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Worthington - Santa Claus is coming to town - Sunday for the  Holiday Open House and Christmas Tree Lighting (a pdf from Worthington.org the city of Worthington website with all the details.) 

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus and Worthington is a city, not a town but Santa Claus will be in Worthington on on Sunday

Sunday November 29, 2009 Open House in the shops and restaurants on High Street in Worthington from Noon to 5:30.

Santa Claus will be hanging out at the Worthington Inn, outfront in the sleigh. The Worthington Inn is at 649 High St. Worthington, Ohio, 43085

Christmas Tree Lighting at 5:30 PM on the southeast corner of the  Worthington Green.  The Worthington.org document says:

"At 5:30 p.m. gather at the southeast Village Green to watch as hundreds of lights illuminate the sky for Worthington’s annual tree lighting ceremony. Festivities include a visit from Santa, the lighting of candles and the singing of traditional holiday carols."

The photo is the window of Zettler Hardware in Worthington in 2008.  Zettler Hardware is at 661 High St, Worthington, Ohio 43085. Photo is George Campbells, geocam20000's photostream 

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Worthington's Walnut Grove Cemetery is 150 years old.  There is a celebration at the historic cemetery on Sunday June 7, 2009 from 1:00 to 3:00.

The cemetery is 5561 Milton Avenue in Worthington, Ohio.  Just north of the southern border of Worthington and the city of Columbus. Cemetery Road will take you to Milton Avenue or you can get to it from W. Lincoln Rd.The Walnut Grove Cemetary is adjacent to the Davis Estate neighborhood on the south end of Worthington.  Antrim Park is on the west side of Walnut Grove Cemetery.

The Walnut Grove Cemetery had a float in the Worthington Memorial Day Parade this year. There is a picture of the float in the Slideshow link below.  There is also a picture of a lady dressed up as 150 years ago...The lady with the  long white dress and the parasol? Would that be how ladies in Worthington Ohio c. 1849 would dress?

Worthington Memorial Day Parade 2009 Slide Show

Mapping Monday... Columbus Ohio 

Memorial Day 2009

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

There's the traditional Worthington Memorial Day Parade on Monday of course.  The route is west from Dublin Granville Road at Morning Street to High Street and south to the Walnut Grove Cemetery. 

The Worthington Memorial Day parade starts at 10:00 A.M.The Worthington Memorial Day Parade is sponsored by the American Legion Leasure - Blackston Post 239 Worthington Ohio.

The grand marshalls for the 2009 Worthington Memorial Day Parade are twin brothers who grew up in on a farm north of Worthington and served in World War II, Don and Ron Dill, according to an article about the 2009 Worthington Memorial  Day Parade in the Worthington edition of This Week Community Newspaper.  

My slideshow of the 2007 Worthington Memorial Day Parade

I missed the 2008 Worthington Memorial Day Parade. For years we were  in the parade... HER Realtors® Worthington Office now known as Real Living HER Worthington would walk in the parade, throw candy (lotsa candy) and we had the HER Realtors® Caliope in the parade... sometimes Herley the Bear the company mascot would be in the parade.

After the parade Monday there is a ceremony  on the mound in the Walnut Grove Cemetery.

Sunday graves of veterans will be decorated at two local cemeteries by members of the American Legion. 

Monday morning at 6 AM there is a service on the Village Green where the flag is lowered to half staff and a canon is fired.  According to the This Week Community News article written by Candy Brooks: " The ceremony is repeated at St. John, Flint, Resurrection, and Kingwood cemeteries, the Worthington fire station, the Sharon Township Memorial building and the Post 239 home at 700 Morning St."

More about the Worthington area

Riverlea is pronounced River - lee (my memorial Day Slide Show was taken in Riverlea)

Central Ohio neighborhoods "Who Lives Here?"

A New England Village in Central Ohio

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

Green like lush green... Not like green like ecological.  The warm summer weather in the next eight to ten weeks will change the brown grass we have now into lush green grass... and the trees will sprout leaves... magically.

The 2007 Worthington Memorial Day Parade.  This slideshow is actually in Riverlea on High Street not in Worthington... or is the street still Worthington? Thinking about it we were on the front lawn in Riverlea and the parade was in Worthington?

Music alert. Turn the music down on the far right button on the bottom of the slideshow if necessary.

It is hard to believe how green it will be in a few months. Someone was looking at this video today... and I am recycling it.

The 2009 Worthington Memorial Day Parade will be on Memorial Day. I can't wait.  

More about the Worthington area

Riverlea is pronounced River - lee

Central Ohio neighborhoods "Who Lives Here?"

A New England Village in Central Ohio

An upcoming Worthington Halloween event is  "Family Night" in Worthington at the Orange Johnson House yard from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on Saturday October 25, 2008.

The City of Worthington website's Halloween Festivities page  promises:

• scarecrow making
• apple pressing
• apple snapping
• ghost stories

Wonder what "apple snapping" is?

Orange Johnson House - Map

About the Orange Johnson House - Worthington Ohio

The evening before Worthington Ghost Tour - October 24, 2008 an adult walking tour of Worthington with a spooky feel.

Adult entertainment in Worthington? A walking tour of "spooky" Old Worthington is scheduled for Friday,  October 24, 2008. The City of Worthington announcement on "Halloween Festivities" says "In partnership with Friends of the Worthington Public Library, we will present a downtown tour of historical fascination and ghostly tales, intended for adults."  

Don't worry about leaving out the kids... for the whole family ...a family night on Saturday the 25th in the yard at The Orange Johnson house.... details on the City of Worthington Website (on the Halloween Festivities page.)

Experience Columbus says the adult event is 7-10 PM Friday, October 24, 2008  - Worthington Ghost Tours 2008 

The Ghost Tour starts at the Old Rectory at 50 W New England Avenue - Map    (the corner of Oxford and New England.)

Worthington is a historic community...  there's bound to be ghosts...

Worthington Ohio - A Ghost Town

A New England Village in Central Ohio

Haunted House

I must admit I watched the parade from a front lawn of a house in the Village of Riverlea.  Riverlea is surrounded by Worthington and the Olentangy river.

Bands from both Worthington Kilbourne and Thomas Worthington as well as the OSU Alumni Band and a bagpipe band were in the parade this year. There were a number of Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, a swim club, pom pom girls and baton twirlers from Central Ohio in the parade.

A New England Village in Central Ohio

More about Worthington Ohio - Including a real video from Real Living

Worthington Ohio