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DON LEE

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uring his Jan. 28 State of the City speech, Toledo Mayor Mike Bell announced he will run for re-election this fall. Reaction from Democratic foes was swift and dismissive, indicative of what will undoubtedly be a heated attempt to hinder Bell’s progress.

I have confidence that Bell can fulfill his responsibilities to the city while navigating the distractions. But I fully expect his opponents to do their best to hinder his efforts, sacrificing the city’s gains for their personal ambitions.

As I have asked before and will repeat: There are still many months to go, but if the election took place next week, what arguments are there against Bell retaining his office? Bell has reached out to surrounding communities with an eye on cooperation and inclusion. His administration has put (contested) money back in the rainy day fund, arranged for a class of police officers and helped accommodate the smooth opening of Hollywood Casino Toledo, the city’s biggest deThomas F. Pounds velopment investment in a very long time.

Bell’s efforts to chisel out a place for Toledo on the global stage will have decades of continuing impact. His latest trip, a late-November visit to China, was another marketing and exposure success that further cultivated the seeds of commerce he has been planting on the international stage.

In his Jan. 28 speech, Bell acknowledged some of the missteps his administration has made; such concessions are rare in politics and indicative of Bell’s growth as a leader. Try to think of similar mea culpas ever being issued by any of Bell’s public servant opponents.

There are those who are ready to combat Bell over his 2010 use of exigent circumstances to cut city workers’ wages and his 2011 support of Senate Bill 5, which would have restricted public employee collective bargaining; even though their side “won” the latter battle, they would advance that ideology over what is best for the city’s momentum.

I have questioned and criticized some of Bell’s budget decisions and continue to be concerned about some of the communication issues between Bell and City Council. But those publicly acknowledging their interest in the mayor’s office seem to be much more interested in their own advancement than in what is best for Toledo.

Bell has restored dignity and action to an office that was sorely lacking both. His challengers will need a lot more than the same old rhetoric and misguided ambition to take a serious shot at silencing his voice. The state of the city is stronger than it has been in a long time, and while there have been bumps along the road, much of that progress can be attributed to Bell’s steady leadership. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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Downton Boo Boo

t’s fashionable to bash and disavow television, as if most pop machines, chemotherapy, USB flash drives), but few that people are seated in their study, a crackling fire providing are as convenient on a daily basis. The DVR comes in particular counterpoint to the NPR on their earbuds and the David use on Sundays. At 9 p.m., PBS shows “Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey” at the exact same time TLC Foster Wallace novel in their well-manicured shows “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” fingers. But with hundreds of stations available Your reaction to the titles of those two proand boutique channels catering to every ingrams is a Rorschach test of your pop culture terest from cooking to travel to science-fiction tastes. People react strongly to both shows, movies featuring airplane-eating sharks and often despite the fact that they have never bridge-destroying squids, television is an inseen five minutes of either one. Some people dispensible center of entertainment. wrinkle their noses at “Downton Abbey” as if My wife and I limit the amount of teleit were a plate of marmite-soaked toast; some vision we allow our 4- and 6-year-old sons people wrinkle their noses at “Honey Boo to watch. The routine of getting them to bed, Boo,” as if it were a plate of scrapple. Odds making their school lunches for the next day Michael S. miller are, such people have not tried “Abbey,” “Boo and keeping our home in order limits the amount of television we see, but there are some shows we Boo,” marmite or scrapple, but that does not stop them from expressing their critical disdain. Both shows are the best of try to catch and a few we never miss.

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t appears that the Republican are oft going astray.

This week, after basically having leadership is experiencing a little buyer’s remorse after their adven- their butts handed to them by Hispanic voters, the GOP has decided tures in crazy land.

They seem to have figured out that demonizing illegal immigrants that appealing to the lowest common is perhaps not the way to go. The denominator and adopting positions latest and greatest Gang of Eight, four Republicans and that appeal only to four Democrats, have white males is totally attempted to make inadequate for winmeaningful progress ning elections on the toward immigration national level. Thanks policy, hoping that to the tea party wave maybe that will make in 2010, the Republithe Hispanic commucans took control of a nity forget all the nasty number of state houses things that were said and governorships. and done in the past.

The reason for this, For weeks, the big as previously stated, was Don BURNARD plan to regain power not so much a cometo-Jesus moment by voters agreeing with a shrinking base was to redo with their beliefs, but rather a general the Electoral College so that elecapathy by voters who had unrealistic toral votes would be parceled out by expectations of what President Barack the gerrymandered districts instead Obama could accomplish in two years. of by the popular vote. Two states They stayed home in droves compared with four or five electoral votes do to in 2008, and voilà, the inmates were this now. The plan was to have the running the asylum. The leadership big electorally important states like eventually tired of the uncontrol- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and lable loonies they had depended on Wisconsin change to this method. to take control of the House. Many, That way, even if you lost the popular if not most, of the new Teapublicans vote, you could still win!

Of course, we saw that act in 2000 had no respect for the institution, the leadership or government in general. and 2004, but this would be decidedly For the most part, they just didn’t play less messy. It appears that cooler heads well with others. With the bit in their have prevailed, and Virginia, Wisteeth, they pushed through some of consin and even Ohio have decided the most homophobic, misogynistic not to pursue this route, at least not at and racist policies seen on the floors this time.

Since “Tricky Dick” Nixon’s run of Congress in quite some time — and in 1968 when he tried negotiating that is saying something.

They didn’t think it would matter, with the Vietnamese behind President because this all happened in a census Lyndon Johnson’s back, the White year, and they could gerrymander House Watergate plumbers, Ronald their way to power, hoping to take Reagan negotiating with the Iranians control of not only the presidency, behind President Jimmy Carter’s back, but the Senate as well. This was espe- the Florida debacle in 2000, etc., the cially prevalent here in Ohio, where Republicans have sought to gain or they butchered the electoral map in maintain power through dirty tricks such a way as to give them an even and legislative sleight of hand rather more insurmountable majority in than running on policies good for all both state legislative bodies, and a Americans. This election saw a public 12-4 majority in the House of Rep- that couldn’t be bought or fooled. resentatives, even though a majority Voters needlessly stood in lines for of Ohioans voted for Democratic hours to have their say at the polls. representation. They figured if they They couldn’t overcome the gerrysprinkled in some voter suppression, mandering, but still the Democrats gained in the House, Senate and kept how could they possibly lose?

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted the presidency. Perhaps the GOP is ignored every court order blocking seeing the handwriting on the wall, early-voting restrictions, even from the and will try to actually do the job it was Supreme Court, right up until the bitter elected to do for all its constituents instead of total obstruction and shenaniend, risking contempt charges.

What happened? Karl Rove liter- gans for the benefit of the few. O ally melted down on Fox News when Ohio was called for Obama. Alas, the Email columnist Don Burnard at best laid plans of mice and politicians letters@toledofreepress.com.

Opinion n MILLER CONTINUED FROM A3 “Downton Abbey,” created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, follows the aristocratic Crawley family in their magnificent castle estate, telling their story through their lives and through the eyes of their large group of maids, footmen, cooks and servants. The story began with the sinking of Titanic and has followed the family for nearly a decade during the course of three seasons.

The sterling cast includes Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Lady Cora and Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Jessica Brown Findlay as their three daughters.

Other cast highlights include Maggie Smith as Robert’s mother Violet the Dowager Countess, Dan Stevens as reluctant heir Matthew Crawley and Jim Carter (Carson), Brendan Coyle (Bates) and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes), key members of the staff.

The show is deliberately paced, heavy on melodrama, written with a refined sense of wordplay and acted with an impeccable human touch. It requires and rewards patience and a long memory. As in a carefully plotted novel, events tend to echo and themes repeat as the drama unfolds.

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” on TLC, which at one point stood for The Learning Channel, follows the family of Alana “Boo Boo” Thompson, a 7-year-old rural Georgia girl who competes in child beauty pageants. Her family, June “Mama” Shannon, father Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson and three sisters (nicknamed “Pumpkin,” “Chickadee” and “Chubbs”) are crude, self-proclaimed “rednecks” characterized by one reviewer as “a horde of lice-picking, lard-eating, nose-thumbing hooligans,” a fairly accurate if understated description.

On “Honey Boo Boo,” Alana is shown preparing for pageants by drinking her mother’s “Go Go Juice,” a mix of Mountain Dew and Red Bull,” and eating plate after plate of “sketti,” which is pasta covered in a sauce that consists of a bottle of ketchup and nearly a full tub of butter blended in a microwave. Each child in the family has a different father, and exhibits behavior that should horrify and revolt even the dimmest parents. The principals of the show speak with such thick Southern accents (often through mouths full of junk food or devoid

FEBRUARY 3, 2013 of teeth), that nearly all of them are subtitled. It is impossible to defend the pretext of the show, though it is open to debate whether watching it makes the viewer complicit in the family’s self-propelled exploitation.

The “Downton” and “Boo Boo” families may be a century, an ocean and cultures apart, but they have many things in common. Both feature a patriarch overwhelmed by smarter and more powerful women, although “smarter” is a relative term when it comes to Boo Boo’s family. Both clans deal with financial issues, social competitions and single-parent babies (although those babies arrive at their status through polar-opposite circumstances). Both families have ongoing sister rivalries that add tension and sometimes humor.

The shows may be wildly divergent in intent, but the one element that unites them — fact vs. fiction, scripted vs. reality — is the clear and unconditional love each family has for its members. That is a strong element missing from a lot of entertainment, whether it features stiff upper lips or red necks.

Both programs are immensely entertaining while evoking antipodal emotions. “Downton” is intellectually rewarding and raises the bar for television drama.

“Boo Boo” redefines “guilty pleasure” and lowers the bar for “reality” programs, a genre digging new nadirs with alarming speed. But “Boo Boo” is no more responsible for the crumbling of civility than “Downton” is responsible for preserving the last few atoms of societal dignity. Both shows are mere reflections: “Downton” one of British nostalgia, “Boo Boo” one of American dissolution. Watching “Downton” doesn’t make me a better human being. Watching “Boo Boo” doesn’t make me a worse one.

Writer Harlan Ellison, responding to the notion that television sucks, said television doesn’t suck; it is sucked.

It is a glass teat from which viewers draw the nutrition — or poison — they seek. Whether your palate prefers the fine cream of “Downton Abbey” or the sour lemon of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” it’s a testament to the art that you can pick your sweets — or your poison. O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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1812 bicentennial

A semi-automatic debunking History — an opinion

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he Second Amendment was they do it on a national level. But I diwritten into the Constitution on gress, as that is a story for another day.

My interpretation of what I see Dec. 15, 1791.

This amendment seems to be in- and hear directly from the mouths of terpreted differently by everyone, politicians is meant only for politics. much like the writings of the Bible. It’s become an art form where looks Each person has his or her own idea and charisma takes center stage, of right and wrong, true meaning or while meaning and content take the backseat. So long as you yell the hidden subtleties. loudest, or add a strong It seems to me that a curse word at the end of group of people who left an expressive sentence, their native country to settle the crowd will cheer. in a “New World,” where But it’s time we think there was less oppression, for ourselves. would write something enThe people who were suring that they had the right in charge of gun bans in to stand up to the people the past are quick to jump who oppressed them. on the horse, using In the case of the origChris Delcamp back the tragedy in Newtown, inal 13 colonies, where each one acted as a sovereign entity, Conn., as a reason to ride it once more.

Let’s think about all the murders they needed the Constitution to help unite them better. But the powers on your local news. What type of that be thought it wise to make sure weapon was used in most of those? that the type of leaders who had op- If you don’t recall, I’ll remind you: pressed them prior to this time should a handgun. I know because I report not have the ability to do so in the fu- on many of the stories. I see the file ture by means of their own greed and come through our feeds and watch the word “handgun” repeat over selfish agendas.

I think the right to keep and bear and over.

So why is there such a focus on arms came about so that, should those in power use their influence to put the these “assault weapons”?

I can only surmise that they are free people under their boot heel, the free people would have the legal right targeted because they look rather to defend themselves from the corrup- menacing. They look similar to what you would see in a shoot-em-up tion that influence may take on.

And so it is that we all have the right film. Quite simply, these guns are to own firearms as we deem necessary being vilified on a level for which we haven’t a name. to protect ourselves and our families.

I would like to help debunk a myth.

I work in a business whose players There is a common term I hear emspout political rhetoric as if they had researched the facts for themselves in- phasized quite inappropriately, so pay stead of simply reading a regurgitated attention: “Semi-automatic.” Many script from the wires. What’s worse, people, including those with 10-plus

years of television reporting, have no idea what this term means.

The truth: “Semi-automatic” means that every time one bullet leaves the chamber, the trigger has to be pulled to ready another. To exhaust a magazine of 15 rounds, the trigger must be pulled 15 times. This is true with any weapon that is available to the public.

“Fully automatic” refers to a gun that can be fired continuously by holding the trigger down. These type of guns have been banned in all facets of sale or transfer since 1986.

Frankly, they are all but impossible for a member of the general public to attain. And completely impossible for someone to do so legally.

I have never actually seen any assault-style weapon used in any killings that have come across my news desk.

So the big question is, why are the politicians for gun control trying to ban something that, in statistical terms, is only responsible for less than 1 percent of all crimerelated shootings?

My summation would be that they have to appease the people who pay for their campaigns. Because a handgun ban is a complete impossibility.

Rest assured, a gun ban will do absolutely nothing! It will stop no crimes, and give people more of a reason to feel held under the heel of a boot.

In case you were unaware, the Columbine massacre happened during the last assault weapon ban. O Chris Delcamp is a reporter and videojournalist for WNWO-TV. Email him at cdelcamp@wnwo.com.

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o you know which political party I belong to? If I follow a particular religion or if I’m conservative or liberal? If you know me only through these articles, I certainly hope not! Toledo Free Press publishes my stories on the 1812 era because they’re educational and hopefully entertaining, not because I editorialize about the events or people of that era in an attempt to skew your understanding of history.

A Jan. 27 Toledo Free Press letter to the editor, “Raisin context,” offered reader Martin Extejt’s opinion about my Jan. 13 piece on the Raisin River massacre (“Remember the Raisin”), Frank implying that I was in some degree offering up an exaggerated opinion under the guise of history.

I detest political correctness.

I can “handle the truth,” as the saying goes. More importantly, I suspect you can, too. Show me the raw facts and then leave me alone to draw my own conclusions. For example, am I the only one who is insulted by political gurus of both major parties who feel compelled to explain to me what I just saw with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears, in a presidential speech or any other major national event? I understood it, all by myself, Dr. Spin!

Revisionist history techniques are being employed at an alarming rate, unbeknownst to most readers. Opinion is often deceptively couched in what appears to be a factual historical narrative.

It’s almost impossible to know if you’ve been fed a twisted version of the truth if you don’t take the time to do the comparative research.

One 1800s historian reflected that once something is written as history, it is believed forever. What a responsibility writing history is!

How many of you have taken the time to research any of the topics I’ve written about to make certain I’ve been accurate? Maybe a few of you history buffs have, but I suspect most haven’t. You don’t have the time for that, so it becomes a matter of trust.

That trust is something I have to earn and prove to you. Because I am inherently conscious of being

called out for a false statement, I do my homework. Such research is not done to sway you to a political ideology, but to present the truth. My opinion has no place in my columns. I follow Sgt. Joe Friday’s advice, “Just the facts ma’am, nothing but the facts.” (Google it, youngsters!) My goal is to bring those facts to you at times with a bit of a twist and a touch of humor, but always without bias or any sugarcoating.

There were plenty of atrocities to go around in our frontier history. For decades it was a brutal tit-for-tat scenario. History isn’t necessarily balanced, fair or pretty. Really bad stuff happened.

KURON Really good stuff happened. It’s from the mouths of the men and women who were there, wherever “there” was, that I seek my information. Logically, they should be the most reliable source. You get to decide.

On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of the River Raisin, with massacres becoming a monthly event in our culture, I thought it was timely to elicit the details of this outrageous occurrence. Here, in 1813, a handful of very vicious men, who happened to be Indian, did slaughter defenseless, wounded men. That’s not propaganda, that’s a fact based on the testimony of several people who survived to tell of it. Any embellishment came later. Even Tecumseh once shot one of his own for not ceasing his attack on a defenseless American prisoner. Isn’t it self-evident that there are real men and real thugs of every race?

The guys who did this, and only these guys, were real thugs.

I want to thank Martin Extejt, first for reading my stories and second for passionately decrying what he perceived to be a slam against Native Americans. But thirdly, he has inadvertently created this opportunity for me to share my approach to writing about history, and how I choose to present it to you. What happened, happened. That’s history.

And that’s my opinion.

I welcome yours. O

Frank Kuron is author of the War of 1812 book, “Thus Fell Tecumseh.”

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By Dave Willinger

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER dwillinger@toledofreepress.com

A repeat bank robber was flabbergasted recently when police busted him on a Downtown Toledo sidewalk minutes after his latest heist.

The robber, disguised in clothes different from those he wore to the robbery, had no idea his getaway plan had been cracked by detectives.

To solve the caper, the Toledo Police Department (TPD) used clues obtained from images recorded by crime cameras installed last year as part of the department’s Observation Research Intelligence Operations Network, known as Orion. Those cameras are the most visible aspect of Orion, launched by Chief Derrick Diggs as part of an overall data-driven policing strategy. The price tag for Orion was about $1.5 million, of which $820,000 was paid for out of the police department’s Law Enforcement Trust Fund, money obtained from assets seized from criminal enterprises.

On Jan. 29, Toledo City Council approved a request by the police department for an additional $380,000 in capital improvement funds for the second phase of Orion. The additional funds are slated for the purchase and installation of advanced software to create a unified data warehouse and sweeping information network that will reach from the police cruisers on the streets to the entire department and even provide intelligence to surrounding law enforcement agencies, said Capt. Michael Troendle of the TPD Criminal Intelligence Section.

Troendle estimates the total cost of phase two at $500,000, but noted that police still have $120,000 from the initial funding earmarked for software.

The idea is to build one major server that can be mined by police more efficiently, according to Troendle, a 20-year department veteran.

The second phase of the Orion project will focus on creating a central system out of the disparate networks now accessed by police, including the NORIS criminal background database, 911 call center data, vehicle-mounted license plate readers and mobile data terminals. In addition, a number of internal databases, for example, gang activity, would be merged.

Troendle said the upgrades and improved computer networking will help his police analysts discover “hidden trends” in local crime. The improvements are also intended to bring a significant time-savings to the work of the

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Toledo police department CApt. Michael Troendle watches the monitors at criminal intelligence.

Criminal Intelligence Section. Sgt. Scott Sterling, who works under Troendle, said the updated system could conceivably reduce a shift-long search of multiple databases to a single click of the mouse. The Criminal Intelligence Section currently employs four police officer analysts, one sergeant, and Troendle, who reports directly to Diggs. The unit was beefed up a year ago to meet the demands of bringing Orion online. But Troendle said his team, judging by industry standards, remains understaffed like the police department in general.

Fundamentally sound

City Councilman D. Michael Collins, who chairs the Public Safety, Law and Criminal Justice committee and voted in favor of the second phase of Orion funding, said the use of the cameras is a “fundamentally sound” concept, one that “certainly enhances the ability of a police department to function.” However, Collins stresses that the cameras will “never be a replacement for officers on the street.”

And the councilman seemed to bristle at the “real time” label given by police to their camera monitoring operation,

noting the cameras are only monitored during business hours and then only by one officer at a time during staggered one-hour shifts.

Troendle confirmed that monitoring schedule, explaining how his analysts are tasked with more than just watching TV. Those officers must also do a great amount of data entry to keep the computer files up to date, in effect jusTROENDLE tifying that “real time” label. It is difficult for someone to stare at video screens for a protracted time without a change of pace, Troendle said.

Still, all the cameras are recording all the time. The images are stored for 14 days before being erased, Troendle said. Any video that becomes evidence in a criminal matter will be stored “forever,” he said.

Besides monitoring images from the cameras, the Criminal Intelligence Section is responsible for generating crime analysis reports every

two weeks. Those reports are given to the department’s watch commanders during biweekly briefings that typically last a couple of hours, said Public Information Officer Sgt. Joe Heffernan.

The data contained in those reports is intended to help commanders refine their patrols and deploy their resources efficiently.

“Random patrol doesn’t work,” said Troendle, who during his career also served four years on the department’s SWAT team. “When we were on SWAT, we were always looking for this [kind of] information,” he said.

Criminal Intelligence also issues four to five bulletins a week to all personnel and to neighboring law enforcement agencies. Troendle said Toledo police with Orion have created “unprecedented knowledge-sharing.”

Sky cops

There are currently 73 cameras operating at 37 locations around the city, and nine more cameras in the process of being deployed. The computer-programmable cameras are remote-controlled from police headquarters, can swivel 360 degrees and have a 36x zoom. Some

are equipped with infrared capability to “see” in the dark. In general, the cameras have been placed at crime hot spots, Troendle said, although some camera locations were selected with an eye toward protecting infrastructure.

The cameras, branded “sky cops” by the manufacturer, were purchased from Executive Security International (ESI), a Memphis, Tenn.,-based firm.

Troendle had praise for the company despite what the captain called a “miscommunication” that has delayed the delivery of another component of Orion, namely, seven “gunshot cameras,” which come equipped with microphones that enable police to determine by triangulation the precise location of a shooter within seconds.

Troendle expects to take delivery of those cameras in February. “The goal is to catch the guy shooting,” he said.

The TPD also has a pair of mobile sky cop units. Those trailer cameras were deployed near Westfield Franklin Park and along the Monroe Street corridor in West Toledo during the holiday season and were a big success, Troendle said. n CAMERAS CONTINUES ON A7

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The trailer cameras, easily identified by their flashing blue lights and police logo, deter car break-ins, car thefts and other crimes, he said.

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Troendle took issue with detractors who claim the cameras do nothing more than displace crime, resulting in the bad guys committing their misdeeds in some other neighborhood where cops aren’t watching.

The police captain said the polemounted cameras are capable of being redeployed at any time to another location. But Troendle, who holds a master of science degree in criminal justice with a concentration in crime analysis from Tiffin University, was keen to explain that the number of crimes deterred by the cameras can be expected to be significantly greater than the number of any “displaced crimes” that may occur elsewhere.

And that results in a net reduction of crime, he said. The reasoning is that the factors which contribute to crime — a suitable target, a motivated offender and the lack of a suitable guardian are not equally distributed everywhere. Not every time a criminal is thwarted by the presence of police cameras is he going to find, and act on, some other unguarded target, Troendle said. He also em-

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phasized that the benefits of deterrence typically extend beyond the actual area targeted by the cameras, constituting another multiplier of the technology’s effectiveness.

Burglaries, thefts down

Indeed, police spokesman Heffernan provided statistics he said confirm the efficacy of the cameras. Burglaries and thefts from cars were both down 22 percent last year compared to 2011, Heffernan said, with auto thefts down 5-percent. In raw numbers, those three types of crime saw a decrease year to year from 11,931 incidents in 2011 to 9,499 in 2012.

Heffernan credits the cameras and the overall data driven strategy being implemented by police for the reduction in those crimes. Statistics on the number of burglaries over the past four years, for example, show a significant reduction in 2012, the year Orion came online. Whereas there were 8,064 burglaries in 2009, 7,287 in 2010 and 8,366 in 2011, those crimes decreased to 6,490 last year, Heffernan said.

Data-driven policing means tracking crime series, tracking offenders and building predictive analysis models on the basis of computer software algorithms, Hefferman said.

The intelligence is used to better deploy police resources.

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Heffernan said, doubly so because those reductions were achieved “with a record low number of manpower.”

Heffernan stressed that the system is still new and the police department is still fine-tuning it, even as more upgrades are coming in. For that reason he believes there will be even better results in the future. “I don’t think we’ve realized 100 percent of the benefits,” he said.

As for manpower levels, Heffernan noted the current academy class will be training on the streets this spring, with another class to enter the academy in the fall. Looking toward 2014, he said the department is finally starting to “get our manpower numbers where they need to be.”

Staffing levels

City administration spokesperson Jennifer Sorgenfrei last week echoed that sentiment when she said police staffing would be at around 600 officers by year’s end, a figure she characterized as a stated interim goal of Mayor Mike Bell.

But Collins said he expects department staffing to further lose ground over the course of the year. The councilman noted the 40-strong academy class won’t quite offset the some 44 expected retirements, and the 50 new October recruits won’t hit the streets of the Glass City until 2014. In the meantime, Collins, a retired police officer, said Toledo’s current ratio of cops to citizens is the lowest of any comparable city nationwide and significantly below industry recommended staffing levels.

Orion’s phase two also marks the beginning of an ambitious plan to fully integrate into the system the mobile

data terminals in the police cruisers.

Calling this level of technology “cutting edge,” Heffernan said eventually officers behind the wheel of their cruisers would be able to live stream video images from sky cop cameras.

While he supports Orion, Collins said, “I’m not naive to believe this is going to be the sole answer to what’s going on today.” He said there is no policing model that is superior to “beat integrity” which, he explained, means “officers are held accountable for crimes in that area.”

In Collins’ view, the lack of manpower and the volume of police calls have combined to reduce beat integrity. “Today they go call to call to call,” he said referring to officers on patrol.

Troendle, who was tasked with updating the department’s sector and beat map in 2009, agreed that remote-controlled cameras could not replace officers on patrol. But Troendle, who ultimately reworked the city police map into an eight-sector grid that strives to balance activity among all 16 assigned beats, made it clear the department was “still covering our beats.”

Further down the road, Troendle foresees a doubling of the current number of sky cop cameras to around 150 throughout the city. “We’re trying to stop victimization,” he said.

As for the advanced software and the installation know-how police are now seeking, Troendle said it will likely come from a provider like IBM, Microsoft or other major corporation.

ESI does not supply it, he said.

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Local entrepreneur Will Lucas is the brains behind several projects — but he called his latest venture Classana, an educational resource website, “the most important thing I’ve ever done.”

Lucas, a Toledo native, softlaunched Classana on Jan. 24 and will officially debut the site Feb. 4. The website brings customized educational resources to its users. “[Classana] is an educational resource discovery engine. Our mission is to organize the world’s learning resources … whether that be books you should read, classes you should take, online courses you should take, organizations you should join, events you should go to, etc.,” Lucas said.

When users register for the free website, they answer three questions that help tailor their results: what their interests are, what experiences they have and what they want to get better at. For instance, if a user says he or she wants to learn more about cooking, an online culinary class may be suggested.

Lucas said, “There’s people creating all these fantastic online learning resources, but there’s nowhere you can go online that you can be presented with these options based particularly and specifically on your interests.

There’s things happening out there that we just don’t know about, that help us get better at whatever we’re trying to accomplish.

“A lot of this stuff is already on Google, but I have to know to search for it on Google. What if I don’t know that it even exists? Classana, because it knows who I am and what I’m already interested in, it knows to present me with these things and I don’t have to go searching for them.”

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“One of my mentors was like, ‘You’re killing yourself trying to take this full course load and run your business. So when you graduate, what are you going to do? Give yourself a promotion?’” Lucas said.

“He said, ‘If you’re going to go to school, don’t just go for a piece of paper; go for things that actually help you with your business; get better at what you’re trying to accomplish.’ So that made a lot of sense to me. So instead of pursuing a degree, I started pursuing things that directly helped me get better at my business.”

Lucas submitted his idea for Classana to Rocket Ventures, a Northwest Ohio venture capital and entrepreneurial resource firm, in April 2012.

Blake Culver, the entrepreneur in residence who works with Classana, said Rocket Ventures helped Lucas develop the website’s business model and commercialization strategy, make financial projections and assist with database development.

“We always were enamored with the idea, but it was a matter of how it would function as an enterprise,” Culver said. “The idea is quite unique and it’s differentiated and that’s, in part, why it has appeal.”

Lucas said there is possibility of advertising on the site in the future.

He added that, “What we’ve found is creators, whether they be authors, teachers and brands, are always trying to remain ahead of the curve in what’s happening in their fields of interest.

Classana is the best way to track

Will [Lucas] happens to be one of a number of highly intelligent, previously successful clients that has come forward with ideas.

They understand why Rocket Ventures exists.”

— Dan Slifko, Rocket Ventures trends in the marketplace. We believe there is value there.”

Dan Slifko, president and director of Rocket Ventures, said if more entrepreneurs like Lucas utilized resources like the venture capital firm, Northwest Ohio would benefit from the results.

“Will happens to be one of a number of highly intelligent, previously successful clients that has come forward with ideas. They understand why Rocket Ventures exists,” he added.

Spoke, a Web branding firm, worked with Lucas to brand Classana.

This included designing the logo and building the front end of the site, said W. Gene Powell, president of Spoke.

The logo, an orange six-sided honeycomb, was inspired by bees, which collect things to bring back to the hive, he said.

In a way, this is what Classana and its users do, by bringing their knowledge back to the hub, Powell said “Bees and hives and colonies became this perfect metaphor,” Powell said. He added that Spoke was ex-

cited when Lucas approached them with the idea.

“Will’s got a great track record of success and we like working with smart, successful people like that,” he said.

“As far as the actual platform or product, we’re excited because he’s really at the beginning of this societal shift of education.”

Lucas noted that most colleges are designed to help students get a diploma or degree, not necessarily take classes meant to help them get better at their specific interests.

“We need a better way to organize classes because we believe education is going to get more entrepreneurial,” Lucas said.

Lucas said Classana reflects a possible change in higher education. He referenced Apple founder Steve Jobs’ famous commencement speech at Stanford University.

Jobs, a college dropout, said, “I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.”

While he believes college is still a worthy investment, Lucas said of Jobs’ quote, “I believe that’s what the future of education looks like. Instead of us going for this special degree or diploma, we’re going to go for things that help us more efficiently pursue our passions.”

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after starting, that plan has blossomed into a charity, named after their late son: Elias Adin Comforting Hearts.

The nonprofit organization now serves four hospitals in Ohio — Mercy Children’s Hospital, Toledo Children’s Hospital, Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus and the Cleveland Clinic. Comforting Hearts is responsible for delivering more than 150 care bags to these hospitals as well as to families out of state who have caught the Pallittas’ attention, like the Wilhides in North Carolina.

“This huge package showed up at the hospital for us, I mean huge. It was filled with gifts for our older daughter, for our baby Piper, and things like journals and pens for us,” Haleigh Wilhide said. Wilhide’s daughter Piper was diagnosed with Stage 3 neuroblastoma when she was 4 months old and the family has been in the hospital since.

Wilhide said it has been a difficult road for the family but acts of kindness like the package sent by the Pallittas and their charity created a bright spot in their world.

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In 2008, Frankie and Kele Pallitta took their 7-month-old son, Elias, to the emergency room when they thought he was sick with the flu.

“He had flu symptoms,” Kele said.

“We had the flu the week before, and when he couldn’t keep anything down we were told to go to the ER to give him fluids.”

But after a few routine tests the Pallittas were told their sick little boy didn’t have the flu; it was cancer.

Within hours, Elias was rushed into surgery to try and relieve the pressure in his brain caused by the tumor.

“The surgeon came out saying everything went great and while he was talking with us he got a page, Kele said.

Elias had stopped breathing on his way back to his hospital room.

Kele said doctors worked on Elias for a half-hour as she and her husband helplessly stood outside the room. She said time passed so slowly and eventually she could no longer stand to know the doctors were still trying to bring

her baby back to life.

“Please, just let them stop,” she recalls thinking. “I consider myself fortunate. We feel like we got off easy because we didn’t watch him go through treatments. Some families watch their kids go through treatments in the hospital for years and deal with this terrible feeling for days, weeks and years.”

Shortly after Elias died, Kele became pregnant and the couple now has three children. Life got busy, but a year ago Kele said she felt a need to remember her son and had an idea.

“We wanted to be able to help other families deal with their child getting cancer in a different way. A lot of charities fund a cure, but that’s not helping the families now,” she said.

She started collecting items that families staying in a hospital with a sick child could use, simple things like snacks, journals, games, gift cards, hand sanitizers and even Kleenex.

“I wanted them to know someone was thinking about them and what they were going through,” Kele said.

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love you are flooded with. It makes you feel better, comforted; when everything is crumbling around you it just makes you smile,” Wilhide said.

For Wilhide, it was also comforting to have the support of another mom who had a baby with cancer.

“All us moms are connected and have a bond no one else will understand,” she said. “I don’t know her, I will never meet her, but we have a special bond.”

This new charity is keeping Kele, who works full time, busy. But she is committed to making her charity stand out.

“We try to do different things and different events to focus on different groups of people so it’s not always the same people. We want it to be fun and new,” Kele said.

During the past year, Comforting Hearts hosted fundraisers like a celebrity fashion show, a scavenger hunt through Perrysburg, a 5k obstacle course race and a bachelor and bachelorette auction.

The second annual Toledo’s Most Eligible Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction will take place at 8 p.m. March 2 at The Irish Eyes Heavenly Pub, 3324 Secor Road, Toledo. There will be a cover charge and all in attendance get a chance to bid on a date with the bachelor or bachelorette of their choice.

Comforting Hearts is always looking for donations for its care bags.

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After it came to light that two Medal of Honor recipients had been inadvertently omitted from a Lucas County Courthouse plaque listing honorees with local ties, plans are under way to replace the plaque.

The Lucas County Commissioners recently agreed it would be appropriate to replace the plaque, said Commissioner Carol Contrada. Other options considered included modifying the current plaque or installing a second plaque next to the first, she said.

“We cannot honor our veterans often enough and the people who have given their service to our community — given their lives to our country in many cases — deserve to be honored and remembered by their communities and by the county,” Contrada said.

“This is completely the right thing to do. It is the right thing for all of us to do to remember.”

The current plaque, located on the second floor of the Lucas County

Courthouse, was dedicated in 2003 during Ohio’s bicentennial and lists 16 names.

The two missing names — Civil War veteran Christian Albert, who died and is buried in Toledo, and World War II veteran Hulon Whittington, who died in Toledo — were brought to the attention of the commissioners in 2011 by Nick Haupricht.

Haupricht is chairman of Remembrance Inc., a local group dedicated to building and refurbishing war memorials in Northwest Ohio.

Haupricht also lobbied for removing the name of Civil War veteran Charles Thompson, who was born in Wood County and appears to have had no connection to Lucas County.

“He is a passionate historian and researcher,” Contrada said of Haupricht. “He brought it to our attention that there were people missing and that someone was on the plaque that shouldn’t be and we immediately tried to figure out what we could do.”

Haupricht, a Vietnam War veteran, said he feels strongly about making sure memorials are accurate and all

veterans are honored.

“I’m just trying to get the memorial corrected so our fallen comrades have their names somewhere,” Haupricht said. “It’s important to get things right.”

The historical research process was lengthy, but vital, Contrada said.

“It was frankly surprising that we had something of such permanence that missed two winners,” she said.

“We decided the best thing to do was make it right. The historical work was really important. We had to doublecheck names, births, burials, places of enlistment. My opinion is it’s better to be right than fast.”

Contrada said there was some hesitation about removing Thompson’s name, particularly out of concern he would not be honored anywhere else. At the time, Wood County did not have a Medal of Honor memorial. In November, Wood County dedicated a Medal of Honor memorial that includes Thompson’s name, so the commissioners now feel comfortable removing his name from Lucas County’s plaque, Contrada said. n PLAQUE CONTINUES ON A15

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FEBRUARY 3, 2013 n PLAQUE CONTINUED FROM A13 “We don’t know how Charles Thompson ended up on the Lucas County plaque except that, the farther back in time you go, the more difficult it is to have complete and accurate records,” Contrada said. “But now he is honored in the appropriate geographic location and we can move forward.”

The new plaque will list 17 Medal of Honor recipients who served from the

Civil War to World War II who were born in, livedin , entered service in, died in or were buried in Lucas County.

The plaque will be made of bronze and cast by Toledo-based Architectural Arts. It will be paid for by the Lucas County Commissioners miscellaneous fund, Contrada said. The new plaque is expected to cost about $3,800.

“We’re very, very enthusiastic about this project,” said Contrada,

who estimated the plaque would take three to four weeks to complete once ordered. “I’m looking forward to it being completed and having the record of some really great people from Lucas County corrected.”

Haupricht said he was hoping the new plaque would include more description of the actions leading to each recipient’s Medal of Honor. Contrada said that option was considered, but

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Haupricht also said Remembrance Inc. is working on a plan to build a military memorial park in Lucas County that would include memorials for each war. The location will be chosen at a later date from among interested communities, he said.

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It’s time to stop drawing lines between “us and them” and start finding ways for people of different faiths to live together without compromising their beliefs or resorting to violence, said Brian McLaren in a talk in Sylvania on Jan. 28.

“One of the things I think we know more than ever since Sept. 11, 2001, is that we who are committed Christians live in a world with people who McLAREN are committed Muslims, committed Buddhists, committed atheists and committed Hindus and we have to figure out how we live in a world with passionate convictions and commitments without blowing each other up,” he said.

During his speech, author Brian McLaren said Christians need to look at commonalities instead of differences among faiths.

McLaren, 56, was the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Md., who left in 2006 to pursue writing full time. He has published a dozen books, notably “A New Kind of Christianity” and “A Generous Orthodoxy.”

Anthropologists believe hostility and an “us versus them” mentality served a purpose in the distant past, when human beings needed to band together as hunter-gatherers, McLaren said. Today “it’s a different game,” and a suicidal one because of weapons of mass destruction.

“We are at a point in human history where what might have had survival value 30,000 years ago now threatens our survival,” McLaren said at Sylvania First United Methodist Church.

McLaren’s focus on finding commonalities among different faiths is the topic of his latest book, “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mo-

hammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World.”

Committed Christians have typically taken one of two paths in dealing with those of other faiths, he said: an “us versus them” approach that fosters hostility toward the other, or a sense of benevolence hinging on a weakening of one’s own faith. “Their basic message is, ‘I know you’re a Muslim. I’m a Christian, but my religion’s not that important to me so let’s be friends,’” he said.

McLaren believes there’s another, more viable option that can build and sustain interfaith relationships without compromising religious beliefs.

“As I was doing the research for the book, one of the misconceptions that I had to confront is one that I held myself — that the problem is that our religions are so different and it’s our differences that keep us apart,” he said.

But while different faiths have much in common, the similarities get lost when people try to strengthen their own religious identity at the expense of others, he said.

“I’ve actually become convinced that our differences aren’t the problem,” McLaren said. “What is keeping us apart is one thing that I think all religions have in common, and that is a tendency to build a strong identity through hostility toward the other.”

McLaren pointed to historical, doctrinal, liturgical and missional issues challenging Christians in a multifaith world.

The fact that the Bible contains four Gospels, not just one, also can be viewed as a divine example of how diverse groups can live in harmony, McLaren said.

“Maybe it’s an indication that we’re better off with multiple points of view rather than just one point of view,” he said. “The form of Scripture can tell us that otherness and multiple perspectives are a benefit, and not a disadvantage.” O David Yonke is the editor and community manager of Toledo Faith & Values (ToledoFAVS.com), a website that provides in-depth, nonsectarian news coverage of religion, faith and spirituality in the Toledo area.

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TMACOG re-elects officers, adds two seats to board

By Duane Ramsey

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

About 150 members of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) re-elected its officers and added two seats to its board of directors at the 2013 General assembly on Jan. 29 in Perrysburg.

The TMACOG membership officers re-elected to serve in 2013 include Carol Contrada, Lucas County Commissioner, as chair; Nelson Evans, Mayor of Perrysburg, as vice chair; and Don Nalley, City Council CONTRADA member for the

City of Fremont, as second vice chair. Perrysburg Municipal Court Judge S. Dwight Osterud swore in the officers at the meeting.

The membership approved a resolution amending the TMACOG by-

laws to add two seats to the board of directors, one representing Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) in southeast Michigan and another for B.G. Transit in Bowling Green. Prior to the amended bylaws, the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA) held the only seat on the board for a transportation organization.

“No matter what happens in Washington, Columbus or Lansing, services still need to be provided to their constituents by cities, villages, townships and counties that are members from Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan,” Contrada said.

“We are the center of the Great Lakes region so we better make sure that we put on our best face as a region,” said Tony Reams, president of TMACOG. “We have the brainpower for solutions to the problems we face.

TMACOG must continue to take a leadership role in the challenges the region faces,” Reams said.

TMACOG also recognized its former chair Kenneth Fallows for extraordinary service to the orga-

nization. Reams said Fallows was an outstanding ambassador for TMACOG for many years. He made TMACOG a force on the state and federal levels.

“This is really an honor and I thank you,” said Fallows, who called TMACOG “very adaptable.”

Vice Chair Evans said, “It is important REAMS to retain businesses in our region.” He cited the move of Owens-Illinois from Downtown Toledo to its current campus headquarters in Perrysburg as a recent example.

Another example was the decision by La-Z-Boy to keep its corporate headquarters in Monroe. That decision was the subject of the keynote address by La-Z-Boy President, CEO and Chairman Kurt Darrow and Monroe Mayor Robert Clark at the TMACOG meeting.

Darrow and Clark related the thought process behind the

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No matter what happens in Washington, Columbus or Lansing, services still need to be provided to their constituents by cities, villages, townships and counties that are members from Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.”

— Carol Contrada company, established in Monroe in 1927, deciding to remain in that community.

Following the keynote address, individual caucus sessions were

held for cities, counties, townships and villages; public schools, colleges and universities; special districts and authorities; and nongovernment members.

TMACOG sponsors many events throughout the year to promote economic development and transportation in the region, including the annual Transportation Summit on March 22, National Train Day on May 5, and the Ohio Freight Conference in September.

Rick Hodges, executive director of the Ohio Turnpike Commission and a Fulton County native, will present the keynote address at the 19th Transportation Summit. He will discuss the details of the recently announced Ohio Jobs and Transportation Plan affecting the future of the Ohio Turnpike.

The Transportation Summit will be held at the Holiday Inn French Quarter in Perrysburg and will feature three panel sessions covering various modes of transportation in addition to the luncheon keynote session.

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Hollywood Casino Toledo Executive Chef Brian Hein will soon debut “the next evolution” of Final Cut Steak & Seafood’s menu, adding a new variety of premium steak as well as cod and lobster dishes, appetizers and more.

“It’s phenomenal,” said Hollywood Casino Toledo Director of Food and Beverage Marc Guastella of the new menu. “When we opened I think our product was outstanding, but this is really going to take it to the next level.”

The most significant change is the addition of American Wagyu steak, Hein said.

“It’s what I like to refer to as beef butter. It melts in your mouth,” Hein said. “Its rating (on a scale of 0 to 10) is 10-plus. That’s as high as you can get.

It really represents [a tiny percentage] of the cattle in America. Obviously it’s not a steak you’re going to eat every other night, but to experience it is certainly a treat. If you have the opportunity and you’re a beef fan, I would strongly recommend coming in. It’s quite spectacular.”

American Wagyu is known for its high marbling content, which makes it extremely tender, rich and flavorful, Guastella said.

“We’re excited. This makes us very unique. There’s really not many restaurants that offer that grade of meat,” Guastella said. “You can cut through it with a butter knife. It’s that tender and the flavor is outrageous. It’s just phenomenal steak.”

Final Cut will now offer three tiers of steak: Midwestern corn-fed steer, USDA Prime and American Wagyu.

“We’ve got three levels, which is very unique because a lot of steakhouses have at most two levels of beef,” Guastella said. “To have three levels is incredible and really gives guests at all price points the option to enjoy it.”

American Wagyu will be offered as a 12-ounce Kansas City Strip for $96, a 10-ounce Top Cap Ribeye for $89 or a 5-ounce Top Cap Ribeye for $45.

The meat will come from Idahobased Snake River Farms, which sup-

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Hollywood Casino Toledo Executive Chef Brian Hein and his team have developed several new menu items for Final Cut Steak & Seafood.

plies beef to many well-known highend eateries, including California’s The French Laundry and “Iron Chef ” Masaharu Morimoto’s eateries.

Another new entrée at Final Cut is the Georges Bank Cod, cooked with Asian noodles in a tagine, an earthenware pot with a cone-shaped lid commonly used in Mediterranean cooking.

“This is a bit unusual because we’re preparing this cod dish in a tagine with Asian fusion in a steakhouse, so we pretty much travel the whole world right there in that one dish,” Hein said, laughing. “The last step is to interject a little bit of applewood smoke into the tagine. Then at the table, you pull off the top and the smoke perfumes right in front of you and just jump starts your senses.”

Cioppino — a seafood stew featuring shrimp, scallops, mussels and

crab in a tomato-based broth — is another new entrée.

“The cioppino we actually ran as a special and it was so successful we decided to put that on the menu,” Guastella said. “Especially in the wintertime, there’s nothing better.”

A lamb shank, featuring cipollini onions, wild mushrooms and port wine, is also a classic winter dish, Guastella said.

“The meat just falls off the bone,” he said. “It’s a very rich braised item, perfect for cold weather.”

A Maine Lobster entrée, featuring a one-and-a-half-pound lobster filled with Thermidor stuffing, is also new.

Perhaps the most surprising new appetizer is tater tots.

“We like to have a little fun with our appetizer section,” Hein said. “We pulled out of some of the traditionalist

thinking and one of the items we’re putting on there is homemade tater tots.

This is an adult version obviously, but we make them from scratch and we present them with homemade jalapeño jam, a mornay sauce and pork crackling from Tank’s Meats in Elmore.”

Another new appetizer is roasted bacon, artisan-cured by Tank’s Meats and featuring a maple glaze, arugula pesto and Russian dressing.

“The Russian dressing is a little bit different,” Hein said. “We put it on an anti-griddle, which is extremely cold, and it actually freezes.

That’s how we put it on the plate.

Then over the course of eating it, it begins to thaw and gives just a little bit of texture on the plate.”

Other new appetizers include carpaccio, a yellowtail snapper in a grape and leek emulsion, and a lob-

ster chowder, which will replace the lobster bisque.

Sorbet, used to cleanse the palate between courses, is also new.

“We’ll be playing around with flavors, but the ones we have now are pomegranate lime, green tea ginger and lemongrass honey,” Guastella said.

Guastella and Hein said they pride themselves on offering something for everyone.

“We feel like guests are going to be very pleased not only at the quality of the product, but also at the eclectic nature of the menu,” Guastella said.

“Our menu is packed. We have very affordable options, but also high-end exclusive options. I doubt there’ll be any option for a guest to say there’s nothing on there that they like.”

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umble! Whenever this cry is heard in a football game, there is a mad scramble for the ball.

Players are diving to the ground and wrestling each other for the football.

The fans hold their breath as they wait to see who emerges from the pile with the ball. While the referees pull players off the pile, both teams usually point in the direction that indicates their team has the ball. This is usually wishful thinking. The player that made the recovery typically jumps up and raises the ball triumphantly for all to see. He is fired up about what can be a game changing play.

What is especially heartbreaking, is if the fumble occurs just short of the goal line. It can be devastating to see the team you are rooting for about to score a touchdown, only to fumble the ball. Hopes for victory can be dashed.

A famous (or infamous) occurrence like this (sorry to bring up bad memories, Cleveland Browns fans) was when Earnest Byner, as he was about to score a game-tying touchdown with 1:12 left in the game, fumbled on the 2-yard line in the AFC Championship Game in 1988. Unfortunately for Byner and the Browns, this play is remembered as “The Fumble.� The winner of the game would go on and play in the Super Bowl.

This was a crushing defeat for the players and the fans because the Browns have never appeared in a Super Bowl and had not won a championship since the days of the great Jim Brown in 1964, before the game was even referred to as the Super Bowl. To add insult to injury, the 1988 defeat was bitter considering the Browns had had a chance to go to the Super Bowl the year before but lost to the same Denver Bronco team in overtime.

Some said later that the fumble could not have been helped. Byner did not see the defender coming and was hit so hard there was nothing he could have done. The problem was it was too late in the game to recover and overcome this disastrous play.

As we help our clients plan for retirement, Nolan and I (Mark) often refer to what we are trying to do in these same football terms. We want to keep you from fumbling in the red zone (from the 20-yard line to the goal line). When a team gets inside the red zone it is in a good position to score.

If you are older than 50, you may be in the retirement red zone. Your “blind spot� may be exposed. You might be at a stage that is crucial in the game and a fumble at this point could be disastrous. Let us give you a few examples:

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O Taking income from stock market accounts in a declining market.

This can rapidly accelerate losses and cause you to potentially run out of money sooner.

O Not having an exit strategy or “circuit breakers� on stock market accounts. Do you know when to get CLAIR out? A down stock market could devBAKER astate your retirement plans.

O Not protecting your assets from a health care crisis. A long-term care

O Reaching retirement and entering the phase of having to take money out of retirement accounts and not knowing what the rules are.

This could be an income tax time bomb disaster.

O Making “The Big Social Security Mistake.� This is what we call it when folks decide to start taking Social SecuMark rity, but cost themselves thousands Nolan and tens of thousands of dollars by making the wrong decision. (A free Social Security calculator is available at www.retirement-

spend-down could wipe out or severely damage your life savings. One of the biggest fears we see is running out of money.

O Not having your estate plan done. If you do not take steps now, your children could pay a dear price later.

O Not planning for how an unexpected death can cause loss of income. If you are making a high level of income, you are a moneymaking machine. What kind of shape will your spouse be in if the machine breaks?

There are more examples of how “the big fumble� could occur as you approach or begin retirement. It may be late in the game with only 1:12 left on the clock like it was for

Earnest Byner and the Browns as they tried to get to the Super Bowl.

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really wish I could go into this Super Bowl weekend talking only about the game, but society dictates that the NFL championship weekend is about everything besides football, so I must talk about the storylines, the halftime show, the commercials, Phil Simms’ tie and if Boomer Esiason will have any voice left at the end of the radio broadcast (which you can hear on 1370 WSPD and Fox Sports 1230! Cha-ching!)

Heading into Super Bowl XLVII, the first thought that comes to mind is that they have to ditch the Roman numerals soon. While nothing was cooler than seeing the letters “XL” plastered over everything in Detroit, I pity the city that has to host Super Bowl L. There’s just no way to make

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John eventually graduating from Piothat letter look cool.

If you’ve watched any coverage of neer High School in Ann Arbor, and the Super Bowl up to this point, you Jim graduating the next year from Palo Alto High School know by now that Jim in California. If that’s Harbaugh coaches the not enough sports in San Francisco 49ers, this family, the Harand that his brother baughs have a sister, John Harbaugh coaches Joani, who’s married to the Baltimore Ravens.

Tom Crean, the head If you’re paying attenmen’s basketball coach tion, you also know that at Indiana University. both were born in the Pfft, basketball ... am I Northwest Ohio area; right, fellas? their father Jack played It’s also Ray Lewis’ at Bowling Green State Shaggy CULBREATH last game playing profesUniversity and was an assistant at Perrysburg High School sional football. It’s a heck of an honor for when both Jim and John were born. Lewis, a man who was once implicated From there they moved around (as a in the stabbing deaths of two men, to football coach is bound to do), with be able to go out on his own terms like

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together to play at the break, no halftime show is ever going to come close to Prince in 2007. He literally played “Purple Rain” in purple rain, and it was amazing. I don’t know what they hope to accomplish by bringing Mrs. Jay-Z in a year after Madonna played the half, but I don’t care for it. More of The Who, less of The Why-Is-ThisPerson-Playing-At-Halftime.

With all that out of the way, can I now talk about the game itself? Despite the Baltimore Ravens having to get through Peyton Manning and Tom Brady to get to the big game, the good folks in Vegas are still giving San Francisco 3-and-a-half points. I think that’s because everyone’s enamored with Colin Kaepernick. The brains from Nevada came in to take over for Alex Smith when he went down to injury, and impressed to the point that he got the starting job over Smith, leading the team all the way to New Orleans.

It’s a fun story (well, fun for anybody not named Alex Smith), but the real story is San Francisco’s defense — second in the league in scoring defense, fourth in rushing defense and fourth in passing. Not that the Ravens have been bad on that side of the ball, they’re just not that high. If Joe Flacco can do what he did against Denver, though, then anything is possible.

Final word: Ravens 23, 49ers 17.

I’m not making that pick through some knowledge divined from the stats; I’m just still angry that San Fran traded Joe Montana to Kansas City. O

this. It’s going to be truly special to see a player who’s a 13-time-pro-bowler, who won Super Bowl XXXV MVP, and who provided testimony against two men who were ultimately acquitted of their murder charges in exchange for a lesser charge of obstruction of justice, to have another shot at the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Most players try to extend their careers a little too far, but not Lewis.

Much like how he reached out-of-court settlements in both wrongful death suits brought against him in civil court, Lewis knows when it’s time to get out of the game. What an inspiration.

I haven’t heard buzz surrounding this year’s advertisements like I have in years past. I’m going to assume that’s because the era of the overhyped Super Bowl spot is over. They’ll still cost a lot of money, but we’ve seen more and more companies air any old commercial they have on tape. These used to be spotlight entertainment, the best of the creative minds at advertising agencies across the nation rubbing their heads together to write the funniest, most memorable spots. I think they ran into two issues, the first being that too often, the creativity of the spots far outweighed the commercial value of them, and nobody could remember what the advertisement was actually advertising.

Secondly, the level of creativity and funny is not just reserved for Super Bowl Sunday anymore — you can watch anything at that level of humor come up on YouTube twice a week.

Controversy surrounds the halftime show as Beyoncé is set to ... you know, I can’t even fake enthusiasm for this. I don’t care if you resurrect John Lennon and brought The Beatles back

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By Vicki L. Kroll

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From the opening bellows on Scandal’s “The Warrior,” it’s clear that Patty Smyth has a kick-ass attitude — and a powerful voice to back it up.

And if there was any doubt, there is the 1984 video.

“I always thought ‘The Warrior’ video was going to be funny; it was supposed to be sort of tongue in cheek,” Smyth said. “And then when it came out as this sort of serious whatever the hell it was, you couldn’t recognize me. They cut all my hair off; I had all this makeup on.

“So I had this huge hit record, but nobody really recognized me on the street; they recognized me more from ‘Goodbye to You’ than from ‘The Warrior.’

“If I had really been thinking with my business cap, I would have really fought them and I would have paid for it, which would have been like a huge amount of money though because that video cost a s***load of money,” she said. “Maybe that’s what kept me from doing it, because I did not want that video to come out; I hated it. Now I think it’s funny.”

Maybe because Scandal made a couple more videos: “Beat of a Heart” and “Hands Tied.” Then Smyth scored as a solo artist with her 1987 debut “Never Enough” that included “Downtown Train.” Five years later, the selftitled “Patty Smyth” featured “No Mistakes” and a duet with Don Henley, “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough.”

The singer landed an Academy Award nomination for 1994’s “Look What Love Has Done,” which she cowrote for the movie “Junior.”

Smyth married tennis star John McEnroe in 1997; she had one daughter, and he had three children from previous relationships. The couple added two daughters of their own to the family.

In a 2009 People magazine story, Smyth joked she had become “The Worrier.”

“I am ‘The Warrior’ and ‘The Worrier,’ I’m both,” she said. “I worry about the kids and all that stuff. I really should worry about bigger things, but I sweat the small stuff as they say.

I worry about where my kids are; they have to deal with me all the time.”

And the famous couple have the same problems as most parents.

“I get no break, you know, because I have two teenage daughters at home, and they’re just brutal to mom,” Smyth said. “They don’t care what their father did or what I did; we’re just annoying

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I am ‘The Warrior’ and ‘The Worrier,’ I’m both. I worry about the kids and all that stuff.

I really should worry about bigger things, but I sweat the small stuff as they say.

I worry about where my kids are; they have to deal with me all the time.”

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Patty Smyth and Scandal to play Hollywood Casino

— Patty Smyth parents, basically.”

But the rocker chick resurfaced when Scandal reunited for a VH1 show in 2004.

During a call from Florida where she and McEnroe were visiting her mom, Smyth said the band is working on a new CD, and she plans to release a holiday disc this year.

“I’d wanted to play,” the New York City native said. “I had 20 kids at home, so it didn’t seem like something I could do, but we just had to plan it.”

Smyth and Scandal will play a free show at 8 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Hollywood Casino Toledo H Lounge.

“I want to sing,” she said. “It feels good to rock and run around. What I like about it is when the audience brings it and we bring it; something really great can happen.”

Fans might want to leave their cellphones in their pockets and purses.

“What really bugs me is the fact that people are holding up their phones and videotaping [the concert] the whole time. I just find that so distracting,” Smyth said.

“I know when I videotape something like a play my kid was in or something, it’s distracting because I’m almost not in the moment; I’m too busy worrying about what I’m videotaping to enjoy the show. But there’s no way you can stop everyone.

“The whole thing about doing a live show — it’s never going to be as good later as it was at that moment anyway; just enjoy the moment.” O

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Kim Wilson remembers meeting Muddy Waters.

“It was at Antone’s [Nightclub in Austin, Texas], and there was a big dressing room with a giant open window over the stage — it was the next story up,” the frontman of The Fabulous Thunderbirds recalled.

“We started playing, we always started with an instrumental and, of course, I was very nervous because it was Muddy Waters I was opening up for. I look up at the dressing room while I’m playing, and here’s the whole band, including Muddy Waters, with their heads out that window looking down at me with big eyes,” he said with a laugh. “That was a thrill.”

In fact, the man some regard as the father of modern Chicago blues offered Wilson a job that night, but the singer and harmonica player turned it down.

“It was a real good thing I didn’t take it because I ended up having a real great friendship with him for the rest of his life,” Wilson said during a call from his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif. “He was like a second father to me; I loved him.”

Waters was a huge musical influ-

ence on Wilson.

“All the great harmonica players went through Muddy’s band; it was important to get his stamp of approval,” he said.

And what a story Wilson has about that: “I go walking into Antone’s one night, I got no drummer, and I’m opening for Muddy again. I went to [Muddy Waters’ drummer] Willie Smith and I said, ‘Look, I need a drummer tonight, man, I don’t have anybody; go ask the old man if he’ll let you play with me.’ He went up and came back down and said it was cool.

“So we went [on stage] and we just killed it. I mean, the crowd went nuts; probably was the best response I can remember getting ever at that club,” Wilson said. “So, great show, walking out, there’s Muddy up there — I called him Pops — and I said, ‘Hey Pops, how you doing?’ And he started grumbling. And I said, ‘Hey Pops, what’s happening? How you doing?’ And he starts cussing under his breath.

“And I said, ‘Awww, come on, you’re not mad because I used Willie, are you?’

And he went, ‘You, you, you go f*** yourself,’” Wilson said and laughed. “Man, I knew I was in right there: Muddy Waters tells me to go f*** myself.”

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“It’s very R&B, soul, blues, all this stuff. It’s a modern, contemporary record, but it’s got all the juice of the old stuff, too,” he said. “That’s what I’ve always done with this band.”

That special mix of music made the charts in 1986 with “Tuff Enough” and “Wrap It Up.”

“I was mixing soul and blues and R&B and rock ’n’ roll. It’s a hybrid that I created a long, long time ago. That’s what makes this band so unique,” Wilson said.

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think I’m making a big mistake. I’m homebody kid. Instead of continuing probably making several big mis- to figure out a way to make her less so, takes, actually. I’m trying to do my I decided to start investigating how best and I’m trying to do what’s right, she can be successful while still being but I have this sinking feeling that I’m herself. I discovered a whole community of individuals, famous and not, just plain wrong this time.

I have a shy kid. A private kid. A who take on the world less obviously kid who doesn’t necessarily enjoy being than the rest. The general consensus around a whole bunch of people all at within the community seems to be once. A kid who doesn’t want to be on that it’s OK to be that way. It’s the way they are and most of stage. A kid who doesn’t them are fine with and want to be the center of empowered by it. attention. A kid who likes Although I assume being home. A kid who is there is such a thing happy and content to just as painfully shy, such a be alone sometimes. description doesn’t fit I’m not supposed my kid. She’s happily to have a kid like this. introverted and, when According to common she gets comfortable thinking, no one is. We enough, she’s happily should all have outgoing, Shannon SZYPERSKI social within a small warm, happy, smiling, well-balanced kids who aren’t awk- group of individuals she trusts. She ward or moody or afraid. If we happen loves to explore and learn and absorb to have a kid who doesn’t fit this de- the big wide wonderful world in her scription most of the time, they must own subtle, understated way.

I sometimes forget how to apprebe broken. They must need to be fixed.

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to fix ciate my daughter’s idiosyncrasies. I my “broken” kid lately. Yet, the more sometimes forget to just facilitate who I try to fix her, the more broken she she is, and I instead start listening to seems to become. In fact, the attempts a world that says she’s supposed to be at fixing her seem to be doing more something else. We live in a culture that harm than good, not only to her but tells us to never give up, just be yourto everyone around her. Trying to turn self, think before you speak and think her into someone she’s not is making outside of the box, but I don’t think we really mean it. We make life too hard for us all utterly miserable.

I’ve realized that the qualities we try the kids who honestly-to-goodness emto break in children are often the same body such philosophical points.

Yes, such children are difficult. Yes, qualities we hand out awards for in the adult population. My daughter is de- they push your buttons and keep you termined, strong-willed, focused and on your toes and challenge you to no thinks outside of the box. She works end. No end.

It’s utterly exhausting. At times you well independently and doesn’t stop thinking at the predesignated, leave- aren’t sure how you’re ever going to your-imagination-here cutoff points. keep up. You aren’t sure what the next She doesn’t deafly believe everything step should be. You aren’t sure how she hears, which, though surprising you can keep taking all of the little and sometimes annoying to her par- moments of perceived defeat.

One of the biggest challenges with ents at 7 years old, will serve her well in a world where it’s harder and harder challenging kids is recognizing their to trust your own eyes and ears, much successes. It is with any kid, actually.

All kids have challenges of some sort less someone else’s.

I think I’m finally starting to under- and it’s our job as parents to idenstand my shy/introverted/reserved/ tify and acknowledge their personal H E A R T A N D VA S C U L A R S E R V I C E S

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triumphs, big and small. In truth, challenge usually lies not in a child’s temperament but in our misguided approaches to nurturing it.

We need to tune into what success means to our children, not into what society thinks it should mean to them. In

learning to accept that my daughter is, indeed, the person she’s been claiming to be all along, I am able to more fully appreciate her and realize that she already possesses many of the things I so desperately hoped for her down the road.

My child is able to see the world

in a unique and interesting way. What more could I want from her? What more could I want for her? O Shannon Szyperski and her husband, Michael, are raising three children in Sylvania.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2013

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public notice

BIDDING REQUIREMENTS NOTICE TO BIDDERS

public notice SEALED LETTERS OF INTEREST marked “Howard Farms Planning” will be received at the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, Fallen Timbers Field Office, 6101 Fallen Timbers Lane, Maumee, Ohio 43537, until 4:00 PM Local Time on Friday, February 15, 2013 Letters of Interest received after the specified due date and time will not be considered.

In General, THE SCOPE OF SERVICES consists of providing professional architecture and engineering services to produce finished plans, specifications and construction cost estimate for the development of a new Metropark in Jerusalem Township in eastern Lucas County, currently known as Howard Farms.

Information packets for the Letter of Interest requirements may be obtained at the above address between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by contacting David Zenk, Deputy Director at dave.zenk@metroparkstoledo. com, (419) 407-9728. Three (3) copies of the Letter of Interest must be sealed, marked and submitted as above. The Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area will directly select a firm based on the Letter of Interest.

SEALED PROPOSALS for bidding on Metroparks of the Toledo Area Restroom Facility, Pearson Metropark, Oregon, Ohio will be received; opened; and read aloud at the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, Fallen Timbers Field Office, 6101 Fallen Timbers Lane, Maumee, Ohio 43537 Friday, February 8, at 4:00 p.m. local time.

THE SCOPE OF WORK consists of constructing a 1,754 sq. ft. restroom building. General construction includes excavating, aggregate paths, rough and finish carpentry, concrete, masonry, metal roofing, electrical, plumbing, drywall, HVAC, and paint. Bidders may obtain copies of plans, specifications, contract documents and plan-holder’s list through Newfax Corporation, 333 West Woodruff, Toledo, Ohio 43604 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (check made payable to Newfax Corporation) or via the Newfax Digital Plan Room at www.newfaxcorp.com.

Newfax can be contacted at 419-241-5157 or 800-877-5157. A non-refundable fee of $30 is required for each set of documents obtained.

For additional information, please contact Jon Zvanovec @ 419-360-9184, jon.zvanovec@metroparkstoledo.com.

EACH BIDDER MUST FURNISH either (1) a bond for the full amount of the bid or (2) a certified check, cashier’s check or irrevocable letter of credit in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the bid with its bid. The successful bidder must furnish a 100 percent (100%) Performance Bond and a 100 percent (100%) Labor and Materials Bond.

No bidder may withdraw its bid within thirty (30) days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

THE BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS OF THE METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT OF THE TOLEDO AREA reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and to waive any informality in bidding.

By order of the Board of Park Commissioners METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT OF THE TOLEDO AREA Stephen W. Madewell, Director

wanted WANTS TO purchase minerals and other oil & gas interests. Send details P.O. Box 13557, Denver, Co 80201

Do you need a GREAT part-time job? be a toledo free press home delivery carrier!

Please call 419-241-1700 ext. 221

EnErgy AffiliAtE: Earn extra income in the newly deregulated energy industry. take advantage of a short window of opportunity. not necessary to quit what you are doing now. Established company offering leadershiplevel income opportunities. Call recruiter for appointment: 419-654-7358.

PUBLIC NOTICE The City of Toledo announces the availability of federal funding for Program Year: July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG - 39th Year) Interested nonprofit agencies, excluding agencies currently funded in the 38th Year CDBG, are welcome to apply for eligible activities through this competitive process.

Applications will be distributed at the MANDATORY training session for CDBG applicants on:

Friday, March 8, 2013 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

United Way of Greater Toledo 424 Jackson Street Toledo, OH 43604 (Room A)

By order of the Board of Park Commissioners METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT OF THE TOLEDO AREA Stephen W. Madewell, Director

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A+ Self Storage at 1324 W. Alexis Toledo, OH 43612 will offer for public sale at 3:30PM on February 26, 2013 the following units: Unit 424, Kuron Martin 5875 Yermo Apt B-5 Toledo OH. 43613: Microwave, Weights, Bags; Unit 613, Nicholas A. Schmidt 1954 Oaklawn Toledo OH 43614: Cooler, Recliner, Luggage; Unit 642, William Cairl 925 Colburn Toledo OH 43609: Chest of Drawers, Stroller, Toddler Bed; Unit 810, Brian Farrell 2133 Stirrup Lane Apt#1 Toledo, OH 43613: Bedframe, Cooler, Lawnshairs; Unit 925, Ericka Burns 2530 Heather Hills Apt D Toledo, OH 43614: Boxes, Storage Tubs, Christmas Decor; Unit 927, Jason Frederick 21564 Lorain RD Rear Unit Fairview Park, OH 44126: Mattress, Bedframe, Boxes; Unit 1005, Antoine Hill 3411 W Alexis Rd Toledo OH 43623: Sofa, Loveseat, Bedframe; Unit 1019, Susan R. Hamilton 26757 Lake Vue DR #9 Perrysburg, OH 43351: Boxes, Bags, Storage Tubs; Unit 1126, Edward Reese 960 Willow Toledo, OH 43605: Boxes, TV, Box Spring; Unit 1216, Omaira R. Allen P.O. Box 2632 Toledo OH 43606: Boxes, Luggage, Bags; Unit 1309, Earl Smith 6255 Telegraph Rd. Erie, Mi, 48133: Washing Machine, Grill, Lawnmower; Unit 1513, Cynthia Fell 3334 Alexis #44 Toledo, OH 43623: Sofa, Loveseat, TV; Unit 1902, Fate Fields 1621 Brooke Park DR #2 Toledo OH 43612: Microwave, TV, Bicycle. Cash and Removal. Call ahead to confirm: 419-476-1400.

NOTICE TO FIRMS

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APPLICANTS MUST BE PRESENT TO APPLY. *Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request.

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.

For additional information on eligible activities, contact: Department of Neighborhoods at 419-245-1400, or visit www.toledo.oh.gov/Departments/Neighborhoods

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REAL ESTATE

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THE OCEAN Corp. 10840 Rockley Road, Houston, Texas 77099. Train for a New Career. *Underwater Welder. Commercial Diver. *NDT/Weld Inspector. Job Placement Assistance. Financial Aid available for those who qualify. 1-800-321-0298.

HCR ManorCare in Toledo, OH sks Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Engineer II (mult. pos.) to dsgn & dvlp data models for data warehouse & data stores. Req. Bach. Deg. (FDE) in Comp Sci, Info Sys, Engineering, or rel fld; 5yrs exp. w/ SQL & script’g; 3yrs exp. w/ software devel. processes, incl. data warehouse & business intelligence applicat’n devel.; 3 yrs exp. w/ logical & physical data model’g; 3yrs exp. dsgng & bldg ETL systems for lg data warehouse solutions; 3 yrs exp. w/ rprtg tools (e.g. MS Reporting Services, MicroStrategy) to dvlp adv. rprts & dashboards; 3yrs exp. authoring reqs, dsgn & test documentat’n to support BI/DW applicat’n devel. & 1yr exp. w/ multidimensional model’g & cube technologies (e.g. MS Analysis Services). Send resume to Annette Foght, Dir., Nat’l Recruiting HCR ManorCare, 333 N. Summit St. Toledo, OH 43604-1531.

WEST TOLEDO – NEW LISTING 3 Bed, 1Bath, 1050 sq ft, 1 car garage, large eat-in kitchen, 4 season sunroom, updated bath, large fenced backyard, well maintained.

Priced to sell quickly at only $49,900 Mary Ann Stearns, Realtor®, Loss Realty Group 419-345-0071 or marstearns@bex.net

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SEASONAL LAND MANAGEMENT

Metroparks of the Toledo Area has openings for outdoor, seasonal land management work at Oak Openings, Blue Creek, or Secor Metroparks starting in March. $8.34 after 30 days. Must be 18 or older with HS equivalent and drivers license. Will operate power equipment, chainsaws, machinery, apply herbicides and lift up to 75 lbs. Application and resume should be submitted online by February 7th at www.MetroparksToledo.com. EOE

All real estate advertised in this paper is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, in the sale, rental, or financing of housing. This Publisher will not knowingly accept any advertising that violates any applicable law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this paper are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you believe you have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rental, or financing of housing, call the Toledo Fair Housing Center, (419) 243-6163.

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Toledo, 247 Decatur St 4BR/2BA Single Family* 1680 sqft, Detached Garage* Owner Financing or Cash Discount* $1250 DN, $597/mo* 803-978-1542*

Toledo, 421 East Streicher 4BR/2BA Multi Family* Great Investment* Owner Financing or Cash Discount* $1000 DN, $184/mo* 803-978-1541*

PUBLIC NOTICE The City of Toledo, in partnership with the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board, announces the availability of federal funding for Program Year: July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG - 27th Year) Interested nonprofit agencies are welcome to apply for eligible activities through this competitive process.

Applications will be distributed at the MANDATORY training session for ESG applicants on:

Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Business Technology Center 1946 N. 13th Street Toledo, OH 43604 th (4 Floor Conference Room) APPLICANTS MUST BE PRESENT TO APPLY.

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For additional information on eligible activities, contact: Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board at 419-244-9440, or visit www.toledo.oh.gov/Departments/Neighborhoods

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Valentine’s Day Luncheon 11:00 – Social gathering 11:30 – Presentation by Dr. Barone, question & answer session to follow 12:30 – Lunch & Modeling To keep a sparkle in your eyes and your heart warm, enjoy informal modeling

by Toledo Furs & Harold Jaffe Jewelers

A Special Valentine For You Be our Guest and Join us for this Special Valentine’s Day Luncheon!

Evolv 2 Look Your Best!

Frank Barone M.D., FACS. Plastic Surgery, Evolv Medical Aesthetics and ProMedica St. Luke’s Hospital

Cordially Invite You

to attend this exclusive opportunity to meet Dr. Frank Barone, Dr. Tom Flanigan & the Evolv Medical Aesthetics staff as our guest to learn about Comprehensive Aesthetic Care for Any Age – What Works, What’s Safe, What Lasts

Valentine’s Day, Thursday, February 14, 2013 Toledo Country Club Overlooking the Maumee River

Immediately following lunch, Dr. Barone and his medical staff will perform demonstrations in skin care and injectable products Vendor representatives will be present to answer questions Reservations a must, seating is limited, no walk-ins will be admitted Please RSVP by Monday, February 11, 2013, to Leah: 419-720-2008, extension 116 or you may email to Leah@ frankbaronemd.com

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