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DECEMBER 13, 2009

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

Doggin’ around

Dr. Adams’ capstone

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s a member of the Owens Community College Foundation Board, I have seen firsthand the remarkable dedication and talent of the college’s president, Dr. Christa Adams.

The announcement this week that Dr. Adams will move up her retirement date to Jan. 1 marks the end of an era of growth and expansion that has made Owens a major player in post-secondary education.

The sour notes of a nursing accreditation snafu does not erase or overpower Dr. Adams’ accomplishments.

Owens Community College reported a number of Dr. Adams’ accomplishments in a Dec. 8 news release: Thomas F. POUNDS ■ Enrollment has increased from 17,000 students in 2001 to more than 23,000 during the current 2009 fall term.

■ Academic programs in the classroom and online have expanded in a wide range of high-demand fields to meet business and industry needs.

■ A shared leadership model has been established among the campus community.

■ The Owens Foundation was incorporated and the College’s Alumni Association was advanced.

■ The college has acquired millions of dollars in public and private grants to enhance educational opportunities for students.

■ Dr. Adams’ advocacy at the state and federal levels has helped to ensure ongoing funding support for the academic institution.

■ In 2007, an Owens Learning Center opened at The Source in Downtown Toledo.

Capital improvements projects included: ■ A new Center for Fine and Performing Arts.

■ A relocated Findlay-area campus.

■ A new Center for Emergency Preparedness, the only state-of-theart complex of its kind in the Midwest.

■ The former Penta Career Center is currently under renovation; ■ The college is expanding its educational opportunities to Arrowhead Park in Maumee for the upcoming spring term.

One of the highlights of Dr. Adams’ tenure is the Success Program, which she helped expand with a $10,000 donation. That program helps student close the gaps between tuition costs and available state and federal funds.

A national search is under way to replace Owens’ first female president, but of course, “replace” is a poor choice of words. There is a tremendous amount of opportunity and potential for Owens, and its next president will have a lot of work to do to maintain Dr. Adams’ trajectory.

Dr. Adams refers to her Owens experience as a “capstone” in her career, but my wish for her is a tremendous future no matter what she chooses to do next.

I join the Owens community in thanking Dr. Adams for her service, energy and dedication.

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

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Admittedly pulled from the context of Le Batard’s entire column, doesn’t that last sentence sound like a “he couldn’t help himself ” excuse?

Is it that simple? Men are physically “wired” and mentally compelled by “impulses” to cheat? What about “They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple/ the strength of commitment? What about the morality But man, I ain’t goin’ for that ...”

— Bruce Springsteen, “Pink Cadillac” of fidelity? And, as Tina Turner once asked, “What’s love got to do with it?”

It would be a lie to say that marriage, love and com“Into the boundary/Of each married man/Sweet deceit comes calling/And negativity lands ... But it’s no sacrifice/ mitment erase a man’s interest in women, sex and the wondrous areas where the two overlap. But there are two No sacrifice/It’s no sacrifice at all.”

— Elton John, “Sacrifice” issues here, and neither of them have to be beaten into submission by “wiring” or “impulses.”

The temptation to bite into the occasional new and everal of the important women in my life are pissed off. Not at me, for once, but at Tiger Woods. These shiny apple is one issue. The other is the potential formawomen, who did not care about Woods two weeks tion of connective emotional tissue to another woman.

For many of the women I know, that latter ago, are now angry and upset at the menconcern is a far greater betrayal, not that tion of his name. the former is granted any leeway.

At press time, Woods has been linked But both scenarios involve free will to approximately 6 million women with and choice; neither are ruled by wiring whom he allegedly conducted extraand impulses. marital affairs. It has been a spectacular There are people who believe mofall from grace that is reverberating nogamy and marriage are artifices of a throughout popular culture and converpuritanical society that run against nasations in boardrooms and bedrooms. ture’s intent. Those people should remain It is striking how many women have single and hop like rabbits from warren to taken this personally. Not since Prince Charles humiliated Princess Diana with Michael S. MILLER warren as they and their partners see fit; his affair with Camilla have I seen so many women so love and marriage aren’t for them.

Le Batard’s other reference, the Chris Rock quote that angry at a famous man’s infidelity. John Edwards did not evoke such passion, and women’s reaction to Bill Clin- “any man is only as monogamous as his options,” is even ton’s behavior was a complicated mix of tolerance and more frightening as an implied license to ill.

It’s a cheap and easy out to blame (or credit) Woods’ disappointment. There are far too many such marital betrayals to list — it’s a parade of douchebags that stretches affairs on some uncontrollable and dominating testosfrom Jon Gosselin to Gary Hart and Jim Bakker in the terone mandate, as if the penis is a divining rod that controls the man. modern era and back from that to Og the Caveman.

We may be animals, but we’re not animals, right?

Upfront, I will state that I am not throwing stones at My guess is that Woods’ marriage was a novelty to Woods. I do not live in a glass house when it comes to this topic, but there are some unsightly large windows him, something to experiment with as a life experience. that past near-idiocies have installed in my domicile, so The man is a billionaire with the world at his feet and the resources to buy anything he can imagine. I wonder I tread lightly and with no pretense of purity.

I am stating without judging that the Woods case if marriage and family were a concept to him to try out, seems to have struck a strong nerve with women, some like the multimillionaire and bored Beatles once opened of whom are projecting past betrayals or present fears on a clothing boutique just to see what it felt like to “play the situation, but much more intensely than when the shopkeeper.”

He certainly did not treat the institution, or his wife, usual male idiot screws up. Not judging Woods does not mean expressing sympathy for him; he has earned his with the respect both expect.

I do not speak for women, or even all men, but when status as a national punchline.

In processing the coverage of this story, which will we make mistakes and bad decisions, we are accountable be with us as the last great scandal of the decade, one for them.

It is our hearts and brains to blame, not our testicles. particular comment has stayed with me. Dan Le Batard, We are men, not dogs, even if the best of us somewriting in the Dec. 2 Miami Herald, said, “Woods ... is a man trying unsuccessfully to ignore his body’s wiring times act like we are. and all natural impulses and temptation while comedian Chris Rock reminds us that any man is only as monoga- Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press.

Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. mous as his options.”

“Why must I be like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Nothin’ but the dog in me.”

— George Clinton, “Atomic Dog”

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

POP GOES THE CULTURE

The holiday gauntlet The Blight Before Christmas

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orgive me for playing Scrooge lion of that to address water-borne here, but I am always amused, illnesses, the lives of 1.8 million and sometimes put off, by what people would be saved every year. stokes the passions of people around Where is the outrage about this adthe holidays. Of course, there is the diction we have to consumerism? whole “Black Friday” thing. When I We will fuss and complain about was a younger man, I used to get up having to share our holiday with early and go to these bizarre store other traditions, but ignore the openings, not to shop, but to get fact that 16 percent of us cannot get health care bepreaching material ... cause of pre-existing and the free doughconditions. nuts that various busiWhen that number nesses would provide. reached 5 percent in I would get enough, Switzerland, people (preaching material, literally demanded not doughnuts), to an end to the market last me into Lent. based practices that Then there is all caused this. (“The the righteous indigof America” nation out there genEric MCGLADE Healing

by T.R. Reid). Where erated by those who think the PC (politically correct) is the outrage on this lack of concrowd has gone too far. You know cern for what Jesus called “the least the stuff, the so-called “war on of these?” While many will dispense Christmas” guys you hear on talk with quaint homilies about Jesus radio and Fox News who are always being the reason for the season, up in arms over some alleged slight we are expanding this war in Afof the baby Jesus. I understand now ghanistan, and expecting less than the latest of these manufactured ten percent of our population to dramas is that of the rumored re- shoulder the burden of this sacrifice, naming by our obviously “Marxist while transferring the costs to future and anti-Christian” president of the generations. Where is our outrage White House Christmas tree to a over the injustice found in this?

It seems that so many of our politically correct “holiday tree.” Of course, none of this has happened. religious impulses today have been I am certain that the Obamas love shaped by marketers and cheerthe baby Jesus as much as any other leaders. The grand traditions of first family that has occupied the the ancients that shared substanWhite House ... perhaps even more tial visions of swords being beaten into plowshares and spears into than some.

The fact that some people be- pruning hooks ... of justice rolling lieve that Christianity, by far the down like waters and righteouslargest religious group in America, ness like an ever flowing stream is being oppressed by the concern ... of the wolf lying down with the that we respect people of other lamb ... have faded so much from faiths in our public conversation our consciousness that we are left boggles my mind. Growing up, my to the conventions of our own petty mother taught me that what is being appetite for consumables and silly defined today as PC is nothing more debates on the nonsense of what to than having good manners. Our call the community tree.

The world is a seriously broken Jewish friends have a great tradition in Hanukkah. Kwanzaa, though in and wounded place and deserves relationship to the ancients is the better from those of us who claim to new kid on the block, seems like an live life in faith. The ultimate object ennobling tradition. Our Muslim of our faith and affection deserves friends have a legitimate claim as better. A little less manufactured well on the calendar. How is hon- outrage and a little more reasoned oring that diversity disrespectful to concern would go a long way to getting us from sword to plowshare the Christian faith?

What truly amazes me is what and spear to pruning hook. Merry many of us religious types don’t Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, get upset about. So many of us Have a great Kwanzaa or whatever will go to the mat over the alleged faith tradition excites your passions renaming of a tree, but ignore and brings you meaning. the fact that America will spend $450 billion on Christmas this year. Eric McGlade is a United Methodist AdventConspiracy.org reports that minister who lives and works in if we were to siphon off just $10 bil- Bowling Green.

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“For the elves are on strike, they want higher wages, and the holdout is just in its earliest stages!

“Now, Santa can’t make all that stuff by himself, so, retailers, lure in that Right Jolly Old Elf! “On Best Buy, on Borders, on Noble and Barnes, on Wal-Mart, on Target, on Hickory Farms!

“Advertise, advertise, show off your wares, everything from DVDs to Care Bears!

“For now is the time, at stores ‘cross the nation, and this holiday will be your salvation!”

And oh, how they listened, those stores were in need, and promised that Saint Jim’s advice, they would heed.

They all took out ads, proclaiming their sales, and hoped to keep their gravy Jeff MCGINNIS train on the rails.

From Toys R’ Us down to the Radio ’was a blight before Christmas, for all through the town, not a register’s stir- Shack, they all shilled their goods like they were on crack.

Meijer said through December 24, “So many great ring, for sales were quite down.

And many had resumes typed up with care, for fear deals for folks from up north!”

And Macy’s and Sears, they bragged how their stores, that a pink slip soon would be there.

Owners knew that their fears were not mistaken, and built ’specially for Santa, had the widest doors.

Though the prudish among us, oh, how they did scoff, just hoped the holidays would save all their bacon.

When, then, from Wall Street, there came such a clatter, when Victoria’s Secret said their bras were half off.

And lo and behold, it was soon Christmas morn, and and a pundit whose outbursts were mad as a hatter.

Businesses scattered L.A. to D.C., turned dials and as gifts, they were given and paper was torn, The children were happy, their wishes came true, but listened to CNBC. And what to our wondering eyes did appear, but a the retailers, sadly, were all still quite blue.

Though the holiday season had now come and gone, graphic proclaiming, “Hey, Christmas is Here!”

His tie was so straight and he spoke with such vim, I their sales hadn’t prospered — in fact, they’d withdrawn.

But how had it happened? Something was amiss. knew in an instant it must be Saint Jim. The Right said, “Hey, let’s blame Obama for this!”

The stage lights that shimmered on top of his head, And then Santa said, flying up and away, “Merry made it harder to focus on the words that he said.

He smiled at the camera, “There’s nothing to fear! Christmas, you suckers, bought it all off eBay!” The recession’s end is our best gift, this year!

“When Santa descends in his holiday sleigh, you’ll E-mail columnist Jeff McGinnis at PopGoesJeff@gmail. com. McGinnis posts weekly at www.toledofreepress.com. see all your financial fears go away! ou may not have noticed, but it’s the Christmas season. Bells are ringing, kids are singing, snow is coming down. Well, OK, the bells are mainly for the Salvation Army, the kids are probably singing Miley Cyrus and the rather meager snow is getting washed away by rain a few days after it arrives.

But still, it’s Christmas, darn it.

I humbly submit what I modestly expect will become a new tradition in this wonderful season. Yes, I have penned my own holiday ode, one which truly sums up the nature of this year’s holiday.

I hope you enjoy it. And if you don’t, I hope you’ll keep reading it every year anyway, until you start thinking that you actually do enjoy it.

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

In a small room to the right of Matt Fehr’s basement steps sits his recording studio. Two computers dominate the space, one a Mac on the far wall, the other a laptop next to the door. The walls are lined with soundabsorbent foam panels. It is here that Fehr — known professionally as composer/producer Mighty Wyte — earns his living, crafts his art and does the work that has put him on the map with several major musicians, music companies and even movie studios.

You have heard Fehr’s work very recently, if you saw the Sandra Bullock hit “The Blind Side.� A song written and produced by Fehr was used in the background for one of its scenes. And many more people may be hearing his work in the coming year, as he’s working on a title track for the upcoming “A-Team� movie.

Hip-hop artists Onyx will work with Fehr in early 2010, as he’ll be producing their new album. All out of a basement studio.

Aerospace to airtime Music was not always the intended career path for Fehr — he went to The Ohio State University with an eye on an aerospace engineering degree. But it has been a big part of his life for many years. “I started playing guitar when I was 12, never really took it seriously, had some fans. Then I went to college and it was really hard to find guys to work with,� Fehr said. “So I bought a little four-track recorder for a PC... started messing with that, entering in music competitions.�

After deciding to leave OSU and return to Toledo, he began taking courses at UT in engineering, and

among his elective courses was one in electronic music. “I went to class, and it was in a recording studio,� Fehr said, “And I thought, you know what, I could learn to use this stuff, keep writing my own music and I don’t have to worry about having a band.�

Blindsided Fehr makes most of his living in music through the construction of what are called “loop sets,� completed songs that producers can cull bits and pieces from to flesh out their own tracks, and synthetic drum sounds. But another chunk of his business comes from licensing music for other media. “That’s a very funny business, because you’d think that, as much time and money that goes into movies and TV and video games, that these guys...would be prepared. And 90 percent of the time, I’ll get a phone call at 6 o’clock at night from my agent in Nashville, he says ‘Hey, I need a really rowdy rock ‘n’ roll track with these kind of vocals. And I need it by 7 o’ clock tomorrow morning.’�

But Fehr is prepared. The loop sets that he writes, he still owns. “So, I have hundreds of songs that are kind of generic, right there,� Fehr said. When he gets a request for a track at the 11th hour, he sends it to one of two producers he works with, they record the vocals, Fehr mixes and masters it, and it’s done and ready.

So when the producers of “The Blind Side� wanted a track that emulated 50 Cent for their film, Fehr said yes, even though how the song would be used was unknown. “They won’t tell you the scene, they won’t tell you how long it needs to be, they won’t even tell you lyrical content. They just give you very vague descriptions,� Fehr said. “So you have to put something together in a hurry,

send it and cross your fingers.�

But the work paid off, and Fehr’s song can be heard in the background as Sandra Bullock’s character drives Quinton Aaron’s character to pick his things up from his mother’s house.

Fehr saw the film on opening night. “The best part for me was, at the end of the screening, there was my name on the screen, and there were 25 people in the theater yelling. So that was a lot of fun.�

‘A-Team’ and Onyx Just after his work on “Blind Side,�

Fehr saw a news story about the upcoming “A-Team� movie, starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel. Fehr had been a huge fan of the show, but didn’t know they were making a film. “Years ago, I had decided to remake [the theme song], do a hiphop version of it,� he said.

Fehr revisited that work, rewrote it from scratch and asked his licensing agent if he would submit it to 20th Century Fox. “They said, if you can get a major name, we’ll think about putting it on as a title track,� Fehr said. As he worked on the song, he sent the work-in-progress to one of his cowriters in New York. “He called me and said, ‘Hey, how would you feel about Onyx getting on the track?’ And I said, ‘That would be great!’� Fehr said. “So that night I stayed up until 3 in the morning... getting it mixed and sent it out. The next day, I had a phone call from Fredro Starr from Onyx and he said, ‘Yo, that track’s crazy! We’re gonna get on it, we’re definitely gonna do it.’�

His work left an impression on the hip-hop group, whose song “Slam� sold more than 2 million copies. They were so taken with the “A-Team� track that they wanted some other samples of Fehr’s work,

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considering them for their upcoming album The Real Black Rock. When he sent them, within an hour he got another phone call from Starr. “He said, ‘Would you be willing to produce the album?’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m really busy, and I’m kind of expensive,’� he laughed. “And they said, ‘That’s cool!’ “They’re coming out in January, they’re gonna rent a house,� Fehr said. “They’ll be here from four to six weeks, and we’re just gonna sit down here and crank it out.�

An exciting time Fehr said music is cathartic. “Whether I’m in a good mood or I’m angry at somebody, I can come down here and express it. It’s creative,

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it’s not damaging, it doesn’t hurt anybody, it doesn’t hurt me, so it’s a very healthy form of expression. “The other thing is, I really enjoy making other people feel things, feel emotions. I love it when I’m down here and I’ve either remastered somebody’s album or written a song for somebody’s album and they scrunch up their face like, ‘Oh, my God! That is ridiculous!’ Or when people don’t even say anything, and they’re just moving their head [to the beat], that’s the best.�

And with all the ways his music is being used, Fehr has the opportunity to make a lot of heads move in the coming months. “It’s crazy. It’s a very exciting time for me.�

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

Ohio’s tobacco-prevention funding rank falls

By Caitlin McGlade TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

In 2007, Ohio ranked 13th in the nation for tobacco prevention funding. This year, the state landed in 45th place.

The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, in conjunction with the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Lung Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released its annual report Dec. 9 with grim numbers for anti-tobacco campaigners.

Revealing that most states fall short of the Centers for Disease Control’s recommended $145 million budget for prevention, the study concluded that tobacco sales are high while prevention funding has been cut by more than 15 percent on average.

Between the 1998 Tobacco Settlement and tobacco taxes, Ohio will receive $1.8 billion yearly, but reportedly has a $7.4 million budget for prevention programs, which is about $138 million shy of the CDC’s recommended amount. Two years ago, the state had a $45 million budget, pumping resources into the Tobacco Prevention Foundation, which offered programs and provided grants for regional health departments across the state, said Beverly May.

“It’s a perfect storm,” said Beverly May, regional director of advocacy for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

She said Ohio has taken the blow because the tax on noncigarette tobacco products have not increased, money from the tobacco settlement of 1998 was used for securitization and because Columbus is one of three target cities for most tobacco companies.

And in 2008, the state legislature and Governor Ted Strickland closed the Tobacco Prevention Foundation and attempted to use the appropriated funds for other purposes — a decision that was ruled unconstitutional by a Franklin County judge and now awaits an appeal within the Franklin County Court of Appeals, May said.

Without a budgetary change, there isn’t room for any improvement, she said.

“It won’t get better and it won’t become stagnant, it will get worse,” May said. “The youth rates will go up and you’ll have more smokingrelated diseases and it will cost the state more money in Medicaid.”

More than $4 billion is spent annually on tobacco-related health care costs in Ohio, according to the study.

Lucas County hit Lucas County took a hard hit when its various tobacco prevention programs lost funding from the

state, said Holly Kowalczk, a certified tobacco treatment specialist at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Her program, one of the last ones standing in Lucas County since the foundation dissolved, offers free support services to adults with a nicotine addiction. But the county’s free service runs on St. Luke’s Hospital’s dollar and might not have funding next year, she said.

Free programs for nicotine-addicted individuals once flourished in the county, Kowalczk said. Other hospitals had free services, as did groups such as the Northwest Ohio Strategic Alliance for Tobacco Control.

The alliance once operated on a $750 million annual budget and focused on educating children and teenagers about the tobacco industry’s marketing campaigns said Jan Ruma, vice president of the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio.

The alliance had resistance programs within schools and also trained high school students to teach younger students about tobacco as well, she said.

“Now we basically don’t have a budget,” Ruma said. “It’s pretty much a volunteer effort.”

This spring, the alliance plans to invite school teachers and administrators for informative sessions on tobacco marketing strategies, she said, adding that the alliance is run on the “passion to

help” for the time being.

She said the alliance and other Lucas County prevention services are awaiting the money that is tied up in the courtroom, but by the time any decision is made, it could be too late.

“My hope is that the funds will be reallocated, but I’m afraid that the process will be so long and drawn out that we’ll have to create new programs when we used to have great programs before the foundation was abolished,” Ruma said.

The most recent Lucas County report about children and teenage smokers was released in 2008 by the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board. Results revealed that 20 percent of high school seniors in Lucas County smoke at least every 30 days, while 16 percent of juniors smoke. Those numbers remained unchanged from 2006’s report.

The state also averages about 20 percent of adults who smoke and about 19 percent of high school students who smoke, according to the national report.

Lucas County’s report also showed that 32 percent of those surveyed started smoking between the ages of 13 and 14 — a statistic that Kowalczk said could continue to grow.

“One thing that isn’t captured in the smoking trend is that we’ve seen a huge change from last year

to this year in that students aren’t just smoking cigarettes, they’re using dip, cigars, hookah,” she said. “That’s scary to us that there’s a whole lot of underground usage going on here.”

Other products that May cited include “Strips,” which taste like mint and work like Listerine strips on the tongue, but release nicotine into the body. She also said a newer form of tobacco is marketed as “Orbs” which come in Tic-Tac type form and also taste minty.

The recent ban on flavored cigarettes made a dent in the marketing scene, she said, but in the future her campaign will push legislatures to ban other flavored tobacco products such as cigars.

But for Ohio’s remaining prevention programs, even spreading the word about available resources is difficult without the money, she said.

Ohio still has a quit line that people can call for help, but no advertising can be done because of lack of funds, May said. The Ohio Department of Health also disperses grants to local health departments with the money that is left.

For now, locals in Lucas County are just trying to advocate for saying no and reaching out to schools as much as they can.

“I think it’s just important to be vigilant and make sure we’re doing everything we can,” Ruma said.

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Hickory Farms CEO wins Humanitarian award

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

Mark Rodriguez, CEO of Hickory Farms, received Share Our Strength’s 2009 Humanitarian of the Year Award at the organization’s 25th Leadership Awards Ceremony.

“I was quite humbled by the award. It’s quite an honor. I value the organization and its cause deeply. It RODRIGUEZ is every child’s right to receive the nourishment they need daily so they can perform in their best manner, in home, at school, or on the athletic field,” Rodriquez said.

“Ending childhood hunger is a dynamic cause, one that requires a lot of effort. I have been involved to keep a consistent focus on the strategy and tactics to fight childhood hunger so no kid goes to bed hungry at night.”

Rodriguez’s support for the or-

ganization, through both personal and professional connections, has raised $1.7 million to end childhood hunger in the United States, according to Share Our Strength.

“Mark embodies Share Our Strength. He has been a leader in our organization for 14 years. He’s always been an advocate for the organization and fighting against childhood hunger,” said Chief Development Officer of Share Our Strength, Chuck Scofield.

Humanitarian of the Year is Share Our Strength’s highest award, Scofield said. Rodriguez is the 16th winner of the honor.

An executive committee at Hickory Farms chose to raise money for Share Our Strength, Rodriguez said.

“I have a passion for Share Our Strength, but I did not or would not impose my passion on the company that I lead. An executive committee at Hickory Farms chose Share Our Strength as a non-profit to get involved in. Supporting the organization made sense for the company,” he said.

Hickory Farms has raised $180,000 for Share Our Strength in the past 11 months and hopes to raise half a million dollars by Christmas,

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Ending childhood hunger is a dynamic cause, one that requires a lot of effort.”

— Mark Rodriguez Rodriguez said. That is the equivalent to two million meals, he said.

Hickory Farms asks customers to donate during online orders or give $1 at retail kiosks.

Share Our Strength is a national organization with a goal to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. Currently, there are 12.6 million children who go to bed hungry in the United States.

“Hunger is a terrible thing. It’s everywhere, permeates every aspect of our society. I would like the see it ended in America,” Rodriguez said.

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United Way waiting on federal grant United Way of Greater Toledo announced on Dec. 10 the fall campaign has raised $13.1 million but is still waiting to hear from the U.S. Department of Labor about a grant before wrapping up its campaign.

“We feel fantastic about the money we’ve raised. For the community to be able to raise $13 million is special,” said Bill Kitson, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Toledo. “Take a look at the community and the unemployment rate, as well as the unannounced unemployment rate, the community could have just as easily said ‘we’re going to sit out this year,’ but they didn’t and they continued to respond.”

Without the Department of Labor grant, the 2009 campaign is down 3 percent from last year and 2.5 percent of that is a decrease in corporate gifts, according to United Way. “A lot of employees stepped up this year. We had some huge holes to fill, with corporations not giving as much, and employees helped fill those holes,” said Richard Hylant of Hylant Group and 2009 campaign chair. “I think this shows the employees are still sacrificing, still contributing to the common good.”

Approximately 185 workplace campaigns increased their giving from last year. Not only did businesses increase their giving but other local non-profits as well, Kitson said.

“They said ‘this year we should probably do something.’ And those campaigns that might have just put a pledge card in a mailbox, spoke with their employees about the need. We’re thankful for generosity of these individuals. This is the fun stuff we get to celebrate,” Kitson said.

If United Way receives the grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, the campaign will reach its goal of $17.9 million. The grant is for $4.9 million and would be used assist displaced autoworkers. The funding would go to retrain workers, as well as help their families.

“We’re very hopeful we will receive this grant. It would provide a tremendous service to our community and bring our campaign to about $18 million,” Kitson said.

The 2009 campaign switched its campaigning to a needs based goal, and increased its goal by 32.5 percent more than last year.

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County GOP two months delinquent with amended report

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The Lucas County Republican Party is more than two months delin-

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Linda Howe, director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said the board decided to give the Republican Party more time to amend its

report in a meeting on Dec. 8.

“We decided at our meeting to have our campaign finance people send them another 21-day notice to amend since there was some correspondence from the party. They

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need to supply the receipts within 21 days or it will be referred to the Ohio Elections Commission,” Howe said.

“The law says the board can set a policy on what they are going to do.

However you treat one you have to treat them all,” she said. “We always try to work with people before we refer them. Always try give people one last phone call or notice.”

The Board of Elections sought advice from the Secretary of States office on the issue, Howe said.

“There is some flexibility as a practice in campaign finance as long as they are showing good faith trying to comply. If it comes to a point where people are unresponsive, referrals are eminent,” said Secretary of State Press Secretary Jeff Ortega.

The Lucas County Republican Party filed its semi-annual campaign finance report on July 31 and received a letter of 21-day notice to amend the report on Sept. 11.

Among the items requiring clarification, the Lucas County Board of elections requested “receipts for the reimbursements for [Lucas County GOP Chairman] Jon Stainbrook in the amount of $2534.98 and Meghan Gallagher for the amount of $600,” that were reported in the semi-annual report statement of expenditures.

“I am working to provide you with any required information,” replied James Damas, Lucas County Republican Party treasurer, in a letter to the Board of Elections received Oct. 8.

A second 21-day notice letter for the outstanding semi-annual report was sent by certified letter.

Damas could not be reached for comment.

The first notice was sent to the Lucas County GOP in September, although the report was filed in July, because the campaign finance reports take awhile to go through, Howe said.

“We have two people looking over in campaign finance; one person double checks the other to make sure they didn’t miss anything.

The number reports they have to go over takes some time to get through,” Howe said.

The Lucas County Democratic Party received a notice to amend its semi-annual report Aug. 10 and turned in an amended report Aug. 27.

A prosecutor from Cuyahoga County was in Toledo Dec. 8 conducting interviews for an investigation into alleged signature forgeries on Lucas County GOP campaign finance documents.

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It’s not even Christmas, and Patricia Oren has already received several “blessings.”

The Gibsonburg resident was able to cut an expected yearlong stay at a nursing home down by two months thanks to the Passport Program offered through the Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio (AOoA). And it was just in time for Oren to be home with her family during the holidays.

“I’m having blessings I’d never envisioned,” Oren said.

Oren, a retired teacher, said she put herself in Windsor Lane Healthcare because of lymphedema and to get her weight down. The treatment that she received allowed her to lose nearly 60 pounds.

Oren, 68, started having trouble with her lymphatic system after a serious car accident in 1968 where she was ejected from a vehicle and went into a ditch. She nearly lost her left leg, which had to be reattached and was later told she was dead for more than six minutes.

When she went on Medicaid, Oren said she was encouraged to check out Passport. The program is part of a statewide initiative designed to provide homebound senior citizens with options for their long-term care. It is operated by the Ohio Department of Aging and the AOoA. Funding comes from Medicaid.

Passport is a beautiful program, Oren said.

“It’s been awesome,” she said.

Passport provides her with meals that are delivered to her home, health care supplies and an

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PATRICIA OREN CUT AN EXPECTED YEARLONG STAY AT A NURSING HOME DOWN BY TWO MONTHS WITH THE AREA OFFICE ON AGING’S PASSPORT PROGRAM.

aide who helps her dress and bathe herself. She also receives occupational and physical therapy.

Oren said having that assistance is a big help.

That is not the only “big help” Oren has received. The Helping Ohioans Move, Expanding Choice program — also known as HOME Choice — helped her transition from the nursing home back into the community, Oren said.

Through the program, she received a bed and other household items in addition to her first month’s rent for her new apartment.

Oren said it helped her get her initial start.

“I’m hopefully on the way to get back to society and be a contributing member again,” she said. “I’m getting the care I need as I go along.”

Oren said she is ready to get out there so she can do things on her

own. In the meantime, she is helping others. Oren said she recently helped another person obtain a GED. That brings Oren’s total to 187.

Since leaving the nursing home, she went to her nephew’s for Thanksgiving where 29 people gathered, and she is preparing to spend Christmas at home. Her daughter will travel from Virginia to visit, and her son will travel from McComb.

“I’m in a home where my family

can come share it with me,” she said. “This would be impossible in a nursing home.”

Oren said being home is the greatest blessing she’s ever had.

“All of it is blessings,” she said. “I’ll never take any of it for granted.”

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As we make that journey home to visit, Check the refrigerator for outdated or what will we find? Will Mom still be able to spoiled food; also for adequate nutritious cook that turkey? Is Dad a little too frail for foods. Look at the stove and the stored pots the kids to jump onto his lap? Did someand pans for signs of burnt food. There may thing get burned while cooking? Is there even be signs of controlled fire. more anxiety and less holiday cheer?

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Check your parents’ medicine cabinets. Ask them you have to intervene? Will the next visit to your parents be to the emergency room because Dad drove into a about the prescriptions they take. See if they even know bridge or a school bus, or Mom had a stroke that might and understand why they take them. Check the labels for the date they were dispensed. If the pharmacy sold them have been prevented with better medical management?

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By Chris Schmidbauer TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

As the soft morning light turns to dawn in central Ohio, Jim Tressel is where he always is — already at his desk preparing for a day’s work.

Tressel has been on quite an odyssey since his life dramatically changed almost a decade ago.

Despite all the hustle and bustle that follows The Ohio State University football coach, there is one thing that has not changed: Tressel still spends his early morning hours, reaching not for his Ohio State playbook but for God’s playbook.

“It is healthy to start your day by giving thanks for your blessings,” Tressel said. “It’s important to start each day with the right things in the front of your mind. Sometimes we wake up with all of our problems and burdens already consuming us.

The devotion works in kind of the way an air conditioner freshens a room. The thoughts and reflection time refreshes our minds.”

Tressel believes in the practice so strongly that he requires his players spend time in prayer and reflection

every morning during the team’s annual preseason camp. Before the Buckeyes’ thoughts even turn to the pigskin, Tressel, his staff and his team engage in this daily ritual.

“Each morning, we ask our guys to reflect on one thing that they are thankful for. They can read, meditate or spend time in prayer. It is something that we are trying to be disciplined in doing to start our day.

To me, the way you begin anything, whether it be a game or your day, is very important.”

The Buckeyes’ daily reflection is just one example of the culture and attitude that Tressel and his staff have worked hard to instill in young men since he was hired as Ohio State’s head football coach prior to the 2001 season.

While success on the football field is very important to Tressel and his team, the ninth-year head coach reminds his players that football is just one part of the experience.

“This is a very important time in our players’ lives. I feel it just as important to help these players grow totally as a person, as well as a football player. It’s neat to watch that journey they go through and watch our young men grow.”

A farmer’s faith As a young boy growing up in Berea, Ohio, Tressel’s understanding of a higher power was like most children. He was religious and went through the motions of attending Sunday services with his family, yet he never quite grasped the concept of faith and an omnipotent being.

“My faith was not shaped because of things that were from a more traditional setting. They were not things that I had been doing since I was 5 or anything like that.

My faith grew from impressions that others made upon me as I grew up.”

It was the head coach’s grandfather, Lee, who had a significant impact on the young Tressel. His grandfather was a farmer in Ada, Ohio, and it was his daily routines that impressed upon the boy how faith can sustain someone, even during life’s most difficult moments.

“He did the same thing every day. My grandfather got up and the first thing he did was milk the cows.

He would finish all of his chores, have dinner and for the rest of the evening, his nose would be in his Bible. He was the one person that I took the most notice of as a kid.”

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Cherry Street creates a home for the holidays

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

The Cherry Street Mission provides a refuge from life on the streets, but spending Christmas at a shelter is not ideal for Jimmy Perine, who has been at the shelter for nine months after losing his custodial job for the Ohio Turnpike. “[Christmas] is a tough holiday, and I’m just hoping that I can get through it and try to overcome it,” he said.

Perine, who has not been to his home in Fremont in nearly 13 years, says his only in-touch relative is his mother, who is battling cancer. Staff members have offered to have him come to their homes for Christmas dinner.

“The staff here are wonderful,” he said. “They offer a lot of programs here, but mainly they do a lot of oneon-one. They get to know who you are and what your needs are and they try to help you the best way they can.

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Perine is trying to organize a walk to benefit the homeless. He said he developed the idea after meeting Tent City founder Ken Leslie and Mayor-elect Mike Bell.

“I just had a dream that it would be real nice to have people walk Downtown because the stereotype about homelessness is so bad around here,” he said. “Everybody wants to go around saying, ‘it could never happen to me.’ If I can organize a walk and have a couple hundred or a couple thousand people walking Downtown, it would be beautiful.”

Cherry Street, located at the corner of Monroe and 17th streets, opened in 1947 as a traditional soup kitchen on Cherry Street. It has since relocated twice and expanded to include 12 facilities in six communities that serve an average of 575 men, women and children daily.

“It’s quite a diverse organization,” said president and CEO Dan Rogers.

Cherry Street provides individuals with medical and educational services, as well as meals, sleeping quarters and transitional housing.

“Cherry Street is a time-free zone; we don’t require limited stays,” he said, noting the average stay for an overnight resident is 108 days. The organization operates 24

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The celebration could be as subtle as a lit candle in a window or as festive as a 10-foot LEGO menorah at Westfield Franklin Shopping Mall, but as night falls Dec. 11, many different sects of Toledo’s Jewish community will begin observing Hanukkah.

The eight-day holiday serves as a source of rededication to one’s spirituality and faith, said Rabbi Edward Garsek of Congregation Etz Chayim.

In ancient times, the Hellenist Syrians outlawed Judaism and destroyed holy Jewish temples, attempting to force Jewish observers to worship Greek gods.

But after much fighting for religious freedom, Judah the Maccabee and his followers could begin to publicly worship and needed to rededicate a ravaged holy temple in Jerusalem. When they found only enough pure oil to light one candle on the menorah, which has eight candles to light each day, the oil miraculously lasted eight days — long enough to procure more pure oil to keep the menorah lit.

Now, families light a candle each night for eight days, give a present each day, play traditional games and eat food fried in oil to symbolize the miracle of the oil. But, gift giving is a recent phenomenon adopted because of modernizing commercialistic pressures, Garsek said.

“I think it is very important to

understand what the essence of Hanukkah is,” Garsek said. “It’s not about giving presents. It’s about celebrating a religious freedom that at the time was being denied to the Jewish people.”

Originally, no one gave gifts on Hanukkah, but the holiday evolved to giving to charity, which then evolved into giving children money with a strong emphasis on giving to charity.

These days, children regularly receive gifts every day of Hanukkah, except for the last — a new tradition that spawned after the gift-giving traditions of mainstream Christmas influenced the holiday, said Rabbi Moshe Saks, of Congregation B’nai Israel.

For his congregation, Hanukkah is a quiet holiday, observed in the home. His temple opens a Hanukkah gift shop during the season, but doesn’t conduct any special events in the synagogue or in the community. Saks said the holiday ranks “near the bottom” of important holidays, beneath Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, the Feast of the Tabernacle, Passover and others.

“All of those holidays were all from the Torah,” Saks said. “Hanukkah happened after the Torah; this by religious law makes it less important than holidays ordained by God.” But for Hasidic Jewish observers aligned with the Chabad House, Hanukkah is about going as public as possible with Judaism and sharing resources with the needy.

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Chabad House will post a menorah on his car.

“For all Judaism, it’s all internal.

The only holiday where the mandate is to publicize the religion is Hanukkah,” Shemtov said.

He will also install 9-foot menorahs in front of the Chabad House, and Westfield Franklin Shopping Mall and will help children construct a 10foot menorah out of LEGOs inside the mall at 3:45 p.m. on Dec. 13. Guests will snack on refreshments, including potato pancakes and other treats, such as edible dreidels, he said.

Observers light their menorah candles in the windows so passers-by wonder about the meaning, he said.

“The answer to the looker is the prayer, the liturgy,” Shemtov said. “The message of Hanukkah is that the weak prevailed over the mighty, the few over the many, the pure over the impure ...

Hanukkah is really what America stands for — for freedom not from religion but of religion. It doesn’t matter how few of you there are.”

His tradition encourages an increased focus on giving to charity during the Hanukkah season as well.

This year, he and his fellow worshippers founded the Friendship Circle for special needs children. He also drives to every senior center to visit all Jewish elderly in need.

Even with the forces of commercialism seeping into Hanukkah,

Shemtov said spiritual and material objects could intertwine to create a balance often resulting in charity giving or caring for the poor.

“It’s a struggle of each human being’s lifetime,” he said. “We’re supposed to be commercial; we’re supposed to be spiritual. Our mission in life is to turn material into spiritual and to make money to build a beautiful family, to make money to build a soup kitchen.”

Hanukkah lasts through Dec. 18, but Garsek’s students said they enjoy the entire holiday season of December.

“Once when I was questioning my students, I asked them if they feel like a minority and they answered that they like the entire season because everyone is so nice to everyone else,” he said.

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■ TRESSEL CONTINUED FROM A13 His grandfather’s home also served as the town’s place of worship during those days.

“He would have meetings because they didn’t have a church. He held the worship services at his house.”

Lee worked until his death at the age of 87 and the devout farmer ended his life in the same fashion he ended his days.

“He had been living alone for a while because my grandma had passed away about 20 years before he did. My aunt came over to check in on him and she found him in his chair with the Bible open in his lap.

The book was opened to Psalm 23, and he was not living anymore. He was just at peace.”

His grandfather’s life and subsequent death left a lasting mark.

“He had a tougher job than I do. When you farm, you are at the mercy of many things. When the heavy rains come or the droughts hit, the farmers have nothing. They can’t control any of those things.

For him to be buoyed by his faith as much as he was has just always stayed with me through the years.”

A life-changing event While playing football at Berea High School, Tressel was given the opportunity to attend a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) camp.

“If my coach had not asked me to go, I probably would not have gone.

But when my coach asked me to do something, I said, ‘Yes sir!’ and did it.”

Little did he know that it would be a defining moment in his life.

“The camp gave me so many of the tools that I still use today in my religious faith. It is where I learned the concept of quiet reflection time.

It also taught me about the importance of fellowship in faith.”

Ever since the camp, Tressel has been hooked on FCA’s message, and he does whatever he can for the organization.

“Sports was the carrot that got me to bite and got me interested in going to the camp. With the interest people have in sports and the public forum that athletes and coaches have, it has grown into one of the largest ministries in the world. It’s not any better than many of the other programs and paths out there, but this organization speaks to that person who is a sports junkie like me.”

More than just football Since he first set foot in Columbus, Jim Tressel has strived to provide his players a fulfilling and complete college experience that will reach beyond the gridiron.

It is that goal that has driven the head coach and his staff to incorporate life lessons to complement the lessons learned on the football field.

The ideals he works to instill are not radical, but they are sometimes a foreign concept to athletes who are worshipped more for their triumphs on the field instead of those off it.

“This thing is bigger than just football. As I listen and learn what is important to our players, so many of them want to search and develop their faith and they want to learn about the world that surrounds them.

They want to learn things like ‘who am I?’ and ‘what does life mean to me?’ I have a responsibility to them to help them with that journey.”

Along with quiet time, Tressel has instituted other things that have become part of the college football experience at Ohio State. The head coach enlists the aid of a diagram that is plastered all over the walls of the team’s football complex called The Block O Life.

The Block O Life is something that Tressel brought with him from his days as the head coach at Youngstown State University.

Tressel uses Ohio State’s trademarked block O to emphasize what he sees as the six essential keys to leading a successful life. The sections are split into personal/family goals, spiritual/moral goals, caring/giving goals, strength/fitness goals, football family goals and academic/career goals.

Tressel accompanies the Block O Life with his Winner’s Manual. The Winner’s Manual is a 460-page binder that each Buckeye receives upon arrival at the team’s preseason camp.

The manual covers everything from mealtimes to the team’s alcohol and drug abuse policy. The bulk of the manual focuses on the six core fundamentals that Tressel tries to instill in his young players.

Each one of the six sections is peppered with inspirational quotes and goal building sheets that help to illustrate the importance of each. The manual is so popular that Tressel published a revised addition for public sale in 2008.

“We let them know in recruiting.

We tell them that it is more than just playing football if they come here.”

Tressel also has tried to instill a sense of pride in their adopted community. The football players take part in many different functions that focus on giving back to the citizens of central Ohio.

“We are always telling them that all of us in the program are very fortunate. Whether you get to play at Ohio State or coach at Ohio State, you are blessed. With those blessings, we feel that we have a responsibility to share, help, and give back to others.”

The players, coaches and support staff make visits to hospitals, read to schoolchildren to promote literacy and spend time with veterans all in the name of serving their God and others.

“It is all intertwined to me,” Tressel said. “Your spiritual life, your duty to your family and your duty to your community are all linked together, and in my opinion they go hand-in-hand. You can’t have one of those without the other.”

Tressel welcomes many different points of view on faith and religion and believes it adds to the overall experience his football program provides the players.

“We feel that we try to achieve unity in diversity. To me that is what college is about. These kids leave their hometown and they experience people with different points of view and different backgrounds.

The fun part is watching those different viewpoints mold them into one cohesive unit here.”

A person’s road of self discovery often takes place during college years and Tressel works tirelessly to help each of his players on each of their own unique personal journeys.

“The age range of 18 to 22 is when I think most kids are questioning who they are and what they believe in. This is the time that they can test their life plans. I get to help them learn and grow from their successes and failures. They tweak their goals and plans as they learn about life. It really is a neat process to be a part of.”

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OSU COACH JIM TRESSEL SAID HIS FAITH KEEPS FAN RESPONSE IN PERSPECTIVE.

A little perspective It has been a whirlwind adventure since Tressel became the 22nd head coach to take the reins of the Ohio State football program.

The 57-year-old uses his faith to keep football in its proper place.

“The harder I have worked on my faith and the more attentive I have been to it, it has helped me improve as a husband, a father and as a coach. Without it, I would have been consumed in that spiral where all I thought about is how things affect me. It has given me some perspective on life,” Tressel said.

Tressel, for his part, tries to keep a steady pace regardless of outcome of the contests played on Saturday.

“The things in life beyond football are so important that I don’t always see and feel the highs and lows that accompany a win or a loss. I know if we don’t win games and beat Michigan that we are going to be fired. But the world won’t end if we

don’t win every game, and life will go on. It is disappointing when you lose, but compared to other hardships, it doesn’t really stack up.

“Faith bridges that gap and it helps you deal with the good and the bad life has to offer. Football, wins and losses can’t do that.”

Perhaps, there has been no time where the criticism has been greater.

Despite posting a 10-2 record this season, claiming a fifth-straight Big Ten championship and earning a trip to the Rose Bowl, fans and critics of the program believed the Buckeyes still could have done better in 2009.

Tressel keeps his priorities in order.

“The most important game that I take part in is the game of life, and the greatest challenge I face is fostering a deeper relationship with God,” he said. “That is not to belittle what I do here, because I still spend 18 hours a day on football. But the thing that means the most to me is growing as a person in my faith.”

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Mangas named Toledo ‘Realtor of the Year’ John Mangas dove into the real estate business as a college student and more than 30 years, a wife, two children and a dog later, he opened a regional RE/ MAX Preferred and won the Realtor of the Year Award.

The Toledo Board of ReMANGAS altors chose Mangas on Dec. 6 as the annual winner because of his involvement on the board of directors at the city and

state level, said Paula Hiett, chief executive of the board.

Mangas has also chaired many committees and volunteered a lot his time to the board, she said.

Mangas said his success relies on adapting to evolving buyer attitudes and coping with economic crisis.

“The average realtor in America is in their mid 50s and the average first-time buyer is in their early 30s,” Mangas said. “My industry still wants to do things they way they always did.”

Homebuyers now look online for properties and wait merely a half hour to hear back from an agent before moving to the next one, he said.

“My industry hasn’t gotten its arms around that immediacy,” he said.

As a broker, Mangas trains hundreds of agents to sell homes.

Mangas originally studied business at UT, but after conducting maintenance and property management for an apartment owner during college, he switched his focus and earned a marketing and sales degree from Owens Community College.

He got his broker’s license in the mid 1980s, and a few years later landed a job with Cavalear Realty Company, which was Toledo’s top development agency at the time, he said.

After promotions that eventually

made him president of the company, ownership of the company changed and he and his business partner Kathy Kuyoth opened RE/MAX Preferred Dec. 20, 2001.

He has experienced the market at both difficult times, when interest was high and many people couldn’t afford to buy homes, and at times when the market was positive for buyers.

He described the present situation for his business as a “trifecta.”

“Interest rates are low and fixed rates are in the floors and housing affordability index has never been better, so it’s a tremendous time to buy a house for

the first time,” he said.

His focus is not only on real estate.

Mangas was raised on a farm in Henry County with a mother and father who taught him to “do what he could with what he had,” he said.

His father was a quadriplegic so Mangas helped his mother take care of his father for many years.

That lesson, he said, instilled in him a need to work with the community and help those who need it.

“I love Toledo,” he said. “It’s a wonderful place to live, with great housing stock and I love being involved in the community and giving back what I can.”

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ark and his family for years have been attending McCord Road Christian Church. My family and I (Nolan) have visited there a few times to enjoy the services and watch Mark play in the church band.

As the holidays grow closer, I realize that I need to continue to build my spiriMark tual relationship for myself and my Nolan family. Recently my family and I took time to go to the new CedarCreek Church that just opened in Whitehouse. It was really a great experience.

CedarCreek Church was a wonderful place where we felt welcomed and saw many familiar faces. I didn’t realize it until we were attending, but that week they had a special guest, Dave Ramsey, sharing a message. For those who are not familiar with Dave Ramsey, he is a na-

tionally syndicated financial radio show host who promotes getting out of debt. I thought his biblical based financial message was great, no matter what religion people practice. This week, we wanted to share his points on how our readers can continue to improve financially.

■ Get out of debt. This seems so logical, yet so chalCLAIR lenging for many of us living in a soBAKER ciety that promotes spending. Get it now and you will pay for it later. That is really what the holiday ads should say. Yet, that probably would not sell too many cars or TVs. It is so easy to get into debt, yet so hard to get out of debt without a specific plan of action. Look at the debt our country is facing, it continues to get worse.

■ Check it twice. Another list to make along with the holiday list is a list of your current debts. We don’t want

to be Scrooge when it comes to the holidays. It is important to have a nice and enjoyable holiday with friends and family, just try not to go into more debt this season. One way to help curb spending is to pay for items in cash. It is harder to over spend when paying for items with cash instead of simply swiping a credit card.

■ Act your wage. Trying to keep up with the Joneses is not a good idea. There will always be people who have more money than us. The best holiday gifts that we have all gotten aren’t usually items that cost much if any money at all. Having and spending more money, will only compound problems in the future.

Short term impulse purchasing may feel good, but it could cost a fortune in the long run.

■ Save and invest. It will rain one day in the future. For some people here in Northwest Ohio, it may seem like it has been raining for months, others may have seen a storm come and go, while others the sun continues to shine. We don’t know when it will start to rain, but unexpected expenses can arise at

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anytime. It doesn’t take much for rain to turn into snow and a small financial problem can snowball into a much bigger problem. For someone who isn’t saving and investing this snowball effect can get out of control quickly. Having three to six months worth of money set aside in a rainy day account will help prevent this from happening.

■ Give to others. Mark and I talked about giving this week. Mark pointed out that giving should be at the top priority instead of at the bottom of the list. This is not always easy to do. Yet, by getting out of debt, acting your wage and saving and investing for the future, the gift of giving can get even bigger.

Imagine the impact of not having to send $400 to the credit card company and instead being able to donate that money to a pregnant woman working overtime to cover expenses. This financial freedom can allow someone to make a big impact on others lives. If you cannot give of your finances, give of your time.

Mark’s church recently had “Make a Difference Day” where more than

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The holiday season can be a fun and enjoyable time and can also be stressful. Ramsey’s message makes a lot of sense and by following his four principles of biblical based investing, it can help you and your family focus on having a more enjoyable holiday time together. Merry Christmas from The Retirement Guys.

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Become a practiced master of the toast P ractice. Practice. Practice! your thoughts quickly or providing That’s what you were told in constructive evaluations of your grade school when it was time peers, you should consider visiting to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. a Toastmasters meeting.

Have you ever found yourself But, the last thing you wanted to do as a child was to sit and memorize called upon to deliver a well-thoughta 31 word sentence! Eventually, out answer to a question without though, the Pledge of Allegiance time to prepare your response? Sure rolled off your tongue as smoothly you have. Toastmasters practice impromptu speaking as a devout Catholic during the “table reciting the rosary. topics” portion of its As we grow older meeting; the portion many are quick to of the meeting when share with others the members are asked a skills they are — and random question and are not — “good at.” must stand and deliver Speaking, writing and a well-thought-out rebeing asked to comsponse lasting two to pose your thoughts “on the spot” tend to be Tom RICHARD three minutes.

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Year-round Christmas store ready for shoppers

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House of Tradition has been ready for the Christmas rush all year.

The year-round Christmas merchandise shop offers a plethora of ornaments and unique gifts, including Santas, nutcrackers, dolls, jewelry, candles and nativity sets.

“The village is probably the biggest thing; that’s our bread and butter. That’s our most important

line,” said manager Debbie Elder.

“Average houses start at $70 now and go up until $140.”

Village accessories, such as trees and lights start at $15.

“People can buy houses and accessories and they’re a beautiful holiday decoration,” Elder said.

Ornaments and other gifts are sold from $1 to $700. Items go on sale, especially before and after Thanksgiving.

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It’s been 33 years since Kenny Rogers sang about “Lucille� and mentioned the Glass City: “In a bar in Toledo, across from the depot, on

a barstool she took off her ring ...�

Then came a slew of hits — “Lady,� “What Are We Doin’ in Love,� “Islands in the Stream,� “The Gambler,� “Crazy.� He’s sold 51 million records, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, more than 125 million worldwide.

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The 71-year-old, who recently played in Sandusky, will bring his Christmas & Hits Tour to the Fox Theatre in Detroit for a 7:30 show Dec. 18.

Tickets are $75, $48 and $38.

The legend who is celebrating a half century in music with a new box set and a spring TV special, “The First 50 Years,� talked to Toledo Free Press by phone Dec. 1 from a stop in St. Petersburg, Fla. TFP: The Christmas & Hits Tour is a gift for fans. What do you think makes holiday music special?

Rogers: A lot of these songs written hundreds of years ago were written for the single purpose of keeping alive the greatest story every told — the story of the birth of the Christ child. And I think that’s what makes them so special is that they’re not about trendy subjects; they’re about things that I think are at the core relationship for anyone who has faith and believes what the story tells.

TFP: You’re a fan of storytelling songs.

Rogers: I’ve always felt that’s what music is, the telling of a story, and I think I’m at my best when a song puts you in a place, takes you on a journey, and drops you off feeling something. If you look at “The Gambler,� you start on a train — it kind

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TFP: You have a knack for finding great songs.

Rogers: I always look for songs that say, at least what I think, every man would like to say and every woman would like to hear. And I think if you look at “Through the Years,� “She Believes in Me,� “You Decorated My Life,� those are all songs that do those things ... I think I have a group of songs that were big with the men when you look at “Coward of the County,� “The Gambler,� “Lucille� and “Ruby, Don’t

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Rogers: You’re always working.

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

After all the presents have been opened, the real challenge begins: finding somewhere to store the new treasures. Amazing Space specializes in custom organization that maximizes space.

The Sylvania company started 22 years ago as a custom closet company that evolved to include organization for garages, pantries, home offices, mudrooms and craft spaces.

“It’s pretty common for a wife to be getting a garage for her husband. A husband getting a master closet for his wife or a craft room — scrapbooking or sewing room,” said Amazing Space owner David Parrish. “Or a husband and wife will give a new closet to themselves.”

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crease the amount of usable space.

“At least three times the amount of space can be provided in closets.

As much with linear feet and hangings, on top of the other functionality of the closet, from having the island to the drawers, to the ironing board,” Parrish said. “Half the garages we go in, you can’t put two cars in there. After work, the garage becomes a usable room.”

Popular features for closets include islands, drawers, jewelry drawers, ballet bars and belt and tie racks, Parrish said. In garages, the company specializes in epoxy floors, workbenches, cabinetry and wall and ceiling organization.

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“Right now a lot of people aren’t in the position to build a new home or can’t afford to expand. They need to make use of the space they have,” Parrish said.

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

I thought I was prepared for my interview with Gallagher. Moments from his career flashed through my mind as we began — bouncing on a giant sofa, reciting off-the-wall poems, and, of course, smashing watermelons with his trademark Sledge-o-matic.

I doubt the sofa will be making the trip to Fat Fish Blue Home of the Funny Bone in Perrysburg on Dec. 16, where Gallagher will appear.

But you can bet the sledgehammer will. And, if our conversation was any indication, so will the poems — definitely the poems.

This isn’t Gallagher’s first trip through Toledo.

“I remember one time I met the mayor — it was [Donna Owens], and she gave me the key to the city, which it turned out was a glass,” he recalled.

What’s the difference in playing a smaller comedy club like the Funny Bone as opposed to larger theaters?

“Well, each person will have more weight as an audience member, and what they do will affect the show more,” he said. “And I probably am gonna have to work harder.”

It was right around this point that any questions I had for the comedy

legend went flying out the window.

I now found myself in the middle of what seemed to be an extended improv/writing/rehearsal session — with myself as the lone audience.

I had just asked a question about his Web site (www.gallaghersmash.com) and all of a sudden, he launched into a poem. An obviously new, and very topical, poem.

“I got a great hook for today,” he said. “‘Tiger, stop your acting caddy, just be my baby daddy!’”

I laughed. Loudly. He seemed to respond to it.

“I think that’s really strong,” he said. “I got a really good line here, too: What I’m saying in this poem, or whatever, is: ‘Tiger likes the rough, he plays ‘em where they lie.’”

Another line followed, one which cannot be reprinted in a family newspaper. But it, too, was quite funny, though also groan-inducing.

“Oh, that’s gonna get the biggest groan ever,” Gallagher said, his voice rich with glee. “I love to do a joke that has a laugh and a groan!”

I start to think about asking another question, and he cuts my train of thought with another verse.

“When Tiger starts a foursome, he’s not looking for other guys. And there’s gonna be more than four — counting Tiger, there’ll be five!”

These comedic rhymes have become a big part of Gallagher’s act. I try to bring up “The River Poem,” a piece focusing on the environment.

“I was way ahead on the issue.

I’m bored with people that are 20 or 30 years behind me,” he said. Then, suddenly, “Hey, how about this one: ‘If you’re in lingerie, he has a new Nike whip. But if you’re his wife, you’re gonna get the slip!’”

It continued like that for minutes on end. I would try to ask a question about the writing process, or some of his other projects, or his patents, or anything, and he’d interrupt with a line about “the rough” or a “wood,” or “holes.” He (eventually) said that he writes a poem like this once every two or three days.

So there I was, a humble interviewer in the middle of a creative hurricane as a comedic icon bounced new material off of me.

“Ain’t that funny?” he would ask, as if my laughter wasn’t enough of an answer.

He did eventually mention a few of his upcoming projects — a new cable special is in the works, as well as a slot machine which would douse the player in simulated watermelon juices.

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In the midst of his 14th holiday tour, Jim Brickman learned he received a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album.

It’s not for “Beautiful World,” which came out in S e p t e m b e r, but for 2008’s “Faith.”

“It’s ironic in BRICKMAN Grammys, it’s like ‘Faith’ and I went, ‘What?’ It’s very, very odd,” the pianist said. “It’s like everything else in life: Every day is going to be something else and you don’t know why, but you’re just thankful and appreciative of all the good things.”

The Cleveland native talked about the “Faith” disc during a phone interview from a tour stop in Indianapolis.

“So much of music is about hope and inspiration; it’s about comfort, healing, kindness. I always want it to be a very fresh approach to who I

am to the audience,” Brickman said.

“That’s really in line with some of the inspirational songs, so to do an album that is a combination of my original songs of inspiration and some very well-known hymns that I interpret in my particular style is a very comfortable thing for me to do.”

The 48-year-old will showcase holiday music, as well as “Beautiful World” at 8 p.m. Dec. 18 at Stranahan Theater. Special guests will be singers Anne Cochran and Mark Masri, electric violinist Tracy Silverman and instrumentalist Garrett Viggers. Tickets are $50, $40 and $25.

“I can figure that during the month of December, a lot of the choices for people to go to concerts at something like at the Stranahan or at the school play, for the most part, there are a lot of choices that are ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘Winter Wonderland’ from top to bottom. And so my show is always a variety of my hit songs, some new songs and Christmas,” Brickman said.

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“Instrumental music has no boundaries, so when I’m playing in Korea, the people connection, the emotional level connection, is the same whether you’re in Des Moines or whether you’re in Seoul, Korea, and it’s amazing,” he said.

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Consignment store offers holiday wares CJ’s Closet owner Connie Peiffer has been an entrepreneur since selling vegetables in her neighborhood as a child.

For the past 27 years, she has continued her sales tradition with her consignment shop, CJ’s Closet, named after herself Connie Jane. The store, which is much larger than a closet, is located in Parkway Plaza in Maumee, coincidentally, the same plaza where Peiffer bought a sales book at Woolworth’s as a child.

CJ’s sells women’s clothing, jewelry, accessories and home décor, Peiffer said, adding that home décor, jewelry, evening gowns and accessories sell well during Christmas.

The jewelry and some Christmas ornaments are new, but clothes and accessories are consignment or used, and the previous owners receive 40 percent of the store’s profit on the items, Peiffer said.

Peiffer sets strict guidelines for clothing and home décor she receives.

Any furniture must be current in style and the clothing cannot be older than two years and cannot have a discount label. CJ’s does not accept anything with stains or holes, she said.

The consignment basis provides for a wide array of clothing.

“It’s like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to find,” said longtime CJ’s customer Lisa Nowak.

When the store moved to the new location in Parkway Plaza, Peiffer made some changes to accommodate customers.

Peiffer provides free coffee and cookies and a small television for children or men who are shopping with their significant others, Peiffer said.

She also made the dressing rooms larger and this year, she and her husband Norman added an art gallery.

“I’ve tried [other consignment stores] and this is the most professional organization,” Nowak said.

Assistant manager Sherri Clark said customer relations are stronger than at other clothing stores where she has worked.

“It’s more personable here because you have your more regular clients… and you just get to know them a little better than you would when I was at the mall,” she said.

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“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,” “The Saboteur,” “Assassin’s Creed II,” “Tekken 6,” and “Borderlands” all have amazing action on several console versions. “Dragon Age: Origins” (also in collector’s edition) has stunning action with evolving involving stor ylines, w h i c h c h a n g e based on player d e c i sions. “Batman: Arkham Asylum” pits the Dark Knight against his arch-enemy The Joker.

All-age games All-age action games include “Mini Ninjas,” “Star Trek D-A-C,” “Marvel Super Hero Squad,” “Dragon Ball Raging Blast” and “Tornado Outbreak.” LEGO maniacs can enjoy “Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues” and “Rock Band,” which includes special rock power challenges where players complete tasks and fight monsters.

The “Dance Dance Revolution” music expands with “Hottest Party 3” and the new “Karaoke Revolution,” while “Beatles Rock Band” rocks every generation with available limited editions and special value editions.

“Brütal Legend” injects some action into rock as roadie Eddie Riggs, voiced by Jack Black, saves the world with Ophelia in a special vehicle called ‘The Deuce.’

Also check out “DJ Hero,” “Guitar Hero: Van Halen” and “Band Hero,” which incorporates bass guitar, drums, guitar and vocals.

and “Shift.” “FIFA Soccer 10” delivers a new “strike it” system and online play with another player in two-on-two matches and tournaments. “Madden NFL 10” features an online franchise in the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, while the quick five player “Madden NFL Arcade” can be found on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.

Adaptations “My Ballet Studio,” “My Baby First Steps,” “The Biggest Loser,” “Diva Girls: Divas on Ice” and the garage sale s i mu l at or “Fabulous Finds” all provide unique gaming experiences on several consoles. Movie adaptation games include “Astro Boy: The Video Game,” “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,” “James Cameron’s Avatar The Game” and “Where the Wild Things Are” while players can test their film facts in “Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen!”

Television show adaptations include Cartoon Network’s “SECRET SAT-

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Mobile games Mobile madness hits the holidays hard with the new Nintendo DSi and PSP GO.

Nintendo DS Nintendo DS games include “The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks,” “Food Network Cook or Be Cooked!,” “C.O.P. (Criminal Overturn Progam)” and “The Recruit.”

“Style Savvy” has immense clothing combinations as players manage their own fashionable clothing boutique to share and compare with others. “Fashion Week Junior: Designer” and “Style Lab: Jewelry Design” have more fashion gameplay, while “The Clique: Diss and Make Up” has many social elements.

“Treasure World” rewards players for get” out there and finding Wi-Fi hot spots while “Legendary Starfy” has underwater platform fun.

The “My Virtual Tutor” series teaches reading to prekindergarten to second-grade kids in a special sideways, touch screen format.

“Rhythm Heaven” has several music mini-games while the Nintendo DSi exclusive shooter “System Flaw” uses the camera feature to create real world backgrounds and 360-degree action. Recent DSi Ware applications include many entertaining and practical titles like the free “Flipnote

Studio,” which helps players create hand drawn animations and picture alterations. “My Sims Camera” and “Picture Perfect Hair Salon” offer more photography fun with the camera option.

Role playing Role playing/turn-based games include the unpredictable “Flower, Sun, and Rain” and “Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road,” which has an easy “rolling ball” control using the stylus. Animals abound in “SimAnimals Africa” and the “Discovery Kids” series, which adds “Spiderquest” to previous installments featuring dolphins, kittens, parrots, ponies and puppies.

Players can test their creative skills with “Scribblenauts” and “Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter,” featuring a tool which puts drawn objects directly into the game.

Simulation games include “My Hero Astronaut” and “Firefighter,” “Ant Nation” and “Overlord Minions.” “Littlest Pet Shop” expands in three versions — “City Friends,” “Beach Friends” and “Country Friends” — while “Charm Girls Club” debuts with three installments: — “My Fashion Mall,” “My Perfect Prom” and “My Fashion Show.” “Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop” has 80 new recipes and more than 200 mini games.

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Events: New Moon in Sagittarius (16th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Good night, sweet prince. You have a genius for gaining insights and making decisions this week. Although ghosts from the past linger, your head and heart are on the same page. The people and projects that fire your jets are an index of your hopes and ambitions for the future.

Christmas cactus. You’re transplanting and adjusting this week, shifting gears to accommodate new goals. The stars offer love, passion and inspiring relationships after Wednesday. You’re much more assertive about reaching for your true desires.

Survival skills. When it rains, it pours! Past frustrations melt at the arrival of so many wonderful new opportunities, relationships, recognition and rewards. Love and friendship are highly favored after Wednesday. You earned it, you deserve it, it’s all good.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Messages in dreams. A number of signposts – people, information sources – point the way to what you want.

Calls and contacts from unusual people after Wednesday can be inspirational and help motivate you to stop procrastinating and get the show on the road!

Working wonders. You may be an amazing miracleworker as the week begins, snatching solutions out of thin air. After Wednesday, your home life is filled with unprecedented harmony and cooperation. A spark of excitement that’s been absent returns in full force.

Personal passions. You’re the source of instant identification or new names as the week starts. Midweek incidents evoke forgotten memories. Relationships reach a milestone after Thursday. Holiday downtime gives a chance to reconnect while free from the daily grind.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Irrevocable change. People close to you are bubbling with news about their good fortune. You’re happy for them, but a little sad for yourself. Departures change your daily landscapes and patterns. Something new rivets attention over the weekend.

Portal to perfection. Message exchanges reach a peak from Sunday to Tuesday, increasing the potential for excellent news about a personal concern. After Wednesday, social events offer joy and laughter, and possibly new love for lonely Librans.

Some assembly required. You may be surprisingly lucky on Monday, or benefit from perfect timing. Discuss future hopes and dreams with partners after Wednesday.

Impossible dreams can now be viable goals…if you can secure solid commitments from others.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Vehicle for success. This week brings successful transitions and resolutions, and opens a wonderful new avenue for your particular talents. Things work out in ways you never expected. Share your good news and good fortune with loved ones over the weekend.

Mailbox magic. Although it’s the holiday season, you plow ahead with your multilevel personal agenda this week and get superb results. Past worries are eased substantially by midweek. Feeling secure makes weekend adventures even more enjoyable.

Father knows best. Dynamic individuals wield their power as the week begins. You can benefit in the aftermath.

Lions and tigers walk together after Wednesday: shared goals or threats fertilize common ground, even between those with incompatible personalities and lifestyles.

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

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ur children bestow us with and you would give it back if possible. countless gifts throughout Ultimately, it really doesn’t matter, their childhood: the gift of because it’s yours now and there’s unconditional love, the gift of re- nothing you can politely do about it.

Yes, politeness discovered innocence, doesn’t play a role in the gift of helping us the slightest when it see the world through comes to viral gastrorose-colored glasses. enteritis. If, for some Yet, there is one gift in reason, you didn’t particular that stands feel like family before, out in my mind. It is you surely will after one that pushes us to hearing one another our greatest depths and attempt to retch up makes us really take most of your vital ora look at that which Shannon SZYPERSKI gans. No amount of makes us human: the willpower or self-control can soften stomach flu.

I guess it’s not actually a gift in the the unrelenting, primal bodily functraditional sense, which usually begs tions that ensue for 24 to 72 hours.

This time around was no different a pleasurable reception. It is more a gift of the dad-receiving-yet-another- for me. It started with a “Hmm, I feel necktie-for-Christmas variety. You kind of dizzy and my heart’s kind of really didn’t need it, you’re not sure racing. That’s weird.” You would think what purpose it’s supposed to serve that watching my son and then my

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husband suffer through it earlier in the week that I would have quickly realized what was on the horizon. It must have been those rose-colored glasses I’ve been sporting since my children were born that made me think that Mom just couldn’t go down this time.

How wrong I was. It amazes me how quickly we can go from a happy, strong, healthy individual to a huddled mess on the bathroom floor. Aside from a few other select instances (e.g., stitches in the bottom of your toe, which I know from experience, and the pain of missing a loved one), nauseated is one of the worst feelings out there.

You would think I would be used to the feeling. Not one of my children spared me the two-month bout with all-day “morning” sickness that sometimes accompanies pregnancy, so I am quite familiar with both the feeling of nausea and the bathroom floor. Still, knowing that the feeling was not a precursor to a new family member this time around really took away from my acceptance of it.

It is astonishing how quickly the hallway outside of the bathroom begins to look and feel like a pillow top mattress once you settle in for a long night of playing “Which End Is It Coming Out Of?” Surprisingly, I did come to appreciate a few lessons from what was, truthfully, a horrifying experience.

The stomach flu is a bit of an equalizer. Whether you’re going through it in a multimillion dollar mansion or a tiny run-down apartment, you’re still going through it. It also occurred to me how fortunate I am to have running water in my home. After seemingly being drained of all of my body’s water content and then finding just enough left over to feed the baby, I fantasized about getting to a point where I could have a sip of water.

It really made me realize that my very temporary situation is a very permanent situation for many of my fellow humans. Whether they have intestinal problems, are going through cancer treatment or are just so overwhelmed that they can no longer stomach life, someone somewhere is huddled on their bathroom floor every single day.

Maybe it really is a gift to, on occasion, be reduced to our lowest form so that we can really appreciate our highest form and all of the little things we usually take for granted.

At this point, though, I think I’m set with gratitude for a while.

Shannon and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania.

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Special Delivery (2008) Lisa Edelstein. (CC) Will-Grace Will-Grace Strict Parents ›› Men in Black II (2002) Tommy Lee Jones.

›› Bulletproof Monk (2003) Chow Yun-Fat. Premiere.

Name Earl Name Earl Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

The Ultimate Fighter (S Live) Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

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››› The Rainmaker Bones (CC)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen ›››› Lost Horizon (1937, Adventure) Ronald Colman. (CC) Bones (CC) The Closer (N) (CC) Men of a Certain Age Law & Order

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››› Elf (2003) (CC)

December 16, 2009

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The Unit “Bait” (CC) Bounty Hunter

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› Let’s Go to Prison (2006) Dax Shepard. (CC) S. Park ›› Tinker Bell (2008, Fantasy) Phineas Phineas

Colbert Montana

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››› Happy Feet (2006) Voices of Elijah Wood. (CC) Frosty’s The 700 Club (CC) Grey’s Anatomy (CC) Christmas Child (2003) William R. Moses. (CC) Will-Grace Will-Grace

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December 13, 2009

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Forensic Forensic NCIS “Dog Tags” (CC)

› Surviving Christmas (2004) Ben Affleck. (CC) NCIS “Leap of Faith” Pirates-Worlds

December 18, 2009

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Insider Supernanny (N) (CC) Jeopardy! Frosty Frosty

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20/20 (CC) Medium (CC)

10 pm 10:30 11 pm 11:30 20/20 (CC) NUMB3RS “First Law”

The Office The Office Dollhouse “Stop-Loss; The Attic” (N) (CC) News News News Law & Order “Zero” Dateline NBC (N) (CC) The Jay Leno Show NewsHour Business

Wash Wk

Deadline

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Name Earl Inside Ed. WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) (CC) The Office Friends WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC)

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Cold Case Files (CC) The Office Fam. Guy CSI: Miami (CC)

›› Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (CC) Ron White: Fix Stupid Ron White: Beh ››› The Santa Clause (1994) Tim Allen. (CC) ›› The Santa Clause 2 (2002) Phineas

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The Soup The Soup Chelsea

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Jersey Shore UFC: Best of 2009

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Name Earl Name Earl ››› Madagascar (2005, Comedy) ››› Madagascar (2005) Voices of Ben Stiller. Holiday George Stevens ›› Enchanted April (1991), Alfred Molina (CC) ››› Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) (CC) Bones (CC) (DVS) ›› The Nativity Story (2006) Premiere. (CC) ›› The Nativity Story (2006), Oscar Isaac (CC) ››› Elf (2003) Will Ferrell, James Caan. (CC) ››› Enchanted (2007) Amy Adams. Premiere. House (CC)

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Critic’s Choice Monday 10 p.m. on ABC 13 Castle: When two murders take place on the same night, Castle (Nathan Fillion) bets that he and Beckett (Stana Katic) can solve their case before Esposito and Ryan (Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever) can solve the other one, but strange twists force the teams to work together in “The Double Down.” Arye Gross guest stars.

tries to get to the reason behind his father’s recent change in behavior while the latter is visiting.

Wednesday 8 p.m. on CBS 11 The New Adventures of Old Christine: Christine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) reluctantly attends her neighbor’s (guest star Molly Shannon) holiday block party, where she discovers a juicy secret about her hostess in the new episode “It’s Beginning to Stink a Lot Like Christmas.”

Tuesday 8 p.m. on CBS 11 NCIS: When the enlisted son of a retired colonel-turned-preacher (Joe Regalbuto, “Murphy Brown”) is found dead, the team thinks he may be the victim of a hate crime. At home, Gibbs (Mark Harmon)

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The Family Holiday (2007) Dave Coulier. (CC) Teen Mom Teen Mom (N)

UFC Fight Night Shocking Mom. Name Earl Name Earl The Office The Office The Office The Office Commercials

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Grounded Grounded S. Park UFC Fight Night

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Name Earl Name Earl ›› Failure to Launch (2006), Zooey Deschanel Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Lopez Tonight (N) Magnificent 7 Ride ›› Christmas in Connecticut (1945) (CC) ››› Holiday Affair (1949) Never Say Bones (CC) NBA Basketball Orlando Magic at Miami Heat. (Live) (CC) NBA Basketball NCIS (CC) NCIS “Legend” (CC) ›› Sweet Home Alabama (2002) Reese Witherspoon. (CC) Law & Order: SVU

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The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority is seeking bids from qualified contractors to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment for the following three (3) projects. These jobs will be bid individually and should be identified by their job number. The walkthru for all units will be on Tuesday, December 15th. at 10:00am. Interested parties should meet at 1151 Brooke Park. All bid openings will be held on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 11:00am. Job Location: 1151-1157 Brooke Park. Job Number: 29115. Job Location: 5867-5869 Tetherwood. Job Number: 29116. Job Location: 1048-1054 Gribbon Lane. Job Number: 29117. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the 2nd Floor Conference Room on the dates shown above, in the Modernization Department, at 201 Belmont Street. Contract documents and technical specifications/drawings will be available from the Modernization Department, and will be provided upon request. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash, an approved surety company bid bond, or a certified check upon a solvent bank, made payable to the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority in an amount equal to five (5) percent of the bid, tendered as a bid guarantee (if required) that the bidder will, if the award is made to him, enter into a bona fide contract with Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority for this work and furnish proper guarantee bonding as required under the specifications within a period of ten (10) days after the awarding of the contract.

The prevailing wages for this locality, as established by the Department of Labor as Wage Determination OH20080028, as modified, must be paid all persons employed for this work. All bidders shall be required to meet the Affirmative Action requirements and Equal Employment Opportunity requirements as described in Executive Order #11246. Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, handicap, age, ancestry, creed, or military status.

LUCAS METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY MODERNIZATION DEPARTMENT

INVITATION FOR BIDS The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority is seeking bids from qualified contractors to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment for the following three (3) projects.

Job Location: Ten Eyck Tower (roof replacement).

Job Number: 29106. Walk-Thru Date: 12/16/09 @ 10:00am. Bid Opening Date: 12/30/09 @ 1:00pm.

Job Location: Dorrell Manor (roof replacement).

Job Number: 29105. Walk-Thru Date: 12/16/09 @ 12:00pm. Bid Opening Date: 12/30/09 @ 1:00pm.

Job Location: Ashley Arms (generator, parking lot). Job Number: 29130. Walk-Thru Date: 12/17/09 @ 10:00am. Bid Opening Date: 01/07/10 @ 11:00am.

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

The prevailing wages for this locality, as established by the Department of Labor as Wage Determination OH20080028, as modified, must be paid all persons employed for this work. All bidders shall be required to meet the Affirmative Action requirements and Equal Employment Opportunity requirements as described in Executive Order #11246. Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, handicap, age, ancestry, creed, or military status.

LUCAS METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY MODERNIZATION DEPARTMENT

INVITATION FOR BIDS The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority is seeking bids from qualified contractors to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment for the following twelve (12) projects. These jobs will be bid individually and should be identified by their job number. The walk-thru for all units will be on Wednesday, December 16th. at 10:00am. Interested parties should meet at 4008 Isadore Lane, located off Sylvania Avenue. All bid openings will be held on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 11:00am. Job Location: 4008-4024 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29118. Job Location: 4032-4046 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29119. Job Location: 4054-4118 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29120. Job Location: 4124-4132 Isadore Lane.

Job Number: 29121. Job Location: 4138-4206 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29122. Job Location: 7304-7316 Beaulah Court. Job Number: 29123. Job Location: 4224-4226 Isadore Lane.

Job Number: 29124. Job Location: 4223-4225 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29125. Job Location: 4213-4215 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29126. Job Location: 4139-4205 Isadore Lane. Job Number: 29127. Job Location: 4125-4133 Isadore Lane.

Job Number: 29128. Job Location: 7322-7344 Kest & 4047-4049 Isadore. Job Number: 29129.

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

The prevailing wages for this locality, as established by the Department of Labor as Wage Determination OH20080028, as modified, must be paid all persons employed for this work. All bidders shall be required to meet the Affirmative Action requirements and Equal Employment Opportunity requirements as described in Executive Order #11246. Each bidder must insure that all employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, handicap, age, ancestry, creed, or military status.

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BART, LINDA M. (SCHWARTZ) age 70 Bowling Green, OH www.dunnfuneralhome.com BIALECKI, AMELIA J. age 91 Toledo, OH www.sujkowski.com DOMINIQUE, PHILLIP W. age 93 www.egglestonmeinert.com DUSSEAU, MARGARET â&#x20AC;&#x153;MAGGIEâ&#x20AC;? age 70 www.pawlakfuneralhome.com SNYDER, CARL E. age 84 Toledo, OH www.walterfuneralhome.com DEC. 7 BELLMAN, ARTHUR RAYMOND age 69 Oregon, OH www.reebfuneralhome.com BOWER, JEAN age 87 www.wright-hobbs.com BURKE, CHARLES â&#x20AC;&#x153;CHUCKâ&#x20AC;? P. age 58 Maumee, OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com CARR, ANGELINE â&#x20AC;&#x153;NELLIEâ&#x20AC;?

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JOHNSON, BETTY J. age 76 Toledo, OH www.hoeflingerfuneralhome.com LOUGHLIN, LAWRENCE J. www.walkerfuneralhomes.com DEC. 6 CLUNK, DOROTHY E. age 83 www.newcomertoledo.com ESSER, EDWARD OSCAR age 94 Toledo, OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com KENDZIERSKI, ROSEMARIE F. age 72 Toledo, OH www.jasinfuneralhome.com KING, JUDY â&#x20AC;&#x153;ALABAMAâ&#x20AC;? age 54 Northwood, OH www.reebfuneralhome.com STARNER, MARY M. age 99 Toledo, OH VAN DEN DOLEWEERT, GARY age 66 www.egglestonmeinert.com DEC.5 BLONDO, GEORGE age 99 www.sujkowski.com FAUST, WALTER H. age 67 Toledo, OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com GORDON, VIRGINIA H. age 81 Waterville, OH www.wright-hobbs.com GARN, KENNETH N. SR. age 81 Maumee, OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com

DEC. 5 (CONT.) GRIBBLE, DANIEL EDWIN age 62 Perrysburg, OH www.marshfuneralhomes.com INGRAM, LOIS A. age 86 Toledo, OH www.egglestonmeinert.com LOVETT, ROSETTA M. age 89 www.NewcomerToledo.com DEC.4 ADAMS, OLIVIA LOUISE age 78 Toledo,OH www.dalefh.com GRANATA, FRANCIS R. age 67 Toledo, OH www.ansberg-west.com HAAS, GARY J. age 66 Perrysburg, OH www.witzlershank.com DEC.3

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MAIN, DIANNE KATHERINE age 69 www.newcomertoledo.com MORGAN, ELEANOR age 95 Sylvania, OH www.reebfuneralhome.com SHELLY, JOHN M. SR. age78 www.blanchardstrabler.com SMITH, CHARLES LOREN, M.D. age 77 Perrysburg, OH www.witzlershank.com WILLIAMS, MARGENE D. age 88 West Toledo, OH www.ansberg-west.com WINES, DONALD LAVON age 74 Toledo, OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com DEC.2 BALSMEYER, RANDY EARL age 54 Oregon, OH www.hoeflingerfuneralhome.com BOYD, PAULINE age 66 Rossford, OH

ARDEN, RUTH Toledo,OH www.walkerfuneralhomes.com BRANDLE, ZELLA LOIS â&#x20AC;&#x153;JOEâ&#x20AC;? age 88 Toledo, OH www.hoeflingerfuneralhome.com KAPP, STANLEY J. age 88 West Toledo, OH KATRAPATI, ANASUYA age 88 www.walkerfuneralhomes.com LASCOLA, AUGUST â&#x20AC;&#x153;GUSâ&#x20AC;? age 88 Toledo, OH www.coylefuneralhome.com

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