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MAY 22, 2011

Water on a stone

ometimes it seems as if economic development moves at a glacial pace. Major deals can take a long time to forge; that’s a fact of smart business. That process takes even longer in Northwest Ohio, where far too many layers of government slow forward motion (or in cases such as Toledo City Council vs. Dashing Pacific and the Marina District, stop that motion altogether). The Regional Growth Partnership (RGP), a leader in privately funded economic development, is entering a new era under recently appointed President Dean Monske. At two recent events we were given some insight into how the RGP is approaching the long-term task of bringing business to our region. At the May 17 Eggs and Economics program, former deputy mayor Monske and Toledo Mayor Mike Bell discussed their plans for marketing Northwest Ohio current trip to China. Thomas F. POUNDS andThtheir e day before, at its annual meeting, RGP officials had stressed past and future regional collaboration as one key facet of its work. “Most important is the spirit of cooperation among all the economic partners working together on growth and development for the region,” Dave Waterman, chairman of RGP’s board of directors, said at the meeting. “It’s not all about RGP. It’s a true celebration of real collaboration for economic development, where everyone is working together on the same page,” Monske said. “Northwest Ohio has been a leader in regionalism on local, state, federal and even global levels. The biggest change is that we’re going to be laser-focused on being more proactive in promoting our region on all those levels. The new direction of RGP will focus on attraction of business and jobs for Northwest Ohio.” Monske announced that RGP plans to open an office in Shenzhen, a business center located outside Hong Kong. As reported by Toledo Free Press Senior Business Writer Duane Ramsey, Shenzhen has grown from a population of 50,000 to more than 14 million in the past 20 years. That kind of rapid growth is antithetical to how things seem to move here, where progress is measured like drips of water wearing away at a stone. But if RGP and its collaborators can tap into the waterfalls of motion and investment occurring in other parts of the world, perhaps we can move from trickles to opening the floodgates. ✯ 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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“Scout,” said Atticus, “nigger-lover is just one of those nless I am hired to transcribe “The Collected Works of Lil’ Wayne,” there is no circumstance in which I terms that don’t mean anything — like snot-nose. It’s hard can conceive uttering or writing the racial slur that to explain — ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring Negroes over and above themselves. is represented by “the n-word.” I toss around curse words as casually as Lady Gaga shows It’s slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, her underwear, but the n-word is in a separate category of when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody.” “You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” epithets. Its intrinsic ugliness defines its taboo, and not even “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody ... I’m the bewilderingly popular “ga” ending changes that. Your choice to use the n-word opens you to some re- hard put, sometimes — baby, it’s never an insult to be called flexive judgments, but you do have the choice to use it. what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how Depending on the context, you push the boundaries from poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” It stuns and scares me that someone could read that free speech to hate speech, but that’s for you to live with. passage and want to ban or censor “To Kill And while there’s no context for the word a Mockingbird” based on claims of racism. that I find defensible, there are contexts It is important to address the sensitivithat I will defend. ties of modern audiences, but that has to be The Zane Trace Players, a theater group balanced with the historical and educational at Morgan High School in McConnelsville, opportunities on a case-by-case basis. Ohio, planned to perform the stage version What of a brilliant song like Randy Newof Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” man’s “Rednecks,” a scathing, acidic attack on which was adapted by Christopher Sergel. racism that is sung from the point of view of The play was canceled recently by the the racist? A censor would have to keep his school’s superintendent. hand on the button and work hard to keep According to reporter Kathy Thompson, “Lori Snyder-Lowe, superintendent for Michael S. MILLER up with Newman in the song, which employs Morgan Local School District, said she received calls from par- the n-word close to 10 times. ents concerned about the play because it contains a racial slur.” “We got no-necked oilmen from Texas Snyder-Lowe reportedly offered to allow the play to be And good ol’ boys from Tennessee And college men from LSU performed if the n-word were removed. Bruce Revennaugh of the Zane Trace Players said he Went in dumb. Come out dumb too contacted the play’s publisher to seek permission to change Hustlin’ ‘round Atlanta in their alligator shoes the script, but was told no. As Thompson reported, “The Gettin’ drunk every weekend at the barbecues company receives requests every once in a while to remove And they’re keepin’ the niggers down. the word, said Sergel, but making someone uncomfortable Down here we’re too ignorant to realize is not a sufficient reason to change a vital piece of American That the North has set the nigger free literature. ‘Being uncomfortable with history is not means Yes he’s free to be put in a cage to change it,’ Sergel said. ‘We’ve always denied these re- In Harlem in New York City And he’s free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago quests. People need to figure out how to confront issues’.” All praise to Sergel for passing on the paycheck to And the West-Side maintain the integrity of Lee’s message. This puts him in And he’s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland opposition to people who would publish altered versions of And he’s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” or trample on other And he’s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco And he’s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston … ” works of art based on their own sensibilities. There’s a novel’s worth of criticism, conversation and “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the most affecting, enlightening and human books in American literature. The education in Newman’s song (and those are just half the book thrums with an energy of purpose and compassion that lyrics); to me, it’s worth the shock of hearing the word for can make the spirit soar with joy on one page and kick it to the devastating indictment of racism the song delivers. “You never really understand a person until you conthe depths of despair on the next. No American education is complete without experiencing the tale of young Scout Finch’s sider things from his point of view — until you climb into encounter with Alabama racism during the Great Depression. his skin and walk around in it,” Atticus tells Scout. That holds true no matter what color that skin is, or As Scout’s father Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, Lee explores the what vile name you call the person who wears it. ✯ hot-button themes largely through 6-year-old Scout’s eyes. One of the book’s most resonant passages comes when Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. Scout asks her father about a slur she is hearing at school: Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

Increasingly, Toledoans don’t own Toledo

enator Edna Brown and Rep. first year America imported more Michael Ashford were the hosts food than it exported. She said as a young child, “I of a May 14 town hall sponsored by the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus began to understand how small business people were at the Warren A.M.E. not on the same turf, Church in Toledo. on the same playing The main reason field, as very big comfor the town hall was panies. “The food to generate support for that we buy in the rethe repeal of Senate tail stores, we don’t Bill 5 and to increase know where it comes awareness of the voter from. Where we live identification bill that is our community has before the General Assembly. Congresswoman Lisa Renee WARD been disconnected, the country from the town, Marcy Kaptur attended to show her support for the area the country is the lifeblood of the adjoining villages and city, it’s there Democratic assembly members. “The power of ordinary people where the food comes from.” For Kaptur, it is about recapturing is being tested,” Kaptur said. “When you look at what has happened, big local markets — which grows more difficult each year as less acreage in money is in our face all the time.” Restoring power to ordinary Lucas County is farmland. In 2002, a people has been Kaptur’s focus for little more than 77,800 acres of Lucas decades. It’s not been just directed County was devoted to farmland, in at huge corporations, banks or Wall 2007 it decreased to 62,906 acres. Street; Kaptur advocates for grass- About 60 percent of the farmland in roots movements, continuing to Lucas County is owned by those who challenge members of her own party farm less than 50 acres. It’s not just about the nutritional to avoid the lure of “big money.” She still raises money through aspect or knowing where food is bake sales, something that John grown. It’s about recapturing local Nichols reported on for “In These dollars. What’s grown here, sold here Times” in 2002: “Behind the scenes and bought here, keeps more money and off the record, House Democrats local. Instead of profits going to corand their aides were quick to confide porations not located in the Toledo the generally held view that Kaptur area, the money stays here. “Think about who makes the was crazy to suggest that the Democratic Party might want to hold a few money,” Kaptur said May 14. “Six less $5,000-a-head fundraisers and a banks control two-thirds of banking few more bake sales and fish fries. capital in our country. Find a way to ‘Bake sales!’ exclaimed an exasper- talk to a credit union, a locally owned ated committee chair. ‘What the hell bank. Bring your money home. “We in Toledo have the ability planet is Marcy Kaptur living on?’” The question could have been to have a public utility. Imagine if and could still be in response — what we could produce power at a local the hell planet do committee chairs level,” Kaptur said. “Imagine if the live on? — but that’s a question for solar fields at Scott Park could power another day. While it’s common for up the campus, businesses and adelected officials to forget where they joining neighborhood.” Not having control over the ficame from, Kaptur has not done that. Her memories of her father’s store and nancial aspect of food, housing and the changes in access to locally grown energy makes us weaker said Kaptur. Keeping local dollars local is a food motivate her to this day. “Ninety-eight percent of what topic that should transcend politics. It makes sense. we eat is not from Ohio,” Kaptur If encouraging people to make said. It’s a topic she’s discussed many times, with her goal being to politics about dreams, ideals and to increase local residents access to make it accessible rather than about locally grown food, especially for money is crazy? I wish there were seniors and those who rely on food more crazy people. ✯ assistance programs. In March, Kaptur told the Toledo Free Press Web Editor Lisa Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Renee Ward operates the political blog Policy Coalition that this was the GlassCityJungle.com.

MAY 22, 2011

GUEST COLUMN

Whose side is Gov. Kasich on?

hio Gov. John Kasich is attacking hard-working Ohioans and the middle class of Ohio. The state budget he proposed, and the version approved by majority Republicans both in my committee, House Finance & Appropriations, and on the House floor is balanced on the backs of our citizens. The budget being considered now calls for spending $5.5 billion more than the last biennial budget. That’s a huge spending increase, yet the governor wants Michael significant cuts to public universities, K-12 education, social services, mental health, libraries and seniors. Also, local government funds are slashed which will affect vital services such as police and fire protection, snow removal and road improvements. Gov. Kasich’s budget attacks the one advocacy group that is in place to protect Ohio’s citizens from high utility bills. In 1975, Ohio Consumers Council (OCC) was established as a legal advocate to protect more than 4.5 million homeowners in Ohio against high utility bills (gas, electric, water and communications). Last year alone, the OCC challenged and won approximately 300 cases of illegal rate

increases in Ohio. In the last budget, the OCC annual budget was approximately $8 million to fight on behalf of homeowners in Ohio. The proposed OCC 2012-2013 budget is $4 million. That’s right, a 50 percent reduction and the reduction/ savings goes back to the utility companies, not the consumers. The Governor’s office took a tiny 1.9 percent reduction while all state agencies will receive an average reduction of 40 percent in their budgets. During the budget ASHFORD talks, the buzzword was “privatization.” The state will sell off five state prisons for $200 million which are appraised at $1 billion not counting the inventory of the prisons. Several local agencies are taking a cut in this budget. Listed below are several agencies that will receive significant decreases in state funding: ✯ Mental health: 40 percent reduction ✯ Area Office on Aging: provides critical programs for the elderly. Faces a 39 percent reduction ✯ PASSPORT Program, which meets the needs of the most vulnerable seniors, faces a 50 percent reduction ✯ Public libraries: just in Lucas County, there is a possible loss of $1 million

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This 2012-13 budget was balanced on the backs of the state’s most vulnerable and the middle class.”

✯ TARTA, which provides public transportation, faces a 39 percent reduction ✯ Toledo Public Schools faces a reduction of $6 billion to $8 billion ✯ City of Toledo faces up to an $8 million dollar reduction ✯ Food Banks face a 14 percent reduction (while need continues to grow) This 2012-13 budget was balanced on the backs of the state’s most vulnerable and the middle class: teachers, bus-drivers, police, fire, garbage workers, highway patrol, prison guards, teacher’s aides, hospital workers, county workers, city workers, child care counselors and college instructors. It’s time to ask yourself: Whose side is this governor on? ✯ Michael Ashford (D) is State Representative for Ohio House District 48. Call his office at Phone: (614) 466-1401 or email him at district48@ohr.state.oh.us.

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CRIME

By George J. Tanber SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS

Thinking back, John VanBuskirk remembers little about the day he should have died. Except when he’s asked to recount the moment he decided to step in front of a shotgun-wielding robber aiming his weapon at VanBuskirk’s 20-year-old daughter. Then, his memory is clear as glass.

‘This weird feeling’ Samantha “Sam” VanBuskirk had had enough. She’d been living with her boyfriend, Christopher Green, and their 4-month-old daughter, Leah, in a house on Lodge Street in South Toledo. On April 7, 2010, during an argument, Green grabbed Sam around the neck and choked her. Bruises on her neck and chest viewed by Toledo police confirmed the altercation. That night, a Wednesday, Sam decided to leave Green. The following morning, her decision became clearer when Green poured water on her as she lay in bed with their daughter. When Green left, Sam called her family and asked them to help her move. Her mother, John’s ex-wife Penny VanBuskirk, and sisters, Andrea and Amanda VanBuskirk, arrived late that morning. Green returned while the women were packing and, upset with what he saw happening, began yelling obscenities at Sam before leaving. Meanwhile, earlier that morning, Coryana McGhee and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Alonzo Anderson, turned up to see Sam on two occasions. McGhee, 18, a former classmate of Sam’s and a friend of Sam’s next-door neighbor, had visited the night before and called Sam that morning, asking if she could help with the move. It was during the Wednesday night visit that Green showed McGhee a stash of marijuana he kept in a vacuum cleaner. When McGhee and Anderson ar-

rived unexpectedly the next given to him by McGhee morning under the pretense and Anderson. While she of helping her move, McGhee drove, McGhee said she had asked Sam during the second been at the house the previsit if she would sell her the vious night and had seen marijuana. Sam told McGhee the marijuana stashed in the no: The pot was not her busivacuum cleaner. ness and all she wanted to do McGhee drove into an was pack and leave. McGhee alley behind the house. As McGHEE told Sam she was Cardell left the car, stupid and left McGhee and Anwith Anderson. derson told him Soon after, they would park Green’s brother, in another alley Ramone Preston, one block away. arrived. Green It was just had asked him to after 2 p.m. when collect the mariCardell walked juana. By then, through the front ANDERSON CARDELL Sam’s brother, door and into Zach, had arthe living room. rived. As Preston left the house, car- Instead of finding two women, he rying the vacuum cleaner holding the was stunned to see seven members pot, he turned and said, “I hope you of the VanBuskirk family scattered guys are safe.” about the first floor, including Leah, That got Zach’s attention. sitting in a baby swing. Another was He headed to his truck where he kept 46-year-old John VanBuskirk, who a 12-gauge shotgun recently bought had arrived minutes earlier. for him by his father for hunting. He Cardell pointed the shotgun at the loaded the gun with three shells. VanBuskirks and shouted, “Where’s “I just had this weird feeling,” the weed?” As Cardell moved forward, Zach said. Penny screamed. Zach, who was near the back of the house, quickly moved The lick his mother, Amanda and Andrea to a After McGhee and Anderson left rear hall and out of sight. That left Sam Sam’s house the second time, they went and John with Cardell. Cardell walked up to Sam, stopping to Weiler Homes in Central Toledo. There, around 11 a.m., Anderson met two feet away. The gun was in her face. “I just stood there for a second,” she a friend, Anthony Cardell. Anderson asked Cardell if he wanted to hit a said. “I thought, ‘Is this really happening lick — a street term for robbery — at right now?’ I looked over and saw my a house in South Toledo, where there mom, my sisters and my brother run. I was a stash of marijuana and likely glanced at Leah in her swing.” John was behind Sam, on his cash. Only two women were there so it would be an easy score, Anderson told knees. He had been picking up trash Cardell. He said he couldn’t do it be- when he first saw Cardell. Initially, he didn’t see the gun and assumed he was cause he would be recognized. Sam’s friend. Cardell agreed. “Then, I heard, ‘Daddy, he’s got a gun. With McGhee driving a white Lincoln, the threesome headed to the I’ll never forget the sound of her voice.” John, inching closer to Sam, calmly Lodge Street address. Cardell was sitting in the backseat with a shotgun tried to get Cardell to lower the gun,

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but he did not budge. “I could see his trigger finger,” John said. “I knew he was going to shoot.” At that moment, John knew what he was going to do. “I just got this warm feeling,” he said. “I’ve never been so calm and relaxed in my life. I knew I was going to

die. I knew that before I stood up.” John leaped toward Sam. He grabbed her sweatshirt hood with his right hand, pulled her down toward him and raised his left hand, which held his cell phone, in front of his face, just as Cardell pulled the trigger. ■ SHOOTING CONTINUES ON A7

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■ SHOOTING CONTINUED FROM A6 “I remember the shot,” John said. “I remember what it felt like. It was massive.”

Choking on his own blood Zach had his hand on the backdoor knob when Cardell fired. He wanted to retrieve his shotgun. He kept going. Sam, in shock, ran into the bathroom. Her sisters and mother were in the attic. Somehow, Leah remained asleep in the swing, Sam recalled. Cardell ran out the front door and headed south on Lodge. The white Lincoln was not in the alley; when McGhee and Anderson heard the gunshot, they fled. Zach grabbed his shotgun and took off after Cardell. He fired three shots, missing each time. The police arrived. Zach sent them in Cardell’s direction. By then, neighbors were in the street. One carried a handgun. Cardell scared him off with the shotgun, which he soon discarded. He eluded police for about 30 minutes before being captured without incident. Back at the house, Zach tended to his father. Amazingly, John remained on his feet. Blindly, he had been picking up what he thought were pieces of his skull but were, in fact, teeth and denture fragments. He put them in his pocket.

“I couldn’t believe he was standing up,” Zach said. “His whole face was just blood. I thought he was fatally shot.” John asked Zach to take him to the bathroom. “I wanted to look in the mirror and see how much of my head was gone,” he said. Zach then took John to the bedroom, where he lay on a bed. John remembers choking on his blood. Figuring he was dying, John said to himself just before passing out: “The hell with it. Let’s just go with it.”

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Hot on their trail Cardell was charged with aggravated burglary and felonious assault with a firearms specification. At the time of his arrest, he did not implicate McGhee or Anderson. After initially thinking her boyfriend, Christopher Green, set up the shooting with her as the intended target, Sam turned her attention to McGhee. She did not know her well and, recalling the odd phone call and visits that morning along with her interest in the pot, it was clear to Sam she was somehow involved. Toledo Police Detective Kermit Quinn had a similar feeling. He interviewed McGhee and Anderson on April 13, 2010. They admitted knowing Cardell and giving him a ride to the Lodge Street neighborhood the

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THIS X-RAY, TAKEN BY JOHN VANBUSKIRK’S ORAL SURGEON, DR. PAUL KOZY, SHOWS SEVERAL DOZEN OF THE MORE THAN 200 BUCKSHOT PELLETS STILL LODGED IN HIS FACE, NECK AND LEFT HAND.

day of the shooting. But, they said, they did not know his intention. Quinn did not believe them. McGhee and Anderson went into hiding, but they were still seen around Toledo. “They were well aware we were hot on their trail,” Quinn said. “They just evaded us for a while.” Meanwhile, first Jeff Lingo and, later, Lindsay Navarre of the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, worked on the case against Cardell. Nearly a

year went by, and Cardell declined to finger McGhee and Anderson. Finally, on Feb. 27, the day before his trial was set to begin, Cardell agreed to a deal with prosecutors. He would give up McGhee and Anderson in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Centimeters from death The day John VanBuskirk was shot, his physician, Dr. George Blossom, saw the report on the evening news. He had delivered John

46 years earlier, when he first began practicing medicine. “I thought he was a goner,” Blossom said. In fact, John’s injury appeared worse than it was. As he lay in the emergency room at the University of Toledo Medical Center, the most critical early issue was whether any of the several hundred pellets that struck John in the face and neck had penetrated his brain. ■ SHOOTING CONTINUES ON A8

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from two sources. Although his hand has improved, he has yet to regain full movement. As a result, he worries that his working days are over — he has 27-and-half years at Chrysler, only two-and-a-half years short of earning his pension. Blossom, amazed by John’s recovery, concedes John might not be able to return to work unless they give him a desk job rather than the more strenuous utility work he performs. Physically, Blossom said, John is fine. “I don’t think anything that is going on right now is going to shorten his life span,” he said. The larger issue is how John deals with what has happened and the nagging pellets that will remain. “In fact,” Blossom said, “it’s sad that he’s going to be dealing with this for another 30 or 40 years.” For his part, John is happy to still be around. And he’s thankful for the doctors who have, literally, put him back together. On the occasion that he thinks about the day he was shot, he finds it hard to believe he survived. “How my head is still attached, I don’t know,” he said.

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Donna Hill received a shock April 28 when she opened her mail to find a first notice letter for an unpaid parking ticket. The surprise? The ticket was issued nearly nine years ago, on June 26, 2002. “When I first got it, I thought ‘This is a joke. Are they really trying to collect on a nine-year-old parking ticket?’” said Hill, a 25-year resident of Sylvania. “My immediate reaction was that these guys don’t know the difference between chicken salad and chicken s---,” husband John Hill said. “This is bad policy and bad politics. “I’ll give you a hundred bucks for

your Police Athletic League Association but don’t nickel and dime me for crap that’s 10 years old on a car we don’t even remember. That was three cars ago and five license plates. It all boils down to an aggressive attitude for a little amount of money from people who don’t understand the community.” Donna Hill wasn’t the only one. Just one street over from her house, 34-year Sylvania resident Mike DelVerne also received a first notice letter for a ticket that was issued in 2002. Both tickets were for $20, which included a $5 late fee. “It just shows up in the mail for some ticket in 2002 on a car that I owned,” DelVerne said. “I don’t ever remember getting a ticket I didn’t pay. I don’t even remember parking on the meters anywhere in Sylvania.”

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Hill and DelVerne have taken exception to the nine-year-old tickets because neither have records that go back far enough to disprove them, or prove that they already paid them nine years prior. The notice also required that the ticket be paid within a 30-day window or else a summons would be issued for a court appearance. “How dare these people expect me to pay this ticket within 30 days or I am going to be issued a summons while they have nine years to send me the ticket that I supposedly never paid,” Hill said. “They never followed up with me nine years ago — $20 nine years after the fact? That’s just wrong.” “It’s like getting a bill from a hospital from 1995 that you don’t remember being at and they are demanding payment,” DelVerne said. “The city must be hard up for cash. I don’t know how you could dispute a ticket from 2002? It’s like, ‘Give me 20 bucks’.” Both parties received letters from Sylvania Chief of Police William H. Rhodus, who issued the notices. Rhodus did not return multiple messages left with his secretary. In a letter to Hill, Rhodus blamed the previous police administration for the nineyear lag in response time. “I do agree with you that this letter should have been sent to you a long time ago, but I can not speak as to why the previous police administration did not do so,” Rhodus wrote. “The non-issuance of these letters is the fault of the police department and has been corrected.” Hill and DelVerne may not be alone with their dated notices. In Rhodus’ letter to Hill, he alludes to “many hundreds” of recently discovered unpaid parking violations. “Since I have been chief over the

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last year, I have discovered that we have many hundreds of parking violations tickets that have not been paid,” Rhodus wrote. “I am obligated as your Chief of Police to enforce the laws of he City of Sylvania and the State of Ohio. This I do as one of my responsibilities as your Chief of Police, and seek a resolution to these unpaid parking ticket violations. To ignore this further or do anything less would be negligent and irresponsible on my part as your chief. I’m sure that you as a law-abiding citizen would agree and expect no less.” Although both Hill and DelVerne received responses from Rhodus in the form of letters, neither one was satisfied with the chief of police. “I got his response to my letter; it almost sounded like to me he wanted me to thank him for sending me this nine-year-old parking ticket that was his obligation to follow up on and that I should expect no less,” Hill said. “Immediately I wrote [a letter] and a couple days later I get a letter back basically saying ‘Screw you, our database says you owe it,’” DelVerne said. Both parties have since paid the $20 ticket but maintain their distaste in how the situation was handled. With such a long period of time transpiring, each feel they had no opportunity to disprove the situation and that Rhodus should have backed off the issued tickets. “If it would have been a year or a couple of years I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about it,” Hill said. “It is wrong. Justice delayed is justice denied. It’s wrong for them to collect.” “We paid it and have a bad taste in our mouths,” DelVerne said. “Hopefully this guy doesn’t come after us for any tax money because we are certainly not going to help him anymore.” ✯

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In 1900, the “Blue House” was a brand-new home in the neighborhood that is now the Vistula Historic District. Today, it faces demolition. The property is owned by Aurora House, a nonprofit organization — located right next to the Blue House — founded in 1985 to provide housing, resources and learning opportunities to homeless women and children, according to its website. Richard Martinez, chairman of the Historic Vistula Foundation, appreciates Aurora’s mission. “It’s a worthwhile organization,” he said. But he doesn’t appreciate what he perceives as Aurora’s lack of care for the 111-year-old property. According to the city code, he said, Aurora has the responsibility to maintain the house. Martinez said Aurora initially indicated it planned on restoring the house as a charitable residence. “But, unfortunately, that didn’t happen,” he said. In March, Aurora came to the commission overseeing the Vistula district with a request to tear down the Blue House. Judy Cattran, the Vistula representative on the City Historic District Commission, said she believes Aurora deliberately let the house decay with the intention of eventually pulling it down. “To me the big issue here is demolition by neglect,” she said. “They bought the building and they have done nothing to preserve it.” But Aurora does own the property, which Martinez said made the decision very difficult, given that the committee’s chief responsibility is to preserve historic buildings. ■ BLUE HOUSE CONTINUES ON A12

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New commission to improve Civic Center Mall this,” he said. Robert Roether of Remembrance Inc., a nonprofit veterans organization, announced the group was donating the first $1,000 to the restoration of the All Wars Memorial. “The Civic Center Mall represents us all,” said U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur. It represents to the world, she added, “who we were, who we are, and who we will be.” The commission members would be appointed from the following groups: ✯ 2 members nominated from veteran groups ✯ 1 member nominated by the Toledo Design Center ✯ 1 member from Lucas County Commissioners ✯ 1 member nominated by the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo ✯ 1 member nominated by the General Services Administration ✯ 1 member nominated by the Lucas County Court of Common Appeals ✯ 1 landscape architect, architect or planner ✯ 1 member from a civic or nonprofit group ✯ 1 educator ✯

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The Lucas County Commissioners are seeking to create a joint commission with Toledo City Council to maintain and improve the Civic Center Mall. City Councilman Adam Martinez received council approval May 17 for the commission, which will consist of no more than 10 volunteer members “charged with providing insight and recommendations” to county commissioners, the City Council and Mayor Mike Bell, according to the ordinance. Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak said upkeep and improvements to the mall — the small park with war memorials behind the courthouse — have lagged in recent years, and the formation of this Toledo/Lucas County Civic Center Mall Oversight Commission would “ensure that we make progress.” “We want it to be a place where everyone gathers,” she added. Bell said he appreciated that the project was starting to move. “There has been so much talk on

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Growing your own food can be part of your familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emergency plan and tips on how to get started is the topic of this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ready U session. The hourlong event, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victory in the Garden,â&#x20AC;? is set for 7 p.m. May 23 at the Toledo Botanical STONE Garden conference center, 5403 Elmer Drive. Horticulture Manager Josh Miller will talk about Toledo Botanical Garden and its community outreach arm, Toledo GROWs, before turning the floor over to two Ohio State University Extension employees. Extension Educator Amy Stone and Patrice Powers-Barker, program assistant with the Family Nutrition Program, will co-present a program called â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Plant to Plate.â&#x20AC;? The discussion will cover the

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Toledo Newspaper Guild Administrative Officer Lillian Covarrubias confirmed May 18 that The Blade employee unions voted by a 2-to-1 margin on May 16 to authorize a strike. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Members should take no comfort if their job is spared,â&#x20AC;? Covarrubias wrote in a letter to guild members this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without other Unions here to support us, who can predict what will happen next?â&#x20AC;? On May 17, Covarrubias, guild members and others attended a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rally/paradeâ&#x20AC;? to protest proposed employee outsourcing by marching around The Blade and described it as going â&#x20AC;&#x153;really well.â&#x20AC;? Covarrubias confirmed last week that The Blade intends to post a WARN Act notice, which could result in the outsourcing of the production of the paper. As of May 18, there has yet to be a WARN Act posted, which gives employees a 60-day notice of either closings or â&#x20AC;&#x153;mass layoffs.â&#x20AC;? In a press release, Covarrubias said that after the unions offered more than $7 million in concessions, The Blade

threatened to cut more than 190 employees by outsourcing unless the workers gave up $2 million more. She said that the unionized workers absorbed $11 million in cutbacks in 2007, which after these newest cutbacks would reduce wages in some cases by 40 percent since 2007. The press release, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blade Outsourcing Plan Shames Blocks,â&#x20AC;? claims the Block family, which owns The Blade, is committing actions that â&#x20AC;&#x153;are a betrayal of the trust of the community.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a paper that has decried the flow of jobs out of the City and encouraged the concept of Buy Local,â&#x20AC;? Covarrubias wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Blade simply does not practice what it preaches.â&#x20AC;? Blade President and General Manager Joseph Zerbeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office said it â&#x20AC;&#x153;would not talk about labor negotiations at this stageâ&#x20AC;? on May 18. The office directed calls to Steve Spolar, vice president of human resources at Block Newspapers in Pittsburgh, where a message for comment was left. Covarrubias also asserted that the lockout of about 200 workers for nearly nine months in 2006 â&#x20AC;&#x153;caused irreparable damage to The Bladeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reader and advertiser baseâ&#x20AC;? and plans of outsourcing â&#x20AC;&#x153;will only further alienate readers and advertisers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x153;Ż

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Tornado committee seeks donations for tribute Editor’s note: Toledo Free Press will follow the Blank family of Millbury for one year as they rebuild their lives after a June 5 tornado destroyed their Main Street home. By Brandi Barhite

which is hosting an event themed “Triumph over Tragedy” on June 4. The event will be part celebration of life, part memorial. The 4 p.m. block party with food, alcohol BLANK and music will take place on Main Street in Millbury, just south of Ayers Road to Cherry Street, the neighborhood that bore the brunt of the tornado. At midnight — the oneyear anniversary of the tornado — several pastors will lead a moment of silence for the seven people who died from injuries sustained in the storm. “We aren’t celebrating the tornado,” said Millbury Mayor Michael Timmons. “I think it is a good idea to celebrate all the people coming together. People know their neighbors three or four doors down when they might not have before.” Timmons is on the tornado anniversary committee, which is being led in part by Ed and Julie Blank. The Blanks lost their Main Street home the night of the tornado, as did several other neigh-

bors. Three of the four members of the Walters family lost their lives and a 5K run/walk will be hosted in their honor on the morning of the block party. FAMILY: However, the evening event cannot take place without the help of others. The committee is searching for a primary sponsor or several sponsors, as well as bands to perform throughout the evening. The committee also needs food vendors, in addition to those who want to set up arts and crafts booths within the block. Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer said he appreciates the committee’s desire to give back. Part of the profit from that day’s sale of food and alcohol will be given to the fire and police departments to cover costs that went beyond what the insurance paid. “The community is on the heal,” he said. “It is going to be a new normal. In the past year, a lot of accomplishments have been made and we have done that as a community. I think it is more than appropriate to come together in a

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Lake Township police officer Joe Musil wishes he could forget the devastation he heard and saw after the June 5 tornado: Gerald Lathrop saying fiancée Bailey Bowman had been killed, freeing the injured Beverly Hicks from her basement and finding out family friend Ted Kranz had died. But the Millbury resident knows how important it is to remember. “I knew quite a few of the people who were lost. We never want to forget. We want to remember how it brought our community closer together,” Musil said. “We never thought we would see levels of devastation like this. We saw the best part of people come together.” For this reason Musil is part of the tornado anniversary committee,

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more positive manner.” Hummer said the administration building, which was destroyed by the tornado, will be open by June 5 — another reason to celebrate. Musil rushed to the administration building the night of the tornado. He was working off-duty at a wedding when he heard the screams for help from Lake Township dispatchers. When he got there, Lathrop told him what had happened. Lathrop and Bowman were running toward the building for safety when the tornado hit and Bowman was killed. Musil’s daughter was friends with Bowman. “We really have remained together and strong in the past year,” Hummer said. “Not forgetting those folks who can never be replaced is important.” ✯

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Three staff and faculty unions at the University of Toledo protested job cuts at UT with a press conference May 17. Mark Sherry, assistant professor of sociology and AFL-CIO delegate, led the press conference along with representatives from the UT-AAUP, AFSCME Local 2415 and CWA Local 4319. “We are making this statement because we love our students and we care about our university,” Sherry said. “We will not allow this administration to destroy it. We are sick and tired of hearing of management bonuses accompanying employee layoffs. We are sick of feeling scared about job security while management remains unaccountable for lavish expenses. The only reason tuition is going up and layoffs are occurring is because we have an inept and incompetent administration.” UT President Lloyd Jacobs announced in April plans to lay off dozens of nonfaculty employees and raise tuition as the university faces JACOBS cuts of approximately $20 million per year in state funding. One of the employees being laid off spoke out at the protest. Former administrative secretary Carolyn Schlievert ended her career May 20 after 27 years at UT. “I would have been proud to put in 30 or more years of service and end my career with thoughtful reflections of the past while anticipating a comfortable retirement,” Schlievert said. “However, with a daughter still in high school and bills to pay, these comforting thoughts have been replaced with stress and anxiety. One thing is for sure, there is not time for me to dedicate 30 years of service elsewhere.” Schlievert said she is looking toward the future and supports fellow laid-off

employees in the same situation. “Those of us losing our jobs are not numbers on a piece of paper,” Schlievert said. “We are real people, dedicated men and women with real-life issues who are trying to pick up the pieces and move on to the next phase of our lives with as much dignity as possible.”

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Unions protest UT job cuts, question expenses Bonuses questioned The loss of employees like Schlievert caused Sherry and the unions to question bonuses received by management as well as expenditures of the university. “Management continues to give themselves record bonuses,” Sherry said. “$350,000 [in bonuses] were ratified by the UT board in February alone while lower-paid workers who struggle to support themselves and their families are being shown the door with little regard for their skills, experience and dedication. As a result, morale is at an all-time low.” The UT-AAUP raised questions about charges to a UT credit card by administrators. This includes $61,164 on two apartments in Ypsilanti, Mich., $539.09 at Jos. A. Bank of Toledo and movie tickets, among other charges. UT media relations manager Jonathan Strunk provided explanations for a few of the charges. The two apartments are for UT medical students in their third and fourth years doing clerkships. One specialty is not offered in Toledo, so the university provides apartments while they spend a month at the University of Michigan. The $539.09 was to purchase bowties for the “Tie One On” charity event to raise money for cancer research. “Those are some examples of how the shadiness is not really all that shady when you learn what the actual things are,” Strunk said. Sherry still wants more answers from the university. “This is public money, and the Jacobs administration must be held accountable,” he said. “We have called for an independent audit of the books at the University of Toledo because we feel that the current administration is neither transparent nor accountable.” According to Sherry, a lack of

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accountability is one reason approximately 400 faculty, staff and students unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in Jacobs at a rally March 21. CWA 4319 president Bob Hall agreed the administration is not being transparent. “There’s a black cloud of secrecy over this whole administration,” Hall said. “They are working within that cloud for their own benefit. This is a public university, and the whole public should know what’s going on. When we as a union put in a public records request, we’re not getting those requests timely. They are being evasive. Some of the things we are requesting are critical to the operation and expenditures of money on this campus.”

SB 5 support criticized Hall said the union also condemns Jacobs’ public support of Senate Bill 5. “I think it was totally inappropriate and totally uncalled for,” he said. “It sent a message to his employees that ‘I don’t care for you, and I’m going to replace you.’ In his testimony, he said something like the inadequacies of his union workers were costing him millions. What does that tell you if you are a dedicated worker? It’s the wrong message.” “We also condemn Dr. Jacobs’

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public endorsement of Senate Bill 5,” Sherry said. “All three unions have worked tirelessly to get a referendum on this issue in November. Over 2,000 people at the university have signed petitions for this to occur, another indication of the widening gap between an out-of-touch administration and its workers.”

AFSCME support AFSCME President Thomas J. Kosek Jr. expressed support for the unions and laid-off employees such as Schlievert. “AFSCME 2415 remains steadfast in its commitment to support our partners in this struggle, to ensure shared sacrifice by all members of the UT family,” Kosek said. “At a time when UT is expected to increase tuition, cut staff, increase workloads and ask others to take wage freezes and furlough days, shouldn’t the administration lead by example? The people of Northwest Ohio deserve better.” Administrators declined to comment on the protest, bonuses or expenditures, but UT Vice President for External Affairs Lawrence J. Burns issued a statement. “The economic collapse of the last few years has been deeply chal-

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lenging to organizations and industries across the nation, and higher education is no exception,” Burns said. “In Pennsylvania, legislators have proposed cutting public higher education subsidies by more than 50 percent. In California, tuition rates have climbed more than 30 percent. From Minnesota to Texas, from coast to coast, and in Ohio, public universities are being called on to do more with less.” Burns said the university is doing its best with the resources available. “At The University of Toledo, we have worked hard to strengthen the academic experience, our commitment to research and service and our delivery of health care despite these challenges,” Burns said. “We have, wherever possible, eliminated positions through attrition. We have avoided laying off professors and instructors since the recession began, and we have moved millions of dollars from backroom functions to the interface between the student and the teacher.” Sherry takes everything said by the administration with a grain of salt. “Don’t let these people fool you,” he said. “The problems at UT are not caused by faculty or staff. They are caused by an incompetent administration.” ✯

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Officials from the Regional Growth Partnership cited continued regional collaboration among the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplishments and goals for 2011 at its annual meeting May 16 at UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dana Conference Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most important is the spirit of cooperation among all the economic partners working together on growth and development for the region,â&#x20AC;? Dave Waterman, chairman of RGPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors, said at the meeting. RGPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role is the facilitator for collaboration among the economic partners of the region that includes cities, counties, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce, Northwest Ohio Regional Economic Development Association known as NORED, other organizations and educational institutions. Waterman cited the hiring of Dean Monske as its new president and CEO as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the overwhelming choice from a pool of highly qualified candidates and a passionate advocate for Northwest Ohio.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all about RGP. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a true celebration of real collaboration for economic development where everyone is working together on the same page,â&#x20AC;? Monske said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;North-

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CAR CARE

By Duane Ramsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

As spring arrives, drivers should be aware of car care and maintenance factors that apply after winter weather departs for another year. “Preventive maintenance is always the best way to avoid having your vehicle break down on the road and avoiding costly repair bills,” said Eric Johnson, director of automotive services for AAA of Northwest Ohio. There are a number of things drivers often forget to check or overlook when maintaining their vehicles as spring arrives, according to AAA. One is the buildup of salt on the undercarriage of vehicles during winter months, which can cause corrosion. Johnson said most car washes include cleaning the undercarriage of vehicles. Johnson also recommends drivers keep their gas tanks filled above the one-quarter level to keep the fuel pump submerged in gasoline, which acts as a coolant. He said it costs an average of $650 to replace a fuel pump on vehicles. Air filters are another part to watch out for, said Tom Zander, a master auto technician at the AAA Car Care Plus on West Central Avenue in Toledo. “Cabin air filters are very often overlooked because the majority of people don’t know they’re there. It helps to keep bugs and pollen from getting inside the vehicle,” Zander said.

AAA recommends motorists conduct a thorough check under the hood and around the exterior of their vehicles to ensure safe driving. It’s critical to check the tires after weather changes because tire pressure can fluctuate about 1 pound per square inch for every 10-degree Fahrenheit change in temperature. Tires should be rotated every 5,000 to 10,000 miles to reduce wear and extend the life of the tires. Windshield wipers take a beating during the winter, so clear away any debris and make sure the blades are making full contact with the windshield and have not dried out. Winter weather can take a toll on belts and hoses so visually inspect them or have a service technician check them. Replace any glazed, frayed or bulging hoses. Check the coolant level to avoid overheating in hot weather. The coolant level in the reservoir should be maintained at or above the “cold” level with a 50-50 mixture of coolant and water. Check all fluids under the hood. Most auto service shops check the fluids when they change the oil and filter, which should be done every 3,000 to 5,000 miles in any weather. Make sure the battery posts and connections are clean of corrosion or dirt. Check or have the spark plugs checked by a qualified technician to make sure they are firing properly. ■ CAR CARE CONTINUES ON A23

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By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

John Michael Montgomery, Tonic and Green River Ordinance will headline the fourth annual Smoke on the Water â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ribs for the Red Cross event set for Aug. 5-7 in Downtown Toledo. Proceeds from the weekend event in Promenade Park in Downtown Toledo will benefit the Greater Toledo Chapter of the American Red Cross. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event drew 30,000 people and raised more than $65,000, said Red Cross Special Events Coordinator Stephanie Lent. Green River Ordinance will headline Friday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert. The Texas rockers have several hits, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come Onâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Your Own,â&#x20AC;? and its songs have been featured on more than 20 TV shows, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;So You Think You Can Dance,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hillsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Young and the Restless.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of My Hands,â&#x20AC;? its Capitol/Virgin Records debut album, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Morning Passengers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Acoustic Sessions EP,â&#x20AC;? was released on iTunes

only. It reached No. 3 on the Billboard Heatseeker list and No. 39 on the Billboard Independent charts. Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headliner will be Tonic, which stormed the charts with its 1996 platinum debut album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lemon Paradeâ&#x20AC;? and its monster hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;If You Could Only See.â&#x20AC;? Boasting six Top 10 singles, more than 4 million records sold, two Grammy nominations and the No. 1 most-played rock song of 1998, Tonic released its self-titled fourth album in 2010. Montgomery will headline Sunday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert. The county music superstar has sold more than 16 million records worldwide and produced more than 30 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two No. 1 country singles of the year: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Swearâ&#x20AC;? (1994) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)â&#x20AC;? (1995). Five other singles have topped the country charts (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Love the Way You Love Me,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be My Baby Tonight,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Got Love,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Can Love You Like That,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Girlâ&#x20AC;?) and 13 more have reached the Top 10. Montgomery has won four Academy

of Country Music awards, three Country Music Awards and has twice been nominated for a Grammy. The native Kentuckian was inducted into the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Hall of Fame this year. Known for its ribs, Smoke on the Water will feature a dozen rib vendors, Famous Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pulled pork eating contest on Saturday and voting for peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice for ribs. There will be activities for kids, including a free play area 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. New this year will be a weekend cornhole tournament featuring traveling teams, said Lent, who said event organizers are working with the company to see if local teams will be able to participate. Smoke on the Water covers all the bases for a great event, Lent said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the waterfront, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a familyfriendly event, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reasonably priced, we bring in some great entertainment and the food is phenomenal,â&#x20AC;? Lent said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People can arrive by car or bus or boat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that sets us apart. People can drive up to the dock in their boat, listening to music. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great event in a great environment.â&#x20AC;? The event will be open 11 a.m. to

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The Josh Project will host the inaugural Water Safety Day May 28 as Wanda Butts continues to promote water safety following her son JohnJoshua Butts’ drowning in August 2006 at the age of 16. “My son lives on,” Wanda said. “He lives on in all these other people and in my heart because these children get the opportunity he didn’t get so they won’t drown. Their parents know how important it is their children know how to swim. Nobody told me. If they told me, maybe he wouldn’t have been in the lake on a raft without a life jacket. Since nobody told me, I’m going to tell everybody I can everywhere I go. This means the world to me. This helps me to live. It’s like Josh lives through me through this program. We’re doing something because of Josh’s death, so he didn’t die in vain.” Wanda started The Josh Project in June 2007 with her daughter Tankeeya Butts. The program aims to educate and empower youth by offering opportunities in the area of water safety. “It really helps with the loss of my brother,” Tankeeya said. “I almost feel like he’s here swimming along with the kids learning how. Because he drowned, so many other kids are learning how to swim. It’s opened up opportunities to these children they wouldn’t otherwise have. I’m thankful to God we’re able to do this and that the community has stepped up and supported us in the way it has.” Wanda credits God for giving her the strength to go on and inspiring the creation of The Josh Project. “Faith is what kept me when I lost my son,” Wanda said. “My belief is what gave me the vision to do what we’re doing now. It’s something to lose your son. I was devastated. I didn’t want to go on. My faith in God and his grace and mercy is the reason we

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these statistics, and Wanda has worked to identify the causes locally. “One problem is accessibility,” she said. “There are no pools in the central city and the ones they have aren’t opening. Another reason is a generational problem. My parents didn’t know how to swim and are afraid of the water, so it was embedded in me to be afraid of the water. There’s a fear factor.” The fear factor is echoed by Christy Burt, whose 8-year-old daughter Miracle learned to swim through The Josh Project. “I don’t swim very well, so to have my daughter swim well is important,” Burt said. “She enjoys it. It helps her with her confidence because this is something she excels in.” Miracle, who said she likes doing the backstroke, is joining a swim team this summer. The Josh Project also aims to educate parents about water safety. “Research has shown that many

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“Oooh La La” doesn’t exactly sound like a Crash Test Dummies disc. There’s big band, country twang and even a song inspired by doo-wop. But then you hear Brad Roberts’ deep voice and you know it’s the altfolk rockers. “When I first started, I regarded [my voice] as a liability and tried to get other people to sing my songs because I just thought I sounded good for only Irish sea shanties,” the front man of the Canadian group said and launched into such a ditty. “I couldn’t get anyone to sing [the songs] the way I wanted to hear them, so I sang by default,” Roberts continued during a call from his New York home. “When we were released, it was just coming out of the 1980s and that was like hair bands and every singer on the radio was a screaming tenor. The idea that the radio would even play a baritone voice was unthinkable. “And it turned out things opened up; hair metal kind of died, especially

after Nirvana, and suddenly my voice became an asset.” Roberts and his recognizable pipes had fun making 2010’s “Oooh La La.” “I came across this thing called the Optigan, this little ’70s instrument that was designed for amateur hobbyists. It has a singular strange technology; it’s weirdly prescient of digital sampling,” he said. “It’s very versatile because you can have it play all kinds of different bands, which were actually people recorded as opposed to mere synthesized sounds, that being the breakthrough technology of it for its time. And these discs had this weird, spooky, old-fashioned, creepy 78 RPM feel.” The singer-songwriter worked with producer-engineer Stewart Lerman on the CD. “The whole point of the record was to use those widely varied discs, which contain everything from bands that sounded like they were from Polynesia to Nashville,” Roberts said. “[The discs] grew songs practically; we’d sit down and play them and there were so many different genres to just be able to tap right into as a composer — it was great.” Listen to “Now You See Her,” which was inspired by the Optigan.

“It’s an old-fashioned kind of ’20s jazz band sound, so I wrote kind of a campy, Tin Pan Alley-sounding lyric to go with it,” he said. The Crash Test Dummies’ tour to support “Oooh La La” will stop in Ann Arbor for an 8 p.m. show May 26 at The Ark. Tickets are $27.50. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Roberts said he’ll be joined by original member Ellen Reid, vocalist and keyboard player, and touring guitarist Murray Pulver. The group is known for “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm” from 1993’s “God Shuffled His Feet” and “Superman’s Song” from 1991’s “The Ghosts That Haunt Me.” “Demo-Litions: Cast-Off Recordings 1996-97” was released in April. Roberts said he wished he had more demos to share. “There are demos for the entire ‘God Shuffled His Feet’ record, which many people would love to hear; I would love to hear them. I have no idea where they are, probably on some cassette somewhere in a rusty old box in a storage room. Just never kept track of it, never cared, never thought about the future, never thought about posterity.” ✯

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Cedar Point is now home to the first Pink’s Hot Dogs franchise east of Las Vegas. The legendary Hollywood eatery — a favorite of celebrities — specializes in made-to-order gourmet hot dogs, chili dogs and onion rings. Located across from Toft’s Ice Cream Parlor near the front of the park, Pink’s offers steamed, all-beef hot dogs, mild or spicy Polish dogs, Brooklyn pastrami Swiss cheese dogs, coleslaw dogs, burgers and fries. Cedar Point opened for the season May 14 and will be open every day through Labor Day, Sept. 5. “We are very excited to officially kick off summer in the Midwest,” said John Hildebrandt, Cedar Point’s vice president and general manager, in a news release. “It has been a long, cold winter and people are ready to have some fun. Roller coasters, hot dogs and Snoopy are the perfect solution.” The park’s newest ride, WindSeeker, a 301-foot-tall swing ride, was scheduled to open at the start of the season, but the opening was postponed until Memorial Day weekend due to construction delays. Seated in two-person swings that allow their feet to dangle, up to 64 riders at a time will begin rotating slowly in a circular motion as the swings ascend the tower. At the top, the swings will reach speeds up to 30 mph, flaring out almost 45 degrees from the tower 30 stories above ground, according to the park’s website. Cedar Point, named the “Best Amusement Park in the World” by industry magazine Amusement Today for the past 13 years, offers 75 rides, including 17 roller coasters, and attracts 3 million visitors annually, ac-

cording to its website. The Sandusky venue also features Camp Snoopy, Soak City and Challenge Park and a variety of live musical entertainment. Here’s what else is happening at Cedar Point this summer: Through Father’s Day (June 19), enter the Take Home a Thrill contest to win a new XUV 825i John Deere Gator, valued at more than $11,000. Entry forms available at the park’s guest services desk or Town Hall Museum or by mail. ✯ May 20-22: Student ID weekend. Students save $15 on a one-day, dayof-purchase admission with ID. ✯ May 28-30 (Memorial Day Weekend): Free admission for U.S. military personnel with ID and discounted admission for their families. ✯ June 3-4: Coaster Mania: Exclusive ride times and other events for registered members of roller coaster clubs. ✯ June 17-19: American Heroes Weekend: Admission discounts for safety service employees (police, firefighters, EMTs), military veterans and their families with ID. ✯ June 19: Inaugural Cedar Point 5K Challenge. 7 a.m.; $25, which includes race-day parking, T-shirt and $12 off a regular adult admission ticket that day. Portion of proceeds will benefit local high school crosscountry teams. Register online by June 12. No race-day registration. ✯ July 1-4 (Fourth of July weekend): Featuring special entertainment, food and prizes; fireworks July 3 and July 4; and park hours until 1 a.m. July 3. ✯ July 24: Coasting For Kids event to benefit Give Kids The World Village. ✯ Aug. 1-7: “Peanuts Happiness Week” with special activities featuring Snoopy and the “Peanuts” characters. ✯ Aug 16-18: Wheels of Thunder. For more information, visit www. cedarpoint.com. ✯

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An Ottawa Hills garden tour on June 18 will benefit a local preschool. Toledo Day Nursery’s 16th annual “In Another Garden” tour will showcase nine gardens in Ottawa Hills. Eight of the gardens are at personal residences and one is at The Woodlands at Sunset House retirement community, said Pat Scheuer, executive director of Toledo Day Nursery. “They’re really all dig-in-thedirt gardens,” Scheuer said. “A lot of times people have landscapers do it, but not these.” Tickets and shuttles will be available at St. Ursula Academy, 4025 Indian Road, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 18. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the tour. Advance tickets

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The library’s summer reading club isn’t just for kids. While the traditional club is for students entering kindergarten through fifth grade, there are also clubs for teens and adults and — new this year — a club for kids age 3 and younger called Read to Me, said Nancy Eames, youth services manager at the ToledoLucas County Public Library. The national theme for this year’s summer program is “One World, Many Stories.” The program runs from June 6 to Aug. 6. For the first time, reading hours will be tracked online. Club members will log onto a website, src.toledolibary.org, to enter their reading hours. Web users can also access a summer events calendar, browse lists of suggested books, post book reviews or link their reading record to their Facebook pages, Eames said. “Anyone who would like to can log in online and keep track of their reading that way,” Eames said. “You can log in 24/7 and even from a smart phone.” The website will activate at noon June 6 when registration opens. All four clubs offer incentive prizes for progress as well as regular drawings for more prizes. Parents and children participating in the new Read to Me Club will focus on early literacy activities, such as reading an ABC book or visiting a library they don’t usually go to, Eames said. If parents read to their children for 30 days in a row, they earn a baby snack container and book. Kids’ club members who complete 12 hours of reading this the summer

— about 15 minutes per day — will receive a drawstring backpack for carrying books, Eames said. Kids will also have the chance to win drawings for prizes such as gift cards to the Toledo Mud Hens, Barnes and Noble, Toys ‘R’ Us and more. Teen and adult readers will also have the chance to win prizes. “The more you read in any of our clubs, the better your chances of winning,” Eames said. Club participants will gain more than just prizes, however, Eames said. “For kids and teens in particular, reading over the summer can help prevent what’s called the summer reading slide,” Eames said. “If you don’t pick up a book from the time you leave school until the fall, you will find your reading skills declined. Whereas kids who read during the summer will stay on grade level or maybe even advance.” More than 100 performers and activities are scheduled during the summer, including musicians, puppeteers, storytellers, magicians and more, Eames said. About 14,000 children and 6,000 teens and adults participate in Toledo-Lucas County Public Library’s summer reading program each year, Eames said. “Adults are the reading role models for kids,” Eames said. “We hope they join, too.” For more information, visit www. toledolibrary.org call (419) 259-5200 or pick up a free summer program guide at any branch library. Way Public Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., in Perrysburg, will also offer the “One World, Many Stories” summer reading club. For more information, visit www.waylibrary.info or call (419) 874-3135. ✯

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With spring in the air and the worst of winter over, northern Ohio residents will be rejoicing not only for the warmer weather in the coming months, but also the opportunity to get back out on the water and do some fishing on Lake Erie. Recently, more than 260 professional anglers made the trip to Port Clinton to kick off the 2011 National Guard FLW Walleye Tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love going to Lake Erie and the western basin,â&#x20AC;? Professional angler Pete Harsh said in a phone interview with Toledo Free Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always one of my top favorite tournaments. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where you catch huge walleyes, good numbers of fish, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a variety of ways to catch them. I love the area. The people have been so nice HARSH and friendly. I love going to Lake Erie.â&#x20AC;? Unfortunately, Harsh and the other pro anglers came to Port Clinton at a time when the area was experiencing lots of storms and rain, which churned up the water on Lake Erie and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make for the best walleye fishing conditions. Though Harsh didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win any prize money at last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kickoff tournament, the Sauk Centre, Minn. native is no stranger to success on the water. The 2009 FLW Walleye Angler of the Year, Harsh has earned more than $800,000 as a pro angler, including more than $230,000 on the FLW Walleye Tour since 2002. Harsh did his first local tournament in 1984, won Professional Walleye Trail Rookie of the Year in 1993 and has been fishing full-time since 2002. Lake Erie is still the site of Harshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catch on the FLW Walleye Tour (weight total of 38 pounds, 15 oz. in 2003), and in 2008 he also caught the largest fish taken on either the FLW tour or the PWT tour at the time, a 33-and-a-half incher that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said was unusually long for that system. Harsh first came to Lake Erie in 1993

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A world-renowned traveling exhibition showcasing the inner workings of the human body has made a stop in Toledo for the summer. “Bodies Revealed” opens May 21 at Imagination Station and will remain at the Downtown venue through Sept. 18. The exhibit, which features 10 full-body human specimens and 150 human organs, is awe-inspiring, said Anna Kolin, communication and public relations manager for Imagination Station. “You get to see the human body from the inside, which is something we don’t get to see on a regular basis,” Kolin said. “It’s an opportunity for the general public to see what’s happening in their bodies as well as the effects our decisions have, like smoking or overeating. It’s a great exhibit.” The exhibit includes seven galleries offering a three-dimensional tour of the human anatomy, including skeletal, muscular, circulatory, digestive, reproductive systems and more.

For example, the gallery covering the respiratory system includes a set of healthy lungs side-by-side with a set of tar-blackened lungs, Kolin said. The bodies, which were donated to science by people who died of natural causes, are “meticulously prepared and respectfully displayed,” according to Imagination Station’s website. They are permanently preserved using liquid silicone rubber, which prevents the natural decaying process. The process, called polymer preservation, can take up to a year for the full body and a week for a small organ, according to the website. The earliest bodies, preserved in the late 1970s, are still being used in medical schools worldwide. Kolin hopes visitors will discover a new respect for their bodies as well as perhaps the inspiration to enter the medical field one day. “We’re all about inspiring future generations to think of science as a career path and, on a most foundational level, to get them to think about how they can influence the world,” Kolin said. “But we’re not just about the kids. We want to teach the public as a whole what they can do to

change their lifestyle.” Bodies Revealed is organized by Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions Inc., a leading provider of museum-quality exhibitions around the world. Teachers’ guides to the exhibit are available. About 15 million people have viewed the exhibit since it started traveling a decade ago, Kolin said. “I highly recommend people come down and take a look at it,” Kolin said. “It’s a world-class exhibit. We’re really fortunate to bring it to Toledo. It typically doesn’t come to smaller venues and we’re excited to bring it to the people of Northwest Ohio.” Admission to the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit, which includes general admission to Imagination Station, is $18 for adults, $16 for seniors 65 and older, $14 for kids 12 and younger, $6 for members and free for children 2 and younger. Tickets are timed-entry, so a limited number will be sold per hour. General admission to Imagination Station is $9 for adults, $8 for seniors 65 and older, $7 for kids 12 and younger and free for members and children 2 and younger. Lucas

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Perrysburg’s Kathryn Zajac to perform benefit concert Kathryn Zajac’s dreams of becoming a professional singer took root during her days in the children’s choir at Zoar Lutheran Church in Perrysburg. “It all started at my church, at Zoar. I started singing in the children’s choir and it blossomed from there,” said Zajac, who went on to perform in Perrysburg High School musicals and with Waterville

Playshop and The Toledo Opera. “I was always involved in music.” The classical vocalist, who will graduate from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music in June with a master’s degree in vocal performance with a concentration in opera, will return to Perrysburg to perform a free benefit concert.

The concert is set for 6 p.m. May 22 at Zoar Lutheran Church, 314 E. Indiana Ave. Zajac, a soprano, will perform arias and classical selections in German, Italian and French as well as English art songs and musical theater pieces. She will be accompanied by local classical and jazz pianist Eric Dickey. A dessert reception will follow.

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Langer, Inverness gearing up for U.S. Senior Open By Chris Schmidbauer TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPORTS EDITOR cschmidbauer@toledofreepress.com

When the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced in 2007 that the 2011 U.S. Senior Open would return to Inverness, it probably registered as little more than a blip on most people’s radar. But July 28-31, 2011, is a date that the folks at the USGA and Inverness have been looking forward to. “It’s been seven years since the Senior Open Championship has been here at Inverness, and we are excited to be back,” said Thomas O’Toole, vice president of the USGA Executive Committee. “We are looking to make this a very successful U.S. Senior Open Championship for the Inverness Club and the City of Toledo.” O’Toole and several members of the USGA, along with last year’s champion Bernhard Langer, were in Toledo on May 16 to begin the final preparations for the 32nd U.S. Senior Open. Despite the rainy and cool conditions outside, brass inside the clubhouse were beaming about what will occur at the historic Inverness Club. “The philosophy of the USGA is that the Senior Open should be the toughest physical and mental test that our Champions tour members will play in each year,” O’Toole said. “This title is the most coveted in senior golf, and we couldn’t be more pleased with our partnership with the Inverness.” No one knows about the test the Open provides every year quite like Langer. The German golfer won both the Senior British Open at Carnoustie in Scotland and the Senior Open in Sahalee, which is near Seattle. “It was very taxing last season,” Langer said of pulling off the rare feat of back-to-back major wins in consecutive weeks. “It is a very difficult

stretch, especially when you factor in the regular British Open is played the week prior to the Senior British as well. Some of us are playing in three consecutive major tournaments. “I was very fortunate and blessed to be at the top of my game, to be able to win the Senior Open last year.” Defending that title will prove to be just as difficult once again this season. Langer is fighting LANGER his way back from a torn thumb ligament, which has sidelined him for the start of the golf season. Langer sustained the injury while riding his bicycle. The incident occurred when Langer pressed the button at a crosswalk to change the traffic light. “People thought I had really hurt myself, but I must’ve just pressed the button wrong or something,” he said. “I hope to be back playing in a few weeks and by the time we come to Inverness, I hope to be playing at full strength.” The back-to-back majors will also be a challenge once again as the Senior British Open will be played the week prior to this year’s U.S. Senior Open. “I am one of those guys that isn’t extremely happy that we have to play back-to-back majors,” Langer said. “When you think about the guys on the regular tour who don’t play in back-to-back majors, but nonetheless it is a challenge that we have to deal with and face this year.” Langer is no stranger to success. He won the Masters in 1985 and 1993 and he has played for the European Ryder Cup team 10 times. He said he will use those experiences to deal with the challenging schedule again this season. “With my Ryder Cup experience

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and some of the other experiences I have had in my career, I am going to use those to prepare for the challenges I will face again this year.” Langer said he is looking forward

to the challenge Inverness will provide him and other competitors. “I am going to spend the little time we have studying and looking at the course to get familiar with

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