Gahanna in the News

Low Salt Stash Forces City to Skip Residential Streets

Original story by Marla K. Kuhlman, ThisWeek Community News

This Week news logo Gahanna's residential streets won't be treated until salt supplies become stable, but they will be plowed.

City service director Dottie Franey recently informed Gahanna City Council that the city is having difficulty in obtaining salt orders.

Deliveries that once took three to five days are now taking seven to 10 days, she said. In addition to a longer wait, Gahanna is receiving partial orders instead of full orders.

She said the city has suspended salt application on flat residential streets, but Gahanna will continue to salt arterial streets, bridges and intersections with slopes as needed.

"We're withholding salt from the flat, residential streets until the deliveries are stable," Franey said.

If police report dangerous conditions on particular streets, Franey said, the city will address the situation as usual.

"We'll continue to plow," she said. "We just aren't putting salt down on flat residential streets."

Gahanna bids its road salt through the Southwest Ohio Purchasers for Government consortium that includes dozens of municipalities and townships. The successful bidder for Gahanna was North American.

Franey said salt companies are trying to get some amount of salt to everyone needing it, but orders have to be reduced to meet demand.

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Upcoming City Events & Information

'2014 Best Hometown' Photo Contest

Friendship Park submitted by Terri Bell Johnson

There's only one more day left to submit your '2014 Best Hometown' photos. The deadline to submit your photos is

Friday, January 31, 2014.

To submit your best photo, upload your image to our Facebook Fan page (CityofGahanna) with the caption, '2014 Best Hometown,' for a chance to have your picture displayed in City Hall and at the Gahanna Convention & Visitors Bureau (GCVB).

Additionally, winning photos will be featured on the City's and GCVB's digital media platforms (i.e. website, e-newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).

Click here for more information about the contest.

Community News & Events

GLHS Alumnus' Dinosaur 13 Scores $1M Lionsgate Deal

Original story by Marla K. Kuhlman, ThisWeek Community News

GLHS alumnus Todd Miller last week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Gahanna Lincoln High School alumnus Todd Miller premiered a documentary he directed about one of the greatest dinosaur finds in history.

Immediately following the Dinosaur 13 debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week, Miller helped negotiate an approximately $1 million deal with Lionsgate and CNN Films to acquire the North American rights to the film.

The purchase of the North American rights will give Miller a theatrical release by Lionsgate, followed by airings on CNN. Lionsgate is best known for its Hunger Games film series.

"There are a lot of twists and turns with the movie," Miller told ThisWeek. "What I want people to walk away with is what scientists bring to us as a society. I also want to get paleontologist Peter Larson's story to a wider audience."

Dinosaur 13 chronicles Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute unearthing the largest, most complete tyrannosaurus rex ever found in the Badlands of South Dakota on Aug. 12, 1990.

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YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program Now Available

and Free to Medicare Beneficiaries

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prediabetes impacts more than 50% of American adults ages 65 years and older. Most of these individuals do not even know they are at risk for the disease.

By taking practical, everyday steps, individuals at risk may be able to reverse prediabetes and prevent type 2 diabetes, and associated dangers such as heart attack, stroke, blindness and even amputation.

The YMCA of Central Ohio's Diabetes Prevention Program offers support for individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes. The program provides a supportive environment, where individuals can work with others in a small group setting to learn how to adopt healthy habits to reduce their chances of developing the disease.

This program is free for individuals who qualify and are covered through Medicare. Classes for the Gahanna/John E. Bickley YMCA will begin on February 12, 2014, 6pm.

To learn more about this program or to register for classes, click here. You may also contact Inez Rosa at the Gahanna/John E. Bickley YMCA at 614.416.9622.