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Opinion

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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here will be millions of turkeys cooked and consumed this Thanksgiving holiday, but once the dishes are cleared and the food coma commences, there will still be plenty of gobblers walking among us. Here is a lighthearted look at some of the more interesting turkeys of the moment. n Xunlight. It has been reported that the solar panel firm most often associated with forging a new technological future in our region opened a plant in China earlier this year. There are more than a few ways to spin this, but the bottom line is that a company fostered, nurtured and respected here in Northwest Ohio has invested money and people as far from our ZIP code as possible. Officials are quick to claim that no state or Regional Growth Partnership/Rocket Ventures money was used to establish the China plant, but unless those groups are tracking serial numbers on dollar bills, how can they be sure? It is telling that Xunlight did not mention the Chinese facility until it was outed in a Wall Street Journal story. This is the first cloud to cross an otherwise stellar success story, and it will be interesting to see how this impacts Xunlight’s local standing.

Z. To be clear, Andrew Zepeda Thomas F. Pounds saysnheAndrew is innocent, and until Wood County authorities prove otherwise, he gets the benefit of the doubt. He earns turkey status not just for any of the accusations he faces under indictment for tax issues and crimes related to a break-in, but for calling a news conference Nov. 17 to disparage Perrysburg police and accuse them of trying to smear his name. Whether Zepeda is guilty of the charges, innocent or a combination of the two, badmouthing cops is not the way to establish good will and keep one’s reputation intact. n Facebook users who post before they think. People need to remember that a Facebook post is a lot like a folded note passed under a desk in high school; most go unnoticed, but every once in a while the wrong authority sees an embarrassing note and shares it with everyone. Recently, the aforementioned Andrew Z.’s troubles provoked a number of normally rational people into doing little verbal schadenfreude dances with nasty comments.

When a Columbia Gas of Ohio facility went up in flames Nov. 17, one person on Facebook posted that it would “teach them a lesson.” Really? What lesson is there to be learned from an accident that endangers life and property?

Toledo City Councilwoman Lindsay Webb recently posted a smackdown of fellow councilperson Joe McNamara that she took down. People need to realize that there is no such thing as “private” on these social networking sites. n Toledo City Council candidates. Looking at a preliminary list of Democratic candidates for the seat being vacated by Michael Ashford is like looking at a list of movie serial killers that refuse to go away. We always want to encourage people to come forward and lead, but some of these recycled names truly have feathers and beaks. With the official vote now showing Carol Contrada has about a 190-vote lead, another turkey moment could be the Lucas County Democratic Party asking for names before it knew the outcome. n Ben Konop. Four years in office and now he’s worried about saving money.

His proposal to strip the county’s Children Services Board and the Board of Developmental Disabilities of voter-approved levy monies because he doesn’t like their budget surpluses earns him one last turkey leg on his way out the door.

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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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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At the time, I, like most people, accepted the changes as hen the terrorists used hijacked airplanes to strike their targets Sept. 11, 2001, I lived just a few miles a necessary but temporary evil. Who knew what nefarious from the Fort Lauderdale International Airport. follow-up plans were already set in motion, and since it would My apartment was in an oceanfront building, and it was my undoubtedly take our military a month or so to track down and capture Osama bin Laden and his gang of habit to come home from work and waste as bastards, it was better to be safe than to be inlittle time as possible between walking in the cinerated when one’s plane was flown into the door in work clothes and walking back out side of a steel building. the door ready to swim in the warm and usuIf anyone had told me then that nearly 10 ally gentle Atlantic. It used to entertain me for years later, not only would bin Laden still be hours, watching the scores of women on the free, but that airport security would be 100 beach and the scores of planes flying in and out times more imposing and extreme, I might of the airport. The miracles and mechanics of have shredded my frequent-flyer cards. both the female body and jetliners are equally “They who can give up essential liberty to mysterious and awe-inspiring, and, coincidenobtain a little temporary safety, deserve neitally, both are routinely for sale in South Florida.

On the first few days following the Sept. 11 Michael S. miller ther liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin Yeah, well, jolly old Ben never had to navigate Fort Lauattacks, I would drift along the coast and stare into the blue skies for hours at a time, fascinated by the lack of airplanes derdale International Airport with two toddlers.

Every Thanksgiving, my wife, two little boys and I fly back overhead. The emotions and impressions of that horrific week are preserved in increasingly clinical passages of my memory, to South Florida to see my brother and celebrate an early but those hours spent looking at an empty sky remain as clear Christmas. Flying with two big suitcases, two carry-ons, two car seats, a double stroller and the odds and ends that collect and bright to me as anything that is happening right now.

On the second day after the attacks, as I floated in the around a 2-and 4-year-old is close to reality show survival surf and watched the silent skies, three military jets cracked conditions. Only so much liquid can be packed, all electronics through the clouds and flew toward Miami, gone as fast as must be scanned, everyone’s shoes must come off — thanks to I could register what they were. Then, silence and empty failed “shoe bomber” and successful a-hole Richard Reid — sky. I remember wishing I had a talent for poetry, so I could and the stroller has to be disassembled to its wheels.

At what point does liberty removed compensate for encapsulate the fear, grief and unease that surrounded that September week, all manifested in the empty skies and un- safety gained? The current focus on the Transportation and Safety Administration’s (TSA) latest efforts to keep us safe disturbed clouds.

During that era, Shannon, my wife-to-be, lived in Ann is apparently the breaking point. Here are your choices: Arbor. One of us would fly to see the other just about every Submit to full-body scanners that allow TSA workers to see month. Single-seat flying in coach was not too expensive, your naked body, a manual hands-on search married men and it was sadly romantic to walk each other through the do not experience from strange hands, a possible $11,000 terminal, to the gate, and wave goodbye as the loved one fine and arrest for refusal or … start walking.

Things are so bad and tense, a man warning a TSA walked with the line of people to board the plane.

We did not know it in those mid-September days, but the worker, “Don’t touch my junk” has become as Internet fasons of bitches who hijacked four airplanes and destroyed mous as the “Hide yo kids hide yo wife hide yo husband cuz millions of dollars in property and thousands of priceless they be rapin’ everybody” guy.

On Thanksgiving morning, my family will board a plane lives forever changed everything we knew about flying.

Shannon was supposed to fly to Fort Lauderdale on Sept. and head to South Florida. I feel bad for the TSA crew that 12, 2001, but it was more than a month before we could has to see my naked image just hours before their turkey re-arrange the visit. When I arrived to pick her up, I was dinners, but we all have to sacrifice for security, right?

What I am not happy about is thinking of my wife and stunned and saddened by what I saw. Military vehicles lined the entrance to the airport. Broward County police joined toddlers being subjected to any kind of manhandling or instate troopers, their cars barricading the arrival and depar- vasion of privates.

By the time you read this, we will be in South Florida ture lanes. Inside the airport, National Guardsmen with automatic rifles lined the walkways to the gate, a gate that was enjoying the holiday, the first half of our TSA hurdle behind closed. Never again would parting travelers walk with their us. And I really, really hope that when we return, the TSA will not have given me anything to write about. loved ones to the gate and watch them walk to the plane.

And the lines! Lines at curbside, lines at check-in, lines to present boarding passes, lines for the metal detectors and Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and scanners. What was once a fairly simple routine was now a Toledo Free Press Star. Call him at (419) 241-1700 EXT. 223 or e-mail him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. gantlet of fear and suspicion.

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SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Joe Hellerman

The greening of Toledo

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ne centerpiece of the Thanks- Jarvis site, was Lucas County Imgiving holiday is food. While provement Corporation’s (LCIC) our local growing season has lack of experience with this type of a for the most part ended, Center for project. Konecny said that CIFT has Innovative Food Technology (CIFT) worked with LCIC in the past and may have played a role in some of the CIFT would likely lend resources to that project. edible items on your holiday table.

While CIFT has CIFT is involved been in existence since in a number of areas 1995, Konecny said including research in some of their projects turning algae into aviahave gotten media attion fuel, producing tention, however, there food and helping is a great deal of what it small food-product does that the public is businesses get off the not aware of. ground. They are also Using woven biodeone of 10 groups in the U.S. who have partnered Lisa Renee WARD gradable knit socks filled with the U.S. Department of Agri- with organic compost and soil, several local restaurants, such as Manculture Research Service.

Jim Konecny, manager of mar- cy’s Steak House, tested growing keting and communications for fresh produce like cherry tomatoes CIFT, spoke with Toledo Free Press and lettuce. Grow Soxx provides on Nov. 19, after the release of its the ability to grow fresh produce in annual report that spans its accom- places where a traditional garden plishments from September 2009 to isn’t possible.

CIFT’s Small Business Program September 2010.

There are several different facets provides a number of resources, to CIFT’s “Our City in a Garden” from how to start up a food-based project. Konecny said CIFT’s goal in business, to cryogenic freezing, that project, “Is to bring the garden to providing commercial kitchen and gardening into the city of Toledo space. They also sponsor an annual — into urban areas. What we found, food product development contest.

Northwest Ohio Cooperative amazingly only 2 percent of the food eaten in Ohio is grown in Ohio. We Kitchen (NOCK) is one of two sites established a need to create this Our in Ohio, the other is in Athens.

“These are products that were City in a Garden concept, to bring it born and created in Ohio and beto the Toledo area.”

The concept uses vertical hydro- yond,” Konecny said. “The space is ponic gardens and hoop houses with rented out for a very nominal fee.”

Bullfrog BBQ, Pomona Chocoresearch being done to extend the growing season. Konecny said one lates, and Green Fields Pesto are example of where produce is being three of the more than 20 small busigrown outside of the traditional nesses that currently use NOCK. The change in the political landseason in our area is Bittersweet scape in Ohio and in Washington, Farms in Whitehouse.

“I was trudging through snow D.C. does not concern Konecny. He last year to get to the greenhouse and said CIFT has worked with members it was just blooming everywhere. of both parties, “We feel confident They have really maxed it out, it in what we do and the services we started out as a nice simple project provide, the jobs that we bring, we for some of the residents to get in- feel with the relationships we’ve esvolved in but it turned into a money tablished for 15 years plus, that they maker. Imagine fresh tomatoes and will recognize our value.

CIFT and the staff of about 17 is other produce grown locally in Janfunded mainly from membership uary,” Konecny said.

Vertical hydroponic gardening is fees and grants.

We often discuss Toledo’s potenin place more than 10 locations that include Clay High School during tial as a “green city” when it comes the traditional growing season. The to alternative energy. This is a whole “Grow a Row” portion of Our City in different way for our area to become a Garden provides excess local pro- more “green” — let’s hope it continues to grow. duce to area food banks.

One of the concerns raised during Toledo City Council’s dis- Toledo Free Press contributor Lisa cussion on the proposed urban gar- Renee Ward operates the political blog dening project at the former Doehler GlassCityJungle.com.

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According to the Lucas County Board of Elections (BOE), provisional ballots counted Nov. 22 have helped Carol Contrada beat George Sarantou in the Lucas County Commissioners race. Contrada received 191 more votes than Sarantou, said Linda Howe, director of the BOE. Contrada had 69,765 votes and Sarantou had 69,574 votes.

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Toledo Bucket List

By Amy Biolchini

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

A “Bucket List,” popularized by the 2007 Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman film of the same name, is a list of life experiences you hope to accomplish before you, you know, kick the bucket.

Thousands of websites compile lists for local communities, states and entire countries.

What should be on the Toledo Bucket List? Toledo Free Press interviewed dozens of local residents and sought Twitter and Facebook feedback to compile the following list. There will no doubt be some places left off that will cause us to smack our foreheads, so help us finish the list with your suggestions, e-mailed to news@toledofreepress.com or posted on our Facebook wall at www. facebook.com/toledofreepress.

The Hall of Fame

Nearly every person we spoke to agreed on four experiences: The Toledo Zoo, a Mud Hens game at Fifth Third Field, the Toledo Museum of Art and Tony Packo’s. These are all things that say “Toledo,” but there’s more to the Glass City than the big four. So we began by placing those local superstars in the Bucket List Hall of Fame, sa-

luting with great respect, and taking a look at less well-known nominees.

After polling City Council members, artists, writers and Toledo enthusiasts, 11 experiences emerged as the most consistently endorsed out of all those submitted. Compiled into a random-order “Bucket List,” the following places, events and foods lend a perspective on a city that embraces a thriving, creative ... thriftiness.

Wildwood Preserve

Seven trails spanning approximately 500 wooded acres in the midst of Toledo make Wildwood Preserve Metropark an overwhelmingly popular destination for walkers and runners. Cathy Miller, interim president of Destination Toledo Inc., suggests taking the green trail.

“Less foot traffic than other trails and you may spot a deer in the middle of the day,” Miller said.

The Manor House at Wildwood also attracts many visitors, like Sauder Village director of sales and marketing Jeanette Smith, who said she likes seeing it decorated for the winter holiday celebrations. Fifteen-thousand people are expected to attend the Holidays in the Manor House event during the first week in December, according to Scott Carpenter, media

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Joggers cross the covered bridge on the brown trail at Wildwood Preserve in Sylvania.

relations manager for the Metroparks.

“It is definitely the busiest of the 10 metroparks,” Carpenter said of Wildwood. “In face-to-face surveys in the park, we have learned that people like Wildwood because it is clean and safe.”

But there’s another reason Wild-

wood is special: “The park exists today because of the determination of the community to preserve the property as public land. Lucas County residents approved a special property tax levy in the 1970s to purchase the property, which was destined to be sold for a pri-

vate residential development. It is ‘the people’s park,’ and I think that is part of its popularity today,” Carpenter said.

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Old West End Festival

Toledo’s Old West End has the largest collection of Victorian, Edwardian and Queen Anne homes in the nation, according to Dan Schmitt, Old West End Association president. The eclectic mix of architecture, families, religions and socio-economic groups makes the neighborhood the “little bohemia of Ohio,” Schmitt said. Bordered by the Toledo Museum of Art, Collingwood Boulevard, Central Avenue and Glenwood Avenue, the Old West End hosts events throughout the year.

The Old West End Festival takes place in June and attracts 12,000 to 15,000 people, Schmitt said. Encompassing all 850 homes in the 25 city blocks of the Old West End, the festival has everything from food to art vendors, a 5K run and tents for children, entertainment and beer.

“It’s the core. The founding fathers of our city raised their families in the Old West End,” Schmitt said.

Schmitt recommended festivalgoers visit the house tours, the art fair under the canopy at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Glass Pavilion, see the King Wamba parade and check out the numerous food vendors.

“It’s one of the few events that’s family-friendly and you don’t have to spend anything,” Schmitt said. “The parade is on the level of the Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Art cars, fire-eaters and the Glass City Rollers.”

Rachel Richardson, local activist, musician and Toledo Free Press columnist, recommended camping out in the Old West End during the weekend of the festival. City Councilman Steve Steel said that he has resided in the Old West End for 22 years, and definitely recommends the festival.

“Arts, architecture, music and food, all in the most eclectic neighborhood in town,” Steel said.

Sponsored by the Women of the Old West End, the 2010 Tours de Noel offers a glimpse into five to six of the historic homes decorated for the holidays. Both Miller of Destination Toledo Inc. and Amy Adler of the Frogtown Froggy Museum agreed on the beauty of the homes in this annual event. This year, the tours begin Dec. 5 and include the Ferris CopelandShull home, the Mallow Lange home, the Rorick Phipps home and the Geleerd Clymer-Wishart Home, all on Scottwood Avenue. Also in the tour are the Mansion View Inn on Collingwood Boulevard and a gift boutique at the Park Lane Luxury Apartments on 23rd Street.

Main Public Library

With Vitrolite murals circling the lobby’s vaulted ceiling, the main branch of the Toledo-Lucas County

Public Library is home to half a million books on the first floor alone. An 85,000-square-foot addition in 2001 helped modernize the facility to meet the needs of the public. According to Nancy Foth, manager of library branch services, the main library saw almost 700,000 visitors in 2009.

Lisa Renee Ward, Toledo Free Press columnist and Glass City Jungle blogger, said the best part of the main library is its Local History and Genealogy Library Department for its wealth of information and knowledgeable staff.

The library is trying to attract teens back to the library with the game room specifically for 13 to 18-yearolds, Foth said. With an Xbox 360, a Playstation3 and a Wii, the room sees more than 100 different visitors a month, Foth said. The children’s section also includes numerous Vitrolite murals, and there are trained librarians available to assist kids learning to read. The main library offers services to the public to aid with job searches, small businesses and computer programs. Foth said the computers are the most-used service in the library.

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A reading area in the large print section of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library downtown.

“What we’re doing is expanding our role to meet the needs and interests of people in the community,”

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Miller of Destination Toledo Inc. calls the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo’s Art Walks a “must for anyone who has yet to experience one.”

The Thursday Art Walks, sponsored by the Arts Commission, feature approximately 20 participating Downtown galleries that open their doors for several hours to allow fellow artists and patrons to mingle, peruse and purchase art. Street performers provide entertainment between galleries, including poets, fire-eaters and belly dancers.

Richardson said she recommends stopping by Bozarts Fine Art and Music Gallery, owned by Jerry Gray, at 151 S. St. Clair St. Other galleries included in past Art Walks are Sur Saint Clair, Homeslice Pizza, Downtown Latte, the Ford Gallery, the Secor Studios and Madhouse Gallery.

is home to many small businesses, including Swank Gifts, which vends oneof-a-kind jewelry and Downtown Latte, an inviting coffee shop.

Steel said he would recommend live music at Downtown venues.

“GoLab! at the Ottawa Tavern, Polka Floyd at Mickey Finn’s, Jeff Stewart at Wesley’s, Jason Quick and Vytas at Manhattan’s, Kyle White at PizzaPapalis, Patrick Lewandowski and Bobby May anywhere ... you get the idea,” Steel said.

Richardson lent her support for Wesley’s Bar’s Old School Friday nights and suggested Murphy’s Place Jazz Club with Claude Black and Clifford Murphy.

Another Warehouse District gem is the Toledo Farmers Market at 525 Market St., open Saturday mornings in the spring, summer and fall. Ward and Steel both said the fresh, local produce and home made goods make the farmers market a great destination.

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Art Walks

The shops, restaurants and bars with live music, the historic buildings in the warehouse district and the seasonal farmers markets all earned Downtown Toledo a spot on the bucket list. In walking distance from Tony Packo’s and the Spaghetti Warehouse, there are numerous art galleries and storefronts that beg to be visited. South St. Clair Street

Tailgating a Rockets football game at the University of Toledo is a popular pastime for many Toledoans.

Miller suggests parking yourself in Lot 10, the closest lot to the north side of the stadium.

“Everyone enjoys the camaraderie, grilling out and seeing old friends. Top it off with a night game under the lights

at the Glass Bowl and you have a great Saturday locked down,” Miller said.

Tailgating the UT game versus rival Bowling Green is an event that City Councilwoman Lindsay Webb said she doesn’t want to miss.

Toledo Botanical Garden

Located at 5403 Elmer Drive between Reynolds and Holland-Sylvania roads, the Toledo Botanical Garden is open 365 days a year, dawn until dusk and always offers free parking and admission. The garden opened in 1964, when George Crosby donated the initial 20 acres of land to the city of Toledo.

The present-day 60 acres of gardens, landscapes and outdoor sculptures host many events, including the upcoming Heralding the Holidays festival Dec. 3 to Dec. 5. Roaming musicians will accompany displays of artwork by local artists and the botanical garden’s resident art and horticultural organizations during the holiday festival.

Melissa Shaner, public relations coordinator for the gardens, noted the Crosby Festival of the Arts as the signature event for the garden. More than 200 artists from across the country participate in the juried arts summer festival that attracts almost a quarter of the 120,000 visitors the garden will see in an entire year. The next Crosby Festival will be June 25-26. n BUCKET LIST CONTINUES ON A8

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‘The river runs through it’

The Maumee River is host to a multitude of events, from summer festivals and fireworks on the Fourth of July to fall color cruises on the Sandpiper. A 100-passenger cruise boat, the Sandpiper leaves from its Jefferson Avenue dock at Promenade Park for public rides, sunset cruises and private parties six months out of the year. It sees approximately 10,000 visitors per year, according to Sandpiper agent and tour guide Mary Dalby.

Miller of Destination Toledo Inc. recommended packing a cooler to bring on the boat ride.

“Bring a lunch and a bottle of wine.

The best-kept secret is you can bring your own food and drink,” Miller said.

The Sandpiper has been running continuously since it was built in Maumee at the Anderson Fabrication shop in 1984. Venturing as far upriver as the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse and as far downriver as the Toledo Country Club, the Sandpiper travels by some of the most defining parts of Toledo.

“We are a connecting point,” Dalby said. “The river runs through it. We’re always going past places where people and their families have worked.”

While some may enjoy cruising the Maumee, like City Council member Webb, others may aspire to experi-

ence the city from a different angle, like Councilman Ludeman.

“I’d like to go to the top of the pylon on the Veterans Glass City Skyway Bridge, in the daytime and at night,” Ludeman said.

Lagrange St. Polish festival

A ton of kielbasa, 40,000 pierogies, 300 kegs of beer and hundreds of pounds of sweet and sour cabbage, all consumed in one weekend at the Lagrange Street Polish Festival. An annual event since 1984, the summertime festival features polka bands, arts and crafts, food vendors, dancing and a pierogi-eating contest. Proceeds from the festival go toward neighborhood improvements and scholarships.

City Council member Webb recommended visiting on Sunday afternoon for the contests. Ward said the festival is special to her because of ties she has to the community there.

“My great-grandmother and other family lived in the Lagrange neighborhood,” Ward said. “Great food and memories.”

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Mancy’s and The Beirut

grew, Hajjar turned his pita bread enterprise into a Middle Eastern restaurant in 1977.

Although it has seen several locations, The Beirut is now at 4082 Monroe St. The menu features traditional Lebanese staples of lamb, grains, lentils, parsley, herbs, olive oil, lemon juice and spices like cinnamon, nutmeg

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Mancy’s Steak House has served aged, hand-cut steaks in Toledo since 1921, Mancy’s is undoubtedly a city favorite. City Councilman George Sarantou said his personal favorite is the New York Strip Steak, although his fellow council member Ludeman said he would dine out every night

just to try every item on the Mancy’s menu. Located at 953 Phillips Ave., Mancy’s comes as highly recommended as another institution of Toledo cuisine, The Beirut.

Founder and owner of The Beirut, Labib Hajjar, immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon in the 1970s and opened a bakery. As the bakery’s popularity and opportunities

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and mint. The Beirut also has an extensive wine menu with Californian, Italian and Lebanese varieties. Open for lunch, the restaurant takes reservations for dinner and has three private rooms available for parties.

Hajjar said he spends 60 to 70 hours a week in the restaurant, and learned everything he knows from his mother.

“I used to watch my mother cook,” Hajjar said. “She never wrote any recipes down and tried to hide things from me.”

Fresh pita bread is still homemade at the restaurant for in-house menu items, as well as several Italian dishes like lasagna, pizza and ravioli Hajjar included for the customers who might not be comfortable with Lebanese food.

“People travel and come back and say ‘We’ve never seen anything like this,’” Hajjar said. “We’ve got over 150 years of experience in the kitchen.”

Toledo Symphony Orchestra

With nearly 80 professional musicians, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra has been bringing music to the region for 67 consecutive seasons.

In its 2010-2011 season, the orchestra will conduct more than 400 performances across Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.

Councilman Steel recommended seeing the symphony perform in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle for a special experience.

The next special event for the symphony will be a collaborative performance of Handel’s “Messiah” with the Toledo Choral Society and the Bowling Green State University Choral Society on Dec. 4 and 5.

In May, the orchestra plans a special trip to play at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

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While Bowling Green has much to offer, here’s a list of must-sees for everyone before they kick the bucket.

Cla-Zel Theatre

Whether it’s to admire a historical landmark, catch a concert or work your way through its extensive beer list, the Cla-Zel has earned its name as a legendary must-see spot in Bowling Green. The Cla-Zel was first built as a movie theater in 1926.

Its original movie screens still intact, this multifaceted venue offers something for adults seeking an unforgettable experience in Bowling Green nightlife.

The Cla-Zel is now a popular movie house, wine bar and banquet facility; it also serves as a concert venue for many blues and jazz fans.

“By far it is hands-down the classiest place in town,” said Mike Thurau, a senior at Bowling Green State University.

It is located at 127 N. Main St.; visit www.clazel.net for more information.

Snook’s Dream Cars

The No. 2 tourist attraction in Bowling Green, Snook’s Dream Cars is gleaming with countless age-old treasures. The museum and event venue houses a collection of 1920s-1960s cars, all in working condition, said Amanda Ter Doest, museum director.

With more than 60 years worth of memorabilia, the museum is not just for car fanatics, Ter Doest said.

“We’ve had a lot of [different] people, like the wives that are drug along with their husbands, and truthfully they always find something that they like,” Ter Doest said.

Patrons can admire old slot machines, jukeboxes, paintings of historical BG storefronts and even old theater seats from the Cla-Zel. “It’s not just a bunch of cars shoved somewhere,” Ter Doest said. “There’s quite a bit of history.”

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Bowling Green goes green with this monumental wind farm. Standing as tall as a 30-story building, no wonder the wind turbines are the No. 1 tourist attraction in Bowling Green.

The wind farm is popular with out-of-towners because it is the only one of its kind in the state, said Wendy Stram, director of the Bowling Green Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The four massive white turbines produce enough electricity for about 3,000 Bowling Green residents.

“Anybody that lives in BG has probably seen them from afar but they might want to take a few minutes to see them up close and personal. It’s the wave of the future,” Stram said.

For those who would like to visit this must-see up close, there is a free informational kiosk located at the base of the turbines, on the corner of State Route 6 and Tontogany

Road. Group tours are free and can be arranged by contacting Wendy Stram at (419) 353-9445.

Portage Quarry

The Portage Quarry may be one of Bowling Green’s best-kept secrets.

Located just a mile outside of town at 12701 S. Dixie Hwy. and isolated from the road by trees, this recreation center offers all kinds of fun in the sun for all ages. The Portage Quarry serves as a campground, swimming and scuba diving hole, concert spot and allaround summer hangout.

Owner Jeff Rice offers scuba diving lessons, too; certified divers can explore a sunken speed boat, school bus, grain silo and even an airplane in the depths of the quarry.

“Who doesn’t love water, sun and sand?” said Meredith Burge, a quarry lifeguard. “It’s a comfortable beach, pretty mellow surroundings and it’s like being at the beach in the middle

of Bowling Green.”

The Quarry is open from Memorial Day until Sept. 13; visit www. portagequarry.com for information.

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Bowling Green Mayor John Quinn said the city’s many parks range from beautiful to functional, and everyone should visit at least one in their lifetime.

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New sledding hill at Side Cut named after Al Wagener A new sledding hill at Side Cut Metropark will be dedicated Nov. 26 with a ceremony in honor of its namesake, the late Al Wagener of Perrysburg.

Construction on the 24-foot-high Wagener Sledding Hill, envisioned as the first installment of a larger winter recreation area, started this summer

and is nearly finished, said Scott Carpenter, public relations director for Metroparks of Toledo.

“We’re just waiting for snow now,” Carpenter said.

The dedication ceremony is set for noon Nov. 26. Everyone is welcome.

Wagener’s wife and children will be in

attendance as well as many other family members and friends, said his daughter, Shelly Konz of Perrysburg. Maumee Mayor Tim Wagener, nephew to Al Wagener, will speak and a sign will be unveiled. Metroparks will be accepting donations of blankets and winter hats to contribute to a charity drive by The

Andersons, according to a news release.

Konz said her family’s collaboration with the Metroparks was a perfect match: Side Cut was looking to build a sledding hill to replace the hill at Fort Miamis and her family was looking for a way to memorialize their father at his favorite Metropark.

For years, area sledders had used the rolling landscape of Fort Miamis near Maumee, but when Congress designated it a national historic site, sledding was no longer permitted as it erodes the site, Carpenter said.

“The community seemed to be very understanding but we heard loud and clear that people would miss having a place for kids to sled,” Carpenter said.

For the past 11 years, the Wagener family has hosted an annual memorial golf outing, which has raised about $30,000 to be used at Side Cut, but without any special project in mind.

The Metroparks approached the family about using the money for a sledding hill and they agreed.

The Metroparks Members Program donated $10,000, Carpenter said. DK Excavating donated about 1,000 yards of soil and trucking services, Ramlow Brothers Landscaping donated labor and equipment to hydro-seed the hill

and Side Cut maintenance worker Jim Shaw was instrumental in planning and coordinating the project.

“This is one of those projects that when the year began wasn’t on our schedule and we had no budget for it, so it’s one of those creative projects that came together with park WAGENER staff, community and donors,” Carpenter said.

Future additions to the site, as funding allows, could include an ice skating area, seating areas and some warming areas, like outdoor fireplaces, Carpenter said.

The only other Metropark with a sledding hill is Pearson Park in Oregon, which is similar in size and very popular, Carpenter said.

Konz said her dad, who died Dec. 31, 1999, loved hunting, golfing, wildlife and being outdoors, and the family is happy to have found such a tribute.

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In Halifax we all decided to stay pensated with a $50 p.p. cabin credit.

The six of us drove to New York in town, because on other trips City in our van at a cost of $108 per we had rented a van to see Peggy’s person covering gas ($150), parking Cove, Mahone Bay and Lunenat the pier ($300), Days Inn in Tan- burg. The FRED (Free Rides Evnersville, Penn. ($56 double), and tolls erywhere Downtown) Bus does a ($30). For six people that is definitely circular route through the central cheaper than flying and we enjoyed city, so two rode it to see the sights. some fall color. My husband and my However, it is not really a tour bus cousin even got in 9 holes of par 3 golf and was very crowded. Some of us at the lighted Shawnee Resort near walked to the public gardens and Delaware Gap. A casino at the Mt. the Citadel, stopping at the public Airy Lodge was just a few miles from library to e-mail.

We all ended up at Murphy’s on the motel. On weeknights, motels in the Pocono area were cheaper than the waterfront to do a whale-watching trip ($39). Unfortunately, we saw only those in New Jersey along I-80.

On previous trips we had always two whales a long distance away, but driven into New York on a weekend we did see many dolphins and seals. and it was definitely more congested A walk along the boardwalk took us on this Tuesday morning from the back to the ship.

Our day in Quebec City was evGeorge Washington Bridge to the pier. Luckily, it was smooth sailing erything we had hoped for. Since my once we reached the ship. Although husband and I had been there three I have done it several times, sailing times before, we wanted to do somedown the Hudson River past Man- thing different, so we rented bikes and hattan, Ellis Island, the Statue of Lib- rode the 14-mile round trip to Mt. erty, and under the Verazzano Nar- Morency Falls which are considerably rows Bridge is always a thrilling and higher than Niagara. The other four moving experience. The beautiful toured the old city in a horse and carriage ($80). weather was a bonus.

Our plan for Sydney was to The next morning we woke up in Newport. Two of our group took rent a car, drop the guys at the a trolley tour ($26) of the area. The golf course, and then head for the other four of us walked a mile to reconstructed fortress of Louispick up the Cliffwalk, a 3-and-a- burg. However, with shortened half mile path that goes along the time there and having to tender in, edge of the ocean with the Newport we decided that we would be too mansions (“cottages” that once be- pressed to be back by 12:30 p.m. So longed to the wealthy such as the the guys took a cab ($30 round trip)

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AP: Ban on pet projects mostly symbolic (AP) — Despite their claims, the Republicans’ ban on earmarks won’t stop lawmakers from steering taxpayers’ dollars to pet projects. And it will have little if any effect on Washington’s far graver problem — the gigantic budget deficit.

Saying Election Day victories gave them a mandate to curb spending, Republicans formally agreed recently to a two-year prohibition of earmarks, legislative provisions that funnel money to lawmakers’ favorite projects. President Barack Obama has said he, too, wants to restrict earmarks, though he defended some as helping communities.

“I am proud that House and Senate Republicans have united to end the earmark favor factory,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a leader in the drive to stop the practice.

While the ban will make it harder for lawmakers to bring pork-barrel spending back home, it is far from airtight. Savvy members of Congress have options like “phone-marking,” picking up the telephone and pressuring agency officials to spend money on specific projects. Lawmakers are sure to exploit uncertainty over exactly how the ban will be applied, such as whether it will bar money for projects already in the works. And Democrats, who will still run the Senate next year, have not agreed to the restrictions. Neither have some Republicans.

“There’s no way you can stamp out every effort” by lawmakers to bring home the bacon, said Rep. Jeff Flake,

R-Ariz., another leading earmark foe.

“But you can marginalize it.”

Even completely eliminating earmarks would hardly ensure that spending decisions will be objective and divorced from politics. Presidents and agency officials control where many federal dollars go and have always used that power to reward allies. And formulas that automatically disburse other funds to states are themselves products of past political compromises, with their own sets of winners and losers.

“It makes those who ranted and raved against earmarks feel good,” Robert Reischauer, the Urban Institute president and former chief of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said of the GOP ban. “But it is largely cosmetic.”

Spending for earmarks peaked in 2006, when lawmakers diverted $29 billion to hometown projects, according to Citizens Against Government Waste.

The numbers have dipped to about $16 billion last year for 9,000 earmarks, thanks to public pressure and the infamy of influence-seekers like the convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

That $16 billion is undeniably real money, but it amounts to just half of 1 percent of the $3.5 trillion federal budget. Lawmakers carve most earmarks from within agency budgets, so eliminating them would not save money but simply mean it would be spent on something else.

Even if the ban somehow did save $16 billion, it would fail to make a

noticeable dent in the federal deficit, which hit a near record $1.3 trillion last year and threatens to remain huge.

The shortfalls are being chiefly driven by growing, automatically paid benefit programs like Medicare, a problem that lawmakers have yet to seriously tackle.

Critics of earmarks say they generally go to senior lawmakers, divert funds from worthier projects and are doled out by leaders in exchange for votes on other bills that drive up spending even further. They are a favorite target of conservatives such as tea party supporters, and the GOP’s effort to eliminate them is a way to please those voters and signal that the party will rein in a bloated government.

“This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington,” Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in line to be House speaker next year, said.

Yet earmarks remain popular with many lawmakers who consider it part of their jobs to win money for deserving projects back home.

James Walsh, a former GOP congressman from upstate New York and now a lobbyist, says two earmarks he won for his district became important in Iraq for electronically jamming hidden bombs and locating the source of incoming fire.

“This is how legislatures work,” Walsh said of the trade-offs sometimes involved. “You have to give something to get something.”

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Clark Gable film festival concludes

On Nov. 28, Way Library in Perrysburg concludes its four-part Clark Gable festival with the 1959 film, “It Started in Naples.”

The actor plays an American lawyer, who upon preparing his brother’s estate discovers that his sibling has an 8-year old son. He lives on Capri with a maternal aunt, who makes her living as a stripper. A custody battle ensues and love wins in the end.

Sophia Loren is the aunt. This was the last film Gable made that was released in his lifetime.

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Ohio jobless rate drops for 7th month in a row

By John Seewer Associated Press

Ohio’s unemployment rate is below 10 percent for the first time in more than a year and a half, the seventh consecutive month it has gone down.

Hiring in the health care industry

has been a bright spot in the state and manufacturing is starting to recover from the recession, a state official said Nov. 19.

Still, growth has been limited.

“The only area that maybe we feel is really robust right now is health care,’’ said Ben Johnson, a

spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

“We’ve seen signs of a lot of health care hiring in recent months.’’

The state’s jobless rate ticked down to 9.9 percent in October, from an even 10 percent in September, the department announced.

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The last time Ohio’s unemployment rate was under 10 percent was in March 2009.

“This isn’t a whopping drop in the unemployment rate, but it shows steady progress and it shows that the job market across the state continues to strengthen,’’ Johnson said.

The state’s nonfarm payroll employment rose by 8,400 last month.

The number of unemployed workers dropped to 588,000, from 591,000 in September. Officials say the number has gone down by 50,000 in the past 12 months.

Gov. Ted Strickland, who was voted out of office on Nov. 2, credited his administration’s policies and investment in high-tech industries for the improvement.

“Ohio had the fifth fastest-growing

economy over the past 12 months, according to the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia,’’ Strickland said.

“Our forwardlooking policies are putting Ohioans back to work.’’

Hiring picked up in the service and hospitality STRICKLAND industries, the state said.

Construction work is struggling to rebound, Johnson said.

“When you look at things like housing starts and some of the other construction metrics, it’s not all that surprising that construction hiring has continued to lag recently,’’ he said.

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ECONOMY

By Duane Ramsey

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a shopping ritual for American consumers and retailers, according to Ainsworth Bailey, associate professor of marketing in the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo.

“Shopping on Black Friday is their motivation. It gives the consumer the excitement of the game. It’s part of the mystique, almost like gambling. Shoppers can celebrate their ability to get the best deals,” Bailey said.

He reported that they have been discussing the shopping traditions and consumer behavior of Black Friday in his Integrated Marketing Communications and Consumer Behavior undergraduate classes this semester at UT.

One chapter in the Consumer Behavior course focuses on consumer culture and traditions such as Black Friday. Marketers take advantage of the rituals tied to holidays, for example Thanksgiving followed by Black Friday and the day after Christmas for post-holiday returns and extreme markdowns, Bailey said.

The shopping tradition became known as Black Friday since it was considered the day of the year that retailers went into the black. It has become much more in recent years. Retailers have traditionally offered deep discounts as the major attraction for consumers on Black Friday that has motivated many to camp outside stores waiting for the early openings.

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Bailey, who came to the U.S. from Jamaica, was unaware of the Black Friday tradition. His first encounter with the ritual was in Missouri when he went to an outlet mall that day and found no parking places and mobs of people standing outside the stores.

A security guard there explained the shopping tradition to him.

“I would like to conduct specific research on human behavior associated with the shopping ritual of Black Friday to see what actually motivates people,” Bailey said.

The French have a similar shopping situation with six-week periods during summer and winter when the first day of the sales is their equivalent to Black Friday.

The markdowns get bigger as the sales progress but the selection is not as good, Bailey said.

Locally and nationally, big box retailers are offering deep discounts and extended hours on Black Friday.

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Westfield Franklin Park Mall will offer early openings and late closings, beginning at 3 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26. Old Navy, Rave Motion Pictures and Claddagh Irish Pub will be open on Thanksgiving Day. Visit the mall’s website (Westfield. com/franklinpark) for doorbuster sales such as Aeropostale offering 50 percent off the entire store, said Sara Young, marketing director. The third annual Carol Trees promotion with WRQN radio begins on Saturday, Nov. 27 at the mall.

Some stores at The Town Center at Levis Commons plan to open early on Black Friday, but the mall has no special promotions planned.

The Shops at Fallen Timbers are closed Thanksgiving Day but will open at 6 a.m. on Nov. 26. A number of Black Friday Festivities are planned, beginning at 10:30 a.m. as listed on their website (www.theshopsatfallen timbers.com). The Children’s Place is offering 4 a.m. Black Friday specials while JC Penney is offering 300 door buster deals on Friday at the Fallen Timbers store.

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Editor’s note: Toledo Free Press will follow the Blank family of Millbury for one year as they rebuild their lives after a June 5 tornado destroyed their Main Street home.

By Brandi Barhite Toledo Free Press Associate Editor bbarhite@toledofreepress.com

Contractor Mark Rigg is still trying to get the Blanks home for Christmas. But it is going to be close.

BLANK “We are about four to five weeks out,” Rigg said on Nov. 13. “We have a couple of weeks of painting. The cabinets are in, the driveway is done and the pool got fixed.”

Inside, his crews are putting in the interior trim and as soon as that is done, the painter is coming in and then the light fixtures will go in next. It will take a couple of weeks to put in light fixtures and then the carpet will go in last.

“We are trying to get them in for Christmas. I think we are going to

make it,” Rigg said.

One major difference with this house will be the size of the kitchen.

Julie Blank never thought she would rebuild again, but if she did, she always wanted a bigger kitchen.

Her nephew Kyle Williamson, who is hosting this year’s Thanksgiving, said he is glad his aunt will get her dream kitchen, although not at this cost.

Julie would rather be in her old house with everyone safe. The Blanks’ the Walters, FAMILY: neighbors, lost three of their four family members.

Rigg said he never saw what the Blanks’ house looked like before the tornado. When he was hired, “All I saw was a deck and a mess,” he said.

While the new house may resemble parts of the old house, which was built in 1999, this house comes with a history that will never be forgotten.

“It has been nice to see the whole area come back to life,” Rigg said. “Most of the houses in the neighborhood are

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well under way; the neighborhood really looks significantly different. I know the whole neighborhood is glad to see it.”

Julie is getting anxious to move back home. The kitchen appliances are supposed to be delivered the day before Thanksgiving. She anticipates

starting to move the first or second weekend in December. Luckily, the perpetual hostess was not scheduled to open her home up for Christmas.

It’s her sister’s turn this year.

“We are in a holding pattern,” Julie said. “We ordered all the furniture

from a few different stores and set up delivery dates.”

The one for sure thing is her new inflatable Santa, although if that will make its appearance at their Oregon condo or their new-old house is still unknown.

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From Staff Reports Students at the Edward Schmidt School of Professional Sales (ESSPS) at University of Toledo’s College of Business and Innovation have continued the program’s success at national sales competitions by claiming two more national trophies.

Kyle Teague, a senior from Sylvania, captured first place in the “Elevator Pitch” event at the first World Collegiate Sales Open competition hosted at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Ill. Nov. 11-13.

UT commanded three of the top 16 U.S. finalist spots and one alternate at the national sales competition. In the finals, students competed in five rounds of role-playing that involved simulated voice messages, phone calls, face-to-face meetings and elevator pitches to sell software, judged by business professionals.

One week earlier, Jeff Tippy, a senior from Strongsville, won a fourth place trophy in a speed selling event at the Russ Berrie Institute National Sales Challenge (NSC), competing against students from schools such as Florida State and Michigan State.

“The school has achieved more than 30 nationally recognized awards since its formation in 2000,” said Ellen Pullins, director of the ESSPS at UT. The UT program won the national team championship at NSC for three consecutive years and had top four finishes in several individual events.

“The awards reflect the hard work of our students but the proof of our program is found in the fact that 100 percent of ESSPS students are finding employment upon graduation,” Pullins said. “It’s a significant achievement with the recent economic conditions.”

Pullins said the school is engaged with the local business community, partnering with some companies to support the competition and providing customized sales training for some firms.

Dozens of major companies recruit our students on campus each year, she said.

“I wish I would have had that opportunity in college,” said Jerry Oleshansky, vice president of marketing for Therma-Tru Corporation in Maumee.

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Kyle Teague, center, with teammates and finalists Anthony Sopko and Sarah DeLisle from UT.

“Value is the experience of being in the game.

The teams that do the best practice against the best. The competitions simulate the real game for these students allowing them to be much better prepared for the real world. They’re street smart when they graduate,” said Oleshansky, who has served on the board of the ESSPS for almost 10 years.

“ESSPS is a hidden gem at UT. The school does a great job sending students out with a product to sell. It gives them experience and polish that makes them more marketable,” he said.

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We expect this holiday season to provide mixed signals to commentators and policymakers.

Considering historical averages, sales will probably still be relatively low. However, we do expect an improvement versus last year as stores promote deep holiday discounts.

The real impact of this year’s holiday sales will be felt after New Year, once numbers are totaled and analyzed. Strong retail sales could instigate corporate investment in expansion projects, which would continue our economic recovery and begin to ease unemployment.

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The phones are ringing; the computers are humming, and everyone’s running around looking for the best deal. You might be thinking this is Toys “R” Us on Black Friday, but it’s just another day at the stock market exchange.

Just in time for the holidays there is a lot of financial news to be thankful for. The Great Recession appears to be over and financial forecasts for the future look a lot better in several areas. Just in Mark time for the holiday shopping, the stock Nolan market has turned around and had a very nice rally to put the stock market on track for another positive year. Consumer confidence is once again growing.

We are still cautiously optimistic, but it is great to see some more positive news lately.

Recently, my wife and I, Nolan, took our boys to watch Santa come into town at Levis Commons and enjoyed the shops with a nice cup of Starbucks and hot cocoa for the kids. The retail stores are ready to go and the Department of Commerce reported retail sales have increased for four months in a row.

The holiday deals are almost everywhere a shopper looks.

You might even be crossing off items on your list this weekend shopping at the stores or online.

Even old Saint Nick is in a jolly good mood.

Unfortunately, when it comes to buying investments on Wall Street, many investors will miss out on current opportunities. It amazes us how many people will go out in the middle of the night and stand in line in snow, rain, and just downright cold weather to save 30 to 70 percent off Christmas presents, yet many of these same people will avoid buying stocks when they are on sale. Instead, the average investors’ emotions of fear and greed, get the best of them buying when prices are high and selling when prices are low. Before this happens to you, we are here to help educate you about getting your financial list together for the holidays.

Just like you get your store list

put together and know exactly where you are going to go, map out what you want financially. The stock market is divided into large, medium, and small companies and two different types of investment styles, growth and value. And though many stocks have a blend of both growth and value opportunities, each style of investing can do better at different times. Morningstar, an independent company that provides stock market analysis and research, says, “Growth is CLAIR defined based on fast growth (high BAKER growth rates for earnings, sales, book value, and cash flow) and high valuations (high price ratios and low dividend yields). Most of these portfolios focus on companies in rapidly expanding industries.” Think of growth companies like the hot new toy that every kid wants. Hot new toys can either change the industry or end up at the bottom of the toy box by Easter.

Value companies can be the ones that have gone through difficult times or they could be companies that other investors have simply ignored. Morningstar says, “Value is defined based on low valuations (low price ratios and high dividend yields) and slow growth (low growth rate for earnings, sales, book value and cash flow).” During many periods in time, in the long run, value stocks have outperformed growth stocks. Value investing can take some shopping around to find the deals, it means going where usually everyone else isn’t at.

We, as The Retirement Guys, believe there are still plenty of opportunities to take advantage of in the stock market right now. We love some of the growth companies out there and we are always looking for the great values. Diversification, although it doesn’t guarantee against loss, can be a good method to build a great portfolio for 2011.

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Additionally, there have been a significant number of Americans whose unemployment benefits have recently expired after Democrats in Congress failed to push through an extension of benefits, much to the chagrin of 99ers who made headlines rallying for such an extension.

Sadly, though the U.S. economy has improved modestly since bottoming after the crash of 2008, this recovery

will be fruitless unless our leaders can encourage job growth. With real unemployment at 17 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States lacks sufficient consumers to support a continued recovery.

Before the U.S. economy can see real growth to resume pre-crash levels, we need to see unemployment drop significantly. The current stated unemployment rate needs to be down around 5-6 percent, rather than its current 9.6 percent. This nation’s policymakers need to be doing all they can to help business and foster job growth.

That brings us to the impact this shopping this holiday season will have on the investment world. From a financial perspective, the next several weeks should be very revealing as to whether

monetary policy pursued as of late by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is having a positive impact.

Many people, particularly inflation watchdogs, believe that Mr. Bernanke’s policies are detrimental to the U.S. economy and that a new plan of action is needed.

Interestingly enough, while Bernanke’s “quantitative easing” (read: printing money) has allowed for a mild economic recovery in this country, his policies have caused foreign economies to improve significantly more than domestically. Moreover, while his policies have helped to provide markets with liquidity, employment has not improved, but actually continued to worsen until just recently.

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Though the rest of Europe remains bogged down in debt problems compounding fiscal policy worries, Germans are projected to spend more than 75 billion Euros between November and December.

Of course, since the financial crisis that began in 2008 Germany has pursued policies almost directly opposite to those of the United States. As a result, though doubts remain whether the EU can survive this mess, Germany has recovered much more substantially than its neighbors or the U.S. In fact, leading up to the G20 summit in April 2009, leaders in the U.S. had the gall to attack German pol-

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Dock David Treece is a discretionary money manager with Treece Investment Advisory Corp. and a stockbroker licensed with FINRA. He works for Treece Financial Services Corp. and also serves as editor of the financial news site Green Faucet. The above information is the express opinion of Dock David Treece and should not be construed as investment advice or used without outside verification.

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Frank Gilhooley, Toledo’s ‘voice of summer,’ died Nov. 19

By Chris Schmidbauer

Toledo Free Press Sports Editor cschmidbauer@toledofreepress.com

Toledo-area media icon Frank Gilhooley died Nov. 19, reportedly of heart failure while in hospice in Perrysburg.

Bobb Vergiels, former Mud Hens announcer from 1999 to 2003, spoke with Toledo Free Press on Nov. 19.

“For people of Toledo, Frank was the voice of summer,” he said. “Frank goes back to the 1960s, when the Mud Hens came back in 1965; there’s a whole generation of us who are now entering their 60s who remember when Frank was the man doing baseball. Everyone else today has stuff written down, they can look on the Internet, they can get all the statistics — Frank didn’t need that, he had it in his head because he saw it.”

In May of this year, Toledo Free Press profiled Gilhooley. Following are excerpts from that article.

“Frank has been an icon in the broadcasting industry in this town,” said Joe Napoli, Mud Hens president and general manager. “He is undoubtedly one of the all-time greats to pass through the broadcast booth.”

On May 16, the Mud Hens, the International League and Toledoans honored Gilhooley at Fifth Third Field with the inaugural “Spirit of the International League Award.” Prior to the Hens game, an on-field ceremony honored the legendary broadcaster for his career.

“For Frank to receive this award makes our entire organization extremely proud,” Napoli said. “We are just so happy and there are no words that can express how proud we are that this award will bestowed to Frank.”

Broadcasting beginnings

When a young Gilhooley returned from another long basketball tour as a member of the To-

ledo Jeeps, he had some much unexpected news waiting for him at home.

“My mother told me that the owner of the Mud Hens, Red Smith, had called and he wanted to have lunch with me,” Gilhooley said.

Shortly before the baseball season began, the Milwaukee Braves needed a minor leagues affiliate. Because Toledo had the facilities available and no team to use them, the Glass City was the obvious choice.

Gilhooley, unsure what Smith would want, met him at a restaurant at the corner of Detroit and Monroe.

“Red told me he needed an announcer,” Gilhooley said. “I just looked at him and said, ‘I have never talked into a microphone before in my life.’

Red just looked back at me and said, ‘Well you’re going to start.’”

Gilhooley was no stranger to the game of baseball. His father, Frank Sr., had played in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. His father roomed with Babe Ruth during his playing days in Boston.

During his childhood, Gilhooley was a batboy for the Mud Hens, and he spent his summers taking in America’s pastime during his father’s playing career and later as a manager.

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Frank Jr. was no slouch on the diamond either. Gilhooley played baseball and basketball at the University of Notre Dame and he was a part of many Harlem Globetrotters tours as a member of the Toledo Jeeps, an allstar team that was assembled to take on the Globetrotters.

But watching the game and calling one on the radio are very different, so Gilhooley took a crash course in broadcasting with Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame radio announcer Waite Hoyt.

“In those days, after spring training broke,

the teams would play exhibition games against one another in towns as they worked their way back up to their home cities,” Gilhooley said.

“Detroit and Cincinnati were playing a series in Richmond, Ind., and Red sent me over there to learn some tricks of the trade.”

Gilhooley observed the series, studying Hoyt’s styles and techniques.

“He was such a great announcer,” he said.

“During one of the games, he looked up at me and he said, ‘I haven’t told you much because I started out like you did with no experience, but I will give you some tips’.”

Hoyt told Gilhooley three key rules that were like Gospel during his entire broadcasting career.

“He told me I could never say the score enough, to never criticize the organization and you can talk too much,” Gilhooley said. “When I got back to Toledo, I made sure I remembered all three of those things.”

Seasoned veteran

Gilhooley worked as an announcer for the Hens several different times, but he also called games for many other sports. The Toledo native called games for the UT basketball teams coached by the legendary Bob Nichols, Bowling Green State University basketball with Hens broadcasting partner Jim Weber and Buckeyes football.

“I got to see some really great games and teams play during my time in the booth,” Gilhooley said. “I was a part of the Woody and Bo days of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry and Bob Nichols’ Rocket teams were always a joy to watch.”

Gilhooley also served as the sports director at 13abc for more than a decade. He was a part of both evening broadcasts and he also went in the field to cover sports figures when they were in town.

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Honorary fireman

A lesser-known piece of Gilhooley’s time in Toledo is the special relationship the 86-year-old maintains with the Toledo Fire Department (TFD).

“When I was a boy, the local fire station in my neighborhood had a basketball court on the second floor of the firehouse,” Gilhooley said.

“They hung a hoop for us and we used to play for hours there.”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010 n GILHOOLEY CONTINUED FROM A28 “They always would try and get me to try taking the pole down,” he said with a chuckle.

Even as he got older, Frank never forgot TFD, and he made frequent visits to Station 1 and Station 5 in Downtown Toledo.

“I always stopped in and we would banter back and forth with each other,” Gilhooley said. “They would put on a pot of coffee for me and we would share stories.”

Gilhooley is so close with many of the Toledo firefighters that he was named an honorary firefighter in 2008.

“I was a wannabe fireman as a kid,” he said, “and even to this day I still am.

They are a great organization and I have many good memories from them.”

Mud Hen for Life

After retiring from 13abc in 1987, Gilhooley was invited to join longtime play-by-play announcer Jim Weber in the broadcast booth for the Mud Hens.

“I had known him for awhile, and we were both born and raised in Toledo, so we clicked right away,” Weber said.

For 21 years, the duo called many games together.

“I figure that we have called over 1,500 games together,” Weber said. “I don’t know that anyone worked with Frank calling games as much as I have over the years.”

Bill Clark, a St. John’s Jesuit graduate, has taken Gilhooley’s chair at the ballpark since 2008. He said it was a

special honor for the St. John’s Jesuit graduate to fill in for one of his boyhood idols.

“I have known Frank since I was a teenager in high school,” Clark said.

“Frank and my mother went to grade school and high school together, and when I wanted to get into the business, she ran into Frank and he let me come in every Friday and help put together the sports broadcast at WTVG. So he’s been a mentor to me.”

Jason Griffin, Mud Hens director of public and media relations, said Gilhooley eased his transition, when he moved to the Mud Hens from the Toledo Storm organization.

“I was a 28-year-old kid and I was kind of intimidated to be calling games with two of Toledo’s most iconic announcers,” Griffin said. “But as soon as I met them, all that went away; Frank was kind and welcoming. It has been a real pleasure working with them.”

Since being diagnosed with a heart ailment in 2007, Gilhooley has been prohibited by his doctor from calling Hens home games on a daily basis.

Weber said at first it was tough for the broadcast team to adjust.

“When you see someone almost every day, like Frank and I did, it becomes part of your routine, like breathing,” he said. “He was a legend when I started with him in 1987 and he is even more of one now.”

Despite his inability to make it to Fifth Third Field on a daily basis, Gilhooley is on the minds of many.

“We made sure he has a segment during every pregame show,” Clark said. “That was very important to everyone here that he still has a part in our broadcasts.”

Griffin said Gilhooley is welcome to occupy his chair and call a game.

“He is always going to be a part of the organization,” Griffin said. “He is always welcome when he would like to do a game because he is such a legend in this town. It is very important to us to make sure he is always included.”

Gilhooley is thankful for the run he has had with the Hens.

“The Mud Hens have been so good to me over the years,” he said.

“I worked with some great people like Jim [Weber], Jason [Griffin], Bill [Clark] and Joe [Napoli]. Those were some of the best years of my life.”

Spirit of the IL

When Randy Mobley became the president of the International League in 1991, he always wanted to create an award. Mobley’s idea was to honor those who have enriched the experience of International League baseball.

A call from Napoli and Griffin helped make Mobley’s idea a reality.

“When they called and were looking for a way to honor Frank, I thought this might be something to move from the back burner to the front burner, and we came up with the ‘Spirit of the International League’ award.”

Gilhooley was the award’s inaugural recipient.

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s the final seconds ticked off plenty of schools in and around Tothe clock at BGSU’s Doyt ledo that have great kids, teachers, Perry Stadium, I did a double coaches and communities.

All anyone has to take when looking at do is drive down I-280 the scoreboard. near the turnpike and Yes, the final see the newly renoscore was still the vated Lake football same. The bright stadium to see that. lights still spelled out But few schools have “WHITMER 14 ST. had the athletic sucJOHNS 10,” but it cess in the City League didn’t seem possible and state level that at that point.

Whitmer has.

I was assigned to That athletic sucthe Whitmer Pan- Chris SCHMIDBAUER cess has not been ther broadcasts this year for WRSCradio, and had more evident than on the gridiron mixed feelings about doing the this past fall. Whitmer won its second consecutive City League team’s games.

I went to St. Francis, and quite championship, and last weekend, frankly Whitmer was a rival for the team beat St. John’s Jesuit for the Knights every football season. the second time this season to During my time in high school the advance to the state semifinals in Panthers had not yet joined the City Division I. The Nov. 20 regional final against League, therefore the second game on the schedule of every football the Titans was a rematch of a week five meeting in which Whitmer season was Whitmer.

Call it high school immatu- blasted St. John’s 49-24.

The game was much different this rity that still resides inside, but for whatever reason there were time around. The Panthers lacked mixed feelings about becoming an edge and energy, but somehow they honorary member of the Panther still found a way to win.

Being outplayed for most of the community.

Due to recent news, being first half, Whitmer’s Joe McNabb a public high school in Toledo blocked a punt with just 30 seconds seems to carry a negative connota- left in the second quarter that was tion these days. We have watched ran back for a tying touchdown. the Shakespearean tragedy that is Then with five minutes to go in the the descent of the Toledo Public game and trailing 10-7, Whitmer put together a clutch drive to go school system.

With a levy failure last spring ahead 14-10, and the players would cutting certain teams and all never look back.

I have always been told that freshmen and junior high sports plus another levy failure this past good teams always find a way to fall, the athletic situation con- win, and that is what happened Nov. 20. tinues to look bleak.

The Panthers play Lakewood St. Things aren’t that way at Whitmer these days. The Washington Local Edwards on Nov. 27 with a chance School District (WLS) just finished a to go to the state finals on the line.

No matter what happens in that renovation at the high school’s footgame, the most excited person might ball stadium.

The Panthers’ stadium might be be in the press box.

Go, Panthers! the nicest high school facility in the city of Toledo.

The support of the community Chris Schmidbauer is sports editor is unmatched. The home stands for Toledo Free Press and Toledo are packed at every football game, Free Press Star. Contact him at and you would be hard pressed to cschmidbauer@toledofreepress. find the last time a levy failed in the com. He is also the co-host of the “Odd Couple Sports Show” on Fox school district.

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TECHNOLOGY

By Duane Ramsey

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

A Venture Tech event attracted 229 participants for an extensive two-day program of panels, roundtable discussions and networking for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

The Ohio Premier Early Stage Summit was conducted by Rocket Ventures and the Regional Growth Partnership (RGP) Nov. 10-11 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg.

“No one else offers such a comprehensive venture conference in the state of Ohio. We’re really proud of that and pleased with the turnout,” said Greg Knudson, president of Rocket Ventures and vice president of RGP in Toledo.

The primary objective of the event was to provide the highest quality entrepreneurial education and development programs, he said.

“We brought in all these experts and speakers for panels from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and California.

They discussed the trends, opportunities and challenges in raising money for early-stage companies,” Knudson said.

“They got a chance to hear the good, bad and the ugly related to venture capital.”

Two panels of several successful CEOs from start-up companies across Ohio participated in discussions of issues facing entrepreneurs trying to raise capital for their companies.

Knudson reported that many new budding entrepreneurs that RGP and Rocket Ventures had not previously identified came to this event.

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cating us about taking an idea to market through all the steps and funding opportunities. They gave us a clear picture of what investors are looking for in companies,” said Jeff Mock, founder of Resonance Group in Toledo.

Mock cited the panel of CEOs who have experienced what it takes to get a product to market. He had the opportunity to meet with some venture capitalists and angel investors at the event.

Resonance Group wants to edu-

cate people about clean alternative energy and develop products for consumer use. It is currently developing a controller for a specific type of motor that would recapture electrical energy and re-use it, Mock said.

“You couldn’t have asked for a better resource. It was a nice change of pace as they made all the resources available for us. It’s literally the most professional thing I’ve worked with thus far,” said Jeff Jacobs, owner of Three Points LLC based in Genoa.

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speakers knew what they were talking about and related their experiences to the audience extremely well.

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A home for Elli May Elli May is a 2-year-old black domestic shorthair. She was found hiding outside with a litter of newborn kittens.

A kind person brought Elli May into the humane society so that she and her babies could find permanent homes. She spent several weeks in a foster home until her kittens were old enough to be placed up for adoption. All of her babies have already been placed in new homes, but Elli May is still searching for the right family. She is a low maintenance cat with a laidback and independent personality.

She doesn’t require a lot of attention to keep her happy. Elli May loves to sit in the window and watch the birds eating at the bird feeder. That

will usually keep her entertained for several hours. She is the perfect pet for someone who is looking to squeeze a little companionship into a busy schedule. Elli May has been a resident of the Toledo Area Humane Society since June and her adoption fee has been reduced to $50 to help her find a new home. She has been spayed, examined by a staff veterinarian, is current on her vaccinations and is microchipped.

Toledo Area Humane Society is located at 1920 Indian Wood Circle, Arrowhead Park, Maumee. Adoption hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesday through Sunday. Call (419) 891-0705 or visit the website www. toledoareahumanesociety.org.

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YOUR TAROTGRAM AND HOROSCOPE

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Leo (July 23-August 22)

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Fall migration. Start the week with beauty: seeing, making and appreciating it. Your mind blazes with plans and you strive to accomplish multiple goals. Women discuss social agendas midweek. Displays of genius overcome obstacles Friday. Numbers don’t lie Saturday.

Rinse and repeat. Children and friends are surrounded by battles, while you score high with a personal goal. Deep relationships are infused with intrigue midweek. Wishes and desires spur motivation Thursday. Cerebral puzzles tantalize brainpans during the weekend.

Luxury suite. Special blessings make dreams come true Sunday. Demands come from all directions Monday – remain focused and determined. After Thursday, solid skills and talents join with visionary brilliance. Budding projects and relationships flourish.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Decisive moment. Although swamped with demands of multitasking, your focus moves to love, friendship and mutual pleasure after Wednesday. Whimsy and playfulness create fuel for wild inspiration – master tools are toys in your hands during the weekend.

Deus ex machina. Sunday features extra kindnesses from others. Tense situations provoke raw anxieties Monday, but you make a good impression on others. After Wednesday, greater cooperation brings success. Your true gifts and talents are in full glory Saturday.

Lingering ambivalence. Private discussions give insights on public issues. Messages from or about people in confinement arrive Monday; decisions are required. Children and friends share priorities after Thursday. Long-term efforts reach a new phase of maturity.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Bathe in starlight. A touch of effort puts you in harmony with a partner Sunday. Someone else frustrates you through overkill Monday. Exchanges and messages flow Thursday – make the most of what you get. Calculate long-term odds Saturday.

Square dancing. Sunday delivers an act of grace. A battle of words and concepts ensues Monday; results arrive Thursday.

A burst of artistry helps you transform your environment after Wednesday. You know just what to include and what to omit for elegant results.

Sports car. The week starts at a wicked pace, with a wide range of results that may have nothing to do with your contribution. Your focus on success or failure determines your mood. Luck comes through a partner Friday. Discuss possibilities during the weekend.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Inner balance. Haste can cause injuries as the week starts.

After Tuesday your week blossoms as happy circumstances greet your efforts and activities. Thursday afternoon is pleasure-intensive. Work out little details with loved ones during the weekend.

Memory jogging. High-speed, time-sensitive jobs can sandbag you Monday. Emotional conundrums move toward clarity this week. Thursday is the sweet spot: achievements in both goals and relationships crest, and sweep you into a celebratory weekend.

Burst of joy. Act quickly to secure your priorities as the week starts, but haste can result in forgotten details. Plans with others flow like silk after Thursday – you’re in your element and love it when others join you there. Special collections gain additions Friday.

Elizabeth Hazel is a professional tarotist-astrologer and author. She gives readings every Wednesday at Attic on Adams above Manos Greek Restaurant.

She may be contacted at ehazel@buckeye-express.com (c) 2010

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All real estate advertised in this paper is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, in the sale, rental, or financing of housing. This Publisher will not knowingly accept any advertising that violates any applicable law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this paper are available on an equal opportunity basis. If you believe you have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rental, or financing of housing, call the Toledo Fair Housing Center, (419) 243-6163.

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