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PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

Sad hiatus

ust days after it released a significant report on how local courts handle domestic violence cases, Independent Advocates (IA) announced it was suspending its operations. Since 2007, the local organization has primarily been identified with Rebecca Facey and Rachel Richardson, who have worked to improve the community’s response to domestic violence. “It is amazing to see how much this grassroots organization has been able to achieve with minimal funds and resources,” Faceyy said in a May y 31 news release. “The passion and commitment of myself and Rachel Richardson as well as countless volunteers, board members and concerned community members has helped create a lasting impact on how Toledo thinks about domestic violence. We have been honored to serve hundreds of survivors of domestic violence in Lucas County.” IA recently released a report that said of the nearly 1,600 domestic violence Thomas F.POUNDS cases seen by Toledo Municipal Court in 2011, 79 percent were completely dismissed or reduced to lesser charges while just 2 percent actually went to trial. “The prosecution relies on the victim to show up in court and testify and, if they don’t, the court doesn’t have a case,” Facey said. “I can say as an advocate having worked with women, their primary goal when they call the police is for the violence that is happening right now to stop. When they come to court, they’re looking for the person to be held accountable so that it doesn’t happen again, and so that the person just doesn’t get away with it. But unfortunately, the message both the victims and defendants are getting is that, ‘If you can get the victim not to come to court, the case goes away.’” The volunteer-based Court Watch program that assembled the report will continue to operate and collect future data, according to a news release, and Facey said she will continue her schooling so she can continue fighting for domestic violence victims. “We felt there was a need for comprehensive court advocacy services for victims of domestic violence and we generally felt that the community response to domestic violence needed to be improved drastically,” Facey toldToledo Free Press in 2010. “We want to try to bring domestic violence to the forefront of community members’ minds and the courts’ minds.” That need still exists, and while the community owes a debt of gratitude to Facey, Richardson and IA, let us hope others will step up to meet that need and continue the legacy of IA’s important work. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

Disservice with a smile

ustomer service is a fascinating topic. Given the card must have brought up our customer loyalty information. The bagger was grinning mischievously, and I studied wide range of human emotion, intelligence and civility, there is no single approach to customer her to make sure she was a stranger and not someone who service that is going to be successful 100 percent of the time. knew me well enough to push her luck with her oddly aggressive comments. The Golden Rule (“Do unto others as I was still more amused than offended. you would have them do unto you,” for Aft er all, a hundred years ago, when I was those unfamiliar with that timeless adacting like a lone wolf, circling around vice) should be foolproof, except for the women like I was shopping and assuming fact that there are so many fools aggresevery one of them was a member of the Cosively seeking to prove it isn’t. alition of the Willing, my drink of choice was Many of my jobs throughout the years Zima, so I’ve never confused heterosexual have depended on customer service skills, prowess with manly drinks like whiskey or which is the primary reason my current Two-Buck Chuck. employment revolves around many hours Still, it wasn’t mutual sparring — I spent alone with a computer. When it comes to dealing with hostility, stupidity and the Michael S. MILLER wasn’t speculating on her sexuality or returning her vollies. deadly cross section of the two where so I paid and walked the short distance to pick up my many people dwell, my people skills fall somewhere beplastic bags. As the bagger handed me the last one, she tween wolverine and mockingbird. For example, when I open the rare email from someone leaned in and asked, “Did you want the little pink umbrellas seeking to stop their newspaper delivery, there are generally to go with your girlie drinks?” I had not engaged in her game — it’s a dangerous dytwo paths. The fi rst path is an email that reads, “Thank you for delivering Toledo Free Press each week, but for Reason namic for an older male to make playful or mock-aggressive X, could you please take me off your distribution list?” Even comments to a young woman, especially when lured into inthough I have no hand in delivery, I try to personally respond nuendo/sexuality territory. Especially for me, as I tend to go to such emails and quickly guide the customer through the from zero to nuclear, seeking permanent, scarring damage process. The second path is an email that reads, “STOP LIT- instead of gentle ribbing. But she continued to take shots, TERING MY DRIVEWAY, YOU SUCK AND I’M CALLING and I thought, “Now you’re kind of crossing the line.” “Now you’re kind of crossing the line,” I said out loud, THE POLICE!!! $@#@^&#%.” I pass those emails to Circulation without comment, then carefully record the email ad- as she turned to help the next customer. I already knew she had gifted me with a column idea, so I stepped back and dress of the sender in my copy of the Necronomicon. I experienced an interesting customer service interac- asked, “What’s your name?” and saw “Kimberly” on her tion June 2 at the Busch’s grocery store in Saline. It was a plastic name tag as she jokingly tried to cover it. Her last words as I walked away were a mock (I assume) quick stop to get Sunday breakfast. My wife and I had a rare at-home night without our little boys, so on impulse, “I know people.” “And I’m going to introduce you to 200,000 more people I stopped by the adult beverage case and picked up one of next Sunday,” I thought to myself as I walked out. her favorites, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, black cherry flavor. There’s no way for me to know if Kimberly is Saline’s At the register, the clerk rang up the few items from my cart, and the woman who was bagging groceries asked, version of Chelsea Handler or if she just took one look at me and decided I would either be amenable to her jokes or “Paper or plastic?” to which I replied, “Plastic, thanks.” incapable of firing back. “Would you like your milk in a bag?” she asked. I was neither, as she now knows. Good for Kimberly that “Please,” I said. “Would you like your girlie drinks in a bag?” she asked. she is comfortable enough in her role as grocery bagger to I stopped in mid-credit card swipe, looked at the clerk, playfully question a customer’s manhood and sexuality based whose eyes had gone wide, and said/laughed/choked, “Wow.” on his drink purchase. Good for Kimberly that she must feel The clerk said something I didn’t quite catch and the her jabs can be separated from what a more sensitive person bagger replied with something along the line of “Well, it’s a might construe as a bullying form of homophobia. Kimberly’s comments certainly won’t stop me from fruity drink,” a phrase which can be interpreted in at least shopping at Busch’s. But the next time I’m buying Mike’s two ways: “The drink itself is fruity” and “The purchaser of said drink is fruity.” Since these are not mutually exclusive Hard Lemonade, maybe I’ll stop a mile down the road at the Country Market. propositions, that’s at least three possible interpretations. They may even sell little pink umbrellas. ✯ I was more amused than offended, but I could see the clerk was not comfortable. “Tell her you bought them for Shannon,” she said. That threw me off for a second — how Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and did she know my wife’s name? — until I realized my credit Star. Contact him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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Inflation or deflation: Yes

nyone who has an interest in required to have 10 percent of that finance should subscribe to deposit on hand, it could loan out John Mauldin’s biweekly news- $900. The money has turned over by one depositor becoming letter. His information is the creditor to a borrower timely, relevant and always while the bank profits. contains citations, usually When banks begin to loan from leading economists funds to consumers and and money managers. In small businesses, we will one of his last newsletabsolutely see inflation. ters, Mauldin noted that We will likely not when asked whether the begin to see new loans economy will experience until borrowers are cerinflation or deflation, his Ben TREECE tain that interest rates “ready answer is, ‘Yes.’” have bottomed, and that Many investors believe inflation is simply printing money. In- will not happen until interest rates flation is actually a resulting price in- begin to rise. Nobody wants to catch crease for goods or services because a a falling knife, but when borrowers currency lost value. Deflation is just the can see a tangible bottom for rates, opposite: Prices drop because of a cur- they will want to snag a loan as rency suddenly strengthening. Infla- cheaply as possible. I believe inflation will not occur tion and deflation occur when the relationship between economic growth, before a bout of deflation. We are alas measured by the annual change in ready seeing positive economic news gross domestic product (GDP), and but what will truly spark real economic growth in this country will be a sharp money supply go out of whack. Contrary to what many people decline in gas prices once we begin to believe, printing money is perfectly tap into our four big domestic oil and OK — if the nation has the eco- natural gas reserves. Most Americans do not have the nomic growth to substantiate it. If the economy expands by 5 percent and option to pay or not pay for oil-based money supply does not grow at all, energy. Between home heating and fucurrency becomes much more valu- eling automobiles, this money must be able since there is a relatively smaller spent and takes away from their ability amount than there was before that to purchase consumer goods. Going economic growth. This is our main after our domestic oil will create jobs problem with the standad: While it can in the refining and transportation inbe good to have a commodity backing dustry, but will also stimulate the mana currency, it limits the amount by ufacturing industry. If manufacturers’ which the government increases the costs are lower, they can justify hiring money supply. In the situation we more employees considering the new currently find ourselves in — with a increase in demand as well. I have no doubt energy prices massive national debt — the standard seems like a great idea. On the flip side, hold back domestic economic when the economy expands and we do growth, so as soon as we can bring not increase the money supply, goods those prices down the economy will will have to be sold for less than what it expand. The Fed will have a difficult cost to produce them. This could spell task trying to keep the inflation rate disaster for an economy in recovery. It relatively similar to GDP growth to is also important to note that between avoid high deflation or inflation. As Mauldin put it best, will there the late 1800s and the early 1900s while the U.S. was on the standard, we expe- be inflation or deflation? Yes. Make rienced a depression approximately sure that you are positioned accordingly or else your portfolio may once every seven years. Relating specifically to the United suffer the consequences. ✯ States, Mauldin asserted that we will see both inflation and deflation over Ben Treece is a 2009 graduate from the time. As I have mentioned before, two University of Miami (Fla.), BBA Interfactors must be present for inflation to national Finance and Marketing. He is exist: volume and velocity. Following a partner with Treece Investment Adthe quantitative easing policies of the visory Corp (www.TreeceInvestments. Federal Reserve in the past decade, com) and a stockbroker licensed with there is plenty of volume, but there FINRA, working for Treece Financial is no velocity. Velocity occurs when Services Corp. The above information money turns over in the economy. For is the express opinion of Ben Treece example, if you were to have $1,000 and should not be construed as investon deposit with Bank of America, ment advice or used without outside and the bank was hypothetically only verification.

THE RETIREMENT GUYS

Who will get your Beanie Babies?

emember Beanie Babies? The little stuffed animals filled with plastic “beans”? There were nine original Beanie Babies and it is a mystery to me (Mark) how many there are today. I have seen articles saying there are more than 300, 600 and as many as 2,000 you can collect. I guess we will have to leave that to a Beanie Baby aficionado. They were introduced in 1993 and became a craze to collect. I have heard some of the original nine could be worth more than $4,000. My father-in-law had an old Gibson guitar from the 1950s and I had heard guitars from that era could be worth as much as $100,000. This one turned out to be worth about $1,500. I have watched the reality Mark show “American Pickers” a few times. These Nolan two guys go on expeditions to find vintage valuables they can acquire and sell for a profit. It is amazing they can find something old and decrepit and realize it’s something someone would pay a lot of money. As an estate-planning attorney, I have drafted estate plans for folks with classic car collections, comic book collections, and, yes, Beanie Babies. These items are typically of great sentimental value to the owner because of the effort spent acquiring them or perhaps some connection to family. But what will happen to these collections when the owner passes away? My mother-in-law had a collection of dolls and it was important to my wife to preserve this collection when her mom passed away. Sadly, what often happens is the children or heirs come into a decedent’s home, divide up tangible personal items and toss the rest. It could be because of ignorance of the value

or just the goal of not accumulating so much “junk” that producers want to do an episode of “Hoarders” about you. If you do not have an estate plan, such as a last will and testament, you should consult with an estate planning attorney right away to create one. You can list specific gifts in your will. I suggest keeping it simple, but list items that would be important to you to get where you want them to go. Here is a tip: Sometimes things don’t get listed because most folks are not going to go back to the attorney’s office to change their will every time they acquire something new. This can be overcome by inserting a clause into the will referring to a “separate writing.” This clause states CLAIR that from time to time you may want to BAKER designate specific gifts from your estate effective upon your death. The advantage of this is the clause includes an attached form where you can list items after the will has been drafted. As long as the form is witnessed, the designated gifts become part of the document after the fact. Pretty neat. If you have not created a will yet, or need to update it, get it done right away. ✯ For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www.retirementguysradio.com. Securities and Investment Advisory Services are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. NEXT Financial Group Inc. does not provide tax or legal advice. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537. (419) 842-0550.

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FIX-IT

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Although he came home to goodnatured complaints from his wife, like ‘You stink,’ Frank Kadlick loved his job as a City of Toledo refuse collector. “They had a lot of fancy names for what we did,” Kadlick said, “but I was a garbageman.” Kadlick, 47, worked for the City of Toledo refuse collection division for 26 years and said he particularly loved finding what he called “those rare gems” that sometimes showed up in people’s garbage cans. “If there was something that was thrown in, sometimes it might look brand-new,” Kadlick said. “And like that old saying goes, ‘One guy’s junk is another guy’s treasure.’” Kadlick’s experiences are not unique to garbage collectors. Waste disposal is a serious social issue in many parts of the world for many reasons, not the least being the shortage of land. Space restrictions are especially problematic in the Netherlands, one of the the most population-dense countries in the world. For Dutch journalist Martine Postma, the issue became a personal crusade. Postma, who regularly reported on waste disposal, recalled walking down the street on garbagecollection day and noticing what people were throwing out. “It struck me there were many things there that could be repaired,” Postma said. Today, Postma, 42, describes herself as a former journalist. She left the profession to become more personally active in environmental sustainability. “I was a journalist, but I wanted to do more,” Postma said. “I really wanted to contribute something and to take sides. As a journalist, you always have to be objective. You can’t really promote something.” Her thoughts kept returning to those salvageable items she’d seen in the trash. “I thought it would be easy [to reduce waste] if you could repair those things,” she said. “[To make] repairing a real alternative to throwing away and buying something new, you have to make repairing easy and attractive and accessible.”

The first Repair Café Her solution was the creation of a neighborhood Repair Café. “It should be something that is fun to do,” Postma said. “It shouldn’t

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Dutch trend of Repair Cafés building in America

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TOLEDO BIKES! TEACHES PEOPLE HOW TO REPAIR BICYCLES. THE DOWNTOWN NONPROFIT ALSO FIXES AND SELLS DONATED BICYCLES.

be a workplace or a shop where you drop things off and pick them up later, but I thought to make it a social event where you can meet your neighbors and you can make new contacts with people from your own neighborhood. That makes it fun.” Postma said finding repair experts wasn’t difficult, and she was pleasantly surprised to find there are still people who know how to fix almost anything. “The funny thing is, for those people, it’s their biggest hobby,” she said. “They like doing it and they like sharing the knowledge and passing it on and helping other people.” The first organized meeting in 2009 was “an unexpected success,” Postma said. She wasn’t sure if anyone would come. Instead, area residents showed up early, bringing everything from electrical appliances to clothes to furniture to musical instruments. “People were very enthusiastic,” Postma said. “Many people came to me and said, ‘Oh, this is really a solution for me. I don’t like to throw out things, but you have to because you cannot get them repaired anywhere. Is this going to be here every week now? Or every month?’ So, I thought, ‘Well,

apparently, this strikes a note.’” In response, Postma founded the Repair Café Foundation in March 2010. Its mission is to spread the concept of Repair Cafés and help establish new locations. As of June 1, 42 groups in the Netherlands have established Repair Cafés, from locations in Amsterdam to hamlets of 600 villagers, Postma said. “They want to bring people together who live in the same neighborhood and to strengthen the community,” she said. “That’s their goal. And that’s what the Repair Café also does.” Finding electricians is an important first step in establishing a Repair Café, Postma said. “You need at least three or four electricians — people who know how electrical current works and who can handle electrical appliances,” she said. A second consideration is finding a place to meet and a third consideration is publicity. “There, you get help from us, from the foundation, because we have a press release prepared where you just have to fill in the name of your group and your location,” Postma said. “So it’s not really that difficult for people to get started with our help.”

The cost of tools is seldom problematic because people with repair skills often have their own tools. “If you have the electrician and you have a carpenter and someone who’s a good bicycle mechanic and you have a seamstress, they are usually willing to bring their own machines and tools,” Postma said. “If you organize it for a second or third time, then you might want to buy some tools, but they are not essential to get started. You can very well use or ask the repair men and women to bring their own.”

US movement Unbeknownst to her, Postma’s crusade in The Netherlands had a counterpart in the United States. In 2009, the same year she organized her first Repair Café meeting, a group of environmentally minded individuals in Brooklyn, met to discuss ways they could have a positive impact on their neighborhood environment. They established what they called a Fixers Collective, which, three years later, has become a model for Fixers’ Collectives across the nation. A New York Times article about the Brooklyn Fixers Collective came to the attention of Greg Kono, exhibit devel-

oper at Pacific Science Center, a private, nonprofit science museum in Seattle. Kono’s manager asked him to determine whether the Pacific Science Center could organize a similar project. Kono contacted the West Seattle Tool Library, a donation-operated organization that loans tools to community members, and suggested the initiative would be a great fit. “The Tool Library loved the idea, and pushed me out front, and said, ‘You run it,’” Kono said. Space for the West Seattle Fixers Collective, which recently marked its first anniversary, was offered rent-free from the Tool Library, which also provides liability insurance. “Now, it’s just getting the word out, which seems to be exploding now with all of the national publicity,” Kono said. The West Seattle Fixers’ Collective regularly invites local experts to teach workshops, including home plumbing, house wiring, bicycle repair and a plumbing series for women taught by a female contractor. The group has also hosted an “Ask the Expert” series, which offered advice to people working on projects. ■ FIX-IT CONTINUES ON A7

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Several owners who operate local repair shops in areas with Repair Cafés and Fixers Collectives said they do not feel threatened by the tool libraries, but enjoy increased business because people begin to develop a mindset for repair. Kono said he doesn’t want to compete with repair shops. “We’re more about having people ... work on those pieces themselves,” Kono said. “I don’t want to a have a pile of stuff that somebody dropped off.”

Toledo reaction Jim Izbinski, the 25-year manager of Reggie’s Bike Shop, 5934 Secor Road, said he supports the concept. “I really like the idea of people learning to fix their own things,” he said. Izbinski said he has seen a 40 to 50 percent increase in repair business during the past five years. “Back 10 to 12 years ago, people said, ‘Ah, $60. ... I’ll buy a new bike for $200-$300,’” Izbinski said. “Well, now they’re saying, ‘I’ll just pay the $60 and get this one fixed.’” Despite the increased interest in bicycle repair, however, Izbinski isn’t sure a Fixers Collective could succeed in his hometown. “I don’t know if we have the right mindset. I don’t know if we could get enough people,” Izbinski said. “I used to go to these meetings that used to try to help promote cycling. We tried to get the bike lanes paved, lines on the roads, bicycle lanes. Nothing ever seemed to happen. I just don’t know … I don’t know why it is. For some reason, it doesn’t matter what it is, organizing anything in Toledo is a difficult thing. I don’t understand why, but it is.” Dave Smith, owner of Dave Smith Appliance Services, 3820 W. Alexis Road, said he would be concerned with the average person’s

lack of expertise in repairing electrical products. Smith got his start repairing microwaves for Highland Appliance in the early 1980s and started his own business in 1993. He said appliance repair is no longer mainly mechanical, like changing belts and making adjustments, but a highly technical and demanding electronics job that includes repairing lasers in dishwashers and adjusting Internet-capable appliances. “It’s a far cry from putting a little grease on something and changing a valve,” Smith said. “It’s a completely, completely different industry from what it was.” Although Smith said self-repair can be beneficial for simple repairs, he is uncomfortable with the idea of people trying to fix their own appliances. “You can go online and find YouTube videos. And you can find chats on how to do some simple repairs yourself,” Smith said. “Out of curiosity, I checked some of these things out, but the problem is some of this information is very mixed. Some of it is right, dead on. That’s good advice. That was a good fix. That was a good repair. And other times, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my, my. What’s this person [saying]? That’s the most ridiculous thing to do. And somebody’s going to get himself killed here.’” Smith said his shop often gets business from people who botched a selfrepair attempt. “The whole key there, with do-ityourself, is knowing when to quit and call a professional,” Smith said. “This is not a business you learn in a threemonth class. It takes a lot of time even to do it professionally.” Mike Janiszewski, owner of FixIt Shop, 1801 Sylvania Ave., said he sees a need for mom-and-pop repair businesses. “It’s a part of Americana that’s

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going quickly,” said Janiszewski, whose shop repairs vacuum cleaners and rug shampooers and makes minor electrical repairs to lamps. Janiszewski’s 34 years of experience have convinced him people could benefit from learning simple repair skills. “Men will bring lamps in here that don’t work. The only reason they don’t work is because they need a light bulb,” Janiszewski said. “I call it common sense. On minor repairs, they have no clue.” Janiszewski doesn’t believe people would be inclined to support a Toledoarea Repair Café or Fixers’ Collective. “Having a smaller population than those two big cities (Amsterdam and Brooklyn), I don’t think there’d be enough interest here in Toledo to support it,” Janiszewski said. “I don’t want to say people are lazy, but if you drive around town and see all the grass cutters, all the snow [blowers], and all the window washers, you can kind of tell people don’t like to do a whole lot anymore. I don’t think there would be an interest.” Janiszewski said Toledoans seem more inclined to dispose of an item than to repair it. “Growing up and doing this [job], it’s amazing the changes I’ve seen. People are becoming more wasteful. Very, very wasteful.”

Toledo Bikes! Mike Hayden, director of operations and education for Toledo Bikes!, acknowledges both Janiszewski and Izbinski may have valid points in their observations of Toledoans in general. “But to change things, you know, you have to start somewhere,” Hayden said. Hayden believes Toledo Bikes! has taken the first step in what he hopes will become standard practice for all Toledoans. Toledo Bikes!, 1114 Washington St., in Downtown Toledo, is a nonprofit charitable organization. Offering the use of tools and workstations, Toledo Bikes! encourages people to bring bicycles for repair rather than toss them in a landfill. Bikes beyond repair are recycled into parts or scrap metal. Hayden said Toledo Bikes! receives donations of six to 10 bikes a week, and has more than 250 bikes in inventory. Bicycles are “upgraded” and sold in the Washington Street showroom or donated to local schools. In November, Toledo Bikes! donated 15 bicycles to Keyser Elementary School. Although Toledo Bikes! was unaware of the Repair Café and Fixers Collective movement, a summer program it has planned for the Toledo YWCA, 1018 Jefferson Ave., is similar to what is happening in Am-

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sterdam, Brooklyn and Seattle. “We’re going to train the kids in bicycle mechanics, and then we’re going to start having them process and work on these kids bikes so that at the end of the summer, we’ll be able to do another bike giveaway to the schools,” Hayden said. Hayden said he has faith that people can change. “It’s an educational thing that we’re going to have to go through,” he said. “It will happen here sooner or later. It’s just that Toledo is one of those places that takes longer for things to take root.”

Cultural shift David Takats, director of fund development and marketing for Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio, said he sees the movement as positive for everyone. “That’s fantastic,” Takats said. “We really encourage that type of behavior. But there are plenty of people that can’t fix things, that can’t use those items. And those are the people who donate to us generally — because they want to give something to a good cause. “Don’t throw it in the garbage. If you don’t know how to fix it, if you don’t know what to do with it, give it to us. We’ll take care of it. If it can’t be fixed, if it can’t be sold, we’ll responsibly recycle it and make sure it doesn’t go into a landfill. But if it can, we love to give it to people and let them use it, have that product have a repurpose, a new life.” Takats said people should consider the long-term consequences of tossing items in the trash. “Think of what you’ve probably thrown away this year alone by yourself,” he said. “And if everyone were to bring in that kind of stuff, how much could we actually keep out of landfills? How much good could we actually do for the community, and the public, and just the whole welfare of the planet, if everyone kind of thought consciously like that, that I’m consciously not going to throw this away?” Takats said he is starting to see a shift in American culture making repurposing acceptable. “I think there is awareness of just the elements of what we waste,” Takats said. “There’s that element from society that’s starting to look at it and say, ‘We don’t want to ruin our planet and all of our natural resources.’ “And this is just a first step, a beginning. We’re not fully there, by any means, but I do think that there’s a cultural shift. ... “It makes sense not to destroy the planet, not to be wasteful, not to throw things away that could be fixed, that could be used again.” ✯

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The men who make Toledo the ‘manliest’ city How fitting that Toledo was named the manliest city in Ohio just before Father’s Day. The reasons for this accolade are linked to the number of home improvement stores, monster truck rallies and motorcycles per capita. Cleveland is the second manliest city in Ohio and Cincinnati is the third, acBrandi cording to the study released by Bert Sperling and Combos Snacks. But the real test of a man has nothing to do with Harleys, going to Lowe’s or the lack of girly nail salons and boutiques in Toledo. My dad gets the manliest man award because he had three daughters and never once said he wanted a son. People always teased him about the drama of three girls, but he dismissed it with a shrug and said he was happy with us three. That’s a real man. My husband’s grandpa gets a nod because he married into a family with four young children and raised them

as his own. That’s a real man. A friend gets the award because he moved away from the Toledo area to live in his wife’s hometown after her brother died in Iraq. That’s a real man. At the Zepf Center in Toledo, I recently learned about more real men. They graduated from the Nurturing Fathers Program, BARHITE which is a 13-week training course that teaches parenting and nurturing skills to men. The classes provide skills for healthy family relationships and child development. It also helps the fathers with career development and assists with employability. Statistics show that states with fatherhood programs see an increase in child support compliance, employment rates, incomes and time spent with children, according to the Zepf Center. Real men ask for help. New father Vince Guerrieri will celebrate his first Father’s Day this

year. He channels “The Godfather” when it comes to real men. “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man,” Guerrieri said. Longtime Toledo resident Matt Zaleski thinks back to all the men he saw

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Council to host another hearing about homeless shelter cuts By Brian Bohnert TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER bbohnert@toledofreepress.com

Toledo City Council members presented proposed legislation at a June 13 hearing to temper some fears of area homeless shelter directors in light of recent cuts. Looming budget cuts have trapped some homeless shelters in a bind, as money they have always depended upon dries up with no other source to cover the losses, said Renee Palacios, director of the Family House. The city released Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) recommendations last week and the results dashed any hopes shelter directors had of making up for cuts they incurred when the city announced Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) recommendations. These funds come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), but allocation decisions are made locally. The homeless shelters, including the Aurora House, Family House, Bethany House, Harbor House and La Posada Family Emergency Shelter, learned about two months ago that they would no longer receive their typical funding. Many of these shelters have depended on tens of thousands of dollars from these grants each year for decades. The Aurora House, a rehabilitative transitional housing program, used CDBG funding for at least 12 percent of its budget. The new budget cycle starts at the beginning of July for these shelters, so staff and directors must scramble to fill holes within two weeks. Palacios said the proposed cuts would eliminate 12 percent from their

total budget, around $85,000. “We have had emergency meetings to find where $85,000 can be cut and we’ve put three things on the chopping block,” Palacios said. “We’ve put feeding our residents, security and transportation for children to our daycare all on the chopping block. When you’re talking 12 percent in 11 days, you have to make some pretty rash decisions.” The Family House provides 37,000 meals a year to their residents. Lourdes Santiago, director of the Department of Neighborhoods, said the city’s review panel did not grant some agencies with CDBG funding because they were eligible for ESG funding while other agencies were not. The CDBG pot was shallower this year — Toledo received $6.8 million this year compared to last year’s $8.8 million. At the same time, HUD afforded Toledo $610,000 in ESG, up from $353,000 in the year prior. Jennifer Flory, a Family House resident, addressed the issue of rapid rehousing — a method that county shelters are being asked to pursue. For Flory’s daughter, 9-year-old Jaylyn, rapid rehousing would not be good as she has ADHD, epilepsy and a form of autism, Flory said. “It would not be safe for us to move an autistic child around so much,” Flory said. Many other shelter residents pleaded with City Council members to make a well-informed decision as to where money needs to go. City Council has the final say. “This should not be about how many shelters there are,” said Ken Leslie, founder of nonprofit 1Matters and former Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board member. “If the Family House

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Food bank ‘baffled’ by church’s recent comments Barbara Grandowicz, TNOFB’s existence of a pantry room and docudirector of operations, said Pilgrim menting proper refrigeration and cleanChurch has received 35,000 pounds liness standards, a process that Vas said news@toledofreepress.com may only take a week to complete. of food so far this year. “At that point, they’re notified that, Wilson said one solution the Pilgrim Church staffers recently announced they have to cut its food church is pursuing is to find a second yes, they will receive food,” Vas said. Vas said she is puzzled by the pantry to once a week, citing an source of food. TNOFB is not the only food bank public’s lack of awareness about area food bank’s dwindling supply in the city, but most people are unaware Seagate. She also suggested that the as the reason. But the announcement sur- the Toledo Seagate Food Bank exists, responsibility of membership rests prised the Toledo Northwest Ohio said Deborah Vas, executive director of with the food pantry itself. “I think those who may not be taking Food Bank (TNOFB), where Pil- Seagate. She said the majority of the calls grim Church has actually picked up she receives come from food pantry op- advantage of both food banks simply are 10,000 more pounds of food this year erators who had only recently heard of not aware of Seagate,” she said. “And that happens. When a new organization calls, her food bank. compared to last year. When Wilson took the position at they’ll say, ‘Well, somebody told me … The 97-year-old church, located at 1375 W. Sylvania Ave., has operated a Pilgrim Church in March, she was not there’s another food bank. How do we food pantry for the past five years, dis- informed about the Seagate bank. While get with you?’ “That’s the only answer I can have. tributing food twice a week. On June 7, she’s not sure why the church has not pantry program director Dawn Wilson used its services in the past, she said it is If you fi nd an organization that does not take advantage of both, I would ask reported to a Toledo broadcast media working on becoming a member. Vas confi rmed that Wilson has them, ‘Are you aware that there’s two outlet that the church food pantry was “being forced to take away” a day of its begun the application process for Pil- food banks? Are you aware that you can pantry service “even though the need for grim Church to become one of more get something for free?’” Other reasons for the elimination than 400 nonprofi t member organizathe food is not dwindling.” of Tuesdays for food distribution day Wilson told Toledo Free PressPilgrim tions that the food bank services. As of June 13, Vas reported that included the cost of food, an increase in Church was forced to eliminate Tuesdays as a food distribution day because Wilson needs to submit a copy of Pilgrim demand, the lack of an adequate number of volunteers and the concern that a few the TNOFB is having trouble keeping its Church’s 501(c)(3) (nonprofit) status. After receipt of that document, Seagate clients may be using the services in exshelves stocked. “There isn’t enough food for us to personnel will conduct an inspection cess or as a “personal scheme.” “We deal with a population that choose from,” she said. “A lot of times, of the church’s facilities, confirming the we go down there, and they don’t have a 2XU :DUUHQ 7KRPDV &RPPXQLFDWLRQV 6SHFLDO 2IIHU lot to offer us.” But James Caldwell, president and chief executive offi cer of TNOFB, disputed Wilson’s statements that his food bank couldn’t adequately serve its clients. “We’re just kind of baffled,” Chimneys • Dryer Vents • Gutters Caldwell said. “I really don’t think Licensed. Bonded. Insured. they know what they’re doing. I’m not trying to be negative. I just really Tinytom.com think it’s a lack of experience.” Pastor Ellis Young stepped into his Thomas J. Best LLC 1-800-788-8469 position at Pilgrim Church three weeks ago. Wilson has been food pantry proTiny Tom LLC tom@tinytom.com gram director for three months. By John P. McCartney

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“Police! Search warrant!” With that warning, SWAT team members filed into the office of a doctor suspected of running an illegal pill mill, weapons at the ready. The raid was a simulation and the office part of a mock city on the Owens Community College campus, but the officers approached it as they would a real operation, spreading out, checking each room and calling reports to comrades. “Door right, door right.” “We got a counter here we can’t see underneath.” “Clear in here! One suspect in custody.” The weeklong training session,

which started June 11, was the first such program to result from a new partnership between Owens and the Ohio Tactical Officers Association (OTOA). “They have the expertise, we have the facilities, and together we can put on a stellar course,” said Michael Cornell, director of the Owens Community College Center for Emergency Preparedness. Cornell said although other organizations provide tactical training for law enforcement, this is the only one sanctioned by the OTOA. Owens opened its $20.5 million Center for Emergency Preparedness in 2007, aiming to provide realistic training grounds for all kinds of emergency personnel. The 240-acre facility includes a mock city with buildings representing

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■ SWAT CONTINUED FROM A15 “We’re not just walking into somebody’s house — this is highrisk stuff here,” Ball said. “When we enter, things are very, very volatile and dangerous.” Sims said it can be hard for SWAT teams to find places to train. They often have to negotiate access to abandoned buildings and worry about bothering neighbors. “It’s great for Northwest Ohio to have a training facility where we can do everything in one spot,” he said. Patrick Fiorilli, president of the OTOA and the commander of a Cleveland-area SWAT unit, agreed. “I have not seen a facility like this anywhere in Ohio,” Fiorilli said. “It’s very unique. It’s almost like a onestop shop for us for tactical training.” Fiorilli said Owens and the OTOA would also like to use their partnership to give patrol officers more access to tactical training, possibly helping them head off dangerous situations before they escalate. Owens and OTOA plan to offer training twice a year at first, with advanced SWAT training and sniper school offered as well. Owens will also be the site of OTOA’s five-day annual training conference in May 2013, which is expected to draw more than 900 law enforcement officers from across Ohio. ✯

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British Royal Navy Captain Robert Barclay: A hard-knock life

ver feel like the world is against you? I think we all have. Oh, I’ve had unlucky days. Like the time I overslept for the trial on which I was juror No. 7. As I strode through the courtroom to my seat, two hours late, the stares of disdain from the lawyers and judge melted me into the woodwork. It was a terrible, horrible, nogood, very bad day. Some of us get more than our fair share of those days; Capt. Robert Heriot Barclay of the British Royal Navy was one such unfortunate. Who? Sure, you all have heard of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the victor of the Battle of Lake Erie, but you probably haven’t heard much about his adversary Barclay. The battle was fought Sept. 10, 1813. Perry won; Barclay lost. As a result, Perry became a superstar, and Barclay, well, he faded into a history book. Born in Scotland with an instinctive love of the sea, Barclay left his family at the tender age of 12 and proudly enlisted in the British Royal Navy. A note in a family album suggested that he was “illused” as a teenage midshipman and that seems to hold true as the good-hearted

and hardworking young man was frequently taken advantage of. Despite stoic performances at sea, he just never seemed to get ahead. In 1805, during the early Napoleonic Wars, it seemed he was on his way up with his assignment to serve on the Victory under the famous Lord Horatio Nelson. Soon he was promoted to lieutenant and assigned his own ship, Swiftsure, which he commanded Frank successfully through the renowned British victory at Trafalgar. Instead of being promoted further, however, he was repeatedly assigned to lesser ships. From 1809 on, the unlucky Barclay always carried a combination knife and fork utensil with him so he could cut his food one-handed, having lost his left arm in battle with the French that year. After serving four more years in the Atlantic, he was sent to North America, finally as commander of all naval forces on the lakes. Ten days later, however,

his title was usurped by his superior officer, Sir James Yeo. Commander Yeo in turn ordered him to Lake Erie as a mere senior officer, a post he was offered only because Yeo’s first choice for the position refused it as a demeaning assignment. Because England was preoccupied with Napoleon in Europe at this time, Barclay had the daunting task of organizing a British fleet that was undermanned, KURON underequipped and underfed into a competent force. He succeeded as well as anyone could have expected and aboard his flagship, Detroit, he boldly took on Perry. Unfortunately, Barclay lost himself in the battle — parts of himself, that is. About an hour into the fight, a canister shot took out a chunk of his thigh. An hour or so later, his right shoulder blade was shattered by grapeshot (golf-ball sized metal, clustered like grapes and shot from cannons). As if the wounds weren’t enough, Barclay soon faced a court martial for

losing the contest. As he was escorted into the courtroom, his mutilated body brought tears to the men who served with him. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing, but, deeply depressed by his appearance, he offered his fiancée a release from their engagement. She responded that if there was enough of him left to contain his soul, than she would marry him, and she did. Finally, some solace came his way. Ironically, just four years after Barclay’s death, his ship Detroit, which was decrepit but periodically used as a merchant ship after the battle, became the object of a publicity stunt. A number of businesses along the Niagara River, which runs over Niagara Falls, decided to send the old ship over the edge in order to draw customers to the area. The shores were lined with curiosityseekers for this spectacle, which many felt was tasteless. As it turned out, the boat was tossed and broken by the rapids, but became permanently lodged against an island. Like its former commander, the rest of its life was spent disfigured but in bitter-

sweet peace, as life rushed by. ✯ Frank Kuron is author of the War of 1812 book, “Thus Fell Tecumseh.” Email him at kuronpubs@bex.net

Bugle Call: Upcoming Events ✯ 10 a.m. June 18: The River Raisin National Battlefield Park, 1403 E. Elm Ave., Monroe, will hold a commemorative ceremony marking the start of the War of 1812. The National Park Service will release the special edition commemorative passport cancelation stamp. ✯ June 18-24: Way Public Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg, will hold several 1812 Bicentennial events. At 11:45 a.m. June 18, there will be a commemoration ceremony with bells rung at noon. At 7 p.m. June 20, historian, author and Perrysburg native Douglas Brinkley will speak at the library about the significance of the War of 1812 in our area and about his new biography of Walter Cronkite. At 4 p.m. June 24, there will be a Fort Meigs Cemetery Walk featuring re-enactors at the gravesites of War of 1812 veterans. ✯

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there,” Laake said. “This is the town he would walk all these miles in and everybody knew him. So, we fi gured what better place to do it then where he was born, raised and died.” The $30 preregistration fee can be paid on The Lustgarten Foundation’s website or there is a $35 registration fee the day of the walk. There will be a raffl e featuring gift baskets and Lustgarten bracelets, Laake said. Florence O’Berg, walk manager for Lustgarten, said Cablevision, the company that helped found The Lustgarten Foundation, underwrites all administrative costs to ensure that 100 percent of the proceeds go to pancreatic cancer research. The Lustgarten Foundation was founded by and named after Marc Lustgarten, a Cablevision executive who died from pancreatic cancer in 1999. He was 52 years old. “All of the money raised goes directly to research,” O’Berg said. “Since 1998, $42 million has been given to research through The Lustgarten Foundation.” O’Berg said there are 115 research projects at 41 medical and research centers worldwide benefitting from money The Lustgarten Foundation has raised. Anyone interested in donating to pancreatic cancer research can contact The Lustgarten Foundation by calling their toll-free number at (866) 789-1000 or visiting www. lustgarten.org.

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Austin Underwood never gave up as he performed CPR to resuscitate his patient at St. Vincent’s. Fortunately for the eighth-grader from St. Joseph’s School in Fremont, it was just a simulation he participated in during Mercy College’s Camp Scrubs from June 11-14. Underwood was one of about 30 sixth- through ninth-graders who participated in the camp aimed at students interested in health care careers. Jen Skeldon, program developer at Mercy College, said students see “all sides” of the hospital, from the emergency room to mechanical rooms. “Hospitals are like little cities,” Skeldon said. “It takes a whole bunch of people to run a hospital.” Campers spent their days attending lectures about various

topics and participating in handson demonstrations such as the simulation labs at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. The simulation labs off ered experiences similar to case studies, using dummies that act and react to symptoms, medications and side effects. Dr. Frank Heinselman, emergency medical resident physician, said the campers worked to identify wounds and diagnose and treat the patient. Other demonstrations included one where campers witnessed how the magnets in MRIs and computed tomography scans work and how technicians prepare patients for sleep studies. Campers also learned about the human body, including the components of blood, and listened to guest speakers discuss topics ranging from diet and exercise to tattoos and piercings. Liz Young of Dave’s Running in Sylvania spoke

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Happy Father’s Day, Dad: Can I have the car keys please?

t’s become an epidemic, just as we thought it might: Baby Boomers became a sandwich generation and, while we fondly recall trying to convince dad to loan us the car keys, it is becoming more necessary and problematic to actually coax keys away from aging parents. Noticing the increasing number of dings in our folks’ car fenders, Debra doors and bumpers makes us shudder at the thought of having “the talk.” Families argue over whether or not it’s really necessary. They mimic dad and mom’s excuses: “There hasn’t been an accident … yet.” “I’ll know when to give up driving.” “You’ll take my car keys out of my cold, dead hands.”

It is a rite of passage, a badge of freedom, when we earn that driver’s license, and it is the beginning of the end of independence when we have to give it up. Public transportation being all but nonexistent in this area is one of many issues. And fear of our parents’ wrath seems to stand in the way of doing what we know is the right thing. When is it the right ROIDL time? Well, kind of like Alcoholics Anonymous tells you: If you are wondering if there’s a problem then there’s probably a problem. Talking to your parents’ physician is a good place to start. Often the response from the physician will be, “You mean they still drive?” Doctors don’t notice

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who brings someone to the appointments, whether the patient is driving themselves or not, and might not want to broach the subject event if they are reaching an age when driving may become problematic. In Ohio, a physician can write a letter or fill out a Bureau of Motor Vehicles form recommending a person be retested, regularly tested or not be allowed to drive. But how can he or she objectively come to that conclusion, unless there is a clear and definitive diagnosis which precludes driving — such as advanced dementia?

Options for objectivity In Toledo we have two programs for evaluating a person’s ability to drive: One at Flower Hospital, (419) 824-1968, and one at University of Toledo Medical Center, (419) 383-5040, in which occupational therapists evaluate a driver’s reflexes, cognition, problem-solving and on-road driving ability using a vehicle with a brake on the passenger side. Medicare covers 80 percent of this evaluation and a secondary insurance should pick up the remainder. This evaluation results in a written report and recommendations by the therapists to the physician, client and family, and may include suggestions such as driver’s retraining, limiting driving to certain conditions (daytime, close proximity to home, good weather) or may recommend no driving. The program cannot revoke a person’s license, but the recommendations go to the physician.

If your physician is reluctant to make such a referral or address the issue, consider putting your request in writing and copying the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. One reluctant physician contacted the daughter of a client and told her, “Now that it has been put into writing, I am legally responsible if your father should have an accident.”

Transportation solutions So mom and dad can no longer drive. Now what? Senior Centers Inc. offers transportation services for seniors, (419) 2429511, is a low-cost option that can help seniors and disabled persons receive cab and ambulette rides twice a month to physician appointments. Some senior centers have transportation to and from activities. TARPS is another option, (419) 382-9901. If your parents are fortunate enough to have some assets available, hiring a companion service can be a good option, especially since they probably should have someone in attendance at physician appointments. The number of companion home health agencies in this area has tripled in the past 10 years. Shop around and interview several before settling. Cost can vary from $15 to $22 per hour with two- to four-hour minimum scheduling. The companion can also provide some light housekeeping, companionship, cooking assistance and other services. The important thing is not to play ostrich on this issue. Too often we see

people driving who should probably not be. Road rage remains problematic, putting seniors and others at even more risk if they are not vigilant drivers. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles often passes someone’s driver’s license renewal by giving prompts on the vision portion — the only real screening portion of the renewal process (“Don’t you see the flashing light on the right side there?” I’ve heard with my own ears while standing in line at the BMV). Here’s a clue: If a person has trouble walking, is suffering from shortterm memory loss, has a progressive chronic illness or falls frequently, they might not be safe driving. Please, talk to someone. Call the Area Office on Aging at (419) 3820624, your parents’ physician or contact a private geriatric care manager (www.caremanager.org). While it may not be the Father’s Day gift he was expecting, showing your love by protecting your dad and others could be the best gift of all. The only thing worse than living through taking dad’s car keys away would be attending his funeral, or another’s, caused by a fatal auto crash. ✯ Debra Roidl, MSW, is a certified care manager in the Toledo area. Read more about her eldercare services at www.independentcaresolutions.com. Debra is available to speak on a wide array of topics. You can reach her by calling (419) 367-8835 or emailing debra@independentcaresolutions.com.

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Coffee Fest 2012 was more than a latte art competition to Sandy Spang and her crew at Plate 21. It was a learning experience. From June 8-10, Spang and her best baristas attended the convention in Chicago, which showcased everything new in the coffee world, including advancements in equipment and technique, as well as the newest coffee tastes and textures. The event brought together some of the world’s most talented coffee businesses and enthusiasts. “It was full of a lot of really great people,” Spang said. From equipment vendors to roasters to coffeehouses large and small, Spang said the convention was an opportunity for coffee businesses around the world to network and share new ideas, all with the goal of learning from one another. “It’s not just attended by [coffee shop] owners, it’s attended by equipment vendors, roasters and all sorts of people passionate about coffee,” she said. Spang purchased new equipment for Plate 21, and also brought back new coffee brands and flavors in order to offer Toledo coffee “it has never seen before,” she said. “We bought a new grinder developed just for pour-over brewing and we’re going to bring in new coffees,” she said. “When you stay in Toledo and you don’t go to these things, you don’t get to experience all of the new things. … We even had contact with roasters from Seattle. Coffee attracts tremendous folks.”

Latte Art Championship A featured event at the convention was the Latte Art Championship, a 64-bracket, head-to-head competition between the most talented baristas from around the globe. All competing baristas had three minutes to pour a drink they were satisfied with. Once the decorated beverage was poured, it was photographed and put on a screen for the audience to see before being presented

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to the judges. The drinks were judged on five categories: aesthetic beauty, definition, color infusion, degree of difficulty and creativity, and speed, according to the event’s website. First prize was $2,500, second place received $1,000 and third place received $500. Plate 21 baristas John Amato and Andrew Trumbull represented the business in the competition, with a third barista serving as an alternate. While neither placed, they were all grateful for the opportunity and eager for next year’s event. “It was really neat spending time with some of the best baristas in the

world,” Amato said. “It was really great to be a part of that culture.” The biggest challenges Amato said he and his peers faced were learning the protocols and working on equipment they had never worked on before. “It was so much different,” he said. “It’s like you’re driving an automatic car your whole life and someone puts you in a manual.” Spang said she is proud of her baristas and that the knowledge gained from the competition will prepare them to be serious contenders for next year’s Latte Art Championship. “They have the competition experience; now they need equipment

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experience,” Spang said. “I think we’re at the level it takes to compete on an international level, but we just need to learn the equipment. I think we stepped it up. We’re there and we’re not done.”

‘Community’s living room’ Plate 21, located at 3664 Rugby Drive, in Toledo, opened Sept. 29, 2009. Then-Mayor Carty Finkbeiner cut the ribbon to the new coffeehouse, welcoming it to the community. “This is what we need in our community. These are the kinds of businesses we need,” Finkbeiner said. Spang, who said she wants the shop to be used as the “community’s living

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Toledoan chairs Ohio Restaurant Association By Brigitta Burks TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER bburks@toledofreepress.com

On June 9, Roger Parker, the operating partner of Toledo’s Mancy Brothers’ Catering Roger Parker was inducted as chairman of the Ohio

Restaurant Association (ORA), a trade association of 2,400 members. “In itself, [the appointment] brings more attention to the community,” Parker said. “I can facilitate conversations and by doing that, certainly there are issues and concerns local restaurants have and I can certainly

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put it on the agenda.” Parker was honored at the Toledo Museum of Art on June 9 at a celebration attended by Dawn Sweeney, president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association. Parker joined the ORA board of directors in 2006 and became a member of its executive com-

mittee in 2007. He was also president of the Northwest Ohio Restaurant Association from 2006-08. The ORA board has sought to promote membership benefits in recent years. The ORA offers legislative advocacy for the industry, an education fund for those in culinary career paths, attorney services, social networking, cost-reducing energy programs and marketing materials to its members. Parker, a Florence, Kan., native, worked at restaurants and hotels as a youth, but majored in finance at Farleigh Dickinson University. To make money in college, he continued working at eateries. “The next thing you know, I’m coming out with a degree. I walked into a bank and said, ‘How much can I get paid?’ And I looked at what I was making as a bartender and thought, ‘Wow, wait a minute, this doesn’t make sense.’ And I just stuck with [bartending],” he said. Parker eventually became assistant beverage manager at le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. Over the course of his career, he has worked at the New York Helmsley Hotel, Vista International Hotel and the Grand Hyatt New York. In 1989, Parker left the Big Apple to manage the largest catering association in Maryland. In 1993, he joined V/Gladieux Enterprises, Inc., which brought him to Toledo. After 17 years with the company, he came on with Mancy’s in 2010 to run the catering division of the company. Mancy’s Restaurant Group, a Toledo staple since 1921, operates Mancy’s Italian Grill, Mancy’s Steakhouse, Shorty’s and Bluewater Grille. Although Shorty’s already offered catering, Parker worked to expand the catering services of the other three restaurants. ✯

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Trio of antique shops thrives on Adams Street in UpTown By Brigitta Burks TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER bburks@toledofreepress.com

Whether it be a wooden table or a vintage dress, antique lovers can likely find whatever they desire inside a trio of antique stores on Adams Street. Adams Street Antiques & Art and J. Valentine Antiques opened in November, followed by Great Finds on Adams in February. All three are in the 1500 block of Adams Street in the UpTown neighborhood. Rather than view each other as competition, the owners said the other locations provide more selection for customers. “They feel it’s beneficial; they call it clustering. When shoppers come to a district and they can’t find an item in one store, [owners] can send the customer down the street,” said UpTown Association Executive Director Julie Champa. “The antique stores add to the vibrancy of the neighborhoods. We think that antique stores are a really good fit for the types of businesses that we’re looking to attract.”

Adams Street Antiques & Art “I just love this shop. I never thought I would. I thought it would be fun, but I didn’t realize how much I would enjoy coming in every day,” said Connie Hoffmann, owner of Adams Street Antiques & Art. Hoffmann used to manage the nowclosed Erie Street Market, which housed a large antique mall. Many former vendors have found a home in her store or at Great Finds on Adams, owned by Julie Hopfer and Lacey Fix, also former vendors at Erie Street Market. Adams Street Antiques is the largest of the three shops and houses 14 vendors. Hoffmann is one of those vendors, specializing in vintage wares, shabby chic items and glassware. Hoffmann encouraged Hopfer and Fix to open their own store across the street after receiving word Erie Street was closing in early 2012. “We’d like to have it be a destination. Antiquers like to go from one to the other and we make sure that they do … or we suggest it,” Hoffmann said. Hoffmann also makes sure her customers are never bored. She changes the window display every month and serves coffee and tea. “We have people that come in every week because we change our merchandise often or if we don’t get new things, we change the layout so there’s always new things to look at,” Hoffmann said. Despite the tough economy, Hoffmann said business has been good.

“When things are like they are now people tend to buy antiques because they get nostalgic and they come in and see something that their grandmother had and they buy it for their children or they buy it for themselves,” she said.

Adams Street Antiques & Art is at 1500 Adams St. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Great Finds on Adams is at 1501 Adams St. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

J. Valentine Antiques is at 1505 Adams St. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. ✯

Great Finds on Adams Fix and Hopfer are quick to praise their location. “This corner is a fantastic corner so to leave this corner would be nuts,” Hopfer said. “You name it we’ll have it … or we know someone that already has it.” “If people can’t find it here, we tell them to go [to Adams Street Antiques] or go two doors down [to J. Valentine],” Fix added. Antiques have been a lifelong interest for Fix. “My mother collected art all my life and I was raised around antiques,” she said. Great Finds has 12 vendors, including herself and Fix, Hopfer said. “Here we just have everything — everything but the kitchen sink and that, too,” she said. “We have a lady that’s shabby chic; we have another lady that loves the ’50s and ’60s and the retro stuff and my husband likes the architectural stuff; [Lacey] dabbles in everything.”

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J. Valentine Antiques James Valentine, owner of J. Valentine Antiques, originally studied to be a veterinarian. But, one day while walking his dog he stopped to help a man struggling to carry a dresser. Valentine began working for the man, delivering furniture, and fell in love with the items. Now his store, the only one of the trio without other regular vendors, specializes in decorative arts and furniture, featuring mid-century Danish furniture. “I have a small shop and that gives me the ability to talk to customers about each item because I know the history of each one,” he said. Valentine, who used to manage Wildwood Antiques Center, didn’t know Hoffmann was renting the space across the street when he signed the lease, but the two opened their stores together on Nov. 11. “With antique stores, you really can’t compete with each other. You could go over there and spend hours. You could come over here and spend hours and you would never see the same thing,” he said. Despite having larger items than the other two stores, most items in Valentine’s store cost less than $600. “People think that buying antiques is so expensive, but it’s really not. It’s actually cheaper than buying new and new stuff doesn’t last too long,” he said.

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‘A combination of all the music that ever turned us on’ By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

With their frenetic, fun cover of “Tears of a Clown” in 1979, The English Beat began blending musical styles in search of the perfect hybrid of sound. “We wanted a combination of all the music that ever turned us on, and we wanted to put that together in a way that would make people dance and then give our social opinion on a topic and try to get away with it whilst they were dancing,” said Dave Wakeling,

singer and guitarist, with a laugh. The group served up ska, reggae, soul, pop, punk and world music and landed on the charts in the early 1980s with “Save It for Later,” “Mirror in the Bathroom,” “Hands Off…She’s Mine,” “I Confess” and “Can’t Get Used to Losing You.” “We never used any of the latest doodads; we used classical instruments and classical recording methods. And thank heavens we did because otherwise we’d have records with Japanese bamboo flutes (imitates one) like everybody else did,” Wakeling joked during a call from his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Wakeling, guitarist Andy Cox, singer Ranking Roger, bassist David Steele, drummer Everett Morton and saxophonist Lionel Augustus Martin helped put together “Keep The Beat: The Very Best of The English Beat” and a box set titled “The Complete Beat,” which will be released July 10 by Shout! Factory. The five-disc box set features the band’s three studio albums and previously unreleased material. “There was some sort of kismet about [how the group came together]. It fell together so magically that you kind of had the sense it wasn’t going to last forever, you

know, that you should make the best of it while it’s there, and that’s what we did,” Wakeling recalled. “After three albums, you either really mean it or you’re pretending, and we were definitely pretending at that point. And because we were so grateful that we ever got a chance to start in the first place, it felt like it was the decent thing to pull the plug,” the singer-songwriter said. Wakeling and Roger went on to form General Public, known for the songs “Tenderness” and a cover of “I’ll Take You There.” Wakeling will bring The English Beat — drummer Rhythmm Ep-

kins, bassist Wayne Lothian, toaster Antonee First Class, saxophonist Matt Morrish and keyboardist Kevin Lum — to Mickey Finn’s Pub for an 8 p.m. show June 21. Tickets are $25 and $30. “I always dreamt of being in a group. I never thought anybody would hear my songs, and I love it best that people would still be interested in them 30 years later. It’s the most wonderful honor,” Wakeling said. “I mean, the money’s great, and the fast cars and the fast women and all of that, but they all come and go. If a song says something to you, that means the world to me.” ✯

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Toledo is now known as the birthplace of the studio glass movement, but participants at the original workshop 50 years ago had trouble even forming a bubble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody knew anything. Literally no one knew how to make a bubble. There was no one there to ask,â&#x20AC;? recalled 89-year-old Toledo artist Edith Franklin, one of the fewer than 10 people who attended the first of two 1962 glass workshops at Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Color Ignited: Glass 1962â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2012, 12,â&#x20AC;? a new exhibition at TMA, will comommemorate the 50th anniversary of those hose historic workshops. The free show, which will focus on the evolution of the use of color in glass, ass, debuted June 14 during the Glasss Art Society Conference and will run through Sept. 9. On display are more than 80 objects from private collections, galleries and other museums as well as TMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection, including work by Harvey Littleton, Dominick Labino, Marvin Lipofsky, Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Laura de Santillana, Heinz Mack, Klaus Moje, Yoichi Ohira, Ginny Ruffner and Judith Schaechter. The exhibition is the first in thee new $3 million Frederic and Maryy Wolfe Gallery of Contemporary Art. rt. The space was the home of TMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glass lass collection before the Glass Pavilion lion opened in 2006. Jutta-Annette Page, TMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curatorr of glass and decorative arts and vice presiesi-

dent of the Glass Art Society, called the exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;visually enthrallingâ&#x20AC;? and said she hopes visitors leave with a better appreciation of Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in the evolution of studio glass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I very much hope this exhibition will make it clear this very important movement started here in Toledo and also help people realize this is an international movement that is here to stay,â&#x20AC;? Page said. Visitors can also view the exhibit from the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mezzanine level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It allows people to look at the works on the ground floor from a different vantage point, which some of the artists are intending on in their works,â&#x20AC;? Page said.

Several of Franklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pieces from the original studio glass workshop are on display. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had them at home for years and nobody looked at them and now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become famous,â&#x20AC;? Franklin said. Such early pieces are rare. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very, very small group of surviving objects and the reason for that is they had not really figured out the technological issues that came with this experimentation,â&#x20AC;? Page said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the pieces broke.â&#x20AC;? The first workshop used glass from melted-down fiberglass marbles made at the Johns Manville plant in Waterville. Learning to add color was part of the experimentation process. per â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you look at these very earliest pieces piec they were all greenish, transparent glass glas because the color was entirely determined by the glass batch,â&#x20AC;? Page said. term â&#x20AC;&#x153;Very â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ve early on the palette was limited to the th prefabricated glass the artists were using, but they very quickly experiu mented with color.â&#x20AC;? m Franklin never worked with glass again, but has fond memories g of o that first workshop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a wonderful experience,â&#x20AC;? Franklin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been exciting these F past p couple of years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting ti the recognition it should. Too bad some of the people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t alive who s would have been enjoying this.â&#x20AC;? w Admission to the museum, located ca at 2445 Monroe St., is free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 10 u a.m. a.m to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed p Mondays and major holidays. Mo For more information, visit www.toledomuseum.org. â&#x153;Ż ledo

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From grandmother to graduate: Toledoan releases first novel Th e book will be published by Canton, Mich.-based Christian company Zoë Life Publishing. blishing. bbohnert@toledofreepress.com Sabrina Adams, ms, CEO and publisher of Zoë Life PubGeraldine Davis is truly grateful. Not only did the 57-year-old lishing, said shee grandmother of six recently graduate met Davis at a from college, she will release her first lunch in October. “I loved thee novel, “Suspended,” on July 14. “It’s a contemporary urban love book. It was ennstory centered around the main char- thralling and ennAdams acter whose name is Naturally Joy,” gaging,” ms Davis said. “Her life’s been put on hold said. “She has an n because her mentally ill mother de- ability to develop p andd serted her and her 12 siblings. But her characters mother does get fortunate; she finds draw the readers rs peace, she finds love, but she dies be- into their lives and d fore she can get her kids back together. their issues.” While “SusAnd, in a kind of strange twist of fate, sNaturally Joy fi nds love and peace, pended” is Davis’ s’ and she is able to free herself from the first published d book, it is not herr demons of her past.” Davis started writing “Suspended” in first work. In 2007, 7, April 2010. The idea for the characters Davis wrote “The about the the came as she was waiting at a traffic light. Journey,” a story about “Honestly, it just came from a paths people take through life. “‘The Journey’ is more of an alcouple of words that popped into my mind: ‘Truly grateful’” she said. “I re- legory,” Davis said. “It’s the story of member I was sitting in my car at the the two roads of life that we choose. corner of Central and Detroit and can’t … Th e characters in this book remember what my thought process don’t have any names, they’re the was, but I said out loud ‘truly grateful.’ First Traveler and the Second TravI thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t that be eler. There’s the First Road and the just odd if somebody named their kid Second Road and there’s the things we encounter along life’s journey.” Truly Grateful? The choices people make in life “It was just a story that kept running around in my head and I had to is a key theme throughout the book, get it down on paper to get the story she said. “On both roads, you can run into out of my mind. It flowed nicely.” By Brian Bohnert

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things like the ‘Statue of Denial.’ You want something but you’re denied it. How do you hhandle it?” she said. “That’s the difference “T in the two roads and each ea character.” “The Journey” is set se to be released this year, although there ye is no official date, Davis said. D

Back to school B Davis graduated with honors from w Owens Community O College on May 4, C with her associate w degree in English de literature. lit Originally just a way w to fine tune her writing, her love for w the th college combined with her desire to w inspire her grandin children to graduate kept her at Owens until she received her cap and gown. “I loved being there,” Davis said. “I know it might sound strange, but I thought my time there was wellspent and well-enjoyed. I loved my instructors, I loved the campus setup, I loved the atmosphere, I loved that the younger peers did not see me as just some old woman trying to get a degree. They just accepted me and it was great.”

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Davis is now writing her third novel, “A Meeting in the Clouds.” Much like “Suspended,” the theme of strained parent-child relationships is the focus of this story, she said. “It is the story of a mother and daughter who have always had a very dysfunctional relationship,” Davis said. “The mother goes into the hospital for a minor surgery and ends up in a coma … and [the daughter] ends up in a car accident and she is in ICU in the same hospital that her mother is in. Their spirits actually meet in the hospital and they have to deal with the demons and the angels of their lives. They eventually come together to defeat the demons, and go back to their bodies and live their lives differently.” Davis is the caretaker of her six

grandchildren: Aaryn Joshua, William, E.J., Autumn and twins Ebony and Christian. Th e children, whose ages range from 7 to 16, have lived with Davis for seven years. They are a huge inspiration in her writing, she said. “Kids do say the darndest things and they do some of the funniest stuff ,” she said. “After I finish my third book, I’m going to go into their books. Each of them is going to get their own book.” To celebrate the release of “Suspended,” Davis will have a book lunch on July 14 at Pilgrim Church, 1375 W. Sylvania Ave. Th e receptionstyle event will begin at 2 p.m. and is open to the public. “Suspended” will be available for purchase at Barnes & Noble, barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com on July 14. ✯

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Don’t let the youth of local band Citizen fool you. Two of its members just graduated from high school, but the group has already put out two splits, an EP, signed with Boston-based label Run For Cover Records and will kick off a national tour June 22. “Earlier this year we were offered a tour with Man Overboard, and it was really frustrating to see we were getting tour offers and we couldn’t do it because we were all in school,” said guitarist and 2012 Start High School grad Nick Hamm. Prior to its national tour, Citizen will perform at Frankie’s on June 17. Nick’s brother Eric Hamm (bass), Mat Kerekes (vocals), Ryland Oehlers (guitar) and Cray Wilson (drums) round out the group. Since forming about two years ago, Citizen has steadily built a name for itself, starting in August 2010 when the band headed to Fairless Hills, Pa., to record with Vince Ratti (August Burns Red, Bury Your Dead, Tigers Jaw).

“I think I was 16 when we went out and recorded, and it was really the first time I had been away from home with a band,” Hamm said. “It was pretty nuts. Like, our vehicle broke down and stuff, but it gave me a good taste of what to expect in the future.” The result was Citizen’s split EP with The Fragile Season titled “The Only Place I Know,” released Nov. 26, 2010, via Either/Or Records. The release caught the attention of Run For Cover Records owner Jeff Casazza. After releasing its second EP, “Young States,” in September, Citizen sent Casazza tracks from its new split with Turnover. Impressed, Casazza added both bands to Run For Cover Records in March and released the split on May 22. “He’s known about us for a few years, and it was always the label that we thought would be great for us,” Hamm said. “They’re kind of the lifeblood of the scene we’re in.” With a sound that Hamm described as “indie punk,” Citizen has gathered a large fan base with its honest lyrics and energetic live shows. “Our vocalist Mat writes most of the lyrics, but I think it helps that we’re experiencing growing up right now,” Hamm

said. “He writes a lot about dealing with frustrations of growing up and dealing with anger and things like that.” Fans have connected with those lyrics, too, as Hamm discovered during a performance at Bled Fest in Howell, Mich., last year.

“That was really the first show I had played that immediately when we started playing I was just overwhelmed by the amount of people in that room and the amount of people that knew our words,” Hamm said. Hamm said Citizen will probably

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