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April 28, 2013

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Opinion

A roaring start and a little bit of everything Tom Pounds updates KickStart; Michael S. Miller on a transcendent moment with Dawes and Dylan. page 3

Water works Toledo Mayor Mike Bell on the proposal to raise city water fees. page 5

Education

Columbus bound TPS Board members to lobby against Academic Distress Commissions. page 8

Leadership

Star

Loxley and Chuck Cats featured in new books by mother-daughter team Lynne Carroll and Amy Radecki. page 21

EPIC challenge Sara Swisher and EPIC value community involvement. By Brigitta Burks, page 6

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DON LEE

KickStart kick-started

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ast week’s column about KickStart Columbus, an effort for which Columbus City Council and several community development organizations sponsored a contest and awarded free downtown office space for a year, garnered some inspired responses on Facebook and Twitter. Amid pledges of support for the idea came this website comment by W. Gene Powell, president of Spoke Design, a company specializing in Web and emerging media development, management and branding: “What the folks behind KickStart Columbus have done is a great shot in the arm for our state capital. I applaud their efforts and appreciate you bringing this story to your readers. However, to imply that nothing like this is already taking place in Toledo suggests an ignorance that distracts from similar efforts that are at work here today. My partners and I founded Seed Coworking at 25 South St. Clair Street in May 2012. In fact, you covered us in an April 2012 issue of your paper.

“Over the past year, we’ve offered inexpensive, monthly subscription memberships to our open-office space, and community support to dozens of area creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs. Some of these people have formed Thomas F. Pounds new businesses under our roof. We’ve also awarded free memberships to entrepreneurial contest winners, such as the winning team from last September’s Start Up Weekend Toledo event.

“Soon, we’ll be launching a startup mentorship program called WindUp Toledo. But Seed Coworking is only one example of numerous organizations that are fueling Toledo’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: The Toledo Community Foundation; StartUp Toledo; the new Toledo ECDI office; the Toledo Warehouse District Association; events such as the uHeart Digital Media Conference (May 10 at the University of Toledo), which will award incubation space and other prizes to local startups and new media outlets such as Silicon Rust Belt, which showcases the best ideas and brightest people from our region — all of these disparate yet networked initiatives are fostering the growth of new businesses in not only Toledo’s incredibly resilient and increasingly active Downtown, but the entire Toledo Region.

“While Toledo experiences a rebirth in economic and community development, our ever-present enemies are ignorance and complacency. Please forgive me if I’ve misread your piece, but it seems to hint at the former. ... By combining energies and harnessing resources, we can be the envy of cities like Columbus — and influence them to write glowing reviews of us.”

I am looking more at a one-time event that could draw attention to the efforts of people like Powell and our friend Dustin Hostetler, who with Kelly McGilvery started a group in 2004 called Kickstart Toledo that ended up being one of the motivations behind Artomatic 419! and some other events.

Hostetler introduced me to Powell, and we will meet to see how his efforts and the Columbus idea might find common synergy. We are also talking to Anneliese Grytafey, manager of Economic and Community Development Institute, who is onboard with the idea. This space is designed to kick-start ideas, and with the help of Columbus and local innovators like Powell, Hostetler and Grytafey, that intent is closer to reality. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LIGHTING THE FUSE

A little bit of everything W

hen the creative arts transcend the mundane, the and dedicated group of people for the American Red Cross effects can transform life. Passages from litera- of Northwest Ohio, a reception offered an opportunity for ture, images from films, and lyrics from treasured supporters to mingle and get psyched for the show.

I know many of the people who help run the local songs live in my brain as DNA-level elements of my identity, Red Cross, but I only see some of them a like old addresses, faces of friends and promfew times a year. The preconcert reception ises kept and broken. was the first time I have seen many of them Live music is the most powerful of all since I embarked on a weight-loss journey artistic vehicles. Recorded music lends itself through bariatric surgery in September. I to repeated listenings that eventually numb have lost 160 pounds, and part of the rethe impact of even the greatest compositions, ward for the sacrifice and exercise is seeing but live music can connect on an organic the reaction from people as they realize level with exponentially greater effect. they are seeing me, with the poundage of It has been a long time since I felt that another human being missing from my axis-shaking wallop, but it happened unexface and frame. It is natural for the converpectedly at the April 21 Bob Dylan concert at the BGSU Stroh Center. Part of what made Michael S. miller sation to turn to the impact of the lifestyle change; with some people I share more inthe encounter so surprising was that the moment did not come from Dylan, but from his opening act, timate details of battling an addiction to food and with others I keep it generic. the Southern California band Dawes.

Before the concert, which was organized by a tireless n MILLER CONTINUES ON 4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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The deficit ‘problem’

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recently promised we would done. An article on Investors.com, take a look at the so-called “def- from Investor’s Business Daily, Nov. 20, icit problem” that the GOP has 2012, was titled, “US Deficit Shrinking chosen as its latest and biggest scare At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before tactic. You may remember back in Fiscal Cliff.” The article states: “Believe the days of W. and Co., no less than it or not, the federal deficit has fallen Dick Cheney pooh-poohed defi- faster over the past three years than it cits and even said they were a good has in any such stretch since demobithing. Of course, this was before they lization from World War II …While long-term deficit repushed through their duction is important tax cuts for the wealthy and deficits remain and the Medicare drug very large by historical program and before standards, the reality the real cost of the is that the government two wars they started already has its foot on became apparent, and the brakes. From fiscal oh yeah, before they 2009 to fiscal 2012, the crashed the economy. deficit shrank 3.1 perNow the Republicentage points, from cans would have you 10.1 percent to 7 perbelieve that only they Don BURNARD can fix the “problem” that they cre- cent of the GDP.” Hmm. Maybe the ated! They, of course, blame Presi- train isn’t running amok after all.

Paul Krugman, one of the Nobel dent Barack Obama’s policies and the Democrats, and everyone but laureate economists that the GOP themselves for this, and believe that consistently hates, pointed out in through their careful cherry-picking his blog on March 9, “Anyone who of various prognostications, they be- is serious (as opposed to Serious) lieve it is more important to fix the about matters fiscal knows that it is economy of 25-30 years from now highly misleading just to focus on than to try to fix the problems we the raw deficit numbers ($1 trillion), face today. Of course, most people for two reasons. First, fluctuations in who have given any time to subjects the deficit tend to be driven by the germane to the guessing what the business cycle; when the economy future holds will tell you that’s not slumps, revenues fall and some so easy to do. In 1995, the CBO pre- kinds of expenditure, like unemdicted that in 2000, we would run a ployment benefits, rise. You want to deficit of $200 billion. Instead, we ran take out these ‘automatic stabilizers’ a surplus of $236 billion. And that’s when assessing the underlying state only a 5-year guess. Let’s look at this of the budget.

“Second, we don’t have to balance debt problem that suddenly seems so the budget to have a sustainable fiscal threatening to them.

If you listen to Paul Ryan and his position; all we need is to ensure acolytes, you would think that the that debt grows more slowly than debt is a runaway train and Obama is the GDP.” Krugman goes on to point at the throttle. Is this true? Let’s check out that of the 2013 CBO report on some of those pesky facts they so like automatic stabilizers on a projected to ignore. Jeff Spross points out in his deficit of $845 billion comes to $422 column “VIEWPOINT: The Debt Ev- billion, leaving a cyclically adjusted eryone Is Freaking Out About Doesn’t deficit of $423 billion. Krugman says Exist,” that in 2011, Ryan was using there is about $11.5 trillion of fedthe computer projections from the eral debt in the hands of the public, CBO to extrapolate out to 2037 to sell and that a conservative estimate is his plan (which is virtually identical to that the GDP will grow by at least his 2010 and 2012 plan). If the CBO 4 percent during this period, so 4 can’t tell you with any remote degree percent of $11.5 trillion comes to of surety what’s going to happen in a 5 $460 billion, hence we’re there! It year period, what makes him so sure appears that these figures from the its 25-year guess is going to be accu- CBO have been ignored by Ryan in rate in the least? Ryan went so far as his budget. Perhaps it’s because they to show graphs projecting the debt hoist him on his own petard. If Conout for the next 75 years. As Spross gress would get down to business pointed out, that’s like trying to tell and actually do something to create us what 2011 was going to be like in jobs, the revenue increase would 1940. Things change. The GOP, unfor- lower the debt even further. This seems to make a lot more sense than tunately, doesn’t.

Now let’s look at what Obama has trying to predict the future. O

A Toledo tradition since 2005 ToledoFreePress.com n MILLER CONTINUED FROM 3 People have been very kind and generous with their comments; I believe most people understand the degree of difficulty involved in such a transformation.

After the reception, my wife and I took our seats in the Stroh Center — a superb venue for a concert, its prickly security staff the only distraction from the pleasantries — surrounded by some of our best friends and some of our newest.

I was not familiar with Dawes’ music, but it was clear the couple of thousand people who showed up to hear them play were. The four-piece band played an engaging set; its songs are literate and well-crafted, sung with empathy by lead singer Taylor Goldsmith.

Dawes breezed through a half-dozen songs, all of which were quality but none of which hinted at the wallop about to be unleashed.

For its penultimate song, Goldsmith stepped to the mic as Tay Strathairn played a soft keyboard introduction that strongly recalled vintage Jackson Browne.

Goldsmith sang about a young man on the Golden Gate Bridge preparing to “join a demographic” by committing suicide. A police sergeant asks him why he wants to die, and the suicidal man on the bridge sings: “Oh, it’s a little bit of everything/It’s the mountains/ It’s the fog/It’s the news at six o’clock/It’s the death of my first dog/It’s the angels up above me/It’s the song that they don’t sing/It’s a little bit of everything.”

It’s a compelling start, and though I was drawn in, I was still not expecting the intensity of the next stanza.

“An older man stands in a buffet line/He is smiling and he’s holding out his plate,” Goldsmith sang, and, knowing that the ending of this part of the story would be “A little bit of everything,” I thought to myself, “Uh-oh.”

Goldsmith continued, “And the further he looks back into his timeline/That hard road always led him to today/Making up for when his bright future had left him/Making up for the fact his only son is gone/And letting everything out once, as his server asks him/‘Have you figured out yet, what it is you want?’/‘I want a little bit of everything/The biscuits and the beans/Whatever helps me to forget about/The things that brought me to my knees/So pile on those mashed potatoes/And an extra chicken wing/I’m having a little bit of everything’.”

I sat there among nearly 3,000 people, suddenly stunned and isolated and feeling exposed. Here, in a few lines, was the summation of the 14 months’ worth of psychological excavation I endured to curb (never cure, but

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curb) my emotional addiction to eating.

I do not expect to find any other work of art that gets to the bravado and foolishness behind eating as an act of simultaneous solace and defiance; if I had heard those words a few years ago, I might have had my epiphany much earlier.

Intellectually, I know there were fewer than a dozen people among the 3,000 who knew about my journey. Of that dozen, fewer than three truly know the details and only one, my wife Shannon, knows the full story. But as Goldsmith sang about the man who piled on mashed potatoes to fill the ever-expanding well of sadness in his heart, I felt utterly exposed and raw, as if a spotlight were shining from the stage, not on me but through me.

It was an intense few minutes, welled in shame and guilt and the rather foolish shock of realizing that such a personal and intimate experience is common enough to be captured in a few lines of a pop song.

I remember squeezing my wife’s hand, knowing she was watching me and knowing she could feel me tense up.

Drummer Griffin Goldsmith and bassist Wylie Gelber propelled the song to its finish, but it wasn’t until a few days later that I would listen to the rest of the words, which center on a young bride-to-be’s definitions of love and marriage.

I did not take advantage of an opportunity to meet Dawes at their merch booth. In retrospect, I am glad I didn’t, as the experience was too fresh to be captured in words. A confession along the lines of “Oh, my God, your song dragged my personal shame into the light and made me feel like the skin had been peeled away from my flesh” would not have been appropriate, but an acknowledgement would not have been enough.

I have listened to the song several times in the past few days but I put it away before it could lose its impact.

I know I will turn to it again, just as I know it will never have the full impact it had the first time I heard it, live.

And that’s OK. Because there is another trove of wisdom in the song, one that wisely discourages full dissection and further discussion: “It’s like trying to make out every word/When you should simply hum along/It’s not some message written in the dark/Or some truth that no one’s seen/It’s a little bit of everything.” O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledo freepress.com.

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CITY OF TOLEDO

Health, safety, welfare at stake in Opportunity knocks maintaining city’s water service T

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ater. We need it for every facet of our lives. In Toledo, water has been a dependable asset. We have an ample supply thanks to our proximity to Lake Erie and we take for granted that when we turn on the tap that liquid gold will flow on demand. Unfortunately that requires that we take care of the system that brings the water to our door. Historically, Toledo has not done this well, and we are now paying the price.

The Collins Park water treatment plant was built before World War II. According to recent inspections from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “the maintenance and capital improvement needs of the City of Toledo’s public water system have been overlooked for so long that most of the equipment is aged, obsolete, (and) showing signs of frequent failure, Michael while being expected to operate at full capacity to keep up with the demands of the system. The plant is in need of multiple expensive repairs to prevent a major failure.”

That the plant has continued to operate without crisis or major incident despite its antiquated equipment is a testament to the work of many generations of employees at Collins Park. We continue to provide high-quality drinking water for all of the residents and businesses we serve. However, we are now in a position that requires us to make significant improvements or face findings and orders from the Ohio EPA. These improvements will require us to pay a greater rate for our water service.

Toledo’s rates have always been affordable and they will continue to be so. The average Toledo household currently pays an average of $14.53 per month for water, $3.63 with a senior or homestead rate. By comparison, ratepayers in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati pay $32.60, $33.35 and $25.63 per month, respectively. Detroit and Fort Wayne, Ind., water customers currently pay $25.12 and $22.20 on average per month. Under the proposed rate structure, the average Toledo household will pay $24.93 per month by the end of 2018. That still puts Toledo’s water rates five years down the road at a level comparable to what other Midwestern communities charge currently.

We are mindful that our city continues to recover from the recession. Both my administration and members of City Council have heard the concerns of Toledo’s residents and we’ve worked to maintain services that our taxpayers expect and deserve without raising taxes and fees. Additionally, working with City Council and community partners, the Department of Public Utilities has undertaken a performance audit to find greater efficiencies in their operations.

However, Toledo’s water system is not an issue that can continue to be ignored or have repairs delayed. The ultimate cost to our community of doing so would be devastating.

Collins Park has served Toledo well for more than 70 years, but it was built long before our water system served the greater Northwest Ohio region. As a result, the necessary redundancies needed as a backup to serve the expanded service area of 2013 are no longer in place to ensure that if any part of the system goes down there is sufficient capacity to continue to meet the demand for water. In total, these upgrades and fail-safes will require a total investment of $314 million over the five-year life of the program.

The first portion of work to upgrade the system will include building two 20-million-gallon basins to increase the

capacity of the plant. Currently, the plant has one 80-milliongallon basin and one 40-million-gallon basin. At this point, both basins need to operate around-the-clock in unison to serve the demand of the system. Adding the additional basins ensures that we can maintain capacity of the system in the event there is a need to take either existing basin offline for repair or even for regular ongoing maintenance. These two new basins must also be constructed before other repairs can be made to the rest of the plant, as those repairs require taking existing equipment offline.

The distribution system is equally aged and requires greater investment. Currently, nearly 50 percent of the waterlines in Toledo date back to the 1930s. Only 0.27 percent of these are replaced each year, resulting in an average of 300 water main breaks annually. At this rate P. BELL of replacement, a Toledo waterline would need a life expectancy of 366 years. That is not practical and will not serve the health, welfare and economic development needs of the region. This program would speed the replacement of waterlines to ensure that 1.1 percent of lines are replaced annually, with a more practical 100-year life cycle for waterlines.

Additional improvements in this phase will also be made to the distribution system to ensure that pumps and electronic systems are updated and maintained to prevent failure to the system. Toledo’s water system currently serves approximately 500,000 households across Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The consequences of failure to the system would damage Toledo economically, threaten the health, safety and welfare of the regional population and would ruin the image of Northwest Ohio — not just the city.

The benefits of this program are many. First and foremost we ensure the quality of the water delivered to 500,000 customers on a daily basis at an affordable rate. By 2018, Toledo residents will receive three gallons of water for just one penny. For homestead customers this will be four gallons for just one penny. This capital improvement program will also create jobs. Replacing waterlines and building new facilities requires many hands to accomplish the work, resulting in an anticipated 683 construction jobs per year for the first five years of the program. Finally, the Toledo region’s access to water and the affordability of clean and safe water is a major selling point in marketing this city for economic development. Touting a first-class system that remains affordable and is well-maintained bolsters that asset.

If you would like more information about the state of the Collins Park water treatment plant and the proposed upgrades to the water treatment and distribution system, please visit the city’s website at www.toledo.oh.gov. There is a short video tour of Collins Park and the full presentation made to Toledo City Council at the committee of the whole hearing where this legislation was discussed. This is not an easy issue to address and it’s not a popular proposal to bring forward. But it is our job as city leaders to correct the problem regardless of what has or hasn’t been done in the past. As we commit to that responsibility I ask for Toledo’s support in protecting this region’s health, economy and reputation. O Michael P. Bell is Mayor of the City of Toledo. Call him at (419) 245-1004 or email him at mayor.toledo@toledo.oh.gov.

he Toledo Public Schools (TPS) Board of Education is between a rock and a hard place. The hard place is a community continually unimpressed with results to date, disappointed with the lack of vision and accountability of a dysfunctional board, and unwilling to invest any more money without major reform.

The rock is the TPS public sector employee unions that have spent the past 35 years pounding and grinding the board in one negotiation and election after Steven another until near-control is achieved.

The just-completed performance audit defines clearly the many challenges that must be negotiated between the board and employee unions.

Two chapters of the report demonstrably validate the obstacles. Section 3, regarding instructional delivery, has 20 recommendations of which 14 (or 70 percent) require negotiation. The human resources chapter — section 4 — has 20 recommendations with 50 percent requiring negotiation.

The gauntlet has been thrown and despite initial perceptions, TPS has been presented with an opportunity to change public attitudes, forge a common purpose among labor and management, save and/or deploy more effectively large sums of taxpayer money and create an environment where student success is fostered and expected.

Public trust is critical to meeting TPS’ mission with transparency and action integral to the equation. This is where the board has to depart from previous behavior of secretive, closeddoor decisions without any accountability and move to a philosophy where it not only welcomes independent community oversight, but embraces it.

Three elements are critical if the spirit and intent behind a performance audit are to be met: community oversight, board accountability and staff implementation.

An independent oversight committee — let’s call it the Performance Audit Accountability Committee — is going to be hard for the board to implement due to the obvious political implications, but doing so is imperative in seizing this opportunity.

The sole function envisioned for an accountability committee is to monitor implementation of performance audit findings and independently apprise the community of progress and

problems. The committee would make no decisions — the board and staff have responsibility for reviewing the findings and implementing solutions.

The board should sanction the committee by official resolution and provide complete access to all records, staff and other resources as deemed necessary by the committee to discharge its duties.

Establishing independent oversight ensures board accountability throughout the process regardless of the composition of the board. This FLAGG fall, three board members must stand for re-election.

Should any move on, a “new” board may not agree with the original intent of the audit. Future boards will have to take a public vote to eliminate accountability and void past promises to Toledo taxpayers.

For oversight to work, only individuals with no conflicts of interest should serve — that means no board members, administrators, employees or any individual with a financial interest.

The committee should consist of at least seven individuals of varying backgrounds and must include — let’s repeat that — must include district critics and dissenting voices to add credibility and promote public trust. While the board should appoint committee members, the members should select their own leadership, determine their agenda and be free to design the necessary processes to complete their mission.

In developing an internal implementation process, the board has to be cognizant of audit report findings regarding board micromanagement. The implementation process is a good place to practice good board governance.

Each finding should have a “champion” assigned — someone accountable for the final result. The champion must have the authority and resources to pursue solutions and, after board approval, implementation.

The ideas presented are truncated and, most assuredly, can be improved. There are likely other methods that would accomplish the objectives discussed. But the TPS Board of Education doesn’t appear to want a public discussion about implementation until perhaps it decides what it should be, so these ideas are offered to foster debate. O Steven Flagg is a member of the Urban Coalition. Email him at letters@toledo freepress.com.

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Sara Swisher is director of EPIC Toledo. She graduated from BGSU with a bachelor’s in theater in 2011.

New EPIC leader values community involvement

By Brigitta Burks

Toledo Free Press News Editor bburks@toledofreepress.com

EPIC Toledo’s new director Sara Swisher’s eyes light up when she talks about the Glass City region and her organization, which seeks to connect emerging professionals in the area.

“EPIC’s mission is to accelerate the influence of emerging leaders in the region and to provide them a voice in the community and retain talent.

And I feel being from the area, those are things that we want. We want an area that’s going to grow and flourish,” said Swisher, who became EPIC’s director in March when she took over Paulette Cousino’s old position.

Swisher graduated from Bowling Green

State University with a bachelor’s in theater in 2011. After graduating, she worked in restaurant management, particularly fine dining establishments.

Adam Davenport, EPIC’s chairman and founder of Gorillas & Gazelles LLC, said he believes Swisher’s background in a demanding industry has prepared her for her new role.

“She’s hit the ground running; actually, I would say sprinting,” he said.

“She’s only been with us for a month and you can already tell the energy and passion she has for the organization.”

EPIC Toledo Vice Chair Jeff Schaaf said Swisher’s Bowling Green connections are another plus and help diversify the group.

“She brings another perspective of the Toledo

region. I think that’s valuable because we don’t want to shoehorn ourselves into one community,” he said.

“Sara has already jumped in headfirst and has done a great job establishing contacts. She is outgoing and personable and energetic and exciting.”

EPIC Toledo was founded by the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Wendy Gramza in 2007 as a way to combat brain drain. The organization has about 1,400 individual members and 62 corporate members. All corporate member’s employees have access to all EPIC Toledo’s benefits for free.

Member benefits are important to Swisher.

“We’re always seeking opportunities to benefit our members, always trying to provide them with new opportunities to grow profes-

sionally, network and become involved in the community,” she said. “I’m really hoping to give the membership a wide variety of opportunities and benefits.”

Schaaf said, “I think Sara’s going to take us into a little bit different direction where we’re more engaged with our corporate members and engaged more in the community. I feel like we’ve just touched the tip of the iceberg.”

Community involvement is a big part of EPIC Toledo, Swisher said. Last Thanksgiving, the group helped Cherry Street Mission get enough holiday meals and is planning on handing out water bottles at the Glass City Marathon on April 28. Every summer, members also build with Habitat for Humanity. n EPIC CONTINUES ON 7

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n EPIC CONTINUED FROM 6 “When you are connected to things like that and you’re seeing the impact you’re making in your community, you want to grow in that area and it makes you more passionate, of course, about the area as well,” Swisher said.

EPIC Toledo’s events also serve as a way to connect newer professionals with more seasoned professionals, Swisher said. An upcoming golf outing, starting at 8 a.m. June 21 at Belmont Country Club, 29601 Bates Road, Perrysburg, will do just that. Every fall, EPIC Toledo also hosts a summit where about 25 community leaders give talks to EPIC Toledo members.

Davenport said, “There’s always something coming. We actually get a lot of people saying, ‘How do you do all the events and all the causes?’”

Swisher said EPIC Toledo members span several industries — and ages. The group is made up of “people who are just starting out to people who have made more of a mark for themselves or are a little more settled,” Swisher said.

“We say it’s more about attitude, not about age.”

EPIC Toledo is also about drumming up the positives about Northwest Ohio and keeping talent in the

area, Schaaf said.

“I would challenge anyone who thinks we’re a miserable city with nothing to do to spend a day with an EPIC member,” he said. “[EPIC Toledo] gives opportunities for young people to connect with their peers who are passionate about being in this area,” Davenport said. “It gives us a way to connect people who are like-minded.”

Swisher is clearly one of those members who is passionate about the Northwest Ohio region.

“One of my favorite things that everyone always talks about is how you can get everywhere in 20 minutes,” she said, adding that she also appreciates Toledo’s sporting and entertainment opportunities.

“Obviously, with a degree in theater, I love the arts. We have symphony; we have opera; we have theater.”

Swisher said her first full month on the job has been good and that she’s staying busy.

“Every day is different and I enjoy that. [I’m] meeting new people everywhere I go and the great thing about EPIC is their reputation is overwhelmingly positive,” she said.

An individual EPIC Toledo membership is $75. To learn more, visit the website www.epictoledo.com. O

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Region scores poorly on air quality report card

Although many areas of the country, including Northwest Ohio, has made progress on improving air quality over the past few years, Lucas County still earned a grade of D for ozone pollution in The American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report.

Despite improvements, nearly 132 million people in the U.S. still live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, which is more than four in 10 people (42 percent), according to the report, which was released April 24 and used data compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-2011.

The Toledo-Fremont area was tied for the 80th most polluted air in the nation, a ranking worse than last year when Toledo-Fremont was ranked 83rd, according to a news release about the report.

The Toledo-Fremont area tied for 79th most polluted cities for short-term particle pollution, receiving a grade of C, an improved ranking from 73rd in the 2012 report.

Toledo-Fremont’s annual particle pollution ranking was 58th in the nation, worse than last year when the

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The top five worst cities in all categories of pollution were in California.

“The air in the Toledo area is certainly cleaner than when we started the ‘State of the Air’ report 14 years ago,” said Shelly Kiser, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association in Ohio in the release. “But the work is not done, and we must set stronger health standards for pollutants and clean up sources of pollution in the Toledo area to protect the health of our citizens.”

Inhaling air pollution, or smog, irritates the lungs and can cause immediate and future health problems, including wheezing, coughing, asthma attacks and premature death. Wood County earned a B for ozone pollution.

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TPS Board to lobby against Academic Distress Commissions

By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccartney@toledofreepress.com

Anger at Ohio legislators was displayed April 23 when Toledo Public School (TPS) Board of Education (BOE) members discussed a resolution they eventually passed 5-0, which urges the state’s elected officials to reject House Bill (HB) 59.

The proposed legislation would permit the state superintendent of public instruction to establish commissions for school districts, including TPS, which the state auditor finds “to have knowingly manipulated student data with evidence to deceive.”

TPS was recently cited in a state audit for improperly “scrubbing” data reported to the state by withdrawing and then re-enrolling truant students.

Board members said they intend to travel to Columbus this weekend, some at their own expense, to lobby legislators to not create Academic Distress Commissions of unelected individuals with unrestricted power to establish school board budgets, contract with private entities to manage school districts, appoint and reassign school building administrators, and terminate administrator contracts.

The resolution, presented by BOE President Brenda Hill, was drafted by Keith Wilkowski, TPS legal counsel.

BOE member Lisa Sobecki said she is vehe-

mently opposed to HB 59 because legislators are proposing to create a law within a substitute bill to HB 59 for situations that are currently covered in the Ohio Revised Code (ORC).

“When legislators put this type of legislation in, I would have hoped that they would have done their homework before to see that there’s already measures within the ORC that calls for these types of things,” she said.

Sobecki said she spoke with Hill on April 19 to suggest that a resolution come before the board April 23.

“We need to send a message down to Columbus,” Sobecki said. “And I anticipate there’s going to be other school board members that I’ve spoken with across the state that are going to do similar things.

With all these amendments added to the HB, school boards are really just trying to figure it out. I’m also incensed with the fact that our legislators aren’t even allowing the state auditor’s process to be able to finish before they’re proposing new legislation. It’s an ongoing investigation from the auditor’s office and the Ohio Department of Education (ODE).”

Lack of accountability

Sobecki said she is concerned that the proposed legislation does not establish accountability standards or recommendations for the ODE. “Look at the fact that board members belong to governing bodies and policy bodies,” Sobecki said. “We’re not the ones doing that day-to-day

work of inputting information. For example … the reason they wrote this [amendment] is because of the scrubbing issue. And they’ve decided down in Columbus they need to hold us accountable, but we already have accountability measures that we can follow.

“No. 1, the two people we hire and fire are the superintendent and the treasurer, and we hold them accountable for the work underneath them. And the superintendent holds his folks accountable. It’s a chain of command.”

Sobecki said HB 59 is filled with useless language: “I really wished that they had focused more on funding public schools right in the first place versus trying to [create legislation] for things that are already in place.”

Purely political

Despite the speculation surrounding legislators’ motives, Sobecki said she believes the motivation is purely political.

“The reason you’re going to hear on one side is that school districts should have been accounting for kids properly,” Sobecki said. “But I think it’s more political than getting to the root cause and understanding what was going on through the reporting mechanisms that have been called ‘scrubbing.’ I think it’s more political than looking at what’s right.”

Sobecki said it reflects a power struggle between the Republican and Democratic parties.

“My understanding from friends and colleagues in Columbus is that this is being pushed by the Republicans, and they’ve begun pushing harder now that it’s going through the Senate.

“This is the time that we speak up and board members across the State of Ohio help educate legislators when they take legislative actions.”

Although she is a registered Democrat, Sobecki insists that the BOE works as an elected nonpolitical, nonpartisan governing body.

“We make unpartisan decisions,” Sobecki said. “They’re not Republican decisions. They’re not Democrat decisions. They are decisions which are best for kids.

“But here’s a side note that maybe Republicans can understand. Overwhelmingly across the state, there are more Republican school board members than Democratic school board members. And I’ve spoken to my colleagues across the state who are Republicans, and they’re not in favor of this.”

Sobecki said TPS’ resolution can become a model for other school boards to adopt as they reach out to their legislators.

“I’m going to be sharing it with colleagues across the state and encouraging them to sign on to similar resolutions like this.

“And I do know in talking with our folks at the Ohio School Board Association, the OSBA is not supporting this either.” O

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‘Tastings’ encourage input in TPS lunch menus

By John P. McCartney

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In an attempt to give students and parents input in the decision-making process of menu planning as well as increase student use of Toledo Public Schools’ (TPS) food services, the district will host “tastings” at 10 schools the weeks of May 6-10 and 13-17.

James Gant, chief business manager, explained the purpose and structure of the planned tastings and sought input from members of the Food Service Ad Hoc Committee on April 18.

Tastings will be 30-minute events at seven elementary and three high schools. Students and parents who participate will taste five to eight food items the district is considering adding to next year’s lunch menus, said Reynald Debroas, director of TPS Department of Food Services.

Each tasting will be the same, Debroas said. Participants at all the elementary schools will taste the same food items. Participants at each high school will taste the same food items although those items will differ from those tasted at the elementary schools.

Participants will vote on each item they taste. If Debroas places six food items on the tasting menu with the intention of adding three items to next year’s district menu, the top three vote-getting items will win, said Patty Mazur, TPS communications director.

The tastings will cost TPS nothing, Mazur said. The event will be vendorfinanced, and Mazur said the district expects that five to eight potential vendors will participate.

The idea for this year’s tasting

events grew out of one tasting at DeVeaux Elementary School last year at which DeVeaux and Whittier Elementary School students and parents tasted and voted on food items for this year’s breakfast menu, Mazur said.

Scheduled tastings

The seven elementary school tastings will take place: O May 6 — Larchmont, 1515 Slater St., 43612 O May 7 — Beverly, 3548 S. Detroit Ave., 43614 O May 8 — Garfield, 1103 Ravine Pkwy., 43605 O May 9 — Hawkins, 5550 W. Bancroft St., 43615 O May 10 — Navarre, 800 Kingston Ave., 43605 O May 13 — Elmhurst, 4530 Elmhurst Drive, 43613 O May 14 — Whittier, 4221 Walker Ave., 43612 The three high schools tastings will take place: O May 15 — Bowsher, 2200 Arlington Ave., 43614 O May 16 — Start, 2010 Tremainsville Road, 43613 O May 17 — Woodward, 701 E. Central Ave., 43608

Breakfast award

In other business, Gant informed committee members that TPS Board of Education (BOE) member Larry Sykes accepted the 2012 School Breakfast Program of the Year Award from Children’s Hunger Alliance (CHA) on Feb. 18. TPS was honored as Ohio’s top school district for its partnership with CHA, Action for Healthy Kids and the American Dairy Association

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Mideast in sponsoring its first school breakfast program.

CHA reported that in September the district began offering hot breakfasts at least three days a week in all K-8 school buildings as well as adding additional fresh fruits and whole grains to the breakfast menus. In that same month, CHA reported that more than 8,500 children in the district ate breakfast at school as compared to 4,790 six months earlier, and that about 40 percent of all K-8 students eat breakfast on average each day in TPS. The breakfast program is financed with federal funds, Gant said, and because of low food and labor costs, the district makes about 25 cents per meal served.

Sykes said he is a strong supporter of the breakfast program because of the strong correlation he sees between feeding students and improved student performance.

Sykes, who attended the National School Board Association conference in San Diego from April 12-15, said he listened to a compelling presentation made SYKES by the San Diego Unified District.

“They spoke about their food program and what it did,” Sykes said. “Attendance went up. Performance increased and discipline [problems]decreased.

“You can get that from the Columbus City Schools district, too.

They did the same thing, and they found that when they give kids a hot

breakfast, attendance and academic performance improves and discipline [referrals and incidents] go down.”

Fiscal responsibility

The committee also discussed strategies on how TPS can continue to become fiscally sound.

In 2012, food services received a $700,000 subsidy from TPS general fund, down from $2.8 million in 2004.

Citing high food and labor costs, Gant reported TPS loses approximately 17 cents for every elementary school lunch and 58 cents for every high school lunch it serves.

In 2012, TPS was reimbursed $2.94 per meal for each free or reduced lunch it served. Gant said that although about 78 percent of students would qualify for a free or reduced lunch, TPS serves only about 40 percent of those students. Gant said that if TPS developed an aggressive strategy in enrolling students in the free and reduced lunch program, food services could stop losing money and actually turn a profit.

Alternative meals

Although Debroas said it had been TPS practice not to serve alternative meals for at least the past 12 years, Gant said he is inclined to pursue that option next year.

An alternative meal is a nutritionally sound but less expensive meal districts are permitted to serve to students who do not qualify for free or reduced lunches but cannot or do not pay for the hot meal prepared for the student body, Gant said.

Jean Ford, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

(AFSCME) Local 840 president, said when she began working for TPS in 1983, an alternative meal was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, fruit cup, large juice, milk and vegetable. Ford said districts no longer serve that meal because more children are allergic to peanut butter now.

“Now, an alternative meal would probably be a cheese sandwich, milk, juice and a fruit or vegetable,” Ford said. “It wouldn’t be the specific hot meal that we serve the children.

“Like today was taco meat with refried beans, Doritos, orange juice and milk. They would not get that. An alternative meal would not be all of that.

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n TPS CONTINUED FROM 10 “However, right now, we are not doing an alternative meal. None of us want any child to go hungry. We are just having them charge meals.”

Charging meals has created a fiscal dilemma, Gant said.

Ford said some students have “charged a substantial amount of money for their hot meal lunches.

Their parents don’t want to fill out the free and reduced lunch application but they still want the students to eat. And we know some of them have the money but they won’t pay the charges off.

“And if you went through all the charges … Oh, my gosh. Going back to even just last year, it’s a few thousand dollars.”

Gant said that TPS needs to strictly adhere to its programs, policies and procedures.

“We have a program in place,” Gant said. “Fill out an application.

If not, we will provide a nutritional meal, but not the meal that students whose parents fill out the application receive.”

BOE President Brenda Hill said one problem is that parents know the district won’t let their children starve.

Sykes said some of the problem lies in poor parenting.

“Some of our parents are irresponsible,” Sykes said. “The kids are raising themselves and we know that.”

However, Gant said TPS cannot ignore its own policies.

“We need to get parents to at least try to fill out the application,” Gant said. “However, we will always work on the principle that we are not to turn away any kid in need of food.”

Possible outsourcing

Gant’s discussion of the Food Service Ad Hoc Committee’s decision to put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) to investigate whether the management and/or operations of food services could be better served by an outside firm drew immediate concern from David Blyth, AFSCME representative.

“What the Ad Hoc Committee wanted to look at were different options to see if there is anything we can be doing better as a district,” Gant said. “The concern, obviously, from the union’s perspective is that once you put those things out, although you will get back some suggestions, they may also suggest that the district actually farm out the whole operation and take over the employment of it.

“It’s been clear from our perspective — and one of the things that I said when we put this out — that there would be no change at all in employment arrangements with the district. That was my point.

“The other point I wanted to make is that when we analyze

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A Toledo tradition since 2005 whether we should be doing it or not, a lot of things that Dave [Blyth] said needed to be considered. We’ll go though it thoroughly.

“We’re not going to automatically decide to use a management firm to run food services. When we went through this same process for the Print Services analysis, we came to the conclusion it was best that we continue to operate our print shop versus having it farmed out.”

Blyth said that although he understands Gant’s position, he does not think it was productive for TPS to put out an RFP. “I don’t agree to that because what happens is, once you let a company like that in, they’re going to say, ‘Gee, part of the problem here is the pay that you’re offering employees,’ ” Blyth said. “What we want to do is hire the employees as older ones resign or retire.

“I just don’t think the school system should be a place where businesses should be making a profit off what should be a nonprofit activity, meaning our children.

“And I’m also fearful about getting a private concern managing food services. I have a feeling that we’re now giving up an important decision-making process. We’re giving up a function, if you will, of the school system to outsiders who are driven by the profit motive.”

Increased prices

Blyth said AFSCME’s apprehension with the direction of the Food Service Ad Hoc Committee stems from the possibility that its decisions may lead to an increase in student lunch prices.

“The biggest concern I have is that we somehow end up with a private concern coming in, and then the end result of that will be that the price of food will go up,” Blyth said.

“We already know that we’re basically charging under market, based on what we saw from Cincinnati and the other school districts.

“I think there is a legitimate reason to raise our food charges, but I don’t think we need to get into a situation where they’re raised so a company can make a profit.

“I also think children value and do better when there’s a stable workforce in the schools and they’re seeing the same people day in and day out.

I think it’s important to them. And I think if you go to a situation where you use a company that, frankly, is going to be paying minimum wage or a little above, you’re going to see an endless succession of employees.

You’re going to see turnover far, far more than you do now because at that kind of money, people are going to work until they can find something better and then move on.

“And many of the food ladies

have been there forever. Jean Ford, the union president, has been a food service worker for 30 years. She has a wealth of knowledge. She knows how to work around kids. The kids know her. And I think they’re better served having that stable and consistent face like Jean’s that they see every day.”

‘Including the kitchen sink’

Blyth said he also has serious concerns with what he characterized as a flawed performance audit.

“My main fear is that when people get to the bottom of that document where it says, ‘If you embrace these savings over five years, you’ll save $101 million.’ I’m concerned that people will look at that and say, ‘Oh, that’s where the money comes from. We don’t have to vote for any levies.’

“And the problem with the performance audit is, although there are a lot of good ideas there, they’ve thrown in everything, including the kitchen sink, to get to that number, and some of it just isn’t realistic. From what I’ve heard and seen, they were going by data that was previous to the transformation to K-8 so they’re looking at data and numbers that don’t really match the reality of where we are.

“And some of the stuff … I don’t think it’s going to be politically palatable closing down schools and combining this and that. I don’t think that’s going to work.” O

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It doesn’t always take a lot of money to open up a house of worship to the disabled. A smile, a handshake, a few kind words can make a huge difference, according to experts.

It’s often a matter of attitude more than architecture, said Mark Pinsky, author of “Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disability, and Inclusion” (Alban Books, 2012).

A veteran journalist and author, Pinsky will lead a May 1 workshop in Maumee on creating welcoming and accessible worship opportunities for people with disabilities.

“Never start a discussion with elevators,” Pinsky said. “If you don’t frighten the finance committee off in the very beginning you might have a PINSKY chance for your house of worship to be more welcoming.”

The number of Americans with disabilities is on the rise, with more than 50 million men, women and children having physical, sensory, psychiatric and intellectual disabilities.

Marsha Rivas, director of equal access ministries for the Catholic Diocese of Toledo, said the church has been making gains toward including those with disabilities. All 130 parishes in the 19-county diocese are now accessible to the disabled, she said.

“Everybody can get in the door, and that wasn’t the case even five years ago,” said Rivas, who will participate in a panel discussion at the workshop.

Pinsky, in an interview from his home in Orlando, Fla., said three demographic streams of disabled persons are now converging at houses of worship.

The first is military veterans coming back from war with traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, missing limbs, and other physical, mental and emotional issues.

The second is people in their 20s and 30s who are living with physical problems that, without recent advances in medical science, would have been fatal.

The third stream is the biggest: the 76 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964.

“The boomers are aging into infirmity with vision issues, hearing issues, mobility issues,” Pinsky said.

Churches, temples, synagogues and mosques that reach out to those with disabilities will “do well by doing good,” Pinsky said.

The Toledo Diocese is working to ensure that people who use wheelchairs or other transportation aids will not only be able to get in the door but have a place in the pews during Mass, be able to come to the altar for Communion, reach the ambo to read the Gospels and be able to enter the confessionals, Rivas said.

Most parishes have large-print missals available for those with sight problems and many churches have radio transmitter systems with headphones for the hearing impaired.

One diocesan program that is helping to raise awareness of disability issues is the Open Arms Awards, presented each year to Catholics with disabilities who are ministering in their parishes and communities.

The ceremony is in a different parish each March during a regularly scheduled Mass, with Bishop Leonard

Blair presiding.

When the bishop hands out the plaques, it not only recognizes those with disabilities but also “opens the eyes” of people in the pews attending their weekly Mass, Rivas said.

The 2013 Accessible Communities

Education Series: Creating Communities that Work for Everyone will be 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 1 at Parkway Place, 2592 Parkway Plaza, Maumee. For information, contact Amy Kerchevall at the Ability Center, (419) 885-5733 or akerchevall@abilitycenter.org. The

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David Yonke is the editor and community manager of Toledo Faith & Values (ToledoFAVS.com), a website that provides in-depth, nonsectarian news coverage of religion, faith and spirituality.

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By Jay Hathaway

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

Following a successful inaugural season, Feed Lucas County Children (FLCC) will host another free camp for kids this summer.

The free camp will run from June 17 through the end of July, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Knight Academy, 110 Arco Drive in Toledo. it is intended for children in grades one through six.

Last year, FLCC, which provides healthy meals to hungry children, hosted the summer camp for the first time. The camp was the brainchild of Khalfani Rice, an AmeriCorps VISTA worker at the time, and was executed with the help of FLCC Executive Director Tony Siebeneck.

The goal to provide a free camp experience for 600 area children. It seemed lofty at the time, but according to Siebeneck, it was met much sooner than expected.

“Within the first five days, we had 403 kids signed up,” he said. “A lot of camps around the county try to go

for 60-80 on the average, and everybody kept talking about what the kids are going to do in the summer, so we aimed for 400-600, but when the first 400 hit, we said, ‘This might be enough!’”

Despite the unexpectedly SIEBENECK high surge in attendance, Siebeneck proudly reported that no one was turned away. The numbers also impressed many others in the community and beyond.

“We were averaging around 340 every day,” Siebeneck said. “The people at the governor’s office were really impressed. They couldn’t believe we did that.”

Siebeneck explained that activities were often a mix of educational and physical exercises. He added that games like Red Rover helped accommodate large numbers of children who wanted to burn off their summer energy.

“We wore them out. We had them involved in so many activities,” Siebeneck said.

The kids also played soccer, one of many exercises aimed toward teaching the value of team building, which was one of the focal points of the camp.

Camp activities also concentrated on eating healthy foods. Campers worked in the gardens at the academy and learned about the benefits of a healthy diet.

“Many kids don’t get the chance to eat healthy foods,” Siebeneck said. “We threw them a lot of different types of ‘weird stuff,’ as the kids would say, that people should be eating.”

Siebeneck, a 2013 Jefferson Award recipient, explained his belief in responding to misbehavior with positive response, rather than punishment.

“We believe in the power of positive thinking, and positive reactions. So if we had a kid that was being disruptive we would put them in a leadership role, as an assistant.

Subconsciously, he can’t act out, because he’s a leader. He has a title — he’s an assistant. We’re building

self-esteem.”

Rice, now a district executive for the Cub Scouts, agreed that the camp was a success, and was extremely happy with the turnout.

“I honestly was completely amazed,” he said. “It was great to see that my efforts would impact some child’s life in a positive way.”

Rice added that the experience of attending summer camp leaves an indelible mark on the mind of a child.

This year’s format will be largely the same for the camp, with several additions. One of the new highlights will be a study of Chinese food, games and culture.

“We have one week where we have a group from China coming in, high school students, about 25 of them, and we’re going to have Chinese week,” Siebeneck said.

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Siebeneck and FLCC are part of the Free From Hunger 2013 initiative, fronted by Columbia Gas of Ohio, Toledo Free Press, WNWOTV and Moms on the Go and supported by Hollywood Casino

Toledo, Wells Fargo Advisors and 1370 WSPD. FLCC helps provide food to families who are struggling to feed their children. Siebeneck anticipates a busy summer and said FLCC will serve meals every day.

He emphasized that assistance from members of the community is critical.

“We’re looking for those adults that have that one particular talent or skill, who may want to come in one day and do a special project.

Our doors are wide open. There are a lot of areas that we could use help with.”

When asked what his greatest need is right now, Siebeneck replied that industrial kitchen equipment donations would go a long way toward fighting hunger.

“If I could get more cooking equipment, I could feed more kids.

One piece of cooking equipment will give back for the next 10-15 years. That is one heck of a return on a donation.”

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Accepting the inevitability of death is not an easy thing to do, but local hospice care agencies provide services that can ease the process of coping with mortality.

Hospice care has been around for centuries, but its modern philosophy of providing comfort during one’s final days is a more recent practice, dating to the 1950s when Dame Cicely Saunders laid much of the groundwork.

Sherry Wagenknecht, who works for Arbors Hospice in Ann Arbor as a volunteer coordinator, elaborated on Saunders’ philosophy.

“Serving the weary traveler was the idea,” Wagenknecht said. “People can have around-the-clock pain relief. We

serve people with dignity and provide comfort for them and serve their psychosocial needs.”

The team mentality

The modern multifaceted approach is often seen in the form of “interdisciplinary teams,” which refers to staffs of doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists and volunteers who work for hospice care organizations.

Maureen Cervenec, director of social services at Hospice of Northwest Ohio, said these types of teams are ready to help once a terminally ill patient is admitted for hospice care.

“At this point, people are beyond working toward a cure,” she said.

“What we’re really looking at is to make sure their remaining time is as comfortable as possible. Each family and each patient will have their own

goals and ideas of what they hope to accomplish in the remaining days and weeks of their lives. Our job is to go to work to put together a care plan that will support their goals.”

Wagenknecht noted that many aspects of hospice care are provided by volunteers. She said that student nurses, doctors and other health care professionals often volunteer to get acquainted with the coping process and the transition toward death. Others have had someone they are close to have an experience with hospice. She said volunteers must go through an education process in order to prepare them for the work, as well as to find suitable matches for them.

“We do a lot of work on helping them understand what the dying process is, and what it’s going to be. A lot of the psychosocial changes that are going on with people, like denial and anger — we work with them trying to educate them on those things.”

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Cervenec said hospice patients are sometimes referred by family, physicians or the individual. They then undergo an initial assessment to ensure they meet criteria for hospice care.

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“Do nothing — just be there, be present. Don’t try to fix it,” she said.

If you do want to say something or write a card, two of the most compassionate expressions are: • “I am so sorry for your loss.”

• “I wish I had the right words, but just know that I care.”

Macklenar has learned these tips from clients who have lost loved ones.

They know what they don’t like to hear. The BARHITE worst thing to say is, “I know how you must be feeling.”

“People do not like that,” Macklenar said.

The exception to that is if you have suffered a similar loss. It is OK to share

your experience, by saying, “When I lost so and so,” she said, but be careful not to make this most recent death about you.

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n HOSPICE CONTINUED FROM A15 “Ultimately, it’s absolutely the decision of the patient and family. We’re not interested in recruiting or talking anyone into hospice services.”

Erin Marten-Snyder, of Toledo, described how she came to know about hospice care through an experience with her grandmother and Hospice of Northwest Ohio.

“She was 95 and doing fairly well when she started declining pretty quickly. The decision to get hospice involved was actually spearheaded by my sister and I, and we spent a couple of days trying to convince my mom to make the call,” Marten-Snyder said.

Marten-Snyder added that from the moment the call was made, plans were set up quickly and efficiently.

Hours after her grandmother signed the necessary paperwork, there was a hospital bed set up in her home along with other equipment she needed.

“She was really, really well taken care of. Her last day was amazing.

Hospice honored her as a veteran with a pin and a small ceremony and she had a full bed bath followed by a full body massage. Even after she passed,

they were so respectful to her and I was able to help the nurse bathe her and prepare her body for the funeral home. I was touched that the nurse took the time to brush Nana’s hair, brush her teeth and put on a new nightgown and a pair of her favorite fluffy slippers.”

Rachel Johnson of Perrysburg also said hospice care helped her family cope with the loss of her grandfather.

“We were accepting what was happening together. I remember it felt strange, but OK,” she said. “Hospice was a pretty foreign concept to me, but at once they made sure we understood the culture and nature of the place.

The comfort helped me accept something inevitable, yet still impossibly sad. It gave me the comfort, time and space I needed to say goodbye, and for that, I’m very grateful.”

Quality time

Ray Zielinski, executive director at Odyssey Hospice’s Toledo office, emphasized that hospice care is focused on the quality, not necessarily the quantity of time that an individual may have left.

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A Toledo tradition since 2005 “Without proper care and the proper medication, those last weeks, months, days or whatever they have left can be quite painful, and they can be full of turmoil,” he said. “We want to get all of that stuff under control, so that they can have time with their families and their loved ones, to get things taken care of that they want to get taken care of, emotionally and with the family.”

Another advantage of hospice care, Zielinski said, is that patients are often treated in a familiar environment, though inpatient care is provided in some facilities.

“Wherever they consider home, that’s where we see them,” Zielinski said.

He added that, with the help of hospice services, the distractions that family members often face when trying to set a loved one’s affairs in order are diminished.

“Families often end up being health care providers,” Zielinski said.

“We want to give them a chance to be the son, the daughter, the spouse, the friend. We’re there managing the care and managing the symptoms so that they can be that person for them.”

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“We were accepting what was happening together. ... Hospice was a pretty foreign concept to me, but at once they made sure we understood the culture and nature of the place. The comfort helped me accept something inevitable, yet still impossibly sad. It gave me the comfort, time and space I needed to say goodbye, and for that, I’m very grateful.”

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After they’re gone

In addition to providing care for the final days of a patient’s life, hospice care facilities usually offer support to family after a loved one has passed, generally up to 13 months.

“The one-year anniversary after they lose a loved one can be difficult, so we want to be there for them,” Zielinski said.

Marten-Snyder utilized Hospice of Northwest Ohio’s grief support services after her father died sud-

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“I attended a group called ‘When Your Parent Dies,’ and I actually loved it,” she said. “It was really hard, of course, but it was a place for me to go where there were others who really knew what it felt like to lose a parent.

I even found myself looking forward to going to the group each week.”

The acceptance of loss is the crux of what hospice care is all about, Cervenec said.

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n GRIEVING CONTINUED FROM 16 But you also shouldn’t act like the person will be OK in a few days. Too often our society advocates “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps,” she said.

Macklenar said grieving does not follow a linear pattern. It is up and down and could go on for years, depending on your closeness to the person who died. A spouse, parent and child are some of the hardest deaths to take, she said.

Those trying to reach out to someone who is mourning should remember that grieving is spiritual, mental and physical. Therefore, actions are just as powerful as words. She suggested offering to mow someone’s lawn or taking their kids for the rest of the day because they might be physically exhausted.

“Stay supportive as best as you can,” Macklenar said. “Focus on the feelings; don’t try to fix it.” O Email Brandi Barhite at bbarhite@ toledofreepress.com.

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By Duane Ramsey

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A new source for microlending will arrive in Northwest Ohio when the Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) opens an office in Toledo on May 1.

Based in Columbus, ECDI operates offices in Cleveland and now Toledo to assist small businesses with microenterprise loans in those communities. The Toledo ECDI office will be located in suite 202 at One Maritime Plaza in Downtown Toledo.

“Our goal is to create access to small business capital and provide tools for asset building to create jobs and invigorate our neighborhoods,” said Anneliese Grytafey, manager of EDCI’s Toledo office.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) defines a microenterprise as any business with five or fewer employees, with initial capitalization requirements of approximately $35,000. The ECDI makes loans of up to $150,000 to small businesses that may not qualify for funding from banks and traditional sources.

Inna Kinney founded ECDI in 2004 as a nonprofit economic development organization in Columbus to invest in people to create measurable social and economic change. Kinney serves as CEO of the organization.

ECDI acts as an SBA microloan intermediary and is the seventh largest SBA microlender in the nation and a U.S. Treasury-designated Community Development Financial Institution.

Grytafey gained expertise in microfinancing while studying national best practices with the Toledo office of Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE). She developed a program at ABLE to provide legal advice to entrepreneurs.

As an attorney, Grytafey believes her legal background will be helpful in the ECDI operation although she will not be allowed to provide legal advice to its clients. However, ECDI will partner with ABLE to help its clients obtain funding for their small businesses.

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Anneliese Grytafey will manage ECDI’s new office in Toledo.

Grytafey most recently served as director of strategic initiatives with the Regional Growth Partnership in conjunction with JobsOhio, where she worked toward making Toledo more competitive for federal funding and grants.

Banks are usually one of the largest referral partners for microlending, sending potential borrowers who may not qualify for conventional loans to sources such as ECDI, according to Grytafey. She plans to develop partnerships with local lenders to help expedite that process.

ECDI will provide small business loans to for-profit companies, helping those clients with cash flow, marketing and training as well as technical assistance throughout the

life of the loan. Those loans may be used for business expenses such as working capital, startup operating costs and purchase of equipment, inventory and supplies, but not for real estate acquisition or construction.

Grytafey said they will create partnerships with ECDI’s borrowers to provide training through local sources such as Assets Toledo and the Small Business Development Center.

ECDI’s clients could include small home-based businesses, contractors, entrepreneurs, family-owned enterprises and even young people who may want to start a business. Grytafey said she already has received some inquiries from local businesses interested in learning more about the program.

“Microlending is happening all

over the U.S. We just didn’t have a dedicated program in Toledo,” said Grytafey, who became involved in a collaboration of efforts to bring microfinancing to Toledo.

Grytafey reported that she and representatives of the Northwest Ohio Development Agency, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, United North and United Way visited ECDI in Columbus in January 2012. ECDI leadership came to Toledo that April for a community forum on microfinancing.

A pre-feasibility study was commissioned by the Toledo Community Development Corporation (CDC) Alliance and funded by a grant from the Ohio CDC Association. In a debriefing session after the study, Jason Friedman of Friedman Associates, one of the na-

tion’s top sources of expertise on domestic microfinance, suggested that the local committee connect with ECDI. An analysis conducted by Friedman’s firm showed a $15 million funding gap that could be filled by microcredit loan products in the Toledo/Lucas County market. That study was commissioned by ABLE and funded by a grant obtained through the Port Authority.

ECDI programs and services, supported by more than $40 million in federal, state, local and private funds, have proven to create jobs, increase access to assets and spur local economic development, according to ECDI’s website.

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his past week has been extraordinary in a variety of ways. The bombing in Boston dominated the news and ended with the death of one of the suspects and the capture of the other. I believe justice will eventually prevail but not without some frustrating twists and turns.

One of the big economic stories last week was the movement in the price of gold and silver. Similar to the Boston bombing, there is talk of conspiracy and manipulation in the movement of gold prices. I see these as possible, but maybe not probable. Either way it will be debated for a long time.

On April 12 at the open of the market here in the U.S. an order was placed selling 3.4 million ounces of gold for June delivery , which brought gold to $1,540 per ounce. That alone is a big order but just a couple of hours later Gary L. another order hit to the tune of 10 million ounces for June delivery. These two orders combined are the equivalent of 15 percent of the world’s production for the year.

As these orders get processed, a tremendous amount of downward pressure is put on the price of the underlying asset. That, in turn, causes stop limits to hit and margin calls to be placed, further pressuring the price down. If you had sold gold short prior to the orders you would have made a considerable amount of money on the trade. This is where the thoughts of manipulation come in, because there are only a few entities big enough to initiate transactions of this size.

We know who these entities are and we know they were involved with the trades, but trying to prove the coordinated manipulation between them is difficult. All we can do is look at the overall actions and try to determine the motivation and connect our own dots as to who and why. Once again, like the investigation that is going on in Boston, we want to know if they were part of a larger group, if it was all planned and paid for by a foreign entity or a domestic entity, and if there are more plans like this on the drawing board.

Back to gold — gold is generally what we call a Giffen

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good. A Giffen good is one that actually sees a spike in demand as its price rises. Conversely, demand usually drops along with the price. While this concept is widely known among economists, there are relatively few examples in the real world outside of commodity markets. Gold is the exception. In the past, as the price of gold dropped it was scorned and dishoarded by individuals as well as by central banks.

What is more important is the ratio of gold’s stock to its flow. This, very simply, is how much gold is actually on the market to change hands. Someone, or an entity of some type, owns virtually all the gold in the world.

What if they just simply decided not to sell any more for a while? This would cause what we call a shortage, not necessarily of the metal RATHBUN but of the availability of the metal.

If this situation were applied to automobiles, meaning a manufacturer of cars made the cars but decided not to sell any, this would eventually cause a shortage of cars. However, the manufacturer would have to sell some of the cars for cash or the cars would be worth nothing to him. Gold is not that way. With gold, the holder need not exchange his gold for dollars, especially if there are ever-increasing dollars pursuing the metal.

What am I trying to say? Buy things that hold their value over time, especially when they are cheaper now than they have been in a while. In the first half of April the U.S. Mint has sold more gold than the previous two months combined and we still have a week left in the month. Take the hint. O Gary L. Rathbun is the president and CEO of Private Wealth Consultants, LTD. He can be heard every day on 1370 WSPD at 4:06 p.m. on “After the Bell,” every day on the Afternoon Drive, and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening at 6 throughout Northern Ohio on “Eye on Your Money.” He can be reached at (419) 842-0334 or email him at garyrathbun@ privatewealthconsultants.com.

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ost people I know are pleased if they are being achieved? Is this a with the work being carried purely open-ended process or do we out by our region’s several know what we are working to accomeconomic development organizations. plish and what we want our city and These organizations — both public and region to become economically? Are private — and their leadership teams are we creating our future or are we alfairly visible in the community and the lowing the future to create us?

The greater Toledo metropolitan media. We are always glad to read that region has reached such a new company is coming a level of capability and to Northwest Ohio or that sophistication in ecoan existing firm is exnomic development that panding as a result of their we must now begin to work. We are interested to measure our progress in see how many new jobs terms of outcomes if we will be created when the want to move forward. To new company is up and do so means that we must running or the expansion move beyond describing of an existing business development solely in is complete. Every civicDan JOHNSON our terms of contacts, presenminded member of our community is encouraged when he or tations, visits, trips, fairs, size of budgets she learns that unemployment is going and number of staff, as important as these are. In strategic planning terms, down, even slightly.

But aside from the rate of unemploy- these are “input metrics.” These are ment, how do we measure the relative the necessary ingredients to economic health of our regional economy? How development but they are not developdo we know if our collective invest- ment, nor do they measure any aspect ments in “economic development” are of our economy.

Now, more than ever, a regionwide, giving us a positive return? What does multiorganizational a dollar invested in economic develop- public-private, ment produce by way of return? Do we conversation is needed to reach a broad get our dollar back and, if so, how much general consensus on regional economic goals, strategies for achieving more? In what form was the return?

Beyond the return on our economic these goals and objective data-based development investment, the larger and measures of progress toward success. more important questions are, simply, By what metrics will we know we are how are we as a region doing economi- making progress? How will we know cally? Are we going forward or backward, if we are winning or losing in our comup or down? Is our regional economy petition with other regions or if we are getting better or worse? Or staying the even a real competitor in the game?

The Silicon Valley Index was inisame? And, what roles are our economic development organizations and tiated in 1995 with support from the professionals playing in the competitive Silicon Valley Community Foundastruggle to strengthen the health and vi- tion and has now become nationally recognized. It measures the health tality of our regional economy?

These are not easy questions to an- and strength of the region’s economy swer and unfortunately, no one really but, more importantly, it provides reknows for sure what our investment in gional leaders and policy makers the economic development brings to our essential data needed to make wellcity and region. Has there been a discus- informed decisions.

The Silicon Valley Index is only one sion and agreement on what we want our economic development dollars to of several good examples of efforts to produce? If we wanted to measure the measure and report on the health of impact of our economic development a region’s economy. It is now time for Northwest Ohio to follow one of ecoinvestment, what would we measure?

This is not a question unique to nomic development’s best practices Northwest Ohio. Increasingly, it is a and start measuring what we are doing question being asked by those footing and its impact on our communities the bill for economic development or- and region.

Last week, I heard someone on ganizations and programs in commuNPR say, “If we aren’t measuring, we nities and regions across the nation.

But, in addition to accountability, are guessing.” I remember thinking, “I there is an even more important wish I had said that.” O reason for asking such questions: Without articulating economic goals Dan Johnson is President Emeritus of or objectives, how are we to know the University of Toledo.

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nce again we have witnessed another horrible, horrible tragedy. This time it took place at the 2013 Boston Marathon where two brothers set off multiple bombs, killing three people and injuring 176 others, many of them severely. Some of those injured lost limbs and others are facing amputations and other life-changing injuries. I (Mark) can’t imagine what the survivors and their families are going through right now.

They have been hurt so deeply by this that their lives will never be the same.

Those who were injured and those who lost family members will have this tragedy forever on their minds.

If you are a believer in God, I suggest that you be in constant prayer for those affected by this tragedy. There are also other ways to show support such as various relief funds that have been established. Below is a list of ways to help some of the victims of the bombing. If you are reading this in print and cannot go to the links below, this list was taken from The Huffington Post website at http://www.huffington post.com/2013/04/15/help-bostonmarathon-victims_n_3087183.html.

Jeff Bauman, a spectator who lost both legs in the aftermath of the blasts, will likely face hefty medical bills as he begins to recover. To help offset the costs, friends and family have launched the Bucks For Bauman fundraiser. Find out how you can get involved here. Bauman’s family is also asking people to send letters of support to Jeff. Mail can be sent to: Jeff Bauman C/O Jen Joyce at 117 Tyngsboro Road. Westford, MA 01886 or Jeff Bauman C/O Jen Joyce P.O. Box 261 Chelmsford, MA, 01824.

In lieu of flowers, the family of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old woman from Medford, Mass., who was killed in the explosions, has asked supporters to make donations to the Krystle M. Campbell Memorial Fund.

Contributions can be sent to 25 Park St. Medford, MA 02155.

While waiting for his dad to cross the finish line, Martin Richard, 8, was killed in the blast and his younger sister, Jane, had her leg amputated in the aftermath. Their mother, Denise, was also hospitalized with serious injuries.

To help the family get through this devastating period, friends and family have established the Richard Family Fund.

Brothers Paul and JP Norden each lost their right legs following the Boston attacks and Paul’s girlfriend, Jacqui Webb, has already undergone two surgeries for shrapnel damage to

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her legs. To help the three victims pay for their overwhelming medical bills, friends and family have established the Jacqui, Paul and JP Recovery Fund.

Friends and family of Patrick and Jessica Downes, newlyweds who each had a leg amputated after the blasts, are raising money for the couple’s medical bills.

This tragedy will be forever reMark membered along Nolan with 9/11 and will remind us of the evil that is in the world. Why do bad things happen to good people? I think the answer lies in the fact that we all have the capacity for good and evil. There is a battle going on in all of us and we are pulled back and forth between

the two. We are affected by our own bad decisions and the bad decisions of others. No one is immune from this. This is evident by the recent suicide of the son of Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church.

Warren is probably one of the most well-know pastor in our country today and author of the bestselling books “The Purpose Driven CLAIR Life” and “What BAKER On Earth Am I Here For?” Yet, he has not escaped being hurt deeply by life.

Bad things happen, but good things come out of it. I don’t necessarily think, “things happen for a reason.” Things happen. After things happen comes our response. How do we respond? Ulti-

mately, good comes out of us. Look at the outpouring of support from our entire country in the aftermath of Boston.

Warren is starting a ministry based on mental illness as a result of his son’s death. We will see much more good come out of the Boston tragedy in the months to come.

Boston proves it. We are a world in need of a God and Savior. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring. Life will hurt us and we need the support of our friends and family. What does it all mean? Why are we here? We think about this much more when events like Boston occur. I would suggest that you pick up a copy of Warren’s book, “What On Earth Am I Here For?” Or better

yet, there are small groups studying this book at CedarCreek Church. It is great stuff and not to be missed.

In the meantime, let’s all band together and keep praying. O For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www. retirementguysnetwork.com. Securities and Investment Advisory Services are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA / SIPC. NEXT Financial Group, Inc. does not provide tax or legal advice. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537.

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Once upon a time there were two kittens for whom things did not look good at all.

A car had hit their mother cat and killed her and they were not old enough to be away from her.

Then a nice lady and her nice daughter found them and learned how to take care of the newborn kittens and named them Loxley and Chuck.

Now Loxley and Chuck are living happily ever after.

Here there’d normally be a “The End,” just like in the storybooks the nice lady and her daughter wrote about their kittens, but it’s not the end.

It might just be the beginning.

Loxley and Chuck, or at least one of their fictional friends, just might be on TV. A publisher is interested in more books and Cartoon Network is interested in making an animated show.

Not bad for two kitties that almost didn’t make it.

Not a cat person

Lynne Carroll said she had just brought her daughter, Amy Radecki, home from the hospital, where she had been recuperating from “lifesaving” surgery to remove extra ribs that were causing arteries in her arms

to clot dangerously, when the two women heard meowing from under their car.

There they found two little furballs, nowhere near old enough to be away from their mama cat — but the mama cat had been struck by a car and killed.

“I’m not a cat person,” Carroll said.

“At least, I wasn’t then. But I am now.”

Questions to veterinarians and many online searches later taught the two women what they needed to know to care for newborn kittens: feeding them with eyedroppers, massaging their stomachs so they could go to the bathroom, even burping them.

Helping the kittens became part of Radecki’s recovery therapy.

Those little furballs are now 2 years old, and have become big and mischievous cats. Chuck likes to play with pens, especially a pen you want to use, and Loxley’s been known to jump in the sink and turn the water on when no one’s watching. And they both tease the dog, Jacoby.

“They’re family to me,” Carroll said.

Oh — and they have their own books. That was another leap of faith, Carroll said.

“I was sitting at the table looking at those two,” she said. “They were on the table wanting to fight — play-fight — and I thought, ‘Why not write about you guys?’”

Picking up on that, Radecki, a commercial art graduate of Owens

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Lynne Carroll with Loxley and chuck, the cats who star in her series of books.

Community College, suggested she illustrate the stories — “she’s a beautiful artist,” her mother said — and they publish them online, as a blog — that or a book.

“I’m no writer,” Carroll objected.

But Radecki said, “You do it all the time for work.”

They scouted around and found an online publisher and the illustrated adventures of Chuck and Loxley took off.

Along the way, the storybook versions of the two cats have encountered a variety of friends, from Frank the Mouse

to Alfred the Mean Ant, who doesn’t know how to make friends, but learns.

Alfred the Mean Ant

“My daughter and I dialogue a lot.

Sometimes I put some music on” for brainstorming, Carroll said.

The cats’ adventure with Alfred, is told in the second of the two books, Carroll said.

Sales of the books have been mostly driven by word of mouth and much of the proceeds go back to Paws & Whiskers, a charity for animals. That is not where her leap of faith ended, though.

Carroll is engaged to a retired engineer at SSOE in Toledo, and he’s nearly finished building the boat in which he wants to cruise Chesapeake Bay. And Carroll was looking for a lot less stress in her life.

So she said goodbye to her coworkers — “people I loved” — at Arbors Healthcare in Sylvania, back in February when the books came out.

Letters of inquiry to every publisher the women could think of led to a deal with Writer’s House for more Loxley and Chuck books. They can also be read at www.storyjumper.com and there was recently unexpected interest from another quarter.

Now Carroll and her daughter are flying out to California to talk with Cartoon Network about a possible show starring Frank the Mouse.

Loxley chased a length of string as Carroll considered everything that has happened since two mewling furballs were found under her car.

“I don’t know who rescued whom,” she said. O

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Friends.” Three very simple words, or myself may ever experience.

I knew the date was coming, but purposely ordered to demonstrate like many parents in today’s times, where a man’s priorities should come with kids playing multiple sports, first ... like rock, paper, scissors. activities, etc., the significance never Family before work, work before truly set in. As I was making arrange- friends. In retrospect, it is the very ments to have all of my children in lesson I ignored during my marriage.

As I packed my four kids into my minivan and drove them to the anniversary party, a conversation began.

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on my Facebook page, with the folWhen we arrived, the first order lowing description ... “Please do me of business was to have family pic- a favor and ‘like’ this picture. This is tures taken by the photographer who my Grandma JoAnn and Grandpa had been hired. I was caught up in Pete ... Today they celebrate their the moment, grabbed my iPhone 60th wedding anniversary. Someand snapped a picture that captured thing most of us will never see. I Mutual MA Ad (Toledo Pageof1 love have 2/27/13 learned 12:10 more AM lessons myMedical grandparents perfectly.

I, Free like Press) everybody else with a good photo, from an 80-year-old man than any decided to post this beautiful image movie or book. These are my two

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notice in their church bulletin, because neither could afford a bigger wedding. To their surprise on their wedding day, the church was packed to the rafters. Their reception was at one of their parent’s homes, where it seemed their entire ZIP code brought a plate and met them afterward. My grandparents went viral before Facebook, Twitter or iPhones. My entire occupation is trying to get my words to go “viral,” and sharing their picture has been my greatest success. Yet another life lesson learned.

My grandparents’ marriage has survived a war, five kids (one of whom has beaten cancer twice) and each other for 60 years.

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In one room, on a Saturday night, some 60 years later, my grandparents’ entire body of work was on display. It wasn’t a house, their savings account nor their cars, it was simply the love they shared and what it has created.

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Your Tarotgram and Horoscope

April 28-May 4, 2013

Events: Mercury enters Taurus (1st) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Memories of the past and urgent current situations underscore the importance of good decision-making.

Choices about lifestyle/relationships are uncertain as your ideals shift in a new direction. Everything is interrelated.

Random events become meaningful by the weekend.

Some areas of life are decaying while others are generating new life. Decide whether past beliefs and opinions still serve you well. Unstoppable forces are transforming expectations and boundaries. After Thursday, engage in activities that build confidence in your skills.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

Your process of deconstruction continues. The pace is even more fierce. You gain greater certainty of what is right or wrong for you. Ideas about the future gain clarity. Take time for socializing as the weekend arrives. Relaxation and companionship are your best healers.

You’re overloaded with impossible situations or burdens.

Painful realities are attached to people in your life. Pay attention to peripheral images, thoughts, and memories, as these will prove meaningful by Friday. Keep friends in close proximity; don’t try to handle it alone.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

The past is turning into the future right before your eyes.

It is not an easy or pretty process, though. Emotions, and consequently your health, can totter because of peoples’ actions and conversations. After Thursday, good advise from a woman will help if you take it to heart.

Personal weaknesses and/or difficult situations can lead to overcompensation. You’re your own worst critic, but be cautious of the venom/negativity of the inner voice. Accepting difficult truths is a big step. Healing and assistance flow after Thursday.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Risky decisions and sudden, turbulent events are distressing. If you can sympathize with different viewpoints you’ll gain greater understanding of what drives others.

Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday are your best days for effective action and personal benefits.

People attack what you admire and cherish. Ignoring or dismissing complaints heightens hostility. Listen carefully and put yourself in the other person’s shoes. After Thursday, your ability to integrate multiple viewpoints to problemsolve improves your reputation.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

What goes up can topple down. People in high places may lose status or leave jobs for greener fields. People offer tips and suggestions worth taking, especially on Thursday afternoon. You will either love or loathe the trend of current events; not much middle ground here.

Affiliation with special interest groups can draw you into hyper-conservative or radical positions and actions.

Detachment is needed to weigh risks realistically. Stand your ground with dignity and reason, but listen to other viewpoints. Communications are at a peak.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

People caught in extreme emotions or high drama are annoying. You perceive realities that others miss, but it’s difficult to share with people who refuse to see. Focus on adjusting your daily patterns to better regulate systems.

Calmer influences improve matters after Friday.

Big feuds polarize people. Whether personal or national, divisive opinions and hot words can make you very uncomfortable. If patience is on the verge of snapping, take a time-out. You can be a pacifying influence after Thursday by acting as a good faith liaison or intermediary.

Elizabeth Hazel is a professional tarotist-astrologer and author. She gives readings every Wednesday at Attic on Adams above Manos Greek Restaurant. She may be contacted at ehazel@buckeye-express.com (c) 2013

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