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From bully to activist

Frank DiLallo has made it his life’s work to prevent and repair the effects of bullying. Story by Sarah Ottney, Page A6

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e received a letter this week in which one resident of District 9 articulated why he believes voters should vote for Rep. Marcy Kaptur in the March 6 Democratic primary. Joe Bialek of Cleveland, who is a former campaign worker for Dennis Kucinich (and a very busy blogger and Web poster with a well-documented history of criticizing Kucinich), said he worked on the 1994 Kucinich State Senate campaign against Anthony Sinagra and the 1996 Kucinich Congressional campaign against Martin Hoke. “During those campaigns I came to know Dennis quite well,” he wrote. “What concerned me then and concerns me now is why Kucinich failed as mayor of Cleveland and still fails to succeed as a congressman. He does not have the critical ability to communicate properly with constituents, fellow lawmakers and the media in general. Some politicians are able to ‘re-make’ themselves. Sadly, Kucinich has chosen not to and look what this has resulted in the previous 10th Congressional District.” Thomas F. Pounds for The perception that Kucinich lacks the ability to build coalitions (also noted by The Plain Dealer) is, of course, one of Kaptur’s strengths. Her critics claim Kaptur is not a major player in D.C. in relation to her seniority, but when it comes to getting people together at the table for local issues and initiatives, Kaptur has a strong record, especially in areas of economic development. Bialek’s perceptions of Kaptur are strongly echoed in her hometown area. “Kaptur reminds me of the type of congressperson we desperately need during these Michael S. miller troubling economic times,” he wrote. “From the moment you meet her you can’t help but be struck by her well-honed people skills. She has utilized these skills very effectively.” Our endorsement for Kaptur for the Democratic primary is not an automatic endorsement for her against her likely Republican opponent and our choice for the Republican primary, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. As “Joe the Plumber,” Wurzelbacher is a GOP fundraising draw and is an increasingly polished speaker who emanates an organic connection with blue-collar Republican voters, an increasingly mobilized group. Wurzelbacher must first get past Steve Kraus, the conservative from Huron. Kraus, with his platform that includes disbanding the Environmental Protection Agency and support for the failed Ohio Sovereignty issue, is unlikely to overcome the “Joe the Plumber” phenomenon on March 6. The GOP-led redistricting will meet one of its goals; either Kaptur or Kucinich will be out of the House. Whether that will be enough to vault Wurzelbacher into office remains to be seen, but Kaptur should survive the first round. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com. Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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A Titanic observance

he great ship Titanic slipped beneath the waves forever just before 2:30 a.m. April 15, 1912, claiming more than 1,500 lives. The upcoming 100th anniversary of that historic loss has inspired Toledo Free Press to link a number of local events in observance, including a recreation dinner on the exact anniversary. As an amateur Titanic historian for many years before the 1997 James Cameron movie, I devour books and library clippings about the doomed luxury liner and the people who died when she sank. Those who become captivated by Titanic lore are said to have “Titanic Fever,” and it is a fascination that rarely fades. There is something primal about the tale of RMS Titanic hubris and disaster, fate and coincidence, life and death, that Titanic represents. The real-life story has elements of mystery, of April 6. Watch the Toledo Free Press Facebook page for details on the giveaway and collector displays on-site. romance, adventure, opulence, poverty, hope and tragedy. O The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will host a I once briefly met the late Millvina Dean, who was the last living Titanic survivor, and heard her describe a cer- Titanic artifact exhibit. Opening March 31, the emony in which one candle for every victim was lit and set 10,000-square-foot exhibit features more than 300 arafloat on the Mississippi River. The first time I saw Cam- tifacts — 250 of which have never been displayed in Michigan. There will be extensive room eron’s film, all the stories and interviews and re-creations and a full-scale replica of the impressions converged into a wellspring of Grand Staircase. More on that collection in emotion and empathy, but it was Dean’s warm an upcoming issue. hug that enveloped me in that dark theater. O The main event of the observance is I spent some weekends when I lived in the April 14 “A Night to Remember” Titanic Washington, D.C., seeking monuments, dinner and ball. A nine-course dinner regravestones, exhibits and other historic creating the Titanic dining experience, live Titanic markers. music from the era by TAPESTRY and ballMy interest led to a friendship with Jenroom dancing will be featured at the event, nifer Carter, the first woman to travel to the with all proceeds donated to the American ocean floor to see Titanic’s broken hull. She and her husband, the late composer Joel Michael S. miller Red Cross Greater Toledo Chapter. The Red Cross was in New York City when the CarHirschhorn, and I shared many stories of discovery. While living in Pittsburgh, I contributed to Titanic pathia brought Titanic survivors to shore. Honoring the lore when the family of victim Mary Miller Corey shared Red Cross with this formal event is a way to pay tribute to letters that revealed she was nearly nine months pregnant the mission and spirit of the organization. The dinner and ball will take place from 6-11 p.m. when she died on Titanic. That had never been reported, and once the letters were documented, copies were filed April 14 at Central Park West, 3141 Central Park West in Toledo. With a nine-course meal prepared by the chefs with the Titanic Historical Society in Massachusetts. There were more than 50 Titanic passengers heading for from The Pinnacle, special seating at the captian’s table Ohio; fewer than half survived. In their memory, and to and a Red Cross silent auction (which will include a Tipreserve the legacy of Titanic on the occasion of the 100th tanic lithograph autographed by the late Millvina Dean, anniversary of its loss, Toledo Free Press is working with the last living Titanic survivor) and Titanic memorabilia dating back as far as the 1930s, the evening will truly be community partners on the following events. O The April 15 issue of Toledo Free Press will feature sto- “A Night to Remember.” More details are forthcoming; ries on local passengers, profiles of local collectors and Ohio’s boarding passes for the limited-seating event will be ties to the great ship. Local collectors and historians should on sale starting Feb. 26 at the Red Cross “Oscar Night” fundraiser at Owens Community College. contact us at news@toledofreepress.com to participate. No observances can adequately honor and tell the stoO Toledo Free Press is working with the Toledo-Lucas County Public libraries to organize displays and book lists ries of those lost on Titanic, but these educational and social in participating locations. The Main Library is working on events offer a modest opportunity to pause and reflect on one of the last century’s most enduring and tragic events. O collecting its many Titanic resources for a major display. O We are partnering with Rave Motion Pictures and Paramount Pictures to offer tickets and movie memorabilia Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toto mark the release of Cameron’s “Titanic 3D,” the weekend ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. associated press

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DECISION 2012

Money matters

Opinion

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

DON LEE

o win a political campaign, argu- to his re-election. By the end of the ably the most essential resource 2011 calendar year, the organization a candidate must have is money. raised nearly $4.5 million. Thus far, Time, staff and volunteer support the Obama campaign has raised apare also key, but none of these would proximately $125 million, with its be possible without campaign cash. biggest donor group being the retired. Money provides the essentials candi- Obama has raised the most money out dates need to win, such as voter com- of all the major party candidates. The Mitt Romney campaign has munication tools like television ads, or travel. Bluntly put, the more money a raised $56 million, according to end of candidate has, the more likely he or she 2011 numbers. While this may be little is to win. Given the recent changes in in comparison to Obama, Romney has excelled at raising campaign finance laws, money from Super PAC. money will be circulating Albeit a checkered past, around the presidential Romney’s PAC, Restore race more than ever. Our Future, has raised In January 2010, the just more than $30 milU.S. Supreme Court delion. The PAC’s goals cided a case that would are to bring down the change federal elections national debt, stop reckforever. Citizens United less spending and spur v. Federal Elections Comjob creation. Romney’s mission (FEC) was a lawBen OSBURN biggest donor group is suit involving a dispute as the securities and investto whether the nonprofit Citizens United could air a campaign ment sector, shortly followed by the ad referring to then presidential can- retired. More than 90 percent of Romdidate Hillary Clinton. The ad was to ney’s donations have come from large air within 30 days of the 2008 Demo- individual contributions. The Newt Gingrich campaign has cratic primaries, in violation of the McCain-Feingold Act. The Supreme not raised anything substantial comCourt not only struck down that pro- pared to Romney and Obama. At year’s vision, but went on to rule that corpo- end, the campaign had raised just more rations and unions were permitted to than $12 million. The retired, again, give money to produce “electioneering have been the most hospitable contribucommunication,” material. A similar tors to his campaign. Winning Our Fucase, Speechnow.org v. FEC, ruled that ture, Gingrich’s Super PAC, spawned money coming from these entities from a prior pro-Gingrich PAC called could be unlimited. However, they still American Solutions for Winning the are not permitted to give directly to a Future. The new PAC was created by Becky Burkett, who chaired the former candidate’s campaign. What does this mean for candi- PAC. Winning Our Future had some dates? The most recognizable result of difficulty raising funds initially, but reboth court cases are Super PAC. These cently received a $10 million boost from political action committees raise casino owner Sheldon Adelson and his money on behalf of candidates and wife. Adelson has supported Gingrich in often produce media ads in direct sup- the past and favors his pro-Israeli stance. port of them or in opposition to their Gingrich will need the money to comcompetition. They are required to list pete with Santorum and Romney going their donors to the FEC, but are not into Super Tuesday. Santorum’s caucus required to list whether or not they ex- wins in Minnesota and Colorado have plicitly support a candidate. All major provided a groundswell of support for party candidates in the 2012 election him in terms of fundraising. Although at the end of 2011 his camare connected to Super PAC. President Barack Obama, al- paign had only raised just more than $2 though initially against the Citizens million, that number is rising. He raised United ruling, has recently said that he $250,000 the night of his victories. Rick will allow Super PAC to raise money Santorum’s PAC, the Red White and on his behalf. Although back-tracking Blue Fund, was founded by Nick Ryan, on its word, the administration has a political consultant who was involved no other choice but to accept the in previous PAC activity during the money in order to compete. Obama’s 2010 midterms. The PAC supports Sancampaign is facing nearly $500 mil- torum because he is anti-abortion and lion worth of contributions aimed at committed to reducing government defeating him. Obama’s chief Super spending. While the PAC has raised far PAC is called Priorities USA Action, less than both Romney and Gingrich — a progressive organization committed around $700,000 — people like Foster

Friess are out to change that. Friess is a millionaire investment banker who gives to Christian and conservative causes. He has donated to Santorum’s senate campaign in the past and this cycle has provided almost half of the PAC’s operating funds. Friess and other supporters will need to keep giving so Santorum can remain close to Romney in the polls.

Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul has around $25 million in his campaign chest. The money has come from a mix of large and small individual contributions. Paul has received the largest amount of donations from veterans, perhaps due to his isolationist approach to foreign policy. Paul’s Super PAC activity has been limited and almost all donations from it have been on behalf of indi-

viduals. His biggest PAC, Endorse Liberty, has raised just over $1 million. The campaign will need to appeal to more Super PAC donors if it is to go any further in the primaries. O Ben Osburn is a graduate student in political science at the University of Toledo. Email him at letters@toledo freepress.com.

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Opinion

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o one questions the fact that the world has “gone global.” Much of the globalization of Toledo and Northwest Ohio is ocFor nearly two decades we have read article after article and curring quietly, under the radar. While there is nothing inherently study after study describing globalism and globalization. wrong with this approach, I believe it limits the benefits we could derive from globalization. If we were more proactive, Numerous best-selling books have revealed in considmore aggressive and more intentional in making and erable detail the global character of the world we now branding the Toledo region as an international city live in. Few topics have attracted as much attention in we would be more competitive with successful cities the 21st century as globalization. And, for very good and regions here in the U.S. as well as the growing reason: “Global” now defines nearly every aspect of the number of such cities around the world. world in which we live, work and compete. True, globalization has cost U.S. jobs. That has As Americans, we have reacted in different ways been the painful downside. But there are two sides to to this phenomenon that has overtaken the world as this coin. The upside is the vast international market we knew it in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Many have for Toledo products, goods and services. Equally imignored the changes as largely irrelevant to the U.S., is the very real potential for significant forthe world’s remaining superpower. Others have reDan JOHNSON portant eign direct investment in Toledo businesses, indussisted and even protested globalization and its economic impact. Remember Seattle? Still others have recognized the tries, real estate, education and health care. The upside potential opportunities associated with globalization in the form of greatly of globalization in markets, investment and jobs far exceeds the downside if we learn the rules of the game. expanded markets, talent pools and capital for investment. “How we connect with this new world is the single most imTo some degree, either by default or intention, all communities, including ours, have gone global. If one shops at any of the big box portant issue of our lifetime?” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter in 1995. stores or even your local grocery, most of the products and pro- This lesson has been taught by economists and business leaders duce you take from the shelves originate in some other country. It since the mid-1990s and its importance has been growing expois common for our 401(k)s, retirement and pension programs to be nentially since that time. How we fit in the global economy is a invested in mutual funds with corporate holdings that are multina- question we as a community and region must be asking if we are tional. A growing number of our communities’ professional services to be among the world’s successful competitors. What is our conare provided by foreign nationals who fill important roles for our nection with the world? What connections do we want or, more to families, businesses, health care institutions, schools and universities. the point, what connections do we need with the global economy This is a healthy development. Moreover, there is a strong case to become a thriving region and to sustain our quality of life? What to be made for moving from a community and region that has glo- is our community’s foreign policy? It appears that the region’s global initiatives are less under the balized by default to one that intentionally pursues globalization.

radar today than they were just a few short years ago — and that is a very good thing. Mayor Mike Bell is opening dialogue with Chinese companies and cities, the Regional Growth Partnership is leading and participating in international trade missions, the University of Toledo is moving ahead — fairly aggressively — to chart a course of strategic global engagement, and an increasing number of local businesses are breaking into international markets. Northwest Ohio, led by Toledo, its principal city, is developing a critical mass of international businesses and significant global connections. Great opportunity awaits this region and will be realized when we leverage our knowledge of the international scene, the competencies of our workforce, the spirit of our entrepreneurs and our international connections to elevate Toledo to the status of a genuine international city. Is there risk involved in taking such steps? Of course, there is always risk. Naïve global engagement is risky and carries a potentially high price. But the risk to our community, regional economy and quality of life is even greater if we take no action to more effectively connect with global markets, global partners and the global economy. Future success cannot be guaranteed. However, as we become a more serious and effective player in world networks, grow our understanding of global markets and continue to meet and exceed world standards with our products and services, Toledo and Northwest Ohio will become a competitive force in the global economy. We have a great start. It’s time to go to the next level. O Dan Johnson is director of global initiatives, president emeritus and distinguished university professor of public policy and economic development at the University of Toledo. Email him at letters@ toledofreepress.com.

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PEOPLE

By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Three boys are in a middle-school restroom. One stands in a corner egging on his friend to hit the third boy. The friend does it. He hits the boy over and over and over, because he can. Afterward, they all go back to class and never speak of it again. Licensed professional counselor Frank DiLallo has made it his life’s work to prevent and repair the effects of bullying in schools and workplaces across the country. One of the reasons he is so passionate about the issue is because he regrets his own bullying behavior in school. The boy doing the hitting in the restroom was DiLallo.

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Former ‘bully’ devotes life to education, prevention

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Positive ripple

“One of the reasons I do this is not only professional but also personal, because of my own history with this,” DiLallo said. “I want to make a positive ripple because, as I look back, there are some things I did that had some serious negative implications and was a negative ripple in the world and that’s not the kind of world I want to create.” DiLallo grew up in a blue-collar Youngstown, Ohio, neighborhood. A gifted athlete, he was a basketball star as well as member of the baseball and track teams. By high school, most of his aggression was channeled into sports, but it took years before he connected his behavior in grade and middle school with bullying. The realization came at a professional training seminar when he heard the song “Howard Gray,” the true story of singer-songwriter Lee Domann’s remorse over laughing at a junior high classmate. “It actually touched me to the core. I cried, it hit me that deeply,” DiLallo said. “I realized I had treated some people in a really hard, demeaning and calloused way without giving it a second thought how they may have felt and what the implications are five, 10, 15, 20, 40 years down the road. There are huge implications.” DiLallo was later inspired to pen “Code of Silence,” a poem about the restroom bullying incident. DiLallo, who now lives in Sylvania, earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Adrian College. He went on to earn a master’s degree in education in guidance and counseling from the University of Toledo. For more than a decade, DiLallo has served as the prevention/inter-

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Frank DiLallo earned degrees from Adrian College and the University of Toledo.

vention schools consultant for the Catholic Diocese of Toledo, covering the 19 Northwest Ohio counties the diocese serves. He also regularly speaks at conferences and schools across the country.

World opened up

Before the diocese, DiLallo worked as a counselor at Toledo’s Central Catholic High School, which changed the course of his professional work. “My whole world opened up,” DiLallo said. “Not only did I feel like I had something to offer, but it had a huge healing peace to offer me. I was working with teens and in my working with them they were simultaneously healing me because I was just seeing how incredible they are. All they want is to be noticed and appreciated, like we all do.” Working in schools was the last thing DiLallo expected. For years, he avoided the school environment, working in agencies and private practices. “Isn’t it funny how that works? I never ever saw myself in schools. I hated school growing up. I hated being there. I know that word is strong, but I just I didn’t like it,” DiLallo said. “The only thing that really kept me going was basketball; I knew I needed to get the grades in order to play.”

DiLallo, who will write a regular column about bullying for Toledo Free Press, was inspired to develop his own bullying prevention curriculum after researching existing models and not finding one that matched his vision and experience. “I wasn’t too impressed with the how-to,” DiLallo said. “It was good information about what bullying is, but what do you do with it once you identify it?” He co-authored “Peace Be With You: Christ-Centered Bullying Solution,” the only Scripture-based bullying prevention curriculum he knows of. A secular version called “Peace2U: Three-Phase Bullying Solution” followed. DiLallo, who has four children, is now writing a book for parents. “Students aren’t going to come up to us and say ‘I’ve really got a problem and I need some help with it,’” DiLallo said. “It doesn’t happen that way. It happens in code and that code is their behaviors. Their behaviors are red flags that alert us to things going on they are having trouble coping with and we need to see those red flags as such.” One important part of any bullying prevention model is increasing people’s sensitivity to the problem,

DiLallo said. “It increases their empathy in helping them understand everything they say and everything they do has impact, not only on others, but on themselves, short-term and longterm,” DiLallo said. “That’s not something I realized until many, many, many years down the road.” Increased empathy is especially important as technology and social media offer new opportunities for bullying, DiLallo said. “We like to think we are communicating more and connecting more with people, but it’s in a depersonalized way,” DiLallo said. “I can click and not think about it, because I’m not looking in your eyes, not seeing your expression, not seeing the pain or sadness on your face. We’re living in this high-tech, low-empathy world where we are less compassionate with others because we’re not making human connection.” DiLallo’s curriculum, which targets grades four through eight, has been used in more than 60 schools in Ohio and Michigan, mostly Catholic schools. The first phase focuses on leadership and helping students understand social responsibility. n BULLY CONTINUES ON A7

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FEBRUARY 19, 2012 n BULLY CONTINUED FROM A6 In the second phase, which focuses on interpersonal skills, students are invited to share how they’ve been wronged or wronged others and to reconcile by working through an innovative conflict resolution process DiLallo calls Clear Talk. “This is what sets my model apart from anything I’ve studied and seen out there,” DiLallo said. The third phase, focusing on intrapersonal skills, works to further build personal abilities to combat bullying behavior. “Bullying is happening in so many different ways,” DiLallo said. “It’s a huge social contagion and what I’m attempting to do in the three-phase model is to shift that contagion to a more positive contagion, empowering students to see there’s a grander scheme of things and that you are really selling yourself short and you’re cheating others by treating them this way.” DiLallo intends his Toledo Free Press column to provide the opportunity to ask questions and share concerns and stories about bullying. “Our stories, past and present, make us who we are,” DiLallo said. “Sharing our stories is what makes us a community. This anonymous format will respectfully help us all to learn from each other and be comforted in the knowledge that we share similar concerns surrounding bullying — making this truly a shared community experience.” Although DiLallo frequently works with students, his methods are also effective in workplace situations. “Bullying is bullying,” DiLallo said. “It’s something that flies under the radar in a lot of ways and when it comes out it can be very startling for an employer just like it can be for a principal who may not be aware of it until long after the fact. So it’s really important that employers, just like principals, really have a pulse on their personnel and on what’s going on.”

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“Bullying is bullying. It’s something that flies under the radar in a lot of ways and when it comes out it can be very startling for an employer just like it can be for a principal who may not be aware of it.” — Frank DiLallo Bullying can also come from authority figures. “There’s a lot more talk about bully teachers, bully parents, bully bosses,” DiLallo said. “They have an approach that is disempowering and disenfranchising, not a way that helps motivate people. It’s a shaming approach, which reduces productivity. All three of those create an unsafe environment that is not conducive to our personal best. “That’s not fair to those students just like it’s not fair to the workers who have a lot of gifts to offer the workplace,” DiLallo said. “If the social environment is so negative and so threatening, intimidating, demeaning, demoralizing, it’s hard to access my gifts and be all I’m intended to be. That environment has to shift that social contagion to a positive one, a culture of kindness if you will. A culture of honoring each other’s gifts and talents and respecting each other, seeing the dignity, worth and value in every student, in every employee. If we don’t, our culture will continue to decline.” For more information, visit www. peace2usolutions.com. O

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HIGHER EDUCATION

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Lourdes University will soon search for a new president. Robert C. Helmer, who has been president since 2003, announced Feb. 13 that he will step down at the end of the 2011-12 school year to accept a president position at Baldwin-Wallace College. The college is a United Methodist institution located in Berea, Ohio. Helmer was selected from a pool of 88 candidates. “There are big shoes to fill,” said Mary Arquette, Lourdes’ vice president for institutional advancement. Helmer began at Lourdes in 1996 as an assistant professor in history. When he became president, declining enrollment had shrunk to HELMER 1,200 students and tuition was rising. “Our tuition at the time had outpaced our local market as a commuter school,” he said. “We needed to be competitive locally and we weren’t.” He said his immediate goals were to stabilize the college and then help it grow. He cut tuition by 41 percent, pushed for a new marketing campaign and oversaw the dawning of new master’s programs. This August, the institution stepped up to university status. The university has broken its own records for the past eight years. Enrollment is about 3,700 now; tuition is about $15,000 a year. Since 2006, the university has built a new student learning center, classroom building and dining hall. On top of the recently added masters’ programs — including nursing, theology, liberal studies and organizational leadership — the staff is working toward creating a global studies program, Arquette said. The university’s inaugural baseball game strikes this March. Lourdes has been able to turn itself around with core values tied to the Catholic-Franciscan belief system;

education there is about community, learning, reverence and service, Helmer said. “You hear a lot of institutions talk about the value of respect,” he said. “We thought the value of reverence, which means finding God in each other, really captures for us that Christian value of God being present.” Keeping tuition low is another virtue tied to one of the core beliefs: service. Helmer said he strives as president to lift the barrier of tuition for lower-income individuals seeking higher education. Baldwin-Wallace, another private institution, charges $27,060 for a full year for liberal arts students. The bill could reach up to $35,940 when a student tacks on room and board fees. But more than 90 percent of the students are attending on scholarship. The college also pays close attention to need-based financial aid so the ticket price is usually not the amount the student pays, said George Richard, assistant vice president and director of college relations at Baldwin-Wallace. Baldwin-Wallace also has higher enrollment han Helmer sees at Lourdes. The total number of students, including full- and part-time undergraduates and graduates reaches about 4,100, Richard said. One of the biggest differences that stands out to Helmer is the football team. “I’ve never before had to lead an institution where there are football games on Saturdays,” he said. “That will be exciting.” As a United Methodist college, Baldwin-Wallace shares many of the values that Helmer gravitated toward at Lourdes. The institution, which dates back to 1845, was one of the first in the entire country to educate people regardless of race or gender. The first graduate was a woman, Richard said. In July, the college will step up to university status, becoming Baldwin-Wallace University. Lourdes University will appoint a search committee to look for its next president. An interim president will take the lead throughout the 2012-2013 school year. “It will be bittersweet; we are so proud of Bob and his accomplishments here,” Arquette said. “And we will carry on his vision and the mission of Lourdes for our students.” O

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BOE yet to investigate questionable office hours By Caitlin McGlade

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The Lucas County Board of Elections has not investigated its former director, more than a month after a Toledo Free Press investigation revealed that the official had charged the county for at least 66 questionable hours. F o r m e r board member Jim Ruvolo expressed interest in questioning ROBERTS former Director Ben Roberts’ records after the story broke in early January, but he resigned from the board Jan. 20. Although two meetings have taken place since the story’s release without mention of an investigation, this is not a dead issue, Ruvolo said. “It’s still an issue and it’s an issue the board needs to look at,” Ruvolo said. Former board member Rita Clark said she wants the board to start investigating Roberts’ records. “That’s taxpayers’ money that was being misused. If someone was misusing my money, I would want to know why and where it went,” Clark said. “It is my money, really, when it comes right down to it.” Ruvulo said he didn’t bring up the subject at his last meeting because the agenda was too packed with other controversial matters. Now isn’t exactly the easiest time either, he said, because of the March 6 primary and the board reorganization in the beginning of March that mandates the consideration of a new director and deputy director. After the dust settles from that, he said, he plans to discuss Roberts’ “activities or lack thereof ” with board member Ron Rothenbuhler. But Rothenbuhler said, “It’s not on my list; he’s gone. We can’t even get a consistent group to deal with the processes we have.” Within the past year, Rothenbuhler said, he has seen a director and deputy director fired, one director resign and two board members resign. And during the Feb. 14 meeting, Republicans Jon Stainbrook and Tony DeGidio voted to oust Deputy Director Dan DeAngelis. Their effort was met with Rothenbuhler and new board member Keila Cosme’s opposition. Rothenbuhler said until the elections board shows some direction

toward a productive end, he wouldn’t want to dig up old problems.

The honor system

Rothenbuhler and DeAngelis asserted the board needs a more accurate system of charting who enters and leaves the office and other election locations, such as the warehouse. Employees do not have to swipe cards when they enter or leave any election board site. “In a way, it’s the honor system,” DeAngelis said. Anyone who enters One Government Center on weekends, however, must sign in at the security desk. The Toledo Free Press investigation compared the front desk logs with Roberts’ recorded work hours and found that he had not signed in on any weekend that he reported working. The total added up to $3,103.98 worth of charges to the county. Rothenbuhler said he and the Lucas County commissioners have discussed a more rigorous sign-in policy for months. But the biggest barrier is funding — establishing a computerized system to record employee presence would be costly, although Lucas County Administrator Peter Ujvagi did not have an exact figure. DeAngelis said that the Roberts investigation did not prompt the idea but Ruvolo said the questions surrounding Roberts’ presence at work pushed the subject to the forefront. Rothenbuhler sees a clockin system as a logical step. “We keep identifying potential problems,” Rothenbuhler said. “Why not do what every other employer does? You’ve got people working at [factories] and they don’t get in and out of the gate without checking in. Why are we not doing that for the people who work for the county?” DeAngelis and Clark kept personal logs charting when Roberts entered and left the office. The days on which they both kept records corresponded with each other and indicated that Roberts did not show up on days he logged hours.

Roberts’ response

Roberts told Toledo Free Press that he worked “tirelessly” — sometimes putting in 80 hours a week — to complete all of his tasks as director. He said he worked outside the office often when communicating with board members and the secretary of state’s office, compiling research, studying the best practices of election law and meeting with media. No policy from the secretary of state or the county’s

employee manual dictates whether directors must work within the office. But Clark and DeAngelis said that working from home is not feasible because so much of the job description includes working with the deputy director and managing the staff. Roberts resigned from his position in the beginning of December, writing in his departure letter that rigid partisanship kept him from making positive changes and running an efficient elections board. The four board members have yet to agree on a replacement for Roberts but will have to reorganize in the beginning of March because of state mandates. Clark resigned in August after six years on the board, shortly after Roberts took the director position. She said conditions within the office had turned volatile, with every day becoming a “dreadful experience.” Disturbed by a number of her interactions with Roberts, Clark reported to the secretary of state’s office that he wasn’t performing his job properly and that he was seldom present. However, the duty of investigating such matters falls to the board.

broke the tie and ruled in Stainbrook’s favor. Lange and Mettler later filed a lawsuit against the board, asserting that Stainbrook fired them in retaliation for investigating Republican committee members who might have committed voter fraud to elect Stainbrook party chair. Most board meeting votes end in a party-line tie. The meetings typically escalate to heated altercations and eye-rolling among board members and sighs or hushed laughter from the public attending. “Its very difficult to get anything

done,” Rothenbuhler said. The office is also under investigation by the FBI for unauthorized email usage among staff members. Clark said at least 10 or 12 people have approached her and told her they’ve lost trust in the Lucas County elections process. “I heard a lot of people tell me that they’re not even going to vote; they don’t want anything to do with that office,” she said. “It just makes me sick to hear and see what has transpired since I left.” O

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Better late ... than on time A lmost every time I make a trip Tiffin. Nine miles north, at Lower to a new destination, I end up Sandusky (Fremont), the recently taking a wrong turn. There — constructed U.S. fort, named after its builder, Mills Stethe old running joke of phenson, was about to guys who won’t stop for be attacked by the British directions is validated, and Indian alliance. at least by my driving What became known as record. However, when The Battle of Fort Stetraveling to a previously phenson is documented visited destination via as one of the most nothe same route, I usually torious, against-all-odds make it there without victories in the annals of adding turn-around war. And, Conner was, miles to my odometer. ironically, major factor Who knows — Frank KURON maybe Columbus circled his ships in this historic American victory — bemid-Atlantic a few times before cause he got lost! Fort Seneca was actually a vast landing in the New World. Perhaps the divine plan for the Exodus was supply depot that Harrison could originally a 40-day trek rather than 40 ill-afford to lose. Consequently, he years, but Moses refused to stop at an remained there with his large body oasis for directions. Well, I’m here to of troops to protect it. He knew the tell you that this “guys-losing-their- enemy force approaching Fort Steway” dilemma did begin at least 200 phenson to his north outnumbered years ago, as evidenced by William the Americans there by as much as 10-to-1. The young commander, Maj. Conner during the War of 1812. Conner, a white man who had been George Croghan, and the mere 150 informally adopted into the friendly men he led, were in serious peril. At ten Delaware Indian tribes residing in o’clock in the evening, Harrison sent southern Ohio and Indiana, was well- Conner, accompanied by a few Delaversed in several Indian dialects. This wares, with his orders for Croghan to led to his often being hired as a scout immediately abandon, burn down the and translator by Gen. William Henry fort and retire south with his men to Harrison, the commander of the U.S. Fort Seneca. But events didn’t unfold as Harrison had planned. Northwest Army, circa 1813. Marauding Indians along Conner’s On July 29, 1813, Conner found himself with the American troops at known path to the fort forced him to Fort Seneca, just north of present-day leave the established trail several times

and find alternate routes. Conner knew the territory, but to his own chagrin he became lost and the disorientation caused him to deliver Harrison’s message around 10 o’clock the next morning instead of near midnight as expected. Upon reading Harrison’s order, Croghan judged that had he gotten it earlier he could have obeyed it; but at this late hour he couldn’t risk moving his men south. Conner returned with Croghan’s response to Harrison: “We have determined to maintain this place.” Such insubordination didn’t sit well with Harrison. He immediately sent a colonel to Fort Stephenson to replace Maj. Croghan who returned to Seneca under arrest. Croghan soon convinced Harrison of the soundness of his decision, and so returned to command his men. Why Harrison didn’t send reinforcements from Seneca to aid in the imminent battle at Fort Stephenson has been a historical controversy ever since, especially since these early back-andforth treks were made safely. Throughout the night of Aug. 1 the battle ensued. Croghan slyly had his handful of men wheel their lone sixpounder cannon to a different side of the fort after each firing, creating the illusion of a well-armed fortress. By morning, the Americans stood victorious. “Old Betsy,” the so-nicknamed cannon, is still on display where it was used that night in Fremont. The site is now home to the Birchard Public

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‘Old Betsy’ Library which houses the Fort Stephenson Museum. A weekend bicentennial festival is planned for August, 2013. Conner’s home near Indianapolis is now a historical site known as Conner Prairie, providing numerous activities. Both destina-

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“I never dreamed that he was going to end up there,” said Marie Haberkamp, Randy’s mother. She may not have imagined he would end up working for the Academy, but she said she did see a passion in him. “I think whatever he gets into,” she said, “he makes good out of it.” Marie also said that whatever Randy starts, he finishes, something he inherited from her. “I wouldn’t start something I didn’t finish,” she said. Haberkamp’s love for the movies began while growing up in New Knoxville, Ohio, a village southwest of Lima, nestled near St. Marys to the northwest and Wapakoneta to the northeast. “It’s about as small as you can get,” Randy said. As a child, Randy loved making home movies, said Marie, who starred in one of his productions. Randy follows his dreams and passion, his mom said, and that led him to BGSU.

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Haberkamp graduated from BGSU in 1979, majoring in communications. “It was the perfect place for me,” he said of BGSU, in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star. “It felt very safe in the sense that there was a community.” While there, he worked on the newspaper, was chairman of the campus movies committee, ran the University Activities Organization and enjoyed theater. His love for silent films also blossomed at BGSU, where he’d watch

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At UCLA, Haberkamp earned a master’s degree in motion picture and television production. Once out of school, Haberkamp did a lot of temp work until he found a job at CBS. At the network for 14 years, he worked his way up through the program coordination department to become manager, before being promoted to director of feature films in January 1992. Leaving CBS in 1997, he then worked as an independent producer, and later as a talent agent for JS Represents. There, some of his clients included Octavia Spencer and Tate Taylor. Spencer is nominated for an Academy Award this year for her performance in “The Help,” which Taylor directed.

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In 2001, a job opened at the Academy for film programming; Haberkamp applied. “I was lucky enough to get the job and have been here for 10 years now,” he said of the Academy, based in Beverly Hills, Calif. When the new year begins, it is “a very busy time” for Haberkamp. One of his favorite projects to work on is the Meet the Oscars exhibition. This year, visitors of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal will be able to hold an Oscar statuette and have their picture taken with it. “There is something about watching people step up and pick up the Oscar that I find immensely satisfying,” he said. “It’s fun to see people get all excited and see where that statuette takes them mentally.” Other projects of his include coordinating the Oscar nominees’ luncheon, which occurred Feb. 6, and overseeing Oscar Night America, a nationwide ceremony viewing party program that benefits charities for local communities. He also oversees the creation, pro-

duction and distribution of the official Academy Awards program. During the off-season for the Oscars, he works on special projects and educational programs for the Academy. In January, he coordinated a showing of the 1927 film “Wings,” winner of the first Best Picture Oscar and the only silent film honored as Best

Picture. Paramount Pictures unveiled the refurbished movie at the screening and has released it on Blu-ray and DVD. The screening featured live organ music from Clark Wilson, who regularly plays at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus. All of these events and special programs, Haberkamp said, are possible because of the Oscars.

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them on WBGU, a PBS member channel operated by the university. He also programmed some silent films on campus, Haberkamp said. During his summers, he worked at Cedar Point and participated in eightweek theater programs at the Huron Playhouse in Huron, Ohio. Haberkamp worked at Cedar Point for two summers, back when the Corkscrew had just opened. He said he loves roller coasters and needs to head back to the “best place in the world” for them. His true passion was film. “I always loved movies and wanted to make movies,” he said. Upon graduating from BGSU, he left Ohio to attend graduate school at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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surgeon who works at Toledo Hospital recently returned from a volunteer program through the Society for Vascular Surgery that sends doctors overseas to treat soldiers wounded in Afghanistan. The soldiers are first rescued from the combat zones and taken to a hospital nearby where doctors secure their vitals and treat immediate GALE problems. They are then sent to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where surgeons prepare them to be sent back to America. The Society for Vascular Surgery has sent about 80 doctors to the medical center since the program’s inception in 2007. Society members are so eager to go there is a waiting list and there has yet to be a two-week span left unfilled by a volunteer, said Sue Crosson-Knutson, spokesperson for the society. “The need of a vascular surgeon is to connect arms or legs and there are things being done now that they could not have done in Vietnam,” Crosson-Knutson said. Gale knows this all too well. The draft sent him to Vietnam just after he had graduated from college. A platoon leader for the 173rd Airborne Brigade at Dak To in 1967, young Gale witnessed more than 300 soldiers get killed or wounded. “I felt very helpless at the time because I could do nothing to prevent this from happening,” he said. He had every intention of returning to the front after he came

home. But the unpleasant reception he got upon arriving in the United States — whether from his friends or the cold shoulder of Americans’ soured notions toward the war — dissuaded him. So he went running a lot. He avoided fights with protestors. And he turned to medical school. He became a surgeon and felt like he could accomplish something worthwhile again. It wasn’t until the war in the Middle East began that he started noticing a void — this need to go back into a war setting and help people. “I kind of felt guilty that I hadn’t done more,” he said. He realized he could use the very tool that gave him purpose after returning from Vietnam to make an impact now. And what a difference he could make now, as a surgeon, compared to the 1960s. During his two-week volunteer period, he cleaned wounds, removed tissue, cut out nonhealing portions of wounds, redressed, repeated until the soldiers were ready to fly home. Doctors then packed them in a plane with at least 140 pounds worth of respirators, IV pumps, wound dressing, cardiac monitors and oxygen monitors and sent them on their way. Perhaps the biggest medical difference is the emergence of the negative pressure vacuum system. The technology was invented in the ’90s, Gale said. The system drains fluid and infection and helps to more easily heal the victim. Some soldiers would have six or seven of these on different sites on their bodies, Gale said. He was also able to help jump-start a vascular program that the medical center had wanted to initiate for a year and a half, he said. He treated at least 12 patients. One didn’t make it home.

GALE IN VIETNAM, 1967 Even in the worst cases, Gale said he didn’t find himself dwelling on his brutal war memories. “I just felt good that I had the skills to accomplish a little something to help these troops get back home,” he said. “When we were in the operating room we were not thinking about flashbacks. We were thinking about, ‘Let’s get this guy fixed up to the best of our ability, let’s get these dressings on, let’s get him off the table and let’s not keep him under anesthesia for too long and let’s get on to the next one’.” Gale said that he feels as though he has come full circle with respect to his time served in Vietnam. But this time, he was greeted with appreciation when he came home. His wife and daughter met him at the airport waving little American flags. O

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Toledo residents who travel an hour or more for Asian grocery items can cut down on car time, thanks to the recent opening of Lai Lai Asian Mart. “Toledo has a growing Asian, Asian-American population and there’s a spike in Asian cooking and Asian cuisine so we wanted to cater to the population. A lot of Toledoans would have to drive to Ann Arbor to find the best selection and prices on Asian groceries, so we wanted to try to eliminate that travel expense,” said Pauline Chen, owner Joey Chen’s daughter, who helps with the store and marketing. The 4,800-square-foot store mostly carries items from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan and a few products from Thailand and Vietnam. In the future, the store may stock more South Asian products. So far, business has been good for Lai Lai, which opened Jan. 7, Joey said. He and Pauline emphasized that the employees are there to help and that people of non-Asian descent are certainly welcome. “Our store is very friendly to people who aren’t familiar with Asian cooking and people who come in here are free to ask us questions. We can tell them the difference between this thing and that thing. We’re always here to help,” Pauline said. “Whatever they need, we do our best to try to get it for them,” Joey added. In the future, Lai Lai may offer cooking classes to further educate the population on Asian cuisine, he said. The store also expects to get a shipment of live blue

crabs from the New Orleans area soon and plans on getting new shipments of the crustaceans every other week. Fresh produce is delivered in the middle of the week. Lai Lai’s Central Avenue location has made it a hit among University of Toledo’s exchange students. “Students can come here to have something from their countries they cannot usually buy [in the U.S.],” Joey said. Joey has his own experience with being far from home. Of Chinese descent, but born in South Korea, he emigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1986. He then worked in the restaurant industry in the ’80s and went on to the seafood import/export business. Pauline said Lai Lai has a great variety, with wide aisles, good lighting and neat stacks of products. “We have a lot of things. It could be a little overwhelming at first, but we’re always here to help you find what you need. Just bring in your recipe and we’ll help you. There’s no need to be afraid of Asian cooking,” Pauline said. Her personal favorite items include mochi, Japanese rice cakes available with red bean filling. “It’s a really popular dessert; it’s really sweet,” Pauline said, adding, “If people are adventurous, I would suggest the fried squid that we have. It’s really good to just chew on.” Joey favors the frozen meals for their convenience and nutrition, as well as ramen. “People think they are bad, but right now, we have a lot of ramen noodles that are not fried, but baked, and not oily with not much MSG,” he said. Lai Lai Asian Mart is at 3205 W. Central Ave., Toledo. The store’s hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon-8 p.m. Sunday. To learn more, visit www.facebook. com/lailaiasianmart or call (419) 725-3563. O

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The recently opened Ukazoo Books offers customers a big-box atmosphere without the steep prices, store employees say. “It’s a mesh between your used bookstore and your big box store. We’ve got the pricing of used, but we look like a big box store,” said General Manager Edward Whitfill. The used bookstore chain was started by brothers Jack and Seth Revelle. The Revelles began buying and selling used books online before starting their first retail location in Towson, Md., Whitfill said. Ukazoo now has four locations and is looking to open another later this year. The other locations are in Southgate, Mich., and Plymouth Meeting, Pa. The Revelles chose their Toledo location, 830 N. Westwood Road, partially because they own PRO Quo Books, another bookselling business, in the back of the building. Borders’ closing also led the brothers to give Toledo another large bookstore, Whitfill said. Pat Borden, a former Borders

employee, will manage the Toledo store. He doesn’t foresee Ukazoo going the way of Borders. “There was a company that was in love with books, but they weren’t in love with selling,” Borden said, adding that Ukazoo is in love with both. At 13,000 square feet, Ukazoo is a little smaller than Borders, but offers customers some new options like selling back their books. Ukazoo employees cross-check the books with a software system to determine how much patrons receive for them, Whitfill said. Ukazoo, which created 16 new jobs in Toledo, relies heavily on its software and may be looking for a software engineer in the future, he added. “That’s one of the best parts of my job; there’s nothing like creating jobs,” Whitfill said. Whitfill is also responsible for selecting the new books sold at Ukazoo. He favors regional best-sellers and checks out independent bookstores to see their selection, he said. He makes sure he is very careful in choosing new books. “We can’t afford to put the wrong book on the shelf,” he said. n UKAZOO CONTINUES ON A17

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For the most part, however, Ukazoo stocks used books, mostly priced below $6, Whitfill said. The store also has a buy three, get one free promotion. Wi-Fi and free coffee are some of the other perks offered. Kids can check out the large children’s section complete with a tunnel, birdhouses and a tree built by employees. “You see the look on the kids’ faces and they’re just mesmerized,” Borden said. Feedback from adult customers has also been great so far and many people have come back with friends, Borden and Whitfill said. Part of what customers like is that Ukazoo doesn’t fit the stereotype of a typical used bookstore. “It doesn’t smell like a used bookstore,” Whitfill joked. “If you didn’t know it was a used bookstore, you’d think it was brand new,” Borden said.

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People do bring in books that are too damaged or may not be sellable. In those cases, Ukazoo recycles the books. The Toledo location plans to give back in another way by working with Reach Out and Read of Northwest Ohio, a children’s literacy program of the University of Toledo Department of Pediatrics. Despite the rising popularity of digital readers like Kindles and NOOKs, Borden and Whitfill aren’t worried about business. Borden said physical books will always have a place in society. “What do you do at the beach? Do you really sit in the sand with [a digital reader]? Do you take it by the pool?” he asked. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit www.ukazoo.com or facebook.com/ UkazooToledo. O

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After playing four years of football at the University of Pittsburgh as a walk-on, Toledo native Jeremiah Davis is fulfilling another dream by studying abroad in Argentina. “It definitely will be warmer,” he said. “I chose a program in Ghana, but it was canceled for the spring. Argentina was the next best fit for me as far as my class curriculum goes. I’ll be going for business classes, and I’ll be taking a Spanish class for the first time.” His father, Matt Davis, always put more of an emphasis on education than sports despite being Jeremiah’s head coach at Scott High School. “We never talked about football at home,” Matt said. “When he came home, he wasn’t a football player. He’s still going to be a young man, plus he had a lot of homework to do.” Jeremiah kept up with his homework to maintain a 3.7 GPA at Toledo Technology Academy. “He has had a great drive since he was a little kid,” Matt said. “I had no doubt that he’d be able to play. I wasn’t worried about him playing college football. I just wanted him to go to school and have fun.” The focus on education paid off with Jeremiah’s educational career going international. He left Feb. 1 for Argentina. “He is doing well and having a great experience,” Matt said. “I think it is the chance of a lifetime. I don’t know many people who are willing to do such a thing, especially traveling alone. I hope he can inspire other young people in our area to dream big and make those dreams come true.” Jeremiah’s dreams started while playing football, basketball and track at Scott throughout high school. His

DAVIS own school did not offer sports, but while playing for Scott he was the starting quarterback and safety his senior year and earned All-City League honors at both positions. “Playing for my dad was great,” Jeremiah said. “A lot of times, especially at the quarterback position, you have to trust the coach and the calls they make. Being that it was my father, I had no problems trusting the decisions he was making, and he had no problems giving me reins to make my own decisions on the field. That was a really positive experience.” Due to paperwork being pushed back, Jeremiah got a late start at Pittsburgh, walking on as a cornerback after the third game in 2008. Jeremiah made the transition to cornerback from quarterback and safety because of his size. Jeremiah said he hasn’t gained more than 10 pounds while at Pittsburgh, but Jeremiah’s strength, muscle and game speed have increased greatly. His effort on the field and in the gym paid off this season with a starting role on special teams and a reserve role at cornerback.

“Especially with as hard as I worked in my first three years here, it was great to get on the special teams, play and travel week in and week out,” he said. “I’m proud to still be here. I’ve seen walk-ons come in and out since I’ve been here, and walk-ons that never see the field. That’s not a knock to them. It’s just the position they were in. The fact that I’m still here despite everything that’s transpired through my four years, I’m proud of that.” Jeremiah missed the final three games of the season after breaking his ankle during a one-on-one drill in practice. He had to get a plate and seven small screws in his ankle. Jeremiah suffered the injury when he jumped for the ball on a deep route against a receiver nearly half a foot taller than him. With one season of eligibility remaining, Jeremiah is undecided about his future with the team. “I love football, but I’ve been playing football since the fourth grade,” he said. “There are a lot of things I haven’t had time to do because of football. I’m not taking away from football at all, because it’s taught me a lot and it’s still teaching me to this day. There are other things I’d like to do with my life, so it’s weighing that and whether coming back for a fifth year would be worth it in my eyes.” The other things he’d like to do revolve around his marketing major. “My main goal is to own a business,” Jeremiah said. “Whatever I do, I’ll be working toward that goal. I have a couple of ideas for business ownership, so that is my main goal. I have to look into the market to see what businesses would work best. After graduation, I’ll probably end up working for a marketing company to build finances. After a while, I’d like to invest in my own business and get involved with nonprofits as well.” O

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Local players win handball championship Winning championships is nothing new for the handball duo of Cleveland’s Jim Corrigan and Maumee resident Phil Kirk, but they live for the challenge. “It’s always fun,” Kirk said. “It’s a good accomplishment. What makes it feel good is playing in a tournament against good competition. We were trying to seek out a strong group of players this tournament. We could have played in the 55-plus division, but we went down to 50-plus because there was tougher competition.” Kirk and Corrigan won the United States Handball Association’s National Masters Doubles Invitational on Jan. 29 in Lilburn, Ga., with a 21-5, 21-12 win over the team of Jim Ward and Scott Kelley. Kirk learned to play handball when he was 16 at the YMCA in his hometown of New Philadelphia, Ohio, playing with his father and brother. He took up racquetball as a sophomore in high school, but he started playing handball again when he and his wife moved to Toledo in the early ’80s after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University. “It’s a great game,” Kirk said. “It uses every aspect of your physicality to play both right and left side and hit the ball with your hands.” Kirk and Corrigan crossed paths many times in singles matches throughout the years. Per the suggestion of George Miller, one of the most accomplished players in Toledo, they became doubles partners in the early 2000s. They have since won three indoor national titles, three outdoor national titles and a world championship. “He’s a great partner,” Kirk said. “He’s very patient and has great court sense. He’s right-handed and I’m left handed. I play the front right, which is really unusual in a doubles team. It’s somewhat unorthodox, and it seems to throw other teams off. I do what I can to keep the pressure on, and he makes great defensive shots. That combination seems to be working right now. I keep saying that someday they’ll figure us out, but that hasn’t happened yet.” O — Jason Mack

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Projects Designed & Built Inc. (PD&B) of Toledo has doubled its business in the past year and is expanding its facilities for the fourth time in its 13-year history. PD&B designs and builds custom automation and specialized machinery for state-of-the-art manufacturing on a global basis, said Ken Martin, founder and president. “We design and build equipment for the aluminum tubing, blow molding, automotive, food and green technology industries. We’re making machines that are faster, more efficient, easy to use and more profitable which is the bottom line,” Martin said. 2011 was PD&B’s best year ever,

which is the driving force for continued growth, Martin said. In 2011, more than 60 percent of the machines it designed and built were shipped to China, Mexico, Brazil, Hungary and the Netherlands. “The future looks incredibly bright as we’re getting more and more exposure in Europe. We’ve got some potential that is huge,” Martin said. PD&B is building a processing line to produce aluminum tubing for Güntner AG, a heating and cooling manufacturer, at its plant in Hungary. Marcus Haman of Güntner’s division in Austria visited PD&B’s plant in Toledo the week of Feb. 13 for the preacceptance testing of the machinery before it is shipped to Hungary. Güntner makes heat exchangers for commercial and industrial customers in Europe. “PD&B is a good company and the

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Years before Tom Waniewski represented District 5 on Toledo City

Council, he was trailing presidential campaigns with a camera in hand. He and longtime friend Jim Nowak, a videographer, worked for various broadcast news agencies for decades. They’d travel across the state

or just down the road, maneuver through crowds and perfect the art of appeasing Secret Service agents to capture the best angles. Black-and-white prints of Jimmy Carter, color shots of Ronald Reagan descending down air-

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plane stairs and profiles of George W. Bush rallying crowds lay in storage for years in Waniewski and Nowak’s personal collections. With Presidents’ Day on Feb. 20, Waniewski said he felt it was time for the photos to come out from hiding. He and Nowak compiled their WANIEWSKI work to display at the Main ToledoLucas County Public Library from now until the end of March. “I was cleaning out my pictures and as I was putting this big box away with great pictures. I thought it was unfortunate that they have to be relegated to a box,” he said. Their work is on the first floor of the library’s central court. Along with about 20 up-close shots of Carter,

George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Reagan and Bill Clinton, Waniewski offers some insight about the nuances of catching campaigns in action. Waniewski said his two priorities are capturing emotion and good composition. He has done so in a number of ways, whether by catching George W. Bush with a goofy smile or Clinton with a disconcerted look as he talks on a telephone. One of his favorite examples is of the younger Bush’s backside. Waniewski included an energized crowd pressing toward the stage in the shot, but said anyone looking at the photograph could tell just by Bush’s stance who the figure was. “He’s leaning, cocked in a Texas lean,” he said. “There are stories in that. I think they are just in the way the candidate presented himself ... Reagan always smiling and Bush with his kind of cocked lean. And I tried to bring that out.” n PHOTOS CONTINUES ON A22

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Why celebrate Mardi Gras on one day when it can last all week? Dégagé Jazz Café allows patrons to do just that with Mardi Gras Week at The Historical Commercial Building, 301 River Road, Maumee. Starting Feb. 21, jazz artists will perform nightly to celebrate the week. Ray Heitger kicks it off with New Orleans-style tunes on Feb. 21, followed by Gene Parker on Feb. 22, Leo Darrington on Feb. 23 and Cynthia Kaay Bennett on Feb. 24 and 25. Weekday performances start at 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Heitger and the Cakewalkin’ Jass Band play the masquerade-themed Mardi Gras Costume Party on Feb. 23 in the Langley Hall Ballroom. For $65, couples get two drink tickets and can graze on crawfish, jambalaya, gumbo, cornbread, bread pudding and more. Doors are at 6:30 p.m. and a cash bar is also available. Dégagé Jazz Café is open from 5-10 p.m. (bar until midnight) Tuesday through Thursday, 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday (bar until 1 a.m.) and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.historiccommercialbuilding.com/degage.php or call (419)-794-8205. Reservations are suggested. O — Brigitta Burks

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brought examples of 3-D photos to break the ice with the Secret Service guards. Waniewski said he always made sure to avoid using the word “shot” anywhere near the presidents. “The Secret Service ... you don’t mess around with them,” he said. “You don’t look at them, you just go there, do your job, shut up and get out of there.” How did all of this add up to a seat on Council? “I always felt politicians were very scheme-y and manipulative and less than truthful,” he said. In covering politicians, it became ingrained in him that he wanted to defy that perception when given the chance. O

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n PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM A21 Nowak was a videographer for WTVG but also carried still cameras to keep a personal collection. Reviewing his photographs and displaying them signify appreciation for the landmark historic events that he witnessed. And, of course, the quirky stories behind every strip of developed film. Such as the time he thought he was just talking to someone with a radio under his arm when it turned out to be a Secret Service agent with a machine gun. Or the time when he brought his 3-D camera to a Reagan photo-shoot and the guards saw four lenses in the front and forced him to take it apart. From that point on, he

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In consideration of the foregoing, I, for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, waive and release any and all rights, claims and courses of action I have or may have against the 50+ Sports Classic. The Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio, Inc., and its affiliates, their agents, employees, officers, direct ors, successors and assigns, the St. Francis deSales High School, the City of Toledo, the City of Toledo Parks and Recreation Department, all other facilities where 50+ Sports Classic events are held, and any and all sponsors, their representatives and successors, that may arise as a result of my participation in The Event and any pre- and post- event activities. I attest and verify that I am physically fit and have sufficiently trained for the completion of this event and my physical condition has been verified by a licensed medical doctor. Further, I hereby grant the Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio (AOoA) permission to use my likeness in a photograph, video and audio in any and all of its publications, Web site entries and commercials, without payment or any other consideration. I understand and agree that these materials will become the property of the AOoA and will not be returned. I hereby irrevocably authorize the AOoA to edit, alter, copy, exhibit, publish or distribute this photograph, video and audio for purposes of publicizing the AOoAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs or for any other lawful purpose. In addition, I waive the right to inspect or approve the finished product, including written or electronic copy, wherein my likeness appears. Additionally, I waive any right to royalties or other compensation arising or related to the use of the photograph, video or audio. I hereby hold harmless and release and forever discharge the AOoA from all claims, demands and causes of action which I, my heirs, representatives, executors, administrators, or any other persons acting on my behalf or on behalf of my estate have or may have by reason of this authorization. I am competent to sign in my own name. I have read this release before signing below and I fully understand the contents, meaning, and impact of this release. By signing below, I agree to the above waiver and release.

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Location: Ottawa Park Golf Course, 2201 Ottawa Dr. 7:15 a.m. Golf Location: St. Francis High School, 2323 W. Bancroft St. 9:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Participants Can Do the Following Field Events Anytime During This Timeframe: - Discus - Javelin - Shot Put - Long Jump 9:30 a.m. - 100 Meter Run 9:50 a.m. - 1500 Meter Run 10:30 a.m. - 400 Meter Run 10:50 a.m. - 200 Meter Run 11:00 a.m. - 800 Meter Run 11:20 a.m. - 1500 Meter Speed Walk 11:20 a.m. - Lunch & Track/Field Medals at Reg. Table 11:40 a.m. - Table Tennis Location: St. Francis High School, 2323 W. Bancroft St. 11:40 a.m. - Swimming: 200 Meter Freestyle 11:50 a.m. - Swimming: 200 Meter Individual Medley 12:00 p.m. - Swimming: 50 Meter Breaststroke 12:10 p.m. - Swimming: 50 Meter Butterfly 12:20 p.m. - Swimming: 50 Meter Freestyle 12:30 p.m. - Swimming: 100 Meter Indiv. Medley 12:40 p.m. - Swimming: 200 Meter Backstroke 12:50 p.m. - Swimming: 200 Meter Breaststroke 1:00 p.m. - Swimming: 100 Meter Freestyle 1:10 p.m. - Swimming: 100 Meter Butterfly 1:20 p.m. - Swimming: 100 Meter Backstroke 1:30 p.m. - Swimming: 100 Meter Breaststroke 1:40 p.m. - Swimming: 500 Meter Freestyle 1:00 p.m. - Foul Shooting Contest 2:00 p.m. - 3-on-3 Basketball 3:00 p.m. - Volleyball Location: Ottawa Park, 2201 Ottawa Parkway 10:00 p.m. - Tennis Location: Navarre Park, 1020 Varland Ave. 10:00 a.m. - Softball Location: Jermaine Park, N. Cove Blvd. & Upton Ave. 11:45 a.m. - Horseshoes Location: Bowlero Lanes, 4398 Monroe St. 5:00 p.m. - Bowling

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