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Opinion

Sad goodbyes and heavy mettle

Tom Pounds on losses; Michael S. Miller on gains. page 3

Community

Scores skyrocket

TPS special education compliance scores improve by more than 50 percent. page 8

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BRCA1 controversy

Jolie’s mastectomy jumpstarting cancer conversations. page 13

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PB&J-themed event to benefit Food for Thought. By Brigitta Burks, page 6

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Sad goodbyes

wo sad pieces of news reported at www.toledofreepress.com deserve a second mention. Robert G. Bennett, who bought the assets of Tony Packo’s in 2011 and whose company operated 26 Burger Kings, died May 8 at the Cleveland Clinic. He suffered a short illness, according to a news release. In 2011, he successfully bid on the court-ordered sale of Tony Packo’s assets. Bennett, 76, was born in New York City. He grew up in South Florida and moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1966. He opened a Toledo Burger King the following year and moved to the area. Bennett was an active fundraiser for Central Catholic High School and was a past director of the Toledo Council of the Boy Scouts of America, in addition to being involved with other charities and groups. He was also a past chairman of the National Franchisee Association’s Committee Thomas F. Pounds for Franchisee/Franchisor Relations. Bennett made a tremendous impact on the community and Toledo’s business community is weaker for his loss. It’s not a death, but there is also sadness around the closing of a Downtown arts institution. Twenty years after it opened, 20 North Gallery will close May 25, its owners announced in a news release May 10. “The time has now come for the owner and staff of 20 North Gallery to move on to other endeavors and for 20 North Gallery to become a part of Toledo’s rich cultural history,” said. The gallery will host a free 20th birthday celebration and closing reception from 6-9 p.m. May 24, 18 N. St. Clair St. The gallery opened in 1993 and has displayed the work of more than 200 artists in more than 130 exhibitions. Its closing exhibition, “All Good Things,” is a retrospective showcasing two decades of the gallery’s triumphs in the arts and arts-based urban development, according to the release. Owner Eric Hillenbrand said he’s proud of the impact 20 North Gallery has had on Downtown. “I was not aware of another commercial gallery in Downtown Toledo when we started in 1993; now galleries and artists dot the landscape of Downtown — this is, unquestionably, 20 North Gallery’s most important legacy,” Hillenbrand said. “I am grateful to the over 200 artists whom we have represented over the years for sharing their talent with us and the Toledo community, as well as the many talented staff members who have contributed to our success, most notably Peggy Grant, art director Emerita, and Condessa Croninger, art director. Their commitment to the gallery and its mission has made it the jewel of Toledo’s gallery scene.” Saying goodbye is never easy. Our thoughts go out to Bennett’s family and we wish the best for the owners of 20 North Gallery. 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

Heavy mettle

“Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine …” — Edgar Allan Poe, “Hop-Frog,” 1849

In a May 13 news story about Toledo mayoral candidates, Blade Politics Writer Tom Troy described candidate (and Toledo City Council member) Joe McNamara: “He normally dresses in a conservative business suit and tie with white or blue buttoneddown shirts that don’t quite conceal a few have heard people say that when you buy a extra pounds around the middle. white car (or a red one or a blue one, etc.), “Once compared in looks with film star you tend to notice more of that color on Omar Sharif, Mr. McNamara today looks the road than you once did. Since embarking more like somebody who spends too much on a weight-loss journey and undergoing bartime bent over his computer, or pushing iatric surgery in September, I seem to notice the buttons on his TV remote. very heavy people in ways I did not before. In “Mr. McNamara refused to discuss his particular, I seem to be more sensitive to how weight, or relate it to the experience of very overweight people are portrayed and treated. It’s like I was in denial about the issue when I Michael S. miller overweight New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie … who recently revealed he underwent a was pushing 400 pounds, but now I see more surgical procedure to restrict food intake and thus lower clearly how pervasive the topic is. I have been watching news items that reflect many of his weight.” the current attitudes about the American obesity epidemic. n MILLER CONTINUES ON 4

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CHILDREN OF LIBERTY

Examining the claims of abortion rights activists

he May 12 Toledo Free Press Second Amendment? The federal contained an intriguing guest government is taking ammo off the column by Avneet Singh and market through mass purchases, Alexandra Lahey about the University making it scarce and unaffordable. If the authors’ concern is with the of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) no longer having transfer agreements sanctity of rights, then they must opwith local abortion clinics Center pose both these attacks on Constitutional rights. But this for Choice and Capital likely is not the case; Care Network (“UTMC their concern seems puts politics before not to be the defense of public health”). rights as a general prinLet’s examine some of ciple, but with defense their claims. of killing the unborn. They state that UTThey say “Alabama, MC’s actions would Florida, Wisconsin and force the clinics to close countless other states” and “the end of safe and legal abortion in Toledo.” Thomas BERRY are passing various forms of pro-life legThey fail to explain that islation. This doesn’t ambulatory surgical facilities in Ohio are required to have speak well for their education. A transfer agreements with hospitals number less than 48 is scarcely as a condition of licensing. UTMC’s “countless.” But if you want numactions were discussed in an April 4 bers, consider that 50,000,000 baBlade article. But nine days later, The bies — almost five times the populaBlade reported not only that UTMC tion of the state of Ohio— have been is allowing medical students to work slaughtered since Roe v. Wade. They cite the impending closure at the Center for Choice, but also that ProMedica is open to entering into of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana due to lack of a water fountain. transfer agreements with the clinics. Singh and Lahey say that UTMC While abortion clinics are required by “demonstrates a callous disregard for Indiana law to have drinking founthe health of Ohioans.” Who, exactly, tains and other common-sense fixis “demonstrating a callous disregard tures, is the authors’ underlying confor the health of Ohioans” who are cern one’s right to do as one chooses with one’s property? killed before they can be born? What do these women say about What do the authors think of the Ariel Castro kidnapping case in Cleve- any other business that they deem land? They are surely shocked at the less politically correct being targeted abuses visited upon the three women. by intrusive government regulation? But does that outrage extend to the Are they just as upset over, say, a profive babies allegedly aborted by Castro life clinic being unfairly targeted by beating and kicking their mother? Are pro-abortion activists? The American the deaths of these Ohioans wrong Center for Law and Justice is comonly because they were induced in such bating instances of that. The authors equate abortion with fashion? Would they prefer the babies be killed by surgery rather than assault? reproductive health services, and opWhat of the Dr. Kermit Gosnell position to abortion with opposition trial? The authors lament the spread to woman’s health. This is a fallacy; of pro-life legislation while claiming abortion is decidedly unhealthy for without evidence that “most people the baby, and is scarcely the sum total want to keep it safe and legal.” But of all reproductive health care. Logic what of the outright butchery com- dictates that reproductive health care mitted by Gosnell that brought into protects all stages of the reproducpublic view the grisly savagery of tive process and benefits all parties abortion? Abortion is not sunshine, involved, including the unborn. Imflowers and birdies chirping odes to plying that opposition to abortion healthy women in the treetops; it is equals opposition to all reproductive the brutal killing of the most innocent or woman’s health care is precisely the politicizing of the issue that the of all human beings. The authors say the pro-life move- authors decry. O ment would “make abortion expensive and unobtainable ... rendering Thomas Berry is with the Children the legal right to abortion mean- of Liberty, www.meetup.com/Theingless.” What of the attacks on the children-of-liberty/.

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A Toledo tradition since 2005 ToledoFreePress.com n MILLER CONTINUED FROM 3 Yikes. Is it any wonder so few people want to enter public life in Toledo? I wonder if an overweight female candidate would receive the same physique critique from the daily newspaper. Anita Lopez had better keep hitting the treadmill. Casual, skinny political observers might think The Blade’s unflattering description hurts McNamara, but as Toledo has been ranked America’s 7th fattest city, it might help him connect to a major new audience. Do not be surprised if at McNamara’s next campaign rally, he is greeted with bloated, out-ofbreath chants of “One of us! One of us! One of us!” I do not see McNamara on a regular basis, but unless he has been bingeing on Big Macs and Frostys lately, he does not merit a comparison to Christie. Christie was estimated to weigh about 350 pounds before electing to undergo lap-band surgery; he is reportedly down 40 pounds or so. Speculation is that Christie needed to lose weight to be considered a serious presidential candidate (one Tweeter called him a “Jello blob”), though he has said he chose the surgery with his family and children in mind. Christie’s weight struggle and surgery elicited the predictable late-night jokes (Martin Short told Jimmy Kimmel that if elected president, Christie would be the first oval in the Oval Office, conveniently ignoring Ohioan William Howard Taft, who weighed 330-plus pounds and once got stuck in the White House bathtub). “Yesterday New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he’s not sure if he’s going to run for re-election next year. He said, ‘I’ll collapse that bridge when I get to it,’” Jimmy Fallon said. “Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie,” David Letterman said. The Christie jokes illustrate that fat may be the only safe prejudice in American society. Make fun of race, gender, disabilities and sexual orientation at your peril, but you can laugh at fat people without fear of repercussion. As obesity has become more common, even the entertainment industry has capitalized. There has always been an Oliver Hardy, John Candy, Chris Farley or John Goodman available to play the funny fat man, but that dynamic has shifted to include women … Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson have embraced their size and are celebrated for it. Fat is a safe punchline because, unlike race, gender and

A U C T I O N

disabilities, the perception is that being overweight is the fat person’s fault, an easily remedied choice. But underlying the supposed humor is a barely disguised contempt that is fuel for bullying. Target apologized recently when shoppers noticed some interesting semantics. While a smaller dress was sold with the color “Heather Gray,” the same dress in plus sizes was called “Manatee Gray.” Target spokeswoman Jessica Deede described the Manatee Gray naming of the “Women’s PlusSize Kimono Maxi Dress” “an unintentional oversight,” but even without the color gaffe, how consumer-friendly is a “Women’s Plus-Size Kimono Maxi Dress?” Does one dress need that many adjectives in its title to make it clear it’s for a fat woman? Deede said Target was “fixing the discrepancy” and that the dress was removed from the company website. At least Target offers clothing for plus sizes, if you can accept being overweight as a “plus.” Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mark Jeffries came under fire for saying his clothing company is only for the “cool kids” — and not for “fat people.” The store reportedly does not carry any women’s sizes above large and only carries bigger men’s sizes to appeal to athletes. I have never been inside an Abercrombie & Fitch — I find the pedophile-baiting images and staccato bursts of perfume the stores spray into the air repulsive. As blogger Lindy West said, “Everybody knows that fat people are all dowdy frumps with no fashion sense — I mean, just look at the clothes they choose to wear, which clearly has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that nearly all major brands refuse to create clothes that fit fat people’s bodies because of exactly this type of kneejerk anti-fat disgust. More bedazzled tunics patterned like an antique Parisian suitcase, please! That’s what we fat ladies like!” As Americans grapple with the obesity issue, it will be interesting to track how the prejudices evolve. Will there be increased compassion or increased contempt? Will we have another overweight president? Or even an overweight mayor? There’s not much I can do to help Christie, but hey, Joe McNamara, I walk for an hour Downtown almost every day. Let me know if you want to join me. We can get some exercise and maybe crack jokes about scrawny political writers. 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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keep reading the words, “amid a groundswell of public support” in local newspaper articles and editorials about issues I care about. This phrase does my little activist heart such good and my first thought is always “Of course! Public support is what Toledo does best.” In these same articles, however, newspapers also report on opposition to progress on these issues. The opposition seems to always come in the form of one “leader” who insists on placing obstacles in the path everyone else seems to be following toward an important, albeit complex, goal. I have a little bit of an ant situation in my apartment. Referencing what I know about nature-tohuman metaphors, these ants represent a bug army’s ability to travel over, around, under and through any log or acorn in the way to get what they want from the picnic ... or my kitchen, as the case may be. My hope here is that the ants

in their headquarters downstairs one outstandingly courageous on the patio are actually being de- judge, local leaders have taken a terred when their scouts come up very public stance in favor of the to find the mint leaves and garlic creation of a dedicated domestic violence docket in Tocloves I have placed to ledo Municipal Court. repel them. You may know a little The same cannot be bit about domestic viosaid for their human lence in Toledo; you activist counterparts. may know nothing. I We will not be dethink you would still terred by vague statebe in favor of creating ments about “keeping this dedicated docket. an open mind” in the That’s how straightsame sentence pepforward a step it is to pered with reasons why proposals for cru- Rachel RICHARDSON improving the community’s response to cial changes continue domestic violence and changing to be rejected. Little does the opposition know the fact that women are being murthat the community rallies that dered on a monthly basis by their much stronger when it hears that intimate partners. On a very personal note, this someone thinks it can’t or won’t do something. Or maybe they do know, little ant actually was deterred considering one particular issue we on this issue by lack of real proghave been remind ing them of pretty ress at a point in 2011, when I resigned from the victim advocacy regularly for five years. With much gratitude to mem- and criminal justice world to turn bers of Toledo City Council and my focus to art and culture. One

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really nice thing about being an independent advocate, though, is that you can independently advocate for whatever needs advocated at the time. So, this recent surge in activism at the system level swung me all the way back into that world and I couldn’t be more excited. I have absolutely no doubt that Toledo Municipal Court will implement this dedicated docket. It is just a matter of time and a change in leadership. I got an email from a trusted friend the other day letting me know that I should watch another local “leader” who feels that “all of these murals and yarnbombs are a waste of time and the young urbanites should concentrate on more important things.” Granted, murals and yarnbombs are not directly putting food into the mouths of hungry Toledoans. But, they are putting artists and the creative community to work, which isn’t that far off. And they exist “amid a groundswell of public support.”

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They are making Toledo a pleasant place to live. Public art makes people happy! Why on earth would a “leader” try to discourage his or her neighbors and fellow Toledoans from being happy and working to make us happier? Someone has to be responsible for the warm fuzzies around here! We have a local radio station that plays only feel-good favorites! We want to feel good! Happy Toledoans are motivated and productive Toledoans. A true leader would cultivate that. I keep using the word “leader” here. And the quotation marks are not meant to be snarky. But, I do feel the need to have a logomachy about whether a true leader makes decisions that are so opposite the needs and wants of his or her community. The community responsible for electing him or her, in some cases. O Email Rachel Richardson at letters@ toledofreepress.com.

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FREE FROM HUNGER 2013

‘It’s a great idea … [Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are] what everyone grew up with,’ said Tony House, co-owner of Burger Bar 419, which is offering this ‘Fat Elvis’ sandwich.

PB&J-inspired dishes to support Food for Thought

By Brigitta Burks

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It’s peanut-butter-jelly time for Food for Thought. The nonprofit serving the region’s hungry is hosting the first Jam City, which for which local restaurants will use elements of the popular PB&J sandwich to create new dishes. Jam City runs from 6-10:30 p.m. May 23 at The Blarney Event Center,

601 Monroe St. in Downtown. Food for Thought, which started in 2007, has a stationary food pantry at 3540 Seaman Road, Oregon, and also has mobile units that it takes the three counties it serves. The charity emphasizes serving food with thoughtfulness — meaning eye contact counts along with ensuring a full stomach. The event coincides with Food for Thought’s sixth anniversary, said Sam Melden, the charity’s executive director. He said the nonprofit got

the idea for Jam City from a volunteer who observed a similar event, using Tempeh Reubens, in the South. “There wasn’t anything like it in the area. We’ve just been looking for our signature event and it worked out really well for us to put the peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the strong restaurant culture,” Melden said. Participating restaurants include Balance Pan-Asian Grille, The Blarney Irish Pub, Burger Bar 419, Deet’s BBQ, Gradkowski’s, Grumpy’s, Mancy’s

Steaks, Registry Bistro, Revolution Grille, Scene and Swig.

Fat Elvis

The chefs are excited for the event, Melden said. “It’s a great idea … [Peanut-butterand-jelly sandwiches are] what everyone grew up with,” said Tony House, coowner of Burger Bar 419. Burger Bar 419 will serve a play on the “Fat Elvis” sandwich. The dish will include a piece of brioche fried

in bacon fat, topped with crispy pork belly, spicy berry ketchup, barbecue peanut sauce and caramelized banana. Dustin Hostetler, co-owner of Grumpy’s, said his eatery will serve a peanut butter cookie with jelly frosting. “When Sam approached us with the concept, it felt like a real nobrainer. Once we saw all of the other restaurants involved it was impossible to say no,” he said of the event. n JAM CITY CONTINUES ON 7

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n JAM CITY CONTINUED FROM 6 Trevor Deeter, owner of Deet’s BBQ, declined to reveal his dish, but said, “We are dedicated to our community and try our best to get involved with any and all donations and benefits. Of course, it’s hard to be involved in everything but Jam City is an event that we had to do! We already get great pleasure out of feeding all of our customers, but realize that this event is providing real nourishment for those who really need it.” Jam City will also feature local acoustic musicians: the Jason Hudson Trio, The Bricks, Andrew Ellis and People Being Human. In addition, the event will offer local beers and a special private-label Jam City wine from Adelaida. Melden said local ties are important to Food for Thought. “This event is really local, which is a pretty cool aspect of it — local bands, local restaurants helping a local charity feed local people,” he said. The local aspect appealed to Erika Rapp, chef/owner of Registry Bistro. “It’s a great [idea for] a fundraiser and it’s for a really wonderful cause. It’s nice to see something that has local ties working to feed people in town,” she said. Registry will serve a street-food style steamed bun stuffed with duck and a spicy peanut sauce along with an apricot-rose jam cookie. Creating new items like the Jam City dish is fun, Rapp said. “A lot of times, it’ll actually inspire a menu item,” she said.

Chemistry set

Bill Kline, general manager of The Blarney Irish Pub, said the restaurant’s chef is using his “chemistry set” and experimenting with homemade dishes. “He promises it will be like no other [dish] served at the event and by the looks of what I’ve seen going on in the kitchen, those other chefs better

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Sam Melden is executive director of food for tHought. he said it is important that Jam City features local restaurants and musicians.

bring their A game,” Kline said. There will be a tip jar so Jam City patrons can give money based on dishes they enjoy. The tips will go to Food for Thought at the end of the night. Melden said Jam City has a “really great” lineup of restaurants. “The list filled up really quickly. Unfortunately, we did have to leave some people out, but I think next year, we’ll expand. We’ll have more restaurants, maybe 20,” he said.

Food for Thought also plans to expand the number of locations it serves. It recently received a $40,000 grant from ProMedica’s Advocacy Fund. The charity was able to add a second mobile unit, which includes a vehicle, trailer, food inventory and personnel, because of the grant. By the end of the year, Melden said he expects Food for Thought to serve more than 20 locations, up from 12. Melden said he’s also looking for-

ward to The Arts Commission’s Art Walks this summer. Food for Thought plans to have an area in the Warehouse District for its program Art for Thought, where professional and amateur artists alike can decorate lunch bags for the charity’s patrons. “Everyone from kids the youngest age that can pick up a crayon to the most incredible artist in the city can take a bag and decorate it,” Melden said. Jam City has several community

partners. Columbia Gas of Ohio, Toledo Free Press, WNWO-TV and Moms on the Go, Wells Fargo Advisers, WSPD and Hollywood Casino Toledo have joined forces for the Free from Hunger 2013 initiative, which helps support events for Food for Thought, Feed Lucas County Children and Cherry Street Mission. Tickets for Jam City are $30-$50 and are available at feedtoledo.org and at the door. O

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TPS special education compliance scores improve By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccartney@toledofreepress.com

Jim Gault’s face beamed as he introduced the final topic at May 14’s Toledo Public School’s (TPS) Curriculum Committee meeting. Gault, the district’s chief academic officer, said, “We’ve been sitting on this for at least the last six, seven weeks. But now we can finally talk about it. We know what’s become of GAULT our special education review. “We improved from less than 30 percent compliance to over 80 percent. The state came in three years ago and told us we would improve or else they would take special education services away from us. We told them we could do it ourselves. And we did.” Gault turned the floor to Karla Spangler, director of student services, to explain how TPS’ special education compliance scores have improved by more than 50 percent from 2010 to 2013. Spangler said that when the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) reviewed TPS’ special education program in 2010, the district was found to be “significantly” below compliance. The compliance review looked at: O “Child find,” the psychologist part of the evaluation. The psychologist is the overview person. O Delivery of services. O Least restrictive environment. O Data verification. O Discipline. Spangler reported that in 2013, the district went from failing scores “to nothing below a high B.”

From auditor to director

Spangler said she was a part of the ODE team that conducted the 2010 compliance audit. “I previously worked for the Ohio Department of Education,” Spangler said. “I was actually part of the audit in 2009-10. A year ago, I was embedded in TPS; 50 percent of my time was compliance under the ODE. “When Mr. Gault said, ‘Either clean it up or the state is going to take over … what happened was, I was embedded here 50 percent of my time to work on compliance.” Spangler said after the 2010 review, she worked on the TPS corrective plan

with Charlotte Cosart, TPS’ previous director of special education. “When Charlotte told the board she was retiring toward the end of the school year, they came to me and asked if I would be interested in working with them. “And my side of it was, ‘As long as you support compliance, I think it’s an exciting venture.’ And the people, the staff have been wonderful.”

‘Fox guarding the hen house’

Twila Page, secretary of the African-American Parents Association and a longtime advocate for special education students and their parents, said she finds TPS’ hiring of Spangler to head a program she once evaluated for the state a bit shady.

“It’s the fox guarding the hen house,” Page said. “If anybody would know how to cheat the system, it would be her. And nothing’s changed. As a matter of fact, to me, it’s even gotten worse. “A parent I have worked with gave me this paperwork. It reads: ‘On March 5, the district will hold a public meeting to describe ODE’s Office of Assessment of Children’s (OAC) on-site review process. There will be an opportunity for parents, guardians and other members of the public to share any comments with OAC regarding TPS’ special education department.’ “What’s interesting to me is, how come I didn’t get one of these? I have filed more complaints against TPS where they have had resolutions

where they have been found guilty. Why wasn’t the whole community made aware of this? There are ways for you to provide public comments at the meeting and to provide written comments, but if you don’t know about it, how can you do any of those things? It seems like they only advertised this meeting to certain people.”

‘It’s perfectly legal’

Steven Flagg, an education advocate who has followed TPS and education issues for the past 17 years, said he does not find Spangler’s work history problematic. “It’s perfectly legal,” Flagg said. “Lobbyists do it all the time. It happens all the time in the business world.

Businesses are always hiring people who have worked in the government. They think it may give them certain advantages. “Maybe she’s just really good at what she does. It makes sense for the district to hire someone to make sure TPS jumps through all the right hoops and receives good compliance scores. The only problem rests in whether she received anything, like a huge salary increase, for favors she might have given TPS in overlooking something in the 2009-10 report.” However, Flagg said that given how poor the 2010 compliance scores were, it was “highly” unlikely Spangler’s hire was unethical. n TPS CONTINUES ON 10

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On equal footing

Spangler said when TPS is compared with other Ohio urban districts, “we were the same or above those other districts. To give you a comparison, in ‘child find’ alone, there were 52 areas that were possibly noncompliant. They found us noncompliant in only two areas. “First, in years past, we did not complete evaluations within the threeyear timeline. But when you look at the full audit, you will see that has been corrected. That is under the [purview] of case managers working with the psychologists and checking monthly to make sure our evaluations are done on time. As far as [ODE] is concerned, we are compliant in that area.” Spangler said TPS had not been checking monthly with “the same rigor that it is being done now. It was more reactive instead of proactive.” However, she said her predecessors did start the timeline compliance process by convincing administrators to hire more psychologists to ensure TPS could meet the three-year timeline.

Academic coaches

Spangler said TPS has also worked closely on its intervention for students. She said academic coaches are general education teachers “who actually go into general-ed classrooms where students aren’t succeeding as high as we want. And if students are not being successful in an area, academic coaches give those [teachers] additional ideas — new or different ways to teach something.”

‘Cheat sheet’

Spangler said “delivery of services” is TPS’ highest area of special education compliance. “Our supervisors went to each building and met with teachers individually,” Spangler said. “We did an IEP (Individualized Education Program) with them for compliance. We made sure they understood what they were doing right and what areas they needed to work on. We gave them a ‘cheat sheet’ to use. We also did compliance with new teachers and with their long-term subs.” Spangler said the “cheat sheet” she developed is instrumental to student success because the ODE evaluates an IEP to ensure the document is compliant in seven areas of a child’s profile: O the child’s strengths O parents’ concerns O the result of the most recent Evaluation Team Report [ETR] O progress reports O needs that have been identified O performance on districtwide and statewide assessments O response to classroom-based intervention if those responses are not

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Union’s role

Spangler said TPS’ teacher union, Toledo Federation of Teachers (TFT), has a stronger role in making districtwide educational decisions than almost any union in the U.S. However, she would not discuss why TPS is required to “work closely together” with a union to implement its educational mission. “It’s just history,” Spangler said. “I will say, though, that I think we have a very cooperative relationship.” Flagg said he has some reservations with the decision-making authority TFT enjoys. “If it’s a collaborative relationship where the district can listen to union concerns, just like they should listen to all citizens’ concerns, I have no problem with it,” Flagg said. “I only have a problem with it if the union can veto good policy. Policy should always be made in the best interest of students, and there are many, many cases where the district has bad policies that have nothing to do with the welfare of students.”

Data verification

Spangler credits Jane Frye with the district’s successful data verification compliance scores. “We were lucky enough to hire [Frye] to work with us on DMIS (Data Management Information System),” Spangler said. “That’s the government program used to collect student data. She makes sure our dates and timelines are in compliance, and we’re doing a much better job in that area.” Spangler also said the compliance audit included two other areas — gifted education and budget — that few people “think of as special ed, although they do fall under special ed.” Spangler said she and Gayle Schaber, director of special projects and compensatory programs, “have a little tweaking to do in the ‘gifted’ area, but she’s on top of it. We’ve worked as a team all year long [developing and] putting a process in place for early entrance to school and early acceleration.” Spangler said TPS’ “tweaking” included sending letters to parents so they would understand how to enroll and get their children tested. “We worked with the psychologist so we have all that paperwork done,” she said. “We just have to get it approved and then that piece is ready to go.”

Monitoring the money

Spangler said TPS’ biggest fiscal problem is monitoring the nine nonpublic schools — eight Catholic and one Lutheran — it works with. “Nonpublic schools that choose to participate have the federal money flow to them, and it’s our responsibility to service their needs. We’ve always given them the money because that’s the federal law, but we’ve never looked at them for compliance. But now we have a plan in place and we’re ready to go next year. “We’ll meet with those principals in either late August or early September. We’ll go over our whole plan with them. We will then meet with their people or people that we have in the schools in speech or specific disability content areas. We will go over compliance with them so they know how to write plans correctly. “Since we have a plan in place, we will monitor what they’re doing. We’ve never done it before, but we will be starting next year.” Spangler did not say why the district has never monitored nonpublic schools compliance in the past. “I can’t answer for someone else,” she said. “I can just say the money is earmarked for them.” Spangler said TPS has also developed a plan to monitor its out-of-district students. “[ODE] didn’t look at that, but we have,” Spangler said. “We have a plan in place. We have a monthly calendar. I’ve already met with all those districts and let them know that we expect the same from them as we’re expecting from our teachers. They have the same ‘cheat sheet’ we’re using. We’re [reaching out] to them to make sure our students are receiving appropriate education whether they’re in Swanton, Anthony Wayne or wherever they go.”

Two areas in need of work

Spangler said although the current review reports that the district has done exactly as it was told, she believes TPS has two areas it needs to refine. “One is ‘measurable goals,’ which is defined across the entire state,” Spangler said. “If you write three goals for a student, and two goals are compliant and one is not, then you are not compliant. All goals have to be met in order for the district to be compliant with that student. That’s one area we need to work on. “The second area is ‘specially designed instruction.’ We need to make sure that we are designing instruction so a child can be successful. “If I’ve taken a goal and I say, ‘If I work on this goal this amount of time, a child will be successful,’ the state is saying to us, ‘Make sure you are putting in that time and that you have data to reflect that it is working.’

“If the goal says that I’m going to come into the classroom and work with you 10 minutes a day, I have to do that. Or if I’m going to pull you out 10 minutes a day, I have to do that. “‘Specially designed instruction’ has to make sure that I know how a child’s going to be successful. For instance, if I know in a general ed classroom, by lecturing, a child doesn’t get it, but by coming to me and we do hands-on, a child does get it, I need to write that down so when I hand the IEP off to you, and you teach it the same way I’m teaching it, the child will be successful.”

Joining forces

Page said she does not believe that teaching special education students should focus on the ability to follow rules as measured by ODE’s compliance review. “Everybody in the district — period — should have to read the ‘Parent’s Guide to IDEA’ (Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act). Everybody should be trained: the special education staff, teachers, bus drivers, principals, aides, food service workers. Anyone who comes in contact with a student with a disability, regardless of what the disability is, needs to know what’s on that IEP.” Spangler acknowledges that TPS has not always been as successful as it would like to have been in servicing all of its special education students. “However, we’re trying to be transparent,” Spangler said. “I’m asking parents to call me. I’m telling supervisors to follow up with parents if there’s a problem. We’re trying to have a continuum of services in our buildings so a child can get the correct service they need. “A continuum of services means every child starts out in general ed. Then, according to needs, you break off to where the child needs more support. A child might spend the whole day in general ed with a teacher coming in and supporting him. Or the child may need go out of the general ed classroom into a resource room to get extra help in math and language arts. Or he may not be able to be in the general ed classroom at all. He may need to be in a selfcontained classroom learning his subject matter.” Spangler said she meets with the advocate groups The Ability Center of Greater Toledo, Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Lucas County Children Services and Medical Leadership Partnership for Children so those agencies can tell her the district’s areas of weaknesses. “That’s been very beneficial because we’re reaching out for that relationship,” Spangler said. “I think that’s what it takes. This is a community. We need to work together.” O

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Orthodox Church bishop urges caution on Americanization By David Yonke

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Bishop Alexander Golitzin, speaking on the Americanization of the Orthodox Church, said adapting to U.S. culture carries both positives and negatives, but the overriding danger is unbridled nationalism. “You may notice that American politicians can’t stop singing the praises of this country,” Golitzin said in a talk May 13 at St. George OrGOLITZIN thodox Cathedral in Rossford. “We keep hearing how wonderful we are, and one wonders: If we are so wonderful, why do they have to keep saying it?” It is one thing to have pride in being American, the bishop said, but people should also be aware of their own heritage and history. The Rev. Paul Gassios, pastor of St. George, said he grew up in the Greek

Orthodox Church and has seen the impact of Americanization on the church through the years. “Mixed marriages between Orthodox and non-Orthodox are the norm today,” Gassios said. “Whether you’re Bulgarian or Greek or white Anglo-Saxon Protestant or German, everybody here is an American citizen. So the process of Americanization is going on, but is it a bad thing? I will leave that open because it can go so many ways. The fact is there is a culture here in America that impacts our faith.” Golitzin called nationalism a “great evil” and a threat both spiritually and physically, having been responsible for the deaths of “tens of millions” in the 20th century. “It is a murderous fate and it is a fake religion. We must resist it with all our strength,” said Golitzin, who is the Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America. The Toledo-based diocese has 16 parishes and 5,000 members in the United States and Canada, mostly in the Midwest but also in Washington, D.C., and California.

Among the positive influences of Americanization is that English is now spoken in all the Orthodox churches in the United States, Golitzin said, so people of diverse backgrounds can understand the liturgy. “In the celebration of all the services in the local vernacular … we are following the Gospel and the Apostle Paul, who was the apostle to the gentiles,” Golitzin said. In his talk at St. George during the cathedral’s 5th Annual Ss. Cyril & Methodius Lecture on Growth and Evangelism, Golitzin said the United States has been “invincibly Protestant” since its founding and remains “a Protestant country in its blood and bone.” American colonists “were full of suspicion of anything that had to do with Roman Catholics,” and “didn’t know about [Orthodox Christians], of course, but if they had they wouldn’t have liked us.” But the Orthodox Church, like other faith groups, has benefited from the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. “The great good is there — to live unmolested, to live with an opportu-

nity to better oneself,” he said. Golitzin, 65, was born in Tarzana, Calif., and studied at the University of California at Berkeley. He earned a doctorate in patristics (early church writers) from Oxford University, where he studied under renowned Orthodox scholar Kallistos Ware. He also spent a year at Simonos Petras Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, and taught theology at Marquette University from 1989 until his consecration as bishop in May 2012. In an interview after the lecture, Golitzin said his transition from academia has been a smooth one. “I have very good priests and, on the whole, happy parishes,” he said. “I don’t have any great worries.” One of the major challenges facing the Orthodox Church in the United States is to “represent Christianity” and to make people aware that evangelicals don’t speak for all Christians, Golitzin said. The popular notion of Christianity gleaned from radio and TV talk shows is “a sort of stupid Christianity — stupid and without any social consciousness, as if it were

just ‘me and Jesus’,” Golitzin said. “It’s a Christianity without the Gospels and the prophets.” The church must do better addressing social equity and justice issues, he said, lauding U.S. Catholic bishops for making them priorities. Another challenge is the busyness of modern American life, he said, with children’s sports and other activities competing with church. “It’s a matter of priorities,” the bishop said. “Does your kid go to hockey on Sunday morning, or does he go to liturgy?” He also believes the U.S. Orthodox Christian churches need to be united and not divided into ethnic dioceses such as Greek, Russian, Antiochian and Bulgarian. “It’s a great evil and prevents our working together and pooling our resources,” Golitzin said. “If this kind of thing continues, we’re doomed.” O 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 in the Toledo area.

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Borelli to speak at conservative event

Conservative speaker Deneen Borelli will visit Toledo on May 21 for a Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition event. Borelli’s husband Tom will also speak. Borelli is FOX News contributor, director of outreach for the grassroots group FreedomWorks and author of “Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation.” While in Toledo, Borelli said she will address her experiences a “female black conservative.” She will also talk about the “black liberal establishment,” she said. “I believe for many, many years the black community has been held hostage by the message from the black liberal establishment, and that is that blacks are victims and need the government to get ahead,” Borelli said. “I learned early on, it’s hard work, perseverance, equality, education — those are the keys to success.” Borelli, a New Jersey native, worked for Philip Morris while earning her college degree. After

11 years of working and going to school, she received her degree from Pace University. “I didn’t rely on government to get my college degree. It was my planning and my hard work,” she said. After she left Philip Morris, Borelli began volunteering for Congress of Racial Equality, where she became interested in politics. Borelli said she has faced negative reactions for her beliefs. “I’ve been called an Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, a traitor, a token. Really, that just tells me my message is getting through and people are trying to intimidate and keep me from getting through and empowering people,” she said. “I’ve met a number of black conservatives who are being more vocal about their values and their beliefs.” The event, which includes dinner, runs from 6:30-9:30 p.m. May 21 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral Banquet Hall, 802 N. Superior St. Tickets are $35 and are available at http://bit.ly/borelli. O — Staff Reports

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Several community groups are partnering to put on Healthy Toledo!, a series set to occur every other month at The Ability Center of Toledo. The series kicked off at 10 a.m. May 18 with a discussion about diabetes. Upcoming topics include a heart disease forum July 20, a fall prevention and arthritis forum Sept. 21 and a COPD and asthma forum Nov. 2. “These are a lot of the [topics] that are prevalent in our community,” said Steve Reamey, senior community relations manager for AmeriCare Home Health. “These topics came to us from seniors. These are what seniors asked for.” Although the forums are friendly to all ages, they especially offer a way for seniors who may not be Internet-savvy enough to gather information, Reamey said. The forum also seeks to dispel the idea that Toledo is unhealthy and offer a reason to get out of the house, he said. “Get some food; see some other seniors; see the resources. [The forum is] just real casual. It’s not dress-up — just come as you are. It’s all about getting the information,” he said. Reamey said he is still accepting speakers for upcoming events and expects the series to expand. Admission is free. Toledo Free Press is a media sponsor. The Ability Center is located at 5605 Monroe St., Sylvania. O

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Jolie’s mastectomy jump-starts cancer conversations By Sarah Ottney

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When 31-year-old Marcie Delia tested positive for a gene mutation that predisposed her to develop breast cancer, she immediately embarked on a regimen of regular screenings, but soon decided that wasn’t enough. In November, she unDELIA derwent surgery to remove both breasts as a preventative measure. “After about a year, I had enough,” the Columbus resident told Toledo Free Press via Facebook. “I’m a riskaverse person and my 50-80 percent odds of getting breast cancer were by no means reasonable or favorable. [I thought] ‘If I get cancer, I’ll have to have surgery anyway, so why not do it on my terms, minus the life-altering fear of a cancer diagnosis and months if not years of debilitating treatments and continual monitoring?’ It was not something I wanted to do, but felt I had to go forward with the surgery for my relative peace of mind. Anything else felt like waiting around to get cancer.” Delia’s immediate family — especially her father, who was fighting terminal prostate cancer — was sup-

portive of her decision, but many people didn’t understand. “Any friend who had ever lost a loved one to cancer was immediately supportive and encouraging of my decision. Anyone who had not generally responded with, ‘That’s really drastic.’ Some people said, ‘Why not watch and wait?’” Delia said. “That was frustrating. They don’t realize that while that is an option, it’s a risky one. Mammography can only do so much. There’s no guarantee a cancer can be caught early. Others may be comfortable with that approach, but for me, that was too big of a gamble to live with.”

Angelina Jolie

On May 14, the topic was thrust to the forefront of international conversation when The New York Times published an op-ed column by actress Angelina Jolie in which she shared her recent decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy after testing positive JOLIE for the gene mutation BRCA1. “Knowing that many other women have been through this helped for sure,” Delia said. “[But] what I appreciate is that she is sharing this information and bringing more awareness and discussion to the issue.”

Local reactions mixed

Jolie’s announcement has also reverberated — with mixed reactions — among local medical professionals. Kelly Morse of ProMedica’s Hickman Cancer Center at Flower Hospital, Northwest Ohio’s only board-certified genetic counselor specialMORSE izing in cancer, said she thinks Jolie will be a positive role model for local women. “Some women are very attached to their natural breasts and see that as an important part of themselves as a woman and it’s very difficult emotionally to wrap their heads around losing them,” Morse said. “Other women are of the mindset that they will do anything to remove the risk and basically say, ‘How soon can we get this done?’ Every woman is just very, very different. “[Jolie’s announcement] should at least allow women to start asking questions and if maybe they didn’t think surgery was right for them a few years ago, maybe they will revisit that and decide it’s the right thing for them now. Or if they were never tested but know it’s in their family, maybe they’ll think it’s the right time to come back in for testing. “Just being in her position, as an

actress, where physical appearance is obviously very important, that she was able to go ahead with that surgery, I think it’s really empowering,” Morse said. However, that same awareness could be “a double-edged sword,” said Dr. Nasfat Shehadeh, medical director of Mercy Cancer Centers at St. Anne and St. Charles. Preventative mastectomies have become more common during the past seven years as more people become aware of the option and as reconstructive methods improve, but it isn’t the best choice for all women, Shehadeh said. “It’s an extreme measure,” he said. “It might even be an extreme measure in patients with a mutation. I think what [Jolie] has done is very reasonSHEHADEH able; it will decrease the risk of breast cancer without question. But a study done in Europe showed it didn’t have an impact on overall survival. It can also have a significant psychological effect on the patient and the spouse. “We have to make sure the patient is really well-informed and understands the consequences. We have to understand that the vast majority of patients will do fine with just a lumpectomy if cancer is detected early. We are overdoing mastectomies and I hope we won’t see a second rise of mastectomies because of this story.”

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One in every eight women, or 12 percent, will be diagnosed with breast cancer, but those with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation are five times more likely to develop the disaese, said Shehadeh, adding that only about 5 to 7 percent of breast cancer cases are genetic. The genetic test is called BRACAnalysis and is done by only one company, Myriad Genetics Inc. in Salt Lake City. Not everyone is a candidate for BRACAnalysis and not every cancer patient is tested, Shehadeh said. Younger patients and those with multiple diagnoses in their families are likely to qualify for insurance coverage, but there are many criteria, said Morse, who said she consults with about 10 people per week, typically with a doctor referral. The initial test costs $4,040,

Morse said. Once a genetic mutation is identified, the test for family members can be set to hone in on that particular gene, making it less expensive, about $475, Morse said. Delia underwent genetic testing after her father was diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer in 2010. Both were found to be positive for the BRCA2 gene mutation. Her sister, also BRCA2 positive, had breast cancer, and three of her father’s aunts died of breast cancer, one at age 30, Delia said. “When people hear about my surgery, even medical professionals, they always ask ‘Did your mom have cancer?’ No. ‘Your grandma?’ No,” Delia said. “Cancer on the father’s side of the family matters just as much as cancer on the mother’s side.”

Road to recovery

Although she trusts she made the right decision, Delia said the physical recovery process as well as the emotional and psychological process of adjusting to her new body will take time. “All along, I fantasized about the relief I would have once my surgery was over. I thought my anxiety would lessen and this huge weight over me would finally disappear,” Delia said. “[Instead] I felt a lot of discomfort and sadness. I know I did the right thing, but to expect relief in the short term was shortsighted.” She does count the timing of her surgery as a blessing as it allowed her to spend time with her father, who died in April, shortly after her second surgery. “I spent the last two weeks of his life with him almost nonstop,” Delia said. “Had I postponed the surgery, I would have been at work. I believe I was meant to have the surgery when I did.” Everyone copes with a cancer diagnosis or a positive BRCA test result differently, Morse said. National support organizations like Bright Pink and FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered) help many people, she said. “We can’t change or correct our genetics right now,” Morse said. “We have to cope and deal with whatever hand we’re dealt. “That’s why I personally feel it’s important for these families to see the expertise of a genetic counselor, not just for medical but for emotional support. “It’s a pretty personal choice.” O

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Saltwater Smarts, a website created for marine aquarium hobbyists of all skill levels, was launched April 25 by two local entrepreneurs, Chris Aldrich and Jeff Kurtz. With the mission of promoting education, accessibility and sustainability of the saltwater aquarium hobby, Aldrich and Kurtz are striving to provide an informative, interactive and inspirational environment that will help hobbyists make the most of their aquarium-keeping experience. “We’re focused on educating aquarists to promote the long-term sustainability of the hobby,” Aldrich said. Keeping saltwater aquariums is a robust hobby throughout the world, including the Toledo area, which supports three saltwater fish stores: The Coral Reef in Perrysburg, Tropical Reef in Holland and Trilby Tropical in Toledo. Aldrich and Kurtz said they already have people worldwide visiting their blog. The Midwest is the epicenter for saltwater hobbyists in the U.S., as it seems the farther one lives from the ocean, the bigger the hobby gets. “The Web is the perfect place for hobbyists to come together. We’re building a community to educate saltwater hobbyists and we’ll see where it takes us,” Aldrich said about their selffunded business venture. “It’s the perfect starting point for communicating to hobbyists,” said Steve Kear, owner of My Daily Grind coffee shop in Perrysburg, who has been a saltwater hobbyist for more than 40 years. Kear keeps a 220-gallon saltwater aquarium in the coffee shop. He said he has the aquarium at his place of business because he spends 10-12 hours a day there. “A lot of the other sites have a condescending attitude that scares people away. We wanted to create a friendly environment for saltwater hobbyists. Novices can come to our site and put together a saltwater aquarium,” Kurtz said. Many freshwater aquarium hobbyists are afraid to get involved with salt-

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water because they think it’s too complicated, according to the partners. “If you can do freshwater then you can do saltwater,” Aldrich said. “All the chemistry and principles are the same. It’s not cheap but it’s not insanely expensive to get involved in a saltwater hobby,” Kurtz said. A 30-gallon tank is a good starter for people just getting involved in saltwater, according to Kurtz. “However, bigger is better for saltwater tanks for the stability of the environment,” he said.

Aldrich and Kurtz have been involved in saltwater hobbies for more than 20 years. They met through the Toledo Reef Aquarium Club in 2012. They soon started talking about creating a friendly website for saltwater hobbyists. The seasoned hobbyists are avid scuba divers who have experienced the saltwater environment firsthand. “We truly care about the saltwater hobby but also about the natural environment,” said Aldrich, who is also involved in a live rock project in the Florida Keys.

Aldrich, a website developer, designed the website. Kurtz focuses on the content with his editorial background as senior consulting editor for Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine and editor of Healthy Living News. They began promoting the site in January, creating Facebook and Twitter pages to begin building their own saltwater community. They also held a pre-launch contest and awarded a gift card for aquarium supplies to the winner, Holly Thomas. Susan Santillo, owner of Coral

Reef, said she thinks the site will be good for aquarium hobbyists and their retail business. The saltwater store was established in Toledo in 1995 and has operated from its current location since 2009. Aldrich and Kurtz said they have a lot of ideas for activities on the blog and for expansion of the website. They said they will welcome input from bloggers. Anyone interested in saltwater aquariums is invited to visit www. saltwatersmarts.com. O

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There’s a remarkable transformation that occurs after a woman uses her loan from Opportunity International to start a small business, said the organization’s CEO Vicki Escarra and Chief Philanthropic Officer Sheila Schwartz. “Their whole demeanor changes. So to see a woman before getting involved with Opportunity and then three months later is remarkably different. She’ll look you right in the face,” said Escarra, who started as CEO about seven months ago. The 42-year-old Opportunity International offers microfinance loans, typically at $150, in addition to savings, insurance and training to about 5 million people in developing countries. Ninety-three percent of the group’s clients are women, who go on to run their own businesses. “The main difference is a lot of charities, which are fabulous, give people donations or resources. We show people how to develop their own,” Schwartz said. Schwartz started at Opportunity about a month ago after serving as ProMedica’s chief philanthropic officer for 20 years. Escarra is based out of Chicago while Schwartz still operates from the greater Toledo area. Worldwide, more than 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day and 70 percent of those people are women, Escarra said. “We know that women are dis-

proportionately affected by poverty,” she said. However, once women are empowered, amazing things happen, not just to them and their families, but to their communities, Escarra said. “When women are working, 90 percent of their dollars go back to their children, their community, their country. Men conversely, in the developing world, 30 percent goes back,” Escarra said. However, Opportunity has begun research that shows men in families where women have received a loan start to become more involved with their families. Opportunity International recipients also have a 98 percent repayment rate on their loans. Schwartz and Escarra attributed this rate to trust groups. These groups, typically made up of about 10-12 people from the local community, make sure they know everything about anyone who wants to join and receive a loan. “It ends up being a tremendous support network,” Schwartz said. Schwartz has big goals herself, including tripling the $45 million fundraised annually in the next three to five years. “Every smart leader surrounds themselves with really great talent so one of the first hires I made was with Sheila,” said Escarra, who came to Opportunity from Feeding America. She also served as Delta’s chief marketing officer previously. “We are blessed beyond compare to have someone with this level of ex-

perience,” Schwartz said of Escarra. Escarra said in Opportunity’s 42year history, it’s helped to create 10 million jobs. “It’s an interesting model in that it’s a private sector model that has an umbrella of nonprofit sector,” she said. Loan recipients seem to have a domino effect in their communities. Escarra gave an example of a Ugandan woman who took out her first Opportunity loan 10 years ago and has received (and paid back with interest) about 30 more since then. “She started with a $150 loan, opened a small one-room school where they were housing six kids and now they have 600 kids,” she said. Opportunity International also encourages agricultural business in Africa, where 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas. In one case, Opportunity matched high school students with area farmers to help with crop selection, irrigation and evaluating the weather. The sugar cane crop ended up being so prosperous that two production plants came to the area, spurring $20 million in economic impact, Escarra said. In the Philippines, small businesses can also be a venue for women to escape prostitution or sex trafficking, Escarra said. “If you can provide enough capital to get a business going, women who are living in prostitution because there’s no other business or being trafficked because there’s no way out can find a way out through small busi-

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Opportunity International agricultural finance client Eugenie Nyirabagenzi is a rice farmer in Rwamagana, Rwanda.

In one instance in Uganda, a man nesses. They do the most unbelievable things like making jewelry out of tried to access his sister-in-law’s savings account only to be turned away. newspapers,” she said. Opportunity also prides itself on After he created a ruckus, word spread. “The next day, there was a line of its technology offerings like mobile banking and biometrics, which re- women around the block, because quire a finger scan to receive money word had spread that we protect women and their financial savings so at the bank. In many developing countries, if people with coffee cans were there a woman is widowed, her husband’s bringing it to the bank,” Schwartz said. To 3:48 learn brother can try to claim her prop4009 DeversMB_TFP_519_Layout 1 5/14/13 PMmore Pageor 1 donate, visit http://www.opportunity.org. O erty, Schwartz said.

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here has been no time in recent memory that we the gains until fall comes around; however, I expect that can recall so many major current events making there will be a number of advisers who missed this rally headlines in such a short amount of time. In the that will attempt to play the markets in an effort to window last month the U.S. has been following the Jodi Arias dress their portfolios. While Treece Investment Advisory Corp verdict, the Cleveland kidnappings, Bengpredicts a pullback, I by no means feel that it hazi whistleblowers testifying in front of will be another 2008, just a minor 5-10 perCongress, a scandal at the IRS, wiretaps at cent correction in equities. Unfortunately, the The Associated Press and a guilty verdict U.S. economy has not fully recovered from the in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell abortion case. crisis it experienced in 2008, and we are not Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending seeing headlines that are providing investors on your long or short position), these with the comfort they need to buy back into headlines have taken a lot of attention away the markets. Furthermore, regulations and from the markets. the costs associated with doing business have Springtime tends to bring about a cerhindered some corporations from deploying tain mentality in the investment commuBen TREECE capital, resulting in stagnant growth. nity referred to as “sell in May, go away.” I want to remind investors that they need to look past One explanation for this maxim is that the weather is warm, the skies are clear, and families on both Wall St the major headlines and look for the news that shows and Main Street are looking for ways to enjoy the out- them the true nature of the economy and the markets. doors and to go on vacation. But there is no clear tech- We are back on the right track, just at a slower pace than nical reason as to why growth seems to subside in the we would like. If our predictions are correct and we do see a pullback this summer, do not be discouraged or warmer months of the year. The aforementioned headlines have also detracted disheartened. Remember that your retirement is meant from some major economic headlines in recent weeks. to be a nest egg, and over the course of time its value will Experts predict that the U.S. budget deficit will come in ebb and flow. Look for the silver lining during a pullat $200 billion lower than expected this fiscal year. On back; a drop in equities this summer means that there top of that, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached will be opportunities for value buys in the fall. O all-time highs this past week. In foreign markets, the Nikkei surpassed the 15,000 mark for the first time in Ben Treece is a 2009 Graduate from the University of five years. This is great news for investors who went in Miami (FL), BBA International Finance and Marketing. to the markets eight to nine months ago forecasting eco- He is a partner with Treece Investment Advisory Corp nomic growth and stability, however summer may see a (www.TreeceInvestments.com) and a stockbroker licensed with FINRA, working for Treece Financial Services Corp. different hand play out. As trading volume drops this summer, we expect to see The above information is the express opinion of Ben Treece a slight pullback in equities. There will certainly be some and should not be construed as investment advice or used advisers and investors who will take their profits and sit on without outside verification.

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A 2009 car accident motivated Victor Buhler’s documentary, “A Whole Lott More,” which last week placed third at the Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival. The festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with 180,000 audience members, according to hotdocs.ca. The 11-day event featured 418 public screenings of 204 films on 16 screens across Toronto. The film’s win was decided by an audience vote. “Those are the 200 best documentaries that were made in the past year,” Buhler said. Buhler, who resides in London, attended the festival with locals TJ Hawker, Wanda Huber and Kevin Tyree, three people who appear in “A Whole Lott More.” He said at the end of the screening his film received a standing ovation. “It was just a really fantastic moment,” Buhler said. “It was an incredible, rewarding moment.” The documentary takes a look at Toledo company Lott Industries, which employs 1200 people with developmental disabilities. It tells the story of three locals associated with Lott: Hawker, who has cerebral palsy and is deaf; Huber, who has become an advocate for the disabled; and Tyree, whose mother works at the company.

Buhler wants to make people with disabilities more visible with his documentary. He acquired a sense of empathy for the community when he spent two years in a wheelchair and crutches following a car crash. “During that experience, although different from having a permanent disability, I became very interested in their world,” Buhler said. He began to see how challenging their lives can be and how differently they are treated from everyone else. “They really want the things that we want. They want a good job, a place to live, they want a car,” Buhler said. “They are also extraordinary people because they’ve been given challenges that they deal with.” Buhler started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the documentary in 2010 and he raised more than $18,000. Buhler spent over two years in Toledo filming the documentary. In total, the film took more than three years to make. For more information on the film, visit awholelottmore.com. Because there are no screenings planned at the moment, Buhler said signing up for the newsletter will be useful for upcoming news. O

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Aretha Franklin pointed The Spinners in the right direction. “We recorded ‘It’s a Shame’ at Motown [Records]; Stevie Wonder co-wrote it and produced it,” recalled Henry Fambrough. “Would you believe that song laid around almost two years before they released it? It took Stevie to go put pressure on Motown to get them to release it. And they released it and it became an instant hit.” That was 1970, when the group’s contract with the Detroit label ran out. “We were on tour with Aretha and we were good friends, and we still are good friends, and she told us, ‘I know you guys are between record companies, but I’m on Atlantic [Records] and they are a very good company to me, so I think you should look into it; it’s my recommendation.’ And we did, and we signed with them,” Fambrough said. Then came producer Thom Bell. “He remembered us from 1961 when ‘That’s What Girls Are Made For’ came out,” Fambrough said during a call from his home in Troy, Mich. “He said he remembered our

sound and that’s why he wanted to work with us.” Bell visited the Motor City and recorded Fambrough, Bobbie Smith, Pervis Jackson, Billy Henderson and Philippé Wynne. “[Bell] said, ‘I’m going back to Philly, and I’m going to have my writers write for your sound,’ ” Fambrough said. “He said, ‘I think within a year or so, you guys are going to be the No. 1 group in the country.’ “After being at Motown for all that time, we just looked at each other and said, ‘Yeah, sure, Thom,’” Fambrough said and laughed. But Bell and the writers struck gold. “When Thom came back, the first songs he played for us were ‘Could It Be I’m Falling in Love,’ ‘I’ll Be Around,’ ‘How Could I Let You Get Away’ and ‘Just You and Me Baby.’ And out of those four songs, three of them were hits off of our first album that was released,” Fambrough said. Known for soulful harmonies, snappy matching suits and smooth moves, The Spinners had a string of hits, including “The Rubberband Man,” “One of Kind (Love Affair),” “They Just Can’t Stop It (Games People Play)” and “Working My Way Back to You.”

The R&B group and Dionne Warwick reached No. 1 with “Then Came You.” Fambrough is the only surviving original member. “We lost Pervis and Billy in ’08 and ’07,” the singer said. “Bobbie left the road back in September, and we just kept working with the four guys. In fact, we’re still working with the four guys.” Smith died in March at age 76. Jackson died of cancer in 2008, and Henderson died due to complications of diabetes in 2007. “You keep going, you know, you keep going,” Fambrough said. “We try to find someone that has the same values and the same goals that we have.” The Spinners — Fambrough, Charlton Washington, Jessie Peck and Marvin Taylor — and The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards will perform at 8 p.m. May 24 at the Hollywood Casino Toledo. Tickets are $45. “The songs that we did then, they’re so good now because they’re about love and happiness,” Fambrough said. “We have people coming to see our concert today and they’re introducing our music to their grandkids because the music is still good and you can listen to it without cringing.” O

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Book Clubs

Adult discussion groups

✯ Toledo-Lucas County Public Libraries, (419) 259-5200 or www.toledolibrary.org. Contact Birmingham, Heatherdowns, Oregon, Point Place, Sanger, Sylvania, Washington, Waterville and West Toledo branches for group meeting times and titles. ✯ Way Public Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. 7-8:15 p.m. third Mondays, 10 a.m. first Wednesdays, 2-3:30 p.m. third Wednesdays. Pizza & Pages Teen Book Club, 7-8 p.m. Friday nights May and June. (419) 874-3135 or www.waylibrary.info

Summer reading clubs

✯ Toledo-Lucas County Public Libraries: June 10-Aug. 10: “Dig Into Reading” (17 and younger). Adult club also available. ✯ Way Public Library: June 10-July 20: “Dig Into Reading” (10 and younger), “Beneath the Surface” (age 11-15).

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Silver Screen Classics

Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St. (419) 2422787 or www.valentinetheatre.com. 7:30 p.m., $5. Popcorn, candy, drinks, full bar available. ✯ May 24: “The Breakfast Club” ✯ June 28: “Grand Prix”

Way Public Library

101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg, (419) 8743135 or www.waylibrary.info, free. ✯ Show Me The Movie: July 2: (“Life of Pi,” 2 p.m.), Aug. 6: (“Lincoln,” 2 p.m.) ✯ Reel Opinions: Documentary at 10:30 a.m. third Thursdays followed by discussion.

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Comedy Connxtions Comedy Club

5319 Heatherdowns Blvd., Toledo. (419) 867-9041 or www.connxtionscomedyclub. com. Thursday tickets $8 or $4 with a college ID. Friday; Saturday tickets $12-15. ✯ May 23-25: Chas Elstner ✯ May 30-June 1: Steve Sabo

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Free family flicks

✯ June 14: Whitehouse Cherry Festival. (419) 877-2747 or www.mywhitehousecherryfest.com. ✯ July 14 (“The Lorax”) and Aug. 18 (“The Dolphin Tale”), projected on building, 200 Louisiana Ave., Perrysburg, at dusk. (419) 8726246 or Facebook.com/DowntownPerrysburg. ✯ Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Sept. 6: Heritage Park in Adrian at dusk. (517) 263-6868 or www.croswell.org.

Lyric Photoplay Society

Maumee Indoor Theatre, 601 Conant St. (419) 897-8901. $5. ✯ June 9: “Funny Face” (1957), 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. ✯ Aug. 25: “Double Indemnity” (1944), 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Rave Cinema Classics Mondays at 1 p.m. Levis Commons, 2005 Hollenbeck Drive, Perrysburg, (419) 874-2154. $3 (includes pop and popcorn). ✯ May 20: “Road to Bali”

6140 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg. (419) 931-3474 or www.funnybonefatfishblue.com. ✯ May 19: Loni Love ✯ May 22: Erik Griffin ✯ May 23-26: Dominique ✯ May 29: Clash of the Comics ✯ June 6-9: Bob Zany ✯ June 21-23: Bill Bellamy ✯ June 27-30: Dan Grueter ✯ July 4-7: Steve Trevino ✯ July 18-21: Brad Williams ✯ July 26-28: EARTHQUAKE

Stranahan Theater

4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 381-8851 or www.stranahantheater.com. ✯ June 10: Daniel Tosh of Tosh.0, 7 and 9:30 p.m. ✯ June 15: Bill Maher, 8 p.m.

Concerts Brown Bag Summer Series

12:15-1:15 p.m. Wednesdays June 5-July 24, north lawn of Main Library, 325 Michigan St. (419) 259-5200 or www.toledolibrary.org.

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Hollywood Casino Toledo, 777 Hollywood Blvd. (877) 777-9579 or hollywoodcasinotoledo.com. Also free concerts in the H Lounge, all shows 21 and older. ✯ May 24: The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards and The Spinners, $45. ✯ June 21: Air Supply, featuring original members Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, $30. ✯ July 5: LeAnn Rimes, $45.

Centennial Terrace

5772 Centennial Road, Sylvania, (419) 8857106, or www.centennialterrace.org. ✯ June 14: “Weird Al” Yankovic, 6:30 p.m., $25-$49.50. ✯ June 15: Get the Led Out, 8 p.m., $17.50-$26. ✯ July 9: Alice Cooper, 6:30 p.m., $30.50-$59.50. ✯ July 10: The Doobie Brothers, 6:30 p.m., $31-60. ✯ July 18:Willie Nelson, 6:30 p.m., $34.50-$71.50. ✯ Aug. 2: Trace Adkins, 6:30 p.m., $32.50-$51.50. ✯ Aug. 4: Tesla, 6 p.m., $25-$45.

Faster Horses Festival

July 19-21: Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Chris Young, Thompson Square, Florida Georgia Line. Michigan International Speedway, 12626 U.S. Highway 12, Brooklyn, three-day pass $170, (800) 354-1010 or www. mispeedway.com.

Jazz in the Garden

6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays July 11 through Sept. 12. Adults $8, students/seniors $7, members $6, 12-younger free. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive, (419) 536-5566 or www.toledogarden.org.

SoundTrek

8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. July 19. Dozens of regional bands of every genre in Uptown venues as well as street performers. $5 per venue or wristbands (for all venues plus bus rides between locations) $10 advance/$15 day of. (419) 2542787 or theartscommission.org.

EVENTS Affrilachian Folktales

African-American fables seasoned with Appalachian humor. 2-3 p.m. June 25 (Lagrange), 6:30-7:30 p.m. June 25 (Toledo Heights), 1:30-2:30 p.m. June 26 (Main Library), 4-5 p.m. June 26 (Maumee). (419) 259-5200 or www.toledolibrary.org.

Art Walks

6-9 p.m. second Thursdays June through September (June 13, July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12), free. (419) 254-2787 or theartscommission.org.

Arts in the Garden

11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 4. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive. Arts and crafts sale, live entertainment, art activities, free. (419) 536-5566 or www.toledogarden.org.

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motorcycle escorts, vintage military vehicles, veterans resource area, health care town hall, live entertainment, sunrise remembrance service and more. Vietnam veterans can register at (419) 460-5288 or toledoveteransevent.com or Toledo Ohio Vietnam Appreciation Event on Facebook.

EXHIBITS Grossology

May 18-Sept. 2. Animatronics and imaginative exhibits teach the good, bad and icky about runny noses, body odor and much more. Imagination Station, Summit and Adams streets, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Kids 3-12 free on Saturday with paid adult admission. (419) 244-2674 or www. imaginationstationtoledo.org.

Hudson Gallery

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Barefoot At The Beach

6-11 p.m. Aug. 17. Bonfire, fireworks, tiki bar and live music to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo. Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park, 1750 State Park Road, Oregon, 21 and older. (419) 2414258 or www.barefootatthebeach.org

Crosby Festival of the Arts

10 a.m. to 7 p.m. June 29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 30. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive. $8 for adults, $7 advance tickets at The Anderson’s, members/children 12 and younger free. (419) 536-5566 to purchase tickets.

Farmers Markets

✯ Flower Day Weekend. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. May 25-26, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 27. Erie Street Market, 525 Market St. www.toledo farmersmarket.com.

✯ Downtown: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, Erie Street Market. ✯ Perrysburg: 3-8 p.m. Thursdays, Louisiana Avenue and Front Street. Music at the Market 7-8:30 p.m. starting June 6. www.perrysburgfarmers-market.com. ✯ Westgate Village: 3-7 p.m. Wednesdays, Elder-Beerman, 3301 Secor Road. ✯ Whitehouse Town Square: Flower market 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays (May). Farmers market 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays (July 6-Oct. 5).

Gathered Art Gallery and Studios

23 N. Huron St., (419) 262-5501 or www. gatheredartgallery.com. ✯ 7 p.m. third Fridays (June 21, July 26, Aug. 16): Live music and glass demonstrations. ✯ Pregame Gather before Mud Hens games: (5-7 p.m. May 31, June 7, June 21, June 23 and more).

Jam City

6-10:30 p.m. May 23, gourmet PB&J event featuring creations from local chefs. Blarney Event Center, 601 Monroe St., $30-50, (419) 972-0022 or feedtoledo.org.

Toledo Zoo

Lucas County residents enter free 10 a.m.noon Mondays with address verification. 2700 Broadway St., (419) 385-4040 or www. toledozoo.org. ✯ May 24-26: Wild Walkabout grand opening celebrating arrival of Australian animals. ✯ June 1: Lucas the elephant’s 2nd birthday. ✯ Father’s Day (June 16): Free zoo admission for dads who come with their children. Featuring inflatable games and activities 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and a barbeque lunch ($9-$15).

Vietnam Traveling Wall

June 5-9, International Park, free. Featuring

5645 North Main Street, Sylvania, (419) 8858381 or www.hudsongallery.net, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday. ✯ Through June 1: “Light and Shadow” (prints by Art Werger, ceramics by Tom Marino). ✯ June 7-July 20: “New Work” (Constandena Mandros and Carol Imes Luscombe).

Kaleidoscope

The best of Toledo School for the Arts student artwork will be on display in the school’s Gallerie 333, 333 14th Street, for a month starting June 7. Call for availability. (419) 246-8732.

Launchpad Cooperative

911 Jefferson Ave. Hours by appointment. www.launchpadcooperative.com ✯ Through May 31: ARText. An experiment in cross-disciplinary methods, randomly pairing one visual artist from Launch Pad Cooperative with a poet from the Toledo literary scene.

Metroparks

National Center for Nature Photography at Secor Metropark, 10001 W. Central Ave., Berkey, noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, free. (419) 4079757 or www.naturephotocenter.com. ✯ Through Sept. 1: Award-winning photos from 2012 International Conservation Photography Awards, “Wild, Wet and Extremely Rare: Our Wet Sand Prairies,” by Art Weber, “Stars Above, Parks Below” by Tyler Nordgren and “Spiders of Oak Openings” by Richard Bradley.

Sauder Village

Ohio’s largest living history village features more than 40 historic homes and shops,

costumed guides and working craftsmen who help visitors experience daily life in rural Northwest Ohio. New this year is a traveling exhibit of knitted presidents. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday except holidays. Adults $15, students (age 6-16) $8, members and age 5 and younger free. Children 16 and younger free on Sundays. 22611 St. Rt. 2, Archbold, (419) 446.2541 or www.saudervillage.org.

Toledo Museum Of Art

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday. 2445 Monroe St. (419) 255-8000 or www.toledomuseum.org ✯ Through July 14: “Crossing Cultures” (indigenous art from Australia). ✯ Through July 21: “Prints by Twenty-Five Australian Artists: The Bicentennial Folio” ✯ Through July 21: “Patterns on Paper” ✯ June 28-Aug. 9: “Witness to Hunger.”

Festivals Birmingham Ethnic Festival

Aug. 17-19. Consaul Street between Front and Woodford streets. Free. (724) 875-0963 or birminghamethnicfestival.wordpress.com

Crosby Festival Of The Arts

10 a.m.-7 p.m. June 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 30. Adults $8 or $7 in advance at The Anderson’s, members and children 12 and younger free. (419) 536-5566 or www.toledogarden. org/content/crosby.

First Fridays

6-9 p.m. first Fridays June-September, free. Louisiana and Front streets, Perrysburg. Downtown Perrysburg Inc., (419) 872-6246 or Facebook.com/DowntownPerrysburg.

German-American Festival

Aug. 23-25: 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Aug. 23, 2 p.m.-1 a.m. Aug. 24, and noon-11 p.m. Aug. 25. Oak Shade Grove, 3624 Seaman Road, Oregon. www.gafsociety.org/fest.htm, $7, children younger than 12 free.

Greek-American Festival

Sept. 6-8: Adults $5 (Sept. 6-7) or $2 (Sept. 8 family day), children 12 and younger free with parent. Summit and Cherry streets. (419) 243-9189 or www.toledo greekfest.com.

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Polish Festival

July 12-14: Adults $4, Sunday admission $2, children 8-younger free. Lagrange Street www.polishfestival.org.

Lucas County Fair

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Strawberry Festival

Tractor Pulls

June 12-16, Community Homecoming Park, 7807 Angola Road, Holland. www.hollandstrawberryfestival.org

Toledo Summer Fest

July 9-14: Lucas County Fairgrounds, 1406 Key St., Maumee. (419) 893-2127 or www. lucascountyfair.com

July 26-28: $7.50 for three-day pass or $6 per day. Oregon. www.toledosummerfestival.com.

Maumee’s 175th

Whitehouse Cherry Fest

Aug. 11-18: Maumee’s 175th anniversary celebration, including Taste of Maumee on Aug. 16-17, Lot Party (21 and older) on Aug. 16-17 and Maumee Summer Fair on Aug. 17.

Midwest Latinofest

June 8: noon-11:30 p.m. Promenade Park. www.midwestlatinofest2013.com

Old West End Festival

June 1-2. www.toledooldwestend.com

Rock The Block

June 13-15. Village Park in downtown Whitehouse, free. (419) 877-2747 or www. mywhitehousecherryfest.com.

SPORTS 50+ Sports Classic

June 8: St. Francis de Sales High School, 2323 W. Bancroft St. $20 by May 28, $30 after. (800) 472-7277 or www.areaofficeonaging.com.

Horse Racing

5-11 p.m. June 8, Maumee. $5, 21 and older, www.maumeeuptown.com.

6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays (through Sept. 15). Raceway Park, 5700 Telegraph Road, (419) 476-7751 or www.racewayparktoledo.com.

Rock The Docks

Marathon Classic:

7 p.m. to midnight June 15 (Skoobie Snaks) and Sept. 21 (Velvet Jones), 21 and older, $5,

July 15-21: LPGA golf tournament (formerly the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic), Heather Downs

The

Garden

is Alive!

Aug. 16-18: National Tractor Pulling Championship, Wood County Fairgrounds, 13800 W. Poe Road, Bowling Green, 1-888-FULPULL (3857855) or www.pulltown.com.

THEATER ✯ Through May 25: “Impossible Marriage,”

Village Players, 2740 Upton Ave., www. thevillageplayers.org. ✯ June 7: “BritBeat,” Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St., www.valentinetheatre.com. ✯ June 14-23: “Shrek: the Musical,” Croswell Opera House, 129 E. Maumee St., Adrian, www.croswell.org. ✯ July 12-21, “The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party,” Croswell Opera House. ✯ July 18-21: “Fiddler on the Roof,” (Young Rep), Toledo Repertoire Theatre, 16 10th St., www.toledorep.org.

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✯ Aug. 2-11: “42nd Street,” “The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party,” Croswell Opera House. ✯ Aug. 8-11: “Guys and Dolls, Jr.” (Young Rep), Toledo Repertoire Theatre. ✯ Aug. 14-31: “Wicked,” Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 381-8851 or www.stranahantheater.com. ✯ Sept. 20-29: “All Shook Up,” Croswell Opera House, Adrian. ✯

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