BW Relay for Life hosting Bark For Life May 18 on Village Square

The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety Relay for Life of Big Wal­nut will host its annual Bark For Life Event fundraiser on Sat­ur­day, May 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sun­bury Town Square.

Bark For Life is a non-competitive walk event for dogs and their own­ers to help raise funds and aware­ness for The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety. It is also an oppor­tu­nity for the com­mu­nity to come join us for a fun afternoon.

O’Brien takes issue with projects language, lack of bid process

Despite some con­cerns from Com­mis­sioner Ken O’Brien, the county will move for­ward with projects related to the 2012 Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant (CDBG).

The com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day approved three mea­sures that will allow sev­eral CDBG projects to proceed.

The first mea­sure, approved unan­i­mously, cer­ti­fied the envi­ron­men­tal review record for a CDBG project for side­walk repair in Shawnee Hills and declared no need for a sim­i­lar review for a project to improve Galena’s new vil­lage hall.

While he voted for approval, that did not stop O’Brien from grilling Delaware County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Direc­tor Gus Com­stock about the resolution.

BW Superintendent Steve Mazzi speaks on school’s success at Harlem Twp.

Mem­bers of the Harlem Town­ship Board of Trustees met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Wednes­day, March 20, at the Harlem Town­ship Hall and Fire­house, with trustees Jerry Paul, Bob Singer and Dave Jack­son present. Also in cham­bers for the ses­sion were Eldon John­ston, Vicki Tieche, John Ciszek, Joni Man­son, Dale Fling, Valerie Ped­er­sen, Sue Rasche, Steve Mazzi, Verna Hines, Vin­cent Fritsch, Jay Beck­ner and Dave Zehala.

Dave Zehala and Jay Beck­ner, rep­re­sent­ing the U10 Big Wal­nut Trav­el­ing Base­ball Team, attended the meet­ing to dis­cuss the pos­si­ble use of the town­ship west base­ball field for 2014 through 2017. The trustees asked sev­eral ques­tions and said they will get back with them.

Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict Super­in­ten­dent Steve Mazzi attended the meet­ing to report that the school dis­trict received an Excel­lent With Dis­tinc­tion rat­ing on the Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion 2011-12 Report Card. Mazzi said this is the sev­enth con­sec­u­tive year that Big Wal­nut has been rated Excel­lent by the ODE.

Cemetery Workshop 2013 Restoration 101; June 1 workshop at Red Bank Cemetery

Tak­ing on a restora­tion project of any sort can be touchy busi­ness. We know that if we are not fol­low­ing accepted restora­tion prac­tices we might dam­age his­toric fab­ric. We also under­stand that that we must fol­low pre­scribed research and doc­u­men­ta­tion pro­ce­dures dur­ing any restora­tion project so that oth­ers who come after us will know what has been done dur­ing our project and how, what we did not do and why, and what we dis­cov­ered along the way.

This is espe­cially true when doing ceme­tery restora­tion projects, and for any­one inter­ested in ceme­tery restora­tion Misti Spill­man 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.

Curves donates food to BWFWS

Each year Curves of Sun­bury has offered local res­i­dents the oppor­tu­nity to con­tribute food and other house­hold items to the Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share (BWFWS) Food Pantry. Dur­ing the month of March, Curves of Sun­bury par­tic­i­pated in the Annual Curves Food Drive, this year in its 15th year nation­ally, to ben­e­fit local food banks.

With a theme of “Feed the Need” this year’s drive encour­aged Curves mem­bers to feel dou­bly good about them­selves as they made time to exer­cise for good health and took time to help oth­ers in the com­mu­nity with a dona­tion of nutri­tious food.

Col­lec­tively, over the past 15 years, 75 mil­lion pounds of food were dis­trib­uted to local com­mu­ni­ties all over the world through the Curves Food Drive.

Genoa Community Gardens hold ribbon-cutting April 4

In its fourth year, the Genoa Town­ship Com­mu­nity Gar­dens have become a place for gar­den­ers of all ages, from novice to expe­ri­enced gar­den afi­ciona­dos, to gather, trade gar­den­ing hints and lore, and social­ize in a pleas­ant out­door environment.

The gar­dens are located on the east side of Wor­thing­ton Road across from the entrance to Sheffield Park sub­di­vi­sion in Wor­thing­ton Road Park.

On Thurs­day, April 4, mem­bers of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees met at the gar­dens for a Com­mu­nity Gar­dens Rib­bon Cut­ting Cer­e­mony, offi­cially open­ing the gar­dens for 2013 use.

Genoa K-9 Fund receives $10K from PGA’s Jason Day

Genoa Town­ship police offi­cer Jason Berner and the department’s K-9 Gan­dolf stopped in dur­ing last Thurs­day evening’s Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing to present the trustees with a $10,000 dona­tion for the township’s K-9 Fund.

The $10,000 dona­tion was from A Brighter Days Foun­da­tion. PGA pro­fes­sional golfer Jason Day and his wife, who are Genoa Town­ship res­i­dents, founded the foundation.

Katie’s 1st Relay Flea Market April 19 & 20

The Amer­i­can Can­cer Society’s Big Wal­nut Area Relay For Life begins on Fri­day evening, June 7, at Big Wal­nut High School; but area teams are already busy orga­niz­ing and rais­ing funds to help reach this year’s local goal.

Katie Cautela, owner of Katie’s Kloset on the Square, is hold­ing Katie’s Kloset Fundrais­ing Team Event, a First Annual Flea Mar­ket with Bake Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fri­day, April 19, and Sat­ur­day April 20 inside Sun­bury Town Hall.