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A United Way campaign

The debate

s the children’s rhyme says, “In 14-hundred-92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” This year, Columbus Day can be noted as “At FOX Toledo-Four SeaGate, there will be a great debate.” The candidates running for the 9th Congressional District seat will meet at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 for a debate sponsored by Toledo Free Press and broadcast live on FOX Toledo. It will be live blogged at Glass City Jungle. Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur and her challengers — Republican Rich Iott and Libertarian Joseph Jaffe — will meet for what will undoubtedly be a fast-paced and lively discussion. A limited number of tickets will be available for the debate after Oct. 1. Kaptur was first elected to the 9th District seat in 1982. In her 14th term, she is viewed by some as an institution on par with Tony Packo’s and the Mud Hens. But her detractors will point out that Packo’s Thomas F. POUNDS is reportedly fighting for its life and the Hens missed the playoffs this year. Challenger Iott certainly seems to have a number of stars aligning in his favor. He has a recognizable name (always a plus in the odd world of NW Ohio politics) and money he can spend (Local TV executives are drooling as they anticipate the upcoming cash infusion). Factor in the anti-incumbent, expected mid-term backlash against the majority party, and Iott represents real hope for those who feel Kaptur’s experience should be replaced by Iott’s more conservative approach. Iott and Jaffe have many similar ideas. Both want to reduce Washington’s involvement in taxation and regulation. “American workers and American entrepreneurs are the most productive and innovative in the world … they can do anything they set their mind to doing as long as Washington stops throwing financial and regulatory roadblocks in their way,” Iott has told Toledo Free Press. Iott was the president and CEO of Food Town Supermarkets until 2000 when the company merged with Spartan Foods. He also serves in the Ohio Military Reserve. Jaffe’s family owns restaurant supplier Tyler Meat Company in Downtown Toledo’s warehouse district. “I have a pretty good perspective of both sides [of a business],” he told Toledo Free Press, explaining that he thinks Congress needs more “career people” and fewer career politicians. On Columbus Day, we remember past seeds of discovery and legacy. At the Toledo Free Press/FOX Toledo debate Oct. 11, the topics will revolve around the future and who will represent our region as that future unfolds.

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Monroe and Secor at 2 a.m. on Saturdays because I was embarrassed about using food stamps. They have a debit card-looking thing now, but then, you he path to my interaction with pulled that brightly colored book out United Way began in 1983, and counted them off in 5s and 10s when I was 17. My father de- and if you got something that food cided one day he was tired of being a stamps didn’t cover, you’d have to put it aside or take it back. father, and left for parts I started getting unknown. It was like gas station credit cards a Bruce Springsteen like Citgo’s because you song: He went out for a could use them to buy ride and he never came “food” at 7-11. That back. My mother was habit of racking up surincapacitated, in the vival items on credit final stage of Lou Gehcards eventually led rig’s disease. I had one to me going through brother, who was four bankruptcy proceedyears younger than me. Michael S. MILLER ings before I turned 25. I tried to finish high I remember a lot of temptation school and take care of the family myself, which meant part-time jobs on to make very bad decisions. Drugs nights and weekends. But I did not and theft led the parade. I remember understand the economics of survival: thinking if the people actually using shelter, clothing, food and health care. the drugs could stay in business, I was I was young and proud and angry, and smart enough to not use them but run thought I could do it all by myself. a gang of dealers. And I remember being hungry all It did not take long to start missing rent payments, to realize that clothes the time. You can’t tell now, because that no longer fit two growing boys I’ve caught up, but we would go days had to do, to watch the pantry and with a block of government cheese fridge empty and to start the process and food brought home from disof moving every few months, chasing carded lunches at school, or a day or two without any real meal. lower and lower rents. And I will tell you, if you have I remember being in clothes that were worn and faded and torn, shoes never really been hungry — rethat were taped together. I remember ally, truly, bone-deep, brain-rattling my brother and I washing each other’s hungry — you can not begin to unhair in the kitchen sink because there derstand how easy it is to divorce yourself from morality and start conwas no hot water for a shower. I remember sleeping on a twin sidering desperate choices like theft mattress on the floor and waking up and violence and suicide. On July 5, 1985, we were awoken one morning to find that mice had up just before dawn by commotion chewed into it and nested. I remember, as the rents got lower, and someone screaming the apartso did the fellow tenants. The drug ad- ment building was on fire. We lost our dicts banging on doors and breaking rental place and everything we owned windows at all hours of the night, in a house fire started by kids setting looking for their dealers, high or des- off fireworks in an alley. I remember that morning, perate to get high, scratching at the door until their bleeding fingers left watching the smoke pouring out of our streaks, then passing out in their own building. I remember huddling under filth, so you’d have to step over them a blanket with my brother, and my mom lying on the sidewalk because or around them to leave for school. We used to go to the Kroger on we couldn’t get her wheelchair down

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the steps. I remember my little brother, dirty faced and crying, looking up at me and asking, “What are we going to do? What are we going to do?” I have never felt so helpless and hopeless as I did at that very moment. That afternoon, a friend drove me, smelling like smoke, to the United Way office. And while I am ashamed to say I do not remember the name of the woman who helped me, I clearly remember two things. First, she did not judge me. And, more importantly to my mindset, she did not pity me. She showed me how we could get help and give back, so it did not feel like charity. That was my first clear understanding of what a community is, and while I’ve lived in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh and Miami, this is where I choose to call home. This is my community. United Way set me on the path to recovery, and to be back now, working at a job that allows me to give back to the community, working for a positive community force like Toledo Free Press, the circle is on its way to completion. There is no more important work than making sure people have a chance to get their lives together, not through handouts, but through a little help and hard work. That is a primary lesson I will teach my sons as they grow; they will never have to face the challenges I did, but they will know that I faced those challenges, and that with help from people like you at United Way, I made the right choices. My sons will know that way too many people face even worse conditions than I faced, every day, right here in Toledo, and that they have a responsibility to help. So, I thank United Way, and I thank you. And I will tell this story anytime, anyplace, to anyone who will listen. To donate to the local United Way, visit www.unitedwaytoledo.org/Give or call (419) 248-2424. Michael S. Miller is the editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. E-mail him at mmiller@ toledofreepress.com.

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Shortsighted

e were discussing the piles of cash. According to Bloomseeming dichotomy of the berg Businessweek, the 3,000 largest Republican positions that publicly traded U.S. companies ‘have spending on such things as extending $2.9 trillion in cash and short-term unemployment benefits, Medicaid investments’ they don’t know what to funding, education and a much- do with. Workers and consumers (and needed second wave of stimulus most state governments), on the other money is unwise because of a recently hand, are struggling to pay last month’s found concern for the deficit while bills and to provide for basic necessities. having no problem with extending The latter is the primary cause of the tax cuts for the top 2 percent. They former. That is, not enough money in claim, as usual, that this will harm the hands of workers and consumers means a lack of profthe recovery, because itable investment opthe business owners will portunities for businot hire new workers nesses and rich folk.” and the recession will Metzger also deepen. This is the same shows the Congresargument that they have sional Budget Office’s used for years as a sort estimate of the jobof Sword of Damocles creating capacity of to put fear into voters the various policy opminds about such things tions. Increased aid to as any minimum wage the unemployed and increase, etc. They just Don BURNARD increased aid to states, keep beating the same old dead horses again and again, and at a cost of $60 billion, will create becontrary to “popular” belief, we’re the tween 380,000-780,000 jobs, whereas ones taking the beating by buying tax cuts to the top 2 percent at a cost of $70 billion will only generate 70,000into these short sighted policies. Jack Metzger, a contributor to The 210,000 jobs. If these deficit peacocks Center for Working Class Studies at truly are fiscally concerned, the choice Youngstown State University, recently should be obvious. A majority of the population thinks put this into perspective. An article in The Wall Street Journal recently asked we’re on the wrong track fiscally in this the question, “Who do they think will country, but they don’t seem to have a create new jobs— people making less firm grasp on what needs to be done than $200,000 a year?” But as Metzger to right the foundering economy. The points out, the devil is in the details. GOP’s long-standing belief that only tax cuts for the rich will benefit the He states: “Rich people create jobs by in- economy have been proven time and vesting in companies (little ones again to be wrongheaded thinking, they own themselves or big ones but it seems to be the only plan they they own stock in), and it’s these will accept. Coupled with their rockcompanies who actually hire the headed obstructing for even their own workers and pay them a wage. This ideas, they remain firmly committed is true. But it is like saying that to obstruct any move, even if it was the light coming from the ceiling something they previously pushed of my office is caused by the light for; for political reasons, they will let switch on the wall. Without turning the recession continue. They don’t the light switch on, there will be care about the average guy. They care no light, but the ultimate creator about power. If you have the power, of the light tracks back to a power the wealth will follow. Just ask John station and a national power grid Kasich. It is time that we stop listhat hooks into the wiring behind tening to the fear mongers who have the walls in my building. In an no plans to help most of us that aren’t economy, consumer demand is the in the top 2 percent, but will scare you power station, the grid and most of to death with these same old stories the wiring. If there is not enough they’ve been pushing since the Great consumer demand, businesses have Depression. If you want to see a repeat no reason to hire new workers— of that, keep listening to them. If you just as there is no reason to switch want to return to the real American the light on if there is nobody in way, doing the things that will benefit the room. The reason that busi- the majority of people in this country, nesses aren’t hiring more now isn’t then keep listening to them. that they don’t have the money. It’s the lack of consumer demand. Busi- E-mail columnist Don Burnard at nesses are currently sitting on huge letters@toledofreepress.com.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

The river runs through it

If you look at the recent funding requests for the money wenty years ago, people knew the Ottawa River had problems. There have been major accomplishments that was just recently awarded as part of the GLRI, more than 1,000 proposals for projects were submitted. Then in late May since then, but there is also still work to be done. One small part of the pollution issues was recently in it was narrowed down to 270 finalists who had to submit apthe news with Environmental Protection Agency awarding plications, 28 were from Ohio. The University of Toledo and Ohio Lake Erie Commis$270,600 to the City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services for the Ottawa River Watershed Scrap Yard Pollu- sion were also awarded funding. The amount of funding for the GLRI is $475 million; Ohio received about $17 tion Prevention Program as part of the Great million in this first round of awards. Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). The focus areas for successful applications Toledo City Council accepted the funding were toxic substances, invasive species, nearduring its Sept. 8 meeting. According to the shore health, habitat and wildlife and accountcity of Toledo and Toledo Metropolitan Area ability. The accountability aspect is one that ConCouncil of Governments (TMACOG), there gress stipulated, and the EPA is in the process of are 14 known scrap yards in the watershed of launching the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative the Ottawa River. Accountability System (GLAS). It stands to reason that old vehicles still After viewing the initial training video for holding a variety of fluids create a scenario GLAS, the amount of information that will be availwhere some of this gets into the Ottawa Lisa Renee WARD able is promising. A concern is what will happen to River. While there has been some success in addressing areas such as the Dura Landfill, there are still con- groups receiving funding who don’t submit timely report and will there be a stringent enforcement process. cerns locally and nationally. In addition to GLAS, the EPA requires a semi-annual reThe EPA reported in July 2009, “Of the 31 toxic hotspots identified as Areas of Concern (AOC) in the United States port on progress of each project and the status of the goals and more than 20 years ago, only one has been restored to the objectives. The EPA will make a formal annual report to the point where it could be delisted.” Four are located in Ohio, president and Congress. The long-term goals of the total GLRI project as reported by one is the Maumee River. The Ottawa River is included in the EPA include “by 2014, 7 million cubic yards of contaminated the Maumee River AOC. In 2007, TMACOG reported that during the 15-year Ot- sediments will be remediated” and “by 2014, 50 million pounds tawa River remediation process, about $50 million had been e-waste, 50 million pills, unwanted medicines, and 5 million spent. Dealing with the contaminated sediment has been a pounds of household hazardous waste in the Great Lakes basin continuing process. Ottawa River Great Lakes Legacy Act will have been collected or its release will have been prevented.” It’s sobering to think of millions of unwanted pharmaProject is focusing on several goals including dredging, which ceutical products entering our water supply system. Then to began in May 2010 and is expected to end in December. The EPA and the Ottawa River Group are splitting the $49 reflect on the contaminated sediment, some of it from years million project cost. Their goal is to “accelerate the pace of before we knew the type of problems we were creating. While the level of funding is being described as unprecsediment remediation in U.S. Areas of Concern.” Quite a bit of work took place locally involving TMACOG and the City edented, we also know that there are many projects that were not funded. Yet, it’s a start. of Toledo to receive funding under the Legacy Act Project.

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GUEST COLUMN

TPS risks credibility without ‘independent’ committee

eading the response of board president Bob Vasquez to suggestions made by a coalition of community groups (“Proposed committees to review TPS,” Sept. 5) has to make you wonder why he is so vehemently resisting a community partnership. Vasquez is being offered the very help he asked for in June. Yet he suggests folks are asking for something he already is doing and that he has a committee when two folks he mentions as on the committee have said they were not aware a committee was formed. Why would a call for action from a group of community organizations that states agreement with Vasquez’s call for “transformational change” by conducting a thorough independent review of the finances and operations of Toledo Public Schools (TPS) elicit such a defensive and antagonistic response from the board president? Perhaps his defensiveness has more to do with who controls the scope of the review and making sure the final

recommendations don’t upset the rela- creating systemic reform by failing to review how union contracts tionship between TPS and impact the very change its unions who all endorsed TPS officials claim they and supported Vasquez’s are interested in. election and those of three There has been a susother board members. tained and consistent efVasquez states, “We’re fort by TPS to undermine interested in long-term attempts at reviewing its transformation change. It’s operations or establishing no trick or anything for the community oversight of levy,” He also says, “I’m not Steven FLAGG TPS operations. looking for a study or straIn 1999, the Corporation for Effectegic plan. I want to get the information that we need and make changes that we tive Government did a review. In 2002, need to right away.” These statements are the Reform Committee (members apcontradictory and confusing. You can’t pointed by the TPS superintendent) was create or sustain long-term transforma- created in response to a community call for a strategic plan. In both cases, TPS tional change without a plan. TPS has lurched from year to year personnel and union representatives failing to grasp the fundamental prob- were on the executive committee that set lems and identify workable solutions. It the scope, procedures for the review and has not had a strategic plan, just one-year what was included in the final report. A operational budgets, for two decades. critical means for providing ongoing reYes, the district did go through two plan- view was eliminated in the 2003 Reform ning cycles in the early ’90s and again in Committee report. And in a final act of 2002-03. TPS avoided the difficult task of control, TPS officials never implemented any of the recommendations provided in either report. Other smaller efforts throughout this past decade also met

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with efforts to control the process. Vasquez insists that the major difference in the proposed committees is that his would involve district officials as they would be responsible for implementation and know what can and can’t be done. The community groups realized that for the review to be effective, TPS personnel must be consulted and included in the review, but excluded from having influence on the committee makeup, work of the committee, and the final recommendations. It is implicit in the final stages that TPS personnel would be asked about the efficacy, practicability and appropriateness of all recommendations. But final decisions must be left to the independent committee and not be modified to appease an organization that appears to have gone rogue. When recommendations are presented, the board always has the ability to say yay or nay. The board’s authority is a matter of state law and cannot be abridged or abrogated. Vasquez’s resistance suggests that politics and not principles are again foremost. Vasquez and the entire board

should get behind the community call for an independent review and stop worrying about their next political position by controlling the process and securing support from TPS labor unions for future electoral ambitions. This is their opportunity to stand behind true “transformative change” for TPS and not just talk about it to gain levy support or further personal ambitions. If TPS does not act to create systemic reform, they will solidify their place as a reviled organization that is a key factor in Toledo’s dismal economic fortunes. An independent committee is just one step in rebuilding trust and creating an institution that is an asset in the renaissance of Toledo. Steven Flagg is an education advocate and member of the Urban Coalition which supported the call for an independent committee along the African American Bureau of Commerce, African American Parents Association, Cherry Street Mission Ministries, Greater Toledo Urban League, NAACP, Toledo Area Ministries, Toledo Area Regional Chamber of Commerce, United North and United Pastors for Social Empowerment.

The buck stops there

t seems that the leaders and candidates of the Democratic and that they accelerated markedly after the progressives won Party are doing the time warp. How else to explain their control of Congress in 2006, opening the door for the corrupfixation on the idea that all of the nation’s economic woes tion and incompetence that precipitated the mortgage collapse despite Bush’s warnings. Thanks largely to the are solely due to “the failed policies of the last ensuing crisis, the economy entered a profound eight years?” contraction in 2008. Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris When revenue declines, you cut spending to Redfern is still using that cliché even in midkeep pace with it. The only possible economic August, evidently unaware that Barack Obama outcome of this madness was a mushrooming has been president since January 2009. If we’re deficit that has inhibited job creation and slowed to take Redfern literally, as in really meaning the markedly the long crawl out of the recession. Now, last eight years, then he is saying, with commendthanks to Obamacare and the expiration of the ably audacious candor, that Obama’s policies are Bush tax cuts, even more capital will be sucked out a failure. If we are to take “the last eight years” as really meaning roughly two to 10 years ago, then Thomas BERRY of the private sector, ensuring even more stagnation, continued high unemployment and perhaps everything else he says also loses meaning; if his definitions are so in flux and words mean so little to him as that, a second recession. Obamanomics is hardly Bush’s fault. President Obama said, also on Aug. 30, “It took nearly then why should anything else he says be taken at face value? Since the progressives are so into the past, let’s look at some a decade to dig the hole we’re in.” Wonder of wonders, his history. Tax revenues increase and decrease with taxable in- projection has obliquely admitted complicity, in that he didn’t come. When the economy grows, so does taxable income and, stop digging; indeed, he threw away Bush’s tablespoon and consequently, tax revenues; during recession, both shrink. The brought in a giant backhoe so he could dig faster. Those surplus was created as the economy grew during the dot-com spending bills of last year and this that created trillion-dollar bubble. When the bubble burst in spring 2000 – almost a year deficits for at least the next 10 years bear his name, not Bush’s. The Democrats face a dilemma. To identify with Obama before Bush’s inauguration – taxable income dove and took tax is political suicide, given the dismal results of his policies revenues with it, and the surplus collapsed. A president’s policies do not have an impact on the and his shrinking popularity. But to make the policies of a economy until after legislation implementing them is signed president nearly two years removed from office the central into law. In Bush’s case, this happened June 7, 2001, when his issue of their campaign is to render themselves and their tax cuts became law. The economy responded with a dra- agenda irrelevant. Reflexively blaming their failures on the matic turnaround, ending the recession in the fourth quarter past exposes a lack of personal responsibility, of initiative of 2001 with a 2.5 percent increase in the GDP. The increases and of independent thought. I’m left to wonder if, should almost were continuous for the next 18 quarters. As the GDP they win office, they would have any ability to even relate to increased, tax revenues also increased because more taxable the problems of the present. Perhaps they will seek instead income was being generated through creation of millions of to legislate telegraphy, frigates and Conestoga wagons. jobs, increasing wages and profits. Our current woes didn’t begin until Bush drifted away from Thomas Berry, for the Children of Liberty. www.meetup. conservative principles in order to cater to the progressives, com/The-children-of-liberty/

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The Arts

By Kristen Rapin

Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor krapin@toledofreepress.com

Each day Brian Kennedy changes the postcard on display in his office— today’s postcard features a picture of Pablo Picasso. “Picasso has his hands against the window, so he’s looking outside from inside. This morning when I came in, I’m inside looking outside and so is he, so I just ruffled through my box and thought, ‘that one will work’,” said Kennedy from his office overlooking the Monroe Street entrance of the Toledo Museum of Art. “It’s just whatever I’m thinking at the time.” The new director at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) always loved art, but began actively taking an interest when he was 13 years old. Kennedy had an aunt who sent him a postcard for his birthday and he began collecting them. Shortly after he began his collection, Kennedy began attending weekly art lectures at the National Gallery in Ireland, he said. “I’d leave school at 4 and lectures were at 5 and over at 6. James White, who was director of the National Gallery at the time, use to do [the lectures.] That gave me enthusiasm, because he was a great art enthusiast,” Kennedy said. By the time Kennedy entered college to study art history, he had more than 5,000 postcards. Today, Kennedy has lost count of the number in his collection.

Expressing himself

Kennedy participates in many different forms of art, he said. “I do lots. I badly dance and badly sing. I’m not up to any standard; I don’t really care about that. I just believe in the importance of expressing yourself,” Kennedy said. “Whatever you do just express yourself. Be yourself, be happy being yourself.” Kennedy said the form he usually expresses himself in is writing. Kennedy has written a number of

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Brian Kennedy starts as new director of TMA

Kennedy in Front of Frank Stella’s Lac La Ronge IV. Kennedy has written a book on Stella.

art books, including an upcoming book on American painter and printmaker Frank Stella. Kennedy spent 18 months working intensively on his book and read lots of material about Stella. “The early ’60s doesn’t sound like a long time ago, but there was so much happening there’s huge room for scholarship,” Kennedy said. “Currently, this decade has the type of energy in it in terms of artmaking, in particular the fusion of the arts that is occurring around performances and instillation and electronic media that was present in the early ’60s.”

Choosing a new director

When searching for a new director, the TMA selection committee hosted an international search with many outstanding candidates, according to George Chapman, chairman of the selection committee and TMA board member. Kennedy has worked in museums around the world. He’s served as assistant director of the National Gallery of Ireland, the director of the National Gallery of Australia and most recently as the director of the Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth. His experience is one of many rea-

sons Kennedy was selected as director of TMA, Chapman said. “He has wonderful experience and understands the need to market the museum,” Chapman said. “He understands that museums compete with other forms of entertainment. He understands the need to make it appealing to the customer. Brian also understands the need to raise funds and get people committed, which is very important for a nonprofit organization. “We also made it clear that the individual we chose was someone who was not only going to be the director

of the museum, but a leader within the community. Collaborate with the University of Toledo, Bowling Green, the Toledo Symphony and the zoo. Brian and his wife Mary were perfect for that,” Chapman said. Kennedy began his position as museum director Sept. 1.

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Kennedy with 12 Zodiac Figures in Tang Dynasty Style by Zhang Hongtu.

n KENNEDY CONTINUED FROM A6 Kennedy had always heard about Toledo and was anxious to leave the reception in the Glass Pavilion to visit the main museum, he said. “It was like, my goodness, the cloisters and all these little rooms. Particularly, one French room, and then the whole classical court... It was a combination of spaces more than what individuals were in them,” Kennedy said. “Individually, I was struck by how wonderful the collection was. Work for work this is an outstanding collection.” Among the museums Kennedy has worked for TMA has the smallest collection, but Kennedy sees nothing wrong with that. “What Toledo is known for is a firstclass display collection. The permanent collection presented to the public is fabulous. It really is impossible to come here as a first-time visitor without being completely wowed by what’s here,” he said. “There’s 30,000 works here. Most museums only have the capacity for a couple hundred or thousand.” Kennedy would, however, like to add to the museum’s permanent collection as director. His first focus will be adding modern and contemporary artworks, he said. “I think in the modern contemporary area for judicious reasons of always wanting to acquire the very best object. That’s more difficult when you look at art more recently because the distillation process hasn’t happened yet and there’s less of that than I would like,” he said. Kennedy also believes the museum has missed certain moments in art history and points to the museum’s lack of a Jackson Pollock as an example. Kennedy hopes to acquire a Pollock piece for the museum, he said. “I have my own enthusiasms with what I’ve done before, but I want to work in the enthusiasm of the people here,” Kennedy said. Kennedy has an eclectic interest in art, which partially comes from trav-

eling the world, he said. “I always started out thinking 17th century Holland, the Netherlands, was just perfect for me. I was very cool, calm, sensible—that was the way I thought I was,” he said. And then I had my Baroque phase; I thought that’s much too much of the head, the mind; We really need to be exploring the heart, so I became very passionate about it, going back a century. “In more recent times I find the fusion in our own times. Modern and contemporary art has absorbed me. So I’ve spent a lot of time in that area, the last decade,” he said. Kennedy also noted an interest in Australian Aboriginal and Native American art.

Exhibits

Kennedy said he believes in permanent collections and will focus most of his attention on finding ways to continue to promote and expand them. “The exhibit that is here all the time is an incredible permanent collection,” he said. “The temporary exhibits help to enliven it and create interest in the museum on an ongoing basis but the focus is on the permanent collection.” But, Kennedy won’t ignore bringing exhibits to TMA, he said. Kennedy hopes to work with more contemporary artists and bring them to the area, he said. “It’s a fundamental belief that I share with many, that great art is made by great artists. I want to bring artists to Toledo. I think once they see what’s in the museum they’re going to be very excited to work with the Toledo Museum of Art and they will make art while they’re here,” Kennedy said. “We already have that happening in the Glass Pavilion with glass artists. “[The art] they might make with us might excite people. What’s happening in contemporary art is very, very exciting,” he said. Two things make contemporary art exciting, Kennedy said. The first is the line between art and artifact has

been blurred. “Before, the artifact, or craft object, has a functional purpose, while the art object doesn’t other than being looked at … But the blurring has created this wonderful global art by artists who are not master artists trained

Visit www.toledofreepress.com in a school system,” he said. Whether it’s making a basket or oil painting, the work is valued as important, Kennedy said. Another exciting part of contemporary art is new media, Kennedy said. The ability to fuse different ideas together, to take a painting and create a sculpture, he said. “Oftentimes, we have difficulty naming something, is it a painting is it a sculpture? What sort of an object is it? Is it jewelry?” Kennedy said. The ability of new media to be inserted into old art or fused with old art pushes the boundaries of art and confronts the viewer, he said. Kennedy’s wife and son will relocate to Toledo with him and his daughter will continue her schooling in New Hampshire. TMA is open Tuesdays to Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Admission to the museum is free. For more information, visit www.toledomuseum.org.

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Blank sons help their dad find strength to rebuild home approached his dad, hugged him and they started to cry. “It was a moment that you don’t want to have, but kind of defines the moment,” Wes said. Eddie said his role was the cleanup after the June 5 tornado. His dad’s wife, By Brandi Barhite Julie, was in the hospital, and had so TOLEDO FREE PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR much else going on. bbarhite@toledofreepress.com “I went there and it pretty much seemed like I Ed Blank’s grown sons was the go-to guy. My dad learned the hard way that was like ‘Eddie, you take dads aren’t always invincible. over the house.’” Eddie, 26, and Wes, 24, It was a house he knew know their dad is strong, BLANK FAMILY: well. but he has endured moEddie and Wes miss the ments they would never home that was a mecca for wish upon anyone, let family activities, including alone their father. a Labor Day cornhole tourThe day after the tornament that didn’t happen nado, Wes remembers this year. his dad standing on the Eddie and son, Noah, and wife, Mifoundation where the house used to be. His dad was just kind of staring. Wes chelle, were also there when the house Editor’s note: Toledo Free Press will follow the Blank family of Millbury for the next year as they rebuild their lives after the June 5 tornado destroyed their Main Street home.

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was hit by the tornado. They had sought shelter from their basement-less Millbury home, a minute and a half away. “We were there five to 10 minutes and it hit,” Eddie said. Wes was in Walbridge that night. “There was no signs of it or anything,” Wes said. “I don’t even know if they were calling for a thunderstorm.” His wife, Crystal, had went to visit

her parents in Millbury, while he had stayed home to watch baseball. As the storm neared, Wes decided to go to his mom’s house, also in Walbridge, to use her basement. The next moments would never have indicated that something terrible was happening at his dad’s house. The lights flickered and then his phone rang. It was his halfbrother, Casey, calling to

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“I would love to help, but I don’t know what to do. It is a situation where you don’t know what to do,” he said. Wes tries to be available to pick up Casey or drop him off. A few weeks ago, Wes visited the condo they are staying in while their house is being rebuilt. “I went over there and spent three hours with them.” Eddie has been making sure that he and Casey spend time together.

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They saw a Maroon 5 concert—just the two of them—to get his mind off things. Eddie also works with his dad at Fiske Brothers. When my dad isn’t at work, I am his backup. If he needs to leave, I will take care of it. If I have to stay a little extra, then so be it.” His wife also reprinted wedding photos for the condo. “So they aren’t staring at four blank walls,” he said.

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By Amy Biolchini

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Mother Cecilia and Sister Margaret laid down the law at home plate for Mud Hens Manager Larry Parrish and the umpires. “I told them no swearing and no spitting,” Mother Cecilia said, beaming radiantly as she walked off Fifth Third Field. Manager for the day Aug. 20, Mother Cecilia of the Little Sisters of the Poor conferred with Parrish on the batting order in the bullpen. She was looking for a win over the Hens’ opponent, the Indianapolis Indians. “Looked like some heavy negotiations at home plate,” said Bill Cook, director of development for the Little Sisters.

With 70 residents and 10 sisters to care for them, the Little Sisters of the Poor’s Sacred Heart Home in Oregon has been providing assisted living facilities to the needy elderly for 125 years. Their simple white habits fluttering in the breeze of the ballpark, the Little Sisters served up hot dogs and hamburgers for many of their residents and supporters who were able to attend the game. All proceeds from the ticketed picnic benefited the Sacred Heart Home. “It’s so nice to be able to see our residents be able to enjoy themselves,” Mother Cecilia said. Both Mother Cecilia and Sister Margaret pointed out resident Ron Shire as the Hens’ No. 1 fan. Shire, 76, is a Toledo native and said he has been attending games since he

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was 9 years old. “I was here when Frank Gilhooley was the announcer, and followed them when they had their old field,” Shire said. Recovering from a month-long hospitalization for an infection, Shire was excited to be at the ballpark again. “It was his goal to get better so he could come to the ballgame,” Mother Cecilia said. “He’s so happy to have made it.” Baseball is a common interest at the Sacred Heart Home. Mother Cecilia is an avid fan, and said on game nights, residents gather to watch together. “It’s truly an all-American sport, for people young and old,” Mother Cecilia said. “I love baseball. I’ve been a Tigers fan my whole life.” Mother Cecilia has been the head of the Little Sisters for a year now and is as energetic as they come. Introducing herself as the team manager at the Mud Hens security desk, Mother Cecilia fluffed her white habit and smiled. “I’ll tell those Indiana folks what to do,” Mother Cecilia said on the way to the field. Carol Kraus, daughter of The Andersons-founding family, has strong family ties to the Little Sisters and attended the Aug. 20 game. Kraus said her mother, Margaret Anderson, loved the organization and hosted picnics for the residents at their home, a tradition Kraus continued with her children. “It’s a wonderful experience to get to know the residents,” Kraus said. “The new mother seems to be a dynamo.” “It’s very important that we’re a family with them (the residents). Big

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Mother Cecilia, Mud Hens manager Larry Parrish and Sister Margaret

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Although Mother Cecilia gave Parrish and the Mud Hens plenty of encouragement, the Hens lost to Indianapolis 0-1.

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The Toledo Zoo is hosting Senior Discovery Days every Tuesday in September and October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought the fall is a great time for seniors to rediscover the zoo,â&#x20AC;? said Andi Norman, director of marketing and public relations for the zoo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids are back in school and the weather is a little cooler; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great time for seniors to visit.â&#x20AC;? On Senior Discovery Days, individuals ages 60 and older will be able to explore the zoo all day for free. As part of the program, special events are scheduled each week. Activities include zoo-themed bingo Sept. 14 and Oct. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the African Lodge; mini-golf Sept. 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and Jeff McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Band Revival Orchestra from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Nairobi Pavilion on Oct. 12. Tours of zoo buildings are also being offered. On Sept. 28 there will be a guided tour of the aviary, Oct. 19 is a tour of the aquarium and Oct. 26 is a tour of the reptile house. The buildings are all Work Progress Administration (WPA) projects, built during the Great Depression, Norman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guide will explain about the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, as well as explain about the WPA and the architecture,â&#x20AC;? Norman said. Those interested in a tour must call in advance, (419) 385-5721, Ext. 2110. All tours meet in the main

plaza at 10:45 a.m. The zoo also offers seniors a free cup of coffee and a mini muffin at the Timberline Bakery, Monday through Friday, Norman said. On Sept. 21, the Area Office on Aging (AOoA) will host a Senior Safari event in the Nairobi Pavilion. The event will kick off at 11:30 a.m. with emcee Chrys Peterson, of WTOL,

presenting Miss Ohio Becky Minger, according to Justin Moor, vice president of communications and operations of the AOoA. Minger will perform a country song, and a group of country dancers will also perform, he said. The event will also feature a number of vendors. Seniors may also have a lunch at the Nairobi Pavilion for $2.50.

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For Lisa Kernes, Aug. 20, 2005, was an emotional day. She found herself at the end of a month-long whirlwind remodeling process and opened her own card-making business, First Impressions. As her first customers explored the small shop in Sylvania Historical Village, she thought of her mother, who had died on that date the previous year. “I kept thinking, ‘I wish she was here. She’d be so happy and proud of me’,” Kernes said. “It was just a big sense of pride and the overwhelming warmth from everybody that came.” Five years later, First Impressions still has its homey feel. Kernes continues her craft in a quaint little shop tucked back from its Main Street entrance. She makes her own cards, calendars and recipe books, sells scrapbooking supplies and offers classes to those who share her passion for homemade gifts. “I like that she’s got a wide variety of things you can do there. There’s no scrapbooking stores around here,” said Sheila Peralis, who also teaches classes at the shop. Kernes decided to start First Impressions when the scrapbooking store where she worked closed. She spotted a “For Rent” sign hanging in the front window of the vacant shop and secured the building. A month later, Kernes was making first impressions: she estimates 300 customers came to the grand opening. “I have a lot of friends, and a lot of my friends just got word out,” she said. “Word of mouth is your best way of advertisement.” Kernes makes her cards by embossing images using a brass tem-

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Lisa Kernes opened First Impressions in 2005 in a small shop in Sylvania historical village.

plate and stylus. She then cuts out the embossed images and attaches them to her cards. She recently bought a printer to produce cards she designs electronically. First Impressions was not immune to the recession. Kernes said her business took a dip, but has rebounded recently with the opening of three new shops in Sylvania Historical Village. Bumble Floral and Gifts, Dragonfly Artisan Tea Cottage and Limelight Boutique

all opened this summer and have attracted many shoppers to Kernes’ doorstep. Bumble’s owner even removed trees on its property that had blocked the view of First Impressions from the street. “Business has been phenomenal,” Kernes said. “It’s just been wonderful since they all came in.” Wedding invitations in the spring and Christmas cards in the winter make those two seasons especially busy. Kernes said she has

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her calendar classes in July have attracted 30 people. The classes cost $15 to $20, and attendees keep the item they make. A schedule of classes and specials is online at www.firstimpressionsbylisa.com. First Impressions is located at 5727 N. Main St. in Sylvania. The shop is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. “It’s nice when you make a hobby a business,” Kernes said. “I love it. It’s been wonderful.”

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Working for the man for the average private worker. As we reviewed the numbers, the added benefits that federal workers earn, such as health, pension and other areas make up a large part of the difference. Mark and I both know as private business owners the cost that goes into maintaining health insurance alone. Today I spend about $700 Mark a month for my health savings acNolan count with a $5,000 yearly deductible for my family. Pensions for most private companies are pretty much a luxury of the past. In fact, many private employers have even reduced or eliminated the matching contributions in the past few years on the 401(k) plans as the economy got tougher. It is time we all tightened our belts. The recent recession made many private companies lay off or let go thousands of employees. Other employees

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and overcome” to changing market conditions. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people believe that they can construct a portfolio to buy and hold, regardless of changes in the investment world, based on their individual characteristics. Typically they consider age, income, net worth, tax bracket, risk tolerance, etc. I’m sorry to say that this strategy absolutely doesn’t work. The fact is that the investment world simply doesn’t care about investors, much less their age, average annual income or “risk tolerance.” Nor does it care about height, eye color, pre-existing medical conditions or any number of useless factors. The investment world reacts to economic developments, political climate, monetary policy and a host of broad factors that are ever-changing. In our opinion, the three criteria required of any successful savings and investment plan are:

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Dana Iliev and Lori Jacobs started their business from scratch and continue to work that way each day. The pair started selling cupcakes from Ilievâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen before opening Cake in a Cup two and a half years ago. Both Jacobs and Iliev have no formal training and developed their flavors from family recipes and through trial and error. For more than six months, they experimented with cupcake flavors, trying at least one new recipe each day, Iliev said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of blood, sweat and tears were cried over cupcakes,â&#x20AC;? Iliev said, joking. The result of their hard work: 30 unique cupcake flavors. Flavors include espresso, chocolate cake, monkey business, hostess with the moistest, PB&J and pumpkin chocolate chip. Cake in a Cup has a monthly menu of flavors, with five specialty flavors changing day to day. In addition, the store carries the traditional red velvet, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes daily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a monthly menu so every Wednesday will be the same

flavor,â&#x20AC;? Jacobs said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People get to know which [cupcakes] they like and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to look at the menu and know when to come in.â&#x20AC;? All cupcakes are made from scratch and use real ingredients, Iliev said. The shop uses real vanilla and cream cheese in its frosting. In its lemonblueberry cupcake, fresh lemon and fresh blueberries are used, she said. The pair will sometimes drive around town looking for the best ingredients when the supplier canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get something, Iliev said. Toledo natives, Iliev and Jacobs worked together at Grumpyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Downtown Toledo, becoming good friends. Jacobs briefly moved to New York City, and when Iliev would visit, the pair would explore cool food ideas to bring back to Toledo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what it was going to be. We just knew we wanted to bring a New York food idea to Toledo because Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a food place,â&#x20AC;? Iliev said. Jacobs had the idea of a cupcake store after buying a cupcake book and experimenting with cupcake flavors to give her nieces, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made a plan to crack down and try our recipes. We wrote out a

loose business plan and literally got a book on how to start a business and really did it from scratch,â&#x20AC;? Iliev said. Most of the shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sales come from walk-ins, but Cake in a Cup also makes wedding cupcakes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weddings have really picked up especially over the past year,â&#x20AC;? Jacobs said. The average price per serving for wedding cupcakes varies between $2.40 and $2.50. Bookings for weddings include up to eight cupcake flavors, as well as delivery and setup of the cupcakes. The storesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; monthly menu is often set up around what a wedding is ordering, Jacobs said. Last year, the Food Network contacted Cake in a Cup about auditioning for its television series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cupcake Wars.â&#x20AC;? On the show, four sets of cupcake bakers face off in different challenges and are eliminated based on performance. The store made it to the final round for consideration, but was rejected, Iliev said. This year, the Food Network contacted the store a second time about trying out for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cupcake Warsâ&#x20AC;? and Cake in a Cup is still waiting to

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hear if it will make it on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even care if we got on there and bawled our eyes out and got kicked out the first round,â&#x20AC;? Jacobs said, noting that the show would be good exposure for the business. Cake in a Cup has a Facebook page offering â&#x20AC;&#x153;leftover alerts,â&#x20AC;? where the storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans can get discounted cupcakes, Jacobs said. In addition, Cake in a Cup will give out a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supply of

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Jim Mayzes has been the head football coach at Southview High School for 17 years. For the Cougars, winning the Northern Lakes League (NLL) championship this year would give them 10 league titles, all under Mayzes. A title this year would also give the team four in a row, meaning this year’s seniors will have won every year throughout high school careers. In fact, Southview has won three titles in a row three different times,

but the team has never won four titles in a row. This season, Southview will need strong, dedicated team players and an experienced coach to reach that goal. “This season, I am expecting my leading players of the team to be good leaders with great effort and make good choices. Winning the 10th title is just as important as winning the first title for me,” Mayzes said. “I like to win championships; I think everybody does, so if we win the NLL 10th championship, we will be pleased that we won and we will have achieved a sense of accomplishment.”

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The Cougars lost six offensive and six defensive starters to graduation, but they have five starters back on both sides of the ball this season. Several players participate in other sports such as basketball, track, lacrosse and baseball. “We promote kids playing other sports,” Mayzes said. Junior Allen Gant plays strong safety and wide receiver, but pulled his hamstring early last season and was forced to sit on the sidelines and watch his team win the NLL before missing the state playoffs. “I believe we will have a great season this year,” Gant said. “My motivation is making it back to the playoffs because we weren’t able to get into

the playoffs last season. With us losing last year, that motivates us to come together and become a better football team this season. Coach makes sure we give 100 percent and do a good job out on the field.” Juggling track, basketball and football, senior quarterback and safety DeNard Pinckney insists that it is not difficult to play all three sports in high school. “It is all about prioritizing my time and utilizing every second that I get for each individual sport,” Pinckney said. “It’s not that hard. Last year was my first year playing quarterback for the team and I could see how I grew over the season as the leader of our

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Hyundai makes eye-catching family sedan By ANN M. JOB ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

The 2011 Hyundai Sonata sedan is selling at a record pace, and why not? With styling that makes the new, sixth-generation Sonata look richer than its under-$20,000 base price, the Sonata is arguably the most stylish of Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mainstream family sedans. It has more trunk room and cubic-foot passenger volume than the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fuel efficient, too. In fact, the 2011 Sonata has more horsepower â&#x20AC;&#x201D;198 generated from a direct-injection, four-cylinder engine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; than the comparable four-cylinder-powered Camry, Accord, Nissan Altima and Ford Fusion sedans. And none of the major Sonata competitors has Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generous 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty and five-year/60,000-mile new vehicle warranty with unlimitedmileage roadside assistance. All this comes with every 2011 Sonata â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plus heated outside mirrors, cool blue-color gauge illumination, shark fin-style exterior antenna, power door locks and mirrors, a full complement of safety equipment and steering wheel-mounted audio controls. Starting manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suggested retail price, including destination charge, for a base Sonata GLS is $19,915 with manual transmission. With automatic transmission, the lowest-priced

2011 Sonata starts at $20,915. In comparison, the top-selling family sedan for years, the Toyota Camry, has a 2011 starting retail price thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $565 higherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; $20,480 with manual transmission and 169-horsepower four cylinder. The lowestpriced 2011 Camry with automatic has a $21,530 retail price, including MSRP and destination charge, for a $615 higher price. The competing 2010 Honda Accord sedan has a starting retail price of $21,805 with manual transmission and 177-horsepower four cylinder and $22,605 with automatic. Honda has not released 2011 Accord pricing yet, but the 2010 prices are $1,890 and $1,690 more, respectively, than the base 2011 Sonatas. Meanwhile, the 175-horsepower Nissan Altima has a $20,650 starting retail price as a 2010 model, while the 2011 Ford Fusion with 175-horsepower engine starts at $20,420. On the road, the new Hyundai Sonatas stand out from other mainstream sedans whose rounded styling seems ho-hum. From the back, the Sonata sort of reminds me of a BMW. From the front, the car has a striking Mercedes-Benz-mixed-withLexus appearance, albeit with a wavy, chrome-colored grille. The side profile of the Sonata is the best, with creased sheet metal along the doors making the car design appear to flow together. One trick of auto designers to improve a car's styling is to add large

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But Hyundai's engine also has direct injection of the gasoline, which better controls fuel going into the pistons and makes for a higher compression ratio and thus, higher power. And, for the record, that's regular gasoline, not the pricier premium grade. The strong power doesn't detract from the Sonataâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fuel economy, though. The 2011 Sonata has the best government fuel economy rating â&#x20AC;&#x201D;24 miles per gallon in city driving and 35 mpg on the highway with manual transmission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of any mainstream, mid-size/large sedan. Most Sonatas are likely to have the six-speed automatic transmission that was in the test car. With it, fuel economy declines only slightly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to 22 mpg in city driving and 35 mpg on the highway. This is better than the ratings for the 2010 Accord and non-hybrid 2011 Camry. The test Sonata even averaged a bit over the government ratings. I got 22.1 mpg in city driving and 27 mpg in combined city/highway travel. All shifts with the automatic were smooth, and steering is comfortable. I did notice noise coming into the passenger compartment when trucks passed and from the tires on

the pavement. Inside, the Limited's leather-covered seats were comfortable, even if the leather wasn't as soft as that in a luxury car. The layout of gauges and controls was attractive and, best of all, easy to understand. I especially liked the blue, electroluminescent lighting in the instrument cluster and around the dashboard center stack of heating/ air conditioning controls. Most dashboards are plain on top, devoid of any styling touches. But the Sonataâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has two strakes that mimic the lines on the carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice touch. I liked how the back seat floor was flat, and rear-seat head restraints could remain in place and still give the driver good views through the rearview mirror. Rear seatbacks fold down to expand the 16.4-cubic-foot trunk space. Hyundai recalled 5,893 Sonatas from the 2011 model year because front-door latches might not stay in the locked position. So far this year, U.S. Sonata sales totaled more than 107,000, which is a 45 percent increase over the same period a year ago.

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United States auto sales turn frail in August By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP AUTO WRITERS

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power behind the recovery to motivate consumers to regain their confidence and purchase vehicles at a higher rate,” said Jeff Schuster, executive director of global forecasting for J.D. Power and Associates. Car buyers are also struggling to find bargains. Most automakers are making money at lower sales levels because they’ve cut production. They no longer need to offer cars at below break-even prices just to move them off lots. “We know it’s going to be a modest recovery, it’s going to be bumpy,” said Don Johnson, GM's vice president of U.S. sales. “What we don't want to do is get back to putting incentives on the vehicles.” Ford is responding to weaker demand by slowing production in the

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Owen’s kicks off art series Zohra Sarwari’s presentation “No, I Am Not a Terrorist!” will lead Owens Community College’s art series Sept. 13. Country music artists Buffalo Rome will follow Sept. 17. For a complete list of event times and ticket prices, call (567) 661-2787. For all other information, visit the college’s website at www.owens.edu. —John Dorsey

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Mann working on musical, to play new songs in Ann Arbor By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

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Aimee Mann is all about finding the right combination to deliver a cerebral punch loaded with dark humor. “I write things that to me are very funny, but the music, if it’s a little melancholy, always gives it a little edge,” she said. The singer-songwriter practices perfecting those sharp jabs. “When I was writing the second ‘’Til Tuesday’ record, … I think maybe one line per song I would think to myself, you know, I think that’s a pretty good line,” she said. “And I still feel like that’s the mark I try to hit, having one really good line in a song.” These days, Mann is landing that hook writing new songs for a musical

about a boxer dealing with addiction based on her 2005 album, “The Forgotten Arm,” which won a Grammy Award for best recording package. “‘The Forgotten Arm’ is about addiction, and it’s this story about these people who meet and fall in love, but the guy’s a drug addict and you know kind of how that goes,” Mann said during a call from her Los Angeles home. “[I] started writing new songs for [the musical] with [bassist] Paul Bryan,” she said. “And we went to see a bunch of musicals together and were kind of talking about what we liked and what we didn’t like. It was sort of like a fun project and fun idea and one that maybe we could be good at, which remains to be seen.” Mann said “The Forgotten Arm” will be for the stage.

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“My understanding is it takes years to develop, you know, you have readings, stagings and rewritings, so I have no idea when it would actually be in a shape for anybody to see,” she said. “But we have a bunch of songs and we have a rough draft and I think now just starts the long rewriting process.” Fans who have tickets to her sold-out Sept. 21 show at The Ark in Ann Arbor will have the chance to hear some new music. Mann will be joined by Bryan and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. “I’ll probably play a song called ‘It’s So Easy to Die,’ and I might play a song called ‘Eiffel Tower,’ ” she said. “‘It’s So Easy to Die’ is kind of ruminating on how, when people overdose, it’s just an accident.” Growing up, Mann said she lis-

tened to singer-songwriters — James Taylor, Neil Young, The Beatles — and was interested in the stage. “I was in the drama club when I was a kid, in high school, and I really loved it; I have to say I really was kind of a theater nerd. It’s really kind of funny that this opportunity has come my way to nostalgically revisit my theater nerd past.” Mann, who most remember as the punk girl who causes a scene fighting with her cheating boyfriend at Carnegie Hall in the video for “Voices Carry,” from her “’Til Tuesday” album received an Oscar

nomination for “Save Me,” one of eight songs she wrote for the 1999 movie “Magnolia.” In 2000, she released “Bachelor No. 2” and led the wave of independent artists. “There’s that experience you have when you listen to something that you really connect with, and I just hope people feel that connection [with my music] because when it happens, whether it’s music or a movie or a book or whatever, it’s really special and it’s really rare, and it would be great if I could be part of that for somebody,” Mann said.

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Audience picks the program at Adrian jazz show for every time. “Let’s say somebody wants to hear ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ … we give them the option,” Kosins said. “How would you like to hear this song? Would you like to hear it

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Kathy Kosins’ Live by Request jazz show gives the audience what they ask

as a ballad? Would you like to hear it up-tempo? Would you like to hear it with a Latin twist?” Kosins, a Detroit area native, has toured the United States and Europe singing jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and R&B.

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DIA brings art to the street Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is displaying life-size reproductions of artwork from its collections throughout cities in southeast Michigan. In partnership with SM/ART Editions the museum presents Inside Out, which will showcase 40 pieces of art in public spaces through November. DIA Inside Out is part of the museum’s 125th anniversary celebration, said Larry Baranski, director of public programs for DIA. “It’s free for all. We hope to peak peoples’ curiosity about the real thing and hopefully interest them to come down and explore the rest of our collection,” he said. “We put them in places people will come across them in their normal coming and goings.” For more information and a list of locations, visit www.dia.org. —Kristen Rapin

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

SEPT. 12-18, 2010

Events: Mercury direct station in Virgo (12th); Pluto direct station and Mars enters Scorpio (14th)

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Great dividends. Others demonstrate effective methods that are different from your own. Obstacles dissolve and necessary changes swing into motion. Partnerships are effective on many levels this week, and team power leads to achievements you can’t reach alone.

Called to serve. This is a good week on a number of levels. You’re proven right about previous hunches, and friends lead you to exactly the person or opportunity you’re seeking. New ways of serving others turns out to be a remarkable source of prosperity and abundance.

Finding common ground. No more wallowing in the mire! You return to solid ground this week and race toward achievement, hitting successive home runs after Wednesday. Explore exciting possibilities over the weekend. New partnerships may be the key to triumph.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Toxic cleanup. Frustrations and fears hampering progress are flushed out of your system as the week begins. You surge into action after Tuesday. New relationships bloom after Wednesday. Ingenious solutions on multiple levels bring renewed hope and confidence.

Shaping destiny. As the week begins, your mind and emotions are harmonized. This new inner balance gives the strength and motivation to pursue goals and get results. Love relationships benefit from internal and external improvements and lead to a superb weekend.

Pure potential. Unexpected changes at the beginning of the week profoundly change your expectations and long-term goals. Incredible new methods or ideas lead to unconsidered resolutions. Share your enthusiasm and breakthroughs with others over the weekend.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Mirrored emotions. Minor adjustments made early in the week prove effective. After Wednesday, excellent contacts and brilliant ideas affect needed transformations. Work with others to resolve workplace struggles, loved ones’ troubles and personal frustrations.

Revitalized expectations. Past weeks of confusion and doubt fade as people seem to crawl out of the woodwork to help you. One thing you do this week can make all the difference in the world and will yield many other benefits. A stable long-term path is open to you now.

Steady willpower. Partners and friends share exciting developments as the week starts. Adjusting goals or methods midweek produces career breakthroughs and/or fixes domestic situations. A weekend journey leads to the discovery of buried treasures or hidden wealth.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Interpreting signals. Talk is good as the week starts, but you seek reassurance and guarantees. Others confirm your intentions and offer unique or surprising ways of locking intentions into place. Walls of resistance crumble to dust as the weekend arrives.

Fertility fetish. Sometimes other people are right. Follow those who are surging ahead as the week begins. After Wednesday, others teach you a thing or two about love and relationships. Go with the flow; new feelings and depths are waiting to be explored.

Healing old wounds. Discussions with others transform your understanding and give new methods for dealing with frustrating situations. Problems fixed, you can shift your attention to more pleasing subjects. The weekend holds wonderful possibilities for love and friendship.

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