Red Bank Cemetery Workshop June 1; registration deadline tomorrow

Misti Spill­man, an Ameri­Corps mem­ber at the Ohio His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety, is offer­ing a Begin­ners Ceme­tery Restora­tion Work­shop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, June 1, at Red Bank Ceme­tery in Genoa Town­ship. Spill­man has a back­ground in research­ing and restor­ing ceme­ter­ies, and has also cre­ated a ceme­tery tool kit as a guide for peo­ple who want to restore cemeteries.

Drummey says School District at levy tipping point

Dur­ing Mon­day evening’s Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, dis­trict trea­surer Feli­cia Drum­mey said dis­trict rev­enue for the cur­rent fis­cal year is on track to be 2 per­cent higher than projected

“Income tax is also run­ning well above pro­jec­tions,” Drum­mey said. “I antic­i­pated a 5 per­cent income tax increase, it’s run­ning at 8 per­cent, gen­er­at­ing $441,000 more for the year than we antic­i­pated — evi­dence that the econ­omy is com­ing back.”

Drum­mey also noted that dis­trict expen­di­tures are on track with pro­jec­tions, and for the fis­cal year should be one per­cent less than projected.

In pre­sent­ing the May five-year fore­cast, Drum­mey said that doc­u­ment is the first mea­sure of the district’s fis­cal health – how rev­enue com­ing in com­pares to rev­enue going out.

Fujii: Relevance makes rigor possible at BWHS

Dur­ing Mon­day evening’s Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, Big Wal­nut High School Prin­ci­pal Steve Fujii quoted edu­ca­tion guru Bill Daggett, who said: Rel­e­vance makes rigor possible.

Fujii was speak­ing about Big Wal­nut teach­ers like Alan Frank that take on projects where stu­dents cre­ate a prod­uct or design solu­tion for an out­side client that’s used in the real world.

The idea being that stu­dents who roll up their sleeves and pro­duce some­thing for a client that will then be used out­side of the school engages student’s atten­tion more than if they were cre­at­ing a pre­tend solu­tion to a pre­tend prob­lem that will never see the light of day.

BW Leo Club inducts 12 new members

Leo Clubs are a youth ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion of Lions Clubs Inter­na­tional. In June of 2000, for­mer Big Wal­nut High School teacher Mark Matthews formed the Big Wal­nut Leo Club. Since then the Big Wal­nut Leo Club had been one of the high school’s sta­ple extra-curricular activ­i­ties until bud­get con­straints elim­i­nated most 2010-11 school year club advi­sor funding.

Big Wal­nut High School Span­ish lan­guage teacher and Leo Club advi­sor Dora Riggs was instru­men­tal in suc­cess­fully res­ur­rect­ing the high school’s Leo Club fol­low­ing its full year hia­tus. Last school year when the Leo Club was rein­stated 32 high school stu­dent were inducted into the Big Wal­nut Leo Club; and last Thurs­day evening another dozen stu­dents were inducted into the school’s Leo Club ranks.

SUMC gearing up for 26th Annual Memorial Day Yard Sale

The Sun­bury United Methodist Church (SUMC) will host its 26th annual Memo­r­ial Day Yard Sale from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mon­day, May 27 at 100 West Cherry Street. This annual event, which is held in con­junc­tion with the Memo­r­ial Day Flea Mar­ket on the Sun­bury square, attracts peo­ple from all over cen­tral Ohio. Park­ing is free, and there will be great deals on fur­ni­ture, tools, toys, house­hold goods, antiques and more, all donated by church members.

Sunbury, Galena Memorial Day ceremonies on horizon

In 2000 Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton issued a for­mal White House Mem­o­ran­dum ask­ing all Amer­i­cans to pause and con­sider the true mean­ing of Memo­r­ial Day.

“Memo­r­ial Day rep­re­sents one day of national aware­ness and rev­er­ence, hon­or­ing those Amer­i­cans who died while defend­ing our Nation and its val­ues,” Pres­i­dent Clin­ton wrote. “While we should honor these heroes every day for the pro­found con­tri­bu­tion they have made to secur­ing our Nation’s free­dom, we should honor them espe­cially on Memo­r­ial Day.”

Clin­ton went on to ask all Amer­i­cans to come together to rec­og­nize how for­tu­nate we are to live in free­dom and pros­per­ity and to observe a uni­ver­sal National Moment of Remem­brance on each Memo­r­ial Day.

“This memo­r­ial obser­vance rep­re­sents a sim­ple and uni­fy­ing way to com­mem­o­rate our his­tory and honor the strug­gle to pro­tect our free­doms,” Clin­ton said.

On Mon­day, May 27, the Vil­lage of Sun­bury will usher in the sum­mer sea­son with its tra­di­tional Memo­r­ial Day obser­vance, one of the village’s annual anchor events. The day comes com­plete with a cer­e­mony hon­or­ing those who have served in the mil­i­tary ser­vices and who fought and died defend­ing free­dom both at home and abroad.

Kate Petty no-hits Wildcats; posts 10-2 complete game victory over Cardinals

Fresh­man Kate Petty had a day that most pitch­ers only dream about.

Petty threw two com­plete games, includ­ing a first-game no-hitter against West­er­ville South, in Big Walnut’s 4–0, 10–2 sweep of the Wild­cats and Thomas Wor­thing­ton Sat­ur­day in front of the home­town fans Sat­ur­day in Sunbury.

Petty was in com­plete com­mand against South with her first no-hitter, a per­for­mance that saw the fresh­man righthander issue only one base on balls while strik­ing out three. She was sup­ported in the field by an error­less defense.

“Kate was in com­plete con­trol against a good West­er­ville South team,” Golden Eagle assis­tant coach Tim Rioux said. “As a team, we had a really good weekend.”

Big Walnut edges Orange in 6-5 nailbiter

The Golden Eagles took this one down to the wire …

Big Wal­nut, after watch­ing a 4–2 lead slip away in the top of the sev­enth inning, ral­lied for two runs in the bot­tom of the inning to stun Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion leader Olen­tangy Orange in a 6–5 thriller last Wednes­day (May 1) in Sunbury.

“Our kids were excited to play through­out the game … they came in ready to play and I think that was evi­dent the way they responded in the bot­tom of the sev­enth,” Golden Eagle head coach Chris Holly said. “We made the most of our scor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties with some clutch hit­ting, we made some big plays in the field behind Cole Harbin who pitched one of his best games of the sea­son … this was a big win for us going into the upcom­ing postseason.”