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OPINION

AUGUST 2, 2009

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isa Renee Ward, who operates the political blog Glass City Jungle and serves as Toledo Free Press fact checker, keeps a close eye on Toledo media. She tries to fairly document when she sees inconsistencies or inaccuracies. It was during such a mission on a recent Blade story about the ongoing slap-and-tickle between the Lucas County Republican Party (LCRP) and the Lucas County Board of Elections, as she compared finance forms filed by the LCRP, that she noticed an obvious discrepancy in the signatures attributed to LCRP treasurer James Damas.

After comparing several such signatures to Damas’ voter registration card, it seemed clear there were possible forgeries that should be investigated.

During our investigation, SwampBubbles operator Chris Myers discovered the same discrepancies and posted them July 22. By July 20, we had sent the signatures to the first of several handwriting experts, asking if there were enough discrepancies to warrant further Thomas F. POUNDS investigation. As you will read on Page A6, there were.

I know that pursuing this story leads to more conflict, directly with LCRP Chairman Jon Stainbrook, and indirectly with The Blade, which has a recent history of serving as Stainbrook’s biographer during his tenure as a public figure. Given the public differences between these factions and Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller, a lot of careful thought went into the decision to approach the Ohio Secretary of State and the Lucas County Board of Elections. I know there will be people ready to accuse us of plotting a vendetta against Stainbrook, but at this point, there are no specific allegations being made. Something looks wrong, and we are requesting that more qualified people determine if that is the case.

At the end of the day, if we are to do our job and keep an eye on a political system that we need to trust more than ever, we must ask these difficult questions and hope the people who oversee the process will take these signature discrepancies seriously.

If they deem there is no wrongdoing, or no reason to investigate, that will be the news and that will be the end of it. I will not allow the news department to hype this into a Seneca County Courthouse saga.

If there is wrongdoing, it needs to be exposed, and the people who may have violated public trust need to be held accountable. That is not the newspaper’s job; that is for the Secretary of State and Lucas County Board of Elections to determine.

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

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Truth or consequence TO THE EDITOR, Mr. Miller: No one of consequence reads the space you print.

STANLEY C. THEISEN Jr.

Mr. Theisen Jr., Don’t be so hard on yourself.

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Rats

And this, also from the Associated Press: hate rats. Loathe them. Fear them. Like Indiana Jones “3 accused of letting rats chew toes off Ohio baby hates snakes. Like Peter Griffin hates the Ernie Giant WAVERLY, Ohio — Three people have been acChicken. Like Carty Finkbeiner hates critics from the cused of letting rats bite a 6-week-old girl suburbs. Really. It’s that bad. and chew off her toes at their cluttered Rats are mindless, gnawing little deOhio mobile home. Pike County prosemons. If they didn’t exist, Stephen King cutor Rob Junk says the baby’s toes on one would have invented them. foot were gone. The baby is in fair condiEvery time I encounter a rat, it scars tion at a Columbus hospital. A married my psyche. couple and the 18-year-old boyfriend of I have a vivid memory of walking with the baby’s mother are charged with felony my father in a field behind the Cedar child endangering.”

Court railroad tracks in Walbridge, and This stuff gives me nightmares. I am screaming with revulsion when I kicked a sure some PETA scholar could educate log that revealed scores of mice crawling over each other, fleeing over my sandaled, Michael S. MILLER me on the loss to the planet if all rats disappeared, but now that there is a pat9-year-old feet.

My dad started stomping on the mice, and one of the tern of rat-on-infant attacks, why are we not demanding bigger ones actually split; its side fur parted and all of its death to all rats?

Officials should post on rats’ favorite blog sites and inner workings and ichor pushed out, but it ran for several yards before its fellow mice lunged at the dripping Web sites that a grand meeting of all rats on the planet is taking place, and all rats have to be there to collect their innards and began chewing. share of the greatest cheese ever made. This meeting could Just nasty.

The apartment building we lived in during the late- take place in an area that can hold a lot of rats, like the 1980s, off Western Avenue and Field Street, was in- Grand Canyon or the House of Representatives or the Tofested with field mice. Traps caught a few, but every ledo Club. When the rats show up, we can kill every one of so often, out of the corner of one’s eye, a dark, quick them in some gentle and humane manner, like dropping motion would compel the skull to swivel toward the them into a giant woodchipper.

I even have a rat story about Carty Finkbeiner, one filthy little vermin as they left trails of bubonic plague I shared with you when Finkbeiner declared himself a along the baseboards.

When I moved to Washington, D.C. in 1997, I traded mayoral candidate in 2005.

This took place way back in the early ’90s, as Carty field mice for rats. Rats in The District are healthy, fast suckers, and they do not fear humans. I have seen and some of his handlers were giving reporters a walking them stand their ground against approaching people tour of the land that eventually became The Docks.

As we walked along the riverfront, we came upon a until the last possible second, holding their ground as if sizing up how many bites it would take to bring very large, very dead rat nudging the shoreline, rising and falling with the tide. down an adult.

When Carty saw it, he segued from discussing fine One time, Toledo visitors were walking with me down a twilight-time Georgetown street (I refused to walk on dining and economic development to yelling at one of his the sidewalks where the rats ruled, preferring to take my aides to get on the phone to get someone down to clean up the riverfront, and he yelled and gestured and bluschances with traffic) when a monster rat ran by us. tered, curse words peppering the cadence of his speech “Hey,” the young boy with us squealed, “a bunny!”

“Yeah, a bunny,” I thought. “You keep thinking that.” like Jimi Hendrix guitar notes, pointing as if fire flew I never got used to rats being part of the landscape from his fingertips, then he segued back to talking about in D.C., and nothing I saw of their behavior allayed the restaurants and the elegant diners and many jobs, and my fears. he never broke stride.

So when I read of two recent rat attacks, my entire By the time our walking tour was finished, someone being went cold. was down there fishing that rat out of the river.

From the Associated Press: Back then, I thought Carty reacted so strongly just “Baby covered in rodent bites bled to death because the rat blemished his presentation.

WESTWEGO, La. — A 3-month-old suburban New Now, four years later, having watched the man work Orleans girl whose body was covered with rodent bites and having been on the receiving end of his nuclear bled to death before she was found in her crib. West- temper and erroneous accusations, I wonder ... maybe he wego Police Chief Dwayne Munch said Natalie Hill shares my fear and loathing of rats; maybe he was upset had severe wounds on her nose and leg along with because what he saw in the water that day too closely more than 100 suspected rat bites when her parents blurred with his reflection. found her body, which was stained with bloody rodent footprints. No charges have been filed, but Munch said Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. police are still investigating.”

Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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THE COMMUNITARIAN SOUL

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ineteen years is a long time. credibility. So prosecutors, conferUnless that’s all the time ring with Tim McKown, decided you spend in prison for to accept a plea bargain: the state of Ohio would drop its shooting a man in pursuit of the death the back of the head penalty, and McDerand scrounging mott would plea guilty through the dead to murder and be man’s pockets for sentenced to 15 years cash. That’s when 19 to life in prison plus years doesn’t seem three years for using long enough. And a gun. Tim McKown Tim McKown is agreed to the deal determined that his on two conditions: father’s killer spend first, that McDermott more than 19 years Jim HARPEN wouldn’t appeal his in a cage.

“He walked in, blew his brains sentence, and second, that he’d make out” McKown said. “That’s cold a written confession.

“That was seven and a half years blooded.”

Elwood “Poe” McKown was of my life,” Tim McKown told me. a familiar name in the west To- “When I read the confession at my ledo neighborhood of my child- dad’s grave site, it was over.”

But it’s not over. hood. Most of the fences you had On Aug. 26, the Ohio Parole to jump to retrieve a stray ball or Frisbee bore small “Poe McKown Board will for the second time Fence Company” signs. But we decide whether to release Mconly knew the name. Years later Dermott into society. And his we discovered, tragically, who Poe release is not unlikely. In fact, if McKown hadn’t been notiMcKown was.

It was a Saturday afternoon, June fied that McDermott had been 21, 1985. “Poe” McKown was sit- recommended for parole, he ting alone in his office on Haverhill wouldn’t have been able to file an at Berdan, when 24-year-old Jeffrey objection, and McDermott’s reMcDermott, a former McKown lease would be a near certainty.

“I never expected him to do life Fence Company employee, walked in, said hi to Poe and moments later, but I thought it would be more than put a bullet in his head. He was so 15 years. I always knew this day close to his victim, testimony later re- would come,” Tim McKown said.

Those of us whose lives have vealed, that McDermott’s hands and shoes were covered with McKown’s not been visited by such violent blood. McDermott then took about tragedy cannot relate to the tor$4,500 in cash out of McKown’s pants tuous prospect of having their pocket. He reportedly used some of loved one’s killer back in their comthe cash to pay an attorney whom he munity. What if you’re filling your tank at the BP station and you see confessed to later that evening.

But that confession remained him three pumps over? You’re at a secret for nearly five years. During Mud Hens game and there he is, those five years, Tim McKown enjoying life, a life that, if it weren’t made it his job to find his father’s for attorney-client privilege, might killer. He posted a $20,000 reward. have been taken from him by the He rented billboards to publicize state of Ohio years ago.

“This is a confessed murderer, the reward and beg for information.

He traveled around the country fol- a cold-blooded murderer. This is lowing dead-end leads on suspects. not a guy who professes his innoIt wasn’t until McDermott’s friend, cence,” McKown argued.

McKown moved back to Tothe brother of the attorney McDermott confessed to, went to police in ledo from Florida last winter to launch a campaign to keep Mc1990 that the case was cracked.

The attorney, now deceased, Dermott behind bars. Posters, a claimed attorney-client privilege, news media blitz, a letter-writing refusing to testify to the confession campaign — whatever it takes to at McDermott’s capital murder trial thwart McDermott’s release.

“I know this is my last shot to in 1993. The attorney was cited for contempt of court and sent to jail. keep him there. All I want is five Without the attorney’s testimony, [more years,” he said. “He does not conviction was uncertain. The by any means deserve the minother key prosecution witnesses imum. I’m not asking for the maxwere shady characters with little imum. Give me the reasonable.”

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did not know Robert Brundage. think a people should be a “people ...”

But after reading about his life a people bound together by a shared in Toledo Free Press (in a story “covenant.” Another quaint concept.

We live in a culture that written by daughter, is much more comfortCaitlin McGlade), it able with contracts. If a was not long before contract is broken, reI recognized him. lationships are severed; Being in an iterant penalties must be paid. vocation, I have met The offending party is him before, many written off. “We” are not times, in virtually responsible to “they” every community who failed to meet their I have lived and obligation. worked. His name Eric MCGLADE Covenants suggest might not have been Brundage, he might not have even that we belong to each other, regardbeen a “he.” Many of these characters less of the frailties, excesses and fallwere devoutly religious, some not so enness of human behavior. When a much, if at all. They came out of dif- relationship fails, or an individual ferent walks of life: business, labor, falls short of expectation, covenants education, engineering, science. But require remediation, not condemnatheir core character, their commu- tion ... healing, not breaking ... the nity vision, their activist passions all difficult work of reconciliation, not came from the same place: a commu- the arrogant attitude of self-righteousness. So these characters with nitarian soul.

In an age of rampant and unrepen- their communitarian souls and covtant individualism, their gentle and enantal vision do things like tutoring persistent behavior seemed quaint kids at risk, arguing with officials and dated, like a Thornton Wilder and enjoining the Quixotic quest play. But like Thornton Wilder’s plays, of making all things fair and just these characters were always turning — even for angry and misguided 15up in old school auditoriums and year-olds who commit unspeakable other public venues. They went about acts of violence. Go figure.

The smug among us will see this their business, some quietly, some not so quietly, using their gifts and talents as folly. The Brundage tragedy will to improve schools, fight poverty, se- be used to confirm their sense of cure justice and making the commu- an entitled and self-imposed isolation from the inequities of society. nity a better place.

If their souls were and are com- This will justify their decision to munitarian, their vision was and is squander all of their passion on the covenantal. They think a “people” building of their personal empires should be more than a collection of aloof of the needs of others. It will individuals who exploit the levers of feed those self-affirming homilies societal life for the soul purpose of about pulling one’s self up by one’s acquiring wealth at the cost of the own boot straps; God only helps environment or the health of the those who help themselves, and community. These communitarians helping “those” people is throwing

good money after bad.

While the smug will often dismiss these communitarians as naive idealists, In many ways these characters with the communitarian souls are the true realists of the world. For their vision implies a reality that is indisputable: Everything from the air we breathe to the work we do to the ground on which we stand and the life we live is connected. Everything.

Like it or not, we are interdependent on each other, the environment and the source or sources of meaning that imbue our life with hope and purpose. They have learned that wonder shakes out of this interdependence. It is wonder that tempers all those personal orthodoxies that nurse our prejudices and feed our self-righteousness. It is wonder that pries open our imagination and expands our vision.

As I remember these characters, often quirky in demeanor but competent in action, it was their sense of wonder about things that was most endearing. These people can pour themselves into some of the most intractable problems of the day and still find great joy in all things. Brundage had this thing about ginkgo trees.

For others it was jazz or story telling, or baseball, or stalking skunk cabbage blooms in February.

In Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” a disillusioned Emily asks, “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? — every, every minute?” “No,” the stage manager replies. “The saints and poets, maybe — they do some.”

I would add the likes of Robert Brundage to that list.

Eric McGlade is a United Methodist pastor in Bowling Green.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

YMCA member laments South Y closing TO THE EDITOR, My name is Winie Barchick-Suter and I’m 10 years old. I live very close to the South branch of the Toledo YMCA on Ogden Avenue. I was very unhappy July 27 to learn that the closest YMCA to me was closing. I don’t think they should close the South Y because: It is my and my neighbors’ activity center. People use it to exercise, for daycare, parties, meets or games. They use Woodsdale Park to walk pets, play games, have picnics, have practice, meet friends and just to have fun.

And it’s a place where the whole neighborhood can do all of these things. These are the people in my neighborhood. I have come to know YMCA lifeguards and people who work at the front desk, too. I don’t want to not be able to see them again.

My neighbors and I can walk and ride bikes to the YMCA. If I go to the other branches, I won’t be able to

walk there, walk my dogs or ride my bike there!

No more family centers in south Toledo? All the family centers are in the suburbs. None of them, except the south and west branches, is in the city limits. I’ll have to get my parents to drive twice as far just to go have fun.

I’ll probably not be able to go to another YMCA for a long, long time.

A part of my neighborhood would be taken away.

I like my neighborhood. I can ride my bike to the library, South Y, Huggy Bear, Highland Park, Gino’s Pizza and St. Charles Church. And I know many people who work at these places. I am proud of my neighborhood. My family and I help plant flowers at Highland Park. Without these places to ride to, I would not have a friendly place to live and grow-up.

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This, to me, can’t be true, but it is.

I feel like the city keeps moving farther away from Downtown, and someday someone will say, “Hey, what happened to Toledo?” And we who live in the city parts will be totally forgotten. I read that YMCA is losing state funding for childcare so they are closing the South Y. So why is YMCA giving property away for free? If they need money, giving something away for free isn’t how you make money.

My point is that they shouldn’t close this YMCA because it is very useful and important to my neighborhood. If they do close the South Y, they are breaking apart my neighborhood. Many employees may lose their jobs, and people might not even want to be a member of the YMCA/JCC anymore.

WINIE BARCHICKSUTER, Toledo

Separation of church and state: Fact and fallacy

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ucas County Commissioner and mayoral can- and that the federal government had no right to didate Ben Konop’s July 19 political appearance legislate on religious matters.

My, how things have changed. at Mt. Pilgrim Church has inspired no small Nowadays, people get in a tizzy if amount of criticism. One thing I kept you say something that can be conhearing invoked repeatedly was “sepastrued as being political in a church ration of church and state.” Not only setting. That “inalienable right” of has that statement been maligned and religious freedom has been stepped misused for far too long, but it doesn’t on, chewed up and spit out, and the even apply in this case.

Christian church in America is one Short history lesson: The phrase of the most denigrated and hated was coined in a letter that Thomas groups around, which has many Jefferson wrote in response to the Christians running scared because Danbury Baptist Association in referof it. But I digress. ence to its concern over its religious David WASHINGTON With that context in mind, Koliberty being regulated and abused by the state legislature in Connecticut. The letter nop’s speaking at Mt. Pilgrim has nothing to do with from them to Jefferson states: “Our sentiments are separation between church and state. Let’s be honest uniformly on the side of religious liberty — that ... some people jumped on that bandwagon because religion is at all times and places a matter between they don’t like Konop. Whether the argument was God and individuals — that no man ought to suffer valid didn’t matter. As long as it criticized Konop, in name, person, or effects on account of his reli- opponents jumped on that like white on rice.

Now before you get the wrong idea and think gious opinions — that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the that I’m a fan of Konop, let me assure you that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m as appalled man who works ill to his neighbors ... ” They saw the wording in the Connecticut state as everyone else at his actions but for a completely constitution as going against the religious freedom and more legitimate reason.

Sunday is a time for worship and focus on they held so dear and certain actions promoting one denomination over another. Jefferson’s re- the Most High God of the universe. We come tosponse assured them that the Constitution of the gether for encouragement and refreshing in the United States made it clear that there would be Lord. The focus should be on God, His word, His a “wall of separation between church and state” truth. It’s not a time for self-promotion and ag-

grandizement but of humility and meekness that we grab hold of those attitudes and make them a part of who we are. Quite frankly, it shouldn’t be a Sunday or Christmas thing but should be an outworking of the change that’s going on in our lives as our faith grows and changes us into what God wants us to be.

Konop’s faux pas can be summed up in one word: pride.

It is shameful to use time that’s supposed to be dedicated to God in such a selfish and egotistic manner. There are six other days in the week to work on your political campaign. To take God’s glory and attempt to replace it with your own in any degree on any day is an affront and dishonor to God. What’s even more shameful is the fact that those who are supposed to be representing God and leading others spiritually are allowing such an ignoble act to occur in their midst. They’re more to blame than Konop.

This all speaks to the biggest downfall of men throughout the ages: their hearts.

In the movie “Jesus Of Nazareth,” John the Baptist declares from the depths of a prison dungeon, “Before kingdoms can change, men must change.”

The actions of a man in little things reflect the heart of a man in all things. Remember that when you go to the polls this September.

David Washington is a candidate for Toledo City Council. His Web site is www.prezforcouncil.org.

Profile of Excellence: Walter Celley Owens Community College Alumnus Walter Celley grew up in Maumee and South Toledo. After high school, he began his college career as a liberal arts major at an area university.

After graduation, he felt like he didn’t have a practical degree that would help him to land a job he enjoyed. He was interested in agri-business after spending time in Wood County and reading about it in college.

Cargill, Inc., as a Production Supervisor. He worked in Maumee and Toledo, supervising the quality and USDA standards of grain being loaded out by rail and ship.

After nearly nine years working for various agri-business companies, he decided to go to law school. Despite liking what he did, Celley felt he didn’t have enough room to grow in his career unless he was willing to relocate frequently.

Celley began attending Owens full time in August 1974.

“After all these years, I still remember the names of my instructors and the classes they taught because Owens has such a personal feel,” said Celley.

He was able to get a fantastic internship because of his instructor’s ties to the business community. He worked for The Andersons and rotated through a variety of their divisions, including grain and fertilizers.

Celley found the field fascinating and couldn’t wait to begin his career.

After graduation from Owens, in 1976, he was hired full time at the international company,

Walter Celley Attorney at Law, Celley & Sanderson LLP 1976 Graduate

He attended The University of Toledo and graduated in 1987, fourth in his class. He then worked as a clerk for the Honorable John Potter, Judge of the United States District Court. In the years following, he has been in private practice.

Now, he is a partner in Celley & Sanderson LLP and works as the Law Director for Perrysburg, Waterville and Monclova townships. He enjoys representing the townships and a number of local credit unions.

“Owens gave me the ability to go into the business field, I still use things I learned there today when advising my business clients,” said Celley.

“I still use things I learned at Owens today”

Come Join The Fun Join the Alumni Association today and experience cultural events, community service, legacy scholarship opportunities and more.

Reconnect with Owens online at www.owens.edu/alumni.

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8. A pre-election debate has been scheduled for Oct. 26. Both debates will take place at the McMaster Center of the Downtown Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and both will be open to the public. Mike Bell, D. Michael Collins, Ben Konop, Jim Moody and Keith Wilkowski have agreed to participate.

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By Scott McKimmy and Mark Hensch TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS news@toledofreepress.com

Toledo Free Press (TFP) sent a letter to the Lucas County Board of Elections and Ohio Secretary of State July 30, alerting them to potential inconsistencies among signatures on Lucas County Republican Party campaign finance reports and other official documents.

TFP obtained and compared copies of a voter registration card, designation of treasurer, general fund, building fund, candidate fund and judicial fund documents said to be signed by Lucas County Republican Party Treasurer James Damas. TFP then enlisted three national handwriting experts pro bono to examine the signatures and provide assessments.

The experts viewed digital copies and made cursory assessments based on the assumption that Damas’ voter registration signature is authentic.

“The designation of treasurer on 6-14-08; I don’t think he did that one,” said Eugene Hussey, a handwriting expert in Firecrest, Wash. “The next one down, general fund, I don’t think he did that one, either. And the next one below it, I don’t think he did that one, either, but I think the same person printed the name [next to the signature] … The next one, he might have done that one, designation of treasurer. And below that, general fund again, he might have done that one, too. It’s a pretty good chance he did that one. And the next three — building fund, candidate’s fund and judicial fund — I don’t think he did any of them.”

“It doesn’t look like the same person would have written that [the same way] as the voter registration [form]; it just looks different,” said Terry Davenport, a handwriting expert in Dallas, Texas, regarding a signature on a document titled “General Fund.”

Mike Robertson, a handwriting expert in North Canton, wrote, “Three of the signatures are within the identifiable range of Damas’ normal genuine writing based on the six documents presented to me ... Some people never develop a singular unique style of writing for a variety of reasons … on the other hand differences, not variations, can be a sign of forgery.”

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Fifth-degree felony Ohio Revised Code, section 3517.10 states, “The statement of contributions and expenditures shall be signed by the person completing the form.” The statute continues to dictate the means by which electronic transfer of signatures is to be accomplished.

Under Ohio law, according to the office of the Ohio Secretary of State, “A fifth-degree felony conviction [of election falsification] may result in a prison sentence of six to 12 months and/or a fine of up to $2,500.”

According to Ohio Secretary of State Press Secretary Jeff Ortega, only a party treasurer or deputy treasurer may sign financial documents. He also said the forms may not be signed by proxy.

Damas did not answer calls to his home or the Lucas County Republican Party headquarters. Party Chairman Jon Stainbrook did not answer calls on his cell phone or the party headquarters.

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In a July 30 letter to Linda Howe, executive director, Lucas County Board of Elections, and David M. Farrell, deputy assistant secretary of state and director of elections, TFP Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller requested the investigation.

“As we are not experts in these matters, we are asking your office to investigate if Mr. Damas’ name was forged on these documents, and what the course of action will be if violations are proven,” Miller wrote.

Possible discrepancies The examination was prompted by the findings of Glass City Jungle blog owner and TFP fact checker Lisa Renee Ward. Reading several Lucas County Republican Party documents, Ward claimed she observed possible inconsistencies among five signatures made by Treasurer James Damas in a period of time starting July 31, 2008 and ending Jan. 30, 2009.

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Scrutinizing various documents, she said she detected possible differences between Damas’ signatures in four reports. She said these were the Lucas County Republican Party’s July 31, 2008 general fund report, its Dec. 11, 2008 general fund report, its Dec. 11, 2008 designation of treasurer form and a Jan. 30, 2009 building fund report. In her eyes, she said, something was obviously amiss.

“It is pretty blatant,” Ward said of the contrast between the signatures. “It looked like four different people.”

Ward also researched recent filings by Lucas County Democratic party Treasurer Nancy Norman.

No irregularities were observed on those documents.

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Attorney Jeff Simpson, who is president of the Lucas County Young Republicans Club, was shown the Damas documents by TFP. Stating that he is not a handwriting analysis expert, he said, “It looks like three groups of signatures that are not the same. There is an issue here that needs to be looked at in the interest of transparency, if for no other cause than to reaffirm public trust in the Republican Party.

Accusations of fraud and forgery cannot be ignored.”

Derek Merrin, the Republican mayor of Waterville, reviewed the Damas signatures, and in an e-mail statement, said, “The signatures certainly arouse suspicion. A thorough investigation needs to be conducted to ascertain whether the signatures are fraudulent.”

Republican State Sen. Mark Wagoner was traveling and could not review the documents, but said, “If there is any question about the authenticity of the signatures, there should be an investigation. I am a law and order guy, and there should be no doubt in the public mind.”

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Ohio Supreme Court blocks Take Back Toledo mayoral recall

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

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced July 27 that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled to prevent a recall effort from appearing on the ballot on Nov. 3.

According to the court document State ex rel. Finkbeiner v. Lucas Cty. Bd. of Elections, the petition did not include a legal clause stating that election falsification is a felony of the fifth degree.

“For nearly 12 years, I have given my heart and soul to a city called Toledo,” Finkbeiner said at a press conference.

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When the board of elections denied it, the case appeared before the Ohio Supreme Court.

Finkbeiner cited the failure to include the clause and claimed some 2,500 petition signatures were invalid as reasons to repeal the decision, according to the court document.

Take Back Toledo has 10 days from July 27 to file a motion for reconsideration, said Bret Crow, the Supreme Court of Ohio public information officer.

Finkbeiner also criticized members of the group who he said lives in the suburbs.

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Owens Community College is working with the Lucas County Workforce Development Agency to offer short-term training, classes and job placement services.

The Workforce Development Agency designated $1.9 million in federal stimulus funding to Owens for the program.

“Owens is proud to collaborate with Lucas County to provide more area residents with the necessary education and training to give them a competitive edge in today’s global economy,” said Christa Adams, president of Owens.

It is the largest grant or gift ever received in the college’s 44-year history, she said.

The college is expanding the space at its existing Learning Center at The Source in Downtown Toledo to accommodate the new classes and training programs, according to Michael Bankey, vice president of Workforce and Community Services at Owens. It will include five classrooms, two computer labs, a nursing lab and academic resources for hands-on learning.

The short-term training and job placement initiative will allow even more citizens to connect their training with potential employment, according to Bankey.

The classes and training programs will range from one-week sessions to the normal 16-week term for courses.

“About 100 people attended daily orientation sessions to learn about these new training programs this week at The Source,” said Eric Walker, director of the Workforce Development Agency.

Anyone interested in the pro-

grams should contact The Source to determine eligibility and view the schedule for the new classes and training sessions, Walker said.

Short-cycle training programs will include wind power installation and maintenance, photovoltaic installation, geothermal and solar water-heating installation and service, energy management and other hybrid technologies.

“By partnering with Owens, we will give displaced workers the training they need to secure opportunities in good-paying green jobs that are the key to our future,” said Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak.

Health care programs for workers will include the nurse assistant program, home health care, medical billing and coding, EKG, pharmacy and phlebotomy technicians, as well as personal trainers.

The college is offering shortcycle, pre-apprenticeship training to prepare people for careers as electricians, pipefitters, boilermakers and other fields in the construction industry. Upon completion, participants will receive industry-recognized certification.

Some classes will begin in August, with others starting in September and October.

Owens will also partner with NetWork to provide job development and support services as part of the initiative. Network, a division of the Zepf Center, serves as the coordinator of the The Source for the Workforce Development Agency.

“This is a model for the type of investment we need to make in our work force, which is our strength,” Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop said. “Government should ensure that we equip our workers with the tools to prosper in the 21st century economy.”

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From Staff Reports Nearly 75 people entered the Toledo Free Press/Kerr House “Mom deserves a getaway contest,” and the entries literally moved the judges to tears. Among the winners are a mom who lost a daughter to cancer, a laid-off woman nominated by her former employer and two creative entries, one written in a stream-of-consciousness list of stressful activity and one written in Victorian language that fits the Kerr House style.

Judging was handled by Kerr House owner Laurie Hostetler, Milissa Clark of Reality Marketing and Design and Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller.

“For such a short time window, the quantity and quality of the entries was remarkable,” Miller said.

“It is a testament to the reputation of Kerr House that so many readers took to their pens and keyboards.”

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Medlin wrote that his wife has dealt with the loss of a brother, father and daughter.

“The loss of a child is devastating and puts everything in a different perspective. Things that meant everything before means nothing now.

We held her hand to the end, just like we held my father’s hand and Diane’s father’s hand, who passed away two months ago,” Medlin wrote.

Diane had both of her knees operated on and had to have her dog of 15 years put down.

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As the search begins for the fourth Face of FOX Toledo, Julia Johnston’s nearly two-year term as the Face is coming to an end.

FOX Toledo, a Toledo Free Press media partner, will begin the search in August with two open auditions, one Aug. 15 and one to be announced. Home videos can be sent in to www.foxtoledo.com by Aug. 9.

“We are looking for the perfect blend of personality and on-camera talent,” Betsey Russell, creative services director for FOX Toledo, said.

The idea for the Face originated when FOX Toledo wanted to become more active in the community. Russell was hired to implement the program and now at least four other LIN TV stations are doing the competition.

“Being paid to have a good time is part of the job,” Johnston said of her time as the Face. “I’ve had very nice comments from the community. I’ve impacted Toledo to some degree in a positive way.”

Russel said the Face is responsible for covering a wide variety of events that news professionals can’t go to because of the time constraints of their job. The Face can mingle with the crowd at events and promote programming. They attend everything from charity events to biker events to fundraisers.

“You have to be prepared for anything,” Johnston said. “You can’t be reserved. One time I was asked to go in a dunk tank, and it was my willingness to participate that made it fun for everyone.”

The Face is asked to do more than just mingle at events; they also shoot commercials every week. “Writing is a big part of the job. I blog once a week, and if the situation permits, I come up with something for a commercial or promo,” Johnston said.

She said she bought a laptop on faith that she would be the Face.

“This job is great for computer experience,” she said.

“Julia has been talented and creative,” Russell said. “She digs up all the good gossip and writes the daily TMZ report herself. Most of the time, we just tell her to come in with some ideas.”

One of Johnston’s favorite parts of her job was using a flip video camera given to her by FOX. “I wish I had it sooner. I take it to every event and film the crowd. Then I use Movie Maker to make a video and post it to the blog and Facebook.”

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dent who owns a business painting murals and faux finishes. She ran her business full time before she became the Face. She was one of the top three finalists for the Face competition in 2006. In 2007, she came back to win the competition.

“It was more a mental readiness; I knew I had to take it to the next level,” Johnston said of what was different on her second try for Face.

As for advice to those auditioning to be the next Face, Johnston said, “Over the top on TV doesn’t come across that way.”

Russell said she is excited about finding the new Face.

“There’s an amazing talent pool out there. I’m also very nervous,” she said.

“How can we top what we have?”

“I’m so sad,” Johnston said about her time as the Face being over. “I wish I could say it’s bittersweet, but it’s mostly bitter. I’ve become very comfortable in my position.”

Johnston, who recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary, said she plans to focus on trying out for movies or commercials, and pursue having a family.

She doesn’t want an eight-to-five job. “It would kill my vitality; I have an artistic brain,” Johnston said.

Johnston, who has a background in acting and completed modeling school, said she is sure her time as the Face will be invaluable in the future.

“I’m grateful for learning so many different things doing this job,” she said. “If being the Face is the best thing that ever happens, it’s been amazing,” Johnston said. “But I don’t think it is.”

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D’Emilio relocated to New York City in the past week, where she will be working as a producer for a Rocketboom.com Web show.

In addition to producing, she said she will direct, write and research daily news.

“Being the Face of FOX gave me a good foundation to springboard off of,” D’Emilio said. “It was my first real full-time television gig, and I was able to learn aspects of production, how to be on camera and how to direct talent.”

After being the Face of FOX, Bollenbacher moved to Los Angeles, where she has lived for about a year. She is doing small theater projects and auditioning for TV, film and commercial work. She is currently working as a tour guide on the Universal Studios Hollywood Tour.

“In L.A. you never know what to expect and that’s what being the Face of FOX prepared me for,” she said. “Flexibility and poise are skills I honed while being the Face.”

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UT med students to aid Nicaraguans

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Nicaragua’s elite can seek medical care in immaculate hospitals or fly to Miami and combine a doctor’s appointment with a posh shopping excursion.

However, a group of University of Toledo medical students will travel to Nicaragua on Aug. 15 to treat those who lack even the most basic medical care. The region’s disparities affected students.

“We drove past a really nice mall, and it was like, ‘I don’t think many of our patients went shopping there,’” said Victoria Bradford, who volunteered last year. “I’m sure if you have the money, you can get anything you get here.”

Twenty-four medical students, physicians’ assistants and nursing students will travel to León, Nicaragua. Four physicians and one dentist will accompany the students. All will work with local physicians to administer basic care to locals.

Will Schmitt, a fourth-year medical student, started the Nicaragua medical missions trip three years ago. During a one-year break, he traveled to Central America and worked with various medical aid organizations.

“Of the countries I visited, I love Nicaragua the most,” Schmitt said.

“To me, Nicaragua has a lot of culture. The people in Nicaragua are very welcoming.”

Locals are appreciative of the care, Bradford said, and many show up for treatment.

“They’re really grateful,” she said.

“We would set up the chairs, and there was already a line of people.”

Schmitt and Bradford said students will help administer basic health care, including vitamins and anti-parasitic medications. Schmitt said malaria and dengue fever are other maladies that afflict locals. He said it’s a good learning experience, medically.

“You do come across it in the U.S., but it’s much more rare,” he said.

Wal-Mart has committed pharmaceutical supplies, and students have obtained money through fundraisers.

For the students, seeing mass medical care in Nicaragua has made them appreciative.

“We toured a hospital there, and it was kind of sobering,” Bradford said.

She said doctors were fine but they lacked resources. Even prescription notepads can be a rarity.

“There’s even a low supply of scrap paper to write prescriptions,” Schmitt said.

Visiting a Third World country has made Schmitt contemplate his own situation, he said.

“It’s helped me appreciate the resources we have at our disposal,” he said. “It makes you appreciative, for sure.”

Bradford said she also respected the doctors for their perseverance, despite their shortages.

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As a frustrated athlete, I could hardly wait to meet her â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially as Aunt Pati has been keeping us appraised of her successes via e-mail and over our split-rail fence for the past couple of years.

When the Galls finally arrived (a little late due to Geenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running in a benefit mile through the streets of Charlevoix), she was low key, lovely... and seemed totally unfazed by her amazing accomplishments. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also looking at several more years of top level international competition including the Olympics in 2012 ... or so she signed her autograph: â&#x20AC;&#x153;To one of my biggest fans. See you in London in 2012.â&#x20AC;? I hope so.

Anyway, the planned barbecue had to be abandoned due to sudden torrential rains, so we all raced off down the dirt roads to the Ma Deeterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eatery and drinkery, where we ate unhealthy food, danced to a rousing country band and returned in a fine state of afterglow!

Next morning, instead of a sleepin Sunday like most sensible North Woodsmen, we were up at crack of dawn (6 a.m.!) to drive an hour to Cooke Dam on the Au Sable River to watch the Smuteks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; owners of the local body repair shop in Luzerne â&#x20AC;&#x201D; compete in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most grueling canoe marathon.â&#x20AC;?

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Patriarch Frank, who injured an arm in Mio but kept paddling for nine more hours despite his injury, finished in 57th spot. Not bad for a man 75 years young ... and it typifies for us what canoe marathons are all about. Guts. Spirit. Hard training.

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ne of the most important the Junior League made a sigthings a charity can do is nificant donation to the Smile develop a strong network of Express which is a state of the art community partners. Whether they mobile dental office.

Junior League President Alice are nonprofit organizations or forMominee said that profit businesses, these overall the League allies can help raise has invested approxfunds, create programs, imately $73,000 into offer volunteer assisthe Dental Center’s tance and get the word equipment and its out about the cause. programs.

The Dental Center Dental Center’s Exof Northwest Ohio reecutive Director, Lindy cently hosted its annual Cree was pleased gala, “A Toast to Teeth” and chose the Junior Christine SENACK to honor the Junior League’s investment League of Toledo as its honored community partner. The and participation in their programs.

“We would not be here today Dental Center’s mission is to provide primary oral health services for doing what we are doing without underserved children, adults, and the Junior League’s investment seniors in Northwest Ohio, and to over the past five years,” said Cree. provide education and advocacy in “In addition to what they have done, we have used the League’s oral health.

In 2004 the Junior League donations to leverage other grants of Toledo began its work with and donated services.”

Since the start of the partnership, the Dental Center developing a project called Toledo Smiles. The more than 150 Junior League memproject’s purpose is to address bers have volunteered for Toledo unmet oral health needs within Smiles, which has reached 2,000 the adolescent population. Also students.

Upcoming events Aug 7-8: Arts Gone Wild. Fourteen non-profit cultural organizations of Toledo host this 2nd annual arts festival at the Toledo Botanical Garden. Arts Gone Wild features live performances, exhibitions, and activities to introduce Toledo’s cultural offerings and opportunities. Admission and parking are free. Visit artsgonewild.org for more information.

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but the day particularly focused on exhibiting Indian culture is Aug. 8. For no charge, guests can go on temple tours starting at noon, and watch a variety of cultural programs from 2 to 8 p.m. These include songs, dances and acts about heritage, with vibrant costume displays ranging from all regions in India, Vij said.

Also from noon until 8 p.m., three restaurants will serve Indian delicacies ranging from $6 or $7 per meal, and vendors will sell Indian movies, music, costumes and other regionally authentic Indian products, according to a news release.

On Aug. 7, the celebration will start with a religious ceremony from 6 to 7:15 p.m., followed directly by dinner and then cultural programs from 8 until 10:30 p.m.

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Learn about India’s many cultures and fill up on Indian food at the Hindu Temple and Heritage Hall of Toledo for the 20th annual Festival of India.

On Aug. 7 through 9, the temple at 4336 King Road will celebrate Hindu traditions and Indian lifestyle, opening its doors to hundreds of curious Toledoans.

“It’s a way to get the whole Indian culture together and promote culture more,” said Pradeep Vij, festival chairman of this year’s “Jhalak, A glimpse of India.”

Hindu traditions allow everyone to attend any service, Vij said, so the public may come to religious services Aug. 7 and Aug. 9,

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Each religious ceremony will be different or observes a particular tradition or regional aspect of the religion, he said, noting that the festival this year is labeled “a glimpse” of India.

“Hinduism is a way of life; it’s very relaxed,” Vij said, adding that he hopes festival goers will attend some services to understand the religion. “Hinduism teaches God can be in anyone and by not hurting and by respecting an individual you are praying.”

Hinduism’s original name is “Sanatan Dharm,” with “Sanatan” meaning eternal and “Dharm” meaning the “actions, thoughts and practices that promote physical and mental happiness in the world and ensure God realization,” according to the Hindu Temple of Toledo’s annual festival publication from 2006.

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Toledoans looking for the fast track to Downtown nightlife will have a new option Aug. 7.

Beginning at 8 p.m., the Night Life Navigator will begin its trial run, shuttling Toledoans to Downtown nightspots. The shuttle will run down Adams Street, around the entertainment district and to the waterside on North Summit Street.

The Navigator will be tested in preparation for the opening of the new sports arena set to open in October. The trial period is set for Fridays and Saturdays until Aug. 27, and will run until 2 a.m.

The Navigator is sponsored by Destination Toledo Inc. and will be free of charge to riders.

“We hope it will be used enough to sustain itself and run Friday and Saturday every week of the year,” David Nolan of Destination Toledo said.

Destination Toledo is starting the service so “Toledoans and visitors have safe, reliable and easy transportation options so they can enjoy entertainment at many different venues.”

Larry Ross, general manager of the Crowne Plaza, said, “Anything that enhances visibility of transportation Downtown is good for all businesses. This will be a way to provide good customer service for those who come stay in our hotel. This is an opportunity for them to visit other businesses Downtown without driving, especially since most customers arrive without a car.”

The shuttle service will be complemented by having the number for Black & White Cab Co. on the tables of nightspots to provide a safe ride home at the end of the evening. Destination Toledo “hopes once residents understand that taxi and transportation services are available, they might enjoy the Downtown area more frequently.”

“The idea is to build the emerging entertainment district. We need to provide a service like this so people can discover new and exciting places uptown and Downtown,” Nolan said.

Many Downtown bars and restaurants will be among the stops of the Navigator, including Manhattans, the Blarney Irish Pub, Bronze Boar, Avalon, The Attic, Tony Packo’s, Crowne Plaza and Aqua Bar. “We are a thriving entertainment mecca,” said Nolan. “We hope this helps residents realize that.”

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The Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) has awarded an $8.9 million grant to UT and BGSU to support additional research in photovoltaic science, the conversion of sunlight to electricity.

UT and BGSU are collaborating to develop solar power from photovoltaic research at both universities in response to the growing demand for alternative energy sources.

“The goal is to improve the efficiency of solar cells being developed in research at both universities,” said Robert Collins, a professor of physics and astronomy, who was the principal investigator for the grant proposal at UT. “The proposal builds on existing faculty strengths at both UT and BGSU to broaden our capabilities in second-generation (thin film) and third-generation (molecular and nano-structured) photovoltaics,” Collins said.

The universities will use the funds to attract prominent new faculty for photonics, a subarea of photovoltaics that explores the atomic scale to determine how solar energy is absorbed from sunlight and converted into electricity on a molecular level.

“These faculty members will be world experts in photovoltaics,” said Collins. “UT and BGSU hold leadership positions in many areas of scientific research in photovoltaics.”

The state approved the funds for the research grant and finalized the contract between the ODOD and UT with a subcontract to BGSU, according to ODOD officials.

The schools will advertise for the positions and plan to hire qualified

faculty this fall, said Collins.

“We’re trying to attract intellectual talent to Northwest Ohio and hopefully retain those individuals in the region,” said Felix Castellano, a professor of chemistry who is involved in photovoltaic research with Paul Anzenbacher at BGSU. Castellano and Anzenbacher are recommending that BGSU hire two additional researchers with its $1.7 million portion of the grant.

“The collaborative project is a regional effort to bring in new faculty and ultimately contribute to Northwest Ohio’s economic development,” Collins said.

He reported that $2.5 million of the grant will fund an endowed chair professor in photovoltaics through the UT Foundation.

Another $4 million will be used for research equipment and facilities.

More lab space will be available due to the recently completed second phase of labs in the Clean and Alternative Energy Incubator at UT. Another faculty member in this area and the associated equipment obtained with the grant would be useful to Toledo area industry partners on the grant, including Calyxo USA, Pilkington and Xunlight among several other Ohio-based companies, said Collins.

“The collaborative effort is important to promote local and state economic development in green technologies not only achieving energy security on a national but a global level as well,” Collins said.

“We have had a very successful history of working together productively,” said Castellano about the relationship between researchers at BGSU and UT. The grant is expected to fund a three-year collaborative project, but the attracted faculty, equipment and

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facilities will have a lasting impact on UT’s academic and research programs in the photovoltaic field, Collins said.

“The grant will help solidify UT’s position as one of the top academic institutions in the world for research, development and demonstration of thin-film photovoltaic materials and devices,” Collins said.

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ithout question, these your work efforts and energy on the a time when negativity only creates are trying economic activities and work behaviors that additional problems.

5. Be a team player. During times times for everyone. will maximize your ability to deliver of organizational trials, it is imFor the past decade, we have been desired results.

3. Take control perative that people pull together researching how perof your time. While and not apart in order to weather sonnel decisions are everyone is busy at the storm. Surviving a downsizing made regarding who work, the real ques- can be due in part to an employgets promoted, who tion is, busy doing ee’s willingness to work well with gets demoted, who gets what? It is critical others, share their toys and keep to keep their job and to develop a strong people around them moving in who is asked to leave. link between how the right direction. In trying ecoAnd while our region you use your time nomic times, there is no substitute is being hit heavily at work and the re- for teamwork and cooperation, with corporate downsults that you are at- and employees who are viewed as sizing and layoffs, this Clint LONGENECKER tempting to deliver. “Lone Rangers” can make themtrend is cutting a large swath across the American employ- It is not uncommon to find people selves targets for downsizing.

6. Develop yourself. A key at work for eight, nine and even ment landscape.

People are justifiably concerned 10 hours with less than 25 percent finding in our downsizing rewith losing their jobs, and as I give of the time dedicated to getting search points toward the fact talks and do workshops across the real results-oriented work accom- that employees who continually country, I am repeatedly asked: plished. Meetings, phone calls, develop themselves to meet the “What can I do to keep my job?” e-mails and idle conversations are changing demands of their job are While there is no pat or absolute an- all time-busters that can quickly increasing their worth to the orswer to this question, our research derail a person’s ability to perform ganization. The employee’s ability to adapt and learn new skills rapmakes it clear that when employers at higher levels.

4. Take control of your atti- idly can play a significant role in have to make hard choices about who goes and who stays, there is tude. Our research has continually remaining employed.

Employers like lifelong learners frequently a pattern of criteria they shown that in downsizing deciuse in making these very difficult sions, employers take a close look who are willing to upgrade their decisions. If your organization is at employee attitude when all other talents so they can compete at a experiencing economic hardship, it things are equal. Employers realize higher level.

7. Keep your résumé and conis important to take control of the that employees with negative, pesthings that you can take control simistic, cynical, abrasive, incor- tacts up to date. While the aforeof, and here are things that have rigible, caustic attitudes are like mentioned items can reduce the cancer to an organization’s morale likelihood of being downsized, there emerged from our findings: 1. Start by clarifying exactly in trying times. Employers realize are no guarantees. It is prudent for what results your employer needs that negativity breeds negativity at people who are currently employed from you. It is an interesting phenomenon that many people are busy at work doing things that do not necessarily add value to their organization. It is imperative to get on the same page with your boss and find out exactly what your organization needs from you in order to be successful.

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Dr. Clinton O. Longenecker is the Stranahan Professor of Leadership and Organizational Excellence at the University of Toledo. He is a researcher, author, consultant, speaker and community servant. E-mail him at Clinton.longenecker@utoledo.edu.

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STUDENT MENTORS, ASHLEY WATSON (LEFT) AND COLEA OWENS, DISCUSS PEER MENTORING WITH PROGRAM ORGANIZERS JEFF WITT AND TRACCI JOHNSON IN THE PEER MENTORING CENTER AT UT.

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UT is launching a new Rocket-2Rocket Peer Mentoring Program designed to help first-year students adjust better to college and campus life.

A pilot program for 200 students will be conducted in 2009, with full implementation planned for fall 2010.

“We’re starting with a smaller pilot group before offering the program to everyone in 2010,” said Tracci Johnson of the Student Conduct Office at UT. The 200 students were recruited from the Blue and Gold Scholars entering UT this fall. Other first-year students, including international

students, will have an opportunity to sign up for peer mentoring during the Rocket Launch orientation program.

Johnson said UT recruited 75 students from leadership development programs to serve as mentors to those first-year students. Each mentor will complete training for the program before classes begin on Aug. 24 and will be responsible for mentoring one to three students.

“We recruited proven student leaders who are positively engaged on campus to serve as mentors,” said Jeff Witt of the Office of Student Involvement at UT. Johnson and Witt are members of the administrative team from the Division of Student Affairs and

UT Learning Collaborative who partnered to plan and execute the pilot program.

Each student mentor will report to one of 75 faculty or staff mentors recruited for the pilot program.

Two student mentors, Ashley Watson, a senior, and Colea Owens, a junior, both from Cleveland, said they are looking forward to serving as mentors and helping first-year students.

A mentorship kickoff party will be hosted for first-year students, mentors and faculty-staff mentors at the recreation center on Aug. 23, when the students will meet their mentors.

“We wanted them to meet in an informal social setting to get to know each other easily,” Witt said.

One of the other objectives of the mentoring program is the retention of first-year students.

“We want to have a transformative effect on the retention of firstyear students with the persistence of continuing students who serve as peer mentors,” Johnson said.

A Peer Mentoring Center will be located in room 1512 of the Student Union as a place for mentors and students to meet and share their experiences.

The peer mentors will be expected to personally check with their students at least once a week in conversation and once a month in person. The mentors will be taking students to at least three on-campus activities or events each semester.

The mentors will be required to

complete a session to learn about the dozens of offices and support programs on campus.

The mentors will actively contribute to student centeredness by gaining in-depth information about UT culture, resources and traditions. Johnson said mentors can qualify for a one- to three-hour credit course and receive peermentor certification by completing the pilot program.

Students participating in the mentoring program must maintain a 2.0 or better GPA to continue in it.

The same GPA is used for students employed on campus, Witt said.

“We hope to recruit mentors for next year’s program from the firstyear students participating in the pilot program this fall,” he said.

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When Meridith Moran sends her son Cameron to kindergarten in August, she expects it will be a proud and bittersweet moment for the two of them.

“It’s amazing that my child is old enough to be entering kindergarten, but at the same time, it makes me sad that the time has gone so fast and that he’s already going to be gone for most of the day,” Moran said. “It’s great that he’s at this point, but you kind of wish they could stay home with you forever.”

Cameron, 5, will be attending kindergarten at Maplewood Elementary School in Sylvania. Moran said he’s both excited and anxious about the milestone.

“The one thing that has made him nervous is realizing that his friends from preschool aren’t going to be at kindergarten with him,” Moran said.

“But we’ve reassured him that it will be OK and that he’s going to make new friends and have fun.”

Cameron, who is a tad shy, Moran noted, recently attended Safety Township sponsored by Sylvania Township,

which helped to ease some of his fears about starting school.

“He had a good experience and met the kids he’d be going to kindergarten with,” she said. “It made me realize that he’s going to be OK and that he was fine with me leaving him.

I think it’s made for a nice transition from preschool into kindergarten.”

Riding the bus to school, carrying a backpack and even doing homework are the some of the things Cameron is looking forward to, his mom said.

“Homework seems really cool to him, so we’ll give him a year,” she said, laughing.

Preparing Cameron for the big day has been ongoing for Moran and her husband, who have made sure he knows his address, phone number and how to spell his name.

In addition, each time Cameron has experienced a milestone, such as losing a tooth or learning to tie his shoes, Moran said they’ve used the experience as a springboard for talking about kindergarten readiness.

“We tell him that’s he a big boy and that’s why he’s going into kindergarten,” she said.

As much as Cameron has been prepped for his first day of kinder-

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garten, Moran said she’s realized that parents also need to be prepared for the transition.

“The preparation is for parents too,” Moran said, “because it is an emotional

milestone. I have to prepare myself that Cameron is going to be OK and that even though he’s growing up; he’s not moving out of the house just yet.”

Moran expects that she’ll get emo-

tional on Cameron’s big day - “I had to hold back the tears at Safety Township and it was only a week,” she said - and plans to have her camera in hand to capture her son’s momentous occasion.

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The governor’s plan to add four weeks to Ohio’s 180-day school year will get a closer look in the coming months and could produce radical changes in the school calendar for students and their families.

Ideas being tossed around may allow individual districts to start and end school at different times or even experiment with year-round school.

Also being discussed is whether high-achieving schools can decide they don’t need extra classroom time, a policy that could lead to students in successful districts having fewer school days than students in struggling districts.

While it’s possible that none of these ideas will take hold, what’s clear is that Gov. Ted Strickland’s ambitious plan to overhaul public schools has education leaders thinking more about changing how children and teachers spend their time in and out of class.

Ohio lawmakers decided against including Strickland’s proposal for 20 more school days over the next 10 years in the new state budget that was finalized last week. Instead, they opted for more time to review the idea and the creation of statewide advisory council to examine the issue.

One change that was approved for the school year starting in 2010: Schools will get just three calamity days in which class can be canceled for bad weather, instead of five.

“This is the beginning of slowly transitioning into a longer school year,’’ said Scott Blake, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education.

During the next year, education leaders will look at whether the state can pay to keep schools open longer and how an extended school year will affect students and teachers.

“Money is no doubt the issue,’’ said Brian Williams, chair of the Ohio House’s education committee.

The Ohio Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has made it clear that it won’t back a longer school year without more pay for teachers.

Adding more time for school, though, doesn’t mean all of that will be spent in classrooms, said Williams, a Democrat from Akron who is a former teacher and school superintendent.

It could mean the time is used on internships, job shadowing, community service or trips to science museums or historical sites.

“We’re not going to do more of the same,’’ he said.

Some districts, he said, need these reforms more than others while successful schools might not need an extra 10 days. “Some schools that are doing well could have more flexibility,’’ Williams said.

Sue Taylor, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, said that allowing schools to make decisions about extending the school year is “probably the only way it’s going to be successful.’’

What also must be answered is how a longer school year will affect teachers who often take college classes during the summer that are required for renewing their teaching license. “If changes are made, we must do advanced planning,’’ she said.

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DONNA REPP TAUGHT FOR MORE THAN 29 YEARS AND IS PREPARING FOR HER LAST YEAR ON THE JOB.

Teacher preparing for last year in classroom

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Donna Repp, a fourth-grade teacher and educational technology resource teacher at Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School, is getting ready for her last first day of school.

With more than 29 years of teaching to her credit, Repp will retire after this school year.

“I had two goals in life,” Repp said. “One of them was to be a teacher; the other one was to be a lawyer. I did the teaching one first.”

Repp, 56, started her teaching career in January 1980, when she joined the faculty of Kaiser Elementary School as a sixth-grade teacher. She would continue with Toledo Public Schools (TPS) for the remainder of her career, teaching all elementary grades, except kindergarten.

“I think that teaching has been a wonderful, rewarding, challenging career,” Repp said, who will end her career as an educational technology resource teacher. “I have felt that every year. I start out thinking, ‘What can I do to help the kids and make them better?’ And even this year, knowing that the end is near, it’s not any different.”

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The introduction of computers into public schools in the late ‘90s led to a new position at TPS for Repp. She became an Educational Technology Trainer (ETT) and her job was to go into the classrooms and teach the teachers about using the technology and help them introduce the students to computers. Repp was an ETT for two and a half years, until the funding for the program was gone.

“As an ETT, being out of the classroom gave me a fresh experience,” she said. “You know what the best part of being out of the classroom was?

Seeing the great teachers in the other schools. People have no idea.

“I don’t think Toledo realizes what good teachers they have. A lot of teachers don’t get to go out and see other teachers working, and with that job, I got to do that.”

After retirement, Repp would like to influence changing standardized testing at the state level.

“I’d like to be involved with how they do the testing. I want to make it fair. It’s not fair to the regular kids; it’s not fair to the special ed kids; it’s not fair to big districts like Toledo.

I think we could make the most change at the state level.”

Another change Repp noticed at TPS, over the years, was a decrease

in enrollment because of the introduction of charter schools.

“I guess I’m not afraid of competition, but I wish [charter schools] were graded on the same kind of scale we are,” she said. “They take the test, but they don’t have to publish their scores.”

Repp said her experience with the Ohio Proficiency Test and Ohio Achievement Test has affected her view of teaching.

“It’s not mastery; it’s just giving them the information,” she said. “I felt the kids before the test learned just as much. And now it’s, ‘Oh well, you didn’t get it; we’ve got to go on.’

I like standards; I think it’s great to have a list of standards, but I think it’s too many standards.”

Repp recommended that new teachers find a mentor in their building.

“You need somebody in your building, someone you feel like you can go to, not just to ask about teaching questions, but logistic questions,” she said.

As for not becoming a lawyer, she has no regrets.

“I did pursue trying to become a lawyer, but I had three kids. If I were to be a lawyer, it would have taken a lot of family time away, and I just didn’t want to do that.”

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“I would say that, oftentimes, it’s a self-esteem issue because they see other students that have supplies that they don’t have,” Hage said.

The number of families applying for backpacks stuffed with supplies from The Salvation Army has dramatically increased during the past few years, according to event coordinator Tracy Knappins. She said The Salvation Army is preparing to distribute 2,000 backpacks throughout Lucas, Ottawa and Wood counties.

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Donation boxes are located at The Andersons or any Charter One Bank location until Aug. 14 for anyone who wants to drop off school supplies. Last year, Knappins said the drive collected 69,714 items.

Hage said she doesn’t know how the students would cope without this type of supply drive.

“I think it would be detrimental to the student learning because I don’t think the teachers could compensate for all the supplies,” Hage said. “Typically, there might be only one parent that is employed.”

However, though the Salvation Army can fund a program for younger students, equipping high school students with supplies isn’t feasible.

“The funding is just not there for it,” Knappins said.

Families can apply for backpacks from Aug. 3 through Aug. 14, between 9 and 11 a.m., and 1 to 3 p.m. at the Salvation Army Office at 620 N. Erie St. The Salvation Army is also looking for volunteers to sort and prepare the backpacks. Volunteers can help by calling Knappins at (419) 241-1138 on Aug. 17 through 19.

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Only middle school students will see the cost remaining relatively stable at $535 this year, according to a news release.

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Colleges strive to help Latino students

By Michael Stainbrook TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

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The winners of the 20th Annual Diamante Awards will be announced Sept. 11 during a ceremony at the Franciscan Center at Lourdes College.

While 19 people were nominated for this year’s Diamante Awards, only four awards will be given: Latino/Latina Youth Leadership, Latino/Latina Adult Leadership, Corporation/Community Agency and Friend to the Latino Community.

According to committee member Margarita DeLeon, the awards serve “to recognize individuals who support and promote Latino issues and causes and to raise scholarship funds for Latino students.”

The awards were created in 1989 by IMAGE of Northwest Ohio as a means of recognizing those who advanced Latino issues in the community.

DeLeon, who has served as a fundraiser, adviser and committee member for 20 years, said the event also aims to promote education among Latino youth.

“The awards also serve as an event to help inspire students to go to school and businesses to help with fundraising,” she said.

Scholarships are raised through four institutions: UT, BGSU, Lourdes College and Owens Community College.

According to DeLeon and the Lourdes Web site, these four institutions formed the Diamante Initiate in 2003 with the goal of raising funds to help Latinos achieve a post-secondary education. The initiative raised $500,000 from its inception through 2006.

The institutions continue to collaborate to help Latinos achieve success in the classroom. In total, 30 scholarships will be awarded at this year’s ceremony.

According to Lourdes College Vice President of Institutional Advancement Mary Arquette, Lourdes has five endowed scholarships that have been developed through the college’s participation in the Diamante Initiative.

“Over the course of the Diamantes, we have put together almost $100,000 in terms of scholarship support,” she said.

She praised the four institutions that make up the initiative for selflessly striving to further the education of Latinos.

“We all put aside our own institutions to come together in this collaboration, and it has been very rewarding for Lourdes College and our Latino students. We are proud and honored to be a part of this collaboration.”

Prior to 2003, Arquette said Lourdes had done little to address the specific financial needs of Latinos.

However, through the Diamante Initiative, Lourdes students have begun a Hispanic Advisory Council and a Latino Student Union.

“Both of these groups have been established due to Diamante,” she said. “They help us to ascertain how we can help Latinos.”

Approximately 2 percent of Lourdes’ 2,200 students are Latino.

But on the whole, Lourdes remains dedicated to its entire student body’s financial needs.

“We try to make our education affordable for all students, including our Latino students,” she said.

“The Diamante Awards are the premier Latino event,” De Leon said. “We host it at the beginning of September to kick off Latino Heritage Month,” which runs from Sept.

15 to Oct. 15.

There are many ways to sup-

port Latino students in the Toledo area. The Diamante Awards serve as the main fundraiser for the Diamante Initiative, so attendance in itself is appreciated. Through Lourdes College, Arquette stated, a person may set up a pass-

through scholarship with a donation of at least $500 or contribute through an endowed scholarship, which requires a $10,000 gift and is awarded in perpetuities.

“We work with donors to establish criteria for each scholarship,” she said.

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■ LATINOCONTINUED FROM A28 According to DeLeon, this year’s Diamante Awards are open to all who would like to attend. The event will feature entertainment, Latino cuisine, a silent auction and cash bar. This year’s emcee will be BGSU Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Albert Colom. Those wishing to attend should call Kelly Dilworth at (419) 824-3751.

BACK TO SCHOOL 2008 Diamante Award Winners ■ Oriana Orozco is a student at Lourdes College who took action to further the cause of Latinos on campus through the Latino Student Union.

■ Albert Flores is a teacher at Libbey High School.

■ The Chrysler Corporation, which has donated $15,000 in scholarship funds, had been a main sponsor of the Diamante’s for four years, and the Corporation/Community Agency Award was given in appreciation of its support. DeLeon specifically mentioned Jeep Plant Manager Luis Rivas for his dedication to the Diamantes, despite his busy schedule.

■ Mark Pickett was recognized for his aid to migrant farm workers.

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■ JENNA APTHORPE (RIGHT) SITS WITH HER AUNT JANELLE RIDENS IN NORTHWOOD.

Penta senior fights leukemia

By Allison Wingate TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Jenna Apthorpe was looking forward to summer vacation, a little freedom before her senior year of training at Penta Career Center to become a dental hygienist.

But it was a diagnosis of leukemia on June 10 that put all of her plans on hold and her future in question.

“I really didn’t understand what leukemia was,” Jenna said.

“When I was told that I had it, the first word I thought of was ‘cancer’ and I automatically thought I was going to die.”

Jenna said that, when the doctor explained the illness to her, she began to think of it more as a cold and hoped her younger siblings would understand and not be as upset as she was after the diagnosis.

“They took them into a room to watch a video about leukemia before they came to see me because they wanted them to understand that I would be OK,” she said.

“When they came in, we all just cried together.”

Jenna has since started chemotherapy treatments to combat the leukemia, an emotional process that led to losing her hair and many other unwanted side effects, such as nausea, tiredness and fevers.

“I was freaking out about what people would think or how kids at school would react,” she said.

Support from her friends and family has been comforting.

“The hardest part was losing my hair, but everyone has been telling me how beautiful I am, and that helps,” she said. “It got easier when I just accepted it and stopped trying to cover it up.”

Jenna will be returning to school in the fall but will have to make

some changes to her lifestyle.

“I can’t eat in the cafeteria with all of the other kids because I’m more likely to get sick or infections because of the leukemia.”

The medical bills are growing for the Apthorpe family, which prompted Jenna’s father Mike to reach out to the community for help. He, along with other family members and friends, created “Jenna’s Hope,” a series of benefits and donation opportunities.

“It stresses my mom and dad because they really have to watch how they spend money now,” Jenna said. “Our family and friends have set so many things up to help us money-wise.”

A golf outing on July 19 was arranged in her honor and yielded large donations from individuals and local businesses.

“We really appreciate all of the help we’ve gotten so far,” Jenna said.

“It made me feel very happy; everyone cried.”

Jenna is optimistic about her treatment and recovery.

“I have ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia), and if you have to have leukemia, this is the kind you want,” she said. “It is curable, and I’m still learning more about it.”

Jenna’s advice to others is to always have hope.

“Be strong and remember that prayers do work,” she said. “That’s all I did was pray and so did my whole family. I just had faith, and that’s what you have to do.”

The next fundraiser for Jenna’s Hope is a spaghetti dinner that will take place 5 to 11 p.m. on Aug.15 at the Millbury Fire and Recreation Hall. The dinner will include silent auctions, a 50-50 raffle, a bake sale and T-shirts available for purchase.

Tickets for the dinner are $10 for adults and $5 for children.

For more information, visit hope4jenna.com.

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Stautzenberger starting practical nursing program

By David Steffen TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

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Stautzenberger College in Maumee will offer an 18-month practical nursing program, beginning Oct. 5, that will prepare students for certification as a licensed practical nurse (LPN).

“It’s a large part of our mission in serving our community needs, so I am very excited to add the Practical Nursing Program to our current medical offerings,” said Karen Fitzgerald, director of admissions and marketing.

Graduates could work in health care centers ranging from hospitals to long-term care centers, which employ LPNs. Dean of Academics Wendy

Ziems said the program reinforces previous learning throughout the 18-month degree. Registered nurse Carolyn Nagy is the program administrator.

“Our program is designed as a continual progression, so what’s learned in quarter one is reiterated throughout the entire program to build knowledge and foundation,” Ziems said.

The program will be capped at 60 students — 30 day students and 30 evening students, Fitzgerald said. Prospective applicants will need to take preliminary tests to determine admission.

Medical Technology Program Director Sue Hahn said students will get practical nursing experience through agreements with University

of Toledo Medical College and Promedica hospitals.

Stautzenberger College is also finishing construction on its new, 3,275 square-foot nursing-education facilities, located adjacent to the campus building.

It will include hospital beds and

state-of-the-art equipment and realistic, simulated patients.

Hahn said she is glad to offer a program that benefits Northwest Ohio, because there is a demand for nursing programs in the area.

“It’s exciting for me,” Hahn said.

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Jermey Hampton lived with extended family members across town and in two shelters while growing up after his parents separated.

But despite his changes of address, 2250 N. Detroit Ave. — the Boys & Girls Clubs (BGC) Homer Hanham Unit — was one address he could count on.

“Boys and Girls Clubs was my home because the one building I still had my foot in was Boys and Girls Clubs,” Hampton, 17, said.

His BGC lanyard and graduation key necklace have become a part of his outfit.

“He probably wears [the lanyard] everywhere,” said Director of Program Operations Shawna Woody.

BGC locations “offer buildingcentered programs targeted at disadvantaged youth,” according to its Toledo Web site. It offers a variety of extracurricular and leadership activities for children ages 7 to 17.

Hampton graduated from Libbey High School this year, sixth in his class. He’s the first high school graduate in his family, he said.

He earned a full ride to UT. UT’s Blue and Gold Scholarship will cover tuition, and the BGC Toledo Carson Scholarship will cover room and board, said BGC Toledo Executive Director Dave Wehrmeister said.

Hampton’s dedication to others also impresses BGC staff. When Hampton enrolls at UT this fall, he plans to work at BGC. Woody said he dedicates himself to the other youth. Rather than give orders, he mediates and educates, she said.

“He’ll talk to them and explain what it is they shouldn’t do, whatever behavior is unfavorable,” she said.

Wehrmeister agreed.

“We’re extremely proud of him,” Wehrmeister said. “He’s a great role model for all kids, and we’re happy to have him.”

Hampton’s leadership and academic performance impressed judges at state and regional BGC levels. He earned the title of Ohio Youth of the Year at state finals April 24 in Perrysburg. He continued to regionals on July 8 in Chicago and was a runner-up.

In addition to a written interview, Hampton presented a threeminute speech about what BGC meant to him.

He stood up donning his red BGC lanyard and recited the speech from memory. It came off smoothly, even weeks after his last presentation.

“The Boys and Girls Clubs have been and will always be my home,

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Hampton said his father’s influence kept his academic determination strong.

“My father was always like, ‘Go to school,’” Hampton said. “He never said, ‘Go to college.’ He said, ‘Graduate, graduate, graduate.’

That’s an influential part of what kept me going.”

Woody said she’s excited for his accomplishments, drive and dedication to others. She was an important mentor in Hampton’s life, he said.

“I am so proud of him,” Woody said. “I went to his graduation.

Every time I see Jermey at different milestones, I could cry.”

For those youth who find themselves in challenging situations, Hampton said to consider his journey.

“I’d tell them, ‘Don’t give up,’” Hampton said. “It’s going to work out.

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Lourdes College is offering a hybrid version of its Master of Organizational Leadership program this fall.

The original program was designed for traditional students who

could commute one night a week to the college campus in Sylvania. The hybrid version allows businesspeople and students outside commuting distance or who work during the evenings to enroll in the program.

The hybrid program will meet on campus two Saturdays for eight hours each day during the seven-

week fall term. The remainder of the course can be completed online, according to Keith Ramsdell, director of graduate admissions.

“It will significantly benefit professionals who want to pursue their masters degrees at Lourdes but couldn’t.

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Chrys Peterson, news anchor for WTOL, is enrolled for the fall term.

“The weeknight classes just didn’t work for my schedule, but I was excited to learn about the Saturday class, which works better for me and my family, as well as a lot of people in the same situation,” Peterson said.

The hybrid program is just one way Dean Ludwig, the new chairman of Business Leadership Studies, is making Lourdes more accessible.

Formerly, two separate programs, business and leadership, were combined into a single department under Ludwig’s direction for the upcoming academic year.

“Business and leadership will play an important role in the future with aggressive opportunities for growth,” he said. “We

want business to grow along with the college’s goal to become a university.”

Business students comprise 20 percent of the 3,000 student population at Lourdes. Ludwig foresees that growing to 30 percent in the future.

Enhancing the interaction between the business programs at Lourdes and the local business community is a primary goal of Ludwig, who has both an academic and business background.

Ludwig helped to establish the Center for Family Business at UT. He served on the UT College of Business faculty in marketing and business management for 10 years and directed the university’s business honors program.

Ludwig earned his MBA and Ph.D. at the Wharton School of Business and studied theology at the University of California at Berkeley. He served at John Carroll University and spent 12 years

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The skies in Findlay will come alive with more than 30 hot air balloons from Aug. 14 through 16 for the city’s 10th annual Flag City Balloon Fest.

The festival involves experienced balloon pilots from all over the country, who will compete against each other in a four- or five-mile radius to drop bean bags from thousands of feet in the air onto a marked spot on the ground.

Guests enter for free and watch the balloon competition in the sky while browsing food and arts vendors, viewing classic and sports car shows, military displays and climbing rock walls. Voices for Children, a legal advocacy group for children’s rights, will also set up inflated obstacle courses, kite flying activities, face painting and pony rides.

“My son is a pilot and I would go to these other events, and in 1999, there was so much hype about 2000 coming that I said we ought to have something like this in Findlay to celebrate the new millennium,” said Dan Clinger, who founded the festival in 2000.

Since then, he has found multiple sponsors, such as First Federal Bank and RCM Architects, to cover

a $55,000 annual budget.

Though there is no cost for admission and parking, guests should bring cash for entering raffles, buying food or art and keeping the kids entertained, Clinger said. Most of the children’s activities will cost a small amount, but all the proceeds will benefit Voices for Children. Other raffles will benefit Cancer Patient Services or the United Way of Hancock County, which accumulated around $1,000 last year, he said.

Guests can also pay $20 for a tethered hot air balloon ride or around $40 for helicopter rides, Clinger said.

The festival will begin at 5 p.m.

Aug. 14, and the balloons will take off at around 6 p.m. The next day, pilots will start about 7 a.m., and then prepare for another flight about 6 p.m. Aug. 16 will feature a morning flight at the same time.

Each pilot will compete for points that will earn them national credit and raise their rankings so they might be able to participate in the national Balloon Federation of America competitions in Battle Creek, Michigan in late August, Clinger said.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ere are some recent reader questions: Jim C. from Toledo wanted to and the Ohio EPA have set fuel quality stanknow why his replacement tires wore dards and are responsible for ensuring that out in 35,000 miles, while his those standards are met, so we original-equipment tires lasted have nothing to worry about. nearly 55,000 miles. Well, Jim, I However, another governdon’t have ESP, but I would guess ment agency is telling me all your vehicle is out of alignment the money that they have been or you ran them for a long time taking out of my paychecks for with improper air pressure. Just years will run out in 2017 (read because your vehicle doesn’t the fine print on this year’s Social Security statement), pull from one side or the other so I don’t have much faith in doesn’t mean it is in alignment. that either the state or federal Monitoring your tire-wear patNick SHULTZ EPA administration offices are terns can be a telltale sign of keeping close tabs on the acan alignment-related problem even if you don’t feel a pull. Have your align- tual quality of fuel coming from the pumps.

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Keeping track of your fuel mileage is a great way to tell if something is amiss with your engine as well. If your fuel mileage drops suddenly, look for the root cause of the problem.

Failure to seek out the problem will only cause the problem to find you. Chances are it will cost you more to wait for that to happen.

My last question for this week comes from Amy T., who lives in the west end. Amy has an odor coming from her air conditioning ducts whenever the a/c is operated. Amy, you probably have a mildew situation within your a/c system’s evaporator core. You can try one of the many products designed to kill the mildew which are available from your local parts store.

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Be sure and check your car’s air and cabin filters regularly. The air on these hot days is filled with dust and dirt that can rapidly decrease your filter’s efficiency. Also be aware that your lawn mower’s air filter becomes restricted much quicker than any other piece of equipment you own.

I enjoy taking your questions and I apologize for not answering them sooner. Keep reading and I assure you I will get to them as fast as I can.

Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College. He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau who specializes in cases involving the Ohio and Michigan Lemon laws. He is a certified master automotive technician by ASE, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. Shultz, a Toledo native, will take questions from letters@toledofreepress.com.

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SMOKE ON THE WATER

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

The Presidents of the United States of America are coming to the city to eat more than peaches — ribs and music are on the menu.

The classic early ’90s semi-punk rock ‘n’ roll band has toured the world and filled theaters with thousands of fans, but “guitbass” player Andrew McKeag said they’re stoked to headline Smoke on the Water.

“We love playing those kinds of gigs,” McKeag said. “You can go get a turkey leg and a light beer and wander around and check out the humanity of the place.”

The band started in 1993, when lead vocals and basitar player Chris Ballew started jamming with the then-”guitbass” and backup vocalist Dave Dederer. After seeing the two of them play gigs at various places in Seattle, Jason Finn joined the band as the drummer, McKeag said.

“They really started as a goofy thing,” McKeag said, who joined the band in 2004, replacing Dederer.

“They even started off without a drummer and played goofy little shows. Then they hit the rock ‘n’ roll lottery early on.”

Their debut album, “The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA),” was nominated for two Grammys, and they continued to rock crowds with singles such as “Peaches,” “Lump” and other crowd favorites — placing four songs and six albums on Billboard charts.

After having released three albums and recording the theme songs for the “Drew Carey Show” and the movie “My Date with President’s Daughter,” PUSA took a break because Ballew wanted to spend more time with his family, according to the biography on the band’s official Web site.

The guys got back together in 2000 for three years, after devoting time to personal side projects, but didn’t fully reform until 2004, when McKeag joined the band. Now

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FROM LEFT, JASON FINN, CHRIS BALLEW AND ANDREW MCKEAG.

they’re back on occasional tours and released their newest album “These are the Good Times People” in March of this year.

“It’s a good record. It fits in with our sound and sounds like a cross between the second and third records — it really seems to fit in well with the old songs,” McKeag said.

“It’s been the band goal to make the three-string and two-string guitars and drums sound like one instrument not like three guys doing their own things. The whole vibe of this band is small, simple — basic and less are better.”

PUSA’s lyrics are zany and unusual, often sprouting from one event in Ballew’s life, McKeag said.

For example, Ballew wrote the hit song “Peaches” about attempting to talk to a girl he had a crush on when he was younger, but he failed

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to gather the courage to make it past the peach tree in her yard, according to the band’s Web site.

If Ballew draws inspiration from any band other than what lies inside his head, McKeag said he’d credit The Beatles.

The band members are all middle-aged with families now, with McKeag at 40, and balancing home life with the music scene can get difficult sometimes, McKeag said.

McKeag joined the band after just having been laid off from his job at a music museum in Seattle.

He had a few show jobs after that, but now just tries to spend time with his family as much as he can when he’s not out on tour, he said.

His young son gets excited about McKeag’s rock ‘n’ roll side, as the 6-year-old has already picked up guitar and has gotten the “rock ‘n’

roll thing down,” including a little “Justin Timberlake dancing thing.”

McKeag said this job is allowing him to fulfill dreams he had as child.

“My mom told me, ‘When you were about 3 years old, you came up to me very seriously and said ‘Mom, I am trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up and I’m having trouble deciding,’” he said. “I couldn’t decide if I could be a motorcycle racer or a guitar player.”

Now, McKeag does both, racing motorcycles when he’s not writing music. McKeag said the band is just all about enjoying themselves.

“It’s just been a really lucky thing at 40 years old to go out and see the world,” he said. “Mostly we’re just normal dudes. We just have a unique job and other than that we are regular guys that take our kids to school and appreciate what we do

for a living.”

McKeag said the guys are looking forward to Toledo because they enjoyed themselves the last time they played in the city.

McKeag, amused by the title of the festival, said he had gotten an idea to surprise the crowd — something they’ll continue to open shows with for the next few stops. Thus, Smoke on the Water goers will witness a first-time “surprise” upon seeing PUSA. Fans and festivalgoers ought to leave their problems at the gate and get ready to let loose and dance.

“One thing I really like about Presidents fans is that they don’t care about being cool. They love this band,” he said. “It’s a rock ‘n’ roll band and everyone leaves their attitudes at their door and they’re there to jump around and have a good time.”

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PB Army marches to ‘Smoke’ stage

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

They might be dads, family men, hard workers and in their 30s — but on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they’re rock ‘n’ rollers who cram into a tight room on a quiet street in Toledo with their drums, bass and guitar and jam so hard the bassist breaks his strings.

Having reassembled the band this spring, PB Army is ready to hit the road. But first they’ll bring their heavy rock to the docks for Smoke on the Water at 1 p.m. Aug. 1 to blast Toledoans with its hard-rock grooves.

Keith Bergman, Micah Shimborske and Nick Shallcross describe their band as “the hardest working band in half a ZIP code” because the trio has only played together for a few months and has already booked an 18stop tour around the country. They also will release a single with an Atlanta band on vinyl when they go on tour in September.

Bergman plays drums and sings; Shimborske shreds the guitar, and Shallcross rocks the bass. Drawing on strange experiences and personal attitudes, the bandmates thrash together for a light-hearted but heavysounding tone. Their Web site describes their sound as “nerdy stoner pop whatever.”

Bergman and Shimborske started PB Army in 2001 with a different bassist, toured mostly around eastern and southern states and released two albums, “Inebriates, Equivocators and Mockers of the Devil Himself ” and “Spine for the Snapback.” They had to break up for a while because the initial bassist left the band in 2007.

“We had been in a joke band called Chicken Dog and I think we thought we were out of bands, but we went to a heavy rock festival and thought about how boring all the bands were, and it kind of grew out of that,” Bergman said. “We didn’t see what we wanted to see so we had to make it ourselves.”

After over a year-long hiatus, Shallcross joined as the new bassist. Bergman and Shimborske said PB Army is now better than ever. Though they still set the same goals as before, they’re old enough and realistic enough to enjoy what they do, and not expect to get rich and famous, Bergman said.

Their inspiration, Bergman said, doesn’t come from

any particular band or sound, but he cited Black Flag, Black Sabbath and even Devo’s drive to go out and make music they love as motivation to approach the music scene and do booking, writing and advertising themselves.

The raging sounds of PB Army start from Shimborske’s guitar riffs, and Bergman’s lyrics emerge from his mind depending on how the instrumentals make him feel, he said. Drumming and singing simultaneously is not an easy task, he said, adding that he sometimes has to cut down on a drum fill he’d like to include so he can wedge the vocals into the song. However, the intense coordination skills don’t cut down on any energy.

The trio hopes to get popular enough just so they can tour Europe some day.

“We don’t have a lot of fans in the world, but the people who are into it are really dedicated,” Bergman said. “They like come out and stay late and yell a lot.”

Whether they’re entertaining their fans or on the road, PB Army values all the experiences they can get.

To save money on tour, they will crash on their fans’ floors in various towns, explore the quirks of all the towns they visit and particularly love stopping at little diners that offer up hometown cooking.

Sometimes, however, these circumstances land the guys in strange places.

Shimborske said one time in rural Tennessee, they agreed to stay with a man who drove them 20 miles out of the city and then had to sleep in the man’s grandmother’s bed, after moving her panties out of the way.

Despite some strange encounters, PB Army finds inspiration in the small towns and the people they meet.

“We like to go to those places that seem like they are disappearing,” Bergman said. “Any experience you have makes you more well-rounded, even if it’s going to a small town when they’re having their founder’s day parade or something goofy like that. It makes you a better writer.”

PB Army plans to release the third album sometime in the end of winter, after much rehearsing and writing when they return from their nation-wide tour, Bergman said.

Named after commercials for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer (“PBR me”), Shimborske said they are “connoisseurs of economical drinking” and the name, though it’s silly, reveals that they can have a good time and don’t take themselves too seriously.

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SMOKE ON THE WATER

Columbia Gas sponsorship supports Red Cross’ efforts

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

Columbia Gas of Ohio normally supplies Toledo homes with natural gas, but this weekend the company will fill Downtown with smoke.

The utility company is sponsoring Smoke on the Water — Ribs for the Red Cross to benefit the American Red Cross for the second KOZAK year, marking its fifth year sponsoring Toledo area rib events.

The festival will feature a wide range of music genres and ribs from 13 different vendors, but Communications and Community Relations Manager Chris Kozak said the event is all about the Red Cross. Tickets are $3.

“The interest is supporting the Red Cross, and by the end of the day I hope we don’t lose sight that this is a fundraiser for the Red Cross so they can do what they do in a time of need,” he said.

Though he would not say how much Columbia Gas donates to the Red Cross for this event, last year the event grossed about $120,000, drawing somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 rib eaters and music lovers.

“Last year, we raised nearly $20,000, and that went to disaster relief and to help people with scholarships to get trained in first aid,” said Tim Yenrick, executive director of the Red Cross.

“I think we are going to do better this year, although it really depends on the weather,” Yenrick said. “We sold out of rib vendor [slots], and because of media support and marketing support, we anticipate doing better this year than last.”

In one year, the Red Cross has helped 1,100 victims of disaster, trained more than 28,000 people in lifesaving skills and preparedness training and helped more than 300 families in the military.

Dan Zawisza, the entertainment chairman for the festival, booked all the bands that will serenade the rib fans. He said Friday night will please the country music crowd, Saturday night is for the rock ‘n’ rollers, headlined by The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA),

and Sunday is geared toward family crowds, he said.

“I’m kind of guilty,” Zawisza said. “I was digging the music scene in the early ‘90s so we decided to go with The Presidents of the United States of America.”

He added that PUSA fell within reasonable budget constraints, the band can draw a large crowd and they were very willing to come to Toledo.

Columbia Gas of Ohio doesn’t receive any monetary benefits from sponsoring Smoke on the Water, Kozak said.

He said he decided to get the company involved with the community because he and other Columbia Gas employees “see the value of

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This is a fundraiser for the Red Cross so they can do what they do in a time of need.”

— Chris Kozak, Columbia Gas of Ohio

being engaged locally.”

“This is our way to be a good corporate citizen and a good way to support Downtown Toledo,” Kozak, an occasional contributor to the Toledo Free Press Arts section, said.

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Smoke on the Water entertainment lineup ■ 8:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Presidents of the United States of America

Fri., July 31 ■ Noon to 1:30 p.m.: Toledo Jazz Orchestra Quartet ■ 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Disc jockey ■ 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Bandera ■ 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.: Rodney Parker & Liberty Beach ■ 8:45-10 p.m.: Haywire

Sun., Aug. 2 ■ 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Mojoe Boes ■ 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Empire Drift ■ 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Rib awards presentation ■ 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Chuck Wicks

Sat., Aug. 1 ■ 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.: PB Army ■ 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.: Mayoral candidates (Times were randomly selected) 3 p.m.: D. Michael Collins 3:15 p.m.: Keith Wilkowski 3:30 p.m.: Jim Moody 3:45 p.m.: Mike Bell 4 p.m.: Ben Konop ■ 4:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.: Empire Drift ■ 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Stop Don’t Stop ■ 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Pulled-pork eating contest ■ 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.: Buck69

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Carlos Mencia: Strings Futurama Futurama Daily

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Beethoven’s Big Break (2008), Rhea Perlman

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Gary

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Tonight

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The Big Band Years

Law Order: CI

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Magics Secrets

› Just My Luck (2006) Lindsay Lohan.

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World’s Fun

Magics Secrets

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Bounty Hunter

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Motocrossed (2001) Alana Austin.

E! News

Daily 10

25 Most Memorable Swimsuit Moments

Friends

Colbert

Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion (CC)

Phineas

MLB Baseball (Subject to Blackout) (Live) (CC)

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Daily

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So Raven

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Farrah Fawcett: THS

Baseball Tonight (CC) SportsCenter (CC)

’70s Show ’70s Show ›› Stick It (2006) Jeff Bridges. (CC) Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) › Down to You (2000) Freddie Prinze Jr.. (CC) Will-Grace Will-Grace True Life

True Life

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CSI: Crime Scn

UFC’s Ultimate 100

Ultimate Fighting Championship 89: Bisping vs. Leben (CC)

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Browns

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›› Welcome Danger (1929) Harold Lloyd.

Real Wrld Payne Feet First

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Bones (CC)

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You Smarter?

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Tosh.0

Burned: Roasts

Bob Saget: That, Right

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Sexiest “Cover Girls”

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Sonny

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My Wife

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Fam. Guy

Punk’d

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So Raven

Chelsea

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Philip and Dax (Michael Kenneth Williams) must lead a desperate manhunt after Teddy goes missing in a war-torn sector. Neve Campbell also stars in the new episode “Kashmir.”

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America’s Got Talent (S Live) (CC)

NewsHour Business

Loretta LaRoche: Juicy

Great Performances (CC)

Law Order: CI

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Wizards

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Her Best Move (2007) Leah Pipes. Phineas

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World Series

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Fam. Guy

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Montana

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So Raven

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CSI: Crime Scn

UFC’s Ultimate 100

Ways Die

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MANswers MANswers UFC: Penn vs. Florian

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The Office The Office Seinfeld

Seinfeld

What-Daddy?

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My Wife

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Law Order: CI

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›› The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Friends

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The First 48 (CC)

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Crime 360 (N) (CC)

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Baseball Tonight (CC) SportsCenter (CC)

Friends

Homecoming

Colbert

American Masters (CC)

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ing drugs. After one nurse passes out during surgery, William brings her in for treatment while Melissa (Amy Price-Francis) baby-sits her son. Charles Esten, Rebecca Gayheart and Jonathan Adams guest star in the new episode “An Ordinary Man.”

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Cops (CC) Cops (CC) Most Wanted

Magic Moments: The Best of 50’s Pop (CC) A Man Called Horse Fam. Guy

Motown-Definitive

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Paid Prog. ››› The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)

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Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior ›› Ella Enchanted (2004) Anne Hathaway.

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Monk (CC) CSI: NY

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Suite Life

So Raven

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Baseball Tonight (CC) SportsCenter (CC)

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Legally Blondes (2009) Milly Rosso. (CC)

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Bourne Suprm.

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NCIS “Bloodbath”

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BIFF & RILEY

Bailey needs quality time

By Dave Carlson SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS

Bailey is a 2-year-old gray tiger cat. She is a sweet kitty who loves to roll over when you pet her. Bailey is currently living in one of the open cat rooms at the Toledo Area Humane Society. In these rooms, the cats roam free so you can really see their personalities and get to spend some quality time with them before adoption. Bailey has been micro-chipped is up to date with routine shots and has been spayed.

Toledo Area Humane Society is located at 1920 Indian Wood Circle, Arrowhead Park, Maumee. Adoption hours are 10 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The phone number is (419) 891-0705 or visit the Web site www.toledoareahumanesociety.org

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Almanac

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BY ELIZABETH HAZEL

YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

Aug 2-8, 2009

Events: Mercury enters Virgo (3rd); Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon in Aquarius (5th)

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by Ann Fisher

How much do you know about these hopping, chirping insects?

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1. How far can a large grasshopper leap?

A) no more than a foot B) about a yard C) almost a mile 2. What part of a grasshopper’s body allows it to leap so far?

A) wings B) antenna C) rear legs 3. Which grasshoppers chirp, male or female? Why? 4. Grasshoppers chirp by A) rubbing together the ridged veins on their front wings B) rubbing the back leg with the wing vein C) rubbing their antenna together 5. How many wings do grasshoppers have? How many legs?

6. What do grasshoppers eat?

A) plants B) other insects C) both 7. What are “hoppers” or nymphs?

8. Can you name other jumping insects?

ANSWERS: 1. B 2. C 3. males, to attract females or to scare off other males 4. both A and B 5. 2 pairs of wings, 6 legs 6. A 7. the young larvae that hatch out of eggs 8. crickets, locusts, katydids

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Shadow dancer. The eclipse illuminates the need to keep goals clear and efforts on track. Review or prepare a mission statement as the week begins. It’s easier to reach accords with partners and associates on Friday, as creative solutions bubble to the surface.

Shapes in the clouds. Secrets, lies and scandals are exposed as the week begins, which is good if you’re not the perpetrator! The eclipse illuminates critical turning points in long-term situations. The consequences and fallout are the subject of wicked weekend gossip.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Universal connections. If you feel like you’ve been stuck in the shadows, the eclipse may shove you into the limelight. Some things may have to be rearranged to accommodate new expectations. Celebrate your good luck with friends as the weekend arrives.

Secret quest. Outcomes and expectations move to a new level as the week begins. Your inner life and family/ personal roots are the subject of midweek discussions.

Emotional connections flow as the weekend arrives – reconnect with good friends.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Divine justice. Past learning and areas of mastery are highlighted this week, and may transform your current standing in the world. The ability to share with others is the source of great benefits. Plan to see and be seen at weekend gatherings, but drive cautiously.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Calm contemplation. The eclipse highlights the dramatic changes that are occurring around you this year. Put this into perspective as the week begins; things may be turning out better than you expected. You’re a popular person at weekend events.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Love letters. You gain authority and respect with a special skill this week. The eclipse shakes opportunityapples out of the trees, especially if you’re willing to collaborate. Good news of a notable step forward arrives Friday; mixed news on Saturday.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Women’s woes. Involvement with educational or government institutions opens possibilities of profound change as the weekend begins. New resources become available, and spur plans for expansion. Anticipate a wonderful weekend, but watch for minor klutziness.

A pink palace. Ambitious, high-level discussions dominate the week. Big things are happening around you, and this is a great time to cement your place in upcoming projects. Be aware that this may double your work load! Sharpen your time management skills.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

The Grand Poobah. Who and what you know provide leverage for long-term career improvements this week.

Jealousy or resentment of dubious policies can taint the atmosphere. Sail past it, as Friday brings welcome news and invitations for pleasant gatherings.

Where sea meets shore. As the week begins, a group of clever, dynamic people are making big plans for the future. Health issues may focus on balance or spine problems. Friday is superb for social events, performances, and romantic dinners.

Feed and nurture. The eclipse makes you particularly sensitive to emotions this week; moods may shift quickly, or go toward extremes. If avenues of opportunity are blocked, look for new ones on Friday.

Friends introduce you to unexpected allies.

Elizabeth Hazel is a professional tarotist-astrologer and author. She gives readings every Wednesday at Attic on Adams above Manos Greek Restaurant. She may be contacted at ehazel@buckeye-express.com (c) 2009

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hile looking over our soon-to-be first grader’s along with his indifference to purchasing the latest and school supply list for this coming academic greatest, I casually suggested that he just take one of the year, my husband and I began to reminisce plain ones that we already had at home. Agreed.

I wish we could agree that every year would be like about our own school shopping days. We both remember this year. Let’s just forget about any silly yearning for that holy grail of end-of-themust-have three-ring binders or can’t-livetwentieth-century school supply items: without articles of clothing. Let’s forgo the the Trapper Keeper. It had either that years of pining for the current decade’s flashy splash of brilliant 1980s color or an equivalent of parachute pants, Coca-Cola overly cheesy graphic adorning its oh-sorugby shirts and A-Team lunch boxes. Let’s glorious plastic facade. Its plastic white just make school about learning. What do binding rings slid together as smoothly as you say, kids? someone sliding their hand through their I know; socialization is a large part of hair after a victorious game of “up high, the learning that takes place in school, and down low, you’re too slow.” finding your own personal style is a large As important as it seemed at the time, Shannon SZYPERSKI part of socialization. Yet, I find it a bit sad I don’t recall if I ever did score a real that I remember caring much more about Trapper Keeper. However, I do remember narrowly escaping the death grip of its cheap, flapless, the dealings of the United Colors of Benetton in school metal-ringed knock offs on more than one occasion than the dealings of the United Nations. Honestly, as over the years. After our little stroll down memory lane, much as I would have lobbied against it in my own school I couldn’t help but take a peek on eBay to catch a glimpse days, school uniforms now seem like an idea with merit.

If we could quantify the brain power students shift of what was once the object of my educational desire.

To my amazement, the Trapper Keeper, while bril- away from academics to focus on the latest trends, the liant in terms of marketing prowess, really was just a result would no doubt be astounding.

I suppose taking a turn at indulging in the schoplastic binder with cheap plastic rings and a Velcro flap.

The quest for stylish school supplies was invariably just lastic life’s more frivolous offerings is every up-anda microcosm of the general quest for cool that each im- coming student’s prerogative. I won’t fault my children for having their icing on their cake, just as I did during pending school year was bound to bring.

I am certainly happy that my days of seeking accep- my own school days. I only ask that they keep reading, tance based on trendiness are over. At this point, I’m writing and arithmetic as the cake and clothing, TV, so far removed that I’m honestly not even sure if the video games and music as the icing.

Maybe all of the supplemental pop culture stuff does word “cool” is even utilized any longer as anything but a temperature indicator. Still, I know such days are right hold educational value. When my own memory and an electronic dictionary search failed me miserably, I was around the corner for my children.

Luckily, my eldest has not yet reached that phase of able to figure out how to spell “prerogative” by popping academia. In fact, when I asked him which backpack the phrase “Bobby Brown lyrics” into a search engine. he wanted this year, he quickly reminded me that he Thanks, Mr. Brown; I guess you have your moments. already had a backpack from last year. Fair enough; that’s a sound decision and $14.99 plus tax right back Shannon and her husband Michael are raising three chilin our pockets. When I realized the price of lunch boxes dren in Sylvania. E-mail her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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*ADOPT; ADORING couple longs to adopt and love your baby forever. Safe, secure future awaits. Elyse & Paul 877-635-3349 Expenses Paid.

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PUBLIC NOTICE THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION BY LOCK-IT-UP SELF STORAGE ON OR AFTER 8-19-09 AT LEONARD’S AUCTION SERVICE 6350 CONSEAR RD OTTAWA LAKE, MI RICHARD LEONARD AUCTIONEER. 4601 JACKMAN TOLEDO 43612 - 1001 JOE FLORES 231 BUTTONWOOD BOWLING GREEN HOUSEHOLD. 1024 JOHN FAULKNER 3712 REVERE HOUSEHOLD. 2029 TROY ONTKO 11948 ELMDALE, MANCHESTER, MI HOUSEHOLD. 2603 DEVIN VARGAS 532 WAGGONER HOUSEHOLD. 4214 SHEENA GILMER 3860 TORRANCE HOUSEHOLD. 4409 JONATHAN MCCASKILL 1730 GIANT HOUSEHOLD. 6208 CINDY SPRENKLE 2013 MARLOW HOUSEHOLD. 802 S REYNOLDS TOLEDO 43615 - 2601 ADRIAN MARTINEZ 309 SEGUR HOUSEHOLD. 5002 QUINTON DAVISON 2150 N MCCORD #6A HOUSEHOLD. 5004 SEKETHIA DIGGS 5635 RYEWYCK HOUSEHOLD. 10120 CHARLES WILLIAMS 5 HIDDEN VALLEY #10 HOUSEHOLD. 12400 WILLIAMS RD PERRYSBURG 43551 - 1008 TIMOTHY BOOHER 504 HANNAH BOYNE CITY MI HOUSEHOLD. 3017 MICHAEL SCHWIND 618 BRUNS ROSSFORD HOUSEHOLD. 3025 KORY MCDANIEL-GARSELL 12361 JEFFERSON HOUSEHOLD. 5005 JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ III PO BOX 561 HOUSEHOLD. 3032 AIRPORT HWY TOLEDO 43609 - 2109 DOMINIQUE KING 1811 PARTRIDGE CT MANSFIELD OH HOUSEHOLD. 2441 ALFREDA HOWZE 1831 FAIRFAX HOUSEHOLD. 2450 TAWANNA HARDY 4205 ISADORE HOUSEHOLD. 5212 ANDREW COLTER 11138 MONCLOVA HOUSEHOLD. 7001 JOHN TROUTMAN 2165 MARLOW HOUSEHOLD. 7213 JERMAINE LAMB 3375 AIRPORT HWY #15 HOUSEHOLD. 5401 TELEGRAPH RD TOLEDO 43612 - 1017 MARTIN SEMA 3131 CHERRY HOUSEHOLD. 2001 UNDRA JACKSON 1038 PINEWOOD HOUSEHOLD. 5025 JACK WOODS 15350 CR J WAUSEON HOUSEHOLD. 7027 DAMIAN ALVARADO 5862 PICKARD HOUSEHOLD. 10740 AIRPORT HWY SWANTON 43558 - 7004/7043 SHAMENA KING 1017 BELMONT HOUSEHOLD. 3316 DUSTIN RD OREGON 43616 - 7026 SANDRA TENEYCK 140 N COY HOUSEHOLD. 10011 KENNETH BROCKMAN SR 1362 UTAH REAR UTILITY TRAILER.

EMPLOYMENT DRIVER/DELIVERY/COURIER ATTN: NEW DRIVERS TRAINCO AND OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL DAY-EVE-WEEKEND CLASS • CDL Testing on site • Lifetime Job Placement Assistance • UAW Welcome • Ohio Job and Family Services Approved • Company Paid Training PERRYSBURG, OH 419-837-5730 TAYLOR, MI 734-374-5000 Train Local Save Hassle www.traincoinc.com

GENERAL OCEAN CORP. Houston, Texas. Train for New Career.

Underwater Welder, Commercial Diver, NDT/Weld Inspector. Job placement and financial aid for those who qualify, 1-800-321-0298.

FUN TRAVEL job. Hiring 18-23 individuals to travel USA. Two weeks paid training, transportation, and lodging furnished. Toll free 866-234-3225.

INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – OTTAWA RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL ADDITION Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on August 26, 2009, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the Ottawa River Middle School Addition, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the project prepared by Duket Porter Associates and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

Bid Documents for the project may be examined at the F.W. Dodge plan rooms 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 July 29th, 2009 which can be purchased from Toledo Blue Print, 6964 McNerney Rd., Northwood, Ohio 43619, phone: (419) 661-9841. Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

A MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE will be held on August 7th at 2:00 pm at Toledo Public Schools Board Room, 420 East Manhattan Blvd, Toledo, Ohio 43608.

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

SALES/MARKETING LOVE WINE? Looking for Independent Wine Consultants. Featured on “The View”. Call Chris 419304-0758.

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DirectStarTV Local Installers! 1-800-973-9027.

FREE DIRECTV 4 Room System! 265 Channels!

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Free DVR/HD! 130 HD Channels! No Start Up Costs!

Local Installers! DirectStarTV 1-800-306-1953.

FUSED GLASS PENDANTS FOR SALE $10 or $15.

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1040 Wynn Rd., Oregon 80,000 Square foot industrial/ distribution center in Lucas Co., Close to BP refinery. Block/ steel construction built in 2005. Fenced lot. 8 dock doors and 1 overhead door. 2500 SF offices. Industrial zoned.

215 N Lallendorf Rd., Oregon 3,000 SF. $2,000 /Month.

Also lease exterior large vehicle parking/interior equipment bays. Office Area-8 private offices, 1 conference area, 2 restrooms. Work bay for indoor parking, storage, or light assembly. Metal building rehabbed.

11362 S Airfield Rd., Swanton 40,000 SF Available.

Concrete construction adjacent to Toledo Express Airport and with easy access to I-80/90. Land is owned by Toledo Port Authority and property is within Foreign Trade Zone.

Ed Harmon 419.392.5838 Jim Steinwand 419.466.3941

Ed Harmon 419.392.5838 Jim Steinwand 419.466.3941

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HANDYPERSON LAKESIDE HANDYMAN & CLEANING SERVICE • Reasonable rates • Skilled & screened professionals • Company guarantees & insures all work *25% off (expires 8/31/09) 419.350.5049

LANDSCAPE GOT WEEDS? Sue’s Etcetera! Inc., “Your Personal Gardening Service” Specializing in Garden Maintenance and Indoor Plant Care. 419-727-8734. Fully Insured and BBB Accredited.

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Perrysburg

Sunday 2-4

25039 Saddle Horn

4 BR, 2.1 Baths, 2567 sf, 2+ Car Gar

$264,900

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Robin Morris

419-310-3272

Perrysburg

Sunday 2-4

7346 Winding Brook

3 Beds, 1.1 Baths, 1716 sqft & 2+ Car Gar

$163,900

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419-601-1261

Whitehouse

Sunday 2-4

10107 Saddlebridge Dr. S

5 Beds, 4.1 Baths, 2681 sf, 2+ Car Gar

$389,900

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419-310-3272

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