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OPINION

MARCH 15, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

Truth and consequences M

aumee Valley Country Day School’s (MVCDS) annual Issue Day took place March 6, with nearly 30 speakers from all corners of media. Topics ranged from WTOL’s Jerry Anderson on “Broadcast News and Change” to Associated Press writer Jon Seewer on “Covering Political Campaigns: A Journalist’s Perspective.”

Very little about the nearly 30 speakers, or the nearly 60 members of the MVCDS Class of 2010 who organized the day, were spotlighted in JC Reindl’s March 7 story in the daily paper of record. Instead, Reindl chose Thomas F. POUNDS to focus on a minor incident between Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller and Lucas County Republican Party Chairman Jon Stainbrook, whose differences have been well documented on this opinion page.

It is a shame that so much student effort and great work was ignored, and we vow to make sure next year’s event is well-covered and gets the proper attention it deserves.

It is disappointing that three grown men with an opportunity to set an example for a class of students would behave so poorly.

Stainbrook, who provoked the incident by entering an in-session class with a recording device and hurling insults; Miller, who took the bait and responded without thinking by calling Stainbrook a vulgar name; and Reindl, who subsequently wrote a sloppy, disjointed story that witnesses have described as “falsified” and “disappointing,” each acted in ways that set poor examples for students. Stainbrook has further denigrated the standing of the local GOP, while Reindl did no favors for the credibility of his newspaper. I have spoken with Miller and reminded him of his responsibility when publicly representing our publication. All three men have some reflecting to do.

Toledo Free Press apologizes to the students, faculty and board of MVCDS, and to Stainbrook for the crass response.

We are not responsible for Reindl’s odd and disconcerting choices, and do not speak for his organization.

Out of all of this, the best behavior and highest maturity has been shown by the students of MVCDS, who have, as you will read in the accompanying letters, learned great lessons, even though some of their guest teachers fell far short of admirable behavior.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press.

Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MVCDS students respond TO THE EDITOR, I am a student at Maumee Valley Country Day School, and I sat in on Michael S. Miller’s session at Issue Day on March 6. I picked up a copy of The Blade on March 7 and was shocked. The story on what happened in our class was almost completely rearranged and falsified. I have e-mailed The Blade explaining and elaborating on my complaint with the obvious libel they printed.

I was present for the entire incident between Mr. Miller and Jon Stainbrook as well as Blade reporter JC Reindl’s little conversation with Mr. Stainbrook after the workshop session, which seemed to be the only thing that day that “was completely unprofessional.”

In a day filled with people highly respected in the fields of journalism and reporting speaking on the importance of honesty, Mr. Reindl somehow managed to ignore that and write a story filled with lies. I have read Mr. Reindl’s story about seven times now and I still have a hard time finding anything in it that is written as it happened.

Mr. Reindl was there and saw, just as I did, that aside from anything that Mr. Miller said to Mr. Stainbrook, hardly anything as I or any of my classmates remember, was anywhere near the league of insults being hurled by Mr. Stainbrook. Mr. Reindl conveniently left this out by saying, “However, Mr. Miller escalated the dialogue and uttered the only direct insults.”

If Mr. Reindl was not aware enough to take note of Mr. Stainbrook’s comments on the subject of Mr. Miller’s talk being “boring,” which devolved into him making nasty and insulting comments about Mr. Miller’s weight, then I would suggest Mr. Reindl leave the field of journalism. Mr. Stainbrook purposely made his comments obvious to the entire room as he nearly put on a show for us. His comments were loud and projected not to Mr. Miller but to the students in the class, a large detail Mr. Reindl could not have missed.

The simple fact is that Mr. Reindl took the events that happened, left out important details, and took the facts that he did include and twisted them to make Mr. Miller out to be the perpetrator. Mr. Reindl never even bothered to get a comment from Mr. Miller directly about the incident, as he did from Mr. Stainbrook.

One or two mistakes would simply mean it was too quiet or Mr. Reindl zoned out; an entire story full of them is corrupted writing.

Stainbrook’s room was on the other end of the school, contradicting Mr. Reindl’s quote saying he “was scheduled to talk in a nearby classroom.” He left a very good friend of mine as well as about a half-dozen other students sitting there as the session started deliberately seeking out Mr. Miller to say what he did, which Mr. Reindl also lied about by saying, “It was unclear who was responsible for initiating their exchange, which began minutes before class time.”

Mr. Reindl’s quoting of Mr. Miller was altered as well.

Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

Seeing as how quotes such as, “We didn’t like each other then, and we don’t like each other now” were reported by Mr. Reindl as “I didn’t like him then, and I don’t like him now,” it would seem I am wrong in my assumptions that I previously saw no bias in The Blade’s writing.

This story alone has swayed me to look deeper into the stories The Blade publishes and take them with a grain of salt the size of a softball.

Mr. Reindl’s article and Mr. Stainbrook’s comments shed an ignorant light on the students of MVCDS making us out to be fragile young boys and girls who are shocked at the sound of “bulls**t,” among other things.

The story Mr. Reindl wrote can be described simply and only as libel. It is singularly the most shameful piece of journalism I have ever read in my entire life. The Blade should be embarrassed to have its name above Reindl’s.

I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Miller’s talk. I found it very informative and insightful. I am speaking for only myself, not MVCDS, but I simply want to thank him for coming.

GARRETT KIMBLE, MVCDS senior, Toledo TO THE EDITOR, I want to sincerely thank Michael S. Miller for participating in Maumee Valley Country Day School’s Issue Day on March 6. Regardless of what happened, the feedback I got personally and through the Issue Day evaluation sheets at the end of the day showed strong interest among students who attended his workshops, who found it very enjoyable and insightful.

My classmates and I are appalled and disgusted at how The Blade managed to completely twist what actually happened with Jon Stainbrook, even though Mr. Stainbrook clearly went out of his way to leave his session and walk into Mr. Miller’s.

The Blade’s actions are disappointing and unfortunate, but I guess that’s just what is expected from it.

I am sorry that Mr. Miller was drawn into this and so wrongly misrepresented. His sessions were awesome and although I speak only for myself and not MVCDS, I hope we can keep him on our shortlist for future Issue Days and other events at our school.

ZEINAB KAHLIL, MVCDS junior, Toledo TO THE EDITOR, We just had a long talk with our daughter after reading The Blade’s March 7 article on the MVCDS encounter between Michael Miller and Jon Stainbrook.

She had come home and told us a totally different story the night before and she was surprised about The Blade article. When we discussed it, she said The Blade forgot to tell the whole story, like Mr. Stainbrook had interrupted Mr. Miller’s presentation and taunted him from the doorway until Mr. Miller fought back.

She learned a lot from this.

MVCDS PARENT, NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST

Michael S. Miller, Editor in Chief mmiller@toledofreepress.com

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CONNECTING THE DOTS

Talkin’ trash T

Why don’t they have the votes here are a lot of ideas being floated to plug the city of To- on city council?

The union should be OK with ledo’s $10 million budget gap for 2009. Most of them involve some this because Allied Waste’s employees are also repsuffering among resented by Teamsters the 300,000 inhabLocal 20. The big difitants of the Glass ference is that Allied City, cutting police Waste employees get and fire, increasing paid for eight hours the trash collection when they work eight fee, and increasing hours. It’s a poorly kept the payroll tax on secret that City of ToToledoans working ledo trash collectors get outside the city. paid for eight hours but There’s one only work four or five proposal that Jim HARPEN hours a day. They get could provide millions in savings, and we Toledoans their route done early, and they’re would barely even take notice. But outta there. That cozy arrangethe Finkbeiner Administration ment between the city and Local 20 and city council are dragging their has been in place since dinosaurs heels, while savings are slipping roamed the earth.

Both the Finkbeiner Administhrough our fingers. And the only apparent reason is to placate Team- tration and city council are bending over backward to help the Teamsters Local 20.

I’m talking trash, and something sters employees hold onto those stinks. In August, the city asked for jobs. The union has a political and bids from private companies to take competitive advantage in their neover trash collection. Allied Waste gotiations with the city; with AlServices was the only company to lied’s exact dollar figures in hand, make an offer — an offer that could the Teamsters know exactly what save taxpayers around $20 million their “meet or beat” number is. It’s like facing that awkward “salary over the next five years.

Here are the numbers Allied expectation” question during a Waste would charge the city $8.4 job interview, but knowing what million a year. The city says they can the other applicants asked for so do it with city employees for $9.9 mil- you can underbid them. “I feel I’ve lion. That’s a savings of $1.6 million a been played as a patsy for a long year right there. Allied Waste will buy time,” Rasmussen told me. “There its own automated trucks. The city are some real savings the adminiswould have to shell out $12.2 million tration is just ignoring.”

The objections to Allied’s proto buy the automated trucks, and we taxpayers would have to pay that posal some council members have back in five years — with interest. Al- given me are just plain lame. One lied Waste will do the maintenance said that city trash collectors will on their trucks. The city would have not pick up prohibited, environmentally damaging items like to pay its own mechanics to do that.

The Allied Waste proposal discarded paint, but a private conwould also eliminate the Rubik’s tractor might. Lemme see here: Cube trash collection schedule, Whether it’s a city employee or a where each city holiday moves private contractor, the automated your trash collection forward by trucks require one-man crews. The one day. Allied will make up for driver never leaves the cab of the holidays by working Saturdays. truck. For all the driver knows, he This opportunity to save tax- could be taking on board the longpayer money without having to sought remains of Jimmy Hoffa. cut police and firefighters or raise Rasmussen said the city has taxes seems like a no-brainer. “Po- missed the chance to save $1.5 millitically, I guess they’d rather lay off lion in 2009. “If they made a comfire and police than lay off a couple mitment by mid-February, I could’ve of garbage men,” said Paul Ras- had my trucks here by July first.” mussen, general manager of Allied This issue should be settled by Waste Services of Toledo. the end of March. If council’s choice Why doesn’t the city seize the doesn’t pass the sniff test, plug your moment and the savings to us nose and scream at the top of your taxpayers? Rasmussen said a Fink- lungs, “this political garbage stinks.” beiner representative told him, “We just don’t have the votes” on E-mail columnist Jim Harpen at council to get this done. letters@toledofreepress.com.

OPINION

MARCH 15, 2009

BRIDGE TO DUBAI

Self-fulfilling prophecy and the economic crisis A lot of people have asked me in photographs of the Zayed University recent weeks how the Dubai campus and surrounding area. The heand United Arab Emirates liport is located in downtown Dubai, nestled among the (U.A.E.) economy is scores of high-rise office faring during this global and apartment buildeconomic downturn. ings that have sprung Like every place else in up over the past 10 years the world, the economy less than a mile from the is big news here every world’s tallest building, day. The scores of inthe Burg Dubai, curternational television rently nearing complenews channels are retion. As we lifted off and porting the continuing wove our way among impact of the credit Dan JOHNSON the glass and steel towers crunch in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the Middle East. of commerce stretching along the Gulf The half-dozen major newspapers coast, I was reminded of the fact that in the U.A.E. seem to report nearly little of this development even existed every word about the economy from in the 1980s, or even 1990s.

As we banked and headed inland anyone who may have insight or influence. And readers here, like every across the city following one of the other place in the world, are waiting main superhighways toward the unito hear some positive news about the versity, scores of construction projects economy or to learn of an uptick in came into view. Flying just a few huna market someplace, anyplace. So far, dred feet above the buildings and new however, the economic news here in construction, I could see thousands of the U.A.E. has focused largely on the steel, glass and concrete workers busy problematic impact the credit crunch applying their trade on scores of projis creating locally and internationally. ects. Hundreds of trucks hauling tons The numbers and myriad statistics of building materials were driving in tell the story, or at least part of it. Un- and out of the dusty sites. The level employment figures, projects discon- of activity I saw made it difficult to tinued, huge sales — “75-80% OFF”— grasp the gloomy statistics and stories on nearly everything in the malls and documenting the slowdown.

Driving into Abu Dhabi every less traffic on the highways bear witness to the impact of the crisis. Here in week, I pass scores of construction the U.A.E., there are stories about the projects — both large and small repatriation of foreign workers, com- — lining the highway. The amount panies cutting back on their prom- of activity in the U.A.E. capital city is ises to workers and the government even greater than its sister city, Dubai. working to enforce labor laws that are The number of construction projects, designed to protect workers. There is however, is only part of the story; the no question that the global economic size, creative design and innovative downturn is having its impact in the architecture of the buildings are characteristics that are equally important oil-rich Middle East.

Although I don’t doubt the statis- contributions to the landscape and tics and know the level of economic the economy. Driving through the activity is less now than what it was nearby cultural center of Sharjah to when I arrived in Dubai in mid-Oc- visit a new high school of 1,200, stutober, I am struck daily by the scale dents I passed mile after mile of new of development and the amount homes under construction and nuof construction that is continuing. merous large-scale building projects There are literally hundreds, if not with workers pressing on to meet thousands of construction projects someone’s deadline.

I know the economic indicators in this small country, many of which are continuing. Some of the projects are valid. I read the statistics every are so large that it is not uncommon day, and they confirm the human to count 15 or 20 construction impact of the economic downturn. cranes at one site. The notion that I accept the fact that the economy construction has come to a halt in of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the U.A.E has been hit, and in some quarters, the U.A.E. is simply not true.

The level of continuing activity hit very hard. Yet when I see the in construction here in Dubai was amount of work still under way, clearly evident when I was invited to count the construction cranes that join a photographer on a charter he- are still onsite lifting materials to the licopter who was going to take aerial construction workers on the count-

less skyscraper projects and read of new projects being started, I also sense that there is a vital core to this region’s economy that is persisting despite the downturn.

At the heart of this “vital core” is an undying spirit of optimism and belief that the future for Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the U.A.E. is bright.

Clearly, there is less cash to be had and the hotels — at least for the present — are operating at a fraction of their peak seasons. However, many are using this downtime to prepare for what most believe will be a revival in the economy next year or very soon thereafter. One of the things I have come to admire about this region is the undying optimism of the leaders. While the economic facts speak for themselves, there are also those who look beyond the facts and see great promise and potential.

We know that there is such a thing as a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” A selffulfilling prophecy is simply a statement that alters actions and therefore comes true because of the person’s actions. It is a possibility that is made into a probability by a person’s unconscious or conscious actions. Understanding positive attitudes and the self-fulfilling prophecy have been shown to be helpful in dealing with long-term mental disorders such as anxiety and even chronic pain. Perception of an illness can influence the illness.

Is it possible that the same applies to an economy? If we believe the economy is going to continue to be bad, does that influence our actions so that the economy does, in fact, continue to be bad? If, on the other hand, we believe the economy is going to improve, does that influence our actions in a way that leads the economy to improve?

One observer of the economy here in the Gulf region said recently, “optimism is a powerful weapon in our troubled times. But optimism alone cannot prevent the current economic crisis from taking an inexorable toll in lost livelihoods and shattered aspirations.” Having said that, the observer concluded that “Optimism is a good thing, in moderation.”

Optimism is a good thing. Being realistic is also a good thing. But I suspect there may be more to the selffulfilling prophecy in economics than we know or are willing to admit.

Dan Johnson is provost and COO, Zayed University, U.A.E. and president emeritus, University of Toledo.

MARCH 15, 2009

OPINION

GUEST COLUMN

Building Downtown, block by block

W

hile attending Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s press conference this past summer on the announcement of the $5.8 million construction project of ABLE (Attorneys for Basic Legal Equity) Downtown near the new $100 million multipurpose arena, I reflected on our Downtown. I was taken back to a rebirth of our Downtown in the late 1980s and Ed Dodd, who was not only the chairman of the largest corporation in Northwest Ohio, Owens-Illinois, with more than 83,000 employees worldwide, but was also chairman of the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce. I was vice chairman at the time, and as we looked Bruce out over the Downtown from our perch on the 28th floor, I asked Dodd why he and George Haigh (chairman of the largest bank in Northwest Ohio, Trust Corp) were working so hard at revitalizing Downtown.

Dodd said the Downtown is emblematic of our region and that we should look at it as the heart of our body. If the heart is sick, then the rest of the body is sick. Right now our Downtown is economically sick, and not surprisingly, our region is equally sick.

I would like all of the readers to answer the following questions: 1. When you travel do you usually go to the downtown area (like Chicago or New York)? 2. When you travel to downtowns do you get a sense of what type of community it is (progressive or economically depressed)?

3. When you travel and someone asks, “Where are you from?” do you say “Toledo” in a positive or negative tone or even tend to apologize for being from Toledo? 4. When you travel, do you try to avoid saying you’re from Toledo and say what surrounding community you live in? Like Sylvania, Perrysburg, Oregon, Holland, Springfield, Ottawa Hills, Point Place, Maumee, Monclova etc. 5. After you tell them one of these surrounding communities the next question is, where is that, and you reluctantly say “Toledo.” My guess is many of us answer those questions the same way and not in a proud, positive response. So our Downtown does matter. So why are there so many empty, old unoccupied buildings? Why are there so few retail, fast food or anything that resembles the amenities of the suburbs? Why are there so many misconceptions about the availability of parking or that Downtown is any less safe than the surrounding areas? And finally, what part can we all play in turning Downtown around?

Let’s start this process by understanding that government has done its part, in a big way. If you add up the occupied square footage in our Downtown, government is approximately 62 percent — that’s right, 62 percent — just add the SeaGate Centre, Fifth Third Field and the new multipurpose arena and you begin to understand.

Now add One Government Center, public library, First Federal Plaza Building, The Source, the court system (local, state and federal), the Toledo and county health Dept, the fire deptartment, the police deptartment and many others. Some of the occupied buildings Downtown also have a large percentage of governmental agencies.

Mayor Finkbeiner, city council and their staffs continually put energy into trying to promote Downtown; the huge cleanup and the infrastructure of the Marina District Project, the success of the Docks Project, whether it is the Farmer’s Market or the (not so easy) Erie Street Market or the new Tetra Tech river walk Project they are doing their job. Our county commissioners, Tina Skeldon Wozniak, Ben Konop and Pete Gerken have been a true force not only in the Fifth Third Field, our successful convention center and the new multipurpose arena but in numerous other successful projects for our Downtown. Downtown Toledo Improvement Dis-

trict, an agency directed by Tom Crothers, is working to implement streetscape improvements and common marketing strategies throughout the downtown.

So if government (our taxes) is doing its job, who isn’t pulling their weight? That’s easy: the business community. That’s right.

Where is the leadership? Who are the leaders? Can anyone name the leaders? I doubt it. Seems like any community that is too dependent on government to solve its problems is doomed to fail. And make no mistake, we have failed to take charge of our city and have settled for it being second class. We are told by some in the media that RUMPF all we have to do is vote for a different party or a different person, to “throw all the bums out.” From where I sit, we have some very good elected officials. I know that nobody wants to believe that, but after being part Downtown for 34 years, that’s my official view.

Please keep in mind that we have some great developers like David Ball. All his projects Downtown are first class. The Warehouse District and Timberstone are good examples of other strong developments. If we had more business people like the Hylant family, who have invested heavily in our Downtown, we would have a terrific Downtown, one that would emit pride. But the reality is that we need the leadership of the business community to step up and help direct the renaissance.

The single most important economic development tool a community has is a multi-purpose arena. Our arena will bring us back to Downtown for hockey, football and concerts. We will be able to book more and larger conventions, bringing in fresh dollars to the Toledo region. Now is the time for the business community to galvanize their efforts.

How can we show leadership by example? City block by city block. Our block, bounded by Jefferson, Erie, Ontario and Monroe streets has recently started our own program called “Adopt Our Block.” Our group consists of property owners and major tenants. We are developing a plan to make sure that our property investment has a greater opportunity to increase in value. We have a common purpose for providing a clean, safe and vibrant block. We are calling it “Creative Village” and are going to execute a plan to attract groups like 1. Artists, painters, musicians, etc. 2. Marketing and advertising creative minds. 3. Inventors and engineers 4. Tech and Web designers. 5. Computer software people.

These people need working and living space and we have empty buildings and parking. We are planning on hiring one commercial Realtor who combines knowledge of the market and a business development background for the entire block, rather than having multiple Realtors representing small pieces of the pie. We also share a common denominator, the alley. By day, used for transportation and at night, outdoor cafes, shops and areas to display art. If you have ever been fortunate to travel to truly beautiful older cities, alleys are transformed almost every night and weekends to restaurants, outdoor art and retail shops. Some will say we’re dreamers — we are — believe and you will see.

The next time you travel Downtown, rather than look at that empty building as an eyesore, look at it as an undervalued stock. Just like in the stock market the upside potential of an undervalued stock is much greater than an overvalued stock. It’s time to decide if we are complainers or doers. Do we believe in Toledo or are we just passing through? If we are givers and not takers, who will benefit? We will, our children will, our grandchildren will. We can do this, city block by city block.

Bruce Rumpf is president and CEO of Job1USA.

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Fathers, step up T oledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller has written quite touchingly in these pages about his “adventures in fatherhood,” and the love he has for his two young sons. He sets a great example for men across our community by demonstrating that being a dad can be a rewarding experience.

Dean As we recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month this April, it’s important to remember that men play important roles in preventing child abuse. Involved fathers provide practical support in raising children and serve as models for their development.

Children with involved, loving fathers are much more likely to succeed in school, have healthy self-esteem and good social skills compared to children with uninvolved fathers.

Too often, we learn of cases in which a man, often a mother’s boyfriend, hurts a child out of frustration or a lack of parenting skills. The child we will remember at our agency’s Child Memorial on April 24 was the victim of such alleged abuse.

Three-year-old Kaycie Bork died from injuries that she allegedly suffered at the hands of her stepfather last October. Her death was a tragedy and should serve as a reminder for men across the community to examine their own parenting skills.

Being a father, stepfather or even just a father figure can be difficult. Babies don’t come with instructions. Crying babies or toddlers can be extremely frustrating, especially to someone unaccustomed to meeting their needs. I can never say it enough: Never, ever shake a baby. But men should learn the steps to take to find out what’s making a child cry and how to stop it. Is the baby too hot? Too cold? Wet? Sick? Hungry? Check all of these things, and if you’re not solving the problem and feel frustration building, put the baby on a blanket on the floor while you regain your composure.

There are things you can do from day one to bond with a new baby or young child. These small

steps will make you a better father and reduce the frustrations that often accompany becoming a new parent.

■ Become part of the routine. There are no such things as “mom” or “dad” duties in parenting.

Change diapers, give baths, share in the bedtime routine.

■ Accept that life will be different.

SPARKS A suddenly sick child can force you to cancel your plans.

■ Anticipate adventures.

Normal toddler curiosity often leads to plugged-up toilets, crayoned walls and food on every surface imaginable. Potty training is not a perfect science.

■ Participate in your child’s regular doctor visits. You’ll learn about your child’s development, and your child will know that you’re there as a source of comfort.

■ Connect with music. Babies and young children love music, and singing and dancing together can be a great fatherchild activity.

■ Talk with your child. Babies and young children learn language skills by listening and mimicking your voice. Hearing you talk also helps them understand the world around them.

There is support for fathers within the community to help them learn these and other valuable parenting skills. Several local hospitals and community centers regularly offer parenting classes. Organizations such as the National Fatherhood Initiative work to educate and encourage dads across the country to be involved and invested in their children’s lives.

Child abuse is preventable, and I hope that the men of our community take their roles as fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers and mentors to heart and do their part to ensure that our children are loved and safe in the year ahead.

The Lucas County Children Services Child Memorial takes place at 11:30 a.m. April 24 at One Government Center. The public is encouraged to attend.

Dean Sparks is executive director, Lucas County Children Services.

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JIM MOODY IN HIS TOLEDO OFFICE WITH HIS DAUGHTER DANIELLE AND WIFE CHERYL. “FOR ONCE, LET’S SET PARTY PARTISANSHIP ASIDE. TOLEDO CANNOT AFFORD POLITICS AS USUAL,” MOODY SAID.

Moody campaigns to bring business into mayor’s office

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

When Jim Moody arrived in Toledo, he had $500 to his name and was driving a Ford Escort with four different colored doors.

“I decided that the greatest economic opportunity for me to be an entrepreneur was here in Toledo,” Moody said. “I had traveled to all these different cities and lived and worked there.

Toledo is small enough that you can get your arms around it, yet it has the resources to do everything you want.”

Moody knew hard times in those early days, eating Ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese. The Eagle Scout wasn’t discouraged, though.

“My dad still has a copy of one of his paychecks on the wall where for two weeks he made $161. I come from a great family and a solid background,” he said.

When 47-year-old Moody started talking about running for mayor of Toledo, he was asked, “What are your skeletons?”

He couldn’t think of any.

“It was long, long, long ago that I decided when I wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, I wanted to like what I was seeing.”

Next year, Moody wants to look in the mirror and see the mayor of Toledo.

The Republican is the second person to declare he is running for mayor. Democratic Keith Wilkowski is his only declared opponent so far.

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“If Toledo is going to survive, we have to eliminate the parochial interests that drive so many on council. We need to work with the unions, not be beholden to the unions.

We need to understand that what is good for one neighborhood can translate to benefits for another.”

— JIM MOODY ■ MOODY CONTINUED FROM A6 “I am supporting Jim Moody without a doubt,” said June Boyd, former Democratic Toledo councilwoman. “I feel that Jim is the most qualified.”

Boyd, who is a real estate agent at Flex Realty, which Moody founded, said her business affiliation with him has nothing to do with her support. Moody wants to run the city like a business, which she thinks is a sensible idea.

As mayor, Moody would push for the sale of Toledo Express Airport, start a neighborhood renovation program and encourage a business-friendly environment.

Moody said it’s time Toledoans elect someone who understands what it means to meet a payroll; knows how to keep customers happy; and realizes the importance of keeping a budget and not borrowing on the backs of taxpayers.

“This is a nonpartisan race,” Moody said of wanting support from all parties. “For once, let’s set party partisanship aside. Toledo cannot afford politics as usual. We had 20 years of the good ol’ boy, girl network. How is that working for you?”

Big decision Moody decided he wanted to run for mayor in late summer. Two incidents confirmed that Toledo needed a new sense of leadership, he said. The first was the ruckus over the intermodal — freight that travels by more than one mode of transportation.

“This thing should have been fast-tracked a long time ago,” Moody said. “We kind of once again hurried up to play second. All the construction that is occurring in North Baltimore should have occurred in Lucas County.

We have the rail lines; we have the turnpike, we have an airport and we have the docks.”

The other deciding factor was his 19-yearold daughter Chantel, who is attending The Ohio State University. She told her dad, “I couldn’t even move home if I wanted to because there are no jobs in Toledo.”

“I didn’t raise my kids and my family to move away because there is no economic opportunity,” Moody said. “I can’t prevent them from moving away because they don’t want to deal with the snow anymore or anything else like that, but that is utterly ridiculous, especially because Toledo has so much to offer. “ Moody lived in Sylvania so he moved into a house he owns in Toledo to be eligible to run for mayor. He has been criticized for the move.

“I am not pledging a frat,” he said. “This isn’t whether or not I am Toledoan enough.”

Moody said once elected, the family will put their Sylvania house on the market.

Moody and his wife, Cheryl, also have a 14year-old daughter, Danielle.

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“It is a sacrifice. When my daughter wakes up in the morning and dad is not here … but she understands, and I try to make it up in other ways. I don’t miss her basketball games.

We spend lots of time together.”

Birth of a businessman Moody was born in the rural outskirts of Canton, graduating from Louisville High School in 1979.

His great aunt and great uncle lived in Buffalo, one of the poorest areas of Ohio, where he visited. His great-uncle lost his arm in a coal mining accident, and Moody still has his great-grandfather’s pick ax to remind him of his roots.

“In 47 years, he has been a pretty good kid,” said his mom Joanne Moody. “He is a very positive person. He has a good head on his shoulders. He won’t bring any political baggage with him. He will do a lot of good for a lot people.”

His mom said her son is a loving man.

She recalled him adopting Chantel and loving her the moment he and his wife Cheryl began dating.

“She used to call him ‘Jim,’” she said of Chantel, “but from the wedding date on, he was always dad to her.”

Moody was the first in his family to attend a four-year college. He studied business, communications and history at Capital University Columbus, graduating in 1983, then worked with a company specializing in dinnerware.

It was at age 24 that Moody moved to Toledo to become the general manager of Telex Communications, which owned the Cincinnati Business Journal and Toledo Business Journal.

He would leave Toledo to become the national marketing director of Myway Magazine and travel to Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago, but he would return to the Glass City for good — this time, driving the colorful Ford Escort.

“I really like Toledo,” Moody said. “I love the natural resources. I like to hunt and fish and snowmobile and ski, and you don’t have that in the middle part of the state.”

In Toledo, Moody founded Flex Realty, partnered in HomeFinder Magazine, built R.G. Shriner Realty, expanded Shriner Real Estate School and formed a property management company. He also met his wife, Cheryl, when he came to Toledo for the second time.

“The neat thing about being entrepreneurial is you get to be artistic without having traditional artistic skills,” Moody said. “You get to create something, grow it, modify it and think of ways to make it better.”

When he and his future wife met, she didn’t believe he owned Flex Realty or that he had a magazine. She actually thought he was an airhead, Moody said, laughing.

“I knew I was going to marry my wife the

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minute I met her. I knew it, right then.”

When they went on their first date, Cheryl sent her identical twin to the door who said ‘Oh, you must be Jim.’” Cheryl laughed when she recalled the trick she played.

“He is very dedicated,” she said while campaigning March 11. “He loves Toledo and is very passionate about Toledo.”

He means business Moody is running on the motto, “Moody means business.” It has a dual meaning.

“I mean business when it comes to running this city,” Moody said. “No more games. Just like when our mothers say, ‘I mean business when I tell you this.’ ” It also means that business must have a seat at the table of community leadership, he said.

Moody’s economic recovery plan details how to bring Toledo back to life. President Barack Obama’s stimulus package is not the sole answer.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘Oh when the stimulus package gets here, it will all be beautiful,’” Moody said. “It reminds me of the beggar on the corner with the tin cup, hoping some one will come along and help him out.”

In his economic recovery plan, Moody acknowledged that the mayor’s office cannot create jobs, “but it can set the tone that encourages employers to locate and grow here.”

In the first 45 days of his administration, he wants to identify and recruit local leaders to resurrect the Committee of 100, which will meet monthly and establish goals to attract business and create the best possible work force, according to his economic recovery plan.

“It is time for a businessman, a nonpolitician to get involved with the leadership of Toledo,” he said.

Moody wants to encourage the railroads to expand their facilities and create an environment that allows international shipping through local customs depots.

Part of Moody’s economic recovery plan is to sell a portion of Toledo Express Airport because it is a “totally underused asset.” In his economic plan, Moody said if the airport sold for $100 million, imagine the possibilities. The Federal Aviation Administration has stated that it will allow for the sale of five airports, and the proceeds can be used for nonairport use, he said.

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A8 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ MOODY CONTINUED FROM A7 “First, who would invest $100 million without investing in the region as a whole? No one,” Moody stated.

Jobs will result from the new partner’s desire to build upon their investment. With $100 million, Toledo could fix its streets and retire debt, he said.

Moody said people would still be able to fly out of the airport, but the airport as a passenger-traffic only model has failed in good times and bad. When he flies, he leaves from Detroit. If he does fly out of Toledo, the first stop is Detroit. And it can add another $100 to the cost of the ticket, he said.

What a catch Moody said Toledo must become a destination but not by bringing suburban neighbors to the ballpark and arena. One of the easiest and fastest ways is by promoting and developing the area’s natural resources, he said.

“Fishing brings millions of dollars into a community,” he stated in his economic recovery plan. “Just look at Port Clinton, on any given day, and you will find license plates from Nebraska, Minnesota, Kentucky, Indiana and even further in the parking lots of charter boat captains and public launches. What is remarkable is that, until mid to late July, those captains load their boats and bring the tourists to the mouth of the Maumee River. Those are tourists who should be stopping in Toledo and spending their money here.”

Moody knows the allure of the outdoors

COMMUNITY because of his own hobbies. For three years, Moody competed on the bass pro-circuit, fishing with bass greats like Jimmy Houston and David Fritts.

“I am not into baseball or basketball games.

I cannot sit still that long. … I used to golf, but I plateaued in my skill level and I wasn’t getting any better. With bass fishing, you are always having to think about your next move.

It’s a puzzle. It is so much more than going out there with a dang ol’ bobber.”

Another part of his recovery plan is the dredging of the Ottawa River. A survey by The Ohio State University found that it could have a $13 million impact on the area by making it more usable to boaters, he said.

“We need to understand that there are only so many dollars, and South Toledo cannot always fight North Toledo, and North Toledo cannot always fight East Toledo. We are in this together, and that has been one of my mantras.”

Moody also wants to encourage homeownership through his STAR neighborhood program. Moody will loosen the restrictions enforced by Toledo. In the city, a homeowner cannot replace a wall outlet without a permit or install a vinyl window to replace a wooden window without a permit, he said. These restrictions prevent owners from improving their property and from purchasing rundown houses and fixing them up.

“Through the rental business here, so many of our renters are folks who are on the first economic tier — they are the last ones hired and the first ones fired and they are most vulnerable in this economy,” Moody said. “Yet,

they are good people; they pay their bills on time, and in my opinion, they deserve to be a homeowner.”

Take Back Toledo Moody was originally going to run on the motto “Take Back Toledo” until a group by the same name decided to launch a campaign to recall the current mayor.

Moody said he doesn’t have a relationship with the group. He went to a meeting at the request of a friend because he had the group’s URL, www.takebacktoledo.com. Organizer Tom Schlachter offered to buy it from him, but Moody gave it to him for free.

He also caught some heat after it was revealed that his nephew bought the URL that Wilkowski used for his 2005 bid for mayor.

Moody said it was done half-jokingly and it upset him when it made news, but his economic recovery plan gets overlooked.

Moody said he is the only candidate who promptly came out with detailed plans for economic recovery. His experience in the realestate world has shaped him to step into the mayor’s shoes.

“I have been sitting at the kitchen tables of both line workers, as well as executives of Fortune 500 companies. When you sit at someone’s kitchen table, you get a different discourse and discussion than if it was in a corporate setting. It is amazing how many of my past clients are still my friends today. So, that has really given me a good perception of the makeup of Toledo.”

Moody said the next mayor has to work

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with city council. He said the members of city council want to do the right thing, but they haven’t had the inspiration or the openness from the mayor’s office.

“The other thing is that if Toledo is going to survive, we have to eliminate the parochial interests that drive so many on council. We need to work with the unions, not be beholden to the unions. We need to understand that what is good for one neighborhood can translate to benefits for another.”

Moody said after he is elected he wants to sit down with council members and learn their interests and to make sure they have the benefits of all of Toledo in their hearts.

The mayor’s office will have a plan under Moody, he said. In particular, he is concerned about the city’s bond rating. If the city doesn’t get its act together, the city’s bond rates could fall and cost the city a tremendous amount of money.

Moody said he honestly believes the mayor’s office knew, and city council should have known, that the city was going to be another $8 million in hole.

“I am a straight shooter. There is no real fluff. I am always courteous, but why say anything other than the way it is? … I think that in running the mayor’s office, I will be forthcoming; good news or bad news, you will know where we stand.

“I am not a politician,” Moody said. “I am not looking for a career shift. I’ve been perfectly happy being a businessman, but I am at a point in my life where I could provide public service without jeopardizing the well-being of my family.”

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By Julie Ryan TOLEDO FREE PRESS NEWS EDITOR jryan@toledofreepress.com

Talk show host Denny Schaffer is back in Toledo March 14 and 15 to speak at five services at CedarCreek Church in Perrysburg and Toledo.

S c h a f f e r, who has worked in radio since 1981, was a talk show host SCHAFFER for News Talk 1370 WSPDAM in Toledo in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005, he left Toledo and moved with his family to Atlanta, where he operates dennyradio.com. “I’m going to be talking about my journey over the last three years,

since I’ve left Toledo, what God has revealed and what God has taught me,� Schaffer said.

CedarCreek Senior Pastor Lee Powell invited Schaffer to return to Toledo and speak. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to have Denny back in town?’ We think he has a great story to tell of transformation. There are so many people that will come to hear Denny but won’t come to hear me,� Powell said.

Powell said his relationship with Schaffer began in 1997. Schaffer made fun of the church and its advertisements on air, joking that the CedarCreek congregation met in a gymnasium with basketballs. Powell took some basketballs to Schaffer, signed them, and told him that they meet in a nice auditorium, not the gym. Powell said it sparked their relationship.

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Toledo-area war veterans no longer need to let textbooks tell their stories. Instead, residents and students can hear and see their narratives and learn from their experiences.

Late in 2007, Toledo natives Chris Wulf and Rick Neeley discovered their shared passion for history and began asking area war veterans to convey their stories. They founded History Documented, and gave local veterans the opportunity to document their war experiences.

Wulf said he began networking and setting up interviews in the Toledo area with the help of his father and grandfather. They take video clips from interviews and create short documentaries.

Once the veterans understand what they are doing, Neeley said, they open up to them.

Wulf said his family history inspired him to begin interviewing veterans.

“My grandfather, all my uncles and father included, were veterans of war and volunteered at VFW when I was little,” Wulf said. “I didn’t think much of it, but as I got older I realized, ‘Hey, these dads are dying off.’ ” Neeley said there is immediacy to the project as the World War II veterans are aging, and their stories

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will be lost if they are not collected.

“We have a lot to learn from guys their age: their sacrifice, their dedication, their humility,” Neeley said.

Neeley said he recently interviewed a World War II veteran who had received five purple hearts. Until he spoke with Neeley, his story had gone untold, and Neeley said children need to hear it.

“We are not trying to glorify

war but to show kids the sacrifice of their grandfathers and great grandfathers,” Neeley said.

Wulf said the veterans carry themselves with class and are an example of how Americans can react to today’s economy.

“They all talk about things — like the war and Depression — like, ‘Oh, it’s just a job, it’s not a big deal, it’s what we had to do.’ Compared to

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Funding for the project comes from Neeley and Wulf, which allows them to hold two interviews a week. Neeley said they would like to do more, but the cost of video recording, processing and editing, restrict them. Wulf is working to make History Documented an incorporated nonprofit.

“I hope future generations and children today would be most affected,” Wulf said. “That was our goal. I know growing up, history class was memorizing dates. I hope they can see the Vietnam War was more than two pages in a history book. I hope children and teachers can use it as an educational tool.”

Neeley said they want the project to be used in schools and they are making it visual to attract children. They are willing to do presentations in schools and at history events, he said.

“We’re looking for vets and we’re willing to travel across Northwest Ohio. We want to get the stories recorded,” Neeley said.

Wulf said they receive positive feedback. The families are thrilled, he said, because they are receiving a documentation of their history.

The documentary is available at the Ward M. Canaday Center in the William S. Carlson Library on UT’s main campus. Videos and project updates can be viewed online at historydocumented.com.

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Austin Carty gained recognition for being on CBS’s “Survivor,” but a family member’s example of reallife survival brings him to Toledo.

Carty’s mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. He will speak in Toledo on March 19 at the Women Against MS Luncheon at Gladieux Meadows.

Carty was on the 12th season of “Survivor — Panama Exile Island.”

The 27-year-old old lives in High Point, N.C., and spoke to Toledo Free Press by phone.

TFP: When you were voted off, you talked about how you were tested by having to balance your morals and your belief system.

Later, when you appeared on the

“700 Club,” you stated, “’Survivor’s’ not a game show, it’s a microcosm of life.’ Almost three years later, do you still feel the same?

Carty: I still feel that same way, absolutely.

TFP: If you had the chance to be on “Survivor” again, would you do it, and if so, would you play the game the same way you did the last time?

Carty: I would jump at the chance. I don’t think anytime I could imagine saying no. It was just such a good experience; to be able to do it again would be great. If I could do it again, I honestly think that I would play it pretty much the same way that I did the last time.

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We did six services and I think it ended up being 22,000 people.

In terms of the two most impacting, I got to speak at an International School based out of Seoul, South Korea ... they invited me to be the speaker/discipleship mentor for a group of about 50 middle school kids on their spring break; they took them to Indonesia. I was with them for a week, to be able to experience their culture, to spend time with kids aged 13 to 16, spending time with them on the beach, I had a good deal of time with them. These were kids from all over the world; they were kids whose parents’ business ventures had brought them to South Korea and it was just a really neat opportunity to be with them.

Then, the one other would be speaking at the National Multiple Sclerosis Convention in Chicago this past November.

TFP: You’ve written several books. What’s next?

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Shop-A-Rama at Arbor Hills school Arbor Hills Junior High School Booster Club will host Shop-A-Rama from 10 to 4 p.m. April 25 in the school’s gymnasium. Vendors from Mary Kay, Park Lane Jewelry, Tastefully Simple and others will be at the event. The event will also have a raffle and a snack bar. Businesses interested in selling or donating items can contact Susan Milliron at susanmilliron@hotmail.com.

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Five-day St. Patty’s celebration planned

By Julie Ryan TOLEDO FREE PRESS NEWS EDITOR jryan@toledofreepress.com

Downtown restaurants The Blarney and PizzaPapalis are turning their St. Patrick’s Day celebration into a five-day party this year called Blarney O’Papalis in the Warehouse.

T h e two rest au r a nt s , separated

by Huron Street, plan to place a heated tent over the street from BECZYNSKI March 12 until St. Patrick’s Day on March 17.

General manager of PizzaPapalis Christopher Kline said The Blarney general manager, Michal Foldyna, and owner, Ed Beczynski, approached him about the event one month ago.

The city approved the idea and was willing to close down the section of Huron Street and supply police officers for security, he said.

Foldyna said The Blarney has been busy on St. Patrick’s Day the past two years and they wanted to do something special this year that would also benefit the Downtown area.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of it,” Kline said. “I think it will bring a lot of people Downtown and make St. Patty’s day be bigger.

And then maybe next year, we can blow it out more.”

Foldyna said the event will benefit the American Red Cross and Make-A-Wish Foundation.

More information can be found on The Blarney’s Web site, www. theblarneyirishpub.com.

The event will feature live music all weekend: ■ 4 p.m. March 13: Rick Whited ■ 6 p.m. March 13: Empire Drift ■ 9 p.m. March 13: Resonant Soul ■ 6 p.m. March 14: Old Dogs ■ 9 p.m. March 14: Celtic Cross ■ 3 p.m. March 17: Jeff Stewart ■ 8 p.m. March 17: Celtic Cross

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The adults and youth combined More Money.” The early morning gathering includes a simple, low- have performed more than 240 sercost continental breakfast, a slate vice projects in greater Toledo area. of presenters telling the Leadership Graduates collectively have donated Toledo story and a direct, but low- more than 500,000 volunteer hours to the community, which translates pressure solicitation for funds.

The presentation is approximately into an economic value of $10 mila half-hour long. There are no table lion to $20 million of service to decorations, except food, coffee, en- local charities.

Just a few weeks ago, a few local velopes and pledge cards. The video shown to the audience is produced by boutique owners met with development staff from the Toledo Chilvolunteers in the profession.

Because the expenses are kept to dren’s Hospital over coffee. Three a minimum, the event always makes weeks later, that idea became a remoney for Leadership Toledo. Ex- ality. “Cheap and Chic for Charity” ecutive Director Dave Schlaudecker brought together 17 locally owned said the event raised $20,000 in boutiques under one roof with all of one-time gifts and another $15,000 their clearance merchandise.

Event attendees paid a $5 admisin multi-year pledges. Close to 600 sion at the door and participated in people attended the event.

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fered deep discounts on their fall and winter merchandise, giving them cash in their registers and room for the fresh, pretty spring fashions and merchandise. Customers benefited from the amazing sales on unique, high quality, designer fashions.

“It was a win-win-win,” said Mona Shousher of Loft and Home.

To keep the event simple and low cost, it was held at the Courtyard at the Docks, and food and beverages were available for sale to shoppers.

Much of the marketing of the event was accomplished through email, word-of-mouth and Facebook promotion. No decorations, no elaborate signage, no formal entertainment were included in the event.

Meredith Sherman of Sophia

Lustig and Sophie’s Sister said that the event raised $4,500 for the Toledo Children’s Hospital.

Upcoming Events ■ March 21 MS JAM (see story, page A34): The sixth annual daylong concert of the MS JAM Foundation features bands and acoustic performers in a variety of music genres. Proceeds will be donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to assist people afflicted with multiple sclerosis in Northwest Ohio. Tickets are $22 for adults, $5 for teens and free admission under 12. Ticket price includes food. Call (419) 356-6208 or visit themsjam. com for more information.

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The showing will take place at 5:30 p.m. March 15 at the Toledo Baptist Temple, 5732 Douglas Road, Toledo.

The church is providing food, beverages and a free gift.

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Reel Art@Way will continue March 13 at the Way Public Library with the showing of “Liam,” a 2000 film.

The film follows Liam, a young Liverpool boy, and his family living during England’s pre-war depression. The English-language film runs 90 minutes and is rated R for nudity and language.

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This year the Zenobia Shrine Circus will sponsor the Jordan World Circus, circus producers from Las Vegas. Crawford said they are a traveling circus with a package of acts that differs from year to year.

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“There are people who come just because it is the circus, just like there are people who go to the car show because it’s a car show or an ice show because it’s the ice show,” Crawford said. “It’s promoted strictly on the idea that it’s good, clean family entertainment.”

Crawford said the circus will have elephants, lions, tigers, aerial acts and floor acts such as jugglers.

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Fifth Third Bank and Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northwest Ohio are hosting a program for individuals at risk of foreclosure.

“The key to addressing a situation where foreclosure might be on the horizon is to seek help early,” said Linda Ewing, vice president of community affairs of Fifth Third Bank in Northwest Ohio. “Waiting is the worst thing a borrower can do. Speaking with your lender before the situation gets out of hand is the best approach.”

The seminar will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. March 19 at the Epiphany Lutheran Church at 915 North Reynolds Road in Toledo. Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz will be a speaker.

Seminar attendees will hear about loss mitigation. Consumer Credit Counseling Service will explain how financial counseling can help consumers through the loss mitigation process. Fair Housing and Northwest Ohio Development Agency will discuss programs to prevent foreclosure.

Neighborhood Housing Services will offer a variety of foreclosure prevention solutions, and the ESOP (Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People) will describe the loss mitigation counseling that they provide.

Reservations are not required, but seating is limited. Space can be reserved by calling (419) 418-6677.

Children begin to learn about money matters at home, but have numerous opportunities to become financially knowledgeable at school.

Lessons about money management are included in math courses taught in both elementar y KNIERIM and middle schools, according to Jan Kilbride, chief academic officer for Toledo Public Schools.

High school students can take courses such as personal finance and introduction to financial management as part of their regular curriculum.

Topics covered in personal finance include credit, economics, insurance, savings and taxes. Students learn rational decision-making processes to form personal financial decisions in their roles as citizens, consumers and workers.

Introduction to financial management is for both personal and occupational use, according to the TPS “Power of Learning” curriculum guide. It includes orientation, use of business forms and handling of many business-related functions.

Fifth Third Bank is working with Toledo Public Schools to educate students about managing their money. It offers a special program called “Get Smart About Credit” to students at the high school level.

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activities such as Junior Achievemnent programs.”

— Mark Knierim, KeyBank responsible money management. It teaches students how to read a bank statement, manage a credit card, read a credit report, protect personal financial information and recognize signs of overspending.

“We make it relevant to students with real-life situations,” said Linda Ewing, vice president of community affairs at Fifth Third Bank.

The program is being offered at Waite High School, Polly Fox Academy and James C. Caldwell Community Center in North Toledo. Ewing said the bank is working to offer it at other high schools and academies or through church groups and nonprofit organizations.

The Get Smart About Credit program was developed for high school students and other audiences by the American Bankers Association Education Foundation (ABA).

Many people assume that basic personal finance is taught in high school, but less than 20 states require personal finance for graduation, according to the ABA. Only 69 percent of students scored a “C” or better in a 2006 survey taken to measure 12th grade students’ knowledge of personal finance basics.

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Personal finance is a one-semester class offered as an elective in Toledo Public Schools.

The ABA and its member banks work closely with schools to prepare young adults for the financial responsibilities they will encounter when they graduate from high school. Parents are also a critical element in a young person’s financial education, according to the ABA. KeyBank works with local schools through its branch offices.

Bank employees are available to speak to classes about banking practices and money management.

“We encourage and empower our employees to get involved in school activities such as Junior Achievement programs,” said Mark Knierim, vice president of marketing in KeyBank’s district office for Northwest Ohio and Michigan located in Toledo.

KeyBank offers free student checking accounts with no minimum balance, maintenance or transaction fees. It includes an ATM card, online banking and bill payment. The student checking account can be linked to the parents’ account so they can transfer money between accounts.

It automatically becomes a regular free checking account when students reach age 24, Knierim said.

Owens Community College offers a personal financial management course that deals with personal financial planning, credit and debits cards, budgeting, insurance, investments, taxes and other topics.

April is National Financial Literacy Month with programs available for students and adults. Financial literacy involves understanding today’s complex financial services market that offers consumers a vast variety of products and providers to meet their financial needs.

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Toledo and Ohio win recognition The City of Toledo was named as one of 2008’s Top Metros in America by Site Selection magazine. Toledo was ranked third among cities with populations between 200,000 and 1 million for number of confirmed new and expanded corporate projects.

The March issue also honored the State of Ohio with its Governor’s Cup for leading the nation in the number of new and expanded facilities with 503 projects.

Ohio was followed by Texas (497) and Michigan (296). This year marks the seventh time, and the third consecutive year, that Ohio has received the award.

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When the reality of your dire your final destination.

Within a matter of less than an situation sinks in, you find yourself asking, “What would The Discovery hour, you have formulated a plan of Channel’s ‘Survivorman’ do in this action and you shove off in what seems situation?” Survivorman is always to be the right direction. This is when getting dropped in the middle of your alarm clock goes off and you nowhere with just his keen intel- awake safely in your bed. As you smile lect and some basic tools yet always at what seemed so real, your smile

vanishes as you realize that today is the first day of your new job.

Much like your dream, you find yourself feeling alone on the side of the road because your new job requires you to sell a product you know little about to anybody you can find to buy it. You have been given a stack of business cards, a stack of brochures and a map of your new territory. You are, essentially, in the middle of nowhere not knowing where to begin, not knowing in which direction to head and not knowing how to get to your final destination of business success.

Your natural instinct is to believe that if you take the time to learn your product thoroughly, you’ll have the education you need to be able to attack the marketplace with fresh ideas, new solutions and keen intellect. Your natural instinct is to hunker down and formulate a solid plan for success.

Now is the time to remember your dream. Reconsider your approach and recognize that this is a survival situation. Realize that you need to remain cool, calm and collected as you take stock of your situation.

In the same manner as your dream, you must take inventory of what you have, what you know and in which direction you want t head.

You have a solid product, a solid company and solid personal skills.

You want to be heading in the direction of being able to talk to interested prospects who have the ability to say yes to you. You realize that obsessive planning and self-education may cause you to whither on the vine, for action is needed to create forward motion.

Instead of following your business instincts, channel Survivorman as you formulate your plan of action.

Your Survivorman spirit will tell you

that the best way to get where you are going is to combine direction with action. Your Survivorman spirit will tell you that you will learn the product best when you are moving forward.

The most effective way to survive in a vicious business world is to take stock of what you have and what you know, to point yourself in the right direction and to take action now to create forward motion.

As you build momentum, you will have the ability to learn new things, tweak the course you have set, and you will quickly discover yourself at your final destination — success.

Tom Richard is a Toledo-based sales trainer, gives seminars, runs sales meetings and provides coaching for salespeople. For more information, visit www.TomRichard.com, call (419) 441-1005 or e-mail him at tom@tomrichard.com.

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Investment moves to avoid on the Wall Street roller coaster

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he emotional roller coaster continues as the wild ride on Wall Street continues.

Many have moved past the panic stage into a depression mode, while others gained confidence when the Dow Jones rallied 379 points.

And here you are, stuck in the middle. The best thing is don’t get stuck, but don’t make bad investment moves going forward.

If you are 10 years or longer away from retiring, don’t stop saving in your Mark company’s 401(k) plan.

Nolan Matt, 40 years young, recently contacted us after deciding to stop putting money into his 401(k) plan. He saw his year-end statement and wanted to “stop throwing money down the drain,” he said.

Short-term, you may feel better not putting money into equities. But remember that longterm, you make money by buying low and selling high. Plus, oftentimes you get a free company match for a portion of your money.

Another way to look at it is by continuing to keep your retirement investments going, you might be able to buy almost twice as many shares. Not investing in a company retirement

plan would be like not buying clothes you need in the future on clearance.

Picture this: You need a suit for the future and go to a store and do not buy anything because the suits are only 50 percent off regular price. Yet your boss is offering half of the money for free to make the purchase. That doesn’t make much sense does it?

The same is true for your company retirement plan.

You will still need a retirement plan, and if there is CLAIR free money in the form of a BAKER company match, take it.

One of the only reasons you shouldn’t be saving in a company retirement plan is because you do not have enough of a liquid emergency account. It is a good idea to keep about six month’s worth of your income needs in cash reserves, so you could access that money in the event of losing your job.

If you are five years away from retirement, focus on proper asset allocation and save as much as you can for your retirement.

Try to increase your savings rates 2 percent or 3 percent. You may be surprised at how much money you actually need to retire comfortably.

Your current investment may seem like a lot, but in reality, you may be shocked at how much you really need. Generally, you can assume that long-term, your retirement accounts can provide 4 percent to 6 percent withdrawal rate. While $150,000 may seem like a lot, it could only provide about $6,000 to $9,000 per year of income.

Begin to look at your money in different time frames. Identify holdings that will be used first at retirement. That money, in our opinion, should be safely invested for your beginning retirement needs for the first three to five years.

So, if you have $250,000 and plan on needing $1,000 a month from your investments in retirement, you should have about $36,000 to $60,000 in fixed investments, depending upon risk tolerance. If you do this, you will have more time on your side to increase your chance of success in the stock and bond market. Plus, you will have several years’ worth of income already set aside.

Those who are retired or who need income from their accounts need to look at things differently. A lot of people we talk to still haven’t split their accounts into different accounts and are not properly diversified. They tend to make more emotional short-term decisions. Marv and Jane had their money diversified into a variety of different financial accounts. Yet, the problem was still 100 percent of their money was exposed to risk. They decided they were going to wait until

the market came back before they diversified into investments outside of the stock market.

The problem for many retirees is negative compounding can make you broke fast, real fast. With a loss of 15 percent added to 5 percent in withdrawals, you need 25 percent just to get back to even. If you hold on and things get worse, and you are down 30 percent and take 5 percent in withdrawals, you need nearly 54 percent just to break even. The simple solution may seem like moving all of the money to fixed accounts. Yet, long-term with only fixed accounts you may never be able to recover if you lock up your money. Sometimes, it’s better to stop the bleeding short-term but have a predetermined game plan to get back in when the market begins to recover. Use a mathematical formula and rely on the facts to help remove the human emotions of investing.

For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at noon on 1230 WCWA and every Sunday at 11 a.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www.retirementguysradio.com.

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Somebody had to really care. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version: Three friends start a business.

They buy granite and quartz from Brazil, Spain and Italy and run it through a machine that cuts, shapes and polishes the raw stone into strikingly beautiful countertops The trick is to get it right the first time. Every countertop is different.

I didn’t know that. Learning how to skillfully make a countertop that is exquisitely beautiful and the exact right size is not something you learn overnight.

Brothers Brad and Brian Burns and Jeff Erickson built their first countertop in April 2006 and now have customers throughout Ohio and Michigan and they’re approaching $4 million in sales. You can view their collection at cectops. com (Of course they’re being challenged by the rotten economy, but these guys have made a conscious decision to survive.)

The Burns brothers grew up in a family with a strong work ethic.

As teenagers they bought their first “fix-’er-up” house and sold it for a good profit. They continued this while learning the stone business selling retail for ten years.

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A new season is upon us, Toledo, so why don’t we start focusing on getting our hearts out of the basement and back on track.” it’s Tuesday, period the end. And if you’ve ever built or renovated anything, you know that in itself is pretty unusual ... and refreshing.

Which brings spring to mind, and spring means baseball.

Years ago the Cleveland Indians usually started the season dead last and managed to go downhill from there. But that changed. A new season is upon us, Toledo, so why don’t we start focusing on getting our minds and hearts out of the basement and back on track.

Toledo has a long and grand history of corporate excellence.

We once were recognized as world leaders. It’s time to go to the plate with a new attitude.

Cutting Edge is setting the right example. I don’t hear Brian or Brad or Jeff complaining about how bad things are in Toledo. They don’t have time for that kind of nonsense.

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Churchill’s Market to buy out Bassett’s in Perrysburg

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Beginning the weekend of March 14, the Bassett’s Market sign on the Perrysburg store will be covered and in two weeks when a new sign is made, the Walt Churchill’s Market logo will appear.

Walt Churchill, owner of Walt Churchill’s Market, confirmed on March 11 that he is buying out Bassett’s Perrysburg store. He said Mike Bassett, owner of Bassett’s Market, is consolidating to the markets in Port Clinton and Bellevue.

Churchill said he operated the Perrysburg store until 1998 when it sold to Farmer Jack’s and then to Bassett’s Market. He now plans to re-establish Churchill policies on food. A main area he will change is the meat market where he plans to have only natural beef or USDA Choice Grade beef and above.

“In general, we are going to make it a very good store for a complete shopping experience,” Churchill said. “Right now, eating at home has become more important as people gravitate away from eating at restaurants because of the economy.

“Our target customer has a high

priority for food and likes a store that is easy to shop, friendly and has foods that taste great,” he said.

Bassett’s Market owner Mike Bassett said Churchill approached him about buying the Perrysburg store.

“Walt partners in another store in Bellevue Ohio and he approached me about buying the Perrysburg store. He lives there and knows the area so it makes sense,” Bassett said. “It gives me the chance to

focus on our other stores and it was a very friendly transaction on both sides. I’d like to thank the people of Perrysburg and the surrounding areas that supported us and I’m sure they will be glad to have Walt back.”

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Mud Hens and Tigers extend relationship The Toledo Mud Hens and Detroit Tigers extended their working relationship for two years, through the 2012 season, according to a news release March 4. The two franchises have been affiliated since 1987. The Toledo Mud Hens finished the 2008 season with a 75-69 record, marking their fourth consecutive winning season.

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By Nicholas Huenefeld TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

After a tough loss to Liberty Benton in the Division III district championship, the Lake Lady Flyers look back at their 22-1 season with pride.

“It was really the best season ever,” said senior guard Rebekah Will. “When [the season] ended, it was sad. Now, after a few days, it’s pretty amazing knowing we had the best regular season ever at Lake, boys or girls.”

Indeed, no team in Lake High School history has ever finished the regular season undefeated with a 20-0 record, except this year’s team.

In addition, you would have to go back to the 1930s, according to Lake Athletic Director Dave Shaffer, to find another team that went undefeated in the regular season, and that would have been a boys team.

Still, it was tough to end the season like that, Will said.

“It was fun, but it ended too early,” she said. “Overall, we did pretty good, but really we just wanted to go further.”

Despite an ending they didn’t envision, the undefeated regular season is the thing junior guard Kimberly Meyer will remember the

most about this year.

“It was a big step [for the program],” she said. “Not many teams do that.”

Along the way, the Lady Flyers beat rival Genoa twice in the regular season and Riverdale, which went to the state final four last year, in the district semifinal by a score of 50-49.

“The Riverdale win was huge for our program,” said first-year Lady Flyers head coach Denny Meyer. “For our girls not to fold against a team of that caliber feels very good.”

“Going in we knew [Riverdale] was a good team,” Kimberly Meyer said, who is the coach’s daughter.

“Being down seven in the fourth quarter and coming back to beat them was real exciting.”

Some of the seniors on the team attributed this year’s success to a close-knit group of players.

“It was different than other seasons,” said senior post player Heather Cox. “We played more as a team.”

Fellow senior post player Lauren Lind, who averaged 8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game this year, echoed those sentiments.

“We’ve always been a team, but never this close,” said Lind, who hit the game-winning layup against Riverdale while leading her team with 10 points and 7 rebounds against Liberty Benton.

One possible reason for the close nature of this year’s team could have been the return of the aforementioned Will, who transferred from Lake to Oak Harbor after her eighth grade year.

Will averaged 9.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game for the Lady Flyers.

“I’ve always lived in the district, felt that I belonged here and had friends here,” Will said. “[Transferring back to Lake] was definitely a wise choice.”

In the end, the tournament atmosphere may have gotten to Lake in Will’s senior season.

“They were nervous the last game [against Liberty Benton],” Coach Meyer said. “I’m not sure why because we had been in big games against Genoa and Riverdale.

It was hard to lose, especially with it being the first loss. They should be proud of how hard they worked, though. We definitely put a scare into Liberty Benton.”

Lake beat Riverdale with a 12-4 run in the final three minutes, while a 12-4 run by Liberty Benton to start the third quarter proved to be Lake’s downfall in the title game.

“We were a little more nervous, not as focused as we usually are,” Kimberly Meyer said. “I don’t know why.”

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Nick is a sophomore and a member of the Elmwood varsity wrestling team. At this year’s Division III state wrestling championships in Columbus ,he completed an amazing season with a 3-2 victory in the 103 pound championship match to finish his season with a 47-0 record. He is the first state champion from Elmwood since Walt Borowicz in 2000. He also received All State honors in cross country and also runs track. Sonic congratulates Nick Goebel and the Elmwood wrestling team for their outstanding season.

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MARCH 15, 2009 ■ LAKE CONTINUED FROM A22 Coach Meyer and the players said the atmosphere of the crowd hurt the team communication, and Cox said the players had a little trouble with the man-to-man defenses they faced because it was something they never saw, at least at that level, in the regular season.

“It was really tough and different,” Kimberly Meyer said of the atmosphere. “There were big crowds, and we knew if we lost, it was all over.”

“We’ve never had games with that many people,” Will said.

“Getting adjusted to the crowds was huge.”

At the same time, the experience gained in the tournament may help the team going into next season.

“Oh, it helps a whole lot,” Coach Meyer said. “Hopefully, next year we can make the same kind of run and won’t be as nervous.”

“We have more confidence,” Kimberly Meyer said. “We know we’re a good team, and I think it helped to play in big [tournament] games and go further.”

Kimberly Meyer and Kayla Reilly will be the only seniors on next year’s team, which looks like it will be good for years to come.

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HEALTH AND FITNESS This season will go down as the greatest regular season tress has become a norm in our work-obsessed soin Lake High School ciety. It is expected and even instilled within corporate cultures. Greater job specialization, rapid history. Everybody technological advances and exponential increases in global competition have is still hurting, but transformed us into sadists as we clamor to get noticed by the boss and carve out a once we’re able to look meaningful career.

But what career has meaning at the end back, we’ll realize of the day when the physical and mental costs transform you into an automaton how great it was.” with no discernible level of happiness? top three scorers this year, will be juniors next season, and the junior varsity team went 19-1 this year.

This year’s team will be remembered for a long time, though.

“It really meant a lot,” said Cox, who averaged 6 points a game. “It was the best season we ever had and the team we had made it fun.”

“This season will go down as the greatest regular season in Lake High School history,” Coach Meyer said.

“Everybody is still hurting, but once we’re able to look back, we’ll realize how great it was.”

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The mental and emotional damage aggravated by stress is certainly not an enigma anymore, either. Burnout and depression are the most ominous psychological threats. Other potentially serious consequences of stress, such as suicide and cancer, require more study and research, but even with the jury out on any definite connections, who wants to play with fire and wait for the final decision?

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A friend’s mistake changes football player’s destiny

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hen Loren Hargrove officer said to me, ‘You shouldn’t was arrested on cocaine be here too much longer.’ The next charges in May, a fair thing you know I spent four days in county jail.” number of media outHis theory is that he lets reported it. was arrested because auWhen Hargrove thorities wanted to seize was proven innocent by his vehicle, in which the the justice system, only cocaine was found. one newspaper gave “They just wanted him a chance to tell his me to give up things to side of the story. let me off, but I chose to So here’s another fight it because I knew I chance.

Matt SUSSMAN was innocent.”

Hargrove, a former He also fought so BGSU linebacker who graduated in 2007 with high expec- he could continue his dream of tations to play in the NFL, drove to playing in the NFL. Yet the stigma Shelby County to pick up Melvin of being just another punk footCole, another ex-Falcon football ball player still lingers with him player and his former roommate. to this day, especially since a small Cole was en route from Cincinnati to handful of his former BGSU teamBowling Green, and Cole’s then-girl- mates also ran into legitimate legal friend drove him from Cincy to Bot- trouble in the past few years, such as Marques Parks, Orlando Barrow kins, where Hargrove met the two.

While there, police seized co- and Jacob Hardwick.

“They tried to classify Bowling caine in Cole’s luggage, which was in Hargrove’s truck. Cole admitted to Green as having a bunch of thugs,” the police at the scene of the crime, Hargrove said of the media coverage. “My story wasn’t being told before any truthfully at the time.” arrests were How come it wasn’t being told made, that the properly? For one, he was advised to cocaine was his stay away from the media until the and not Harcharges were cleared in September. grove’s or his Three weeks later, only one newsgirlfriend’s. paper interviewed him for a story.

This helped But the damage was done. the girlfriend, Hargrove had worked out with who drove HARGROVE the Cleveland Browns prior to the home that night and was not arrested. The NFL draft, and although he wasn’t same couldn’t be said for Hargrove, selected, he was aiming to sign despite Cole’s admission (which was as a free agent with somebody. documented in one police report). That goal took a detour as the free They were both arrested for drug agency period overlapped with his legal battle. trafficking, a fifth-degree felony.

“Who’s going to sign a free agent Hargrove knew he was innocent.

He knew his friend confessed to with cocaine case pending?” Harowning the cocaine. And yet he was grove asked.

Cole’s fate was much worse. still going through the legal system.

“The night I went to jail, I asked Combined with an unrelated set of the officer, ‘why am I here?’ ” Har- charges of drug trafficking, he began grove said in a phone interview. serving a five-year, eight-month “[The officer] read the report that sentence earlier this year.

Throughout this ordeal, Harhad him admitting to it and the

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grove has been training and staying in shape. He participated in BGSU’s pro day, where NFL scouts examine incoming talent. His goal is the same as it was before he drove to Shelby County: to be an NFL free agent and play professional football on Sundays.

His dream is shared by many other young men, and while many of them have had tragedy in their life, Hargrove has experienced more than his share. His mother passed away three years ago after a battle with cancer, and his uncle, former Cowboys running back Ron Springs (father of NFL cornerback Shawn Springs) has been in a coma since 2007.

Hargrove said his successful battle with the legal system may not give him an advantage over other players with the same

dream. But it does separate him from athletes who did break the law. If anything, his only mistake was befriending someone who dealt with cocaine.

Last I checked my big book of laws, that is not a crime, but he knows it should not happen to him again.

After all, the NFL cracks down on troublemakers with its squishy “conduct policy” and will suspend players if they want to — even if charges are dropped or never filed.

“This was a very serious life lesson for me,” he said, “and I have been very careful with the company that I keep.”

After hearing his story, I might just take that same advice.

Matt Sussman blogs regularly at www.toledofreepresscom.

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GM and Chrysler are living on a total of $17.4 billion in government loans, and the task force is trying to determine if they will get more money. The companies have requested a total of $39 billion as they try to survive the worst U.S. auto sales downturn in 27 years.

Task force members first visited the sprawling GM tech center, where they were greeted by Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and test-drove white and silver Chevrolet Volt electric cars, according to shots taken from television news helicopters.

Then it was off to the Chrysler plant in a 2009 silver Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo driven by Bloom, where they met with top Chrysler executives, including CEO Bob Nardelli, Vice Chairmen Jim Press and Tom LaSorda and Chief Financial Officer Ron Kolka.

They entered the plant near an auditorium in which the company had placed several of its future products, including electric and hybrid vehicles. The plant employs about 2,600 workers.

Both companies are working on rechargeable electric vehicles like the Volt that can go around 40 miles on a single charge from a household outlet.

After 40 miles, small internal combustion engines kick in to generate electricity and power the car farther. Chrysler and GM have pledged to bring the electric vehicles to market sometime next year.

The automakers were eager to show off new products in an effort to prove they can become viable despite billions of dollars in losses.

Chrysler lost $8 billion last year, while GM lost $30.9 billion.

Without government help, both companies would have run out of money early this year.

Bloom, Rattner and others arrived at the Chrysler plant just as the second shift was heading for work making the Dodge Ram pickup.

They also were to meet with United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and other top union officials. GM and Chrysler both issued short statements saying they were happy with the opportunity to show the task force members their new products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit provided a constructive glimpse of GM people, their passion for their work and the future products and technologies that are an integral part of our viability plan,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement said.

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A collapse of the auto industry could lead to as many as 3 million lost jobs at a time when the fragile economy couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle it, industry analysts have said.

The government can recall its loans to GM and Chrysler if they fail to sign deals for debt restructuring and other concessions from stakeholders including the UAW

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AUTO REVIEW

Chrysler retains its luxury Town & Country minivan

By Ann M. Job ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chrysler was the company that debuted America’s first minivan in the early 1980s during an earlier brush with bankruptcy. Its minivans caught on with young families and led industry sales for more than two decades, helping fuel the automaker’s health.

Today, the 2009 Chrysler Town & Country van still is a roomy, comfortable vehicle with top government crash test ratings and unique features, such as satellite TV and second-row seats that swivel to face the rear.

And with leather-trimmed seats, power sunroof, power sliding doors and rear liftgate, trailer tow package, power folding third-row seat and

rear-seat entertainment center, the Town & Country remains a top luxury minivan.

But how many people today will pay more than $40,000 for a vehicle that’s no longer considered trendy?

To be sure, not every Town & Country is high-priced. Starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price, including destination charge, is $27,500 for a base LX with 175horsepower V-6 and the Town & Country twin, the 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan, starts at $25,305.

It’s the flagship 2009 Chrysler Town & Country Limited that has a starting retail price, including destination charge, of $37,600 with 251horsepower V-6. The price includes curtain air bags, antilock brakes and electronic stability control, as well

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â&#x2013; LUXURY CONTINUED FROM A26 The Town & Country, like other Chrysler minivans, was redesigned as a boxier vehicle for 2008, and the sharp edges at the corners continue for 2009. But the look isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as rich as the predecessor, which had a rounder, more flowing shape. And the change has made the Town & Country less distinguishable from other minivans.

But the 4-liter, single overhead cam V-6 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most powerful engine offered in Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minivans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; provides good power to the front wheels. Chrysler dropped its allwheel drive offering years ago, but Toyota still offers all-wheel drive in its Sienna.

The Town & Country Limitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 251 horses and peak torque of 259 foot-pounds 4,100 rpm compares favorably with 250 horsepower

and 245 foot-pounds of torque in the Odyssey and 265 horsepower and 245 foot-pounds of torque in the Sienna.

In the test Chrysler van, the engine power was managed with nary a noticeable shift point by the sixspeed automatic transmission. The ride was well-insulated and mostly quiet, save for acceleration sounds from the engine. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice wind noise, even on the highway.

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This means that a 20-gallon tank full of regular unleaded is good enough for some 400 miles of combined city/highway travel.

Steering could be better tuned for a more confident feel, and this 5.7-foot-tall vehicle leans in the turns. Passengers ride smoothly over most road bumps, but some road patches, potholes and humps can be jarring.

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The rear park assist audio warning and rearview camera help show whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behind the vehicle when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backing up.

The front seats in the tester felt more welcoming and comfortable than the shaped second-row bucket seats, though passengers liked the ease with which the second-row swiveling seats turned rearward and locked into place.

This created a conversation area with people in the third row. And all this can become a craft and game area when a small table is secured into a spot in the floor between second- and third-row seats. No other minivans have this feature.

It was easy to get spoiled by all the power-operated equipment in the test van.

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Water leaks anger Cobo exhibitors Exhibitors at the Autorama car show at Detroit’s Cobo Center are complaining about water leaks that gave an unwanted bath to some vehicles at the annual event.

Bob Larivee Jr. heads Championship Auto Shows Inc., which sponsors Autorama. He told The Detroit News Cobo will lose events without repairs.

Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. spokesman Dan Cherrin tells the Detroit Free Press leaky roofs are common after heavy rains and says Cobo clearly needs work.

Filmmaker Ken Burns losing GM backing General Motors Corp. is ending its 22-year support for Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns amid its own money woes.

Burns has made a string of high-profile public TV documentaries, including “The Civil War,’’ “Jazz’’ and “Baseball.’’

His last GM-backed project is “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,’’ a six-part series airing this fall. A figure for GM’s aid to Burns isn’t known.

Burns spokesman Dave Donovan told The Detroit News Burns is “incredibly grateful’’ for GM’s support, calling it “an extraordinary contribution to public television.’’

GM spokeswoman Kelly Cusinato calls Burns “the gold standard of documentary film making’’ but said the financial crisis “has forced GM to rein in such spending.’’

Honda prices Insight hybrid in U.S. under $20,000 Honda says its new Insight hybrid will be priced under $20,000 when it goes on sale in the U.S., as the Japanese automaker takes aim at eco-friendly bargain shoppers.

American Honda Motor Co. said the 2010 Insight will go on sale in the U.S. starting March 24 with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $19,800 for the base LX model. Honda has said it planned to make the Insight an economical hybrid.

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Canadian official: Automakers depend on U.S. tentative cost-cutting agreement between GM Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers announced was satisfactory to Ottawa.

GM, which submitted a restructuring plan last month, is eligible for loans of up to $3 billion under a government aid package, but both the federal and provincial Ontario governments have attached conditions to the money.

Those conditions include companies lowering their labor costs.

The tentative deal, on which 10,000 union members were voting March 9 and 10, was “just one piece of the puzzle’’ and was not by itself enough on which to base a bailout decision, Clement said.

“We have to look at viability from a broader perspective, which is what we’re doing,’’ he said.

“Part of the picture is labor costs; part of the picture is how management costs things out and their overhead costs. The other part of the picture is: What is your plan to get from where we are right now to where we have to be to have a viable auto sector?’’

TORONTO (AP) — Only American consumers can save Canada’s auto industry, Canada’s industry minister said March 10.

Industry Minister Tony Clement said the Canadian government is still mulling over a bailout package for automakers.

Clement said 85 percent of the autos and parts produced in Canada flow to the U.S., where demand for vehicles has plummeted by 50 percent.

“The issue is not Canadian demand, the issue is American demand,’’ Clement said. “If you’re asking me what will save the auto sector in North America, it’s what American consumers do and buy, not just what Canadians do and buy.’’

General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Co. have large operations in Canada.

The economic crisis has pushed GM to the edge of bankruptcy. Chrysler, too, has been suffering. In response, the auto companies have closed plants and laid off thousands of workers.

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American folk artists to play at Ottawa Tavern Los Angeles singer/songwriters Julie Neumark and Dave Carducci will play at the Ottawa Tavern in Toledo on March 20 as part of a six-stop tour. Chris Shutters will join the duo for their show in Toledo and at Trapperz in La Salle, Mich., March 18. He will play with Neumark and also perform original music. Neumark is touring to promote her album, “Dimestore Halo,” which will be released digitally in the fall. — Julie Ryan

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The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo (ACGT) is hoping guests will experience the many benefits of having fine art in their community, when it hosts its annual fundraiser March 28. The party, known as The Mix UP, will feature original works by 50 artists. This year’s event, at the Secor Building, will be a fundraiser, and a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of ACGT. “For this event we received a lot of help from our volunteer base. We were working with a very raw space and had to really hit the ground running in late January to make things look as glamorous as possible,” said Jennifer Jarrett, ACGT development coordinator. “I would say that this event truly offers something for everyone. This year, as in the past, we’re showcasing works of a number of different styles, both visually and in terms of media, such as furniture pieces.”

Featured artists include Terry A. Burton, Scott Darlington, Yusuf Lateef, Hans Ruebel, Kristine Rumman, Sally Rumman, Ken Thompson, Joe Twelmeyer, Ann Tubbs, Crystal Tursich, Mike Wallace, Jules Shine Webster, Dan Weeks, Mary Weiss and Lynn Whitney.

“All of the money raised will benefit our many programs across the board, such as Young Artists at Work, the Parkwood Gallery, Artomatic 419, Meet and Greets and the Congressional Exhibition. Last year we were able to raise around $45,000; this year we’re hoping to do a little better and are shooting for $50,000,” Jarrett said.

The Mix UP will run from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $75. Sponsors for this year include the Ohio Arts Council, Heartland Healthcare and Gilmore, Jasion & Mahler and other businesses and individuals. The Secor Building is located at 425 Jefferson St. For more information, call (419) 254-ARTS or visit www.acgt.org.

Ron White, the comic always armed with a cigar and a glass of scotch, is a morning person. Really. Well, at least one recent day.

Sort of.

“Why are we doing a newspaper interview at 6:15 in the morning? Is it going to be in today’s paper?” he joked from his California home.

He then conceded he was doing some morning radio shows.

Time zones aside, White was ready to talk about “Behavioral Problems,” his new special that will air on Comedy Central April 19 and be released April 21.

“I cover a very wide gamut; I don’t ever do anything very topical in my shows because it’s just all the topical stuff is overdone by other comics, so I just kind of live life and tell the story. And that’s what ‘Behavioral Problems’ is — it kind of focuses on my behavioral problems, which I still seem to have,” he said.

“And the record is three years in the making. I’m not like Dane Cook; I don’t spit one out every three months because I don’t think they’re ripe, I don’t think they’re ready to pick for a long time, so I’m really, really proud of the work ... And I’m looking forward to getting it out there and see how people respond to it.”

The comedian will be at Stranahan Theater March 27. His 7:30 p.m. show is sold out, but at press time, $42.75 tickets are available for a second show at 10:30 p.m.

“Once [“Behavioral Problems”] airs, then I have to write a whole new show; I don’t do old material,” he said.

White, whose nickname is “Tater Salad,” has a past packed with laughter. The smartass Southerner went to an open-mic night at a comedy club in Arlington, Texas, where the headliner, Jeff Foxworthy, caught his routine.

“It was [Jeff ’s] goal for a lot of years to make me a famous comedian, and he truly sucks at it because it took him so ****in’ long,” White quipped. “I don’t mean to seem ungrateful, but I’ve got things to do, Jeff, let’s pick it up a bit! But it was lucky to meet him — anytime you meet someone like Foxworthy, it’s a lucky day.”

White said it was about 17 years later when he joined Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry

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the Cable Guy for the highly successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour from 2000 to 2003.

Since then, White has kept the laughs going with 2006’s “You Can’t Fix Stupid,” which received a Grammy nomination, and his 2006 book, “I Had the Right to Remain Silent ... But I Didn’t Have the Ability,” which debuted at No. 15 on the New York Times Best-Seller List.

“There are places that I won’t go [with comedy]. I try to be true to my nature, and my nature is really not mean. So I won’t do

anything that promotes hate or abuse of women or children,” he said. “And I’m really strong on honoring the office of the president of the United States, so I will not take punches.

Even if I like him or don’t like him — which is nobody’s business but mine — I still honor that office.”

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London calling: Finding the best place to settle in

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ou know how the travel morph easily from bedroom to sitmagazines, newspapers and ting room. Rooms come with kitchguidebooks often treat the enettes fully loaded right down to the tiny dishwashers subject of lodgand flower ings. They bang vases. There is on for paragraphs, a laundry room if not pages, about on the premises a city’s brilliant and it is located attractions; its close to shops architecture, art, for breakfast eateries, et. al., besupplies and fore finally getting snacks. There are around to what special rates for you really wanted longer stays of to know: available Roger HOLLIDAY a week or more. accommodations Claudia FISCHER And if the front and where to lay desk was not your exhausted body down at the end of a long day always bursting with “bonhomie,” the location, the sizable rooms and of toil, tourism or traipsing.

They call it “settling in.” Or the prices are properly set for the world’s most expensive city. “sleeping.” Or something similar.

Then, a few years ago, on the Well, we’re off to London shortly.

In fact, when you read this, we’ll al- lookout for a place a little closer to ready be there and “settled in” at a “home” and away from the hustle and buzz of central London, we most unusual sleepery.

London, you should know, is happened on a strange little hossecond home to the Hollidays. Al- telry in the historic “village” of ways has been. And what’s left of Hampstead.

With its 1,000-year history, the family still lives in the same northern ‘burb and the same house steep streets lines with restaurants, pubs, art galleries and they’ve lived in since 1950.

We could stay there, of course, coffee shops and a mere furlong and probably should with London from some 800 acres of the most hotel prices being what they are. But amazing heathland, open spaces, pressures, memories ... and certain lakes and wooded slopes, it’s hardly ghosts from the past ... dictate oth- surprising that Hampstead is home to hundreds of litterati and glitteerwise. So we dig in elsewhere.

For a long time it was a rati, past and present.

What Hampstead doesn’t have, Swedish-owned 3-star Regency pile in Lancaster Gate called The however, is a surfeit of hotels. And Mornington. We were originally it took time and effort till we finally seduced by its prime location, stumbled onto a winner.

The hotel in question, La Gaffe, right across from Hyde Park and a short block from a Tube station, is perhaps best described as “an and by its clubby library bar, re- Italian restaurant with rooms” or “a plete with blazing fire, deep leather boutique hotel above an Italian rescouches and wing chairs and its taurant.” Take your pick.

We chose it all those years ago, full Swedish smorgasbord breakfast of eggs and cheeses, meats and continue to do so, not for the and herring and freshly squeezed guestrooms and in-suite bathorange juice. All in all, this tartan- rooms, which run from small to liveried hotel served our needs of smaller, or for its steep, narrow staircases, the sometimes noisy the time quite splendidly. street out front which tends to feaYears passed.

Personnel changed. And The ture 24/7 traffic or for the fact that Mornington prices went north. So there are absolutely no parking fawe opted for another property in a cilities nearby. You arrive by taxi different part of town that was less or Tube, 200 yards away. Period. expensive. Less elegant, as well. But No, The Gaffe survives and prosmuch more convenient, steps away pers with repeat business like ours from Covent Garden and the West because of its singular setting and End theaters and with a couple of the charming and ebullient Stella exceptionally atmospheric world- family, who have owned and operated this former 18th-century class pubs down the street.

It was a French-run apartment- shepherd’s cottage for more than hotel in Holburn originally called 40 years.

Father/founder Bernardo keeps the Orion and now part of the Citadines Group, where the rooms a weather eye on the operation from

a corner table in the front window penning plays and memoirs and plotting future adventures, while sons Lorenzo and Sal run the front desk, greet guests, brew up the best

coffee in London from behind the bar and dispense cappucinos and Chianti to the many villagers who drop in for a chat.

This, in our view, is the pluper-

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Markowitz will perform at the 18th annual Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship Concert at 8 p.m.

March 18 in the UT Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall on Main Campus.

Tickets are $5 for students and seniors, $12 for Toledo Jazz Society members, $15 for general admission and $40 for patron reserved seating.

Prior to the concert, the jazzman will conduct a free master class from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Recital Hall.

Markowitz is passionate about music education.

“It’s important to pass along something of aesthetic substance to younger generations. Also, it gives you the opportunity to pass on some of your musical DNA,” he said. “And in this day and age when everything is so technically oriented, I feel it’s still important for people to be con-

nected and grounded to something that is as natural as creating music.”

His own education began when he was 4 and climbed atop a piano bench in the living room. “[My parents] weren’t professionals, but they were music lovers MARKOWITZ and there was a piano in the house, so I had access to an instrument — that was the most important thing,” he recalled, adding he started lessons at age 8.

In college, he met jazz harmonica player Toots Thielemans, and they became good friends. They were playing at a New York City club and launched into Markowitz’s “Sno’ Peas” as pianist Bill Evans walked in. Evans liked the tune so much he told Thielemans to bring it to their recording session; the track appears on the Grammy-nominated 1979 album, “Affinity.”

As his reputation as a composer grew, Markowitz continued to find his groove, joining trumpeter Chet Baker’s band in 1979.

“Being with Chet, you learn the roots and you learn how to play with someone who played with Charlie Parker. His placement of the beat and sense of phrasing and musicality — those were all invaluable lessons,” he said.

From 1991 to 1998, Markowitz played in saxophonist Dave Liebman’s band. And since 1991, the pianist has been part of Liebman’s Saxophone Summit, which has featured horn players Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano and Ravi Coltrane.

As a bandleader, the veteran pianist has released four discs, including “Catalysis” in 2008.

Markowitz said he will play original compositions, including “Sno’ Peas,” and standards at the benefit concert. He will be accompanied by UT jazz faculty members Gunnar Mossblad on saxophone, Norm Damschroder on bass and Jonathan Ovalle on drums.

For more information on the concert or the Art Tatum Memorial Jazz Scholarship, contact the UT Music Department at (419) 5302448. Tickets will be available at the door or from the Toledo Jazz Society at (419) 241-5299.

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The MS JAM Foundation will once again be rocking out for the cure. The annual musical event, which benefits the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, recently found a new home at Tam-O-Shanter Sports & Exhibition Center. The concert is set for March 21.

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“A number of the musicians involved with this event have MS, and they pride themselves on coming back to play for us every year if they can. To my knowledge, there was no other event like this in the area before we got started,” said Foundation Vice President and co-founder Kathy Gross.

Gross founded the organization with her husband Bill, who was diagnosed with MS in August 2003. Prior to his work with the foundation, Bill was actively involved with the amateur music scene in Ohio. They are the co-owners of the Answer Factory, a computer retail store of Bowling Green. In 2004 and 2007, the MS JAM Foundation was awarded the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS Achievement Award.

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1. Who is Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous saint?

2. What animal is grown in Ireland for its wool and meat?

3. What is said to happen to anyone who kisses the Blarney Stone in Ireland?

4. Northern Ireland is a separate country from the Republic of Ireland.

To what nation does Northern Ireland belong?

5. What is the capital of the Republic of Ireland?

6. What is its official national symbol?

7. In the 1840s there was a severe famine in Ireland because of disease in what food?

8. What is your favorite Irish food or tradition?

Answers: 1. Saint Patrick 2. sheep 3. he/she will get the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gift of gabâ&#x20AC;? 4. the United Kingdom 5. Dublin 6. the Celtic harp 7. potatoes

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Step on a crack. After a rough start on Monday morning, the sum of accumulated efforts starts to make a difference. Emotional appeals dissolve objections to progress. Good friends gather as the weekend arrives.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in fine company, along with a few quirky surprises.

Remix and remake. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re confronted by obstinate patterns and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wiggle off the hook this time.

Forgotten details can throw you midweek. The equinox brings some relief, and a nudge from friends guides your thoughts and actions in the right direction.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

The honey pot. The urge to streamline your life is strong.

Events prompt you to reconsider your feelings and the basis for sentimental attachments. Someone states a blunt truth. Thinking and talking with others helps you open the door to emotional healing.

Busted balloon. Tackle long-standing issues, necessary repairs and improvements this week. Momentum and confidence grow after Wednesday with a little help from friends. Past puzzles are resolved. You get the green light to go forward as spring arrives.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Cheer is here. Once past the Monday morning blahs, your inner tiger is unleashed. The week is a flurry of action. Turning point discussions on Wednesday resolve stubborn obstacles. Social highpoints dot the weekend and friends turn up where least expected.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Going berserk. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good week to fulfill obligations and take care of family business. Critical deals require further negotiation midweek; closely examine the fine print, and seek expert advice on Thursday. Weekend traveling leads to unusual sights.

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Observe from a distance. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re strongly motivated to meet deadlines and to accomplish items on your personal agenda. Two major concerns are resolved this week. Clues to your future arrive on Thursday. The dawning of spring awakens the song in your heart.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Wild rumpus. You perform a kind of alchemy this week by bringing together people or ideas and merging them into something new and effective. Document the details for future reference. Outdoor play and sports are emphasized as the weekend arrives.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Caught in a web. Getting credit for accomplishments is easy; getting rewards is tougher. Pressure builds on both sides; clashes are possible on Wednesday.

Reconsider what you want before taking decisive action.

Illumination comes as the weekend arrives.

Finish it. The planetary confluence in your sign is easing; proceed to follow through with plans and ideas formed over the past few months. Tweak details midweek; some expenses may arise. Enjoy fun, frolic and favorite things with others as the weekend arrives.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

The master plan. An annoying problem shows up as the week begins. You resolve the issue midweek, but then another issue rears up. You solve that one by Friday. A wonderful weekend is your reward for all that problem solving. Have fun!

Unseen watchers. You and those close to you can resolve a number of problems for the better this week, but not without great effort. After Thursday, the prospect of fresh opportunities for the future merges with pleasant gatherings and welcome visitors.

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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y husband, my children and I recently at- No. 1 new home search criterion. I have stayed just a few tended a performance of “The Wizard of Oz” minutes longer, be it at home or at a store, just to make sure at Bedford High School. The tornado sequence the storm has passed. I have tracked storms with my radio, my TV and my computer ... until now. was impressive for a high school producThe tornado warning sounded its first tion and even elicited from me that slight alarming cry of the season this week, and heart flutter of panic that I experience every for some reason I wasn’t alarmed. For what time I hear the tornado warning siren wail. was likely the first time ever, I sprang into Although I enjoyed the crew’s artistic extornado-preparedness action mode without pression, I was as happy to see the imitation having to push past that initial moment of storm end as I am to get the all clear during paralyzing fear. I simply told the kids that a real tornado sighting. Although tornado we needed to go to the basement, stuck my warnings are somewhat a part of life in this mobile phone in my pocket and went. area, I still have never quite become accusMaybe it was because it was so early tomed enough to accept them as such.

Shannon SZYPERSKI in the season that I wasn’t expecting it or I blame one fateful day in elementary school for my exaggerated fear of tornadic activity. I still maybe it was because my husband was at the store and I remember being marched down the hall to the auditorium knew I was the one solely in charge that I handled it like an for what I likely assumed would be one of our occasional everyday, benign occurrence. Somehow I finally shed my cinematic treats. Instead, we were shown a real-life horror Fred Sanford “this is the big one” reaction.

Was it the realization that, although there is still always film called “Terrible Tuesday” that included footage of a violent F4 tornado, children huddled and frightened a chance, the Toledo area hasn’t seen anything higher than against cement block walls and people recalling how they a category F2 tornado in my lifetime? Was it the sense of had lost their limbs from exposure to the wicked storm. duty to protect my children above any loyalty I once had to While I now know that we were simply being persuaded coddling my own fears? Was it just a fluke?

Whatever it was, I hope it sticks. I want to do the to take the horrific possibility of a real tornado seriously, it right thing by protecting that which is dearest to me, scared me to the nth degree for years to come.

My memory of “Terrible Tuesday” was proven quite but I don’t want to live in fear that I might not have what it takes to do so. The fact that I was once shown accurate by a quick and successful YouTube hunt.

Witnessing through adult eyes the onscreen atrocity the epitome of a dangerous situation in film form and I had first seen as a child, I realized that it is no wonder I told that I have the power to protect myself from it does have felt momentarily panicked the first Friday of every not necessarily mean that such an occurrence is in my month at noon sharp for some time now. It is no wonder future or that I would no doubt have the power to stop that out of an entire season of tee ball umpiring, the mo- it if it were. We are given certain tools to handle certain ment I remember most is arriving at an empty field just things throughout life. I just don’t want to focus on and as the tornado siren blew. I ran home in a dreamlike worry so much about the things I think I can control manner, trying to go as fast as my nervous mind urged that I fail to accept the things I might not be able to. of me but was held back by reality’s physical limitations.

Such a frantic run from perceived danger offers the frus- Shannon Szyperski and her husband Michael are raising two children in Sylvania. E-mail her at tration of a laryngitic scream.

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