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he company is based in Texas, but Rave Motion Pictures is very much in touch with Northwest Ohio. Less than one year after acquiring the multiplexes at Westfield Franklin Park, Levis Commons, Fallen Timbers and Maumee, the firm is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars and unlimited creativity into the market.

As outlined in an Aug. 18 Toledo Free Press Star cover story, the closing of the Maumee location was a painful move that opened opportunities for the other Rave locations and its cusp pp tomers. In addition to retaining the Maumee employees, Rave is investing major money into upgrading local screens with the latest digital, 3-D and largeformat technology.

In addition to the hardware upgrades, Rave has started showing one-night only live streaming events like boxing Thomas F. POUNDS matches and could show attractions such as the Super Bowl or college football championship games on the big screen. Up to now, it required a drive to Ann Arbor or Southfield to get the digital large-format experience (Rave isn’t ready to use the word “IMAX” in public yet), but now that technology will be available here at home.

Rave has also announced the launch of a classic film series that will bring some of Hollywood’s greatest movies to the big screen at Levis Commons. Look for news on some major holiday events in December.

On a daily basis, Rave is working to establish traditional 2-D choices for those who aren’t interested in 3-D, but still want to see the latest “Toy Story” or “Avatar” phenomenon.

As for those empty theaters, Rave, while not responsible for the numerous vacant buildings left by National Amusements, is actively working to find a use for the theater it closed in Maumee.

“We’re anxious to re-purpose our building. We think it will be a win for the community to be able to find a purpose. We are talking to a number of people; I know real estate is working very hard on it,” said Jeremy Devine, vice president of marketing for Rave Motion Pictures.

It’s too early to determine if the closing of Maumee has cost Rave a loss, or temporary loss, but the other three theaters are showing an uptick, Devine said.

At a time when too many companies are retrenching or withdrawing from our region, it is gratifying to see a major player from outside the market be willing to invest its dollars and technology in our hometown screens.

So, we’ll see you at the movies!

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THE HOT CORNER

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he Aug. 15 Hot Corner ously stated, the so-called consercolumn, “A dangerous plan,” vatives are busily calling for severe elicited some mail that seemed spending cuts for the middle class to indicate some disagreement with while pushing for retaining the obmy points of view. Unfortunately, scene tax cuts that the rich received in none of the irate authors seemed to be the past nine years. Their newfound able to back up any of their rage at my obsession with paring the deficit at all liberal fulminations with anything costs, with the insane exception of tax cuts for the rich, is a large part of the remotely resembling verifiable facts.

You see, you shouldn’t be able reason that we’re in the shape we’re in.

It’s based more on demagoguery to just make things up, and pass than any plan to help it off as truth like us. John Kasich, the Mitch McConnell, GOP candidate for govJohn Boehner, Glenn ernor, has suggested and Rush and many that he would end the others. As Daniel state income tax. This, Patrick Moynihan on the surface, sounds once stated, “You are like something that entitled to your own everyone would love opinion, but you are to see happen. Unnot entitled to your fortunately, the state own facts.”

Don BURNARD income tax provides I may not say what you want to hear, but I base my about 45 percent of the income the opinion on actual studies done by state needs to run itself. He provides sources that are recognized in their no plan for how he would make up respective fields, sources such as the the difference other than nebulous Congressional Budget Office and “cuts in spending.” What those cuts other nonpartisan sources that don’t would be he can’t or won’t say. This have an interest in demagoguery local example is just one of many that and fiction for political gain. When the GOP is trying to sell nationwide.

If we remember the past eight I have named these sources before, many of you have dismissed them years, tax cuts were the answer to every as the elite liberal intelligentsia and problem that came along. We were sold refused to even consider the many the old snake oil that if we gave the rich years of study they have put into the vast majority of the benefit, they their respective fields. It couldn’t would help us by creating new, goodpossibly have any bearing on your paying jobs for all. Well, we know that didn’t happen. We went through the particular beliefs or circumstances.

You carp the fact that it appeared only period in postwar history with in The New York Times should auto- zero job growth, eight years of zero job matically disqualify it from consider- growth. In addition, we doubled the ation because all they print is liberal deficit, tanked the economy and left scum. To you, I say, put up or shut ourselves with two unwinnable wars up. Just because Eric Cantor or Sarah that our children and grandchildren Palin or any number of FOX news will be paying for.

One of the problems with this personalities said it doesn’t make it true. While many of the sources that new old plan they’re selling is that it I use may not represent the ultimate has already been proven not to work. outcome on any given subject, at least When you give the already rich a they are basing their opinions on huge tax cut like those got for the past study and past history as compared nine years, they don’t invest it in new to making stuff up for political gain. jobs; they save it. If the tax cut money I would humbly suggest you actually is given to the working middle class, read some of the studies done by these they spend it, thereby helping the academics, etc. before dismissing economy. We’ll discuss this in-depth them out of hand. You should read in the next column, where, of course, the dissenting opinions further than I’ll be sure to have lots of those pesky the first sentence or two before you academic opinions to make my case.

In the meantime, the next time crumple up your paper and vow never to read this or that paper ever again. your favorite GOP candidate or repAlas, I feel that most of you who I am resentative tries selling you that snake directing this missive to have prob- oil, tell them to put up or shut up. ably already bailed and will never avail E-mail columnist Don Burnard at yourselves of my suggestion.

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SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

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There are six criteria listed in the ORC to be considered hile the quote, “The men certainly don’t have to work there; if they are dissatisfied, they can leave. when making a recommendation, three of which are: 1. Past collectively bargained agreements, if any, beThat is every man’s right,” has been paraphrased by some in our area regarding the negotiations between the tween the parties; 2. Comparison of the unresolved issues relative to the city of Toledo and Teamsters Local 20, it was first said in employees in the bargaining unit with those 1915. It was stated by J.P. Morgan when tesissues related to other public and private emtifying before the Federal Relations Comployees doing comparable work, giving considmission and reported by the Boston Eveeration to factors peculiar to the area and clasning Transcript on Feb. 2, 1915. Almost 100 sification involved; years later, though collective bargaining 3. The interests and welfare of the public, the laws have changed a great deal since then, ability of the public employer to finance and adminsome of the attitudes have not. ister the issues proposed and the effect of the adjustI asked Sherrie J. Passmore, executive ments on the normal standard of public service. director of the State Employment Relations The Ohio Civil Service Employees AssociaBoard (SERB), “What is fact-finding?” tion states in a 2009 AFSMCE Local 11 AFLPassmore said, “Fact-finding is a disLisa Renee WARD CIO publication, that “fact-finding is a poor subpute settlement created under the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Chapter 4117. It is designed to resolve stitute for direct negotiations because of the uncertainty contract negotiations utilizing a neutral third party, who of involving an outsider. There is no prioritizing. There is conducts an informal hearing in which the parties present no grouping of issues. There is no give-and-take. The factevidence and arguments to the neutral as to why the con- finder can pick either management’s position, the union’s position, or a compromise in between.” tract should be modified.”

A fact-finder report automatically goes into effect if it is The city of Toledo and Teamsters opted for an alternative dispute process, which means they did not use a fact- not rejected by a three-fifths majority vote of the legislative finder through SERB. It’s called a mutually agreed alternate body or the membership of the public employee organization. As we saw in Toledo, all it takes is one side to reject, dispute settlement (MADs).

While SERB is not actively involved in the current no matter the majority of the other party in support, the negotiations, Passmore said, “They can get back into the recommendations are still rejected.

Once it’s rejected, if it’s a union that is not allowed to statutory process by filing a motion with SERB.” According to the Ohio Administrative Code, the joint strike, like public safety workers, a conciliator selection motion “must contain a commitment by the parties to com- process would start.

In the case of Teamsters Local 20, they can return back plete the statutory procedure without deviation and without re-institution of an alternate dispute settlement procedure.” to discussions, jointly motion SERB with the City or they There are standardized fact-finding guidelines and can issue a 10-day strike notice.

Fact-finding is just one part of the collective bargaining SERB has requirements for those seeking to be listed on their “SERB Roster of Neutrals.” Paul Gerhart is not on process, while it can create an agreement when there is no its roster, but since the city and the Teamsters opted for rejection, a rejection does not automatically mean a strike a MADs, they were free to pick any fact-finder mutually will take place. Sometimes it just means a return to the agreed upon. Gerhart has been a fact-finder in Toledo negotiating table, something else that has been happening time and time again in union/management relationships. union/management disputes in the past.

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For just a second, Mike Minger thought, “Not again.” Then, he felt calm.

“I knew it was her time.” And it was.

His daughter, Becky Minger, had finally won Miss Ohio on her fifth trip to the state pageant. She beat out 25 contestants to win the title. She was no longer only so close.

The first time she competed in 2006, she was first runner-up. The next year, she didn’t place at all. In 2008 and 2009, she was again first runner-up.

In the moments before the first runner-up was named, Becky looked out to her family and said, “I love you.”

Then, she thought, “Hit me with it.”

As seconds felt like hours, a chant began to run through her mind, “Please don’t say 18; please don’t say 18. I love Shannon, but please don’t say 18.”

And no one did, which meant contestant No. 12, Shannon O’Neill, was first runner-up and she — contestant 18 — was going to Miss America.

Most exciting for Becky is that Miss America is back on network television and will air live Jan. 15 on ABC from Las Vegas.

“I think a lot of people have forgotten about Miss America,” Becky said. “Miss America is all about tradition; it is the original reality show. To be able to bring it back to Ohio and to be able to come home and say that Miss America is from the Toledo and Sylvania area would be really cool.”

Ohio hasn’t won Miss America since Susan Perkins, Miss Ohio in 1978.

Perkins, now Perkins Botsford, offered some advice for Becky, not as a former Miss America, but as a mother of a 22-year-old daughter.

“She should be well-read and well-informed with regard to what is happening in our country and the world today,” Perkins Botsford said in an e-mail to Toledo Free Press. “If her mindset is that she is competing with herself to do her best job in every aspect of the competition then she will truly enjoy and benefit from the experience whatever the outcome.”

The former Miss America sends

her best wishes to Minger.

“Ohio is overdue for another Miss America and I am hoping that 2011 will be our year!”

Platform Becky enjoys when her crown brings her back home. She likes to support local businesses, in particular when it comes to eating. During visits, it is Greek salad, gyros and pepperoni pizza from J&G Pizza Palace and a toasted bagel with vegetable ranch cream cheese and honey turkey from Barry Bagels. She got her first Mud Hens cap when she went to see Crystal Bowersox perform in May. Becky relates to the “American Idol” runner-up.

“We are doing it for Toledo this year. Toledo is back on the map,” Becky said.

Becky, 22, has been traveling throughout the state making appearances and promoting her platform since becoming Miss Ohio on June 19.

Every contestant who competes in the Miss America system adopts a cause.

Her platform is “Discovering You, Empowering You: A Movement for Youth Development.” It has four main points: building and utilizing a healthy self-image, respecting yourself and others, setting goals and recognizing avenues of support. She has written a curriculum that was adopted by the YMCA of Greater Toledo and several schools.

Becky relates to her platform.

Growing up with attention-deficit disorder (ADD), Becky was slower in school and her classmates knew it. She couldn’t concentrate and homework was hard for her. When her classmates went to recess, she had to stay inside and work on her homework. When they left for the day, she had to stay after with the teacher.

“I cannot say it was severe bullying, but those are things that stick with you,” she said. “I guess I didn’t realize it was happening while I was in the situation.”

Becky took medication until she graduated from Northview High School and started at Bowling Green State University.

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BECKY MINGER WINS THE 2010 MISS OHIO CROWN. SHE WILL REPRESENT OHIO AT THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT IN LAS VEGAS.

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■ MISS OHIO CONTINUED FROM A5 “You don’t really overcome a disability; you find different ways to cope with it,” she said. “I don’t really notice it a lot anymore because it has become so much a part of who I am and how I deal with issues and things.”

Her father said ADD affected her social skills.

“We always knew she was a bright girl, but she was easily distracted,” he said. “Her mother helped her with homework to keep her focused. They spent hours and hours fighting through it and getting Becky to the end line.”

By the time she was in high school, Becky was getting noticed. Goodbye glasses and braces, hello choir and school musicals.

Journey to the crown Becky’s involvement in pageantry began in her teens. A school counselor suggested looking into Miss Teen USA, which her parents weren’t happy about. Not only did it cost money to participate, but the Donald Trump pageant focuses on modeling.

Becky ignored her parents and forged ahead to raise the money. She

placed third out of 87 contestants.

In college, a friend convinced her to try the Miss America program, which is free and gives out scholarship money.

She went to the Miss Greater Dayton preliminary and won on the first try.

Every girl who wins a preliminary goes on to compete in Miss Ohio. This year, Becky represented the Miss All-American City title at Miss Ohio. She has won more than $30,000 to date.

“We are looking forward to seeing her compete and hopefully take it all,” said Eric Wagener, pageant director for Miss All-American City, Miss Maumee Valley and Miss Fallen Timbers. “It is sort of exciting that one of the local people have won.”

Shannon O’Neill, who was first runner-up at Miss Ohio, said Becky is gracious and helpful. She was one of the first to welcome her when she started competing.

“Becky’s sincerity and her absolute drive set her apart,” she O’NEILL

said. “There was nobody who was more prepared for the job of Miss Ohio than Becky. She sees this for what it is and is willing to put in the work.”

Becky said a lot of people don’t realize how much preparation goes into competing. Her wardrobe is donated, sponsored or paid for out-of-pocket. She has to stay fit for the swimsuit competition and be prepared for the backstage interview and onstage questions. She also has to rehearse her talent.

“The women who are involved in these programs are so driven and motivated and very intelligent,” she said.

“I think a lot of people think, ‘Oh she is just a pageant girl and thinks world peace and rainbows all the time,’ but each of these women is driven to make a difference in their community.”

Becky said her job as Miss Ohio is sometimes exhausting, driving hours and hours each day. She rarely gets to see her boyfriend, a teacher in the Cleveland area, or her family. She mostly stays in hotels or with host families.

Most Miss Ohio winners take a year off of school or work, but since Becky had just graduated, the timing was perfect.

“She wanted the job and she was going after it with everything she had,” said her pageant chaperone Susie Harlan.

“She is a very focused young woman.

This program means a lot to her, not only the scholarship money, but she believes in the program and her platform.”

One of her favorite appearances was with the Special Olympics. She also enjoys working closely with the Thank You Foundation, which honors service members and veterans. One of the coolest events was the Dayton Air Show where she met the Blue Angels.

“It is very strange that people pay to see me or be near me,” she said, laughing.

“I think the funniest thing is when you pull up and you have the crown on, and they are like, ‘You can park right in the front.’ I am like, ‘Yes, I love this job.’”

AUGUST 29, 2010 her most nervous. She worries about forgetting the words to her song or dropping the microphone. The song she will sing for Miss America has not been announced yet.

The most nerve-wracking part of the pageant is the onstage question.

“You never know what you are going to be asked. It is live … and you have that one 20-second time slot in front of everyone,” she said.

If pageantry has taught her anything, it’s speaking in front of crowds and going on the fly. Her degree in interpersonal communication helps, too.

Becky would one day like to attend law school and is considering a career in child advocacy. But for now, she only has one job on her mind.

“I don’t feel pressure, but I really want to be Miss America,” she said.

“Not just because it would be awesome, but to have that kind of reach to work with my platform across the country, to promote organizations like the Thank You Foundation — but also to bring it home, to represent Ohio and to finally bring Miss America back to Ohio.”

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■ ABOVE: BECKY MINGER PHOTOGRAPHED IN JULY IN DOWNTOWN TOLEDO. LEFT: MINGER WON THE 2010 MISS OHIO PRELIMINARY SWIMSUIT COMPETITION.

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Miss America bound Becky said the best preparation for the Miss America pageant is doing her job as Miss Ohio.

“I don’t want to worry myself over if Miss Texas is so beautiful or Miss Indiana has a great talent because I know what I can do,” she said. “There is no point being someone else because the judges could be looking for you.”

Miss Ohio executive director Steven Oliveri said Becky could break Ohio’s dry spell. Ohio has had six winners, which is the most ever, tied with Oklahoma and California.

“Becky has been in the system for five years now and each year you are in, you learn something new,” he said. “Her dedication, never giving up and her constant need to improve sets her apart.”

Becky’s favorite part of the pageant is the interview. She also enjoys the talent, even though that makes

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The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority has shown interest in acquiring the three city-owned parking garages and all city parking meters.

“The ToledoLucas County Port Authority has offered the concept of buying the cityowned parking garages as a method of providing income TOTH to the city of Toledo,” said Port Authority President and CEO Paul Toth in a statement.

“We believe that it is important to keep local control of what we consider to be ‘public infrastructure’ critical to the redevelopment of Downtown Toledo.”

The garages were funded by a $3 million Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) and are operated by

the privatized Downtown Toledo Parking Authority. The city designates a portion of the garages’ annual revenue for the Toledo-Lucas County Housing Trust Fund to reinvest the grant into the community. Mayor Mike Bell has promised $90,000 for the fund in 2010, with $50,000 annually through 2013 if funding allows.

Carla Firestone Nowak, communications director for the port authority, said the prospect of selling the garages first surfaced during the end of former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s final term in office.

“That’s when we became interested in the process,” she said. “With the Bell administration, we’ve revisited that concept.”

Firestone Nowak said there have been no negotiations regarding price or other specifics with Bell and his administration.

“We don’t have a defined timeline at this point,” she said. “It’s really in a conceptual phase right now. We’re determining with them right now if there’s any viability behind the concept.”

But Housing Fund Board President Hugh Grefe said the port authority must already know enough about the garages’ viability because it chose to pursue buying the garages from the city. He said the port authority said it had “completed [its] due diligence.” Grefe said such a statement indicates knowledge of the bonds required to purchase the garages, as well as if the garages have sufficient cash flow to repay those bonds. He said the port authority might also be negotiating to operate city parking meters.

Firestone Nowak confirmed Grefe’s comments about the parking meters, saying, “It’s all one concept, so it would be all of the city-owned parking facilities.” She said that included all three garages and cityowned parking meters.

In 2009, the meters reportedly generated $412,000 in revenue.

“My impression is the city would like us to think this is just a casual conversation,” Grefe said.

Grefe said a concern of his had been that the city might cut off pay-

ment to the housing fund if it no longer owned the garages. Grefe said the Superior Street, Vistula and Port Lawrence parking had been rumored to be worth a combined $15 million to $18 million.

Superior Street garage is located between Madison Avenue and Adams Street. Vistula is at Summit and Cherry streets across from One SeaGate.

Port Lawrence is at Jefferson Avenue and St. Clair Street atGREFE tached to Huntington Center.

“It’s become clear that the Bell administration had become interested in whether they could find someone who would buy it,” he said. “It proves that there was value created as a result of the UDAG because the city has an asset that it’s now going to sell.”

Grefe said he talked to Deputy Mayor of Operations Steve Herwat on Aug. 23. Grefe said Herwat agreed

with the housing fund’s board of directors that the city would still owe the fund its annuity.

“We were very encouraged when Steve Herwat agreed with that,” he said.

Herwat confirmed the discussions and said the city and port authority “are talking.”

City Public Information Officer Jen Sorgenfrei also confirmed the port authority’s interest.

“I know that some very initial discussions have occurred,” she said.

“There are no offers on the table, no price negotiations at this point.”

Grefe said the city would have to choose between paying annuities or a lump sum to the Housing Fund.

He said selling the garages would not solve the city’s budget problems.

“If they don’t make permanent, deep changes in the current cost of the city’s operations, then they’ll have the same problem next year,” he said. “There’s no sign that that’s going to change.”

“What you’re doing is you are cannibalizing your asset base to carry on an unsupportable operating expense.”

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Ohio launches Veterans Bonus program From Staff Reports news@toledofreepress.com

State officials have launched an Ohio Veterans Bonus program that could help an estimated 200,000 Ohio residents.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, Attorney General Richard Cordray, Treasurer Kevin Boyce and Department of Veterans Services Director Bill Hartnett announced the program at a joint press conference Aug. 24 STRICKLAND in Columbus.

“We are asking all eligible veterans and their survivors to apply for this special payment from the state,” said Strickland at the press conference. “Of course, no payment is an adequate reward for the sacrifices made on our behalf, but these checks will help make a mortgage payment, put food on the table or start a savings account.”

All Ohio veterans could be eligible for a bonus if they served on active duty with U.S. Armed Forces, including the Ohio National Guard, anywhere in the world during specific periods of time. Applicants must have been legal residents of Ohio when they went on active duty and must be Ohio residents when they apply for the bonus.

According to a news release, eligible veterans may receive $100 for each month of active duty service in the following locations during the specified dates: ■ Persian Gulf between Aug. 2, 1990, and March 3, 1991, the date when Iraq accepted the conditions for a permanent cease-fire. Eligible veterans may apply for a bonus until Dec. 31, 2013.

■ Afghanistan since Oct. 7, 2001. Eligible veterans may apply for a bonus for up to three years after the president declares an end to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

■ Iraq since March 19, 2003. Eligible veterans may apply for a bonus for up to three years after the president declares an end to U.S. involvement in Iraq.

The maximum benefit for service in those three areas is $1,000.

Eligible veterans serving on active duty, except for training purposes, anywhere else in the world

during the specified dates may receive $50 a month up to a maximum bonus of $500.

Eligible veterans may combine their service bonuses for a maximum payment of $1,500.

To be eligible for a bonus, the veteran must have been either discharged from the Armed Forces under honorable conditions or remain on active duty. After active duty service, the veteran remains in any reserve component of the armed forces, including the Ohio National Guard.

The Ohio Veterans Bonus is not financed with tax dollars. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment by passing Issue 1 in 2009 that allows the state to sell $200 million worth of bonds to provide a special payment from the Ohio Honors Veterans Fund to eligible veterans.

To apply for the bonus, applicants should go to www.veteransbonus.ohio.gov and complete the online application. Ohio’s public libraries are prepared to assist with the online application if applicants do not have Internet access. The staff at Ohio’s County Veterans Services Offices is available to assist in the application process.

The estimated processing time for bonus applications is approximately eight weeks, depending on the volume of applications initially received, the news release said.

The applications are not complete until they are printed, signed and mailed to Ohio Veterans Bonus, P.O. Box 373, Sandusky, OH 44871.

Final applications cannot be submitted online because the signed application must be notarized or acknowledged.

Public notaries can notarize the applicant’s signature or any of Ohio’s county common pleas court clerks are prepared to “acknowledge” the signature, the release said.

Assistant attorneys general in the Ohio Attorney General’s regional offices in Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Youngstown will notarize the applicant’s signature for free. The Toledo regional office is located downtown at 640 Jackson St. Veterans may get their signatures acknowledged at no cost at all Lucas County Clerk of Courts offices located at 1600 Madison in Toledo, 4900 N. McCord Ave. in Sylvania, and 3034 Navarre Ave.

in Oregon or at the Lucas County Courthouse on Adams Street, according to Bernie Quilter, Lucas

County Clerk of Courts.

“The applications must be signed in person in front of Clerk of

Courts officials who will stamp and sign them to acknowledge their signatures,” Quilter said.

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Bowling Green State University’s Continuing and Extended Education offers classes in professional development at its Levis Commons facility to help managers, supervisors nd trainers meet the challenges in today’s business world.

The professional development certificates provide intensive, competency-based learning that allows participants to strengthen their skill sets, broaden their perspectives and enhance their credentials.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for small organizations to get top-notch, cost-effective training to improve the skills of their employees,” said Karen Meyers, assistant director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at BGSU. Courses can be taken individually for noncredit or as part of three certificate programs. Certificates are offered in “Supervision Essentials,” “Management Essentials” and “Train the Trainer.” Each certificate requires completion of six half-day courses.

Supervisors have the task of motivating and leading members of their team to work together to accomplish the goals of the organization.

The Certificate of Supervision Essentials is designed to provide new and veteran supervisors with the skills they need to supervise more effectively, directly contributing to the company’s success.

Effective communication skills and decision-making ability are highly valued competencies in today’s organizations.

The certificate of management essentials is designed to emphasize those skills creating successful managers who project leadership strength, communicate clearly and manage their team professionally and efficiently.

Today, many corporate training programs are not strategic and do not further the most important goals of the organization. Especially in difficult economic times, they must provide training programs that affect the bottom line by teaching the skills and knowledge that allow employees to achieve organizational goals.

The train the trainer certificate includes a series of workshops that will take the trainer’s skills to the next level. Participants will learn how to understand the needs of the organization, how to translate

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those needs into well-designed training programs, and how to deliver those programs in a powerful and memorable manner to ensure employees learn the knowledge and skills they need.

Individual courses cost $199 each and cover such topics as conflict resolution, coaching for improved work performance, building and maintaining high performance teams and developing a powerful communications toolkit.

Classes begin in mid-September and run through April 2011 at the renovated BGSU satellite facility at Levis Commons. All courses are offered at least twice, once in the fall and again in the spring during the 2010-11 academic calendar.

“We already have some people enrolled for courses this fall as individuals and for local companies,” said Stephanie Sickler, assistant director of professional development.

“All six classes could be taken in the fall or spring on a fast-track for a certificate or some taken in the fall and finish in the spring.”

Continuing and Extended Education also offers contract training of employees for companies at their location, said Sickler.

Classrooms and conference room space is available for rent at BGSU’s Levis Commons location for rent by businesses for off-site meetings and internal training, according to Sickler.

A brochure for the professional development programs is available from Continuing and Extended Education at Levis Commons.

For more information or to register, call (419) 372-8181.

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 22 million school days are lost each year due to the common cold. Bacteria thrive in schools, where they can survive for hours on desks and cafeteria tables.

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Blanks settle into friend’s condo as their home is rebuilt in for Christmas,� Rigg said.

Meanwhile, the latest angel in their lives is their family doctor and friend, Kristi Sigler. The family is living in the Lake fr aalumna’s condo in Oregon. Sigler did not return a

By Brandi Barhite ccall seeking comment.

Ed Blank said Sigler had already moved out beTOLEDO FREE PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR ccause she had built a new home and was trying to bbrandi@toledofreepress.com ssell the condo when the tornado occurred June 5.

When the Blanks moved into the condo the first The Blanks could be home by Christmas.

W week of August, it still had the for-sale sign in the Mark Rigg of Rigg Restoration said construction n w window. Sigler did not return a call for comment. on the family’s new house began Aug. 16. Since then, n, BLANK FAMILY: w “I hope it is off the market. The sign is in the front “we got the new footers poured and we got the foun-window,� Ed said, recalling his reaction to the sign. dation repaired from the tornado damage,� he said. w “Wait, the realtor took the sign out today. It is temRigg expects construction to take four months, s, porarily off the market,� he said, laughing. which includes rebuilding a slightly larger housee p Up until a few weeks ago, the Blanks were living with a more spacious kitchen and a room above thee with family friends, Steve and Becci Bihn. Despite the garage. Other than that, the house will have sim-w offer to live in the condo immediately after the torilar features to the one destroyed in the tornado, o, o including the in-ground pool that was used just hours before nado, the Blanks wanted to stay where they had beds and kitchen supplies. They wanted to see how the insurance process would the storm.

If all goes according to schedule, “hopefully, we will have them work and what would be replaced.

Editor’s note: Toledo Free Press will follow the Blank family of Millbury for the next year as they rebuild their lives after a June 5 tornado destroyed their Main Street home.

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Ed said having the condo is nice, but they miss the Bihns. In fact, they have missed them so much that when Ed went to a golf tournament, his wife, Julie, and son, Casey, went back to stay with the Bihns. “It does feel nice to have our own space, even though we have a little bit of empty nest syndrome,� Ed said.

Despite having their own space again, the Blanks are sparingly decorating the condo. They said they don’t want to move all of the items that survived the storm until they have their new house. “We moved things from people’s barns and ended up getting a storage unit for some of the stuff we didn’t want to have at the condo,� he said.

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Maumee Valley Country Day School (MVCDS) is undergoing its largest expansion to date by adding $15 million in construction projects to its 75 acre campus.

In addition to building a new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified (LEED) high school, MVCDS is renovating its preschool and connecting it to the dining hall as a part of the “Under One Roof ” campaign.

Head of School Gary Boehm said the old high school was too cramped for the school’s needs.

“The renovation costs were going to be several million dollars and we weren’t going to have the building we wanted,” Boehm said. “This is going to feel so much more relaxed to live in. It’s really going to transform the campus.”

The new $8.3 million high school is equipped with Wi-Fi and will include 16 classrooms, each with a SMART Board and projector. The school also houses a digital media center with a sound recording booth, greenhouse space, science labs, administrative offices, communal faculty offices, common space and lounges.

“Even though this building is 9,000 square feet larger

than the existing building, it did not have air conditioning.

This building will have air conditioning but will cost no more to heat or cool,” Boehm said.

Scheduled to be completed in November, the high school will be one of the first such facilities in the area to be LEED certified. Installing low-energy light fixtures, using low-smelling paint and adhesives, avoiding carpet glue with finished concrete floors, recycling construction debris and re-using materials from the existing high school are all strategies MVCDS is using to gain additional LEED points, according to Joe Swint, senior project manager for Bostleman Construction.

The new high school will connect to the existing gym, middle school and dining hall. With the addition of a connecting building between the dining hall and the Smead preschool building, MVCDS will finally be under one roof.

“We’ve got our littlest kids in the Smead Building that need to go over to use the other building,” Boehm said.

“The teachers had to bundle them up two or three times a day to travel back and forth between the buildings. There were piles of coats all over the place.”

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We should not allow this question pledge half of their wealth to charity. to be asked just of the In little time, the two billionaires. Each of us men have convinced should ask, “How much 38 of those listed on is enough?” and “How the Forbes 400 list of can we help through our wealthiest Americans to giving?” Peter Peterson, make that pledge. one of the pledge signers The story goes that and co-founder of The in May 2009, Gates and Blackstone Group, Buffett hosted a dinner penned the question: that featured the world’s let the billionaires elite, at which time Keith BURWELL “Why have all the fun?” they presented the idea With several studies of the Giving Pledge.

While we can appreciate their ef- showing charitable giving down over forts, giving money to charities is not the past several years, it is time for the main point here. As Mr. Buffett us to act like or better than the bilsaid “At its core, the Giving Pledge lionaires and join by giving, creating is about asking wealthy families to philanthropy that will support our have important conversations about community today and into the future.

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warning bell went off recently on Wall Street that is spreading around the investment community faster than a viral video on YouTube. It is called the Hindenburg Omen and it is a technical indicator that says the stock market could be headed for more losses in the near future. The reason is a large percentage of stocks have reached a new 52-week high, along with a large percentage of stocks at the same time reaching a new 52-week low. The omen points out that the stock market is divided as to which direction to head in the near future.

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Yet, most investors we meet with don’t have a preplanned exit plan in place when it comes to their investments. This can be done by figuring out what Mark the maximum loss your investNolan ment account could have had in the past 10 years. This is known as the maximum draw down of an account. Once you review the maximum draw down, if it is too risky for you, develop a new exit plan or add additional safety nets to the current plan.

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Yet, have a growth plan in place for the future to fight off inflation, rising medical costs or unex-

pected needs that will come up. It may feel good short term to move all of the money to a safe fixed account, but is that really a good strategy long term? The answer is it depends. If an investor has nearly unlimited resources, then the safer the better. Yet, many people need to realize that once taxes and inflation are considered, most 100 percent safe investments are still going backwards because they are losing purchasing power.

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A second compliance issue arises with the filing of a spill clean up report by the response contractor to the Ohio EPA Emergency Response On-Scene Coordinator.

Contractors are often required to file this report directly to the On-Scene Coordinator and they assume this meets the 30-day reporting obligation to the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC). The filing of a final spill cleanup report with the Ohio EPA does not fulfill the 30day reporting requirement to the LEPC. If the contractor is filing the 30-day spill report, the carrier should ensure that the contractor files the required 30-day reporting elements with both the SERC and the LEPC within 30-days of the spill, and then follows-up with the final spill cleanup report if clean up is not complete when the 30-day report is filed.

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As Lake High School head football coach Bob Abbey called in his team for a post-practice meeting recently, he had to strain his voice so all the players could hear his instructions over the sounds emanating from behind him.

“We’re all pretty used to that by now,” Abbey said. “It’s kind of like living by the railroad tracks. You hardly ever notice the train going by after a while.”

Abbey and the Flyer football team have had to practice in the shadow of the cleanup from a June 5 tornado that ripped through Lake Township, killing six and leaving homes and the high school severely damaged.

With cranes hovering in the distance and the constant sound of heavy machinery in the background, the Flyers are adjusting to life after the storm.

Senior quarterback Alan Martinez said he tries to focus on the task at hand.

“I don’t pay attention to it,” he said.

“There is the occasional cement truck that catches your eye, but I try and zero in on football.”

Starting from scratch

Abbey admits it hasn’t been easy getting things together for this football season. He and his staff have spent countless hours planning the logistics of how this season would work.

“All the equipment we had the day after the storm was the six footballs in the trunk of our quarterback’s car,” he said. “We had to order all new equipment for this season. It was a lot like starting a football program from scratch.”

The football stadium presented its own set of problems. The field

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The lake football team has practiced with sounds of reconstruction around its field.

sustained little damage in the storm upon first glance, but a closer look revealed shards of glass, metal and other debris embedded up to 8 inches into the ground.

“I thought we would just line up with some buckets and walk the field picking stuff up,” Abbey said. “It never dawned on me we would have stuff embedded that far into the field.”

The Lake Board of Education decided to replace the sod with artificial field turf, which will make the venue a multipurpose facility. Superintendent Jim Witt said the decision will benefit the school’s athletic teams in the long run.

“When we added in all the factors, the field turf was the way to go,” Witt said. “The cost was comparable to sod and the field turf will allow for

quicker transition for usage by all of our teams, too.”

The stadium is scheduled to be completed in time for the team’s first home game Sept. 3. Abbey said the stadium’s completion will be a big relief to him and his team.

“At first I thought we were going to be playing 10 road games this season,” he said. “When the decision about the turf was announced, it was a weight lifted off my shoulders. It will be nice to play at home and give the team a sense of normalcy.”

There are still some issues to be resolved. Abbey said his team still has no locker rooms and might bring in modular classrooms to serve as a temporary solution.

There is also still a transportation

issue as well, with the team still figuring out how to get the kids from the Owens Community College building on Tracy Road to the football field.

Abbey said that while some things are still up in the air, one thing he knows is his kids will go with the flow.

“They have been adapting all summer,” he said. “They have been through this every day since June 5, and I am proud of the way they handled it.”

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The Flyers are coming off a 7-3 mark last season and despite all that has happened in and around the Lake community, there has been no change in the team’s expectations for this season.

“We want to win the league and

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go to the state playoffs,” quarterback Martinez said with a smile.

Fellow teammate and senior Kurt McKee couldn’t agree more.

“We are going to go out there and play to the best of our abilities,” he said.

“There is no one who has higher expectations than we have for ourselves.”

Abbey has a special bond with this year’s seniors. Now in his fourth season as head coach, this is Abbey’s first group of players that have been with him for all four years at Lake.

“I have seen these guys grow and develop a lot since they first came out as freshmen,” he said. “This is a real close-knit group of guys and I am pleased with how they have grown into young men.” n LAKE FLYERS CONTINUES ON A18

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Abbey said the SLL is tough from the top all the way down. “Genoa and Eastwood have been the top two in the league the last couple of years, and all the teams have improved coming into this season. It sounds clichĂŠ but we have to take it a week at a time and we have to be focused week in and week out on the task at hand.â€?

Abbey has a simple philosophy on how to top the competition this season. “If you block and tackle well, you usually are going to win the football game,� he said. “We just need to keep improving and stay healthy.�

Community affair

Abbey always looks forward to Friday nights in the fall, but he especially does this season. “I’ll be happy because it will bring back a sense of normalcy to all of this,� he said. “When the season starts, we are on a normal schedule, and all the things we have dealt with this past offseason will have been taken care of. Then, we can just focus on school and football.�

Lake High School has long served a dual role as school and community

center for the surrounding area. With the building in a state of disrepair, the focus will shift to the gridiron and Witt said the school board knew how important football would be for the entire community this season. “I think the football games will serve many functions this year,� he said. “It will be a gathering place for the kids and the community, but it will also serve a therapeutic role for the people as well. That’s why it was never a question to have athletics this year.�

McKee said that the fans’ support will help him and his teammates. “We had a lot of fans come out before all of this happened,� he said. “I think there will be even more this year and we are excited for them to come out and watch us.�

Abbey knows the focus on his team will be more intense in light of what has happened. “This was the hub for the community and our first home game is going to be big,� he said. “I am hopeful that the sense of community will come back.�

The head coach also sees another opportunity. “We have been in the news for a lot of tragic things these past couple of months,� he said. “My hope for these kids and this community is that this season and this team can put a positive spin on all that has happened.�

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Addressing auto workers, Biden painted a rosy picture of an industry that only a year ago was facing questions about whether it could survive and still is struggling to sell cars and other vehicles. “Don’t believe those who will say this is temporary,’’ Biden said at a Chrysler assembly plant less than a week after General Motors announced plans to return to the stock market this year.

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DETROIT — Thirteen months ago, General Motors was fighting for its life in bankruptcy court. Now, the automaker is laying the groundwork to sell stock to the public once again with the eventual goal of ridding itself of government ownership.

General Motors Co. has filed the first batch of paperwork required to hold an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. The 700-page document submitted to regulators laid out reasons, and risks, to investors considering buying GM stock. The filing, called an S-1, was short on specifics. GM didn’t say how many shares would be sold or when, although experts say the IPO could come as early as October. It also didn’t say how many shares GM’s majority owner, the U.S. government, plans to unload.

Such a sale would eventually lead to the government shrinking its big stake in the automaker, something GM is eager to see. The company’s outgoing CEO, Ed Whitacre, has said government ownership has hurt GM’s public image and sales. However, GM warned in its filing that the U.S. Treasury would continue to own a “substantial interest’’ in the automaker following the IPO. More details about the offering are likely to emerge with additional filings in the coming weeks and months. GM did say its stakeholders initially will sell common stock, while the company itself will sell preferred shares, which are like bonds and include dividend payments. GM said it will use proceeds from the preferred stock sale for general business expenses.

The filing means GM and its current owners are likely to sell part of their stakes in several offerings that will take months to finish, said Scott Sweet, owner of IPO research firm IPO Boutique. Analysts have speculated that the initial sale could be worth up to $20 billion, but the filing gave no number.

GM would have to bring in $70 billion just to pay back all the automaker’s stakeholders. That could come in several sales over months.

The U.S. government now owns about 61 percent of GM, which it got in exchange for giving the company $50 billion in survival aid last year. GM has repaid $6.7 billion, and the remaining $43.3 billion was converted to the ownership stake. Other stakeholders include a United Auto Workers health-care trust and the Ca-

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Demand for GM’s new shares isn’t known. In the coming weeks, the company will pitch itself to big investors such as pension, mutual and hedge funds. Many of the shares will go to those larger players, but small investors will also get a chance to buy in.

There are risks. The IPO market is weak. And GM, which lost about $100 billion in the five years leading up to last year’s bankruptcy, is hardly a sure bet. Still, a quick run through bankruptcy court cleansed GM of burdensome debt. It closed 12 factories and its labor costs were cut dramatically through deals with the United Auto Workers union.

Helped by those cost cuts, GM earned a healthy $2.2 billion in the first half of this year despite depressed U.S. auto sales.

It’s set up to do better if sales rebound, especially in fast-growing countries like Brazil and China, where GM plans to launch nearly 20 vehicles in the next two years.

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Both, however, have extensive experience with successful companies.

Akerson held top posts for telecommunications firms and Liddell served as CFO of Microsoft Corp.

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The company said it had no plans to pay dividends on its common stock and future dividends would be determined by its board of directors.

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By Amy Biolchini

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While The Blarney Irish Pub in Downtown Toledo may be known for its late-night shenanigans and rollicking good times, employees work all day to keep the restaurant humming.

Ed Beczynski opened The Blarney three years ago, adding it to his repertoire of businesses, which include Focaccia’s Deli, Mo Joe’s and recently The Blarney Bullpen. He traveled to Ireland and conducted research in 35 different pubs. After his trip, Beczynski came up with a resounding conclusion.

“Anyone can sell a Guinness,” Beczynski said. “The service was unbelievable in Ireland, and that’s the most difficult thing to copy: Hospitality.

People want to feel at home.”

Beczynski wakes up at 5 a.m. every day so he can be at Focaccia’s at 6 a.m.,

which does a steady breakfast and lunch business. After that, he heads to The Blarney and sometimes ends up staying late into the night.

Beczynski said people usually don’t think about all the hours that go into owning a business day after day; very few people get that experience.

Morning prep

Activity at The Blarney begins around 8 a.m. Instead of cleaning after the bar closes and making the staff stay into the wee hours of the morning, one employee does the dirty work in the morning. Depending on how messy things got the night before, it could take him anywhere from one to three hours. On Aug. 24, things were relatively easy: everything was done by 9:30 a.m.

Around that time, kitchen manager Danny Rall and cook Dillon Mitchell are in the kitchen. n BLARNEY CONTINUES ON A25

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august 29, 2010 n BLARNEY CONTINUED FROM A24 They begin slicing tomatoes and stocking fresh ingredients for the multitude of salads and sandwiches on The Blarney’s menu. Things are quiet in the small kitchen, which consists of a stove, fryer and freezer on one wall. Two steps backward on the other wall is a salad bar and prep table, with the ice machine sandwiched into the corner.

A new cook, Mario Arroyo, shows up for his first day. Handed an apron and a pair of gloves, Arroyo is thrown right in. He acquaints himself with the location of all the ingredients and scans the menu. Mitchell shows him the ropes, restocking the 15-odd salad dressings.

Bags of fries are loaded into the freezer, along with mozzarella sticks.

Rall slices up six large onions and

sautés them in oil on the grill, the sizzling adding a friendly noise to the kitchen.

“This is a really good job,” Mitchell said to Arroyo as they make small talk during the salad prep. “It gets a little like a factory sometimes.”

The morning dishwasher, Jake Morse, drifts into the kitchen to take care of whatever dishes are left from the previous night’s late-night diners.

Visit www.toledofreepress.com Handfuls of tortilla chips go into the fryer and emerge a crispy golden brown. Potato chips follow. Bacon is fried, burgers are shaped. A pan of mushrooms waits to be cooked.

Meanwhile, Manager AJ Smith preps the liquor order at the bar.

Smith said it goes through Irish whiskeys the most, especially Jameson and Bushmills, as well as Grey Goose for martinis. Naturally, Guinness is the bestselling beer.

“We go through three kegs a week,” Smith said. “That’s 200 beers a keg.”

Smith, who has worked at The Blarney since its opening, said there’s a solid lunch rush from noon to 1 p.m. and that “Game days are a pretty solid rush, especially since Tuesdays are usually not busy.

“Late nights are when crazy things happen,” Smith said.

Fifteen minutes before The Blarney opens, servers Dennis Kennedy and Julie Birmingham arrive, as well as bartender Jamie Keblesh. Keblesh stocks ice at the bar as Kennedy and

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Birmingham roll silverware. Another cook, Chris Rogers appears in the kitchen.

A man walks in and seats himself at the end of the bar, near the kitchen.

Everyone says hi to the man, who turns out to be Jerry Crandell from the produce shop next door where The Blarney gets its fresh goods.

Crandell works the night shift and comes in for a drink after he gets off work, usually around 10:30 a.m. Crandell said he likes the different groups and crowds that come to The Blarney and often bounces back and forth between The Blarney and Pizza Papalis across the street.

“I enjoy talking to the employees — they know me. I really enjoy the people,” Crandell said.

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A26 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ BLARNEY CONTINUED FROM A25 Beczynski said that’s the most important thing he instills in his staff and works hard to maintain: a friendly, familiar atmosphere where everyone knows and talks to each other.

By noon, the noise has slowly accumulated to a mild chatter.

The lunch traffic keeps the kitchen busy, but no one is stressed.

The kitchen can handle this; it’s business as usual.

“This is probBECZYNSKI ably one of the slowest few days we’ve had in a long time,” Smith said.

When a customer asks what Smith would recommend, Smith responds, “What’s your flavor?”

He suggests the chicken parmesan, but grilled instead of fried. The Blarney’s entrees vary and are usually between $8 to $9 in price. Not all are items specifically Irish; some are crowd-pleasing bar foods. Every day, The Blarney features a special soup.

Back in the kitchen, Rall takes the tickets as they stream out of the printer and hangs them on the counter in front of him, examining the names of the diners. Rall said sometimes there are names of customers and other times simply physical descriptions so servers know exactly who to give the food to.

Rall said Mayor Mike Bell visits about once a month and always gets the same thing: cheddar sliders with bacon.

When it’s busy, Rogers said there’s a lot of yelling.

“Sundays and weekends, when it gets crazy, there’s yelling,” Rogers said. “‘Where’s my soup? Where’s my fries?’

But it’s really like family, when it’s slow everyone gets along.”

Rall makes an order of black and bleu chips — potato chips with bleu cheese melted on top. Burgers sizzle in the background, the grease catching fire as they’re flipped and sending up orange flashes.

“It’s a pretty small kitchen. Friday nights there’s four to five cooks back in the kitchen, but everything’s within reach,” Rogers said. “It’s like going over to a friend’s house and helping them cook. Even on the weekends, with everyone out front, it’s still like a big party.”

Dead time On this day, The Blarney is eerily quiet by 1:45 p.m., when the lunch rush is finished. The two servers have already left and Arroyo and Rall get ready to go home.

Arroyo said his impression of his first day was good: “I like it already. It’s a good atmosphere.”

Keblesh, Rogers and Smith are left to cover the dead time until the dinner rush starts again. Rogers

makes salsa for the evening’s dishes, throwing tomatoes and onions into a food processor. Manning the kitchen alone, he makes the orders as they slowly flow in. Burgers and sandwiches get a pickle spear and chips or fries. Occasionally, a traditional shepherd’s pie comes through the kitchen or large lunch salad.

Smith chats with customers and Keblesh controls the dining room and bar until the next shift of employees arrives at 4:45 p.m. She hovers, greeting customers with a smile and a coaster when they sit down at the bar.

‘It’s about to get crazy’ At around 3:30 p.m., people slowly begin showing up to prepare for the for the 6:30 p.m. Mud Hens game.

Four people are seated at the end of the bar, chatting in couples: a prelude

AUGUST 29, 2010 Keblesh works it like a pro, handing out menus, doling out drinks and taking orders. She takes a second to glance at the clock — customers come in by the minute. Can she make it to 4:45 p.m.?

Another dishwasher and cook come in at 5 p.m., and the three servers for the evening show up at once. Keblesh is relieved and breathes a quick sigh. They clock in, don their aprons and head out to take orders.

By 6 p.m., the patio outside is full.

The dinner rush is under way and people are devouring fries, burgers and beer.

The Blarney remains open until 11 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 1 a.m. Thursdays and 2:30 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

In the morning, the cycle of cleaning and serving begins again.

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Beczynski comes in and has a brief meeting on the patio.

“It’s about to get crazy,” Rogers said, getting his kitchen ready for the dinner rush and night staff.

Thomas Woronec, a night cook, comes in at 4:15 p.m. Rogers and Woronec start scooping side cups of sauce for the evening rush. The cooks are always doing something, using their downtime to get whatever they can ready for the busy times.

The kitchen stops serving food usually around 10 p.m. during the week, but stays open until 11 p.m. or midnight Friday through Sunday, depending on the crowd.

The noise of customers grows as fans stream in before the Mud Hens game. Keblesh and Smith are still alone in the front of the house.

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Players will offer bucket specials and $2 domestic bottles during Walleye game nights. The first week of September Players will offer buy-one-get-one starters, Zieroff said.

Zieroff said she has been paying attention to the NFL Sunday Ticket to anticipate the big games. Jim Manley, marketing director for Fricker’s USA, also mentioned this tactic. Fricker’s is celebrating its 25th year of business.

“We’ve got the NFL Sunday Ticket — there are no blackouts. We’re able to carry every game,” Manley said.

With a minimum of 20 TVs in each restaurant, Fricker’s has invested a lot of money in its hardware. Manley said several Fricker’s locations recently upgraded its TVs, using a starting budget of $300,000.

“Football is extraordinarily popular in our stores with all of the TVs,” Manley said. “We are the place for football.”

In addition to making sure Fricker’s shows professional and college games, Fricker’s offers a different food special every day, according to Manley. Fricker’s has three locations in Toledo.

“We’ve worked very, very hard to keep our bottom line low.

With back to school time, people don’t have the monetary ends to pay high prices,” Manley said.

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“This is definitely a football bar,” Lewis said. “The previous owner’s son played for OSU, Dane Sanzenbacher.

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Bowling Green restaurants and diners offer variety

By Andrew Farr

Toledo Free Press Star Bowling Green Editor news@toledofreepress.com

When it comes to variety in dining, look no further than college towns.

With late night choices in the downtown area and restaurants that have served the city for decades, Bowling Green is no exception.

Campus Pollyeyes on East Court Street was established in 1978. Originally a pizza pub, Campus Pollyeyes is now known around town for their “world famous stuffed breadsticks.”

With the stuffed breadsticks, customers can choose from almost any combination of meats and cheese and other pizza toppings.

Manager Dean Smith said the stuffed breadsticks have become the bulk of the business at Pollyeyes.

“Chicken and cheese is by far our most popular kind,” he said.

Smith said what makes the breadsticks “world famous” is the fact that the restaurant has actually shipped its breadsticks out of the country, as well as to other parts of the United State. The breadsticks’ reputation has spread by word of mouth.

Smith said Pollyeyes also seems to be a Bowling Green State University alumni favorite when they come into town.

“Not a day goes by where we don’t have alumni in here asking for the breadsticks,” he said.

“I guess you haven’t really experienced BG until you come to Pollyeyes,” he said. “You come for the education, you come back for the breadsticks.”

Campus Pollyeyes delivers and is open until midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends.

Just down the street from Pollyeyes is the small sub shop Mr. Spots that has been serving BG since 1986.

“Spots” is famous for its Philadelphiastyle steak sandwiches, but also serves a variety of hoagies made from authentic Italian meats and cheeses.

Owner Jim Gavarone started Mr. Spots with his friend Jim Kelley after he finished school at BGSU 25 years ago. After Kelley left in 1992, Gavarone continued running his business and even set up another location in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Larry Cain is the fourth owner of Corner Grill since taking control in 2004. He said the diner gets lots of business between midnight and 6 a.m. throughout the week and always has a huge crowd after the bars close at 2:30 a.m. on the weekends.

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Corner Grill is a 1950s-style diner that has been open for 45 years. Since opening, the diner has been a favorite of downtown BG regulars who come to enjoy breakfast or burgers. It is open 24 hours, except Sunday nights.”

“Almost everything is made from scratch.”

Cain said Corner Grill is unique because of the look and the atmosphere of the diner.

“It’s the type of place you don’t see very often anymore,” he said.

Cain hopes to pass ownership of the Corner Grill on to his daughter and son-in-law.

Directly across from Corner Grill on the west side of Main Street is Pisanello’s Pizza. Pisanello’s has been in town since 1964 at the same location. It started when owner Jerry Liss moved the name Pisanello’s to Bowling Green after working at another pizza shop of the same name at Kent State University.

Liss said he wanted to start a pizza shop somewhere in the Midwestern part of the state and ended up in BG. He said it seemed like a good location, being a college town, and would be good for deliveries. He also said there were only two other pizza places in town at the time.

“This was back in the days when pizza wasn’t known as a main course food yet, but more like a snack,” he said.

Since then, Pisanello’s has earned a reputation of having some of the best pizza in town. It has been voted best pizza in Wood County 12 years in a row by the Sentinel Tribune and the Wood County Fair.

Liss said one of the reasons Pisanello’s continues to do well is because it has friendly competitors in town. Jerry’s daughter Miranda, who operates Pisanello’s, said the restaurant gets great business from the campus, but also has a huge following from the city as well. “Business really doesn’t even slow down in the summer either,” she said.

Pisanello’s delivers for free and opens weekdays at 4 p.m.

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Celebrity wait nights bring attention, funds to nonprofits

By Kristen Rapin

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Celebrity wait nights offer nonprofit organizations a unique and fun way to raise money.

For an evening, local restaurants give charities a portion of the night’s

sales or gratuity, while the nonprofit organizations provide “celebrities” to help serve meals. Celebrities can include news anchors, politicians or college leaders, as well as an organization’s members.

The celebrities sell tickets to their friends and family so they can enjoy a night on the town and sup-

port a good cause.

“Part of the fun in coming is, let’s say you happen to be the celebrity, your friends and family sit in your section so they can give you a hard time,” said Kelly Becker, general manager of the Real Seafood Co., which hosts celebrity waiter nights.

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or waitress and doesn’t technically serve, but is still assisting, Becker said.

“Celebrity wait nights are social and it helps us fund our service projects,” said Lucy Abu-Absi, past president of the Toledo Christ Child Society, which started celebrity wait nights in the area several years ago.

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fundraisers and it’s also an opportunity to let people who attend know what it is that we do,” she said.

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AUGUST 29, 2010 ■ WAIT NIGHTS CONTINUED FROM A30 Celebrity wait nights take the pressure off of the charity to select a venue or finding volunteers for setup; all the organization needs to do is ask people to come out, Becker said. Typically, the nonprofits end up selling out the entire restaurant, she said.

La Scola Italian Grill co-owner Moussa Salloukh said his restaurant has hosted a few celebrity wait nights since its opening and the nights usu-

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“It’s been real positive,” he said.

Bethany House, a long-term transitional house for battered women and children, had its first celebrity wait night at La Scola in February.

“We were very pleased for our first time around,” said Kim Marion, Bethany House board member. “It was very positive. We raised a lot of money and the people in attendance had a lot of fun, too.”

The Bethany House raised roughly $11,000 during its celebrity wait night

and will be hosting one in the future, Marion said.

At the Real Seafood, charities receive all gratuities during its wait night, Becker said. Zia’s, which is owned by the same company of Real Seafood Co., participates in celebrity wait nights as well.

At La Scola, a charity usually receives 10 percent of sales for the evening, Salloukh said. Salloukh, who is also a co-owner of Hungry I, said eventually the Hungry I will host celebrity wait nights.

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Wine tastings educate customers in fun atmosphere

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Whether you are a sommelier, an avid wine fan or have no clue what that French word means, several local restaurants offer drink tastings to educate you and match your palate with the perfect beverage.

Tasting wine is a multisensory experience, but it all begins with the drink’s appearance. Darker-colored red wines and lighter-colored white wines are younger. Red wines lighten with age, while white wines darken. Typically, yellow wines indicate a longer aging process.

“You always want to make sure there’s sediment in the bottle,” said George Burk owner of the Vino 100 Wine Shop, Bar & Lounge at 3355 Briarfield Blvd. in Maumee.

Vino 100 hosts special wine-tasting events throughout the year, the next of which is Aug. 31. Burk said customers appreciate wine with dinner more than sampling several varieties alone. Flights & Bites is one option of wine tasting available at the bar. Customers sample a flight of four wines served with bread, olives, cheese and almonds for $15.

The samples equal two glasses of wine.

Vino 100 also offers beer flights and a wide variety of martinis.

Burk said the bar has hosted tastings for bachelorette parties and bridal showers, during which tasting tips are offered. Between private events and normal business, Vino 100 has thrived.

“We’re the new kids on the block right now,” Burk said, suggesting customers consider a reservation for quicker service.

“I don’t know how these people say the economy is bad when everybody’s going out to eat.”

La Scola Italian Grill, located at 5735 Airport Hwy. in Toledo, hosts monthly wine tastings throughout most of the year.

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A32 ■TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■WINE CONTINUED FROM A31 Co-owner Moussa Salloukh said he scales back on tastings late in the summer and during the backto-school season because people are often too busy to enjoy such an event. He plans to resume tastings in October. “My vendors will call and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got so-and-so here from Italy,’ �

Salloukh said. “We’ll sit down with the vendors, taste wine with them, put together entrees with them.�

Salloukh said white wines normally call for fish, while red wines are best served with lamb or a cut of beef, such as tenderloin or filet.

La Scola publicizes its tastings through Facebook, Twitter and the restaurant’s website. Attendance is limited to 35 or 40 people to keep the experience intimate, Salloukh said.

A five- or six-course event with wine costs patrons between $50 and $65.

If only appetizers are served with the samples, the cost runs between $20 and $25. Wine flights typically in-

clude six or seven 2-ounce samples of the vendor’s wines. Simpler wines are served first to acclimate customers for more complex wines later in the evening. “We make it a blast,� Salloukh said. “There’s a lot of wine groupies out there that are getting into it. People love to be educated on wine.�

La Scola also hosts martini tastings and scotch dinners.

Mancy’s Restaurant Group hosts several wine tastings every year at three of its local restaurants, and all four Mancy’s restaurants will team up for a wine event in October. “Our event in October will be the first time we’ve ever done anything with all four restaurants,� said George Mancy, manager of Mancy’s Italian Grill, 5453 Monroe St., where the event will take place. Mancy said the event will feature four courses of pork and pinot noir from the West Coast. “When we do wine dinners at Mancy’s restaurants, we usually have a winemaker or someone from the

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AUGUST 29, 2010 Chappel Drive in Perrysburg, offers three types of wine tastings. The restaurant hosts tastings of traditional wine and martinis, Asian wine and sake, a rice-based Japanese wine.

Manager Lynn Wang said Asian wine is more herbal and healthier than other wines typically served at restaurants. Sake tasting is paired with sushi tasting. The restaurant emphasizes education through cooking classes and

winery talking about each wine during each course, educating our customers on that,� he said.

Mancy said most wine tastings feature four or five varieties of wine. A basic wine may be served before, and four are served during a four-course meal. Wine dinners range from $50 to $80, depending on the types of wine and entrees served.

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Wang said. “I think people really appreciate why it tastes different than down the street. There is a difference in how we prepare things.�

Like other restaurants that host tastings, Tea Tree serves basic wines before progressing to more complex varieties.

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INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – PICKETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. September 29, 2010, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the Pickett Elementary School, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the project prepared by Munger Munger + Associates Architects Inc. and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

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

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Hudini is a 1-yearHe is crate trained and old American Staffordis used to sleeping in a shire terrier mix. He kennel during the night. was transferred from If you’re interested in the dog warden to the adopting Hudini, you Toledo Area Humane can expect that there will Society so that he could be additional requirefind a nice home. After receiving perfect scores Dave CARLSON ments before he can be taken home, but if you’re on his behavior evaluation, he was sent to a foster home looking for an active, playful, enfor some quality one-on-one time ergetic and friendly dog, this little in a family environment. Now, bully is your boy. Hudini has been Hudini is back at the shelter and neutered, is current on his vaccinaready to find more permanent tions, has been examined by a staff placement. He is a very active boy veterinarian and is microchipped. that loves everyone and everyToledo Area Humane Society is thing. Hudini is great with people located at 1920 Indian Wood Circle, and loves playing with other dogs. Arrowhead Park, Maumee. AdopHe has the most fun during the tion hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. morning playgroups where he Tuesday through Sunday. Call (419) has the chance to run around and 891-0705 or visit the website www. play in the baby pool. ool. He loves to toledoareahumanesociety.org. play with the garden en hose and will run around the yard ard with it in his mouth dousingg everythingg in his path. Hudini ni is lookingg for an active home me where hee can get plenty of exercise. H He is still young, so he will ne need eed lots of supervision to prevent him from getting into things. knows hings. He kn nows how to sit, but he could use some so ome

A MANDATORY PREBID MEETING will be held on September 10, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. at Toledo Public Schools Board Room, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd, Toledo, Ohio 43608.

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

Sealed bids will be received for: Bid Item No. 1 – Site Work Bid Item No. 2 – Concrete Paving and Curbs Bid Item No. 3 – Asphalt Bid Item No. 4 – Landscaping and Grass Bid Item No. 5 – General Trades Bid Item No. 6 – Metal Studs and Drywall Bid Item No. 7 – Acoustical Ceilings Bid Item No. 8 – Painting Bid Item No. 9 – Flooring Bid Item No. 10 – Fire Protection Bid Item No. 11 – Plumbing Bid Item No. 12 – HVAC Bid Item No. 13 – Electrical Bid Item No. 14 – Technology Total

Estimates $361,545.00 $112,534.00 $68,398.00 $21,042.00 $3,501,982.00 $406,475.00 $54,328.00 $59,679.00 $149,149.00 $ 94,500.00 $338,600.00 $1,250,600.00 $671,400.00 $491,695.00 $7,581,927.00

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

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