Abigail Painter awaiting graduation, ready to make her move to college

With the school year hit­ting the halfway mark, Big Wal­nut senior Abi­gail Painter is ready for school to be over and to go to college.

“I’ve been in high school too long. It’s the same rou­tine over and over again. I like change,” she said.

Abi­gail has attended the school dis­trict since kinder­garten liv­ing in the same house.

“I feel like liv­ing here my whole life, I’m ready to get out,” she said, adding that while she will def­i­nitely miss home and the area, “I’m ready to start some­thing new.”

New for Abi­gail will be study­ing to become a bio­med­ical engi­neer. She has applied to seven schools and not decided yet where to attend, but her top two choices are Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­sity and Van­der­bilt University.

There is a pos­si­bil­ity that she may go on to med­ical school.

“It depends on whether I am tired of school or want to go on,” she said. “I’ll see where every­thing takes me in the future.”

Abi­gail said that as a bio­med­ical engi­neer, she can con­duct research or make med­ical machines. If she goes on to med­ical school, she is inter­ested in dermatology.

ACT workshop on Saturday, Feb. 2 to improve college funding, access

To help stu­dents achieve higher ACT scores, the I CAN Cen­ter of Excel­lence, a regional non-profit col­lege access orga­ni­za­tion, is con­duct­ing a six-hour work­shop on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., (one hour for lunch) on the cam­pus of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity at Mar­ion and Mar­ion Tech­ni­cal Col­lege, 1465 Mount Ver­non Avenue, Mar­ion, in Mor­rill Hall, Room 160.

BW schools begin Lincolns for Rosecrans drive

Most area res­i­dents know that Major Gen­eral William Starke Rose­crans was born in Kingston Town­ship in 1819, attended West Point, and became one of the Civil War’s least under­stood gen­er­als. There’s a marker in Kingston Town­ship rec­og­niz­ing the general’s birth­place, and the Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict named its new ele­men­tary build­ing after the gen­eral – Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School, a.k.a. GRE.

Everyone’s also famil­iar with the effort to erect a bronze eques­trian statue of Gen­eral Rose­crans on his­toric Sun­bury Vil­lage Square. Fundrais­ing has been under­way for the past two years, there have been major con­trib­u­tors and mod­est dona­tions along the way to reach­ing a goal in excess of the $175,000 needed to fin­ish the sculp­ture, cast the bronze, and have it fin­ished and installed for a Sep­tem­ber 28 ded­i­ca­tion ceremony.

The money is mostly in place, with only a few thou­sand dol­lars needed to com­plete the project; and statue com­mit­tee mem­bers decided what bet­ter way to give chil­dren in the com­mu­nity own­er­ship of the new land­mark sculp­ture hon­or­ing one of their own than ask them to help fin­ish rais­ing the money.

To accom­plish that task, on Jan­u­ary 7 Big Wal­nut schools began a Lin­colns for Rose­crans fundrais­ing project that will end on Feb­ru­ary 12, Abra­ham Lincoln’s birthday.

Zack Moore holding Pizza Luncheon on Jan. 27 as Eagle Scout fundraiser

Zack Moore wants area res­i­dents to help con­tribute to a good cause — by eat­ing pizza. And any­one who has parked at Sun­bury United Methodist Church (SUMC) to attend a funeral at Sun­bury Memo­r­ial Park, or to attend an event on Sun­bury Vil­lage Square, will know what that good cause is.

Between SUMC and the Vil­lage cen­ter pedes­tri­ans on the north side of West Cherry Street have to walk out on the edge of the road­way before they can access the side­walk in front of the cemetery.

As an Eagle Scout project Moore plans to build an engi­neered 40-foot long by 10-foot wide foot bridge over Prairie Run Creek that will con­nect the Methodist Church park­ing lot with the side­walk in front of the cemetery.

BW Junior Cheer Camp slated for January 20

The Big Wal­nut High School Win­ter Cheer­lead­ers will hold their Junior Cheer Camp on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 20, 2013. The camp is open to Kinder­garten through Sixth Grade and will be held from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the Aux­il­iary Gym at Big Wal­nut High School. Par­tic­i­pants will per­form at half­time of the Big Wal­nut Home­com­ing Game on Jan­u­ary 25, 2013.

BW Junior Cheer Camp January 20

The Big Wal­nut High School Win­ter Cheer­lead­ers will hold their Junior Cheer Camp on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 20, 2013. The camp is open to Kinder­garten through Sixth Grade and will be held from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the Aux­il­iary Gym at Big Wal­nut High School. Par­tic­i­pants will per­form at half­time of the Big Wal­nut Homecoming […]

Tenth Buckeye Valley FFA Alumni Farm Toy Show set for Saturday at BVHS

The 10th Annual Buck­eye Val­ley FFA Alumni Farm Toy Show will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 13, at Buck­eye Val­ley High School, 901 Coover Road, Delaware. There will be more than 40 tables of farm toys, col­lectibles and other toys, belt buck­les as well as NASCAR items. Admis­sion is […]

BW’s Lindsey Adams CSCC Teen of The Week

Lind­sey Adams leads with a quiet strength. The Big Wal­nut senior admit­ted to being a lit­tle shy, but that does not stop her from tak­ing on lead­er­ship roles in var­i­ous school orga­ni­za­tions such as pres­i­dent of stu­dent coun­cil, Ger­man Club and Leo Club. She is also pres­i­dent of the senior class.

Tak­ing advanced place­ment courses in cal­cu­lus, Ger­man, lit­er­a­ture, gov­ern­ment and pol­i­tics and Amer­i­can his­tory, she also usu­ally has either a meet­ing or a vol­un­teer activ­ity almost every day of the week.