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Visit Zanesville’s inaugural Y-Bridge Irish Straker

Dash event held downtown Foundation
BY LYNETTE DOTSON | THE BUZZ
Distributes
January 2026

Grants

SUBMITTED | STRAKER FOUNDATION

The J.W. & M.H. Straker Charitable
Foundation awarded just over one
million dollars in January 2026 grant
funding. This cycle included grants
of up to $150,000.00, and covered
a range of needs, from helping fire
departments upgrade equipment to
providing support for back-to-school
initiatives. Awards address youth
programming, educational needs,
poverty and homelessness, mental
health initiatives, and animal care
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Recipients of the 2026 January
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grant include the following:
• Allwell Behavioral Services;
$45,000.00; transportation;
• Bishop Fenwick Pre-School;
$21,183.74; security upgrade;
• Duncan Falls Elementary School;
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$49,411.50; playground;
• Eastside Community Ministry;
$26,146.50; back-to-school storage;
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• East Muskingum Band Boosters;
$45,000.00; transportation;
• East Muskingum Choral Program;
$28,642.00; performance
equipment;
• Ebenezer Country Church;
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$67,000.00; infrastructure upgrade;
• Falls Township Fire Department;
$55,000.00; firefighting equipment;
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• Fetch Remedy Dogs; $2,000.00;
Therapy dog training
The Y-Bridge Irish Dash held by Visit Zanesville took place on Saturday, March 14. Hundreds of participants showed up to support this first
TVHS Athletic Hall of Fame Class of • Foxfire Schools; $55,000.00; window
Country
upgrades;
time event. Lynette Dotson
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Shrivers Hospice Foundation partners with Education of
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Kick-N-Ax to raise funds for hospice patients Yesterday hosts
OUR CAKE!
19th annual Farm
BY LYNETTE DOTSON | THE BUZZ
Axe Madness, a bracket-style char- Show by Lynette Dotson
ity axe-throwing tournament benefit- #165
ing Shrivers Hospice patients in our We’re entering a cake into the
It’s that time of the year again! The
area, is coming back to Kick-N-Ax Country Crossroads Education of Yester-
40th Annual Carr Center Cake
(970 Linden Avenue, Zanesville) on day Farm Show has been educating lo-
Auction and it comes with a
March 25 at 6:00 p.m. This will be cal youth and families about how farm-
the fourth year that the event will be ing was done in the past for nearly two
sweet advertising package, one
held at Zanesville’s axe-throwing bar. decades. This year’s show will be held
year of advertising in The Buzz!
“It’s a great cause. They packed on Saturday, October 21st from 10 a.m.
the house in here that night. We to 5 p.m., and Sunday, October 22nd
enjoy doing lots of things with Shriv- from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3685 Cass
ers,” said Kick-N-Ax co-owner Dee Irish Ridge Road, Dresden (intersections
Luburgh. of SR 16 & 60).
Funds raised during the Axe Mad- The Moore family including siblings
ness event go towards making ‘pa- Kendra Moore-Hindel and Jeff Moore
tient experiences’ possible for Shriv- have continued the event that was their
father, the late Kenny Moore Jr.’s vi-
ers Hospice patients. sion. He had a passion for teaching area
“Generally not the patient that’s youth about farming and loved tractors,
asking for anything. It’s our RNs and trains, and old equipment.
our aides are building relationships “The community amazes me on
with these patients. And so when their continued support and we are
Dee Luburgh of Kick-N-Ax and Taylor Russell of Shrivers Hospice Foundation pictured in
they know that they really enjoy
Tri-Valley Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2023 pictured from left to right: Collin Prouty, Jade Hawkins Hilliard, Marcus Dempsey, Kim Waaland. blessed to continue our father’s dream
something, or they really want to do
Dan Vincent front of one of the throwing lanes at Kick-N-Ax, the location for the Axe Madness event. and visions. 19 years strong. Next year
The Buzz cake is to be auctioned on
something again before the inevita-
by Gregg Meadows Lynette Dotson will be our 20th annual farm show
ble happens, then they kind of put our RN was talking to her, and she’s Other instances, like taking a fam- and hopefully my nieces and nephews
Wed., April 22 at 4:30PM
have been exceptional. These Tri-Valley pus – the 15th class of the Tri-Valley
Since its inception 57 years ago in

a request in. And so we raise this like, ‘Could we just leave for the day?’ ily to Disney and taking a patient on will continue on in their grandfather’s
graduates are the ones who have helped High School Athletic Hall of Fame was
the fall of 1966 – when three school
Details available at
money all throughout the year to do She goes, ‘If we could leave for to- a fishing trip, have been requests dream,” explained Hindel.
form Tri-Valley’s rich athletic tradition recognized, inducted, and celebrated,
systems came together as one to form
There is so much fun to be had at
www.carrcenter.org/Events/Cake-Auction
that kind of stuff,” explained Taylor day, where do you want to go?’ She that Shrivers Hospice Foundation the Education of Yesterday Farm Show.
prior to the kickoff of the scheduled TV
and written its storied past.
the Tri-Valley school district – there have
Russell, Executive Director for Shriv- goes, ‘I think I want to go to church has been able to bring to fruition The Captain Bryant Grist Mill will be
been hundreds of Scottie student-ath-

On Friday night, Oct. 6 – in front of vs Philo football game, bringing the to-
The
ers Hospice Foundation. “One of our one more time and maybe some ice because of support gained through open with a large farm toy display on the
letes compete in interscholastic com-
a jam-packed house at Jack Anderson tal number of inductees of Scottie ath-
petition whose sustained performances cream.’ So it’s just little things like fundraising events like these. second and third floors, live equipment
patients just really wanted to get
letic giants to 60.
Stadium in Dresden on the TVHS cam-
back to church. She said, because that.”
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