South & Canal Winchester Messenger - June 16th, 2024

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Bus driver honored for life saving actions
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Messenger photo by Linda Dillman
Madison Township Fire Chief Derek Robinson (left) and
the Madison Township trustees honored Groveport
Madison Local Schools bus driver La Shonna Tanyhill
(right) for her life saving efforts in evacuating a bus full of
middle schoolers during a school bus fire on May 9 on
Pontius Road.
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The swift, life-saving
actions of Groveport
Madison school bus driver
La Shonna Tanyhill in May
were honored by the
Madison Township Fire
Department at the Madison
Township trustees’ May 28
meeting.
“On May 9, she (Tanyhill)
was driving her normal
route with 28 students,”
said Madison Township Fire
Chief Derek Robinson, who
added everyone on the bus
first noticed a smell before a
noise and then the driver
felt the bus handle differently.
“She pulled over to the
side of the road. A passerby
stopped and said she saw
possible smoke and flames
coming from the bus. She
(Tanyhill) got them (Middle
School Central students) off
the bus and into a safe
zone.”
Robinson said his department
got a call about the situation
at 3:14 p.m. and
arrived on scene five minutes
later. The school bus was completely
engulfed in flames when firefighters
arrived.
“Because of her swift actions, everyone
was safe,” said Robinson. “What she did
was an incredible feat to protect those children.”
Other Madison Township news
•Madison Township Police Chief Gary
York discussed a $155,536 Violent Crime
Reduction Grant from the Ohio Criminal
Justice Service to purchase five Flock license
plate reader cameras for the township. The
cameras can alert officers to stolen vehicles
or a suspect in a violent crime.
Grant funding will also be used to purchase
a mobile surveillance trailer–which is
equipped with remote cameras, strobes, flood
lights, motion sensors, and speakers–used
to monitor areas throughout the township.
The township was the only agency in the
county to receive the funding, which was
the second highest awarded in the state.
“The grant was specifically for Flock
cameras and the surveillance trailer to
help reduce crime,” said York. “This is very
exciting. They do act as the gatekeepers of
our community and a deterrent to crime.
We’ll be able to move that to residential
and commercial areas and even (sports)
games.”
Trustee Chairperson Katherine Chipps
said, “I think this will be very helpful.”
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June 16, 2024 - SOUTH & CANAL WINCHESTER MESSENGER - PAGE 11
Story of a Bill, Part IV
and Update on Getting
President Biden on the
November Ballot
In previous communications with you, I have
chronicled the journey of House Bill 364, a measure
to allow the noncommercial distribution of
milkweed seeds to promote monarch butterfly
population growth, in its quest to be enacted
into law. You may recall that the bill was referred
to the House Agriculture Committee. Sponsor
testimony, proponent testimony, and opponent
testimony (of which there was none) was completed
across two committee meetings.
The measure was scheduled for a committee
vote on May 6. Unfortunately, that vote was delayed
due to a reorganization of the leadership
of the committee. Don Jones, from Freeport in
Harrison County, now serves as chair. He
rescheduled the vote for May 20. It passed
through the committee unanimously, 11 to 0.
The bill is scheduled for a vote by the entire
House on June 12. I will explain the measure to
my Republican colleagues at our issues caucus
the day prior, then will advocate for it on the
House floor at Session before the vote. I am
hopeful for a positive vote at that time. Assuming
success, the bill then proceeds to the Senate
for its consideration.
As I wrote in my last column, I sponsored House
Bill 2, a simple four-sentence, 26-line proposal to
change the deadline for a major political party to
name its presidential and vice presidential candidates
to 65 days from 90 in 2024 during the
Legislature’s Special Session called by Governor
DeWine the week after Memorial Day. In the
compressed timeframe, I filed the bill with the
House Clerk’s Office on Tuesday morning that
week at 8:00. At 10:00, I attended the meeting of
the House Government Oversight Committee to
provide sponsor testimony. The next day I was
appointed to fill a temporary vacancy on the
committee and was seated in time to hear proponent
and opponent testimony. We voted it
out of committee unanimously the following
morning. It passed the House 63 to 31 later that
day, with majorities from both parties voting in
favor of it. The Senate then passed it 30 to 1 on
Friday and the Governor signed it on Sunday,
June 2.
A few days later, I was invited to the Governor’s
Office for the ceremonial signing of the bill.
There Governor DeWine thanked me for sponsoring
the bill that essentially assures that President
Biden will appear on our November
election ballot. He provided me a framed copy
of the bill with the signatures of House Speaker
Jason Stephens, Senate President Matt Huffman,
and the Governor, along with the actual pen with
which he signed it.
(Dave Dobos represents the 10th District in the
Ohio House of Representatives, which consists of
parts of West, Southwest, and South Columbus,
Grove City, Urbancrest, and portions of Franklin
and Jackson Townships. He reports regularly on his
activities in this position and his campaign has paid
for this communication with you.)
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