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Greenfield State Hunting and Fishing Preserve Fairfield County, Ohio Images Greenfield Fairfield County Local news roundup The troubled south side \| Dispatch The South Side duplex where two men were found shot to death Thursday has been a source of aggravation for months, neighborhood leaders said. "You could drive down Heyl Avenue any hour of the day or night and see groups of young men on the front porch and trash everywhere," said Katie Radford, president of Southside United Neighbors. Ever-eager to help, the legal system threw a 3 1/2 year jail sentence at a grerat-grandmother protecting her great-grandchildren from a crime ring. Unbelievably, she was convicted and served time in prison before her sentence was commuted. Today she is dead of kidney and liver failure and the neighborhood is far poorer for it. Granny who fought for kids dies before getting pardon \| Dispatch Franklin County Children Services will try to find families for the five great-grandchildren [Elizabeth] Dulaney was rearing: Ivory, 15; Issac, 14; Khalfani, 14; Rodney, 12; and Isawan, 11. All were in foster homes last night. Dulaney had spent the past eight years struggling to keep the children together. Three had been orphaned by the murder of their mother. The mother of the other two had disappeared. "We’ll always be together," the great-grandmother promised. But in 1999, at the South Side home Dulaney had bought for her new family, the promise was threatened. Dulaney shot and wounded a drug dealer as an armed gang threatened her family and children in her home day care. She had tipped police to what prosecutors would later describe as the largest illegal pill operation in the county. Dulaney drew a 31⁄2-year prison sentence, which Gov. Bob Taft commuted in 2002 after neighbors and Dispatch readers lobbied on her behalf. But Dulaney wanted a full pardon so she could reopen the day care and support her great-grandchildren. Homeless seek shelter from cold \| Dispatch A lot of people sleep in the park, but it’s so cold now you’d freeze to death out there," said [Jody] Beidel while sitting inside the [Winter Overflow Center] at 315 E. Long St. ... Elijah Haymes, 45, who left the the U.S. Air Force about a year ago, said he was sleeping on Columbus streets most nights since August. But he came to the overflow center the day it opened. "I was camping out (in a bus stop) until it got too cold," Haymes said. "I’m here because I was partying, spending my money the wrong way and wasn’t doing the right thing. I plan to get a place, love God and love me." Beauty of Hocking Hills belies potential danger \| Dispatch Hiker’s death reminder to keep on paths, on alert, officials say A second death in just a few years at Conkle's Hollow gorge, a great hiking spot. Conkle's Hollow Christmas inventory Clock table from M&D Up and running. Unlike the atomic clock from Amy's mother, I will have to set the time, so it is likely to be far less reliable as a guidance toward punctuality. f J A N U A R Y 9 , 2 0 0 4 Chipotle For dinner. The low tonight is supposed to be 9°F. A man standing out front asked for some money, for a meal, anything ... I bought him a dinner. Should I have done more? I certainly hopes he gets off the streets for the night. I can't afford to buy a room for everyone that needs one, but I would have driven him to a shelter -- I should drop in at Friends of the Homeless around the corner more often so I know what their policies are. I feel troubled in even my thermostatically-challenged home. What next? On to Mars? It is my opinion that Saddam Hussein was not deposed in the first Gulf War because no one could come up with a reasonable plan for what to do with Iraq next. The Beacon Journal in 1969 reported immediate opposition to Vice President Spiro Agnew's suggestion of following up the moon landing with a mission to Mars (targeting the years 1982-1988) due primarily to the staggering estimated cost of $100 billion. I hope the administration thinks more thoroughly about that objection than they did in (not) planning for an Iraq after the overthrow. New York Times Cooking in foreign languages Stephanie's used bookstore got in an oversized 1880s cookbook written in German, but with selected (how, they're not sure) recipes translated into English. She used the word "translated" loosely -- the English left them amused but entirely uncertain as to how to approach any of the tasks. "Tart" seemed to be an all-purpose word for whatever dish was under consideration, and the recipe that included "hedgehog" was never entirely deciphered. In the cake section, the passage on baking a hare seemed out of place. Yet turn the page, and there was the picture of a cake in the shape of a hare. So maybe they weren't as far off as it might first appear. Here's the problem! Tony was finally getting around to hooking up the legacy computer he inherited when we upgraged office hardware, and got the unpleasant Mac "?" on startup. Meaning, "I can't find a startup disk." The legacy hardware was distributed strictly as is, no warranties, no IS guys dispatched to your house to plug in the right cords, but sometimes we're nice about it. He brought the box back in, brought it over to the operating table, and we opened it up to take a look. No hard drive. None. Apparently we forgot to put it back in after we wiped it clean. Sorry about that. We found one in the server room and that computer should be far more useful in the future. 9 a.m. staff meetings are brutal -- such an ungodly hour. r J A N U A R Y 8 , 2 0 0 4 Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz An excellent Christmas gift Amazon Choir rehearsal Al brought out John Rutter's Requiem to gauge interest in performing it before Easter. It looks likely. Challenging but beautiful. Amazon Bexley afterwards.New refrigerator, new dishwasher -- a lot has changed since New Year's. Mom was upset that she had forgotten to include this cummerbund in the Christmas stocking. She suggested it would be a wonderful look for the wedding. News of wars past. w J A N U A R Y 7 , 2 0 0 4 Beautiful poem From Lisa composed for the wedding. "Perfect." - Amy Anyone listening? I.M.F. Says Rise in U.S. Debts Is Threat to World's Economy \| New York Times With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund. Nope. Ears wide shut. Administration officials have made it clear they are not alarmed about the United States' burgeoning external debt or the declining value of the dollar, which has lost more than one-quarter of its value against the euro in the last 18 months and which hit new lows earlier this week. t J A N U A R Y 6 , 2 0 0 4 Powerless Along with most of the neighborhood WBNS 10 TV Loaned Stephen next door some candles and a flashlight as we got home around midnight. Temperatures near zero plus strong winds make for an unpleasant experience during long outages. Cold & dark it was. Some days I am ready for an adventure; unfortunately this was not one of those days. It felt like an extension of the computer problem -- a breakdown in the tools I want to rely on, the tools I want to take for granted, so that I can focus my attention elsewhere and accomplish something. m J A N U A R Y 5 , 2 0 0 4 Back to work And what a struggle it is some days. Taking inventory Beautiful Christmas gift from Liz & John to Amy & me. Posted some vacation photos Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday, One Friday, Two Me too -- I can report that too! Columbus man questioned in serial shootings \| NBC4Columbus The TV station's entire report is that "a newspaper" (later revealed, unsurprisingly, to be the only major daily newspaper in the city, the Dispatch), reported that one of hundreds of people to be questioned in the case denied that he was involved. NBC4's original reporting consisted of leaving a message seeking comment from the sheriff's department. Columbus homicides up steeply in 2003 \| Dispatch graphic Regardless of corporation limits, most homicides occur in low-income areas, said David Jacobs, an Ohio State University sociology professor whose research focuses on criminal justice issues. ‘‘It’s related to social and economic status," he said. ‘‘Uppermiddle-class people don’t often kill each other." For example, Franklin County suburbs with prosperous residents, such as Dublin and Worthington, recorded no homicides in 2003. But Whitehall, where the median income was the lowest among cities in the county in the 2000 census, recorded three. Homicide total is skewed by city limits \| Columbus Dispatch n J A N U A R Y 4 , 2 0 0 4 Much driving NC, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Ohio & Ohio Wilmington, N.C. is a very pretty city (downtown certainly) with a great abundance of churches and streets lined with some wonderfully massive old trees. What it lacks in street signage (which is what led us to traverse, albeit briefly, its downtown streets), Wilmington made up for in picturesque mansions and gardens that looked enticing even in the dead of winter. You'll have to take my word on the visual quality of the place -- I resigned myself to the lack of a working camera and attempted no pictures. For as many times as I have driven through Wilmington, my grasp of the appointed directions have never amounted to more than "drive aimlessly about until you stumble on the numbered route next specified." I rarely manage the same route twice. We left not long after Peter and Allison, who had hopes of returning to DC early enough to view and perhaps bid on a house that had just come on the market in their target area. Alone on the way back to Columbus from Akron, I searched for a good radio program. Though Sunday night seems often the radio refuge of only the blandest national shows, tonight I was in luck -- a Cleveland station was playing Pipedreams, and when that disappeared in the distance the WOSU radio network was broadcasting a Harmonia program on hocket. A hocket is a musical technique in which two parts are placed one on top of the other so that when one voice stops singing the other sings, and vice versa (from Harmonia's description). I previously had no idea what a hocket was, and m-w.com (my first stop for dictionaries) couldn't offer a definition either. To Akron, then Columbus > JANUARY 01