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Update from Campus Partners:
Prepared for residents the University Area Commission
March 19, 2008
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Family center offers free parenting classes Ohio State’s Schoenbaum Family Center is
offering “Family Connections,” a series of free parenting
classes, on March 18, 20, 25 and 27.
The classes will be held at the center, 175 E. Seventh Ave., from 5:45
to 7 p.m. on each of those dates.
Persons may attend any or all of the sessions. To register for “Family
Connections,” call (614) 247-7488. The classes will give parents an opportunity to
talk with early childhood professionals and other parents about parenting,
effective discipline, and children’s development and growth, while
learning more about their own children.
Free food and childcare will be provided during the classes. “Family Connections” is
supported through a grant from The Columbus Foundation. Mayor will help with clean-up in Weinland
Park on March 29 University District neighbors and other volunteers
are invited to join Mayor Coleman and other city employees for the sixth
annual “Great American Clean-up” on Saturday morning, March
29. Volunteers will gather at
8:30 a.m. for registration and breakfast at the Weinland Park Elementary
School, 211 E. Seventh Ave. at North Fourth Street. The volunteers then will organize into
teams and work to clean various sites in Weinland Park. For more information, contact Bob Seed
of Keep Columbus Beautiful at (614) 645-8027. Weinland Park civic group elects new
officers More than 35 people were in attendance for the
election of officers at the monthly meeting of the Weinland Park Community
Civic Association on February 27 at Weinland Park Elementary School. Elected as officers of the civic
association’s steering committee were Joyce Hughes, president; Julius
Jefferson, vice president; Sandy Tanguay, secretary; and Ahmed Ebady,
treasurer. Robert Caldwell, who had served as president since
the founding of the civic association in 2004, stepped down from the position
and received a round of applause for his service. He noted that he will continue to
serve on the steering committee and to represent Weinland Park on the
University Area Commission. The civic association will hold its next meeting
on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Schoenbaum Family Center, 175 E.
Seventh Ave. Community Outreach Center will hold an open
house April 2 Ohio State University Extension and Godman Guild
Association are jointly operating a new community outreach center in a former
credit union building at 1427 N. Grant Ave. in Weinland Park. The public is invited to an open house
at the community outreach center on Wednesday, April 2, from 3 to 6 p.m. The open house will be an opportunity
to meet the staff, tour the facility and learn about the programs and
opportunities available to residents of the University District. The telephone number for the center is
(614) 299-2915. You may R.S.V.P.
that you will attend the open house by sending an e-mail message to
wendy.hansensmith@godmanguild.org. For the past five years, OSU Extension has assigned
Susan Colbert as an extension educator focused on the University
District. She and a small staff
and volunteers are directing the community computer center at Godman Guild,
providing 4-H programming at Indianola Middle School, leading a committee
that is creating a path for job opportunities at Ohio State for neighborhood
residents, offering assistance with income tax filing, and much more. She and her staff are now housed at
the community outreach center. Ohio State’s new 4-H Center to show
off “green” design April 4 Ohio State first “green” certified
building is the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred
Taylor Drive (west of the Schottenstein Center). The building’s
“green” features will be on display at the grand opening and
ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, April 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. Light refreshments and tours will be
offered. If you are interested in
attending, R.S.V.P. by March 28 to 4hweb@ag.osu.edu
or call (614) 247-6904. Please
include the names of those attending.
The building’s conference rooms and terrace can accommodate
meetings and social gatherings.
For information, call (614) 292-4444. President Gee to speak on role of land-grant
universities In his first term as president of Ohio State, E.
Gordon Gee was instrumental in establishing the university’s formal
outreach and engagement efforts and the Campus Partners initiative in the
University District. Dr. Gee will
expand on this theme when he delivers the Fifth Annual James F. Patterson
Land-Grant University Lecture on Tuesday, April 15. His lecture’s title is
“Securing the Future: Envisioning the Role of the Land-Grant
Universities.” The lecture will be at 3 p.m. in the Blackwell Inn
& Conference Center, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, and will be followed by
recognition of the recipients of university grants for engagement,
service-learning and continuing education. The public is invited. Register online by April 8 at www.outreach.osu.edu. Refuse and code enforcement committees to
meet April 8 The University District Code Enforcement Task
Force and the Campus Partners Public Service Committee will hold a joint meeting on Tuesday,
April 8, at 1:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Northwood-High Building, 2231 N.
High Street. The public is
welcome to attend. University Area Safety Committee will meet
April 9 The next meeting of the University Area Safety
Committee will be Wednesday, April 9, at 3:30 p.m. in the first floor
conference room of 33 West 11th Avenue.
The public is welcome to attend. University
District artist featured in New Jersey Dianne Efsic, artist and long-time University
District resident, has had a portion of her art piece, “Blankets of
Sorrow,” installed in a gallery in New Jersey. The total installation covers five
walls of various sizes. The walls
are covered with joss paper, which is burned in traditional Chinese
funerals. Each piece of paper has
the handwritten name of one American military person who has died in the Iraq
war. The installation is
described in The New York Times on February 24. To read the story, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24colnj.html?ex=1204520400&en=963a4bf3c9db3550&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Ms. Efsic is president of the University Community
Association and is director of ARTSpace, a gallery program of the University
District Organization. ARTSpace
sponsors regular exhibits in the community meeting room of the Northwood-High
Building, 2231 N. High Street.
ARTSpace featured the “Blankets of Sorrow” installation
about two years ago. University
District receives positive attention The February 15, 2008, edition of Business First
included a Commercial Developers Resource supplement that featured a large
photograph of President Gee and the Gateway Theater on the cover. The supplement included six pages of
stories on the successful efforts of Campus Partners and other stakeholders
“to continue improvements in the neighborhoods east of Ohio
State.” One story also
focused on the significant efforts of Community Properties of Ohio to improve
the low-income housing stock in Weinland Park. Homeless
persons sell local newspaper to earn money The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) has
begun a new project to give homeless and formerly homeless persons a source
of income. CCH has selected a
group of these persons to be trained and to receive a vendor’s license
to sell a newspaper, Street Speech, for $1 in various public locations on
sidewalks in the central city, including the University District. The newspaper includes articles about
homelessness and poverty and articles, poems and drawings by current or
formerly homeless people. CCH has patterned the project on similar
initiatives in other cities. CCN expects
the newspaper sales to be an alternative to panhandling. The vendor will pay CCH $.25 for each
copy of the newspaper and subsequently will earn $.75 from each sale. The newspaper sales began February 29
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