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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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Harry Potter And The Boy Who Limits limit access Wore Blackface To The Movies

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eveloping a cynical streak is an occupational hazard of the newspaper business. Years of reading and writing about corruption and the less honorable sides of human nature leads one to a place where most everything is called into question.

This is especially true when it comes to government. Dealing with officials on all levels calls for a healthy dose of preventative paranoia. It may be sad to have to assume the worst until the best is shown, but power drives people to strange actions.

There are strong laws that help the public keep tabs on elected officials, although those laws are only as enforceable as a governing body’s degree of cooperation. One of the long-standing protections in Ohio has been the lack of a maximum penalty for improperly destroying public documents. Recently, the Ohio Legislature reduced and capped the civil penalties for improperly destroying public records. The Legislature de facto eliminated a powerful financial consequence that made governments think twice before eradicating any materials, and especially materials that may Thomas F. Pounds cause embarrassment or controversy.

As the Associated Press (AP) reported, “A measure signed into law by Gov. John Kasich places a $10,000 limit per case on fines an agency can be ordered to pay when sued for destroying records. It also limits attorney fees to $10,000 and requires suits to be brought within five years of a record’s destruction.

“There were no such limits previously.”

State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati lawyer, told the AP the modification was “prompted by a $1.4 million initial finding against the city of Bucyrus for recording over 911 tapes from the 1990s. The law had said that agencies could be sued for $1,000 per destroyed document, with no maximum. Supporters of the new cap said people requested records they didn’t want but knew were destroyed so they could sue for a large payday.”

It can be argued that the new limits might make it difficult for many people to afford the risk of suing when contested documents are erased.

“Destroyed public employee records, evidence of police wrongdoing, evidence of environmental and human health dangers ... could all go away for a simple $10,000 fine,” Trent Dougherty, director of legal affairs for the Ohio Environmental Council, told AP. Especially when those fines would likely be paid with taxpayer dollars.

Seitz argued that “the legislation protects taxpayers’ pocketbooks from greedy lawyers. If records are destroyed to cover up corruption, officials still could face criminal charges such as obstruction of justice and tampering with records. If anybody thinks that a $10,000 penalty and $10,000 in attorney fees is not a sufficient deterrent, then I would remind them that if the destruction is willful ... we have a whole battery of criminal laws that still apply.”

Fair enough, but the new legislation should make those who champion open access to government more than a little nervous.

Anything that provides “wiggle room” for those looking to keep the public ignorant should be condemned. This new standard is a victory for those who prefer to work in the dark, and a loss for those who prefer their government to work in the open light of day. O

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he “Harry Potter” series deals directly with the dan- 2011 could walk around in public in blackface and think gers of prejudice and racism, so it was fitting to be it’s OK. We’re not talking about some satirical or political confronted with those issues during a screening of the fourth wall-breaking performance art. It was just one kid at the movies, dressed in costume with some kind of black latest “Potter” movie.

During the late 1990s, I worked on assignment in San makeup or paint smeared over his face.

Blackface has a long history as a tool for demeaning and Jose, Calif. During that era, I was long-distance romancing my eventual wife, Shannon, who lived in Ann Arbor. Part humiliating black people; I do not see any excuses that tranof bridging that continental gap was spending a lot of late scend that context.

There are not a lot of black characters in nights on the phone. the “Harry Potter” books and movies, which Shannon battled mild insomnia in those seems endemic to epic fantasy stories. The days, and I battled cross-country home sick“Star Wars” movies employed exactly one ness. One of our solutions was for me to read prominent black actor for each of its triloto her each night until she was ready to sleep. gies (Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian It was on her suggestion in that summer of in the Original Trilogy, Samuel L. Jackson as 1999 that I purchased a copy of “Harry Potter Jedi Mace Windu in the Prequel Trilogy). The and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”

“Lord of the Rings” movies make the “Star It was a natural extension of our admiraWars” movies look like a Tyler Perry project. tion for the book series to see the “Potter” “Avatar,” employed black actors for its aliens movies as each one was released.

Taking the adventure to its extreme, we ar- Michael S. miller but not for its scientists or military leaders.

“Potter” has Lee Jordan, who fights ranged a safe haven for our young boys and drove to the Rave Motion Pictures theater at Levis Commons alongside the good-guy wizards, and Dean Thomas, who for the July 15 midnight premiere. Traveling with friends who is more visible than Jordan but mainly footnotes himhave been equally invested in the series, we arrived to find all self as a boyfriend of Ginny Weasley, who eventually falls 12 screens showing the film, and all 12 screens sold out or for Harry Potter. It has Kingsley Shacklebolt, a powerful close to it. Hundreds of fans filled the lobby, chattering excit- wizard who rises to a prominent leadership role. There is edly and bustling with anticipation. Many fans (who at one one young black woman, Angelina Johnson, who dates point probably smirked at fans who lined up in costumes for the supporting character Fred Weasley (and according to fan websites, marries his brother George after Fred dies “Star Wars” movies) were dressed as their favorite character.

There were great bearded Hagrids, scores of Harrys in battle. This skin-color exposition on the Weasley famwearing black robes and black circular glasses, and several ily’s prejudice-free approach to life is a rare bit of narrasilver-bearded Dumbledores. The creativity on display was tive clumsiness on Rowling’s part).

The young man in blackface must have been dressed impressive. One fan, dressed as Azkaban prisoner Sirius Black, wore the faded jail fatigues and had the full set of as Dean Thomas, as he lacked Lee Jordan’s dreadlocks and markings “tattooed” on his chest. I assume those quotes are Angelina Johnson’s uterus (my assumption).

While seeing him did not completely sour my evening, required. There were sexy and demented Bellatrix clones, scary and silent Death Eaters and Dementors and at least his offensive and tasteless choice has resonated. Worst-case scenario, it was an excuse for a mocking, racist act of immaone person dressed as a winged Golden Snitch.

With about 30 minutes before showtime, two of us turity. At best, it was an insensitive display of ignorance and walked to the concession stand. Waiting in the lengthy line immaturity. Or maybe he was just a historical re-enactor.

I wonder if he left his parents’ home with the blackface gave us another opportunity to admire the “Potter” fans who had invested time and energy into dressing up to mark on, or if he applied it when safely out of his parents’ sight. I the end of the 10-year film series. It was exciting and fun, a also wonder if he would have employed the same mischievous strut at another theater; not just the mostly white safe moment free of real-world politics and pressures.

Then a young man walked by, dressed in Hogwarts zone in Perrysburg, but maybe at Westfield, where he would wizard robes. He was tall, with brown hair and a quick gait. have been far more likely to face real-life black people.

If he had been seen in blackface at Westfield, it would have His white face was smeared black.

I openly stared as he crossed the lobby, stunned to see taken a lot more than magic words and phrases to prevent someone, even in the context of a celebration and costume him from learning just how offensive his actions were. O ball, wearing blackface. I caught the eye of my friend, who Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Towas similarly caught off guard by the sight.

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TO THE EDITOR, I was wondering how long it would take before Steven Flagg would declare the TPS-TFT agreement to be a disaster, no matter what the settlement contained (“TPS Fact Finder report short on solutions,” July 17). I can only guess that it took a while to find some tactic to try to discredit the agreement. But Steve came through!

First of all, he attacks a fact-finder who has a long history of mediating and resolving these types of disputes.

When did Mr. Flagg ever do something like that?

Secondly, what, precisely, are his credentials to comment about the negotiations process? Steve is dead wrong when he claims that, “Initial negotiating positions always seem to be established at polar extremes ... ” This statement alone makes it crystal clear that Mr. Flagg lacks first-hand knowledge in these matters.

He also states, “TFT leadership was equally unrealistic in its efforts to maintain the status quo.” Where did that come from? TFT knew that concessions were necessary! Let him quote his source on that one! It was the TPS Board that voted 4-1 to hire an out-of-town attorney who had no long-term interest in Toledo or Toledo’s children, and who trumpeted his expertise in negotiating in “unionfree environments.” The extreme positions were very one-sided in this bargaining session.

Mr. Flagg is obviously commenting in an area where he has little or no direct knowledge! What are his union-management negotiating experiences? There exists a collective bargaining method known as InterestBased Bargaining (IBB for short), also called “Win-Win” bargaining. A few years ago, then TFT President Francine Lawrence proposed this to thenSuperintendent John Foley. Mr. Foley seemed interested, but never committed his team to the time needed to train properly to employ IBB in the TPS-TFT process.

The Berea School District and the Berea Federation of Teachers have used IBB for about 20 years, for example. I have negotiated both on the union side and the management side, and I have negotiated in the more traditional, confrontational style, as well as in IBB. Where is Mr. Flagg’s experience in these matters?

Mr. Flagg always emphasizes the negative. It’s almost as if he prefers that TPS remain in conflict! He ignores the fact that TPS has made great strides in “student outcomes.”

Mr. Flagg never mentions TFT-

sponsored successes like the elementary reading and math academies, which led to big jumps in test scores.

He never mentions a successful, high poverty school like Birmingham, which jumped over categories all the way to the “Excellent” category in state ratings last year.

Mr. Flagg implies that TFT gave up too little. He never mentions that the amount TFT gave back is estimated at $44 million in savings! How much did he want? $60 million? $80 million? $100 million? And if one goal is to attract and keep the best and brightest teachers to TPS, how much can we shrink the remuneration?

Mr. Flagg also tacitly endorses SB5.

I guess he believes the way to attract the best college graduates into teaching in Ohio (and, more specifically, Toledo) is to remove all collective bargaining rights from all public employees. No matter what its supporters may say, that is precisely what SB5 would do. I know that SB5 allows negotiations in limited areas. But how can there be true negotiations when one side can state that because there is an impasse, they can vote to write the contract language any way they want it to read?

Mr. Flagg is entitled to his opinions. You are entitled to publish anyone you want to publish. When fine periodicals, or even fine websites, publish from outside sources, they most often list the credentials of the author. Besides being a selfproclaimed “educational activist,” precisely what are Mr. Flagg’s credentials to be considered a plausible source of expertise in areas of unionmanagement negotiations? And are his experiences specific to the public sector? You don’t get such expertise by watching school board meetings and talking to members with whom one is friendly. You’ve got to be there! Was he ever “there?” O Dale Pertcheck Dale Pertcheck and his wife retired as teachers from Toledo Public Schools on June 1. He will continue in his position as treasurer with TFT’s statewide affiliate, the Ohio Federation of Teachers, at least through the summer. He and his wife are members of the retiree unit from Toledo, TFT250R, which is affiliated with the Ohio Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers.

He has been an officer with the Ohio Federation of Teachers since 1990 and was recording secretary from 1990-2006. He has served as treasurer since first being elected to that position in 2006.

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The $300 million Hollywood Casino-Toledo, scheduled to be the first complete casino in Ohio, is rapidly taking shape.

“It’s coming along quickly,” General Manager Richard St. Jean said. “I saw it for the first time when I drove into town about a month ago and I was just blown away by the view and proximity. It couldn’t have a better location. It’s just spectacular.”

Other Ohio cities expected to open casinos in the future include Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus. Cleveland’s casino could still open before Toledo’s but it would only be a partially complete facility. The Toledo casino, which broke ground in August, is scheduled to open in the latter part of 2012’s second quarter.

“You can see the formation,” St. Jean said. “It’s really starting to take shape. A lot of the infrastructure is starting to come up and the walls are starting to go up. I would say within 30 to 60 days you will really be able to make out the different venues and what it looks like. It’s just amazing how quickly it moves.”

Despite the speed of the structure coming into fruition, St. Jean still has his deadlines. He is pushing to finish enclosing the building by the fall, especially after the setbacks that the elements provided during the past year.

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“Now the goal is to get it enclosed so that by early fall we are totally enclosed and the majority of the focus becomes the inside of the property. At the end of the year, the building on the outside will look virtually complete.”

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St. Jean started his job as general manager of Hollywood Casino-Toledo a month ago after accepting the position from Penn National Gaming.

He spent the past 25 years in Las Vegas working positions at Caesar’s Palace and Station Casinos.

After working on projects including the Gun Lake Casino in Wayland, Mich., and the expansion of Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, Calif., St. Jean heard about plans for a new casino in Toledo. The combination of bringing one of the first casinos to Ohio and helping a struggling economy was just what he was looking for to join Penn National.

“I’ve known the Penn guys for about 10 years now,” St. Jean said. “I developed a great relationship and we said if the time was ever right we could have a [business] relationship. When I started learning about this project and it being one of the first in the state, the magnitude of the project and what it does for the economy I was very excited. It’s an exciting project in a part of the country I think could really use it. I think that Penn, myself and the team I’m putting together can really fulfill all those obligations.”

To give him an idea of just what to expect with the more intricate aspects of the new casino, St. Jean began touring other Penn National facilities around the country. In early July, St. Jean traveled to its property in Charleston, W.V., for a more detailed look at the facility’s electronics, which will be integrated into Hollywood Casino-Toledo.

“I went to see how it comes together,” St. Jean said. “There’s a lot of electronic messaging and technology that is particularly new to this region.

It was hard to really understand what it meant until I went and saw it.”

Casino’s goals

That experience will be crucial in the upcoming stages of development, especially in a facility with so many different parts under one roof. The facility will have 119,000 square feet of gaming floor, including about 3,000 slot machines, 60 table games and 21 poker tables.

Also featured in the building will be an entertainment venue which plans to consistently provide stage acts to perform. The casino’s goal will be to provide entertainment for the venue upwards of seven nights a week.

“I see there is a tremendous need,” St. Jean said. “You can have great

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bands midweek and step it up on the weekends. It’s a venue that not only opens up to the lounge but opens up to the entire casino. It’s definitely going to be an entertainment mecca.

It doesn’t anywhere compete with the larger venues, but we have created our own centric entertainment venue here in the middle of the casino.”

The casino will also feature many different food options for incoming patrons. Among the places to eat will be Final Cut, a fine dining steakhouse, as well as the 350-seat Epic Buffet, a sports-themed restaurant and bar and a “grab-and-go” area.

“One of the staples for Penn National Gaming is the quality of food and the food offered,” St. Jean said. “I think you are going to be able to find something for everybody. At the end of the day it’s about taking care of the guests, giving them what they want and making sure they want to come back.”

Major qualifications

For the casino to best take advantage of all of its features, St. Jean knows he will need to select the best employees for the job. In a job market where he expects to receive interest from upwards of 15,000 applicants, hiring around 1,000 people will be no small feat.

There are, however, two major qualifications St. Jean is looking for.

Hiring locally is a major goal for the casino, looking to employ at least 90 percent of its employees from the Toledo area. He also said that all applicants skilled in working with people will have a significant edge over others.

“What we are really looking for at every position is people that can be a service ambassador,” St. Jean said.

“The No. 1 criteria we are looking at when we are selecting people is their ability to be friendly, outgoing, gregarious and really create that kind of environment. We definitely look for the special technical skills, but it’s really going to come down to people skills and their personality.”

The casino will officially take online applications in the fall. St. Jean said that applicants can also express their interest in positions through its website, www.HollywoodCasino Toledo.com, and keep up to date on the hiring process. Initial plans are to begin searching for employees from October through December and make offers in the first two months of 2012.

As for the salaries, St. Jean expects tipped jobs “will be very lucrative,” while non-tipped jobs will be dictated by the market. Employment will also include medical plans.

Being an employee won’t necessarily exclude you from all the fun either. Employees will be barred from playing many of the games in the casino, but St. Jean expects there to be some gambling they should be able to participate in.

“We do allow some team members to gamble but it obviously depends on the job that you do,” St. Jean said.

“Some jobs by position and level in the organization are prohibited from gambling but more positions than not are allowed to play slots. Typically, no one is allowed to play table games.

That has to be vetted out with the Ohio Gaming Commission. We can’t say for sure but there should be some form of gambling.”

Among some of the concerns is a lack of a hotel near the property. For the casino to be built in Toledo, one of

the guidelines was it could not build a hotel on-site or within 10 miles until Lucas County hotels sustain a 68 percent threshold in occupancy for a three-year period.

A lack of a hotel on-site has brought concerns of an increase in drunken driving. Those worries are not lost on St. Jean, who will attempt to prevent alcohol-related issues before they start by teaching his employees “preventive training.”

“Any team member that has anything to do with alcohol serving, whether that’s at the restaurant and the bar or the valet handing out keys, is properly trained,” St. Jean said. “If someone’s intoxicated we will get them a cab. If they need to get to a hotel we will coordinate those. We take every step to make sure not only that our team members are safe but our patrons are safe. That’s an extensive part of our training.”

One option for getting customers to their hotels Downtown includes shuttles, which the casino plans on providing free to customers.

“We are planning to have transportation back and forth Downtown,” St. Jean said. “There will be a collaborative effort with the local lodging association so we can understand who wants to partner and who’s looking for this kind of business.

It behooves us to have guests that want to stay here in town on extended stays.

Those are certainly mutually beneficial.

It’s all a work in progress.” O Portions of this interview were conducted with Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller during the July 11 broadcast of “Eye on Toledo” on WSPD 1370 AM.

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By Zach Davis

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer zdavis@toledofreepress.com

On the anniversary of the death of University of Toledo sophomore Casey Bucher, family and friends gathered at the scene of his July 18, 2010, attack in remembrance with a candlelight vigil.

Casey was stabbed on the corner of Bancroft Street and Westwood Avenue by 24-yearold Lawrence James as he was walking home BUCHER from work at Maxwell’s Brew.

James asked Casey for cigarettes or change and attacked him after he declined. He called 911 but died shortly after.

James had been released from prison 19 days before the incident, after serving a two-year sentence for stabbing another man.

“He would still be with us today if the government knew what it was doing and did it right the first time,” mother Lisa Bucher exclaimed to the

crowd. “A psychopathic killer so close to the streets where our kids go to school. It should not have happened and it could have happened to any one of you. I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone, least of all Casey, a kindhearted kid who did not deserve this.”

Bucher, who returned to the scene of the crime for the first time since the attack, blamed the government for its handling of James’ release, specifically its handling of his medication.

“My heart hurts,” Bucher said. “This should not have happened. They let a psycho loose from the prison. There was no post-release control. He was kept on meds in prison to make sure he didn’t hurt anyone else in prison but he was let loose on the public with no follow-up and this is what happens.”

James is serving 16 years to life at the Toledo Correctional Institution, with the opportunity for parole in 2026. Bucher will be doing everything in her power to make sure he isn’t allowed back into the public again.

“So long as I am breathing I’ll ask these kids, the next generation, to make sure that he never gets out after I’m gone so none of their kids die,” Bucher said. “The government is not going to change unless we make them. He will be released again with $65, a bus ticket

and two weeks worth of meds.”

Bucher has also taken exception to the proximity of James’ incarceration.

The Toledo Correctional Institute is just 6 miles from the scene of the attack and close to James’ family. He had originally been sentenced by a judge to serve time in Orient, Ohio.

“The judge ordered this individual to be locked up quite a ways away from here by her order,” Casey’s uncle Ryan Gephart said. “Now after a very short period of time he’s back in Toledo.

There’s no good explanation for that.

“My sister never gets to see her son again. His family gets to travel to jail to see him. He gets 13 hours of free time per day, I don’t even get 13 hours of free time per day. This is wrong and somebody in the state of Ohio needs to start doing their job because this person does not belong back in this city. He needs to be serving hard time away and needs to never get out again.

This is unacceptable.”

Bucher said she has recently discovered a way to petition the process and plans to do so. She noted that in 2008, before his first release, he had been incarcerated in Lebanon, Ohio.

“There’s no reason he can’t go back there,” Bucher said. “This isn’t over yet.” O

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PEOPLE

By Matthew Quinn

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Bowling Green State University student Larry Kinkaid thought he had a good plan as he trudged through the snow listening to his music.

“I was trying to walk in the footprints other people had already made, the next thing I knew I was standing right in the middle of the tracks.”

That’s when Kinkaid looked up and saw a train bearing down on him from only 5 feet away. He jumped out of the way, but was struck in the right arm and right leg. At first he thought everything was fine and he was going to be able to walk away. Then he took a closer look at his right leg.

“I saw my leg and that’s when I knew everything was wrong; I blacked out for around 30 seconds to a minute,” Kinkaid said. “Then I woke up and started screaming for help.”

However, Kinkaid couldn’t even hear himself yelling. The ringing in his ears was too loud for him to hear his own voice. Kinkaid managed to locate his cellphone and call the police. Finally his hearing came back and he heard the question coming through his cellphone, “Sir, who got hit by a train?”

Up until that fateful day on Feb 5, Kinkaid had never broken a bone in his body.

Kinkaid was taken by medical helicopter to St. Vincent Mercy Med-

ical Center, near his hometown of Sylvania. It was discovered there that Kinkaid had fractured his tibia, fibula, ulna and radius in addition to sustaining a concussion.

“I did a good job of keeping it together, not to boast or anything but I wasn’t crying or anything, not until I saw my mom come in, then I just started bawling,” Kinkaid said.

His mother, Diane, sat at his side at his hospital bed. “My baby, I almost lost you,” she said.

Kinkaid said his main priority was to not think about what was happening to him. To pass the time, he asked members of the medical staff who they thought was going to win the upcoming Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Many of his fraternity brothers rushed to his side to show their support.

One of the nurses said to Kinkaid “Wow, you sure are popular.” Kinkaid then said, “I’m in a fraternity; I paid for all of these friends.”

His fraternity brother, Greg Maat, posted a funny message on his Facebook: “Larry quit milking this I got hit by a train thing!”

Optimism for Kinkaid went beyond the nurses in that hospital room; Kinkaid’s doctors had comforting words for him as well.

“The doctor said I could be walking completely normal within the next six months,” he said.

Kinkaid was forced to take the se-

mester off from school in order for his injuries to heal. He is unable to participate in any athletic activity, prohibiting him from playing recreational sports he enjoys like volleyball and swimming.

Kinkaid has been able to come back to Bowling Green to see all of his friends, but it wasn’t an easy process.

“My grandparents did everything for me; I was hurt I couldn’t do anything,” he said. “You really take for granted the simplest things in life, such as going to the bathroom or being able to feed yourself, and my grandparents were there for me every step of the way.”

Another trying part of the process was the public reaction.

“I didn’t let it bother me what people were saying. I got hit by a train, I feel like an idiot for that,” Kinkaid said.

He will return to Bowling Green in the fall to continue his bachelor’s degree.

“Whenever I hear the train come

by I definitely am aware of them now, but I don’t cry and go into a fetal position every time I hear them.”

Kinkaid has crossed those tracks on East Reed Street since the accident.

“I definitely look both ways when I cross them now,” Kinkaid said.

One other question has seemed to be on Kinkaid’s friends’ mind as well.

“What were you listening to?”

He thinks he was listening to Ke$ha, but all of that seems irrelevant now.

“I just feel lucky to be alive.” O

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Ready U to discuss ‘Saving Your Bacon’

By Patrick Timmis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER ptimmis@toledofreepress.com

Financial experts Tim Croak and Jeff Traudt will offer advice on protecting your home, property, income and financial assets in the face of disaster at this month’s Ready U event.

The presentation on financial readiness, titled “Saving Your Bacon,” will begin at 7 p.m. July 25 at Wildwood Metropark’s Manor House, 5100 W CROAK Central Ave. The presentation is the last in a 10-session series presented by the Red Cross of Greater Toledo and the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency. The yearlong series was designed to educate the public and prepare individuals and families for potential emergencies in Northwest Ohio.

Croak, president of Creative Financial Partners, will focus on protecting financial documents from weather, crime and financial disasters.

“I think it’s a huge issue,” Croak said. “We’ve obviously been beset with more disasters of many kinds than I think ever in history.”

Croak said practical ways to protect yourself include identity theft protection and an emergency grab bag containing cash and copies of credit cards and passports.

Traudt, the TRAUDT owner of a local State Farm Insurance agency, said he will discuss protecting physical property from natural disasters like floods, hailstorms and tornadoes. The major focus will be a basic outline of how to insure yourself against disaster.

Many people who spend money on luxuries are underinsured with low deductibles, he said.

“They [have to] do their homework before a loss and not find out after a loss what was covered, what was not covered,” Traudt said. “They can call their insurance agent [beforehand] and get relief instead of calling the Red Cross.”

Croak said he hopes people come away with “a sense of awareness that it’s not just business as usual anymore. You’ve got to go to greater lengths to protect yourself and there are things you can do by increasing your awareness but also by deciding you’re going to do something about it.”

Attendees will receive reusable grocery bags. There will also be raffle prizes, including a gift card from The Andersons and a 5-gallon bucket, said Sheri Meeker, community disaster education specialist for the Red Cross.

13abc’s Kristian Brown will host the session.

Toledo Free Press is a media sponsor for the Ready U program.

For more information, visit the website www.ready-u.com. O

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Volunteers needed to make clothing The Christ Presbyterian Church will host a clothes-making session for girls. Volunteers are being sought to help make skirts and jumpers to meet the Toledo Public School dress code. A session will take place Aug. 1 from 9 to noon at the church, located on Sylvania Avenue and Talmadge Road.

For more information, email Ellen Bowers at j.bowers@ambt.net. O — Zach Davis

Knight Academy open house set for July 28 The Knight Academy will host an open house on July 28 from 8 to 6 p.m.

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The Knight Academy is a “Race to the Top” school, offering advanced courses in science, language and technology as well as a longer school day and school year. For more information on the academy, visit www.TheKnightAcademy.org or call (419) 720-4444. O — Zach Davis

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The Toledo Free Press “Round Up Hunger” campaign wrapped up July 17, raising $5,975 for Feed Lucas County Children (FLCC). The money will go directly to FLCC’s meal fund and will provide more than 4,260 meals to the county’s hungry children.

The campaign has raised a great deal of awareness about FLCC’s cause, said the charity’s founder, Tony Siebeneck.

Siebeneck said representatives from Cumulus Broadcasting in Toledo recently visited the charity’s kitchen.

University of Toledo’s College of Medicine and Life Sciences has also gotten involved. Students from the college volunteered at FLCC’s kitchen, and the college afterward contacted Siebeneck to express interest in further helping FLCC. “We’re very thankful,” Siebeneck said of the community’s support.

Walt Churchill’s Market was a key part of the campaign, asking customers if they would be willing to round purchases up to the next dollar

as a donation to FLCC. Walt Churchill, the stores’ owner, said one regular customer asked that his donation be rounded up $50.

“This is a critical time for people that are in need, and it’s nice to be able to share,” Churchill said. “You can’t do everything, but you do what you can.”

Mercy Children’s Hospital and Columbia Gas of Ohio were sponsors for the effort, and 13abc’s “Bridges” was a media partner.

“Toledo always steps up and supports great causes, especially an opportunity to help the youngest residents of our community,” said Chris Kozak, communications manager for Columbia Gas of Ohio.

FLCC and Toledo Free Press are in talks to repeat the “Round Up Hunger” drive in the coming holiday season.

“We are extremely grateful to Walt Churchill, Mercy, Columbia Gas, 13abc and every single donor who gave pennies, dimes or dollars,” said Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller. “We will continue the partnerships and work to offer constructive options for our community’s most vulnerable citizens.” O

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JULY 24, 2011

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Toledo mayor mike bell and CEO of Mercy St. Anne Brad Bertke on July 18.

Mercy opens Senior Emergency Room

By Zach Davis

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer zdavis@toledofreepress.com

With the baby boomer population reaching retirement age, Mercy St. Anne Hospital announced the opening of its Senior Emergency Room on July 18.

“This is a great facility that will help increase the quality of life for our citizens,” Toledo Mayor Mike Bell said. “We do have a population that is aging and we want to be able to take care of them in an appropriate way.”

Every eight seconds, an American is turning 60 years old in the United States. That combined with people living longer was the reason Mercy decided to create the Senior ER, the first specially designated ER in the area.

“Clearly with the number of older people in our society increasing at such a rate we recognized a need to provide specialized care to seniors,” President & CEO of Mercy St. Anne Brad Bertke said. “This is what seniors deserve, this is what our community deserves and we are proud that St. Anne is the first hospital in this area to introduce this concept.”

The Senior ER is composed of five new rooms that will provide a specially-designed environment for senior citizens who are in need of emer-

gency medical attention. To decrease stress to the patients, the facility features calmer paint schemes and more comfortable padded seats.

“We recognized that emergency rooms can be intimidating and confusing places for everyone, especially older patients and family members,” President & CEO of Mercy Andrea R. Price said. “The team members here at Mercy St. Anne put their heads together and have developed a truly groundbreaking solution that speaks directly to the needs of our senior patients.”

Each waiting room also includes features to more adequately fit the needs of older patients. Among the features are thicker pressurereducing mattresses, easier to read clocks and TV remotes and phones with larger buttons. The facility also has nonskid flooring to help decrease falling.

“The aging population presents us with challenges, but it also presents us with opportunities to provide care for a specific demographic with unique needs,” Chief of Staff Erich Pontasch said.

Mercy is a not-for-profit health system based in Toledo that serves 22 counties in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. For more information on Mercy, visit the website www.MercyWeb.org. O

The Ohio State Bar Association selected two members from Toledo for its Board of Governors.

James D. Jensen, a justice on the bench of the Lucas County Common Pleas Court, and Yolanda Gwinn, a law clerk for a U.S. Magistrate Judge, will each serve three-year terms.

Jensen was selected as the District 4 representative. He grew up in Akron and graduated from Wittenberg University before attending the University of Toledo for law school.

Jensen passed the bar and began practicing in 1970 before joining a JENSEN private firm in 1975.

He spent one year as an assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in Washington, D.C. and has been on the Lucas County Common Please Court bench since 1995. He is a past president of the Toledo Bar Association and taught part time at UT for 20 years.

“This actually has become my home,” Jensen said.

“I’ve been here the longest I’ve ever resided anywhere.”

He said he doesn’t plan on changing that status any time soon.

“I enjoy my job a lot,” he said. “I plan on being on the bench as long as the law will permit me and as long as I’m

able and capable to do the job.”

Gwinn is originally from Lima. She attended Kentucky State University for her bachelor’s degree and studied law at Ohio Northern University, graduating in 1984.

But Toledo more-or-less became home, she said, and she stayed. She has worked in legal services for the poor and views her appointment as the next step in her legal career.

“As a new board member my first duty will be to basically learn what’s going on,” Gwinn said.

Reginald Jackson Jr., a Toledo attorney and past-president of the Ohio State Bar Association, said the association exists to serve its members, which include about 78 percent of all lawyers in Ohio.

GWINN “It’s there to help lawyers be better lawyers,” he said.

Jensen was selected by his district, while Gwinn was appointed by the bar association’s president as an atlarge member.

“The purpose of the three at large is to make sure there is diversity on the board of governors: gender diversity, ethnic diversity [and] racial diversity,” Jackson said.

Jackson said Jensen and Gwinn were selected as “lawyers who have demonstrated some community and civic and professional contributions.” O

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By Patrick Timmis

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Cody Kenyon spends his summers like most 12-year-olds.

He rides his bike, plays football, baseball and basketball with his family and goes to summer camp.

Unlike most kids, Cody lost his left leg when he was 11 months old.

When Cody was born, one leg was too short, crippling him. The safest operation, and the one most likely to succeed, was amputation.

“I can’t even tell you what it’s like to see some little kid laying there at 11 months old and there’s nothing you can do,” said his father David Kenyon.

“And you had to make a decision like that, for the rest of his life and the rest of your life.”

That life so far has been characterized by overcoming challenges and putting fears aside.

“When I was really little, it felt like there was a little difference,” Cody said of himself and the children around him. “But as I get older, it feels like there’s no difference at all. I can do everything they can; some things even better.”

Cody said he doesn’t think of himself as having a disability, and his mother Cindy Perlowitz said the family has never treated him differently because he has a prosthetic leg instead of a flesh and bone one.

Whatever he wanted to try, he tried, she said. So Cody played volleyball in sixth grade. He plans on trying out for baseball, basketball and wrestling when he begins eighth grade this coming fall.

“I’ve never seen him back down,” David said, describing his son as “unstoppable.”

Cody is also a top-notch student.

He earns straight A’s and will begin algebra, advanced language arts and other advanced classes this semester as an eighth-grader.

Social studies is his favorite subject, he said — science is his least. He also likes to read and will pick up any kind of book.

“As long as it’s thicker,” he said. “I don’t like thin, flimsy stuff.”

Despite his dislike for science, Cody is interested in medicine. He is interested in becoming a prosthetist some day, constructing artificial limbs for other amputees.

Helping people with similar experiences is an important goal for Cody. One of his heroes is David McGranahan, an amputee athlete

from Sylvania who runs sports clinics for amputees.

Cody’s amputation was not the end of his medical difficulties. He has had four or five different legrelated surgeries, Cindy said, but he continues to bounce back from each one of them.

“He just takes everything [in] stride,” she said. “He’s a lot of people’s inspiration.”

Part of taking things in stride is learning how to do things his own way when he cannot do something normally.

When Cody wanted to learn how to ride a bike, David had one built for him with custom pedals, but Cody could not get the hang of it.

“I just got to do it different. I can’t do it like everyone else, I just got to figure out a way to do it my way,” David said his son told him. Finally they got a regular bike for him, and Cody took off.

“He’s not really limited,” said Ira Perlowitz, Cody’s stepfather. “He’s scared to do things that other kids do, but once he does it, he’s just like any other kid.”

But he has proven he is more than just any other kid.

“He’s an incredible kid,” Ira said.

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A new adoption area may help local stray dogs find new homes.

The Lucas County Dog Warden, which handles stray and homeless dogs in Lucas County, is hosting an open house for its newly renovated adoption area from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

July 23 at its building, 410 S. Erie St. Julie Lyle, the chief dog warden, runs the organization. All three Lucas County Commissioners will speak, she said. Lyle will speak next with refreshments served afterward.

Lyle said the new area will allow more dogs to be viewed for adoption and the adoptable larger dogs will now be available to be viewed by the public.

Before the new adoption area, the organization did not have large enough cages for the larger dogs in a location for public viewing.

The free event will include raffle prizes and dogs for adoption. Anyone who adopts a dog will receive a free veterinarian exam, she said.

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and ages of dogs, so we’re hoping that we can get a lot of folks out to adopt dogs that day,” Lyle said.

“Right now, we have probably 25 or 30 dogs up for adoption, so obviously, as many of those that can find a home will make the dogs happy and make us happy.”

The renovations were paid for by the Lucas County Dog Wardens dog

and kennel fund, from which the organization gets most of its operational funding. The Lucas County Dog Warden is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Saturdays, it is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Libbey named to Register of Historic Places Members of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board have voted to recommend that Edward Drummond Libbey High School and three other buildings in Ohio be forwarded to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places for consideration.

A July 15 news release by Tom Wolf of the Ohio Historical Society said that Libbey as well as Franklin County’s Athletic Club of Columbus, Stark County’s Louisville Historic District and Cuyahoga County’s Moreland Theater Building were all approved for recommendation on July 15, during a meeting at the State Library of Ohio in Columbus.

The nominations for each of the properties will be forwarded to the Keeper of the National Register, who directs the program for the U.S. Department of the Interior. If the keeper agrees that the properties meet the criteria for listing, they will be added to the National Register of Historic Places. A decision from the keeper is expected in about 90 days.

A listing does not obligate owners to repair or improve their properties and does not prevent them from remodeling, altering, selling or even demolishing them if they choose to do so.

Owners or long-term tenants who rehabilitate income-producing properties listed on the National Register can qualify for a 20 percent federal income tax credit if the work they do follows the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, guidelines used nationwide for repairs and alterations to historic buildings.

Libbey was recommended for nomination to the National Register for its history of association with the growth and expansion of Toledo Public Schools in the 1910s and 1920s; as an example of how public education evolved in the nation’s growing urban centers during the early 20th century; as a stateof-the-art public high school building of the time; and as an example of the Collegiate Gothic style of architecture popular from about 1900 to 1930. The Ohio Historical Society release said Libbey remains Toledo’s largest high school building, and is one of the city’s few Collegiate Gothic style buildings.

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Home sales are down for Toledo through the first half of this year.

3,080 homes were sold from January to June of 2011, compared to 3,417 for the same period in 2010, a 9.9 percent reduction, according to the Ohio Association of Realtors.

Total revenue is $311,929,000, down from $365,639,000 through June 2010, a 14.7 percent reduction. The average price of homes is down 5.4 percent, from $107,006 in 2010 to $101,276. But Ed Sitter, president of the Toledo Board of Realtors, said he remains cautiously optimistic.

“I think there is a very fragile recovery taking place,” he said. “I think we are going to see an increase [in] the amount of sales over last year in the months of July, August and September.” O — Patrick Timmis

Franciscan Sisters appoint administrator Sylvania Franciscan Village leaders appointed Sister Janet Doyle Administrator for the village. Sylvania Franciscan Village consists of the Sisters of St. Francis and its ministries, Lourdes College and Sylvania Franciscan Health.

Doyle is the first administrator to be appointed by the village.

“I will be working with the president of the college and the head of Sylvania health and the head of the community to find ways to develop a vision they’ve created,” she said.

Doyle was the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Toledo from 1990 to 2003. She then served as the director for the Catholic Center, Foundation for Senior Living in Phoenix, Ariz. The village, according to the Sisters of St. Francis website, was established in 2010 to provide a place of peace, justice and love of neighbor. A major part of her role will be outreach and building bridges, she said.

DOYLE “[I will be] trying to find ways to serve those in need…” she said. “I think part of my role will be trying to see where the needs are and where some of the resources of the village could serve some of those needs.” O — Patrick Timmis

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By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

What was just a dream two years ago will become reality this week as two native Toledoans open an art supply store Downtown. The Art Supply Depo, at 29 S. St. Clair St., opened July 21, during the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo’s July Art Walk.

Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and closed Sunday and Monday.

Proprietors Jules Webster and Dana Syrek said the shop will fill a niche by specializing in difficult-to-find supplies local artists need.

“We knew the area needed an art supply store,” said Webster, owner of Shine Ceramics and a graduate of the University of Toledo’s art department. “There’s a real void.”

Webster, a Toledo Free Press Star columnist, said UT once had an art supply store, but it closed. Downtown business Scrap 4 Art deals in scrap art material. Sylvania has For the Love of Art, but there was nothing Downtown, Syrek said.

The pair is working closely with UT’s art department and has reached out to other local schools as well.

The Art Supply Depo will carry typical items like paint, pastels and colored pencils, but will focus mainly on securing hard-to-find items, including large format paper for printmaking and drawing, rolls of canvas and encaustic, a type of paint made of color pigment and wax.

“There’s nowhere else to get that in town, so we’re really trying to fill some specialty needs for materials,” Syrek said.

The shop will also offer discounted bundle packages containing all the supplies needed for an art class. It will also carry copy paper and basic office supplies, Webster said.

Webster and Syrek, who met through a mutual friend, first looked into buying a franchise but didn’t find one, so

they decided to come up with their own concept.

“It was literally one of those things that came to me in the middle of the night,” Syrek said.

Plenty of market research helped focus and refine the model based on what local artists were looking for, Syrek said.

“The model really cares about what people are looking for and that’s the core of how we’re building the business,” Syrek said.

A gallery space will sell work by local artists and patrons will be able to use Wi-Fi, browse art books, read, study and exchange ideas in a lounge area, Webster said.

“We just want it to be a place that sparks creativity and just inspires a new mode of thinking,” Webster said.

Future plans include displaying local artwork and becoming a stop on the Art Walks as well as offering in-store workshops, Webster said.

The store’s logo and website were designed by local artist Jemma Hostetler of Studio Sans Nom. The Downtown location provides proximity to the UT art department, the Toledo Museum of Art and Toledo School for the Arts, Syrek said. It’s also convenient for the core group of artists who live, work and have studios Downtown.

“A lot of the smaller retail businesses are moving back Downtown,” Syrek said. “We felt like St. Clair Street was really the right neighborhood for us to do well.”

Their idea is testament to the possibilities of small business in Toledo, Syrek said.

“We wouldn’t be able to do this probably anywhere else the way we’re doing it here,” Syrek said. “We really believe in Toledo, we believe in Downtown. Small business is possible here and people should embark on their ventures if they choose to. It’s going to be an exciting week. It’s been a long time coming.”

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Top-10 finishers and ties in all ofCup, a season-long, points-based competition launched in 2001 to determine ficial tournaments earn points based on the money distribution for each the Champions Tour’s leading player. tournament, with every Consistency and $1,000 earned being the Top-10 finishes are reequivalent of one Schwab warded week in and Cup point. week out at Champions Points are doubled Tour events. at the Champions Tour’s Nick Price trails curfive major championships rent Schwab Cup points and to the entire 30-player leader Tom Lehman by field at the season-ending a mere 450 points. With Schwab Cup Championthree wins and seven in November. top-10 finishes in 11 starts Fred ALTVATER shipWith double points on in 2011, Lehman has had an outstanding year on the Champions the line for the winner of the U. S. SeTour. One of his wins came at the Re- nior Open at Inverness and only seven gions Tradition, one of the Champions events remaining to earn Schwab Cup points before the season-ending Charles Tour’s major tournaments.

Allen Doyle won the first Charles Schwab Cup Championship, ChamSchwab Cup in 2001 and since then pions Tour players have an extra incenHale Irwin, Tom Watson, Jay Haas and tive to finish inside the Top 10 in Toledo.

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O Course: Inverness Club, 4601 Dorr St., Toledo O Schedule: July 25-27: Practice rounds, gates open at 6:30 a.m.; July 28-29: First and second rounds, gates open at 6:30 p.m., players tee off of No. 1 and No. 10 throughout the day; July 30-31: Third and final rounds, gates open at 7 a.m., players tee off of No. 1 throughout the day, trophy presentation on 18th green immediately following play.

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More than 150 golfers will compete in the U.S. Senior Open at Inverness Club the week of July 25-31, but the real winner may be the entire region as the tournament is expected to generate $16 million to $20 million in economic impact.

“It’s the largest economic impact of any single event in Toledo this year,” said Rich Nachazel, president of Destination Toledo Inc., the area’s convention and visitors organization.

Officials expect 125,000 to 150,000 people to attend the U.S. Senior Open events. Each person will spend $100 to $105 per day based on tourism research conducted in Ohio, Nachazel said. The primary beneficiaries are local hotels, restaurants, retail and other businesses involved in tourism.

The Toledo area is also host to a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention and several baseball tournaments the weekend of the Senior Open, so many hotels will be filled to capacity and restaurants will be busy, Nachazel said.

Jim Koen, general manager of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Downtown, said rooms are already sold out several nights in a row starting on July 26 of that week for golf officials and guests of local companies.

The Hilton Toledo is sold out for the week of the Senior Open, said Beverly Laughlin, corporate sales manager at the hotel.

Gus Mancy expects booming business for the four restaurants in the Mancy Restaurant Group during the Senior Open, with many golfers, media members and reservations for companies bringing out-of-town guests to eat.

Mancy said golfer Tom Watson ate at Mancy’s Steak House five nights in a row so as not to change his routine during his run at the last Senior Open hosted by Inverness Club, in 2003. Watson finished second to Bruce Lietzke.

“It’s good for our business and the entire area, putting Toledo in the national spotlight,” Mancy said.

About 150,000 fans attended the 2003 U.S. Senior Open, which generated an estimated economic impact of $20 million for Northwest Ohio.

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Silverman said there will be 2,300 volunteers coming from 15 different states to work at the Open, with the

most from Northwest Ohio. Between 75 and 100 USGA officials from outside the Toledo area will serve at the tournament, he said.

The Senior Open will bring 156 players, their caddies and families to Toledo from around the world. Many of the players will stay at The Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg and other local hotels, Silverman said.

About 150 media professionals will work the Open, including crews from ESPN and NBC. ESPN will televise

the rounds on July 28, and July 29, with NBC airing the final two rounds July 30, and July 31.

“It’s great exposure for the entire community with 14 hours of live national coverage in the U.S. and 160 countries around the world,” Silverman said.

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“We worked well in 2003 so we kept the team together for 2011,” Stockwell said. “It’s a big commitment but we’re passionate about it for the Inverness Club, the U.S. Senior Open and the game of golf.”

Stockwell said there is a budget of $6 million to $8 million to manage the 2011 Senior Open at Inverness. Revenues will cover expenses and generate a modest profit for the club after 25 percent goes to the Toledo Classic organization to support local charities, he said.

Work contracts are awarded to local unions and vendors whenever possible, May said.

“This is truly a community event,” he said. “It’s sponsored by Inverness and we’re a benefactor, but the community is a benefactor too. It’s a big boost for the

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We just try to keep the entire community involved so that the local people get a lot of the business that gets generated from a big event like this.”

It’s part of Inverness Club’s mission to showcase the club by hosting major championships such as the 2011 U.S. Senior Open, Stockwell said.

“Toledo has supported these great events at Inverness over the years. Our goal is to host another U.S. Open. We continue to talk to the USGA about holding another U.S. Open at Inverness,” Stockwell said.

The last U.S. Open held at Inverness was in 1979. Since then, Inverness has hosted the PGA Championships in 1986 and 1993 and the U.S. Senior Open in 2003 and now 2011.

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Unforgettable day

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For years, The Ohio State University alum Rod Spittle put on his suit and tie, worked in insurance and spent time with his wife Annie and their three kids, all the while maintaining his golf game.

That changed in October, when Spittle’s boyhood dream of being a fulltime professional golfer crystallized during the final tournament of the year.

Spittle won the AT&T Championship in San Antonio to capture his first Champions Tour victory, earning an exempt card to participate in all Champions Tour tournaments in 2011, including the U.S. Senior Open at Inverness Club in Toledo on July 25-31.

“I played well on Friday and Saturday; we stayed close on Sunday and I birdied [holes] 15, 16, 17, got in a tie and then won in the first hole of sudden death,” Spittle told Toledo Free Press. “It happened so quickly. My wife wasn’t there. None of my family was there. Of course, I’m 1,000 miles away from Ohio. It just happened that fast.”

Annie, Rod’s wife of 19 years, was not at the AT&T Championship because it would have broken a family tradition.

“We have one granddaughter that’s 4-and-a-half,” Annie said. “Her name is Callie, and I have gone home for trick-or-treat every year since she was born. Wherever we are, I have gone home, so I went to Cincinnati for trick-or-treat, which was the day Rod won. The blessing was that I was with our son and daughter-in-law and our granddaughter, and then our other daughter and son-in-law were there with us, and so we all got to watch it on the computer.

“It still gives me chills when we watched the scores.”

Annie and the kids kept hitting the refresh button on the computer that day to get the updated scores.

Their oldest son, Steven, who shares the same passion for golf as his dad, noticed Spittle had birdied late in the tournament and was in a tie.

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JULY 24, 2011 n SPITTLE CONTINUED FROM A26 “We’re standing around as a group, pushing these buttons. And then he went into a playoff, and the scoring was kind of delayed and you couldn’t tell what was happening, and we were standing with my son’s iPod in the front yard. My granddaughter’s in a butterfly costume. It’s Halloween, and you’re just kind of saying, ‘Is this really happening?’

“Then Steven looked at me and said, ‘They just moved Dad’s picture up to the top of the page.’ And we looked at each other and just started screaming because there was no other reason to move his picture up on the scoring sheet than he had won, but the score still didn’t show that for about probably two or three minutes. We were all crying

and screaming. The neighbors came over to see if something was wrong or somebody had just found out they were pregnant, one or the other, because we were literally celebrating, and screaming, and crying and laughing all at the same time.”

Annie said that though she would have loved to have ANNIE SPITTLE been on the 18th green that day with Rod, being able to share that moment with their kids was the best alternative.

“They have been our biggest cheerleaders, our biggest supporters the

whole time,” Annie said. “I wish I had been there to see his face when he won, but I was with our kids and it was great.”

Now a member of the PGA Champions Tour, Spittle plays in tournaments comprised of the top senior golfers in the world.

“The best part about it moving forward is it just begins to open doors for us now to have the chance to come play full-time, and hopefully we can do this as long as possible,” Spittle said.

All in the family

While golf is an individual sport, Spittle uses “we” in reference to his journey to professional status because it has always been a family affair.

His dream started in his hometown of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where his father, Jack, was one of the

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“We played hockey as kids in the wintertime and we played golf in the summer,” Spittle said. “It’s just something that’s always been part of what we have been, and it’s just been a blast.”

Spittle went on to attend The Ohio State University, where he was part of coach Jim Brown’s first recruiting class and earned All-Big Ten honors in 1977 and 1978, serving as a Buckeyes captain his senior year.

During the summers of his junior and senior campaigns at OSU, Spittle won back-to-back Canadian Amateur Championships. He graduated from Ohio State in 1978, with a degree in business administration and went on to work in insurance.

In 1992, Spittle and Annie got married and settled in Dublin, Ohio, to raise their kids together. Prior to meeting Rod, Annie did not know much about golf.

“Rod played a lot of golf in the amateur end of things through his work because it was health insurance, and so he did a lot of his business on the golf course, but that was really my only exposure to it,” Annie said.

“Knowing that when he turned 50 he really wanted to try this, we just kept thinking, ‘OK. We’ll do that if we can.’”

When Spittle was 49, he quit his job in insurance after 25 years and

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Annie quit her job in corporate commercial real estate. With the kids older and out of the house, the couple sold their home and moved in with Annie’s sister, putting together a five-year financial plan to pursue Spittle’s dream.

“We had to give up our dog, which was a hard thing to do,” Annie said.

“That was probably harder than the house, but our oldest son took our dog. When we decided to do this, I think we really looked at it as a great adventure, a little bit of an early type of retirement — like stopping what we have been doing all our lives to do something different.”

After starting his professional career as a Canadian Tour member in 2004, seven years later Spittle is establishing himself as one of the Champions Tour players to keep an eye on.

Through 14 events this year, Spittle has averaged a score of 69.93 and posted eight top 25 finishes and four Top 10 finishes, including tying for second place at the Allianz Championship and third place in the Principal Charity Classic to rank 12th on the money list. While Spittle’s goal took longer than he wanted, it finally came to fruition in October.

“I think you can tell already, we have absolutely no regrets whatsoever and we wouldn’t have done it any other way because there just wasn’t an option,” Spittle said. n SPITTLE CONTINUES ON A28

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“I think it was just kind of a ‘Why not?’” Annie said. “What’s the worst thing that can happen? We’ll try this, and if it doesn’t work we’re still employable. We’re still healthy. We’ll survive. It will be fine, and we’ll still probably have some good stories to tell if it doesn’t work out.”

Spittle is also glad he waited until his kids were older. Having been teammate to fellow Champions Tour members John Cook and Joey Sindelar at OSU, Spittle saw the challenges his friends had balancing their families and professional careers.

“One of the reasons that I’ve always had respect for John and Joey [is] they got married, raised their kids and were still able to play full time,” Spittle said.

“It’s just so hard. It’s hard to be away from your family, and that was just a decision that Annie and I made that we weren’t going to do once upon a time.

“I’d like to play for another five years or maybe longer with God’s help.

We’ll play as long as we can as hard as we can, and we are having a blast every day. We say our prayers every day.”

Return to Ohio

For Spittle to have the opportunity to win the U.S. Senior Open in the same state he received his college education, raised his family and still resides in for part of the year is more than he could have imagined.

“I can’t even make it up,” Spittle said. “To have the Senior Open in Ohio, we just couldn’t make that up. Everybody knows the history that goes along with the club. It has to be on everybody’s short list of great courses in Ohio. Any tournament — particularly this summer to play in Ohio — is just more than we scripted. We couldn’t script it any better. It’ll be a week of partying, that’s for sure.”

To this day, Annie is still amazed at how far they have come.

“You still just kind of laugh and say, ‘Look where we are; look what you have done,’” Annie said. “It truly is amazing, and I’m just so proud of him to keep going even when it felt like it was impossible to do what he did.

As I said, he’s the one that the glass is always half full, and he’s the one that always keeps smiling and saying, ‘I’m getting better. This is great. Let’s go.’ So it’s fun to watch.”

Remembering his roots

While Spittle has achieved a lot of success within the past year, it has not changed who he is at his core.

When he takes to the course at Inverness, Spittle will still mark his putts with a Canadian dime and carry his father’s yellow golf ball in his bag, constant reminders of where and how he got his start in the sport. The latter is especially important for Spittle, whose father passed away a year ago this May. “Rod’s dad passed in May [2010],” Annie said. “Three weeks later, our oldest child — our daughter — got married in June, and then our youngest son got married in September, so we had quite the year from the time that Rod’s dad passed away. So by the time we got to October, it had been a little bit hard with his dad, but then it had been great with the two weddings.”

An engineer, Jack Spittle always wore his engineering ring on his little finger and was buried with it when he died.

“I say that Grampy died in May, and when he got up to Heaven he told the guys up there who were trying to line up the stars for Rod to win that they were doing it wrong, and

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Though Spittle misses his father, he believes the things he carries keep him near.

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Since 1984, the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic has gone from an unknown minor tournament on the LPGA’s yearly schedule to one of the more prestigious stops on the tour.

The entire operation has been routinely lauded for the beauty of the course, the purse amount and the fantastic support from the Toledo community.

The success that tournament — now known as the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (JFOCC) — has established during the past two decades plus in the Glass City didn’t come by accident.

The man at the center of that success is Judd Silverman.

Since 2003, Silverman and his company Toledo Classic Inc. have turned running a golf tournament into a full-fledged profession.

During the last U.S. Senior Open at Inverness in 2003, Toledo Classic was asked by the brass at Inverness to bid for the rights to help run the operational side of the tournament.

“When the 2003 Open occurred, we were asked to put in a bid to help run the tournament,” Silverman said.

“We put together a competitive bid, and we were ultimately rewarded with the contract.”

The 2003 Senior Open went off without a hitch, and Toledo Classic was asked to return to help run the 2011 U.S. Senior Open, which will be held July 25-31 at Inverness.

Silverman thought the success of the tournament in 2003, coupled with other factors, helped secure the rights again.

“We have a number of things going for us. We are local, and we have an established base of sponsors that we have a good relationship with,” Silverman said. “Most of the others who put a bid in were outof-town companies, and most don’t know the area like we do.”

When preparing to assemble and operate a tournament, there are many things Silverman said the company must take into account.

“The Open is just like the Farr [tournament] except on a little bit of a grander scale,” Silverman said. “There is a significant amount of additional

construction that must be done. There are more bleachers, tents, merchandise pavilions, food stands, etc. Everything is bigger.”

To run such an operation means there must be a large number of volunteers, something that runs true to Silverman’s grander scale.

“With the JFOCC, we only need about 1,200 volunteers for the tournament; for this Open, we are going to need 2,200 to 2,300 people to volunteer,” Silverman said.

The volunteer pool has drawn people from 15 different states to staff the tournament, Silverman said.

When planning a U.S. Senior Open, all the plans for setup must be approved by the United States Golf Association (USGA), which hosts several tournaments every year.

“The entire site plan has to be approved by the USGA before the tournament. The placement of our food tents or bleachers is all subject to review. We make suggestions to them, but ultimately they have to approve anything we do,” Silverman said.

While assisting in running the U.S. Senior Open has been fun, it has come

at a cost. The highly publicized decision to postpone the Farr was a result of working on the Senior Open.

“There were a myriad of reasons why we decided to postpone the Farr, but the main one was financial concerns,” Silverman said.

The board at Toledo Classic Inc. felt running two golf tournaments in Toledo would have put a tough financial strain on the tournaments.

“We looked at it and just realized that running both would have been tough,” Silverman said. “We were concerned that our sponsors might be in a spot where they had to choose one tournament or the other to sponsor. The board didn’t want to put our corporate sponsors in that position.”

The Farr will be back in 2012, and Silverman said attention will soon turn to planning for the LPGA tournament.

For now, though, Toledo Classic and Silverman’s collective scope is focused solely on the 2011 U.S. Senior Open.

“It has been a real thrill to work with the USGA and Inverness again this year,” Silverman said. “We are re-

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Recovering Bernhard Langer aims to defend title

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No one knows about the test the Open provides every year quite like Bernhard Langer.

Last year, the German golfer won both the Senior British Open at Carnoustie in Scotland and the Senior Open in Sahalee, near Seattle.

LANGER “It was very taxing last season,” Langer said of pulling off the rare feat of back-toback major wins in consecutive weeks.

“It is a very difficult stretch, especially when you factor in the regular British Open is played the week prior to the Senior British as well. Some of us are

playing in three consecutive major tournaments.

“I was very fortunate and blessed to be at the top of my game, to be able to win the Senior Open last year.”

Defending that title will prove to be just as difficult this season. Langer is fighting his way back from a torn thumb ligament, which has sidelined him for most of the golf season.

Langer sustained the injury while riding his bicycle. The incident occurred when Langer pressed the button at a crosswalk to change the traffic light.

“People thought I had really hurt myself, but I must’ve just pressed the button wrong or something,” Langer said during a visit to Toledo in May. “By the time we come to Inverness, I hope to be playing at full strength.”

Langer is no stranger to success.

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Portion of Senior Open profits to benefit local charities

By Kathryn Milstein

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER kmilstein@toledofreepress.com

Seven charities and a scholarship fund will benefit from the U.S. Senior Open golf tournament in Toledo.

The charities, handpicked by a committee, will provide volunteers in exchange for a percentage of profit gained from the tournament, said Heather Warga, WARGA the championship volunteer coordinator.

“What will happen is 25 percent of our net proceeds will go to these charity recipients,” Warga said. “So when they actually applied to be a charity, which there is a process to that, they had to include how much money they were requesting and what they wanted to use that for.”

This year’s charities are Adopt America Network, Autism Model School, Children’s Rights Council, Toledo Area Ministries, Toledo Basketball Academy, Ronald McDonald House and Veggie U. The scholarship

fund is the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Scholarship Fund.

Each selected charity is required to provide a few volunteers to perform shifts during the tournament.

The shifts include running the volunteer tent, directing parking and welcoming volunteers during the volunteer party. After the tournament, charity volunteers will help clean the golf course.

To be selected, charities are asked to submit their proposal one year in advance. A preselected committee read through the proposals, which numbered about 50 this year, and narrowed charities down to about 15. Committee members then interviewed the charities, presented their case to the committee and then voted.

The tournament also sponsored local charities the last time the U.S. Senior Open was hosted in Toledo in 2003. Warga said there is rarely trouble coming up with volunteers from the charities.

“We usually have a really good response with our charities,” Warga said. “A lot of people enjoy themselves so much, like helping out and volunteering, that we are usually able to attract some people from that that will come back the next year and vol-

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Volunteers make U.S. Senior Open possible “Honestly, we wouldn’t be able to run the tournament without volunteers because they do so many of the jobs on the course,” Warga said.

“We’re required to have water on every tee for the players, so we depend on volunteers to put all that out, keep that all filled. Picking up the players

volunteers from across the country.

The volunteers will be split into about 60 committees, the largest being marshals, said Heather Warga, championship volunteer coordinator. There are also committees to clean the golf course, keep player scores and provide transportation to and from the airport.

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at the airport, all of these things; there is just not a staff big enough to do all of those types of things. So we really do rely and count on our volunteers to help us to make the event successful.”

Each volunteer is asked to work three shifts throughout the week, between four and six hours per shift and pay a fee of $125. In exchange, he or she will get a credential for the tournament, which means free admission, free parking, a uniform, a volunteer party involving 10 percent off merchandise in the merchandise tent and access to a S.P. Jermain Pavilion tent, a $260 ticket value.

When Toledo hosted the U.S Senior Open in 2003, there were about 2,300 volunteers, said Warga, who worked the same three-shift requirement.

“Anytime that they’re not working, they can come out, they can get in the tournament. They don’t have to pay; they can use their credential and park for free and watch golf all day long,”

Warga said. “So the time requirement versus the amount of time that they can actually come out and watch is a really good deal.”

There is a volunteer tent on-site so volunteers can eat free before or after their shifts. Volunteers will have two different uniforms: the marooncolored logo shirt for marshals and a “straw” or white-yellow shirt for members of other committees. Each volunteer receives two shirts, a jacket and a hat or visor, which they are allowed to keep after the championship.

Youth volunteers are between 13 and 17 years old and are put into several different committees. With a fee of $50, youth volunteers receive every benefit of an adult volunteer except they only receive one shirt.

“It’s kind of funny because often, I’ll see people around town with that kind of stuff on from the previous tournament,” Warga said. O

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The start of the 2011 U.S. Senior Open at Inverness Club includes a new logo featured on everything from hats to oversized Styrofoam golf balls.

There will be Senior Open merchandise for sale at each entrance to the course. The main entrance off Hill Avenue will feature a 7,000-squarefoot structure with 10 cash registers and $750,000 worth of merchandise.

The bag room in the golf shop will be converted into a 2,300-square-foot retail outlet.

“Day to day our golf shop works like sort of a high-end boutique, and for the week of the Senior Open we’re more like a Walmart,” said David Graf, head golf professional at Inverness Club. “We need an outside vendor to handle the point of sale, the computers and back office stuff.

They also supply historical data as

far as what has sold at other venues, helping you purchase the right mix of items.”

The mix of items includes a wide array of apparel and souvenirs. The pro shop started carrying Senior Open merchandise in 2009. This year, it is all they have ordered.

“We have everything from shirts, hats, T-shirts, chairs, divot repair tools, mugs, shot glasses and everything you can imagine,” Graf said.

“Probably 80 percent of our sales are in hats and T-shirts and 20 percent is in more souvenir items. We have large Styrofoam golf balls that kids can get autographs on. We have Senior Open flags. That’s another popular item to get autographed. It’s anything that relates to the golf tournament we can put the logo on.”

The logo for the tournament features the grandfather clock from the clubhouse at Inverness. The clock was a gift from Walter Hagen and other professional golfers in 1931. n SHOP CONTINUES ON A40

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About half the field will store their clubs here overnight. We convert our caddy shack into a miniature bag room. When we had the tournament in 2003, Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus left their clubs here overnight. That was kind of cool.”

Ben Crenshaw and Jack Nicklaus left their clubs here overnight. That was kind of cool.”

Graf said working the 2003 Senior Open has made this year’s preparation run smoother.

“It’s been easier for us than 2003, because we all have experience and know what to expect,” Graf said. “In 2003, everybody was new so it was ev-

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erybody’s first go-round. Now all the pieces are still in place. We know it’s going to be busy and there’s a lot to do, but we know what to expect.”

Despite preparations running smoother, Graf expects to see lower sales than in 2003 due to economic conditions.

“It’s a different environment now,” Graf said. “The economy is

far worse. Our corporate hospitality sales and ticket sales are down a little. We expect there to be some decline in merchandise sales as well.

The landscape is different than what it was in 2003. On the other side of the coin, Toledo has always been great. The Greater Toledo community has supported all of the tournaments out here.” O

— David Graf n SHOP CONTINUED FROM A38 It was given in recognition of the 1920 U.S. Open when Inverness became the first to allow professional golfers into the clubhouse.

“You can bring something different in with the Senior Open crest,” Graf said. “It not only creates excitement for the event, but it’s another merchandising opportunity because it’s a one-time shot. I think it’s an outstanding crest for the Senior Open. The logo incorporates

the grandfather clock. It’s a landmark at Inverness.”

The pro shop has four main responsibilities during the tournament.

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“About half the field will store their clubs here overnight,” Graf said. “We convert our caddy shack into a miniature bag room. When we had the tournament in 2003,

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An attorney with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) in Toledo is conducting a Microenterprise Legal Assistance Project to provide free legal services to local entrepreneurs who can’t afford an attorney.

“The project aims to help people achieve greater economic stability with their own resources. We fill in the missing pieces by providing legal counsel,” said Anneliese Gryta, an attorney with ABLE, who developed and now leads the project.

Gryta said it is the only program of its type in Ohio. It is funded by special grants from the Stranahan Foundation of Toledo, Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation and Equal Justice Works, a national organization that funds innovative legal services projects across the country.

Gryta said ABLE is working in partnership with the Griffin-Hammis Microenterprise Demonstration Project of the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission (ORSC). It provides business technical assistance to disabled individuals who wish to pursue self-employment.

“I learned so much from this program. It’s just priceless information.

I’m taking full advantage of the free services this area has to offer,” said Teresa Jo “Tracy” Perry, a local artist and entrepreneur.

Perry recently started her own business, Renditions by ResaJo, in Toledo to sell her art and custom designed jewelry. She needed legal help with contracts, copyrights, and other issues.

Perry was referred to the project by the ORSC after developing a disability from a back injury. She retired after working 20 years in the nursing profession due to mobility issues.

The ORSC told Perry it could help her find another job or go back to school. She decided to return to college and graduated with a fine arts degree from BGSU in 2009.

“I had always created, designed, decorated and made things. Now I’m feeding my family while feeding my

creative soul. It doesn’t always work in business,” Perry said.

Perry went to a legal clinic on copyrights conducted by ABLE and said it was “an exceptional clinic.” She worked directly with Gryta through the microenterprise project on legal issues for her new business.

Perry submitted a selection of her work for the 93rd Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in August. One item is a lotus cup chalice Perry made with an etching from DaVinci’s “Last Supper” that was inspired by the movie, “The DaVinci Code.”

ABLE receives referrals for the project from business assistance providers, including the Small Business Development Center at the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Assets Toledo, United North and the Women’s Entrepreneurial Network.

Another client, LaVerne Greene Cunningham visited one of the legal clinics seeking advice on drafting an agreement for her services.

“I had a need for a good solid contract to use with clients and employers.

With the contract, people take me more seriously,” Cunningham said.

She is a work force development professional who lost her job at The Source and decided to start her own firm, Connected 4 Biz, an employment coaching and placement agency.

Cunningham received pro bono advice that “you have to know when to walk away from some business” from Brad Hubbell, an attorney at Cooper & Walinski, who helped her.

Gryta said the project has helped clients such as a dog groomer with a liability release, a mural artist on a commission agreement, small barbeque caterer on a contract with a sports arena, trademark guidance for a graphic artist and other legal advice for a new cleaning company and a small grocer in a central city neighborhood.

“We want to be sure that everyone who needs legal help knows that we’re out there for them,” Gryta said. “One way we provide assistance

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to clients is through a series of legal clinics staffed by volunteer attorneys from local law firms.”

The law firms include Cooper & Walinski; Eastman & Smith, MacMillan, Sobianski & Todd; and Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick have helped staff the clinics. Members of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Toledo Bar Association under the leadership of Dave Purdue of Purdue Law Offices are present at the clinics.

The next legal clinic will be Aug. 17, but applicants need to preregister for it with Gryta at ABLE at agryta@ablelaw.org.

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Gryta leads a steering committee that is working on a micro-loan fund to provide financing for small entrepreneurs who can’t get funding from traditional sources. With the support of local businesses and economic development agencies, they hope to offer loans to entrepreneurs in the legal assistance project.

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“I believe in the economic vitality of cities like Toledo and helping people to succeed here,” Gryta said.

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s the clock ticks down to Aug. 2, the debt ceiling debate has grown more heated.

As it turns out, doubt in the “full faith and credit” of the United States’ federal government can actually inject quite a bit of fear into the world’s financial markets. This fear has led to a substantial rise in volatility as investors focus increasingly on gossip and headlines instead of levelheaded rationality.

Much of the debate has become focused on entitlement programs like social security — at least ever since President Obama made his now-famous threat to cut off benefit checks to veterans and the elderly on Aug. 3 if no agreement is reached to prevent a government shutdown.

This offhanded comment has been a favorite among political pundits, though it was obviously a scare tactic and a complete bluff. Sadly, it seems many Americans have taken the bait.

Many have fallen in line since Obama’s threat and opened up to the idea of raising the debt ceiling, showing their flagrant need for the nanny state.

Unfortunately, this is precisely the wrong lesson to have learned.

Rather than acquiescing to the government’s desired role as wetnurse to the governed, Obama’s threat should have reminded the American people of our president’s shameless-

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Social Insecurity

When Social Security was begun ness and willingness to threaten and/ or hurt this country’s citizens to ac- in the ‘30s, the vast majority of elderly or disabled complish political ends.

Americans lived with Just as significantly, their families. Nursing the entire debate surhomes were not a rounding social security thriving industry back has highlighted a comthen, though there were plete misunderstanding some facilities operated by the American people by local church groups of how the program is and other charities. structured and what At its core, Social purpose it serves.

Security was developed The Social Security Act was passed in 1935 Dock David TREECE to keep its beneficiaries from becoming a drain — some may recall that the United States economy was in the on their caretakers. It was a way middle of a minor slump back then, of helping their families pay utility commonly known as the Great De- bills and put food on the table.

Hardly what one would call a pression. At that point in time the average life expectancy was almost a full “retirement plan.”

Social security was never meant 20 years shorter than it is now. Jobs were harder, medicine was less ad- to improve Americans’ lifestyles vanced, and many aspects of modern after they retired — which in the life were luxuries reserved exclusively 1930s really meant you were incapable of working anymore. It wasn’t for the ultra-wealthy.

Consider one quick example. In even supposed to allow those unable 1936 a ticket to fly between Germany to work to extend the lifestyle they and New Jersey cost roughly $400, al- enjoyed while earning wages. Somost a quarter of the average Ameri- cial security wasn’t going to pay for can’s annual wages at that time. For cruises or new cars, these were luxucomparison, $400 in 1936 would be ries enjoyed by very few, anyway.

Somewhere, somehow between worth more than $6,000 today, given inflation. And this ticket didn’t even get 1935 and now, Americans have let you on an airplane — that was the price politicians twist the role of social sefor traveling on the Hindenburg, not curity; they’ve allowed the government to make Social Security sound exactly a quick (or safe) undertaking.

like a retirement plan, when it isn’t.

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Anyone who hasn’t been saving in addition to Social Security has much more serious problems than not understanding government bureaucracy. (Heck, maybe they should run for office!)

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We’ll let you be the judge of which one is Porky Pig and which one is Wile E. Coyote. The important part of this battle is to not get caught in the crossfire.

Looking at the website www.us debtclock.org, everyone should be concerned as our national debt has grown from $5.7 trillion back in July 2000 to more than $14.5 trillion today.

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Most cities, including Toledo, have stations that play the same artist. The perfect example would be Taylor Swift; she can be heard on KISS FM, Star105, K100, MY983 and The River 101.5. The one thing that separate the Taylor Swift stations are the morning shows.”

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The equalizer that brings people July 18 on the 100 Watt HD station with extra cash back to terrestrial radio 100.7 The Vibe.

With technology changing media tends to be the personalities, aka DJs. and how consumers get our favorite Most cities, including Toledo, have shows, Andrew Z had some pretty stations that play the same artist. The perfect example would creative options and be Taylor Swift; she can this signing was combe heard on KISS FM, pletely unnecessary.

Star105, K100, MY983 When the Andrew and The River 101.5. The Z “mess” happened, one thing that separates he was King of the Tothe Taylor Swift stations ledo Morning Airwaves, are the morning shows. hosted a No. 1 Show, was Andrew Z’s show played Lucas County’s Weight no music and was No. 1, Czar and was a media darling. Through all the Jeremy BAUMHOWER meaning people with and without cash listened. negative press, Andrew Z This is where Andrew’s return is has maintained the maximum limit of 5,000 friends on Facebook and a “fan” flawed. Andrew Z should have invested page with more than 2,000 “likes.” These in himself and his show by launching a numbers prove the power of his show. In comprehensive, interactive website and a town where radio ratings are not made a smartphone application to distribute public, Andrew Z can demonstrate to his show. This would take a lot of faith clients a 7,000-member loyal, dedicated but little cash. He would have owned fan base he is reaching on a daily basis. his show, been his own boss and more Showing advertisers the amount of importantly, had full creative control. people your show and their commercials Andrew Z would argue that he has a reach is key— it’s how the game is played. website and an app you can hear his To some, 7,000 people is not a lot, show on, but it is not the same thing; especially when Andrew’s previous au- Andrew Z now has a boss.

Andrew has the ability to show dience was around 25,000 to 40,000 people. I would disagree; 7,000 people advertisers the true size and loyalty of who own a computer — and more im- his listeners. Andrew Z has tarnished portantly, disposable income — is a great his name, but Toledoans always love marketable number. The more powerful the underdog and the controversial. aspect is that his fan base will grow as his Remember, Toledoans voted Carty Finkbeiner as mayor three times. show improves and word gets out.

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The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority recently unveiled the master plan for redevelopment of the Jeep Parkway property.

“We’re here to celebrate the kickoff for the redevelopment of the new Overland Park Development. This project has been embraced by everyone in the community and will fill a much-needed hole in this community,” said Paul Toth, president and CEO of the Port Authority, on July 7.

The 111-acre brownfield site will be redeveloped into a commercial and industrial complex with 30 acres for an urban park along the Ottawa River.

The Overland Park Development will occupy 70 acres of the site and offer from 900,000 to 1 million square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space in several buildings.

The master plan was developed with a focus on manufacturing and could become the home to new energy technologies or automotive suppliers with the potential expansion of the Chrysler Jeep plants, Toth said.

State Paper and Metal Company, which is located on Central Avenue at the west end of the site, purchased 15 acres for expansion. It plans to build a 45,000 square-foot addition that would create 22 jobs, according to Port Authority officials.

“Toledo has a rich manufacturing history and this site is a prime location for industrial and commercial development. We’ve already had some serious inquiries about the site,” Toth said.

Port Authority officials and Toledo Mayor Mike Bell cited the collaboration of local, state, federal officials, local companies and the University of Toledo in helping to move this project forward. Toth said contractors could break ground along the railroad bordering the site yet this year.

The Jeep Parkway Redevelopment Master Plan was developed in conjunction with TRACE, the Toledo Regional Architects, Contractors and Engineers coalition. TRACE was established to leverage the combined experience and expertise of local architects, contractors and engineers.

Toth said the Port Authority engaged TRACE to help it develop the master plan for the site. Twenty-four 24 local companies were involved in the development of the master plan

by TRACE. The leadership group included four companies — Mannick & Smith, The Collaborative, SSOE Inc. and TTL Associates Inc. The Jeep Parkway property has benefited from state and local remediation funds, most recently receiving two Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grants totaling $4.9 million. Work is expected to begin later this year on the remediation of the site, Toth said.

The Port Authority also received a $1.3 million Economic Development Initiative grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to cover expenses related to the purchase of the site. The Port Authority officially acquired the site for $95,000 on Oct. 3.

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Monroe Dodge features charity Jeep driven by Harrison Ford

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Toledo Free Press Staff Writer zdavis@toledofreepress.com

The Spirit of Liberty Jeep Foundation’s “Crossing of America” charity drive is coming to Monroe.

On July 27 at 10 a.m., two Jeep Wranglers, covered in an American flag paint scheme with a bald eagle on the hood, will stop at the Monroe Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram Superstore on their drive across the nation.

Among those who have driven the Jeeps on the journey include actor Harrison Ford and astronaut Alan Bean.

The Jeeps left the USS Midway in San Diego on May 27, just prior to Memorial Day weekend, and will travel more than 12,700 miles through 43 states more than a span of 105 days.

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the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier in New York to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of that day.

“This effort will raise awareness of these American heroes and their families and bring attention to their needs and raise funds that are so greatly needed,” said Richard Rovsek, chairman of marketing firm M2000 which is leading the promotion.

The Jeeps are traveling across the country to help raise donations for the Spirit of Liberty Foundation, whose goal is to raise money for “wounded warriors, fallen heroes and their families.”

To drive a mile of the journey in one of the jeeps, contact the Monroe Dodge Superstore and bring in a donation of $250. Donations of other amounts also are encouraged. The

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By Jason Mack

Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer jmack@toledofreepress.com

Kyle White put her autobiography to music with her second album “On With the Show,” which she is debuting at a CD release party July 24.

The album is heavily influenced by White’s family. It features a variety of instruments such as violin, trumpet, dobro and mandolin. White’s father Don plays the banjo on three songs.

“He’s been a huge influence on me musically,” she said. “I’ve been surrounded by live music my entire life.

My dad’s friends are all musicians. My grandfather [Robert White] is on the wall at the SeaGate Centre for the Lake Erie West Hall of Fame. My dad is an exceptional banjo player and a great bass player, guitar player and singer. It was great to have him on the CD. It’s something I’ll always have.”

The album was also heavily influenced by White’s sister Tamara. White wrote the song “Forever Friend” for her sister when she was sick.

“The album would have been done a lot sooner, but all of 2009 my sister was really sick,” White said. “We didn’t know exactly what was going to happen. I was sad and just wanted to write a tribute to her. She had to have a bone marrow transplant. There’s only a 20 percent chance a sibling will be a match, but luckily I was, so I was her donor. Out of the entire bone marrow floor at the Cleveland Clinic, only her and one other person made it. All of that was going on when I was planning on recording. I was driving to Cleveland every few days.”

Tamara made a full recovery.

“You would never even know anything was wrong with her now,” White said. “They said they’ve never seen anybody’s stem cells graft as fast as mine. I blamed it on all the Guinness I drink because it’s full of iron.”

The title track, “On With the Show,” was written as a not-so-subtle hint to her fiancé before they got engaged.

“We didn’t get engaged until we were together for five years,” White said. “I wrote that about a year and a half ago. It was kind of a message to him. It worked.”

Every song on the album comes from experiences in White’s life.

“I wrote a song about the river and sitting on my boat,” she said. “There’s a song called ‘August in Ohio’ about just hanging out on the front porch. I only write about my personal experiences.

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The CD also includes White’s composition “Glass Cities,” a top three finalist in the 2009 Toledo Free Press “Songs of Toledo” contest.

Writing is still a relatively new experience for White. Her first album “Blue Holes in a Gray Sky” was released in 2009.

“I played covers for eight years before I ever wrote a song,” White said.

“Singing so many different kinds of music hones you in to what’s going to come out of you.”

White might have never started a career in music if she hadn’t participated in a karaoke contest years ago.

“When I was 19, I worked at Primetime and they had karaoke on Sundays,” White said. “I used to sing ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ and win the contest. The prize was $50 to the bar, so I would get pizza and pop for my friends. When the cover band Tito Slack was starting out, my friend said,

‘My boyfriend has a band. Why don’t you come sing with them in the basement?’ I sang a couple of songs and I was in the band.”

After joining the band, White decided to take up an instrument.

“I didn’t just want to be a singer, so I started teaching myself guitar,” she said. “I played for a couple years before I played guitar at a show.”

White graduated from the University of Toledo with a degree in psychology. If she hadn’t participated in the karaoke contest, she might have been a school psychologist today.

“I was going to go back and get my master’s in school psychology,” White said. “I decided to play music for a couple years and see how it goes. It never slowed down. I’m playing more and more. I’m lucky to be able to do something I love for a living.”

Along with her solo career, White also plays in a cover band called Johnny Rocker and the Hitmen. The

band’s biggest claim to fame is playing at a John McCain rally.

“It’s a complete 180 from my solo gigs,” White said. “It’s so much fun.

We play ’60s, ’70s and ’80s and we do costume changes for each era. Sometimes people don’t even know it’s me because I’m in a big blonde afro and a disco costume. They are really fun to play with.”

She also plays covers in her solo act and is happy to take requests. She learns two or three covers every week and has built a catalog of between 200 and 300 songs.

“I’ve always had the kind of memory where if I took notes in school, I never had to look at them again,” White said. “I just kind of remember things. I have a really good memory, especially for music.”

White has been playing in Toledo for 14 years and plans on sticking around, but she does love to travel. She has been to all but four of

the 50 states and has traveled across Europe several times. The last time she went to Europe, she caught a surprise performance.

“We were jamming with these people at a bar in Amsterdam and Sublime showed up,” White said.

“We didn’t know it, but they were playing at a place right next door to our hotel. They showed up to this open jam with only about 30 or 40 people and played a half hour set. I was jamming with the house band right before Sublime took the stage, so that was pretty cool.”

White’s CD release party starts at 7 p.m. July 24 at Mulvaney’s Bunker located at 4945 Dorr St. There is no cover, and the show features 17-year-old Claire Cooper as the opening act.

“I like giving younger people experience playing in front of people,” White said. “She’s a natural. It’s crazy.

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nowledge has expanded so within the time constraints of a quickly and so exponen- human life. As dear and romantially in the past century ticized as our old learning styles that schools can only cover so much and topic areas may still feel to us, ground in a year and can only ex- the whole point of education is to plore individual topics to a minimal open ourselves up to new ideas and ways of life. Only extent. As much as I keeping the educaenjoy the fuzzy feeling tion machine idling I have when my childefeats the purpose of dren are learning the its existence. same thing I learned Cursive writing is in school, I realize that not alone on the shelf constant updating of of our antiquated the curriculum is neceducational ideas. essary to provide them As our children conwith the skills they tinue to learn inches, will need in an everShannon SZYPERSKI gallons and Fahrenchanging world. A recent decision by Indiana to drop heit in a meters, liters and Celsius cursive writing from its curriculum world, the U.S. is becoming more requirements is a timely example of and more like that one friend you an education system’s willingness to have to invite to events via email because she’s still waiting to be move forward.

The announcement of cursive convinced of Facebook’s value. At writing’s imminent demise in In- some point, the world may just stop diana, however, was met with im- remembering to invite the U.S. to mediate expressions of sadness and the party altogether.

As much as we’d like to convince disappointment by those who consider its elimination an affront to ourselves that the decision to focus the educational process. Of course, on only one language is a sign of the widespread lamenting I came our unity and patriotism, we may be upon was done from keyboards all passing up the chance for our chilacross the country without a stroke dren to reap the cognitive benefits of written cursive in sight. As impas- of bilingualism. Perhaps more imsioned as the pleas to give cursive a portantly, the world may also realize stay of execution are, prolonging one day soon that English is not the its existence in schools would ulti- most widely spoken nor the easiest language to learn as they continue mately not stave off the inevitable.

It will no doubt seem odd to to teach their own children a backup those of us who grew up with the from the early years on.

Regardless of individual curpractice when up-and-coming generations cannot produce their own riculum adjustments, the most imsignatures. However, it is also un- portant job our educational system likely that future generations will has in this ever-expanding age of ever have a need to authenticate a information is producing enthusidocument with something other astic, lifelong learners who possess than a PIN number, a thumbprint, the tools and the drive to continua scan of an iris or a swab of DNA. ally take their own educational Although I understand and be- lives to the next level. It is no longer lieve in the wax-on/wax-off phi- possible at this point to teach all losophy that learning one thing that is available to be absorbed, may lead to the comprehension of but it is still possible to create a and ability to do another, the po- legion of learners willing to inditential breadth of knowledge avail- vidually do the absorbing. As our able today is just too great not to educators strive to accomplish this continuously shed some of the old feat, we, as parents, must assume to make room for the new. Just equal responsibility.

It is sometimes difficult to pack as math is no longer taught using units of bushels and pecks, styl- up only the essentials and move on, ized handwriting must move out so taking a moment to mourn our to make way for more useful and curriculums of the past is an appropriate and respectful gesture. long-lasting skills.

We now live in a world of such However, we must also be willing vast and detailed learning opportu- to find and celebrate the bright nities that even the most educated side of a new academic life. Even among us can only excel in lim- though the computer age may be ited areas of the knowledge-sphere squelching the handwritten word

and forever changing our vernacular, things like text messaging and social networking have actually resurrected the typewritten word once endangered by the advent of the telephone.

Although via keyboard, I now write more in a day than I likely did as a teenager with a telephone stuck to my left ear.

The world keeps moving in new and unfamiliar circles, and we must

do our best to keep up and try to enjoy the ride. O Shannon and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania. Email her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Granville, Ohio, is one of those classic communities that’s always fun to visit.

“We’re just so darn cute,” said local historian Jeff Gill. “We’re Currier and Ives at Christmastime and Norman Rockwell on the Fourth of July.”

Americana personified.

Granville is sedate, dignified, beautiful, and festooned with flowers this time of year. It’s home to Dennison University and some of Ohio’s best-known inns, including the Granville Inn and, right across Main Street, Buxton Inn. It’s all just minutes east of Columbus, and even closer to Newark with its Hopewell Culture earthworks, the Works Museum and the headquarters for Longaberger Baskets, which always makes first-time viewers exclaim that the structure looks like a picnic basket.

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Buxton Inn is rife with stories of guests experiencing, um, paranormal activity.

Usually in the form of Major Buxton himself, the Lady in Blue or even her cat, which reputedly curls up at the feet of some guests.

Orrville Orr and his wife Audrey have owned the inn since 1972.

He’s a quietly engaging man in his 70s. If his demeanor isn’t enough to elicit trust, then his divinity school training should cinch it. He struggles a bit with the notion of ghosts permeating his establishment.

Yet his own experiences, none of them unpleasant, have brought him to say, “I don’t try to explain these things, they just happen. They just appear as real people.”

The night clerk, who roams the empty old halls without the benefit of comforting companionship, has a litany of experiences, including checking out frantic guests rattled by middle-of-the-night experiences.

“The last one was already on the

road headed out of town when he called,” the clerk said. “He said he and his wife had left and they didn’t care what we did with their credit card.”

Gill talked about ghosts to a group that was dining at the Buxton, reassuring them that the encounters have been friendly and mostly restricted to several of the oldest rooms.

Bonnie Bounell, an owner who died in one of those rooms, is also called the “Lady in Blue” and her ghostly visits are often preceded by the strong fragrance of gardenias, her favorite.

“You may experience that,” Gill said.

“I think I already have,” said one of the guests, suddenly turning to his companion. “Earlier today I thought it was odd you were wearing such a strong perfume, and I almost said something to you.”

It turned out his companion was neither wearing perfume, nor did she smell it herself, though she was right there.

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Toledo Museum of Art releases new book about artifacts

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The Toledo Museum of Art has published a new book about its Egyptian artifacts collection, “Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art.” “The idea had been to produce one of our books on our Egypt collection with more of a thematic presentation with just a few highlights,” Curatorial Projects and Publications Manager Paula Reich said. “It sort of morphed into something a little more substantial, a larger book that really highlighted more of the collection.”

Ancient Egyptian art has been a fixture at the Toledo Museum of Art since 1903 when a mummified cat, the first item donated that wasn’t a painting, was brought to the museum.

In 1906, founders Edward Drum-

mond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey shipped 11 crates of artifacts from Cairo to Toledo to help begin the museum’s collection. During the next two decades, the Libbeys collected more Egyptian artifacts to send back to the museum.

“Without the art of ancient Egypt the Toledo Museum of Art might not have grown so swiftly in the hearts of its community,” writes Museum Director Brian Kennedy in the book’s forward.

The book was originally proposed more than a decade ago by Curator of Ancient Art Kurt T. Luckner before his death in 1995. He suggested William H. Peck as the author. Peck is an archaeologist and former curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sandra. E. Knudsen and Reich also contributed to the book.

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JULY 24-30, 2011

Venus enters Leo and Mercury enters Virgo (28th); New Moon in Leo (30th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22) Soul music. Reconsider your self-identity and image this

Flocks and swarms. Independent efforts go well this week, but there are mixed results when others are involved.

Thursday presents roadblocks in one area, while another flourishes. People are strange creatures Friday. Renew old friendships Saturday.

week — is this based on inner promptings or what others expect? After Wednesday, inspiring messages help you work through inner challenges. True strengths are apparent as you interact with others Saturday.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Offers and favors. Anxieties can mobilize or immobilize you as the week starts. Examine fears. Trust instincts and intuitions midweek — if things seem off to you, something’s wrong. Friday brings delays and conflicts.

Learn and share new things Saturday.

Foreign and local. Some truths are comprehensive — some truths are specific to the individual. After Wednesday, you and people near you reveal inner truths through words and actions. Different truths don’t necessitate conflicts, but do require acceptance.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Bold initiative. Situations are magnified or minimized and get either too much or too little attention. Look for the middle ground Thursday and stay there. Extremes are prevalent in Friday’s discussions. Seek pleasure through music, dance and parties Saturday.

Migratory instincts. There’s too much on your plate and people demand results. You may have spurts of good luck and good timing Wednesday and Thursday. Consider both sides of situations Friday to resolve conflicts. Saturday is playful, gratitude returns.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Dragon’s lair. The heat is on as the week begins. Stabilize a personal matter Tuesday. People near you may shift loyalties or interests after Wednesday: social, political and possibly feminist topics dominate discussions. Rebalance priorities Saturday.

Swap and haggle. Divergent ideas about methods present opportunities to test and prove effectiveness. Avoid prejudging results, as what works best may surprise you midweek. Be cautious with cash and keys Friday. Loved ones get rewards or results Saturday.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

A rare breed. Emotional storms settle down by midweek, when excellent fiery energies give you a boost of confidence and freedom. Ties to others are helpful and profitable Thursday. Watch for confrontations Friday.

Cultivate inner peace Saturday.

Deep mind diving. There’s an intense focus on relationships this week. People walk away from disappointments and seek new outlets for ambition. Reality checks test enthusiasm and commitment after Thursday. Dedicate face time to loved ones Saturday.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Recycling bin. People want you to adapt their priorities as the week begins. You find what you need Tuesday, but mix-ups and crossed wires can stall progress Thursday and Friday. Discussions with upbeat, sensible people restore confidence Saturday.

All too human. People can overcompensate as the week starts and may be trying to impress you. Amazing midweek events can change situations dramatically, but there may be a tense wait for old to give way to new. Everyone has a fish tale to share Saturday.

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) 2011

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Max is an 8-month-old black domestic shorthair. He is a curious young cat who likes to see what kind of things he can get into.

Max was brought to the Toledo Area SoHumane ciety because his owners were moving and couldn’t have a pet in their new home. Max likes to spend his time climbing the perches in the cat rooms at the

White metal bunk beds like brand-new; top mattress is twin; bottom is full futon; includes 2 sets of sheets per bed; 2 blankets total; 1 pillow; and a table with candle lamp. Have truck and will take down and deliver to home. $525 OBO. Heather Glen, 419-865-4226.

real estate homes 8 BED 4 bath home! $250 own and $203 a month! 3126 Warsaw St., Toledo, OH 43608.

Owner Financing! Call 419-318-2137.

INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – JESUP W. SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT PACKAGE Home of “Charlie the Pool Guy”

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All real estate advertised in this paper is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, in the sale, rental, or financing of housing. This Publisher will not knowingly accept any advertising that violates any applicable law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this paper are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you believe you have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rental, or financing of housing, call the Toledo Fair Housing Center, (419) 243-6163.

Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on August 10, 2011, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the Scott HS FF&E package, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the project prepared by SSOE Group and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

Bid Documents for the project may be examined at the F.W. Dodge plan room in Columbus, Builders Exchange in Toledo, University of Toledo – Capacity Building, E.O.P.A. – Hamilton Building, Northwest Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and The Plan Room in Ann Arbor, Construction Association of Michigan, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and Ohio Construction News.

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting Wednesday July 20th, 2011 which can be purchased from Becker Impressions, 4646 Angola Road, Toledo, Ohio 43615, phone: (419) 385-5303. Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for July 29, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Toledo Public Schools Board Room, 420 Manhattan Blvd, Toledo, Ohio 43608.

If you have any questions or a need for additional information, please direct all questions in writing to Patrick Stutler at Patrick.Stutler @lgb-llc.com , by phone at (419) 776-5600, or (fax) (877) 281-0784.

Bid Item #1 School Desk & Chairs Package

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humane society and sleeping in the fluffiest beds in the room. He loves attention and likes the feeling of having a person nearby.

When he naps he will choose a place that is close to where you’re sitting and if you’re working on something in a room, he will choose to perch in a spot where he can keep an eye on what you’re doing. If you’re looking for a constant companion, Max may be your match made in heaven. Max has been neutered, examined by a staff veterinarian, is current on his vaccinations and is microchipped.

Toledo Area Humane Society is located at 1920 Indian Wood Circle, Arrowhead Park, Maumee. Adoption hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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