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<strong>Messenger</strong><br />
<strong>Westside</strong><br />
<strong>May</strong> 15 - 28, <strong>2022</strong> www.columbusmessenger.com Vol. XLVIII, No. 23<br />
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Strong financial<br />
footing reported<br />
in South-Western<br />
By Dedra Cordle<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The annual spring update of the fiveyear<br />
financial forecast was presented at<br />
the South-Western City Schools board of<br />
education meeting on <strong>May</strong> 9. It was summarized<br />
by Treasurer Hugh Garside as<br />
showing little to modest change from the<br />
financial projections made at the end of<br />
last year.<br />
“I would say we are on target to where<br />
we thought we would be,” he said.<br />
He explained that when putting together<br />
the forecast, which is a hypothetical representation<br />
of a district’s financial future<br />
based on historical trends and known<br />
facts, he does so in a conservative manner<br />
as a way to mitigate unwanted surprises.<br />
“We always try to be within two percent<br />
of our revenues projected and within two<br />
percent of our expenditures projected.”<br />
He said if the actual numbers come in<br />
around that projected goal of the two percent<br />
range, it could mean a bottom-line difference<br />
between $10 and $11 million.<br />
He added that they are “right on the<br />
mark.”<br />
Firefighters and Flowers<br />
Inside<br />
See SWCS page 2<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photos by Dedra Cordle<br />
Between <strong>May</strong> 6-8, hundreds of residents from across the city<br />
traveled to Prairie Township’s Fire Station 241 to peruse and/or<br />
purchase the dozens of varieties of plants on display for the<br />
department’s annual Mother’s Day Flower Sale. Among those<br />
who bought flowers for their loved ones was Tim Hannum, a<br />
captain at Station 241, shown above admiring the vibrant Calla<br />
Lilies in the bay. All of the proceeds of the Mother’s Day Flower<br />
Sale go directly to the firefighter’s association to help offset<br />
the cost of equipment purchases.<br />
Lt. Jim Troesch (right) examines the Whiskey Barrel Geraniums<br />
located outside of the bay. The firefighter’s association<br />
receives all of their flowers from Home Depot. Troesch joked<br />
the firefighters can be trusted to fry fish during their annual<br />
fundraising event held in<br />
late June, but not so<br />
much raising flowers<br />
and keeping them alive.<br />
These purple Dahlias<br />
were a best-seller at the<br />
event.<br />
Pets of the Week ................. 10<br />
The Reel Deal ...................... 16<br />
Police Levy<br />
Voters reject another police levy<br />
for Franklin Township Page 3<br />
Jedi Training<br />
Galloway church hosts its annual<br />
<strong>May</strong> the 4th celebration Page 5
PAGE 2 - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - <strong>May</strong> 15, <strong>2022</strong><br />
Columbus <strong>May</strong>or Andrew Ginther, Columbus City<br />
Attorney Zach Klein, and Columbus Division of Police<br />
Chief Elaine Bryant outlined a plan to step up enforcement<br />
and prosecution of individuals who illegally ride vehicles<br />
like dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets, titled Operation<br />
Wheels Down.<br />
Public safety officials have seen an increase in calls<br />
from citizens complaining about noise and safety concerns<br />
due to motor bikes as the weather continues to warm in<br />
Columbus.<br />
Operation Wheels Down will take place multiple times<br />
throughout the spring and summer, utilizing intelligence<br />
and officers in the field to deter illegal operation of vehicles<br />
like ATVs and dirt bikes and step up enforcement of violations.<br />
Cases will be turned over to the city attorney’s office<br />
for aggressive prosecution to hold riders accountable and<br />
keep Columbus streets safe.<br />
“These vehicles, when driven recklessly and illegally on<br />
city streets, double as an unacceptable public nuisance and<br />
a clear threat to community safety,” said Ginther. “This<br />
kind of behavior will not be tolerated, and we are coordinating<br />
closely with all our partners across the city to leverage<br />
our combined resources, and strengthen enforcement<br />
and prosecution in ways that promote safety and maximize<br />
accountability.”<br />
Columbus City Council passed an ordinance in 2021<br />
enhancing penalties for illegal, reckless operation of certain<br />
vehicles on city streets. The emergency measure created<br />
the misdemeanor charge of reckless operation of an<br />
ATV or dirt bike, which calls for a minimum fine of $500,<br />
a maximum fine of a $1,000, impoundment of the<br />
vehicle and the potential for up to 30 days in jail.<br />
“The city takes seriously our duty to protect the<br />
safety and security of pedestrians, cyclists,<br />
motorists and all who use our streets. Illegally and<br />
recklessly operating any vehicle on city streets will<br />
be prosecuted - period,” said Klein, whose office will<br />
oversee the prosecution of cases forwarded from<br />
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Operation Wheels Down aims to keep illegal vehicles off the streets<br />
SWCS<br />
Continued from page 1<br />
“I would even say we’re a little bit better in both<br />
areas, and even in our projected cash balance.”<br />
The updated projections show the district will see a<br />
modest increase in revenue in fiscal year <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
“We do expect this fiscal year to end the year with<br />
our revenue surpassing our expenditures,” Garside<br />
said. “But in the next fiscal year and the ones throughout<br />
the forecast, we could possibly be spending a bit<br />
more than we bring in.”<br />
He said the revenue is expected to rise primarily<br />
due to reimbursements from Medicaid and funding<br />
received through the state.<br />
The district, he added, receives roughly 60 percent<br />
of its revenue from the state of Ohio. He said the<br />
recently approved Fair School Funding Plan (FSFP)<br />
has provided the district with more funding — they<br />
received roughly $120 million this fiscal year and are<br />
projected to receive roughly the same next year — but<br />
there has been no commitment to additional funding at<br />
that level beyond their current biennium budget.<br />
“They haven’t funded the whole thing yet but that is<br />
not uncommon for the state because they only have so<br />
many dollars themselves,” he said. “They need to figure<br />
out where they’re going to fund this funding formula<br />
and how they’re going to fund this funding formula.”<br />
He said the state has been fortunate to have financial<br />
stability but added that could change with the<br />
state of the domestic economy and other global factors.<br />
Garside said he is hopeful the state will find the<br />
funds to be able to fully fund the FSFP because he<br />
believes it provides an excellent opportunity for continued<br />
financial stability within the district.<br />
“I’m hopeful that the state will come through and<br />
we will keep pushing for that.”<br />
He did say, however, the state recently made it<br />
harder for districts throughout the state to collect<br />
assessed values from commercial properties by passing<br />
House Bill 126.<br />
“It limits our ability to work with commercial and<br />
industrial property owners when they have a market<br />
value sale,” said Garside.<br />
He said the district will have to be diligent to make<br />
sure commercial and industrial properties are paying<br />
their “fair share” in taxes.<br />
The updated forecast, which was approved by the<br />
CPD. “Our office will continue to work alongside CPD and<br />
public safety officials to keep our streets safe as we head<br />
into the summer months.”<br />
Columbus Police received hundreds of calls for service<br />
in the past year from residents concerned about how dirt<br />
bikes, ATVs and other motor bikes are being operated in<br />
neighborhoods across the city, citing public safety concerns<br />
for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists alike, as riders have<br />
been seen popping wheelies, doing burnouts and driving<br />
toward oncoming traffic and violating other traffic laws in<br />
heavy traffic areas like downtown, the Short North and<br />
along Livingston Avenue.<br />
“Consider this your notice: our officers and law enforcement<br />
partners will be on the lookout for this dangerous<br />
behavior. You won’t know where or when. This is not a<br />
game, and when we catch you, there will be consequences,”<br />
said Bryant.<br />
In a similar, limited operation conducted in 2021, there<br />
were 11 people arrested or summonsed, 11 ATVs or dirt<br />
bikes impounded and seized, two stolen ATVs or dirt bikes<br />
and five firearms recovered, and multiple misdemeanor<br />
and felony charges were levied against offenders.<br />
board, predicts the district’s revenue will be $270 million,<br />
$270.2 million, $279.2 million, $280 million and<br />
$286.6 million in fiscal years <strong>2022</strong> through 2026.<br />
On the expenditure side, Garside said the forecast<br />
predicts it will continue to rise throughout the forecast.<br />
“Our expenditures are expected to increase by $10<br />
million, or 3.6 percent, annually throughout the forecast.”<br />
He said the contributing factors include a rise in<br />
salary expenses — salaries represent roughly 54.6 percent<br />
of total expenditures — a 6 percent increase in<br />
health insurance costs and an increase in purchased<br />
services expenses and supplies and materials.<br />
Garside noted the district will soon begin the collective<br />
bargaining process with the South-Western<br />
Education Association and the South-Western<br />
Administrative Association. The district recently came<br />
to a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement<br />
with its classified staff. Members of the Ohio<br />
Association of Public School Employees will receive a<br />
2.75 cost of living increase in the contract years of<br />
<strong>2022</strong>-23 and 2023-24 and a 3.23 percent cost of living<br />
increase in 2024-25.<br />
According to the forecast’s projections, the district’s<br />
expenditures will be $275.3 million, $285.2 million,<br />
$297.3 million, $310 million and $323.4 million in fiscal<br />
years <strong>2022</strong> through 2026.<br />
Despite the forecast projections that the expenditures<br />
will surpass the revenues in the next fiscal year,<br />
Garside said the district maintains “strong financial<br />
footing” as they will continue to have a positive cash<br />
balance throughout the five-year forecast.<br />
“Having a positive cash balance is a very good<br />
thing,” he said.<br />
He added he does not foresee the district requesting<br />
a new operating levy throughout this forecast but<br />
noted that a disclaimer may need to be included.<br />
“We get 60 percent of our funding from the state<br />
and if something major or weird would happen, then<br />
that would be really problematic for us,” he said. “But,<br />
as of right now, I feel confident that this is a great forecast<br />
and we are marching in the right direction financially.”
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Government Focus<br />
<strong>May</strong> 15, <strong>2022</strong> - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - PAGE 3<br />
West Broad transportation initiative presented<br />
By Katelyn Sattler<br />
Staff Writer<br />
A new initiative should help Hilltop residents<br />
with transportation.<br />
Zach Sunderland, manager of COTA’s<br />
West Broad Street Corridor initiative, discussed<br />
the plan with the Greater Hilltop<br />
Area Commission.<br />
Back in 2018, the Mid-Ohio Regional<br />
Planning Commission (MORPC) studied<br />
population growth in central Ohio and<br />
found that the population will be increasing<br />
by three million people by 2050.<br />
The Central Ohio Transit Authority<br />
(COTA) looked at the data and decided<br />
something needed to be done to help people<br />
get around central Ohio with the expected<br />
population influx.<br />
The LinkUS Mobility Initiative is working<br />
on several high capacity bus rapid transit<br />
corridors - one along West Broad Street,<br />
one along East Main Street, and one to the<br />
Northwest. LinkUS is a partnership with<br />
COTA, MORPC, the city of Columbus, and<br />
Franklin County.<br />
Concerning West Broad Street, the<br />
route would go from Broad Street in Prairie<br />
Township to downtown. The part of Broad<br />
Street that goes through the Hilltop would<br />
see some changes.<br />
Currently, the Line 10 bus picks up and<br />
drops off passengers at frequent stops<br />
every block or two, with a bus running<br />
every 10 to 15 minutes. Because of the frequent<br />
stops and other external factors, like<br />
traffic or construction, getting to a final<br />
destination can take a long time. It’s one of<br />
COTA’s higher ridership routes, and this<br />
corridor was identified as needing more<br />
robust transit based on a pre-COVID<br />
study. LinkUS wants to install high capacity<br />
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines along<br />
West Broad Street to ease the traffic burden.<br />
The BRT will have the middle lanes dedicated<br />
to bus traffic with signal priority<br />
along high ridership routes. Instead of having<br />
stops every 500 feet with a bus coming<br />
every 10 to15 minutes, the BRT system will<br />
have stations with safe places to wait and<br />
higher, level platforms which will help<br />
those with mobility challenges with wheelchairs<br />
or bicycles for getting on/getting off<br />
the bus every 1/2 to one mile. The locations<br />
of the stations are based on pre-Covid ridership.<br />
“This is really like nothing that we have<br />
in central Ohio today,” said Sunderland.<br />
For those who currently ride their bike<br />
Voters decline another police<br />
levy in Franklin Township<br />
to the bus stop, the buses have racks on the<br />
front to store bicycles while riding the bus.<br />
Sunderland said they are studying to<br />
determine how bikes will be stored on the<br />
BRT to avoid having passengers step on<br />
and off the ramp.<br />
In mixed traffic, because there are more<br />
slow downs and less reliability, the buses<br />
will travel on the right side of the road with<br />
stations on the right side, as well.<br />
Currently, buses are 40 feet long. The<br />
plan is to have large 60 foot possibly electric<br />
buses with an articulation in the middle.<br />
The six BRT stops now planned along<br />
West Broad Street are at Georgesville<br />
Road, Wilson Road, Westgate Avenue,<br />
Hague Avenue, Eureka Avenue, and<br />
Whitethorne Avenue.<br />
Commissioner Malik Moore asked, “As<br />
we look at where developments are coming,<br />
are these six stops going to be the places<br />
where stops need to be? I’m thinking of the<br />
Headstart as one place that’s probably<br />
going to be where large numbers of people<br />
begin to go. And as I look at our commercial<br />
district, if there’s going to be a Broad Street<br />
commercial district, it’s not going to be<br />
Hague, and it probably wouldn’t be<br />
Eureka. How dependent will we be on all of<br />
the work that goes to make those stops?<br />
And then we find out three years later,<br />
that’s not where the people are or need to<br />
be?”<br />
“We have an economic development<br />
team at COTA working with the city very<br />
closely and making sure we sync up the<br />
development patterns in a way that we<br />
haven’t done before,” said Sunderland.<br />
Sunderland also said there will be more<br />
formal opportunities for public engagement.<br />
“For the program, we requested entry<br />
into the federal transit administration’s<br />
capital investment grant program, which<br />
we could receive up to 50 percent funding<br />
through the federal government,” said<br />
Sunderland.<br />
LinkUS is currently in project development<br />
for the West Broad Street corridor. If<br />
all goes well, West Broad Street may have<br />
Bus Rapid Transit by 2027, with constructing<br />
beginning in 2024. While West Broad is<br />
under construction, Line 10 will still be<br />
running its regular schedule.<br />
To find out more, go to<br />
LinkUSColumbus.com.<br />
By Amanda Ensinger<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Voters have once again rejected a police<br />
levy.<br />
According to the Franklin County Board<br />
of Elections, the Franklin Township Police<br />
levy failed with 53 percent, or 378 voters<br />
opposing the levy and 47 percent, or 329<br />
voting in favor of the levy.<br />
The township asked voters to approve<br />
7.3-mill permanent police levy. This was<br />
the third time the department had asked<br />
taxpayers for a levy. In the fall of 2021, the<br />
township asked taxpayers to approve a 7.1-<br />
mill timed police levy, which would have<br />
replaced an existing timed levy that is set<br />
to expire at the end of <strong>2022</strong>, as well as<br />
added an additional 3-mills.<br />
In the spring of 2021, the police department<br />
asked a 7.37-mill permanent levy,<br />
but voters rejected that.<br />
“This is the third time the levy has<br />
failed,” said Franklin Township Police<br />
Chief Byron Smith. “Cuts will be eminent<br />
to our department unless we receive another<br />
funding source. We can’t operate at our<br />
current capacity with the two smaller<br />
levies we have. However, it will be up to<br />
the board when that will occur.”<br />
Smith said the current five-year timed<br />
levy doesn’t expire until December <strong>2022</strong>, so<br />
the trustees may opt to keep all the township<br />
police officers until the funds are no<br />
longer available. Currently, the township<br />
has 10 full-time and three part-time officers.<br />
The department is operating 24 hours a<br />
day when there is adequate staffing. They<br />
also are proactively patrolling neighborhoods<br />
when they can and responding to<br />
emergency and non-emergency calls, when<br />
possible.<br />
To stay afloat, the department has not<br />
been filling open positions. Smith said previously<br />
the department has up to 13 fulltime<br />
officers and six part-time officers.<br />
The department has two other permanent<br />
levies it collects from township taxpayers.<br />
Those two levies bring in approximately<br />
$700,000 a year for the department.<br />
Smith said he would be in favor of putting<br />
another levy on ballot.<br />
“I would support asking voters to<br />
approve another permanent levy,” Smith<br />
said. “Timed levies put us in a bad situation<br />
where we train people and then they<br />
leave because we don’t have consistent<br />
funding. Timed levies are more expensive<br />
for taxpayers, so I would only support a<br />
permanent levy.”
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Opinion Page<br />
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Ukraine needs people willing to stand up to a bully<br />
Most of our childhood memories vanish over time like<br />
rain droplets hitting the hot pavement and evaporating<br />
into the air following a passing summer shower. Only a<br />
few make lasting impressions. The tragedy in Ukraine<br />
opened one of those files from the 1960 drawer for me. I<br />
was in sixth grade. My dad took me to see a new movie,<br />
“The Alamo.”<br />
Being such a young lad, I didn’t question any of the<br />
inaccuracies in the movie. For all I knew, John Wayne was<br />
the real Davy Crockett and Richard Widmark was Jim<br />
Bowie. I sat glued and mesmerized to the screen for the<br />
entire movie. I’ve recalled one particular scene in that<br />
movie many times in my lifetime. The sad Ukraine situation<br />
has once again resurfaced it.<br />
The men inside the Alamo Mission had repelled two<br />
advances by the brutal army of Mexico’s General Santa<br />
Anna. The siege was on the eve of going onto its 13th day.<br />
The small Alamo force, under command of William Travis,<br />
was grossly undermanned and poorly equipped. He was<br />
begging for outside support from the government. But the<br />
United States had a treaty with Mexico and feared supplying<br />
men and weapons would have been an overt act of war.<br />
Sam Houston was training reinforcements who were sympathetic<br />
for establishment of the Republic of Texas cause,<br />
but they weren’t ready for combat. The small Alamo contingent<br />
was thus on their own and their probable demise<br />
on the upcoming day all but certain.<br />
It’s the dark night before the final attack on the Alamo.<br />
The movie cameras take us inside. Such a moving scene<br />
that made this little boy feel like he was there with them.<br />
It’s eerily quiet as the men contemplate their lives, families<br />
and final thoughts of their certain demise. In the background<br />
the movie’s theme song starts, “The Green Leaves<br />
of Summer,” a beautiful harmonizing ballad about life’s<br />
beginning and ending journey, sung by folk music group<br />
The Brothers Four. There’s a conversation between characters<br />
Smitty (Frankie Avalon, hit song “Venus” in 1959)<br />
and Parson:<br />
Smitty: So many times every day you stop and give<br />
thanks, but mostly I don’t catch on what you’re thanking<br />
the Lord for. I mean, there’s nothing special.<br />
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Parson: The time to live and the place to die. That’s all<br />
any man gets. No more, no less.<br />
Shortly after the sun rose the next morning Santa<br />
Anna’s overwhelming forces attacked again. Before long it<br />
was over, the entire Alamo garrison cruelly massacred. I<br />
remember how shaken and upset I was as I quietly walked<br />
out to the car, wondering why no one had come to their rescue,<br />
how they could have just sat by and let it happen. The<br />
old, “it’s just a movie” line from dad didn’t help. It happened<br />
in history and it’s now happening again in Ukraine,<br />
this time at the hands of a different man, a bully who can’t<br />
put together a complete sentence that’s not full of major<br />
lies, an uncivilized barbarian who has no place being on<br />
Planet Earth.<br />
One of my all-time favorite shows from way back when<br />
was Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden) in “The<br />
Honeymooners.” The sad Ukraine situation surfaced my<br />
memories of a specific episode. Ralph had witnessed a<br />
hold-up by two thugs. Realizing he could identify them, the<br />
crooks followed him home. They tied Alice, Ralph’s wife, up<br />
in a chair and one of them took Ralph into the other room<br />
to be worked over. Alice is crying and distraught as the<br />
banging and booming is heard in the other room. She fears<br />
the worst. Then, the door opens and rolly polly Ralph<br />
proudly struts out and exclaims, “he obviously never faced<br />
a New York City bus driver before. I deal with punks like<br />
him every day.” The other thug takes off. Ralph stood up to<br />
the bullies and won.<br />
As my mind pondered the Ukraine tragedy, I also found<br />
myself recalling an episode of “The Andy Griffith Show.”<br />
It’s the one where Opie gets picked on by the school bully<br />
and must fork over his daily lunch money to him or get<br />
beat up. His dad, Andy, finds out and has a long talk with<br />
Opie, basically saying sometimes you’ve got to stand up for<br />
something. Opie returns from school the next day with a<br />
black eye and a big smile and regained self-respect. He’d<br />
stood up to the bully and was now being left alone.<br />
In another episode Barney is intimidated by two bully<br />
men illegally selling farm produce along the road after he<br />
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asked to move along. The implication was they’ll beat him<br />
up when they see him out of uniform. He starts wearing<br />
his uniform all the time, even off-duty. Andy lectures him<br />
to stand up to them and he finally does. “You’re both a lot<br />
bigger than I am, but this badge represents a lot of people.<br />
They’re a lot bigger than either one of you. Now, are you<br />
gonna get movin?” They do and Barney regains his selfrespect.<br />
The civilized world is now being held captive by an<br />
assortment of always changing threats from a brutal and<br />
sadistic bully. Every day for weeks now we flip on our TVs,<br />
sit back, watch and listen to the play-by-play commentary<br />
of the newest gut-wrenching overnight humanitarian<br />
atrocities. We listen to what’s unfolding with non-stop<br />
recaps, analysis, predictions and graphic film coverage as<br />
though it was the Super Bowl.<br />
The only Ralph Kramden, Barney Fife and Opie Taylors<br />
we see are inside the Ukraine Alamo. History is seemingly<br />
about to repeat itself with no bona fide outside help on the<br />
way for a grossly outmanned and under-equipped country.<br />
Many efforts to send the simple sustaining needs of survival<br />
have been thrown their way, sometimes succeeding.<br />
<strong>May</strong>be enough has reached some areas of desperate need<br />
for them to survive another Santa Anna charge or two. But<br />
the realistic fear is it’s just a matter of time before The<br />
Green Leaves of Summer will be calling them home.<br />
Nobody wants to risk upsetting the playground bully.<br />
Rather than stand up to this evil and inhumane bully,<br />
we’ve decided to not rock the boat. Every new threat he<br />
barks out sends shudders and cowering across the civilized<br />
world. Nobody wants to risk escalating the conflict, we<br />
don’t want to get too involved. So, it’s easier to just stand<br />
back and let it play out and hope it ends soon. After all,<br />
there are polls and an upcoming election to worry about.<br />
Meanwhile, the bully is dictating every step of the annihilation<br />
horror script right before our eyes as we look on and<br />
question how this can be happening.<br />
I’m not going to predict the outcome of what’s still<br />
unfolding in Ukraine. One scenario wouldn’t surprise me.<br />
We continue to look on in shock and cry outrage but maintain<br />
our standoffish approach so as not to rile the bully.<br />
The horrific events continue until the demise and takeover<br />
of Ukraine culminates. Media coverage fades and moves on<br />
to new stories as our leaders hope our thoughts do the<br />
same. Before long, we enter into new agreements with<br />
Russia that include demands for ending their economic<br />
sanctions. They agree to no more aggression. We sign and<br />
they break their promises within days and start a fresh<br />
takeover of some other country. History says not too farfetched.<br />
It’s already been allowed to become a tragedy in too<br />
many ways. I too don’t want to risk an escalation, but I<br />
also don’t want to embolden the bully to continue the script<br />
anywhere else. At what point do you stand up to the bully<br />
and tell him enough, no more? We need Ralph, Opie and<br />
Barney. We could also use Fonzie.<br />
Dave Burton is a guest columnist for the Columbus<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> Newspapers. He lives in Grove City.<br />
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Jedi Training<br />
<strong>Messenger</strong> photos by Pat Donahue<br />
Duane McVay (left) was joined for a photo with some dressed up friends who<br />
attended the Star Wars Celebration event <strong>May</strong> 9 at Columbia Heights Church in<br />
Galloway. This is the fifth year for the event.<br />
Here, 7-year-old Milo Seqovia makes his way through the tunnel that completes<br />
the obstacle course portion of his Jedi Training at the 5th annual Star Wars<br />
Celebration.<br />
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Township Focus<br />
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Trustees try to protect<br />
properties from flooding<br />
By Amanda Ensinger<br />
Staff Writer<br />
As flooding continues to occur in certain<br />
neighborhoods in the township, the Prairie<br />
Township trustees are taking action to protect<br />
future properties.<br />
At a recent meeting, the board approved<br />
and signed a letter to the Ohio Emergency<br />
Management Agency addressing the proposed<br />
Darby Crossing project at 6145 West<br />
Broad St. in Galloway.<br />
“This letter addresses the potential<br />
issues for Prairie Township and its residents<br />
including flooding and drainage<br />
issues, as well as access to homes during<br />
emergency responses,” said Prairie<br />
Township Administrator James Jewell. “A<br />
letter was sent to the Ohio Housing<br />
Finance Agency by the board in January<br />
addressing the same concerns of the proposed<br />
project.”<br />
According to Jewell, the project located<br />
on West Broad is going to be partially residential<br />
and partially commercial.<br />
“The issue is flooding on Elnora and<br />
Tamara and this project could make these<br />
issues worse,” Jewell said.<br />
Residents also asked for an update on<br />
the Pleasant-Prairie Solar Project.<br />
“According to Prairie Township’s legal<br />
counsel, all parties have agreed to the stipulations<br />
that have been set,” Jewell said.<br />
“The parties include Prairie Township,<br />
Pleasant Township, Metro Parks, No<br />
Prairie Solar, and Pleasant Prairie Solar<br />
Energy LLC. There is an easement that the<br />
company needs from Metro Parks for collection<br />
lines. That is currently in negotiations.<br />
Hopefully the easement requirements<br />
do not contradict the agreed upon<br />
stipulations. Once the easement is signed,<br />
there will be a public meeting held by the<br />
Ohio Power Siting Board.”<br />
The 250-megwatt 1,700-acre solar farm<br />
has been a point of contention for residents<br />
who oppose the project. Spearheaded by<br />
Invenergy, the project will take place on<br />
farmland that has been leased for a period<br />
of 40 years and will stretch across Prairie<br />
and Pleasant townships.<br />
The project is expected to move forward.<br />
Catalytic theft on the rise<br />
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Residents on the westside are reporting<br />
a rise in catalytic converter theft and the<br />
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is working<br />
hard to address the issue.<br />
At a recent Prairie Township board<br />
meeting, Franklin County Sheriff’s<br />
Deputy Burton Haren gave an update on<br />
what they are trying to do to stop these<br />
thefts.<br />
“Last week, deputies were able to make<br />
an arrest on an individual cutting catalytic<br />
converters off vehicles,” Haren said. “The<br />
deputy found the individual with the related<br />
tools.”<br />
Haren also informed residents that they<br />
have been working on several traffic complaints<br />
throughout the township and plan<br />
to set up speed trailers in the coming<br />
weeks.<br />
Director of the Prairie Township<br />
Community Center Michael Pollack also<br />
asked the board to approve installing a<br />
new camera in the pool area.<br />
“The quote includes a camera with four<br />
lenses and sensors and the necessary<br />
mounting hardware,” Pollack said. “The<br />
cost of the quote, provided by Sound<br />
Communications, is $3,336. Extra hard<br />
drive storage is needed as well as a case to<br />
house the upgraded storage. This additional<br />
cost is $577.”<br />
Pollack also asked the board to approve<br />
a quote from Silco Fire and Security for a<br />
new wireless DSC security system. This<br />
upgraded security system will include new<br />
door controls for the front doors that will<br />
now allow key fob access.<br />
“They will be using existing wiring for a<br />
new security system that is being replaced<br />
due to the current one being unreliable and<br />
not properly reporting faults when the<br />
alarm is set off,” Pollack said. “The cost of<br />
equipment is $8,025 and the cost of the<br />
access control is $3,762 for a total quote of<br />
$11,787.”<br />
In other news, township leaders are<br />
planning ahead and already thinking<br />
about the winter. Prairie Township Service<br />
Director Dave McAninch recommended the<br />
board approve a resolution with ODOT for<br />
salt purchases for the winter of <strong>2022</strong>/2023.<br />
McAninch recommended the township purchase<br />
200 tons and said the township used<br />
approximately 250-300 tons in 2021.<br />
McAninch also asked the board to<br />
approve a resolution to use $10,000 from<br />
the American Rescue Plan Act Fund to<br />
replace all existing Hometown Hero<br />
Banners and any new applications.<br />
“This money will be used to replace different<br />
banners along the Broad Street corridor<br />
that have weathered over time,” he<br />
said. “The new banners are $75 each, so we<br />
will be refunding $25 to the three new<br />
applicants.”
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Active Lifestyles<br />
A bi-monthly feature celebrating the<br />
wisdom, experience and contributions of our community’s senior citizens<br />
Arthritis and Exercise<br />
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Older Americans Month<br />
Exercise can be beneficial in the treatment<br />
of arthritis, say many doctors.<br />
Physical activity can reduce stiffness and<br />
increase muscle strength and flexibility. It also<br />
has overall health benefits, such as improving<br />
cardiac fitness and physical endurance. Three<br />
types of exercise are most appropriate for<br />
those who have arthritis:<br />
•Strength training: Strong muscles help<br />
support and protect joints affected by arthritis.<br />
Lifting weights can provide this.<br />
•Range of motion exercises: Dancing,<br />
tai chi, Pilates, swimming, and other activities<br />
that push the body to stretch and move help<br />
maintain normal joint motion and relieve stiffness.<br />
•Aerobic activities: Activities such as<br />
brisk walking, bicycle riding, skating and more<br />
are good for the heart. They also moderate<br />
weight, which in turn puts less strain on joints,<br />
particularly the knees. Some studies show<br />
that aerobic exercise can reduce inflammation<br />
in some joints.<br />
Before beginning an exercise program,<br />
discuss with your doctor what activities might<br />
be right for you.<br />
<strong>May</strong> is Older Americans Month, a nationwide<br />
awareness campaign led by the Administration<br />
for Community Living (ACL) that observes the<br />
positive impact older adults make in society. ACL<br />
sets a theme each year to celebrate the month.<br />
This year’s theme is “Aging in Place,” which<br />
focuses on how older adults can stay in their<br />
homes and live independently in their communities<br />
for as long as possible.<br />
The theme ties directly into the work of<br />
Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging (COAAA).<br />
COAAA arranges and coordinates in-home services<br />
that help older adults and individuals with<br />
disabilities live independently in their homes.<br />
COAAA is proud to help people live independently,<br />
but the agency knows that age does not<br />
define a person’s energy and vitality, which is<br />
why it hosts the Central Ohio Senior Citizens<br />
Hall of Fame to acknowledge exemplary older<br />
adults for serving their communities and enriching<br />
the lives of others.<br />
Eleven inductees will be honored later in the<br />
month during the annual recognition ceremony.<br />
COAAA is proud to celebrate Older Americans<br />
Month by helping older adults live independently,<br />
and through the Hall of Fame, where active and<br />
vibrant older adults are honored for their community<br />
service.<br />
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ELVIS<br />
featuring<br />
Mike Albert<br />
and the Big E Band<br />
Saturday<br />
June 11, <strong>2022</strong><br />
VILLA MILANO<br />
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informed decisions. Workshops are only being offered through Zoom at<br />
the present time. Join us for our upcoming workshop:<br />
Wednesday, <strong>May</strong> 25 at 2:00 p.m.<br />
Registration is required. To register, email Andy Haggard, COAAA<br />
Medicare Outreach Manager, at ahaggard@coaaa.org or call 800-589-7277.<br />
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This project was supported in part by grant number 2101OHMIAA/MIDR-00 from the U.S. Administration for Community Living,<br />
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C. 20201. Subrecipients undertaking a project with government sponsorship<br />
are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.
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Benefits of aging<br />
Many people think of growing older in a<br />
negative light.<br />
Although there are some side effects of<br />
aging that one may wish to avoid, people<br />
may find that the benefits of growing older<br />
outweigh the negatives.<br />
Seniors are a rapidly growing segment<br />
of the population. With so many people living<br />
longer, it’s time to celebrate the perks<br />
of getting older rather than the drawbacks.<br />
Here are some benefits to growing old.<br />
•Higher self-esteem: The insecurities of<br />
youth give way as one ages, and older people<br />
have less negativity and higher selfesteem.<br />
Qualities like self-control and<br />
altruism can contribute to happiness.<br />
•Financial perks: Seniors are entitled<br />
to discounts on meals, museum entry fees,<br />
movies, and other entertainment if they’re<br />
willing to disclose their ages. Discounts are<br />
available through an array of venues if one<br />
speaks up. Seniors also can enjoy travel<br />
perks, with slashed prices on resorts, plane<br />
tickets and more.<br />
•Reasoning and problem-solving skills:<br />
Brain scans reveal that older adults are<br />
more likely to use both hemispheres of<br />
their brans simultaneously something<br />
called bilateralization. This can sharpen<br />
reasoning skills.<br />
Growing older may involve gray hair or<br />
wrinkling skin, but there are many positive<br />
things associated with aging.<br />
Hilltop History<br />
& Heritage<br />
This is the cover from the 1969<br />
Columbus Jets Sketch Book which was<br />
the media guide used for press, radio,<br />
and television. The 38-page book contained<br />
a history of the Columbus Jets<br />
Baseball Club and the International<br />
League, a list of trustees, officials and<br />
other personnel associated with the<br />
team, past attendance figures, history<br />
and statistics regarding Jet Stadium, a<br />
summary of the other International<br />
League teams, and other facts and<br />
schedules for the 1969 season. The<br />
Columbus Jets played in Jet Stadium<br />
on West Mound Street from 1955<br />
through 1970. The stadium remained<br />
idle for six years when the Jets moved<br />
to Charleston, WV. It reopened after<br />
being renovated in 1977 when the<br />
Columbus Clippers minor league baseball<br />
team came to Columbus. The facility<br />
was renamed Cooper Stadium in<br />
1984. When the downtown Huntington<br />
Park opened in 2009, the Clippers<br />
moved to the new facility. Cooper<br />
Stadium has remained dormant since. If<br />
you have a photo to share, contact<br />
Stacy Berndsen-Campbell at stacyberndsen12@gmail.com.<br />
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<br />
Franklin County Board of Commissioners: President Erica C. Crawley • Commissioner John O’Grady, and Commissioner Kevin L. Boyce<br />
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners and The Franklin County Office on Aging join with the <strong>Messenger</strong> Newspaper in providing this update on aging issues in Franklin County.<br />
Older Americans Month<br />
There is more to recognize in the month of <strong>May</strong> than Cinco de <strong>May</strong>o and<br />
Mother’s Day. In fact, <strong>May</strong> is also recognized as Older Americans Month<br />
(OAM). Every <strong>May</strong>, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) leads the<br />
celebration of OAM in order to celebrate the contributions and continued impact<br />
our senior residents have within our community. In Franklin County, nearly<br />
234,000 older adults play vital, positive roles in our community – as family<br />
members, friends, mentors, volunteers, civic leaders, members of the workforce<br />
and more. Just as every person is unique, so too is how they age and how they<br />
choose to do it – and there is no “right” way. That’s why the theme for OAM<br />
<strong>2022</strong> is Age My Way.<br />
This year’s theme for OAM focuses on how older adults can age in their communities<br />
while maintaining to live independently for as long as possible. The Franklin<br />
County Office on Aging has always been committed to providing the essential<br />
resources seniors and their families need in order to remain independent, safe<br />
and together for as long as possible. While Age My Way will look different for<br />
each person, there are common things everyone can consider:<br />
• Planning – Think about what you will need and want in the future as an older<br />
adult, from home and community-based services to community activities that<br />
interest you. Learn more about what programs and services are offered in your<br />
community by visiting the Office on Aging’s website. (Officeonaging.org)<br />
• Engagement – Remain involved and contribute to your community through<br />
work, volunteer, and/or civic participation opportunities. The Office on Aging<br />
provides community support, outreach and specialized services to older adults so<br />
they can improve their ability to live and function in the community.<br />
• Access – Make home improvements and modifications, use assistive technologies,<br />
and customize supports to help you better age in place. The Minor Home<br />
Repair Program offered through the Office on Aging ensures that your home is<br />
safe and secure.<br />
• Connection – Maintain social activities and relationships to combat social<br />
isolation and stay connected to your community. The Office on Aging can<br />
connect seniors to care and support services when facing mental and emotional<br />
health challenges, including a free online tool called CredibleMind (Franklin-<br />
CountyOhio.CredibleMind.com) which connects residents and families to<br />
national and local mental health services.<br />
Diverse communities are strong communities. The Office on Aging works every<br />
day to ensure that older adults remain involved and included within our community<br />
by providing centralized access to programs and support services needed in<br />
order to preserve their independence.<br />
Since 1993, the Office on Aging has provided services like home-delivered<br />
meals, personal care and adult day care through its Senior Options program. It is<br />
the “one-stop shop” for seniors to gain information and access to these services<br />
so they can preserve their independence and experience an improved quality of<br />
life. The Agency also provides Minor Home Repairs such as repair services to<br />
main walkways and steps, to other minor plumbing, electrical, gas and furnace<br />
repairs. These services allow senior residents to live in their homes free of barriers<br />
and unsafe conditions.<br />
In addition to ensuring the homes of older residents are free of barriers and<br />
unsafe conditions, the Office on Aging also focuses on making sure their physical<br />
and emotional well-being is safe as well. The Agency’s Adult Protective<br />
Services prevent, remedy, or reduce situations that endanger an older adult and<br />
are meant to maximize their independence and self-direction.<br />
Lastly, the Office on Aging also provides support for caregivers including adult<br />
day services, caregiver counseling, kinship support services and more. These<br />
services are available to non-paid caregivers of adults aged 60 and older who<br />
have a need for home care assistance, non-paid parents or relatives aged 55 or<br />
older caring for an adult child with disabilities, and kinship caregivers aged 55 or<br />
older who are caring full-time for a minor child that is not their biological child.<br />
All of the services provided by the Office on Aging are here to help older<br />
residents Age My Way. There is little to no cost for residents to participate in<br />
these programs and services, and a simple call can help you, your loved ones and<br />
your family maintain living independently in your own home.<br />
To learn more about the programs and support services provided by the Franklin<br />
County Office on Aging, visit officeonaging.org or call (614) 525-5230.
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Hilltop Library - 511 S. Hague Ave.<br />
United Dairy Farmers - Hague & Sullivant Ave.<br />
BP Gas Station - Hague & Sullivant Ave.<br />
Alex Carry-Out - Binns & Sullivant Ave.<br />
Shifflet Auto Care - 3374 Sullivant Ave.<br />
Dollar General - Kingsford & Sullivant Ave.<br />
Dollar General - Georgesville & Atlanta<br />
M & S Carryout - Georgesville & Atlanta<br />
United Dairy Farmers - Georgesville & Parkwick by Freeway<br />
Thorton’s Gas Station - Georgesville Rd. & Norton Rd.<br />
Shell Gas Station - Georgesville Rd. & Norton Rd.<br />
Kroger - Georgesville Square<br />
Turkey Hill - Georgesville Rd. & Clime Rd.<br />
United Dairy Farmers - Clime & Demorest Rd.<br />
Walgreens - Clime & Demorest Rd.<br />
Certifed Gas Station - Briggs & Demorest<br />
Kroger - Eakin & Harrisburg Pike<br />
Speedway Gas Station - Eakin & Harrisburg Pike<br />
Heartland Bank - Great Western Shopping Center<br />
BP Gas Station - Wilson Rd. & Lowell<br />
Speedway Gas Station - Wilson Rd. & Lowell<br />
Certified Gas Station - Broad St. & Orel<br />
Walgreens - Hague & Broad St.<br />
Circle K Gas Station - Georgesville Rd. & Industrial Mile Rd.<br />
Marathon Gas Station - Georgesville Rd. & Industrial Mile Rd.<br />
La Plaza Tapatta - Georgesville Rd. & Hollywood<br />
BP Gas Station - Georgesville Rd. & Broad St.<br />
Westland Library - Lincoln Village Plaza<br />
Giant Eagle - Lincoln Village Plaza<br />
Thorton’s Gas Station - 4990 W. Broad St.<br />
Walgreens- Broad St. & Galloway Rd.<br />
Kroger - Broad St. & Galloway Rd.<br />
Aldi Store - Broad St. & Westwood<br />
CVS Drug Store - Norton Rd. & Hall Rd.<br />
United Dairy Farmers - Norton Rd. & Hall Rd.<br />
Circle K Gas Station - Norton Rd. & Hall Rd.<br />
Dollar General - Norton Rd. & Hall Rd.<br />
Marathon Gas Station - Broad St. & Murry Hill Rd.<br />
Speedway Gas Station - Broad St. & Murry Hill Rd.<br />
Dollar Tree - Broad St. & Murry Hill Rd.<br />
Speedway Gas Station - Broad St. & Freeway<br />
Sheetz Gas Station - Westland Mall<br />
Speedway Gas Station - Broad St. & Wilson Rd.<br />
Kroger - Consumer Square Shopping Center<br />
Franklin Township Business Office - 2193 Frank Rd.<br />
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Growlith is a 3-<br />
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County uses workforce development initiative in new cafe<br />
There is a new option for breakfast or<br />
lunch at the Franklin County Courthouse.<br />
Café Overlook opened for business on<br />
the 16th floor at 373 S. High St. where<br />
there hasn’t been any place for county<br />
employees or building visitors to eat or<br />
even get a cup of coffee since the beginning<br />
of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. The<br />
new venue isn’t a typical government<br />
building cafeteria, however. Café Overlook<br />
is a contemporary restaurant and also a<br />
workforce development initiative in which<br />
social services clients will be paid a living<br />
wage while learning kitchen and job readiness<br />
skills during an apprenticeship before<br />
being placed in a longer-term career elsewhere<br />
in the restaurant industry.<br />
“Café Overlook was developed by rock<br />
stars at the county and in our community —<br />
they love this community and want to see<br />
people thrive, and we’re just as excited<br />
about this vision as they are” said board of<br />
commissioners president Erica Crawley.<br />
“Our community members want to work,<br />
they want to be entrepreneurs where they<br />
do something they love and flourish. Café<br />
Overlook provides opportunity and support<br />
for those dreams.”<br />
The idea for a restaurant that also<br />
trains residents for careers in hospitality<br />
came from the commissioners, but Café<br />
Overlook will be owned and operated by<br />
Service! Relief for Hospitality Workers<br />
(“Service!), an Ohio non-profit corporation,<br />
led by a team of experienced restauranteurs,<br />
Sangeeta Lakhani, Letha Pugh, and<br />
Matthew Heaggans. The trio envision Café<br />
Overlook as an educational hub for workforce<br />
and economic development. It will<br />
eventually also serve as an incubator<br />
kitchen, hosting other local culinary businesses.<br />
The team sees it as a chance to<br />
begin to change the restaurant industry,<br />
which includes advocating for fairness in<br />
wages and benefits for employees and educating<br />
consumers on the impact of rising<br />
food costs.<br />
“Most restaurants don’t have time to<br />
train people from scratch, let alone pay<br />
them a living wage,” said Lakhani.<br />
“Thanks to the commissioners, we’re able<br />
to give people a good job where they can<br />
learn essential job skills so they can go on<br />
to have long-term careers in the industry.”<br />
Employees of Café Overlook will be paid<br />
$15 per hour and have access to benefits<br />
like healthcare and subsidized childcare,<br />
uniforms, and transportation. During their<br />
apprenticeships, they’ll learn skills in all<br />
parts of the restaurant, from cooking to<br />
customer service, and even menu planning<br />
and procurement. After an individual<br />
assessment of each staff person’s skills and<br />
capabilities, the team will work with them<br />
to find long-term employment in the industry<br />
where they can put their new skills to<br />
work for a career.<br />
“Café Overlook is an innovative<br />
Trustees do not join SWACO consortium<br />
By Amanda Ensinger<br />
Staff Writer<br />
Entering into a trash and recycling consortium<br />
consumed a large portion of a<br />
recent Franklin Township Trustees meeting.<br />
Franklin Township Administrator Steve<br />
Mazer provided an update to residents.<br />
“Board members had requested that I<br />
look into this and I had a meeting with the<br />
attorney representing SWACO regarding<br />
the consortium,” Mazer said. “It seems that<br />
the township was a member of the consortium<br />
as late as 2019, but since that time,<br />
the township has not been a member.”<br />
Mazer said the consortium has evolved<br />
to having one contract with one company,<br />
which is Local Waste Services. Mazer also<br />
added that since leaving the consortium,<br />
residents have seen their monthly rates<br />
increase.<br />
“What I was told was the township has<br />
an option to rejoin the consortium, but that<br />
the contractor would be Local Waste<br />
Services,” Mazer said. “However, there are<br />
also a number of stipulations that the<br />
township would have to fulfill before they<br />
would consider allowing us to enter back<br />
into the consortium.”<br />
One stipulation: Local Waste Services<br />
wants the township to make them whole if<br />
the customers refuse to pay.<br />
“This is kind of alarming to me,” Mazer<br />
said. “When the township was last in the<br />
consortium, there were 2,800 households<br />
and 700 were either delinquent or just<br />
refused to pay the bills.”<br />
Another stipulation said the township<br />
would have to agree that Local Waste can<br />
stop service to delinquent accounts.<br />
Meaning, if an account hasn’t paid in 90<br />
days, Local Waste Services will stop service<br />
on that account.<br />
The third stipulation is that all residents<br />
have to join the consortium and<br />
agree to use Local Waste Service as the<br />
trash and recycling provider. They cannot<br />
opt out of service.<br />
“The price would be $19.99 a month and<br />
customers would be billed quarterly,”<br />
Mazer said. “They also offer a senior citizens<br />
discount.”<br />
Mazer reported that Local Waste<br />
Services did suggest putting a lien on resident’s<br />
properties if they don’t pay their bill<br />
so the township can get their money back.<br />
“I do not want to be responsible for<br />
delinquent bills,” said James Leezer, township<br />
trustee. “I don’t think it is a good use<br />
of resident’s money to spend their money to<br />
pay for someone’s trash.”<br />
The township agreed to send a letter to<br />
residents letting them know that currently<br />
they are not under contract with any trash<br />
hauler and they can pick any trash hauler<br />
they would like. The board also agreed for<br />
right now not to join the consortium under<br />
these current stipulations.<br />
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both for the people who eat it and the people<br />
who prepare it,” said Pugh. “And unlike<br />
most restaurants, which hate turnover,<br />
we’ll even help our team members find<br />
their next jobs when they’re ready to move<br />
on.”<br />
The menu at Café Overlook starts with<br />
locally roasted coffee in the morning as well<br />
as fresh baked goods and fruit. Lunch<br />
includes a full salad bar and made-to-order<br />
sandwiches at the grill. There will also be<br />
take-and-go food options, and customers<br />
will be able to order ahead from their desks<br />
or cell phones through an app and then just<br />
pick up their food at the Overlook when it’s<br />
ready.<br />
“Everybody deserves good, nutritious<br />
food, and everybody deserves to be paid<br />
fairly for their labor,” said Heaggans. “We<br />
like to say that Café Overlook is an opportunity<br />
to eat well while doing good.”<br />
The commissioners made a commitment<br />
in 2016 to pay their own employees a living<br />
wage, and then raised their minimum to<br />
$15 per hour in 2019. They have several<br />
innovative programs with a similar model<br />
of paying people and supporting them in<br />
other ways while they learn the skills they<br />
need for a middle class career in the building<br />
trades or as a truck driver. They have<br />
provided funding to help start up Café<br />
Overlook and are also subsidizing its operating<br />
costs in order to keep prices affordable<br />
for employees and visitors to the courthouse.<br />
“As the former owner of a restaurant, I<br />
can tell you that it’s not an easy industry to<br />
be in, but that the Café Overlook team is<br />
really doing it right,” said commissioner<br />
John O’Grady. “The food and service are<br />
both fantastic; the support for their<br />
employees and our local economy are<br />
inspiring, and they’re giving our employees<br />
and visitors a great, healthy and affordable<br />
option for breakfast and lunch.”<br />
Café Overlook will employ about 20 people<br />
at a time, with some always rotating<br />
onto and off of the roster as new team<br />
members join and those with new experience<br />
move on. The county and café have<br />
partnered with Jewish Family Services to<br />
identify new employees and to help them<br />
with additional supports so that they can<br />
focus on their new job and on learning the<br />
ropes in a new industry.<br />
“I’ve always said that the best social<br />
service is a good paying job,” said commissioner<br />
Kevin Boyce. “Providing somebody<br />
with the opportunity to earn a living for<br />
their family is the best way to help them<br />
move up the ladder of economic mobility,<br />
and Café Overlook will both feed the courthouse<br />
and enrich our whole community.”<br />
Café Overlook will be open daily<br />
through the week from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />
community events<br />
conducted by Amvets Post #1928. The second<br />
service will be held at noon at Alton<br />
Cemetery. It will be conducted by Camp<br />
Chase Post #98 of the American Legion.<br />
For more information, contact the township<br />
at 614-878-3317 or visit prairietownship.org.<br />
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Latest Marvel film felt like a rough draft<br />
There have been 28 films released within<br />
the Marvel Cinematic Universe and I<br />
can no longer whip up any genuine sense of<br />
excitement over the prospect of watching<br />
another. However, I can admit to experiencing<br />
a slight stirring of interest toward<br />
its latest, “Doctor Strange in the<br />
Multiverse of Madness.”<br />
This exceedingly rare creation of a longlost<br />
sensation had little to do with a particular<br />
fondness for the title character —<br />
despite wielding mystical powers, his personality<br />
tends to run a bit dry — and more<br />
to do with a love of a particular word within<br />
the title itself.<br />
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The multiverse, by definition, offers infinite<br />
possibilities of infinite worlds beyond<br />
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of us is inhabiting these worlds — and<br />
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fingers universe in the utterly fantastic<br />
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”).<br />
Exploring the multiverse can bring forth<br />
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film, hence the reason why I was somewhat<br />
looking forward to the latest entry in the<br />
mostly same MCU. Upon watching “Doctor<br />
Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” I<br />
can say it definitely has a style that sets<br />
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itself apart from its predecessors, but it<br />
also continues to lack in true character<br />
development and character continuity<br />
through-lines.<br />
Though still arrogant to a fault, Dr.<br />
Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch)<br />
has been humbled and haunted since we<br />
last saw him in a solo film; humbled<br />
because his love Christine Palmer (Rachel<br />
McAdams) has fallen for another, and<br />
haunted because of the choices he made to<br />
allow half the population to turn to dust for<br />
five years. He believes a side effect of his<br />
guilt is the terrifying nightmares he has<br />
been having of being chased and eaten by<br />
an otherworldly octopus-like creature but<br />
he cannot shake the sensation that it may<br />
be real.<br />
While attending a wedding reception<br />
shortly thereafter, a ruckus outside gains<br />
his attention. During an initial investigation<br />
of the cause, he sees a young girl from<br />
his dreams being chased by the same otherworldly<br />
octopus-like creature that was<br />
the cause of his death. Fortunately for him,<br />
things do not go as they were in dreamland,<br />
but he does find out that this girl,<br />
America Chaves (Xochitl Gomez), has the<br />
ability to leap into any multiverse with one<br />
caveat — it only happens when she is<br />
scared.<br />
She tells Stephen that another version<br />
of him did, in fact, die via otherworldly<br />
octopus-like creature but it is her that is<br />
being haunted and hunted — not him. He<br />
has just been helping her try to discover<br />
who wants to steal her powers, while sometimes<br />
betraying her along the way.<br />
Determined to not end up like his<br />
deceiving and deceased multiverse counterpart,<br />
the sorcerer enlists the help of<br />
Wong (Benedict Wong), now Sorcerer<br />
Supreme, and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth<br />
Olsen), now the Scarlet Witch, to help him<br />
find a powerful book of magic that would<br />
allow them to stop this unknown adversary<br />
before the multiverse is put into any danger.<br />
But he soon discovers that sometimes<br />
the enemy hides within plain sight.<br />
Though the film follows many of the<br />
familiar Marvel beats, “Doctor Strange in<br />
the Multiverse of Madness” embraces darker<br />
themes in a way its predecessors have<br />
not, and maybe could not. There is a heavier<br />
feeling to this<br />
movie, a more sinister<br />
vibe, and that is<br />
mostly due to its<br />
director, Sam Raimi.<br />
Marvel has a reputation<br />
for reeling in<br />
some of the individualistic<br />
flair of its directors, but they seemed<br />
to have allowed Raimi to go a bit wild — to<br />
a certain extent. While I think more could<br />
have been done to establish off-beat multiverses<br />
(we get a glimpse of a paint verse,<br />
but it features more Earth-like verses), his<br />
focus is instead on adding touches of visual<br />
horror like bloodied characters crawling<br />
out of mirrors, screaming souls of the<br />
damned reaching out to choke the living,<br />
and, on occasion, the snapping of a neck<br />
and a clothed evisceration.<br />
Watching this film was an amazing<br />
experience, especially when we got to see<br />
the awesome power of witchcraft and wizardry<br />
but listening to it was a different<br />
experience altogether. Some of the dialogue,<br />
written by “Loki” scribe Michael<br />
Waldron, was so bad that it nearly took me<br />
out of the place of awe I felt while watching<br />
the movie. It almost feels like the final<br />
script was a rough draft, an unfinished<br />
product that needed to pay more attention<br />
to character development, character relationships,<br />
and character motivation.<br />
While there are plenty of things to like<br />
about “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of<br />
Madness” such as the horror-inspired visuals<br />
and the acting from Cumberbatch and<br />
Olsen especially, there are also plenty of<br />
things that could have been better to make<br />
this a truly exciting cinematic experience.<br />
Grade: C+<br />
Dedra Cordle is a <strong>Messenger</strong> staff writer<br />
and columnist.<br />
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