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JUNE 21, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

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e never claimed to be a perfect city councilman, but Mark Sobczak was a dedicated one. His June 11 resignation was a shock to most, but the signs of stress have been present for a while. Often torn between allegiance to his union brothers and his comrade in the mayor’s office, Sobczak nonetheless made it a point to voice his opinions and vote his conscience. Doubters will find plenty to argue that point, but remember Sobczak’s unionunfriendly vote that broke a tie on zoning for charter schools, and you’ll note that he was willing to go against the grain. His insistence on the unpopular idea of charging Thomas F. POUNDS for fire services is another example of his facing media and political heat. This latest debate between keeping Teamsters on Toledo trash detail or outsourcing the work was probably the last conflict for Sobczak, and one he would have been pilloried for no matter which way he voted. We can, I believe, deduce his uncast vote by his decision to resign. It is easy to forget that city council is a part-time job, that our representatives must first answer to the needs of family and employer. There are intrinsic flaws in our system of city government, and while the movement to reduce the number of seats from 12 to nine is not the only issue on the table, it is certainly germane to the conversation. I believe Sobczak is a good man, as honest as any in local politics, and that he has learned a great SOBCZAK deal about how business and government interact in Toledo. Perhaps at a future time, he will find a public use for that experience and knowledge. In the meantime, he is to be thanked for his service and wished well on his new course. Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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Not MISsing the point I really enjoyed reading Ryan Fowler’s June 7 column on NASCAR, “Swing and a MIS.” Of course, being the huge racing fan that I am, I disagreed with just about every word. But I did enjoy it. Fowler’s columns have become one of my favorite parts of the paper. Keep up the good work.

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

The error of Carty’s weighs

at, it has been noted, is the last holdout of the politi- two dozen young people in the mix. Should Finkbeiner, who is 70 (that’s 490 in dog years, 4,900 in Scout years, cally correct movement. Public discourse has been stripped of what and the amount of calories in two marshmallow Peeps, but I digress), really be charging into such the intelligentsia deems offensive refera situation? He is the mayor of one of the ences to race, gender, age, religious belief, globe’s most livable cities. What would we financial status, physical/mental disability do if he, God forbid, worked himself into and sexual preference. One using pejoraanother heart attack or got trounced by a tives in any of those categories risks one’s ne’er-do-well reprobate? standing and career. Since city council doesn’t have a presiFat has escaped the politically correct dent, who would become mayor and take movement (very slowly escaped, in a lumthe solemn onus of being No. 1 Block Bros. bering waddle accompanied by breathless lickspittle? (And hey, about that early June tuba music, but escaped nonetheless). Blade photo of John Block semi-hugging When a video posted by Toledoan Brian Minley surfaced June 16 in which Toledo Michael S. MILLER Finkbeiner at the mayor’s birthday party? There hasn’t been that much failed ambiMayor Carleton S. Finkbeiner called a young man “Fatso,” “Tubby” and “Fat Ass,” the most in- tion and flop sweat in one photo since the picture of Elvis teresting aspect of the video was the chopped-for-effect shaking hands with Richard Nixon.) Isn’t it a bit reckless for a 70-year-old man with editing. But if Finkbeiner, who is fit and in fine shape for someone on a steady diet of his own foot, had let slip with a Finkbeiner’s responsibilities to go marching into such racial slur or more obscene name, he may have found him- a charged situation like he’s Morgan Freeman playing self with a very unpleasant welcome home from the “All “Crazy” Joe Clark in “Lean on Me”? What does it say America City” competition in Florida. Because he used the about Mayor Lugnuts’ state of mind that he would put mundane, albeit outdated, “Fatso,” this will be just another himself in such danger? Note to Finkbeiner: Lone gunslingers have gone the brick in the crumbling wall of his personal legacy. Speaking as a fat person, I can tell you that, in general, way of Seven-Up candy bars and Post Toasties cereal. The best riff on that theme was provided by the infat people know when they are fat; words like “Fatso” roll off our humped backs like a warm quarter-inch block of creasingly relevant and reliably sophomoric gang at the Toledo Onion Web site, with their story, “Toledo Mayor butter on a syrup-soaked stack of Bob Evans pancakes. Speaking as someone who recently caught The Blade’s To Meet Mikey By The Flag Pole at 3:00 PM.” Still, fat people are slow to action, so the full impact attention for swearing, I would like to point out that while I used what Blade meat puppet JC Reindl described as “a of Finkbeiner’s “FatsoGate” may not yet be known. It is vulgar word for anus” in front of a group of high school still possible that Toledo’s fat folks, and there are plenty seniors, I was not directing the word at any of them. In a of us, will find the strength to unite around more than world of gradients, this puts me on slightly higher moral Twinkies and buffalo wing/blue cheese-flavored Chex ground than the mayor stands on, and as Stephen King Mix. Perhaps the mayor will one day soon hear the points out in his current Esquire story “Morality,” even sound of his treadmill drowned out by the soft scuffling the smallest gradient can make a sizable difference. of 10,000 voters’ thighs as they herd toward One GovAnyway, the young man in the video does not even ernment Center, slowed only by their own girth and a qualify as fat, because he is in public with his shirt off, quick stop into Magic Wok. Perhaps one brave Fatso will and no self-respecting fat guy would be caught in public lift his chins to the sky and lead his people in a chorus of with his shirt off any sooner than he would drive past “Baby Got Back,” to chastise the mayor who so callously a Golden Corral without exhibiting immediate, sweaty calls young people such insensitive names. Perhaps I will signs of sexual arousal. be that courageous hefty guy who wags a fleshy finger Two aspects of the story are far more interesting than at the mayor and intones, “Chuba je gusha, peedunkey? the fat angle. One, as pointed out by astute poster Soap Pushee wumpah skocha-kloonkee! Bona nai kachu!”* Box at Glass City Jungle, is that Finkbeiner appears to be And if the mayor doesn’t like this uprising of cellulite wearing a Lansing Lugnuts baseball cap. Lugnuts? Could and lard? If he doesn’t care for my insolence and roiling Finkbeiner more accurately broadcast many Toledoans’ rebellion? If he refuses to apologize for his soul-scarring perception of his mental state? Perhaps he left his “Fort words and bully assault on the overweight? Wayne Under-Medicateds” cap at home. To make sure Then he can kiss my fat ass. Finkbeiner has some Toledo-specific gear, I have sent a Toledo Free Press ballcap to his office. Hopefully, the Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. next time Finkbeiner does something zany, our proud Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. star logo will shine in a million YouTube windows. It is also worth asking about Finkbeiner’s intentions in * Huttese for “Do you feel lucky punk? Watch out, apparently rushing in to break up a fight with more than exhaust-for-brains! You’re in trouble now!” Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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Memo from the mayor Celebrating America

ou gotta hand it to Carty. He’s the disabled (See “Mayor suggests coming up with some pretty moving deaf near airport”). Get on it. Now. inventive ways to close the Commissioner city’s gaping budget of Solid Waste: I hole. His ingenuity was thinking ... but has once again no ... your people are brought international Teamsters. attention to our fine Commissioner city. I came up with of Health: Start posome of my own licing public restideas, and I’ll present rooms. Anyone who them here in “Memo tries to exit without from the Mayor” washing their hands, form so hizzoner can $100 right there, simply copy and paste Jim HARPEN right now. And put them into an e-mail your thinking cap on about ento his top administrators. forcing flossing. Around every tooth. We’ll provide a four-tooth To: All city commissioners waiver for those who’ve had their and department heads wisdom teeth pulled. From: He who must be obeyed Commissioner of Parks & ForAs you know, I have received no cooperation from city council estry: The squirrels have been on in dealing with our budget deficit. the gravy train far too long. It stops That panel of grandstanding mal- here. Same goes for the raccoons. I’m contents has rejected my revenue talking an acorn tax. We pay to mainenhancement proposals at every tain all of those oak trees, and it’s time turn. Therefore, it is incumbent on we got something in return. And all you, the best paid people on my of those sandlot sluggers wiling away the hours this summer playing ball payroll, to do your part. Here are the assignments I want at one of the city parks’ diamonds? Home plate tax with a grand slam you to personally perform: Commissioner of Streets, surcharge. No exceptions. Their parBridges & Harbor: Get out from ents send ’em to school with milk behind your desk and start tick- money, so they should view this as eting people who’ve parked their a continuation of their daily investcars on gravel. Any gravel. If ment in their child’s development. Commissioner of Solid Waste: they’re parked in the street and one of the tires is on the lip of a pot- You’re fine. Keep doing what hole with exposed stones, slam ’em you’re doing. Chief of the Fire Division: with a fine. And since you’re also in charge of the harbor, ticket the With all of the firefighters we’ve Audubon Society. Those damned got in Toledo, why do we still have seagulls are crapping all over the fires? I want you personally going place. If they can’t control their door to door conducting fire safety birds, we will. And we’ll make inspections. You see a faux ficus some money to boot. near an electrical outlet, that’s $25. Commissioner of Solid Waste: Toaster with bread crumbs at the I want you to ... uhh ... let me think bottom? A hundred bucks. If we’re about this. going to provide fire protection, Chief of Police: Catching crim- they’re gonna pay for it. Twice. inals doesn’t earn us one thin dime. Commissioner of Solid Waste: Until further notice, your life is all Your Teamsters are doing such a about speeding tickets. I want you fabulous job, I’m going to spend to turn Toledo into one big speed $12 million we don’t have and buy trap. And I want you to tail those your guys some new garbage trucks. clowns over at WSPD. If they go so Air-conditioned? Of course! much as a tenth of a mile over the I know that ordering you to limit, I want to see a SWAT team personally carry out these orders descend on them like flies at the might seem onerous. But as you landfill. Think of this part of your know, my ideas are both inspired assignment as getting two for one. and unequaled. Why else would Commissioner of Inspection: they be the buzz of the internaHave you seen how many signs tional news media? there are in Toledo with burned out And remember: I’m in charge or flashing fluorescent bulbs? Can here; you’re not. you imagine how that bothers the visually impaired? As you know, I E-mail columnist Jim Harpen at have a great deal of empathy for letters@toledofreepress.com.

hose who have celebrated much more. In my youth, Brazil was ruled by Christmas or Thanksgiving far away from hearth and a military dictator. The government determined everything home have a special apfrom the price of gas preciation for each holto the cost of bread. iday spent with loved The freedoms we sang ones. If you have ever about were not enjoyed spent the Fourth of July locally. As we Ameriin another country, you cans banded together, too feel a special priviwe were proud to know lege to enjoy this most we were citizens of a patriotic holiday in the country that continued land of the free and to live up to the ideals of the home of the brave. Each and every Inde- Jenifer CHRISTIAANSE the Founding Fathers. And as we sang the pendence Day I spend here in the UnitedStates, I fly my flag second verse, “Oh thus be it ever proudly; I watch the fireworks with when free man shall stand, between awe, and I get misty eyed when I see their loved homes ...” we underOld Glory pass by in the parades. I stood. When Roxana Saberi, the love the picnics, the pageantry and American journalist who was just the pomp. I cherish the freedom and released from prison in Iran, was interviewed after her release, she said the rich heritage America enjoys. I grew up in Brazil, the daughter one of the things that helped her of American parents. For all but one get through four months in jail was day of the year, we blended into the singing “The Star Spangled Banner,” surrounding society. But on July 4, the in particular the second verse. And now I live in America. I savor expatriate community in Sao Paulo would put together an incredible all- every day and every Fourth of July, day celebration. There were games especially. And I want my children with wonderful prizes, races and free to appreciate their country. I have food donated by American companies dragged them across this great land; in Brazil. After a frenetic day of com- I have also taken them to other counpeting, winning and eating, at sunset tries so they can appreciate the con(which comes early during the winter trast. They have seen the opulence month of July) the group would gather of the Winter Palace in Russia and contrasted it with the simple majesty together on the soccer field. The Brazilian flag, with its green of the White House in Washington, and yellow, would climb the pole as D.C. My children have walked the a locally hired band played the Bra- Freedom Trail in Boston, been to the zilian National Anthem. This song Statue of Liberty, Pearl Harbor and, has a complex introduction, followed yes, to Ground Zero. We have been to the Tomb of the by a militaristic-like anthem. And then the Star and Stripes Unknown Soldier at Arlington and would be unfurled. The local band al- stood amidst the poppies in Flanders ways butchered the tune; still, the ren- Fields. They have seen a concentradition of “The Star Spangled Banner” tion camp in Germany and the for those gathered Americans was Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. They magnificent and heart-stirring. have enjoyed the beaches of Waikiki, Though the red, white and blue flag, the redwoods of California and the by law, had to be smaller and lower rocky shores of Maine. This land is now my land; this than Brazil’s flag, our hearts swelled as we sang about the rockets’ red glare land is their land. Hurrah for Indeand the bombs bursting in air. pendence Day! Savor and delight in And every one there missed these, the best of places and because America in the worst way. We knew of peace, the best of times. that across the sea there would be incredible fireworks electrifying E-mail columnist Jenifer Christiaanse the sky over Lady Liberty in New at letters@toledofreepress.com. York’s harbor, and there would be fireworks all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. We knew bands would be marching in To submit a letter to the parades; Shriners would be riding editor, e-mail your text to their little cars, and American solletters@toledofreepress.com, diers would be saluted. fax it to (419) 241-8828 or We knew tiny flags would be mail it to Letters to the Editor, marking graves of fallen heroes in Toledo Free Press, 605 Monroe cemeteries across the land. And yes, St., Toledo, OH 43604. we longed for all of this and for so

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RACE FOR MAYOR 2009

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Toledo mayoral candidate Clint White III refuses to accept campaign contributions from his parents, but has no problem taking money from other family members. “I did accept $25 from my grandma,” he said. White’s not apologizing, though. After all, he is only 17 years old and just graduated from Whitmer High School. He doesn’t even have a summer job. “I think I can make a difference — hopefully, not a negative one,” said the west Toledo resident. “The city right now, we have a mayor who can do whatever he wants. If I get elected, I will take that out. The strong mayor system is good only if you have good people in there.” White, 4718 Douglas Road, is one of 18 names on a list of people who took out petitions to run for mayor. In fact, when White took out petitions on Jan. 5, he was the second person to do so. The first person was Daniel Angel, 715 Boalt St., who has since decided not to run. At first White’s parents thought he wasn’t serious. White is an average student who plays in a bluegrass band and he has never even held a student government office. “I don’t think they were sure about it, and I still don’t think they are sure about it,” White said. “I like to do things for fun and live to the fullest.” His mother, Mary White, said his announcement to run for mayor came as a surprise. “I was kind of shocked. I couldn’t believe it. He feels like he can make a difference, and my husband and I have always said, ‘Whatever you think you can do, you can try it.’” Win or lose, she said it’s a good experience to run for office. He learned about running for office after attending Buckeye Boys State in BGSU last summer. “Yes, I am only 17 years old, and if you’re thinking that this ‘kid’ does not have the experience to lead a city, I can tell you that you are wrong,” White wrote on his MySpace page. ■ MAYORAL CONTINUES ON A6

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CLINT WHITE III IS A 17-YEAR-OLD GRADUATE OF WHITMER HIGH SCHOOL. HE SAYS HE THINKS HE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF ELECTED MAYOR OF TOLEDO.

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A6 â&#x2013; TOLEDO FREE PRESS â&#x2013; MAYORAL CONTINUED FROM A5 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure a five-year-old could run this city better than what we have now. â&#x20AC;Ś At Buckeye Boys State, I ran for City coulncil (sic) and won. My roomate [sic], ran for Mayor of our city and won a very hard race. From that did I not only learn the job of the city council, but the job of the mayor as well.â&#x20AC;? If nothing else, White said he wants to at least accomplish the task of collecting the 750 signatures required to run for office. Other residents on the list like Donald Gozdowski, 3142 Franklin Ave., stated in an e-mail that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as serious as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christ Crucifiedâ&#x20AC;? about the campaign, and Jeremiah Van Buren, 2438 Georgetown, has decided to run for Toledo city council instead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, let me be clear, I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want the job,â&#x20AC;? wrote Gozdowski in his blog, â&#x20AC;&#x153;who in their right mind would willingly embrace the madness of politics?â&#x20AC;? All joking aside, none of the people who have taken out petitions, even the four major candidates, Mike Bell, Ben Konop, Jim Moody and Keith Wilkowski, has turned in petitions, according to the Lucas County Board of Elections. The deadline is July 17. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of youthful zeal, I decided I was going to try and run for mayor,â&#x20AC;? Angel said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then

after some wise consul (sic), I decided I was not ready to make decisions that would effect (sic) over 300,000 people.â&#x20AC;? White said he knows winning one of the two spots in the Sept. 15 primary election is a long shot, but he wants to make sure people know that young people are monitoring the Toledo political scene. He will turn 18 on Aug. 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Government should not brush off the people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Mayor Carty Finkbeiner] wants the government to be in everything â&#x20AC;Ś thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all these rules. I am going to lower business and residential tax laws.â&#x20AC;? White pointed to the Bass Pro Shop opening outside of Toledo as an example of a lost opportunity. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame the owners, though. Toledo has too many taxes. Lower taxes will bring people and businesses into the city, according to the young Republican. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Carty doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand, if you raise taxes, people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like that,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People like having money in their pockets.â&#x20AC;? Opal Covey has also taken out petitions to collect signatures to run for mayor. She said that God wants her to be mayor, just like He did in 2000. God even gave Covey, who lives at 2236 Broadway St., a vision of how to make Toledo thrive, which would be through an amusement park at

Promenade Park, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God has trained me for 32 years for this,â&#x20AC;? Covey said. As mayor, Christopher Frank Adams Sr., 1918 Barrows St., said he would listen and then research. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tired of all the politics and knows how to get results because of his 20 years in the business industry, including managing big-box stores. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been on TV or anything like that because I sit back and ADAMS acknowledge what the other candidates are saying,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to quit fighting as a city,â&#x20AC;? Adams continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been to a lot of council meetings, and it seems like all they want to do is bicker and fight â&#x20AC;Ś if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to keep this ship afloat, jump overboard.â&#x20AC;? Earl Harris, 523 Chapin St., said he considered running for mayor and went so far as to collect more than 500 signatures, but then realized â&#x20AC;&#x153;this city isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready for the ideas I wanted to present.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My main concerns are public safety and creating a businessfriendly environment,â&#x20AC;? he wrote in a statement. White said it depends what

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Also in the running ... Toledo mayoral candidates listed in order of when each person took out petitions. No one has turned them in yet, according to the Lucas County Board of Elections. 1. Daniel J. Angel, 715 Boalt St./ Dec. 8 2. Clint White III, 4718 Douglas Road/ Jan. 5 3. Christopher Frank Adams Sr., 1918 Barrows St./ Jan. 6 4. Opal Covey, 2236 Broadway St./ Jan. 13 5. Pastor Clinton D. Dudley, 1980 Northtowne Drive/ Jan. 20 6. Michael K. Jackson, 3408 Westridge Drive/ Jan. 20 7. James D. Moody, 2468 Parkview/ Jan. 26 8. Keith Wilkowski, 2309 Middlesex/Jan. 27 9. Jeremiah Van Buren, 2438 Georgetown/ Jan. 27 10. Donald Watras, 282 Majestic Drive/ Jan. 30 11. Daniel Sartin, 823 Koch Drive/ Feb. 13 12. Christopher Allen Stevenson, 230 13th St./ March 6 13. William Cutcher, 910 Geneva/ March 10 14. Donald R. Gozdowski, 3142 Franklin Ave./April 1 15. Earl N. Harris, 523 Chapin St./ April 21 16. Jo Pollitt, 1016 N. Michigan St./April 30 17. Ben Konop, 100 S. Huron St., Suite 7C/ May 19 18. Mike Bell, 3010 Hopewell Place/ June 4 happens with the election, but he is considering college and possibly moving away from Toledo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No matter where you go, if I was to move to Florida or Japan, Toledo will always be in my mind,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No matter what I do, Toledo will always be my home.â&#x20AC;?

White said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like the kind people of Toledo. He recently fell off his bicycle and a guy stopped and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you need some help?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it past the primary ballot, I will see where I go from there,â&#x20AC;? White said.

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Groups seek funds for summer youth activities By Caitlin McGlade TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

A group of community leaders who helped raise funds for cityoperated pools are seeking up to $75,000 for other summer youth activities. The Monroe Street United Methodist Church (UMC) and the Upper Toledo Urban League leaders JONES organized a group of about 20 organizations to design extensive summer programming for youth.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the beginning of a community coming together in hard times,â&#x20AC;? said John Jones, director of the Toledo Urban League. When the Finkbeiner administration announced the city couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to open swimming pools this summer, Jones and other community organizers sought funding to keep them running, Jones said. Pastor Karen Shepler of Monroe Street UMC received $5,000 from the District United Methodist Office, and the Economic Opportunities Planning Association provided a $79,861 grant for the city to reopen the pools. Though the pools cost the city about $219,234 last summer, Kattie Bond, director of the Department of Neighborhoods said this summer

shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cost taxpayers anything. The city is pulling about $51,537 from a trust fund specifically given to Toledo for recreational purposes, she said. Councilwoman Lindsay Webb will have a public hearing on June 23 before city council votes to accept the grant money and use the trust fund cash because she said she understands why some Toledoans might be skeptical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see the folks that say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a budget deficit; how can we justify opening five pools?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The other side is, in these economic times, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that the children in the city have a place to go.â&#x20AC;? Shepler said she and other community organization leaders knew that youth needed places to go and activities to get involved in when some kids started wearing shirts that stated that it was their turn to run Toledo now that the police force had diminished. Having the pools open could curb gang activity or foul play this summer, she said, adding that if the kids donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anywhere to cool

off this summer, they could resort to opening fire hydrants like some have in the past. Toledo Police Chief Michael Navarre said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the pools would impact the youth community very much this summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know from experience that, when the pools open, the first week is very busy; the second week is not as busy and by Fourth of July, there will NAVARRE be few people at the pools,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for a couple weeks to have on impact on 52 weeks in the year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not going to make a big difference.â&#x20AC;? Despite the police layoffs, Navarre said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect the youth to pose any more of a problem than they have in previous summers but that he is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;strong advocateâ&#x20AC;? of organized youth activities for the summer. The group of 15 to 20 community organization leaders could

solidify a plan for organized youth summer activity within a week, Jones said, adding that one plan is to expand a summer games program. They are shaping other ideas involving teaching life skills and even exercising cognitive and reasoning abilities, but havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completed them enough to announce to the public, Jones said. He said his group will reach out to anyone interested in volunteering, donating equipment or money and ideally would like to operate with the $50,000 to $75,000 price tag. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think the community is willing to give because they realize if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give youth something to do, they will find something on their own to do,â&#x20AC;? he said. City council is expected to vote June 23 to determine whether to open Detwiler, Pickford, Wilson, Navarre and Roosevelt pools and the Savage Water Spray Area. These pools could employ about 25 youth, offering wages ranging from minimum wage to $9.25 and could serve about 17,000 people, Bond said.

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Sight Center receives technology grant By Michael Stainbrook TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

A local agency that helps visually impaired young people is taking steps to ensure them a brighter future. Through a recent $9,000 grant from Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio will update its Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Technology Classroom, which provides opportunities to develop basic computing skills. Dawn Christensen, The Sight Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director, said the grant was necessary for obtaining the most up-to-date assistive technology. CHRISTENSEN â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been using [the classroom], but it needs to be updated,â&#x20AC;? Christensen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;New assistive technology is coming out every month.â&#x20AC;? Christensen said the classroom serves a vital role in the development of visually impaired young people. She said most low-vision children do not learn the â&#x20AC;&#x153;basics of using a computerâ&#x20AC;? until much later than children with normal vision. Thus, having the proper equipment is vital to the skills-development process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need new computers with the ability to facilitate the use of new assistive technology,â&#x20AC;? she said. Assistive technology includes any piece of equipment that levels the playing field between sighted and blind individuals. In the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Technology Classroom, students learn to use computers by utilizing software, such as JAWS, an audio program that converts computer text into speech, and Zoom Text, which enlarges text to a greater level than on standard computer programs. Other technological aides include low-vision keyboards, which are useful due to their bright colors

and controls to change the contrast of the monitor. The Sight Center also serves local youth through the Activities of Daily Living Apartment, which is used to educate children enrolled in Toledo Public Schools. Students with moderate to severe vision impairments travel to the center once per week to learn tasks like making a bed, preparing a meal, cleaning, folding laundry and cleaning a bathroom. Through this program, students aim to learn basic skills to maintain independence. Christensen, who is blind, has served as the executive director since March 2006. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You name it; I do it,â&#x20AC;? she said. She specifically works on marketing, public education and developmental program services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do a lot of speaking engagements,â&#x20AC;? she said. Christensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loyal companion through these tasks is her guide dog, Althea, whom she has had for seven years. He was trained at Seeing Eye in Morristown, N.J. During her tenure, The Sight Center has been relocated to 1002 Garden Lake Parkway in Toledo. Prior to her current position, she has a plethora of experience, ranging from volunteer coordinator to clerical and rehabilitative work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In college, I worked here during the summer in our sheltered workshop doing assembly and production services and then into clerical and into rehab,â&#x20AC;? she said. Christensen also founded the Toledo Chapter of the American Council of the Blind, served as the president at the statewide level and as a board member nationally. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Toledo. Christensen, born with optic nerve atrophy, has been legally blind her entire life. She studied in special education programs through Toledo Public Schools until the sixth grade, learning Braille and other skills to ease her sight loss. Starting in seventh grade, she became the first legally blind student to attend Anthony Wayne Local Schools and Oregon City School. â&#x2013; SIGHT CONTINUES ON A9

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Witness convention is a boon for Toledo economy By Allison Wingate TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses annual conference at the SeaGate Convention Centre brings an economic â&#x20AC;&#x153;stimulus packageâ&#x20AC;? to Downtown Toledo. The convention begins June 19 and will continue each weekend through July. For five years, the WitHARRINGTON nesses have brought the six-week conference to Toledo and with them thousands of patrons to area businesses. According to Witness spokesman John Harrington, approximately 5,000 people will attend each of the six conventions. Harrington noted the central location as one of the main reasons the Witnesses choose to hold their convention here each year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centrally located for about 400 congregations in Southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio,â&#x20AC;? John said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have three conventions in Cleveland and three in Dayton, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re centrally located in Toledo.â&#x20AC;? Harrington said the social climate and support from local government are other reasons the Witnesses return. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We find that Toledo is very friendly with excellent cooperation with the parking authority and the police department, who ensure the safety of our people,â&#x20AC;? he said. Some local business owners claim the conference brings their biggest numbers of the year. Michael Sapara, general manager of Park Inn Hotel, has already seen the effect of the conferences long before June 19. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unconscious, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but see the economic impact here,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have about 1,000 to 1,200 guests for six consecutive weeks.â&#x20AC;? Sapara said the Park Inn, the largest hotel in Northwest Ohio with 400 rooms, is at full capacity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at full employment and have to hire additional summer help,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a few rooms here and there left; you might have 30 to 40 rooms over those three days total open. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the course of the year, it

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Watchmen Witness spokesperson John Harrington said Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses call themselves â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watchmen,â&#x20AC;? as they are constantly on the watch for the fulfillment of the biblical prophecies of Jesus, specifically world events they believe indicate â&#x20AC;&#x153;the conclusion of the system of things.â&#x20AC;? It is upon this literal interpretation of the Bible that the fundamentals of the Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witness belief system stands, as they believe it is the written â&#x20AC;&#x153;word of God.â&#x20AC;? The name Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witness refers to the act of bearing witness to God or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jehovah,â&#x20AC;? a name that appears in the original Hebrew Scriptures. The scripture upon which the Witnesses base their name is Isaiah 43:1-28, according to watchtower.org, the official Web site for the Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses organization.

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t is never too early or too late for elder-care planning. People often think it is too early if there is not a crisis, or if a crisis has occurred, many think it is too late. In our experience, some type of planning is always beneficial, no matter the situation. A wide range of concerns need to be addressed with each situation being somewhat different. Common concerns are asset protection, quality of care, quality of life, protecting the healthy spouse, figuring out how to pay for needed care, determining what type of care is needed and the best place to get care. Many times it takes a team to flesh out the issues and to determine the best course of action. This team can consist of adult children who are decision makers, family caregivers, geriatric care managers, financial planners and elder-law attorneys. Pre-crisis planning can be done long before the crisis. As we get older, we realize some type of health crisis is likely to occur. Mark has experienced this with the recent illness and death of his father, and the prior experience of his uncle suffering from several strokes, ending up in a nursing home and dying at 58. Pre-crisis planning can include purchasing long-term care insurance, repositioning assets and making sure the proper legal documents are in place. In some cases, the language in a legal document may be the difference in reacting effectively or not being able to do much at all. ■ ELDER CONTINUES ON A14

Stanley Slusarski received his best birthday present ever at 71 in the unexpected form of a 3-foot catheter capped with a miniscule, power-packed pump. The cuttingedge heart device helped save his life during cardiac surgery on his birthday on June 6. “I call it a miracle pump,” Slusarski, of Blissfield, Mich., said. The diagnosis before the pump was grim — doctors told him he probably wouldn’t make it, Slusarski said. Two blocked arteries that disabled part of his heart made life a struggle. He doesn’t understand the device’s inner workings, but he’s just glad it works. “I’m not building barns or cutting down trees, but I’m getting along quite well,” Slusarski said, laughing. “It’s a miracle.” He’s the first patient at Toledo Hospital and in Northwest Ohio to receive help from Abiomed’s Impella 2.5 heart pump, which the hospital obtained in May. Deemed the world’s smallest heart pump, it’s at work in 200 hospitals nationwide, said Lloyd Gillies, Abiomed clinical consultant. “This acts as a safety net to get [patients] through a high-risk procedure,” Gillies said. Surgeons run the catheter pump through an artery in the groin area up to the heart, where Impella can pump 2.5 liters per minute. Although it pumps half the amount of blood needed, its main purpose is to assist hearts with limited function. A minute Archimedes screw, or turbine, about one-eighth of an inch long runs at 50,000 rotations per minute. Cardiologist Todd Monroe of Northwest Ohio Cardiology Consultants helped demonstrate the pump at Toledo Hospital on June 18. Monroe operated on Slusarski.

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The catheter connects to a small, wheeled cart. Doctors demonstrated the pump by placing it in a bowl of water, which turned the bowl into a swift-flowing whirlpool. “There’s a real swirling action in the bowl but hopefully not in the patient,” Monroe said, laughing. SLUSARSKI The pump acts as a bridge, Monroe said, and is usually meant for short-term procedures. It can either assist patients recuperating from heart attacks or other maladies or keep blood pumping during surgical procedures. But he said not all heart pa-

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UT Scott Park expects sun, wind to meet power needs By David Steffen TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The University of Toledo and BottomLine Resource Technologies are preparing to harness wind, solar and geothermal power to meet all electricity needs at the Scott Park campus. “Our goal is to offset or neutralize our carbon footprint, so we can demonstrate to the world how we can use renewable power intelligently,” said Chuck Lehnert, UT’s vice president of facilities and construction. The campus’ changes would make it the first of its kind in the nation to produce its own power, said Richard Housh, chairman and CEO of BottomLine Resource Technologies. His company is currently analyzing the campus’ energy needs and possibilities. Lehnert said the Scott Park campus consumes about one megawatt of electricity per hour, and a renewable energy infrastructure could meet the demand through solar and wind power. “We want to use the grid in a more intelligent fashion,” Housh said. A mix of five to eight acres of solar panels and wind turbines could meet the campus’ one-megawatt demand, Lehnert said. BottomLine Resource Technologies expects to install the solar panels and wind turbines toward the end of the year, Housh said, but the program would continue to develop over time as a working experiment. Housh said his company was founded in 2007, but he’s been involved with energy since 1978. BottomLine Resource Technologies has implemented similar energy-saving measures at The Ohio State University in Columbus and at the UT’s medical campus. “The mission of our company is intelligent energy solutions, “Housh said. “There is more concentration around renewable, efficient technology, electric transport and everything related to the smart grid.” He said universities are an ideal proving ground for the renewable energy sources. “There’s an opportunity at universities to save energy because of the high occupancy,” Housh said. UT has asked for state and federal financial assistance, Housh said, but he does not have an estimate in the preliminary stages. He said UT has proven itself as a leader in renewable energy and expects the Scott Park campus to be a success.

■ ELDER CONTINUED FROM A13 A family health care crisis can be extremely stressful and emotionally draining. Believe us, when we say this because both of us have been through some trying times. The point is it is not too late for effective planning, even after the crisis has occurred. One of the primary concerns seems to be figuring out how to pay for the high cost of care. With nursing home care routinely costing more than $6,000 per month, the fear is running out of money. It is a shame that it can wipe out one’s life savings and leave a healthy spouse in the predicament of not having enough money to live. A complete analysis should be done to evaluate resources, income and care requirements. It can be tricky if Medicaid is considered as an option to help pay for care. The rules are hard to understand, and timing can be crucial in knowing what to do and when to do it.

You may be reading this article and have an ailing spouse, or maybe you are a child of aging parents, or you feel like life is passing by and it’s time to take action. Whether you like to plan ahead, are a procrastinator or the crisis has already occurred, it is never too late to plan. A good place to start is to contact an attorney who focuses on elder-care planning. Free consultations are often available. A good elder-care attorney will be able to refer you to a financial planner or geriatric care manager, if needed, as part of the planning process. For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at noon on 1230 WCWA and every Sunday at 11 a.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www.retirementguysradio.com. Securities are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA / SIPC. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537.

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Hart honored for marketing excellence From Staff Reports Hart Associates, an integrated marketing communications firm, recently won eight awards, according to a news release. The release said Hart Associates won its first half of the awards at the 26th annual Healthcare Advertising Awards. It won a gold medal for its direct mailer campaign announcing Paramount Preferred Network and Health Management Solutions combining into Managed Care Organization. MIKE HART The release said Hart also won two bronze awards for its ProMedica Health System Oncology ads and its ProMedica “Stars” Toledo Children’s Hospital radio spots. A merit award was also given out for the Hart’s ProMedica Hospice Campaign. The other half of the awards, the release said, came from The Aster Awards. At the Aster ceremony, Hart’s aforementioned hospice campaign won a gold medal, as well as two silvers to Hart’s DePuy Mitek Web site and the direct mailer. The oncology ads, the release stated, took home a bronze. “Hart Associates is among the top in the nation for health care advertising expertise, specifically scoring in the top five percent,” said Melinda R. Lucas, Aster Awards program coordinator, in a press release. “It was an honor to have Hart participate in the 2009 Aster Awards. They exceeded the judges’ expectations.”

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atching people succeed hatch your ideas, grow your business in life can create strange and grab success with both hands. To reach new heights in your feelings. Outwardly, you business, you need appear supportive and to be able to answer congratulatory as you the age-old question, hear the news of their “Which came first, the success; inwardly, you chicken or the egg?” shake your head as you Dissect any success take inventory of your story and you will learn own ideas, goals and that the egg came first, plans for the future. not the chicken. While How did they do it? some may argue that What did they do difneed a goose to ferently than you? After Tom RICHARD you lay that golden egg that all, you have ideas, too, goose did not fall out of but you don’t have the time for the extra work. You know the sky; its life began from a carehow to grow your business, but you fully nurtured egg. Evolutionists will tell you that don’t have the money to put things in motion. If you only had more time species adapt to their changing surand money, you, too, could finally roundings by mutating and changing.

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Phil Levering and Craig Vanderkam are learning what it means to be team players. The Mud Hens’ two media relations interns are part of a program General Manager Joe Napoli started in the mid-90s. It started with just a few interns and has grown to about 40. “Honestly, I go to work every day not even labeling myself as an intern,” Vanderkam said. “I just try to fit in and go to work hoping for the betterment of the organization in all facets.” One day, Vanderkam wants to become a director of media relations for a major league team, while Levering wants to work in broadcast journalism. When Levering switched his major to broadcast journalism at UT, he received advice from Mario Impemba, play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers on Fox Sports Detroit. Impemba told Levering to contact Jason Griffin, director of public relations and announcer for the Mud Hens. “Fortunately, when I did, the Mud Hens needed PR help because the interns for that summer were going back to school before the season ended,” Levering said. “I

helped finish the year, and during that off-season, Jason continued to let me help with the behind-thescenes PR work. As the next season approached, I reapplied and I got the experience of the full internship from start to finish.” “Maybe the most interesting thing [about the internship] has been the extent that the Mud Hens organization relies on others just as they are reliant on us,” Vanderkam said. “The Tigers and their other affiliates all work in conjunction with each other to get the best out of each organization, through rehab assignments and other transactions between two clubs.” Vanderkam and Levering work directly with the players, coaches, scouts, broadcasters and other media. They prepare for radio and television broadcasts, including collecting and organizing game notes, a 17-page statistics packet and writing a game recap for the Web site. The duo is also responsible for lining up players for game-day events like autograph sessions and player appearances. The interns get programs signed for each home game and find a player to catch the ceremonial first pitches. “I have learned how to plan ahead and anticipate,” Levering said. Griffin said the goal is for his interns to feel comfortable and get

prepared for a real job. “They mean a lot because there are a lot of things to do,” he said. “There is some grunt work, but we give them a lot of responsibility, too.” Vanderkam expects to graduate from BGSU in August, while Levering is set to graduate from UT in spring 2010. Past interns have attained jobs with the Memphis Grizzlies, Wayne State University, MLB Network, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers, among others. Twenty-two Mud Hens and four Toledo Walleye employees are former interns. Virtually every single ticket employee with each team is a former intern, according to Griffin. Interns have also landed jobs as the public relations director for the Detroit Tigers, general manager of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs Triple-A baseball team and online marketing manager for the Mud Hens. “It’s a two-way street,” Levering said. “I think interns really do help get things done for the Mud Hens organization and they give the interns the responsibility to get important tasks accomplished. I think the program works so well because the interns want to get the most out of the experience. We work hard so that we can learn and contribute as best we can.”

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n a battle to see who could go the slowest and still be fast enough to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) on June 14, moderate Mark Martin coasted to vic-

tory, leaving Jimmie Johnson and Greg Biffle frustrated and their respective cars fuming, which is what race cars do when they’re totally out of fuel. It was another fuel-mileage race, the mention of which sends

MIS track officials into a flat-out frenzy. There’s a perception that fuel-mileage races are won by those who are considered not to exhibit stereotypical masculine behavior. They supposedly separate the boys

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from the men. The fastest cars don’t tation of being a fuel-mileage race have any particular advantage. The course. Yes, you don’t want that, but misguided thought process is speed consider this: Had the June 14 race not been thrown into a fuel-mileage rules; strategy sucks. situation, Johnson It was the second would have run off “fuel-mileage” race with, at least, a fivein the past three second win, and the NASCAR Cup events term “boring” is much at MIS, with Dale more distressing than, Earnhardt Jr. sniffing “fuel mileage.” out victory last June. Junior’s triumph Afterwards, Earnin June 2008 was very hardt quipped, “They popular. What has can write what they want, but we won one.” Dave WOOLFORD NASCAR’s most popular driver done since? One That’s what they wrote, Junior. No one called you a victory in his past 113 races going into Sonoma, Calif., and that was at sissy, fluky or even intolerable. Later he would say, “It is what Michigan. Had he not won at MIS, the Junior Nation might now be the it is.” And it was what it was June 14 Junior Desolation. at MIS. With just more than one lap remaining, Johnson ran out of gas; Guitar hero Biffle shot into the lead and then You’ve heard of Pete Townshend, he ran out of gas, and Martin had right? Me neither, at least not until been very content in third. He was recently when Kyle Busch did his smelling not fumes but the sweet impersonation of the guitarist from fragrance associated with leaping the English rock band, The Who. into the Top 12 in the point standBusch won the NASCAR Naings, those of whom will participate tionwide race at Nashville and was in the 10-race Chase for the champi- presented with a Gibson Les Paul onship to end the season. guitar designed and painted by the Let’s not forget that the NASCAR renowned Sam Bass. Busch proSprint Cup race contest previous to ceeded to smash the guitar on stage, Michigan, at Pocono, Pa., was won a la Townshend, as Bass, Busch’s by owner-driver Tony Stewart and it, handlers and thousands of race car too, was a fuel-mileage race. Imagine fans looked on in utter horror. telling Stewart to slow down? He Busch said he wanted to have the didn’t get the nickname “Smoke” by remains cut into equal pieces and hoarding fuel. But he turned from passed out as souvenirs to his crew mashing the gas to putting his best members. foot back just a tad. At the end, he On June 14, at MIS, Busch was had everyone worshiping at his feet. asked if he regretted his actions. Stewart’s crew chief, Darian “Not really ... made me think Grubb, knew he had a car fast enough about it,” he responded. “In the end, to win the race, but when fuel mileage I’m kind of like, you know what? became the issue, it was time to ac- No, I don’t regret it. I thought it was cess the remainder of the field, try to fun. It was fun, and a lot of people figure out his counterpart’s strategy enjoyed it and thought it was difand then counter with his own. ferent — sports not so vanilla. A lot “We had to have Tony back off of people hated it, and I guess those and save as much fuel as we could,” are the ones with 88 (Junior’s car Grubb explained. “There were a lot of number) tattooed on their arm. I’ve guys in the same position. You’ve got got no issues with Junior; it’s his fans to play the strategy against them.” that are crazy, but that’s all right.” Jeff Gordon, who finished The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series second at MIS on June 14, refused will return to Martinsville Speedway to say fuel-mileage races can’t be in- on Oct. 25, where track officials are, teresting for both fans and drivers. by all accounts, taking turns praying “It’s a strategy. It’s tense. It’s hard hourly that Busch does not win the not to put your foot all the way down race, the trophy being probably the to the floor on the straightaways,” he most sought-after in all of NASCAR explained. “To me, it’s just as intense racing. It’s a seven-foot-tall handand difficult to win in a fuel-mileage crafted Grandfather Clock, manurace as it is to go out there and com- factured by Martinsville-based pete with the fastest car and try to Ridgeway Clocks and valued at pass for the lead.” more than $11,000. There’s no disrespect in winning Busch has already said he would a fuel-mileage race. MIS is con- not break that trophy if he won it. If cerned that it might get the repu- he does, time will stand still.

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AUTO SENSE

It’s air-conditioning time; know the cool basics

he hot weather has finally ar- refrigerant into the atmosphere rived, and along with it comes has turned out to be a real problem the high humidity associated for our environment. It seems the refrigerant we once with this area. I don’t used (refrigerant 12 think anyone can or simply R-12) in our ever really get used vehicles a/c system to the humidity and was destroying the heat combinations ozone layer of our here in Northwest atmosphere. As the Ohio. It comes upon refrigerant bled out us, nonetheless, every of our vehicles, the year about this time. vaporized refrigerant The only real relief is began to rise. Once our air-conditioning Nick SHULTZ it reached the ozone (a/c) units in our layer, located in the homes, workplaces stratosphere, it began to destroy it. and vehicles. The ozone layer shields you and All our a/c systems fundamentally operate the same way regardless me, and all of Earths’ creatures, from of what, or where, they are cooling. harmful ultraviolet rays. Those ultraThe refrigerators and freezers in our violet rays come from the sun. Overhomes use the same principles of op- exposure to those ultraviolet rays can eration as does our vehicles. And al- cause skin cancer and cataracts and though our refrigerators and freezers can kill off vast quantities of our seas’ rarely give us trouble, that is not often and oceans’ plankton. Of course the the case with the a/c systems in our sea’s food chain supply begins with plankton. It is not hard to imagine the cars and trucks. The primary reason for the consequences to mankind should the breakdown of our vehicles’ a/c sea’s food chain be destroyed. According to the Environmental systems is the harsh environment in which they operate. Unlike the Protection Agency, during the life a/c units in our homes, which reof an air-conditioning system it main stationary while in use, our will leak, on average, 2.3 pounds cars’ a/c systems are constantly in of refrigerant into the atmosphere. motion. This constant movement Roughly 40 million pounds of reof components and the exception- frigerant leaks into the atmosphere ally high underhood tempera- globally each year. Because of the ozone’s imtures in which they operate can cause our vehicles’ a/c systems to minent destruction, countries develop small leaks. Those leaks around the world joined together bleed the a/c refrigerant into the and banned R-12 which was deatmosphere and ultimately cause stroying it. Since 1993, all vehicles have used a more environmentally the a/c system to fail. This constant bleeding of the friendly refrigerant called R-134a.

Whereas R-12 is chlorine-based, the replacement R-134a is not. Several other protocols for servicing vehicles’ a/c systems were adopted at that time, chief of which is the requirement that all a/c system service technicians be

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side the evaporator. The absorption of the heat from within the interior of the vehicle, via the evaporator, causes the refrigerant inside the evaporator to change physical state from a liquid to a vapor. An interesting byproduct of the normal evaporatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s function is that it removes the moisture from inside a car as well as cools it. As the heat is attracted to the low temperature of the evaporator core

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A22 â&#x2013; TOLEDO FREE PRESS â&#x2013; SENSE CONTINUED FROM A21 The textbook definition of cold is the absence of heat. If the heat we are removing from inside the passenger compartment is greater than the heat that is entering from outside the vehicle, then the inside of the car begins to cool down. It does so because with the absence of heat, all that remains is cold. We can break the laws of man, but we cannot break the laws of nature. We can, however, use those laws to our advantage. Such is the case with the a/c system. By removing heat from our cars, what remains is cold. Controlling the amount of heat we remove will control the temperature within a vehicle. Once the refrigerant absorbs the heat from within the passenger compartment, it is drawn out of the evaporator and into a compressor. Once inside the compressor, the vaporized refrigerants pressure is raised dramatically and pushed out of the compressor pump, through some plumbing and on toward the front of the vehicle. Located in the front of the vehicle, immediately in front of the radiator, is a device called a condenser. The compressor not only raises the pressure of the vaporized refrigerant, it also raises the refrigerantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temperature. It raises the refrigerantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temperature to a point very much above the outside ambient air temperature. Remember, hot always moves to cold! As air is drawn through the condenser, the heat trapped in the refrigerant vapor is absorbed by the surrounding atmosphere, and the refrigerant vapor turns to a liquid. Therefore, hot moved to cold. The liquid refrigerant is then pushed out of the condenser by the same compressor pump that raised its pressure. It then is forced through a small nozzle that resembles, in function, the nozzle on your garden hose. When passing through this nozzle the pressure, and the

temperature of the liquid refrigerant is substantially lowered. The refrigerant then re-enters the evaporator as a low pressure and low temperature liquid. Thus, the whole process begins again. Now there are obviously quite a few electrical devices and various other gadgets that make the a/c system function properly within our vehicles. Nonetheless, the basic operation is accurately described above. The neat thing about the

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Seems everybody can use a little encouragement these days, even two hot jazz stars. “It’s such an interesting time for our country, for the world and, not to get too big with the concept, but it felt like, at least this year, like a goal was helping each other out, kind of support, support for one another on stage and support for our country and what people are going through, and that’s where the idea of ‘Side by Side’ kind of came through,” said saxophonist Dave Koz. Koz and multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson will bring their Side by Side Tour to the Valentine Theatre for a 7 p.m. show June 28. Tickets range from $35 to $75. “I’m very excited to be sharing the stage with him, too, because he’s

about 10 years younger than I am, and he always kicks me in my you know what,” Koz said and laughed. “He’s got that youthful exuberance. And when I get on the stage, too, I’m 46, but when I get on the stage I feel at least 20 years younger because it just brings out that super, highcharged energy in me.” Both artists are fueled by 2008 releases — Koz’s “Greatest Hits” and Culbertson’s “Bringing Back the Funk” both debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz chart. That’s a familiar position for Koz, who held the top spot for 12 weeks in 2007 with “At the Movies,” a collection of cinema classics. When asked what inspires him to write, Koz talked about a recent screening. “I just went and saw this movie, ‘Up.’ Wow. I came out of that movie theater and was like, that was incredible. It inspires me,” he said from his Los Angeles

home during a phone interview. “When you see that kind of greatness and creativity that people put into their projects, that makes me want to be a better musician, a better songwriter, to dig deeper into my own creativity to come up with something that could make people feel that same way in my own way. “I can have that experience by going to see a movie or by going to a museum and seeing a beautiful piece of art, hearing other people’s music, spending time with my family, which is always an important inspiration, going on holiday, drinking an incredible glass of wine, having someone make some good food — any creativity inspires my creativity.” The sax man said he’s working on a new disc that should be out late this year or early 2010. “As an instrumentalist ... it’s all about those notes and the sequence of those notes. When you don’t have lyrics to lean on, it really requires a melody that transforms somebody,” the songwriter said. “And it’s not just the notes, then it’s how you deliver them. So it’s that combination of that rare alchemy that exists when it’s the notes and the person playing them imbuing them with emotion and passion.” The expressive nature of the horn has captivated Koz since age 13. “Whatever I’m feeling inside emotion-wise, the saxophone is a way of getting it out,” he said. “It can be extremely expressive, and that doesn’t mean just on the romance side. Of course, the saxophone is a very romantic instrument, but it also can be very jubilant, it can be extremely haunting, it can be sad, it can be pretty much any emotion that you put in, it can mirror that and that’s why it’s been a very satisfying instrument to play.”

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Smoke on the Water ribs event sells out all rib vendor slots By Mark Hensch TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The 2009 Columbia Gas of Ohio Smoke on the Water - Ribs for the Red Cross event has sold all its rib

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Grammy-Winning gospel conference praises Toledo By Allison Wingate TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Gospel singer Edwin Hawkins hit it big with the Grammy-winning recording of gospel anthem “Oh! Happy Day!” in 1969, and he continues to spread the wealth of his musical and spiritual knowledge. Alongside his brother HAWKINS Bishop Walter Hawkins, he will host the 28th annual Edwin Hawkins and Walter Hawkins Music & Arts Love Fellowship Conference, which will be in Toledo June 21 through 27 at the

Ramada Hotel (the former Clarion on Secor Road). It was a live recording from this very conference that won the Grammy award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album in 1993, said local event coordinator Larry Jones. Jones said the first conference took place in San Francisco in 1979 and was created to foster Christian fellowship through gospel workshops and educational seminars. The conference took the road, making annual stops in San Francisco and Atlanta and eventually found a home in Toledo in 1994. Hawkins said the welcoming the conference organizers felt and the outpouring of support from Toledoans made them want to bring the conference back to Toledo this year. “We’re hoping this year’s conference will be a big success,” Hawkins said. “We haven’t been back in To-

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