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Where there’s smoke John Hughes: No apologies

his year’s Smoke on the Water-Ribs for the Red Cross was a tremendous success. The crowds for the concerts (The Presidents of the United States of America and Chuck Wicks) were huge and enthusiastic, the vendors provided a wide variety of great food, and the weather smiled upon the event with three beautiful days. As a sponsor for the Red Cross fundraiser, we proudly stand beside Columbia Gas of Ohio, KeyBank, Cumulus Media, FOX Toledo, HCR ManorCare, Regency Hospital Company, Costco, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Heineken in making the event a Thomas F. POUNDS Downtown celebration. Many people looked out over the crowds Aug. 1 as the bands played and reminisced about the Rally by the River days, when thousands jammed the waterfront to hear music and enjoy the beauty of our gateway to the ports. We have said this before, but there is no reason such events should be limited to a handful each year. When our new mayor takes office, we should urge him to, among his many other concerns, look at ways to revitalize the waterfront as a destination for entertainment. It will certainly help when the Imagination Station opens, and there are restaurants on both sides of Summit Street that could benefit from increased traffic. Events such as the Aug. 14 to15 2009 Citywide Gospel Explosion are a great start, but such attractions could greatly benefit by being part of a regular lineup of concerts and festivals. We have talked before about the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, Mich., a weeklong celebration of music and arts that defines that community’s summer. With the proper cooperation among sponsors, charities and government, such an ambitious festival could be brought to the Downtown waterfront. One of the keys is making a clean break with some of the same old names and failed people of the past, in favor of new ideas and fresh approaches to collaboration and interaction. As a sponsor, we see, up close, the amount of effort such leaders as Chris Kozak, Tim Yenrick, Jodie Tienvieri and dozens of volunteers put into Smoke on the Water, and their contributions make the event a special community happening. We are not the first, or even the second, sponsor to say “We’re in” for 2010, but we eagerly add our name to the list of organizations that hope to make this annual event a growing badge of honor for the Red Cross and Downtown Toledo. Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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e never won Oscars like Steven Spielberg, or won respect on the scale of Martin Scorsese, but for those paying attention to movies in the 1980s and ’90s, John Hughes was The Man. ■ “The Breakfast Club” ■ “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ” ■ “Sixteen Candles” ■ “Home Alone” ■ “Pretty in Pink” ■ “Uncle Buck” ■ “Trains, Planes & Automobiles” ■ “Mr. Mom” Michael S. MILLER ■ “National Lampoon’s Vacation” ■ “Weird Science” Hughes died of a heart attack Aug. 6, at 59 years old. One’s first instinct is to apologize for his body of work as a guilty pleasure, to say, ‘Well, there’s no ‘Schindler’s List’ here, but Hughes made some good, albeit lightweight movies.” Ignore that impulse. As critic David Poland said, “John Hughes had as much impact on American culture as any filmmaker in history. At least two generations smile knowingly and nod at the points of reference from his films.” As talented a writer and producer as he was a director, Hughes tapped into youth culture with a wisdom that makes his best movies timeless. No matter how dated the fashions are, the attitudes of his high school characters in “The Breakfast Club” are immortal enough to still be referenced on today’s teen Disney shows and such pop culture filters as “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.” No one drew better performances out of such comedic actors as Steve Martin and John Candy. “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” may be a movie set at Thanksgiving, but it plays all year long, and if it’s on, I’ll stop and watch it. The writing in the film is dense and a constant sourse of discovery. It is difficult to remember how shocking it was the first time Martin’s F-word symphony played out at the rental car counter, and constant exposure to the word in movies has dulled the impact, but no one has ever topped that minute of dialogue as an exploration of one of the language’s most powerful words. Believe me, I’ve tried. Roger Ebert, in his essay on “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” in his “Great Movies” series, hits the essence of Hughes’ work: “John Hughes, who wrote, directed and produced the film, is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the last 25 years. He is not often cited for greatness, although some of his titles, like ‘The Breakfast Club,’ ‘Weird Science,’ ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ’ and ‘Home Alone,’ have fervent admirers. What can be said for him is that he usually produces a real story about people he Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

HUGHES has clear ideas about; his many teenage comedies, for example, are miles more inventive than the recent sexand-prom sagas. The buried story engine of ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ is not slowly growing friendship or odd-couple hostility (devices a lesser film might have employed), but empathy. It is about understanding how the other guy feels.” That ability to capture “how the other guy feels” infuses Hughes’ best work. Hughes utilized Candy for this purpose in “Uncle Buck,” taking a lazy slob of a man-child and turning him into a cipher for modern male anxiety about marriage, kids and growing up. Candy may not have been Olivier (and there’s that odd impulse to apologize again), but in Hughes’ movies, he creates characters that rise above cartoonish situations and anchor themselves in empathy and human emotion. Audiences should not really like Matthew Broderick’s Ferris Bueller, who is cocky, reckless and self-centered. But Hughes so carefully crafts a Chicago universe of high school freak show people around Bueller, the character becomes endearing and cheered. The roots of every modern self-aware, fourth-wall-breaking character from Seinfeld to SpongeBob SquarePants can be traced to Ferris Bueller. In his “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” essay, Ebert writes, “The movies that last, the ones we return to, don’t always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they are arrows straight to the heart.” That almost sounds like an apology, but as long as people watch movies, there will be people who discover and love John Hughes. And they will have nothing to apologize for. Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. Michael S. Miller, Editor in Chief mmiller@toledofreepress.com

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CHILDREN OF LIBERTY

Focusing on health care Open letter to Marcy Kaptur

he predominant discussion of eco- cent, up from 12 percent just the year benomic issues bombarding us in the fore. The shift for workers in small busimedia today is focused on health nesses (three-199 workers) was more noticeable; 35 percent of care. Unfortunately, the them had to pay at least Republicans, for the most $1,000 out of pocket before part, are doing their best to their insurance would kick cloud the issue and ensure in, up from 21 percent the that “universal coverage” year before. goes down in defeat as it Clearly, we are in dire did under the Clinton adneed of reform. As Presiministration. dent Obama pointed out, The amount of ruby the year 2019, if nothing mors, lies and innuendos is done, health care will the mainstream media constitute something like is passing to the public Don BURNARD is staggering, with little or no attempt 40 percent of the Gross National Product. to look at the veracity of the statements The race to the bottom has begun. What are our politicians doing about it? The being made. Lucas County is in dire straits. We Blue Dog Dems are all of a sudden worhave had some of the highest foreclosure ried about the $1 trillion cost. Funny, they didn’t seem to worry and bankruptcy rates in the country. We also have some of the highest unemploy- about costs when they voted for the $1.36 ment rates. What does this have to do trillion in tax cuts that benefitted mainly with health care? Plenty. The findings of the top 1 percent. Why is it that everya recent Harvard study found that 62.1 thing that gets passed as a middle-class percent of all bankruptcies filed in 2007 tax cut gets me, at least, about $9 in relief, had a medical cause. In addition, most while the upper crust get millions? The medical debtors were well educated greatest thing that Congress could do for and middle class, and three quarters of the middle class is to give us meaningful them had medical insurance. The share reform that would benefit the majority of bankruptcies attributable to medical of workers in this country. This must inproblems rose by almost 50 percent be- clude a public option, to keep the largest basically unregulated industry in the tween 2001 and 2007. On July 28, Steffie Woolhandler, country from continuing to have their M.D., M.P.H., one of the co-authors of way with us. What can we expect? The Republicans the Harvard study, testified before the House Committee on Commercial and have ginned up their favorite Fear MaAdministrative Law. She stated, “Private chine, spreading lies and made-up facts insurance is a defective product that from the Frank Luntz Fear Factory before leaves millions of middle class families there was even a plan on the table. They trot out the same old tired dogs they used vulnerable to financial ruin.” Elizabeth Edwards, a former bank- when Social Security and Medicare were ruptcy attorney, also testified that “suc- passed. It’s socialism! The fact is, without these programs, cessful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable the elderly and most vulnerable in sohealth insurance has to make health care ciety would have nothing to fall back on. A number of recent studies have shown affordable.” This affects us as much or more as that people are more satisfied with Medianyone else in the country, and whether care than with the private insurance. That’s because this “government-run” or not you think you’re immune to it, believe me, you’re not. Unless of course, insurance program is more successful you have more money than you know than any private insurance program has what to do with. I don’t. ever been, and it doesn’t throw you out A 2008 Kaiser Family Foundation for a “pre-existing condition.” study found that yearly premiums for Nowhere has it been said that your family health coverage rose to $12,680 in doctor will be going to work for the 2008. Workers paid an average of $3,354 government or you won’t be able to annually toward family health coverage, see them. Let’s just see how much crap more than double what they paid nine we can throw out there and see if any years before. Premiums have more than of it sticks. doubled since 1999, “when total family That is no way to address a problem. premiums were at $5,791 (of which Let’s forget about the political points workers paid $1,543). During that same and take a realistic look at what were nine-year period, workers’ wages in- facing. Let’s not worry about who might creased 34 percent and general inflation get credit. How about looking at a plan rose 29 percent,” according to the study. everyone can take credit for? In addition, workers paying higher deductibles in 2008 (of at least $1,000 for E-mail columnist Don Burnard at general plan deductibles) rose to 18 per- letters@toledofreepress.com.

■ You voted for government ownership of o Rep. Marcy Kaptur, 9th Congressional American industries at the price of jobs, personal District of Ohio, It is with deep respect for the Con- property and liberty. In doing so, you moved stitution of the United States America toward socialism. and the legislative branch ■ You voted for “cap and that it establishes that we, trade” which will raise our the people of the 9th Conalready exorbitant taxes and gressional District of Ohio, energy costs, while cripsubmit this open letter. pling our industries. In each congressional ■ You cast this vote election of the past 27 years, in exchange for $3.5 bilthe people of this district lion of our tax money to have entrusted you with the fund another new federal distinct honor of being our bureaucracy. representative. Scott ALLEGRINI ■ You are about to vote While many of us did not Anna ALLEGRINI for a health care bill that vote for you, the nature of our threatens our right to life representative republic gives and the liberty to maintain our health care you the honor of representing all of us. We have been patient over these many as we choose. This bill would forever unyears, and have exercised our right to speak dermine the quality and efficiency of health by contacting your office with our thoughts care, lead to government rationing, and and concerns, even when no reply was forth- move America toward euthanasia and taxcoming. Last year, even though many of us payer funded abortion. Rep. Kaptur, we have not come to this might normally disagree with you, we encouraged and thanked you as you stood decision lightly. We respect our Constitusteadfastly against President George W. tion and the government it created. But, as Thomas Jefferson wrote of the people in the Bush’s bank bailouts. Your speeches on the floor were thought pro- Declaration of Independence; “But when a voking, and you stood on principle. However, it long train of abuses and usurpations, purseems that the commendable fiscal oversight suing invariably the same Object, evinces a that you exercised in that vote did not carry design to reduce them under absolute Desover to votes thereafter. With the stimulus, the potism, it is their right, it is their duty, to spending omnibus, “cap and trade” and other throw off such Government, and to provide legislation, government spending is out of con- new Guards for their future security.” While we do not want to throw off the govtrol. We do not have enough money to pay for ernment, we must question those who reprethis out-of-control spending. Our children’s liberty and prosperity are sent us. being gambled away on federal deficits and We hired you with our votes, Rep. the inflation that follows from printing more Kaptur, and as your employer, it is our money to pay them. right to hold you to standards that are both The Declaration of Independence clearly ethical and constitutional. states that the authority of the government Frankly, we do not doubt your passion for comes from the people: “Governments are the good of our region. instituted among Men, deriving their just However, a large portion of your constitupowers from the consent of the governed.” ency is disenfranchised, and we respectfully As concerned citizens, we do not consent to request a town hall meeting with you during these actions, and we hold that the govern- your recess, so that you may explain your poment is not maintaining the system that the sitions in person and hear our concerns as founders established. citizens and business owners. Rep. Kaptur, we believe that you are no Rep. Kaptur, the time has come to forgo longer representing your constituents in accord automated form letters, Web site updates with the Constitution; and to that end, we are and quarterly newsletters. We have reopenly holding you accountable for your votes served the following dates at different and actions. branches of the Main Toledo-Lucas County Therefore, we respectfully submit the fol- Public Library: Aug. 13, Aug. 18, Aug. 25 lowing grievances: and Aug. 31. ■ You have failed to openly and honestly We would like to begin a meeting at 6:30 debate issues with your constituents, and p.m. and have approximately two hours of have instead opted to hide behind staff and your time. form letters. Please respond by e-mail to thechildrenof ■ You have voted on legislation without liberty@yahoo.com or call (419) 705-3702 to personally reading its content. schedule a time to meet with us. ■ Your recent votes have contributed to trilThank you for your consideration. lions of dollars in federal deficits and enslaved our children to increased taxation, inflation Scott and Anna Allegrini are founding members and debt. of the local organization Children of Liberty. The ■ You allowed “czars” to assume unconsti- group’s Web site is www.meetup.com/The-chiltutional powers in the executive branch. dren-of-liberty/.

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ry a Google search with the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;social,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;changeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;church.â&#x20AC;? About 23 million hits. Next, Google â&#x20AC;&#x153;community,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;changeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;church.â&#x20AC;? Almost 58 million hits that time. To anyone versed in history, religion, social change or community action, it is common knowledge that societal reforms are often born or incubated in communities of worship. An important 20th century example is, of course, the Civil Rights Movement. Leaders ranging on the political spectrum from Robert Kennedy to Ronald Reagan have discussed their agendas in houses of God. And very recently, Pope Benedict Ben XVI, whose job it is to lead the Catholic Church, wrote a lengthy document calling for worldwide economic reform as a moral necessity. It is with these thoughts and many others in mind that I find David â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prezâ&#x20AC;? Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aug. 2 Toledo Free Press column, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Separation of church and state: Fact and fallacy,â&#x20AC;? about me to be an off-base, unfortunate political attack. Prez, a city council candidate formerly affiliated with Teamwork Toledo, took issue with a speech I gave last month at Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church. As far as I know, he was not present for the address, but he is apparently upset that I was allowed to say anything at all to churchgoers on a Sunday. To recap, my message went something like this: We, as Toledoans, are a poor community suffering not only because of the economic recession that has gripped the entire country, but we are poor because our workers are making less money on average than others in the United States. Too small of a percentage of our residents have college degrees, and as a local government, we are underfunded to protect our people and our neighborhoods.

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I said that it is morally and fiscally irresponsible to let the poor in Toledo become poorer and to let middle-class working families slide into poverty. I said that we all have a responsibility to nurse our neighbors and our community back to health, and that we will all prosper because of it. I also outlined what I will do as mayor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; work with Owens Community College to open a satellite campus Downtown; form an outreach effort with Owens and UT in the central city; lead a ballot drive for paid sick days, increase the number of Toledoans being paid living and prevailing wages; and fight for workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; safety and union rights â&#x20AC;&#x201D; KONOP to make our cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s middle class whole again. Not only did those present at Mt. Pilgrim not seem to mind, but I was interrupted several times with applause and was treated to a standing ovation when I was finished. You see, Toledo doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just need career politicians running around town saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;green jobs,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;lower taxes,â&#x20AC;? or a bunch of big shots piling into a back room after the election to chat about Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems. Unfortunately, that seems to be the extent of my opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ideas. We need real, tangible solutions to rebuild this city brick by brick, family by family, and the construction needs to flow from the ground up instead of the top down. Instead of being fed poll-tested slogans and glossy catch phrases, our people deserve clear answers as to how ideas become reality, how Toledo is to rebound and thrive in the 21st century. This is my message, my track record, my vision for Toledo. And I am happy to deliver it anytime, anywhere. Ben Konop is a Lucas County commissioner and a Toledo Democrat mayoral candidate: www.konop4mayor.com.

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James Taylor has six children, including a 3-year-old who has cerebral palsy. He pays child support for all of them — without a steady income because he hasn’t secured a job. After a long history of selling drugs and finding himself in and out of prison, finding employment might have been impossible a few years ago. Failure to afford child support would have left him behind bars. “After so long, getting my car impounded and on the run, I was like, ‘I have to wake up,’” Taylor said. “I missed out on so much of my kids’ lives being incarcerated off and on.” Two years ago, Taylor was convicted for failing to pay child support. Rather than a prison or parole sentence, Taylor was enrolled in a state-funded program unique to Lucas County called Non-Support Initiatives. “If it weren’t for the program, I’d be in prison or out here selling drugs trying to make money,” Taylor said.

Diversion program Lucas County’s prison diversion program for non-support offenders began in 2007, as part of an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) campaign to cut down on increasing prison population numbers and increase child support payments made, said ODRC Director Terry J. Collins. According to an Ohio budget analysis for fiscal years 2010 to 2011, 443 out of every 100,000 Ohio residents were incarcerated in 2008. Of the more than 50,000 Ohioans imprisoned, 15,485 of them were lowlevel felons in 2008, which includes nonsupport offenders.

There are about 680 people incarcerated in Ohio for failing to pay support who can’t pay it in prison or when they are released, Collins said. At a taxpayer rate of $68 a day per prisoner, incarcerating people for such nonviolent felonies needed to be changed, he added. “The ultimate goal was to get the children and mothers and fathers the support money they need,” Collins said. Lucas County’s Non-Support Initiatives program can take 55 under or unemployed felons at a given time; the amount of child support collected has risen 69 percent in two years. Before the program started, the county collected around $46,940. As of 2008, $79,489 has been paid, said Joni Wysocki, director of Lucas County’s Non-Support Initiatives program. “We all have to think about the fact that in many cases it doesn’t do any good for someone sitting in prison who can’t pay it in prison,” Collins said. “So let’s get them in a job and let them be responsible for their actions, rather than tax payers paying the $68 a day to keep them in prison.” The ODRC kicked off a few other programs in the state in various counties and has collected 40 to 50 percent more child support in the past two years than before it started, he added.

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Program requirements Felons who get a spot in Wysocki’s program have to meet with her at least three times a month and are required to complete at least 20 verifiable job applications a week. They also have to attend a class every Friday for an hour and a half that helps them build resumes and job search, Wysocki said. ■ PROGRAM CONTINUES ON A7

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Wysocki does everything for her clients from cutting out job opening listings from newspapers, to providing them with professional attire and sometimes even helping them learn to read. “I deal with people who have a college education and people who can’t read and write,” Wysocki said. “And I have people that have 10 and 12 kids and when you’re $10,000 in the hole, a lot of them feel like there’s no way out.” The men and women in her program come to her with wideranging issues, from alcoholism to drug abuse habits. She also works with other agencies to help her clients break such addictions. Sometimes her clients suffered recent layoffs and couldn’t afford to support all their kids. “A lot of people don’t have jobs not for lack of effort; some of them don’t even know where to start,” she said. “If you provide them with guidance and you let them know they have the potential to be successful, then they will be.” Her clients can stay with the program for years until they secure a job or if they are compliant and find a job within 90 days, they are released from the program, Wysocki said.

Steven Dunston is one of Wysocki’s clients. He recently got a job at the Cherry Street Mission because the program kept drilling him to look for employment. “I came in with the mindset that I was semi-focused,” Dunston said. “But they tell you go to do this or you gonna go to jail.” Dunston got involved with gangs early in his youth and after repeated trips to prison, decided to turn himself around. The program gave him the initiative he needed to get there, he said. His options, after failing to pay child support, are either complete the program or spend 18 months in jail, he added. He said the program also helped him make his kids one of his top priorities. “I’d been looking for a job for so long but now the program is really helpful,” he said. “We’ve got child support overheads and sometimes we can’t even eat; but I believe now that man should take care of his responsibilities.” A parent can be sentenced with a felony conviction for not paying child support a minimum of 26 out of 104 weeks. Typically, if the offender can produce around $5,000, the courts will drop the charge down to a misdemeanor, Wysocki said.

But most of Wysocki’s clients face the convictions because their child support amount was set at a time when the individual had a steady or decent income. With the recent economic downturn, they have faced a significant drop in their personal budgets, she said. Another element of her program educates her clients that they can go to court and get the amount lowered, based on their current incomes, she added. The Toledo Correctional Institution has about 1,160 inmates; three of them are there for not paying child support, said Meredith Rinna, public information officer for TCI. “[These programs are] a big help to the institution,” said Warden Robert Welch. “Hopefully the community will continue to deter the amount of non-violent offenders from going to prison.” Rather than just “warehousing” offenders, Welch said his institution and the ODRC are concerned with rehabilitation. Lucas County’s program operates on a $70,833 budget, said Janet Lair, director of the Lucas County Adult Probation Department. Collins said the counties that have implemented such programs have seen a 12 percent decrease

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Lucas County Board of Elections Director Linda Howe confirmed Aug. 6 that evidence regarding possible forgeries on local GOP documents have been delivered to the Lucas County prosecutor. The Lucas County prosecutor’s criminal division will investigate financial documents that might contain forgeries of the Lucas County Republican Party treasurer’s signature, and has one witness to a possible forgery. The signatures on several documents, signed with the name Lucas County Republican Party Treasurer James Damas, were found inconsistent by multiple handwriting experts contacted by Toledo Free Press (TFP). The documents were first questioned by Glass City Jungle operator and TFP fact checker Lisa Renee Ward. In a July 30 letter, TFP alerted the board of elections and the Ohio Secretary of State’s office to the potential discrepancies. Ohio Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (SOS) David Farrell stated in a July 31 letter that the SOS office advised the Lucas County Board of Elections members to investigate the questionable signatures. In an Aug. 3 meeting at the Lucas County Board of Elections, Howe recommended to the board that the members turn the signature investigation over to the prosecutor’s office. The vote to send the case to the prosecutor’s office was 4-0. Howe said a BOE staff member had been a witness related to an Oct. 23 campaign finance form that was identified as having a questionable signature. “We talked to the staff and one staff member did say that the report was not signed when they took it over to fill out paper work and when they came back it was signed by the treasurer’s name and the treasurer was not present,” Howe said. Howe did not name the people who may have been witnessed filling out the form, but the One Government Center security registration sign-in sheet from that date does not show Damas’ name. Lucas County Republican Party Chairman Jon Stainbrook and Kelly Bensman, a member of the Lucas County Republican Party executive committee,

signed in Oct. 23 at 4:20 p.m. Now that Howe has turned in all the case information to Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates, the prosecutor will determine whether the case constitutes as a felony violation. If the case is not ruled as a felony, the Ohio Elections Commission would investigate, Howe said. Ohio Revised Code, section 3517.10 states, “The statement of contributions and expenditures shall be signed by the person completing the form.” The statute continues to dictate the means by which electronic transfer of signatures is to be accomplished. Under Ohio law, according to the

office of the Ohio Secretary of State, “A fifth-degree felony conviction [of election falsification] may result in a prison sentence of six to 12 months and/or a fine of up to $2,500.” Only a party treasurer or deputy treasurer may sign financial documents, said Ohio Secretary of State Press Secretary Jeff Ortega. He said forms may not be signed by proxy. Damas did not answer calls to his home or the Lucas County Republican Party headquarters. Stainbrook did not answer calls on his cell phone or the party headquarters. Stainbrook told FOX Toledo July 30 that the concerns raised by the article are “a bunch of baloney.”

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Jessup W. Scott High School Alumni Association and Save Our Scott advocates may soon discover whether they’ll reach a significant goal: acquiring the oversight committee they’ve been vying for since the district accepted money from the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission (OSFC) to improve schools in 2002. After former Toledo Public School District Superintendent Eugene Sanders’ Toledo Public Schools Building Program, Community Oversight Committee had its last meeting in 2006, graduates and history buffs feared the millions allocated to renovate Toledo’s oldest school would not be appropriated properly, said Warren Woodberry, a Scott High School alumnus. “There’s not someone who says ‘yes, we’re going to renovate Scott and we’re going to do a great job;’ there’s nobody out there doing that,” said Robert Davis, president of the Scott High School Alumni Association. “I think the membership translates that into hesitancy or basic lackadaisical effort to get it done.” Davis submitted a plan to form a High School Renovation Project Oversight Committee that would enable members to interact with engineers and architects to ensure that the “design of the school reflects the needs of the school community within the established budget and promises made to the community,” according to the document. He added that, though, he and other members have attended meetings and negotiated with board members, he didn’t think they were allowed enough input, nor got their questions answered. “The main question is, “Why is it that the advocates who fought so hard to save Scott are the last ones to get answers?’” Woodberry said.

Distrust decisions Woodberry said he has been advocating for an oversight committee because past events have led him and his fellow members to distrust district decisions about Scott. When OSFC granted money to the district, it financed 70 percent of a project, while the district had to raise 30 percent to match it, said school board member Darlene Fisher. Scott High School was the last school on the list of nearly 50 buildings to be renovated and almost didn’t get included at all. Had the alumni association and

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Save Our Scott members not fought to resurvey the school grounds and reduce the amount of local funding needed, the building eventually might have gotten torn down or forgotten, Fisher said. “My fear was that the building would close and part of our trouble is that the enrollment has been reducing and there’s an undercurrent that people feel families are leaving the city for suburban areas,” Fisher said. Rogers, Bowsher and Start high schools were the first to get renovated — all schools Fisher said she classified as the on the “outer ring” of the city. The board holds monthly Ohio Schools Facilities Commission meetings for citizens to share their ideas with the board, said board member Lisa Sobecki. She said she thought the district has been working well with Scott High School alumni to address their concerns and she and Davis have talked numerous times about the possibility of an oversight committee. “I appreciate their advocacy,” Sobecki said. “I don’t fault them for it; I appreciate it when our community members advocate for the particular schools they are associated with.” She added that the board may or may not pass a resolution on Aug. 11 that could create an oversight committee to involve those in the alumni association and Save Our Scott more in the planning process. Construction on the high school has already begun and is slated to be completed in December 2011.

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He said he didn’t think the local chapter of the NAACP and the Upper Toledo Urban League participated enough to save Scott High School. “We haven’t been given direct answers; it’s like, ‘let’s wait and see,’” Davis said. “This is just the last piece of insurance from the community to give us the confidence that we’re going to proceed with Scott High School and do it right.” Davis’ ideal oversight committee plans would include three parents, one student, teacher, principal and custodial representative. Two members from Scott Alumni Association, two from Save Our Scott and two community leaders would also be included. Among many duties, the oversight committee would review building proposals, budget numbers and expenditures and verify that all work would ensure student safety, according to Davis’ proposal.

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there so someone can work and collect donations there,” Crowell said. The mission group also built a wheelchair ramp for a 20-year-old Malta resident because his existing ramp was in poor condition and dangerous to use, Crowell said. World Vision is piloting the Rural Poverty Initiative Program in the United States and 38 other locations in the world. Gary Combs, development facilitator for World Vision, lives in Morgan County and sees the effect the recession has had on the region firsthand. He said the region is known for its negative qualities. “Morgan County was chosen because it is one of the designated distress counties in the United States on a list of 100,” Combs said. “We have many issues that go along with poverty and being in a depressed area, with people feeling hopeless and helpless. Throughout the last several decades, the suicide rate has doubled the national average. World Vision recruits mission teams like Washington Church to work with its partners in Morgan County to combat poverty in the rural community and to work toward the well-being of our children, especially the most vulnerable.” Combs said the primary concern of World Vision is to do no harm and allow the communities they assist to maintain their independence. World Vision is a faith-based relief organization that serves nearly 100 million people in 100 countries across the globe, according to its Web site, worldvision.org.

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Betty Wesley walked away from a mini-farmers market with a bag stocked full of fresh fruits and veggies, a luxury she said she can enjoy because she qualifies for money from the Area Office on Aging’s nutrition program. The federally funded program allocates approximately $21 million nationwide to give low-income people who are 60 or older $50 farmers market coupons. About $1 million of that annually comes to Northwest Ohio, said Rebecca Liebes, director of nutrition and wellness. “Seniors can supplement their diet with foods that they would frankly not otherwise be able to afford including staples,” said U.S. House Rep. Marcy Kaptur. Kaptur came to the mini farmer’s market on Aug. 6 to celebrate the ninth year that the United States Department of Agriculture has funded the program in the area, supplying 21,320 older people with coupons so they can afford fresh fruits and veggies. Seniors who live alone qualify for the $50 coupons each summer if his or her annual income is $20,035

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or less. A household of two qualifies if the income is $26,954. Since Kaptur started the program in 2001, the area has received more than $10 million and served more than 36,000 low-income seniors. “We do have stacks of letters on our desks about folks who haven’t had a raspberry for over 40 years until this program,” Liebes said. “As a nutritionist, I’m really proud that our older adults do recognize the value of fruits and vegetables.” Kaptur said she wants to increase the number of participating farmers and also transform local

gardens into businesses to try to encourage more people to buy local food and keep their money within the Toledo area. Coupons are awarded on a firstcome-first-serve basis and this year, the Office on Aging had to turn down 1,344 seniors, according to the news release. To apply for next summer’s coupons, seniors need to fill out an application and send it to Area Office on Aging of Northwest Ohio at 2155 Arlington Ave. Seniors can call (419) 382-0624 for information on applications.

Democratic Mayoral Candidate Keith Wilkowski announced Aug. 6 that as mayor he would cut 10 percent from the mayor’s office budget to finance the expansion of an Area Office on Aging program. The program, called the Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol Program, has operated since 2000 to train volunteers to check up on seniors in their home to ensure they are safe and getting the attention or medication they need, said director Sally Davies. Last year, 55 volunteers worked for nearly 6,000 hours to serve 80 clients, and Wilkowski said he wants community involvement and aid to seniors expand. He said he wants the program to operate at all eight of the senior centers in the city, but his WILKOWSKI four-year plan would start with two. Cutting between $90,000 and $110,000 from the mayor’s office budget would allow him to spend $43,125 on each center, he added. “This is not going to be easy; this is going to be hard, but across the board cuts are things that are going to have to happen in 2010 and they’re going to start with my office, Wilkowski said. “People will not to sacrifice but we have to have our priorities in order and to me this is a top priority.” Wilkowski said some positions would have to be “sacrificed,” and the administration would need to rework or consolidate certain factions of the mayor’s office. The current program funds service vehicles, uniforms for the volunteers, police officers who train the volunteers and communication devices. Wilkowski’s plan would allot $5,000 for a refurbished vehicle; $13,000 for annual gasoline and maintenance costs; $4,125 for uniforms; $1,000 for scanners and cell phones, and $20,000 for police supervisor costs, at each of the proposed eight locations. Sam Burnett, a senior center advocate, said seniors are worried about health care and their safety, and this program helps to alleviate those fears. “What this is going to do is it’s going to help the seniors in the City of Toledo sincerely believe that somebody cares about their concerns and safety,” Burnett said. — Caitlin McGlade

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ummertime brings a lot of family time. With family reunions, picnics, weddings and other events, long distant family members travel to gather together. It is also the perfect time to do some planning for the future. With parents aging and their health and lifestyles changing, children need to discuss some changes and decisions that will be needed in the near future. Parents should take the time to tell their children where important documents are kept and what their wishes are in the event of needing health care directives or experiencing long-term care needs. For those children who live away, the change they see in their parent’s health and mental capacity may be alarming — whereas siblings who have daily contact are working with these issues constantly. Here is the chance to compare notes and work together as a complete family in the long-term care planning process. For you parents who are well and active, this is a good time to hold a family meeting and share with your children your plan for long-term care. Tell them where financial and legal documents are located. Review health care directives, living wills and long-term care alternatives. Experience has shown that even

families that are close can quickly their planning, years before the grow angry, jealous and hostile to- need for care arises. A meeting on behalf of someone ward each other when already receiving care an aging parent begins or needing care in to need long-term care. the immediate future If a sibling moves into could be conducted the parent’s home, by that person or others can easily be by a member of the suspicious of ulterior family, by an adviser motives and fear losing or a friend. their inheritance. On The agenda could the other hand, the child providing the el- Debra SORENSEN be formal or informal. If you want a formal dercare becomes bitter and feels there is no support or help agenda, we suggest using our care from siblings. A pre-need meeting planning checklist as the agenda. for the purpose of making a plan, Copies of the care plan should be before eldercare becomes imminent, prepared prior to the meeting and presented to those attending. Disavoids these types of conflicts. In its book, “The 4 Steps of Long cussion is encouraged and we recTerm Care Planning,” the National ommend that the person in charge Care Planning Council provides not dictate, but encourage input guidelines and checklists for family from everyone. After a thorough discussion of planning meetings. Here’s an exthe issues and the presentation of cerpt from the book: “The first step to holding a the solutions to the problems that meeting, and perhaps the most will be encountered, there should difficult one, is to get all interested be a consensus of all attending to persons together in one place at support the plan. If the plan needs one time. If it’s a family gathering, to be altered to meet everyone’s perhaps a birthday, an anniversary expectations, then by all means or another special event could be do so if that can be done. But it is used as a way to get all to meet. Or not always possible to please evmaybe even a special dinner might eryone, so there must sometimes be compromise. be an incentive. The end of the meeting should The person conducting the meeting can be a parent or one consist of asking everyone present person of a couple who is doing to make his or her commitment

to support the plan. Get it in writing! All good intentions seem to be forgotten with time. It may be years after this meeting before the long-term care plan begins. If there are vocal commitments to help with transportation to doctors, give respite to the caregiver or other commitments, write them down on the care agreement. You can even have each person put a signature to his or her commitment if you think that is important. “The 4 Steps of Long Term Care Planning,” by The National Care Planning Council is a great source. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states: “No one wants to think about a time when they might need longterm care. So planning ahead for this possibility often gets put off. Most people first learn about long-term care when they or a loved one need care. Then their options are often limited by lack of information, the immediate need for services and insufficient resources to pay for preferred services. Planning ahead allows

you to have more control over your future.” For more information, visit www.longtermcare.gov. “Whether you plan a formal meeting with an agenda or informally gather for a discussion, when the family is together making it a point to start the long-term care planning process. There is a lot to learn and many decisions to make concerning finances, health issues and legal work. It may take research and a lot of time to put a plan together, but if everyone is involved it will work, and be worth it.” More information is available at the National Care Planning Council’s Web site at www.long termcarelink.net. Debra Sorensen, MSW, member of the National Care Planning Council, is a certified care manager in the Toledo area. Read more about her eldercare services at her Web site, www.independentcaresolutions.com Or you can reach her by calling (419) 367-8835 or e-mailing debra@indepe ndentcaresolutions.com.

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Numerous local witnesses testified at the first hearing of the Joint Select Committee on the Impact of the Changing Automobile Industry in Ohio at UT on Aug. 3. Co-chairs Senator Mark Wagoner (R-Ottawa Hills) and Rep. Matt Lundy (D-Elyria) opened the first of five hearings to be hosted across the state, including Aug. 18 at Lorain County Community College, Aug. 21 at Kent State, Aug. 25 at Sinclair Community College and Sept. 8 at North Central State University. The committee was formed by the legislature to determine what could be done by the state of Ohio to help the ailing auto industry and report its findings to the governor and legislature by Sept. 30. “It’s no secret we have some serious challenges in the auto industry, which has been the backbone of the economy in Northwest Ohio and the entire state where thousands of automobiles are produced,” said Wagoner, in his opening remarks. “The auto industry is key to our economic footprint in Ohio,” said Lundy, who wants to have “a very open and candid discourse on how the auto industry in Ohio can remain competitive.” Northwest Ohio is well represented on the joint committee, which includes Rep. Barbara Sears (R-Sylvania), Sen. Steve Buehrer (R-Delta), Sen. Capri Cafaro (DHubbard) and Rep. Robert Hagen (D-Youngstown). Sen. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo) sat in for Cafaro who was unable to attend, while Buehrer was absent due to a family vacation. Sears said she was pleased when the Speaker of the House asked her to serve on the committee since the auto industry is critical to the area she represents. Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner

emphasized the “progressive bridging of the old automotive world with the new auto world by a great team of government, management and union leadership in Toledo.” The mayor cited the flexibility of the assembly line and workers at the local Jeep plants, stating, “I would not be surprised to see some smaller Fiat cars coming off assembly lines at Toledo’s Chrysler plants within the next two years.” Finkbeiner suggested that the state could help this area by providing environmental cleanup and demolition funds to rebuild and revitalize urban areas; providing funds for worker training programs to support a transition to clean, green vehicles; and provide economic development tools “that are essential for attracting capital investment” to Ohio and this region. “Toledo is unique because our labor force possesses the skills and knowledge needed to move our community into clean, green automotive production in our GM Powertrain plant and two Chrysler assembly plants,” Finkbeiner said. “We hold Toledo as an example to follow with local officials forming a consortium to work together in a cooperative approach that seems to work very well in the city and state,” said Bernard Swiecki, director of market analysis, for the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit think tank organization based in Ann Arbor. Swiecki testified that Fiat products will be critical for Chrysler, but won’t be available for about two years. Chrysler should look to export more Jeep vehicles since the brand is recognized around the world and that’s a good thing for the company’s Toledo plants, he said. “We have the finest automotive work force in this region which translates into increased productivity with less training required,” Swiecki said.

“Expect much smaller GM and Chrysler companies in the future with Ford remaining steady. Ford could surpass GM as the number one domestic automaker. “When you sell fewer vehicles with the current trend, it takes fewer factories and workers to make the cars and fewer dealers to sell fewer vehicles,” Swiecki said. The Automobile Dealers Association of Ohio expressed its concern about how GM and Chrysler are closing dealerships through their bankruptcies and circumventing franchise transaction laws in testimony from Tim Doran, president of the dealer group. “It’s a very difficult situation and it’s not an equal partnership,” said Robert Brown Jr., president of Brown Automotive, which lost its Pontiac franchise when the brand was discontinued by GM. “It’s important that these family-owned businesses are protected by existing laws.” More than 100 dealers in Ohio have been closed or terminated resulting in the loss of about 10,000 jobs because of those closings, according to Doran. Chrysler closed 47 dealerships and GM closed 70 to 80 dealerships in Ohio since both companies emerged from bankruptcy. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is working with attorney generals in other states trying to uphold each state’s franchise laws, testified Trish Lazich of the Attorney General’s office. It’s not just the large auto plants and major suppliers that have been hurt by the auto industry’s economic woes. It has affected the entire auto supply chain, Swiecki said. Lott Industries, a nonprofit organization in Toledo, has a long history of supplying the auto industry, but has lost nearly 50 percent of its business recently. It lost seven contracts when the former Ford Stamping

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arl Nightingale said, “The create some type of “system” that alonly people who make lows you to “flip a switch” and start money work at the mint.” making money instantly, then you are starting from the The rest of us need to wrong place. earn money by proThere are no marviding service. keting systems that You want to make “make money,” but more money with there are innovative your business and ways to create and proyou understand that vide more and better making the big money service for your clirequires you to innoents. As you search for vate. However, there is to innovate your a right way to innovate Tom RICHARD ways business, you must and there is a wrong make sure that you are way to innovate. The difference between the approaching the challenge with the right way and the wrong way starts mind set, “How can I provide my with the mind set you have as you clients more of what they want?” Before you can provide your cliapproach innovation. If you have the mind set that you are going to ents more of what they want, you

must first determine what your clients want. The best and fastest way to figure out what your customers love about you is to ask them. Three times in the past two weeks, I have had customers call me and ask for my evaluation of their “big ideas.” All three people had new systems that completely removed themselves from direct contact with their customers, and all three people were destined to fail. Why? They were ignoring what their customers wanted from them. The three people I talked with all cited that their customers loved being able to talk with them on a regular basis; yet, all three were trying to “innovate” by removing themselves from direct contact with their customers.

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Start your innovation process by identifying what makes you unique. What can you add or change about your business that will enhance the service you are providing to your clients? When you increase your ability to serve people through innovation, you will always receive additional compensation in direct proportion to the level of service you are providing. Stop when you find yourself focusing on the money first and foremost. The money will come when you enhance your service and when you innovate the value you are providing. The business model and marketing system will come after you innovate your service, after you find new ways to delight your customers and after you discover what your customers want to respond to. This requires you to stop falling in love with your ideas and, instead, fall in love with your service. You are not ignoring the money or the systemization of your methods — you are finally thinking correctly. List your top five customers. Ask yourself what they love about you. Keep the list next to you at all times. As you review your list, ask yourself how you can enhance these qualities and values. How are you going to innovate your business to amplify these core qualities of yours? This is how you start the process of innovation — not by listening to an infomercial marketer who is doing nothing more than tapping into your desire to “get rich quickly.” True riches come only when you enrich the lives of others. This will happen much faster than with a scheme you pay $300 for online or by phone. For some easy ways to innovate your business, go to www.boltfromtheblue.com and enter INNOVATE in the blueprint box. Tom Richard is a Toledo-based sales and marketing consultant, keynote speaker and owner of Bolt from the Blue direct response advertising. For more information, visit www.BoltFromTheBlue.com or call (419) 441-1005.

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his week Mark and I are traveling for some end of the summer fun. Mark is cruising the country on his motorcycle with some friends, in what I imagine is the trip of a lifetime. This weekend he is probably sitting by a campfire in the middle of the Grand Canyon enjoying the moment. I spent the Mark week at Virginia Nolan Beach and recently, Andrew, my son, and I got up for a day of fishing at about 6 a.m. We met up with our friends Glen, Kelsey and Brendan and, by 8 a.m., we were off. A lot of captains usually spend the day talking to one another about where they just caught the fish. In my opinion, the best captains already know where the fish are and tune out the noise. That is why we chartered the Princess Bay, considered one of the best by the locals. Some captains probably spent the whole day chasing the hot spots. That would have only left us without a pole in the water and no chance of catching anything. The same is true with most talking heads on Wall Street. They all want to talk about the hot investments of today. The urge is to change course and head in a new direction. Following most of their advice would only lead an investor into chasing results with little chances to win. The next challenging thing to

figure out is when it seems things aren’t working; should something be changed? There were different bait to try, other casting techniques, and new locations to explore. On one aspect, I didn’t want to give up too soon. At the same time, the clock is ticking and I can’t wait too long or I could go home with an empty bucket. I was paying for this CLAIR trip, so, at the end BAKER of the day, I could always speak up and ask the captain to change course. Back home at Lake Diane, a worm and a bobber worked every time. Out here, it only took a little while for me to realize that I was in unfamiliar territory. I had never been to or fished in Chesapeake Bay before. So what I did was turned to the deckhands and asked for help. Deckhands are the men who work on the boat every day. In a short amount of time, they showed me a new technique called “bottom bouncing” and, sure enough, it worked perfectly. In the financial world, realize there are times when you could be in over your head and it’s OK to ask for help. The right team who does this every day knows unique, but simple ways that makes a big difference. Different techniques work in different waters. Last year, when Andrew and I went out on Lake Erie, we used a technique called “trolling.” This is where several fishing lines are put in the water and the boat slowly moves for-

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Aug. 15 7 a.m. Parking lots open 9 a.m. Gates open to the public 10:40 a.m. NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying (two laps, all positions) 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice 1:50 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice 3 p.m. Pre-race activities and driver introductions 3:30 p.m. Start of NASCAR Nationwide Series CARFAX 250 (125 laps, 250 miles)

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The down economy won’t slow the flock of fans expected to show up for the NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup series the weekend of Aug. 14 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS). Last year, numbers climbed close to 110,000, and while it probably won’t be that high this year, it will be about 100,000, said Dennis Worden, MIS public relations manager. “We have seen a dip, but it isn’t as big of a dip as we thought. We are still going to be right around 100,000 ... which isn’t too bad for this economy,” he said. “NASCAR fans are the most passionate fans,” Worden said. “They will do whatever it takes to get here, whether they have a job or not.” One way fans keep it affordable is by camping, according to Worden. With 9,000 campsites on the MIS property, it’s common for visitors to turn a race weekend into a week’s vacation, he said. While MIS prefers when people actually come to the track, some people save money by camping at MIS and then watching the race on television, Worden said. One of the highlights of this year’s race is the Aug. 15 post-race concert featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter will perform at 7:30 p.m. He will also serve as grand marshal for the NASCAR Nation-

wide Series earlier that day. “I’m very excited to perform following the CARFAX 250,” Shepherd said in a press release. “This is a perfect opportunity for me to combine my passion for playing music with my passion for fast cars and racing. Cars and guitars are what it’s all about for me.”

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Empire Drift to play Toledo area band Empire Drift will open for Shepherd, an opportunity that came with winning the Song of Toledo contest. “This will be the biggest show we have ever played at,” said guitarist Rick Shugarman. “We are totally pumped. We started preparing a few weeks ago with our eye on this ever since we found out.” Shugarman said Shepherd is one of the best blues guitarists and he’s excited to see him play live. “I will have the butterflies,” Shugarman said of performing, “but it’s all part of the journey.” Worden said the post-race concert usually generates excitement. In the past, MIS hosted concerts in June and August during race weekends, but it has since become an August-only event. “Everyone just loves it,” he said. “If you already have a ticket or infield wristband for Saturday’s CARFAX 250 race, you can watch the concert for free. It’s just another perk with your race admission.” Worden said the new Kids Zone will likely continue to be a big attraction,

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too. The zone includes rock-climbing walls and an inflatable obstacle course that their parents can use, too. Kids 12 and under are free to all MIS events when accompanied by an adult who has purchased a ticket. The ticket is for the general admission grandstands 14 and 16 located between turns three and four. Worden said Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon continue to be some of the more popular drivers, but it’s hard to say if one driver attracts more attention. “Everyone has their own pick,” Worden said.

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While weather has traditionally not been a problem during race weekends, it can dampen spirits, but usually not for long. Worden can only think of one time in recent MIS history where a race was canceled because of weather and moved to another day. Rain ruined the day at Pocono Raceway on Aug. 2. “In Michigan, June through August, it will rain for awhile, but we will dry it up and still get the race in and everyone has a good time,” Worden said. For tickets, which range in prices, visit www.mispeedway.com and click on “Get Tickets.”

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hat exactly are the cogs of the race with sponsors. This year, that make NASCAR run? the August race in the NASCAR Dedicated mechanics, Sprint Cup series is the CARFAX 400, which has been intuitive crew chiefs, known better as, since nimble pit crews and 1975, the Champion ballsy drivers are all part 400, the Goodwrench of the well-oiled ma400, the DeVilbiss 400, chine that hugs the turns the Pepsi 400 Presented and puts the pedal to the by DeVilbiss, the Pepsi metal of this elaborate 400 Presented by metaphor. And when a Meijer, the Pepsi 400 driver wins, they thank Presented by Farmer all those people. They also thank the sponsors. Matt SUSSMAN Jack, the GFS Marketplace 400, the 3M PerIt must be tough to remember all the major decals formance 400 and the 3M Perforon one’s car, yet the rightful owner mance 400 Presented by Bondo. I of the checkered flag will recite, in am not making a single one of those proper order, the corporations that up, and I had no idea Tigers pitcher Jeremy Bonderman had enough helped make their work possible. Are the sponsorships effective? money to sponsor a race at MIS. Clearly, there are some better Perhaps. As a consumer, I’m fairly certain that were it not for Dale ways to permeate sponsors during a Earnhardt, I may never have heard race that will shine through the rest of Goodwrench. The same goes for of the cluttered corporate logos. Let’s start with the flags. The Jeff Gordon and DuPont, whatever it is that they do. And anytime I see checkered flag can be the Checkers Tide, I can’t help but wonder if Ricky Champ Burger Flag. The white flag Rudd has a closet in his house that will be the Aquafresh Teeth Whitcontains nothing but boxes upon ening System Flag. The yellow flag can be the Clorox Color Safe boxes of laundry detergent. But sponsorships can do more. Bleach Yellow Flag. The red flag You might have seen some baseball can be the Department of Homeparks that have ads on the walls land Ready Advisory System Flag, near left-center and right-center by which will turn orange if threat of Gap, which just may be the most rain decreases. Now, look at the track itself. brilliant placement in sports marketing history. Coming in second There’s a lot of unadulterated paveplace is 7-Eleven, which will occa- ment that could hold logos, but the sionally sponsor White Sox games start/finish line is where the real by moving the start time from 7:05 money is. The checkered start/finish line be renamed the Verizon Wirep.m. to 7:11 p.m. NASCAR, however, could learn less Family Plan Add-A-Start/Finish a few things. Indeed, they saturate Line. The SAFER barriers are fanthe car, the suits and even the name tastic places for car insurance logos.

And every other wall adorned with nothing but the name of the track can have, why, Wal-Mart, of course. And would it kill the people in charge of tending to the infield grass to shave some logos into the lawn? A

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MIS to host largest blood drive in Great Lakes region By Caitlin McGlade TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The race is on to donate blood at the Michigan International Speedway (MIS) track for the Sept. 11 annual blood drive, an event that

has potentially saved 14,757 lives since 2002. The event, which started with 500 donors and has increased to this year’s expected 1,500, will bring every American Red Cross staff member in the 65 Great Lakes region to the tracks to

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receive gift bags and eat a fully catered meal, he said. Race car ride-alongs will also be available for $89. Guests must reserve a spot before attending by calling 800-YOU GAVE at Ext. 228 or by visiting www.spiritofamericablooddrive. com. Spots are going fast, so donors should call as soon as possible, Booth said. The blood drive at MIS attracted national attention about three years ago and NASCAR picked up on the tradition. Now, more than 30 different track locations around the nation sponsor an event modeled after Booth’s idea, he said. “It’s a very unique experience,” Booth said. “It’s very meaningful and the donors that choose to be a part of it find it very rewarding, helping others with the gift of life.”

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From Staff Reports Michigan International Speedway (MIS), located on 1,400 acres of forests, protected wetlands and scenic wildlife of the Irish Hills, is involved in serious conservation and environmental efforts. MIS has taken numerous steps to help achieve the trackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal of reducing its carbon footprint with its commitment to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Escape â&#x20AC;&#x201D; National Parkâ&#x20AC;? atmosphere that race fans have enjoyed for years. MIS has become involved in a number of initiatives to enhance its commitment to the local environment by incorporating those initiatives into its strategic plan, According to a news release. These new initiatives include the speedwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voluntary involvement in the Michigan Business Pollution Prevention Partnership (MBP3) and Retired Engineers Technical Assistance (RETAP). These self-administered, private programs with overview from the state are designed to reduce pollution, lower energy usage and reduce costs. The MBP3 program was one of the first steps MIS took to-

ward its commitment to being a green track. The RETAP program provides information and benchmarks to assist MIS in making plans to achieve it. The purpose of MBP3 is to advance pollution prevention activities in Michigan by encouraging businesses to initiate and expand their current practices by providing public recognition for their efforts, according to a news release. MIS was presented with a certificate of accomplishment for the MBP3 partnership, becoming the first sports venue in the state to join the program. It is also one of 350 businesses participating in the state program. The partnership promotes the application of cost-effective, innovative techniques that lead to reductions in waste. Reduction is the key to sustainable business; however, reuse and recycling efforts remain an important aspect to overall success. MIS reported it was pleased to join the voluntary venture and was honored to be the first professional sports venue in the MBP3 program.

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MIS NASCAR SPRINT CUP of retired engineers, pollution prevention audits are provided free of charge to small and medium-sized businesses through RETAP Michigan. The audits are confidential and provided only to the participating companies, according to Butler. “The RETAP program is very interactive and is helping us reduce the generation of waste and conserve energy, while providing a practical learning experience for companies

like MIS,” Printup said. Based on the audits from RETAP, MIS has taken actions, such as installing motion lighting, LED lighting and ballast changeouts in many areas. MIS also plans to install wind towers on the grand stands and solar panels on the roof of the new suites building at the speedway. Participation in the state programs is not the full story of the

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NASCAR track going green, a news release stated. In 2008, MIS launched a recycling program that recycled more than 765 tons of construction material and 15.3 tons of plastic, cardboard and aluminum, saving $30,000 in disposal fees from the previous year. MIS is also partnering with MDOT to become a research facility for testing on the track.

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The speedway has incorporated environmental stewardship into its public relations by partnering with the Ryan Newman Foundation and the Conservation Fund forming Racing for Wildlife. It has joined the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan United Conversation Club to restore the 20,000-acre Mill Lake Youth Camp located near the track.

Hendricks oversees racetrack safety By David Steffen TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Combine cars, gasoline, the occasional spark and high speeds, and the situation at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) could become volatile. But Fire and Safety Director Shawn Hendricks and his crew work tirelessly to make sure it never does. They train for the worst-case scenario, as well as just in case. The pressure’s on during the 30second period when a race car pauses for refueling and tire changes. “When they start down the pit stop, it’s somewhat of a stressful HENDRICKS time,” Hendricks said.

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But his dedication to his job and colleagues keeps him coming back. And supportive loved ones help grease the career wheels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really lucky my wife lets me do it,â&#x20AC;? he said with a laugh. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rewarding to see his safety crew work like clockwork while on nationally televised racing events, Hendricks said. He has also developed a bond with the men and women on the safety crew. He said he appreciates their knowledge and calls them â&#x20AC;&#x153;phenomenal.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing that keeps me wanting to go back is the people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are guys who have worked there since the track opened.â&#x20AC;? Despite the long hours and the hard work, Hendricks said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rewarding to help ensure everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety at MIS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably one of the best things a person could ever do,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trade it. I really enjoy the job.â&#x20AC;?

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t’s a late summer evening in Hollywood elitism was lifted soon thereafter, and Curtis saw the ugly Wilmington, N.C., circa 1991. Roger Curtis once again sits side of show business. He traveled crossbefore his wobbly card country to North table. To his right, a pile Carolina to market the of phone bills begin to southern music scene. resemble Pisa. To his The problem was, muleft, a bowl of macaroni sicians would dig their and cheese acts as a conTar Heel into your neck stant reminder of sacribefore they would say fices made. thank you. Some 18 years His forking life had later, Curtis is the gone left; it had gone president of Michigan International Ryan FOWLER right. It was time for his straightaway. Speedway (MIS). Come 1990, his love of racing Curtis could never be a NASCAR driver, however, his life is made up and the outdoors became his pasof so many forks in the road, his ré- sion. He quit the music business and began calling everybody and anysumé took the life of a Redwood. After high school, and like most body connected to the racing scene NASCAR fans, Curtis attended in North Carolina. Curtis would eventually find a gig Purdue University majoring in nuclear engineering. He blames his high working for Winston Cup veteran school guidance counselor for con- Dave Marcis. His compensation: a vincing him that math was his stron- dollar and a dream, minus the dollar. gest subject. But when the nuclear The 24-year-old Curtis began calling equations consisted of more letters around, looking for companies to sponsor Marcis’ ride on race day. than numbers, Curtis said fork this. When he wasn’t turning and So, he transferred from Purdue to Indiana State University, back home burning the Yellow Pages and cold in Terre Haute. He also changed his calling companies, Curtis set up banquet halls for parties and receptions. major to marketing. After graduation, he moved to On his breaks, he would make it a point California, hoping to change the to watch qualifying on television. His dedication to his craft was world by sharing the gift of music with the bands he represented. shared by his wife, who quit school Sonic Youth and The Smithereens and began waiting tables to help were his clients, but the veil of support his dream.

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Fast forward 365 days, and Curtis landed his first paid gig in NASCAR, selling sponsorships for Bobby Allison Motorsports. His compensation: $15,000. Curtis would spend morning, noon and night on the phone contacting prospective clients. And he remembers the more time spent on the phone translated into less money at the end of the month. “This was before it was 10 cents a minute,” Curtis said. “Phone bills were really high when you’re calling Fortune 500 companies all over the country.” Thanks to the robust phone bills,

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the Curtis family dined on macaroni and cheese — and lots of it. Curtis would grind out work on the team side of NASCAR up until 1997. He introduced Dewalt Tools to the sport, still a sponsor to this day. He then crossed over to working at tracks across the country. He started at Watkins Glen for three and a half years. Then he moved on to Richmond. Then cross-country, he and his wife returned to California. Not his idea of paradise. So, when former MIS president Brett Shelton resigned in the summer of 2006, Curtis got the call he had dreamed of and was on his way to Michigan. For the past three years, Curtis has been working to transform his track into his own version of Disneyland. MIS is his Magic Kingdom. The drivers are his Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (yes, Joey Logano I’m talking to you.) His passion is obvious from the way he talks about making the fans — his guests — feel right at home when they arrive. He personally welcomes them as he opens the gates to the infield on race weekends. You can sense he truly enjoys going to work each and every day. To think he could have been a nuclear engineer or a music executive, but his fork in the road led him to Brooklyn, Mich. This is his home. Curtis tells me from his office high above MIS, he can look out his window and point to the seats he sat in as a fan years ago. The view serves as a humble reminder of his ride to the top. As for the thought of eating mac and cheese: Forks need not apply. Ryan Fowler is the weekend sports anchor at NBC24. He can be reached at bgsualum03@hotmail.com.

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immie Johnson was to park his tracks that we run at. “Indy throws a lot of curve balls No. 48 Chevy on the White House at you. There’s nothing else like it lawn on Aug. 3 and visit with President Barack Obama. That out there. If you can sort it out in didn’t happen because rain post- the few hours of practice you have, poned the NASCAR Sprint Cup race be competitive in the race, you’re on your A game and you’re gonna be at Pocono Raceway until Aug. 3. In the process, Johnson’s mount good for the rest of the season.” Johnson, won Indy a few weeks almost qualified for the government‘s ago. He had five consecutive top“Cash For Clunkers” program. Johnson, the three-time defending 10 finishes end with his 13th-place Sprint Cup champion and a group of finish at Pocono. But in reality, that was his best other NASCAR drivers have been finish in his ongoing rescheduled to meet second-half push. with President Obama It appeared Johnon Aug. 19, three son’s junker was ready days after the schedfor a scrap iron apuled CARFAX 400 at praisal with issues that Michigan International defied warranty, insurSpeedway (MIS). ance, recall and even They’ll have a lot “Cash for Clunker” more to talk about possibilities. then, specifically how The engine was toit will have become Dave WOOLFORD tally unreasonable and increasingly clear that Johnson’s road to an unprecedented even mastermind crew chief Chad fourth consecutive title will have Knaus was mystified. Johnson was three laps down fewer potholes with signage for his closest pursuers that say, “Yield”, halfway through the race. At one “No passing” and “You might as well point, NASCAR told Johnson he would be black flagged if he didn’t brake for animals.” In short, everyone else will be a pick up the pace. Spark plug wires were changed, long shot. Going into the Sprint Cup race the carburetor was replaced and, at Watkins Glen on Aug. 9, Johnson finally, in a move that usually imiand his Rick Hendrick Motorsports tates throwing up hands in utter team are all but locked down in re- bewilderment, the spark plugs were gard to the upcoming 10-race Chase changed. At that point, it’s close to for the championship. In their past parking time. In Johnson’s case, it three title runs, the team has kicked was back to attack time. No more it into another gear, starting with the just plugging along. His engine was second half of the season. Four on fond of its new spark and wise pit strategy during caution periods althe floor has, again, become five. The second half of the season lowed the No. 48 team the time it swings into high gear with the Brick- needed to adjust. To finish 13th truly defined the yard 400 at Indy where everyone struts their best stuff, not only be- championship caliber of Johnson’s cause it’s the prestigious Brickyard, team. Even more so than the vicbut because it pays the second tory at Indy. Racing is a team game. highest purse of all the Sprint Cup The driver is merely a fraction of races. Incidentally, seven of the last that component. Drivers don’t win 11 winners at Indy — including championship. Teams do. “There’s a lot to be proud of,” Johnson in 2006 and 2008 — have Johnson said after the race. “What gone on to win the championship. Johnson explained that tendency I was hoping to see from the No. 48 this way: “Indy is so tricky to figure team is coming around right now. out, that the team that is on top of This is what we need going into the their game and can win Indy or be Chase. I think we’re going in the right competitive at Indy, they’re also the direction and it shows to me what my team that can be competitive during team is capable of, and I know what the Chase and on the wide variety of I‘m capable of going into the Chase.”

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Johnson, second in points, is a lock to make the Chase field and lost only minimal ground behind pointsleader Tony Stewart at Pocono. Stewart leads by 197 points going into the race at Watkins Glen on Aug. 9. Meanwhile, other teams, those a fraction of a second or two behind Hendrick Motorsports and drivers, Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and ... oh, yes, Dale Earnhardt Jr. are trying to uncover the secrets to Hendrick’s success one tiny fragment at a time. “We’re looking at the films; we’re looking at their cars, trying to pay attention,” Roush-Fenway Racing driver Greg Biffle said. “They’re a little bit ahead of the curve right now, I think, than most of the other teams. But it’s so small of a change. It’s 10- and 20-thousandths of this

or that. It’s not a big chunk. We feel like it’s real small and we’re trying to hone in on what that is.” Johnson admitted he’s somewhat surprised at his team’s success, and is some ways even shocked. “When I look at the 99 (Carl Edwards), the 18 (Kyle Busch), different teams that have been very strong in certain years, then things kind of slow down for whatever reason; it’s really tough to tell why or what it is,” Johnson said, the implication being that other team’s consistency is not always trimmed out. In answer to Biffle’s inquisitiveness, maybe the best way to the core of Johnson’s success is through the mental rather than the metal. Tell him he’s the best. Explain that there’s no other like him in the history of the sport. Make

him think he’s Jimmie Superior. Johnson admitted if he listens, he could become listless. When he thinks too deeply, he can become droopy. “I don’t want to think about these things,” he said. “I just want to go out and drive and do what I know how to do. I’m better at reacting than thinking. I joke around with it a lot. I’m not good at thinking. I’m better when I strap myself in that car, go out and do what I know how to do. “The distance between my ears has caused problems in the past, and it does to everybody, especially with the pressure of the Chase. If I can keep that stuff out of my head, not think about what could be or what I could do for myself and my career and status, the better I’m gonna be.” Thinking and driving can be a bad combination for some.

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Fashion and style column debuts By Mark Hensch TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Toledo Free Press will receive a makeover this issue with the addition of Ali VanDyke and Alli Bartley. The duo will write a column highlighting the latest in fashion, beauty and health care trends for local readers. “We’re bringing different viewpoints, but we want people in the city of Toledo to know this is a fashionable town,” Bartley said. “Toledo can definitely have the fashion and beauty other big cities have.” Bartley said she is a licensed aesthetician specializing in skin care and massage, with a degree in business and fashion design from Owens Community College in Toledo. VanDyke said she is a hair stylist who trained at TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy. Bartley and VanDyke ply their respective trades at Nrgie Salon & Spa at 690 Dixie Highway in Rossford. Bartley, a married mother with two children, said they cultivated their perspectives through their lifestyles. VanDyke said she has never married and has no children, but recently became engaged. “We live two completely different lives,” VanDyke said of her differences from Bartley. “I am more about the younger women going into their careers, yet still looking modern and trendy.” “I am a working mom with a husband, two kids and a dog,” Bartley said. “I want people to know that at my age you can have a career and a family and still look good for yourself.”

Meeting three years ago at Nrgie, VanDyke said she and Bartley found a common ground on fashion trends, which transcends their circumstances. The two started taking cosmetic courses together, Bartley said, and during a bridal makeup class at the Pavilion in Farmington Hills, Mich., the idea arose of a column offering style tips for Northwest Ohio. “People are afraid to ask questions in the salon,” Bartley said. “There are so many great restaurants and places to go in Toledo, I truly think people want to look their best.” Despite any separation between their fashion approaches, Vandyke and Bartley agree on one principle. The driving force behind their Toledo Free Press column, Bartley said, is educating Toledo’s citizens on the latest in improving one’s image. “I want everyone to learn something from us,” VanDyke said. “I enjoy making people feel better about themselves.” “Beauty starts with personal style,” Bartley said. “Personal style is wearing what you feel comfortable in as far as your shape and who you are. We want it to be fun and something people look forward to reading.” VanDyke said she admired the brevity of fashion trends. Her column with Bartley, she said, would keep locals aware of every change in the world of the chic and the hip. Regardless of what is in or out, she said, true beauty lies in a person’s value of their self. “A lot of women and men get in the chair and have no idea how they should dress,” VanDyke said. “Everything starts with your inner beauty and confidence. It all spins off of that.”

e enjoy a night out at The Restocking your beauty bag every Docks, cheering for the six months will not only keep Mud Hens, licking our your beauty routine up-to-date, fingers at Smoke on the Water and but will also keep bacteria and germs from relaxing poolside growing. with friends. But Looking along with the healthy and fun and sun of natural can be summer, there done with just are challenges. a few beauty One is, “How essentials. do I look great, G r e a t while fighting makeup althe humidity?” ways starts We know Alli BARTLEY with fresh the frustration rejuvenated of spending up Ali VANDYKE skin. Using a to an hour on gentle cleanser our hair and makeup, only to have the summer and exfoliater will give you the heat unravel the look in five min- best results for a “glowing” comutes. For Ali, it looks like she has plexion. Kill two birds with one stuck a finger in a light socket. We stone by using a tinted moisturhave a solution for all hair types izer. This is a great way to keep on how to make hair look shiny, your makeup looking fresh all day in the humidity. healthy and smooth. Bronzer is a great product to To fix this frizzy, out-of-control disaster, start with an anti-frizz keep your makeup intact all day serum. To apply, place a dime- and give your look a beautiful sunsize amount of product in your kissed glow. Apply the bronzer to palm, and work it throughout the the apple of your cheeks and Thair evenly, starting on the ends. zone, the area from your forehead Avoid getting this by the root area down through your nose to your of your hair; it can cause it to look chin. To keep your look natural, greasy. Style your hair as you nor- use mascara to pop and enhance your eyes. It’s time to pucker up mally would. This product will keep your and apply a pretty pink lip color hair looking fantastic all day. to finish your summertime beauty When you emerge from the pool regimen. Now, it’s time to put your or lake, you will look like the frizz- best face forward and forget about the humidity. free goddess you are. Summer cleaning is not just One more hair product to keep you looking great this for the ladies. Men can also use summer is a heat-protecting a tune-up. It’s a great time of year spray shine. It shields hair from to clean up your look with a fresh harmful UV rays, while giving haircut. If you’re feeling like an a polished look. TIGI, Aquage adventure, ask your stylist about and Rusk all make a great shine color and highlighting options. spray. Spray this on each section Before you leave the shop, why not of your hair before hitting it with inquire about waxing? Turn your any hot tools. With these prepa- one eyebrow into two! Don’t sweat the small stuff. rations, you are ready to go outside, confident you are going to Follow these easy tips and let Toledo throw its hottest days at you. have an excellent hair day. Another humidity challenge is makeup. This is a great time of Ali and Alli are beauty experts at year to put your natural beauty NRGIE Salon & Spa in Rossford, into play. Get your makeup bag Ohio. To contact them or ask them and throw out any products that a fashion or beauty question, write are more than six months old. them at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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DevilDriver forges metal with a message By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

On “Pray for Villains,” DevilDriver brings it all — pulverizing drums, pounding bass, aggressive guitar solos, vicious vocals. And positive messages. Call it self-help metal. “Many bands out right now are — it’s fun to write about darkness in life because it affects us all, but, you know, come on, I’m just hearing so much that there is no hope in life, and everything in life is s***, excuse my language,” said singer FAFARA Dez Fafara. “Most metal bands really do carry that tune and they really do carry that message with their songs. “I’m not that guy; I’m a guy who’s always got a glass that’s half full. I believe determination and positivity and perseverance and hard work will get you anywhere in life. If you work in karma

and you keep yourself on the straight and narrow, you’ll see life come to fruition, even though you’ll hit some bumps in the road, but I don’t think that message is being given at all in my genre, and I’m out there to give it full on and be strong.” Fafara writes the lyrics, and guitarists Mike Spreitzer and Jeff Kendrick, bass player Jon Miller and drummer John Boecklin help with the music. During a phone interview from his California home, Fafara talked about a couple tracks from the disc released last month on Roadrunner Records. “ ‘Forgiveness Is a Six Gun’ is about learning how to forgive those who have trespassed against you so hard you carry the grudge for years and years. It’s not good for you, it’s going to eat you up; you’ve got to learn to purge that kind of thing,” he said. “I think every man and woman lives on ‘Resurrection Boulevard’ once or twice in their life. It’s about living with your mistakes, being humbled,” Fafara said. “I have a theory in life that you’re always humbled twice to three times in life, once so hard it makes you grow as a human, that’s what ‘Resurrection Boulevard’ is about.” He said he started singing around age 14.

“I went to a Baptist school, I even graduated from a religious school, and I tried out for choir numerous times, but they weren’t having me. And so it just gave me all the more impetus to go out and do something with my voice,” Fafara said. DevilDriver was formed in 2003 in Santa Barbara, Calif. Its moniker isn’t as sinister as it sounds. “Italian witches are called stregheria, and they use devildrivers, which are bells, to ring away evil,” Fafara said. “[DevilDriver] sounded so metal to me it almost sounded as evil as the word slayer and what they’re about, but it was such a different meaning; it has such a positive meaning, it just really rang true. “And even though places like Wal-Mart or Borders won’t carry our record because of the name DevilDriver, they should really get a clue and realize it means to drive away evil.” DevilDriver will headline the Thrash and Burn Tour when it stops at Headliners Aug. 19. Doors open at 4 p.m. Also on the bill: Emmure, Despised Icon, My Children My Bride, Veil of Maya, For the Fallen Dreams, Oceano, and Periphery. Tickets are $20 in advance and $24 day of show. For more, visit www.devildriver.com.

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Retooled Foreigner brings classics, new songs to Maumee By Lisa Renee Ward SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS news@toledofreepress.com

Foreigner’s latest album “Can’t Slow Down” is scheduled for release Sept. 29, but the title could be changed to “I Don’t Want to Slow Down” when it comes to bass player Jeff Pilson. Pilson and the band are heading to Toledo to play Aug. 8 at the Northwest Ohio Rib Off at the Lucas County Fairgrounds. Fans who come to the show can expect to hear one song, “Too Late,” from the upcoming album, along with some classic Foreigner songs mixed in with some new material from the past few years. The legendary vocalist and rocker formerly of Dokken decided to join Foreigner in 2004 because “they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse,” he said, giving his best impression of Marlon Brando’s Godfather. Pilson talked about his earlier relationship with Jason Bonham, with whom he worked on the movie “Rock Star” and who joined Foreigner in 2004. “It just seemed like the logical thing

to do,” he said. “When they called me up and we played, the chemistry was immediate and it felt great.” Mick Jones is the only remaining original member of the band that formed in 1976. Vocalist Lou Gramm left the band in 2003, but according to Pilson there has not been a noticeable reaction to Gramm no longer being their lead vocalist. He complimented Kelly Hansen, who joined the band in 2005, stating, “Everybody acknowledges how great Lou was and how important he was to the sound of the band, but it’s been pretty amazing how Kelly Hansen has just stepped in and done an amazing job in what are not easy shoes to fill. Kelly comes in and nails it every night and is a great showman; it’s like he is the perfect match for Foreigner,” Pilson said. When it comes to current members, according to Pilson, “it’s the right chemistry of musicians. That’s part of what Mick was looking for when he reformed the band, getting the right balance. It’s taken us a few years to get it where it is. Ever since the band got together, we had great musicians; there have been a couple of little changes

and I think they all worked out for the better, and we’re just in a position where the band is so strong right now; we are firing on all cylinders.” Between last year’s album “No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner” and the release of “Can’t Slow Down,” Pilson said he hopes the increased attention and interest in the band will create recognition by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame within the next three to four years. Pilson also remarked on the emergence of a younger fan base that he believes is inspired in part by the games “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero.” “Those things are bringing classic rock to the front of people’s minds, in particular young people,” Pilson said. “I am definitely noticing a lot of young people at the shows and they know the words, which really freaks me out because you gotta know the music when you know the words.” Pilson said it is impossible for him to pick a favorite Foreigner song. “The older I get, the more I appreciate great songs,” he said. “It’s more about groove and playing great songs than being flashy anymore. There are highlights in the set

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like during ‘Urgent,’ Thom Gimbel comes out and does a saxophone solo that is really amazing and I love playing things like ‘Waiting for a

Girl Like You.’ “I love playing the ballads because they are really well-written ballads with fabulous bass lines,” Pilson said.

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few weeks ago, we received a then paying $6 or more for a gallon letter from Napoleon asking of petrol — will almost certainly about travel to the UK and cause more trouble and strife than it’s worth. Ireland! Our perNow, this is sonal prefernot the “Little ence would be Corporal” Napoto use trains leon we’re talking with an occaabout, the one who sional rental car met his Waterloo, whenever the so to speak, on a public transbloody battlefield portation runs 20 miles south of out. But here Brussels in 1815 Roger HOLLIDAY again, getting and found himself used to the rail incarcerated on Claudia FISCHER system, locating St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he spent the the right stations (there are nine in London alone), making the reserlast six years of his life. No, this letter came from a re- vations, determining the best train cently retired couple from Napo- pass options and then getting to and leon (the Ohio town), advising us from hotels could also be too much they had finally managed to put for first timers. Which leaves us only with the a little something aside for a long dreamed-of visit to Britain and Ire- package tour — something we don’t land, and were wondering about the generally encourage unless approached with great deliberation. best way of going about it. A friend who recently visited the They do, however, have a couple UK for the first time of minor problems. signed up for The distaff side Cruising Britain and a no-frills, seven— more impulsive round Britain apparently — says, is hardly an option. day coach tour with one “Let’s just get passthe well-known ports, book a cruise Three realistic touring of operators totally and go,” whereas confirms our reaher more cautious options: Train. Car. soning. husband thinks they should probably Coach. Or some thingSheshelikedsaweveryand seek the assistance loved Great Britain. of an experienced combination thereof.” But what she didn’t travel agent. Do enjoy at all was the some reading and coach experience. research. And ask Holliday/Fischer. “It was so regimented and so How very sensible is that! The “cruise” thing came about frustrating to arrive somewhere and because, unfortunately, “Mrs. Napo- be told to be back at the bus in two hours or less!” leon” has a serious fear of flying. She did admit that the tour took Well, the bad news is that cruising Britain is hardly an op- her to places outside the cities that tion. We have heard of a small ship she’d never would have seen otherthat tools slowly and expensively wise, and that she’d never have the around the Scottish Islands, and a courage to rent a car and drive on double-crossing of the Atlantic on the “wrong” side of the road. “I might take another tour for the Queen Mary is time consuming the sake of convenience,” she said, (12 days round trip) and costly. Much better and cheaper would “but it will certainly not be one that be to get some sleeping tablets from moves at such a frenzied pace!” The good news is that there are the local Dr. Feelgood and snooze literally dozens of excellent guided the seven hours across the pond. Once there, our correspondents tours of the UK and Ireland that are have three realistic touring options: small, relaxed, use centrally-located, Car, train, coach. Or some combina- family run hotels or inns and may even be arranged around a partiction thereof. For these “travel virgins” how- ular theme. They’ll be a bit more exever, we’d forget any idea of renting pensive than the standard package a car because driving on the other tours, but in our view, well worth it. The services of a good travel side of the road, in an unfamiliar vehicle, navigating through cities on agent can be helpful, but it’s essential heavily congested highways — and to also study a couple of guidebooks

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and to do some online research before making a final decision. Even the cheapest tour is not inexpensive and it will be well worth our readers’ time to find one that perfectly suits

their interests, stamina and budget. An excellent “insider” source is International Travel News, a publication written primarily by travelers that contains details on scores of tours

that would suit these Napoleons to a “tea”! (www.intltravelnews.com). E-mail Roger Holliday and Claudia Fischer at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Make a point. Entrenched interests are unyielding. Keep dialogs flowing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sources of resistance are easier to overcome after Wednesday. Loved ones have reasons to celebrate as the weekend arrives. Travel is favored, as are races and other forms of competition.

Deviled eggs. Prolonged struggles reach a crisis of conflict on Monday. People exchange tidbits of news and valuable memories midweek. After Thursday, good timing and special events draw you into contact with exciting people. Sincere compliments attract new friends.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Open conduits. Financial limits can be a source of conflict as the week begins. An associate from the past offers a suggestion on Wednesday. Follow through on Thursday morning for good results. Adapt or remold your selfimage for new roles as the weekend arrives. Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Love shack. Technical difficulties require meticulous repairs on Monday. People jostle for future roles and prepare for dates, interviews, or elections. Past lessons offer invaluable insights about potential pitfalls. Home is where your heart is over the weekend.

Yours and mine. You may feel overburdened and a mite touchy as the week begins. Persistent hunches or repeated images, words or numbers emphasize synchronicity midweek. Love and friendship get a positive boost as the weekend arrives; an old flame may return.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Sudden flashbacks. Annoying delays or absences slow Monday plans. Forge ahead after Tuesday. News about family health matters and job changes arrives midweek. Learn something new or share specialized knowledge on Friday; your mind is a repository of portable wealth.

Blocks and bricks. A persistent source of trouble erupts as the week begins. Closer examination will lead you to solutions, or help you find expert help midweek. Keep a tight rein on spending as the weekend arrives; sources or amounts of income may be changing.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s muse. The week begins with hard labor or pressing demands. Gossip from a past co-worker makes you glad youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve moved on. Good feelings are on tap for the weekend; activities yield social and romantic benefits as you cruise through the in-crowd.

Greased lightning. Speedy responses and a cool head under pressure are needed as the week begins. Consider methods of creative recycling midweek. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a roll of good luck after Thursday. Partners and friends grease the wheels of opportunity and excitement.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Whites of their eyes. Mistakes need correction as the week begins. Play the detached, curious detective and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll figure it out by retracing steps and examining past actions. Triumph arrives on Thursday, along with splendid invitations or romantic proposals.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Shady politics. Groups splinter if leaders allow internal disputes to undermine the primary goals. Blind spots are closely entwined with beliefs and possessiveness. Dynamic individuals take the lead after Thursday. The weekend brings a variety of amusements.

Mulling it over. A worrisome family issue boils over as the week begins. Choose words carefully: it takes a delicate touch to change opinions and discover hidden details. Obstacles melt after Thursday, allowing you to place matters in an entirely new perspective.

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

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