Westerville Area Chamber announces ‘Taste of Westerville’ award winners

The 10th Annual West­er­ville Area Cham­ber “Taste of West­er­ville’ event was held on Fri­day, April 19, at The Lakes Golf and Coun­try Club to a sold out crowd of just over 300.

While at the Taste of West­er­ville, local busi­ness own­ers, com­mu­nity lead­ers and West­er­ville res­i­dents sam­pled deli­cious dishes from local food providers such as steak skew­ers, shrimp and grits, crab cakes and coconut chicken pot stick­ers. Food sam­ples were com­ple­mented with red or white wines from around the world, mixed drinks and beer.

Dominion Homes’ gets nod to proceed at Sunbury Meadows

Steve Peck with Domin­ion Homes was in cham­bers dur­ing last Wednesday’s Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing to ask coun­cil mem­bers to approve Sun­bury Mead­ows Sec­tions 5 A and B with a sus­pen­sion of the rules and emer­gency lan­guage to allow the devel­oper to pro­ceed with lay­ing out the two section’s infrastructure.

“The two sec­tions con­tain 53 lots; West­port Homes will buy some of the lots,” Peck said, adding that the com­ple­tion of the two sec­tions would loop some streets in the sub­di­vi­sion that now end in stubs.

Peck also noted that Dominion’s con­struc­tion activ­ity is increasing.

Town Hall roof out to bid

Dur­ing last Wednesday’s Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing vil­lage con­sult­ing engi­neer Wes Hall, CT Con­sul­tants, said the town hall roof project is going out for a three-week bid process. Hall said the bid open­ing to deter­mine the low­est and best bid would be held at 12 noon on Wednes­day, May 24.

Sun­bury Town Hall has needed a new roof for some time. There have been leaks in coun­cil cham­bers, the metal roof is cor­roded and break­ing apart around the perime­ter, the painted coat­ing is fail­ing, and nails are pulling out.

Late last year Hall brought in Dan Bon­ham from his office to inspect the inte­rior and exte­rior of the roof to deter­mine its exact con­di­tion, and the nature of needed repairs when the roof is replaced.

Post 457 Community Service Awards presented to Donna, Glenn Evans


Amer­i­can Legion Colonel Ben­son Hough Post 457 recently announced the 2013 recip­i­ents for the post’s Com­mu­nity Ser­vice Awards. The indi­vid­ual award went to Donna and Glenn Evans of Sunbury.

“This ded­i­cated cou­ple have given hun­dreds of hours serv­ing the com­mu­nity in youth activ­i­ties as well as any other event that takes place in the schools, their church or in the Vil­lage,” said Post 457 Com­man­der Roy Terry. “Over the last 35 years I have never attended a local func­tion that Donna and Glenn were not involved in, either directly or behind the scenes.” 


Sunbury holds Arbor Day ceremony on Square

The Vil­lage of Sun­bury recently held its annual Arbor Day cel­e­bra­tion as part of the community’s require­ments for main­tain­ing Tree City USA sta­tus with the Arbor Day Foundation.

Com­mu­ni­ties achieve Tree City USA sta­tus by meet­ing four core stan­dards of sound urban forestry man­age­ment: main­tain­ing a tree board or depart­ment, hav­ing a com­mu­nity tree ordi­nance, spend­ing at least $2 per capita on urban forestry and cel­e­brat­ing Arbor Day.

Tree City USA is a large and grow­ing fra­ter­nity of 3,400 com­mu­ni­ties; over 135 mil­lion peo­ple live in a Tree City USA community.

Sun­bury attained Tree City USA sta­tus five years ago and each year as part of its Tree City USA require­ment held a brief tree plant­ing cer­e­mony. This year mem­bers of the Vil­lage of Sun­bury Tree & Land­scape Com­mis­sion decided to place tree iden­ti­fi­ca­tion mark­ers next to 20 pre-selected trees on vil­lage square in lieu of tree plant­ing as an Arbor Day requirement.

SUMC’s Pastor Brian retiring after serving 36 1/2 years

When a suc­cess­ful fellowship’s pas­tor has been active both in the church and the com­mu­nity for many years, it’s dif­fi­cult to imag­ine that fel­low­ship and the com­mu­nity with his or her lead­er­ship. They’re anchors, they’re rocks, they’re the go-to per­son parish­ioners and even many unaf­fil­i­ated com­mu­nity mem­bers seek out when they have a need.

But even pas­tors, min­is­ters and priests retire and move on to per­sonal pur­suits, and that’s what Sun­bury United Methodist Church Pas­tor Brian Smith is doing. He’s retir­ing after being a Methodist Pas­tor for the past 36½ years; his last day in the SUMC pul­pit will be on June 16 — Father’s Day.

Big Walnut girls take ninth Brooke Relay title

It was another dom­i­nant per­for­mance by the Golden Eagles’ girls track and field team.

Big Wal­nut, on the strength of four first-place fin­ishes and two meet records, scored a 20-point mar­gin of vic­tory in win­ning its ninth Brooke Relays cham­pi­onship in 11 appear­ances last Sat­ur­day in Wells­burg, West Virginia.

Yellow Jackets’ sting Big Walnut, 8-1; Duncan hurls Golden Eagles to 2-0 win over Watkins

MOUNT VERNON — The Big Wal­nut base­ball team’s come-from-behind win over Mount Ver­non last Mon­day (April 22) seemed to be exactly what the Golden Eagles needed.

Three days later, and against the same oppo­nent, the tide had turned considerably.

Mount Ver­non starter Jay­ben Mar­tin held Big Wal­nut to just three hits and the host Yel­low Jack­ets scored in every inning but one, fin­ish­ing the day with an 8–1 Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal vic­tory over the Golden Eagles Thurs­day at Mount Ver­non High School.