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Talking points “During my years in Toledo, I have come to believe that we are falling short economically of what we could be as a city and region if we had a powerful vision for the future and a strategic plan for achieving such a vision.”

— Dan Johnson

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considered it a great loss when former UT President Dan Johnson left Toledo to serve at Zayed University in Dubai. Johnson has promised to return to Toledo, but his constant presence here was a gathering point for many development projects, from high-speed rail to intermodal to regionalism.

For the past two years, Johnson has written a monthly column for Toledo Free Press, a thoughtful “forest for the trees” look at economic development in Northwest Ohio.

While we wait for Johnson’s return, we can take solace that a number of those Thomas F. POUNDS columns have been collected in a new book, “Talking Points for Toledo: Strategies for Developing our City and Region.”

The volume collects 17 of Johnson’s timely and timeless essays that outline options and directions for our economic future. UT will distribute the book to local leaders in an effort to help provide a compass for progress.

Anyone with a vested interest in this community and its future can appreciate the effort that went into this book. It is first and foremost an intellectual exercise, but Johnson’s writing shows a tremendous amount of heart as well.

As UT President Lloyd Jacobs writes in the book’s foreword, “The eclectic nature of Dan Johnson’s essays speaks to the broad nature of his intellect and extensive knowledge of, and commitment to, Toledo and Lucas County. Our community is enriched by his participation and by this collection.”

There are a number of highlights in the book, but my personal favorites include “Alternative Energy: From Lemons to Lemonade,” a May 2008 look at continuing Harold McMaster’s work in alternative energy research and development; “Imagine Toledo In 2020,” an April 2008 discussion on population, education, global marketing, reforming governance structure and political leadership; and “Regional Economic Development: Are We On Offense or Defense?” a July 2007 essay with a self-explanatory title but a wealth of less than obvious ideas.

Toledo Free Press continues to publish Johnson’s regular column, but for those who have not been introduced to his body of work, “Talking Points” is a handy and accessible introduction.

Toledo Free Press has a limited number of Johnson’s new book to distribute free to our readers. Stop by our main office at 605 Monroe St. during regular business hours and pick up your free copy, then join us in the rising chorus to hasten Johnson’s return to Toledo.

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

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Jack’s home movies

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Other gems include “Even an air conditioner has he efficient way of introducing you to “Cowboy” Jack Clement is to note that while you may not to warm up before it can be cool,” “Whatever may be know his name, you do know his music. As a song- wrong with the world, at least it has some good things to eat” and “As Shakespeare must have said writer, he wrote hits for Johnny Cash, Jerry at one time or another, ‘I could have said Lee Lewis, George Jones, Bobby Bare and that better if I had wanted to.’”

Garth Brooks. According to the All Music Two of Clement’s quotes get to the heart Guide database, more than 1,000 recordof more than the music industry; they pop ings of his songs exist. into my head when I see or hear a local As a producer, Clement helped give politician: birth to rock ‘n’ roll, serving at Sun Re■ “There is a big difference between cords with Sam Phillips when Cash, being smooth and being slick. Smooth is Lewis, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, cool. Slick is like sh*t.”

Charlie Rich and other rockabilly rebels ■ “There is a difference between fake changed the world. Clement went on to produce Charley Pride, John Prine, Louis Michael S. MILLER and phony. I may be a fake, but I am not a phony.”

Armstrong and Waylon Jennings, and Both of these require patience to parse, but with when U2 wanted a back-to-basics sound for “Rattle and enough reflection, one understands that Clement has Hum,” they collaborated with Clement.

That’s the efficient introduction. The more compli- summed up the age of irony and jaded cynicism in less cated version integrates Clements as a philosopher and than 40 words.

I called Clement’s Nashville office on June 2 to ask influence well beyond his name recognition.

Tipped by an Oxford American column by Roy about setting up an interview, and was surprised, after a Blount, Jr., I tracked down a DVD of “Shakespeare Was 10-second silence, to be patched through to the Cowboy himself. I asked him to expound further upon his two a Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack’s Home Movies.”

A person can change the world when talent and luck most memorable quotes.

“Things like music flow in a certain way, dancing embrace, and Clement seems to understand the roles of flows in a certain way,” he said. “Smooth versus slick. both forces in his life.

‘Dancing with the Stars’ isn’t dancing, that’s just steps.

“Home Movies” is exactly that, It’s slick, but not smooth. If something is too slick, too glimpses of Clement’s friends and perfect, all the sweetness is sucked out of it. Romance is fellow musicians in their most relike that; it begins with the feet. It’s stepping with rhythm laxed and unguarded moments. and some spontaneity, not controlled choreography. It’s Bono offers a spot-on impersonbeing smooth, not showing off, not trying too hard.” ation of Marlon Brando’s GodClement also elaborated on the differece between father, pushing his cheeks out as fake and phony: “The Wizard of Oz is a fake, but he’s not he imitates the Don. Cash clowns CLEMENT a phony,” Clement said. “Phonies are people who are onaround in a new car and lies down stage all the time; fakes want to entertain people. Show for a smoke on the grave of country music pioneer A.P. Carter. Lewis, Jones and Pride remi- biz is fakery, but you don’t have to be phony.

“I can’t stand most of the people singing songs on the nisce about Clement’s influence in and out of the studio, radio these days, and I bet in their hearts, they can’t stand with the casual love only decades can foster.

It is Clement’s offbeat and earnest philosophy that themselves. They don’t understand or believe what they merits closer scrutiny. Clement has a way of being si- are singing, and that makes them phony.” multaneously authoritative and inviting, a difficult blend Before I ended the conversation, I asked Clement to to maintain. His many sayings and bits of philosophy talk about his survivor status, as he has outlived contemreflect a man who is generous with his experience yet poraries, such as Cash, Jennings, Orbison, Presley and unwilling to suffer fools lightly.

Porter Waggoner. Does the Cowboy think the likes of Among his “rules for band members” are 1. Be alert these artists will ever be seen again? and 2. Be on time.

“I hope so,” he answered slowly, audibly chewing on the “I’d rather have someone be alert and a bit late than question. “Music will keep getting worse, and someone will be on time and unprepared,” he says in one clip, “which come along like Elvis and shake it up. The corporate music is why ‘be alert’ is first.’” is phony and the singers are a pain in the butt.

His “expert’s tips for songwriters” include: “Re“I still love them, though. As I say all the time, there member that experts are often wrong; Experts tend to are a lot of people who I love them a lot more than I be narrow and opinionated; Experts don’t buy records; like them.”

Reveal some of yourself with most of your songs.”

That last tip strikes me as applicable to column Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. writing, as well.

Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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JUST BLOWING SMOKE

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he issue of unemployment the government minded its own has become of increased business and will be performed concern in recent weeks at the expense of the federal funds these leaders with the national are supposed to be rate standing at guarding, is some9.4 percent, acthing that I think cording to U.S. we are supposed to Bureau of Labor overlook. statistics released What we cannot on June 5. overlook, however, Closer to is that even after home, the Ohio all of the stimulus unemployment provided to the rate is at 10.2 pereconomy, after all cent, while Lucas Tim HIGGINS of the bailouts and County comes in at 11.9 percent, and Toledo after all of the loan guarantees; is the total lack of any growth lands at 12 percent.

I point to these devastating in the so-called private sector statistics because someone is job market.

We see our politicians finding finding plenty of additional work. It appears to me, in fact, new ways to spend taxpayer that this someone is finding far money on government programs, government loans, government too much to do.

The luck of all of this new bailouts and government emjob acquisition, for those of you ployment. What we have yet to who have not already guessed, see, however, is any growth in falls to the federal government. the number of actual taxpayers Not content with the jobs (and who will foot the bill for all of ignoring the limits ) provided the spending being done. under the Constitution, our You know, we often hear a government seems constantly lot about the phrasing in the in the hunt for new job oppor- preamble of the Constitution: tunities, mostly now in the pri- “In order to form a more pervate sector. fect Union, establish Justice, Banker, mortgage broker, insure domestic Tranquility, insurance rep, auto manufac- provide for the common deturer, and now salary arbiter fense, and promote the Genare only a few of these new eral Welfare …”

Lately, we seem to understand jobs. Not content with these however, it is further preparing this to mean that government, to make a bid to be doctor, much like our parents when we nurse and pharmacist. It’s a were young, should see to it that power play that could make nothing hurts us. We appear to the federal government far and think that government is a proaway the largest employer (and vider of safety and support for individuals and businesses that fail employee) in the country.

Now in the spirit of fairness, to succeed.

We seldom hear people this power play does seem to be creating at least some jobs along speak about the next part of that the way. We created a number opening sentence however, as it of “czar” positions in the new continues, “and secure the Blessadministration, for example. ings of Liberty to ourselves and Each of these “Caesars” will our Posterity...”

What does all of this govrequire office space that must be rented or purchased from ernment interference have to someone. Each of these “tsars” do with securing such liberty? will require assistants and a Who now can and will place clerical staff to perform re- limits on the expanding power search and publish edicts. Each and control that the federal of these “Kaisers” will require government seems to thrive a cleaning staff to make sure upon? Most importantly, when these new labors will be per- it’s not taking over jobs in the formed in a clean and orderly private sector, what today is the environment. These labors are job of government? simply jobs created by new levels of federal bureaucracy, Tim Higgins blogs at justblowingwhich would not be required if smoke.blogspot.com

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GUEST COLUMN

Change or more of the same?

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y the time this issue hits the doorsteps of the By moving to the super district format, there would be citizens of Toledo, we will have formally filed a head to head competition, which would give us a better petition to reduce the size of city council. On “compare and contrast”, and ultimately, I believe it will May 2, Dave Schulz from Citizens Organized to Bring lead to better leadership.

There are a couple other statistics that have resonated Reform and Accountability, Tom Waniewski from Toledo City Council District 5 and I, as well as scores of with voters we have talked to over the past month. The cost savings, approximately $255,000, from staff and volunteers have worked dilithis reorganization could replace 3 to 4 gently to reach registered voters. We are police officers. When framing the budget firmly convinced the will of the people conversation, the administration is quick to is behind us. In just over four full weeks point out the population change in the city. of circulating, we had more than 6,000 If the city of Pittsburgh, with nearly the same people sign our petitions. size population as Toledo, can thrive with Our plan would bring change this nine district members, why can’t we? If the election cycle. If the charter change city of Columbus, with double our populapasses in September, only three people tion governs itself with only seven members, would be elected at-large this year for why can’t we do it with nine? As the cama two-year term. After the 2010 census, Lindsay WEBB paign slogan suggests, nine is fine. the apportionment board would meet My primary motivations are to save the city money, to and decide which districts should be coupled together to form a “super-district.” Then in 2011, when the dis- have the structure of government match the expectation trict seats are up for election, three new super-districts of the citizenry and to force better geographic represenwould be up for election too. Many have said that they tation. Did you know that five of the six at large members like the idea that the voting public could change the live in two districts? It seems to me that there is an overmake-up of council mid-way through a mayoral term. representation in some parts of the city and an underOthers like the idea that the odd number of council representation in others. Finally, some concern has been expressed regarding minority representation under this people will eliminate the mayor’s tie-breaking ability.

The at-large members say that their job is to con- plan. The time to express those concerns is in front of sider the best interests of the city as a whole. But district the apportionment board.

Some have said my involvement is politically motimembers cast votes right alongside the at-large members on the same issues, and we elect a strong mayor. Critics vated; sure it is politically motivated in the sense that I have argued that our plan would balkanize city council am driven by my desire to see this effort be successful and the parochial bickering would get in the way of the because I have “stuck my political neck out.” Sometimes, bigger picture. Yet, Waniewski showed leadership by leadership requires risk. This effort has caused an uproar fundraising for CareNet and D. Michael Collins led on amongst people in both parties and The Blade has already the Erie Street Market. Both are district representatives. tried to put me in my place by calling me inexperienced Think about the last time something happened in your and labeling me a rookie. There has been talk among neighborhood, like flooding or a sewer break or a crime Democrats that I should be sanctioned for working with wave, who did you call first? If you called an at-large a Republican. I am firmly convinced the will of the people is behind a bipartisan approach to a nonpartisan councilperson, who did he or she tell you to call?

Then, of course there is the generalized objection that issue. Many people believe true bipartisanship is the diwhat we really need is leadership and the form of gov- rection we need to head. ernment does not matter. Right now, when the at-large candidates run, they run in packs. It can make it dif- Toledo City Councilwoman Lindsay M. Webb repreficult to distinguish between them and their platforms. sents District 6.

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In a move some Toledo City Council members have described as shocking, Mark Sobczak, council president, announced his resignation June 11 in a letter to Gerald Dendinger, clerk of council.

Sobczak officially leaves his seat on June 23, following the regular council meeting.

Sobczak cited job and family concerns as primary factors for his decision. He works full time as vice president of Teamsters Local 20 and part time on council, yet he said his responsibilities on council required a full time commitment.

“I had decided about a month ago or maybe a little longer that I wasn’t going to run again,” he said at Teamsters Local 20 Union Hall. “The time commitments — everything that goes with the job — I really didn’t feel I could do it justice, although competitively, I think I put in more hours than most at the job.”

Rather than wait to announce he would not run in the fall primary elections, Sobczak elected to resign so that his replacement would have a “jump start” on learning the position.

He declined to reveal any names of potential candidates, adding that it is council’s decision and not his place to make recommendations. Sobczak also related that some opponents have been gunning for him because of his position on certain issues.

“It just was the perception that some folks were thinking that maybe I wasn’t being true in what I believe in. And that really kind of hurts a little and for that reason I said, ‘Hey it’s time to step away,’” he said. “Plus, it quite frankly gives a new person a chance to get

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in; council will have an opportunity to select someone that they think they might be able to work with, which I think is huge. When I ran I would have loved the opportunity to get in early.”

Upon hearing the news of Sobczak’s resignation, Teamwork Toledo members began a bid to fill the vacancy on city council, according to Kevin Milliken, who is seeking a council seat in

the fall election, but would also like to be appointed to fill Sobczak’s seat.

“Why should we wait to tackle Toledo’s deficit, balance the budget and put police officers back on the street?” he asked “We already have a proposal from Teamwork Toledo that we’re pursuing to try to solve the city budget deficit. I believe that city council can use an independent voice, someone who already has the

background and the expertise how city council operates who can step in and be part of the process.”

Former District 2 Councilman Rob Ludeman told the Toledo Free Press on June 11 that he is seeking an at-large seat on Toledo City Council.

He plans to take out petitions June 12.

The theme will be “Bring Back Common Sense to Toledo City Council,” the Republican said.

“This timing has nothing to do with Mark Sobczak’s decision to resign, which surprised me this morning,” Ludeman stated in a message to the Free Press.

Ludeman went on to say during a phone interview that he is running at-large because he would have had to wait two more years to run for a district seat.

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JUNE 14, 2009 ■SOBCZAK CONTINUED FROM A6 “I was term-limited out,� he said. “I had to leave by city charter. I think council has had a void in leadership.�

First elected to city council in 2005, Sobczak had been recommended by the Lucas County Democratic Party to fill Pete Gerken’s seat the previous year. Council selected Phil Copeland instead. According to several council members, when Sobczak became president, opponents voiced opposition against him. Sobczak said he chose “to stay out of it� and wanted to resign in a “dignified fashion� before his term ends, avoiding the hassle of intrusive media coverage. “I’ve had a tough time dealing with the media throughout and I don’t mean that in a negative way,� he said. “It just wasn’t a role I was comfortable with, so I didn’t want it to get out ahead of time where I would be pulling down my driveway and somebody would be sticking a microphone in my face.

Not that that’s not their job, but I wanted to have it in some kind of a controlled setting.�

Fellow councilman Tom Waniewski confirmed that Sobczak has taken shots from the opposition, specifically being accused of being Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s “lackey.� Waniewski said Sobczak always worked well with him, especially when he first

took his seat and the then-councilman explained the processes of governing the city. “I hate to see him go, but I can’t say as I blame him; he gets bashed around and personally attacked verbally. So it’s disheartening. Mark’s a smart guy; he did great work with economic development. I found him to be a class act.�

Sobczak’s responded to the “lackey� comment by saying, “If the truth be known, I probably argued with the mayor more than most of my colleagues put together, at least for the first three years. Towards the end I saw them going up and knocking on his door and giving him their views on things. But early on, their way of going to talk to the mayor was calling a press conference to take an anti-position that he had, and that’s no way to govern a city.� “We had some very animated conversations at times, the mayor and I, and that’s OK. I’m a teamster; I’m used to animated conversations. But again it was the issue not the person.�

Councilwoman Lindsay Webb, said she was surprised by the resignation announcement, but already knew Sobczak probably would not run for re-election in the fall. She recognized the “mounting stress� of public service he was experiencing, especially during the past few months. Sobczak received

criticism for his stance in favor of charging fees for fire services. “He was pulled in a lot of different directions this year; this has been one of the hardest years to be on city council,�

Webb said. “It’s the whole environment. Pretty much not a city council meeting went by that he wasn’t the target of one councilman or another, and the budget was really stressful and continues to be really stressful. And he took a lot of heat for his position on the fire services fee, too.�

Two weeks after Sobczak vacates his seat, council will appoint a new president by vote, according to Councilman Michael Ashford, who also served as council president. He, too, said the announcement surprised him, adding, “I guess I didn’t see it coming, either.� Although he knew Sobczak in a professional capacity, Ashford said he understands the “huge learning curve� for new council members and believes a six-month head start could help a new council member better grasp how the city budget operates.

He would not, however, speculate as to who would fill the vacancy. The four mayoral candidates — Mike Bell, Ben Konop, Jim Moody and Keith Wilkowski said they were not interested in the position. “There’s a process from the Democratic Party,� Ashford said. “The process is they’ll nominate someone and make a recommendation. And prob-

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ably in this case we’ll support their nomination and recommendation.�

Councilman Mike Craig said an at-large member would most likely fill the presidency because of the mayoral recall effort. The situation could complicate if Finkbeiner is ousted and the new council president assumes the mayor’s office.

At-large members are running for election in the fall, while district

members’ terms expire in two years, according to Craig. “When you do that, you give up your council seat and there’s nothing in the charter as far as I saw that says you get it back,� he said. “I was absolutely shocked. I just had no idea that anything like this was in the works. Mark and I have had our political differences, but I wish him well in all his endeavors.�

Replacing council president Appointing a replacement for Mark Sobczak, council president and at-large councilman, will officially begin when he steps down June 23.

Council members will have 30 days from June 23 to select and approve a replacement for the at-large seat.

Typically, the political party of the person who has resigned submits its recommendation for the vacancy. Council is not bound by this recommendation.

At its first regular council meeting July 7, the 11 remaining council members will vote on the next council president. The member with the most votes will receive the position, according to city charter.

What about the mayoral recall?

If the mayoral recall effort is successful in the November election, whoever is council president will be the successor.

According to the Toledo City Charter, that council member will no longer be a member of council, and he or she does not automatically return to his or her seat when the mayor takes office. If the council president is an at-large member of council and he or she is re-elected on the November ballot, he or she would automatically take office in January.

If the council president is a district member of council, his or her term would end in January, according to the charter. In either scenario, a temporary replacement for his or her seat would take place using the same process taken with Sobczak’s vacancy.

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Toledo resident Brandi Fasnaugh said the fight for equality goes beyond this month.

June marks national Gay and Lesbian Pride month, a celebration of the impact gay lesbian and transgender persons have had on the world.

Fasnaugh said she tries not to let ignorant people faze her, but it’s hard to stay positive when she’s openly ridiculed.

One recent encounter with discrimination was in a bathroom in Columbus.

She was lobbying on behalf of Equality Ohio, an advocate group for gay and lesbian rights when a trip to the restroom led to a disheartening conversation.

“When I walked into the restroom, I could hear two women talking to each other between the stalls about someone who had been in the bathroom when they walked in earlier,” Fasnaugh said.

They commented on that woman’s “masculine appearance” and how it made them uncomfortable.

One of the women looked right at Fasnaugh as they continued the conversation and stated that women like her should use the men’s restroom.

Feeling ashamed and embarrassed, Fasnaugh initially decided to internalize her pain. But when a colleague noticed something was wrong, she was encouraged to speak out.

“My shock and upset then turned into frustration, as well as a renewed sense of why the Equal Housing and Employment Act (EHE) is such a fundamental component for the everyday life of all citizens regardless of sexual orientation,” Fasnaugh said.

“One can be denied access to housing, employment and even public accommodations based simply on who they love and what they look like,” Fasnaugh said.

Kim Welter, program manager for Education & Outreach for Equality Ohio, said what happened to Fasnaugh is a prime example of how some people think it is acceptable to behave that way.

“Most of us figure what’s right and wrong, for the most part, by what’s legal and illegal,” Welter said. “By passing the EHE Act,

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Barbie Harrison is accustomed to helping others after 13 years at the helm of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio.

Now, she needs help.

Barbie and her family awoke to the wail of smoke detectors at 3:30 a.m. on June 9.

Spreading from the family room to the garage, the fire consumed the home at 1945 Mt. Vernon Ave. They had lived there 29 years.

“I saw the blaze continuing and I just could not understand it,� Barbie said. “When the roof was on fire and the firemen were just standing there, I knew I could not do anything.�

Barbie said she watched years of memories and keepsakes vanish with her three-story house, which is in a neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places. By 7 a.m. the charred structure had been demolished by a bulldozer — gone were the French doors and windows and the gray-trimmed stucco. The sun exposed a 1970 blue Mercedes that her husband

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Chief Michael Wolever said the size of the fire grew too great for the hydrants to handle. Citing a 4-inch water main, he said the water available could not come at a speed capable of extinguishing the conflagration. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, he said. “The amount of water in the main was insufficient to fight a fire of the size we were fighting,�

Wolever said. “We needed volume and we did not have it.

It was nobody’s fault, just the design of the system.�

Her husband, a retired marketing and technical salesman, initially tried to fight the flames with a garden hose. “I am thankful we have our health and that we were able to make it out,� Herman said. “I am also real sad as there were a lot of memories.�

Joan Harris, a family friend, said the hydrant situation was puzzling.

She’s also worried about the couple’s well-being. “I feel very sorry for the Harrisons, as they have been here a long time,� she said. “It is a travesty.�

Herman said he hopes the fire will raise the frequency of utility

Herman was refurbishing. It is now twisted pretzels of drab scrap metal. “When you pay taxes, you expect to get what you pay for,� she said. “After the fire department got here, I saw they stopped rushing after a while. I was angry at what I saw.�

Barbie said firefighters could not generate water as fast as the flames grew. Three hydrants failed, she said. “I am concerned about the lack of responsibility on the part of the city,� she said. “They should be maintaining the fire hydrants. It is not acceptable.�

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Through his plight, he said, others might avoid his family’s heartbreak.

Barbie said she believes her home was valued at $194,000, but the memories were priceless. “I woke up this morning and realized this is not a dream,� she said June 10. “That was difficult.�

Shirley Oliver, a family friend through church-related activities, said the couple’s spirit would prevail. “The family is going through a lot of emotional hurt over the things they have lost that cannot be replaced,� she said. “I want to rejoice with Barbie, as even though she lost some material things, she still has her life. What she lost, she will regain tenfold.�

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Barbie said. “There are lots of people rallying around us so I know we will be good. Out of every disaster, there is a blessing.�

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Fueling the local economy $2 at a time Toledo Choose Local is conducting a $2 economic stimulus promotion that encourages residents to spend their money locally.

The nonprofit organization is giving consumers the opportunity to trade in their money for $2 bills, which will be stamped with the Toledo Choose Local logo, and pledge to keep them circulating in the Toledo community.

“By choosing to spend our dollars at a locally owned store, we can have a real impact,” said Paula Ross, a research associate at the Urban Affairs Center at UT, who serves on the board of Toledo Choose Local.

“Money spent at homegrown businesses is going to re-circulate in Toledo’s economy through their use of local labor, suppliers and profit,” Ross said. “That money circulates through taxes, wages, charitable donations and use of local

suppliers and service providers.”

The Toledo Lucas County Merchant Study conducted by the Urban Affairs Center concluded that for every $100 spent at a local business, the economic return is $44 compared to only $20 when spent at a national chain. If each household in Lucas County redirected $100 to local businesses instead of chains, it could add as much as $8 million in revenue to the local economy.

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The organization has recruited about 100 citizens to sign an “I’m a Local Lover” pledge and exchange currency for special $2 bills at recent local events. Jurich reports that they have circulated more than $1,000 in those $2 bills locally.

“We received a ton of $2 bills the day they were circulated at the farmer’s market and used them to make change for customers that day,” said Pam Burns, co-owner of Downtown Latte.

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Toledo Choose Local kicked off the stimulus plan at the Toledo Farmer’s Market on May 30.

The group will be back at that location from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 13. The organization also had a booth at the Old West End Festival on June 6.

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Violet Gaige celebrated her 94th birthday on June 10, reflecting on her influence as a writer.

As a young woman, Gaige felt a sense of emptiness like many Americans did during World War II, she said.

In fact, the only way she felt connected to her four brothers, who had all enlisted in the Army, was through their weekly letters.

In was during a particular bout of loneliness that she talked with members of Zion Lutheran Church in Ottawa Lake, Mich. Gaige was struck with the idea of creating a newsletter as a better way to connect deployed troops to their families back home.

Gaige spearheaded this venture as the editor of The Zion Messenger, ultimately reaching 170 soldiers domestically and abroad.

The Messenger included reprinted letters, poetry selections and hand-drawn pictures from local artist Archie Collins.

“I felt we owed this to these 170 people,” Gaige said. “All of these people were special — a lot of them were friends and family.”

Eventually, this grassroots publication grew to 500 subscribers throughout the world.

The letters gave readers a realistic view of the war and the experiences of soldiers, as well as connected sol-

diers to their families and friends, she said.

In one edition, a letter from Gaige’s brother, Ed, which he had written during a month-long hospital stay, was published. He was recovering from malaria.

“They were pretty early going into New Guinea and some of them had who knows what,” Gaige said. “In that letter, he’s telling us of an illness that they believed was coming from the rats there.”

Her brother said that the disease was making fellow soldiers “lose their minds,” she said of his letter.

But it wasn’t until nearly 50 years later, in 2000, that Gaige decided to revisit those newsletters, which had provided so much comfort when she was younger. It was then that she was struck with another idea: a book.

“When I was going over the letters, a nurse saw how fragile the papers were and said ‘you’d better get that made into a book,’” Gaige said.

Gaige was one of the first residents at Lutheran Village at Wolf Creek in Holland, living in the same room since she arrived.

“My son took me here and got me on the waiting list,” she said. “When I arrived, they asked me what kind of view I wanted, ‘the street or the woods?’ I just told them that I wanted to see the trees, and now I have a forest outside of my window.

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The trees have grown around me in the past 11 years.”

Back in 2000, Gaige knew she wanted to compile the letters into one publication, but the undertaking was too much to do alone. She enlisted the help of her grandson and author, Clint Gaige.

“When he looked over everything he said ‘Grandma, it’s a monster,’” Gaige said.

The final product, “A Word From Home: Letters from the

War First Published in The Zion Messenger,” was eventually published in 2003. She later compiled a supplement to the book with the help of her daughter, Janice Baker, a retired schoolteacher.

It was Gaige’s hope to put a face to those soldiers through photographs and scanned images from the original newsletters.

These days, Gaige isn’t quite as busy, although she continues to tell the stories of World War soldiers

through her book, which is available online at borders.com. She lost the use of her legs and feet 12 years ago, confining her to a wheelchair.

When her book first came out, Gaige had a book-signing, which she remembers fondly.

“They’re still buying them,” she said.

“I know one of the women who volunteers here got a couple of the books, one for herself and her daughter.

“I think young people are getting them to learn about the past,” she said.

Local inventor honors mother with homemade toiletry design

By Mark Hensch TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Jim Ringholz became an inventor out of love for his mom.

In 2000, his 95-year-old mother Florence became immobilized by torn rotator cuffs and severe arthritis.

Ringholz crafted a portable lavatory so she could remain in the comfort of her own home. The mobile

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“It is hard looking at someone and asking them for help in going to the bathroom,” he said. “Because of The Home Caddy, my mother was able to stay in the surroundings of her own home.”

Ringholz said his mother’s passing left him with an intricate design for a toilet. The device is

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a commode attached to a sliding platform for easy transfer from a chair. A pair of padded safety railings added leverage for users, allowing them the freedom of their own mobility. Ringholz plans on selling entirely homemade packages, including the device, a stationary bedside version and an accessory case at a cost of $2,750.

“If you cannot walk, you cannot go to the bathroom,” he said. “This

is an alternative to nursing homes.

If you cannot go to the toilet, let the toilet come to you.”

Ringholz said he has pursued a patent since realizing The Home Caddy’s potential. He first sought a provisional patent in November 2005 and began the regular patent process in November 2006. The Home Caddy has been reviewed twice by the Toledo branch of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and a final decision

is expected Aug. 13.

“I did this for people who cannot afford a nursing home,” he said. “I would like to sell this to a manufacturer so it can generate a lot more sales than I can handle.”

His girlfriend, independent local caregiver Peg Urbanski, said the invention provides patients with dignity and physical therapy.

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or all that Dee Felt has expe- business and then driving a truck rienced, she has every right for many years. Dee was often to stay at home and feel sorry both mother and father to their brood of four children. for herself.

She lost her son, She just chooses to do Richard, to the the opposite.

Vietnam War when he “You have to look was just 22. Two years at your plusses and miago, in February, her nuses,” said the spry 83son Denny died from year-old.

T-cell lymphoma. He Life was tough from was 57 years old, dying the beginning. Her father Julie RUBINI within five months died one month before she was born. Her mother remar- of his diagnosis. He apologized ried, but her stepfather did not treat to her, knowing how difficult it her well. She moved with her family would be for her and wanting to from Oklahoma to California when take care of her.

Her husband Donald, who was she was 15, leaving many beloved 84, recently died of Alzheimer’s disfamily members behind.

Married at 19, her husband was ease, after being under hospice care in the service. Once Donald com- for a year.

On the plus side, she has two pleted his duty, they stayed a year in California and then moved back children, alive and well, and she has to the area, because he was origi- a great relationship with Denny’s wife and their children. Son Doug nally from Rossford.

Through the years, her hus- is a school psychologist for Toledo band supported the family with a Public Schools and daughter Diane variety of jobs, working for Libbey lives in Willoughby. Dee is blessed Owens Ford, owning a cleaning with six grandchildren, too.

Dee has chosen to lend her time and talents within Maumee, the community she has lived in for many years, giving of herself in ways that she enjoys, both by quilting, as well as gardening.

For years, she maintained the small triangular plot at the corner of Detroit, Scott and River roads.

“You’ve seen my rear end often,” she quiped, with a twinkle in her eye. The Maumee Garden Club, including two master gardeners, is now helping with the garden.

“I expect it to be fabulous,” she said, laughing.

She began participating in line dancing at the Maumee Senior Center in 1994, and fell in love with the facility, the staff and clients. One year later, she jumped in, serving on the board and creating and maintaining the beautiful gardens that surround the facility on Detroit Avenue.

Dee works nearly every weekend at the senior center, planting, trimming and mulching.

When offering admiration for her

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efforts and selflessness, she replied, “It is wonderful therapy. I mean you’re digging in the dirt, watching something grow, watching the birds in the pond; you can’t be thinking about things you can’t do a thing about.”

The City of Maumee would provide flowers in the past, but had to cut back this year. Dee has helped stage a plant sale for the past six years at the senior center, so this

year she used some of the proceeds for new plantings.

When the City of Toledo, under the direction of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, gave awards for beautification efforts, she received recognition for maintaining the gardens at the senior center and at her church.

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Dee has had the pleasure of not only creating quilts for her grandchildren when they get married, but also gives them a handmade stained glass lamp as a gift as well.

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A laid-off autoworker and his business partner have developed a new concept for connecting people and businesses.

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Now, they are seeking people to sell business memberships and conducting a hiring seminar June 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Fairfield Inn on Benore Road in Toledo. They will demonstrate their online business and conduct on-site interviews.

“We’re looking to expand this business and give people an opportunity to make some money,” Glisman said.

“We’re creating a friendly environment between businesses and their customers,” he said. “It combines a social network like Facebook with a business network like LinkedIn.” Glisman said they took the concept of social networking and transformed it into a functional utility.

Instead of connecting with friends and family, users can connect with local businesses, their clientele and more than 250 national retailers.

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accept reward donations as a fundraising option, according to Glisman.

“It’s actually better than a Web site because customers can join it for free, and businesses can save money on advertising costs by promoting their business on the network,” Glisman said. “This concept could change the way businesses do marketing.”

“They can connect with customers and online referrals in real time 24-7 reaching people who want to be connected with their business,” Kniffen added.

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people to sell memberships to businesses they know or patronize as independent sales reps. They will pay individuals 50 percent of the annual fee (about $120) for memberships sold in the first year with residuals of 20 percent in year two and 10 percent in year three, Glisman said.

“Someone who sells 10 memberships per week could make about $600,” he said. “There is no fee for people to join and sell memberships, so it’s ideal for people who are out of work.”

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LeapNgo also offers free classified advertising for all members who can post ads, browse freely and review the profiles of the members or businesses placing the ads.

The business started in Michigan where both partners reside. Glisman said they wanted to bring it to Toledo because of its proximity to Michigan and close ties to the automotive industry. They expect LeapNgo to become a national site, he said.

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Glisman is on mandatory lay off from Chrysler’s Axle Plant in Detroit and spent nearly half of 2008 out of work. He used the down time as motivation to start the online business.

The idea for the business came in December 2007 and Glisman continued to pursue it. He and his nephew Kniffen developed the concept together and hired an outside source to design the LeapNgo Web site.

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Beneficiary mistakes cost a fortune an important area where the financial professional and the estate planning attorney need to be on the same page.

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eneficiary designations are important in determining where certain assets of an estate will end up.

Many think that a will or trust is what determines where everything goes. This is not necessarily true, and it’s a big mistake to make this assumption.

A last will and testament generally determines where items titled in your name will go. Items like real estate, cars, bank accounts, stocks, and bonds are included in a will. It is important to realize some assets are owned by contract rather than title, and those don’t pass through your will.

Assets that are financial contracts can be annuities, life insurance, IRAs and any other type of financial accounts. Each of these contracts may have a beneficiary designation. This designation says who you want to name to receive any proceeds at death.

If your will says everything goes to cousin Susie, and your beneficiary designations say Uncle Ed, and all of your assets are in contract assets, it may all go to Uncle Ed. Here is a real-life example. Anne, before she got married and had children, named her sister as beneficiary on her retirement account. Later, she got married and had children, but the beneficiary designation was never changed. When Anne died in an unexpected accident, who do you think got her retirement account? Most would say her husband, but a Supreme Court ruling mandates that it goes to the sister. The court stated that, although it was probably her intent to leave the money to her husband and children, the only evidence in writing stated it should go to her sister.

Remember, forms cannot be changed after a death occurs; you get no second chance to get it right. Most attorneys often focus on what are called probate assets and don’t review financial contracts outside of probate.

Those are typically handled by financial professionals. This is

other important issue is the default language on beneficiary forms. Do you know the difference between per capita and per stirpes? If not, pay attention. Mark’s grandfather David had

three children, Douglas, Donald and Lois. He named them as equal beneficiaries on several annuity accounts.

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Note: There are two different ways you can view daily exercise. You can view exercise as something you “must do� in order to accomplish your goal or you can let go of the bigger goal and focus on the fact that you feel great when you’re done exercising.

Letting go of the big goal — that mountain — allows you to exercise because you love how you feel when you’re done. You’re giving yourself permission to be selfish and do things that feel great. It’s mere coincidence that feeling great from exercise will also help you achieve your ideal weight.

The same shift in mindset can be applied to anything you’re trying to accomplish, as long as it’s consistent with the direction you want to be heading — your big goals. As you break down your big goals into smaller chunks, you’re giving yourself the ability to put the big goal out-of-mind and instead focus only on that one garbage can you can fill today.

When you’re able to feel good about the task by not feeling overwhelmed by the entire mountain, you are able to stay consistent. In the blink of an eye, you’ll be staring at your accomplishment thinking how it felt like only yesterday when your reality was just a dream.

For specific ways to move your mountain go to www.boltfromtheblue.com and enter the word MOUNTAIN in the blue print box. Tom Richard is a Toledobased sales and marketing consultant, keynote speaker and owner of Bolt from the Blue direct response advertising. For more information, visit www.BoltFromTheBlue.com or call (419) 441-1005.

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AT FIFTH THIRD FIELD

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

Fans of the Mud Hens this year have seen a lot of one thing.

“Strikeouts,” said Leon “Bull” Durham, hitting coach for the Mud Hens. “Give us another month.

We’re still looking.”

Manager Larry Parrish said it needs to improve.

“In the past, I’ve never been too concerned with strikeouts because sometimes it’s better to strike out than ground into a double play,” Parrish said. “This year, though, we have struck out too many times with runners in scoring position.”

The problem, more specifically, has been striking out with a runner on third with less than two outs, or not getting a guy from second to third with no outs.

“Those are the times when you don’t want to strike out,” Parrish said.

“We’ve got to get the job done.”

On the bright side offensively, Don Kelly has stood out for the team this season. The centerfielder is hitting .341 with a .409 on base percentage. He has been with the Mud Hens in the past, but never excelled like he has this year.

“He’s one of those guys that you could say went into the army and came out a man,” said Parrish, when

describing the difference between Kelly then and now.

Kelly spent time with the Mud Hens in 2005, 2006 and 2008, including a stint with the team during the International League (IL) playoffs in 2005. In 2005, he did well by hitting a combined .311 in Toledo and Double-A Erie. However, in 2006, he slumped and hit a combined .250 between Toledo and Erie.

“He has gotten an opportunity this year and played himself, in baseball terms, on to the radar screen,” Parrish said. “He’s to the point where scouts are looking at him seeing if he can fit on a major league club and that’s a tribute to him.”

Durham said that infielder Brent Dlugach has improved a lot, as well.

Parrish said Dlugach struggled with shoulder injuries the last few years and hasn’t been able to work on his hitting, but that he has found success this season while hitting .284 with a .346 on base percentage.

“For him to be where he’s at is a plus and a surprise,” Parrish said.

In terms of pitching, Parrish said he has seen his starting staff be inconsistent throughout the year.

“We started the season strong, and then went cold, back to good, cold, and right now we’re strong again.”

Parrish has seen the starters (Ruddy Lugo, Luke French, Brooks

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Brown, Scot Drucker and Chris Lambert) have a combined 1.97 ERA and hold opponents to a combined .192 batting average in the last 50-plus innings pitched.

The bullpen has struggled this season, according to Parrish, but has come on recently. Over the last six games, the staff has combined for a 1.08 ERA. “[Freddy] Dolsi has done

better, and Clay Rapada has done a real nice job the last few times out,” Parrish said. “Hopefully, we’ve got our bad behind us and we can be more consistent the rest of the way.”

Despite the inconsistency and the struggles as a team, the Mud Hens are 25-34 and sit in good position in the IL’s West Division as they are only 5.5 games out of first place

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Parrish said his team must focus on winning each series at home and playing .500 on the road to get them back in the division race.

“Obviously, we’re not where we want to be record wise, but no one’s ran off with the division,” Parrish said. “If we can start playing better consistently, there’s plenty of baseball left.”

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Never too early to start drafting

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re You Ready For Some ball. We have already had a grueling six months off.

Fantasy Football?

In a few weeks you will have a More than 20 million Americans will participate in Fan- choice of buying a few of the dozens tasy Football this year. This means FFL magazines. My advice to you: don’t do it! Turn to the that one out of 14 of Free Press each week you are active players. to keep current; those For those of you magazines are already who have missed out outdated. on smack talking with Need a cheat sheet? your friends, rooting No problem. Just visit against your favorite the ToledoFreePress. team’s player, driving com Web site for an 95 miles per hour Excel version that you home from church becan manipulate to cause you cannot reTod BROOKS dominate your draft. member if you started a kicker, becoming physically ill The cheat sheet will be updated each because you didn’t start Ronnie week and designates rookies, third Brown when he scored four TDs year wide receivers, contract year week three against the Patriots, players, sleepers, busts and drafting losing a week by .1 points (1 yard), tips. Check it out today.

If you have questions on estabthen let me help you join in on the lishing a league, about a player’s fun this year.

Whether you are in an estab- ranking or a comment, then visit the lished league or starting one this site and send me an e-mail.

This year I will make my fourth year, you have two months to prepare for the most important day of appearance at the World Champithe year, The Draft. No, it is not too onship of Fantasy Football and will early to start talking Fantasy Foot- guide you through my journey. There

will be up to 1,200 teams competing for the $300,000 prize and the title.

For the experience of a Fantasy Football lifetime, you, too, can sign up and swim with the sharks by visiting wcoff.com. Now, if you think you can just drop down $2,000 plus travel and show up and draft a good team in Vegas, you have a rude awakening.

Unlike your Toledo or Yahoo! League, no one in Vegas will take Brett Favre in the second round and no one will take Kellen Winslow before Jason Witten.

Bad draft picks in Vegas do not happen, period.

Whether you are competing for the top prize in Vegas or in your local league, the key to victory is in preparing for the draft and maximizing starting lineup

production week in and week out during the season. This weekly column should be your first stop in making that happen.

Next week the focus will be

on drafting strategies and “going young” with players like Chris Johnson, Steve Slaton, Kevin Smith, Deshaun Jackson and Roddy White and letting other managers draft the “old veterans” Torry Holt, Marvin Harrison, Hines Ward and Isaac Bruce.

A bold prediction: The Lions will win more games than the Browns this year.

To cast your vote, visit the site.

Tod Brooks has been in Fantasy Football for 15 years with multiple Cups and has attended three World Championships (WCOFF) in Las Vegas.

He was born, raised and lives in the Toledo area and is a project manager for a management consulting firm.

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PHYSICIAN FOCUS TENNIS ELBOW TREATMENTS Lateral epicondylitis, also referred to as “tennis elbow,” results from an injury to the tendons in the forearm near the elbow. It is usually caused by repetitive motions, especially with racquet sports, and can worsen with improper technique, poor core strength, or poorly fitting grips on sports equipment.

Lateral epicondylitis usually causes pain on the outside of the elbow (when palms are facing up). Pain worsens when turning the hand over, gripping, or shaking hands. This injury occurs in all age groups.

There are a number of different approaches for treatment including modifying the level of activity, correcting technique, resizing sporting equipment grips, or wearing athletic bracing. Physical therapy, including strengthening the muscles of the forearm, is often helpful, as are anti-inflammatory medications. If the condition doesn’t improve, injection with corticosteroids or surgery may be options. Be patient.

Improvement can sometimes take weeks to months, but all treatments should be under the guidance of your physician.

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Cleveland: It’s not me, it’s you

T

he big gossip at Hickory Ridge Elementary School was always, “Who was going out with whom?”

My mom would then ask me, “Where are they going? They are 12 years old.”

My first “dating” experience came in sixth grade. Her name was Beth. Now, whereas most of the other boys had started “dating” in Ryan fourth or fifth grades, my charming personality outweighed my good looks back then. So finding the right girl was a challenge.

Nevertheless, like most elementary love stories, Beth and I “dated” on and off three times in less than a month.

She loved me. She loved me not.

She loved me. She loved me not.

Then one spring afternoon, I picked up the phone and on the other end was Beth. She was having second thoughts and wanted to get back together for a fourth time.

I still remember vividly saying, “No, you broke my heart three other times and I’m not going to let you do it again.”

I slammed the phone.

Some 16 years later, I’m thinking about breaking up with one of my

other first loves: the Cleveland sports scene.

Now, I may be too chicken to actually slam the phone, but I’m on the verge.

During the past 16 years, Cleveland franchises have given me reason to question my loyalty.

It started back in 1995, as a freshman in high school, when the Cleveland InFOWLER dians made their first trip to the World Series in decades.

A team loaded with offense was shut down by Tom Glavine in Game six and future Indian David Justice provided the game’s only run. The “Tomahawk Chop” still haunts me to this day.

Then, there was 1997. The Indians had returned to the World Series after a one-year hiatus.

Once again, the Tribe was oozing with offensive talent, and their pitching staff was as solid as it had been in quite some time.

However, it would be the team’s hurlers that would once again let down the city by the lake.

Clinging to a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning, Jaret Wright let Bobby Bonilla go deep to the seats in right.

Later, closer Jose Mesa allowed the

tying run to score in the bottom of the ninth.

Two innings later, the worst moment of my sports life happened.

In the bottom of the 11th inning, Edgar Renteria lined a single over the head and off the glove of Charles Nagy and into centerfield. Craig Counsell scored with his arms raised to the sky. Heartbreak and tears for this young Cleveland fan.

Then, there was the 2007 American League Championship Series where the Indians ace pitching staff, well, forgot how to pitch in clutch games.

Cleveland blew a 3-game-to1 lead over the Red Sox, allowing Boston to advance to the World Series against Colorado. A series which many think the Indians could have easily won.

As for the Browns version 2.0, well, I will leave that for another time. I guess the year 1964 can sum up my feelings toward that franchise right now.

That brings me to the 2009 Cleveland Cavaliers. It’s never too late to vent frustration.

The Cavs effort in this year’s Eastern Conference finals was nothing short of amazing. It was their team’s ability that was brought into question.

Cleveland has arguably the best basketball player on the

planet in LeBron James, and Mo’ Williams is a nice sidekick. However, the Magic have many, many pieces to the puzzle. Pieces that don’t miss from behind the arc or so it would seem.

The Cavs are close, just like the Browns in the late ‘80s, and the Indians in the late ‘90s. What the Eastern Conference finals did was exploit the Cavs’ weaknesses.

This was supposed to be the year Cleveland held a trophy high for the first time in a long time, but instead fans are left feeling empty inside. Numb to the feeling of underachieving has become commonplace.

I know all about weakness, I went back to Beth three times before I learned my lesson. With the Cleveland sports scene I’ve come back time after time only to have my heart ripped out come crunch time.

My relationship with Cleveland is rocky at best right now.

Here is where I need my mom to ask me and the Indians, Cavs and Browns “Where are you going?”

Because the way I see it, Cleveland, it’s not me, IT IS YOU. Ryan Fowler is the weekend sports anchor at NBC24 and can be reached at bgsualum03@hotmail. com.

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GM to build small car in Midwest (AP) _ General Motors Corp. said June 10 that it has narrowed down the locations where it could build its new small car to factories in Michigan, Tennessee or Wisconsin.GM officials traveled to Washington to meet with delegations from the three states to discuss selection criteria. Troy Clarke, president of GM’s North American operations, said a decision on where the small car would be built should come within a few weeks.“Part of the reason we’re here is we want to get on with doing this as quickly as we can ... so I can tell you its a decision that’s made in weeks, not months,’’ he said.

NASCAR

By Nicholas Huenefeld

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz will serve as the honorary starter for NASCAR’s LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) on June 14 .

Schwartz is beginning his first season as the Lions head coach this fall. He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans from 2001-2008.

His duties will include waving the green flag to start the race, as well as receiving a ride in the pace car from NASCAR’s official pace car driver Brett Bodine.

In addition, Schwartz will attend the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers meeting with members of the Detroit Lions football team.

“I’m a big NASCAR fan,” Schwartz stated in a press release.

“To be involved with the race, in the shadow of Detroit, the Motor City, is an absolute thrill. I’ve always been impressed with the incredible loyalty of NASCAR fans.

They have the same type of passion and loyalty Lions fans have for our football team.”

Schwartz was in Detroit’s Motor City Casino recently alongside recent No. 1 draft pick Matthew Stafford, Casey FitzSimmons and Jared DeVries to support MIS in front of soldiers and auto workers.

He will wave the green flag at 2:16 p.m., following the command by Kid Rock at 2:07 p.m.

The Army Chorus A Cappella team will sing the U.S. national anthem, while Amy Rivard, star of “Celtic Woman” and “Riverdance” will sing the Canadian national anthem.

He will be among an array of celebrities appearing over the June 1214 race weekend at MIS. Kid Rock

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will serve as the grand marshal.

Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry will serve as an honorary official and drive one of the pace cars.

Also appearing will be NBA player Shane Battier, Michigan head basketball coach John Beilein and TNA professional wrestlers Rhino and Taylor Wilde.

Mitsubishi unveils electric car TOKYO (AP) — Mitsubishi Motors Corp.’s electric vehicle is twice as expensive as popular hybrid cars by rivals Toyota and Honda, but Japan’s No. 4 automaker said recently the i-MiEV will help it survive increasingly intense global competition.

“With the electric vehicle, we will challenge global players,” said Mitsubishi Motors President Osamu Masuko at a news conference. The company unveiled the i-MiEV at its headquarters in Tokyo.

The i-MiEV is powered solely by electricity, and can be recharged from a regular home socket. The four-seater vehicle can run up to 160 kilometers (100 miles) after charging seven hours at 200 volts.

“It is a zero-emission vehicle.

It does not rely on oil, which is different from hybrid cars,” Masuko said.

The price tag is also different.

Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV costs 4.59 million yen ($47,560), more than twice as much as Toyota Motor Corp.’s new Prius, which is just over 2 million yen, or Honda Motor Co.’s Insight, which starts at 1.89 million yen, the cheapest hybrid on the market.

Masuko acknowledged the high price is a major hurdle to encouraging people to buy the i-MiEV. “This is not the price that ordinary people can easily buy. But as we increase our production, we aim to cut the price below 2 million yen,” he said without elaborating further.

Masuko noted i-MiEV buyers can receive hefty subsidies and pay no tax under a government program promoting the use of ecological vehicles. With the help of government subsidies, the i-MiEV costs 3.209 million yen, down 43 percent from the original price. The vehicle is also tax-free for three years.

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Quick Lane opens at Brondes, Kistler Ford

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The first two Quick Lane Tire & Auto centers in Toledo have opened at Brondes Ford and Kistler Ford.

The Quick Lane centers are open for business at the Brondes Ford dealership on Secor Road and at Kistler Ford on West Central Avenue.

Brondes Ford owns and operates the Quick Lane franchise

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The Quick Lane at Brondes is hosting a grand opening June 25-27 with food, fun, prizes and special offers, including a $15.95 oil change, $5 over cost on all tires, free nitrogen with any set of four tires, and chances to win a 32-inch flat screen television.

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It has its own management and staff of factory-trained technicians with seven employees, he said.

Fiat takes Chrysler helm DETROIT (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fiat is the new owner of most of Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assets, closing a deal June 10 that saves the troubled U.S. automaker from liquidation and places a new company in the hands of Fiatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO. The deal creates a leaner company known as Chrysler Group LLC, which is not in bankruptcy protection and is free of billions in debt, 789 underperforming dealerships and burdensome labor costs that hobbled the old Chrysler LLC. Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne immediately was named CEO of the new company, which said in a statement that it would soon reopen Chrysler factories that were idled during the bankruptcy process, costing the automaker $100 million per day.

The new company will focus on smaller vehicles, areas in which Chrysler was weak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Work is already under way on developing new environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient, highquality vehicles that we intend to become Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hallmark going forward,â&#x20AC;? the new company said in a statement.

The Italian automaker wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put any money into the deal but will give Chrysler billions worth of small car and engine technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We intend to build on Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture of innovation and Fiatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complementary technology and expertise to expand Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s product portfolio both in North America and overseas,â&#x20AC;? Marchionne said in a statement.

The sale to Fiat SpA marks a victory for the Obama administration, which shepherded Chrysler LLC into Chapter 11 protection on April 30 with the hope that the company would emerge in a matter of months with a new partner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing represents a proud moment in Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s storied history,â&#x20AC;? said the Treasury Department in a written statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Chrysler-Fiat Alliance has now exited the bankruptcy process and is poised to emerge as a competitive, viable automaker.â&#x20AC;?

The government will loan the new company $4.7 billion, to be repaid within eight years along with interest and $288 million in fees.

The Treasury had given Chrysler LLC $3.3 billion in debtor-in-possession financing to support the company throughout the bankruptcy process. Chrysler LLC remains in bankruptcy court, as it winds down operations, selling plants it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want, dispersing payments to debtholders and settling any other claims that were not transferred to the new company.

Those actions could linger until next year, if not longer.

The 56-year-old Marchionne, who won acclaim for his turnaround of Fiat, brings a different style to Chrysler. The year after taking over Fiat in 2004, Marchionne led the company to post its first net profit in five years. He also streamlined its management, burnished the brand with the award-winning update of the Fiat 500 and entered a series of strategic alliances to share costs and enter new markets.

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Former AT&T CEO to become new GM chairman DETROIT (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A former CEO and chairman of telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. will lead General Motors Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board after the automaker emerges from bankruptcy protection, GM said June 9.

Edward Whitacre Jr., 67, eventually will replace Kent Kresa, who will remain GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interim chairman until the reorganized automaker emerges as a new company thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s majority-owned by the U.S. government.

Whitacre was chairman and chief executive of AT&T and its predecessor companies from 1990 to 2007. During his tenure, he led the company through several acquisitions and sales.

Whitacre sits on the boards of Exxon Mobil Corp. and the railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.

GM said Whitacre will join the nucleus of a new board that will include Kresa and current members Philip A. Laskawy, Kathryn V. Marinello, Erroll B. Davis Jr., E. Neville Isdell and CEO Fritz Henderson.

The remaining six members of the current GM board will â&#x20AC;&#x153;most likely retireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the time most of GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assets are sold to the new GM in bankruptcy court, the company said in a statement.

Kresa is leading a selection process to pick four new directors, while the Canadian government, which also is providing financial aid to the company, will pick a board member and a United Auto

was â&#x20AC;&#x153;bizarre.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guy accomplished a number of things in telecom, and we all thought the book was closed,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Schnee said.

Whitacre was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;old-school empire builder,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Schnee said, and deserves credit for investing early and heavily in wireless.

But in terms of long-term visions for the industry, Whitacre was not much better than GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s management, in Schneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What happened was that wireless came along and created one of the most amazing growth markets in the world, and therefore bailed out sinking ships like Verizon and AT&T,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Schnee said.

Kresa told reporters on a conference call June 9 that he picked Whitacre with input from Steven Rattner, chairman of the Treasury Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auto task force.

The government, he said, wants to be very involved in picking GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board, but after that, does not want to be part of GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day-to-day operations.

Whitacre, Kresa said, had experience that was attractive to the government.

Kresa said he has been searching for candidates who have experienced innovation and corporate cultural change and have seen success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking at candidates who have been involved in companies where there has been a dramatic change in the marketplace

Workers union retiree health care trust will select another.

That will bring the board of the new company to 13 members, one more than the current board.

Kresa, a GM board member since 2003, was named interim chairman in March when the Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auto task force ousted Rick Wagoner as chairman and CEO. Henderson, GMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former president and chief operating officer, was named CEO and continues in that role.

GM has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since June 1 as it seeks to reorganize and shed unwanted assets. So far it has received about $20 billion in loans from the U.S. government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The appointment of Ed Whitacre as chairman represents a very auspicious beginning for the New GM,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kresa, a former chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corp., said in the statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look forward to working with him to complete the reinvention of GM and maximize the enormous potential of this new enterprise.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Whitacre made his name by building regional phone company Southwestern Bell into the largest telecommunications provider in the country, snapping up the AT&T brand along the way.

Telecom industry analyst Victor Schnee at Probe Financial said Whitacreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment to GM

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A second board will be appointed to run the old GM to wind down its remaining assets, Kresa said.

Under terms of a proposed bankruptcy agreement, the U.S. and Canadian governments will own nearly 75 percent of General

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Kresa also said GM would resume compensating board members at a more normal level. The board has been working for $1 per year since GM began taking government loans last year. He did not specify what a normal level was, but nonemployee board members previously received $200,000 per year, with $140,000 of that deferred in shares of GM common stock.

AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson and AP Auto Writer Dan Strumpf in New York contributed to this report.

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

Inventor and entrepreneur Douglas Pelmear is taking giant leaps toward an HP2g engine powering a 100 mile-per-gallon (mpg) production car.

Pelmear recently opened the new engine production facility for his company, HorsePowerSales. net in Wauseon, before a crowd of nearly 400 automotive industry and media representatives.

His V-8 engine has reached 110 mph in road tests and will power the new Verde four-door sedan to be produced by Revenge Designs, a specialty automotive company in Decatur, Ind. That company plans to introduce the Verde concept vehicles at the L.A. International Auto Show in December, according to its president and CEO Peter Collorafi. He said the production sedan and a sports car model could be available for sale by June 2010.

Since the announcement, Pelmear said he was contacted by five other car companies about quantities in the range of 20,000 engines that would put him in year four of the five-year business plan for his company.

“I have letters of intent from several automakers and am currently in negotiations with them,” Pelmear said.

The HP2g engine uses alternative energy powered by E-85 ethanol fuel with clean emissions technology. The engine also passed emission standards.

“We passed everything on the EPA,” said Pelmear, referring to the HP2g engine being tested at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cleveland on May 29.

The engine in Pelmear’s 1987 Ford Mustang passed all tests for fuel emissions, according to the Ohio E-Check vehicle inspection report issued. The car surpassed all EPA standards without a catalytic convertor, Pelmear said.

The inventor declined to discuss the engine’s technology with patents pending in the United States. The company is preparing to apply for international patents as well.

“I need to protect myself properly,” said Pelmear, who is working with Susan Kornfield, an Ann Arbor attorney who specializes in intellectual property law.

Collorafi and Pelmear have developed a plan that they say will “revolutionize the automotive industry.” Revenge Designs and HP2g are making real-time

advances in fuel-efficiency and offering the world a practical alternative-energy solution, according to them.

“Common ordinary people have good ideas, but it takes a lot of people to bring them to fruition,” Pelmear said. “The true inventor is here to make a difference.

I do believe in America and what it stands for. It’s not just about me but the bigger picture.”

Revenge Designs will become the exclusive source for Certified Installation Centers in the United States for selling HP2g engines to aftermarket purchasers.

Collorafi said he plans to open 150 centers in the United States to install the HP2g engine in existing vehicles. The company is already negotiating with a number of auto-mechanic shops about becoming certified installation centers, he said.

The state of Ohio is working with Revenge Designs to bring the testing and production of the Verdi cars to a proposed 170-acre site on state Route 30 in Van Vert.

“It’s only one proposal and possibility. It’s not official yet as previously reported,” Collorafi said about the Van Wert site. “We have not chosen a site yet, but expect to make an official announcement on the site shortly.”

Collorafi said they are having discussions about funding and incentives for possible sites in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

Pelmear said he has done it all with his own funds without any bank or investors involved, and understands he will need capital investment to reach year four in year one.

Pelmear is working with the Rocket Ventures staff at the Regional Growth Partnership (RGP) in Toledo on the development of his business.

“Rocket Ventures is designed to help entrepreneurs like Doug by providing them with the best experienced advice and management support we can,” said Todd Davies, business development manager for advanced sciences at RGP. “He’s a free thinker who put it together when the bureaucracy of large corporations doesn’t allow it,” Davies said.

“I’m very unconventional,” Pelmear said. “Thinking outside the box is what it’s about. People accept unconventional now because conventional methods have not worked.”

In another development, Pelmear officially withdrew his team and the

1987 Mustang powered by the HP2g V-8 engine from the Progressive Automotive X Prize Competition on June 4. He said it was no longer in the company’s best interests to compete in the cross-country race.

After Team HP2g had been ac-

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ARTS LIFE Detroit pianist to pay tribute to Tatum

By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS WRITER

Murphy’s Place, 151 Water St.

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Fri., June 19 Inside stage 5 p.m. — UT Summer Jazz Institute 9 p.m. — Dominick Farinacci 10 p.m. — Jam session with Theresa Harris

Johnny O’Neal was in Birmingham, Ala., in 2001 when he almost hung up on a Hollywood dream.

“They called from the movie company and said, ‘Johnny, you were highly recommended to play [Art Tatum] in this upcoming movie with Jamie Foxx.’ Yeah, right.

Who is this?” the pianist recalled. “I thought perhaps one of my friends was playing a joke, waking me up at 10 o’clock in the morning.”

O’Neal glanced at the caller ID and saw a California phone number.

“I was at a loss for words as you can imagine. I sat straight up and I said, “Well, OK, I’d be honored.”

She said, “You were recommended by two pianists, Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones,” he said. “So I went to do my screen test in New Orleans.”

He wasn’t even halfway through “My Heart Stood Still” when he learned he got the part of Tatum in the movie, “Ray.” As Toledo’s piano virtuoso, O’Neal played “Yesterdays” in the 2004 film. But he was aboard a jazz cruise and missed the premiere.

“My mother and I went to Detroit one night to see [the movie] for the first time,” he said. “When I saw it, I was flabbergasted because I looked really large because they had me in a fat suit. On the set, they stuffed me with plastic and stuff. When I was sitting in the theater, I wanted to jump up; people would have thought I was crazy. I wanted to jump up and say, “That’s me playing the piano up there! But I didn’t; I sure wanted to though, believe me.”

The Detroit native said he’s been a lifelong Tatum fan, and the movie

Outside stage 5 p.m. — Eric Brazier 5:30 p.m. — Paul Keller Trio 6:30 p.m. — Kelly Broadway Quartet 7:30 p.m. — Lori Lefevre Johnson Quartet 8:30 p.m. — 6th Edition Sat., June 20 Inside stage 2 p.m. — Kalvin Hughes Trio 3 p.m. — Mike Whitty Quartet 4 p.m. — Jim Gottron 4:30 p.m. — Ragtime Rick 5 p.m. — Glenda McFarlin 6 p.m. — Keith Bernhard and More Jazz Messengers 7 p.m. — Johnny O’Neal 8 p.m. — Ramona Collins 10 p.m. — Jam session with Johnny O’Neal Outside stage 3:30 p.m. — Toledo School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble 4:30 p.m. — Ryan Erard Trio 5:30 p.m. — Kim Buehler 6:30 p.m. — Joan Crawford and Stephanie Nakasian 7:30 p.m. — Damen Cook Quartet 8:30 p.m. — Johnny O’Neal 9:30 p.m. — Ernie Krivda Two-day tickets $25, $15 per day

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helped launch his career.

“It was one of the most gratifying moments for me,” he said. “When people come out to hear me perform after seeing that little segment in the movie… when they see me live for the first time, they’ll be even more blown away because they get a chance to hear me in my entirety. I always play tribute to Art Tatum in my concerts because of ‘Ray.’” O’Neal will headline a two-day jazz party at Murphy’s Place, 151

Water St., to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tatum’s birth. He will perform June 20 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. inside the club and at 8:30 p.m. on the outdoor stage.

The party will start at 5 p.m.

June 19. The all-star lineup includes trumpeter Dominick Farinacci. Jazz legend Jon Hendricks, who grew up in Toledo with Tatum, will be the master of ceremonies.

Tickets are $15 per day or $25 for both days.

Of course, bass player Clifford Murphy and pianist Claude Black will play.

“I’m looking forward to having a chance to play with Clifford Murphy again,” O’Neal said. “Clifford has been a great music mentor for me. I’ve learned so much from Clifford; he’s a great musician and a great friend.”

On the web visit www.johnnyoneal.org and click on links for more.

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Pink Martini serves up a musical cocktail with cosmopolitan sophistication and a splash of retro spirit.

The “little orchestra” can play straight up, with a sultry slice or twist of humor.

“I think [our sound is] all over the map, the map of the world and the map of music,” said lead singer China Forbes. “It incorporates the different backgrounds of all the members of the band from classical to Cuban to Brazilian to pop to jazz to rock — it sort of has elements of all of that, while also incorporating the entire world and all the languages that represent the countries we’ve visited and some we haven’t yet visited.”

The eclectic ensemble has been mixing multilingual ingredients since 1994. Pianist and artistic director Thomas Lauderdale founded the group and, three years later, asked Harvard classmate Forbes to join.

The two wrote “Sympathique,” the title track to Pink Martini’s debut in 1997. “Hang on Little Tomato” was released in 2004, and “Hey Eugene!” in 2007.

A DVD, “Discover the World:

Live in Concert,” came out June 2, and the group’s fourth disc is due out in October.

“The album is pretty much almost finished, and some of the songs, as usual, are older cover songs and some are songs the band has written,” Forbes said from a tour stop in Atlanta. “My favorite song on the record is a song Thomas and I wrote together called ‘Over the Valley.’ It was inspired by the view from my house high up on a hill looking down at the gorgeous valley below and just feeling both rapturous about the view and my home life with my husband.”

The chanteuse said another song is called “Où Est Ma Tête?” (“Where Is My Head?”)

“That song started out in one version, a completely different version, and ended up in French in kind of an absurd lyric that’s funny, and it’s kind of got a sexy strut to it,” said Forbes, who can sing in about 12 languages.

“And there’s a song called ‘Tuca Tuca,’ which is a famous Italian song from 1970 that Raffaella Carrà sang and it’s an incredibly silly, sexy song,” Forbes said. “The invented word, ‘Tuca Tuca,’ was sort of inspired by the word ‘tocco,’ which means touch. And if you’ve ever seen the video for it, it’s pretty

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Bozarts Fine Art & Music Gallery, 155 S. St. Clair St., will open July 3.

Jerry Gray, co-founder of the Secor Gallery’s Quest for Fire Studios, along with business partner Kerry Krow, are opening the gallery, which they call a “unique venue.” It is a membership gallery operated by artists for artists.

The gallery is hosting a series of membership drive events, starting in June, featuring Naomi Elizabeth, CorePhallism, Josh Hydeman, the D-Stat Reunion Show, and 7 Deadly 5, as well as an outdoor movie showcase.

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When it comes to the close of the Glacity Theatre Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first full season, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well that ends well in more ways than one. The company will soon be closing its debut season with an outdoor presentation of William Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic romantic comedy at the Maumee Valley Country Day Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alida Ashley Amphitheatre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Wellâ&#x20AC;? features some of our areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most renowned theater professionals, including Brad Arner, Risa Beth Cohen, Dave DeChristopher, Kevin J. Hayes, Holly Monsos, Corinne Natyshak, Ben Pryor, Nikki Soldner, and Pam Tomassetti. The play is being directed by University of Toledo professor and Glacity veteran Cornel Gabara, with set de-

sign by James S. Hill and costume design by Holly Monsos. Chloe Mockensturm is the stage manager, and Ed Lingan is the dramaturg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well is one of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lesser produced plays. It has often been referred to as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;problem playâ&#x20AC;? which made us curious about it. We really liked the strong female protagonist Helena who will go to such great lengths to get what she wants. The characters are all deeply flawed and the play contains a very strong argument for free will and our ability to transform our destiny through our actions,â&#x20AC;? said GTC Artistic Director Irene Alby.

The production will run June 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27 at 7 p.m., and June 14, 21, and 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available in advance for $15 on Friday and Saturday evenings and are pay what you can on Sunday at the door. There will be a special post-show benefit on June 21; tickets are $50, which entitles the ticket holder to a free ticket to that afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show. The June 27 show will take place indoors at the Millennium Theatre rain or shine. Maumee Valley Country Day School is located at 1715 S. Reynolds Road.

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Teach your children well M Shawn was not so lucky. The Utoy kindergarten teacher was one of the good ones. She pian glimpse of academic life he had was sweet and caring, fun observed just a few months prior was all but dashed and full of life. I still rewhen his new member the end-of-theteacher returned his year pool party at her first completed first house and her seemingly grade assignment far-fetched stories of a to him with just one kindergartner-sized pet little word scrawled iguana sharing her bedacross it: “messy.” room (to my surprise, Messy? Messy.

I actually found myself Most would laying next to it on the agree that there is floor of our classroom Shannon SZYPERSKI a bit of a learning one day.) I was lucky to have started out my academic career curve associated with penmanin her hands, for she had that special ship. However, my brother’s firstsomething you just can’t begin to grade teacher was not most. Most offer in words. She was everything a do not find it appropriate to force an already fragile child to listen to teacher should be.

My brother, Shawn, was fortu- his own cries amplified through a nate enough to follow in my foot- stethoscope’s ear piece. Most do steps two years later, living the not think it valuable to confine a 6perfect kindergarten experience year-old’s desk to the insides of an for himself under Mrs. Crippen’s empty refrigerator box as penance. wing. The next year, however, our Apparently, she did.

When compared with the family moved to a different school district and encountered, in po- wretched punishments being doled lite terms, a different academic out to those around him, perhaps philosophy. Our new school felt my brother should have considered more like a prison than an in- himself lucky to receive little more tellectual playground. Despite than red-marker abuse. Yet, it is difa less than positive learning at- ficult to locate the silver lining when mosphere, however, I was able one’s best efforts are met with overt to somewhat hang onto my edu- rejection rather than reward or, at cational innocence by landing in the very least, constructive critithe third-grade classroom of Miss cism. It is nearly impossible when Rose, our new school’s diamond in you’re only 6 years old.

I was no doubt the lucky one that the rough.

year. My biggest bout with classroom confusion and disappointment only occurred after several months of Miss Rose’s daily promises of trips to the “lavatory” repeatedly yielded nothing more than standing in line for the bathroom.

Having just finished watching my own son, Jack, thoroughly enjoy the first leg of his academic journey, I cannot imagine what it was like for my parents to witness my brother’s educational eagerness deteriorate into daily tears. It takes so much for us as parents to temporarily hand over the reins of our life’s work to someone else.

Not every teacher is going to earn a place on that mental list of favorites we all seem to carry with us over our lifetimes. My hope for my children is that they have enough of the good ones to keep their love of learning ablaze from year to year and beyond graduation day.

All children should be fortunate enough to start their academic journey by adding a Mrs. Crippen or a Miss Rose to their favorite teacher list. As a parent, I feel a sense of relief and will certainly have a much easier time handing over my son’s reins again next fall knowing Ms. McCoy is already on his.

Shannon Szyperski and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania. E-mail her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Flights Starting July 13, 2009. Hurry...$9 for the first 9 seats per flight will go fast!

Minneapolis service is coming August 2009.

All flights operated with 737-800 jets. *New York destination arriving via Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). Sun America, Inc. dba JetAmerica is a Public Charter Operator. Operated by Miami Air International, Inc. $9* one-way internet-only fares *plus a $5.00 convenience fee per ticketed passenger, each-way, if booked on www.JetAmerica.com website. Reservations made by calling (727)-451-3970, will be assessed an additional $10.00 Call Center Fee, per person, per reservation. Fares do not include September 11th Security Fees of $2.50, Federal Excise Segment taxes of $3.60, or Passenger Facility Charges of up to $4.50. With the exception of the Call Center Fee, all fees and taxes are per person, per segment. A segment is one takeoff and landing. Advance seat selection prior to departure may be purchased for $10.00 per person each way. Fares are subject to availability at the time of booking and are subject to change. Reservations may be made through our website at: www.JetAmerica.com or by calling: (727)-451-3970.