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‘Dr. Bob’ attacked

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Love and luxury Farr event’s curtain call?

Community activist Robert Brundage fights for life after brutal theft, Page A5

State budget cuts threaten public libraries, Page A6

Point Place residents fight floodplain status, Page A8

Belamere Suites offers hidden getaway, Page A9

Jamie Farr golf tournament celebrates 25 years in Toledo ‚ but is it the last?, Page A15

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JUNE 28, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

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ongratulations to the 10 cities — Phoenix, Ariz.; Inglewood, Calif.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Richmond, Ind.; Wichita, Kan.; Somerville, Mass.; Albany, N.Y.; Kinston, N.C.; Statesville, N.C.; and Caroline County, Va. — that were named 2009’s AllAmerica cities by the National Civic League. While Toledo did not make the cut this year, the competition brought out some interesting elements of our city’s personality.

On one hand, money was raised so nearly 40 people could travel to Tampa to make a presentation to the judging committee. Citizens young and old came together to cheer about Toledo and try to bring home some glory. These people put aside politics and tried to spread some goodwill.

On the other hand, some used the competition as an opportunity to Thomas F. POUNDS scorn and mock those who tried to do something positive. There is a persistent, yet unproven, rumor that one local organization spent time and energy contacting the awards committee in Tampa to make a case against Toledo being an All-America city; the National Civic League assures us such efforts do not impact the process, and we have to take them at their word.

By the way, Toledo Free Press is pursuing that rumor, and we will get to the bottom of it.

Would an All-America designation immediately create jobs, fill local pockets with money or put police back on the street? Of course not. But this is an area that could use some good news and national recognition — for the right reasons — and a thank you is due to the companies and citizens that gave it their best shot.

Such designations are clearly not a life-or-death pursuit, but be wary of those who describe awards such as All-America City as “lipstick on a pig” — they may want to convey the award as shallow window dressing, but think about their base comparison of Toledo to a pig. If that is how they feel, they should lift their own snouts out of the trough and take a more informed look around, past the tempest-in-a-teapot controversies and into the lives of the people who live and work here because they love and respect their city.

It may not be in vogue to be proud of our city, but remember: politicians and media people come and go; the city stands long after those factions disappear, and the city stands as an eternal All-America candidate, whether the actual award comes home or not.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press.

Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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ights flash and pop at unpredictable speeds, from ticket value. Evan’s joy was to take all five pingpong balls untraceable directions. Three-dozen sources of at once and dump them in the very first bucket. This noise clash and compete for control in a cacophony process took about 10 seconds; the game gives you two minutes to play, so Evan would jump up of chaos. Motion compels the tracking eye and down and jam token after token into from every peripheral angle; pupils swirl, the machine, waiting 110 seconds for the desperately trying to keep up with the next round. carnival-ride centrifugal force of activity.

I lost track after Round 17.

Colors assault the eye and violate percepBefore Evan could initiate what I estitions of normalcy like nameless, shifting mated to be Round 22, I pried him away fogs from a Lovecraft story. Human beings from the machine to explore the rest of devolve into little more than wild animals, the arcade area. A few things caught his running, jumping, rolling and bouncing eye, but I soon realized I would retain like pingpong balls in an industrial dryer. enough left over tokens to fill a small It is not combat.

Michael S. MILLER pirate’s treasure chest.

It is not battle.

Evan clamored to sit in a motion-simulator ride, so I It is Chuck E. Cheese.

Our South Florida family arranged a visit to the buckled him in and stood beside him outside the car, exvenerable pizza palace to celebrate our sons’ mid-June pecting a gentle jaunt through a meadow full of animated birthdays. Evan is now 3 and Sean is 1. I am now 650 bunnies; instead, the screen showed an Elvira, Mistress years older than when Evan was born, and I appreciate of the Dark-hosted tour of a horror carnival, complete more than ever how fleeting and unstoppable the march with zombies and every conceivable nasty creature. Evan, uneducated in the ways of the undead, thought the bats of time is.

I had never been to a party at Chuck E. Cheese and were cool and did not seem to realize he should have been terrified. I credit Elvira’s animated, lava lamp cleavage, did not know what to expect.

Nothing I could have expected would have prepared which kept us both distracted and inspired nostalgia in one of us for our breastfeeding days. me for the experience anyway.

I won’t burden you with the knowledge of how we God bless the staff and crew at Chuck E. Cheese; as much as I adore my perfect little angels, I can imagine spent the remaining tokens, but it involved a SpongeBob the mental trip from parent to curmudgeon being greatly SquarePants machine and attempts to drop a token, accelerated by prolonged exposure to the screaming hoping it would land on a specific square; we hoarded hordes of other people’s delinquent brats at the arcade almost 300 tickets for that little pastime.

All of us were exhausted and battered by the Chuck E. and restaurant.

For the party, Evan — who between Chuck E., Mickey Cheese experience, but Evan had so much fun he talked and Minnie must believe all mice are 6-foot, waving, about it nonstop for three days. Which is the point, dead-eyed creatures who spread joy and treats like right? It may be laughably simplistic to reduce the parvermin Santas — was given all sorts of birthday goodies: enting adventure to an evening at Chuck E. Cheese, but a Chuck E. Cheese metal lunch box, a nifty Chuck E. the analogy is so perfect it demands consideration.

Our boys are 3 and 1, and the months have consisted Cheese birthday medal, a tableside visit from Chuck E. Cheese, an enthusiastically sung round of “Happy of lights flashing and popping at unpredictable speeds, Birthday” by Chuck E. Cheese employees and a Chuck E. from untraceable directions; three-dozen sources of Cheese birthday cake. He was also given approximately noise clashing and competing for control in a cacophony 3,000 Chuck E. Cheese game tokens, in the same kind of of chaos; motion compelling the tracking eye from every peripheral angle; pupils swirling, desperately trying to holes-in-the-bottom plastic cups used in casinos.

Sean is too young to understand any of the hoopla, keep up with the carnival-ride centrifugal force of acbut he stayed focused on the celebration and tried sev- tivity; colors assaulting the eye and violating perceptions eral times to poke his tiny, but insistent fingers through of normalcy like nameless, shifting fogs from a Lovecraft Chuck E. Cheese’s eyes. I am assuming that is natural story; human beings devolving into little more than wild animals, running, jumping, rolling and bouncing like curiosity, not a critical comment on his part.

After the celebration, I took Evan to the arcade area pingpong balls in an industrial dryer.

It is combat. to start spending tokens. He is too little for the video It is battle. games and I am not ready to see him with anything reIt is parenthood. sembling a video-game gun in his hands, but there were Happy birthday, Evan and Sean. a number of skill games he fell in love with. His favorite was a ski ball-type game, in which a token freed up five pingpong balls and the object was to throw them into Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. buckets; the farther away the bucket, the greater the Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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Michael S. Miller, Editor in Chief mmiller@toledofreepress.com

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t is improbable and unconven- vince Boyd to avoid the charity.

No matter what type of intional that the sitting chairman of a political party would be party drama is playing on the local political stage, when the kick start to the a chairman and his beginning of a third acquaintances orgaparty, but there is a nize to discourage atmovement afoot protendance to a charity viding an alternative event, a new level of to the traditional Rechildishness has been publican and Demoestablished. cratic ballot choices.

Chairman StainMu lt i - t a s k i ng , brook does have killing two birds with one stone, Jon Stain- Tom MORRISSEY a tough job as the leader of the doomed brook is juggling the responsibilities of two political minority in Lucas County, but his movements. While running the approach has made a dwindling Lucas County Republican Party party sink lower. Stainbrook is a (LCRP), he is advancing a third detriment to his own party. As option. What is more noteworthy leader, it is rare for him to attack a than one man advancing two sep- Democrat; instead, he has focused arate political movements is that his power trip on threatening and Stainbrook is advancing the third attacking fellow Republicans, such as Patrick Kriner. party unintentionally.

With a Democrat mayor’s apStainbrook’s nightmarish actions and lackluster strategy for proval numbers at the bottom the LCRP is helping third-party of the Maumee, Stainbrook has efforts gain traction. Claiming to an easy target. Finkbeiner’s third be fiscal conservatives — a basic mayoral term has been a dismal tenant of the Republican Party — failure, yet Stainbrook has not pubTricia Lyons of Teamwork Toledo licly criticized the failure known as announced, “We are all running Finkbeiner. He has, however, taken as independents because we don’t time out of his hectic schedule to threaten the mayor of Waterville, want to be tied to either party.”

It is disappointing that Team- Derek Merrin, that if Merrin would work Toledo wants nothing to do not quit complaining that Stainwith Stainbrook and the LCRP, brook was violating party bylaws despite the general philosophical in the way an important meeting similarities shared between Team- was announced, Stainbrook would work Toledo and Republicans. personally and maliciously “smear” Chairman Stainbrook exposed Merrin in the press.

Stainbrook has been an utter his disdain for fiscal conservatism as the property-less Republican failure in raising money and pushed his party to endorse prop- fielding candidates. His fundraising has been dismal, as the erty tax levies in 2008.

The recent Lucas County Re- party is barely holding onto its publican Clubs Charity Dinner, Downtown Toledo headquarters.

Stainbrook has suffered his which benefited the Toledo Seagate Foodbank, was accompa- own political defeats, engineered nied by much drama. Worse than the thumping of council candidate no-showing after threatening to Joe Kidd and failed to meet filing sue over the first scheduling of the deadlines for Jan Scotland, keeping charity, Stainbrook and other asso- Scotland off the 2008 ballot.

Actions speak louder than ciates reportedly called fellow Republicans to dissuade them from words, and Stainbrook’s actions are growing hoarse, shouting “Forget attending the charity dinner.

Kate Boyd, an active Repub- the LCRP!” There’s no other way lican, has donated time and money to interpret the self-destructive to previous Republican campaigns, shrieks that echo loudly off Tolebut not any longer. After receiving do’s political landscape. It is clear her invitation to the charity dinner, the party chairman cares not for she says she was called by a man his own party. His advancement identifying himself from the LCRP. of alternative ballot options have Although he was not forthcoming become his focus.

Why else would Stainbrook do with his full name, she did learn to whom she was speaking, after he so much to embarrass his party? gave his spiel on why she should not attend the charity dinner. The E-mail columnist Tom Morrissey at sole purpose of the call was to con- letters@toledofreepress.com.

JUNE 28, 2009

JUST BLOWING SMOKE

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You see, June 26-28 is exactly the halfway point behe United States (and the world for that matter) seems to have far too many holidays for my taste. tween Father’s Day and the Fourth of July. One of these Don’t get me wrong, I like holidays; but Mother’s holidays, of course, should be extremely important to the citizens of the United States, the other ...

Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, maybe not so much. However, in light of Sweetest Day and many of the rest to me are the government’s current open disregard little more than “Hallmark Holidays,” deat best and trampling at worst of the docusigned to encourage the purchase of flowers, ment that is one of the two most important candy, presents and, of course, Hallmark documents in the United States, The Concards specifically prepared for the occasion. stitution, I would like to create a holiday for They are, furthermore, holidays which are those who wrote it. In the spirit of the docuabused beyond all reason or need by the ment whose creation began 222 years ago, retail industry to create artificial reasons to and the one that we celebrate but a week purchase items that have nothing to do with later (the Declaration of Independence, of the holiday in question. (After all, why else course), I would like to create “Founding would I buy furniture, a TV or a car because Tim HIGGINS Fathers’ Day.” of a “Presidents Day” sale?)

Retail outlets would have an excuse to hold another sale This is not to say that all such holidays are not deserving of our love and recognition. Creating a special at a time when there is traditionally little going on in retail, holiday to celebrate special people, who are deserving of whether it has anything to do with the holiday or not. We our consideration every day of the year, might be just a could have an additional weekend to shoot off fireworks, which would help their sales. (Besides, nothing says palittle more than is necessary, however.

I believe that upon the publishing of these first two triotism like things exploding, right?) And of course, Hallparagraphs, many will misunderstand my intent and mark could create hundreds of different kinds of Founding find reason either to comment either to themselves (al- Fathers’ Day cards that we could send to each other.

Perhaps in the process of executing our assigned ways a sound philosophy when done silently), to those around them (who are probably are less interested in duties as part of the rampant consumerism expected the subject at hand) or to the Toledo Free Press online of each and every one of us during this new (and every comment section or Letters to the Editor in violent op- other) Hallmark Holiday, we could even perform a position to the sentiments that I have expressed. That, useful function by distributing copies of the documents of course, is their right, and I would encourage them to which seem to be suffering from so much recent abuse, do so (especially in the last way, as it lets those in charge and which so few Americans (and even fewer of the Americans in government apparently) seem to be even know that someone is reading this stuff.)

I say this, however, because in spite of my assertion mildly familiar with.

And so I say to each of you on this latest of festive that there are too many of these events, I am about to add insult to the injury I have thus far stated. I would like weekends: Happy Founding Fathers’ Day! to add yet another Hallmark Holiday to the list for this Tim Higgins blogs at justblowingsmoke.blogspot.com. year, and I can’t think of a better occasion for it.

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

Whether they call him “Johnny Ginkgo Seed,” “Teacher,” “Dr. Bob” or just “Bob,” friends of community activist Robert Brundage say he is a role model.

At presstime June 25, Brundage remained in critical condition at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center after a 15 year-old allegedly attacked him for his bicycle June 22.

More than 100 friends and family met June 23 at the Collingwood Arts Center to wish him a speedy recovery.

“Last year, he had a bike accident and hip fracture and I thought this was going to be his chance to settle into being old, but not three weeks later, he was back on his bike,” said Steve Hallock, who knows Brundage through various community activist groups. “If there is anybody who is capable of pulling out of this, it is him; and when he does, I assume he’ll be back on his bike.”

Tireless fighter Brundage has tirelessly fought for equality, environmental preservation and community empowerment in Toledo, said Jeff Nelson, who worked with Brundage to preserve Scott High School last year.

After moving back to Ohio from Boston in 1997, Brundage served as the treasurer of the Collingwood Arts Center, works on Central City Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation, Community Shares of Northwest Ohio, Jobs with Justice, Parents for Public Schools, Urban Coalition, Building Bridges toward Racial Harmony and

more, according to his biography at CollingwoodArtsCenter.org.

“If he dies, it’s going to be a real blow to this community and I think the world will have lost a nice, gentle, productive citizen,” Nelson said.

Scholar and musician With a Ph.D. in biophysics from Brandeis University, Brundage worked in Boston to design medical instruments, while balancing his cello playing and love for music. He recorded and edited performances for Harvard University, MIT, New England Conservatory and others for this third career, according to the Art Center Web site.

“He went to Toledo Public Schools for high school and then to the Ivy Leagues,” said long-term friend Michael Szuberla. “He left a comfy lifestyle in Boston to try to make Toledo better.”

Szuberla said Brundage loves to work with children and teach them about different trees and plants. He earned his nickname “Johnny Ginkgo Seed” because he frequents the Toledo Botanical Garden with a large pot on his head and passes out ginkgo seeds to advocate their strong, medicinal benefits.

Lorna Gonsalves, who started a children’s program called Human Values for Transformative Action, said she plans to have her students plant a little forest in Brundage’s name — and she’s expecting he’ll be around to help.

Joe Zsigray, executive director of the Collingwood Arts Center, said Brundage was instrumental in shaping the center. He helped Zsigray engineer acoustical panels around the auditorium to improve sound quality for performances.

Brundage fulfilled another

dream recently after he and other Scott High School alums persuaded voters to support preserving Toledo’s oldest high school rather than tearing it down, said Warren Woodberry, who worked with him on the project. The last time Woodberry talked to Brundage before the incident, he was elated because the two had just finalized a room at the Collingwood Arts Center to display historical artifacts from the high school and pay tribute to its rich history. The two discussed producing a play about the high school, and Woodberry said he would carry out those plans.

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Attacker confessed Dailahntae Jemison is in custody at the Juvenile Detention Center, facing an aggravated robbery charge, said Sgt. Bill Wauford.

Detective James Couch apprehended him and Jemison confessed within a couple hours after Toledo police officers responded to a witness’ call about Brundage lying unconscious at the corner of Collingwood Boulevard and Victoria Place, Wauford said.

Jemison, who reportedly assaulted Brundage while attempting to steal his bicycle, could face trial as an adult if Brundage dies, he said.

Kris Moazed told the group at the Collingwood Arts Center that they should pray for both “Bob” and his attacker.

“We all know he would really appreciate that we pray for the boy who assaulted him,” she said.

In a June 24 statement, the Brundage family said, “In the short time he has been at St. V.’s, he has shown incremental improvements of increased response. He is currently undergoing further testing and we remain hopeful that [he] will continue to improve.”

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Director Clyde Scoles said he would take a pay cut before laying off any employees at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, if the proposed state budget cuts are approved.

Gov. Ted Strickland proposed balancing the budget on June 19 by cutting $227 million from the Ohio Public Library Fund, causing Lucas County libraries to cut 25 percent of the annual budget, Scoles said.

“We’re talking about not only tightening our belts, but strangulation,” Scoles said.

The library employs 338 people and allots 55 percent of its shrinking $35 million budget to pay them.

Scoles said no one has had to take any pay cuts in the past year, despite a 20 percent decrease in state

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About two years ago, Ohio library directors agreed to receive 2.2 percent of the state’s general tax funding rather than 5.7 percent of personal income tax because the general tax fund usually increases, but since has taken a budgetary hit, he said.

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Point Place residents might have to choose between buying flood insurance or large machinery that removes backyard foliage, homemade docks, patios and swimming pools.

Howard Pinkley, who has lived in Point Place for 82 years, said he and his neighbors cannot afford extra monthly payments and will work hard to contest the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) recent floodplain map, which designated portions of the area in the floodplain.

This mandates anyone with a federally backed mortgage to buy insurance.

“I was prepared to tell them, ‘pack your bags and get out of town,’ ” he said about his neighbors.

More than 300 people crammed into the Friendship Park Senior Center on June 24 for a public hearing, which quickly became a shouting match between infuriated Point Place dwellers and Ken Hinterlong, a District 5 FEMA representative and engineer.

In a nationwide project that federal engineers have worked on since 2002, FEMA released a new floodplain map proposal for Lucas County in April. Hinterlong said FEMA representatives alerted the City of Toledo more than a year and a half ago that officials would need to send FEMA documents accrediting the dike at Point Place or engineers would place the area in the floodplain.

But with strict FEMA requirements and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineer’s recent failing of the dike, the City of Toledo hadn’t acted to get the dike accredited until just recently, he said.

The Army Corps of Engineers built the dike in the early 1980s, but gave the city responsibility for maintaining it, said Robert Remmers, chief of the operations and technical support section at the corps’s Buffalo district.

In 2008, the corps failed the dike because it did not meet four major standards, making Point Place ineligible for federal funding in case of a natural disaster. This also reflects on FEMA’s decision whether to accredit the dike or not, Remmers said. The dike is one of seven that the corps failed last year — out of 44 flood control projects in the district.

“I have grave concerns that instead of the city paying money to recertify the dikes, they are going to pass it off to the citizens to pay the flood insurance,” said Michelle Glanville, a property owner in Point Place.

Toledo City Council passed an ordinance June 23 that allocates $63,000 for city engineers to work with a consulting firm to assess what they’ll have to change on the dike, and how much that will cost, said Dale Rupert, an engineer with the city’s division of streets, bridges and harbor.

But with the Jan. 25, 2010 deadline approaching, Councilwoman Lindsay Webb said the city needs more time and money.

“We’re not going to force insurance on you in January of 2010,” Hinterlong said, adding that after the deadline, FEMA won’t have official maps completed for at least 12 more months. The maps will have to be publically reviewed, go through a 90day appeals process and other local procedures.

Major problems include a lot of foliage growing out of the dike, numerous patios and stairs that residents built into it and some areas where the dike has settled and is not high enough

for standards, he said.

The Army Corps of Engineers cited these as reasons for failing the dike in 2008, along with the failure of the city to provide the corps with a videotaped record of all the pipes running through the structure, Remmers said. He added the city shouldn’t have allowed people to build structures on the dike.

“The regulations have not changed, but the enforcement of those regulations has,” Webb said.

Webb said the people who live in Point Place have had trees and structures built into the flood control system for almost as long as the dike has existed.

Webb called on everyone at the meeting to write letters to Ohio’s senators and representatives to request federal grants to help.

“Requiring this many homes to require flood insurance would be the death knell,” Webb said.

“This neighborhood has already been designated as a tipping point.”

Some residents could face rates as high as $700 a year. Resident Janice Fletcher said even if she “grandfathers” in to buy flood insurance, by basing rates on the current map, she’d have to pay $400 a year.

“I don’t think we’re going to ever flood,” she said. “We’ve never had a problem, and I don’t want the extra costs.”

Resident Eric Lacourse said if he’s forced to pay flood insurance, he and his neighbors “will become another foreclosure instance in Ohio.”

Many of Point Place’s residents are on fixed income like Social Security or have lost their jobs recently, Webb said.

The new floodplain map let about 4,200 addresses out of the floodplain and put 3,700 in throughout Lucas County, according to an April report.

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Harrison fire tragedy’s ramifications still smoldering

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

Though Barbie and Herman Harrison’s house has lain in ruins for weeks, the controversy surrounding its demise is smoldering. As first reported in Toledo Free Press, a June 9 fire engulfed their 1945 Mt. Vernon Ave. residence, razing it to HARRISON the ground. In three and a half hours, 29 years of memories were reduced to ash.

The couple is living in a rented room at Maumee’s Residence Inn. “This is a safety issue and people’s lives and homes are at stake,” said Barbie, the president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of North-

west Ohio. “It is not about Herman and me anymore. Everyone deserves to be safe in their homes.”

Her voice is catching ears. Lucas County Commissioner and Democratic mayoral candidate Ben Konop hosted a press conference about the incident 10 a.m. June 19 at Toledo’s One Government Center, criticizing the City of Toledo’s firefighting procedures. Citing 4-inch water mains of “inadequate” size, he called for better city management of piping and fire hydrants in the future.

Toledo Fire Department Fire Chief Michael Wolever said fire investigators had not yet determined the fire’s cause. In the case of the Mt. Vernon fire, he said, the 4-inch water mains onsite could do little to halt an already advanced conflagration. He said he worried political rumblings over the fire would add additional harm to the situation.

“Knowing what kind of main is there does not tell me everything about the fire,” he said. “The size of

a water main should not frighten people. Anybody who tries to instill fear into the public is irresponsible.”

Konop said June 21 water mains and their hydrants are a legitimate concern. He said at an earlier time Toledo had color-coded fire hydrants, which warned firefighters what size main they were tapping into. Following a beautification project during current Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s first term, he said, nothing distinguishes one hydrant’s main from another.

Toledo mayoral candidate Keith Wilkowski, said June 24 he gave Vice President Joe Biden a letter June 23 at Perrysburg’s Willard & Kelsey Group LLC factory. In it, he said, he requested the Obama and Biden administration provide stimulus funds for upgrading Toledo’s infrastructure, including water mains.

The Harrisons, meanwhile, have other woes. Barbie said June 19 Toledo’s Department of Neighborhoods sent them a letter June 12. In it, she said, the department offered

the Harrisons a 72-hour grace period. After this expired, she said, the rubble of their house would receive a $300 fine each day thereafter as a public nuisance. Calling the notice “sad,” she said it offended her given her current situation.

Toledo Manager of Code Enforcement Bob Mossing called the notice “routine” city practice after any fire. As of June 23, he said, the Harrisons had incurred no fines, despite the house’s rubble remaining after the leniency period.

Finkbeiner announced in a June 22 news release the formation of a panel created for investigating the blaze.

Former Indianapolis (Indiana) International Airport Fire Chief William Kramer, UT College of Engineering associate civil engineering professor Doug Nims and Principal Developer for Health Services Design Group Doni Miller make up the panel, it said.

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“Today’s society is such that people work all day before coming home and passing in,” said John Kranjec, who owns Belamere with his wife Theresa. “Belamere is a special place to come to. It is about getting solitude and peace.”

Kranjec said his establishment offered many amenities for 21 and up couples looking for tranquility.

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“Every year we get better and better,” Kranjec said. “People’s expectations are high when they come to a place like this. To meet or exceed those expectations is what we try to do and want to do.”

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Families considering preneed agreements for burial services may have second thoughts after learning of a local funeral director who mishandled funds, leaving financial victims in the wake of his death.

Jeffrey Fretti, who owned J. Jeffrey Fretti Funeral Home in Toledo, died in April, but the extent of his business’s financial woes was not discovered until weeks later.

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Trust beneficiaries and insurance policyholders lock in the cost of the funeral services even if they are not needed for years. Client funds through J. Fretti Funeral Home, however, were self-managed, which Coyle-Stamos said sets up a situation that “can easily go awry.”

Another advantage to trusts and insurance policies is that their values are not considered personal assets if a client needs to rely on Medicaid later in life.

“The growth of the policy will cover any inflationary rise, and that’s the funeral home honoring and taking that risk to ensure that the families are taken care of at the time the death occurs,” she added. “[But] they should always ask for details about how a funeral home or even a cemetery would protect their money and they should ask for an accounting of where that money is and how those funds will be kept.”

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Michigan International Speedway (MIS) has announced plans to revamp its suites and media center. The new center, which is expected to be ready for the 2010 season, will include 31 suites and be powered by solar energy.

“Solar energy saves money now and opens up our facility and our sport to non-traditional partners and unique business-tobusiness opportunities,” said track president Roger Curtis in a press release. “It is the right thing to do and all companies today should take the necessary steps to lower their energy bills.

With this new building, MIS joins AT&T Park in San Francisco, the Staples Center in Los Angeles and U.S. Airways Arena in Phoenix as the country’s energy leaders in major league sports, according to MIS officials.

There will be close to 8,000 square feet of solar panels that will take in 40 kilowatts each of energy produced by the sun across the rooftop of the center, the release stated.

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“We hope Michigan International Speedway’s actions can help show the nation that NASCAR and their fans are some of the country’s most enthusiastic conservationists and can be a powerful leader in lowering energy consumption,” Curtis said in the release.

The two-story building design will feature a state-of-the-art media, technology and meeting center for print, radio and TV journalists on the first floor. The west wall of the first floor will be a glass wall that has a view of pit road and the processional under the building, according to the press release.

The second floor holds 31 corporate suites, which will feature movable walls so areas can expand or decrease based on corporate partners’ needs, which will help MIS tailor custom packages to each partners’ business goals, according to the release.

There will be additional rooms for competitor meetings and press conferences.

On the rooftop of the media center will be walkways where fans can stand on top of the action on the racetrack.

This reconstruction is the first phase of a plan that could eventually see the reconfiguration of the track’s infield. Curtis hopes to see the ga-

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While the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic celebrates the 25th anniversary of the LPGA tournament this year, the future of the event remains uncertain.

The Jamie Farr Classic is in the last year of its contract with the LPGA and corporate sponsors, according to Judd Silverman, tournament director and founder.

“We feel very good about where we are in this tough economic climate,” he said. “It’s been a challenge, but we’re grateful to our sponsors who have remained loyal to it.”

Owens Corning is the title sponsor, and Kroger, the presenting sponsor of the Jamie Farr to be hosted June 29 through July 5 at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania. Owens Corning is also a sponsor of Paula Creamer who won the event in 2008 and is returning to defend her title.

“We’ve been delighted with our experience in the Jamie Farr Classic over the years,” said Scott Deitz, vice president of corporate media and investor relations at Owens Corning.

“Our absolute focus is on having a successful tournament in 2009 and we’ll take a look at 2010 after this year’s event.”

Kroger has a yearly contract for the tournament and will meet with LPGA officials during the tournament this year to discuss a con-

tract for 2010, according to Kroger spokeswoman Amy McCormick.

“We certainly hope they renegotiate another contract,” said Craig Stough, mayor of the host city for the past 14 years. “It’s a wonderful event to have in our community and it brings thousands of fans to Sylvania.”

The LPGA event draws about 75,000 spectators. It involves 144 LPGA players, their caddies and families, as well as more than 50 employees of ESPN and hundreds of other media members covering the competition.

The tournament is expected to bring about $2 million into the local economy based on past expenditures for food, lodging and other products at area hotels, restaurants and retail stores. Estimated figures for this year were not available.

The final three rounds of the tournament will be televised on ESPN-2 again this year. Silverman said the tournament will pay EPSN $360,000 for that coverage and receive national commercial units to sell to sponsors and local businesses.

“We have taken a net loss for that coverage the past few years, but continue doing it because it creates very positive national exposure for Toledo and Northwest Ohio,” Silverman said.

“We benefit from that national attention so the city of Sylvania will have three commercials that promote the community airing on

ESPN-2 to help pay for the TV coverage,” Stough said.

“It’s a great boon for us and we’re gearing up for a very big week,” said Michael Fletcher, owner of Treo, a restaurant on Main Street in downtown Sylvania.

It will be the fourth Jamie Farr Classic for Fletcher who worked at Trattoria Sofo before opening his own restaurant at the same location.

“We’re excited it’s happening on Fourth of July weekend and looking forward to having Jamie Farr here for dinner one night,” Fletcher said.

Treo is one of several restaurants that will participate in the annual “Taking it to the Streets” event hosted in downtown Sylvania on July 2 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m.

It is sponsored by the Sylvania Area Chamber of Commerce.

“We shut down Main Street and create a festival atmosphere,” Stough said.

The event is open to the public and includes food, beverages, a car show and musical entertainment.

The Wingate by Wyndam Hotel on Main Street is completely booked for the week of the tournament by a mix of fans, players and golf officials.

The hotel has 74 rooms and usually has an 80 percent occupancy rate.

“We’re very grateful to the community, our sponsors and the hundreds of volunteers who have supported it,” Silverman said. “It’s truly a community event and people should be proud of supporting the tournament for 25 years.”

s sports fans, we sit back and watch, not always with complete affection, as the world shrinks with rapid advancements in technology, transportation and communication.

The Russians and Swedes have invaded the NHL, major league baseball has a distinct Latino flavor, American-born Indy-car drivers comprised just one-third of the 33-car Indianapolis 500 field in May. The NFL and NBA are somewhat shielded from foreign invasion because no other country can match our feeder system, our developmental leagues, more commonly referred to as colleges and universities.

It’s all OK. It’s another component of global warming.

And then it lands in our own backyard and it’s not OK. It takes on a repulsive persona. We become discriminatory. Our international spirit is somewhat compromised.

If you haven’t already guessed, and I’m absolutely sure you haven’t, we’re talking about the LPGA and more specifically, the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic presented by Kroger at Highland Meadows.

It’s the 25th year of the annual Toledo tour stop and with 48 of the top 50 players, including all of the top 10, we’ve had no finer field.

But there’s this problem. In NCAA post-season tournament parlance, we’re considered a mid-major. With bigger U.S-cities and more international venues in the mix to accommodate the rapid influx of foreignborn players, LPGA locations, such as Toledo and Rochester, N.Y., are hitting out of tough rough. Rochester hosted its annual LPGA event recently for the 33rd consecutive year.

The hard truth is that both might be getting priced out of the market.

Rochester tried hard, queried everyone of LPGA prominence, including commissioner Carolyn Bivens, but found no one willing to guarantee the return of its tournament. And Rochester offered a $2 million purse. With the Dave WOOLFORD extremely hard work and passion of tournament director Judd Silverman, Toledo has scraped up a purse of $1.4 million.

It’s no secret that Bivens, who became the first woman to lead the LPGA in 2005, had visions of grandeur, which can sometimes be interpreted as a depiction of greed. We’ve seen it in every sport. It’s all-inclusive.

But now it’s in our own backyard and it’s not OK. That’s because it’s the biggest sporting event we have, not just in the summer but year-round. It’s huge for our community and our economy.

We supply more than 1,200 tournament volunteers who serve with pride.

But most of all, again through the dedication of Silverman and his associates, our tournament has donated more than $6.2 million to charities, most of them local.

But with visions of grandeur dancing through her head, Bivens has raised the sanctioning fee considerably. Silverman won’t divulge how much, but does admit it jumped a bunch last year and then held fast this year. It’s rumored that the fee might more than double in 2010. And while we’re dealing with unverified reports, it’s also reported that Silverman will have to increase his purse substantially.

To all those idle speculations, Silverman says they’re not necessarily true. Why? Because he’s in contract negotiations with the LPGA and there’s this confidentiality thing.

Silverman will admit, “Any time your contract is up anything could happen next year. We’re either going to negotiate a new agreement or we’re not. I’m giving my personal opinion and I’m hoping we have a 99 percent chance of getting it done.

“Everyone has to do what they can to negotiate a livable business model that makes everyone happy,” he said. “We’re in business to make money for charities and if we can’t raise enough money for charity to keep our sponsors happy, then we’re not going to be around very long. We’ve always been able to find a win-win scenario with the LPGA and we’re hoping that we can continue to do that.”

But Bivens has to be very careful, too, not only because of the anemic economy. Why does Toledo have its best field ever that includes 48 of the top 50 players, including 10 of the top 10?

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Judd Silverman admits he still gets excited on the first day of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic — even 25 years later.

The founder and director of the tournament was inspired by his love for the game when he came up with a tournament that would help his hometown of Toledo.

“I wanted to bring a sporting event to Toledo on an annual basis, which could raise money for local charities,” Silverman said. “Golf is a great game for people of all ages. I think the tournament has provided lots of excitement for the community.”

Back then, Silverman was a caddy for professional PGA golfer Craig Stadler and liked the idea of charity fundraisers that partnered golf with star-studded name value.

Wanting a similar endorsement for a charity tournament in Toledo, he sought out city native Farr. Silverman admired The “M*A*S*H” actor and was a big fan of the television show.

“I thought it was great [that] communities had these charitable tournaments with a celebrity element to them,” Silverman FARR said. “Jamie is a very wonderful man who is very generous with his time. He is a great role model.”

Farr has just as many wonderful things to say about Silverman. In a June 19 e-mail, he stated that he got word of Silverman’s idea just after he started golfing.

Fresh off his stint on television, Farr had played as a celebrity player in the Dinah Shore LPGA tournament in Palm Springs, Calif.

He was receptive toward Silverman’s proposal, but his one condition was a tournament charter that guaran-

teed various children’s charities benefited, in particular the Ronald McDonald House.

“The rest is history,” Farr said.

“I am delighted that Judd got the idea 25 years ago to try to bring a major sporting event to our city of Toledo,” he said. “It takes people with vision to want to do something which may seem at the time impossible or improbable.”

Sandy White, the classic’s director of operations, said the tournament’s field of players will be one of the most talented this year, appropriate for its silver anniversary.

The tournament runs June 29 through July 5 at Sylvania’s Highland Meadows Golf Club.

“It is shaping up to be the best field we have ever had,” White said. “The players have great personalities and will sign autographs until their hands fall off.”

Defending Farr classic champion Paula Creamer said in a June 23 e-mail, courtesy of her agent of record, Jay Burton, she met Silverman during her 2005 run in the classic. She hopes she can play in it “for many summers to come,” she said.

“Mr. Silverman is clearly a huge fan of the LPGA and someone who puts passion and pride into running this first-class event,” Creamer said. “It’s communities like Sylvania that have allowed the LPGA to enjoy success for nearly 60 years and we appreciate all that Mr. Silverman and his great staff do for us. This is one tour stop that ranks high on my ‘must play’ list every summer.”

Silverman said his main goal is fundraising for local children’s groups. Money from this year’s classic will go toward 12 area charities.

“I want to put on another first-class sporting event, while benefiting local children’s charities,” he said. “This has a positive economic impact on Toledo.”

Mike Thaman, CEO of Owens Corning and tournament golf chairman, said Silverman’s leadership has benefited Toledo. Even during economically “tough times,” local residents support Silverman’s efforts, he said.

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want to begin by asking all of you to take a deep breath.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

LPGA golfer Stacy Lewis has been trying to catch her breath for months now.

The rookie on tour is enduring the mental rigors of playing professional golf for a living.

“I’ve played more golf than I ever have before,” Lewis told Toledo Free Press. “It’s been a struggle getting use to playing week to week and getting use to the travel.”

Through her first 10 events as a pro, Lewis Ryan missed the cut four times. The mental strain continues to outweigh the natural ability of the 2007 NCAA National Champion.

“My play hasn’t been anywhere close to where I should be,” Lewis said. “I was kind of carrying what I was doing from week to week into the next tournament.”

Then a few weeks ago, Lewis was back where she feels she belongs. Lewis found her name atop the leader board followed by red numbers at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship.

The former University of Arkansas Razorback finished tied for ninth place at the end of the final round. She increased her career earnings to more than $85,000 after taking home a check worth more than $39,000.

“Growing up I never thought I’d be able to make a living playing golf,” Lewis said.

She isn’t lying.

Born in Toledo, Lewis spent her first two years in the Glass City before her family moved to South Carolina. Whereas many fans of

the sport can picture Tiger Woods swinging a golf club at the tender of age of 3, Lewis didn’t start golfing until she was 8 years old. Her first tournament came four years later.

“Golf really wasn’t big in my life when I was younger,” she said. “It was just kind of something I liked to do.”

Adding degrees of difficulty to an already physically challenging sport, Lewis was diagnosed with scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, and had a metal rod inserted into her back.

But she didn’t use it as an excuse and continued to excel on the FOWLER golf course throughout her teenage years.

Her hobby turned into college tuition. She earned a golf scholarship and was the No. 1 golfer for the University of Arkansas, earning AllAmerican honors all four years.

Now, she returns to Toledo for the first time as a LPGA tour professional. In the past, sponsor exemptions have allowed Lewis to partake in the area’s crown jewel sporting event of the summer.

If you’ve been out to Highland Meadows over the past few years, following Stacy from hole to hole is the “Lew Crew.” The group wears matching T-shirts and is made up of family members who still live in the Toledo area. Lewis says their emotional support gives her an edge.

“It’s almost like a hometown crowd for me,” said Lewis, who lives in Texas.

“I think it’s a special place for me.”

Let’s just hope the hometown support doesn’t take her breath away.

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JUNE 28, 2009 ■ WOOLFORD CONTINUED FROM A15 Because there are five fewer LPGA events this year, players, all of a sudden, have to play, everywhere.

They can’t be as selective with fewer sources of income.

Silverman admits that while the tournament will finish in the black there might not be as much money given to charities, such as last year’s $350,000.

Will the finest women golfers in the world be back next year? That

will be the prominent question of this tournament. The time-worn, canned responses will vary from, “Contract negotiations have been very productive,” to, “I feel good about the tournament returning to Toledo.”

But in essence, the season-long LPGA tournament begins in Thailand and ends in South Korea — South Koreans are the most influential golfers in the LPGA tournament standings.

How many times have you seen

such top-name LPGA players as In-Kyung Kim or Ji Yai Shin on Letterman or sitting next to Oprah?

You get the picture. Going global is OK to a point, but let’s not forget our roots. Toledo has consistently been an LPGA tournament bastion during good times and bad for the past quarter century. We deserve to remain so, not because of entitlement, but because of loyalty, sacrifice, hard work and passion.

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■ SILVERMAN CONTINUED FROM 16 “Judd is a wonderful human being,” Thaman said. “This tournament was built on his desire to do something great for Toledo. I really do believe this year’s tournament will be the best yet.”

Rob Powers, WTVG Channel 13’s sports director, said Silverman’s hard work is the reason the classic does so well each year. His devotion has made the classic a Toledo institution, Powers said.

“Judd works his tailbone off for that tournament,” the sports director said. “It is part of the fabric of the community now. If you ask the women of the LPGA, Judd Silverman is the Jamie Farr tournament.”

But Silverman said his passion for golf extends beyond the Jamie Farr. He directed May’s NCAA tournament at Toledo’s Inverness Club, and will work there again, when he helms the July 2011 U. S. Senior Open. Inverness hires Silverman’s company, Toledo Classic Inc., for each event, he said.

Silverman said his staff maintains 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours most weeks prior to an event. During the Jamie Farr, his staff works from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

At 53 years old, Silverman said he has no idea how long the classic will continue or how he would react if it were gone. He said his wife Lisa always enjoys each tournament, alongside the couple’s sons, 16-year-old Reed and 13-year-old Ben. White said Silverman enjoys helping Toledo.

“Judd pulls this together,” White said. “He has been doing this for 25 years and he is always looking forward to next year.”

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Interning at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic is a huge learning process, according to Sandy White, director of operations.

“They do it all, really — from start to finish,” she said. “It shows them how a sporting event comes together.”

The tournament only employs five full- or part-time employees, so interns take on a lot of responsibility during the event.

This year, Blake Williams, Brent Papenfuss and Jessica Jackel, along with practicum student Scott Kravitz, are responsible for registering players, running reports, organizing ProAms and working with more than 1,200 volunteers.

“The biggest thing I’ve learned is that you’re so involved,” Papenfuss said. “Everything you do affects the tournament. You have to be so organized and on point. There’s a lot of people counting on you.”

Each intern runs a Pro-Am — from beginning to end, along with their other overall responsibilities.

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Kravitz doesn’t have a Pro-Am to run as he is just a practicum student, but he helps with all the Pro-Ams and basically has his hands in everything. He said the key is to always ask questions and always learn. “You’ve got to be a good people person and be ready to adapt to anything,� Kravitz said. “Also, like you saw Beth Page [during the U.S. Open] with the weather, you have to be able to change things at a moment’s notice.�

Students also take what they learn into the classroom. “I’m really looking forward to being in class next year and being able to say, ‘Hey, I’ve done this before,’� Jackel said.

Williams has, perhaps, the most responsibility. He has been working with White since January and has joined with volunteer coordinator Heather Warga to learn about the volunteer side of operations. “He’s really helped us out im-

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White, who has been with the Jamie Farr since 2001, said this group of students has been the best she has had in terms of working together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some great interns in the past, but none of the groups have worked together as well as this group,â&#x20AC;? she said.

All four of the students are from BGSU. They began after school ended in May and will be there until two weeks after the tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we hire them, we tell them weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have fun, but we work hard,â&#x20AC;?

White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing brain sur-

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In fact, Williams has a strong interest in the golf industry and is exploring his options, as he just recently graduated from BGSU and will be looking for a job. His sales calls have improved the most. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My first few calls were absolutely horrible, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten a lot better at it,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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’d be hard pressed to remember any other LPGA events outside of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic presented by Kroger, and anyone else who wants to and the four majors.

I am aware that The Farr (shortened for brevity’s sake, otherwise I

could just repeat the full tournament name five more times and fill my word quota for the week) is one of two tournaments sandwiched between two majors, which I suppose positions it well.

But when I think of the Jamie Farr, two customs come to mind.

One is the stretch of Monroe Street in Sylvania being renamed in honor of whoever wins the previous year.

For just a little bit longer, it will be “Paula Creamer Drive,” which greatly inconveniences the residents of that street, having to fill out yearly change of address forms.

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The other tradition is the biennial thought animated .gifs were a good design feature should probably be bashing of the Jamie Farr Web site.

Two years ago, I pulled up slapped around a little. But it looks like they just severely the site www.jamie reprimanded him f ar rowe ns c or n i ng . and/or sent him to decom in search of the sign school. This year, participant list. My they’ve concealed the conclusion was that tackiness with what apI couldn’t find it, but pears to be a scrolling my sleuthing lacked news bar in the top left patience, and the list corner, but it’s just an was just very poorly animated graphic that hidden. In 2009, the list was tucked away in Matt SUSSMAN was well done.

The tournament the bottom right corner, standing out as the only nearby organizers also have a link to a Facebook group, which means pink text.

All right, finally, a complete they’re hip, but they don’t have a list of every single golfer who will Twitter, which means they’re not be ... what the heck? That’s a short that cool.

But they are cool enough to list. The way tournament officials stick around. organized As this is the the player The tournament 25th anniverlist is in of the groups of 10 organizers also have a link sary tournament, women with and not all a “more” b u t t o n to a Facebook group, which stops on the tour were showing anlucky. other set of means they’re hip, but they that The other 10. They’re a l p h a b e t - don’t have a Twitter, which C o r n i n g Classic no reized by first name, but at means they’re not that cool.” lation to OC in Corning, least there’s N.Y., had its a search button, so I can look for my favorite 31st annual tournament back in player. It’s a good thing they didn’t May, but there will be no 32nd, as just list all the players on a single it was one of four LPGA tournapage because then they wouldn’t ments sliced off the tour. So, orgaget to show off all the new Web site nizers of the Jamie Farr, I mean this in the nicest way possible when I code they learned.

In all fairness, it’s a clean layout say you should hope that I get to that was a vast improvement over keep poking fun at your Web site for the old Web site, which I just had years to come. to revisit using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (http://www. Matt Sussman blogs at www.toledo archive.org).

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he Jamie Farr Owens Corning year with our new Weekender ProClassic (JFOCC) provides a gram,” said Carolyn Fox, director week of great sports entertain- of development. “The Weekender Program provides ment, a variety of social food to children who events and a muchwould otherwise needed economic boost receive inadequate to the region. nourishment over However, beyond the weekend.” all of this, the true misThe Weekender sion of the Jamie Farr Program serves the Owens Corning Classic children in three is to raise money for inner-city elementary the children’s charischools giving each ties of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Mich- Christine SENACK student a bag of food to take home every igan. The tournament has successfully met that mission Friday afternoon during the school year, thus supplementing their throughout its 25-year history.

“During the past 25 years, the weekend nutrition.

Another charity selected to reJFOCC has given back $6.2 million to more than 100 charities in ceive funds from the tournament Northwest Ohio and Southeast proceeds is the Arts Commission of Michigan,” said Judd Silverman, Greater Toledo. According to Marc Folk, executive director, funds retournament director.

Charities are chosen through a ceived from the JFOCC will be dihighly competitive grant process. rected to the Young Artist at Work According to the application for Program (YAAW).

YAAW was started 15 years funds, the JFOCC grantees seek charities that meet the emerging ago and provides summer emneeds of youth with innovative pro- ployment to area youth. The projgrams that have a high probability of ects range from dance projects to murals. Among the many projects solving community problems.

One of this year’s chosen chari- led by professional artists, JFOCC ties is Mobile Meals, which is ven- funds will be used to underwrite turing beyond its well-known ser- the creation of 10 benches to be vice of providing home delivery of placed in the Arts Zone in Downmeals to the elderly. Mobile Meals is town. The creative and visually receiving JFOCC funds for its new interesting benches will give directional signage to galleries and Weekender Program.

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The 25th anniversary Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (JFOCC) will feature a record amount of top LPGA golfers, among them the No. 1 ranked womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golfer in the world, Lorena Ochoa from Guadalajara, Mexico.

The classic begins June 29 through July 5 at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania and is presented by Kroger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have all 10 of the top 10 women golfers, and 48 of the top 50 will be on our field,â&#x20AC;? said Judd Silverman, founder and tournament director.

Defending champ Paula Creamer and last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s runner-up Morgan Pressel have committed.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This field is by far the best weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had with a 72-hole tournament,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The tournament will not only feature LPGA heavyweights, but also newcomers to the professional golfing scene, such as LPGA rookie Michelle Wie and 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship winner Brittany Lincicome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some other notable players weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have are Cristie Kerr, Natalie Gulbis, and five-time winner

Se Ri Pak,â&#x20AC;? Silverman said.

Cristie Kerr is currently ranked No. 1 on the LPGA Money List at $789,900, trailed by fellow Farr Classic participants In-Kyung Kim at $738,512, and Lorena Ochoa at $711,105, according to the official LPGA Web site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hopeful that this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tournament will be successful as past events as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re raising money for 12 area childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charities,â&#x20AC;? Silverman said.

The tournament also contributes annually to the JFOCC Scholarship Fund of the Toledo Community Foundation, a $3,000 scholarship for tuition for high school seniors from Northwest Ohio or Southeast Michigan who have maintained at least a 2.5 GPA, according to the tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official Web site.

Director of Operations Sandy White said the tournament gives the community a boost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It brings people in from out of town and generates dollars for the community as people stay in our hotels,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It showcases the community because people can see Toledo on the course and on national television.â&#x20AC;?

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Dreesen returns to host gala

By Aya Khalil TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Comedian Tom Dreesen and singing impressionist Scott Record will entertain at The Hylant Group Gala Dinner and Show scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

June 30, according to a press release.

The gala is being billed as “An Evening of DREESEN Laughter” and will be hosted at the SeaGate Convention Centre.

This will be Dreesen’s third time performing as part of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic — the gala being one of the signature events.

Dressen performed at the first and 20th year of the golf classic.

“I love making people laugh, so every time I go on the stage, it’s exciting,” Dreesen said.

Dreesen appeared 61 times on “The Tonight Show” and appears on

the “Late Show with David Letterman” every three months. He has hosted the show in Letterman’s absence.

“Hosting the ‘Letterman Show’ was fun, but obviously touring with Frank Sinatra for 14 years was truly exciting,” he said.

Dreesen prepares before a performance by researching the community so he can relate to the audience.

“I’m a veteran standup comedian. I have a lot of material in my brain,” he said. “It always helps any comedian to do research about the area he’s going to appear.”

In September, Dreesen will celebrate his 40th year as a performer.

“I’ve worked with the greatest names,” he said. “All of them have unique personalities.” ` Some of those names include Elton John, Johnny Carson, Smokey Robinson, Jay Leno, Bon Jovi, and Sammy Davis Jr. Although Dreesen is a veteran performer, he still gets excited before a show.

“It’s nice to have a little excitement before a show … I don’t think of it as nerves. I think of it as excitement and anticipation — looking forward to going out there.”

Other than performing, Dreesen has a passion for golf and is looking forward to the Jamie Farr event.

“Jamie Farr is a friend and has been a friend for years,” he said.

Dreesen grew up with eight brothers and sisters and helped support his family by shining shoes and carrying bags for golfers.

“I grew up raggedy poor,” he said. “Golf holds a special place in my heart … I have a fondness for golf events.”

The other gala performer will be Record, a singing comedy impressionist. His versatile acts have set him up to be one of the most requested show headliners in the cruise entertainment industry, a press release stated.

Tickets to the gala, which are $235, can be purchased by calling (419) 531-3277. Proceeds will benefit 12 Toledo area children charities, according to Judd Silverman, tournament director.

The evening beings at 6 p.m. with a cash bar cocktail hour and silent auction and gala. Dinner starts at 7 p.m. with the entertainment set for 8:30 p.m.

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LPGA Tour Schedule Associated Press â&#x2013; June 25-28 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wegmans LPGA, Locust Hill Country Club, Pittsford, N.Y. â&#x2013; July 2-5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, Highland

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â&#x2013; July 30-Aug. 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ricoh Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British Open, Royal Lytham & St. Annes, Lytham St. Annes, England. â&#x2013; Aug. 21-23 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Solheim Cup, Rich Harvest Farms, Sugar Grove, Ill.

â&#x2013; Aug. 28-30 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Safeway Classic, Pumpkin Ridge GC (Ghost Creek), North Plains, Ore. â&#x2013; Sept. 3-6 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; CN Canadian Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open, Priddis Greens Golf & CC, Calgary. â&#x2013; Sept. 11-13 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship, Pinnacle CC, Rogers, Ark. â&#x2013; Sept. 17-20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Samsung World Championship, Torrey Pines Golf Course, La Jolla, Calif. â&#x2013; Sept. 24-27 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Longs Drugs Challenge, Blackhawk Country Club, Danville, Calif. â&#x2013; Oct. 1-4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Navistar LPGA Classic, Robert Trent Jones Trail (Capitol Hill, The Senator), Prattville, Ala. â&#x2013; Oct. 8-11 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bell Micro LPGA Classic, Robert Trent Jones Trail (Magnolia Grove, The Crossings), Mobile, Ala.

â&#x2013; Oct. 15-18 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kapalua LPGA Classic, Kapalua Resort (Bay Course), Kapalua, Hawaii. â&#x2013; Oct. 23-25 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; China LPGA, TBD. â&#x2013; Oct. 30-Nov. 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hana BankKolon Championship, Sky 72 Golf Course (Ocean Course), Incheon, South Korea. â&#x2013; Nov. 6-8 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mizuno Classic Kinetsu Kashikojima CC, Shimashi, Japan. â&#x2013; Nov. 12-15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lorena Ochoa Invitational, Guadalajara CC, Guadalajara, Mexico. â&#x2013; Nov. 9-12 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stanford Financial Tour Championship, TBD, Houston.

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LPGA money leaders 1. Cristie Kerr, $789,900 2. In-Kyung Kim, $738,512 3. Lorena Ochoa, $711,105 4. Jiyai Shin, $701,139 5. Yani Tseng, $673,661 6. Angela Stanford, $626,289 7. Suzann Pettersen, $590,907

Guide for spectators ■ Obey marshals.

■ Stay behind the ropes.

■ Do not talk during playing of a shot.

■ Do not distract a player in any way.

■ Cameras are allowed on Monday through Wednesday.

■ Cameras are not allowed Thursday through Sunday.

■ Move in an orderly manner; do not run.

■ Do not leave green until players have holed out.

■ Show consideration to fellow spectators.

■ Kneel in front of a large gallery.

■ Use the litter baskets.

■ Carry a course map.

■ Cell phones and beepers are not permitted.

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■ Dogs, radios, coolers and signs are not permitted.

■ Display admission pass at all times.

■ Camp stools are permitted.

■ No folding chairs are allowed.

■ In hot weather, drink plenty of liquids to keep hydrated.

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16. Katherine Hull, $338,036 17. Anna Nordqvist, $331,246 18. Michelle Wie, $326,331 19. Ai Miyazato, $301,187 20. Hee Young Park, $284,608 21. Pat Hurst, $274,809

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■ Senior discounts cannot be combined with the Entertainment Book coupons.

■ Daily Grounds Hang Tag — Monday through Friday $15; Saturday through Sunday, $20.

■ Daily tickets are available at the front gate and online at www.jamiefarrownscorning.com.

■ Children 17 and under are free with a ticketed adult.

■ Weekly parking — $10.

■ Public parking is located at the corner of Centennial and Brint roads.

■ Free bus service is offered from the parking lot to the course.

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Ji seeks a second U. S. LPGA win at Wegmans Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It’s apparently getting harder for first-time winners on the U.S. LPGA Tour to win again.

With all the global talent rushing in since the 1990s, one out of two golfers has failed to follow up a breakthrough win with another tournament triumph.

Going back to 1950, when the tour was launched, the overall odds of repeating are far better — just under 60 percent.

For Ji Eun-hee, who opened her defense of the Wegmans LPGA June 25, a second win in her third year on tour would serve as “a validation.’’

At least for now, however, Ji said she doesn’t feel added pressure.

“I have already delivered the one win,’’ the 23-year-old South Korean said through a translator. “Going from one to two? I feel better with this type of pressure than not winning a tournament at all.’’

Already this year, three golfers have savored a second victory. Kim In-kyung beat Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak by a stroke at the State Farm Classic on June 7.

And South Korean compatriot Ji Young Oh, along with Yani Tseng

of Taiwan, bagged their second career wins in May. Winning one tournament puts a golfer in rare company — 269 women have landed on the alltime winner list since the 1950 Tampa Open, the tour’s first sanctioned event.

The list of one-time winners, which currently stands at 110, has been around just as long: Polly Riley beat Louise Suggs by five strokes in Tampa, Fla. and never won again on the U.S. LPGA circuit.

One-timers still pushing for an elusive second title include Jackie Gallagher-Smith, whose sole success came in 1999, and Becky Iverson, who last scaled the heights in 1995.

But hankering after further glory can quickly grab hold.

“Now that I have one LPGA win under my belt, I don’t really have the same type of anxiety or nervousness that I have to deliver right at that moment,’’ Ji said. “It gives me the faith that because I’ve done it once, I can do it again.’’

Since 1999, there have been 35 one-time winners and 34 previous winners who won again, so the decade-long odds of repeating are 49 percent. In the tour’s 59 years, by contrast, 59 percent of winners have

triumphed at least twice.

Heightened competition from abroad is a chief factor for the tightening odds, along with dominance by the likes of Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb, Pak and, more recently, Lorena Ochoa.

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Nordqvist, the 22-year-old rookie from Sweden who won the U.S. LPGA Championship, in only her fifth professional start. Absent is top-ranked Lorena Ochoa, who won here in 2005 and 2007, and 2008 runner-up Suzann Pettersen.

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That quartet has notched 158 tournaments wins since 1995.

The $2 million Wegmans LPGA has 18 of the season’s top 20 money winners, including No. 1 Cristie Kerr.

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After 25 years of teeing up, the tournament has raised more than $6.2 million to support children’s charities in northwest Ohio.

Owens Corning is proud to be the title sponsor of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, which is all about giving back to our community. We thank you for your ongoing support, and we invite you to help make a difference once again by attending this year’s event. There are many great things about this tournament, but one of the greatest is knowing it’s making children smile.

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Biden toured the northwestern Ohio headquarters of the Willard & Kelsey Solar Group, which plans to begin large-scale production of solar panels this year. The Toledo area has been hit hard by job losses in the auto industry and is banking on more green factory jobs.

“I’m not going to sugarcoat this.

Manufacturing is facing one of its toughest periods, in at least my lifetime,’’ Biden said. But, he said, U.S. manufacturing can be successful again if, for example, auto workers are trained to work in the solar, wind or biotech industries.

There are close to 10 companies that are turning Toledo into a research hub for converting sunlight into energy.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order June 23 that establishes the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers. The council will be chaired by one of the president’s top economic advisers, Lawrence Summers, and his labor secretary, Hilda Solis.

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The recession has been particularly hard on the auto industry, which has lost more than 400,000 jobs in the past decade. Ohio has taken hits from both the big automakers who have announced two plant closings in recent months and the small auto suppliers who have been forced to slow production. The state ranks first in the country in the number of suppliers.

The Obama administration is expanding its program to help link auto suppliers with companies that are making wind turbines, solar panels and robotics, Biden said.

The auto suppliers, he said, already have the technology and skilled workers that can help them transition into making alternative energy products. “This program is going to put them on a self-sustaining path,’’ he said.

Willard & Kelsey hopes to hire about 400 employees this year to increase production, said Gary Faykosh, head of research and development.

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The third annual Detective Keith Dressel Memorial Ride is set for July 11 at 11 a.m.

The motorcycle ride honors Officer William A. Miscannon and Detective Keith Dressel, two policemen shot and killed while on duty. The ride begins at St. James Club, 7337 W. Bancroft St. Dressel, 35, was shot and killed in early 2007.

He joined the Toledo Police DRESSEL Department in 1993 and was assigned to the vice and narcotics bureau. He was honored in 1998 after he and another officer saved a man from a burning home, according to the Associated Press.

He is survived by wife, Danielle, daughter, Sydney and son, Noah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think developing this ride has helped the community keep in touch with what their law enforcement officers do for them,â&#x20AC;? said Sara Shaw, co-chair of the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has developed into something we could not imagine year after year.â&#x20AC;?

The eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s registration starts at 9 a.m. and following the 63-mile ride, a lunch will be provided.

Single riders pay $25, doubleriders $35 and non-bikers attending the lunch $20. A raffle and T-shirt

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All proceeds go toward the Officer Wm. Miscannon Scholarship Fund in memory of Detective Keith Dressel at Owens Community College. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think having this ride year after year honors Keith by helping children in our community learn about law enforcement,â&#x20AC;? Shaw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I cannot rave enough about Owens and what their educational experience does for our community.â&#x20AC;?

The seed for the Miscannon Scholarship was planted on Sept.

18, 1970, when Officer Miscannon was shot during a race riot. He left behind 10-year-old Diane, now a second-year volunteer on the ride.

Her work there, she said, is comforting because her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact is celebrated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To see all these bikes lined up, it is totally amazing,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So many people come out to support the Toledo police and what they do. I would like to think my father would be honored.â&#x20AC;?

Though 37 years separate their tragedies, Dresselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Lorraine, understands Dianeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the ride represents the community and the police department coming together for a good cause in memory of Keith,â&#x20AC;? Lorraine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does not matter how long ago or how recently something happened. It takes my breath away seeing all the motorcycles.â&#x20AC;?

Diane said the scholarship bearing her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name has already touched several lives. One of its recipients is her nephew, Jared Rollins, who graduated from Sam

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He attends the Houston Police Academy, where he is pursuing a career in criminal justice, much like his grandfather once did.

Lorraine, said her son would

have enjoyed helping others pursue such an education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keith was humble,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was not one to draw attention to himself, but he would have thought it a good idea to help

someone get into school. Education can never be wrong.â&#x20AC;?

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GPS devices make trips easier and safer T

his is a true story. had gotten lost on a previous trip.

We were taking a small group Happily, on this occasion, we were of travelers to the Windsor saved from permanent Canadian train station last fall using a To- residency by one in our party who ledo limo service had a portable — 14 of us in one navigation deof those stretch vice in her bag. jobbies — and In no time were had successfully back on track cleared the freand relaying quently messy Carally-type innadian customs. structions to (Why do they alour driver: ways have to make “Turn left in 500 things so difficult yards.” “Right at Roger HOLLIDAY when all you want the next interto do is visit their section.” “Watch Claudia FISCHER lovely country and out for the sharp spend gazillions of loonies?) bend!” And so on.

Anyway, as luck would have We found the station and made it, our limo driver was not all the train. A year or so earlier, howthat familiar with Windsor or ever, we’d had our first real GPS exwith the actual location of the perience with a system built into the VIA Rail station and managed dash of a friend’s brand-new Honda. to get us hopelessly lost some- He had picked us up from our hotel where in the city’s nether regions. in the North London suburb of Now, in fairness, this wasn’t entirely Hampstead and using the GPS, and his fault, as signposting from the instructions from “she who must bridge exit is far from perfect be- be obeyed,” drove us unerringly cause of construction, and we, too, through a totally confusing maze of

suburbia to his house in the country near Cambridge. And while he had his own favored way of getting there, the navigatrix rerouted us around several morning traffic tie-ups that would have tried the patience and expertise of even the most experienced London taxi driver.

An altogether different — but no less effective — demonstration came during a hike across Britain last summer when on the very first day, after a near vertical 1,000-foot climb, we collapsed on top of a group of fellow ramblers who were studying their onward routing using hand-held GPS satellites.

They had downloaded some 500 waypoints of the 200-mile route and were making the crosscountry trek without the use of multiple guide books or topographical maps. In areas like the Lake District, where sudden fogs and whiteouts can instantly descend, a GPS is not only added insurance, it can also be a lifesaver.

And then recently, we met Lori from Leelanau. We were spending a couple of days at a friend’s cottage

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Those mapreading snafus and shouting matches may finally become a thing of the past.” some 40 miles north of Traverse City, overlooking Grand Traverse Bay, a place we’ve grown to love.

Over the years, we’ve hiked the Lake Michigan shoreline from Northport to Empire, dropped in on multiple Peninsula wineries, attended marina picnics and even done a weeklong stint as volunteer keepers of the The Grand Traverse Lighthouse, managing the gift shop and the museum and generally keeping everything shipshape till the arrival of the next week’s volunteers.

That’s the backstory. Lori is the current update. “She” comes loaded into a Tom Tom ONE XL-S, a portable navigation system that connects to any power outlet and is so simple to operate that even Luddite

klutzes (like us) could figure it out.

On this occasion, Lori led us on several excursions: to Barb’s Bakery in Northport for a daily doughnut fix, to wineries like Willow and Ciccone for sampling and stocking, to Leland for locally caught whitefish, to check the Manitou Island ferry schedule and to browse an independent bookstore for some Michiganbased mysteries.

That’s hardly an exacting itinerary, but watching our race car (you can choose from a variety of onscreen icons and voices to illustrate the journey) joyfully anticipate cross streets, warn of sharp curves, calculate the distance to our destination … well, it makes us yearn to try this out on our next European driving adventure.

Just the thought that those map-reading snafus and shouting matches may finally become a thing of the past had us reaching for our wallets!

E-mail travel columnists Roger Holliday and Claudia Fischer at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Bringing Tanga to Toledo

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decided I wanted to go to Africa when I was on the back of my husband’s Harley last summer.

It was the least likely time to be brainstorming, but the road trip to Washington, D.C., was putting me to sleep and I wanted to perk myself up with thoughts of possible projects.

My mind kept going to the Toledo International Youth Orchestra (TIYO).

I had written about the group’s trip to sister cities in Germany and Poland earlier that year and knew about its upcoming trip to Africa.

At one point during that interview, someone said, “Why don’t you come?”

Brandi BARHITE I smiled politely. I didn’t start reporting yesterday; I knew this was just the cordial thing to say. But a few months later, with the wind in my hair, I thought, “I am going.”

The decision to travel to Toledo’s sister city, Tanga, Tanzania, ended up being easy. Getting ready for Africa has not.

I leave June 28, but my journey began in September, from the immunizations required for this sub-Saharan region, to my lost passport to all the “concerns” about traveling. When I tell people that I am going to Africa, their first reaction is awe followed by trepidation.

What about war? AIDS? Food? I asked myself these same questions.

But I learned rather quickly that Tanzania has had a history of peace; AIDS is rampant, but nothing that can be contracted through casual contact; and food ... well, I might come back a few pounds lighter. We cannot eat anything that isn’t cooked. If we have fruit, it has to bear a thick skin; a banana would be OK; grapes would not. The orchestra has hired Tanzania’s equivalent of a “chef ” to travel with us. This person will make sure our food is properly cooked and that our bottled water hasn’t been filled with local water, a common practice in Tanzania.

Viewing this type of poverty firsthand is one of my fears. How will I capture it in writing? Will the natives I interview consider themselves impoverished? Will my voice not be sympathetic enough? I am actually still considering if I should wear my wedding rings; I don’t want to be showy.

But those who have gone before me report that the natives are a people full of hope. They think all Americans are rich like LeBron James and live in Beverly Hills 90210. They consider President Barack Obama their idol and receiving something as simple as a 2008 campaign button would be a reason to celebrate. I am bringing a few of them on behalf of my neighbor who worked on his campaign.

I also worry about the language barrier. Those in Tanga speak Swahili and some English. Early on, I talked with a group of people from Tanzania who were visiting Maumee, and while they were hard to understand, I captured the essence of what they were saying.

And what they were saying was eye-opening. They love Americans and are excited to share their country with us.

I plan to send blogs about the trip to www.toledofreepress.com. This might not happen every day as the Internet is apparently unreliable.

Ultimately, TIYO and I are trying to bring a little bit of American culture to the people of Tanga, and I hope I can bring some of their culture back to us.

Brandi Barhite is Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor.

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African trip is family affair Editor’s note: This is a continuing series on Toledo International Youth Orchestra’s planned trip to Tanga.

Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor Brandi Barhite plans to travel to Africa with the group.

By Brandi Barhite TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR bbarhite@toledofreepress.com

Members of the Toledo International Youth Orchestra (TIYO) won’t miss their families while in Tanga, Tanzania.

That’s because many of their parents are traveling with them to visit Toledo’s sister city.

TIYO parent representative Beth Sander of Sylvania is going with son, Jacob, and daughter, Logan, both TIYO members. The family is featured on this week’s cover.

“I just thought it would be a fantastic opportunity; the orchestra is such a nice group of people,” Beth said.

“Plus, it’s Africa. That is so exciting.”

Last year, Jacob, a violin player, traveled with the orchestra to sister cities Poznan, Poland, and Delmenhorst, Germany. In 2007, TIYO traveled to sister cities Qinhuangdao, China, and London, Ontario. The orchestra’s mission is to visit sister cities and perform multicultural music.

This year’s trip has been 18 months in the making. It cost $3,000 for TIYO members and $3,500 for adults.

The Sanders scrimped and saved with three of them going.

“We have all worked extra, and the kids are taking their own spending money,” Beth said. “Our friends and family have helped out, and we have really had to save.”

The yellow fever vaccination, required for the sub-Saharan region, cost $265 for the three of them.

Logan normally spends all of her money, but has gone without new purses and shoes in preparation for the trip. She’s not super happy about her mom tagging along since Jacob got to travel by himself last year.

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LEE ANN AND YANG KUN SONG WILL TRAVEL WITH TIYO TO AFRICA.

“It will be kind of weird because I don’t want her to be telling me what to do,” the viola player said, giggling.

Jacob has been working as a caddy, in addition to playing in a TIYO quartet to raise money. The rest of the family has helped by sacrificing nice dinners at restaurants.

“I have spent a lot of time thinking about what we need to pack, thinking about what comforts from home we need to bring,” Beth said.

Toledoan John Russ and his daughter, Hannah, and wife, Sally, are making the trip to Africa, too.

“They will be memories she will

have all of her life. I don’t want to travel without her,” John said.

“I am a little nervous,” said Carla Morrissey, who is going with husband, Marty, and son and TIYO member, Cameron. “Any other time we have been somewhere, it has been a resort, so it’s a little scary. It is good we are going in a big group. I would never want to do this alone.”

In the past, not as many parents went on the trip, which is changing because TIYO is reaching out to families, Beth said.

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■ TIYO CONTINUED FROM A40 Africa is appealing to John because he has never been south of the equator.

The biggest challenge for Cameron’s family has been finding a string bass in Africa.

Orchestra manager Liz Villarreal said Africa doesn’t have many stringed instruments because it’s not part of their musical heritage.

Cameron’s family is talking with a woman in Zanzibar who is willing to let him play her bass when TIYO is visiting that city, but she doesn’t want it to travel elsewhere.

“We are trying to sweet talk her,” Cameron said.

His dad said taking his bass would cost $6,000 because of its dimensions and weight. The rest of the musicians are taking their instruments aboard the plane.

As the parent representative for the trip, Beth secured visas for each traveler, while other parts of the TIYO management team arranged plane flights, performances and lodging.

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“It has been a valuable learning experience,” she said. “Thinking about safety and medications — there is more than I ever thought.”

Liz said everyone involved with the orchestra is a volunteer. One way the group stayed organized was through weekly meetings at Yang Kun Song’s house. Song, orchestra conductor, is going on the trip with daughter Lee Ann. In all, 28 people are making the trip to Africa: 16 TIYO members and 12 adults. The group will travel with a cell phone and update those at home via the Internet.

But Liz warned that “no news is good news,” and that TIYO won’t always have access to the Internet, which is spotty at best in Tanzania.

Her son Mark Villarreal, a former TIYO member, is coming to continue the tradition of traveling with his mom.

“We have gone to Mexico every year on winter break,” Mark said.

“There hasn’t been a year I haven’t been on a plane.”

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Toledo orchestra member taking first plane trip When TIYO member Paris Johnson lands in Tanzania, she will be relieved and excited.

“I have never even been on a plane and I have never been out of Ohio,” Paris said. “Well, I have been to Detroit.”

Her mom, Terri, helped her raise money for the trip through fundraising, selling candy and finding sponsors. When a big sponsor fell through, Terri talked to her pastor at St. James The Armory, and he asked that 100 people donate $7.

The churched raised more than $800 for Paris.

The violinist said her friends still don’t believe she is going on the trip.

“I am telling all my friends that we really have to hang out this weekend before I go to Africa” she said. “They are like, ‘You aren’t going to Africa, but we can hang out.’”

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Trip details ■ Departs: 3 p.m. June 28 from Westgate Chapel via charter bus to Chicago O’Hare Airport ■ Returns: 2:30 a.m. July 10 ■ Plane ride: Chicago to London (nine hours); London to Dar es Salaam (seven hours) ■ Time difference: At noon in Toledo, it is 7 p.m. in Tanzania ■ Follow the trip: at our Web site: www.toledofreepress.com

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Tanzania at a glance ■ Location: East Africa ■ Climate: Tropical along coast, temperate in the highlands ■ Status: Republic ■ President: Jakaya Kikwete ■ Population: 38 million to 40 million (Tanga exceeds 100,000) ■ Life expectancy at birth: 46 ■ Capital: Dodoma ■ Largest city: Dar es Salaam ■ Major exports: Coffee, cotton, cashew nuts, sisal, tobacco, tea, diamonds and gold ■ Language: Swahili ■ Religion: 30 percent Christian, 35 percent Muslim, 35 percent indigenous beliefs ■ Currency: Shillings Source: Bradt

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Tanzanian tour guide ready for TIYO

By Brandi Barhite TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR bbarhite@toledofreepress.com

When members of the Toledo International Youth Orchestra (TIYO) arrive in Tanzania, tour guide David Kimea will be there to greet them.

The native will accompany the young musicians and their chaperones “to make sure everything runs smoothly,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Toledo Free Press.

Kimea started IYLA Tours & Safaris in Tanga one and half years ago and has served 100 clients, “as the financial times in the world has not been too good,” he stated.

Before opening his own company, he worked with his uncles in Arusha for about 10 years. There, he arranged similar tours; safari tours and Kilimanjaro climbing for small and large groups, he said.

Kimea plans to take TIYO through several cities, including Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Stone Town in Zanzibar, Jambiani in Zanzibar, Tanga and Arusha.

The group will also pass by Moshi, “and if they are lucky and the sky is clear, they will see Kilimanjaro,” he said.

“It is a lot of places, and the distances between them are huge, so it will be a very packed eight days,” he said in his e-mail. “If it was up to me, I would do this schedule over a longer period of time, maybe two weeks or three weeks.”

TIYO leaves for Tanga, Tanzania, on June 28, but won’t arrive in Africa until June 30 because of the time difference and a layover in London.

The main objective of the trip is to perform for the natives and give musical lessons to the children.

TIYO already raised money to have a music classroom built at Toledo Secondary School in Tanga, which is Toledo’s sister city.

Kimea said he put up the travel schedule together with the help of John Henry Fullen of Toledo Sister Cities International, as well

as Rachel Dove, an UT graduate who has lived in Tanzania for the past year. They arranged meetings with the schools and officials in Tanga, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam.

From a tourist’s point of view, Kimea said the safari to Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara, as well as the dolphin tour will be highlights of the trip. On the safari, TIYO will see “the big five,” if they are lucky, which are lions, buffalos, rhinos, leopards and elephants, he said. Those on the trip will sleep in a camp area while on safari, and cooks will prepare dinner on an open fire in the camp area.

The Ngorongoro Crater is home to a massive amount of animals in a relatively small area, which used to be a volcanic crater several hundred years ago, but today is one of the most beautiful, green areas in the country, Kimea said.

One of the biggest fears for travelers is being robbed.

“Many tourists are very scared of that when travelling to an African country and it is understandable as it is a poor country,” he said.

“I calm them down by saying that they should leave valuables at the hotel and only walk around with a small amount of cash and not flash their money around. Also, that they should be careful showing off their fancy mobiles and cameras in crowded places.”

For the most part, a trip to Tanzania is affordable if tourists are used to backpacking and staying in low-budget hotels, Kimea said.

The price goes up as tourists ask for diving excursions and luxury tours.

Kimea said not many residents make their living through tourism in Tanga, unlike Arusha, which is close to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, and in Moshi, where tourists can climb Kilimanjaro.

“The tourism in Tanga is currently developing, but it has not reached the level of tourism that you may find in other places in Tanzania,” he said. “In a few

years, I think Tanga will have a greater position in the tourism sector than today, as many hotels are being built, a new harbor

is planned, tourism networks are being sat up and people are starting to hear more about Tanga and the underestimated

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4. What do you call the stick a doctor uses to push down your tongue?

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4. a tongue depressor 5. surgeon 6. arm, ear, eye, gum, hip, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe and possibly more 7. deformities in skeletal system.

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Minor irritations. Gathering clues helps you establish patterns or evidence as the week begins. Outreach to worldly connections speeds opportunities on Tuesday; domestic issues cause conflicting viewpoints after Wednesday. The holiday weekend brings intense experiences.

A generous sponsor. Both established and new relationships prove beneficial. Singular advantages or offers roll through the door on Tuesday. Prior commitments may need to be rearranged; get ready to do some speedy, fancy footwork to make the most of your options.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Sacred portals. Creative efforts can be completed as the week begins, and good news arrives on Tuesday. After Wednesday, career matters can flourish, while emotions and health are sources of struggle. Neighborhood safety is a priority over the holiday weekend.

What a shocker! Changes in your home or family create unexpected benefits as the week begins. Unforeseen midweek events can have a domino effect on social circles. It may take a while to sort out who did what to whom. Buying into the high drama is optional.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Sparkling lights. Your attention moves from domestic to personal and professional matters on Tuesday. Big leaps and opportunities are at hand midweek, some from unexpected sources. Weekend gatherings assemble an unusual mix of family and friends.

Around the world. Your accomplishments and reputation lure offers into your hands; plum deals fall into your lap on Tuesday. Instability you’ve long suspected hits the surface on Wednesday. Follow through with items on your own agenda over the holiday weekend.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Go boldly forward. A long-term plan is put into motion as the week begins. Your phone rings non-stop midweek, with a mix of joys and disappointments reported. Short journeys are favored over the weekend, especially if you’re visiting old friends.

Too much information. New avenues for gain or security appear early this week and give you an ace in the hole if you need one. People have conflicting ideas about how resources should be used midweek. Children or pets need extra supervision over the weekend.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Happy journey. An unusual teacher or leader you’re in contact with has a change of status this week. You’re extremely busy midweek, as demands for your time and energy come from different directions. Be flexible with holiday plans, as last-minute changes are likely.

Friendly exchanges. Negotiate and conclude excellent agreements as the week begins. After Wednesday, people near you may be in disarray or create problems you feel obliged to fix. Don’t let messy situations prevent you from enjoying parties over the holiday weekend.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Dancing on air. You can solidify your position through assessments of past performance early this week, and possibly gain financial improvements. Midweek events arouse strong but contradictory feelings. Listen carefully, search for facts and avoid hasty conclusions.

Zaps and zingers. Good plans are getting off the ground as the week begins, but your feelings on more personal matters could change without warning midweek. You’ll enjoy the holiday more if you share the work and allow others to contribute to party plans.

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) 2009

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It is odd for me to think that my children will have no didn’t seem like the ideal time to take in a new sight for memory of the zoo train I grew up loving a crowd-leery family such as ours. Still, or the thrill of the helicopter ride, or that Father’s Day is one of the very few days of feeling that someone or something may the year I feel especially obligated to keep leap out at any moment from the shadows my two cents to myself in order to prove to of the half-magnificent, half-terrifying our children that Dad really should be able underground parking lot tunnel. What we to do what he wants on his special day. no doubt will remember together is the I have been to The Toledo Zoo more Father’s Day our family first stepped foot times than I can count, and over my lifein Nature’s Neighborhood. time I have enjoyed watching its tremenAs we arrived at the threshold of Nature’s dous evolution. My earliest memory of Neighborhood for the first time, my excitethe zoo involves staring in amazement at Shannon SZYPERSKI ment surely matched the excitement I felt the a mountainous wonder comparable in size first time I marveled at the Hippoquarium and detail to Animal Kingdom’s Expedition Everest, yet standing smack dab in an otherwise flat or stood against the glass as a polar bear rubbed up against Northwest Ohio. It was curiously teeming with real moun- it only inches away on the other side. Nature’s Neighbortain lions prowling its crests and slopes ... except that it hood immediately revealed itself to be the next best thing wasn’t. My child’s eye memory has failed me in part, as in in The Toledo Zoo’s long-standing, star-studded lineup.

I admit that my memory of the old children’s area reality I was staring at a much lesser mountain-like rock pile stocked only with meandering sheep and monkeys is somewhat negatively tainted by an incident involving gravel, blood, goat feces and my very young son. Yet, rather than mountain lions. I was amazed nonetheless.

I have no trouble remembering the city’s excitement in my appreciation for the new area goes far beyond the welcoming the Chinese pandas for their much-anticipated chance to leave a single bad memory behind. Watching summer of 1988 visit. My family caught a glimpse of Le Le my children splash around in The Play Stream, dress up and Nan Nan the same way we caught a glimpse of the Dec- as bees in The Forest and climb to new heights in The laration of Independence at the National Archives Building, Tree House quickly convinced me that we have years of by begging the gatekeeper to let us take just a quick peek in great Toledo Zoo memories ahead of us.

Nature’s Neighborhood is the kind of place I would see spite of our last-minute, closing-time arrival. Thankfully, we were able to sneak in our panda fix before their return trip online and hope to take my children to one day. How lucky to China, as the commemorative McDonald’s mugs bearing we are to have such a grand addition to an already first-rate institution right here in our own backyard. Our neighbortheir images just couldn’t do justice to the actual creatures.

Thanks to the incredible changes at the zoo over the hood no doubt owes a great big welcome to Nature’s Neighyears and its playful mixing of the old with the new, I have borhood, for we will be friends for years to come. experienced the fear of being eaten and the joy of eating both under the same roof, yet decades apart, in what was once the Shannon Szyperski and her husband Michael are Lion House, but is now the Carnivore Cafe. I have had the raising three children in Sylvania. E-mail her at pleasure of witnessing the zoo’s residents move on up from letters@toledofreepress.com.

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