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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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on our Campus. Thanks.” (news release announcing Star expanear University of Toledo Alumni Association: Thank you for the recent notice that my alumni as- sion was attached to the e-mail). Jacobs: “Risky!” sociation membership is about to expire. While I greatly Burns: “Very ... didn’t know about it until I received the email.” appreciate your services, I am not going to contribute to the assoJacobs: “Should you or I call mike B. and others? Let’s discuss” ciation this year. I wanted to write to you and explain my reasons. Burns: “I have a call into Nancy Morrison.” In mid-February, I contacted the UT Ritter Planetarium staff Jacobs: “Good work, Larry.” to request permission to organize a news conference to announce Burns: “Thank you.” the launch of Toledo Free Press Star in the observaBy the tone of the exchange, one might believe tory. It was to be a major expansion announcement the university dodged a major bullet by canceling for our business, and as an alumnus, I was proud to an almunus’ job creation announcement. I am not announce the birth of Star in the perfect setting of sure how our small business expansion could be Ritter Planetarium. “very risky” for a gargantuan institution like UT. I corresponded with Nancy Morrison, director What risk would we curse UT with by announcing of the planetarium, who warmly granted permission Star’s job creation at the planetarium? for the news conference and put me in touch with the Experience and paranoia, in a 90-10 mix, planetarium staff members who could help me arusually lead us to The Blade when something range the announcement. We wrote back and forth a few times about projecting the Star logo on the plan- Michael S. MILLER perplexing causes us pain. We knew that Joe Zerbey, general manager and president of The etarium dome and what we would need to do to make Blade, sits on the UT Board of Trustees. That is an obvious the news conference a showcase for Star and Ritter Planetarium. We invited some community leaders we respect to stand be- conflict of interest, but are Jacobs and Burns so intimidated side us and say a few words at the news conference: Toledo Mayor by The Blade that they tremble at the “very risky” concept of a Mike Bell and representatives from the Toledo Regional Chamber Toledo Free Press news conference? Is the perceived threat to of Commerce and the Regional Growth Partnership (RGP). We UT or to The Blade? It is one thing for Jacobs to “protect” UT from The Blade by invited 75 supporters and sent a news release to electronic media, snubbing Toledo Free Press, but think about the hostile aggression asking them to join us at the UT Ritter Planetarium on Feb. 25. One of the supporters we invited was Lawrence Burns, UT he displayed by suggesting he and Burns “call mike B. and others.” I have no proof that Jacobs, Burns or Zerbey called the chamber vice president for external affairs and interim vice president for equity and diversity. Upon receiving the invite, Burns e-mailed a and RGP, but I believe someone did, and that someone convinced few questions to Toledo Free Press President and Publisher Tom them to distance themselves from our job-creation announcement. Pounds, asking how we arranged the conference. On Feb. 23, less We have been told for a fact that Zerbey called Mayor Bell’s office and than 48 hours before the news conference, Burns e-mailed Pounds tried to counsel/suggest/advise/intimidate him into staying away. Bell did not cower as the others did, and we are grateful and and revoked our permission to appear at the planetarium. Pounds went back and forth with Burns, trying to appeal the respectful for his courage. decision or understand the change of heart, to no avail. I fostered a Plan B by arranging to announce that a Star would Nowhere to go be born at the Westfield Cinema De Lux movie theater; its owners, Despite the malicious example set by UT’s pseudo leaders, Toledo Texas-based Rave, were very generous with their time and space. Free Press has continued to cover as much UT news as possible; Pounds Being kicked off the public and partially taxpayer-funded has kept his philanthropic obligations; and I kept all of my sponsorcampus was unsettling, but there were more disappointments in ship and speaking commitments. The week after the news conference, store. In the hours before the conference, the representatives from I spoke to three different UT journalism classes in two days. the chamber of commerce and RGP dropped out, one citing illUntil you contacted me, UT Alumni Association, I had noness and one citing travel conflicts. The chamber sent a representa- where to take my grievance about Jacobs’ and Zerbey’s abominable tive to the news conference. RGP did not. behavior. How could I complain to the UT Board of Trustees when The day of the announcement, we nervously awaited word one of its members, and the institution’s president, not only confrom Mayor Bell, but at showtime, he appeared, stood beside us done such offensive behavior, they initiate it? and helped us make our announcement. No reference was made Any complaint on my part, as one lone alumnus, would surely to the behind-the-scenes conflict. Once the event was finished, result in the UT Board of Trustees circling the wagons around we went back to puzzling about the chain of events. We filed a ersatz public servants Jacobs and Zerbey, not result in the invesFreedom of Information Act request for UT President Lloyd Ja- tigation, sanctions and apology the situation would merit among cobs’ and Burns’ e-mails on the topic of our news conference. honorable men and women. At the very least, it is incumbent upon UT’s Board of Trustees ‘Very risky’ members — except Zerbey — to reflect upon this interaction. According to the e-mails Toledo Free Press obtained, this ex- You are paying Jacobs and Burns a combined $633,000, but are they the ones in control? What other decisions are being made, change took place between Burns and Jacobs on Feb. 22 and 23. Burns: “Lloyd, Just in case you were unaware of this occurring not with UT’s best interests in mind, but with The Blade’s best

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interests in mind? How many community leaders — in government, development, media and other walks of life — have been victims of this fearful, spiteful and malevolent confederacy of poltroons? How much on-the-job time does Jacobs spend scheming to appease his chieftains? If one of UT’s missions is to help Toledo evolve into a “university town,” part of that mission must be to unite the community, not divide it. Jacob’s belligerent and hostile actions offer no indication that he wishes UT to be anything other than a tool for the change-resistant network of corruption that cripples any forward momentum Toledo dreams of. One of the great lessons I learned while attending UT was the importance of speaking out against corruption, even if no one else has the courage to stand beside you at first. I want to assure you that any further aggression against or unfair exclusion of my or any other alumnus’ enterprises on behalf of Jacobs’ abject alliance will be promptly and prominently reported, across as many media forums and outlets as possible.

Live and learn Pounds saw Jacobs at a meeting a few days after the news conference and tried to talk about what had happened, but Jacobs cut him off with an arrogant, “Live and learn, Tom.” I told this sorry tale to a UT official I respect and trust, and he responded that while Jacobs’ and Zerbey’s actions were reprehensible, it would be a mistake for me to “punish the institution for the failings of its temporary caretakers.” But I have to tell you, UT Alumni Association, I felt a bitter wave of distaste when I opened your letter requesting I renew my membership. How am I supposed to be a proud, supportive UT alumnus when UT isn’t proud or supportive of me? I wonder how many other alumni, after reading this, will feel that disappointment, and respond accordingly. I wonder if you even care. I wonder what it will take to make you care.

Core values On one of my visits to speak at UT, I saw a poster in University Hall that displayed the “core values” of UT’s mission statement. It includes the following ideals: ■ “Treat every individual with kindness, dignity and care; consider the thoughts and ideas of others inside and outside of the University with a strong commitment to exemplary personal and institutional altruism, accountability, integrity and honor ... ■ “Provide a collaborative and supportive work environment, based upon stewardship and advocacy, that adheres to the highest ethical standard. Provide services that meet students’ and regional needs and where possible exceed expectations; be ... a center of excellence for cultural, athletic and other events ... ■ “Engage in reflective planning and innovative risk-taking in an environment of academic freedom and responsibility.” Perhaps, UT Alumni Association, you can use another alumnus’ donation to buy and install a “core values” poster inside Jacobs’ office. He obviously has not read the one in the hallway — I’d rather believe that than believe he holds your “core values” in such contempt.

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The soccer plot

ell, the most ridiculous school team for several years with thing I’ve seen this week great success using basketball and out of the Right Wing hockey strategies. I have yet to noWackos, or as William Safire once tice any socialist tendencies out of wrote for Spiro Agnew, the nattering the four grandchildren who have played and/or are nabobs of negativity, still playing soccer. is the idea that soccer, Somehow, I think the and the World Cup, are world, or at least the some kind of leftist plot narrow minded world to destroy America. that we seem to be As reported in regressing into in this Media Matters, the country, is still safe for June 11 Glenn Beck democracy. I also have Show regaled us with yet to see any third“I hate it so much, grade riots, although probably because the I have witnessed sevrest of the world likes Don BURNARD eral peeved parents it so much — and they riot over it, and they continue to try from time to time, over some call that and jam it down our throat.” On G. a high school-aged or even middleGordon Liddy’s June 10 show, Liddy aged referee made or didn’t make. claimed that soccer “... originated (Disclaimer: I’ve even been slightly with the South American Indians peeved from time to time myself). and instead of a ball, they used to Having said that, I’ve also seen the use a head, the decapitated head of same and felt the same at any sporting event I’ve ever attended, including a defeated warrior.” The Media Research Center’s Dan that great American pastime, baseball. Gainor, a guest on the show, added, My personal opinion is that this right “the problem here is that soccer is de- wing rage stems from the fact that the signed as a poor man’s and poor wom- rest of the world calls soccer football, an’s sport” and “the left is pushing it and we Americans know what real in schools across the country.” He football is! The real point is, this country has later added that “the sport of soccer is being sold” as necessary “due to the devolved into this idiotic frame of mind where we feel the need to show browning of America.” Mark Belling, the guest host on our patriotism and superiority by the June 11 Rush Limbaugh Show, the most inane means possible. Do said, “I haven’t talked about the you remember when we had actual World Cup. I haven’t talked about votes to change calling french fries how they’re force feeding this down in the Congressional dining room to “freedom fries?” There are hundreds of our throats.” Now I ask you, is there anything equally dumb examples that could fill left in the world that isn’t some kind the pages of this paper, but my fingers of leftist, socialist plot to these idiots? would be worn down to stubs typing How did these morons even get a them all. Are these really the examples venue to spew this crap? Is this re- the world should look at to see that we ally what passes for rational thought? are the greatest country on Earth? Telling the rest of the world how Beck even compared the World Cup to Obama’s policies. Evidently, as long stupid they are and using the aras they can get enough cretins to buy guments that are proliferating the the manure they’re spreading, they will media today doesn’t seem to me to be a winning strategy. In fact, it continue to flourish on the airwaves. I personally have never been a doesn’t seem to be a strategy at all. Maybe it’s time to start leading by huge fan of soccer. No one I knew played it when I went to school, example again, instead of by criticizing either with soccer balls or warrior everything anyone does and everybody heads. I also didn’t see the point in who does anything at all. The problems watching a game where only some we face require real solutions, not conguy on the field knew how much of- stant criticism. One thing I’ve become ficial time was left in the game, and aware of during the years is that just where the game could end abruptly when I think I’ve seen or heard the in a tie after several hours and ev- dumbest thing ever, there’s sure to be eryone left with no winner. None someone along directly to top it. To me, of my kids played soccer either. My that’s a pretty sad state of affairs. grandkids however, do play soccer, and my son, with no soccer training E-mail columnist Don Burnard at whatsoever, coached an elementary letters@toledofreepress.com.

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GUEST COLUMN

TPS must keep promise for independent review

n the surface, the concept presented by TPS Board of Education President Vasquez for an independent review of TPS seems appropriate and needed. However, past attempts at conducting such operational reviews have not resulted in meaningful reforms of TPS usually due to “school board politics.” TPS officials have consistently used these opportunities to create favorable “public relations” usually timed to influence the next levy on the ballot. In 1999, the Corporation for Effective Government (CEG) did a benchmark study of TPS and its operational practices, which was conducted by a blue ribbon committee of Toledoans and others. Not included in the study were areas involving union contracts or labor management practices. TPS administrators and union leaders who sat on the steering committee would not participate if these areas were included. Results: Not one single recommendation has been implemented.

When the community passed a levy In 2002-03, at the urging of education reform advocates, the TPS to renovate Scott High School two years Board of Education agreed to develop ago, the Scott community wanted an ina strategic plan and hired educational dependent oversight committee to monitor the project. Having consultant and reform seen what happened guru Phillip Schlechty. with the building projects In May 2003, the and the state of the TPS public was presented a building plan, they were “roadmap to success.” rightly concerned. Results: Not one single What they got was a recommendation has hand-picked committee been implemented. of folks who had ties to In 2002, the public TPS or board leadership. approved a major The committee has not building program. The been heard from since. board promised an in- Steven FLAGG There are many more dependent oversight committee to monitor the program. instances of community committees The committee included many individ- during the last 15 years, including reuals who did business with TPS. Con- cently. Whenever community memflicts of interest abounded and some bers get upset, TPS puts a committee individuals serving on the committee together or implements a study to adwere involved in some sweetheart dress the issue. The results are always deals. The committee met about three the same: A waste of time and effort. Can we expect Vasquez and the years — sporadically at the end before committee members lost interest and board to deliver on his latest promise? Let’s examine Vasquez’s January the committee stopped meeting.

2010 promise of a cost cutting committee when TPS said a new levy was needed. Most expected the committee to be similar to Mayor Bell’s “CSI” committee. No committee was ever established. The community and employees had no input on potential budget cuts or ideas to save school funds. Vasquez failed to meet his promise. And there are more examples of Vasquez’s failure to act while on the TPS board. Finally, getting board consensus on the effort along with the support of top TPS officials would seem the first order of business in getting an effort like this underway. Vasquez admits in press interviews that he did not discuss it with all board members before his announcement at a meeting of an economic development group called The Partners. A Blade reporter just happened to be in the audience. Why? A skeptic would see this as a great way to get personal attention for being a problem solver in preparation for his next run at city council.

Grandstanding never solved any problems. It can draw attention to problems, but most in this community already know that TPS has major intractable problems. The current effort can only work if the TPS board charters the committee by vote. It must be autonomous and look at both operational and financial practices, including current union contracts. No TPS officials or employees should be members of the committee. All employees and records must be available for interviews and inspection. All committee members must be free of financial or other relationships that pose a conflict of interest. The true intentions of the board will be evident in how it structures the committee. Without independence and inclusion of the education reform advocates, it’s just more grandstanding in preparation for a November levy. Steven Flagg is a community activist and education advocate. For more information, visit www.tpsinfo.com.

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Local Republicans pick Stainbrook as party chair Jon Stainbrook was elected executive committee chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party (LCRP) on June 9. “Now that this is done, we move forward to fight the real enemy which is the Democrats,” Stainbrook said. The scheduled meeting settled the controversy about who is the head of the LCRP, with Stainbrook elected chairman against Jeff Simpson. Meghan Gallagher was elected chairwoman of the LCRP central committee. — Kristen Rapin

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Aug. 7 event will honor local activist Robert Brundage By Brandi Barhite TOLEDO FREE PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR bbarhite@toledofreepress.com

At first glance, it looked like Robert Brundage was just at the meeting for the food. The community activist was known to eat his share and then tuck extra into his handkerchief for later. But for those who knew him, eating was just part of the agenda. WOODBERRY Wa r r e n Woodberry said people hesitated when they first met

his friend because of his scruffy appearance. It wasn’t until he started talking that they realized his knowledge was larger than his stomach. “If you needed to know something about the environment, diversity, city history, you would seek him out,” Woodberry said. “He was a walking encyclopedia.” As the one-year anniversary of his attack and death approaches, Woodberry is leading the effort to honor Brundage with an event that will capture his best qualities. The 66-year-old Toledoan promoted getting along with others, taking care of the environment and treating people fairly. The Robert Brundage Celebration

Celebration of Life The Robert Brundage Celebration of Life event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 7 at Toledo Botanical Gardens. The day will include free music and poetry readings. of Life event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 7 at Toledo Botanical Gardens. The day will include free music and poetry readings. “It is going to be a respectful event to honor the epitome of a real community-oriented person. He belonged to many groups and he was very socially conscious,” said Woodberry, chairman of the community relations committee for the Toledo Board of Community Relations, the

event’s facilitator. Woodberry said Brundage never would have wanted his death — at the hands of a 15-year-old stealing the bicycle he rode everywhere — to divide the community. Dailahntae Jemison was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Department of Youth Services for the homicide. “This will be like a healing,” Woodberry said. “We want to stay away from any reference to his death

or the circumstances.” The list of Brundage’s activities is enormous, but includes Erase the Hate, Collingwood Arts Center, Toledo Poetry Foundation, Seed Swap Botanical Garden and Scott Alumni Association. The Aug. 7 event, which could become annual, will also honor any volunteer who attends the event. Among those slated to perform are musicians Rachel Richardson and Dan Greunke. The poets will include members of the Mad Poets Society, as well as Mike Kocinski. Ben Langlois of Old West End Records will donate his time and equipment to run the sound for the event. ■ BRUNDAGE CONTINUES ON A7

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JUNE 20, 2010 ■ BRUNDAGE CONTINUED FROM A6 A section of Toledo Botanical Gardens will also be dedicated to tai chi demonstrations, yoga and massages. “The theme of the day will be healing,” said Donna Cohen, co-owner of the Happy Badger in Bowling Green. “Everything is going to be free, so there isn’t going to be anyone vending or promoting things. Everything Robert did, he volunteered, so in his spirit, ev-

eryone will donate their time.” Cohen said it seemed like Brundage was at every event or meeting she attended. “He was always donating his knowledge. He served our community in the most selfless fashion. He showed people what goodness is about,” she said. David Brundage, of Fairfax County, Va., knew his brother was involved

in the community, but did not realize the extent until a candlelight vigil was hosted after his June 22 attack. He died July 7 from his head injury. “He didn’t talk about the variety of groups,” his brother said. “He would talk about this activity or that activity — we never added up the list.” The Brundages grew up in a civicminded family. They moved from St. Cloud, Minn., to Toledo shortly after

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World War II. David said his mother was one of the early neighborhood activists, which rubbed off on his brother. Growing up, they lived in a mostly white neighborhood until “block busting” began to occur, he said. This involved selling a home to a black family and then convincing the white neighbors they needed to move out. “Mother was furious and said, ‘We are never going to sell that way,” David said. All five of the boys played an instrument with Robert Brundage choosing the cello. He would go on to record and edit performances for Harvard University, MIT, New England Conservatory and others. “We all liked to do little projects — lots of car and airplane models around the house,” David said. “We certainly read books all the time because our father was professor of chemistry at Toledo and then music took over because of our mother.” The boys had no television growing up, instead playing chess, cards and board games. Brundage graduated from UT with an engineering degree, and later earned a Ph.D. in biophysics from Brandeis University in Boston. For many years, he lived on the East Coast, designing medical instruments and working as a researcher. Brundage returned to Toledo in the mid-1990s to care for his dad; it was then he began to reconnect with friends. By this time, he was divorced and had two sons. His life began to take a new direction. “He said he was having the time of his life in Toledo,” David said. “We were shocked that for somebody like himself who was seen on the streets on a regular basis that something like that would happen, especially when he appeared not to have much money at all.” Karen Krause, social justice chairman of the Toledo Area Jobs with Justice Coalition, said Brundage was attacked after their meeting June 22. “It was less than one block from the meeting. He was going to distribute fliers for an upcoming event,” she said. Before she gathered her papers from the meeting, several members observed the attack and rushed back to get her help because she was a nurse. “It was truly a day to remember that I would have liked to forget,” she said. Krause said members of the organization will participate in the Aug.

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BRUNDAGE 7 event, and as a group it will donate to a scholarship in Brundage’s name. Recently, the Robert Brundage/Scott Alumni Association Scholarship was established through the Toledo Public Schools Foundation. Dick Eppstein, president of the Better Business Bureau of Northwestern Ohio and Southeastern Michigan, said the Brundages were a fixture at Scott High School. He worked with Robert Brundage on saving their alma mater Scott High School. “He was a EPPSTEIN very valuable guy. I attended many meetings where he was there and if we disagreed — he was the one we turned to,” Eppstein said. Because Brundage attended so many meetings, he could clear up rumors, he said. Eppstein and Brundage agreed that Scott High School needed to revamp its curriculum. “We believe that there has been far, far too little priority paid to the curriculum and quality of curriculum in that school,” he said. “Robert and the rest of us were very concerned about kids.” Woodberry said Brundage would have helped plan the Aug. 7 event because it is important to honor local people who are making a difference. The Toledo Board of Community Relations has never honored anyone other than a national figure like Martin Luther King Jr. “He would be right there at the buffet table and have lots of ideas,” Woodberry said. “He would be telling us how to make this event better.”

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Larry Kaczala remembered for public service By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

For many in Lucas County, Larry Kaczala was one of the “good guys.” “He was extremely ethical, had an extremely good heart and was extremely professional. He was an all around good guy,” said Sandy Isenberg, former KACZALA Lucas County Commissioner. “Larry will be sorely missed for a long time.” “Larry will be remembered for being a true gentleman. He was a great guy with a big heart. If you needed something he’d help you out,” said Bob Reichert, former Lucas County Republican Party (LCRP) chairman. “He was one of the good guys. Never went out of his way to do damage to anyone,” said Judge David Lewandowski. On June 8, Kaczala, 53, died, after apparently committing suicide at Toledo Hospital. Toledo Police are investigating his death.

Service Kaczala, a Republican, served Lucas County for many years. In the 1980s he worked in the Lucas County Auditor’s office under former auditors Dan McNamara and Lewandowski, eventually serving as director of personal property tax. In 1991, Kaczala ran for Toledo City Council. “If people asked him if he was a Republican or Democrat, he told them he was Polish. That’s how he got his foot started in politics,” said Republican Doug Haynam, who met Kaczala during his city council campaign. In 1993, Kaczala was appointed to Lucas County Auditor and was elected three subsequent times in 1994, 1998 and 2002. In 2006, Kaczala lost a fourth run for the position to current auditor Anita Lopez. During his political career, Kaczala also sought the 9th Congressional District seat against Marcy Kaptur in 2004 and in 2007 he lost a bid for Toledo Municipal Court Judge.

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“He probably was the best auditor we’ve had in the last 50 years, myself included,” Lewandowski said. “He did some great things technologically — moved the county well forward.” Kaczala won state, national and international awards for implementing and using geographical information systems (GIS) within the county. Lucas County was one of the first to display real estate records online with the Auditors Real Estate Information System (ARIES). Much of the GIS technology Kaczala put in place are still used by the county today. Originally, the idea of utilizing GIS technology was passed on by the county commissioners, according to former Toledo Councilwoman Betty Shultz. Shultz, who was working as an administrative secretary at the time, said the chief building official approached the commissioners about GIS technology he heard about. The commissioners dismissed the idea and the suggestion to utilize GIS technology was given to Kaczala in a letter. Kaczala researched GIS technology and hired two gentlemen to develop software for the county, Shultz said. “I thought the situation demon-

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Kaczala was always a good political ally, with good political instincts, Haynam said. George Sarantou, Toledo City councilman, said Kaczala always gave him great advice when Sarantou ran for public office. “He had a positive, yet a realistic knowledge of Lucas County. He’d tell it to you straight what you needed to win and to serve the needs of the constituents,” Sarantou said. “He’d introduce you to other people and tell you about events that he thought you should be at. He was a big help.” Brian Schwartz, assignment editor for NBC 24, sought help from Kaczala

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while working for Mike DeWine. “I got myself in a political bind,” Schwartz said. “And the one person I saw that might help me was Larry. He didn’t owe me anything, but I told him my situation and he laughed and said been there before. He made a phone call on my behalf and I will never forget that.” Kaczala, who donated a kidney to his sister, Sharon Fickel, in the early 1990s, was also active in fundraising for the Kidney Foundation of Northwest Ohio. “Donating a kidney to a family member takes a lot of courage and a lot of love. Larry faced an interesting moral dilemma and it was an important moment in his life that encompasses who he is,” Lewandowski said. Kaczala was also an active member of Toledo’s “Block Watch” attending meetings to promote the organization, Sarantou said. Kaczala had no children and leaves behind his wife, Gina-Marie. He graduated from Central Catholic High School and attended UT for both undergrad and law school. In addition to elected offices he had with the county and the city, Kaczala taught real estate law, civil rights and ethics at UT.

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Lake High School positive about move to Owens By Mary Petrides TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Lake High School’s move to Owens doesn’t come without problems. “There’s no protocol on how you deal with a tornado ruining one of your schools,” superintendent Jim Witt said at a June 16 news conference that announced the move to Owens. “If they had that class in grad school, I missed it.” There’s no cafeteria in the Owens building. And school officials aren’t sure where athletes will play yet. Owens’ classes, computers, lab equipment and furniture will also have to move to another building about 3 miles away. But school officials, students and alumni still reeling from the June 5 tornado are confident the high school will only grow stronger. They are also thankful to Owens for donating the use of the college’s Center for Development and Training building, which is located on Tracy Road in Northwood. “We are not going to lower our

expectations,” Witt said. Owens’ 53,500 square-foot Center for Development and Training building, which houses some Workforce and Community Services and Skilled Trades Technologies educational courses, features 10 classrooms, three computer laboratories, 34 offices, two reception areas and 12 experiential learning laboratories, according to a news release. “We’re all one Lake family,” said Chris Pennington, who will be a senior at Lake in the fall. “We’re here now. Nothing can stop us.” The tornado, which struck June 5, killed Ted Kranz, the father of the Lake High School valedictorian; Bailey Bowman, 2008 Lake graduate; Kathleen Hammitt of Woodville; and Ryan, Mary and Hayden Walters of Millbury. Graduation, originally scheduled for June 6, took place June 8 at Owens Community College. “You look at the institution as something permanent, and something solid, a solid foundation in the community,” said Robert Densic, a 1985 graduate. “To see it gone just puts

into play in your mind the strength of Mother Nature. No matter what kind of monument man builds, God can take it down.” Densic said he’s spoken with other Lake alumni about starting an alumni fund to restore memorabilia. “Walls and roofs and structures can be replaced, but when you start looking at some of the photographs, the banners, the plaques, the trophies — those have some story behind them,” he said. “You’ll see alumni of all years stand up and … restore what we can, and keep it safe until Lake High stands again and we can put it where it belongs.” There aren’t any definite plans yet, Densic said, but he plans to propose the idea at the class’s 25th anniversary reunion, scheduled for July 10. The tornado hasn’t affected plans for the reunion, said organizer Maria Smithers. She hadn’t planned for the reunion to be at the high school, but was looking for a reasonably priced venue that could serve alcohol — something not allowed in a public school, she said. Densic isn’t the only one hoping

to help the school. Elizabeth Urbanowski, a former Lake student, nominated the high school for “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Shortly afterward, she and a friend created a Facebook page, which more than 12,800 people now “like.” Urbanowski said she has been asked why she didn’t nominate a family whose home was destroyed. “There are so many different families. How can I pick one? I wanted to do something that would benefit the entire community,” she said. Urbanowski said she was a thirdgeneration student at Lake, and she hopes her children can attend the high school as well. She lives in El Paso, Texas, but plans to move back this fall. Overall, the response to the move has been positive. “Will it be a change for those of us who remember the old high school?” Smithers said. “Absolutely. We can’t look into the past; we have to look forward, and that’s going to be the students at Lake High School.”

McDougle named Owens president Owens Community College Board of Trustees has ended its presidential search and selected Larry G. McDougle to serve as the academic institution’s new president, according to a June 8 news release. McDougle McDOUGLE has been serving as the college’s interim president since January of this year. According to the release, the Board of Trustees approved McDougle’s appointment as the fifth President in the 45-year history of Owens Community College during its regular June meeting. The Board of Trustees and McDougle have agreed to a one-year contract.

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Surveys split on Jacobs’ performance By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

UT President Lloyd Jacobs received low ratings in a spring performance review by the university’s Faculty Senate, but received 100 percent support in an annual review by the UT Board of Trustees. “This institution is in a phase of rapid growth — growth in enrollment, size and research dollars. We’re on a roll which brings us to a new stature and JACOBS excellence in the community and for our students. From time to time with rapid change people are stretched out of their comfort zones. I see all of this as growing pains,” Jacobs said of the low Faculty Senate ratings. For the Faculty Senate assessment, Jacobs was reviewed in 10 categories, all of which he scored an average below 3 on a 5 point scale. His overall average was a 2.2, equating to “needs improvement” on the key. The categories Jacobs was rated in include “communication/interpersonal skills,” “problem solving & decision making,” “strategic planning,” “leadership,” “ethics & integrity” and “diversity,” among others. One review stated Jacobs, “Obvi-

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stitution, approved by the president and board of trustees in 2008, calls for a performance review of administrators after they have served two years and then a review every following two years, according to Powers. A motion was passed in November to conduct a review of the president and all provosts, vice provosts and deans who had not been evaluated in the past two years. The results of the survey were delivered to Jacobs, the board of trustees and the Faculty Senate. “Someone’s objective and concerns if a friend or colleague was just laid off may be different than if you take the entire perspective of what the university is trying to achieve,” said William Fall, incoming chairman of the board of trustees. The board of trustees’ review encompassed input from all board members, 11 college deans, the president’s cabinet, the president and 234 faculty members. The president was ranked on eight performance indicators, all of which he received a 3 (OK) or above on a 5 point scale. “The board without exception is 100 percent behind Dr. Jacobs,” Fall said. “[The board’s review and the Faculty Senate review] reflect both positive and negative inputs. We honestly felt the very essence of reviews is to understand where you are where you need to go and what elements are important to continue to grow and advance the university.”

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Port flies high with new cranes By Duane Ramsey TOLEDO FREE PRESS SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER dramsey@toledofreepress.com

The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority dedicated two new mobile harbor cranes and unloaded five additional cranes recently that are headed for the new Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal being developed by CSX Corporation in North Baltimore. “It’s a historic occasion for the port authority and Northwest Ohio dedicating two new cranes and unloading five cranes for CSX,” said Paul Toth, president and CEO of the ToledoLucas County Port Authority. The mobile harbor cranes will modernize material handling capabilities at the Port of Toledo by using them to handle bulk, project cargo and large containers. The new cranes are twice as productive as the port’s older cranes and more fuel efficient using 25 percent of the fuel to operate the existing ones. The cranes are the only twin cranes of this type in operation at any Great Lakes port in the U.S., according to port authority officials. They will replace Big Lucas and Little Lucas, the cranes operating at the Port of Toledo. Each crane stands more than 140 feet and weighs more than 240 tons with maximum capacity of 84 tons per swing. They have the capability of making 20 to 25 container lifts and 30 to 35 swings per hour, according to Joe Cappel, director of cargo development for the port authority. “There is no container shipping on the Great Lakes but these cranes put Toledo in a good position to handle container trade through eastern Canadian ports. They will handle the existing bulk business at the Port of Toledo until container trade is established,” Cappel said. The two cranes were assembled

at the port by the manufacturer Liebherr of Austria and are expected to be in service by the end of June, Cappel said. The cranes were shipped by ocean freighter from Germany and arrived at the Port of Toledo May 17. The funding for the $6.5 million purchase of the cranes was provided by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. “It’s all about multi-modal transportation that puts this part of the state on the global map,” said David Dysard, deputy director of ODOT District 2. The cranes are named Muddy and Spike after the mascots of the Toledo Mud Hens and Walleye teams. The winning names were submitted by Madison Phillips, an eighth grade student of Toledo, in the “Name the Cranes” contest for area students. The additional five wide-span cranes are bound for the Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal under construction by CSX in North Baltimore. The cranes were made by Hans Künz GmbH in Austria, shipped by ocean vessel and arrived at the Port of Toledo this week. The 70 containers holding the equipment for the cranes were unloaded at Midwest Terminals onto rail cars that will transport them to the CSX site. “These cranes represent a major part of the revolution in freight transportation taking place in this region. Once installed, the cranes will reduce emissions and improve the efficiency of our operations throughout the Midwest,” said Peter Craig, terminal superintendent of the new facility for CSX. The Northwest Ohio Terminal will employ more than 200 people when it becomes operational in 2011 with an additional 400 jobs during the construction of it. About 2,600 direct and indirect jobs will be created over the next 10 years as a result of the facility, Craig said.

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Keys to recognizing symptoms of dementia T he Brown family reunion has always been an event everyone looks forward to. Family visits, games, stories and everyone’s favorite foods are always on the agenda. On the top of the menu is Grandma’s Lemon Coconut Cake. Grandma always makes the traditional cake from her old family recipe. This year, however, the cake tasted a little on the salty side, perhaps a half cup full of salt. Debra Though the family was disappointed about the cake, they were more concerned with Grandma’s confusion with the recipe and her similar confusion about the loved ones around her. Could something be wrong with grandma’s mental state? One might say that for an elder person a little forgetfulness or confusion is normal, but when do you know if there is a serious problem, such as dementia? An online article from the website FamilyDoctor.org outlines some common symptoms in recognizing dementia. “Dementia causes many problems for the person who has it and for the person’s family. Many of the problems are caused by memory loss. Some common symptoms of dementia are listed below. Not everyone who has dementia will experience all of these symptoms. Recent memory loss. All of us forget things for a while and then remember them later. People who have dementia often forget things, but they never remember them. They might ask you the same question over and over, each time forgetting that you’ve already given them the answer. They

won’t even remember that they already asked the question. Difficulty performing familiar tasks. People who have dementia might cook a meal but forget to serve it. They might even forget that they cooked it. Problems with language. People who have dementia may forget simple words or use the wrong words. This makes it hard to understand what they want. Time and place disROIDL orientation. People who have dementia may get lost on their own street. They may forget how they got to a certain place and how to get back home. Poor judgment. Even a person who doesn’t have dementia might get distracted. But people who have dementia can forget simple things, like forgetting to put on a coat before going out in cold weather. Problems with abstract thinking. Anybody might have trouble balancing a checkbook, but people who have dementia may forget what the numbers are and what has to be done with them. Misplacing things. People who have dementia may put things in the wrong places. They might put an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. Then they can’t find these things later. Changes in mood. Everyone is moody at times, but people who have dementia may have fast mood swings, going from calm to tears to anger in a few minutes. Personality changes. People who have dementia may have drastic changes in personality. They might become irri-

table, suspicious or fearful. Loss of initiative. People who have dementia may become passive. They might not want to go places or see other people.” Dementia is caused by change or destruction of brain cells. Often this change is a result of small strokes or blockage of blood cells, severe hypothyroidism or Alzheimer’s disease. There is a continuous decline in ability to perform normal daily activities. Personal care including dressing, bathing, preparing meals and even eating a meal eventually becomes impossible. What can family members do if

they suspect dementia? An appointment with the doctor or geriatric clinic is the first step to take. Depending on the cause and severity of the problem there are some medications that may help slow the process. Your doctor may recommend a care facility that specializes in dementia and Alzheimer’s. These facilities offer a variety of care options from day care with stimulating activities to part or full-time live-in options. Sometimes if patients tend to wander off, a locked facility is needed. In the beginning family members find part time caregivers for their

loved one. At first, loved ones need only a little help with remembering to do daily activities or prepare meals. As dementia progresses, caregiving demands often progress to 24 hour care. Night and day become confused and normal routines of sleeping, eating and functioning become more difficult for the patient. The person with dementia feels frustrated and may lash out in anger or fear. It is not uncommon for a child or spouse giving the care to quickly become overwhelmed and discouraged. ■ DEMENTIA CONTINUES ON A13

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■ DEMENTIA CONTINUED FROM A12 Family gatherings provide an excellent opportunity to discuss caregiving plans and family support. It is most helpful if everyone in the family is united in supporting a family caregiver in some meaningful way. “The first step to holding a family meeting, and perhaps the most difficult one, is to get all interested persons together in one place at one time. If it’s a family gathering, perhaps a birthday, an anniversary or another special event could be used as a way to get all to meet. Or maybe even a special dinner might be an incentive. The end of the meeting should consist of asking everyone present to make his or her commitment to support the plan. This might just simply be moral support and agreement to abide by the provisions or it is hoped that those attending will volunteer to do something constructive. This might mean commitments to providing care, transportation, financial support, making legal arrangements or some other tangible support.” Professional home care services are an option to help families in the home. These providers are trained

and skilled to help with dementia patients. Don’t forget care facilities as well. It may be the best loving care a family member can give is to place their loved one in a facility where that person is safely monitored and cared for. These difficult decisions can be made more easily with the assistance of a professional geriatric care manager. They can provide the expertise and objectivity to help assess the situation, provide the best solutions, and mediate with a conflicted family. To find one in your area, visit the website www.caremanager.org. The National Care Planning Council supports caregiving services throughout the country; visit them on line at www.longtermcarelink.net.

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Sports Classic draws 150 participants By Kristen Rapin TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR krapin@toledofreepress.com

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The Area Office on Aging (AOoA) hosted its fourth annual 50+ Sports Classic on June 12. “It was just an inspirational event where the participants were proud of their athletic accomplishments,” said Justin Moor, vice president of communications and operations for AOoA. “All the people there watching were hopefully inspired to work to have the same sort of athletic accomplishments when they reach that age.” More than 150 participated in the sports classic, with participants ranging from 50 to 90 years old. A total of 250 gold medals were awarded.

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What began with a march in Washington, D.C., seven years ago has grown into an annual event for spreading awareness about child abuse. YELL & TELL: stop child abuse now will sponsor its seventh annual rally at 1 p.m. June 27 at the Walbridge Park shelter house. The event will feature information tables furnished by organizations, such as Lucas County Children Services and the Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center. The Lucas County Sheriff ’s Office will also be on hand to fingerprint children. Mark Robinson, founder and executive director of R.E.S.T.O.R.E. Inc. and co-founder of the Northcoast Fatherhood Initiative, is the event’s main speaker. He will address the role of the father in the family and how fathers can prevent child abuse. “The importance of the role of the father is so significant in the life of children,” said Robinson, a father of two. He supports policies promoting active fatherhood in contrast to many policies that simply track down the

father when child support is lagging. State Sen. Teresa Fedor and Mayor Michael Bell will also speak. A 50/50 raffle and silent auction will take place as well. This is the first year the rally will take place at Walbridge Park. Wildwood Preserve Metropark and the Springfield Twp. administrative building previously hosted the event. YELL & TELL President Pamela Crabtree said the change in location is a chance to target a wider demographic. “I’m really hoping we’ll get a really diverse crowd. Child abuse is running rampant in our area and it has to be stopped,” she said. According to the Lucas County Children Services Annual Report, 4,362 reports of child abuse involving 6,280 alleged victims were made in Lucas County last year. Of these, Children Services determined there were 1,335 substantiated victims of abuse. Forty-five percent of the victims were 5 years old or younger. Physical abuse or neglect was cited in 87 percent of the substantiated claims, and another 11 percent involved sexual abuse. Every case of child abuse is different, but many are similar to each

other, Crabtree said, adding that preventing maltreatment begins within the family. About 68 percent of maltreatment victims are abused by a family member, according to the website www.childhelp.org. “A large proportion of child abuse

takes place in the home,” she said. “Child abuse can be stopped by parents keeping communication open with their children. A child has to be comfortable they can go to their parents and say, ‘someone has touched me inappropriately’.”

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;If child abusersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for instance pedophilesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if they are not stopped and reported, they can go on and, in their lifetime, they can abuse over 200 children,â&#x20AC;? Crabtree said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reporting the abuser is very, very important.â&#x20AC;? A variety of individuals and entities make the reports. According to Children Services, private individuals referred a child 22 percent of the time, and another 21 percent came from anonymous sources. Social service pro-

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Toledo-area residents co-write book on dealing with burdens By Betsy Woodruff TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER bwoodruff@toledofreepress.com

When Michele Howe had shoulder surgery five years ago, she did not know the recovery would be even harder than the operation. But for her, healing was extremely difficult. “As you’re recovering and not at your best, life keeps going on,” she said. HOWE She discussed the challenges of healing with her surgeon, Dr. Christopher Foetisch, concerned her experience was unusual. “You’re not different,” he told her. “A lot of people go through it. It just takes some time. Everything will work out.” He said many people underestimate how much time recovery takes. “You can’t rush Mother Nature,” he said. “Everybody wants to be better yesterday.” That realization inspired Howe to suggest that the two collaborate on a book project. They had co-authored several magazine articles on women’s health issues, and a full-length book seemed like the next step. Their book, “Burdens Do a Body Good: Meeting Life’s Challenges with Strength (and Soul),” explores the challenges of carrying burdens. Foetisch said the book is not specifi-

cally targeted at women who are recovering from surgery; rather, it has advice for readers facing a variety of struggles. Howe offers advice on the emotional aspects of these challenges and Foetisch discusses the medical side. “You grow through the hard times,” Howe said. “We don’t grow through the high times of life.” The book is divided in two sections. The first is on personal life challenges, including loss, depression and uncertainty. The second examines situational challenges, including relocation, financial setbacks and physical illness. Each chapter has a section in which Howe offers advice on dealing with a challenge. Then, Foetisch gives specific advice on how readers should physically care for themselves while going through specific challenges. For example, the chapter on exhaustion begins with a discus-

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any today argue that after the correction in stock prices, in real terms, market’s peak in 2007 and and is now poised to resume the trend subsequent decline, inves- of a long-term bull. For our outlook we look once again tors have another eight to 12 years of bear market to look forward to before to the past: After the bull market closed with the Carter years, the correction is done. Reagan took office and Our view is substantially oversaw drastic policy more optimistic. changes that ushered in Looking at stocks a new era of prosperity during the past 15 for companies and escayears, one will notice lating stock prices that that neither the Dow lasted for approximately Jones Industrial, nor the 20 years. S&P 500 (a much better The same shift is, sample) have gone anywhere in more than a Dock David TREECE in our opinion, developing in the market, decade, since 1998. In fact, an investor who bought either and will likely take place at the end of these indices at that time would of Obama’s first (and probably only) actually have losses — significant term. Lately the economy has begun losses — in real terms (when infla- showing signs of life, from housing inventory dropping to manufaction is considered). This brings us to the startling re- turing beginning to shift to the U.S., alization that stocks have not been in to the financial crisis abating. Please don’t misunderstand, invesa bear market since 2007, as many would believe, but since 1998. In tors can’t simply throw caution to the other words, we are likely much, wind and begin buying indiscrimimuch closer to the end of this bear nately. There is still a possibility that we are in store for a slight double dip, almarket than most believe. Though we frequently cite his though more so in stock prices — it has administration for political com- already started — than in the economy. parison, the current state of financial However, this is mostly because the markets is not unlike the 1970s under economy has shown improvement, but Jimmy Carter. The market actually not nearly enough to justify the stock made a peak in 1966 under Nixon, market’s recent high prices. Nevertheless, we maintain that and despite making a marginal high under Ford around ’73, the market this correction is likely the start of a didn’t really go anywhere until 1982, shakeout that will cause many investors to shift to traditionally “safer” right after Carter left office. What this amounted to was es- investments (Treasury bonds and the sentially a lost decade for stocks, like). These investors will certainly much like the one we have just grow to regret their impatience, as emerged from. In 2000 the stocks set we’ve written before. With bond new highs, after which the market yields at long-term lows, bondholders basically trended sideways until are going to take major losses when setting a new all-time high, though interest rates start creeping back up. Once the shakeout in equities draws marginally, in 2007. Thanks in part to changes in tech- to a close, which will happen much nology that permit information to be sooner than most probably think, disseminated more quickly; the market look out for the bull coming through! has accomplished in 10 years what previously took 14: The market has Dock David Treece is a stockbroker undergone a prolonged and substantial licensed with FINRA.

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The City of Toledo is proceeding with Phase II of the Toledo Waterways Initiative (TWI) mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve water quality in 400 communities across the country. “TWI is a solution to the EPA’s requirements and not to the flooding and backups but we hope these solutions will help resolve those problems as well,” said George Robinson, commissioner of the Toledo Waterways Initiative and City of Toledo Department of Public Utilities. The total cost of the water control and treatment projects in Toledo is estimated at nearly $500 million. The local price tag compares with much higher costs in other nearby cities, such as $800 million for Akron, $1.2 billion each for Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit, Robinson said. Voters approved the original con-

sent decree for the water remediation projects required by the EPA in 2002. Robinson said the city is receiving federal and state funds to pay for the cost of the projects upfront. The customers, area users of Toledo’s water system, will repay those loans with a portion of their water bills designated for those projects. The city has secured some additional grants for the project to reduce the cost to those customers, Robinson said. Phase I of the initiative involved adding 200 million gallons per day of capacity with improvements to the Bay View Wastewater Treatment Plant completed in 2008. The additional capacity with two processes and treatable storage eliminated bypassing the flow of sanitary sewer and storm water. Phase II of the initiative involves a long-term control plan designed to meet federal and state water quality

standards for rivers and streams, while improving water quality for recreation and aquatic life, Robinson said. This plan includes 25 neighborhood projects in the City of Toledo from 2010 to 2020. It was submitted to the EPA in 2005 as part of the 2002 consent decree and revised in a modified consent decree signed in May 2010, Robinson said. “We’re trying to attack this as strategically as we can while abiding by the consent decree negotiated with the EPA,” Robinson said. The largest project will be the Downtown storage tunnel system at an estimated cost of $44 million that will begin in January 2013 and be completed in 2015, Robinson said. The city hosted information meetings for the residents of that neighborhood before construction began. — Duane Ramsey

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Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at Key Private Bank, said investors who are heavily exposed to equities should protect themselves from any unpredictable changes in the stock market. In the long run, though, he said he thinks equities are more responsible investments than government bonds. “The best times to invest are the times when you feel least comfortable making the investment,” he said at a lunch hosted by the bank. Because so many state and local governMcCAIN ments are in financial trouble, the odds of them defaulting on bonds are higher than they have been historically. Also, if interest rates rise, the value of bonds will shrink, diminishing any financial gains for bondholders. As the world economy grows, McCain said stocks have more lucrative potential for investments in the longrun. He said countries with emerging markets, including Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand, are probably good places to invest. Nations in Asia have better prospects for investment returns than European countries, according to McCain. “We wouldn’t recommend that you diversify by in-

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Goodwill’s annual Golf Classic features food and silent auction A local agency is hoping for low scores and high turnout when it hits the links in early August. Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio is preparing for its 12th annual Golf Classic, which will take place Aug. 2 at Stone Ridge Golf Club in Bowling Green. The cost is $95, which includes a hot dog lunch, access to the practice range, a round of golf and a chicken dinner. “We’ve got some really, really nice silent auction items that are coming in, including overnight stays and sports memorabilia,” said Mark Harris, Goodwill’s director of development and marketing. “We have several different golf packages that are available (for auction), and possibly one being donated from a member at Inverness,” Harris said. — Michael Stainbrook

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BROOKLYN, Mich. — Sitting in his trailer on June 12 trying to watch a movie, Denny Hamlin couldn’t concentrate. Sorry, too much going on these days. “I constantly am thinking ... my mind is racing of what we can do to make the car better,’’ Hamlin said. Judging by the way Hamlin crushed the field at Michigan International Speedway on June 13, the answer appears to be: not much. Hamlin rolled to his second straight win and fifth of the season by easily pulling away from Kasey Kahne on a late restart to extend a dominant run that began in March at Martinsville. He’s now won half of the last 10 races, his No. 11 Toyota apparently getting stronger as summer approaches. “It seems like I used to go into every season thinking, ‘We ought to get a couple wins, Martinsville, Pocono,’’’ Hamlin said. “Now it’s just show up and, hey, we can win. That to me is just a feeling I don’t think we’ve ever had before.’’ He might want to get used to it. Hamlin was so strong June 13, leading 123 of 200 laps, he hardly blinked when a late caution for debris erased his 10-second lead over Kahne. No biggie. Hamlin seemed to toy with Kahne off the restart. Kahne held tough for three laps before Hamlin put him firmly in the rearview mirror. “I didn’t like watching him drive away from me, but I wasn’t surprised when he did,’’ said Kahne. “I thought we had a really good car ... the 11 was just a touch better.’’ Kahne highlighted a resurgent day for Ford by finishing second,

followed by pole-sitter Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart. Fourtime defending champion Jimmie Johnson was sixth and Dale Earnhardt Jr. was seventh. They all were merely bystanders as Hamlin continued to stamp himself as the driver most likely to end Johnson’s lengthy reign atop the series. “Now I know how Jimmie’s felt the last four years,’’ Hamlin said. And unlike his exuberant celebration at Pocono, Hamlin kept his machine in one piece. Hamlin put a damper on the victory party last week when he smacked the wall while doing a postrace burnout. This time, his car rolled into Victory Lane in pristine condition. “There were specific instructions not to wreck,’’ Hamlin said with a laugh. Not exactly good news for the rest of the series, which finds itself scrambling to keep up. Hamlin’s only hiccup came when he temporarily lost fuel pressure following a pit stop about midway through the race. He promised his team he’d “get it back.’’ Minutes later he was in the lead. Though Hamlin remains third in points behind Kevin Harvick with 11 races to go before the Chase begins, the bonus points from his five victories would have him in first if the Chase started today. Hamlin stressed winning is more difficult than he’s made it look. “The way we’re performing now goes back six months, a year from now,’’ he said. “We’ve worked very, very hard to get to this spot right now.’’ It’s a spot where Hamlin feels he can win whenever he slides into the car. The track. The distance. The weather doesn’t seem to matter. A week after surviving NASCAR’s version of overtime, Hamlin cruised

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during a relatively quiet race that lacked some of the fireworks that have peppered the series of late. After Joey Logano and Harvick created waves during a postrace dustup, there were no flare-ups in the Irish Hills. Logano, who raced without his father Tom in attendance after he was involved in the uproar, finished 10th while Harvick struggled with his car all day and wound up 19th. The two found themselves running side-by-side for a short stretch early on, with Logano’s spotter telling the 20-year-old to give Harvick room so he could make the pass. Logano went back by Harvick moments later. “I was focused straight ahead all the time,’’ Logano said. “It wasn’t distracting. I do a good job on focusing

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out on all that stuff.’’ Kahne’s performance highlighted a resurgent day for Ford. The manufacturer still hasn’t won a race since last fall, but placed five drivers in the top 14. All five were using the new FR9 engine designed to put Ford back in the win column. Kahne sang the engine’s praises, saying it felt like he was driving on a level playing field for the first time in awhile. “I didn’t feel like we were at a disadvantage,’’ he said. Earnhardt’s finish was his best since Bristol in early spring and though his winless streak stretched to 72 races, he remains upbeat. “It was fun to drive,’’ Earnhardt said. “We felt like we had a top 10 car and we were able to show it today.’’

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DETROIT (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; F. James McDonald, who was president and chief operating officer of General Motors Corp. throughout much of the 1980s, has died. He was 87. McDonald died June 13, the automaker said in a statement. It did not give a specific cause of death. The former General Motors executive served as president and chief operating officer from February 1981 until August 1987, when he retired. McDonald, who hailed from Saginaw, Mich., got his start at GM as a student at the automakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s university, the General Motors Institute. He spent two years in the Navy after graduation and then returned to GM in 1946, working at Saginaw Malleable Iron, a foundry for engine parts. McDonald is survived by his wife, a daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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and can choose the glass pieces they want to break in one of four theme rooms. Each room is equipped with a camera and speakers for entertainment and safety purposes, Williams said. He said the purchased a whole stockroom of glassware from Libbey so people can break glass items from beer mugs, wine glasses, plates, bowls and as big as pitchers and

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Upset about rising gas prices, oil spills or other automobile frustrations? Check out the Wreck Shop where you can meet those needs by breaking glasses against the walls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let your stress, tension and worries go at the Wreck Shop,â&#x20AC;? said Walter Williams, who owns the new business venture, with his wife Michelle, located in Downtown Toledo. Walter originally got the idea for the business from not having a proper place or way to relieve stress without getting in trouble with his wife at home. He works as an aircraft mechanic at To-

ledo Express Airport and Michelle is a teacher with Toledo Public Schools. The Toledo couple rented a storefront on North Superior Street and opened the Wreck Shop about six weeks ago. When you walk in the door, it says on the wall, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember Why Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Here ... a breakup, child support, high gas prices, your boss, children, wife or traffic.â&#x20AC;? The menu reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You buy it, you break itâ&#x20AC;? and lists the categories with number of items such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;botheredâ&#x20AC;? with six items for $5; â&#x20AC;&#x153;frustrated,â&#x20AC;? 13 items for $10; â&#x20AC;&#x153;very annoyed,â&#x20AC;? 20 items for $15; ranging to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Day To Go To Jailâ&#x20AC;? with 45 items for $30.â&#x20AC;? Participants wear jumpsuits and helmets with face shields for safety

punch bowl sets. He said Libbey offered him a â&#x20AC;&#x153;good deal as long as I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell it.â&#x20AC;? The customer gets to throw the items from behind a railing against marble walls in rooms where rock bands used to practice. The House of Rock moved to the second floor in the building, he said. The Rock Room features graffiti on the walls where clients get to

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Perrysburg senior wins Hyundai Elantra from Taylor By Mary Petrides TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Perrysburg High School seniors gathered in the high school auditorium to watch their class video as part

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■ ELANTRA CONTINUED FROM A23 His friends were also excited about his win, he said. “They were just as shocked as I was,” he said. “They just started asking me for rides and taking them places and whatnot. They still do.” Taylor said the Elantra was chosen because it would please both high school students and

their parents. “That car’s won all sorts of awards as far as safety and reliability,” he said. “It’s got a good body design and a good style. We thought it was something a high school senior would be excited to drive, and also something the parents would like.” Skaff said he drove a 1996 Mazda before he won the Elantra. “My favorite part [of the Elantra] is the power

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these seniors is going to win this car.” Taylor said he’s thought about doing “some promotional-type things” at football and basketball games. “We don’t really know what they’re going to be yet,” he said. “We’ve got some crazy ideas up our sleeve.” This fall, Skaff will drive the Elantra to Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, where he plans to study video game animation.

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Artists needed for Perrysburg festival Perrysburg Area Arts Council is looking for artists to display and sell their work at the July 10 MidSummer Artfest / Rockin’ at Riverplace festival Applications are due June 22. Amateurs and professionals are invited to submit work, and crafts are juried before the show. The daytime event is free; there’s a $7 cover for the evening event. For more information, visit www. perrysburgarts.org or call (419) 873-2787. — Mary Petrides

Hall of Famers Lynyrd Skynyrd to play DTE, Blossom By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

“God and Guns,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first studio release in six years, is loaded with political and survival themes, delivered with the group’s three-guitar firepower. “This country was founded on God and guns, you know, and the Second Amendment,” said Gary Rossington, guitarist and a founding member of the Southern rock band. “We just live out in the country in Florida so you have to protect yourself from bad neighbors if there are any, snakes and gators and things like that, so we believe in guns to protect yourself. Of course, not handguns that you kill people with and run around with hidden. “And we believe in God, and we think it was better when we used to pray in school and say the Pledge of Allegiance. We’re not really preaching

it, that’s just the way we feel.” Lynyrd Skynyrd has dealt with a lot of feelings the past three decades. The rockers took a 10-year break after a 1977 plane crash claimed the lives of singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines. Since then, five members have died. While recording “God and Guns,” the group lost keyboardist Billy Powell, 56, and bassist Ean Evans, 48. “It was kind of a healing process for us to finish the record for Billy and Ean and play as best we could,” Rossington said during a call from New York City last fall. “They were part of this album and played on some songs and were around when we were starting it, so we wanted to finish it not just for the fans but for them.” Two songs on the disc, “Storm” and “Gifted Hands,” pay tribute to Evans and Powell, respectively. “[Powell] was a roadie for us, believe it or not, and we got stuck at a show one

night. It was a teen dance at a school, and we waited to load the equipment in the truck because it was raining real hard. So he just sat down at this piano that was in the gym where we played and said, ‘If I was to play ‘Free Bird,’ I’d play it like this,’ and he started playing all the beautiful stuff the way he had made it up; he was a classical piano player. So we fired him that night and hired him,” Rossington said. Lynyrd Skynyrd — Rossington, lead singer Johnny Van Zant, guitarist Rickey Medlocke, guitarist Mark Matejka, bassist Robert Kearns, keyboardist Peter Keys and drummer Michael Cartellone — will play June 24 at DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mich., and July 8 at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls. Both shows start at 7 p.m. and will feature Bret Michaels and .38 Special. Tickets range from $22 to $65.50. Odds are fans will hear the new song, “Skynyrd Nation.”

“Every time we look out playing live shows, there are two or three generations out there — there’s older people and their kids and then some of their kids,” Rossington said. “It’s like a ‘Skynyrd Nation ’… You pull up and people are making hot dogs and throwing footballs and playing and having barbecue tailgate parties and

then they come into the show.” Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Lynyrd Skynyrd has sold 28 million records, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Saturday Night Special” and “Gimme Three Steps” are still staples on classic rock radio.

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Harp builder to give presentation as part of ‘Harp Week’ Toledo Symphony Rehearsal Hall, as part of an annual Harp Week founded and directed by local harpists Denise Grupp-Verbon and Nancy Lendrim. Grupp-Verbon and her husband, Michael, run a harp festival every May in Archbold. Last year, Woodworth

wood harps for more than 26 years and, as far as he knows, he’s the only mainstream harp builder to produce harps made primarily out of carbon fiber. Woodworth will give a presentation on the process of building carbon fiber harps at 3 p.m. June 22 in the

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This makes a huge difference when harpists have to carry harps into churches and recital halls and when playing, he said. With most harps, the harpists must lean the instrument on their shoulders in order to play. As musicians age, this can cause neck and back problems, and many harpists stop playing. Woodworth won’t perform, however. He doesn’t play. “I’ve been building for 26 years but still can’t play worth a darn,” he said. “I’ve been so darn busy building harps that I don’t know when I would have stopped to play them. His wife, Pamela, plays quite well, he said. According to their website, www.heartlandharps.com, she has released nearly 20 CDs of harp music. Harp Week participants will give a concert at 7 p.m. June 25 in the Great Gallery in the Toledo Museum of Art. Concert is free and open to the public.

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presented his first carbon fiber harp at the festival. Grupp-Verbon was the first to play it publicly. Since then, Woodworth has built and shipped about 35, he said, and he already has orders for about 20 more. He’s sold carbon fiber harps to people all across the country, and Canada and Australia. Woodworth said he’s seen other traditionally wooden instruments, like guitars and cellos, made from carbon fiber, but because of a smaller demand, it’s expensive to make harps from carbon fiber. The development cost for carbon fiber harps runs about $25,000, he said — compared to less than $1,000 for wood harps. Despite the high cost, Woodworth’s customers like the carbon fiber harps. For one thing, they don’t weigh nearly as much as traditional wood harps. A 27-pound wood harp has a carbon fiber equivalent weighing only 11 pounds, he said.

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Maumee theater to host Godzilla marathon Godzilla has already invaded Tokyo and New York. Thanks to a creative 13-year-old, Toledo is next on his list. This summer, the Maumee Indoor Theater will have a week-long marathon of Godzilla films. Ty Szumigala, the executive director of the theater, credits the idea of hosting the marathon, dubbed “Godzillathon,” to Connor Krix, a rising eighth grader. Krix pitched the idea to Szumigala a few months ago. The proposal immediately caught his interest. “I had to smile and laugh, and thought, I’m going to call him up and see if we can do something this summer!” Szumigala said. The originality and creativity of the idea intrigued him. “It just felt right, and I don’t know why,” he said. The marathon has special signifi-

cance for Krix because a display in front of the theater will give moviegoers information on autism. Krix has Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. His mother suggested placing a display in the theater during the marathon. Szumigala liked the idea — he has had several employees who have Autism — but had no idea that Krix had Asperger’s syndrome. “She paused for a minute and said, ‘You hadn’t realized’?” he said. The display will have information from the Autism Society on the disorder and a place for people to leave donations. Krix said he hopes by helping organize the marathon, other kids who have Asperger’s syndrome will see they are capable of great things. From June 21-25, the Maumee Indoor Theater will host a marathon

of Godzilla films. Nine films will hit the big screen, two every day with one shown twice. Tickets will be $3.50 or $25 for a week’s worth of classic monster fun. The films will show in the early and late afternoons: noon and 2 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and

Wednesday, and 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. This is the theater’s first foray into showing specialized films. Szumigala said the theater might have another marathon, perhaps featuring the “Star Wars” films. — Betsy Woodruff

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