Toledo Free Press – June 2, 2013

June 2, 2013

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Jam City and virgin territory

Tom Pounds on the launch of a new tradition and Michael S. Miller on the confluence of sex and love. page 3

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DON LEE

Jam City jams

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here are more philanthropic events and traditions in Toledo than one could attend if there were 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week. But it seems there is always room for more, and it is exciting when a new event debuts with immediate impact.

So congratulations are in order for Food for Thought, the organization that feeds local hungry families. Under the direction of Executive Director (and Chief Thought Officer) Sam Melden, the organization launched Jam City on May 23 to a packed house and great acclaim.

Food for Thought made more than 20,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches last year for its Saturday morning picnics, so it was a natural extension to host a PB&J-themed fundraising event.

Thomas F. Pounds Jam City, which brought more than 300 people to The Blarney Event Center, allowed nearly a dozen restaurants to show off PB&J dishes as live music played.

Participating restaurants included Balance Pan-Asian Grille, The Blarney Irish Pub, Burger Bar 419, Deet’s BBQ, Gradkowski’s, Grumpy’s, Mancy’s Steaks, Registry Bistro, Revolution Grille, Scene and Swig. Dishes ranged from duck and pork belly to peanut butter salsa and a bacon vodka and chocolate milkshake. The sold-out event featured its own Jam City wine, procured by sommelier Adam Mahler, and music from the Jason Hudson Trio, The Bricks, Andrew Ellis and People Being Human.

A quick flip through the photo album of the event on the Toledo Free Press Facebook page shows a packed house full of people happily tasting great food and enthusiastically supporting an even greater cause.

Toledo Free Press was excited to be a media partner for this inaugural event and looks forward to working with Melden and Food for Thought as part of our ongoing Free From Hunger 2013 project. There are myriad time-honored events to patronize, but it is great fun to see a new event emerge and gain instant attention. So congratulations again to Food for Thought; they created an event that has the potential to be as classic as the sandwich it was named after. For more information about Food for Thought, visit www.feedtoledo.org.

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

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planet that contained no men and she found s I rode up several floors in a hotel the factoid confusing. elevator during a Memorial Day trip, “Sure. I will probably describe you two the car stopped to let in two women. I to someone at some point,” I said, enjoying am not strong at guessing ages, but they were some private irony. probably in their late 30s or early 40s. They “Well,” she said, with as much delibwere animatedly discussing some man they eration as I imagine Abraham Lincoln emhad just seen, literally giggling about his eyes, ployed while drafting the Gettysburg Adbiceps and, as one of the women described it, dress, “I guess we’re all ho’s.” his “tushy.”

I did not have an answer for her, but the I tried to mentally force the elevator to speed up, but made eye contact with the Michael S. miller comment, “I guess we’re all ho’s,” banged tushy fan, who burst out laughing, expelling a cloud of around in my head that day, partially because of its vulgar directness, and partially because it’s tempting to believe it’s something alcoholic into the suddenly much smaller car. true. From Adam to John Profumo to Bill Clinton to Gen. “I’m sorry,” she laughed, clearly anything but.

“Don’t be. Men talk about women that way sometimes,” David Petraeus, sex and its pursuit have reduced even some of the finest men and women to barely thinking animals.

I said, stating what I thought was a universal truism.

“Really?” she asked, as if she had just arrived from a n MILLER CONTINUES ON 4 Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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MEDIA WATCH

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Going viral

acebook has become the home to ruin a man’s life. It was a perfect where many of us get our daily storm of stereotypes, heinous alleinformation, from news sto- gations and Facebook that created a ries and celebrity gossip to must-see high-tech libel campaign.

I posted a screen capture of the videos, local school delays and sometimes missing pets and runaway chil- original post, informed my friends that the allegations were dren. People who used false and asked that to poster telephone people share my post to poles are now using socombat the slander. At cial media. The “share” the time of my post the button may just be the shares of the original most powerful tool used warning were at 12,000. in any media today.

Following TFP, WTOLOn the early 11’s Rob Wiercinski morning of May 21, did a report and MSN my Facebook news feed and Gawker picked up was littered with picthe story. The original tures of an East Toledo Jeremy BAUMHOWER post, which was created man. At first I did not read why the man’s picture was being with a fake Facebook Page, hit alshared, nor what was being said, but as most 30,000 shares before the mother the minutes ticked away his face kept of Lesko’s child deleted the picture multiplying, almost spamming my ... that’s right, his 19-year-old baby Facebook page.When I read the fol- mama admitted responsibility for the lowing caption, “If you see this man, campaign and has apologized.

The original post was seen by tens his name is Chad Michael Lesko, he is wanted by Toledo Police for 4 counts of of thousands of people on Facebook RAPE he Raped 3 Little Girls and His and the truth when shared by Toledo own son. Please Like and Share and Get Free Press was seen by 85,000. Gawkthe Word out. NO ONE MESS WITH er’s piece was seen by 61,000 and MSN HIM!!!!” My initial feeling toward the was shared more than 2,000 times.

The week prior, I had reached post was disgust. The picture showed a man with two Insane Clown Posse/Jug- out to the Hoeflinger family, whose galo face tattoos and piercings;, it met a 18-year-old son Brian died tragically stereotype of someone I could conceive after drinking and driving. I offered his parents my column space to address doing such heinous things.

I watched with curiosity for the the graduating class of 2013. I wanted next couple of hours as the “shares” them to share their heartbreaking story went from 300 to 900 to 1,500; when to help spread their message and warn it reached 3,000 something piqued my teens about the dangers of drinking and interest. I wanted to know more about driving and, in their words, “one bad this man, so I scoured local news web- choice.” I promised Brian and Cindy sites looking for any story or alert. if they trusted me with their words, I After an extensive search with nothing would make their letter go viral. I chose found, an awful thought crept into my to use the very same vehicle that slandered Lesko, Facebook. mind: What if this post was a lie?

My promise did not go unfulfilled, By the time I picked up the phone to call Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Mi- as the Hoeflinger’s open letter to the chael S. Miller, the shares had hit 5,000. graduating class is now the most-read I filled him in on the random post, piece in the history of Toledo Free posed my scary theory and the two of Press. As of print, their words have us started to investigate if any charges been shared almost 10,000 times and were pending against this newfound read online by nearly 250,000 people. celebrity. Hours later, as the shares of The even better news is this number the post and picture topped 9,000, the is growing by the second and shows Toledo Police told Toledo Free Press no signs of slowing.

Facebook, when used properly, that they believed the post was a false accusation; there was no record of any such as sharing the Hoeflinger letter, such charge in Toledo or Lucas County, can do such beautiful things. It can even change or save lives. However, meaning the whole thing was a lie.

The worst part is that people were Facebook, when used for evil, can inadvertently slandering a man by also ruin a life just as quickly.

Think before you click — someclicking a button with their mouses.

People who thought they were doing one’s life may depend on it. O something good and alerting others of the face of a child molester were in Find Jeremy Baumhower on Facebook fact the tool being used by someone or Twitter @jeremytheproduc.

A Toledo tradition since 2005 ToledoFreePress.com n MILLER CONTINUED FROM 3 Another reason the woman’s quote stayed with me comes courtesy of my friend Jeff McGinnis, Toledo Free Press Pop Culture Editor and a co-host on our WSPD show “Eye on Your Weekend,” who posted this message on Facebook on May 25: “Let’s spell this out. Make it plain. Okay?

“To hell with the idea that somehow I’m a failure or less of a person because I haven’t had sex.

“To hell with the idea that my relationships with female friends are somehow a failure because I haven’t slept with any of them.

“To hell with the idea that their worth to me is defined solely by whether or not they want to have sex with me.

“To hell with the idea that, because I value them as people — people who I love, admire and respect, and who I am grateful to, simply for the fact that they want me to be a part of their life — I am less than those who see them as objects to be conquered.

“To hell with the idea of ‘the friend zone.’ Because being a friend is the most wonderful thing in the world to me.

I love the people in my life. That is all I ever need. And to hell with anyone or anything who tries to tell me that’s not enough.”

Well, to hell with me, then, because I am going to try to tell McGinnis why that’s not enough. McGinnis, who is in his mid-30s, has been alternately vaunted and ridiculed for the public acknowledgment of his virginity during his Tuesday morning appearances on KISS-FM. And while his Facebook post is noble and certainly grounded in a clear morality that is largely inarguable, it is also critically flawed.

On “Eye on Your Weekend,” our panel has one guiding principle: Do not discuss a work of art you haven’t experienced.

If you haven’t seen the new “Star Trek” movie, watched the latest episodes of “Arrested Development” or listened to the new Daft Punk CD, don’t jump into the conversation.

McGinnis violates that rule when he writes about the role of sex in relationships, but I am about to violate that rule by discussing middle-age virginity, so we’ll each accept our penalty and soldier on.

There is no argument with McGinnis’ sentiment that those who deem a lack of sexual involvement a failure miss the point of friendship. He is also correct that objectification is a base and crude preoccupation, no matter who is the objectify-er and who is the objectifyee, though I am fascinated by the mystery of how Person X can be in an unbreakable, loving commitment and still

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project sexual fantasy on any number of women I know.

I mean, that Person X knows.

Because McGinnis has self-admittedly never experienced the dimensions of a sexual relationship, he cannot understand the implications and impact sex has on a committed relationship.

This is not a discussion of one-night stands or recreational sex indulged in for fun without any level of commitment beyond what’s for breakfast. It is about the fact that sexual intimacy has a magnifying effect on love and friendship that exponentially strengthens both beyond the mechanics of the act itself.

I can promise McGinnis, who is one of the sharpest intellects and most talented writers I have encountered in my 25-year professional career, that when he eventually experiences the power of an intimate, sexual relationship with a woman who is also his best friend, he will journey through a re-evaluation of the role sex plays and will come to a greater understanding of why so many people place such great emphasis on sex, even if they do not understand why or even if their motives are less than noble.

There is also the “chocolate chip cookie factor.” I can describe the ingredients, textures and pleasures of eating a chocolate chip cookie to someone who has never tasted one, but I cannot fully convey the experience through mere description. If something as simple as a cookie defies such conveyance, how can one ever accurately describe something as complex as sex to someone who has yet to experience it?

Imagine trying to describe having two cookies at once!

No, we are not all ho’s, despite the monkeyshines of my elevator companions. But we were not all meant to be celibate monks, either. Somewhere between monkeys and monks lies the truth, and I look forward to reading McGinnis’ thoughts on women, love and sex once he has had a few years to experience and explore them for himself.

When two people love each other, sexual communion opens a universe of depth and intimacy. Once that dimension is experienced, it redefines and creates a molecular-level bond. With the joy and intensity that forges, it is a natural extension for Person X to speculate on how sex could enhance the bonds of friendship established with several of the most important women in my life. I mean, Person X’s life. 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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HOLLYWOOD CASINO TOLEDO — YEAR ONE

By Sarah Ottney

TOLEDO FREE PRESS MANAGING EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Remarking that “success in any business is measured one guest at a time,” Hollywood Casino Toledo General Manager Richard St. Jean has 3.4 million reasons to feel the casino’s first year of operation has been a success.

The casino drew more than 20,000 guests on its opening day, May 29, 2012, and went on to log more than 3.4 million visitors during its first year — 600,000 more than projected, he said. Seventy-four percent of visitors came from outside Lucas County and 44 percent came from outside Ohio, including 31 percent from Michigan. The casino paid out $41.5 million in jackpots.

On May 29, as hundreds of slot machines dinged and chimed in the background, St. Jean joined local officials and business partners on the H Lounge stage to mark the casino’s anniversary.

“I stood here a year ago very, very proud of the property we were ready to launch and here it is one year later and I can tell you that pride hasn’t changed or diminished one bit; in fact, it’s actually grown,” St. Jean said.

During its first year, the casino served 36,000 gallons of draft beer, Final Cut Steak & Seafood served 23,000 pounds of prime beef and visitors used 1,662 miles of toilet paper, said Hollywood Casino Toledo Vice President of Marketing Jason Birney.

In February, Final Cut earned a four-star rating from Forbes — the only restaurant in Ohio, Michigan or Indiana to receive the distinction.

“We’ve been a great neighbor to Rossford and a great business neighbor to Toledo,” St. Jean said. “We

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Hollywood Casino Toledo General Manager Richard St. Jean said May 29 that the casino drew 3.4 million visitors in its first year.

feel we have been accepted as a fun hotspot that complements the other entertainment facilities in town.”

St. Jean said he and parent company Penn National Gaming are pleased with Hollywood Casino Toledo’s first-year results.

“Our patterns, inception to date, have been very, very close to what we’ve predicted month by month,” St. Jean told Toledo Free Press. “We can’t control how we perform rela-

tive to someone else’s numbers.

Too many people compare a state number pulled out of a budget that said, ‘This is what we really need to hit,’ whether its current or whether it was back in 2009 when the referendum passed. Well, there are a lot of mitigating factors with the economy and everything else, so we do our own forecasts and we measure our success against that forecast and we were pleased with our performance

against our forecast.”

Horseshoe Casino Cleveland opened May 14, 2012, followed two weeks later by Hollywood Casino Toledo. Hollywood Casino Columbus opened in October followed by Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati in March.

From their openings through April, Ohio’s four casinos brought in $615.7 million in adjusted gross revenue, with $181.2 million coming from Hollywood Casino Toledo.

St. Jean said he was particularly pleased to see Toledo notch the highest net slot win among the state’s four casinos in April, a result he attributed to Cleveland’s casino being “cannibalized to a degree” by nearby Thistledown Racino.

Toledo’s biggest revenue month to date was June 2012, the casino’s first full month of operation, when it brought in $20.4 million. n CASINO CONTINUES ON 7

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Toledo Mayor Mike Bell said May 29 that, while the casino was a controversial subject, to him the issue was simple: The casino would create jobs and help turn the city’s economy around.

“When we started our administration the unemployment here in Toledo was about 13.8 percent; that’s down to somewhere about 8 percent now,” Bell said. “The casino has played a role in that. It’s employed people who were not employed before and they BELL now have a job. They are able to do the things they want to do for their families and that increases the quality of life for all Toledoans.

“If all 1-year-olds could do what [the casino has] been able to do in one year, we’d really be moving forward as a city and as a world,” Bell said.

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About 90 percent of the casino’s 1,300 team members were local hires and 80 percent of the original hires are still with the casino, St. Jean said. So far, 128 people have been promoted, including 13 twice and six three times or more.

One local hire was 41-year-old Stacy Alani of Toledo. Two years ago, Alani didn’t know a thing about cards. Now it’s her livelihood.

After the transportation company she’d worked at for four years consolidated most of its Toledo area operation to an out-of-state office, Alani found herself out of a job.

After several frustrating months of applying for jobs but getting no response, Alani landed a job as a table games dealer — earning more money than before and enjoying the work more.

“Everything happens for a reason. I firmly believe that,” Alani said. “I love the people I work for. Compared to the job I had, which just wasn’t a friendly environment, at Hollywood [General Manager] Richard St. Jean and [Assistant General Manager] Mike Galle will sit down in our lunchroom, just plop their tray down beside us. They are not above anyone. They know everyone by name. They want you to succeed and be happy and you want to do well for them. Everybody is just like a big family there.”

Alani deals mainly craps, but also works at the roulette and blackjack tables. She and the other dealers know regular customers by name. She went through weeks of dealer training, but said her education continues daily.

“This is my new career. This is what I’m doing and I want to know everything about it,” Alani said. “I just try to take it all in and learn everything I can. I learn so many new things every day.”

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Construction workers provided an initial increase in revenue for Rossford businesses and casino employees continue to bring in a minimal level of business, employees at several Rossford businesses said.

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Workers install the Hollywood Casino Toledo sign facing Interstate 75 in December.

“We get business from the employees of the casino, but not their customers,” said Amanda Schoenhofer, an employee of Marco’s Pizza in Rossford. “I don’t think a lot of the people leaving the casino come into Rossford. They just go straight to the highway.”

Rossford City Councilman Chuck Duricek, who owns Duricek’s Automotive Services about a mile from the casino, said businesses in Rossford have experienced little to no increase in customers. The best part, though, is that the predicted increases in crime have not been an issue at all, Duricek said.

Nearby hotels, however, are an exception. According to Front Desk Manager Cal Disouky, the Days Inn in Toledo, located across the street from the casino, has experienced a 15 to 20 percent increase in occupancy because of the casino.

“We’re the only hotel within walking distance,” Disouky DISOUKY said. “We expected more, but it didn’t turn out how we expected in part because we’re not on the casino’s list of approved hotels.”

Other hotels have experienced a bump in business.

“We’ve picked up quite a bit of business,” said Connie Adams, front office supervisor at Country Inn & Suites in ADAMS Rossford, which is on the casino’s recommended list. “We probably have six to 10 people per day from the casino.”

Local focus

The casino often touts a commitment to supporting local businesses, especially woman- and minority-owned businesses.

Kurt Amstutz, co-owner of Elmore-based Tank’s Meats, which supplies 50 percent of the meat sold at the casino, said May 29 he was thankful for the opportunity to partner with the casino.

“For a company this size to give a small player like us the opportunity, the chance of doing business with them, is phenomenal,” Amstutz said.

Shelly Okun, owner of Toledo-based Sam Okun

Produce, called the partnership a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“It’s been really empowering to us as a company and for our customers,” Okun said.

Tourism

Richard Nachazel, president of Destination Toledo Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the casino has helped attract conventions and events to Toledo.

“There’s probably been 15-20 groups that have booked the Toledo area not specifically because the casino was there, but the casino being there was a help,” Nachazel said.

One example is the Heartland Travel Showcase, which hosted its annual convention in Toledo in February for the first time in 25 years and will return in March 2014.

“One of the things that helped them decide on us versus other cities was the fact we do have a casino,” Nachazel said. “It’s been incredible for the area, in a word. They’ve been a great stakeholder in the economic tourism impact of Northwest Ohio and certainly work well with our office. We couldn’t be happier they are there.”

Crime

By the six-month mark of the casino’s opening, concerns about increased crime, traffic jams and gambling addictions had largely subsided, area law enforcement said.

Capt. Brad Weis, commander of the Toledo Police Department’s strategic response bureau, said the casino has not been the problem area that many people expected — especially after it started hiring off-duty police officers to work inside.

“It’s definitely less than we expected,” Weis said.

“Crime is actually minimal at best. From my perspective, it’s a benefit to the community and it hasn’t been a police issue at all other than traffic backups now and then.”

Rossford Mayor Neil A. MacKinnon III said the casino has actually made Rossford safer than before, thanks to a $200,000 public safety grant from Penn National used to purchase new radios and automated CPR machines, and a $12,000 grant to help establish a K-9 unit. n CASINO CONTINUES ON 8

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n CASINO CONTINUED FROM 7 “We’ve seen no increase in crime whatsoever,” MacKinnon said. “We are actually safer today as a community than before they got here.”

Rossford Police Chief Glenn Goss Sr. agreed.

“It’s been real quiet,” Goss said.

“We haven’t had any major changes in criminal activity since the casino’s been there.”

Goss reported more operating a vehicle while impaired (OVI) stops during the past year, but attributed the increase to his increased focus on all traffic law enforcement since taking over as chief in December 2011 rather than a direct result of casino traffic.

Last summer, Rossford police noticed an increase in burglaries, but that also was seemingly unrelated to the casino, Goss said.

Community involvement

Penn National prides itself on community involvement and has given more than $270,000 to local organizations in the past year, plus thousands more prior to opening, St. Jean said. Management team members sit on a dozen local boards and are active participants in the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and Rossford Business Association.

The casino recently partnered with ProMedica on a food reclamation program, in which ProMedica collects unused food and donates it to local social service agencies. Since late February, more than 13,000 pounds of food have been collected, said Stephanie Cihon, corporate director of community relations for ProMedica, who is now working to expand the program into other area businesses.

Tax revenue distribution

Each casino pays a fixed tax of 33 percent of gross casino revenue.

Fifty-one percent of the revenue is distributed among Ohio’s 88 counties in proportion to population; half of each county’s distribution will go to its largest city if that city’s population is above 80,000. Thirty-four percent of the revenue is distributed among all public school districts, 5 percent among host cities, 3 percent to Ohio Casino Control Commission, 3 percent to the Ohio State Racing Commission fund, 2 percent to a state law enforcement training fund and 2 percent to a state problem gambling and addictions fund.

The City of Toledo received $2.9 million in 2012 and about $1.4 million so far this year in tax revenue distributions. Lucas County received more than $575,300 in 2012 and $1.1 million so far this year. Lucas County school districts have received $1.3 million, including $462,575 for Toledo Public Schools.

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city’s projected $3.4 million, but Lucas County got more than its projected $545,000, said Lucas County Commissioner Carol Contrada.

“We projected conservatively but realistically and the casino outdid itself,” Contrada said. “For 2013, we are on pace to exceed again. In fact, if the casino revenue keeps up the pace that it has been, we’re doubling down in Lucas County.”

The city’s 2013 budget projects $4.95 million in casino revenue, according to public information officer Jen Sorgenfrei.

Rossford City Council member Robert Ruse said he wished the legislation would have allowed for Rossford and Rossford Schools to benefit more from the casino. Rossford Schools has received $38,390 from casino tax revenue distributions.

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3,406,005 (2012-13)

Ohio’s casinos have impacted Detroit’s casino business by about 4 percent, said Jake Miklojcik, president of Michigan Consultants, a Lansingbased firm providing economic and policy analysis for the casino and gaming market.

“Stories with the ‘lower than expectations’ headlines for Ohio casinos are intriguing because the totals are just about exactly what I thought they might be and told clients,” Miklojcik said in an email. “I was quoted several places in putting the likely impacts on Detroit at between 2.5 percent and 5 percent, with 4 percent my best estimate. If you look at Detroit figures, and factor in that there was a clear trend upward of 2 percent before the opening, and now down about 2 percent to 2.5 percent with the openings and, in addition, a racino, the net of about 4 percent from the Ohio casinos is pretty much right on.”

Yvette Monet, a spokesman for MGM Resorts International, the parent company of MGM Grand Detroit, said the company “enjoys hearty competition in all of the jurisdictions in which we operate.”

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“Though we have seen some recent impact on revenues, there are a variety of factors, including the poor economy, that have impacted revenues in regional gaming markets throughout the county,” Monet said in an email.

MotorCity Casino and Greektown representatives did not return requests for comment.

Looking ahead

Casino employees recently decided to unionize, with negotiations expected to begin in June, St. Jean said.

The biggest challenge for Hollywood Casino Toledo going forward will be continuing to attract new visitors, St. Jean said. Food specials and entertainment such as the outdoor summer concert series that recently kicked off are among ways the casino is trying to draw more people in.

“It was a little lighter attendance than I was expecting, probably compounded by the holiday weekend and cold weather and it being the first concert people didn’t really know what to expect,” St. Jean said of The Temptations and The Spinners concert on May 24. “We expect Air Supply and LeAnn Rimes to be at capacity.”

Year one has been exciting, but St. Jean said he won’t spend too long celebrating the milestone before turning back to the work ahead.

“We’re excited about our performance in year one, but it’s like anything else, we’re now in a new year and it starts all over again. We’re interested in seeing where the business volumes level out. I don’t think we’ve necessarily seen that yet,” St. Jean said.

“We’re always raising the bar, so whether its financial performance, team member engagement or guest satisfaction, we’ve set all new benchmarks based on 2012 which became our baseline. So although we fared well compared to Penn National metrics, we challenge ourselves to do even better [next year].” O Toledo Free Press Staff Writer Casey Harper contributed to this report.

Columbia Gas of Ohio, The Andersons and the Toledo LucasCounty Port Authority BetterBuildings are “joining forces to help Northwest Ohio residents conserve water, reduce energy bills and save money,” through a shower head giveaway, according to a May 30 news release.

“In an effort to help reduce water consumption and energy bills, 3,000 shower heads will be given away” at two area locations of The Andersons: KOZAK O June 6 at The Andersons located at 4701 Talmadge Road.

O June 7 at The Andersons located at 530 Illinois Ave., Maumee.

The free shower head promotion will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or while supplies last.

The shower heads are free, and are available to Columbia Gas of Ohio customers. Recipients will be asked to provide their name and address to receive their shower head.

The Andersons will also have products for sale to help further reduce water and energy consumption.

According to the news release, “Columbia Gas will offer the Niagara’s Earth Showerhead, which saves water and money by using up to 40 percent less water than traditional ‘low-flow’ shower heads. Upgrading a conventional shower head with one that’s energy-efficient can save between 1,800 and 3,600 gallons of water annually.”

Communications and Ccommunity Relations Manager for Columbia Gas of Ohio Chris Kozak said the program reaches out to skeptics of energy-efficient methods.

“We did this before in Sylvania and in Port Clinton and Maumee in the past couple of years, and we had great success in the number of people who came out as well as the number of shower heads we gave away,” Kozak said. “We saw an opportunity in Toledo with a community in need and a way to meet that need.”

Should all 3,000 shower heads be utilized, the potential exists for Northwest Ohio to save between 5.4 to 10.8 million gallons of water annually, the news release stated.

The shower heads are part of the Columbia Gas of Ohio “Simple Energy Solutions” program. For more information on the program, visit www.columbiagasohio.com/en/ your-home/YourEnergySolutions/ simple-energy-solutions.aspx. O

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TPS Board tables resolution to transfer properties to city

By John P. McCartney

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer jpmccartney@toledofreepress.com

Following a presentation by Toledo’s deputy mayor of operations, the Toledo Public Schools (TPS) tabled a May 28 resolution to trasnfer properties to the city.

The TPS board of education sent the resolution back to the Ohio School HERWAT Facilities Commission (OSFC) Committee’s June 19 meeting for further discussion.

“I was aware some board members had some concerns and questions,” Deputy Mayor Stephen J. Herwat said. “I was not surprised that the board took the action they did last night. And as I indicated, I would be more than happy to come back. I offered to go to the committee [meeting] last week, but

they decided for whatever reason not to invite me. I’ve offered again to go to the next committee and to come back to next month’s board meeting.”

Cecilia Adams, Lisa Sobecki and Bob Vasquez were the board members who raised concerns.

Adams asked Herwat for a written agreement to make it less difficult for the BOE to get properties back if the board decided at a future date that the district needed them. Sobecki questioned how the city planned to maintain the properties given “the strains we have in all our budgets.”

Initial plans for properties

Herwat told the board the city’s initial plans are for the former: O Beverly Elementary to be turned into open space and to be used to bury underground water tanks for the Toledo Waterways Initiative (TWI).

“We are under a $520 million federal court consent decree for when the sanitary sewer overflows into the waterways,” Herwat said. “It’s part of the TWI project.”

O Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary

to become a park.

O East Side Central Elementary to become a park as well as provide parking for Eastminster United Presbyterian Church.

O East Toledo Junior High to be turned into open space and to be used for TWI underground water tank installation.

O Heffner Elementary to be used by a church group.

O Jones Junior High to become a community garden.

O Lagrange Elementary to become a park.

O Leverette Junior High to be used by the Police Athletic League. “The board has already passed a resolution to give Leverette to us,” Herwat said. “And we’ve already passed an ordinance to accept it.”

O Libbey High’s football field to be used for recreation by the Mid-City Football League.

O Longfellow Elementary, subject to a previous land swap agreement, to become a park.

O Nathan Hale Elementary to be turned into open space.

O Nelson Grace Park to remain a park.

O Newbury Elementary to become a housing development.

O Robinson Junior High to be turned into open space.

O Sherman Elementary, subject to a previous land swap agreement, to become a park.

O Warren Elementary to be developed by a private contractor into senior housing.

Neighborhood consultation

Vasquez said he was concerned with city plans that included potential residential and senior housing, the installation of sewer lines and underground water tank installation. The third time Vasquez asked for written assurance that the neighborhoods will be consulted before the city develops any of the properties, Herwat said, “We are certainly willing to put that assurance in writing.”

Herwat said the city has a well-established policy of listening to neighborhood concerns in all of its property development projects.

“Whenever the city develops a plan, we always meet with the community,” he said. “One of the meetings we’ve already had, because of the previous land swap, is Longfellow School. It’s going to become a park.

We met with the community and asked, ‘What would you like to see?’”

Herwat said the community gardens project at Jones Junior High could take one of many forms.

“It could be where residents plant their own vegetables,” Herwat said. “We have a couple of examples in town where groups have installed greenhouses. Kids in the summer work in the greenhouses.

Community groups grow vegetables and sell them to help defray the cost of the operation.”

Herwat said that the two housing development projects are in their earliest stages.

“Newbury is just speculative,” Herwat said. “With Warren, we have had conversations with a group looking to put senior housing there.

But that’s not a done deal.” n TPS CONTINUES ON 12

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Sobecki said she was pleased, but not surprised, that the board voted 5-0 to authorize James Gant, chief business manager, to spend $3 million to purchase 26 transformers and control systems to augment TPS’ current energy provider.

“I don’t ever expect anything SOBECKI to happen,” Sobecki said. “I always hope and wish that things go the way I would like to have them go.”

ents fill out the FRL application,” Gant said. “If we can, we need to have an outreach to help parents. The real question is whether we have enough fosters and runaways out there to raise that additional 14 percent for direct certification.”

Sykes said TPS’s best tactic might be to turn to county agencies for help in encouraging parents to sign up.

“It’s an educational process with the parents,” Sykes said. “My recommendation is to work with Job and Family Services. They will help identify and sign our kids up for the FRL program. Mr. Gant, call Deb Ortiz and share with her our concerns that we can do a better job of feeding their recipients.”

Increase in lunch prices

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The board also voted 5-0 to raise lunch prices 20 cents for elementary school and 25 cents for high school lunches for next year. The current elementary school lunch will increase from $1.80 to $2; a high school lunch will increase from $2.25 to $2.50.

Section 205 of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act (CNRA) of 2010 requires all school food authorities with an average paid lunch price of less than $2.52 to increase their average paid lunch price or secure nonfederal funds to support their nonprofit food service account.

At the Food Service Ad Hoc Committee meeting May 20, Gant said the CNRA will require TPS to raise elementary school lunches to $2.45 and high school lunches to $2.90 by 2018.

“My personal opinion is that is too big of a jump,” said Brenda Hill, BOE president. “And for families that don’t qualify for the free and reduced lunch (FRL) program, that’s like a punch in the stomach.”

Reynald Debroas, director of Food Service/Child Nutrition, said that 50 percent of TPS students are directly certified to receive a FRL lunch and “we’re just 14 percent shy of giving everyone a free lunch.”

Gant reported that TPS’ provides 78 percent of FRLs citywide.

“An incremental increase is fine,” Gant said. “What we really need to find out is if we can legally help par-

In her finance committee report, Adams said Treasurer Matthew Cleland identified seven issues that negatively influence TPS’ five-year financial forecast. Cleland’s forecast, as required by HB 412, presents four best- and worst-case scenarios.

Cleland said the seven key issues unique to TPS are: O Hollywood Casino Toledo revenue will not increase yearly, as some project, but will peak in 2014.

O TPS no longer receives property tax income.

O TPS is required to give $81 million of its annual $300 million budget (27 percent) to charter schools.

O TPS is required to give $1 million to charter schools for transportation.

O TPS will lose 5 percent of its federal funds in the sequestration.

O TPS will lose $4 million when the Race to the Top grant expires.

O TPS faces a projected 3 percent increase in salaries in the current union contract negotiations.

Adams also reported that TPS was required to spend $65 million (21.7 percent of its annual budget) in 2011-12 to pay for unfunded mandates. The district will be required to pay $69 million (23 percent) this year.

“We must speak with one voice,” Adams said. “We must tell the legislature to send money with the mandates.”

Re-establishing wrestling

As chair of the athletics committee, Sobecki said she was pleased the board unanimously voted to fund the wrestling program at the six TPS high schools. Sobecki said the athletic committee does not decide which sports to re-establish. Rather, decisions are made when students, teachers, coaches, staff, parents and

community members approach the athletic committee with an interest in re-establishing a particular program.

“Mr. Vasquez and I are not picking one sport over another,” she said. “As people come forward to us, we look at the one program they’re interested in. I would love to bring each and every one of them back. The reality is that we don’t have the funding at this moment.”

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Postponed decision

Board members returned from a 90-minute executive session at 11:02 p.m. to announce that they had not decided whether to accept or reject a state-appointed referee’s ruling to not fire Sandra Meeks-Speller, a suspended TPS assistant principal.

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n TPS CONTINUED FROM 12 In a prepared statement, Hill said referee Anthony Gretick’s recommendations, “which came after six days of testimony, dealt with a great number of issues that we do not know enough about yet to come to a decision. At this time, the board will set a time where it will take formal action to accept or reject the report. We will make no other comments at this time.”

In his recommendation, Gretick rejected nearly all of TPS’ accusations against Meeks-Speller for allegations

that did not merit discipline, biased and unconvincing witness testimony and a lack of evidence.

Sobecki said board members went in executive session to discuss the referee’s decision with TPS’ legal counsel.

“As a board member for the taxpayers, I think it’s our right and responsibility to look and examine this case — and any other case — and get all the information and all answers to your questions before you render a decision. And I was not prepared to render a decision last night because there was still missing information

from some of the questions we asked.”

Acrimonious confrontation

Sobecki’s decision to question a $496 expenditure in the BOE’s professional development service fund led to an acrimonious confrontation between Sobecki and Sykes that hung over the second half of the five-and-a-half-hour board meeting. Sykes made continuous references to what he had learned at a Chicago conference that cost the district the $496 in question.

Sobecki said she was only doing what she has done at every board

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meeting this year — reminding her fellow BOE members to live within their own service fund budget and set the example for all employees that everyone with TPS ties must spend taxpayer money responsibly.

“First of all, I asked a clear question to the treasurer: ‘Do we have the funds for this?’

“My second question was, ‘Did anyone know about this?’

“I didn’t know about this. Ms. Hill didn’t know about this trip until after the trip. I saw that our dollar amounts were shrinking in the service fund, and then, all of a sudden, I see a board member taking a trip. I believe if you’re spending taxpayer dollars to attend a conference and representing the board, you have an obligation to bring back and share information to help the whole district.

“I have not received one piece of information from Mr. Sykes when he goes on a trip. And I’m not going to vote for an expenditure that I do not know what it’s for, what’s been brought

back and what’s been shared.

“And then it got personal.”

Sobecki is referring to Sykes statement, “Yes you are” and the conversation that followed when she said, “Mr. Sykes, I’m not picking on you.”

“But as I see it, there’s nothing wrong with asking questions about expenditures.” Sobecki said. “We question employees all the time. ‘How are you going to pay for it?’

“But when a board member is asked, I take from the conversation last night that we’re not supposed to ask. ‘You can ask everyone else, but don’t ask me.’

“As a board member, I think I should have that right to be able to ask.

Others may feel differently.

“Mr. Sykes’ conference talked about food service. My question is, ‘OK, what are you bringing back to help us with our $3 million deficit?’

I don’t know because I haven’t been given any information.”

As of press time, Sykes was unavailable for comment. O

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“I’ve been a musician my whole life. It’s the only thing I’m qualified to do and it’s the only thing I’ve ever

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Clark has contributed original songs to two Toledo Free Press CDs for Make-A-Wish and recorded Bruce Springsteen’s “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” for this month’s Red Cross benefit CD, “Red, White & You.”

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The benefiting charities were Native Toledo musicians Kerry Patrick Clark and Steve Eulberg are chosen based on their reputations and hosting a benefit concert called Ohio connections, Clark said. “[UMCOR and the Red Cross] are Folk for Oklahoma! at 7:30 p.m.

June 7 at Maumee United Methodist doing some really great things down Church. All proceeds will aid the vic- in Oklahoma. The Red Cross is just tims of the deadly May 20 tornadoes another one of those organizations that seems to show up and always be that ravaged Oklahoma City. there when it’s Due to the needed, and so financial backing as I look at the of anonymous landscape of orsponsors, 100 ganizations that percent of the are doing somedonations made thing, those two at the free cono r g a n i z at i o n s cert will go are on the foreto UMCOR front,” he said.

(United MethCLARK EULBERG “I think the best odist Committee thing that we can On Relief) and give in these instances is money. Both the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. “[The concert] came out of a con- these charities have connections with versation with my buddy Steve [Eul- manufacturers and community memberg], who had called and said ‘Hey, bers and find a need and fill it, essenI’m coming through Ohio on my Mid- tially instantly.”

Clark and Eulberg have organized west tour and I have these dates open, do you want to do a show together?’” and played several benefit concerts.

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Activist Cindy Sheehan is leading Tour de Peace across the country, bicycling from her son Casey’s grave in California to Washington, D.C. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in 2004. In 2005, Cindy began a widely reported protest at then-President George W. Bush’s home in Crawford, Texas.

Toledo Free Press: What is the mission of Tour de Peace?

Sheehan: Bike rides are often held to oppose terrible diseases. We believe that war, plutocracy and environmental destruction are diseases with the potential to turn fatal.

Much of the ride from Casey’s grave to the White House follows the historic Route 66, a road that John Steinbeck called the Mother Road in his novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”

We’re riding because, while we may have a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the White House, we do not have peace. We have expanded presidential war powers, a new type of war fought with flying robots and biweekly meetings in the White House to check names off a “kill list.” We have expanded powers of warrantless spying, imprisonment without trial and retribution against whistle-blowers.

Toledo Free Press: Your final destination is the White House on July 3.

Sheehan: The U.S. military presence abroad is expanding into new nations with troops and drones. Military spending is draining our economy dry, as every dollar spent on it could have produced more jobs if spent more wisely, such as on education,

infrastructure or green energy. Is $170 billion a year for foreign bases among the priorities of people in Toledo and across the country?

We talk about a war in Afghanistan as if it’s ending, while planning to lengthen its duration from 11 years to 13. Most wars didn’t take two years from start to finish. Our new Secretary of State John Kerry once asked how you could ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam. We don’t hear enough people asking such questions about Afghanistan.

While we have a president who admits that climate change exists, we still have a president and a Congress that work to exacerbate the problem rather than to alleviate it. Fossil fuel corporations are given massive subsidies, and carbon is still not taxed.

We’re riding for serious sustainable policies, and for government accountability to the people.

Toledo Free Press: How can we take politics out of peace and bring peacemaking to the people?

Sheehan: If an individual really cares about peace and the entire human race, then he/she cannot possibly be affiliated with either of the two war parties. I finally realized in 2007 that the Democrats were no better than the Republicans when it comes to the issue of war and peace and that’s when my activism really became principled and also when I lost a lot of financial support and volunteers.

Until everyone breaks free of this slavery to partisan politics and performs activism based on their core principles, then we will not have peace. The war party has principles, but those principles are base and

based on murder for profit. I don’t think many “average” Americans have those same principles.

Toledo Free Press: What do you hope to achieve as you stop in communities across the country and attend rallies and events?

Sheehan: We hope to meet many new and old friends along the way, to talk to them about their concerns, and to carry those concerns with us to Washington.

“This is the beginning,” Steinbeck wrote, “From ‘I’ to ‘we’. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into ‘I’, and cuts you off forever from the ‘we’.”

That pessimistic analysis looks ever more accurate, as wealth and power grow ever more concentrated.

But we who care about our future together will work to build a broad nonviolent movement among those who do understand the fundamental injustice of a government that does not answer to its people, even while assaulting other people abroad in the name of democracy.

Toledo Free Press: How can people in Toledo participate?

Sheehan: Grow our own food.

Form cooperatives to educate and raise our children in a peaceful environment and in peaceful ways to resolve conflict. Build conscious and conscientious communities that teach real values and love for all humankind while demonstrating love and care on a local level. Try to identify one thing you can do every day to advance the cause of peace.

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A dilapidated barn catches photographer Eric Shanteau’s eye. He whips his truck to the side of the road and hops out, trotting out his inspiration.

This is where it gets interesting.

While most photographers might set up a tripod and put a particular lens on their brand-new Canon, Shanteau simply reaches into his pocket and pulls out an iPhone 5.

This Maumee native’s photography features a distinctly 21st century touch. He SHANTEAU only takes photos with his iPhone 5 through the Instagram application. The app allows you to edit the photos and then post them onto a newsfeed format similar to Facebook.

Shanteau has more than 1,200 Instagram followers and a reputation for capturing the undiscovered beauty of Northwest Ohio. Followers of his work can see anything from rusty old trucks sunk into a grassy field to a yarnbomber’s work on a bike rack in front of a historic, Downtown Toledo building.

“I can’t possibly imitate the sounds of the tall swaying pines in Oak Openings, the smell of fresh leaves burning in Tontogany and the horses roaming the open fields in Swanton,” he said. “I challenge anyone to gas up the truck, pack a lunch, pick out your favorite playlist, roll down your windows and explore what our city and the surrounding areas have to offer and cap-

ture it in photography. If I am correct, you’ll fall in love as well. Just know that I found her first.”

Shanteau said he has taken tens of thousands of photos.

“I like to get in my truck and drive all around the outskirts of Northwest Ohio listening to music and stopping to take photos of something,” Shanteau said. “I don’t even own a camera honestly. I probably use the camera on the phone more than the phone itself.”

Shanteau’s photographs are available for sale at his booth at the Maple and Main Art Fair in Sylvania June 1-2. The fair features more than 70 artists as part of a juried art show, but Executive Director for the Sylvania Community Arts Commission Jennifer Archer said Shanteau’s regional work and unique medium made him stand out.

“I love it when people in their everyday life find a way to participate in art, and I think Eric has found a great way to do that,” Archer said. “He captures so much regional landscape and scenery. To capture that and to make it into something beautiful to look at is what intrigued me.”

Shanteau and a few friends are planning a photo walk in Maumee tentatively scheduled for the end of July. Participants would walk through Maumee following a set course and stop to take pictures.

At his booth, Shanteau will sell cards featuring his photos on the cover. The Art Supply Depō sells his cards as well.

“The money is honestly not that important to me,” he said. “To be able to take a photo and have somebody else want it is an amazing concept to me, and it’s more than I could ask for.” O

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Calphalon Corporation, based in Perrysburg, is opening a new distribution center located on State Route 25 in Middleton Township of Wood County. Located just north of Bowling Green, it is 12.8 miles from the company’s only manufacturing facility in Perrysburg Township.

Calphalon will begin operating out of the 363,000-square-foot facility on a 50-acre site on June 3, according to Zac Graffice, distribution manager for the company. It will house 120 employees from the two distribution centers in Toledo that it replaces.

Calphalon expects a net increase of 33 jobs during a five-year period and has additional space on the site to double the size of the facility for future expansion, Graffice said.

“It will improve efficiency and services as we ship products to customers across the country and around the world,” said Cory Niekamp, engineering manager at Calphalon who served as project manager for the new center.

Graffice and Niekamp helped plan, design and manage the construction of the distribution center. InSite was the developer and Feldman DesignBuild was the builder of the project.

Work on the site began Aug. 12.

Important factor

Niekamp said they worked closely with officials from Middleton Township and Wood County to keep the project in Northwest Ohio. Being located close to I-75 and the Ohio Turnpike was an important factor in its location.

More than 1,200 of Calphalon cookware and accessory products will be stored in and distributed worldwide from the facility. The company sells its wares through mass merchandise retailers, said Niekamp.

The products are stored at 34,000 pallet locations and moved throughout the facility by a conveyor system and 18 forklifts. The 1,200 SKUs are identified by a computerized bar code system, Graffice said.

The facility includes 55 truck docks

with 25 for inbound deliveries on one side of the building and 30 for outbound shipments on the other side.

Efficiency may be important but “safety is one of our main focuses at Calphalon,” said Graffice, who has worked in distribution at the company for 10 years. The only acceptable level for safety in the facility is zero accidents and no near misses, he said.

Rubbermaid subsidiary

Calphalon operates as a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. It was originally Commercial Metal and became Commercial Aluminum Cookware Company in 1963, introduced the Calphalon brand of cookware in 1968, and renamed the company Calphalon Corp. in 1997. Newell purchased Calphalon in 1998, Rubbermaid in 1999 and became Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Newell Rubbermaid, an S&P 500 company, is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products with 2012 sales of approximately $5.9 billion in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Home Depot next?

Northwest Ohio is home to numerous large distribution centers for retailers, manufacturers and shippers, primarily due to its geographic location and access to multiple transportation modes.

While Calphalon boasts the newest distribution center in the region, a national retailer is considering Northwest Ohio as a location for another distribution facility.

Home Depot is considering a site in Troy Township of Wood County for a new distribution center. The project is still in the early planning stages, according to Wade Gottschalk, executive director of the Wood County Economic Development Commission.

The Troy Township Planning Commission approved development and site plans for the proposed Home Depot distribution center May 9. The 1.6-million-square-foot facility would be located on 157 acres off Pemberville Road near U.S. 20, said township

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zoning inspector Todd Gottschalk.

“It’s not a done deal and still in the early stages. It is one of the sites we’re considering for that project but there has been no sign-off on it yet,” said Stephen Holmes, a spokesman for Home Depot.

Home Depot operates a rapid deployment center in Van Buren north of Findlay that employs about 350 associates. The new facility would not impact the existing one in Van Buren, according to Holmes.

The existing 650,000-square-foot facility opened in 2010 serves stores in northern Ohio, Pittsburgh and Buffalo, N.Y., areas, handling 140 trailers inbound and from 90-100 outbound daily, according to Lance Hunt, general manager of that facility.

Package delivery

The two largest package delivery companies, FedEx and UPS, operate distribution facilities in the Toledo area.

FedEx Freight Inc. opened a

ground freight regional distribution center in 2009 that serves routes in Ohio and Michigan.

The 600,000 square-foot facility is located on a 130-acre site in Perrysburg Township.

FedEx is building another freight service center on Arbor Drive in Northwood, approximately two miles from the distribution center.

The 142,000-square-foot building currently under construction will include a processing area for sorting and delivery of freight, offices, dispatch center, maintenance and fuel storage facilities.

UPS operates the Toledo Hub facility in Maumee, which is a link in its Hub and Spoke System that routes shipments from local operating centers to centralized hubs for sorting.

From there, shipments are transported to another local center or to a hub near the final destination and then to a local center for delivery.

As with most UPS hubs, Toledo’s

includes an operating center. The local hub handles about 430,000 packages daily with 1,500 employees, 108 brown delivery trucks and 140 tractor trailers operating from it, according to a company spokesperson.

Walgreens operates a 680,000square-foot warehouse and distribution center located on Oregon Road at State Route 795 in Perrysburg. The facility opened in 2003 and employs more than 500 people, according to company officials.

The Perrysburg distribution center carries 24,000 typical products sold in Walgreens stores in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and parts of Illinois, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

Menards operates a 1.3-millionsquare-foot distribution center in Holiday City, located just off the Ohio Turnpike in Williams County. The facility serves Menards stores in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana as one of four distribution centers for the company based in Eau Claire, Wis. O

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By Evan Brune

Toledo Free Press Staff Writer ebrune@toledofreepress.com

The Toledo Better Business Bureau (BBB) Center for Character Ethics will host the “In Pursuit of Ethics” program at 8 a.m. June 14 at the BBB Conference Center on King’s Pointe Road.

“We’ve offered the program for several years,” said Dick Eppstein, president of BBB of Northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.

The program, created and filmed in the Toledo area, is an accredited ethics training seminar that has seen use throughout more than 40 Better Business Bureaus throughout the country.

According to Marilyn Levine, BBB Center for Character Ethics foundation director, this is the first time that a BBB ethics event of this scale will be offered in Toledo.

“We wanted to let people in our own community know about this,” Levine said. “We want to embrace the Toledo and Northwest Ohio area.

We’re very proud of the fact that this is a local program.”

Levine said the program itself is broken up into modules. Originally, there were five modules that focused on ethics in banking, insurance, auto repair, remodeling and retail. As the program developed, an additional module was added to include schools.

Now the center is filming its seventh module, which will focus on bullying.

“A lot of people are concerned about the erosion of ethics,” Eppstein said. “This isn’t necessarily a businessrelated program.”

Eppstein said he hopes that hosting a conference in the Toledo area will raise awareness for the program.

“I think awareness is the most important thing,” Eppstein said. “A lot of places don’t know they could call the Better Business Bureau and have the program available at any office, any school [or] any government agency.”

Eppstein and Levine expressed concern over the loss of ethics, especially in businesses and schools.

“Everywhere you turn, every aspect of society, you see an erosion of ethical standards,” Eppstein said.

“You don’t see the same kind of immediate demand for ethical behavior anymore. We’re always immersed in news of unethical conduct, and we could use a refresher.” “[Ethics] is not really being taught in school anymore. We felt like it should be something the BBB should be doing for the community,” Levine said.

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The sound of marimba music floated above the chatter at the opening of Cocina de Carlos on the evening of May 28. Carlos Mendez, owner of the Toledo area’s newest Mexican restaurant, and former owner of OK Patron in Perrysburg, called the move a blessing.

“It’s like a dream,” Mendez said.

“Two years ago, we started a little dream with OK Patron. Now, we have our own restaurant. We’re happy, proud. We feel like part of the community now.”

Mendez, a native of Jalisco, Mexico, began his culinary career in the United States more than 12 years ago, running a chain of five restaurants in Indiana. Nearly seven years ago, Mendez and his family moved to Toledo where he began working as the general manager at Mi Hacienda.

From 2010-13, he and his family operated out of a former Wendy’s Restaurant they had renamed OK Patron.

“OK Patron is now Cocina de Carlos. It’s the same kitchen, same restaurant, but with a little different con-

cept,” Mendez said. “This time, we’ve started from scratch.”

At the opening, Mendez expressed a concern about the economy and its potential effect on his family business, but said he was confident their business model would succeed.

“The economy the last three years has been really hard on the restaurant industry. We’re hoping to stay in business with a little different concept. This place focuses on the family. The food is made fresh every day,” he said. “The economy is the same for everyone. We’ve seen a lot of changes in customers. We needed to bring something fresh and something different.”

Cesar Garcia, general manager and Carlos’ nephew, said Carlos and the family have succeeded in bringing about that difference.

“The atmosphere and the food quality sets us apart [from other restaurants],” Garcia said. “The owner is in the kitchen. You don’t see that very often.”

Mendez said preparation defines the quality of the food.

“The food is all fresh. We never use processed meats. Every day, we make ev-

erything from scratch. We have our own recipe for everything,” Mendez said.

“My menu is very friendly to vegetarians and [people with gluten allergies],” Mendez said.

Mendez also uses the kitchen as an opportunity to create new dishes, taking inspiration from traditional Mexican foods.

“Every time I change our menu, I introduce something new and original from Mexico. Right now, we have cactus in two of our dishes, [as well as] grilled pineapple,” Mendez said.

Mendez said he credits his success to the philosophy that has followed him throughout his culinary career.

“The name of our last restaurant, OK Patron, means ‘OK, Boss,’ [in Spanish]. That’s my philosophy. The customer here is the boss,” Mendez said. “Whatever we can do to be better, we try to do. We’re a humble family and we enjoy our job.”

Meal prices at Cocina de Carlos range from $7-$15. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. In addition to the traditional family restaurant seating, Cocina de Carlos also contains a bar

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Bill Maher’s humor can be eyeopeningly refreshing. For some, it may not go down so smoothly.

That doesn’t stop the political comedian from tapping any topic.

“I think the public has just become a lot more sophisticated about, ‘Yeah, let’s talk about stuff.’ Now, that’s not to say anything you say some people won’t object to. I could say ‘Good morning’ on Twitter and there’d be 20 responses within 10 seconds: ‘How dare you use the word “morning,” Bill Maher. It belongs to Ronald Reagan, you g**damn commie atheist,’ ” he said, laughing.

“There’s always going to be people who, for whatever you say, they’re too sensitive to it. But, in general, I think just the way we’re getting used to gay marriage, we’re getting used to this being a pot-smoking country, we’re voting for that, we’re becoming a little more European,” he said.

Covering controversial subjects and sharing his views and wit started with “Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher,” which aired on Comedy Central from 1993-97 and then ABC from 1997 to 2002. He has continued exploring issues and dishing out sarcasm on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” which has been on HBO since 2002.

“My goal was to stay on the air, which is still my goal,” he said and laughed. “And I think the way to stay on the air is to do those two things — [educate and entertain].”

During a call from his Los Angeles office, Maher added, “I’m fortunate to be on HBO, where we do not have sponsors, so sponsors can’t threaten me and pull out as happened at ABC, so that’s a great kind of freedom.”

Contrary to what some may think, Maher isn’t a news junkie.

“I’m usually behind on the news and I like it that way during the week because I want to stay a little like the average person until the end of the week when I really focus about Thursday afternoon. Between Thursday afternoon and when we tape the show live Friday at 7, I’m just in complete cramming mode,” he said. “But during the week, I like to feel like I’m just the average person who doesn’t follow the news that closely, so when things hit me, they kind of hit me in the same way it might hit that person.”

Growing up, his exposure to news was anything but average: His father was a newsman.

“Just the fact that the news was always in our house I think was atypical of an American family. I don’t think a lot of American kids get a sense either way of what their parents feel politically, ’cause Americans aren’t that political,” Maher said.

“You know, 41 percent of Americans don’t know that Obamacare passed, I just read. Wow, isn’t that something?

That’s four out of 10 people, it’s almost half. After all that, they don’t know the thing is law and has been; it’s just astounding.

“But that was not the case in my family. My parents, I always got the sense that they were concerned and cared and talked and they had opinions and I knew what those opinions were, and I knew in a general sense what was going on in the world.”

The comic learned that information is power — and powerfully funny.

Maher wielded facts and that sharp sense of humor in his 2008 film, “Religulous.”

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the reputation over the years of talking about [religion] on TV that if I did make the movie, people would go to see it, and they did. For a documentary, it did amazingly well,” he said.

The movie made more than $13 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

“From all the messages I’ve received on Twitter, Facebook, just people coming up to me, thousands and thousands of people have had the same experience of seeing that movie or hearing me talk on television and giving up on religion. It’s very, very easy actually to turn people away from religion. You just have to point out a few things, a few discrepancies, a few ridiculous things that are in the Bible, and they start to, you know, the walls start tumbling down,” Maher said.

“Just to put it in perspective, I mean, I’ve been on television 20 years, the number of people who have come up to me or written me and said that they switched political parties or just an affiliation from, ‘Oh, I used to be a conservative, but now I’m a progressive,’ that almost never happens. But religion? It happens all the time.

“And that’s why I always say when people ask me, ‘Which historical figure do you associate with?’ I always say Toto from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ cause he’s the little dog that pulls back the curtain and exposes the guy going [laughed and adopted authoritative voice], ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.’ Yeah, Toto, that’s me. ‘And your little dog, too!’

Remember the witch? Always threatening the dog.”

Maher will bring his passionate political repartee to the Stranahan Theater at 8 p.m. June 15. Tickets range from $32.50 to $68.

“My stand-up act is, of course, a much broader survey of the whole political scene; I try to keep it completely

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current,” he said. “I think for people who want to get the broad view of everything that’s going on politically, they’re going to see it in my act. And

it’s stand-up comedy; it’s there to make people laugh. I take that very seriously, to make them laugh, laugh hard, laugh long and leave satisfied.” O

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Local filmmaker Jonathon Kimble to debut ‘Gibsonburg’ June 6

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Jonathon Kimble will soon put Toledo talent and locales in front of a large audience with the completion of two movies.

Starting June 6, the director/actor/ editor’s movie “Gibsonburg” — the story of a high school baseball team’s drive for a state championship despite a 6-17 regular season record — begins a weeklong run in independent movie theaters across the state, including at the Maumee Indoor Theatre. Later in

the month, it is scheduled to be available on On Demand.

Kimble became involved with the film shortly after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2011. He was originally brought on to serve as the cinematographer’s assistant. Two weeks after arriving on

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a set he described as “tenuous” and “an absolute mess,” he was the director. Kimble and friend/filmmaking partner Casey Smith got their first chance at professional cinema.

“It ended up being almost a perfect situation for us, as much of a mess as it was,” Kimble said. “It let us flex our muscles in a way that we never would have been able to do on a normal production. We learned to work with less, able to make the project transcend itself. It was the type of project that let us work the way we had always worked, but on a bigger scale.”

Although “Gibsonburg” is just now being released, Kimble has already stretched his filmmaking talents further with the completion of his next film — a gritty, street crime drama titled “By Demons Be Driven.”

Kimble further shows his chops by taking a lead role in “Demons.”

The 25-year-old Toledo native and Maumee Valley Country Day School graduate is confident both films display homegrown, professional talent, both behind and in front of the cameras, despite their miniscule budget.

Putting together a top-notch production on a D-list budget is not without its challenges, but Kimble sees greater issues than the money. Getting past low expectations of audiences and industry insiders are much more on Kimble’s conscience.

“If someone gave me $10 million to make a movie, the first thing I’d do is probably give most of it back, because I wouldn’t know what to do with it,” Kimble said. “Not having those resources can be frustrating, but really it’s people not taking it seriously.

I almost don’t blame people for that at all … in the age of YouTube, etc. Most of the stuff they see, the standards are so low now. The market is so saturated with stuff now, it’s hard to get people to understand that this is pretty highlevel stuff, all things considered.”

Although “Gibsonburg” was filmed largely in the Columbus area, Kimble turned his camera closer to home for “Demons,” a movie that in theme and plot recalls “Mystic River” or “The Departed.”

Local Toledo spots such as The Hungarian Club, Registry Bistro and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church play prominently in the movie’s story.

However, Kimble — himself a Downtown Toledo resident — hopes most viewers won’t notice.

“I didn’t want it to be Toledo,” he said. “I wanted to show that we can make Toledo look like any other place, where a high-end, epic feature can be filmed. I almost wanted people to ask, ‘Where did you shoot this? ‘and when I answer ‘Toledo,’ they say, ‘Wow, it

looked great, it could have been Chicago or Indianapolis.’ I wanted to show that it’s just as good to film things here.

“I was very influenced by the look and texture of this city,” he said. “I’ve always been motivated to capture that on screen. … But I don’t want to be screaming ‘Toledo!’ and I don’t want people to be saying ‘Toledo’ on screen.”

Kimble hopes the “Gibsonburg” run will showcase the cinematic abilities of Toledo, KIMBLE both in cinematography and of those behind the cameras.

“There hasn’t really been that one thing that anyone can hold up and show what can be accomplished here,” Kimble said. “That’s one thing I hope to be able to do. If “Gibsonburg” can make some noise, then hopefully we can get some eyeballs on “Demons,” to have something that is really high-level and shows what can be done in this area.

“If this was in LA, I’m bound to have a cousin or a friend of a friend who knows someone they can convince,” he said. “But out here, we’ve got this great project but we don’t have any connections to that world.”

While “Gibsonburg” is more of an inspirational, coming-of-age tale of overcoming the odds, “Demons” dwells in slightly seedier territory.

As a character in the movie states, “Every man has to face the darkest parts of what their life has become.”

It’s a message that seems universal to Kimble.

“Something I’m totally fascinated with is people making bad decisions. … You see people who are good people but they just do bad things sometimes,” he said. “The protagonist (in ‘Demons,’ played by Kimble) is becoming an adult, has perspective on life, sees the bad things he’s done, now trying to rectify some of those things. Universally, I think that’s a theme that will hit with anyone in the movie. Most people watching it have never been asked to kill anyone, the stakes weren’t that high. But they also relate to things they’ve done, trying to find redemption without falling into complete self-loathing and falling into complete self-destruction patterns.”

On June 6, the Maumee Indoor Theatre will show “Gibsonburg” at 2, 4, 7 and 9 p.m. From June 7 through 13, the film will be shown once or twice a day, with showtimes yet to be determined. For more information, call the theater at (419) 897-8901. O

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s a collective fanbase of Amer- be watching the game, but we could ican sports, we have got to get stand to be a little ... louder. But do you know why they pull out the our stuff together.

During the past weekend, I spent Sound-O-Meter at baseball games? some time watching the series be- Because you’re all too damn boring tween the Los Angeles Kings and San to cheer the team on. We don’t clap Jose Sharks (a series that the Kings our hands unless DJ Casper barks out would win in seven.) In Game 6, the “Everybody clap your hands!” and San Jose crowd, desperate to cheer on we all immediately clap. Ivan Pavlov’s ghost does a backflip the home side, started every time we follow a chant:“Let’s go, Shahthat order, you know. arks. Clap, clap, clapMaybe it’s just clap-clap” a symptom of pro Ugh, lazy lazy lazy. sports. You have an We have a total of two attachment to college generic cheers in this teams because you’re country, and you’ve an alumnus, or your fapicked the wrong one. ther was. So you paint If you have a two-sylyour house scarlet lable name, you do the and gray, or you spe“clap, clap, clap-clap- Shaggy CULBREATH cifically order the clap.” If you have a midnight blue car, one-syllable name, you do the “Let’s Go, Have you ever or you tattoo that block “M” on your Blank!” chant.

How about, watched a Premiere bicep, In the pros, as Jerry Seinfeld once though, you come said, up with something League soccer match masterfully you’re cheering for new? How about the team, or the fans and listened to the laundry. It’s even harder in a minor or the city, get together and develop fans? They make noise league town like Toledo: You can’t something that’s uniquely theirs? for all 90 minutes.” get attached to the players, because the College teams have this in spades, but not many good ones get called up.

Select fan bases get it, particuprofessional teams do. Very rarely does something along the lines of a larly in the NFL; places like Cleve“Let’s Go Buff-a-lo!” emerge. I know land, Oakland, Pittsburgh and even the Toledo Walleye tried to get some- Seattle have rowdy fanbases. But thing going with their Wendy’s Chili taking in a basketball game has beChant on the power play, but I don’t come a chore, because the arena has think people were really comfortable to pump in way too much music to compensate for the lack of crowd with cheering for sponsors.

I guess my real problem is that support. The more we can cheer on I’ve been seeing what they do across our own, the less we have to hear the pond and get insanely jealous. that “Zombie Nation” song.

We need more traditions. More Have you ever watched a Premiere League soccer match and listened to cheers. More local flavor. More fish the fans? They make noise for all 90 on the ice. Less “clap, clap, clap-clapminutes. They have songs for every clap.” I’m willing to sing a song or two player, and literally every situation. if it helps out, and I don’t even like to No, I mean it, go search for how the subject my empty car to my attempts crowd jeered Jason Puncheon after at singing. How does it start? The he had to leave to, ahem, relieve heck if I know. Can’t trust the team to himself. They had a song for that, do it, or they’ll try to sneak a sponsor in. Maybe start an unofficial fan and it was awesome.

It comes down to fan passion. group. Put it together on Facebook.

There are fanbases that are passionate Throw some ideas against the wall. in this country. They have their tra- Buy out a block of seats at a game and ditions — Drums and dawg pounds try stuff out. Get rowdy. Forget being and octopi and towels and “HIT a fan, and become a fanatic. O SOMEBODY!” But it seems like once the games start, we collectively sit on Matt “Shaggy” Culbreath is sports our hands. Not to say we shouldn’t director at 1370 WSPD.

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The one by the wall

or some reason every time I start taken their place. One in particular screen, so did the original comments up our desktop computer, a lone has moved from no spoken English from the day the picture was first photo pops up of my son’ and his to no hint of being anything other posted four years ago. Judging from the emotion back then, it was hard for classmates on their last day of kinder- than a native Ohioan.

Even many of their teachers have us to let go of that kindergarten year. garten. Twenty kids are lined up against moved from nervous How are we ever going to let go of elthe wall of their elemenearly years in the field to ementary school altogether? tary school, excited to Yet, it’s not all just letting go and a much more confident, take a break for summer veteran level. They’ve clinging to the past. It’s also looking before heading on to first gone from maiden forward and imagining the future. I grade. They’re all so difnames to married remember wondering what might beferent: different heights, names, and from taking come of each of those little ones. Now different hair color, difother people’s children we’re starting to know, and it’s a gloferent skin color, different on as their own to actu- rious thing. We are moving ever closer clothing and different ally having children of to getting to find out who they will dreams. Yet, they’re also their own. We’ve all just be and what they will do with what all so much the same, Shannon SZYPERSKI they’ve each been given. grown up together. joined together as memI can’t wait. O As the parents, we have no choice bers of the same classroom of little ones but to sit back, enjoy this ride and eager to take the world by the hand.

As school breaks for summer this grow up whether we like it or not. Shannon Szyperski and her husband, Miyear, those same kids are now gearing It isn’t always easy to enjoy it. As “Oh chael, are raising three children in Sylvania. up for their last year in the building my, fifth graders” popped up on my Email her at letters@toledofreepress.com. they have known as a home away from home for half their lives. Up Register today for the next: fifth grade, final stop on the elementary school line. ride of your life!

The picture has appeared on my computer so many times during the The Reeves Northrup past few years that I have started to get Memorial used to it. Even as the small children I MS Bike-To-The Bay first met five years ago quickly strayed further and further from their kinderJune 29 & 30, 2013 Northwestern garten selves, I became somewhat unLucas Co. Fairgrounds, Maumee fazed by the vision of them locked in Ohio to Port Clinton 6-year-old innocence on my computer screen. Frequent exposure did its job Bike 2013 Register on-line at and nearly made one of the most innationalmssociety.org/oho creasingly compelling photos I’ve or call 1-800-FIGHT-MS (option 2) taken become just another picture.

A late night and four little typed words slapped my sentimentality suddenly back into coherence, however.

“Oh my, 5th graders” followed by a big heart emoticon popped up on my Facebook notifications shortly after midnight one night, grabbing my attention. As I clicked on it out of curiosity, the now 4-year-old picture flashed on my laptop, was punctuated by the written reality that those children once heading out of their first year of elementary school are about to be heading into their last.

Wow, one of those kids is mine.

Oddly, I’m not quite as struck by the sight of my own child freeze-framed in June 2009 as I am by the lot of them up against that wall. They are by no means the same group of kids who nervously entered kindergarten together five years ago. They’re all so different now. Everything is so different now.

Deadline for Their appearance has changed.

Registration Their minds have changed. Their interests have changed. Their friends have is June 26th changed. Their families have changed.

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JUNE 2-8, 2013

Events: Venus enters Cancer (2nd); New Moon in Gemini (8th) Aries (March 21-April 19)

Libra (September 23-October 22)

Hidden truths burst into awareness all week. If you need to get things accomplished, plan tasks for the rest of the week on Tuesday afternoon. Friday and Saturday are turbulent, and events unsettle your equilibrium. Avoid knee-jerk reactions; take time to think.

Long-term transitions flow like butter. You’re able to communicate effectively and stabilize financial matters.

After Thursday, others have issues that can erupt or enter a phase of turbulent change. Talk, listen, and learn everything you can to understand it.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You influence the world and the world influences you. Send creative efforts outward as others will be highly receptive.

As the weekend arrives, things may happen that seem bad at first, but turn out to be beneficial or meaningful in the long-run. Wait and see.

You’re traveling or expanding your boundaries this week.

Tuesday is especially favorable for personal exchanges.

After Thursday, one person does extremely well while another person hits the skids. Stories don’t match facts.

You’ll have to play detective for a while.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

You could be the target (or perpetrator) of misplaced aggression. Sift and filter incoming information; consider the source. Your emotional maturity and control of responses is being tested. Don’t let others choose your course by default or accident.

Finances or property show noticeable improvements. New income sources start to pay off. After Thursday, money exits as fast as it arrives. Bizarre issues surface; other people can leave you floundering. A fellow traveler helps you make sense of recent events.

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

Capricorn (December 22-January 19)

Pay attention to instincts and heed warning signs even if people assure you that things are fine. Realities erupt after Thursday, and the cheese can slide off the cracker in a big hurry. Protect your home, interests, and resources from unwanted incursions.

Spheres of influence or information sources expand or change platforms. A woman near you makes steady improvements. A man or boy has difficult situations after Thursday. Drive carefully and move slowly to avoid accidents or injuries over the weekend.

Leo (July 23-August 22)

Aquarius (January 20-February 18)

Memories or ghosts from the past influence the present.

People mean well, but gifts or help don’t work out as intended. Explanations could be pure fiction, so keep your BS detector in action. Startling inside information comes from an outside source Saturday.

Career situations move toward stability. Exchanges with older people are beneficial, and/or some formalities are resolved. Events on Friday require your skills and fast thinking. Avoid hasty assumptions. Seek comprehensive information before acting.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

The week begins on a good note, with productive exchanges on Monday. Gifts and favors arrive Tuesday.

There may be flies in the soup after Thursday. Things that were arranged become unraveled, but this could be a good thing. Be patient and watch.

Love adds a rosy glow as the week begins. People do things that make a substantial difference for you. After Thursday, one situation brings joy while another is painful. Your emotions swing to extremes – take time out to process your feelings.

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Her owners brought her into the Toledo Area Humane Society because they were moving.

Penny is a shy girl that needs a calm and patient owner that is willing to give her time to adjust to a new home.

Penny has only had one owner her entire life so she is still trying to adapt to the routine of new people. Penny loves to take a stroll around the park and her ears perk up when you say the word “walk.” Her favorite toys are the kinds that squeak and she enjoys playing fetch and tug of war. She is best suited for an

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