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Fish fry at St. Cecilia
St. Cecilia’s Knights of Columbus Council 5899 will
be hosting its annual Lenten fish fry at St. Cecilia, 434
Norton Road in Columbus. The fish fry will be held
from 5 to 7:30 p.m. each Friday through April 8. There
will be an eat-in and drive-through option. The cost is
$10 for adults, $5 for children, and $36 for a family.
Chamber Singers spring concert
The Grove City Chamber Singers will perform their
spring concert “Reflections of America” at 3:30 p.m. on
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March 20. A variety of music including folk, bluegrass,
spiritual, pop, Broadway, and the American songbook
will presented. The concert venue is the Grove City
United Methodist Church, 2684 Columbus St.
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Free lunch at UHMC
The United Hilltop Methodist Church will host a
free community lunch every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. The church is located at 99 S. Highland Ave.
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have something like this at Franklin Heights?’” he
said.
A part of the reason, he would come to learn, is the
lack of a robust booster club within the school and
restricted usages for district expenses.
Knowing that if he wanted his vision of an updated
weight room facility to come to fruition, he would have
to come up with something grand, something ambitious,
something he had never done before.
“I got the idea to start a fundraiser,” said Mulvany.
“I had never done anything like this before, and it was
completely out of my wheelhouse.”
The first thing he did was ask his supervisors for
their blessing. Athletic director Brock Mullins said he
had their complete support.
Then he collaborated with his coaches and with
Nick Giglia of Straydog Strength to determine how the
space could be better utilized, the equipment that
would be needed, and the estimated expense of the
project.
According to Mulvany, the $120,000 project would
combine the two sections into one large athletic complex.
It would feature durable rubber flooring, plyometric
training stations, turf strips for speed training,
and top-of-the-line equipment for all student-athletes
to utilize.
“This is not just for the football team,” said
Mulvany. “This is for every sport, for our entire student
body, and it will be that way for generations to
come.”
With the district’s support and the financial details
in hand, Mulvany started spreading the word about
this project within the school, throughout the local
business community, and within the immensely loyal
alumni community.
He said he has been overwhelmed by the response
this project has received thus far.
“The Falcon community has just been so supportive
of this project,” he said. “They see what we are trying
to do, and they are helping us accomplish that goal.”
In addition to businesses buying ad space on the
field, within the stadium, and soon-to-be on the tiled
walls within the planned athletic performance complex,
alumni can also purchase spots to honor former
student-athletes. Their framed photos will go up in the
Falcon’s Nest, almost like a ring of honor.
“I borrowed that idea from the Grove City recreation
center,” said Mulvany. “I just loved seeing those
photos when I was training there. It’s a nice homage to
the people who have passed through the building.”
To date, the Franklin Heights Athletic Performance
Center fundraiser has raised roughly $30,000. A silent
auction is set for April 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Bingo
Hall located on Demorest Road, diagonally from the
school. The school is also selling custom-made T-shirts
Some of the equipment within the facility is unusable,
said Brock Mullins, the school’s athletic director
as he points to the missing pad on this squat and
bench rack. “Our student-athletes have to do a lot of
solo plate work because we cannot utilize the equipment
the way it was designed,” he said.
that say, “Nothing is Stronger than the Falcon
Community.” They will also accept cash and check
donations made out to “Franklin Heights Athletics.”
Donations can be mailed to the school’s address, 1001
Demorest Road, Columbus, Ohio 43204.
Ideally, enough funds will be raised to start the
expansion process this summer with the goal of hosting
its grand opening in time for the beginning of the
2022-23 school year.
Mullins said though that goal may not come to
fruition, it is just a matter of time before the studentathletes
get a new complex.
“We are very determined to see this through,” he
said. “It is not a matter of if it will happen, but when.”
Mulvany expressed a similar sentiment.
“This is going to happen for our school, for our students,”
he said. “It has to.”
He said he could barely contain his excitement at
the thought.