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OPINION

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

LIGHTING THE FUSE

A brief pause

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espite a disappointing turnout, the Sept. 15 primary election narrowed the fields of candidates and cleared up the November races.

Congratulations to mayoral finalists Keith Wilkowski and Mike Bell. We know the race between the two men will be intense, but fair.

There will now be time to focus on each candidate’s message and, hopefully, inspire more voters to hit the voting booths in Thomas F. POUNDS November.

Congratulations also to the 12 surviving council candidates who will square off: Rob Ludeman, George Sarantou, Joe McNamara, Phil Copeland, Steve Steel, Polly Taylor-Gerken, Adam Martinez, Kevin Milliken, Constantine Stamos, Terry Shankland, Tricia Lyons and Terry Biel. There will now need to be spirited debate to narrow this field of familiar faces and new names.

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner got his way with the failure of Issue 1, but it remains to be seen if that will be in the best interest of the city. The “Nine is Fine” issue also failed, but it is an idea that merits further discussion and elaboration.

Also, the City of Toledo owes a few thank yous.

Thank you to Jim Moody, D. Michael Collins and Ben Konop, who invigorated the race and contributed many ideas and innovations to the discussion. It is bold and risky to make such a public declaration of leadership and these men deserve our gratitude. We will undoubtedly hear from each of them again.

Thank you to the men and women who ran for council but did not make the cut this time: Mark Clark, Stephen Ward, Jeff Cromwell, John Adams Jr., Hans Schnapp, David Washington, Steve Sulewski, Michael Watson, Ty Daniels, Joseph Carter and Jeremiah Van Buren. We hope you will not be discouraged, but will continue to lead and seek office as you progress in your lives and careers.

These pages will dive into these races, as well as school board and upcoming levies, as we race to November. The election will be here before you know it, as will our opportunity to shape Toledo’s future.

It’s OK to stop and relish the achievements, but the pause will be brief; there is a lot of work between now and Election Day. Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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The choice

ell, here we are, after some of the dust has settled, but director for a Rocketboom.com Web show.

Abby Bollenbacher moved to Los Angeles, where she has lived we’re really only at the beginning, aren’t we? The field has been narrowed; the candidates are fewer, but the work for about a year. She is doing small theater projects and auditioning for TV, film and commercial work. is not over. A lot of time and energy went into getAnd Julia Johnston has parlayed the gig into ting us to this point, but there is no time to rest. We true local celebrity, boosting FOX’s branding and still have a lot of thinking to do before we get to the aiding the community events where she makes apfinish line; we still have a long way to go before we pearances. Johnston has that elusive star quality that can make The Choice. draws people to her; very few people in the audiThere are still many hills to climb before we setions cared about the weatherman or the editor, lect The One; the person who will stand before us despite our combined power to crush armies and through good and bad; the personality we will look form new galaxies. All of them, however, gushed to for inspiration and guidance. and blushed when meeting Johnston.

I am referring, of course, to the selection of the Julia is a star, and FOX is going to miss her. next Face of FOX Toledo.

With all of this at stake, one would assume the As one of this year’s judges, I have witnessed the Michael S. MILLER auditioners would be prepared. Not all of them competition with interest. For almost the entire five years Toledo Free Press has been in business, FOX Toledo has been were going to be talented and articulate and easy on the eyes, but an ally and partner, trading content and promotions, along with they would be prepared.

Not so much. A number of people applying for a job on FOX sponsoring political debates and covering news events. The current team at FOX — Station Manager Gary Yoder, News Director Toledo could not name a show on FOX Toledo, except “The SimpSteve France, Assignment Manager Wendy Sheridan, Creative sons.” Not “Family Guy” or “24” or “Glee” or “House,” not even, Services Director Betsy Russell, Technical Director Darla Nielsen irony of ironies, “American Idol.”

If you are thinking about auditioning for this gig next year, and news team members Laura Emerson, Shaun Hegarty and Heather Miller — are openminded, creative and collaborative. As how about doing a little homework? Don’t show up at a FOX event an added bonus, they have never lied to us or reneged offers, as and talk about “CSI.” It was fascinating to watch the most confident, intelligent other local TV stations have, and you know who you are.

When we have approached FOX for opportunities on debates, people freeze in front of the camera. One of the FOX camera crew news stories and contests like Song of Toledo, the station has been referred to a “soul-sucking switch” on the camera, and it really an invaluable partner. So when they asked if I would help choose did look like that. People who walked in jiving and undaunted, looking like they could sing a solo during halftime of the Super the next Face of FOX Toledo, I jumped in.

“Help judge other people from a God-like throne and dash Bowl, turned into blocks of cement when the camera hit them. some dreams while making others come true?” I thought. “Sure, I I have limited TV experience, and I understand it’s a challenge at first, but if you’re going to apply for a job on stage, maybe you can do that. It will be like owning a daily newspaper.”

So, for two blocks of days, I joined FOX Chief Meteorolo- should work out your stage fright issues first. I’m just saying.

I would never make fun of specific people who auditioned (in gist Doug Moats, current Face of FOX Toledo Julia Johnston and Promotions Producer Cyndy Mackley in auditioning people who this space, at least), but the next time you see an “American Idol” want to springboard to fame and fortune, while promoting the judge straining to keep from laughing as some deluded contestant FOX lineup and appearing at community events. On Aug. 15, we performs with all the gravity of a brick and all the talent of one auditioned people at Appliance Center in Maumee; on Aug. 20, as well, know that it is difficult to maintain composure to spare we did it again at Ed Schmidt Auto Group in Perrysburg. Meeting someone’s feelings, especially when you glance at Johnston’s scoreoutside Toledo did not discourage applicants; we saw more than card and she has written and underlined the word “hippie” on it in 200 hopefuls, in person and on video, some from Cleveland, Fort describing the contestant.

Another “Idol” tie-in: While we saw scores of talented, nice Wayne and even Philadelphia. There were men and women in equal number, with a nice amount of diversity in the races and people who make you want to be their friend and cheer them on, it’s the one or two (or 20) duds who ingrain themselves in the backgrounds of the contestants.

It was the closet thing to being an “American Idol” judge I can brain’s highlight reel.

As of this writing, the hundreds have been narrowed to 14; you imagine. We judges (the copy editors are making me keep the “j” lowercase), sat behind a table with Coke products in front of us can vote at www.foxtoledo.com to choose someone to stand beside and waited as each Face applicant was walked into the room. The the judges’ top four picks. The final day of judgment will be Sept. typical applicant introduced him or herself; we asked basic get-to- 28; in early October, FOX Toledo will announce its winner. I honknow-you question, and then the person auditioning was asked estly have no idea who will win, although I have two favorites.

So, we get back to the examination and consideration. I have to face the camera and say why he or she should be the next Face of FOX Toledo. We kept score in a dozen or so categories, such as faith the FOX crew will pick the right person, and a new star will “articulate,” “star quality” and “originality.” be born. Just you watch.

Now, keep in mind, while we weren’t handing out Oscars, the first three Faces have done well for themselves. Leah D’Emilio Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. Contact him works in New York City, where she is a producer, writer and at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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THE HOT CORNER

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

WITHOUT RESERVATION

No tea, thanks Confessions of a Powerholic A I

don’t know about you, but I’m tional elites, abandons democratic getting sick and tired of the liberties and pursues with redempso-called tea baggers who are tive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of running around the internal cleansing and country on lobbyistexternal expansion.” paid-for buses trying to convince people If this doesn’t define the right wing to that they speak a “tea,” I don’t know for the majority of what does. These soAmericans. In concalled patriots remind cert with loons like me of the Brown Rush, Glenn and Shirts of Nazi fame Sean, they feel free more than anyone to make up the most else. They have no outrageous lies and Don BURNARD scare tactics to try to make sure respect for this country, the office of that Obama doesn’t succeed on any the presidency, the constitution, or level. It doesn’t matter if the seniors, any of the founding fathers’ vision of or the middle class in general, are what kind of country this should be.

The most recent examples of harmed. The most important thing is that this band of sore losers dis- idiocy are the claim that the presirupts anything that might give dent’s speech to schoolchildren was credit to a Democratic president, an attempt to advance his “socialist” agenda. Give me a break. Next, we especially a black one.

These racist, xenophobic cretins follow up with Rep. Joe Wilson of love to preach about how Obama South Carolina calling the president is leading us down the path of so- a “liar” on the floor of the Congress cialism, and portray him as a fas- during his speech because Obama cist Nazi, when I would be willing said illegal aliens would not be covto bet my next paycheck that 99 ered by the health care legislation percent of them couldn’t give you being debated. Perhaps if Good Ol’ a rational description of what con- Joe read the bills, assuming he can stitutes socialism, fascism or even read, he would have noticed that Nazism. One of the favorite ploys of both the House and Senate versions the puppet masters of the right is to exclude illegals from coverage. The accuse their enemies of being what Republican leadership tisk-tisked they really are. Perhaps, instead of the violation of congressional rules taking all of their demagoguery at and told everyone how wrong they face value, people should take the thought it was to do that, but intime to read up on the subjects that credibly didn’t disavow the message. are being thrown around with vir- Perhaps, they prefer to be illiterate tually no context whatsoever. on the subject, too.

Historian Robert Paxton has The Republican Party has bespent years studying what makes come a party of radical fringe elea country turn fascist. In 1998, he ments, who think the fact that a published a paper in “The Journal black man becoming the president of American History” in which he of the United States is a direct attack laid out the five steps that take place on their manhood, and everything for fascism to gain control. I’m not this country is s’posed to be, and corgoing to outline them in a column porate shills who will use these dupes this size, but I would like to cite to their advantage, even though it is his definition of fascism according against their own best interests. to www.ourfuture.org: “Fascism How did we ever let the inmates is a system of political authority gain control of the asylum for the and social order intended to rein- previous eight years, and why does force the unity, energy and purity the mainstream media give these of communities in which liberal people any credence at all? Why do democracy stands accused of pro- they let obvious lies go unchallenged, ducing division and decline.” in the name of entertainment instead He further elaborates this as “a of responsible journalism?

I would like to thank Sara Robform of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with com- inson for her great articles on the munity decline, humiliation or vic- rise of fascism in America, on the timhood and by compensatory cults Web site ourfuture.org. Her articles of unity, energy and purity, in which are well worth the read. a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy, E-mail columnist Don Burnard at but effective collaboration with tradi- letters@toledofreepress.com.

typical chick flick complete hungry rulers who have cursed with the love interest, rocky Toledoans with their presence ever middle and wonderful since they decided to enter the premier political zoo ending, “Confessions in Northwest Ohio. of a Shopaholic” is the The desires are never movie a typical man permanently satisfied would not want to be — the definition of caught renting alone addiction — and the or have in his DVD thrill of reaching the player. However, it was mayoral office on the in mine and I admit it.

22nd floor will soon My excuse is my wife wear off if a powerholic wanted to watch it.

What’s yours?

Tom MORRISSEY takes the reins. Lack of the thrill serves as the The shopaholic is in debt thousands of dollars, carrying only reason for Mayor Carty Finkseveral maxed out credit cards and beiner’s infamous and ridiculous suffering from a weakness for clothes display of power by disrespecting and accessories. Despite the deep the Marines in Jan. 2008.

Can much else besides addiction financial hole, character Rebecca Bloomwood still grabs the shovel to power explain why one is willing to dig deeper for a particular green to spend thousands of dollars of scarf. With friendly mannequins other people’s money to hold a temp encouraging her excesses that have job in which one is supposedly remorphed into needs, she becomes sponsible for nearly to 300,000 convinced this accessory will change people, with cameras documenting her life, and make her world a better moves, journalists describing misplace. The scarf will advance her life, takes, bloggers ripping policy deciopen up doors to incredible oppor- sions and recall campaign threats tunities and make her fashionably ir- lurking around the corner? Is the resistible. How could one go wrong forced strip search of a duty bound media and inquisitive electorate rewith mannequins in agreement?

The overpriced piece of material ally that charming?

Powerholics don’t go into debt in shoves Rebecca further off the financial edge as the need to reel in the the traditional sense; no maxed out thrilling scarf demands the use of credit cards exist. Rather, the addicts all her cash, several different credit become indebted to specific donors cards and a 20 from a complete who donated massive sums with exstranger. The accessory satisfies her pectations that need to be delivered need for a moment, but the need for on. In the pursuit of the perfect acdesigner tags and great bargains still cessory, indebtedness of policy is a small sacrifice sitting harmlessly on resides under the surface.

Outside Hollywood, Toledo the clearance rack.

Beyond the insanity and ininspires too many comparisons, a city seen as an accessory to acquire. debtedness of certain mayoral Toledo plays the role of the green candidates, the powerholics spend scarf satisfying the urges of power an immense amount of time and

money conspiring to become mayor to the extent of hiring conspiracy managers, also known as campaign managers.

In the midst of the gloom and despair inflicted on the powerholic’s victims, there is hope. The light switch controlling the illumination in the tunnel is still flicked on, but drastic measures must be taken.

Immediate exit from the public sector is necessary. Occupying the 22nd floor as mayor of Toledo will not satisfy one’s condition, only exacerbate the issue. The addiction to power, like any other addiction, doesn’t affect just the addicted, thus the need for action.

Stephen Moore’s novelization of the graphic novel “V For Vendetta” depicts a scene in which V, the anarchist — terrorist — is talking to his assistant, Evey Hammond as she recalls a quote her father was fond of. “Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover things up.”

Politicians like Finkbeiner and Ben Konop are certainly nothing like Ayn Rand and George Orwell — authors who cranked out classic works of fiction for the sole purpose of illuminating the truth.

Our political elite crank out lies for the sole purpose of extending their power.

After much contemplation and meditation focused on “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” and seeing a similarity to Toledo, two questions remain: Will Toledo continue to participate in the powerholic’s cover- ups this election season, and where do I turn in my Man Card?

E-mail columnist Tom Morrissey at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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Why did you squander your right to vote?

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just do not understand people. The Lucas County Board of ElecThe Sept. 15 primary election tions reported that of 217,144 regwas your chance to narrow the istered voters, only 40,069 people voted in the primary field of candidates for election in Toledo Toledo mayor and only and Oregon. That is a slim percentage of just 18.45 percent of you bothered to head registered voters. to the polls. We should In the Toledo maybe proud of our right to oral race 36,307 voters vote. We should exercast their ballots. It cise that right. Instead, seems sort of sad conmany ignore it. Those sidering more than same people are the 45,000 signatures were first to complain about collected in Take Back the person they didn’t Heather MILLER Toledo’s effort to recall Mayor Carty bother to vote for or against.

Let me break the numbers down. Finkbeiner from office. Assuming

all of those signatures belonged to registered voters, not everyone who wanted Carty recalled cared enough about who could become Toledo’s next mayor to head to the polls.

I would love to hear some of the excuses people have for not voting. It was a sunny, warm day, so weather couldn’t have been a factor.

Polls were open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thirteen hours should be enough time to scoot over to your polling place, right? OK, you probably had to work. Wait — early voting began Aug. 11. I guess a month just isn’t enough time.

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OPINION

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

GUEST COLUMN

Lectures from the Unbelieving

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wo years ago, we invited some UT students from What can those on The Freedom From Religion India to our home for Thanksgiving dinner. They Foundation fear? If they do not believe in an all-knowing, were delighted to participate in this great Amer- all-powerful God, what could be the harm of prayer? It ican holiday, but it left me in a quandary. would be like the recitation of a poem. It I knew the students were vegetarians, yet seems as if a destructive element wishes I didn’t want to cheat my family out of the to not just elevate non-western traditions, great tradition of eating a Thanksgiving but the goal appears to destroy the underturkey. What to do? In the end, I served up pinnings of western thought, religion and Tom Turkey without the usual pomp and principles. ceremony. He was sliced in the kitchen inBenjamin Franklin was one of the 42 stead of being carved at the table on a big delegates present at the writing and signing platter. We thanked the Almighty Creator of the Constitution. He was the only man before partaking — and no one was ofto sign all five of the most important documents upon which The United States fended. Imagine if my guests had made Jenifer CHRISTIAANSE was built including the Declaration of Ina terrific scene lecturing us on the evils of eating flesh, praying to one God and participating in a dependence. As the four or five weeks in composing the holiday reserved for gluttony when so many in India are Constitution dragged out with little unanimity, Franklin called out to the president of the assembly, George starving. How rude they would have been.

But there is a rude, rogue group of people from Wis- Washington, saying, “How has it happened, Sir, that we consin trying to dictate their lack of belief upon Toledo have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to City Council after receiving a complaint from a Toledo the Father of Lights to illumine our understanding? In resident, and upon those who would ask for blessings the beginning of the contest with Britain when we were from the Almighty. Though they don’t attend meetings, sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for they cry outrage. Though it is not illegal to offer prayer, the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they have decided to impose their minority views upon they were graciously answered. ... I have lived, Sir, a long Toledo by protesting the opening prayer. Their modus time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I operandi is to intimidate. Were these same rapscallions see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. at the Continental Congress, they would have picketed And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His the Founding Fathers who, in the Constitution, ac- notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His knowledged a Creator. They would rewrite “The Pledge aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, of Allegiance,” re-mint our coins and paper money, that ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain and demand that presidents not take the oath of office that build it.’ I firmly believe this: and I also believe that upon a Bible if they could. In court, they would bar the without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this pophrase, “So help me God.” And what of our state seal? litical building no better than the builders of Babel. We At the time our nation was formed, Islam was a thriving shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our religion, Buddha had lived and passed in the sixth century, projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall beand Hinduism was well entrenched. Yet, none of the Founding come a reproach and a byword down to future ages. ... I Fathers were Muslim, Hindu or anything other than Bible-be- therefore, beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayer imlieving and God-fearing. The Bible was quoted often, Con- ploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our gress opened in prayer, and no one complained. Why then deliberations be held in this assembly every morning we do we even entertain this fringe group 235 years later? Why proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy do they cause commotion and generate newspaper articles in this city be requested to officiate in that service.” when they speak? They are like little gnats upon a noble beast.

Here, here! We must not abrogate to a small minority These Wisconsin wimps cannot lecture Congress, so they are choosing to exert their influence upon cities like Toledo. the future and destiny of this city and this nation.

In the name of tolerance, they are choosing to be intolerant.

E-mail Jenifer Christiaanse at letters@toledofreepress.com.

Their faith is their cause, and they are ardent and vocal.

■ MILLER CONTINUED FROM A4 The best excuse I heard was related to me by a co-worker. He stopped by a gas station on his way home from covering the election and the clerk told him she didn’t even know there was an election until she watched the coverage on the news.

I guess all of the stories Toledo’s newspapers, TV and radio stations had been covering for the past nine months were lost on her.

Is it ignorance or simply laziness that prompts people to sit back and watch? I really can’t decide; they pretty much go hand in hand.

Let’s see if it’s any better come November. Care to place any bets?

Heather Miller is a reporter for FOX Toledo First at 4 and First at 10.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Provide reliable health care — to everyone Recently, I received a letter from one of Toledo’s major insurance providers. It told me how financially draining it would be to have a major illness with no insurance and why they could be trusted with my health and peace of mind.

The irony was that I already have a relationship with that particular company. I had their coverage during 2008, when I had a cancer scare.

Upon my doctor’s advice — and after checking with HR at work — I scheduled an MRI. The good news: no cancer. The bad news: a $4,000 bill that’s been hanging over my head ever since because of a denied claim — from the same people who now want to sell me peace of mind. Thanks for the concern — let me get back with you once my appeal is resolved.

This is the problem with America’s insurance system. Regular people like me get stiffed on a regular basis because the profit motive outweighs concern for anyone’s health. And yet I’m lucky to have a job that provides insurance at all. The United States needs to catch up with every other industrialized nation and provide reliable health insurance to every citizen. Period.

PEG MORRISON, Toledo

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JUST BLOWING SMOKE

Congressional apology

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couldn’t help thinking this most of those seeking public office?

While we are at it though, why week about the furor over the Joe Wilson outburst during the should we really want it? Oh, I know that we often president’s speech on talk about bi-parhealth care reform tisan support and during a joint session compromise in poof Congress. Now, litical discourse, Mr. Wilson is a Rebut few of us actupublican member of ally want it. We, in the House of Reprefact, have a twosentatives from South party system, which Carolina, a group should in theory never particularly mean two differing known for its good political philosomanners. Members Tim HIGGINS phies. If this is to of the House (and apparently those from South Carolina be more than simple rhetoric, one in particular) have not only spoken would expect such philosophy to ill of each other over the years, but be passionately held and fervently have actually come to blows. In May defended. Where such passion 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks of South and fervor exists, how can we not Carolina beat Sen. Charles Sumner expect spontaneous outbursts of of Massachusetts with a cane on the emotion to be part of the debate floor of this august assemblage about from time to time.

Was Wilson’s behavior rude? a speech that he had given a few days before. As a result, Sumner was un- There is little doubt. Was such able to resume his position for some behavior in 2005 equally inapthree years as he recovered from propriate? Yes. Was this breach of wounds; while Brooks, recognizing decorum emblematic of society in that he had committed a breach of general? Absolutely!

Not content with Wilson’s decorum (and of Sumner’s head), apology to the president that evesubsequently resigned.

We no longer seek to settle our ning, however, Democrats are depolitical differences with physical manding an additional apology violence on the floor of Congress from Rep. Wilson, this time on the however, and the days of dueling floor of the House where his offense are long past in this country (some- was committed. He was told that times I believe, more is the pity). only by doing so could he forestall Should we, therefore, be shocked some form of censure at the hands by this latest outburst during this of his fellows. He refused, and by joint session of Congress? Is such a vote of 240 to 179, was given a behavior unprecedented in recent “resolution of disapproval.

Is there yet another Congrespolitics? Not according to many, who point to the reaction of the sional apology owed? Indeed there party in opposition to the Bush is. It is one, however, that all of State of the Union speech in 2005. Congress owes to the American Portions of President Bush’s speech people. It is an apology that all of were met with “boos” from some the members of both parties and of those of the same party that now both houses owe us for turning politics into bad theater instead of claim to be guardians of decorum.

At a time when most of what impassioned debate on ideology. It was once considered polite be- is an apology for abandoning what havior has disappeared, drowned they claimed was strongly held out by decibel-pounding rhythms principles when seeking office, blasted from moving automobiles in the name of expediency and and ringing cell phones in movie compromise once they get it. It is theaters, should it really be much an apology for the for being disinof a surprise that our elected rep- genuous about the very manners resentatives exhibit the same lack that they claim to demand only to that society does? When road rage disregard such decorum when pohas become a recognized disorder, tential political advantage for their can it be much of a shock that our side exposes itself.

As for Mr. Wilson and his faux elected representatives represent the breaches of decorum and etiquette? pas, two things — No. 1: Apology And more importantly, given the accepted and ’nuff said; No. 2): tenor of most political campaigns, Thanks for not bringing a cane. what would lead any person with common sense to expect that Tim Higgins blogs at http://just common courtesy is possible of blowingsmoke.blogspot.com.

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MCCC sets enrollment record For the first time in its 45-year history, Monroe County Community College (MCCC) has surpassed the 4,600 mark for credit enrollment.

According to a news release, the fall semester credit enrollment figure of 4,624 is up 110 students versus last year’s record of 4,514, an increase of 2.4 percent. The total students served this year by MCCC will exceed 9,000.

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CAMERAMAN SEAN LEWIS, LEFT, AND PRODUCER SUEMAY ORAM, FAR RIGHT, INTERVIEW KAYLEE HALKO FOR THE UPCOMING TLC DOCUMENTARY WITH THE WORKING TITLE, ‘OLD BEFORE THEIR TIME.’

Local child to be featured in TLC documentary

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

Kaylee Halko couldn’t wait for Aug. 21. She wore a pink shirt and tennis shoes, black shorts, a white hat with a pink ribbon on it and a white sweatshirt. The 6-year-old grabbed her Barbie backpack and headed to the bus stop with her brother, Jacob, 8.

She climbed aboard bus No. 32 bound for Monclova Primary School for her first day of kindergarten.

Millions will get a glimpse of her big day. A documentary on Kaylee is being filmed for TLC, which plans a December premiere. The working title of the film is “Old Before Their Time.” TLC released this description: “This one-hour documentary follows the extraordinary stories of two young girls suffering from pro-

geria and the hope of finding a cure for this rare disorder, which causes the body to age eight to 10 times faster than normal.”

It took almost three months for Tim and Marla Halko to decide if their daughter and three sons would be in the documentary.

“We wanted to make sure it was the right thing for us and what kind of story it would be,” Marla said.

“It’s basically how Kaylee lives, and

it’s going to address progeria. We thought that would be a good way for people to learn about the disease.”

“It’ll focus more on the fact that — besides looks — she’s your typical, normal 6-year-old. I think that’s what they’ll see,” Tim said. “She’s as goofy as any other 6-year-old.”

Filming Kaylee’s story are director and producer Suemay Oram and cameraman Sean Lewis. They

are freelancers working for Blink Films of London.

“We haven’t been to school yet as it was Kaylee’s first day, and we thought it would be best if she just did it by herself without any of us there,” Oram said. “We filmed her getting on the bus, though. I think that was the biggest thing for her, to get on the bus with the older kids.”

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“Kaylee wanted the bus. I wasn’t sure. But she did it. She went up and down those steps; she did fine,” Marla said. “It made me nervous, but it’s been a big deal since last year — she wanted to ride the bus.”

No challenge is too big for Kaylee, who stands about 36 inches tall and weighs 21 pounds.

She is one of 53 children in the world who has progeria, a rare, fatal condition characterized by accelerated aging caused by a gene mutation. The disorder has a reported incidence of about one in 4 million to 8 million newborns, according to the Progeria Research Foundation Inc. Signs of progeria include growth failure, loss of body fat and hair, stiff joints, aged-looking skin, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis, heart disease and stroke. Children with the condition die of heart disease at an average age of 13.

Kaylee started the first clinical drug trial for progeria in 2007 and will begin a new triple-drug trial this month.

And she loves the camera.

“Kaylee is a comedian,” Oram said. “She is very, very funny and very approachable and very adventurous; she’s not scared of anything.”

“I think all the kids like [being in the documentary]. Kaylee thinks she’s a star,” Marla said.

Oram and Lewis were in Toledo one week in August. They hung out at the Halko home in Monclova, followed the family around town and to Cedar Point, and visited the University of Michigan to talk to the doctor who diagnosed Kaylee in 2004.

“I hope people get to know

Kaylee — I think that’s the main point — and for people to understand progeria,” Oram said. “Maybe when they see Kaylee, they won’t stare, they think, ‘Oh, she’s got progeria, I understand what that is.’ I think that’s important — they get to know her, raising awareness, getting to know the family.”

Oram and Lewis seemed at home with the Halkos. After eating dinner, both put their plates and utensils in the dishwasher. And while Lewis got the camera ready, Oram showed Brendan, 9, a magic trick with a deck of cards.

Outside, Oram told the family they were going to film portrait shots. After she arranged everyone, Kaylee kept making faces.

Tim said, “Kaylee! K-Ray, it’s time to be serious!”

“You want to look beautiful, Kaylee, not crazy, beautiful,” Marla coaxed.

“The Halkos are an awesome, awesome family. I’ve had more fun on this shoot than I’ve had on pretty much any shoot,” Lewis said. “I hope [the documentary] gives a greater understanding of progeria and really what a lovely girl Kaylee is and the support the community gives to the Halkos and what it is to strive for a cure.”

Oram and Lewis will return to finish filming next month. They’ll be here for Kaylee’s Course, the fourth annual race for progeria, which will start at 10 a.m. Oct. 10 at Monclova Primary School, 8035 Monclova Road.

Cost for the 5K run/2-mile walk is $12 for those who register in advance and $15 the day of the event; children 10 and younger are free.

Registration begins at 9 a.m. race day. A silent auction also will be held. Proceeds will go to the Pro-

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FROM LEFT, JACOB, BRENDAN AND T.J. WITH THEIR SISTER KAYLEE.

geria Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to discovering treatments and a cure for the condition.

Last year, about 300 people braved the heavy rain and hit the trail. About $40,000 was raised.

The Halkos have raised $110,000

in three years.

Participants who register early will receive a T-shirt designed by Kaylee’s older brother, T.J., 11.

Register via e-mail to Tim and Marla at tmhalko@msn.com. Silent auction items and sponsorships also are needed.

Triple-drug trial for progeria commences As the first clinical drug trial for progeria winds down, researchers are gearing up for round two.

Kaylee Halko is one of 28 children from 16 countries in the first trial. She has been treated with farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) for two years.

Researchers hope FTI prevents a molecule known as the farnseyl group from attaching to the progerin protein, improving or stopping the disease, according to the Progeria Research Foundation Inc. Studies showed FTI improved bone density, reduced bone fractures, delayed the onset of the condition, and helped with weight gain in a mouse model of progeria.

Results are expected to be published in April, according to Audrey Gordon, president and executive director of the Progeria Research Foundation.

“Right now we do have treatment recommendations, but they’re more for quality of life types of things — some nutrition to get more weight on the children and aspirin to help with their heart, and occupational and physical therapy for their stiff joints,” she said. “So while those are all great treatments that do help somewhat, to have a drug treatment be effective in some way would be history-making and would be extremely exciting for

everyone involved. We won’t know until [the results are] formally published.”

Meanwhile, researchers have added two drugs — pravastatin and zoledronate — to the assault.

“After the first trial started, new studies came out that said, ‘hey, we think there are two other drugs that may be helpful that attack this mutant protein at different places along the pathway than the FTI drug,’ ” Gordon explained. “I call it the triple whammy; we hope all three of these drugs work together well and are even more effective than the current FTI drug that’s being used now.”

When Kaylee goes to the Children’s Hospital Boston this month for her final visit for the first trial, she’ll start the triple-drug trial.

“We’re really not wasting any time,” Gordon said. “We’re just really excited to move right into this [trial], to not have to wait a couple more years for another trial to be started.”

Kaylee will be one of 45 children in the new study who will be monitored by researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — all Harvard University institutions — and their local doctors. Investigators from the Warren Alpert Medical School at

Brown University, UCLA and the National Institutes of Health also are involved with the trial.

The Progeria Research Foundation raised $2 million for the first trial and needs $1.7 million for the new study.

“Close to 90 cents of every dollar goes to our programs, goes to the medical research, to the trials, to the grants, to raise awareness. That’s a very high percentage compared to some other charities,” Gordon said.

‘We’ve accomplished so much in such a short time with so little money. In 10 years, [we’ve raised] about $7 million,” she said.

Since 1999, the nonprofit foundation has discovered the LMNA gene causes progeria; established a test to determine if children have progeria; started cell and tissue banks; and raised funds and launched the first clinical drug trial. “[Funding is a] bit of a challenge, but we’ve never not met a challenge, so we’re really excited about just keeping on going,” Gordon said.

— Vicki L. Kroll

On the web visit www.progeriaresearch.org for more.

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Wilkowski, Bell move on in race to be Toledo mayor from Staff Reports Keith Wilkowski said Sept. 15 he was “grateful and humbled by the support shown to him by Toledo voters and that his message of change, as well as the focus on economic development resonated.”

He stated he thought everyone was WILKOWSKI shocked by the lower voter turnout and that meant that he and others had to work even harder to increase voter turnout for November.

Mayoral candidate Ben Konop was seen at Michael’s on Monroe Street, congratulating candidate Wilkowski on the primary win.

Candidate Jim Moody was seen at The Docks congratulating candidate Mike Bell.

Bell said he was ready for the next round of campaigning.

“I am feeling very good about tonight. We have worked very

hard. We had more to overcome than our Democratic opponents because of our independent status, but I am extremely happy for the direction the city is moving toward,” Bell said Sept. 15.

“We can reach across the aisle.”

Bell said he will “get on his motorcycle tomorrow BELL morning and think about what went well and what needs to be worked on. I’m looking forward to the battle.”

Wilkowski said his campaign delivered a message to neighborhoods that “we can turn this economy around — there are things that we can do to put Toledoans to work; that message resonated with voters and I am very, very grateful for all of the hard work that was done on this campaign; and we’re going to continue to work all the way to November and then after that on behalf of the citizens of To-

ledo to make this a great place, a great city again.”

Toledo City Council President Joe McNamara commented on the failure of Issue 1: “Safety first voters were unable to overcome Carty Finkbeiner’s loud and wellfunded misinformation campaign in this election; I still believe this change in the allocation is needed to address the city’s financial crisis and to prevent large scale police layoffs. City Council has taken action this year to reduce the deficit by millions, while Mayor Finkbeiner has rejected every solution to balance the budget presented by Council that would not raise taxes on the middle class families of Toledo. As we move forward, Council members will continue to work together to enact bipartisan budget solutions that put public safety first.”

McNamara thanked Toledo voters for supporting him in the primary and stated he will continue to work hard to come up with responsible budget solutions for Toledo’s financial crisis. He said “while everyone said the numbers were going

to be low, it’s disappointing because our city is in financial crisis and new leadership is needed.”

McNamara said he was pleased with Wilkowski moving into the general election.

“I think Keith has the best ideas to promote job growth and I share his vision for future economic development,” he said.

In 2005, Wilkowski finished third with a voter turnout of 22.2 percent against two former mayors, Carty Finkbeiner and Jack Ford.

Wilkowski ended up with 23 percent of the vote, which put him close to Ford’s 26 percent, but not enough to move on to the No. 2 spot.

For 2009, Wilkowski announced his mayoral intentions much sooner than in 2005 and had a more organized campaign, taking in what worked for the Obama campaign and relying on some of the same volunteer base that was involved with the Toledoans for Obama effort. The Wilkowski campaign was successful with fundraising and was one of the few mayoral campaigns that had a major television ad campaign, though he was never

labeled as the front runner.

Most of the polling done before D. Michael Collins entered the race indicated Michael Bell would be the top finisher.

The Lucas County Board of Elections is predicting 18.45 percent voter turnout. The Lucas County Board of Elections is reporting these unofficial results: ■ Wilkowski first for Toledo Mayor: 11,214. Bell in second place: 10,543. Jim Moody in third: 5,582.

■ Issue 1 (Change 3/4 percent Tax Allocation) failed 19,318 to 16,484.

■ Issue 2 (Nine is Fine) failed 18,537 to 16,648.

■ City council candidates: Rob Ludeman: 17,569 George Sarantou: 17,514 Joe McNamara: 17,447 Phil Copeland: 12,731 Steven Steel: 9,869 Polly Taylor-Gerken: 9,382 Adam Martinez: 7,724 Kevin Milliken: 7,462 Constantine Stamos: 5,597 Terry Shankland: 5,561 Tricia Lyons: 5,543 Terry Biel: 5,394

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From Staff Reports Journalist, editor, author, commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham will speak on the value of a liberal arts education at UT at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24. According to a news release, Meacham is the fifth guest speaker for UT’s Edward Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Series. The program will take place in the Student Union, Main Campus. It is free of charge and open to the public.

Meacham, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., is editor of Newsweek magazine, bestselling author of three historical books and a recent winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He also is a contributing editor for The Washington Monthly and a commentator, recently appearing in various media to discuss the legacy of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. For more information, go to http://www.utoledo.edu/as/.

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Fair offers assistance to local families

By Alissa Romstadt TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

On Sept. 17 the Joint Utility and Social Services Committee (JUSSC) offered a variety of assistance programs to local families.

The JUSSC Information Assistance Fair at the Erie Street Market featured more than 25 local agencies offering services from legal food assistance and everything between.

Columbia Gas is a member of the JUSSC and was at the fair to help people maintain gas service, spokesman Chris Kozak said. “We’re willing to do everything we can,� Kozak said. But it’s important the people call if they have an issue as soon as possible. “We can’t tell from looking at our screens if you’ve lost your job,� he said.

Another benefit of the fair was the range of help offered. For example, Kozak said, the Aids Resource Center can help pay medical bills, freeing up money for utilities.

People might not think of that connection immediately, Kozak said. “We have a lot of people who haven’t been in this situation before.�

Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Toledo is offering a “health and safety and energy efficiency program,� spokeswoman Kevena Cooke said.

The weatherization program, funded by Toledo Edison, Columbia Gas, the State of Ohio and the Federal Department of Energy sends representatives into homes to perform an energy audit, Cooke said.

In addition to blowing cellulose

insulation into the walls, they test the efficiency and safety of appliances, she said.

Many people were able to take advantage of the services offered by the fair. A Toledo resident came to the fair to explore all the opportunities Toledo has to offer.

She found everything she needed and has WILSON it in her bag, she said.

The fair format made finding help much easier, said another resident, who needed help with utility payments and bills.

To apply for the NHS weatherization program, call (419) 691-2900 to request an application.

Walden Wilson, JUSSC chairman, in a Sept. 13 Toledo Free Press guest column, said, “In June, we hosted a similar event and drew more than 3,000 in a dynamic demonstration of just how many need help at this time. “The member organizations of the JUSSC decided to expand the June event, offering information for many, many impactful areas, including utility bills, housing, real estate taxes, foreclosure prevention, home repair and weatherization, home purchasing, rental assistance, food, medical assistance, legal aid, employment and many more.�

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Anthony Bruno has descended into the depths of Belgian coal mines and climbed the heights of 85-foot grain heaps in Maumee to ensure his family’s well-being.

“It was hard to do everything with no car, not talking English,” Bruno, 79, said in a staccato Italian accent. “I don’t know where to go, but I learned every day.”

The table’s centerpiece includes a miniature Italian flag. After World War II, Bruno left his native Candida, Italy, to seek employment.

The war devastated the country’s economy. He said it was common for Italians to leave their motherland for work.

“All the time — after the war, no one had a job or money,” Bruno said.

He took whatever job he could get and found work in a Belgian coal mine in 1952.

“I pushed a button and pulled 20 cars back and forth,” he said. “I didn’t like it. It’s the worst job you could get — a nasty job. The dust you come up with every day — black.”

His daughter, Rose Kreutzfeld, said her father pursued work of any type to provide for his young family.

“He moved away to find something that’d give them good income, but it was a dangerous job,” she said.

Bruno always worked for his five

children and to educate them in his new country. Kreutzfeld said her father set a high standard.

“It’s a hard bar to live up to,” she said. “He set the bar high. Everything he did, he did for us to put us through school.”

Even 54 years later, Kreutzfeld said her father’s first instinct is to look after his family.

“The main goal is to provide,” she said. “You can go to dinner with him, but if you dare go for your wallet — you just don’t do it.”

Bruno arrived in the United States with scant resources, but plenty of responsibilities, Kreutzfeld said.

“He’s very proud of what he has because when he came here, he came with a 5-year-old son, an expecting wife, a trunk with all their belongings and $65 in cash,” she said.

Bruno arrived on the historic ship The Andrea Doria and arrived on Ellis Island. He came to Toledo to work on the C&O Railway for a year.

He soon switched to The Andersons grain division.

“Andersons, for me, is best company in U.S. to work,” Bruno said. “I like everybody. They treated me like one of the family, you know.”

“Everybody calls him ‘Uncle Tony,’” said Mike Anderson, chairman and CEO. “In his earlier years, he was this short Italian who worked hard and was very friendly.

In his older age, he’s never slowed down. His co-workers who are in

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“Tony’s work ethic is as good as it gets,” Anderson said. “He’s the role model of hard work and a great attitude that work keeps you going.”

He climbed the ranks and held a variety of job titles at the Andersons.

“I painted everything,” Bruno said. “I’ve done everything, even engineering. Even train engineer. I drove the train.”

His most vivid memories involved covering grain heaps with tarps. He pulled the table cloth toward him to demonstrate the process.

“It took 16 tarps and maybe 85 feet,” he said. “I put the tarp with the bolts — every tarp, it be $6,000.”

He especially enjoyed operating the dockside trains. As Bruno took out his leather wallet and opened it, he revealed a card from Andersons’ Engine Training Program.

“That’s the easiest job I got. It’s an easy job. You get the radio and when they load, back it up. ‘Go ahead, go ahead!’” he said, gesturing the signal.

Years later, Bruno still shows up at The Andersons to supervise. He refers to the younger employees affectionately as “the kids.”

“I like the kids,” he said. “Andersons, when I started in 1959, there were a lot of school kids — college kids. I was in charge of the kids a lot of times — a lot of busy.”

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■ BRUNO CONTINUED FROM A10 Kreutzfeld said many people in public will recognize and greet his father. And “the kids” affectionately named Bruno, as well.

“Even among the kids that are still there, they’ll call him Uncle Tony,” Kreutzfeld said.

During his long career, Bruno managed to build a spacious home surrounded by woods, vegetable gardens and flower beds on his Holland property. His grandson, Anthony Bruno, said he appreciates his grandfather’s hard work and success.

“I look up to him,” he said. “I think it’s impressive how they started out this way and now they have all these cars and a nice home.”

Bruno’s hard work carried into building his home. He added a basement, as well as more bedrooms. He renovated the whole house. Today, he likes tending to his vegetable and flower gardens and enjoying the fruits of his labor.

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Kreutzfeld said family back in Italy look favorably upon Bruno’s tireless and selfless work ethic.

“They looked at him as a hero for paving a new way of life,” she said.

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Group observes day of remembrance for local childhood murder victims

By Julia Torres TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The grieving never ends and the wound doesn’t heal. With each passing day, the pain may become tolerable, but it never leaves. Eventually, many who’ve lost a child or loved one to murder feel compelled to gather with others who share the same experience. When that time comes, the local chapter of Parents of Murdered Children (POMC) is there for them.

The thought of many will be there for them Sept. 25, during the third annual national Day of Remembrance.

The local POMC chapter will participate with its own candlelight vigil.

Beginning at 7 p.m., the gathering will occur at Blessed Sacrament located at 4227 Bellevue Road and will include remarks delivered

by Etta Carver, winner of the 2004 NAACP Frank Latimer Community Service Award, and a victim herself in losing her mother to homicide.

Locally, this year’s POMC event has been organized by chapterfounder Russ Simpson and his coleaders Raleigh Hendrickson and Les Robinson. All three have lost children to murder. Simpson founded the chapter in 1983 after losing his daughter, Stacy, at age 4 and his son, Scott, 18, to murder. “The first time [my child was murdered in 1969], I hid behind a bottle. The second time [in 1981], I realized I didn’t have to go out and get drunk every night.”

Several weeks ago, Robinson and his wife, Wendy, observed the fourth anniversary of the day their only child, Dionious — “Donnie,” who was murdered at the age of 20. A year later, Wendy heard about POMC from someone at work. She and Robinson attended and have been active in the organization.

Describing his first meeting experience, Robinson said “Up until then, I didn’t feel like I could go anywhere.

I felt stuck. Hearing what other members had gone through, and knowing they’d gone through the same thing made me feel I wasn’t alone, whereas I’d felt that way before. Someone else was just as mad as I was. POMC is a sounding board, somewhere to let out my frustration.”

Amy Peterson, who recently lost her 11-year-old son, Andrew, attended her first POMC meeting in August, announcing that her son had died “five weeks and one day ago.” Expressing her grief and confusion regarding the details of

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her son’s premature death that has been ruled “undetermined” by the Lucas County Coroner’s office, the members in attendance offered her compassion and guidance. Coleader Hendrickson, who lost his own daughter, Stacy, 21, to murder in 1993, attended Peterson’s follow up meeting with the Lucas County Coroner’s office to lend his support because “this is a way I can help other people through the trauma and the emotional roller coaster of losing a child,” he said.

National headquarters for POMC is located in Cincinnati and was established in 1978 “in memory of those who’ve died by violence and in honor of those left behind,” said Nancy Ruhe, executive director of the nonprofit organization.

This year’s event will host its flagship vigil in Washington, D.C., ending at the National Press Club with all members of the U.S. House of Representatives invited.

The local POMC Day of Remembrance is open to the public and several hundred are expected. For those interested in honoring someone they have lost to murder, the organization is offering to include them in its presentation at the event. Contact POMC with the name of the person, their birth date and the date they died at (419) 244-4445 by 4 p.m.

Sept. 23. For more information on the organization’s national events, visit www.pomc.org.

Web site seeks park to ‘honor Andrew’ The last shopping trip Amy Peterson took with her son, Andrew VanHorn, they bought a candy bar.

Inside the wrapper was a sweepstakes offer to win money to build a park, Peterson said. She and Andrew were going to enter — they had been talking about building a park in an open area down the street for years.

Andrew went to that area to play July 13 and was later found dead.

Now, Peterson hopes to build a park in that same field.

“It can’t just be an area with trees,” Peterson said. “It can’t be a place I’m afraid of.”

Peterson found the candy bar wrapper while cleaning out her desk and entered the sweepstakes. On the Web site, she found a link to build her own park, she said.

The City of Toledo does not have money to build a park, but said it would not stand in her way if she raises the money, Peterson said.

“After Andrew died, everyone asked, ‘what can I do to help?’” she said.

Now, she has an answer for them.

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By Brad Kane TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

When students first stepped into the new Arlington Elementary School on Aug. 25, they got everything a modern, freshly built school has to offer.

But Arlington also has something that no other school in the world has to offer; something giving students, teachers, parents and visitors a sense of tradition and a sense of history.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the new Arlington Elementary School was built using the best parts of the old Arlington Elementary School. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People get goosebumps when they walk into the building. They did a really good job,â&#x20AC;? said Arlington principal Lori Reffert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives people a sense of community.

It has all these things that remind people of the old building.â&#x20AC;?

When approaching the new Arlington, visitors will see stone eagles from the old building lining the pathway. After the first entrance into Arlington, the double doors from the old auditorium greet everyone and offer a window in how this new building blends tradition with technology.

Reclaimed brick, salvaged terra cotta crests, decorative stone medallions and wood-framed windows â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all kept from the original

Arlington Elementary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; keep the new building tied to the long history of the school. The old baseball field even remains.

These Arlington traditions were kept alive thanks to a large group of teachers, parents, staff and community members who gave ideas on how to design the new school. The Collaborative, Inc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the company that did the design â&#x20AC;&#x201D; then incorporated those ideas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been a part of this community for so long,â&#x20AC;? said kindergarten teacher Cindy Vogel, who participated in the ideas group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have students whose grandparents went to this school.â&#x20AC;?

In keeping the sense of history, The Collaborative didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t skimp on modern amenities. The school has wireless capability throughout its campus, projectors in every room, an integrated sound system and a gymnasium that opens into a cafeteria well lit with natural light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does have the traditional feel of a school, but in a contemporary sort of way,â&#x20AC;? said Karen Walker, architect and project manager for The Collaborative, Inc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is all blended together to something completely new.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The updates are great. It catches their attention, and it is fun for kids and teachers alike,â&#x20AC;?

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Feel like speaking up? John Best is here to help. Along with his lifelong friend Jim Braker, Best has recently launched a congressional watchdog Web site with one goal in mind: to give their fellow citizens a better chance to be heard in Washington.

Best said www.letsspeakup.com has been designed to give men and women a collective opportunity to speak up on any given topic.

“I have spoken to over 100 fellow citizens who, like I, have written or called their representatives to receives sometimes a form letter in response or no response at all,” Best said. “I have called my senators on several occasions to hear an aide speak in a dismissive manner or act as if my concerns aren’t important.”

More than one year ago, with his own experiences in mind, Best decided enough was enough and began to think seriously about what he could do to make his voice heard.

After talking to friends who expressed similar frustrations, Best and Braker united, and letsspeakup.com was born (on the Fourth of July, no less).

“I have spoken to Democrats, independents and Republicans who are frustrated, angry and scared that bills like socialized medicine, Cap and Trade, illegal immigration and deficit spending are going to bankrupt the average citizen,” Best said.

“I’m pleased that this effort is becoming a bipartisan opportunity to speak up.”

To use the Web site, you must be a member, which comes at a cost of $19.95 per year.

The way his members see it, that’s a small price to pay if it means gaining a greater chance to make a difference.

“A woman in Ann Arbor said the membership fee she paid was much less expensive than all the long-distance phone calls she makes to her congressman and two senators,” Best said.

After spending their days at their full-time jobs, Best and Braker devote their nights and weekends to the Web site, doing research on any and all legislation in front of Congress.

Once the research has been completed, the men write a letter and inform their members via e-mail that it’s been posted on letsspeakup.com.

From that point, the members log on and read the letter.

“If they agree with what we’ve written, they click on the ‘I agree’ tab at the bottom of the letter,” Best said.

If a certain member doesn’t agree, they can simply delete the e-mail.

“Once they have agreed, we print the letter and attach their names and addresses and send them off to Washington,” he said.

“We expect to make a much bigger impact with all those names attached to one letter. Can you imagine thousands of names and ad-

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dresses attached to one letter being sent not only to the members’ individual representative, but to Congresswoman Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid and to the minority leaders in the House and Senate?”

Beyond speaking up on deficit spending, earmarks and term limits for Congress, Best says his Web site’s members have also voiced concerns about the stimulus package and Cap and Trade legislation.

“We have just written a letter on

behalf of our members to the Senate asking them to reject the bill that Congress passed,” he said.

Calling his Web site a grassroots effort, Best said he is pleased with the response thus far. “Without having any money to advertise on Web sites or on radio, we are getting new members each day, and they are telling their friends,” he said.

Although letsspeakup.com already boasts members from five different states, Best said getting it off

the ground has been a challenge.

“It’s expensive,” he said. “My Web developer put a lot of time and energy into this project. I scraped every dime I had together to start this Web site.”

Best said he makes sure to never lose sight of why he and Braker joined forces in the first place.

“For both Jim and me, it’s a labor of love,” he said. “The love is for this country and for our individual rights and freedoms.”

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

Kathy Thompson doesn’t follow the rules. Three strikes and she’s still at the plate.

The three-time breast cancer survivor is being honored as part of this year’s Susan G. Komen Northwest Ohio Race for the Cure.

Every year, the Toledo race pays tribute to a person who has survived breast cancer and inspires other people. Thompson’s daughter, Kelley Miller, submitted an essay on why her mother should be celebrated.

Miller is the oldest of Thompson’s three daughters.

The race also honors a person who has lost the battle. This year, that person will be Leslie Droll.

“I’m very honored,” Thompson, 52, said. “I never thought I did enough or volunteered enough to be chosen for this honor. I feel really good about it.”

Since chosen, Thompson, of Warren, Mich., has been recognized in many ways. She threw the first pitch at the Toledo Mud Hens Komen night. Thompson was also interviewed by WTVG’s Diane Larson.

The interview will be shown at Fifth Third Field after the race Sept. 27, and Miller’s letter will be read.

Thompson was also honored at the survivor’s breakfast Sept. 12.

Thompson is receiving support from her “Kroger family.”

Thompson runs a Kroger store in Sylvania store with more than 150 employees. Kroger is a pink ribbon sponsor of the race and, for the past eight years, Thompson has been acting as a liaison for Kroger and Komen for the Cure.

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KATHY THOMPSON HAS SURVIVED THREE BOUTS WITH BREAST CANCER. SHE RUNS A KROGER STORE IN SYLVANIA.

for a company that supports me,” Thompson said. “It’s very humbling to have so many people in my court.”

Kroger’s advertising agency sent pink sunglasses and hats for Thompson to distribute to her team on race day. The agency also sent reusable grocery bags with pink ribbon handles to honor her at the survivors’ breakfast.

Thompson has 60 people signed up on her personal team for the race, and there are 130 people signed

up for the retail clerk union team, many who are Kroger employees.

Thompson said she estimates more than 250 Kroger employees will walk or run in the race.

“This is the largest participation for Kroger people that we have ever had,” she said.

Thompson’s first bout with breast cancer was in 1989 when she was in her early 30s. Her second battle came in 1997, and she learned the cancer was back for a third time in

February. She underwent a mastectomy in April and, after two months of recovery, she returned to work “I work with the public and have 150 employees and they keep me going,” Thompson said. “I laugh and make fun and make jokes about it. A sense of humor keeps me going.”

Thompson’s mother also had breast cancer and died when Thompson was 17.

“It’s something that’s in my family, so you really have to pay at-

tention,” she said. “Ask questions and educate yourself on things you need to know.”

Thompson encourages women to make sure they get checked often. She detected her cancer all three times.

She said early detection is key.

“Ask every question you want,” Thompson said. “Get a second opinion and a third opinion. Have a support group of friends, family and co-workers and have a sense of humor.”

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ADAM LORENZ IS CAPTAIN OF A RACE FOR THE CURE TEAM FIELDED BY FIRST SOLAR.

vivors line up on the field to form the pink ribbon and a picture is taken.

Up until the race, Lorenz will encourage everyone to join his team, even those who aren’t co-workers.

“I know that my mom would love to know that we were able to do this,” Lorenz said.

Registration for the race is from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sept. 27. Adult registration is $30 and youth registration is $20. For more information on the race or to register early, visit nworace09.kintera.org or call (419) 724-CURE.

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Adam Lorenz is captain of Team First Solar, which will participate in Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure for the first time.

Lorenz vowed to make a difference by “getting people started and wanting to help a good cause.”

So far, Team First Solar has 128 members for the Sept. 27 race. Lorenz said members consist of employees, family members and friends.

Lorenz and his close friend and colleague, Jeremy Brown, are the founders of Team First Solar. They decided to start the team because Lorenz’s mother was a four-year breast cancer survivor who recently died, and Brown’s mother was recently diagnosed with the disease.

“We both felt like we needed to do this,” Lorenz said. “My mother was very active in Reach to Recovery and she did Race for the Cure for five years.”

Lorenz and Brown approached the company about starting Team First Solar. The company, which is based in Perrysburg, agreed to donate $30 for every employee who signs up for the race, as well as T-shirts for all the participants on the team.

“They have been very accommodating as far as the team goes,” Lorenz said. “They have been very good about helping me and the team get word out to the employees.”

Race for the Cure will be in Downtown Toledo. Those who are running start the race first, followed by those who are walking, and then those who are participating in the Family Fun Walk.

Lorenz wants those on his team who are walking to walk together.

“I am hoping we can show how big of a team we are and that we are sticking together for a cause.”

As a team, First Solar has raised more than $14,000 in donations, surpassing its $10,000 fundraising goal.

The team also exceeded its goal of 100 team members. Lorenz said it is exciting to start something that will be an annual event for First Solar.

“People are more than accommodating because they know what me and my family have gone through in the past year,” Lorenz said. “I didn’t realize cancer had touched so many people until I saw how large our team is. I feel really united with them.”

The money from the Northwest Ohio race directly benefits the community. Up to 75 percent of the net proceeds raised are used for local breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs for the underserved in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. The remaining proceeds go to the National Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants program and are used to fund research at the national level.

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ometimes life is a waiting game, and such is certainly the case with the coming correction in the stock market. Day after day, week after week, this market continues higher in a trend built entirely on thin air.

With few fundamentals to support this market recovery, investor sentiment is nearing levels of bullishness, typically associated with bubbles. In the late 1990s, sentiment reached all-time highs for tech stocks, and surged late last year for 30-year Treasury bonds as investors fled stocks. The global real estate market saw unprecedented positive sentiment for years as the housing market boomed, finally coming to a peak about two years ago.

Investor sentiment essentially measures the popularity of a given investment. The higher it trends, the more likely the investment is near a major peak. Investments can’t go up forever; David TREECE at some point, they simply have to correct. The further an investment gets away from rational levels, the more likely it is to snap back in the other direction. This is reflected in market sentiment.

Today, we can see this not just in most of the stock market, but also in several commodities, particularly precious metals. Gold, which we typically love, has lately enjoyed a run that is extremely overdone on the upside, and it is poised to see a major correction within the next two to six weeks.

Likewise, silver is also overpriced given current conditions. Unlike gold, silver is much more closely linked to manufacturing - that’s where it’s most commonly used — and the economy simply has not recovered sufficiently to support the current price.

While we have been on the path for high inflation for a long time — we still haven’t seen the consequences of the trillions of dollars created in government bailouts — the sad reality is that it is becoming increasingly likely that the United States may enter a deflationary environment in the near future.

Deflation hasn’t been a major issue since the Great Depression, but it is typically characterized by falling prices that result from the slowing of credit, a general deleveraging (e.g. American paying off debt) and, unfortunately, rising unemployment.

These characteristics describe the current situation in the United States frighteningly well. What that means is that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the self-proclaimed expert on the Great Depression — and avoiding a repeat — is looking at the real possibility of a double-dip recession that would cause massive unemployment and nasty deflation.

The problem now, and the reason that deflation is becoming feasible, is even though the Fed, in conjunction with the Treasury, created trillions of dollars last year out of thin air, all that new money simply isn’t circulating because the economy is so terribly slow.

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Local architect Thomas Porter recently reopened his firm, Thomas Porter Architects, on North St. Clair Street in Downtown Toledo.

Porter said he went back into business “to create opportunities for young associates with a business structure that allows them to become partners in the firm. This model helps in retaining young, talented and creative designers, while providing our clients with the stability found in long established firms.”

Porter previously operated a business of the same name from 1981 to 1992. He was a principal at Duket Porter Associates in Toledo from 1992 until re-establishing his firm.

He also served as assistant university architect at BGSU and architect with E. James Smith Architects, Inc. Michael Duket is continuing his business as Duket Architects & Planners at its location on North Summit Street in Downtown Toledo.

Porter’s firm is renovating the historic buildings known as Lutz Block, built in 1876, for its home and additional commercial space.

The three-story brick structures previously housed the former H. Poll Electric Company and numerous other businesses.

The associates of Thomas Porter Architects purchased the four-unit complex and plan to create a mixeduse environment. The property also includes 28 parking spaces, which are a valuable commodity Downtown, Porter said.

Historic restorations and renovations have been a big part of Porter’s experience and will continue with his firm, he said. It recently completed an “emergency renovation project” in-

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volving the interior at the DeVilbiss Academic and Technology Center for Toledo Public Schools. The interior of the former high school was renovated to house students from Scott High School for two years, while that school undergoes extensive renovations.

Porter said his firm was contracted

by TPS in June and given one week for the design and two weeks to prepare documents for the renovation contractor, Rudolph|Libbe, Inc. The $1 million projected was completed for occupation by students this fall.

Porter was the lead architect for the exterior renovation of Union Elementary School in Maumee when at Duket Porter Associates. Constructed shortly after the Civil War, it is the oldest active elementary school in the state, according to Porter.

The associates of Porter’s firm have completed assessments for hundreds of schools in 60 districts funded by the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission. Renovation of school

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Porter and his associates were involved in the facility assessment and historic renovation of the national landmark Libbey House located across from the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. Built in 1895 as the home for glass industry pioneer Edward Drummond Libbey, it was purchased in 2006 by the Libbey House Foundation.

Porter’s associate Steve Shrake was the lead architect for the restoration of historic Church of St. Patrick in Toledo that was completed in 2006 by Duket Porter Associates.

Shrake was a manager and project architect at Duket Porter from 2002 to 2009. He previously served as a project architect at SSOE, Inc. Porter’s associates worked on the restoration of the Casey-Pomeroy House Bed & Breakfast on North Huron Street in Toledo.

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Anytime Fitness signs lease for new club in Sylvania Harvest Place Shopping Center Anytime Fitness announce it has signed a lease for space in the Harvest Place Shopping Center at 7602 West Sylvania Ave. in Sylvania.

Working with the firm Tomahawk Development Company, Anytime Fitness said in a news release it will develop a 4,850-square-foot exercise facility. With construction due to start immediately by Program Solutions Group, LLC, the club will be open for business within the next 90 days.

“Anytime Fitness offers a convenient and affordable exercise option for the area,” said John and Amy Fortner and Mike Gaither, club owners and operators, in the news release. “We believe our 24-hour fitness club will be a great addition to Sylvania.”

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■ PORTER CONTINUED FROM A19 Stuart Cline Jr., an associate and project manager at Thomas Porter Architects, started the project with his partner, Sue Burkett, who operates the bed and breakfast business.

Cline managed numerous projects at Duket Porter with his engineering background.

While historic and school renovations, commercial, industrial and retail design work are the current focus, Porter sees opportunities in other markets.

“With 70 percent of our staff being LEED accredited, we are wellpositioned for optimistic growth potential in new emerging markets,” Porter said.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in 1998. It provides design standards for environmentally sustainable construction.

Porter said his firm is reusing and recycling as much of the materials from the renovation of their old buildings as possible.

Seven of the nine associates at Porter’s firm were employed at the former Duket Porter Associates.

Julie Apt and Bernie Merritt are graduate architects and designers.

Todd Fodor is a project designer and Ronda Fejes serves as administrative assistant. Bonnie Danford, an interior designer and space planner, recently joined Porter’s firm.

“There’s a real commitment and loyalty to the people here,” said Mike Robarge, director of business development and marketing, who joined the firm after 27 years with The Lathrop Company. “A lot of good people are looking for opportunities like this.”

■ TREECE CONTINUED FROM A19 The challenge facing the Fed is how to get all of that new money, currently held by banks as excess reserves in the Federal Reserve System accumulating minute interest, into the hands of American citizens and companies for spending.

At this point, with banks fearing losses from defaults, most banking institutions are happy to leave all that bailout money in the Federal Reserve System earning interest — no matter how small — rather than take the risk of lending.

Just as significantly, there simply isn’t demand for loans on the part of American consumers. The Fed seems to be expecting the consumer to turn around and create demand for credit which will get all their new money circulating. Unfortunately, this is unlikely.

During the past year, the United States has seen a drastic increase in the savings rate, which indicates that most Americans are much more interested in saving as opposed to con-

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 suming, much less taking on debt in order to make major purchases.

For years this rate was negative, meaning that Americans borrowed more than they saved. Now, it seems that trend has changed, and with unemployment moving higher and no truly positive economic news to be found (less bad will not suffice), Americans are cutting back on spending and building up reserves of their own.

When it comes to consuming, at this point, companies are much more likely to have any kind of demand for credit. In fact, right now they’re sitting on record cash reserves that could be used to service such debt.

The government’s best course of action would be to offer corporations incentives to loosen their purse strings to invest in expansion projects. This would most likely be done through tax credits for corporations. The current political climate makes this highly unlikely.

Instead, with its outdated fixation on the U.S. consumer, the government is much more likely to try everything

in its power to stimulate American citizens into taking on additional debt to make unnecessary purchases.

This would most likely be achieved through the expansion of homebuyer tax credits as well as rebate programs like cash for clunkers.

What the government fails to realize is that at this point trying to stimulate American citizens to take on debt and buy things they don’t need is akin to beating a dead horse.

The balance sheets of most Americans have been decimated during the past two years and it should be abundantly clear that the demand for new debt simply does not exist. It’s time the Fed realized this, and looked for another way to rescue the American economy from the brink of disaster.

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n the wake of the controver- more than just “the best weekend sial Cash for Clunkers pro- ever to buy an automobile”.

It is hard to put a gram, dealerships finger on exactly when across the country are the industry broke brushing the debris off down; it is my fervent their suits and trying belief that the problem to figure out what does not lie at the mancomes next. Regardufacturer level; the ailless of your ideology, ment is most serious at there is no question local dealerships across that “business as usual” the country. no longer exists for the Unlike other inautomotive industry. It has become a fact that Tom RICHARD dustries, prospective customers must climb our culture as a whole a perceived hill of resisdislikes buying cars.

As a self-proclaimed amateur tance before they will visit a car lot. sales and marketing historian, I This hill of resistance includes the implore the automotive industry to need to do intense research, conlook back a few decades to a time sider all available transportation opwhen automotive marketing was tions and dodge and delay the pur-

chase of a new vehicle. In a survey of 10 random people, you will likely find at least one person currently “month-to-month” on their lease, one person spending thousands of dollars per year maintaining a vehicle he does not enjoy, and one person deliberately delaying shopping for a new car.

There is unmet desire in the marketplace and the automotive industry has created an environment that dissuades customers from engaging in conversation. It is easy to blame the economy for the lack of automobile sales, but that doesn’t explain why there are dissatisfied families everywhere wanting, needing and able to afford a more desirable vehicle than the one they are currently driving.

The crux of the problem is this: When an industry, almost in unison, only focuses on price-based messages, it kills its own credibility.

The blame does not fall on any one person. The culture surrounding purchasing an automobile needs to change; we need to revert back to the time when healthy American consumerism included a vehicle that sits proudly in the driveway at night.

To judge the health of an industry’s sales process, look at the moment a customer engages the salesperson. In financial services, when customers have financial questions, they start conversations with their representatives. In the medical industry, they call a doctor’s office or local pharmacist. In home furnishings, they enjoy stopping by the showroom to see what is available.

If this same formula works across multiple industries, but not with car buying, it indicates a serious problem in the automotive industry.

Everything rests on being able to flatten the perceived hill of resistance. The automotive industry needs to take a fresh look at why customers feel visiting the showroom is a cold and calculated theater production. Before visiting a showroom, families become amateur thespians, rehearsing a story that will make the process less painful. The first step is to make pricing claims believable again. When customers stop believing you about prices, they stop believing everything else. Customers need to know the price at the end of the car commercial is as real as the car itself.

If the automotive industry could reestablish its trustworthy, consultative nature, customers would direct their questions at the people most capable of providing answers — the local dealership. With customers who are comfortable beginning this conversation earlier in the process, more vehicles would be sold, more families would choose to service their vehicles at the dealership and the relationship would once again reign supreme.

By changing the messages you are sending, you are able to rebuild the trust, tap into the real reasons that Americans consider buying an automobile and start the conversation earlier in the process.

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Tom Richard is a Toledo-based sales and marketing consultant, keynote speaker and owner of Bolt from the Blue direct response advertising. Visit www.BoltFromTheBlue.com or call (419) 441-1005.

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Printing firm celebrates 10 years of business in Toledo

By Allison Wingate TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

As the president of Off Contact Productions, a full-service digital printing firm based in Toledo, Jim Schall knows the ins and outs of the city and what works for local businesses.

This is why Toledoans have turned to the firm for large-scale advertising products for the past 10 years, an anniversary the firm celebrated Aug. 16.

Schall has a long history with Toledo.

“I grew up in Toledo, went to

school in Bowling Green, came back, went to work in Kansas, came back and then when out to New York City and worked there for five years,” Schall said. “You could say this is my third tour of Toledo.”

Schall’s career in the printing industry may have taken him across the country, but it was in Toledo where he decided to set up shop and ultimately make a home in 1999.

“I had the inside of where the market was going and was tired of traveling, so I came back here,” said Schall. “In the end, it’s the greatest place to live in the Midwest.”

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“We’ve been innovators in Toledo,” Schall said. “We were the first large-format exterior print house in Toledo.”

Off Contact prints vehicle graphics, point-of-purchase displays, wholesale graphics and other products that sign companies typically do not print in-house. Technological advancements like digital printing presses have only made business more efficient for Off Contact, Schall said.

Schall said Off Contact will remain in Toledo for years to come.

“In the end, there’s only so much time in a day and there’s only so much money you need to live on and put the kids through school,” Schall said. “I’m not interested in moving or franchising.”

Off Contact’s largest clientele are automotive companies in Detroit.

“To survive in Toledo, you have to look outside; you can’t just be focused on here,” Schall said.

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If you remarry, make sure you protect your children

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ith the loss of another icon, Patrick Swayze, we are reminded that being prepared is the best answer to planning an estate.

Most families have made a last will and testament and usually leave all the assets to the surviving spouse and then the children.

Typically, the “I love you” will is Mark when one spouse Nolan says to the other, “I love you and leave all of my worldly goods to you.” Whoever survives usually gets it all. What happens when the second spouse dies? Who gets it then? The kids, right? There is no guarantee that your kids will get anything, especially when someone has been remarried.

If everything is left to the spouse, they can do with it what they wish.

What happens if they remarry? Will they write another “I love you” will that leaves it all to the new spouse?

If the new spouse has their own set of children from a previous relationship and they are the second to die, it will probably all go to their children, completely leaving your children out. Imagine how devastating this could be to the children. Some may try to solve the problem by leaving all to the children and nothing to the second spouse.

This may not go over too well and in most states, there are laws that allow a surviving spouse to “take against the will.” This means that even though the spouse was left out of the will, they are entitled to a portion of the estate anyway.

A pre-nuptial agreement can solve

this problem, but again in many relationships this is not what both spouses are comfortable with.

An estate planning tool that can be used in a situation like this is a marital trust.

Such a trust can be set up to pay the surviving spouse income from the remaining assets for the rest of their life and, CLAIR then, when the BAKER surviving spouse dies, the assets can go to the children. This works well in cases of previous marriages because it allows the surviving spouse use and enjoyment of income from remaining assets; yet guarantees the first spouse’s children the proceeds of the trust when the second spouse dies. If this is a strategy that is chosen, be careful to think things through and get the advice of an estate planning attorney.

Another valuable tool which can be used in the situation of blended families is life insurance. What is attractive about using life insurance is that in many cases it allows leveraging of dollars. If the concern is providing for both a second spouse and children from a first marriage, this may be the way to go.

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ports geeks, like myself, love statistics.

It’s the reason we have box scores in the paper and sports almanacs on dusty bookshelves.

As sad as it sounds, when their playing days have past and they are measured up against all the greats: the numbers define the athlete.

Through the first two games of his true freshman season, UT receiver, Eric Page has 15 receptions for 266 yards (an average of 18 Ryan FOWLER yards a catch) and two touchdowns. If you go by the numbers, Page is the sixth most efficient receiving in the country.

Let me repeat that, Page, who doesn’t turn 18 years old until later this month, is the sixth most efficient receiver in the country.

I would love to share with you Page’s thoughts on his fast start to his collegiate football career with the Rockets.

But that leads me to my next alarming statistic.

The number of words Page has spoken to the media this season: Zero.

First-year UT head football coach Tim Beckman has a policy in place where freshman members of his football team are not permitted to speak to the media.

I can respect his wishes. What’s difficult to wrap my brain around is why we can’t talk to the hometown boy making good.

PAGE Page practically grew up right around the corner from the Glass Bowl. He attended Springfield High School, where he played nearly every position and thrived at all of them. In fact, this time last year, I wrote a Toledo Free Press column about Page’s versatility with the Blue Devils. Back then I was allowed to speak to him, and he was allowed to speak to me. With the coach muzzling his freshman players, I had to get creative with how to share his thoughts with my readers.

Then it dawned on me; I could talk to the woman who knows him best: his mom.

“It’s pretty much surreal,” said Page’s mom, Amy Weemes.

But leave it to Mom to admit she was happier with Page’s two Agrades during summer classes than his recent play on the field.

Weemes said her interaction with Page after the Purdue game was short and to the point.

“I said ‘congratulations,’” Weemes said. “He said, ‘Thanks, it was a really good time.’”

A really good time? A trip to Cedar Point is a good time. You just exposed the Boilermakers’ secondary all four quarters. Page set a Toledo freshman record with 12 receptions for 128 yards and a 34-yard touchdown play in which the 5-foot-10, 165-pound pinball bounced off Purdue defenders until he found paydirt.

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Jim Tressel’s game-day sweater vests inspired a local entrepreneur to begin a T-shirt business.

John Amato was watching an Ohio State game with his family in 2007 when he thought out loud, “Hey, somebody should make that a T-shirt, a sweater vest T-shirt.”

“Well, why don’t you do it?” his father replied.

“He challenged me to figure it out,” Amato said “I had a sample made. It was really a spur-of-themoment thing.”

Amato came up with the basic design and called family friend Joe Pinciotti, of the Ulrich Pinciotti Design Group. Pinciotti took the design and finalized it on a computer.

The Tressel T-shirt is a red Vneck shirt with white sleeves sewn in, a neck portion with silk-screened tie and a silk-screened logo.

The next step was to get licensing. Amato printed the forms off The Ohio State University trademark and licensing department Web site and sent them in. The university reviews applicants once a month, Amato said.

Amato has expanded his T-shirt line to include original BGSU and UT merchandise. Once again, he came up with the ideas and turned to Pinciotti for the final artwork.

“It’s collaboration, really,” Pinciotti said. “[Amato] says, ‘I think I want to do a shirt with UT undefeated champs 1969 and I might want to use a helmet.’ I go by his direction and create designs.”

One of the benefits of these shirts is that they are unique designs, Amato said.

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Have I mentioned Page is still 17 years old?

Amy and her son’s post-game pride-fest following the Colorado game Sept. 11 at the Glass Bowl was just as humble.

“I said ‘I am really proud of you,’” Weemes told me. “He said ‘they were double teaming me.’”

And even two Buffalo defenders couldn’t stop Page from exploding for 138 yards on three catches, including a 70-yard race to the end zone that Page won. Page’s mom did tell me that Page got on the phone with his younger brother, D.J., and the exchange was a bit more emotional.

Page kept asking his younger brother, “Did you see me?! Did you see me?!” Weemes said.

Oh, we see you Eric. And if the

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nation reads those box scores, they see you, too.

Weemes said 26 family members and a few friends are planning their trip to Cleveland for the Ohio State game to check out Toledo’s new “rocket fuel.”

I think it’s safe to say coach Beckman made the right choice allowing his true freshman to start in the slot receiver position.

With that said, I believe Page

may have earned a new nickname come game day: The Slot Machine.

Defensive backs should be on high alert; if you leave him open, he may ring up 7s on you all day long.

Though, I should probably check with Vegas on the nickname — Page doesn’t turn 21 until Sept. 23, 2012.

Ryan Fowler is the Weekend Sports Anchor at NBC 24 News. He can be reached at bgsualum03@hotmail.com.

■ T-SHIRTS CONTINUED FROM A25 “I know Toledo and Bowling Green better than any company who is making T-shirts for them. I give them something they don’t currently have,” he said.

“Kids love T-shirts and they love to support their teams. The more unique they are, the more marketable they are,” Pinciotti said.

Amato uses a 50/50 cotton blend or tri-blend to give his shirts a softer, almost weathered feel, he said. “It’s like a shirt that you’ve worn before; it fits well and it is soft.”

The T-shirts, which cost between $20 and $26, are available online at www.jupmode.com; the Student Book Exchange at BGSU; Nex Clothing Co, 1467 Secor Road, and the Barnes and Noble bookstores on UT and BGSU campuses, Amato said.

The Tressel T-shirt is available at the Buckeye Wolverine Shop, where it is the best-selling T-shirt, said manager Tim Kralovic.

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While it is true that the terms I mentioned above are hear the almost same conversation and certainly used every day in the aviation industry, they are also the same words. used every day by automotive technicians. Why? It is The modern automotive technician works in an ensimply because the laws of physics that apply to an air- vironment where mechanical and hydraulic systems are plane in flight also apply to an automobile in motion. controlled and/or monitored by advanced electronic Please remember, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can break the laws of man, but control systems. These modern electronic systems are you cannot break the laws of nature.â&#x20AC;? Modern master more advanced than most folks can even imagine. class automotive technicians are serious students of â&#x2013; SENSE CONTINUES ON A30

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A30 â&#x2013; TOLEDO FREE PRESS â&#x2013; SENSE CONTINUED FROM A27 If your car is just a few years old, it is more advanced electronically and mechanically than most of our militaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fighter aircraft. More than 95 percent of everything your car does is computer controlled. Virtually every button or switch you operate is simply an input to some on-board computer system. Even when you apply pressure to your gas pedal, you are telling an on-board computer control system you want to accelerate. The computer then commands an actuator to perform the task. The result: you go faster.

Where is all this technology heading? Crash avoidance and automated guidance systems are just a couple of the vehicle control systems that will be available to you in a short few years, and a few years after that, those very same systems will be mandatory on all vehicles. Many of you drive vehicles that have some level of computer-controlled steering incorporated within the directional

control and stability systems.

All this advanced technology might sound more at home in a Tom Clancy novel then in a weekly automotive column written by a former â&#x20AC;&#x153;wrench;â&#x20AC;? however, the reality is this technology is here and will only get more sophisticated and complex as time passes.

The senior master technicians who work on your vehicles understand the complex relationships between the computer systems and the hydraulic and mechanical systems they monitor or control. Even more intense electromechanical/hydraulic devices are being incorporated within the modern automobile every year. All these advanced technological systems require a technician to apply the physical laws discovered by Boyle, Ohm, Newton and Watt on a daily basis. Sort of makes your mechanic an applied physicist, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it?

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The cost of repairs to these vehicles will naturally continue to rise. As a consumer, your search for a competent technician will get harder and harder. My job training tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technicians will also become more difficult. Even finding the right individual to train will get harder. The common denominator between each of these dilemmas is the increased technology.

There are no magical diagnostic computers that can discern the difference between mechanical and electrical failures. Future technology may or may not be able to resolve these problems. Only time will tell!

Until then, we will continue to depend on our technicians to diagnose and repair systems.

Currently, there is no national or state technician rating (certification) system that accurately indicates a technicians over all capabilities. The independent national rating system only indicates a given technicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to pass a test.

The most accurate indicators are those offered through the automotive manufacturersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; certification process. However, that certification process only applies to dealership technicians. Consumers must have a way to accurately and independently identify techniciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abilities.

Working together, you and I can resolve this problem.

Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College. He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau who specializes in cases involving the Ohio and Michigan Lemon laws. He is a certified master automotive technician

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Starting on Sep. 24, drummer and band leader Jeff McDonald will return to South Briar Restaurant in Sylvania with his Big Band Revival Party.

Downbeat at 8 p.m. There will be “Boogie, Ballads and BeBop” performed by many of the area’s top musicians and singers, according to a news release.

South Briar Restaurant is located at 5147 S Main St., Sylvania. Call (419) 517-1111 for more information. This will be an every Thursday event.

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RACHEL FINE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN TOLEDO UNTIL THIRD GRADE. SHE IS PURSUING A MUSIC AND MODELING CAREER IN NEW YORK CITY.

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

When Rachel Fine was laid off from her job at a supplemental education company in December, she decided to pursue a longtime love — music.

Now, the singer is celebrating the release of her debut disc, “Own Your Own,” and another career, modeling.

“I had the pictures taken for the CD and they look like modeling pictures,” Fine said during a phone call from New York City. “A friend of mine who went to high school with me is a fashion designer and saw them online and said, ‘Hey, I’d love for you to shoot for one of my campaigns,’ and that kind of just started.

“So, the music kind of inspired the

modeling, so it’s an interesting mix.”

As is Fine’s music.

“I would call it a blend of electronica and neo-soul,” she said, adding influences include Jill Scott and Portishead, as well as Philly soul and hip-hop.

The 27-year-old penned the lyrics for her disc, which can be heard in its entirety at rachelfine.com.

“I think music’s just been something that’s been relevant my whole life,” she said. “I have tapes of me singing as a little kid with my best friend from Stranahan [Elementary School in Toledo], making up songs and singing.”

Born in Cleveland, Fine lived there three weeks before her family moved to Toledo, where she stayed until the third grade.

These days she lives in Brooklyn and writes about relationships.

“I really spend time thinking about when you’re in a heightened emotional state; I write everything on paper and then I just feel better about the situation. So, everything on the CD is really intensely personal and very much written from the heart.”

Fine shared the backstory to the opening track, “Potential.”

“It’s about being in love with who you want someone to be and who you know they can be if they just applied themselves versus the reality of who they really are,” she said. “Sometimes, I think women tend to fall in love with the potential of the man more than the actuality of who that person is.”

She will perform and sign at a CD release party Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. at the Red Bull Space in Soho.

“The most exciting thing about the CD release party is we’re com-

bining art and photography and music,” Fine said. “We took submissions from thousands of photographers and chose 11, each one doing a photo essay for each track on the CD, so they have 10 panels to tell the whole story photographically as they see for the music.”

The new model stars in the stills in the exhibit.

“I’ve shot with a 9-foot boa constrictor at a park. I’ve shot at an abandoned insane asylum in the basement with a coffin,” she said. “I just let the photographers talk about what their creative inspirations were and I’ve gone for it.”

Was she scared of that snake?

“I was more scared to be halfnaked in a public park,” she said and laughed. “There were so many elements that were out of my control — school kids I was trying to hide

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from, the snake handlers — I was just dealing with all the components at once and trying to get an amazing shot. I think I actually was more scared when I looked at the pictures afterwards and realized it was 90 pounds of snake.”

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Local poet overcomes speaking difficulties

By Mark Hensch TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

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Eighteen-year old Tamela Mitchell speaks two languages.

The first is the speech of her youth. Challenged by a speech impediment, Mitchell faced ridicule and humiliation growing up.

The second is poetry. Frustrated with the strain upon her speaking voice, Mitchell supplemented her speech with the written word. Once held back a grade by the challenges she faced, she recently placed second at the June 26 Freedom Sisters Poetry Contest in Detroit en route to enrolling with Owens Community College in the fall.

“Poetry is a second language to me,” Mitchell said. “Poetry talks about life. It tells you what other people are going through and what they are thinking. It is the humanity

of poetry that gets people to understand you, understand your pain.”

Kelly Trzcinski, Mitchell’s site coordinator and youth specialist with Youth Opportunity Program (YOP), said she saw the agony Mitchell’s speech problem caused her. Mitchell felt so frustrated, Trzcinski said, she enrolled her in an anger management class, in addition to her regular speech therapy.

“Tamela did not speak unless spoken to or made to speak,” Trzcinski said. “Once Tamela came out of her shell, she turned into this butterfly. She just evolved.

Anything she could be involved with she joined.”

“It hurt me a lot when people teased me about my speech,” Mitchell said of her formative years. “People called me mush mouth. It was like a knife through my heart.”

Inspired by the support YOP gave her, Mitchell said she soon enrolled with speaking groups like Making a Direct Difference (Madd) Poets Society and Toastmasters. Soldiering

on with the poetry she started in fifth grade, she soon found reciting the lines she wrote helped her speak more clearly and passionately.

“I didn’t know I had a talent for

poetry as I was so afraid to recite it in front of people as I would get teased for speaking,” Mitchell said.

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Critics have called Ani DiFranco’s 2008 disc, “Red Letter Year,” her “happy” record.

“I’m a much more relaxed, happy person than I was five years ago when I was really lonely and had way too much time to overthink everything,” she said. “Then I fell in love, and then we [husband Mike Napolitano] had a kid, and now I have no time to do anything but just sort of be in the moment and play with the baby.

“It’s a very Zen turn for me,” the singer-songwriter continued. “Parenting can be boring sometimes, but it’s also really gratifying. It sort of really slows you down and puts you in touch with the simple things in life, and that’s been really good for me.”

DiFranco sounded serene during a phone interview before her show in Kalamazoo, Mich. And she talked about her daughter, Petah Lucia, 2.

“She’s hysterical, so she keeps it lively. She’s finally out of diapers, so that’s pretty big. And [she’s] just learning how to talk and express herself in English, that’s pretty radical.”

DiFranco has never had trouble expressing herself. Since her 1990 debut, she has written and sung about politics, religion, sexism, racism — no topic has been taboo.

“I would never worry about being too outspoken,” the 38-year-old said.

“Oftentimes in my life, I don’t say the right thing; I don’t express myself well or accurately. I think that’s why I write songs mostly is cause I, in the day to day, in the one on one, I get it wrong so much that it takes me time to sit down and think of what I really mean to say.

But I think the most important thing is to be open with each other and honest about what we feel and think even if we’ve got to take some stuff back or make some mistakes along the way.

“It really kills me, this sort of culture of the language police that we live within now. I just think it’s really destructive to make people scared to speak, for people to be scared to make mistakes. As a feminist, that’s something I was aware of very early on that women, they often silence themselves — because of the gender dynamic, the forces of patriarchy — it’s sometimes hard to find our own voices.”

Having a voice and artistic freedom led DiFranco to start her own record company, Righteous Babe Records, in 1989.

“What I basically sing about is being unashamed of myself, being unafraid in the world and being a self-realized person on the planet, not follow blindly or accept instantly everything that’s handed to me,” she said. “I just hope to inspire other people to do that for themselves.”

DiFranco will perform at 8 p.m.

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The release said “this free event is organized by gardeners happy to share their bounty to beautify our community.”

People bring labeled plants and gardening paraphernalia and receive tickets they exchange for other items. “Everyone, even new gardeners with nothing to share, will receive tickets,” the release said.

People can drop off items beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Original Sub Shop, 402 Broadway St., near the Amtrak station.

Plants should be identified.

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she is graduating from Waite High School in Toledo by finishing her last credits through summer courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in and opened my eyes, so I just wrote about her,â&#x20AC;? Mitchell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do poetry for the claps or fame. I do poetry to get my voice out there and let others hear my story. I can be anywhere or do anything and people can get to know me through my poetry.â&#x20AC;?

Elizabeth Daniels, Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal

â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people tease me, it makes me push on harder and do better. Poetry helps me speak to people and helps them understand me.â&#x20AC;?

Inspired by the story of Rosa Parks, she wrote a poem at age 16 about the civil rights leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggles. Two years later, she said, she delivered the poem at the Freedom Sisters contest, channeling her struggles into Parksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own. Five years after her first moments in YOP, Mitchell said,

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guardian, said Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success at the Freedom Sisters contest offered proof of her bright future. Rather than feel defeated by her impediment, she said, Mitchell has surmounted its challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I taught her not pay any mind about teasing as people will sometimes talk about others and tease them,â&#x20AC;? Daniels said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has determined she is going to make something of herself regardless of her disability.â&#x20AC;?

Mitchell said she will pursue a career in law

at OCC Toledo this fall. As the second college student in her family, she said, she is excited for her graduation as she will then help lowincome families with their law troubles.

Trzcinski said she would miss Mitchell, but it is time for her departure. She said she was confident Mitchell would continue overcoming obstacles in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel fortunate Tamela has allowed me into her life and let me watch this transformation,â&#x20AC;? Trzcinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her future is limitless.â&#x20AC;?

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

Sept. 20-26, 2009

Events: Venus enters Virgo (20th), Fall Equinox - Sun enters Libra (22nd)

Fact and Fiction

by Ann Fisher

Your library is packed with great books to read — both fictional and nonfictional books.

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1. What’s the difference between fiction and nonfiction books?

2. Which of these are nonfiction publications? almanac, biography, historical novel, encyclopedia 3. Fun Fiction: A book called “How to Find New Energy Every Day” could have been written by someone named R. U. Tired. Who might have written these titles?

A) “Let’s Help the Environment” B) “Beautiful Rock Gardens” 4. Name the authors of these bestselling fictional books: A) “Horton Hears a Who” B) “A Wrinkle in Time” C) “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” 5. What do we call a book that someone writes about his/her own life?

6. If you’ve read a Nancy Drew book, or a Hardy Boys book, can you guess if it was a fiction or nonfiction book?

7. Would you rather write a fiction or nonfiction book? Why? What would the title be for your first book?

8. What’s the very best nonfiction book you’ve read? To whom could you recommend it?

ANSWERS: 1. Fictional books are not true.

Non-fiction books are true. 2. All but the historical novel 3. Possible answers include A) Rhea Cycling and B) Ivy Stone 4. A) Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel B. Madeleine L’Engle C. Eric Carle 5. An autobiography 6. fiction

THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Remold and reshape. If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you can hammer out deals and create partnerships for future collaboration. Adapt to changes on Wednesday, as more advantageous options appear on Thursday. Embrace unique weekend entertainments.

Snake in paradise. A new character enters your personal drama. Things change quickly with a powerful personality on the scene. Obstacles melt away on Thursday. Good results stoke your charm and wit, and you’re an irresistible force Saturday night.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Sword of truth. Your special genius is evident in little touches this week. Results go from mediocre to excellent. Cement new relationships Thursday — this facilitates exchanges of ideas and suggestions.

Numerous improvements are visible by the weekend.

Circle the wagons. You can rescue a crumbling situation early in the week by working with others. A young person has last-minute issues midweek. You can mastermind a way to excellent results Thursday.

Saturday brings emotional high points with loved ones.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Updated resume. There are turning points on many levels this week. Your talent for quick responses to shifting circumstances is a huge advantage. Stay glued to the goal; little distractions can pull you off course. Weekend talks with relatives show evolving trends.

The last chapter. Projects quietly developing on the sidelines leap to prominence this week. Delayed home projects also get a burst of attention midweek. An older woman is an invaluable confidant on Thursday. Your new path beckons as the weekend arrives. Capricorn

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

(December 22-January 19)

Pony express. Life is a revolving door this week, as endings, beginnings, entrances and exits keep you spinning. Changes at home intensify after Wednesday.

Partners and family members are your weekend focus; lock in future commitments and dates.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Fork in the road. Your choice of options becomes more limited this week, and that may be a good thing! It’s time to make definite commitments, even if ultimate outcomes aren’t known. Others offer many opinions or even criticisms, but trust instincts for long-term decisions.

California or bust. Be ready for intense decision-making as the week begins. A clever person helps you adjust resources to make future options possible midweek.

Confidence, not facts, convinces others Friday. Saturday is perfect for romance and intimate talks.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Unleavened bread. People can change their minds without warning this week. Be clever about where you invest time and energy. A person with a bird’s-eye view gives good advice on Thursday. A loved one displays unexpected talents as the weekend arrives.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Socratic method. You’re at the center of a veritable storm of events. The pace becomes breakneck midweek as you’re pelted from every direction. A discussion on Thursday reveals results beyond expectations. Weekend gatherings unite diverse people for noble intentions.

Dobby stone. Concentrate on your agenda as others work out their conundrums. Confused people achieve clarity midweek. Experts and professionals are accessible on Thursday and offer encouraging news. A fascinating new project sparks your interest Saturday.

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

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t takes about three days to con- perspective. There are so many things vince yourself that the baby they that we take for granted by the time hand you in the hospital is actu- we are adults: reaching, grasping, walking, talking. As ally your child, about babies and small chilthree weeks to make dren, we spend countyour child feel like part less hours attempting of your everyday routo master these skills, tine and about three yet retain no memory months to make it seem of them ever taking completely inconceivmore than half an able that there was ever ounce of effort. a time when your child Watching my did not exist. own flesh and blood Our latest family Shannon SZYPERSKI discover that she is addition arrived almost six months ago and life just in control of the fives fingers swimhasn’t been the same ever since. Of ming in front of her face or seeing her course, things have been quite a bit figure out the logistics of using her busier, quite a bit crazier. More no- little legs and feet to bounce herself ticeably and importantly, however, into a state of sheer bliss, gives me a sense of awe the likes of which simply things have been quite a bit better.

Even though we’ve been through cannot be matched. Perhaps the most it twice before, there is nothing like intriguing aspect of the whole thing seeing the world from life’s most basic is that it never seems to get old. She

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keeps learning and we keep loving it.

This time around my husband and I have the pleasure of sharing the wonder of our child’s world with two fellow captivated companions. Witnessing the eyes of a baby through the eyes of a 3-year-old and a 6-yearold enhances the experience all the more. Having already mastered the skills their sister, Lucy, is attempting, and having become accustomed to all of those around them having already mastered the primary skill set as well, I wonder what it is that places such an amazement factor into the pint-sized onlookers.

My older children have rolled over and laughed and taken bites of cereal hundreds and hundreds of times. Yet, when Lucy does it, it’s as if no one has ever accomplished such a feat in the entire history of time. The smallest Lucy triumph supersedes most any other household activity and elicits immediate, uninterrupted attention by all.

No matter what our mood before, seeing Lucy’s determined little face as she tries to reach a little further or jump a little higher can easily set her parents and her siblings into a rollicking chant of “Go, Lucy, go!” Each one of us considers it a duty to the rest of the family to bring everyone’s attention to the slightest exciting moment in the history of our baby girl. No milestone is too small nor too ordinary to stop and take note.

Her brother and sister have even made it their job to formally declare each and every first in the life of Lucy. “Mom, this is Lucy’s first time going to New York! Mom, this is Lucy’s first time seeing my school!

Mom, this is the first time Lucy has ever seen you open a bag of frozen peas on a Tuesday afternoon!” And the excitement marches on.

After showering Lucy with unconditional love from the day she was born, one day she just looked up and started returning the favor. Of all the wondrous things her brother and sister notice, my favorite is when nothing more than a beaming grin on her sweet face brings about the confident declaration, “Mom, Lucy loves me!”

Cheering on the basics is just the beginning of the lifelong cheerleading we take on as members of a family. As our children grow, new triumphs continue to follow. No matter how many others have come forth before and accomplished certain feats, there is just something special about them being done by the ones you love the most.

Shannon and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania. E-mail her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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INVITATION FOR BIDS The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority is seeking bids from qualified contractors to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment for the following project(s): There are four (4) jobs being bid: Job # 29086.

Description, Renovation of #8 Birmingham Terrace.

Walk-Thru Date, 9/24/09 10:00am. Bid Opening Date, 10/07/09 11:00am. Job # 29081. Description, Tree Trimming of West Region Sites. Walk-Thru Date, 9/22/09 10:00am. Bid Opening Date, 10/02/09 11:00am. Job # 29082. Description, Tree Trimming of East Region Sites. Walk-Thru Date, 9/22/09 10:00am.

Bid Opening Date, 10/02/09 11:00am. Job # 29083.

Description, Tree Trimming of Central Region Sites.

Walk-Thru Date, 9/22/09 10:00am. Bid Opening Date, 10/02/09 11:00am. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the 2nd Floor Conference Room on the dates shown above, in the Modernization Department, at 201 Belmont Street. Contract documents and technical specifications/drawings will be available from the Modernization Department, and will be provided upon request. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash, an approved surety company bid bond, or a certified check upon a solvent bank, made payable to the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority in an amount equal to five (5) percent of the bid, tendered as a bid guarantee (if required) that the bidder will, if the award is made to him, enter into a bona fide contract with Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority for this work and furnish proper guarantee bonding as required under the specifications within a period of ten (10) days after the awarding of the contract.

The prevailing wages for this locality, as established by the Department of Labor as Wage Determination OH20080028, as modified, must be paid all persons employed for this work. Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids, or to waive any informality in the bidding. No bids shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of the bids. All bidders shall be required to meet the Affirmative Action requirements and Equal Employment Opportunity requirements as described in Executive Order #11246. Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, handicap, age, ancestry, creed, or military status.

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5 BR, 4.1 Baths, 2681 sf, 2+ Car Gar

$389,900

Assist2Sell

Robin Morris

419-310-3272

Bowling Green

Sunday 2-4

905 Klotz

3 BR, 1 Bath, 1768 sf, 2 Car Gar

$153,900

Assist2Sell

Cindy Morlock

419-601-1261

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Macie Brown 100" Sofa

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*On approved credit. Minimum purchase of $499 required. Financing provided by CitiFinancial Retail Services. Finance Charges will not accrue on the purchase during the credit promotional period if the required minimum payment is made each billing cycle during the credit promotional period when due. The purchase price is divided by the number of months in the credit promotional period to determine equal monthly payments to be made during the credit promotional period. Credit promotional period may be terminated if you default under your account agreement. SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. Some pieces and fabric prints may vary by region. Selection may vary by store. Although every precaution is taken, errors in price and/or specification may occur in print. We reserve the right to correct any such errors. Prices valid for a limited time only. Participation times may vary. HomeStores are independently owned and operated. An amount equal to sales taxes and delivery charges must be paid at the time of purchase. Previous purchases excluded. Picture may not represent item exactly as shown, advertised items may not be on display at all locations. ©2009 Ashley HomeStores, Ltd. Expires 10/12/2009.

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