Westside Messenger - March 12th, 2023

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March 12 - 25, 2023 www.columbusmessenger.com Vol. XLIX, No. 18 

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Featuring 

our 

famous 

STEAK 

COMBO!! 

Serving up some spice 

Messenger photo by Dedra Cordle 

The heat was on – literally – as fans of one of the winter season’s 

top comfort dishes came out to the Hilltop YMCA on Feb. 

23 to try a bit of fiery fare for the first annual Chili Cook-Off 

hosted by the Greater Hilltop Area Shalom Zone. Featuring six 

entries from westside residents and local non-profit organizations, 

participants were able to taste, and then vote upon, 

beloved recipes that featured meat, beans, and plenty of 

spices. Although it was a tight race – it came down to one vote 

– Paula Neal and her chili recipe took top honors at the inaugural 

event that was part fundraiser for the Greater Hilltop Area 

Shalom Zone and part meet the community night. Neal, shown 

here posing with the coveted Golden Ladle, is the Partnership 

Director at the Hilltop Early Learning Center. She said the 

secret to her award-winning recipe was not that it was marinated 

overnight with a combination of sugar and spice, but that it 

was the first meal ever cooked on the stovetop in the new Early 

Learning Center. “It’s a great honor to receive this award and it 

will be displayed in our trophy case at the center,” she said. 

Commissioners vote 

against city-wide 

election participation 

By Dedra Cordle 

Staff Writer 

The city of Columbus’s largest area 

commission has chosen not to participate 

in an initiative that aims to create a uniform 

election date for neighborhood advisory 

boards. 

The Greater Hilltop Area Commission 

voted down a motion at its meeting on 

March 7 that would have allowed the 

board to schedule future election dates on 

the last Saturday of August. That is the 

date the city would prefer all area commission 

elections be held. 

The decision to decline the city’s request 

to participate in city-wide elections was 

not unanimous — five commissioners voted 

in favor of the motion. 

The commissioners who voted against 

the motion to change the date of their elec- 

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Kevin Orr, (above) the executive director of the Greater Hilltop 

Area Shalom Zone, gets ready to consume the chili. Shyawn 

Monroe, 7, (right) piles his cup of chili with cheese and crackers. 

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The Reel Deal ........................ 12 

Park Proposal 

Prairie officials want community 

feedback for recreation space Page 3 

Making an Impact 

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By Dedra Cordle 

Staff Writer 

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Westside artists will have the opportunity to receive 

funding in order to bring an interactive and engaging arts 

experience to the local community. 

According to Kimberly Cole, the grant and community 

engagement manager with the Greater Columbus Arts 

Council, applications are now open for the Neighborhood 

Arts Connection (NAC) fellowship, which celebrates city 

neighborhoods by inviting resident artists to create participatory 

arts experiences for their community. 

“This is a very unique situation because you have public 

dollars that are being given away to people who are trying 

to do good in the community,” she said during a program 

overview presentation at the March 7 Greater Hilltop Area 

Commission meeting. 

The application process for individual artists opened on 

March 1. All applications are due on April 3 at 5 p.m. 

The fellowship is open to individual artists who are 18 

and older, have lived in the city of Columbus for at least 

one year prior to the application; and are not enrolled as 

degree seeking undergraduate students. 

The fellowship is also open to individual artists 

who work in the following disciplines: dance, fashion, 

film, literary, music, theater, visual arts or 

other multi-disciplinary mediums. 

Cole said ideally the artists who seek the fellowship 

would likely already be paid for performances, 

sell their artwork and/or have shared their body of 

work with the general public. 

Another element to this application is that the 

artist would have to describe in their application 

how they plan to engage with the community 

tion offered a variety of different reasons for coming to 

their determination. 

For commissioner Leah Brudno, she said she voted 

against the motion because she felt that the city had to 

do more to address the issues that arose last year during 

the launch of the city-wide election pilot program. 

She said that based on feedback she received from the 

11 area commissions who participated in the 2022 pilot 

program, they were dissatisfied with what they 

deemed the city’s lack of communication and the narrow 

window that date allowed to recruit new members 

and canvass for votes. 

“Essentially, the biggest qualms the commissions 

had was a lack of communication and a lack of time for 

folks after they had submitted petitions to actually 

campaign,” she said. “It was a very quick timeline last 

year and there were a lot of feelings that the city did 

not live up to the promises that were made for the commissions 

to participate in the pilot program.” 

Brudno said that some of those issues could have 

been related to the newness of the city-wide voting program 

but added that she would like for the Hilltop 

commission to wait another year to see how the city 

addresses those issues before voting to participate in a 

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“One of the big things about this fellowship is that even 

though it is going to be ran by the individual artist, we 

want there to be community participation,” she said. “It 

can be in the planning portion, that could be in the execution, 

that could be in the celebration, but we want the community 

to be involved.” 

According to the GCAC website, three $5,000 awards 

and three $10,000 awards will be given to the artists chosen 

for this year’s NAC fellowship. Three of the six awards 

for the 2023 NAC fellowship are guaranteed for Hilltop 

artists. Ideas will be chosen by a selection committee consisting 

of neighborhood activists, community leaders, and 

a GCAC representative. 

Selection criteria will include community engagement, 

neighborhood impact, creativity and innovation, and the 

ability to execute the project successfully within the time 

frame and budget. 

Complete guidelines are available at gcac.org and the 

direct link to apply is available at gcac.smartsimple.com. 

Questions and inquiries can be sent to the grants and community 

engagement staff at Grants@gcac.org. 

uniform election system. 

Commissioner Jennie Keplar said she voted against 

the motion because she felt that by participating in the 

city-wide election, the commission would be losing 

some of its autonomy. 

“One of the important things to remember about 

why this commission was established was so that we 

could speak for the community at city council, not as a 

representative of the city to the Hilltop (residents),” 

she said. “Sometimes I think — and it’s amazing that 

the city supports us — but sometimes I think the lines 

get blurred between us advocating for our neighborhood 

to the city versus us doing what the city wants us 

to do.” 

Keplar also added that she does not believe the commission 

needs the city’s assistance with running their 

elections as it is a “pretty well-oiled machine” that gets 

a large amount of public interest and voter turnout on 

election day. 

Among those who voted for the motion to participate 

in the city-wide election process was commissioner 

Josh Paxton. 

Although he said he initially wanted to take the 

“wait and see approach” that Brudno suggested, he felt 

the commission would be better served by 

joining in order to help the city work 

through those issues that sprang up last 

year. 

“If we continue to sit out then we can’t 

help them properly build a city-wide election,” 

he said. 

Commission chair Dan Fagan agreed 

with this assessment, adding that he 

believed it would be a good opportunity to 

offer input on future elections with the city 

and share resources with other area commissions 

on how to boost their level of 

engagement from the community. 

“I think if we are all working together, 

that is going to have a big impact,” he said. 

With the motion to change their election 

to the last Saturday of August defeated for 

another year, the Greater Hilltop Area 

Commission is slated to hold its election in 

early October.


Community Focus 

Input sought on Prairie park proposal 

By Christine Bryant 

Staff Writer 

A park proposal from nearly a decade 

ago is finding renewed interest. 

The proposal aims to convert two 

parcels of land at the corner of Hubbard 

and Dellinger roads into a park that could 

include features like a walking trail, playground 

area, volleyball courts and open 

greenspace. 

Prairie Township acquired the two 

parcels of land that have a total area of 

5.48 acres in 2010. For several years, 

trustees considered converting the land 

into a recreational space for residents. A 

conceptual drawing was even created in 

2015 and uploaded to the township’s website. 

Prairie Township Administrator James 

Jewell says he believes officials put the 

idea on hold to focus on other projects like 

the community center and the sports complex. 

However, a recent inquiry has brought 

the idea of turning the corner of Hubbard 

and Dellinger roads into a community 

space back to life. 

“I recently received a request from a resident 

in the area for the park to be constructed,” 

Jewell said. “They saw the plan 

on our website.” 

Now, Prairie Township officials are 

seeking feedback from residents about the 

proposed project to help shape what the 

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Hilltop Spring Cleanup 

The 21st annual South Central Hilltop 

Block Watch Spring Cleanup will be held 

from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 6. Participants 

will meet at the neighborhood park behind 

Burroughs Elementary School, 551 S. 

Richardson Ave., to spread out and pick up 

litter in the area. Keep Columbus 

Beautiful will provide the cleanup tools, 

but volunteers are welcome to bring their 

own trash picker and favorite pair of 

gloves. For more information on the spring 

cleanup, look up the South Central Hilltop 

Block Watch on Facebook. 

Fish fry 

The St. Margaret of Cortona Church, 

1600 N. Hague Ave. in Columbus, will host 

a fish fry every Friday through March 31. 

The event will run from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. 

and will cost $15 for adults, with reduced 

rates for seniors and children. 

Free lunch at Hilltop Methodist 

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. 

space could look like. 

“Based on conversations that trustees 

have had with other residents, they directed 

the staff to have an open house to ask 

the community for their opinion,” Jewell 

said. 

The open house, which is open to the 

public, will take place at 6 p.m., March 15, 

at the Prairie Township Community 

Center, 5955 W. Broad St., Galloway. 

“At the open house, we will be asking 

those in attendance first if they want a 

park, then if the proposed plan needs 

updated,” Jewell said. “If they answer yes, 

what additions or what should be removed 

from the plan?” 

Jewell said officials will distribute questionnaires 

that request feedback from residents. 

The township mailed invitations to 

the open house to homes in the Lake Darby 

and Westpoint communities, and already 

has received some feedback from residents 

who cannot attend the meeting, he said. 

If there is a desire to construct a park in 

that space, Jewell says the existing conceptual 

drawing will be revised using public 

remarks. Currently, in addition to a walking 

trail, playground area, volleyball courts 

and open greenspace, the plans include features 

like basketball courts, a picnic pavilion, 

lighting and a bathroom. 

“Once we have an updated conceptual 

drawing, our engineering consultant would 

complete a preliminary construction estimate,” 

Jewell said. 

If the board of trustees decides to move 

forward with the project, the design and 

reviews would take about a year to complete, 

he said. 

“Construction could start the following 

year,” Jewell said. “It could be completed in 

one construction season.” 

Grant opportunities could fund the proposed 

park, he said. If those are not successful, 

trustees would need to decide on 

whether the township would authorize 

paying for the park using general funds. 

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Adam Miller 

STATE REPRESENTATIVE 

News from the 

Statehouse 

The beginning of every General Assembly 

starts with working on Ohio’s budget. 

This takes up most of the first 6 months of 

the first year. The remaining 18 months 

usually deal with legislative items that are 

not related directly to taxing and spending. 

This year is no different. 

At the beginning of March, the Ohio 

House of Representatives passed the 

Transpiration budget. This is a two-year 

budget that deals mostly with transportation 

and infrastructure. The $12.6 billion 

bill now moves to the Senate.’ 

The bill includes improvements for the 

West Side, particularly Hilliard Rome 

Road. And we fought to get additional 

funding for public transit to help get 

workers to high demand jobs. This will 

help Ohio compete in the global marketplace. 

The Transportation budget provides direct 

jobs for building and repairing roads, 

bridges, and general infrastructure. With 

improved infrastructure, businesses can 

grow and put more Ohioans to work. It 

also includes some important rail safety 

provisions to help prevent any future accidents 

that we say in East Palestine. 

I sit on the Ohio Finance Committee and 

opposed the bill in committee because it 

lacked vital worker protections. As the bill 

progressed, I continued to push for these 

worker protections and by the time it 

reached the House floor, I joined a majority 

in my colleagues in voting for the bill, 

despite my reservations that we could 

have invested more. 

The Transportation Budget is a generally 

non-controversial bill. The Operating 

Budget debate is now in full swing. This 

bill funds the state of Ohio from education 

to healthcare. It is vital for the General 

Assembly to hear from you – 

regardless of your position or party. Write 

your members. Testify. Get others involved. 

Our legislature is better when citizens 

participate. 

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Why can’t we just leave the clocks alone? 

We’re well past the shortest day of 2022, December 21, 

and quickly working our way toward what will be the 

longest day of 2023, June 21. Each new day brings added 

daylight as we approach that date. That can mean only one 

thing, another dreaded Daylight Savings Time. 

Passengers, fasten your seatbelts, secure your seat trays, 

and lock your seats in the upright position. We’re about to 

fly right into the eye of another few days of unnecessary 

biorhythm and circadian turbulence. And then, under the 

assumption most of us again survive this annual abuse of 

flipping our clocks ahead one hour, we can all look forward 

to retesting our resiliency by flipping them back an hour 

on November 5. 

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We go through this pointless long standing clock changing 

ritual twice every year and then try to convince our 

bodies to play along with the senseless game of gaining or 

losing an hour in our creatures-of-habit daily routines. We 

try to remember to move the hands on our clocks one way 

or the other an hour, hopefully guessing correctly. We’ve 

memorized the saying, ‘spring forward, fall back,’ or is it 

‘spring back and fall forward,’ to help us spin and abuse 

our daily lives in the proper direction. 

Setting the clocks is the easy part, assuming you 

remember to do it on time and to do it to all of them. This 

ensures you wake up the next morning and begin the day 

on the correct schedule and avoid spending the day apologizing 

to everyone “sorry, I forgot to change my 

clock,” or being embarrassed for showing up somewhere 

too early. 

The brain is an intricately constructed piece of 

equipment and sometimes the ball bearings malfunction, 

especially in our later years. Asking us to 

change our internal clocks to match the reset clocks 

in the house and then follow the new time places 

undue stress on the bearings for a few adjusting 

days afterwards and may enhance the chances of 

breakdown or dysfunction. 

I still chuckle over an incident years ago. I was 

tired after a long, grueling work week with way too 

much overtime. I awoke, looked at the clock and 

panicked thinking I’d overslept and would be late 

for my important early Monday morning meeting. I 

ran about like the Tasmanian Devil, got myself into 

the car and sped away to work. The roads were 

strangely empty and when I got there, the parking 

lot was empty. It was only then I realized it was 

Saturday. Come on, fess up, we’ve all gotten confused 

on what day of the week it is, and messing 

with the brain twice a year with the time changes 

only enhances our chances for multiple other blunders 

during a day! 

As many frustrating years as I’ve been through 

it, and that’s been my entire life that began back 

when dinosaurs roamed the planet in the 1940s, it 

never gets any easier. If anything, it’s only gotten 

harder, because when you get to be my age, you 

could care less about springing or falling in either 

direction. Instead, all your attention becomes 

focused on just trying to remain in the stable 

upright position for later life’s new routinely 

bumpy daily rides. And at our age, we can manage 

gaining an hour, but the last thing we want is to 

lose an hour. 

Dealing with the time changes was more tolerable 

as a kid, sometimes even fun and generated 

excitement. Turning the clock forward in the spring 

meant you could stay at the field and play pickup 

basketball longer. It meant school would soon be 

over for the summer. Sure, you lost an hour of 

sleep, but we were young and could deal with it. 

Besides, half the class was always asleep anyway. 

Some of the teachers taught like they were too. 

Turning the clock back an hour in the fall was like 

a weekend, you could sleep in an extra hour. Yes, in 

those days I thought that was great because I could 

sleep. These older days, getting a few hours anytime 

is exciting, regardless of what the clock says. 

Since entering adulthood, the annual clock 

changing has become about as much fun as getting 

a flu shot in one arm and the latest and greatest 

Covid booster in the other on the same day and 

Guest Column 

Dave Burton 

awakening the next day rekindling memories of how I felt 

the morning following a fraternity house party. 

You could always tell whether we’d turned the clocks 

forward or backward at work. When it was forward, 

there’d be a steady stream of employees straggling in late, 

sometimes even the boss. Then you’d see the blank, space 

cadet employee eyes walking the halls all day and nodding 

off during meetings. The post-lunch normal glucose high 

employee snoozathons would increase even more and you 

could walk by office doors and see bobbing heads staring 

blankly at strategically placed computer screens so no one 

could see eyes were closed. 

When clocks were set back an hour in the fall, that 

meant lunchtime was also moved back. Pre-lunch midday 

meetings were always unadvised if you wanted to conduct 

serious business with the embarrassing gurgling, begging 

for food, renowned stomach ensemble playing in the background 

across the tables and around the room. 

There’s always the common chatter across homes after 

time the changes: “I don’t care what the clock says, I’m 

hungry now,” or “I don’t care what time it is, I’m tired and 

going to bed now.” When the time changes the other way, 

“It’s too early to go to bed, I won’t be able to fall asleep,” or 

“I know it’s lunchtime, but it’s too early, I’m not hungry 

yet.” 

If you have a dog, you know their internal clocks are 

always as exact as an atomic clock, right down to the second. 

They know exactly when they eat, go for walks, and 

get their treats and cookies. Don’t even think of changing 

it or be prepared for an impatient “Come on, Pops, get with 

the program” stare down they always win that leaves you 

with a guilt complex. Even they know changing the clocks 

makes no sense. 

The public outcry ensues and grows to a crescendo each 

year when the clocks get turned forward and we lose an 

hour of sleep. The politicians hear their voter base loud 

and clear and jump into action at the state and federal 

level to address the outrage. Relentless legislative efforts 

across the country result in multiple bills to make Daylight 

Savings Time permanent. It seems like all agree, the exasperating 

clock changing routine must stop. Bills get quickly 

passed by one branch of state or federal congress then 

die just as quickly in the other branch as they become 

stuck in the quagmire of committees. More than half the 

states currently have bills still pending. The annual cycle 

completes as unpassed bills end up sitting in limbo. Public 

outcry slowly wanes only to reappear when we play with 

the time again. 

I’ve read many of the pros and cons that are always 

rehashed every year surrounding the topic of continuing to 

change the time twice a year, or just making Daylight 

Savings Time permanent. Most arguments include aspects 

of safety, health, the economy, productivity, cost, energy, 

and longer evenings. 

From my perspective, we revolve around the sun, but 

our daily lives revolve around our clocks and when you 

mess around with those clocks, our spinning rotation gets 

off kilter for days each time. Just make Daylight Savings 

Time permanent and leave the clocks alone. I’ll even stop 

complaining about my neighbor mowing his grass as the 

summer sun goes down after 9 p.m. 

Dave Burton is a guest columnist for the Columbus 

Messenger Newspapers. He lives in Grove City.

City attorney shuts down two westside problem properties 

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Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein 

announced that the city of Columbus took 

legal action against two westside drug 

houses known for narcotics sales and violent 

crime. Columbus police boarded up the 

property located at 351 Dakota Ave. in 

Franklinton after more than a year of complaints 

from neighbors and repeated narcotics 

sales and violence. 

“Westside residents are stepping up to 

alert the city of violence and drug activity 

in their neighborhoods, and we’re doing 

everything we can to respond to their calls 

for action by cracking down on criminal 

behavior, disrupting the flow of narcotics 

into our streets, and shutting down problem 

properties that threaten public safety,” 

said Klein. 

According to court documents, the 

Dakota Avenue property came to the attention 

of CPD in 2022, when neighbors began 

making complaints of drug dealing at the 

premises. 

In August 2022, CPD received a call 

regarding a shooting at the premises. One 

witness described as many as 60 shots fired 

in the area, and when CPD arrived on 

scene, they found three individuals that 

had been shot. All were transported to 

Grant Hospital. Later that month, CPD 

detectives made several controlled purchases 

of crack cocaine and heroin at the 

premises. CPD then obtained and executed 

a search warrant at the property, where 

they recovered crack cocaine, miscellaneous 

pills, ammunition and cash. 

In October, officers were dispatched to 

the premises on report of a robbery where 

the suspect grabbed the victim’s purse, 

seized her firearm, hit her over the head 

with it, then pointed the weapon at the victim 

and demanded money. In December, 

CPD began receiving more calls from 

neighbors that the “drug house (at 351 

Dakota Ave.) is back in business,” and in 

January of 2023, CPD detectives made yet 

another controlled purchase of narcotics at 

the premises. 

Klein announced that the city also 

secured a court order on a Westgate property 

located at 25 S. Sylvan Ave., which 

over the past year has come on CPD’s radar 

as a known drug house. In early February 

2023, CPD detectives made a controlled 

purchase of fentanyl from a male inside the 

residence. 

In recent weeks, the city has worked 

with the property owner to remove occupants 

from the premises and secure access 

against any use other than temporary 

access by the owner and the owner’s 

designees during daylight hours to prepare 

Prairie program honors military members 

the property for sale. 

“When violence, drugs, and criminal 

activity threaten the safety and security of 

our neighborhoods, the city is ready to step 

in and work with owners to fix the problem 

or take the necessary action to shut down 

these problem properties,” said Assistant 

City Attorney Zach Gwin. “When residents, 

law enforcement, and the city work together, 

we reduce crime and strengthen our 

neighborhoods.” 

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The Military Hometown Heroes of 

Prairie Township Banner Program is back 

this year. 

This program is a living tribute created 

for the community to recognize and honor 

Prairie Township residents and graduates 

of Westland High School who are serving, 

or are veterans who have served our country 

in the United States Armed Forces. 

Each banner will be in honor of a specific 

Prairie Township service person and will 

include their name, branch of service and 

photo (if provided). Each banner will be 

displayed on a street lamp on West Broad 

Street, from Memorial Day through 

Veterans Day to both celebrate and remind 

the community of their dedication to our 

country. 

The banners measure approximately 60 

inches by 24 inches with three inch pockets 

on top and bottom. Banner types are: 

• Active Duty - designated with a Blue 

community events 

Star 

• White Star Veteran - Honorably discharged 

will be designated with a White 

Star. 

• Gold Star Memorial - Those who have 

died in the line of duty will be designated 

with a Gold Star. 

Prairie Township covers the cost of production, 

installation, and removal of the 

banner. 

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form and the release statement at 

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Applications must be received by April 

1. 

Applications will be reviewed on a firstcome, 

first-served basis. The applicant will 

be notified of when the banner will be 

install honoring the military service person 

or veteran. 

Concert features songs 

from around the world 

The Grove City Chamber Singers will 

perform their spring concert “Passport of 

Music,” a presentation of songs from 

around the world, on Sunday March 26. 

Music from England, Scotland, Venezuela, 

Norway, Germany, and the U.S. are among 

the countries represented. The venue for 

the concert is the Grove City United 

Methodist Church, 2684 Columbus St. The 

doors open at 3 p.m. with the concert starting 

at 3:30 p.m. The concert is free. For 

more information, visit www.gcchambersingers.wixsite.com/gcchambersingers. 

Reading with Rover 

The Westland Area Library will host a 

Reading with Rover program at 10:30 a.m. 

March 14 at 4740 West Broad St. in 

Columbus. This event will feature multiple 

dogs for children to interact with while 

they sing, dance, and celebrate the impact 

that animals have on our lives. No registration 

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March 1. House Bill 23, the transportation 

budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 biennium, 

passed overwhelming and in bipartisan fashion. 

A huge jobs-producing initiative, HB23 combines 

dollars from the state gasoline tax and the Federal 

Infrastructure Act of 2022 to fund important 

transportation projects throughout the state. 

Key components of the legislation include: 

--Funding $2.2 billion for pavement, $717 million 

for bridges, $360 million for dedicated safety upgrades, 

and $1.5 billion for large, capacity adding 

projects such as reconfiguring urban interstates. 

--$1 billion to create the Rural Highway Fund on 

projects to help reduce commute times to employment 

centers. 

--Funding the Brent Spence Corridor project that 

reinforces the critical role Ohio plays in the nation’s 

supply chain. This Ohio River bridge in 

Cincinnati carries roughly $700 billion of freight 

every year, roughly 3% of America’s gross domestic 

product. 

--Requiring the Public Utilities Commission 

(PUCO) and the Environmental Protection 

Agency to create and submit a report to the General 

Assembly within 90 days of the bill’s effective 

date on the transportation of hazardous materials 

and waste in the state. 

--Requiring that a train must have a two-person 

crew related solely for safety. 

--Allowing political subdivisions with a population 

of over 300,000 residents to establish their 

own standards when constructing bike lanes on 

public streets and allows for the construction of 

bike lanes in the center lane of a street or highway. 

--Clarifying that the prohibition of counties and 

townships using traffic cameras applies only to 

enforcement of red light or speeding violations 

and not the detection and enforcement of criminal 

offenses. 

--Reducing the registration fee for a plug-in hybrid 

vehicle from $200 to $100 effective January 

1, 2024. 

The legislation now moves to the Ohio Senate for 

further consideration and deliberations. 

In addition, I am co-sponsoring HB12 to reorganize 

the State Department of Education. If passed, 

the measure will place most of the functions of 

the Education Department into the Governor’s 

cabinet, allowing for more accountability and a 

streamlining of operations. The current State 

Board of Education has proven ineffective at handling 

any issues of importance. (For example, it 

hasn’t been able to agree on the hiring of a Superintendent 

for over a year.) Its new functions 

would revolve around educator licensure, similar 

to those of other state professional boards. 

(Dave Dobos represents the 10th District in the 

Ohio House of Representatives, which consists of 

parts of West, Southwest, and South Columbus, 

Grove City, and Urbancrest. He reports regularly 

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The American Pickers will return to 

Ohio. They plan to film episodes of The 

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throughout the area in April. 

American Pickers is a documentary 

series that explores the fascinating world 

of antique “picking.” The show follows 

skilled pickers in the business, as they 

hunt for America’s most valuable antiques. 

They are always excited to find sizeable, 

unique collections and learn the interesting 

stories behind them. As they hit the 

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are on a mission to recycle and rescue forgotten 

relics. 

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with remarkable and exceptional 

items. They hope to give historically significant 

objects a new lease on life while 

learning a thing or two about America’s 

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of antiques that the Pickers can spend 

the better part of the day looking through 

the show would like to hear from you. The 

Pickers do not pick stores, flea markets, 

malls, auction businesses, museums, or 

anything open to the public. 

If interested, send your information and 

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Shelter Foundation to award 

scholarship to FHHS student 

This spring, the Shelter Insurance 

Foundation will award a $1,500 scholarship 

to a graduate of Franklin Heights 

High School. 

A committee of local high school officials 

and community leaders will select the 

local recipient. The committee will consider 

each applicant’s scholastic achievements, 

educational goals, citizenship, 

moral character, and participation and 

leadership in school and community activities. 

The student may apply the scholarship 

funds toward tuition, fees, or campus 

housing for any course of study beginning 

the fall after the recipient’s high school 

graduation and leading to an academic 

degree at any accredited college or university. 

Applications should be completed and 

returned to the school official serving on 

the selection committee by March 31. For 

more information, contact Katie Emswiler, 

licensed school counselor at 614-801-3247 

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Breakfast at the Lodge to benefit Special Olympics 

The West Gate Masonic Lodge #623 is preparing breakfast 

once a month to benefit the Special Olympics. The public is invited 

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In Entertainment 

It has been quite a while since I have 

been to a movie screening in which several 

people walked out of the theater mid-way 

through its run time, but that happened a 

handful of times at a recent viewing much 

to my amusement. 

Like millions of people throughout the 

world — and I am assuming like the ones 

who walked out of the aforementioned 

screening — I was intrigued by “Cocaine 

Bear” based on its title alone: there is a 

bear and it does cocaine. Intrigued piqued. 

But what really solidified my interest in 

wanting to go out and see this movie was 

the bonkers trailers that showcased the 

high on drugs bear simultaneously dancing 

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through the idyllic woods and prowling 

through the forest in the search of victims 

and more cocaine. 

To me, this was a film that told you 

right off the bat what it was going to be, so 

I just assumed that everyone who took time 

out of their day or night to go see this movie 

would have embraced its spirit of stupidity 

as well. Alas, I saw a handful of walkouts 

and heard grumblings throughout the 

screening about how terrible it was and 

how much they wished they had chosen to 

watch something else. 

I admit that my taste in movies can be a 

bit out there from time to time, but overall 

I believe I am a decent judge of films, or at 

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least good dumb films. And I am here to tell 

you that while “Cocaine Bear” is most certainly 

a dumb film, there is also a level of 

quality entertainment underneath all of 

the silliness and stupidity and surprisingly 

excessive amounts of gore. To be sure, this 

is not a film that will be for everyone, obviously, 

but I swear that if you can turn your 

brain off and fully embrace the sheer 

ridiculousness that this movie has to offer, 

it will turn out to be a stupidly good time at 

the theater. 

It might come as a shock to learn that 

“Cocaine Bear” is based upon real-live 

events. Now, it should be noted that a 

plethora of creative liberties have been 

taken in service of fleshing out this story 

but it really is based upon a true story 

nonetheless. With that said, it is important 

for your possible viewing experience to take 

this as a “Drunk History” version of events 

as it will create a potential better experience 

if and when you decide you have to see 

this movie. 

Written by Jimmy Warden and directed 

by Elizabeth Banks, “Cocaine Bear” is an 

alternate take on an infamous drug smuggling 

case that took place more than three 

decades ago. It was in 1985 when an exnarcotics 

officer by the name of Andrew C. 

Thornton II threw kilos of cocaine off of a 

plane and into the Chattahoochee National 

Forest in northern Georgia. The intention, 

it was believed, was for him to retrieve the 

loot when he safely landed nearby but 

something happened and his parachute 

failed to open and he was found dead on the 

driveway of a suburban home several hundred 

miles away. Although it was rumored 

that not all of the stash was recovered, several 

hundred pounds of the substance was 

found in the belly of a deceased black bear 

(rest in peace, sweet bear who was minding 

its own business), thus becoming the infamous 

cocaine bear case and the basis for 

this original movie. 

Working in tandem to make this more of 

an ode to the classic crazy critter slashers 

of the 1970s and 1980s, Warden and Banks 

envision a what-if look at what might happen 

had, say, the bear not died immediately 

and then went on a rampage of terror 

through the woods to hunt for people who 

might have more cocaine. Although the 

bear is a true star of the film, it is the 

humans who are on the potential kill list 

who make this cautionary tale all the more 

enjoyable. 

There is not a central human character 

or human story to this film, but it could be 

argued that it revolves around a single 

mother who is looking for her wayward 

child. Played by the greatly unappreciated 

Keri Russell, Sari has run afoul of her 13- 

year-old daughter DeeDee (Brooklynn 

Prince) when she breaks another one of 

their planned day-vacations in order to 

spend time with her new love interest. 

As a way to kinda-sorta get back at her, 

DeeDee and her friend Henry (Christian 


Embrace the sheer stupidity of “Cocaine Bear” 



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The Reel Deal 

Dedra Cordle 

Convery) skip school 

in order to trek 

through the 

Chattahoochee National 

Forest to visit 

a special place 

where she can paint 

in peace. Of course, on the way to this 

beautiful place, they stumble upon a coked 

out bear who does not want them in its 

beautiful place. 

Upon realizing that her daughter is 

missing, Sari enlists the help of a park 

ranger (Margo Martindale, having a great 

time), and an animal-rights activist (Jesse 

Tyler Ferguson, also having a great time) 

to find her daughter. She quickly discovers 

via DeeDee’s scared-out-of-his-mind friend 

that her daughter has been captured by the 

bear and is apparently being held for either 

ransom or as a snack. It’s not quite clear 

but you just have to go with it. 

In addition to the child in peril element, 

the film also tells the story of a trio of drug 

smugglers who are kind of meant to be the 

comic relief in a largely comedic movie. 

Although all of the smugglers get their 

time to shine, this element of the film centers 

around a grieving widower named 

Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich) who is pulled 

back into the dangerous game when all he 

wants to do is cry over the death of his wife. 

Naturally, all of these characters converge 

in the woods — most of whom never make it 

back out thanks to a cocaine bear who was 

just minding its own business before it 

quickly became addicted to drugs — and the 

hunt for more. 

When watching this movie, it is important 

to remember that it is meant to be stupid 

and silly; if you fail to remember that, 

it won’t be quite as enjoyable and you will 

find yourself walking out of the theater, 

asking for your money back. But if you can 

hold onto that tip throughout the absurdity, 

you might find that this film that is so 

riddled with silly scenes, dry humor, and 

an excess surplus of gore and violence in 

between, could be the best time you have at 

the movies all year. (I’m holding out hope 

for “Barbie”, but I feel it will be in close 

competition to this campy killer critter fiesta.) 

Grade: B+ 

Dedra Cordle is a Messenger staff writer 

and columnist. 

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