Walk With A Doc is continuing! Dates are in our Calendar.

Flyers are now available on their web site (link below). Tell a friend!!!

Take steps to a healthier you with Walk with a Doc. Every other Saturday we will host an hour-long morning walk led by a physician from Mount Carmel Health System or the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Walkers can come and walk for as little or as long as they like and all can enjoy refreshments and walking incentives at each walk.

Where: Woodward Park and Community Center, 5147 Karl Road, meet at front picnic tables*
When: selected Saturdays of each month, 8:30am – 9:30am

* Walks are held in the community center gym during bad weather.
** The June 6 walk will feature Mount Carmel’s Mobile Medical Coach – An urgent care center on wheels providing healthcare and screenings, while connecting patients to long-term care.

Call 614-645-1260 for more information, or visit the event website.
Ref: Walk With A Doc: Columbus Neighborhood Walking Clubs

The next meeting of the Forest Park Civic Association will be on Tuesday, February 10, at 7 pm at Epworth United Methodist Church, 5100 Karl Road in the main sanctuary. ALL Forest Park residents are invited.

Bruce Robinson from Xenos Free Clinic will speak about the new Free Clinic in Northland.

We will also have a visit from our police liaison and a time to air any concerns and questions about the neighborhood you might have. We will pass them on to our city representative. Get an update on why and how nuisance hotels and clubs have been closed in the past year and learn what you can do to help in this effort.

In March we will have a speaker on the issue of feral cats, and in April City Council Member Shannon Hardin will come to personally learn about our neighborhood and hear our concerns. He attended the February NCC meeting, but did much more listening than speaking. I’m sure you will find him interesting.

Upcoming events are the Kick Butt Columbus cleanup day on March 28th (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/kickbuttcolumbus-2015-registration-14894071569), the first 161 Cleanup Day on April 11th, and the Northland Shredding Day on May 16th at Menards. See your February and March Foresters for more information.

Whether or not you were able to attend the Jan 20, 2015 Block Watch Coordinators meeting which was open to all, here is some more information.

The information package supplied by Officers Scott Clinger and Larry Geis included three parts:

1. License information and ORC change contains the most important thing: the Proposed changes to state law regarding Nuisances — as well as info about the licensure of a couple of problem motels.
2. Inspection Report describes same problem properties, revealing the “worst hotels” inspector ever saw.
3. Inspection Photo Report graphically illustrates the same.

# 1 is most important because it shows a course of action we can take, along with allies in other parts of Columbus and other municipalities throughout Ohio. A simple change in the law to include “offenses of violence, as defined by Section 2901.01 of the Ohio Revised Code” as part of the definition of “Nuisance” in Section 3767.01 would give authorities a means to act on cases where repeated violence occurs at problem properties.

November 2014 Forester