Ohio Brew Week

Melody Sands
Marketing
740-591-8707
melodysands@verizon.net
info@ohiobrewweek.com

The organizers of Ohio Brew Week established the Jon Sparhawk Memorial Scholarship & Community Fund in conjunction with the Sparhawk Family and their businesses, the Oak Room and Toscano’s. The Fund was established to honor Jon Sparhawk, the originator of Ohio Brew Week. Sparhawk passed away in June 2007, just as the 2nd Ohio Brew Week was getting underway.

Brew Week organizers created the OBW Cooking Competition, held during the annual Brew Week, the third week in July, as a way to sustain and add to the Memorial Fund. Last year, the 1st Cooking Competition raised nearly $400 to start the fund. Local individuals added to the fund to put on the cooking competition and raise money for the fund as well: Contributors included: Dennis Irwin, Bob Handley, Jim Fuller, Chris Cornwell, Dr. and Mrs. Marazon and GFS Foods and U.S. Foodservices also donated product for the competition. Martha and Robert Besuden of Michigan also added to the fund.

The fund will be managed by Sparhawk family members, and an advisory board of close friends of Jon’s. It is anticipated that a scholarship to an Athens High School senior will be given every year, and that some of the fund will be used for community beautification projects.

For more information on contributing to the fund, please call Melody Sands, 740-591-8707, or Jamie Sparhawk, 740-593-8386. Or, mail contributions to: Jon Sparhawk Memorial Fund, c/o 9950 St. Rt. 682, Athens, OH 45701. Include your name, address, phone number and email, so we can keep you informed of scholarship recipients and community projects undertaken in Jon’s memory.

Organizers of Ohio Brew Week present members of the Jon Sparhawk family a check to establish the Jon Sparhawk Memorial Scholarship & Community Fund. Proceeds from the Ohio Brew Week 2nd Annual Cooking Competition will benefit the Fund this year. (front row, left to right: Grandson Jackson, Julie Sparhawk (daughter), Jeanne Sparhawk (wife), Dan Gates, Ohio Brew Week Director, Jamie Sparhawk (daughter). (Second row:) long-time friend Dennis Irwin, Kim Sands, Ohio Brew Week Sales director, and Melody Sands, Ohio Brew Week marketing director.