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Note to municipalities

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n October 2011, Gov. John Kasich signed into law Ohio House Bill 153, which broke the monopoly daily publications held on legal notices purchased with public money.

I have covered this ground before, but in light of recent events, it bears repeating. The bill eliminated the limitation that links charging for newspapers with being permitted to publish legal notices. It opened the legal publication business to any newspaper of general circulation that publishes at least once a week and meets other criteria, all of which Toledo Free Press satisfies. The bill also requires a participating newspaper to offer its best classified rate for such publications. Allowing newspapers such as Toledo Free Press to publish these notices is intended to ensure that the best rate offered by any participant in this market will be competitive. The result should be substantial savings for all who are required to publish legal notices.

Toledo Free Press has, predictably, had to fight to get local government to learn and respect the new law. A number of agencies have Thomas F. Pounds begun taking advantage of our lower rates to reach Lucas County taxpayers. Late last year, Toledo Free Press began the process with Lucas County Auditor Anita Lopez to compete for delinquent property ads. Eventually, Lopez sought an opinion from the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, which, on Oct. 16, ruled, “[Toledo] Free Press would now qualify as a paper of general circulation.”

Shortly after that, Lopez opened bids for the delinquent property ads.

Lopez cited Toledo Free Press’ lower circulation in areas such as Neapolis and Curtice as reasons for awarding the legal ads to The Blade. That perceived shortcoming has been addressed.

But as more municipalities have chosen to save money without sacrificing reach by placing legal ads in Toledo Free Press, Blade representatives are contacting administrators claiming, “The Toledo Free Press does not qualify as a Newspaper of General Circulation as specified by Ohio Revised Code.”

This is not true, as evidenced by the opinion of the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office. Competition is fine; inaccuracies and distortions are unethical and improper.

Too many Lucas County officials are stuck in old models and counterproductive ways of thinking. There is a new reality, and while many fear and resent the changes, those changes are happening in many counties and will continue to chip away at reckless spending of taxpayer money.

Toledo Free Press will continue to compete for county and municipal legal ads, in what will undoubtedly be a long educational process.

Gov. Kasich amended this law because of the tough economic situation that municipalities face today. He recognized that it was not in the townships’ or residents’ best interest that public notices could only be placed in paid publications.

Your primary reason to choose us for your legal notices is that we more than fulfill the legal requirements and can save your citizens thousands of dollars in the process. O Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

LIGHTING THE FUSE

Grit, glamour and glory

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here are places on Earth that absorb human energy space where Sam Phillips recorded music by Johnny Cash, and store it like a psychic battery. Events of great Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, Charlie emotion create “hotspots” that retain the tenor of Rich, Howlin’ Wolf, Carl Perkins, Rufus Thomas and so many others, I felt the vibrations of revolution, the overwhelming sentiment. confluence and tension of race, talent and the I stop short of believing in haunted fulcrum of ambition. houses, but I have experienced a preterBut even that powerful feeling was natural cold three times in my life — while dwarfed by a recent visit to Studio A in Destanding in a train boxcar once used to troit’s Motown headquarters, Hitsville, USA transport Holocaust victims to Auschwitz; Motown Museum, less than an hour north standing at the Ground Zero site in New York of Downtown Toledo, has opened a new exCity; and when touching a Titanic artifact hibit, “Girl Groups: The Grit, The Glamour, that was raised from the lost ship’s Atlantic The Glory,” which honors such first ladies Ocean resting place. of Motown as Diana Ross & The Supremes, It is a blessing that this psychic energy is most potent and life-affirming when it is Michael S. miller Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Marvelettes, The Velvelettes and The Andantes created by positive emotions, by love and crewho, like their background fellows The Funk Brothers, sang ativity and that most elusive and hard-to-define entity, fun.

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THE HOT CORNER

Economic chicken

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he game of economic chicken If you own a gun shop, you’re doing continues unabated in Wash- very well. Other than that, things are ington with the latest episode, about to get sluggish.

During his State of the Union “The Sequester.” This was a plan so scary, so economically hideous, that address, Obama said, “The greatest only a pack of idiots would let it come nation on Earth cannot keep conto pass. It was dreamed up during ducting its business by drifting from our summer economic crisis du jour one manufactured crisis to the next.” in 2011, to ensure that the involved The GOP has made it an art form parties would have to bargain in good to totally obstruct anything that Obama has tried to do faith lest terrible things since Day One of his that were harmful to first term. They met the well-being of the the night of the first economic recovery and election and decided the country at large be to totally oppose evunleashed. erything Obama, the Never underestiwill of the people be mate the ability of the damned. They’ve even idiots who pass for our gone so far as to fililegislators to do the buster their own bill to wrong thing. Perhaps block anything Obama it would be more accu- Don BURNARD rate to say they failed to do the right tries to do to address any of the probthing. They pulled off an incredible lems facing the nation.

Instead of offering plans to addisplay of fingerpointing while sitdress things like mass unemployting on their thumbs doing nothing.

The original deal, passed with ment, growing inequality, health care, overwhelming Republican support foreclosures and increasing poverty, with some Blue Dog Dems, is now they’d rather manufacture crisis after being blamed on President Barack crisis. This isn’t governance, it is spite.

Obama by the GOP. Paul Ryan, the They come out and tell you what voice of all things economic for the the American people want in their GOP, gave one of his usual blame minds, completely ignoring the will Obama speeches, completely ig- of the voters. Instead of trying to woo noring statements he’d given crowing voters with fresh ideas, they’d rather about how “we” got this passed into try to rig the system to get their way.

The facts are there, but they relaw. John Boehner tried to show how the GOP’s two bills from the last Con- fuse to acknowledge them. Taxes are gress’ session were being completely lower than at any time in the past 60 ignored, so don’t blame them for not years. Fact: The deficit under Obama has gone down every year since 2009, trying to address the situation.

You’d think that someone who has more in the last 3 years than at any time been in Congress as long as Boehner since World War II, and is trending has would know that all legislation downward for future years. Fact: dies with the end of the session, and Spending under Obama is the lowest if you want to vote on it, it has to be under any president since Eisenhower. introduced as new legislation in the Fact: Entitlements like Social Security current session. Either he has no idea don’t add a dime to the deficit. In fact, how his job as Speaker of the House one of the largest creditors of our naworks, or he’s trying to pull the wool tional debt, larger even than China over the eyes of the public. Neither or Japan, is the Social Security fund, choice bodes well for our hopes for which Congress has “borrowed” from for years. If you paid that back, we’d be effective government.

The only plan, if you can call it solvent until 2060. Fact.

The sequester could be repealed that, is the Holy Grail of no new taxes on the rich. Meanwhile, outside tomorrow. Many of the problems that the Beltway, things are about to get we face are manufactured for political more difficult for us everyday folks. gains instead of for the good of the The consensus is that the sequester entire country, and our nation has will cost at least 700,000 jobs in an enough on its plate without adding already weak job market, and will to the problems. What we need are shave at least half a point off of this statesmen and stateswomen, not poliyear’s economic growth. Oh yeah, ticians. Think what we could do if we and if you get a flat tire tomorrow, it’s tried to work for the common good. O Obama’s fault. Wall Street is reaching new heights of profitability and CEO Email Don Burnard at letters@ compensation is at an all-time high. toledofreepress.com.

Opinion n MILLER CONTINUED FROM A3 The exhibit, which includes fascinating information on the role women played in Motown, includes a lineup of dresses worn by the label’s superstars and archived materials from concerts and promotions. The story of Motown founder Barry Gordy Jr. is captured in video, photos and a walk through the actual rooms where he began a musical and cultural revolution.

As well known as the Motown story is, it is easy to take its impact and legacy for granted.

Gordy started the company with an $800 family loan in 1959 in his home of 2648 W. Grand Blvd. (which is now co-named Berry Gordy Jr. Boulevard). Gordy converted his garage into a studio, his kitchen into a control room and his small dining area into “shipping and receiving.” From such modest beginnings, Gordy, described by critic Dave Marsh as “the most musically talented executive in the history of the record business,” built an empire.

The Motown statistics are staggering. Between 1961 and 1971, 163 Motown singles charted; 28 of those hit No. 1.

The Supremes alone racked up 12 No. 1 records. The list of Motown artists reads like a roster of Hall of Fame rockers, and it should; in addition to Gordy, Rock Hall inductees include The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Jackson 5, Gladys Knight and the Pips, sidemen Benny Benjamin and James Jamerson and writers Brian Holland, Lamont Dozer and Eddie Holland — and Mary Wells and The Marvellettes have been nominated.

The hit parade of Motown classics could choke a jukebox and fill a large portion of an iPod: “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”; “Reach Out I’ll Be There”; “Heat Wave”; “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”; “You Keep Me Hangin’; On”; “My Girl”; “My Guy”; “It Takes Two”; “I Can’t Help Myself ”: “Shop Around”; “Dancing in the Street”; “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone”; “The Way You Do You the Things You Do”; “I Second That Emotion”; “What’s Going On”; “Where Did Our Love Go”; “Stop! In The Name Of Love”; “You Can’t Hurry Love”; “I Wish It Would Rain”; “ABC”; “It’s the Same Old Song”; “Standing In the Shadows of Love”; “For Once In My Life” and an overwhelming number of other landmark recordings.

Listening to Motown recordings today one can still hear the vitality and energy Gordy and his army of writers and musicians managed to capture. The Motown Museum illustrates the business and artistry of Gordy’s genius. Under glass, a single sequined glove and black fedora symbolize Michael Jackson’s presence. A gallery of album covers

MARCH 10, 2013 shows the progression from generic illustrations (because so many American record stores of the time would not display albums with black artists on them) to proud releases on Motown’s Black Forum label, which released spoken word recordings from Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes and black soldiers in Vietnam.

The tour includes a glimpse of the rooms where the Gordy family began its entrepreneurial efforts; the window where Gordy once sat mailing vinyl records now frames a perfect view of the street sign proclaiming “Berry Gordy Jr. Blvd.”

But as compelling as the museum and offices are, it is Studio A that embodies rock ’n’ roll. My media tour was led by Allen C. Rawls of the Motown Museum Board of Trustees. Rawls spoke of auditioning for Motown when he was 15, and how he and kids on passing school buses would stare out the windows to see which stars were in the neighborhood. Rawls carries himself with great dignity and gravity, but his love for the Motown legacy shine through his storytelling like sharp rays of sunshine.

The control booth outside Studio A, Rawls pointed out, has deep grooves worn into the floor, where producers and engineers pounded and stomped their feet while making music that shook the world.

Stepping into Studio A, knowing one’s feet are descending steps walked on by Marvin, Stevie, Smokey, Diana, Martha and scores of other monumental artists, is a transcendent experience. The battered headphones and microphones frame the small room; it is amazing that the thundering sounds on Four Tops and Vandellas records were made in such a small and modest space. Lines between black music and white music were obliterated in Studio A. Memories of love and loss, heartbreak and triumph, were given a soundtrack in Studio A. The piano in the studio is a stand-in; the one Earl Van Dyke played on Motown classics is in New York, being refurbished courtesy of the generosity of Motown fan Paul McCartney. But the drums played by Pistol Allen, Bongo Brown and Uriel Jones are there; so is the vibraphone played by Jack Ashford.

Sun Studio promises of mischief, sex and trouble. Studio A at Motown vibrates with peace, love and soul.

When deciding which records to release, Gordy would ask his players, “If you only had $1 in the world, and you had to choose between a sandwich and this record, which would you choose?”

Having been immersed in the grit, glamour and glory of Studio A at Motown, there isn’t a sandwich on the planet I would take over any one of a hundred Motown songs. O Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

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The Shorties: The search for the next Katie Holmes

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ost households with children have specific rules and expectations that are unique to that family. For example, some households require a certain amount of reading for the children, balanced with television watching and/or video gaming. In the Baumhower house, my children are required to provide daily “content.” They can draw, sing, take photographs, create movies, write stories or scripts and of course they can read out loud or silently as long as they give a report of some sort. They are spoiled with technology from iPods to computers but instead of them wasting time playing apps or games, I encourage them to use the devices to their fullest educational capabilities.

Recently I was invited by some members of the Sylvania Community Arts Commission (SCAC) to offer my thoughts on its upcoming Tree City Film Festival. Just imagine me, a 6-foot-5-inch man with zero social filters, wearing one of my trusted hoodies and a full scraggily beard, as I am “Lenting it Grow” once again, walking into one of Sylvania’s nicest

restaurants to sit down with some of film festival for grades eight and lower the cultural elite in our area. It was and give kids a taste of competition in strange, to say the least. I had never something other than sports.”

To my surprise, the been to a meeting that idea was warmly rekept minutes or had a ceived, and to my furtreasurer and a spether surprise, I found cific agenda. It was myself leading the a weird feeling, like charge. The next day, I was peeking into a while playing with my grown-up’s world. After T-Pain microphone, the witnessing numerous title “Shorties” was crediscussions about the ated. And yes, I say it upcoming film festival, like T-Pain every time: the reason for my ap“The Shorties: A Celpearance was revealed. I Jeremy BAUMHOWER ebration of Film and had an idea I wanted to Technology for Kids.” share: The Shorties.

If you are looking for an exciting My pitch began with me holding new challenge for your family or think up my iPhone.

“With the evolution of technology, your child is the next Katie Holmes or this device has become our primary Adam Sandler, consider submitting a camera and has also replaced the 3- to 5-minute film to The Shorties. dreaded camcorder. This small black The film can be anything from a rectangular gizmo is often the No. 1 re- scripted movie to your child singing in quested item on children’s Christmas the dining room. The concept of The lists. Why don’t we encourage kids to Shorties is for it to be a family project, use it as more than an Angry Birds like the Cub Scouts’ Pinewood Derby, player and experience making art in where the children are supposed to a newer way? Let’s host a 3-5 minute do the majority of the work, but we

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If you are looking for an exciting new challenge for your family or think your child is the next Katie Holmes or Adam Sandler, consider submitting a 3- to 5-minute film to The Shorties.”

all know moms and dads tend to help out a lot!

The Shorties will debut April 12, with celebrity judges and a grand prize of an iPod Touch, courtesy of the MacCafé on Talmadge Road. It will be a great gala and a unique opportunity for your child to participate in something other than the norm. The atmosphere will be festive, entertaining and

different and will serve as the kickoff the weekendlong celebration of the Tree City Film Festival.

The Shorties are designed to make your child think outside the box, to create content and then share his or her vision with the world, or at least Northwest Ohio. With Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, many kids already feel they are mini-celebrities, so why not push their creativity in a Hollywood-style competition? They of course can’t do it alone and this hopefully will create lasting memories within your family. Who knows?

Maybe we will find the next Katie, Bonnie Turner or Jamie Farr.

The true winner of that night will be the arts, but let’s not go and ruin it by telling the kids.

For more information about The Shorties, email shorties@sylvaniaarts. org. For more information about the Tree City Film Festival, visit www. sylvaniaarts.org. O To friend one of Northwest Ohio’s Cultural Elite, search “Jeremy Baumhower” on Facebook and Twitter.

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POLITICS

By Brigitta Burks

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If you’ve ever attended a public government meeting in Toledo, there’s a good chance you’ve seen John McAvoy.

Usually wearing a cowboy hat, he’s involved at several government levels — “a little bit of national, quite a lot of state and a whole lot of local,” he said. “[Local is] where you can make the difference. You could spend $100,000 on a national election and make almost no impact at all. But, boy, if you spend $100,000 locally, you’re going to make some huge, huge impacts.

Of course, I don’t have $100,000 to spend,” McAvoy said with a chuckle.

In 2011, McAvoy served as state coordinator of The Ohio Project in support of Issue 3, which opposed President Barack Obama’s health care bill. He is also one of the founding members of the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition (NWOCC), which provides support for smaller conservative groups around the region.

Performance audits are a passion of McAvoy’s, who pushed for Toledo Public Schools to undergo one after the district put a levy on the ballot in 2012.

The father of two and grandfather of “a whole bunch” compared performance audits to a parenting dilemma.

“When my kids come through the door and say, ‘Can I have $20, $50?’

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John McAvoy is one of the founding members of the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition, which provides support for smaller conservative groups.

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MARCH 10, 2013 n McAVOY CONTINUED FROM A6 The Ohio Auditor of State offers performance audits. These audits look at the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of programs to potentially make improvements and establish savings. “[NWOCC] decided to push these because they’re an excellent management tool that’s actually not very well known. What we’re really doing is educating the community,” McAvoy said. “[The idea to push the audits] started about two years ago. We knew that no one or very few people were doing performance audits so we knew people were going to start putting levies on [the ballot], so we just waited until the levies or the rates started being introduced.”

Public utilities

His latest local drive is pushing for a performance audit of the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) after a potential increase in water rates was brought up. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified $300 million worth of upgrades and replacements needed for the city’s water system. About $260 million of that would be for plant upgrades in the next

five years, according to Jen Sorgenfrei, the city’s public information officer.

“We have not finalized a rate model yet, but based on the timeline needed to address the EPA concerns we would need the rates to take effect no later than January 1, 2014 — however, sooner is better because as soon as we have the rates passed by Council we have the ability to borrow,” Sorgenfrei wrote in an email.

McAvoy said the NWOCC would push for the City of Toledo as a whole to be audited as well.

Sorgenfrei said of performance audits, “We’ve actually been doing benchmarking in public utilities and public service to find communities situated similarly to Toledo (population, attractions, services, etc.) that excel at service delivery, examine how they do what they do, and determine how we can successfully benchmark Toledo services against this. This has included looking at staff alignment, public education about the services we provide and changing how we go about delivering services to incorporate greater efficiency and better citizen access.

“We’re not ever against examining our performance, but there’s a differ-

ence between auditing performance and improving performance. … We’re always looking to do the latter.”

First reading

During a Toledo City Council meeting March 5, Councilwoman Lindsay Webb presented a first reading of legislation to put together a 10-person committee to further discuss the potential audit.

Council President Paula HicksHudson said she expects legislation for putting the committee together to pass at HICKS-HUDSON the next Council meeting. She also said she believes the committee would be a broad representation of ratepayers in the area.

Hicks-Hudson added that it’s important to balance the potential need for a performance audit with the EPA’s recommendations to move forward at a safe speed.

“I don’t think it’s an either/or. The purpose of a performance audit is to see if there’s a way to do things better,

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more efficiently, and I think that’s a good thing to do,” she said.

When asked if an audit of the City of Toledo was needed, Hicks-Hudson said she wasn’t sure yet.

“It depends. I think you have to target [specific areas]. … We should look at our systems and make sure we are using taxpayer dollars wisely and being good stewards of it. ... But the point is audits cost money, so I think we have to be sure we’re spending those dollars wisely,” she said.

McAvoy estimated that an audit of the DPU would cost about $150,000.

Workplace freedom

On a state level, McAvoy’s next move is serving as state coordinator for the potential Ohio’s Workplace Freedom Amendment, similar to Michigan’s right-to-work law.

“The Ohio Workplace Freedom Amendment guarantees Ohioans have a choice in whether or not they join a labor union and pay dues or fees at their place of work as a condition of employment,” according to the group’s website.

McAvoy said, “This is probably one of the most important statewide issues. We don’t seem to be addressing

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it; we seem to be knocking the can down the road because we don’t want to hurt people’s feelings.” “[Workplace Freedom] is top of the list for people coming into the state wanting to set up shop,” he said.

Hicks-Hudson said she’d have to see the amendment to say more, but from what she knows, “I’m on the other side of that argument. I believe that people should be able to associate and that unions do have a place in protecting workers and workers’ rights.”

McAvoy said he became involved in politics about 10 years ago. He partially attributed his interest to his parents. His father was an Irish immigrant and his mother is a second-generation citizen.

“The family did a pretty good job of instilling responsibility and leadership. … They pretty much left us a country that we could pretty much do anything we wanted to in. There were a lot of opportunities as long as you were a responsible person and I see that dwindling away,” he said.

When he’s not attending meetings, McAvoy works with computers, performing process control work in factories. McAvoy is also a Wood County resident, something that he has been criticized for, he said.

“I still own property over here in beautiful Toledo. … That’s usually when people start harassing me.

They’ll say, ‘Oh, you don’t even live here.’ I’ll say, ‘Well, there’s a problem here. I pay taxes here, but I’m not allowed to vote here.’ Which even aggravates me more,” he said.

Still, McAvoy said he tries not to get in political fights with people.

“I don’t really fight people. I fight for what I think is right and if you’re opposing me in that, I’m sorry, I’m not going to fight you; I’m going to fight for what I think is right,” he said.

Linda Bowyer, who met McAvoy about four years ago through tea party activities, said, “John is a very personable guy. He really is a nice man and he’s very fun to be around and he’s not hostile. He’s not in people’s faces.”

When asked what she saw in the future for her friend, she said, “I think he wants to be a community organizer.

I think he wants to get people involved in their government, especially locally.”

McAvoy said he’s been asked to run for office, but doesn’t want to.

For now, he plans to keep attending meetings and being active in the community.

“This has been pretty much a fulltime job on a fulltime job on a fulltime job. I kind of, joking, tell people if you need to have something done … you should find a busy person and give it to them and they’ll get it done,” he said.

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MARCH 10, 2013

EDUCATION

Luna: ‘Liaison’ label fosters tension, obscures role of TPS Hispanic Outreach Coordinator

By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccartney@toledofreepress.com

Although he says there’s not a single thing he doesn’t thoroughly enjoy about his job as Toledo Public Schools (TPS) Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, if José Luna could change one thing, it would be how he is perceived.

“There was debate the last time they wanted to cut my job,” Luna said. “And all the media talked about was that I was a liaison. That’s just a miniscule part of what I do.

“And then people in the African-American community were [questioning why] they cut Pastor [Cedric] Brock’s job as ombudsman. Why did his job not exist and mine did?”

Luna suggested that much of that confusion and occasional animosity goes back more than a century and a half.

“That tension between the black and Hispanic communities is historical,” Luna said. “It goes back to the slaves being given freedom. Suddenly, the Hispanic people were vying LUNA with members of the black community for the same lowlevel, low-paying jobs. That was something new for Hispanics. Those jobs had always been theirs, and now they had to vie for them. And sadly, too many of them are still doing the same thing today.”

Morris Jenkins said the tension that arose between the African-American and Latino communities over the elimination of the ombudsman position in 2010 is not unique to TPS or even to Toledo.

Jenkins is chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice and Social Work at the University of Toledo, an associate professor in criminal justice and a member of the City of Toledo Police Review Board. He also works with the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas Juvenile Division.

“It becomes a question of who’s the most oppressed minority,” Jenkins said. “You get that argument going, and the system now is trying to balance it out, and they’re overbalancing it with the Latino community, which is growing.

“I think they should do something across the board, not only with Latinos and blacks. I think there’s a lot of poor white folks in this community as well. There should be something to deal with all of the groups. The tension is there.”

Economic limitations

Jenkins said he recognizes that TPS faces economic limitations, but he thinks the district may be playing one racial group off the other.

“I think that’s part of this issue of institutional racism,” Jenkins said. “In order to take care of the slaves, they used to split them up based on color. The light-colored slaves would be in the house and the darker-colored slaves would be in the field.

“That’s the tactic that they’re using to deal with the issue here — dividing and conquer. I think it’s

Willie Lynch where they separated the races for the house vs. the field.”

Willie Lynch refers to a policy some historians have argued slave owners used to managing their slaves. Rather than lynching the unruly ones, which was counterproductive, slave owners exploited the differences such as age and skin color in order to pit slaves against each other.

“We’ve got to be careful when we do stuff like that,” Jenkins warned.

‘There’s no comparison’

However, Luna said there is no comparison to the job of an ombudsman with what he does.

In addition to his undergraduate degree in education from Bowling Green State University, Luna earned a master’s degree from Siena Heights University’s School of Counseling.

“I’m not an ombudsman,” Luna said. “There are certain times I serve as an advocate, like an ombudsman, but I never get involved in disciplinary issues unless I act as the interpreter.

“I’m an educator and a school counselor. I do more counseling than most counselors. Unfortunately, school counselors today have lots to do as far as scheduling, and it’s hard for them to find the time to sit down and talk to students. I have that ability to sit down with kids.”

Luna said he approaches everything he does as Hispanic Outreach Coordinator from a career counseling perspective.

“When I got to this job, there was nothing in place. When I started, I did my job putting out fires.

And then I decided to become more proactive.

“So I looked at the Carl D. Perkins federal grant that paid my salary. No. 1: What I should be doing? I should be serving the area of the grant I’m being paid from. So I started doing career-based programs.”

Brian Murphy, assistant superintendent of the Start, Rogers and Woodward learning communities and Luna’s supervisor, acknowledges that one of the problems in 2010 was that the general public wasn’t aware that Luna’s job is funded differently than a teacher’s and an ombudsman’s job.

Luna said he still follows the advice of former TPS Superintendent Crystal Ellis, a man he describes as “one of my greatest mentors in my career. I always quote him when anyone questions what I do.

He told me, ‘José, children will never become what they don’t see. Go out and show them.’ ”

‘If it don’t kill you …’

Luna said it is important to teach students and parents to take ownership of each student’s education.

“One of my philosophies is, ‘Never baby a child.’

Make them face what they’ve got to face,” he said. “I go back to, ‘If it don’t kill you, it makes you stronger.’

“I believe children mature when they’re challenged. If they’re having disciplinary issues, we sit down and talk about what they’re doing wrong. It’s up to that child and his family to make him grow.”

Luna regularly tells students and parents the story of an incident that happened to him when he was in elementary school to make his point.

“I was in fourth grade down in Texas, and this

teacher called me a wetback,” Luna said. “I was outraged. And I let that teacher know it. And they took me out and paddled me.

“When I got home, I righteously told my mom what the deal was. And she paddled me. She said, ‘One of these days, you’re going to look back at this and you’ll understand even more what I’m telling you now. You need this education more than calling you any name.’

“And I see what my mother was saying now as an adult. I tell these kids all the time that I need education more than anything else. My job is to get past anything anybody calls me to get that education so that I can move forward.”

A growing trend

The number of Hispanic students enrolled in TPS is in flux for many reasons, almost all of which are financial, Luna said.

Of the 2,168 Hispanic children enrolled on March 6, Luna said he works most closely with approximately 300 Spanish-speaking families as a translator.

“But the demographics are changing every year with the influx of immigrants,” Luna said. “More and more of my business is being done in K-8 because younger families are coming in from out of the country.”

Murphy said that in the past two years, TPS’s Hispanic population has increased by about 10 percent, and that he expects that increase to continue for at least the next two years.

Luna said today’s statistics show that 20 percent of jobs are for the college-educated, 20 percent are for those with a high school education and 60 percent are for people who have had a career tech education.

“That’s a huge thing. Brian [Murphy] and I could just talk about the fact that opportunities abound, even in this area, if you have the right skills.”

Start and Bowsher high schools have milling programs through which small local companies hire students out of high school with basic milling education in metal lathes, Luna said.

Luna pointed to Bowsher High School’s electronic tech prep program; those he said students can enter the workforce immediately after graduation repairing computers or working in electronic security or the cable and satellite industries. Luna also points to Woodward High School’s graphic arts program and Rogers High School’s construction academy as career tech programs students can graduate from with job skills to earn more than $30,000 a year.

“Myself, I’m a pusher of career tech because I really believe that’s where it’s at,” Luna said. “I don’t think colleges are always good. And we do kids an injustice by saying they have to go to college. I see in a lot of kids that it’s just not for them.

“We’ve got to get them to dream, a dream that fits them,” Luna said. “And then we’ve got to get them to realize that a dream is one-fifteenth of the whole deal. The other 14 parts are work, work, work, work and more work. And more work. And more work.

And each stage will give you a sense of gratification that will build. That’s what I’m all about because I’m a product of that.” O

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MARCH 10, 2013

UTILITIES

By Dave Willinger

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER dwillinger@toledofreepress.com

When one of your longtime suppliers tells you they are halting production of key components used in your city’s water distribution system, a mechanical infrastructure that requires on average 40 to 50 replacement meters per year, what are you supposed to do?

If you are Joe Camp, Maumee’s director of public service, you and your team put out a request for proposals for a new metering system — and you snatch up enough of those last replacement parts to see you through the transition.

That request went out in 2012.

Today, licensed and bonded subcontractors are crisscrossing Maumee’s 11.2 square miles, installing new two-way electronic water meters in homes and businesses. Those new meters, from North Carolina-based Mueller Systems, use a radio frequency transmitter to send data via an external system of “repeaters” and “collectors” mounted on city property to a secure, central computer hosted by the manufacturer.

At his office beneath the landmark water tower on Dussel Drive, Camp is able to pull up on his desktop computer hourly data from daily readings transmitted from the nearly 1,000 newly installed and functioning meters.

That up-to-date data has obvious advantages. Assistant Water Superintendent Todd Walborn related how the computerized system alerted him one morning in early March to a residence where 20-gallon-an-hour spikes in water usage had been recorded the night before. Walborn contacted the homeowner and arranged a visit. On

site he found a toilet in the home’s basement that had an internal leak. With the old system, based on quarterly meter readings for residences, that leak, if undetected over three months, could have amounted to as much as 45,000 gallons of water wasted, city officials calculated, not to mention a whopping water bill for the unsuspecting homeowner.

The price paid by the City of Maumee for the new system was $2.6 million, of which $1.3 million came from the sanitary sewer account, Camp said. Maumee is in the process of issuing 10-year bonds to cover the balance. In addition, the city will pay Mueller Systems $19,000 annually for hosting the meter data at a secure facility and Mueller Systems will also operate the computerized system that Maumee officials say will improve their ability to manage the municipal water infrastructure while at the same time allowing customers to budget and conserve water through its Web portal. According to Camp, the annual fee “is a very good deal for us.”

Camp said the installation of the new meters — 6,500 in total — is expected to be complete sometime this fall. At that time the customer Web portal will be activated. That feature allows customers to use their computers, smartphones or other device to monitor their water usage as a way to spot leaks and help conserve water in general. For example, Camp suggested, the system can alert a customer if water is being used in their absence, which could mean a leaky toilet or a sneaky neighbor stealing water from an outdoor spigot.

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Maume’s new system will put an end to water meter readers in the city.

Still, no employees will lose their jobs, Camp emphasized — just a part of their job descriptions.

When asked whether there were any health concerns associated with the automated system, which uses 900 megahertz radio frequency signals once a day to transmit data from the installed devices, Camp said city officials looked into the matter and are confident no risks are involved.

He referred a reporter to a World Health Organization fact sheet issued in 2006 that concludes: “Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects.”

Maumee’s new system is “the best way to go,” agreed Don Moline, Toledo’s commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities. Moline, whose department sells Maumee its water — more than 745 million gallons last year — said Toledo also has switched about one-fifth of its 100,000 water meters to the “radio read” type. n WATER CONTINUES ON A11

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While Toledo also serves a number of outlying districts as far afield as Wood and Fulton counties, and Monroe, Mich., Moline said Maumee is one of the city’s biggest water customers. “We have a longterm and good relationship with the City of Maumee,” Moline told Toledo Free Press. Indeed, Moline confirmed Maumee is in the second half of a 40year contract with Toledo for bulk water. Long contracts are the norm in a sector requiring such extensive infrastructure, Moline said.

In today’s era of advancing technologies, Maumee’s now state-of-the-art system has another built-in advantage: It is upgradable. Mueller Systems Vice President Matt Thomas said his firm, which has been in the water metering business since 1859 and has been making electronic metering systems since the 1990s, is already developing add-on features such as acoustic network leak detection and pressure management.

Thomas has spent more than three decades in the sector. He said Mueller Systems supplies utilities in some 500 cities across America and counts among its customers American Water, the largest publicly traded water company in the United States.

With this single technological upgrade, Maumee’s water meter readings

will go from hen scratchings in meter reader notebooks to a mainframe in a secure facility in Atlanta, serviced by multiple powergrids and “mirrored,” or backed up, by a second facility in San Francisco. “Utilities take security very seriously,” Thomas said.

Maintenance of the Mueller equipment in Maumee will be done by Camp’s team. The meters come with a 10-year, “bumper-to-bumper” warranty and an additional 10-year prorated warranty, Thomas said.

Camp, who likes to say he works with 2 million gallons of water sitting above his head, said Maumee currently only bills for 90 percent of the water it purchases, meaning that 10 percent of the water is lost to leaks or “slow” meters. While Camp said the 90 percent figure has been deemed acceptable in the industry, he expects the new system to boost that to 99 percent. Camp allowed some residents may end up with a bigger water bill but only because with the new meters they will be paying for all the water they are using. When mechanical meters get old they tend to slow down, that is, allow more water flow than they register. Camp said it is only fair to pay for what you use. The new system offers customers ways to monitor that usage and help them conserve by alerting them in a timely fashion of usage spikes. O

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The City of Maumee, through its deal with Mueller Systems, has contracted with Keystone Utilities for the installation of the new electronic water meters.

All Keystone installers are licensed and bonded, according to Joe Camp, Maumee’s director of public service.

Camp said the installers wear photo ID badges and all of their vehicles bear the company name.

Camp said the city considers it a very serious matter when all the residences and businesses of the municipality must be entered for the installations.

If any resident or business owner is unsure whether to allow workers access to their premises, Camp said they should call the City of Maumee for verification. Keystone installers are also working evenings and on weekends for the convenience of residents, he said.

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TELEVISION

By Jay Hathaway

TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER news@toledofreepress.com

A local family in the market for a new home decided to call on a reality television series for assistance.

Jordan and Allie Darr had been renting a home in Sylvania before deciding it was time to buy. Facing some difficulties in finding the right house, they turned to the Home and Garden Television (HGTV) network’s “House Hunters” to guide them through the process.

“We signed up online to be on the show, then we did a phone interview and a video interview, and then they picked us,” Allie said. “They asked about what we were each looking for in a house.”

Finding a home suitable for all of the couple’s needs was indeed a challenge. The Darrs are parents to three boys, all under the age of 3. Additionally, both Allie and Jordan do a significant amount of their work at home — Jordan is in sales and Allie is a photographer.

“Jordan and I disagreed on the size of the house, and it was very

hard to find a house that fit our needs for a home office for Jordan, a photography studio for me and then also room for our three boys to homeschool,” Allie said.

Kathy Willis, a Realtor with the Danberry Company, was hired by the Darrs as a buyer’s agent. Willis was eager to assist them in their effort to be accepted on the show, despite some initial anxiety.

“When Allie first asked me to be on ‘House Hunters,’ I was in shock and so excited,” Willis said. “Then panic set in as we had to do an audition tape.”

Willis realized that appearing on the show with the Darrs would be a valuable experience.

“Being a real estate agent and being asked to be on the No. 1 real estate show is pretty exciting. It was fun to see how they put a show together,” she said.

After the Darrs were accepted, filming began. The entire process of auditioning, house hunting and filming took about two or three months, Allie said.

The couple, originally from Columbus, focused on the Perrysburg

area during their search.

“We like the atmosphere there,” Allie, one of the WNWO Moms on the Go, said. “We like how cute the downtown area is.”

During the process, the couple focused on a few houses that would potentially suit their needs.

“Our Realtor worked within our budget to meet our criteria,” Allie said. “I like old and vintage, and my husband likes something more functional. He likes smaller; I like bigger. He likes simple; I am looking for something more unique and unusual.”

Willis added that the filming of the show did not distract them too much from the task at hand.

“The camera wasn’t ever in the way,” she said. “Sometimes we would have to do things over a couple times, just to get the right shot of things as we went through the houses.”

The end result of the Darrs’ search cannot be revealed until after the show’s airing, sometime toward the end of March, but Allie hinted that they may be back for another appearance on HGTV. “They do a ‘where are they now’

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Although LoRece Morehead grew up on Franklin Street, near Downtown Toledo, her heart is in the North End. Two years after their September 1966 wedding, Morehead and her husband Robert Ingram, who had just returned from Vietnam, moved to Chase Street to set up their household.

It was there that they raised their son and daughter, sending the children to the former Chase School, half a block away from their house.

Today, 45 years later, Morehead’s life has come full circle. Her new home is immediately across the street from her daughter’s house on Adrian Street inside of Cranes Landing, a 40-unit apartment complex for residents 55 and older built on the site of the elementary school

her children once attended.

And Morehead is adamant that her two-bedroom, 884-square-foot apartment will be her home for the next 50 years “if God lets me live that long. I told my daughter already, ‘This is it. This is my last move. I’m not moving nowhere else. I’m tired of moving now.’ ”

Civic pride

Cranes Landing, 3315 Mayo St., is the most recent housing project of United North, a community development agency that promotes housing and business opportunities in the Olde North End (ONE) Village, more commonly known as North Toledo’s Polish Village. United North is the result of the 2009 merger of two former community development agencies — Lagrange Development and NorthRiver Development corporations.

As United North’s chief executive officer, Terry Glazer leads a

14-member administrative staff in overseeing the programs and services offered to ONE Village’s residents and businesses.

Glazer said the success of Cranes Landing, which was formally dedicated Feb. 27, will soon be followed up with another 55-and-older housing project that will see the renovation of the former St. Hedwig’s Elementary School, 225 Dexter St., off Lagrange St. just east of Cherry Street.

Roman Catholic Bishop Leonard P. Blair closed the school after the 2005 academic year and the parish church on Sept. 1. The school building is architecturally solid, Glazer said, and if the funding proposals are approved and United North is able to purchase the property, it will renovate the former school building into another 55-and-older apartment complex for less than the $7 million it took to build Cranes Landing.

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Twenty percent of the 40-unit Cranes Landing had been leased when United North dedicated the building and held an open house Feb. 27. Two other residents who attended the open house were just as enthusiastic about their new apartments as Morehead.

Jacqueline Pearson, 55, and her mother, Rose Spears, 74, credit providence for their finding Cranes Landing.

“Actually, this place found us,” Pearson said. “By the grace of God, it just dropped in my hands. I had been struggling for almost 10 years after losing my grandmother, my mother’s husband and her sisters. So it’s been nothing but me, my mother and her brother.

“I’ve been the care provider, running between the both of them, and it was like just, a year and a half ago or so, I thought I was having a heart attack.

And the doctor put me in the hospital and said, ‘You can’t do any more.’

“And I’m like, ‘I can’t stop. She has no other way.’ She’s my life. That’s my best friend. Whatever she wants, I’m going to do it. I gave up everything for her, everything to make her happy, to see her laugh every single day.”

Before the move to Cranes Landing, Pearson lived with and cared for her disabled mother in her mother’s home on Melody Lane. However, since her stepfather’s death six years ago, Pearson said she and Spears have faced financial hardships that were only getting worse with time.

“Living at home … shoveling the snow … paying somebody to maintain the grass. And we had a pool in the backyard. Tearing down trees … taking care of meds … and then trying to pay the utilities. It was not hap-

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pening for us. It was not happening at all,” Pearson said. “And to own a house where you can’t pay the taxes on it. I found myself choosing between my mother’s life, meds and living.”

Spears was equally frustrated. Her sole source of income is Social Security, and she didn’t have enough income to pay her property taxes.

“I had problems keeping up with all the bills and things on Melody Lane,” Spears said. “I couldn’t pay the taxes. That’s what got me. I had to pay $1000 every six months. I didn’t have that kind of money.”

An affordable option

Affordability is one of the beauties of Cranes Landing, said Tiffanie McNair, Cranes Landing property/ asset manager.

Apartments are leased following HUD (Housing and Urban Development) criteria. Applicants must earn less than 60 percent of the median gross income for all Lucas County residents to be approved as potential residents.

For a family of four, that’s approximately $29,000 a year, to qualify McNair said.

For a family of one, it’s about $25,000.

Once applicants meet the income eligibility requirements, they can sign the lease. A one-bedroom apartment (approximately 684 square feet) rents for $479. A two-bedroom apartment rents for $583. Prices are 60 percent of HUD’s affordable market rate. These are subsidized by LMHA.

‘A blessing from God’

Like Pearson, Morehead credits divine intervention for her new home.

“I call it a blessing from God,” Morehead, 65, said. “That’s all I can say. I’ve been blessed and I am still being blessed.”

Morehead said she is grateful for the open design of her apartment.

“I like it because it’s not congested

and crowded,” Morehead said. “I know there’s other people that live here, but it’s still a lot of room. I like the convenience of there being a library here. I just wish they’d get some books up in there because I’m an avid reader.

“And the space. I like the space.

“I love just sitting here in the middle of the room in this one chair.

My daughter wants to take me to get my furniture and other stuff, and I told her, ‘I’m in no hurry. I love this space.’

“I love my bedroom closet. I have a closet that I can walk into and my clothes are not screaming, ‘Get me out of here. I’m crowded.’ I’ve got plenty of room. My clothes are not squashed up. I just love it. And I like the walk-in shower. Just walk in to take a shower and walk out. It would be almost impossible to trip.”

“It’s terrific. I get up in the morning with a smile on my face and I go to bed with a smile on my face.”

‘I’m better off here’

Spears said she enjoys her new home because it has helped her regain some independence.

“I love the way this place is made,” Spears said. “My daughter’s on that end, and I’m on this end. So I feel free.

“And when she comes down here, I ask her, ‘What do you want?’” After a little laughter, Spears said, “And after she gets what she came for, I tell her, ‘OK. You can go home now.’”

The laughter flows more easily than it has in years, Spears admits.

“And she says, ‘Mama, you don’t never want me down here.’

“I say, ‘Not really.’ ” And although it took Morehead almost five years to persuade her mother, Spears said giving up her home of 41 years was the right thing to do.

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From its flagship adult program to the ever-expanding network of area high schools participating in its three youth programs, local nonprofit Leadership Toledo has a far-reaching impact on the region.

“Anyone who cares about our community and wants to be a person of impact should participate in Leadership Toledo,” said board member Sara Best, who graduated from the program in 2009. “[Class members gain] just a better sense of the community as a whole and how all the key elements are interrelated and must be collaborative. It’s a chance to see a bigger picture and you recognize, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s so much good going on in Toledo.’”

The program is also great for networking, said Best, who is director of the Board Catalyst Institute at Aly Sterling Philanthropy.

“It’s great exposure for companies,” Best said. “I got to meet a lot of really cool people. It created a great learning environment.”

Leadership Toledo’s annual fundraising breakfast, set for March 15, is expected to draw more than 600 community leaders. Best will speak along with Executive Director Dave Schlaudecker, Director of Community Impact Kristina White and Notre Dame Academy student Jenny Kim. “Because we charge no tuition for any of the youth programs, it’s imperative we raise the funds necessary to offer the students in every one of our high schools in the Northwest Ohio area the opportunity to participate,” Schlaudecker said.

A portion of funds raised by Restaurant Week Toledo, held Feb. 21 through March 2, was donated to Leadership Toledo’s youth programs.

Best’s 15-year-old son, Noah, a sophomore at St. Francis de Sales High School, is part of this year’s Youth Leadership Toledo class.

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Leadership Toledo offers four programs: one adult program and three youth programs.

Students in Action

Students in Action (SIA), a component of the national Jefferson Awards for Public Service, recognizes area students for community volunteer work.

Since starting in four local schools as a pilot program in 2008, the program has expanded into 31 schools. Participating students have logged 213,000 service hours this school year.

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Lake High School senior Trevor Walsh and Maumee High School senior Grant Buehrer came up with the idea for the advisory board after talking with White.

“For its first year, it’s definitely been a big step forward,” Walsh said. “It’s a growing process. It has its flaws, but every meeting we’re bringing up something new and eventually we’ll have a strong board that’s meeting on a regular basis that will create a bigger impact on SIA and at those different schools.”

Walsh, who is helping organize Lake’s first schoolwide service project in April, got connected with local nonprofit Food for Thought through SIA and now serves weekly.

“When I first started the program I knew I wanted to volunteer. I just didn’t know how,” Walsh said. “If there’s any school that doesn’t have SIA, I think they need to get it. It really is a great program and it really is getting kids involved.”

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“I was totally blown away. It’s a huge honor,” said Kevin Shannon, St. Ursula’s director of campus ministries.

“Service has always been a part of our school. It’s who we are; it’s what we do. Like Leadership Toledo, we believe very strongly it’s key that young people have leadership roles in doing service. To be recognized for something that is so important to us, on a national level, is amazing.”

St. Ursula senior Marla Kumor said her favorite part of serving is “seeing the looks on people’s faces when you help them out.”

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SIA schools often see a “culture shift” occur, with service becoming something students want to do rather than have to do or introduces them to service for the first time, Schlaudecker said.

Students in SCHLAUDECKER Action/Youth Jefferson Awards expanded into Toledo Public Schools in 2011.

Waite High School principal David Yenrick said Waite has always been a community service-oriented school.

“We’ve always tried to instill giving back to the community,” Yenrick said.

“I was always raised that it’s better to give than to receive and I think it gives students a good feeling of self-esteem when they do something good. We’re celebrating our 100th anniversary next year and the theme is “100 Years of Loyalty, Tradition and Service,” so we think highly enough of service that it’s included as one of the three words to describe our school.”

The drive to serve stays with students after they graduate, said St. Ursula President Mary Werner.

“It’s laying the groundwork of what these girls will do in the rest of their lives,” Werner said.

Youth program

Youth Leadership Toledo (YLT) is a nine-month program for select high school sophomores that focuses on developing leadership, teamwork and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on exploring and resolving issues faced by the local community.

This year’s class includes 53 students from 32 regional high schools working on eight service projects. Since 1998, 697 students have participated.

“What we see is a tremendous amount of individual personal growth,” Schlaudecker said. “They come to understand and appreciate their talents to be leaders.”

Kim, a 2012 YLT graduate, said she gained confidence and met a group of diverse but like-minded students through YLT. “It was an amazing opportunity to meet more people from other schools who were passionate about the things I’m passionate about, like helping others,” Kim said. “That was what really drew me in. They’ve pushed me to be better at what I do and inspired me a lot.

“Not every single leader is going to be the same. Leaders can be outspoken or soft-spoken,” Kim said.

“YLT pushed me to strive for bigger leadership positions in school rather than settling for the safe route.”

Schuyler Stupica, a sophomore at Notre Dame and member of this year’s YLT class, said she enjoyed the program from the start.

“I realized that I am a part of a very unique and empowered group of teenagers,” Stupica wrote in an email. “The first meeting was so enjoyable that

the minute it ended, I already started looking forward to the next one. It was really refreshing to see so many teenagers energized to make a difference in their community, and I know I am going to learn a lot from my YLT class.

I know this is going to be an amazing and unique experience, and I can’t wait to see how my leadership skills improve because of YLT.” Kurt Elfering, a sophomore at St. Francis de Sales, said he’s learned etiquette and job interview and public speaking skills through YLT as well as met new friends.

“Everyone who has the opportunity to do it should definitely do it because it’s an awesome experience,” Elfering said.

YIPEE

Youth in Philanthropy Encouraging Excellence (YIPEE) is a program for high school juniors and seniors who are graduates of YLT. Twenty-seven students from 17 schools have spent the school year identifying issues and raising money to donate to local nonprofits. Last year, the program raised $17,500; this year’s goal is $20,000.

YIPEE offers a chance to apply skills learned in YLT, Kim said.

“It seems kind of impossible that the fundraisers we planned have as much impact, but they do. The small things kind of pile up. It’s been an eye-opening experience,” Kim said. “It’s rekindled the love and passion I have. It’s neat to see how much it’s going to impact other people and these few hours we give every other week will change so many people’s lives. It’s just so powerful.”

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What we see is a tremendous amount of individual personal growth.

They come to understand and appreciate their talents to be leaders.”

— Dave Schlaudecker, Executive Director, Leadership Toledo

Adult program

The adult program is a ninemonth curriculum that hones leadership skills with an emphasis on exploring and resolving local issues.

This year’s class has 45 participants representing 39 organizations and working on projects with seven local nonprofits. Since 1980, 1,351 adults have participated in the program.

Kimberly Minke, a professor of psychology at Owens Community College and a member of this year’s class, said the program is a perfect complement to her role as director of Owens’ Leadership Academy.

“There’s a lot of parallels between the two programs,” Minke said. “Ideas have gone both ways. I’ve been able to bring things from the Leadership

Academy to Leadership Toledo and things I’ve learned in Leadership Toledo I’ve been able to take back to the Leadership Academy.

“It’s been absolutely amazing,” Minke said. “It seems that each meeting we’ve had just exposed one new treasure in Toledo after another. Leadership Toledo is learning about all the jewels we have in our community.

“It’s a lot of time and involvement, but it’s been so worth it,” Minke said.

Applications to join the 2014 Leadership Toledo class are now being accepted. The form can be completed at www.leadershiptoledo.org or by calling the office at (419) 241-7371.

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A local cupcake shop is once again being thrust into the national spotlight. In 2011, Lori Jacobs and Dana Iliev, co-owners of Cake in a Cup in Sylvania Township, were featured on “Cupcake Wars” on the Food Network and won their episode. Now the duo and their treats are the subject of a children’s book with a positive message.

“I love it because cupcakes are so happy, so if they can go beyond making someone happy and give them a message of feeling great just the way you are, it’s a bonus,” Jacobs said.

She said a random call to the shop by authors Nick Rokicki and Joseph Kelley has turned into an amazing partnership.

“We knew we wanted to team up with a local business because it is a way for businesses to get involved with literacy and get their own name out in schools,” Rokicki said.

Rokicki, a Toledo native, and Kelley, who is from Detroit, knew their next children’s book would be set in a cupcake shop. So they searched bakeries and cupcake shops in their hometowns and landed on Cake in a Cup. “We researched a lot of cupcake shops and found out that Cake in a Cup do a lot for the community and are heavily involved,” Kelley said. “We knew we wanted to have a cupcake shop in my hometown or his hometown.”

“Casey and Callie Cupcake” — a frosted fable about being fantastic just the way you are — is completely centered in Cake in a Cup. “Our flavors, our storefront, the inside of our store and our exact cupcakes are featured.

They gave them cute little names,” Jacobs said.

“We are super lucky to be asked to join up with them. The book captures the business and us,” Iliev added.

The book, set to be released on Amazon on March 15, sports illustrations of the shop, its logo and even Jacobs and Iliev.

“I asked them to make me thinner and they did, which I love, and Dana asked to be taller,” Jacobs joked.

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topic of being the best you can be.

“It’s a story about two cupcakes trying to be better than the other one,” Kelley said. “Kids sometimes do that too much and that does lead to bullying.”

The main characters in the book, Casey and Callie, break down that lesson in a fun way.

“It’s Letting kids know they are fine the way they are and you don’t have to be better than anyone, you just have to be the best you can be,” Kelley said. That is a message Jacobs and Iliev are eager to spread.

“It should be fun going around to the schools and being involved in their reading programs,” Iliev said.

Jacobs added, “I love that we are part of promoting reading.”

For the authors, promoting reading is just as important as writing a children’s book with a message.

“A lot of kids we have noticed are not up to par on reading,” Rokicki said. The pair travels to schools in our area for free, sharing their books and getting kids excited about reading.

Rokicki and Kelley are best known for their first children’s book, “Pete The Popcorn.” They then teamed up on another children’s read, “Clipper Comet,” as well as a book that is part biography, “P.E.T.E — Pursuing Excellence Through Encouragement.” All of their books

have a message.

“The easiest way to write is to find your message first and write around it,” Rokicki said.

A book signing will take place from 4-7 p.m.

March 28 at Cake in a Cup, 6801 W Central Ave. “Nick and Joe will be here signing books and we will be selling cupcakes,” Jacobs said.

“And we will be featuring Casey and Callie cupcakes on the book signing day,” Iliev added.

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The Walmart store on West Central Avenue in Sylvania Township was one of 12 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in Ohio to receive rooftop solar installations as part of the company’s goal to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy.

Walmart announced March 4 that it has installed solar panels at 12 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in Ohio. Those solar installations will add approximately 6 million kilowatt hours of generation production to supply from 5 percent to 20 percent of each store’s overall electricity use, according to Walmart.

“Solar power makes sense for Walmart and it makes sense for Ohio,” said David Ozment, senior director of energy at Walmart, in the company’s announcement to the media.

Walmart now has solar installations operating at 200 stores, clubs and distribution centers in the U.S. and it plans to continue expanding its use of solar and other renewable energies.

“It’s another step toward meeting the company’s goal of being powered 100 percent by renewable energy,” Ozment told Toledo Free Press.

Ozment reported that Walmart uses a power purchase agreement with its solar partners, SolarCity in Ohio, which owns and operates the solar systems at the retailer’s facilities. Walmart then buys the power from the solar partner at established prices over a period of years.

It provides Walmart with the opportunity “to lock in the price of power over a number of years so the company can take control of its energy costs,” Ozment said.

The more than 4.7 megawatts of generation capacity at the 12 Ohio locations would make the retailer the largest user of solar power in the state, according to Walmart.

That represents almost one-tenth of all solar currently installed in Ohio, according to Green Energy Ohio, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting environmentally and economically sustainable energy policies and practices.

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Solar panels installed on a rooftop at an Ohio Walmart.

“Walmart’s installation of solar on 12 store rooftops is the largest solar commitment ever made by a retail business in Ohio,” said Bill Spratley, executive director of Green Energy Ohio. “Walmart’s solar arrays will eliminate 5,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions or the equivalent of taking the emissions of 1,152 cars off the road each year.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership program ranks Walmart as the largest on-site green power generator in the U.S. Renewable energy credits available in states such as Ohio encoureage companies to install solar and reduce their overall energy costs, according to solar industry sources.

“Walmart continues to forge new ground as the No. 1 corporate solar user in America,” said Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity.

The new installations are expected to increase the state’s overall solar generation capacity by more than 10 percent, according to Rive.

Solar panels were installed by SolarCity at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores located in Austintown, Franklin, Greenville, Loveland, Mason, Middletown, Milford, Toledo, Youngstown, Xenia and two locations in Cincinnati.

The project was also the first solar installation for SolarCity in the state of Ohio, Rive said. The company serves thousands of commercial and residential solar customers in 14 states through 31 operations centers.

SolarCity does not disclose its supplier relationships as a matter of policy.

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t pains me to say, but interest rates likely aren’t headed higher for quite a while. This is unfortunate, as they undoubtedly should be. As I’ve written numerous times before, rising interest rates would spur economic growth, mostly by encouraging borrowing.

Right now, people — potential homeowners, small business owners, etc. — have no reason to borrow today; they know that money will still be cheap tomorrow. Rising interest rates would give them an impetus to borrow now, because the cost of borrowing would be more expensive later.

But, as stated above, rates won’t rise — not if Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have anything to say about it.

The reason why may surprise you: The Fed is trying to save its own skin.

Not many Americans realize that the Fed is not an agency of the federal government.

To borrow a popular phrase, “the Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express.” But, on the other hand, the U.S. central bank isn’t exactly a private company, either.

Technically, after the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Fed was organized by a group of large banks that owned the shares issued in their new venture. However, every year the Federal Reserve forwards any revenue left after paying its operating

Bailing out Bernanke “

The question at this point is why expenses to the U.S. Treasury.

Normally, this isn’t such a bad deal any of this is at all important. Rest for the Treasury (or, by extension, the assured — it is.

The U.S. Federal ReAmerican taxpayer). The serve holds a massive Federal Reserve sets, bond portfolio, commanages and executes prised mostly of U.S. U.S. monetary policy, Treasury debt. A good basically on a pro bono portion of this portfolio basis. Granted, Ameriexists because during cans may not always the financial calamity agree with the decisions of 2008, tremendous made by the Fed or its amounts of debt were chairman, but before the central bank came into Dock David TREECE transferred from the private sector to the governbeing the United States averaged a major recession about every ment. This is how the bailouts of big seven years. Since its creation, they’ve banks, insurance companies like AIG and automakers were accomplished. become significantly less frequent.

Bond-based investments by the The structure of the Fed has also caused problems, some of which are Fed aren’t exactly done by choice — potentially severe and presently per- it’s not as though Ben Bernanke can colating just beneath the bank’s lime- order the Fed to reallocate a portion of its portfolio to Apple stock. No, the stone façade, ready to boil over.

For instance, due to the Fed for- Fed owns bonds, currency swaps and warding all profits to the U.S. Treasury other instruments that allow it to help each year, the Bank of Bernanke has no guide monetary policy.

The underlying problem here war chest to fall back on if it starts to lose money because it hasn’t built up is that if interest rates begin to rise, reserves over the years. If the Fed loses and especially if they do so quickly, money, instead of dipping into savings the Federal Reserve will sustain large it is forced to borrow from the Treasury losses on its bond portfolio.

Frequent readers will surely recall to make up for its shortfalls. Obviously, this would not be a very popular move, as a common subject in my columns politically speaking — especially given the threat that bonds currently represent for investors, because as interest the current political climate.

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Bond-based investments by the Fed aren’t exactly done by choice — it’s not as though Ben Bernanke can order the Fed to reallocate a portion of its portfolio to Apple stock.”

rates rise from the all-time lows where they are presently, the value of bonds outstanding will necessarily fall. (This is one of the very few facts of finance

that can be reduced to a formula, and is always true.)

To bring this full circle, if interest rates begin to rise quickly and the value of bonds within the Fed’s portfolio begins to fall, the Federal Reserve may sustain losses (as opposed to profits). Because the Fed has been sending its profits to the Treasury, it has no reserves to fall back on to make up any such losses. This, in turn, could leave the Federal Reserve technically insolvent and in need of a bridge loan from the U.S. Treasury, which it would not likely receive in today’s political environment. O Dock David Treece is a partner with Treece Investment Advisory Corp (www.

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Picture it: Keb’ Mo’ playing steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band.

Not exactly what comes to mind when thinking of the dapper bluesman. But it was an early gig.

“It was the Young Calatino Steel Band,” Mo’ said. “I started when I was about 11 years old [and played] until I was 18.”

Growing up in Compton, Calif., he also picked up a guitar about the same time.

“I started when I was 12 and the guitar was literally put into my hands. Uncle Herman, my mother’s brother, said, ‘Here,’ I’ll show you how to play guitar.’ They wanted to give me something to do because they thought I was going to turn out to be a little hoodlum,” Mo’ said and laughed.

The singer-songwriter became a three-time Grammy Award winner, taking home the honor for Best Con-

temporary Blues Album for “Just Like You” in 1997, “Slow Down” in 1999 and “Keep It Simple” in 2005.

“I heard the blues all my life,” Mo’ said during a call from his Nashville home. “It took a long time to get drawn to it — early to mid-’80s, from maybe ’83 until now.”

Kevin Moore became Keb’ Mo’ with his self-titled 1994 debut.

“You can’t escape the blues,” he said. “You can talk about anything in the blues. No one’s left out. All subject matter is fair game … It’s the truth; it’s real; it’s life.”

On his 2011 disc, “The Reflection,” Mo’ teamed up with India.Arie, Vince Gill and saxophonist Dave Koz. The guitarist is working on a new CD. “I’ve got several tunes, and right now I’m really working on creating the sonic landscape of the record,” he said.

Mo’ has written and co-written some great songs, including “Life Is Beautiful,” “The Whole Enchilada” and “I See Love,” which is featured as the theme song of the TV show “Mike & Molly.”

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Asked about the art of songwriting, the thoughtful artist replied, “The first thing is the melody, and then the song and the chord structure should go together well; if that’s good, the tempo can vary greatly.

It should be able to be played like a ballad or up-tempo and it should still work. That’s all I know so far.

“And when you sing it, try to sing it good,” Mo’ added with a laugh.

His talents are in demand.

“I’m collaborating with and possibly producing the Carolina Chocolate Drops record; I’m working on a record with Sweet Pea Atkinson; and I’m going to LA to record with Joe Walsh on his new project,” he said.

Mo’ also will play a sold-out show at 8 p.m. March 22 at The Ark in Ann Arbor.

“I hope [my music] becomes a refuge. I have records that are a refuge for me; I can go and get lost in a record. It’s a kind of destination.

And then when I’m there, I go into my special place that makes me feel good, and I hope that I can supply that for others.” O

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UT students to show their cooking chops

UT’s Living Learning Communities, which allow students with the same interests to live in residence halls tobburks@toledofreepress.com gether. The participating students are Five teams will spar to see who slated to go through a training class can create the best meal using a for safety purposes.

Prizes include surprise ingredient in the inaugural University of Toledo “Iron Chef ” a trophy and the winning dish will competition on March 20.

“It’s going to be really, really fun,” be included in said Jennifer Rockwood, director of UT’s regular food the College of Innovative Learning’s services. There First Year Experience, which is one of will be a people’s the programs sponsoring the event. choice winner in The competition is based on the re- addition to the judges’ selection. ality show “Iron Chef.”

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Amy Campbell said she’s excited and “star-struck” about meeting the other judges.

“I watch ‘Iron Chef ’ and I’ve always liked the play-by-play between the judges so I think that’ll be fun,” she said.

“It’s very interesting how food and cooking have become a spectator sport in this case.”

At the firehouse, Dusseau rotates cooking shifts with fellow firefighters, who he said favor smoked meats. However, he said, “I’m a little scared about this whole ordeal because there are some pro chefs that are going to be in it.

“I’m not a culinary expert by any means. I just like to cook and eat,” he said, adding that as far as the secret ingredient goes, he’d try almost anything so long as it’s not tripe.

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