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Dine 419 for vets, sparks of history

Sarah Ottney on restaurants helping house veterans and Lou Hebert on preserving a piece of Toledo history at Champion Spark Plug. page 3

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DON LEE

Dine 419 for vets

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en Leslie is the type of person who sees a problem and sets to work doing something about it.

Three years ago, he found out a $750 rental deposit was all that was preventing four chronically homeless local veterans from moving into voucher-assisted housing provided by the U.S. government.

He realized the simple problem had a simple solution: find money to pay the deposit to the landlord, pushing those veterans —and others like them — over the threshold into housing.

The next morning, Leslie called ProMedica to ask for $26,250 in pilot funding from the Toledo Community Foundation’s ProMedica Advocacy Fund. Knowing veterans were Sarah Ottney waiting, he also asked to have the usual threemonth due diligence process waived.

Seven days later, ProMedica came through with full funding. Three days after that, the first veteran family moved out of a shelter into housing.

Eleven days from idea to implementation.

“Black ops speed,” Leslie calls it.

Just like that, Veterans Matter was born.

“Our goal is simply to house as many veterans as we can, as fast as we can,” Leslie said. “Even one more night in a shelter is way too many for us.”

He makes it seem so simple. But that’s what he does.

He’s part realist, part idealist, the type of guy who dreams of ending veteran homelessness — and doesn’t let a little statistic like 57,000 homeless veterans still to go get him down.

Leslie is a comedian, but behind the jokes and jabs is a heart of pure gold and an unwavering passion for those he calls the unhoused. He knows what it’s like. He was one of them once.

Leslie soon discovered Toledo’s problem was a national problem, and Veterans Matter chapters have since started in 16 states with 517 veterans housed so far.

John Mellencamp, Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, Susan Sarandon, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, Ice-T, Stevie Nicks, Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn, Willie Nelson and others have all opened their wallets and lent their names and voices in support.

Next month, dozens of local restaurants will join the fight.

Dine 419, a new week-long restaurant fundraising event, will raise money for Veterans Matter. You can help simply by going out to eat.

Participating restaurants so far include Bar 145°, Burger Bar 419, The Beirut, Black Pearl, The Blarney Irish Pub, Byblos, Hollywood Casino Toledo (Final Cut Steak & Seafood and Scene), La Scola Italian Grill, McDonald’s, Poco Piatti, Table Forty4 and Ye Olde Durty Bird. Hollywood Casino Toledo is the presenting sponsor. Toledo Free Press is the media sponsor.

“I just realized that I have a key to my own place, I know where I am going to be sleeping tonight,” reads a framed letter from a veteran in Leslie’s office. “It is like the stress of the last several years has been lifted off my shoulders at once.”

Let’s help Leslie show more veterans what their service means to us.

Mark your calendars for Feb. 23-March 1 and join me at the table.

For more information, turn to page 17 or visit www.dine419.org. O Sarah Ottney is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. She can be reached at sottney@toledofreepress.com or on Twitter at @sarahottney.

LOST IN TOLEDO

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hen West Toledoan Jeff Schneider began Glass, Auto-Lite, Buckeye Brewing, Toledo Scales, Chevrolet, working for Champion Spark Plug in 1970, Mather Spring, Questor, Interlake Steel, American Ship and Champion, just to name a few. he was doing what so many other But as many of these industrial giants fell young men and women of the area had done to the winds of economic change over the before him: securing a job and paycheck at a years, the list shortened considerably. Some successful Toledo factory that promised good of the names remain. Most do not. What wages, a pension and a future. were once proud temples of American inAnd like so many others, Schneider foldustry and productivity have closed their lowed other family members into the Chamgates forever, their workers and legacies furpion family of workers. In Schneider’s case, loughed to fate. As factories closed down or his father had worked for Champion for moved out of town, they were erased from decades before him and his mother had also the local landscape, their bricks and steel worked there for a time. and dreams reduced to piles of rubble.

Schneider’s story is not unusual. For Toledo Lou HEBERT And so it was for Champion Spark Plug in the 900 was a city that flourished with industry and opportunity for over a century. Those in need of a paycheck could usually block of Upton, between Dorr Street and Nebraska Avenue. find one among the long list of the big smokestack compa- Felled by wrecking machines more than a decade ago, the nies that called Toledo home: Willys-Overland, Doehler- buildings’ remains still lie in broken pieces. n HEBERT CONTINUES ON 4 Jarvis, Sheller-Globe, DeVilbiss, Libbey-Owens-Ford, Libbey Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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ere we go with all the “new beginnings” talk — the resolutions and awesome goals that year after year go along with a change in a number on the calendar.

When I am in my car with the heater on and still freezing and see a svelte runner out in below-zero temps, it does not encourage me to exercise more. I use social media a lot to get our message out about our military and veterans and to educate on invisible wounds. But all the posts and comments and tweets about how one person is shaking it up with healthy concoctions in their blender don’t make me want to rush out and buy kale. I don’t care that one celebrity ate a rare fruit that looks like it should be thrown away and pounds just dropped off!

Why? Because I cannot relate to any of these people. It doesn’t hit home with me that I might have icicles hanging from my hair and enjoy the Pam Hays experience. I can’t imagine putting kale together with fruit and saying, “Yum!” I don’t have celebrity status and the money that goes along with it for the injections and surgeries that probably help more than some magical fruit to get in such great shape. So, what does all of this have to do with our veterans? After all, I am not a health adviser or a nutritionist. Quite the opposite, as I believe pizza is a “food group.”

The point is, if we can’t personally relate to something it is much more difficult for us to become involved or offer support. Many civilians know very little about military life for the enlisted or the family that serves beside them or what it is like after service to be a veteran in the United States. False presumptions by the 99.5 percent who never served in the military can lead to misunderstandings between civilians and veterans. Bridging that gap is how I have spent a great deal of my time in the past five years. It is why I have this column, which is read by both groups, in hopes that education will reduce the myths because myths lead to stigma and stigma leads to our military, veterans and their families missing the opportunity to have their needs met and to live quality lives.

So, why would YOU — someone who doesn’t want to join the military or someone who has not had direct contact with anyone in the military except maybe an uncle twice removed from a different generation — want to become more acquainted with our veterans and learn a bit more, maybe even volunteer, join a committee or bring education to your school or workplace?

Look around. Every single day, you say and do things that are based on a freedom that our military has had to defend. Our country would be vastly different without those freedoms. Don’t just consider those freedoms talked about the most, for example, religion. Break it down so the freedoms you call upon every day become real to you. You must become inspired and relate it to your life to truly begin to understand the sacrifices our military has made over generations so you can live life as you choose today.

You like to download music on your device, right? That is a freedom many in this world do not have nor do they have the freedom to connect on social media or own a phone. When you go to the grocery store, you have the freedom to choose from items that others around the world will never know even exist. If you hate your job, you can do almost anything in this country with the will and the hard work it takes to succeed. That is a freedom! Want one child, 10 children or no children at all? You are free to make that choice and no one is dictating what sex of child you can keep and what sex gets tossed away like garbage. Don’t like the way our country is going? You have a freedom to vote for your choice; a freedom lacking for many of our fellow humans. This is how you can begin to personally relate to what it means to defend your freedoms. Make a goal in 2015 to be more conscious of the freedoms you use every day. Think more about how freedoms are defended and what your life would look like if you did not have the ability to make the choices you do every day.

I hope this will open your heart to learning more about the cost of freedom and to reaching out and becoming more involved. Please let me know how I can help you and people you know learn more and become more involved. 2015 — the Year of Freedom Awareness. O Pam Hays is president and founder of The Arms Forces, thearmsforces.org; (419) 891-2111.

A Toledo tradition since 2005 ToledoFreePress.com n HEBERT CONTINUED FROM 3 For Schneider and others who spent much of their lives in that factory, the rubble is a bittersweet reminder of what Toledo used to be. In some ways, it’s an insult to thousands of men and women who devoted their lives to a company and product once synonymous with the city’s proud industrial heritage.

Champion moved to Toledo in 1910 from Boston, when owners Robert and Frank Stranahan cut a deal to provide all of the spark plugs for Willys-Overland in Toledo, and later for Ford in Detroit. Over nine decades, Champion employed thousands of Toledo workers and produced millions of spark plugs used in vehicles around the world. The Champion badge and brand were as famous as Jeep.

By the 1990s though, the Stranahan family had sold the company to Cooper Industries, where it was then spun off to Federal-Mogul, which moved its operations completely out of Toledo.

Soon after, the buildings were reduced to heaps of brick and steel.

On a recent urban expedition back to the ignoble brick pile at Upton and Nebraska, Schneider and a fellow former Champion worker Tim Lohman went looking for the coveted symbol of that one-time industrial icon, namely the 1916 cornerstone.

They had been told it was still there, but weren’t sure where it might be amid the jumble of junk. Eventually, they spotted it.

“It was just lying in the debris,” Schneider said. “It was exciting. I started jumping up and down and couldn’t believe we had actually found it.”

The granite stone was intact. The only thing missing was the time capsule of green glass. Only a few shards were left in the hollowed-out compartment where it must have been placed. It’s not certain what might have been inside or who took it.

What Schneider and Lohman were certain of was that they had to get the stone out of the debris field. Within a few months, including a call to Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s office, the former coworkers hatched a plan to rescue the

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Park idea ‘right on target’

I read Lou Hebert’s column and found it to be thought-provoking and right on target. I agree that the Marina District would be an excellent choice for developing a beautiful riverside park. I even thought that ProMedica might be persuaded to donate money toward the project as a goodwill act for having to use some of the green space for their parking garage. With this project the East side would be included in the development of

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n TWO FORMER CHAMPION SPARK PLUG WORKERS FOUND THE FORMER FACTORY’S CORNERSTONE IN THE RUBBLE OF THE DEMOLISHED PLANT ON UPTON AVENUE AND HOPE TO FIND A PLACE TO DISPLAY IT.

500-pound block of stone from the grip of the ruins. Kaptur was eager to help in the effort, as her mother Anastasia was an early and longtime worker at Champion and Kaptur herself had worked there during her summer breaks from college.

Last fall, the plan turned to action.

With a front-end loader from A.A. Boos construction, the big stone was lifted from the dirt and debris and set onto a rental trailer. Within minutes, the iconic block was whisked away from an uncertain fate. It now sits in an undisclosed location ready for a new future.

What that future may be is still undecided. Schneider hopes it will be one that helps tell the story of Champion Spark Plug and the thousands of workers who made it a “champion” among Toledo companies. He’s hoping the stone can be displayed in a public park or venue somewhere in the city, perhaps set on a pedestal of original brick from the factory, as a monument to the workers and company.

“That’s what it’s all about,” said Schneider, who said he has contacted

ProMedica and downtown Toledo and not just a place of land across the river.

— ­Toby Herman Perrysburg

Develop Marina District

I very much enjoyed Lou Hebert’s column about the so-called Marina District property now languishing on the east side of our riverfront. You are spot-on in calling for this area to be developed more fully as a park. Why not?

We as taxpayers have already footed the

numerous agencies and groups and has found considerable interest. “A lot more people are interested than I had expected.”

He thinks Wildwood Preserve Metropark would be an ideal place to showcase the stone and the story of Champion, given its background as the Stranahan Estate and the hundreds of thousands of visitors every year who would see it there.

In the meantime, Schneider and a group of other like-minded former Champion workers are working on assembling hundreds of photographs and other historic documents for a commemorative book about Champion and its workers. It’s a work in progress and a labor of love for Schneider, who said he enjoys all of this research because not only is he a history buff, but he “grew up with Champion.”

It was a big part of his family’s life and he feels a sense of duty to memorialize the history, adding, “If I don’t do it, I don’t know who else will.” O Email Toledo Free Press columnist Lou Hebert at letters@toledofreepress.com.

bill to acquire, clear and clean up the parcels that now comprise the Marina District, as well as to build the small marina, museum and mooring for the Willis B. Boyer (now Schoonmaker) at the northeast end. Perhaps some consideration could be given to returning a large portion of the site to its original elevation, which was under water as part of the Maumee River, enabling construction of a very large public marina.

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Plans for what organizers say would be one of the largest and finest outdoor athletic field complexes in the nation project 350,000 visitors each year starting as early as spring 2016.

A group of 20-30 investors — all members of the Toledo Area Soccer Association (TASA) — is pursuing efforts to bring a $7 million, all-artificial turf, 12-field outdoor athletic complex to the site of the former Raceway Park in North Toledo.

The plans for Toledo Fields Sports Complex are designed to lure national and regional sports tournaments, and allow weekday use for local sports clubs and high schools. Initially, soccer, lacrosse and football teams would be their primary targets.

“Anything that can be played on a field, we are looking to bring in,” said Richard Parish, managing partner, who also serves as president of TASA, an adult men’s and women’s soccer association formed in 2006.

Investors have made a land purchase offer to Penn National Gaming, owners of both the Raceway Park property and Hollywood Casino Toledo. Raceway Park closed in 2013, and Penn moved its track license to Dayton so as to not compete with Toledo’s casino.

According to Parish, the property is valued at $5 million, while Parish and his group expect to pay around $1.5 million.

Eric Schippers, senior vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, said there is no agreement and that the two sides are “not even close.” He dismissed the notion that a sale is imminent.

“They have made contact, they had made their pitch, but we’re not close to any kind of an agreement,” Schippers said. “There are many different options on the table, but that is one we’re not pursuing.

“We’re just continuing to look at different opportunities for the site.

We certainly want to have the site lined up in a situation that the community is happy with it. It’s certainly not in our interests to have it sit for too long, but we want to make sure it’s done appropriately. There’s not even a timeline that’s clear enough to provide you at this point.”

Despite the uncertainty of the purchase, Parish insists his timeline includes having fields in place by this fall, with tournaments starting next spring. The investors are still actively looking for more investors

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Investors pursuing sports complex at Raceway

n AMONG THE LOCAL INVESTORS WHO HAVE PROPOSED BUILDING A $7 MILLION SPORTS COMPLEX AT THE FORMER RACEWAY PARK ARE, FROM LEFT, LLOYD GRANT, SEAN PARKER, TOLEDO AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT RICHARD PARISH, PAUL MAGDICH AND ALI MERHI. PROPERTY OWNER PENN NATIONAL GAMING SAID DISCUSSIONS ARE STILL EARLY.

and project partners.

TASA would be one of the complex’s primary weekday tenants, and would initially manage the project and have on-site offices, Parish said.

TASA also intends to have office space available for area youth clubs, including lacrosse and others. They also anticipate reaching out to area schools without their own facilities and offering a partnership that would give them a home field.

Parish said there is no sports complex of this size in Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit or Chicago with all artificial turf fields, which make rainouts and unplayable fields a thing of the past, and are thus more desirable than grass for travel teams. Turf requires less maintenance than real grass, and Parish expects most fields to last about 10 years, with the main fields being replaced every five years.

The next closest facility comparable in size and surface is located in Overland Park, Kansas, he said.

The group’s plans also call for repurposing the 5,000-seat grandstand used at Raceway Park, opening up the possibility for more minor league sports in Toledo, Parish said. He hopes to start conversations soon regarding facility naming rights, and to reach out to Mud Hens/Walleye management about minor league soccer, lacrosse and perhaps football.

Organizers said they would expect to host tournaments about 35 weekends each year, drawing 10,000-12,000 out-of-town visitors to each.

While other Toledo attractions draw hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, Toledo Fields Sports Complex would be set apart in that nearly all of its weekend users would be from out of town, Parish said, a

possibility that has several area hotels watching intently.

Downtown’s Grand Plaza Hotel & Convention Center already gets business from sports teams, including youth soccer and university groups, but they’d happily welcome more.

“There are other tournaments going on around the area parks here, so it’s already a spot where people are coming to participate in soccer tournaments,” said Steffen Sheerin, Grand Plaza director of sales and marketing.

“So it sounds to me like something that could really enhance what [the parks are] already doing, and it could attract a whole other segment.”

Sheerin said the Grand Plaza has 240 rooms, and according to Star Data — which produces a monthly hotel occupancy and rate report — there are 7,620 rooms among 80 Toledo area properties, indicating there is plenty of space for 10,000 visitors on

any given weekend.

Park Inn, one of Downtown’s other large hotels, sits between Fifth Third Field and the Huntington Center and is equally familiar with sports.

“We do everything from youth to the pros, so we’d certainly welcome this type of facility,” said Haley Gronemeier, director of sales. “Of course, we’d love to see it grow. It would bring a lot of out-of-town people.”

Rich Nachazel, president of the Greater Toledo Convention and Visitors Bureau, also known as Destination Toledo, said he believes the proposed Toledo Fields Sports Complex would be a boon for the area.

“If they’re able to reach those numbers, there’s no question it would be the largest number of out-of-towners visiting the region,” Nachazel said. n RACEWAY CONTINUES ON 7

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A similar sports complex was proposed in 2012 at the former Southwyck Mall site, where a different group of mostly Columbusbased investors had hoped to open

Parish said he believes the proposed complex would benefit Northwest Ohio, as well as make a huge impression on out-of-towners.

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Chicks team with Mom’s House to help young moms succeed

By Ashley McMahon

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Each year, more than 700 teen girls give birth in Lucas County, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

Having a child drastically changes these young women’s lives and many do not have the support they need to keep their goals on track. In addition, negative stereotypes often add a stigma to teen pregnancy that can make it difficult for women to overcome obstacles.

Given these challenges, one local charity aims to change that narrative and improve the lives of young moms in Northwest Ohio.

Mom’s House is a Toledo nonprofit that assists mothers aged 13-24 while they raise their children. It was recently named the 2015-16 charity recipient by Chicks for Charity.

Founded 21 years ago, Mom’s House offers up to 30 women and their children highly rated childhood education and adult classes, which leaders hope will break the cycle of poverty.

“We play the mom role, but also teach our girls how to be a mom to their child,” Mom’s House Executive Director Christina Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez’s enthusiastic spirit is contagious and it’s obvious how much she cares about the family members she’s gained while running the organization.

“We really treat the children like they’re our own and it’s a big family,” she said. “It’s so rewarding.”

While enrolled in the program, children receive a four-star-rated preschool education; 90 percent of the children are ready to test into kinder-

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garten afterward, Rodriquez said. In addition, the mothers take classes to learn about home safety, healthy relationships, family wellness and parenting techniques. The Mom’s House team also assists with child care while the mothers attend classes at local

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n MOM’S HOUSE CONTINUED FROM 8 “They were my counselors and the first people I would call when I had an issue,” Goldi said. “They took on the bereavement role for me.”

Goldi gave birth to her son Jeremy when she was 17 years old. She was still in high school and had a difficult time finding babysitters and overall emotional support while raising her newborn son.

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After connecting with Mom’s House, she enrolled in the program and quickly found the assistance she needed. Thanks to her new “family,” Goldi began classes at Owens Community College and finished her nursing degree at Mercy College of Ohio, graduating in 2010.

“They really were my family. I didn’t have the support I needed to

take care of my son before, and they helped me outside of regular hours and were more than willing to go above and beyond,” Goldi said.

Goldi is now a palliative care coordinator for Mercy. She’s also married, having met her husband during her time at Mom’s House. The organization also helped him earn his degree and start a career as a booking officer for

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Lucas County. She and her husband are now proud parents to three boys.

After all of Goldi’s success, she makes sure to give back to Mom’s House and recently spoke during the group’s presentation to Chicks for Charity as a finalist for the Chicks’ next charity recipient. After four years of applying, Goldi’s Cinderella story won the Chicks over and led them to choose Mom’s House for its new charity.

“This was a big win for us,” Rodriguez said.

Every two years, Chicks for Charity selects a new nonprofit initiative to support.

“All 501(c)(3) official groups in Northwest Ohio that are small, under the radar and willing to work with us to get word out are eligible,” said Martha Vetter, founder of Chicks for Charity.

The Chicks recently wrapped up their work with Shared Lives Studio, raising $115,000 over the past two years.

Vetter said Goldi and the Mom’s House presenters made a lasting impact on the more than 80 Chicks in attendance, which led to their decision.

“They told raw and personal stories,” Vetter said. “It was really moving and wonderful.”

The Chicks will meet with members of the Mom’s House board this month and begin the initiative, but Vetter said it’s up to the nonprofit to decide where to use the funding.

As for joining the Chicks, Vetter said anyone can become a member as long as they plan something “fun.”

“Any chick at any age can join. Just plan a fun and unique event with your family or coworkers and raise at least $75 to give to the charity,” Vetter said.

“Anyone can give a little, and it will add up to a lot.”

Rodriguez is planning on using the extra funds from Chicks to develop the group’s family wellness and mentoring

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— Brittney Goldi, Mom’s House graduate programs. One of the new projects includes Mom’s House work with attorney Gretchen DeBacker. They are working with 14 female attorneys for the new Sisters in Law initiative, which assists young mothers with legal issues.

“Many women are involved with legal battles that are hard to navigate and these women can build relationships and assist them,” Rodriguez said.

In addition, the attorneys can help the Mom’s House students prepare for job interviews by building strong resumes and providing tips for proper work attire.

The extra funding and exposure from Chicks for Charity will allow Rodriguez and her team at Mom’s House to continue allowing young moms like Goldi to keep following their goals to success.

“They’ve always been my support system and they’re always there,” Goldi said. “The women at Mom’s House are amazing. They took me from being a pregnant teen mom to being a palliative care coordinator.”

“We can’t do it all, but we definitely see the cycle of poverty being broken,” Rodriguez said. O

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By Joel Sensenig

Toledo Free Press Managing Editor jsensenig@toledofreepress.com

Influential community leaders stepped up to the plate at Toledo City Council chambers Jan. 14 to weigh in on ProMedica’s plan to move its headquarters Downtown.

The move is projected to bring $9.2 million in net revenue to Toledo over 10 years, city officials announced.

Joe Napoli, Carty Finkbeiner, Judge James G. Carr and Bob LaClair were a few of those who addressed Council as members of the public to weigh in on the health care company’s plan to move Downtown in 2017.

The most controversial part of ProMedica’s plan is the proposed construction of a six-story parking structure in the southwest corner of Promenade Park. The structure — which would occupy 14 percent of the park’s surface area and 120 feet of the park’s 500 feet of frontage along Summit Street — is a key part of ProMedica’s $60-million plan to move up to 1,000 employees into the former Toledo Edison Steam Plant and KeyBank building Downtown.

ProMedica officials have said future phases could bring as many as 2,500 employees Downtown. There is no timeline on when subsequent phases would be implemented.

“We shouldn’t kid ourselves — many business leaders and investors are watching this decision with great interest,” said Napoli, president and general manager of the Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye. “ProMedica wasn’t recruited to come Downtown, they called us. Small business leaders that are on the fence about moving Downtown are asking themselves, ‘If the City of Toledo doesn’t welcome ProMedica to Downtown, why would they welcome us?’”

Napoli, who also serves as chair of the ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital board, said ProMedica should be commended for being committed to moving Downtown.

“The lack of ample, convenient parking will seriously hinder the future growth of Downtown Toledo,” he said. “To their credit, ProMedica didn’t overreact to the Downtown parking challenge. Most others would have given up, and they did for years. Instead, ProMedica embraced the challenge, studied the issue, and came up with a solution — exactly what a responsible corporate citizen would do.”

The first part of the meeting consisted of a Q-and-A session between Council and Matt Sapara, city development director, and Eileen Granata, the city’s senior attorney, on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

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between the city and ProMedica. The MOU sets forth key components of the project, highlighting commitments necessary from both the city and ProMedica to keep the project moving forward.

Sapara said the project would amount to net revenue of $9.2 million to the city over 10 years, while the expense to the city for the first year would be $693,000.

The city would convey the land for the parking garage to ProMedica at no cost. The company, in turn, would restore and put $2 million worth of renovations into Promenade Park, which would remain open for use by the public.

The city would be responsible for maintaining the park. If, however, the park were not maintained to ProMedica’s liking, it could step in and maintain the park at its own cost.

Councilman Mike Craig voiced concern over the city’s ability to maintain the park.

“Park maintenance is not something the city of Toledo is known for,” he said. “I would feel better taking that money and writing a check every year for the maintenance of that property.

I just don’t think we’re going to maintain that property to their standards.”

Councilman Jack Ford, who worked for ProMedica for six years, pressed Sapara and Granata for answers on several topics he felt had not been properly addressed. He asked how significantly the MOU has changed since the company first presented it to the city.

“It has not changed in the sense of the scope of the project,” Granata said.

“There have been certainly changes in terms of some of the property, in terms of some of the ownership and how that property is handled. …

There were substantive changes.”

The MOU states that the city will also convey most of the green space between the steam plant and Imagination Station to ProMedica, which would allow use of the land by the public until or unless ProMedica decides to modify the site to accommodate its needs.

Ford questioned if this control of the site could be turned over to ProMedica at any time, as no specific timeline is given.

Granata said under this arrangements ProMedica could in fact take over the site as it sees fit for future expansion.

“I don’t really know what exactly that means in terms of future plans, but you’re correct in your statement,” she said.

“Should that be important to us, or is that a toss-away issue?” Ford responded.

Sapara said there aren’t any tossaway issues, but any future plans remain open-ended at this time.

More than 20 members of the public signed up to speak at the hearing.

After Napoli, a number of prominent business individuals addressed Council, including Steve Cavanaugh of HCR ManorCare, which employs 800 people Downtown, and Sara Swisher, director of EPIC Toledo, which was created by the Toledo Re-

gional Chamber of Commerce to attract and retain young professionals in the region. Both are proponents of ProMedica’s plan.

LaClair, president and CEO of Fifth Third Bank in Northwest Ohio, agreed with much of Napoli’s statement.

LaClair, a ProMedica board member, said, “It’s very difficult to recruit people to Toledo. The first thing a candidate says when they come to meet with us is ‘Where are all the people Downtown? Why do you have all these empty buildings?’

“We need people walking around Downtown during the day, showing up in offices, eating in restaurants during the lunch hour. That’s what’s going to revitalize Downtown Toledo. We’ve got an opportunity that we have not seen in 30 years to do that right now.”

Former Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner also addressed Council.

“New jobs and great hospitals are very important to Toledo’s future,” he said. “But so is fresh air, clean water — as we learned last summer — and public waterfront parks.”

Finkbeiner said he hopes ProMedica’s campus Downtown would not mirror that of Owens Corning, which sits a short distance south of Promenade Park.

“We did isolate and insulate Owens Corning on that piece of land,” he said.

“They have their own restaurants, their own dry-cleaning businesses, their own day care centers, their own workout facilities. They drive in, park their car in the morning and go home at night and

not have to support, patronize or integrate themselves into all of those small businesses that are yearning, begging for their business. We need to make sure that the guidelines for this integrate, not isolate, the ProMedica campus from all of the existing businesses that have in some cases been hanging on by the skin of their teeth in Downtown Toledo.”

Carr, a former federal district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, said he remains unconvinced there are no options other than building a six-story garage at Promenade Park. At the same time, he admitted this project must move forward for the sake of Toledo’s future success.

Carr urged Council to put a provision in the agreement that if ProMedica or a successor were to vacate the premises, the company would then be responsible for tearing down the parking garage.

Toledo resident Jane Randall gave an impassioned speech about why she thought the proposal was wrong for Toledo.

“Why are we even talking about giving away one inch of the little postage stamp piece of greenery we have Downtown?” she asked. “It’s a shame. Do your best, but for heaven’s sake, please do your homework.”

At the end of the four-hour meeting, Sapara addressed some of the comments and questions raised in the public statement portion of the meeting, during which many said the city and ProMedica should explore more parking options.

“There are no alternatives, I’m sorry,” he said. “We can talk about ‘It should go here, it should be there.’ The reality of it is, [an alternative] doesn’t exist.”

Several business leaders told Council that current parking structures could not be used because that would only serve to prevent other companies from coming Downtown because their employees would then have no parking.

Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins noted the parking garage concern is not a new one, and that a parking garage for the redevelopment of the steam plant was noted as a critical piece of its success as far back as 2000.

“The window of opportunity for us is here today,” he said. “What are we going to tell the future generations of Toledo when they say, ‘I’d really like to be in Toledo but there is no opportunity?’… Will we reject that over a very narrow sliver of property that in the grand scheme of things is never going to save this city?”

Collins noted that having a debate on the matter is a positive thing, but “I also think the answer is crystal clear.”

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The Cherry Street Legacy Project is a community partnership that began with the vision of creating a stronger

and safer neighborhood for those along and around Cherry Street.

Focusing on the stretch between the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge (which many still call the Cherry Street Bridge) and I-75, the project preserves the neighborhood’s proud past as its

residents forge together into the future.

“It’s amazing,” said Karen Rogalski, project coordinator. “It has changed the flavor of the neighborhood.”

Several entities collaborate on the project, but it all began in 2005 with one of Cherry Street’s prominent occu-

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pants and Downtown’s only hospital, Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center.

At that time, St. V’s board members were discussing a potential move to the suburbs for the hospital, mainly in response to doctors who said they didn’t feel safe coming to work.

After much discussion, the board decided to stay, but not without a neighborhood improvement plan.

They knew as the value of the neighborhood rose, so would the hospital’s.

After a detailed written strategy was put together, it sat untouched for several years until Rogalski was recruited to put it into action around 2008.

Rather than call a community meeting, she immediately started hitting the pavement.

“We went out and we interviewed 200-plus houses,” Rogalski said. “Out of that we interviewed 100 ‘man on the street’ people and asked ‘What are the perceptions of people coming in the area?’ We looked at each individual parcel, and during that period of time I physically mapped parcel by parcel and really got to understand the neighborhood.”

Rogalski found the single largest issue was crime, followed by blight and empty lots. While qualitative data would drive what work to do, Rogalski knew the strategy had to come from the people.

The group began to work with the city on code enforcement, no easy task due to numerous historic homes in the area that couldn’t be immediately demolished. They helped landowners next to blighted properties purchase them for $100, thus facilitating their demolition and providing an end user to care for the land.

New houses were erected on some lots, with builders working with the group and NeighborWorks Toledo Region to develop new homes that blended well with historic properties.

Interviewing residents also helped

the group realize there was growing concern about Moody Manor, resulting in increased block watch participation.

Originally there was just one block watch group in the area; now there are three, all of which have generated ideas to keep youth out of crime.

“Police come to our crime meetings,” Rogalski said. “We’ve started to talk the same language, and there’s no magic answer, but we have reduced crime and changed crime.”

Knowing that improved lighting is one way to mitigate misconduct, Rogalski spent some early morning hours driving the streets and found that not only were 80 street lights out, but that residents didn’t know how to report them. After talking with FirstEnergy, the group developed a plan whereby residents merely place duct tape on poles to signal a bulb needs to be replaced.

Another group involved with the collaboration is the Cherry Street Development Organization, whose members include St. V’s, Central Catholic High School, United North and various nonprofits.

“Karen Rogalski knows this project inside and out, and I’m just along for the ride and to support it in any way I can,” said president Mike Boyle. “She’s done a phenomenal job.

“There’s a lot of different groups that are doing good. There’s just too much negativity in the media, and I’m tired of it. They’re throwing it in your face constantly, and it’s like there’s an agenda to bring down our city.”

For now, the Cherry Street Legacy Project will continue to play its part in facilitating a massive group effort.

“We’ve done some really interesting things to reduce crime,” Rogalski said. “There’s these little things we continue to build on.”

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Toledoan David Lymanstall has been fascinated by the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for as long as he can remember, going so far as raising his own husky dogs, teaching the Iditarod to his students and visiting Alaska twice in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Now, Lymanstall, director of the nursing program at the University of Toledo and a published poet, has secured the opportunity of a lifetime and will be able to scratch “Iditarod volunteer” off his bucket list.

Lymanstall, 57, will help “line up” as many as 1,280 dogs at the ceremonial start in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 7, and again at the official start in Willow, Alaska, on March 8.

“I’m really excited about it,” Lymanstall said. “This is one of my bucket lists. I absolutely loved it up there. I went to a few husky farms around Nome. When I came home, that’s when I got my first husky.”

He owned Sitka for 14 years until she died in 1997. Five weeks later he found Gracie, a cinnamon and white husky, from a breeder in Lambertville.

He owned Gracie until last January when she died of organ failure. Lymanstall said he plans to rescue an adult husky after this year’s Iditarod.

The Iditarod originated in 1925 when a diphtheria epidemic threatened isolated and icebound Nome, Alaska, prompting a relay of dog teams to deliver a serum that saved hundreds of lives. The final two legs of the journey were completed by Gunnar Kaasen with his lead dog, Balto. They traveled through a blizzard with winds over 80 mph. The relay of 20 mushers made the 700mile trip in 127 hours, according to the official Iditarod website.

The effort received international attention and the mushers received special gold medals and a commendation by President Calvin Coolidge.

Statues of Balto were erected around the country and the age of the sled dog went out in a blaze of glory, according to the website. In 1973, the first official Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was run between Anchorage and Nome.

When Lymanstall taught seventh and eighth grades at West Side Montessori, he sent for teaching material on the race. He tacked up a map of Alaska in his room and used it for lessons on geography and cultural history. Students would push in pins to mark the location of mushers on their trek from Anchorage to Nome. The student who tracked the winning musher would win a prize.

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out of Alaska to plan his trip from March 2-10. Volunteering for the Iditarod race was an optional part of the trip. He contacted the Iditarod Trail Committee, the nonprofit that heads the race and was accepted as a volunteer in December.

Volunteers come from all walks of life and from around the world, said Julie Busch, Iditarod media coordinator.

“There are more than 1,500 volunteers that come from all over the world — Norway, France, Germany, Spain — you name it,” Busch said during a phone call from Anchorage. “We’ve had people come from Korea. It’s the premier sled dog race in the world.”

Lymanstall will be one of about 200 dog handler volunteers, who should be physically fit and must earn a certificate and undergo special training, said Diane Johnson, Iditarod volunteer coordinator.

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dlers must know how to safely move the dogs from the mushers’ staging area to the starting line,” Johnson said in an email from her base in South Dakota. She is also the education director of the Iditarod.

Eighty mushers have signed up for the race and each one will start the race with up to 16 dogs, Johnson said.

“One day I woke up in October and I needed to do this (volunteer). This is really my focus: I’m just fascinated by it, I can’t explain it,” Lymanstall said.

Bill Dickinson of Grand Rapids, Ohio,will also participate in the 2015 Iditarod as a guard for Trail No. 6, which is near Wasilla, Alaska. He’ll be stay in Alaska from March 1-21.

“I like to sightsee and take pictures and network,” he said.

Dickinson said he had plans to move to Alaska in 1976 but got hurt at work and had to cancel those plans.

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Toledo woman on furniture reality TV show ‘Framework’

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It’s not every day you get instructed by a Grammy Award-winning rapper on how to make a stylistically ap-

pealing ping-pong table.

Toledo resident Lacey Campbell recently found herself in that position while she was starring in “Framework,” a reality TV show about furniture designers currently airing on Spike TV (Tuesdays at 10 p.m.). The

series made its debut Jan. 6.

“Framework” is a nonscripted show that takes 13 budding furniture designers and gives them assignments, such as building a piece of furniture out of boat materials or transforming an item as mundane as

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Hip-hop star Common is host of the show, which also features professional furniture designers Nolen Niu and Brandon Gore. One by one, contestants who don’t impress the judges are kicked off the show.

The last designer standing wins $100,000.

While Campbell, 32, is contractually bound to keep mum on exactly how long she lasts, she hinted that she will have her eyes glued to Spike for a while.

Being on the show was an experience Campbell said she won’t soon forget. “‘Framework’ was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “Being on a reality TV show, they try to throw every sort of twist or turn that you couldn’t possibly see coming.”

Campbell applied on the final day the show was accepting applications.

To tape the show in California, she had to leave her job of four years at Sauder Woodworking Co. in Archbold, where she had been a designer.

Females are still a considerable minority in the furniture design world.

Of the show’s 13 contestants, three were women.

Campbell’s appeal to producers?

Not only can she both design and build furniture, she was willing to be on TV and could spend as much time as necessary in Los Angeles. Plus, she has personality: The former roller derby girl was a member of the Glass City Rollers, competing under the moniker “Rita Disassemble.” She had to hang up her skates after hurting her shoulder due to excessive bodychecking collisions.

“I loved it, but I just kept getting hurt,” Campbell said of her time in roller derby. “It was making it really difficult for me to draw. … I miss it so much. It’s like guys who play football, there’s this [desire] to do it. There’s just something amazing about knocking someone on their butt.”

Being on the show gave Campbell a boost in confidence and vision for her future as a furniture designer.

“It’s interesting being around 12 other people that have the same passion and drive,” she said.

“The energy alone with these people, it just makes you not able to sleep. You’re vibrating with energy because you’re so excited about going into the shop and seeing what tools are going to be there and what kind of wood they have stocked and what sort of work bench we get to be at, and ‘Oh, my God, there’s so many clamps!’

“Just being in an environment like that, it’s hard to focus. It was one of

CAMPBELL

CAMPBELL’S FURNITURE the most amazing things that I’ve ever done in my life. It was … epic,” she said, giggling with excitement.

Campbell’s shop is located in her detached two-car garage in south Toledo. There, she has a number of furniture pieces ready to be repaired, refinished, stained, welded, upholstered or in some other way made ready for purchase. Last year, she constructed her own spray booth in the garage.

Some pieces she sells online via Craigslist or Etsy, and other projects are commissioned works for private individuals or businesses.

Soon, Toledoans will have a chance to drink locally produced craft beers or ponder their next tattoo on one of Campbell’s pieces. She is working on a community table to be placed inside Black Cloister Brewing Company, set to open Downtown in February.

“It’s supposed to look like it was pulled out of the 16th century,” Campbell said.

She’s also working on a coffee table to be used at Ink and Iron Tattoo Parlour and Gallery, 1505 Adams St. For more information, visit lacey campbelldesigns.com. O

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By Jeff McGinnis

Toledo Free Press Pop Culture Editor PopGoesJeff@gmail.com

Colby Dauch loves gaming.

No big surprise, given his status as a respected game designer and founder of Woodville-based Plaid Hat Games.

His passion for play has been a part of his identity for over a decade now.

“Heroscape was a game released by Hasbro in 2004,” Dauch said, recalling his early days as a fan. “I saw it on a commercial and thought it might be fun. I turned into a megafan and went on to run the quite popular heroscapers.com.”

His passion soon blossomed into a profession. After working with Hasbro as a playtester and making some connections there, he began working as a freelance designer on Heroscape and Battleship Galaxies. He soon made the leap to designing his own titles, testing the waters to see what future he might have in tabletop game design.

“I had a game called Summoner Wars that my friends really liked,” Dauch said. “I showed it to Hasbro and they decided it wasn’t the kind of game they wanted to publish. I didn’t really have any contacts established elsewhere and I figured I’d take the plunge and in 2009 established a company.”

Plaid Hat Games — a moniker inspired by the red and black hat Dauch frequently sports — has rapidly made its mark over the past five years as a rising star in the world of gaming.

From original titles like Summoner

Wars and Crossroads to licensed titles like its board game adaptation of the popular “Bioshock” video game series, Plaid Hat’s catalogue is impressive for any fan of classic tabletop play.

“A great tabletop game has people interacting with each other in clever ways that can’t be experienced through a video game,” Dauch said. “Tabletop games are also more agile. We can prototype more rapidly and can produce games with less funding so we can try funky things.”

That spirit of experimentation is only one of the things that makes Plaid Hat products unique.

“We put an emphasis on theme first in our games. We put an emphasis on visuals in our games. Other companies also put a focus on theme and visuals, but theme-heavy games can often get very rules-heavy. We try to put theme first while still trying to keep our games approachable,” Dauch said.

Remaining approachable is of paramount importance to Dauch and his colleagues. The company posts a regular podcast and stays active on social media, in an effort to stay connected to fans and communicate their personalities to those who enjoy their work.

“I came from a background of being a giant fan of a game and then also liking other games,” Dauch said.

“I wanted to be a company that would generate the kinds of experiences I wished Hasbro had when I was a fan of Heroscape. I wanted to foster a sense of community. It’s what I knew from my work on Heroscapers.com.

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Woodville company making mark in tabletop gaming

n FROM LEFT, BRIAN BEYKE, DAVE RICHARDS, COLBY DAUCH AND ISAAC VEGA OF PLAID HAT GAMES. THE WOODVILLE-BASED COMPANY IS MAKING A NAME FOR ITSELF IN THE TABLETOP GAMING WORLD.

“It lets people know who you are and adds a human element. We aren’t just a company to those who look to engage on that level. We are people. That’s important to me not just because I want people to root for us and buy our games, but also because I’m spending my life doing this; I want it to mean something.”

Plaid Hat shows no sign of slowing down. The company recently announced a new title, Specter Ops, promoted as a stealth-action title copublished by Nazca Games. The company will be represented at a gaming

convention in Utah beginning Jan. 17.

For Dauch, whose passion began with one title and blossomed into his life’s work, the fun he can bring into others’ lives means much more than a few minutes of diversion.

“When I interact with fans and they tell me how Summoner Wars has created a great father-and-son activity for them, or a family spent a snow day playing through a Mice and Mystics campaign together, that gives the products and my work a kind of life for me I wouldn’t otherwise see,” he said. “I

even had a nurse once tell me they had a child cancer patient in a lot of pain.

They brought in their copy of Summoner Wars and played it with them and the kid told them that they couldn’t stop thinking about the game and that helped to not think about the pain.

“I can’t say I thought I was doing noble work when I started. I can say games always meant something to me and helped me connect with people, so I fell in love with them. The fact that these stories can come out of our games though, that means something to me.” O

Local startup hosts national ‘Smash Bros.’ tourney at UT

By Duane Ramsey

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Real Time Gaming Network (RTGN), a local startup, is hosting its first “Super Smash Bros.” for Wii U tournament in Toledo on Jan. 16. The event is expected to draw some of the top gamers in the country.

“Our goal is to host this tournament and broadcast it live through our website rtgn.tv for thousands of fans to view. Our technology allows

us to broadcast in HD,” said founder and CEO Tim Fields, a graduate of Sylvania Southview High School.

The tournament will be broadcast live on rtgn.tv through funding by Rocket Ventures and support from the University of Toledo. The competition will take place at the Nitschke Technology Commercialization Complex on UT’s campus.

“RTGN is one of our newest LaunchPad Incubation tenants. We are providing the host facility for RGTN to test its beta product with

the tournament and validate their business model,” said Molly Reams Thompson, director of LaunchPad Incubation at UT. Rtgn.tv will stream the tournament live for fans who cannot attend the event in person, Fields said.

The tournament is designed for professional and semiprofessional gamers. Fields said 80-100 gamers are expected to attend. Competition begins at noon with the semifinals, and finals expected to air at 8 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to

meet and compete with professional gamers like Mew2King, Vidjo, BigDamien, Chompy, Bo X7, Joeisfatal and Perfect Legend.

Fans are invited to bring a Wii GameCube Adapter and receive free registration for the event. Registration is $15 the day of the event, starting at 10 a.m. Free food will be provided by Chick-fil-A and Fricker’s.

RTGN considers itself “the next phase in online broadcasting,” according to its website. Its consumers are users engaged with online and

streaming content of Cyber Athletics from tournaments and those who enjoy 24-hour tech, geek and gaming lifestyles broadcast with an ESPNstyle experience. The site will have most aspects of current social media standards and will deliver an interactive twist, Fields said.

RGTN’s marketing director, Scott Guttenberger, is a graduate of Bowling Green State University and Sylvania Northview High School.

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BLACK CLOISTER Monastic-styled Downtown brewery slated to open in February.

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fter two years of planning, renovating and brewing, Black Cloister Brewing Company is nearly ready to open its doors to the Glass City — and CEO Tom Schaeffer hopes those glasses will be filled with Toledo’s newest brews, which will focus on Belgian-inspired styles.

Black Cloister’s name was derived from a 16th-century monastery where Martin Luther, who is credited as the architect of the Protestant Reformation, trained as a monk.

Upon walking into Black Clois-

ter’s new Downtown home near Fifth Third Field, patrons will sense the monastic influence. According to Schaeffer, who is a pastor, the building’s architecture immediately made it a frontrunner.

“This was always the building I loved” Schaeffer said. “I walked in and saw these arches and thought, ‘Wow, this ought to be our home.’”

Without recent changes in licensing, Black Cloister would have been markedly different than the brewery slated to open in February.

According to Schaeffer, the initial vision was a bit more primitive, with thoughts of simply having a production warehouse. However, in July 2013

taproom licenses became available and that drastically changed his vision for Black Cloister.

“When we realized that license was going to be available, that sort of changed everything,” Schaeffer said.

“After speaking with brewery owners and reading, I discovered that a taproom for a newly opening brewery is the most important aspect of a brewery.

It’s kind of the identity of the brewery.”

The major difference between Black Cloister’s taproom and other brewpubs, according to Schaeffer, is that it will not have a kitchen or serve beers from other breweries. Instead, Black Cloister will focus on its own beers and rely on other Toledo busi-

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“It’s going to be all take-in food,” Schaeffer said. “We’ll have food trucks parked on the side. We’ve also talked to Downtown restaurants close to us like Table Forty4 who will let us carry their menu.”

According to Schaeffer, every corner of the Black Cloister’s taproom has been meticulously planned, with a monastic/ church theme throughout. The 27-foot hammered black steel bar top encapsulates the brewery’s 12 main taps, which protrude out of a 16th century-style church door. Black Cloister will hold around 100 people, with a room available for private parties, Schaeffer said.

“There is a table going into the

room for small parties designed by Lacey Campbell,” he said. “Lacey’s from Toledo and is actually currently being featured on a competitive furniture-building show called ‘Framework’ that is airing on Spike TV.” According to Schaeffer, there was debate among the co-founders as to when Black Cloister would open due to the time needed to produce the brewery’s various beers. At the end of the day, the co-founders decided to open the brewery as soon as they had beer to put on tap.

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“There will be flagship beers, but not at first. We decided to produce our beers, get them out there and let the public tell us what the flagship beers are going to be.”

The Black Cloister’s Irish red, according to Schaeffer, is the brainchild of assistant brewer Shannon Speight, a highly decorated brewer who won more than 40 awards for her beers in 2014 alone.

When Black Cloister opens, cofounder Bob Hall will be the brewery’s brewmaster, but will likely turn those responsibilities over to Speight.

Brewmaster responsibilities will be shifted to Speight after she completes the American Brewers Guild program she’s been accepted into after being on a wait list for two years. According to Schaeffer, Speight is part of another selective society. “[Speight] actually joined the Pink Boots Society, which is a society for women brewers,” Schaeffer said. “She literally has pink steel-tip work boots.”

The Black Cloister joins a Downtown that has seen substantial growth and revitalization over the past few years. According to Schaeffer, being part of that revitalization is one of the most exciting things about opening the brewery.

“You want to turn Downtown into a destination,” Schaeffer said. “I would

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be better off if people weren’t getting into their car and saying, ‘Let’s go to the Black Cloister,’ but instead were saying, ‘Let’s head Downtown by the ballpark, there’s tons of stuff to do down there.’”

Schaeffer and co-founders Hall, Scott Biddle and Mike Kennedy, along with 20 or so investors, have put roughly half a million dollars into the Black Cloister renovations and equipment.

According to Schaeffer, who began this process as a simple home brewer, the process of starting a brewery has

Black Cloister Brewing Company, 619 Monroe St., was designed with a monastic style, which also inspired the name. CEO Jeff Schaeffer envisions a taproom featuring take-in food.

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only enhanced his respect for beer.

“It’s always dangerous when you take a hobby and make it into a career,” Schaeffer said. “I actually think I’ve learned to appreciate it a

lot more. I have a different perspective as I now understand everything that goes into it.”

Black Cloister Brewing Company will be located at 619 Monroe

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Dine 419

By Tom Konecny

TOLEDO FREE PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR tkonecny@toledofreepress.com

Area restaurants are joining the fight against veteran homelessness with Dine 419, a new week-long restaurant fundraising event taking place Feb. 23-March 1. The event will benefit Veterans Matter, a national charity founded and still based in Toledo.

Ken Leslie started Veterans Matter in 2012 with the mission to help house homeless veterans.

“It’s a program that has gone viral and has now housed 517 vets in 16 states,” Leslie said. “Dine 419 is a partnership between Veterans

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Area restaurants team with Veterans Matter to help house local vets.

Matter, our generous sponsors and all the restaurants in the community who care about veterans.”

Participating restaurants include Bar 145°, Burger Bar 419, The Beirut, Black Pearl, The Blarney Irish Pub, Byblos, Hollywood Casino Toledo LESLIE (Final Cut Steak & Seafood and Scene), La Scola Italian Grill, McDonald’s, Poco Piatti, Table Forty4 and Ye Olde Durty Bird.

Moussa Salloukh, co-owner of

both Burger Bar 419 and La Scola, said he’s honored to support local veterans.

“It’s something we’re happy to be part of, to give back to our veterans,” he said. “They put everything out on the line for us, so we’re honored to give back to them. It’s our pleasure. We’re all about local and this supports buying local, so it’s a great cause all around.”

More restaurants and sponsors are expected to join the event that gives patrons an opportunity to visit old favorites or explore new venues, all while supporting a good cause.

Presenting sponsor Hollywood Casino Toledo was quick to support the efforts of Veterans Matter.

“Honestly, it’s a good cause and it’s

going back to a good organization,” said Keira Finnegan, advertising and promotions manager.

Other sponsors include Monroe Dodge, VFW Post 2898 and WTOL-11.

Veterans Matter’s parent organization 1Matters first received support from musician John Mellencamp, who visited Leslie’s Tent City in 2007 while on a tour stop in Toledo. Tent City,

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which raises awareness of homelessness and helps connect those in need with services, first took place in 1990 in Downtown Toledo.

Word of mouth spread to others in the music and entertainment industry, and before long Leslie had connections with other celebrities, including Susan Sarandon, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, Ice-T, Stevie Nicks and Willie Nelson.

“John [Mellencamp] talked about us on the stage, and said that [homelessness] really does matter,” Leslie said. “As far as the other celebrities, they keep hearing about it. People all over the country are supporting it because we do it well, and we do it fast.”

Leslie originally started Veterans Matter because he saw a local problem that left some veterans with nowhere to live. He quickly discovered the problem in Toledo was a national problem, and chapters have since started all over America.

“It’s so simple,” Leslie said. “It’s like everything else in life: If you’re doing something good, people want to help.

Dine 419 is a perfect example of this, because everybody knows exactly what the money does.”

There are over 57,000 homeless veterans, many of whom qualify for voucher-assisted living provided by the U.S. government. However, they often lack the initial rental deposits necessary to secure their housing.

That’s where Veterans Matters steps in to raise money and work directly with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure funds go straight to landlords for the vets in need.

Veterans Matter connects local communities, foundations, corporations and veterans groups with HUD and VA to move homeless vets off the streets and into permanent, supported housing. Once housed, services are lined up to help veterans and their families return to domestic autonomy.

“We only raise enough to house the vets in any given area of operation, then we cease funding and move on to the next operation,” Leslie said.

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Terroir: It matters where it’s from

alized in the form chardonnay is like saying The Bea- wine will be like, not how good it is. erroir. It’s a term used in the close to the northernmost So we have a ways to go to refine of wine with very tles were a band in the ’60s. You’re wine world that has bled into growing limit for high minerality and leaving a lot of information on the what our terroir means. Not all great everyday wine small talk. most wine grapes. equally high acidity. table. When you say Chablis, you wine is a reflection of terroir and not It’s a French term that Because it’s so far You can’t make wine impart what that wine will be like all terroir-driven wines are good, but has no direct translation into most north, the days are like this anywhere regardless of who the producer is digging into that concept is a pretty languages, but it’s perhaps at the longer and the nights else in the world; it (producers are important, but that’s fascinating exercise. crux of understanding one of the are shorter during the In the meantime, take a chance took 1,000 years to a different discussion). most important factors in deter- growing season.

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Perrysburg’s 5th Street Pub has been bringing authentic Neapolitan pizza to Northwest Ohio diners for nearly two years.

This spring, it aims to expand its 150-year-old recipes and Italian baking techniques to a new location 16 miles up the road. The pizzeria and pub is expanding to a second location in Sylvania at 5577 Monroe St. “Since day one, we’ve had people coming in from Sylvania,” said Geoff Kies, who owns the restaurant with his wife Melissa. “And every person from Sylvania would lament, ‘Man, I wish you guys were closer.’”

The owners had started looking in the Sylvania area for possible expansion when the opportunity arose to purchase the former Hamway’s on the Main and World Tea Company in the Promenade Shops. Together, the two businesses will become the second 5th Street Pub, with roughly the same square footage as the original.

With a complete gutting and renovation of the location in order, Kies is hoping to open in early April.

“People in Sylvania have a little bit more of an advanced palate than most places,” he said. “There’s a lot of good restaurants up there, so they’re used to good food. … I think it’s going to be a really good fit.”

Neapolitan pizzas are made a specific way, with specific ingredients —

Owners hope to open a 5th Street Pub location, which features authentic Neapolitan pizza, in Sylvania in April.

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just like they were made in Italy in the 19th century. Less yeast is used in the dough, which must be stretched a certain way. The three primary toppings are tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese — much less than on most pizzas — and basil leaves. Wood-burning ovens reaching 1,000 degrees bake the pies in 90 seconds.

Kies and managing partner Bruce Rahe went to New York City several years ago to be trained in the process by Roberto Caporuscio, who owns Kesté Pizzeria. At the time, they were two of the just 35 people in the U.S. certified in making Neapolitan pies.

Kies said the reception to the Old World food has been enthusiastic.

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“I think people are smarter these days due to the Food Network and things like that, you have a more educated palate among the people,” Kies said. “They can get into the fact that the recipe we use to make this pizza is 150 years old.

“The ingredients that make the margherita pizza that we have come from the same part of Italy that first margherita pizza came from. We don’t use any modern techniques in cooking the pizza, it’s all Old World techniques,” Kles said. “We’re trying to preserve the history of Neapolitan pizza — Neapolitan pizza being the one that gave birth to pizza everywhere, all over the world.

This is the one that started it.”

While the second location will mirror the look and atmosphere of the first, Kies is still determining if patio space will be possible in Sylvania. The Perrysburg pub added an enclosed, all-season patio last year after some neighbors complained of noise from the establishment. Kies is eyeing the front of the former World Tea Company property as the most likely candidate for patio space.

Kies said the second 5th Street Pub will employ about 40 people, with 35 of them being new employees. Those interested in applying may do so at the original location, 105 W. 5th St., Perrysburg.

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his month I’m on a Napa kick and enjoying some great juice from California.

O For an everyday drink, I really like Clos du Val 2011 Napa Valley Merlot, composed of 76 percent merlot, 16 percent cabernet sauvignon, 5 percent petit verdot and 3 percent cabernet franc. Usually $35, it’s on sale for a limited time for $20.

This truly is a cabernet sauvignon lover’s merlot. It has a silky smooth mouthfeel with a nice lingering finish, and is great with food or by itself.

O Also from Napa Valley is the 2009 Ehlers Estate One Twenty Over Eighty Cabernet Sauvignon.

This wine is composed of 85 percent cabernet sauvignon, 9 percent cabernet franc, 3 percent merlot and 3 percent petit verdot.

Retailing at $50 a bottle, I really like sharing this kind of juice with friends that understand the beauty of such a well-crafted red blend.

Tasting notes: It’s a dense, rich, fullbodied cabernet sauvignon. The wine is plush and juicy with flavors of blackberries, truffles, black plums, toasted coconut, raspberry jam and cocoa. Great structure and balance, fine tannins, this wine, with proper cellaring, has the potential to age for decades.

O The Oracle Miner 2009 Napa Valley Red Wine is a big blend of 50 percent cabernet sauvignon, 25 percent cabernet franc, 15 percent merlot, 5 percent malbec and 5 percent petit verdot.

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Recommended selections from Matt Snyder of Veritas Cork & Craft.

Vineyard in the eastern hills of Napa Valley. Retailing at $100 a bottle, I would suggest serving this robust blend with a lightly seasoned beef ribeye steak. Consume with friends that understand and appreciate the complexity of such a great bottle or lay it down in your cellar for a special occasion. Please remember though, life is short, we should celebrate many special occasions on a more frequent basis.

Beer

When it comes to beer, my go-to style is usually IPAs, but for this time of year, I absolutely love a beer such as Third Coast Old Ale from Bell’s Brewery Inc., brewed in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Rich and boozy at 10.2 percent alcohol, it’s an ale for those who appreciate complexity and vintage character.

Fill a snifter and enjoy it now or commit some bottles to the cellar and age them out for the next couple of years, or more.

Sorry Bud drinkers, no “born on” dates or best by dates on such a libation here!

Available from Veritas’ retail shop to go for $15.99 a six pack.

O From the great state of Ohio, I’m also enjoying Jackie O’s Brick Kiln Barleywine-style ale brewed and bottled in Athens.

Brick Kiln Barleywine-style ale is brewed in the English tradition and its deep mahogany hue is accompanied by rich caramel and raisin notes.

Light herbal jabs from European hops round out this complex brew.

Similar to the Bell’s Third Coast Old Ale, as much as I enjoy this style of beer now, I would recommend laying this beer down in the cellar to

Wines recommended by Matt Snyder of Veritas Cork & Craft include Clos du Val 2011 Napa Valley Merlot, 2009 Ehlers Estate One Twenty Over Eighty Cabernet Sauvignon and Oracle Minor 2009 Napa Valley Red Wine.

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see how it changes over the course of the year. Available from the retail shop to go for $5.99 bottle.

O We will soon put the North Coast Brewing Co.’s Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout on our nitro tap. This will be available by the glass only and

served in our lounge (Veritas Lounge opens at 4 p.m. Monday-Saturday).

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By Joel Sensenig Toledo Free Press Managing Editor jsensenig@toledofreepress.com

Josh Wagy and Kengo Kato hope to make a large splash in the Toledo dining scene with their small sushi restaurant set to open soon.

The respective food blogger and classically trained sushi chef are almost ready to debut Kengo Sushi & Yakitori, a traditional sushi and yakitori restaurant at 38 S. St. Clair St. The two have been working on the Warehouse District space since last summer, and are anxious to make their debut. “[Kato] and I are so passionate, and we get along so well,” said Wagy, who many in the Toledo culinary world know best as the man behind Smashing Toledo, a foodie website and social media page. “He’s never really

been in a position to really showcase his skills. He’s classically trained — his techniques are really phenomenal. He needs his own space to really show off.”

Kengo, a 1,000-square-foot spot with seating for about 20 customers, will provide him with the means to display his skills behind the sushi bar.

The business began to take KATO shape last year after Wagy persuaded Kato — who had been offered a job in Denver — to stay in Toledo with a proposal to run a restaurant with him.

The two found affordable rent and the small space they were looking for on South St. Clair Street, in the building that

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Although the entrepreneurs originally planned to open in the fall, things didn’t fall together as quickly as they had hoped. The kitchen needed a complete hood system, which took time and money to install.

“To build a full restaurant in three months is unbelievably optimistic,” Wagy said. “We’re probably about two and a half months behind schedule.”

Still, the two are getting the establishment ready for inspections and plan to open very shortly after getting the go-ahead from the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department and the City’s Division of Building Inspection.

Once open, Wagy hopes to wow diners with Kengo’s traditional Japanese fare, which will be heavy on yakitori, which means grilled chicken, as well as skewered food in general.

He said the food will immediately set the restaurant apart from others in the Toledo area.

“You will see yakitori on some

menus as an appetizer,” Wagy said.

“But no one’s traditionally doing yakitori, not on a yakitori grill, not using traditional yakitori sauces.”

Food will be served on wooden platters, created by local craftsman Craig Mossing.

The food itself must be fresh, as Kengo does not have a walk-in cooler or freezer.

“I really want to work with local farmers and stay local,” Kato previously told Toledo Free Press. “I will work with Honolulu and Japan and all over the U.S. I have guys that will deliver [meat] daily and in Livonia there’s a warehouse where I will personally go pick it up. I just want to do everything fresh.”

Kato was born and raised in New York City. His parents owned two Japanese restaurants in the city, where he worked from a young age. As an adult, he worked in a traditional Japanese restaurant for seven years and helped other people open restaurants, but this

endeavor will be the first time he has opened up his own restaurant.

“We’re going back to Kengo’s roots,” Wagy said. “Classic, not Americanized. We’re not deep-frying anything.

We don’t have a deep fryer. No cream cheese. If we do a California roll, we won’t call it a California roll — it will actually have real lump crab in it, not imitation things.”

Most items on the constantly changing menu will be á la carte, with skewers of yakitori priced at about $3 and pieces of fish in the $3-$5 range.

“We’re just really excited,” Wagy said. “We kind of want to push the food scene a little bit. It’s a small enough place where hopefully we can be passionate enough to take Toledo on a new sushi adventure.”

Kengo plans on having sake on tap, along with several American craft beers in the pilsner and Kölsch styles to fit the delicate flavors of the Japanese food.

For more information, visit kengotoledo.com. O

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Toledo Free Press has teamed up with Veterans Matter, a local charity focused on housing homeless veterans, to help house as many veterans as we can.

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Josh Wagy of Kengo Sushi & Yakitori. The Warehouse District eatery at 38 S. St. Clair St. will feature dishes by chef Kengo Kato.

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O Sunday Ticket: Sundays.

O Monday Night Football: Mondays.

O Trivia with Team Lunchbox: Tuesdays.

O Name That Tune: Wednesdays.

Compiled by Matt Liasse Events are subject to change.

MUSIC

Doc Watson’s

Bar 145º

5304 Monroe St. (419) 593-0073 or bar145toledo.com.

O $5 martinis and burgers: Wednesdays.

O NFL Sunday Ticket: Sundays.

O That ’80s Band: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Jan. 16.

O The Zack Attack: 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Jan. 17.

O Bloody Mary Bar: Jan. 18.

O Ryan Roth: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Jan. 21.

O Caveman & The Dinosaurs: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Jan. 22.

The Blarney Irish Pub

601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www. theblarneyirishpub.com.

O “Toledo’s Best Singers” Karaoke: 7-11 p.m.

Wednesdays.

Bronze Boar

20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www. bronzeboar.com.

O Open mic with Steve Finelli and Oliver Roses: Mondays.

O Open mic and Steve Kennedy: Thursdays.

O Beg To Differ: Jan. 16.

O Gin Bunny: Jan. 17.

Dégagé Jazz Café

301 River Road, Maumee. $5 weekends for cafe seating. (419) 794-8205 or www. degagejazzcafe.com.

O Gene Parker: Tuesdays.

O Gene Parker & Friends: Wednesdays.

O Zac Kreuz: Jan. 16.

O Mike Whitty: Jan. 17.

O Zac Kreuz: Jan. 18.

O John Cleveland: Jan. 22.

The Distillery

The mic is open on Sundays, but paid entertainers rock out Fridays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.

1515 S. Byrne Road. (419) 389-6003 or docwatsonstoledo.com.

O Sporcle Live Trivia: Thursdays.

O Josh Whitney: 10 p.m. Jan. 16.

O Dave Carpenter and Shawn McMahon: 10 p.m. Jan. 17.

Durty Bird

2 S. St. Clair St. (419) 243-2473 or www. yeoldedurtybird.com.

O Ruth Nichols Quartet: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Jan. 16.

O Damen Cook & Friends: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Jan. 17.

O Estar Cohen Project: 1-4 p.m. Jan. 18.

O T-Town Rounds: 8-10 p.m. Jan. 19.

O Bob Rex: 7-10 p.m. Jan. 20.

O Rob Courtney: 7-10 p.m. Jan. 21.

O Jason Quick Trio: 7-10 p.m. Jan. 22.

Elixer

This two-man band (consisting of Dave Rybaczewski and Walter Guy) performs Beatles songs acoustically. beatlesebooks.com/elixir.

O River Café & Marina, 6215 Edgewater Drive, Erie, Michigan. 7:30-10:30 p.m. Jan. 17.

Dave Rybaczewski (solo) O Angelo’s Northwood Villa, 6630 South Dixie Hwy., Erie. 6-10 p.m. Jan. 16.

Frankie’s Inner-City

Toledo’s venue for rock. Tickets vary between $5 and $14, unless otherwise noted. 308 Main St. (419) 693-5300 or FrankiesInnerCity.com.

O Know Lyfe, Pieces Of A Blackout, Fail and Deliver, Destroying Patterns, Cadence and Sarah’s A Cutter: 8 p.m. Jan. 16.

O 3rd Annual Glass Swamp Music Festival with Megaton, Mujaw Creek, Deiselburner, Bloody Obstetric Technology, Society’s Ugly Son, Demonshifter, The Debose, Chris Phenom, Blind Haven, Driven for Blood and Decapitus: 5 p.m. Jan. 17.

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The Ottawa Tavern

Live entertainment after 9:30 p.m. FridaysSaturdays. Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg. (419) 874-3111 or www.hifq.com.

O Time Trax: Jan. 16 and 17.

1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483, otavern.com.

O Squidling Bros. Circus Sideshow with special guest Velvet Crayon: Jan. 16.

O GOSH PIT: Jan. 17.

Hollywood Casino Toledo

The Hollywood Casino Toledo offers musical distractions from all the lights, noise and jackpots. 777 Hollywood Blvd. (419) 661-5200 or www.hollywoodcasinotoledo.com.

O Soulstice: 9 p.m. Jan. 16.

O The Homewreckers: 9 p.m. Jan. 17.

Huntington Center

500 Jefferson Ave. (419) 321-5007, (800) 7453000 or www.huntingtoncentertoledo.com.

O Bob Seger with special guest J. Geils Band: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20.

Iggy’s

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O Ben Stalets, Micah Schnabel and Midwest Tourist: 9 p.m. Jan. 16.

Jazz on the Maumee

The Art Tatum Jazz Society will provide smooth, cool “Twilight Jazz” along the river, appetizers included. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Grand Plaza Hotel’s Aqua Lounge, 444 N. Summit St. $5-$15. (419) 241-1411 or www.arttatumsociety.com.

Name That Tune

O The Oarhouse, 5044 Suder Ave.: 8-10 p.m.

Mondays and 6-8:30 p.m. Fridays.

O Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 6609 Airport Hwy.: 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays.

O Jed’s Barbeque and Brew, 855 S. HollandSylvania Road: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Pat & Dandy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 3344 W. Laskey Road: 9-11 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 5702 Monroe St.: 7-9 p.m. Thursdays.

One2 Lounge at Treo

Live music starts at 7:30 p.m. 5703 Main St., Sylvania. (419) 882-2266 or treosylvania.com.

O The Midnight Flowers: Jan. 16.

O Post Modern Blues Band: Jan. 17.

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O “The Book of Life”: 7 p.m. Jan. 16, 7:15 p.m Jan. 17 and 4:30 p.m. Jan. 18.

O “The Equalizer”: 9:05 p.m. Jan. 16, 9:20 p.m. Jan. 17 and 6:35 p.m. Jan. 18.

SWINGMANIA

International Film Fest

With its focus on swing music, Jeff McDonald’s group of musicians provides a peek into another era. (419) 708-0265, (419) 874-0290 or www.swingmania.org.

O Trotters Tavern, 5131 Heatherdowns Blvd.

(419) 381-2079: 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

Featuring seven films over four weekends.

Starts 5 p.m. Jan. 17 with “Shaolin Soccer” (Hong Kong) followed by “Juan of the Dead” at 7 p.m. Ohio Theatre & Event Center, 3114 Lagrange St. $5 per film in advance at ohio theatretoledo.org, $7 per film at door, or $25 for all seven.

Third Street Cigar

Kevin Hart

20 N. 3rd St., Waterville (419) 441-0020.

O Johnny Reed and The Houserockers: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Jan. 16.

The Village Idiot

Tunes combined with pizza and booze. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 893-7281 or www. villageidiotmaumee.com.

O The House Band: Fridays.

O Dooley Wilson: Sundays.

O Frankie May and friends: Mondays.

O John Barile & Bobby May: Tuesdays.

O Andrew Ellis: Wednesdays.

O The Nu-Tones: Jan. 16.

O Whiskey Chambers: Jan. 17.

Ye Olde Cock n’ Bull

9 N. Huron St. (419) 244-2855 or facebook. com/cocknbulltoledo.

O Danny Mettler hosts Open Mic Night: Wednesdays.

O Tore Down Blues Jam Band: Sundays.

O Bobby May and John Barile followed by Last Born Sons: Jan. 16.

O SugarPax: Jan. 17.

O Steve Kennedy: Jan. 20.

O Danny Mettler: Jan. 21.

O Captain Sweet Shoes: Jan. 22.

EVENTS Eastwood Theater

The historic landmark is screening movies for $5. 817 E. Broadway St. (419) 720-5199 or

Thursday, January 22nd

Joe Woods

Stranahan Theater and Great Hall, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd., Toledo. 7 p.m. Jan. 21.

Toledo Repertoire Theatre

16 10th St. (419) 243-9277 or toledorep.org.

O “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward and directed

by Matthew Gretzinger: A novelist invites Madame Arcati to his house for a séance in hopes to be inspired to write his next book. Jan. 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24 and 25. Tickets $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, $5 for students 12 and younger, $10 for students 13 and older and $17 for groups of 10 or more.

Toledo Zoo

2700 Broadway St. $11-$14. (419) 385-4040 or toledozoo.org.

O Free-flight Butterfly Exhibit: Free with zoo admission. Open daily.

O Vineyard Adventure Wine Tasting: 7-9 p.m.

Jan. 17.

O Free admission for Lucas County residents: Jan. 17-19.

Veterans luncheon

This event will celebrate veterans and feature dinner and live entertainment. Forrester’s On The River, 26 Main St. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 17. RSVP to Chris Cremean at chriscremean@ yahoo.com or at (419) 206-5979.

If you would like your event in The Pulse, contact Matt Liasse at mliasse@toledofreepress.com.

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Private School Guide Through this Private School Guide, we will be taking an in-depth look at private schools in our area including their history, a comparison to public education and a glimpse at what is being taught.

We will also talk about the benefits of attending private school, to both students and parents, and learn about why investing in a private education for your child is a gift that lasts a lifetime.

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A home for Comet, Rewind

Check out adorable Comet and his winter snow gear. He is ready to brave the cold with long walks and plenty of exercise with his new forever home.

Comet is about 1 year old and is an incredibly affectionate Jack Russell Terrier mix. He has such a silly personality and is sure to keep you laughing.

Comet is selective with other dogs, so if you have another dog an introduction at the shelter is best to make sure they will get along. If you think you can give Comet the spoiled rotten treatment he enjoys, stop out and meet him today.

Comet is neutered, up to date on his vaccinations and is microchipped.

Meet Rewind: He is a certified private investigator and an extreme snuggling champion. Before he can take a rest and curl up in the sun, he has to patrol the room. Rewind can usually be found watching the pocket

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pets at the shelter or checking up on all of the other cats in the cat room. He is only 7 months old, so he is still very playful and active. If you are looking for a playful kitty with lots of love to give, then this is the cat for you. Rewind is neutered, up to date on his vaccinations and is microchipped.

Toledo Area Humane Society is located at 1920 Indian Wood Circle, Arrowhead Park, Maumee.

Adoption hours are noon to 7 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING, JUVENILE DEPARTMENT

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IN RE THE DEPENDENCY OF: AKI GUZMAN LIEVONEN A/K/A AKI GUZMAN DOB: 03/12/2013 NO: 14-7-02546-5 KNT

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TO: Angela Marie Guzman, Mother; Kari Lievonen, Alleged Father; Unknown Father and/or anyone claiming parental/paternal rights or interest in the child and to All Whom It May Concern: On November 26, 2014, a petition for termination was filed in the above entitled Court, pursuant to RCW 13.34.080 and/or RCW 26.33.310 regarding the above named child.

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Said Petition will be heard on February 12, 2015, at 8:15 a.m., at King County Superior Court, Juvenile Department, 401 4th Ave North, Kent, WA 98032, before a judge of the above entitled court, at which time you are directed to appear and answer the said petition or the petition will be granted and action will be taken by the court such as shall appear to be for the welfare of the said child.

Dated January 6, 2015.

BARBARA MINER KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CLERK BY: AMD, Deputy Clerk

Pursuant to O.R.C. § 1702.48, Notice is hereby given that CATHOLIC CHARITABLE MINISTRIES FUND, has elected to dissolve. A Certificate of Dissolution will be filed with the Ohio Secretary of State with an effective date of dissolution of January 25, 2015.

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Editor’s note: This cartoon was slated to run last week along with our Toledo Walleye Winterfest wrap-up, but was replaced with a more timely cartoon after the Paris shootings.

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Toledo Free Press publishes classified ads and cannot be responsible for problems arising between parties placing or responding to ads in our paper. We strongly urge everyone to exercise caution when dealing with people, companies and organizations with whom you are not familiar.

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