Tack Sale to benefit HSDC Horse Rescue Program

Cham­pion Feed & Pet Sup­ply is once again spon­sor­ing the “Cen­tral Ohio Tack Swap Ben­e­fit” to help raise funds for Delaware County horses in need. The event is being held on Sun­day, April 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Real­ity Run Arena (for­merly known as Rolling Acres) at 4297 U.S. 42 North. Pro­ceeds from the ben­e­fit go directly to the Humane Soci­ety of Delaware County (HSDC) Horse Res­cue Pro­gram. 

Vis­i­tors can pur­chase new and used tack or browse the swap meet and local arti­sans craft tables for some unique trea­sures. The HSDC Horse Res­cue Team will be on site to answer ques­tions and share some suc­cess sto­ries. Admis­sion is only $3 per per­son and includes free access to the Equine Nutri­tional Sem­i­nar that will be held at 12 noon.

Bill Thurston inducted into Ohio 4-H Hall of Fame

Ash­ley Junior Farm­ers 4-H Club Vol­un­teer Advi­sor Bill Thurston has the dis­tinc­tion of being involved in Delaware County 4-H as a club mem­ber and an advi­sor for more than half of the youth devel­op­ment organization’s life. In 1902 A. B. Gra­ham started “The Tomato Club” in Clark County, which is con­sid­ered the birth of 4-H in […]

ODOT wants more details before agreeing to interchange plans

A time­out has been called in the race between two local devel­op­ers vying to build a new Inter­state 71 inter­change in Delaware County.

In sep­a­rate let­ters sent to the com­pet­ing devel­op­ers, the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (ODOT) announced that it would not be part­ner­ing with either devel­oper by releas­ing a request for pro­posal (RFP) at this time, as the devel­op­ers had hoped.

“Based on the ODOT and Delaware County eval­u­a­tions of the (request for infor­ma­tion) responses, the level of risk asso­ci­ated with rev­enue sources, rev­enue pro­jec­tions, financ­ing, sched­ul­ing, and tech­ni­cal issues is too high to war­rant fur­ther advance­ment as a (public-private part­ner­ship) project at this stage of project devel­op­ment,” the let­ter reads.

Genoa Firefighters Climb For A Cure


If the aver­age per­son would put on a firefighter’s turnout gear, com­plete with Self-Contained Breath­ing Appa­ra­tus, hel­met and face mask he or she would find it dif­fi­cult to take a dozen steps, let alone a dozen steps up stairs.

Of course, fire­fight­ers have to be in supe­rior phys­i­cal con­di­tion to do the jobs they do while wear­ing the gear they wear, so when fire­fight­ers hold a fundrais­ing events it demands sta­mina that’s above aver­age — way above.

On Feb­ru­ary 23, Genoa Town­ship Fire Depart­ment fire­fight­ers par­tic­i­pated in the Cys­tic Fibro­sis Foun­da­tion, Cen­tral Ohio Chap­ter, Bat­tle of the Badges — Climb For A Cure at the Rhodes Office Tower in down­town Colum­bus. Climb For A Cure is a 40-floor stair climb at the Rhodes Tower done in full turn out gear while breath­ing air from an SCBA.

Easter Egg Hunts abound in Big Walnut territory

They last for only a few min­utes. They’re over in a vir­tual heart­beat, but chil­dren line up at Easter Egg Hunts every­where in antic­i­pa­tion of that sev­eral minute thrill ride across lawns pep­pered with brightly col­ored Easter eggs filled with sweet treats.

And, if it’s the Sat­ur­day, March 23, Fra­ter­nal Order of Eagles Easter Egg Hunt on Sun­bury Vil­lage Square, chil­dren stick around after the lawn has been swept clean of Easter eggs to see if they are lucky win­ners of a bicy­cle, this year with a lit­tle help from Meijer.

But to win a bike, par­tic­i­pants must sign up imme­di­ately before the Easter Egg Hunt. Bicy­cle sign up is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and the hunt begins promptly at 12 noon.

Genoa Twp. residents reminded to complete planning survey online

Dur­ing last Thurs­day evening’s Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing, the trustees reminded every­one that the Genoa Town­ship Devel­op­ment & Zon­ing Office, as part of a com­pre­hen­sive plan­ning process, is admin­is­ter­ing a com­mu­nity survey.

Town­ship res­i­dents are encour­aged to com­plete the sur­vey online at < genoatwp.com >, or request a print copy of the sur­vey by call­ing the admin­is­tra­tion office at 614–895-1126 ext 0. The sur­vey will be avail­able through April; results will be pub­licly pre­sented as a part of the Com­pre­hen­sive Plan.


Genoa main­te­nance and roads super­vi­sor Bob Math­ews gave trustees an update on the township’s side­walk repair plans.

Bernardo recognized by Genoa Trustees

Giammarco’s is one of the finer restau­rants in Cen­tral Ohio, and a des­ti­na­tion place to dine in the upper West­er­ville, Genoa Town­ship area. As an area busi­ness­man, Giammarco’s owner Tom Bernardo received the West­er­ville Area Cham­ber of Commerce’s Busi­ness of the Year award in 2012.

Bernardo and his fam­ily attended last Thurs­day (March 7) evening’s Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing where Bernardo was rec­og­nized not only for receiv­ing the West­er­ville Cham­ber of Com­merce award, but also for oper­at­ing a Genoa Town­ship anchor business.

Jet’s Pizza opens in Sunbury Mills Plaza

Big Wal­nut area folks who enjoy Jet’s Pizza are famil­iar with the West­er­ville store in a Giant Eagle Plaza out-lot on North State Street. That’s where many of them stop on the way home from work to pick up their favorite Jet’s pizza, sub or salad.

But dri­ving out of the way or stop­ping in West­er­ville and arriv­ing home with a cold pizza is a thing of the past, because on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 22, Jet’s Pizza opened its 11th cen­tral Ohio store in Sun­bury Mills Plaza.