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25th anniversary Interfaith Blood Drive “indefinitely postponed� amid concerns over Red Cross strike.

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Opinion

JUNE 3, 2012

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Addition by subtraction

owntown Toledo is growing.

That’s not an opinion; there is empirical proof on several streets.

The residences, restaurants, arts activities and development announcements at the Marina District, Toledo Edison Steam Plant and elsewhere are easy-to-see evidence. The corner where Toledo Free Press is housed, where Monroe Street meets Huron Street next to Fifth Third Field, is particularly healthy. You can stand there in the shadow of one of the greatest minor league baseball stadiums in America and see Huntington Center, SeaGate Centre, restaurants such as The Blarney Irish Pub, Table Forty4, Cock ‘n’ Bull, PizzaPapalis and a new Italian restaurant. If you look far enough, you can see the Bronze Boar, Quimby’s and Grumpy’s, with Spaghetti Warehouse, Packo’s at the Park and Swan Creek Candle just out of sight around the corner.

One business that recently closed represents not a loss, but an opportunity. Marilyn’s on Monroe, an adult establishment, recently shut its doors at 715 Monroe St. Toledo City Council, the Planning ComThomas F. Pounds mission and interested groups such as the Mud Hens, Destination Toledo and Downtown Toledo Improvement District should consider ways to prevent adult entertainment businesses from returning to this growing, family-friendly area of Toledo.

I understand this is contrary to Toledo Free Press’ general pro-development, leave-government-out-of-it philosophy. Everyone has a right to earn a living and the less government interference, the better.

But a sexually oriented business in the heart of an area trying to brand itself as a destination for families is a deterrent to growth and development.

This is not an argument about morality; it’s a business outlook defined by the unquestionable guidelines of “location, location, location.”

Just steps from the home of the Mud Hens, a business that has been charged with everything from tax and workers’ compensation issues to solicitation, illegal drugs and alcohol handling issues detracts from the atmosphere of growth. It is not conducive to family foot traffic.

As a resident of the block, raising two small children, I am keenly aware of how visiting families perceive our corner of Downtown Toledo and the imaginary boundaries they draw in their minds as they experience Downtown.

715 Monroe St. is listed as being owned by George Stamatopoulus, who is reportedly from Illinois and does not reside in Toledo.

Toledo zoning laws state that sexually oriented business is not allowed “within 500 feet of any residential district, school (K-12), religious institution, public park, public playground, public library, pre-school, child day care, or other use established specifically for the activities of minors,” none of which apply here. n POUNDS CONTINUES ON A4

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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Thinking bigger

O Howl at the Moon: This is a dueling-piano bar that n September 2008, Toledo Free Press published a cover story, “Think Big,” that asked readers which major-market specializes in crowd singalongs. It’s ultimate karaoke, one of attractions would boost Northwest Ohio’s entertainment the safest ways you can give your date a sore throat.

Online: www.howlatthemoon.com and retail quality of life. One of those wish list items, a casino, Progress update: Cleveland seems to have is now a glorious reality. We don’t have an oflost its Howl at the Moon location, so the ficial IMAX screen, but Rave Motion Pictures nearest ones are in Chicago and Indianapolis. has introduced its “Rave Xtreme Big Screen O Apple Store: This store offers the Experience” to Fallen Timbers. Another poplatest gadgets for computers, iPods and ular request, IKEA, is being mentioned for the gizmos you haven’t heard of yet. The Apple former Southwyck Mall site. What is the progStore in Aventura, Fla., gets so busy, cusress on the rest of that 4-year-old list? tomers have to make appointments to get O Culver’s: We love our burgers in Toin. The closest Apple Store is at Briarwood ledo, but unless you have been to Culver’s, Mall in Ann Arbor. you are missing one of the greats: Culver’s Online: www.apple.com/retail ButterBurger. Not fast food so much as Progress update: None. There are Apple high-end diner food prepared quickly, Cul- Michael S. miller Stores in Ann Arbor, Akron, Lyndhurst, ver’s also offers frozen custard and desserts to envy. There’s a busy Culver’s in Adrian, Mich., 38 miles Westlake and two in Columbus,.

O Trader Joe’s: This was by far the most popular reader away. If Adrian can support a Culver’s, surely Toledo can. request, with more than 150 mentions. It’s a specialty groOnline: www.culvers.com Progress update: Toledo does have a Five Guys at West- cery store that features imported cheeses, organic produce and hand-tossed pizza from Italy. gate, but still no Culver’s.

Online: www.traderjoes.com.

O Common Ground Festival: Each summer, Lansing, Progress update: Though the closest Trader Joe’s is in Mich., dedicates both sides of its modest riverfront to three days of country, rock, rap and pop music. Top names draw Ann Arbor, the franchise does have several locations in thousands of people to an event that could be on our Down- Ohio. A group of Downtown businesspeople is reportedly town river banks. A conversation about bringing such a fes- lobbying the franchise to consider a local location.

O Crate & Barrel: Crate & Barrel is a retail store that tival started a few years ago, but did not gain momentum.

Bowling Green’s Black Swamp Arts Festival has the idea, but specializes in furniture, housewares and home accessories.

Online: www.crateandbarrel.com imagine that event transferred to the riverfront and you’ll Progress update: The closest location is in Troy, Mich. have an inkling of the vision.

O Cheesecake Factory: The Cheesecake Factory speOnline: www.commongroundfest.com Progress update: None. And it looks like the only major cializes in just about everything, be it pizza, pasta, seafood, summer concert weekend Downtown, the rib fest Smoke steaks, salads, sandwiches or cheesecake.

Online: www.thecheesecakefactory.com. on the Water, has been retired.

Progress update: Again, Columbus has two, but the O Buca di Beppo: This restaurant chain, named “Joe’s Basement,” specializes in “family style” Italian cuisine. That closest Cheesecake Factory is in Westlake. There were remeans when you order lasagna, you get a brick that can feed ports a few years ago that a Cheesecake Factory was headed five people. The specialty is a “meatball the size of a baby’s to Levis Commons, but that rumor died quickly.

O Urban Outfitters: Urban Outfitters could be dehead.” The nearest Buca is 60 miles away in Livonia, Mich. scribed as a retail store that sells clothing with a hipster or Online: www.bucadibeppo.com Progress update: None. But a new Italian restaurant re- vintage look. Its closest location is in Ann Arbor.

Online: www.urbanoutfitters.com portedly being built on Monroe Street near the Blarney/ Progress update: None, but those hipster artists DownTable Forty4/PizzaPapalis triumvirate, looks promising.

O Dave & Buster’s/GameWorks: With its casino atmo- town are getting the gear from somewhere.

O One-shots: There were dozens of one-request fransphere and ADD approach to entertainment, Dave & Buster’s is a video arcade addict’s heaven, with the latest in inter- chises: O’Charley’s; Cinema Grill; Pinkberry; California active and virtual technology. There’s a Dave & Buster’s in Pizza Kitchen; Shooters; Bahama Breeze; Sweet Tomatoes; Westlake near Cleveland, 97 miles away, and one in Utica, The Container Store; Nordstrom; Saks Fifth Avenue; and Mich., 81 miles away. GameWorks, a similar franchise, has Marshalls. What else are we missing? Send your shoot-forthe-moon wish list to letters@toledofreepress.com. O locations in Columbus and Auburn Hills, Mich.

Online: www.daveandbusters.com, www.gameworks.com Progress update: None. Hollywood Casino Toledo is the Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. adult version, but families with kids are still waiting.

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JUNE 3, 2012 n POUNDS CONTINUED FROM A3 My understanding is that while Marilyn’s is closed, its permit to operate a sexually oriented business remains in effect for one year and it could reopen, as long as it meets code.

Could enough interested parties join to take over the lease and “wait out the clock” so that license expires? It seems unlikely that in this environment of renewal, the Planning Commission and City Council would want to see another such establishment take root.

The Downtown business community recently showed that it can band together, regarding intersection names, and with all due respect, that argument was about an issue with nowhere near the impact of allowing a red light business to operate in the heart of Downtown.

Yes, such businesses are legally allowed within the city and state but perhaps the city could create a sexually oriented business-free zone or establish that no sexually oriented business can operate within so many thousands of feet of a sports arena.

Trying to shut down an existing business is bad for the city. Trying to keep a closed place closed is less intrusive. It’s addition by subtraction;

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Initiative addresses gap in veterans’ services TO THE EDITOR,

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am writing as a concerned citizen about a gap in services regarding veterans of the Armed Forces in the State of Ohio. The specific rule, Ohio State Veterans Service Commission Rule 5901.08, acts as a barrier for Ohio veterans to access much-needed services.

“Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall be a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a veteran or activeduty member of the armed forces of the United States, who has been a bona-fide resident of the county in which application is being made for at least three months.”

According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans’ nearly 20 percent of the homeless population are veterans who served their country.

Ohio has the sixth-largest veteran’s population in the country, and according to the Cherry Street Mission, a local homeless shelter, an esti-

mated 30,000 vets experience homelessness in Ohio annually.

I have been instructed that when the rule was adopted in 1994, it was an effort to prevent duplication of services. However, 18 years later in a much more technologically sophisticated society, tracking services provided to Ohio veterans electronically should be much more feasible.

By decreasing the amount of time required for veterans to access services, and properly accounting for services provided to each homeless veteran, Ohio can become a national leader in the fight to serve those who have served us.

Please contact one of your state representatives to endorse this important initiative!

Sen. Edna Brown (614) 466-5204 Ohio Senate 1 Capital Square Columbus, Ohio 43215 sd11@ohiosenate.gov Sen. Mark Wagoner (614) 466-8060 Ohio Senate 1 Capital Square Columbus, Ohio 43215 sd02@ senate.state.oh.us

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Could enough interested parties join to take over the lease and “wait out the clock” so that license expires? It seems unlikely that in this environment of renewal, the Planning Commission and City Council would want to see another such establishment take root.” take away an element and watch the remaining participants benefit. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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Devorah Shulamit never thought she’d see the day when an event celebrating life would become what she says is just one of many casualties of a workers’ strike.

As founder and chairwoman of the Interfaith Blood Drive, Shulamit has spent the past 12 months preparing for the organization’s 25th anniversary blood drive. The Interfaith board hoped to collect 300 useable units of blood during the two-day event, in preparation for the July 4 holiday weekend. The drive also serves as a spiritual celebration of unity among people of all faiths.

Those preparations were dashed May 29, when the organization’s board of directors voted 8-1 to postpone the blood drive indefinitely, pending the outcome of the management/union conflict at the Western Lake Erie region of the American Red Cross.

The Interfaith board took the vote when the host of the event, Grace Lutheran Church, withdrew its offer to Interfaith for the use of its Monroe Stree building, until after the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 75 union workers’ strike against the American Red Cross was settled.

Grace Lutheran Church Pastor Holli Burkard told Interfaith board member and blood drive co-chairman Phil Meuser and Toledo Free Press that she was opposed to the blood drive for reasons of social justice.

“I recommended that we not host it,” she told Toledo Free Press. “I believe in justice for all people. There are

many issues here.”

Among the issues Burkard mentioned were her concerns that employees were working for a business that she believes does not offer reasonable health care coverage, the church members’ possible opposition to not respecting the rights of union workers, and the possibility of picketing outside the church building.

Burkard said the decision not to host the event was made by the church’s governing body.

Concerns about picketing

Robert Haaf, Grace Lutheran Church’s council president, serves as the chairman for the church’s governing body. Haaf said the 18-member governing body, elected to three-year rotating terms, “acted on behalf of the congregation.” He said he could not remember the result of the vote and could not provide that tally “because the minutes of that meeting have not yet been accepted.” He did say the vote was not unanimous.

Haaf echoed some of the same issues his pastor, cited, including concerns that there may be picketing in front of the church, an event he said “no one ever wants to see at their church.” He also expressed concerns about safety of the volunteers and donors because “there have been national media reports in the past where people who picket and people who cross the picket line end up in a physical confrontation, and then there are times when nothing happens at all.”

Haaf said the governing body’s ultimate concern came down to “the unknown” — not knowing what could happen if it permitted a

blood drive where striking workers may picket.

Haaf said the governing body had “an awareness that Toledo has the reputation of being a pro-union city and had concerns that some church members may not be comfortable hosting an event that may lead to people being asked to cross a picket line.”

Haaf did not say whether the governing body discussed any of the social justice issues his pastor raised.

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Interfaith Blood Drive postponed amid strike concerns

Disappointment, sadness

Interfaith board members expressed disappointment and sadness over the decision, the timing of the decision and the reasons they were given for the decision. Grace Lutheran Church has hosted the Interfaith Blood Drive for 20 consecutive years, and the Interfaith board had been given a verbal commitment for its continued use in 2012 just 12 months earlier. It was not informed of the withdrawal of that permission until May 15, five weeks before the June 23-24 event.

Despite their frustration with Grace Lutheran’s decision, Interfaith board members Evelyn and Hindol Ghatak stressed their appreciation for the church’s pastor.

“We all agree that Pastor Holli has been very graceful,” Hindol said. “We live in a democracy. And obviously, their congregation, the board, has decided they don’t feel comfortable doing it now. And I think that this is their prerogative. Over the years, they have been very, very nice, and they have been very generous.”

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JUNE 3, 2012 n BLOOD DRIVE CONTINUED FROM A6 “Grace Lutheran, in the community, is awesome,” she said. “They’re very, very, very open to anything. They’re always very accommodating.”

Not all Interfaith board members were as supportive or understanding of Grace Lutheran’s decision as the Ghataks.

When the blood drive board learned of the loss of Grace Lutheran as its host, Shulamit said she tried to focus on the positive and encouraged members to inquire at other area houses of worship as to the possibility of hosting the June 23-24 event. The reports of those last-minute inquiries at the May 29 meeting proved discouraging to Shulamit.

Board members had contacted and had been turned down by five Toledo-area houses of worship: Epworth United Methodist Church, Hope Lutheran Church, Memorial Lutheran Church, Monroe Street United Methodist Church and Temple Shomer.

None of the clergy who rejected the Interfaith Blood Drive’s last-minute request raised the issue of socially unjust treatment of Red Cross employees. All rejections were based on logistical issues, including scheduling conflicts, the possibility of interrupting religious services, traffic issues, parking issues, room size issues and the lack of air conditioning.

Not being fair

Dale Parker, UFCW Local 75 union representative, said he was pleased to hear that the Grace Lutheran governing body rescinded its

offer to host the blood drive.

“I applaud Grace Lutheran Church for standing up for what is right and just in the world,” Parker said. “The Red Cross is not being fair. They are proposing an increase by a large amount in the employees’ contribution to health care costs.”

Parker said the employee contribution is currently 15 percent, but the Red Cross is proposing a 10 percent contribution for single employees and a 20 percent contribution for a single employee plus one and/or a family going into the 2013-2014 year and beyond. Parker said employees are being asked to accept a contract that does not spell out health costs beyond just one year.

“We don’t consider it fair or just either,” he said. “We can’t sign a contract without knowing what the terms of the contract will be, and this contract is forever. We are being asked to sign a contract where we give up our right to bargain for health coverage forever. This is not just for one or two years. It’s forever.”

Bill Dudley, Director of Strategic Campaign for UFCW Local 75, said, “It doesn’t surprise me at all that faith leaders and people of faith would stand with the workers because this is a social issue. It’s an issue of economic justice and fairness.”

Dudley said the striking workers are willing to pay a little more than they have paid in the past, but are not willing to give up the right to bargain. Dudley said Red Cross management is asking its workers to give up all rights to collective bargaining forever.

“We’ve already decided that issue in Ohio,” Dudley said. “Ohio Senate Bill 5 appeared on the Ohio ballot as Issue 2 last year.

It was defeated by 62 percent. Ohioans have spoken clearly that they don’t expect public sector employees to give up the right to collective bargaining.

“But that’s exactly what the Red Cross expects union workers to do.”

No compromise

Ian Thigpen, communications program manager for the Western Lake Erie Region of the American Red Cross, the region that provides blood to 18 hospitals in 10 Northwest Ohio counties and Monroe County, Mich., said the Red Cross wants the striking employees to return to work “as soon as possible” but cannot “compromise what we offer all Red Cross employees.

“We cannot offer Western Lake Erie employees something that we don’t offer Red Cross employees in other parts of the country.”

Thigpen said the American Red Cross has signed 21 union contacts across the United States since July 2011, three since the Toledoarea strike started four months ago. He said that only three unions remain on strike: those that represent workers in Cleveland, Lansing, Mich., and Toledo.

Parker disputed Thigpen’s claim that 21 unions across the nation have accepted the contract Toledo-area workers have rejected.

“They have not responded to us in good faith,” Parker said. “They say that 21 other unions

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across the country have accepted the same offer we won’t accept. We have asked for a list of those 21 other unions they say have accepted the offer.

Although we have asked for that list, they have failed to provide it.”

Parker said the union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, contending that Red Cross management does not provide the union with the information it requests. Dudley said a hearing to investigate the union’s accusation is tentatively scheduled for August.

Thigpen said he is personally troubled with the predicament that the Interfaith Blood Drive faces.

“I have met some of the people involved in the Interfaith Blood Drive, and they are good people,” he said. “And I am sad — and I’m confident that this is the official opinion of the Red Cross — I am sad that we could not celebrate the 25th anniversary of their blood drive with them.”

The Interfaith board issued a statement concerning the Red Cross labor/management dispute after it decided to postpone the blood drive until after the strike.

“The Interfaith board takes no sides with the management/labor dispute between the American Red Cross and its union employees. The Interfaith board’s sole goal in life is to generate as many units of blood as possible. To do so, we need the support of the community, and, because of the strike, we do not currently have the support of the community.” O

Profile of Excellence: Laurence St. John Owens Community College Alumnus

Laurence St. John was born in Toledo, Ohio. When he was young, his family moved to Genoa, Ohio where he lived for the next 25 years.

He graduated from Genoa High School in 1983. He wanted to attend college, but his family didn’t have the funds and he wasn’t comfortable taking out student loans.

So, he began working in manufacturing. The pay was good and he met the love of his life, Julie. After working at several jobs, he landed a job in steel processing.

In 1990, they married and St. John adopted her two children, Joe and Jan. He continued to work in the steel industry and weathered a company buy out. He felt lucky to still have a job, but uneasy after the transition.

His boss suggested that he go back to school to get a degree as a way to protect himself in the future, even better, his company would pay for it.

He chose Owens Community College because of the small class sizes. He worried he wouldn’t fit in, but soon realized that many of the students were his age.

“I enjoyed my composition classes, where I was able to free my mind and write what I wanted,” said St. John.

He graduated in 2004 with a degree in Microcomputer Business Systems.

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Shortly after, his company was bought out again and he had to reapply for his job. That year was a difficult year for St. John.

His first grandchild was on the way too. Once his granddaughter was born, he felt a surge of inspiration.

“I wanted to do something extraordinary that would make her proud of me. So, I was determined to write my penned-up thoughts on paper,” said St. John.

He knew what he wanted to write, but was unsure of the process. A day later, he received a copy of the Owens alumni magazine. As he browsed the alumni updates, he noticed a story about a fellow alumnus and author.

He called the author and was able to learn more about what to expect and got a few leads on how to get started.

Now, six years later, his first novel “Metatron: The Angel Has Risen” was released in paperback. It is also available as an e-book in six languages.

“My Owens composition classes helped me immensely when it came to writing my book,” said St. John.

St. John is thrilled to be a published author. He still works fulltime and writes in the evenings and on weekends. He has already started the process of writing the next two books in the series.

“My Owens composition classes helped me immensely when it came to writing my book.”

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Mayor Bell joinED Jamie Farr and Penn National Gaming officials May 29 to cut the ribbon at Hollywood Casino Toledo.

Mayor Bell cuts ribbon, casino opens doors

By Caitlin McGlade

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

The din of the chattering dealers rose and fell with fevered anticipation.

The employees, the politicians, the media personnel and the businesspeople walked the granite floors of Hollywood Casino Toledo on May 29 with much urgency, mingling among models clad in feathered headdresses and musicians preparing to belt out the casino’s first tunes.

The commotion fell silent for 25 minutes as hundreds of people leaned toward a black and gold ribbon

that symbolized the culmination of months of hard labor and planning.

“M*A*S*H” star and Toledo native Jamie Farr set the tone.

“William Randolph Hearst would envy this right now,” Farr said.

Farr reflected on how Toledo has changed since his childhood days in the North End some 70 years ago.

“The closest thing we had to something like this was George’s Cigar Store on Superior Street,” he said. “It was a front; you’d go in there and buy cigars and of course you’d go to the backroom and that’s where all the gambling was done. This, I think, outdoes it.”

Farr stood at a podium under the

casino’s high ceilings, surrounded by 220 televisions, 2,002 slot machines, 60 table games and 20 live poker tables.

Mayor Mike Bell called the place “unbelievable,” saying the casino is one of the elements that could help turn the city’s economy around.

“You walk in and see people who are smiling because they’ve been unemployed for so long and now they’re going to be able to actually take care of their families,” he said.

The casino hired 1,300 employees, 90 percent of whom are Northwest Ohio locals. Law mandates that Ohio casinos pay a fixed tax of 33 percent of their gross revenues, of which 51

percent will be distributed among Ohio’s 88 counties with half of each county’s share going toward its largest city if the population exceeds 80,000.

Thirty-four percent of the revenue will fund public school districts. Five percent will go to host cities, 3 percent to Ohio Casino Control Commission, 3 percent to the Ohio State Racing Commission fund, 2 percent to state law enforcement training and 2 percent to a state problem gambling fund.

The casino collected at least $100,000 during a May 24 VIP night alone. Proceeds went to charity — General Manager Richard St. Jean awarded both the Boys & Girls Club

of Toledo and the YMCA checks for $50,000 from the earnings.

Bell cut the ribbon after the crowd counted down from 10. Doors opened to the public shortly afterward.

Dealer Robert Navarre, who awaited players at a Big Six table, said this is his first dealing gig. But he’s no stranger to casinos.

“I’ve wanted this to come here for a long time, I’ve gone to Vegas 10 years in a row so I’ve been ready for this for a long, long time.” he said. “This is better than Vegas — Vegas has nothing on this casino here.”

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The fine — yet fickle — waters of Lake Erie

’ll never forget it — the day my brother-in-law, nephew and I rented a very small, aluminum rowboat somewhere near Port Clinton and headed a mile or four into the heart of Lake Erie. The goal was to catch our share of the perch in residence. Any boater in our region knows that the spirits of the lake can turn evil as fast as a tug on your line, Frank but we first learned this nautical lesson on that day.

The sunlight above was overrun by a sudden rolling blackness, laden with flashing bolts of electricity. We pulled in our lines and started and restarted and restarted the lawnmower engine attached to the back of our floating

metal lightning rod. The race to shore was on, propelled by dozens of still unkept promises to our heavenly Father. Amid the smoke from our sputtering engine, those ever-heightening white-bonneted waves and the sloshing of ankle-deep water in our hull, we finally arrived at the dock ahead of our thunderous pursuer. Many U.S. troops faced the KURON same type of nautical trepidation in the fall of 1813.

Commodore Oliver Perry met the enemy and made them his on Sept.

10 in the northwestern waters of Lake Erie, right between the islands and British Fort Malden at the mouth of the Detroit River. In the weeks fol-

lowing, the American land forces funneled into the Sandusky Bay area, which is now Port Clinton, to prepare the attack on Fort Malden, which harbored Tecumseh’s warriors and Henry

Proctor’s 41st Regiment.

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JUNE 3, 2012 n 1812 CONTINUED FROM A10 Crammed with troops sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, the boats often rode only a foot above the water line.

One of the helmsmen of these Mackinaws said the gales became so fierce, all the smaller open boats around him turned back. His was so heavy that to try and turn in the troughs would have caused all of

them to drown. He decided, “The only safety was in keeping the boat in the wind’s eye, and to double-man the oars, keeping one or two men to bail out the water that dashed over the sides.” They rowed 11 hours to complete a 12-mile trip. Eleven hours! Can you say “Jet Express”?!

Once the boats finally unloaded their cargo of men, they were sent

back for more and it took a day and a half to complete the transport of nearly 15,000 troops to the island. The warm waters of the lake were hardly palatable to the hot, parched throats of these men, until someone discovered an island cavern. Now known as Perry’s Cave, it provided these men with cool lake water, unheated by the sun and obviously fresh flowing as indicated by

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the presence of fish. Thousands of men paraded in and out of the wide but lowceilinged hollow, using candles and torches to see their way. Spilled water from their canteens and kettles made the rocks a slippery, muddy mess and overall treacherous effort.

After a few days of waiting for the winds and waters to subside before continuing on to Fort Malden, one participant of this event records, “It was a sublime and delightful spectacle, to behold 16 ships of war and 100 boats filled with men, borne rapidly and majestically to the long-sought shores of the enemy.” Another man aboard Perry’s Ariel wrote, “The sun shone with refulgent splendor on our polished arms.

The martial waving of the snow-white plumes of the officers, the various uniforms of regulars and volunteers, the solemn silence, interrupted only by the regular movement of springing oars, altogether formed a scene awfully grand.”

The waters of Lake Erie seem to have always had a mind of their own, providing either a deadly chal-

lenge or striking serenity for its mariners. Next time you visit your favorite watering hole at Put-inBay, stop at the original one, which quenched the thirst of some very brave men for a few days in 1813.

And may your ankles stay dry as you cruise there. O Frank Kuron is author of the War of 1812 book, “Thus Fell Tecumseh.”

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Mercy implements robotic surgery center

By Morgan Delp

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer mdelp@toledofreepress.com

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Mercy Health Partners recently opened two new surgical suites with amenities specifically for robotic surgical procedures.

The $2.5 million da Vinci Si will be used at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center on Cherry Street along with one of Mercy’s older da Vinci models.

In 2002, Mercy was the first hospital in the area to acquire the da Vinci robotic surgical system and is now the only area hospital to use the Si, which Mercy acquired in 2009.

With the da Vinci Si, surgeons maneuver instruments at a console, while instruments at the patient-side cart perform movements in sync with the physician.

Director of Robotics Dr. Mirza Baig, who specializes in urology and pediatric urology, said the cuttingedge da Vinci Si is used for gynecology, urology, cardiovascular and some general surgical procedures.

“We’ve sort of collaborated all the specialties and took an integrated comprehensive approach to robotic surgery here,” Baig said. “When patients come, regardless of the specialty, regardless of the case, it’s a similar type of experience that they end up getting.”

Baig said this is done through a nurse navigator, who walks the patient and family through the entire process and is there before, during and after surgery. He said another is a full-time robotic supervisor who is constantly behind the scenes working with the technology and patient care.

Also, Mercy has implemented new ways for surgeons to track their results and increase their expertise.

Baig said the Si’s camera distinguishes the system in robotic surgery technology.

“What’s unique about the Si is the visual acuity, the camera that it uses,” Baig said. “The optics are unmatched. It’s 3-dimensional, high definition and ... it’s the clearest picture you can get.

“It’s also magnified by 10 times, so you can imagine the technology of magnification and precision you can get from these types of surgeries.”

One of the other differences between the da Vinci Si and its elder

counterpart is that the da Vinci Si has two consoles, allowing two physicians to collaborate and use the system during surgery.

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“All of this is minimally invasive, all of this is through small tiny incisions, [and] now you can take it a step further and just do it through one incision,” Baig said. “Through a belly button incision you’ll get surgery without a scar, that’s the idea. That’s specific to this robot.

We purchased this technology and we’ve performed the first single sight robotic surgery in town, and we’ve done several now and it’s gone well.”

Mercy is also using Firefly technology as part of the da Vinci Si. Firefly technology allows physicians to inject the patient with a dose of green dye. Normal organ tissue is colored green while tumor tissue isn’t.

This allows surgeons to more precisely determine what needs to be removed.

Baig said since the da Vinci’s implementation at Mercy almost 10 years ago, about 1,700 robotic surgeries have been performed.

“We have approximately 21-22 surgeons that are actively doing cases and others that have showed interest in learning robotic surgery,

because the benefits are clear to the patients: smaller incisions, less blood loss, quicker recovery time, quicker return to work, all compared to open surgery,” Baig said.

Baig said measuring the success of the da Vinci can be misleading because of the common misconception that the robot is doing the surgery, not the surgeon.

Baig is quick to clarify that the Si is a tool and cannot replace the surgeon.

“If the surgeon is capable and well trained, then the robotic surgery, compared to open surgery, is safer,” Baig said. “So the success sort of has different variables that affect it. There are many studies that were performed where the same surgeon has compared his open surgeries to his same robotic surgeries and the benefits and success have been clear.”

ProMedica acquired its first da Vinci in 2008, Director of Surgery and Endoscopy Michelle Ziegler said. ProMedica now has two da Vincis that are used for urology, gynecology and vascular surgeries.

“As we see that robotic surgery is increasing along with the need for it, we have a committee continuing to look at it and the options for the new technology,” Ziegler said. O

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Local author learns life lessons from Oprah

By Mary Imre Special to Toledo Free Press

Entrepreneur and author Jason Daniels recently attended an Oprah Winfrey “Lifeclass.”

“Lifeclass,” a project on Winfrey’s Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN TV), is a series of inspirational discussions on seeking inner peace.

Daniels applied for and was selected into a “Lifeclass” session in Chicago in late May. He said he looks up to Winfrey and admires her leadership and attitude.

The “Lifeclass” episode he attended discussed guilt, moving forward with life and how to take control of your own destiny, topics Daniels said he covered in his book, “Get Off the Gerbil Wheel.” Winfrey and guest speaker Iyanla Vanzant shared ways to overcome guilt and achieve goals.

“I found that many of the topics discussed had correlation with my book. One of the main things being always taking advantage of every opportunity you get,” Daniels said.

Through the workshop, Daniels

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Daniels said Winfrey not only full potential. Daniels also hosts shows her personality during the seminars and workshops. He said show, but during the breaks as well. JAYRAMON’s mission is “to help During breaks, Winfrey and her staff individuals celebrate their unique continued to carry on conversations. gifts and talents to make the “When you talk to Oprah, it’s like greatest contribution possible in nobody else is there, she really gives all areas of life.”

“Everybody should at least watch her full attention to anybody talking one of Oprah’s “Lifeclasses” online. to her,” Daniels said.

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the importance of having a pool.

Pool attendance varies each year, with a total of 57,261 visits in 2002 compared to 23,269 in 2011. Along with the weather, the number of pools opened annually affects total atten-

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ocal pools, including Toledo’s Roosevelt Pool, will open this month after a long, hot spring.

The weather usually isn’t nice enough by early June for people to be so excited, but Maumee Public Service Director Joe Camp said this pool season is looking warmer.

Unlike 2009, when attendance at Rolf Park Pool, 2115 Cass Road, dropped because of the economic slump and cooler temperatures, Camp expects the customary 19,000-23,000 visits this summer because of the anticipated hotter weather.

Admission to the Maumee pool is a bit more expensive than to Toledorun pools, but Camp said the experience is more like a waterpark.

“We have three slides, the diving board and the play structure,” he said.

The eighth season for the pool will start June 2 with hours from noon to 6:45 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5:45 p.m. weekends. Daily admission is $8 for those 48 inches or taller and $5 for those shorter.

Camp said individual memberships are $50 for those who live within the city limits of Maumee or within the school district boundaries. Just because a person’s mailing address is Maumee doesn’t mean he or she lives within the corporate limits, though, he said.

Toledo City Pools open later in the month. The city’s seven pools open June 19 and will be available for swimming noon to 6 p.m. most days. The prices are $1-$2 and free at the Savage Splash Pad. One highlight of this year is the reopening of the Roosevelt Pool at Smith Park. The pool was destroyed by vandals in 2009.

“The pools definitely contribute to our quality of life in the city,” said city Public Information Officer Jen Sorgenfrei in an email. “It’s an amenity that most communities offer their citizens, so even in difficult budget times we have worked really hard to maintain access to pools throughout the city.”

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Union’s role in the Political Arena

Where do I begin?

How did unions become such a political powerhouse?

When did unions begin determining who wins and who loses? What issues pass or fail? Where does their influence come from?

To know where we are, we must first understand where we have been.

In 1935 the United States Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed into law the National Labor Relations Act. Also commonly known as the “Wagner Act,” this law defined how labor organizations could be formed and how employers would have to deal with their formation and existence. The law ultimately gives private sector employees the right to organize and negotiate with their employers the terms and conditions of their employment.

Until recently that is exactly what unions did.

They got a majority of employees at a place of employment to sign authorization cards and then petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to conduct an election. If they won they went to the bargaining table and negotiated a contract which dictated future terms of employment.

Regardless of your personal beliefs, the average person seems to accept this process and as long as the union and its representative behaved reasonably, it was a peaceful co-existence.

Now imagine this law that was originally enacted for the sole of purpose of protecting the right of self organization, for every worker to have the freedom of choice and action, and to prohibit employers from interfering in workers attempts to form unions, becoming something different entirely. Suppose today I told you this law was originally passed to allow unions to flex their collective muscle outside the workplace and spill over into the political arena? Would you be opposed to unions having such influence? One might think Franklin Roosevelt would.

Over the past twenty years or so this is what seems to have happened. Unions gradually gained so much power that they began to influence politicians at the local and national level. One might say you don’t have to look any further for an example of this than our own backyard, Toledo, Ohio. One might say our very own Marcy Kaptur has fallen prey to our local unions’ political influence.

Most people don’t understand where this union influence originates. Like many things it comes from money. But unlike most elements of free enterprise unions don’t engage in commerce.

Their revenues come from dues paying members.

The first issue at the bargaining table on the union’s agenda is what is known as “check-off”.

If agreed to, the employer typically withholds two-to-three hours of wages per month from employees paychecks and direct these funds to the international union. The international union typically sends back approximately half of that amount to the local and keeps the rest. How are these funds used? Any number of ways, which could include buying politicians, paying individuals to occupy Wall Street, and produce misleading commercials about Issue 2 in Ohio, just to name a few.

The influence described in the paragraph above is the problem. Think about it this way.

Do you for one minute believe that every Jeep line worker that pays union dues believes in abortion on demand? Do you think that every teacher that pays union dues believes in elimination of “In God we Trust”? Do you believe that every fireman that pays union dues believe in Occupy Wall Street? No, yet each and every day their hard earned wages are directed to elected officials who champion these initiatives.

Some of us have decided it is time for change and are committed to reversing this trend.

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By Caitlin McGlade

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

An 1877 directory of the Old West End marketed the neighborhood by extolling the “great depths of its lots” and the “high character of the residents of the neighborhood.”

Frank Lloyd Wright studied the area while planning his Oak Park Project in Illinois. The Libbey family, who built up Toledo’s glass industry, lived there. Lavish homes equipped with classical columns and bulging bay windows were going up from one lot to the next back then, eventually covering a 25-block radius.

“When you lived here, you were in the upper crust,” said Joe Minnich, who is refurbishing a 9,733-squarefoot home on Scottwood Avenue built in 1892.

This was a place to be seen. More than 100 years later, it still is — especially during the old West End Festival on June 2-3.

“What makes the Old West End special is very simple: beautiful big houses and a very fine community of people who live there and work on the community spirit,” said Don Brewer, entertainment coordinator for the festival.

The parade

The Old West End Festival marks its 41st celebration this year. Starting at 10 a.m. June 2, Robinwood Avenue will come alive with the King Wamba Parade — a moving party of the Scott High School Marching Band, a roller derby troupe, belly dancers, enormous marionette puppets and floats constructed by local organizations.

This year, the parade has a particularly special guest. Cirque du Soleil performers will stride alongside the floats on stilts.

“When they called I about fell out of my chair,” said Jeni Belt, coordinator of the King Wamba Parade.

This is the first year the festival has hosted the internationally renowned traveling dancers and acrobats. The group’s booking agent requested the invite to the Old West End Festival, Belt said.

In addition to the parade, Cirque du Soleil performers will perform off

the main stage during the afternoons on June 2 and 3.

The King Wamba Parade dates back to 1909, when the neighborhood threw a Mardi Gras-style carnival in honor of King Wamba, a Visigothic king in Spain from 672 to 680.

That first carnival ran for four days and exemplified historical events that took place in seventh century Toledo, Spain. But the carnival didn’t make a comeback until 2007, when Mark Moffett, then-parade chair, sought to bring it back.

When Moffett took charge of the parade, it was comprised of a few neighborhood groups and a grand finale of the Scott High School Marching Band. Now groups are coming from Columbus and Detroit to partake in the party.

The parade travels about a mile, starting at Robinwood Avenue, winding onto Bancroft Street, taking a right onto Collingwood Boulevard and finishing up at the Mansion View Inn.

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Old West End Festival offers parade, art, music, home tours

Arts and entertainment

Brewer posted an ad on Craigslist this winter calling for performers to take the Art Fair stage and 26 responses flooded in immediately. He took the first 10 who responded.

For performers, the Old West End Festival is a hot gig.

“The festival, which started out simply as home tours, has grown into an arts festival, with the beer tent, the children’s tent, the crafts festival, the car show and the parade,” Brewer said.

Performers who scored the main stage slots include Aegele, Middle Eastern Dancers and students from Toledo School for the Arts. Shows start at noon and end at 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The other venue, the Arboretum Stage, will be located by the Beer Pavilion on Delaware Avenue. Ten bands will play on Saturday, starting at noon and ending at 9 p.m. Six bands will perform Sunday, starting again at noon and ending at 6 p.m. Tunes will range from bluegrass, rock, hip-hop, jazz/funk, folk, Hawaiian and soul.

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Art Fair

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion

House Tours

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. $12 per person for all homes or $4 for single house tour. Children 12 and younger free.

Marketplace

Stampede 5K run/walk

9 a.m. Sunday, start and finish located at Jefferson Avenue near Monroe Street

Children’s Activities

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday on Woodruff Avenue

Beer Pavilion

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, on Woodruff and Parkwood avenues

Noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Delaware and Robinwood avenues

Antique & Classic Car Show

Main Stage

9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday only, at Toledo Spain Park at the corner of Collingwood Boulevard and Monroe Street

Parade

Starts 10 a.m. Saturday on Robinwood Avenue and ends on Collingwood and Woodruff Avenue

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JUNE 3, 2012 n FESTIVAL CONTINUED FROM A16 Yard sales will abound throughout the neighborhood.

Food carts offering everything from barbecue to gyros to pizza will be open until 6 p.m. both days.

There will be an antique and classic car show, children’s activities, a 5K run/walk and a marketplace at Woodruff and Parkwood avenues.

The house tours

“We bought the porch and the house came with it,” said Lynn LaPlante, who lives in a Queen Annestyle home on Scottwood Avenue with her husband Dave.

But more than just brick and mortar accompanied the deal. The red brick house at 2320 Scottwood Ave. is ripe with history. Albert Wright, who

started out in the railroad tie industry and founded the Jennison-Wright Company, had the house built for himself when he moved to Toledo in 1895. Crews constructed three stories and an attic, with separate stairways and separate entrances for the servants. They even installed a button in the dining room floor that the family could push to alert the maids when they wanted something.

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But the 3,500 square feet weren’t enough for Wright, the original owner. He moved down the road to a larger home about 10 years later to compete with his neighbors, who were building even larger houses, Dave LaPlante said.

The place was home to a series of other families between Wright and the LaPlantes, including a man who ran a leather business and a couple of University of Toledo professors. At one point during the house’s history, a 14-yearold maid lived in the servants’ quarters, Lynn LaPlante said.

Another house open for festival tours is Joe Minnich’s fixer-upper — a looming yellow brick house sprawling within view of the Toledo Museum of Art on Scottwood Avenue. The exterior appears as though it could guard royalty, with its majestic columns flanking the terrazzo tile porch, ornate roof brackets and carved medallions adorning the house’s brick façade that faces the street.

The interior tells the story of evolving architectural tastes. The house was built for a German brewer, Hermann Dick, in 1892 but the Blevens family bought the place in 1916. Whereas much of the wood lining the living room, the dining room and the upstairs bedroom originally bore a dark finish, the new family painted everything white.

They took out a first-story bay window and replaced it with an overhanging solarium off the side of the house. They swapped the traditional metal doorknobs with glass ones —

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symbolizing the evolution of Toledo as the “Glass City” between the 1890s and the 1910s.

In the 1960s, the structure became home to the International Institute.

But many of the household accessories date back more than 100 years — from the chandelier hanging over the living room to the soap dish in the bathroom. Minnich is trying to bring the place back to what it was in the 1890s, so he has stripped most of the white finish from the wood.

He has found that only the finest materials went into making most of the house. The original crew used bird’s eye mahogany — one of the finest, most dense types of highquality wood — to line the second story rooms.

The white tile covering the bathroom walls? It is detailed with a gold leaf design.

If you stand in the middle of the second story landing, you can see out windows on all four sides of the house.

There are also at least three full-length mirrors within view.

But the extravagancy is not true of the entire house. The original owners went to great lengths to ensure that the servants knew their place. Although it is easier to make a door out of one type of wood, the doors separating the servants’ quarters and the family dwelling are made of two bound together. The sides facing the servants’ quarters are made of a utilitarian pinewood. The sides facing the rest of the house are fine mahogany.

The histories of these homes are just a few components of the Old West End Festival — but history is at the crux of the entire weekend.

“A lot of what Toledoans can take away from this is to become more aware and connected to the history,” Moffett said. “Many of us are not in touch with the history of Toledo and I think the parade and the festival can connect us.” O

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Forum stresses retraining baby boomers, sustainability

By Caitlin McGlade

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

Jason Madasz opened his second cellular retail store immediately after the first. Then he opened a third later in the year, followed by a fourth a couple of years later.

“A lot of people in business today, they are lured into a place where they think they have to grow very, very quickly,” he said.

“A lot of businesses will incur tremendous MADASZ amounts of debt to grow.”

He knows firsthand. The mounting overhead costs, the slimming profit margins, the lengthening lines of credit for equipment, the long-term leases and the cost of upkeep all rolled into an amorphous debt that threatened to ruin him and his family.

“100,000 of debt took my soul

away overnight — it will no matter what you do,” he said.

Madasz recovered enough to open a new business. But this time he’s debtfree. That’s because his business, DebtTech Financial Solutions, centers on lifting families out of debt. He wants to set a good example and has done so for hundreds of clients over the past few years, he said.

Madasz will present his techniques, focusing on sustainability and planning, at the Innovation with Entrepreneurs Forum on June 9, along with about 25 other entrepreneurs, finance experts and health and wellness professionals.

The forum, hosted at Davis College, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

It will be broken into four sessions: new paradigms in health and wellness, educational links to entrepreneurship, investing opportunities and a networking hour. All themes are tied to sustainability, said Loren Frendt, the principal consultant of the Sustainable Resources Institute LLC. The institute is one of the organizers, along with Boomers RN and

Five Wellnesses.

The forum will also focus on helping baby boomers in a world of waning job opportunities.

“There’s a job war going on,” Frendt said. “You’d better regroup yourself, retrain the troops and re-educate yourself to meet the demand.”

During the past four years, about 200 unemployed or change-seeking people have taken the institute’s skill training classes to become more marketable. They have all landed jobs, Frendt said.

Jim Matzinger, program coordinator of the Green Product Center with the Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT), helps businesspeople make their products more marketable to the government. Matzinger will present about how the CIFT program aids companies that are going green by using bio-based products.

Federal, state and local governments contract with companies that produce bio-based products. Matzinger has 10 Toledo-area companies as clients, up from two when he started years ago. He has 50 clients statewide.

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Registration for the forum runs from 8:30-9 a.m. and costs $10, with $5 going toward a micro-grant that will be awarded to an attendee and $5 to Heroes in Action, a military outreach group.

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“Anything that is made with petroleum can be made with bio-based substitutes,” he said. “The idea is to become less dependent on foreign oil and help with the environment.”

So where does health and wellness fit into environmental and financial sustainability?

“We cannot maximize our potential when we’re not taking care of ourselves,” said Deitra Hickey, who owns the Serenity Health & Wellness Center in Maumee. “When my body needs a break, I won’t be efficient as a business owner.”

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Fifth Third names Belle manager of Investor Advisory Division

By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccarthy@toledofreepress.com

As a 22-year-old, recently graduated, idealistic financier, Ron Belle came to a realization. In his one-onone conversations with his clients, it dawned on him that “people don’t understand. They don’t understand how important it is to know what’s on their credit report, to know how to responsibly use credit.”

At that point, Belle knew he would eventually embark upon a banking career.

Nineteen years later, Bell has accepted a position at Fifth Third Bank as senior vice president and manager of the Investment Advisors Division. He is responsible for the overall management of the division, which provides personal trust, investments, wealth planning and private banking services.

Belle readily admits all the “bankspeak” sometimes makes banking unattractive for the common person.

“To most people, their banking is personal. And yet we hear the news about J.P. Morgan and Wall Street.

And let’s face it, not all of us know and understand the huge headline, the big splashes. That thing about J.P. Morgan and what’s going on there is that’s not in most of our worlds. You hear it. You get scared by it.

“But, really, that kind of banking, it’s not going to affect people or their accounts or their relationship with their bank here in Toledo. And I think that’s probably the one piece that people forget.

“It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, man, what’s going on in Wall Street?’ Well, we’re a long way from Wall Street. Not to say that what happens there doesn’t

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Belle credits his parents’ guidance and the values he learned growing up in Syracuse, N.Y., for his career success.

The oldest of four children, Belle spent his childhood dreaming of being an FBI or Secret Service agent. However, watching his father, who worked in the beverage industry, spend his evenings preparing hand-written reports made an indelible impression on the young Belle.

“Talk about work ethic and things of that nature,” Belle said.

“Working hard. He’s been the role model for that.”

Belle and Diane, his wife of two years, moved to Toledo in mid-May from their home in Metro Detroit, just east of Rochester Hills. The couple has one son, Ronald III, who they call Ronny. Diane Belle works as an accountant with a

affect everybody’s life to some degree. But it’s not what the average person who does their banking every day gets. It’s their relationship, the conversation sitting across the table.”

Belle’s insight into the fear that Wall Street headlines generate BELLE fits perfectly into Fifth Third Bank’s approach to serving its clients, said Bob LaClair, president of Fifth Third Bank Northwestern Ohio.

“Banking is a relationship business,” LaClair said. “We take that very seriously. We are a one-on-one kind of company where we’re sitting across the table, whether it is in a branch or a customer’s office or down in our main office. It’s very much a relation-

background in hospitals and nonprofit organizations.

When he was being considered for the Fifth Third Bank job, Belle researched living conditions in the Greater Toledo area. To his surprise, he discovered that Toledo is very much like his childhood hometown.

“Growing up in Syracuse, I found out Toledo is very much like Syracuse, size-wise,” he said. “But there are much better winters here. Believe me, 100-plus inches a year — it’s much better here.”

Belle sees Toledo as a vibrant community and is pleased that it offers a lot of support for the arts.

“And as I leave here, there’s a Mud Hens game,” he said. “At 6, 6:30 in the evening, it’s amazing to see the crowds there.”

“What Toledo offers is the ability to get involved. Both my wife and I have a history of being on boards [of trustees],

being involved in the community.

“And Toledo offers that. And I think that we’re very excited about being in the community, and being involved.”

Although Belle said there is no such thing as a typical day in the banking world, he said he split his time between “working with my team, ensuring that what we do and how we do it are done well” and “the real fun part of the job — getting in front of and talking with clients.”

Belle is most pleased when he and his team “do a very good job in the relationship side of things. At the end of the day, that’s the differential.

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Guitarist to rock NW Ohio Blues & Jazz Festival

By Vicki L. Kroll

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer vkroll@toledofreepress.com

think in the long run it’s part of my signature. I want [a song] to say something if there are lyrics, and I want the music to take you on a journey and make you want to hear it again.”

In 2010, the singer-songwriter took a year off to reflect on her career.

“I’ve been on the road nonstop — and I just wanted to evaluate what I was doing,” she said. “I decided that I would honor that dream that I always had to record a simple acoustic CD of all of my favorite songs that I’d written.”

Her unplugged effort, “Finding My

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It’s something Kelly Richey has heard since she was 15 when she got a Les Paul copy and a three-watt amp: Girls can’t play guitar.

“And I’m like, ‘Yes, they can,’ ” she said and laughed. “And I was really on a mission to prove that.

“The power that the electric guitar represented drew me in because I did not feel empowered as a teenager, and I was enticed by what I felt that guitar had

to offer,” Richey said. “I started out on the electric and quickly got an acoustic guitar, and I’ve been playing ever since.”

And man, can she play. Watch a video of her cover of “Hey Joe” at kellyrichey.com.

The musician offers more than a sonic assault of dazzling riffs and blazing solos.

“I’ve never been the type of entertainer that made people just drink and dance and have fun; I’ve just always wanted to move people and inspire people to think,” Richey said. “So that’s a bit of a blessing and a curse, but I

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Way Back Home,” was released in January along with “Kelly Richey Live.”

The acoustic disc opens with “Dig a Little Deeper,” the title track of her 1999 CD. “My uncle was the preacher of our church, and he had a favorite hymn that my mom used to make me sing, and the first line of that hymn was ‘I don’t know about tomorrow, I just know about today.’ And that inspired me to write this song because I really at that point in my life didn’t know exactly where I was going,” Richey said during a call from her office and studio in Cincinnati.

“And I chose, OK, I’m going to continue to follow my heart and I’m not going to question it. And if I follow my heart, show up and do what I’m supposed to do, hopefully I’ll end up in the right place.”

Richey will play 6 p.m. June 9 at

the Northwest Ohio Blues & Jazz Festival at Centennial Terrace in Sylvania.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the gate. VIP tickets are $60. Other acts include 427, Swamp Kings, Joe McBride and Spyro Gyra.

Richey’s website describes her as “Stevie Ray Vaughan trapped in a woman’s body with Janis Joplin screaming to get out.” “[Blues/rock guitarist] Lonnie Mack had said to me that I was Stevie Ray Vaughan trapped in a woman’s body. And during a conversation about Lonnie, that quote was born, and it was [from] a critic,” she said.

“I know that when I step on stage with an electric guitar, if you like Stevie Ray Vaughan and if you like Janis Joplin, you’re going to like me.

I think there’s a lot about what I take to the stage that embodies that; they were huge influences on me.” O

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EDUCATION

By Brian Bohnert

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer bbohnert@toledofreepress.com

In summer 2011, The Avengers assembled in the downtown streets of Cleveland, leaving skyscrapers destroyed and streets reduced to gravel.

But when Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and The Hulk needed a short break from the action, the feared foursome would transform back into Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo ... ... until the film crew readied the lights for the next shot.

With more big Hollywood films like “The Avengers” and “The Ides of March” rolling production trucks into the Buckeye State, the University of Toledo will offer Film Crew Training courses this summer to prepare Ohioans for growing job opportunities in the local film industry.

In a partnership with Michiganbased trade school The Center for Film Studies, UT will offer three six-week courses, each specializing in different entry-level film production jobs.

Camera and Audio Training is the first class, Grip Training is the second and Production Training is the third.

Each of the six-week courses will take place on UT’s Main Campus in the Center for Performing Arts from June 25 to July 27. Students can select from sessions at 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. or from 5:30-10 p.m.

James Hill, chair of the Department of Theatre and Film at UT, said each course will give the par-

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and boom operation while the grip training will teach students how to behave on a live set. Hill said students will “learn manners and protocols” on a film set, as well as how to move scenery, furniture, cameras and any other piece of equipment used in a production.

The third course, production training, is the more advanced of the three courses. Hill said this course will deal with logistics like time management and how to set-up for a shot.

The Center for Film Studies approached UT because they wanted to branch into Ohio. Because UT has a good film program, Hill said the university decided it would try it.

While classes will be given inside UT’s Center for Performing Arts, Hill said all courses will be taught by Center for Film Studies staff.

In a news release, Betty Anzaldua, program director for UT, said the courses are very important for the area because of the rise in the number of Hollywood productions coming to Ohio.

“We look at the classes we will be offering as providing an outstanding career path in a real growth industry in Toledo and throughout our region,”

Anzaldua said. “There are hundreds of jobs available in our region which graduates of our Film Crew Training classes will compete for while participating in a job that promotes our area worldwide.”

Ohio offers many tax incentives for both independent and major film productions that come to the state, with one being that the studios hire local crewmembers.

In the news release, Anzaldua estimated the beginning pay of program graduates ranges anywhere from $15 to $25 an hour.

The fee for each course is $3,650, but Hill said there are many different forms of financial assistance for those who qualify.

“You can get funding through the Workforce Development Program,” Hill said. “Financial aid is also available but you will not be going through the University of Toledo, you’ll be going through the Center for Film Studies. It may be expensive but it can pay back well in a short time.”

For more information or to sign up for UT’s Film Crew Training courses, call 1 (877) 387-1112, email info@ uoftfilm.com or visit www.universityof toledofilm.com. O

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FAMILY PRACTICE

You see some, you miss some, you move along Less than an hour later, my 9-yearold took a cross shot from one of his teammates and headed it into the goal for the first time. From the crowd’s reaction, it was a pretty nice shot and a pretty big deal. As you can guess, I didn’t get it on tape.

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didn’t see it happen at all. Yes, after hundreds of hours of watching him play, my son made his finest soccer maneuver to date in the 90 seconds I was crouched down looking at a photo book the team was giving his coach after the game. In my defense, Jack wasn’t even in the game when I took

my eyes off of the field, but that didn’t stop me from guiltily and defeatedly dwelling on it for days after.

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etween games, practices and the backyard, I’ve likely watched my son play hundreds of hours of soccer over the past six years. Being a bit of a videophile, I also like to record what I’m watching with the stark realization that we may or may not ever watch it again. It’s actually a family tradition that has been passed down from my parents to me — hundreds of hours of recorded kids’ sporting events sitting in a box quietly awaiting an audience that may or may not ever show up.

You just never know when that one special moment in time is destined to arrive, however. The sporting event I most recall from my younger days, working hard to win a tennis match that I realistically had no business winning, is unfortunately not among the hours upon hours of my youth athletic footage.

My mom became so enthralled in the action of the whole thing that she stopped recording at some point, so the magic of it will instead forever be left to memories alone. Still, even if it were sitting in my video treasure trove, would I really sift through the massive amount of noneventful moments in time just to find it?

Today’s cyber world is different, though. Not only can I keep better track of the best and brightest highlights of my children’s athletic and other achievements, I can share them with the world within a few seconds if I so desire. At his last regular game of this past spring soccer season, my son, Jack, added such a share-worthy highlight to his lifetime collection.

I must have had mother’s intuition about a momentous event on the horizon, as I made it a point to stop at the drugstore closest to the playing fields in order to procure the all-important miniDV tapes we seem to be perpetually out of. When I saw that the cost was $17 for two of them, I made it a point to walk out of the store emptyhanded. I couldn’t help but tell myself, “How likely is it that I’m going to record something I would pay $17 to see again when I have hundreds of hours of my own recorded childhood that I don’t even bother glancing at for free?”

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just choked on a piece of candy and I had to give him the Heimlich maneuver,” my sister (and hero for life), Michelle, calmly replied.

After four days of foolishly carrying around a pit in my stomach because I happened to miss a moment, I quickly realized that the only thing that mattered was the happy ending.

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We take it in, we take it on, we let it go and we move on. Easier said than done, but that’s all there is to it. O Shannon and her husband, Michael, are raising three children in Sylvania. Email her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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“BIEN VENIDOS AMIGOS”

Specializing in Mexican Food since 1955

419-865-5455

10400 Airport Hwy. (1.2 Mi. East of the Aiport) Lunch & Dinner, 11 a.m. to Midnight Closed Sundays & Holidays

FRITZ & ALFREDO’S

Original Recipes from Both Mexico and Germany

419-729-9775 3025 N. Summit Street (near Point Place) Mon. - Thurs. 11-10 p.m.

Fri. - Sat. .11-11 p.m.

Sun. 3-9 p.m. Closed Holidays

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BARRON’S CAFE Everything Mexican From Tacos to Enchiladas to Delicious Burritos

419-825-3474 13625 Airport Hwy., Swanton (across from Valleywood Country Club) Mon. - Thurs. 11-11 p.m.

Fri. - Sat. .11-12 a.m.

Closed Sundays and Holidays

• 20TH ANNIVERSARY •

THE ORIGINAL MEXICAN RESTAURANTE & CANTINA IN TOLEDO

419-841-7523 7742 W. Bancroft (1 Mi. West of McCord) 10” Mon. - x Sat.10.25” from 11 a.m. ad Closed Sundays & Holidays

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Shelves • 3 Sliding SpillSafe • 2 Luxury-Glide Crispers Glass Shelves • IQ-Touch Controls • 2 Luxury-Glide BLACK ONLY Crispers (EI26SS30JB) • IQ-Touch Controls (EI26SS30JS)

• 2 Luxury-Glide Black orCrispers White FACTORY • IQ-Touch Controls $50 (EI26SS30JS) MAil-in ICEMAKER reBAte! INCLUDED

Fisher & Paykel Double 26.6 Cu. Ft. 26.6 Cu. Ft. French Door Dishwasher French Door Refrigerator Refrigerator

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Stainless Steel Counter Depth Counter Depth 45dB IQ-Touch IQ-Touch IQ-Touch Stainless Steel Stainless Steel Dishwasher French Door French Door

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Dual Fuel Wave-Touch IQ-Touch IQ-Touch Stainless Electric Series Slide-in HOURS: MON.-FRI. 9:30AM-9:00PM • SAT.Slide-in 9:00AM-9:00PM • SUN. Range Electric Range Free Standing Range Range 11:00AM-6:00PM • Gas Burners w/Electric Gas Range • 5 Radiant Elements • 5 Radiant Elements FREE 888-457-3677 • 4 Sealed BurnersParts: 1-800-369-7993 321 ILLINOIS AVE. MAUMEE, OHIO 419-PAY-LESS (729-5377) TOLL Convection Oven

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• 5.7 Cu. Ft. SelfCleaning Convection Oven • Cobalt Blue Interior (EI30EF55GS)

INCLUDES WARMING DRAWER

• 16,000 BTU Burner • 5 Sealed Burners • Convection Oven • Cobalt Blue Interior (EI30GF55GS)

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• 4.2 Cu. Ft. SelfCleaning Convection Oven • Warming Drawer (EI30ES55JS)

INCLUDES WARMING DRAWER

• 4.2 Cu. Ft. SlefCleaning Convection Oven • Warming Drawer (EI30GS55JS)

• 18,000 BTU POWER BURNER! • 5 Sealed Burners • 5.5 Cu. Ft. Self-Cleaning Convection Oven