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OPINION

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

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Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Pot calling kettle ...

TO THE EDITOR, I was going to write a long email bashing Don Burnard’s Sept.

20 column (“No tea, thanks”) and use his own words to show him his errors: “People should take the time to read up on subjects that are being thrown around with virtually no context whatsoever.”

Wow, is that the pot calling the kettle black! Perhaps Burnard should read the Congressional Research Office’s own assessment of the health

care bills and then come try to tell us Joe Wilson was wrong! What do they say, you ask? That none of the bills in Congress “specifically exclude illegal aliens from health care.”

Also, to imply that all who oppose Obama’s plans are “racist, xenophobic cretins” is not only wrong but very unprofessional and indicates a small mind.

This cretin can explain socialism and Nazism to you if you wish, but you can keep your paycheck; he does not seem to be worth it.

JOHN BADHORN, Toledo

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

The shut-out

Bad CAT call he Sept. 17 Ohio Supreme Court decision to uphold the commercial activities tax (CAT) may benefit the state’s coffers, but it is continued punch to businesses in Ohio at large and specifically closer to home.

The Ohio Supreme Court protected, 6-to-1, a tax that brings in an estimated $180 million each year. That’s a lot of money at stake and a lot of cost that is being passed on to consumers.

In the four years since the state has collected the tax from grocery stores, based on their gross receipts, grocers have insisted it is an unconstitutional food tax. The state claims the CAT is a franchise fee collected for the honor of doing business in Ohio.

The state can call it whatever it wants, but the Ohio Grocers Association (OGA) knows it is a food tax, an excise tax, as dissenter Justice Paul Pfeifer noted.

Walt Churchill, who operates two local grocery stores, has been very outspoken against the tax.

“Taxing food is a way for the governThomas F. POUNDS ment to try to cover spending. To them, it is a wonderful way to get more money,” he said Sept. 23. “It is supposed to be against the law to tax food taken home for consumption. The government needs to start looking inward, to start cutting expenses. They have a lot of questionable costs; why should we be another avenue to collect money for overspending?”

OGA Chairman Dave Marconi issued this statement: “I, like most of you, was very disappointed that the Ohio Supreme Court did not recognize the constitutional argument that was being made on behalf of all Ohioans who purchase food for off-premise consumption. The State argued that the CAT is not a tax on food, but rather a tax on the privilege of doing business in Ohio.

I would argue that the CAT is part of the reason that so many businesses are leaving Ohio. It is hard for me to find the privilege in this equation.”

The continuation of the CAT puts many businesses on the wrong side of an equation that benefits the spending budget at the expense of food on the average family’s table.

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And then the game started, and then we fell way y 3-year-old son Evan must have been listening to the tailgaters, because he broke out into a behind, and then we lost.

The 38-0 drubbing was disappointing because the chant of “Go Rockets! Rockets bite, bite, bite!”

Rockets have earned our respect and I corrected him that it was “Rockets high expectations. Past victories against fight,” not “Rockets bite,” but by halftime Penn State and Michigan, and Colorado Sept. 19, I ceded the point. this season, create a strong belief in the We were in Cleveland last weekend for quality of the program. the football game between our beloved It was a spectacular experience, University of Toledo Rockets and the Big watching Eric Page and Aaron Opelt and Ten powerhouse OSU Buckeyes. the Rockets play in front of 72,000 people Arriving Friday evening at the Douin the magnificent Cleveland Browns StableTree hotel in downtown Cleveland, dium. I hope that stadium lands a profeswe were greeted by a wave of OSU shirts, sional team some day; it deserves it. jerseys and hats. Once in awhile an article It was crushing to see Page cross the goal of UT clothing would surface, like a mid- Michael S. MILLER line late in the game, only to fumble the ball night blue and gold bobber on a sea of red, back to OSU. In three meetings, OSU has beaten Toledo but we were outnumbered about 1,000 to 1.

On one elevator trip, a man in an OSU varsity jacket 125-0. Page had the first potential UT points ever scored in looked at my UT gear and said, “UT fans like you are in his hands and lost it at the last second, in his valiant, surging attempt to get the ball across the paint. Page is on his way to the minority here this weekend.”

I looked at him and said, “UT fans like me were in the being a true star and phenomenon, and I hope he can turn this disappointment into more fuel for his fire. minority in Ann Arbor last year, too.”

Except for a few loudmouth OSU fans who weren’t He nodded, said, “touché,” and wished the Rockets happy with OSU coach Jim Tressel, even when the Buckluck as he exited the car.

Our room at the DoubleTree, which was arranged by eyes led by 31 points, it was a great display of sportsmanthe tourism-promoting folks as Positively Cleveland, looked ship in our part of the stands.

At halftime, the Ohio State marching band, after perfrom 18 floors over the municipal parking area for the stadium, which by Friday afternoon was lined with scores of forming the first of its two Ohio spelling routines, formed buses and campers and tailgaters. The lake was calm, and the the actual shape of the UT Rocket logo, and with the aid clear night allowed for a view deep into the city. It was the of two fire extinguishers, blasted off and moved the rocket across the field. It was an awesome moment, displaying calm before what I hoped would be a competitive game.

On Saturday, the weather was perfect, as a bright sun skill, sportsmanship and a flair for the theatrical.

Then, the UT marching band took the field, and permingled with an occasional lake breeze to make for optimal tailgating and football watching. We walked to “The formed a tribute to Russian culture.

At every VFW hall in Cuyahoga County, some veteran Pit” by Cleveland Browns Stadium to check out the early tailgate action. Again, it was mostly red everywhere, but clutched his gut and sat down heavily, like Obi-Wan Kenobi there were some Toledo flags flying. We saw Ian Rock- when he sensed the Death Star lasers explode Alderaan.

I wandered the stadium during halftime, checking wood, who was waiting for his parents John (of the blues band VooDoo Libido) and Jennifer (director of First-Year out the concession options and watching small crowds Experience at UT). The Columbia Gas of Ohio tailgate form around Jimmy Jackson, who had reason to wish party was in full swing and a number of Toledo folks met both teams well. A quick stop in the men’s room offered there to tolerate the continued chants of “O-H!” “I-O!” that a mathematical oddity; there were lines at least five men the early morning drinkers were still getting right. deep for each of the dozen or so urinals, but absolutely At game time, we walked up the hill to our section no lines at the four sinks just a few yards away. It reand settled in. It was my first time at the Cleveland sta- minded me of an old joke I can’t repeat here, but I will be dium, and it was a magnificent experience. It may be 10 happy to e-mail it to you if you are curious. years old, but it is still looks and feels new; the seats we I was disappointed that I recognized so many Toledo had were padded and roomy (much like many of us) and leaders at the game, dressed not in midnight blue and the view to the field, even from the third section up, was gold, but in scarlet and gray. How about some support, great for watching action at both ends of the field. guys? I know some of you are OSU alumni, but since We were excited, cheering for the Rockets and happy you live or work in Toledo now, how about some love to hear the familiar voice of Kevin Mullan calling the game for the home team? over the speakers. After a year of anticipation, of making You want us think that you fight, not bite. Right? arrangements, of celebrating UT’s ambition in playing such a top team, we were ready for kickoff and the battle Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. for Ohio bragging rights.

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GUEST COLUMN

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n Sept. 27, Downtown To- her hair was falling out from her ledo will become a battle- chemo treatment.

I’ve been completely inspired ground. The enemy: breast cancer. The warriors: 18,000-plus by so many scenes, but the one men, women and children. The that always sticks with me happened a few years weapon: their feet! ago. I was watching Many of the the first runners warriors already cross the finish line have battle scars: and I saw a woman those wearing pink in a pink shirt shirts and pink caps running toward are breast cancer me. When she got survivors. This year, about a block from there will be more the finish line, a than 1,200 of them: man in the crowd some running, some walking, some being Chrys PETERSON pushed a little girl into the street. She pushed in wheelchairs or riding on the trolley be- looked to be about 3 or 4 years old. cause they’re going through treat- The runner in the pink shirt took ment and are simply too weak to her daughter’s hand and they fintake the steps. If you watch the ished the race together. Tears were crowd, you’ll see people patting streaming down my face as I realthem on the back, cheering them ized this is why we do this every on and giving them hugs; com- year: so that little girl doesn’t have plete strangers, in some cases, of- to lose her mom, and so that little fering encouragement and thanks girl doesn’t have to worry about being diagnosed with breast to those who continue to fight.

And it’s not just ladies wearing cancer.

Since the first NW Ohio/Susan those pink shirts. At least three men who are survivors will be B. Komen Race for the Cure in wearing pink too. Surprised? The 1994, we’ve raised millions of only criteria for developing breast dollars to help provide breast cancer is having breasts, and that cancer screening, education and treatment to women right here includes women and men.

Some in the crowd have al- in Northwest Ohio. Seventyready lost loved ones to the enemy. five percent of the money stays Leslie Droll’s family members will in our community. Last year, be there remembering their wife, more than 5,000 women in our mom and grandma. The emotion area received mammograms, is still raw for the Drolls. Leslie treatment and support services lost her battle a year ago after through funds raised at the Race fighting breast cancer for 14 years. for the Cure. The other 25 perShe walked in the Race every cent of the money raised goes to year after her diagnosis, proudly the national Susan B. Komen for wearing her pink shirt. This year’s the Cure organization for breast Race for the Cure is in memory of cancer research. Charity Navigator ranks Komen for the Cure Leslie Droll.

Looking around in the crowd, as a four-star charity, the highest it’s not hard to see why so many ranking available. That means people participate. People walk your money is well-spent when with names and photographs on you give to Susan B. Komen.

If you haven’t registered for their backs, celebrating loved ones who are breast cancer survivors, this year’s Race for the Cure, what and remembering loved ones who are you waiting for?

Think about those pink have died from the disease.

As honorary chairwoman for shirts. Think about that little girl. the NW Ohio/Susan B. Komen Then, arm yourself with a pair of Race for the Cure for the past 15 sneakers, and come prepared for years, I’ve witnessed many in- battle at 9 a.m. Sept. 27. credible and inspirational stories: I promise it will be an inhigh school friends reunited 20 spirational experience you’ll years later on the race route, both never forget. wearing pink survivor shirts; a high school football team pushing WTOL-TV news anchor Chrys a mom in a wheelchair; a 24-year- Peterson has been the honorary old woman who’d shaved her head Chairwoman for the Race for the the night before the race because Cure for the past 15 years.

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THE COMMUNITARIAN SOUL

Missing Mr. Rogers

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was delighted and proud of the Bowling Green City yard signs, some friendly debate at Panera Bread and Council. It showed some real courage by voting, Grounds For Thought, a few angry letters to the editor overwhelmingly (seven-zero; six-one) to support the and some preaching from the various pulpits in our town. No doubt some of the evangelical establishment of two “human rights” ordicommunity will ride their usual high nances. Under the new laws, the classes of horse about gays, lesbians and the transpeople who can be discriminated against gendered being an abomination before shrunk dramatically. The only group that God and the destruction of civilization can be discriminated against is people with as we know it. Meanwhile, those of us certain political ideologies. I don’t know who hang out in the historic mainline or why council stripped the political affection “old” line protestant traditions will break portions from the ordinances. I guess Reout that Rodney King golden oldie: the pubs can still stick it to the Dems and vice “can’t we all get along?” homily. A few versa. Go figure. But just about everyone of the more emboldened among us will else is protected under the new law. Good challenge their congregants to accept for them... Good for us. One more step in Eric MCGLADE the wisdom of the city council as an act of grace, exrealizing the great American dream.

Even though that dream may mean different things to tending the full measure of humanity and hospitality different people, the challenge for all who seek it is over- to society’s marginalized.

It is the predictability of all of this that is becoming coming the barriers that interfere with the pursuit of that dream. Some of those barriers are interior, the collection tiresome. There will be the usual arguments about peoof psychological quirks, complexes and anxieties that we ple’s right to harbor their prejudices, the absurd notion all possess that manage to keep some of us from taking the that this will somehow put our children at risk and, of risks we need to better ourselves. Some of those barriers course, the last refuge of the logically and theologically are external, the collection of prejudices and attitudes that impaired: this is an abomination before God. I wonder keep some people from certain groups in our society from what it is that allows so many of us to assume there is a claiming for themselves the full measure of opportunity correlation between personal behavior and one’s sexual orientation or nationality or race or gender. and promise this great land of ours can offer.

Where is Fred Rogers when we need him? This gentle, Of course, there is some blow back. Unfortunately, much of it will come from a community I hold dear to sweatered soul daily challenged his audience with the simmy heart: the religious community. About 1,200 resi- plest of all questions: “Who is our neighbor?” If we start dents signed petitions calling for a referendum on this. there, we might eventually discover that our neighborhood If all the signatures on the petitions are authenticated, is much bigger than we ever imagined. Then those silly and then our quiet, mild-mannered town will become like stupid assumptions we make about others who are “difso many other communities in America: a battlefield in ferent” begins to melt away. Blessings to the Bowling Green City Council for reminding us how big our neighborhood the so called culture wars.

I suspect this will be more of a “skirmish” than an all- really is and what we can do to make it better. out battle. It is not the nature of the citizenry of our fair city to bully one another. We, in Bowling Green, pride Eric McGlade is a United Methodist minister in Bowling ourselves on being a polite people. There will be a few Green. E-mail him at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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OPINION: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Appalling Burnard

Applauding Burnard

TO THE EDITOR, When Don Burnard’s “The Hot Corner” column first appeared, I applauded your efforts at covering all sides. Burnard began by stating he was neither a writer nor a journalist.

He has gone to great lengths to prove both those statements.

His Sept. 20 column, “No tea, thanks,” is appalling as an opinion piece of writing and as a piece of political journalism. He starts out immediately disparaging “Tea Party” attendees — in this case I think he is referring to 9/12’ers — as running around on lobbyist-paid-for buses.

No facts, no figures as to what proportion this may have been. The people I know who attended a 9/12 event locally or in Washington D.C., all paid their own way.

He next contends the middle class and senior citizens would be the most harmed. Having attended at least five tea parties, the vast majority of attendees have been seniors and middle-class citizens. Most all have been very well read, informed and in touch with what is happening to our republic. I have yet to see Burnard at a tea party event. I encourage him to attend and meet these people he hopes to save. The Children of Liberty and the Libertarian Party of Ohio (of which I am an active member) have regular meet ups (NorthwestOhioMeetup.com).

Burnard uses the weak tactic of name-calling rather than facts, using buzzwords aimed at fellow Toledoans who have the audacity to disagree with his politics.

The one “fact” Burnard does expound on is a definition of fascism

by Robert Paxton. No mention of Paxton’s credentials or association.

Still, I would like to repeat a portion of that definition according to Paxton. “... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy, but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” That is an exact description of ACORN, SEIU, the TIDES Foundation, et. al.

I appreciate your desire to give a voice to all sides and to aim for impartiality. In regards to all your columnists and Burnard especially, please seek writers of at least some talent, and with at least a tip of the hat to journalistic integrity. Otherwise, there will be little difference between Toledo Free Press and The Blade.

KEN SHARP, Toledo

TO THE EDITOR, I just want to drop Don Burnard a note and let him know how much I agree with and appreciate his Hot Corner article, “No tea, thanks.”

I absolutely refuse to listen to anything WSPD radio broadcasts anymore. I will not even listen to the news, weather and traffic any longer.

Everything they say is anti-Obama.

Between Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity, it is my belief that they are actually destroying this country with their hate mongering. They want to see the president fail and are doing their best to make sure that it happens. What absolutely terrifies me is how many supposedly intelligent people believe the hatred and garbage they spew.

Thank you for being a voice of reason in this mess and for allowing me to vent. I had about given up any hope there was any voice of sanity left in this world.

DIANA IRWIN, Toledo

Burnard rebuttal TO THE EDITOR, Don Burnard: ■ Says he is sick of the so-called “tea baggers;” ■ Describes Rush, Glenn and Sean as loons who “make up outrageous lies and scare tactics;" ■ States that the tea baggers are “trying to convince people that they speak for the majority of Americans.” (Note: If Mr. Burnard is referring to the tea bagger’s opposition to the government takeover of the health care system, all the polls show that they (the tea baggers) do “speak for the majority of Americans;") ■ Describes the people who don’t agree with him as “these racist xenophobic cretins who love to preach about how Obama is leading us down the path of socialism” and further “that 99 percent of them (the tea baggers) couldn’t give you a rational description of what constitutes socialism, fascism or even Nazism;” ■ Feels that the people with whom he doesn’t agree “should read up on the subjects that are being thrown around with virtually no context whatsoever;" ■ States that “if good Ol’ Joe (Wilson) read the bills, assuming he can read, he would have noticed that both the House and Senate versions exclude illegal’s from coverage;” ■ Believes that “the Republican party has become a party of radical fringe elements, who think the fact that a black man becoming president of the United States is a direct attack on their manhood;” ■ Describes the tea baggers as Brown Shirts who “have no respect for the country, the office of the presidency, the Constitution, or any

of the Founding Fathers’ vision of what this country should be.”

Good grief!

In my opinion, the tone of this piece is nasty, arrogant, elitist and condescending, additionally this piece has no substance. There is a lot of name calling directed at anyone with whom Burnard disagrees with virtually no context whatsoever.

No one with whom Burnard disagrees (99 percent of them) reads, understands basic definitions or understands the Constitution or the intentions of our Founding Fathers, but of course Burnard does!

Burnard can read because he implies that he read the health care bill and then goes on to note that illegals were excluded from the health care bill; however, he missed the entire point of the controversy. If no one is required to prove citizenship to get government health care, what would stop illegals from signing up?

Has Burnard noticed that the often repeated 46 million uninsured has suddenly become 30 million uninsured? Was President Obama lying?

What do you think?

Why are Rush, Glenn and Sean loons? What are the outrageous lies and scare tactics referred to? Are we being led “down the path of socialism?” Why are the tea baggers protesting? Do all the females in the Senate or the House feel a “direct attack on their manhood?” (Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one.) Why does Burnard call the tea baggers racists?

This piece contains no substance and is nothing more than a hateful, snotty rant, but I believe in the Constitution and the First Amendment — therefore if Burnard chooses to make a fool of himself, so be it.

MAREK MOLDAWSKY, Toledo

How about proof?

TO THE EDITOR, I started to read Don Burnard’s column on “No tea, thanks,” got through about a paragraph and told my wife I didn’t need to read any further. She suggested to read the whole thing to see if he has any evidence to support what he is saying about lobbyists riding buses, etc., especially since I know many who have attended and none are paid, but are there just because of their beliefs.

So, I would like to see an article with proof. I would also like to see an article where Burnard just writes without name-calling. Take out all the adjectives (I’ll use a nice word) that you use to describe Republicans or anyone with a different viewpoint than yours, and see how much column you actually have, and this includes your description of fascism as you just used someone’s definition, not Webster.

RON PIDCOCK, Toledo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Counterpoint to reality Arrogant liberal TO THE EDITOR, I have just finished reading Don Burnard’s Sept. 20 piece and have found new energy from it. Burnard takes to task a group of favorites of mine in the form of what he and the salacious in our midst refer to “tea baggers.” I’ll not here go into the meaning of this lascivious twist of terms that is used by those exacerbated by the tea party-goers. As is typical of the Burnard types, they first move to demonize any opponents without a thread of evidence to support their position.

He then moves on to use as evidence, a book written by a one-topic historian, Robert Paxton, to support his contention that this country is not moving to fascism as the tea party-goers sometimes proclaim to support their fear of the general direction in which this country is moving. Burnard did not wish in his column to “outline them (the five steps that take place for fascism to gain control) in a column of this size.” This could be because he may not have read far enough into “Vichy France; Old Guard and New Order” to find that Robert Paxton states the very thing that has the tea partygoers so agitated; “a general abandonment of democratic liberties”.

Ironically, his evidence supports the very position the “tea baggers” take.

I have the feeling that Toledo Free Press provides space to Burnard and his point of view as counterpoint to the reality that is taking place around us.

DON LYDEY, Maumee

Extremely offended TO THE EDITOR, I understand that a reputable newspaper has a responsibility to present a well-rounded view of the issues of the day. Toledo Free Press is doing a nice job in that regard.

Having said that, I am extremely offended by Don Burnard’s Sept. 20 column, “No tea, thanks.”

The daily local paper trots out a weekly columnist named Marilou Johanek who resorts to invective and name calling in lieu of making rational arguments. I would have hoped that you folks would be above that.

But here comes Burnard calling people who have reasoned opinions like mine “loons, sore losers, racist xenophobic cretins, Brown Shirts, and dupes.”

I am none of the above. I am a 60 year-old clear-thinking college instructor.

Burnard should be terminated from your newspaper. And please pass this along to him, hopefully on his way out the door.

JERRY NOSS, Whitehouse

TO THE EDITOR, Don Burnard is a typical arrogant liberal who thinks he knows all the answers and us common folks don’t know anything. He is so wrong!

We are not mind-numbed robots who follow the marching orders of some special interest group or talk radio or cable news. We watch cable news and talk radio to hear what is really going on in our country, since mainstream media will only tell us what they think we should know or what they think is important. Would they have ever told us about acknowledged communist Van Jones, or the corrupt ACORN organization?

He totally lacks an understanding about the tea parties and the Sept. 12 rally in Washington. Most of those people came in their own vehicles at their own expense. He also doesn’t realize that for every person in Washington that day, there are 100 persons who would have liked to have been there.

We the people are very concerned about the direction our country is taking, concerned about the America our children and grandchildren will someday inherit, and especially the horrendous debt they will inherit.

1. We are concerned about big government getting bigger, having more control over our lives!

2. We do not like our Congress spending money we don’t have for programs we don’t need!

3. We object to Congress passing laws written by special interest groups, and never read by most of them!

4. We are not racist because we object to the socialist agenda this current administration in Washington is promoting.

5. We do not want more laws that will further harm employment in this country and raise more (hidden) taxes!

6. We object to health care legislation which will further the leftist liberal agenda, but not answer the health needs of Americans.

It can be done right, but not their way. For instance: Where is tort reform? Some of us common folks do understand what socialism means, and we see it coming every day from this bunch in Washington.

When Burnard speaks of lies and distortions, he needs to look at his own leftist, liberal friends in the media. They do their best to not tell us the truth! Thankfully, we have talk radio and cable news to tell us what the mainstream media won’t.

GENE REEBEL, Temperance, Mich.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Letters on this topic by readers Jeffrey Dunn and Dori Wisniewski are posted online at www.toledofreepress.com.

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By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Every morning, when Carolyn Savage wakes up to greet the day, the reality washes over her again.

“I kind of come to a consciousness ‘I’m awake, it’s a new day,’ and I go to get out of bed and I can’t move,” she said. “I think, ‘What’s wrong? Oh, right, I’m pregnant, only I’m pregnant with someone else’s baby.’ It smacks me in the head all over again.”

The joy of pregnancy turned into a heartbreaking scenario for Sean and Carolyn Savage after a fertility clinic implanted Carolyn with another family’s embryo.

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State of shock The Savages, of Sylvania Township, parents to two teenage boys and an 18-month girl, had prior problems with pregnancies when they turned to in-vitro fertilization for their fourth child.

In early February, the Savages were waiting to hear back from the fertility clinic about that morning’s pregnancy test when Sean received some shocking news at work.

Their doctor called to tell him they were pregnant, but with someone else’s embryo.

Driving home, Sean said he was in a state of shock.

“I knew I was going to be delivering really bad news and I wanted to get there as quickly as possible,” he said. “I just knew I had to do it, but it was never something I wanted to do.”

Carolyn, who was surprised her husband was home, didn’t believe the news: “I thought he was joking, even though there was nothing about his demeanor that

■ SEAN AND CAROLYN SAVAGE, PHOTOGRAPHED SEPT. 24 IN MAUMEE. CAROLYN IS APPROACHING 36 WEEKS PREGNANT WITH ANOTHER COUPLE’S MISTAKENLY IMPLANTED EMBRYO.

would suggest that. I didn’t think it was possible, this couldn’t happen.

I quickly moved from a state of shock to tears. I couldn’t think clearly at all.”

The Savages, who say they are both religious and active members of St. Joseph’s church in Sylvania, said terminating the pregnancy was never an option.

“We didn’t have to discuss it. We came to an instantaneous conclu-

sion; this was the path that we had to go down,” Sean said.

The Morells Seventy miles north in Troy, Mich., Shannon (whose maiden name is Savage, but is not related to the Savages) and Paul Morell have twin daughters conceived by in-vitro fertilization.

Just as the couple was preparing to revisit their frozen embryos, they

received news from their doctor that their embryos had been implanted into another woman and she was pregnant.

The two families began talking to each other through attorneys and then met at the end of Carolyn’s first trimester.

“That was the longest 14 weeks probably of my entire life,” Shannon said on the Sept. 21 ‘Today Show.’

“We didn’t know who they were.

Were they good people? It’s the oddest feeling to have somebody else carrying your child because, as a parent, you want to do everything possible to protect your child. Even though we were grateful, it was just a terrible feeling.”

The Savages said they wanted to meet the Morell family before sharing the situation with their family and friends.

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Following that meeting, the Savages sat down with their sons to explain the situation.

“Telling the kids was hard; we were graced by the fact that they were 14 and 12 at the time and understood the biology behind what had happened, so they understood why the baby inside of me was not ours,” Carolyn said. “They wanted to know why wouldn’t he or she want to stay with us; we have it pretty good. We explained that this baby was wanted and loved by his parents and that we would be returning him upon delivery and that was the right thing to do. And they got it.”

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As the pregnancy progresses, the Savages have kept in constant contact with the Morells. Shannon has even accompanied the couple to an ultrasound.

“We thought that it was an important thing to do for them; they have been cheated out of experiencing their own pregnancy with their son.

She hadn’t had a chance to see a live ultrasound and those are kind of special when you’re pregnant,” Carolyn said. “We wanted to make sure we gave them that opportunity no matter how difficult it was for us.

And it was difficult. It’s difficult to lay on an ultrasound table and have the technician be talking to someone else.

Pointing out things about their baby. I think that was one of the more surreal moments that we’ve had.”

Shannon has said she felt a bit surreal herself. She told the Associated Press, “I felt like a third wheel.

Although I knew that the child inside her was mine, it wasn’t the same feeling I had with our twins.”

Difficult moments The Savages say there have been many difficult moments in the

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We don’t want anyone else to experience this. We believe the result of the attention given to this will cause the medical community to take a step back and do everything according to protective protocol.”

— Sean Savage pregnancy. Sean said pregnancies are long and hard regardless, but this one has been particular grueling for their family.

“I can’t believe this has happened to our lives; this is unreal. I think there was a lot of anger early on. I think, ‘Why did the person or persons responsible for this situation not afford our family the same level of care that they had given every other family that had been in their care?’ There’s still anger about that. I take that personally.”

Carolyn, approaching 36 weeks, says despite the unusual circumstances, the focus is on the baby. She is due Oct. 25.

The Savages, who have had two premature births, their daughter at 32 weeks and a son at 30, want to give the baby as much time as they can.

“We’re hoping to get this baby further along, so when the Morells come to the hospital, they don’t have to spend any time in the intensive care unit. We want to spare the baby the invasive procedures that are per-

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As the delivery approaches, Sean said, “We’re trying to frame the delivery not as a loss, but as a gift to another family. We’re trying to remain focused on that part, not what our loss is. We’re in uncharted territory.

We just don’t know ... after the delivery, we don’t know what it’s going to be like. We’ll just have to navigate it like we have been.”

The Morells will be in the delivery room to see the birth of their son, and have stated that the Savages can have any contact they want.

“How do you thank somebody for what they’ve done? I could say thank you a million different ways,” Shannon told The Associated Press.

Going public The Savages say they retained a public relations agency and went public with their story because, “We concluded that at some point the information was going to come out, and if it was, we wanted to be the ones to share the information.

We didn’t want it to come out where we couldn’t share the correct information,” Sean said. “After going through this, we realized that we don’t want anyone else to experience this. We believe the result of the attention given to this will cause the medical community to take a step back and do everything according to protective protocol because we’re living examples of what can happen if steps are skipped.”

Always wanted After the mix-up, the families terminated contact with the clinic, located outside Ohio, and have yet to be offered any explanation as to why the mix-up occurred.

The Savages have since transferred their remaining embryos to another clinic in Atlanta. Due to health reasons, this baby will be Carolyn’s last pregnancy. The Savages have been working with family lawyers and will have their remaining eggs implanted into a surrogate.

The Savages said they want the unborn baby to know, “At no time was he not wanted; we’ve always wanted him. I think too many people wanted. He’s the luckiest baby in the world; he’s coming in loved by more people than most babies. We knew that he belonged with his mom and his dad, and we love him,” Carolyn said.

“We will always think of him, and always pray for him, and always wonder how he is,” Sean said.

“This is just the right thing to do, and we want to be able to look back 30 years from now knowing we did the right thing.”

The Savages said they have hired an attorney to make sure the fertility clinic accepts “full responsibility for the consequences of their misconduct.”

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In-vitro explained In-vitro fertilization is a sixweek-long process. The first four weeks, the woman takes ovary-suppressing medication, such as birth control. The following two weeks, a woman must take daily gonadotropins to stimulate the growth of multiple eggs upon the ovary.

The woman must then undergo a surgical procedure to remove the eggs. The eggs are taken and fertilized. If there are any viable eggs left after the process, they are then frozen and stored for later use by that couple.

Dr. John Murphy, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist for ProMedica, said, “The Savage’s case is extremely rare. There are redundancies built into the system that are meant to safeguard these mistakes.”

There is no set protocol for a clinic, but generally they follow similar procedures, Murphy said.

At every step of the process the embryos are labeled and coded in a variety of ways. The embryos are segregated from each other so there can be no mix-up that way.

If there is any human interaction, there is double or triple checking of action by fellow technicians.

The final precaution they have in place is “the stop,” where doctors and technician take a step back and identify what they are doing and the name of the patient.

— Kristen Rapin

Rare cases The American Society for Reproductive Medicine doesn’t track how many women have been given the wrong embryos, said Eleanor Nicoll, a spokeswoman.

Only a few cases have popped up the past decade or so.

A California woman was given $1 million in 2004 to settle a suit against a fertility specialist who accidentally gave her the wrong embryos and hid the mistake until her baby was 10 months old.

A white New York woman gave birth to a black couple’s baby in 1998 after an embryo mix-up that set off a two-year court fight between the couples over visitation rights.

Just this year, a Japanese woman aborted her pregnancy after she was told there had been a mistake at a government-run hospital.

Each fertility clinic has its own system for identifying and tracking embryos. Most patients get an identification number that also is kept with the embryos while they are stored. Names are doublechecked. So are the numbers.

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UT LIBRARIAN BRIAN HICKAM STANDS NEXT TO A DISPLAY OF BANNED BOOKS.

UT events observe Banned Book Week

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Bob Dylan, feminism and indecency in broadcasting are a few of the topics that will be covered Sept.

26 to Oct. 3 during the national American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book Week observation at UT. UT professors, students and Toledo residents will host a vigil Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the second floor of Sullivan Hall honoring books that have been challenged or censored.

A challenged book is one where attempted removal was unsuccessful and censored books were removed from a course or library shelves, said Brian Hickam, associate professor and librarian for the College of Health Science and Human Service.

Associate Professor Paulette Kilmer has been involved in the ALA Banned Book Week Vigil in Toledo for the past 12 years, she said. She is responsible for bringing the program to UT. Kilmer saw a flier in Thackery’s Books 12 years ago announcing a 24-hour vigil commemorating the ALA Banned Book Week hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She took a few students and stayed awake all night reading from books that had

been banned, she said.

The next year, she took a few more students. After three or four years, Thackery’s management approached her and said the program was dissolving as some of the ACLU members retired. They suggested she take over the program.

She accepted and moved the program to UT’s campus.

“It took off,” she said. “The first couple years were hard. It gets a little bigger each year.”

Last year’s festivities drew 503 attendees. The vigil includes 16 sessions, beginning each half hour throughout the day. Sessions are capped at 20 minutes to make it clear to the students that the intellectual dialogue is a celebration rather than another lecture.

“Kiss of death,” Kilmer said, “Even for coffee and goodies and prizes, they’re not going to another class.”

Sometimes, students resent when they have to do schoolwork, but forget what a privilege it is to live in a country that protects our rights to speak freely, she said.

Speakers from all departments across the campus will present. The vigil has been well attended by students and well received, said Elaine Reeves, committee member and lecturer, information literacy and library instruction, at UT. ■ BOOKS CONTINUES ON A13

For fans in Harry Potter withdrawal, help is on the way. Steve Vander Ark, author of “The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction” and “In Search of Harry Potter,” will speak at the Maumee Branch Library at 7 p.m. Oct. 1.

The presentation is “a chance for Harry Potter fans to get a little more indepth inside information,” said Nancy Eames, youth services coordinator for the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. “True fans VANDER ARK love to know as much as they can and this is an opportunity to get an inside scoop.”

“The Lexicon is basically an encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe,” Vander Ark said. His book focuses on the content of the Harry Potter books, written

by J.K. Rowling, rather than the movie interpretations.

Vander Ark also has a Web site, www.hp-lexicon. org, which he created in 2000 and is an online encyclopedia of all things Harry Potter, he said.

The Web site has many interesting features, including a timeline, readers’ guides and essays, Vander Ark said.

It even has some outdated essays because it is interesting to compare what people speculated 8 years ago to what happened in the later books, he said.

The book has more detail into the background of sources and over more than entries not found on the Web site.

“J.K. Rowling really goes out of her way to create and put layers of meaning into everything,” Vander Ark said. Every name has a meaning and a source.

“It’s sort of like a treasure hunt when you start to

read Harry Potter and read some of the interesting things she’s done with her writings,” he said.

In addition to analyzing the characters and names in the books, Vander Ark has lived in Europe and sought out places with “that same magic as the Harry Potter places in the Harry Potter books,” he said.

His book, “In Search of Harry Potter,” is a travel memoir of visits to those places.

Vander Ark doesn’t know for sure if the places he found were Rowling’s actual inspirations, but he has found some similarities.

For example, there is a farm called the Burrows, which is a mile south of Ottery St. Mary in Devon, England, Vander Ark said. In the book, the Weasley family lives on a farm called the Burrows a mile south from Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon.

As a children’s librarian and writer, Vander Ark has always been fascinated by very richly detailed fantasy worlds.

He also loves to take notes and keep track of details.

“I have a librarian’s mind for things like that,” Vander Ark said.

When he first started reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 1998, Vander Ark intentionally avoided taking notes.

“I knew I’d get way too involved,” he said. “But when I started reading the second one I thought, ‘I have got to be taking notes,’ so I got out a notebook and went from there.”

Although Vander Ark has not met J.K. Rowling, he has visited the movie sets during filming, met the actors and even sat in Dumbledore’s chair in the Great Hall.

“It’s a lot of fun to do a Q & A,” he said.

As more fans continue to enjoy the books and write fan fiction, “it’s gonna be awhile before we run out of material to have fun with,” Vander Ark said.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 ■ BOOKS CONTINUED FROM A12 “It’s an all-campus presentation,” she said. “There are a lot of things to be excited about.”

Sessions are designed to get students and people from the community involved, Kilmer said. “They’re short, interactive and informal.”

Presentations are also timely.

Professor Paul Many will discuss the controversy this past July when

Amazon removed electronic editions of George Orwell’s book “1984” from Kindle.

Reeves will discuss Judith Krug, librarian and founder of Banned Books Week, who passed away earlier this year.

“It’s important to review [Krug’s] contributions and challenge everyone who is involved to carry on her work,” Reeves said.

“Professors and people from the community take time to write

really good papers on topics that will engage the students,” Hickam said. “Sometimes it’s spoken.

Sometimes there are images or movie clips.”

The thought of not being allowed to read something scares Kilmer, she said.

Shortly after arriving in Toledo, she heard on NPR that college students were graduating without knowing what the First Amendment covered. She later read the

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“We were graduating students, all over this nation, who had no idea at all how that First Amendment protected them,” she said. “That’s the most crucial thing they can learn in four years.

KILMER “I started thinking ‘How could I do something, at least where I am, to get that first amendment out there?’”

Kilmer said she hopes the publicity the vigil generate will generate that conversation across campus and raise awareness of the first amendment and the importance of intellectual freedom, she said.

The Banned Book Week Vigil at UT is free and open to the community. No RSVP is needed. Beverages and snacks will be provided.

Topics and speakers for the vigil will be: ■ 9 a.m.: “Speech, Reading and the Banning of Thoughts” by Jim Benjamin, UT professor and chair of communication, after greetings from Marcia Suter, UT associate professor and director of library services; ■ 9:30 a.m.: “Radical Islamists and Fear of Radical Islamists — Both Are Significant Threats to Free Speech” by Douglas Oliver, UT associate professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering; ■ 10 a.m.: “When Censorship Goes Soft: The Case of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Larry D. Connin, UT administrative coordinator for the Honors Program; ■ 10:30 a.m.: “We Are Strangers” by Warren Woodbury, Toledo author; ■ 11 a.m.: “1984: From Orwell to Amazon” by Paul Many, UT professor of communication; ■ 11:30 a.m.: “The Book Corner TV Show,” a performance

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Writer Jason Mack; ■ Noon: keynote address, “Book Burning in Nazi Germany,”

by Larry Wilcox, UT professor emeritus of history; ■ 1 p.m.: “Censorship, Dissent and Etiquette” by Ben Pryor, UT associate professor and chair of philosophy; ■ 1:30 p.m.: “Remembering Judith Krug: Librarian and Founder of Banned Books Week” by Reeves; ■ 2 p.m.: “Indecency in Broadcasting: Why Bother?” by David Tucker, UT associate professor of communication; ■ 2:30 p.m.: “The Politics of Bad Ideas” by Carter Wilson, UT professor of political science; ■ 3 p.m.: “Jeopardy!” with Hickam and Reeves; ■ 3:30 p.m.: “Censoring Bob Dylan in the Sixties” by Tom Barden, UT professor of English and director of the Honors Program; ■ 4 p.m.: “Feminism Does Not Equal Censorship: Toward a Feminist Politics of Representation” by Renee Heberle, UT associate professor of political science; ■ 4:30 p.m.: “Homosexuality in Children’s Books” by Sharon Barnes, UT associate professor of interdisciplinary studies; and ■ 5 p.m.: Poetry reading by Glen Sheldon, UT associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, who will read “The Story of Giles Corey,” an original poem he penned for the vigil.

Benefactors of the free, public event are the Society of Professional Journalists, the University Honors Program, The Independent Collegian, University Libraries, UT Department of Communication, UT English Department, and the UT Theatre and Film Department.

Sponsors who contributed door prizes and food include Barry Bagels, Curb’s Candle Co., Dunkin’ Doughnuts, Glacity Theatre Collective, People Called Women, Rite Aid Pharmacy at Westgate, Toledo Free Press, UT Bookstore, UT Business Technology, UT Career Services, UT-MUO Federal Credit Union, UT Starbucks, and UT Theatre and Film Department.

For more information on this free, public event, contact Paulette Kilmer at (419) 530-4672.

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

Instead of getting his driver’s license at 16 years old, Rich Martin was making his first solo flight. At 17, he received his pilot’s license.

These accomplishments were possible because of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northwest Ohio.

Rich was diagnosed with nonHodgkin lymphoma a week before his 15th birthday.

A drummer in the marching band, he noticed a bump on his shoulder he thought was caused by the strap on his drum, his father, Lee Martin, said.

While in the hospital for treatment, a doctor referred him to Make-A-Wish.

His parents thought that when Make-A-Wish came knocking on the door it meant their son we going to die, Lee said. “We thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s terminal.’”

But they quickly learned that Make-A-Wish grants wishes for children with life-threatening, not necessarily terminal, illnesses. Rich had a 60 percent chance of survival, Lee said.

“I went through several different wishes,” Rich said. “I wanted an original flight simulator, not one of the computer ones, but the full motion ones.”

After discovering that full-motion flight simulators cost more that $18 million, Rich came up with a few other ideas, all involving airplanes and flying. “Then I realized I didn’t know how to fly,” he said. “So, I requested the money for my pilot’s license.”

“I can’t put into words how important that was to him,” Lee said.

There were days when Rich couldn’t eat and doctors were ready to put in a feeding tube, his father said.

“The thing that gets people through those things is putting your mind somewhere else ... He went to that airplane. He imagined himself flying.”

Even after beating cancer, Rich’s path hasn’t been easy, Lee said.

After graduating high school, Rich attended Emery Riddle University in Florida. Because of his health history, he could not get clearance to fly and transferred to Heidelberg University to pursue a degree in business.

After college, he was constantly turned down from all branches of the military, Lee said, but MakeA-Wish had allowed him to get his pilot’s license, which planted the seed to fly.

“[Rich] said, ‘I’m gonna do this for the rest of my life. I don’t know how, but somehow I’m going to have flying as part of my life,’” Lee said.

It took hard work and persistence.

Rich had everyone from doctors to the president of Heidelberg write letters to the military, requesting Rich’s acceptance.

Ten years after being diagnosed, Rich, 25, is a lieutenant in the Air Force in flight training at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife and children.

“Make-A-Wish definitely led me to where I am today,” he said.

Kimberly Ray, wish program manager of Make-A-Wish of Northwest Ohio, met Martin two years ago at the first Make-A-Wish walk in Toledo. He came as an ambassador for Make-A-Wish of America and spoke on behalf of the organization, she said. “He is just so appreciative of the organization. It’s been a great experience for him.”

Ambassadors travel wherever a speaker is requested, Rich, who has been in remission since May 1998, tailors his speeches to his audience, whether motivational or to raise funds, he said.

Looking back, being diagnosed with cancer is “obviously the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” Martin said. “But it was also the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

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The experiences and the opportunities that I was afforded due to having cancer really outweigh the negative.”

One of those advantages is the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“Really, there is no better foundation or organization to be associated with than the association that gives kids their dreams,” he said.

“Honestly, if you go out there and you say ‘What can I do?’ they say, ‘You can do this, you can go to this or you can help grant a kid his wish.’ And that’s an awesome choice, an awe-

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Breast Cancer: Early Detection Is Key Despite numerous advances in breast cancer research, it’s still impossible to prevent the disease.

However, regular exams can lead to early detection and increase the likelihood of survival.

The American Cancer Society offers the following early detection guidelines: all women should conduct monthly selfexams; women should report any changes in how their breasts feel to their health care providers; and women should have annual mammograms, beginning at age 40.

In addition to these guidelines, be sure to choose state-of-theart technology for your exams.

ProMedica Health System has updated its screening methods and now offers digital mammograms – which improve the quality and accuracy of breast screenings – at all facilities.

Furthermore, The Toledo Hospital has a magnetic resonance imaging system (MRI) – which gives a highly detailed picture of breast tissue – solely dedicated to breast exams.

Early detection also increases the chance of preserving breast tissue. For example, a woman who has been diagnosed early enough is a candidate for a lumpectomy (which removes the cancer along with a portion of surrounding healthy breast tissue) as opposed to a mastectomy (which removes the entire breast).

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By Mike Driehorst TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Many people in the Toledo community give a lot of their valuable time to help those less fortunate. But for one family, it’s been nearly a lifelong commitment.

The Martin Luther King Kitchen for the Poor, 650 Vance St., Toledo, opened April 1, 1969, under the guidance of the late Rev. Harvey Savage Sr. “I grew up in it,” said Juanita Savage Person, 55, who’s served as executive director for about 15 years.

Person, one of Rev. Savage’s daughters, said she started helping at the kitchen when she was 15 years old.

“This is all I know. It’s the only job I’ve ever had.”

Person’s brother, Harvey Savage Jr. has served as the president of the MLK Kitchen board for eight years.

He also has been involved with the kitchen from a young age.

In addition to Person and Savage Jr., their sister, Henrietta Armstrong is the head cook, and their brother, Raymond Savage, is the driver.

Person, Armstrong and Raymond Savage are the kitchen’s only paid employees. Another sister, Irene Campbell, volunteers.

The MLK Kitchen serves about 200 people every day. The kitchen opens Monday through Friday at 8

a.m. and serves lunch from noon until 1:30 p.m., before closing at 2 p.m. It also is open the second weekend every month, when it hosts a prayer breakfast, organized by the neighboring Lo Salem Missionary Baptist Church.

Savage Jr. said the prayer breakfast typically draws 50 men.

In addition to the daily meals, the kitchen distributes 50 to 60 food boxes every month. The boxes contain enough food to feed a family three meals a day for three days. Other services include clothing, delivering food to elderly and shut-ins, and a case worker helping clients to obtain eligible aid. The case worker is made possible through a federal grant obtained with assistance from United Way of Greater Toledo.

Savage said the type of clients the kitchen serves has expanded in recent months.

“We’ve noticed more families and more of what we’d call middle class. As jobs go, it’s getting harder and harder for everybody,” he said.

He said the case worker has been a big asset to assist those who are not familiar with the welfare system and “need help to manage through the system.”

Person said the MLK Kitchen has solid support from its volunteers and three senior citizens who each work about 18 hours a week as part of the Title V Senior Community

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Savage said financial support for the MLK Kitchen comes from several sources, including individual donations, fundraisers like a recent BowlA-Thon, FEMA grants, and community development block grants.

However, more is always needed to continue the kitchen’s efforts and deal with unexpected emergencies like when a freezer recently broke down.

‘Gallop of the Brides’ to launch Oct. 11 The Toledo area will host its own version of Filene’s Basement Running of the Brides when the Memories Banquet Hall presents the Gallop of the Brides and An Affair to Re-

member Bridal Show on Oct. 11.

“This is an amazing opportunity to spend literally hundreds or thousands of dollars less on the perfect gown,” said Yvonne Gallippo, owner

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In addition to funding, Savage said the kitchen is currently seeking food donations — such as turkeys to assist with Thanksgiving and Christmas meals and food boxes — and toys for its annual Christmas party.

Person said she can’t see herself doing anything else.

“It’s like a ministry to us. We minister to the poor and needy,” she said. “We have a good staff, and it is through them that we’re able to carry out this ministry.”

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Clark said she and Gallippo came up with the concept because of community need.

Gallippo said this event is geared toward a variety of customers.

“You might find the perfect dress for a Quinceañera or an opera,” said Mary Cianci, owner of Sew ‘N Such.

“Seamstresses will be available to help you imagine how gowns can be fitted or altered. This is a golden opportunity for people who do not have a lot of money or are just searching for that special dress.”

Mary Danielak of Memories Banquet Hall said brides-to-be will be able to sample gourmet cuisine.

“We want to encourage relationships,” Clark said. “This show is meant to stimulate the community and help dreams come true.”

Gallop of the Brides and An Affair to Remember Bridal Show will take place at Memories Banquet Hall, 7332 Lewis Ave. in Temperance on Oct. 11 — Jennifer White

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

Andrew Zepeda is best known for dishing on the radio, so it may not surprise people that he has always wanted to be in the restaurant business.

Zepeda has made a name for himself in Toledo from his radio show “Andrew Z in the Morning” on 92.5 KISS FM and as the Lucas County Commissioners’ “weight-loss czar.”

When looking for a location for Andrew Z’s Sportz Pizzeria, Zepeda said he focused on three areas: Downtown, by Westfield Mall and Levis Commons.

“We’re going to be a destination location,” he said. “There’re going to be listeners from all over and I want them to be able to find the place very easily.”

He settled on Levis Commons, where he saw need for a pizzeria and a sports bar.

“I think it was a hole in the market,” he said. “BW3s or Jed’s focus around chicken and sports.

There haven’t been any places that focus around pizza and sports.”

Zepeda recruited business partners Demetrius Nicodemus, from Andrew Z in the Morning, and his uncle Paul Zepeda from San Antonio.

“I’ve always wanted to open a restaurant,” Nicodemus said.

Head Chef Dave Guevara is also from San Antonio. He has created the items on the menu, including the restaurant’s original “Glass City Style” pizza.

“A friend of mine who was from Chicago was always talking about deep dish pizza,” Guevara said. “And I’ve never had a deep dish; I’m from San Antonio. I thought ‘You know,

it would be nice if I made a medium dish pizza.’”

Zepeda said the crust is not thick or thin, but the edges of the crust are high, almost deep dish. “It’s something that we’ve never really seen done anywhere, but it’s phenomenal, and we hope it takes off.”

As “weight-loss czar,” Zepeda has lost 110 in less than two years and takes his responsibilities seriously, he said.

The menu offers pizza, salads and sandwiches starred as “czar friendly.”

“That’s a tough thing about this.

You’ve got to try it all, especially this, where the food is so good,” Zepeda said. “I definitely made sure we had things that were low fat.”

From the pizza crust to marinara sauce, menu items from scratch with fresh ingredients, Guevara said.

Quality of menu items is very important, Zepeda said.

“I made sure that the product is phenomenal,” he said. “People will try it out because of who you are, but they won’t keep coming back. So, I’d honestly put any of our pizzas or whatever you try up against anybody’s.”

Another thing Zepeda is careful about is using his radio show for free advertising.

“I won’t say, ‘Yeah, it’s 48 degrees here, I wonder what the temperature is down at the pizza place.’ I try to only mention it when it makes sense,” he said.

Andrew Z’s Sportz Pizzeria will host its grand opening celebration Oct. 2 and 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. each day.

“It’s been amazing how supportive the business community has been,” he said. “It’s been overwhelming to see that.”

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KeyBank was awarded an “outstanding” rating from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) for exceeding the terms of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977.

The CRA requires banks to meet the credit needs of low- and moderate-income communities in the United States KeyBank is the only national bank among the 50 largest to be rated “outstanding” by the OCC for HOFFMAN seven review periods in a row.

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“It’s all due to the commitment we have to serve all geographic communities and income levels. We believe all banks have a responsibility of giving back to all the communities and keeping branches open in all the neighborhoods they serve.”

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Bruce Murphy, president of Community Development Banking at Key, said the bank “meets its compliance requirements, but then aims to go beyond compliance to full commitment, striking a balance between mission and margin.”

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Bailing out your retirement account W hat has been going on in our world lately is scary.

Things like the banking and financial systems on the verge of collapse, banks and insurance companies having major problems, people having home loans that couldn’t meet their obligations, etc. Can you believe that Merrill Mark Lynch was on the verge of going Nolan under until Bank of America bought them? Were we really on the verge of another Great Depression? The Federal Reserve chairman says we are now coming out of the recession, but are we really? Look around Toledo and there are still few jobs to be found.

With all of this going on, and adding in high government spending and the war, who is going to pay for all of this? Our guess is you and us, the taxpayers.

Would a betting person say that taxes are going up or down?

Factor in the track record of the political party in power and our money is probably on taxes being on the upswing.

A confirmation of how many are feeling was evidenced by a large recent rally in Washington D.C. that we attended to protest the high level of spending by the government. A few of the signs there read, “Share My Work Ethic Not My Wealth” and “Will Work For Freedom.” A guy in a Santa suit carried a sign that said “The Government Is Not Santa and I Am Not Your Stinking Elf.” Whatever your political leaning is, it is probably safe to say that most people are not in favor of raising taxes and continuing to spend us into bankruptcy.

The way we view it is that we just want politicians to do what they say they are going to do. Whether they do or don’t remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, we can take steps that are available to better our financial and estate planning.

How, you ask? We have learned that with every crisis there is an opportunity. With every bad situation, there is good that can come out of it.

Here are some things to consider before the end of the year.

■ Bail out your retirement account. If you, like most, think taxes are going up, would it be

better to pay taxes now at a lower rate or later when the rate is higher? Your retirement account has never been taxed and, in most cases, represents the biggest or second biggest asset.

There are steps to take that allow you to preserve more of it. Now may be the time to do what is CLAIR called a Roth Conversion. This BAKER is where you can convert your account to one that will not be taxable in the future.

There are new laws in place and some that are coming to allow for even those with larger accounts to be converted.

Convert now at lower tax rates.

Your account value may also be lower because of the bad recent stock market. That means there is less to pay taxes on when you convert. Have a Roth Conversion analysis done right away. This may be the perfect time.

■ Bail out your retirement account for your children. The laws changed a few years ago and most people don’t know about it. You can make your retirement account multigenerational and allow your children to stretch out paying taxes over their lifetime, rather than paying it all at once. You would be surprised at how much this will mean in total amount withdrawn if taxes are paid over, let’s say, 35 years instead of all at once. Most of the money stays in the account and continues to grow and compound.

This is a huge deal and there is special multigeneration financial and estate planning to help accomplish this.

There is even a special trust that helps protect the retirement account and helps preserve this “stretch-out” opportunity from blowing up. We call it “The IRA Inheritance Trust,” but it can be used for other types of retirement accounts as well like 401ks.

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How to prepare for public speaking

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e have all done it. Upon simple. Work backwards.

To successfully work backwards, lifting a small box, we are surprised at how heavy it pretend you have a time machine and you can travel to is. With a loud groan, the moment you have we adjust ourselves finished your speech. to accommodate the In your hypothetical heavier-than-expected future, a reporter asks object. Sometimes this a member of your aurequires setting the dience, “What did you box down to take a difenjoy most about that ferent approach; and speech?” sometimes, we lift the How would you box with such speed want the person to that we hurt our backs Tom RICHARD answer that question? in the process.

Would you want the If we had known that the box was heavier than it ap- person to say they felt moved bepeared before we took action, we cause of your speech? Would you would have known to lift with our want them to say they want to buy legs — not with our backs. However, your product as a result of your hindsight is twenty-twenty and we compelling speech?

Knowing exactly what you are can use this example as a reminder to properly assess every situation trying to create [i.e., an audience’s before we commit to action and reaction to a speech] is the first step to preparing for any imporperform a task.

Let’s say that, instead of tant task. The more specific your needing to lift a box, you need to answer is, the more effective your prepare to deliver a speech. Do preparation will be.

The next step is to create an you know exactly what your first step is? Where do you begin? It’s image of who will be in the audi-

ence. Find an image of a person[s] who is representative of who you will be speaking to, print it out and keep it with your list of hypothetical answers. The benefit of using this image is to picture your audience listening, reacting and interpreting the meaning behind your words rather than picturing yourself talking in front of your audience.

Now that you have your list of hypothetical answers and a picture of a person in your audience, you are ready to begin outlining your speech. As you create your bulleted list of the points you would like to cover in your speech, keep the image of your audience and the responses you are trying to create close.

With the picture of what success looks like firmly planted in your mind, you now have a baseline to work with; something that will guide you, your actions, and your decisions all the way to the target.

By starting with a clear picture of what “hitting the target” looks like, you have already improved your speech, even though you have yet to write one word. With the image

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Picturing your audience throughout the preparation steps allows you to involve them in the creation of your speech even though they are not truly present for the process.” of your audience in your mind, you can ask yourself, “Should I include this topic?” Instead of guessing, you can ask yourself, “Does including this help me move this person (look at the picture you printed out of your audience member) toward saying (look at your list of hypothetical answers)?”

Picturing your audience throughout the preparation steps allows you to involve them in the

creation of your speech even though they are not truly present for the process. Involving your audience throughout the preparatory steps allows you to drastically improve the quality of your presentation and dramatically reduce the amount of work required because you are, literally, working backwards.

The image of “what success looks like” is your cheat sheet. Your image of success is like the picture of what the completed puzzle looks like so that, as you dig through the puzzle pieces, you can make sense of them know how to assemble them, and figure out how to create the perfect picture — the picture of your success.

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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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UT Center for Family Business serves community

By Duane Ramsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

The UT Center for Family Business has served the needs of family businesses in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan since it was established in 1992.

The center sponsors events and forums, while providing access to local, regional and nationally recognized business experts for its 125 family owned company members, according to Debbe Skutch, director of the center.

About 300 people attended its Women’s Leadership Forum hosted Sept. 22 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg with author and entrepre-

neur Rebecca Shambaugh as keynote speaker. Shambaugh wrote, “It’s Not A Glass Ceiling, It’s a Sticky Floor.”

A panel discussion included Christa Adams, president of Owens Community College; Marianne Ballas, principal of Ballas Buick GMC; Carol Campbell, vice president of human resources at First Solar; and Barbara Steele, regional president of ProMedica Health System.

“There are a lot of business-related educational opportunities, such as the forums on professional planning,” said Tommy Pipatjarasgit, president of Magic Wok Restaurants Inc., which has been a member for 10 years.

“There’s also the value of net-

working and business resources among the diverse membership,” said Pipatjarasgit, who serves as chairman of the center’s advisory board.

Magic Wok also belongs to one of the affinity groups of eight to 10 members who meet regularly to discuss and develop best practices in successful family business, he said.

The advisory board consists of family business leaders, sponsors of the center, UT administrators and College of Business Administration faculty.

The UT Center for Family Business supports efforts by the business college faculty to develop an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship, family and small business.

Opportunities are available for faculty to research issues of interest to family business by working with the center and its membership, Skutch said.

The center also provides opportunities for student interaction with family businesses through many ways, including internships, mentoring and company visits.

The center is partially funded by an endowment from The Stranahan Foundation to support the growth and prosperity of family business in the community.

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Kellermeyer president got no special favors because of family ties

By Lori Golaszewski TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

When Jill Kegler joined the Kellermeyer Company, she was welcomed into the family business with open arms by her father and uncle.

It was understood, however, that Kegler wouldn’t be granted special favors simply because of her family ties.

“While my father and uncle encouraged me to join the business, they also made three things perfectly clear,” Kegler said. “One, they were not going to create a job because I was a family member; two, they were not going to replace anybody working at the company because I was a family member; and three, Kellermeyer Company is a sales organization, and before I held any other role in the company, I would learn how to sell.”

Kegler and her husband, Greg, joined Kellermeyer in the early 1990s when a sales territory opened after the company expanded into the Detroit marketplace.

After two years, Kegler moved into sales training and marketing, while her husband became involved in internal operations. In 2006, Kegler was named president of Kellermeyer and quickly added chief operating officer to her title. Her husband is executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Founded in 1944, Kellermeyer is a distributor of cleaning supplies, cleaning equipment and packaging products with sales of approxi-

mately $32 million a year. The company’s corporate office and distribution center are located in Bowling Green, with branches in Toledo, Fort Wayne, Ind. and Livonia, Mich.

It has 59 employees.

Kegler said the years leading up to her taking over the presidency were spent learning as much as possible about the company, its customers and the supply industry.

“I did a little bit of everything when it came to sales and marketing,” Kegler said. “It was Jill on demand: ‘Where do you need me, where can I learn more about the organization, where can I learn more about our industry?’ It was almost like a master’s degree in just learning and working with different people and holding a variety of roles and titles in the sales and marketing arena.”

Though she enjoyed working with her father and uncle, Kegler said it was challenging because she was under pressure to prove herself as a businesswoman and be viewed as more than the daughter and niece of the company’s owners.

“I think sometimes I had to prove myself a little bit more, but at the same time, I think they were very willing to listen to new ideas because it was coming from me,” she said. “It was a double-edged sword. They were willing to listen, but I needed to be sure my facts and information were correct and that I was doing a good sales job at the same time. They weren’t willing to accept something just because I’m a family member, which I give them a great deal of respect for.”

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While Kegler has many years before her children are old enough to join the family business — her son Tommy is 10 and daughter Allie is 7 — she said they’ll be more than welcome to work for the company if they so choose.

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Gross Electric president Laurie Gross worked her way up

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

Laurie Gross is a successful business woman with a secret. She knows how to have it all.

“You can have it all,” she said. “You just need to know what your all is. My all is my business and my family.”

Gross is the third generation to run Gross Electric, a Toledo-based family business. Her grandfather, George (Joe) Gross, founded Gross

Electric in 1910. Gross Electric has grown to include three locations and 50 employees.

In the early 1900s, while working for Peerless Gas Mantle Company in Chicago, Joe’s job was transferred to Toledo. When he learned the com-

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The company was eventually passed on to his son, Richard Gross.

It was Richard who saw the need for a place to help family businesses in Toledo. He was a founding member of the UT Center for Family Business, which started in 1992.

“The business center is a place for family businesses to get training,” Laurie Gross said.

Gross is the third generation to run Gross Electric, but she was not always in the captain’s seat.

She started working for the business as a secretary after she graduated from the University of Michigan in 1975.

Since then, she has worked in nearly every position — telephone operation, sales, advertising, marketing and she even ran a branch in Ann Arbor while she completed her Master of Business Administration.

“When I graduated from college, it was a lot like it is now, no jobs,” she said. “My dad said, ‘Come work for me, you can always leave,’ but whenever I got offered another job he said, ‘I’ll pay you more than that.’”

After running a branch for eight years, she returned to Toledo to take

a position as vice president. Now, she is president of the company.

“I still do sales, I do home-lighting designs, I oversee our marketing and I.T. I manage people.”

Gross said her climb to the top of a “fairly male dominated GROSS field” was full of hard work and some discrimination. She said in a family business, you have to work harder to prove that you know what you are doing.

While she never experienced discrimination within the company, there was some from the outside.

“People would tell me they didn’t want to talk to me; they wanted the man in charge; or they would say, ‘Who is the guy that’s supposed to be running this job?’” she said.

But things have changed.

“It’s another thing if you are president,” she said. “People are smart enough not to say anything.”

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Annie Pipatjarasgit stumbled into her career at Magic Wok by accident.

It’s also how she met her husband, Tommy.

“I met Tommy at Fourth of July party hosted by his parents at their house,” she said. “His parents invited a few other Thai students from UT to the party as well.”

A few weeks later, Pipatjarasgit asked her future mother-in-law for a job and soon after was working as a cashier at the first Magic Wok location, which was at the then-Franklin Park Mall.

Magic Wok was started in 1983 by Annie’s fatherin-law, Sutas Pipatjarasgit. Since then, she and her husband have taken over running the 13 locations in Ohio, Michigan, and three in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

PIPATJARASGIT Pipatjarasgit is in charge of marketing for Magic Wok, but is still involved in day-to-day operations.

Her responsibilities include promotion, product development, market research, system development and system design.

Pipatjarasgit studied journalism and mass communication in her home country of Thailand, where her family still lives. She first came to the United States as an international student at UT to earn her Master of Business Administration.

“My oldest son, Poom, has visited Thailand five times. Pinya has only visited once and Paradon has not had a chance to go yet. We are planning a visit at the end of this year,” she said of their three children.

Pipatjarasgit said her in-laws are open-minded about her working in the business, which is not common in Thai culture.

“It’s a very male dominant culture,” she said. “I’m very fortunate in my family. They gave me opportunity.

“My father-in-law is my mentor,” Pipatjarasgit said. “He has given me a lot of chances. He still is teaching me a lot. He taught me not to be afraid of failure or disappointment.”

Magic Wok expanded its business in October 1996 with Tropical Grill & Juices location.

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Miller founded Ugly Data about three years ago with her husband Dan after leaving careers at Hewlett Packard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a huge learning curve when you become an entrepreneur,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to learn everything.â&#x20AC;?

She and her husband attend an affinity group, which is mostly made up of men. Miller said the experience is helpful because she learns from people who have knowledge about operating a business; however, she wanted to hear from women, too. Miller was able to make contacts through UT Center for Family Business, of which she is a member. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted a more intimate group,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It sounds selfish of me, but I wanted to tap into their brains.â&#x20AC;?

Miller began discussing the group with Andrea Fetterman, vice president for City Apparel. Fetterman belongs to a Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Forum in Findlay and thought the concept would serve businesswomen in Toledo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The affinity group is a great avenue to discuss legitimate issues about business,â&#x20AC;? Fetterman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can talk about business concepts or family matters and how they relate to our business.â&#x20AC;?

Tanya Pipatjarasgit, commercial real estate agent with Signature Associates and member, said the group acts as an informal advisory board. The group is made up of 13 women from different professions. Each woman is either a business owner or a significant decision maker in the company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have different age groups represented,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone gets something out of it.â&#x20AC;?

Miller said she hopes members are benefiting from the affinity group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a fun group with a lot of potential,â&#x20AC;? Pipatjarasgit said.

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Ann Obertacz is the third generation of her family to run its longtime business, Toledo Wire Products.

Her grandfather Martin Breivik, a Norwegian immigrant, started the family business in 1920. The company was involved in the fabrication of coil springs used in furniture manufacturing, along with stampings and newspaper racks.

Her father Richard Breivik joined the family business after serving in the Air Force during the OBERTACZ Korean War. He helped redirect the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on making display racks, which helped extend its growth into the early 1960s, according to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Web site.

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The company utilized the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expertise in succession planning when she and her brother were buying the business from their parents, Obertacz said.

She and her brother Rick Breivik bought the business from their parents, continuing the family tradition, although Rick is no longer involved in the company.

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he view from ground level (and below): How long, in light years, will we of passion for the NFL representatives in our area have to wait for something good to happen or something bad to happen less often or will nothing of consequence continue to happen in a defenselessness world of devastation?

In other words, are the Cleveland Browns or Detroit Lions ever going to win again?

How much pain do we have to endure on a weekly basis during the season that starts and ends on the first weekend of the NFL campaign as far as the Lions and Browns are concerned? We’re very caring, patient Dave WOOLFORD fans who have been cursed. What did we do wrong? We’re victims of our own environs, a football hotbed that becomes cold-blooded on Sunday afternoons.

Metaphorically speaking, our two NFL representatives are both train wrecks. They’re not disasters waiting to happen. They’re disasters waiting to happen again and again and again. It’s foreseeable. It’s unavoidable.

We have new coaches, new quarterbacks, new logos and supposedly new mindsets, but after watching both teams fall to 0-2 our only response can be, “So what’s new?”

Since their 1999 expansion return to the NFL, the Browns are just 54108 with one playoff experience and three coaching changes. They’re on their way to losing at least 10 games for the sixth time in the past seven years. Their biggest rival was Pittsburgh, but the Steelers have beaten them 11 straight times and now consider the Browns their biggest patsy.

As for the Lions, 21 months without a win is pushing perpetuity. Their loss to the Vikings last Sept. 20 was their 19th straight, tying Chicago (1940s) and Oakland (1960s) for the second-longest skid in league history. Don’t look now, but the Lions are just seven losses away from tying Tampa Bay’s record of 26 in a row set during the 1976-77 seasons. But enough of this negativity. Maybe there’s something loveable about losers that we as fans haven’t discovered yet, although our Lions and Browns have certainly given us ample time to do so.

Coaches poll needs to go If you haven’t browsed the weekly USA Today Coaches and/or Secretaries, Graduate Assistants, PR Flacks And Other Underlings College Football Poll, save your time. Florida State is ranked 25th after it crushed BYU 54-28 in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 19. Both teams are 2-1. And, by the way, BYU is ranked 20th. This continues to fortify the fallacy of the Coaches Poll, which provides one third of the counterparts to determine the BCS national title-game participants. Isn’t it any wonder the coaches voted to make their ballots secret?

They need to be totally eliminated from the BCS process, but whose going to vote for that? Certainly no one remotely connected with the 59 coaches who supposedly vote in the coaches poll. Their respective subordinates are already too busy covering for the old coach when it comes to voting for the top 25 Division 1-A college football teams, while making sure they don’t interfere with the old coaches’ personal agenda, which cancels out any chance for objectivity.

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oledo’s 38-0 loss to Ohio State in Cleveland was, among being hilarious for BGSU fans, a m o s t unlikely shutout.

T h e Rockets hit the 50-point m a r k against a Big Matt SUSSMAN XII team the previous week. The Buckeyes’ defense had trouble against Navy.

Certainly, it was at least going to be a close game?

Not so. When the trendy upset prediction was looming, the Buckeyes tightened their grip on the gullet of Ohio football, choking any chance of a rebellion in the Buckeye State. It’s a story you’ve read so many times before; it’s almost second nature.

Ohio State has always had a stranglehold on this fair land. The last time they lost an in-state game was 1921 against the mighty Oberlin College Yeomen (That’s a fantastic team nickname, by the way). There may not be a more populous state in which one team reigned longer and stronger. Ohio has more bowl subdivision teams (eight) than any state except Texas (10). You’d think that, at some point in the past 88 years, one of them would have had a better day than the Buckeyes.

Maybe it’s simply hard luck.

Since OSU schedules nonconference opponents well ahead of time (they already have a game with Tennessee in 2019), it’s also entirely possible they have some arcane knowledge of when in-state teams will be at their worst. Or it could be the snowball effect of desperation like the Chicago Cubs. Or perhaps the thrill of the chase clouds the ability to succeed like the Trix Rabbit.

But the “Family Feud” most popular reason is probably that the game is almost always played in Columbus. Other than the Sept. 19 game against UT in Cleveland and against Cincinnati (at the Bengals’

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Paul Brown Stadium) in 2002, Ohio State has never traveled anywhere else in Ohio to play football since 1934 (Not like that matters. The entire state is their backyard.)

In the next five years, the Buckeyes will face at least six Ohio schools. Do any of them have a chance at breaking the streak?

■ Sept. 18, 2010 vs. Ohio: The Bobcats are nothing to write home about, except when Terrelle Pryor tells his mother about how many rushing touchdowns he will score against them.

■ Sept. 3, 2011 vs. Akron: The last time the Zips went to Columbus, they scored all of two points. That’s all you need to know.

■ Sept. 10, 2011 vs. Toledo: Then again, the Rockets would have killed for two points last week. But they still have time. 2011 will be Tim Beckman’s third year coaching UT, which is generally a statement season. And with the way Jim Tressel coaches during big games, the Buckeyes may be in a state of flux by then, the same way Michigan was last year.

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Quick hitters

■ Calling a timeout with just seconds remaining in an NFL game to freeze an opposing placekicker who might have a winning field goal on his toe is something that should be given the boot. Dallas coach Wade Phillips used the rule to its full extent against New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes last Sept. 20, with four seconds remaining and the clock stopped.

Tynes kicked what appeared to be the winning 37-yard field goal, but Phillips called timeout just before the ball was snapped, negating the field goal. Tynes was then forced to make good on his second attempt, which he did. Here’s the silliness of the whole episode. What if Tynes had missed before Phillips called time out and then made good on his mulligan? The timeout rule has to be altered to maintain that there can be no timeouts called in, say, the last five seconds of a particular game to freeze the opposing placekicker.

■ Congratulations to Sam Hornish Jr. of Defiance, who has recorded seven top-10 NASCAR Sprint Cup finishes this season with nine races remaining. That’s just two less than Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch.

■ Hot rumor is that Danica Patrick, the hottest female driver in the Indy Racing League (results not withstanding), will join Tony Stewart’s NASCAR Sprint Cup racing team, but first will be channeled through ARCA and the NASCAR Nationwide series before making her Sprint Cup debut.

Patrick’s only victory in the IRL came just one a year ago in Japan.

Since then, she has led only three times for 27 laps, 24 of which came at Iowa Speedway three months ago when she finished ninth, a lap behind the leaders.

■ Yes, you heard right. ESPN’s Monday night NFL game color commentator Ron “Jaws” Jaworski said Miami quarterback Chad Pennington had, “Great eye discipline.” Does that mean he doesn’t wink, blink or bat an eyelid under pressure? If your eyes are undisciplined, how do you enforce accepted patterns of behavior?

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OSU’S LAWRENCE WILSON BEARS DOWN ON UT QUARTERBACK AARON OPELT AT THE SEPT. 19 GAME IN CLEVELAND.

■ SUSSMAN CONTINUED FROM A25 The stars may align for something special on this day. Mark your calendar if you are over-prepared and already bought one for this year.

The diploma on my wall, however, tells me this will be a 41-0 victory for the scarlet and gray.

■ Sept. 1, 2012 vs. Miami University: Probably by then the RedHawks will not be giving up 40 points a

game. But it’s not like Ben Roethlisberger will be going back to school for his master’s any time soon.

■ Sept. 8, 2012 vs. Cincinnati: By 2012, the Cincy-OSU matchup should be a lot like Michigan State vs. Michigan, meaning it’s promising, but still not living up to expectations.

■ Date TBA, 2014 vs. Kent State: Everyone who will play for the Golden Flashes in 2014 is currently in

high school, if that. And the program has never been that great. However, since nobody can predict what will happen that far into the sports future — and, in five years nobody’s going to remember this — I can safely assume that Kent State will beat Ohio State and end the then-93-year reign of supremacy in Ohio, provided they change their mascot to the Golden Yeomen, which they will.

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Governments brace for possible property tax loss DETROIT (AP) — Governments and schools across Michigan are bracing for the possible loss of millions of dollars in tax revenue as General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC argue that they should pay less in property taxes. GM and Chrysler say their property taxes are inflated by more than 50 percent because local communities overestimate the value of their plants and buildings. If the automakers prevail before the Michigan Tax Tribunal, some of the hardest hit communities would be those in metro Detroit where GM and Chrysler are the biggest taxpayers. But the Detroit Free Press reports it would also affect school districts, community colleges and libraries. Community leaders say they could have to lay off police and firefighters or cut services.

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Fiat chief: Fiat-Chrysler can reach 6 million

By Colleen Barry and George Frey AP BUSINESS WRITERS

FRANKFURT — Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said recently that the new auto alliance can reach a production level of 5.5 million to 6 million cars a year on its own once the economy stabilizes — the level he says is needed for longterm survival.

MARCHIONNE “We will arrive alone at 6 million units. Between us and Chrysler, we will get there,’’ Marchionne said on the sidelines of the 63rd Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany.

Marchionne has said that threshold is critical for an automaker’s survival, creating speculation

about whether Fiat was still looking around for other partners. The two groups delivered more than 4 million vehicles total in 2008, with the second half seriously weakened by the crisis.

“Wait until November,’’ Marchionne said, when Chrysler will release its business plan looking ahead five years. “You will see whether I get there on my own.’’

Many automakers were looking for the silver lining at the Frankfurt Auto Show, boosted by news of sales that revived on cash-for-clunker schemes that revived sales, but questioning how strong any recovery will be. It is the first major industry gathering since the crisis reshaped the industry landscape, with Fiat Group SpA taking a controlling stake of Chrysler LCC in June as it went through bankruptcy, Volkswagen taking over Porsche and Canada’s Magna locking up a deal for General

Motor’s European Opel subsidiary.

The focus was on electric vehicles, even though many manufacturers acknowledged it could be as many as 10 years until sales reach mass market levels. A toned down U.S. presence was a clear indication of the toll from the recession.

More than an “auto show of recovery,’’ Marchionne said this year’s event was “an auto show of hopes.’’

“We know that 2010 will be a difficult year, but it won’t be difficult like 2009,’’ he said.

Marchionne said he expects that the U.S. auto market will be around 11 million cars in 2010, with “healthier competition’’ returning when the numbers get to 12 million and above.

“The Cash for Clunkers stuff in the United States has really warped demand. You will see some astronomical numbers in August’’ suggesting that annual car sales at that

rate would reach 14 million, Marchionne said. “I thought I’d died and went to heaven. It’s not a real number.

We are going to see harsh reality in September; it is going to drop.’’

The issue is more problematic in Europe where the incentives have not required the industry to address overproduction, he said, and where it is still unclear if the programs will continue in countries like Italy, France and Britain. Germany says it has no plans to renew its scheme.

Fiat took a 20-percent controlling stake in Chrysler LLC in June after Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy restructuring, making Marchionne CEO of both groups. Fiat’s successful offer hinged on contributing the small-car platforms and cleaner-burning engines lacking in the Chrysler mix, as well as its industrial know-how.

Marchionne declined to discuss the forthcoming model lineup ahead

of the release of the new, post-bankruptcy business plan, which will make clear which Chrysler brands will continue in Europe and which Fiat technology will be deployed in the United States.

He did say that first Chrysler based on Fiat technology, a subcompact, will be on the U.S. market by the end of 2010 and that he wanted to get Chrysler models into the Fiat network “as soon as I can.’’ Alfa Romeo appears headed for a U.S. return, as long expected.

Marchionne pledged the plan will present “absolute clarity’’ on Fiat and Chrysler’s joint path, necessary because of the long lead times in auto production. Chrysler hopes to resume quarterly reports by the end of the year, he said.

“I think we need to lift the shroud of secrecy around the house. We make cars, we make visible product.

There is nothing to hide,’’ he said.

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(AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Years of downsizing in the U.S. auto industry have left behind a pool of engineers and designers looking for work. Some are seeking training in plug-in hybrid electrics and cutting-edge vehicle safety systems, while others are turning to retraining programs to reach beyond the auto industry for a new line of work. The Talascend Global Training Academy in the Detroit area is one of those programs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working to retrain engineers and designers for careers in the oil and gas industry.

The academy was started in February by staffing company Talascend LLC. It partnered with Macomb Community College, which has a history of teaching computer-aided design for the auto industry. About 50 people have been trained so far and the first two recently got jobs.

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The headquarters would house global design, engineering, product planning, purchasing, sales, service, marketing and financing, Richards said. The company plans to invest $9.4 million throughout five years, he said.

The Michigan Economic Development Authority on Sept. 21 approved a $20.6 million state tax credit for 10 years to lure the company to Michigan. According to a memo filed with the authority, Hummer is considering sites in Detroit and suburban Auburn Hills, both of which have indicated they would grant tax abatements. Hummer also considered sites in South Carolina, Louisiana and Tennessee.

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Sichuan Tengzhong spokesman Tim Payne said negotiations are still under way to close the deal with GM.

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By Tom Krisher AP AUTO WRITER

DETROIT — General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and to make up for production lost from a large-scale factory consolidation announced earlier in the year.

The automaker says it will add a third shift at its Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kan., in January. That will be followed in March or April by third shifts at factories in Delta Township, Mich., near Lansing, and Fort Wayne, Ind. About 2,400 production workers will be recalled as a result of the added shifts, and another 600 will be recalled at parts factories across the country, said Tim Lee, group vice president for global manufacturing.

The increases, coupled with other production increases announced during the summer, will allow GM to raise North American production from about 1.9 million vehicles this year to 2.8 million in 2010, Lee said.

The increase also is necessary because of an expected sales increase next year and because GM’s inventory of cars and trucks was at a record-low level of 378,000 at the

end of August, said Mark LaNeve, vice president of U.S. sales.

The Fairfax plant makes the midsize Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Buick LaCrosse, while Delta Township makes the GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook large crossover vehicles. The Fort Wayne factory makes pickup trucks.

GM says in a statement that Fairfax will get all production of the Malibu when a midsize car factory in Orion Township, Mich., closes Nov. 25. It will be converted to a small-car plant and reopen in 2010.

Delta Township will get production of the Chevrolet Traverse large crossover when the Spring Hill, Tenn., factory that now makes the vehicles closes, also on Nov. 25. That plant will go on standby in case demand increases.

Fort Wayne will add production of heavy-duty versions of the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickups that are being made in Pontiac, Mich. That factory is to close at the end of September, the company said in a statement.

Lee said GM will not hire new workers to staff the additional shifts.

Instead, the company will first offer the jobs to workers at the plants that will be closed.

After that, they will be offered to workers in the region and

then across the nation, he said.

GM, under its contract with the United Auto Workers union, will pay to move workers from other cities, he said.

Although the company’s dealer inventory is low now, it will take a minimum of three months to add the shifts because workers must be moved and machinery must be disassembled and moved from Spring Hill and Pontiac, the company said.

“This is a massive move for us in terms of the transference of people,’’ Lee said.

GM’s September sales have been slow following the end of the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, LaNeve said. The company, though, predicts an increase in total U.S. sales from 10.5 million this year to 11.5 to 12 million next year, he said.

Brian Fredline, president of the UAW local at the Delta Township plant, said the increase at his factory is not just due to the closure of the Tennessee plant.

“It’s because we have increased demand for our product,’’ he said. “We build a world-class vehicle and the marketplace is responding to it.’’

Workers at the plant, while unhappy that Spring Hill is closing, are happy to get the additional work,

Fredline said.

“It creates job and income security for our UAW workers,’’ he said. “Any job and income security in this economic climate is a good thing.’’

GM plans to move tooling for the Traverse from Spring Hill later this year, and hopes to begin build Traverses, which are similar to the GMC and Saturn crossovers, by January of next year.

About 800 workers will be recalled at Delta Township, 900 in Kansas City and 700 in Fort Wayne, Lee said.

Last month GM announced it would add shifts at factories in Ingersoll, Ontario, and Lordstown, Ohio, mainly in the fourth quarter.

The Ontario plant makes the brandnew Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossover vehicles, both of which get 32 miles per gallon (mpg) on the highway. Lordstown makes the Chevrolet Cobalt small car, GM’s highest mileage vehicle at 37 mpg on the highway.

Production also was to be boosted at other North American factories, including those that make the Chevrolet HHR small wagon, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickups, the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car, Buick LaCrosse sedan and the Cadillac SRX and CTS Wagon.

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Marvin Hamlisch just called to set up his interview.

Yes, the Marvin Hamlisch. Think “A Chorus Line,” “They’re Playing Our Song,” “The Goodbye Girl” on Broadway, “The Way We Were,” “The Sting,” “Liza With a Z,” “Ice Castles,” “The Spy Who Loved Me” on the big screen.

Only Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers each have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, a Golden Globe and a Pulitzer Prize.

Hamlisch called to schedule his own interview.

“Yeah, I’m a hands-on person. It’s true,” the 65-year-old said a couple hours later from a stop in Oxford, Miss. “I’ve found that if you have too many assistants, nothing gets done.”

Hamlisch had a hand in creating some of the most memorable music in the 20th century. And he just wrote music for Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” It’s his first cinematic score since 1996’s “The Mirror Has Two Faces.”

“I don’t really want to give away too much because it’s a very interesting film, I guess you’d call it a black comedy,” the composer said.

“But it’s based on a real event that occurred in the ’80s, and so basically I spoke with [Soderbergh] a lot to discuss what he wanted in the film, and I went about doing it and I’m very happy with it.”

The entertainer will take the stage at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 for a benefit for the Valentine Theatre. Broadway stars Anne Runolfsson and Gary Mauer will perform with the pianist.

Tickets are $175 for the reception, dinner, dancing and performance or $225 with four beverage tickets.

Hamlisch recently answered questions for Toledo Free Press.

TFP: What do you like about writing music for films?

MH: Music can be very helpful to a movie; it can really help certain elements in the movie in ways that are subtle, but there. In [“The Informant!”] for instance, one of the things we did was to try to make it as funny as possible, and so a lot of the music is built to be humorous.

TFP: You grew up in New York. Did you go to see a lot of

Broadway shows?

MH: Oh yeah. In those days, standing room, of course, was about 75 cents or $1.50, and, you know, shows didn’t cost $14 million — it’s very different these days. I remember “Damn Yankees” and “Pajama Game” being two shows that really had a profound effect on me because I was watching and hearing how an audience gives you instant feedback. It was wonderful.

TFP: “The Way We Were,” “What I Did for Love,” “The Entertainer” — what gives your music that timeless quality?

MH: I think it’s because of the fact that my parents were from Vienna. My father was a musician and the thing he kept saying at home all the time was there’s nothing like a good melody. I tend to be a person that feels that the melody is absolutely the rock-bottom most important part. And if you can get a really good melody, hopefully it will stick around a while. I try to write melodies that I hope have a life.

TFP: The event in Toledo is a fundraiser for the Valentine Theatre.

Can you say a few words about the importance of keeping the arts, particularly music, alive?

MH: Here’s the scary part about the arts right now: I just did a show just a few days ago, and there were some young children in the audience, I guess brought with a gun to their head by their mother or father.

Now these kids, it’s really not their fault, but they have no idea who Cole Porter or Gershwin is, and the reason they don’t know is because it’s very difficult these days to feel anything about the arts because you don’t have Ed Sullivan on anymore; you don’t have certain variety shows anymore; it’s not in the schools.

One of the great things that America did was give us some great songs in movies and theater, and it’s important those things last, that they have a life of their own. So, I think it’s important any time you get a chance to play this music to the public, I think it’s really important because this is truly something that America should in fact continue to export and hopefully will be around a long, long time.

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Chihuly Toledo! had patrons lining up outside the Toledo Museum of Art’s (TMA) Glass Pavilion.

“At our opening for the exhibit we had people from Florida waiting outside to get in as soon as we opened the doors, as well as a number of other arts patrons from all over the country,” said TMA Curator of Glass, Jutta Page. “The mere mention of Dale Chihuly’s name has been causing a lot of excitement. I first came across his work at the Haystack School of Crafts in Maine in 1993 and was simply struck by the colors in his work. He is one of the most commercially successful artists to ever come out of the studio glass movement.”

A Seattle native, Chihuly was first asked to exhibit his work in a study of contemporary glass art in Toledo in 1970. After an accident in 1976 impaired his vision, Chihuly took on the role of choreographer and director for a team of artists. Chihuly is, perhaps, best known locally for his 9-foot chandelier, “Campiello

del Remer #2,” which can be seen at the entrance to the Glass Pavilion.

“This exhibit includes work from every period and every series in Chihuly’s career. It is composed of every piece from our permanent collection, as well as pieces loaned out by private collectors,” Page said. “It’s interesting to see what pieces kicked off different directions in his work.

A lot of people think that Chihuly never really blew glass himself, but one of the things this show does is prove that that is simply not true.”

Chihuly Toledo! marks the first time the TMA’s entire Chihuly collection has been available for public viewing since 1993.

“Dale Chihuly’s work speaks for itself. It’s vibrant, alive with color, light, depth and perspective.” “Just as no two pieces of art are identical, no two people view art in the same way.

What’s special about Chihuly Toledo! is that our visitors, from avid collectors to the first-time visitors, will experience, share, appreciate and be fulfilled by a unique form of art that has its roots right here in Toledo.”

The exhibit will remain on display through Nov. 29.

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PEOPLE

By John Dorsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER jdorsey@toledofreepress.com

Sculptor and Toledo native Calvin Babich is one of several artists competing for a shot at one of world’s largest art prizes.

The competition, known as ArtPrize, is being sponsored in Grand Rapids, Mich., by the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, with prizes totaling $449,000, to be split among 10 finalists with a grand prize of $250,000. The winner is determined by popular vote. This is the first year for the competition, which features the work of 1,262 artists at 159 ArtPrize registered venues.

Babich, who works in stone, created a piece called “Rock Family,” which will be on display at the Design Plus offices located at 230

East Fulton St. in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.

“I just set out to create a depiction of a family on an outing that expresses their joy,” Babich said. “The piece is based on several things I’ve worked on in the past. I know that a lot of people that look at it will just think it’s cute.”

Babich, who works as a stone mason by day, could be called a late bloomer when it comes to his creative sculpture work.

“I spent three years as a journalism major at the University of Toledo, and then worked various jobs to take care of my family,” he said. “I only really started making sculpture about 12 years ago, though I’ve always had a passion for working with stone, there’s just such a permanence to it. I think being an

artist leads you observe more.”

Babich has previously exhibited his work at a number of events throughout the area including the UT’s 4th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and the 91st Toledo Area Artists exhibition. Those interested in seeing more of Babich’s work can visit the Web site www. calvinbabich.com.

ArtPrize is set to run through Oct. 10, with all voting for finalists running through Sept. 30 and grand prize voting until Oct. 7. The winner will be announced at Rosa Parks Circle on Oct. 8.

PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN BABICH

Toledo artist taking aim at one of world’s largest prizes

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CALVIN BABICH WITH HIS SCULPTURE, ‘ROCK FAMILY.’

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Events: Mercury direct station in Virgo (29th); Full Moon in Aries (3rd-4th)

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Proverbs are short wellknown sayings that contain a wise, clever message.

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5. Can you think of at least 2 proverbs about birds?

6. What does this proverb mean? “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

7. Make up your own proverb about tigers.

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Count Dracula. Family and work situations reach a critical state this week, with equal potential for good or bad results. Your subconscious mind is bubbling; ideas float into awareness after Thursday. Pay attention to hunches and dreams as the full moon approaches.

Jason Bourne. Key facts revealed as the week begins change everything. Swift-moving midweek events shift advantages and game plans in contested arenas. Be silent and stealthy; nervous talk reveals culpability. The full moon yields ultimate outcomes.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Ask Jeeves. Past efforts yield greater returns than expected this week. You may be jettisoned into new positions of responsibility midweek, with a domino effect in other areas of life. The full moon illuminates swift changes and breaks from the past.

Marcel Marceau. Turning points in relationships and creative efforts are center stage this week. Rebellion or genius breaks the status quo midweek. Bridges to safety and security can be built after Thursday, and the full moon illuminates your process of transition.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Get Smart. This week brings significant transitions and change-overs at home and work. An honest, forthright discussion about money on Thursday clears up confusions. The full moon shows where matters are still shifting. Refine your goals.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Romeo and Juliet. If you trust the people involved, the changes and processes you encounter will go more easily. Some straight talk midweek helps you better understand others’ motives and intentions. Accept inevitable changes under the full moon.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Daddy Warbucks. Issues of accountability, of following through on detail work, crop up this week. The tables are turned midweek through possession or lack of knowledge. As the full moon approaches, you can assess the basis and limits of mutual exchanges.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

ANSWERS: 1. chickens 2. dog 3. cat 4. horse 5. Birds of a feather flock together. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The early bird catches the worm. There may be others as well. 6. You can show people what you want them to do, but you can’t force them to do it.

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Nurse Ratchett. Last week’s storm continues, but you become more certain of end results. Things you’ve waited for patiently begin to unfold without much effort on your part. The full moon illuminates transitions others are making through necessity.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Doubting Thomas. Perceived obstacles and frustrations finally shatter this week. Be ready to assume leadership; act like you planned it all along. Financial benefits roll in after Thursday. The full moon lights the way to fulfilling your dreams in life and love.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

The Parent Trap. Things happen in pairs this week, or on multiple levels. The new merges with the old midweek, perhaps more easily than expected. People long for the good old days on Friday. The full moon shows where you’re eager to move forward in life.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

The Dalai Lama. Changing alliances and secret deals may be in the works. Midweek announcements can catch you off-guard if you’ve been oblivious to undercurrents. The full moon shows the magnitude of transitions in your environment, and the extent of your reactions to it.

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Nicholas Tesla. People pop out of the woodwork this week, renewing acquaintances and delivering all sorts of news and opportunities. Your interest in fresh and exciting things is growing, and the full moon accentuates how others are steering you toward greener fields.

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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efore your child even enters and consistency missing from otherthe world, you know as a wise admirable efforts. Good people parent that your worst night- are sometimes being unjustly scrutinized, while real permare would be somepetrators are being rething horrendous happeatedly overlooked. pening to your child.

The recent disTwo family stories covery that Phillip in the news this past Garrido, a registered week illustrated that sex offender, was able there are no doubt to keep a kidnapped other situations pargirl under wraps for 18 ents must sometimes years in his backyard, face that come in as a is a prime example of close second.

Shannon SZYPERSKI such oversight. There Something as seemingly innocuous as vaca- is also story upon story of children tion photos turned into a yearlong knowingly being kept or placed back waking-hours nightmare for Lisa in abusive family situations by governand A.J. Demaree of Arizona. The ment agencies or otherwise. It is hard couple thought nothing of having to reconcile such instances against bathtime pictures of their young the plight of the Demarees, who took children developed by their local photos of their children that most Wal-Mart. However, one overly- parents have taken and ended up on a concerned photo center employee sex offender registry and without the set a series of life-shattering events custody of their children for a month in motion for the family when she while being proven innocent.

What happened to the Demarees turned in some of the photos to authorities, believing them to be more really does hit home as a what-if scealong the lines of child pornography nario. What if my own son would have given some off-the-wall answer than innocent family fun.

Such a story should send fear when the ER nurse asked him if he down the spine of any loving, well- felt safe at home the night he broke intentioned, law-abiding parent. It his arm? What if a late-night dog is no longer enough to just be doing walker thought that my daughter’s the right thing. Friends, neighbors, half-asleep scream fest was due to law enforcement and, apparently, something more sinister than figeven strangers need to have con- uring out which pajamas to change stant reassurance that life behind into after she wet the bed?

I want the world to be a place closed doors is remaining squeaky where no child should have to enclean when it comes to children.

Such fervent attention to the dure abuse at the hands of his or well-being of children should be a her parents or anyone else. Yet, it good thing. However, there seems to terrifies me to think that a simple be a large amount of common sense misunderstanding could result in

the assumption that I, or any good parent, was anything but.

In an equally heart-wrenching, life-is-just-not-fair family saga, a local couple, Carolyn and Sean Savage, made international headlines when they revealed that another couple’s embryo was erroneously implanted during their in-vitro fertilization procedure. Despite the option to abort early on, the Savages chose to proceed with the pregnancy, knowing that the child they have so lovingly cared for prenatally will be given to his biological parents upon birth.

As with the Demaree’s bathtime photo-printing debacle, one has to wonder why such anguished situations would befall people willing to do right by their children when there are so many despicable predator-types so overdue for justice to be served to them. The old question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” continues to plague the minds of decent people everywhere.

In the Savage’s case, we can see in times of crisis that, if nothing else, there is sometimes room for opportunity. The opportunity that was handed to them, unfortunately, did not offer a happy ending for their family, only the chance to make the best of a very bad situation in giving a happy ending to someone else.

The answer to why bad things happen to good people might just be that within the selfless acts that often follow, there are lessons for us all.

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

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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.

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

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