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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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n an effort to keep our daily content fresh at our Web site, www.toledofreepress.com, Toledo Free Press will launch three new weekly features on the Web site: tips for using technology; local theater reviews; and a calendar of art and entertainment events in Toledo.

Carrie Rathsack, a professional educator for 16 years, is ready to share her knowledge of technology and receive your suggestions with a regular “Tech Tips” blog.

“My advice might be better termed, ‘collective shared experiences,’ as I choose to write or speak about tech tools or tips that have helped me and many others with anything from daily reminders to retouching and organizing digital photos,” Rathsack said.

Chad Meredith began writing reviews in 2006 for the Owens Community College student newspaper, and theater reviews in 2008 for BGSU’s student newspaper.

“In my reviews, I give my readers a taste of what I experienced,” Meredith said. “I let them take a seat in the house. I also pose questions or make observations Thomas F. POUNDS that they may not have considered. I also let them see what I found to be effective and lacking in each production.”

Whitney Meschke has been creating event calendars throughout her 15-year career in journalism.

“I hope to put in something for everyone: families, singles, art lovers, theater-goers, movie buffs, flea market fans, whomever. And I’m a big fan of the free and cheap, so I list a lot of stuff from the parks and libraries,” Meschke said.

We welcome our new Web contributors and look forward to reader feedback as we continue to expand our site’s daily content.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Should we vote for casinos?

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’ve voted no on previous casino proposals because they were limited to just one or two areas in our state, and Toledo was left out. I intend to vote for this one if it gets on the ballot because it provides for each major metropolitan area to have its own casino.

Having a Toledo casino would bring a number of benefits to our area. Northwest Ohioans who like to gamble would no longer have to travel to Michigan or Canada to visit a casino.

The money they spend on those trips could stay here in our community.

Adults who attend baseball or hockey games in Downtown Toledo

would have a fun destination to go to after the game lets out. The new city marina could attract more area boaters who want to visit a casino.

New water taxi services could be developed to ferry people from Downtown to the casino. Downtown hotels could benefit from people who come in from out of town and, I imagine a new hotel or two would be built in Rossford or East Toledo.

Obviously a casino doesn’t solve Toledo’s financial woes, but it doesn’t worsen them either. A new casino would be a welcome addition to Toledo’s entertainment offerings.

ROBERT A. KELSO, Sylvania

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Cleveland rocks

would not have believed a DJ could spin ’60s and ’70s of Downtown, the Waterloo block is a solid 20-minute R&B vinyl for 90 minutes and play only records I have drive from downtown Cleveland. But unlike the Warenever heard. My knowledge of the music is not en- house District, which is void of single-family homes, Waterloo is surrounded and immersed cyclopedic, but it’s deep and wide enough by them. This gives the area natural foot so that DJ Mr. Fishtruck couldn’t possibly traffic and a cohesive neighborhood feel play nearly two hours’ worth of jams I did that, once experienced, is noticeably abnot recognize. But he did, and that was sent from the Warehouse District. only one of the pleasant surprises experiThe March 27 tour of the Waterloo enced March 27 during a tour of the city model was part of a daylong “Find Out of my birth, Cleveland.

Why Cleveland Rocks” tour sponsored by DJ Mr. Fishtruck — former Toledoan the Convention and Visitors Bureau’s PosMark Leddy — owns, with Cindy Barber, itively Cleveland program. Lexi Hotchthe Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, part kiss, communications coordinator for the of Cleveland’s Waterloo Village Model Block Initiative. The concept is to take a Michael S. MILLER program, helped arrange a 12-stop tour of cultural and economic development localess-than-vibrant area and rebuild it by creating an arts and entertainment district. It’s close to tions. Because one of those stops was an advance look what the Warehouse District is doing in Downtown To- at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Bruce Springsteen exhibit (Page A38), and because economic development ledo, but the results have been spectacular.

There’s no questioning the impact Fifth Third Field was the theme of the day, I invited along friend and has made on the Warehouse District, with several restau- Springsteen buff Chris Kozak, the Columbia Gas of Ohio rants and one or two retailers in its shadow. But the Wa- communications and community relations manager, who terloo model has willed itself into a destination neighbor- serves on the boards of our Regional Growth Partnership hood, with one major club and several galleries, record and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).

Throughout our few hours on Waterloo Street, Kozak stores and a recording studio on its street.

The Beachland Ballroom has been recognized as one and I repeatedly discussed how such a model could work of the country’s coolest clubs, and even on a slow and in Toledo, if not Downtown, maybe near UT. After our tour of the Waterloo model, Barber acempty Friday afternoon, it lives up to its rep. It contains a tavern and a cavernous ballroom with its own side companied us on visits to Ante Up Studio, another bar, an overwhelming beer selection and Shoparooni, major Cleveland surprise. Housed in a factory a passa vintage clothing and odds-and-ends store. Two bands erby might think was abandoned, Ante Up houses an in a seemingly never-repeating lineup play nearly every amazing campus of a recording facility that has housed night at the Beachland, including national draws such as the work of Dave Matthews Band, Kelly Clarkson, Tori Glen Tilbrook from Squeeze and such hipster heroes as Amos, Bone Thug-N-Harmony and Colbie Caillat. The studio offers homes for analog and digital fans, with a The White Stripes and The Black Keys.

Barber left the publishing industry on a mission to vintage Neve console used by Mutt Lange to record Def kick-start the neighborhood, and her efforts are super- Leppard in the ’80s and a state-of-the-art digital studio. human; she became president of the development cor- The facility covers 20,000 square feet, with plans to exporation to make her vision a reality. If I were a Toledo pand to include housing facilities for visiting artists.

Kozak and I agreed that as spectacular as it was, it mayoral candidate, God forbid, I’d be on the phone to Barber to arrange a discussion on Waterloo’s resurrec- would not be science fiction to envision such a campus in Toledo. We certainly have the empty buildings and space. tion. I have her number if you’re interested, guys.

It’s often said that Toledo is no New York or Chicago, Within a few blocks of the Beachland, Blue Arrow and Music Saves offer new and used CDs and records, and should not aspire to be those cities. But Cleveland’s galleries and novelty stores operate, and Exit Stencil Re- model is far more realistic and attainable. I understand cordings captures the sounds of such bands as The New that Cleveland has the Rock Hall as its music hook, but Waterloo has forged an identity independent of the corLou Reeds, The Dreadful Yawns and HotChaCha. The difference in results between the Warehouse Dis- porate-endorsed music the Hall honors.

The LISC model of one neighborhood at a time is trict and the Waterloo model should not be dramatic.

Both neighborhoods offer radically reduced fees for li- working in Cleveland, and if the New Schools New quor licenses, tax abatements and help with navigating Neighborhoods (NSNN) initiative profiled on Page A6 business planning. But the Waterloo model has two takes hold, it could work here as well. distinct advantages; first, Cleveland supports and funds A cool and thriving arts and entertainment district its efforts, while Toledo hasn’t funded the Warehouse like Waterloo Street could give those students graduating District Association for seven years, according to To- from NSNN areas a reason to stay and live in Toledo. ledo Warehouse District Association Executive Director Kathy Steingraber. The other difference is housing ge- Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. ography. While the Warehouse District is in the heart Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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JUST BLOWING SMOKE

APRIL 5, 2009

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We find ourselves with a govow, before anyone starts assuming that I have started ernment expanding almost as fast on a deleterious cocktail as the national debt that its policies of medications and have adopted a caused, a bureaucracy that manages to pop up faster and liberal philosophy, let in more places than me reassure you that dandelions in the this is anything but spring, and an exthe case. I do believe, ecutive branch that however, that we are feels that it can give only now awakening away trillions of dolfrom eight years of lars without telling an executive branch us where they went run wild and that while finding the during that time, true spare time to usurp Conservatives were Tim HIGGINS the purview of a priasleep at the wheel.

We should establish first off vate corporation’s board of directors that there are different kinds of and ask for the resignation of its chief conservatives. There are fiscal con- executive officer. It does this without servatives, religious conservatives, feeling the need to consult with the Moral Conservatives, and then legislative branch of government there are Constitutional Conser- for approval, the judicial branch of vatives (like me) who hold that we government to discover whether its stand a better chance of being OK actions are constitutional, or the citiif we just hold true to the principles zens of this country to find out if this of our Founding Fathers. There are is what they actually want.

Who is to blame for this are also the Compassionate Conservatives, or what I in many cases runaway government? The Libcall Bush Conservatives. They say erals perpetrating these actions, that they believe in conservative clearly, but that should be exphilosophy, but actually believe in pected by an administration and almost nothing of actual conserva- Congress led by true devotees of the liberal agenda who want to tive thinking.

I believe that the philosophy see the power of the state grow of Compassionate Conservatism, and expand. Equally to blame as espoused by President George and perhaps more, however, are W. Bush, is at the heart of that the so-called Conservatives who somnambulism. While doing a created the environment which yeoman’s work in protecting this allows such behavior to flourish. country in the days following 9- Somehow during the eight years 11, Bush expanded the powers of the Bush Administration and of the executive branch of the the midterm elections held during federal government in a rather that period, true Conservatives alarming way. In creating the De- were either chased into hiding partment of Homeland Security or hypnotized into believing that in 2001, the president placed the what was happening around them power and authority of the Na- was some strange form of consertional Guard, FEMA, the Coast vative thinking.

At long last, however, the Guard and Customs, Immigration, and Border Protection in sleepers appear to be awakening. the hands of one man, hardly the Conservatives are gradually rising move of one who believes in lim- from their eight years of Rip Van Winkle posture and beginning ited government.

While liberal thinkers howled once again to take an interest in over “the Conservative in the White the world around them. Like that House,” the 43rd president advanced old man waking in a strange place a liberal agenda of a larger, more with a headache and a lingering powerful and more expensive fed- feeling of shame as a well-deserved eral government. While Conserva- punishment for his misdeeds, they tives lauded the administration over are finally beginning to understand the successes of the battles in the war that something is terribly wrong in Iraq and Liberals had fits over the and that it is probably in some part money spent to achieve them, Bush their fault. While they are awfully quietly stood by and allowed an in- late in awakening, perhaps they are creasingly Liberal Congress to let not too late to stop this madness beslip the controls on the mortgage fore it goes too far. industry that began the financial slide that we find ourselves in the Tim Higgins blogs at the site justblowingsmoke.blogspot.com. middle of.

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s the Toledo election season plauded for their effort in doing this gets into full swing, much of part of the job they were elected to the media attention will center do. Two of the other four at-large council members had on the mayoral contest, the worst attendance. as it should. Attention Szollosi missed 13 of must also be paid to the 26 agenda-review the Toledo at-large city meetings. Copeland council race. There are was next, missing five six Toledo City Council of the 26 meetings. seats up for grabs. At The citizens of least one open seat exToledo deserve much ists because Councilmore from these woman Betty Shultz elected officials, and cannot run for reelecSzollosi and Copeland tion due to term limits. Paul TETUAN should be held acThe other five incumbents — Frank Szollosi, Phillip Cope- countable by the voters this year. The land, George Sarantou, Joe McNamara City of Toledo had an unemployment rate at about 14 percent in January. The and Mark Sobczak — may run again.

A seat on city council is consid- budget for the city is projected to be ered to be a part-time position. I millions of dollars in the red. The city understand that this position, even is in a crisis situation, and these two though “part-time,” is a very de- members of city council are either unmanding position. I am sure that able or unwilling to show up for work many sacrifices have to be made when they are supposed to be there. by the council members. How- We, as citizens, elected them to their ever, in return for the vote of the positions and deserve better represencitizens, council members have to tation than is being provided.

We must demand a better perforbe able and willing to do the work they have been elected to do. That mance from our elected officials. If the job is to represent the citizens and council members are either not willing taxpayers of Toledo in determining or not able to attend meetings, then the future direction of the city. This one of two things must happen. These requires those elected council mem- members should either resign their bers to be present at many meetings position on city council or they should and hearings. In 2008, only two of choose to not pursue re-election.

The time has come when the the at-large city council members — McNamara and Sarantou — at- voters of Toledo need to do more than tended all of the 26 regular council just vote for the familiar name. This meetings and all 26 of the agenda- practice has brought Toledo to the review meetings. They should be ap- brink of fiscal disaster. I am urging

that all voters take the time to review the record of all the current at-large city council members and determine if they have truly earned the right to be re-elected to city council.

It is certainly time for a change on city council. There are daily stories in the local newspapers that report increasing unemployment and an increasing budget deficit, but little news about solutions to these problems. Our city must recognize that it is business owners who create jobs, not government. Our city leaders need to be on the job ensuring that our laws, policies and procedures encourage business owners to locate their businesses in Toledo. While much work has to be done to fix the problems of the past, the city council also has to make sure these problems are not made worse.

Whenever council takes action, there should be consideration of the consequences, both short-term and long-term. Unintended consequences have to be anticipated and avoided. Council members need to attend committee meetings to get the facts presented by the witnesses.

They have to be present at meetings to cast votes. They have to be present at meetings to do their job. If they have shown by their attendance record in the past that they don’t show up to do their job, then they just don’t deserve to be re-elected.

Paul Tetuan is a 2009 Toledo City Council candidate. Contact him via Paul@TetuanForToledo.com.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a scheduled five-part series about the New Schools, New Neighborhoods coalition: A mostly volunteer, private- and public-sector effort to revitalize the city of Toledo by focusing on the neighborhoods impacted by Toledo Public Schools’ Building For Success construction. From the initial overview story through a detailed look at the first four schools and neighborhoods on which the NSNN is focusing, Toledo Free Press will review progress made since late 2002 when the effort began, and report on the coalition’s next steps.

By Michael Driehorst TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

There’s an oft-quoted saying from Confucius that states, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

The same goes with revitalizing a city.

It can’t be done all at once.

That’s the approach of the New Schools, New NeighMANAHAN borhoods (NSNN) initiative, which involves more than three dozen Toledo private- and public-sector organizations.

NSNN was V’SOSKE formed shortly after the November 2002 election when Toledo

voters approved the Toledo Public Schools’ 4.99-mill Building For Success levy.

Many business and community leaders saw the TPS project as an opportunity to “leverage the investment in the school to the surrounding communities,” said Tom Manahan Jr., president of the Lathrop Company, a member of the NSNN coalition.

“We’ve wanted to use the schools as a catalyst for investment in the neighborhoods,” added Mark Luetke, president of FLS Marketing, another member of the NSNN coalition.

Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce President Mark V’Soske added, “You can’t rebuild the city as a whole, so we picked select neighborhoods that were neither bad so we’d never have a chance of having an impact, nor were they doing really fine.”

Toledo Public Schools Board President Steven Steel said the NSNN group was a welcomed addition to the Building For Success project.

“Schools don’t develop all alone in a neighborhood. Community involvement increases the likelihood of success in improving areas like transiency,” said Steel, who is a member of the NSNN Executive Committee.

When the TPS Building For Success construction started, NSNN targeted three schools that were in the early construction phases, and two years ago added a fourth: 1. Chase STEM Academy, 600 Bassett St. (NorthRiver CDC) 2. Sherman Elementary School, 817 Sherman St. (Lagrange Development Corp.)

3. Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls, 707 Avondale Ave. (ONYX CDC) 4. Garfield Elementary School, 1103 N. Ravine Parkway; (Neighborhood House Services CDC)

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FROM LEFT, TERRY GLAZER, MARK LUETKE AND HUGH GREFE WALK A NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD OFF BASSETT STREET.

The school-neighborhood combinations were selected, in part, because those schools were included in the early Building For Success phases, they had existing vacant or damaged houses and other buildings, and they are in neighborhoods with existing community development corporations in place to take a local leadership role.

“We’re not a development company, but we are trying to pull together resources to find sources of

assets of dollars or influence to get projects in these neighborhoods moving,” V’Soske said.

“We’re not supplanting the CDCs. They were directly involved with us all the way through. We are trying to be a resource to them to collaborate with what they need to in those communities as well as provide other sources of information,” V’Soske said.

A 12- to 15-member executive committee meets monthly to fine tune the NSNN strategy and see how it can

better connect existing community and city organizations. Manahan is chairman of the executive committee.

Of NSNN’s initial $95,000 funding, $20,000 was from the UT Urban Affairs Center; $25,000 came from the Toledo Community Foundation, and $50,000 came in federal funds obtained by U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur. The bulk of the work is done through volunteers from the various coalition members.

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APRIL 5, 2009 ■ NSNN CONTINUED FROM A6 The group’s programming funding is sourced from NiSource’s $20,000 Victory Grants to Neighborhoods. NiSource consists of various natural gas and electric distribution companies, including Columbia Gas of Ohio.

NSNN also is hoping to coordinate and channel $1 million in City of Toledo Capital Improvement Program and another $5 million in loans from area banks and Toledo Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) groups in those neighborhoods that want to play a role in the revitalization.

During its first few years, as the NSNN developed its strategic vision, it also looked at another LISC effort in Richmond, Va., that began in 1999. Richmond’s Neighborhoods in Bloom effort used public and private funds to improve, develop and spur change within the city by focusing on six to 12 block neighborhoods.

Early success One clear result of the NSNN’s efforts is the 2006 groundbreaking of the 10-acre, 28-home Edison Place Subdivision, where half of its streets are paved and curbed, and a model home has been built. The subdivision is being built with private money.

Another indication of the “ripple effect” the NSNN seeks to create is at Sherman Elementary School, said Hugh Grefe, LISC senior executive director. There, the Boys & Girls Club of Toledo is working with the school for after-school programs such as homework assistance.

Steel said developing strong links between schools and their neighborhoods results in “great ideas” like the Sherman-Boys & Girls Club program.

“The most important involvement is right at the school level. In working with New Schools, New Neighborhoods, we’re trying to institutionalize strong relationships between schools and their communities so those relationships become part of the mission and function of the schools,” Steel said.

Like many families and businesses, however, the economy has had an impact on NSNN’s plans.

“The playing field is dramatically different now with the economy than when we started,” Manahan said.

“We intended to go on the offensive in these neighborhoods with new housing and new improvements.

“The reality check is that we have to start playing defense to keep people from moving out of these neighborhoods, while we’re simultaneously playing offense to bring new development in.”

One example of NSNN’s defensive efforts is offering $4,000 grants from NiSource to each of the four schools to help the community become more engaged with the schools through various existing organizations and new efforts. One example of how the schools are using the money is at Sherman School, where a portion of the funds were used to make and purchase yards signs promoting school pride.

While some of the NSNN’s efforts are bearing fruit, the coalition will be using 2009 to see how far it’s come and assess where it’s going.

“We have to determine if we are actually making progress,” Grefe said. “We also have to look at the degree of commitment from the four groups, who if anyone is doing anything. To really make this program effective, there has to be neighborhood-based leaders who have to leverage their human capital.”

While NSNN has no set timetable of when it will move on to the next school and neighborhood, it does want to see momentum.

Manahan added, “There’s no set date. We want to see that there’s been enough impact, enough momentum created in a given neighborhood to say that we can move resources to another neighborhood and create another version of the same model.”

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Fisher announces re-election campaign

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Darlene Fisher announced her re-election campaign for the Toledo Public School Board March 31. Fisher, a Democrat, will host a fundraiser at 6:30 pm. April 14 at The Distillery at 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd.

According to a news release, “Darlene heard the voices in our community asking that she run for another term. Over and over, she heard that she was one of the few elected officials truly working for our community.”

— Julie Ryan

Konop enters Toledo mayoral race Ben Konop, a Democrat and Lucas County commissioner, declared his candidacy for the 2009 Toledo mayoral race March 30 at UT. “I am running for mayor of our great city because I feel I am the most likely candidate to lead Toledo in a new direction,” Konop said.

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As a junior, she started by taking just one class the first semester. She enrolled in a public speaking course.

“I was younger than the other students. I was a little nervous at first, but now I am confident speaking in front of groups of any size or age,” said Cichocki.

Cichocki took a total of five courses while still in high school. After graduating from Rossford High School in 2004, she enrolled at Owens full time.

Since she took PSEO classes, Cichocki had more time to build her resumé. She interned at The Toledo Zoo in the Human Resources Department.

She also coached volleyball and maintained an excellent GPA while at Owens.

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After graduating with an Associate of Business Administration, Cichocki transferred to The University of Toledo.

“At Owens I was able to learn from working business professionals and save money. I have less than a third of the debt that many of my friends have in college loans and felt very prepared to continue my education,” said Cichocki.

In 2008, Cichocki graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from The University of Toledo.

After graduation, she landed a part-time job with Internet Payment Exchange, Inc.. The company handles the internet payment processing of hospitals locally and nationally, including The Cleveland Clinic and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Cichocki now works full time at IPayX as the Marketing and Sales Support Assistant and is responsible for the electronic newsletter and assists with creation of marketing tools and strategies.

“At Owens I was able to learn from working business professionals and save money.”

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Dispute over Rossford, Toledo water continues

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

The mayors of Rossford and Toledo are approaching a standstill in agreeing to a new water contract. The most recent water contract between the two cities expired in May. On Feb. 13, the City of Toledo proposed the income tax revenue split remain at 27 percent Toledo and 73 percent Rossford, up to a collection of $400,000. After that amount, the split would adjust to 40 percent Toledo and 60 percent Rossford.

“We’ve always known a higher rate would have to be paid; it’s just a question of a fair rate,” said Rossford Mayor Bill Verbosky in an April 1 interview.

FINKBEINER Verbosky said Toledo receives 60 cents on the dollar for every $100 collected from Rossford’s neighboring cities that have a 1.5 percent income tax rate. However, Rossford’s income tax rate is 2.25 percent, thus remaining on a 7327 basis, Toledo will receive 60 cents on every dollar. An increase to a 60-40 basis, as other cities have, would be unfair, he said.

The Rossford mayor said the income tax revenue agreement will effect a new water

agreement between the two cities.

“In regard to the water rate, we propose giving you the same phase-in of retail and master meter rates that we negotiate with the Northwestern Water & Sewer District,” Toledo Chief of Staff Robert Reinbolt said in a Feb. 13 letter to Rossford.

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner deferred comment to a letter published by Reinbolt in the March 29 Toledo Free Press.

“Citizens of Rossford will pay the higher water rates, spend additional money on infrastructure and be restricted from growth until Rossford is willing to negotiate fairly in the interest of regional cooperation,” wrote Reinbolt.

Wood County Commissioner Tim Brown said Toledo is increasingly asking for more money for Lake Erie water.

“We need to have a shared approach for recovering and turning our economy around, and I think pushing costs is not going to be the way to turn the area around,” Brown said.

“It’s unfortunate that, for the time being, Rossford residents will pay the higher rate, but we have to let our residents know that we are looking for a fair agreement in the long term,” Verbosky said.

The City of Oregon has joint economic agreements with Toledo but provides its own water.

Oregon City Administrator Ken Filipiak said that it is not unusual for communities with regional water agreements to reconsider

contracts, but would not comment on the fairness of the agreement.

“An agreement that ultimately isn’t fair is going to leave one or the other side less willing to work as a regional partner to help develop the area,” Filipiak said. “I think it’s in both parties’ interest to walk away from the table with something they can live with — even though they may not like it.”

Verbosky said neighboring cities, such as Perrysburg and Sylvania, agreed to the 60-40 split with Toledo but are much larger and have more industry.

“So proportionally taking 40 percent from us, a much smaller city, is not equal revenue,” Verbosky said.

Verbosky said he believes no other city with a tax-sharing zone the size of Rossford’s pays the requested 60-40 split with the 2.25 percent income tax rate — along with a 115 percent surcharge.

He looks to the contract between Toledo and Sylvania an example. Because Toledo and Sylvania worked out a water agreement in July, Sylvania pays a block-rate charge plus a surcharge of 75 percent.

Verbosky said there are no other options for Rossford if the City of Toledo does not compromise.

“People can distort the facts, but when it comes down to it, we just want to be treated fair,” he said.

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Take Back Toledo enters the final week of collecting signatures for its petition to recall Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and will file the petition with the Toledo City Council clerk at 2:30 p.m. April 9.

Brian Schwartz of Take Back Toledo said the campaign collected 1,900 signatures April 1 at Dave’s Home Cooked Foods.

“Our goal was 40,000, and we are going to exceed that,” Schwartz said.

The group has been collecting signatures since Jan. 12. If successful, the recall would be placed on the September primary ballot.

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Food Town supermarkets returned to Toledo with the opening of its newest store April 1 in the Kenwood Shopping Center on West Central Avenue.

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner welcomed the return of Food Town to Toledo at a press conference in the new store on March 31.

The new store opened in a former Food Town supermarket.

Sam Jabro, who owns the Food Town stores in Lambertville and Temperance, said he had been looking for the right opportunity to open a medium-sized store in Toledo. He is looking at other locations in the area for additional stores.

“We got a lot of requests from people who wanted Food Town to come back to Toledo,” Jabro said.

The 20,000-square-foot store will employ about 50 people in both fulland part-time positions, according to Mark Katafiasz, director of operations who will manage the store.

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City of Toledo Department of Development worked with Jabro to find and secure the right location for the store. Food Town received a 10-year tax abatement that includes a 10 percent payroll tax rebate and a 30 percent job-creation tax credit, according to Ryan Reiter of the Toledo Department of Development.

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Whitmer students involved in the engineering program are now able to earn college credits at bigname schools.

Project Lead The Way Engineering, one of 16 programs offered through Whitmer Career & Technology Center, has been awarded national certification.

The recognition will allow students to receive college credit at The Ohio State University, Purdue and Duke University among dozens of others.

“All the students in our engineer program will have the opportunity, and in all honesty, they are all going to because they are very high-grade-pointaverage students, to receive automatic college credit if they take an end-ofcourse exam and pass it,” according to Deb Heban, director of Whitmer Career & Technology Center.

Junior Ashley Parsons became interested in the field because her mom told her an engineer made the costumes for Disney On Ice. Laughing, Parsons said she’s grown up since then, and her goal is to become a chemical engineer, something she determined through the career tech center.

“It helped me figure out what I wanted to do,” she said of first wanting to become an electrical engineer.

Parsons said students in career tech are taking high-level math and science courses. They take core classes and are still part of Whitmer.

They are involved in school sports, musicals, honor societies and foreign language clubs. It’s not what everyone thinks, she said.

“It is all about re-educating our community and our parents,” Heban said. “I was a product of vocational education.

I went to Clay [High School] and went through two years of dental assisting and worked in dental for 18 years.”

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Heban said the on-campus center is so popular that there is a waiting list. Fifty-four percent of the juniors and seniors at Whitmer participate in one of the 16 programs.

“We have gotten to the point where it is an application process because we have so many students interested, and we pick the students we want,” Heban said. “They have to meet criteria of attendance, their grades and their discipline records.

“Our students are going onto college. In some programs, we have 100 percent going onto college. If they don’t go onto college, they go to an apprenticeship program or directly into a related job,” she said.

In addition to engineering, Whitmer offers programs in digital graphic design, criminal science, cosmetology, culinary arts, com-

puter networking technology and medical office management, among others. Students who complete the programs can leave school with a variety of licenses, including those for cosmetology, the nursing aide profession and welding.

Next school year, Heban said a track in biomedical sciences is set to be offered. The student course schedule will include biology or honors biology, as well as principles of biomedical science, human body systems and medical interventions. Those who graduate could go onto careers in medicine, pharmaceutical research and radiology, among others.

“The percentage going onto college is much higher than the kids who are not career tech, and they are staying in college,” Heban said.

“They are focused; they are doing

hands-on projects and they are getting internships,” she said.

Chef Michael DuShane teaches culinary arts and helps students run the school-based cafe. In addition to a degree in culinary arts, he earned a bachelor’s in middle school education and a master’s in physical education.

“I advertise this class as how to run a business, and our business happens to be a restaurant,” DuShane said.

Students are encouraged to come up with ways to market the cafe, such as selling leftover desserts for 75 cents or taking eggs benedict to teachers as a way to remind them about eating lunch at the cafe.

“They work on special projects like mini wedding cakes, gingerbread houses and designing breakfast menus,” he said.

Recently, student Perry Mitchell was making his homemade goulash.

DuShane creativity is encouraged.

Heban said she thinks the popularity of career tech will continue to grow because of the sagging economy, and because parents and students are realizing the stigma has been lifted.

She said teachers in career tech are well educated, too. Career tech teachers have five years’ experience in their particular industry and then have to earn 27 credit hours from UT to learn teaching skills. Many teachers come in with bachelor and master’s degrees.

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Lourdes College and University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) will offer a new engineering transfer program beginning this fall.

Students who participate in the program will be simultaneously enrolled in an engineering major at

UDM and courses at Lourdes for one to two years, said Janet Robinson, vice president for academic affairs at Lourdes. Students will then transfer full time to UDM for the rest of the degree.

“Depending on which engineering major, whether it’s mechanical or electrical, they can do the engineering degree in four years, one of them here, three of them there,” Robinson said.

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The student has to meet the required prerequisites for engineering classes like calculus and physics, Robinson said.

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The two courses are taken over a 15-week semester, two hours per day, one day a week, Robinson said.

Each credit at UDM’s engineering school costs $785.

“Some [students] who live in Toledo aren’t ready for a big urban school and it’s hard for them to think if they want to live in Detroit,” Robinson said.

“If they’re going to school here, they don’t have to live in the dorms, so they live at home for a whole year so they don’t spend that money on room and board,” she said. “They get a chance to evaluate whether they like the University of Detroit Mercy as an engineering school.”

Robinson said another advantage is the co-op program, which UDM offers to all engineering students. Whether students choose to specialize in civil, electrical, environmental or mechanical, they are placed in a co-op program and can make up to $10,000 per term after their sophomore year.

“It’s a very strong program, which gets you connected for a position with a company before you graduate. Sixty percent of the graduates stay with the company they coop with,” said Leo Hanifin, dean of the College of Engineering and Science at UDM. “It will benefit us by admitting excellent students into our engineering programs,” he said. “It’s the same engineering degree at a lower cost to [Lourdes students].”

Paul Swiergosz, a freshman at Lourdes, is interested in the transfer program and will be one of the first to apply.

“It’s really important for a school like Lourdes to stay competitive with

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larger schools, such as UT, and I think this program will help Lourdes do just that,” Swiergosz said.

“I believe that once the program gets up and running, more students will join the program and will do incredibly well,” he said.

Hanifin and Robinson said both schools are willing to add similar transfer programs and partnerships in the future.

“The people [at Lourdes] are easy to work with. It’s been a very enjoyable relationship,” Hanifin said.

“The schools are a lot alike,” Robinson said. “It looks like a good transfer package and it makes sense.”

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

Northwest State Community College has a new home at UT’s Scott Park campus.

Custom Training Solutions, a division of Northwest State in Archbold, is providing courses and custom training with Web and videoconference equipment from its new facilities in the Learning Resource Center at UT’s Scott Park campus.

Tom Wylie, vice president of Workforce Development at Northwest State, said his college needed a location with better access to fiber optic and broadband for operating the new Smart Board technology for Web and videoconferencing.

Wylie said when UT President Dr. Lloyd Jacobs learned Northwest was looking for a new facility, he invited the college to work in partnership with UT and offered space at Scott Park for offices, classrooms and studios. “The Smart Board technology is the new wave of learning and it’s now here in Toledo. Many people don’t realize we are located at UT,�

Wylie said.

Custom Training Solutions offers public credit courses in computer training, leadership, management, maintenance and technical seminars for students at either college.

It also provides custom noncredit employee training for companies in the Toledo area, Ohio and across the United States. “This technology enhances the learning process with an interactive system that provides e-training in four ways,� Wylie said.

First, it offers Web-based courses online for employees or students whenever they have the time to take them.

Secondly, Web conference training is hosted over the Internet for students and employees wherever they are located.

Thirdly, the Smart Board videoconferencing allows for training people at multiple locations via computers and telephone connections.

Lastly, equipment is portable so it can be taken onsite to train employees at their locations. “It covers different learning styles so we can reach them with audio, video and interactive,� said Tamara Norris, a computer training coordinator. “Technology is important, but using it to engage students on the other end is even more valuable. They can apply what they are learning during the live training sessions.�

The students can see the material on the large screen, as well as the instructor and what he is drawing or writing on the Smart Board at several locations simultaneously. “The visual content is the star, but the personal exchange simulates the classroom setting,� said John Krochmalny, an industrial training specialist, who teaches several Web and videoconference courses. “It’s a brand-new frontier. The quality of the technology has improved in the six years we have been using it,� he said.

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USG vice president and running for president. Officially, Mutgi said USG is a liaison between the students and administration. Unofficially, USG is an advocate fighting for the rights of the students and working to create future opportunities.

MUTGI USG also works with the city of Bowling Green on various issues. Mutgi said if elected USG president, he would work against a Bowling Green law that states no more than three unrelated people can live in the same home — no matter how many bedrooms.

Jill Carr, dean of students and adviser of USG, said USG has an executive committee with a president, vice president and chairmen and chairwomen. There is also a 40-person senate and various committees that work on specific issues or events. The students are elected and represent different areas of campus, she said.

USG meets every Monday night and hosts general assemblies. However, the students’ work goes be-

yond the meetings as they talk with administration and research how other schools handle issues.

Mutgi said USG took action earlier this year when BGSU was threatening to cut international students’ financial waivers, causing some students to be unable to continue school. Members of USG sat down with administration from across campus and worked out ways for international students to find other scholarships. In the end, the BGSU president used their ideas, Mutgi said.

Carr said students who participate often had leadership roles in high school, or are majoring in political science or hope to attend law school.

“Any student can participate in USG,” Carr said. “We encourage as much student participation as possible. If students don’t want to get involved, then they have a senator they can contact.”

The election for USG is under way and will end April 3. Results will be announced April 7.

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

Desks, computers and whiteboards are in place, ready for classes to begin April 6 at Southwestern College on Airport Highway at Reynolds Road.

Toledo’s Southwestern will be the first branch in Northwest Ohio, said Terry NESBITT Nesbitt, executive director of the college.

Southwestern is owned by Lincoln Educational Services, the parent company of eight schools in 17 states.

“We have four schools presently in Ohio in the southwest part of the state, hence the name Southwestern College, and we were looking for new markets to open in,” said Scott Shaw, chief administrative officer of Lincoln Educational Services. “Toledo looked like an attractive market with a good size population, and our programs could benefit members of the community there.”

Lincoln has been operating in Ohio for four years, Shaw said.

The college has 18 classrooms and three rooms with more than 20

desktop computers. One room is equipped with its own network system so students can get real-life experience, Nesbitt said. Several rooms are stocked with equipment for students seeking degrees in massage therapy, medical assisting and administration.

Nesbitt said 100 students are enrolled for the spring quarter.

“We hope to become a strong member of the local community, providing what we believe is quality care education and we are looking to include a practical nurse program and eventually a registered nurse program,” Shaw said.

Nesbitt said program advisory committees visited the college to give advice on what is happening in their fields, such as medicine.

“We adapt what we teach to the real world,” Nesbitt said.

Many students who are attracted to the college are “nontraditional learners,” he said.

“We get a lot of students who have not graduated high school and we help them get their GED, and then that work applies to their degree,” he said.

Nesbitt said many students drop out of school for family reasons, a pregnancy or because they relocated.

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

Heidi Brennan’s life is full: She has three stepsons — 10-year-old twins, Nathan and Keith, and 7year-old Eric. She’s been married to her husband, Michael, for three years, and her mother-in-law lives in their home.

But that is just the beginning.

Brennan enrolled at Davis College in Toledo in 2006, while working at Energy Control in Maumee. Her husband recently returned to school full time for computer networking.

“I feel I was told to go back,” 34year-old Brennan said. “God said, ‘Hey, you know what? Go.’ I’m not one to step out of my boundaries.

But I went there and two weeks later, I was registered. It felt right. The environment was just perfect.”

Brennan recently lost the option to juggle work, family and school when she was laid off from her job as assistant to the office manager after 12 years with Energy Control.

“When they pulled me into the office, I had no fear, no dread,” she

said. “I went, ‘Hey, it’s a good thing I’m back in school.’ I have so much more confidence now to go out and work, market and be in the world.”

She is comfortable at Davis, too.

The students are returning adults — the average age is 30 — and the classes are small, Brennan said.

Vice President of Student Services Mary Ryan said the college is 20 percent above its admissions goal for the spring semester, and a lot of the people coming in are recently laid off.

“The instructors know what they are talking about,” Brennan said.

“They make it that much easier because you know they have done it.”

Jessica Thompson is in the accounting and human resource management program with Brennan. She believes Brennan will rise to the challenge and work harder at school because she was laid off.

“She’s an excellent student; she pays attention and is very outgoing,” Thompson said. “We’re study buddies for the class we have together this semester, and it’s definitely helpful because if I don’t understand, she does and if she doesn’t, I do.”

This is the first time in her life Brennan is enjoying school. She’s a 1994 graduate of Bowsher.

“I was not a fan of school back then,” she said. “I really was not. I did not do good. I didn’t apply myself. I got Cs; I got by; I graduated.

And now, if I could go back and tell myself how different it is, I would go back and tell myself, ‘You gotta go, trust me on this.’”

Brennan said by returning to school, she and her husband are setting an example for their three sons who now say they want to go to college, too.

“I have my accounting book out and I write in it and highlight it, and my kids go, ‘Oh, can you do that?’ and I say, ‘I spent $300 on this book, I can do whatever I want with it.’”

Even though it is tight for the family financially, Brennan believes it will pay off in the long run.

“I would do it again and tell anybody to try it,” she said. “If you are unemployed, go back.”

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Murnen first visited Hillsdale College during spring of his junior year at Central Catholic High School. He liked the college, its campus, curriculum and proximity to this hometown.

Murnen said he was looking for a small liberal arts college close to his home in Toledo. A family friend and local businessman, Cleves Delp of The Delp Company in Maumee, suggested Hillsdale College, where he and his brother Brad had graduated.

After applying, Murnen was invited to attend the Distinct Scholars Weekend. He was awarded a scholarship for half of his tuition at Hillsdale, which doesn’t accept government funding Murnen worked with Fred Schebor, associate director of admissions at Hillsdale, to obtain the

scholarship. Subsequently, Murnen was featured in a scholarship brochure produced for the college.

The Delps helped Murnen again by awarding him a Delp Endowed Heritage Leadership Scholarship, which nearly covered the other half of his tuition. The scholarship was designed to honor their father, who provided his sons with an education at Hillsdale College, according to Cleves.

“It’s a merit scholarship based on leadership skills, and Kyle is as fine an example of the kind of student selected for this scholarship. Brad and I personally know every recipient and their families,” Cleves said.

Murnen said he was grateful for all the financial assistance so he could focus on paying for his room and board. He worked during the summers at a family business, CourtSmiths, owned by his uncles, Mike and Pete Murnen, to pay for the balance of his college costs.

Murnen is scheduled to graduate in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He plans to work for a few years while deciding whether to attend graduate or law school.

MURNEN Murnen interviewed for a fulltime position at Hillsdale College and applied for teaching jobs at some private schools.

“I want to be sure I’m entering the right program and school, so I plan to work for two years and save to pay for grad or law school,” he said.

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Owens Community College continues to offer the region’s only photovoltaic installation training program.

The one-week, noncredit program teaches people how to install, maintain and repair solar energy systems for commercial and residential use.

The most recent class trained 30 students with the next class scheduled May 11 to 15. Owens has increased its offering of the class because of the demand.

“Owens’ Photovoltaic Installation Training program provides students with innovative and cutting-edge instruction within the emerging field of environmental technology,” said Michael Bankey, vice president of Workforce and

Community Services at Owens.

Students who complete the Photovoltaic Installation Training program qualify to test for the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioner PV Entry Level Certificate of Knowledge.

With additional work experience, students may qualify to take the national certification test to become a photovoltaic system installer.

“Individuals participating in the course learn that solar power is not just a concept, but a reality in creating a sustainable energy future for Northwest Ohio and the country,” Bankey said.

The students in the recent program came from as far as California and ranged in age from college students to men in their 40s and 50s working in other fields.

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Bolin supervises projects where solar energy is used as alternative power for security lighting independent of the existing electrical power grid. Solar energy is being used to power street lights with LEDlighting for military bases, parking lots, schools, shopping centers and emergency phones on freeways and college campuses, Bolin said.

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The hands-on course includes design and installation of a grid-tied photovoltaic system and continued maintenance on an existing system at the Workforce and Community Services building.

In fact, the recent class helped disassemble the photo array that is being moved to a site on the main campus at Owens, said Joe Peschel, programmer for customized training in Workforce and Community Services.

The class also visited the largest solar field in Northwest Ohio located at the Air National Guard Field on Eber Road, near Toledo Express Airport.

Advanced Distributed Generation of Toledo (ADG), one of the leading photovoltaic systems integrators, is working on the expansion of the solar field for the Air National Guard. ADG has hired several graduates of the photovoltaic training program at Owens.

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The same people who ate Easter Sunday dinner at restaurants last year might be eating at soup kitchens this year, according to the Rev. Dan Rogers, CEO and president of Cherry Street Mission Ministries.

“We are seeing for the first time, the largest block of people coming to us are new, unique clients, not drug and alcohol dependent, and not with an incarceration record, but they have lost their jobs, lost their houses and the economy is driving them here.”

Rogers said he is expecting large crowds for the Easter meal on April 12, which will be served at the Madison Food Service and Community Center, 1919 W. Madison St., Good

Samaritan Outreach Center, 1108 Broadway St. and at The Sparrow’s Nest, 436 Delaware Ave. The Easter meal will begin at noon and continue through the dinner hour. Ham, turkey and roast beef will be served. The Sparrow’s Nest will host an Easter egg hunt, and all three locations will distribute candy donated by the community.

“Just in the last couple of months our food service numbers are really climbing,” Rogers said. “At the end of last year, we were serving 710 meals a day and we are serving 740 right now, and that is a big increase in 60 days.

“These are folks in the community who have their own apartment or a house, and they are coming in for all three meals per day,” Rogers said.

“That food becomes preventative,” he said. “If we can provide

meals and you can keep your apartment, that is solid.”

Cherry Street Mission also distributes food boxes every week, which are based on referrals from United Way. During Thanksgiving, the mission distributed 625 food boxes because of an influx in donations, which is typical around the holidays, and something Rogers hopes happens at Easter, too.

“I am telling you that we could go into business for that alone; we are only limited by our supply,” Rogers said.

The mission served 1,385 meals on Thanksgiving, a 300 percent increase over 2007. Additionally, 55 percent more women are staying at The Sparrow’s Nest, and 70 percent more men are residing in the male shelter, compounded by the mission’s struggle to meet the rising need for meals.

One resident, who asked his name not be printed, will eat Easter dinner at the mission this year. He lost his manufacturing job, got into credit trouble and had to move into the shelter. Usually, he travels out of town to visit his family for Easter.

“One thing good is since I have been living here, I have joined CedarCreek out in Perrysburg and I belong to all the programs they have offered me here. I am getting my life back together and trying to start over,” the man said.

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Rodney Schuster, vice president of development, said the mission has a $25,000 grant from the Anderson Fund and a $20,000 grant from Eaton Corp., which will go toward building one unit with four bedrooms on property the mission owns at 18th Street between Monroe and Jefferson.

The home will be used for people who need their own space, he said.

Schuster said the mission is seeing more people who don’t have addictions and just need a transitional home as they work on résumés, find jobs or start their own businesses. Ideally, construction will start June 1.

“We can use help with our labor or with materials and supplies,” Schuster said. “It would be great if someone said, ‘We can help.’”

The goal is to open two more units with four bedrooms in each.

Rogers said he appreciates anything the community can do to keep people fed and off the street. Food and monetary donations, as well as toiletries, are in demand, and a needs list can be given to businesses, churches and individuals looking to help. He also suggests volunteering on Easter.

“We can never discount the human equation,” he said.

For information, visit the Web site www.cherrystreetmission.org or call (419) 242-5141 Ext. 231.

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While restaurants experience a drop in food sales, their close cousins, bakeries, remain busy whipping up “comfort” food to satisfy the sweet tooths brought on by the Easter holiday and an economic downturn.

Recessions tend to trigger consumers’ palates nationwide to want cupcakes, pies and other delectable concoctions whenever the economy sours, according to a Feb. 27 article in Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine. Profits historically rise as the economic outlook dims, leading to a phenomenon that food industry experts call “recession-proof.”

Toledo has its share of bakedgoods addicts, many who are choosing individual-sized portions or picking up a pie for Easter Sunday dinner at home instead of at a restaurant.

Lori Jacobs, co-owner of Cake in a Cup in Sylvania Township, said, although the economic atmosphere in November made her nervous, business has been good. The lagging

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economy has not quelled a hunger for baked goods and other sweet items, including her store’s specialty cupcakes and espresso beverages.

In its first year, business at Cake in a Cup rose beginning midwinter, supporting the comfort-food theory.

“We’re doing really, really well,” she said. “I think people still treat themselves to a little treat, if not maybe more now than before because you can’t make the bigger purchases.

They tend to go for the smaller ones; it’s like emotional eating.”

To cater to buying trends, Cake in a Cup began offering cupcakes individually or by the dozen in every flavor from “pbj” to “Tropical Getaway.” As the economy worsened, more people began opting for pizza or other more affordable meals. And with a Marco’s Pizza next store, pizza customers often stop by for dessert.

“They can come in and grab a couple of cupcakes and still have a treat for under $5 without having to go out and spend $20 on a cake or

make it themselves,” Jacobs added.

“They can still treat themselves to something good.”

Anthony Carr, general manager of Michael’s Gourmet Catering in the Historic Weber Building, also attributed the economy to the demand for comfort food. There has been no downturn for his bakery — in fact, an increase — but the product trends have shifted during the past few years.

“You might see more people steering toward buying fresh breads,” he said. “Bagels, for instance, used to be a big thing, and I think that has dwindled down. I think they’re just normal trends, not having anything to do with the economy.”

Bakeries are filling a niche for customers choosing to dine in. Michael’s draws a healthy lunch crowd, according to Carr, and after meals, customers often decide to pick up dessert for the family dinner later that day.

“We’ve just sort of complemented their meal at home, maybe, a little bit more,” he said.

■ Spring Skies Over Toledo: Take a look at the stars, constellations and planets visible from the Glass City, examine ancient mythologies associated with the constellations and learn about the latest discoveries in astronomy.

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■ Breakfast and hayride with the Easter Bunny: Children, with adult companions, will ride with Mr. Cottontail out to his egg patch to collect eggs. Then, it’s back to the barn to have a breakfast of pancakes and sausage, as well as pictures. 9, 10 and 11 a.m. April 4, Country Lane Tree Farm, 3525 N. Bolander Road, Genoa. $3-$11. Reservations: (419) 461-1298.

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■ Pictures with the Easter Bunny: Peter will straighten his whiskers and let those big teeth show for snapshots with little ones. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. April 4 in the Kiosk in the Lake District, Shops at Fallen Timbers, 3100 Main St., Maumee. Packages start about $16. (419) 878-6255.

■ Breakfast with the Easter Bunny and Giant Egg Hunt: Eat with the head rabbit himself, then hunt for eggs throughout the village.

10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 4, Riverview Banquet Centre, American Legion Post 183, 405 E. Front St., Pemberville. (419) 287-4422.

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10 a.m.-noon April 4, Buehner Center porch, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark, 4139 Girdham

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■ Spring Egg Hunt: Stories and songs will be shared, and children can hunt for eggs and have a visit from Mr. Cottontail himself.

Children 4 and younger, 9:30 a.m.

April 4; for kids 5-7, 11 a.m. April 4, Washington Branch Library, 5560 Harvest Lane. (419) 259-5330.

■ Egg Hunt Eggs-travaganza: An egg hunt for kids 1-8 years old.

2 p.m. April 4, rain or shine, Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th St. Registration: (419) 259-5390.

■ Touch of Spring open house: Homemade doughnuts will be available, and customers can check out the stuff general stores are made of. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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■ Bunny Train: Cookies, Easter candy, punch and seasonal activities are in store, as well as visits with the Easter Bunny. 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. April 4 and 11, Old Road Dinner Train, 301 E. Adrian St., Blissfield. $10-$13.

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■ Spring Flings: Puppet tales and crafts are in store. 2:30 p.m.

April 6, 8, 13 and 15, Toledo Lucas County Main Library, 325 Michigan St. (419) 259-5207.

■ Hop in for Storytime: Bunny tales and crafts. 4-5 p.m. April 7, Kent Branch Library, 3101 Collingwood Blvd. (419) 259-5283.

■ Spring centerpiece workshop: Bring a breath of fresh air and touch of spring into your home by completing this make-and-take program. 7 p.m. April 8, Way Public Library’s Technology Lab, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. $15. Registration: (419) 874-3135.

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■ Peeps, Peeps, Peeps: Teens can learn about (and eat) some of these gooey, mainly Easter treats. 4 p.m. April 8, Waterville Branch Library, 800 Michigan Ave., Waterville. Registration: (419) 878-3055.

■ Jack Rabbit and Bunny Hunny: Presented by the Enchanted Entertainers. 7-7:30 p.m.

April 8, Sylvania Library, 6749 Monroe St., Sylvania. Registration: (419) 882-2089.

■ Spring Things: Gather to listen to stories of hope and thanks, then roll up your sleeves and hop in to create a bunny craft.

7-8 p.m. April 9, Sanger Branch Library, 3030 W. Central Ave. Registration: (419) 259-5370.

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Michael Stolarczyk was introduced as the new president and CEO of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority at a press conference April 1.

Stolarczyk officially began his leadership position with the Port Authority on that date after accepting a contract that will pay him $170,000 annually with moving expenses and a bonus plan based on goals and objectives.

“It is a sincere honor to be chosen as the Port Authority’s president and CEO,” said Stolarczyk who thanked the Port’s board chairman Bill Carroll, the search committee, members of the board and Waverly Partners, the search firm that recommended him.

“I think it’s poetic justice that I left Excel on Friday March 13 and started with the Port Authority on April 1,” he said.

“I believe in collaboration that is vested with the dedicated commitment of all partners. The Port Authority will be an aggregator of assets to bring people and resources together for success in the whole region,” Stolarczyk said, outlining his philosophy for the role of the organization he leads.

“The Port Authority will be an entity that will create productive partnerships, new business activities, sustainable, skilled jobs and above all, an engine for growth.

“I’m a Midwest guy with the qualities and values found here,” said Stolarczyk, who grew up in Marion, and has been back in the state for the past five years.

Stolarczyk most recently served as senior director of Business Development for Excel, Inc., a contract logistics provider with more than 500 sites throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America.

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He spent most of his career with the A.P. Moller Group that operated Maersk Shipping Lines. He served in various capacities in the United States and spent fives years managing the company’s operations in Prague, Czech Republic.

While in Prague, he focused on public-private partnership projects in Eastern Europe and created an inland multimodal terminal that handle 150,000 loads per year.

Stolarczyk has a background in shipping, ocean transport and port operations with experience in intermodal and multimodal operations.

He believes that Toledo can become a global intermodal port for container shipping.

“I also think it’s very realistic from the perspective of shipping interlake to supply chain sources within 100 to 120 miles from Toledo to Cleveland, Detroit and Ontario which could be an even better opportunity,” Stolarczyk said.

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“The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority will ensure that all of these assets will be deployed to create an open-source environment that will be the incubator for new ideas, businesses and revenue streams,” Stolarczyk said.

Stolarczyk succeeds Paul Toth, who served as interim president since August when the board of directors dismissed former President James Hartung. Toth also serves as vice president of technical and financing services and interim airports’ director for the Port Authority.

Stolarczyk thinks the Port Authority should make an assessment of the immediate needs and people available for the airports director position before making any decision on it.

He and his family will relocate from Westerville, outside Columbus, as soon as his children finish the school year.

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Moody makes The Wall Street Journal From staff reports Toledo mayoral candidate Jim Moodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea to sell a portion of the airport is getting national attention.

Moody was referenced in an April 2 article in The Wall Street Journal about his hope that the Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midway Airport deal will blaze a new path for financing airports. He was quoted as saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mere fact that the [Midway] sale concludes is all I care about. That lets me know that we can do it.â&#x20AC;?

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Moody told Toledo Free Press he received a call from a reporter on March 30. The reporter had read a March 15 Toledo Free Press profile on Moody that mentioned the idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This validates the first of many ideas that I have,â&#x20AC;? Moody said of the mention in a national paper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to wait until after the election; we can start pursuing this now.â&#x20AC;?

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Vitucci almost ready for hockey season Nick Vitucci makes it perfectly mendable thing when he hired the clear that if he had not become a energetic, popular and devoted hockey player, and later a hockey Vitucci to remain in Toledo as a coach, he would have been a race hockey scout.

Napoli wasn’t revved up about his car driver.

Or, is it the other way around? coach-to-be driving a race car, but ViVitucci drove a race car at Flat tucci, the scout, is looking for speed, good wheels, excelRock Speedway last lent passing skills and a summer, and his crechassis that can be propdentials made no referly adjusted if it gets too erence to “coach.” tight or too loose.

OK, so the oneWhen former Storm race performance owner Barry Soskin gave with a seventh-place Vitucci a heads up during finish among 14 cars the 2006-07 season that with only four cylinthe Storm would be terders was a lark. But Vroom Vitucci isn’t a Dave WOOLFORD minated, Soskin also told him three other ECHL coach, either, at least not yet. With no team and no teams were anxious to talk to Vitucci place to play following the To- about future employment.

Just three? After all, we’re talking ledo Storm’s demise two years ago, along with the venerable, old about a member of the ECHL Hall of sports arena, the term “coach” be- Fame who has been associated with five ECHL championship hockey came rather nebulous.

He is, however, a coach in teams. Vitucci was an MVP Storm waiting. While the former Toledo goalie before becoming the team’s Storm mentor waits to return as the coach two months into the 2003new Toledo Walleye coach this fall 04 season. He then led the Storm to in the new Downtown sports arena, three consecutive Kelly Cup Playhe’s continually Nick-picking his offs, including the North Division way through the college and minor finals in 2005-06, his second full league hockey ranks, fishing for season as the Storm coach.

So what offer did Vitucci, 41, promising players who he hopes will become Walleye, hook, line consider the most appealing? None of the above. That’s because Soskin and sinker. also thought it would be a good idea Game plan for Vitucci to meet with the Mud Joe Napoli, president and gen- Hens and gave him permission to eral manager of the Toledo Mud do just that.

Vitucci called the Mud Hens, Hens and Toledo Arena Sports, a nonprofit organization, did a com- met with Napoli and Mike Miller,

chairman of the board for Toledo Arena Sports, and asked if they would be interested in retaining his services until hockey returned to Toledo.

“I laid it all out on why I wanted to stay in Toledo; how I loved the city; and how it would be beneficial to hire me at the time and not, maybe, a year later, so we could hit the ground running when hockey started up again,” Vitucci said.

“They liked everything I said. I wanted to stay in Toledo; I met my wife, Dawn, in Toledo. My 9-year-old son Keegan plays travel hockey in Toledo;

there’s a great fan base in Toledo; and it’s a great stepping stone for young players who want to move up.”

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St. John’s lost in the semifinals of the the Division I state basketball championship on March 27. In a valiant effort, they were defeated 55-41 at Value City Arena by the nation’s 16th ranked team Cincinnati Princeton.

The Titans were led by senior Mike Taylor who scored 18 points and senior forward Tim Simmons who scored 11 points and pulled down 10 rebounds. St. John’s finished the season with 20-6 after starting the season at 5-5. Sonic congratulates coach Ed Heintschel and St. John’s Titans for their outstanding performance.

The Lady Spartans finished an amazing season with a loss in the Ohio State High School Division I championship. Start lost to the four-time defending state champion Mount Notre Dame 52-38. They finished the season with 22-4 record and were the first Toledo public school to reach the state final since 1981. Sonic congratulates coach Bob Brown and the Lady Spartans for their outstanding performance.

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ntil recently, my only interaction with Doris Niekamp had been over the phone.

Doris has called the station over the years to thank us for covering her daughter’s volleyball match, or to tell us the final score of her husband’s team.

But this time things were different. Doris did not call in the final score for her husband’s Ryan last game. She didn’t have to. The game was on national television.

Doris’ husband, Ron, is the head coach of the University of Findlay men’s basketball team.

Let me rephrase that.

Ron Niekamp is the head coach of national champions.

The Oilers, rewriting history as they ran the table, is the first D-II school to finish the season 36-0.

And how they won is a story in itself.

Their championship game against

Cal Poly Pomona on March 28 needed overtime to crown a champion. Not two minutes into overtime, Oilers guard Josh Bostic fouled out of the game.

The D-II Player of the Year would watch the rest of the game from the bench.

Taking his place was senior captain, Tyler Evans. The sharpshooter had been shut down and only had one FOWLER point at that juncture.

Fast-forward to the end of overtime. With less than three seconds left on the clock and the game tied at 53, the Oilers ran an out-ofbounds play.

Now, had Bostic not fouled out, he most likely would have taken that last shot. Instead, Marcus Parker inbounded the ball to Evans. Dribbling to his left, Evans faded away from his defender, kicking his right leg in the air. The ball rotated in slow motion toward the hoop as the horn sounded.

The crazy-haired senior from

Circleville ran down the court, flexing his muscles as his teammates chased him. Yes, he was the hero with a 3-pointer at the buzzer to win the national championship.

It was the perfect moment for the perfect season.

And that brings me back to Doris and Ron Niekamp, two of the good guys, two people whose love for each other equals their love of basketball.

Married for more than 30 years, they bring joy and happiness to Findlay.

The day after the dramatic finish, the Oilers returned home. Ten minutes before the Oilers’ team bus rolled up, sleet and rain were falling from the ominous sky above.

But when the team and coach Niekamp, trophy in hand, jumped off the bus, the precipitation stopped, and for about five minutes the sun shined on the crowd of about 500 fans surrounding Croy Gymnasium.

The Findlay fanatics found time between the hoots and hollers to chant, “Tyler, Tyler.” Bostic got on the microphone to thank the crowd and

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called out another Findlay legend.

The senior guard informed NFL football star Ben Roethlisberger to watch out because the Oilers are in town.

As the celebration was winding down, and the players became engulfed by eager fans with Sharpies, Doris and Ron Niekamp faded into the background.

I took the opportunity to intro-

duce myself to Doris for the first time in person. As we stood their talking, Ron handed her the national championship trophy.

No need to call this one in, I think I know how you feel.

Ryan Fowler is the weekend sports anchor for NBC 24 Sports and can be reached at bgsualum03@hotmail.com.

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Anxiety sufferers might also have physical symptoms like cold sweats, shortness of breath, nausea, heart palpitations, or dizziness.

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As a scout the past two seasons, Vitucci will have attended about 200 games. The night before the recent IHL game in Flint, Mich., he was in Windsor watching an Ontario Hockey League game, and the night before that he was at another IHL game in Port Huron. To top off his typical week, he attended the Bowling Green-Michigan State Central Collegiate Hockey Association game at BGSU. Vitucci keeps meticulous statistics on players and has devised his own rating system, going from one to five, with five being future National Hockey League material, and one being future pond-hockey prominence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some coaches hate to scout, but I love it,â&#x20AC;? Vitucci said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It offers a great challenge. There are more pieces to it than a 500-piece puzzle.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like going to a garage sale and finding an old Toledo Mercurysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; puck under a pair of blue jeans.â&#x20AC;?

Vitucci not only collects players, but also hockey memorabilia, including almost 2,000 different pucks, which he prominently displays in his basement.

While coaches are so involved in their profession during the season, they have basically no time to recruit.

Vitucci can draw a bead on players he likes and evaluate them as many as three and four times during the season. He follows hockey etiquette and avoids any personal contact with players until their respective seasons end and they become free agents or are graduating college seniors.

But once that occurs, recruiting turns into a free-for-all, not unlike the college recruitment of high school football and basketball players. No one has more playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phone numbers and those of playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; agents than Vitucci. He also has six other people who scout for him in different parts of the United States and Canada, all of them combining to create a substantial database of prospective Walleye players.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Greatest guy everâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; It was more than 35 years ago when the Detroit Red Wings had a goalie named Andy Brown on their roster, Brown becoming the last NHL goalie to not wear a mask before they became mandatory.

Vitucci credits Brown with inspiring him to become a hockey goalie. But first, of course, Vitucci idolized Brown for his racing accomplishments. Brown competed at some of the smaller tracks around Vitucciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home in Welland, Ontario.

Vitucciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Vince, also drove race cars, at some of the same circuits as Brown and often took young Vitucci with him on weekends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad took me down to the

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pits after the race and put me in the race car,â&#x20AC;? Vitucci said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long after that when I was watching the Detroit Red Wings on television and there was Andy Brown in goal for the Wings. I was about 4 or 5 and he instantly became the greatest guy ever as far as I was concerned.â&#x20AC;?

No guns allowed Vitucci tried out for the Johnstown Chiefs of the ECHL in 1988, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the team, went home, hung up his pads and worked with his dad, a plumber.

Vitucci had applied for work at a General Motors plant in nearby St. Catharines, Ontario, when he got a call from the Carolina Thunderbirds of the ECHL. They were looking for a goalie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do, and my dad pulled me aside and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 21 and it will probably be about 44 years before you retire from a company. What difference will it make if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 43 or 42 years?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Vitucci related. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fortunately for me that call came before Jan. 1, 1989, because four days later and two days after my first win, I got a call from GM to work there.â&#x20AC;?

It was a tough decision, but Vitucci went with his passion. He hopes that the rookies heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bring to Toledo this coming season wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experience some of the same things he faced his first week as a professional goalie with the Thunderbirds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The team had to bus two hours from Winston-Salem to Raleigh just to practice,â&#x20AC;? he recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we got to Raleigh, there was no locker room.

I sat on a Skee-Ball bowling machine in the lobby to get my equipment on.

After a hard, sweaty two-hour practice and with no showers, 18 players got back on the bus for the reeking ride home. Two days later, we played Roanoke with the coaches agreeing that the losing coach would leave the arena in a coffin. We lost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play and when I walked into the dressing room after the game, I looked over my shoulder and there was our coach sitting in a coffin giving a parade wave to the fans as he was being pushed out. I saw a sign that said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Firearms Prohibitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I wondered just what I was getting into.

Where am I that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re telling me I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring a gun into the arena?â&#x20AC;?

Vitucci, later in his goaltending career while playing for the Charlotte Checkers, traded his goalie mask for a race car helmet. No, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t switching professions. NASCAR racing veteran Todd Bodine was a Checkers season ticket holder, got to know Vitucci and the two decided to swap headgear to spruce up the walls of their respective dens.

Vitucci has been discouraged from racing cars and riding in coffins, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a stretch to predict that he will have the Walleye in the championship groove before too long.

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A36 â&#x2013; TOLEDO FREE PRESS â&#x2013; SHULTZ CONTINUED FROM A35 They are middle-class American jobs. These are the jobs that Toledo cannot afford to lose.

When we lose these jobs, we also lose the service and support industries that grew because of them.

The spiral of failure caused by our apathy will touch every citizen in our community and throughout the Midwest. None of us is immune to the consequences of this failure, especially our children.

The spiral of failure will cause our property to lose value and our tax base to degenerate to the point that essential governmental services may disappear. Our community will shrink as our children leave in search of greener pastures. The spiral will spin faster and faster as the crisis deepens.

Not taking action now will change all our lives forever. We must demand from our elected officials support in the form of loans for the auto industry. There will be time to point fingers later. We must act and we must act now.

Contrary to all the promises from this administration, it is clear that the agenda does not include saving middle-class America. While billions upon billions of dollars have been thrown at the banking industry with total disregard to oversight for those dollars, only a carrot has been dangled in front of the auto industry.

Just like the carrot dangled on a string in front of the donkey, it can never be reached. Washington is playing politics with our childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives.

What of the promises made by President Barack Obama before the election? How soon we forget that he swore to protect our jobs, while he greedily garnered our votes. Democrats hold both houses in Washington and arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they the party of and for labor? The president has already committed GM and Chrysler to bankruptcy and the dusty pages of history books. He did so by suggesting that the United States government guarantee the warranties on the vehicles they have produced. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t he supposed to be working for us?

Where is the outrage from the UAW? If General Motors and Chrysler go bankrupt, they surely must know that their lucrative contracts will become null and void.

What of the thousand of retirees on pension? Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they see the immediate threat to their retirement funds? Do the United Auto Workers (UAW) retirees really believe that the retirement system is safe? We cannot allow the fall of this industry. The UAW membership must be made to understand that more than $3,000 is collected from every US-manufactured vehicle sold to support its benefit package. What happens when those auto sales stop?

For those who say the UAW has

it coming, I would point out that all of us have benefited from the pay structure established by the UAW. Do you really think our wages would be where they are today were it not for the standard established by the UAW, as well as other unions here in the Rust Belt?

The experts will be pointing fingers for years at those who are to blame for this economic mess. We will argue amongst ourselves about where the blame should be laid. All our bickering and arguing is counterproductive and will not help us resolve this problem. We must find common ground and unite as a community and as a nation, and we must do it immediately. We then can demand of our government the necessary support for the auto industry and ultimately our community.

Iacocca warned us of the consequences of our apathy many years ago. We now are facing the harshest of times directly as a result of that apathy. None of us is insulated from the economics of this failure.

What can we do? We must, like our fathers before us, get involved. We must demand legitimate reform both from the U. S. auto manufacturers and the UAW. We must also demand reform within our government. Laws must be passed that make it advantageous for manufacturers to use American labor. Laws must be passed that demand stiff and legitimate penalties for corporate greed. We must buy American-built cars and light trucks and demand the same of our employers and co-workers.

I challenge each of you to look closely at the glass panel on your car door and find the embedded emblem describing where that glass was built.

Does it say, upon that glass â&#x20AC;&#x153;built in the USAâ&#x20AC;? and, more specifically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toledoâ&#x20AC;?? I challenge each of you to look at the tires on your vehicle and find the markings describing where they were built. Were they built in the United States and, more specifically, Ohio?

Talk is cheap. Each of us must make a commitment to get involved.

My dad would say that commitment is like bacon and eggs for breakfast.

The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. The cost of acting like the chicken is too great for our community to bear. Hope cannot and will not create change. Those are â&#x20AC;&#x153;just wordsâ&#x20AC;? designed to make you and me feel good.

However, action will demand change.

Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College. He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau who specializes in cases involving the Ohio and Michigan Lemon laws.

He is a certified master automotive technician by ASE, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. Shultz, a Toledo native, will take questions at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Usually Pam Michalski buys eight $5 tickets and one $4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an even $44 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; every Tuesday and Thursday to play the lottery. But on March 26, the Circle K employee where she buys the tickets suggested she buy four $11 tickets.

Four years ago, Michalski and 25 other Brondes Ford Toledo employees pooled their money to buy lottery tickets. Now, 44 employees participate, and Michalski buys the tickets each week. On March 27 at 3:30 a.m., it all paid off. Michalski was out late playing euchre with friends.

She came home and remembered to check the lottery online. She began matching and circling numbers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw the 15 first, and then I looked again and saw the 10 and circled it, and again, and again,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do. By this time itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3:30 in the morning,

and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m walking around the house.â&#x20AC;?

The Brondes Ford employees won $250,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did not sleep the whole night.

I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. I normally donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work Saturday mornings, but a lot of them do. I got up and showered and thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go into work and tell more people.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?

Kim Bacon, the title clerk at Brondes, said it was the last set of numbers on the last ticket. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all excited about it. I think when it comes down to it, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll each get about $4,000, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s split so many ways,â&#x20AC;? Bacon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be a nice little vacation or bills or things that people have wanted to do but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

Bacon said they will receive the money in four to six weeks, and all 44 employees plan to keep playing. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Julie Ryan

Ohio gets $8 million to aid laid-off auto workers (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded more than $8 million in grants to assist laid-off auto workers in Ohio.

The grants were announced March 31. They will help nearly 2,500 workers laid off at the General Motors truck plant in Moraine near Dayton, the Chrysler north assembly plant in Toledo, the GM Lordstown plant near Youngstown and 12 suppliers in Ohio. The money will be used for counseling, job searches and follow-up services.

GMAC to ease dealer financing charges (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; GMAC announced it will temporarily eliminate and waive some fees and payments for dealers in an effort to ease the pressures stemming from the steep drop in demand for new vehicles. General Motorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; financing arm also said it will make $5 billion available for consumer vehicle loans over the next 60 days in an effort to boost sales. Auto dealers have struggled in recent months amid weak consumer confidence and continued questions about the future of the U.S. automakers. GMAC said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also cutting rates for certain new and used vehicle financing and expanding financing to some consumers with credit scores below 620.

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Bootsy: Ohio is a funky place to be If you’ve ever thought there must be something in Ohio’s water, William “Bootsy” Collins says you’re right.

The legendary bass player, a 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Famer inducted for his work with Parliament and Funkadelic, has most famously traveled the world with James Brown and George Clinton.

He’s also funked it up with the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fatboy Slim, Del McCoury, Deee-Lite and Hank Williams Jr., all while providing bass lines and fashion styles that are without peer and without boundaries.

One look at Collins and you’d assume he came from Mars, if not another, more distant planet. However, the man known as “Bootzilla,” “Casper the Funky Ghost” and “the world’s only rhinestone rock star monster of a doll” lives in his hometown of Cincinnati.

“It’s home,” the 57-year-old told Toledo Free Press March 27 at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “I’m most comfortable here. I just feel freer here. I’ve lived in L.A., lived in Miami, Detroit, but Cincinnati is just home. There’s something about this Midwestern thing.”

Equally outrageous and humble, Collins continues to support his hometown, cultivating upcoming artists in the local music scene, writing tracks for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals and former National Indoor Football League Cincinnati Marshals, and opening a restaurant called “Bootsy’s.” He has also organized and performed at area charity events, including Bootsy Collins’ Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation, which provides guitars for needy kids, and most recently, a fallen-hero museum envisioned for the Queen City. He’s also generous with his time, coming to Cleveland in support of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Week activities.

COLLINS “Part of my mission is to give something back,” he said. “I’m a firm believer that you should try and say as much as you can say without saying a word. To me, your whole life speaks, whether you speak or not.”

Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said Collins has always answered the call.

“Anytime we’ve needed his help, Bootsy has made himself available,” Stewart said.

Still, with fellow funkmaster Gorge Clinton maintaining a home in Southeast Michigan, what is it that makes the Midwest so funky?

“You ready for the secret, man?”

Collins asked, peering over his trademark star-shaped sunglasses. “You ready? You know the water in the Ohio River? It’s got pee in it, you see?” he said with a giant laugh. “And we drink it!”

Thus giving a new meaning to the phrase, “Let the funk flow.”

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It’s one of the most famous guitars in the history of Rock ‘n’ Roll. It’s been around the world more times than a Delta 747, performing before billions of screaming fans. You may have seen it in concert, at the Super Bowl or on the iconic cover photo of “Born to Run.” Yet this summer, when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band hit the road in support of “Working On A Dream,” the one place you won’t see this 1952 Fender Esquire is in the hands of The Boss.

You’ll have to go to Cleveland.

Toledo Free Press was offered an exclusive March 27 behind-the-scenes tour of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s latest exhibit, “From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen.”

The exhibit, four years in the making, offers a rare and extensive glimpse into the life of Springsteen. From childhood photos to pages of original handwritten lyrics, the exhibit is the largest the Hall of Fame has ever dedicated to a single artist.

“Bruce worked with the hall on our ‘wish list,’” said Jim Henke, the hall’s vice president of exhibitions and curatorial affairs. “Pretty much everything we asked for, we got.”

Including the Fender Esquire.

Springsteen was willing to box up guitars, recording machines, outfits SPRINGSTEEN and even his Oscar, but getting the guitar to Cleveland from New Jersey was a different trip.

“He put it in a car and his guitar tech drove it here,” Henke said.

Much like the famed guitar, Henke has traveled the world with Springsteen. In 1988, he tagged along on Amnesty International’s Human Rights Now concert tour and wrote a book about the experience.

He spent years exploring the possibility of an exhibit with Springsteen, months preparing items and days working side by side with the man himself, interviewing and inquiring about each artifact to make the exhibit, and experience, unique.

His participation in not only putting the exhibit together but showing it off adds layers to the tour. In describing a poster from one of Springsteen’s early bands, Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom, Henke said Springsteen started the band so all his friends could be part of the action, even those who couldn’t play an instrument.

“He had friends on stage that would sit and play Monopoly. And they could say ‘I’m in the band,’” Henke said.

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SPRINGSTEEN’S FENDER ESQUIRE FROM ‘BORN TO RUN.’

Rare glimpse “From Asbury Park to the Promised Land,” a twostory exhibit, is arranged chronologically and allows visitors to glimpse photos of a young Springsteen at the Jersey shore with his family and see the foundation and building blocks of the artist’s career, musically and socially.

In rare photos, one can see Springsteen’s parents, so famously talked about by Springsteen in long, midconcert soliloquies. The roots of his political activism, most recently visible in his support of President Barack Obama, can be seen in a concert poster for a George McGovern rally in which Springsteen took part. The hours and hours of honing his songwriting are demonstrated and dissected with a wall full of notebooks containing handwritten lyrics.

“To me, that’s the most fascinating part of the exhibit,” said Lauren Onkey, vice president of education and public programs for the Hall of Fame. “It’s a look at his craft. It’s really a historical treasure.”

As if seeing the handwritten pages are not enough, the exhibit features the table where Springsteen penned many of his songs.

Onkey said she plans to incorporate portions of the exhibit into the Hall of Fame’s educational programs, specifically utilizing Springsteen’s lyrics to look and discuss social change.

The exhibit is a collection of amazing artifacts, including the 1960 Corvette Springsteen bought in 1975 to celebrate the success of “Born to Run;” the saxophone Clarence Clemens used just to recorded the solo on “Jungleland;” the Oscar Springsteen earned from “Streets of Philadelphia;” the jeans and white T-shirt he wore on the cover of “Born in the USA;” and electric and acoustic guitars from several stages of his career.

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■ SPRINGSTEEN CONTINUED FROM A38 Listening stations allow visitors to hear recordings of a young Springsteen performing with The Castiles, the demo tapes for Columbia that earned him a recording contract and a live recording from the concert that sparked Jon Landau’s famous quote (“I have seen the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and its name is Bruce Springsteen”) and a storied 1978 concert from the Agora in Cleveland.

The exhibit, which opened April 1, runs through the spring of 2010.

Henke said Springsteen himself “will come at some point.”

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O’Jays founder marks 50 years in music In his all-black suit and hat, Walter Williams exudes the calm, poised demeanor of a corporate CEO. But the face partially hidden behind black shades became famous as a passionate, electrifying stage performer. Williams is a founding member and one of the lead singers of the O’Jays, the Cleveland-based group that struck gold with such “Sound of Philadelphia” hits as “Love Train,” “Back Stabbers,” “Use Ta Be My Girl” and “I Love Music.” The O’Jays, celebrating 50 years in music this year, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, a moment Williams described as “special beyond words.”

Williams appeared at the hall March 27 WILLIAMS to help kick off a week of activities leading to the April 4 inductions. Williams, 67, still lives in the Cleveland area.

“Since we had the Rock Hall here, Cleveland is on the map,” he said. “They know about Ohio all over the world.”

Williams said after a late-1950s Canton concert by Little Anthony and the Imperials, he wanted to start a group, for a reason that continues to inspire budding rock stars today.

“We saw how those girls reacted to the singers, and all of sudden, groups sprung up all over Canton,” Williams said.

Williams and Eddie Levert formed the Triumphs; they later became the O’Jays, taking their name from local disc jockey/benefactor Eddie O’Jay. The group’s rise to fame came through its collaboration with producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who wrote many of the group’s classic songs. Williams said in addition to its studio craft, the group worked hard on its stage show and choreography.

“We learned it was great to have a hit record, but you could build a career by having a hit act,” Williams said.

The industry has changed dramatically, Williams said.

“It used to be that local disc jockeys would support local groups and play their records on the radio; they were invested in the local scene,” he said.

“Now, some radio programmer a thousand miles away makes the decisions.”

Williams is working on a new CD, his first solo effort.

“I’m looking to change the game,” he said. “I’m singing ‘My Way,’ ‘The Way You Look Tonight,’ but also R&B. I take a big shot at ‘I Will Always Love You.’” Williams said although he loves the Cleveland area, he will soon relocate to Las Vegas, where his family and Levert live.

“I’ll always come back; this is home,” he said.

— Michael S. Miller

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The day we’re born we start to die, Don’t waste one minute of this life, get to livin’ — “Better Get to Livin’ ”

by Dolly Parton and Kent Wells Dolly Parton doesn’t let the bluegrass grow beneath her spike heels. The country icon’s schedule is packed; she knows timing is everything.

“Backwoods Barbie,” her fourth single from the 2008 disc of the same name, is out. A collector’s edition with three new songs — along with a pink Dolly rocking chair and photo album — went on sale at Cracker Barrel last month. “Backwoods Barbie” is a song from “9 to 5: The Musical,” set to open on Broadway April 30; Parton penned the musical score for the production. And Sony Legacy reissued her 1980 album, “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs,” with remixes and bonus tracks March 31.

“Boy, I really am busier than the one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest,” the 63-year-old wrote on her blog at www.dollyparton.com (click on www.dollypartonmusic.net).

The legend who has 42 top 10 country albums, 25 No. 1 singles and more awards than hollers in the Smoky Mountains took a few minutes to call from Nashville and answer questions for Toledo Free Press.

TFP: What can you say about the three new songs on the collector’s edition of “Backwoods Barbie?”

DP: We’ve got one called “Berry Pie,” which is a fun, little love song about a girl trying to please a boy through making him all this good food, which they have like that at Cracker Barrel.

And one is called “Hallelujah Holiday.” It’s about people glad to be on vacation ... “Rose of My Heart” is about true love, and you know how [the restaurant’s] very family-oriented, love-oriented ...

TFP: What’s the story behind “Backwoods Barbie”?

DP: I needed to write a song for the Doralee Rhodes character that I played in the movie, “9 to 5,” with Jane [Fonda] and Lily [Tomlin]... I know that character so well, she’s so me, and I thought well, I need to write this, something I completely understand that comes from my heart ’cause I wanted that particular piece to be real special for her ‘cause she was playing my part ... It’s like a country girl’s idea of glam: Too much makeup, too much hair, push-up bra and heels, but don’t be fooled by thinkin’ I’m not real in the places that it counts.

TFP: Has writing for Broadway been different from writing for a solo disc?

DP: I had more freedom to write because usually when you write for radio, you have to pretty much think about well, let’s keep this under three minutes so we’ll get some airplay. And usually in order to do that, you have

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Like “I Will Always Love You,” I’ve had people say, “Oh, that reminded me of when my son went to college” or “That reminded me when my daddy died, we played it at his funeral,” and certainly people always say when my husband and I broke up or my wife and I or my girlfriend or boyfriend.

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Reel Talk to conclude season at Way Library The monthly classic film series, Reel Talk, will conclude this season at Way Public Library at 10 a.m. April 9 with a showing of “Watch the Birdie.”

The film, made in 1950 and directed by Jack Donohue, stars Red Skelton.

Joe Espen, a Toledo-area film projectionist, will discuss the film in a Q & A session after the showing.

No reservation is required. Admission and refreshments are free. The library is located at 101 E. Indiana Ave. in Perrysburg. Call (419) 874-3135 for further information.

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It all started out so simply. We began with breast milk, the undeniable best choice for any newborn human being. It is the perfect blend of nutrition and natural immunization wrapped up in a readily avail-

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T h e transition to table food, however, proved a little more daunting, because my husband and Shannon SZYPERSKI I were not always the healthiest of eaters ourselves.

We were tempted to go with the little jars of baby food, but our pediatrician suggested that we start our child out on his road to solid foods by giving him a semiliquefied version of whatever it was we were eating. We went crazy with the baby food processor and were careful to offer only the healthiest of items to our firstborn.

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And then came toddlerhood.

To our surprise, our son decided to exert some of his newfound independence by refusing some, if not most, of the nutritionally sound foods we had so diligently attempted to indoctrinate him with. Seemingly out of nowhere, anything easily identifiable as a vegetable and/or obviously green in color fell completely out of vogue in his little world.

And then came baby No. 2. Between our son’s decision to establish his own dietary guidelines and the addition of another mouth to feed, our healthy little food crusade began to taper off. Rarely did the baby food processor leave the cupboard by the time our daughter was ready to join us at the table. The reason some people choose to feed their children out of a little jar instead of out of an organic backyard garden became very obvious very quickly.

Still, it was frustrating at first.

When we stood at the crossroads with our once-eating-adventurous little boy, it was hard to accept the fact that we had let such a good habit slip through our fingers. I knew we should never have let him have that first McDonald’s French fry; it’s all downhill from there.

Once outside influence is available to your child, it is difficult to fully convince him or her that yours is the enlightened path. Graham crackers are no longer seen as the treat you made them out to be once cookies and ice cream have entered the picture. There is also a point at which you realize that, despite what the books say, introducing the same healthy item to your little one 26

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I still can’t help but feel a little guilty about my 5-year-old’s steady diet of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, applesauce, grape juice and not much else. There is also a larger stash of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese in my cupboard than I’d like to admit. And just when did I let down my guard about purchasing items featuring cartoon characters on the box?

It’s true; I once secretly disapproved of people who indulged their children with overpriced items wrapped in kid-enticing packages.

Then, one day I found myself realizing that throwing away countless store-brand yogurt containers with one bite of yogurt missing was much less cost-efficient than spending the extra 50 cents for SpongeBob GoGURT. For some reason beyond my comprehension, staring at a yellow sponge with square pants while eating yogurt elicits some sort of obligation to finish the whole thing. Mr. Square Pants is even more influential than I had previously imagined.

I do think about that 1950s super mom managing to make her children eat their vegetables while keeping a smile on her face (as opposed to raising her voice and making idle threats as I may or may not have done in the past). I defeatedly applaud her continued dedication to her family’s health.

However, I then realize that her idea of a nutritious meal included white bread, whole milk, processed cheese slices and lots of butter and red meat, things found rarely, if ever, in our kitchen. Maybe I’m doing all right after all.

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“The YELL & TELL Rally each April is our big event and it is in recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention month each April,” said Pamela Crabtree, president of YELL & TELL. “We have speakers that focus on child abuse prevention.”

Alvin Jackson, director of the Ohio Department of Health, and Charlene Gilbert, director of the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, will speak at the event.

Crabtree said there will be an on-site councelor, raffle and exhibit stalls where people can gather information on child abuse prevention and reacting to suspected abuse.

A magician will be at the rally to entertain children, Crabtree said.

YELL & TELL will host a bowling tournament at 1 p.m. on May 2 at Interstate Lanes. Funds raised at the tournament will go to YELL & TELL and the 2010 rally, Crabtree said.

The rally will take place rain or shine.

For more information visit www.yelltell.org or call (419) 865-4687.

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Edinburgh fails to excite; construction rains on Burns’ parade Editor’s note: A number of photographs from Roger Holliday and Claudia Fischer’s most recent trip to Scotland are posted with this week’s column at www.toledofreepress.com.

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No doubt this is a rather unfair this very same year to begin digging up large parts of central Edinburgh and jaundiced view of a grand old for the installation of a new tram city renown for its banking and lawyering, its medicine and its culture system. and perhaps has So Princes more to do with Street, the city’s our current principle thormood on a cold, oughfare and drizzly, windy world-famous March day than shop-op with retail with reality. stores on one side And by and museums, summer, everyparks, statues and thing will have castle views on brightened up. the other, is now Roger HOLLIDAY Surely. an ugly closedClaudia FISCHER Bagpipers will to-traffic jumble skirl from every of jackhammers, hard hats, “dozers, red-and-white corner. Culture vultures will be barriers ... and banners thanking taking in the famous tattoos and local citizenry for their patience and the theater productions, the music proclaiming, ‘Edinburgh Trams - and the art exhibitions. And Tshirted tourists by the thousand Arriving 2011.’”

In the meantime, traffic is being will be dodging the orange barseriously diverted. Buses, by the rels on Princes Street and making hundreds, take novel routes. Noise, their trek up the Royal Mile, gobdirt, dust and smells reign over the bling up kilts and clobber before city’s major streets. The routines of tucking into an obligatory plate shoppers and sightseers alike are of haggis, neeps and tatties and being disrupted. And previously knocking back frothy pints of elegant and gracious landmarks are McEwan’s or Belhaven Best bitter at one of the many pubs. ruined or obscured.

We also know from our preOf course, “Homecoming 2009” is being promoted all over Scotland, not vious visits that Edinburgh does just in Edinburgh ... but it does seem indeed have many delightful asa great shame that this all-important pects, if you have the time, energy section of Burns’ parade route is being and inclination to look for them, like the vast swaths of parkland unnecessarily rained upon.

We travel to Edinburgh fairly high above the city — Queen’s often, and even in the best of times, Park — where “Chariots of Fire” the city presents — to us, at least — a hero Eric Liddell did his training somewhat dour and monochromatic runs prior to the 1924 Olympic picture. For one thing, it’s a difficult Games in Paris. Like the green place to photograph even on a sunny and gorgeous flower-filled pocket day. Everything seems so gray and parks that divide tree-lined Georoverweight, like granite architecture gian terraces and a particularly on steroids, from its chunky forti- intriguing maze of cobbled alleys fied 11th-century castle high up on behind Princes Street filled with the brooding Castle Rock to its col- fascinating boutiques, classy resumned museums and art galleries, taurants and traditional pubs.

Then there’s Leith, just a couple overwrought statue of Sir Walter Scott, looming cathedrals, palaces of miles away, with its newly develand the strange, highly controversial oped docklands, good restaurants, permanent dockage for the Royal new Parliament building.

Edinburgh’s other major tourist Yacht Britannia and more Scotch venue, the Royal Mile, also has its whisky tasting opportunities.

But for us, Edinburgh always gloomy, tacky side, with shop after shop filled to the sashes and eaves feels a bit old-fashioned. A bit old with kilts and bonnets, scarves lace. A bit Auld Lang Syne, as the and rugby kits ... and Tartanized poet says.

But maybe, just maybe, when everything.

Some of the tourist offerings the state-of-the-art trams with the that line the street also seem better bendy bits in the middle finally arsuited to the seaside resorts of a rive in 2011, they’ll help to kick-start Blackpool or a Brighton than to this the clean up and modernization of more serious and cerebral city: “The this grand old lady.

Witchery” and “The Dungeons” to “3-D Loch Ness,” “Ghosts and E-mail travel columnists Roger Gore,” “Murder and Mystery” and, of Holliday and Claudia Fischer at RogerHolliday@wcnet.org. course, a “Whisky Heritage Centre.”

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

Apri 5 - 11, 2009

Events: Full moon in Libra and Mercury enters Taurus (9th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Swing-time jazz. Availability and good timing start the week on an upbeat. Midweek celebrations are muted. The full moon on Thursday morning highlights the status of relationships, negotiations and agreements. Blessings and good luck flow on Friday and Saturday.

Hasty decisions. The full moon heightens emotions and sensitivities. New business sparks on Monday; old business nags on Wednesday. An unexpected lucky break or offer on Thursday improves long-term prospects and paves the way to a fantastic weekend.Scorpio

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Trading favors. Collaboration is emphasized this week.

Various acquaintances trade back-scratching services; everyone benefits. Money owed arrives on Thursday.

You’re selected to participate in a special project on Friday; high visibility boosts your reputation.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Big bang. Official, legal or property matters must be resolved as the week begins. Balancing commitments requires careful thought; overextending will have consequences in May. A river of people flows through the weekend; be open to new friendships and romance.

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Popularity contest. Work keeps you cooped up while the sun shines as the week beings. You spring free under the full moon and enter a fast-paced weekend with intense socializing. Updates on loved ones are hopeful; people see light at the end of a tunnel.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Multiple income streams. This week starts good and gets better as messages arrive from multiple people and locations. A past effort you thought wasted racks up astonishing results on Friday. Your basket is filled with diverse treats over the weekend.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Dream state. Sleep patterns or vivid dreams intensify this Too much, too little. A stagnant issue gets unstuck this week. Productivity increases as details are clarified. Good week. A variety of options and solutions are discussed. communication helps on all fronts; say what you want or Decisions made at the full moon will require action other peoples’ wishes will dominate agreements. Deep and follow through. Family members share their good fortune over the weekend. needs can be filled as the weekend arrives.

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Seeking adventure. Great information is shared as the week begins, but talk is cheap. The full moon reveals sincerity levels on both sides. There can be breakthroughs on Friday if you’re in the right place at the right time with the right offer. Trust your instincts.

Intense research. Balance intellectual demands with social obligations this week. Taking a vacation would do you good. Mind-expanding topics dominate discussions after Friday. Maps and visual aids help increase comprehension and clarify intentions.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Lasting results. Weigh choices carefully; ignore bad deals and be willing to pass on good deals in favor of great deals. People near you have a better shot at resolving their crisis issues. Best results are gained on Friday and Saturday; you get what you’ve waited for.

Bunny-hotep, god of spring. The intense drama of last week eases up this week. People want you around, and invitations arrive daily. A matter of great personal import provokes deep thoughts as the weekend arrives. Discuss it with a person you trust implicitly.

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

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Perrysburg Sylvania Toledo

Sun 2-4 Sun 2-4 Sun 2-4

984 E. Boundary 3 BR, 1 Bath, 1580 sf, 2 Car Gar 6832 Fredericksburg Dr. S. 5 BR, 2.1 Baths, 2444 sf, 2 Car Gar 1772 Valley Way 3 BR, 2.2 Baths, 2606 sf, 3 Car Ga

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PRICE

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AGENT

PHONE

$179,900 $198,900 $164,900

Assist2Sell Assist2Sell Assist2Sell

Stephany Williams Shelley Derkin Jackie Lewis

419-376-0318 419-260-5128 419-450-3302

APRIL 5, 2009

Visit www.toledofreepress.com

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COUPON EVENT CHOOSE YOUR COUPON. CHOOSE YOUR SAVINGS.

100off 50off 50off free %

$

select sofas

any purchase of 799 or more

$

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. See store for complete details. Expires 04/06/09.

%

select recliners

with the purchase any 5 piece living room

with the purchase of the loveseat, chair or recliner

Ashley Rug

with the purchase 5 pc dining room (table & 4 side chairs) of $999 or more

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. See store for are independently owned and operated. See store for are independently owned and operated. See store for complete details. Expires 04/06/09. complete details. Expires 04/06/09. complete details. Expires 04/06/09.

50off 50off 50off free %

select entertainment centers with the purchase of any 5 piece living room

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. See store for complete details. Expires 04/06/09.

%

%

matching ottoman select accessories select mattresses

with the purchase of select sectionals or 5 pc living rooms

with the purchase of $1500 or more

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Limit one coupon per customer per visit.

Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores Valid only at participating Ashley HomeStores. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. See store for are independently owned and operated. See store for are independently owned and operated. See store for complete details. Expires 04/06/09. complete details. Expires 04/06/09. complete details. Expires 04/06/09.

NO down payment, NO payments same as cash 'til April 2010* 23

State Rt 224 Tiffin Avenue

Cable Rd

Eastown Rd

State Rt 236

23

Diller Road

Meijer

475 p Air

Lima Mall

State Road 309

ay hw Hig ort

AMERICAS’ 75

475

75

7450 Timberstone Dr (Behind Wal-Mart) Findlay ı 419•423•2323

3223 Elida Rd (Across from Meijer) Lima ı 419•331•3131

Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am-8pm • Sat: 10am-6pm • Sun: 12-5pm

1520 Spring Meadows Dr. Toledo ı 419•868•5600 Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am-9pm Sun: 12-6pm

Looking for a NEW CAREER? Ashley Furniture HomeStores

are always looking for great people, apply within.

*On approved credit. Minimum purchase of $1000 required. Financing provided by CitiFinancial Retail Services. Finance Charges will accrue on the purchase from the beginning of the credit promotional period, but no minimum payments will be due during the credit promotional period. However, if you pay the purchase price in full by the expiration date of the credit promotional period, all of the accrued Finance Charges will be waived and no Finance Charges will be assessed on the purchase. Otherwise, all of the accrued Finance Charges will be assessed. Credit promotional period may be terminated if you default under your account agreement. SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. Some pieces and fabric prints may vary by region.

Selection may vary by store. Although every precaution is taken, errors in price and/or speci cation may occur in print. We reserve the right to correct any such errors. Prices valid for a limited time only. Participation times may vary. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. An amount equal to sales taxes and delivery charges must be paid at the time of purchase. Previous purchases excluded. Picture may not represent item exactly as shown, advertised items may not be on display at all locations. ©2009 Ashley HomeStores, Ltd. Expires 04/06/2009.

A48 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS

APRIL 5, 2009

Millions of Americans count on us to KEEP AMERICA WORKING WORKING THE LOW PAYMENT KING EXPANDS HIS QUEST TO HELP OUR LOCAL ECONOMY AND “KEEP AMERICA WORKING.” Beginning April 3 until April 13, consumers purchasing or leasing any new model Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep will receive a NEW LA-Z-BOY CHAIR and 100 SHARES OF LA-Z-BOY STOCK. These low prices are for EVERYONE! NEW ’09 Dodge Caliber

NEW ’09 Dodge Grand Caravan

0

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DOWN

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

12,986 228 mo.

DOWN $

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

16,860 279 mo.

NEW ’09 Jeep Patriot 4WD Rocky Mountain SAVE $3,947 $

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

NEW ’09 Chrysler Aspen

0

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17,568 299 mo.

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

$

31,325

SAVE MORE WITH 0% OR 2.9% FINANCING • SAVE MORE WITH LIFETIME POWERTRAIN WARRANTY • SAVE MORE WITH 100% TAX WRITE-OFF

NEW ’09 Dodge Journey

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

15,270 $ 255 mo.

NEW ’09 Dodge Nitro

EVERYONE OWN FOR

NEW ’09 Chrysler 300 Touring

$

16,935 $ 279 mo.

0

OWN FOR SAVE

NEW ’09 Jeep Wrangler 4WD

$

18,863 $ 8,552

0

OWN FOR SAVE

NEW ’08 Dodge Sprinter

$

16,963 $ 4,247

0

OWN FOR $34,683 SAVE $5,000

NEW ’07 Chrysler Crossfire DOWN NEW ‘07 Chrysler Crossfire DOWN NEW ’09 Jeep Grand Laredo DOWN Roadster Convertible

OWN FOR SAVE

$

20,922 $ 10,158

OWN FOR SAVE

$

24,690 $ 18,000

Limited Coupe SAVE eft!

L 1 y $ 19,000 l ! On HURRY

EVERYONE OWN FOR

$

19,683 $ 348 mo.

WE ARE A FIVE STAR AWARD WINNING SUPERSTORE!!! CALL TOLL FREE 1-866-665-3742 FOR DIRECTIONS OR VISIT US ONLINE AT WWW.MONROEDODGE.COM. SAVE EVEN MORE WHEN YOU ENROLL IN OUR MONROE SUPERSTORE REWARDS PROGRAM. 5.9% for 72 months with approved “A” credit. Picture may not represent actual vehicle. PRICES/PAYMENTS SUBJECT TO FACTORY CHANGES. All rebates, certificates, and loyalty bonus assigned to the MONROE SUPERSTORE on select in-stock models only. Special pricing on some models may require financing through Monroe Superstore Banks. Offers end April 13, 2009. *State fees add’l. Savings amounts include special package discounts on select models. See sales person for details. Sold orders and prior sales excluded. Vehicle must be purchased from dealer stock. Effective date of program is April 3-April 13. La-Z-Boy Chair will be available for pick-up mid-May from Durocher’s TV & Appliance. LA-Z-Boy stock will be available mid-June.

1-866-665-3742

Mon. 9-9 • Tues. 9-6 • Wed. 9-6 Thurs. 9-9 • Fri. 9-6 • Sat. 9-4