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Jan. 21, 2025
Contact: Dominique Shank, Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, 614-512-0049
Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Centers to Help Residents Keep Warm
COLUMBUS – With the bitterly cold temperatures continuing, Columbus Recreation and Parks Department will open warming centers at five community centers for a third day to give residents a place to keep warm. The following community centers will be open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22:
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Barnett Community Center, 1184 Barnett Rd., 43227
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Dodge Community Center, 667 Sullivant Ave., 43215
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Linden Community Center, 1350 Briarwood Ave., 43211
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Marion Franklin Community Center, 2801 Lockbourne Rd., 43207
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Thompson Community Center, 1189 Dennison Ave., 43201
All other community centers will be open during normal business hours; residents can visit any center during normal business hours. Find a community center near you.
Note: The department does reserve the right to activate/deactivate warming center locations as needed.
To stay healthy and safe in extremely cold weather, Columbus Public Health suggests:
- Try to stay indoors. If you must go outdoors, make trips brief, dress in several layers of loose clothing and wear a hat and gloves.
- Stay dry and out of the wind.
- Cover your mouth to protect your lungs from extreme cold.
- Watch for signs of frostbite and hypothermia such as slurred speech, confusion, uncontrollable shivering, stumbling, drowsiness and body temperature of less than 95°. Get immediate medical attention if you think someone has frostbite or hypothermia.
- Keep emergency supplies in your car.
- Check on elderly family, friends and neighbors.
- Bring pets indoors.
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