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ntrepreneurs do not know everything, but they know a lot about two things: taking risks and leadership. It is in that spirit that we partnered with Leadership Toledo to host the first Restaurant Week Toledo, which winds down April 3.

Toledo Free Press approached Leadership Toledo last year, hoping to strike up a relationship that would benefit the reputable nonprofit and provide an opportunity for us to further reach out to the community and help make a positive difference.

Leadership Toledo’s goals, listed on its website, are in lockstep with our intentions: ✯ Expand knowledge and awareness of community issues and opportunities. ✯ Provide contacts in business, industry, government, the media and human services. ✯ Prepare participants for more active and informed involvement in community Thomas F. POUNDS affairs. ✯ Recognize individuals and/or organizations for their community involvement and efforts.

Our first joint project was the late October FOX Toledo debate between Rep. Marcy Kaptur and challenger Rich Iott. But we wanted to create a signature event that Leadership Toledo and Toledo Free Press could build upon as both organizations grow.

It has been a great pleasure collaborating with Executive Director David Schlaudecker, Director of Youth Programs Cory Dippold, Director of Community Impact Kristina White and the Leadership Toledo Board; it was Dippold who proposed the Restaurant Week Toledo concept.

Sixteen local restaurants exhibited leadership and risk taking by signing up, and it has been exciting to follow the buzz and watch the event take root. We are grateful for the opportunity with Leadership Toledo and appreciative for each and every restaurant that partnered with the project.

Special thanks to all of you who tried a new restaurant or revisited an old favorite to help support the cause.

We are working with Leadership Toledo to talk about the next Restaurant Week Toledo, possibly this fall. If your restaurant would like to be included in version 2.0, contact us and we will work with Leadership Toledo to start the planning.

Risk taking and leadership; we would be nowhere without them, and we look forward to carrying that spirit into future projects that benefit the community. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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had Kolebuck, principal of Martin Luther King Jr. third of the school’s students use school-provided asthma Academy for Boys off Dorr Street, arrives at work two inhalers, because their home environments are filled with hours before school starts. He has plenty of prep work, smoke and other toxins. He also discussed an ongoing issue with several students who are given but that’s not his sole reason for being there a bottle of Coca-Cola to slam down for early; he makes sure he is there because so breakfast at home. many parents will drop off their kids, leaving “That caffeine hits those little bodies and them to stand outside the locked doors. Kolecreates an incontinence problem,” Kolebuck buck has often found himself at the school said. “They can’t always give voice to the spemore than two hours after classes have been cific issue so they end up in the nurse’s office.” dismissed, staying with students whose parThe issue of parental responsibility — ents leave them at the building until well after or lack thereof — permeates nearly every the last classroom light has been turned off. factor of life at MLK. For many students, atThe Scott feeder school, built in 2009, is tendance is a problem. Lack of support and well-lit, open and a marvelous example of efficient use of space. On the inside, it still feels Michael S. MILLER follow-up at home is a problem. One student had missed accumulated weeks of school; new and hopeful and encouraging. On the outside, the building, which houses kindergarten through Kolebuck and Ward theorized the fifth grader was being fifth grade (it will expand through eighth grade next year), is kept at home to help his parent with younger siblings.

Word of MLK’s success is spreading; in the few hours bordered by several abandoned and boarded-up houses and a liquor/convenience store phonetically named “Dis ‘n’ Dat.” I trailed Kolebuck, six applications for students seeking The school is planted squarely between two gang corners; transfers in were received. Observing a few classrooms many of its students walk an unimaginable gantlet every day. makes it easy to see why the school is reaching students. The On March 29, I spent the morning at MLK in a Partners classrooms I observed had invested and engaged teachers, in Education program as a “Principal for a Day.” I job-shad- volunteers and “foster grandparents” to keep the kids foowed Kolebuck, 39, and dean Willie Ward as they patrolled cused on their lessons, plus computers and technology that acts like Smartboards. I witnessed an atmosphere designed the halls and managed the ebb and flow of the morning.

Kolebuck said 98 percent of the school’s 275 students to make every student feel cared for and cared about.

I have avoided describing Kolebuck and Ward for fear of depend on the school for breakfast. As they line up, Kolebuck walks among them, asking them to remove their hats, hyping them as larger-than-life educators; they have enough to stand up straight. He gently admonishes those who fail issues to deal with; they do not need an interloper to myto respond to his “Good morning” greeting and makes sure thologize their efforts. But the two men can walk out to face a gang of red-shirted Bloods and keep them away from those who are introduced to me offer a firm handshake.

The students can choose from fruit, various cereals school property, then spend time trying to figure out why a and other breakfast options. When two young boys arrive normally good student is calling for attention by defacing just before class starts, Kolebuck shoos them toward class. school property; that suggests a combination of physical toughness and intellectual gentleness usually found in HolThen, he stops and calls back to them.

“Have you two eaten yet?” he asks. When both boys say lywood heroes, not elementary school administrators.

That same day, I spoke at the reception for the concluno, Kolebuck walks them toward the cafeteria and makes sion of the United Way/Toledo Free Press/”Bridges” series, sure they can grab food before their day begins.

Many of the students at MLK wear belts, socks, coats, “Education Champions.” I oversaw every story in the 12and clothes the school and its supporters have provided. part series, and was often stunned by the facts and situaMost of the students are dressed appropriately for the tions they contained. But to walk the halls of MLK and see weather, but it is easy to spot the ones who are coming in the promise of that series brought to life by Kolebuck and cold or could use better-fitting clothes.

Ward exponentially increased my faith in the human ability As the first hour of the day passes, Kolebuck interacts to overcome the most depressing and limiting challenges. with close to 80 students, and knows the names of every one.

I reflected many times that day — and every day since When he passes a group, he will often call, “Boys of destiny,” — on how blessed my sons are, and how determined my which results in a proud response of “Men of distinction!” wife and I are to make sure they will have — and appreciate from the boys. That is the crux of the school’s mantra, along — every advantage of love and support we can provide. with an emphasis on respect and building relationships.

God bless them all. Boys of destiny. Men of distinction. ✯ In addition to basic food and clothing needs, the school deals with countless challenges that fall outside the realm of Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toreading, writing and arithmetic. Ward estimates about one- ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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APRIL 3, 2011

SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

Blade story raises answerable questions about election

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he Nov. 2 election between To- Ohio law and regulations.�

That number far exceeds the Saledo City Councilman George Sarantou and then-Sylvania rantou team’s challenge during a Feb. Trustee Carol Contrada for a Lucas 3 hearing, which took the number County Commissioner spot is final below 193 votes, which was Confrom a legal standpoint. Sarantou and trada’s margin of victory. The Feb. 11 his legal team dismissed the Con- review I conducted found 115 questest of Election suit they had filed to tionable ballots.

A majority of the challenge the results of identification envelopes the election on Feb. 3; a voter fills out before to many, that ended the casting a provisional saga. Contrada was sworn ballot for the election in as commissioner. listed more identifying A Feb. 11 review I information than is reconducted for Toledo quired under Ohio law.

Free Press confirmed There is a section on there were not enough the provisional ballot questionable provisional ballot envelopes to alter Lisa Renee WARD that asks for “voluntary information� — phone the outcome of the November election for Lucas County numbers and email addresses were included on numerous ballots.

Commissioner.

But a March 27 Blade article, “Re- Driver’s license numbers and the view casts doubt on outcome of race,� last four digits of Social Security ran with an online subtitle, “Data sug- numbers were written on a large number of envelopes. gest Sarantou may have won post.�

Less than a dozen provisional enThere is no valid data that suggests Sarantou may have won. The Blade velopes had the word “invalid� marked story that attempts to cloud the issue is through and the word “valid� written. credited to Blade political writer Tom Approximately 100 ballots had lanTroy, who provides a statistical theory guage that suggested the vote was cast in the correct location but wrong prethat has no legal precedence.

In the March 27 Blade story, Troy cinct; it did not appear that there were reports, “at least 527 votes were er- enough questionable provisional enveroneously included in the total vote lopes to create a change in the electoral count. And hundreds more that outcome based on the information were counted are suspect based on listed on the envelopes.

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Most of the envelopes contained notations from Board of Election (BOE) employees that suggested the information on the provisional was verified. A voter requesting an absentee ballot then attempting to vote in person was a common notation on the provisional ballot envelopes; in that scenario, the provisional ballot is held to make sure the person did not cast an absentee ballot.

Documentation obtained by Toledo Free Press through public record requests includes the audio of a March 22 interview Troy conducted with BOE staff, including then-Director Linda Howe and then-Deputy Director Jeremy Demagall. That audio calls into question some of the information in The Blade’s story.

At times, the March 22 interview with Troy was contentious, as this section from the audio demonstrates: Howe: The things you are saying are suspicious or are errors are not errors.

Troy: It’s definitely an error when an election worker doesn’t sign the document.

Howe: No, it’s not.

Troy: What excuse is there for an election worker to not ....

Howe: That does not invalidate the ballot.

Troy: I can accept that, if that’s the truth.

Howe: It is and don’t tell me it’s not the truth because it is.

Troy: I didn’t mean to say it that way, I don’t have any reason ... I haven’t claimed that the election workers’ failure to sign some document is a fatal flaw. I’m just saying ...

Howe: But you are going to word it as if they are suspicious.

Troy: I’m going to say that they’re flaws, they are faulty, that the election worker did not do his job or her job.

Her job was to sign the document, to attest that ‘I saw this voter fill out this document and that I saw their ID’.

The numbers game The numbers in the March 27 Blade story do not match the numbers that were presented in the election contest lawsuit. There were several different lists of challenged ballots that each contained different numbers. Lucas County Prosecutor John Borrell provided Toledo Free Press with the last list that was received by his office on Feb. 3. That list contained 331 challenges, 156 being related to “wrong precinct, right polling location� voters.

Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office stated there were 114 “wrong precinct, right polling location voters.�

When Toledo Free Press inspected the provisional ballots on Feb. 9 and Feb. 11, 80 of those 114 were found that did not have the last four digits of a Social Security number.

Patrick Kriner, BOE Board

Chairman, said March 25, the day that the board voted to fire Howe and Demagall in response to Husted calling for their termination, that 82 of the 114 provisional ballots did not contain the Social Security number.

Toledo Free Press was told on Feb. 11 that during the Feb. 3 hearing, additional voters were dropped from the challenged list; that took the number below 193 votes, which was the margin between Contrada and Sarantou.

This was confirmed by Howe, Demagall and LaVera Scott, BOE Supervisor, in the audio of the March 22 interview with Troy. It was stated four ballots did not contain a signature and should not have been counted. “This case was dropped because they didn’t have anything but those four ballots,� Demagall said in a March 30 interview with Toledo Free Press.

Troy reported March 27, “In 403 cases, a box was checked requiring voters to bring more ID before their votes could be counted. The Lucas County Board of Elections has provided no evidence that those voters came forward, yet the votes were counted.�

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APRIL 3, 2011 ■ WARD CONTINUED FROM A4 The only thing needed to determine validity is the voter’s name and signature on the envelope. Signature matching was stressed as the key element in determining identification, with that being data that a poll worker would not have access to.

Statistical contradiction Troy said in his March 27 article that, “No one can know for sure how the votes of those 527 ballots were distributed between Mrs. Contrada and Mr. Sarantou because elections board workers separated the ballots from the envelopes. But if those votes were distributed in the same proportion as the total 4,081 provisional ballots that were counted in the race for county commissioner, Democrat Carol Contrada’s lead of 193 evaporates and Mr. Sarantou emerges the winner by 11 votes.”

For Troy’s theory to be plausible, his number of questionable ballots would have had to have been “the” numbers. They were not. The latest numbers available prior to what was stated in court on Feb. 3 showed a total of 331 challenged ballots.

“In 2008, Democrats received 87 percent of the provisionals; Contrada only got 70 percent,” said Demagall.

“Sarantou got more provisional votes than other Republican candidates.”

Using Troy’s theory, even if all 331 challenged provisional ballots were deemed flawed enough to throw out, Contrada would have still won. That’s without the reality that the day the lawsuit was dropped, the numbers were reportedly under the 193 vote margin.

Even Sarantou’s legal team, according to Troy on March 22, decided they were not going to be able to make that type of a statistical argument.

Equal protection In the defendant’s trial brief filed

by Lucas County in Sarantou vs Board of Elections on Feb. 1, the argument was made that validating only the wrong precinct, right polling location provisional ballots that use the last four digits of a Social Security number and not counting similar provisional ballots created a possible violation of the 14th Amendment.

Several court cases referencing the issue of equal protection have cited this argument, including the recent Hunter vs Hamilton, which cited Bush vs Gore in 2000: “Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.”

Matthew McClellen, press secretary for Secretary of State Jon Husted, said in a March 28 email that “The consent decree, which was entered into by the previous Secretary of State and overseen

by the federal courts, carved out the narrow exception (for those using their last four digits of SSN as identification) and boards of elections were instructed on how to handle these. The federal court overseeing this case obviously did not see it as an equal protection issue.”

While she did not want to directly criticize Husted or his office, former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told Toledo Free Press during a phone interview on March 28 that the equal protection argument related to provisional ballots was an area of concern.

“What I will say, is that when faced with a similar situation in 2007, I personally investigated the situation,” Brunner said. “I brought the board members, director and deputy director to Columbus to find out what happened before making a decision.”

Legal advice and directives Howe and Demagall have stated on several occasions that the decisions they made were based on written and oral directives and on legal advice given to them.

“We were told to count them on the signature and not on the Social Security number for right precinct, wrong polling location by Brian Shinn, the head legal person for Secretary of State, in May,” Demagall said March 30.

“All we go by is what we are told; we are not lawyers,” Howe said to

Visit www.toledofreepress.com m Troy March 22. “We are not going to disenfranchise voters through an error a poll worker makes. If that’s their signature, we err on the side of the registered voter.”

The defendant’s trial brief in Sarantou vs Board of Elections made the legal arguments as to why the decision was made to not interview poll workers: “Whenever a voter sought to cast a provisional ballot, the worker at that table directed the voter to the precinct in which that voter would then cast his or her ballot. ... Thus, if a provisional voter cast a ballot in the wrong precinct, it was solely because a poll worker sent him or her to that precinct. Given that the provisional voter did nothing wrong, and the directive on provisional balloting (Directive 201-74) ... the Board decided to count provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct (but proper polling location).”

Howe told Troy March 22, “We were told verbally, with our system we could count it as poll-worker error. At that time that’s what we were told and in checking with other counties, they had the same understanding.”

‘The spin is on’ “Blade coverage has been misleading. I’ve got good, really good people doing a good job,” Kriner said March 30. “The Blade is just looking for reasons to undermine the public confidence in the Board of Elections. Our

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job is to count the vote. They think if they attribute something that’s wrong to someone, that excuses them from responsibility. This is solely to create the opportunity to get Jon Stainbrook on the BOE. The spin is on.”

Looking ahead Changes to the provisional ballot system are expected On March 22 it was said changes were coming and that BOEs had been told to not order a large number of provisional ballot envelopes.

Howe said she’d like to see the system streamlined so that only the information that is legally required to be put on an envelope is listed.

Demagall said a separate area on the envelope for additional information that would be helpful for verification, but not required, would be another suggestion.

Demagall said he wasn’t worried about his future.

“When you are honest, you don’t worry about this stuff,” he said.

“Fact-based reporting of an event is different than reporting on an event and slanting the results of journalistic research to feed the agendas of those who control the presses,” Kriner wrote March 27 on Facebook. ✯ Toledo Free Press web editor Lisa Renee Ward operates the political blog GlassCityJungle.com.

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EDUCATION

By Tom Fitt

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

It isn’t a fair fight.

Dawn Murphy and her fellow elementary teacher specialists are armed only with training and experience, paint brushes, oils, pastels, a few sticks of charcoal, assorted lumps of clay, perhaps a baton and maybe a basketball.

The Toledo Public Schools (TPS) Board of Education holds the most dominant weapons: a checkbook, pink slips and a mailing list of the elementary specialists who will likely receive layoff notices. TPS is proposing it could save $7 million by laying off 132 elementary school art, music, and physical education specialists.

The Board of Education claims that teachers in other concentrations will sufficiently cover the arts, all while it works to install a performing arts academy at Bowsher High School.

Murphy, who teaches at Elmhurst Elementary School, and her 131 colleagues do not believe the premise that the educational results will be equal.

Civil protest

On March 22 — prior to the board’s regularly scheduled meeting — teachers, students and parents staged an afternoon rally outside the board of education offices on East Manhattan Boulevard. The protesters were well-behaved, carrying placards protesting the cuts.

“I thought that it went very well,” Murphy said. “We had a pretty good turnout. We had parents, art teachers, music and phys. ed. (P.E.) teachers, and regular teachers as well.”

Murphy and the other 12 elemen-

tary school art teachers first became aware of the bleakness of their situation when they hosted the 7th Annual TPS Elementary Art Show the first two weeks of March. Board of Education members and Superintendent Jerome Pecko were noticeably absent.

“I hand-delivered invitations to everyone,” Murphy said. “I organize the whole thing; I get the students to bring their artwork (to Space 237 Gallery on North Michigan Avenue). Usually, the superintendent will show, the board members will show, but this year, nothing. It made me feel that we’re not — oh, I can’t find the word. This whole thing leaves me with a loss for words.

They’re taking the creative energy away from the students, telling them that we’re just going to do academics.

As for me, they’re just taking my 15 years of service and saying, ‘We’ll see you later.’ Not even a thank you; just ‘goodbye.’ The program is done and they want nothing to do with it.”

When Patty Mazur, TPS communications director, was asked if there was a reason for the absences at the show’s opening, she said, “I know only that Dr. Pecko was out of town. As for the board members, as far as I understand, the decisions must have been individual. Nothing of it was mentioned in the office.”

TPS Board of Education Vice President Lisa Sobecki said there was not a “boycott” of the annual elementary art show opening by TPS board members.

She said that members are invited to events as many as four evenings per week. On the date of the March art opening, she had the opportunity to share a rare evening with her family.

“I love the arts,” Sobecki said. “Both of my kids have taken instrumental

lessons and played in the school band.

There are student art projects hanging on my walls.”

Already overlooked

Murphy said Pecko had visited her classroom in February and told her that a lot of the proposed layoffs were coming due to state funding.

“It’s all about balancing the budget,” Murphy said. “In a nutshell, he said it was a numbers thing. I felt like I was talking to a brick wall.”

A Facebook group, “KEEP Music, Art & Physical Education Teachers In Toledo Public Schools!” had more than 2,200 members as of March 31.

At present, TPS estimates state funding to be reduced by $28 million for the next school year.

TPS sports have already suffered.

All junior high and freshman sports were cut from district schools. The school board also eliminated certain sports altogether. Wrestling, golf and cross-country were all cut.

Seven non-TPS schools left the City League to form a new league, the Three Rivers Athletic Conference.

James S. Catterall, author and professor of education at UCLA, wrote in his best-selling book “Doing Well

by Doing Good by Doing Art,” that, “Students who proceed through artsrich schools have better outcomes in both academic and social arenas than students who attend arts-poor, or arts-barren schools. The database shows that arts-rich schools are in fact different when it comes to key features of school climate, reported instructional practices, student attendance and social relations, and key assumptions that teachers make about how students learn.” n ART CONTINUES ON A7

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Murphy wants the public to know that, if regular classroom teachers — who she says are “already overloaded as it is” in preparing students for state testing and other curriculum goals — are required to take over the additional assignments of art, music and physical education, student growth cannot possibly be the same.

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How about the loss of $981 million in federal stimulus Recovery Act funds that will dry up July 1? Factoring in the loss of federal money, overall funding for Ohio education will drop 11.5 percent this coming year, according to a report posted recently on CNNMoney.com.

Jim Gault, TPS chief academic officer, said the potential layoff of elementary teacher specialists is an “item which we will start negotiating shortly (with the Toledo Federation of Teachers). There are 132 positions involved.

“We obviously need to have a balanced budget by July 1, per state law.

So, our goal as we go through this is to have closure as quickly as possible.”

He said the cuts may not affect the total number of specialist positions.

“There are a lot of options out there,” he said.

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“The governor has brought forward his budget — we’re looking at the 600-page document, though it’s not yet official — and we are projecting a 14 percent cut to our budget.

As we follow what’s going on in Columbus and look through that document, we are adjusting our numbers as well,” Gault said. “In anticipation of what the governor would do, we factored into our reductions a 14 percent cut from state funding.”

He said TPS cut $10 million two years ago, $39 million last year.

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Lucas County Commissioners voted to replace two Childrens Services Board trustees who were seeking re-appointment.

In a meeting on March 22, Commissioners Tina Skeldon Wozniak, Carol Contrada and Pete Gerken appointed county employees Eric Walker, director of workforce development, and Bridgette Kabat, chief of staff for county commissioners. Those who were seeking reappointment were longtime board members Jeff Zivinski and Diana “Dee” Talmadge.

“It was no discredit to their service or attendance, but so often on boards you need a different look at the operations,” Gerken said.

He said they felt that Kabat’s understanding of finances and funding options within the county and Walker’s knowledge of federal and state law, as well as youth issues, would provide a good fit within Childrens Services.

“The county has gone through quite a lot of changes with downsizing. [Kabat] will be a helpful asset in making changes in these tough economic times,” Wozniak said.

“Jeff Zivinski and Dee Talmadge have been longstanding members of our board. We appreciate their commitment and service to Lucas County Childrens Services. We understand that the commissioners make the appointments to our board and we will work with Eric and Bridgette in the months and years to come,” CSB Executive Director Dean Sparks said. O — Emily B. Gibb

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PROTEST

By Emily B. Gibb

Toledo Free Press News Editor egibb@toledofreepress.com

Take Back the Night, a rally and march to promote awareness about domestic violence, will take place April 9 at the Eastern Community YMCA in Oregon.

“People might have some idea that these things happen, but I don’t think people realize how frequently it happens in our community and that there’s something they can do about it,” said organizer Diane Docis, of the University of Toledo’s sexual assault education and prevention program.

The event sends a message of support and solidarity to domestic abuse survivors as well.

“We still live in a culture that blames victims, so for many survivors, this is the first or only place that tells them ‘it’s not your fault,’” Docis said.

At 6 p.m., the resource fair will open with information from agencies and organizations on involvement and ways to find supportive services.

Also on display is the Clothesline Project and the Silent Witness Project.

The Clothesline Project is more than 200 shirts created by female domestic violence survivors as a way of speaking out against their abuse.

The Silent Witness Project is a group of nearly life-size silhouettes repre-

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This is the 17th year which is exciting because our community is committed to sustaining this important event and also sad that it remains necessary.”

— Diane Docis senting Northwest Ohio women murdered by intimate partners.

“We know too many women who have lost their lives to violence, so it’s also a place to remember women who have been murdered and send a message of support to their friends and families,” Docis said.

The rally starts at 7 p.m. with speakers, poets and performers, including Lady T, Spectrum and No Excuses, followed by the women’s march.

During the march is a men’s program led by Heath Huber that addresses what men can do to speak up and take action against domestic violence.

After the march is the survivor speak out, an open mic for any survivor who wants to talk about her

experience. Since it can be overwhelming for women affected by violence, there will be “safe people” there for them, and free child care provided by the YMCA. A bus will shuttle attendees from UT to Eastern Community YMCA and back. Docis said she expects to see anywhere from 200 to 400 people.

“This is the 17th year which is exciting because our community is committed to sustaining this important event and also sad that it remains necessary. But it is amazing in terms of the numbers of people that come out for it,” she said.

The high-energy march is an opportunity for the community to stand together and literally take back the night, Docis said.

“We all get messages about what we’re supposed to do to keep ourselves safe at night. This march is a response to that message saying ‘We all have the right to be safe not only on the streets, but in our homes and on campuses,’” she said. “Prevention isn’t about telling [women] to change their behavior, it’s stopping violence against them.”

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STORMING BACK

Editor’s note: Toledo Free Press will follow the Blank family of Millbury for the next year as they rebuild their lives after a June 5 tornado destroyed their Main Street home.

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

Ed Blank’s grandson, Noah, panics during storms. Ever since the June 5 tornado, it doesn’t matter if it is thunder, rain or high winds, he gets anxious. The 9-year-old is so frightened of bad weather that if he is at school, he wants to go home. If he is at home, he wants to go to a basement.

“We take it on a day-by-day basis,” said his dad Eddie Blank. “If there is a storm, we assure him that what happened was very rare.”

But Noah’s fears are founded. He was in his grandpa’s basement the night of the tornado. He and his dad and stepmother, Michelle, had all sought refuge there because they do not have a basement.

At the time, it seemed like the safest place to be. It only took a few minutes to realize it was the worst. The house was destroyed by the tornado, with them left shaken in the basement.

“We only live a half-mile south of my dad. Had we stayed home, we would have been fine,” Eddie said.

Noah witnessed a warlike scene unfold in front of him. To this day, he still talks about the people he saw bruised, battered and crying.

“He will and we will have to deal with this for years. I feel awful for the kid to live through that and see what he saw,” Eddie said.

The third-grader has received some help through Lake Elementary School. Counselor Lauren Harrison said Noah was part of a small group counseling session BLANK she conducted specifically for students who were directly affected by the tornado. She let the students set the tone.

“I wanted the kids to take charge because in this particular group I wasn’t an expert. I didn’t go through the devastation they experienced. I wanted it to be a time for them to reflect.”

The nine members all agreed on the group name “The Survivors.” Harrison said the young Walters girl who lost her family attends Lake Elementary, but she could not reveal if she was part of the group. Noah’s grandparents lived next to the Walters.

After gathering week after week, Harrison said everyone in the group got to know each other. They talked

about what they remembered from that night, their losses and what they missed the most. They talked about moving into their new houses. But at anytime, a member could decide not to share.

“I wanted them to know that it was completely normal to have these new fears — rain, the dark, storms, tornadoes — a lot were embarrassed.”

Harrison said when it rains in the morning she sometimes has to children into the FAMILY: help school because they do not want to get out of their cars. When there was a tornado warning in the fall, more than 80 students left because of their fears or their parents’ fears.

“They aren’t the only ones scared right now. The whole community in general [is scared]. It was scary for everybody,” she said.

One thing that helped Noah and his group was learning about tornadoes. Although they feared tornadoes, they were all interested in them, Harrison said.

“We talked about how they form; we talked about how we keep safe.”

Eddie said the family is considering additional counseling, but is thankful

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for the school’s help. It hasn’t helped Noah that his school is attached to the high school, which was also destroyed by the tornado.

“All the way through mid-July, if not August, if he was in the car, we couldn’t drive by the school. I would have to detour,” Eddie said. “I couldn’t drive past my dad’s house either. He would get worked up about it. We took a lot of detours to avoid him from having to relive it.”

Eddie said the best therapy is talking and helping Noah understand that every time a storm occurs “a house isn’t going to be blown away.”

But everyone in the family is still frightened after living through the tornado.

“We are quick to react. Even myself, and my wife are extremely jumpy.

Back in the day, if there was a tornado watch or thunderstorm, we didn’t do anything. Now, we react or overreact,” Eddie said. ✯

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Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak and officials from Toledo Public Schools, Toledo Federation of Teachers, Toledo Community Foundation and Partners in Education announced plans for the Committed College Coach Program at a press conference at Grove Patterson Academy on March 21.

The program aims to help fifth-grade students from Sherman Elementary and Grove Patterson Academy find WOZNIAK a “college coach,� a mentor who will commit to help them along their educational journey until they are

sophomores in college. Together with the University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, Lourdes College and Owens Community College, students will have the resources and help to continue their path to college. “We really want more and more young people to attend college,� Wozniak said at the news conference. “We want all of you to attend college.

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Wozniak said only about 14 percent of Lucas County adult residents have a bachelor’s degree. She approached TPS and other partners to help boost that rate starting with the youth.

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Fifth grade teachers from both elementary schools were already trained to help with the program and, eventually, the guidance counselors will be as well.

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Concert set for April 11.

By Sarah Ottney Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor sottney@toledofreepress.com

Frank DiLallo hopes to leave a legacy of changed lives.

The licensed professional counselor, who currently serves as prevention/intervention schools consultant for the Catholic Diocese of Toledo, has developed an innovative antibullying curriculum he hopes area schools will implement.

After testing and tweaking the curriculum for 10 years, DiLallo recently published a teacher’s manual and student workbook that outlines the three-phase program.

A faith-based version called “Peace Be With You: Christ-Centered Bullying Solution,” co-authored by Thom Powers, weaves Bible verses and theology into the text and was published in March. A secular version called “Peace2U: Three-Phase Bullying Solution” is due in May. “As far as I know, this would be the first Scripture-based bullying prevention program that exists,” DiLallo said.

Both versions were published by Alliance for Catholic Education Press at the University of Notre Dame and come with a free digital download of “The Peace Project,” a CD DiLallo released in 2001, which has been remixed to sync with the workbooks. The CD features original music composed and performed by local Grammy-nominated musician Tim Story.

The idea is for educators to use the lesson plans to implement the curriculum without DiLallo, he said.

“As I’ve been doing this, I’ve realized there’s just not enough of me to go around and I need to start writing on this. What if I die tomorrow? I really want to leave a legacy here,” DiLallo said.

National attention

A series of recent teen suicides blamed on bullying generated nationwide attention, with celebrities like Crystal Bowersox and Justin Bieber addressing the issue as well, DiLallo said.

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Frank Dilallo has worked on his anti-bullying curriculum for 1o years. There are secular and faith-based versions available.

“People know what bullying is and how to identify it,” DiLallo said.

“Now what they want to know is what do we do about it? What kind of strategies are out there?”

Targeting grades four through eight, DiLallo’s program has been used in more than 60 schools in Ohio and Michigan, mostly Catholic schools.

Locally, he has worked with St. Benedict Catholic School, St. John’s Jesuit Academy and Christ the King School.

The first phase of the program focuses on leadership, helping students understand social responsibility.

“My hope is for students to realize that everything they say and everything they do has impact and influences others, even if they consider themselves followers,” DiLallo said. “A lot of it is about attitude. I want them to own that they have the power to influence the kind of school they want to create.”

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In the second phase, which focuses on interpersonal skills, students circle their chairs and are invited to share how they’ve wronged others or been wronged and to reconcile by working through a five-step conflict resolution process DiLallo calls Clear Talk.

“This is what sets my model apart from anything I’ve studied and seen out there,” DiLallo said. “Doing it as a community makes it evident that if this happened as a community, the only way to remedy it is as a community. We need to make it transparent and have others hold us accountable. It’s this under-theradar stuff that goes on that makes bullying so pervasive in our culture.”

DiLallo said he find most students are aware of bullying behavior around them. He uses this to illustrate how such behavior coupled with active and passive bystanders form a top-heavy inverted triangle that puts pressure di-

rectly on the targeted student.

“I’ll ask ‘What did you do?’ ‘Nothing.’

‘What did you do?’ ‘I laughed,’” DiLallo said. “So then what we have is 90 percent of the classroom admitting they were an active or passive bystander.

So then I can show them an inverted triangle right there in their classroom.

And now some of them are weeping because they are now in touch with the reality. Usually there’s a lot of apologies that happen. It’s really, really powerful.”

The third phase, focusing on intrapersonal skills, works to further build personal abilities to combat bullying behavior.

Students responding

Since November, DiLallo has been working with sixth, seventh and eighth-graders at Toledo’s St. Benedict Catholic School.

Teri Fischer, sixth-grade home-

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“Just this week my sixth-graders said, ‘We need to do one of the sessions where we get in the circle and support someone who is trying to work out a problem,’” Fischer said. “So I see that as a positive sign.”

Fischer also had an eighth-grade student write a journal entry about the circle and how it changed her life for the better.

“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so cool,’” Fischer said. “I think the kids have been given the tools to help solve some of the issues, especially with the communication part of what do you do when you’re faced with this. I also think just getting it out in the open that adults are aware of what’s going on, kids don’t feel so alone.” n BULLYING CONTINUES ON A15

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‘Code of Silence’

A free concert open to the public is set for 7 to 8:30 p.m., featuring performances by Domann as well as local singer-songwriter Kerry Clark, who will debut “The Code of Silence,” an anti-bullying song written by DiLallo.

Clark got to know DiLallo through their mutual work with nonprofits.

“I was truly moved by his heart, his dedication to people, his desire for healing and hope,” Clark said in an email. “[What drew me in was] Frank’s passion and ability to not only understand kids and their hurts, but the way to hope and healing.”

Clark said he thinks “The Code of

TRANSITIONS IN EDUCATION Silence” will resonate with listeners because almost everyone can recall an instance of bullying behavior, either in their own life or around them. He hopes the song will remind people it’s never too late to make amends.

Case in point is “Howard Gray,” the true story of Domann’s CLARK remorse about laughing at a vulnerable junior high classmate.

After writing the song, deDomann cided to find out what happened to the real DOMANN Howard. After corresponding by letter, the two eventually met in person and now speak regularly.

“He’s not had an easy life. He’s illiterate because he quit school as a result of those kind of experiences,” Domann said. “He’s nonverbal and his self-esteem is low. He still carries that burden from years ago, but this song is something that brings him a lot of hope and he’s very excited about it.”

Hearing “Howard Gray” for the

first time, DiLallo came to a similar realization about his own bullying behavior toward a former classmate.

“It actually touched me to the core,” DiLallo said. “I cried, it hit me that deeply.”

Domann said he hopes listeners gain empathy, compassion and hope from his song.

“I hope people not only feel empathy, but put that into action and do something to make sure someone knows they care,” Domann said. “Even if I can’t stop what’s going on, to have the courage to say something nice: ‘Hello, I’m sorry that happened to you.

Do you want to talk about it?’ Out of that comes hope for everybody and without hope, we just can’t live.”

Social media has added a new element to age-old bullying behaviors, Domann said.

“It can be a real blessing but it can also be an avenue for more hurt,” Domann said. “I think it’s important to do exactly what Frank and others are doing and that’s to plant some good seeds where you are. I can’t do a thing about bullying going on in Cincinnati or Los Angeles, but I can maybe make some kind of positive impact on some kids and adults here and there. And that’s just got to be enough. We do what we can and we leave the rest up to spiritual forces or God.” For more information, visit www. peace2usolutions.com. O

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Actions to take regarding social network aggression I was recently asked, “Any ideas on how to deal with teens using Facebook to communicate hateful/racist speech and how schools could address this?”

Do all of the following: 1. Contact Facebook regarding the inappropriate content. Action can be taken on the Facebook website below.

2. If you have not already, have the student make a copy of the page with the inappropriate content.

3. With the student, try to identify the “offender(s)” involved.

4. If there are threats on the site, contact the police. (I have a contact person who works with the Toledo Police Department in the Computer Crimes lab if you need a name.)

5. Even if there are not specific threats, the police should be able to help you identify the offenders if you need help.

6. Any students listed as “Friends” become suspects or accomplices. Do not rule anyone out until you have ruled them out.

7. Contact all parents of those you narrow down to being responsible.

I have a number of helpful links on my website: www.peace2usolutions. com. Click on “Resources.” http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety=teens Where else can I report inappropriate or objectionable actions that have been taken against children?

Facebook takes the safety of its users very seriously and makes significant efforts to ensure that the interactions encountered on the site are safe. We strongly urge all users to report suspicious people and inappropriate people or content by clicking on the “Report” link located throughout the site. Users under the age of 18 are also encouraged to talk to a parent or responsible adult immediately if someone online says or does something to make them feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way. O — Frank DiLallo

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‘Bigger, better’ Owens Learning Center earns student approval

By Sarah Ottney

Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor sottney@toledofreepress.com

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The recent expansion and renovation of Owens Community College’s Downtown educational facility, completed for the start of spring semester, has been a hit with students and staff alike, the site’s director says.

“It’s been working out really, really well,” said Willie Williams, director of Owens Community College Learning Center at The Source, located at 1301 Monroe St. “The students have really responded to it. They are appreciative of the changes.”

In January, the learning center debuted two additional classrooms, a new computer lab and an expanded lounge area. The renovation also relocated and improved the center’s statetested nursing assistant classroom.

The 12,726-square-foot center now features eight classrooms, three computer labs, two offices, one reception area and one experiential learning classroom specific to the state-tested nursing assistant curriculum, according to a news release.

“We definitely want to make sure we are accommodating our students here and making sure we have all the resources that will better enable them to succeed,” Williams said. “We also wanted to show the rest of the community that we have resources available to them.”

The center, which opened in fall semester 2007, allows Owens students to take certain classes Downtown instead of at the Toledo campus in Perrysburg. This semester, about

600 students are enrolled in more than 68 courses, which are offered in the mornings, afternoons and evenings, Williams said.

The new nursing classroom is the piece of the renovation project Williams is most proud of.

The previous classroom was simply a space created by temporary walls, which allowed noises to carry over and passersby to peek in; the new space is a walled classroom away from noise and traffic, Williams said.

Brenda Liggins, who is studying medical assisting at the center, said the new classroom is an improvement.

“It’s bigger and way more spacious,” Liggins said. “It’s easier to concentrate. Now we have our own little classroom.”

The classroom also includes an adjacent lab area where practice mannequins and other equipment can be stored and easily accessed.

“The instructors have told me numerous times that this is the best setup for them because if a student is not really understanding what they are reading or doing, they can just walk through the doorway and they’re in their nursing lab,” Williams said.

Each new classroom also features a state-of-the-art multimedia Extron Control Panel, which includes a computer, Blu-ray DVD player, audio amplifier and digital document camera — like an overhead projector but able to project a piece of paper without having to first make it a transparent slide. Owens intends to install the technology in all the classrooms eventually, Williams said.

The addition of a computer lab set

aside for students to study, research and do homework was a welcome change from before when students shared computer time with classes and placement testing sessions, Williams said.

Alisha King, a criminal justice and corrections major, recalls having to

stop her work, pack her belongings and move in and out of the labs as they were needed for other purposes.

“I’m glad we got a lab that’s open constantly,” King said. “Now it’s just easier.”

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“There’s just more room — a whole lot more room actually,” King said.

“Students can just relax and have a place to chill after class.”

Liggins said she likes to study in the lounge.

“You can just go back there and study and it’s real quiet,” Liggins said. “There’s always a computer available to get work done so it’s very convenient.”

The renovation was designed

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of Sylvania and MDA Engineering Inc. of Maumee; Van Tassel Construction Corp. of Sylvania was the general contractor, according to the release.

The cost for the renovation was $51,000, with funding coming from Owens’ general fund, said Brad Meyer, director of public and media relations.

King said she loves the center.

“Everybody down here is very helpful,” King said. “They try their best to get you where you need to be.”

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WGTE’s literacy program, First Book, was announced as the recipient of a $1,000 grant from United Way of Greater Toledo at a reception March 29.

Twelve area organizations competed for the award via a 72-hour online poll between March 25 and March 28. More than 900 people voted, said Bill Kitson, president and CEO of United Way. The programs were spotlighted in Toledo Free Press’ recently completed 12-part “Education Champions” series, a partnership with United Way and Doni Miller of 13abc’s “Bridges” program. The reception was hosted at United Way by Columbia Gas of Ohio.

Kathy Smith, WGTE’s director of early learning and outreach, accepted the check on behalf of First Book, crediting a social networking campaign for rallying enough support to emerge the top vote-getter in what Kitson said was a tight race “First Book is just a simple program that provides new storybooks to kids who would ordinarily not have the opportunity to own a book of their own,” Smith said. “This will just mean we’ll be able to buy more books and

serve more kids.”

So far this school year, the program has distributed 2,151 books through 13 partner organizations in Lucas, Ottawa and Wood counties, mainly to low-income children ages 3 to 5.

Smith said the online voting process brought the program to the attention of many people who hadn’t been aware of it, including one person interested in starting a similar program in Cleveland.

The $1,000 was provided by United Way’s education committee, one of the organization’s Community Solutions teams.

“It comes out of our allocated fund that we’ve raised from the community,” said Pat Holmberg, volunteer chairperson of the committee. “We thought this was an extraordinarily worthwhile, important adventure to see how it worked.”

The Education Champions series, launched in January, spotlighted a variety of community educational initiatives, including after-school programs, teen pregnancy prevention initiatives, an in-school mobile dentistry program and more.

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through, there is still progress being made one student at a time — that’s what we wanted to celebrate,” said Michael S. Miller, editor in chief of Toledo Free Press, at the gathering.

Miller said that while the contest is done, Toledo Free Press will continue spotlighting the issue under the “Education Champions” banner.

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“I thought I knew an awful lot about Toledo. I’m around a lot, know a lot of people, see a lot of things going on, but I was amazed at some of the things you all are doing very quietly and very effectively,” Doni Miller said. “You’re finding ways to make your resources work for the betterment of these kids.”

Kitson said education is the com-

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Heidelberg, Davis sign transfer partnership BGSU film spotlights arts scene Toledo’s Davis College signed an agreement March 24 with Heidelberg University in Tiffin that will make it easier for Davis students to transfer to Heidelberg’s Arrowhead Park campus in Maumee to continue their education.

The agreement has been in the works for about six months, said Allen Underwood, director of Heidelberg at Arrowhead Park.

“We’re excited about it because it will make it easy for Davis graduates to continue their education and pursue a bachelor’s degree at Heidelberg,” Underwood said. “We have a pretty good number of Davis students already here so we knew it was a good time to strengthen the relationship between the two schools.”

Heidelberg president Robert H. Huntington, Davis

president Diane Brunner and other school officials met at the Arrowhead campus to sign the agreement, the fifth such partnership established between community and technical colleges and Heidelberg, according to a news release.

Heidelberg at Arrowhead Park, 1757 Indian Wood Circle, offers bachelor’s degrees in accounting, business administration and psychology as well as master’s degrees in business administration, counseling and education.

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“Creative Economy of Northwest Ohio,” a 30-minute documentary on the connection between the arts industries and regional economic stability, premiered March 31 on WBGU-TV. The documentary explores results from a 2007 study by the Bowling Green State University Center for Regional Development. The study showed that the creative economy — artists, designers, publishers, historical societies and more — produces $2.4 billion in annual impact, said Katerina Ruedi Ray, director of the BGSU School of Art. Individuals and organizations within the arts industries also create and maintain 33,000 jobs and generate $250 million in federal, state and local taxes each year.

Ray approached WBGU-TV about making the documentary “to actually breathe life into the data and show how the creative economy attracts other kinds of business, builds community and enhances preparation of young people for the 21st century work force,” she said.

In Northwest Ohio, there are 400

businesses that can be considered artsrelated, Tony Howard, director/producer of WBGU-TV and the film, said.

“If the arts industry wasn’t there, that money might not be around this region,” he said.

Representatives from the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Lima Veterans Memorial Civic Center and Madhouse Creative are included, as well as Sauder Village in Archbold.

“Creative individuals have revived entire neighborhoods through attracting artists and designers,” Ray said.

Historical societies are considered part of the creative sector because not only do they teach young people how to communicate with the public, Ray said, but they also usually have arts involved, such as the hot glass studio at Sauder Village.

“Creative Economy of Northwest Ohio” premieres at 10 p.m. March 31 with additional airings in April and May. For more information and to see a trailer, visit arts.bgsu.edu. O — Emily B. Gibb

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ecently, two magazines named The Huntington Center one of America’s top venues. Pollstar. com named the arena one the top 100 worldwide venues and Venues Today ranked the arena 11th on its list for arenas with 5,000 to 10,000 seats.

Since its opening, the $105 million, 8,000-plus-seat arena has attracted national touring concerts, family shows and sporting events. Its main sporting event, hockey, is facilitated by the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye, General Manager Joe Napoli and head coach Nick Vitucci.

Napoli, GM of the Walleye and Mud Hens, has one of Toledo’s toughest jobs — selling sports entertainment to a city laboring under a 10 percent unemployment rate. I asked Napoli how Toledo hockey fans have adapted to the Walleye and the new arena.

“Toledo hockey fans have enthusiastically embraced the Walleye,” he said.

“The Walleye are among the league leaders in season ticket sales and merchandise sales again this year. Scarborough Research also placed Toledo as one of the top five markets in America for avid minor league hockey fans.”

Head coach Nick Vitucci is no stranger to hockey. Having decided to put down his plumber’s wrench for a goalie’s stick, he has been involved with the ECHL since its inception.

Playing 14 seasons as a goalie and being inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame’s inaugural class, Vitucci decided that coaching would be his next challenge. He started as head coach in 2003 with The Toledo Storm and after two-year hiatus remained Toledo’s Head coach with the Walleye.

So what’s it like to be the head

coach of The Walleye? I spent a day with Vitucci to find out.

I met Vitucci on a 9 a.m. Saturday gameday morning in his office at the Huntington Center. With a bagel and coffee he sat and watched video of the game the Walleye won the night before on his laptop. Using STEVA software, he cut clips from the game to show players what he’d seen. Around 10 a.m., players hit the ice for their skatearound while the coach gave me a tour of the locker room.

The locker room was designed to keep the trainer’s room and equipment room up front and the player’s lounge and stalls in the back. This keeps any activity or commotion away from Vitucci while he talks to his players. The coach’s office is located in the middle with a TV, computers and a couch. After the tour, the coach then walked me out on the ice. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as slippery as I expected.

During the skatearound, players wore white and blue jerseys while running drills. The forwards took shots and the defense defended the goal. The coach noticed everything on the ice, including the opposing coach off the ice scouting the team. After the skatearound, the coach headed back to the computer to tighten up loose ends.

The computer is loaded with payroll, free agents and scores of incoming emails. Common email requests for the coach include hockey players who want a try out for the Walleye. This is actually possible because for the past two years, the Walleye have offered a summer free agent camp. Anybody who thinks they have what it takes is given a whole weekend to prove it. Unfortunately, the past two camps have not been able to produce a signed player.

“It’s only a matter of time until we sign a walk-on,” Vitucci said.

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Game time After the skatearound, the players and staff sign one of the camouflage jerseys being worn that night to be auctioned for charity. One of the Walleye’s own, Pvt. Aaron Bauer, who recently went active, will soon receive his personalized Walleye jersey from the team. Pvt. Bauer is an assistant equipment manager for the Walleye.

Soon after the military is recognized, the national anthem is played and it is game time.

The game I watched, versus Elmira, almost went down in history before the first period was finished.

Elmira scored six goals to Toledo’s one. When the Boyer horn blew signaling the end of the period, the coach left the ice and walked straight forward to the locker room. Vitucci challenged his players to work harder and believe they could come back.

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That must have worked because when the Walleye hit the ice to start the second period, the players were all business. Changing course, the Walleye ended the second period down 7-5. Still walking straight to the locker room, Vitucci told the players, “to keep the intensity and keep the belief.”

The third period started with three quick goals and with the last goal at 12:41 left in the third, the Walleye held on to win 8-7. The Walleye, who were once down 5-0, came back for an unbelievable win.

After the game, it was time for the Walleye players to auction off their military jerseys one by one. The Walleyes charities include Heroes in Ac-

tion and Honor Flight. Heroes in Action of Toledo is a nonprofit that sends care packages to military personnel and helps aid their families while they are away during service. Honor Flight is a nonprofit that flies veterans from Northwest Ohio to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorials that built and dedicated for their service.

Behind the scenes Spending the day with the Walleye, I saw all the behind-the-scenes activity, from players being counseled in the locker room to the Zamboni being cleaned. Toledo should be thankful for the $105 million venue located Downtown and the people who work there for the fans’ enjoyment. ✯

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American Broadband and Telecommunications of Toledo recently secured a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan through Huntington National Bank for its financial restructuring.

American Broadband obtained the loan for the primary reason of restructuring its finances to buy out two venture capital funds that were minority shareholders in the company, according to President Jeff Ansted. He said the company also wanted a more conventional banking relationship.

“We conducted a competitive process with several banks in Northwest Ohio to obtain financing that was rate sensitive,” Ansted said.

Huntington National Bank came up with the SBA concept and presented it to the management team at American Broadband, said Donald Dietrich, vice president of business banking and the relationship manager at Huntington for American Broadband.

“The SBA program matched their needs. SBA works for existing companies, providing loans that help customers to grow, create jobs and revitalize the economy,” Dietrich said.

Huntington established a relationship and understands our short- and long-term financing requirements, Ansted said.

“Most banks are interested in where you’ve been, not where you’re going. With our growth, where we’ve been was inconsequential to where we’re going,” he said.

American Broadband was founded in Sylvania in 2004 and moved to its current location in Downtown Toledo in 2006. It has experienced doubledigit growth in sales every year since 2004, becoming one of the top telecommunications companies in the Midwest, Ansted said.

“We had multiple options but decided we wanted a bank to come into our business for a long-term relationship. We expect to have a long-term relationship with Huntington,” he said.

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operating accounts for the firm.

“We value relationships with our customers and knowing their business,” said Jeremy Gutierrez, vice president and market manager for Northwest Ohio at Huntington.

American Broadband began its financing quest in February 2010 by talking to many banks. It decided on the SBA loan through Huntington in the second quarter and closed in the fourth quarter last year, according to Ansted who declined to reveal the amount of the SBA loan.

“It was a comfortable pace for us and allowed us to meet our date for refinancing,” he said.

Ansted reported that the company achieved its goal to pay off the venture capital funds, one from the East Coast and the Plymouth Venture Fund in Ann Arbor, which invested in the firm in 2008. American Broadband offers telecommunications services to residential and business customers, including local and long distance telephone, highspeed Internet, and Dish Network digital television.

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tions company you’ve never heard of,” Ansted said, explaining how the company generates business with very little advertising.

The company uses relationship marketing with a sales force for commercial accounts that include small businesses to large institutions and municipal operations for entire cities, he said.

It uses telemarketing to respond to leads from its website and to potential customers with competitive rates determined by market analysis.

Ansted said the company averages 200 new residential customers every day, providing voice, Internet and television services.

“People buy our service because of its value, customer service and superior technology,” Ansted said.

The company currently has 58 full- and part-time employees in customer service, sales and network engineering. It provides installation for customers in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan while subcontracting service for installations when it’s more economical.

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Huntington Bank is dedicated to contributing to the growth of American Broadband and other local businesses, Gutierrez said.

“We are committed to meeting the needs of the business community in Toledo and Northwest Ohio, which is our home,” he said. Both he and Dietrich work out of the bank’s Toledo offices.

Huntington Bank is an SBA preferred lender, which empowers the bank to make decisions on loans that fit the program without going through the SBA district office in Cleveland, reported Gutierrez. The SBA staff at Huntington is a dedicated group of experts and the primary reason for its leadership in SBA loans.

Huntington is the No. 1 SBA lender in Ohio and fourth largest SBA lender in the U.S., according to Gutierrez. The bank wrote 812 SBA loans totaling $124 million in 2010 and has written 403 loans for $64 million yearto-date in 2011, he reported.

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hough the market has con- that had been delayed were finally tinued to rise in recent weeks made, and this drove much of the amid bad news, its pace has post-crash recovery.

Now, with the number of discourindeed slowed and it appears to be aged workers continuing to rise and entering a holding pattern.

This week consumer confidence the unemployment number failing numbers fell, presumably due to rising to make substantial improvement, inflation expectations. Food prices, much of this consumer spending has the subject of many recent headlines, dissipated. Thankfully we seem to have continued to increase, while have stopped shedding jobs and have GDP growth has begun to slow. The even seen a slight uptick in private sector employment, but housing market, after the job market simply staging a noted recovery hasn’t kept a pace necafter the real estate essary to fuel further market crash in 2007economic growth. ’08, has leveled off as Keep in mind that inventory remains high. these developments Housing prices have even have nothing to do with fallen in some markets.

Japan or the Middle We’ve written beEast. Just as we profore and we maintain that presently inflation Dock David TREECE jected the day of the earthquake in Japan: fears appear unjustified.

Though prices are rising, money neither the events of that day or the supply growth hasn’t been outpacing continuing fallout will have lasting GDP. In fact, money supply hasn’t impacts on the market. Though the even been growing. Unfortunately markets did experience initial shock, they quickly rallied to their previous that’s beside the point.

It seems that the market’s re- levels. The phrase we used at the time covery since the 2008 crash may be was that “events don’t shape markets, petering as the flow of good news on they shock markets.� We believe that the economy has stopped flowing. The continues to hold true.

The markets now are not being biggest issue remains above-average unemployment; though personal in- shaped by events in the Middle East comes are up, the rise hasn’t been suf- or the Far East, but by developing economic circumstances right here ficient to encourage investors.

This confluence of factors has, un- in the United States. Before the marfortunately, led to what is beginning to kets can continue higher, we need to look like a stall in the recoveries of the see new good news on the economy.

Most importantly, we need to see furU.S. economy and financial markets.

There’s an old saying in finance ther recovery in employment, which that “markets don’t react to the same has been extremely mild so far. There news twice.â€? Right now, that’s exactly are still plenty of investors sitting on where we find ourselves. Over the the sidelines — many more bulls in past two years the picture has bright- the making. What they need, though, ened for the U.S. economy as busi- is something to drive optimism and ness has stabilized, and the market keep the recovery rolling. âœŻ has rallied on that optimism. Now the news has stopped improving and Dock David Treece is a discretionary money manager with Treece Investthe market has stalled.

The question we’re now asking ment Advisory Corp. and a stockourselves is whether this recovery has broker licensed with FINRA. He works for Treece Financial Services run as far as it can without jobs.

The economy has come quite Corp and also serves as editor of the a ways in two years, but admit- financial news site Green Faucet and tedly the one aspect that has been as a business commentator for Toledo lacking is in employment. After the Free Press. The above information is 2008 crash that led many to tighten the express opinion of Dock David their purse strings, most consumers Treece and should not be construed began treating themselves. Holiday as investment advice or used without spending brightened, purchases outside verification.

ostalgia is a yearning for the past or a longing to go back to a particular period in time. There can be happy thoughts of the past, but nostalgia often creates melancholy feelings knowing that the past is gone.

When I, Mark, think of nostalgia, I think of happy times of my childhood, family vacations, the music of my youthful Mark years, friends from Nolan high school and college, meeting my wife for the first time, the birth of my three children and many other memories. I often think it would be cool to be able to pick out periods in time and go back for a few hours and experience those moments again.

I recently saw a picture of my three children standing outside our house the day my middle son Ryan was getting ready to get on the school bus for the first time. His brother Brett and sister Caitlyn were standing outside with him as he was anticipating this experience. How great would it be to go back there and be in that moment again? That was a happy time but it causes a feeling of sadness knowing that it has come and gone.

What makes you feel nostalgic?

For many it is the soundtrack to your life. For me, it is the sound of Peter Frampton playing on the PA system in the high school lunch room. His album “Frampton Comes Alive� became the biggest seller in live rock album history at the time, selling more than 10 million copies. Every time Peter comes to town to play a concert, I CLAIR am there because BAKER I love hearing him play the music from my youth.

I tried to think of some things that make me feel nostalgic and came up with a list of 10. âœŻ Black-and-white TV âœŻ 8-track tapes âœŻ Popcorn cooked in oil in a pan âœŻ Walking to school (two miles in the rain and snow and we liked!) âœŻ Cartoons only on Saturdays âœŻ Four TV channels to choose from âœŻ Pez candy dispensers âœŻ The Fonz saying “Sit on it!â€? âœŻ The Ford Pinto âœŻ Chuckles Candy (the official candy of The Retirement Guys) Being too nostalgic can be dangerous. If all we do is long for the past, we will not be able to enjoy the present. We will not be able to pay at-

tention to things that need to be addressed now, like planning for and enjoying retirement.

It used to be that, like my grandfather, you could work for a corporation your entire career and know you would have a secure retirement. It is very common now to see folks out of work mid-career. This is why it is important to pay close attention to your retirement planning. There is a difference between investing your money and creating a real plan with purpose that is based on time frames, risk tolerance, current age, etc.

One way to help you stay on track is to visit www.retirementguysnetwork.com and request a free copy of “11 Biggest Retirement Mistakes To Avoid.� Nolan and I would like to know what you feel nostalgic about.

Post your thoughts online with us at www.toledofreepress.com. âœŻ For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www. retirementguysradio.com. Securities and Investment Advisory Services are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. NEXT Financial Group Inc nor its representatives provide tax advice. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537. (419) 842-0550.

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BRUCE BAUMHOWER IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS LOCAL 12.

By Duane Ramsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

The United Auto Workers in Northwest Ohio is working with the companies that employ its members to overcome the economic recession.

“We’re setting the standards for efficiency and quality and we give all the credit to the workers for achieving such success in an adverse climate,” said Ken Lortz, director of UAW Region 2B, which covers Ohio.

Lortz reported that Region 2B represents 164 different local units of the UAW and 297 collective bargaining agreements in Ohio.

“We’ve been working on three very positive steps for some time and we’re going to have some big announcements coming our way in the near future,” Lortz said about

potential new business and jobs for this region.

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur echoed that sentiment.

“I believe what the UAW has done in Northwest Ohio is transformational and it’s not been by accident. We’ve had phenomenal leadership in labor and management that’s unique in the industry. Workers here display an extraordinary work ethic,” she said.

Kaptur said she is optimistic about the future of the auto industry in Toledo but wishes that Japan would open its market to U.S. products and China would compete fairly.

“I believe Toledo is the center of the modern automotive industry in the U.S.,” she said.

UAW Local 12 represents 7,600 members of 53 different units in Northwest Ohio. About 2,400 of those workers are employed at Chrysler’s Toledo Assembly Complex (TAC), as Fiat recently renamed it.

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The United Auto Workers (UAW) is working with numerous smaller companies in Northwest Ohio to help them achieve prosperity and create job security for its members.

Chrysler’s decision to outsource the production of components for its vehicles and focus its attention on assembly at the two Jeep plants in Toledo created opportunities for Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers in the area, according to Bruce Baumhower, president of the UAW Local 12.

“We’re trying to find every competitive advantage in the most competitive industry in the world,” Baumhower said. “We want to bring more suppliers to Toledo to be closer to the assembly plants and eliminate a lot of the transportation costs.”

Baumhower said the UAW is putting more people to work at existing smaller companies in the area that are producing components for the vehicles made at the local Jeep assembly plants. Many of those components were originally made by

workers in the Jeep plants, he said.

Toledo Molding & Die. (TMD) is a Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier to the automotive industry that has taken advantage of the opportunity to produce components for Chrysler. The local family-owned business operates facilities in Toledo, Tiffin, Delphos and Bowling Green, which manufacture various components.

“We put the investment into the business but it doesn’t work without the work force making quality products and always looking forward,” said Don Harbaugh, president and CEO of TMD. The firm’s Toledo plant produces instrument panels for Jeep Wrangler models in a portion of the former DeVilbiss Company plant on Phillips Avenue. The glove boxes for those panels, along with door panels and center console units for the Wrangler, are made at TMD’s plant in Tiffin.

Mark Harbaugh, plant manager at TMD, said the workers build the panels in the actual sequence they get installed in vehicles within three to four hours in what is known as “just-in-time” delivery in the automotive industry.

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Harbaugh said the location of that plant is critical to meeting the schedule of delivering 16 truckloads of panels to the nearby Chrysler assembly plant on a daily basis. The plant employs 100 UAW workers and 15 salaried management employees.

“Making interior components for the automotive industry was a very new business for Toledo Molding & Die. They have a much higher set of quality requirements,” Harbaugh said.

He said TMD was fortunate to find UAW members with applicable manufacturing experience so the training curve is much smaller. The Toledo plant became a union shop shortly after it opened in 2006 as they were negotiating a contract with the UAW at that time.

Harbaugh works closely with Rich Crayon, president of the UAW Local 12 unit at the plant, to make sure labor and management are working together for mutual success.

“The biggest key to success is mutual respect. We don’t believe in an authoritative environment and we know we have to work together to be successful,” Harbaugh said. “We may not always agree on everything but our objective is to provide quality products and maintain job security for all our employees.”

Mark’s grandfather, Melvin Harbaugh, became involved with an original pattern and mold shop in 1955.

The family purchased the business in 1989. His father, also named Melvin, recently retired, leaving Don and Mark to operate the business.

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TAC includes the Liberty plant, formerly known as the Toledo North Assembly Plant, which opened in 2001, and the Wrangler plant, formerly known as the Toledo Supplier Park, which opened in 2006.

Chrysler recently acquired the paint shop operations at the Wrangler plant from Magna International of Canada. Chrysler operates the final assembly there while the body shop is operated by KUKA, a German Company, and the chassis operation by Mobis North America, a division of Hyundai in Korea.

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from that plant to India.

A worker initiative to cut costs, rebalance the production lines, and make other improvements suggested by employees to save their jobs proved that they were most cost-effective, said Wayne Truitt, UAW chairman for the unit at the plant.

With the additional business, the company called 60 people back from layoffs and hired another 60 workers from a plant in Michigan. The plant now employees 240 people, Truitt said.

When the economy became too dependent on manufacturing, Baumhower said it needed to blend manufacturing with new technolo-

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gies to work in concert with the new economy. An example of that diversification happened at a plant operated by Kern Liebers USA Inc. in Holland. With the consolidation of the auto industry, the plant was down to 25 workers.

Due to the collaborative efforts of the German-owned company and UAW, some of the auto work was recovered and it ventured into other industries, reported Mike Boles, chairman for that UAW unit.

The company is now making copper ribbons for thin-film solar panels made

by First Solar and Xunlight in the Toledo area. It’s also producing springs for

air bags and seat belts in vehicles and springs used to dispense products in vending machines.

“It was a great way to go so we don’t depend entirely on the auto industry,” Boles said.

The company has doubled its work force and has a goal of going to three shifts in the next six to 10 months.

UAW members voted to ratify a new 3.5-year contract with Kern-Liebers in February, Boles reported.

Baumhower said there are numerous other success stories of collaboration between the UAW and local companies to grow or retain business and jobs in the region. ✯

“The Toledo North (Liberty) Plant is currently underutilized running one shift and making 200,000 cars per year. It has the capacity to run two more shifts and build 400,000 vehicles per year,” said Bruce Baumhower, president of the UAW Local 12.

The Wrangler plant has been rated as the top automotive assembly plant in the United States based on productivity, quality and other factors by the Harbour Report for three straight years, from 2007 to 2009. The plant’s productivity improved from 13.5 hours per vehicle in 2008 to 12.5 hours in 2009, Baumhower said.

GM’s Powertrain plant in Toledo has been rated the leading transmission plant for the past three years and nine of the past 12, according to Ray Wood, president of UAW Local 14, which represents the workers there.

Chrysler’s engine plant in Dundee, Mich., was rated the top engine plant in the United States in 2009. The former Ford Maumee Stamping plant was a past recipient of the top honor for stamping plants in the United States before it was closed in 2007.

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The State of Ohio recently approved a grant of up to $1 million for retraining workers at the Chryslers

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training, according to Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken.

“We want to be the first assembly plant to have consolidation,” Baumhower said.

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Lortz also credits the Labor Management Citizens Committee and the Working Council for Employee Involvement for getting labor and management working together to make things happen in this region.

“Northwest Ohio has a culture of labor and management cooperation to grow business and jobs,” said Sandra Simon, executive director of the Northwest Ohio Center for Labor and Management located at UT and funded by a grant from Ohio.

The collaboration of labor and management is not something new in Northwest Ohio, according to Ray Wood, president of UAW Local 14.

Wood said labor and management at the GM Powertrain Plant in Toledo have been working together to create “win-win situations” based on a joint statement of commitment issued in 1983.

“We have partnership meetings on a regular basis to continue improvement of productivity and the relationship between labor and management with a common goal of prosperity for the business and job security for workers,” Wood said.

UAW Local 14 represents about 1,480 members working at the Powertrain Plant. Local 14 had 400 members out of work in 2010 but everyone is back to work and the union has picked up additional workers from other GM plants, according to Wood, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. ✯

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Dionne Warwick to sing in Tiffin on April 9

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

Singing legend Dionne Warwick vividly remembers the first time she performed in front of an audience.

She was 6 years old and the request came from her grandfather, the Rev. Elzae Warrick of St. Luke’s AME Church in Newark, N.J. “That was the surprise of my life when he called me up to the pulpit and he whispered in my ear, ‘I want you to sing a song for me.’ I thought Grandpa lost it, I really did, you know, why would he do this to me?” she recalled. “And he stood me on a bunch of books, and he wanted me to sing the song I learned at Sunday School called ‘Jesus Loves Me.’ “I closed my eyes so tight, I thought I was going to lose my sight,” Warwick said and laughed.

She received a standing ovation.

The applause continues as the fivetime Grammy Award winner nears 50 years in the music business. These days, she keeps her eyes open.

“I think more than anything else [I enjoy] looking down at people’s faces and seeing these huge smiles,” Warwick said. “I get to watch them singing and knowing every single word.”

Fans can see her in concert at 7:30 p.m. April 9 at the Ritz Theatre in Tiffin. Tickets are $75, $65 and $40.

Warwick will sing a few songs from a new disc, “Only Trust Your

Heart,” which debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard Jazz Chart last month.

“MPCA Records, the company that I’m with, owns the catalog of Sammy Cahn and had been looking for a voice to re-record some of the songs. They sent me a zillion songs to listen to,” she said during a call from her New Jersey home.

Cahn is known as the lyricist for many songs recorded by Frank Sinatra. “[Sinatra] wasn’t the only one that recorded these songs, but he did the majority of them,” the 70-yearold said. “Sarah Vaughan and Lena Horne were also instrumental in recording some of these songs, as well as Dinah Washington.”

Warwick knows what it’s like to be associated with composers. She was the voice of many hits penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David: “I Say a Little Prayer,” “Walk on By,” “Alfie,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “Reach Out For Me,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me,” “Promises, Promises.”

“The songs are — and were — very, very special songs,” she said of her collaboration with the famed team.

“Bacharach and David, who wrote specifically for me in the formative years of my career, set the bar pretty high for any other writers that were writing songs for me. And when I did record other songs, they were songs by people who were supportive of my career, songs that had substance — a

beginning, a middle, an ending, and a wonderful story to tell.”

Even after Bacharach and David broke up, Warwick’s hits continued: “Then Came You” with The Spinners, “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” “Déjà Vu,” “Heartbreaker,” “Love Power” with Jeffrey Osborne, “That’s What Friends Are For” with Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder.

In addition to some 50 hits, Warwick is known for her style and elegance. In her book, “My Life, As I See It,” which came out in November, she credits her mother: “Mommy expressed the importance of being a ‘lady’ at all times in the ways we dressed, walked, spoke and presented ourselves to the world.”

She said there were other role models, too.

“When I was watching TV as a youngster, watching Loretta Young walk through that door, I was like, ‘Wow — that’s the way everybody should look.’ And then to see people on stage like Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald and Marlene Dietrich and Diahann Carroll, they looked so gorgeous. And I thought, that’s the way I want to be. So this is how I have to look.”

Warwick also includes 50 lessons she’s learned in the book, which she co-wrote with David Freeman Wooley.

One lesson: It’s never too late to pursue a passion.

“I still have the Oscar, the Emmy and the Tony to work for,” she said and laughed. ✯

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s I made my way through my oldest child’s first few birthdays, the question was whether to design an extra-special homemade invitation with his picture and a custom

sentiment, or buy one of the licensedcharacter, store-bought variety. I usually opted for the more personal version as a token of my unwavering quest to make every minute of his existence

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that the kids really didn’t care if there ting, Facebook messages, Facebook was even an invitation at all, so long events and personal websites, I constantly have to question as everyone showed up which electronic route I at our house at a certain should take. time on a certain day.

My sister recently Once my third child chose a text mescame along, I decided sage to announce her that it would be prudent daughter’s birthday to waver even more. bash. What was also While not having an inonce a photo invitation vitation to stow away in with personalized text the birthday kid’s spesent via snail mail was cial box after the party Shannon SZYPERSKI now literally just text: may have seemed tragic “Aspen’s Birthday Celin the past, not mailing a physical invitation is finally some- ebration! March 30th @ 6pm, at our thing I have come to terms with. Our house. We will be having ribs!”

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A30 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ FAMILY CONTINUED FROM A29 Our dear aunt, however, was thrown into a bit of a panic over the matter. She ended up spending quite awhile wandering around her house, traveling from smoke alarm to smoke alarm, trying to figure out which detector the incessant beeping was coming from. The beeping turned out to be the birthday party text, which she then had to call and ask my mom to relay to her. My mom, an expert texter who could easily put any tween texter to shame, immediately texted a synopsis of the smoke detector saga to the rest of the family, of course.

In fact, my 60-something mom is the reason I started texting. Discovering a device that could swiftly disseminate her wealth of information simultaneously to all of her children at any given moment was a dream come true for my mom. Climbing aboard the S.S. Text Message with her became fairly mandatory fairly quickly.

Texting isn’t for everyone, though, so I hesitate to text without some sort of prior confirmation that an individual is a texter. I’m first and foremost a facebooker, so the social network is my go-to communication source. To me, Facebook is like a modern-day phone book with the bonus feature of

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APRIL 3-9, 2011

New Moon in Aries (3rd), Neptune enters Pisces (4th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Good grazing. This is a crucial week. Events, discussions and exchanges can have a huge impact on your future.

Excessive enthusiasm or overblown emotions can lead to mistakes. Check with cautious consultants and monitor trends. Old friends arrive this weekend.

Control tower. This is a week of extremes – actions, consequences, eye openers and outright shockers. Your best assets are your inquisitive mind, reflecting on possible meanings and subtleties, and being flexible and adaptable.

Catch up with friends Friday.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Pinned down. Health and physical energy are issues this week. Long-term money and property changes are in the works. Overwork can be a problem – double-check your calculations. Spend time resting, relaxing and playing with loved ones this weekend.

Body language. Demands and needs are urgent and may exceed boundaries. Size matters Wednesday; bigger is great if it can be managed. Estimates can be inflated and projects will take longer than expected. Recharge Saturday by getting out in the sunshine.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Equal shares. People can go to extreme measures and take crazy risks. Huge news arrives midweek and may impact relationships. Trust issues create doubt, but flattery melts resistance – even yours. Women discuss upcoming weddings, showers and parties.

Domesticating the wild. Love, creativity, luck, fertility, and self-development are blazing bonfires this week. Powerful energies are stirred – use your head to channel them profitably. People are drawn to you after Thursday – never take that quality for granted.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Eternal optimist. Expect a wild and wooly week. If you take big steps, you may be compelled to compensate for others taking equally big steps. Make favorable connections Friday afternoon. Slow down and evaluate recent events Saturday.

Storyteller. Critical personal and domestic situations evolve with lightening speed this week. Acknowledge what you control and what controls you. After Thursday, humility leading to pride is preferable to pride leading to humiliation. Effects can be irreversible.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Higher powers. Events occur this week that impact your long-term future. Your good luck soars Wednesday, but things can get bumpy after Thursday. Friday afternoon brings a wave of welcome calls and contacts. Rest and retreat Saturday.

In the vault. Communication networks on all levels are lit like a Manhattan skyline. You can be the maker-movershaker in the midst of it all, but Thursday reveals potential oopsy factors. Don’t ignore them. Retrace your steps Saturday to make corrections.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Party patrol. Income and shared resources are transformed this week, and a lot of things happen very quickly. Promises may not promote confidence. Sort things out Saturday; discussing things now will minimize or eliminate potential misunderstandings later.

Hearts and roses. Events from last week propel you onto new turf and fields of knowledge this week. Get multiple expert opinions. Excess confidence may feel untrustworthy.

Contradictions are revealed Thursday. Try again Friday. The weekend features reunions.

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) 2011

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IN MEMORIAM

Nathan R. Brahier Nathan “Nate” R. Brahier, 30, died on March 29, 2011 as a result of a tragic airplane accident in Monroe County, MI. He was born on January 23, 1981 in Toledo to Richard and Patricia (Moon) Brahier. Nate was a 1999 graduate of Fremont Ross High School, a graduate of Terra Community College, also continued his education at Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo studying Mechanical and Design Engineering.

Nate had a long history in his job career, working his way through NATHAN BRAHIER school, working at Glassline of America in Perrysburg and most (Brenda) Brahier of Port Clinton, recently for Conforming Matrix of Jeanette Studer of Whitehouse, Toledo. He brought good things ev- OH and Carolyn Brahier of Meza, erywhere he went and was quick to AZ; grandmother, Norma Moon of make friends. Nate loved motocross/ Bowling Green, OH; stepsister, Jenstreet bikes, boating, anything with an nifer (Dean) Croskey of Swanton; James (Sherri) engine (seatbelt, wheels & propellers, stepbrother, optional), going fast, racing and flying. Griesinger of Delta, OH; girlfriend, He was always smiling and happy, Halsey Heinselman of Perrysburg always had a positive outlook in any and many close friends. Nate is also bad situation that was presented survived by many nieces, nephews to him; Nate was a great motivator and cousins. He is preceded in to anyone and great at teaching death by his grandparents, Delmar people. Nate was always there to give Ross Moon, Donald & Louise Braa helping hand. He was founding hier; uncle, Lynn Brahier and aunt, member of the State Street Bowling Donna Bishop.

Visitation will be on Saturday, League and enjoyed “Lime Time” on the boat, Memorial Day Week- April 2, 2011 from 1 to 8 p.m. at ends at Put-In-Bay, was a drinking the Herman-Kinn-Karlovetz Fubuddy at The Blarney, a best friend, neral Home & Cremation Services, could always make you laugh, there Fremont. Services will be held on was always a good time when he was Sunday at Grace Lutheran Church around. Nate loved cars and extreme at 2 p.m. with one hour of visitation sports. “Thanks for the racing bat- at church prior to the service. Pastor Paul Gruetter and Certified Celtles”. He was the Best Friend.

Surviving are his parents, ebrant Maureen Pump will officiate.

Richard (Anita) Brahier of Hol- In lieu of flowers, the family suggests land, OH and Patricia Moon of memorial contributions to Grace Fremont; stepfather, Joe Podach of Lutheran Music Fund c/o Grace Fremont; aunts and uncles, Cheryl Lutheran Church, 705 W. State St., (Gary) Grolle of Genoa City, WI, Fremont, OH 43420; the Scholarship Mark (Pat) Moon of Dundee, fund in Nate’s memory at Terra ComMI, Mary Moon of Lindsey, Neil munity College, 2830 Napoleon Rd., (Kelly) Moon of Toledo, James Fremont, OH 43420 or to the AmerAll proceeds from April 2’s cover charges at The Blarney Irish Pub will be donated in Nate’s memory to his charities.

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