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JANUARY 11, 2009

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

The good fight LinkedIn to Facebook T “H

he year 2009 is not starting off with a bang for many of our neighbors. With double-digit unemployment in our area, many people aren’t earning dollars. Many who are earning dollars aren’t spending them. That means people who sell stuff aren’t selling as much. That means people who make stuff aren’t making as much. That means people who supply and ship stuff aren’t supplying and shipping as much.

It’s Economics 101, and it’s a vicious cycle.

Things will get better — things always do — but no one knows when.

Media are not exempt from the pain. Some of our local competitors are forsaking print for the Web. Some, like Toledo City Paper, are cutting their production frequency in half.

We are making smart adjustments, but we are not retreating.

As we enter our fifth year of business, we face some challenges, but remain strong and healthy in circulation — Toledo Free Press is still Lucas County’s largest Sunday newspaper — and now, we will be the marThomas F. POUNDS ket’s only weekly general circulation publication. We are committed to a circulation well over 100,000 copies and weekly frequency because that is the best way for us to get good community news to the population, and it is by far the most cost-efficient way for businesses to advertise. It is important for businesses to have a smart place to brand their products and remind people that belt tightening notwithstanding, there are purchases to be made and a recovery to get under way.

We’re not starting the year looking down or back, or by giving up our weekly ground. We’ll hunker down and make smart decisions, and continue to provide a strong, progressive, educational voice for readers and a healthy, far-reaching vehicle for advertisers. Times are tough, but we’re not throwing in the weekly towel; we’re redoubling our efforts to serve our neighbors and our community.

Dramatic cuts do not send a message of strength and faith in our local economy. Forward-looking adjustments must be made, but for us, that means working smarter while providing better service and content.

We’ll stay with you as you campaign for Toledo’s recovery through hard work and perseverance.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Goodbye, 2008 There once was a year called ’08.

For the most part, it wasn’t so great.

My 401(K) Won’t see light of day ’Til my children’s retirement day.

MICHAEL X. McARTHUR, Toledo

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ours,” Mick Jagger once observed, “are like LinkedIn in a competitive context (as in, “Well, gosh, if I have more than 100 contacts, surely you, with several diamonds: don’t let them waste.”

I’m normally more in tune with Lennon- years to catch up, could match that.”), they knew they had my weak spot, my Br’er Rabbit’s imMcCartney philosophy, but as I rack up pulse, my Achilles’ heel. more days on the far side of 40, Jagger’s I began perusing the LinkedIn invitaadmonition becomes more relevant. tions, looking for contacts and friends, As my wife Shannon will testify, my and started rolling. And it is a convenient job does not end when I leave the office. database of contacts, one I would argue News is a 24/7 business, and the phone should emphasize quality over quantity. and computer are constant, vigilant But a funny thing happened on my way companions. Add the responsibilities of to LinkedIn; I discovered Facebook. maintaining a healthy marriage, raising Facebook, a free service that serves as two children under 3 years old and trying more of a fun social network of friends, to keep in touch with friends and family, Michael S. MILLER is wildly addicting. Instant messaging, and my hours are spoken for. photo sharing, distractions of all types As a result, I’ve ignored the MySpace/ LinkedIn/Facebook revolutions, despite steady clam- and just the good feelings that come from being in conoring from my various e-mail inboxes. Who has time to tact with friends flow through Facebook like a warm breeze on a crowded beach. maintain social networking Web sites?

More than 140 million people But during a pre-Christmas visit to participate with Facebook, with Fort Wayne, Ind., the insidious hapIt’s easy to keep nearly half of them linked to Ben pened, and I became drawn in. Two of page. my friends since college, Will Nicholes a Facebook window Konop’s During the course of the workday, and Randy Monnin, espoused the fun it’s easy to keep a Facebook window and benefits of LinkedIn, a free service open to see who is open to see who is online, who that allows business associates and commenting on what and just friends to “link” via e-mail and a Web online and monitor ismonitor the general chatter. This is page. I would testify in court that neiespecially convenient when one is ther Nicholes nor Monnin has any exthe general chatter. I researching the site for journalistic perience dealing drugs, but they may purposes, but I can imagine Facehave missed a vocational opportunity, for they applied peer pressure like high can imagine Facebook book joining such banned-at-work as eBay, MySpace and Web sites school seniors trying to push a bag of joining such banned- sites with the word “hottie” in the URL. dope on a sophomore with a wallet full The question becomes, “How of allowance money. at-work sites as eBay, much time can/should one devote Their basic argument boiled to Facebook when there are so many down to “all the cool kids are doing MySpace and Web demands on one’s time?” My initial it,” a persuasive and iron-clad dictate was worn away by the joy since Eve talked Adam into taking a sites with the word resistance and rewards of being in touch with so big ol’ bite of the forbidden fruit. friends on a faux-daily basis.

I demurred, citing age and time “hottie” in the URL. many Jagger counts the hours like diarestraints as major obstacles to demonds, but I argue that friends and voting any time to such pursuits.

At Nicholes’ house, the conversation continued, and family are just as precious. It’s not possible to stockpile since pressure and sales pitch failed, the two pushers ap- hours, but friends can be there for constant comfort, plied the one tactic guaranteed to capture my imagina- council and consolation.

It’s a trade; time for friendship. Hours for relationtion: competition.

On my lengthy list of character faults, being overcom- ships. Tick-tocks for love.

From this side of 40, the choice is a no-brainer. petitive looms large. I hate to lose, I’m a terrible loser, and However, a line has to be drawn somewhere. Twitter? while I won’t cheat to avoid losing, I have been known to bend, rewrite and navigate the rules to at least claim a tie. In Bebo? For now, I’ll spend my hours, like diamonds, in a positive light, that competitive streak has helped me over- precious few settings. come some socioeconomic disadvantages and kept my edge Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press. strong as I grow softer in many other areas of life.

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BLUE’S VIEWS

JANUARY 11, 2009

NICK ANDERSON

The promise, revisited

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Indiana has recruited hunt seems everyone is rushing to slurp up as much of the gov- dreds of volunteer mentors to enernment bailout plans as they courage students to take the right courses and prepare possibly can. But I for college entrance want to talk about exams. The plan a privately funded has elevated Inprogram to invest diana from one of in young people. It’s the worst education a plan that is already states in the country working in some to one of the best. nearby communiI asked Raties. And it’s a plan domski about the that could revitalize effort by Lucas Toledo.

County CommisA few months Jim BLUE ago, I wrote about “The Kalam- sioner Ben Konop to get a Promise azoo Promise,” a program that program under way here. As you offers tuition in Michigan’s state might remember, Konop stirred colleges and universities to every things up by proposing to cut Kalamazoo Public School student back the county employee work who can qualify for admission. I week and use the savings to pay visited Kalamazoo and I learned for the Promise scholarships. Prehow “The Promise” had helped re- dictably, Konop’s plan provoked verse the school system’s declining resistance from conservatives and from his fellow commissioners. enrollment.

As a result, property values Like everything else in Toledo, it were increasing, and students got political.

Radomski acknowledges that were encouraged to perform better in school. No longer could the Promise programs can be sabany parent or student make the otaged by politics. In fact, Racine’s claim that higher education was mayor faced the same problem.

So, backers there are involving a unattainable because of cost.

Kalamazoo’s plan was paid major local corporation as well for by a group of anonymous as media and everyday citizens in private donors. It has become building support.

Radomski advised Toledo to a model for other communities and other states hoping to du- slow down in trying to implement its own Promise program. He said plicate the magic.

I recently interviewed one supporters should look at a variety of the foremost researchers of of options to arrive at a solution. these “Promise” programs. Noel Davenport, Iowa, for example, Radomski, a Ph.D. at the Univer- used a city sales tax to fund the sity of Wisconsin, Madison, con- program. Lexington, Ky., is using tacted me after I first wrote about a combination of public and priKalamazoo’s plan. Radomski is vate funds.

A “Toledo Promise” program helping determine the best way to spend a $175 million gift from would be costly. As I noted bethe former Chairman of Cisco fore, Kalamazoo, a much smaller Systems to provide scholar- school district, will pay $16 milships for Wisconsin’s public high lion a year on scholarships. But school graduates. Radomski is the payoff would be huge.

Increasing TPS enrollment also working with the mayor of Racine, Wis., to implement a would bring more state funding. program similar to the Kalam- Students would become more motivated and that would motiazoo Promise.

Radomski favors statewide vate teachers.

And, although the jury is still programs although he takes care to applaud locally based programs out, the ultimate hope is that the like Kalamazoo’s. He points to expenditures will justify themIndiana’s two-decade-old 21st selves in economic development.

Radomski says, “Crisis brings Century Scholars Program. Central to the Hoosier State plan is a people together.”

He’s right. What better reason requirement that students take to set aside politics than to invest challenging courses.

Radomski says tough courses in our children? in math and reading are the No. 1 predictor of a student’s success E-mail columnist Jim Blue at Jim@JimBlue.com. in college.

JUST BLOWING SMOKE

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Wants and needs

ike what appears to be a great many other people then, and still receive now, mostly without notice in this over the last couple of months, I recently read Glenn country. The freedoms and protections of the ConstituBeck’s newest book, “The Christmas Sweater.” While tion that our Founding Fathers provided for us 225 years ago come to mind rather quickly these days. not wishing to do a book review here, the The right to complain about the government theme of the book struck a chord in me. that we cede some portion of our power That theme is that there are two kinds of and far too great a portion of our money to things we get in our life, those we want and also seems to find itself on that list. those we need.

We seem to be more concerned these I am sure that if any of us were to look days however, with the things that we want. back, we all have stories in our lives of things We want help for people with mortgages that felt that we just had to have. Maybe it that they can’t afford and couldn’t when was a toy that we couldn’t live without, a they took them out. We want help for social gathering that we had to attend or banks, mortgage companies and brokerage maybe just a show on TV that we wanted to firms to prop up the stock market (which be allowed to stay up long enough to watch. Tim HIGGINS (Of course in my case it was all of the above.) We longed didn’t seem to work by the way). We want money to prop for these things with a passion that could not be denied. up an American auto industry that cannot seem to make a We felt that only by obtaining these wanted things that profit with their current operating plan and refuses to file we would be content, or happy, or that our lives would be for reorganization bankruptcy to come up with a better fulfilled. Some these we in fact received, though I for one one.

Here in Toledo we want to keep spending on decoranever found that contentment or fulfillment seemed to follow. For it always seemed that soon afterward, the next tions, contests and real estate speculation when we can’t toy, public outing or TV show came along that continued afford to pick up the leaves or the trash, plow or patch the streets or provide enough police or fire protection. happiness likewise hinged upon.

During that same period, we likewise received many We want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on of the things that we needed. A roof over our heads, food an Erie Street Market that we have no business owning at our tables and clothes to cover our nakedness were in the first place. We want to pay the utility bills for a there when they were required. We also received things private business (COSI) that is already in a position to of a less material nature. The love of family and friends, receive other public dollars through a levy. We want to the guidance and discipline from loving parents and an spend more than $100 million on an arena that was only education from caring teachers whose patience and sup- supposed to cost 80. We want to increase the tax burden, port helped to shape us into the people we have become government bureaucracy and regulatory levels on busitoday. Many of these needed things were given and re- nesses looking to come into the region when we have the ceived without request, presented without ceremony and highest unemployment in the state.

In the tough times we are facing, perhaps we need to received without notice. In fact, it is probably only the ones out there who for some reason did not receive these be looking beyond the instant gratification of what we things while growing up who can look back to see that want to what we truly need. they were missing in their lives.

There are some other needed things that we received Tim Higgins blogs at http://justblowingsmoke.blogspot.com/.

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GUEST COLUMN

By Thomas L. Schlachter SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS

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Why ‘Take Back Toledo’ “

here was a time, not too long ago, when Toledo was the industrial capital of the Midwest. No less than seven Fortune 500 companies called Toledo home. We had a national identity as the Glass Capital of the World, and all was good with our economy.

Industrial leaders such as Rene McPherson, Jerry Barron, W.W. Knight and Ed Dodd provided private sector leadership in Toledo.

They supported government, assisted government and served as a resource for government because they saw it as their civic duty. It was a symbiotic partnership between the private and public sector that made Toledo one of the finest urban centers in the nation.

Slowly, those Fortune 500 companies began to move away. With them they took that private sector leadership that had been so integral to the success of the city. Nobody stepped in to fill that void.

Slowly, the city that once proudly proclaimed “You Will Do Better in Toledo” devolved into a city that was outright hostile to business. Burdensome regulations were put in place.

Taxes and fees were increased. Ob-

stacles to new business were erected by city government, while what was left of Toledo’s private sector leadership remained silent.

The result is the city we know today: a city with a moribund downtown, a city with double digit unemployment, a city whose leadership is hostile to business.

It would be easy to blame the sad state of our city on government alone, but the business community bears some responsibility. We stood by silently while career officeholders and professional political hacks slowly disassembled our economy.

We will be silent no more.

Take Back Toledo was founded by leaders in the business community with three purposes. First, we want the recall of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner whose gaffes, guffaws and hostility toward business have exacerbated Toledo’s declining economy.

Second, we want to endorse and support business-friendly candidates. Finally, we want to examine the structure of Toledo municipal government to determine what changes can be made to create a more efficient government.

We did not enter into this political foray lightly. We all own or operate businesses which require our

full-time efforts. However, like most of you, we love Toledo. We do business in Toledo and to be successful, we need Toledo to be successful.

Toledo will not be successful while Carty Finkbeiner is mayor.

Whether it was the garbage tax, the imposition of burdensome regulations or enactment myriad fees, Carty Finkbeiner has been hostile to business.

Carty has brought embarrassment to Toledo.

We were nationally humiliated when Carty unceremoniously tossed a Marine Corps division out of Toledo, leading some political pundits to refer to us as the “Berkely of the Midwest.”

Travel anywhere in the nation, and he and Toledo will be instantly recognized as the mayor who wanted to move deaf people to the airport. I know that, as I travel around the country, I am tired of being embarrassed by our mayor’s irrational behavior.

Many people have asked us, “Why recall him when he’ll be out of office in three months anyway?”

Why should Toledo tolerate for three months, three weeks, or three days a substandard mayor that brings nothing but shame and misfortune to our city. I’m not willing

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to settle for a substandard mayor and neither should you. Interestingly, nobody has said, “You should not recall Carty Finkbeiner because he’s a good mayor.” It’s not just the business community Carty has alienated.

We want to make a statement to all elected officials in Lucas County: If you will not listen to business, work with business and take into account our needs and concerns, you will pay the price at the ballot box.

The days of Toledo’s business community being passive are over.

For Toledo to be successful, for businesses to create jobs, for our region to rebound in the global economy, business must reclaim its rightful place within Toledo’s civic affairs.

Like those business leaders of the last century, we do this not for our own reward or gain. We do it because we love Toledo; we love its people, and we want to reclaim it for our children and grandchildren.

For that to happen, Carty Finkbeiner must go.

Please join us in our effort to take back Toledo!

We want to make a statement to all elected officials in Lucas County: If you will not listen to business, work with business and take into account our needs and concerns, you will pay the price at the ballot box. The days of Toledo’s business community being passive are over.”

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Mayoral recall meeting planned Jan. 12 At 5:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at the Erie Street Chowder House at the Erie Street Market in Downtown Toledo, a group of business and civic leaders seeking to recall Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner will address supporters, and petitions will be issued for circulation. Information on this and future meetings is available at www.takebacktoledo.com.

HEALTH CARE

By Michael Driehorst TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Career choices may not always lead to a clear path, but, for some people, there is an underlying purpose.

The new president and CEO of St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Dr. Imran Andrabi, is one of those people. He officially assumed his new role Dec. 15, after heading up the administrative responsibilities when former president and CEO Michael McEachern left in July 2007.

“For a while, I have been thinking about being a CEO and being a part of the administrative process within a health system. Because of my unique background, having worked as a private physician, having worked in education and having worked in administration, I felt I had something unique to offer,” Andrabi said.

Andrabi received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of the Punjab and King Edward Medical College in Pakistan, respectively. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Managed Care Medicine. He is also a fellow of the National Institute for Program Director Development and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Andrabi’s association with Mercy Health Partners, the parent organization of St. Vincent, began 17 years ago during his residency, and he joined the staff in 1995. Andrabi has continued his practice during his career, and most recently was senior vice president of operational transformation at St. Vincent and chief academic officer for Mercy Health Partners.

In addition to his role as St. Vincent president and CEO, Andrabi will serve on a council with other CEOs to develop the strategic and operational direction for the Mercy system.

Barb Martin, vice president of nursing services for St. Vincent, has known Andrabi for nearly 20 years

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DR. IMRAN ANDRABI BECAME PRESIDENT AND CEO OF ST. VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ON DEC. 15. HIS ASSOCIATION WITH MERCY BEGAN 17 YEARS AGO.

and has worked with him for about the past 10. She said his levelheaded demeanor and “calming effect” on others will serve him well in his new role.

“He definitely has a very calming effect, which is very important in our environment. He’s a great listener and a relationship builder,” Martin said.

“The health care environment can be very stressful for those in a position to lead the changes that are necessary. When he pulls a team together, people relax and focus on what they really need to do.”

Looking to the future Though still early in his tenure at the helm of St. Vincent, Andrabi has a vision of what he is looking to accomplish. That vision includes maintaining St. Vincent’s “anchor” position within the Northwest Ohio health care community, continuing to serve as a tertiary care, level-1 trauma center for the local and regional community and to “further enhance” the

hospital’s specialist teams, such as cardiovascular surgery, cardiology, neurosurgery, and pulmonary and critical-care medicine.

“While we do that, we have to make sure we are cognitive of and welcoming to our primary care physicians,” Andrabi said.

“From a health care perspective, we need to have that kind of focus of how do we provide the best possible care to our patients in a quality manner every time with as few defects as possible, the first time around,” he said.

To achieve those goals, Andrabi said the hospital will emphasize providing the best level of service and care to patients, every time — and gauge those efforts by surveying patients, physicians and reviewing its overall business.

Andrabi plans to better evaluate, maintain and improve the education of the care teams, including physicians, nurses and support personnel.

With the Mercy College of Northwest Ohio also being a part of the Mercy Health System, Andrabi said his staff can take advantage of those close ties to improve their skills while also being able to attract other skilled medical professionals.

While Andrabi is looking to maintain some of the current strengths of St. Vincent, he’s looking to add others and address industrywide challenges like the shortage of physicians and open access to health care. For example, to strengthen St. Vincent’s OB/GYN offering, the hospital added two maternity fetal medical physicians, as well as a pediatric neurologist.

Andrabi said the area’s physician shortage is one problem impacting all hospitals. Northwest Ohio has approximately 80 physicians per hospital compared to Ohio’s average of 170 per hospital, and the U.S. average of 151 per hospital.

“We continually recruit we con-

tinually reassess our situation, and we continue to be very committed to education. That’s the way we can bring in a fresh group of physicians every year that can be a part of the community,” Andrabi said.

One aspect he said should improve the hospital’s ability to attract physicians is becoming part of more health insurance plans to ensure open access to more facilities. In October 2007, for example, Mercy Health Partners, which includes St. Vincent, became part of Medical Mutual of Ohio’s Network. The day after Mercy’s announcement, ProMedica did the same.

“There are many physicians who are able to be a part of this community because they do not have open access,” Andrabi said. “Ultimately, patients benefit from it, employers benefit from it, and it will ultimately drive out the waste in the system because everybody will be competing on the basis of quality and cost.”

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Ice and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Lady have a thing going on â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a thing she could do without. For the second time in a decade, Amy Finkbeiner took a spill on a slick surface, breaking her arm.

The most recent incident occurred Christmas Eve on the front steps of the South Toledo home she shares with her husband, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

The break, which she described as a distal radius fracture, has not healed well. Finkbeiner will have surgery Jan. 9 at the University of Toledo Medical Center, where she manages the Volunteer Services Department. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty bad,â&#x20AC;? she said during a telephone interview Jan. 7 from her office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in quite a bit of pain.â&#x20AC;?

The incident happened around 5 p.m. on a day that had seen rain turn a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of snow to ice on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side streets and driveways.

Finkbeiner was about to leave for the Christmas Eve service at St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church in Maumee when a family member called and said her husband needed her to bring one of his sweaters to church.

Recalling the sequence of events that led to the fall, she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was one more thing to do. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to get out the door. There had to be a good inch of ice on the front porch and steps, but all I know is I was in a hurry; church is starting and I had gotten behind because people were coming over [the next day]. So I ran upstairs to get the sweater. I stepped out the front door, took one step down to our porch stoop, two steps down to the sidewalk, and that was it.â&#x20AC;?

Finkbeiner cushioned her fall with her left arm, snapping the radius and causing other, unspecified damage. Undaunted, she continued on to church, driving herself in the family Jeep, where she delivered the sweater to her son-in-law. The mayor had yet to arrive. Finkbeiner, her arm swollen and in considerable pain, said she took communion and attended the post-service coffee hour in deference to her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

family, who were visiting from Colorado and Florida. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I needed to be there, so I was,â&#x20AC;? she said.

At 7 p.m., two hours after the fall, Finkbeiner said she turned to Carty and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;OK, I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived up to my obligations. I have to get to the hospital. So that was it.â&#x20AC;?

Finkbeiner drove herself to UT Medical Center with the mayor following her in his vehicle, she said.

Her arm was placed in a hard cast.

The following day, Christmas, she entertained her family in her home.

Her sister, Lisa Zunk, came early to help out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She did the mashed potatoes, the more industrious things.

But I made it happen. They came at noon and we served dinner at 2.â&#x20AC;?

Finkbeiner said she has been in constant pain since the accident: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bones are not setting properly. They are growing in the opposite direction.â&#x20AC;? During Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surgery, she said doctors will insert a metal plate into her arm. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wear a cast for 10 days, then have her stitches removed, after which the arm will be re-cast. She is not sure for how long.

Finkbeiner, 49, who is righthanded, has yet to miss work since the accident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told my boss that as long as I can walk and talk and use my right hand, I guess I can perform my duties,â&#x20AC;? she said.

E-mail requests for comment about the First Ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accident to the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman, Jason Webber, were not returned.

About 10 years ago, during her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first term as mayor, Finkbeiner recalled a bad spill while skating at a local rink on Martin Luther King Day. That fall resulted in a broken right arm. She still feels the effects of that injury during climate changes. With her track record on ice, Finkbeiner is seeking a safer solution. A co-worker told her about some ice cleats she recently purchased. Is Finkbeiner going to buy a pair for herself? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You better believe it,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Meeting to debut red light camera petitions A meeting will take place on Jan. 12 to discuss the ban of red-light and speeding cameras in Toledo. Americans For Prosperity in Ohio and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) partnered in Cincinnati to ban red-light and speeding cameras in 2008. They want to collect signatures to place a Toledo Charter Amendment banning red-light and speeding cameras on the November 2009 ballot.

Christopher P. Finney, a board member of COAST, said the government oppresses the citizen by using the cameras. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re spying on the citizens with the use of cameras,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to pay additional fees.

Civil-liberties violations are accompanied by these cameras,â&#x20AC;? he said. A meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Jan. 12 at the Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th St. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Aya Khalil

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2009 does not show great promise of economic growth. Those who express optimism do so cautiously.

During the past year, employment decreased by 26,600 jobs, while goods-producing industries were down 29,330; manufacturing was down 22,100; and construction lost 7,500 jobs in Ohio, according to the Department of Job and Family Services.

Educational and health services increased by 9,500 jobs, while service-providing industries added 2,700 jobs with natural resources and mining seeing a modest increase of 300 new jobs.

“Job losses continued in Ohio’s labor market during November,” said Jan Allen, interim director of Job and Family Services. “The number of unemployed has increased by 95,000 in the past 12 months. November’s unemployment rate remained at 7.3 percent as gains in service-providing jobs were offset by larger losses in goods-producing jobs.”

Unemployment was 9.5 percent in Lucas County and 7.7 percent in Wood County in November. In nearby Ottawa County, the rate was 10.3 percent, ranking it with Lucas among the 10 highest unemployment rates in Ohio. Toledo stands at a crossroads of three major areas of focus — manufacturing, energy and agricultural — to get the national economy back on track to its potential growth rate and create new jobs, according to John Augustine, chief investment strategist for Fifth Third Bank.

“The local community needs to maintain its creativity, flexibility and spirit of cooperation to benefit from what is likely to be a very large emphasis by the federal government on these areas so vital to the future of the U.S. economy,” Augustine said.

The Northwest Ohio economy could see positive impact from three areas of economic emphasis in 2009, Augustine said. First, the revival of demand in the domestic auto industry via tax credits or other means is needed to get consumers back in showrooms to reverse generational lows in auto sales that prevailed in the second half of 2008. Second, the region needs to focus on alternative energy that features solar power and efficient use of ethanol. Alternative energy was one of the main points in Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s “State of the City,” which he gave Jan. 5. Third, strong agricultural prices would have a positive impact on the farming community throughout the region, Augustine said.

Fifth Third Bank has no plans for opening any new banking centers in 2009; however, it will replace the Lagrange Street branch with a “new state-of-the-art banking center,” said Karen Fraker, senior vice president of marketing at Fifth Third Bank.

“This model will be the first of its kind in our market and will be constructed at the current site on Lagrange Street.

Our staff will conduct business from a temporary location during the construction period,” Fraker said.

The Hylant Group, one of the nation’s largest privately held insurance brokerage firms in the United States, plans to increase its business in 2009, CEO Michael Hylant said.

“It’s a very challenging environment, but our plan is to grow in each of the markets we’re in and geographically,” Hylant said. “We’re looking at 2 or 3 percent growth, which is less than our usual standard.”

The firm expanded into the Chicago market in July with the opening of its 12th office there.

“We could add some employees in our other offices or in Toledo, depending on our needs this year,” Hylant said.

The Hylant Group offers property and liability insurance for business and individuals, health insurance, employee benefits consultation, 401(k) plans, loss control, risk and wealth management services.

Tony Damon, president and CEO of SSOE Inc., predicts 2009 will be a good year for the global architectural and engineering firm based in Toledo.

“Our outlook for 2009 is optimistic. We expect to improve upon our 2008 numbers with 12 percent growth overall,” he said.

Damon attributes his optimism to the company’s ability to diversify its projects among a number of different businesses and a corporate philosophy that stresses building strong relationships with every client.

SSOE has 50 architects and engineers working on the design and construction team for a new Volkswagen manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. SSOE employees were involved in the design of the new Toyota plant in Mississippi and BMW facility in South Carolina.

Even the health care industry is not immune to the effects of the economic conditions.

Like other health systems, ProMedica has felt the impact of escalating health care costs, decreasing reimbursements and the increase in uncompensated care, according to Randy Oostra, president and chief operating officer for ProMedica Health System.

“Despite these tough economic challenges, ProMedica has maintained a solid financial position. Although many economic challenges remain across the country, we are confident that by continuing to be prudent and selective with expenses, ProMedica will sustain its financial status and continue to achieve our operating goals,” Oostra said.

ProMedica and Northwest Ohio Cardiology Consultants (NWOCC) formed a partnership that will help provide better access to high-quality, comprehensive and cost-efficient cardiology care to residents of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, he said. NWOCC will join the ProMedica Physician Group effective March 1.

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Development agencies emphasize cooperation Increased cooperation among the public and private organizations involved in economic development in the Northwest Ohio region is expected to continue in 2009.

“The community of economic development professionals is working more closely together than ever, which is very positive for the region,” said Paul Toth, interim president of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, president of UT, has been instrumental in getting the parties working together to commercialize the technology emerging from research conducted at UT, Toth said. UT is one of the first places they take visitors so they can see what a valuable resource it is.

The port authority is working more closely on economic development with the Lucas County Improvement Corporation (LCIC). Those efforts are due to Matt Sapara serving in dual roles as director of development for the port authority and interim executive director of LCIC. The Regional Growth Partnership (RGP), the area’s leading private economic development entity, sees opportunities and challenges this year.

“Overall, we believe that 2009 will be a better year than 2008, with greater economic growth and job creation for our region,” said Steve Weathers, president and CEO. “We have many challenges and hurdles at the regional, state, national and international levels.”

RGP has approximately 100 projects in its pipeline, which could result in more than 3,000 new jobs and $440 million in capital investment for the region.

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Four steps to being financially fit in 2009 W

hen we look back on 2008, many may think of it as a horrible year. It can be easy to get depressed thinking of all the negative events and it may not be good for your health to listen to the evening news.

When we think about soldiers dying, the government bailouts, the recession, gas prices going up to $4 per gallon, the Caylee Anthony Nolan tragedy, the decline of the housing Mark market, the credit crunch, the hurricane that hit Texas, wildfires in California and the stock market decline, it is no wonder that depression sets in.

Some of us try to get our minds off of the bad things by forgetting about our troubles for a few hours by watching our favorite sports teams play. This did not help Mark too much. He watched his Detroit Lions have the worst season in NFL Football history (0-16) and his Michigan Wolverines have the worst season in their history (3-9).

Although for Nolan, the sun was shining as history was made when the Toledo Rockets beat the University of Michigan Wolverines, and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the division title.

A few other positive things happened in 2008. We had a historic presidential election, a phenomenal Beijing Olympics and gas prices went back down.

On a personal note, Mark celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary, went on a hot-air balloon ride, went on a missions trip to Honduras, had a great time at his 25-year college reunion, and we both got the opportunity to write a regular column for this fine newspaper and got to move to a nice new office.

So, it depends on how you look at things. Whether you are looking at the glass half full or half empty, we have a plan to help you make 2009 your best year ever. Here it is.

1. Have an attitude adjustment if needed. Listening to all the bad news this past year may have caused you to develop a bad attitude. This is understandable and very easy to do. We all like to complain and tell others about our problems. Doing this doesn’t necessarily make us feel better and it sure doesn’t make the person listening feel better either.

Make a conscious decision to keep your attitude positive. Think about good things. You will feel better.

2. Look at where you are now. A lot has changed in the past year, so it’s time to reassess your plan of action for 2009. Your investments probably need to be rebalanced. Although, diversification doesn’t guarantee you against loss, try BAKER and look at your overall risk level CLAIR and make sure your portfolio still matches your risk tolerance. A good rule of thumb is the Rule of 100. If you take 100 and minus your age that is the amount of risky investments you should have. Add up the disclosed and undisclosed fees and expenses in your accounts. See if there is a way to reduce any unnecessary expenses.

3. Stay in the game. Focusing on the positive will help you avoid becoming paralyzed and doing nothing. Stay focused on the results you want. Put your goals in writing and prioritize those goals. Next, create a deadline to take action.

4. Reward yourself and recharge.

If you get your finances on track by taking action and get results, reward yourself. From far away destinations like cruises, to local attractions like the new indoor water park in Maumee, there are incredible deals to be found.

If finances are tight there are many places to go and things to do on a budget. Pick something you love to do locally like going to our museum or dressing up and going out for the night. Whichever you choose, having a reward for completing a goal will provide even more positive reinforcements.

We have also put together a special kit for the readers of Toledo Free Press. The Investor’s Repair Kit can help you get a better understanding of your overall financial situation and give you guidance on how to plan ahead financially. Also included, the Wealth Management Issues Form can help you summarize your financial goals and concerns and allow you to rank and prioritize your goals. The kit is complimentary to readers of Toledo Free Press, online at www.retirementguysradio.com.

Now, get out there and do it. Follow these steps and make 2009 your best

year ever. Happy New Year!

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By Michael Driehorst TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

The city of Maumee is looking to get in shape — and Medical Mutual of Ohio and many community organizations are looking to help.

Maumee City Council approved a partnership in the summer with Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio to develop and implement a three-year program aimed at “building a culture of health and wellness in the City of Maumee,” according to Rich Wallack, vice president of marketing services for Medical Mutual.

The program is open to everyone who lives or works in Maumee.

In addition to the city government and Medical Mutual, other community groups and businesses taking an active role in the “Healthy Maumee” program include the Maumee City Schools, Senior Center and Chamber of Commerce, AstraZeneca, HCR Manor Care, Pfizer, Heartland Rehabilitation, Stautzenberger College, the Mirror Newspapers and St. Luke’s Hospital.

While many groups of the community are contributing in-kind services, facilities and manpower, Medical Mutual has committed $300,000 over the life of the three-year program.

“As a city, we’re in the business of promoting a healthy lifestyle and public safety,” said Maumee City Administrator John Jezak. “We feel that Healthy Maumee is in line with that charge to improve the quality of life for all residents.”

Maumee’s latest health and wellness community initiative echoes the Get Fit Toledo campaign started in 2006. The week of Jan. 4, Lucas County commissioners named Andrew Zepeda — better known as Andrew “Z” on his radio morning show — as the “weight loss czar.”

Zepeda challenged Lucas County residents to lose 1 million pounds in 2009. Since January 2008, Zepeda lost 75 pounds, down to 325, after undergoing a lapband surgery procedure, diet and exercise. Wallack said Healthy Maumee is modeled after the pilot Healthy Solon that will start its third year in April.

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JANUARY 11, 2009 â&#x2013; MAUMEE CONTINUED FROM A13 Cleveland Magazine named Solon as the top suburb for 2008, and the mayor publicly credited the Healthy Solon initiative as being part of the reason for earning the honor.

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pilot, Wallack said the Healthy Maumee committee members are developing the program to suit its community needs.

He said the 20 to 30 members of the committee have been meeting biweekly since early September and all members are â&#x20AC;&#x153;showing a lot of passionâ&#x20AC;? for the program.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great mount of participation from local businesses.

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about the program is that it will bring all the residents together.

There are already strong partnerships among the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s businesses, and this program will only build on those partnerships.â&#x20AC;?

As to how to gauge the success of Healthy Maumee, Wallack said there are various ways. Two main things that will be looked at will be the level of participation from the start and during the three-year period, and if the baseline data from the health screenings improve.

In Solon, for example, of the 300 people who had an initial screening, 150 had a second screening and each improved in at least one category, and no one became worse.

The first main event during the initiative is a 10-week Get Movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Maumee fitness challenge. To allow everyone to participate, two to three 10-week challenges will be organized each year of the program, along with other activities, according to Finch Carlson.

Wallack said Maumee was chosen for a number of reasons, including Medical Mutualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9,500 plan subscribers who live or work in the city, its strong employer base in the area, and its past good working relationship with the city and businesses.

Later this year, Medical Mutual plans to kick off a similar program in Dublin, Ohio.

During the work with the cities, Wallack said the main goal is to change participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; habits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope that the change in the culture of health and wellness takes hold in the cities and continues beyond the three years,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Information about Get Movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Maumee and the entire Healthy Maumee program, including being able to sign up for e-mail alerts can be found at the Web site www. healthymaumee.org.

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Maumee Encouraged to Get Movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The first major event of the three-year Healthy Maumee initiative is Get Movinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Maumee.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 10-week fitness challenge that starts Jan. 25 designed to get participants in the habit of exercising.

For the first five weeks, participants are encouraged to exercise three times a week, 30 minutes at a time and keep a log. For the final five weeks, while maintaining their log, participants are encouraged to increase their exercise to five times a week.

Any type of exercise will count. At the end of the challenge, all participants who turn in a log will be entered into a drawing for prizes at an April 18 health festival at the high school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to encourage everyone to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;get movingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and support each other with the challenge. We want to get everyone moving during the winter months when you certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like it,â&#x20AC;? said Kathy Finch Carlson, employer services manager for St. Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

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St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry St., took total knee and hip replacement to a new technological level recently when it introduced the Stryker Navigation System to the area.

Dr. Jeffrey C. Glenn, 38, an orthopedic surgeon with Consulting Orthopaedic Associates, 7640 W. Sylvania Ave., performed total knee replacement surgery on Cindy Cody, 47, of Malinta, Ohio, who is a fifth and sixthgrade teacher at St. Louis Catholic Church in Custer, Ohio.

Cody said, “I’ve had knee pain for a while, but never really sought medical care other than over-thecounter painkillers. As the pain worsened and it began to interfere with my daily activities, I decided to seek medical attention.”

Glenn said he became familiar with the Stryker Orthopaedics line through his “fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Joint Replacement Surgery under the tutelage of Dr. Lester Borden, who is the designer of many of their implants.” Glenn received official training at the Stryker headquarters in Mahwah, N.J., last summer.

Stryker Navigation System is similar to a GPS system by providing technology that helps the surgeon more accurately align knee and hip implants with the

patient’s anatomy. The navigation system uses an infrared camera, instruments and tracking software which enable the patient’s anatomy to be continually monitored to ensure that position and alignment of the implant components is accurate, allowing the surgeon to make adjustments within one to two degrees for the best possible fit.

Glenn said one advantage to using the navigation system is that “it allows us to perform the alignment of the implants without putting a rod up the femoral bone, which offers the advantages of less blood loss and lower risk of fat embolism.”

Additionally, the “possibility of a small incision without sacrificing alignment or position of the components” exists. Glenn said, “It takes about one hour for a hip or knee replacement” and recovery is “typically six weeks.”

Cody anticipates resuming her regular activities in the near future and is looking forward to “walking to my son’s baseball games this spring and summer and not just sitting in our van watching from the outfield.”

“Crazy as it sounds, I can’t wait to clean our house myself, she said.”

She is also excited about taking her class on field trips in the spring after her return, without experiencing “sharp, stabbing pain in my knee.”

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By Lori Golaszewski TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

If you’ve ever received a hand-

made gift from a friend or relative, you can appreciate the time and effort that went into crafting it. Imagine being the recipient of a hand-sewn lap quilt, one stitched together by

keeping patients warm for the past several years.

“My mother taught me to do for others, because she said it will always come back to you,” Fassold said. “I think the more love and care we show for other people, it does come back to us. It gives me great joy knowing I’m making somebody else feel happier. I especially like to do it because too many people at the end of their life have to suffer, and it’s just a great joy to try to bring a smile to their face and make them enjoy some little thing yet in life.”

Fassold makes her quilts the old-fashioned way: She sews them by hand, without the benefit of a thimble, cutting board or wheel.

Each quilt takes about 15 hours to assemble and is constructed of 4inch squares of fabric that have been washed, ironed and pieced together to “look like a rainbow.”

“I’m very particular about colors,” Fassold said. “If they don’t go together, I take them out and put something else in.”

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“Many of our clients are in nursing homes or assisted living centers and truly, Jean’s lap quilt may be the only gift they receive. I think given her age and the fact that any of her extra money goes toward these quilts make them all the more special.”

Fassold, who finished her first queen-size quilt at age 15, lives on a fixed income and is grateful for the generosity of others. Without their donations of fabric, Fassold said it would be financially difficult for her to continue making the quilts for Heartland patients.

“I have a lot of people who donate fabric to me because financially I can’t afford to buy all this fabric and keep the project going,” she said. “When I get down to an empty basket of material, another one seems to come in, and that’s wonderful.”

Fassold said she’s not looking for accolades for her handiwork, but for others to follow her example of helping those in need. “I just want other people not to give me the thanks, necessarily, but to do as I do. Let’s help out the poor and needy and take compassion on older people.”

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ost folks pull up to the pump. In an attempt to simplify gas pumps and give little this definition, I hope not overly so, thought about pressing octane is a given fuels resistance to pre-ignition. the 87 octane button.

The higher the One look at the high octane number, the fuel prices and it is easy less likely the fuel to see why. In fact, with will ignite premamost vehicles today, turely. Simply, the the 87 octane grade is higher the number, a good choice. Howthe more heat you ever, that is not always need to set the fuel the case. Some vehicles burning. require a higher grade That can be a fuel to operate properly. good thing or a bad Some folks believe that Nick SHULTZ thing, depending by adding the higher grades of gasoline to their vehicles on many variables.

A higher-octane-rated fuel is that they will run better, get better fuel mileage or even last longer. good when you have a high-comThat’s not often the case. As with pression, high-output engine or most technical issues relating to au- when you are working an engine tomobiles, the truth lies somewhere to its particular design limits. Such may be the case when your vehicle in the middle.

The octane ratings listed on the is pulling a heavy load. It can also be fuel pumps are a measurement of a good thing when the outside air a gasoline’s ability to resist engine temperatures are exceptionally hot, knock, a rattling or pinging sound or on hot humid days when heat that results from premature ignition cannot be dissipated from your veof the compressed air-fuel mixture in hicle easily.

Most of the newer passenger one or more cylinders. In the United States and Canada, many fuel sta- vehicles will operate just fine on tions offer three octane grades: reg- lower-octane fuels, even when the ular, usually 87 octane, mid-grade, above conditions exist. A few vehiusually 89 octane and premium, cles, however, would benefit from a higher-octane fuel under these conusually 92 or 93.

You will find a particular fuel’s ditions. An example might be your Octane rating posted on bright family pickup truck or SUV. A higher-octane rated fuel may yellow stickers on each gasoline

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be bad for many vehicles in the winter. It was noted earlier that the octane rating of gasoline is an indicator of a fuels resistance to pre-ignition (knocking or pinging). In the winter months, as temperatures fall, we need a fuel that ignites as easily as possible.

There are many variables affecting a particular fuel’s ability to ignite on a cold morning. Not the least of which is the integrity of the engine, the integrity of the ignition system and the integrity of the electrical/starting system. If any of these vehicle systems are suspect or not performing as engineered, a highoctane fuel can further exasperate the problem.

Many of the fuel stations across the United States advertise that the higher-octane rated fuels, they sell, have engine-cleaning agents that prevent deposits. In most cases, this is a marketing ploy.

The fact is, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that all fuels sold in the United States, regardless of the grade, contain cleaning detergents which help reduce the build up of deposits within the engine’s cylinder head

and combustion chamber.

So what octane rating should you use? Look in your owner’s manual and use the manufacturers recommended grade of fuel. In most cases, that is all the octane you will need.

However, if your vehicle starts to ping or knock under heavy operating conditions, then immediately switch to the next higher grade fuel.

The knocking or pinging may indicate that your vehicle needs a tuneup or some other type repair.

Take your vehicle to your technician and have him or her look for a more serious problem if a pinging sound develops.

There are some folks who believe they can use a lower grade fuel then the manufacturer’s recommendation without damaging their engines. This is false! Never use a fuel grade lower then what the manufacturer recommends.

The damage that is occurring may not immediately be felt or known. It will present itself, however, as the vehicle ages.

A word of caution regarding fuel purchases at pumps marked regular or premium. Not all fuels marked regular or premium are the

same. One state may require regular fuel to be a minimum of 87 octane, while another may only require fuel marked regular to be a minimum octane of 85.

Always look at the octane rating when purchasing fuel.

What about fuel additives? Will they improve mileage? Will they clean my engine? Will they give me more power?

Let’s discuss that in the future.

It is my opinion, with the high cost of fuel today, that it makes little auto-sense to waste money on an octane rating higher then what you need.

To do so is fuelishness!

Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau who specializes in cases involving the Ohio and Michigan Lemon laws. He is a certified Master Automotive Technician by ASE, General Motors and Ford Motor Company. Nick, a Toledo native, will take automotive technical questions from readers at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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(AP) Nissan Motor Co. is recalling more than 240,000 vehicles in 20 cold-weather states to fix a problem that could prevent front air bags from deploying in a crash. The government said in a posting on its Web site Jan. 7 that the recall affects the Frontier, Pathfinder and Xterra from the 2005 to 2009 model years. In states where wintertime road salt is used, a mixture of snow, water and salt could enter a crash zone sensor area and rust, interrupting the signal.

The Japanese automaker said that could prevent the front air bags from deploying in a crash. Nissan spokesman Colin Price said the problem was discovered through warranty claims, and no crashes or injuries have been linked to the issue. He said the red air-bag warning light illuminates to alert the driver of the problem. A total of 242,720 vehicles are part of the recall and it involves trucks sold or currently registered in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Owners in other states will receive extended warranty coverage to 10 years for the sensor, the company said.

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DANICA PATRICK WILL SPEAK IN TOLEDO ON JAN. 14.

Danica Patrick to speak in Toledo From Staff Reports Indy race car driver Danica Patrick will speak at the 2009 scholarship dinner hosted by the ItalianAmerican Sports Club of Toledo.

The dinner is at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 14, and tickets and sponsorships can be purchased online at www.italians portsclub.com or by calling Sam Viviano at (419) 265-6565.

“We are excited about the opportunity to have Ms. Patrick at our event,” said Mike Bruno, president of the Italian-American Sports Club, in a statement. “This will be the 23rd year for the dinner and the first time we have had a female sports figure. “ Along with Patrick, the evening will honor the most recent scholarship winners, as well as pay special tribute to the club’s citizen of the

year, Toledo sports casting legend, Frank Gilhooley. The club will also honor two Hall of Honor recipients at the dinner: Angelo Cuttaia Sr. and Frank Erme. Cuttaia is a 1950 graduate from Woodward High School who attended the University of Alabama on a basketball scholarship before joining the Marine Corps Reserves. Erme graduated Findlay College in 1952 before teaching and coaching in the Washington Local School District at the junior high level and then moving onto Whitmer High School.

Two individuals will share the coach of the year title: Jim Mayzes, Southview High School’s varsity football coach, and Greg McElroy, Ottawa Hills High School’s varsity soccer coach. The athlete of the year is Nate Kmic, Mount Union’s star running back.

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here are many great scents returned to Toledo three years ago during the holidays, and and has turned the Toledo Cherokee I’m not talking about your team into a winner.

“We got a real family uncle’s cologne. atmosphere here,” No, I’m talking Duncan said. “I work about the aroma of their butts off. I’m hard gingerbread cookies on them. I’ve told them baking in the oven. since day one, ‘I’m The crisp scent of a going to kick you in pine tree standing in the ass and hug you at the living room with the same time because presents underneath.

I know what it takes to The holidays smell get to the next level.’” good. Where I conRyan FOWLER With the Toledo ducted my recent inWalleye still a year terviews did not.

As you inhaled another whiff of away from taking the ice, some area ham, I was sitting in the most putrid hockey purists say the Cherokee are smelling dungeon of the sporting the best show in town.

“There’s nothing to compare world: a hockey locker room.

For those of you who have not had it to,” Duncan said. “The closest the pleasure, the scent is somewhere thing to here is maybe the [Detroit] Red Wings.” between a wet dog and burnt hair.

The Cherokee roster is peppered The Toledo Cherokee’s dressing room may have been craving an with local talent. The team boasts air freshener, but their players’ tal- nine players from Northwest Ohio ents smell like roses on the ice. The and Southeast Michigan. But if you team is one of the top three Junior-A think it’s a skate in the park to make this team, you are painfully wrong. hockey teams in the country.

During tryouts in August, “Offensively, this is the most talented team we’ve had in the three Duncan told me a story of one player years I’ve been here,” said head turning around and decking, not the halls, but another player in the nose, coach Iain Duncan.

Coach Duncan has known suc- dropping him to the ice.

“That happens all the time,” cess throughout his career. He was “Guys are here a member of BGSU’s 1984 National Duncan said.

Championship squad, later playing fighting for their job. [Players from for the Toledo Storm before working out of state] are spending upwards of his way into the National Hockey $900 a weekend to come in and try League with the Winnipeg Jets. He out. You have 130 kids fighting for

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25 spots. It’s one of those things.”

Brent Bain managed to avoid the bloody exchange. The second-year forward decided to skip his senior season last year at Sylvania Northview to join the Cherokee “Some of my best friends played for [Northview], and I know they were pretty bitter about it for a while,” Bain said. “Now everything is pretty much cleared up. It was a tough decision.”

Bain is working his way up the

junior hockey ranks in hopes of one day earning a Division I scholarship to a major hockey college.

“It’s a long road,” Bain said.

“Some guys play four years, five years [in junior hockey]. You have to just work your way up to the highest level you can and hope that a D-1 scout picks you up.”

Duncan’s professional hockey background and Toledo ties have created a mutual respect between players and the coaching staff. This allows

him to push athletes to their limit.

“That’s one thing I ask them every day,” Duncan said. “Come and give me 120 percent from the time you are on the ice, and I guarantee you’ll be a better person on and off the ice when you leave this hockey team.”

For more information, visit www.cherokeehockey.com Ryan Fowler is the weekend sports anchor at NBC 24 and can be reached at bgsualum03@hotmail.com.

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OSU blew chance for redemption with Texas loss

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or the good of Ohio State’s breaking.” Let’s try “tragic” next football program, the Big Ten’s because OSU’s 28-member senior reputation and that of major football class will leave with the legacy of having never Midwest football in won the big game. It’s general, good things true, yet somewhat undidn’t happen in this fair when you consider season’s college bowl’s that 99.9 per cent of campaign that irratioother graduating senally separates good niors from across the from evil. country who played It’s a sad state of afmajor college football fairs and will remain will depart without ever that way until Ohio State fans realize that Dave WOOLFORD having played in the big game. there’s a Tier 1, that this This is an OSU senior class that season included teams like Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and USC. And displayed class and character, a class there’s a Tier 1 1/2 where the Buck- that the school should proudly emeyes seem to have found sanctity. brace. It’s a class that a coach might It’s bestowed based on bowl Fiesta see once in a career. The Bucks were Bowlgame results and the fact the one victory away from becoming Bucks are 0-5 against their latest the winningest senior class in Ohio State history, from restoring at least Top-10 competition.

Ohio State’s heartbreaking 24- some of its lost national eminence 21 loss to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl and from giving the conference a was its third straight BCS bowl tiny measure of amnesty with a digame defeat, preceded by back-to- sastrous 1-5 bowl game record going back blowout losses in the National into the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5.

But on a national stage, when you Championship game.

We’ve already used the descrip- fail repeatedly where all can witness, tive adjectives “sad,” and “heart- there’s no saving grace. You’re either

a winner or a loser. Such things as integrity and moral victories don’t exist. Next in line, please.

Said one TV analyst following the Fiesta Bowl when confronted with Texas coach Mack Brown lobbying for a share of the national championship, “What’s a win over Ohio State worth these days? The Buckeyes lose every January. It’s a good thing The Vest (Ohio State coach Jim Tressel) won the national championship early in his career (2003) because it’s the only thing that is keeping him in good graces now.”

A blogger, describing himself as a “Lifelong Ohio State fan,” wrote, “I can’t wait for the day when that overpaid, underachieving, sweatervest-wearing, field goal loving, Big ten defending, conservative play calling sorry excuse for an Ohio State coach is no longer on the sidelines. He has taken Ohio State to a national embarrassment during his tenure and it will only get worse.”

A compulsory check of the word “fan,” in the dictionary stated. “A devise for moving air.” Any questions?

Of even more concern is the Big Ten’s faltering footing on the

national football stage. Its .143 winning percentage this season was the 11th worst among major colleges, surpassed only by the Mid-American Conference, its neighboring little brother, which was 0-5.

Four of the Big Ten’s bowl losses were by double digits and, the conference was outscored by an average of 33-18. Over the past five years, the Big Ten is 12-24 in bowl games and 2-6 in BCS bowl games.

Let’s stop before it gets really ugly.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Dalaney, after watching Penn State get hammered by USC in the Rose Bowl, reassuringly stated, “You know what? SC’s a better football team. In all of the (bowl) games I’ve watched, I’m seeing us get beat by better teams.”

Then you say: “‘Why is that?’ I don’t have a great answer other than to say that these things tend to be cyclical.”

And cynical and climatical and complex.

It has to do with higher Big Ten scholastic standards as compared to some of the other major conferences and a climate that doesn’t invite the execution of pure athleticism when

the winds and sometimes snow of November permeate the Big Ten’s fields of dreams. And then there’s the fact that the Big Ten season ends at Thanksgiving. Other major powers play another two weeks before heading into the bowl season, which allows for better preparation.

Excuses all? Maybe, but notes worth scribbling in the margin.

The Big Ten had three national powers that made big imprints in the major TV markets, but that has been reduced to just Ohio State and Penn State with Michigan spiraling into feebleness and no relief in sight.

Tom Lemming, CBS College Sports recruiting analyst, said the Big Ten doesn’t have as many good recruiters as other conferences. “The SEC has learned and the Big Ten has to learn that it all comes down to recruiting,” he added. “There are a lot of good coaches, but the best players win games. The Big Ten didn’t pick up on that as quickly as other conferences.”

Whatever, let’s win one for the gripers, Big Ten, before our inferiority complex becomes acute.

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MLK Basketball Classic, with Libbey, Scott, set for Jan. 19

By Donna Kirk SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS news@toledofreepress.com

The Martin Luther King Day Bas-

ketball Classic this year will take place in the excitement of the next-day inauguration of the first black president, according to Neil Little, who founded the classic 13 years ago.

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Little, a veteran Toledo sportscaster, said he is working with Doug Allen, president of the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association, to do a special center court presentation at this year’s classic to be hosted at Owens Community College on Jan. 19.

The Akron Buchtel team will play the Scott High School team at 1 p.m. Detroit’s Pershing High will play Libbey High School at 3

p.m. Little said the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association has hosted the event over the years. He plans to have a corporate sponsor for next year. Admission at the door is $10 for adults, $8 for students with identification. Proceeds go to a scholarship fund.

“Last year, we had more than 2,200 people attend,” Little said.

“We have good security there, lots of food and trophies.

“We will be on the Internet worldwide. People in Iraq will be able to hear the game. We will have the only live broadcast,” he said.

Little and his wife Jill are retiring in March after years of broadcasting at Toledo high school games, although they will continue to broadcast special events. The couple wrote a book about their years of broadcasting, “Testing: 1, 2, ,3” that is on sale via their Web site, www.sports-promo.com.

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Bobby McFerrin to conduct orchestra in Toledo Bobby McFerrin, a 10-time Grammy Award winner, will conduct two of his favorite Mozart symphonies: Symphony No. 29 and Symphony No. 40. He will also perform his vocal improvisations. The shows will take place Jan. 16 and Jan. 17 at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle Theater at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by calling (419) 246-8000 or online at www.toledosymphony.com.

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By Vicki L. Kroll TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER vkroll@toledofreepress.com

E-mail pals — that’s Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Jon Foreman of Switchfoot.

The two officially met when their bands played a festival in San Diego.

“We introduced ourselves and talked about writing a song and then ran into each other at a coffee house in between where we live and talked more about writing a song,” Watkins said.

The collaboration clicked, Watkins said during a phone interview en route to San Francisco.

“Co-writing can be tricky; you never really know what kind of creative chemistry there’s going to be even if you’re good friends or play often, but he and I worked really well together,” he said. “Sometimes I’d have a melody idea and I’d e-mail it to him, and he’d write lyrics to go with it and send that back to me. There was some corresponding that happened, actually, most of the songs were written that way, kind of corresponding, and recording, actually, a lot of it happened that way, too.”

The singer-songwriters formed a duo, Fiction Family, which will release its self-titled debut Jan. 20.

“Jon came up with [the band name], and I liked it a lot because, first of all, everybody loves alliteration, but also a lot of bands that involve two guys are usually brothers, so we figured it kind of made sense since we’re not brothers,” Watkins said.

Fiction Family will start its tour Jan. 13 at the Ark in Ann Arbor.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show; tickets are $15.

The duo is featuring a free single, “When She’s Near,” on its Web site, www.fictionfamily.com. “ ‘When She’s Near’ is cool because it felt like a good mix of what

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we both do. It’s actually the melody to a song I wrote a long time ago called ‘Teaberry.’ I wrote it in ’03 or ’04, and I didn’t like the words, but I liked the melody,” Watkins said.

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were recognized in their respective fields. Watkins is the guitarist-singer and founding member of Nickel Creek, a Grammy Award-winning trio known for bluegrass and roots music. Foreman is the lead singer and guitarist of Switchfoot, a Grammynominated alternative rock band.

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record — we had no preconceptions or anything when we started it. We didn’t think twice about doing something that was completely opposite of the song we had just done, you know, completely different,” Watkins said of Fiction Family’s debut. “We never really thought about what music works here, we just did it. And it seems like an OK record even though there are

some stark differences.”

Watkins said he and Foreman are looking forward to playing their songs live, but have no definite plans for the future.

“We both would love to as we’ve had so much fun writing and recording and making music together.

I definitely think there’ll be something else at some point.”

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Hope for Humanity to host arts beneďŹ t at Mickey Finnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub opening a coffee shop, but I looked around and saw that that need was already being filled and I decided could do something more for the people in the community. There are people out there right now who have lost real jobs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; offering to mow lawns, shovel driveways â&#x20AC;&#x201D; jobs that are normally done by children; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really sad. Our group doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer handouts, but help to those who are making an effort to help themselves,â&#x20AC;? Bennett said.

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Hope for Humanity was founded in 2007 by local artist and CEO Vita Bennett. In addition to her work with the organization, Bennett is also a student at the University of Toledo and a stay-at-home mom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before I started Hope for Humanity, I had been thinking about

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benefit a Bowling Green man who recently lost his home and who is suffering from diabetes and in need of an insulin pump, as well as a single mother of three small children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have put together several different benefits including art shows, walkathons and a number of concerts. We are planning to have shows on a monthly basis at Mickey Finnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. We were a bit under the gun time wise putting this event together, but are hoping to raise around $1,000,â&#x20AC;? said Dan Current, head executive officer of Hope for Humanity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to being able to help others, at least 60 percent of my own artwork that I sold last year was through Hope for Humanity events,â&#x20AC;? Current said.

Current, who has known Bennett since high school, is the creator and teacher of the art form known as Forkigami, which combines the traditional style of origami with the use of everyday household silverware creating works that most often resemble insects. Hope for Humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice president is Nathan Kramer.

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ost people probably know British funnyman Eric Idle from his days with the celebrated comedy group Monty Python, but he is also an accomplished playwright and novelist. The Toledo Rep will bring Idle’s brand of humor to its 10th Street stage Jan. 9-25, when it presents “Pass the Butler.”

Idle, who wrote the play in 1982, would go on to write the book and co-write the music and lyrics for the Tony Award-Winning Broadway hit “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”

“I first came across the play back in the 80s and just remembered it

being very funny and as a member of the Rep’s selection committee it was something that I had wanted to see put on here for a long time. I searched for years just to find out who held the rights to the play so that we could present it,” said The Rep’s Jeffrey J. LINGAN Albright.

The comedic farce will feature Lane Hakel, Kat Bodie, Matt Kizaur, Pat Rudes, James M. Norman, Barbara Barkan, Albright, Scott Dibling, and Mark McGovern. Edmund Lingan will be

directing the production.

“I was asked to direct the piece after the original director was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict and so we had less time than usual to get the production ready, luckily we had a really seasoned cast and crew who’ve done a wonderful job. One of the first things we really concentrated on in terms of preparation is movement, which is very important when you’re talking about presenting farce,” Lingan said.

Lingan, who lived in New York for a number of years, only recently moved to Toledo to join the faculty of the University of Toledo as an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film.

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aging director of Brooklyn’s One Arm Red, as the production and literary dramaturg for the Looking Glass Theatre in New York City, and as the assistant to the director of programs at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.

“I would recommend seeing this play to anyone, particularly Eric Idle fans for a lot of reasons.

The first being, that it is much less well known than say something like ‘Spamalot’ and probably won’t run in our area again anytime soon and it really is just silly and a lot of fun.”

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UFC Unleashed

8:30

Ugly Betty (N) (CC)

Bones (CC) Law & Order: SVU

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Insider

Grey’s Anatomy (N)

Private Practice (N)

News (N)

Nightline

Fortune Deal No

Jeopardy! CSI: Crime Scn TBA Bones (N) (CC)

CSI: Crime Scn Kitchen Nightmares

Eleventh Hour “H2O” To Be Announced

News (N)

Late Show

News (N)

News (N)

The Office 30 Rock

Tonight

ER “Dream Runner”

News (N)

NewsHour Business Law Order: CI

Name Earl Kath-Kim

Chihuly Hotshp Sher. Holmes › Connors’ War (2006, Action), Nia Peeples

Soundstage (N) (CC) Movie

Charlie Rose (N) (CC)

Friends

Fam. Guy

› Connors’ War (2006, Action), Nia Peeples

News (N)

The First 48 “Gone” Scrubs Scrubs

The First 48 (N) (CC) Daily Colbert

The Beast “Pilot” (N) Ralphie May

Suite Life

›› Cadet Kelly (2002) Hilary Duff. (CC)

Friends

Montana

The First 48 (N) (CC) Futurama S. Park

Wizards

Scrubs

’70s Show ›› The Princess Diaries (2001) Julie Andrews. (CC) Still Stnd Still Stnd The Real World (CC)

Punk’d

The Beast “Pilot” (CC) Daily Colbert

Life Derek Suite Life

E! News Daily 10 ››› Moulin Rouge (2001, Musical) Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) (CC) College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) (CC)

Montana

E! News Chelsea SportsCenter (CC)

Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club (CC)

Reba (CC) Reba (CC) ››› Copycat (1995) Sigourney Weaver. (CC) Will-Grace Will-Grace Inside the Circle (2007, Documentary) America’s Best Dance Crew Dance

CSI: Crime Scn

CSI: Crime Scn

Seinfeld Seinfeld ›› Little Women

Friends Friends Fam. Guy ››› The Naked City (1948)

TNA iMPACT! (N) (CC)

Most Amazing Videos

Fam. Guy ›› Kicking & Screaming (2005) Will Ferrell. ››› He Walked by Night (1948) ›› Killer’s Kiss (1955)

Law & Order

NBA Basketball Cleveland Cavaliers at Chicago Bulls. (CC) NBA Basketball: Suns at Nuggets

NCIS “Untouchable”

House (CC)

House (CC)

Saturday Evening 7 pm ABC 13 CBS 11 FOX 36 NBC 24 PBS 30 MNT 48 MNT 20 A&E COM DISN E! ESN FAM LIF MTV SPK TBS TCM TNT USA

Tuesday 8 p.m. on ABC 13 Homeland Security USA: It’s a real “head case” at the Detroit border when a befuddled man from Tennessee is stopped for questioning and is surprised that the officers are concerned about the human skull and two undeclared handguns found in his van. Then at JFK in New York, a man has a surprise in his pants — namely packs of pills that cannot be identified.

Entertain Fortune

7 pm ABC 13 CBS 11 FOX 36 NBC 24 PBS 30 MNT 48 MNT 20 A&E COM DISN E! ESN FAM LIF MTV SPK TBS TCM TNT USA

episode titles solely to make us scratch our heads. Case in point, this week in “Thank God for Scoliosis,” Charlie and Jake (Charlie Sheen, Angus T. Jones) fight for the affections of a waitress, while Alan (Jon Cryer) fights sexual tension with his receptionist (Kelly Stables). Actually, now that we think of it, when it comes to back trouble, our money’s on Charlie.

MOVIES

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Entertain

NewsHour Business Law Order: CI

Wife Swap (N) (CC)

9 pm

Sunday 8 p.m. on NBC 24 The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards: Downsized by the writers strike last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s awards gala is back. Leading the movie nominees are “Doubt,” “Frost/Nixon” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with five nominations each. Frank Langella and Brad Pitt are nominated for their performances in “Frost/Nixon” and “Button,” respectively, and the late Heath Ledger was nominated for “The Dark Knight” — the hit film’s sole nod.

10 pm 10:30 11 pm 11:30

Entertain

NewsHour Business Law Order: CI

Critic’s Choice

10 pm 10:30 11 pm 11:30

Deal No

Wednesday Evening

ABC 13 CBS 11 FOX 36 NBC 24 PBS 30 MNT 48 MNT 20 A&E COM DISN E! ESN FAM LIF MTV SPK TBS TCM TNT USA

9:30

Cops (CC) Cops (CC) Movie

7 pm

ABC 13 CBS 11 FOX 36 NBC 24 PBS 30 MNT 48 MNT 20 A&E COM DISN E! ESN FAM LIF MTV SPK TBS TCM TNT USA

9 pm

Housewives Cold Case (N) (CC)

Simpsons Simpsons 24 (Season Premiere) (N) (PA) (CC)

Monday Evening ABC 13 CBS 11 FOX 36 NBC 24 PBS 30 MNT 48 MNT 20 A&E COM DISN E! ESN FAM LIF MTV SPK TBS TCM TNT USA

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House (CC)

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Entertainment Tonight ›› The Pacifier (2005, Comedy) Vin Diesel.

Housewives

Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Game Raymond My Wife Cops (N)

48 Hours Mystery (CC) News (N) CSI: NY News (N) Talkshow With Spike

News (N)

Game Without a Trace (CC) Cops (CC) Most Wanted

Paid Prog. Crusoe (N) (CC)

Law & Order (CC)

Lawrence Welk Show Make-Laugh Antiques Roadshow American Idol Rewind ›› The Vanishing (1993) Jeff Bridges.

Fam. Guy

Wall St

›› The Vanishing (1993) Jeff Bridges.

CSI: Miami (CC) CSI: Miami (CC) CSI: Miami (CC) Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity Lewis Black: Red, White Suite Life

Montana

›› Big Fat Liar (2002) (CC)

Wizards

Law & Order: SVU

News (N)

News (N)

Monk (CC)

Sat. Night

TimeGoes Keep Up Vicar-Dbly Our Ohio Cops (CC) Cops (CC) American Idol Rewind ›› Cops and Robbersons (1994, Comedy) CSI: Miami (CC) D.L. Hughley

The Beast “Pilot” (CC) Carlos Mencia

›› Big Fat Liar (2002) (CC)

Keep Up Girls Saturday Night Live College Basketball Miami at North Carolina.

Montana

E! News (N) College Basketball

Keep Up Keep Up College GameDay

The Soup Chelsea SportsCenter (CC)

The Princess Diaries

›› A Cinderella Story (2004) Hilary Duff. (CC) ›› The Notebook (2004) Ryan Gosling. (CC)

Saving Sarah Cain (2007) Lisa Pepper. (CC) ›› Get Over It (2001) Teen Rooms

››› The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Medium (CC) Teen The City America’s Best Dance Crew Double

›› In Hell (2003) Jean-Claude Van Damme.

› Belly of the Beast (2003) Steven Seagal.

Urban Justice (2007)

›› You, Me and Dupree (2006) Owen Wilson. ›› You, Me and Dupree (2006) Owen Wilson. ›› Sahara (2005) (PA) ››› Sergeants 3 (CC) ››› Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) ››› The Earl of Chicago (1940) Huck Finn Fast and Furious-Drift ››› Independence Day (1996) Will Smith. (CC) NCIS “Mind Games”

NCIS “Silver War”

NCIS “Switch” (CC)

››› Spider-Man (2002) (CC) NCIS (CC)

Law Order: CI

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BEAUTIFUL PEACH FACED LOVE BIRDS. 2 PAIR (BREEDERS) $60.00 EACH WITH CAGES. 3 BABIES $30.00 EACH. IF INTERESTED CALL 419-472-5404 OR 419-779-3117.

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INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – OLD BOWSHER HIGH SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM ELEMENTARY, OLD ELMHURST ELEMENTARY, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY, AND WALBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DEMOLITION Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on January 21st, 2009, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the demolition of Birmingham, Old Elmhurst, Riverside, and Walbridge Elementary Schools and Old Bowsher High School, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the project prepared by The Collaborative Inc, Munger Munger and Associates Architects Inc, and MacPherson Architects and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

Bid Documents for the project may be examined at the F.W. Dodge plan rooms in Columbus, Builders Exchange in Toledo, University of Toledo – Capacity Building, E.O.P.A. – Hamilton Building, Northwest Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and The Plan Room in Ann Arbor, Construction Association of Michigan, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and Ohio Construction News.

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting January 7th,

2009 which can be purchased from Toledo Blue Print, 6964 McNerney Rd., Northwood, Ohio 43619, phone: (419) 661-9841.

Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for January 12th, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at Toledo Public Schools’ Board Room, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608. A walk-thru schedule will be provided at the pre-bid meeting.

If you have any questions or a need for additional information, please direct all questions in writing to jessica.dandino@lgb-llc.com, by phone at (419) 776-5600, or (fax) (877) 281-0784.

Bid Item No. 1 Old Bowsher High School Demolition: $797,643.00 Bid Item No. 2 Birmingham Elementary School Demolition: $216,540.00 Bid Item No. 3 Old Elmhurst Elementary School Demolition: $171,325.00 Bid Item No. 4 Riverside Elementary School Demolition: $348,911.00 Bid Item No. 5 Walbridge Elementary School Demolitions: $255,427.00 Total $1,789,846.00

INTERESTED BIDDERS: TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – ARLINGTON, RAYMER, REYNOLDS AND SPRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND GROVE PATTERSON ACADEMY– FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT PACKAGE Sealed bids will be accepted by the Board of Education of the Toledo Public School District until 1:00 p.m. on January 21, 2009, at the Toledo Public Schools Treasurers’ Room 3, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608, for all labor, material and supervision necessary for the Furnishings and Equipment of Arlington Elementary, Raymer Elementary, Reynolds Elementary, Spring Elementary and Grove Patterson Academy, as more fully described in the drawings and specifications for the project prepared

by The Collaborative Inc., Munger Munger & Associates Architects Inc. and Duket Porter Associates and will be opened publicly and read immediately thereafter.

Bid Documents for the project may be examined at the F.W. Dodge plan rooms in Columbus, Builders Exchange in Toledo, University of Toledo – Capacity Building, E.O.P.A. – Hamilton Building, Northwest Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and The Plan Room in Ann Arbor, Construction Association of Michigan, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and Ohio Construction News.

Bidders may obtain copies of the documents starting January 7th,

2009 which can be purchased from Becker Impressions, 4646 Angola Rd, Toledo, Ohio 43615 Phone: 419-385-5303. Drawings may be obtained on CD-ROM for no cost with the purchase of the specifications.

A PREBID CONFERENCE is scheduled for January 12th, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Toledo Public Schools’ Board Room, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43608 If you have any questions or a need for additional information, please direct all questions in writing to LeShay.Hadley@lgb-llc.com, by phone at (419) 776-5600, or (fax) (877) 281-0784.

Bid Item #1: Arlington Elementary Bid Item #2: Arlington Elementary Bid Item #3: Grove Patterson Academy Bid Item #4: Grove Patterson Academy Bid Item #5: Raymer Elementary School Bid Item #6: Raymer Elementary School Bid Item #7: Reynolds Elementary School Bid Item #8: Reynolds Elementary School Bid Item #9: Spring Elementary School Bid Item #10: Spring Elementary School

School FF&E Office FF&E School FF&E Office FF&E School FF&E Office FF&E School FF&E Office FF&E School FF&E Office FF&E Total Estimate:

$232,348.00 $90,357.00 $323,384.00 $125,760.00 $307,155.35 $128,000.00 $333,015.17 $135,000.00 $255,814.82 $103,000.00 $2,033,834.34

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