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he died with “I love you” on her lips, as they beat her cident in which an elderly woman driving a car struck with a belt until the skin peeled black and blue from and killed a preteen boy, Elliot, riding his bicycle within blocks of his home. I interviewed the parher toddler body. ents and siblings about the day he died, She died with “I love you” on her lips, conducting myself not coldly, but with a as they forced her 24-month-old face into civil distance. My job was to report and a bathtub of cold water. educate, not grieve and jerk tears. But one She died with “I love you” on her lips, detail mocked my attempt to remain objecas they threw her across the room until tive. I asked the parents what they had done her small skull fractured on the tile floor with Elliot’s room. and she slipped away.

“I went in his room to get clothes for his How does a human being shut out funeral, shut the door and the door hasn’t the echoes of that last pleading “I love been opened since,” Elliot’s mother said. you” while jamming a dying baby into That image, of dust settling for years a container, then hiding her in a storage Michael S. MILLER on a young boy’s dresser, bed, toys and shed for two months? How does a human being go about the normal course of life, knowing that clothes, gripped my core with an icy hand and squeezed.

I felt that same strangling grip when I read the “I love child’s unconsecrated body is hidden in the backyard?

Does that last “I love you” echo as Kimberly Dawn you” line in the story about Riley, who was known as Trenor and Royce Clyde Zeigler II sit in their prison “Baby Grace” when her unidentified body was first discells? Trenor and Zeigler are accused of murdering 2- covered. The difference, of course, is that there was no year-old Riley Ann Sawyers in a horrific “discipline ses- evil in Elliot’s death; the car, the driver, the bad timing, all sion.” Trenor was convicted Feb. 2 and sentenced to life soul-renderingly miserable, but not intentional. Not evil.

Riley was a sweet-faced blonde baby with all the powithout parole; Zeigler’s trial is set for this summer.

Prosecutors say Riley was slow to start saying “please” tential any 2-year-old possesses. Her death rips a hole and “thank you,” so her mother, Trenor, and stepfather, Zei- in the fabric of time, life and the future, and while there gler, from northeast Ohio, initiated a punishment session may be some solace in believing she is in God’s arms, that progressed from beating Riley with a belt to dunking that notion has not warmed me as my mind tries to stifle her head in cold water. When Riley did not respond to these the unrewarded “I love you” of a bewildered baby.

What mental circuitry goes missing to allow a parent tortuous learning techniques, one of the two parents threw her repeatedly, until the baby’s head was crushed against to commit such an atrocity? What temporary possession the floor. Each parent disputes the other’s version of who quiets all that is good and rational in a person to allow such threw Riley, and while the distinction matters in court, it an inhumane act? Strike that; I hate that line of thinking, doesn’t matter for this discussion; while one of them killed because it removes intent and choice from the equation.

Riley died because of choices her parents made; it was the baby, the other stood by and did nothing. their will that created Baby Grace, not some Stephen King Devil’s in the details demon. It’s just easier to believe in supernatural monsters Prosecutor Kayla Allen told jurors that Riley repeat- than it is to believe a normal mom and dad could turn so murderously cold with such little provocation. edly told her mother “I love you” as she was beaten.

I also hate the questions I am forced to ask myself: That’s the detail that haunts me. That’s the little crack in my armor that allows this faraway crime to flood my Why does it take a dying 2-year-old’s “I love you” to break soul with grief for a little baby girl I never met. Riley through the ho-hum daily evil and grief I am exposed to?

Arriving home a few hours after reading Riley’s story, knew somewhere in her shock and panic-addled spirit that her one chance of stopping the inexplicable ordeal her “I love you” still smacking between my temples like was to appeal to her mother’s heart, to offer her instinc- Poe’s muffled heart beneath the floorboards, I stepped through the door and greeted my own two babies. tual love as a way to stop the torture and pain.

I hugged my 2-and-a-half-year-old son Evan as close It was a desperate, primal cry for survival, and it to me as I could. failed with a shuddering finality of cruelty.

“I love you, Daddy,” he said.

One side effect of monitoring and contributing to the To know Evan said that from free will, not fear, did not media news flow for 20 years is a jaded defense when stories like this surface. There are questions to be asked silence Riley’s cries in my mind. But it was the grace note and ramifications to be sorted out. It’s the job, and after I needed to cry for her — to reassure her, and myself, that reading and writing about 3,000 or so murders and acci- while she was denied the love she begged for, many, many dents and atrocities, one’s mind filters and compartmen- other babies live on, enveloped in all the love they need. talizes the natural reactions of disbelief and horror.

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ne of the upshots of today’s tion goes deeper. Why should we economic turmoil is the create the fiction that government loss in confidence in the can provide “fairness” when the markets — the stock market, the market cannot? I’m not a neo-con nutcase who puts commodities market the free market on a and the housing pedestal. I’m just famarket. After the miliar enough with Reagan revoluundergraduate level tion, Americans economics to know came to expect that that wage and price the market would controls will have magically distribute unintended consegoods and services quences. And those to the people who consequences will deserved them, the always be bad. people who worked Jim BLUE Econ 101 hard enough and were smart enough to choose the teaches us that the market price for any good or service most profitable pursuits.

But now the stock market has is where the supply curve and crashed; the commodity markets the demand curve intersect. If have cratered, and the housing government sets a price lower market has left millions “upside than that point, then you will have shortages. Think back to down” on their mortgages.

So, many Americans are the gas lines of 1973 if you want looking to government to dis- an example. If government sets tribute the goods to the people wages higher than the market who deserve them. And of would dictate, as with an articourse “we” are the deserving ficially high living wage, then ones — not those nasty Wall you will have unnecessarily Streeters or those hideously high unemployment. The cost overpaid corporate executives of labor will prevent employers or those fill-in-the-blank-with- from hiring as many workers as they would otherwise. your-favorite-villains.

Now I’m sure Konop has This new world view has given fresh life to the notion of taken an economics course or the so-called “living wage,” pro- two. So he knows this. But he moted in Lucas County by Com- also knows that there are no missioner Ben Konop. The living votes in advocating a marketwage was first proposed in the driven economy right now.

1800s by the Catholic Church, Pushing for a “living wage” which tried to thread the needle — well that’s a good plank in a between hands-off capitalism successful campaign platform.

Back in the 1890s, the legisand heavy-handed communism.

Pope Leo XIII said the living lators in Indiana tried to pass a wage should be enough to pro- law setting the value of the mathvide for the worker (uniformly ematical constant pi to three. Now male), his wife and his children, every geometry student knows and with a little left over so he that pi (the circumference of a could set aside a little savings. circle divided by its diameter) is Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum the irrational number 3.14159 prodded politicians across the ... It cannot be changed by fiat to world to reform labor laws, in- three or four, or any other rational cluding the establishment of number. It does not matter what lawmakers (or students with bad minimum wage requirements.

Konop is proposing a living memories) may wish.

In the same way, it does not wage of $8.38 an hour for anyone who works for a county con- matter that county commistractor or for a company getting sioners or members of Congress tax abatements from the county. might like to change the laws of That’s more than the state and economics. They are what they are. A living wage should be dead federal minimum wage.

Konop says most county con- on arrival. tractors already meet his proposed standard. So, my question to him E-mail columnist Jim Blue at is, “Why bother?” And my ques- Jim@JimBlue.com.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

MACARTHUR’S SPARK

On Carty, the recall effort and Downtown 1. There’s a group that’s called Take Back Toledo Aiming to end our mayor’s term more rapido Now, I kinda like Carty He really livens a party Like a tornado in a rented tuxedo

2. The recession’s hit hard our Downtown I don’t see many people around It makes me quite sad To see things are so bad Even the tumbleweed vendor shut down

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Their fair share

e have begun to see some Geithner had some trouble with of the projected changes the immigration status of someone coming from the Obama working for him, but I guess that’s beAdministration as opposed to the side the point.)

By Feb. 3, howprevious ones. Some ever, we were looking of these will be seen by at the withdrawal of many as finally taking a two nominations for first step in the right diconsideration. Former rection. Some may see Senator Tom Daschle’s them as a redress of the chance to become secprevious administraretary of Health and tion’s wrong- thinking Human Services seems policies. Others may to have derailed on simply see some of what a failure to pay some has happened as a cam$128,000 in taxes. Just paign promise met early. Tim HIGGINS before that, Nancy I see a potential for all of these things, but I see another change; Killefer withdrew her name for the however, and one that I find increas- new position of chief performance ofingly troubling regarding an idea put ficer due to some unpaid taxes on doforward in the campaign and the way mestic help that were less than $1,000.

This is not unusual. Such behavior, that it has been put into practice.

Even before the election, one of when revealed about someone up for the changes that we were hearing a cabinet level post, has been cause from candidate Obama and the Dem- for the nominee to be asked to withocratic Party was that it was time that draw his or her nomination for the the wealthy should pay their fair share position or caused him or her to face of taxes. This demand was made in instant rejection during the confirspite of the fact that the most recently mation process.

One need only look back to the documented numbers released by the IRS from 2007 report that the top 1 move to nominate Linda Chavez as percent in income pay about 40 per- labor secretary in the Bush Admincent of taxes; the top 25 percent pay istration or the attempts to nominate about 86 percent of the taxes, and the Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood as attop 50 percent pay about 97 percent of the taxes in this country.

While not choosing to debate in this column what the “fair share” of taxes that anybody should pay is, I think that we can agree that those who make the most money pay the most taxes. And “pay their taxes” leads us to the troubling part of the changes that are happening.

Timothy Geithner, our recently confirmed treasury secretary, failed to pay more than $42,000 in taxes (including interest and penalty) while self-employed and working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

This failure came in spite of the fact that the IMF gives its American employees the employer portion of those taxes as a bonus, expecting them to deposit them with the IRS. It also came in spite of the fact that Geithner regularly signed forms saying that he understood this. (It also seems as though

torney general to see where taxes and improperly or undocumented workers have derailed nominations in the past.

I know that Geithner expressed embarrassment for his situation, expressing disappointment in his lapse.

In fact, he seems to have provided a cue card for other nominees in an almost identically worded statement, each having expressed “deep regret.”

Taking my cue from this apparently prepared statement, I deeply regret that I am not able to join in the support for Geithner in his new position as treasury secretary. Though I know that the Senate has already confirmed him, it does not seem right and proper to place a person in charge of the IRS, the Treasury and the lion’s share of the national economy who has failed to follow the very laws of the department that he is to run.

Change does not involve placing people in authority who flaunt the laws of the United States. It does not reward with a high government position those who only follow those laws when put up for such a position. It does not dole a fat government check and all the perks that go with it to those who refuse to pay “their fair share.”

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By Brandi Barhite TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR bbarhite@toledofreepress.com

Having one child with a brain tumor could be enough to devastate a family.

Having two children with brain tumors is almost unimaginable.

Yet somehow Chaun and Jodie Steiner of Toledo keep it together, one day, one doctor visit, one bill at a time.

When they learned their first born, Braeden, had a brain tumor; he was 16 months old.

“Our world was turned upside down when we found out about Braeden. I mean, we didn’t know what to do,” Jodie said.

Their second child, Bronson, was diagnosed with his tumor at 18 months of age, shortly before Chaun lost his job in January 2008.

“We were dumbfounded and again devastated. Braeden had just finished chemo in June 2007, and Bronson was diagnosed in September 2007. It was like we hit rewind and we had to go through it again,” Jodie said.

“My thought was, ‘I didn’t smoke, I didn’t drink, I didn’t do anything wrong. I ate healthy and I took my vitamins and did everything I should for the pregnancy, and my kids have brain tumors.’ ” Both Braeden and Bronson have neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic disorder that affects 100,000 Americans, including Jodie. All three have the NF type 1 variety.

The disorder affects people differently. Jodie never had any complications, besides pea-sized bumps on her stomach that first appeared during pregnancy.

“We did go see a geneticist before we had Braeden,” Jodie said. “Our chances were 50-50 that the child would have NF and there was like a 4 percent chance they would have a worse case than what I did.”

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THE STEINER FAMILY, FROM LEFT, JODIE, BRAEDEN, BRONSON AND CHAUN. BRAEDEN AND BRONSON ARE FIGHTING NEUROFIBROMATOSIS, A GENETIC DISORDER.

glioma because of the genetic disorder. Optic nerve glioma is a brain tumor on the optic nerve, the nerve that controls vision. Braeden is legally blind in one eye and wears glasses to preserve his vision in his good eye; Bronson has no vision problems. Braeden also has bowing of his leg and wears a brace because of the fragility of his tibia. One day, the bone will have to be replaced

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with a steel rod.

“Having a second child, we thought the odds of him having the brain tumor were impossible,” Jodie said.

‘The little bump’ A day in the life of the Steiner family is ordinary in every way, minus the many trips to the University of Michigan Health System.

“We tell them everything that is going on with them,” Jodie said.

“We talk about the tumors; we call it the ‘little bump’ in their head. That is why they have to have the MRI, and we tell them they are going to get their sleepy medicine.”

Braeden’s chemotherapy stabilized his tumor for now, while Bronson’s chemo is reducing the size of his tumor. When it’s not

chemo, it’s MRIs for both boys, visits to the optmologists and other checkups that will continue for the rest of their lives.

Braeden, now 5, attends all-day kindergarten at Wildwood Environmental Academy in Maumee, while Jodie is a stay-at-home mom with Bronson, now nearly 3.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009 ■ FAMILY CONTINUED FROM A6 “He doesn’t have any trouble giving anything a try,” said school leader Elizabeth Lewin of Braeden.

“He does well on the playground. He tries really hard with American martial arts. He has been just fabulous.”

The boys love to play all kinds of sports, including baseball, basketball, floor hockey, swimming and soccer. They also like playing Wii and rough-housing with dad.

“What I really appreciate in Mr. Steiner, and so many of other parents, is that they still incorporate the medical piece into their lives, but they don’t let go of the childhood pieces of life,” said Sheila Morris, a child life specialist for the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

While dad loves to be home with his boys, he said getting back to work

is paramount. Chaun lost his job as a health insurance claims manager a year ago because of downsizing.

He has been looking for work since, making do with unemployment, which is about to run out, and help from family, friends and strangers.

They pay more than $1,000 per month for Cobra health insurance, which runs out in this spring. The boys also have Medicaid.

“That is kind of how we have stayed afloat, but it is becoming harder,” Jodie said, noting that severance, savings and money from a benefit for the boys are gone or about gone. “We don’t spend foolishly; we take care of our kids. That is all we do.”

Wolverines at heart The Steiners do not consider traveling to Ann Arbor several times per

month, if not week, inconvenient.

“We went and got several opinions,” Jodie said after Braeden was diagnosed with his tumor. “We talked to doctors in Toledo; we talked to doctors at the Cleveland Clinic and we talked to doctors at the University of Michigan.”

For the Steiners, they felt best about the care in Michigan.

It’s become a home away from a home, a place their sons look forward to visiting.

“When you have a family who is not playing victim, it is so inspirational for staff; it is so inspirational for other families,” said Kelly Parent, parent coordinator for the University of Michigan Health System. Chaun serves on the Mott’s Patient and Family Advisory Council, which meets regularly to identify opportunities to improve relationships among patients, family and staff.

Parent said the Steiners consider themselves lucky. That often happens with families coping with illness, she said. They realize it could be even worse.

Both boys have a good prognosis as far as living, but learning disabilities are common with their disorder, in addition to more tumors, which may never go away.

“I would change nothing,” Jodie said. “Our kids are wonderful and are perfect. I wouldn’t change anything about them. They have awesome personalities, distinctive laughs and love life and they make it a lot more enjoyable.”

“We would take 100 more just like them,” Chaun added.

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What is neurofibromatosis (NF)?

The neurofibromatoses (NF1, NF2 and Schwannomatosis) are a set of distinct genetic disorders. Individuals with NF1 are prone to develop benign tumors that grow on the nerves anywhere on or in the body. NF1 can also affect other tissues, including bones, skin, blood vessels and eyes. Nearly 50 percent of all people with NF1 have learning disabilities.

How many people have it?

NF1 affects about one out of every 3,000 births. NF2 is less common, affecting about one out of every 40,000 births. In 50 percent of cases, NF is inherited from a parent. The remaining NF cases occur as the result of a mutation in the sperm or egg cell.

Signs of NF1 ■ Family history ■ Six or more light brown spots on the skin ■ Freckling under the arms or in the groin area ■ Small pigmented bumps on the eye’s iris ■ Optic glioma ■ Skeletal abnormalities Source: Children’s Tumor Foundation

Ways to Help the Steiner family Team Steiner will again run events on May 2 and May 3 at the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati to raise money for Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF).

CTF funds NF research, as well as promotes awareness for NF and supports people with NF. Chaun Steiner is team captain for the Flying Pig this year.

To donate for the marathon, or to help the family in general, contact Chaun Steiner at chaunsteiner@yahoo.com.

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“We do different gigs, like we did a Christmas gig; we did a gig at UT ... we are also going to be doing a gig at McDonald’s where we will get a percentage of the [sales],” said Haley Armstrong, who leads the Organization of Musical Friends.

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TIYO’s Germany and Poland trip in spring 2008 and is comprised of four core members, Armstrong said, but since not everyone is going to Tanzania, other TIYO members are performing as part of the quartet. The quartet features two violin players, a viola player and a cello player. Armstrong plays the violin.

“When we do gigs, we give out our business cards so they can call if they ever need live music,” said Armstrong, a junior at Northview High School.

Armstrong is among 15 students taking the trip to Toledo’s sister city.

TIYO has already raised enough money to build a music room for the Toledo Secondary School. When the group travels to Tanga in June and July, they intend to perform and possibly give musical lessons.

“It is a smaller group than the Europe trip, so I think we will be able to do more intimate stuff with that culture,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong has already paid the first $500 installment toward the $3,000 trip. When the quartet performs, the money received is split four ways. The upcoming performances at UT will pay $250.

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‘A Child Called ‘It’’ author at BGSU Feb. 11 Toledo Free Press Staff Writers Dave Pelzer, author of the New York Times No. 1 bestseller “A Child Called ‘It,’” will speak on “The Real Heroes” at Bowling Green State University Feb. 11.

BGSU’s Institute for Child and Family Policy is partnering with the Napoleon Area School District to bring Pelzer to campus. He will be on hand at 6:30 p.m. for a book signing, followed by his speech at 7 p.m. in 101 Olscamp Hall. General admission tickets are available for $5 by contacting the institute at (419) 372-9903 or icfp@bgsu.edu.

Pelzer grew up in a household where he was abused by his mentally disturbed, alcoholic mother. It was only his resilience that enabled him to overcome these lifePELZER threatening obstacles.

His case, which was deemed one of the most gruesome and extreme cases of child abuse in California’s history, is the subject of his trilogy of books that started with “A Child Called ‘It.’” He has written four additional books, including his latest, “Moving Forward,” aimed at helping people move beyond life’s trials and realize their limitless potential.

At age 12, Pelzer was rescued and placed in a series of foster homes until, determined to better himself, he enlisted in the U. S. Air Force at 18. As a member of the armed forces, he was chosen to midair refuel the highly secretive SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 stealth fighter, which played a major role in operations Just Cause, Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

He has received numerous honors, including the 2005 National Jefferson Award and a California Volunteer of the Year award, and in 1993 was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans.

Pelzer’s visit is in conjunction with a soldout workshop on “Promoting Empowerment and Resiliency in Children and Families Who Have Experienced Abuse and Neglect.” Hosted by the institute, the workshop is designed for professionals who work with such children and families.

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Grocery giveaway planned On Feb. 21, Bedford Christian Community will give out 40,000 pounds of groceries to any families in Monroe County and the greater Toledo area that are in need. Starting at 9 a.m. at 8970 Jackman Road, the church will give out boxes of groceries. No proof of need is necessary and no questions will be asked, according to a news release. The church will give out one box of food per family. For information, call (734) 850-0051 or visit www.bccag.org.

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To help celebrate Black History Month, the Way Library in Perrysburg will show the 1943 allblack cast musical extravaganza, “Cabin in the Sky.” Set in the rural black South, the film is the story of a poor woman fighting to keep her husband’s soul out of the devil’s clutches. The film features Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong. The film will be shown at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 in the library’s main level auditorium. Mike Hough, an area film buff, will be on hand to discuss the film afterward and take questions from the audience. No reservations are required. Admission and refreshments are free.

■ Way Library continues its monthly classic film series, Reel Talk. On Feb. 12, the library will show “Broadway Melody of 1938.”

This dancing and singing revue was made in 1937. It stars Eleanor Powell with Robert Taylor and Buddy Ebsen. Also appearing is a 15- yearold Judy Garland, singing a love song to a portrait of Clark Gable.

The film begins at 10 a.m. Admission and refreshments are free. The Way Library is located at 101 E. Indiana Ave. in Perrysburg. Call (419) 874-3135 for further information.

WGTE highlights ■ “American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” 9 p.m. Feb. 9 on WGTE TV: Recounts the death of America’s first a s s a s s i n at e d president.

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Feb. 10 on WGTE TV: WGTE will follow the Liquid Assets documentary with a live Town Hall Meeting that will examine the plan for remediation of the Swan Creek Watershed and local water infrastructure.

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Church offers marriage vow renewal ceremony

By Kelly Carter TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

It has been said that married couples who renew their wedding vows feel closer and experience lower divorce rates.

First Congregational Church is welcoming couples of the community who would like to renew marriage vows, to be a part of Renewal Sunday on Feb. 15. The renewing ceremony will take place after the regular 10 a.m. worship service, followed by a small reception.

“It’s a very meaningful and spiritual way to renew and affirm the solemn marriage vows between husband and wife” said

First Congregational Church the Rev. Larry Vriezelaar.

Vriezelaar has been with the church for three years and was inspired to start this event to do all he can to save as many marriages and relieve some of the burden in these hard economic times. Couples have already signed up for this casual event with some bringing family members. There will be no charge for the service.

Interested couples should contact First Congregational Church at (419) 243-6248 or by e-mail at firstcc@bex.net.

First Congregational Church, located at 2315 Collingwood Blvd. in Toledo’s old west end, celebrated its 175th anniversary last year.

Medicaid 101 offered Lutheran Village at Wolf Creek will host a free seminar on Medicaid planningat 6:30p.m. Feb. 26 in the chapel.

This seminar is open to the public and is for anyone interested in learning about Medicaid. Some of the topics covered will include: what it takes to apply for Medicaid, what it takes to qualify for Medicaid, how applying for Medicaid affects the community spouse, what assets are exempt for Medicaid and how the spend down works.

Christopher S. Clark, Attorney at Law, from Clark Law Office will present the material. Lutheran Village at Wolf Creek is a senior living community.

Lutheran Village at Wolf Creek is a joint venture of Lutheran Homes Society and St. Luke’s Hospital and is located at 2001 Perrysburg-Holland Road, Holland. For more information, call (419) 861-5619.

Thyroid could determine weight Oprah Winfrey’s problem with her thyroid has put a much-needed spotlight on the butterfly-shaped gland.

Hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland produces too little thyroid hormone, according to the American Thyroid Association (ATA). Symptoms may include feeling run down, weight gain and having dry skin and hair.

Dr. James Horner, chief pediatric endocrinologist at St. Vincent Mercy Children’s Hospital, said the thyroid gland regulates a person’s metabolic rate by producing horHORNER mones. Hypothyroidism occurs when people have too little thyroid hormones; Hyperthyroidism is the opposite problem. Suffers have too much thyroid hormones and eat a lot of food, but still lose weight. They also might suffer from a rapid heart rate or experience shakiness, he said.

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Horner said the weight gain in hypothyroidism is usually mild to moderate. It’s not like a person will go from 100 pounds to 300 pounds, although the person will be “too heavy,” but not morbidly obese.

In the United States, most cases of hypothyroidism are caused by Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, which is where a patient’s immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid, according to ATA. The most common cause of hypothyroidism is lack of iodine in the diet. Hypothyroidism can also be caused by treating hyperthyroidism, Horner said.

A lot of times people won’t even notice the symptoms.

They might just think they are eating a little too much or not working out enough, according to Horner. People often don’t make the connection if their hair is breaking off while combing it, either. More than 27 million Americans have overactive or underactive thyroid glands, but more than half remain undiagnosed, according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

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‘Food for Thought’ program steers youth toward healthy choices

By Bridget Tharp TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Ten-year-old Eshon Howard Jr. took his recent role as food critic seriously as one of five judges during the first “Lunch 101: Food for Thought” contest at Toledo Hospital.

The McKinley Elementary student dutifully sampled the nutritious meals created for his peers by 10 high school-age OOSTRA teams vying for $5,000 in scholarship cash on Jan. 31. The winning meals — created by a team of students from Perrysburg High School — will wind up in the McKinley Elementary cafeteria as a pilot program before expanding to promote healthier eating in other Toledo Public Schools.

The boy carefully took notes after tasting such cuisine as chicken pot pie pockets and pomegranate-blueberry popsicles. One of the frozen treats found its way into the grateful

hands of his 7-year-old brother, Julian, seated one row back.

Though known to his parents to be a picky eater, Eshon pledged to sample everything that came before the judges — even if that meant nibbling on something yucky, like seaweed, his mom, Lauren Henderson, 28, said.

Proud that Eshon had been chosen by his teachers to represent McKinley as the student judge, his parents didn’t mind that the boy shrugged off lunch with the family to rub elbows with the grown-up judges — Dr. Cathy Cantor, ProMedica physician; Randy Oostra, chief operating officer and president of ProMedica Health System; Kathie Smith, food editor of The Blade and Ray DeBroas, nutrition services director for Toledo Public Schools.

“He feels like he’s important right now,” his dad, Eshon Howard Sr., 28, said smiling.

The contest was part of the larger Fields of Green initiative and meant to motivate teens to brainstorm how to combat childhood obesity, said Stephanie Cihon, director of community relations for ProMedica Health System.

“We wanted to involve the youth in our community because they are such great spokespeople,” Cihon

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Some of the kids don’t have a scheduled recess, so kids aren’t getting exercise. We really see this as a catalyst for really making some changes.”

— Stephanie Cihon, ProMedica said, adding that the scholarships became “something to strive for.

This was a way to have a positive impact on multiple levels.”

High school sophomores, juniors and seniors in 27 counties in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan were eligible to enter as teams the Lunch 101 competition. Participants created a lunchtime exercise and 10 meal plans using USDA guidelines, locally grown or packaged foods and a $3 per meal budget.

Hospital officials will also present the contest to the Ohio Association of School Nurses in March at their

conference in Huron, Cihon said.

“What we found when we started this out, some of the kids don’t have a scheduled recess, so kids aren’t getting exercise,” Cihon said. “We really see this as a catalyst for really making some changes.”

Contest rules promised $5,000 scholarships to each team member and $1,000 for the winners’ school, provided by the ProMedica Foundation. But the rules changed.

Instead, the judges added a second and third place team.

Then, the rules changed again.

Third place became a tie.

“We kind of made up the rules as we went,” said ProMedica executive Randy Oostra, to cheers and laughter.

In third place and awarded $1,000 scholarships were Stephanie Echler and Amber Gombash of Pike-Delta-York High School in Delta, Ohio; and Ashley Boehlke, Katie Brighton, Jenna Dickerson and Brooke Wendel of Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center in Adrian, Mich.

Second place with $2,500 scholarships were Emily Fredrick, Rachel Krueger, Rachel Kelley and Nichole Short of Archbold High School.

Winners of the $5,000 scholar-

ships were Breck Overy, Jamie Winzeler and siblings Mike and Rebecca Epstein of Perrysburg High School.

Mike is attending Penta Career Center from the high school.

ProMedica’s officials will meet with educators from McKinley to discuss how items from all of the winning menus might be used for the pilot program, Cihon said.

The Perrysburg team, which called itself the “PB Jammers,” created a “walking taco” with baked Doritos under seasoned ground turkey, lettuce and low-fat sour cream and “jammy juicy Jello” made with apple juice rather than water. Their exercises had the crowd on their feet dancing to their self-choreographed “pencil dance” — with hands clapped over their heads to form a point and feet wiggling to “erase it.”

The team estimates they sank about 45 hours into the contest, and unanimously agreed the experience would be worth repeating.

“I would definitely go back and do it again,” 18-year-old senior Winzeler said. “I think it’s so fun. Just to sit there and help kids be able to change their appetite and exercise, it’s like the greatest feeling to be able to help someone.”

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Consumer confidence was recently at a 41-year low. If you look at the past 10 largest declines in consumer confidence, all but BAKER one of the times, the market was CLAIR higher in one year.

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Don’t have all of your money in the markets. Learn about alternatives to the stock market called noncorrelated assets. And don’t forget to have safe money like fixed accounts.

Although diversification doesn’t guarantee you against loss, it can smooth out the ride. A good rule of thumb is the Rule of 100. If you take 100 and subtract your age, that is about what percentage you should have exposed to risk.

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The concept is pretty simple; you put a set amount of money into the stock market over a set period of time, thus buying a little at a time instead of trying to time when to get in and out.

It is like wading into the water, instead of jumping into the deep end.

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Take Back Toledo, the group aiming to recall Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner for being what they describe as an anti-business â&#x20AC;&#x153;dictator,â&#x20AC;? has about 12 percent of the required signatures to get their issue in front of voters, organizers said.

But they have an explanation for the seemingly short list. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been supporting him. I mean, in the cold weather people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going door to door yet,â&#x20AC;? said Ed Nagle, a member of the group.

Clipboards and petitions at the ready, Nagle and a cluster of other Take Back Toledo representatives waited outside the Jan. 30 Toughman Contest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; indoors.

Their plan is to turn in about 30,000 signatures on April 1; they are required to have 19,937 validated signatures. That provides a little less than two months to get the issue on Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballot, alongside the mayoral primary.

So far, Nagle said volunteers have collected about 2,400 unvalidated signatures and about $30,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see it closer to $80,000,â&#x20AC;? he said. That, though, is not directly subject to the weather. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some people who just want to confirm that this has legs, that this movement is strong, before they contribute a substantial amount of money,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Others will not make their support public because â&#x20AC;&#x153;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing business with the city, or theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in ongoing negotiations with the city,â&#x20AC;? he said.

While the petitions focus on Finkbeinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ousting, Take Back Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign is about more than that, Nagle said, to make sure the mayor does not run for re-election, to look at the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in the city charter in hopes to avoid future chances of â&#x20AC;&#x153;letting a dictator out of control,â&#x20AC;? and opening up the political scene in Toledo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Republican, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Democrat and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not in the know, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance,â&#x20AC;?

Nagle said.

Part of its plan includes backing a business-friendly candidate in the mayoral campaign. Even though there are more than a handful of names already in the mix, Nagle said picking one now is not the priority. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have not had even the first ounce of discussion,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been approached, but we have told them this is not the time yet.â&#x20AC;?

He said the group is not affiliated with any political party.

Meanwhile, the mayor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who has not publicly said whether he intends to run for another term â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has not changed his thoughts on the group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have real problems to worry about, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not one of them,â&#x20AC;? city spokesman Jason Webber said, citing the recentlyannounced $8 million budget deficit that still lingers from 2008.

Nagle said he does not expect the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention, but urges that the group is not a personal attack on him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like Carty personally, but Carty has been very ineffective in his role as a leader.â&#x20AC;?

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Schindler Elevator Corporation is expanding the training facilities at its North American Center for Service Excellence in Holland.

The company broke ground the week of Feb. 1 on the 5,500-square-foot expansion project scheduled for completion in July. Building on its existing training capacity, the facility will include a classroom, simulator and installation training with actual elevator towers. Schindler will conduct two technical training classes each week covering elevator installation, service and modernization.

The new facility will train about 1,500 trainees per year, according to Rod Hoying, vice president of existing installation operations for Schindler in Holland. Schindler established the national service support center at its Holland offices after deciding to keep operations in the Toledo area.

Hoying said the company chose the Toledo location for expansion over three other similar facilities in the United States. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The company chose Toledo because of its strong nucleus of employees, and the local market had a sufficient talent pool to staff this center,â&#x20AC;? Hoying said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The logistics make it easy for us to bring people to this area for training.â&#x20AC;?

Schindler is working with the Lucas County Improvement Corporation to develop work force training programs for its employees in coordination with the UT College of Engineering. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Duane Ramsey

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n its latest attempt to generate Yzerman, Barry Sanders and Joe meaningless debate on the In- Louis. So which of those two imagiternet, ESPN.com launched a nary monuments is better? Well, yes, ESPN is raising the level new feature last month of debate and arguing called “Mt. Rushmore that point as well.

Of Sports.” The premise I looked and was that readers voted looked, and strangely for the four main sports enough they didn’t do icons from each state, a Northwest Ohio Mt. and the top four voteRushmore of Sports. getters will be likely (I know!) They clearly illustrated in some must not care. So I guess fashion. For example, Ohio’s Mt. Rushmore of Matt SUSSMAN it’s up to this columnist to come up with a Sports was Jesse Owens, worthy Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, and set Jack Nicklaus. Michigan’s turned out to be Gordie Howe, S t e v e

nominees. The criteria is simple; either the sports figure has to be born and/or raised in Northwest Ohio or have made a strong impact in Northwest Ohio athletics.

■ Christine Brennan, Toledo native and sports columnist for USA Today, making her the most widely read female sports columnist in the country.

■ Chuck Ealey, who went 35-0 as UT’s quarterback from 1969-71, also won the CFL’s Grey Cup in his first year as a professional quarterback.

■ Jamie Farr, if not for internationally popularizing the Mud Hens, or for hosting an LPGA tournament in Sylvania for the last 20 years, then to put him on the monument so outof-towners don’t gawk and say, “Where’s Jamie Farr?”

■ Scott Hamilton, Bowling Green native, gold

medal winner in figure skating at the 1984 Olympics.

■ Ed Heintschel, won over 500 games as St. John’s Jesuit’s boys basketball coach.

■ Mike Hessman, Mud Hens’ all-time leader in home runs (117) and rbi (296) in the modern era.

■ Jimmy Jackson, Macomber High School product, had an outstanding college career at Ohio State and played for 73 teams in his 14year NBA career. (OK, it was more like 12 teams, but who’s counting?)

■ Dick Kazmaier, Toledo native, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1951 as tailback for Princeton University.

■ Kim Knuth-Klaer, UT women’s basketball all-time leading scorer (2,509 points), as well as the MAC’s all-time leading scorer.

■ Jim Leyland, Perrysburg native and Detroit Tigers manager; won a World Series in 1997.

■ Bob Nichols, who coached UT men’s basketball for 22 seasons (376212) and led team to its last Sweet 16 appearance in 1979, had Savage Arena’s new court named after him.

■ Doyt Perry, BGSU football coach for 10 seasons (77-11-5) and College Football Hall of Fame member, namesake of BGSU’s admittedly unimpressive football stadium.

■ Greg Stempin, fourth all-time scorer and sixth all-time rebounder in UT men’s basketball history, also the holder of perhaps the most mesmerizing dunk in Savage Arena history, against Ohio State in 1999 ■ Nate Thurmond, BGSU men’s basketball player and Basketball Hall of Famer, the guy who allows me to brag that BGSU has more Hall of Fame basketball players than Duke.

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This Week’s SONIC High School Athletes of the Week Bruce Huntley, Senior, Central Catholic

Mariah Haynes, Junior, Waite High School

Bruce is a senior and a member of the Central Catholic boys varsity basketball team. He helped lead Central Catholic to a 64-55 victory over City League rival Rogers High School with 24 points. The Fighting Irish improved to 7-5 overall and 4-3 in the City League. He is a 6-3 guard who is averaging 14.0 points per game, 6.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists this season. Sonic congratulates Bruce Huntley and the Central Catholic for their outstanding performance.

Mariah is a junior and a member of the Waite girls varsity basketball team. She helped lead the Indians to a 71-41 win over the Central Catholic by shooting 12-18 from the field and scoring a career high 29 points.

The Indians are now 9-3 overall and 7-1 in the city league standings. She is averaging 12.2 points per game, 2.1 assists, and 3.2 rebounds this season. Sonic congratulates Mariah Haynes and Waite high school for their outstanding performance.

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Sorting through the college football recruit signings

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olleges and universities have now signed searching that one.

The entire process is fan-driven and often high school seniors with football futures to national letters of intent, and we have fanatical. Isn’t that redundant?

It’s as addictive as it is errowinners, near-winners and those neous in many cases, but we know who gave it the old college try and facts can ruin fascination. are comforted by their marginal For instance, did you know success just because the entire, that former Ohio State linebackers distressful process has ended.

James Laurinaitis and A.J. Hawk, For instance, what coaches wide receiver Malcolm Jenkins said, “We have fulfilled most of and recent Super Bowl MVP Sanour needs and feel very comforttonio Holmes were all considered able with our class”? just three-star recruits by the soAnswer: Just about all of Dave WOOLFORD called “experts“ who rely on such them. barometers as high school game What coach said, “I think this film, bias prep coaches’ input and dartboards? is an outstanding group”?

Some of those same coaches can be inAnswer: Ohio State’s Jim Tressel and rightly so. His class is ranked anywhere from fluenced to point their highly prized football possessions in a certain direction. It has to do No. 1 to No. 4.

What coach said, “Our staff did a nice job with the highest bidder.

Did you wonder where tailback Bryce and we put a pretty good class together”?

Answer: A less than enthusiastic Rich Ro- Brown, one of the nation’s top high school driguez just after the Michigan mentor dis- football players, was going to further his covered that two prized defensive linemen education? You’ll have to check in with Brian Butler, a self-described trainer and manager decommitted on signing day Feb. 4.

What coaches said, “We had a dismal re- of some high-profile high school football cruiting effort and things look anything but players. You can go to Butler’s Web site and for $9.99 a month or $59 a year you can get bright for the future.” updates on Brown and other prep athletes Answer: Absolutely none.

What high school signees said, “I picked (fill Butler “handles.”

NCAA rules are very vague when it comes in the blank) because its academic accreditation and curriculum were superior to that of the to third parties.

We can’t call such scoundrels slave traders other institutions that incited my interest”?

Answer: Our investigators are still re- or agents because one term is too sensitive

and the other describes an illegal activity, according to NCAA law, so how about brokers?

College coaches are using highly sophisticated Web sites to promote their programs, while high school athletes are selling their wares on their own Web sites. We have college coaches raiding other coaches’ prep pantries at the last minute and illegal, under-the-table dealings that we really don’t even want to know about.

But who cares? Right?

We can’t shake our infatuation with polls that rank the top-recruiting classes under the auspices by people who have attached their sticky tentacles to the process, enhancing it well beyond its significance at a highly profitable level.

While we are told that Ohio State’s recruiting class is ranked No. 1 by some evaluation services, Michigan is rated No. 2 … in the state of Michigan that is, right behind Michigan State, according to another such service.

That all but assures OSU’s continued dominance over the Wolverines into the distant future, doesn’t it?

Maybe, but not necessarily.

When television talking heads tell us to stay tuned to see who will win the recruiting national title, even the most naïve of college football fans have to wonder how anything so remarkably subjective can produce a national crown. It’s ridiculous. But who cares? Right?

The Buckeyes continue to pull away from the remainder of the Big Ten when it comes to football recruiting. It’s much easier to recruit

from the top than it is from the bottom, which brings us back to Michigan.

The Wolverines are coming off a 3-9 record, the worst in school history. Negative recruiters feasted on UM and second-year head coach Rodriguez. If, for instance, you’re a topranked high school receiver, who is going to throw you the ball? UM could start a freshman quarterback who has never thrown a pass at the college level for the second year in a row.

For you other offensive prospects, Michigan can’t hide the fact it ranked 99th last season in scoring offense. And even more disappointing was UM’s inept defense when it was supposed to be the one bright spot last year. Where’s the stability with defensive coordinator coach Scott Shafer fired after one year?

One word describes Michigan’s most pronounced selling point: opportunity. Sign today, play tomorrow.

Michigan’s 22-member class was ranked as high as No. 7 and as low as 17th with one service rating the Wolverines fourth best in the Big Ten behind Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan State.

When you factor in such things as homesickness, scholastic issues, poor choice of friends, coaching changes, injuries, transitioning from high school luminary to college ordinary and yes, girlfriends, you have all the evidence you need to declare college recruiting inconclusive, misleading, inaccurate and unpredictable at best.

But what fun is that? Let’s fantasize.

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Visit www.toledofreepress.com ■ SUSSMAN CONTINUED FROM A19 Now, I’m sure I omitted tons of deserving candidates — especially high school players and coaches, many of whom can run, throw and catch better than I. In fact, I highly expect several comments and e-mails setting me straight on some obscure 1930s high school legend from, say, Holgate, and that I am an idiot for leaving them out. It’s true, I am an idiot for leaving “said high school legend” out of the list, but anyone anybody can name in the comments is immediately a candidate for consideration on the Northwest Ohio Mt. Rushmore of Sports.

Stop by next week when I actually take the next bold step and brazenly name the four icons of Northwest Ohio sports. Cash bribes are

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Who did Matt forget to nominate?

What NW Ohio sports legend did Matt Sussman forget to nominate for “Mt. Rushmore?”

Frank Gilhooley? Moses Fleetwood Walker? Mike Eruzione?

Casey Stengel? Joe Napoli? Orris Tabner? Dave Woolford? Log on to this story at www.toledofreepress.com and leave your choice in a comment on our Web site for Matt to consider for next week. currently being accepted.

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I learned to stretch that dollar inventories of cars we see on a car keeping the vehicles so they igjust as far as it could be stretched. I lot attract buyers. The larger the nored the scheduled maintenance. try and apply that lesson to my daily life, even to this day. Like many of you, I drive a lot of miles each year, RV Show Factory Discount Pricing and stretching my car budget is essential.

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This is not true for all used vehicles; however, it is true in many cases. If maintenance records are provided by the seller, make sure the records are legitimate. A sales receipt at the local parts supplier does not necessarily mean the parts went into the vehicle. Conscientious owners keep accurate maintenance records. Demand to see those records.

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Fly-by-night businesses often don’t join the BBB. Those businesses that become BBB members do so voluntarily. BBB member businesses want their customers to have the reassurances of fair business practices.

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Also, have a technician check out the vehicle. A legitimate seller won’t have a problem with a buyer taking the vehicle to a certified technician. The technician will most likely road test the vehicle and put it on a hoist to remove the wheels and tires. The techni-

cian will inspect those areas of the vehicle that can’t be seen and evaluate the mechanical state of the vehicle. Many technicians provide this service to their customers for free or for a small fee. Don’t buy a vehicle without having it checked out first.

So it turns out, my dad was right.

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Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College. He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau who specializes in cases involving the Ohio and Michigan Lemon laws. He is a certified master automotive technician by ASE, General Motors and Ford Motor Company. Shultz will take automotive technical questions from readers at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Cash-strapped states mull seat-belt changes

By Stephen Majors ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

COLUMBUS — Drivers better buckle up or pay the price: More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists just for not wearing their seat belts.

More than a dozen states that are considering making the switch to primary seat-belt enforcement laws need to do so before July to be eligible for millions in federal money.

One of those states is Ohio, which would get $26.8 million if it changes its law. Currently, officers in the state must first have some other reason to stop drivers over before issuing seat-belt citations.

States without primary seat-belt enforcement that want the federal money must pass a bill and have it signed by the governor by June 30 — and begin issuing citations by Sept.

30 — to qualify for federal funds, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The federal money attached to seat-belt enforcement can only be spent for highway-related projects.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland proposed the change in his two-year budget plan released Feb. 2. The state Legislature has previously balked at making the change.

“The budget includes a primary seat-belt enforcement law because evidence suggests it saves lives and to bring additional federal resources,’’ said spokesman Keith Dailey.

Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia already have primary seat-belt enforcement laws, meaning police can stop a vehicle for a seat belt violation, even if this is the only violation the officers notice.

Ohio faces a $7.3 billion projected budget deficit over the next two years compared to current funding levels, leading Strickland to propose 120 fee and fine hikes, payroll reductions for state employees, and the delay of debt payments into

future years.

A 2008 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said states with primary enforcement seat belt laws are averaging about 13 percentage points higher for seat belt use — 88 percent — than states with secondary enforcement laws — 75 percent. Ohio, however, has a seat-belt usage rate of nearly 83 percent.

Congress adopted the federal incentive program in the 2005 federal transportation bill as a way to encourage states to adopt the primary enforcement law. The goal was to save lives, reduce insurance costs and cut medical bills.

The traffic safety agency found that in 2007, 54 percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic accidents were not wearing seat belts.

Still, the proposed change faces obstacles in states like Ohio, where many Republicans — who control the Senate — oppose it because of libertarian philosophies.

“People ought to be able to decide whether they want to drive 75 mph without their belt on,’’ said House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, a Republican from Medina.

And some lawmakers are hesitant to hand police more authority to stop motorists, believing that would lead to violations of Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure, Batchelder said.

Still, Batchelder said the federal money would likely sway some Ohio lawmakers’ votes.

“I would say some will be more willing to look at it,’’ he said.

The other states considering the change are Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New Hampshire. Lawmakers in Georgia — the only state to exempt adults in pickups from buckling up — are considering changing that law, prompted in large part by their budget woes.

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t’s a frigid Wednesday morning in North- with its own dedicated rail spur, adjacent to west Ohio. Snow is lying on the fields as far the gas chambers and crematoria.

We thought we were mentally ready for as we can see. Footlong icicles hang from Auschwitz and its horrors. the gutters. And “Blizzard Bill” says it’s 20 degrees After all, we’d already outside, but it feels a whole been to Theresienstadt, lot colder. the “model” concentraCNN is running a tion camp near Prague story about the Vatican that duped several Red rehabilitating four “turbuCross deputations belent priests,” among them fore sending the inmates a British bishop named on to Auschwitz for exRichard Williamson ... a termination. And we’d holocaust denier. tramped around Dachau, outside Munich, the very On a related topic, Roger HOLLIDAY first of some 1,600 camps the BBC reports that the Claudia FISCHER in Nazi-occupied Europe Polish government is serithat would provide cheap ously considering closure of the Auschwitz death camps. They’re too labor for the war effort and house enemy expensive to maintain, apparently. And once soldiers and “undesirables.” the last survivor dies, some want to demolish We had walked the Jewish Ghetto in the remaining buildings ... let the brambles nearby Krakow. Eaten beef brisket and potake over ... and maybe erect a monument. tato latke in a Jewish restaurant. And in one Bloggers, thousands of them, from of the synagogues, we talked with an old around the world, are weighing in with a woman who suddenly pulled back her sleeve resounding “No!” Keep it open forever, they to show us her identifying tattoo. say, as a reminder and warning for future But what we found in Auschwitz/Birkenau generations. was way beyond our comprehension. And Having twice been to Auschwitz, we while you can read about it, see the movies, would agree. The unspeakable horror of a study the personal accounts and immerse place that witnessed the slaughter of nearly yourself in the history of the period, you really 2 million men, women and children between have to go there to properly understand.

1940 and 1945 is drilled deeply and permaYou have to tour the prison blocks, the innently into our psyches. terrogation rooms and the torture cells and see Auschwitz — or Oswiecm, as it’s called in for yourself the gallows and The Wall of Death.

Polish — comprises two separate camps.

See the 70 tons of women’s hair, the crutches The first was established in an abandoned and the combs, the pots and pans, and those Polish army barracks in 1940 to handle the vast piles of suitcases taken from the unsusmass arrests taking place in German-occu- pecting victims ... pied Poland and Silesia. The other, Birkenau, You have to physically enter the disrobing a mile or so away, was erected when Heinrich rooms and the gas chambers (disguised as Himmler decided to make Auschwitz the cen- showers) and the crematoria. And stand on terpiece of his plans to exterminate all of Eu- the Appel Platz (Assembly Square), encircled ropean Jewry. by barracks and guard towers and barbed wire This 175-acre combined facility, com- electrified to 10,000 volts ... and imagine the pleted in 1941 (by slave labor, of course), hundreds of dysentery-ridden skeletons in their incorporated some 300 buildings — in- filthy striped pajamas stumbling at dawn from cluding barracks, bath houses, latrines and their shared wooden bunks ... or overflowing hospitals — and would eventually house latrines ... into subzero temperatures and a more than 100,000 prisoners who lived, scything wind ... to answer roll call or stand for worked and died under the most appalling hours as punishment for a minor infraction. and deprived conditions.

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just 65 years ago, it was the place where the new arrivals fell from the sealed cattle cars under the whips and clubs of the SS and were led directly into the gas chambers, where terrified children were ripped away from their screaming mothers.

The remaining “lucky ones” deemed suitable for hard labor, about 30 percent, were either worked to death in the surrounding quarries or munitions factories, used for scientific experiments or perished from disease, starvation, despair or suicide as they hurled themselves onto the electric fences.

It happened. It can never be forgotten.

And all of a sudden our minor aches and pains, our depleted 401(K)s,.and the hard chills of an Ohio winter don’t seem quite as dreadful after all.

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By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

There was a time when Buckwheat hated zydeco music.

“I heard it 24-7; my father played.

My father played in the morning before work, at lunch, and come home in the evening and accordion, accordion, accordion. That was enough for me,” he said.

So in 1971, he started a funk band, Buckwheat & The Hitchhikers.

“I had my first band for five years, and then I had to give myself a break and just clear my head and

see what direction I wanted to take,” the keyboard player recalled.

All the while, his father, who was good friends with zydeco superstar Clifton Chenier, kept after his son to play accordion — and zydeco.

“My mind was to go out and put my organ on stage that night and play with [Chenier] and see what came out so I could say I played zydeco music and I still don’t like it.

So I got on stage with Clifton Chenier one night, and I stayed with him for over two years,” Buckwheat said, laughing.

“You don’t criticize what you don’t understand. I heard [Chenier]

growing up as a kid all my life, and I didn’t like it too good. And my dad was a good accordion player, but I was in a new generation and it wasn’t my bag.

“So here I am, still playing zydeco music. I try to take it to a different dimension, with no limit to what I can do. I like to challenge some things, you know, and music is my heart and soul. I don’t criticize no type of music; you have to keep an open mind. I listen to everything and you learn, no matter what type of music it is, you learn from everybody.”

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■ ZYDECO CONTINUED FROM A25 Wise words from Stanley Dural Jr., who became a legend as Buckwheat Zydeco. He’s played at two presidential inaugurations, the Super Bowl and the Olympics. And Buckwheat was the first zydeco performer to ink a deal with a major record label.

The 61-year-old is celebrating his

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30th anniversary as a band leader playing his own spicy version of Southwest Louisiana’s Creole French music.

And he’s still having fun, as was evidenced from the frequent laughter during a phone interview from his office at Dockside Studio in Milton, La., where he’s finishing a new disc yet to be named for release this year.

“You start playing zydeco and you see somebody just sitting like a

stiff, I think you need to take them to a doctor: What’s wrong with you?

It’s very energetic music; in other words, you don’t have to pay so much money to go to a spa and then do aerobics — you come to a zydeco party,” he said.

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Secor Gallery opening mixed media show

By John Dorsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER jdorsey@toledofreepress.com

The Secor Gallery’s latest exhibition may change the way you look at visual art. The exhibit, which pairs conceptual creations by Fred Leighton and Fontana, is set to open Feb. 7, and will feature installation art, machinima animation and a variety of digital prints.

“I’ve had a studio at the Secor for about a year now and had been wanting to put together an exhibit, but I didn’t feel like I had enough material for a solo show, so I approached Anthony Fontana, who I work with at BGSU, because we’re both very interested in the creative use of digital technology as it relates to making visual artwork,” Leighton said.

Leighton’s “The Secret of Bigfoot Pass” was born out of a lifelong fascination with the popular culture of the 1970s. In fact, the title is taken from a book of the same name featuring the Six Million Dollar Man’s Steve Austin. He is currently an instructor in visual communications technology at Bowling Green State University.

“I first saw Fred’s work displayed— installed — it was at one of our open studios. The first project I saw was an old wooden pinball machine, that he was reworking into a light display, where he had an interactive audio receptive lighting. The light projection would blip, shake and change with the amount of volume in the room.

It’s that evocation of perception that I truly enjoy about his work,” said event promoter Jerry Gray.

Fontana is a collaborative creative team consisting of husband and wife Anthony and Sandra Fontana.

Since 2005, Fontana has been investigating virtual identities in online social platforms, their economies, and the ways in which relationships are represented in digital forms.

The exhibit will be on display through Feb. 21. Opening reception hours are 6 to 9 p.m. The Secor Gallery is located at 425 Jefferson Ave. For information, call (419) 4900266 or e-mail fred@artsdigital.com.

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2. How long it takes the heart to pump a single blood cell all the way through the body and back into the heart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one second, one minute, or one hour?

3. Brainstorm with your family. What heart-healthy activities can you do together during the winter?

4. An adultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart beats about 70 times a minute.

How many times does it beat in an hour? A week?

A year?

5. Fruits and vegetables are heart-healthy foods. How many can you list that are spelled with exactly six letters?

6. About how much blood is contained throughout our body?

7. Name the four chambers (sections) of the heart.

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Silver and gold. The eclipse fires your passions and spurs activity with the people and things you love most. Partnerships are the focus midweek; cooperation eliminates obstacles. Personal interests thrive after Friday; seek an unplanned adventure on Saturday.

Entrance fees. You enter a new social setting and discover information that contradicts previous assumptions.

Keep an open mind and sense of humor. New sources of wisdom help you see your life differently and lead you to develop fresh goals as the weekend arrives.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Hatchlings emerge from eggs. Courage and drive are intense; seek people and projects you can believe in.

An offer arrives on a silver platter after Wednesday, and circumvents previous roadblocks. On Saturday, gather juicy information in casual conversations.

In full flower. Look beyond surfaces and egos this week.

People who appear handicapped may have hidden resources, whereas the advantaged hide weaknesses.

People change partners, jobs and homes. Remain grounded and absorb the turbulence calmly.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

A majestic landscape. This week brings a variety of conversations with diverse people. New techniques and methods get a trial run. After Thursday, the Libra moon adds zip to your personal relationships. Good feelings flourish in the right environment.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Feint and thrust. Give careful scrutiny to strengths and weaknesses. Some areas benefit from unexpected advantages and allies, while others experience stubborn resistance. Avoid allowing a single person/issue to dominate the weekend; better options are at the periphery.

Flat fees, fat rewards. Long-term efforts pay off this week. Your work is in the public light and/or acknowledged by others. Common interests attract motley crews midweek. Seek contacts with those who have ingenious ideas about transforming the future.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Rainbow of colors. While others slog through their personal swamps, you can accomplish miracles through a keen focus on the main chance. Brush off what you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control (for now). People are inspired by your dedication and sense of purpose.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Littermates. The eclipse highlights emotion, intuition, and hastens the pace of encounters with others. Major turning points are at hand. Keep all options open for now. Women are the source of invaluable aid after Thursday. A certain amount of trust is required.

Too soon, too late. The eclipse sets off a high tide of influence. How people are entwined by mutual influence is shifting. Old tasks and agreements fade; establish fresh protocols with others. Follow promising leads, but retain flexibility about future options.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Old dogs with new tricks. Watch people closely this week. The light and dark sides of personalities reach an extreme. Embark upon processes that will change things for the long run. Female relatives are a focus over the weekend; your tolerance is tested.

Three-course meal. The need to join forces for the common good is compelling, but there are many opinions about the process. Use your diplomatic skills to ensure each person fits the job and feels important.

Excellent news arrives on Friday; solidify travel plans.

Elizabeth Hazel is a professional tarotist-astrologer and author. She gives readings every Wednesday at Attic on Adams above Manos Greek Restaurant. She may be contacted at ehazel@buckeye-express.com (c) 2009

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PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION FOR BIDS The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority is seeking bids from qualified contractors to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment for the following project(s): JOB NO.: 29003 PROJECT NAME: Installation/Replacement of Carpet at Various LMHA Sites CONTRACT: One Year MINIMUM CONTRACT AMOUNT: $40,000 MAXIMUM: $90,000 BID OPENING DATE: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 11:00am All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the 2nd Floor Conference Room on the dates shown above, in the RCI Department (Modernization), at 201 Belmont Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604.. Contract documents and technical specifications/drawings can be picked up from the RCI Department, at address above, for a non-refundable fee of $25.00 for each bid package.

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The prevailing wages for this locality, as established by the Department of Labor as Wage Determination OH20080028, as modified, must be paid all persons employed for this work.

Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids, or to waive any informality in the bidding. No bids shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of the bids.

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HELP WANTED Staff needed for upscale restaurant. Need experienced bartender, experienced fine dining sous chef, experienced prep cook. Submit resume to Classified Ad, 8905 Wilshire St., Livonia, MI 48150

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CONDOS FOR RENT For Rent: Two bed, two bath condo downtown Toledo overlooking Maumee River. Two car garage, exercise room, roof top deck and boat dock on Swan Creek.

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Bedroom set. 5 piece “solid wood”. New in box.

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DIRECTV FREE 4 Room System! All 265+ Channels Free 4 Months! 130 HD Channels! Ends Soon, Ask How! Free DVR/HD! Packages Start $29.99/Month! No Start Costs! Were Local Installers! 1-800-973-9027.

Proceeds benefit the Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Program.

©2009 Oldemark LLC The Wendy’s name, design, logo and Frosty are trademarks of Oldemark LLC and are licensed to Wendy’s International, Inc. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and design and Wendy’s Wonderful Kids and design are registered trademark of Oldemark LLC and is licensed to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

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7 piece new queen and style dining set. Upholstered chairs, Still in boxes. $450. 419-707-9970

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Great House w/In-law suite

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Spotless Maumee 3 Bed Ranch

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740 Spencer

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