lawn, if there is no 

sidewalk. The service equipment works efficiently on leaves, but 

is easily damaged by branches, twigs, grass clippings, rocks and 

other debris. Leaf piles will not kill grass, although temporary 

fading may occur. 

Do not rake or blow leaves into the street, as this can cause 

storm sewer blockages and parking issues. Vehicles should not be 

parked in front of, or on top of, leaves during scheduled collection 

weeks. 

Planned collection dates may change due to weather conditions 

and when the leaves fall. The leaf collection map and schedule is 

posted on the city website at GroveCityOhio.gov. For more information, 

call the Grove City Service Department at 614-277-1100. 

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his Doctor of Optometry Degree in May 2019. After completing his 

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By Andrea Cordle 

Grove City Editor 

Flooding in certain parts of Grove City 

have been a problem for many residents 

and city leaders are reviewing ways to alleviate 

the water issues. 

At the Oct. 18 meeting, Grove City 

Council listened to a stormwater evaluation 

presentation from engineers at 

EMH&T. Mike Keller, with the firm, said 

they studied neighborhoods in the older 

Grove City area, west of Hoover Road, as 

well as areas within the Grove City Creek 

and West Water Run watersheds. 

“This is where the majority of the flooding 

is reported,” said Keller. 

Keller said flooding is common in older, 

urban areas because the storm sewers 

were constructed in the 1960s or earlier. 

According to the engineer’s report, there 

have been more than 30 significant rain 

events over the past 15 years in the study 

area. In March of 2020, more than four 

inches of rain fell in just over 24 hours. In 

May 2020, more than three inches fell in 32 

hours, and in July of the same year, 2.8 

inches of rain came down in one hour. 

“We’ve had three pretty significant rain 

events in the past few years,” said Keller. 

Just a few months ago, downtown 

streets were flooded from a quick, heavy 

rain event. 

Engineers have proposed a few 

stormwater improvement projects. One 

such project would be to replace 1,037 linear 

feet of 12-inch to 18-inch storm sewer 

lines with 18 to 24-inch storm sewer lines 

around Security and La Rosa drives near 

Columbus Street. Engineers have reported 


Water study presented to council 

S.A.L.T. at Evans Center 

The Grove City Division of Police host 

Seniors and Law Enforcement Together 

meetings at 1 p.m. the second Tuesday of 

each month at the Evans Center, 4330 

Dudley Ave. Adults of all ages are welcome. 

For additional information on crime prevention 

programs visit police.grovecityohio.gov 

or call 614-277-1765. 

The Grove City Geographic Information 

System (GIS) team recently received a Best 

Practices Award at the Ohio GIS 

Conference. The Ohio Geographically 

Referenced Information Program (OGRIP), 

a state agency serving as a geographic data 

coordinating body for state and local governments, 

presents the Best Practices 

Award annually. 

The award recognizes Ohio organizations 

that implement GIS in a manner consistent 

with OGRIP’s goals, examples 

involve providing data to multiple users, 

facilitating data sharing among multiple 

groups and demonstrating use of GIS as a 

decision-making tool. 

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flooding in this area resulting from sewer 

capacity limitations. This proposed sewer 

replacement would run around $1.2 million. 

The Kingston Avenue area also sees 

urban flooding from limited sewer capacity. 

The EMH&T report suggests replacing 

the 30-inch storm sewer with a 36-inch 

storm sewer. This would cost approximately 

$300,000. 

Stormwater improvements east of 

Haughn Road, at Sawyer Court, were also 

recommended. Engineers proposed a new 

sewer outlet and stream improvements. 

This project would involve easement acquisition 

and would run the city around 

$400,000. That cost does not include land 

acquisitions. 

“We see the problem,” said councilman 

Randy Holt. “Now, we have options and 

possible solutions.” 

Since 2000, the city has made over $13 

million in investments into the sanitary 

and stormwater systems. Last year, the 

city appropriated $200,000 for a sewer 

backup protection program that helps 

property owners with water in their basement. 

This program brings older properties 

into city code compliance and/or provides 

additional protection from flooding in basements. 

In the spring of 2020, nearly 100 

residents requested assistance from the 

program after water was reported in their 

basement. 

According to Keller, the engineers will 

now take comments and concerns from 

council members and city officials before 

moving forward with a draft report. 

For more information on water management, 

visit grovecityohio.gov. 

Council meeting 

Grove City Council will meet Nov. 1 at 

7 p.m. in Council Chambers, City Hall, 

4035 Broadway, Grove City. Caucus is at 

6:30 p.m. Visit the Grove City Council web 

page to download the agendas and minutes. 

Can’t make the meeting, watch live 

on the city website. 

City receives ‘best practices’ award 

The award recognizes the Grove City 

GIS team, led by GIS Administrator Nick 

Soltes, for creating and maintaining all 

types of digital geographical data for multiple 

internal and external applications 

including viewing property parcels, refuse 

collection and other city services data 

through mapping applications available on 

the city’s website. 

“Grove City’s creative GIS team continues 

to excel, converting complicated GIS 

data to user-friendly mapping services,” 

said Mayor Richard “Ike” Stage. 

For more information regarding Grove 

City’s GIS applications, visit 

GroveCityOhio.gov/gis-mapping/.


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heating season. 

Through a partnership between AEP Ohio and Dollar Energy 

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prevent disconnection of, or to restore their electric service. 

Heating assistance is available once per program year on a firstcome, 

first-served basis. Eligible account holders may apply 

through April 30, 2022, while funds are available. 

“We’re committed to providing assistance to those who may be 

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Pictorial Past 


Pictured here are employees of Grove City’s Beulah Park from 1936. Notice the uniforms with bow ties 

and the sign that reads “Only Horseman Having Horse in Next Race Allowed in Paddock.” In the 1930s 

and 1940s Beulah Park was known to have as many as 11,000 people attend a single race. At the Gove 

City Welcome Center and Museum, there is a display of photos and artifacts from days gone by from the 

track, featuring winning circle pictures of owners, trainers, jockeys, and the thoroughbred racing horses. 

The museum is located at 3378 Park St. in Grove City and is open Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 

Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

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Hallmarks of Inauguration Day 

Every four years, citizens of the United States have 

the opportunity to vote for the highest office in the 

country - the President of the United States. 

American presidents are limited to two four-year 

terms. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only president 

to ever serve more than two terms. The 22nd 

Amendment to the United States Constitution says a 

person can only be elected president twice. That 

amendment was approved by Congress on March 21, 

1947, and was ratified by the states on Feb. 27, 1951. 

After a candidate is elected president and the 

results are certified by Congress on Jan. 6, the public 

eagerly awaits the Presidential Inauguration, which 

occurs on Jan. 20 at noon. This ceremony marks the 

start of a new four-year term. It takes place even if the 

incumbent is reelected. The only time the inauguration 

will not occur on Jan. 20 is if that date falls on a 

Sunday. In such instances, the oath of office is taken 

privately and then in a public ceremony the following 

day. 

Since the 1981 inauguration of President Ronald 

Reagan, the ceremony has taken place at the west 

front of the United States Capitol building facing the 

National Mall. The only constitutional requirement for 

the inauguration is the president takes his oath of 

office. The remainder of the proceedings are about tradition, 

but they are not a requirement. 

Traditionally, the outgoing president takes part in 

the ceremony. 

The president will give an inaugural address after 

being sworn in. Parades also occur after the inauguration, 

and a lavish Inauguration Ball is held in honor of 

the new president. 

The inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 

2021 was a memorable event after such a whirlwind 

campaign season and election day. It may call to mind 

some other iconic moments in inaugural history. 

• Ulysses S. Grant requested live birds at his inaugural 

ball. The day was very cold and the birds ended 

up freezing to death. 

• At the inauguration of Herbert Hoover, outgoing 

First Lady Grace Coolidge and incoming First Lady 

Lou Henry Hoover got lost in the Capitol building and 

delayed the ceremony for 30 minutes. 

• Lyndon Johnson took the oath aboard Air Force 

One after the assassination of President John F. 

Kennedy in 1963. The judge administering the oath 

was a woman, and she was the first and only female 

judge to swear in a U.S. President. 

• When Barack Obama was sworn in, he became 

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Pets of the week 

Willow is a sweet 8- 

month-old kitten. She 

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enjoys a good belly 

rub and an ear 

scratch. Willow is 

great with other cats 

and wonderful with 

children. She would 

be a nice addition to 

any family. She is up for adoption through 

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Heidi is a 3-year-old 

pit bull mix. She is the 

sweetest girl who is 

an absolute love bug. 

She is more than 

happy to cuddle with 

you on the couch all 

day and just wants to 

be around her people. 

Heidi also has an 

active side and loves playing at the dog park 

and fetching her favorite rope toy. She has 

shown positive interest in other dogs and has 

been learning leash manners. Adopt her from 

the county shelter. 

FYI: franklincountydogs.com 

These furry friends are available 

for adoption at local 

rescues and shelters 

Clever is one of the 

best girls at the shelter. 

She has been 

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Green Park plan proposed 

The Solid Waste Authority of Central 

Ohio (SWACO) has filed a rezoning application 

with the city of Grove City to develop 

350 acres of land into a Green Economy 

Business Park to attract more green businesses, 

jobs and revenue to central Ohio. 

According to SWACO, based upon models 

around the country and the economic 

momentum behind recycled materials, the 

site could create 2,000 to 3,500 manufacturing 

jobs at good wages, producing 

between $1.6 million and $4.2 million in 

local tax revenues and between $350 million 

and $500 million in capital investment. 

The Green Economy Business Park 

would use research, technology and 

advanced manufacturing to bring together 

the sustainable materials management 

supply chain creating a sustainability destination 

for businesses and workforce 

alike. 

“This is a growing sector of the economy 

that must be accelerated,” said SWACO 

Executive Director Ty Marsh. “I believe 

this community has an opportunity to 

attract and support even more businesses, 

jobs and investment around recycling and 

sustainability. That’s why we are confident 

the time is right time for a Green Economy 

Business Park in central Ohio.” 

With more recyclable material available 

and more companies making higher valued 

products out of that material, there is a 

rapidly emerging opportunity to protect 

the environment in a way that also grows 

the economy. 

“By establishing a Green Economy 

Business Park, SWACO is clearly moving 

ahead of the traditional model of commercial 

and industrial development,” said Jim 

Schimmer, director of Franklin County 

Economic Development and Planning. 

“The ability to retain, attract and grow 

companies with strong sustainability commitments 

is critical to attracting the jobs of 

the future.” 

The greenfield property, owned by 

SWACO, is located in Grove City across 

from the Franklin County Sanitary 

Landfill, a half-mile from I-71 and minutes 

from downtown Columbus. The site has 

existing gas, power, water, sewer and fiber 

utilities. The site is currently zoned for 

industrial use, however, SWACO is seeking 

a zoning modification that would allow 

for more modern use of the site and which 

is aligned with SWACO’s goal to leverage 

the waste stream for greater economic 

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The Green Economy Business Park is 

one of several economic activities underway 

by SWACO. In addition, the company 

is working with Rev1 and has formed public-private 

partnerships to turn gas from 

landfills it owns into renewable energy 

sources for central Ohioans. 

A decision on the rezoning application is 

expected in December. 

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The Grove City Firecracker 5K group presented a check to the Buddy Ball board on 

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Opinion Page 

Surfing is one of my favorite hobbies 

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be such 

a good surfer, especially in my golden years with a 

bionic hip. But here I am, surfing most every day now 

and thoroughly enjoying it. Now before you start 

laughing as you picture this falling apart, knobbykneed, 

old man yelling woo-hoos at the top of his lungs 

as he tries to keep his balance while riding his surfboard 

atop a monster whitecap wave generated by a 

fountain in the center of a local retention pond, let me 

quickly relieve us all from that scary sci-fi image. 

Words can have many meanings and they often take 

on new ones over time. Such is the case of surfing. The 

closest I’ve ever gotten and will ever get to the traditional 

surfing image we oldsters envision is pulling out 

my old vinyl Beach Boys album and playing, Surfer 

Girl, Surfin’ U.S.A or Catch a Wave. I’m talking about 

the newer surfing, i.e., snooping. That surfing is simply 

sitting safely in front of the desk computer, banging 

away on the keyboard and snooping the Internet. 

It’s physically going nowhere but mentally going anywhere 

and everywhere with my eyes and mind with a 

simple stroke on the keyboard. 

It can be great entertainment as it gets your brain 

neurons firing away with informative thoughts, maybe 

bringing back long-departed memories that are sometimes 

sad, often funny, and occasionally downright 

shocking as you update your memories with the more 

recent surfing results you find. Surfing is basically 

easy and free, assuming you have some patience and 

free time. 

Much of my Internet surfing is repetitive in nature. 

Each day I check the news headlines from various 

sources. That lasts until I get too ticked off or 

depressed, and that doesn’t take long these days. Then 

I check the sport’s scores and find what pitcher blew if 

for the Indians this time, then how the Browns blew 

another game they should have won. Next, I take a 

deep breath, make sure my aspirin and Tums are nearby, 

then look at the finance and stock market results. 

I never try to rationalize them anymore as they usually 

defy all common sense and expectations of any reality. 

I spend lots of time surfing the horse racing world, 

my favorite hobby. I scan the racing news and enter 

picks for the many free daily handicapping challenge 

contests I play in. Maybe today will be the day I move 

up in the standings. 

There’s one surfing I’ve really grown to appreciate 

more as the years roll by. With all the dog walking I do 

I find my mind wandering as I plod along. Sometimes 

I think about the future. More frequently, I look back 

in time recalling my life’s situations, where and when 

I was, what I was doing. My ever-mounting question is 

what became of the people I knew that touched my life. 

Out of it comes new internet surfing, i.e., snooping. 

The farther back in time your search goes, the more 

difficult surfing becomes because the computer era 

hadn’t even begun. Your findings may be sparse or 

non-existent. But more importantly, when you’re in 

your seventies, you must prepare yourself for the 

harsh reality of life’s circles. When you start hitting 

the keyboard looking for people you knew many years 

ago, the odds are high you’ll quite often find nothing 

more than an obit. 

But sometimes a pleasant surprise awaits. Recent 

surfing found an old family friend of my parents. Our 

families had been quite close. I hadn’t seen him in over 

50 years, so I expected the worst. But there he was, living 

in the same home. I saw his wife had passed on, 

but he was turning 98. I sent him a nice letter, 

Guest Column 

Dave Burton 

attempting to update the many years, and birthday 

greetings. 

I was surprised when he called me on his birthday. 

We talked for some time. We both chuckled as we 

recalled our combined family trip to the North Pole to 

see Santa. We kids weren’t dummies. We knew it wasn’t 

the North Pole, it was a place called Santa’s Land 

in Putney, Vermont. It was one of Santa’s satellite production 

facilities and luckily Santa had flown in on his 

sleigh for a meeting. And that picture I still have of us 

with Santa and Rudolph, well, that wasn’t Rudolph, 

they couldn’t fool me. It was Comet. The call made it a 

special day for both of us. I promised to call him on his 

100th birthday. 

Most of my teachers have passed but surfing leads 

to some insight and interesting fill-in data I wish I’d 

known when they were teaching me. Maybe I would 

have shown more respect and attentiveness. There was 

my choir teacher: Served in the Navy during the 

Korean conflict, an accomplished pianist and composer 

and active and respected in theater and musicals on 

Broadway. Another keystroke and there was my gym 

teacher: He had his doctorate, was a standout athlete 

with many awards, played baseball in the St. Louis 

Cardinal organization, became director of athletics in 

the large city school system after I’d graduated. 

I found one of my old high school chums. We used to 

travel into the big city to see Ranger hockey games at 

the old Madison Square Garden. He was always in the 

advanced high school classes, and I wasn’t surprised to 

see he’d become a lawyer in a prestigious law firm near 

Times Square in New York City. 

It was fun surfing on my old college buddies. Sadly, 

but the reality of life, more than a few have passed 

away. I was surprised and disheartened to see a fraternity 

brother I’d seen not too many years ago at a football 

game up at Akron, when Syracuse visited and 

played, had passed on. I found several articles detailing 

how instrumental another fraternity brother’s 

efforts have been in successfully cleaning up the once 

beautiful, but now plagued with longstanding pollution, 

lake that the city of Syracuse borders, Lake 

Onondaga. Another very close classmate, who was in 

ROTC with me, went on to become a Major General in 

the Air Force with accolades galore. 

One of my summer jobs in high school was doing 

landscaping work at a beautiful estate. I really liked 

the owner, but barely got to know him. A few keystrokes 

and I found he passed away in 2013 in Austria. 

He’d graduated Summa Cum laude from Princeton 

and was a Navy carrier pilot in WW2. He worked for 

an investment company in New York City, then 

became a key financial assistant for the President at 

the White House. Only by surfing years later did I 

learn all this. I now wish I could have talked more with 

him. 

So many people pass into and out of our lives during 

our lifetime. Some impact us more than others, some 

not at all. Sadly, we too often don’t even realize the 

extent until years later. Surfing the web gives us a 

chance to go back in time and gain those answers and 

a better understanding of our encounters and how they 

may have influenced our lives. 

Dave Burton is a guest columnist for the Columbus 

Messenger Newspapers. He lives in Grove City. 


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Tracking county rescue plan funds 

The Franklin County Commissioners have 

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how the county uses funds from the American Rescue 

Plan (ARP) to help the community recover from the 

pandemic. 

The site, Recovery.FranklinCountyOhio.gov provides 

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links to information about the individual expenditures. 

The commissioners have already allocated more than 

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“Our community will be feeling the effects of the 

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Kevin Boyce. “We got lots of input from our residents 

about how we can best use this money to help them 

and their families, and this webpage represents an 

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going to use this funding so that they can see in realtime 

what we’re doing to help them recover.” 

The American Rescue Plan was passed by Congress 

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resources to support a strong public health 

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assistance to families, and deliver resources to local 

governments to use in their own communities. 

Franklin County will be receiving $256 million over 

the next two years. Other parts of the ARP provided 

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health agencies, and small businesses. 

“The American Rescue Plan is important legislation 

and provides significant resources to help our residents 

recover, so we’re really glad to be able to get 

those out into the community and working for 

Franklin County families right away,” said commissioner 

John O’Grady. “The new site provides important 

information and resources, as well as a window 

into our funding priorities.” 

The commissioners held a public hearing and 

solicited written testimony from the community to 

learn about the challenges residents have faced over 

the past 18 months and how they think this funding 

can best be used to aid in recovery. Video of that hearing 

and text of the written testimony can be found on 

the commissioners’ new webpage along with federally 

mandated reports on ARP spending and a link for residents 

to continue to submit ideas for recovery funding. 

“Too many Franklin County families were already 

struggling before the pandemic, and the pandemic only 

intensified these difficulties,” said commissioner Erica 

Crawley. “The funding through the American Rescue 

Plan is a lifeline to our county, our government and our 

community partners. It will funnel desperately needed 

resources to help our community recover and deal with 

the impacts of the ongoing pandemic. We will ensure 

the funding helps the most marginalized members of 

our community, who were harmed most by the pandemic.” 

An update to the commissioners’ American Rescue 

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in need directly to the resources that the commissioners 

have funded with ARP dollars. 

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working 3 to 6 hours per day. Position starts at $16.13/hr. 

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30 yrs. exp. Lifetime Cols. 

resident. Lic./bonded/Ins. 

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Like most women, I like to wear a pop of 

color when I am looking or feeling listless. 

My chosen preference is a nice red lip to 

draw attention away from the worn expression 

within and underneath my eyes but 

occasionally I will pull out a bright shirt, 

jacket, or, in these times, a mask to disguise 

what is really going on inside. 

The vampiric film “Night Teeth” is a bit 

like that too: it covers itself in the world of 

bright colors to convey a sense of strength, 

energy, and life but really that stylized 

flourish acts as a front for a story that is as 

dull as a set of wooden choppers. 

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Be a Part of Our Local Worship Guide 

Our Worship Guide is geared toward celebrating faith and helping reader connect with religious 

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this very special section distributed to more than 22,000 households in the Grove City area. 

Contact us today to secure your spot in our Worship Guide. 

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Like a new day, it begins promisingly 

enough by laying out the mythos of this 

tale; Since vampires first came to America 

hundreds of years ago, they have been 

engaged in a war with the humans in Los 

Angeles. Many lives were lost and when 

vampires began to lose the upper hand 

despite all their power, they struck a truce 

with regions of the state, especially those of 

the Boyle Heights neighborhood who 

proved to be the toughest opponents of the 

creatures of the night. 

This truce has held for more than a century, 

largely because the vampires of the 

area have to follow three rules: Rule number 

one is that vampires cannot let humans 

know they exist anymore. Rule number two 

is that vampires are not permitted to feed 

on the unwilling. And rule number three is 

that the vampires never ever enter Boyle 

Heights without permission. 

After this intriguing intro, we meet 

Victor (Alfie Allen) a centuries old vampire 

who is no longer willing to live by those 

rules. After failing to garner the support of 

his fellow area vampires (this world is run 

like “True Blood” where there are head 

vampires for specific regions), he takes 

matters into his own cold hands by kidnapping 

the girlfriend of Jay (Raul Castillo), 

the human truce-keeper between the 

vamps and the residents of Boyle Heights. 

Instead of continuing to focus on the 

rapidly boiling tension between Victor and 

Jay, both played by actors who have a fun 

and magnetic intensity, the film pivots to 

Jay’s sweet and clueless younger brother 

Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) who accidentally 

stumbles into Victor’s overarching 

plot to destroy the leaders of the vampiric 

clans of L.A. 

To be clear, Benny’s presence is not an 

impediment to the story; in fact, the character 

and the actor too prove to be a positive 

for the film, serving as the audience’s 

surrogate into the gory underworld as he 

tries to do something we all do each day — 

work for a paycheck. But it’s everything 

else that goes along with his portion of the 

story that weighs the film down. 

For some quick cash, Benny takes over 

Jay’s main job as a chauffeur for the rich 

and dangerous. Jay tells him to keep his 

head down, don’t ask questions, and survive 

the night. His first (and only) clients of 

the night are two women, Blaire and Zoe 

(played by Debbie Ryan and Lucy Fry, 

respectively), who provide him with a list of 

five places to go with an order to complete 

the task before sunrise. 

During the ride to the first attraction of 

the night, Blaire and Zoe mess with his 

head a bit, asking questions about what he 

would do if this was the last night of his 

life. Though unnerved by the women, he is 

drawn to them too, willing to do their bidding 

despite thinking that something is 

amiss. 

At the first stop, 

Benny hears 

screams coming 

from the mansion; 

at the second, he 

finds a bag filled 

with money splattered 

with blood. At 

the third, he realizes that they are vampires, 

sent out on a mission to cause deadly 

chaos so Victor can take over the L.A. 

scene. Unfortunately for Benny, his night 

just gets worse as his story starts to revolve 

around a slow bubbling romance with 

Blaire, the least blood-thirsty of the two 

vampire women (she’s also the more boring 

of the dastardly duo, so there’s that). 

Upon learning that Victor has his sights 

set on Jay, Benny goes along with the vampires 

as they wreak havoc across the neon 

soaked city, even providing assistance to 

them from time to time. His actions, some 

puzzling and implausible, provide for some 

of the biggest questionable decisions this 

film makes, making “Night Teeth” feel as if 

it were a first or second draft from writer 

Brent Dillon, rather than the final one sent 

in before the production started. 

With storylines that bounce all over the 

place and the abundance of missed opportunities 

to showcase characters whose 

actors were game for mischief and mayhem, 

“Night Teeth” is a disappointing vampiric 

film that, sadly, lacks bite. Though 

the style of the film provided some flair and 

entertainment (shots where the camera 

flips slowly upside down was a nice touch), 

you couldn’t help but think throughout the 

viewing that this could have been something 

more, something better, than it actually 

was. 

Grade: C 


In Entertainment 

“Night Teeth” a vampire film that lacks bite 

The Reel Deal 

Dedra Cordle 

Dedra Cordle is a Messenger staff writer 

and columnist. 

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