Toledo Free Press – Mar. 22, 2015

March 22, 2015

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Opinion

Leading ladies and springtime of our discontent

Tom Pounds on UT’s new president and Lou Hebert on Toledo’s potholes. page 3-5

Community

Marijuana

Local group seeking to decriminalize drug in Toledo. page 11

Sports

Hoops scoop

First-year Scott High School coach Fred Coogler expects dedication on and off court. page 12

Business Link

FranNet

An upcoming business event helps match entrepreneurs with franchise opportunities. page 14

Community Star

Burnin’ it down

Country superstar Jason Aldean is coming to town. page 17

Sea you there Toledo Zoo’s renovated aquarium to be unveiled this week. By Joel Sensenig, page 6

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DON LEE

Leading ladies

ast week, the Toledo Free Press staff was knee-deep in 10 years’ worth of old papers, getting our anniversary issue ready to print. Thank you for all the kind words and well-wishes this past week on our milestone!

I’m a bit late, but I wanted to take the time to say congratulations and welcome to the University of Toledo’s new president, Sharon Gaber.

Gaber, 51, was announced March 12 as the search committee’s unanimous choice and has the distinction of being UT’s first female president.

Currently provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, Gaber has repeatedly pointed to her urban planning background as a strength that sets her GABER apart. The field is a synergy of many disciplines, an approach that considers the whole greater than the sum of its parts. That could be a great mindset with which to approach UT. Collaboration, communication and community are three buzzwords Gaber seems to That’s promising.

Thomas F. Pounds favor.

“I am about community,” she said during a community forum last month. “That’s what excited me about my discipline. That’s what excites me about this opportunity.”

Leadership means being a doer, she told UT’s Independent Collegian: “Anybody can come in and say, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do.’ Well, you want people that are working alongside you. You want them bought into the concept.”

Sounds a lot like the attitude of another local leading lady, Mayor Paula HicksHudson — Toledo’s first black female mayor — who chose a North Toledo neighborhood pool this week to announce her plans to run for mayor this November.

Hicks-Hudson also takes a greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts approach to governance, commenting that “livable, workable, safe, strong neighborhoods” are building blocks that create “livable, workable, safe, strong cities.”

Also during her visit last month, Gaber said she is impressed by UT’s comprehensive programs, which uniquely situate the school, and by extension the city, to attract students from “across the street, across the state and across the globe.” She wants to work to connect the university more with its namesake city.

“All the pieces for our continued success are right here,” she said.

That’s what Toledo’s late Mayor D. Michael Collins believed with his “You Will Do Better in Toledo” mantra. It’s a mindset Hicks-Hudson also champions.

Gaber has admitted she’s just begun to scratch the surface at UT and intends to be active, visible and involved in the community. That’s key. Boots on the ground is the only way to truly get to know a community.

As they move forward in their new roles, hopefully both these leaders can continue to think independently and avoid becoming beholden to any institution, media entity or self-serving string-puller of any ilk. TFP columnists in the past have been critical of former UT president Lloyd Jacobs and his ties to Blade President and General Manager Joe Zerbey, who serves as president of the university’s board and who was chair of this presidential search committee.

Both Gaber and Hicks-Hudson strike me as independent and self-assured so I’m cautiously optimistic. In the meantime, join me in welcoming Gaber to UT and wishing Hicks-Hudson well as she continues her unexpected journey. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press.

I HEART GLASS CITY

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never knew how much stress I was carrying with to the area. I found a dentist office that worked with my insurance, filled with a friendly staff. My first visits were my smile.

An incident occurred during a basketball game amazing with courteous and compassionate dentists who were great with my children. when I was 12 years old. My face ate the Then something unexpected happened. wood floors at the Catholic Club; the contact They sold the practice to a firm outside the instantly broke my front tooth in half, leaving city. Most of the support staff stayed, but the exposed nerve hanging — and I still finnew dentists were shipped in. ished the game.

During my next visit, I was convinced This is the only story in my repertoire that my 20-year-old front tooth/cap could be reshows any toughness on my part. placed and covered by my insurance comMy family dentist fixed the tooth with a cap, pany at little cost. And, while they were rewhich didn’t match in color. At the age of 13, I beplacing it, the dental staff wanted to make it came aware I had an off-colored smile, with newly a brighter shade of white, which of course I matching blue gums above the formerly healthy Jeremy BAUMHOWER agreed to. I had little knowledge about dentooth. I don’t remember smiling a lot before this incident because our home was never overly loving, and my tistry, except I know I hated the sound of the drill.

I later learned the new replacement tooth was affixed to father was battling alcoholism. The dental work that was done my jaw with a single metal post. made it nearly impossible to smile afterward.

Fast-forward 20 years to when I moved my family back n BAUMHOWER CONTINUES ON 5 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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THE ARMS FORCES

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Happy 10th birthday!

en years ago, when Toledo Free Press published its first edition, I was five years into what will be a lifelong recovery from a traumatic brain injury. In 2005, I celebrated three years of being able to read again, although not with the prowess I once had. Something I could not even have imagined back then was being a columnist for a newspaper.

While TFP was finding its legs as a weekly paper in this city, I was learning to use my legs again. While the brains behind Toledo Free Press came together to offer a different view, I was trying to figure out my life with a brain so severely damaged that I barely recognized myself.

Fast-forward to 2009, when my search to find a purpose in life beyond my amazing children and Pam Hays grandchildren led me to a calling to work with veterans who found themselves in a similar position to my own — trying to live their lives after devastating, and often invisible, wounds.

Once my nonprofit, The Arms Forces, had positioned itself as a bridge between veteran issues and the community, I began to wonder how I could get the message out to a greater audience that civilians matter in the lives of veterans. They have a significant role to play and, for them to see that, they needed a way to understand more fully what it means to be a veteran, especially one with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. Education reduces stigma. Reduced stigma opens more doors for our veterans.

In August 2013, I asked for a meeting with then-TFP Editor in Chief Michael Miller and then-Managing Editor Sarah Ottney. I approached them about a way to help me with my mission at The Arms Forces to reduce the divide between civilians and veterans. Both Michael and Sarah saw the benefit to first our military and veterans and also for the readers of their newspaper. They were familiar with my writing style, which is quite like having a conversation with me in person. They gave me some tips and in September 2013, my first column was published. I have been honored to write a column every month since.

I have received many phone calls and some written messages from people who tell me my columns have opened their eyes to what many of our veterans go through. The writings helped them feel more connected with veterans and less like outsiders who could never make a difference in their lives. I have also received calls from veterans (some in tears, which of course brought me to tears) who told me it meant so much to them that someone cared enough to talk about things in a way many could finally understand. Some even told me their families read the column and now understand more about the veteran’s life than they have in years of living with the veteran.

Those are powerful words and powerful reasons to support what can seem to be a “touchy-feely” type of column. I choose to approach the column in a way that brings humans together. I choose to look for what unites, not what divides.

That is a rarity in opinion columns we find in newspapers today. TFP management has supported me by giving me space in its newspaper. Our community is why I continue to write for them. They informed me if the community did not react to the column in a positive way, it would not be good business to continue.

So, I thank YOU, the community, for the opportunity to have a voice as a civilian to share about those who have become my dear friends and extended family, our veterans, our military and their families. I thank Toledo Free Press for always putting community first. I believe that is why they are around to celebrate their 10-year anniversary and have won numerous awards at all levels.

We can do our part by sharing TFP stories online and picking up the printed version. We can support the advertisers who allow TFP to be available at no cost to readers. We can let the columnists know when we like an article, when we don’t, or when we disagree with something the writer has expressed. Constructive criticism can only add to our craft. Offering a different perspective is the American way!

Congratulations to all the staff and writers over the past 10 years! The freedoms included in every issue of this paper are the ones veterans sacrificed to protect. Please keep our military and veterans in mind when you read TFP each week. O Pam Hays is president and founder of The Arms Forces, thearmsforces.org; (419) 891-2111.

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March 22, 2015

The washington Word

Obamacare back before Supreme Court

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arlier this month the Supreme Court heard arguments them, the IRS subsidies are just a way to meet the law’s goal: for and against the controversial Patient Protection and to insure as many people as possible in America.

Much is at stake should the IRS rule be overturned. Every Affordable Care Act. King v. Burwell, expected to be decided this June, will be the third time the Supreme Court will state without an exchange could be affected. Estimates say that nearly 8 million people may lose the insurance decide on the law in its brief five-year history. they have now: tens of thousands of whom In 2012, the court narrowly upheld the law’s live here in Ohio. In a statistic released by the individual mandate, while last year it decided Department of Health and Human Services, that not all businesses are required to cover connearly 250,000 Ohioans have signed up for traception for their employees.

“Obamacare.” A majority of people at risk In King v. Burwell, the issue at hand is whether will be low- to middle-income Americans, or not the IRS has the authority to provide subsimany of them healthy, leaving the sickest padies for people to buy health insurance who do not tients to pay much higher rates. As it stands live in states with exchanges of their own. Health now, the subsidies provided are directly paid care exchanges are marketplaces, mostly via the to health insurance companies, and then the Internet, where people who do not have insursavings are passed on to consumers. This ance can shop for plans. They can be run either by Ben OSBURN translates to about a 75 percent decrease in states or the federal government. As of now, only 16 states have opted to run their own insurance exchanges. This premiums for recipients. Should the subsidies be rescinded, means all others must rely on the federal exchange to receive health insurance companies may not have the money to cover “Obamacare” plans. Supporters of the case say that the way the people with pre-existing conditions, or be able to cover young law is written, the IRS does not have the authority to provide adults who stay on their parents’ plans until they are 26.

A quick fix to the rule being overturned will be an upsubsidies to people who don’t live in states with exchanges — roughly 70 percent of the country. The 2012 rule, challengers hill battle. Congressional opponents of the law say Consay, was created by the IRS in order to ease fears that states gress may provide financial relief to those losing subsidies, would not create their own exchanges before the 2014 deadline. but such a measure would only be temporary and details The case involves four Virginians, all eligible for health are sketchy. States could still set up their own exchanges, insurance subsidies, who are trying to deny such subsidies. ensuring their enrollees would get federal subsidies, but it Should the subsidies not exist, they would not be required to would be an expensive and politically difficult process.

The verdict in the case is expected to be close. Eyes will pay the individual mandate penalty due to their low incomes.

The plaintiffs, backed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a be on Chief Justice John Roberts, who is considered to be libertarian think tank, essentially believe that the government is a swing vote. He played a key role in the court’s decision to unlawfully coercing them to buy health care they do not want. find the law’s individual mandate constitutionally legal. The Obama administration officials counter that this case court did accept to rule on this case rather quickly, a fact is politically charged. They claim that an accurate reading that further proves how contentious the law is. O of the law makes clear that subsidies are to be made available in all exchanges, regardless of who is running them. To Ben Osburn can be reached at letters@toledofreepress.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Portrayal inaccurate

Mr. Jeremy Baumhower, In the March 8 Toledo Free Press, you wrote about “The day the Nazis won.”

In your column, you attempt to demonize the National Socialist Movement (NSM) by calling us “Nazis” and “people who hate.” These types of unflattering portrayals have been so often inaccurately bandied about that their inflammatory use is almost laughable. However, you do make one grave mistake.

While April 19 (the day after our rally) also celebrates “419 Day,” you make a false comparison to the events of 2005. This was not the day of violence “inspired by a group of people who only hate.” More correctly, this was the day that communists and anarchists motivated the black citizens of Toledo to rise against their own community in hate.

You write that, “We in the media choose whether to make hate groups coming to Toledo a news story.” Fine.

However, if you chose to consciously ignore the underground motivations that engulfed your own community, which was anarchist and communist-inspired

looting and rioting, you are obviously missing the whole point. The “Nazis” did not win that day — it was the communists and the anarchists who inspired the hate, destruction and violence. There is no winner when communist-inspired rioting brings destruction upon any city.

Again, ignoring this part of the story stops people from analyzing the negative contributions made by communists and anarchists in your own town.

Instead of stooping to their level (and denigrating the journalistic trade) by vulgarly calling us “the lowest pieces of s*** this country has ever known?” why not make some meaningful exploration into the underlying historic issues and present concerns?

It is not the NSM, or any other prowhite movement for that matter, that your town has to fear. It is those who want to ruin a peaceful way of life.

The greatest love a journalist can show is to bring out the truth in issues he feels are somewhat discomforting.

Furthermore, we in the NSM are often misrepresented by the mainstream press, as you so eloquently demonstrated. I wonder what it is about a white civil rights organization that you find to be so hateful?

The NSM is made up of countless men and women who have served this nation in the military, as well as others who work in public service and many other professions. Stereotyping an entire group of people is true hate, and it’s wrong. It would be like us saying every black person in Toledo is a rioter and criminal; that is certainly not true and we do not stereotype in such a manner.

The NSM is highly active on the U.S. borders, and abide by an America First platform. If standing up for white civil rights, defending our nation’s borders, and taking a nationalist, America First political stand is considered low and hateful, then so be it.

I doubt this letter will see the light of day, or be published as a rebuttal to your hate-filled diatribe against the NSM in the Toledo Free Press, as I am quite certain the media would love to continue demonizing the NSM. Anyone who is interested in our political platforms should simply check out our website at www.nsm88.org. We have a lot more support in Toledo than I think you realize. O Respectfully submitted, — Cmdr. Jeff Schoep National Socialist Movement

March 22, 2015

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n BAUMHOWER CONTINUED FROM 3 Imagine something skinnier than a toothpick, being the only thing holding a front tooth in place. They wanted to make money off the teeth whitening, having no other reason to replace the 20-year-old cap.

Being a man who values food and eating proved one thing — the replacement job did not work.

Over the course of six years, my front tooth broke off completely Baumhower more than 10 times. Each time another new dentist would remark on how surprised he/she was on the technique of replacing the front tooth — and that the new fix was only temporary.

KOZY Eventually, they said, I would need some procedure that would cost over $3,000, with insurance unlikely to cover it.

That, my friend, creates some deeply buried stress.

In January 2014, my tooth broke for the final time. I was told it could no longer be reattached; there was no more quality bone to connect the tooth to. Having no dental insurance at the time, and a family of four to feed, I had only one option. The only fix I could afford was to wear a “flipper” — a sportier way to say and describe a denture. It’s something hockey players wear until they retire and have their teeth permanently fixed. For over 14 months I was buying Fixodent and pasting my front tooth into my mouth.

I told no one. To make matters worse, the flipper broke and I started fixing it with Super Glue.

So as I was making TV appearances, getting married, growing my public presence — I was wearing a ghettorigged, Super Glued, front tooth flipper.

This is the reason why I smirk and express my face in ways other than smiling. It probably explains the eyebrow … possibly.

I cannot understate the amount of subtle and deeply buried stress one carries with a bad smile. It’s embarrassing, it made my heart sad and was my Achilles’ heel.

Then, something unexpected happened.

In early February, I received a message from a friend on Facebook.

Marcia Kozy stated she read my columns and posts, she told me her husband was a dentist and they were curious as to why I rarely smiled.

I agreed to come in and we sched-

uled a meeting. A couple of minutes into the appointment, I felt an urge to get something off my chest. I admitted something that I rarely had before — I hated my teeth and despised my smile.

It was at this very moment, I saw Dr. Paul Kozy’s heart. I never met the man before, but learned so much in a short amount of time. Paul immediately put me in a chair, ordered X-rays and examined my situation.

Turns out, he is one of a few dentists in the world who does the exact procedure my mouth needed.

Serendipity.

As I sat in the chair, this man who looks like a cross between Woody Hayes and Carty Finkbeiner examined my mouth thoroughly and excitedly.

I learned about his practice: it’s truly family-owned and operated. His two daughters, Bridget Kozy Snyder and Jackie Kozy Baither are both dentists and joined the family business. I also learned about his 5-year-old grandson, who, like my child, has a beautifully gifted mind. One in 68 makes the world extra small.

On March 12, I underwent a threehour surgery to fix a problem I’ve lived with since I was 12. I was sedated with a bag of Valium, conscious and making jokes throughout the procedure.

At noon, Paul handed me a mirror and allowed me to see his work. I was confused, most likely from the drugs, but it was the weirdest thing to see.

My teeth looked beautiful.

There is a video coming soon, including this moment where you can see how completely amazed and mesmerized I was. You will also see me on drugs, where at the time I described how I was feeling as “noon on St. Patrick’s Day.” I did not shed a tear in front of Paul, but I have shed many since.

Paul gave my kids a gift that day. He gave their dad a smile. Something we all are getting used to.

If you are unhappy with your smile, carrying that deeply buried stress, I strongly suggest calling Kozy DentalCare. Dr. Paul, Dr. Jackie and Dr. Bridget make people smile better every day.

Paul played baseball at the University of Toledo, his daughters both went to Ohio State and they are an old-school family dentistry business. It felt like home in their office.

For me, the hardest part is trying to learn how to smile. My kids all have beautiful smiles and take perfect pictures in one take. That’s a skill set I would like to have.

My face has been sore, not from the procedure, but from stretching in ways it wasn’t used to — from smiling.

Thank you Dr. Paul and Marcia – I deeply appreciate the work you’ve done and heart you’ve shown. O Jeremy Baumhower can be reached at jeremytheproducer@icloud.com.

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LOST IN TOLEDO

The springtime of our discontent

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inally, springtime is at our ular folks to get together for potholedoorstep — but don’t let it fool filling parties. It was a bring-your-ownyou. For this delightful season shovel affair and the clubs supplied the of crocuses in our gardens brings buckets of gravel. By 1910, they even with it the dreaded season of craters had a club insignia featuring a depicon our roadways. Yes, I’m talking tion of a shovel and a bucket.

A review of local potholes, the perennial historical records replague of pockmarks on veals that in Toledo, the pavement spawned by the early pothole the wear of traffic and the plague was also frewrath of winter’s crushing quently tackled by freeze-thaw cycle. And disgruntled vigilantes ready or not, they’re here. who took matters Bump-bump-thumpinto their own hands whap-bang-thud-kerunck! and filled the holes That’s what it was like without asking for driving down a stretch of Lou HEBERT city help. Imagine the Anthony Wayne Trail last week. And there’s little escape from that. It surely must have been a difit. It’s pervasive. Detroit Avenue and ferent time and mindset. In 1912, SpoMonroe Street. Jackman and Douglas kane, Washington, was so plagued by roads. I-475 and Front Street. All holes in the highways that the govstreets now feel like a relief map of the ernor declared one day in April 1912 as Andes Mountains, offering big thrills “ Good Roads Day,” and urged: “If you for drivers and big bills from the scores own an auto, climb into it with a pair of tire and alignment shops who repair of overhauls on April 12th and ride out our tires, wheels, shocks, axles, front into the country and when you get to ends, suspensions and brake systems that chuckhole or rut you cussed out that fall prey to this annual failure of the last time you ran into it, fill it up and level it over. If you can afford to road construction.

So I ask: Why? Seriously, do we own a car, you can afford to do this.”

One can only wonder what type really have to put up with this lunar landscape that is gouged into our road- of beating a politician would take ways every spring? Is this our fate? this day and age if this “fix-it-yourOur karma for some unknown sin we own-damned-self ” solution were to committed against mankind? Did our be decreed or even suggested again?

One hundred years later, though, ancestors also contend with this annual insult or is this a recent development on we do still employ the chuckhole club technique as the primary quick-fix sothe bumpy road of civilization?

Apparently it is nothing new. lution, only now we pay city and state Using my trusty Google search box street crews to do the dirty work as and a few minutes between TV opposed to setting up volunteer brishows, I was able to find a plethora gades. But the fact remains: the basic of stories from decades ago about technology for pothole repair really this springtime of our discontent. I hasn’t changed dramatically over the confirmed it, in black and white. We last century. It’s a sort of “whack-aare not the first generation to curse mole” solution that defies what should the roads we drive on. It appears that be the sensibility of (oxymoron alert) our parents, grandparents, great- responsible government. C’mon, let’s grandparents and most everyone on stop the madness. With today’s great our DNA chain over the past century technology, it would seem that we have uttered blasphemous oaths at could fix this problem once and for these voids and potholes, chuckholes all. And at the risk of being arrested by the cliché police, I’ll dare to say it: and craters, kettles and cave-ins.

They indeed have been a long and We can send a man to the moon, so ubiquitous part of the driving experi- why can’t we build a road that doesn’t ence from Tacoma to Toledo, the first fall apart in the winter?

Perhaps it’s not really viewed as one likely surfacing somewhere on Monroe Street shortly after the city’s the problem it really is. You see it first delivery truck, owned by Lamson’s comes and goes. We gripe and groan, department store, took to the muddy but then by fall, the problem is paved streets, splashing people on the side- over (pun intended) and then anwalks back in 1899. A few years and a other crisis intervenes and the furor few thousand cars later, the potholes dies down. Policymakers know this became so bad that a local chapter of and easily brush it aside when it’s no the national “Chuckhole Club” was longer front page news.

Time to change that. formed, which invited groups of reg-

I think everyone needs to frame this as more than just a seasonal nuisance or mere inconvenience. First and foremost, the situation is dangerous. Potholes are another one of nature’s ways of trying to kill us. Drivers that dodge or run into the big potholes too often lose control or slam into other cars.

And those flying chunks of concrete or asphalt sent airborne by the tires of an 18-wheeler can deliver more than a mere wet spot in your shorts when they hit your windshield.

And then let’s talk money. That reason alone is why drivers all across America should surround their state capitols with pitchforks and signs demanding a solution. Incessant road resurfacing and rebuilding is one of the biggest money sucks in government and from our wallets. We’re not talking millions of dollars. We’re talking billions. Billions, with a “B.” Every year in just Ohio, the state highway folks at Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) shell out well over $2 billion on a wide variety of projects. Lots of that money has to be spent to resurface or replace the pocked pavement that too often crumbles away like week-old toast. It’s a costly scenario that is repeated every year at the city and county levels. And while I fully understand there is a lot to do at ODOT and the agency is charged with taking care of millions of “lane miles” of highway, are any of those billions of dollars in the budget being spent to specifically study and prevent the problem of potholes on our roadways?

Are we really looking for long-term answers and solutions? How many engineers are tasked with finding this elusive Holy Grail of surface material to end this pestilence of potholes? It would be a solution that could save billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Where is the Bill Gates or Stephen Hawking of road construction? We need them desperately, for whatever money is spent to find the ultimate answer may be the best public investment in years. Ironically, when Ohio’s state highway department was started back in 1905, they had four employees, and their only mission was only to study the state roadways and the science of road construction. The annual budget was $10,000. As I drive down the Anthony Wayne Trail, dodging the divots and the dips, I wonder aloud if we are spending even that much today.

In the meantime, look out, big pothole on your left! O

Lou Hebert can be reached at letters@ toledofreepress.com.

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March 22, 2015

By Joel Sensenig

Toledo Free Press Managing Editor jsensenig@toledofreepress.com

It takes a county to raise an aquarium.

The Toledo Zoo’s $25.5 million aquarium renovation is almost complete, two and a half years after closing for the project. The aquarium will be unveiled March 27 at the beginning of a weekend full of events dedicated to the 178,000 gallons of water containing more than 3,000 animals.

“The Lucas County public loves that aquarium,” said Jeff Sailer, the zoo’s executive director. “They loved their old aquarium and I think they’re going to love their new aquarium.

It’s beautiful inside and there’s a lot more interactivity that guests can be involved in. There are a lot of exhibits that allow hands-on experience. It’s a really cool space.”

The public has a large stake in the aquarium — 80 percent of the total cost for the project comes from the zoo’s 2006 capital improvement levy approved by Lucas County voters. The remaining 20 percent came from private donors.

Aquarium-wise, it doesn’t get much more interactive than touching a shark. Visitors will get up-close opportunities at the new aquarium, as well as chances to interact with rays, sea stars and other animals of the ocean.

“None of this could have happened without Lucas County voter support,” Sailer said. “We are very, very grateful to have the support we have from the local community. We couldn’t offer these great exhibits otherwise.”

The numbers tell the story of progress. In October 2012, when the aquarium closed for the renovation, it contained 46,000 gallons. Today it holds 178,000. The largest exhibit, the reef tank (supported by OwensIllinois) holds 90,000 gallons of water, or nearly twice the old aquarium’s total capacity. Formerly, the largest exhibit was 7,600 gallons. The building’s exhibits were previously 37 percent saltwater; that number is now 87 percent.

Despite the massive jump in tank capacity, the building’s “footprint” taking up about 30,000 square feet remains the same.

The 1939 building was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) building. The WPA was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agencies, employing millions of unemployed Americans to build public buildings. The building was crafted from river shale, salvaged clay brick and lumber, cement and new glass block. The foundation materials were

PHOTO By Andi Norman / photo and COVER PHOTO COURTESY TOLEDO ZOO

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The grand opening of toledo Zoo’s $25.5 million aquarium renovation will be march 27 with events lasting all weekend.

selected to support the massive weight of thousands of gallons of water.

At the time, it was the world’s largest freshwater aquarium. Over time, as interest in marine species and the oceans grew, saltwater exhibits were added. The corrosive saltwater was not friendly to piping and other systems in the aquarium.

“Eighty-some years from opening, the saltwater did a real number on the tanks and infrastructure of the building,” Sailer said.

However, the building itself remained in excellent condition.

“Basically, we kept the outside the same,” Sailer said. “The only thing that’s changed is the entrance, which has been relocated back to its original location at the center of the building.”

Creative use of existing space, coupled with more efficient, less bulky life-support systems, allowed for the significantly larger tank capacity.

For Sailer, who came to the Toledo Zoo from New York City’s zoo system just months before the aquarium renovation began, the transformation was a thing to behold.

“It was really interesting because I was only able to see it a couple of times

before we closed it in 2012,” he said. “I never would have guessed that we had all this space there that we did.”

The largest exhibit, the 90,000-gallon reef tank, is located in what was originally the rotunda, where the old shark model was hanging from the ceiling.

“Now, the rotunda itself, that round room, is the tank and you’re on the outside of it looking in,” Sailer said.

The 30-by-16-foot tank contains sharks and colorful tropical Pacific reef fishes, and offers opportunities for visitors to communicate with an aquarium keeper and trained volunteer divers through an underwater microphone.

The second largest tank will be the Gulf of Mexico exhibit, featuring black nose and bonnethead sharks, rays and a sea turtle, which is part of a conservation education program to assist in the protection of wild turtles.

Other highlights include exhibits dedicated to South America’s Amazon ecosystem, the zoo’s new electric eel, deep-sea creatures such as giant Japanese spider crabs and aquatic life from the Lake Erie islands and Ohio waterways.

The grand opening weekend, sponsored by Kroger, is the culmination of work initiated well in advance

of the aquarium’s closing, Sailer said.

“People think of it as being a twoand-a-half year project,” he said. “It’s been in the works for over six years with the design, planning all of the infrastructure and what the interior would look like.

“I’m really excited. I can’t wait to be here opening weekend and see people’s reaction to it. I’m floored by how beautiful it is and I’ve gotten to see it as it’s been developed and built. I’m really excited to show it off to others.”

The renovation was not the first time the aquarium closed.

On Thanksgiving 1982, fire tore through the roof, killing 104 display fish and 500 feeder fish. Among the fish lost were arapaima and a pacu which was among the largest of its species in the U.S. The aquarium was closed for three months for repairs.

On April 13, 1987, an inch-thick glass tank panel split open, sending 20 tons of water onto the aquarium’s floor.

Zoo employees were able to save two lemon sharks by placing them in a secondary saltwater tank in the basement, but many smaller fish were lost.

Sailer said the economic impact of the renovation was significant, as

27 prime contractors and nine prime consultants were utilized in the project, resulting in 114,600 hours of on-site labor (not including work by zoo staff).

Despite the unique and specialized nature of aquarium design and expertise, more than 50 percent of the architecture and engineering team used is from within 30 miles of the zoo.

The addition of the modern aquarium only adds to the value of the zoo to the community, Sailer said.

“We’re able to offer both a worldclass zoo and an aquarium for one low price,” he said. “A lot of stand-alone aquariums are over $20 for a ticket.”

Zoo tickets are $17 for adults and $14 for children 2-11 years old.

In a September 2012 news release, Sailer said, “We realize 2015 seems far away, but we’re confident that, once you see the new aquarium, you’ll agree it was worth the wait.”

Time to find out, Lucas County.

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10 a.m.: Zoo opens 10-11 a.m.: Visit with Spike from Toledo Walleye 10 a.m. to noon: Toledo School for the Arts (TSA) Glass City Steel, along with performance puppets 10:15 a.m.: Grand opening ceremony 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.: Dive and talk presentations 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.: Penguin feed 11 a.m.: Meet a snake 11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Aquarium-themed crafts and activities 11:30 a.m.: Bird show Noon-2 p.m.: Stories, puppets and more Noon-2 p.m.: Face painting Noon-2 p.m.: Michael Roy’s Cirque du Papier origami demonstrations 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.: Under the sea with the Little Mermaid, a behind-the-scenes look at Ballet Theatre’s new production 1 p.m.: Tank talk 3 p.m.: Meet a hedgehog 4 p.m.: Zoo closes

On the Web visit toledozoo.org for a full schedule of grand opening weekend events.

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Thousands of eyes will soon be looking into the tanks of the Toledo Zoo’s renovated aquarium.

The handiwork of Toledo artists will demand attention is also given to objects outside of the water-filled exhibits — nearly two tons of glass tiles and an overhead, 18.5-foot-long maneating fish will make sure of that.

Two businesses on Huron Street in Downtown Toledo — Gathered Art Gallery & Studios and Graphite Design + Build — created the two largest pieces of artwork featured in the aquarium, which opens to the public March 27.

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Douglas kampfer and jeremy link of graphite design + build in downtown toledo crafted two sharks for the toledo zoo’s renovated aquarium.

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Like any good shark this side of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic film “Jaws,” Graphite’s great white cannot be overlooked. Hanging in the aquarium’s entrance lobby, the creature is a realistic-looking piece of epoxycoated Styrofoam.

“The shark is probably, overall, our best, realistic sculpture to date,” said Jeremy Link, who co-owns the three-year-old business with Douglas Kampfer. “Not taking anything away from anything we’ve done earlier, but it’s the most attention to detail that we’ve done to date.”

For Kampfer, it was a chance to pay homage to the shark sculpture that used to hang in the zoo’s aquarium. That shark, made of chicken wire and foam, was disintegrating after years on display.

“I fell in love with it when I first saw it, and I really never stopped thinking about it when I was at the zoo,” Kampfer said. “Everyone kind of sought it out, especially around Christmastime when it had the Santa hat on.”

Working with the zoo is nothing new to Link and Kampfer, who were finishing work on a Quetzalcoatlus northropi — the large prehistoric flying animal sculpture in the zoo’s reptile house — when they were approached about doing the dorsal-finned aquarium centerpiece.

“We’ve had a lot of history with the zoo the last couple of years. We’ve had a lot of different projects with them,” Link said. “I think from the beginning, they really liked our attention to detail and the way we could capture the realism of the animals we were sculpting.”

Link and Kampfer also created for the zoo a large saltwater crocodile and the animal masks children have enjoyed standing behind while getting their pictures taken.

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n AQUARIUM CONTINUED FROM 8 The life-sized shark, which the creators unofficially named Betty White, weighs about 250 pounds — considerably less than the approximate 5,500 pounds an actual shark that size would weigh. They spent about two months on the beast, and another two and a half months on the rest of their works for the aquarium, including an

octopus that will double as a hand sanitizer near the hands-on touch tank, as well as a circular piece showing the complete life cycle of a salmon, from an egg to a spawning adult.

They’re also creating a mechanical great white shark bust with exposed insides, where visitors can crank a wheel to see how jaw movement works on a muscular and skeletal level.

“It’s so kids can learn a little bit about the anatomy of a shark,” Link said. “We’re putting it at a height where kids can reach it and it’s easy enough to turn. You do eight turns and it will do a whole bite. It’s a slow thing so you can watch it happen.”

Being a part of the new aquarium is an honor not lost on Kampfer, who grew up coming to the zoo.

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“We’re a part of that entire aquarium project,” he said. “We’re not just visiting the aquarium, we’re part of it.”

The aquarium is also a special place for Link: He’s having his wedding reception there later this year.

Glass oceans

Also located near the entrance lobby, across from the Gulf of Mexico exhibit, is a mosaic of the Earth consisting of 1,368 6-by 6-inch glass tiles.

Measuring 38 feet in length and 9 feet in height, the creation from Gathered Art Gallery & Studios consists of 18 rows, each containing 75 tiles.

The glass in the mosaic weighs 3,800 pounds, said Adam Goldberg, who co-owns Gathered with Mike Stevens and Eli Lipman.

“It’s not a perfect map, but it’s a mosaic that focuses on the oceans, since we’re in an aquarium,” Goldberg said.

Stevens said visitors may notice something unique about their version of the Earth’s surface.

“It’s also different in that most maps have the Atlantic in the middle.

We put the Pacific in the middle,” he said. “Hawaii is pretty much in the middle of the map.

“I think [zoo officials] were trying to show the vastness of the oceans compared to land. When you look at it, clearly, most of the world is oceans,” Stevens said.

The project presented challenges the trio had not faced before. The scale of the mosaic, by far the largest they had worked on, presented a huge challenge.

“It was tough to initially conceive working on it and planning to work on a project that big, but then as moved along, it kind of became second nature,” Goldberg said.

Due to the project’s scope and need for Gathered to maintain personal projects and instructional classes at its location across from Fifth Third Field, the hot work for the glass was done at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Glass Pavilion. Assembly, gluing and preparation were done at the studio.

“We were able to maintain stuff we do here on a regular basis, and because the museum was an affordable rate, it made perfect sense to do all the work there and save our furnace for stuff we do here,” Goldberg said.

When it came time to put nearly two tons of glass up on the wall, the three artists (and sometimes an assistant) spent six to eight hours a day for one month, going back and forth from the zoo to their studios, where they would adhere more tiles to plastic brackets before going back to the zoo the next day and doing it all over again.

Now that the project is complete, the artists are looking forward to seeing their work at the aquarium’s grand opening.

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“[The zoo] put lights on them that almost look like the reflection of moving water, so it kind of looks like moving water,” Lipman said.

“It looks better [than I envisioned],” Stevens said.

In addition to the mosaic, Gathered also made glass jellyfish at the aquarium located near the reef tank.

Ripple drawing

Also featured at the aquarium is a chalk drawing of a stingray created by Marjorie Ripple at Shared Lives Studio on North St. Clair Street. Shared Lives, a division of Lott Industries, is a nonprofit art studio that employs adults with developmental disabilities.

“We are thrilled that we are on a list of artists that will have work displayed at the new aquarium,” said art director Lori Schoen. Shared Lives artists are working on having a show in the zoo’s community gallery later this year and artists have been creating pictures of marine life, Schoen said. The studio will also celebrate the aquarium’s opening with a show of their own featuring artwork of fish and aquatic life.

“Our artists have been having a ball working on this and are very excited to see the new aquarium,” Schoen said. “I know when our work goes on display there in the future it will be an amazing accomplishment and source of pride for them. When you see your work in a public place like the zoo it makes you a part of community and gives your work validation. The exposure for us will be huge and I know it will be truly exciting for our artists here at Shared Lives.”

Jeff Sailer, executive director of the zoo, said it was important to feature local art in the aquarium.

“It’s really an elegant exhibit,” he said. “Coming from outside of Toledo to Toledo, I hadn’t really been made aware before coming here how vibrant the art scene is here. We have a lot of really great local artists and they produce some amazing work and I thought, here’s a great opportunity to get some art installed in what is going to be seen by over a million people.

“We bring in a lot of people from outside Lucas County as visitors, so being able to expose them to all Toledo has to offer is very, very important to us. The city has an amazing amount going for it, and I like taking every opportunity we can to reinforce to our visitors here that it’s really fun coming to Toledo.”

Other art featured in the aquarium was created by Sayaka Ganz, Commercial Flooring/Midwest Tropical and Benchmark Woodworking, as well as the zoo’s graphic and exhibit department.

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Hicks-Hudson announces plan to run for mayor TOLEDO FREE PRESS EDITOR IN CHIEF sottney@toledofreepress.com

Tragedy propelled her into a role she didn’t seek, but now that she’s here, Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson intends to stay.

Standing outside the Wilson Park pool in North Toledo on March 18, Hicks-Hudson officially announced her intention to run for mayor in the November special election, as a group of supporters cheered.

Acknowledging the “tragic situation” by which she came to the office — the Feb. 6 death of former Mayor D. Michael Collins, five days after he went into cardiac arrest — Hicks-Hudson stressed the need for continuity and to move forward together as a community.

“My goal as mayor is to take this impetus of some great things that are happening and move forward,” Hicks-Hudson said, mentioning the negotiations with Fiat Chrysler and passing a balanced city budget as two major projects. “With ProMedica moving Downtown there’s going to be such a spinoff, such a synergy of other businesses and energy that I need to be in that place to help move those things forward.”

City Council passed a budget on March 19.

Hicks-Hudson said she chose Wilson Park because it symbolizes how community members can come together to solve a problem.

“This is an example of people who have an idea and who decide we’re not going to just accept things, we’re not going to complain about things, we’re going to do something about it,” she said. “And that’s what this administration is going to be about. Doing things.

“I want to take that impetus and take that collaboration and move forward as the mayor for the city of Toledo.”

Hicks-Hudson said good jobs, good neighborhoods and good stewardship of taxpayer money are important to her.

“From neighborhoods come cities,” Hicks-Hudson said. “If we have livable, workable, safe, strong neighborhoods, we have livable, workable, safe, strong cities.”

Hicks-Hudson said her strengths are working hard and caring about community, she said.

“My predecessors have their own unique skills, each of them do. But I think I come with [my own] experiences and just a belief that we can do better and we will do better in the city,” she said.

“My difference is just being who I am.”

Hicks-Hudson is Toledo’s first black female mayor and said she’s

honored to see young girls looking at her as a role model.

“It’s been really interesting to see young women, young girls, who say, ‘Oh, there’s the mayor. Oh, I know her.

Oh, she looks like me.’ I think that’s important for young people to see.”

Asked about Collins’ widow, Sandy Drabik, who has said she’s considering running to finish her husband’s term, Hicks-Hudson said she welcomed all candidates, deferring to voter choice.

“That’s her choice to do and if she believes that she has those necessary skills to bring it forward, then she should do that,” Hicks-Hudson said.

“I want people to vote for me because they believe I’m the best candidate and I have done the best job I could do. ... I have the role to govern and manage the city and I intend to do that, hoping that between now and November folks will say, ‘Yes, she is doing a great job. She’s doing what we need her to do and we want her to continue.”

Ruth Ashford, who plans to run in May for the District 4 Council seat vacated by Hicks-Hudson and currently held by appointee Scott Ramsey, said she supports Hicks-Hudson.

“She’s a professional person. Very, very intelligent. Very competent to run the city,” said Ashford, whose husband is state Rep. Michael Ashford.

“She has a vast amount of government knowledge and public experience.”

Rachel Richardson of Art Corner Toledo is also a supporter, having worked with Hicks-Hudson on arts funding for mural projects and other neighborhood initiatives.

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Council members Ramsey, Larry Sykes and Matt Cherry were also present.

“I really like her involvement and vision in the neighborhoods and she’s

also supported the business community,” Ramsey said. “She brings a good broad-spectrum perspective to the job and she’s already in the position. She stepped up through a difficult situation. I think that’s admirable and I like what she said about continuity.”

Hicks-Hudson deflected a statement about the day being about her.

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By Danielle Stanton

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Alaska, Colorado and Washington recently legalized marijuana and many believe Ohio could be next.

Four groups based out of Columbus are working to make marijuana legal in Ohio by amending the state constitution.

Meanwhile in Toledo, a local group is working to decriminalize marijuana in the Glass City. The Sensible Marijuana Ordinance recently made it onto the ballot and will go before voters in September.

The Northwest Ohio Chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) collected around 13,000 signatures between May and early August 2014; they needed about 6,000 to be valid.

Sean Nestor of Northwest Ohio NORML said Ohio is considered a “decriminalized state” because it has a history of being more lenient with marijuana offenses than many other states.

“We’re saying we want to be as lenient as possible,” Nestor said. “Since Colorado and Washington has legalized, everyone is revisiting the issue and we can be on the cutting edge of that to reduce penalties. It’s not legalization, but decriminalization.”

All misdemeanors would be made fifth-degree misdemeanors, and all felonies would be fifth-degree felonies, Nestor said. The ordinance would

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lower all marijuana penalities to the lowest level possible and still remain in compliance with state law. There may still be a charge and a court apperance required, but there would not be a fine for marijuana use and no jail time would be given.

“Even though this does not make it legal, it takes away the penalty and gives people the ability to take control of their own lives,” said Mary Smith, president of Northwest Ohio NORML. “We’re not talking about cartels, we’re talking about cancer patients and soccer moms who want to live to see next week. These people have been medicating themselves for years up until this point. Let them do it.”

Toledo Police Department (TPD) Public Information Officer Sgt. Joe Heffernan declined to comment on the proposed ordinance.

“We don’t like to get involved in legislation,” Heffernan said. “Our job is simply to enforce laws the legislators make.”

In 2013, TPD seized 373,796 grams of marijuana and 781 plants, and through November 2014, seized 359,852 grams of marijuana and 1,262 plants. Misdemeanor amounts of marijuana are not tracked by TPD; these numbers include only felony seizures.

Supporters

Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have eliminated jail time for marijuana possession, according to a March 6 article in

Hemp News, a publication based out of Portland, Oregon.

Six other cities in Ohio are also planning a ballot initiative to decriminalize marijuana, Nestor said, and his group plans a grassroots effort to help them.

NORML’s reasoning for supporting the change in law goes to the heart of the science behind the marijuana plant.

Smith touts hemp as a wonder drug capable of multiple uses, from biodiesel fuel to plastics. The science is controversial, but its use as a medical plant is gaining nationwide appeal.

In addition to helping cancer patients, decriminalizing marijuana will cut down on jail overcrowding, Smith said.

“There are so many benefits to this plant, not just on a medical or industrial level — this plant can do so much,” Smith said. “People sometimes don’t take us seriously; they think we are making up the story, but it really is the facts.”

Even one of our Founding Fathers, President Thomas Jefferson, grew the hemp plant and didn’t worry about which strain to grow because the plant was not regulated in the 1700s, Smith said.

The U.S. Navy still uses ropes made of hemp because it’s the strongest fiber available, she said.

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the hemp plant could make biodegradable plastic, according to Smith.

Marijuana is said to be the least harmful drug compared to alcohol, heroin or meth, given that hundreds of people die from alcohol-related vehicle accidents and dozens overdose on heroin every year.

Smith believes marijuana users should not be considered criminals.

“We’re Americans. We’re adults.

Let us live our lives,” Smith said.

“We’re not the people out causing all the problems.”

Ohio NORML has seven chapters across the state.

Legalization

Four states have adopted laws that regulate and tax marijuana similarly to alcohol. Three of them, Alaska, Colorado and Washington, have established regulated systems of marijuana cultivation and sales. Oregon is in the process of implementing a similar system, according to Hemp News.

ResponsibleOhio, a Columbusbased organization, plans to collect signatures to get their initiative to amend the state’s constitution on the November ballot. Their goal: to make marijuana legal in the state of Ohio for medical and personal use.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine signed off on their ballot language March 13. In order to be on the ballot, the Ohio Ballot Board needs to give their approval next and then they will need to gather 305,591 valid signatures from at least half of Ohio’s counties.

ResponsibleOhio is made up of wealthy investors who plan to establish 10 grow sites that will compete with one another for quality and price. These 10 wholesale sites will ship their product to retail sites. The group plans on approving more than 1,000 retail permits.

Those 21 years of age or older would be able to use the drug and also grow it at home. Growers could have up to four flowering plants.

The system would have a 15 percent flat tax through the supply chains and the retail stores would pay a 15 percent tax on all gross revenue, said Lydia Bolander, spokesperson for ResponsibleOhio. The consumer would pay 5 percent tax at the retail store in addition to sales tax.

The estimated total tax revenue once the market is fully established by 2020 is $554 million, Bolander said.

Monopoly?

Smith and John Pardee of the Ohio Rights Group, a Columbus-based organization that is also collecting signatures to legalize marijuana, said Re-

sponsibleOhio will create a monopoly on the industry in Ohio, a negative that will be hard to reverse if the constitution is amended.

“It’s not a good idea for Ohio. [ResponsibleOhio] is a bunch of privateer businessmen,” Smith said. “They want to make $1 million on marijuana.

They don’t know anything about the industry. The organization wants such drastic control on the plant. They just want money and they don’t care about the benefit to the country.”

“Down the road, federal prohibition will fall. When it falls, we’re still stuck with a bad state law,” Pardee said.

Bolander said that the initiative brings the potential for more jobs and an increase in the tax revenue which will sway voters.

“First of all, each of these 10 companies have to compete with each other. They have to run a good business to make a profit. Anyone can be a producer of their own marijuana as long as they’re over 21 and registered with the commission, which ResponsibleOhio will establish” Bolander said.

“It’s fundamentally not a monopoly if everyone has the ability to take part in it. There’s so many ways people can be involved in this market.”

The other two organizations working on legalizing marijuana in Ohio are Responsible Ohioans for Cannabis and Ohioans to End Prohibition.

Ohio Rights Group

Pardee’s organization wants to legalize marijuana for medical and industrial use.

Eighty-seven percent of Ohioans favor legalizing marijuana, according to a 2014 poll, Pardee said.

His team is “working themselves to the bone” to gather enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot. They need more than half a million valid signatures and have collected 150,000 as of March 9.

Ohio Rights Group will establish a commission to regulate the new law, much like the way alcohol is regulated.

Pardee called ResponsibleOhio a “corporate effort” whereas he is organizing a “grassroots effort.”

“The term David and Goliath has been used quite often, and remember who won that battle,” Pardee said.

“We have the message and most of the people are backing us. I think we have a pretty good chance.

“We don’t want to have [marijuana] in vending machines. We want to make sure going forward the industry is developed with health and safety in mind. We want to make sure it’s not going into the hands of children. We want to make sure it’s kept behind the counter at stores and only for those legally allowed access.” O

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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

By Yaneek Smith Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

When Fred Coogler was hired as the head basketball coach at Scott High School with just one week remaining before the team’s first scrimmage, it would’ve been reasonable to assume the club would suffer a setback for having such uncertainty at the top spot for so long.

Quite the opposite happened.

Previous head coach Chris Dames resigned Sept.

15, leaving the program in limbo before Coogler, a team assistant, was given control.

The Bulldogs, led by guard Chris Darrington, COOGLER forward Jay Wells and center Chance Hawkins went 21-4, winning the City League championship and a Division II sectional title before falling to fifth-ranked Defiance, 44-37, in the district final March 15.

Coogler, who works as the building operator at the high school and serves as the pastor at Faith Temple Ministry on Ewing Street, led the team to a successful run this season by relating to them and getting to know them on a more personal level. He related to his players in the way that a pastor relates to his parishioners.

“They called me Pops, and I call them my sons,” Coogler said. “Once per week, we had a huddle, where we’d come together for about an hour, an hour-and-a-half, sometimes two hours. We talk about life, we talk about anything.

“Our subject was forgetting those things that are behind, looking forward to the things before you. The reason being that anything that’s from last year or before is behind us. For us to accomplish the goals that were set, we needed to look forward, and we did that. Each week, we had something different. As their coach and an ordained pastor, I prayed and I got direction from God. We were directed from God, first and foremost.”

And he brought in alumni to help the players understand and appreciate the program’s previous accomplishments, which includes a state championship in 1990 and nine appearances in the state tournament.

“One of the things I did was bring in a lot of the alums [to speak] to the kids,” Coogler said. “I had old players come into the gym and talk

with the guys each week. Just after the City League Championship [a 56-52 overtime victory over Rogers High School], some alumni came in and bought the team shoes. They showed a lot of love and that’s one of the things that I wanted to bring back to Scott basketball. That richness of the alumni, they appreciated that and they showed their appreciation, they showed their support.”

But Coogler was also tough on them and demanded a lot. He scheduled 6 a.m. practices, a decision that he hoped would ultimately help them to value their time more.

“The 6 a.m. practices did a lot for the young men,” said Coogler. “My thinking was I needed to change the mindset of the guys. By doing that, that got them some discipline. If you’re going to get up at 5 a.m. and be at practice by 6 — it was time for school [afterward] and we would still have practice after school.

I was thinking that brought a sense of self-motivation to them. I thought, ‘Let’s not let this 6 a.m. practice go in vain. I don’t want to get up that early, but since I’m up, let’s make the most of this.’ And it worked out well. It got to the point where they enjoyed 6 a.m. practices.”

He also expected them to take their studies seriously.

“Academics is a must,” Coogler said.

“They all know that I will sit you down and you will not play if you don’t have things together. I will lose [a game] and not pass up the chance to teach you life lessons. If that comes with me losing games, then we’ll lose. They knew that, and they didn’t try me.”

Coogler, a 1984 graduate of Macomber High School, was an assistant on the 1989 team that Jim Jackson led to the Division I state championship.

“I wear my ’89 [championship] ring every day,” he said. “[But] I put my wedding ring on first.”

In addition to three wins over Rogers, which came by a combined eight points, the biggest victory of the season came in a 75-56 win over Lake in the district semifinal.

Darrington led Scott with 23 points, Hawkins scored 14 and Larry Green chipped in with 11 as Rogers shot 27-of-42 (64.3 percent) from the floor and 16-of-22 (72.7 percent) from the free-throw line. Holding a 44-40 lead just over one minute remaining in the third quarter, the Bulldogs put the game away by going on a 23-8 run.

Darrington, who led the City League with 23.9 points per game and was also good for 6.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists, earned District Player of the Year honors, and scored 38 points in Scott’s win over Rogers in the City

League final. A first-team district selection last year, Darrington scored 40 points in the team’s 62-60, season-opening win over Delaware Hayes High School, and eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career, too.

Wells, who is 6-foot-3-inches, averaged 9.3 points and 10.0 rebounds, and Hawkins, who stands 6-foot-5-inches, averaged 8.5 points and 9.5 rebounds. They helped form a potent scoring trio with Darrington. Senior DeAngelo Blanchard, a 6-foot-5-inch center, Green, a 5-foot-11inch point guard, along with guards Jaleel Carey, Aa’Ren Dinkins and Malik Brooks, forward Eli Belmon and center Damien Spearman helped to round out the rotation.

Coogler credited his players for their performance and for adjusting to his system, which required them to employ a full-court press.

“My guys did extremely well, I couldn’t be more proud to have coached these awesome young men,” he said. “It was wonderful because it was a totally new system, nothing from the previous year was kept. I take my hats off to these guys.

“As a coach, it was a joy to see the guys come together. Our motto was ‘Expect the best.’ We always expect the best not just of ourselves but of each other. Not just on the court but off the court.” O

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Nigel Hayes said his University of Wisconsin teammate Vitto Brown has a unique skill that has nothing to do with basketball.

“He always goes to sleep with his phone in his hand, mid-text, then wakes up and finishes the text,” Hayes said. “Then he drops the phone and goes back to sleep. I’ve seen him do it at least 50 times.”

Hayes also has a non-hoops gift: visit YouTube and search, “Nigel Burgundy Hayes,” where he playfully channels Will Ferrell’s “Anchorman” character.

Both Hayes and Brown play on Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team, solidly poised to make another deep

run in this year’s NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed.

Both Hayes and Brown proudly hail from Northwest Ohio high schools, Whitmer and Bowling Green, respectively, where they perfected their trade amid hotbeds of hardwood talent. Sharing more than locale — and a dorm room as freshmen — they’re both sophomore forBROWN wards, and measure the same height and weight (6 feet 8 inches, 235 pounds).

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“He knows I’ll let him in the gym,” Smith said. “We have a great relationship. He knows I’m in his corner. He’s not one of those guys that has to bring an entourage [to work out]. He wants to turn his weaknesses into strengths.

He’s very tunnel-vision into what he wants to accomplish, and he wants to be an NBA player.”

As a No. 1 seed, Wisconsin has a strong chance to make a return trip to the Final Four, having lost to Kentucky in last year’s national semifinal game.

“I know we have the ability to, and it would also be good to have that rematch with Kentucky,” Brown said.

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It must have been the forces of basketball destiny which brought them together as teammates some six hours away, because they hardly considered themselves friends while playing on separate Amateur Athletic Union teams here in the area.

“We were actually rivals to be honest,” Brown said. “We always seemed to meet in games. If there was one player I didn’t like, it was him. Even though we didn’t like each other at the time, we became best friends here.”

Brown said he learned some of Hayes’ tricks that referees didn’t notice back then, and applied them to his game.

A rigorous schedule usually keeps them away from home, but both have training routines when they do return.

Brown works out with his family, which includes a brother who plays basketball at The College of Wooster. Hayes still looks up his high school mentor Bruce Smith, who coached for 22 seasons at Whitmer, and now coaches at Sylvania Southview. “[Smith] is the reason I am who I am today,” Hayes said. “[Hayes is] definitely the best player I’ve coached,” Smith said. “As a whole package, it’s not even close. He’s the best guy that I’ve ever had. I wish there were a few more like him. Guys like him make you a better coach than you are.”

Hayes draws similarities between Smith and his current coach, “Bo” Ryan. “[Ryan] is just like Bruce Smith from Southview,” Hayes said. “Whatever you say for Bruce Smith goes for William Francis Ryan.”

Smith said Hayes isn’t home much, but they text two or three times a week.

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Being three states away hasn’t made them homesick, especially living in a vibrant town like Madison, but they do miss family — who only make about five games a year — and friends, and Hayes particularly misses Gino’s Pizza.

Some consider Hayes, last year’s Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year, an NBA prospect, and perhaps Brown in time, but both are planning for life after basketball. Hayes wants to work for Nike, or start his own casual and dress clothing company. Brown is majoring in broadcast journalism, and may pursue a music career. Brown and his family even have their own group, Shades of Brown, that has performed the National Anthem at the team’s home, the Kohl Center, twice.

For now, the Badgers are depending on the Northwest Ohio duo to help them advance in the Big Dance. Hayes has started all 29 games and averages 12.1 points per game with 6.3 rebounds per game. Brown has started 28 games and averages 2.1 points per game.

So, as great as their sleep-texting and celebrity impressions might be, their on-the-court contributions validate what Smith has known all along, which means we may see more of Ryan’s staffers scouting a gym near you.

“I think the city of Toledo and Northwest Ohio is extremely underrecruited,” Smith said. “I think there’s a lot of talent here, and there’s a lot of kids here that could play college basketball that are overlooked.” O

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TRANSPORTATION

By Sarah Ottney

Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief sottney@toledofreepress.com

The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) kicked off the largest construction season in Northwest Ohio history March 16 with the ceremonial groundbreaking of the I-75/I-475 interchange widening near Jeep Parkway.

ODOT announced $2.4 billion in construction — the second largest in Ohio history — including $500 million in Northwest Ohio.

“Some would argue this past construction season did not end with all the major work,” said Theresa Pollick, public information officer for ODOT’s District 2. “We at ODOT see this as a very positive thing.”

ODOT has 990 projects planned statewide — up 50 from last year — including 297 bridge and culvert projects totaling $398 million, 278 pavement projects totaling $523 million, 219 safety projects totaling $250

million and 38 major construction projects totaling more than $1 billion as well as 19 county bridge replacements, according to a news release from ODOT. In Northwest Ohio, those projects will include the $162 million I-75/I-475 interchange widening project, the $63 million I75/I-280 interchange widening project and the $37 million Central Avenue interchange upgrade project.

City Development Director Matt Sapara praised the plans.

“I always look at economic development with three I’s: intelligent workforce, inventory, infrastructure,” he said. “Infrastructure is really critical. You can have all the inventory in the world, you can have the most intelligent workforce available, but without the ability to access it, it really means nothing.

“What you’re going to see today with this half-billion [dollar] investment here in this community is additional access to available land. It also helps support our existing businesses.” O

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FranNet offers franchise options for area entrepreneurs

By Ashley McMahon

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Do you dread waking up to your alarm clock in the morning, just to pick yourself out of bed and trek off to a job you dislike? Well, you’re in luck!

Although that sounds like a cheesy advertisement for a fake job opportunity, it could be the truth. FranNet is hosting a small business seminar, Small Business - Big Potential: Toledo, March 25 and is actively seeking entrepreneurs interested in opening up their own franchise in the Toledo area.

FranNet is “like eHarmony for business owners,” said Tracy Rickman, president and owner of FranNet Northern Ohio. As a franchise network, it works with a group of franchisers and potential franchise owners to make a perfect match.

“Most clients have been in corporate America for a long time,” Rickman said. “If it makes sense for them to

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FranNet is like eHarmony for business owners.”

— Tracy Rickman, owner of FranNet Northern Ohio open a franchise and start a small business, we will help them research different opportunities.”

Rickman adds that her staff gets compensated from the franchisers, therefore prospective small business owners do not pay for FranNet’s services and can ensure that they are making the best decision while seeking the most options with little effect on their own finances.

“It gives entrepreneurs a chance to see options they wouldn’t have seen on their own,” Rickman added.

When a majority of people think about franchises, restaurants come to mind, but Rickman said there is

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much more to the network than grub.

FranNet works with more than 3,000 different franchises in multiple networks — in fact, there will not be any food franchisers at the

seminar.

Jared Jensen, Director of Franchise Development at Floor Coverings International, is one of the 11 franchisers who will be the seminar. Jensen said that he loves working with FranNet because he believes they really care about their local environment.

“They’re local and they represent really good franchise systems that are looking for the right franchisees,” Jensen said.

“Because they are local, they really want to find the right kind of business for their environment.”

In addition, Jensen is thrilled to search for a prospective franchise owner in Toledo and cannot wait to meet the eager entrepreneurs at the seminar.

“Toledo will be a great market for our business,” Jensen said. “We target to a female consumer who is the driver of the decision of the flooring decision in the home.

“The business model of our franchise really does well in a city like Toledo,” he said, adding that a mid-size city with great suburbs bodes well with a custom flooring company like Floor Coverings International.

Rickman hopes a diverse group of individuals attend the seminar. She said FranNet’s typical client is about “48 years old, coming out of corporate America and ready to be in control.”

But that doesn’t mean younger entrepreneurs should skip this seminar.

Rickman said she’s worked with many millennial entrepreneurs in recent years. According to Rickman, parents are starting to wonder if they should

send their kid to college or assist them with opening a business instead.

“Quite honestly, I hope that trend goes somewhere,” she said. “There is a lot more opportunity to buy a business and run it how you want to. Owning a franchise really helps to and gives you the backbone to get started.”

FranNet is hosting its seminar at the Hilton Garden Inn at The Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg from 6:30-9 p.m. March 25.

This is the fifth year FranNet’s hosted the seminar in Toledo and according to Rickman, it’s the largest.

“There are more and more folks interested coming to the Toledo area and growing here,” she said.

Toledo Free Press is a media sponsor of the event.

To register for the Small Business - Big Potential: Toledo seminar, head to http://bit.ly/1AHSvxv.

There is also more information on FranNet’s Facebook page, FranNet of Northern Ohio. O

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Have a written retirement plan (part 2)

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n part 1 of our series on having a an investor’s confidence in their curwritten retirement income plan, rent plan leading them to want to published March 8, we outlined change what they are currently doing. specific tools (stocks, bonds, mutual Is this a smart idea? Probably not.

Chasing results and funds, annuities, headline news can banking products, be a costly mistake. etc.) that can be In the majority used as part of the of cases, the goal is planning process. to save up sufficient We also highlighted assets to generate the importance of enough income to focusing on what fund a goal like retireis important. The ment. tools are just the To create a vehicles to help an Mark CLAIR written retirement investor reach the Nolan BAKER income plan, write experiences he or down the sources she wants in life.

And we stressed the importance of and amounts of both reliable and varicreating a written retirement income able incomes. Reliable incomes are plan as the first step. Here are the steps Social Security, pension and lifetime income from annuities — payments that to create that written plan.

Mark and I recently sat down generally stay the same for life. Variable with Dan Couture, a business coach income is the money expected from inand national speaker on retirement vestments. This money can vary from income. A few phrases he said stood month to month or year to year.

Now review each source of inout to us. First, “There is no retirement without income,” and “To stay retired, come and identify specific ways to you need to have reliable and sustain- increase the predictable income able income.” What he said reinforces being generated. For example, a the important message we promote married couple has over 700 posall the time: All investment decisions sible combinations of when to draw need to be made based on current and Social Security benefits. The decision between the best and worst case future cash flow.

The challenge many people face is can often cost hundreds of dollars a those are often not the messages they month of missed income. Pension hear. Here are a few recent financial income can be affected based on facheadlines: “The only 5 investments tors such as lump sum payouts or you need to own” or “Big money is survivorship options. Just because moving to cash and so should you.” everyone else at work took this opReading these headlines may damage tion does not mean that is the best

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Variable sources of income can usually be improved by performing a yield analysis. Yield is the amount of income generated by dividends and interest. Identify lower interest earning accounts and investments and consider alternatives that create additional predictable income. Both safe and risky strategies are available. For example, instead of having mainly growth stocks that pay little to no dividends, consider adding several high-quality dividendpaying stocks. A 2 percent increase for a retired couple with $300,000 of investments would generate $500 extra a month of income.

A third area to focus on is keeping more of what you earn. Eliminate excess fees and expenses as often as possible and avoid paying commission to buy and sell investments. Consider the options available that can be used to reduce and eliminate the taxable income paid in retirement. Don’t assume that is your “fair share.” Get a second opinion if needed. O

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City Council passes operating, CIP budgets

Toledo City Council passed the 2015 operating budget and the 2015-19 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget at a special meeting March 19.

All combined, the budget is for more than $600 million. The operating budget was approved by a 10-1 vote, with Councilman Mike Craig providing the lone dissenting vote. Councilman Jack Ford was absent. The CIP budget was approved 9-2, with Councilmen Craig and Tyrone Riley voting against the budget.

After the meeting, Council president Steve Steel said there was no room in the operating budget for pool operations, but noted Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson is committed to finding private sponsors to fund city pools.

Little was discussed at the meeting, although Councilwoman Lindsay Webb did address concerns she had in a line

item for the public utilities department.

“I have been working as hard as I possibly can on righting the ship for the public utilities department,” she said. “One of the problems we’ve had is we’ve had more directors in that department over the last eight years than I can count on two hands over three administrations. I’d like to see some stability returned to that department.

I’d like to see that department have a strategic plan, have an open and transparent process with this Council, and I believe those things are possible with this administration.”

She asked Chief of Staff Bob Reinbolt, Director of Public Utilities Edward Moore and Abby Arnold, commissioner of utilities administration, to come to the microphone.

“One of the things I’m really concerned about is the safety of our work-

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force,” Webb said. “I want to make sure the workers we have are safe, and that we have a culture of safety in the department of public utilities. Families’ lives depend on that culture. …

Tell me specifically, if I agree to the $350,000 cut, what positions you are prepared to hire,” Webb said.

Arnold said that would allow the department to hire a safety trainer and fill two vacancies in both the billing and customer service units.

Webb asked if hiring the four positions in billing and customer service would get the department closer to making online billing possible.

“Yes, we’re very close to launching online billing,” Arnold said.

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Jeep globalization grows

By Tom Konecny TOLEDO FREE PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR tkonecny@toledofreepress.com

Whether the Jeep Wrangler remains in Toledo remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: the brand is selling well everywhere, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) plans to take Jeep global like never before.

But what might that mean for Toledo?

“The Toledo plant has all the demand it can handle,” said FCA spokeswoman Jodi Tinson.

Last year, the Toledo Assembly Complex produced 511,466 vehicles, the most ever, and FCA has been exporting Jeeps to more than 100 markets outside North America for years. In fact, Jeep global vehicles sales increased 39 percent in 2014 to a record of 1,017,019 units.

“The Jeep brand has been sold internationally for years, but some markets, like China, require local production,” Tinson said. “Also, local production helps avoid exceptionally high tariffs that drive up the price of a vehicle.”

FCA is looking to open Jeep plants in Brazil and China. All told, it will increase production capacity by 590,000 units in 18 months, a goal that appears unprecedented, Tinson said.

“I don’t know that FCA, or Chrysler, has ever done that, but that additional capacity is primarily coming through localized production,” Tinson said, indicating that its U.S. plants are already at or near full capacity.

To have that many more Jeeps made in Toledo is impossible.

“Producing over 500,000 vehicles there last year was an exceptional accomplishment,” Tinson said. “The plant is already running 20 hours a day, seven days a week.”

Tinson did offer that the knowledge gained and lessons learned from the Toledo Assembly Complex would certainly be shared around the world.

UAW Local 12 President Bruce Baumhower said Toledo had many employees involved when Jeep expanded to Beijing in the 1980s.

“We had a lot of people that worked in China for six months,” Baumhower said. “I have some management friends that went there for two to three years, but I don’t anticipate that [happening] now.”

Matt Sapara, the city’s director

of economic and business development, believes Jeep’s increased global presence is positive news. “[The reason FCA is] going global is that the Wrangler is still being built here. The Wrangler is a huge selling product, so that’s why they want to increase capacity. If we can increase the efficiency and capacity at this site, that really helps our community.”

The city submitted its incentive package to FCA on March 13, and Sapara said leaders are “guardedly optimistic” about what the future holds for Jeep production in Toledo.

The Jeep Renegade will be produced at a new state-of-the art plant in Pernambuco, Brazil, with sales starting during the second quarter of 2015.

“One of the biggest opportunities for the future growth of Jeep is in Brazil,” said Mike Manley, President and CEO of the Jeep brand with FCA. “We now have a locally built vehicle that perfectly fits Latin American roads, with the capability and technology features that are unique in this segment.”

Jeep will also return to China this year for the first time in almost a decade.

“While achieving 1 million vehicle sales in 2014 was certainly a milestone, 2015 will be a transformational year in the globalization of the brand, as we begin local manufacturing in Brazil and return to local manufacturing in China after an absence of nearly a decade,” Manley said.

In addition to its 39 percent global increase, Jeep sales rose 41 percent in the U.S. in 2014, with a record 692,348 total sales.

Jeep sales rose 40 percent in the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions and 42 percent in the AsiaPacific region in 2014. In China — the world’s largest automobile market — sales rose 49 percent.

Jeep sales were led globally and in the U.S. by Grand Cherokee (279,567 global; 183,786 U.S.), Cherokee (236,289 global; 178,508 U.S.), Wrangler (234,579 global; 175,328 U.S.), Compass (134,629 global; 61,264 U.S.) and Patriot (122,387 global; 93,462 U.S.).

Wrangler and Cherokee are built in Toledo.

Additionally, 2014 marked the fifth consecutive year of increased Jeep sales, both globally and in the U.S. In 2013, the brand recorded increases of 4 percent globally and 3 percent in the U.S. O

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Council approves creation of maintenance plan for city-owned structures

By Joel Sensenig

Toledo Free Press Managing Editor jsensenig@toledofreepress.com

Toledo City Council is trying to plan its maintenance of the nearly 200 structures the city owns, rather than simply “putting out fires” as they come up.

Council voted 9-1 March 17 to develop a standardized 20-year plan for all facilities owned by the city of Toledo. The term of 20 years was specified because roofs — a major expense for any building — typically last 20-25 years.

“This is so basic it’s shocking it didn’t exist,” said Councilwoman Lindsay Webb, chairwoman of Council’s Utilities and Public Service Committee, which met March 11 to discuss the plan.

The 195 city-owned structures include everything from fire and police stations to Imagination Station and park shelters. The list also includes buildings that are no longer used by the city and have no tenants.

“I was really quite surprised to find that we didn’t have that kind of a plan on any of the properties,” Councilwoman Sandy Spang said after the March 11 meeting. Spang spearheaded the effort to bring the plan before Council.

“I am bringing this forward as a support to the facilities department so that they have a tool to do regular maintenance on these properties and avoid the kind of large emergency repairs that we often encounter,” Spang said. “We often are not able to fund, in our CIP (Capital Improvement Program), all the projects that need to come forward. There are so many emergency projects, so obviously we need to do a better job of long-term maintenance.”

At the March 11 meeting, Kevin McCarthy, commissioner of facility and fleet operations for the city, said he agrees about the value of a long-term maintenance plan, but wasn’t sure where the funding will come from.

“The CIP is slim this year at best and we do address our needs on an annual basis, and it’s a pretty austere year to get any money for improvements.

A perfect example of that is the transportation building. We’ve had a roof report done — it’s sorely in need of replacement. It’s not going to happen

this year. That happens to be my director’s (Bill Franklin, director of public services) office — he has an umbrella in it right now.”

After more investigation into the matter, Spang said March 19 that the city’s risk management budget had allotted $70,000 for valuations of the properties. Many vendors doing that valuation work can also assess buildings’ mechanical systems and provide maintenance plans. Spang is hopeful the maintenance plan can be developed for about $100,000.

Spang said she is in favor of having an outside company develop the maintenance plan, as it could do it more efficiently than the city, due to all of the different operating systems in the 195 structures.

Terry Green, risk manager for the city, said there may be $70,000 in grant money available for the city to pay an outside company to perform valuations of these structures, which is key to determining a maintenance plan.

He said he believes this same company, which was not named, could also develop the maintenance plan, a dovetailing practice Spang hopes would reduce the cost.

A piece of the legislation states an annual report must be presented to Council, outlining the maintenance completed, as well as which department was charged for the maintenance and the amount spent.

“These 195 structures represent millions of dollars of assets that the citizens own and they have every right to an expectation that we’re maintaining them,” Spang said.

“This is the kind of report that I want to see us have so that we know what needs to be done monthly, biannually, annually to our properties so that we can avoid having so many emergency repairs. … Also, I believe this is going to cause us to take a hard look at the facilities that we own and which ones are appropriate for the city to own.”

After the plan was approved, Spang said, “It’s really a move toward generational change in the way that we take care of our assets. I’m very proud of this legislation.”​O

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Christmas billing mix-up turns to charity

By Danielle Stanton

Toledo Free Press News Editor dstanton@toledofreepress.com

The billing snafu that lost Whitehouse Christmas Tree Farm $9,300 this past season was “just a mistake” that owner Duke Wheeler is turning into a blessing for veterans and military families.

Wheeler is still missing $5,723 after an employee mistakenly refunded hundreds of Christmas tree and wreath purchases while using a new credit card app, Square. The employee thought WHEELER he was practicing with the app, but made 352 actual refunds Dec. 30, Wheeler said.

A media storm on television, radio and Facebook notified customers and 27 percent of those who were mistakenly refunded returned the money, totaling $3,577, Wheeler said. Any further money he collects he plans to donate to Heroes in Action, a local nonprofit that serves military members and their families.

“We’ve reached more of them.

Some customers are from Fremont.

One customer took a tree back to Chicago,” Wheeler said. “It was a mistake.

No question I was upset in the beginning. Yes, [our employee] is still going to be working for us next year.”

Wheeler said he doesn’t believe it’s a matter of dishonesty that more than half of his customers have not returned the proceeds.

“The families that come to our farm are very special and they are very honest.

I believe if we are able to reach them we will [get] 100 percent [back],” he said.

“The ones who are not honest probably stole their Christmas tree in the first place. My rationale is that not everyone is on Facebook. They’re not aware.”

Wheeler held a contest on Facebook in February. The person who guessed the percentage of how many people would return the money won a free Christmas tree this year. One person guessed the closest at 25 percent. Second place won eight Butterfly House passes and third place won passes to the corn maze, both of which Wheeler owns.

“It’s more a hurt of pride than hurt of finances,” Wheeler said. “I’ve lost money before in the stock market. We’ve all made mistakes where you lose money.

It’s more that I was embarrassed.”

Once the word got out, Wheeler said he received $2,000 in donations from as far away as Florida and Los Angeles from people who did not buy trees. He said he returned the checks because he didn’t believe it was appropriate to accept the charity. Then he got the idea to team up with an agency and contacted Heroes in Action.

The Toledo-based organization sends letters and care packages to service men and women overseas and also helps military families at home with services and donations. Checks

can be mailed to Wheeler or directly to Heroes in Action, Wheeler said.

“Our volunteers are the core focus of our continued success. This extends to our community events, fundraisers and individuals such as Mr. Duke Wheeler,” Heroes in Action director Dawn Heisler said in an email to Toledo Free Press.

“If we can generate some money it will go toward that charity and it will help them and help me establish that my customers are honest,” Wheeler said.

Wheeler said he doesn’t plan to use Square next year and will go back to his older and more familiar method of a standard credit card machine. Square is a small, white device that is plugged into a smartphone or tablet, allowing a credit card to be swiped and information read directly into the phone.

Wheeler said the swiping device is convenient on the tree farm, but it doesn’t leave a paper trail, so he couldn’t track his customers.

The app company did give Wheeler the last four digits of the customers’ credit card numbers. He considered publishing an ad with that information, but decided to protect his customers’ privacy.

Despite the snafu, he feels the past season was a success with the number of families that came through, the wagon rides, the hot chocolate served and all the fun that was had.

“It was a great year at the farm. I don’t even consider this a big problem.

One year an employee killed 4,000 trees, 4-foot tall. He sprayed a wrong chemical.

That was a bad year,” Wheeler said. O

March 22, 2015

Jason Aldean’s single “Burnin’ it Down” reached the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in just two weeks last year.

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Country superstar brings tour to Huntington Center March 26.

By Alan Sculley Toledo Free Press staff writer news@toledofreepress.com

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he first single off Jason Aldean’s album “Old Boots, New Dirt” has become one of the biggest hits of the country superstar’s career.

“Burnin’ It Down” took just two weeks to reach the top of Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, ending 2014 as the year’s No. 2 single on that chart with sales of more than 1.4 million.

But “Burnin’ It Down,” was far from a

unanimous choice for the lead single.

“That’s a song where I got a lot of sort of resistance from the label and from even from my management and a lot of people on my team,” Aldean said in an early February phone interview.

The reason? “Burnin’ It Down” was not the typical Aldean song. A simmering ballad, its rhythm track is built around a loop, and other programmed percussion mixes with drums and the traditional instrumentation of the song.

In fact, one could easily argue that it draws more from today’s glossy pop

and hip-hop production than country.

“They wanted something that was a little more safe,” Aldean said. “But to me, I felt like, my career hasn’t become what it is by me playing it safe, ever. The biggest songs we’ve had are things that were a little left of center and things that we sort of stuck our neck out on a little bit and took some chances. And I felt like this was one of those songs.

Plus, it was just a great song.”

Aldean said he thought it was an obvious single from the start.

“I felt like it was something that was

really different and something that we really needed for the album, and something that wasn’t going to be confused with any other song,” he said. “It wasn’t going to just blend in to the 39 other songs that are on the radio. It’s like it was something that was really different and sort of unique.

“There was no doubt when you heard that song, and still when you hear it, you know what it is, you know who sings it, what the song is, and that, to me, is half of the battle. So to me it was a no-brainer, but it was one that I

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As Aldean said, “Burnin’ It Down” isn’t the only time he’s gambled on a song that tested country radio’s status quo. “Dirt Road Anthem,” which featured a pair of rap segments with its easygoing country sound, is another shining example of the adventurous side of Aldean’s music. The 2010 single also generated mixed opinions before being green-lighted as a single. n ALDEAN CONTINUES ON 18

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The song, co-written by Aldean and fellow star Brantley Gilbert, went on to became Aldean’s biggest single to date. It sold more than four million copies and remains the biggest-selling song in digital history for a male country solo artist.

Aldean sees plenty of upside in pushing the envelope on country radio.

“I think a song like that is going to reach a lot more people just because you’re reaching out into maybe the pop world and grabbing some people over there — not that I want to be a pop singer by any means,” the Macon, Georgia, native said.

“But I also think when you record music, you want as many people listening to it as possible. If you’re able to go out and grab a few people that normally wouldn’t listen to country music and sort of draw them in to what we’re doing over here, I think that’s a good thing.”

It’s not just the choice of singles that has given Aldean a reputation as a bit of a risk-taker. With each of his six studio albums, he has walked the line between maintaining his signature sound and cutting songs that take him in new stylistic directions.

He feels “Old Boots, New Dirt” is his most adventurous album yet.

“I think you just kind of want to grow a little bit with each album, and I feel like this was one of those albums that probably shows it more than any other album that we’ve done probably,” Aldean said.

Obviously, “Burnin’ It Down” is a prime example of a song that was a stylistic stretch for Aldean. But he feels he pushed forward in other ways on the album.

The rocker “Just Gettin’ Started” uses some synthetic percussion to give its quieter moments a modern feel.

“Sweet Little Somethin’” pairs a pulsing synthesizer and banjo as primary instrumentation in its verses — a move that helps make this bouncy rocker a true collision of pop and country.

In a larger sense, Aldean also feels he dialed back on the kind of turbocharged rockers that have been his musical signature.

“The one thing that’s not on this album that we’ve typically had a lot of over the years is those big, big uptempo ‘She’s Country,’ ‘Hicktown’ kind of things,” he said. “There are a couple of big tempos, but not a lot. I think from a song standpoint, some of the coolest songs that we’ve ever recorded are on this record, if you believe in songs like ‘Two Night Town’ and ‘Burnin’ It Down’ and also ‘Too Fast,’ [ballads] things like

I think you just kind of want to grow a little bit with each album, and I feel like this was one of those albums that probably shows it more than any other album that we’ve done.

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that. They’re just really good songs. So I think it’s a little bit about showing some maturity as far as an artist.”

Maturity is one thing, but sounding fresh doesn’t hurt, either. And when Aldean released his self-titled debut album in 2005, his brand of rocked-up guitar-based country was something new — and a bit risky — for the genre.

But the sound caught on quickly, and Aldean is often credited with creating the template for today’s popular “Bro Country” sound, with its rocking tunes and male-oriented, just-havinga-good-time lyrics. For his part, Aldean chafes at the “Bro Country” label because it represents only one side of what is a multi-faceted catalog of music. But whatever you call his sound, it’s connected in a big way.

“Old Boots, New Dirt,” has become the latest in an unbroken string of platinum-selling albums for Aldean that began with his self-titled album and continued with each of his succeeding releases: “Relentless” (2007), “Wide Open” (2009), “My Kinda Party” (2010) and “Night Train” (2012). Those successes have made him a bonafide arena act, able to headline outdoor stadium shows.

Aldean will be back out filling arenas this spring and summer, and between his summer dates, Aldean has sprinkled in about a dozen co-headlining stadium shows with Kenny Chesney. The show Aldean is taking out figures to be a visual as well as musical treat.

“It’s called the ‘Burn It Down’ tour, so obviously we’ve incorporated a lot of fire, a lot of flame, a lot of heat coming,” Aldean said. “Obviously you want it to sound as good as possible, but visually you want it to look great, too. I think from that standpoint, this is by far the coolest thing we’ve ever had on the road.”

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Six-string celebration Electric guitar takes center stage at BGSU conference.

By Jeff McGinnis Toledo Free Press Pop Culture Editor PopGoesJeff@gmail.com

It’s strange when you think about it. For the single most important instrument in the history of pop music, the basic structure of the most popular electric guitars has been remarkably consistent.

“What is fascinating compared to some other aspects of popular culture in terms of design, three of the classic electric guitar brands have not changed — the Fender Telecaster, the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster,” said Matt Donahue, lecturer in Bowling Green State University’s Department of Popular Culture, in an interview with Toledo Free Press.

“Interesting as we have seen so many other designs of popular culture items change over the years and the decades, but not these three classic designs. Of course there are now so many different companies and designs, but the three mentioned have stood the test of time.”

Of course, as with so many tools of art, it’s not just how it’s made — it’s what you do with it.

And ever since its debut over 80 years ago, artists as varied as Jimi Hendrix and Prince have left their mark on music using the dulcet tones of the six string.

Now, in celebration and analysis of the instrument, the Department of Popular Culture will be hosting a two-day conference, “The Electric Guitar in Popular Culture,” March 27-28 at the school’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Fea-

turing a wide variety of speakers, panels and performances, the event is set to shine a light on the instrument and its impact in a wide range of cultural settings.

“I had the idea of putting together a conference about it a few years ago,” Donahue said. “Then one of the student organizations affiliated with the Department of Popular Culture — the Popular Culture Scholars Association, who have been putting on popular culture-themed conferences in the memory of the department’s founder Dr. Ray Browne — two of the leaders in this organization, Becky Denes and Jacob Brown, and I discussed the idea of putting on this conference. Thanks to their hard work and efforts, the conference is taking place.”

The conference in many ways is a labor of love for Donahue, who has a lifetime of experience with the instrument.

“I got into the electric guitar at first, by being introduced to music played around the house by my parents. Then when my brothers started playing their rock ’n’ roll records around the house such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led

Zeppelin, I continued my interest in popular music and worked and worked to save up enough money for a guitar and amp, both of which I still own!”

Donahue has been a regular around the Northwest Ohio music scene for the past 30 years, playing and singing in a variety of punk and rock bands while growing in prestige as a scholar. He will be performing during the conference along with artists such as Toledo’s own Chuck Stohl, Skip McDonald (Little Axe), Kelly Richey and Chris Buzzelli from the BGSU Department of Music.

“We have tried to highlight a variety of different performers and genres related to the electric guitar and also tie that in to a connection that many of the performers are based out of Ohio or have had a connection to Ohio,” Donahue said.

In addition, keynote speakers such as journalist Martin Popoff and Ken Haas from Reverend Guitars will bring their own history and experience with the instrument, and panels focusing on the intrument’s impact on a wide variety of cultures promise to bring attendees new perspectives on the fabled six-string.

“I do think that the electric guitar and its reach worldwide has been underestimated,” Donahue said. “I think a lot of it is the connection to popular music and how popular music is so heavily guitarbased and has been at the forefront of so many different genres that have gone on to be popularized throughout the world.

And in doing so, the guitar has become popularized throughout the world.”

The Electric Guitar in Popular Culture conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. March 27 at the BowenThompson Student Union. Registration is encouraged but not required.

For more information, visit www. bgsu.edu/egpc. O

Matt Donahue of Bowling Green State University’s Department of Popular Culture has organized a conference on the electric guitar March 27-28.

PHOTO COURTESY MATT DONAHUE

March 22, 2015

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Sister Act

By Matt Liasse

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer mliasse@toledofreepress.com

In 1992, Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg starred as Deloris Van Cartier in “Sister Act.” The Broadway adaptation, produced by Goldberg, will make its way to Toledo in April.

“To hear people laugh and cheer the way they do at ‘Sister Act’ — a show people think they know but are pleasantly surprised to discover is not what they are expecting — is a magical experience for a producer,” Goldberg said in a news release. “Happily, audiences across the country are able to get in on the fun as Deloris and her fabulous sisters spread the love nationwide.”

Kerissa Arrington, who is playing Van Cartier, had the daunting task of stepping into to the role.

“Of course, Whoopi Goldberg — she’s an icon,” she said.

This is Arrington’s first touring production. She acted in high school and professionally at theme parks in her hometown in Texas.

“This is pretty much the biggest thing I’ve ever done,” she said.

Arrington said she was familiar with the movie and watched YouTube clips of the Broadway version before

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taking over the role.

“I really just let it be my own,” she said. “I read the script over and over and over … what I admire the most is the realness of the character. She’s not afraid. She’s really, really confident in who she is.”

“Sister Act” follows Van Cartier after she witnesses a murder and is put into protective custody in a convent disguised as a nun.

“I love playing her because she’s so different from me,” Arrington said.

“She’s very loud and glamourous and in your face. It’s really fun to take on that character. ... It’s just fun to tell her story every night.”

During Van Cartier’s escapade, she inspires a choir with disco, R&B and gospel music. The play features an original score by Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe Awardwinning composer Alan Menken.

The musical will be at the Stranahan Theater for a limited engagement. Performances are 7:30 p.m.

April 8-9, 8 p.m. April 10-11 and 2 p.m. April 11-12.

Tickets are available online at theaterleague.com and stranahantheater. org, at the Stranahan Theater box office at 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. or by calling (419) 381-8851.

For more information, visit www. sisteractontour.com. O

Kerissa Arrington, right, plays Deloris Van Cartier in the Broadway adaptation of “Sister Act,” which makes its way to Toledo’s Stranahan Theater in April. The stage version of the 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg is produced by the actress herself.

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More than 230 pieces of art by students from nine local counties are on display at Maumee Valley Country Day School (MVCDS) from now until April 30.

“The purpose of the show is to honor and share the talents of our young artists in our community,” said LouAnn Glover, the exhibit’s coordinator. “The art works are colorful, reflective, creative thinking and are well-crafted. The artists and their families are so proud to see their work displayed in a gallery. It is joyful.”

For the past 36 years, the Northwest Ohio Art Education Association (NWOAEA) has hosted a regional art exhibit for students in grades K-8. The venue changes over the years and this year MVCDS, 1715 S. Reynolds Road, is sponsoring the 2015 Northwest Ohio Regional Youth Art Month Show in its Wolfe Gallery.

Organizers said the exhibit will draw hundreds of visitors to the campus of MVCDS. Patrons can expect to see colorful drawings in pencil and paints, fabrics, self-portraits and animals.

“Young students from across Northwest Ohio submitted colorful designs and prints, charming portraits, and dramatic landscapes. [There are] sculptures exploring faces, figures and animals to drawings inspired by cultures, history and imaginations,” accoreding to a news release.

Art teachers selected the art work

for display. Students created the art in their classrooms, although not specifically for this exhibit.

Art teacher Ani Geha of Whiteford Elementary in the Sylvania School District selected eight pieces of artwork from a pool of 500 students. Choosing submissions was a challenge due to so many worthy pieces, she said.

“I tried to mix it up,” Geha said of the process she used to whittle down her selections. “I tried to get a representation of boys and girls and every grade.”

Fifth-grader MaKenze Blackburn used oil pastels to create “Scream,” a replica of “The Scream” by Edvard Munch in 1893. Blackburn learned about Munch and his painting while creating her version in Geha’s class.

Students also learned about cultural references to “The Scream,” including the movie “Scream” and scream emojis, Geha said.

“They began using oil pastels in kindergarten and every year they’ve used them,” Geha said. “It’s a hard media to work with. They are messy but they blend so you can mix them.”

Geha has been teaching for 12 years — 11 at St. Joseph Catholic School in Sylvania and this past year, her first at Whiteford Elementary.

“It’s a great community of art teachers and they all give a helping hand to the show,” Geha said. “On the day (art teachers) dropped off their art (to the Wolfe Gallery), we all helped hang it.”

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Disheveled

By Matt Liasse

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer mliasse@toledofreepress.com

The first time Toledoan Keith Bergman performed stand-up at an open mic, he was so nervous he almost walked out.

More than four years later, Bergman has released his first comedy album “Disheveled,” recorded during the comedian showcase “Two Buck Yuks” (produced by Bergman) last year at The Blarney Event Center.

The album, which he calls “highbrow stupid,” is available online and in physical form, something he said is nice, even though consumers seem to be moving away from CDs. “It’s a little terrifying when you get boxes of them shipped to you,” Bergman said. “I wasn’t 100 percent sure I was going to put it out until after I heard it but the show went really well.”

Bergman said the album is a stepping stone. He plans to continue writing and hopes to keep improving.

Bergman doesn’t like to dwell on

past mistakes but wishes he had got into comedy sooner.

“I wish I hadn’t made excuses or put it off because it’s something I’ve always wanted to be,” he said. “I’m having so much fun now and it’s going so well. It’s one of the most fun things I’ve ever done with my life.”

He said that he uses his career as an example for his kids to learn what it takes to make a career out of being creative.

Comedy has been part of Bergman’s life from an early age.

“I would listen to George Carlin before I even got 90 percent of the jokes,” Bergman said.

The hometown feel is obvious in “Disheveled”: the album opens with Bergman talking about the Polar Vortex last year which interfered with a lot of the “Two Buck Yuks” dates. He added that bad weather affected him while on tour this winter as well.

“You don’t create any kind of art in a vacuum; it’s definitely a product of where you live and where you travel,” he said.

Bergman selects his material (one track on his album is titled “Elderly

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Racists”) purposefully. In his act, he uses real-life experiences in a way similar to Louis C.K., one of his comedy inspirations.

“Having a lot of different things to talk about is good because you never know what kind of audience you’re going to get,” Bergman said. “With the elderly racists thing, that’s a whole topic that you could have a serious discussion about and [you] could really open a can of worms about why people think a certain way and how silly it is. That’s another discussion for another place. I feel like my job is to air that out and try to find the humor in it. It’s still a serious topic but maybe you can take some of the venom out of it by poking fun at it.”

The album name describes Bergman, he said, and the sketch on the album cover captures that spirit.

He’s always got a “just rolled out of bed look” to him, which is never intentional, he said.

“Once I saw that little sketch with me and the coffee cup and everything, [‘Disheveled’] popped into my head,” Bergman said. “It’s just a word I’ve al-

Toledo comedian Keith Bergman recorded comedy album “Disheveled” during local comedy showcase “Two Buck Yuks” last year. PHOTO COURTESY KEITH BERGMAN ways liked the sound of. There’s certain times that I will use a bigger word or a weirder sounding word just because I like the way it sounds. And that word’s one of them; you know what that word means even if you don’t.”

In the future, Bergman would be open to doing something like “Two

Buck Yuks” again.

The Toledo comedy scene is “surprisingly vibrant,” Bergman said.

“There [are] actually multiple generations,” he said.

For more information, or to purchase “Disheveled,” visit keithbergman.com or Twitter.com/KeithBBergman. O

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What’s what, where and when in NW Ohio

Compiled by Matt Liasse Events are subject to change.

MUSIC Bar 145º

$5 cover. 5304 Monroe St. (419) 593-0073 or bar145toledo.com. ✯ The Bridges: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. March 20. ✯ The Hot Sauce Committee: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. March 21.

The Blarney Irish Pub

601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www. theblarneyirishpub.com. ✯ Nine Lives: 9 p.m. March 20. ✯ Bridges: 8 p.m. March 21. ✯ Steve Kennedy: 7 p.m. March 26. ✯ Toast & Jam: 8 p.m. March 27. ✯ Distant Cousinz: 8 p.m. March 28.

Bronze Boar

20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www. bronzeboar.com. ✯ Open mic with Steve Finelli and Oliver Roses: Mondays. ✯ Karaoke with Greg: Tuesdays. ✯ Open mic and Steve Kennedy: Thursdays. ✯ Zodiac Click: March 20. ✯ Gin Bunny: March 21.

✯ Dave Carpenter and Shawn McMahon: 10 p.m. March 21.

Dorr St. Café

Corner of Dorr Street at Reynolds Road. (419) 531-4446 or www.dorrstreetcafe.com. ✯ Scott Ballard: March 20.

Durty Bird

2 S. St. Clair St. (419) 243-2473 or www.yeoldedurtybird.com. ✯ The Twisting Tarantulas: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. March 20. ✯ Joe Woods Trio: 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

March 21. ✯ Jason Quick Trio: 7-10 p.m. March 22. ✯ The New Monday’s: 7-10 p.m. March 23. ✯ Creole Jazz: 7-10 p.m. March 24. ✯ Nick Neenan: 7-10 p.m. March 25. ✯ Brad McNett: 7-10 p.m. March 26.

Forrester’s On The River

26 Main Street. (419) 691-2626 or www.forrestersontheriver.com. ✯ Wine Down Wednesday with The H-Factor Jazz Show: 6-10 p.m. Wednesdays.

Frankie’s Inner-City

4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.thedistilleryonline.com. ✯ Trivia with Team Lunchbox: Tuesdays. ✯ Name That Tune: Wednesdays.

308 Main St. (419) 693-5300 or www.

FrankiesInnerCity.com. ✯ Rumpke Mountain Boys and Dirty River Ramblers: 9 p.m. March 20. ✯ Hour 24, Silver Age, Aim Your Arrows, Ordway, Awake At Last, Civil Hands, Missing In Cincinnati and Northern Lights: 6 p.m.

March 21. ✯ I Prevail, WOUNDS, Chasing Safety, Glascity: 6 p.m. March 22. ✯ Restorations, Shitty Neighbors and Meet Me In Manhattan: 8 p.m. March 23. ✯ Alien Ant Farm, Rob Vance and Drop Dead Silhouette: 7 p.m. March 24. ✯ A Live One – Phish Tribute Band: 8 p.m.

March 25.

Doc Watson’s

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Dégagé Jazz Café

301 River Road, Maumee. $5 weekends for cafe seating. (419) 794-8205 or www. degagejazzcafe.com. ✯ Gene Parker: Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The Distillery

1515 S. Byrne Road. (419) 389-6003 or docwatsonstoledo.com. ✯ Sporcle Live Trivia: Thursdays. ✯ Dan Stewart: 10 p.m. March 20.

Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg. (419) 874-3111 or www. hifq.com. ✯ Green Eyed Soul: March 20 &21.

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Hollywood Casino Toledo

The Hollywood Casino offers musical distractions from all the lights, noise and jackpots.

777 Hollywood Blvd. (419) 661-5200 or www. hollywoodcasinotoledo.com. ✯ My Sister Sarah: 9 p.m. March 20. ✯ Jedi Mind Trip: 9 p.m. March 21.

Huntington Center

500 Jefferson Ave. (419) 321-5007, (800) 7453000 or www.huntingtoncentertoledo.com. ✯ Jason Aldean with special guests Cole Swindell, Tyler Farr and Dee Jay Silver: 7:30 p.m. March 26.

Iggy’s

128 Main St. ✯ Industrial Wasteland, DJs Havok & Darks Choir: 10 p.m. March 20. Tickets are $3 for ages 21 and older and $5 for ages 18-21. ✯ Glass City Hip Hop Showcase featuring K.O.G.A., THC, $ERIOU$, Flaco, J-Hit, Dizzy Blaze, 50/50, Beats&Young, Thug P: 9 p.m.

March 21.

Jazz on the Maumee

Grand Plaza Hotel’s Aqua Lounge, 444 N. Summit St. $5-$15. (419) 241-1411 or www. arttatumsociety.com. ✯ The Wildcats: 6-8:30 p.m. March 25.

Name That Tune

✯ The Oarhouse, 5044 Suder Ave.: 8-10 p.m.

Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. Fridays. ✯ Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 6609 Airport Hwy.: 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays. ✯ Jed’s Barbeque and Brew, 855 S. HollandSylvania Road: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays. ✯ Pat & Dandy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 3344 W Laskey Road: 9-11 p.m. Wednesdays. ✯ Ralphie’s Sports Eatery, 5702 Monroe St.: 7-9 p.m. Thursdays.

One2 Lounge at Treo

5703 Main St., Sylvania. (419) 882-2266 or treosylvania.com. ✯ Stonehouse: March 20. ✯ Quick Trio: March 21.

The Ottawa Tavern

1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or

www.otavern.com. ✯ Outside, Ill Blood, Megawave and Hung From the Rising Sun: 8 p.m. March 21.

March 21 and 5:05 p.m March 22. ✯ Free Family Flicks: “Maleficent”: 1 p.m.

March 21.

SWINGMANIA

Poetry Speaks

With its focus on swing music, Jeff McDonald’s group of musicians provides a peek into another era. (419) 708-0265, (419) 874-0290 or www.swingmania.org. ✯ Trotters Tavern, 5131 Heatherdowns Blvd.

(419) 381-2079: 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

The Village Idiot

309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 893-7281 or www.villageidiotmaumee.com. ✯ The House Band: Fridays. ✯ Dooley Wilson, Bob Rex and friends: Sundays. ✯ Frankie May and Associates: Mondays. ✯ John Barile & Bobby May: Tuesdays. ✯ Andrew Ellis: Wednesdays. ✯ The Nu-Tones: March 20. ✯ Ben Barefoot: March 21. ✯ Medicine Bear & the Herbal Remedies: March 24.

Ye Olde Cock n’ Bull

9 N. Huron St. (419) 244-2855 or facebook. com/cocknbulltoledo. ✯ Danny Mettler hosts Open Mic Night: Wednesdays. ✯ Tore Down Blues Jam Band: Sundays. ✯ Bobby May and John Barile followed by Last Born Sons: March 20. ✯ Arctic Clam: March 21. ✯ Tore Down Blues Band Jam: March 22. ✯ Joe Woods: March 24. ✯ Danny Mettler: March 25. ✯ Captain Sweet Shoes: March 26.

EVENTS

Eastwood Theater

The historic landmark is screening movies for $5. 817 E. Broadway St. Call (419) 720-5199 or visit eastwoodtheater.com. ✯ “Paddington”: 6 p.m. March 20 and 3 p.m.

March 22. ✯ “Taken 3”: 8 p.m. March 20, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Mar. 26th Steve Kennedy Friday, Mar. 27th Toast & Jam Saturday, Mar. 28th Distant Cousinz

The Poetry Speaks Open Mic Nights, happening the first and last Thursday of March, April and May from 6-8 p.m., are for performers interested in sharing poems. Anyone can call and reserve a five-minute time slot.

For more information, contact (419) 2595218 or email poetry@toledolibrary.org.

Huntington Meeting Room, Toledo-Lucas County Main Library. 325 N. Michigan St.

Spring Craft Show Featuring crafts for men, women and even pets.

Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 21. Hope United Methodist Church, 4069 West Sylvania Ave.

Stranahan Theater 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd., Toledo. ✯ “The Wizard of Oz” film screening with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. March 21.

Toledo Repertoire Theatre 16 10th St. (419) 243-9277 or www. toledorep.org. ✯ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”: March 20-21.

Toledo Walleye Huntington Center. 500 Jefferson Ave. For more information, contact (419) 321-5007, (800) 745-3000 or visit www.toledowalleye.com. ✯ Walleye versus Missouri Mavericks: 7:15 p.m. March 20. ✯ Walleye versus Kalamazoo Wings: 7:15 p.m.

March 21. ✯ Walleye versus Florida Everblades: 5:15 p.m. March 22.

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