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OPINION

AUGUST 23, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

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

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

Reality check

American Ride am not a regular follower of country music, but Toby Keith’s current record, “American Ride,” is not a typical beer and broken hearts song.

A heavy rocker with a strong Steve Earle influence, “American Ride” is a breakneck, barely-three-minuteslong race through the American mindset.

Within the first few words of the song, Keith tackles global warming, immigration, gas prices and the marginalization of Christianity. a lot of ideological burden Thomas F. POUNDS for Tha at’s Top 10 song on the country charts, surrounded by tales of cheatin’ and drinkin’.

Before the song is through, Keith comments on the voyeuristic pleasure of TV, the youth fascination with YouTube, the preoccupation with beauty and plastic surgery, our litigious impulses and drug abuse.

The chorus is a defiant, ironic war cry: “That’s us, That’s right/ Gotta love this American ride!”

That spirit certainly echoes life in Toledo. The recognition that things are crazy, funny/sad and definitively us is evident in today’s headlines. A media-driven controversy over the closing of the South YMCA, an ongoing battle between the mayor and city council and a debate over a mayoral candidate’s spoof video dominate the news.

There may be fair questions to ask about the YMCA and its operations, but the unsurprisingly over-the-top daily coverage, tainted by 13 years of contentious rancor, has hijacked the legitimate conversation between the community and the organization.

The inability of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner to work constructively with city council is pushing the city closer and closer to a budgetary crisis.

The lack of dialogue and the dueling press releases filled with insults do not inspire pride or confidence.

Ben Konop’s decision to film a skit showing him fighting his critics, and in the process knocking an American flag to the ground, was treated in some corners as if it were a video of Konop robbing a bank. The video may have shown poor judgment, and the campaign’s reaction, especially a call to a “major” announcement Aug. 16 that was anything but, has been clumsy, but the result has been a distraction from important campaign issues.

It’s crazy late-summer action, but that’s us; gotta love this Toledo ride!

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f Robert Russ were a running back on an NFL team, ring to confidential documents that express interest, but you would give him the ball every play. His deter- do not make formal commitments.

As the year progressed, Russ said the seven producmination to run through walls is infectious and his tion houses that took pitch meetings on never-say-die spirit is inspiring. the show were “instantly sold” on the conBut in real life, Russ is thin, unimposing cept, but wary about Toledo. and self-deprecating, not the guy you’d “People see us as a sleepy place, which glance at and tap to make the big play. is unfortunate because there are so many Yet a dream project Russ is working cool things going on here,” Russ said. on could put him on the national map “Imagine a national audience watching us and bring a bright, hopefully positive cut the ribbon on the next alternative enspotlight on Toledo. ergy business and the kick off of the new Russ said he has secured support for hockey and arena football teams.”

“City Hall: Toledo,” a television reality Russ said he has met some local reshow that would follow the inner workings of the mayor and city council, inter- Michael S. MILLER sistance from people who think of reality spersed with stories of average Toledoans who make a shows only as “gotcha” shows.

“Lots of reality shows embarrass people, but this aims difference in their community.

Russ, who owns Think Young LLC, the company that for another level of understanding how government operated the pedal boats at The Docks, is a native Toledoan works,” Russ said. “It’s an opportunity to be a fly on the who worked in Los Angeles and Hollywood for several wall to see the challenges politicians face.”

Russ has reached out to the five major mayoral candiyears before he returned to Toledo to help his parents.

The Downtown resident’s résumé shows produc- dates. He has received a firm commitment from one, an tion credits with MTV, MGM, CBS, Warner Bros. and a opportunity to pitch to one and is waiting to hear from the others. He insists that the show project with Steven Spielberg’s company, Amblin. will showcase Toledo and its leaders Russ said the idea for “City Hall: Toledo” came to him in an honest, professional light. during time spent in One Government Center.

“This is a franchise, and I guar“Being involved with the city for the pedal boats, and antee this show will be on the air working on committees like Best & Brightest, Toledo Pride within a year,” Russ said. “Maybe not and All America City [for which he co-wrote and co-diin Toledo, but that’s up to the people rected the presentation given in Tampa, Fla.], I thought here. We want to take this to other about how we’ve lost respect for the challenges politicians cities, so it would not make sense for face, how we’ve lost respect for government,” Russ said. us to slam or embarrass anyone.”

“Yes, there is waste and there are people focused on their RUSS Russ said he hopes to launch own interests, but I saw a lot of people working very hard on some very difficult decisions. People are misinformed the show here because he believes in the city’s potential.

“We have a great city, a diamond in the rough. We can on what these people do, and I thought this would make be an inspiration to other cities,” he said. for a dramatic, engaging television show.”

He said he is going public with his plans because Russ said he wants the show to be as much about education as it is about entertainment. In December, “word is getting around, and I want to make my intenhe pitched the idea to a Los Angeles partner, originally tions clear, before a game of ‘Telephone’ turns my idea to help Toledo into something negative.” planning to build the show around Carty Finkbeiner.

When Russ pitches the show, his excitement and be“It wasn’t going to be ‘The Carty Show,’ but he is a strong, engaging leader to follow around,” Russ said. lief in what is now a pipe dream on paper makes one “You don’t have to wonder what he is thinking; he will want to sign up and march along.

“Someone I respect here looked me straight in the eye always tell you, and I respect that.”

After a series of explanatory meetings, Russ said and said, ‘You will never get a TV show here.’ If I believed Finkbeiner agreed to help if the show got off the that, I wouldn’t be wasting my time,” Russ said. “I know ground. Russ said the show would not have incurred the odds, but I approach this with a take-no-prisoners attitude. I believe I can win. This will happen or I will go any taxpayer expense.

It would have been a rich viewing experience as 2009 down fighting as hard as I have ever fought.”

There’s a touchdown here, if the play is called. Come unfolded with a recall effort, budget issues and a string of media controversies, but Russ said the wheels sometimes on, coach; put Russ in and give him a chance to run. turn slowly in Hollywood.

“I got several local politicians, business leaders and Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. media people to sign letters of intent,” Russ said, refer- Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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THE HOT CORNER

AUGUST 23, 2009

GUEST COLUMN

Bizarro health care Fighting for a new beginning

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ometimes, I think we live ceeded in getting it dropped from in Bizarro World, the old the Senate bill. What a shame. This Superman place where ev- could have done a lot of good for a erything is the opposite of what lot of families. I should also point out that on April 16, it seems. Everyone 2008, Palin signed a agrees that rising proclamation suphealth costs are not porting end-of-life only a real problem, counseling. Maybe but one of the major she should take her problems affecting own advice and “stop our economy across making things up!” the board. So what, Another point with our American that needs to be can-do spirit, are we made is we already going to do about it? have “death squads.”

Probably not Don BURNARD They are the private near-enough to rationally face the problem in a prag- insurance industry. The insurance matic way. By pragmatic, I’m talking company decides whether your about common sense, not killing off treatment is effective, experimental our elderly parents and grandpar- or whether it’s “covered” under the ents. The Conservative movement, 1,400 reasons they can use to deny for the most part, seems to be more you coverage.

In a recent Congressional fixated on making sure that Barack Obama does not succeed in any hearing, under the chairmanship form, and will do or say anything of Rep. Bart Stupak, it was pointed to keep him from succeeding. The out that three insurance companies insurance industry is pouring mil- alone had denied 20,000 claims belions upon millions into making tween 2003-07, for such things as sure that health care remains moti- typos on the application, the wrong vated by profit, rather than any type weight or unknown previously exof moral imperative. The kid gloves isting conditions. A 59-year-old are off and it’s going to be a fight to nurse, Robin Batin, who had invasive breast cancer, was denied bethe death, no pun intended.

Sarah Palin recently stated cause she had a previously undison her Facebook page that she closed condition. It was acne. By didn’t want her parents and Down the time she went through all the syndrome baby subjected to the appeals and legal maneuverings, Obama “death squads.” Unbeliev- her tumor had doubled in size.

Their panels of unknown and ably, these ravings actually gained traction by being repeated by the unnamed “experts” make the demainstream media and various cisions that should be made by right wing members who either the attending physicians. Wait a have no shame or don’t deserve to sec, isn’t that what the Bizarros are fighting for? Nope, afraid not. be in the positions they’re in.

The section of a bill they are refer- On the flip side, they did save ring to was introduced by a Georgia their stockholders $300 million by Republican, Johnny Isakson, and rationing health care.

Another myth is that we have the would provide paid-for voluntary counseling on end-of-life matters greatest health system in the world, like living wills, palliative care and and we shouldn’t mess with success. choices that should be made while According to the World Health Ornot under the turbulent, emotional ganization, last ranked health care in 2000, we were No. 37, not No. 1. setting of a crisis.

“Keep the government out of We’re right behind Costa Rica and our health decisions!” they cry. (At just ahead of Slovenia. Who is No. this point in Bizarro World, I’d refer 1? That “socialist” system they have them back to the Terry Schiavo in France, a single-payer plan.

It’s time to stop listening to fat debacle. Wasn’t that what they meant, or did I miss something?) drug addicts and FOX News and Isakson called the Palin comments other outlets who are paid millions “nuts,” and even fellow Alaskan to scare you. Go to reputable sites Republican Lisa Murkowski called and sources. Check out whitehouse. these statements reprehensible. gov. For you nonconspiracy theorists Thanks to the uproar created by out there, you might just learn someinterest groups shilling for the in- thing. The truth shall set you free. surance industry, and members of Congress who care more for politics E-mail columnist Don Burnard at than good policy, they have suc- letters@toledofreepress.com.

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y phone rang and rang Aug. 14. Not so much from my Lucas County constituents or Toledo residents focusing on the mayoral race, but from reporters.

In the aftermath of the YouTube saga, the media had turned its attention to the status of my mayoral candidacy. My detractors, fueled by far right-wing talk radio, were saying that my campaign is over, while, on the other end of the spectrum, I was getting encouragement to push on from a broader cross-section of Toledo.

So on Sunday Aug. 16 it was time to let everyone — the press who covers me, my supBen porters, and my not-so-supporters — know once and for all that I am indeed running for mayor, I am confident in my campaign and I believe we will win.

A YouTube video doesn’t change the fact that working families are fighting for survival in Toledo. It doesn’t change the fact that Toledo has among the highest unemployment, foreclosure and bankruptcy rates in the country.

Toledo’s current mayor and city council still can’t balance the budget or hire enough police. Our neighborhoods are deteriorating, our roads are crumbling, and, sadly, tens of thousands of Toledoans continue to wake up every morning in grinding poverty.

We have spent our entire campaign, nearly every day since I announced my candidacy, working day and night to find solutions to these problems.

And what we’ve come up with are sound, clear proposals to restore our middle class and aid small businesses; to protect seniors in their homes and help them take their trash out; to make college education and worker training more available to the people who need it most; to above all else, rebuild this city from the ground up — poor person by poor person, worker by worker, senior by senior, and neighborhood by neighborhood.

One mistake — a mistake I apologized for the day I realized what had happened — will not derail all the hope this campaign has given to those so desperate for change.

The hardworking men and women who’ve been sup-

porting me since I became a commissioner know I will stand up for them when politicians try to push them aside.

Toledoans know to judge someone by the content of his or her work, and they can see that, like them, I’m human. I also think it’s been a long time since an elected official or candidate looked voters in the eye and admitted when a mistake was made.

Look around our community. There are remnants of failed economic development projects, massive budget deficits, faulty waterlines, government mismanagement and neighborhood neglect, but no apologies.

KONOP Frankly, I think Toledo deserves better.

I think Toledoans deserve a mayor who will be accountable at all times, not just when it suits his political interests. They deserve someone who will never shrink from a fight or run and hide when times are tough.

With lessons learned, I’ve moved forward with a sharpened focus on creating a new beginning for Toledo and dealing with the real issues facing real people.

Our workers need jobs. Our seniors need to be safe in their homes and neighborhoods. We need to give small businesses a chance to succeed. We need to keep our young people here and send more Toledoans to college.

Since the beginning, mine has been a campaign of new ideas and a new perspective to address these lingering problems.

When voters go to the polls in less than a month, I hope to be judged on my record of challenging the status quo, on my fresh ideas for moving Toledo forward, and my heartfelt commitment to stand up for the people, not the powerful.

So just like hardworking Toledoans do every day, I’ve picked myself up, dusted myself off and am continuing to fight for a new beginning.

Ben Konop is a Lucas County commissioner and a Toledo Democrat mayoral candidate: www.konop4mayor.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Closing of South YMCA is best choice for corporation as a whole TO THE EDITOR: “We build strong kids, strong families and strong communities.” Amidst all of the harsh statements and publications in recent days, let’s not forget what the YMCA of Greater Toledo stands for.

Yes we must deal with the current issues, but also remember the way the YMCA cares for its community, staff and patrons.

As a former professional staff member of the YMCA/ JCC of Greater Toledo, I can tell you that this organization does more good than one could imagine. From countless scholarships, family nights, youth sports and aquatics, the YMCA touches lives of thousands, including my own. When I began employment at the Fort Meigs YMCA, I was just as a lifeguard. Through the caring of the executive staff at Fort Meigs and the corporate office I was able to further my training, and soon became the Aquatics Director.

Due to economic and social factors in our community, the YMCA made the choice to cut its professional staff by many, myself included. As you can imagine, this was a huge shock. After taking everything in, I have come

to realize that this was the best choice for the corporation as a whole. I have since moved on, and continue my professional career with another association of the YMCA. I hold no hard feelings against the YMCA/JCC of Greater Toledo and wish them well with all that the future holds.

Despite what recent articles have portrayed, the employees of the corporate office and other branches all deserve their jobs and do them well, regardless of whom they are related to. Many of these people were my mentors and continue to be an active force in my career. I am forever grateful.

Everyone please remember the good and positive things that the YMCA has accomplished, the people it has touched and the lives it has changed.

“We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities.” Please continue to be a strong community and support one of the most amazing organizations in Toledo.

CHRISTINA WACKENHEIM Former aquatics director for the Fort Meigs YMCA Current aquatics director, Canton, Ohio

OPINION

AUGUST 23, 2009

GUEST COLUMN

■ Population exodus. Many oledo has, for years, been the butt of jokes across the cities and states have lost populacountry. Our city has a repu- tion, as taxpayers who can afford to do so relocate to tation for dumb dejurisdictions with less cisions, idiotic polipunitive taxes and less cies and incompetent incompetent governleaders. Remarkably, ment. Now it’s hapit is not only the repupening nationally, as tation that has gone Americans of means national, but also the relocate to countries faults and failures that that actually welcreated it. come and respect the Some of these are wealthy instead of certainly not unique to the Glass City. These Thomas BERRY seeing them as piñatas to be whacked with include: ■ Political decisions made the sticks of taxes, litigation, class outside the bounds of reality. To- envy, over-regulation and nationledo City Council wants us to use alization until their riches fall to mega-sized trash containers for au- the ground and are gobbled up by tomated pickup, even though they the greedy.

Others may be somewhat more will be impossible to use on some city streets, and mayoral candidate unique to Toledo, but are now beBen Konop wants to force busi- coming national policy regardless of nesses to pay outrageous “living their legacy here.

■ Arrogant and narcissistic wages.” Washington is rife with similar schemes, most significantly leaders. While President Obama health care demolition, which are has a long ways to go before he can likewise based on ignorance, deceit, be compared to Mayor Carty Finkillogic and other departures from beiner in terms of instability and volatility, they are one and the same reality on a massive scale.

■ Inflated taxes and energy in making themselves the center of costs. Toledoans pay high taxes, pu- attention and believing themselves nitive fees and other creative “rev- to be infallible.

■ Embarrassing behavior by enue enhancements.” The statists in Washington are intent on taking the leaders: His Volatility’s résumé these faults nationwide through of unseemly conduct is the stuff of “Cap and Trade,” and taxes will be legend. Nationally, we now have a further increased as former Presi- president who proudly follows in dent Bush’s tax cuts are allowed to those stumbling footsteps, from expire and new taxes are piled on for startlingly tawdry and egotistical gifts of state to smearing a police health care demolition.

■ Wasteful spending. As neces- officer in Cambridge, Mass., in the sities languish, Mayor Finkbeiner Henry Gates affair and then striding loves to unaccountably fritter away ahead unconcernedly as Cambridge taxpayer money on indulgences Police Sergeant Crowley was left to from private showers to shrubs and assist the aged Professor Gates down signs, then bemoans the city’s def- the steps following their meeting at icit. President Obama doubles the the White House.

■ Government competition federal deficit, including signing a porkulus bill that blows $54 billion with private business at taxpayer exon fiscally wasteful and irresponsible pense. The Erie Street Market loses bureaucracies, then says we have to money for the city, while unfairly cut the deficit, while blaming it all competing with private businesses that are forced to subsidize it with on his predecessor.

their taxes. Nationally, the federal government is now partial owner of General Motors and Chrysler, and wants to do to private health insurance what Finkbeiner did to private ambulance service.

■ Insensitivity to the voters.

Unless they’re insiders or allies, voters who ask hard questions of the mayor or council are more likely to get a response from the gravel in their driveways. Likewise, dissenting views expressed to the Anointed in Washington, including Misrepresentative Kaptur and Sen. Brown, are either ignored or responded to with clichés and canned replies that are totally irrelevant to the questions being asked.

■ Demonization of dissent.

Rather than honestly debating the issues on their own merits, the city cabal of Finkbeiner and one of America’s grating newspapers typically responds to criticism with smear campaigns and exposés. Nationally, those who disagree with health care demolition are being branded as mobs, alluded to as Nazis, and roughed up in and expelled from town hall meetings for having the temerity to exercise their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly.

■ Reporting law-abiding citizens to the government.

Finkbeiner has urged Toledoans to fink, as it were, on one another, reporting to him opportunities to punish citizens with “revenue enhancements.” The White House Web site now has a page on which Americans are urged to report other Americans for “fishy speech” containing “disinformation” about health care demolition.

I love my country and my city, and it is a very sad thing to see Toledo’s screw ups being emulated nationally.

Thomas Berry is an archivist and conservative writer in Toledo. He blogs at http://thechildrenof liberty. ning.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

YMCA stays true to Christian mission, stays focused on community TO THE EDITOR, I would like to assure every reader of Toledo Free Press that the YMCA Christian mission is alive and well.

We are a Christian organization that seeks to love, care for and serve every person who comes through our doors, regardless of their race, religion or economic status. We will not “preach” at anyone but we will unashamedly care for them should they need our help spiritually. We have 46 volunteer Chaplains available to minister to YMCA staff and members who desire our spiritual assistance, seven

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Christian Emphasis Committees in YMCA branches across the community that help us build healthy spirit through our programs and active partnerships with more than 80 local Churches, synagogues and ministries.

The YMCA is focused more now than ever on making a difference in our community — physically, mentally and spiritually.

REV. JOSHUA HEASTON Director of Christian Emphasis YMCA of Greater Toledo

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nvestors and everyday people they assume it is the right thing to were hit hard when the loath- do, such as flying commercial airsome Bernard Madoff and his lines rather than private jets. Other affluent people define Ponzi scheme encom“stealth wealth” by passing 15,000 clients being “covert” with and $65 billion — a their wealth. massive scam outdone In the middle of only by the Social Sethe same recession curity Administration where the wealthy are — was exposed. Finanhiding their extravacial futures, retirement gance, a Toledo orgasavings and education nization is shoving its funds were wiped out as the victims felt their Tom MORRISSEY extravagance in the public’s face. This inworlds slipping away.

Public fury soared last summer stitution had the gall to brag about as gas prices peaked over the $4 their expansion and run commermark and Americans were forced cials letting Toledoans know that in to cut back on driving habits as the the midst of double digit unemployprice of oil restricted their summer ment and home foreclosures, their travel. Exxon-Mobil collected im- remodeling efforts were successful.

The boasting is disgraceful and mense, record-setting profits, became a prime target of populist compounded by their dependence rage and transformed into politi- on tax dollars. Not one bit of shame cian’s favorite whipping boy that has emanated from the tax-dollar sucking organization. Funded by exemplified corporate greed.

AIG executives were given a property taxes in part, they provide firsthand experience with popu- part of the consistent rude awaklist rage. Protesters visited their ening to first-time home buyers private homes to express disdain who get water in the face after eswith the “greedy executives” for crow is explained, as the question accepting bonuses that were con- “We have to pay how much extra?” tractually promised. If protesters follows the shocked silence.

The tax levies that were not had their way, the contracts would going to be that much extra cash have been fed into the shredder.

Health insurance companies and per month add that much disredoctors are being derided as Con- spect to the homeowners who have gress and the president attempt to suffered foreclosure. Those who pass health care legislation. Speaker voted against the tax levies this orof the House Nancy Pelosi called the ganization brought to the ballot are insurance companies “villains” and still being extorted as the money is “immoral” for the way they treat pried out of their white-knuckled their customers as Pelosi assumed grasp with the threat of government the companies were trying to derail breathing down their necks, ready to seize the dissident’s property. her public option health care.

The greedy extortionists have President Obama joined in the pile on top of doctors as he accused one up on Madoff. Madoff never them of causing pain and suffering had the force of law to squeeze his and excess cost by performing clients and take money from those dreaded tonsillectomies on chil- who weren’t his clients.

The HGTV wannabe’s extravadren for profit. In February, Obama changed his job description and gance comes from the taxpayer decided he was CEO-in-Chief as who is suffering financially, but he expressed his desire to deny the that burdened taxpayer should feel CEO’s of America large bonuses, bad for the leeches because propcorporate jets and trips to Vegas erty values are falling. Perhaps declining home values will be inand the Super Bowl.

In the middle of the reces- centive to earn income like the taxsion it is becoming fashionable to payers it pilfers from. hide one’s affluence and wealth.

After examining the greed and Wealthy shoppers still drop the extravagance on public display, obsame amount of cash at high-end vious redundancy delivers an unretail stores, but prefer to come suspected whack in the mouth. Tohome with white, unmarked bags ledo already has a tax-funded zoo, or have their purchases shipped located at One Government Center. home. Others are downsizing their extravagance, not because their E-mail columnist Tom Morrissey at finances have tanked, but because letters@toledofreepress.com.

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OPINION

AUGUST 23, 2009

GUEST COLUMN

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■ $9,000 on office furniture epending on what source you listen to, there’s still (I’m thinking nothing should be here). and an $8 to 10 million deficit on the books for And the list goes on and on. the City of Toledo. The question that’s on everyI’m not a financial specialist, but one’s minds is, how in the world do we close Economics 101 tells me that to stop the the gap and balance the budget? I think evbleeding, you have to get rid of all noneseryone knows, but no one really wants to say sential expenditures; it doesn’t appear the it: We need to close and cut more. In other city has done that yet. words, we need to limit government.

When they say they can’t find anything I’ve taken a look at the 429-page city else to cut from the budget and I look at the budget. I must confess, I haven’t looked budget and find these things, I’m dubious, at every single page, but me and a team to say the least. of people are working our way through Someone has to come in, make the hard this gradually.

What we have been told time and time David WASHINGTON decisions and start cutting across the board.

Expenditures grew substantially from 2007 again by the city is that nothing else in the budget can be cut. That being said, me and some others to 2008, signaling a growth in government. Twenty-two began to wonder why we were still seeing some items in percent of the funds collected by the city go to just running government. We need to shrink government, not the budget, like: ■ $208K in outside printing cost, while at the same grow it, to the bare necessities and departments.

There is a certain amount of courage and fortitude time paying more than $800,000 for a print shop. it takes to do that kind of thing. It takes the attitude of ■ $130,000 in copier rentals.

■ Office supply expenditures that rose from $12,000 someone who is not looking out for the well-being of their political careers, but the livelihood of the people they’ve in 2008 to $21,000 in 2009.

■ More than $6.3 million in overtime (I’m thinking been elected to represent; to make the hard decisions and it’s time to freeze all overtime in our current economic do what’s necessary even if it’s unpopular. The new administration, whoever that may be, needs to be prepared to get situation, but what do I know?). their hands dirty because this is just one big mess.

■ $66,000 for “storeroom” (I have no clue what this is.)

■ $40,000 in seasonal and intern service for the marina development (which we tend to spend a lot of David Washington is a candidate for Toledo City Council.

His Web site is www.prezforcouncil.org. money on in more than this one department).

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FROM LEFT, COOPER SUTER, GARY BATTS AND MARK HERTZFELD AT THE SOUTH TOLEDO YMCA ON AUG. 20.

Activists will take legal action against YMCA board

By Caitlin McGlade TOLEDO FREE PRESS news@toledofreepress.com

Cooper Suter, Mark Hertzfeld and Gary Batts have spent years paying for memberships at the South Toledo YMCA. Now, they’re about to spend hours with lawyers and pay for legal representation to protect it.

Despite YMCA President and CEO Robert Alexander’s Aug. 19 announcement that he set a Nov. 26 deadline to sell at least 500 new memberships to keep the South Y afloat, Suter said he is still pur-

suing legal action to obtain access to YMCA financial records.

“It’s an olive branch at best,” Suter said. “The process was wrong; the communication was wrong; they were trying to announce it without telling us. What they presented is not tenable; it’s an untenable plan they know they can make fail.”

State Sen. Teresa Fedor also said she didn’t trust the latest announcement because the board members or elected officials did not include her, Suter, Hertzfeld or Batts in their plans to save the YMCA. The three men found out about the 4 p.m. announcement

at about 3 p.m. while being interviewed by Toledo Free Press.

“I think this is a quick patchup,” Fedor said. “I don’t know if this is a fair deal or not.”

Describing Alexander’s announcement as a “PR move,” Suter said he isn’t going to buy into the 500-membership plan and he’s not going to lead the effort to try to sell them right now. He said seeking legal action to open up more public discussion and access financial records is more likely to succeed after the announcement.

“We’re members, we’re not customers, and they’re not Wal-Mart,

they’re a not-for-profit association,” Suter said.

Suter added that he and his group would have been more willing to accept the 90-day stay and support the board members had they talked to him about their decision, rather than negotiate with Mayor Carty Finkbeiner first.

The three men said they are paying out of their own pockets and are hoping to obtain donations from the community to afford attorneys Fritz Byers and Scott Ciolek. Byers is an attorney also retained by The Blade.

Suter, Hertzfeld and Batts said

they’ve taken it upon themselves to save the YMCA because it is such a valuable fixture in their community; not because of any aversion to CedarCreek Church or any personal vendetta they have against Alexander and the board’s salary.

The three of them found out about the potential closing by reading the news or by hearing it from employees at the front desk in the YMCA, they said. Cooper got involved quickly, after his 10-yearold daughter got so infuriated that she wrote letters to editors about the loss of the YMCA. ■ YMCA CONTINUES ON A8

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A8 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ YMCA CONTINUED FROM A7 “[The Blade] was going off about the financials and I said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a whole other issue I don’t think you understand — how this thing is woven into the neighborhood for better or worse and the context of what it means in the neighborhood,” Suter said. “We got hit hard the last three years — foreclosures, gangs, graffiti, whatever it is.”

“We are aware there is a bigger chess game being played over us, but we do not believe we are pawns in that game.”

The three of them met because of the phone calls or letters they had written to stop the closing of the YMCA and, within a few days they were posting signs and calling meetings, assembling irate community members from all over the South End.

Change of mind Their publicity efforts earned them approximately 70 people at a rally on Aug. 18 and a change of mind among the board members.

On Aug. 19, when Alexander announced he would keep the YMCA open until Nov. 26, aiming to accumulate more than $25,000 a month worth of three-year membership units, he said he was impressed by the residents’ passion to help save the YMCA. Later that day, Alexander apologized to a packed town hall meeting of more than 150 people for not including the community in his decision to close the YMCA and give the building to CedarCreek Church.

“We moved quickly, maybe too

quickly,” he said. “But imagine if you ran an organization and with less than three weeks, you found out that your organization was going to lose $2 million of state funding because of a new budget ... I panicked, I think. I pulled the trigger. I was decisive. I looked at the system and I said, ‘What are we going to do, how can we trim a million dollars out of our system so SCHLATTER that all of our YMCAs don’t go down?’”

YMCA Board Chairman Paul Schlatter said they chose the South Toledo YMCA because its membership was one of the lowest of all branches. Compared to its most similar YMCA on the west side, the South Toledo YMCA has 957 members, whereas the West YMCA has 1,800, he said.

The building also needs at least $1 million worth of repairs because it loses about $30,000 a month, Alexander said.

If 500 new memberships are sold, each contracted for three years, the costs should help cover the losses, while the board members look for a new location for the South Toledo YMCA and sketch design plans.

“We are going to swallow that loss until November,” Alexander said.

Among many other problems, the building needs roof and pipe repair and a separate sewage system, he added.

Hand the keys over Complaints about the South Toledo YMCA facility led many people to advocate for the board members to hand the keys over to CedarCreek Church’s senior pastor Lee Powell at the town hall meeting.

Shannon Demski is a member of CedarCreek Church, the ALEXANDER YMCA and the Christian Emphasis Committee and said she understands the value the YMCA has to the neighborhood, but takes her child to other YMCA locations because she is dissatisfied with the South YMCA. “When a building does not bring out what the Y represents, it’s failing,” Demski said. “If the building is going to fail like that, then why not bring in someone to the neighborhood that can bring positive to the neighborhood?”

Hertzfeld said the poor state of the building has been one of his biggest points of contention and if proper changes had been made to the facility, the YMCA wouldn’t have problems finding people to buy memberships.

“For over 20 years, there have been no major renovations to that building,” Hertzfeld said. “All those thousands of cars that travel down the Anthony Wayne Trail, if that was a state-of-the-art facility, how many people would go in and work out

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For over 20 years there have been no major renovations to that building ...

If that was a state-ofthe-art facility, how many people would go in and work out before or after work?”

— Mark Hertzfeld before or after work? As a longtime member, I’ve been under the impression for 10 to 15 years that it was going to close before they replaced it.”

Batts said he also thought that the board members were just trying to “dump” an old facility, and the community would have helped financially if the board members had just alerted them there was a problem. He and his wife have felt at home at the facility for years.

“I think we’re going to show it pays to fight back,” Batts said. “That’s your job as a citizen.”

Hertzfeld said for him, his effort to save the YMCA doesn’t have to do

with board members’ large salaries, but he wants to save it because it’s woven into everyone’s lives on the South End and so many people have become fixtures there.

Suter cited the Koszycki family as an example. Fifteen-year-old Nickiti Koszycki’s mother teaches classes at the YMCA, and Nickiti takes acrobatic classes, is on the gymnastics and swim teams, takes ballet and also teaches swimming and gymnastics — all at the South YMCA. If the community cannot get 500 South YMCA memberships sold, some of her friends will have to quit some of their favorite activities because they can’t get transportation to other YMCAs. “I think it’s very unfair,” she said at the Aug. 18 rally. “I don’t think a lot of them will be able to drive other places. My sister can’t do gymnastics anywhere else.”

Alexander said the 500 memberships, at $50 a month for families and $40 a month for individuals, must be specifically for the South YMCA only and if they get close to that goal, they’ll still keep the YMCA open.

Powell said the organization will continue to look for different locations in South Toledo, but if the YMCA fails to obtain the 500 new memberships, he wouldn’t be able to pass up the free building.

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Couple fights genetic disorder in daughter’s honor

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

Photos of Hannah Campbell adorn the living room in her parents’ Toledo home, but a neurological disorder will forever keep her smiling face frozen in time.

“It’s still hard now to realize this has all happened to us,” said Donna Campbell, Hannah’s mother. “We have friends that were having their first child around same time, and now they’re watching their children grow, go camping and all those family milestones. What can we do after this experience that came out of nowhere?”

Hannah was Matt and Donna Campbell’s first child. She was born on Jan. 18, 2008, with no apparent complications. Photos reveal a smiling baby, but she was born with a genetic defect called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

“Everything was fine until we went to her two-month well check up,” Donna said. “They were concerned because she had very low muscle tone in her legs and wasn’t able to lift or move her legs.”

Doctors ran tests for SMA, but advised the Campbells to avoid researching the disorder. It would likely scare them, doctors said.

“A few weeks passed by, and I started to read it online,” Donna said.

“Babies with SMA usually don’t make it to their first birthday. It started to sound more and more like Hannah.

We were really scared at that point.”

Doctors relayed the test results by phone. The Campbells worked their best to make sure Hannah was as comfortable as possible. She needed constant supervision and was connected to a variety of medical devices. Even simple trips were a challenge. Hannah’s medical equipment had to go with her.

“You couldn’t just pack up and go to Grandma’s for the day, and you couldn’t go shopping or do things that people take for granted with their children,” Matt said.

A plethora of devices allowed Hannah to eat and clear her respiratory passages. Without them, she was unable to eat or breathe. She was vulnerable to the most basic of illnesses.

The Campbells worked tirelessly to ensure their daughter’s comfort, but SMA overpowered Hannah on Oct. 18, 2008.

“As much as you try, you’re never going to get away from the inevi-

table,” Donna said.

Brenda Wong is associate professor of pediatrics and child neurology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She worked with Hannah.

Wong said there’s a one in 10,000 chance of a child inheriting SMA. There are three types, she said, but most are type one- severe. About 80 percent don’t live past age 1, and 90 percent beyond age 2.

She said SMA is a genetic disorder that affects motor neuron cells in the spinal cord. They control muscle movement, but the motor neuron cells in SMA-positive children degenerate, she said.

There has been significant progress in the past decade and scientists are working on a cure, Wong said.

“Certainly, where SMA is concerned, it’s really getting to the point where people are talking about potent stem cell therapy trials,” she said. “That’s the hope of all these families — that there be a cure.”

The Campbells are campaigning for awareness and a cure. According to www.preventsma.org, one in 40 people is a SMA carrier. The organization encourages all parents to test.

“That’s the hard part — trying to gain awareness,” Matt said. “Nobody knows what SMA is, unless you’re immediately affected. My main objective is to raise awareness about it.”

Parents can undergo genetic testing to determine if they are SMA carriers. If both parents are, there is a 25 percent chance the child will develop the disorder. Wong said there are a few options for SMApositive parents.

“They have to weigh whether 25 percent is a big risk to take,” she said.

SMA-positive parents could elect pregnancy and do antenatal tests. Depending on their personal views, parents could opt to terminate the pregnancy should the child test positive. They may also choose in-vitro fertilization or adopt.

The Campbells are active in the organization Families of SMA. They plan to begin a charity in honor of their daughter called “Books for Hannah.” They will add “Bear of my Heart” by Joanne Ryder to Families of SMA’s care package, sent to parents of babies diagnosed with SMA. Wong said she is impressed by the Campbells’ efforts.

“I think it’s great that they remember Hannah,” she said. “I think it’s great they think about other kids

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August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month; new charity planned to help families cope with deadly disorder.

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DONNA CAMPBELL LOST HER DAUGHTER HANNAH TO SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY.

and that they’re working for a cure.”

The Campbells hope to raise awareness for parents and work for a cure for future generations. Hannah is their inspiration, they said.

“Take a look at your left,” Matt

said, pointing to a smiling photo of his daughter. “That face is priceless right there. I felt blindsided when we found out. It’s just like the wind’s taken out of you. That’s my inspiration. As a parent that had to and still deals with it

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Weekend beach parties raise funds and fun R ecently, the shores of Lake Erie who always told him about the imin Oregon and Port Clinton pact they have on kids. Harbaugh were the site of fundraisers. supports the clubs through company philanthropy and his Both events featured a personal service on beautiful summer day the local club’s board with hot sun rays and of trustees. a cool breeze, which “You see what you served as the perfect atdo when you walk mosphere to relax with into the clubs,” Harfriends, have fun and baugh said. “It is a raise money for a good concrete difference in cause. the lives of kids.”

The Boys & Girls Boys & Girls Club Clubs hosted the sev- Christine SENACK President Tim Wade enth annual “Barefoot at the Beach” party at Maumee Bay said the event is designed to raise State Park. More than 100 volunteers funds and friends. It is an opportuworked at the event and turned the nity to spread the word on what the sandy barren beach into a tropical clubs do for kids considered “at risk.” paradise with tiki huts, fire pits and Once familiar with the mission and palm trees. This year, among the programs of the Boys & Girls Clubs, volunteers were members of the To- it is hoped that new friends made at ledo Chamber of Commerce’s EPIC the event become funders.

“Our problem is not going away. In group, who served as bartenders, a down economy, it is getting worse,” pouring drinks for the crowd.

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reported that $100,000 was raised at the event which had approximately 1,000 attendees.

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Gem Beach Rocks Again Another beach party was hosted a little further out on the Lake Erie shore at Gem Beach Marina in Port Clinton. “Gem Beach Rocks, Again” was held for a second year on the beach of the marina to benefit United Way in Ottawa County.

The daylong event featured music, food, beer and plenty of sun, sand and waves.

The director of United Way in Ottawa County, Chris Galvin, is appreciative of the generosity of Gem Beach in hosting the event again

this year.

“Gem Beach has made a strong commitment to the community through expansion projects at the marina and through their LOVITT investment in the United Way,” Galvin said.

Gem Beach Marina provided the venue, as well as logistical support of the event. Additionally, the marina owners, Steve and Megan Lovitt, serve as volunteer leaders of the event and serve United Way in Ottawa County throughout the year.

Galvin said because of competing events and the economy the gross proceeds of this year’s event will be less than last year’s total of $70,000, but was pleased to have an increase in community involvement. This year 200 people volunteered to help at the event compared to last year’s 130 volunteers.

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For the past 15 years, Dr. S. Amjad Hussain has been treading a fine line. The UT professor emeritus of thoracic cardiovascular surgery recently published a colHUSSAIN lection of his

Blade op-ed columns in a 273-page book, “Treading a Fine Line” (The Long Riders Press Guild).

“When you’re expressing an opinion, it may be black and white; however, many times you are treading a very delicate and fine line,” Hussain said. “The reason I picked that title was that you want to express yourself; at the same time you want to be within the realm of decency and civility and express your opinion, and that also extends to the people who write to me and then I write back.”

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Sometimes we don’t agree ... The point is that we do have a debate.’”

While many columnists choose to publish op-ed anthologies, Hussain said he opted to include responses because, to the best of his knowledge, it’s never been done before. Some readers’ names have been withheld to preserve their anonymity, but all responses remain unedited, regardless of how “ugly and insulting they may be.” Hussain’s readers live at every corner of the globe.

“And I think in this book, you will find that it makes it much more interesting to see how the people living in Toledo, Ohio, and across the world — really, because some of my respondents are not in Toledo; they are in other countries — how they respond to a particular subject,” he said.

Hussain writes on topics ranging from “Iraqis deserve unqualified apology” to “Jewish religious symbol carries special poignancy,” usually relying on his Pakistani roots and diverse experience as a writer, professor, doctor and consultant.

Although he has published about 370 columns in The Blade, he said he believes his English — the fourth language he learned — falls short of being completely fluent. He had to overcome barriers to succeed as a columnist in the United States after writing in Pakistan as a dramatist and editor of literary magazines.

“Treading” is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and bookstores on both UT campuses.

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The full-color, glossy magazine will feature local models selected and groomed by Broadway, with notes on the makeup, hairstyles and clothing worn by the models.

65,000 copies of the fashion magazine will be inserted into selected ZIP codes that receive home-delivered copies of Toledo Free Press.

“There is great beauty here, and this will be a showcase for the men and women who live in Northwest Ohio, but could be on the runways in New York,” Broadway said.

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While enrollment trends are down for the state of Ohio, BGSU’s fall enrollments for teacher preparation programs are holding steady. “In the College of Education and Human Development, we have slight increases in some programs and decreases of five or six in others,� said Mark Earley, associate dean for stu-

dent affairs in the College of Education and Human Development.

BGSU reports 450 students enrolled for fall in teacher preparation programs, and that number is expected to increase by the enrollment deadline.

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EARLEY Earley said students are attracted to early childhood education because it’s familiar to them. Early childhood education also has more opportunities outside of teaching in schools. There are daycare programs such as Head Start and other community service programs, as well as school counseling and school psy-

chology positions. Students can also go on to do things, such as speech pathology or be a reading specialist. “When kids come out of high school they have worked with younger ages because of babysitting, tutoring and coaching, so they feel comfortable with that age,� Earley said. “We tell them, if you are not totally committed to early childhood, you will struggle finding a job.�

Secondary social studies is the other saturated market. “I’m not so sure why that is so specific, but some are not big math or science fans and they don’t think they’re good at writing,� Earley said.

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Entrepreneurs come from all ages, genders and backgrounds, including a mother and daughter, Nancy Linker and Stephanie Micham of Monclova.

Micham began making custom jewelry at age 12 and donated $700 from her sales to the American Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

She later began her business, Stoneworks by Stephanie, making and selling wire sculpted jewelry created with hand-selected imported stones.

Now 16, Micham is using the money from selling jewelry to help fund learning to speak Japanese and one year of study in Japan this school year. Japanese lessons with a local tutor cost $35 per lesson, said her mother, Nancy Linker.

The junior at Maumee Valley Country Day School is scheduled to leave Aug. 20 for Japan, to attend high school in Kanonji through the Rotary Exchange Program and Maumee Rotary Club. She spent six weeks in Japan last summer and is looking forward to returning there.

“I enjoyed the people the most, their values and the way they live compared to how we live,” Micham said. “They interact with each other socially and are much more polite to their parents and teachers.”

Micham makes necklaces, earrings and rings from natural stones her mother finds during her travels.

Micham said customers choose their stones or bring their own and

she makes the jewelry with wire that she orders wholesale.

“Stephanie paying for her Japanese lessons and study abroad is a huge help to me,” said Linker, a single mother who started her business because of the demand.

A friend brought her some purses from business travels in Asia in April 2007.

“I got many unsolicited compliments from complete strangers about the purses I carried,” Linker said. “My family and friends all wanted them.”

Linker had her friend bring 40 purses on the next trip and she gave them to friends and relatives for birthday gifts or Christmas presents.

They received the same unsolicited compliments from people wanting to know where they could buy the purses, she said.

“They kept telling me, ‘Nancy, you need to start a business selling purses.’

So, I started Purselove.com in June 2007 and sold my first 120 purses in two months,” Linker said. “I have worked extremely hard to grow my business and make it sustainable as my primary source of income.”

The silk purses decorated with beads and stones sell from $27 to $80 with an average price of $45, Linker said. She has expanded into leather belts and handbags, cashmere pashmina wraps, silk scarves, purse organizers and travel bags from Asia and Europe.

“I go overseas three to four times a year and handpick every item I sell.

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for each purchaser,” Linker said.

She sells the purses and accessories at open houses, private parties, charity events and style shows.

Linker said she only sells purses online at this time, since she does all her own product photography and downloads them to the Web site which is so time consuming.

Linker said she has received orders from as far as Washington, New Jersey, Florida and other U.S. states, but none from outside the country yet.

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Stephanie’s jewelry is sold at David Broadway Salon & Spa in Sylvania.

She was the featured artist for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in February, Linker said.

“I am invited by numerous organizations to set up and sell at their events. In 2008, I donated 55 purses to charities for silent auctions or gave a percentage of my sales to the charities hosting the events,” Linker said.

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Linker said she plans another buying trip this fall. Her other daughter, Brittni Micham, a senior at Williams College in Massachusetts, will accompany her on the trip.

“Brittni has studied abroad in China and Japan and speaks both languages so she’s going to help me on this buying trip,” Linker said.

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thletes, speakers and salespeople use your marketing? Have you decided what that exanticipation and visualization of future perience should look, feel and smell like?

Your customers have ultimate power and events to prepare for peak performance.

They picture various scenarios and decide how control because, at any moment, they can stop reading, throw your marketing in they would react to dozens of unthe trash or turn to another page predictable possibilities. in the newspaper — and many Anticipation is a businessdo. The only power you have is person’s most valuable asset, the ability to anticipate how your but should not be limited to customers are going to interact performance-based events like with your marketing. speaking and selling. AnticipaWhat feelings do you want tion, when used properly, can them to have as they experience turn salespeople into world-class your marketing piece? Do you marketers for their company. want them to feel comfortable?

How? Simple: Marketing is Tom RICHARD Do you want them to take an just selling in print, on the Web introspective look at their peror through many other available mediums. However, to be successful in ad- sonal situations?

Utilize the following exercise to identify your vertising, every word, every drop of ink and every pixel on your marketing piece must be customers (the first step to anticipating how they deliberately created to establish a specific ex- will interact with your message): Are they male or female? What are their ages? Where do your perience for its recipients.

What experience are you trying to create with customers work? What are their political affilia-

tions? Do they have children? If so, how many?

Really get into the heads of the people with whom you are going to be communicating.

Imagine them sitting before you at their kitchen table. What are they thinking? Have they heard of you before? How are you going to put them at ease and simultaneously tap into their existing desire if they are anxious and skeptical? You must know what they are thinking to be able to carry on a successful conversation.

If they stop reading, your opportunity is gone. If they turn the page of the newspaper, they don’t have the burden of asking you to leave. Your prospective customer has total control, but you have the power to anticipate, to think things through and to create a perfect marketing message at every turn.

In preparing a marketing piece, go back to the visual of sitting across the kitchen table from your prospective customer. You open your mouth and begin to speak. What should you say? After you deliver your first line, have you earned the right to keep talking? After

your first line, do they forget their apprehensions and ask you a question about your offer?

Who is talking more, you or the customer?

Stay with the visual and do not let your marketing piece creep into your mind. As you sit at the kitchen table, at what point in your pitch do they start thinking about the price? What questions come up as you continue to talk? Are you addressing their questions before they need to ask them? Are they losing interest or are you giving them reasons to continue listening?

As you go through this exercise, you will finally know exactly what you need to do and you will know what success looks and feels like.

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When opponents of the St. Francis de Sales Knights football team see double this season, it won’t have anything to do with getting tackled.

Stephen and Alex Joyce, junior defensive linebackers, are one set of twins on the team, according to Head Coach CROMWELL Dick Cromwell.

The second set, Hunter and Cam Stanley, have played football together since the fourth grade. This year, the St. Francis sophomores will play the offensive tackle and defensive end positions for the high school’s varsity football team.

Getting to play varsity football in the second year of high school is pretty rare, Cromwell said, but the team this year is going to “be a young team.”

“A lot of sophomores are gonna be playing,” Cromwell said. “[We have a] small group of seniors who are good kids, good football players, but we’re gonna be playing a lot of younger players.”

In fact, the team this year will be comprised of 17 returning seniors, 21 returning juniors and 40 new sophomores, which is a disadvantage, but Coach Cromwell said he has seen a lot in his 26th year coaching St. Francis football.

While more than half sophomores, there are some strong returning players to the Knights. Two quarterbacks, senior Tyler Johnston and junior Dan Yodzis, and wide receivers and defensive backs senior Scott Loy and junior Dillon Szegedi will all be players to watch this season, Cromwell said.

“You’re nervous when you’re playing that many young kids, but this [year’s] group of seniors will pull through for us,” he said.

Hunter and Cam are two of only four to six sophomores who will be starting this season. Both boys are grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this young team. To date, Hunter said his greatest accomplishment is to be able to play varsity football as a sophomore. In true twin fashion, Cam echoed his sentiment verbatim.

“I like how [football] revolves around being a team,” Hunter said.

“Not just a single person can win a game. It’s everyone.”

Cam’s favorite aspect of the sport is a little different.

“You can hit people and not get in trouble for it,” he said, grinning. “And the camaraderie, it’s like a family.”

The football team at St. Francis is especially close. The fact that the players go to school and hang out together has created a huge bond, Cam said. And a lot of the coaches are teachers and knowing them is another benefit for the players, Hunter said.

“They’re all good guys.”

While Coach Cromwell hasn’t noticed much difference in how the twins interact with each other and the way they work with the rest of the team, both boys describe their relationship on the field as competitive.

“We are extremely, extremely [competitive]. We go at each other. It’s a lot of fun, though,” Hunter said.

“I think it makes us better because we’re always trying to one up each other,” Cam added.

The fact that the boys work as offensive tackles on either side of the field for the same team ensures the sibling rivalry benefits the St. Francis team.

Playing the same position is nothing out of the ordinary for the boys. They both enjoy basketball and lifting weights, Hunter said. “And eating and sleeping,” Cam added.

Their brother is 6-foot-11-inch basketball center Storm Stanley.

Off the field, the boys often have moments where they experience a special twin bond.

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HUNTER (LEFT) AND CAM (RIGHT) STANLEY ARE SOPHOMORES AT ST. FRANCIS.

“Sometimes, I’ll be thinking of a song in my head and I’ll start singing it and he will too. At the exact same time,” Cam said.

Both boys have accomplished a lot in their short time at St. Francis.

“It looks like they’re gonna start as sophomores, which doesn’t often happen,” Cromwell said. “They were on an 8 and 1 freshman team last year and they both played basketball last year. They’re good athletes who have accomplished a lot and will

hopefully accomplish more.”

Cam, Hunter and the rest of the young St. Francis team have a lot to look forward to this fall.

Hunter wants to have fun and win some games and Cam has his sights set on winning the City League.

For Coach Cromwell, the fun lies in “coaching on Friday nights against another high school. Game time is a lot of fun,” he said. “Two-a-day [practices] are hot and hard work, but the games are a lot of fun.”

Both boys hope to continue playing football in college. Coach Cromwell sees a bright future ahead for both with a little hard work.

“They’ve got the size. It doesn’t matter how big you are, the colleges still want some quickness out of you.

So, I think that’s a big thing they have to look at over the next two and a half years is to get quicker,” he said.

The football season begins on Aug. 28 at The Glass Bowl against Sylvania Southview.

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Three teams to battle for City League title T he 2009 City League football season kicks off Aug.27 as St. John’s takes on Findlay at BGSU with rumors swirling about who could be joining the league and who wants to leave. For me, it’s the start of a wild season with no clearcut favorite.

Findlay, Lima Senior and Fremont Norm Ross have all reportedly expressed interest in joining the 12-team City League, while Clay has been looking for a way to exit the league for awhile.

Whether the bigger gates would offset the cost of increased traveling distance will surely be a topic of internal discussions among schools, but the possibility of adding as many as three terrific schools into an already great league is exciting for high school fans.

But that is for the future.

The upcoming football season has three City League teams with legitimate shots to take the 2009 crown with three more that could have a lot to say about what happens at the top and solid chances to make the race chaotic. Let’s give the preseason pick wheel a spin and No. 1 comes up: 1. Whitmer (5-2, 6-5 overall) With a big senior class, a lot of players back on defense and a returning starting quarterback, Joe Palka’s Panthers could finally hurdle to the top of the league. Quarterback Joe Missler returns, but will have to find new weapons after losing speedy running back Julian Nash and record-breaking wide receiver Jordan Brown. Wide receiver Mike Pfaff and tight end Tevin Boykin could do the trick, although offensive line depth could be an issue. The defense

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should be strong, led by linebackers Corey Compton and Shane Brown and hard-hitting safety Jake Noon.

The schedule favors Whitmer as the Panthers get Central Catholic and St. Francis at home and St. John’s in their backyard at Start.

2. Central Catholic (7-0, 10-1 overall) While Whitmer is the pick here, no one WAMER would be mildly surprised if Greg Dempsey’s gang won “One for the Thumb” and made it five straight City League titles. Quarterback Dave Walender returns, but Central has to replace running back/linebacker Brad Rogers who went to Iowa and Mike Marrow left for Alabama. The Irish offense needs to get the ball into the hands of game-breaker Nate Hobbs who is the X-factor. The schedule does not favor Central this year as they must play Whitmer and St. John’s on the road.

3. St. John’s Jesuit (6-1, 7-3 overall) Doug Pearson’s Titans are 81 strong, but only 14 of them are seniors and only seven of those started last season. St. John’s might be a year away, at least that’s what other City League teams hope. Replacing offensive lineman Jack Mewhort (Ohio State), defensive end Tim Kynard (Illinois) and two-way threat Hunter Lent won’t be easy, but 6-foot-3inches, 245-pound defensive end and outside tackle Jack Miller transferred in from Lakewood St. Edward, where he started as a sophomore and has Division-I ability. Running back Nate White should get lots of carries as St. John’s could start a sophomore at quarterback in Kent Kern.

4. St. Francis (4-3, 5-5 overall) Dick Cromwell doesn’t like to start sophomores, but he will this year, including possibly three on the offensive line. While the Knights will be young, they will have something that they haven’t had for a while on the offensive line: size. When Cromwell has a good offensive line (this year’s should average more than 260 pounds), St. Francis is dangerous.

Two newcomers are twin sophomore offensive tackles Cam Stanley and Hunter Stanley, brothers of 6-foot-11inch basketball center Storm Stanley.

5. Rogers (2-5, 3-7 overall) Could the Rams go undefeated in the City League this year? The improbable answer is “yes” if they upset Whitmer in week 4. The Rams have the easiest league schedule as they do not face Central Catholic, St. John’s, St. Francis or Start this season.

Returning quarterback E.J. Tucker has terrific receivers in wide receivers Der Juan Gambrell

and Damon Powell, as well as tight end Ray Bush as the Rams may no longer be a season away.

6. Start (4-3, 4-6 overall) Thirty-three seniors, along with nine starters, back on each side

of the ball make the Spartans intriguing, but coach Pat Gucciardo must figure out how to beat the top tier of the City League, and Start plays all four of them.

7. Clay (5-2, 7-3 overall)

Mike Donnelly’s crew must find a way to replace one of the area’s best quarterbacks in Drew Kuns. The Eagles have a brutal schedule and must play the six best teams in the league.

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AUGUST 23, 2009 ■ CITY CONTINUED FROM A22 Running back/middle linebacker Mike Ackerman must have a big year.

8. Bowsher (4-3, 4-6 overall) The Rebels won their final three games last year, including an upset of Rogers. Coach Wendell Hills hopes it is a preview of good things to come.

9. Libbey (3-4, 4-6 overall) Coach Sean Wesolowski takes over the hard-working Cowboys.

Losing 18 seniors may make things more challenging this year.

10. Waite (1-6, 1-9 overall) Coach Gardner Howard moves over from Scott, replacing longtime City League coach J.J. Johnson.

11. Scott (1-6, 2-8 overall) New Coach Mike Daniels takes

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Tim Beckman brings enthusiasm and a positive attitude to the field for his first season as head coach of the UT Rockets.

“We need to change the attitude and move forward.

It’s a process that starts with making the kids accountable,” Beckman said.

There’s a new mission at UT that is displayed with the Rocket logo and six words: “accountability and attitude” at the rear to give the rocket a boost, “trust and consistency” at the sides to keep it going and “team and conquer” at the point to accomplish its goal.

“We have to play more consistently and perform better each time we step on the field for practice or games. We’ve got to learn to win on the road if we’re going to be champions,” Beckman said, citing games at Ball State, Central Michigan, Purdue and OSU in Cleveland on Sept. 19, “which is really a road game,” he said.

Beckman has coached in seven straight bowl games at Oklahoma State, Ohio State and BGSU, but faces a challenging task to make it eight straight this year.

“There’s not an easy game on the schedule this season,” he admitted. The Rockets open at Purdue, play Colorado at home and Ohio State in Cleveland.

Offensively, Toledo will use multiple formations and play up-tempo football with 50-50 run and pass. Defensively, they will attack the football and disrupt the opposing quarterback, and “the MAC has some great QBs,” Beckman said.

He has coached under some outstanding head coaches, starting with Pat Dye at Auburn, where he was a graduate assistant, Urban Meyer, Gary Blackney and Gregg Brandon at BGSU, Jim Tressel at Ohio State and Mike Gundy at Oklahoma State.

“I’ve been blessed to be around football and football coaches all my life and to learn from successful coaches like them,” Beckman said.

“It’s a dream to coach against one of your mentors and to challenge him on the field,” he said about facing Tressel.

He coached against Meyer under Tressel when Ohio State lost to Florida in the national champion-

■ Favorite food: Spaghetti ■ Favorite music: Top 40 ■ Favorite vacation: Florida or coasts, to visit family ■ Favorite movie: “Remember the Titans,” starring Denzel Washington ■ Most admired athlete: Michael Jordan for his great leadership with the Chicago Bulls ■ Most admired coach: “I have been around too many to name one.”

■ Favorite hobby outside football: Watching his kids play sports ship game in 2006.

“We’re still good friends and talk often,” Beckman said about Meyer. “We almost went to Utah with Urban, but my father-in-law died at that time, so we decided to stay at BG.” Beckman, a Berea native, played college football at Findlay under Dick Strahm, former UT assistant and the “winningest coach in NAIA history,” he said.

Frank X. Lauterbur, former UT head coach and athletic director, visits practice often and spoke to the team recently. Former Rocket greats, Chuck Ealey and Mel Long, have also talked to the team about the winning tradition at UT. His father Dave Beckman, who coached football at the high school, college and pro levels, and former Cleveland Browns head coach Sam Rutigliano met with the team recently.

Beckman said that he “was happy to return home to the Buckeye State” when he became the 25th head football coach at UT in December.

Being from Ohio and having coached in the MAC, Beckman said he’s always had a lot of respect for the tradition and success of the Toledo football program, which he considers the best in the MAC. Since Beckman has coached at both schools, he understands the rivalry between BG and Toledo well.

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“The rivalry game is what college football is all about. It’s the most important game you play,” he said.

Beckman met his wife, Kim Rooney, the daughter of a former CEO at Cooper Tire, while playing football at Findlay. Her father was a great supporter of the football program there, Beckman said.

“She gives every player a birthday cake on their birthday because she wants them to feel like family.”

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Big Ten: UM can’t get worse; Pryor will be most-watched

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or anyone who missed the first time since joining the Big Ten 2008 Big Ten football season, 16 years ago. If PSU defeats Ohio for whatever reason, including State on Nov. 7, it will give the Lions their first back-to-back sad feelings of nostalgia, wins over the Buckeyes this season might be a in school history. facsimile if you’re still Michigan State is interested. picked to finish a disNo, the Big Ten tant third in the Big won’t regain the naTen. Why? No one tional prominence it is quite sure when once commanded, the you consider that the conference’s Big Two Spartans have lost won’t include Mich12 straight to Top 25 igan, again, and Jim versus Rich doesn’t even Dave WOOLFORD teams and were humilicome close to emulating the old Bo- ated by the Big Two by a combined Woody headliners. Yes, excitement score of 94-25 last season. Coach will be prevalent, but national atten- Mark Dantonio’s rebuilding job continues and now that he’s cleaned up tion will be paltry.

It might be therapeutic if you the cultural aspects of the program try to invigorate your Big Ten as they relate to dumb mistakes, key football senses with these nug- turnovers and attitude adjustments, gets of prophecy based on fuzzy it’s time to win some football games.

And guess what? Ohio State is not hypothesis.

Ohio State should win a confer- on the schedule.

Some folks would like to think ence-record fifth straight title, defeating a somewhat depleted Penn that Iowa is the best of the bronze State in Happy Valley on Nov. 7 medal contenders with a good and then mash Michigan for the quarterback in Ricky Stanzi and sixth consecutive time in the con- enough returning starters to turn ference finale for both teams on around its four losses last season by a total of 12 points. Sorry HawkNov. 21 at UM. OSU’s sophomore Terrelle Pryor eyes. You play Ohio State, Penn will probably be the most scruti- State and Michigan State all on the road. Better luck next year. nized player in the country.

Illinois has the very exciting Michigan will improve just by winning the games it’s supposed to Juice Williams at quarterback, but win with no mediocre Toledos or he’s been inconsistent and the deDivision II Appalachian States step- fense was incompetent last season ping in the way. There’s Western — two debilitating inadequacies.

Michigan, Eastern Michigan, In- The Fighting Illini fell from Rose diana and Delaware State. That Bowl stature in 2007 to 5-7 last year. should be four victories, already one Which one was the fluke?

Let’s stick Michigan and Wismore than last year.

The Wolverines suffered consin in the sixth and seventh through their first nine-game slots in our fearless and sporadilosing streak in school history last cally flawed Big Ten football foreseason, lost to their three biggest cast. You can choose the order. rivals, Michigan State, Notre Dame Wisconsin, again, has quarterback and Ohio State, all in the same issues. And when’s the last time season for the first time since 1987, you can remember two different allowed a school record 28.9 points quarterbacks starting the season per game and failed to gain 300 at Michigan in back-to-back years yards per game for the first time without ever taking a snap for since 1967. The point is, how can the Wolverines in a game situation? Last year’s starter, red-shirt they not improve?

The Buckeyes will dispatch a freshman Steven Threet, transdepleted USC team that includes ferred and backup Nick Sheridan a new quarterback in the Bucks’ broke his leg and didn’t participate second game of the season on Sept. in spring practice. Michigan, may 12, while Michigan will again lose to the Forcier be with you.

Northwestern has one of the Notre Dame on the same day. The Fighting Irish will have a huge ad- best young coaches in the country vantage at quarterback with veteran in Pat Fitzgerald and is definitely Jimmy Clausen probably facing off the dark horse in the conference against UM freshman Tate Forcier. because of its veteran defense that Penn State coach Joe Perpetuity, might prove to be the best in the 82, has a new hip, a new contract Big Ten. The Wildcats could be 7-0 through 2011 and the same old quar- going into their game against Penn terback, Daryll Clark, who, alone, State in TCF Bank Stadium. Neigives the Nittany Lions a decent ther Ohio State nor Michigan are shot at back-to-back titles for the on the schedule.

Can we throw Minnesota, Purdue and Indiana into a hat? Please? Minnesota has a new on-campus outdoor stadium, leaving the warm, cushy confines of the Metrodome.

It gives coach Tim Brewster a leg up when it comes to recruiting in such high school football hotbeds

as Fairbanks, Nome and Bismark.

Indiana returns 18 starters. That’s a valid wow factor until you consider that they’re returning from an 11thplace team.

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GM will add shifts to factories in Ingersoll, Ontario, and Lordstown, Ohio. The Ontario plant makes the brand-new Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossover vehicles, both of which get 32 miles per gallon on the highway. Lordstown makes the Chevrolet Cobalt small car.

Production also will be boosted at other North American factories, including those that make the Chevrolet HHR small wagon, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickups, the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car, Buick LaCrosse sedan and the Ca-

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The automaker also will add two months to the life of a midsize-car factory in Orion Township, Mich., and 10,000 workers will get overtime to increase production at assembly and parts plants.

More increases are possible in the fourth quarter, the company said. GM will add a second shift to the Lordstown plant and a third shift to the Ingersoll factory, increasing production mainly in the fourth quarter.

Lordstown also will see two added production days on the next two Fridays. The Orion plant, which was set to close in mid-September, will now make Chevrolet Malibus into late November to help meet consumer demand.

Nearly all automakers have reported sales increases due to the clunkers program, which offers buyers up to $4,500 to scrap older vehicles getting 18 mpg or less, trading them in for new, more efficient models.

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Dyson presented Dealer Principal Mike Rouen with a ceremonial Japanese Katana sword from the automaker to the dealer, a long standing Toyota tradition, according to a press release from Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This facility allows us to better serve our present customers and hopefully attract new ones to our dealership,â&#x20AC;?

Rouen stated in the press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people of Maumee have been extremely supportive of our business.â&#x20AC;?

The expanded dealership is nearly double the size of its previous facility with 31,000 square feet of enhanced showroom and service areas. The Rouen dealership has represented the Toyota brand since 2000.

The larger showroom includes more space for dis-

playing new Toyota and Scion vehicles, an accessory display area, customer workspace with WiFi access, and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play area. The new service department features an enclosed service drive and a large customer lounge. It is equipped with 16 high-tech service bays, compared to seven stalls in the former facility.

The Rouen dealership incorporated energy efficient lighting and other features in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? building, said Nicole Rouen, marketing manager. The biggest impact is they are recycling all used oil and reusing it for heating the service department and saving 90 percent on the normal heating bill, she said.

Toyota markets its auto brands through a network of more than 1,400 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers in the U.S. The company employs about 35,000 people and sold more than 2.2 million vehicles in 2008, according to the news release. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Duane Ramsey

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AUTO SENSE

Your car owner’s manual is a great source of information

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y son called the other day to let me know his vehicle had just quit running and he was sitting alongside the roadway.

I can tell you that trying to diagnose a vehicle’s problem over the telephone can be tough. Trying to diagnose a symptom over a cell phone as cars and trucks are whizzing by makes the job even tougher. Nonetheless, without too much trouble, we were able to figure out that the vehicle wasn’t getting any fuel. Why it wasn’t getting any fuel was still up in the air, and needed further diagnosis. My boy doesn’t carry a lot of tools with him and, even if he did, the roadside is not the place to perform in-depth diagnosis. The actual problem couldn’t be identified on the highway.

Considering his current circumstances, we determined that a tow truck and a good service shop was the best solution. A little while later I got a call back from my boy, he had found the problem.

Apparently, he was sitting in his car awaiting the tow truck’s arrival when he decided to read the owner’s manual. While reading the owner’s manual, he noticed that the fuel pump’s electrical circuit contained an in-line fuse. He checked the fuse and found that it was blown. He installed a new fuse and the vehicle started.

He was very happy, as you might imagine, because fuel pumps for late model cars don’t come cheap. When

The owner’s manual is your you add in the cost of labor, well, a second mortgage may have been source of information for fluid canecessary in order to get the car out pacities and fluid specifications for both summer and of hock. winter driving. Air The lesson he gained filter and oil filter can be shared with all of part numbers are us; that lesson is simply also found within the how valuable the vehicle’s manual. owner’s manual can be.

The proper veLocated between all the hicle weight ratings disclaimers, warnings and and loading informacautions, you will find tion are contained in valuable information. the owner’s manual Not only can you find Nick SHULTZ the location of all the fuses and re- as well. Vehicle maintenance lays aboard your car, you can usu- schedules can be found within the ally find some very handy trouble- owner’s manual.

You will also find warranty inshooting charts. Those troubleshooting charts cover a wide range formation and manufacturer contact telephone numbers. of common vehicle problems.

You will find the proper way The proper operation of all the different switches and electrical to wash your car in the owner’s devices are contained within the manual. The manual will inform owner’s manual. How do you set you of the proper soaps and waxes up and operate that combina- you can safely use on your painted tion GPS/six-disc CD player with surfaces as well as on your leathers AM/FM radio and voice com- and plastics.

If you have all-wheel drive or mand logic? You’ll find the entire procedure within the owner’s four-wheel drive on your vehicle there will be an entire section on manual.

What should the tire pressure the proper use of those features. The be set at when you’re pulling your proper function of the traction conboat? The answer is located in the trol and anti-lock brake systems is discussed in detail. owner’s manual.

While writing this article, I was What light bulb should be used for the blinkers? The owner’s perusing my own vehicle’s owner’s manual lists all the part numbers manual and found an interesting for everyone of the bulbs used on feature that my car’s interior lighting system has that I was tothe vehicle.

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I guess I should have read my own owner’s manual rather than assume I knew everything there is to know about my car. My point is that even an experienced technician can’t know everything there is to know about every car on the road. Even his or her own car can have features the technician is unaware of.

My son inadvertently reminded me of a valuable information source that I often overlook. I am so used to looking up complex service information in thick-bound service manuals or on computer based

service information systems that I sometimes forget about the handy information source located right in the glove box.

Although we won’t be able to disassemble and reassemble the transmission using the owner’s manual, we surely will be able to locate the fuses using it.

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

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On Aug. 28, the animals at the Toledo Zoo will have to compete for attention with four popular rock bands jamming at the amphitheater, as part of a 40-stop nationwide tour.

Staind, Shinedown, Halestorm and Chevelle are stopping in Toledo to bring what they consider an affordable concert in response to the dwindling economy. The tour, called “Stimulate This!,” charges a base price of $40 a ticket.

“I kind of came up with the idea of this tour by seeing what was going on in this country and how basically what our esteemed president is doing at the moment is bailing out irresponsible corporations for their business actions and empowering the people that are already taking out of the system without putting into the system and lining a bunch of pockets of friends,” said Aaron Lewis, the lead guitarist from Staind.

Lewis said he and the other four bands’ members are willing to “make sacrifices” to bring a cheaper show to their fans at a time when most people forfeit fun events like rock concerts because the economy has left many unemployed or underemployed.

None of the band members specifically said what they would have to forfeit on tour to achieve the ticket price of $40 or less, however.

Staind, Shinedown and Halestorm have all ranked on Billboard’s top music hits, with one of Staind’s albums placing third out of 400, one of Shinedown’s hits within the top 10 out of 100 and Halestorm’s tune at 40th place out of 100, according to a release from Kelly McWilliam, publicity for Atlantic Records.

Staind started in 1995 and has sold millions of albums under the reputation that lyric writer Lewis harps about pain and suffering to the tunes of his three other bandmates’ rocking guitar, drums and bass, according to their biography on staind.com. He has recently started writing more politically charged songs.

The band has gained so much popularity that the four musicians have sold 13 million albums worldwide.

Lewis and Brent Smith from Shinedown agreed that they expect many of their fans to save up all summer just to see these four bands together — especially the fanatic groupies.

“The difference between a female groupie and a male groupie is a female groupie wants to fantasize about having sex with you or having your children,” Lewis said. “A male groupie wants to, like, make a shirt of out of your skin and like, put it on.”

Lewis and Smith have similar voices and Shinedown enjoys just about the same caliber of attention. Their latest album called “The Sound of Madness,” ranking eighth on the Billboard 200 list, right after it debuted last summer.

Shinedown also has a guitar, bass and percussion player.

Smith said he loves his fans and that it is his bands’ privilege to play to crowds all over the country and the “sacrifices” they’ll have to make to keep ticket prices low will not reflect on the quality of their show.

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we’re still paying all the same for our production and all that stuff and I know all of us are still taking out full production to put on a great show,” Smith said.

Chevelle hasn’t made it on Billboard charts, but the have spent over 10 years together and will release their latest album, “Sci Fi Crimes,” in September.

Sam Loeffler, the lead singer of Chevelle, said he loves writing music, but decided to participate in the “Stimulate This!” tour because he understands the economic plight of his fans.

“I’m making half the money I used to make even two years ago and that’s OK,” Loeffler said.

Halestorm started in 1998, as Lzzy and her brother Arejay Hale decided to start putting some of her writing, that dates back to when she was 13 years old, to music, according to the biography on halestormrocks.com. Lzzy Hale writes edgy lyrics about love and sex and Halestorm’s sound is a hard rock tone, laced with guitar solos and partnered with her harsh but feminine voice.

She was recently named one of the “hottest chicks in metal”

by Revolver magazine and she said she is proud to be a woman playing music with popular male counterparts.

“It does feel very empowering because, on this one, I’m the only girl on the bill and to be surrounded by such powerhouses and such amazing songwriters and front men. I mean, it’s amazing because, I mean, I get inspired by them,” Hale said. “I feel like I’m going to feel like this really lucky little sister on this tour so I’m going to learn a lot, but I feel like I’ll be able to hold my own and I don’t know, just have a really good time with all of them.”

Lewis said he is excited to stop in Toledo, despite previous legal charges that Lucas County Republican Party Chairman Jon Stainbrook pressed on his band years ago, claiming that Staind’s name was too similar to “The Stain,” a local band he once played in.

Dan Faehnle has been logging a lot of miles, globehopping as the guitarist for Pink Martini.

“I’ve been traveling so much with Pink Martini in the last couple of years that I just have not put my own thing together in awhile. I’m due to make [a disc], and it’ll probably be an organ trio CD — organ, guitar, drums. I like that format,” he said by phone when home in Cincinnati.

With Pink Martini, Faehnle has FAEHNLE recorded “Hang on Little Tomato” (2004), “Hey Eugene” (2007) and a new disc due out in October. The eclectic ensemble is known for mixing multilingual ingredients with a splash of retro spirit. “[Pink Martini’s music] was just always so different, and I think that’s what’s nice for the audience and probably why they’ve done so well because it’s something so different; people never see anything like this, at least all in one show,” Faehnle said.

The Ohio native had an eye-opening education when he played in Diana Krall’s band from 2000 to 2003.

“You did more stuff in a week than most people — or I up until that point — would do in a year. You’d play ‘Letterman’ one night, you’d play Carnegie Hall the next. You were playing on great stages all around the world; that was really a great thing to be a part of,” he said.

“I learned to play and hear music on concert stages as opposed to jazz clubs. And I learned a lot about life. Groups that travel on the road, sometimes it’s not as glamorous as people might think. It’s actually very hard. You’re going from city to city. So Diana and all these people worked very hard, playing a concert at night and getting up at 6 and 7 the next morning and getting to the airport to get to the next gig.”

The guitarist will play two sets with bassist Clifford Murphy, pianist Claude Black and drummer Sean Dobbins at 9 and 11 p.m. Aug. 29 at Murphy’s Place.

Tickets are $15, $10 and $8.

“It’s very important in this day and age especially to have a direct link to someone that has played [jazz] at the time this music was created, to have a direct connection, and that’s how you feel when you play with Clifford and Claude,” he said. “They were there at the time this music was created; it’s, therefore, a learning experience to play with them and it’s a great feeling to play with them.”

Faehnle said the quartet will decide what to play.

“That’s the beauty of the way the music is set up. I could go play in Europe with people who don’t even speak the same language, but we could still play ‘Stella

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Levis Commons hosts annual Fine Art Fair

By Vanessa Olson TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The Guild of Artists and Artisans will bring its work to the fifth

annual Levis Commons Fine Art Fair on Aug. 22 and 23.

The Guild, a nonprofit membership organization of professional artists, produces four annual art shows, including the Ann Arbor

Summer Art Fair. To be accepted into the fair, each artist is juried and processed separately.

“The artist must make all of the components or repurpose existing elements for their work to be con-

sidered true art,” said Paula Adam, account supervisor for Sheroian Associates, who handles The Guild.

More than 125 artists will display and sell their craft, including jewelry, ceramics, glass, photography, fiber, wood and more.

“The Guild does a good job of picking a balance of different kinds of art,” Adam said. “There is something for everyone.”

That includes children at the Fine Art Fair this year. The Perrysburg Area Arts Council will sponsor children’s art activities; including sand art and stamping projects. There are also crafts for a variety of budgets.

“The pieces range from less than $5 to hundreds of dollars,” Adam said. “Fine art gets misconstrued as only expensive pieces, but it really could be a $5 pair of clay earrings.”

Many of the artists in The Guild are full-time artists who travel to 40 or 50 shows each year. The artists at this year’s fair are representing 10 states, including Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida.

“These artists work tirelessly and travel the country doing what they truly love,” Debra “Max” Clayton, guild executive director said.

Greg Smith, glass artisan and co-founder of Pipe Dream Glass, said, “People buy (fine art) glass for different reasons. But the apprecia-

tion and satisfaction of knowing that each piece has been crafted as a reflection of the artist simply can’t be found in mass market retail artifacts.”

Glass blowing artist David Kolasky, owner of DK Glass and Glass City Putters, has been selling his pieces at the fair since its inception.

“The art fair is one of the best organized festivals,” Kolasky said. “The people at Levis have been extremely helpful and cooperative. The location attracts people because it is a nice regional center.”

Kolasky said he hopes people will come and support local artists.

He also gives back to the community with his craft by donating pieces to about 12 charitable organizations a year. Kolasky, along with other artists, never gets tired of people coming to see their crafts.

“When people walk into my booth, I hear a giggle and see a smile. This is what I was meant to do. And if my whimsical creatures make them happy and smile every day they see it in their home, I’ve done my job,” said clay artist Stephanie Hutson.

The Levis Commons Fine Art fair will be run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 22 and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Aug. 23. Admission is free.

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Monroe County Community College announces its entertainment season

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

Monroe County Community College entertainment lovers are gearing up for a season packed full of music, live productions, comedians and arts and crafts shows.

S p o n sored by DTE Energy, LaZ-Boy InCAVANAUGH corporated, Michigan Gas Utilities and Monroe Bank & Trust, the college will host most of the events at the MCCC La-ZBoy Center at Meyer Theatre.

The nearly 20 different dates of entertainment span the school

year, starting on Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with an auto show at the main campus, accompanied by live music by Rich Eddy’s Rockin’ Oldies Band.

A coins and collectives show will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Health Education Building, as well as a craft show and an 1812 Living History Encampment at the same time at the Warrick Student Services/Administration building.

Highlights throughout the season include a comedy show

by Tim Cavanaugh, who regularly appears on the Bob &Tom Show, Toledo Symphony Shows featuring orchestrations from “Harry Potter” and multiple plays and musicals.

For a complete list of events and ticket information on individual shows, visit http://www.monroeccc. edu/theater/events.htm.

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HOLLIDAY TRAVELS

Wet and cold weekend in Michigan still yields fun time

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And quite a story it is, too. oor old Michigan can’t even President Theodore Roosevelt get global warming right! It’s another wet and cold Saturday created the CCC in 1933 as a response to the Great Deup here in the pression and North Woods. One some 100,000 in a long succession young Michiof rainy, dreary ganders living in weekends that are 11 camps in the pretty disastrous Huron Forest, for a state that rereseeded 85,000 lies so heavily on acres of forest its short summer with 484 miltourist season for lion trees, built its treasure.

Roger HOLLIDAY 504 bridges, 222 The Mio Pine buildings, conAcres, a campClaudia FISCHER structed 7,000 ground some eight miles from our cabin, is a sloppy miles of tracks and fought hundreds puddle of tents, RVs and sad-looking of forest fires before World War Two campers. The ladies of the farmers’ intervened and sent the men off to market that normally sets up on the fight a completely different kind of courthouse lawn behind the super- war. (www.fs.fed.us/r9/hmnf/pages/ sized replica of the endangered Kirt- About_Info/huron.htm).

Several exhibits tell more of land’s Warbler — don’t even manage to show. And any produce that they this extraordinary saga. Someone might have had for sale, has already is taking oral histories. A campbeen seriously delayed by the unsea- fire sputters. Forest Service employees huddle, and birthday cake sonably cold weather.

So, with the rain beating down is handed out.

But it’s all a bit soggy. So we pick on our rustic cabin roof, we decide to go to a birthday party. The Huron up some maps — and a brochure National Forest turns 100 years old about Trumpeter Swans that are this year and is having a “knees-up” making a comeback on the Au Sable — and push on along the Scenic to celebrate.

Because we spend a good portion Byway to Oscoda where the Au Sable of our summers slap in the middle River tumbles into Lake Huron.

The town itself, once a thriving of this 437,000-acre wonderland, and have even preserved a parcel of community because of its (now Wurtsmith it for posterity, we feel a kind of ob- decommissioned) Air Force Base, is putting on a ligation to attend. cheerful face. Flapping flags, neon But first, breakfast.

Our regular egg and potato signs and touristy shops all help a place, The Branch Cafe in Mio, has bit. But it’s a difficult to overcome a line of frustrated campers and ca- a deeply depressed economy and a noers outside the door. So, we head very rainy day!

The public beach, normally alive instead along the Au Sable River to the village of Glennie where the Chat with swimmers and sunners, is sad and Chew Cafe has empty tables and and soggy, too. The car park’s deeggs, hash browns and steaming hot serted. And only a couple of very brave souls are out body-surfing coffee as good as anyplace.

We listen to a table of locals chat- among the whitecaps.

There’s still something most aptering about greyhound adoption.

Another couple is chewing over last pealing about this “Sunrise Side” of night’s losses at the casino slots. The the state. Something unpretentious. waitress calls us “darlings,” and the And ’50s. A marked contrast to the gas station across the street is aban- mega-mansions, the gated communities and the up-market shops of doned and for sale.

Further up the road at the Lum- the Lake Michigan shore.

As we drive further up the bermans Monument, however; the birthday bash is in full song when coast, we can’t help but marvel at the vast and endless lake vistas. we arrive.

Center stage is a windblown tent The waves beating on beaches. with a guitar-strumming trouba- Seagulls soaring with the wind and dour singing songs and telling sto- an occasional freighter breaking ries about the CCC — the Civilian up the far horizon.

In Harrisville, we buy justConservation Corps — which was responsible for recreating much of dug potatoes and two quarts of the Huron Forest that two centuries Michigan sweet cherries from a of lumberjack’s axes and forest fires roadside stall — to help the local had decimated. economy, of course. And then,

before heading home, we stop off at The Cove where their line of yummy ice creams that include Moose Tracks, Cafe Latte Caramel and Lake Shore Cherry is dreamily unsurpassed.

Next week, when family arrives, we’ll do it all again. And more. Before returning to our cabin in the Huron Forest for barbecued burgers, a campfire with s’mores and tall tales beneath the

white pines and the bright August moon.

This is, after all, “Pure Michigan!”

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Events: Mars enters Cancer and Mercury enters Libra (25th); Venus enters Leo (26th)

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1. One regular high school football game has 48 minutes of playing time. How many minutes are in each quarter?

2. How does the referee decide which team gets the ball first?

3. What is the first play of the game called?

4. Where is the ball placed on the field at the beginning of the game?

A) on the kicking team’s 30yard-line B) on the kicking team’s 40-yard line C) on the 50 yard line 5. How many players are on the field at one time for each team?

6. What do we call the play that results in three points?

7. Which of these final scores is not possible? A) 18 – 13 B) 14 – 2 C) 8 – 1 8. Which of these high schools has a mascot that is NOT an animal? Perrysburg, Sylvania Southview, Start, Whitmer, Bedford ANSWERS: 1. 12 2. He tosses a coin. The team that wins the toss decides if they want to kick or receive. 3. kick-off 4. B 5. 11 6. a field goal 7. C 8. the Start Spartans

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Uncertain path. Results from past efforts roll in as the week begins. Challenges erupt on Tuesday as implacable obstacles prevent progress or trigger battles. Relationships fare well over the weekend with sweet gestures and romantic interludes on Friday and Saturday.

Fierce competitor. Issues from the past come to a boil this week. Wronged parties strive to bring hidden or entrenched powers into the open for judgment or justice. Brains, courage and determination are keys to success. Shift to lighthearted fun on Friday evening.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Innocent bystander. Objectives that were clear early in the year are the subject of grave questions now and test your loyalties. Secrets can be a source of undoing. Seek advice from a woman on Thursday. Relief comes from an unexpected source on Friday.

Divine intervention. Luck comes through women this week. You could become entangled in complicated situations midweek, with strong feelings on both sides.

Take the opportunity to reconnect with old friends or an old flame as the weekend arrives.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Mental banana peels. A unique tradition revives as the week starts. Critical issues arise on Tuesday; a little one or idealized concepts could be the source of contention.

After Thursday, work with others to improve harmony.

Gather with delightful people on Friday.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Up and onwards. Women close to you discuss intense issues. Swift-changing circumstances on Tuesday reveal parts of your personality that are normally hidden. Aid, information and support become available on Friday.

Flexible options are the key.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Milk and cookies. Take a fresh look at how shared resources are managed this week. Unfolding midweek events test loyalties and commitment to ethical practices. Results may hinge on your honesty and negotiating skills. Best results are attained on Friday.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Sun King. Positions that seem solid as the week begin to crumble by Tuesday. A build up of outside pressure may make compromises and retreats the best option for now.

After Thursday, temporary resolutions create a window of time for further discussions.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Delayed selection. Some old business needs resolution on Monday. Emergencies, accidents or breakdowns can catch you off guard on Tuesday and Wednesday; blind spots are vulnerable. A person from a distant place has good news for you as the weekend arrives.

Rules change. This is a good time to brush up old skills.

Anticipated plans may be confounded by unexpected issues or delays midweek. Be patient with circumstances beyond your control, and avoid extreme viewpoints.

Weekend socializing leads to new friends.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Whirligig. A well-connected woman helps with vital arrangements as the week begins. Injustices cause tensions to rise midweek; people swarm like angry bees if provoked. Finding satisfactory resolutions is an uphill battle. Little gifts and kindnesses arrive on Friday.

Brain flash. Gears shift as autumn planning moves front and center and demands your full capacities. If sources of support wobble or plans get postponed midweek, look for better alternatives. Your extensive social network expands in fruitful ways over the weekend.

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Fortunately, our trip was not deummer wouldn’t feel complete without a good old-fashioned fined by the irritations associated family road trip. I’m not sure with five people traveling along at 65 mph in a small metal how old-fashioned box. Giddy from the our road trips are anyfun family wedding we more with two TVs sihad attended, we even multaneously blaring decided to extend our whichever kids’ video little vacation by stopwas reluctantly agreed ping in Lansing, Mich. upon, but according on the way home to to the intermittent show our children the arguing coming from place where my husthe backseat, it is no band and I took up doubt still family.

Shannon SZYPERSKI residence as a newly Determined to make it the quintessential family married couple. I know how thrilled road trip, our children peppered the I was as a child when my parents journey with annoying back-of-the- would drag me from street to street seat kicking and inappropriately- in Bowling Green to stare at all of the spaced utterings of “How much places that meant so much to them longer?” Elaine, our middle child, even and not a bit to me.

We navigated around town surfelt compelled to make the obligatory just-past-the-exit-even-though-dad- prisingly well after 10 years of absence. asked-her-before-the-exit bathroom After some quick brainstorming about what was where, we located my request. Oh, the humanity.

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former place of employment and our second apartment. Then, it was onto our first apartment together located at Spartan Village university housing, aka the apartment with the ants and the all-vinyl flooring, that prompted the move to apartment No. 2.

I could have sworn it had a dull greenish/grayish/bluish facade, but as we drove onto the Michigan State University campus all we could see were uniformly red brick apartment buildings. We combined the “32” in my memory and the “15” in my husband’s to decide that we were looking for 1532 Spartan Village, apartment E. Even after attempting to recreate our daily drives home, the closest we could come was 1538. So, I snapped a picture and we threw in the towel.

Elaine again announced that she had to find a bathroom immediately, so she and I darted into the complex’s community building. Although it was Sunday, I noticed that the housing assignments department just happened to be open for business. Knowing we would not likely be passing through again anytime soon and still halfconvinced that we had lived at 1532 instead of 1538, I couldn’t help but ask if they could kindly look up our old address, just to see.

When they asked when we had resided there, I sheepishly answered “10 years ago.” From the looks on their baby faces, I think I might as well have told them we were from the class of 1923. Their computer system didn’t date back to such a distant era, so it seemed that we would have to dig out an old piece of mail when we arrived home to know if 1538 was indeed the magic number.

As we turned to walk away, I hesitantly turned back and pulled out one last ditch effort. “Is there a 1532 somewhere?” I asked. “Oh, was it one of the blue buildings?” was the reply. “They knocked those down earlier this year.”

I did not see that coming.

It’s hard to believe Mike and I started our life together long enough ago that our first apartment no longer exists. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time that “us” meant two instead of five. It’s hard to believe we’re no longer just a couple of crazy kids.

Nothing whispers, “you’re not young anymore” like the imagined ghosts of a demolished building in which you once lived your life.

Nothing makes you happier that you’re not young anymore than three beautiful seat-kicking, arguing kids accompanying you on your trip back to who you were.

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Bids will be received by the Toledo Public School District (the “District or TPS”), at the School Board Office, Treasurers Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608 for the Scott High School Pre-renovation Asbestos/HazMat Abatement Project in accordance with the Drawings and Specifications prepared by: TTL Associates, Inc. 1915 N. 12th Street Toledo, Ohio 43604 Phone No. 419-324-2222 Fax No. 419-321-6252

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Local activists presented a completed petition to the clerk of council at One Government Center on Aug. 19 that would limit the use

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The movement officially began on Jan. 12, 2009. Activists presented 8,500 signatures of the requisite 4,625 in order to put the measure on the November city ballot. They

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2009 9:00 AM FORKLIFTS – VEHICLES: 7 Forklifts (Several CAT); Crown Totter mod. 200TR w/4 Tto carts; Int. single axle truck w/DT 466E engine, 8x26 Morgan Van Body, 3000 Lb. lift gate; PALLET RACKING; 500 sections of Cylman Enterprises pallet racking purchased new in 2001; Other misc. racks; (All to be dismantled by the buyer).

MATERIAL HANDLING: Speedy Pack Instapak System; Cousins Pallet Wrapper & Supplies; Wilton Strapping machine; Assortment of banding equipment; Loadmaster digital scale; Lace load test center; Impulse sealers; Kone Kx10 elec. 2 T. hoist; Pallet jacks; warehouse carts; rolling ladders; dump scrap hoppers; NEW BOXES 50 plus pallets of new cardboard boxes (various sizes).

OFFICE EQUIPMENT: Several good framed pictures by local artist Robert Zollweg; 14 corner desk units; executive desk; 10’ conference table; lots of good black office/desk chairs; 16 four drawer file cabinets; several legal size file cabinets; fireproof legal 4 drawer file; several 2 drawer files; lateral files; 3 floor safes; Mosler large double door floor safe; Lots of office soft side partitions; Lots of Dell computers, flat screen monitors; copiers; printers; fax; shredders; safes; lunch room tables and chairs. (All in nice condition).

SHOW TRAILER - TRADE SHOW BOOTH: New 16’ H&H trailer w/side swing-up vendor door, rear ramp door, diamond plate floor, inside/ outside lighting, (never used); Custom Built Up to 40’ inline booth w/carpet; 2 – 10’ Skyline popup Trade Show Displays.

NEW CLARKE TOOLS: Hundreds of new Clarke Power Tools – Welders, Sanders, drills; saws; grinders; nailers; impacts; hand carry air compressors; tool boxes.

NOTE: We will start at 9:00 AM with new & reconditioned Clarke tools. At 10:00 AM a second crew will start on Office equipment. At approximately 11:30 AM we will sell the pallet racking. At approx. 1:00 we will sell the forklifts, and other rolling stock. View pictures at www.reshowcase.com or www.auctionzip.com (auctioneer ref. no. 10136) TERMS: All accounts to be paid for in full on sale day by CASH – CHECK or VISA/MASTERCARD. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged on all sales. An additional 5% will be charged for credit card purchases. All sales are final and all items are sold AS IS – WHERE IS with no warranties expressed or implied.

seek to require the presence of a law enforcement officer to physically present a ticket.

Activists began collecting signatures in winter. White estimated 95 percent of those they approached were receptive of the petition. Many are upset that icy conditions or a right on red could trigger the camera, with little chance for recourse.

Scott Ross said red light cameras can increase rear-end accidents, as vehicles stop short to avoid a license plate snapshot. It can also encourage automated speeding tickets from the same cameras, as drivers race yellow lights to avoid a red light.

Ross and Dave White are among a local group leading red light camera limitation. They said they are satisfied with their first step.

“I feel like I’ve gotten back a part of my liberties,” White said.

Ross said he’s happy to participate in the democratic process.

“I feel a sense of accomplishment that we, the people, are reminding government who serves whom,” he said.

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