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Behind the music

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s there room in the Occupy Wall Street movement for a business middle ground? Does the anger and outright hatred expressed for “big corporations” diminish in proportion to the size of the business?

The people who are protesting and disrupting are expressing the frustrations and fears of those who see the tremendous challenges and demands of life in a capitalist society. I empathize with their concerns, but I also have to question how much of their reaction is a legitimate sense of what they believe is unfair and how much of their reaction is an aversion to the realization that for most people, success is the result of many years’ worth of hard work.

I have seen scores of news clips with Occupy protestors from across the country angrily denouncing “the rich,” their young faces warped with seeming hatred for those Thomas F. POUNDS who are presumed to travel in private jets while they plot to crush the poor and keep younger generations from accessing the pie.

I do not travel by private jet and I am not in the storied 1 percent.

What thoughts do the Occupy protestors give to the tens of thousands of small business owners like myself who have struggled and worked and clawed to find a modicum of success?

I wonder how the Occupy protestors would like the life of a small business owner — the personnel headaches, the financial worries, the effort to balance limited resources with the quest for quality service. If these young people believe every business person in a dry-cleaned suit spends his or her days with their feet up on their desk, enjoying threehour lunches and altering lives with a thumbs up or thumbs down, they are sadly misguided and mistaken. Are the protestors going to be the people who put in the hard hours for hard years to enjoy modest comfort or are they going to be the ones who look back on their lives and blame others for where they are?

Of course the playing field isn’t equal. Some people are born into money and influence and never have to do more than maintain a minimum effort. But the vast majority of us start on the same crowded “go” square, and where we land is in direct correlation to how hard we work.

I admire the Occupy protestors for taking a stand, but as Thanksgiving provides a context for the people and things in our lives worth treasuring, I wonder if they truly understand that their alienation and exclusion is as much self-inflicted as it is the result of any conspiracy.

If the protestors really want to effect change, they will have to understand that the movement starts with individual responsibility and commitment to hard work, not an expectation of entitlement. ✯ 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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hit a wall at the Nov. 13 Make-A-Wish Foundation hol- Bullpen. A few will appear to sing a few songs at a Dec. 3 iday party for local families. I was at the event, which concert at a Panera Bread location to be announced soon. took place at Springfield High School, to arrange a photo Kerry Patrick Clark, who wrote and recorded the original session for this week’s special issue, which celebrates the song “(Looks Like It’s Going To Be) A Great Day” for the CD, will sing the National Anthem at the “Holiday Wishes” CD. Nov. 29 Toledo City Council meeting, beAmong the games and decorated tables, fore a proclamation honors the local musiapart from the Santa Claus photo area and cians on the CD and the charity it benefits. the DJ, was a wall that stretched the entire Clark is a partner with the CD manufacturer length of the gym. On that wall hung a list that produced the CD. When he received a of all the local kids to whom Make-A-Wish commission check for referring the “Holiday has granted wishes to throughout the years.

Wishes” project, he immediately signed it There were too many kids’ names to over to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. count, too many columns of wishes to comI have also been amazed by the kindprehend, too many young lives lost before ness of star Alyson Stoner and her mother, their time.

I worked very hard to make the “Holiday Michael S. MILLER LuAnne Hodges, who donated recording studio time, autographed merchandise and Wishes” CD a success, to gather the talents of local musicians to raise money for the cause. The result of even made time to go into a photography studio for the hundreds of hours of scores of people’s effort is a 25-track seasonal photos in this issue.

“Thank you” seems to pale in the face of such generosity. collection that retails for $9.99, every penny of which goes And that holds true for the organizations that stepped up to the NW Ohio chapter of Make-A-Wish Foundation.

If I had stood before that wall before I started the project, to make sure that my unwieldy idea would not cost MakeI would have worked 10 times as hard, and I would have de- A-Wish any money: Panera Bread is the distributor, Toledo Transmission and UAW Local 14 covered the manufaclivered a 10-CD set to raise 10 times as much money.

In 2010, the national Make-A-Wish Foundation granted turing costs and Toledo Free Press and FOX Toledo donated almost 14,000 wishes to kids in the United States. The or- promotions and commercials to the cause.

Now, it’s your turn. ganization grants a wish about every 40 minutes. Some of If you appreciate local music, like holiday music and the more common wishes include visits to places such as a Disney theme park or the Super Bowl. Some kids want to understand the spiritual and philanthropic role Make-Abe a firefighter for a day, or a police officer. Some wishes are Wish plays in our community, I hope that putting $10 on heartbreakingly simple; there are calls for a puppy, a com- the Panera Bread counter for a 25-track CD that features puter, a chance to go to prom. Many of the kids want to contributions from Jamie Farr, Mannheim Steamroller, Crystal Bowersox and dozens more will seem like an easy meet an actor, athlete or other celebrity.

Can you imagine receiving that call — a child with lim- choice and a great deal. You can also download the CD at ited days left has one major wish, to meet you? How could www.cdbaby.com/cd/holidaywishes.

I remember standing before the Vietnam Veterans Meyou ever turn that down? morial in Washington, D.C., for the first time, squinting at Stepping up the rows of names and trying to keep in mind that every I witnessed the power of Make-A-Wish firsthand string of letters in that endless litany represented an indiwhile working on the “Holiday Wishes” CD, which goes vidual person, with family and dreams and a path that was on sale Nov. 25 at all area Panera Bread stores. Nearly unfairly cut short and cut down.

Looking at the hundreds of local wishes granted to every person I contacted immediately answered the call for time or talent. Some people, like engineer Christo- Make-A-Wish kids on that wall Nov. 13, I felt a similar sense pher Stoll of Zeta Recording Studio, producer Mighty of helplessness and a renewed sense of mission.

I took my sons Sean, 3, and Evan, 5, to one of the CD’s Wyte and attorney Larry Meyer, donated many more hours than I ever imagined they would need to when I recording sessions. Sean, seeing the special treatment and first contacted them. More than 100 musicians and artists attention the Make-A-Wish kids received, looked up at me donated performances for the CD, and that doesn’t count and said, “Daddy, I want to be a Make-A-Wish kid.”

“No, son,” I said, momentarily paralyzed by the idea. the full Toledo Symphony Orchestra, which recorded an all-time great version of “Sleigh Ride” during a mid-fall “No, you don’t. But we’ll do everything we can to help the kids who are, OK?” ✯ concert in Findlay.

Many of the musicians continue to display a generosity and kindness that is humbling beyond words. Some of Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Tothem will perform Dec. 1 at a benefit concert at The Blarney ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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An ode to apathy

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pathy is my addiction and my After taking a serious hiatus from reality. I’m apathetic. And pun caring about the issues that affect Toledo — mostly budget issues intended, I don’t care.

Apathy. It gets a bum rap. A — I recently watched 10 minutes negative connotation. A furrowed of the local news, after actively brow. A befuddled glare. A self- avoiding everything for nearly a year — and nothing righteous lecture. It has changed. even comprises the Issues stemming word “pathetic.” Who from budget problems wants to be described still exist. The mayor by a synonym of is definitely a different dismal, pitiable, and person. No longer an useless plus a oneaging, scrappy old letter prefix? white guy, he’s now an To be apathetic is intimidating former to not care enough to fire chief with serious find the TV remote Tom MORRISSEY facial hair. after Joel McHale’s Meet the new boss, same as the oh-so-short airing of “The Soup” has expired. Eventually, one is in- old boss.

Same issues, same problems, advertently and regretfully keeping up with those painful Kardashians same nonsolutions. Why should to the extent that one knows who I care? The end result will always Kendall and Kylie Jenner are, and be the same. More money will be has obtained the ability to success- taken from me, by force. It doesn’t fully defend Scott Disick from the matter what the peons who comvicious women in the break room prise the Toledo population think.

The political elite, in their infinite at work.

In this month of Thanksgiving, wisdom, have already decided our I’m grateful my apathy hasn’t financial sacrifice.

So in a town with a populadoomed me to having a television stuck on MTV. I couldn’t remain tion of fewer than 300,000 people sane with “Jersey Shore” and “Teen and with no real way to influence Mom” marathons poisoning my the political tide, short of making brain. Perhaps MTV is the cure to a run for office (which brings its own complications thanks to the my TV-remote apathy.

After getting past the cultural local political parties), why should disapproval, apathy really is the best I then care what happens statewide way to go. Ignorance truly is bliss. or nationally?

Maybe I’m just burned out and Not caring enough to know what is going on in the world creates a slight cranky, throwing my temper tantrum because I can’t get my way, piece of heaven on earth.

It’s almost like deleting one’s but I’ve removed the headaches and Facebook account — problems and stress. I’ve removed the addiction to drama disappear, peace and tran- local blogs, national drama and inquility ensue. The frantic status up- ternational stress. I’m enjoying the dates that are concluded with “FML” apolitical lifestyle.

Priorities rearranged: the enjoyno longer annoy. The friend requests from strangers and stalkers vanish, ment of the new blink-182 album, and there is no need to manage a the fight for decent seats for the blocked person list. Privacy and time next big act at the Huntington Center, compassion for those poor are regained.

It may be shunned, but when petitioners and peoplewatching are apathy provides incredible peace better options than caring about of mind and serenity, why should and participating in a system that peer pressure persuade a person wastes my time and energy.

It’s less about societal effectiveto partake of the stress, depression and chronic migraines that ness and more about removing the local, national and world news headaches and time-suck.

I’m positive I won’t be playing bring about?

Pass the Prozac, please. That blink-182’s “I Miss You” with Toledo politics in mind anytime soon. ✯ Lunesta looks useful, too.

I decided to take an active leap into the local fray that is Toledo Email Tom Morrissey at letters@ politics more than five years ago. toledofreepress.com.

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istory is written by the victors, according to the age-old axiom. Whether in war or in debate, this truth remains. But one must ask if there are lessons to be learned in defeat and from the defeated. Should we not study the history of the Weimar Republic and a young leader who would later come to be known simply as Hitler? Should we not also study the history of a fledgling colony of Great Britain in a far and distant land which would later rise to claim its independence? British Statesman Edmund Burke said, “Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.”

Let us focus on the founding of a nation.

What can we learn from our own history?

There are many lessons, beginning with some of the first Spanish settlements in Florida in the mid-1500s, but if we wish to learn from Robert the losers, we can find no better example than those known as “The Anti-Federalists.”

Following America’s Declaration of Independence, representatives of 13 independent states met to discuss providing a very loose framework for some “continental” services. Their discussions and debates produced the Articles of Confederation. These articles retained “the sovereignty, freedom and independence” of the new states while setting in the minds of all the need for alignment of purpose. The articles made provisions for mutual defense from foreign invaders and made the first attempt at providing equal protection of the law, regardless of citizenship.

Within a decade, the infighting between the independent states had taken a toll on the confederation. A new document was proposed: The Constitution of the United States of America. While we often take this document for granted (or ignore it outright), the mere proposal of this document led to loud and boisterous arguments, hot-tempered disagreements and, in a few cases, armed conflict.

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, delegates from 12 of the states sent representatives with the intention of amending the Articles of Confederation to address many of the issues facing the confederation. To the surprise of many, a completely new Constitution was proposed. This so alarmed many that they withdrew from the convention to seek input from their various state legislatures. New York in fact withdrew all of its delegates. Over the concerns and objections of many, the Constitution was written, voted upon and sent to the states for ratification. Before the ink was dry, the battle lines of this debate were set be-

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tween the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.

Samuel Bryan, aka “Centinel,” struck first. His review of the proposed Constitution noted, “The power of taxation enforced with a standing army is the grand engine of oppression.” He further warned “through the science of government, … men of the greatest purity of intention may be made instruments of despotism in the hands of the artful and designing.”

Bryan was not alone in seeing the potential dangers of the proposed Constitution in the hands of those who sought to “govern the masses, rather than lead through example of character.” George Clinton in New York published his concerns under the pseudonym “Cato.” “The world is too full of examples which prove that to live by one man’s will becomes the DENSIC cause of all man’s misery,” he wrote.

Cato warned of the separation of the representatives from those they served. “It is a very important objection to this government, that the representation consists of so few; too few to resist the influence of corruption, and the temptation to treachery.”

Robert Yates, aka “Brutus,” reminded fellow New Yorkers, “Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority.”

Thomas Jefferson laid the cornerstone of this debate when, upon reading the freshly signed Constitution, he said, “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Patrick Henry agreed, saying, “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government —lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Daniel Webster, a well-versed student of history, opined, “Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter; from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.”

Knowledge may be gained through memorization of names, places and dates, but often those are written by the victors. Wisdom is gained in understanding the causes of the winners and the losers of the debate. The debates surrounding ratification of our Constitution serve as the highest examples of this.

As Aristotle said, “Wisdom is the knowledge of causes.” ✯ Email Robert Densic at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Eric Slough could talk for hours about the power of a single wish.

Slough, the executive director of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana, Northwest Ohio Regional Office, said he feels honored to be a part of granting wishes for children with life-threatening conditions — but sometimes the wishes grow beyond even what his organization plans.

One of Slough’s favorite stories is about an area teenager who was able to visit Ohio Stadium last fall to see his beloved Ohio State Buckeyes play.

The wish had been postponed because of health issues and, as his condition deteriorated, had become a rush wish, organized during the course of a few days to make sure he made it to a game.

“After the wish, someone said, ‘Did you see what the OSU marching band did?’” Slough said. “We said, ‘What are you talking about? We didn’t schedule anything with the band.’”

Slough was directed to YouTube, where he watched a video of the band in full dress uniform, spelling the teen’s name on the field at Ohio Stadium.

“My jaw was hanging open,” Slough said. “I would like to claim that we did that. We didn’t. If you know anything about OSU football and the band, it’s a big deal. They’re celebrity status. It was somehow coordinated in the five-day span to be able to spell out this kid’s name. Talk about sharing the power of a wish. You’ve got 250 college kids who never met him, but understood what it meant to this family. It just shows how a wish can touch people.”

Although the teen died not long after, his family remains grateful for the gesture. The video of the marching band was played at his funeral, Slough said.

“I have story upon story upon story like that that could fill pages,” Slough said. “I’m very fortunate. I get the opportunity about five times a day to get the hair on the back of my neck to stand up as I see the wishes and the families and how they are affected. Putting a smile on a kid’s face is what drives me and gets me out of bed every day.”

‘Holiday Wishes’ Being able to grant more wishes is the reason Slough is excited about “Holiday Wishes,” a benefit CD project organized by Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller and sponsored by General Motors Co. and Panera Bread.

All proceeds from the CD, which features local and national artists with Toledo connections, will benefit Make-

A-Wish Foundation, Northwest Ohio Region, to help grant wishes for local children. Contributors to the 25-track CD include Jamie Farr, Mannheim Steamroller, Pat Dailey, Kerry Patrick Clark, Crystal Bowersox, ReediusMaximus, Alyson Stoner and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.

“If we sell every CD we printed, we’re going to grant at least three to four wishes out of this project, which is huge,” Slough said.

CDs will be sold for $9.99 at area Panera Bread locations starting Nov. 25. Digital downloads will be available at CDBaby, Amazon and iTunes.

The official CD release party and concert is set for Dec. 1 at The Blarney Bullpen, 601 Monroe St. Tickets are $5 for adults, children 12 and younger are free.

Everything from the recording to the mixing to the artwork was done locally, Slough said.

“From concept to completion, it’s just been a fun project,” Slough said.

“Our thank-you note list is about as thick as Santa’s list.”

Slough said the dedication to the project has been incredible.

“This is a Toledo-born-and-bred project to help Northwest Ohio,” Slough said. “You’ll hear a lot of familiar voices, people you see every day, who stepped up to help us. The quality of music is spectacular. It shows the talent we have here in Northwest Ohio. It’s cool to see how charity can bring so many people together for a really cool cause.”

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Holiday CD to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation

Granting wishes The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants wishes for children ages 2 ½ to 18 who have a medically life-threatening condition that is progressive, degenerative or malignant.

“The biggest misconception is that all our kids are terminal,” Slough said.

“All our kids are very sick and we do lose kids on an annual basis, but some do go on, their health improves and they do great things. I was at an event once and this 20-something college kid pulls his collar down and showed me the scar where his chemo port had been and said, ‘I had a wish when I was 7 years old and I can’t tell you what it means to me.’”

Many children are referred to MakeA-Wish by doctors or social workers while others come through family inquiries. Doctors decide whether a child’s condition qualifies for a wish and whether the child is healthy enough to experience their wish.

“The only limitations are the child’s health and imagination,” Slough said.

“We’ll try to make it happen.”

When a wish is granted, the whole

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CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: MAKE-A-WISH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ERIC SLOUGH, SANTA CLAUS, WTOL ANCHOR CHRYS PETERSON, CD COVER ARTISTS ALYSON AND JILLIE AND MAKE-A-WISH DEVELOPMENT OFFICER ELLIE MCMANUS, PHOTOGRAPHED NOV. 13.

family is involved, Slough said.

“If you’re going to the hospital three or four days a week, you’re usually taking your kids along with you so it often affects the lives of brothers and sisters just as much as the child that is ill,” Slough said. “We know how much stress it puts on the immediate family, so everyone is involved.”

The Northwest Ohio Region covers 21 counties. Recent wishes granted include trips to Disney World, a trip to London to walk in the footsteps of The Beatles, meeting celebrities like Peyton Manning and Paula Deen, building a playhouse, getting a puppy and going on a shopping spree.

“From the time we pick you up to the time we drop you off, you don’t want for anything,” Slough said. “We take care of all travel arrangements, food, expenses, luggage. It’s your time

to focus on your child, a chance to regroup as a family, to set aside doctors, prods, pokes, strangers coming into your room in the middle of the night.

We give the gift of time. Just time to be a kid, time to be a family again.”

Slough said Make-A-Wish fits a niche as an organization that helps today’s kids today.

“There’s a lot of research organizations, but maybe that research isn’t going to touch that kid that’s in the hospital today. It helps tomorrow’s kids, but we step in and are able to put a smile on a kid’s face today,” Slough said. “At the end of the day, are we curing cancer? No, but we’ve done studies asking health care professionals and families, ‘What does a wish mean to kids and families?’ and a lot of times it’s ranked right up there with medicine. Just having that wish

on the horizon really helps get them to that next step, helps them fight a little bit harder. One more poke in the arm today, but you know what? That wish is out there. It’s almost like medicine.”

The Northwest Ohio chapter grants about 80 wishes a year, Slough said.

“For us, there’s never an off-season.

Our primary functions are to grant wishes and do the fundraising attached to those wishes,” Slough said. “Eighty wishes a year is a lot. We can take more referrals, but it comes down to funding.”

The average cost of a wish is $6,000, Slough said. Wishes are paid for by donations and donations in kind, including gifted airline miles.

“Airline miles are golden for us,” Slough said. “That’s a humungous expense for us.”

For more information, visit www. makeawishohio.org. ✯

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By Jeff McGinnis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

“I love the holidays,� Jamie Farr said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. “Starting with Halloween. I do not dress up in costumes anymore.

Of course, as I grow older each year I probably look differently anyway.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are two favorites. Christmas, I believe, being the most popular for me. New Year’s Eve is not a favorite of mine.

Everyone tries too hard to make it super-special and it usually falls short of even being average.�

No one celebrity embodies “Toledo� as much as Farr. The actor has long since carved out an indelible legacy as one of the stars of the legendary sitcom “M*A*S*H,� bringing the Glass City along for the ride by incorporating many local institutions into his character. Thanks to Farr, when you say “Mud Hens� or “Tony Packo’s,� a good chunk of the American populace knows what you’re talking about.

And Farr has always been ready to give back to the city. “I am so honored and proud to

be able to do positive things for my hometown,� Farr said. “Having the local businesses support our LPGA tournament is a testimony to how much they want to do for the city and the charities involved. They are more than generous.�

So when the Make-A-Wish Foundation benefit CD “Holiday Wishes� was first conceived, it seemed natural that Farr be asked to participate. “I believe it was Rita Mansour [senior managing director at Thomas McDonald partners] who got me involved with the CD. She put me in touch with Michael [Miller] and asked me to do the reading. I have done other things for Make-A-Wish in the past,� Farr said.

Farr was asked to read a classic piece of holiday literature — Clement Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,� better known by its classic opening line, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.� He said he wanted his performance to sound natural in the recording. “I did not want to read it in a meter. I wanted to appear as if I were telling the story to my children for the first time. I did the piece in one take,�

Farr said. “I recorded this in a studio

and there was no one present except the engineer. I imagined I was talking to an audience of my children.�

The track was produced at Marc Graue Voice Over Studios in Burbank, Calif.

The piece listeners will hear on the CD is rife with atmosphere; back in Toledo, producer Mighty Wyte placed a fireplace crackling sound behind Farr’s voice.

Miller said the original plan was to have a number of celebrities share the reading, but, “when we received Jamie’s recording and heard how much heart he put into it, there was no way we were going to edit out a single line. It’s a piece of Toledo history to hear Jamie read this poem; I believe families will share this track for many generations.â€? “I have not heard the piece,â€? Farr said. “I did not listen to it when I completed the reading. It just felt good and I was afraid if I listened to it I may criticize it and try to make it better. I decided it was OK by my gut feeling. “I hope listeners feel they are sitting down in front of a fire and enjoying a classic story with their family.â€? âœŻ

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‘Christmas Dinner’ track is all about family

By Jeff McGinnis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

For Reed Russell — better known as renowned Toledo Hip-Hop producer ReediusMaximus — the holidays are about family.

For better or worse.

“You don’t know what you’re gonna get when you go over to your relatives’ house.

Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad.

But that’s what it RUSSELL is,” Russell said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. “Families are all different, no matter what.”

So when Russell was asked to participate in the Make-A-Wish Foundation “Holiday Wishes” CD, he decided to craft something wholly original — something that would sum up the myriad feelings one gets from visiting relatives in the midst of the season.

“I didn’t wanna go the ‘Jingle Bells’ deal and all that. So I kinda approached it more how it is for me on Christmas, and the feel that I get around that time of the year. So I just try to convey that,” Russell said.

The result is “Christmas Dinner” — a combination of music, verse and dialogue which captures the chaos and joy of a holiday meal.

“Russell is a founding member of the legendary United Soul Brothers (The U.S.B.s) a collective of talented men who started in the early 1980s with DJs, producers, MCs and dancers,” said DJ and Toledo Free Press Star columnist Martini Rox. “Toledo’s Hip-Hop is the house they built, with more than 50 members musically serving the community today.”

It was Rox who first approached Russell with the idea of contributing.

“She called and just suggested that I would be a part of it — just that I would be a good fit for it, based on the things that I have done previously here in the city,” Russell said. “It was wide open. I could do whatever I wanted, as far as the theme of it and whatnot. So, that’s

kind of how I approached it.”

The track follows its lead character as he walks through his family’s Christmas gathering, putting a rhythm and beat to the kind of dialogue we all have as we meet a nd greet relatives we may only see on holidays.

“It’s how I am, I guess,” Russell said. “I approach everything like that. Everything is off the cuff. I almost look at music more like I’m directing a movie. You give me a title, and I’ll roll with that. That kinda shapes the music, or the theme that I’m doing. I never approach it the standard way, I guess. It’s more of a feeling for me.

“The things that you hear were all pieced together. The guy that’s talking first, he came in and I just basically at the eleventh hour told him what I wanted — and he’s part of a band that I’m with as well.

So he just didn’t write anything down, he just did it off the cuff. And my son is actually in there, he plays the little kid that he’s talking to. Again, off the cuff,” Russell said.

Russell can be heard several

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times, as can Rox, playing the lead character’s grandmother. All the track’s different elements were recorded separately over the course of one furious day of creation, then mixed together by Russell into a symphony of words.

“It just felt right when it was done,” Russell said.

On an album which features performances of many holiday standards, written and musical, Russell’s hybrid track stands out as something unique — a position he’s accustomed to.

“I know it was kind of different, I knew it would be. I always try to do things a little different, as far as the music that I make here in the city. I always try to take a different approach,” Russell said.

He noted that constructing the track ended up being an emotional experience — one which he hopes his audience will share.

“I hope that whoever hears it, it makes them feel like I feel. It makes them feel like they’re going over to their family’s house on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day. That’s that family feeling, however it is, I hope

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“Michael Miller came to us, and had a really good idea, really something interesting to do for the holidays, something unique,” Hegarty said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. “And I really didn’t even give it a second thought — I was on board right away.”

Emerson was right alongside her broadcast partner, though she was surprised by the scope of the CD project.

“At first, I was curious about what this was going to be. And the more I heard about it, the bigger it sounded.

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Neither was familiar with “Jack Frost” before the recording — Hegarty had never encountered it before, Emerson had heard it once years ago — but both brought great energy to their performance. Once both of them had the time and the voice to do it with, that is.

“As everything is in the newsroom, it’s always finding a moment where you can stop and get something done — there’s so much going on at once,” Emerson said. “So we decided, ‘OK, this time of day, this day, we’re going to record this.’ And I was getting over a cold, so I had a little scratchy voice, so we waited until I sounded like I normally do. Then we went into our little audio booth and recorded it on a little laptop with our professional microphones.”

In the end, both said they are tremendously happy with their track, and Hegarty said he hoped listeners would embrace the opportunity “Holiday Wishes” represents.

“It’s really nice to hear local voices on songs or poems that we may have heard a million times before, and hear a different spin, a different tone, a different kind of voice on them,” Hegarty said. “Any holiday season, you’re gonna hear this kind of music all the time, but this is a nice, unique twist on it you’re gonna get from this album.” ✯

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By Jason Mack

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Mannheim Steamroller provides the epilogue to “Holiday Wishes” with the track “Greensleeves,” from its 1988 CD “A Fresh Aire Christmas.”

“It reflects the warmth of the very special holiday season,” group founder Chip Davis said.

Davis, a native of Sylvania and graduate of Sylvania High School, began playing piano when he was 4 years old and composed his first music two years later.

Davis formed Mannheim Steamroller in 1974 and enjoyed the chance to lead the group on “Greensleeves.”

“As arranged, the Mannheim Steamroller version provides an opportunity for us to reinterpret a classic track,” he said.

The song is one of Davis’ favorite holiday tunes.

“It conveys melodic tones that take the listener to an ethereal space,” Davis said. “It’s always been one of my favorites. I’ve done different arrangements

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CHIP DAVIS of it on three to four albums.”

Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller, who compiled the CD as a fundraiser for the MakeA-Wish Foundation, said having Mannheim Steamroller donate a track was a highlight of the project.

“For many people, Mannheim Steamroller is holiday music,” Miller said. “To have such a nationally known act on the CD raises the profile and reminds listeners that it all started here in Northwest Ohio.” ✯

Pat Dailey’s original song “Here Comes The Cold,” included on the Make-A-Wish Foundation “Holiday Wishes” CD, tells the story of his annual migration from Put-in-Bay to Key West, Fla. “I sequestered myself on the island after the tourist season was over, and it was pretty empty and pretty lonely,” Dailey said. “I just started thinking about how it’s time to pack up everything and move to Florida for the winter gig.

It was conceived by staying on the island too long.”

Once Dailey realized how lonely island life is during Ohio winters, he secured his gig in Key West.

“I’ve been working Sloppy Joe’s in Key West for the last 30 years,” Dailey said. “It’s just like going to Put-in-Bay with the same people except one’s in winter and the other in the summer.”

Dailey said the song is particularly relevant now as the weather begins to turn in Ohio.

“There’s a certain mood to it this time of year,” Dailey said. “I’m sitting here on the island by myself. The waves get too big and the ferry boats don’t run. Right now, that song is pertinent.”

Dailey said he was happy to participate in the “Holiday Wishes” project and likes the focus on local talent.

“I think it’s a great idea getting local artists involved in raising funds,” Dailey said. “There’s so much competition. Everybody wants everybody’s money, but MakeA-Wish is pretty special when you stop and think about what they do.” ✯

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“Christmas albums bring people together; we all love Christmas,” LaFontaine said. “It has just brought me so many different places around the holidays; I just can’t believe the calls that I am getting in from all over the City of Toledo and down South.”

LaFontaine has been singing professionally since she was 19 years old.

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Singing holiday songs is nothing new for Sheri LaFontaine.

Dubbed “Toledo’s Golden Voice,” LaFontaine contributed a mainstay to “Holiday Wishes” with “Home for the Holidays.”

“It is upbeat and swinging,” LaFontaine said. “I did all three parts on it. It was a dream of mine to do the alto and soprano and it was a lot of fun.”

The track was produced for LaFon-

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“Make-A-Wish has a flawless reputation for making a child smile and making dreams come true,” LaFontaine said. “If I can be a part of anything like that, I want to jump on board with that.” ✯ — Zach Davis

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Kerry Clark captures childhood excitement in original tune or emotional challenges. The lyrics are personalized with the child’s name and references to his or her family, sottney@toledofreepress.com friends, pets and favorite activities.

“The gift of a song to a child is pretty Th e wonder and excitement of the fi rst snowfall of the season was incredible and the cool thing is the song the inspiration behind “(Looks Like is written specifi cally for each child,” It’s Going to Be) A Great Day,” local Clark said. “Can you imagine your ensinger-songwriter Kerry Patrick tire life spent in the hospital and a CD Clark’s original contribution to “Hol- shows up in the mail celebrating your friends and your life? How cool is that? iday Wishes.”

“That’s kind of the view of every I think I’ve written about 500 hit songs child, from a holiday standpoint, as far as I’m concerned.”

Clark said he hopes listeners feel the first snow, the first time they go on a boat ride, all those kinds more hopeful aft er listening to “Holof things,” Clark said. “One of the iday Wishes.”

“What I’m about is using music to coolest events of the year is the first snowfall because it just makes ev- sing hope into the human experience; that’s my desire,” Clark said. “All of us erything look incredible.”

To write the song, Clark drew from are living crazy lives — house, family, his own childhood memories as well as his experiences as a father.

“Now my 8-year-old son is asking those same questions I did growing up,” Clark said. “At the mere thought of snow, he asks, ‘Daddy, can we get the sled out?’ and I say, ‘I hope so, buddy.’ I wrote it from that perspective, but also from the father’s perspective now.”

Clark’s son, Robbie, and wife, Amy, also sing on the track.

Clark said he was thrilled to be part of the project and to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“I love what they’re about and I love what they do,” Clark said. “Anytime there’s something out there for a good cause, I’m there.”

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2010 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 1971-2011

F R O M T H E GE N E R A L M AN AG E R

FIN A N C IAL R EPORT

On behalf of the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority’s employees and Board of Trustees, I am pleased to present TARTA’s 2010 Annual Report.

In order to provide its services, TARTA obtains revenues from a variety of sources, including passenger fares, local property taxes, federal and state governments and other funders. TARTA distributes these funds among a range of categories relating to service, including labor and fringes, fuel, paratransit services, materials and supplies, insurance and utilities. Here is a breakdown of TARTA’s income and expenses for 2010.

Despite continuing economic difficulties, TARTA’s employees worked hard to provide the best possible transit service to the nine Lucas and Wood county communities comprising TARTA. Passage of TARTA’s levy in 2010 allows us to continue operating and providing critical transportation services, without increasing property taxes.

Additionally, this achievement and other 2010 improvements will enable TARTA to avoid the status quo and improve our efficiency and effectiveness.

For the general public, TARTA will continue to leverage technology to improve our customer responsiveness. For example, the availability of real-time scheduling data received via the Internet and text-message updates will notify passengers when their bus will arrive at their stop. Electronic signs announcing the next approaching vehicle will be installed at major destinations, including our future Jackson Street transit center, which will eliminate the 1980s-vintage Downtown Loop. Computerized dispatching also will allow us to improve Call-A-Ride’s capacity, efficiency and responsiveness in suburban areas.

Significant improvements also are planned for TARPS, our service for persons with disabilities. During the last three years, TARPS ridership nearly doubled. Not only are we Ohio’s fastest-growing paratransit service, we are one of the country’s top five fastest-growing paratransit services. Future TARPS growth will include completion of a new garage and headquarters facility, opening in 2012, and the purchase of new vehicles. In addition, an automated callback system, which notifies passengers when their bus is arriving, and improvements in scheduling technology allow us to provide same-day, nonemergency medical trips for TARPS passengers needing to reach the doctor or pharmacy.

I thank our passengers and constituents for their continued support of TARTA. Despite rising fuel costs and a slowing of the regional economy, our service levels and ridership remain stable. It is because of this support we will continue to improve and offer quality public transit service to the region.

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Ramona Collins brings unique touch to ‘The Christmas Song’

By Jason Mack TOLEDO FREE PRESS WEB EDITOR jmack@toledofreepress.com

Ramona Collins applied her jazz influence to “Holiday Wishes” with the Mel Tormé standard “The Christmas Song.”

“I’ve always liked ‘The Christmas Song’ and I always associate it with Nat King Cole,” Collins said. “It reminds me of being a little girl at Christmas. I thought I’d give it a little different treatment by putting another song in the beginning and then going into that.”

Collins opens the song with a verse from the “Peanuts” classic “Christmas Time Is Here” before a piano solo transitions to “The Christmas Song.”

“It reminds me of Charlie Brown,” Collins said. “I was thinking of what I could do different and that song popped into my head. The idea was to surprise people and give it a different flavor.”

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“Eric and I have worked together for about 26 years,” Collins said. “People often think of us in the same breath. Eric is someone I’m comfortable with and he’s comfortable with me. He knows what I like. When I told him I wanted to do that song with a bar or two of ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ he was on board. He knows how I think. He did a beautiful job.” ✯

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Jameil Aossey and Charles Lane are a double threat on “Holiday Wishes” with “Mistletoe Love,” an original R&B song on the album.

“They were looking for something urban and more dance or two-step,” Aossey said. “We came up with the mistletoe idea because it kind of related to New Year’s, but it was still holidays without singling out a specific holiday theme. We wanted to go in a different direction than the standard holiday stuff you always hear.”

Aossey and his collaborators wrote and recorded the nontraditional song in just nine days.

“It was basically nine days in a row with all-nighters,” Aossey said. “It was a lot of squeeze, but we do that all the time. I have my own studio and people I work with. It was easy to pull everybody together and pull that off.”

Lane is the lead vocalist on the track and Aossey performed spoken word parts. Aossey also played keyboard and did the drum programming. Other musicians performed guitar and saxophone parts.

“I think it’s necessary to have R&B when you’re doing a compilation,” Aossey said. “When you’re throwing that many tracks on there, you should have multiple styles. It gives you something different and unique. Our track could be one you come back to.”

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Kate Jordan followed in the footsteps of one of her childhood favorites for her take on “The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.”

Jordan said she was excited for the opportunity to cover Amy Grant’s take on the classic.

“It’s definitely one of my favorite Christmas songs,” Jordan said.

“That arrangement was one of my favorite arrangements. I love the orchestration.”

“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” is the first Christmas song Jordan has ever recorded, and she was happy it was for a project like “Holiday Wishes,” which supports the local Make-AWish Foundation.

“It’s an awesome idea,” she said. “I hope a lot of people support it. There’s a lot of diversity on it, and it’s going to an awesome cause.” ✯

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Husband-and-wife duo TAPESTRY entered new instrumental territory for its rendition of “Greensleeves,” the opening track of “Holiday Wishes.”

Harpist Denise Grupp-Verbon and guitarist Michael Grupp-Verbon decided while in the studio to include additional instrumentation to their usual sound.

Using a synthesizer, the pair added finger cymbals, wind chimes and other string and percussion sounds to the harp and guitar they had already recorded.

“We took a little change from our formula arranging style,” Michael said. “We were originally going to do acoustic harp and guitar; that’s it. Once we got into the studio, bouncing around ideas, we thought we’d go ahead and put together additional arrangements and it just kind of blossomed from there.”

Denise said she is excited about the new direction.

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DENISE AND MICHAEL GRUPP-VERBON “It was actually kind of fortuitous that this was a holiday project because this was something we were working on anyhow, so this just accelerated getting that song put together and ready to go,” Michael said. “It certainly did push us in a direction we were looking to go anyhow, so it definitely was a fun thing to do and we’re very happy with it. This is the perfect place for it to debut.” ✯

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Also helping out that weekend was Dwight Adams, Stevie Wonder’s trumpet player and a longtime friend of Kischuk’s.

“Dwight and I have performed together hundreds if not thousands of times,” Kischuk said. “He’s a great guy and a great performer.”

Another musician involved was saxophone player Russ Miller, who also arranged the track.

“It’s an uplifting, happy Christmas song,” Kischuk said. “It’s one of the old standards. When I was growing up, my mother had all the old piano sheet music sit-

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She was doing a concert with us the weekend we recorded and agreed to help out.”

ting in the piano bench. You would pull it up and there were ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.’ People try to write new carols every year, but the fact of the matter is sometimes the really old tunes are a lot of fun to play and hear.” ✯

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Sometimes, the difference between living and dying can be measured in seconds.

Such was the case the morning of Nov. 9 at McCord Junior High School.

Connie Root, a sixth-grade science teacher, had just told the 23 students in her fifth-period class she wasn’t feeling well and would be taking the following day off to visit her doctor.

The students began working on an assignment. Connie returned to her desk. There, she began writing a reminder to her substitute. It was approaching noon. Connie got part of one word down and, suddenly, pitched forward, sprawling across her desk.

armpit. That concerned him. Arm pain can be a warning sign that a heart attack is imminent.

Mike studied Connie. Her breathing was fine. She wasn’t sweating. Her skin color was good.

“She looked the same as she did every day,” he said.

Still, Mike suggested to Connie that she contact her family doctor, thinking she might be sent to the ER, he said. Tedra White, a ProMedica spokesman, said records show that Connie told Dr. Stadler’s office she had shoulder pain after exercising. Based on that conversation, the office scheduled an appointment for the following morning, White said.

Tomorrow, as it turned out, was too late.

Uneasy morning

Students, teachers act

Connie had not slept well the previous night. She and her husband, Rich Root, spent much of Nov. 6, a Sunday, doing fall clean-up chores at their 10-acre property in rural Fulton County. Connie pulled weeds and assumed the sharp, deep pain she felt in her left armpit was the result of that effort. But she also felt heartburn, something she had never experienced before. She started taking ibuprofen to ease her discomfort.

Connie was still in bed as Rich was about to leave for work at the BP refinery in Oregon. She told him about her restless night and feeling ill. He suggested she call her physician, Dr. Nancy Stadler.

Connie considered staying home, but that was not her style. She loved her job and possessed a strong work ethic. In her 15 years at McCord, Connie had only missed a few days. So off to work she went, a fortuitous decision, as it turned out, since she would have been home alone otherwise.

At McCord, as Connie mingled with her colleagues before classes began, she let it be known she wasn’t feeling well. By chance, Mike Cook, the husband of teacher Merry Cook, was there. Mike, a Sylvania Township firefighter and paramedic, overheard Connie talk about the pain in her

Just prior to Connie collapsing, her students had heard her breathing loudly and heavily, so they quickly recognized something was terribly wrong.

Jaret Hoschak and Mark Curtis, both 11, sprinted out the door, heading for the cafeteria. Andy Riggs, 12, hustled next door to Linda Cromley’s classroom.

Using the wall-mounted phone, Sarah Sabol, 11, dialed what she though was the office but turned out to be — fortunately — Rebecca Griffey’s nearby classroom.

In the cafeteria, Jaret and Mark found the school’s principal, Keith Limes, and told him they thought Mrs. Root had suffered a seizure. Kathleen Theiss, a close friend of Connie’s who had been involved in the earlier discussion about her illness, was nearby. She and Limes headed for Connie’s classroom. Along the way, Limes called 911.

When they arrived, they found Griffey directing the students out of the classroom toward her room. Linda Cromley was there, as was Merry Cook, who had been in Griffey’s classroom when Sarah called. Cook was on her mobile phone with the 911 dispatcher, whom she called at 11:56 a.m.

They were soon joined by another teacher, Tim Nottke.

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A20 ■ TOLEDO FREE PRESS ■ LIFE SAVED CONTINUED FROM A19 Nottke and Theiss, both of whom were certified in CPR, examined Connie, who was still in her chair with her head on the desk.

Cook was trying to find a pulse, to no avail. Nottke and Theiss moved Connie to the floor behind her desk.

At that point, she began turning blue. When informed of this, the dispatcher told the teachers to begin CPR. Using both hands, Theiss began quick, rhythmic compressions of Connie’s chest. Her color began to improve, but Nottke still could not find a pulse.

He told Theiss: “I hope the paramedics hurry up and get here.”

By good fortune, Mike Cook’s station, No. 2, was only twotenths of a mile away. Paramedics arrived within a few minutes.

They quickly inserted an intubation tube into Connie’s mouth to open her breathing airway.

Right behind them, arriving at 12:03 p.m., were Lucas County EMS paramedics. They attached an automated CPR harness to Connie’s chest and began administering shock drug treatments into her bone marrow through a catheter inserted into her tibia.

It took a while, but the paramedics were successful.

“After the third shock she came back and started breathing on her own,” said Brent Parquette, EMS training and quality assurance manager.

Heart surgery and brain testing At Toledo Hospital, tests determined that Connie had suffered a heart attack. Dr. James Smith, of the on-call CardioCare Consultants group, happened to be at the hospital and was summoned to surgery.

While changing into his scrubs and reading the electrocardiogram results, Dr. Smith was stunned to see Connie’s name on the report. Previously, he and his family had been neighbors with Connie and Rich for seven years. They were close friends.

“I got sick to my stomach,” he said. “Emotionally, it caught me off guard. But I switched modes and did what I was trained to do.”

Smith found that Connie’s left anterior descending artery, known as the “widowmaker,” was 100 percent blocked, underscoring the seriousness of her heart attack. Over the course of an hour, Smith

guided thin wires through the blocked artery to open some space.

He then inserted a balloon catheter to further enlarge the opening, after which he added a stent to keep the artery open.

The surgery was a success but Connie was not clear of danger.

The potential of permanent brain damage lingered.

“We didn’t know how long she had been out before CPR started,” Smith said.

Connie was transferred to the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, where she spent five days. Doctors there immediately initiated a therapeutic hypothermia treatment known as ICE protocol, which, by running a cold saline solution through an IV, dropped her body temperature to 91.4 degrees.

By lowering Connie’s core body temperature and placing her in an induced coma, the chances of her brain activity remaining normal were enhanced, according to Smith. But not guaranteed.

After 24 hours, the hypothermia treatment stopped. Connie woke up. Her body temperature returned to normal. Testing ensued. The news was terrific: She appeared to be fine. Perhaps the proof came during her last night in ICU, when in the middle of the night Connie managed to dislodge a ventilator. She wanted out. A few days later, on Nov. 16, Connie went home.

Smith was thrilled — and awed.

“Anybody who experienced what she has and is able to walk out of the hospital with full neurological function and no significant aftereffect is very lucky,” he said.

Aftermath From a medical perspective, measuring Connie’s good fortune is simple. When someone suffers a heart attack and stops breathing, every minute that passes without treatment reduces the chance for survival by 10 percent, according to Parquette, the county’s paramedics trainer.

As recently as 2005, heart attack victims like Connie only had a 12 to 15 percent survival rate in Lucas County. That number is around 45 percent today.

“I think it’s a result of a more aggressive approach to treatment in the field and advances in the equipment and drugs we

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During her stay at Toledo Hospital, Connie’s family and friends kept replaying the events that led to her miraculous survival.

Said Rich, her husband, “I’m what if-ing it to death. It’s pretty incredible.” What if Connie had stayed home? What if she had the attack while driving to work? What if she had driven to Dr. Stadler’s office or to the ER? Of course, the largest what if is this: What if the students and teachers hadn’t reacted as they did?

“At McCord we have four cornerstones,” said Limes, the principal. “Two of them are respect and integrity. The kids definitely reacted with those two things [in mind]. They were being really good people who cared and who still thought clearly enough to do the right thing.”

Ironically, this was the second classroom incident involving some of the same students. Earlier this school year, a student in Brian Mitchell’s class suffered a seizure. While he was attending to the student, Mitchell asked Sarah Sabol to call the office, as she did during Connie’s attack.

Jaret Hoschak, however, said he sat still and did nothing, an action that bothered him for weeks.

“I felt bad,” said Jaret, who envisions working as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Fish employee one day. “I could have done something to help. So when Mrs. Root collapsed, I knew I had to do something.”

Kathleen Theiss, who under extreme pressure performed critical CPR on Connie when it mattered most, deflected all praise to the students and Limes.

“I was impressed with Keith,” she said. “He had an aura of being calm. He let the teachers do what they were doing. He kept the other students in lockdown so they wouldn’t see Connie carried out to the ambulance. And, then, after the fact, he tried to control any rumors leaking out. That was important.”

For her part, Connie — known at McCord as a strict but fair teacher who gets the maximum effort and results out of her students — has no memory of Nov. 9. In fact, her mind is blank over a 10-day period before and after her heart attack.

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■ LIFE SAVED CONTINUED FROM A20 Presently, Connie’s at home recuperating. Six pill bottles sit on her kitchen counter, an odd sight for someone who has been healthy all her life. She has frequent headaches, tires easily and is sleeping poorly. Normally a boisterous woman whose voice can be heard the length of a football field, she’s down a decibel or two at the moment.

“I’m still afraid it might happen again,” she said.

She’s scheduled to see Smith on Dec. 7 and hopes she’ll get the OK to drive so she can return to work.

Meanwhile, she’s trying to align her emotions.

“It’s hard for me to understand the enormity of what happened because I don’t remember anything,”

she said. “I feel bad because I know how scared I made everyone. After listening to everyone explain what happened, I realize how lucky I am.

It wasn’t my time.”

Connie is crystal clear on her thoughts about her students.

“It’s amazing, but I’m not surprised,” she said. “They’re such good kids. They’re not the sort of kids that would sit back and do nothing.”

Ditto Kathleen Theiss.

“If there’s something that needs to be done, she just does it.”

As for the future, Connie said she’ll come up with a project of some sort to show her appreciation and help others in a similar situation.

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Last year, 40 lists like these were fulfilled. Th is year, the staff at the Zepf Center had to stop accepting families at 40, despite many more families wanting to be adopted, according to Christina Baskey, director of administrative services.

Oft entimes during the holidays, people who are a little better off ask what they can do to help families in need. The answers vary, but one opportunity is the Adopt a Family program through the Zepf Center, which opened as the Elizabeth A. Zepf Community Mental Health Center in 1974.

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“Last year we had 40 families adopted; this year we would have more than that but we have stopped accepting families at 40 due to wanting to make sure we can get them all adopted.

“If we end up having more adopters then we will accept more referrals from our case managers,” she wrote.

She suggested adopting a family as an alternative to gift exchanges in the workplace.

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ONE YEAR LATER

Missing boys’ mom still hopeful they will return alive

By Dan Cherry ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM

MORENCI, Mich. — One year ago, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the mother of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton said they were talking about going to Ford Field in Detroit to watch the Hudson Tigers play for the state football championship.

The boys never got to go to the game.

The three Skelton brothers have been missing since Thanksgiving, when their father failed to return ANDREW them to their mother, Tanya Zuvers, after a scheduled visitation.

They were last seen with their father, John Skelton, who in September was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to unlawfully imprisoning his sons. He claims he gave them to an underground organization to prevent Zuvers

from having custody. The two were estranged at the time and have since divorced. Skelton, 39, is incarcerated at the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula.

Zuvers said Nov. 18 she remains hopeful that the boys are out there somewhere.

“My family has not given up hope that we are going to bring the boys home and they will come home alive,” she said.

The case Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said the case remains an open investigation, one that has gathered and ALEXANDER processed approximately 1,200 tips since Nov. 25, 2010, the day the boys disappeared.

Weeks said that in the beginning, he was devoting almost every working minute to the case. Hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement and safety officials spent days following tips and combing area fields, woods and towns for any sign of the missing boys.

Though leads and tips have slowed down dramatically, Weeks said, “rarely does a day go by that we’re not doing some work on it.

“With a slowdown in tips, it gives us a chance for doing more reflection and review,” he said.

Area law enforcement officials plan to conduct a “road canvass” from 4- 7 a.m. Friday, Nov. 25, along U.S. 127 near Morenci Road, timed to coincide with the hours that police believe Skelton was driving in that general area one year earlier.

Police are also renewing their request for people in the TANNER area to remain vigilant as farmers harvest their crops and hunters go out into the woods.

Anyone who finds anything unusual is asked to contact local police immediately or call the Morenci Police Department at (517) 458-7104.

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ning an event at 2 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Morenci High School gym, a mix between a vigil and a program about the boys’ lives.

Zuvers said her niece will read a poem she wrote shortly after the boys disappeared, and the program will contain a slide show of the brothers over the years.

In addition, Morenci Mayor Keith Pennington is scheduled to give an update on a reward fund, Weeks will speak about the status of the case and magnets, window decals and shirts will be sold to raise awareness about the boys. The money from the sales will be used to cover the cost of printing the items, Zuvers said.

“We need to keep the awareness there,” Zuvers said. “Just because it’s not on the news all the time, we still need to have eyes looking.”

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Alexander turned 8 and Tanner 6 since they disappeared.

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Mayfair-Plymouth members break ground for new church

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

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About 100 members of the Mayfair-Plymouth Congregational Christian Church in Toledo celebrated the groundbreaking Nov. 6 for phase one of its new facilities.

Members representing the diversity and history of the congregation participated in the formal groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new church at 5555 Bennett Road.

“It’s truly a memorable and remarkable day for us after a journey that started 10 years ago,” said David Claassen, senior pastor of the MayfairPlymouth congregation.

“God called us to this land. We kept praying and believing that we would be able to acquire the land to build a facility that will be a better tool to bring more people to Christ,” he said at the ceremony.

Work is scheduled to begin with a $1.6 million budget in the spring of 2012 and to be completed next fall, Claassen said.

The new structure will consist of a multipurpose room and elementary education section. Worship services and other events will take place in the multipurpose room with elementary Sunday school in the same facility.

“This event celebrates 10 years of planning, research, designing and preparing for the future of our church and new family members we have yet to meet,” Claassen said.

The church leadership realized the congregation was growing be-

yond the capacity of the current building at 5253 Bennett Road, Claassen said. The congregation now has from 280 to 300 members with a sanctuary for 175 people and a parking lot with 60 spaces.

The current building will continue to house the church offices, adult and youth education, and other ministries until it is sold and phase two is built at the new site. The current property was listed for sale Nov. 1, Claassen said.

The church has conducted an ongoing capital campaign during the past 10 years and raised enough money to acquire the 23-acre site for the new church, refinance and pay off the mortgage on the existing property, and have $520,000 toward the new facility.

The initial meeting for the capital campaign for the new facility took place Sept. 11, 2001. Despite the tragic events of that day, it was a stark reminder that even amidst tragedy there can be hope, Claassen said.

The Mayfair-Plymouth congregation is working with several local organizations to make the new church become a reality.

The church has pre-qualified for financing of the project through Cooperative Business Services of Toledo.

The organization works with businesses and credit unions on shared funding of business loans.

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A new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) explores Rembrandt’s radical reimagining of Jesus, apparently in response to a series of personal tragedies that led the artist on a journey of religious contemplation, according to the exhibit’s curator.

“Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” — a joint project of the DIA, the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Philadelphia Museum of Art — is the largest exhibition to date of Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn’s work that focuses on the image of Jesus.

The exhibition, which opened Nov. 20 and will be in Detroit through Feb. 12, includes pieces on loan from more than 30 galleries across the U.S. and Europe and was also displayed in Paris and Philadelphia.

More than 64 works are displayed, including 52 small, intimate paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt and his students that illustrate how the Dutch master artist broke from traditional 17th-century representations of Jesus.

Many of the works, including Rembrandt and his studio’s seven “Head of Jesus” paintings, are displayed together for the first time.

“Rembrandt’s images were a bold departure from traditional renderings of Jesus by Western artists — both of his time as well as before and well after him,” said DIA director Graham W. J. Beal in a news release. “Visitors will have a rare opportunity to see how Rembrandt developed this image and how he employed his famous ‘chiaroscuro’ — light and shadow — to profound spiritual effect.”

Western portrayals of Jesus in the 17th century were based on ancient Greek sculpture and Renaissance imagery and typically represented him either performing heroic actions or as the embodiment of profound suffering, according to the release.

Rembrandt, who lived and worked in a Jewish neighborhood in Amsterdam, was the first Western artist to represent Jesus as Jewish. He also began depicting Jesus as vulnerable, humble and inspiring reverence.

Rembrandt initially painted Jesus in the traditional style, but, by the late 1630s, began to undergo a series of

tragedies and setbacks, which led to a radical change in his art, said guest curator George S. Keyes.

Rembrandt and his wife wanted a family, but all their children except one died in infancy, Keyes said. Then his wife died of consumption.

“His art becomes much quieter, less exuberant, less dramatic, less bombastic,” Keyes said. “Rembrandt’s work really shifts very dramatically into a very meditative mode. I think this whole meditative strain through Rembrandt’s work represents a very profound searching on his own part, in terms of trying to understand the true depth of meaning in his Biblical subjects.”

Keyes said he believes Rembrandt’s images of Jesus were not painted for clients, but for himself, as part of a personal journey for solace and religious meaning.

“I think what is really significant is that Rembrandt is such an effective narrator and these very meditative images allow us to look over his shoulder so that we, like all the other figures in these narrative scenes, become participants in the process of inward meditative revelation,” Keyes

said. “I think it’s a remarkable achievement on the part of Rembrandt.”

The show also features works by other artists that illustrate life in 17th century Amsterdam. DIA’s head of interpretation, Swarupa Anila, said she hopes visitors come away with the understanding of the historical context Rembrandt lived and worked in.

“Rembrandt was very much situated in his time and place,” Anila said. “All of the cultural and artistic influences around him informed the images we’re looking at. They didn’t come out of some sort of remote artistic genius, like a flash of light. He’s looking at the world around him and processing what’s there and making something new.

His exposure to Jewish people and traditions informed a new look and a different kind of representation of the historical figure of Jesus.”

Anila said she wants people of any cultural or religious background to feel comfortable walking into the exhibit.

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The Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

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Thanksgiving is spiritual time for saying ‘namaste’

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t is traditional to utter “namaste” at the beginning and end of a yoga class, yet it’s probably the most misunderstood ritual. Some students think this word has religious connotations and refuse to say it. Others mumble it, unsure of what they’re really speaking.

Yogis, like many others, believe that there is more to us than our physical bodies and that this elusive part of ourselves has unlimited potential.

Call it what you will— soul, essence, spirit, divine — the meaning is the same. There is an important part of a human being that makes each individual person special and indefinable.

It is this intangible piece of ourselves

Life’s obstacles get in the way of acthat we honor and acknowledge when we say “namaste,” which is Sanskrit for tualizing who we really are and who we have the ability to be. Yoga helps us “I bow to you.”

Thanksgiving is one of the most get back in touch with this deeper self and hidden potential. wonderful celebrations For instance, when of the year. People from I wake up groggy and all walks of life and belief choose to hop on my yoga systems can share this day. mat for 30 minutes rather Its meaning is universal than lounge around, I for Americans — taking often realize that I just time to be thankful for needed to get moving. I what you have. Believing hop off my mat energized that you can be anything and ready for my day. that you want to be is almost as American as apple Jennifer WHITE Sometimes, though, my pie. Yet that doesn’t mean our circum- physical practice helps me get in touch with my fatigue. I am a sleep-deprived stances don’t hinder us. mom and often I am just honest-togoodness tired. I use my mat to slow down and take a moment to nurture myself with restorative yoga poses and breath. I step off of my mat tired, but in touch with myself in a deeper way that brings freshness to my day.

Still, yoga is not solely a physical practice. Just as I use my mat to understand my fatigue, yogis use their physical practices to know and accept themselves on a very deep level — 61st Annual easier said than done.

When I snap at my wonderful husband because I’m exhausted, I feel disappointed in myself. I apologize, he accepts and we move on. Yet I’m determined to not snap at him in the first place. Again, easier said than done, but as a yogi I know that I can be who I want to be — and my physical practice helps me understand this.

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I can physically do poses that I thought I would never be able to do.

Now I believe that I can do any pose with enough practice, and why not? If these other poses are accessible to my body with practice, then why not that one as well? Feeling this unlimited potential is extremely liberating and invigorating, and this physical sense of empowerment leads to mental and emotional empowerment too.

Case in point: I’m the most impatient person you will meet. I sincerely want to be more patient. Will it happen overnight? Not likely. However, I can work toward this inner goal just as I work into poses on my mat.

That irritating person I encountered the other day might make my life difficult, but this person can also test me and help me become more patient. I can honestly say that it’s easier for me to pop up into a headstand than to live my yoga in this manner off of my mat.

Fortunately, I have an entire lifetime to make myself a better person.

I firmly believe that we’re here to grow and to help each other grow as well. Though this isn’t always easy, we share our journey through life with other people whether we like it or not.

This connectedness to others forms the foundation for both yoga and the word “namaste.”

Yoga means yoke or unite, and this less tangible soul, spirit, essence — whatever you choose to say — is what connects or unites us to everything and everyone around us. Feeling

this union to something much deeper than what we physically see is the entire purpose of yoga, and “namaste” is the word that yogis use to recognize it.

Saying “namaste” to another person simply acknowledges this divinity and potential within them.

Saying it to yourself is acknowledging it within you. Whatever your beliefs, saying “namaste” is a genuine show of respect — and you don’t even have to say the actual word.

The mudra, or hand gesture, associated with “namaste” is palms touching in prayer position over the heart center. Closing your eyes and bowing your forehead towards your hands symbolizes “namaste” without any verbalization.

This Thanksgiving, as you sit down at your table filled with loved ones, pause and momentarily reflect on everything in your life that you have to be thankful for. Things might not be perfect. You might be touched with loss or struggles, but this is not your permanent state. There is always hope because inside of you is the foundation for all that you need in order to become the person that you really want to be and to have the life that you really want to live. Acknowledge your inner light and potential, and say thanks to yourself for being who you already are. namaste. ✯ Jennifer White is a certified yoga instructor. Email her at yenniwhite@ hotmail.com.

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INTERESTED BIDDERS: FULTON ELEMENTARY, MARTIN LUTHER KING ELEMENTARY, MARSHALL ELEMENTARY, MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY, LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY, EAST SIDE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY AND HEFFNER KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL DEMOLITION Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on December 8th, 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 Fulton Elementary, Martin Luther King Elementary, Marshall Elementary, McKinley Elementary, Longfellow Elementary, East Side Central Elementary and Heffner Kindergarten as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the projects prepared by The Collaborative, Inc, Munger Munger & Associates, SSOE, Inc. and Vetter Design, Inc, and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting November 23, 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.

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.

Bid Package – Fulton Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 Fulton Elementary School Building Demolition

$ 279,817.00

Bid Package – Martin Luther King Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 Martin Luther King Elementary Building Demolition $ 319,244.00

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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.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for December 1, 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.

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Bid Package – Marshall Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 Marshall Elementary School Building Demolition

$ 209,687.00

Bid Package – McKinley Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 McKinley Elementary School Building Demolition

$ 412,789.00

Bid Package – Longfellow Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 Longfellow Elementary School Building Demolition

$ 367,487.00

Bid Package – East Side Central Elementary School Bid Item No. 1 East Side Central Elementary School Building Demolition $ 234,602.00 Bid Package – Heffner Kindergarten Bid Item No. 1 Heffner Kindergarten Building Demolition

$ 50,061.00

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