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JUNE 24, 2012

OPINION

JUNE 24, 2012

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

For whom the Bell rolls

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wo local media mainstays, Toledo Mayor Mike Bell and Columbia Gas of Ohio, have been the subject of conversation this week. They always are, but there are interesting public relations elements to discuss.

A few photos of Bell have been posted on Facebook and local message boards such as Toledo Talk. The photos show the mayor hanging out at the new Ye Olde Cock n’ Bull Tavern, wearing his motorcycle leathers and torn jeans. He is shown on stage with a band, posing with women at the bar and just generally enjoying himself.

Good for him.

It appears the photos were posted to embarrass Bell by raising questions about his behavior. It is of interest that these photos almost always draw comments about the race of the people Bell is with; whether those comments are in jest or come from a less admirable mindset can only be known by the people posting them.

During his run for offi ce, Bell promised he was going to remain true to himself and he has.

He has taken controversial stances, made statements with bulldog determination and run the city as he said he would.

If he parties on his own time and it helps him deal with stress and stay in touch with who he is and what he loves about Toledo, that’s healthy.

Bell has made mistakes, and his increasing Thomas F.POUNDS distance from some City Council members is a concern, but none of his perceived missteps have to do with him blowing off steam on his motorcycle and enjoying some rock star action.

There are lines of behavior and responsibility on the party scene, and there have been no indications that Bell has crossed them.

Rock on, Mike.

Residents at GrayStone Woods have been rocked by the discovery of methane gas seeping around their homes. Columbia Gas of Ohio determined the levels were a danger and cut off service to the subdivision. This has understandably caused distress to the homeowners, who have been without a major utility service for three weeks. No gas means no hot showers and meals cooked in microwaves, with no immediate endgame in sight.

The situation is undoubtedly a major inconvenience for the homeowners, a scary proposition for developer Seneca Building Co., a jurisdiction puzzle for government and a public relations issue for Columbia Gas. The utility company is doing the right thing. Columbia’s zero-tolerance policy is a safety-first call (one that does not help its bottom line, by the way) and one residents should respect, even if they can’t appreciate it.

Residents in GrayStone Woods have a right to voice their unhappiness, but they would have much bigger worries if Columbia Gas had rushed to restore service and one or more homes or lives had been lost.

We certainly hope the parties involved can find a quick and permanent solution to the problem. But in the meantime, Columbia Gas and Mayor Bell fi nd themselves in a similar situation; being criticized for taking care of their business — and their lives — with unwavering dedication to what they believe is right. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LIGHTING THE FUSE

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ince December 2006, Rainbow Valley has been a family running and exploring within seconds. But the attendant oasis and tradition. Nestled in the Sears court at Aven- stopped Evan and motioned for me to come over.

“He’s too tall to come in,” she said, with the air of tura Mall in South Florida, Rainbow Valley is about the size of a suburban backyard. It looks like an anime dream of someone who has delivered this particular piece of bad a marshmallow world; every hill and slide and cave is made news before and is ready for the protest. She guided Evan to the fixed ruler on the gate, which, like the of soft , yielding foam. Babies crawl, toddlers doomed One Ring of Mordor, was inscribed toddle and shoeless kids run and jump on the with a message: “Children who are taller bright green and blue surfaces while parents than 42 inches may not use the play area.” sit or play along and an attendant guards the I do not know how she sized Evan up so only exit. White clouds with smiling faces are quickly, but I was confident she was wrong. suspended from the ceiling, overlooking the We had just been here in November and he play area like benevolent sentinels. sailed through. There was no way Evan was Our twice-yearly visits to Aventura to now 3-and-a-half-feet tall. visit family almost always include a walk But when he stood against the ruler, the through the seemingly endless Aventura top of Evan’s head was a clear two inches Mall, which during the holidays features a wonderland of Christmas trains, trees and a Michael S. MILLER above the cutoff line.

“I’m sorry, Evan,” I said, and walked him Santa Claus who remembers our sons every back to his shoes. I was as confused and thrown off as he year and adds to the season’s magic.

Evan, who is now 6, and Sean, who is now 4, celebrate was, but while I was fighting what my eyes had seen, Evan their mid-June birthdays within a few days of each other; showed excitement.

“Hey, I’m too big for the playground,” he said, with a Sean was born on the same date as my brother Mark, my only sibling. So June visits to Aventura, just south of Holly- mixture of pride and wonder.

“Looks like it,” I said, proud of his reaction to being dewood and Fort Lauderdale, revolve around birthday parties and the inevitable spoiling that loving uncles like Mark and nied a treat he had enjoyed twice a year for his entire life.

Hey, I’m too big for the playground,” he repeated, and Jack orchestrate.

The boys love walking through the air-conditioned this time I could hear the understanding and disappointAventura Mall, with its gigantic Disney Store, a LEGO ment I was already mired in.

We walked around and watched the other kids play for a store with open workbenches and piles of LEGOs and the whirring escalators. Rainbow Valley, not coincidentally, is while, then left them in their mothers’ care and walked back located next to an It’Sugar store that boasts enough candy to the LEGO store for a half-hour.

There are days when it feels like I just brought my sons and sweets to give Willy Wonka a toothache.

One of our rituals at the mall is to visit Rainbow Valley, home from the hospital, but those moments are fading as where everyone takes off their shoes, places them in a traditions like Rainbow Valley are felled by the arrows of cubicle and then runs and plays, ideally helping the kids growth and maturation.

As we played with LEGOs, Evan and I had a converexpend energy but in reality draining the adults while the sation about his just-completed year of kindergarten. He kids grow exponentially stronger. Th ey slide, climb into the mountain fort to look through the periscope, slide down was confident he knew everything he needed to know and hills and chase each other in circles, laughing and laughing fi gured he wouldn’t need to spend any time this summer preparing for first grade. until someone falls or climbs too high.

“You think you know it all, huh?” I asked him.

Our annual file of photographs from Aventura includes “Yep,” Evan replied. “Ask me something.” six years of Evan and Sean at Rainbow Valley, chronicling “OK, professor,” I said. “What’s the meaning of life?” their growth against the unmoving background of the Evan looked at me like I had asked him for an elemenplastic hills and slides.

During our visit the week of June 11, we visited the mall tary answer, like his name.

“Family,” he said. and let the boys play with LEGOs and marvel at the Disney I smiled and nodded.

Store (which, due to its corporate parent’s continuing efforts My 6-year-old son thus proved himself not only too to own every brand of entertainment, features Snow White and Buzz Lightyear next to the Iron Man, Miss Piggy and grown for Rainbow Valley, but, on this one question, wise Perry the Platypus) before finding our way to Rainbow Valley. enough to silence his father. ✯ We were with our family friend Julie and her little boy, Ben, another Rainbow Valley veteran. We approached the Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press playground and watched the three boys take offtheir shoes and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at mmiller@toledo and scurry to the entrance gate. Ben and Sean were inside, freepress.com.

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DECISION 2012

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Flawed claims

State debt is different from the navery four years, Ohio plays an integral role in each presiden- tional debt because, unlike state govtial candidate’s strategy, espe- ernments, the federal government is cially in terms of television ad time. not required to have sufficient funds to cover discretionary and mandatory This year will be no different.

To date, voters have seen more spending. It is able to print money than $162 million worth of ads. The to pay for services it doesn’t have the bulk of the money has been spent money for, unlike states. So the idea in battleground states like Pennsyl- that based on Romney’s state debt vania, Nevada, Florida and Ohio. record, he would increase the debt to According to The Washington Post, pay for discretionary and mandatory Toledo has seen $1.5 million worth spending is severely flawed.

Second, Massaof ads to date from chusetts had a track both candidates. While record of operating in smaller in comparison debt that started before to other parts of the Romney took office. In state, this amount is the two years prior to still enough to leave a his governorship, Maslasting impression in a sachusetts ranked first voter’s mind. and second in debt per One ad that has been capita. In fact, it has recently played from the been in the top five Barack Obama camBen OSBURN ranking for almost five paign targets Mitt Romney’s governorship of Massachusetts. decades. However, while the state Paid for by Obama for America, the may be notorious for racking up large ad depicts Mitt Romney as a job killer amounts of debt, it is also well known and a debt creator. The campaign for paying it off. Under Romney, claims that “Romney economics” the state operated with a AA credit didn’t work when he was governor rating, recently being upgraded to and they won’t work if he is president. AA+. Any money borrowed by the The ad states that under Romney, state was most likely paid off.

The ad also states that during Massachusetts had the highest amount of public debt per person Romney’s tenure, Massachusetts than any other state. This is a true at one time ranked 47th in job crestatement. According to Moody’s In- ation. This is true, but ignores the vestor Services, during Romney’s last improvements Romney made during year in office, Massachusetts had the his time. When Romney took office highest per capita debt in the country in 2003, Massachusetts was at the with $4,153 per citizen. Connecticut bottom of the list at 50th, in terms came in a distant second. Cumula- of job creation. When he left office tively during Romney’s four years, in 2007, the state jumped to 28th on the rankings stayed the same. Even the list. Romney even improved the though Romney slowed the rate of state’s unemployment rate from the debt growth from 5.8 to 1.9 percent, 5.6 percent rate he inherited to 4.7 this ultimately means that the claim percent when he left office. Though the jobless rate and unemployment made by team Obama is true.

However, the claim is also some- numbers were still above the national what misleading. First, there is a dis- average when Romney left the govertinct difference between state and norship, it is clear that conditions did national debt. Many states are like improve under his leadership.

Instead of doing a year-by-year Massachusetts, which by law must balance its budget. This means that analysis of Massachusetts’ job crethe operating budget for the state, ation rankings, the Obama campaign which covers public employees’ pay- decided to use the much worse avroll and government services, must erage. Additionally, the campaign also be fully paid for by taxes and fees each used the most misleading measure of year. Romney did not increase taxes state debt to paint the worst picture of during his tenure, but did increase candidate Romney. The Obama camfees. Money for capital improvement paign continues to blame Romney for projects like road and school im- problems that he inherited when he provements are typically not covered was governor, while ignoring the sucin the budget and are paid for by bor- cesses of his tenure. ✯ rowing money. In Massachusetts, regional capital projects are often paid Ben Osburn is a graduate student in for by the state, due to the lack of re- political science at the University of gional government taxing authority. Toledo. Email him at letters@toledo This increased the debt even more. freepress.com.

OPINION

JUNE 24, 2012

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Free parking would give Downtown a boost TO THE EDITOR, I am intrigued by your June 3 and June 10 articles regarding majormarket attractions for Toledo. There is a point I would like to make. A vibrant Downtown would be wonderful. Outsiders looking at a city evaluate the downtown.

What is missing in Downtown Toledo is retail. The June 10 illustration by Don Lee showing wished-for Downtown stores with the Skyway Bridge in the background was cool.

I believe there are two things, if done ASAP, that would give the Downtown a great, quick economic boost. First, free nonevent parking.

You should start a campaign to get the Port Authority to allow free nonevent

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Toledo city government needs to get a developer to renovate the building facades on Superior and Huron streets between Monroe to either Madison or Adams streets to attract retail businesses.”

parking at its parking sites (garages, lots and meters). People need to be able to window shop for free. Window shopping leads to purchasing.

Second, Toledo city government needs to get a developer to renovate the building facades on Superior and Huron streets between Monroe to either Madison or Adams streets to attract retail businesses.

For events, I would suggest getting TARTA more involved. Have several pickup places around the metro area for events at $1 to $2 rates round trip. Don’t stop there. Have several pickup places around the metro area that go directly to Downtown at a $1 rate round trip.

Anything to feed Downtown. ✯ JOHN BOES, Toledo

No place to go when unhappy with utility company TO THE EDITOR, I just read Michael Miller’s June 17 article regarding a customer service issue at a store he visited recently. What struck me as odd was that because he spent his money at a local retail outlet, he of course may change where he spends his money at his discretion. Such is not the case when one deals with large utilities like Columbia Gas of Ohio. Let me tell a story that still has not been resolved.

For the past three weeks, every homeowner in the relatively new subdivision of GrayStone Woods has had their gas cut off because Columbia Gas decided that their readings indicated anything over zero percent level of detectable methane gas outside of the house and in the ground was unacceptable and must be cut off for safety reasons. Below are just a few reasons why this ranks as the dumbest decision one company can make.

1. In the private sector your customers are your lifeblood; like Miller you can go elsewhere, but try that with any of the utility companies. This is why this country now has so much backlash against powerful unions. For example, you almost never can get rid of teachers just like you cannot get these conglomerates to reason.

2. Many of us have been using our propane tanks since our gas has been cut off. That makes sense, right? Cut off the gas and force us to use propane. As far as I know, none of us has imploded or has a burning bush that I am aware of. My house reading was higher next to my propane tank; never would have guessed that one.

3. Our only communication was from ourselves and the

builder. Columbia Gas never told us or left even a note on our door, they just turned off the entire subdivision at their discretion. I once had a store get hit by a hurricane and we did everything including buying generators to get the store back open to service customers. These top guys with the big egos cannot make a decision or shoulder the responsibility to resume service because they have a zero-tolerance policy?

Come on; you get readings next to a compost pile, right?

4. On June 12, we finally received word after three weeks of no communication to the homeowners. We got a flier in the mailbox (it is illegal to send mail using the post office system without attaching a postage stamp and mailing it). Included were the readings and a letter as to why they did that they did.

5. When service stinks at retail outlets we either complain or we just do not return. What I did was to send in my last bill with a $50 weekly fine for not having gas service, since companies in the private sector would offer a gift certificate to return to their business. We are now up to $150.

With my $30 gas bill, they now owe me $120.

6. You try daily cleaning up with water boiled from your microwave or cooking day after day in a microwave. Pretty soon Stouffer’s frozen dinners start to creep up on you and the cooked chickens at Kroger start to look good.

I long for a hot shower and a home-cooked meal.

I realize Syria, the presidential election and world peace take precedence over our small comfort issues. However, Miller may switch retail outlets; I and the entire subdivision cannot. ✯ JOHN W. INSCO, Toledo

Joe Wicks Way: To rename or not to rename TO THE EDITOR, The time has come to break my silence on the topic of renaming the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Erie Street after my brother, Joe Wicks.

A multitude of thanks to the advocates of the renaming, for their focus was aimed at Joe Wicks’ achievements in and for the community. Largely due to the efforts of Joe and his marvelous employees, Downtown Toledo not only stayed

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Blowing out someone else’s candle does not make yours burn any brighter.” alive, but it was also made a safer place for both gay and straight alike to traverse the sidewalks and parking lots near Joe’s establishments.

To the opposition, who have mainly placed their aims and focuses on a building’s exterior and a person’s sexual orientation, I must convey to them that blowing out someone else’s candle does not make yours burn any brighter.

Being thankful to live in a community where I too may express my views, I remain a devoted sister to Joe Wicks and his many accomplishments.

PEG LIZARDY, Toledo

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LUCAS COUNTY

Group works to change county’s government structure

By Morgan Delp TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER mdelp@toledofreepress.com

A group trying to change the government structure in Lucas County has until June 29 to obtain the 13,500 valid signatures of registered voters needed to get their proposal on the November ballot. The group is proposing a county charter form of government, with “home rule” for Lucas County.

Five co-leaders have taken charge of the eff ort, which they have titled “Better Lucas County.” Th e eff ort is the product of many more citizens’ years of work, said one of the co-leaders, Robert Reinbolt, president and CEO of Reinbolt Consulting Group.

KeyBank, Fifth Third Bank, Mercy and ProMedica are some of the petition drive’s supporting organizations.

The University of Toledo provided major research and facilities support for a study that spurred the proposal.

Reinbolt said CONTRADA there was a “citizens for effective government concept” that pushed for county reform two or three years ago. Dr. Richard Ruppert, another of the five co-leaders and former president of the University of Toledo, said when that effort stalled, the county suggested a study be conducted.

“Sometime in early 2010, a former County Commissioner (Ben Konop) suggested that Cuyahoga County and

GRAPHIC BY JAMES A. MOLNAR | SOURCE: BETTER LUCAS COUNTY

June 29 is deadline to collect 13,500 signatures to put proposal on November ballot.

Current form of government

Lucas County citizens Court of Common Pleas

Coroner Auditor

Treasurer Recorder

Board of Commissioners

Prosecutor

Clerk of Courts

Engineer Sheriff

All report to and are elected by Lucas County citizens their form of government might be worth looking into,” County Commissioner Carol Contrada said. “An independent group was constituted.”

Advisory group Reinbolt and Ruppert were on the study committee that consisted of 35 members and met at least weekly for more than a year, Reinbolt said. There was also an advisory group that consisted of about 15-20 people, he said.

Contrada said Lucas County Commissioners Pete Gerken and Tina Skeldon Wozniak were briefed on the group’s findings in May 2011 and the study was released and published in June 2011. Reinbolt said the group met with all the cities’ and some township trustees, got their input and incorporated it into the charter that Neema

Bell fi nalized. Bell is a co-leader and attorney and partner at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP. “The advisory and study groups spent quite a bit of time leading up to where we finally got the report [and] recommendation, then it was decided earlier this year that we need to take it forward in terms of a petition drive,” Reinbolt said.

Th e other co-leaders are Scott Hamner, vice president-secretary and principal at Findley Davies, and Thomas Palmer, managing partner at Marshall & Melhorn, LLC. The co-leaders have been presenting and talking to different groups, Reinbolt said.

“All we’re saying is, here’s an idea that’s been through a lot of citizens and a lot of hours, and a lot of research [has been] done, so sign the petition, put it

on the ballot, and let the voters decide,” Reinbolt said. “If we get enough signatures we’ll spend the summer making sure the voters know what it’s about.”

Ruppert said the reason for the proposed change isn’t that things in the county government aren’t going well, but that by adopting this charter, the government will improve.

the county prosecutor. Six of the nine council members would represent six different districts in the county, which the group has divided based on population, and the remaining three positions will be at-large spots, open to representatives from any district.

The county executive would appoint the chief fiscal offi cer, medical examiner, engineer and sheriff, with The proposal confi rmation from the council. The Currently, Lucas County citizens council would appoint an internal auelect eight row officers — coroner, au- ditor, who would work with the chief ditor, treasurer, prosecutor, engineer, fiscal officer, a position that combines recorder, clerk of courts and sheriff the roles of recorder and treasurer.

“Look at how we do private in— and a three-member board of commissioners, along with the court of dustry, or public. We have a board; even in the public setting we have common pleas. The group is proposing a county charter in which citizens a chief executive, the mayor, and would instead elect a county executive, there’s a council,” Ruppert said. a nine-member county council and ■ HOME RULE CONTINUES ON A7

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“Th at’s what we’re doing now.

We’re suggesting that form of government,” Ruppert said.

In the study, the group looked at the two other counties in Ohio that have a similar, charter form of government — Cuyahoga and Summit counties. Reinbolt said Delaware County has contacted him about pursuing a new form of government as well.

“In every case it looks like they were more effi cient and more cost eff ective and they began to focus on countywide, ‘What can we do, collectively, to improve our situation?’”

Ruppert said.

Summit County originally adopted a charter form of government in November 1979 but has acquired amendments and adoptions since then, according to ccao.org.

Cuyahoga County citizens voted for their charter in November 2009 and it was fully operating in the county as of Jan. 1, 2011, according to charter.cuyahogacounty.us. Ruppert and Contrada said that Cuyahoga County adopted the charter because there was corruption within its county government.

Ruppert said on a per-capita basis, Summit County’s costs of public funding dollars are 20 percent lower than Lucas County’s. Ruppert said the group did not perform a study to discover why that was.

“The committee lacked the resources and time to perform an in-depth analysis of each office, department and agency to ascertain effi ciencies that could be achieved by reorganization. These analyses can be left to other groups in the months ahead. However, the committee did draw high level comparisons between Lucas and Summit counties because of their general similarity,” stated the report available at lucascountystudy.org in reference to cost

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Proposed form of government

Lucas County citizens Courts

Prosecutor

Clerk of Courts

County Executive

Nine County Council Representatives

Chief Fiscal Officer

Internal Auditor

Medical Examiner Advocates say the proposed system would be more efficient, more accountable and save taxpayer money.

“As we have it now, we have row offi ces; we’ve got all elected officials, none of whom are responsible to Economic development anyone other than to the citizens. It Reinbolt said that the main pur- doesn’t channel up. With this new pose for the reform is not to save form of government, there would be money, although he said he believes one go-to person with whom the buck that will happen if this new structure stops, which makes it easier to coordinate eff orts throughout the county is implemented.

“I can’t really say any cost anal- with the various branches. It makes ysis was done,” Reinbolt said. “It it more effi cient for businesses who will probably save around $200,000- want to come do business with the $300,000 a year but it could very county,” Bell said.

Contrada said the report acwell save more as we consolidate positions. It’s not intended to be knowledged that from 2008-11, the driven by saving money, as the main county cut more than $20 million purpose is not to save money. The from its budget.

“Then [the report] says the ‘commain purpose is to have a more remittee is not aware of commensurate sponsive government.”

Bell said with the charter, there is decline of services,’” Contrada said. “every likelihood of economic devel- “They are making the case that the opment countywide.” Bell said it’s an county has been able to institute effiopportunity for job development and ciencies without the reform.”

Contrada said the group had one a way to keep talented youth in the good recommendation that the county Toledo area. comparisons between Lucas and Summit counties.

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Skepticism Sylvania City Councilman Doug Haynam said he is “very skeptical about the proposal,” which was presented to him in November. Haynam said he thinks the proposed structure will cripple political diversity and fair representation.

“One concern I have is the extreme centralization of HAYNAM power within a single executive,” Haynam said. “He is more likely to appoint friends and political buddies instead of qualifi ed people. The executive would be more likely to appoint someone who has contributed to his campaign and would use the positions as political patronage. Trusting in the good faith of a single executive — most people with government experience understand that that would not be a reasonable place to put trust.”

Haynam said he is also wary about the home-rule aspect of the charter and the supposed cost-effectiveness of the change.

Reinbolt said townships, villages or cities that have home-rule capabilities now will not be superseded by the new governmental structure.

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state law that allows you to establish a law or rule that would supersede something the state or county has in place,” Reinbolt said. “Right now, the county has to go by the charter established for all counties in Ohio. With this [new charter], we could put different laws into place, once approved by the council and a referendum by voters.”

Haynam said the proposal is “change for change’s sake.”

“I don’t have anything to lose or gain [from this],” Haynam said. “It just really isn’t a good idea. The fact that they did it in Cleveland doesn’t mean it’s a good idea here. In Lucas County, we have a well-functioning county government. What we have going here works pretty well.”

Kevin Haddad, Sylvania Township Trustee and President of the Lucas County Township Association, said he wants change in the county government system, but not by way of the proposed structure. When he ran for county commissioner in 1996, Haddad said he and a township trustee created a plan to change the three-member board to a fivemember one.

Haddad said he thinks that the three at-large spots of the proposed plan will most likely go to Toledo city representatives, unfairly excluding the other county districts.

“I’m not happy with the three board member [structure] right now, but if we’re going to change the county government, let’s look at something to be fair. With a nine-member board, it’s going to be Toledo City Council running it,” Haddad said. ✯

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By Caitlin McGlade TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

A man with no connection to Toledo Free Press identified himself to a Holland mother as a photographer for the newspaper and asked her if he could take pictures of her children on June 18.

Kelly Devol, a mother of two, said a man knocked on her front door at about 4 p.m. and told her he was taking photographs for a Toledo Free Press article about children left home alone during the summer.

The man, who Devol said identified himself as “Tim O’Neil,” told her that he saw her children playing through a second story window and thought their NERF gun fight would make a good picture to accompany the story.

The man looked to be in his 20s and had tattoos on his neck, arm, calf and fingers. His arm tattoo was a red and green dragon and his hand tattoo said “Live Free.” His T-shirt had an image of a gun on it, she said.

Devol asked for the man’s name and telephone number and told him her husband might call him back the next day.

“I’m never afraid in my neighborhood, so I wasn’t afraid at the time,” Devol said. “It was after the fact that I started thinking about it.”

The next morning she called a relative, who is a copy editor at Toledo Free Press. She also called Toledo City Paper and The Blade; everyone with whom she spoke said no employee with the stated name had ever worked at their newspapers.

Her husband called the man back.

This time, he said he was a Blade photographer. Her husband then asked for a contact at The Blade to verify the man’s story. The man declined and said that the family didn’t seem interested so he wasn’t going to bother.

“My kids are a little freaked out,” Devol said.

On June 19, she called the Holland Police Department and an officer came out within five minutes, she said. But the police department does not have a report on file and Chief Robert Reed said he didn’t know if the responding officer was going to file one. The officer who responded to Devol’s call is out of town for training, he said. Devol gave that officer the man’s phone number. Reed said he did not have the number on him as of press time.

Reed said the department has little information about the man because Devol didn’t call while he was at her doorstep.

“If you have something suspicious happen — call us right now,” Reed said. “I can’t tell you how many times people will call and say ‘Last week, something funny happened.’ I can’t do anything about it if it happened last week because the [suspect] is gone.”

Michael S. Miller, editor in chief of Toledo Free Press, said anyone who is approached by someone claiming to work for the newspaper should feel free to call (419) 2411700 to verify employment.

“All Toledo Free Press employees carry company IDs but it is easy to forge such identification,” Miller said.

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Ever since starting kindergarten at 5 years old, Tim Matheney has always had a place inside a school building. But that’s about to change this summer.

In July, the 45-year-old Toledo native will leave his position as principal to nearly 3,000 high school students to become the new director of educator evaluation for the State of New Jersey.

Matheney will lead a statewide initiative for the research and evaluation of teachers in the state. He said New Jersey is one of about a dozen states seriously looking at “educator evaluation reform.”

“We want to build a system of evaluation that accurately reflects how teachers contribute to the education process,” Matheney said. “We want to highlight those teachers who are doing great work and we want to identify those who are not as successful.

We then want to identify ways to intervene with less successful teachers to provide better education.”

Matheney recently served on a state advisory committee on teacher evaluation. After a few months of planning the initiative, he was offered the job during the second semester.

Matheney called the new initiative “one of the most important education policies in the nation” and said he and his staff will work hard to assist every district in the state.

“This initiative has been moving forward for about a year and we completed a first pilot year this year,” he said. “We had a number of systems implementing new systems of evaluation. A second year of pilots will begin during the 2012-13 year and we hope to learn more from those districts so we can implement a statewide system well into the 2013-14 school year.”

Matheney’s new staff will be in charge of supporting local school districts. He plans to spend 20 percent of his time in local schools with the first visit planned for July, he said.

“I’m going to be involved in a visit to the Newark Public School System in July and I’m sure it’s the first of a number of local district visits over the summer and more

importantly in the fall,” he said.

Education through practice For the past eight years, the St. John’s Jesuit High School alumnus has been the principal of South Brunswick High School in Monmouth Junction, N.J. In his time at the school, Matheney has strived to create “the most ideal environments for academic excellence” through positive reinforcement, extensive research and high standards, he said.

Matheney said he connects his philosophy of high-level academics coupled with high expectations to his days as both a student and a teacher at St. John’s.

“At South Brunswick, we hold high expectations for ourselves and our students,” he said. “That’s connected to my experiences at St. John’s. I believe even though this is a very comprehensive public school, it is very possible to have high expectations for behavior as well as education.”

He also said his parents played a large role in his personal and professional development.

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High expectations April Gonzalez, supervisor of English and social studies at South Brunswick, said Matheney’s high expectations motivate the students and administrators.

“He has inspired us to be the best we can be and I say ‘us’ meaning his administrative team, teachers and students,” Gonzalez said. “He has high expectations and I think that is a good thing. He definitely has a way of motivating us to think outside the box.”

Those new ways of thinking have played major roles in the creation of

many successful programs like the South Brunswick School Summit, a retreat where all teachers and administrators meet to discuss goals for the year to come, she said.

“Some really unique programs have been developed,” Gonzalez said. “One is called Project Success, a 12-week program from January to March where, at some point during the school day, we take students and they receive extra support for the high school proficiency assessment. It’s a 12-week intense study and practice session in taking the exam.”

Because of the program, students taking the language arts test had a 97 percent passing rate this past year, she said.

Awarding success As principal of a large school, Matheney said it is very important to not only challenge the students academically, but to challenge them to be the best people they can be. South Brunswick operates under five core values: honesty, kindness, respect, responsi-

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bility and service.

In 2011, South Brunswick received a National School of Character Award from the Character Education Partnership out of Washington, D.C. “We work hard every day to provide a great education for students academically and through building character,” Matheney said. “Outside awards are nice but I care more about the end product of our work and I am very proud of our students. I think they’re well prepared for college and their work in the future.”

Full circle Matheney graduated from Princeton University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in history. While many graduates from the prestigious school often pursue careers in equally prestigious fields like business, medicine or law, Matheney said he was proud to go against the grain.

“When you’re a student at Princeton there are expectations that you pursue a career in business administration or law or something like that,” he said. “To

JUNE 24, 2012 make the decision to become a teacher separates you from the majority of other students who are pursuing more traditional paths of a Princeton graduate. But I was OK with that.”

Matheney currently lives in the Princeton area.

Saying goodbye Looking back on the past eight years at South Brunswick, Matheney said the one thing he will miss the most will be the relationships he has had with his students.

“Being a principal is full of great moments. Every year has 1,000 moments that are memorable,” he said.

“One thing I take great pride in is you can take a walk through my building at any time and you see classroom doors open, teachers teaching and students learning. I’ve had visitors come in and say this feels like a school of 200 students. It is so quiet and so obvious that students are learning every day. I can point to certain awards, but the relationships between students and teachers are the most important things.” ✯

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DEFIANCE — Step inside Kaitlyn’s Cottage behind ProMedica’s Defiance campus and the high ceilings, granite countertops and rich wooden floors will wow you.

That is, if the front porch that winds around the wood and stone façade of the building hasn’t already.

But here, tucked away from the hospital hustle and perched at the edge of a dark and tall forest, what truly matters is the space to roam those wooden floors and the messes that will soon pile up on those countertops.

Kaitlyn’s Cottage opens June 26 to serve as a respite center for 16-to-40 year olds who have intellectual and physical disabilities. Guests can visit for a KAITLYN SHOCK few hours or stay overnight in one of the four bedrooms.

Staff will work with guests on a oneon-one basis, offering two frequently changing scheduled activities daily, said Marsha Kott, the program manager.

The building cost $1.9 million, an amount partially subsidized by ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital, funded by donors and mostly fueled

by Sharon and Dan Farrell, a Defiance couple who has an 18-year-old granddaughter with a disability. Her name is Kaitlyn.

The two also started an endowment fund, which has accumulated at least $1.5 million, to help families afford to send their relatives to Kaitlyn’s Cottage.

“This is an idea that I thought about years ago and it was because of our Kaitlyn, seeing a need for a place like this,” Sharon Farrell said. “When young people like Kaitlyn come out of school, there’s nothing left, there’s no place ... nothing for them to do ... there are no options.”

Filling the gap Parents of children with disabilities often struggle to fill the gap during the period following high school graduation. They are faced with finding a new social outlet for their kids or new programs to challenge them, said Frances Diehl, director of respite services at Kaitlyn’s Cottage.

She said her little brother had a disability and her family saw him regress as her parents searched for a new outlet for him once he graduated.

Kott said the chance to socialize becomes strained after graduation.

“As they exit the school setting, if they don’t have the option to go onto other workshop settings and things like that, they’re limited to as to their friendships and the people they can be with,” she said.

Parents also suddenly have less time for themselves — not that they had much before — and couples often struggle to find time for a simple dinner date. Farrell said Kaitlyn’s Cottage gives parents the opportunity for their own respite.

But it’s difficult for parents to feel comfortable leaving their offspring with strangers, sometimes even at respite centers, said Cris Shock, Kaitlyn’s mother. She, her spouse Josh and her three daughters are a unit, and they all know how to communicate with Kaitlyn, she said, whereas strangers might not.

Kaitlyn has Rett syndrome, a nervous system disorder that leads to development reversals particularly in language and hand usage. The disorder almost exclusively affects girls. Kaitlyn does not talk, has never walked and has limited function in her hands, but Shock said she always knows what Kaitlyn is thinking because of her expressive eyes.

The staff at Kaitlyn’s Cottage learned communication styles firsthand through more than 40 hours of training. Kott said she assigned each trainee a particular disability to prompt the individual to problem solve just like their future guests.

Kott gave the group sparse help, pushing them to decipher which communication cues would work to get the attention of their caretakers.

For example, Kott left one “non-ambulatory” and “non-verbal” trainee in the kitchen alone so she had to figure out how to alert Kott that she was left behind.

After the exercises, the group discussed how it felt to be excluded. The idea is that once the employees know how they communicated thoughts when saddled with a disability, they would be able to pick up on those same cues from their guests.

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Respite Center for people with disabilities to open in Defiance

Freedom of choice Communication enables one of the most important aspects of Kaitlyn’s Cottage: choices.

“I’ve had students who were growing up in an environment where they’re afraid to say no and the first time my one guy said ‘No,’ I was thrilled,” Kott said. “It’s that freedom of choice — making a purposeful,

functional concrete decision.”

Scheduled activities for a day might include making pottery, baking cakes, making crafts, playing music or engaging in games. For guests who have limited control of their hands, the staff can use objects that are activated when the guest pushes a button, such as a pair of electric scissors that

the employee holds but depends upon the guest to power them.

But Kott said staff will ask guests if they want to partake in the activities or do something else. If someone needs quiet time, a reflection room flanks the living area for some solitude. The guests who cannot communicate with words will use cards with icons. The

trained staff can notice which icon the guest prefers based on the guest’s eye contact, Kott said.

Kaitlyn just graduated with her class from Defiance High School; she will continue attending school until she is 22-years-old. After that? Shock said she feels comforted knowing that Kaitlyn’s Cottage will be waiting. ✯

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The Gantlet — run for your life!

H

ave you ever been to an authentic Polish wedding? If so, you probably partook in a festive dance called the Grand March.

Couples snake across the dance floor in a long line to the beat of Notre Dame’s fight song.

When the weaving stops, the pairs form parallel columns, and the last couple in line has to pass under the arch of all the upraised arms ahead of them.

Naughty twosomes randomly drop their locked limbs and enFrank snare the runners, knowing that the only escape is a kiss for the trapper of the opposite sex. Although the scent of dozens of exposed, polka-infused shoulder hollows could be considered torturous, it simply doesn’t compare with what history records to have transpired when a person ran between two rows of people in the past.

When you hear the term, “running the gantlet,” (and yes, the correct spelling is gantlet, not gauntlet) do you first think of the Native American accounts of its use? It seems embedded in our culture that this torture was something the Indians designed and used on captives.

However, the truth is that this practice goes back to antiquity.

The earliest stories of its purpose come from ancient Rome. Marcus Crassus was one who decimated — meaning he put to death one tenth of his legion for the cowardice shown during the gladiator wars against the renowned Spartacus. Units of ten men would cast lots and the loser was forced to run between two rows of the remaining nine, who beat him with clubs until he died.

Since that time, running the gantlet has been adopted as punishment in versions either gentler or nastier by Germany, Russia, Sweden and numerous other countries. Some cultures used it as a light deterrent where the captive or criminal was absolved of wrongdoing after surviving a moderate whipping.

The British employed the gantlet run as corporal punishment in their military during the American Revolution and in their Royal Navy through the War of 1812.

Typically, an officer would lead, pace and point a sword at the accused as he made his way between the attacking columns. Another officer followed behind, similarly deterring

an escape. Rawhides, tree limbs or ropes were used to whip the victim as he passed. Sometimes the ropes were unraveled into their nine main strands, and knotted several times at the ends, becoming the painful cato’-nine-tails whip.

Though impossible to prove, it would seem that the Native Americans may have learned this form of persecution from the Europeans they encountered, and used it in with various degrees of violence through the KURON War of 1812. Such famous captives as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton were subjected to it and survived during the late 1700s.

But one of the most famous incidents of its use by Indians was in the ruins of Fort Miamis, in Maumee, during a siege of Fort Meigs in 1813.

Here, several hundred U.S. troops were taken prisoner by the British and Indians. British General Henry Proctor turned a blind eye to the Indians’ torture of these prisoners, which included the running of a 60-foot-long gantlet lined by warriors armed with clubs, tomahawks, scalping knives and guns.

U.S. General Leslie Combs was one of the runners: “In doing this I was not touched, although the man ahead of me was shot down and fell across my way. I leapt over his body and went through double-quick. I was near Tecumseh when he made his speech … whereby hundreds of prisoners were saved — of whom I was one.”

Tecumseh arrived with the gantlet already in progress, and proved his character by halting the action with a ferocious rebuke of his men and Proctor.

Frank McQueary of Toledo is mighty grateful for Tecumseh’s integrity and timely arrival that day, as otherwise he wouldn’t have been born to tout the greatest adventure of his great-great-grandfather, John McQueary, who was one of those prisoners spared from running that deadly course.

Let’s hope that running the gantlet will never again mean running for your life, but only be a metaphor for getting through a series of difficulties, or the opportunity to snatch a kiss at your friend’s wedding. ✯ Frank Kuron is author of the War of 1812 book, “Thus Fell Tecumseh.”

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Last July, Cumulus Media took a risk, offering unemployed radio host Andrew Zepeda a morning slot on its new low-wattage station 100.7 The Vibe, despite Zepeda’s ongoing legal issues.

In March, Cumulus promoted the show to higher-wattage Star 105 (105.5 FM), displacing “Tim and Jeff in the Morning,” which moved to Cumulus’ Northwest Arkansas market.

Now Zepeda and his team have signed a multiyear contract to keep “Andrew Z in the Morning: The People’s Show” on Star 105 through December 2015. The morning show airs from 5:30 - 10 a.m. weekdays. “[The Vibe] was basically a tryout to see if this town could support another Top-40 radio station and if this station would support me again and overwhelmingly the answer was yes,” Zepeda said.

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Listener support Matt Spaulding, Cumulus Media vice president and Toledo/Monroe market manager, said Zepeda is correct in feeling The Vibe was a test.

“That’s absolutely a true statement,” Spaulding said. “He did a tremendous job on The Vibe. The public, the listeners, they truly supported him even though he had some minor signal-related or coverage issues. He still had a tremendous following at that station. It was only a matter of time, I guess I would say, before he earned the right to move over to Star 105.”

The Vibe, now known as 100.7 The Zone, is 87 watts while Star 105 is 4,300 watts.

“You can’t even describe how small that is,” Zepeda said of The Vibe. “It didn’t even cover all of Toledo. When the wattage is that small, even the weather can affect it tremendously. There were days where we couldn’t even get it [at home] in Perrysburg. Now we’re playing on a fair plane with all the other signals in town.”

Spaulding said he is confident Zepeda’s show will be competitive.

“There’s really no doubt in my mind,” Spaulding said. “We’re already starting to see the effects of it, where various features, components, ideas, concepts he launches on his station are being mimicked with competing stations right here in the market, which I think it is a tribute to him.

“His energy is infectious. It’s a rarity in this industry to have somebody who’s so hands on. It’s not as if he shows up to a shift, gets on-air, does his shift, a little prep work and heads home. He lives it, he breathes it, he sleeps it. He’s constantly calling

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my phone, at least three to four times a day, with new ideas or new ways of doing things or concepts, you name it. I mean, you want to talk about an aggressive competitor, Andrew Z is absolutely it.”

Nothing changes Listeners won’t notice any changes to the show as the result of the new contract, Zepeda said.

“Nothing changes; it’s just more permanent now. They don’t want us to change anything, which is why they signed everybody to make sure everyone stays together,” Zepeda said. “They’re also talking expansion (syndication), possibly into other cities so that we’re excited about that.”

Cast members Brandon Doriot, Donny Palicki, aka “Donny P,” and Calen Savidge said they are proud to have earned a multiyear contract, but know they can’t stop striving.

“Just because we have a contract doesn’t meant we have job security,” Doriot said. “If we aren’t good, they’ll fire us regardless of whether we have this contract.”

“It feels good knowing they want us to be in it for the long haul, but just as in anything else, there’s no guarantees,” Palicki added. “If we don’t kick some serious butt we won’t be here in three years, so it’s just more of an incentive to kick some serious ass.”

The contract boosts Zepeda to earning “a

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considerable amount more” money than he was making at Clear Channel’s KISS FM, Zepeda said.

Clear Channel did not renew Zepeda’s contract in December 2010 shortly after he pleaded guilty to three felony charges related to failing to pay sales taxes and orchestrating an October 2010 break-in at a pizzeria he formerly owned at Levis Commons in Perrysburg. Zepeda avoided prosecution by entering an intervention program for alcohol abuse. All charges will be cleared from his record if he successfully completes the two-year supervision program, which ends Feb. 4.

Zepeda said staying out of establishments that serve alcohol — one of the stipulations of his intervention — was difficult at first, but getting easier.

“Oh my gosh, it was so hard, but you have to accept it. Otherwise it will drive you crazy and there’s nothing you can do,” Zepeda said. “It’s easier for me now because I’m so used to it. I’ve missed so many big fun events, I’m just kind of over it. It doesn’t faze me. I’m just chugging along. I’m about three-quarters of the way done.

Of course I still have to pay the restitution and then it will be completely over with.”

More to prove Zepeda said he feels somewhat vindicated, but isn’t finished proving himself.

“We still have roads to go. It’s only been a

couple of months. We’re starting to get some success. That’s why they moved us. But until we’re back at No. 1, to me, that’s when it will fully hit,” Zepeda said. “There’s going to be people that like you and there’s going to be people that don’t and you’re not going to change anyone’s opinion. All we can continue to do is do what we think is good radio and fun and just have a good time.

“The worst time was not having an outlet to do what I’ve done for over 20 years. That was the hardest time, but now that we get to do this every day and just have a good time and hang out with my friends, everything else will fall into place and it has.”

Zepeda has already lived in Toledo longer than anywhere else in his two-decade radio career. By the end of his new contract, it will be 10 years.

“In this business, it’s hard to find any stability.

You’re always moving around,” Zepeda said. “It’s nice to know you’re going to be stable and you’re finally at the point where you’ve reached enough success that you don’t have to move around anymore. We love it here. Our kids were born here, we have a house here, our family moved here.

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At this point I can safely guarantee was looking for sustainability.

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Thankfully, this is likely a shortthe struggling economic recovery to term setback; the long-term, postmaintain itself.

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A classic car and motorcycle show will help a local group fund initiatives to improve education, safety and employment rates in its North Toledo neighborhood.

The inaugural Under the Bridge Classic Car and Motorcycle Show, sponsored by the Olde North End’s ONE Village Council, is set for noon to 7 p.m.

June 24 on Water Street, between Lagrange Street and the Martin Luther King Jr. PEREZ Memorial Bridge.

Admission to the show is free. Cost to display a car or motorcycle is $10 per vehicle. People’s Choice trophies will be awarded to the car and motorcycle with the most votes.

The show will also feature a flea market, music from the ’50s and ’60s, food, a 50-50 raffle, door prizes and more, said ONE Village Council member Ramon Perez.

“We’re really excited,” Perez said.

“We just want everyone to come out, be along the riverfront, listen to some ’50s and ’60s music and have a great time. We just want to make as much money as we can because 100 percent of the money goes back into ONE Village in North Toledo.”

Money raised will be used to fund ongoing campaigns to improve education and safety and to help residents find jobs, Perez said.

“All the money goes back to getting folks engaged in the community and helping them get jobs and a good-

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quality education because that’s what ONE Village Council is known for,” Perez said. “We’re a resident-run organization and we’re always working on improving the neighborhood.”

ONE Village Council President Sherry Walker and her husband, Paul

Walker Jr., own and restore classic cars and will have two on display at the show, a 1965 Chevrolet Nova and a 1968 Buick Electra. Walker said she’s hoping for a big turnout.

“Car shows are always fun,” Walker said. “My husband and I are car buffs

and this is something we always enjoy. We have a lot of car enthusiasts in Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. It’s what Toledo’s about. We produce cars. People should come out and just enjoy being in the neighborhood, seeing the classic cars and sup-

porting ONE Village in our mission to make life better in our neighborhood and community.”

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Taking the stage with an orchestra wasn’t something Sarah McLachlan was eager to do.

“I had a terrible experience many years ago at the Vatican in Rome playing for the pope — that’s another long story,” she said and laughed. “It was with a symphony there, and it was just an awful experience; everything went wrong that could have possibly gone wrong, and it left a very bad taste in my mouth.”

Her agent persisted and convinced her to try it again last summer.

“I did four shows and I fell in love with it. It’s so amazing to have that incredible surge and power behind me,” McLachlan said during a call from her home in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“I’ve been playing a lot of these songs for many years; to be able to reinvent them like this is really thrilling.”

“Possession,” “Sweet Surrender,” “Fallen” and “Loving You Is Easy” are songs the Canadian superstar may perform when her symphony tour stops at the Toledo Zoo for a 7:30 p.m. concert June 27. Tickets are $50.50 or $70.50.

Her music resonates with the masses. Think “I Will Remember You” and “Angel.”

“I’m always surprised that so many people love my music and so many people can take something that I created and make it their own, which is really one of the greatest validations one can have as an artist. That people come up to me all the time and say this song has done so much for them, it’s helped them through a hard time, you know, because that’s what music is. For me, it’s so powerful and it’s such a cathartic thing to listen to music, to play music, and it’s helped me through so many hard times,” McLachlan said.

That power inspired her to start the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, a free program for youth in Vancouver who can’t afford music lessons. The goal: encourage confidence and creativity.

“I really feel like music saved my life in a lot of ways,” the singer-songwriter said. “There were a lot of pretty tough girls in my school, and I became a target because I cried easily. I had no support at home. I was pretty much on my own with it.

“So I just disappeared into music, and I knew instinctively that I was really good at it. It felt really good; it made me feel good; it made me feel that I had something worthy to offer.

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By Morgan Delp TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER mdelp@toledofreepress.com

Music Under the Stars, a concert series performed by the Toledo Symphony Concert Band, will be offered at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater for six Sundays this summer, from July 8

to Aug. 12. This marks the return of the free series, offered for more than 60 years before last year’s hiatus.

Mercy, The Andersons, The Toledo Community Foundation, Huntington Bank, Taylor Cadillac and the Toledo Zoo are sponsors of the series.

A different faculty conductor from the Michigan and Ohio areas will direct

each show, while Sam Szor, who conducted the shows for almost 60 years, will make a cameo appearance at each performance, said Toledo Symphony General Manager Keith McWatters, also a drummer in the concert band.

Szor was diagnosed with leukemia last summer, McWatters said.

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Sam’s health, we decided to step away for the summer and regroup,” McWatters said of last year’s series cancelation. “We wanted to create a strategic plan to relaunch the series and make it brand-new.”

The series opens July 8 with a patriotic-themed concert directed by Bruce Moss, director of band activities at Bowling Green State University and music director of the Wheaton Municipal Band in Illinois, according to BGSU’s website. McWatters said Wheaton’s band is similar to the Symphony’s Concert Band.

On July 15, John Madden, associate director of bands at Michigan State University, will direct the show.

For the performances on July 22 and 29, University of Toledo fellows Robert Mirakian and Jason Stumbo, respectively, will conduct. Mirakian is the director of the UT Symphony Orchestra and is also music director of the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra.

Stumbo is the director of bands at UT. Rodney Dorsey, associate director of bands at the University of Michigan, will lead the band Aug. 5 and Kenneth Thompson from BGSU will close the series Aug. 12.

Each show will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is expected to run about two hours, including an intermission.

A new feature of this summer’s series will be the symphony’s partnership with the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA), which will provide a shuttle service to and from the amphitheater and Toledoarea locations, similar to the service TARTA provides for Toledo Mud Hens and Toledo Walleye games.

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Lucy the Nonliteral and other visionaries How ever our children are best able to illustrate their creative side, it is important that we are able to recognize and encourage it. The world is

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Still, I don’t always get her. young boy I was taking care Not only do I tend toward a of once came to me out of the blue and told me he had different type of imagination than hit his head. A little nervous about Lucy fancies most, but my two not knowing the extent of his injury, older children do also. When I realI questioned the when, where and ized that we had a whimsical, thishow of the incident. He began ex- box-is-a-pirate-ship thinker in the house, I was intrigued plaining in detail how to have an imaginative he had hit it on my child in the mix. I was ceiling fan. Shocked used to asking one of and confused, I immy children a question plored him to let me and getting an at least know just how he was semi-logical, straightable to do such a thing. forward response.

He continued on about Lucy, on the other how he was crawling hand, will happily around on my ceiling respond to a serious when it happened, Shannon SZYPERSKI question by simply remuch like the time he telling the last episode had hit his head on my curtain rod when crawling up my of “Dora the Explorer” she watched.

When it’s time to figure out a family wall one day. Huh? I’m a literal thinker. What hap- mystery (e.g., who spilled somepens happens and what doesn’t thing on the floor or why Lucy is doesn’t. In my little world, there is crying and clutching her leg), one description but not embellishment. must be careful not to offer even the There are gray areas but not purple slightest bit of storytelling fodder. areas filled with cotton candy trees Asking Lucy if the leg issue was and unicorns. In my mind, the world caused by a biting bug can easily is ours for discovery, interpretation unleash a grand narrative about a and adding onto that which came fanciful insect that swooped down before us, but not so much for just out of nowhere to wreak great havoc on the appendage in quesmaking stuff up.

That being said, I do have a tion, even if the truth is that she great appreciation for imagination. misjudged a stair. I’ve come to find I completely agree with Einstein’s that she even utters some things for assertion that imagination is more no other purpose than to practice important than knowledge. From certain facial expressions.

Lucy’s seemingly boundless imagimy experience, I can’t conceive of how one would even exist without nation and dramatic interpretation the other. They just seem to work fascinates me, especially since she’s the first of my children to create in hand in hand.

Still, I am coming to find that such a manner. Discovering that I imagination lives in many different “finally” had an imaginative child has forms. My youngest child, Lucy, actually led me to a new appreciation exemplifies the most recognized of imagination in general, however. childhood variety. She runs around After considering what I assumed to the house with mermaids and Bar- be my other children’s lack of imagibies and other characters in hand nation, I’ve learned to see that their proclaiming each exciting turn imagination simply shines through in their little imaginary lives take. She other ways.

Jack, my oldest, is a problem digs for buried treasure as “the little pirate” and repeatedly exalts the solver. While staging a production wonder of her bounty to me, “the out of a pile of stuffed animals is not mommy pirate.” She spends hours his thing, constructing the best way to send a soccer ball from one end and hours just making things up.

Lucy is the quintessential imag- of the field to the other or offering inative kid, embodying what I multiple solutions to a math problem thought imagination was supposed is not without mental boundaryto be. I’m proud of the way she is pushing or visionary effort.

My middle child, Laney, pracable to produce scenarios seemingly out of thin air and verbalize them in tices her creativity in a similar a way that captivates any informal manner, seeking imaginative resoluaudience surrounding her. She defi- tions to household issues and other nitely holds that little spark of light quandaries. In short, not all imagithat could one day shine on stages native endeavors come in the form of cotton candy trees and unicorns. near and far.

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The Glass House Ball Boys J. Hanna News ABC J. Kimmel NBA 2012 NBA Finals Miami Heat at Oklahoma City Thunder. (N) (CC) News Insider Garden Juicing! Late Model PGA Tour Golf Travelers Championship, Final Round. (N) (CC) News News 60 Minutes (CC) Person of Interest The Good Wife (CC) The Mentalist (CC) News Criminal Formula One Racing ››› Strange Bedfellows (2004) Paul Hogan. The Unit (CC) Ugly Betty (CC) Mother Mother American Cleveland Fox’s 25th Anniversary Special (CC) News Leading 30 Rock Office My Pillow Paid Juice and Lose!

U.S. Olympic Trials Diving. (Taped) (CC) News News U.S. Olympic Trials Dateline NBC (N) America’s Got Talent America’s Got Talent News Jdg Judy Woods.

W’dwright Kitchen Sewing POV “My Reincarnation” (CC) Rat Storie A Summer of Birds Moyers & Company NOVA (CC) Secrets of the Dead Masterpiece Mystery!

Toolbox Austin City Limits Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds Criminal Minds The Glades (N) (CC) Longmire (N) (CC) Longmire (CC) New Jersey Social Miss Advised Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Real Housewives Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NJ New Jersey Social Housewives/NJ Happens Jersey ›› Mystery Men Futurama Futurama (CC) ››› Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ›› Dumb & Dumber (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey. (CC) ››› The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) Steve Carell. (CC) Tosh.0 Work.

Futurama Good Good Austin Shake It ANT Farm Phineas Phineas Phineas Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Luck Charlie ›› My Babysitter’s a Vampire Jessie ANT Farm ANT Farm SportsCenter (N) Report 2012 UEFA European Championship: Quarterfinal MLS Soccer: Sounders at Timbers Baseball Tonight (N) MLB Baseball New York Yankees at New York Mets. (Live) SportsCenter (N) ››› Happy Feet ››› Bolt (2008) Voices of John Travolta. ››› Lady and the Tramp (1955) ››› Happy Feet (2006) Voices of Elijah Wood. ››› The Lion King (1994, Musical) ››› The Lion King (1994, Musical) Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. My. Din Invention Diners Diners Food Network Star Cupcake Wars Food Network Star Iron Chef America Chopped First Pla. First Pla. Property Property Property Property Hunters Hunt Intl For Rent For Rent Hunters Hunt Intl Holmes on Homes Holmes Inspection Holmes Inspection Holmes Inspection Holmes on Homes The Wife He Met Online (2012) Murder on the 13th Floor (2012) (CC) ››› Unfaithful (2002) Richard Gere, Diane Lane. (CC) Tall Hot Blonde (2012) Garret Dillahunt. (CC) Drop Dead Diva (N) Army Wives (N) (CC) Tall Hot Blonde (CC) Teen Teen Mom (CC) Teen Snooki Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward.

Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Snooki Teen Mom (CC) Teen Dukes MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Boston Red Sox. (N) (Live) (CC) King King King ›› Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) (CC) › Cop Out (2010) Bruce Willis. (CC) › Cop Out (2010) Bruce Willis. (CC) Daddy Long Legs ››› The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) (CC) ››› Born Yesterday (1950) Judy Holliday. ››› Picnic (1955) William Holden. (CC) ›› The Circus (1928, Comedy) ››› The Big Circus (1959) Victor Mature.

Circus ›› Sherlock Holmes Countdown to Green NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: Toyota/Save Mart 350. (N) (Live) (CC) ›› National Treasure (2004) Nicolas Cage. (CC) Falling Skies (N) The Great Escape Falling Skies (CC) › G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra › Couples Retreat (2009, Comedy) Vince Vaughn. (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU ›› Bad Boys II (CC) › 12 Rounds (2009) Made Payne Chris Chris Big Bang Big Bang Friends Friends Two Men Two Men Big Bang Big Bang › 12 Rounds (2009, Action) John Cena.

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Good Morning News This Week Conklin Bridges Round Full Plate Your Morning Sunday CBS News Sunday Morning (N) Nation Leading Mass Fat Loss My Pillow Gardening Cindy C Fox News Sunday WEN Hair Paid Prog. Better H20 CarMD Formula One Racing Today (N) (CC) Meet the Press (N) Van Impe Better H20 Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog.

Sid Cat in the Super Dinosaur Toledo Toledo Plugged-In Opinion Antiques Roadshow Longmire (CC) The Sopranos (CC) The Sopranos (CC) The Sopranos (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) ›› You’ve Got Mail Million Dollar LA Million Dollar LA Million Dollar LA Real Housewives CC Stand-Up ›› Dumb & Dumber (1994, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels. (CC) ›› Mystery Men (CC) Mickey Pirates Phineas Phineas Good Jessie ANT Farm Austin Wizards Wizards SportsCenter (N) (CC) Outside Reporters SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) ››› A Boy Named Charlie Brown ››› Snoopy, Come Home (1972), Robin Kohn ››› Happy Feet (2006, Adventure) Giada Contessa Rachael Ray’s Dinners Guy’s Barbecue Be.- Made Paula Pioneer Income Income Kitchen Kitchen Hate Bath Room Cr. YardCrash Hse Crash Love It or List It (CC) R Schuller Jeremiah J. Osteen Cindy C House Dance Moms (CC) Bristol Palin Wife Met Charlie and the Chocolate Factory › What a Girl Wants (2003) Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth.

Teen Wolf Friends Friends Friends › Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) ›› The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) ››› Hollywood Canteen (1944) Robert Hutton. The Mysterious House of Dr. C (1966) ››› Daddy Long Legs Mummy Franklin & Bash (CC) Falling Skies (CC) Falling Skies (CC) ›› Sherlock Holmes (2009, Action) Miracles J. Osteen ›› Bad Boys II (2003, Action) Martin Lawrence, Will Smith. (CC) G.I. Joe: Cobra Paint Paid Prog. Old House For Home Paid Prog. CarMD Perf. Yard Raceline › 12 Rounds (2009)

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The Office How I Met Jdg Judy Jdg Judy NewsHour Business Duck D. Duck D. Housewives/NYC Colbert Daily ANT Farm Vampire SportsCenter (N) (CC) Secret-Teen Diners Diners Love It or List It (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Friend Ridic.

Seinfeld Seinfeld The Long Gray Line The Mentalist (CC) NCIS: Los Angeles Big Bang Big Bang

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The Bachelorette (N) (CC) The Glass House (N) How I Met Broke Girl Two Men Mike Hawaii Five-0 (CC) Hell’s Kitchen (N) (CC) MasterChef (N) (CC) Fox Toledo News U.S. Olympic Trials America’s Got Talent Ninja Warrior Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Royal Weddings Duck D. Duck D. Family Jewels Monster Monster Housewives/NJ Housewives/NYC Miss Advised (N) Jeff Dunham Special Work.

Sunny Sunny Sunny Good Shake It Let It Shine (2012) Tyler James Williams.

College Baseball Secret-Teen Bunheads (N) (CC) Secret-Teen Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Love It or List It (CC) Love It or List It (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Tall Hot Blonde (2012) Garret Dillahunt. (CC) Ridic.

Snooki Teen Wolf Teen Wolf (N) Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy › Hot Money (1936) ›› We’re in the Money (1935) ›› China The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) NCIS “Head Case” WWE Monday Night RAW (N) (S Live) (CC) Breaking Pointe 90210 (CC) Sunny Sunny

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News Nightline News Letterman Seinfeld The Office News Jay Leno Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Monster Monster Happens NYC Daily Colbert Vampire Austin SportsCenter (N) (CC) The 700 Club (CC) My. Diners Diners Love It or List It (CC) Army Wives (CC) Teen Wolf Teen Wolf Conan (N) Clipper (1936, Drama) CSI: NY (CC) Common Law (CC) Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Loma-Linda’s

“BIEN VENIDOS AMIGOS”

Specializing in Mexican Food since 1955

419-865-5455 10400 Airport Hwy. (1.2 Mi. East of the Aiport) Lunch & Dinner, 11 a.m. to Midnight Closed Sundays & Holidays

FRITZ & ALFREDO’S Original Recipes from Both Mexico and Germany

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

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

Sun. 3-9 p.m. Closed Holidays

June 26, 2012

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The Office How I Met Jdg Judy Jdg Judy NewsHour Business Storage Storage Housewives/OC Colbert Daily ANT Farm Vampire SportsCenter (N) (CC) Pretty Little Liars (CC) Cupcake Wars Hunt Intl Hunters Dance Moms (CC) Friend Teen Wolf Seinfeld Seinfeld ›››› East of Eden Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Law & Order: SVU Big Bang Big Bang

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News NCIS (CC) (DVS) NCIS: Los Angeles 48 Hours Mystery (CC) News Letterman Hell’s Kitchen (N) (CC) MasterChef (N) (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office U.S. Olympic Trials America’s Got Talent Love in the Wild (N) News Jay Leno Queen Victoria’s Empire (Part 2 of 2) (CC) Frontline (N) (CC) Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Orange County Social Housewives/OC Pregnant in Heels (N) Happens OC Work.

Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 (N) Work.

Daily Colbert Good Shake It ›› Cats & Dogs (2001) (CC) Phineas Vampire Austin College Baseball SportsCenter (N) (CC) Pretty Little Liars (N) Jane by Design (N) Pretty Little Liars (CC) The 700 Club (CC) Cupcake Wars Chopped Chopped Chopped Property Brothers (CC) Design Star (N) (CC) Hunters Hunt Intl Million Million Dance Moms (CC) Dance Moms (N) (CC) Bristol Bristol Bristol Bristol Teen Wolf Teen Mom (CC) Teen Mom (N) (CC) Teen Mom (CC) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) ››› MacArthur (1977) Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders. ›› The Purple Plain (1954) Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Rizzoli & Isles (N) Franklin & Bash (N) Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU CSI: Crime Scene The Catalina (N) (CC) The L.A. Complex Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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The Office How I Met Jdg Judy Jdg Judy NewsHour Business Storage Storage Around the World Colbert Daily ANT Farm Vampire NBA Draft Preview (N) Meet Daddy Restaurant: Im. Hunt Intl Hunters Wife Swap (CC) Teen Mom (CC) Seinfeld Seinfeld ››› The Family Way Law & Order NCIS “Dagger” (CC) Big Bang Big Bang

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Good Morning News Hanna Ocean Explore Rescue Health Food Your Morning Saturday Busytown Busytown Danger Horseland Coach Coach Animal Hollywood Eco Co. Mad Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Kids News Paid Prog.

Today (N) (CC) Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Zula Patrl Shelldon Dragon Babar Willa’s Pearlie (EI) Sid Cat in the Super Dinosaur MotorWk Michigan Wild Ohio Out Mag. Nature (CC) (DVS) Flip This House (CC) Flip This House (CC) Flip This House (CC) Sell: Extreme Flip This House (CC) Around the World Around the World Around the World Around the World Housewives/OC ›› Encino Man (1992) Sean Astin. (CC) ›› Coneheads (1993) Dan Aykroyd. (CC) National-Van Wilder Mickey Pirates Phineas Phineas Phineas Gravity Jessie ANT Farm Wizards Wizards 2012 Wimbledon Championships Early Round, Day 6. (N) (Live) (CC) › Inspector Gadget (1999) ›› The Karate Kid (1984) Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita.

Count Be.- Made Guy’s Mexican Pioneer Paula Dinner Contessa Giada Chopped Rehab Rehab Property Property YardCrash YardCrash YardCrash Hse Crash Hse Crash BathCrash Hollywood Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Bristol Bristol BabysitterSedu Beach The Real World (CC) Teen Mom (CC) Teen Mom (CC) 10 on Top Snooki Awkward.

Earl Yes, Dear Yes, Dear Yes, Dear › My Baby’s Daddy (2004) (CC) Family That Preys The Giant Behemoth ›› 711 Ocean Drive (1950) › The Son of Rusty (1947, Drama) ›› Dick Tracy (1945) Law Rizzoli & Isles (CC) The Closer (CC) Dallas (CC) ›› Deep Impact (1998) (CC) Paid Prog. Paid Prog. › Good Luck Chuck (2007) Dane Cook. (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Sonic X Sonic X Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Dragon Dragon Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Dog Tales Career

June 30, 2012

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Ent Insider Duets (N) (S Live) (CC) Wipeout (N) (CC) Rookie Blue (N) (CC) News Nightline Wheel Jeopardy! Big Bang Broke Girl Person of Interest The Mentalist (CC) News Letterman The Office How I Met Take Me Out (N) (CC) The Choice (N) (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office Jdg Judy Jdg Judy U.S. Olympic Trials Saving Hope (N) (CC) Rock Center News Jay Leno NewsHour Business Toledo Stories (CC) Masterpiece Mystery! (CC) (DVS) Live From Artists Den Sun Stud The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (N) (CC) Cajun Cajun Cajun Cajun Housewives/NJ Orange County Social Housewives/OC Kathy (N) Happens Kathy Colbert Daily Chappelle South Pk South Pk The Comedy Central Roast (CC) Daily Colbert ANT Farm Vampire Good Shake It ››› The Princess and the Frog Phineas Vampire Austin NBA Draft 2012 NBA Draft From Newark, N.J. (N) (Live) (CC) ›› Austin Powers in Goldmember › Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, Action) Nicolas Cage.

The 700 Club (CC) Chopped Chopped Chopped Anne Burrell Sweet Genius Hunt Intl Hunters Celebs Selling LA Selling NY London Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl Bristol Bristol Wife Swap (CC) Wife Swap (CC) 7 Days of Sex (N) (CC) Bristol Bristol Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Snooki Snooki Awkward. Snooki Awkward.

Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Men-Work Big Bang Conan (N) Grn Slime MGM ››› Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Fred Astaire, Petula Clark.

Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) CSI: NY “Dead Inside” CSI: NY (CC) NCIS “Caged” (CC) NCIS (CC) Burn Notice (N) (CC) Suits (N) (CC) Royal Pains (CC) Big Bang Big Bang Breaking Pointe (N) The Vampire Diaries Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Ent Insider Shark Tank (CC) 20/20 (CC) News Nightline Wheel Jeopardy! Undercover Boss (CC) CSI: NY (CC) Blue Bloods (CC) News Letterman The Office How I Met House “Chase” (CC) Bones (PA) (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office Jdg Judy Jdg Judy U.S. Olympic Trials U.S. Olympic Trials Gymnastics. (N) (CC) News Jay Leno NewsHour Business Wash.

Deadline Mariachi High In Performance Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Barter Barter Barter Barter Barter Barter Million Dollar LA Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Happens Happens Colbert Daily Futurama Tosh.0 Tosh.0 The Comedy Central Roast (CC) Tosh.0 Super Trpr ANT Farm Vampire Vampire ANT Farm Gravity Gravity Jessie Good Jessie Jessie Softball World Cup: Teams TBA. (N) (CC) X Games From Los Angeles. (N) (Live) (CC) ›› The Count of Monte Cristo ›› Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010, Adventure) The 700 Club (CC) Best Thing Best Thing Diners Diners Diners Diners My. Diners Diners Diners Diners Hunt Intl Hunt Intl My Yard House H. Homes House Hunters Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Friend Awkward. Snooki Snooki The Real World (CC) ›› Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005) Seinfeld Seinfeld Payne Payne Payne Payne ›› Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) (CC) ›› The Bribe (1949) ›› Woman in Hiding (1949) Ida Lupino. ›› Julie (1956) Doris Day, Louis Jourdan. (CC) The Mentalist (CC) ››› The Sum of All Fears (2002) Ben Affleck. (CC) ››› The Sum of All Fears (2002) Law & Order: SVU › G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) (CC) Common Law (N) (CC) G.I. Joe: Cobra Big Bang Big Bang Nikita (CC) Supernatural (CC) Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Mod Fam Mod Fam Final Witness (N) (CC) News Nightline Dogs in the City (N) Criminal Minds CSI: Crime Scene News Letterman So You Think You Can Dance (N) (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office U.S. Olympic Trials America’s Got Talent (N) (CC) News Jay Leno Nature (CC) (DVS) NOVA (CC) Inside Nature’s Giants Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Barter Barter Barter Barter Housewives/OC Million Dollar LA Around the World Happens Around South Pk South Pk Futurama (CC) Futurama South Pk Daily Colbert Good Luck Charlie Austin Jessie Shake It Shake It Vampire Austin MLB Baseball Detroit Tigers at Texas Rangers. (N Subject to Blackout) SportsCenter (N) (CC) Melissa Daddy ›› Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) The 700 Club (CC) Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Food Network Star Income Kitchen Property Brothers (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Property Brothers (CC) Wife Swap (CC) Wife Swap (CC) Coming Home (N) (CC) Dance Moms (CC) True Life Teen Mom (CC) The Real World (N) The Real World (CC) Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) ›› Delicious (1931, Musical) Janet Gaynor.

Immigrant ›› Anything Can Happen (1952) Law & Order “Fixed” Dallas (N) (CC) The Mentalist (CC) Dallas (CC) NCIS “Short Fuse” Royal Pains (N) (CC) Necessary Roughness Suits “The Choice” America’s Next Model America’s Next Model Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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X Games (N) (CC) X Games (N) (CC) Paid Paid ESPN Sports Saturday (N) News ABC Insider Lottery Extreme Makeover Extreme Makeover Castle (CC) News Anatomy NUMB3RS “Graphic” PGA Tour Special (N) PGA Tour Golf AT&T National, Third Round. (N) (Live) (CC) News News Wheel Jeopardy! CSI: NY (CC) Blue Bloods (CC) 48 Hours Mystery News NUMB3R Movie MLB McCarver The Unit (CC) The Closer (CC) Bones Fragments.

MLB Baseball Regional Coverage. (N Subject to Blackout) (CC) News Seinfeld The Finder (CC) Paid Women’s Soccer Friendly: United States vs. Canada.

U.S. Olympic Trials Gymnastics. (N) (CC) News News Academic Challenge U.S. Olympic Trials U.S. Olympic Trials The Firm (N) (CC) News SNL This Old House Hr John Quilting John Tesh Big Band Live Music Globe Trekker Steves Rudy Lawrence Welk History Detectives Antiques Roadshow As Time... Wine Masterpiece Classic Flip This House (CC) Monster Monster Monster Monster Cajun Cajun Cajun Cajun Cajun Cajun Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Barter Barter Housewives/OC Real Housewives Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Housewives/OC Blue Crush 2 (2011, Drama) Sasha Jackson.

National-Van Wilder South Pk South Pk › Let’s Go to Prison (2006) Dax Shepard. › Saving Silverman (2001) Jason Biggs. ›› Super Troopers (2001, Comedy) (CC) › Joe Dirt (2001) David Spade. (CC) ›› Jackass 3.5 (CC) Good Good Austin Shake It Good Good Good Good Good Shake It Austin Gravity Lab Rats Let It Shine (2012) Tyler James Williams.

Gravity ANT Farm Jessie Good Good 2012 Wimbledon Championships X Games (N) (CC) X Games (N) (CC) X Games (N) (CC) X Games (N) (CC) Softball World Cup: Teams TBA. (N) (CC) X Games From Los Angeles. (N) (Live) (CC) ›› The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Jim Caviezel. ›› Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) ›› Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006, Action) ››› Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Cupcake Wars (N) Food Network Star Sweet Genius Diners Diners Iron Chef America Restaurant: Im. Chopped Chopped Chopped Chopped Iron Chef America Elbow Contrac Pop Shop Pop Shop Brake for Yard Sales Flea Mar Junk Going Curb...

Hunters Hunt Intl Junk Mom Design Star (CC) Grt High Low Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl BabysitterSedu Student Seduction (2003) Elizabeth Berkley. Reviving Ophelia (2010) Jane Kaczmarek.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012) (CC) Fugitive at 17 (2012) Marie Avgeropoulos.

Walking the Halls (2012) Jamie Luner. (CC) Cribs Priciest Pads Cribs Priciest Pads Cribs Priciest Pads Cribs Priciest Pads ››› 8 Mile (2002, Drama) Eminem, Kim Basinger. ›› Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005, Crime Drama) Ridic.

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Family That Preys ›› Daddy’s Little Girls (2007) (CC) Fam. Guy King Friends Friends Friends Friends Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Big Bang The Great Escape Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself ››› Passage to Marseille (1944, War) (CC) ››› 36 Hours (1964) James Garner. (CC) ››› Alexander the Great (1956) Richard Burton. (CC) ›››› Sullivan’s Travels (1941) ››› Christmas in July (1940) The Great McGinty ›› Deep Impact (CC) ››› The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Fantasy) Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen. (CC) Countdown to Green NASCAR Racing Sprint Cup: Quaker State 400. (N) (Live) (CC) ›› Deep Impact (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Necess. Rough Icons Live Life On Spot Browns Electric Electric Futurama Futurama Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Two Men Two Men › John Tucker Must Die (2006), Ashanti Electric Electric Futurama Futurama Sunny Sunny

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

JUNE 24-30, 2012

Mercury enters Leo (25th), Saturn and Venus make direct stations (25th and 27th).

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

You may be taking apart the pieces of your life and putting them together in fresh ways this week. There may be little tolerance for people who waffle or live in fantasyland. Unusual turns of events prove to be the source of unexpected benefits after Wednesday.

Collective events and upheavals leak into your personal situation. People perform swift, uncompromising maneuvers. Women are a source of aid and good advice midweek. Tough crossroads of choice may be unavoidable, and leave no room for waffling or indecision.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Concepts and beliefs about the world may be overthrown, or your inner or outer landscapes radically altered in some way this week. Unexpected recognition or rewards come about midweek. People make jolting statements after Friday. Pursue new options.

The obsolete is replaced by the new as the week starts.

Others’ judgments provoke doubts, and a certain haze of skepticism accompanies any sudden decisions. Partners’ profits, bonuses, or legacies improve your financial stability, but benefits may be fleeting.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Major gains or losses are possible this week. Much depends on past actions. Social networks could be fractured, or friends thrown into turmoil. After Wednesday, sudden or abrupt discoveries about hidden events put you on full alert. Cages and closet skeletons rattle.

Look for opportunities amidst chaos this week. Lingering issues suddenly get decisive resolution by powers-that-be.

Unanticipated benefits roll your way midweek for past efforts, likely through women. Land and property are subject to amazing transformations.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Partners could make or experience radical, sudden changes this week. Things lurking in the background are fully revealed for good or ill by midweek. You’re capable of amazing leaps in thought and action, and act like greased lightning when you’re feeling driven or inspired.

This is likely to be a weird week. Much depends on your attitudes and what you’re trying to change or improve, but subconscious motives and desires could leak into outcomes.

People can help or harm depending on their past treatment and current loyalties.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

A cosmic revolving door moves people into different roles, jobs and places this week. People from the past return and may bring gifts. Someone queries your specific knowledge about a past event. Past deeds are brought into sharp perspective as the week winds to a close.

Ingenuity and problem-solving abilities are tested to their limits. The game can change in an instant. Past experiences and recent input weave into clever solutions on the spot.

You’re well up to all the fancy footwork, but stay alert to unpredictable influences.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

A partner or family member introduces you to a whole new world this week. You may have some misgivings if things seem too rosy or easy-come. A disruptive incident confirms your suspicions after Thursday. Weekend journeys connect you with good friends.

Bureaucracies and institutions are the source of surprises.

You can master any situation if you’ve been paying attention and acting dynamically for your desired outcomes. Weird spiritual influences are evident all week, perhaps help from your angels or deceased loved ones.

Elizabeth Hazel is a professional tarotist-astrologer and author. She gives readings every Wednesday at Attic on Adams above Manos Greek Restaurant. She may be contacted at ehazel@buckeye-express.com (c) 2012

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