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Crime rates fall

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Bike Month

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orthwest Ohio is home to many powerful and progressive women. Toledo Free Press has recently featured cover stories on a number of them. On April 14, TFP Community Ombudsman Brandi Barhite profiled Katie Rofkar, CEO of Nemsys, a technology support firm. “I was one of those people while growing up here who was like, ‘I am going to leave’,” Rofkar said. “I went to Arizona — as far away as I could possibly get — but as an adult, I really realized that there was a lot to offer here in Toledo. That is why I decided to stay and build the business here.” That business is contributing to a growing technology movement Downtown, and Rofkar’s commitment to the region is a strong vote of confidence for our potential to attract likeminded business leaders. Another woman advocating for Toledo is Sara Swisher, the new director of EPIC Toledo, who was featured in our April 28 cover story by TFP News Editor Brigitta Burks. EPIC Toledo was founded by the Toledo Regional Chamber Wendy Gramza in 2007 as a way Thomas F. Pounds toof Commerce’s 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. On May 5, TFP columnist Jeremy Baumhower wrote about Team 8, a group of young runners he assembled for a Medical Mutual Glass City Marathon event honoring 8-year-old Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard. Baumhower wrote about his 9-year-old daughter Kacee. “She was at the front of the pack during the first lap and gained momentum and rank during the second lap,” he wrote. “Then something happened. I saw her running the Glass Bowl a third time, meaning she had somehow followed the wrong person and now would be behind in the race. Not only did she lose ground, she added more distance to her run. When she was finished, she had tears coming down her face, her breath was gone and she was exhausted. When she finally caught her breath, I asked if she knew she had run an extra lap. Kacee’s reply warmed my heart and stole my breath. “‘I knew 26 miles was not enough for a marathon,’ she said, ‘so I ran another lap for that boy.’” We are collaborating with Baumhower on a new project, inspired by celebrity Demi Lovato’s call for famous women to post social network photos of themselves without makeup, as a way to empower young women with selfconfidence and respect. We are recruiting local women to participate in the photos, to culminate in a late August fundraiser for Girls on the Run of Northwest Ohio, a group that combines training for a 5K event with healthy living education for girls in third through fifth grade. The organization uses “exercise, positive reinforcement and encouraging role models to help the girls discover the confidence they need in those critical preteen years and beyond.” Look for more information soon. If you are interested in getting in on the ground floor, contact Lindsay McKibben, council director of Girls on the Run of Northwest Ohio, at lindsay.mckibben@girlsontherunNWOhio.org. Toledo Free Press is proud to be a vehicle for positive messages for our region’s young women, and to learn from its female leaders. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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I was one of 15 journalists accepted into the program hile on my daily walk through Downtown Toledo on May 6, I passed a group of four people (two (NPF covered all travel, lodging and food expenses), in a men and two women) who were walking east on group that included representatives from ABC News National, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, PBS Washington Street, toward the Owens-Corning and HealthPolicySolutions.org. There were campus. I did not hear the context of their connearly 20 presentations in four days, encomversation, but as we passed, one of the women passing an amazing array of researchers, insaid to her friends, with emphatic certainty, “It’s dustry professionals and health care sources. not hard. Stop eating and exercise more.” The NPF conference drove home the It seems almost too simple an equation to powerful — and dispiriting — message that contain such a complex problem: Your body for as much truth as it contains, “eat less, weight is a result of energy balance — the move more” doesn’t contain all the answers. amount of energy (food) you take in relaNever in human history has a civilization to the amount of energy (activity) you tion built for itself as much access to food expend. It’s thermodynamics. But the main message at the National Michael S. miller and as little need for physical activity as our current American culture. Obesity Press Foundation’s (NPF) “Obesity Issues 2013” journalism fellowship in Aurora, Colo., was that the researcher Morgan Downey has identified 82 “putative problem is complicated beyond common knowledge and causes for obesity.” the solution is … there is no single solution. n MILLER CONTINUES ON 4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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UTMC puts politics before public health

By Avneet Singh and Alexandra Lahey

ast month, the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) canceled its transfer agreement with the Capital Care Network clinic in West Toledo. It has also stopped negotiations to create a transfer agreement with the Center for Choice, Toledo’s other reproductive health clinic. UT President Lloyd Jacobs knew what the end result of these decisions would mean — the clinics would be forced to close and it would spell the end of safe and legal abortion in Toledo. The decision to cease transfer agreements with clinics that perform abortions bows to political pressure and demonstrates a callous disregard for the health of Ohioans. These details of hospital agreements may seem like inconsequential bureaucratic decisions and that is not an accident. This situation in Toledo is a shining example of larger coordinated anti-choice tactics being implemented all over the country. Opponents of legal abortion who cannot overturn Roe v. Wade in the courts are now attempting to make abortion expensive and unobtainable instead, rendering the legal right to abortion meaningless. Alabama, Florida, Wisconsin and countless other states are passing restrictions unrelated to patient safety that make it near impossible for abortion clinics to stay open. Right now in Indiana, an abortion clinic is being threatened with closure because it doesn’t have a water fountain. These regulations are quickly followed up with campaigns directed at hospitals and doctors, aimed at making sure clinics will not be able to comply — including pressure to end hospital transfer agreements. In Mississippi there is a targeted campaign to shut down the state’s past remaining abortion clinic by pressuring local hospitals to refuse to enter into transfer agreements with the clinic. In Ohio, the political pressure is palpable. Extreme anti-choice legislation has been introduced in each of the last several legislative sessions. The governor and the majority of state legislators oppose reproductive freedom. Last year, Gov. John Kasich appointed Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life, to the State Medical Board of Ohio. Gonidakis is not a doctor or medical professional, but he is a lobbyist with

a clear mission: Outlaw abortion in all circumstances. When unnecessary legislation is combined with political pressure on medical providers, the results are bad for women and anyone needing reproductive health services. These incremental tactics to restrict abortion access all rely on one thing — that no one will pay enough attention to see what they’re doing. We are working to change that. At the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University we are paying attention and making noise. At the University of Toledo, the undergraduate Student Government and the Faculty Senate have both passed resolutions against Jacobs’ decision. At UTMC, numerous faculty members and students have come out in opposition to the decision. The UT law school has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union on a petition that has more than 900 signatures. At BGSU, we’ve been collecting petitions and testimonials in support of the abortion clinics. Through work at both schools we’ve collected more than 1,500 signatures in opposition to the UTMC decision. The staff and students at our universities are not alone in this. In January, Pew Research found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose overturning the Roe decision. In Ohio, Quinnipiac research conducted last year showed that a majority of Ohioans want abortion to remain legal in all or most cases. Abortion remains a controversial issue, but the reality is that most people want to keep it safe and legal. This decision does the opposite — it puts political interests above public health. We can see these anti-choice tactics for their true intentions — making abortions unsafe and difficult to obtain in Toledo. Unfortunately, it seems to be working. It’s not too late for Jacobs to change course and make the right decision — the only decision that will protect the health and safety of Ohioans. O Avneet Singh is incoming president of Medical Students for Choice at University of Toledo School of Medicine. Alexandra Lahey is president of Choice USA-affiliated student organization FORCE (Feminist Organization Raising Consciousness and Empowerment) at Bowling Green State University.

The list includes such common-sense factors as eating away from home, food marketing, labor-saving devices, overeating, television viewing, stress, genetics and sleep deficits. It also includes less obvious factors: air conditioning, being a single mother, influence of friends, living in high-crime areas, marrying later in life, using food stamps, vending machines and little to no breastfeeding. Writing for the Journal of Obesity, Downey said, “If a disease has 82 possible causes, can anyone say we know what the cause is? Can a diverse collection of events trigger a perturbation in the system to cause obesity? Alternatively, since each putative cause has some individuals with exposure who do not develop obesity, is there some kind of ‘master switch’ which has to be tripped to cause excess adipose tissue accumulation? What possible prevention strategy could account for all these variables?” According to the long line of experts testifying at the NPF conference, it is unlikely any single strategy can offer prevention. With previous public safety issues such as wearing seat belts or dealing with secondhand smoke, data and public endorsement resulted in policy and regulation. But experts at NPF said many attempts to use policy and regulation to curb obesity, such as San Francisco banning fast-food restaurants in certain areas or New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempting to limit the size of soda purchases, are not supported by data and have been received as infringements on freedom of choice. There is also the problem that — unlike the clear concepts of hurtling through a windshield at 70 mph or lungs withering under the assault of tobacco smoke — fat has no single image or impact around which science can rally sentiment. Fat itself doesn’t kill; it’s the damage obesity does to the heart, arteries, liver, kidneys, insulin regulation, sleep, and its contributions to strokes, cancer, cholesterol, joint problems, high blood pressure and scores of other complications that kill. How can science or government get its arms around a problem that is impacted by food environment, built environment and economics? During the NPF conference, journalists heard from expert after expert who explored and dissected endless angles of the obesity issue. Daniel Bessesen, professor of medicine and associate director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, which hosted the conference, put words to my thoughts when he said that the epiphany which motivates an individual to

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change lifestyle habits and lose weight is so personal and unique to that person that there may be no way to strategize and plan an effective public policy. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, a retired three-star general, gave a compelling presentation on how obesity is impacting military readiness. The cost to the country of trying to forge a volunteer army from a population that is largely physically unfit to serve is unsustainable. There are costs from recruits being injured in basic training because their bodies are not used to activity. There are costs from recruits who cannot be deployed until their myriad dental problems — from years of neglect and sugar ingestion — are corrected. Hertling oversaw a culture change that has radically altered the Army’s ways of dealing with the issue and is influencing not only the other U.S. armed forces, but those of our European allies. Kim Gorman, weight management program director for the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, offered insight to preventing childhood obesity. One of the striking things she pointed out was the culture of providing snacks after children’s athletic events. Kids are taking in more calories through after-game chips and juice boxes than they are burning through such relatively low impact activities as tee ball or soccer. Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, educated the NPF fellows on a wide array of marketing strategies for getting people to choose healthy food over unhealthy food — and vice-versa. He spoke about how where you are seated at a buffet (and such variables as plate color, plate size and plate placement) impacts how much you eat. There were more sources and topics than can be summarized in one column, so this summer, Toledo Free Press will embark on a series that will localize much of the information presented at the conference. My weight loss journey (down 160 pounds after bariatric sleeve surgery in September) reflects a greater problem in the Toledo area, which the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index ranked as America’s 7th fattest city. There may not be an answer, but there are answers. Science can find them. Public policy can regulate them. This summer, Toledo Free Press and NPF will report them. But only you can heed them, or treat them like snatches of overheard conversation with no context. O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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The true picture on safety in Toledo

oledo has made impressive strides in reducing crime over the past year. The approach has been two-fold, incorporating both tactical operations and, equally important, community engagement. The result has been a 24 percemt drop in tracked crime. To break it down even further, there were 13 percent fewer violent crimes — those included homicides, shooting incidents and robberies. Property crimes dropped even further, reduced by 25 percent over 2012 statistics. That means fewer burglaries, stolen cars and car break-ins. Some have challenged those statistics and doubt that our city could achieve such outcomes. I promise you they are accurate. And they are achievable because of the men and women in uniform that come in each day dedicated to the mission of reducing crime in Toledo. They are achievable because of the community partners that come to the table every day to help deliver a message of hope and change to young people, provide a different path in life for those with criminal history, and who want to make their own community a better place to live. These are the people, police, prosecutors, federal agents, teachers, social workers and more who are contributing to a safer

Toledo and a better quality of life. The department has also worked over the last year to implement the data driven policing project. This includes the use of CrimeStat data to track reported crimes across the city as well as the implementation of the SkyCop camera system. Using the data the department is able to direct focused resources to areas it knows to be hot spots around the city. If there is a rash of burglaries or car breakins in a specific area of Michael the city, the data will help officers to detect patterns in those areas and deploy proper resources to address the issue. Officers also have the aid of cameras to investigate crimes or direct resources to help officers on the street in real time. As a result, homicide investigators have increased their cases solved rate to 83 percent. In 2011, the Toledo Police Department also instituted a crime suppression unit. Its mission was to get the illegal street guns out of the wrong hands and curb shooting incidents. Thanks in part to their efforts more than 3,000 guns have been seized in

the city since 2010. Another 2,300 have been destroyed. The crime suppression unit works hand in hand with the gang unit. Its pursuit of criminal activity in the city is a measured response to the crimes it seeks to prevent, and it is effective. Unfortunately, by the time someone has an encounter with one of the officers from the crime suppression unit, he or she is, more often than not, well acquainted with the criminal jusP. BELL tice system. That’s where the community comes in. Ultimately, it would be nice to intercept these individuals earlier in the system and show them they have options other than gangs, violence and theft as a measure of success in life. Last year, the Toledo Police Department, working with local, county, state and federal law enforcement; county and federal prosecutors; social service agencies that address mental health and substance abuse issues; educational and occupational assistance agencies and housing and transportation agencies started the Toledo Community Initiative to

Reduce Violence (TCIRV). Toledo’s program is based on a similar initiative in Cincinnati that has realized 41 percent reduction in gang homicides and a 22 percent reduction in nonfatal shooting incidents. TCIRV seeks to provide a way out of gang life for individuals who are being adjudicated for violent crime. This is not an option for everyone prosecuted, but for those who identified as a candidate for TCIRV, we provide community support. Offenders are offered counseling for mental health or substance abuse issues. If they are homeless, we assist them with finding permanent stable housing. If they didn’t finish high school, we assist them with completing their GED. If they need a job, we provide occupational assistance. The goal is not just to put criminals in jail; it is to stop them from being criminals by changing their lifestyle. Since the first session in 2012, 148 participants have gone through TCIRV. Community intervention works best at a young age and that’s what officers are aiming for with the police probation team and STRIVE. By working with school resource officers, the team can intercept youth that are committing violent acts in school and redirect them to commu-

nity service rather than the criminal justice system. By intervening at an early age, these young people experience positive interactions with police officers, are connected with their community by making a direct contribution through service, and their families receive outreach to help keep them on the right track for success. STRIVE furthers these lessons by providing tutoring and Ohio Graduation Test preparation for high school students so they can continue to achieve academically and graduate from high school. These programs result in fewer safe school violations and fewer or reduced suspensions. These are just a few of the tactical and community-based programs that the city and the department continue to support in pursuit of safety in Toledo. Our officers work hard on behalf of this city and the results are evident. We will continue to pursue safety with innovation and efficiency at the forefront of the effort, but most importantly, our policies reflect community and bringing a higher quality of life to all of Toledo. 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.

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Ohio needs to reassess motherhood from rape T he breaking news out of Cleveland involving three young women held captive for as long as a decade brought back to my mind the story of another young woman from the Midwest, Chicago-area attorney Shauna Prewitt. On Oct. 4, I had the opportunity to hear Prewitt speak at the University of Toledo College of Law. The topic was motherhood through rape and the lack of protections for the mothers and their children. This is a topic Prewitt has firsthand experience with. While still in college, she was raped and became pregnant. Though conflicted at first, she decided to keep her child. At first glance it may not appear that these stories have much in common, but what they share is motherhood through rape. At least one of the young women in Cleveland, Amanda Berry, is a mother; undoubtedly her captor will be found to be the father. Prewitt was shocked to learn then, as many of you also will

be shocked to learn now, that fathers rape high credibility. If she chooses in rape cases have rights. This has a lot to place the baby for adoption, we to do with our perception of rape and still give her report great credibility. But if she keeps her women who give birth child, some feel that to a child conceived by the mother may have rape. First, it is imporsome other motivation tant to see the child as and may not have been the mother’s and not the raped at all. rapist’s. I have seen, in The degrees are the comments sections also separated by the on the Cleveland story, “stranger rape” protowell-intentioned people type and the “acquaingiving Berry credit for tance/date rape” protoraising her rapist’s child. Kenneth SHARP type. The stranger rape It is her child — conreport is highly credible, ceived in rape, but her child, not the rapist’s. Nothing right- while the acquaintance or date rape is fully belongs to one who acquired it seen by some as more suspect, especially if a woman decides to keep the by force. A second important change must child. The problem is that the vast macome from our collective thinking jority of women who are raped are not about the “degrees” we place reflex- raped by a stranger. While the woman ively on victims of rape. As Prewitt is not given the respect she deserves in pointed out, when the woman aborts telling her story, the male aggressor is we instinctively give her report of given undue influence in her life and

that of her child. I have two examples to show how the legal system in America can favor the rapist over the mother. In the first, a 14-year-old girl was raped and brought the baby to term. She then sought to give the child up for adoption. She was legally required to notify the father, an adult. The court granted her motion to give up her rights to the child. The rapist kept his rights and sued her for support. In the other example, a woman gave birth to twins after a date rape. The rapist learned of their existence and sued to establish paternity and get visitation. The woman was, at the time, living with a domestic partner and the rapist attempted to use her sexual orientation against her. Prewitt listed Ohio as one of the many states that does not have overt protection for mothers of rape. Parental termination is the only sure answer. The legislature has not seen the issue as important yet. Perhaps the case in Cleve-

land will bring it to the forefront. The State of Ohio may find ways to fast-track termination of parental rights to the father from this case, but it still leaves the fact that Ohio has no real protections for women who conceive through rape and decide to keep the baby. It is a black mark on our state and our legislators that this issue has not already been addressed. Prewitt pointed to two states that have at least a start on the issue if our legislators need guidance, Missouri, where her own rape occurred, and Maryland. As usual, it will require a groundswell of citizen support to spur action. I encourage those who wish to do more on this issue to read Prewitt’s own account at http://georgetown lawjournal.org/files/pdf/98-3/Prewitt. PDF and then contact their representatives, as I intend to do. O Email Kenneth Sharp at letters@ toledofreepress.com.

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the renovated and renamed Ohio TheatRE and Events Center is located at 3114 Lagrange St. in North Toledo. it was built in 1921.

North Toledo celebrates reopening of historic theater By John P. McCartney

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As a 3-year-old child being carried from his home on Hudson Street, Frank Kowalski clung to his father’s neck as his family made the five-block trip to the Ohio Theatre on Lagrange Street. That was 1926. Now, 87 years later,

Frank said he clearly remembers those Saturday morning trips to a building jam-packed with other children excited to see a motion picture featuring Flash Gordon or Western shoot-’emups with Buck Jones and Tom Mix. On May 5, Frank was just as excited, according to Delphine Kowalski, his wife of 61 years, as the couple made the trip from their home in the Polish Village to the

newly renovated Ohio Theatre and Events Center (OTEC) for the 1 p.m. performance of chamber music by 14 members of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. “He could hardly wait to come today,” Delphine said. “He usually sleeps late, but he didn’t sleep late today.” Although he admitted his disappointment that the orchestra’s brass and woodwind quintets and string

quartet only drew 25 patrons, Frank said he was overjoyed to learn that the Toledo School for the Arts (TSA) dance performance on May 2 drew more than 450 people. “Oh boy, that’s good news. That’s really good news,” Frank said. “These people are bursting with talent. I hope this takes hold. That’s what this neighborhood needs.” Delphine said she is happy that

the Polish Village she has called home for more than six decades has come to more closely resembles the close-knit community in which she and Frank raised their two sons. “It’s nice to have a place again for entertainment and culture that we can come to so close in the neighborhood,” she said. “We don’t have to go too far away.” n OHIO THEATRE CONTINUES ON 8

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n OHIO THEATRE CONTINUED FROM 6 The couple said much of their lives has revolved around events held at the former Ohio Theatre. Frank said he spent his childhood at Saturday matinees watching chapter plays. As a couple, they attended hundreds of events, including their son’s musical shows, Echoes of Poland dance performances, English and Polish language films, magic shows and organ recitals. They

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The Kowalskis said they credit the late Rev. George Rinkowski, a Roman Catholic priest and pastor of St. Hedwig Church from 1968-84, with the foresight to save the Ohio Theatre for the neighborhood. According to the Rev. Paul Kwiatkowski, who replaced Rinkowski as the parish’s pastor after he retired in 1984, Rinkowski bought the Ohio Theatre in 1976 for $59,500 “to pre-

vent a syndicate out of Detroit from purchasing it and turning it into an adult movie theater. “In fact, Bishop Donovan didn’t want him to do it. He did not give him a loan but said, ‘If you can get a loan, I’ll let you get it.’ He went to a bank in Defiance, Ohio, and got the loan.” The eight-year loan was for about $25,000, as Rinkowski had raised about $34,000 himself from concerned Toledoans sympathetic to his cause. “I really do think it helped sta-

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“We had this wonderful theater, and after the painting was done on the inside of the church, Father Rinkowski had the painters go over to the theater and paint the interior there. “And then he had that thrust stage built, which was nice, because that stage — because of the alley and the angle of the building — is very narrow at one end and then it opens up a little bit on the other end. It was not a very deep stage at all, so Father built this big thrust stage.”

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Kwiatkowski said that when he became pastor of St. Hedwig in 1984, he said, “We own it. Now let’s use it.” “We got a number of things going. Bob James, the first theater manager, brought in theater acts. At the grand reopening we had Myron Floren, the accordionist with Lawrence Welk. He gave a nice concert and brought some people with him, and we honored Father Rinkowski.” Kwiatkowski said he had the Toledo Symphony Orchestra perform in the theater a couple of times. “Mr. [Yuval] Zaliouk (director from 1980-89) thought of doing some recording there with the symphony because the acoustics were good,” Kwiatkowski said. “We even had a symphony once with Ole Schmitz from Denmark. He had written the score for the orchestra for the black-and-white silent movie ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc.’ It was just lovely. But darn if the film didn’t break during the performance, but they got it back on again.” In addition, Kwiatkowski said during his tenure, the Ohio Theatre hosted art auctions, children’s theater workshops, movie nights, political candidate forums, St. Hedwig Grade School Christmas plays, The Echoes of Poland dance troupe, the Shopper-Herald newspaper and The Toledo Area Theatre Organ Society. “We would get things and the neighborhood wouldn’t show up,” Kwiatkowski said. “We never made any profit on any of the things we had in there, which was a shame. “People would say, ‘Oh you have a 500-seat house.’ Well, yeah, but all those seats didn’t get filled up.”

Age takes its toll

By 1987, the 66-year-old building was showing its age, Kwiatkowski said. “The roof leaked so bad and the worst leak was over

the organ chamber,” he said. “They would have pots and visqueen (plastic sheeting) because, in a way, water is worse than fire for an organ like that with all the wooden parts.” When he replaced the roof on the theater in 1987, the Rev. Albin Radecki, then-pastor at St. Adalbert Church, donated $1000 to the renovation. “He saw the value of it as a neighborhood thing even though St. Hedwig was operating it,” Kwiatkowski said. “We had Ohio Building Restoration repair the decking that was rotted out over the organ chamber, and then they put a Duro-Last membrane over the whole roof, and also over the marquee because it was leaking too. “It was a struggle. We tried to have it stand on its own. After I left, Father [Joe] Przybysz (St. Hedwig’s pastor from 1994 to 2005) was able to sell it to [Ohio Theatre, Inc., a nonprofit management board, in 2004].

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Terry Glazer, United North’s chief executive officer, bought the theater from Ohio Theatre, Inc. five years later for $60,446. “Its renovation is part of an overall comprehensive effort in a four- or five-block area, and I think the theater will be the catalyst to bring more private investment back to Lagrange Street,” Glazer said. Glazer said the North Toledo community development corporation envisions OTEC serving as both a theater and a community center. “It’s going to be very versatile,” Glazer said. “It will provide an opportunity to introduce youth to the arts. “Some youth are interested in sports, but we need to have other acGLAZER tivities for youth, and the arts have proven to help youth with their academics. And because of funding issues, the Toledo Public Schools cannot afford to do as much with the arts as they have in the past. “Secondly, I think what happened after the [May 2] show is a good example of economic development. People left the OTEC and went right across the street to the restaurant that recently opened, J’Mae’s Home Cooking. There was a line of people that waited to get into that business. n OHIO THEATRE CONTINUES ON 10

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10 Community n OHIO THEATRE CONTINUED FROM 9 “We believe that the people coming in for events at the theater will help existing businesses and encourage new businesses to come in, which in turn will provide goods and services for neighborhood residents and also provide jobs. “The other interesting thing about the theater is that this was not done in isolation. If you look across East Central Avenue, there is a Fifth Third [Bank], built just two years ago.” Glazer said United North’s next project will be the adaptive reuse of St. Hedwig’s School, which closed in 2005. “We’re proposing to convert that into 41 units of senior housing. And we’ve renovated four commercial buildings called Shoppes on Lagrinka.” That redevelopment project in the 2800 block of Lagrange Street created a 8,204-square-foot shopping plaza that opened in January 2008. “Within those shops, we have a financial opportunity center which enables people to have long-term coaching to increase their financial wealth. “There’s a senior center — not new — but a senior center is located there and a new restaurant that opened directly across the street from the OTEC. And then there’s a Dollar General store that’s going in on the corner of Park and Lagrange.”

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Multipurpose space

Glazer said United North never lost sight of its economic development mission during the theater’s renovation. “We started with the question, ‘Should the theater be a one-purpose kind of theater or should it be something that could be used for multiple purposes?’” Everything from bathroom to stage design decisions were made to ensure the building’s renovations facilitated the creation of a multiple-purpose theater, Glazer said, since United North was convinced that North Toledo’s redevelopment would best be served with that type of building. “The original plan didn’t call for the extension of the stage,” Glazer said. “But when we looked at it, we thought the extension of the stage would allow the theater to be used for multiple purposes. “For example, with that large stage, you could do a banquet. You could also have an intimate concert by just putting chairs around a platform. You could have what we had [May 2] — 85 kids on the stage at one time. “The expanded stage allows the building to be more multipurpose. In some ways, that was the most critical — not the most expensive, but one of the most critical — improvements that

we made. Because in the final analysis, it’s great to renovate a building, but you want to make sure that building is going to be used in the long run.”

Under new management

United North turned to Northwest Ohio’s arts community to find a qualified individual with the education, skills and enthusiasm to manage the theater, Glazer said. That’s where United North’s search committee found Jamie Leigh Sampson, 28, a Bowling Green State University graduate with master’s degrees in musical composition and bassoon performance and internship experiences with a symphony and an opera company. Sampson’s salary as OTEC’s parttime theater manager is paid through a grant from the Toledo Community Foundation, Glazer said. “In the 10 weeks I’ve worked here, the theater has gone from looking rather beat up to looking like a modernday gentleman,” Sampson said. “The biggest difference is when we put up these black [sidewall] curtains to cover up material that was pretty beat up. The change is much like someone walking into an interview in a T-shirt and jeans versus someone walking in wearing a business suit. In the last week before we opened, the theater has shown its ca-

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‘A rectangular shoebox’

Garth Simmons, principal trombonist, said the OTEC owes its great acoustics to the architect who designed the building back in 1921. “Part of it is the shape,” Simmons said. “If you look around here, essentially it’s a rectangular shoebox. “It’s the really high ceilings. Everybody’s in the same room. We’re not behind the proscenium, which acoustically puts us in a separate space. It’s not a smaller space trying to drive a larger one, like it is on a proscenium stage, which tends to make the acoustics weird. “We’re in the same room as the audience is. If you look around, the dimensions of the space we’re in is basically a shoebox. That’s a great proportion. That creates great acoustics.”

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Marty Porter, director, at TSA, was just as enthusiastic as Toledo Symphony Orchestra musicians in his evaluation of the OTEC as a “unique space in Toledo that will be especially effective for dance and music performances. “It was a great experience with the acoustics and lighting at a very reasonable price. They did a nice job expanding the stage, and the large rig they built for the lighting will serve them very, very well. Because there is no curtain, the theater allows for creative presentations. I’m delighted to see they’re bringing that theater back to life.” Under the direction of Letha Ferguson, 135 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students from TSA opened the newly-renovated OTEC on May 2 with a 90-minute dance production. Porter said he plans to continue to use the OTEC, along with all the other venues around Toledo. “We work in lots of different venues around the city,” he said, “because we want our students to experience as many different professional venues as possible. “We are committed to work in our community. TSA is a believer of supporting the community. Whenever there is a new venue, we are happy to utilize and support it.” O

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Sierra was 10 years old and getting ready for school when her mother told her to pack some extra clothes in her backpack. She was excited, thinking it meant she would be spending the night at her aunt’s house after school. But her mom drove Downtown instead, where she stopped in front of a tall building and told Sierra to wait inside while she parked the car. The building was Lucas County Children Services (LCCS) and Sierra never saw her mother again. After bouncing from home to home in foster care for several years, Sierra started sneaking out to meet an older guy she was dating. She got pregnant at age 15. Two years later, when her son’s father moved out of state, Sierra went with him, trying to keep their family together. But when he started abusing her, she returned to Toledo with her son. Unable to find a job, they ended up at the YWCA shelter.

“I knew I had hit rock bottom when my son looked at me and asked, ‘Momma, is this where we’re going to stay tonight?’” Sierra wrote in a statement. “You have no idea how hard it was for me to have to tell him, ‘Yes, we’ll be here for a while.’ “I knew then I had to make some big changes. My son was the second generation to be born in foster care and he was the third generation to live in foster care. I promised myself then and there that he would be the last.” The shelter referred Sierra to the local nonprofit FOCUS (Family Outreach Community United Services), which helps those exiting the emergency shelter system find permanent housing and stabilize their lives. “Sometimes I wondered what was wrong with all of these people,” Sierra wrote. “They were always positive, smiling and telling me I could succeed. It took me a while to really believe it, but they were right.”

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provide families with household items not covered by grant funding, including hygiene products, dishes, cookware, paper towels, toilet paper, light bulbs, laundry baskets and more, said FOCUS Grants Administrator Lori Quartermaine. In 2012, FOCUS helped secure housing for 172 households consisting of 198 adults and 302 children. Fewer than 5 percent of those served by FOCUS become homeless again, Grefe said. “People quickly stabilize when they are in their own home,” she said. “The quicker we can get people into their own home, with case management services wrapped around them and linkages to mainstream resources in the community, the faster that family will achieve the kinds of goals they need in order to never become homeless again. “[Being homeless is] unnerving because you lose hope, you lose dignity, you lose all the things that make you confident that you can make good decisions in your life for you and your family. “Sierra’s story touched us so

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Sierra “graduated” from FOCUS in December, after working with counselors and case workers for about a year. She is working part time and looking for full-time employment. Her son, now 10, is doing well in school. She plans to start college this fall and go into social work. “I want to be able to speak for those who have no voice, just like the people at FOCUS spoke for me,” Sierra wrote. “I really hope to come back and volunteer with FOCUS someday. They were there for me when I had no hope. I honestly don’t know where I’d be right now without them.” For more information, visit the website www.focustoledo.org. O

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The next generation hits home ecological and economic collapse within this or the next generation. Throughout my stay with my sister, mother and brother-in-law, I came across several disturbing news articles. One named Ohio the most toxic state, ranked No. 1 in the worst states for air pollution from power plants (www. mnn.com). Another named Toledo home to one of the top five sulfur dioxide producing refineries in the country (www.forestethics.org). JURICH Not to be overlooked were reports indicating that fluoride in our water should be a major public concern (Google “history of fluoride”). Toledo’s water could contain damaging levels despite current regulations. These are all extremely alarming; yes, there should be alarms going off! Air, water and food are basic necessities in sustaining future generations, and are all being compromised for material and monetary gains and the false notion of job creation, as if there is only one way. Alyssa and I shared our ideas of what we can do as individuals to ensure a safe and healthy future. Grace Lee Boggs, revolutionary and elder activist in Detroit, once said, “We have the power in us to create the world anew.” We can support farmers and companies that make clean and safe food as well as grow food at home. We can participate in the rising demand for solar and wind power to replace our current dirty and dangerous methods of production. Yet on the days when the future

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s I walked through the flea market in Ventura, Calif., my younger sister Alyssa slowly waddled next to me. She was full-term and only two days away from her due date. I had been staying with her for almost a week as we awaited the birth of her first child. We walked past vendors selling nickknacks, produce, clothes, plants, mattresses, posters, household appliances, cotton candy; you name it. All of the junk that Stacy surrounded us (amid the occasional awesome find at flea markets) triggered Alyssa’s sentiments toward our destructive material culture and our global capacity to obliterate our natural environment. She began a familiar conversation about the uncertainty of the future and the rapid rate at which we are wasting our resources, suffocating our planet and becoming robots to screens. My sister and I have had similar conversations, but not since she became pregnant. Alyssa had a strengthened and new perspective as a soonto-be mother. The argument many environmentalists make about protecting our planet and our resources for future generations was hitting home, for both of us. In considering the yet-to-be-seen destruction, and imagining and feeling the depth of the destruction that we know of but do not see (rainforest depletion, oil spills, mountaintop removal, war zones), I am led to believe that we may be beyond our “tipping point.” It then becomes easier to imagine a complete

seems exceptionally bleak, like when news breaks of a devastating oil spill or a mass school shooting, or when our elected officials consistently make decisions that are not for the greater good,

we are left with little to do other than humbly surrender to faith and prayer, and trust that the human spirit and universal force is rising to the occasion. Autumn Marie Garza was born

Feb. 11, exactly two days after we went to the flea market. This column was written with Autumn asleep on my chest as I sat on the couch wearing my “Free the Planet” T-shirt. O

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ec. 13. That’s the day my 7-year-old decided she didn’t really want to go to

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school anymore. I shouldn’t say decided, as there’s much more to it than that. Rather, Dec. 13 is the day my

daughter’s anxiety told her it was stronger than she was and, for some reason, she believed it.

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My oldest clung to me for the could have done, something we could first three years of his life. I won- have said to nip her fear in the bud, dered how either of us would ever but whatever that something was we be able to let go long enough to didn’t quite land on it in time. How easy it is to wonder how get through a school the house got so messy day. When that day or where those extra 20 did come, however, pounds suddenly came he skipped merrily from. How hard it is to off with the other predetermine which fiveschoolers and hasn’t minute seemingly inlooked back. nocuous incident might My second child, consume the next four however, the one who months and 17 days of was fine sleeping in your life. her own bed and didn’t Shannon SZYPERSKI Truth be told, life mind the company of strangers all that much from birth didn’t exactly change in five minutes. to 2 years old, started her clinging If you leave late for a meeting and when I would have assumed it was end up in a traffic jam that makes safe to say she wasn’t the clingy you even later, it wasn’t the traffic type. She dug her heels in when it jam that made you late. My child alwas time to make that transition to ready had school anxiety before she school and has never completely let encountered the Vomit That Will Live in Infamy, but that extra traffic them come free. With the help of patient teachers jam surely didn’t help matters. During the past four months and and a semipatient mother, she made it through preschool. She fought the some change, we have been through good fight, shed many a tear and days of no school, half days of school, managed to never belt out a single begging, pleading, kicking and note at any of her preschool perfor- screaming. There were many hopemances, yet we made it. We even less days and a few hopeful ones, but made it through kindergarten and mostly all-around, where-do-wehalf of first grade. Tears were still shed turn-next uncertainty. I know there along the way and uncertainty was are much, much worse things to deal still the norm, but school was gener- with in life, but I came across quite a few moments when I could barely ally an OK thing. think of any. In fact, there were several Then a kid vomited. A classmate vomited in my daugh- moments when I could see nothing ter’s presence in the school library and but complete and utter failure with no threw my daughter’s academic life into turnaround in sight. After ever-so-slowly digging and quite the tizzy. As a seasoned parent of three, with decades of child care expe- clawing our way back to some sense rience, I don’t find vomit particularly of normalcy, my daughter rode the traumatic. I don’t like it, but it hap- bus to and from school on April pens. My daughter, on the other hand, 30. After four and a half months of is quite a bit more gun-shy about the “your child has been recorded as absent or late” calls every single school whole ordeal. I wasn’t there to know for sure, but day, my phone finally remained simy guess is that she panicked. The lent at 9:50 a.m. The next day she even made her vomit was likely cleaned up within a few minutes, but the panic instead own breakfast, dressed without a pitched camp in her brain and opted fight, packed her own lunch, made to stay much longer than the rec- sure she had her homework and litommended fight-or-flight stopover. erally ran out the door to catch the Before we could grasp what was bus. Hallelujah. I can’t help but wonder why. happening, the anxiety took hold of just about everything in its relent- Why do we go through these things? less path. Fear of vomit became fear What do we get out of them? I will no of the school library, which became doubt ponder the past four months, fear of school, which became fear of but for now I’m going to just bask in just about everything. It was like the the change. O “Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly” story gone even more horribly wrong Shannon Szyperski and her husband, because it was actually happening to Michael, are raising three children in Sylvania. Email her at letters@ us. All of us. I’m sure there is something we toledofreepress.com.

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By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Friendship Park Community Center is true to its name, say those who regularly gather at the Point Place senior center. “I went to other ones before I came out here and this one is the friendliest,” said 77-year-old Donald Doty of West Toledo, who eats lunch at the center almost every day. “If we see someone new walk in the door, we say hello to them and give them a newsletter.” Diane Duling, 72, also of West Toledo, agreed. “We don’t have cliques here,” she said. “There’s some who hang around with each other, but they talk to everybody.” Marguerite Jewson, 97, of Point Place drives to the center three or four times a week and loves to play Scrabble. “I like the people. That’s why I come,” said Jewson, who founded the local chapter of AARP, a national organization for people age 50 and older. “You get to know them and it’s nice to be with them.” A hot lunch provided by the Area Office on Aging is available to anyone at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday for a suggested donation of $2.50 (60 and older) or $5 (59 and younger). Reservations are required by noon the day before by calling (419) 936-3079. “It’s like social hour,” said Director Chelsey Labadie. “It gets them out of the house. It’s welcome to anyone.” Nutrition Manager Lise Tank, who orders and serves the meals, said she thinks people enjoy eating at Friendship Park for the convenience as well as the socialization. “If you’re an older person, you don’t have to worry about lunch at home; you can come in here and eat and then just get up and leave,” Tank said. “You don’t have any dishes to wash. It’s like a restaurant really, but we only charge $2.50 per person.” Lunch typically draws 12-15 people, but there’s always at least 25 on Wednesdays because bingo is played afterward, Labadi said. Lula Bracht, 76, of Point Place said she doesn’t miss lunch on bingo days — or whenever macaroni and cheese is served. “That’s my favorite,” Bracht said. Duling enjoys playing games, including Scrabble, Boggle and mah-jongg. “It’s a nice place to come to for enjoyment of games and fellowship,” Duling said. “My husband doesn’t play games so I need this. I wouldn’t get to play Scrabble if I didn’t come out here.”

Joyce Carter, 71, started coming to the center about six years ago and started working there two years ago. “They miss me when I’m gone because it’s so quiet,” Carter said, laughing. Euchre and pinochle tournaments, dance classes, tai chi, yoga, quilting, puzzles, Sudoku, a lending library of books, computer classes and more are also offered. A nurse does health screenings twice a month. Friendship Park Community Center, 2930 131st St., is a nonprofit operating under the jurisdiction of the City of Toledo’s Division of Recreation. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday except for scheduled events. For more information, visit www. friendshippark.info. O

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Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) has a simple mantra during Bike Month this May: Go with the flow. “A high incidence for accidents is wrong-way bicycle driving,” said Keith Webb, who sits on TMACOG’s Pedestrian & Bikeways Committee. Cyclists should go with the direction of traffic, he advised. Webb and Ed O’Reilly, chairman of TMACOG’s Pedestrian & Bikeways Committee, are avid cyclists in the Toledo area. “Bike Month is very much a promotion of alternative transportation and my position and my opinions on all these things is for us to have a well-rounded, great functioning community, we need all forms of transportation,” said O’Reilly, who cycles between 125-150 miles per week. O’Reilly stressed that Bike Month is about people of all skill and commitment levels getting out on a bike. Since kids spend more time indoors with technology, biking is also a way to expose them to nature, he said. “Unlike running, which is a little more demanding of a sport, cycling allows for a broader base of participation,” O’Reilly said.

We Are Traffic!

Webb described himself as a utilitarian cyclist. His cargo trailer enables him to ride his bike to pick up a variety of items, from groceries to firewood. The cyclist/engineer recently founded the group We Are Traffic! “It’s an advocacy group working to improve infrastructure and promote cycling as an alternative form of transportation,” Webb said. The group also serves to connect the few league-certified cycling instructors in the Toledo area and promote their classes. “Many times I run into someone and they say, ‘I’d love to ride my bike to work, but I just don’t feel comfortable. I wish there was a place to take a class,’” Webb said.

As his group’s title suggests, Webb is adamant that his bike is a vehicle and is part of traffic. Occasionally, people have yelled at him to get on the sidewalk, which is not permitted in certain areas. “There are hidden dangers or inherent dangers to riding on the sidewalk. Sidewalks are designed for pedestrians so it’s a slower moving form of traffic where cyclists move faster,” Webb said. He also said that since cars aren’t always used to seeing cyclists on sidewalks, it could be dangerous for cyclists where sidewalks cross driveways. One part of We Are Traffic!’s website is a map that allows users to mark where bike racks currently are and where they would like one. “We also try to work to build up that type of infrastructure and identify locations where cyclists want to have that type of infrastructure,” Webb said. O’Reilly pointed out that bike racks don’t cost much to install and that providing these structures allows people to be flexible with their mode of transportation. He said there are more cyclists out there than people think. “Sometimes, we almost become oblivious to the other forms of transportation,” he said.

Not an accessory

Last year’s Bike Month slogan was “Helmets are a necessity, not an accessory,” something O’Reilly and Webb reiterated this year. “I have zero tolerance for people who don’t ride with helmets,” O’Reilly said. “When I’m out cycling, I see families where the kids have helmets on and the parents don’t,” he said. “As parents, as cyclists, we need to be role models.” Webb also advised wearing gloves while cycling. “Gloves are a good idea because if you do take a fall, usually you’re gonna catch yourself with your hands.” O’Reilly said that cyclists need to observe traffic laws and also be aware of their surroundings. Webb said that while biking with traffic, cyclists need to have a plan in case they need to get off the road.

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Bike Month: Advocates say ‘go with traffic’

Keith Webb SERVEs on TMACOG’s Pedestrian & Bikeways Committee.

“As you’re going along, you’re looking for your escape strategy. Be aware of what’s on the side of the road,” Webb said. In addition to the health and energy benefits, Webb said biking is also a form of therapy for him. “The first thing biking does is, it kind of takes me back and brings the kid out in me,” he said. “For most people, if you had a bicycle as a kid, it was maybe your first touch of freedom.” For Bike Month, O’Reilly advised taking your bike out around the neighborhood on a nice day. “Just go out and try it and enjoy the day,” he said.

Ride of Silence

Bike Month also has a serious side. The annual Ride of Silence, honoring those injured or killed in bicyclerelated incidents, is set for 6:45 p.m. May 15 beginning at the University of Toledo’s Parking Lot 1 North, located at the corner of Bancroft Street and North Towerview Boulevard. There will be police escorts and the ride is slow-paced and family friendly. Helmets are required. “It’s a show-and-go event so there’s no infrastructure to it,” Webb said. “It’s truly designed for anyone to participate.” The 7.8-mile ride specifically honors Robert Brundage, David Larabee and Dr. Stephen Snedden.

The group, which was at about 200 cyclists last year, will stop at Ottawa Hills High School to commemorate Larabee, a teacher who died after he was struck by a car while riding his bike. Another stop is set for Toledo Children’s Hospital where Snedden, who died after being hit by a car, worked. To memorialize Brundage, who died from injuries sustained during the theft of his bike, the group will stop at Ottawa Park. Several other events, including Bike to Work Day on May 17 and Bike Day at the Farmers Market on May 18, are also planned. For more information, visit www.tmacog.org/bikemonth.htm and http://wearetraffic.org. O

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By Brigitta Burks

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A fundraiser for The Officer William Miscannon Scholarship Fund at Owens Community College in

memory of Toledo Police Detective Keith Dressel is planned for May 16 at a local Hooters. From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. May 16 at 4782 Monroe St., eventgoers can partake in a $15 buffet to help support the fund honoring the deceased officers.

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Dressel was shot while trying to stop a drug deal in 2007 and Miscannon was shot and killed during a riot in 1970. This is the seventh annual event. Last year’s event raised about $2,000, said event coordinator Sara Shaw, an officer in the Oregon Police Division. The event will also feature a raffle of Keith Urban concert tickets and Tshirt sales. A motorcycle memorial ride is also set for July, but the Hooters event allows for others to get involved. “[In 2007] we were approached by Hooters. They wanted to do something to help out our cause and we had so many people who were nonriders of motorcycles and still wanted to come out and do something,” Shaw said. “It’s great fun.” Keith’s mother Larraine Dressel agreed: “It is a lot of fun and there’s stories from different officers about Keith who knew him in the past,” she said. Last year, officers, friends and family also signed a table in memory of Keith, which is on display at Hooters. “It’s always nice to go back and see that table with all those signatures,” Larraine said. O

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Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform an acoustic show at 7:30 p.m. May 21 at the University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor.

On the road with Mary Chapin Carpenter By Vicki L. Kroll

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer vkroll@toledofreepress.com

Mary Chapin Carpenter has sung about “The Dreaming Road,” “Stones in the Road” and how “A Road Is Just a Road.” She’s taken the “Long Way Home” and on “The Way I Feel” expressed: “Nothing like this empty road/ To take some trouble off my mind … / When I’m all alone on a midnight highway/ There’s nothing like two hands on the wheel …” The singer-songwriter likes to be in the driver’s seat. “I find driving to be very meditative,” Carpenter said. “I like to listen to music in the car and turn it up really loud and sing along. I think it’s a good tool.”

For her 2012 album “Ashes and Roses,” the musician penned “I Tried Going West”: “Back on the road with the radio up/ Singing at the top my lungs/ Driving and crying and driving some more/ Oh, the South is a good place to hide/ Hot nights, cold beer and creaky screen doors.” Some encounter enormous detours during their travels. Carpenter suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism in 2007, her marriage ended, and then her father died in 2011. “[‘Ashes and Roses’] was a very personal record, but, to me, I don’t know what else I would have written about,” she said during a call from her Virginia home.

“Loss and grief and divorce and all that stuff that goes along with those things, you don’t just figure them out and then move on; they’re a part of you. And it’s more about how you learn how you navigate the world after the fact. And I think that’s still going on for me, and I expect it to go on for quite a while.” But there is some light. “The record has a narrative arc to it, which, about halfway through, things start to shift a little bit and that to me mirrors what life is like. You have these awful things that happen to you at one time or another and you go through them,” Carpenter said. “And one day or ever so gradually, you do feel this intuitive thing that

you’re getting past something. And it’s not like a big kaboom goes off, but I think the gradual sort of awakening to it is very true.” Carpenter’s expressions have ranged from poetic to humorous to heartfelt. That was recognized in October when she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Hits she wrote include “Down at the Twist and Shout,” “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” “I Take My Chances,” “I Feel Lucky” and “Shut Up and Kiss Me.” “I just can’t believe that I got in,” she said. These days, the five-time Grammy Award winner is touring with longtime friend Shawn Colvin. Carpenter called the tour “freewheeling.”

“We share the stage for a couple of hours and like to imagine that it’s very informal and off the cuff, and we kind of go wherever we want to go conversationally, and we play the songs of each other’s and other artists that we’ve grown up revering and just have a fine old time,” she said.“We’ve played on each other’s records and appeared in each other’s videos, and we’ve traveled the world together as artists, but we just had never done this very sort of personal collaboration where it’s just us. And it’s been extraordinarily fun.” Carpenter and Colvin will perform at 7:30 p.m. May 21 at the University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor. Tickets range from $30 to $60. O

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welcome. Everything during the game felt different. “Star Wars” sounds and themes played during walkups and blared from the speakers. The in-game video presentation featured players’ heads superimposed onto Star Wars characters. Fifth Third Field felt like it was in a galaxy far, far away. What made the game and day so different is what I was not expecting to see. I thought I would bear witness to grown geeks wearing masks

doing their best Yoda impression. In reality, I saw kids with their faces painted … smiling, families wearing costumes, and 11,500 people watching a baseball game. The Toledo Mud Hens created the perfect formula for a fun, family event: “Star Wars” + baseball = children’s dreams, the one night a year where the two fantasies play together. The true brilliance is that they did it again the next day, but

called it “Revenge of the Fifth.” The true Jedi power of the Mud Hens’ front office is that they had 23,000plus people watching an 8-23 team. The Hens lost the May 4 game in extra innings, but won lifelong fans while doing so. O To contact Baumhower, email him at jeremytheproducer@icloud.com, find him on Facebook or on Twitter @jeremytheproduc.

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In the history of my front yard, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader never faced off in a friendly game of hardball. The two did not coexist. I had seen the May 4 date on my Mud Hens calendar and had no idea what to expect. A few days prior, pictures of the special game day Chewbacca jerseys filled my Facebook page. I was envisioning grown men wearing Boba Fett masks, bodies painted like Darth Maul and women wearing their hair in side buns like Princess Leia. Upon walking into Fifth Third Field via the first base entrance, I was greeted by an older ticket-taker wearing a Jedi robe and a bigger smile. Immediately behind him was a mob scene. Mud Hens staffers and interns were dressed perfectly like various “Star Wars” characters and were taking pictures. There was a different feel to the atmosphere inside the park, a wonderfully weird buzz. After I purchased an oversized refreshing beverage, I proceeded to my seats,

exactly like at any other Mud Hens game. During the usual walk, I was expecting to see grown men dueling each other with their light sabers, the same way I had as a child. Although I saw grown men in robes, various blasters and numerous face paintings, it wasn’t in the manner I had predicted. As I made it to my seats, I noticed how full the park was. My usher stated it was standing room only. My eyes have seen many standing room only games, but normally that means the catwalk is full and the season ticket crowd slowly fills in, if at all. At exactly 6:35 p.m., 20 minutes before the first pitch, there was not an empty seat. This had officially become an event. The pregame antics included Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers bringing out the umpire crew. The Mud Hens faithful roared. The Mud Hens took the field in their Chewbacca jerseys and cream-colored pants and were greeted with waving light sabers, cheers and smiling faces. A 7-foot-plus-tall Chewbacca delivered the game ball during the warm up and received a rock star

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