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SUMMER HOURS An The News will close INDEPENDENT Fridays at 1 p.m. JOURNAL of NEWS during the summer, until and OPINION Labor Day. YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS SI NCE 1880 YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO T HURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 VO LUME 136, NUMBER 29 PRICE: $1.50 Communal breakfast at risk By Dylan Taylor-Lehman operation. A letter was sent to the owner the following day requiring that he suspend “I’m not much into making a big deal food service operations. about it,” said Lamar Spracklen, owner of The recent drama is familiar to Byrnes. the Yellow Springs Country Bed and Break- Byrnes served donation-only breakfasts fast. “It’s not bothering anybody. It’s a place out of her home in Yellow Springs through where neighbors can visit and enjoy each 2012 before the meals likewise drew visits other’s company. In my opinion, it’s none of from both the county and the Village of the health department’s business.” Yellow Springs. In that instance, the prob- Spracklen is referring to the recent lem was one of zoning. Serving breakfast request by the Greene County health constituted what some felt was a commer- department that the bed and breakfast cial enterprise. As a result, a special zoning suspend a weekly tradition. Every Tuesday meeting was convened in February 2012 morning, chef Norah Byrnes prepares a to consider rezoning her neighborhood to lavish breakfast at the bed and breakfast. accommodate the meals. The idea was not Homemade casseroles, pies, fruit, quiches, well received. The increased traf�c made and pastries are common fare. The meal is parking more dif�cult and disrupted the unadvertised, open to anyone, and indepen- tranquility of an otherwise quiet residential dent of the meals offered to guests staying neighborhood, according to citizens who at the bed and breakfast on Hilt Road. spoke at the meeting. Repeated dust-ups Spracklen said the Tuesday breakfasts led Byrnes to stop serving breakfast within are much more akin to “friends dropping the village entirely. by where there happens to be food” than The more recent complaints, however, the goings on of a proper restaurant. are not about zoning issues. “I’ve had no “There is no menu. It’s donation only. one express concern about Norah’s break- You pay what you think the breakfast is fasts,” said Miami Township Zoning Inspec- worth,” he explained. “I don’t know what tor Richard Zopf. “The health department is anybody gives. Some give more than it’s the fundamental objector.” worth, some don’t give anything. Some The current breakfast situation is dicey come because they don’t have any money, because it straddles a few competing food and some come because they are not com- service regulations. Both Spracklen and PHOTO BY MATT MINDE fortable in restaurants.” the health department referenced the same Out on a high note But last Tuesday, the Greene County code in justifying their respective actions. Health Department stopped by the bed Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3717.42 B2 Students and teachers alike performed last Friday, July 10, in the Yellow Springs Summer Music Camp orchestra. The two-week and breakfast to investigate after receiving exempts a private home operating as a bed camp, which was founded by local music educator Shirley Mullins 51 years ago, attracts students from all around the Miami a complaint on Monday that the establish- and breakfast from licensing requirements Valley (with one from Florida this year). Campers will perform the “Grande Finale” concert at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 18, in ment was serving breakfast illegally, said if the home is owner-occupied, there are no front of Mills Lawn School, or in the gym in case of rain. Look for camp musicians selling baked goods and busking around town Debbie Leopold, Director of Environmental more than six bedrooms and 16 or fewer from 10 a.m. to noon that day as a fundraiser for the camp. Pictured above are, from left, teacher Alex Moore, Antonio Chaiten, Health Services for the Greene County guests, and breakfast is the only meal Sophie Hannes, Sean Adams and Adeline McKay. See more photos at ysnews.com. Combined Health District. Complaints served. about food safety issues are taken very The health department contends that the seriously, she explained, hence the prompt Yellow Springs Country Bed and Breakfast visit. The health department found that the is not owner-occupied, as Spracklen does bed and breakfast was not following proto- Dylan, Angelou in WYSO archives col necessary to be a licensed food service CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 By Megan Bachman the country. Ellis said she “thanked the by a Watergate special. Another simply says radio gods” for the chance to preserve “Bob Dylan house party 1962.” Talks by Martin Luther King Jr., Mar- local civil rights history, especially since The archive features music programs, New faces in local schools garet Mead, President Lyndon B. John- WYSO was the smallest station to receive documentaries, lectures, concerts, poetry son, Cesar Chavez, Abbie Hoffman and the funding. The grant has since been dis- readings and experimental radio programs. By Diane Chiddister during which she has increased the number Zbigniew Brzezinski. Poetry readings by continued. There is a Black Panther Party Seminar, of female athletes in Huber Heights, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. Record- “We submitted 200 tapes for approval and a concert about the struggle of Asians in Five new teachers were introduced to the according to Basora. She was hired at Level ings from a 1965 Vietnam Colloquium at we hadn’t even listened to them,” Ellis said. America, an interview with Arthur Morgan, school board and community at last week’s III, Step 10, at $60,099 a year. Antioch College. Concerts by Bob Dylan, “They approved all 200.” interviews about the Kent State shootings regular meeting of the Yellow Springs “What you’re doing here is exciting. I Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs and the Beatles. At the time, the tapes could not be played and Gegner barbershop incidents, record- Board of Education. The board approved feel fortunate to be here,” Lohmeyer told The recently-released WYSO 91.3–FM at the risk of ruining them, so WYSO ings from the 1960 Newport Music Festival, one-year contracts for the teachers for the the board. digital archive features more than 200 employees had to sort by tape labels and programs about the Weather Underground upcoming school year. Chastity Miller, who worked in the district hours of aural history from the 1950s to the program guides. On one tape a 1973 Yellow “As administrators, hiring great teach- last year as an aide and did her student 1970s, documenting the central role that Springs School Board meeting is taped over CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 ers and support staff members is the most teaching in Yellow Springs, was hired as a Yellow Springs and Antioch College played important and impactful work we do,” teacher for special needs students at Mills in the national civil rights, women’s rights Superintendent Mario Basora stated in his Lawn, a new teaching position created to and anti-war movements as well as the rock report to the board. meet increased special education services at n’ roll and folk music eras. It’s now acces- Jennifer Clark, who was the longterm Mills Lawn, according to Basora. Miller was sible at www.wyso.org/archive. substitute for former fourth-grade teacher hired at Level I, Step 1, at $28,488 a year. Turning the moldy, deteriorating reel-to- Ben Trumbull last year and is a district Rebecca Eastman was hired as the sci- reel tapes found in a damp storage room parent, was hired as a special education ence teacher for seventh and eighth grad- at WYSO into crystal-clear digital record- teacher for Mills Lawn. ers at McKinney Middle School, taking the ings available online wasn’t easy. It took As a long-term substitute, Clark “exceeded position of Jack Hatert, who is this year six years and more than $100,000 in grant our expectations. She had an immediately returning to the position of assistant to the money to digitize, catalogue and post the positive impact on our parents and students,” principal at McKinney and the high school, initial batch of recordings, which represent Basora wrote in his report. Clark was hired and will also take the newly created posi- less than 5 percent of WYSO’s archive of at Level I, Step 4, at $41,730 a year. tion as PBL Foundation teacher. According 5,000 tapes, cassettes, �oppy disks, DATs, Hired to replace Trumbull in fourth to Basora, Eastman has served in several minidisks and CDs, according to WYSO grade was Brian Knostman, who brings to longterm substitute teaching jobs at Mills general manager Neenah Ellis this week. the job 10 years experience in a Dayton- Lawn and the high school and “she was “When we found the tapes I realized we area charter school and a strong interest highly successful in these roles.” Eastman needed a miracle to get these saved,” Ellis in project-based learning, according to was hired at Level III, Step 2, at $43,246 a said, adding that the process of preserving Basora. In Basora’s report, he said former year. history continues. colleagues described Knostman as a Ettamarie Valdez, a YSHS graduate and “This is going to be a long project, but “leader who was the steady rock in an oth- the parent of a student, was hired as the it’s our history,” Ellis said. “It’s the history erwise tumultuous environment with lots study hall aide at the McKinney Middle of the college, a history of the village and of changes constantly happening around School.

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