Day at the Park(s)

Upper Arlington’s 22-acre Northwest Park, located at 4840 Stonehaven Dr., was renamed the Northwest Kiwanis Park at a ceremony May 16.

 

The 2010 Leadership Upper Arlington class welcomed community members to Sunny 95 Park in May for the city’s Spring Fling event.

 

As part of their course requirement, each Leadership UA class completes a community-based project. This year’s class focused on raising awareness for the Sunny 95 Historic Barn Restoration project. The class came to this decision after learning about the restoration of the community’s oldest remaining farm structure, the McCoy Legg Barn. The barn dates from the early-to-middle 1800’s and will be rebuilt with both original and new materials. The “new” barn will serve as a year-round venue for community events. The McCoy Legg Barn will be restored near the corner of Carriage Hill and Windham Road at Sunny 95 Park.

 

Members of the 2010 class are: Justin Bates, Eric Carine, Kaye Emans, Lauren Emond, Jason Fine, Kate Hemleben, Elizabeth Mangas, John Mangas, Rand McClellan and Jason Wulf. For more information, visit www.leadershipua.org .

 

Fore!

The Nationwide Children’s Invitational tees off July 19 at The Ohio State University Golf Club’s Scarlet Course. The fourth annual tournament will continue through July 25. The tournament features golfers on the Nationwide Tour, an extension of the PGA Tour that identifies and transitions select golfers ready to compete in the pros.

 

Last year’s tournament raised $881,270 for charitable organizations, including $325,000 for pediatric cancer research and treatment at Nationwide Children's Hospital. For more information, visit www.nchigolf.com .

 

Farm Fresh

The Upper Arlington Farmers’ Market opened in May at Mallway Park, 2096 Arlington Ave. It will continue every Wednesday from 3:30-6:30 p.m. through Oct. 13. Highlights for July and August include watermelons, raspberries, beets, peaches, sweet corn, tomatoes, pears and cantaloupe.

 

On Aug. 11, celebrate the peak of growing season with expanded activities at the market for the Crop Hop & Shop Hop. The day includes shopping specials, entertainment and farm animals. Local chef Scott Boles will be in the Ohio Proud Mobile Kitchen cooking up a variety of culinary delights from the market vendors. Visit www.uaoh.net.

 

UA residents honored for service to the arts

The 2010 CAPA Gala, held in May at the Southern Theatre in Downtown Columbus, honored long-time CAPA supporters and Upper Arlington residents Barbara and Dr. Ralph Lach.

 

In tribute to their service to the Central Ohio arts community, CAPA renamed the Ohio Theatre box office The Barbara and Dr. Ralph Lach Box Office at the Ohio Theatre.

 

Current board Member Barbara has served on the CAPA Board of Trustees for 30 years and is also a charter member of the CAPA Colleagues volunteers. She also serves on the boards of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Friends of the Ohio Governor’s Residence and Heritage Garden, Lincoln Theatre Association and the Jazz Arts Group.

 

A love of the arts brought Barbara and Dr. Ralph Lach together, and has been a hallmark of their marriage for 50 years. Putting down roots in Columbus in the 1960s, Ralph busied himself with a cardiology practice, as Barbara dedicated herself to a variety of civic organizations while simultaneously working as a Columbus realtor. Throughout the years, their contributions to CAPA and other Columbus arts organizations have improved civic life in a city where they have raised eight children. 

 

UA student wins Addiction Science Award

In May, Ameya Ashish Deshmukh, a 16-year-old junior at Upper Arlington High School, won first place at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Addiction Science Award ceremony at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest science competition for high school students.

 

A project using cutting edge computer modeling to identify potential new medications for nicotine addiction earned him the distinction. Deshmukh’s winning project was titled “Rational Drug Design Methods for the Identification of a Novel Negative Allosteric Modulator of a4b2 Nicotinic Receptors.” Because identifying a molecule that will effectively bind to nicotine receptors can be like finding a needle in a haystack, Deshmukh used what is known as rational drug design. He first selected candidate molecules based on previous research. He then used computerized molecular models to narrow the list of potential compounds. Finally, he tested these on human cells to identify which compounds show promise for treating nicotine addiction.

 

First place earns Deshmukh a $2,500 scholarship. For more information, visit www.nida.nih.gov/sciencefair .

 

Arts and literature scholarships awarded

The City of Upper Arlington’s Cultural Arts Division awarded the Doris Nelson Arts Scholarship and Judith Chalker Literary Arts Scholarship to Jennifer Zhou, for performing arts, instrumental; Margaret Ann Wunderlich, visual arts, photography; and Emily Sigrist, literary arts, respectively.

 

The Doris Nelson Arts Scholarship is named for the city’s first arts manager, and are two $1,000 scholarships awarded to UAHS seniors who plan to continue further study in the arts. Named for the city’s second arts manager, The Judith Chalker Literary Arts Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship granted to an UAHS senior who plans to continue further study in the literary arts.

 

For more information, visit www.uaoh.net .

 

School daze

Ready or not, here it comes – the Upper Arlington City School District welcomes students again beginning Aug. 24. There will also be kindergarten orientation Aug. 24-26. For the complete 2010-2011 academic calendar, visit www.uaschools.org.

 

Golden Bear football

Break out the black and gold, because high school football begins Aug. 14! The 2010 varsity schedule for the UA High School Golden Bears is as follows:

Aug. 14: scrimmage vs. Bishop Watterson (9 a.m.)

Aug. 20: scrimmage vs. St. Francis DeSales (7 p.m.)

Aug. 27: Dresden Tri-Valley

Sept. 3:  at Springfield

Sept. 10: Holy Trinity Secondary School (Canada)

Sept. 17: Thomas Worthington

Sept. 24: at Worthington Kilbourne        

Oct. 1: at Hilliard Darby

Oct. 8: Central Crossing

Oct. 15: at Westland

Oct. 22: Hilliard Davidson

Oct. 29: at Dublin Coffman

 

For the junior varsity and freshman schedules, visit www.goldenbearfootball.com .

 

Teenage members from Upper Arlington’s Covenant Presbyterian Church hosted a World Vision’s 30-Hour Famine event in late April. During the event, they fasted for 30 hours and constructed and slept in cardboard shelters to raise money for world hunger, poverty and homelessness. The day after this fast, the youths also joined forces with Ohio Muslims, Islamic Family Services, Art of Living, First Unitarian Universalist Church and residents of Columbus’ Near East Side to participate in a community clean up day in Franklin Park as part of the “Keep Columbus Beautiful” initiative. This project was the first joint service event by the newly-formed Columbus Interfaith Youth Group.