Competition reveals career path for artist
Themes of the pandemic captured the minds of artists for this year’s Scholastic Art Awards Miami Valley Region, hosted by K12 Gallery and TEJAS — including Chaminade Julienne senior Chloe Proffitt.
As a distance learner, Proffitt was challenged to create differently than last year’s efforts, which earned her two Silver Key awards.
“New freedoms of time and working from home were difficult at first, but it opened me up to new mediums like sewing and cardboard construction work,” said Proffitt.
“Exploring these categories led me to realize my love for fashion design, which I will now be majoring in at Kent State in the
fall.”
Trying new mediums also garnered Proffitt another three awards this year, including Gold Key.
“I worked with the theme of ‘escapism’ a lot,” she said. “My eyes were growing tired of seeing the same environment everyday so I built a three-story townhouse
out of recycled materials and used the process to give my mind the escape it so desperately needed.”
Six other CJ students joined Proffitt in earning recognition for their works of art.
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The city of Troy will hold the annual Spring Neighborhood Clean-Up Week April 12-16.
To help residents clean up their yards and home, yard waste disposal rules will be changed to allow for disposal of additional trash and yard waste.
During this week, residents can exceed the capacity of the city trash cart and place additional bagged household refuse for collection. Items placed in cardboard boxes will not be collected. The refuse should be placed out on the regular trash collection day but placed a few feet from the cart.
Brush and yard waste rules also will be relaxed for this week. The brush and waste can be placed at the curb without being bundled and tied or placed in a biodegradable bag.
Items that are suitable for recycling should be placed in the recycling container.
Anyone with questions about the clean up week is asked to call 937-335-1914.
NANCY BOWMAN,
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Gov. Mike DeWine visited Clark County’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Upper Valley Mall on Thursday and called the operation “very impressive.”
The governor has been visiting vaccination clinics across the state over the course of the last couple of months. He called the clinic “very impressive” and said operations were “absolutely amazing.”
“I looked up the statistics. I knew Clark County was doing well, but so far, Clark County has given close to 27,000 first doses. That puts them out of 88 counties, 10th in the state,” DeWine said. “That’s absolutely amazing.”
He was welcomed Thursday by Clark County Combined Health District Commissioner Charles Patterson, Clark County Commissioner Richard Lohnes, City of Springfield Commissioner David Estrop and others.
DeWine said he talks on the phone with Patterson, who runs the clinic, every Monday in order “get some data from him and find out what kind of challenges the county is experiencing and what we can do to help.”
“I just want to congratulate the Clark County Health Department for the job that they are doing here. It’s absolutely phenomenal,” DeWine said.
Patterson told DeWine the clinic plans to give 8,000 vaccinations this week, over half of which will be second doses for K-12 school district
employees.
“We appreciate the support that the governor has given us with the amount of vaccine. This is three weeks in a row that we have gotten 3,500 first doses. We got notice that we are going to receive 3,500 additional first doses for next week so we can keep this moving,” Patterson said.
The clinic has the ability to vaccinate up to 10,000 people in a single week, Patterson said.
“It all goes back to the amount of vaccine we get and the support of the governor,” Patterson said.
Mic Digionia, owner of Crown Market in Springfield,
said he spoke with the governor after he received his shot.
“I’m just so proud of the governor and I’m especially proud of our community and what we have done here,” Digionia said. “This is really something to be proud of.”
Vaccine eligibility opened Thursday to Ohioans ages 50 and older as well as people with type 2 diabetes and endstage renal disease.
Those also eligible include childcare and funeral services, law enforcement and correction officers, pregnant people, bone marrow transplant recipients and people with ALS or type 1 diabetes who were made eligible for
the vaccine March 4.
Residents eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine can schedule an appointment by calling the health district at 937717-2439 or can schedule online at ccchd.com.
Clark County had 12,465 cases of the coronavirus as of Thursday afternoon, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health. The county also had 319 deaths and 16 probable deaths as of Friday, according to data from the CCCHD. Deaths are updated once a week.