Genoa officer assaulted last Thursday morning

At 5:20 a.m. last Thurs­day Genoa Town­ship Police Lieut. Greg Yurkovich approached two sus­pi­cious indi­vid­u­als with a work van at the Red Bank Har­bor area when the two men assaulted him. Lieut. Yurkovich was able to acti­vate his radio’s emer­gency but­ton before the men began drag­ging him towards a wooded area.

An emer­gency but­ton alerts dis­patch­ers to send all avail­able offi­cers in the area to pro­vide assis­tance. A police source said approach­ing sirens might have pre­vented the assailants from doing fur­ther harm to Yurkovich, who was unre­spon­sive when offi­cers arrived at the scene.

After Yurkovich was released from Grant Med­ical Cen­ter Fri­day after­noon Genoa Town­ship Police Chief Robert Tay­lor issued a press release stat­ing that due to infor­ma­tion and tips that the Genoa Town­ship Police Depart­ment and Delaware County Sheriff’s office have received from the pub­lic, a task force was being assem­bled to inves­ti­gate the assault.

15th Sunbury/Big Walnut Chamber Expo draws crowd

Last Thurs­day evening’s Sunbury/Big Wal­nut Area Cham­ber of Com­merce 15th Annual Expo, Busi­ness, Health, Civic & School Show­case — Liv­ing, Learn­ing & Work­ing in the Big Wal­nut Area, drew a healthy crowd to view prod­ucts and ser­vices of the nearly 100 ven­dors set up in the Big Wal­nut High School Gymnasium.

In addi­tion to local busi­nesses show­cas­ing their many prod­ucts and ser­vices, there was infor­ma­tion about a vari­ety of issues related to health, fit­ness, nutri­tion, safety and well­ness; and there were also stu­dent dis­plays, along with instru­men­tal and vocal music per­for­mances by Big Wal­nut stu­dents, and taek­wondo and dance demon­stra­tions by local busi­nesses in the aux­il­iary gym.

Center Green Park Festival set May 19

Genoa Town­ship has become known for its fes­ti­vals and cel­e­bra­tions designed to be fam­ily friendly and with some­thing for every­one; and the Sun­day, May 19, Cen­ter Green Park Fes­ti­val not only has all of the usual activ­i­ties one would expect at a Genoa event, par­tic­i­pants will also be able to Race a Rub­ber Ducky for a Buck.

Join in the fun dur­ing the 2013 Cen­ter Green Park Fes­ti­val Great Rub­ber Ducky Race 50/50 Raf­fle. A mod­est $1 buys a chance to win, and the race will be held at 3 p.m. with a lit­tle help from Genoa Town­ship Fire Depart­ment firefighters.

2013 GTBA Expo has strong music lineup

It’s never too early to put a note on the fridge to attend a spring event known for a vari­ety of food ven­dors, good music and an out­door beer gar­den; and all three will be avail­able at the May 17 and 18 Genoa Town­ship Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion Com­mu­nity Expo in the North­gate Shop­ping Plaza park­ing lot.

The Expo opens Fri­day, May 17, at 6 p.m. with music until 11; and con­tin­ues on Sat­ur­day, May 18, from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m.

Friday’s enter­tain­ment includes Blues artist Hur­ri­cane Jerry & Storm Front, and clas­sic rock from Sta­dium 11.

Galena Bridge closed until October 21

Remem­ber the old Bert and I com­edy albums, loaded with Down East, State of Maine type humor? A guy pulls his car up in front of Bert’s house and asks him how to get to East Vas­sel­bor­rough. Bert tells him: “You cain’t get they’ah from he’ah.”

Well if you’re leav­ing Galena for points east and want to use the Sun­bury Road Bridge to get out of town, Bert would switch to an Ohio accent and tell you that you can’t get there from here.

ABATE of Ohio Region 9 recognized at Sunbury Village Council

ABATE of Ohio Region 9 Deputy Direc­tor and Delaware County Coor­di­na­tor Har­lan Jay (Harley) Stock attended the Wednes­day, April 17, Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing where he was pre­sented with a may­oral procla­ma­tion cit­ing ABATE’s safe motor­cy­cling edu­ca­tion and advo­cacy efforts.

ABATE of Ohio, Inc. (Amer­i­can Bik­ers Aimed Toward Edu­ca­tion) is a not-for-profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to pre­serv­ing the rights, improv­ing the image, and pro­mot­ing safe oper­at­ing prac­tices of Ohio Motorcyclists.

Stock encour­aged motor­cy­cle rid­ers to join in the Sat­ur­day, May 4, Motor­cy­cle Aware­ness Parade & Rally that starts at the Sun­bury A.D. Far­row Harley-Davidson and ends at the Ohio State­house in Columbus.

Lots of road construction looms on horizon in Galena

The Wal­nut Street Phase 3 Project, between High and Church streets, should begin soon with Com­plete Gen­eral Con­struc­tion han­dling the project. Bricks have been ordered and the entire road bed will be exca­vated to make way for a deep gravel reser­voir that will han­dle the area’s storm water drainage. Gas and water util­i­ties have already been relo­cated. Sched­ul­ing issues are still being worked out. A pub­lic meet­ing will be held to inform res­i­dents about the entire process.

Car Show, Ice Cream Social to benefit BW Area Relay for Life

The weather is get­ting warmer and we’ll soon be approach­ing sum­mer; and on a warm late spring day there’s noth­ing like a clas­sic car show, and toss in a lit­tle ice cream and you’ve got the Jack­son Farms Car Show & Ice Cream Social.

The best part about the Jack­son Farms Car Show & Ice Cream Social is all pro­ceeds from the day will ben­e­fit the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety Big Wal­nut Area Relay For Life.

The Sat­ur­day, May 18, rain or shine event takes place at Jack­son Farms, 2341 South Ohio 605, Galena.