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April 12, 2015

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DON LEE

Baseball’s back People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

— Rogers Hornsby

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ne of my hobbies is visiting baseball stadiums. But even though I’ve been to almost all the major league fields, I have to say Fifth Third Field right here in Toledo is one of the best I’ve been to, major or minor.

The sight lines, the food, the atmosphere — it’s all great. There’s something about a baseball game that has a way of changing your attitude.

Growing up in New Jersey, I was a Baltimore Orioles fan. But now that I’ve lived in Toledo for 15 years, I find myself rooting for the Tigers, thanks to years of watching the Mud Hens and getting to know some of the players who have made the jump to Detroit.

There is truly nothing to match a clear, sunny day at the ballpark. It’s a family event; it’s a guys’ day out; it’s a girls’ night out; it’s smells Thomas F. Pounds and sights and emotions that no other public gathering can evoke with such clarity and impact. Baseball offers a few hours’ escape from the travails of life like few other pastimes — movies, books, theater, music — can. That distinct crack of the ball on the bat and the undeniable thump of the ball in the glove are symphonies, car chases and page-turners all wrapped up in one fluid, unrestrained-by-the-clock afternoon.

Opening Day at Fifth Third Field has become one of the area’s biggest events; every seat will be filled, the suites and hallways will overflow with excited fans and the Huron-Monroe-Washington-St. Clair streets block will hum with foot traffic and activity.

For 11 years, Toledo Free Press has marked Mud Hens Opening Day with what’s become the biggest and most comprehensive guide published in the market. We understood from our first season Downtown how important the Hens are to Toledo’s identity and spirit, and we have taken great care to share their successes and challenges with our readers.

The Hens have developed a national reputation for creative, innovative and — most importantly — fun promotions. As illustrator Don Lee has captured on this week’s cover, Muddy is expanding his pop culture reach beyond the popular annual “Star Wars” Night to incorporate “Jurassic Park” and “Back to the Future” in his promotional plans for family fun. The fourth installment of the classic dino-centric series comes out this summer, which also marks the 30th anniversary of Dr. Emmett Brown and his DeLorean time machine.

This year’s Toledo Free Press Opening Day issue, compiled and edited by Managing Editor Joel Sensenig, positively thrums with the vibrations of a new season. We are grateful to our staff, advertisers, readers and the Mud Hens organization for helping to make this issue one of our biggest and best of the year.

We take pride in our home team, and we will continue to show that by offering the best Opening Day coverage we can, this season and every season. See you at the game! O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

FALLING FORWARD

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I played, and had a position on the team the whole season, played Little League baseball for a year in 1989.

Anyone tempted to glance at their calendar and con- because apparently no kid who tried out that first year was denied. Whether you were the second firm that it is not still April Fools’ Day can coming of Mickey Mantle or, well, me, you go right ahead; I won’t be offended. I realize were welcome on the team that summer. that I am not exactly the most athletic indiI played for the entry-level Little vidual on the planet — an understatement League team in Luckey, Ohio. Whether on par with calling the Civil War a “slight we actually had a nickname is one of the disagreement” or the extinction of the dinomany details from that fateful season that saurs a “minor inconvenience” — but for one has been lost in my subconscious for over summer I was given the chance to put on the 25 years now, as if my brain has tried to uniform and show what I could do on the shield my self-esteem from any evidence glorious diamond where names like Ruth, that my baseball career existed. I do reDiMaggio and Mays had become legends.

Jeff McGinnis member our uniforms were a bright, obSpoiler alert: I sucked.

I mean, really, really sucked. Couldn’t field, couldn’t hit, noxious shade of yellow. Naturally, they didn’t have any could barely run, and I would sometimes cry if something that really fit me, save for one: No. 13. An ominous porwent wrong (which was often), in violation of Tom Hanks’ tent of the days to come. primary rule of baseball in “A League of Their Own.” Yet still n MCGINNIS CONTINUES ON 4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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COMMUNITY GUEST COLUMN

Veterans job fair planned

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any of us have seen the joyous reunions that unfold as veterans get off a plane and run into the arms of children, wives and husbands after being deployed for significant lengths of time. It’s a beautiful thing to witness. But what happens after this homecoming?

Many veterans face the struggle of transitioning from the service to a civilian lifestyle. Our nonprofit organization, United States Vets Inc., recognizes these issues and has become a prime resource for helping these men and women in this fight. It is our mission to serve them as they have served our country and assist them in meeting their life-sustaining needs.

This year, thanks to coverage by WTOL11, 13abc and other local media, we have been able to make the Toledo community aware of United States Vets. Inc. and what it’s doing.

A January fundraiser was just the beginning. We are planning an employment semLeslie MESTROW inar for veterans from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 9 at the West Toledo Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, 1320 W. Sylvania Ave. That will be followed up by a veterans’ job fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 20 at the Huntington Room in the Main Library, 325 N. Michigan St. The employment seminar — open to veterans only — will prepare the veterans to write outstanding resumes, cover letters and profiles as well as understand the recruiting process. Information for those interested in starting their own businesses will be offered along with resources available through the Toledo-Lucas County Library system. Register by contacting me at lclouden7@gmail.com. Veterans should be aware that their military/ veteran ID is required to attend the seminar. If credentials need to replaced or updated, our website, unitedstatesvets.org, has information on where vets can get this critical identification.

The followup job fair is specifically designed for veterans seeking employment. We have invited prospective employers who are interested in hiring veterans with qualifications that match their business needs. Unlike other job fairs, we put the veterans and their needs in the forefront. If your business or company is interested in participating in the job fair, please contact us soon as space is limited.

The world of a veteran returning home is multifaceted. Their integration back into civilian society can be challenging. As advocates, we strive to meet the emotional, social and even spiritual needs of these men and women who have bravely served our country. We want to close the gap and help these veterans live a fulfilling life outside their military service by becoming productive members of our Toledo community.

As a nonprofit, we continually seek support and commitment from the community as we aim to identify veterans’ needs and expand our scope in assisting them. No soldier, airman, sailor, Marine or guard should be living in substandard accommodations, worrying about their next meal, lacking medical or professional aid or wondering where they can find a job. The questions, the paperwork and the maze of resources are confusing.

Our website is designed to make this easier — almost like one-stop shopping. Every resource is researched before it is placed on the site. This makes the process of searching for assistance less daunting. Our focus is on eliminating the red tape and pointless phone calls and emails for veterans looking for the resources that will specifically help them. Their issues and needs can be different, and we must be respectful of that.

We have stepped up to the plate to become their source of hope and it is our sincere desire that the Toledo community, businesses and organizations will join us in our efforts. Become part of the solution. Your support — no matter how large or small — and your involvement in our events will help our local heroes in so many ways. Contact us soon, and sign up for our monthly newsletter at our website. Become a hero to our heroes. O

Leslie Mestrow is the public relations coordinator for Toledo-based United States Vets Inc. (unitedstatesvets.org) and can be contacted at lclouden7@gmail.com

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April showers bring May flowers

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pril showers bring May flowers: I always liked this saying when I was a little girl growing up. Most of my family and neighbors thought the rainy days of our fourth month intruded on the outdoor work that springtime brings for homeowners, but I loved walking and splashing in puddles.

My favorite childhood joke was, “It is really raining cats and dogs outside. I know that because I just stepped in a poodle!” Yes, I know: corny. But it sure made me giggle.

So, back to those flowers. If we had a dry April, then the flowers we are so anxious to see in May would have a much more difficult time sprouting without the Pam nourishment of the rain. We wouldn’t have the beauty of May without the dismal darkness of storm clouds in April. We judge the clouds as yucky rainy days, when actually they are the days that prepare for the kaleidoscope of blooms just a few weeks later.

Life mimics this. We look at the “showers” in our lives and concentrate on the clouds, the canceled plans, the scary thunder of troubles and the lightning-sharp pain in our spirits. We are so blinded by the fog after the storm that we find it difficult to see the “flowers,” the things blooming in our lives that bring us a garden of possibilities. Even when the clouds are lifted, we stand dazed, allowing bitterness, regret, shame and unforgiveness to distort our view of all the beauty that lies ahead.

It would make life a lot easier if we had doppler radar and all the fancy weather-predicting equipment our local forecasters have at their disposal to alert us when the winds of change are coming. A machine to tell us when our hearts should take cover and when we should carry an umbrella to help repel negativity, so it

n MCGINNIS CONTINUED FROM 3 I tended to play outfield, because that was where I could do the least damage defensively. I mean, even if the batter did manage to hit the ball past our infielders, there was only a 1-in-3 chance I would be the one it ended up heading toward. But go figure if it didn’t seem like every time that damn ball went sailing, it headed right in my direction. (I ascribe it to the natural gravitational pull I generate.)

Not once that entire summer did I make a catch. I came close one day, a moment of sheer joy as I magically ended up in the right position as the ball fluttered down into the waiting webbing of my glove, only to pop right out again, as if even the laws of gravity were conspiring against me.

More often I would go running after a hit as it scooted past my feet or over my head, finally catching up to the baseball after the runner had easily passed first or second, and tossing it back in with all the force I could muster — which usually meant the ball bounced about halfway up the outfield and then rolled feebly into our shortstop’s glove while the runner

might roll off without drenching us in worry. But, since we never know what life has waiting for us around the corner, the best defense against the storms is learning from them as they come.

As a child, it is difficult to understand why the showers in April have to happen. All you want to do is run and play and ride your bike.

Instead you are told you have to stay inside and be bored. But as we get older, we learn we can survive these times, we can thrive during these times and we can learn great lessons. Those lessons become the nurturing ingredients we can use to create the May flowers, the times in our lives that make it all worth it.

Hays Those who can’t or won’t open their eyes and their hearts to making a plan to move forward never realize the full spectrum of what life has to offer. They remain stuck in their ways, stuck in ruts and stuck in the muddy waters of regret. The clouds don’t always cover the sky completely, but you count on them coming out time and time again. The sun doesn’t always shine brightly, but you can always count on it to shine through, even if just a bit, on the cloudiest of days.

You can focus on April or you can prepare for May. When the tulips and daffodils and daisies bloom it is so easy to forget what helped bring them up from under the deep soil and into the light. But the keeper of the garden never forgets. They plan, they design, they prepare, they plant, they nurture.

Be the keeper of the garden in your life. Allow your life to bloom with beautiful colors. Happy spring! O Pam Hays is president and founder of The Arms Forces, www. thearmsforces.org; (419) 891-2111.

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I defy anyone to argue that any game is still tied to the American soul as closely as baseball.” dusted himself off at third.

But however atrocious I was in the field, I made up for it by being even worse at bat. I don’t recall anyone keeping statistics for our league, and I am grateful, lest a sports hall of shame need evidence to induct me as the most inept player in history. I don’t have any memories of actually getting a hit, as being sat down on strikes or slapping weak grounders were the sum total of my offensive output. I do remember getting on base a few times, which I can only ascribe to either the opposing pitcher having an off day or my overactive imagination.

But here’s the thing: I still loved it.

I mean, sure, I was horrible and had

no business being on the diamond.

But it was so much fun. I still have fond memories of hanging out with my friends, running around in the sun, the smell of my new baseball glove, the feel of the bat in my hands.

Despite the near constant embarrassment I endured, I still looked forward to trying out for the team the next summer, only to learn that secondyear players had to actually, well, be able to play.

The national pastime has long since been usurped by other games when it comes to fan base and passion. But I defy anyone to argue that any game is still tied to the American soul as closely as baseball. That’s why every spring I feel a smile in my heart as Opening Day approaches. And every now and then, I’ll drive by that same diamond in Luckey, and take a moment to remember my summer spent in the sun. That horrible, embarrassing, awkward, awful, wonderful summer. O Jeff McGinnis is Pop Culture Editor at Toledo Free Press. He can be reached at PopGoesJeff@gmail.com.

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n Among those involved with the Welcome Toledo-Lucas County initiative include, from left, Welcome TLC committee member desiree Sakho, jesus Salas of Advocates for basic legal equality (ABLE), americorps member salma barudi, americorps member sarah allan, manos greek restaurant owner manos Paschalis, lucas county commissioners Carol Contrada, Pete Gerken and Tina Skeldon Wozniak, board of lucas county commissioners executive assistant brittany ford, adelante executive director guisselle Mendoza, lucas county chief of public policy and legislative affairs peter ujvagi, toledo city councilwoman Lindsay Webb and Eugenio Mollo Jr. of Able.

Welcome TLC aims to celebrate, build region’s diversity

By Matt Liasse

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer mliasse@toledofreepress.com

During a recent visit to Toledo, Steve Tobocman, director of Global Detroit, an organization that helps immigrant families, spoke about creating economic growth by embracing immigration.

“There are lots of opportunities to connect the dots to better attract, retain and utilize the talents, resources and energy that immigrants and refugees can bring to a community like Toledo and Lucas County,” Tobocman said during a March 30 presentation at Toledo’s Park Inn by Radisson.

The visit marked Tobocman’s second visit to the area as part of a collaboration to bring a similar ini-

tiative to Toledo.

Tobocman was invited to speak by the Lucas County Commissioners as part of the new Welcome ToledoLucas County (TLC) initiative, which aims to make Lucas County more welcoming to immigrants.

The initiative works with a variety of organizations to celebrate the region’s migrant and immigrant heritage while supporting social and economic opportunities for all communities, including minority communities, LGBT communities, disabled communities and more.

Tobocman, a former Michigan State Representative in Detroit’s 12th district, is an expert on immigrants and their economic impact. He helped create Global Detroit and, for the past five years, has been executing strategies to improve immigrant integration

within the community.

Through his work with Global Detroit, Tobocman helped launch a number of community initiatives, including ProsperUS Detroit (which helps immigrants start small businesses) and Welcoming Michigan (the 13th state/local affiliate of Welcoming America, which promotes respect between foreign- and U.S.-born citizens).

Global Detroit also launched the region’s first online searchable database of traditional integration services.

Global Detroit has worked with close to 20 cities across 10 states, each recognizing the necessity of making immigration more welcoming.

Welcome TLC and Global Detroit have similar mission statements, Tobocman said. “They seem to align quite nicely.”

The initiative

Welcome TLC is led by the Board of Lucas County Commissioners, headed by Commissioner Pete Gerken and staffed by Executive Assistant Brittany Ford, Peter Ujvagi, who is Lucas County Chief of Public Policy and Legislative Affairs, and two AmeriCorps members, Sarah Allan and Salma Barudi.

Welcome TLC has five key objectives: to “identify and support economic development and neighborhood revitalization strategies”; to “host community and neighborhood-based conversations”; to continue the service through outreach, education and collaboration; to support art; and to broaden the network of support.

Welcome TLC partners with other

local organizations, including Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), Adelante, Toledo City Council and Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) Toledo.

“As we started working with our partners and looking at neighborhood revitalization, our concept was [to ask] what’s happening out there in the United States and the world that we need to be a part of. Welcome TLC initially became a part of a very broad strategy to [create welcoming communities] in Lucas County,” Gerken said.

Initiatives like Welcome TLC are being put into action across the nation. Welcome Dayton and Global Detroit work with immigrants to revitalize former Rust Belt communities. n WELCOME CONTINUES ON 6

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n WELCOME CONTINUED FROM 5 There was a void locally, he said, a need for an initiative like Welcome TLC. “[Welcome TLC] is such an obvious answer from our history,” Gerken said. “Toledo is a city and county that was built on immigration.

This is like waking up and seeing the obvious, for me.

“I wish we could say that we thought of this all on our own, but what we are doing, to our credit, is seeing an opportunity and capitalizing on it very quickly.”

Gerken said the initiative is an attempt to revitalize Lucas County.

“When Lucas County was in its heyday … is when the immigrant and refugee communities were strongest,” he said. “I’ll go back to the post-World War II and industrial era. Our factories and manufacturers were populated with diverse immigrant communities.”

Gerken, a retired Jeep worker, said he walked into the Jeep plant in 1976 and worked with people from Lebanon, Mexico, Africa and Asia.

“With 6,000 people working there, [it] was like walking into the United Nations,” Gerken said. “And they were all working together side by side to make a product that was representative of Toledo.”

When people from multiple backgrounds work together, they begin to understand different cultures, Gerken said.

“Before very long, everyone knew everyone else’s cultural holidays, their food, a little bit of their language,” he said. “That’s when Toledo had strong and

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Gerken said that’s changed over time.

“World trade became what it is, the middle class became what it is,” he said. “If we want to go back to where we were when we were in our heyday, let’s do the things we did then that made sense.”

Gerken said there are many opportunities to make Lucas County more welcoming today.

“Immigrants and refugees are not only coming, they’re here,” he said.

“You do get the best from people when you make them feel welcome to the community.”

The film festival

In January, the Ohio Theatre and Event Center screened seven foreign films as part of the Toledo International Film Festival.

The event was the first effort of the Welcome TLC initiative, which worked in collaboration with the theater and United North, a neighborhood improvement organization, to offer the films. The purpose of the festival was to expose Toledo to cultural diversity through films like “Shaolin Soccer” and “Juan of the Dead.”

Gerken said the success of the multiweekend festival pleased him. “[It] was amazing and went beyond our expectations. You never know with the first time you do these,” Gerken said. “[It] was one action of a movement.”

United North’s Senior Manager of Community Programming Nikki

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Immigrants and refugees are not only coming, they’re here.

You do get the best from people when you make them feel welcome to the community.”

— Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken Morey said the collaboration was a positive experience. “[The collaboration] is really going to be helping, not only economic development, but also helping provide some alternatives for entertainment in Toledo that we otherwise might not get,” she said.

Added value

Bringing cultural diversity to local neighborhoods is important, Gerken said.

Immigrants own 6.7 percent of Ohio businesses, even though they account for about 4 percent of the state’s population. In 2010, new immigrant businesses in Ohio generated $1.3 billion in net business income, according to the American Immigration Council.

“Immigrants don’t take away re-

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sources from a community, they bring resources to a community,” Gerken said.

Ujvagi, who immigrated from Hungary as a child, agreed, pointing out that immigrant-owned businesses create jobs for others in the community.

“We need to make the case for people to understand it’s in their benefit as well,” he said.

“If you look at the history of Toledo and every other urban area, between immigration and migration, those are the folks that have really built this community. [Nationally,] 28 percent of all main street businesses are run by immigrants. The numbers are just overwhelming. We’re behind the curve in Toledo. We really need to build on it.”

There are also hundreds of overseas nationals who live and work in the Toledo region as employees of the more than 175 businesses in Northwest Ohio that were started or owned by people or companies outside the United States, said Paul Zito, vice president of international develop-

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ment with the Regional Growth Partnership. Two-thirds of the businesses are from European nations followed

by Japan, Canada and others, he said.

Attraction, retention, building a welcoming community and not leaving anyone behind are the goals, Ujvagi said.

“The tragedy sometimes is people come as immigrants and then they want to close the door behind them,” he said. “We need to get people to understand how important talent attraction, talent retention and small business entrepreneurs are.”

Manos Paschalis, a Greek immigrant and owner of Manos Greek Restaurant in UpTown, said he supports Welcome TLC because he wants to help other immigrants achieve the success he’s found in Toledo. He also wants to share his story with local government officials to help them better understand the immigrant experience.

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n WELCOME CONTINUED FROM 6 “The welcome I had, it was incredible,” Paschalis said. “They made me feel successful the first minute I stepped in the Government Center.”

“When I came here, I didn’t understand the phrase ‘The customer is king.’

We don’t have that so much in Europe.

But when I first encountered government officials, with Lucas County and the city, back in the ’80s, I felt like a king.

They treated me like one. I felt that, and I try to pass it along to my customers.

“I’m hoping [government] will be as welcoming to others as they were to me about 30 years ago because people from other countries that come here, they try to be successful, they create success, and success breeds success.

“The more successful people in a city, in a county that you have, you help create more success,” Paschalis

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Paschalis thinks the growth of government over the years has made it more challenging for those looking to go into business.

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“Things have changed. We need to retrofit ourselves a little bit and we need to readjust a few things,” he said.

“It’s not the people that changed, but the government itself has grown up through the last years. There’s so many roadblocks that make it a little more difficult for people to do business.”

Starting a life in a new country is courageous, Gerken said.

“It’s probably the most entrepreneurial and courageous act that any individual will take, by going somewhere else and taking their skills with them,” Gerken said. “They bring economics, they bring intelligence, they bring education and they bring the entrepreneurial spirit. Why wouldn’t we want more people [like that] here?”

The Welcome TLC initiative will evolve over time, Gerken said.

“Every day there’s an action that we talk about,” he said. “This is not a program that we’ll launch in September and stop the next September and measure everything in between. This is going to be a live and robust initiative … and we have a broad range of partners.”

The collaborations

In September, Welcome TLC collaborator Eugenio Mollo Jr. gave a TEDxToledo talk called “I’m Not Supposed To Be Here.” In it, he discussed his family’s immigration story and the challenges that come from beginning a new life in America.

“I’m not supposed to be here today and I bet many of you aren’t supposed to be here either,” he began. “The only reason I am here, here in this country, is beMOLLO JR. cause everything lined up just perfectly to allow me to be here — a hodgepodge of laws and circumstances that I had no choice or control over.”

Mollo grew up in an immigrant community in Chicago. His family would have conversations about immigration struggles around the dinner table when he was growing up. Because of that, immigration issues are part of him.

“I think it’s important for people to recognize under what circumstances either they or their family members before them were able to come to the United States,” Mollo said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. “What laws were in place that allowed them to come to this country? What circumstances out of your control allowed those individuals to come? Because I think when you learn about your own immigration story, you recognize on a personal level that we’re not in a position to pass judgment on why people are here currently, regardless of their

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immigration status.”

Mollo is a managing attorney at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), a nonprofit law firm servicing low-income individuals in 32 counties. Through its collaboration with Welcome TLC, Mollo said, he hopes to make anyone with an immigration status “feel comfortable tapping into available resources.”

Following President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, Mollo and Jesus Salas, a senior attorney at ABLE, began giving presentations on immigration executive actions.

“Even though some of the immigration actions were temporarily stopped by a district court judge in Texas, many parts of the president’s executive actions are still moving forward,” Mollo said. “We’re seeing individual successes that are a direct result of ABLE’s outreach and presentation efforts.”

Salas added that the water emergency that affected Toledo in August was a “big indicator of the gaps of the services” for immigrants because of, in part, a language barrier. ABLE helped address those issues as well.

“As the county and the city are bringing in new immigrants to repopulate the region, there is a culture shock of how we talk to this new population,” Salas said. “That’s why we’re trying to work together as a team, as a county.”

ABLE also has an office in Dayton and helped launch Welcome Dayton, another initiative Welcome TLC has collaborated with.

“A lot of lessons that are being learned in Dayton are being applied here in Toledo and Lucas County and vice versa,” Salas said. “We are learning from each other how to better make ourselves adaptable.”

Near the end of his TEDxToledo talk, Mollo spoke about the importance of people feeling at home in their community.

“People are at their happiest when they belong,” Mollo said.

“They’re better employees, they’re better community members [and] they’re more likely to help other people in need. This is the way to build communities.”

TEDx follow-up forum

Mollo will be the featured speaker at a TEDxToledo follow-up forum on immigration set for 9-11 a.m. April 10 at Downtown’s One SeaGate (Fifth Third Bank building). Other panelists at the forum will include Ford, Shane Lakatos of Social Services for the Arab community, Guisselle Mendoza of Adelante and Joe Wells of The S.A.I. Group.

The event is free but space is limited to 75 guests. Those interested in attending should RSVP at the TEDxToledo Facebook page or at http://bit. ly/tedrsvp. O

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Local author’s book chronicles Toledo’s glass history

By Vicki L. Kroll

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Barbara Floyd spent an entire year piecing together the history of the business that led to Toledo’s nickname.

In “The Glass City: Toledo and the Industry That Built It,” she follows Toledo’s glass roots from the first fledgling company that fired up furnaces in 1888 to the triumphant reign of three powerhouses — Owens-Illinois, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens Corning — that made the town the world leader in glass production, to when that supremacy started to shatter.

“I came away from this project with a newfound appreciation for how unique Toledo was in its industrial history — the way the city produced some of the most important developments and technological innovations in industrial history,” Floyd said. “Toledo companies invented the automatic bottle machine, Fiberglas, insulated glass, safety glass for automobiles, structural glass that made skyscrapers possible, glass-composite products and many others.

“In addition, the people who developed new techniques for industrial glass also helped to create the studio glass movement that produced beautiful works of art made of glass.”

A University of Toledo alumna, Floyd is director of UT’s Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections.

While writing her book, she utilized Carlson Library’s extensive records on Toledo’s manufacturing glass commerce.

“Beginning in the 1980s, the Canaday Center has been attempting to collect records that document Toledo’s most important industries,” said Floyd, who also serves as university archivist. “The first glass-related collection we acquired was the records of Libbey-Owens-Ford, the producer of window glass. A few years later, we

acquired the records of Owens-Illinois, the producer of bottles, and then most recently, the records of Owens Corning, the producer of Fiberglas.

These collections represent the most important documentation of industrial glass in the country.”

Knowing that information was stored at UT and that Floyd was the author of several local history works, Scott Ham of The University of Michigan Press reached out to see if she would be interested in preparing a book proposal.

“While there had been historical studies of particular companies in the past, there had not been a comprehensive book that looked at the overall and interconnected histories of Toledo’s glass companies since the 1940s,” said Floyd, who also conducted research at the Toledo Museum of Art, the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

The history of glass in Toledo all began 127 years ago, when Edward Drummond Libbey moved his New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River.

“Edward Drummond Libbey is arguably the most important person in Toledo’s history,” Floyd said. “Not only did he bring to the city its most important industry, but he also founded one of the most important art museums in the country. And he hired one of the most important innovators in glass technology — Michael Owens.”

At age 10, in 1869, Owens started working in the hot, dangerous glass factories as a “blower’s dog,” the name given to boys who helped glassblowers make bottles.

“I think because of his experience as a child, he began to experiment with a machine to automatically make bottles around the turn of the century,” Floyd said.

By the late 20th century, changes in glass production began to dull Toledo’s once sparkling brilliance. LibbeyOwens-Ford was sold to Pilkington Brothers PLC in 1986, and ongoing asbestos legal battles forced Owens Corning to declare bankruptcy in 2000.

Toledo, Floyd noted in her book, was “as fragile as the product it produces.”

Never was that more apparent than when the Toledo Museum of Art’s Glass Pavilion opened in 2006 with large, glass walls that were fabricated in Shenzhen, China. This reflected the globalization of glass production, Floyd said.

“Toledo glass has changed the world. And most significantly, the industry made the city what it is today,”

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EyeCitizen, TPD crime map help residents track incidents

By Ashley McMahon

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Area leaders are taking strides to ensure Toledo citizens are upto-date on crime activity in their

neighborhoods.

The Toledo Police Department (TPD) launched an interactive crime map in May 2014 and Toledo City Councilman Tom Waniewski released citywide access to EyeCitizen.org in June 2013.

While both resources allow Toledo residents to monitor criminal activity around their homes, each application is unique and offers its own alerts and customizations.

TPD’s crime map, found at crimemap.toledo.oh.gov, generates

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alerts based on reports that are filed for a designated area determined by the user, said TPD Public Information Officer Lt. Joe Heffernan.

This is different than calls for service, which is how alerts are generated for EyeCitizen.org, he said.

“Not every call for service is written up in WANIEWSKI a report. If you call 911 and say, ‘My neighbor’s dog is barking all night,’ EyeCitizen is going to send that to your phone if you’re signed up for their service,” Heffernan said. “An officer will arrive to the house and talk to the homeowner where the dog is barking, tell them to have their dog stop barking and will probably not write a report. This wouldn’t show up on the crime map.”

TPD began using internal crime mapping in 2012 and launched a public access version two years later.

Users can enter a specific address on the map’s website and browse through all of the crimes reported within a half-mile radius during the past two months. In addition to browsing the site, users can sign up to receive email alerts. The map is refreshed three times a day, at the 6 a.m., 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. shift changes.

The public map cost $6,200 to develop through Dayton-based Optica Consulting, the same company that developed TPD’s internal mapping system.

Since its launch last year, citizens are using the service and TPD has been receiving a great response from the community, Heffernan said.

“It’s a very useful tool for someone who wants to monitor the crime activity in their neighborhood and keep track of the reports that are actually written,” he said.

The TPD crime map also allows citizens to submit a tip through a button on the map’s website. In addition, citizens can send a tip to police through the department’s Facebook page by sending the department a message.

EyeCitizen.org is a private service that offers crime alerts generated through 911 calls into TPD. Waniewski created the service with his business partner Dave Bonitati in 2012. He began beta testing the service in his district after discovering a desire for a crime alert service while attending a neighborhood block watch meeting in Old Orchard.

“Residents of Old Orchard were

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We don’t want anyone going out to stop a crime. We just want to be an extra pair of eyes for the police department. ... We need to hear from the community: ‘What did you see?’

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concerned about why they didn’t know why things were happening in their area,” Waniewski said.

As a result, he took action and began developing the crime alert database.

Waniewski and Bonitati paid the initial costs for research and development and launched EyeCitizen for District 5 in 2012. In June 2013, City Council approved $50,000 in funding to expand the service citywide.

However, the vote was taken before many Council members were aware of Waniewski’s connections and 1 percent stake in the company.

As a result, Waniewski and Council determined it would be best if the city did not use taxpayer money to pay for the service.

“To avoid any controversy, I talked my business partners into providing the service for free to the entire city. So there was never anything spent by the city for EyeCitizen,” Waniewski told TFP in an email. “We decided to pay for it by seeking community sponsorships. Vito’s, Fry Heating and Habitec are keeping it free for residents.”

Toledoans can sign up for the service in up to three areas of interest.

They receive alerts based on 911 calls made whenever a crime against property or people occurs within their monitoring area. Citizens can sign up for the service at eyecitizen.org.

“We don’t want anyone going out to stop a crime. We just want to be an extra pair of eyes for the police department,” Waniewski said. “We want to let the police department do their job. They’re the professionals, but whenever there’s a crime occurring, we need witnesses. We need to hear from the community: ‘What did you see?’”

There are currently about 10,000 users signed up for the service, Waniewski said. O

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Program seeks dialogue, action plans for improving race relations

By Danielle Stanton

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When Karen Shepler was in college, the Black Power movement was in full thrust. It was then she first got a hint of her own white privilege — although no one told her what that was. That time period was a catalyst that began her life’s work of educating to end racism.

“My father was bigoted and was a Klan member,” Shepler said during a recent telephone interview. “My brother and sister had done some things around [ending] racism.

Now it stops with me. I am going to do anything I can do to eliminate racism in my time. Since my college days, I’ve been trying to do something about it.”

Shepler, a pastor who has recently come out of retirement, started the Dialogue to Change program in Toledo.

The program, which brings together people of many races in a class format to discuss their personal experiences with racism, is meant SHEPLER to effect change.

“The purpose is to bring together people of various backgrounds to discuss the whole issue of racism and their personal stories of how racism has affected them, particularly people of color,” Shepler said. “And in some way, it’s to help white people understand white privilege.”

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The classes are two hours a week for six weeks. They use exercises and a curriculum to stimulate discussion, but most of the sharing is personal experiences, Shepler said. At the end, they agree on what’s called an action plan.

“We can talk about racism forever but if we don’t do anything to try to stop racism, it’s just talk. So we put together a plan of action,” Shepler said.

The most recent action plan was created in March. Some of the plans included organizing a pen pal project for a third-grade classroom, creating a tool kit for faith-based organizations to use for class discussions and inviting WGTE to develop a program based on Dialogue to Change.

“We’ve had over 200 people participate in the group starting in the fall of 2013,” Shepler said. “We had two or three sessions in 2014. One in 2015.

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We’ll do another in the fall of 2015. ... We’re lifting the consciousness of white people to understand institutional and structural racism. It’s all a part of the program.”

Shepler grew up in Waterville and Whitehouse, was ordained in 1982 and was pastor at Monroe Street United Methodist Church from August 2001 until she retired in June 2013.

The Dialogue to Change forum is a program by Everyday Democracy, a project of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation, which is “dedicated to strengthening deliberative democracy and improving the quality of public life in the United States,” according to the website, www.everyday-democracy.org.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the current Mud Hens franchise, but like a Mike Hessman home run sent beyond the stretches of center field, Toledo’s baseball history runs much farther and deeper than that.

Though it may seem hard to believe, it wasn’t always the Mud Hens highlighting our summers in Toledo; the team has played under different names, and in different stadiums, leagues and affiliations — spanning back as far as 1883.

In 1955, our hometown boys of summer were taken from Northwest Ohio following a sudden franchise move to Wichita, Kansas, by parent club Milwaukee Braves’ owner Lou Perini.

The move deprived local fans of baseball for nine long years. It took a local hero named Edward J. “Ned” Skeldon to bring back the game in 1965.

Losing baseball twice

“Everybody was just floored they left [in 1955],” said John Husman, Mud Hens team historian, who was 13

years old at that time. “I went to most games, and when that happened I was angry. I remember being angry at Lou Perini. I can remember that emotion.

A lot of other people were disappointed.

[Baseball] was a big part of my life.”

Toledo had actually lost another team just three years prior.

In June 1952, thenHens owner Danny Menendez moved the team to Charleston, West Virginia. The move was met with opposition, and despite still being called the Toledo Mud Hens, the team played its remaining home games in Charleston that season and never came back.

The next spring, the major league’s Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee, displacing the minor league Brewers and sending that franchise to Toledo — this time reincarnated as the Sox. “It was a huge success,” Husman said. “They won the pennant.”

Even with an entertaining team and decent attendance, the Sox left after the 1955 season, which sent Skeldon — then Toledo’s vice mayor — into action. Skeldon was not only seeking a new team, but also a new stadium, because venerable Swayne Field, built in 1909, was demolished in 1956 to make way for a new Kroger store.

Baseball fans can still view a piece of history from that era: A portion of the original Swayne Field outfield remains at the corner of Monroe Street and Detroit Avenue to this day; that wall was baseball’s first-ever concrete outfield fence in the nation (see photograph on page 27).

Chuck Bracken has officially served on the Hens board since 1978, although he remembers attending board meetings as early as ’65 or ’66 as the lone representative from the Hens’ accounting firm, Arthur Young & Company. He, too, was disappointed when the Hens left town in 1955.

Ned Skeldon Stadium, 1982, courtesy TOLEdo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from Images2.toledolibrary.org / LEFT: Photo Courtesy Toledo Mud Hens

Current Mud Hens franchise marks 50 years

Toledo vice mayor ned Skeldon Led the effort to bring professional baseball back to toledo, pushing for the transformation of a former maumee racetrack into a ballpark. the stadium was later named after him. At Left: A Score book from 1965, when baseball returned to toledo after a nine-year absence.

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“For those of us who like baseball, like anything else, it deprived us of our candy,” Bracken said. “We had nowhere else to go in the evenings. I loved baseball. When the Mud Hens left the first

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Bringing baseball back

Once the Sox were gone, Skeldon stepped in.

He began immediately dealing with a lot of the bureaucratic details one might expect in building a new franchise from the ground up: determining who would own the club, where the team would play and with what major league club it would be affiliated.

A nine-year baseball absence might seem like a long time to fans, but Skeldon bringing it all together in that time, through governmental agencies, no less, was no small task.

What’s more, minor league teams had a reputation back then of being hard to keep in the black.

Bracken recalls fearing some of the backlash team officials might potentially face in the press: Should the county be involved with building such a massive recreation center?

Why should it be involved with professional sports in the first place?

Why situate the team in a suburb, and not Toledo?

“It was a county project, so like all political projects, you get a lot of people who were opposed to it,” Bracken said. “That was the atmosphere of the time. Ned Skeldon, who

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in my mind was the director of this, was saying that there could be a lot of negativity by the county providing [the Hens] a place to play.”

The 1965 return

Skeldon persisted through it all.

As president of the Lucas County Commissioners in 1963, he successfully led a campaign to turn the Lucas County Fairgrounds into a recreation center, and convert an old horse racetrack and one time-football stadium into a minor league ballpark.

Skeldon, along with Henry Morse and Steve Stranahan, among others, then negotiated a plan with Richmond Virginians owner Romeo Champagne to purchase his International League team for $75,000.

At long last, the Hens would re-

turn for good beginning with the 1965 season, although Bracken recalls little of the fanfare one might expect today.

“There was the usual opening day ceremony, and it was a little bit different because it was the first time we played baseball in town in years, but I don’t remember anything particularly special about it,” he said.

Over 5,000 fans attended the inaugural game at the new stadium, which then seated 8,000 and eventually held over 10,000 for much of its tenure.

One of Skeldon’s five children followed in his professional footsteps.

Although current Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak was just a young girl at the time, she was thrilled to see baseball back in Toledo in 1965 because that meant

spending time with her dad.

“I just remember having a ball — I had a great time,” Skeldon Wozniak said. “We got to go to the rec center and go to games with our dad. We met every coach, and would meet all their kids.

“Our summertime was spent — after playing in the neighborhood — going to games. I think I was one of the luckiest children, and we all had those fond memories.”

The ballpark would eventually be named in Skeldon’s honor in 1988, although he died just three months after the dedication. Today, “The Ned” remains in active use with rec leagues and high school sports.

“He was a role model for me, and a role model for a lot of people, who cared about everyone very much,” Skeldon Wozniak said. “He was also a super nice guy.”

Hens here to stay

The Hens are often mistakenly noted county-owned. Rather, the franchise is officially owned by its own board of trustees and set up as a not-for-profit corporation, with Lucas County as the ultimate beneficiary — all arranged in a way that the team can never be sold, Bracken said.

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“I think Toledo is a baseball town, and behaves like one,” Skeldon Wozniak said. “I’d say baseball, under this regime and leadership, they’ve made baseball even better than it was. It started with [former GM] Gene Cook and turned it over to Joe Napoli. They know how to run a baseball team, and make it a place where people want to go.”

Looking back at 50 years of the franchise, most tend to agree that it has never been stronger.

“I continue to be amazed at attendance,” Bracken said. “When we put those Mud Hens together [in 1965], we anticipated roughly 400,000 would attend that first year, and figured that it would fall off after the honeymoon period. In 2002 (Fifth Third Field’s inaugural year), we had 550,000, and in every year since then. So, that means the population is still supporting us with as much enthusiasm as they had in the 1970s, so I’m really surprised.”

The team plans no formal recognition of its 50th anniversary this year, according to Mike Keedy, Toledo Mud Hens manager of special events, as it prefers to focus on the long tradition and overall common thread of all Toledo baseball history. O

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Toledo loves its Mud Hens, and the city is ready to welcome back the team and its veteran skipper, Larry Parrish.

Parrish has seen some ups and downs in his time in the Fifth Third Field dugout, but he is optimistic about this season despite some early question marks regarding his starting pitching rotation. The questions are especially relevant since Toledo’s big league affiliate, the Detroit Tigers, are beginning the season a man short.

“The starting pitching is a little up in the air right now, with the [Justin] Verlander injury,” Parrish said.

Additionally, Mud Hen pitcher and Tigers prospect Drew VerHagen will start the year on the disabled list.

Still, Parrish has seen enough from his team this spring to give him hope.

“The bullpen looks solid right now.

It seems to be a much better bullpen than we had last year.”

For his position players, Parrish said he is looking forward to seeing some of them return for a second year in Toledo to hone their skills and

move up to the next level. “[Steven] Moya is dealing with plantar fasciitis with his ankle, but we’ve got [Dixon] Machado, [Jefry] Marte at third. For the outfield, we still had a lot of these guys last year, and hopefully they do well and improve in their second year.”

The Hens recently received some additional depth behind home plate when Detroit assigned Bryan Holaday to catching duties in Toledo following PARRISH spring training.

Holaday bore a heavy load as the Tigers’ backup catcher last season, especially during starting catcher Alex Avila’s injury troubles.

Former Mud Hen James McCann has moved up to take Holaday’s place in Detroit.

“We’re really happy with the catching,” Parrish said. “Our catching last year with McCann was very good, and now we have Holaday, who is a guy who is known to work

with a pitching staff very well.”

Parrish said Hens catcher Manny Piña should not be overlooked, either.

“Piña is a guy who can throw — I mean, he can really throw — so for catching, we’re very strong. That’s a position we have some depth at right now.”

Parrish said he can foresee McCann contributing at the big league level, especially after getting a good glimpse of his abilities in Toledo last season.

“He was always highly regarded as a catch and throw guy, and his bat is getting better and better. He is a really hardworking kid. He’s knocking on the door to be a regular big league catcher.”

Parrish also spoke optimistically about Moya’s potential, once he returns from the disabled list.

“He had super numbers last year at AA,” Parrish said. “He’s a super strong kid, and when he hits it, it goes a long way.

“But he’s also a very big kid, and those long levers that give him big pop also create some holes for pitchers to throw at, so he may have to go through a little bit of a learning

curve before he gets to the big league. … But then again, he might not — you just never know.”

Parrish said neither he nor longtime Mud Hens hitting coach Leon “Bull” Durham plan on trying to shorten Moya’s swing to possibly cut back on strikeouts while sacrificing power.

“That’s not his game,” Parrish said.

“He’s going to be one of those guys that hits it out of the ballpark 30-plus times and drives you in runs.”

Parrish said he is happy with the mix of player types on his roster this year, on both sides of the ball.

“We’ve got a couple different type players,” he said. “[Infielder Dixon] Machado has always been able to play defense, but he started to put up some numbers last year.”

Rounding out the team this year is minor league veteran Mike Hessman.

The big man has had several stints with the Hens during his extensive career, and many of his all-time minor league record 417 career home runs came in a Toledo uniform.

The 37-year-old Hessman has seen plenty of the ups and downs minor league players endure while trying to

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reach the big leagues, and his presence is enough to inspire younger players around him.

“That’s a guy who leads by example,” Parrish said of Hessman. “He shows up to work every day, plays hurt, and you know what he’s going to do. He’s going to hit the ball out of the ballpark.”

Parrish, a two-time major league All Star during his own playing career, also acknowledged the significance of Hessman’s home run record.

“That’s a lot of home runs, no matter where you’re playing.”

With the regular season kicking off, Parrish is ready to compete, though he has not noticed a clear favorite among International League teams so far.

“You have no way of knowing,” he said. “In spring training, we only see about three other clubs.”

Despite the uncertainty that looms in the air on every Opening Day, there is always something to focus on and anticipate, Parrish said.

“I think you look forward every year to guys getting better, and hopefully get into the playoff picture. We want to play some extra games at the end of the year.” O

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Bryan Holaday knows he’s just one injury away from a trip up to Detroit.

After spending all of last season with the Detroit Tigers, the 27-yearold catcher is beginning the 2015 season with the Toledo Mud Hens, a team he’s quite familiar with.

at the Mud Hens media day April 7. “I get a chance to play every day and get better. Not everybody gets a chance like that. I’m really excited — we have a good group of guys here and I’m going to learn and get better.”

Holaday, who spent time in Toledo

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“It doesn’t matter what you’re

doing, when you’re making adjustments, it’s not going to come overnight. In the spring, you have a lot of guys there, so you’re getting a limited amount of work; it’s tough to get that timing down and get that good feeling,” he said. “Toward the end of spring, I started feeling better and better, and I’m looking to carry it into the season.”

Holaday believes the Mud Hens have some strength on the mound.

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The Mud Hens won’t be the only ones making their debut on Opening Day. Martini & Nuzzis, a family-owned restaurant known for martinis and live music at its Maumee location, went through an expansion process in the last couple of months. The grand opening for its new Downtown location, 329 N. Huron St., will coincide with the Mud Hens’ Opening Day doubleheader on April 16.

The Downtown Martini & Nuzzi’s will take over North Huron Street with a football field-sized tent in front of the restaurant. Live music will be featured both in the tent and in the restaurant.

The outside tent will include Jim Lieber as a DJ from noon to 8:30 p.m., with Phillip Fox Band playing 1-3 p.m., Chavar Dontae playing 3:30-4 p.m. and The Websters playing 4:30-8 p.m.

The interior downstairs stage will include performances by Jeff Stewart from 8-11 p.m., while the upstairs stage will feature Breaking Ground from midnight to 2 a.m.

Tickets are $10 and are available at both locations and online at http:// bit.ly/1Cik8Os. For more information, visit martiniandnuzzis.com.

Jell-O shots

Sarah Mettler, manager of Ye Olde Cock ’n Bull, said the staff will make 1,000 Jell-O shots for the Mud Hens Opening Day — but if you intend to purchase one for $1, you better be quick.

“They go maybe within two hours,” she said. They will go on sale at noon, an hour after the business opens.

Live music will be provided by Match City, who will make their debut at the venue that day. The band will play from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

“It’s really amazing to see the entire town coming Downtown to support our Toledo Mud Hens,” Mettler said. “That’s the best part of the day — knowing that our local sports have that many dedicated fans.”

Hot dog bar

The Blarney Irish Pub, 601 Monroe St., will serve several kinds of hot dogs to celebrate Opening Day. The pub’s hot dog bar will feature themed hot dogs from around the

country: Chicago, New York, Kansas City, Atlanta, Detroit, North Carolina and Arizona.

The pub will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., with live music from Last Born Sons from noon to 4 p.m. and Distant Cousinz from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Ballpark food

The Opening Day Bash in the Nest Party Deck at Fifth Third Field will offer ballpark food of all sorts: grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, potato chips and cookies. The fun takes place from 3-5 p.m. April 16. Limited tickets are $33 and available online under “Promotions” at mudhens.com.

More than baseball

In total, four major events are taking place in Toledo over what is essentially a four-day weekend: Mud Hens Opening Day (April 16), Toledo Walleye playoff games (April 16 and 18), Artomatic 419! (April 16, 18 and 19) and 419 Day (April 19).

“Each one of these events celebrates the creativity and spirit of our Downtown community,” said Cindy Kerr, executive director of Downtown Toledo

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DTID created an interactive map of Downtown locations that will be updated in real time as more events are announced for the weekend.

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Win or lose, you can count on fans to fill ‘the Fraction’

could write about how the Mud Hens finished below .500 last year, despite outscoring their opponents.

How the team was middling in pitching and near the bottom in both batting and on-base percentage, but absolutely drilled the long ball. I could talk about

how power hitting is what failed the Tigers last year, and it could very well be what failed the Hens as well.

But, let’s be truly honest … can you tell me what the Hens record was last year? Can you tell me how many games back they finished? How close they were

to the playoffs? Who led the team in home runs? (OK, that one’s a gimme.)

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Hens were an even 36-36 within the ican League Central champs.

Across Lake Erie, it’s a different story: friendly confines of Fifth Third Field last season. The pitching was OK, the Despite a banner year and finishing five games back of the Tigers batters maybe flied out (and four games back of a little more than they wild card and postseason should have.

Cinderella Kansas City), Still, we came out and the Cleveland Indians watched: 545,000 Hens were not bringing in the fans filled out the seats fans. Only 18,400 Tribe at “the Fraction” in 2014. fans showed up to a game Average it out across 71 on average. Only Tampa games (one of them was Bay had worse raw attena traditional doubledance numbers, but with header), and that’s nearly 7,700 fans per game in a Matt CULBREATH Progressive Field seating 42,000, the Tribe clocked stadium that seats almost 9,000 (85 percent capacity for the year). in a major league low of 42 percent avCompare that to our major-league erage capacity. It’s no wonder that the rebrethren — the Detroit Tigers brought model at the corner of Carnegie Avenue in an average of 36,000 fans a game in and Ontario Street is claiming some a stadium that seats 41,000. That math 5,800 seats — who needs them? comes out to 88 percent for the Amern CULBREATH CONTINUES ON 26

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Sometimes, the sports elitist in me starts to flare up when it comes to Toledoans’ relationship with the Hens and Walleye.

It’s no secret that when a fan walks up to the box office to get a ticket, he or she very likely doesn’t know where the Hens are sitting in the International League standings, or even that they play in the International League at all.

But that’s not why we go to Mud Hens games, is it?

We go down to Fifth Third Field because we support the name on the front of the jersey. We head Downtown because there’s no better way to spend a spring or summer evening than down at the ballpark. We park our butts in the seats because we want to pass the tradition of scoring a baseball game with paper and pencil on to the next generation. I might get a little salty at the between-inning shenanigans, but they’re not for me, they’re for the young ones. And the team? They’re the world famous Toledo Mud Hens, and we’re their world famous fans.

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Beginning next season, Toledo baseball fans won’t have to drive to the Windy City to watch a ballgame from atop a building overlooking a stadium.

That uniquely Chicago experience will become part of the Toledo Mud Hens experience in 2016 with the introduction of Hensville, a $21 million project bringing dining, retail, office and recreational space to the area beyond right field at Fifth Third Field. Demolition and power work has already started on the project, which will rehabilitate three long-vacant buildings and a parking lot on St. Clair Street.

The project — set to debut to the public in March 2016, prior to Opening Day — is meant to evoke feelings of Wrigleyville, the festive community of bars and restaurants surrounding Wrigley Field, the ivycovered home of the Chicago Cubs.

But Joe Napoli, president and general manager of the Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye, is not simply aiming for a mirror image

of that neighborhood.

“There will be some dining options, there will be some shopping options, there will be rooftop decks, just like across the street at Wrigley,” he told Toledo Free Press in March.

“We’re also adding a park just beyond right field wall, with an acre of NAPOLI open space, for concerts, festivals and theater in the park — all of these things that encourage social interaction.”

Speaking on Hensville in April, Napoli said the project is part of a larger revitalization effort throughout the Warehouse District.

“We want to exceed that [Wrigleyville goal],” he said. “We look at the success in the Warehouse District, and we’re really pleased and proud of all of these small businesses and individuals that have rolled up their sleeves and invested in the district. The amount of sweat equity is immeasurable. We hope that this

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will be yet another catalyst for another round of investment in the district.”

The project is becoming reality due to funding from a variety of public and private entities. Hensville has received funding from the Lucas County Commissioners, City of Toledo, State of Ohio’s Capital Budget, the federal government and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation in Toledo (via PNC Bank and Foss & Company). Together, these sources

of funding equal about $12 million.

The Mud Hens are providing the remainder of the project total.

“It’s one of those public/private partnerships that works,” Napoli said. “These programs are run by the state and federal government because they want organizations to reinvest in the downtown/ urban core. Without their commitment to invest those dollars, projects like this one will never happen. n HENSVILLE CONTINUES ON 27

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He believes the project will benefit many of the stadium’s neighbors.

The Mud Hens and Walleye are already the main keys to bringing people Downtown, with estimates showing they draw a combined

750,000 visitors annually.

Napoli said measuring that economic impact is a necessity.

“All of those funding sources — they do come with strings attached,” he said. “We have to produce jobs, we have to produce economic benefit, and that gets tracked, and we’ll have to submit that to the funders.

“If we’re doing our jobs well, it

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Toledo Free Press Managing Editor jsensenig@toledofreepress.com

Let’s face it: the hot dog will never be too far from the baseball fan’s heart — or stomach.

However, the Mud Hens believe fans can save a bit of stomach real estate for some more adventurous fare.

The team is introducing 14 new items this season, including a couple with significant head-turning appeal.

Inspiration for ballpark food is not hard to come by in today’s foodie culture, according to Dusten Brown, executive chef for A Cut Above Catering, the official catering group of Fifth Third Field.

“A lot of it comes from looking around the country, finding what are the popular things coming out,” he said. “We also have a lot of help from our purveyors, letting us know what items we could mix together.”

One thing Brown mixed together was pork — three different types of pork are present in one of his favorite new dishes: The Triple Play Nacho is available at the stadium’s El Burrito Misterio stand.

“It’s one of my little pet projects,”

Brown said. “I am a big fan of pork, and being able to put as many pork products as I can on one item is great.”

The nachos feature “We Be Ribs” pulled pork, bacon, nacho cheese, tomatoes, jalapeño peppers and sour cream. Because two pork products are hardly enough for a plate of pigcentered nachos, pork skins replace the typical tortilla chips here.

Last year, the Mud Hens debuted their Mac & Cheese Dog. This year, the team is trotting out the Mac & Cheese Burger, served at Gilhooley’s.

The pretzel bun makes its debut at the stadium with the Cheddar Peppercorn Sausage, sold at Suds & Wieners. It’s a smoked sausage filled with cheddar cheese and peppercorn, topped with sauerkraut and housed in a pretzel sausage bun.

The Mud Hens didn’t forget dessert.

“I think guests are really going to love the Oreo churros,” said Corey Pleasant, casual dining manager for A Cut Above. “They’re an Oreo pastry, almost with a brownie-like texture to it, but it’s deep fried so it’s got a little crust on the outside and chewy on the inside. The creme [packaged in a separate dipping container] is the same

creme that’s on the inside of an Oreo.”

Sure to raise some eyebrows, the Pineapple Habañero Sundae is available at Farr Out Funnels. Featuring fried pieces of pineapple on Toft’s ice cream covered with a habañero glaze and whipped cream, the dessert isn’t what one might assume from the name, Pleasant said.

“I think a lot of people will be shocked with the sundae,” he said.

“You have the habañero name in there, so you probably think it’s spicy, but it’s not. It’s more of a sweet glaze.”

Ever wished your s’more around the campfire could be held together by something a bit softer, more delicious and … well, calorie-laden? Try the S’More Donut, which is precisely what it sounds like. The dish is made possible by the Tom+Chee kiosk located in section 113 on the main concourse.

The chain restaurant will also feature the Grilled Cheese Donut.

Other new offerings at Fifth Third Field include: Fried Green Tomato Burger (Gilhooley’s); Nutella Poppers (Hen & Hound); Holy Toledo Chicken Sandwich (one-pound grilled chicken breast on a submarine roll with Italian dressing, lettuce, tomato and onion),

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Mud Hens mix flavors with new food offerings

The s’more donut will debut at fifth third field this season at the tom+Chee Kiosk, located in section 113. the treat is among 14 new food offerings the mud hens are introducing For fans.

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Red Velvet Cake, House Sirloin, Chili Mac and Chicken Kabobs, all sold at the BirdCage Bar and Grill, a sit-down restaurant on the club level at the stadium.

The Hens are hosting the inaugural Taste of Fifth Third Field on May 8.

During the tour, fans will sample eight featured dishes, as well as take home

a complimentary souvenir from the Swamp Shop. Tickets are $42 and must be purchased in advance at mudhens.com or by calling the box office at (419) 725-HENS. As the song says, “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack.” Oh, and don’t forget the habañero glaze. O

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Every self-respecting baseball executive knows that promotions are part of the game, a necessary lifeblood in order to sell tickets.

Thankfully, an offbeat nickname like the Mud Hens lends itself perfectly to sensible silliness, and the team’s upcoming promotional calendar will not disappoint the inner child in anyone.

“We focus on all of the opportunities during the game to entertain the fan,” said Mike Keedy, Toledo Mud Hens manager of special events.

“And we always try to keep that fresh, and to be unique.”

So, can we expect bat days and dollar dogs in 2015? Please, that’s amateur night. These days it takes dinosaurs, time travel and yolk-covered uniforms to raise the promotional bar. “‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Back to the Future’ are probably our two biggest theme nights,” Keedy said.

During those games on June 6 and July 11, respectively, fans will see their home team dressed in movie-specific

jerseys, which attendees can bid on during an in-game silent auction.

Guests will also enjoy movie-themed food and drinks.

At “Back to the Future” night — which also happens to be a doubleheader — the first game will feature ’80s music, themed scoreboard graphics and an overall old-school experience, while the second will transport fans into how the Hens might look decades from now, no DeLorean required.

But perhaps its most innovate night will involve some teamwork with the opposition. That’s because frying pans are set for “Bacon & Eggs Night” on Aug. 6, where the visiting Lehigh Valley IronPigs will sport their nationally recognized bacon-themed jerseys, accompanied by what else — a new Hens egg-centric uniform.

Even the IronPigs’ front office can’t wait to see bacon facing eggs in, say, a force-out at second.

“I think [the fans] are going to laugh and get a kick out of it,” said Lindsey Knupp, IronPigs director of promotions and entertainment, who was approached by the Hens

about the theme night collaboration. She agreed, figuring the Pigsbacon vs. Hens-egg connection was too good to pass up.

“It makes too good of sense,” she said.

If looking at nearly edible uniforms wasn’t enough, your taste buds can do something about it at two food-centered specialty events this season.

One hot ticket will be the Taste of Fifth Third Field on May 8, when fans can sample featured dishes from around the stadium.

Then on July 10, the Hens are elevating the classic ballpark hot dog to a place of prominence it has never known.

“Fans can make their own [hot dog] creation with over 50 different toppings, and several different buns,” Keedy said. “The cool thing is that you can then submit your recipe, and if it wins, it will be on the menu at games next year.”

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help shape the team’s promotional lineup each year, as every offseason “That hasn’t been done here,” it solicits requests for what fans Keedy said. “As you can imagine, lo- would like to see.

“We’ve had hundreds of ideas gistically, it’s a difficult thing to do. So far the feedback has been great. We’ve [from fans], and if anybody ever wonders if we look at it, we absohad a lot of requests from fans.” lutely do,.

Speaking of Hens supporters, 5172 Ballas_Used_TFP412.qxp_Layout 1 4/8/15 10:56 AM Page 1 “It’s all a part of immersing yourKeedy said they’re the ones who

self in the community,” he said.

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othing says the beginning of the measure of each hitter and watching spring like the crack of a bat or any runner that happens to be on base. a baseball smacking the leather Each infielder constantly calculates the of a catcher’s mitt. Baseball season is angles, spin rate and rotation of the ball upon us once more. Although the should it be hit to them. Outfielders Mud Hens will open 2015 on the road, are always jockeying for the perfect position to be able to run their first home game down any fly ball hit in is April 16, a day/night their direction. doubleheader versus the Kids learn to play baseColumbus Clippers. ball at a young age and can Every year, Opening relate to their heroes on Day becomes one of the the field. Every kid thinks most anticipated events that will be him on the diin Downtown Toledo. amond someday. Parents Area restaurants will be take sons and daughters jammed beyond capacity, the baseball park and numerous impromptu Fred ALTVATER to those cherished memotailgate parties will spring ries, of a day spent toup in parking lots around the stadium, as well as several well- gether, bond the parent and child for life.

I can still remember my father planned and catered affairs.

The Mud Hens have provided the taking me to several Cleveland Innext best thing to major league baseball dians and Cincinnati Reds games. The in Toledo since 1883. Do you know how memories bring a smile to my face every time I think of them. the Mud Hens got their original name?

Mud Hens fans get the opportuIn 1896, the local team was called the Swamp Angels and played their home nity to watch young players trying to games at Bay View Park. The field lo- make it onto a major league roster, as cated outside the city limits was exempt well as a few veterans who have had from city blue laws, thus beer could be a “cup of coffee” in the bigs and are trying to get back. sold for Sunday afternoon contests.

The Mud Hens have had a very Bay View Park sat near a swamp inhabited by the American coot, a successful relationship as the AAA afbird also known as the mud hen. The filiate of the Detroit Tigers since 1987. name stuck and the Toledo Mud Hens Tigers that suffer an injury are often have been a professional team since sent down to Toledo for a few games of rehab assignment before heading the early days of baseball.

Toledo baseball fans have been able back to the big club. When the big to witness some of the biggest names in club suffers an injury to one of its key the game. Casey Stengel, Jim Thorpe, players, the first place they call for a Bobby Murcer, Kirby Puckett, Curtis replacement is Toledo.

This will be the 14th season opener Granderson, Doug Fister and Max Scherzer are just a few of the familiar for Fifth Third Field in Downtown Tonames that have appeared on Mud ledo. A successful Mud Hens franchise has done a great deal to help revitalize Hens rosters over the years.

Toledo native Jamie Farr, as Cpl. the area around the ballpark and a Max Klinger, even wore a Mud Hens plethora of dining and entertainment baseball cap on the popular television options dot the area.

There is no better park in baseball series “M*A*S*H.” To the untrained eye, baseball to spend a summer evening than Toseems like an athletic competition ledo’s Fifth Third Field.

Whether you watch the game from in slow motion. The leisurely pace is broken only occasionally by bursts of your seat in the upper deck or stand frantic action, when the batter happens along the outfield wall, there are no bad to make contact with the speeding seats in Fifth Third Field. If ballpark franks aren’t your thing, a multitude of bullet being hurled by the pitcher.

Infielders and outfielders move as food choices available from the vendors if in some time-worn dance to halt inside the ballpark can fill most appetites.

Toledo baseball fans are indeed the batter’s attempt at taking each base and heading for the safety of home. As lucky to have the Mud Hens. Make the action subsides, fans can return to some memories with your children. their hot dogs, peanuts and cold bev- Leave the smartphones, tablets and erages amazed and discuss the events iPods at home. Bring them down to the ballpark, have a hot dog and that just unfolded on the diamond.

True baseball fans understand the maybe even snag a foul ball.

As the late Hall of Fame star, Mr. mental stress and force of wills being contested with every pitch. Managers Chicago Cub Ernie Banks always said, “Let’s play two.” O are plotting strategy, catchers are taking

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There is a saying in baseball: “Pitching wins championships.” That seems like simple enough logic, but behind every great pitching staff is a pitching coach.

This year, the Mud Hens welcome a familiar face to fill that role — former Detroit Tiger and Mud Hens pitcher Mike Maroth.

Maroth played in Toledo during 2001 and 2002, while the team was transitioning from its previous location at the Ned Skeldon Stadium in Maumee to its new digs at Fifth Third in Downtown Toledo.

“The fans were great,” Maroth said.

Maroth went on to pitch for the big league club in Detroit from 2002-07 as a staple in the starting rotation through a few rough years and into the new age of Tiger domination in the AL Central. He amassed 50 wins during his six-season career in major league baseball with the Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals.

Once his time as a player had come to an end, a new opportunity presented itself — one that he had never considered during his time on the mound.

“I never saw myself as a coach while playing,” Maroth said. “I didn’t even entertain the thought, which is crazy, because now it’s what I’m doing and I love it.”

In 2011, Maroth became a coach

for Detroit’s class A affiliate, the Lakeland Flying Tigers in Florida.

“Once my career was over, I wanted to know some options about staying in professional baseball,” Maroth said.

“The opportunity to coach in Lakeland came up. I was living in Orlando, so it was a good fit and opportunity for me to try it out while still living at home.

It didn’t have an impact on my family as it would if I were leaving for the summer and not seeing them for extended periods of time. That was very appealing and it allowed me to give it a try and see if I liked it.

“After I started, it was something I fell in love with doing.”

Despite his relatively short service time as a pitching coach, Maroth has begun to develop his own philosophy on the craft, and he especially emphasizes adaptability to different personalities.

“There are many approaches to coaching,” Maroth explained. “Everyone’s a little bit different. I try to cater to each player separately and evaluate all aspects of pitching, whether it is things like mechanics or their approach to games. I try to evaluate each pitcher separately, because everyone’s got different strengths and weaknesses, and then I give them feedback.”

Maroth said that one of his primary roles as a coach is to provide his pitchers with information and plenty of encouragement.

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Maroth said confidence can sometimes be an issue when working with so many young pitchers trying to work their way up to the majors, but not every case is the same.

“There are guys who are young and very mentally mature and can handle those situations, and there are players who are older and still struggle with handling the mental aspect, the adversity and the pressure. If a pitcher doesn’t have confidence in himself, then it is going to be very difficult for him to do his job. They’ve got to believe in themselves.”

Maroth is excited and optimistic about the roster of players he is working with now that he is back in a Toledo uniform.

“We’ve got a good mix of pitchers,” Maroth said. “We’ve got some junk pitchers, and we’ve got some guys that have been around and some hard throwers. It’s a real good mix and balance of different styles. That’s always good, because it gives opposing teams some different looks.”

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I HEART GLASS CITY

y son has always been a professional give my son the love of baseball — specifibaseball player. I mean, he’s played cally the Detroit Tigers — we would have for money and compensation since a venue for conversations and a chance to mask his unique traits amongst he was 4 years old. his peers. Miraculously, it has Flashback to 11 years ago. worked.

The rules for our frontYears ago, the phone rang on yard game of catch were pretty a Sunday night; it was a parent simple: Every time my son of one of Brady’s kindergarten successfully threw the baseball classmates.

The unexpected to my mitt, he would win $1, solicitor wanted to see if I was and every time he caught the interested in coaching T-ball. I ball, he would earn another. have no idea why I was picked, The first couple of outings, or how many “nos” happened Brady — whom I affectionJeremy BAUMHOWER prior.

I proudly accepted. The ately call Jackie — made between $5 and $10. We would end the evening following evening was the night of our inausession with tense negotiations, with manage- gural practice. Brady was outfitted in jeans, ment successfully able to negotiate the sum a Tigers T-shirt, an English “D” cap and cardown for either ice cream or candy. Over the ried a recently purchased bat.

As we walked to the baseball diamond, my following weeks and months, our game continued. The amount of funds my son’s arm son tossed and dropped his mitt with every would generate steeply inclined to upwards of stride. The first child that arrived moments later, $100 a night, but since he was only 4 years old Nick Olnhausen, was wearing a Mud Hens tee, (without an agent), I was always able to escape white baseball pants and double wristbands on each arm. Nick was kind enough to bring his by buying baseball cards and M & M’s.

This bribery scheme was hatched with own personal catching equipment and batter’s a simple goal in mind; I wanted my “1 in helmet, in an equally nice baseball bag.

Many fears of fatherhood failure instantly 68” (1 in 68 children are on the autism spectrum) beautifully gifted child to fit flooded my soul. in. I believed at the time that if I could n BAUMHOWER CONTINUES ON 38

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Hessman, once again playing for the mud hens, has hit a career 417 homers in the minor leagues.

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38 Mud Hens 2015 glio’s walk-off home run blast, which sent the Tigers back to the World Series T-Ball evolved into “coach pitch,” that year. “Monroe edges off of second. which turned into “kid pitch” and ... the one-oh, a swing and a fly ball, eventually travel baseball. My dream left field ... it’s deep … it’s WAAAAAY for my son, since that first time step- BACK ... THE TIGERS ARE GOING ping on the grass at Sylvan Elemen- TO THE WORLD SERIES!” My son would play this audio tary, was for him to love the sport by the time his body’s coordination track repeatedly, while mimicking Ormatched his size. My bigger fantasy dóñez’s triumph trot around the bases. was the hope that he could one day He used this movement as a way to make his high school team. It wasn’t calm his brain, something he still about potential letters sewn on over- does today. It did not take long before Brady’s speech started catching up. priced jackets, but social acceptance.

His love of the Tigers became an When I was 9 years old, the Detroit Tigers won the 1984 World Series. The obsession. Like many boys, he wasn’t summer leading up to that Fall Classic a fan of books, but we started catching might have been the greatest ever for him reading (unprompted) and memchildren in Northwest Ohio. There orizing the back of the Tigers’ baseball wasn’t a single day we failed to play cards. The statistics made sense to him.

As he learned about the innerbaseball. Armed with long yellow wiffle ball bats and tennis balls, kids would workings of the major leagues, the dream about being Lou Whitaker, Kirk Toledo Mud Hens became the focal Gibson, Larry Herndon or anyone else point of his education. He got to witness up-and-coming players, rookies in Sparky’s lineup.

My favorite player was the center and veterans on a rehab assignment, fielder, Chet Lemon. It wasn’t for Chet’s including non-Tigers like Curt Schiltenacity on the basepath but for the way ling and Daisuke Matsuzaka.

He got to witness and interact with he chased down fly balls in the outfield. No. 34 didn’t use the traditional the Hens during one of their summer and coach-endorsed method of using baseball camps, and proceeded to see the two hands; Lemon used one. I quickly very same players later take the field in adapted his style, and remember my Detroit. Every season, we would take his dad yelling from the sideline, “Use two current team to a Mud Hens game. On hands, Chet Lemon.” My dad was not one of those team nights at Fifth Third Field, we watched on the Jumbotron as a fan of Lemon’s approach to the game.

I knew if my son could find a Tiger Justin Verlander threw a no-hitter.

For his 9th birthday, Brady was of his own, he’d be cursed for life.

Brady found No. 30, Magglio Ordóñez given the chance to throw a first pitch before a Mud Hens game. in late 2006.

He had recently started pitching, was One of the symptoms of 1-in-68 children is delayed speech. In ’06, Brady fascinated by the mound and the alleged the pros. 11:45 During received a gadget that contained Dan advantage given 5.9375x4.125_GoHens_MoveForAd_415_HI.pdf 1 to4/7/15 AM his Dickerson’s famous radio call of Mag- Little League games, the pitching disn BAUMHOWER CONTINUED FROM 36

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With his teammates watching from the stands and two nervous parents watching from the infield, Brady took the ball, climbed the mound and delivered a 60 foot, 6 inch strike. The crowd was appreciative of his effort. As he left the circle, he acknowledged the cheers with a simple tip of the cap, like he’d been there a thousand times before.

Over the past decade, the Mud Hens have been a part of our extended family. Going to a ballgame at the corner of Washington and Huron has felt the same as a car ride to grandma’s house.

The game of baseball has provided a running topic of conversation between a man and his son.

It’s been a shared experience and a way for us to talk about many other things. This pastime has provided normalcy for my 1-in-68 child. Fifth Third Field has been the home of so many breakthroughs — I wouldn’t even know where to start.

Brady celebrated his 15th birthday on April 9. The Mud Hens’ season had yet to reach the Glass City. Five days prior, he pitched from another raised mound — the season opener for his freshman team.

While wearing the No. 30, Brady threw a complete game, allowing one run while striking out nine. It took 85 pitches and his teammates’ bats to give him his first high school win.

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As fans sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” within the cozy confines of Fifth Third Field, they may want to get decked out in some snazzy apparel from the Toledo Mud Hens’ Swamp Shop.

Toledo’s baseball team is debuting plenty of brand-new merchandise for the 2015 season, said Craig Katz, director of merchandising and licensing.

“Every season, about 90 percent of our store is brand-new merchandise, the other 10 to 20 percent is what we KATZ consider our core items,” Katz said. “That includes our best sellers — the products our fans expect to see every year.”

The Swamp Shop’s new items include a collection of sleek hooded sweatshirts, fan-friendly T-shirts and fashion-forward baseball hats for women.

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minor league merchandise from Nike, Bimm Ridder Sportswear, Under Armour, ’47 Brand and more to stock its store, which can also be accessed from outside the ballpark at 406 Washington St. During home games, fans can also peruse the goods in the Hen Hut, a smaller version of the Swamp Shop located behind home plate inside Fifth Third Field.

Katz and his team perform extensive research in the offseason to discover new trends. These determine the new styles that enter the Swamp Shop for the upcoming season.

Katz said fans of all ages can find items that suit their fancy. The Swamp Shop caters to the team’s entire fan base, a diverse group.

“We serve infants all the way up to retirees, both women and men,” he said.

The Mud Hens have a large fashion line for women as well as an extensive children’s line.

“We’re one of the few teams in minor league baseball that gives so many choices for women and kids,” Katz said.

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“The plastic orange Muddy calling whistle is our most popular item in the store,” Katz said. “We will sell 5,000 of those every year.”

In addition to the whistles and apparel, this year fans can expect to see a few special items honoring the Hens’ 2015 promotions.

On May 9, the Mud Hens celebrate “Star Wars” night. During this game, the Swamp Shop will sell three special “Star Wars”-themed T-shirts, available in sizes infant to adult.

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2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the science fiction classic, “Back to the Future,” and the Mud Hens will celebrate the film in a unique way.

“We could have done a themed jersey based on graphics and characters in the movie, but instead we are honoring the movie by doing our own interpretation of going back in time and going into the future,” Toledo Mud Hens Creative Director Dan Royer said in an email.

The “Back to the Future” theme debuts July 11, during a scheduled back-to-back doubleheader.

“We will go back in time during the first game, wearing throwback uniforms featured in the late ’70s/ early ’80s. We will go into the future during the nightcap with our interpretation of what we think a Hens jersey will look like in the future,” Royer said.

“Back to the Future” isn’t the only blockbuster being celebrated at the ballpark this summer: There will be a “Jurassic Park” theme night June 6 as well in anticipation of “Jurassic World,” releasing June 12.

“Our Marketing [and] Promotions group has to constantly have a pulse on popular culture [and] current trends to provide the best entertainment value to our fans,” Royer said.

Once themes are chosen, Royer begins to design multiple concepts.

He and his team will discuss ideas and choose designs for jerseys. This is a time for the team to be creative.

“Sometimes it’s best to try something literal with the design, creating a look that’s a spinoff of an item or apparel used in the show, movie or theme. We went very literal with our Bacon & Eggs jersey this year. Stay tuned for that design.

It’s buzzworthy,” Royer said.

“There are other times where it’s more exciting to try to represent the spirit of the theme in our own way.

‘Back to the Future’ night is a good example of that. We could have created a jersey that looked like something that Marty McFly would have worn. But instead, we decided to have fun with our doubleheader by doing a past and future jersey.

“The past jersey was a redesign of an actual Hens jersey used in the past. For the future jersey I had to try to envision what a Mud Hens jersey might look like in 15-20 years,” he said. “I wanted to make it look futuristic, but still look like a baseball uniform.”

Jerseys worn during the “Back to the Future” games will be auctioned off and proceeds will go to charity.

Other themed nights this season include Veterans Appreciation Night with camouflage jerseys on May 23 and the Bacon & Eggs night with the “Egg” themed jersey on Aug. 6.

“Overall our hope is that the jerseys are fun for the fans and help to tie in to the fun theme nights we have during the summer,” Royer said. O

the mud hens will wear throwback jerseys from the late 1970s and early 1980s for ‘back to the future’ night on july 11. the hens will then wear futuristic jerseys, above, For the second game of that night’s doubleheader.

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Last month, close to a dozen workers spent two days laying new sod onto the field in preparation for the Mud Hens’ April 16 Opening Day doubleheader.

Sod started coming in March 15 and by the next day crews had unloaded 26 flatbed trucks and laid 550 rolls of Kentucky bluegrass onto the field.

“Our main goal is to have [the field] consistent every day the guys play on it,” said Jake Tyler, sports turf manager at Fifth Third Field. “The main job of the minor leagues is player development, and you want the guys to have a nice

surface to play on so they can hone in on their skills and get themselves to the next level in their career.”

Tyler said he subcontracted the work to Medina, Ohio-based company Agricultural Design.

“Between their crew and my crew, we had 10-12 guys working about 16 hours a day,” he said. “We got the job done in two days.”

According to Tyler, each roll of new sod — measuring 4 feet wide by 50 feet long — was unloaded and transported to the field one by one by a fleet of forklifts, and then fed into a machine that rolled it out into the correct spot.

Workers then used pitchforks to pull the seams together.

Once the sod was down, Tyler said he and the crew placed woven plastic sheets atop the grass to raise the field’s

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While the field normally undergoes renovations every five to six years, Tyler said he and his crew held off until the turf was roughly nine years old so they could replace it in conjunction with December’s Winterfest.

“Building a hockey rink on the field, we would have had to replace the turf anyway,” he said.

Work started back in October as the groundskeeping crew installed a new irrigation system, stripped out the old turf and covered the field with a blanket so there wouldn’t be any ex-

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The crew spent two days in early March plowing snow off the field to prepare for the project. Tyler said he expects the new sod to last up to six seasons.

“I love the attention to detail that is required to maintain the field,” he said. “It’s 2½ acres that we have to look at every square foot of. You get instant gratification at the end of the day when the job is done, the field looks its best and you hear the people say, ‘Oh man, the grass looks good.’ That’s instant gratification every single day.” O

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Tyler said the new grass is more tolerant to disease, stress and foot traffic.

“I think the field is kind of like the 10th man on the team,” he said. “The better the surface they play on, the better they’re going to play.”

The new green came from Graff ’s Turf Farm in Fort Morgan, Colorado, a choice Tyler said was easy given our region’s climate and the supplier’s reputation of providing sod to the Mud Hens’ Major League Baseball affiliate, the Detroit Tigers.

“When we’re sodding a field this time of year, if we try to get sod from anywhere local the fields are really wet, muddy and soft, and it would be really difficult for anybody in this area to harvest the sod,” he said.

The players will not be the only ones benefiting from the new turf.

Tyler said fans can expect more aesthetically pleasing grass and much shorter rain delays.

“We don’t rain out here very often,” he said. “But once the rain stops, the field needs to be in immaculate condition so the guys can get out and play,

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ach season at Fifth Third Field gives fans another chance to experience exciting action, eat great food and watch the rising stars of baseball play — but some of those future household names aren’t playing for the hometown Mud Hens.

The 14-team International League (IL) is full of talent from top to bottom and ready to entertain area fans who visit Downtown Toledo this year.

Thirteen teams, including the Hens, will be looking to dethrone the Pawtucket Red Sox, last season’s Governors’ Cup champions.

Here is a look at the IL’s Western Division teams and how they stack up.

Indianapolis Indians

Major League club: Pittsburgh Pirates Record last year: 73-71

Hoosiers will have a hometown starts on the bump for the Clippers.

Offensively, first baseman Jesus boy to root for on the Indians roster as pitcher Clayton Richard starts his Aguilar will once again join the Clippers after falling just year on the AAA level. short in spring training.

Richard is a Lafayette, InHe led the Clippers last diana, native and has seen season batting .304 and some time in the bigs, but netting 77 RBIs. He’ll be hasn’t been on the major joined in the infield by league level since 2013, shortstop wunderkind after which he had two Francisco Lindor. shoulder surgeries.

Tyler Holt, James Catcher Elias Diaz, Ramsey and Carlos infielder Alen Hanson, Moncrief will all return and outfielder Mel Rojas are all players with major Matt CULBREATH to the outfield, and with league talent, but the Tribe will not have Destin Hood and Jerry Sands joining the services of Andrew Lambo: the big them, manager Chris Tremie will have time slugger made the major league an embarrassment of riches.

Expect the Clippers to compete roster out of camp. hard.

Columbus Clippers

Major League club: Cleveland Indians Record last year: 79-65

Columbus will have a glut of talent that’s had its time in the bigs.

Their starting rotation players all have names that you’ve seen play either for or against the Cleveland Indians: Bruce Chen, Shaun Marcum, Danny Salazar and Josh Tomlin will all get

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Major League club: Cincinnati Reds Record last year: 68-75

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He’ll be joined by Dylan Axelrod and David Holmberg, who each saw a spell with the Redlegs last year, and Louisville returnees Josh Smith and Jon Moscot.

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By Ashley McMahon

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

Baseball season is finally here.

America’s favorite pastime brings warmly welcomed mild weather, nights filled with fireworks and plenty of smiling Toledoans to Fifth Third Field to watch their beloved Mud Hens.

Along with the action-packed International League games, the team hosts a plethora of summer camps for area youth.

Emily Croll, special events coordinator for the Mud Hens, is entering her fourth year as camp leader and said these camps are a mainstay for young baseball lovers.

“We’ve maintained them because they’ve been very steady and very popular,” she said. “We have people who call in every year and specifically ask for these camps. With these, we’ve found we have a lot of success in keeping them constant.”

Most of the camps are offered to children ages 7-14, which allows youth to attend for a number of years, developing their skills on the field along the way.

The programs include a one-day camp, an adult-child camp, a threeday camp and a special needs camp, which is open to all ages.

All of the camps are coed and are hosted by the Mud Hens players inside Fifth Third Field. As an added bonus, all of the campers get a ticket to attend the game on the evening of the camp.

“They get to come to camp in the morning, the Mud Hens players are running it and then they get to attend the game at night and get to see guys playing who they had just hung out with in the morning,” Croll said.

The camps are a popular with the team as well as area youth and many players look forward to participating in the action.

“We put up signup sheets for a lot of these events and we never have a problem filling these events.

Especially the special needs camps,” Croll said.

“The guys love coming out and being with the kids,” she said. “It brings them back. They remember that this is how they started. At some point there was someone that made them love baseball, so this is a good opportunity for them to share that love with other kids and be a kid for a morning.”

Over the years, the camps’ popularity has continued to rise, attracting large numbers to each event. The one-day and three-day camps have about 150-175 participants and the

adult-child camp has about 200 participants. The special needs camp has experienced the most growth, according to Croll.

“Three years ago, it had 50 participants and last year there were close to 100 participants,” she said.

The Hens’ partnership with the Miracle League of Northwest Ohio helped build the camp’s attendance, Croll said.

The one-day camp is open to youth ages 7-14 and costs $50 to attend. It takes place May 23.

There are two three-day camps, open to kids ages 7-14. These cost $140 and take place on July 8-10 and Aug. 4-6. Lunch is served each day and the game ticket is for the final night of camp on each session.

On the last day of the three-day camp, there is a skills competition, a scrimmage and an awards ceremony.

“With the three-day camp, you get to know the campers a little more because you’re seeing them for three straight days,” Croll said. “You get to see their personality a little more and they really open up by the third day.”

The adult-child camp is open to kids ages 7-14 and one parent. This costs $80 for the pair and takes place July 18.

“You see a lot of really excited parents,” Croll said. “Whether you’re an adult or a child, getting to play on a professional level playing field with professional players is always cool. It’s really fun to see the parents and children interact together along with the players.”

The special needs camp is open to all ages and costs $25. It takes place June 20.

Participants with any type of special need are welcome to participate.

It’s a time for them to come out and have fun, Croll said. It’s the least skills-specific camp and the participants get a chance to play with the Mud Hens players.

“The Mud Hens pitch to them, we do a scrimmage where everyone gets to bat,” Croll said. “We even added an aspect where they get to play from home plate and we announce them.

They come up to home plate, and we announce who’s at bat and we do a live shot of them on the big video board and they get to do an at-bat against the Mud Hens player.

“The special needs camp has always been my favorite,” she said.

“Some of these kids come every year. We get to know these families. ... It’s been really great to see families who a lot of times have stress outside of this just come and forget that for a day.

“They get to come hang out, the

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Summer camps let Hens players connect with kids

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THE MUD HENS HOST A NUMBER OF CAMPS FOR KIDS AGES 7-14 AND A SPECIAL NEEDS CAMP OPEN TO ALL AGES.

players are always super awesome with them and having them come to the game afterwards has been really great, to see it grow the way it has.”

Along with the Mud Hens game ticket, each camp registration includes a camp T-shirt and a baseball signed by the player that hosted the camp.

Participants are urged to register at least one week in advance; they can do

so online at mudhens.com/camp or by calling (419) 725-HENS. Croll said the best aspect of the summer camps is the one-on-one interaction participants get with the players.

“I know a lot of people look at the Mud Hens and say, ‘Well, they’re not quite professionals, they’re not big leagues.’

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I expressed to Fritz my reservations about being too old and fat and not being able to run. He told me not to worry about it and that I would do just fine. I was not so sure. I was so scared about being able to function on the field that after I made the decision to “make a comeback,” I hired a personal trainer to get me to the point that I could survive. I lost 25 pounds of fat and gained 10 pounds of muscle at last check, and yes, I survived the first season after a 21-year layoff, even though I blew out that dreaded hamstring. It was a fun time and I was really impressed with how organized the league is and how good the players are at 50 and older.

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Rachel Burgess was looking for a venue for her wedding when she met Angie Dixon.

“We went to a bridal show and Angie was at a booth and she gave us all the information, so we decided to go check it out,” Burgess said. “We loved it ­— loved the atmosphere of it.”

The venue Burgess had found was not one of the usual wedding haunts.

It’s Fifth Third Field.

As a Mud Hens fan, Burgess loved the venue so much she has decided to say “I do” at Fifth Third Field on May 20, right at home plate.

The idea is actually not a new one.

Weddings have been taking place at the ballpark since 2012 and they’ve grown so much that Dixon, who has been with the Mud Hens for nearly four years, gained a new title and now spends her workdays catering weddings and other events.

The Mud Hens have launched a marketing campaign to encourage such nuptials and Dixon is a full-

fledged champion of the movement.

She has catered 25 weddings in the past three years.

“It’s been building momentum,” Dixon said. “Now this is my focus, on weddings. We’ve drummed up enough business for it to be its own standalone.”

Fifth Third Field has several rooms available for weddings, including the BirdCage, which is indoors and seats 25-300 or The Roost on 4, which is available year-round and seats up to 200.

Prices, Dixon said, are middle of the road compared to other venues in the region, but usually it’s the baseball connection that attracts the brides and grooms.

“Obviously, if you come down here to have a wedding you already have an investment in baseball. There’s a reason to come down here.”

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Mud Hens craft plan for Opening Day Beer Bash at ballpark

Drinking beer while watching baseball is a time-honored American tradition. With the inaugural Opening Day Beer Bash, the Toledo Mud Hens will formalize that relationship.

From 3-5 p.m. April 16, the Mud

Hens will have 30 different craft beers available to sample, as well as an allAmerican buffet. Headlining the event and pouring some local suds will be Maumee Bay Brewing Co. They will be joined by regional and national favorites

including: SweetWater Brewing Company, Saugatuck Brewing Company, Goose Island Beer Company, Frankenmuth Brewery, Kona Brewing Company, Summit Brewing Company, Redhook Brewery and O’Fallon Brewery.

According to Toledo Mud Hens’ President of Concessions Craig Nelson, having a beer tasting event made a lot of sense, due to the growing popularity of craft beers.

“Craft beer has been growing so much in general over the past five years,” Nelson said. “The other tastings we’ve held have gone extremely well and is something people look forward to.”

According to Nelson, craft beer has garnered such interest that the Mud Hens are looking at additional places to serve it within the stadium.

“We’re looking at a another locations, somewhere on the main concourse,” Nelson said. “We’re looking at two auxiliary locations to offer craft beers on the main concourse, somewhere on the third baseline. We have Pub 315, which is in the right field corner under the Roost so it covers that side of the stadium, but we are hoping n WEDDING CONTINUED FROM 48

The ballpark also hosts wedding showers and receptions.

As an incentive to brides planning their weddings at the park, a free room is offered for the shower at certain times, Dixon said.

“We’re very customized. We’re not the traditional banquet hall. We have a lot of flexibility that most places don’t,” she said. “We transform the ballpark; it ends up being an entire production.”

The word is spreading. A The Knot cover story on unique wedding venues in the state featured Dixon’s brides and grooms.

People are even signing up for the venue while still out of the country, Dixon said. She worked with one bride living in Taiwan and Dixon planned her entire wedding with her via email and Skype.

That’s not unusual. Dixon currently has two brides who live in Florida.

They’ve never seen the space but their parents are their local contacts. Dixon works with all the vendors they’ve hired and said her job is to keep everyone on the same page.

That’s exactly what she did for Kevin and Lynn Morrissey, who got married at Fifth Third Field on Nov. 2, 2013.

Kevin worked for the New York Yankees franchise at the time and was soon to be in Florida for training.

“Angie was super accommodating no matter what,” Kevin said. “We put it together quickly, too. We just happened to be home after we got engaged and I was in Florida the next few weeks for my job. On a whim we called her. We said, ‘We are only in for a weekend, is it possible to come

to have something on the other side.”

With the additions of Black Cloister Brewery Company, Sugar Ridge Brewery and Black Frog Brewery, as well as Toledo staples Maumee Bay Brewing Co. and Great Black Swamp Brewing, there are a lot of options for the Mud Hens to grow their craft beer offerings locally.

“We are trying to look at more and more breweries to have at our tastings or possibly bring them in to other areas,” Nelson said.

The Opening Day Beer Bash packages are $45 and include a game ticket, a dozen 3-ounce beer samples, a souvenir beer tasting glass, an all-youcan-eat buffet and soft drinks. Packages for designated drivers are $35 and include a game ticket, the buffet and soft drinks. Tickets for the Opening Day Beer Bash are available at mudhens.com. O — Dave Kubacki in and see the venue?’ She said, ‘If you guys want to stop over.’ ... She walked us through and we saw everything.

“So we set up for an event. It worked out well,” Kevin said. “It’s why we picked that place. Lynn wanted a unique venue. Going in we knew we wanted something unique.

This fell in our laps.”

The couple now lives in Pennsylvania, where Kevin works for a baseball analytics company.

Dixon’s first wedding this season is in May and she has 12 weddings booked for the spring/summer season.

Two or three couples are booked for November and then the holiday party season starts.

The planned multimillion dollar Hensville development will allow the Mud Hens to expand their wedding facilities, Dixon said. The space across from the ball field, will include a banquet facility, rooftop terrace and bar.

No one else in Toledo has banquet and bar space attached to a rooftop terrace, Dixon said. “We’ve been talking about it for three years. Now that it’s tangible, it’s very exciting.”

Burgess said she picked Fifth Third Field because she just wanted to do something different.

Meanwhile, all the details are starting to come together, including place settings and the DJ and photographer. Planning her wedding through the Mud Hens has been a “very good experience,” Burgess said.

“People have asked whether it’s going to be formal or if they can wear shorts. It’s not an actual baseball game going on. It’s actually my wedding,” she said. O

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Return of Downtown event to feature interactive art, music, fashion, film.

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ant to color your own section of an interactive paint-by-numbers mural?

Or create shaving cream art? How about attend a fashion show, film screening and circus performance under the same roof?

It’s far easier to think of what’s not available at Artomatic 419! than to list the hundreds of events, performances and art displays being showcased throughout April at One Lake Erie Center, 600 Jefferson Ave. This bonanza of artistic experiences has awakened Downtown six times since 2006, giving over 400 visual, lit-

erary and performing artists temporary gallery space and hosting a growing number of attendees that topped 10,000 at the last showing in 2013.

“It’s a very down-to-earth event that’s easy to access by anyone in our community,” said Michelle Carlson, programs coordinator for The Arts Commission. “Even if they haven’t come to an art show before, or a gallery, it doesn’t matter, because this is one of the most welcoming events you’re going to find.”

Festivities will run from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. April 11, 18 and 25. Two extra days were added to include Mud Hens Opening Day on April 16 and 419 Day on April 19, both from noon to 5 p.m.

The additional days were added to

make Artomatic 419! more about the audience, Carlson said, allowing it to “shift from artist-centric to community-centric.”

This approach also inspired the addition of two special 419 Day events.

Brunchomatic 419!, which includes bloody marys, mimosas, omelets and $10 vouchers for Artomatic 419! art purchases, will take place on the first floor from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 19.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online. This will run alongside the Bicycle Wheel Expo, a silent auction offering 10 unique creations consisting of bicycle wheels, running 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 19.

For returning attendees, Artomatic 419! might feel smaller than it did in previous years when it

stretched between two buildings. This year, Carlson said, the committee consciously scaled back on size by limiting the displays and performances to the Jefferson Avenue building’s fifth, first and basement levels.

The committee also scaled back the number of visual artist entries accepted from 450 to just 200. But even though the overall numbers are smaller, Carlson said the event’s variety and vibrancy will be strong since almost a third of the artists are newcomers.

“This is still a non-juried, all-inclusive arts experience that’s truly a reflection of the cross-section of our arts community,” she said.

Other changes include additional lounging areas and outreach to local

restaurants. Food trucks will be parked outside the location, and restaurants like Tony Packo’s Café will offer special Artomatic 419! deals for diners.

But Artomatic is still all about the art. A variety of interactive experiences like origami, zen doodling and chalk calligraphy (chalkligraphy) are available, as well as open floor space for individuals to paint or draw on their own.

“There are no rules,” said Chris Wile, a recycled bottle artist who also works for the University of Toledo’s medical school admissions office.

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n ARTOMATIC CONTINUED FROM 51 The low-pressure environment appeals to film-selection curator and Artomatic 419! first-timer Kim Sanchez, who is also The Arts Commission’s community engagement specialist and owner of Reel Ohio.

She said Artomatic’s film choices, all shot by artists in or from Toledo, include everything from two-minute music videos to 20-minute short films. Submissions will be screened in blocks throughout each day.

“I’ve had so many people come up to me and say, ‘Am I allowed to ...’ or ‘Can I do this?’” Sanchez said.

“And I’m like, ‘Yeah, it’s all good — it’s Artomatic!’”

Maura Amato, an art teacher at Perrysburg Junior High, shared that encouragement with the dozen students showcasing their work this year.

“The spectrum of people involved is incredible,” said Amato, who is now in her second year as a participant. “It’s a really interesting thing to happen in Toledo, and I think every year it draws a bigger crowd and a broader range of people who appreciate it.”

Amato used her talent for painting black-and-white landscapes to set up a paint-by-numbers mural of the historic Old West End district, which she calls a “collaborative piece with the audience” meant to promote creativity and share local history.

“The Old West End is a reflection of what Toledo was but also what it’s

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There are no rules. ... This kind of event gives people permission to do creative things and have fun.”

— Artist Chris Wile going back to, what we are striving for with events like Artomatic,” she said. “We’re trying to build this pride and community back up.”

Mercé Culp, a mixed media artist and former Arts Commission diversity coordinator, said Artomatic 419! has become “a family reunion for artists.” In her fourth showing since 2009, Culp will display textiles and artwork she created in an art gallery and accessory bar combo alongside her sisters Monika and Marisa.

Culp said increased diversity at the event has increased engagement from artists and attendees; she feels Artomatic 419! is one event that has increased morale Downtown.

“The Rust Belt mentality is being chipped away every time we do something artistic and support local people,” Culp said.

While a small portion of Artomatic 419! artists hail from outside Ohio, Carlson said the majority are local. That’s somewhat of a change from years past, one she said was

purposeful and more indicative of an event officially recognized by the City of Toledo, as Artomatic 419! was on 419 Day in 2011.

“Without that true, genuine creativity and excitement and passion and recognition that the arts are important in our community, this event wouldn’t happen,” Carlson said. “It is truly a community event.”

Other Artomatic 419! events include: O AfroMatic: Natural Hair Expo, noon to 8 p.m. April 11: Artomatic 419! teams up with the Ohio Natural Hair Health & Beauty Expo for their spring showcase. In addition to natural hair vendors, the expo will feature live music, spoken word poetry and artwork from participants at the Self Reliance Center. More info at www.thenaturalexpo.com.

O Mfinity Fashion Show, 6-7 p.m. April 25, preshow at 5:30 p.m.: The Culp sisters produce a fashion show exhibiting their own drawings, paintings and photographs through textiles. Together they are the Mfinity, pulling also from Mercé’s line of artwork, Urban Digitz.

Their new fashion line includes their latest artistic apparel and accessories. Preshow features the talents of DJ Money Mike.

Artomatic 419! is free and open to the public, although donations are suggested at the entrance; some events do require tickets.

Street parking and Downtown event parking are available. For updates on events and more details, visit theartscommission.org. O

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Sixteen designs will be chosen for a series of mini-murals on the Davis Building garage door next to Delightful Art with Dee. PHOTO COURTESY DEE BROWN

Gallery owner calling for mural designs Dee Brown of Delightful Art with Dee grew tired of looking at the shabby garage door next to her gallery, which opened in December at the Davis Building, 137 N. Michigan St. She asked building manager Mike Moriarty if she could have a mural painted on it. Instead, Moriarty suggested 16 murals, one in each square of the garage door.

“I loved the idea,” Brown said.

“We do things in fast motion here.

Once the idea hits, we roll with it.”

Brown issued a call for artists last week and has already received 11 submissions. Up to three designs per person can be submitted by April 19 to delightfulart@yahoo.com or via Facebook at “Delightful Art With Dee’s Art With A Heart.” The only

stipulation is the designs cannot contain nudity or extreme violence to maintain the gallery’s familyfriendly atmosphere, Brown said.

A group of finalists will be named April 25 during Aftermatic, an Artomatic 419! afterparty and Moriarty will choose the 16 winners from that group.

The finished murals will be unveiled during a June 18 fundraiser for Brown’s Art with a Heart program, coinciding with The Arts Commissions’ Third Thursday Loop.

“This building is historical. I’m trying to add to its history and culture by adding more art, trying to bring back some of its beauty,” Brown said.

“Transforming the outside with art adds some new history.” O — Sarah Ottney

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On the surface, she’s like many other young women posting photos to social media. She loves coffee. She takes shots of her daily outfit. She playfully poses under the covers. She posts embarrassing old pictures. Really, she leads a fairly typical life. Or at least she would, if she were ... well, alive.

She is Skellie, and she is literally just a plastic novelty skeleton. But she is also the star of OMGLiterallyDead, an Instagram account that has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few months.

Currently over 250,000 followers keep up with Skellie’s daily exploits.

The character is the brainchild of Dana Herlihey, a social media manager from Toronto.

“The concept came on a whim,” Herlihey said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. “A plastic, poseable skeleton arrived at work one day as a gag Halloween decoration. My coworkers took to it, posing it in each other’s chairs.

“One day I took a photo of the

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“Snowballed” is one way to put it.

“Avalanched” is another. Only about six months have passed since that first Starbucks photo was posted, and Skellie has blossomed into a full-fledged Internet phenomenon.

“I was walking home from work one day thinking of all these hilarious ideas for the skeleton. I realized that I was becoming pretty passionate about the little hobby project I had going and that there must be potential in that.”

The process for taking a Skellie photo (a “skelfie”) can be as simple or as complicated as you might imagine, Herlihey said. She now has four skeletons to work with (she’s going to buy her fifth shortly) and many of the best concepts come to her on a whim.

“Photo ideas can come up quite naturally. I’m watching ‘Friends’ on Netflix all day, well, why not Skellie?

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Bar 145º

Featuring burgers, bands and bourbon. $5 cover. 5304 Monroe St. (419) 593-0073 or bar145toledo.com.

O $5 martinis and burgers: Wednesdays.

O Splendid Chaos: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. April 10.

O JJ Rupp: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. April 11.

O Bloody Mary Bar: April 12.

O Open Mic Night: 8-11 p.m. April 12.

O Captain Sweet Shoes: April 15.

The Blarney Irish Pub

601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www.theblarneyirishpub.com.

O Not Fast Enuff: April 10.

O Caveman & The Dinosaurs: April 11.

Bronze Boar

20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or bronzeboar. com.

O Open mic with Steve Finelli and Oliver Roses: Mondays.

O Karaoke with Greg: Tuesdays.

O Open mic and Steve Kennedy: Thursdays.

O Joe Woods Trio: April 10.

O Kids With Knives: April 11.

Dégagé Jazz Café

301 River Road, Maumee. (419) 794-8205 or www.degage jazzcafe.com.

O Gene Parker: Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The Distillery

The mic is open on Sundays, but paid entertainers rock out Fridays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www. thedistilleryonline.com.

O Trivia with Team Lunchbox: Tuesdays.

O Name That Tune: Wednesdays.

Doc Watson’s

1515 S. Byrne Road. (419) 389-6003 or docwatsonstoledo.com.

O Sporcle Live Trivia: Thursdays.

O Slim: 10 p.m. April 10.

O On The Roxx: 10 p.m. April 11.

Durty Bird

2 S. St. Clair St. (419) 243-2473 or www.ye oldedurtybird.com.

O Stonehouse: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 10.

O Yokemight: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 11.

O Straight Up: 1-4 p.m. April 12.

O The New Mondays: 8-11 p.m. April 13.

O Zac Kreuz Trio: 8-11 p.m. April 14.

O Jacob Pilewski: 8-11 p.m. April 15.

O Arctic Clam: 7:30-10:30 p.m. April 16.

Frankie’s Inner-City

Toledo’s venue for rock. Tickets vary between $5 and $14, unless otherwise noted. 308 Main St. (419) 693-5300 or FrankiesInnerCity.com.

O Cheap Girls, Unsinkable Molly Brown, As Arrows and Good Personalities: 9 p.m. April 10.

O Assault Inc CD Release Party: 7 p.m. April 11.

O Rittz, Crooked I, Horseshow Gang, MBK, Da North Coast Fam and The Blunt Family: 7 p.m.

April 12.

O Saving Abel, Breaking Grace, Unlabeled, PftP, Flatline Revival and In Theory: 7 p.m. April 16.

Hollywood Casino Toledo

The Hollywood Casino offers musical distractions from all the lights, noise and jackpots.

777 Hollywood Blvd. (419) 661-5200 or www. hollywoodcasinotoledo.com.

O Last Call: 9 p.m. April 10.

O Natural Wonder: 9 p.m. April 11.

Iggy’s

128 Main St. O Yonatan Gat (from Monotonix): 9 p.m. April 10.

O Industrial Wasteland presents: DJ Darks Choir’s Birthday Bash featuring Seraphim System, Rage&Wulf, DJ Havok, Chaos Talent and Angelus Teine: 9 p.m. April 11. $5.

O Partycat, A Crowd Like You, Northern Lights, Decades Past and Missing In Cincinnati: 7 p.m.

April 12.

Martini & Nuzzi’s

Two locations: 6023 Manley Road in Maumee

and 329 N. Huron St. in Toledo. For more information, call (419) 865-7967.

O Toledo location grand opening with live music from Jim Lieber, Jeff Stewart, Phillip Fox Band, Chavar Dontae, Breaking Ground, The Webster’s and Lt. Dan’s New Legs: Noon to 2 a.m. April 16.

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O The Oarhouse, 5044 Suder Ave.: 8-10 p.m.

Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. Fridays.

O Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 6609 Airport Hwy.: 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays.

O Jed’s Barbeque and Brew, 855 S. HollandSylvania Road: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Pat & Dandy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 3344 W. Laskey Road: 9-11 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 5702 Monroe St.: 7-9 p.m. Thursdays.

The Ottawa Tavern

1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www. otavern.com.

O OT Dance Party featuring DJ Mayor Mike Bell: April 10.

O Vice and Swamps: April 11.

SWINGMANIA

With its focus on swing music, Jeff McDonald’s group of musicians provides a peek into another era. (419) 708-0265, (419) 874-0290 or www.swingmania.org.

O Trotters Tavern, 5131 Heatherdowns Blvd.

(419) 381-2079: 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

O Garden Party: Stranahan Theater and Great Hall, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. 7-11 p.m. April 10. $5.

The Village Idiot

Tunes combined with pizza and booze. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 893-7281 or www. villageidiotmaumee.com.

O The House Band: Fridays.

O Dooley Wilson, Bob Rex and friends: Sundays.

O Frankie May and Associates: Mondays.

O John Barile & Bobby May: Tuesdays.

O Andrew Ellis: Wednesdays.

O Chinese Purple: April 11.

O JP Harris & The Tough Choices: April 14.

O Stephen Lee: April 15.

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O Danny Mettler hosts Open Mic Night: Wednesdays.

O Tore Down Blues Jam Band: Sundays.

O Bobby May and John Barile followed by The Eight Fifteens: April 10.

O Dave Carpenter and the Jaeglers: April 11.

O Tore Down Blues Band Jam: April 12.

O Calen Savidge: April 14.

O Match City Opening Day: April 16.

EVENTS

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Artomatic 419!

Featuring local art, music, short films, fashion and more. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. April 11, 18 and 25, and noon to 5 p.m. April 16 (Opening Day) and April 19 (419 Day). One Lake Erie Center, 600 Jefferson St. Free. For a full schedule, visit www.theartscommission.org.

Eastwood Theater

The historic landmark is screening movies for $5. 817 E. Broadway St. For more information, (419) 720-5199 or visit eastwoodtheater.com.

O Free Family Flick: “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”: 1 p.m. April 11.

O “The DUFF”: 6 p.m. April 10, 7:15 p.m. April 11 and 3 p.m. April 12.

O “McFarland, USA”: 8:15 p.m. April 10, 9:20 p.m. April 11 and 5:15 p.m. April 12.

Glass City Singles

Holland Gardens, 6530 Angola Road.

O After Easter Celebration: 8 p.m. April 10. $8

Mud Hens Opening Day

The Hens home opener is always a party

Downtown. This year’s features a doubleheader against the Columbus Clippers in two seven-inning games beginning at 4 p.m. The inaugural Opening Day Beer Bash, 3-5 p.m., offers a buffet and 30-plus craft beers, $45.

There’s also the annual Opening Day Bash, 3-5 p.m. in The Roost, featuring ballpark food, $35. www.mudhens.com. Catch the Walleye hockey playoff game afterward at 8:15 p.m.

‘Precious Objects’

The Gallery at Toledo-Lucas County Main Library, 325 N. Michigan St. O “Charles Mintz Precious Objects”: April 13 to May 30 with an opening reception and artist talk 6-7:30 p.m. April 13.

‘Sister Act’

The Stranahan Theater and Great Hall, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. 8 p.m. April 10, 2 and 8 p.m. April 11 and 2 p.m. April 12.

‘Taming of the Shrew’’

Toledo Repertoire Theatre, 16 10th St. (419) 243-9277 or www.toledorep.org.

O “The Taming of the Shrew”: 8 p.m. April 10-11 and 16-18 and 2:30 p.m. April 12 and 19.

Toledo Walleye

Huntington Center, 500 Jefferson Ave. (800) 745-3000 or www.toledowalleye.com.

O Walleye versus Cincinnati Cyclones: 7:15 p.m. April 10.

O Walleye versus Kalamazoo Wings: 5:15 p.m.

April 12.

O Playoffs: 8:15 p.m. April 16 (Mud Hens Opening Day) and 7:35 p.m. April 18.

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Norfolk Southern Railway Company (“NS”) and Midwest Rail, LLC d/b/a Toledo, Lake Erie and Western Railway (“TLEW”) give notice that on or about April 16, 2015, they expect to file with the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC 20423, a jointly-filed notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. Part 1152 Subpart F — Exempt Abandonments and Discontinuances of Service and Trackage Rights permitting NS to discontinue rail service and TLEW to discontinue lease operations over an approximately 1.80-mile rail line owned by NS and extending from milepost TS 13.2 (near Maumee, Ohio) to milepost TS 15.0 (at Waterville, Ohio) in Lucas County, Ohio (referred to herein as the “Line”). The Line travers-

es through United States Postal Service Zip Code territories 43537 and 43566. The NS and TLEW discontinuance proceeding will be docketed as STB Docket Nos. AB-290 (Sub-No. 377X) and AB-1231X, respectively.

The proposed action entails the discontinuance of rail service and the discontinuance of lease operations over the Line for which further Board approval would be required for NS to abandon service on the Line. Accordingly, this proceeding is exempt from environmental reporting requirements under 49 C.F.R. § 1105.6(c) and from historic reporting requirements under 49 C.F.R. § 1105.8(b), and the Board will not prepare an environmental assessment.

Appropriate offers of financial assistance to continue rail service under a subsidy can be filed with the Board. Because the proposed action is for the discontinuance of rail service and discontinuance of lease operations, but not the abandonment of the Line, requests for public use

conditions and rail banking/trails will not be accepted. An original and 10 copies of any pleading in response to the proposed discontinuance of service and discontinuance of lease operations (such as offers of financial assistance) must be filed directly with the Board’s Section of Administration, Office of Proceedings, 395 E Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20423 [See 49 C.FR. §§ 1104.1(a) and 1104.3(a)], and one copy must be served on NS’s representative [See 49 CFR § 1104.12(a)]. Questions regarding offers of financial assistance or other such matters may be directed to the Board’s Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and Compliance at 202-245-0230. Copies of any comments or requests for specific Board action should be served on NS/TLEW’s representative: William A. Mullins, BAKER & MILLER PLLC, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037; phone: 202-663-7820; fax 202-663-7849.

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In accordance with Section 329.06 (B) Ohio Revised Code, Lucas County Department of Job & Family Services (LCDJFS) will hold a public hearing prior to the submission of the County’s Final 2016-2017 Social Service Plan to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services for incorporation in the Comprehensive Social Services Plan for the State of Ohio.

PURPOSE: 1. To highlight pertinent data and information regarding identified social services problems, needs, resources, and gaps in service along with recommendations to the proposed two-year county plan.

2. To elicit public comment, suggestions, and recommendations relative to the County’s proposed Social Service Plan.

DATE: April 27, 2015 TIME: 9 a.m.-11 a.m.

LOCATION: LCDJFS, 3210 Monroe Street,

Toledo Room, 4th floor Entities wishing to have their points of view captured in the County’s submission to the State must submit proposals (not to exceed two pages) to Lucas_Contracts@odjfs.state.oh.us by 4pm on April 22, 2015. If individuals would like to present their proposals in person at the hearing as well, they must indicate that at the bottom of their proposal. This should include the speaker’s name and contact information. Those wishing to speak must register upon arrival at LCDJFS on the 27th and all efforts will be made to accommodate everyone who would like to speak. If time constraints don’t allow for that to happen, individuals will still have their written proposals reviewed and included in the LCDJFS summary report to the State.

A+ Self Storage at 1324 W. Alexis Toledo, OH 43612 will offer for public sale at 3:30PM on April 28, 2015 the following units: Unit 433, Becky Vayda 27 Poinsetta Toledo, Ohio 43612: Boxes, Sofa, Chair; Unit 615, Detra Harris 1037 Clymena St. Toledo, OHIO 43612: Sofa, Clothes, Luggage; Unit 925, Ericka Burns 2530 Heather Hills Apt D Toledo, Ohio 43614: Artwork, Grill, Boxes; Unit 1007, Terrance Williams 1334 Primrose Ave #11 Toledo, OH 43612: Artwork, Boxes, Clothes; Unit 1010, Alexis Bibbs 556 Mettler St. Toledo, OH 43608: Sofa, Boxes, Mattress; Unit 1037, Florence Kufel: Chairs, Boxes, End Table; Unit 1910, Frederick Allen 1657 Fernwood Ave Toledo, OH 43607: Sofa, Loveseat, Bouncer; Unit 2110, Raymond E Karnes 1503 Ayers Rd. Millbury, OH. 43447: Tools, Floor Jack, Wrenches;; Cash and Removal. Call ahead to confirm: 419-476-1400

STATE OF WASHINGTON WHATCOM COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUVENILE DIVISION IN RE THE WELFARE OF: DEVEN QUIZAMANE FERRAO DOB: 03/30/04 NO. 15-7-00025-4 NOTICE AND SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION (DEPENDENCY) TO: RYNA SHARMA FERRAO, Mother of DEVEN QUIZAMANE FERRAOA. A Dependency Petition was filed on January 22, 2015; a Fact Finding Hearing will be held on this matter on: May 12, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. at Whatcom County Juvenile Court, Whatcom County Courthouse, 311 Grand Avenue, Fourth Floor, Bellingham, Washington.

THE HEARING WILL DETERMINE IF YOUR CHILD IS DEPENDENT AS DEFINED IN RCW 13.34.050(5). THIS BEGINS A JUDICIAL PROCESS WHICH COULD RESULT IN PERMANENT LOSS OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS. IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR AT THE HEARING THE COURT MAY ENTER A DEPENDENCY ORDER IN YOUR ABSENCE. To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, call DSHS at 360/416-7200 or 1-800-785-5582. To view information about your rights in this proceeding, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.

DATED this 30th day of March, 2015.

David L. Reynolds Clerk of the Superior Court By: Carol A. Blunck Deputy Clerk WHATCOM COUNTY JUVENILE COURT Courthouse — 311 Grand Avenue Bellingham, WA 98225 (360) 676-6780 UNPLANNED PREGNANCY? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Open or closed adoption. YOU choose the family. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Abbys One True Gift Adoptions. Call 24/7. 866-413-6294.

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SEALED PROPOSALS for bidding on Middlegrounds Metropark Bid Package No. 01 Improvements, 111 Ottawa Street, City of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio will be received; opened; and read aloud at the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, Fallen Timbers Field Office, 6101 Fallen Timbers Lane, Maumee, Ohio 43537 Friday, April 24, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. local time.

A Pre-Bid Meeting will be held April 15, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. local time at 305 Morris St., Toledo, OH 43604 – All bidders are encouraged to attend the Pre-Bid Meeting.

THE SCOPE OF WORK consists of new park construction and includes site removals, erosion control measures, mass excavation and earth moving, concrete / aggregate pavement & walk installation, park pavilion, site lighting, landscape plantings, irrigation, site utilities, bank stabilization, at-grade boardwalks, boardwalk overlooks and bridges.

Bidders may obtain copies of plans, specifications, contract documents and plan-holder’s list through Newfax Corporation, 333 West Woodruff, Toledo, Ohio 43604 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,

NOTICE TO BIDDERS SEALED PROPOSALS for bidding on construction of a Visitor Center at Fallen Timbers will be received, opened, and read aloud at the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, Fallen Timbers Field Office, 6101 Fallen Timbers Lane, Maumee, Ohio 43537, Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM local time.

THE SCOPE OF work consists of renovation of an existing residential structure into a commercial visitor center located at the Fallen Timbers Battlefield park area in Maumee Ohio. General Construction includes, but is not limited to, demolition, asphalt roofing, replacement of trusses, drywall, fireproofing, mechanical and electrical up grades, flooring, windows, doors, aluminum gutters & downspouts, concrete sidewalk and approach, excavation, stone parking area and landscaping.

Bidders may obtain copies of plans, specifications, contract documents and plan-holder’s lists through Newfax Corporation , 333 West Woodruff, Toledo, OH 43604 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (check made payable to Newfax Corporation) or via Newfax Digital Plan Room at www.newfaxcorp.com. Newfax can be contacted at (419) 241-5157 or (800) 877-

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Saturday, April 18 – 9 a.m. to Noon – St. James Lutheran Church – 4727 W. Sylvania Ave, Toledo – Admission is free! Bring cash for purchases.

Sue’s Etcetera is a Personal Gardening Service that specializes in the Detailed Maintenance of clients Landscape & Garden Beds. If you have experience working with all types of flowers, shrubs, bushes, and plants, we can use you!

We have Full-Time to Part-Time positions available. Own reliable transportation a must.

Please Contact Sue J at suesgardens@buckeye-express.com or call 419-727-8734

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

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Monday through Tuesday (check made payable to Newfax Corporation) or via the Newfax Digital Plan Room at www.newfaxcorp.com. Newfax can be contacted at 419-241-5157 or 800-877-5157. A non-refundable fee of $40 is required for each set of documents obtained. For additional information, please contact Jon Zvanovec @ 419-360-9184, jon.zvanovec@metroparkstoledo.com.

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

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

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

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Toledo Free Press publishes classified ads and cannot be responsible for problems arising between parties placing or responding to ads in our paper. We strongly urge everyone to exercise caution when dealing with people, companies and organizations with whom you are not familiar.

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5157. A non-refundable fee of $15 is required for each set of documents obtained. For additional information, please contact Pete Boss, at (419) 304-5368 or Pete.Boss@metroparkstoledo.com and Jon Zvanovec, at (419) 407-9732 and at Jon. Zvanovec@metroparkstoledo.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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