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Frogtown Fair to promote local eco-friendliness Bring your outdated appliances, an open mind and your children to the Erie Street Market on Saturday, August 2 to celebrate Toledo’s ﬁrst environmentally friendly fair. The Division of Environmental Services has planned the Frogtown Fair to unite the myriad of environmental companies and non-proﬁts to teach homeowners what they can do to become environmentally responsible, said Marilyn Berry DuFour, an environmental specialist with the Toledo Division of Environmental Services. “We realize that we have this incredible pool of resources in the community for families that want to live more greenly and reduce their carbon footprint,” she said, adding that the purpose of the fair is to gather those resources and make them available to citizens. People who have old electronics can bring them to the festival and companies will dispose of them safely. Also, people can exchange their mercury thermometers for safer, digital ones, said Tim Murphy, Commissioner of the Division of Environmental Services. People can purchase rain barrels at the festival to catch rain from the spouts on their roofs and reuse it to water gardens, he added.

Toledo Zoo Teens are working on exhibits for children that might include a cloth river to show the damaging effects of neglected pet messes or allowing soap from a car wash to drip into drains. “We have to understand that what we put in our lawns impact that quality of the water because the rain washes it all into drains,” DuFour said. The festival already has six conﬁrmed exhibits and over 30 tentative ones that might include electricity generating bicycles, organic food, information about porous pavement and TARTA’s Biohydrogen Bus. Murphy said that while Toledo is average on environmental responsibility, the city has a lot of room to improve. “I think Toledoans are environmentally sensitive because they are boaters, they enjoy the lake and the park systems,” he said. “We just need to get the word out there a little bit more.” The Division of Environmental Services is currently looking for sponsors. For more information, contact 419-936-3015. —CM

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Lucas County’s Deputy Sheriff Jason McNett is about to get a lot more intimidating. McNett has trained at 21 Century Fitness Center since March to prepare for the qualifying round of the World’s Strongest Man Contest, which will be held in Wisconsin this August. There he will compete against 20 to 50 amateurs nationwide by lifting 225 to 400 pound boulders off the ground, walking 50 meters with canisters that weigh 225 - 275 pounds, and completing many other strength measures. If he wins the “Pro-card” (the equivalent to ﬁrst place,) in his heavyweight class, he will continue to the World’s Strongest Man Competition after another year of training. McNett can squat 915 pounds, bench 615 pounds and lift 625 pounds off the ground. McNett and 10-15 others will compete in a “Strong Man Competition” at the Lucas County Fair. —CM

Speak English with ease

If you’re having a difficult time communicating with others because English is not your first language, the Toledo Board of Jewish Education might be able to help. Enroll now into one of their free weekly English classes. The “Able” program (Adult Basic and Literacy Education) will help you speak, read and write in English with confidence. Morning classes are Mondays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. - Noon, starting Wednesday, September 3. Sylvania YMCA/JCC. 6465 Sylvania Ave. 419-724-0360. —ER

Meals on wheels

Volunteer work is rewarding and necessary in every city and Toledo is no exception. Right now, Mobile Meals needs volunteers to deliver meals in the West Toledo area during lunchtime. A non-proﬁt organization, Mobile Meals provides home-delivered meals to the elderly, ill, disabled and homebound in the Toledo area. And they wouldn’t be able to do it without community volunteers. Anyone with a car can easily pick up the meals — pick-up site is Mercy Healthcare Center, 2200 W. Jefferson Ave. — and promptly deliver them to those in need. Get involved. Call Mobile Meals today at 419-255-7806. www.mobilemeals.org. —ER

Get your glow back Moms sometimes forget to give themselves the hard-earned attention they deserve. That’s why Margo Hertzfeld, founder of Rosy Glow Beauty Company, has created a new line of beauty products designed with new mothers in mind. Hertzfeld had a baby girl, Claire in 2005, and came up with the idea of providing necessary cosmetics to beginner moms. That’s why she created Get Your Glow Back Eyes, Rosy Glow Lips and Baby Your Face wipes. Hertzfeld’s signature products work to help get your face back to its healthy condition. The products have no synthetic dyes or fragrances and are made with Rosy outlook: Margo Hertzfeld and her natural botanicals and organic daughter Claire. ingredients. “I don’t make these products in the nationally-known Web site garage by myself,” Hertzfeld said. “I www.duematernity.com. “I built my business to operate sought out a company that had a great reputation for making all natural prod- from home and be a work-at-home ucts. Consumers are more conscious mom,” Hertzfeld said. To purchase Rosy Glow products, than ever about what they put in and on their bodies and mothers are no ex- go to www.rosyglowbeauty.com or contact Margo Hertzfeld at margo@ ception.” rosyglowbeauty.com. 419-877-5069. Though Hertzfeld lives in Toledo, her business is Internet-based. Her —ER products will soon be available on the

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Rising gas and T-Town indigestion

Predictions for H2 08 by Johnny Hildo The first half of ‘08 is in the books. Like it or not, there’s a whole lot more where that came from. Never do we shy away from bold prognostication, so here’s our peek into the second half. It ain’t pretty, folks, but we calls ‘em as we sees ‘em. Here’s the bad news. Oil prices will shoot past $150 per barrel, bringing prices at the pump past the $5 mark. Get used to it. The age of cheap oil is over, and the days of $30 fill-ups are gone, too. This will continue to shake out throughout the economy, meaning continuous rise in the price of staples like food and clothing which are currently transported from across the globe. The cost of other utilities will also rise. Americans will rush to dump their SUVs in favor of alternative vehicles as their discretionary income gets eaten by more basic needs. Meanwhile the housing credit crunch will continue as mortgage lenders reel from the foreclosure crisis. The ability of folks to sell their current domiciles will continue to decline in a difficult housing market, while the ability of folks seeking home ownership to borrow money will remain stagnant.

Through the past, darkly None of this bodes well for the current state of affairs in T-Town. The short-sightedness of current leadership on the 22nd Floor enabled by the Fink-obsessed sycophants on council has banked our future on a past which they refuse to admit is dead. Want evidence? The Jeep plant, Toledo’s largest current manufacturing facility, just announced two-month layoffs of over two thousand workers due to rapidly declining sales of their products, the Wrangler and Dodge Nitro. It’ll all be OK once sales of gas guzzling adult toys rebound. Don’t hold your breath. Instead, don’t be surprised when the PowerTrain factory follows suit. The other large local employer is the health care industry. Rising costs will force health care charges to continue dou-

ble digit inflation, meaning less and less folks will be able to seek the treatments they require. Yet the chuckleheads on council refuse to properly fund CareNet for those in dire need. The Fink sails on obliviously, though, certain that the rise of an arts and entertainment district downtown will save the day. He doesn’t seem to notice the closing of retailers like Ken’s Flowers and the Monat Market along with restaurants like Quiznos and Diva. Folks use discretionary income for attending sporting events and art openings and dining in upscale culinary establishments. When they can’t afford otherwise, they order pizza and watch the game at home. Watch for further decline in spending on arts and entertainment coming to a venue near you. We could rant about the foolishness of reliance on retail at proposals like a revitalized Southwyck, but suffice it to say retail of non-essential luxury items will continue to decline as folks must tighten their budgetary belts to pay for food, shelter and transportation. The housing crisis means the Fink’s vision of attracting downtown residents has gone in the crapper. Existing condo developments sit half full, while developers of the Steam Plant have taken condos out of their plans. But Der Fink continues to push the city into receivership in homage to a Marina District plan that relies heavily on condos and retail. Quick review for the short Finkly attention span. Extravagant automobile industry on life support. Health care in crisis. Arts, entertainment, dining and retail all in decline. Housing market dead.

Future shock Now the good news. Our region sits poised to continue its emergence as a worldwide center of alternative energy technologies. Xunlight Corporation continues its growth in solar technology, as does First Solar. The University of Toledo continues the expansion of its

alternative energy engineering center. Investors from all over the world are on the brink of major investment in the Toledo area in the realm of alternative energy. This represents the best chance for a future Toledo. Solar power offers a long-term alternative and creates jobs from highly educated engineers to highly trained and skilled technicians. These are good-paying jobs that will provide discretionary income, bring population back to the area and thereby drive a new housing market. This could provide a real renaissance that drives the overall local economy. Yet the city leaders seem shocked at this future revolution in TTown. Their eyes are stuck in reverse. The short term remains bleak. But the future is just over yonder horizon. It’s up to us to pull the decrepit leadership into it.

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