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Council rules state that “A scribed Toledo as one of “America’s Emptiest Cities,” member abstaining at a regularly Toledo City Council showed the scheduled Council Meeting shall do so only in the event of world why there is more a conflict of interest.” motivation to leave the Riley gave no such city than there is to reason, and in fact, on invest here. In a stunJuly 3, voted in favor of ning and arrogant vote waiving the minimum July 31, Council failed 30-day period for the to approve the Nexus special-use permit Academy of Toledo’s reNexus was seeking. If quest to open a charter Riley had a conflict, school Downtown.

Council voted 6-4 to Thomas F. POUNDS why did he vote for that ordinance on July 3? deny permission to Nexus, Riley told Toledo Free Press on owned by the national company Connections Education, to open a charter Aug. 1 he had a “prior business arschool on the fourth floor of One Lake rangement with a business adjacent to that property (the restaurant Our Erie Center, 600 Jefferson Ave. The decision bolsters every im- Brothers Place) and I wanted to avoid pression that Toledo is not business any type of impropriety or the appearfriendly and will undoubtedly dis- ance of impropriety. If I voted one way courage untold other enterprises from or the other, it may give someone the impression that I was trying to protect considering investing in Downtown.

Led by Toledo Public Schools loy- one of the local establishments.”

Riley said he voted for the 30-day alist Steve Steel, fellow shortsighted and insensate Council members waiver July 3 because, “I was still Lindsay Webb, Phil Copeland and in this prior business arrangement Adam Martinez voted against the with one of the adjacent properties special-use permit that would have at the time and I just didn’t realize allowed Nexus to open. Paula Hicks- that may be a conflict.”

But he later added, “I made a misHudson was on vacation. Tyrone Riley chose to abstain, which sealed the take in not completely understanding

this rule of Council. My vote was inconsistent. I didn’t have a complete handle on the rule of Council. Both sides had compelling arguments and I was thinking, ‘OK,’ they’re both compelling,’ and I just abstained and that was a mistake on my part.”

Steel claimed the special-use permit should be denied because the Nexus Academy location would be within 1,000 feet of convenience stores.

But before the vote, Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commission Director Tom Lemon told Council that because the building Nexus wanted to locate is within an entertainment district, the spacing requirements regarding convenience stores would not apply.

Ignoring that simple fact, Steel, Webb, Copeland, Martinez — and passively, Riley — voted against jobs, education and development.

“Some of [the charter schools] that are in that core Downtown area have been there since longer than I was voting, certainly. We should be very cautious about it whenever you have kids that are walking around a bunch of adult-oriented establishments,” Steel told Toledo Free Press on Aug. 1. “I have voted yes on special-use permits for charter schools. I would have the same objection if TPS wanted to go in. It has to do with children, a lot of kids going

The decision bolsters every impression that Toledo is not business friendly and will undoubtedly discourage untold other enterprises from considering investing in Downtown.”

to and from school are unsupervised.

That’s why we have coding in the law about adult-oriented establishments.”

“The spacing requirement for carryouts is bogus to begin with. We’ve vilified carryouts and now, by association, we’ve vilified schools that want to go near carryouts,” Councilman Tom Waniewski told Toledo Free Press on Aug. 1. “Here’s a charter school that wants to do business and we’re saying, ‘Mmm, you can’t because there are carryouts around.’ If you just came here from another planet and you didn’t know my colleagues on Council, you might be scratching

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“We’ve got people on City Council who have no concept of business and are merely voting for stupid reasons.

The other stupid reason is some of them on Council have a bias against charter schools so they are too intricately tied to TPS and are afraid of the competition.

“A recent study showed we are one of the poorest cities to do business with. This adds to that. Why are we telling businesses how to run their business? Selling [cigarettes and alcohol] to minors is illegal, so let’s enforce those laws that we have rather than create these artificial pieces of duct tape. We’re not the morals police.”

These four Council members also sent the message that they believe Downtown Toledo is not a safe place for students attending school. This despite the healthy attendance at Toledo School for the Arts and other Downtown charter schools, not to mention the thousands of students bused Downtown each season to Fifth Third Field and Imagination Station.

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very summer, the core Toledo none of the men ever seem to exit, even Free Press team schedules a after enough hours and beers to make business retreat to Put-in-Bay. Superman’s bladder cry for mercy.

It’s faux voyeurism and faux deAs a “business retreat,” it’s a day to retreat from business, to have fun and bauchery, but it’s as close to either as get away from the daily grind. We’ve most of us get at this stage in our lives. traveled there for the past five summers, establishing a routine that is Family day one of the season’s highlights. We ride This year’s Toledo Free Press rethe Jet Express from Port Clinton to treat was one week before a smaller the island, and that 25-minute jaunt trip my family arranged with another by itself is worth the trip. Cruising family. I know the island offers plenty across that wide-open lake on the top of non-Charlie Sheen activities, and deck with the sun embracing every we left early enough in the day to be atom, the wind playing 35 mph slap- able to leave before the nighttime and-tickle and the surging motion of rock ‘n’ roll started. the waves is like being scrubbed clean It was a beautiful, clear day, not opof the worries, stresses pressively hot but warm and annoyances of and sunny. We disemthe workday. barked from the Jet Once on the island, Express and the eight we stroll along Hartford of us (four adults and and Delaware avenues, four kids, all younger past the Boathouse Bar than 11) stopped at De and Grill, the Round Rivera Park so the kids House Bar and Frosty could romp on the playBar, up to Catawba Avground while we waited enue where Hooligan’s for the nearby Perry’s Irish Pub and Tony’s Michael S. MILLER Victory and Internaoff er familiar menus. tional Peace Memorial After lunch, we amble to Erie Street to to open. The monument, which has Splash!, which earns its exclamation been closed for repairs for the past few point with The Flaming Skull, a pirate years, is now open and taking people ship bar docked beside a swim-up up 317 of its 352 feet to an amazing bar that winds under an upper-deck vantage point of the island and lake. bandshell. Most of us pull up a stool, On a clear day, the view extends 59 order a drink and people-watch. A miles to downtown Cleveland. It’s a few of our braver souls will wander solemn monument, the resting place into the water, and the next hour or for three American and three British so melts away like a slush daiquiri in sailors who died in the Battle of Lake the noon sun. Eventually, some of our Erie. It is stunning architecture, the group heads to the Round House to third-highest structure of its type in hear Mike “Mad Dog” Adams or to the world, after the Gateway Arch in the Boathouse to hear the great Pat St. Louis and the Washington MonuDailey, while others walk the south ment. It stands straight and erect, coast of the island. penetrating the sky and dominating It’s like an eight-hour spring break the island. for those of us too old for spring break.

Our next move was to buy tickets It’s a chance to live vicariously through on the Put-in-Bay Tour Train, which the younger, presumably single people circles the island and lets passengers who are relaxed (i.e., inebriated) enough disembark at several attractions, then to make time with each other and drink climb back on board to continue the while standing in a waist-deep pool tour. We did not stop at either of the

wineries or historical houses, but our first stop turned out to be a highlight of the day.

The Historic Fish Hatchery and Aquatic Education Center has a cumbersome name but off ers a neat glimpse into the Division of Wildlife’s work in the lake. Best of all, it features free fishing for the younger visitors. They hand you a rod and reel, point to the bait and let you fish from the dock.

It has been 30 years since I fished, but I wrapped a half of a worm around the hook and sat with 6-year-old Evan to let the line into the water.

Evan was patient until his mom and younger brother Sean landed a decent-size pumpkinseed fi sh. Our line only caught nibbles and we sacrificed several worms, but even though we caught nothing, it was a great hour and a memory I will always keep.

Our train took us around to the north side of the island where a single stop off ered hours of family activities, from a marvelous butterfly house and an antique car museum to miniature golf (The War of 18 Holes) and a number of other distractions, the most intriguing of which was Perry’s Cave.

There used to be three caves open for touring, but two of them are no longer safe, a little tidbit of information the tour guide tells you once you have descended the slippery stone stairs and entombed yourself in a limestone cavern that would make even Bruce Wayne and Montresor claustrophobic. It’s a tight little space, wet and close and mysterious.

Th e only time the two worlds of Put-in-Bay crossed was when, aft er our families ordered dinner at Pasquale’s, I walked the patriarch of our guests to see the Christmas in July bacchanal at Splash! and its swim-up bar rival, Mist. It was only a 10-minute excursion, but we saw enough fruit of temptation to guilt us both into scurrying back to our families.

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Put-in-Bay as “amateurs,” but plenty of those women looked like professionals to me.

Kids in a candy store We closed the day with a stop I knew would rock the kids, at the Depot Fudge Company. In addition to several handmade treats, the shop stocks hundreds of types of candy, from the most current Angry Birdsthemed confections to ancient favorites like wax lips and the bonus of a 5-pound gummy bear. If you’ve never seen the phrase “kid in a candy store” come to life, the Depot Fudge Company off ers your chance.

Our families, weary and happy, caught the Jet Express back to Port Clinton where we wrapped up the

kids’ day of indulgence with a quick stop at the Great Lakes Popcorn Co. on Madison Street. Try the Chicago Mix and the Black Cherry.

One side of Put-in-Bay aims for partiers, laden with thoughts of sin and sex. The other side off ers wholesome family fun, free of any such vice, highlighted by the towering skyward thrust of Perry’s Monument and the mysterious subterranean delights of Perry’s Cave.

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■ NEXUS CONTINUED FROM COVER “Some Council members used their vote to express their disdain for charter schools in general and to me that’s just wrong,” Councilman Rob Ludeman told Toledo Free Press on Aug. 1. “Charter schools are allowed by Ohio law and as long as they meet all the zoning requirements we should allow them to go in. It’s a huge component of the economic development of Downtown.

“It’s a slap in the face to them and the business community Downtown.

They apparently just didn’t listen to the planning commissioner director.

There are other charter schools in the Downtown entertainment district already; how do you pick and choose?

That’s just not right.

“When it came time for the vote, Tyrone Riley abstained. We have a Council rule that you can’t abstain unless you have a direct association with that entity and he has no connection to this charter school so the least he should have done is voted. They all just looked at me with blank faces when I read the rule. I was on Council when we put that in place because it was getting ridiculous how many people didn’t want to make a decision on things. You are elected to make a deci-

sion,” Ludeman said.

It’s almost as if these myopic Council members want to see Downtown fail; certainly, nothing in this decision shows any understanding of the facts or ramifications surrounding this vote.

Voters are right to ask, “What are these people thinking?”

Rebecca Booth, a spokesperson for Nexus, which has advertised in these pages, was gracious after the vote.

“We believe that this is just one step in a series of steps toward opening a charter school. We believe in our blended learning environment and we still think that we’ve got a great location to help out our students, so we’re moving forward hoping that we can still open in the fall,” she told Toledo Free Press on Aug. 1. “Everything is all up in the air but we’re exploring all possibilities. We were surprised [by the vote]. We go back to this just being part of the process. Sometimes you’re going to hit a hurdle and sometimes you’re not.”

At the same session, Council approved special-use permits for three other schools outside Downtown — all of which are reportedly located near convenience stores or bars. Ironically, as construction on the school had already started,

Profile of Excellence: Janel Haas Owens Community College Alumna Born in Lake Orion, Michigan, Janel Haas graduated from high school in Olathe, Kansas in 1977 and started working at the local Kmart.

“Growing up in rural Kansas, I never thought of going to college because that’s not what women did at that time,” said Haas.

When her stepfather, a minister, was transferred to the Toledo area, she moved with the family. After years in retail, she felt the need for a change and applied for a library clerk position at the Way Public Library. After a few years as a clerk, she moved into the Cataloging Department.

In her mid-thirties, with her library career well established, Haas began taking classes at Owens Community College. She remembers her Composition II instructor, Tim Best, as a particular favorite and describes him as a very gifted teacher.

“Once I took that first class, I just couldn’t get enough of college,” said Haas.

In addition to her library job, Haas worked for the Perrysburg Schools as a bus driver and dispatcher. While helping a disabled parent and a younger sister, it was a challenge to fit college coursework into her schedule.

She graduated in 1999 with an Associate of Arts majoring in psychology. All credits except for one class were accepted when she transferred to Lourdes College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in Janel Haas Director, Way Public Library 1999 Graduate

May 2002. Encouraged by then library director, Nancy Kelley, she earned a Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University in December 2003.

Haas became the Library Director in 2010. She is responsible for maintaining the collection and building, managing the staff, programming and representing the library in the community.

She still works the information desk at least once a week to keep in touch with the patrons.

The library is busy with 30,000 current card holders, 325,000 visits in 2011, and more than 700,000 books circulated per year.

Though books are still the main focus, the library has expanded its digital media and programming in recent years.

“The library is a community center with a wide array of events and programs for all ages, from pre-school to senior citizens,” says Haas. “These offerings will continue to grow.”

Haas frequently encourages young people to go to college and says with pride, “Owens is the place to start – they have everything you need and you can get the whole college experience there.”

She considers Owens to be the area’s number one choice in terms of what the college offers, the convenient location, ease of access and affordability.

“Owens is the place to start – they have everything you need.”

Steel, Webb, Copeland, Martinez — and passively, Riley — have, for now, put union construction workers out of a job.

They have also potentially opened Council and the city to legal action.

Even if the case never sees a day in court, a different kind of jury is watching this dysfunction and will return its own verdict, one that will continue to stymie efforts of growth and development in our hurting, increasingly troubled city.

Riley said he will change his vote to “yes” if Council reconsiders the vote, which it will apparently do on Aug. 7. That can only be proposed by Steel, Webb, Copeland or Martinez. There is an opportunity for redemption in the midst of this mess. But if any these Council members choose to let the vote stand and deny Riley his opportunity to revote, they should be painted as the aspiring statists they are — and the business community should rally to make sure they are voted out of office at the earliest opportunity. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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SUN BURN: SOLAR ENERGY IN NORTHWEST OHIO, PART III

Sun burn IInvestigative nvesttigaatiive ser series ries cchronicles hron nicless history of solar energy in NW Ohio

city as one of America’s best, thenMayor Carty Finkbeiner embraced the solar industry and all the potential news@toledofreepress.com it off ered the city. If ever there was a Between 2005, when it began pub- political advocate for the solar inlishing, and June 30, 2012, Toledo Free dustry, it was Finkbeiner.

In September 2007, Finkbeiner Press, a weekly newspaper, published 97 articles with the keywords “solar announced Toledo would work with industry.” Between Jan. 1, 1997, and the University of Toledo to develop June 30, 2012, The Blade , a daily news- the Ohio Center for Renewable Enpaper, published 388 articles with ergy and Sustainable Development, a program the Lucas County Imthose same keywords.

In the beginning, the two publica- provement Corporation predicted tions were almost of a singular voice would pay huge dividends to Northwest Ohio’s economy. on the topic.

Two months later, Finkbeiner In those 485 newspaper stories, the print media regularly turned to wrote a column published in Toledo national, state, county and City of Free Press, declaring June 18, 2007, Toledo politicians and candidates — a symbolic day in Toledo’s history as including Toledo’s mayor, an Ohio wrecking balls knocked down the senator and House of Representatives smokestacks at the Toledo Jeep Plant member, the University of Toledo and Toledo began its transition from president, a UT president emeritus, a smokestacks and pollution to clean local broadcast TV news co-anchor, technology and alternative fuels. community leaders from the Regional Finkbeiner said the solar industry, Growth Partnership and the Toledo- rooted in cleaning up and preserving Lucas County Port Authority, and the environment, would be Toledo’s local business men and women — for economic future.

In April 2008, Finkbeiner touted their perspective on Northwest Ohio’s Toledo’s foray into alternative energy, solar industry.

Starting in 1997 and peaking in proclaiming that Toledo was “one of six 2007, nearly everyone interviewed solar energy capitals in the world,” proand everyone who submitted a guest jected to have 3 million jobs in the solar column voiced support for the solar economy during the next 20 years.

Even as he faced the threat of a industry and the hope that it would become the salvation of the economic recall election in December 2008, Finkbeiner took the opportunity to woes the area faced.

Some guest columnists proposed plug the solar industry.

Refusing to let the recall petition strategies they believed would ensure success. Others prodded Toledoans eff ort demoralize him, Finkbeiner to develop attitudes that promoted publicly suggested that Take Back the city and focused on its strengths. Toledo, the group of opponents that Many suggested that Toledo could organized the petition drive to unseat become the solar hub, at that time re- him during his 2006-09 term, should ferred to as “the next Silicon Valley” of “also support us in working to bring alternative energy jobs and companies the United States. to Toledo.”

The solar industry enjoyed the unRecalling those days during a July bridled support of almost everyone in 31 interview, Finkbeiner said, “Those Northwest Ohio.

Take Back Toledo people wanted Who were those people? change and people who are excited What did they have to say?

And, enjoying the 20/20 vision that for change are very, very good for comes with hindsight, what do some of America. You need critics. If everybody agrees, you’re not getting the those people have to say now? other opinion.

Mayoral approval “I was challenging them. ‘Let’s use Focused on building Toledo’s in- your energy and get behind the alterdustrial base as well as promoting the native energy thing. Put it into that,

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CARTY FINKBEINER AT THE MAYORAL DESK IN ONE GOVERNMENT CENTER IN JULY 2009.

and we’ll move forward together.’

“I was just trying to challenge, as I always do,” Finkbeiner said. “That’s just my personality, to say, ‘OK. That’s your perspective. Why don’t we get behind the alternative energy thing and we’ll be working together on something. You put your energy, and I’ll put my energy, and two will be better than one. Let’s get at it.’ ” A source of momentum Finkbeiner pointed to in December 2008 was Toledo’s growing reputation in the national media as a center of solarenergy innovation and manufacturing.

Finkbeiner took tremendous pleasure in January 2009 when Foreign Direct Investment magazine named Toledo the “Most Business Friendly City in North America.” He said at the time that the national recognition must motivate the community to increase “support of growing advanced technology businesses by encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset and funding research that fuels growth.”

a solar energy advocate.

In an interview July 25, Mayor Mike Bell said he did not choose to not make the solar industry a part of his agenda. When he took over in January 2010, the City of Toledo was $48 million dollars in debt. He felt it most important to find a way to get Toledo out of the red.

One avenue was to investigate the possibilities that Asian investors had an interest in Toledo.

Bell said that since the city faced a $48 million debt, he BELL didn’t even think to consider Finkbeiner’s solar push. His focus was the $48 million debt, not the outgoing mayor’s agenda.

Bell said the solar industry was already established in Northwest Ohio, and he didn’t think focusing on it would bring the financial solution Bell at the helm Toledo needed. In his judgment, purWhen Mike Bell moved into the suing Asian investor interest would mayor’s offi ce Jan. 4, 2010, beating pay quicker dividends.

“When you ask me about this twoDemocrat Keith Wilkowski by a margin of 2 percent of the popular and-a-half years later, I would point vote, the local print media reported he out the fact that we’re out of debt and would not follow Finkbeiner’s lead as actually have a surplus in the city

budget,” Bell said. “I’d say that’s proof I made the right decision.”

Bell said he thinks the solar industry is, and will continue to be, an important part of Toledo. However, he says it has issues to solve, like making solar panels affordable for homeowners who want to install them in their homes. He feels confident the solar industry will continue to be a part of Toledo, and now that the city has a surplus in its budget, he may have the luxury to look at other things. Bell said he most needed to improve the city’s budget issues, and he’s pleased that he’s done that.

“I say, ‘Finkbeiner pooh-poohs that explanation. He didn’t have the defi cit he claims to have had,’ ” Finkbeiner said July 31. “Let’s just be very blunt. First, there was no $48 million deficit. That was a Mike Bell, Steve Herwat (deputy mayor of operations) made-up fi gure. I can prove it. I’ve been to The Blade . They all didn’t want to get into it.

“His debt was exactly what my debt was the last year I was mayor (2009).

The bottom fell out of the American economy and the Toledo economy. It was in October 2008, one month before the presidential election.

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■ SOLAR CONTINUED FROM A5 “The American automobile industry is very relevant. The American automobile industry was fleecing Toledo. We dropped $28 million in anticipated revenue from 2007 to the end of 2008. To be precise, when I began my last year as mayor in 2009, it was $27.7 million debt that I had to make up during the year 2009.

“I didn’t make it all up. I made all of it up but about $4.5 million. So that $27.7 million that I had as a deficit to make up in 2009 was also what Mr. Bell had, because the economy was just as flat in 2010. He had $27.7 million plus $4.5 million that I did not balance the budget with (for a total deficit of $32.2 million, not $48 million).

“The automobile industry is what brought the present blackand-white situation back. That’s what did it. Period. End of discussion. There’s no question.

“And the casino. The Jeep plant and the casino both have put the coffers back in respectful [shape]. No budget cutting. No fewer and no more bodies working for the city.

“And, secondly, [making up the deficit is] no explanation to running off to China thrice.

“And at the moment, I don’t know of one single job that’s been created in Northwest Ohio as a result of all those trips to China. Not a single job,” FInkbeiner said. “If you find one and point it out, I’ll accept your correction.”

In Dec. 2011, however, Bell did publicly support a landfill reclamation project that had the potential to substantially boost Toledo’s credentials as a solar-energy hub.

OCI Solar Toledo City LLC, a partnership of two international energy companies, OCI Solar Power and CME Energy, invested an estimated $20 million into plans to install an 80-acre solar-energy field on top of capped landfills in North Toledo next

AUGUST 5, 2012 ported an alternative energy agenda, specifically backing Ohio’s Senate Bill 221 which required 25 percent of all Ohio’s energy to be generated through alternative means by 2025. That bill became law in May 2009.

In a Toledo Free Press guest column, April 4, 2008, Karl Rundgren, then managing editor and co-anchor of FOX Toledo News, praised the national attention Toledo had received for its focus on green technology that same week when CNN ran a report that featured First Solar and Xunlight.

Rundgren foreshadowed the 2009 mayoral recall drive when he pointed out a warning in that same CNN report.

“These jobs are developing, but they’ll go to the place that is prepared for them,” Rundgren wrote. “Communities that delay and debate might find themselves doing without, watching as other cities become the capitals of alternative energy. While Toledo is doing well now, I worry that we could end up our own worst enemy. Our history of territorial griping, finger pointing and baseless threats could lead to a pathetic squabble that costs time and, ultimately, jobs.”

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to I-75, located close to Chrysler’s Toledo Assembly Complex.

The project, which was predicted to generate enough electricity to power as many as 7,000 homes upon completion in 2013, was to be the largest solar-energy installation in Toledo.

In late 2011, plans were for OCI Solar Toledo City to also lease landfills from the City of Toledo for about $20,000 a year. Reports suggested that Toledo Public Power might buy energy generated from these solar fields and resell it. The end-users of that power could be local businesses and residents.

Bell said the project was a common-sense use of land that otherwise would not be redeveloped.

“It’s land that we couldn’t do any-

thing else with,” Bell said, “so it’s nice that we’ve found something positive to do on that piece of property that will help our community.”

Democrats in charge Democrat Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio when the solar energy industry took off in 2007. Strickland relinquished the office in 2011 after Republican John Kasich defeated him in the Nov. 2, 2010, election, with 49.09 percent of the vote to Strickland’s 47.04 percent.

Under Strickland, the Toledoarea solar energy companies flourished. Strickland visited Toledo often in the late 2000s to take part in ceremonies, such as when more than 1,400 panels made in Perrysburg’s First Solar plant were installed on

the Toledo Museum of Art’s rooftop.

The panels were meant to help the museum generate enough power to handle one-fifth of its energy needs.

A portion of the installation project was funded by the state through an Ohio Department of Development grant. Strickland joined local political and business leaders the day of the installation ceremony, heaping praise on the project.

“This is but one example of what can be done to make our state more progressive [and] to make us less dependent on outside supplies for our energy needs,” Strickland said. “We will look back maybe 10, 20 years from now, and we will realize the significance of what’s happening with our economy today.”

While in office, Strickland sup-

Republicans in charge When Kasich took office, his Republican-led administration criticized Strickland and former Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher for how Ohio’s $8.2 billion in federal stimulus money from the President Barack Obama-supported American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was dispersed.

Although Kasich never publicly criticized Obama, members of his administration questioned Strickland’s relationship with executives at Toledo’s Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC, suggesting that the $23,400 worth of 2010 campaign contributions by four Willard & Kelsey executives were improper and indicated favoritism from Strickland.

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On March 10, 2010, State Sen. Mark Wagoner joined fellow Republicans in criticizing Strickland. They called for the governor to be more open to “game-changing investments,� such as the rejected proposal offered by local solar company executive Norm Johnston, chairman of nonprofit group Ohio Advanced Energy, vice chairman of Germany’s Calyxo GmbH and chief executive of Calyxo’s North American subsidiary, to use state funding to cover 30 former industrial sites with solar panels.

Johnston had complained about the Strickland administration’s rejection of his $750 million proposal to build 30 solar fields on cleaned-up industrial sites throughout Ohio.

Johnston claimed Strickland was to blame for Ohioans not having thousands more jobs in solar industry in 2010.

Strickland countered, saying he put emphasis on solar and other renewable energies as two of the most exciting prospects for reversing what he said felt like a decade-long recession in Ohio.

Strickland said his approach would have resulted in thousands of solar jobs for Ohioans. Then-gubernatorial candidate Kasich criticized Strickland over what Kasich said was the disappearance of some 300,000 jobs during Strickland’s administration.

Strickland asserted that his solar policy adjustments would have created more jobs sooner had Republicans not opposed legislation that would establish a market for solar products.

Republicans reacted angrily to the suggestion they opposed any job-cre-

ating legislation. “We passed Senate Bill 221 ‌ that moved advanced alternative energy further down the road in Ohio, and that was a very bipartisan effort to do so,â€?

Rep. Randy Gardner said. “The strongest champion on SB 221, I think, was at the time [former Republican House leader] Jon Husted.�

One Republican’s strategy The animosity between Ohio’s Democratic and Republican parties escalated in April when Jeff Jacobson, former Republican lawmaker and current secretary-treasurer of The Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (OAQDA), moved to turn over three Toledo-area solar companies to the attorney general’s collections department for failing to make scheduled payments on millions in low-interest state loans issued in 2010. “I don’t know why companies would think it’s OK to take our money and not pay,� Jacobson told media April 15. “Us doing nothing is not a good reaction to something like that.�

Other OAQDA members did not support Jacobson’s motion. Jacobson acknowledged that he didn’t expect his motion to garner support, but said he made it to send a message from Kasich’s administration to Ohio companies that the OAQDA is keeping detailed records and expects to be paid back the money it loans.

Katie Sabatino, an Ohio Department of Development spokesperson, said such drastic measures may become common if businesses “don’t live up to the commitments they promised [because] we’re going to take appropriate action. We want to make sure we’re being business friendly in letting

Visit www.toledofreepress.com m them repay their loans, but still being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.�

Willard & Kelsey Solar and Xunlight Corp. have made interest-only payments on Advanced Energy loans of $5.1 and $4 million, respectively. This despite the fact that their loan agreements required them to make principal payments. Willard & Kelsey’s $5.1 million loan and a separate $5 million loan from the Department of Development will come due Sept. 30.

On April 15, Mossie Murphy, Willard & Kelsey’s chief financial officer, insisted that the firm never misused state funds and always complied with state law. He said private funding, which had also been scrutinized in the local print media, is used at the discretion of Willard & Kelsey’s executives and not subject to public review. “We view the state money as sacred, and the state loans we fully intend to pay,� Murphy told media.

The third firm, Buckeye Silicon of Toledo, has not made a $2,400-amonth interest payment on its $1.4 million loan in 2012, although the firm was supposed to begin paying $25,000 a month on principal starting May 2012.

Educational leadership Toledoans appreciated the notoriety then-Gov. Strickland brought their city when he christened Northwest Ohio an official hub of solar energy research and innovation, on July 1, 2010. Many saw the ceremony as an economic-development coming-of-age party intended to boost investment and create local jobs in alternative energy.

Strickland’s ceremony confirmed something that Dan Johnson, then-

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provost and chief operating officer of Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and UT president emeritus, already knew. A year earlier, Johnson expressed that same pride and delight when he saw UT and Xunlight accept leadership roles in the international solar energy industry by representing Toledo at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Johnson encouraged more members of the Toledo business and educational communities to attend future summits.

In a Toledo Free Press guest column Feb. 13, 2009, Johnson wrote, “To compete, we must have a strategy that recognizes and takes into account what is happening globally as well as nationally and locally. Participating in the World Future Energy Summit was a good move and one that should be repeated every JOHNSON year.�

Frank Calzonetti, UT’s vice president of research and development, praised Johnson’s strategy, saying UT’s decision to attend the summit spoke volumes about Toledo’s commitment to the solar energy industry. “Our presence at this meeting sends a message that we are a global player and gives us an opportunity to show leading companies, investors and government officials why Toledo is a good place for research collaboration, business location and investment in renewable energy,�

Calzonetti said.

More than three years later, Johnson said he has been privileged to attend the past three World Future Energy Summit conventions and “see the global input into the development of solar energy. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of companies worldwide involved in solar energy research and development.� That exposure has convinced Johnson that “we must collaborate together.� “What we’ve seen happen in Toledo [these past four years] in terms of response to specific solar industry companies is the result of a shift of policy decisions,� he said. “The enthusiasm we saw here in the United States in 2008 produced a considerable investment and a large number of startups. As those start-ups developed and matured, the market and business cycles took over. “Look at the auto industry as an example. Almost, if not all, the start-ups 75 years ago are gone now,�

Johnson said. “The industry grew, and as technology developed the startups of the early 20th century gave way to other companies. ■SOLAR CONTINUES ON A8

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A8 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ SOLAR CONTINUED FROM A7 “The shake-up we see happening in the solar industry could have and should have been expected. It’s a natural process in the business cycle. If you look at it from a global perspective, it’s a pattern we see in all new industries.

“It’s also very important to recognize that demand for solar energy is affected by policy. We’ve been strong on the technical development side. We need to be as strong on policy issues.

“Also, although we have been strong on things like technological development, we have not been strong on marketing supply. Some companies and some countries have done it better than others. We have much to learn about how to market solar energy.”

Johnson insists “there is still a lot of potential for Toledo. However, we need to have strong leadership in this area.

We need leadership. Where will it come from? That will be interesting to see.”

Finkbeiner said the leaders for economic development in this region are the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University, the Regional Growth Partnership (RGP), the Port Authority and the mayor.

“The University of Toledo has been a tremendous leader because it has the wherewithal and the staff to assist with the research and development aspect of things as they did with Harold McMaster.”

In discussing Willard & Kelsey’s continuing research and development, including 3-by-6 and 4-by-8 solar panels and higher-than-industry-standard, energy-efficient solar windows, Michael Cicak praised UT’s researchers and their work with his firm.

“You can’t sell the University of Toledo short,” Cicak said July 19. “They have some damn good people who are working very, very diligently with us with some projects.”

Cicak, chairman and CEO of Wil-

lard & Kelsey, was an original partner with Harold McMaster in the pioneering developmental work UT did with GlassTech Solar in 1984 and Solar Cells, Inc. in 1990. Solar Cells eventually became First Solar after being bought by True North Partners, LLC in 1999 and renamed First Solar, Inc.

Community leadership Finkbeiner said he is particularly disappointed in what he called a lack of leadership from the RGP and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, organizations that he said played a major role in promoting the solar industry from 2006-09.

As an example, Finkbeiner pointed to Steven Weathers, then-president and CEO of the Regional Growth Partnership, who came out on June 8, 2007, in strong support of the University of Toledo’s Northwest Ohio Science and Technology Corridor as a way to diversify and stabilize the region’s economy.

“I see it as the branding of an area like Silicon Valley where we can bring together all the components of economic development within Northwest Ohio, becoming a center of innovative technology in adMONSKE dition to automotive manufacturing,” Weathers said.

The RGP is responsible for marketing and promoting Northwest Ohio. The Port Authority aims to generate transportation and economic development in the Toledo area.

Finkbeiner said both have “dropped the ball.”

In RGP’s defense, its president and CEO, Dean Monske, said that through RGP’s editorial marketing program, “We continuously communicate with national and international media, pro-

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“When we began pitching our regional solar story in 2007, we were fortunate to catch the media at a time when ‘green’ industry was the hot topic. What resulted were dozens of stories about this region in top-tier media outlets across the world. Today, we still pitch this story on a national level, but most media

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“Most growth in the local solar industry has taken place in the creation of new startup companies.

The lead entity in working directly with technology startups is Rocket Ventures, LLC, a venture capital organization created as a joint venture in 2011 through the RGP and University of Toledo Innovation Enter-

prises,” Monske said.

Prior to the joint venture, Rocket Ventures operated directly under the RGP, where it worked with technology-based startups, including solar companies, Monske said.

“The recent merger presents a more sustainable and lower-cost platform to continue providing services to technology-based clients,” Monske said.

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Though I am an optimist, when talking investing, I am a realist first.

Investors should realize that for the last 30 years interest rates have been dropping, so it has been like going downhill for the economy.

As a result we (as a country) were going way too fast when we hit the bottom of the (interest rate) hill, and now there is nowhere to go but up.

Literally.

Rates are at zero, they will go up the next move. And that puts downward pressure on real estate equities and commodities.

Even if these grow, which they still can, they grow slower because of these pressures.

My point is that we are not going downhill any more.

We are now coasting on level ground with a big (interest rate) mountain in front of us.

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Where I believe that deflation outweighs inflation risk right now, inflation will spike at some point So that means all historical charts are null and void. We are truly in uncharted waters.

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“Undoubtedly, the global economic downturn has hampered growth in solar,” Monske said. “However, with our core capacity in this industry, combined with our regional competitive assets spanning the traditional sectors such as workforce, geographic location, education, transportation and quality of life, Northwest Ohio can maintain and enhance its standing as a major player in the industry.”

The ultimate responsibility Finkbeiner also pointed to the mayor, whom he said “remains the most important” leader in the region’s economic development.

“Those three organizations (UT, the RGP and the Port Authority), and that one individual, is where the responsibility lies. The glory goes to them if we gain and grow jobs, and the responsibility is on their shoulders if we don’t do that,” Finkbeiner said.

“I believe that one, if not the most important reason [for the decline of

the solar industry in this area], is all of the attention, excitement, glory and journalism following the very early Mike Bell-tenure trip to China.

It took us off the message. It took us off focus. We began to look at the relationships with China, not the rest of the world, as the single most important economic development initiative.

And I haven’t heard hardly a word about alternative energy since that China topic was introduced.

“In this man’s opinion, the Chinese have not created hardly a job in the United States of America. They’re investors in real estate in this country.

They aren’t manufacturers. They aren’t doing major technology investments.

They’re basically real estate investors — a hotel in Downtown Toledo, the Marina District, and a docks property in East Toledo — but the jobs are not a part of their mission.

“Since we got so involved with that China thing, I haven’t heard, read hardly a word about alternative energy and its significance.

“Some region of the United States is

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The world is overheating. It’s becoming more and more known to even the doubting Thomases, and we can’t continue to be held hostage to dictators in other parts of the world who don’t really share our belief in democracy, in freedom, in respect for women.

“And so just to get their oil, we sell our principles and our very important constitutional guarantees of freedom and opportunity. We sell those out just to get oil and support dictators that are harsh, unfair to significant parts of the population.

“But we, within the confines of the continental United States, need to be that region that isn’t guided by gray skies, as you now know.”

Finkbeiner also discounted any argument that sunnier climates might steal Toledo’s solar energy potential.

“I didn’t know this until the last two or three or four years ago when I asked the question, ‘Are we going to be fore-

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closed upon to the Arizonas and the Californias because of their supposedly clear skies and sunshine?’

“The response that I got was, ‘No. It has nothing to do with that or First Solar wouldn’t have picked that site in Toledo to locate.’

“So I’d say the sun is still rising on alternative energy options,” he said.

“I hope that alternative energy advocates, including Northwest Ohioans like Marcy Kaptur, Bob Latta and Sherrod Brown, will continue ... not just with whatever the popularity quote of the month is. We have got to be consistently keeping our eye on any development opportunities in the field of alternative energy that we might be able to welcome to Northwest Ohio, using the resources at UT.” ✯ Research sources for Part III are posted at www.toledofreepress.com.

Next week in Part IV: Explore some of the potential answers to the most important solar energy question: “Where do we go from here?”

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CULTURE

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Toledo Pride is moving to the Downtown streets, expanding its parade route and adding several new activities — factors organizers say will make this year’s event bigger and better than ever.

The three-day weekend will kick off with a Nite Glo 5K/fun run on Aug. 10. Aug. 11 will feature a parade at noon followed by a commitment ceremony for 10 couples and an event lineup that includes community vendors, live music, a drag queen show and after-parties. On Aug. 12, participants can cool down with a water balloon fight and community ice cream social.

About 5,000 people attended Toledo Pride last year in Promenade Park and more are expected this year as the event moves to Levis Square, said Lexi Staples, executive director of the Pride of Toledo foundation and event director for Toledo Pride.

This is the third year for Toledo

Pride and the second year for the parade. The event was moved because of construction at Promenade Park.

“We’re just jazzed. It’s just crazy how fast it’s been growing,” Staples said. “We’re excited to move back to Promenade next year, but I think it’s going to work out so much better [to be Downtown this year]. The main benefit is the cool parade route.”

The parade route will start at Levis Square and wind through Jefferson Avenue, Huron Street and Adams Street before ending back at Levis Square, located on North St. Clair Street between Jefferson and Madison avenues.

Mayor Mike Bell and Jennifer Tyrrell of Bridgeport, Ohio, will serve as grand marshals. Tyrrell, a lesbian and mother of four, recently gained national attention after she was removed by the Boy Scouts of America from her son’s Cub Scout den mother position because of her sexual orientation.

Parade Coordinator Torie Thorne said the parade is fun for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation.

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It’s family-friendly. It’s just a really good time. Last year, it went really well, so I can only imagine it will be a million times better this year.”

Following the parade, 10 couples will participate in a commitment ceremony in Levis Square organized by Toledo Pride in partnership with Support Marriage Equality in Ohio.

A Community Connection event will run from 1-7 p.m., featuring more than 60 vendor booths as well as food and drinks. Live entertainment, including bands and a drag show, will run until midnight.

“We’ve got some great performers coming in,” Staples said. “The entertainment will be on a higher scale. It’s just going to be bigger and better.”

Minneapolis-based Spearz, an allboy Britney Spears cover band, will headline the musical acts at 9 p.m.

Other performers include Amanda Rice at 12:45 p.m., Toledo cover band The Rivets at 1:35 p.m., Ohio powerpop/electronic rock artist Master T.C. at 2:30 p.m., techno pop singer/ songwriter Christopher Norman of Ann Arbor at 3:40 p.m., synth-driven electronic pop group Wideband Network, featuring vocalist Casey Clark of Toledo, at 4:50 p.m., rock cover band Arctic Clam of Toledo at 6:10 p.m. and electronic DJ Kenneth Thomas of Detroit at 7:30 p.m. Times are subject to change.

The Drag Extravaganza, starting at 10:30 p.m., will include Mystique Summers, a contestant in season two of Logo TV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as well as local favorites Felaciana Thunderpussy, Deja Dellataro, London Asia, Amber Stone and Bois with Outskirts.

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The inaugural Nite Glo 5K was organized by recent University of Toledo graduate Justin Veigel. He said his high school cross-country team in Akron hosted a similar event and he thought it would be a fun addition to Toledo Pride.

“Most Prides have a 5K competition, but we wanted to do something different than everyone else and do it at night,” Veigel said. “We thought that would be pretty cool and thought it’d be a great way to get people to Toledo early and get them to explore a little more.”

Participants will receive colored glow sticks and run through an illuminated course on UT’s main campus.

There will also be a pet-friendly one-

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The parade is just a melting pot of everyone in the community. It’s always a lot of good energy. It’s familyfriendly. It’s just a really good time. Last year, it went really well, so I can only imagine it will be a million times better this year.”

— Parade Coordinator Tori Thorne mile event for participants to “run, walk or roll.” All participants will also receive a T-shirt.

Registration starts at 6 p.m. Aug. 10. The race begins at 9 p.m. Participants can preregister at toledopride. com. Cost is $18 for the 5K and $15 for the one-mile event. Proceeds will benefit the Pride of Toledo Foundation, Equality Toledo and Spectrum UT, the LGBTQA student group at UT.

Sunday Funday Sunday Funday, hosted by the Owens Community College Gay Straight Alliance in partnership with the Toledo Pride Foundation, will run from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 12 in the quad between College Hall, Health Technologies Hall and the Child Care Center at Owens’ Toledoarea campus.

Guests are encouraged to bring their own picnic baskets, blankets and chairs to the family-friendly, alcoholfree event featuring a water balloon tournament at 1 p.m. and ice cream social at 3 p.m., said event coordinator Lily Briggs, president of the Owens Gay Straight Alliance. Music, giveaways and other activities, including beanbag toss, Frisbee and sidewalk chalk, are also planned.

Admission is free, but donations of nonperishable food items for Owens’ Harvest Food Pantry are encouraged, Briggs said.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Briggs said. “I hope people just leave knowing everyone around them accepted them for who they are and they could just let loose and have fun with their friends and kids and family. Toledo Pride is the one place, once a year, that you can just truly be yourself and not worry about anything.”

Toledo Free Press is the media sponsor of Toledo Pride. For more information, visit www.toledopride.com. ✯

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EDUCATION

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

Lake Local Schools treasurer Jeff Carpenter calls it a perfect storm.

Shattered by state cuts and federal funding losses and starved by dwindling tax revenue, schools statewide are trying to pick up the pieces by asking voters to approve levies.

On Aug. 7, Carpenter’s district will seek votes to pass a 6.75-mill operating levy while Swanton Local Schools will try to pass a renewal 4.45-mill levy. The two districts’ ballot issues join 34 other school issues on ballots statewide. Over the past two years, the average number of school levies appearing simultaneously on ballots statewide was about 20, said Howard Fleeter, consultant for the Education Tax Policy Institute.

Toledo Public Schools (TPS) announced in May that it would put a 6.9-mill continuing levy on the November ballot. But the district might lower that amount based on a betterthan-projected budget calculation

reached in the past few weeks.

The districts on Lucas and Wood County ballots have something in common: Their last attempts at levies failed. Officials say they have no more room to cut.

“They’ve cut us to the bone from the state and the federal level and the only thing we have left is to go to our property owners and ask for assistance,” said Jim Gault, chief academic officer TPS.

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Losing money Lake Local Schools lost more than $1.6 million in federal and state funding from 2011 to 2012, while TPS has lost $3.3 million in state dollars. Cuts pushed the districts to seek levies.

When the last TPS levy failed in November 2010, drastic measures were taken.

TPS closed Libbey High School, cut middle school and freshmen sports and stopped busing high school students. The walk zone for other grades increased to two miles from one.

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A14 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ LEVIES CONTINUED FROM A12 “Everything we stated that would be lost came to fruition,” Gault said. “I’m not sure if the community thought those things were going to happen.”

Since 2008, the district has let go at least 1,000 employees and ended the gifted program for grades three through six. If the November levy were to pass, the district could bring back the gifted program, Gault said.

School funding has been on the decline for years, but the most recent major cuts came from a state budget passed last year that left Ohio public schools with $2.8 billion less than before from both federal and state sources. Federal stimulus money had run out — a reality districts had braced for, but one that nonetheless took its toll, Carpenter said.

Less support from the state and federal government saddles local property owners with the responsibility to cover district losses, creating disparities among districts based on property value and voters willing to pass levies, said Lisa Sobecki, TPS school board member.

The filing deadline for the November ballot is August 8 so it is too soon to tell how many schools will ultimately seek levies, but the number is expected to be high.

“What we’ve been expecting is that the effects of the budget are really going to show up on the ballot this year,” Fleeter said.

Unconstitutional Gov. John Kasich had to fill an $8 billion budget hole when he took office; law requires that Ohio maintain a balanced budget each cycle.

Mike Mahoney, spokesperson for the Ohio Educators Association, said KASICH educators are waiting for Kasich to release a new funding formula.

“Ohio’s elected officials have a constitutional responsibility to provide high-quality public education regardless of where [students] reside and socioeconomic status,” Mahoney said. “We are supporting the development of an objective method in a transparent funding formula that is tied to what children need for their education and instruction and we haven’t seen that yet.”

Ohio’s method for funding public education was ruled unconstitutional 10 years ago and state politicians have been mulling over the issue since. Former Gov. Ted Strickland presented House Bill 1, which used

an evidence-based model to identify successful practices and allot money for districts to implement a list of components, but Kasich scrapped it when he took office.

Carpenter said he didn’t think Strickland’s plan would have worked given the funding levels.

“It was a good attempt to try to quantify what a school district does and how much each costs, but there were 28 different major components, and of that, four of those didn’t get funded at all and 10 of them were partially funded,” Carpenter said. “I don’t care what formula or method you come up with, if you’re not going to fully fund it then why bother?”

Kasich’s spokesperson Rob Nichols said that in the wake of spent federal stimulus dollars and depleted local revenues, the state’s payment share increased by 3.5 percent with Kasich’s budget. The office will likely release a new funding formula in conjunction with next year’s budget.

“Ohio is one of the worst states for putting money into the actual instruction and pouring too much money into bureaucracy and red tape and administration,” Nichols said.

As schools await a new plan, Mahoney said districts statewide are having to cut nontesting areas, including physical education, music and art programs. At risk are a number of advanced placement courses for foreign languages and equipment such as up-to-date computers, he said.

“There is a slightly different story at every school district, but the sad thing is that what we all have in common is less opportunity for students,” Mahoney said.

Jeff Schlade, superintendent for Swanton Local Schools, said federal and state losses have made passing this levy more critical. Voters approved this levy in 1995 and have renewed it multiple times since, with the exception of last March.

If passed, the levy does not represent a new tax, just a continuation of the same millage district voters have paid since 1995, Schlade said.

The district’s revenue has dropped to $12 million from $14 million since 2009, resulting in a round of cuts that severed the high school industrial arts program. The district also laid off two secretarial employees and an elementary music teacher.

Some positions were left unfilled after employees retired as well, said Joyce Kinsman, treasurer of Swanton Local Schools.

Not alone Carpenter echoed layoff concerns.

The district has laid off eight teachers, two counselors and 12 classified employees within the past couple of years, and passing the November levy is a matter of staying afloat, he said.

Lake Local Schools didn’t lose much basic state aid — but lost staggering amounts from state-collected tax revenue, Carpenter said. A few years ago, a local tax on personal, tangible property was phased out and replaced by a statecollected commercial activity tax. This new fund sufficiently supplanted the local tax until 2012, when the district

AUGUST 5, 2012 received $1.1 million a year compared to its share of $1.4 million in 2011. By 2013, the state will allot Lake Local Schools $928,260 from that fund. The state also eliminated a public utility tangible tax, which brought the district $130,800 — creating a “tremendous loss” for the schools, Carpenter said.

Losing these types of taxes became

the real kicker for districts statewide over the past two years, Fleeter said.

In addition to that, the district gets less money from the state each time a student takes a voucher to go to another district or a private school, Carpenter said.

“We’re not alone,” he said.

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BGSU, UT collaborate on avian research project

By Brigitta Burks TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER bburks@toledofreepress.com

It’s for the birds — but also the bats. And the wind turbines.

In 2009, because of the potential effects wind turbines may have on birds and bats, Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo partnered for a Coastal Ohio Wind Project study of birds and bats that migrate to Lake Erie. The study is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and focuses on species that migrate at night.

Birds can die if they run into turbines while bats can hemorrhage because of the low air pressure created by wind turbines, said BGSU biologist Jeremy Ross. Ross is spearheading the nature side of the study while Mohsin Jamali, UT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his team of students offer technological support on the project and help analyze data.

“The conflict arises because while Lake Erie has strong, stable winds, it’s

also known as a major migratory stopping point,” Ross said. “The potential threats [birds and bats] face during migration are the biggest threats they face during their lives.”

The project’s objective is to collect data and provide information to policymakers, Jamali said.

“We’re very excited about this project and happy to be able to shed light on the interactions of birds, bats and wind turbines and develop public policy where [turbines] should be placed and not be placed,” Jamali said.

Ross said Northwest Ohio draws tourists who come just to view the migration of songbirds. These tourists account for more than $26 million in the northern Ohio economy.

Although there are no industrialscale development plans in place, there have been proposals for wind turbines on the lake, Ross said. He added that the study should make policymakers aware of birds’ and bats’ patterns and allow the government and developers to mitigate the impact of wind turbines on the species.

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PROVIDING TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR BGSU RESEARCHERS COLLECTING DATA ON BIRD AND BAT MIGRATIONS ARE UT ENGINEERING STUDENTS MOHAMMAD WADOOD MAJID, VAMSHI GUMMALLA, AMIN JARRAH AND GOLROKH MIRZAEI AND UT PROFESSOR MOHSIN JAMALI, RIGHT, POSING WITH PROJECT EQUIPMENT. AT LEFT IS BGSU BIOLOGIST JEREMY ROSS.

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■ AVIAN CONTINUED FROM A17 Ross began studying the potential effects of wind turbines on birds and bats in 2007, specifically focusing on the wind turbines at BGSU’s Firelands campus before shifting his focus to the lake. UT came on board two years later, after BGSU approached the institution.

From mid-April to the end of May and from mid-August to the end of October, Ross deploys the study’s equipment at a spot on the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge shoreline.

He starts a little before sunset and ends before dawn.

The study uses acoustic recordings, which allow the team to determine which species and how many are present based on their sounds, radar to determine the velocity and ascent and descent rates and thermal cameras to determine coordinates.

Jamali said the UT-developed radar could provide other institutes with a way of creating cheaper radars. His radar costs $100,000 compared to the $200,000-$500,000 commercial radars typically cost.

Since public institutes publish their work, other research teams could potentially recreate the radar based on UT’s articles.

Jamali said he hopes to keep the team, which also includes BGSU faculty members Joe Firazado and Vern Bingman and BGSU faculty member and principal investigator Peter Gorsevski, together for a new study.

The UT professor plans to travel to Memphis, Tenn., in August to attend a meeting and look for potential funding for the new project seeking to prevent birds and bats from colliding with planes.

However, the team also wants to extend funding for its current project, which is set to end Nov. 30. If the project continues, Ross believes the team could set up multiple research spots on the lake and even become a leader in the field.

Ross also praised Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who got the ball rolling on the project.

“This project really owes a lot to Marcy Kaptur. She spearheaded this effort,” he said. ✯

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The relocated Barnes & Noble bookstore has been a great success since its grand opening July 11 near the University of Toledo at the corner

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“We far exceeded last year’s sales (for the same time period) in the first week we were open,” said Colleen Strayer, general manager of the campus bookstore operated by Barnes & Noble.

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Strayer reported that foot traffic in the store, which is part of UT’s Gateway Project, has been steady, with people responding, “beautiful,” when asked what they think of the store.

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■ BOOKSTORE CONTINUED FROM A18 The cafe has been an especially big hit with customers, she said.

“We have seen a marked increase in families with children in the store as compared to our former location in the Student Union,” Strayer said.

Bookstore and UT officials hoped the Barnes & Noble store would act as an anchor for Gateway development and attract customers from the surrounding community.

“The opening of the new Barnes & Noble was a great way to kick off Gateway phase one and showcase the institution’s commitment to creating a student-centered environment,” said Matt Schroeder, vice president for real estate and business development for the University of Toledo Foundation.

Schroeder said foundation members began talking with students several years ago about concepts for a gateway on the southwest corner of the UT campus. That talk became a reality with the Gateway Project.

“We wanted to plant a flag in the ground to show our commitment to reinvestment in the community with the Gateway development,” Schroeder said.

In 2004, the UT Foundation created a subsidiary, the UT Foundation Real Estate Corp., to handle all real estate transactions and investment of property for the university,

Schroeder said. He joined the UT Foundation following the merger of the university and former Medical University of Ohio.

“The foundation’s sole mission is to utilize investment dollars to generate a return for the university and improve the overall experience for students, to help with recruitment and retention.

Students look at the overall experience at the university,” Schroeder said.

‘Academic superstore’ Students may not recognize the former UT Bookstore in its new home under the Barnes & Noble banner.

However, Barnes & Noble has operated the university bookstore for more than 20 years according to Strayer, a UT graduate.

“We wanted people to feel like they’re walking into a Barnes & Noble store. We call it an academic superstore,” Strayer said.

Customers will recognize the typical bookstore displays with plenty of additional features, including a fullservice cafe selling Starbucks products.

A convenience area will offer drinks, snacks, health and beauty aids for sale.

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The Gateway Project development includes 50,000 square feet of commercial space. Barnes & Noble occupies 18,300 square feet on two floors, leaving an additional 22,000 square feet of first-floor retail space.

Other tenants at Gateway include a Great Clips salon and Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, scheduled to open in mid-August.

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Owens alumni, area businesses partner for school supply drive

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Owens Community College’s Alumni Association in collaboration with several area businesses is reaching out to area children in need by hosting a month-long “Backpack to the Future� school supply drive.

The drive started July 17 and runs through Aug. 17. Books-A-Million, Directions Credit Union, Great Lakes Credit Union and Genoa Bank are partners in the drive.

Items needed are gently used or new backpacks, crayons, markers, bottles of glue, glue sticks, colored pencils, pencils, pink erasers, school boxes, pocket folders, marble covered composition books and tissues.

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plies to low-income kindergartners, partnering with elementary schools in Lucas, Wood and Hancock counties in which a high percentage of students are eligible to receive free and reduced price lunches. “We’re unique in the standpoint that we don’t give supplies to individuals directly,� said Laura Moore, executive director of the Owens Alumni Association. “We give the supplies and the backpacks to the schools so they can handle the distribution because they know their students and their families best.�

Last year’s drive collected 426 backpacks and 8,200 school supplies. Since establishing the program in 2004, the alumni association has given away 2,356 backpacks and 42,661 school supplies to Northwest Ohio students. “As you can imagine, every year the need is greater,� Moore said. “We

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■ SUPPLIES CONTINUED FROM A20 “It was just a blessing,” Richardson said. “With the economy the way it was, just to look a parent in the face when they are struggling to find a job or make ends meet and say, ‘We can handle this,’ was great.

Tissues, folders, notebooks, backpacks — you name it, we needed it and it was there. Whenever we’d see someone who needed a backpack, we gave them one.

“If someone lost one, we gave them one. We didn’t have to fret, didn’t have to spend money. We just had to come down to the supply room and get it and they lasted us and will take us to the beginning of the school year. The group at Owens is just wonderful. You know they are doing this from the heart and it just gets bigger and bigger each year. We were very fortunate to have those supplies. I am forever grateful.”

There are 19 community drop-off locations: ✯ Books-A-Million bookstores (2105 Levis Commons Blvd. at Levis Commons in Perrysburg and 1800 Tiffin Ave. in the Findlay Village Mall in Findlay). ✯ Directions Credit Union branches (5121 Whiteford Road in Sylvania, 3000 Tremainsville Road in Toledo, 3321 Briarfield Blvd. in

Maumee, 4150 Brockway Drive in Perrysburg, 3312 Dustin Road in Oregon, 2533 S. Reynolds Road in Toledo, 3450 Central Ave., Suite 128, in Toledo, 27427 Crossroads Pkwy. in Rossford and 1 Owens Corning Pkwy. in Toledo). ✯ Genoa Bank branches (801 Main St. in Genoa, 3201 Navarre Ave. in Oregon, 703 Conant St. in Maumee, 24950 W. state Route 51 in Millbury and 9920 Old U.S. 20 in Rossford). ✯ Great Lakes Credit Union branches (5823 Monroe St. in Sylvania, 580 Craig Drive in Perrysburg and 1890 N. Wilkinson Way at the O-I Plaza in Perrysburg).

Area residents can also bring their donations to Owens’ Office of Alumni Relations on the Toledo area campus, 30335 Oregon Road in Perrysburg Township, the Arrowhead Park Learning Center at 1724 Indian Wood Circle in Maumee or the Education Center Atrium on the Findlay-area campus.

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FAMILY PRACTICE

School papers that I used to know M

y first child was born both fight tooth and nail to ensure around the same time as the equality in something as nondemainstream digital pho- script as a glass of water, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite tography. He was only a month or frightened by the long-term contwo old before we made the leap to sequence of accidentally throwing pixelated pictures and never looked away oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 Days of School crown back. While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more than appre- and not the otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Such a simple ciative to have waved goodbye to mistake might go unnoticed now but buying and developing rolls of film come back to bellow at me with conforever, I sometimes wish we would tempt in, say, 2032.

Of course, what I have leaped about six also need to recognize months earlier. Those is that there are boxes first few precious upon boxes of my own weeks of my sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life academic and artsstill sit un-digitized in and-crafts history in a plastic storage conthe depths of my partainer somewhere in entsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home a few miles our basement. I have away. Yet I have little a feeling I will one day desire to excavate kick around similar them to reminisce disappointment reShannon SZYPERSKI and, thankfully, zero garding the mixed forinterest in comparing them to my mats of my childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school work.

In my long, yet-to-be-recorded siblingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stash for rivalry purposes. list of musts for new parents, I I suspect that as I meander through should no doubt include a warning my golden years I will still have a to have a paper plan before your greater interest in recalling my own first child starts school. I was, in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little handprints and first fact, aware of the paper flood that attempts at letter formation than I accompanies the academic years be- will my own.

In light of the fact that all of these fore my oldest entered elementary, but I foolishly figured I would take material memories will most likely it as it came. Perhaps it was still my remain in my care for some time, I naivetĂŠ, or perhaps it was that I was should probably keep the stockpile also wrapped up in parenting a tod- as simple as possible. After kids come dler and producing child number grandkids, and then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking three, but I apparently threw just serious possible exponential plastic about anything that came home into storage tub growth. Actually, it is the a seemingly bottomless tribute-to- sight of Mount Plastic Storage Tub that makes me long for the day, hopekindergarten pit.

Busyness aside, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honestly just fully not too far down the road, when not that great at deciding what to toss the school paper flood will turn into and what to keep for posterityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake more of a digital affair.

We are no doubt moving into when it comes to school papers. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve resorted to asking my parenting peers the age of the digital backpack, but how they balance the ongoing paper weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re currently still in mixed-format surge with finding the pieces special limbo. Will I eventually not have to enough to have and to hold from this â&#x20AC;&#x153;knowâ&#x20AC;? which papers to keep for fuday forward. Opinions range from ture sentimental reference because keeping most of it from year to year so few will come home? Will I conto dumping the whole lot on a daily tinue to struggle with picking and basis. I surely want to keep some of choosing electronic documentation it, but I realize that keeping too much of my childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s academic achievements? Will I one day hold onto just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense.

Now that I have two children in those last treasured reminders of elementary school with the third pre-digitized elementary education starting preschool this fall, I am even tighter? Will my children care finding that having more than one in the least?

Surprisingly, my hope is that the or two kids makes saving things space-and-sanity-prohibitive rather material side of school will slow to a quickly. I am also somewhat men- best-of-the-best-only trickle with the tally crippled by the fact that I saved hundreds of yearly worksheets finding most everything from my sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kin- their way to a tablet computer or other dergarten year but had wised up a bit electronic medium. As is clearly eviby the time my daughter had entered denced by the TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoardersâ&#x20AC;? kindergarten. Considering they will and others of its kind, an overabun-

dance of worldly possessions, even school papers, is not our finest quality as a society. After all, it is the feeling

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By Brigitta Burks TOLEDO FREEE PRESS STAFF WRITER bburks@toledofreepress.com

About 40 area teens have been learning about the health care industry this summer as part of ProMedica’s Summer Youth Employment Program.

At Mayor Mike Bell’s encouragement, ProMedica hired the teens for a variety of jobs in the eight-week program. Their jobs included tasks in groundskeeping, patient care, pediatrics, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), transportation and even the surgical area (sterilizing equipment).

Seven of the teens were referred by The Source, a local employment service. The teens, almost all from metro Toledo, worked 24 hours a week and received minimum wage.

The teens, 16-19, were thoroughly screened and ProMedica received more than 120 applications, said Wendy Papenfuss, the director of workforce planning at ProMedica.

The program was celebrated Aug. 1 at Ottawa Park. The teens were fed CityBBQ and listened to remarks by Randy Oostra, CEO of ProMedica, and Bell. Many of the teens’ supervisors also attended.

“They’ve fallen in love with these kids. They don’t want them to leave,” Papenfuss said.

One of those supervisors is Connie Bahls, operations manager, who oversaw three teens, including Start High School student Caleb Self.

Self is responsible for cleaning up the Renaissance Lobby this summer. He said the job, his first at Toledo Hospital, has taught him values like hard work and responsibility. “[Visitors] say the place has never looked so good,” Bahls said.

Papenfuss and Oostra said they hope the summer program exposed the teens to the health care industry.

“It’s good for the youth as far as getting exposure to health care careers. I think it’s good as far as thinking about our future pipeline of employees. I think it’s a great thing to help support the city in these economic times,” Oostra said.

Jalyssa Parker and Saveenah Allen, both recent graduates of Horizon Science Academy Toledo, said the jobs have impacted their career goals.

“Honestly, we’re young so we wouldn’t really get a job in health care, so for us to like preview [health care jobs] is a great experience,” said Parker, who used to want to be a veterinarian and now wants to be a nurse.

Parker worked in the NICU. “I got to feed, hold, everything dealing with babies,” she said.

Both Allen and Parker said they formed bonds with patients and loved their experiences.

“When I would come back and they weren’t there, I’d be like, ‘Where’s so and so?’” Parker said, adding that she was happy when the patients were released, even if she missed them.

Allen, who will attend University of Toledo in the fall, worked in pediatrics. She had already been volunteering at ProMedica before she was hired for the summer.

When asked if she had a favorite moment in the program, she replied, “The whole thing, I just enjoyed it all.”

Papenfuss said the jobs also taught the teens some basic life skills. “What we’ve found is most of them didn’t have bank accounts so we’ve had to help them set up bank accounts so they’ve learned some very basic payroll and bank account skills,” she said.

She said ProMedica would definitely consider having the program again next summer and even expanding it. Papenfuss also said ProMedica is trying to hire 12 of the teens who already graduated.

Oostra said early jobs like these offer valuable lessons.

“We all look back on our experiences and those first jobs and the impact they’ve had on our lives.

Having to get up and go to work every day, interact with people, dress appropriately, those are skills that if you don’t have that opportunity in life to be able to go to work and have those jobs and interact with people, you may not be able to learn those skills,” he said. ✯

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hundred years ago, when I was in college, one of my economics professors used to say, “If you punish a behavior you get less of it and if you reward a behavior you get more of it.” He was referring to taxes. Taxes are essentially penalizing a behavior. It is only natural that the activity you are taxing will go down and hence the revenue the government receives will not be what it expects.

More recently, this was made clearer by Arthur Laffer, with a graphic illustration aptly named the Laffer Curve. The bottom line is that there are two tax rates that produce zero revenue for the government.

The first is a zero rate of tax, which of course will produce zero revenue.

No big surprise there! The second rate that will produce zero revenue is a 100 percent tax rate.

If everything you produce is confiscated in taxes, what is your motivation for producing anything? If your net personal result is the same if you work or if you don’t work, why work?

Now the logical conclusion is that

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Taxes versus revenue there is an optimal rate of taxes that generates the most revenue for the taxing authority and yet still motivates the producers to produce. There are several factors that go into this calculation and they are constantly changing with the times.

According to Laffer, revenue responses to a tax rate change will depend upon the tax system in place, the time period being consid- Gary L. ered, the ease of moving into underground activities and the prevalence of legal loopholes.

This makes it a little more difficult than just saying lowering tax rates will increase revenue. This statement will hold generally but not absolutely.

The point I want to make with this information is how governments operate when thinking about taxes and what the reality ends up being.

Let’s take Ohio’s cigarette tax, which was increased several years ago. What the people in Columbus

do is they look at how many packs of cigarettes are sold in a year and then decide how much revenue they want based on that quantity.

For example, let’s say that 1 million packs of cigarettes are sold each day in Ohio. It makes some sense that if you add one dollar of tax to a pack of cigarettes that this tax will generate $365 million new dollars in revenue each year.

RATHBUN The reality is quite different, however.

Penalizing the purchase of cigarettes means people will purchase fewer, thereby changing their behavior or finding alternatives. The actual revenue received by the state will be considerably less than planned.

This works the same for gasoline, sugary drinks, bullets, salty snacks, alcohol, gambling or any other product or behavior the state deems worthy.

All this is well and good except the state spends the $365 million upfront and then is baffled when the revenue

“

If everything you produce is confiscated in taxes, what is your motivation for producing anything?

If your net personal result is the same if you work or if you don’t work, why work?” isn’t there. It’s even worse if the state plans on this revenue and goes out and borrows money based on these new future revenues.

It baffles my mind since I know that the state is aware of this phenomenon. Otherwise, why would it give tax incentives in order to encourage

the behavior it wants; tax credits for buying green cars, property tax abatements for building new buildings, deductions for providing health insurance to employees and many more.

As we go into this election, remember the Laffer Curve and listen to the words of the candidates when it comes to taxing (penalizing) a behavior to lower the deficit and create jobs. Look past the rhetoric and look at the economics. Both parties are guilty of this because the behavior of politicians is always about power and not about sound economics.

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By Zach Davis TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPORTS EDITOR zdavis@toledofreepress.com

The best female golfers in the country are coming to the Toledo area.

From Aug. 9-12, the city will host the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour for the 27th Jamie Farr Toledo Classic. After taking a year off the LPGA schedule, the event will make its return to the Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania.

“It’s great for the community to be able to watch the best players in the world,” said Judd Silverman, a former PGA caddie from Toledo who first brought the classic to Toledo in 1984.

Since its inception, the tournament has become a favorite stop for the LPGA. It was voted by the players as the fifth favorite tournament on the schedule.

This year’s roster of tournament entrants will bring the best the tour has to offer to Toledo. The field includes 18 of the top 20 players in the world rankings, including No. 1 Yani Tseng of Taiwan, who has held the top spot for the past 77 weeks.

Also in the tournament is defending champion Na Yeon Choi, 2008 champion Paula Creamer, five-time Jamie Farr champion Se Ri Pak, Brittany Lincicome, Cristie Kerr, Morgan Pressel and Michelle Wie. Hometown fans will have an added reason to see the tournament in Stacy Lewis. The world’s No. 2 ranked player was born in Toledo and moved to Texas before attending The University of Arkansas from 2005-08. Lewis has two victories and 10 top-10 finishes this year, racking up $1,200,169 in earnings in 2012.

Lewis and the rest of the LPGA roster will have a chance to add to their earnings totals in Toledo with a $1.3 million total purse, up from a $175,000 purse in the tournament’s inaugural season. This year’s winner’s purse is $195,000.

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JAMIE FARR TOLEDO CLASSIC DIRECTOR JUDD SILVERMAN DESCRIBES HIGHLAND MEADOWS AS ‘A SHOT-MAKER’S GOLF COURSE.’

however, the entrants will have to conquer Highland Meadows. The par-71 course, which opened in 1925, stretches 6,762 yards with the tournament course marked at 6,428 yards.

It features narrow, hilly fairways and bunkered greens, as well as a creek that runs through seven of its holes.

“Highland Meadows is a shotmaker’s golf course,” Silverman said.

“It is an old traditional parkland course that requires accurate tee shots. It’s always in excellent condition. Superintendent Dan Salois and his staff do a great job and the LPGA

players look forward to coming back to Northwest Ohio every year to play the course in front of big crowds.”

Tournament organizers are hoping for a big crowd, but perhaps not for the reason you might think.

The Jamie Farr Toledo Classic will donate net proceeds from the tournament to 10 area charities. Those organizations include Aurora House, Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo, Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center, Feed Lucas County Children, Kids Unlimited, Mom’s House, The Victory Center, YMCA/JCC of Greater Toledo,

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio and the Jamie Farr Scholarship Fund of the Toledo Community Foundation.

Since 1984, the tournament has donated $7.4 million to more than 120 different charities. The financial benefits will also impact Toledo, as Silverman projected the tournament will have close to a $10 million impact on the local economy.

More than 1,000 volunteers keep the tournament running smoothly.

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Daily tickets are $15 for weekdays or $20 for Saturday and Sunday. They are available at the gate or the three Shawn’s Irish Tavern locations. Weekly tickets are $50 and are available at the gate or at local Kroger stores. Weekly tickets include a pass for each day, including Aug. 6-8, which features daily special events. Kids 17 and younger get in free with an adult.

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By Fred Altvater TOLEDO FREE PRESS GOLF WRITER BackNine@toledofreepress.com

After taking a year off to accommodate the U.S. Senior Open, the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic returns Aug. 6-12 at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania. Longtime tournament director Judd Silverman talked with Toledo Free Press about some of this year’s new elements.

TFP: How did you get started with Toledo native and actor Jamie Farr as the tournament host?

Judd Silverman: Back in 1983 when the first Jamie Farr Classic was beginning to take shape, I had the idea of asking Mr. Farr to be involved.

Through the efforts of a high school classmate, Don Michel, we were able to contact Jamie. The first tournament was for the benefit of the Ronald McDonald House. Jamie was delighted with the idea and agreed to come on board. We have been thrilled with his involvement over the years. He seems to truly enjoy his continuing connection to his hometown and has been a great ambassador for the tournament.

TFP: How has new sponsor Hollywood Casino Toledo helped the Jamie

Farr Toledo Classic?

JS: The Hollywood Casino has become the title sponsor of the Hollywood Casino Gala Dinner & Show to be held Tuesday evening, Aug. 7, at the SeaGate Centre; 1,600-1,700 people will attend a night of dinner and top-flight entertainment. Comedian Tom Dreesen, who has been on “The Tonight Show” and performed with Frank Sinatra, will headline the evening’s entertainment.

Tickets can be obtained by contacting the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic tournament office at (419) 531-3277. We at the Jamie Farr are very thankful for their active support and look forward to a continuing relationship with the Hollywood Casino.

TFP: What is Friday at The Farr?

JS: Friday at The Farr offers an excellent opportunity for the Toledo business community to network in a relaxed and fun atmosphere on the Friday afternoon and evening of the Jamie Farr Classic. Entertainment will be provided by Nine Lives at the After Play Party around the par-3 14th hole.

The Jamie Farr Classic is continually seeking ways to make the golf tournament enjoyable for the business community. Friday at The Farr will hopefully become an annual event

for Toledo-area business people to experience the tournament and stick around for some fun and entertainment after play has ended for the day.

TFP: What is the total purse for this year’s tournament?

JS: The total purse for the LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Classic will be $1.3 million with about $200,000 going to the winner. This has increased from a total purse of $175,000 for the inaugural Jamie Farr Classic in 1984.

Natalie Gulbis, Na Yeon Choi, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Christina Kim, Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie, Morgan Pressel and Se Ri Pak are just a few of the big names that have committed to play in the 2012 Jamie Farr Classic.

TFP: How much will be donated to area charities this year?

JS: Our goal for the 2012 event is $300,000-$350,000. We won’t know the exact number until after the conclusion of the event and all the expenses are paid. We were able to donate $275,000 to area charities from the 2010 tournament, and we feel that we should be able to increase that for this year.

TFP: How excited were you to see the 2010 Jamie Farr Classic champion Na Yeon Choi win the 2012 US Women’s Open?

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Director Judd Silverman has high hopes for tournament

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TOURNEY DIRECTOR JUDD SILVERMAN SAID THIS YEAR’S PURSE IS $1.3 MILLION.

JS: It was great to see her get the major win. She just continues to improve and get better. I was personally

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Actor Jamie Farr has never lost his Toledo roots J

amie Farr, who portrayed Cpl. Max vited him to play in her LPGA tourKlinger on the popular television nament — now an LPGA Major — series “M*A*S*H,” agreed to lend the Kraft Nabisco Championship in his name and celebrity to the original Palm Springs, Calif., where Farr was paired with LPGA legJamie Farr Toledo Classic ends Beth Daniel and tournament in 1984.

Nancy Lopez.

His willingness to This was about the help promote the event same time Professional during the past 28 years Golfers’ Association has allowed the annual (PGA) professional Ladies Professional Golf Craig Stadler’s caddie Association (LPGA) and eventual Jamie Farr tournament to succeed founder and tournament where many others have director Judd Silverman not been so lucky. was seeking a celebrity Toledo Free Press re- Fred ALTVATER cently had a chance to ask Farr how he who would help promote an LPGA golf came to be associated with the Jamie tournament in Toledo.

Silverman felt Farr would be the Farr Toledo Classic, presented by perfect match as a celebrity host. He Kroger, Owens Corning and O-I. In 1983, “M*A*S*H” was just going was a likeable television star and homeout of production and Farr was not sure town Toledo boy done good. And Silwhat direction his life would take. He verman needed a big name to get the had always enjoyed watching golf and LPGA to take his bid to start an event now, with some free time on his hands, in Toledo seriously.

Silverman was originally able to decided to start playing the game. He bought a set of clubs, joined a club contact Farr through Farr’s childhood and hit the driving range to set about friend, Don Michel. Michel was a local McDonald’s franchise owner and was learning to hit the little white ball.

Singer and actress Dinah Shore involved with the Ronald McDonald learned of Jamie’s new hobby and in- House in Toledo, which was to be the

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first beneficiary of the proceeds from the new golf tournament.

The LPGA commissioner at the time, John Laupheimer, approved the idea and the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic was born.

Without the involvement of Farr from the outset, FARR the tournament might never have gotten off the ground. Now, 28 years later, the tournament is still growing.

In an email to Toledo Free Press, Farr said he thoroughly enjoys his association with the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic and looks forward to the annual tournament. He said he is very proud of the millions of dollars that have been donated to the many deserving Toledoarea charities.

Asked about the current state of his golf game, the 73-year-old Farr said he still loves the game, but doesn’t play as often as he used to. His best handicap throughout the years was an 18 and he currently plays to a 23 handicap.

He went on to add that his game is

somewhat unpredictable, but then retracted: “I take that back. My game is very predictable. ... It stinks.”

Farr does golf and plays in charity events and tournaments sponsored by former NFL quarterback Jim Kelly and singer Michael Bolton as well as the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Farr said the game is great fun although it brings with it great frustrations for amateurs and pros alike.

He said he appreciates the complexity of the game and its appeal to golfers everywhere.

“No one has ever owned the game.

Not Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer nor Bobby Jones,” Farr said. “It is just on loan to those who have excelled. I have often said that the clubs in an amateur’s hands is called equipment, but in the hands of professionals is called instruments.”

Farr wanted to express his appreciation to everyone connected to the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic who have helped make it a first-class event.

He mentioned the efforts of Silverman, his staff and the more than 1,200 volunteers and sponsors who donate time and money to make the event a success.

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Farr also wanted to thank the Toledo area business community, all the tournament chairmen over the years, the mayors of Sylvania and Toledo and the various governmental agencies that provide the services needed to carry out an event of this size.

Farr also wanted to recognize Highland Meadows Golf Club and Inverness Club for providing such wonderful facilities for the pro-ams and events that surround the tournament.

“I give a rousing, thunderous, standing ovation [to all],” Farr said.

Although he is not able to get back to the Toledo area as often as he would like, Farr said the tournament gives him a perfect reason to return every year and spend time with family and friends. Farr has never lost his Toledo roots and continues to give back to the area. He also donates time to promote the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.

In 2011, he recorded the holiday poem “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas” for a Toledo Free Press CD that benefited the Northwest Ohio Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“I try to give back as much as I can when I can,” Farr said. ✯

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Friday at The Farr mixes golf with spirit of Hens’ Opening Day

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

What do you get when you mix the fun, festive atmosphere of Mud Hens’ Opening Day with a professional golf tournament?

You get Friday at The Farr, the 14th hole at the 2012 Jamie Farr Toledo Classic presented by Kroger, Owens Corning and O-I at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania.

On Aug. 10, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tournament

will introduce a new “party atmosphere” to its 14th hole in imitation of the famed par-3 16th hole at the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Waste Management (WM) Phoenix Open at Tournament Players Club Scottsdale. That tournament takes place in Arizona in February each year.

The hole will be called “Klinger’s Club,” after Toledo native Jamie Farr’s character on the television show “M*A*S*H,” and will be part of the Friday at the Farr festivities, which begin at 1 p.m. Aug. 10.

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(Mud Hens’) Opening Day, where if the game is at three or even if it’s at fi ve, people are Downtown partying in the streets at 12 o’clock,” said Stephen Vasquez, membership development manager at the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and one of the two event organizers. “It’s kind of turned into a Downtown Toledo holiday.”

The par-3 hole will feature bleacher seating for about 400 people, an electronic scoreboard and a large concession stand nearby with food and beverages. Tshirts will be distributed to create a “white-out,” like those at basketball and football games.

Fans are encouraged to cheer, chant and sing for the golfers, like fans at the WM Phoenix Open do, Vasquez said. According to the Klinger’s Club’s Facebook page, the goal is to make the 14th hole the “loudest and most exciting hole on the LPGA tour.”

Vasquez said “cheerleaders” and “cheat sheets” with LPGA player information are in the works to help make this happen.

“If you watch the Phoenix Open, [the fans] are really quiet, but as soon as the ball is hit, they scream like crazy,” Vasquez said. “We’re going to

encourage cheering.”

Admission to Klinger’s Club is included in admission price. Daily tickets start at $15 and are available at the gate or Shawn’s Irish Tavern, which is also providing shuttle service from its 4400 Heatherdowns Blvd. location.

Weekly tickets are $50 and are available at local Kroger stores. Kids 17 and younger get in free with an adult. More ticket information is available online at www.jamiefarrtoledoclassic.com.

Once the last golfer finishes her round at approximately 7 p.m. Aug. 10, the local band Nine Lives will play at the public pavilion as a grand fi nale to Friday at The Farr. Nine Lives is a cover band that plays everything from Journey to Eminem to The Temptations, said Franz Gilis, co-organizer of Klinger’s Club.

Vasquez said Klinger’s Club is an event that many people, not just traditional golf fans, can enjoy.

“If you don’t even like golf, who cares? Just come to party,” he said.

Toledo exposure There were many motives behind the Klinger’s Club initiative, including simply offering a good time for fans and golfers alike, Vasquez said.

“It’s one of those things where [the tournament] is not quite at the level

of (Mud Hens’) Opening Day yet,” Vasquez said. “For most people, the Jamie Farr is … like ‘If I get tickets, I’ll go,’ but we want it to be ‘I’m going to the Jamie Farr this year!’”

The tournament’s net proceeds go to 10 area children’s charities, said Judd Silverman, tournament chairman for 27 years.

“It’s for a good cause,” Silverman said. “Since 1984, the Jamie Farr has donated $7.4 million to more than 100 Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan children’s charities.”

Silverman said tournament organizers wanted to create a gathering and networking spot for young business professionals and Vasquez and Gilis had the idea to model a hole after the WM Phoenix Open’s.

“What we’re trying to create is a special event for the business community to gather and have a great afternoon of watching golf while also interacting with fellow business professionals from the area,” Silverman said. “The goal is to get the business community to take the afternoon off and come out and be a part of the hole’s festivities.”

Vasquez said a successful Friday at The Farr will mean more exposure for Toledo, which will help the area attract events and sponsorships.

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AUGUST 5, 2012 â&#x2013; FRIDAY CONTINUED FROM A36 â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be cool if we got a lot of people to come out to this,â&#x20AC;? Vasquez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if we increase Jamie Farrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attendance by one or two thousand, all that stuff builds up and puts Toledo on the map â&#x20AC;Ś and shows we can really rally around an event and support it.â&#x20AC;?

Vasquez said this will show Toledo can support major sporting events and may even help give the area the opportunity to host higher-level events, like the PGA U.S. Open. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those events donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just decide in October to come here in August.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re planned a few years out,â&#x20AC;?

Vasquez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of factors that go into that decision.â&#x20AC;?

Among the factors are city infrastructure, potential company spon-

sorships and a supportive fan base, Vasquez said.

Vasquez said Klingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club will also promote the tournament, the LPGA and the sport of golf in the Toledo area, complementing an LPGA initiative to build its brand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the course of the last five or six years [the LPGA has been] trying to get its golfers out there more to build more of a brand, like a Tiger Woods or a Phil Mickelson,â&#x20AC;? Vasquez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fans will then come out to LPGA events to follow their favorite golfer and not just to follow golf.â&#x20AC;?

Player participation The WM Phoenix Openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th hole has often been referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a party where a golf tournament breaks out.â&#x20AC;?

However, the party started with humble beginnings.

Tom Altieri, 2013 WM Phoenix Open tournament chairman, said the Phoenix Open moved to Scottsdale in 1986, and the lively atmosphere developed naturally when fans, especially college students, started congregating by the hole and nearby beer stand.

In 1997, Tiger Woods hit a holein-one on the 16th, which Altieri said created an electric atmosphere that has grown into a vacation destination that attracts 16,000 people and the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top-tier performing artists. One hundred and fifty corporate skyboxes sell for $40,000 each, Altieri said.

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Openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s par-3 â&#x20AC;&#x153;party holeâ&#x20AC;? so successful is the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; willingness to embrace it, Altieri said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The players themselves have really embraced the energy and atmosphere of the hole and that has really helped it grow,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In order for it to succeed the VASQUEZ players have had to embrace it, and they have â&#x20AC;Ś and they tend to do better on that hole.â&#x20AC;?

Altieri said players pass out merchandise to the crowd while it sings the fight songs of the golfersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; alma mater. One golfer even encouraged noise from the crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had one player who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want quiet. He was egging the crowd on to make noise,â&#x20AC;? Altieri said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crowd obliged and it was pretty cool.â&#x20AC;?

Chris Erblich, a Phoenix attorney who attended the WM Phoenix Open in 2005, said even though he is not a golf fan it was exciting for him to witness the events on the 16th hole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon as the ball is in the air, the crowd screams, or boos in the case of a bad shot. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a loud, party-time atmo-

sphere,â&#x20AC;? Erblich said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some golfers think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great, while some have complained the expectation is unnerving, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool and fun and different.â&#x20AC;?

Altieri said when other tournaments ask about creating a similar experience, he tells them that a controlled environment with communication to players is vital for a successful â&#x20AC;&#x153;party hole.â&#x20AC;? Altieri said he suggests talking to the LPGA and its players about the idea ahead of time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish there was a magic formula, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not,â&#x20AC;? Altieri said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked hard to keep an energy â&#x20AC;Ś and make sure the fans understand that these are professional golfers out there trying to earn a living. Fans have to be respectful of the players.â&#x20AC;?

Vasquez said Klingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club organizers plan on reaching out to golfers through Facebook, Twitter and other outlets to let them know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming and ask them to get involved.

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Proceeds from The Farr will benefit 10 charities

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Even more important than providing a stage for elite golfers to showcase their skills, the mission of the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic is to raise money for area charities.

The golf tournament has donated $7.4 million to more than 120 charities since 1984, said volunteer coordinator Heather Warga.

“That’s what it’s all about,” Warga said. “The community’s been so good to us in the way of volunteers, sponsorships and the relationships we have with a lot of the companies here in Toledo. What better thing to be able to do than to give back to the community. It’s important to us that the money stays right here, that it goes to organizations here and the people they serve and just the impact it makes on their lives.”

This year’s 10 charity beneficiaries are Aurora House, Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo, Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center, Feed Lucas County Children, Kids Unlimited, Mom’s House, The Victory Center, YMCA/JCC of Greater Toledo, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio and the Jamie Farr Scholarship Fund of the Toledo Community Foundation.

Tournament host Jamie Farr said he’s proud to be associated with such a worthy cause.

“I thoroughly enjoy the LPGA classic and I am very proud of all the money it has donated to many of the needy and deserving charities,” Farr said in an email to Toledo Free Press.

“The sponsors, the fans, the cities of Toledo and Sylvania and the players have been exceptional in their devotion to making this tournament so successful.”

Each charity provides volunteers to work the tournament, Warga said.

“The charities do participate quite a bit with the tournament and they are always eager to help out,” Warga said.

“The ones we have this year have been great. They all know the importance of it and have been great.”

Kids Unlimited President Chris Amato said the money raised will not only help fund the after-school and summer programs his organization operates for inner-city youth, but will also offer increased visibility and credibility for the group, helping to leverage funds from other sources.

“It’s very significant,” Amato said.

“When you get the Jamie Farr designation, it elevates you to a different level and gives you a lot of credibility in the community and with donors.”

Operating out of the school buildings where participants attend, Kids Unlimited helps develop academic and social skills as well as emphasizes cooperation, respect, self-discipline and teamwork, Amato said.

Amato said teachers notice major improvements both academically and behaviorally in the kindergarten through eighth grade students involved with Kids Unlimited.

“One child was 25 points below the state average and hit 25 points above the state average next time he took the test,” Amato said. “It’s hard to quantify behavior the way you can a test score, but anecdotally, that’s where we see it. Teachers will come up to us and say, ‘We can really see a difference in so and so.’”

Internationally known golf course architect Arthur Hills is a board member and longtime volunteer with Kids Unlimited.

“He comes at least once a week, if not twice a week,” Amato said. “He’s been working with one boy for three years now and the improvement level is amazing.”

The organization will be opening its own charter school, Kids Unlimited Academy, in the fall for kindergarten through third grade with plans to expand through eighth grade later, Amato said.

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■ CHARITIES CONTINUED FROM A38 Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo Executive Director Dave Wehrmeister said the club feels a special significance in partnering with the tournament because Farr is a former member. The organization operates four locations in the central city as well as a resident summer camp in Michigan.

“It’s huge on many different levels,” Wehrmeister said. “Jamie was a Boys Club member in his childhood and a member of our Hall of Fame, so it’s quite special for him to come back to town and remember where his roots are. We’re hoping he will stop by one of our clubs and spend a little time with our kids.”

The Victory Center is a first-time charity partner, said Executive Director Dianne Cherry.

“We are so excited,” Cherry said.

“It’s a real opportunity to educate more people about what The Victory Center is and what we do. It’s going to be some wonderful exposure to the community and beyond. The grant funds are just invaluable to us this year.”

The Victory Center provides individual and group services to cancer patients, survivors and their families, including massage therapy, reflexology, Reiki, healing touch, hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, counseling, support groups, yoga, gentle exercise, meditation, expressive arts and more.

“Our philosophy is that there is a mind-body-spirit connection,” Cherry said. “The medical community takes care of the body portion and we help with the mind and the spirit. We heal people from the inside out.”

Feed Lucas County Children operates 80 sites that provide meals for Lucas County children during the summer when they are not being fed at school. The organization plans to invest its share of the tournament proceeds in a steamer oven for the organization’s new kitchen, said Executive Director Tony Siebeneck.

“That right there is going to help us feed more kids next year,” Siebeneck said. “You can’t ask for anything better.”

The YMCA/JCC of Greater Toledo will put the money into its Fun Bus, a colorfully painted vehicle that provides free recreational activities and nutritional snacks for kids in underprivileged Lucas and Wood County neighborhoods, said Michael Ashford, vice president of urban relations. The Fun Bus served about 18,000 children last summer and is on track for the same this year, Ashford said.

“Without the support of the Jamie Farr, we would not be able to reach that amount of kids and provide those recreational activities throughout the summer,” Ashford said. “There is limited money going around right now, so this is a very important gap for us.”

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“Our goal is to help our local students get to school, and we’ve been able to make a very large impact in our community,” Olnhausen said.

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Competing in the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic will be a homecoming of sorts for top-ranked American golfer Stacy Lewis.

Lewis, 27, who is ranked No. 2 in the world behind Yani Tseng of Taiwan, was born in Toledo.

Although she moved to South Carolina and then Texas for her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job when she was young, the family returned regularly to visit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents were born and raised in Toledo,â&#x20AC;? Lewis wrote in an email to Toledo Free Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We moved when I was 2, but I have come back frequently. We still have lots of family in the area on my dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side and I feel so supported by them.â&#x20AC;?

Lewis achieved her goal of becoming the top-ranked American female golfer in June after winning the ShopRite LPGA Classic in New Jersey by a decisive four strokes.

The win bumped her past American Cristie Kerr into the No. 3 slot behind Tseng and 2010 Jamie Farr champion Na Yeon Choi of South Korea. Kerr had been the top-ranked American since 2009. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was being interviewed after a win and was speechless when I heard,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did not know how to react.â&#x20AC;?

Lewis, who recently passed Choi to gain the No. 2 spot, started golfing at age 8, although she said her talent wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately apparent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad loved it and encouraged me to play,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was average to start and loved playing with my dad. Eventually, it led to a college scholarship.â&#x20AC;?

The Jamie Farr was the first LPGA tournament Lewis attended. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were visiting in the summer and I got to go,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I visited [Toledo] most years growing up.â&#x20AC;?

The Jamie Farr was also the first LPGA tournament Lewis competed in, through a sponsorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exemption as an amateur in 2008, and she has returned to compete each year since. Her highest finish was a tie for 26th in 2010.

Lewis said a win in her hometown would be extra-special. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would mean a lot to win in Toledo,â&#x20AC;? Lewis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a large contingent of family and friends and also the great people from Marathon [Petroleum Corporation] that will come follow me. They are known as the Lew Crew.â&#x20AC;?

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Battle with scoliosis Lewis’ website, www.stacysback. com, proclaims her as “The Next Great American Golfer.”

The designation is made all the more impressive given the medical challenges she had to overcome to reach her goals.

Diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 11, Lewis spent more than seven years wearing a back brace for 18 hours a day, removing it only to play golf. Scoliosis is a medical condition that affects the curvature of the spine.

“I hid it and was self-conscious, but not really teased,” Lewis said of the brace.

After graduating from high school, she had back surgery, causing her to redshirt her freshman year at the University of Arkansas.

She worried she would never play golf again.

“The doctor told me I would be able to play golf, but I was unsure,” Lewis said. “He encouraged me to play. I had to follow doctor’s orders in order to live a normal life.”

Turns out Lewis’ worry was for naught.

Lewis won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Tournament her redshirt freshman year and was named the SEC Freshman Golfer of the Year.

She went on to win 12 collegiate tournaments, including the NCAA’s individual championship in 2007.

In September 2007, while only a junior at Arkansas, she finished T-5 at the Kraft Nabisco, a major championship on the LPGA Tour, and then won the rain-shortened LPGA NW Arkansas Championship.

In 2008, Lewis became the first person in the 76-year history of the Curtis Cup, a prestigious amateur tournament held at the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland, to post a 5-0 record as she led the U.S. team to victory.

Lewis turned professional later that year and joined the LPGA Tour in 2009.

In 2011, Lewis held off top-ranked Tseng to win the 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship, her first major title. “[It was] nerve-wracking and a lot of fun!” Lewis said. “I still get a smile when I think of it.”

Since 2007, she has posted seven top-10 finishes in the 18 major championships she has entered. She has a win and four top-10 finishes in her last seven majors.

Thus far in 2012, Lewis has two wins, nine top-10 finishes and more than $900,000 in earnings. She is ranked in the top 10 in greens in regulation, putts, scoring average and No. 1 in birdies made.

Lewis still has a rod and five screws in her back.

“They will stay as long as nothing happens to them,” Lewis said. “I should not need further surgeries. I

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feel lucky to be able to play golf as a result of the surgery.”

Volunteering Off the course, Lewis regularly volunteers her time to causes around the world. Photos on her website show her working with Habitat for Humanity in Virginia, helping build a school in Africa and lobbying in Washington, D.C., for physical education programs.

“Golf has taken me many places and I have met many great people,” Lewis said.

She said her most memorable trip was with Golf Fore Africa, a nonprofit that works with HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa.

She also often meets with scoliosis patients.

“I tell young fans with scoliosis to remain positive and follow doctor’s orders,” Lewis said.

Big ambitions Lewis still has high aspirations for her golf game.

Now she has Tseng, who has held the No. 1 spot for 77 consecutive weeks, in her sights.

“I hope to be No. 1 in the world,” Lewis said. “I love the competitiveness.”

For more information, visit www. stacysback.com.

Toledo Free Press Golf Writer Fred Altvater contributed to this report. ✯

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An area businesswoman and a college student will golf alongside Toledo legend Jamie Farr on Aug. 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is very exciting as well as a little nerve-wracking, given my handicap,â&#x20AC;? said Judy McFarland, president of Thread Marketing Group, with a laugh. McFarlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company is one of the sponsors of the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic.

At the Mercy/Lucas County Healthy Communities Foundation Pro-Am, McFarland and Lourdes University student Brooke Darah will round out Farrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team. Farr, best known for his role on the television show â&#x20AC;&#x153;M*A*S*H,â&#x20AC;? is bringing a friend who will play and a pro golfer will complete the fivesome.

McFarland said Thread attempts to support a different cause every year and chose to support the tournament for its positive impact on the community. The classic will raise money for 10 area charities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The eff ect [the classic] has on our local economy as well as our commu-

nity brand is just enormous,â&#x20AC;? McFarland said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a win, win, win in all that it accomplishes.â&#x20AC;?

McFarland said she chose Darah to join the group because of the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sylvania ties. The tournament takes place at Sylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Highland Meadows Golf Club. Darah is not only on the Lourdes University womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team, but she is a graduate of Sylvania Northview High School.

Th e businesswoman said she wanted to â&#x20AC;&#x153;give a local gal an opportunity of a lifetimeâ&#x20AC;? in addition to supporting Lourdes, a client of Threadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was worried given her age, [Darah] might not know who Jamie Farr is,â&#x20AC;? McFarland said with a chuckle.

But Darah not only knew who Farr was, she said her grandfather knew Farr personally and she met the star at a restaurant once.

Darah, a junior studying nursing, said she was thrilled McFarland invited her to play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Lourdes] has a really good golf program, I think. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a honor that they chose me to represent our school and promote Lourdes,â&#x20AC;? Darah said.

She also said she hoped and believed Farr would remember her, or at

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Golfi ng at the classic will also give Darah a chance to meet professional golfers. Her favorites are Paula Creamer and Christina Kim. McFarland met Farr a few years ago at a photo shoot, but said the two just exchanged pleasantries.

Although she is nervous about her skill level, she said Darah offered to give her pointers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am one of those people who love the game, who has not quite mastered it,â&#x20AC;? McFarland said.

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Nine Lives lead singer Jake Pilewski never pictured himself in a cover band.

Turns out it’s been one of the most positive musical decisions he’s made.

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which also featured Nine Lives members Mike Toth and Mike Haskins, Pilewski said he didn’t consider playing covers an option until he went to a music convention in Harrisburg, Pa., where Fuel vocalist Brett Scallions was speaking.

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‘You know, I would never be in a cover band. I would rather play a dive bar the rest of my life making chump change a night just as long as I’m playing originals,’” Pilewski said. “Well, then reality sets in, and you start realizing, ‘Oh, I’ve got bills and I’ve got to do this and I’ve got to do this.’”

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completely different because there’s kind of a bit of mystery and mystique about the whole thing, that you go in not knowing what to expect.”

Part of what has helped Nine Lives find so much local success is its versatility. The band covers everything from 1950s-era music to pop, classic rock, blues, dance, country and Top 40 hits.

“Whether they were born in the ’50s or they were born in 1989, I mean, we have a little bit of something for everybody,” Pilewski said. “They always say, ‘You can’t make everybody happy,’ but we come pretty close to it at least throughout the night, as long as people stick around the whole set.”

Friday at The Farr will take place during the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club, 7455 Erie St., in Sylvania.

Daily tournament tickets start at $15 and are available at the gate or Shawn’s Irish Tavern, which is also providing shuttle service on Aug. 10 from its Toledo location, 4400 Heatherdowns Blvd. Weekly tickets are $50 and are available at local Kroger stores. Kids 17 and younger get in free with an adult. More ticket information is available online at jamiefarrtoledoclassic.com.

After the final golfer finishes her round at approximately 7 p.m., Nine Lives will perform at the public pavilion at Highland Meadows as a grand finale to the Friday at The Farr festivities.

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how Fuel was a big cover band all around Harrisburg, Pa., for years,” Pilewski said of Scallions. “And he said in Harrisburg, they were artsy, but still these places were going to hire bands to play what the bar crowd wanted to hear, which was cover music.”

That experience, as well as seeing Cincinnati cover band The Menus live at Put-In-Bay, was enough to convince Pilewski to give covers a shot. He and Haskins left Highland nearly three years ago to join Toth in Nine Lives, a move that proved to be fruitful.

It wasn’t long before Nine Lives was playing at some of Toledo’s bigger bars and events, including fundraisers at The Blarney Irish Pub and Mud Hens’ Opening Day. “It definitely was worth it right off the bat when we started seeing the reaction from people,” Pilewski said.

“It made the whole decision to start playing cover music a lot easier.”

Comprised of Pilewski, drummer Toth, lead guitarist Haskins, Tim Bauer (guitar/piano/sax/harmonica/vocals) and bassist Chad Singleton, Nine Lives will perform Aug. 10 at the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic as part of the tournament’s Friday at The Farr festivities.

“We are absolutely stoked,” Pilewski said. “That’s one of those things that we’ve heard over the years, like, what a party it is.”

Pilewski and Nine Lives are particularly excited to play at the tournament given that it’s not their typical venue.

“We love the usual [venues],” Pilewski said. “That’s what keeps us going, but it’s great to play something

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ARTURO SANDOVAL WILL PLAY AT THE RIVER RAISIN JAZZ FESTIVAL IN MONROE AT 7:30 P.M. AUG. 12. THE EVENT IS FREE.

Legendary trumpeter to headline River Raisin Jazz Festival

By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

It was a journalist who turned Arturo Sandoval on to jazz.

“He played for me a Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie record.

Oh my goodness, I went crazy, saying, ‘Wow! What is this? Man, what are those people playing? That’s so difficult! I love it! I want to learn how to play that!’

“And then I start with that and I’m still trying to figure out what those people were playing,” the renowned trumpet player said.

In 1977, Sandoval had a chance to meet his idol when Gillespie visited his home country of Cuba. But he didn’t tell the trumpeter he was also a musician right away.

“I drove him all over the city for the whole day. Then in the evening, we got a jam session,” Sandoval recalled. “When he gets to the place, I was warming up on stage and he saw me with a trumpet, and he opened his eyes and said, ‘What the heck’s my driver doing with a trumpet?’ And somebody said, ‘No, no, no! He’s the guy here in Cuba!’ ” With the help of Gillespie, Sandoval soon became one of the great horn players of the world.

“[Gillespie] really helped me a lot.

He was so good to me since we met.

He gave me so many opportunities over so many years,” he said.

Sandoval was touring with Gillespie in Spain in 1990 when he and his family were granted political asylum by the United States.

“Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)” is the title of Sandoval’s disc released in May. “[It’s] a group of tunes I have been playing that I had the honor and privilege to play with [Gillespie] many times when he was alive. It was a lot of fun doing the record; this is the kind of material

that I really love,” the jazzman said.

“The most important thing he taught me was love music,” Sandoval said. “That was really the key motivation for me was how much he loved music and how much he really enjoyed talking and playing and trying to learn things about music.”

One of his father’s loves inspired his new CD, “Tango — Como Yo Te Siento,” released in July.

“I remember my father — my dear father, he’s in heaven — he liked tango music very much, and he never showed any kind of interest in music in general,” Sandoval said during a call from his

home near Los Angeles.

“But when you put in a good tango, he loved it. He knew the lyrics and the melodies of every tango. And in certain ways, this is a tribute as well to my dear father.”

The Grammy Award winner will headline the River Raisin Jazz Festival at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at St. Mary’s Park in Monroe. The event is free.

“At all my gigs, I play percussion and I sing a couple tunes, and I play piano and play keyboard, and I dance a little bit, and I tell the story — I have fun on stage,” Sandoval said. “My intention, my goal, is to let the people have fun too.” ✯

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When Gold speaks of misconceptions people have about the pawn business, it’s clear the younger Gold has inherited a great deal of his father’s passion for his work.

“There’s 25 million people around the United States without bank accounts. Where are those people supposed to go, you know, to get money?

And a lot of people are like, well, easy, just ask a family member. Just go to the bank. Well, that’s not an option for a lot of people,” Gold said.

That’s a facet of pawn shops that Gold is clearly proud to highlight on “Hardcore.” Other shows in the genre tend to focus on piein-the-sky sales of big ticket items, which is actually a fairly small percentage of an average pawn shop’s transactions.

“I’m in the business of loaning money and getting interest. I’m not in the business of buying low and selling high, because ultimately, the more I loan, the more interest I accumulate,” Gold said. “So a lot of people don’t understand that there’s an actual business formula behind the method. Because once someone loses their merchandise — they’re not a customer of mine anymore.”

Nowadays, thanks to the success of “Hardcore,” business is booming. The TV process began with a phone call a few years ago.

“I got a call from a producer saying, ‘Hey, you have a unique business, I think we should film it.’ And my first reaction was, ‘Absolutely not,’ and I hung up the phone. I’m not kidding,” Gold said with a laugh.

“And I was like, ‘Well, you know, I don’t really run the company, I’m not the president of the company, maybe I should talk to Les about it.’

So, I went in his office, and he’s like, ‘Absolutely, we’re doing it.’

“And I said, ‘You know Dad, I really don’t know about this whole reality TV thing.’ And he’s like, ‘Seth, how big can it possibly get?’”

How big has it gotten so far?

It’s become one of TruTV’s highest rated shows: six seasons, 94 episodes and more on the way. A spinoff — “Combat Pawn” — debuted earlier this year. And now he’s booking personal appearances at casinos and the like.

Still, at the end of the day Gold said he keeps his focus on American Jewelry and Loan — a place he has put his heart into, and which he trusts will still be going strong long after the television show is a thing of the past.

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Snooki Snooki Baby High Teen Mom “Fresh Start” (CC) Teen Mom (CC) Awkward. Awkward. Snooki Snooki Wake Wake ››› Madagascar MLB Baseball: Angels at White Sox Friends Friends ›› The House Bunny (2008) Anna Faris. ››› Shrek (2001) Voices of Mike Myers. ››› Shrek (2001) Voices of Mike Myers. ›› Four Mothers (1941) ››› Kings Row (1942) Ann Sheridan. ››› Now, Voyager (1942) Bette Davis. ››› The Wolf Man (1941) (CC) ›››› The Invisible Man (1933) ››› Mr. Skeffington (1944) Bette Davis. (CC) (DVS) ››› Braveheart (1995, Historical Drama) Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau. (CC) ››› Gladiator (2000, Historical Drama) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix. (CC) Leverage (N) (CC) Falling Skies (N) The Great Escape Falling Skies (CC) Treasure › G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Channing Tatum.

Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Political Animals (N) Necess. Rough › See Spot Run Made Payne Chris Chris Big Bang Big Bang Friends Friends Two Men Two Men Big Bang Big Bang ›› Dragonball: Evolution (2009, Action) Scoop Made Cold Case (CC)

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Jessie ANT Farm Vampire Shake It Good Jessie Good MLB Baseball New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers. (Live) (CC) Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) (CC) Secret-Teen Secret-Teen Bunheads (N) (CC) Bunheads (CC) The 700 Club (CC) Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners My. Diners Diners Love It or List It (CC) Love It or List It (CC) Love It or List It (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Love It or List It (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) Reba (CC) ››› Spanglish (2004, Comedy-Drama) Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni. (CC) Snooki & JWOWW Teen Mom (CC) Teen Wolf Teen Wolf (N) Teen Wolf Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Conan (N) ›› Cry of Battle, War ››› 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (CC) ››› Johnny Eager (1942) Robert Taylor. (CC) Prowler The Mentalist (CC) The Closer (CC) (DVS) The Closer (N) Perception (N) (CC) The Closer (CC) (DVS) NCIS: Los Angeles WWE Monday Night RAW (N) (S Live) (CC) Nat’l Treasure Big Bang Big Bang Perez Hilton Remodeled (CC) Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Loma-Linda’s

“BIEN VENIDOS AMIGOS”

Specializing in Mexican Food since 1955

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

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

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

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Sun. 3-9 p.m. Closed Holidays

August 7, 2012

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The Office How I Met Jdg Judy Olympic NewsHour Business Storage Storage Housewives/NJ Colbert Daily ANT Farm Vampire Elite 11 QB Camp (N) Pretty Little Liars (CC) Chopped Champions Hunt Intl Hunters Dance Moms (CC) Awkward.

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Daily Colbert Good Shake It Code 9 Austin Gravity ANT Farm Shake it Jessie World/Poker World/Poker Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) (CC) Pretty Little Liars (N) Beverly Hills Nannies Pretty Little Liars (CC) The 700 Club (CC) Chopped Champions Chopped Champions Chopped “Cake Walk” Chopped Property Brothers (CC) Design Star All Stars Hunters Hunt Intl Million Million Dance Moms (CC) Dance Moms (N) (CC) Dance Moms (CC) Dance Moms (CC) MTV Special Teen Mom (CC) Teen Mom (N) (CC) Teen Mom (CC) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) ››› A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Sidney Poitier. ››› To Sir, With Love (1967) Sidney Poitier.

Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Rizzoli & Isles (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Political Animals (CC) Hart of Dixie (CC) The L.A. Complex (N) Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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BARRON’S CAFE Everything Mexican From Tacos to Enchiladas to Delicious Burritos

419-825-3474 13625 Airport Hwy., Swanton (across from Valleywood Country Club) Mon. - Thurs. 11-11 p.m.

Fri. - Sat. .11-12 a.m.

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

To Be Announced XXX Summer Olympics Sid Cat in the Super Dinosaur Suze Orman’s Money Class (CC) Peter, Paul The Glades (CC) Flip This House (CC) Hideous Houses (N) Sell: Extreme Flip This House (CC) Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Housewives/NJ Comedy Jeffrey Ross ›› Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke (1978) ›› Beerfest (2006, Comedy) (CC) Mickey Pirates Phineas Fish Phineas Code 9 ANT Farm Gravity Wizards Wizards SportsCenter (CC) SportsCenter (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) Softball ›› Miss Congeniality (2000) Sandra Bullock. ›› Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Harry P Be.- Made Guy’s Mexican Paula Dinner Pioneer Contessa Giada Chopped Rehab Rehab Property Property YardCrash YardCrash YardCrash Hse Crash Hse Crash BathCrash Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Chris Chris The Last Trimester Snooki Teen Mom (CC) ›› Blue Crush (2002) Kate Bosworth.

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Earl Earl Earl Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling (2009) (CC) ›› The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) Lord Jim ›› Thunder Rock (1942, Drama) Michael Redgrave. (CC) ››› The Seventh Veil (1945) Sea Gull Perception (CC) The Closer (CC) (DVS) Dallas “Revelations” 2012 PGA Championship Third Round. (N) Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Political Animals (CC) Burn Notice (CC) White Collar (CC) Suits “Rewind” Sonic X Sonic X Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Dragon Dragon Dragon Yu-Gi-Oh! Dog Tales Career

August 11, 2012

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Ent Insider Wipeout (CC) Wipeout (N) (CC) Rookie Blue (N) (CC) News Nightline Wheel Jeopardy! Big Bang Two Men Big Brother (N) (CC) Person of Interest News Letterman The Office How I Met Raising Raising Glee “Yes/No” (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office Jdg Judy Olympic XXX Summer Olympics Track and Field, Diving, Beach Volleyball, Cycling. (N Same-day Tape) NewsHour Business Neighborhoods Masterpiece Mystery! (CC) (DVS) Front Row Center (CC) Sun Stud The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (N) (CC) Cajun Cajun Cajun Cajun NYC Housewives/NYC To Be Announced Happens Jersey Colbert Daily Chappelle South Pk South Pk The Comedy Central Roast (CC) Daily Colbert Adventures of Sharkboy Gravity ANT Farm Vampire Shake It Good Phineas ANT Farm Monday Night NFL Preseason Football Green Bay Packers at San Diego Chargers.

SportsCenter (N) (CC) ››› Mean Girls (2004) Lindsay Lohan. ›› A Cinderella Story (2004) Hilary Duff.

The 700 Club (CC) Chopped All-Stars Chopped All-Stars Chopped All-Stars Chopped All-Stars Open With Bobby Flay Hunt Intl Hunters Property Brothers (CC) Sellers Selling NY Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl Trading Spouses Project Runway (CC) Project Runway (N) (CC) Project Runway (CC) The Real World (CC) Awkward. Snooki Snooki Snooki Awkward. Snooki Awkward.

Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Sullivan Big Bang Conan (N) ››› Red Beard (1965) Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto ›› Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1956) Samurai 3 The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) CSI: NY (CC) NCIS (CC) NCIS “Baltimore” Burn Notice (N) (CC) Suits “Rewind” (N) Covert Affairs Big Bang Big Bang The Vampire Diaries The L.A. Complex Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Ent Insider Shark Tank (CC) (DVS) 20/20 (N) (CC) News Nightline Wheel Jeopardy! Undercover Boss (CC) CSI: NY “Crushed” Blue Bloods (CC) News Letterman The Office How I Met Bones Feuding families are linked to a corpse. Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office Jdg Judy Olympic XXX Summer Olympics Track and Field, Diving, Cycling. (N Same-day Tape) (CC) NewsHour Business Wash.

Deadline Great Performances (N) (CC) Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage To Be Announced ››› Ocean’s Eleven (2001) George Clooney, Matt Damon. ››› Ocean’s Eleven Colbert Daily Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Futurama Tosh.0 Aziz Ansari John Oliver ANT Farm Vampire ANT Farm Jessie (N) Gravity Code 9 (N) ANT Farm Good Code 9 Austin Little League Baseball Little League Baseball SportsCenter (N) (CC) ›› Miss Congeniality (2000) ›› Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) The 700 Club (CC) Best Thing Best Thing Diners Diners Diners Diners Open With Bobby Flay Diners Diners Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Home Strange Home You Live in What? (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Ghost Story Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted Amer. Most Wanted WakeBrothers Snooki Snooki Snooki Snooki › Sorority Row (2009, Horror) Briana Evigan.

Seinfeld Seinfeld Payne Payne Worse Worse ›› Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) Kevin James. ››› Young Dr. Kildare ›››› You Can’t Take It With You (1938) (CC) ›› Night Flight (1933, Drama) John Barrymore.

Law & Order ››› Double Jeopardy (1999, Suspense) (CC) › Obsessed (2009, Suspense) Idris Elba. (CC) Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Common Law “Gun!” Burn Notice (CC) Big Bang Big Bang Nikita “Rogue” (CC) Nikita “Origins” (CC) Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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Mod Fam Mod Fam Final Witness (N) (CC) News Nightline Wheel Jeopardy! Big Brother (N) (CC) Criminal Minds CSI: Crime Scene News Letterman The Office How I Met So You Think You Can Dance (CC) Fox Toledo News Seinfeld The Office Jdg Judy Olympic XXX Summer Olympics Track and Field, Diving, Beach Volleyball. (CC) Go On (N) News NewsHour Business Nature (CC) Nova scienceNOW Mammoth Cave Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Barter Barter Barter Barter Top Chef Masters Million Dollar LA Million Dollar LA Top Chef Masters (N) Happens Top Chef Colbert Daily South Pk South Pk Futurama Futurama Futurama South Pk Daily Colbert Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Jessie ANT Farm Vampire Shake It Good Good Shake it MLB Baseball Teams TBA. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) (CC) Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) (CC) Melissa Melissa Melissa Daddy ››› Mean Girls (2004) Lindsay Lohan.

The 700 Club (CC) Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Chopped Hunt Intl Hunters Income Kitchen Property Brothers (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Property Brothers (CC) ›› The Nanny Diaries ›› Two Weeks Notice (2002) Sandra Bullock. › The Ugly Truth (2009) Katherine Heigl. (CC) True Life True Life True Life The Real World (N) WakeBros Real...

Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) Strawberry Bln ››› Pal Joey (1957) Rita Hayworth. (CC) ›› Down to Earth (1947) Rita Hayworth.

Dallas (CC) Dallas (CC) Dallas “Revelations” The Mentalist (CC) Dallas “Revelations” NCIS “Faking It” (CC) NCIS “Sandblast” (CC) NCIS “Grace Period” NCIS “Endgame” (CC) Suits “Sucker Punch” Big Bang Big Bang Supernatural (CC) Supernatural (CC) Sunny Sunny Cash Cab Cash Cab

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5th Elmnt Beerfest ››› Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Eddie Murphy. (CC) › Let’s Go to Prison (2006) Dax Shepard. ›› Accepted (2006) Justin Long. (CC) ››› Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story Kevin Hart: Laugh Jeff Ross-Amer.

Good Good Austin Shake It ANT Farm ANT Farm ANT Farm ANT Farm Good Austin Austin Shake It Good Good Vampire ANT Farm Jessie Shake It Good Austin ANT Farm Vampire Softball Little League Baseball Little League Baseball Little League Baseball Little League Baseball Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) ››› Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Daniel Radcliffe. ››› Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. ››› Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, Fantasy) Count-Cristo Cupcake Wars Chopped Bobby Flay Diners Diners Iron Chef America Restaurant: Im. Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Iron Chef America Elbow Contrac Property Brothers Property Brothers Property Brothers Going Curb...

Hunters Hunt Intl Novo Dina Shop Shop Grt High Low Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl The Last Trimester ››› Cries in the Dark (2006) Eva La Rue. Stolen Child (2011) Emmanuelle Vaugier. ›› The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003) (CC) Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012) Premiere. ››› Taken in Broad Daylight (2009) (CC) Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward.

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BY ELIZABETH HAZEL

YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

AUG. 5-11, 2012

Venus enters Cancer (7th), Mercury direct station in Leo (8th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

This is a great week to clean up drafts and preliminary work and secure plans with others. Activities involving other people should flow freely, but be wary of clashes of will Tuesday. Weekend activities include highly compelling talks that open new sources of knowledge.

Areas of concern stabilize this week. Define your highest priorities and convey these to the people closest to you.

Tone down aggression Tuesday, when your temper may be short. After Thursday, sources of great joy and hope for the future inspire you to greater effort.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Fence-sitting is at an end. It’s easier to make definite choices after Tuesday. Certainty gives you confidence to move full speed ahead. Gifts and blessings are exchanged Thursday. The way you use and benefit from your skills is in a process of transformation.

After months of coping with people in transition, you can refocus on personal priorities and take decisive forward steps. Special benefits, gifts, and romantic proposals are possible after Thursday, along with rewards for long-term efforts.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) Developing projects with others is highlighted. After

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Tuesday, you can brainstorm with excellent results. Tangled communications are resolved and equipment repaired.

News of profitable opportunities arrives midweek. Share your talents over the weekend.

Dark clouds that have troubled loved ones clear this week.

News, events, and important calls arrive at high speed after Tuesday. Past work brings new opportunities, along with unexpected profits. Your attention is riveted by a significant person or event Saturday.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Worrisome issues from the spring move toward resolution.

News from people in distant places generates multiple travel plans. Teachers and leaders have great influence on your thinking. Opinions expressed with confidence are compelling, but there are always two sides.

Frustrating delays prove fortunate as people can bring more to the table now. The focus on love and interpersonal connections increases after Tuesday, and you’re able to feel more in sync with your partner. Saturday’s events produce results for the record book and one-shot deals.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

This is week for updates and news swaps. Absent people return and schedules return to normal. Your activities bring you into contact with important and influential people after Thursday. Completed efforts result in multiple benefits and widely expanded networks.

Leverage your skills and acquaintances this week for incredible results. Fast-paced events demand total concentration. You’re able to take critical steps that get you closer to your goals. The weekend shines a spotlight on love, friendship, romance, and creativity.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

After weeks of dickering or juggling, you can streamline your focus and move into a highly productive period.

Information sources provide exactly what you need. You’re ready to take a major step forward in life after Thursday – go with confidence.

Large transactions resolve financial issues this week. With decisions out of the way, your attention shifts to loved ones and happy circumstances with people you care about.

Your heart overflows with joy Saturday; a cherished dream comes true.

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

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