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ne of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of Toledo Free Press is the opportunity to work with strong local organizations to help move the community forward.

As we plan and work on such upcoming events as the Feb. 15 Fire & Ice Rock ‘n’ Roll for the Red Cross fundraiser, the March 10 Project iAm Acoustics for Autism concert, the May 22 American Cancer Society’s Cattle Baron’s Ball, and a CD of local musicians playing summer songs for the local American Red Cross chapter, one event is accompanied by a tremendous amount of cooperation and buzz.

The third annual Restaurant Week Toledo, presented by Medical Mutual, is set for Feb. 21 to March 2. Participating restaurants are Bar 145, Barr’s Public House, The Blarney Irish Pub, Bobby V’s American Grill, Burger Bar 419, Caper’s Restaurant, Gradkowski’s, ICE Restaurant and Bar, La Scola Italian Grill, Loma Linda, Mancy’s Bluewater Grille, Mancy’s Steaks, Manhattan’s, Maumee Thomas F. Pounds Wines and Bistro, The Oliver House (Mutz, Maumee Bay Brew Pub, Rockwell’s and The Café), Plate 21, Poco Piatti, Registry Bistro, Rosie’s Italian Grille, Shorty’s True American Roadhouse, Tea Tree Asian Bistro, TREO, Ventura’s and Zinful.

Each venue will feature a special Restaurant Week menu priced at $10, $20 or $30. (Drinks, taxes and gratuities are not included unless specified.) A portion of the proceeds will benefit local nonprofit Leadership Toledo’s youth programs. We are big believers in the mission and work of Leadership Toledo, and it has been amazing to watch this event grow exponentially every year.

As Toledo Free Press Managing Editor Sarah Ottney has reported, the boundaries of the event stretch far beyond Toledo.

Participants are in Sylvania, Swanton, Perrysburg, Maumee, Waterville, Holland and the surrounding area.

“Restaurant Week Toledo encompasses the whole Greater Toledo area,” said Becca Gorman, co-chair of Restaurant Week Toledo. “We want everyone to feel a part of the event and to participate. From the various price points to the healthy options offered at each location to the variety of areas represented, there’s something for everyone.”

The event is a great way to visit old favorites or explore new venues, all while supporting local causes.

It’s hard to believe we are already in the third year of this event, and it’s one we hope to be a part of for many years to come. Watch for full coverage in upcoming editions of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star.

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LIGHTING THE FUSE

Billy Joel’s not-so-silly love songs

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The collection spans 18 songs drawn from nearly a alentine’s Day is the only “holiday” that surpasses Christmas as a source for music. Love songs make dozen of Joel’s albums, from 1971’s “Cold Spring Harbor” up 95 percent of all songs ever written; there is no to 1997’s “Greatest Hits Volume III.” The compilation is credited to Vic Anesini, who choose a more common theme in music and poetry. mix of comfortable classics and insightful With the romantic mood in mind, Sony album tracks.

Legacy has released a collection of Billy Joel’s The collection begins on an odd note with love songs, which offers an opportunity to “Travelin’ Prayer,” a track from 1973’s “Piano revisit one of American pop music’s most Man” album. The song may have charted on successful singer-songwriters. the lower reaches of the pop charts but it is Joel’s career arc ran contrary to that a discordant way to open an anthology of of his peers. While musicians such as ballads and love songs. The skipping drums, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Sting jumpy bass and up-tempo production are a started out with rock records and meljarring introduction to what is an otherwise lowed into more melodic pop as they aged, Joel started with relatively softer fare but Michael S. miller intelligent and carefully ordered song list.

“She’s Got A Way: Love Songs” contains evolved into more rhythm-oriented rock as he progressed. “She’s Got a Way: Love Songs” samples a number of recordings that deserve to be freed from a small slice of Joel’s oeuvre; it includes some of the most the numbing gauze wrapped around them by decades famous love songs of the past half-century and reintro- of constant airplay. duces some overlooked gems. n MILLER CONTINUES ON A4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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n MILLER CONTINUED FROM A3 “Just The Way You Are,” the 1978 Grammy winner for Record and Song of the Year, is an easy target for lounge singers and detractors, but Phil Ramone’s tasteful production, its wordless chorus running underneath an earnest vocal and Phil Woods’ saxophone solo belie the decades and deserve discovery with fresh ears.

The other perpetually played inclusion, “Honesty,” from 1978’s “52nd Street,” symbolizes one of Joel’s sharpest weapons as a composer: cynicism. Joel can’t rival such master cynics as Elvis Costello or Leonard Cohen, but neither of those artists were able reach a fraction of Joel’s audience. A harsh and lonely song, “Honesty” withholds solace and revels in disappointment. With sentiments such as “If you look for truthfulness/You might just as well be blind” and “I don’t want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies,” the song is a cold but veracious choice for a collection of songs celebrating love.

That weary New York cynicism weaves through several of Joel’s songs. The collection backs his own claim that while critics often connect him to Paul McCartney, he bears a closer kinship to Elton John. Such arms-length songs as 1982’s “She’s Right on Time” (“Left to my own device/I can always make believe/That there’s nothing wrong”), 1986’s “Temptation” (“But I might find salvation/if I can tear myself away”) and 1989’s “State of Grace” (“Both of us know we’re in love/ But that isn’t always enough”) inject reality and a practical awareness into what could be a saccharine enterprise.

Other worthy inclusions include “This Is The Time,” “She’s Always A Woman” and “Shameless.”

Among the few filler cuts (the 1971 instrumental “Nocturne,” and “You’re My Home,” which is an introspective and vulnerable vocal on the 1981 live album “Songs in the Attic” but is included here as the listless, unfocused studio performance from 1973’s “Piano Man”) and the clunky remix of 1993’s “All About Soul” are four of Joel’s greatest achievements as a songwriter and performer.

“The Night Is Still Young,” “Until the Night,” “An Innocent Man” and “And So It Goes” are adult, sophisticated compositions with polished studio craftsmanship that represent a collective zenith for Joel’s deep body of work.

“The Night Is Still Young,” a cut included on 1985’s “Greatest Hits Volume I & II,” slipped into the Top 40 at the height of the one-hit wonder synth-band era. Featuring two layered vocals, one deeper representing the man “old enough to say I got a good look at the other side” and one higher for the man “young enough to still see the passionate boy that I used to be,” the song’s narrative follows life’s trajectory from “Rock and roll music was the only thing I ever gave a damn about” to “I’d like to settle down, get married

Opinion and maybe have a child someday.” It’s a slow-building, slow-burning recording that stands with anything on that greatest hits collection.

“Until the Night,” a track from “52nd Street,” the 1979 Grammy winner for Album of the Year, was far too long at 6:36 to be a single, but serves as an emotional high point of that collection. Another song soaked in relationship doubt (“Now you’re afraid that we have changed/And I’m afraid we’re getting older”) but utilizing equal amounts of wisdom (“I’ll have my fears like every man/ You’ll have your tears like every woman”) and optimism (“I’m just beginning to feel/I’m just beginning to give”), “Until The Night” is Joel at the top of his form.

Even that vaunted track is topped by the title track from 1983’s “An Innocent Man.” Backed by restrained piano, baion bass and finger snaps, Joel’s tender but tough vocal winds through a patient outreach (“I’m not above being cool for a while/If you’re cruel to me I’ll understand”) to a sympathetic damaged lover. On equal footing is “And So It Goes,” the coda from 1989’s “Storm Front” that closes the love songs collection. A stark and aching vocal sparsely adorns a lyric as sad and moving as Joel ever composed. “Every time I’ve held a rose/it seems I only felt the thorns,” Joel intones, followed by such dreadful thoughts as “And so it goes, and so it goes/And so will you soon I suppose” and a line that lives as one of pop music’s greatest encapsulations of the loving male’s simultaneous power and helplessness: “So I would choose to be with you/That’s if the choice were mine to make.” It is inconceivable that either “An Innocent Man” or “And So It Goes” would find a place on modern radio (“And So It Goes” made the Top 40 and “An Innocent Man” actually made the Top 10), but that illustrates the weakened state of the art today, not any languor in the recordings.

There are enough overlooked love songs in Joel’s catalog to fill a box set, but there are a few that would have greatly strengthened this collection. “Last of the Big Time Spenders,” “Baby Grand,” “A Matter of Trust,” “Vienna,” “The Longest Time,” “To Make You Feel My Love” and “Rosalinda’s Eyes” leap immediately to mind.

But “She’s Got A Way: Love Songs” is a thoughtful and worthy compilation for Billy Joel fans looking to reacquaint themselves with the artist and those seeking a Valentine’s Day soundtrack offering a true representation of love’s identity: a blend of cynicism, optimism, strength, vulnerability, pride and shamelessness. O

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houghts of global warming grow distant. It is 17 degrees and the wind is howling out of the northwest, dropping the temperature to someplace south of zero. Visibility is limited due to the repeated snow squalls whipped along by that same wind.

It is early February in Northwest Ohio and people are cranky, including me. Various strains of flu have ruined the lives of several people I know and Richard I spent several days fighting a severe cold.

Now having traveled a little, I know that in Tucson, Ariz. the high temperature now is in the mid70s and you would have to drive to Flagstaff to find a snow shovel.

I know that there are a variety of islands scattered across the Caribbean where the only ice ever seen is in the drinks.

Perhaps the worst part is that I cannot be surprised by the weather.

With the exception of a few years in Arizona while I was in the Air Force, I have lived my entire life in northern Ohio. It gets this way!

Every year! While some are warmer and some have less snow, winters in northern Ohio are not pleasant, not

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Part of the explanation is inertia, one of the strongest forces in the universe. I am here and moving would require the expenditure of energy. But it is also the place I know. It is the KERGER place where my three children were born. It is the place where I developed as a professional. It is the place where I have the best friends the world can offer.

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Toledo police are ticketing thousands of speeders without ever picking up a radar gun.

The city’s traffic camera system generated 68,115 citations in 2012 for speeding and running red lights, according to data provided by Lt. Jeff Sulewski of the Toledo Police Department (TPD) Traffic Section. The traffic camera network, purchased from and maintained by the Arizona-based Redflex Group, has been in operation in the Glass City since 2001. It was expanded to 44 cameras last summer with the addition of 11 cameras at six new locations. Toledo also operates one mobile unit to enforce school zone speed limits, Sulewski said.

Redflex revenue collected by the city in 2012 totaled nearly $3 million.

This year, city officials expect to reap even greater financial benefits: Last month Mayor Mike Bell’s administration budgeted $4.2 million in revenue from the cameras, according to city spokesperson Jen Sorgenfrei.

Infractions caught by the system are reviewed by police officers of the traffic section before citations are issued, Sulewski said. Each citation bears a fine of $120, of which $90.25 is remittable to the City of Toledo with the remainder collected by Redflex, a firm that has been in the roadway traffic system business for a quartercentury and operates camera systems in more than 250 cities in the U.S.

Slowing the ‘Indy Race’

The most successful camera location in Toledo, in Sulewski’s view, is the speed camera in place along the Anthony Wayne Trail near the Toledo Zoo. But the Traffic Section lieutenant is not measuring success by the number of tickets generated or total dollars collected from speeders on the Trail. Sulewski is referring to the smoother and safer flow of traffic he has observed at that section of roadway since the installation of the camera.

That section of the Trail — in both directions — used to look like an “Indy race,” Sulewski said. Prior to the installation of the camera, police noted during one 12-hour observation period a total of about 2,000 speeding violations at least 11 mph over the posted limit, he said. While there are still those motorists who speed — Officer Charles Turner of the Traffic Section recalled one Redflex ticket that clocked a speeder at 106 mph at that location — Sulewski said today drivers who stick

to the posted speed limit of 50 mph can experience a smooth ride, often catching all the green lights. He credits the camera and publicity around its installation with reducing the dangerous racing and lane-changing culture that used to characterize driving on the Anthony Wayne Trail.

Inconclusive evidence

Redflex, headquartered in Phoenix, markets its systems as “making roads safer by implementing traffic safety programs,” company spokesperson Jody Ryan told Toledo Free Press in an email. But academic and industry studies, paired with local accident data, do not appear conclusive. Traffic accident data compiled by Toledo police show a decrease in the number of accidents at some Redflex camera locations during the past decade. But at other intersections, particularly in West Toledo, the number of accidents has increased.

Police listed 43 accidents at Front and Main streets in 2000, the year before the cameras were installed. In 2001 that number fell to 39. By 2011, the last year included in the report, it was 24.

On the other hand, the intersection at Talmadge Road and Sylvania Avenue counted 28 accidents in 2000, the year before the cameras were installed.

There were 32 accidents in 2001, the first year of the cameras, and 41 accidents there in 2011. The data does not control for traffic volume during that time period nor does the data include comparisons with similar locations where no cameras have been installed.

Toledo City Councilman D. Michael Collins said he is “not convinced the evidence supports a reduction in accidents.”

Collins, who chairs the Public Safety, Law and Criminal Justice Committee, said he would not support the Redflex cameras if they were solely a cash grab for the city. Instead, he recognizes the role the technology plays.

“The cameras do create a monitoring tool which COLLINS should not be construed as taking the place of a police officer but — given our manpower situation — there is probably no alternative,” he said.

To put that “manpower situation” in perspective, today’s traffic section consists of seven officers, one sergeant and one lieutenant, as compared to a roster of 25-30 officers in

years past, according to Sulewski, a 28-year TPD veteran who has been in the traffic section since 2010. He said the decrease in the number of officers means, “We lost our ability to assign full-time traffic enforcement around the city,” referring to such proactive enforcement as a “luxury” the police no longer have.

Today’s traffic cops are driving their desks for much of their shifts, due to the large amount of paperwork traditionally assigned to the traffic section. Besides reviewing traffic cam video for the citation issuance process, traffic section, despite its reduced staff, continues as in the past to review all police-generated traffic accident reports, 9,723 last year. The section also handles operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol (409 cases) and suspended license cases (1,444), Sulewski said.

Those officers do also get out on the streets of Toledo, investigating, for example, all hit-skip cases, of which there were 2,000 last year, Sulewski said. In addition, the traffic section is responsible for routine inspections of taxis and tow operators in the city.

And when his officers are deployed for traffic enforcement, Sulewski said, the existence of the cameras allows his unit to concentrate its available manpower on other areas where the department has received complaints from the public, for example, residential streets and school zones.

Contrary to what some drivers may believe, Sulewski said he does not want to “go out and write a bunch of tickets.” The police lieutenant said his officers, like the traffic cameras, are highly visible when they work traffic enforcement and that is the point.

Sulewski wants motorists to think about how they are driving.

“Hopefully, that prevents a serious accident down the road,” he said.

Ticket hearings

The city holds citation hearings to provide motorists the opportunity to dispute a Redflex ticket they believe is not warranted. Those hearings, which take place Downtown at One Government Center, have been held twice a week since last year’s expansion of the system.

Jim Jones is an attorney contracted by the city to represent it at the hearings. Jones employed a nonconfrontational manner as he explained to ticketed motorists at the outset of a hearing in January that the procedure is a civil, not a criminal matter and thus the city only needs “a preponderance of the evidence” to make its case.

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A redflex camera on Alexis Road near whitmer high school.

“Beyond the shadow of a doubt” is not in play here. Still, the startlingly clear videos of the infractions usually leave little doubt whether someone ran a red light or, as is more often the case, failed to make a complete stop before turning right on red.

Speeding infractions can be harder to judge based solely on the video evidence. But Jones said no one to date has successfully challenged the accuracy of the speed calculated by the Redflex system, which uses two sets of sensors embedded in the pavement to calculate a vehicle’s speed.

After installation and before a speed camera begins operation, police and Redflex technicians together test the equipment against one of TPD’s handheld laser devices. Sulewski said the speeds usually come up identical but if they do not match within 1 mph, it’s the Redflex equipment that gets adjusted accordingly.

Redflex spokesperson Ryan said

that her company monitors its equipment “daily through a variety of diagnostic software and systems as well as human interaction.” The company “immediately” responds “to any maintenance issues or alarms that may be triggered,” including response by field teams if the issue cannot be resolved remotely.

Redflex equipment is rated for temperatures as cold as 20 degrees below zero Celsius, according to Ryan, rebutting suggestions by one motorist at a hearing in January that a sudden cold snap may have affected the computerized system’s accuracy.

However, Ryan was not able to estimate the service life of the sensors and other parts of the Redflex system because “there are too many variables and conditions that affect each component differently.” But she also gave assurance that “any component that needs to be replaced is replaced.” n TRAFFIC CONTINUES ON A7

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n TRAFFIC CONTINUED FROM A6 One motorist showed up at the hearing with three citations for speeding, all issued at the same location, Cherry and Delaware streets.

The driver said he “saw them working on the lights” and believed the camera could have been malfunctioning. His tickets were all issued for driving 46 mph in a 35 mph zone at intervals of about one month during a threemonth period.

“I don’t drive that fast to begin with,” he stated at the hearing.

“I’ll give you a break on one of them,” Jones told the man. “I guess I feel sorry for you. We’ll dismiss one of them for you.” A moment later Jones cautioned the man, “You won’t get that break again.”

Motorists who did not catch a break included one man who seemed to blame his high rate of speed on the condition of the roads.

“You all paved the streets and made them so good,” he said in his defense.

Another driver, cited for a red light violation, claimed she had stopped.

When the video was played, it clearly showed her car rolling up to the intersection and continuing into a right turn without halting.

“Well, I did slow down to stop,” was the only defense she could muster.

Ticket upheld. A woman cited for speeding in a school zone said she was from California and defended her driving by claiming to be unfamiliar with the area.

“Don’t they have school zones in California?” Jones inquired. Ticket upheld.

Then there was Mardtel Gibbs, who told Jones he had “sped up a little bit” so he would not get ticketed for a red light violation. Gibbs got ticketed for speeding instead. “I’m darned if I do and darned if I don’t,” he said.

Outside the hearing room, Gibbs said the traffic camera system “oppresses the people.” He called the system “ridiculous” and objected to the additional red light cameras. “When riots happen, they wonder why,” he said.

There were also a number of ticketed drivers who attended the hearing just to be able to view the video,

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saying they were unable to pull it up on their home computers from the website run by Redflex. One woman, whose red light ticket was dismissed after the video showed she had in fact stopped before turning right on red, still voiced regrets about the ordeal.

“I feel like it’s bad behavior,” she said.

During one hearing in January, Jones revealed the city’s “secret,” telling those present that the cameras across the system are programmed to only photograph cars traveling at more than 10 mph above the posted limit. At that hearing, however, Jones was quick to add that the programmed threshold may be lowered at any time and reminded the drivers in the room that police have the legal right to enforce speed limits even if the violator is driving only 1 mph too fast.

At that hearing, a total of six tickets were dismissed, three continued and 19 upheld in favor of the city.

Hearings for motorists were continued if the city needed to check information supplied by the motorist or for further deliberation by the city.

Otherwise the individual hearings proceed swiftly, in a matter of minutes.

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a table in front of a TV monitor with Jones and a police officer who operates a computer that plays the traffic video associated with each ticket. If a ticket is upheld, the owner of the vehicle has the right to file an appeal in the Common Pleas court. Sorgenfrei said such appeals are rare, with perhaps only four or five filed since the cameras debuted a dozen years ago.

School zone

The only Redflex camera currently located in a school zone is on Alexis Road at Whitmer High School, where a school zone speed limit is in effect from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., and from 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A separate system of yellow flashing lights warns drivers to slow down. During those hours the camera system, which like all the Redflex equipment operates 24/7, adjusts for the lower speed limit.

Cited motorists repeatedly complained at citation hearings in January that the yellow lights were not flashing when they drove by the school. Sulewski stressed that the yellow flashers are “just a warning that you’re approaching a school

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zone” and operate separately from the cameras. But Sulewski said police recently built in a buffer ranging from five to 30 minutes during the speedrestricted periods so that the cameras in effect are programmed for the reduced speed limit only during a period of time “when we have the most movement of students and it should be obvious [to motorists], whether there’s a flashing light or not, that you’re in a school zone.”

So what can drivers expect in the future? Both Collins and Sulewski say the city has no plans at this time to further expand the Redflex camera system. Sulewski said the addition of camera locations takes intensive planning and requires approval by the city’s traffic engineers. The city can support only so many of those traffic cams, he said: “At some point you can saturate an area.”

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BRIAN HOEFLINGER

By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

When the Ottawa Hills High School (OHHS) girls’ basketball team traveled to Gibsonburg on Feb. 7, a familiar face was missing from the student section.

Senior Brian Hoeflinger made it a point to come to every game, home or away, and was known for his exuberant clapping, said classmate Grace Petro, a varsity basketball player.

“He could clap on anything — his leg, his cheeks, other people — and he HOEFLINGER always dressed up [to match the game’s theme],” Petro said, smiling at the memory.

“You just expected him to be at every girls’ game. I think he only missed one game. He was usually one of the only students there. He felt bad the girls’ team didn’t have many supporters. He just loved going to everyone’s games and supporting them.”

Three days after Hoeflinger’s death, Petro teared up instantly at the mention of her friend’s name.

She and the rest of the OHHS community were left in shock Feb. 2 as word spread that the popular 18-year-

old had been killed in a car accident the night before.

Smart, positive, goofy and kindhearted are words that come up again and again when people describe Hoeflinger. The Ottawa Hills resident, who previously attended St. John’s Jesuit High School, transferred to OHHS for his senior year and seemed to transition seamlessly into the student body, said OHHS Intervention Specialist Sharon Abendroth, whose son Matthew played golf with Hoeflinger.

“He walked into our school less than a year ago, but you couldn’t tell,” Abendroth said. “He fit into our family very well. It was a natural fit and it felt like he’d been here for years.

You couldn’t ask for a better kid to join your school.”

‘A good kid’

Ottawa Hills superintendent Kevin Miller said Hoeflinger was “a good kid involved in good things.”

“He was a very present young man, a great personality,” Miller said. “Just a personality that endeared himself to the people around him. That’s what I know about Brian. He was just a very vibrant young man.

“We’re a small school system,” Miller said. “Our average class size is about 75 and about two-thirds of every class has been here since kindergarten. It can be hard for a new student to come in and fit into the

friendships that have been formed for many, many years, but Brian did that with ease.”

Academics were important to Hoeflinger, who carried a 4.5 GPA and made several references on his Twitter account in January to taking advanced placement classes, including AP English and AP Calculus, doing homework and staying up late studying.

Hoeflinger also displayed a creative side, Miller said, recalling a self-portrait made as part of a digital photography class assignment depicting him crouching beside his golf bag.

“It was unusual and showed a great eye, so he was not only intelligent, but creative,” Miller said.

The OHHS golf team competed at the Division III state golf tournament in October, finishing fourth. Hoeflinger was named first team all-conference and second team all-district.

Abendroth said Hoeflinger was a mentor to her son, a sophomore golfer.

“To my son, he was a leader, a mentor, a great role model, athletically and academically,” Abendroth said.

“I don’t know if it’s because he had younger siblings or what, but he was able to connect with kids of all ages. It was a gift he had.”

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n HOEFLINGER CONTINUED FROM A8 Although he coached him for only one season at OHHS, golf coach Jim McGill had known Hoeflinger for years through his involvement with the Toledo Junior Golf Association, where Hoeflinger played and McGill is a director.

“Brian was such an awesome kid and an integral part of the team,” McGill said. “He befriended the entire team, including all the younger kids.

He had tremendous golf ability and in terms of being a leader, he led by example and character.”

Senior Elizabeth Noble said everyone at OHHS liked Hoeflinger, even those — like her — who didn’t know him well.

“He was just a happy light in the halls,” Noble said. “All his friends want him to be remembered as the goofy, happy, smiling person he was.”

In honor of Hoeflinger’s goal of attending the University of North Carolina to become an orthodontist, Petro, Noble and the other OHHS cheerleaders wore light blue bows in their hair featuring the initials “BH” and a heart at the boys’ basketball game at Maumee Valley Country Day School on Feb. 5. There was also a moment of silence and many Maumee Valley players wore light blue socks.

Petro and Hoeflinger became fast friends after meeting last spring.

“The one thing he would always tell me is he wanted everyone to love each other and just get along. He was always positive about everything no matter what,” Petro said. “You could really just tell he cared about other people. Obviously everyone cares about others, but you could just tell when he talked to you

that he cared about you and others.”

Petro helped organize a surprise party to celebrate Hoeflinger’s Dec. 28 birthday. On the day of the party, Hoeflinger tweeted: “It’s my birthday!

I’m 18 years old and happy as hell! Can’t wait to see what the future holds :)”

The accident

Petro and Hoeflinger were both at a friend’s house on Feb. 1, hanging out watching a movie with about a dozen friends after the boys’ basketball game against Cardinal Stritch High School.

The two didn’t talk much that night.

At some point, Hoeflinger left the house. Shortly before midnight, he was southbound on Edgehill Road in Ottawa Hills, driving a black 2008 Pontiac G6 registered to his mother, when the vehicle left the west side of the road, struck a tree near a bridge over the Ottawa River and caught fire, said Lt. William Bowers of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Toledo post.

The crash was reported at 11:54 p.m.

Feb. 1 by Sgt. Mark Kolasinski of the Ottawa Hills Police Department, who came upon the wreck during a routine patrol. According to the police report, Kolasinski found Hoeflinger unconscious in the driver’s seat, wearing a seat belt. He used a fire extinguisher to knock down some flames in the engine compartment before he and several other first-responders from various local departments worked together to free Hoeflinger “just as the vehicle [became] engulfed with flames.”

Shortly after midnight, Petro got a call from a friend who lives near Edgehill Road saying there had been an accident. Petro said her mind immediately jumped to Hoeflinger and she and some friends went out looking for him.

“I feel like we all had a feeling,” Petro said. “We just knew something wasn’t right. We were just hoping he was at someone’s house or somewhere else.”

They drove by the accident site about 12:30 a.m., but couldn’t get too close because police had blocked off the bridge. Besides Ottawa Hills Police, personnel from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Toledo Police, Sylvania Township Police, University of Toledo Police and Toledo Fire and Rescue also responded to the scene.

Petro drove past Hoeflinger’s house a few times, but he didn’t appear to be home. Around 2 a.m., a friend called to tell her Hoeflinger had died.

Hoeflinger had been drinking the night of the crash and was found to have a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.15.

The crash remains under investigation.

“Brian made very few mistakes like that in life,” Abendroth said. “He was a hard worker, loved life, great family.

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Vigil

The school’s annual Turnabout Dance, where girls invite guys, was scheduled for Feb. 2. Hoeflinger was planning to attend and had a date, Petro said.

The dance was postponed by school administrators, but the vigil that took place instead was completely student-driven, Miller said.

“Kids find ways to mourn in their own ways and one of those ways was to form a vigil,” Miller said. “If we just kind of step to the side, they will figure out how to get through this together.

They were just sharing their thoughts and feelings and taking some time to honor a classmate.”

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A rock near Ottawa Hills High School reads, “RIP BH.”

than 270 people, representing several schools, Petro said. Hoeflinger’s parents, Brian and Cindy Hoeflinger, were also there.

“The enormous outpouring of love and support for Brian and our family has been overwhelming to say the least,” Hoeflinger’s father posted to his wife’s Facebook page Feb. 5. “We are realizing just how many lives one individual can touch in such a short lifetime and in such a positive way. There are no words to describe the appreciation and love we feel for everyone supporting us in this time of intense pain.

But the memories of which are being shared with us through Brian’s friends in person and through Facebook are a testament to the love and joy Brian brought to so many people and how he touched their individual lives. Our entire family is realizing that Brian’s death was not in vain because so much good and positive energy has been instilled in so many people he knew.

That’s how Brian was and that is how he will always be remembered!”

The family has set up a Brian Hoeflinger Memorial Scholarship Fund through Huntington Bank. No further details were available at press time.

Somber return

The place where Hoeflinger’s vehicle left the road is on a curvy, quiet, wooded street, a little more than a mile drive from his home. Not far away a sign reads, “Please drive slowly, we [heart] our children.”

On Feb. 2, someone spray painted Hoeflinger’s initials and a heart in blue on a tree at the crash site.

By Feb. 5, dozens of flowers had appeared along with a green teddy bear and a stuffed dog. A note affixed to the tree with a pushpin reads “To: Brian, Stay Strong.” An oversized paper card proclaiming “WE [heart] U BRIAN!” contains notes from several schoolmates.

A rock outside Ottawa Hills High School was also spray painted with blue letters reading “RIP BH” on the front, “We [heart] You” on the top and a cross on one side.

The first few days back to school have been somber, Miller said.

“It’s been quiet,” he said. “We’ve tried very hard to bring some normalcy to the students’ lives because that’s very important, that there are activities and just a regular school day they can count on, but we balance that by being very sensitive to their needs. We had 19 counselors in the building on Monday and of course our own counselors remain available. It’s just balancing a sense of normalcy with acute sensitivity to the needs of our students.

“They say it takes a village [to raise a child],” Miller said. “Our entire community has come together to help us deal with this loss. Not just Ottawa Hills, but surrounding communities.

His was a wonderful young life full of potential and we’re incredibly sad.

When you go on a journey like this, if you can do it together, it makes it a little bit easier.” O

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EDUCATION

Advocate questions TPS transparency in Pecko contract talks

By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccartney@toledofreepress.com

Steven Flagg, an education advocate who has followed Toledo Public Schools (TPS) and education issues for the past 17 years, has questioned the TPS Board of Education’s lack of transparency concerning its discussion of Superintendent Jerome Pecko’s job performance and Pecko’s letter to the board stating FLAGG that he would not accept a contract extension after his current contract expires July 31.

In a Feb. 1 letter, Flagg told board members they have an obligation to justify their decision to the community they were elected to serve by making Pecko’s job evaluation public.

In an interview Feb. 6 after he released the letter to the media, Flagg said, “This goes to transparency and the fact that an evaluation is the board’s view into the operation of this district, how they see it performing and where they see the challenges.”

Flagg said Toledoans need to know the board’s perspective and vision for the district before they decide whether to vote for a renewal levy later this year.

Flagg also took exception to TPS Board President Brenda Hill’s comments published in The Blade where she was reported as saying she was legally “prohibited” from disclosing conversations held in a closed-door session.

Citing Ohio law, Flagg informed board members they are not legally required to disclose those conversations, but they are not legally prohibited from disclosing those conversations, as Hill said.

“I understand what he’s saying,” Hill said. “He’s trying to force me to say what happened in executive session.

“Maybe I misspoke. According to the attorney, there is no legal obligation. I really thought it was more than that.

What I said to the media I thought was right at the time I said it. And if it’s not correct, I stand corrected.

“I didn’t go to law school, so this is my personal opinion,” Hill said. “Executive session is there so that we can discuss employment or legal issues confidentially. And I am not going to get into a ‘he said, she said.’ ” Hill said she feels the integrity of

the board is at stake.

“We go into executive session so we can discuss freely what we need to discuss, and then we come back out and we make our decision,” Hill said. “All we do in executive session is discuss.

“I understand resigning because you do think about it often, and Dr. Pecko did say later that he had been thinking about it,” Hill said. “You think about it, and you’re going back and forth, and then it seems like one day there’s an inner voice that just says, ‘It’s time.’ And you do it.”

Board member Lisa Sobecki said she agrees with Hill’s observation about Pecko’s decision to not accept a contract renewal if one were to be offered.

“I fully understand what Ms. Hill said about Dr. Pecko’s decision to retire,” Sobecki said. “I don’t know what I’ll do when I get to that point, but I already know it’s not going to be an easy decision.”

Sobecki also took the same position as Hill regarding discussing what happens in executive session.

“I may not be legally prohibited from talking about that, but I don’t have to talk about that, and I don’t intend to talk about it,” Sobecki said.

Hill and Sobecki suggested that if board members did not feel secure

that their discussions in executive session would remain confidential, they may not feel comfortable being honest with one another.

However, board member Larry Sykes said that before the board can go into executive session, it must announce the reason for the executive session, and that announcement dictates what can be discussed.

“If we go into executive session, we’re telling the public we’re going to discuss a potential lawsuit, the hiring or termination of employment or contracts. Talking freely has nothing to do with the damn purpose of the discussion that you went into executive session for.”

Sykes said he thinks Hill needs to make a clarification.

“You need at least three [votes to extend Pecko’s contract]. At this particular time, I am uncomfortable in making any comments. I do not lie about anything. It needs to be addressed at some point in time, and there needs to be a point of clarification.”

Board member Bob Vasquez did not confirm that the board discussed Pecko’s contract. Rather, he said, “We absolutely discussed Dr. Pecko’s job performance. We went into evaluate Dr. Pecko, and when we say we’re

going to evaluate somebody, that’s exactly what we’re talking about.”

In response to Flagg’s concerns regarding the board’s lack of transparency, Sobecki said,“In my time on the board [six years], the Board has worked very hard at becoming more transparent in all of its business. Go to BoardDocs. You can see everything we do online. You can see every check we write and how much it is for.

“We even broadcast board meetings for a time. When we had to make budget cuts and decide whether to lay off an English teacher or to stop broadcasting board meetings, we kept the teacher and cut the broadcast. If we ever have the money and could go back and revisit that issue, I would certainly be open to the possibility of broadcasting board meetings again. As a district, that’s just one area of transparency we cannot afford right now.

Vasquez said he is “in complete agreement” with Sobecki.

“Mr. Flagg is entitled to his opinion and I respect that. But Mr. Flagg has been around for a long time, and I would hope he would acknowledge that the board has made great strides in becoming more transparent,” Sobecki said. O

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UT Student Senate rejects resolution supporting concealed carry on campus

By Brigitta Burks

Toledo Free Press News Editor bburks@toledofreepress.com

A small sign on the doors of the University of Toledo Student Union informs anyone entering that weapons aren’t permitted. But, inside that same building on Feb. 6, a few students wore empty gun holsters to protest this policy.

Currently in Ohio, it is illegal to carry a weapon on a college campus, even for those with a concealed carry weapon permit (CCW). From Feb. 4-7, while wearing empty holsters, the UT College Republicans handed out literature against that policy at a table in the Student Union. Some students have also worn their empty holsters to class and around campus.

“There’s a lot of the student body who doesn’t know much about the issue,” said Scott Mazzola, president of the UT College Republicans. “We want to get them to think, do the research, get them to see that guns can keep you safer when they’re in the hands of someone who knows how to use them.”

To receive a CCW, applicants must take a class and meet other requirements, including passing a background check and being 21 or older.

On Feb. 5, by a vote of 18-9, UT’s Student Senate voted down a resolution that supported changing CCW campus restrictions across the state.

More than 5,000 students responded to a poll on the resolution. About 49 percent voted in favor of the resolution, 45 percent voted against it and 6 percent of voters were neutral.

“It makes me uncomfortable because the general student body was in our favor, but it seems like Student Senate isn’t doing a very good job of being representative of that situation,” Mazzola said of the vote.

After the vote, Student Senate Chair Lauren Jencen said she was against the resolution although she was not permitted to voice her opinion during meetings because of her position.

“I don’t really feel comfortable going to class and not knowing who has weapons on them and who doesn’t,” she said.

Jencen added that while she appreciated people being made aware of student government, “Hopefully, we can focus on things to better the university as opposed to political agendas.”

Senator Clayton Notestine sponsored the resolution after the College Republicans wrote it.

In an email, he said, “Although, I didn’t agree with the resolution, I knew the issue was a major topic for a portion of the student body. As a representative of the student body, I agreed to give it the necessary sponsorship in order to be debated.

“If anything productive has come out of this debate, it’s the implication of national politics within our student government. It’s my opinion that our duty is to focus less upon the politics of the nation and more on the politics of our university and student body. By committing our resources to this debate we lost the opportunity to tackle more controversial topics like campus restructuring, parking, student safety and student-centered agendas.”

Student Government President Paulette Bongratz said she believes no amount of debate would change most senators’ minds because it’s a personal safety issue for many.

She added that she would have liked the resolution to pass because she wants to see students effecting change in Ohio.

Bongratz was one of the students wearing a holster during the week.

She said that a student in one of her groups asked her about the holster, but overall she hasn’t had any issues while wearing it.

“I recently was trained how to use a gun. I used to be afraid of guns and having the opportunity to learn and be taught about them, I no longer fear them,” she said.

Mazzola, who plans to apply for a CCW in the spring, said he believes gun rights are a constitutional and personal safety issue.

“A lot of people think [if they have CCWs it means people] expect them to be heroes if there were some sort of tragic mass shooting, that these people with the CCW would be running out of the classroom to go stop them. That’s not what it’s for,” he said.

He added that if a criminal knows you have a gun, he believes he or she will likely back off before a shot is taken.

“If someone comes up to me late at night when I’m getting in my car, and says, ‘Hey, give me your wallet,’ I say, ‘Hey, look, I have this gun. Take a walk.’”

Nick Nykodym, a business professor and a UT College Republicans faculty adviser, said he believes people who want CCWs commit fewer crimes because they want to make sure they pass the application process.

“People with CCWs tend to lead a more law-abiding life,” he said.

Chief Jeff Newton of the UT Police said the College Republicans did a good job of meeting with him beforehand and applying for the event.

However, he said, “I think it would be less safe [if CCWs were permitted on campus] so I am not in favor of any kind of changes to the law.”

He said long-term safety has to be evaluated instead of isolated incidents.

Newton added that wearing an empty holster is a common form of protest and that, “We certainly support anyone’s ability to freely express their opinions.”

Before the resolution vote, freshman and College Republican Nick McCullough said, “I feel really safe on campus now but I feel if [the resolution] passes and the Ohio law would pass, I’d feel even safer.

“Campus police do a great job re-

sponding to different events but law enforcement, it’s a reactive approach and this is just taking a proactive approach.”

Sophomore Tiffany Fulford, who stopped by the table, said the university has a police force to deal with those situations.

“I feel like it would be less safe [if the CCW law were to change] because it’s more people with guns and it’s more people who could have bad judgment as to who’s a criminal. It could be like Trayvon Martin,” she said.

Mazzola said that people on both sides of the issue have brought up the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to him. He said that the political response to the shooting made the protest a priority.

“We’ve had this CCW resolution in the works for a while and after Sandy Hook, we decided let’s pursue this over anything else because of all the media attention on it,” he said.

“We’re not stopping here for sure.

That survey that was in our favor, we’re definitely going to use that. There’s also a lot of universities around Ohio that are doing this exact same thing, so we’re going to collaborate with them through the College Republican Federation and hopefully be taking this to Gov. Kasich some time in the near future.” O

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Ohio author collects tales of ‘lively nonagenarians’

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A positive attitude and a willingness to try new things were common among the nonagenians Ohio writer and photographer Connie Springer nterviewed for a book.

“There’s just a joy of life about them.

They’re always ready to experience something new,” Springer said. “They said if they are asked to do something, they can get ready in 10 minutes. They don’t say ‘no’ or turn down an invitation. I thought that was really nice.

Even a lot of younger people don’t really do that.”

Springer, a New Jersey native who has lived in Cincinnati for 27 years, is the author of “Positively Ninety: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians.” The book was a finalist in the Non-Fiction Narrative category of the 2012 International Book Awards.

Nonagenarians — people age 90

to 99 — comprise less than 1 percent of Ohio’s total population, but their numbers are growing, according to researchers at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University Ohio.

In 2010, there were 76,545 Ohioans age 90 or older; by 2020, more than 100,000 Ohioans are expected to have achieved this milestone.

“It’s fascinating to hear the stories of people,” Springer said. “One woman, who was 98 when I interviewed her, said she only stopped jumping rope a few years before. People do these amazing things. Just because you’re aging doesn’t mean you have to stop what you enjoy.”

Springer conceived of the project after watching her once-vibrant mother isolate herself after the death of her husband, something Springer feels contributed to her dementia and death at age 85.

“Over a decade ago my mother, in her 80s and saddled with dementia, lived in a nursing home surrounded by peers with vacant stares and im-

mobile stances,” Springer wrote in the book’s introduction. “My view of aging became skewed. Do we all end up like this if we live long enough? I needed a different perspective.”

Her first interview was a friend’s 90-year-old neighbor, June, who attributed her long life to an optimistic bent and doing things in moderation, Springer said.

“Don’t dwell on your age,” the woman advised Springer. “Do as I do — just keep your body moving!”

Over a two-year period, Springer met with 27 more “lively nonagenarians,” located through word of mouth.

A City of Cincinnati Individual Artist’s Grant helped fund the work.

Most were from the Cincinnati area, but some were from elsewhere, including Detroit, Boston and Washington, D.C. Springer spoke to each person for two to four hours, asking questions about their past, present and aspirations for the future. n AUTHOR CONTINUES ON A15

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OHIOAN Connie Springer is author of ‘Positively Ninety.’

Q:

I was home over the holidays visiting my parents. I noticed that they seemed so much older and more forgetful than when I was home for the holidays the year before.

My father couldn’t seem to remember the names of familiar things including my children!

My mother appeared disheveled and chose to wear clothing appropriate for much warmer weather. Is this just their age catching up with them or should I be worried about Alzheimer’s?

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We have all forgotten the name of something or someone that is very familiar to us. Sometimes it is just because we have too much on our plate from the busy lives we lead. Other times, forgetting is a sign of something more. The changes in behavior in the early stages of Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia are often very subtle and may include: • Difficulty finding words or the names of familiar objects • A change in personality • A decline in personal care or inappropriate dress for the day or season

• Increased suspicion of others • Mood swings, depression or withdrawal from friends and family These changes in behavior don’t necessarily mean that a person has Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.

However, if you are concerned and would like to know more about what might be happening with someone you know and love, please contact Senior Independence Home Health & Hospice. Senior Independence has been helping seniors and their families navigate the aging process for over 30 years — we can help you, too.

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Bariatric surgery is the start of a new life for many men and women struggling with their weight.

Bariatric surgery is a specialty of general surgery that offers sustainable weight loss. The two most successful bariatric surgery procedures are gastric bypass and gastric sleeve. With gastric bypass patients can lose between 80 – 100 pounds. Gastric sleeve results between 40 – 60 pounds of weight loss per year.

Bariatric surgery helps people who have tried to lose weight, but have been unsuccessful in dietary attempts and exercise. For some, it’s the only method that offers healthy and sustainable weight loss.

People who are good candidates for bariatric surgery will have documented unsuccessful dietary attempts, a body mass index of 35 or greater, and one or more of the following: • Diabetes • Back and knee pain • Hypertension • Sleep apnea • Acid reflux • Osteoarthritis • Infertility

n AUTHOR CONTINUED FROM A14 She also took a portrait of each person.

Although she didn’t come away with the definitive secret to long life, Springer compiled a list of common characteristics she calls the 20 Personality Traits of Lively Nonagenarians: O Flexibility (being willing to adapt to new situations) O Having a sense of humor O Living simply O Taking one day at a time O Never turning down an invitation O Doing things in moderation (particularly in regard to food) O Getting regular exercise O Having an optimistic attitude O Keeping mentally stimulated O Being open to meeting new people O Relating to younger people O Being connected to friends and family O Involvement in enjoyable activities O Loving to read O A “nothing can stop me” outlook O Sharing and caring O Not thinking about age O Being interested in what’s going on around you O Never quitting learning

O Being just plain lucky (blessed with good genes, good health and meaningful relationships) “My hunch is that these traits leading to what may be called ‘successful aging’ are not newly gained in later years but rather are ones that these individuals have demonstrated their entire lives,” Springer wrote in the book’s introduction. “Although the traits are probably innate, one might attempt to emulate one or more to change a negative or isolating pattern.”

Springer stayed in contact with many of the interview subjects.

Eleven of the 28 have since died, she said.

“I think it was a good experience for them too,” Springer said.

“Older people are so often not used for a resource. People don’t ask them questions about their past.

It’s such a shame. There’s so much to learn from people’s experiences

and how they coped with things. I feel like it benefited both of us as well as future readers and viewers.

It’s very inspirational.”

Springer said she often hears from people that the project helped change their outlook on aging.

“They were feeling sorry for themselves and now they feel like, ‘What am I depressed about?’” Springer said.

“It just changed their whole perspective.”

A traveling exhibition, currently on display at Northern Kentucky University, features framed color portraits and excerpts of text from the 28 interviews and is available for display.

To order the book or inquire about the traveling exhibit, contact Springer at larkspur@fuse.net or (513) 8711677. Cost of the book is $25 plus tax and shipping.

For more information, visit www. conniespringer.com. O

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My hunch is that these traits leading to what may be called ‘successful aging’ are not newly gained in later years but rather are ones that these individuals have demonstrated their entire lives,” Springer wrote in the book’s introduction. “Although the traits are probably innate, one might attempt to emulate one or more to change a negative or isolating pattern.”

— Connie Springer

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Stock market predictions for 2013

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n the past few weeks we have begun seeing a lot of our clients and also talking at public events with local retirees about the current state of our economy. We often start out our talks by reviewing the facts that have occurred in the recent past. The past year in general proved to be to a great year to be invested in the stock market, most types of investment strategies went up.

Usually we move on to the important question: “what is our prediction about the stock market for 2013?”

Investors looking Mark for stock market predictions in 2013 may Nolan want to avoid the news headlines, trusting their gut, or following the herd because those predictions are often wrong. We say that while at the same time we have our own predictions about the stock market this year, we believe there will be plenty of opportunities to make money this year by staying invested. Yet, why we caution investors to not follow stock market predictions is because the stock market is an area that you and even the brightest minds on Wall Street have little to no control over. That’s right! Predicting the stock market is very difficult. That is because it is impossible to factor in the unexpected and the unknowns that always happen throughout the year.

Let’s look at some facts, thanks to our friends at BTN Research: O Crystal Ball: Three of 10 equity strategists asked on Dec. 19, 2011 to predict where the S&P 500 would finish on Dec. 31, 2012 made predictions that were within just six points of the actual 2012 year-end close. The S&P 500 advanced from 1,220 on Dec. 11, 2011 to 1,426 on Dec. 31, 2012 (source: Barron’s).

O Contrarian Indicator: Fiftynine percent of individual stock investors were either “neutral” or “bearish” on the U.S. stock market on Dec. 28, 2011 as the S&P 500 was completing a +2.1 percent gain (total return) for 2011. The S&P 500 then gained 16 percent for 2012 (source: American Association of Individual Investors).

O Long Shot: Money manager Laszlo Birinyi predicted on Jan. 4, 2011 that the S&P 500 would rise from its then current level of 1,272 to 2,854

by Sept. 4, 2013. From its Jan, 11, 2013 close of 1,472, the S&P 500 will have to gain 94 percent during the next eight months to reach Birinyi’s lofty forecast (source: Investment News).

O Oil Glut: A July 4, 2011 article

written by Gene Epstein of Barron’s forecasted that “as oil producers’ spare capacity gradually declines to worrisome levels, the average price of oil could reach $150 per barrel by the spring of 2012 with spikes in price to $165 or $170.” Oil was $95 a barrel on July 4, 2011, peaked at $110 on Feb. 24, 2012 and finished 2012 at $92 a barrel (source: CME Group).

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annual survey compiled by the London Bullion Market Association that was released on Jan. 6, 2012 predicted that the price of gold would exCLAIR ceed $2,000 an ounce during 2012. Gold BAKER ended 2011 at $1,567 an ounce before peaking at $1,794 on Oct. 4 and finished 2012 at $1,676 an ounce (source: Financial Times).

These are a just a few examples of the recent predictions. A simple Google search on “Stock Market Predictions 2013” shows more than 24 million results. So finding a prediction is the easy part. Yet, the sooner an investor realizes that those predictions are often wrong, the sooner that investor can focus on how to have the best possible opportunity to make money in 2013. This can be accomplished by focusing on the items that can be controlled.

Three great areas to focus on this year are cost, cash flow and reducing risk. If all things were created equal, a portfolio of lower expenses will have more performance at the end of the year. Make sure a detailed analysis is completed on the disclosed and undisclosed fees and expenses on all of the investments. Cash flow is another area an investor can control by investment selection.

A large part of the income a retiree needs can be created by investing in income producing assets such as interest paying bonds and dividend paying stocks. A few simple changes could significantly increase the yield and cash flow on a portfolio. Finally, control risk through the proper diversification of the investments. It’s when times are good that investors should look at ways to reduce risk. Use these three areas to focus on this year and our prediction is you may have a much more profitable 2013. O For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 p.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www. retirementguysnetwork.com. Securities and Investment Advisory Services are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA / SIPC. NEXT Financial Group, Inc. does not provide tax or legal advice. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537. (419) 842-0550.

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Toledo Retiree Golf League seeking members

By Fred Altvater Toledo Free Press Staff Writer BackNine@toledofreepress.com

The Toledo Retiree Golf League has been providing friendly golf competition for area golfers since 1971.

Every week throughout the summer two-man teams play nine holes at one of eight Toledo area golf courses. The golf courses for 2013 are Ottawa Park, Detwiler Park, Collins Park, South Toledo, Heather Downs, Bedford Hills, Maple Grove and Whiteford Valley. Participants range in age from 55-90.

The Toledo Retiree Golf League is seeking members for 2013. Two men can apply as a team or individuals will be placed on a team. Men 55 years of age and older are welcome to apply.

If someone is interested, but unable to play every week substitutes are also needed.

Interested golfers can contact: O Dick Christoph, christoph@buckeye-express.com, (419) 843-7792.

O Don Godfrey, donald.godfrey@utoledo.edu, (419) 244-6010.

O John Smaltz, johnbssr@aol.com, (419) 260-3225. O Fred Altvater offers golf tips and videos at www.toledoohiogolflessons.com. Email him at BackNine@toledofreepress.com or follow him on Twitter: @tolohgolfr.

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After considering a move to Toledo, La-Z-Boy Inc. will stay in Monroe.

The company recently finalized the purchase of land in Monroe to build a new corporate headquarters for its 500 employees, solidifying the company’s decision to stay in the community where it was founded in 1927.

Kurt Darrow, La-Z-Boy chairman, president and CEO, signed the closing documents for the purchase of 120 acres from the Monroe-based Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), a Catholic order of nuns.

Darrow and Monroe Mayor Robert Clark made a joint keynote presentation to the company’s decision to stay in Monroe at the 2013 General Assembly of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) on Jan. 30 in Perrysburg.

The land purchase, along with a combination of Michigan state, county and local tax incentives and grants paved the way for La-Z-Boy to begin the final design of the building and site, they said.

The company’ a goal is to break ground and beginning construction this spring and to move into the new headquarters by late 2014 or early 2015, Darrow said.

“We are delighted to have finalized the purchase of land from the IHM Sisters and are excited about moving forward with the final design and construction of our new world headquarters,” Darrow said. “When completed, this landmark facility will provide an inspiring, innovative and collaborative work environment for our employees and highlight our evolving image as a worldwide leader in our industry.”

Last spring, the company began considering whether to renovate its existing facility, a former furniture factory and retail store on Telegraph Road, or build a new headquar-

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Kurt Darrow is La-Z-Boy chairman, president and ceo.

ters, Darrow said. The company was willing to consider moving out of Monroe and even Michigan to build a new home, he said.

The company considered building near its largest manufacturing facility in Tennessee, in Chicago and even in Toledo, Darrow said. He said the company inquired about some possible sites in To-

ledo and that Ohio was very aggressive in pursuing the company’s move there.

He indicated that about 70 percent of the company’s workforce lives in Monroe County, but 15 percent is from the Toledo area. Employee commuting patterns were mapped and sites accessible by current employees were considered.

The company seriously considered

a site on the river in Downtown Toledo before the site in Monroe became an option, Darrow said.

“We’re a Monroe company and we’re grateful to be staying in Monroe,” said Darrow, who is a Michigan native and has lived in the community for 37 years.

“My faith in the process was renewed. It was a good business decision

for us to stay in Monroe,” he said.

La-Z-Boy consulted with two Ohio companies, The Collaborative Inc. of Toledo and Rudolph|Libbe Inc. of Walbridge, about possible sites. Darrow said those companies continue to be involved in the planning, design and building of the new facility. n LA-Z-BOY CONTINUES ON A19

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FEBRUARY 10, 2013 n la-z-boy CONTINUED FROM A18 Rudolph/Libbe is managing the design process and construction while The Collaborative will serve as architect, said Scott Libbe, executive vice president of Rudolph/Libbe.

At the TMACOG meeting, Darrow said he was at a board meeting for a local hospital when one of the IHM sisters, a fellow

board member asked him if he knew of anyone interested in purchasing their property — having no idea La-Z-Boy was looking for just such a property.

“Partnering with La-Z-Boy, a local enterprise committed to building a sustainable culture within their company and industry, demonstrates IHM’s commitment to implement our

vision in partnership with others,” said IHM President Mary Jane Herb at the closing.

The restoration and preservation of the oak savanna on the property as well as preservation of green space in the city of Monroe are shared goals of IHM and La-Z-Boy, according to both sources.

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portunities for synergy between IHM and La-Z-Boy because we are both endeavoring to protect the planet and leave it a better place for future generations,” Herb said.

The new building design concept, featuring flexible space and open areas, is reflective of La-Z-Boy as a company, Darrow said. The company will retain 30 of the 120 acres in their natural state, he said.

The purchase was a complicated process since the IHM property was located in the City of Monroe and Frenchtown Township, Clark said.

The process involved city, township, county and state officials.

Even Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder became involved when he had lunch with Darrow to discuss the project and offer his support of it.

The entire project and the company’s decision to stay in Monroe became official and public at a Dec. 19 planning commission meeting when the zoning change was approved.

“It all worked out in time. I couldn’t imagine the City of Monroe without La-Z-Boy,” Clark said.

Darrow said the company intends to sell its existing property on Telegraph Road to a retail entity for redevelopment.

La-Z-Boy marked 85 years in business in 2012, recording $1.23 billion in sales in 2012 with 320 furniture galleries and five manu-

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We’re a Monroe company and we’re grateful to be staying in Monroe. My faith in the process was renewed. It was a good business decision for us to stay in Monroe.”

— Kurt Darrow facturing plants in the U.S. The company has a partnership to open stores in China and opened a plant in Mexico in 2009.

Darrow said La-Z-Boy’s product line has evolved with innovation and style to provide furniture for every room in the house and now offers home decorating services through its retail outlets. The business also incorporated actress Brooke Shields into its advertising “The future looks bright for us and our strategy is sound. We’re going to continue making investments in Michigan,” Darrow said. O

Rathbun presents Feb. 18 seminar on wealth protection The president/CEO of Private Wealth Consultants, Gary Rathbun, is presenting a free program on how to protect your wealth given the current political situation.

“In the past, we’ve done two, maybe three programs a year and we’ve been getting such terrific response. We normally get a couple hundred people to show up at these programs,” Rathbun said, adding that the Feb. 18 seminar is filling up quickly.

This year, Rathbun, a Toledo Free Press columnist, said he plans to do a program every quarter. The title of the February seminar is “What Now?” “Last September, we had what we called the ‘What If?’ seminar and talked a lot about what would happen if something else would happen. What would happen if Obama got re-elected? … What would happen if we went off the fiscal cliff?” Rathbun said.

“Now that we’ve got some of the what ifs answered, we talk about what to do about it. What do we do now

to protect the wealth [and] minimize taxes?” he said.

Topics include growing investments, buying gold and silver, what to do if the market crashes and protecting investments from current affairs.

“The biggest thing that people are asking me about is, ‘What’s gonna happen in the market place? What’s gonna happen in the stock market?’”

Rathbun said. “It all revolves around how the market is going to affect my wealth and what do I do?”

Rathbun has been in the business since 1981 and said he is able to use that experience.

“I’ve seen a lot of business cycles; I’ve seen a lot of market swings; I’ve seen a lot of presidential administrations,” he said.

The seminar is 7-8:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn at Levis Commons in Perrysburg. Registration is required. To make reservations, visit www.privatewealthconsultants.com or call (419) 842-0334. O — Staff Reports

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Companies provide options for financing cosmetic procedures

By Dave Kubacki

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

Most people who want a new iPad or computer but don’t have the money readily available charge it. That’s what credit cards are for, but what if you wanted LASIK or some sort of cosmetic surgery? Well, there is a credit card for that as well.

Companies such as General Electric’s Care Credit, Chase and Citi are now providing financing options for cosmetic, dental, LASIK, hearing, veterinary and other health care expenses.

Cristy Williams, a communications representative at Care Credit, said there is a need for additional financing options.

“Over the last 25 years, continued advancements in technology and procedures often not covered or fully covered by insurance have created new choices for care, increasing the demand for financing options,” Williams said. “This is especially true in our traditional markets of dental, vision and veterinary care.”

Care Credit and other financing options are specifically designed for

health care services. Most consumers set up deferred interest payment plans for between six and 24 months. With these plans, consumers can avoid paying interest by making minimum monthly payments and paying the total amount by the end of the promotional period. Interest is charged from the purchase date if the promotional balance, including optional charges, is not paid according to the established payment plan.

“The vast majority of cardholders who select a deferred interest plan pay off the balance within the chosen term and don’t pay any interest,” Williams said.

More than 150,000 providers are currently enrolled in Care Credit, providing an avenue for patients to budget health care expenses, said Dr. Marlene Welch, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Toledo.

“It seems like a good way for people to compartmentalize their expenses,” Welch said. “Most people don’t necessarily have $10,000 sitting around for surgery. It is like going out for a nice dinner. People don’t want to pay up front; they want the experience and results first.”

Welch said there was a simple ex-

planation as to why she started offering Care Credit as a payment option.

“Patients kept asking about Care Credit,” Welch said.

“When enough patients asked, I decided it was time to sign up.”

Williams said WELCH more than 96 percent of Care Credit cardholders regularly surveyed reported they were highly satisfied with the program and that the service met or exceeded their expectations.

Furthermore, 95 percent of both cardholders and providers consistently rate the program as fair to excellent in value, Williams said.

However, customers should know there are possibilities for additional expenses, Welch said.

“Most of the financing options do not cover the fees associated with complications of medical treatment,” Welch said. “No doctor has a zero percent complication rate.

Patients could be left with a large medical bill if they have a complication or need to be admitted to the

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It seems like a good way for people to compartmentalize their expenses. Most people don’t necessarily have $10,000 sitting around for surgery. It is like going out for a nice dinner. People don’t want to pay up front; they want the experience and results first.”

— Dr. Marlene Welch hospital. These expenses are outside the patient’s initial expenses.”

Welch said physicians are also beginning to utilize companies such as CosmetAssure to protect their patients from unexpected expenses re-

lated to cosmetic surgery. Because the majority of major medical health insurance policies exclude treatment of complications following elective aesthetic surgery, physicians have begun to use CosmetAssure as a form of cosmetic surgery insurance.

Welch said this level of protection provides additional assurance for patients.

“It’s similar to purchasing travel insurance,” Welch said. “Patients pay a small nominal fee upfront, which is usually built into the surgical cost, and safeguard themselves from paying larger medical bills if there is an unexpected complication.”

Another pitfall of using Care Credit and other health care financing options is possible accumulation of new debt.

According to a study by TransUnion in late 2012, credit card debt per borrower increased 4.91 percent in 2012.

Borrowers are now carrying an average credit card debt of $4,996. This statistic was part of TransUnion’s ongoing series of quarterly analyses of credit-active consumers, evaluating how they are managing credit related to mortgages, credit cards and auto loans. O

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and fairly routine — to pay a service fee if you use a website to plan a trip, according to John Pittman, vice president of industry affairs for American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA).

There are many different types of travel agents and agencies, he said, and many charge for their specialization, including those who put together options that allow you and me to book from the convenience of our laptops.

When I went back to examine my Brandi booking price, clicked on another link and looked really, really closely, I noticed that the fee was within the total price; the travel agent’s fee just happened to be itemized on the credit card statement.

I thought this seemed tricky; however, “as long as the total and full price is revealed to you” at the time of checkout, it is acceptable, Pittman said.

I contacted Marita Hudson Thomas, director of public relations at Orbitz Worldwide, to learn about this popular website’s policy. Orbitz Worldwide includes the online travel brand CheapTickets.com.

“There is a service fee on airline tickets booked on Orbitz.com for multi-carrier itineraries and flights that originate outside of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean that carry a non-refundable fee which is shown as a separate line item on customers’ credit card statements,”

she wrote in an email.

“Customers do often save when booking with Orbitz because they get benefits that they would not get if booking direct with an airline, offline travel agent or even with another online travel company,” Thomas said. “At Orbitz, not only will customers not pay a fee on single carrier flights, they also have the advantage of Price Assurance.

If an Orbitz customer books a flight or prepaid hotel room on Orbitz …

BARHITE we immediately start tracking to see if another customer books the same itinerary at a lower price.”

Pittman said travel agents add value to a trip. They can get deals that you and I wouldn’t otherwise be able to secure. Travel agents can also provide advice; the best deal doesn’t always mean the lowest price. But if you are worried about their business practices, he suggested checking to see if they are members of ASTA, which takes complaints and enforces a code of ethics.

“And don’t stop there; go to your local BBB site and look at the rating,” Pittman said. “And ask around, ask your friends and see who they use.”

Maybe that is what I should have done. O Email Toledo Free Press Community Ombudsman Brandi Barhite at bbarhite@toledofreepress.com.

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The rules of crony football “

nce a year my wife and I sit down and actually watch the Super Bowl together. I used to watch a lot of NFL, but for some reason I lost my interest after people getting paid millions of dollars to play a game became unable to put two coherent sentences together. Additionally, it became equally nauseating to watch these same multimillionaire players dance around in the endzone for doing the job for which they were paid.

But, like childbirth (so I am told), I eventually forget the pain and we watch one game a year for all of the marbles. I still end up feeling nauseated but I just blame it on all of the junk food I eat during the game.

Anyway, while watching this year’s game and not being able to forget all that is going on in this country, I couldn’t help but think about what the game would be like if we treated it like we do businesses. I’ll call this concept “crony football.”

Under the operating rules of crony football, by the end of the first quarter

the San Francisco 49ers would have to can have two guys in motion at the hire a significant number of new lob- same time and we will move the outbyists in order to convince the league of-bounds lines out a couple more feet just to make it fair. officials that Baltimore Fourth, at the end of had an unfair competitive the game we should tax advantage. These lobbythe winners’ income at ists would push to have a 50 percent higher rate the league start taxing the than the losers, just to Ravens’ points so that the be fair. score would be more even Finally, no winner and ultimately more fair. should be declared beSecond, it would have cause that divides us been obvious that Baltiinstead of unites us. more was taking advantage of “loopholes” in the Gary L. RATHBUN We don’t want any of the children who suprules that allowed them to score more points and prevented port either team to feel badly about San Francisco from scoring as many. themselves by declaring their team the These loopholes need to be closed loser. It is obviously more important now, before the entire league goes off for children to feel good about themselves than to be aware of reality and the gaming cliff.

Third, because of the obvious dis- how the world actually works.

As long as we are fantasizing about advantage the 49ers had in the first half of the game, some special rules need to crony football, I think that it would help be put into place. These rules would everyone’s self-esteem and certainly be include: The 49ers should be allowed fairer if the Lions were declared the to have 12 players instead of 11, they winner of the Super Bowl even though

they weren’t there. The Lions were at a distinct market disadvantage through no fault of their own. They certainly need more or better lobbyists.

Unfortunately or fortunately, whichever way you want to think about it, I don’t have room in this column to get into the commercials.

Suffice it to say that there were several that I greatly appreciated and a few that I could live the rest of my life and never see again.

I hope you appreciate this analogy and let me leave you with this guiding thought: “No worries, mon! Every-ting is gonna be all right!” O Gary L. Rathbun is the president and CEO of Private Wealth Consultants, LTD. He can be heard every day on 1370 WSPD at 4:06 p.m. on “After the Bell” on the Afternoon Drive, and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening at 6 p.m. throughout Northern Ohio on “Eye on Your Money.”

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gold bullion had declined for almost running for more than a decade, 20 years. With gold at less than $300 that this is historically pretty long as bull markets go, or that an ounce, many central this run in gold was prebanks around the world ceded by a 20-year bear had given up and were market. They see only selling the gold held in that the price of bullion their vaults. seems to have leveled off Now, with gold and wonder why. having stabilized well This is, essentially, over $1,600 an ounce, why 80 percent of investhere is a surplus of adtors are usually late to visers who are just now the party; they bought coming around, touting the shiny metal as the Dock David TREECE tech stocks in 2000 right before they collapsed, or best protection against inbought real estate flation, deflation, rein 2006 right becession, Congress in session, a collapse of Many of the world’s fore the bottom fell out of the market. the monetary system or all of the above. largest pension funds These shortcomings aren’t confined At the same time, central banks, have been liquidating to the investing public; they inwhich were selling gold before it quin- their own positions clude a number of brokers, advisers, tupled in price, are now buying it in commodities. Like pundits and other well-known people. back. Many of the My brother and world’s largest pen- us, their views have I regularly write sion funds have been liquidating changed and they are columns and my father, “Dock1,” does their own positions in commodi- now looking at other a radio spot with Fred LeFebvre every ties. Like us, their views have changed sectors that represent morning on WSPD 1370 AM. These are and they are now looking at other sec- better opportunities.” tools we use to make some of our retors that represent search public, and hopefully they are better opportunities.

Granted, after trading in and out thought-provoking for our audience.

However, we are money managers of the precious metals market many times during the past 14 years, my — we don’t want to be rock stars. firm still has some small exposure to Other advisers with similar exposure mining companies. However, this spend all of their time writing books exposure is limited, more likely and articles or hosting radio shows, to decrease in the future than in- and manage money in their spare crease, and there are reasons we time. With all of their media efforts have it (e.g., the mismatch between they don’t have the time to do commetal prices and mining stock prehensive research, and this can be share prices). These are things that detrimental for clients.

It can be almost as detrimental we’ve found because we are paid to as an adviser who asks clients what study the intricacies of markets.

These things likely wouldn’t be they want to do. After all, if he isn’t known to someone who didn’t work more informed about the markets in investments on at least a part- than his clients — if his knowledge time basis. This is why I say that un- isn’t the reason they’re in the office less someone works in investments in the first place — why is he being and understands the complexities consulted? O of trading in different types of assets (bullion vs. miners vs. ETFs vs. fu- Dock David Treece is a partner with tures) or unless simply wants to buy Treece Investment Advisory Corp. and a few gold coins to hand down to is licensed with FINRA through Treece their kids without a paper trail, most Financial Services Corp. He provides people have absolutely no business expert content to numerous media outlets. The above information is the express dealing in commodities.

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County using $1.32 million grant for juveniles Things have been moving along quickly since Lucas County was awarded a four-year $1.32 million grant to improve its drug court system by implementing the Reclaiming Futures model for juvenile offenders, organizers report.

The program already has three local treatment facilities in place and two more are planned within the next few months, said Lucas County Juvenile Treatment Court Coordinator LaTonya Harris. The program does not have any youth assigned to it yet, but the screening process with the court will begin as early as this month, she said.

In December, Lucas County was one of three recipients of a $5.27 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The grant was split between Lucas County, Forsyth County, N.C., which will receive $1.23 million, and Duval County, Fla., which will receive $1.32 million. The national program office, housed in the Regional Research Institute, School of Social Work at Portland State University, will receive $1.4 million in support over two years to continue training and technical assistance for the existing

six federally funded Reclaiming Futures sites in addition to these three new communities, according to a news release.

The program will help local youth become productive members of society, Harris said.

“We reclaim their futures by screening them, giving them treatment and getting them back into the community,” Communications Consultant Lori Howell said.

Howell stressed the importance of the model because of how many crimes relate back to drugs, alcohol and mental health. With this model, teenagers will be screened in these areas directly after an arrest. Then, treatment can be given in response to their needs.

Reclaiming Futures will be used as a model with 25 teenagers in the Lucas County Juvenile Treatment Court.

There is a goal set to increase the capacity to 30 teenagers who will receive treatment each year. This would mean 120 teenagers will be helped by the grant during the four years.

“It’s great for our county,” Harris said. “This is going to allow us to serve as a model for other counties and other sites when we get our results.”

Harris said there is no end for Reclaiming Futures in sight, even if

the funding from the grant runs out.

Once it is implemented and the staff is fully trained, the program will stay intact for as long as the community wants it to be.

“The big piece is getting started, and that is what the funding is helping us do,” Harris said.

“When we get the community on board and involved, I think it will improve relationships and decrease the stigma of how people are looking at juveniles when they see so many in the news,” Harris said.

Reclaiming Futures Executive Director Susan Richardson said the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School is a motivation to improve the lives of our youth.

“This is an opportunity to take a close look at how our communities can help serve our youth and families,” Richardson said.

Harris agreed.

“I think that is just one more example of why a model like Reclaiming Futures is necessary,” she said.

Reclaiming Futures started 10 years ago in 10 communities. Today, it stretches across 37 counties in 18 states.

“We are on the front lines to help the community get off the cycle of drugs and alcohol,” Richardson said. O — Matt Liasse

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By Alan Sculley

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The first three Matchbox Twenty albums were all Rob Thomas when it came to songwriting.

But then the band took a break, and Thomas went on to establish himself as a solo artist in his own right with his 2005 solo debut, “… Something To Be.” That album reached the top of the Billboard magazine album chart and produced two hit singles, “Lonely No More” and “This Is How A Heart Breaks.” Both came after “Smooth,” the blockbuster single he co-wrote for Carlos Santana and sang on Santana’s “Supernatural” CD. Meanwhile, Matchbox Twenty members Paul Doucette and Kyle Cook were developing their craft as well. Doucette formed a side band, The Break And Repair Method; Cook formed a band called the New Left and has been writing and producing several artists.

So when Matchbox Twenty regrouped to make the 2008 album “Exile On Mainstream,” a greatest hits collection supplemented with six new songs, Doucette and Cook essentially insisted on being part of the writing equation for that album — a trend that has carried through to the recently released Matchbox Twenty album, “North.”

Matchbox Twenty will play a sold-out show at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 15 at Stranahan Theater. Phillip Phillips will open.

Thomas, in a mid-January phone interview, said he was happy to open up the writing process to his bandmates.

But there were some around the band who weren’t so sure Thomas should collaborate.

“A lot of people were shi***ng their pants when we started talking about this (collaborating), the label more than management,” Thomas said.

Such concerns were understandable. As primary songwriter on the first three Matchbox Twenty albums, Thomas had proven himself to be one of rock’s most reliable hitmakers.

The band’s 1996 debut CD, “Yourself Or Someone Like You,” produced five hit singles (including “Push,” “3 AM” and “Long Day”), while the next two albums, 2000’s “Mad Season” and 2002’s “More Than You Think You Are” added another half dozen hits to the list, including “Bent,” “If You’re Gone” and “Bright Lights.”

The worry, of course, was that involving Doucette, Cook (and for that matter, the other two band members, bassist Brian Yale and drummer Ryan MacMillan) in the songwriting would dilute the quality of the material Thomas might write on his own.

What Thomas soon discovered — and what people at Atlantic Records and the band’s management didn’t know — was that Doucette and Cook, in particular, showed how much they had grown as songwriters very quickly once the three started writing together.

“All that (concern about losing control of the songwriting) kind of stopped when we got together and started writing,” Thomas said. “Like a song like ‘Overjoyed’ that I wrote with Paul and Kyle, I like that as much as I like anything that I’ve ever written alone. So that’s really where the proof is. I’ll write a song with my dog if it’s a good song.”

In the end, Thomas shares writing credits with Doucette and Cook on three songs on “North,” including the bouncy first single, “She’s So Mean,” the aforementioned “Overjoyed” (a first-rate ballad that is the current single from “North”) and “I Will,” a sweet, largely acoustic ballad.

Cook and Doucette, meanwhile, co-wrote the song “The Way,” Doucette and Cook each got sole writing credit for one song each, while Thomas wrote five songs on his own.

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And yes, “North” sounds very much like a Matchbox Twenty album with its mix of hooky upbeat pop rockers like “She’s So Mean,” “English Town” and “Radio” (the album’s lone Thomas/Doucette collaboration), mid-tempo tunes (“Parade” and “Like Sugar”) and graceful ballads (“Overjoyed,” “I Will” and “The Way”).

The band had some 50 song ideas for “North,” and planned to narrow the list and begin recording when all five band members set up shop in a cabin/studio in Nashville, Tenn. Instead, it became more of a party/bonding session.

Fortunately, one thing happened to put the project on track. Matt Serletic, who produced the first three Matchbox Twenty albums, stopped in to see what Matchbox Twenty was cooking up for the album. A lengthy listening session to the songs in progress resulted in a realization.

“After like two bottles of wine and 3 in the morning and him looking at everything we’re doing, we just kind of looked at him and said ‘We think you should produce this record,’” Thomas said. “‘So let’s, next year January, we’ll hit LA and we’ll start recording.’ That was kind of how we went about it.”

Now, Matchbox is touring theaters and casino venues this winter on its first tour in support of “North.”

Thomas said the band is trying to cover lots of ground in its show. The band, though, is making sure to play its hits, devoting about half of its set to songs many concert-goers come to hear.

“We’re still there to entertain and we’re still there to give somebody a great night,” Thomas said. “They came and invested their time and their money, so you want to make sure they get what they want. But then you have that whole other half of the set that kind of becomes on different nights different album tracks and new tracks, covers and things like that.” O

During summer 2011, Matchbox Twenty had some work expenses: rent for a house that included a studio in Nashville, Tenn., and wine.

Lots of wine.

“We would get up and we would all hang out for a little bit, do our thing, and then start working a little bit, and then we’d break for dinner, and then we’d start drinking some wine,” Paul Doucette said.

“And then we’d come back and the wine would start at night, and we’d work throughout the night, and then we’d wake up in the morning and listen to what we did. It was bad; it was pretty much junk. And then we’d do the same thing all over again.”

The Matchbox Twenty rhythm guitarist and drummer added, “We were drinking a lot of Francis Ford Coppola’s Director’s Cut.” Seems fitting the multiplatinum rockers were downing the drink named for the innovative, influential filmmaker.

“North,” the group’s first fulllength disc since 2002, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart in September. “She’s So Mean” became Matchbox Twenty’s 13th Top 10 hit. “‘She’s So Mean’ was — we had a chord progression and we were like, ‘We have to write this entire song within this chord progression; we can’t move it; it’s just these three chords,’” Doucette recalled. “It’s literally like Rob [Thomas, singer and pianist] sang the first verse, I sang the second part, Kyle [Cook, guitarist] sang the third part off the top of our heads, and that’s kind of what stayed.”

That catchy, comical single was followed by the beautiful “Overjoyed.”

“We wrote that at Rob’s house,” Doucette said. “The word overjoyed came with the melody. Sometimes that will happen, like you’re singing total gibberish, trying to find a melody, but sometimes a word will pop out. Overjoyed popped out.

And we stayed with that.

“We debated whether or not to change it or stay with it and write an unapologetic love song, and we de-

cided to do that.”

Since the 1996 release of “Yourself Or Someone Like You,” Matchbox Twenty has been making hits: “Push,” “3 AM,” “Real World,” “If You’re Gone,” “ U n w e l l ,” “Bright Lights,” “Bent,” “Disease,” “How Far We’ve Come.”

“We have a level of what DOUCETTE we think a good song is. And if anything, I think that we think that’s gotten more, I don’t want to say better, but like more precise of what we think a good song is,” Doucette said during a call from his Los Angeles home.

“So we’ve been trying to get to that point, and I don’t think that we ever worried that we weren’t going to be able to get there. We were definitely worried about how long it would take and if we’d still be alive by the time we got there,” he joked.

En route, Doucette, Thomas, Cook and bassist Brian Yale have taken breaks to pursue side projects.

Most notably, Thomas co-wrote and sang on Santana’s 1999 Grammywinning “Smooth” and released a couple of solo discs that included “Lonely No More,” “This Is How a Heart Breaks” and “Her Diamonds.” “[The breaks] might be the reason why we’re still together, too, because we take a lot of time off and we go and Rob does his solo thing, Kyle and I do a lot of writing, we all have our own things that we’re doing. We also all have families, and we all have our own lives,” Doucette said.

“So when we get back together, it’s just always fun,” he said. “The great thing about it, too, is every single time we get back together, because we’re all not sitting around not doing anything, we’re all working, when we come back together, we all kind of learned new tricks that we didn’t have the last time we worked together. So we can always kind of surprise each other, which is nice.”

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Perrysburg woman competes in baseball ‘Fan Cave’ contest

By Don Lee

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer donlee@donleecartoons.com

Kate Longenecker makes it her business to find fun ways to tell you the score. Now she’s asking you for a little bit of help to step up her game.

The Perrysburg woman is one of 52 fans of the national pastime who made the almost-final cut — from more than 10,000 applications — for Major League Baseball’s “Fan Cave.” The final winners will live in a Greenwich LONGENECKER Village apartment, watch baseball and tweet, post and pin their opinions on social media and MLB’s own website.

“Who wouldn’t want to be paid to watch 2,400 baseball games, the opportunity to live in New York City and chronicle it on social media?” she asked, laughing.

Longenecker, like the other almost-finalists, made a video to state her case and it’s posted on the

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MLB Fan Cave website (http://bit.ly/ votelongenecker). Just scroll down until you see her in her red Philadelphia Phillies T-shirt and ball cap, then watch her spoof the Gangnamstyle dance she hopes to replace with custom handshakes for each sports celebrity she meets.

“I do think I’d be an entertaining person to be in the Fan Cave,” she tells prospective voters.

Wait a minute? The Phillies? This is Toledo! Doesn’t our Major League heart belong to the Detroit Tigers?

Well, Longenecker is “Phillyborn and raised,” as she says in her video, but moved to Toledo with her college boyfriend when he found a job here. She shopped her love of sports around and landed jobs with the Mud Hens and the Walleye, doing electronic graphics that keep fans up to speed on the stats that drive the games. She also does color commentary for Buckeye Cable Sports Network.

So if you’ve got the picture — fun puns are her specialty — “It’s what I make and what I create and what I do.

You can be very creative with it.”

She’s hoping for more than a stretch in sports fan heaven from

the Fan Cave, though. The whole idea is to get a group of fans who create buzz for the games through Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, in addition to what they say on MLB.com. That’s an exploding trend sports organizations and sports broadcasters want to tap — Feb. 3’s Super Bowl XLVII set records for the number of fans watching the game streamed live on the Internet, and set a number of other records related to social media, according to the news site Mashable.com.

Longenecker’s also looking to get in front of that trend; she’s hoping to get some new ideas — graphics, tweets, posts, what have you — for how she lets Mud Hens and Walleyes fans know the score.

She’s already learned a thing or two — namely, how fast something can get going and growing online.

Appearing on Twitter as @Klongen, she’s already developed friendships and “friendly rivalries” with some of the other finalists.

Voting at MLB.com ends Feb. 13; from the 52 videos, voters select 30 finalists who go to spring training in Arizona and then to the Fan Cave. O

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delivered to her work with a generic feel. If you are not great with words, message on the card, or chocolate- maybe use some of your vows, or vows covered Oreos from Christie’s. Both are you wished you would have said. Pro amazing gifts, but can it be better? This tip: Do not “tag” her in the photo, role behavior that we, as men, occasion- that way she is surprised when other ally take pride in is the very same pat- people tell her.

O Mixtape master: How long ented formula that is leading us toward failed marriages, affairs and then di- has it been since you have made a mixtape? OK, maybe vorce. Consider me the we don’t make “tapes” Valentine’s Day version anymore, but you can of George Bailey from still burn her a CD “It’s a Wonderful Life,” from a playlist you’ve but instead of finding the created. The music you meaning of Christmas, I select should represent have found the importhe soundtrack of your tance of Feb. 14. marriage, anything While going from your couple song, through my divorce alconcerts you’ve atmost four years ago, I tended to favorites you realized that my heart Jeremy BAUMHOWER have gained along the had been drowning in words yet I had remained si- way. The fact that it is a CD allows lent. Simple, well-timed “I love yous” room for you to write little notes on or a more regular expression of how the CD cover; make sure you utilize I really felt may have changed the the space. Every word matters, never course of my marriage and saved my leave one unsaid. Pro tip: If you are not kids from becoming nomads. These great with music I have you covered, are things I have learned post-divorce, find my V-Day playlist. Remember, it after reviewing the countless tapes in is about the break from the norm, the my head like an NFL head coach the thought behind the gift.

O Text from nowhere: If you are Monday following a loss. Just like Jimmy Stewart did, I am now shouting not one who overly expresses your through the streets of suburbia, trying words, try to find some and send them to wake men up from their “comfort” to her in an unexpected text. There has to be a reason why you fell in love with before it’s too late.

Here are some new Valentine’s Day this woman, so why not remind her with one or many random texts. ideas for dummies (men).

O Gift from the future: Most of O Cellphone-free dinner: Take her to her favorite restaurant and right the ideas above are targeting men who before you leave the car, open the glove have been married for some time, but compartment and surprise her by I have not forgotten you rookies. If placing both of your cellphones inside. you are a newlywed with a pregnant It is a small but free gesture that should wife/girlfriend or have a newborn, make her smile. Let her know that why not start your relationship on dinner will be uninterrupted and your the right foot by giving her a gift from the baby? You can give her an empty conversation is the entertainment.

O Extreme kitchen takeover: photo album with a favorite family For those couples where the woman picture on the cover, or maybe just the is primarily in charge of cooking, ultrasound photo on the first page. here’s an opportunity for you to warm Another idea for a pregnant wife is her heart. Simply surprise her by to buy an outfit for the baby to wear making dinner for two. If you have home from the hospital. Show her kids, maybe grandma and grandpa how you see the future, not just today.

If you are reading this and you think (or whoever else you use) will host a sleepover. The gift here is doing some- that I am wrong, that all women do not thing you normally wouldn’t. If you like to have overly expressive babbling are not confident in the kitchen or men as husbands, maybe you are right, have no idea what to make, go online but where is the harm in exploring? The to find a recipe that fits the bill. It’s ro- perfect Valentine’s Day gift is the one she mantic and delicious. Make sure you would never expect, it is one from your pick up a bottle or two of her favorite soul and not your wallet. I am not saying for you to not give gifts, but make sure wine as well.

O Random Facebook post: If you that every element of the gift is thought are on Facebook like most of the free out in advance. Never underestimate the world, shock her by posting a mean- gift of your thought.

Men and women are different by deingful photograph of the two of you together. Then, when Facebook asks sign … trust me, women love an overly for a description, use your heart and expressive babbling man, especially if find words to tell her exactly how you he is babbling over her. O

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Below is a summary of legislation adopted by the Village of Ottawa Hills on January 21st, 2013.

Resolution 2013-1 Authorizing the clerk treasurer to draw on the county treasury for advances against tax

settlement, and declaring an emergency.

Resolution 2013-2 Authorizing a mutual aid agreement between the Village of Ottawa Hills and the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo area, and declaring an emergency.

The complete text of the enclosed ordinances and resolutions may be obtained at 2125 Richards Rd. By order of the Village Council John Lewis -Treasurer

NOTICE TO BIDDERS PROPOSAL

Sealed proposals marked for “ROAD IMPROVEMENTS: PELHAM, GRIMSBY & BRANTFORD ROAD BETWEEN HEMPSTEAD ROAD & SECOR ROAD” will be received by the Village of Ottawa Hills, at the office of the Village Council Chambers in the Municipal Building, 2125 Richards Road. Ottawa Hills, Ohio 43606, until 2:00 P.M. (Local Time) on Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The scope of work for Pelham, Grimsby and Brantford Road between Hempstead Road and Secor Road, involves the removal of approximately 7,368 square yards of existing asphalt pavement and replacement with a full depth asphalt pavement as well as the construction of about 5,530 feet of concrete curb and underdrains.

PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS The contract documents, including plans and specifications, are on file for viewing only, at the office of the Village Manager in the Municipal Building at 2125 Richard Road, Ottawa Hills, Ohio 43606.

Any interested bidders may pick up a copy of the contract documents at the Toledo office of SSOE, Inc. 1001 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43604.

The cost for one copy of the contract documents shall be $75.00 per set. Checks shall be made payable to SSOE, Inc. NO REFUNDS WILL BE MADE. QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS All questions regarding the plans and specifications must be submitted in writing or by fax to Marc Thompson and the Engineer, SSOE, Inc., Duane D. Wolf, P.E., (419) 255-3830, ext. 1365 (fax # 255-6101) 72 HOURS PRIOR TO BID OPENING. The Village’s response will be faxed to all potential bidders. This will assure that all potential bidders have the benefit of the same answers to the same questions.

PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING A pre-proposal meeting for this project will be held on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 2:00 P.M. (Local Time) at the Village of Ottawa Hills, 2125 Richards Road, Ottawa Hills Ohio 43606.

Any questions regarding these bid specifications can be addressed at that time. Attendance at this meeting is not mandatory for award of this contract, but is strongly recommended.

By order of the Village Council John Lewis -Treasurer

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Colbert Daily Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Kroll Show Work.

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The 700 Club (CC) Restaurant: Im. Diners Diners Diners Diners My. Diners My. Diners Diners Diners Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Spont.

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Outrageous Kitchens Hunters Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hunt Intl Hoarders (CC) Hoarders (CC) Hoarders (CC) Hoarders (CC) Hoarders (CC) Ridic.

Ridic.

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Failoso Snooki & JWOWW ››› Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy ›› Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail (2009) There There ›››› Ninotchka ››› The Champ (1931) (CC) ›››› Grand Hotel (1932, Drama) Greta Garbo. (CC) (DVS) The Mentalist (CC) The Mentalist (CC) NBA Basketball In NBA Southland Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Big Bang Big Bang ›› Paper Heart (2009, Drama) Charlyne Yi. Rules Rules Amer. Dad Amer. Dad

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Ent Insider Middle Neighbors Mod Fam Suburg.

Nashville (N) (CC) News J. Kimmel Wheel Jeopardy! Survivor: Caramoan -- Fans vs. Favorites (N) CSI: Crime Scene News Letterman The Office Simpsons American Idol Female contestants compete.

Fox Toledo News America How I Met Jdg Judy Jdg Judy Whitney Guys-Kids Law & Order: SVU Chicago Fire (N) (CC) News Jay Leno NewsHour Business Nature (N) (CC) (DVS) NOVA Satellite data of the earth. (N) Charlie Rose (N) (CC) Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Barter Kings (N) (CC) Barter Kings (CC) Inside Actor’s Studio Inside Actor’s Studio Top Chef: Seattle Top Chef: Seattle (N) Happens Top Chef Colbert Daily Work.

South Pk South Pk South Pk Work.

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The 700 Club (CC) Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im. Bobby’s Dinner Battle Restaurant: Im. First Place First Place Cousins Cousins Property Brothers (N) Hunters Hunt Intl Property Brothers (CC) My Best Friend’s ›› Made of Honor (2008) Patrick Dempsey. › Bride Wars (2009) Kate Hudson. (CC) BUCKWILD BUCKWILD Snooki & JWOWW Washington Heights Washington Heights Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) (CC) ››› The Window (CC) ›››› I Remember Mama (1948) Irene Dunne. (CC) (DVS) ››› She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ›››› The Dark Knight (2008) Christian Bale, Heath Ledger. (CC) (DVS) Southland (N) (CC) Southland (CC) NCIS (CC) NCIS “Child’s Play” NCIS “Up in Smoke” Necessary Roughness CSI: Crime Scene Big Bang Big Bang Arrow Oliver is shot.

Supernatural (N) (CC) Rules Rules Amer. Dad Amer. Dad

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Today (N) (CC) Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Chica Pajanimals Poppy Cat Justin LazyTown Noodle Sid Cat in the Super Dinosaur MotorWk Michigan Wild Ohio Out Mag. Nature (CC) (DVS) Criminal Minds (CC) Criminal Minds (CC) Flipping Vegas (CC) Flipping Vegas (CC) Flipping Vegas (N) Sleepless Matchmkr Matchmaker Housewives/Atl. Housewives/Atl. Housewives/Atl. Comedy › My Best Friend’s Girl (2008) Dane Cook. ›› The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. (2009) Cone Pirates Sofia Phineas Gravity Good Jessie Jessie (CC) Austin Austin SportsCenter (CC) SportsCenter (CC) SportsCenter (N) (CC) College GameDay (N) College Basketball Garfield ›› Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008, Comedy) ›› 101 Dalmatians (1996) Glenn Close.

102 Dalm Be.- Made Best Thing Paula Paula Pioneer Trisha’s Contessa Giada Chopped Buying and Selling Property Property BathCrash BathCrash YardCrash Kit. Crash Hse Crash Hse Crash Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Chris Chris ›› Gracie’s Choice Pregnant Teen Mom 2 ››› Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) 10 on Top Payne Browns There Jim King of the Nerds ››› The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (CC) Lassie ›› Cabin in the Sky (1943) (CC) ›››› On the Town (1949) Gene Kelly.

An American in Paris Law & Order Dallas (CC) Monday Mornings Southland (CC) Law & Order “Doped” Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Necessary Roughness NCIS “UnSEALed” NCIS (CC) NCIS (CC) Sonic X Sonic X Transform. Justice Dragon WWE Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Career Icons

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Ent Insider Zero Hour “Strike” (N) Grey’s Anatomy (N) Scandal (N) (CC) News J. Kimmel Wheel Jeopardy! Big Bang Two Men Person of Interest (N) Elementary “Details” News Letterman The Office Simpsons American Idol (N) (CC) Glee “I Do” (N) Fox Toledo News America How I Met Jdg Judy Jdg Judy Commun Parks The Office 1600 Penn Do No Harm (N) (CC) News Jay Leno NewsHour Business Toledo Toledo Midsomer Murders Live From Artists Den Charlie Rose (N) (CC) The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (CC) The First 48 (CC) After the First 48 (N) The First 48 (CC) Matchmaker Matchmaker Matchmaker Kathy (N) Happens Match.

Colbert Daily Sunny Sunny Work.

Tosh.0 Sunny Sunny Daily Colbert Austin Jessie ›››› WALL-E (2008) (CC) Phineas ANT Farm Good Jessie ANT Farm College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (CC) ›› How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ›› The Wedding Planner (2001) Jennifer Lopez.

The 700 Club (CC) Sweet Genius Chopped Chopped Anne Burrell Rachael v. Guy Hunt Intl Hunters West End West End Rehab Rehab Hunters Hunt Intl Hawaii Hawaii To Be Announced Project Runway (CC) Project Runway (N) (CC) Double To Be Announced Ridic.

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Top 10 Failoso Ridic.

Failoso Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang King of the Nerds (N) Conan (N) (CC) The Prisoner of Zenda ›››› Gone With the Wind (1939, Romance) Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard.

The Mentalist (CC) NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Oklahoma City Thunder. (N) NBA Basketball Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Suits Scottie returns.

Necessary Roughness Big Bang Big Bang The Vampire Diaries Beauty and the Beast Rules Rules Amer. Dad Amer. Dad

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J. Hanna Full Plate Private Practice (CC) Secret Millionaire ESPN Sports Saturday (N) News ABC Insider Lottery ››› Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Fantasy) News Castle College Basketball Regional Coverage. (N) PGA Tour Golf Northern Trust Open, Third Round. (N) (Live) (CC) News News Wheel Time Person of Interest Criminal Minds 48 Hours (N) (CC) News CSI Paid McCarver Bones (CC) The Closer (CC) Bones (CC) Leverage (CC) Burn Notice (CC) Burn Notice (CC) NASCAR Racing News Seinfeld The Following Paid SMART Snowboarding FIS Alpine Skiing Red Bull Signature Series (N) (CC) News News Jdg Judy Academic Ninja Warrior Chicago Fire Saturday Night Live News SNL This Old House Hr Cooking Quilting Il Volo Takes Flight Celtic Thunder Globe Trekker Steves Travels Lawrence Welk History Detectives Antiques Roadshow As Time... Wine Masterpiece Classic First 48: Missing First 48: Missing First 48: Missing Beyond Scared Straight (CC) Beyond Scared Straight (CC) Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Housewives/Atl. The Face Vanderpump Rules Vanderpump Rules Vanderpump Rules Real Housewives Real Housewives ›› How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) Kate Hudson. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ›› Coneheads (1993) (CC) ››› Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Matthew Broderick. › My Best Friend’s Girl (2008) Dane Cook. ››› Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) John Cusack. (CC) ››› Wedding Crashers (2005) Owen Wilson. (CC) Austin Wizards Wizards Wizards Good Good Jessie Jessie Good Good Austin Jessie Jessie Good ››› Despicable Me (2010) Phineas Jessie Austin Good Jessie College Basketball College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (CC) College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) College GameDay College Basketball Texas at Kansas. (N) SportsCenter (N) ›› 102 Dalmatians (2000) ›› Richie Rich (1994) Macaulay Culkin. ››› The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) ›› Journey to the Center of the Earth ››› Beetlejuice (1988) Michael Keaton.

Sugar Dome (N) Rachael v. Guy Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Worst Cooks Iron Chef America Spont.

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Love It or List It (CC) Cousins on Call (CC) Cousins Cousins Cousins Cousins Hunters Hunt Intl House Hunters Reno Love It or List It (CC) Love It or List It (CC) Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl ›› Gracie’s Choice Girl, Positive (2007) Andrea Bowen. (CC) The Pregnancy Project (2012) Alexa Vega. ›› Not Easily Broken (2009, Drama) (CC) Pastor Brown (2009, Drama) Premiere. (CC) Movie Snooki & JWOWW ››› Catfish (2010, Documentary) Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Catfish: The TV Pursuit ›› Stomp the Yard (2007) Columbus Short. Raymond Friends Friends Friends Friends King King King Fam. Guy Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang King of the Nerds An American in Paris ›››› Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly. ››› Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ›››› Gigi (1958) Leslie Caron. (CC) (DVS) ›››› Ben-Hur (1959, Historical Drama) Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd. ›› Armored (2009) Matt Dillon. › Biker Boyz (2003) Laurence Fishburne. ›› The Book of Eli (2010, Action) Denzel Washington. Open Court (N) (CC) Tip-Off NBA Basketball 2013 NBA All-Star Saturday Night. (N) Sir Charles at 50 (N) NCIS “Frame-Up” NCIS “Mother’s Day” NCIS (CC) NCIS “Road Kill” NCIS “Heartland” NCIS “Silent Night” NCIS “Jurisdiction” NCIS (CC) NCIS (CC) NCIS “Recruited” Suits Scottie returns.

Live Life On Spot Game Raceline EP Daily EP Daily ’70s ’70s Rules Rules Two Men Two Men Big Bang Big Bang ›› The Replacements (2000, Comedy) Keanu Reeves. Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Futurama

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