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‘Holiday Wishes’

Freight in Toledo

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hen discussing Toledo’s competitive advantages, transportation is a key element, from rail, roads and waterways.

As reported by Toledo Free Press Senior Business Writer Duane Ramsey, transportation professionals came from around the state, several neighboring states and Canada to participate in the fifth annual Ohio Conference on Freight in Toledo on Sept. 20-21 and brought to light several interesting points.

The conference brought about 160 transportation professionals together to focus on the movement of goods through Ohio and the Great Lakes Region, according to Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG).

“Transportation is the key to economic growth in the U.S.,” Leslie Blakey, executive director of the Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors in Washington, D.C., told Ramsey. Blakey said that President Barack Obama supports transportation infrastructure and the American Jobs Act would provide funding for transportation that would positively affect the economy.

Ramsey reported that the conference included discussions of transporting freight by air, highway, rail and water as well as intermodal, which involves more than one of those modes.

Thomas F. POUNDS “Ohio has a significant geographic advantage for transportation of goods,” Mark Locker, freight and maritime planner for the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), told Ramsey, citing the convergence of air, highways, railroads and seaport modes in the state. “Economic competitiveness in Ohio has resulted in a strong transportation system.”

One of the major topics at the conference involved the shipment of goods from seaports on the East Coast on the CSX and Norfolk Southern rail systems that connect Ohio and the Midwest to those ports, Ramsey reported.

“Both CSX and Norfolk Southern have connections to the Port of Toledo and intermodal projects in Northwest Ohio.

“CSX opened its new intermodal facility in North Baltimore earlier this year that handles moving container freight from train to train, train to truck and truck to train,” he wrote.

CSX is planning a new terminal in Maryland to handle the large volume of freight that comes into the Port of Baltimore. Much of that freight has destinations in Ohio or passes through the state for other locations in the Midwest. Norfolk Southern is developing the Airline Junction intermodal project in South Toledo, which is scheduled for completion by the end of this year, according to company officials.

Another topic at the conference was Ohio’s connection with Canada, which is the state’s largest trading partner, according to officials on both sides of the border. Ohio is Ontario’s second largest trading partner, trailing only Michigan.

The opportunities with intermodal and Canadian freight are not pie-in-the-sky dreams. They are real, money-making paths right in front of us. Regional branches of government need to be in tune with TMACOG and ODOT to make sure the Toledo area is accessing the most of these opportunities. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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ince early August, I have been listening to holiday Chuck Berry’s “Run Run Rudolph” by Voodoo Libido. Dave music. Not because my Microsoft Entourage calendar Gierke of Toledo School for the Arts helped secure Tower is ahead of itself; I have been working with scores of Brass, the Toledo Jazz Orchestra and Crystal Bowersox. local artists to compile a CD to a benefit for the Make-A- Many of our media friends — 13abc’s Lee Conklin, K100’s Harvey Steele, Clear Channel “Voice of the Wish Foundation.

Rockets” Mark Beier and FOXToledo’s Laura Jamie Farr, Alyson Stoner, Crystal BowEmerson & Shaun Hegarty — stepped up and ersox, Mannheim Steamroller, Pat Dailey and contributed vocals to spoken word tracks. the Toledo Symphony Orchestra are a few of Chrys Peterson of WTOL 11 brought Gracethe contributors who have donated their talland to Zeta Recording with Hepcat Revival ents to the CD, titled “Holiday Wishes: NW and channeled Elvis on a blistering version of Ohio Artists Unite for Make-A-Wish.”

“Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me.” I have been thinking about producing I will not give away all the surprises on a holiday CD of local artists for a couple of the CD, but mixed with classics recorded years, but had not seriously pursued it until late this summer, during a meeting with Eric Michael S. MILLER by Tapestry, Sheri LaFontaine, Kate Jordan, Chris Brown and Candice Coleman, and a Slough, executive director of Make-A-Wish’s Northwest Ohio Region. Slough mentioned his organiza- chorus from the Toledo Museum of Art are original, newly tion’s annual fundraiser, coffee mugs featuring art by a local recorded works by ReediusMaximus, Clark, Jameil Aossey Make-A-Wish child that are distributed in Panera Bread lo- and Charles Lane, and Rugby.

I was humbled by the lengths the artists went to. The cations. As we were talking, the proverbial light bulb went off in my head and I pitched the notion of compiling a CD Toledo Symphony Orchestra recorded “Sleigh Ride” that would feature local artists; the art normally wrapped during a September concert in Findlay, and captured a on a mug could be used for the front cover. Slough pitched playful, majestic performance that redefines the song. the idea to Development Officer Ellie McManus and their Farr went into Marc Graue Voice Over Studios in Burboard of directors; we met with Panera Bread; and in early bank, Calif., and performed a lively “Visit from Saint Nicholas” that will be cherished by many generations September, we received a green light.

While I contacted artists and matched them with songs, of Toledoans. Dailey and Sylvania native Chip Davis, Slough secured funding for the project from General Mo- founder of Mannheim Steamroller, generously and tors/UAW Local 14, ensuring there would be no costs speedily donated tracks to the cause. Jeff Stewart recharged to Make-A-Wish (and that 100 percent of the $9.99 corded a Johnny Cash-inspired version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” then unselfishly opened the track retail price of the CD will go to Make-A-Wish).

My wife Shannon has long worked with Make-A-Wish, to a singing chorus of local Make-A-Wish kids.

There will be a number of ways to purchase the CD. and I have seen firsthand the literal miracles the organization is capable of. Raising two blessedly healthy boys adds Regional Panera Bread stores will sell the album, starting to my appreciation for the Make-A-Wish mission. That around Thanksgiving. There will be a public kick-off constandard meant I would not compromise on the quality of cert at 6 p.m. Dec. 1 at The Blarney Bullpen; those CDs will be signed by some of the artists, and special packages dothe CD, and I set my sights on the stars.

Then, the first three artists I contacted turned me down. nated by Alyson Stoner will be available. If your company That initially shook my confidence and had me doubting I is interested in buying bulk copies as a corporate gift, please contact Eric Slough at EricS@makeawishohio.org. could make the CD a reality.

The Thanksgiving issue of Toledo Free Press will contain But immediately, Jeff Stewart, Kyle White, Kerry Patrick Clark and Ramona Collins all jumped in with great enthu- a complete guide to the CD, with behind-the-scenes stories and photos from several of the recording sessions. siasm, and we’ve never looked back.

Since early August, I have been listening to holiday and I have faced very few projects with such enthusiasm — and such ignorance. I had no idea just what I was asking of Christmas music. People are asking me if I am sick and the musicians, producers and engineers, in terms of time tired of hearing these holiday songs.

The answer is an emphatic no. I love every one of these and effort. There will be another time for a more thorough thank-you list, but it is important to note that without songs, what they represent, and the kids who will be helped Christopher Stoll of Zeta Recording Studio, David Ma- by them. I’m already thinking about 2012. I can’t believe no riasy of Audio Matrix Recording Studio, producer Mighty one asked about “White Christmas” this year, and I know Wyte and attorney Larry Meyer, who guided us through exactly who I am going to ask to record it for next year … ✯ the licensing maze, this never would have become reality.

There will be two dozen tracks on the CD, ranging from Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toa harp solo by Nancy Lendrim to a Stones-y blast through ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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OCTOBER 23, 2011

DON LEE

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When you’ve made your neighalloween is once more upon us, and many still seem as un- borhood rounds, return a second decided on costumes as they time to the non-union homes with do on who they will soon be voting a plastic bat in your hand. Tell these for, assuming they’re one of the few homeowners to give you more candy who vote at all. Have no fear however, and to vote no on SB5 if they know because once again, the staff at Just what’s good for them, while either Blowing Smoke has come up with a slapping the bat in your hand or few last minute, inexpensive costume writing scab on their porch in chalk.

Guys can pair up, suggestions to help the wearing their best unready to ready themSunday suits and selves, the undecided going from door to to decide and the undoor, carrying leaky committed to be combuckets. When the mitted. If something door is answered, one seems wrong with should attempt to that last sentence, wait pour his bucket’s conuntil you read these tents into that of his costume suggestions. companion’s, spilling Dress however a bit. When asked, you want and carry Tim HIGGINS around a sleeping bag. When the tell them that you’re Secretary of door of homes you visit is answered, the Treasury Tim Geithner and Fed tell them you’re part of Occupy Wall Chairman Ben Bernanke trying to Street and that you have no idea what fix the economy; then ask not only you want, but that you want it now. for your treat, but some additional If you don’t get it, you’re going to ‘Stimulus’ water so that you can make put your sleeping bag down on their it to your next stop.

Dress in well-worn clothes and porch and stay there until you do.

Wear a suit and tie to the front carry a dunce cap as well as a trickdoor of homes you visit. When it’s or-treat bag. When the door is ananswered, break down in tears and swered, tell them that you’re Toledo tell them how proud of them you are, Public Schools, and that you really and that you really don’t want to ask don’t want anything right now, exany more of them ... they’ve given cept their understanding for the enough already. Stifle the sniffle a marginal education you’ve long probit, and then introduce yourself as vided children in the district.

I couldn’t end this list without Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Wear your Gollum suit from one that shouldn’t have made the last year’s “Lord of the Rings” effort cut in more ways than one. This under a nice suit and tie. Add a pair one is for women (or men who like of wire-rimmed glasses and when to cross-dress). Dress nicely and the front door is answered, refuse go from door to door begging for a to do anything. When faced with a handout. The trick, however, is that slamming of the door, tell them that you can’t do it until Nov. 7 (one week you’re Senate Majority Leader Harry after Halloween). When asked who Reid, and that you won’t allow Re- you are and why you’re so late, tell publicans to stand in the way … or them you’re Councilwoman Lindsay Webb, that it’s really not your fault to get your precious.

Wear a shirt with a blue collar, you’re so late since you came by way and when the door is answered break of Ann Arbor and Detroit, and they out in a hearty rendition of “Look for shouldn’t be denied having a chance the Union Label,” asking if the ho- to give you candy now. While you’re meowner is a union member. If the begging, ask them if they’d vote for answer is no, demand not a treat but you tthe next day.

Finally, there’s the 2011 version of nonmember dues, threatening to file a grievance if they are not delivered a longtime Toledo costume favorite. quickly. If the answer is instead yes, Take out your old “Downtown Toexplain to them very quietly that you ledo” costume (a sheet of plywood are a member of City Council ap- worn front and back), but this year pearing as a hard-working Toledoan. painted with the Chinese ideogram Tell them you wouldn’t be asking if for “Sold” on each side. When asked, the city’s financial situation wasn’t tell them you are either a hopeful dire especially this close to an elec- sign of economic recovery for Totion — but could you please have ledo, or the government’s attempt to back some of the inordinate amount balance the Chinese trade deficit by of candy that you’ve been giving selling them the city a piece at a time.

Happy Halloween ... ✯ them for years.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

‘Occupy’ movement gains credibility as truth brought to light TO THE EDITOR, I am 24 years old and currently studying nursing at the University of Toledo. I’ve spent a lot of time during the last few years beating my head against a wall, preaching to people who simply do not understand the dire circumstances our politicians have forced this country into.

My new approach during the last few months is to reach out to people who I feel are “fighting the good fight” because it seems to be a more effective strategy. I just read Don Burnard’s article “The Revolution Begins” in the Oct. 16 Toledo Free Press and I’d like to thank him for helping to spread the message. With most of the mainstream media in the pockets of the same people who own our Congress, it is extremely pressing that we constantly push to bring the truth to light.

Social media and the Internet have enabled us to force the world to pay attention, but it is Burnard’s generation that gives the generally younger “occupation” credibility and per-

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We’re all tired of seeing political figures come and go, touting real change only to fold to the dollar. My age group has the disadvantage of never knowing anything to the contrary. When I first became politically aware around the age of 18 it was really a terrifying and lonely place to be. I never would have imagined reading an article like Burnard’s, but here we are. The people are awake.

Keep up the good work, and never compromise. I have my doubts about what this particular movement will ultimately achieve, just as we all have, but as it gained the support of basically the entire world on Oct. 15, I know we cannot be far from our goals.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jessie Pullie remembers feeling nervous when a car with its lights on would slowly drive past his grandfather’s home in rural Mississippi every night.

“Grandpa would turn his lights off,” Pullie said. “It was scary. No one told us kids anything.”

It was the 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and the men in the car were looking for any suspicious gatherings.

The family, who worked as sharecroppers, regularly tuned their radio to a Memphis station, where 12-yearold Pullie first heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak.

“He would talk about the nonviolence movement and people out struggling for change and justice,” Pullie said. “He was a great mentor and a great preacher.”

King’s speeches were inspiring, but segregation was still the rule in dayto-day Mississippi life.

Pullie recalls his grandfather addressing all white men, including young boys, as “sir,” while they called him by his first name. He remembers using the back entrance to the doctor’s office and having to order a hamburger through the window of a restaurant rather than sit at the counter.

“I remember one time I almost tried to go inside, but my cousin said, ‘You can’t go in there,’” Pullie said.

“Basically, that’s the way it was.”

At age 18, looking for better opportunities, Pullie moved to Toledo, where he found a job at Ford and met his wife, Jackie, a waitress at her family’s soul food restaurant on North Detroit Avenue.

“I was working in place of someone who had called off sick,” Jackie recalled.

“I was supposed to be off that morning, but I’m glad I wasn’t. Otherwise, he might have married my cousin.”

Dedication in D.C. More than four decades after first hearing King’s voice as a boy in the South, Pullie and his wife celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary with a trip to Washington, D.C., to witness the dedication ceremony for the recently unveiled Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

The couple was part of a group of 35 Toledo area residents who took a weekend bus ride to the capital, joining tens of thousands of others who flocked there Oct. 16

to honor King’s legacy.

The four-acre, $120 million memorial — the first on the National Mall to honor a black leader — features a granite statue of King standing with his arms folded, emerging from a “Stone of Hope” and gazing across the tidal basin toward the Jefferson Memorial. A thin entrance path through a granite “Mountain of Despair” represents the struggles King faced in the pursuit of social equality and peace.

The memorial also features two inscription walls filled with King quotes.

Among the dozens of speakers and performers at the dedication were President Barack Obama, King’s children, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Tommy Hilfiger, poet Nikki Giovanni, actress Cicely Tyson and many others.

“It’s honoring a historic person,” said trip member Lisa Griffin, who called the experience a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “He made the way for colored people to do a whole lot of things.”

“His dream changed our lives,” her daughter Marlydia King added.

It was the first visit to Washington, D.C., for both.

University of Toledo freshman Allaina Peraza, a history buff who plans to major in African-American studies, said it meant a lot to her to be at the dedication.

“I have freedoms that, when my grandmother came up from Mississippi, I wouldn’t have had,” said the 18-year-old, who recently registered to vote for the first time. “It’s just a symbol of freedom. I was looking forward to seeing it this whole week.”

Verna Anthony of Toledo treated herself to the trip as a 70th birthday present.

“I have been waiting on this and waiting on this and waiting on this,” Anthony said. “1968 until now has been a long time, but we finally got here. Eventually I knew it was going to get here; I was just hoping I’d be here to see it. I wouldn’t have missed this for anything.”

The best part was seeing people of so many different backgrounds celebrating harmoniously, Anthony said.

“This is like the United Nations here,” Anthony said. “This is just a prelude to equal opportunities for everybody. It’s not as good as no color to be seen, but it’s getting there. It’s just so beautiful.”

Exciting and uplifting Trip organizer Michael Huggins said the day was moving, exciting and uplifting.

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A WOMAN WAVES AN AFRICAN FLAG IN CELEBRATION AT THE OCT. 16 DEDICATION OF THE MLK MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

“I think everybody enjoyed it. I can’t wait to take it back to Toledo and share it,” sad Huggins, who also organized a bus trip to Washington, D.C., for Obama’s inauguration in January 2009. “I think the youth that went down fulfilled the legacy they had heard on King. I could see it on their faces. They were really excited. I think we all got what we were looking for.”

Ben Williams, executive director of Ben E. Williams Youth Services and a longtime local coach and educator, was also instrumental in organizing the trip.

His daughter, Leah Williams, who rode the bus to Washington, D.C., said her father shares King’s passion for equal rights.

“It was important to him that the accomplishments of Dr. King be recognized and that there be people, especially young people, from our community there,” Williams said.

Ben Williams said organizing the trip was challenging, but rewarding.

“We worked so hard, especially Michael Huggins, to try and create awareness. It was very challenging trying to get the needed financial support to pay for the bus rental and make this program a reality, but fortunately there were enough people who saw the importance of what we were trying to do,” Williams said. “I look at Martin Luther King and see what he stood for and what he endured for all people. It touched the whole world. Many great leaders have sacrificed big portions of their lives to make things better, not only for our people but all people, and I think Martin Luther King epitomizes that. He left a legacy for us to reach for.”

Ed Blankenship, a trustee at Ben E. Williams Youth Services, said that although the trip didn’t attract as many people as organizers had originally hoped, those involved were passionate and diverse.

“We were fortunate to have a crosssection of people who helped out — Democrats, Republicans, all

different sizes, shapes and colors of people,” Blankenship said. “One of the things we talked about was what sorts of people will we get on the trip.

Will it be people who are older that actually remember King when he was alive, or will it be people in their 40s and younger who only know what they read in history books? I think we got a nice crosssection of people and on a small scale brought diverse people together to try and accomplish something and we did and that’s pretty cool.”

Donations from former Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and BET radio personality Darian “Big Tigger” Morgan as well as the Rev. Stanley Clark and the congregation at United Vision Baptist Church, Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, local businesses, government officials, labor unions, community members and others made the trip possible, Huggins said.

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Physician FOCUS Is Sleep Apnea Keeping You from Sleep?

Sleep apnea is a chronic condition where you stop breathing during sleep, either due to a blockage of the airway or to a failure of the brain to signal your body to breathe. When this happens, oxygen levels decrease and your brain wakes you up just enough to allow you to start breathing again.

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can unite for a common purpose and a common cause, but it’s still vital to sustain that unity,” Fowler said. “Oftentimes, trips are over and we just wait on the next trip. I believe it’s time to step up to the plate and exude the characteristics of this trip and what it represented, to be active in the community and raise social awareness.”

It’s common for those with sleep apnea to have three characteristic symptoms: overweight/obesity, snoring during sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness.

Many individuals with sleep apnea are sleep-deprived and are at an increased risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, accidents, and mood disorders like depression.

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■ KING CONTINUED FROM A6 Finkbeiner addressed the group before the bus departed, telling riders they were on their way to celebrate one of the most respected individuals ever to walk and talk on this earth.

Toledoan Josh Fowler said watching the dedication made him proud and he hopes sentiments expressed during the ceremony will be honored upon everyone’s return home.

“I think the trip proves people

Others with Toledo connections were also at the event.

Toledo native Erika Manuel came to Washington, D.C., with a group of students from Tennessee State University in Nashville, where she is a senior.

“Not a lot of people get memorials in their names, especially AfricanAmericans,” said Manuel, a Woodward High School graduate. “I can’t

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even imagine living in a time when people say I’m not good enough because I’m black or a female. I challenge things like that. I don’t know if I would have been as peaceful as Dr. King, so I admire him for that.”

Kristin McMillan was at the ceremony with a group from Morgan State University in Baltimore. The Cincinnati native attended UT for two years before transferring.

“Martin Luther King means freedom to me,” said McMillian, who wanted to come so she can one day tell her children she was at the historic event. “He showed the way.”

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By Zach Davis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER zdavis@toledofreepress.com

The fastest man in Columbus lives in the Toledo area.

Matt Folk, a 35-year-old runner from Perrysburg, won the 2011 Columbus Marathon on Oct. 16 over a field of 4,745 runners. Folk has won the Columbus Marathon in both of his two attempts, earning his first victory in 2009.

“When I started in high school I couldn’t do three miles without walking,” Folk said. “Now not only can I do a marathon, but I can race it as well. Just try not to set any barriers on yourself and you will be surprised with your body adapting and how many things you can achieve.”

Folk tied a career-best time of 2:19.47 in his marathon victory in Columbus, nearly one minute faster than his winning time of 2:20.45 in 2009.

The victory, however, was 47 seconds short of the qualifying time for the Olympic trials, one of Folk’s major goals going into the race. That mark would have been accepted if not for a recent change in the qualifying times, which used to be 2:20.

“If they would have left it to the old standards I would have qualified again but unfortunately they made it a bit tougher this time around,” Folk said.

Folk qualified for the Olympic trials in 2004 and 2008 but was unable to advance further. After missing out on the 2012 Olympic trials by such a close margin, Folk is considering whether to attempt one last effort to qualify, although he is leaning toward taking a break from running. The deadline is Dec. 14 to be eligible for

the Jan. 14 Olympic trials.

There is still one race Folk is considering — a half marathon Dec. 4 in Las Vegas. If Folk can earn a time under 1:05, he would be eligible for the Olympic trials. Folk, however, has yet to make that decision.

“As of right now I’m not sure if I’m going to do a marathon next fall or not,” Folk said. “I have been chasing the Olympic trials qualifying time and it’s in January so this was probably my last marathon trying to go after that.

I might try and take a little bit of a break from marathons for a year and see how I feel.”

Folk has been a competitive runner since his sophomore year at Clay High School. He continued running in his collegiate career at Youngstown State University but didn’t compete in his first marathon until years later in 2001. Since then, Folk has run in one or two marathons each year.

“I ran competitively in college and high school and it just seemed like the farther the race the better I did,” Folk said. “I just kept bumping up the distance from 5Ks and 10Ks to half marathons and eventually worked my way up to marathons.”

After failing to win in his first eight races, Folk won his first marathon in 2009 in a race close to home. With a time of 2:31.04, Folk won the Glass City Marathon in Toledo. He then proceeded to win his next two marathons, including the 2009 Columbus Marathon, before repeating as the Glass City Marathon Champion in 2010 (2:28.23).

“It’s pretty neat,” Folk said. “It’s funny because the first eight marathons I ran I was nowhere close to winning and then I had a streak

PHOTO COURTESY MARK HALL, COLUMBUS MARATHON

Perrysburg man wins his second Columbus Marathon

■ MATT FOLK WON HIS SECOND COLUMBUS MARATHON ON OCT. 16, FINISHING 47 SECONDS SHORT OF QUALIFYING FOR THE OLYMPIC TRIALS.

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“I always wanted to run in Toledo because it is the local race. You always want to try to win your hometown race and everything so it was neat to do that a couple of times.”

Folk took a break from the Columbus Marathon in 2010 to compete in the Bank of America Chicago Mar-

athon, where he hoped the increased participants would help carry him to the Olympic trials qualifying time.

Folk finished 29th with 2:21.38, two minutes from making the trials.

“The bigger the race, the more guys there are that can pull you along to a faster time,” Folk said.

Folk devotes his life to running, spending the rest of his time at work as

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Children services responding to ‘incredible’ abuses 1.4 mill renewal levy Nov. 8, expected to generate annual revenue of $10.4 million. Along with a 1.0 mill levy expiring in 2013, the tax measures account for almost half of the agency’s $41.4 million operating budget. Most of the rest

By Joel Sensenig ($17.8 million) comes from federal TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER funding, while $2.8 million is genernews@toledofreepress.com ated from the state. The agency’s two Lucas County Children Services levies are used for operating expenses, (LCCS) is tasked with the responsibility including staff salaries, child protecof seeing that the youngest, most vul- tive services (foster care costs, kinship nerable members of the community are support), service contracts (mentoring, tutoring, counseling) and matching able to grow up in a safe environment. money for federal reimbursements.

Safe, although not always ideal.

In 2010, LCCS had expenses of “We’re not necessarily concerned with lifestyles, parents who are bad about $42.4 million, with nearly housekeepers,” said Dean Sparks, ex- $25.2 million of that going toward ecutive director of LCCS. “We’re don’t salaries and expenses. Placement care about clutter. What we care about costs made up the next largest exis safety — children who are beaten, not pense (about $9.6 million).

Staying busy is not an issue at being fed, with no supervision or medLCCS. Last year, the agency received ical care, or victims of sexual abuse.”

LCCS is asking voters to approve a 6,500 children referrals, or cases the EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the fi rst in a series of stories about Lucas County Children Services running prior to the Nov. 8 election.

staff of 370 employees investigated.

Many of the cases didn’t fall under the responsibility of what LCCS is assigned to do. At any one time, about 1,700 children are on the agency’s active list, meaning they receive assistance from LCCS. Sparks has been with the agency for 14 years.

“Children services represents this community’s concern of children not being SPARKS cared for properly,” he said, acknowledging that some public perceptions of the agency tend to fixate on decades-old behavior. “We used to take children from their parents and put them in the orphanage. We learned that’s not a good way of handling things.”

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“It’s our responsibility to determine whether (each situation) warrants child abuse and if the child is in danger,” Sparks said.

LCCS is constantly walking the sometimes fi ne line between being law enforcement and doing whatever is necessary to keep children free from harm.

“Once we get a call, we do a record check and make a home visit for an inspection. We don’t go randomly knock on doors. We’re not a law enforcement agency. Our job is to take care of the child. The police take care of the perpetrator.”

From his quiet office overlooking the county courthouse on Adams Street, Sparks realizes his agency’s mission may seem uncomplicated, perhaps even routine, as he speaks about it. Going out in the community and into the homes of the children LCCS serves paints a different picture of substance abuse, domestic violence, emotional and mental abuse and sexual assaults.

“Some of the things we see happen to kids is pretty incredible,” he said.

Seventy-fi ve percent of the youth LCCS oversees are younger than 12 years of age; 50 percent are younger than 5. Most of them are from a few ZIP codes in inner-city Toledo. The neighborhoods are the same ones where other problems — substance abuse, unemployment — run rampant.

“Th e only other professionals going into these neighborhoods are law enforcement,” Sparks said.

The youth served by LCCS are disproportionately African-American. In a city with less than 20 percent black population, about 40 percent of the children under the agency’s watch are black.

“Th at is not unique to Toledo, however,” Sparks said.

Where there is child abuse, Sparks said there are most likely two other problems as well: substance abuse and domestic violence. In the most severe cases, LCCS staff can get the wheels quickly turning to remove a child from the home.

If a situation calls for removal, LCCS tries to find a relative the child can stay with. If there is no suitable family available, the children go into foster homes.

About 550 childen are currently in 300 foster homes in Lucas County. At its highest, 1,100 children were in foster homes, Sparks said.

The agency tries to keep siblings together in foster homes. Sometimes it doesn’t happen.

“I’ve had kids say to me, ‘I understand why you took me away from my mother, but I never understood why you took me away from my sibling,’” Sparks said.

Sparks called it a myth that children services lets kids loose once they turn 18, although legal adults are free to leave the agency if they wish. Recently, the agency has had several stories of success where youth have gone on to higher education at University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University and Owens Community College. To help these future parents avoid the mistakes they were subjected to growing up, LCCS attempts to prepare them for future success.

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As Toledo Police Chief Mike Navarre prepares for retirement and Deputy Chief Derrick Diggs gets ready to take over, the former classmates expressed mixed emotions about the power transfer.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet, but I am excited,” said Diggs, who was in the same police class as Navarre and also joined TPD the same day, July 12, 1977. Diggs will be Toledo’s first African-American chief.

“My feelings are mixed. This has been my homeaway-from-home for the last 34 years, so it will be tough leaving this building for the last time when I close this door and walk down that hallway,” said Navarre, who is the third-longest serving chief in Toledo’s history with 13 years of service.

Navarre, 56, became chief in May 1998. During his tenure, he started the Retired Senior Volunteers on Patrol program in 2000. The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies accredited the police department in 2003.

Diggs said he became a police officer because of a “childhood ambition.” He attended Adrian College on a football scholarship, graduated in 1977 and received his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Toledo in 1999. Despite his ambition and education, Diggs said that he didn’t foresee himself becoming chief.

“When I joined the police department I had no vision of ever becoming chief. I had no vision of really getting to the upper-command ranks. My whole thing was to be a cop and be on the street and go after bad guys. That’s what I wanted to do and what I liked to do,” Diggs said.

Th e 56-year-old has worked in several departments during his career, including Operations Division, Community Affairs, Public Affairs, Investigative Services Division and Special Enforcement Division, according to a news release.

“It’s easier probably to tell the places I didn’t work than the assignments I did have,” Diggs laughed.

Once he retires, Navarre said he has remodeling plans and will travel to Florida to visit his father and daughter.

Retirement will also leave him more time to spend with his wife, Julie, and their four adult children, including Assistant Lucas County Prosecutor Lindsay Navarre. He said he will seek work in a business capacity.

During their tenures, Navarre and Diggs have seen many changes.

“When I took over as chief in 1998, we had I believe, 730 officers. Today we’re down to 550. Th e number’s going to continue to decline before that next class graduates,” Navarre said.

One of Navarre’s major achievements stemmed from reduced manpower — he implemented photo-enforcement throughout the city in 2000, making Toledo one of the first Midwestern cities with the technology.

“You’re going to see a greater reliance on video technology that’s going to fill that void that’s been left by decreasing tax bases, where police departments can’t have the number of officers that they once did. We’re a perfect example,” Navarre said.

Technology played an important role in Navarre’s legacy.

After 9/11, Navarre, Sheriff James Telb and then-Fire Chief Mike Bell worked together to create a county-wide emergency radio system. Also, although the police department didn’t transition to a paperless office during Navarre’s tenure, he said he believes it could happen within the next year.

As the days before Oct. 22 when he officially becomes chief dwindle, Diggs is reluctant to share future plans as Navarre is still in charge.

“We still have a chief who’s still running the department and, for lack of a better term, we have a chief-in-waiting, like some of the NFL teams are doing. You’ve got the head coach and the head coach in-waiting.”

When asked if he had any departing advice for the new chief, Navarre said, “He needs to be open, listen to people.

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The community garden at Owens Community College gave students and faculty a chance to get their hands dirty during its inaugural season and was so successful the school plans to double the size of the garden next year.

“Owens’ community garden is a cute, little, kept secret, but I don’t think it’s going to stay that way for long,” said urban agriculture student Caitlin Cousino, who also serves as an AmeriCorps member with Toledo GROWs, Toledo Botanical Garden’s community-gardening outreach program.

The garden, at D and Third streets on the Toledo-area campus, started in May as a way to provide service-learning opportunities to students, said Krista Kiessling, garden coordinator and adjunct instructor in social and behavioral sciences.

Produce from the garden is either donated to students or to Toledo Seagate Food Bank, or used as a bartering tool with Owens’ dining provider, AVI Foodsystems, in exchange for catering garden events. Students and faculty have grown blueberries, raspberries, squash, tomatoes, corn and herbs, among others. As it got colder, they also planted lettuce and kale spinach, which do better in lower temperatures, Kiessling said. The garden includes a compost bed.

Planning for next year’s garden will begin in January or February, Kiessling said, adding she hopes to begin planting as soon as the ground thaws in March.

“We’re going to be more careful and specific this coming year, now that we have knowledge of what grows well and of what crops are most needed,” she said.

Chris Foley, chair of the landscape and turfgrass

management program at Owens, and Matt Ross, an instructor in the urban agriculture and landscape and turfgrass management programs, designed the garden after being approached by Kiessling.

Ross said he is creating a plan that will more than double the size of the garden as well as designing a cold-weather frame to protect one of the garden beds.

While Owens’ garden is not yet equipped to grow year-round, he hopes to eventually have an extended gardening season with tools like the cold-weather frame. Next year, Ross also plans to expand vegetable offerings and to grow brambles.

Cousino, one of Ross’ students, and her classmates are also building a brick pathway through parts of the garden to make it more handicap-accessible.

“They’re excited. They think it’s really cool,” Ross said of his class.

“I know I’ll be involved in community gardens as long as I live in Toledo or any city,” Cousino said, adding she believes self-empowerment can be drawn from community gardening.

Classes from several Owens departments participate in the garden. Ross said he plans to heavily utilize the garden during his organic gardening and food-system management class next summer.

“We really want our garden to operate as an academic tool,” Kiessling said, adding that math classes have come out for lessons on measuring, while English classes have gained inspiration from the garden.

The garden is the first step of the Harvest Project, a community initiative to help people “reap benefits of education through serving and working together,” Kiessling said.

Any student is invited to participate, Kiessling said. To get involved or learn more, contact Kiessling at (567) 661-2275 or visit www.owens.edu. ✯

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The University of Toledo, GEM Inc. of Walbridge, and the Ohio Third Frontier are partnering to design, develop and commercialize a new power system that will reduce power consumption and increase electric reliability at the university’s Data Center.

GEM Energy Management was awarded a $1 million hybrid loan earlier this year by the Ohio Third Frontier to design, construct and implement an advanced gas turbine-based power system for UT’s data center located on the main campus.

The UT project will be the second green data center in the nation and first in Ohio, according to a news release. The local company designed and implemented the power system for Syracuse University’s Green Data Center in conjunction with IBM in 2010.

The new power system will reduce the amount of fossil fuel needed to power the UT Data Center by 50 percent, according to

Michael Green, director of energy management for the Facilities Department at UT. “It uses natural gas to generate electricity more efficiently to provide complete backup for the computer center and uses waste heat to either cool the computer center or heat the pool in the recreation center,� Green said about the system.

UT will use the technologies and packaging techniques that GEM developed for the data center at Syracuse University. “It combines clean energy, business, economic development and innovative technology, yet there is no construction at the site,� Green said.

The complete system is being built in the factory in Northwest Ohio in 30-foot cargo containers they will put on trucks, deliver to the university and install at the Computer Center, Green said.

Construction will began fall and is scheduled for completion in late 2012. “We are pleased that our partners at the University of Toledo and the State of Ohio are implementing this efficient power system technology,� said Hussein Shousher,

president of GEM. “This type of project creates jobs here in N orthwest Ohio, and these jobs are helping to reduce the use of fossil fuels and increase the reliability of critical facilities. This ‘triple impact’ can be replicated at other data centers and government mission critical operational facilities,� Shousher stated in the news release.

Capstone Turbine Corporation will provide the same Hybrid UPS Micro Turbines used by GEM for the Syracuse Data Center. Thermax USA will provide a specifically engineered and highly efficient chilled-water module for the project.

The Ohio Third Frontier was instrumental in facilitating the project by providing loan funding for it. “This is an important project, not only from an environmental standpoint, but also in terms of industry growth,â€? said Norm Chagnon, executive director of Ohio Third Frontier, in the news release. “The technology that comes from this collaboration will only enhance Toledo’s reputation as a hot spot for advanced energy and is an important investment in Ohio’s economic future,â€? Chagnon said. âœŻ

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A new initiative at Bowling Green State University aims to increase retention rates by helping students feel more connected to the campus and community.

Wearing bright orange shirts, members of yourFellowFalcon (yFF) commit random acts of kindness, offer guided downtown tours, answer questions via Facebook chat, hand out free glasses of cider or lemonade between classes, provide courtesy umbrellas, organize campus cleanups and more, said Student Enrollment Communication Center Director Sandy Mencer, who oversees yFF. “We know student success is not always just about the grades,” Mencer said. “Sometimes we do lose students who decide to go to a different university or back someplace closer to home if they don’t feel connected to the university, even if they have a 3.5 GPA. There are already a lot of student advisers and faculty working on the area of academics, so we thought we should focus on the connection

and socialization part.”

The initiative was revamped this fall from what started last school year as a peer mentorship program, Mencer said.

“We thought offering peer mentors would be the way to go, but then we did some focus groups with incoming freshmen and they were very clear about the fact that they don’t need help, thank you very much,” Mencer said. “Research shows students coming into college these days have a very high level of self-confidence and even if they’re scared inside, they have their game faces on. We decided if we were going to help, we would have to go at it in a different way.

“One of the things we know about charity work and philanthropy is when you help other people it makes you feel good and it makes you feel connected, so we decided to go at it from that angle,” Mencer said.

The adjustment seems to be working, with several hundred students expressing interest in being involved during a recent activity fair, Mencer said.

Sophomore and yFF council member Josh McGinnis said the

group’s “everyone is invited” atmosphere and the fact that projects are coordinated mainly through social media is appealing to students.

“I feel like with the way yourFellowFalcon is run and organized on Facebook and is basically come and go as you please, it’s a really good approach to take with incoming freshmen,” McGinnis said. “We’re here to help other students, but if they’re not interested we’re obviously not going to force anything on them. All our events are if you are able to come, you’re more than welcome and we can teach you what you need to know.”

McGinnis and fellow sophomore Stevon Duey developed the traditions tour, a yFF initiative introducing first-year students to downtown Bowling Green.

“We realized not all students get off campus their first year and just feel a little overwhelmed,” Mencer said. “Research shows if you connect students to the community, they have a better chance of success. So we asked upperclassmen — ‘What are some places in town every freshman should know, the places

that make BG really special’?”

Other initiatives include Compliment Mondays, where group members call out compliments to passing students, and Random Acts of Kindness events, where members give candy or write notes of encouragement to students they might not normally approach, Mencer said. yFF’s attempt to offer courtesy umbrellas at eight drop-off locations around campus has been the only setback so far; however, Mencer doesn’t see the experiment as a failure.

“The umbrellas disappeared immediately, but in all actuality they aren’t gone,” Mencer said. “When it rains, you see them all over campus and they have our logo on it. As we get more funding, we plan to get more and try it again.”

McGinnis said he enjoys helping fellow students get to know BGSU. “I can put myself in their shoes,” McGinnis said. “When I came here last year, I didn’t know anything that was going on, so now I can take my experiences and show incoming students what’s here.”

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Owens Corning (OC) was recognized by Home Depot with its Environmental Partner of the Year Award, the only company to earn that distinction in 2011.

The award is based on Home Depot’s Supplier Social and Environmental Responsibility program, which ensures that its suppliers adhere to the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility.

The standards of behavior relate to workplace and employment conditions as well as environmental, health and safety practices, according to the company.

“Owens Corning rose above our dedicated group of suppliers with its ongoing commitment to sustainability, safety and reducing their environmental footprint,” Ron Jarvis, senior vice president of Home Depot EcoOptions stated in a news release.

“This award also recognizes the positive difference EcoTouch Insulation makes for Home Depot customers and associates,” he said.

Jarvis addressed company officials and suppliers at a recent awards ceremony, citing how Owens Corning has raised the sustainability bar by setting 2020 goals for product life-cycle assessments and reductions in energy, greenhouse gas, water, toxic emissions, particulate matter and waste-to-landfill measures.

“It’s an honor for Owens Corning to be recognized with this award. This validation will encourage us to keep striving to improve our efforts each year,” said Frank O’Brien-Bernini, vice president and chief sustainability officer at Owens Corning.

EcoTouch became the first fiberglass insulation to be certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a bio-based product. The certification is part of a new USDA labeling initiative to identify products with ingredients made from renewable plant materials.

“EcoTouch Insulation and Home Depot will continue to be a successful combination for homeowners across the country,” Chuck Dana, group president of building materials for Owens Corning stated in the news release.

“Our goal is to deliver Home Depot’s customers the benefits of our relentless pursuit to insulate homes and buildings in the most environmentally sustainable and efficient ways,” he stated.

Owens Corning is working with Home Depot to promote its sustainable products that qualify for LEED for Homes, ENERGYSTAR and other green building programs, according to Gale Tedhams, director of sustainability, green products and communications at Owens Corning.

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OC increased the recycled content in its EcoTouch Insulation from 50 to 65 percent, Tedhams said.

Earlier this month, Owens Corning Roofing established a strategic alliance with Earth911 Inc. to expand shingle recycling opportunities for contractors and consumers. Earth911 is the host of the largest single recycling directory in North America.

OC Roofing established the nation’s first shingle recycling program in 2009 in alliance with Heritage Environmental Services. Since its inception, the program has recycled more than 80,000 tons of asphalt shingles, which is equivalent to saving 80,000 barrels of oil, according to the company.

In September, Owens Corning and Solexel received $13 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for projects that will help shape the next generation of solar energy technologies. The grant is part of the DOE’s SunShot Initiative that seeks to make solar energy systems more affordable and sustainable for homeowners.

The funding provides an opportunity to integrate Solexel’s solar technology with OC’s roofing expertise into solar roofing solutions that are affordable, aesthetically attractive and easy to install.

Owens Corning is a producer of commercial and residential building materials, glass-fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems. It has been a Fortune 500 company for 57 consecutive years.

The Toledo-based company reported sales of $5 billion in 2010 with approximately 15,000 employees in 28 countries on five continents. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. ✯

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Doritos tacos aren’t the only exclusive in the fast-food industry around Toledo. On Oct. 15, Rally’s unveiled its new image at 5855 W. Central Ave., the first store in the nation with the new look.

“We are excited,” Rally’s Vice President of Company Operations Marc Mediate said. “This is our first Rally’s restaurant that will be getting the new imaging process. It’s a whole facelift for our brand, especially our Rally’s brand, which is 26 years old.”

The company chose Toledo because of the success that Rally’s has had during the past three to four years in the area.

“We selected Toledo because it is one of our strongest markets in the company and it has been for many years now,” Mediate said. “We selected West Central Avenue because it is high-visibility and the trade area around here.

“We thought it was a great site to get started with as we move forward through these redesigns. We are always reinvesting into our business, including the technology and all of the equipment. Now it is time to bring the outside facilities up to that same level.”

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Rally’s celebrated the opening by giving away free fries for a year to the first 100 customers to arrive.

Remaining customers attending later received free fries for the remainder of the weekend.

“They are excited,” Mediate said.

“The cool thing is we have people out in [cold] weather with the wind today. Just to bear through that to get fries for the rest of the year just speaks volumes of the product.

When people think of Rally’s/Checker’s, the first thing they always mention is the fries, which are our signature product.

“We are very proud of them as well as the rest of the menu.”

With the success of the Toledo market, Mediate expects Rally’s to continue to expand around the area.

In fact, Rally’s Chief Development Officer Jennifer Durham expects the company to double the growth in its market over the next few years.

“This is just the beginning for us,” Mediate said. “We are proud of the Toledo market and we want to continue not only to redesign but to identify trade areas so that we can bring more restaurants to our fans here and across the country.” ✯

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Want success? Read this called “retirement years.� Yet, are we really intended to retire? Many have the view of retirement as rest from the weariness caused by getting out of bed and getting it done each day.

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ward for the many years of hard work and sacrifice. Believe me, I (Mark) like my couch more and more. I find myself looking forward to sitting there to recharge my batteries so that I can get up and do it again.

Yet, I don’t want to sit there too long. If I do, I might never get back up. As the saying goes, “Use it or lose it.�

I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to a spiritual retreat called “The Great Mark Banquet.� It was a Nolan group of men who, for three days, were cut off from the world to focus on our personal relationships with our Creator. It was exciting, invigorating, stressful and emotionally touching all at the same time. It was stressful in that we had no contact with family members for three days and we had to adjust from our

normal daily routine and go with the flow. Most of all, it was inspiring.

A series of talks was given on the elements of a successful spiritual life. I was bowled over by the conviction and message of each speaker CLAIR who truly spoke BAKER from their hearts.

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Knowledge 3. Action.

How do these apply to each one of us? Let’s talk about each one for a moment from the perspective of a successful retirement. First, what are you passionate about? What moves you?

Family comes to mind for me. I am inspired by what kind of people my wife and children are. I see in them beauty, talent and great potential. I am inspired to do whatever I can to help equip them whether it be with moral or financial support. They are a great source of inspiration for me. They are why I choose to get off the couch.

Secondly, knowledge is important to help me achieve my goals. Some knowledge comes from experience and some comes from learning from people who are much smarter than me. I have learned by doing, but also by going to those who possess the knowledge I need. Thirdly, all the inspiration and knowledge in the world means nothing without action. Many folks come to our public workshops and when someone tells me “that’s a lot of good information,

Mark. I will go home and ponder it,” I know immediately that they lack the key element to success — action. It’s like the old “three-legged stool” analogy. If you don’t have all three legs, the stool will fall.

The Retirement Guys Formula for Success is nothing different than the principles that we have been sharing with our clients for years. Sometimes, it is all in how you communicate. Inspiration — are you inspired? If you are not inspired, chances are you will not act.

Knowledge — do you have the critical information you need? If not, The Retirement Guys can share with you what we know. Action — get off the couch!

Without action we become couch potatoes. There is no success if nothing ever gets done. The really cool thing is that you can apply this same formula to your spiritual life, too. Now, go get it done. ✯ For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www. retirementguysradio.com.

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Occupy Wall Street: Right idea, wrong address cials to lay the blame on corporations, which are completely unaccountable especially given that many officials, to voters or any other authority, to particularly those in the upper-eche- help pursue that policy.

As if that weren’t enough, under lons of the federal government, tend to pursue socialist agendas. They’re Clinton and a Republican Congress the Glass-Steagall Act was naturally anti-business. repealed, which allowed The problem is that banks to mix banking and the protestors we’ve seen investment (read: gamall over the news are mad bling) operations. Glassat the wrong people. They Steagall was enacted in nyone who hasn’t heard about shouldn’t be mad at busithe 1930s after the masthe Occupy Wall Street protest nesses, but at the same sive debt accumulated and that has spurred demonstra- government that has encouraged among banks tions across the country obviously been telling them where led to Black Tuesday, the hasn’t been paying too much attention to direct their anger.

Great Depression and to the news lately. While it’s unclear ex- Though business ceractly what these protestors want (they’ve tainly hasn’t helped, nearly Dock David TREECE a wave of bank failures (sound familiar?). admitted they don’t have specific goals), all of this nation’s problems To summarize: First, politicians it is plain as day that these people are that have these protestors upset can be decided they wanted everyone to own directly traced back to bad policy. pretty upset, and rightfully so.

Take, for instance, the mortgage a home, whether they could actually The unfortunate reality is that the anger expressed by these outspoken bubble. The beginnings of this trav- pay for it or not. Next, they repealed Americans is justified, but misdirected. esty can be traced back to President a law that had been on the books for Many have taken the rhetoric to heart Clinton and a Republican-controlled more than a half-century that specifiand believed in politicians, many who Congress. First, President Clinton es- cally restricted banks from making have blamed business for the problems tablished policy that home ownership dumb loans and/or cheating their cliwas a fundamental American right. ents by selling them what they know now facing our nation.

Of course, it seems completely nat- Next, they encouraged federal agen- to be bad investments. Finally, poliural for many of today’s elected offi- cies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ticians encouraged banks and businesses to create a wave of expanding debt to finance home purchases and new constructions they had to know was unsustainable.

The bottom line here is that big business was hardly to blame for the Bone and joint care, sports medicine and rehabilitation catastrophe. What they did was not services on a single campus.

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And when everything went south, did the government change its thinking?

Of course not. Look no further than the 2008 bailouts. Instead of forcing businesses to deal with the consequences, the federal government decided to bail them out at taxpayers’ expense. In many cases businesses didn’t even want bailout money; it was forced on them.

There is actually a story about the heads of several banks being called into a boardroom at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where they were allegedly forced to sign letters of acceptance for government funds. Then-Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson actually wouldn’t allow these CEOs to leave until they had accepted government money.

Admittedly Paulson served under a Republican president, but that doesn’t make him any less of a crook or a lowlife. The man should be facing kidnapping charges, among others.

So should the Occupy protestors be mad? Absolutely! They shouldn’t be on Wall Street demonstrating outside banks, though but marching on Capitol Hill calling for smarter policy.

All of this really goes to show the significance of the upcoming presidential election. It may be the most important in generations; for in the end it will come down to a socialist running

against a capitalist — a Liberal Democratic candidate against a Tea Partier.

What we will see in 2012 on the one side is an anti-business candidate who finds it necessary for government to appropriate business and to provide a central planning authority for the US economy because, obviously, the market simply can’t be trusted to make sound decisions (warning: sarcasm).

On the other side will be a candidate who wants to limit government regulations to those necessary to keep businesses from making poor decisions that may have the catastrophic consequences we have seen since 2007, while at the same time permitting healthy economic growth. However, such a candidate will also want to force companies to suffer the consequences of bad decisions they make, as opposed to giving them a bailout to cushion their fall.

Between the two, the preferable choice would seem obvious. ✯ Dock David Treece is a discretionary money manager with Treece Investment Advisory Corp. and is licensed with FINRA through Treece Financial Services Corp. He has appeared on CNBC and numerous radio programs, and also serves as editor of financial news site Green Faucet.

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in last season’s MAC championship game, was the school Marrow originally committed to back when he was a junior at Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown.

“Yeah, that is kind of crazy,” Marrow said. “Actually, that crossed

By Mike Bauman my mind. I thought about that like, TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER ‘Man, I would have been there winmbauman@toledofreepress.com ning the MAC Championship,’ but I Toledo cornerback Desmond got my second chance. I’m just now Marrow was named as the Mid-Amer- trying to make the best of it here at ican Conference Defensive Player of Toledo and win this year.”

At the time of last year’s MAC the Week following a 28-21 victory Championship, Marrow did not know over Bowling Green on Oct. 15.

Th e senior cornerback had 10 whether he would be back with the tackles and a career-high three passes Rockets in 2011. He was still waiting to hear from the NCAA to see if his defensed against the Falcons.

With Marrow’s award, Toledo waiver request to receive a sixth year has had a player honored by the of eligibility due to medical hardship MAC for a weekly award in six of would be granted.

“I was more mad at the fact that we seven weeks this season. Junior wide receiver Eric Page has been honored lost to Northern [Illinois], so I kind three times while junior linebacker of wanted Northern [Illinois] to lose Robert Bell and senior kicker Ryan just because we had a bad taste in our Casano have each received a weekly mouth from that game,” Marrow said.

“Just seeing Miami pull that game out, honor once.

But Marrow was almost a Red- I know they were the underdog by, like, a lot of points and they came out Hawk instead of a Rocket.

Miami (Ohio), which upset No. and won. So that was good for them.”

Aft er just one unofficial visit in 24-ranked Northern Illinois 26-21 NOTE: This is the 10th installment of a weekly series in which staff writer Mike Bauman will follow sixth-year Toledo senior cornerback Desmond Marrow for the 2011 season.

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high school, Marrow made a verbal commitment to the RedHawks, the fi rst college he remembers offering him a full ride. His parents were big on academics, and Marrow was also impressed with former Miami assistant coach Tim Cooper.

“I think I kind of jumped the gun and just committed too early,” Marrow said. “Just a kid from Youngstown hearing I could go to school for free, that just sounded, like, amazing to me and my parents.”

Once Marrow sat down and gave his decision some thought, he retracted his verbal commitment from the RedHawks. A number of factors helped change his mind.

His uncle, Vince Marrow, played at Toledo. Two of Marrow’s good friends from Youngstown in senior tight end Jerome Jones and former Rocket Joe Underwood had committed to UT. Toledo was also closer to home.

As his days at Cardinal Mooney wound down, Marrow had visited the UT campus with his parents and liked what he saw. Still, the night before national signing day in 2006 he had yet to decide if he was going to

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“I wasn’t sure where I was going to go,” Marrow said. “But the night before signing day, I prayed about it and then I just committed with Toledo.”

Now Marrow has come full circle. Miami was picked to win the MAC East Division in the conference’s preseason poll, while UT was picked to win the MAC. A vic-

tory over the RedHawks on Oct. 22 would help Toledo achieve that goal.

In his career, Marrow has never beaten Miami.

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Passenger rail ridership and service is increasing in Ohio with the potential development of high-speed trains, according to presentations made at the Passenger Rail Forum on Oct. 17 in Toledo.

“We believe transportation issues play an important role in our region’s economy. We envy Michigan’s role in high-speed passenger rail service,” Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak said at the Pas-

senger Rail Forum.

The county commissioners are looking for continued support of Amtrak in Northwest Ohio and to potential development of high-speed rail in Ohio, she said.

Wozniak reported that the U.S. Senate will be voting soon on the transportation budget, with possible funding cuts for Amtrak.

Toledo serves more Amtrak passengers, about 60,000 per year, than any other city in Ohio. The Lake Shore Limited line from Chicago, with two round-trip trains daily, transported 479,780 passengers in 2010, up 8 per-

cent from 2009, reported Ronald Sheck, a member of Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments’ Public Transit and Passenger Rail Committee.

The Midwest High Speed Rail Association is supporting the issue with its “Stand Up for Trains” campaign to promote high-speed rail service, according to Executive Director Rick Harnish.

Wozniak and fellow county commissioner Carol Contrada presented Harnish with a resolution supporting high-speed passenger rail service that was passed unanimously by the three commissioners including Pete Gerken.

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Two speakers from Michigan reported on efforts in that state to bring high-speed passenger rail service to the region using Amtrak’s Wolverine Corridor, which runs from Chicago to Detroit.

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He said the goals of the program are to increase frequencies and ridership revenues of passenger rail service and to increase value and the customer base for freight rail services. It supports 110-mph passenger service and 79-mph freight service on the same tracks.

“Increased ridership will increase revenue and reduce freight traffic on highways to provide more revenue to

maintain the rail service,” Hoeffner said.

The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Michigan $244 million for various projects along the Wolverine Corridor that include track and signal upgrades, grade crossing improvements, additional passing tracks and new stations.

A 2011 federal grant of $196 million paired with a state appropriation of $39 million will allow the state of Michigan to purchase a 135-mile segment of the Norfolk Southern line between Kalamazoo and Dearborn.

Another federal grant of $161 million will provide track and signal upgrades along that line.

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The Passat is back, and after Americans’ hearts. After a Passat-less 2011, the 2012 edition of Volkswagen’s mid-size sedan is back on the scene, made in a new, ultra green plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. It’s the first Volkswagen made in the U.S. since the Rabbit of the 1980s.

This Passat is designed to go up against the likes of the more popular Honda Accord and Hyundai Sonata. It looks considerably less European (and thus, less like Volkswagen) than older Passats, and Volkswagen is hoping this is a good thing for American drivers.

Personally, I always liked the fact Volkswagen vehicles didn’t look exactly like their American and Japanese counterparts, but there isn’t much use denying that this car has less-expensive luxury down pat. It’s a sharp-looking vehicle, even if it looks similar to its American and foreign peers.

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MDOT has already secured $2.8 million in federal funds and $1.7 million in local dollars for the Ann Arbor station.

Amtrak Thruway bus service currently connects with Wolverine Corridor trains in Ann Arbor to bring passengers to Toledo.

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planner for the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (AATA), outlined plans for expanding rail and transit service beyond the city of Ann Arbor throughout Washtenaw County.

The Smart Growth Countywide Master Plan was developed to outline the future of public transportation in the county.

To date, no rail service from Ann

Arbor to Toledo has been planned. The AATA participated in studies with the Ohio Department of Transportation that proposed a bus connection from Toledo to the east-west line in Ann Arbor, Benham said.

The Passenger Rail Forum was co-hosted by the Northwest Ohio Passenger Rail Association and TMACOG. ✯

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On a rare day off on tour, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews knew what he wanted to do: slide behind the piano.

“We do 200-plus dates a year, so whenever I get a chance, I try to practice the piano a bit,” he said during a call from St. Louis.

While the talented musician also sings and plays several instruments, he’s known for packing brass in both hands when he takes the stage. The trombonist and trumpeter has won fans with his bold, exuberant playing and tours with Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck and the Dave Matthews Band.

And he’s got the cache to back up that flash.

Released Sept. 13, “For True” by Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Album Chart while his 2010 disc, “Backatown,” was still in the top 10.

“I’m always surprised and very blessed and honored that people are reacting the way they are to my music and me,” Andrews said. “Being on the charts, I never even dreamed about anything like that. I just always thought about playing music. So to be on the charts and do well is just a plus.”

“For True” features guest appearances by Kravitz, Beck, Kid Rock and Ledisi, and opens with a powerhouse called “Buckjump.” “ ‘Buckjump’ is just basically a collaboration between two worlds of New Orleans music,” Andrews said. “We have one of the great bounce rappers in New Orleans, 5th Ward Weebie, helping us with vocals, and the worldfamous Rebirth Brass Band on top of my band, and it was just one of those things, taking the New Orleans music and putting it all in one pot.”

The 25-year-old songwriter is all about cooking with dashes of musical genres thrown in.

He calls it “superfunkrock.”

“It’s basically like a musical gumbo. You might hear different influences of all styles of music,” he said. “Growing up in New Orleans, I spent a lot of time with The Neville Brothers, and playing different styles of music, and Dr. John, and it’s just the influences of my childhood and what we’re experiencing at this moment.”

As a kid, Andrews received more than his nickname from his older brother.

“My brother, James Andrews, is the one who’s really responsible for me playing,” he said. “By the time I was 7, he had me touring around the world, so I got a lot of real-life experiences right on the spot, growing up and being able to play with him in Europe and Haiti, Cuba, Saudi Arabia — he took me all over as a kid — and I was able to experience and learn firsthand from him and my cousins.”

The horn player is still blown away by the power of music.

“I know some of the places we go around the world, I don’t think they really understand what I’m singing or saying, but music in itself makes them feel good,” he said. “The influence of music on everyday life is a beautiful thing. I couldn’t imagine a world without music. It’s a universal language with a healing power; it picks people up.”

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue will play at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle. Tickets are $27.50, $45 and $75 for the concert, which is sponsored by the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Society. ✯

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CCS plans busy fall, winter events schedule The Christ Child Society (CCS) of Toledo will be busy this fall and winter with several programs benefiting underprivileged children.

Working for children, especially those stricken by poverty, is CCS’ main purpose. “It’s very important to us because most of us have been able to attain an education and a status in life, and to leave behind those who need a handout would just be wrong,” said chapter president, Mary Murnen. Mary Virginia Merrick, who was confined to a wheelchair most of her life, founded CCS in Washington, D.C., in 1887. The organization is active in 17 states.

One of the Toledo chapter’s programs this fall was putting together layettes, packages containing clothing and supplies for newborns. CCS members gathered Oct. 11 for the Ninth Annual Red Wagon Shower at Brandywine County Club to assemble the 800

layettes. Members will present them to social workers, who will distribute them to new mothers, at the Mercy Professional Building on Oct. 25.

“It makes a big difference. Many newborns coming home from the hospital have nothing to come home in,” said Kitsie Valiton, a CCS member in charge of public relations.

Another major fall program for CCS is Clothe-a-Child. On November Saturdays through Nov. 19, members will distribute brand-new, cold-weather clothing to needy children. Families are given vouchers for coats that they take to the Mercy Professional Building on those days.

CCS raises funds for the clothing, which comes in sizes for 18-montholds to child size 16, through fundraisers and donations.

Murnen remembered one little girl “busting out of her coat,” who put on

her new jacket, “and, oh my gosh, tears came to my eyes, she was so excited.

She just danced around.”

Many of CCS’ other programs last all year. Parenting Today’s Kids teaches parents sent by the courts or children services “better ways to handle their kids,” Murnen said. Although many parents don’t want to be there in the beginning, “after about two weeks, that all changes and they become friends with each other and a support group for each other,” Murnen said. However, the class can only admit 16 people at a time. CCS previously offered a support group for graduates of the program, but had to cut it after losing part of its United Way funding.

In addition to several literacy programs, CCS also hosts Theatre Vision Interactive. For three weeks, about 90 children are taught about the different stages of caterpillar

metamorphosis and proper social skills, all in preparation for a performance of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” at the Valentine Theatre.

CCS also partners with Lourdes University to host the Life Lab. All year long, CCS takes underprivileged students on field trips to a school lab, which teaches children about botany and biology and lets them interact with animals.

The 220 CCS volunteers completed more than 12,000 hours of community service during the past year, according to a news release. They are in the process of setting up a website at www. christchildsocietyoftoledo.org, which will include a page for donations. In the mean time, send donations to Mary Murnen, P.O. Box 352254, Toledo, OH 43635. For more information, visit www.national christchildsoc.org. ✯ — Brigitta Burks

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ven though he has little desire to to eventually fight her way out.

As Jack and Elaine took their turns play on a team, my son, Jack, has quite the general interest in foot- that sunny afternoon, they were each ball. I remembered the NFL’s Punt, Pass striving for two very different things. and Kick competition I took part in as a I proudly watched as Jack put forth child and decided to see if it was still out his standard best effort and Elaine there. Not only did I find it online, but followed suit without hesitation or even the slightest hint I was even able to sign of entering “freak out� him up for a local conmode. Jack took second test. Attempting to be PC place and Elaine won and not exclude anyone, I by just sticking with it, decided to ask my no-inwhich was also a huge terest-in-sports, I-wouldwin for my husband trade-my-lunch-for-aand me as parents. hit-of-lipstick daughter, Unfortunately, parElaine, if she would also ents don’t always think be interested. far enough ahead. In my As she does with just Shannon SZYPERSKI excitement that Elaine about everything, Elaine hemmed and hawed right up until the had faced her fears, I failed to realize morning of the competition and landed right away that she was the only girl in on “thanks, but no thanks� once she her girls-only age group. She not only discovered that the event had nothing won by sticking with it, she had literto do with karate. Apparently, the “kick� ally won (even if it was by default).

Of course, the next leg of the contest part of the competition stood out in her mind, but she had it confused with the couldn’t be located around the corner “hi-ya!� variety. As she watched the or on a day we didn’t have anything other children practice, however, she else planned. It was 30 miles away and somewhat inexplicably decided to give landed on the same day as Jack’s soccer game, the fall festival and parade we it a try at the last minute.

After years of her running away usually attend and an out-of-town wedscreaming at gymnastics, lying face- ding shower. It would put a crimp in down in the middle of the court during just about all of our plans that weekend.

In our tradition of making life basketball and rolling up her mat and standing by the door 10 minutes into harder than it has to be, we left it up to parent/child yoga class, it was my Elaine and she was game. In fact, she greatest hope that Elaine would just at- was excited about the whole thing.

In spite of the situation’s possibly tempt to punt, pass and kick a football in front of an unfamiliar crowd without fragile outcome, we traded the festival, an earth-shattering meltdown. As parade, a post-parade party and even much as it makes sense in my head to the much-anticipated wedding shower just cease all activities for her involving for three minutes of our no-intereststrange faces and places, I know in the in-sports, I-would-trade-my-lunchlong run that continuing to throw her for-a-hit-of-lipstick daughter punting, into her own personal lion’s den on oc- passing and kicking a football in cold casion is the only way she’ll learn how and rainy Wauseon, Ohio. It was a

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SALES EARN $800-$1200 PER WEEK. Company vehicle provided. Commission paid daily. Call Mr. Johnson at 419.902.8802

INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – BIRMINGHAM K-8, LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY, MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY, MARSHALL ELEMENTARY, PICKETT ELEMENTARY, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY AND WALBRIDGE ELEMENTARY FFE Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on November 9th, 2011, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the loose furnishings of Birmingham K-8, Longfellow Elementary School, McKinley Elementary School, Marshall Elementary School, Pickett Elementary School, Riverside Elementary School and Walbridge Elementary School, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the projects prepared by Vetter Design Group, Munger Munger & Associates, and MacPherson Architects. will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

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

3OHDVH FDOO H[W INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – LIBBEY HIGH SCHOOL, EAST TOLEDO JUNIOR HIGH, NEWBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LAGRANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, BEVERLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND EAST SIDE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DEMOLITION Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on November 2nd, 2011, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the demolition of Libbey High School, East Toledo Junior High, Newbury Elementary School, Lagrange Elementary School, Beverly Elementary School and East Side Central Elementary, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the projects prepared by The Collaborative, Inc and Munger Munger & Associates. will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

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

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting October 20th, 2011 which can be purchased from Becker Impressions, 4646 Angola Road, Toledo, Ohio 43615, phone: (419) 385-5303. Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting October 21th, 2011 which can be purchased from Toledo Blueprint, 6964 McNerney Drive, Northwood, Ohio 43619, phone: (419) 661-9841. Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for October 27th, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. at the Toledo Public Schools Board Room, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608. Site walk-throughs at the schools will commence after the pre-bid meeting according to the schedule provided at the meeting.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for November 1st, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. at the Toledo Public Schools Room 304, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608.

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

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

Bid Package – Libbey High School: Bid Item No. 1 Libbey High School Building Demolition $ 1,220,071.00 Bid Package – East Toledo Junior High: Bid Item No. 1 East Toledo Junior High Building Demolition $ 329,950.00 Bid Package – Newbury Elementary School: Bid Item No. 1 Newbury Elementary School Building Demolition $ 138,688.00 Bid Package – Lagrange Elementary School: Bid Item No. 1 Lagrange Elementary School Building Demolition $ 150,099.00 Bid Package – Beverly Elementary School: Bid Item No. 1 Beverly Elementary School Building Demolition $ 142,526.00 Bid Package – East Side Central Elementary School: Bid Item No. 1 East Side Central Elementary School Building Demolition $ 102,000.00

Bid Item #1 Longfellow ES, McKinley ES, Marshall ES, Pickett ES School Desk & Chairs Package Total Estimate: $ 528,762.00 Bid Item #2 Longfellow ES, McKinley ES, Marshall ES, Pickett ES Tables Package Total Estimate: $ 347,870.00 Bid Item #3 Longfellow ES, McKinley ES, Marshall ES, Pickett ES Office Desk & Chairs Package Total Estimate: $ 514,848.00 Bid Item #4 Birmingham K-8, Longfellow ES, McKinley ES, Marshall ES, Pickett ES, Riverside ES, Walbridge ES - Music Package Total Estimate: $ 162,500.00

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