Harlem Twp. Trustees’ meeting covers variety of topics

Mem­bers of the Harlem Town­ship Board of Trustees met in reg­u­lar ses­sion on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 23, at the Harlem Town­ship Hall and Fire­house with trustees Jerry Paul, Bob Singer and Dave Jack­son present. Also in cham­bers for the ses­sion were Harlem Divi­sion of Fire Chief Dale Fling, Harlem Zon­ing Inspec­tor David Andrian, Vicki Tieche, Louise Guen­ther, Belinda Mortensen and Alan Czeko.

Guen­ther asked the trustees if there was any con­tact from the Delaware County Pros­e­cu­tors Office; Singer said he has heard from Mark Fowler and he was putting some­thing together for the trustees.

Mortensen thanked the trustees for snow removal on her road. Jerry Paul said he would pass the com­pli­ment on to the main­te­nance department.

Senior Services Levy Q&A Sessions set March 19, 21

The Coun­cil for Older Adults will return to the bal­lot on May 7 to ask Delaware County vot­ers to sup­port the senior ser­vices levy. Pas­sage of the levy is needed to con­tinue to pro­vide ser­vices for Delaware County’s grow­ing num­ber of older peo­ple and include essen­tial in-home care such as Meals On Wheels, per­sonal care, med­ical trans­porta­tion, adult day care and much more.

In order to pro­vide the com­mu­nity with an oppor­tu­nity to learn about the levy request, there are two infor­ma­tion pre­sen­ta­tions sched­uled for Tues­day, March 19, 6:30 to 8 p.m. and Thurs­day, March 21, 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Cen­ter for Older Adults, 800 Cheshire Road, Delaware. These are open to the pub­lic and will give atten­dees an oppor­tu­nity to ask ques­tions about the levy. Pre­sen­ter will be COA Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Bob Horrocks.

Genoa Township trustees show support for Fouse, Alcott parents

The West­er­ville City School Dis­trict is con­sid­er­ing alter­na­tive plans for redis­trict­ing that is less a redis­trict­ing and more of a demo­graphic restruc­tur­ing; and Genoa Town­ship res­i­dents with stu­dents attend­ing Fouse Ele­men­tary School and Alcott Ele­men­tary have expressed con­cerns about their chil­dren being bused out of Genoa Town­ship to Pointview Ele­men­tary School to help bal­ance dis­trict demographics.

Genoa Town­ship res­i­dent Joe Bar­ganier attended the Feb­ru­ary 7 Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees meet­ing to express his con­cerns about the West­er­ville district’s ele­men­tary school realign­ment. At that time there were four options on the table, with Option C show­ing stu­dents from two Fouse and Alcott neigh­bor­hoods being bused to Pointview.

County Commissioners eyeing ditch petition funding change

The Delaware County com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day dis­cussed the pos­si­bil­ity of chang­ing the way in which drainage ditch improve­ments are funded.

Fis­cal Ser­vices Direc­tor Seiji Kille rec­om­mended the com­mis­sion­ers pay for such projects out of the county’s gen­eral fund, sav­ing assessed prop­erty own­ers the added cost of bond­ing ditch improvements.

“We have the cash flow in the gen­eral fund,” he said. “We should just go ahead and pay for this.”

Sunbury Subway fills biggest order ever; 2,000 box lunches served at conference

Joann Hings­ber­gen, owner of Sub­way of Sun­bury, is accus­tomed to cater­ing orders. Sun­bury Sub­way caters par­ties and other gath­er­ings, some­times pro­vid­ing hun­dreds of sand­wich and salad meals.

But on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, Sun­bury Sub­way filled an order to beat all orders — 2,000 boxed sand­wich and salad meals for the Sixth Annual Colum­bus Catholic Women’s Con­fer­ence held at the Ohio State Expo Cen­ter Lausche Building.

Genoa Twp. children encouraged to pick up free Child IDs

Dur­ing their Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 7, reg­u­lar meet­ing, mem­bers of the Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees approved that Child IDs would be offered to town­ship res­i­dents free-of-charge from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the sec­ond Wednes­day of each month in the Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tion Office. IDs are issued to chil­dren of all ages by the Genoa Town­ship Police Department.

Dur­ing that same ses­sion the trustees approved a renewal of a con­tract with Delaware Soil & Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict (DSWCD).

Big Walnut forming area Camera Club

Want to learn to take bet­ter pic­tures? No Prob­lemo, as Arnie would say, because a cam­era club for adults 18 years old and older is start­ing in the Big Wal­nut area.

The Big Wal­nut Cam­era Club will have its first meet­ing at 7 p.m. on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 28, at Sun­bury United Methodist Church, in rooms 10/11.

HSDC offering free spay, neuter surgery for feral or free-roaming cats on Feb. 25

The Humane Soci­ety of Delaware County (HSDC) encour­ages res­i­dents to have their free-roaming cats spayed or neutered at a spe­cial clinic being held at the society’s shel­ter on Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 25. The one-day clinic is being funded by Pet FBI (Pets Found By Inter­net) as part of World Spay Day, a nation­wide event spon­sored by the Humane Soci­ety of the United States. Over­pop­u­la­tion is an espe­cially big prob­lem for cats because they can repro­duce as early as four months old and have two or three lit­ters a year.