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Locals named to OSBA Board of Governors

COLUMBUS − Janice Allen Baughman and Wendi Fowler recently started three-year terms on the Ohio State Bar Associations Board of Governors.

Baughman, an attorney and managing partner of Allen & Baughman of Zanesville, will be an at-large member. She was previously a representative for District 9. She is a past secretary of the Muskingum County Bar Association’s Probate and Grievance committees and is a past president of the Perry County Bar Association. She did her undergraduate work at Ohio University and got her law degree from Capital University Law School.

Fowler will represent District 9, which includes Coshocton, Fairfield, Knox, Licking, Muskingum and Perry counties. She's assistant vice president and trust officer at Park National Bank in Mount Vernon. She's also a member of the Ohio Bar’s Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section Council and of the Knox County Bar Association. She did her undergraduate work at Earlham College and got a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

ZMA receives grant

ZANESVILLE − The Zanesville Museum of Art has received a grant from the Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund to hire paid education interns. The interns will be working on the fourth grade Exploring Ohio's History Through Art program; including evaluating, reviewing and revising the existing curriculum.

During school field trips to the museum, the paid interns will be responsible for directing students through the ZMA’s galleries while completing activities that reinforce core social studies standards taught in the classroom. Upon completion of the EOHTA curriculum, the paid interns will summarize and analyze the results, making adjustments to continually improve the curriculum.

New doctor joins Genesis

ZANESVILLE − Dr. Kinan Kassar recently joined Genesis Heart and Vascular Group, specializing in interventional cardiology.

Kassar earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Damascus in Damascus, Syria. He then completed an internal medicine residency, a cardiology fellowship and a combined interventional cardiology and structural cardiology fellowship at West Penn Alleghany Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

His office is on the first floor of the Genesis Heart and Vascular Institute, 955 Bethesda Drive. New patients are being accepted. Call 740-454-0804 for an appointment.

Genesis opens new COVID-19 testing site

ZANESVILLE − Genesis HealthCare System is opening a new COVID-19 testing site on Monday at the former Genesis FirstCare-South, 23 Maysville Pike. Testing will be available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Upon arrival to the testing location, patients should remain in their vehicles and call the number on the side of the building to be registered. All those entering Genesis facilities must continue to wear masks, in keeping with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for healthcare facilities.

Testing is also available at Genesis FirstCare-North and Genesis FirstCare-New Lexington. Go to genesishcs.org/covid-19 for more information.

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