Hilltop Highlights
October 2022

The Shalom Zone is excited to present Hilltop Highlights, a monthly newsletter that will provide our community with events, resources, and short stories. To submit an event, story, or resource, please click here to fill out the Hilltop Highlights form.

Another beautiful mural being dedicated here on the Hilltop. Sarah Hout is the artist who, with her team, painted this mural that was selected by the community on behalf of the Hilltop Arts Collective. Check them out at hilltoparts.org

Join MY Leaders! This Program Is For YOUth!!!

If you are age 14-18

• tired of guns, gangs, drugs, violence, injustice and more in your community

• want to organize your friends

• want to advocate against it

• want to help your peers be strong and stay safe

• want to work with State, City and community leaders

• want to engage media & be vocal about it

• want to do something else about it

Saturdays: 10 am - 3 pm

Hilltop Youth Empowerment Center

3275 Sullivant Ave. Columbus, 43204

Wednesdays: 6-8 pm

Apply To Join Us Today!

https://forms.gle/FGntBuhAvKzQ6dRE8

Program Starts on October 15. Space is limited

• Application Deadline: October 5, 2022

• Questions: info@myprojectusa.org; 614-971-9375

Highland Youth Garden Updates

FALL FESTIVAL
4-7 pm, Wednesday, October 19, at the garden, 67 S. Highland Ave.
Free activities for everyone!

GARDEN CLUB AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Free! Register at highlandyouthgarden.org

The West Side Free Store has their annual coat giveaway 10am-2 pm on Saturday, Oct. 22. The Free Store is located at Westgate United Methodist Church, 61. S. Powell.

Marburn Education Collaborative is offering Free Early Reading Screenings and reduced cost Orton-Gillingham reading tutoring at our Columbus West location (1650 Watermark Drive, Suite 120). For more information, email Tom Savage at tsavage@marburnacademy.org

Are you registered to vote? Do you need to check your polling location? Want to know who is on the ballot? Go here and get engaged: linktr.ee/hilltopvotes

Great opportunity for Hilltop residents, sponsored by Hilltop based A Step in the Right Direction (intherightdirection.org)

Christo Rey Catholic School Open House Oct. 30

This private school is committed to the education of students from low-income families. Please visit www.crchsworks.org to learn more.

Community meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 6:00-7:30 pm, at the Hilltop Library

The Columbus Safety Collective is an organization that is pushing for a non-police crisis response program. The Shalom Zone is hosting a community conversation facilitated by the collective to share their idea and to hear directly from community residents about their perspective around what are the best ways to respond when someone is having a mental health crisis. You can find out more about their work at linktr.ee/columbussafetycollective.

Westside Tire Roundup

Do you know where tires have been dumped? Please bring them to one of the locations listed below on Saturday October 29th from 9AM-1PM. Help remove illegally dumped tires from our communities.

Franklinton Board of Trade (1089 West Broad Street 43222)

Vacant American Auto Lot (1400 Sullivant Avenue 43223)

Central Outreach Wellness Clinic (2680 West Broad Street 43204)

For more information, please contact:

Rebecca Hunley: fancivicassociation@gmail.com / 614-595-0285

Malik Moore: mmore@columbuslibrary.org / 215-900-1597

Thanks to the community partners: Franklinton Area Neighbors (FAN), Franklinton Board of Trade, South Central Hilltop Block Watch, Franklinton Area Commission, Greater Hilltop Area Commission, and Department of Neighborhoods. Thanks to the sponsors: Ohio EPA, Franklin County Municipal Court, Keep Columbus Beautiful, and Willig Tire.

October 2022

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