Community

Saturday, February 4, 9am-4pm, we will meet in Clintonville, travel together to Morrow County, and then return to Clintonville

The fracking industry disposes radioactive toxic frack waste water at high pressures into abandoned vertical oil wells, turning them into new high-volume high-pressure wells. Injection wells can be compromised and will leak eventually. Injection wells in Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Ohio are causing a growing number of earthquakes.

Thursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.; Hyatt Regency Columbus, 350 N. High St.; Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Ave.; and several other locations in Columbus

The 2017 Arnold Sports Festival will feature 18,000 athletes from 80 nations competing in a record 70 sports and events, including 14 Olympics sports.

• The 2017 Arnold Fitness Expo will feature 1,000 booths with the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition and two stages that host non-stop competitions and entertainment.

Thursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.; Hyatt Regency Columbus, 350 N. High St.; Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Ave.; and several other locations in Columbus

The 2017 Arnold Sports Festival will feature 18,000 athletes from 80 nations competing in a record 70 sports and events, including 14 Olympics sports.

• The 2017 Arnold Fitness Expo will feature 1,000 booths with the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition and two stages that host non-stop competitions and entertainment.

Thursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.; Hyatt Regency Columbus, 350 N. High St.; Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Ave.; and several other locations in Columbus

The 2017 Arnold Sports Festival will feature 18,000 athletes from 80 nations competing in a record 70 sports and events, including 14 Olympics sports.

• The 2017 Arnold Fitness Expo will feature 1,000 booths with the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition and two stages that host non-stop competitions and entertainment.

Thursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.; Hyatt Regency Columbus, 350 N. High St.; Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Ave.; and several other locations in Columbus

The 2017 Arnold Sports Festival will feature 18,000 athletes from 80 nations competing in a record 70 sports and events, including 14 Olympics sports.

• The 2017 Arnold Fitness Expo will feature 1,000 booths with the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition and two stages that host non-stop competitions and entertainment.

Thursday, March 2, 7:30-9pm, Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio [inside of Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church], 2350 Indianola Ave.

Join us for an engaging and fun introduction to Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the Language of the Heart, led by Susanna Warren and Pat De Silva or other Compassionate Communication practitioners.

Saturday, February 25, 5-7pm, MCL Kingsdale, 3154 Kingsdale Center, Upper Arlington, Ohio

Come out and join us for dinner and conversation! We’ll be in the back room unless there’s a special event going on in that room.

Saturday, February 25, 2:30-5:30pm, Rambling House Soda, 310 E. Hudson St.

We’re celebrating a quarter century! Join us in a new neighborhood venue, the lively Rambling House, makers of soda, dispensers of spirits, and home to the blues and fine local bluegrass music!

Come meet our new board members and say hello to those you know! Let’s again sip soup and break bread together, as we did last year, and continue our tradition of being “The Best Potluck in Town.”

The second annual Carol Fisher Civic Engagement Award will be given; the honoree will be announced soon!

Wednesday, February 22, 8pm, Rambling House Soda, 310 E. Hudson St.

Word Church is a poetry reading held the last Wednesday of every month at 8pm at Rambling House Soda, 310 E. Hudson St. Bring your poetry, get your rhyme on, and meet some interesting people.

Sunday, February 19, 6:30-8:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.