BW shines at OCC Capital track championships

Big Wal­nut posted a pair of top-three fin­ishes behind New Albany in last week’s Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion boys and girls track and field cham­pi­onships held at Hilliard Bradley High School.

Joe Evener’s Golden Eagle girls squad placed sec­ond with 124 1/2 points behind New Albany’s 153 points while Eric Myers’ Golden Eagle boys placed third with 81 points behind New Albany’s 182 points. Watkins Memo­r­ial was sec­ond with 173 points.

Big Walnut’s girls cap­tured three Cap­i­tal Divi­sion cham­pi­onships. Olivia Small won the long jump title with a jump of 17 feet, 8 1/2 inches while Jamie Annis claimed the 100-meter high hur­dles crown with a time of 0:15.11 sec­onds. The quar­tet of Kris­ten Carty, Jamie Annis, Small and Leah Thomas broke the school record with a time of 0:49.35 sec­onds in win­ning the 4x100 relay.

Granville aces BW 1-0 in 8-inning DII District softball nailbiter

PICKERINGTON — In a clas­sic pitch­ing dual, Granville’s Abby Barker out dueled Big Walnut’s Kate Petty in a 1–0 Divi­sion II Cen­tral Dis­trict Tour­na­ment Semi­fi­nal matchup between the fourth-seeded Blue Aces and fifth-seeded Golden Eagles Mon­day after­noon at Pick­er­ing­ton Cen­tral High School.

Granville (21–6) scored the win­ning run in the bot­tom of the eighth to end the stand­off between Barker and Petty. With one out, the Blue Aces loaded the bases on a Mala Peter­son sin­gle down the left field line, a walk on a 3–2 count to Vega Throphilvs and a throw­ing error on Anna Moorhead’s sac­ri­fice bunt attempt. On Petty’s first pitch to Sil­via Simon, Simon dropped a sin­gle into short left-center to bring Peter­son home with the win­ning tally.

“It was a tough loss,” Big Wal­nut head coach Jeff Hat­field said. “Kate pitched a gem, but we could not get any­thing going against Barker who matched Kate pitch for pitch … it was a tough game to lose.”

DeSales sidelines Golden Eagles, 3-2 in DII District baseball semfinais

Big Wal­nut ral­lied late, plat­ing a pair of runs in the final three innings, but the Golden Eagle come­back came up a run short as St. Fran­cis DeSales held on for a 3–2 Divi­sion II Cen­tral Dis­trict semi­fi­nal win Mon­day after­noon at Hamil­ton Town­ship High School.

The 11th-seeded Stal­lions (14–16) opened the scor­ing with a run in the third and another in the fourth to take a 2–0 lead into the game’s later stages.

Adult Summer Reading Program; Dig Into Reading

For those of you who were won­der­ing, there will be a read­ing pro­gram for adults once again this year and it will start on June 10. In this year’s Com­mu­nity Library’s Adult Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram you can be cer­tain you will get a prize for read­ing; just read the required amount to reach 20 points and […]

Children’s Summer Reading Club

Com­mu­nity Library’s Children’s Sum­mer Read­ing Club will run June 8 through August 3 and is designed for kids ages 0 to 11. This year’s theme is “Dig into Read­ing”. Par­tic­i­pat­ing chil­dren read (or lis­ten) to earn library bucks (up to a max­i­mum of 10 library bucks). Chil­dren will have the option of redeem­ing their bucks […]

Council for Older Adults at Community Library to Answer Questions

The Coun­cil for Older Adults Van will be parked in Com­mu­nity Library’s park­ing lot on Tues­day, June 5, from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Vol­un­teers will be there to explain ser­vices and answer ques­tions of any­one who might stop by.

BWHS National Honor Society grows to 58

Each school year, in front of an audi­ence of fam­ily, friends and school dis­trict staff mem­bers, Big Wal­nut High School stu­dents hold an impres­sive National Honor Soci­ety Induc­tion Cer­e­mony; and even more impres­sive were the num­bers of new Big Wal­nut juniors and seniors inducted dur­ing this years Thurs­day, May 9, NHS Induc­tion Cer­e­mony — 58 new mem­bers were added to Big Walnut’s NHS chapter.

Dur­ing his remarks Big wal­nut High School Prin­ci­pal Steve Fujii chal­lenged the inductees to par­tic­i­pate in mankind’s next leap forward.

“Your achieve­ments in the realms of Schol­ar­ship, Lead­er­ship, Com­mu­nity Ser­vice and Char­ac­ter are being hon­ored here tonight by your induc­tion into this pres­ti­gious soci­ety,” Fujii said. “An honor such as this is a won­der­ful way for the school and com­mu­nity to rec­og­nize and cel­e­brate the choices, and some­times the sac­ri­fices, you have made.

“But I believe that what should make you and your par­ents the most proud is not the actual honor itself, but what you had to do to get it,” Fujii added. “As Ralph Waldo Emer­son said ‘The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.’ Any recog­ni­tion is just the icing on the cake, not to be expected but def­i­nitely to be enjoyed … tonight’s induc­tion is the reward of sev­eral things done well. Your char­ac­ter makes me believe you are capa­ble of the sec­ond great leap for mankind.”

BWHS Drama Awards 2013; Way better than the Oscars, way …

The Oscars? Who needs the stink­ing Oscars when Big Wal­nut High School has its very own 2013 Drama Awards, com­plete with a ban­quet and cos­tumes rang­ing from haut cou­ture (really, really nice), to flam­boy­ant (really, really strange), to casual (hey, we got here after the game, right)?

And, as an added ben­e­fit, Big Walnut’s drama enthu­si­asts are a whole­some crowd who enjoy their craft, not like Hollywood’s play­boys and play­girls who are in it for the money and who seem to be in the news more often for unsa­vory behav­ior than Oscar-winning performances.

Last Thurs­day evening, Big Wal­nut High School Drama Coach Erin Gib­bons, mem­bers of the high school’s 2012–13 drama sea­son casts and crews, par­ents and friends, gath­ered at the high school cafe­te­ria for a pot-luck ban­quet, fol­lowed by an awards cer­e­mony in the auditorium.