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INSIDE EDITORIAL/NEWS Monroe Street Neighborhood WHITE SKIN PRIVILEGES IN Center continues Tuesday free food OVERDRIVE! pantry during COVID-19 Pandemic
EDITORIAL/NEWS The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery & Continuing Terror
PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL (L-R) Rev. Larry Clark: Pastor of Monroe Street United Methodist Church, Clara Petty: Ex. Director of Monroe Street Neigh- borhood Center, and Isamar Rivera: Food Pantry Coordinator help with food distribution at the Monroe Street Neighbor- hood Center’s weekly free Food Pantry.
By: Michael Daniels Clara Petty, the Executive Director of by patrons to carry their food home in are Journal Staff Writer Monroe Street Neighborhood Center, donated to the Center’s Food Bank by the said, “We were doing this every week, non-profit organization CareSource. Many things have changed at the long before the pandemic started. The Center aims to provide healthy Monroe Street Neighborhood Center However, since the pandemic began, we food to its patrons such as fresh fruits since the onset of the COVID-19 are serving more people than we have in and vegetables, milk, eggs, cereal, pasta, the past. Now we are serving anywhere assorted breads from Panera Bread, as SPORTS/AUTO Pandemic. Several popular community programs have been put on hold, people from 50 to 70 families weekly.” well as, other items. 17-Year Old Wins are no longer allowed inside the building She added, “Many people have lost Former Monroe Street Neighborhood and some activities have been canceled, their jobs or are laid off because of the Center volunteers and food pantry patron Debut Tournament altogether, for the time being. pandemic, and they are not receiving Tammie Crosby said, “Because of the However, one program has remained their unemployment yet. In addition, some current crises, I’m getting low on things in strong and steady, and that is the Tuesday haven’t received their stimulus payment the house. I came here today to get food Free Food Pantry. Every Tuesday either. Because of these factors and other to help feed my family. The staff here is between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm the reasons, the need in the community has really nice and they always treat you real Monroe Street Neighborhood Center’s increased. We are grateful that we are swell.” Food Pantry is open to the public. Unlike here and able to provide this service to Trina Boone a member of Monroe Street some other food pantries in the city, the those in need. We are also grateful to the United Methodist Church and a former Monroe Street Neighborhood pantry is organizations that help us to provide this volunteer of the Center also added, “I open to everyone regardless of where service to the public.” enjoy coming here and the staff members you live. All you have to do is show up Monroe Street Neighborhood Center are very nice people. This is a wonderful and complete a short questionnaire. receives its food from the Northwest Ohio and joyful place to be. I also am running Food Bank and the a little low on food items so I decided to Seagate Food Bank, come here and pick up a food package. as well as, some These are hard times for a lot of people items they purchase and this free food pantry is very helpful to Enjoy a Safe themselves. the community. We are all in this together Memorial Day The black fabric and I pray that everybody endures, and shopping bags used stays safe.” Weekend
EVERYBODY IS PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL Food Pantry patrons and former Monroe Street Neighbor- SOMEBODY IN PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL hood Center volunteers (L-R) Tammie Crosby and Trina THE TOLEDO Monroe Street Neighborhood Center’s Food Pantry Coor- Boone pick up healthy and nutritious groceries for their fam- JOURNAL dinator: Isamar Rivera: and volunteer John Bachelot wait T ilies from the Monroe Street Neighborhood Center’s weekly to register customers at the free food pantry. J free Food Pantry. Inside News Page 2 • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • The Toledo Journal Magic Johnson to Provide $100M in Capital to Fund PPP Small Business Loans Submitted launched the initiative to help the and Detroit have all seen many Black and minority-owned small higher African American NBA legend turned social businesses that were overlooked death rates because of entrepreneur Magic Johnson has during the first round of loans that the the virus. Even worse, committed to providing $100 million U.S. government launch. Many who their local business in capital to fund small business loans applied never even heard anything communities have been through the SBA’s Paycheck Protection regarding their application. shattered leaving many Program (PPP). His companies, Magic “What we’re launching here now is Black entrepreneurs with Johnson Enterprises and EquiTrust Life so important because we’re going to no other option but to Insurance Company, have partnered save a lot of small, minority businesses shut their enterprises. with a New Jersey-based lender called because they can’t just walk into the To learn more and/ MBE Capital Partners that specializes bank and get that loan,” Johnson told or to apply for the in financing minority and women- The Wall Street Journal. loans available through owned businesses. Black and minority communities in Magic Johnson’s new In total, Johnson’s investment will the U.S. have been disproportionately partnership, visit www. fund loans for about 5,000 small PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. mbecp.com businesses. He reportedly has NBA legend Magic Johnson Major cities like New York City, Chicago, Brett Hart named president of United Airlines Submitted our businesses,” Munoz said. recovered from a heart transplant. BlackmansStreet.Today - United As United’s president, Hart will United, which has 5,000 flights per Airlines, the world’s third-largest airline continue to lead the company’s day, recently announced that its load based on revenue, recently announced public advocacy strategy, including factor could drop 20 percent to 30 that it has named Brett J. Hart, government affairs, corporate percent because of the coronavirus. president of United Airlines Holding communications, legal, and community March, which has typically been the Inc., as part of the Chicago-based engagement teams. He also will airline’s best month for traffic, dropped airlines’ succession plan in which CEO continue to oversee the corporate to an all-time low. Oscar Munoz will become executive real estate, human resources, labor David Calhoun, CEO of Chicago- chair and Scott Kirby, the current relations, and United’s environmental based Boeing, told the Today show president, will become CEO. efforts. that a U.S. carrier will “likely go out of “I am honored and energized as business” as a result of the coronavirus The organizational changes, first PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED I take on these new responsibilities pandemic because it has reduced announced in December, will take place Brett Hart, United Airlines president at United’s May 20 annual meeting. to lead this incredible team that I am significantly reduced travel. Boeing is Currently, Hart, who joined United in respected leader who has established convinced will build United into a an aircraft manufacturer. 2010, is executive vice president and a strong track record over the past thriving industry leader,” Hart said. Because of the drop in business, chief administrative officer. decade, helping United navigate Hart served as United’s interim CEO Munoz, Kirby, and Hart will forgo their “Brett is a well-established and widely complex challenges across all areas of for six months in 2015 while Munoz salaries.
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Chris Bates Grace Reese Handyman Warehouse Associate I will be celebrating with family, but the size of Unfortunately, I won’t be around most of my gathering will be much smaller than in the my family because of Covid-19, and social past. I just plan on obeying the mandates for distancing. I do plan on having a small gathering, social distancing. but it won’t violate social distancing.
Michael Jones Anthony Haythorne Material Handler Maintenance Man Last year, I did celebrate, but due to Covid-19 I just plan on barbecuing for my mom, and I won’t celebrate this year. It’s just not safe to children. Last year, it was a much bigger celebrate like I normally do. celebration, but due to the Coronavirus, I’m playing it safe by just having a small gathering.
Brandon Thompson Brittany Thompson Mechanic Musician My celebration this year will be the same as I’m celebrating Memorial Day by barbecuing last year; there’s no difference. I plan on cooking for my sister who’s an Air force veteran. I’m just for my brother who’s an Army veteran. I have to spending more time with her; so it’s no different show love for him. than last year.
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By Lafe Tolliver, Attorney As some of you may know by now due to the hellacious subject matter of this column and the wrath that it will bring down on my head from lo- cal Trumpsters whenever I write about their dear Leader, I have decided to use this Covid-19 pandemic to go into temporary hiding.
Over the years I have developed an extensive network of sympathetic publicans who were shell shocked to comes to the fair distribution of edu- readers and contacts in nine states have a black man being the CEO of cational services to those who do not and seven foreign countries and have the US of A for eight years, his foibles “ have the wherewithal to afford com- been granted promises of immunity if included the following: [1] wearing Again, the class and race puters and Internet services during a I found it needful to flee these United a tan colored suit in the Oval Office divisions in America are prolonged shut down of the schools. States. [2] The First Lady wearing sleeveless Again, the class and race divisions My deepest thanks go out to the dresses that showed her muscular puss like blisters being in America are puss like blisters being countries of Cuba, Ghana, Morocco, arms [3] mistakenly saying that the Af- popped and it is not a pretty popped and it is not a pretty sight to Isle of Man, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and fordable Care Act would allow you to “ behold. sight to behold. Norway for their substantial diplomatic keep your doctor (Note: as it worked Well-funded school districts and its support in these trying times. out, you could keep your doctor if the pupil population have the financial What has or may well generate doctor agreed to be a part of the care muscle to have computers and the as- a firestorm is that I will compare the act [4] defending Hillary Clinton as his The ghastly murder of the jogger, sortment of related services that allow amazing differential treatment that Secretary of State. “those” kids to weather an educational Herr Trump is afforded by White Amer- Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia reminds As you know, the GOP Senate was all of us that life is fragile and can be downturn whereas “other” kids have to ica; and to compare his mentally chal- enraged that after years of investiga- take it on the chin when it comes to lenged antics, delusions of grandeur, taken in a moment’s notice; and even tion into Benghazi that no criminal lia- quicker when your race is a factor in educational parity. threats, bullying, racism and sexism bility was found against her or Presi- America and its educational sys- to that of former President Barack H. determining who lives or who dies. dent Obama. Who would have remotely thought tems and its opportunities thereto, Obama… if Obama were to have en- Obama’s greatest fault was his never made room for minorities to sit gaged in such reprehensible acts of that a deadly virus, Covid-19, would seemingly desire to not go public re- blatantly uncover the racial divide in at the table as equals and to receive a conduct, vile language and boorish garding the racial antics of the GOP fair share of the bounty. conduct to our foreign allies. this country regarding medical care Senators and especially so when they, and services and again, who lives and That is because America was not President Obama “suffered” during for no good reason, blocked his Su- originally set up for that type of fair his eight years of being President from who dies. preme Court nominee Merrick Gar- Not only did this Covid-19 expose distribution of goods and services to the following incidents and of which land from even getting an up or down people of color and because of that, were not remotely sufficient to upend the hypocrisy of America’s care for vote from the Senate! all being a lie but a stubborn lie at when deadly viruses run rampant, the established social mores and govern- Recently, there has been a horrible resulting inequities are glaringly ab- ment values. that when it came to black and brown spate of shootings by white policemen people receiving the brunt end of the horrent. His predictability and even steadi- against people of color and in which A good read on this shameful histo- ness and great intellectual capital, sharp stick when the virus sought out it seems that itchy trigger fingers pre- its victims. ry is: Stamped From the Beginning by endearing empathy and compassion vailed over common sense or that Ibram S. Kendi. Read it and weep. for all, made him an outstanding Pres- Now, we have revelations that this other least drastic means to take an virus is revealing that the education- Lafe Tolliver, Attorney ident leader, bar none. opponent down were not employed. Comments to: [email protected] At the hands of outraged white Re- al system is woefully flawed when it The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery — and Our Continuing Terror ed response.Those accused of his Two U.S. senators said nothing. murder finallyhave been arrested. The white church —that had bless- His murder has become a global em- ed slavery, segregation, apartheid in barrassment for whites.For blacks, South Africa —was silent.Why did the however, it is another humiliation, a arrests finally take place? Because continuing terror. It is the normal si- an intrepid reporter from the New lence, however, that condemns thou- York Times investigated the story and sands of African Americans to unjust made it public; the murder video was deaths and millions to shattered lives. leaked to the public on the 72nd day When the camera turns away, the after Ahmaud’s murder.As the public savage injustice that embarrasses us outrage grew, the arrests were made. becomes simply business as usual. Never forget, as one commentator The horror of Ahmaud Arbery’s mur- noted, they did not make the arrests der is now well known. The 25-year- because THEY saw the incriminat- old black man went for a jog down the ing video. They made the arrests middle of the street in the middle of because WE saw the video. Embar- the day on Feb. 23. Two white men rassed, faced with an aroused com- decided he was suspicious, hunted munity and an international scandal, By Jesse Jackson him down and shot him point blank in they finally acted.So it goes. African Wire Writer the middle of the street at 1 p.m.Local Americans suffer in silence the sav- law enforcement had video evidence age injuries of institutionalized racism. (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Today of the crime. Yet no arrest was made We live in northern ghettos —driven there is a national outcry about the until 74 days later, two months and there in the early part of the last cen- murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The pub- two weeks after the murder. Local au- tury by terrorism —most strikingly the lic condemnation has forced a belat- thorities chose not to act. continued on page 5 The Toledo Journal • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • Page 5 MoneyTalks COVID-19 financial warnings: Consumers and banks should stay away from payday loans with an additional $500 per child arrived scam artists, CFPB has offered a modest imbalances, unexpected expenses, or too late for first payments for bills like tip sheet on how consumers – not gov- income disruptions during periods of eco- mortgages and rental payments. Many ernment – can protect themselves. For- nomic stress or disaster recoveries.” leaders also warn that despite its size or tunately, as the viral saga unfolds, some Without any specifics defining “reason- range of areas addressed, the legislation, news outlets are reporting on the poten- able small dollar loans”, the regulators’ was not enough. tial harms of consumers turning to payday statement could be an inducement to join In a March 27 House floor statement, and car-title loans. triple-digit lenders’ financial exploitation. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair- A joint response by five federal regu- For Black America and other com- woman of the House Financial Services lars - Board of Governors of the Federal munities of color, predatory short-term Committee warned colleagues that their Reserve System, Consumer Financial loans of $500 or less began decades job was not yet complete. Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal ago when payday and car-title storefronts “[I] must make clear that the legislation Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), took prominent residence in our neigh- is far from comprehensive, and that there National Credit Union Administration borhoods across the country. Loans that are issues it leaves unaddressed and ar- (NCUA), and the Office of the Comp- were marketed as quick fixes for millions eas where it falls short…The American troller of the Currency (OCC) – came of consumers morphed into long-term fi- people need help now and this bill rep- on March 26 in a statement that encour- nancial nightmares that deepened debt resents a down payment on that relief,” aged banks, savings and loans, and with every renewal. In many cases, the in- said Waters. terest paid on these A similar reaction loans was often By Charlene Crowell, came from AARP double or triple the NNPA Newswire Contributor chief executive Jo amount of principal Ann Jenkins. borrowed. For the foreseeable future, ‘normal’ life “Older Americans A coalition of civ- will be indefinitely suspended due to the face the one-two il and consumer global pandemic known as the coronavirus. punch of corona- rights organizations Record-breaking employment layoffs virus’s health and released a joint in the month of March resulted in the economic conse- statement warn- Department of Labor reporting that 10.4 quences, and many ing of the possible million consumers lost their jobs and filed need immediate spike in high-cost for unemployment compensation. As relief and ongoing lending by the na- medical experts continue to track the vi- help and support to tion’s depository rus, they havereported at least 2.5 million cope with the pan- institutions – banks, known infections and at least 90,000+ re- demic,” noted Jen- credit unions and lated deaths. kins. “Those needs savings and loans. Beyond these statistics, untold num- are only set to grow “This is the worst bers of additional school and retail clo- in the weeks and months ahead.” possible time for banks to make predatory sures, and an expanding army of people What can really make a difference payday loans,” said Americans for Finan- working from home have also been di- between life’s success and failure is not When living costs exceed cial Reform Education Fund, the Center rectly affected by the virus. just what leaders do but also what they for Responsible Lending, Leadership Consumers both young and old available financial resources, didn’t do when they had the chance. The “ Conference for Civil and Human Rights, have passed as the virus continues recent legislative package was silent on tough times lead to tough NAACP, National Consumer Law Center. to spread across the country. Its viral interest rates, as well as forgiveness of decisions about how to feed “Around the time of the last recession, wrath has spawned hot spots from the federal student loans, negative credit “ a handful of banks issued ‘deposit ad- families, keep a home to Pacific Northwest’s Seattle, to the Gulf reports or bans on private evictions for live in, ways to keep utilities vances’ that put borrowers in an average Coast’s New Orleans, the Midwest’s late rental payments. of 19 loans a year at over 200% annual Detroit and the nation’s largest urban As the cost of living has risen faster and working and a myriad of interest,” continued the leaders. “These metropolis, New York City. higher than most consumer incomes for other day-to-day needs. bank payday loans disproportionately Zeroing in on the economic impacts more than a decade, the likelihood of a harmed the financially vulnerable and of the crisis, people everywhere are savings account large enough to cover badly damaged banks’ reputations. Since struggling with competing needs in their household expenses for a month or more 2013 when regulatory guidance warned lives. When living costs exceed avail- is slim to none. against this form of credit, banks have able financial resources, tough times The Consumer Financial Protection credit unions to offer “responsible small mostly stayed away. We trust that they will lead to tough decisions about how to Bureau (CFPB), the agency tasked with dollar loans” to consumers and small continue to do so as they do not want to feed families, keep a home to live in, protecting consumers from unscrupulous businesses during the pandemic. repeat mistakes of the past.” ways to keep utilities working and a lenders has been conspicuously sub- According to the regulators, “respon- Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with myriad of other day-to-day needs. dued. Instead of forceful and timely agen- sible small-dollar loans can play an im- the Center for Responsible Lending. She Despite a trillion dollar federal rescue cy alerts via multi-media communications portant role in meeting customers' credit can be reached at charlene.crowell@re- enacted with bipartisan support, checks warning consumers about opportunistic needs because of temporary cash-flow sponsiblelending.org. of $1,200 promised to taxpayers, along The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery — and Our Continuing Terror
continued from page 4 effect is on those who are vulnerable: nonviolent protests against segregation, Ku Klux Klan and their signature lynch- the elderly, the sick, the hungry, those Dr. Martin Luther King penned his letter ings.The Equal Justice Initiative reports with asthma and obesity. It hits hardest from the Birmingham jail expressing his there were 4,084 lynchings of blacks in the among the suddenly proclaimed “essen- grave disappointment with the “white mod- South from 1877 to 1950. The tial workers” who do the work that previ- erate” and the “White church.” He suggest- Klan, embraced by and often made up ously was largely “invisible: the bus driv- ed that the “great stumbling block” forAf- of the white gentry of the South, often gath- ers, the grocery clerks, the nurses and rican Americans seeking their freedom is ered at their churches to organize the pub- medical aides. Not surprisingly, African “not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku lic lynchings. They terrorized blacks to end Americans make up a disproportionate Klux Klanner, but the white moderate “who the fusion multiracial coalitions that grew number of those killed or infected by the is more devoted to order than to justice.” up in the Reconstruction, and to take back virus. He decried a religious community “large- control of their states.The lynchings and The racial disparities are so stark that ly adjusted to the status quo, standing as violence were greeted with silence, if not they gain national and international atten- a tail-light behind other community agen- approval. White authorities, white church- tion. Pundits express shock and outrage cies rather than a headlight leading men es, white society turned their heads, if they at the reports, as if they were surprised by to higher levels of justice.”The virus didn’t weren’t applauding in approval.Fleeing the results. Editorials demand reform. Pol- discriminate. The society enforced the north, Blacks were red lined into ghettos, iticians call for action. The informed public discrimination; the virus just preyed upon with jobs hard to get, and discrimination is embarrassed.But little happens: the res- its victims. We have gone too long, strug- closing doors. cue packages passed by Congress send gled too hard to adjust to the reality that it To this day, African-Americans are last most of the money to the biggest com- is dangerous to be black while jogging or hired and first fired. We suffer the worst panies and the most affluent investors. to be black in a pandemic.It isn’t enough poverty, the highest unemployment, the of white elites, the silence of the White Banks are saved; the post office —with to express dismay when the newspapers highest childhood hunger and malnutri- church, the silence of the evangelicals, a largely minority workforce —is starved. highlight the horrors. We need leaders and tion, the most inadequate health care. the silence of the best minded citizens. Hunger spreads. Any expansion of food citizens of conscience who will act and not This reality is sustained by the silence Then, the virus hits, and its most lethal stamps is blocked.Arrested for leading restuntil justice is done. LifeStyles/News Page 6 • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • The Toledo Journal Unemployed Due to Coronavirus? Find Available Benefits Submitted insurance program to learn about how (StatePoint) - Self-quarantines and to apply for benefits. Or learn more by stay-at-home orders as a result of the visiting www.usa.gov/unemployment. COVID-19 pandemic are having an How much money will I get? impact on employment right now, and It will vary by state. But remember, that may continue for some time. During under the CARES Act, you will be able this period of uncertainty, finding ways to get an additional $600 a week for up to pay bills or keep medical benefits are to six months. The program’s start date top concerns for many. Here are some was set to Jan. 27. So if you lost your tips from Janine Nowatzky, managing job due to COVID-19-related reasons director of Inside Rx. between the end of January and now, What is unemployment insurance then you should be able to receive the and how do I sign up? additional benefit. Unemployment insurance is a What about health insurance? program between your state and the It’s scary to think about getting federal government that provides through this pandemic without health money when you’ve lost your job. With insurance. What benefits you’re able to the federal government’s passage keep all depends on who you work for. of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and The first step is to ask your employer. PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED Economic Security (CARES) Act, you They may allow you to continue your can receive an enhanced benefit. It health coverage for a short period of A limited number of states have offers access to thousands of brand authorizes: absence. also opened enrollment to their own and generic medications for you, your • Self-employed and gig workers to If your employer is allowing you to Affordable Care Act (ACA) health family, and your pets at a fraction of receive benefits keep your insurance, be sure to clarify insurance exchanges. You may be the cost, helping you save an average • An extra $600 a week for up to six if your missed premium payments will able to sign up for a health insurance of 40 to 80 percent. You can fill your months be: plan – even without a life-changing prescription at over 60,000 pharmacies • An extra 13 weeks of benefits • Covered partially or fully by your event, which is the usual exception to in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. 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The program Toledo Zoo Debuts Baby Orangutan By: Kim Kaddix keepers were concerned about Toledo Zoo the placenta remaining attached. Please join Your Toledo Zoo The decision was made to in welcoming into the world and separate mom and baby for a into our hearts a male baby full veterinary examination. Tests orangutan, Fajar (fah-zhar). revealed Fajar had an infection Fajar, whose name means dawn in the umbilicus. While being or start of a new day, was born treated for the infection, the new on October 12, 2019 to first time offspring was hand-reared by parents Leela and Bajik (bah- great apes’ staff 24 hours a day. zhee), both Bornean orangutans. For approximately six months, At this time, mom and baby great apes’ staff had to constantly remain under the watchful eyes hold the baby, who in the wild of animal care staff in an off- would cling to mom, while also exhibit area with dad nearby as trying to maintain a close bond PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED they continue to bond. A public between mom and baby. Keepers debut date has not been set. trained daily with both Fajar and positively reinforced, and using Shortly after giving birth, Leela in hopes of reuniting them a bottle on a stick for feeding, Leela was observed cradling as soon as possible. Leela’s the baby was introduced. At the and cleaning her baby, however, maternal training behaviors were Continued on page 15.
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Department of Job and Family Services’ website Beginning Friday, May 22, horse racing in Ohio will soon. be permitted if these operations can meet required Beginning Thursday, May 21, campgrounds in safety protocols. Spectators will not be permitted. Ohio will be permitted to reopen if these facilities This does not apply to casinos and racinos. Safety can meet required safety protocols. The full list of protocols for these venues are in development. mandatory and recommended best practices for For more information on Ohio’s response to both campgrounds and campers can be found at COVID-19, visit coronavirus.ohio.gov or call Outdoor Recreation Advisory Group is available at 1-833-4-ASK-ODH. coronavirus.ohio.gov. PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED Beginning Tuesday, May 26, Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) locations in Ohio will be permitted Submitted to reopen for certain services if these facilities can Last Tuesday, Governor DeWine announced that meet required safety protocols. Services that can the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services be accomplished online should still be done online. (OJFS) has received approval from the United States More details on online BMV services can be found at Department of Agriculture for its Pandemic EBT plan. oplates.com. The approval will allow OJFS to distribute SNAP Beginning Tuesday, May 26, gyms and fitness benefits to 850,000 students across Ohio who relied centers in Ohio will be permitted to reopen if these on free or reduced-price meal programs when school facilities can meet required safety protocols. was in session to have access to a hot, nutritious Beginning Tuesday, May 26, non-contact and meal. The benefits will be mailed directly to students, limited contact sports leagues in Ohio will be and families do not need to apply to be eligible. permitted to operate if these leagues can meet Families will receive approximately $300 to required safety protocols. This applies only to non- purchase healthy and nutritious foods to feed their contact and limited-contact sports. children. These benefits amount to more than $250 A full list of mandatory and recommended best million that will go to our grocery stores and other practices from the Governor at: Large Venue Advisory eligible retailers. Group. Sectors licensed by the State Medical Board of Beginning Tuesday, May 26, public pools and club Ohio, including massage therapy, acupuncture, and pools that are regulated by local health departments cosmetic therapy, tattoo and body piercing services in Ohio will be permitted to reopen if these facilities were permitted to reopen on Friday, May 15 with the can meet required safety protocols. implementation of proper safety measures. According to the Centers for Disease Control and The full list of mandatory and recommended Prevention, there is no evidence that the virus that best practices can be found on Personal Services causes COVID-19 can be spread to people through Advisory Group . the water in pools, hot tubs, spas, or water play Ohio Department of Aging Director announced areas. Proper operation and maintenance (including a new service that will provide a daily check-in by disinfection with chlorine and bromine) of these phone for Ohioans age 60 or older to ensure that facilities should inactivate the virus in the water. PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED older Ohioans stay connected while staying at home. This does not apply to water parks or amusement The Staying Connected program will call older parks. Safety protocols for these venues are in adults who sign up for the service during a predetermined window of time. When participants answer the phone, they will be asked to respond via touch-tone to confirm that they are OK or to access live support. If no one answers after three attempts, a call is then made to an alternate contact (if provided) or to non-emergency services. The service can be canceled at any time. Eligible Ohioans can sign up at aging.ohio.gov or by calling 1-800-266- 4346. Beginning Sunday, May 31, childcare providers and day camps in Ohio will be permitted to reopen if these providers can meet required safety protocols. The full list of mandatory and recommended best practices from Governor DeWine’s Early Childhood Advisory You have homeownership #goals. But you also have financial #reality. Council can be found at coronavirus.ohio.gov. Did you know that the Ohio Housing Finance Agency helps qualified homebuyers with To assist in the reopening of child care down payment and closing costs assistance, discounted interest rates and more? centers, Ohio will use more than $60 million in federal CARES Act Homeownership. It’s Within Reach. funding to provide reopening grants to all of Ohio’s childcare Find out if you’re eligible at www.myohiohome.org. providers, including family childcare, childcare centers, and both publicly-funded and private providers. More Healthy Awareness Page 8 • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • The Toledo Journal Everything You Need to Know Social Security About the Tuskegee Experiment benefits for communities all across the country and forced the study to be dis- children with continued. It led to the 1979 Belmont Report disabilities and the creation of the National Human Inves- By Erin Thompson tigation Board. It also Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Toledo, OH led to the creation of the Institutional Review Board, an independent ethics committee that reviews the methods proposed for research to ensure that they are ethical. A settlement of $10 million was also awarded to the surviv- ing participants and the heirs of the deceased. Submitted in fact sick, but while venereal disease in- In 1997, President Black News - The being "cared for" by re- vestigator in San Fran- Bill Clinton issued a Tuskegee Experiment, searchers, many were cisco, expressed his formal apology from SSA’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) pro- a controversial clinical only given placebos concerns to his supe- the White House, stat- gram helps children with qualifying disablities and study carried out be- such as aspirin and riors that it was uneth- ing, “The United States their families. For this program, a child must meet all tween 1932 and 1972, mineral supplements. ical after learning about government did some- of the following requirements to be considered dis- was an experiment Because no effective the Tuskegee study. As thing that was wrong abled and medically eligible: conducted on primarily care was being provid- a result, PHS officials — deeply, profoundly, The child must have a medical condition, or a com- ed, many of the partic- formed a committee to morally wrong… It is African American men bination of conditions, that result in “marked and se- ipants eventually went review the study and not only in remem- in Macon County, Ala- vere functional limitations.” This means that the con- bama. These men were blind, lost their minds, later opted to continue bering that shameful or experienced other it. past that we can make dition(s) must very seriously limit the child’s activities. being used to study The child’s condition(s) must have been dis- the effects of untreat- severe health problems In 1972, Jean Hell- amends and repair our abling, or be expected to be disabling, for at least ed syphilis, but did not due to their untreated er of the Associated nation, but it is in re- give consent nor were syphilis. Others died. Press broke the story membering that past 12 months; or the condition(s) must be expected to they properly advised In 1960, Peter Bux- to mainstream media. that we can build a bet- result in death. of their diagnosis. ton, a U.S. Public This prompted pub- ter present and a better Compassionate Allowances are a way wequickly The participants were Health Service (PHS) lic outrage from Black future.” identify diseases and other medical conditions that, by definition, meet Social Security's standards for disability benefits. Thousands of children receive benefits because they have one of the conditions on Experience the list at www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/ from the most experienced conditions.htm. Choose from our enhanced A child must also meet other eligibility require- services – including massage, ments. Since we only pay SSI to disabled people Reiki, aromatherapy, music and with low income and limited resources, a child, who is not blind, must not be working or earning more art expression – for the best than $1,260 a month in 2020. A child who is blind end-of-life experience possible. must not be working or earning more than $2,110. This earnings amount usually changes every year. In addition, if the parents of the child or children have Insist on Hospice of Northwest Ohio more resources than are allowed, then the child or children will not qualify for SSI. You can read more about children’s benefits at www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN- 05-10026.pdf. hospicenwo.org 419.661.4001 Visit www.ssa.gov/people/parents/ to learn more ©2019 Hospice of Northwest Ohio of Northwest Hospice ©2019 choices about all we do to care for children. Please share
NWOH-130 More Choices 6.5x3_BW.indd 1 7/1/19 10:49 AM The Toledo Journal • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • Page 9 Education/A’Parently Princeton University’s First Ever Black Valedictorian in 274 Years Submitted Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Addressing Canada’s Obesity Epidemic,” focuses In April 2020, Nicholas Johnson, who belongs to on developing high-performance, efficient algorithms the 2020 class of Princeton University, made history to solve a network-based optimization problem that after he became the first African American student to models a community-based preventative health ever be named valedictorian in the school’s history. intervention designed to curb the prevalence of According to the University’s School of Engineering obesity in Canada. and Applied Science, he is also the first valedictorian “My favorite memories of my time at Princeton in the department’s 21-year history. are memories of time spent with close friends and Johnson was a dedicated student that majored classmates engaging in stimulating discussions — in operations research and financial engineering. often late at night — about our beliefs, the cultures He served as a writing fellow at Princeton’s Writing and environments in which we were raised, the Center, a residential college adviser for Whitman state of the world, and how we plan on contributing College, and even worked as a software engineer at positively to it in our own unique way,” Johnson said. Google’s California headquarters during his senior He also announced that he plans to earn a Ph.D. year. Also his academic interests gave him the at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), opportunity to take cultural immersion trips to Peru, where he plans to pursue certificates in statistics Hong Kong, and the UK. PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED and machine learning, applied and computational His senior thesis, “Sequential Stochastic Nicholas Johnson mathematics, and applications of computing. High School Senior makes history With 5.6 GPA becomes First Black Valedictorian at His School Submitted receive college credits while in Berkeley, The University of high school, AP courses, and Chicago, and Pomona College. Nationwide — Timi Adelakun, Broward College courses. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a senior at South Broward High “I’ve been taking over 20 college he wasn’t able to tour the schools, School in Hollywood, Florida, has courses worth of credit, and so he had to decide which college made history for being the school’s because of that, my AP credits, to go to from his home. first Black valedictorian and for my Ace credits, and my dual “I’m going to attend Pomona having a 5.6 GPA – the highest enrollment credits boost my GPA,” College. The school gave me a ever in the school’s history. he said. full scholarship, so if I go there it’s “As of now, it’s a 5.6045. I think Aside from his academic covered for. I chose that school by graduation it’ll go a little bit achievements, he also makes time ’cause it’s liberal arts, and I’m higher, but that’s my number,” to enjoy his passion for theater. able to double major. I’m doing Adelakun told WSVN, citing that He is a member of the drama club molecular biology and theatre,” “it’s good to know” that he made and the Thespian Honors Society Adelakun said. history in the school. where he has been doing shows Even though Adelakun wasn’t Adelakun shared that his grades and competition. He wanted to do able to attend the usual graduation have always been outstanding both even in college. rites due to the spread of and he is thankful for his school Adelakun was accepted into coronavirus, he is looking forward that helped him keep it up. He 8 universities including the to what’s coming next for him. took advantage of the school’s University of Miami, Columbia “I’m excited to go onto new American College of Education University, Julliard, UCLA, the heights and kind of go out of my PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED programs that allow students to University of Southern California, comfort zone,” he said. Timi Adelakun
Jack and Jill Northwest Ohio is POWERED of America Scholarships Submitted The Jack and Jill of America Foundation’s National Scholarship Program is offered to high school seniors who will attend and maintain a full-time status at an accredited, four-year post-secondary institution, starting in the fall of the year and working toward a bachelor’s degree. The program offers need-based scholarships of up PROTECTED BUILT CARED for to $2,500 to returning college students enrolled full- time at an accredited, post-secondary institution, and Andre Tiggs, ‘07 Kyle Brenamen, ‘98 Theresa Hamlin, RN, BSN, ‘12 Fire Investigator Plant Supervisor Nurse who will begin their Junior or Senior year in the fall City of Toledo Fire Department Werk-Brau Co., Inc. Blanchard Valley Hospital of the current year with a major in Communications. Toledo Findlay Findlay Students must: * Submit an online application * Be an African American and a citizen or permanent resident of the United States. BY the proud alumni of OWENS COMMUNITY COLLEGE. * Submit a current transcript * Submit a one-page essay of career interest * Have a cumulative GPA of a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale More than 70% of Owens alumni choose to system live and work in our community. * Submit a completed FAFSA application showing a demonstrated need as verified by your institution’s financial aid office. Take Summer classes online! Classes begin May 25 and June 22. Continued on page 11. OWENS.EDU Entertainment/Advice Page 10 • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • The Toledo Journal FUNdraising Good Times
FUNdraising Technology? Digital platforms? Not so fast! Good Times focus on how much you are raising through social media sharing. consider: “own” your data and through various methods. Technology In most cases online giving expands know how to access it. Outsourced and digital platforms are important awareness of an organization and campaigns can yield immediate funds; tools, not a cure all. encourages giving at a low-pain-point. be sure to negotiate ownership of the We suggest looking at fundraising Discussions related to larger gifts data that accompanies gifts made to as focused on relationships, with may be influenced by a strong and those who fundraise on your behalf. technology being a supportive tool dynamic digital presence, but usually Thank and follow up with all donors. that assists with fund development occur through personal conversation Create engagement strategies, and as and fundraising management. This and relationship building. Sustainable appropriate assign donors to “portfolios” can include reports (or a dashboard) fundraising requires an eye to both for other methods of communication showing number of gifts, average “entry level” giving and engagement of and engagement. Ask new donors for size of gift, recurring donors, and current or potential major donors. recurring monthly gifts. Document all By: Saad & Shaw total raised vs. goal. These reports When evaluating how and when fundraising methods, contact persons, Wire Writers can inform timelines for appeals, you will begin or grow your online passwords, processes, and fees; make An important aspect of fundraising segmenting appeals, and coordinating fundraising, take a moment to look sure multiple staff know how to access is “recurring gifts.” This refers to communication activities that at the “off-line” basics. You want all your data and produce reports. individuals who give more than once. reinforce fundraising. Reports can be fundraising strategies to make a Fundraising success requires Fund development focuses on growing expanded to include tracking of gift consistent case for giving across all access to technology and use of digital one-time donors into recurring donors. acknowledgment and recognition; platforms and media. They should platforms. It also requires knowing how To do this you need access to your they can also inform other forms of reinforce the organization’s vision, to use data to make fund development fundraising and donor data; you need fundraising. Digital platforms and mission and priorities and be part of a and fundraising related management to use technology as a management online giving facilitate fundraising and larger process that is built around donor decisions that impact the financial tool that informs your fundraising extend the reach of your message. identification, cultivation, solicitation, health of your organization. Success strategy. In other words: you can’t skip They make it easy to give and easy and retention. requires you have both. over fundraising fundamentals as you for donors to encourage others to give Here are a few more things to FROM THE DESK OF FELICIA Reasons Why Spending Time Away from Your Partner is Necessary Submitted sports together during their alone time. as you feel more comfortable doing so. Regardless if you’re happily Women typically go out to brunch, Let’s go over what not to do during married or not, you need to spend coordinate spa dates, girls night outs your time away: Anything that has time away from your partner to keep monthly or a fun filled girls trip every so directly correlates to the relationship. your relationship fresh. This doesn’t often. All of these activities that you do Don’t go grocery shopping because include your normal work hours. This separate from your partner, will “make you’re cooking dinner later for the both means in addition to that time as well. the heart grow fonder” as the saying of you? Don’t run any errands related So many couples get bored with one goes. to the house or the relationship. Don’t another because they pretty much You don’t want to be that clingy call or text your partner while your do everything together, sometimes partner because that is a huge turn- away. UNAPOLOGECTICALLY enjoy including working together. A part of off for most people, male or female. I spending time away from your partner, used to want to spend every waking doing things that you absolutely love. having a healthy relationship is being PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED moment that I could with my ex-partner Usually woman experience feelings of independent of your partner at times. Felicia T. Simpson Spending time away from your or as soon as I got a boyfriend, I would guilt or shame for spending time away partner does not mean that you don’t only spend time with them and not my from their partners because they get spending time away from each other love them, it really allows space in the friends. That is unhealthy to do. If engulfed in thoughts about who’s going periodically. Doing this doesn’t make relationship to continue enjoying the you are currently doing that, I humbly to take of care this or that while they’re you selfish or means that you don’t things that you both like to do without encourage to spend small amounts away???? Go! He/she will figure it out. love each other. Instead, spending the other person. Usually men will of time away from your partner. You You and your partner are two separate time away from your partner means hang out with their male friends at a begin with spending one hour doing people with your own individual wants that you care about yourself and the bar, workout at the gym together or play something you love and increasing it and needs which requires you to enjoy relationship, overall. The Toledo Journal • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • Page 11 Family/News Shooting Death in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery is Defined as a “Modern Day Lynching” struggle ensues in and read, “the killing of Ahmaud Arbery outside of the camera’s shows us that the spirit of lynching is range. The sound of still alive and well in our nation and shotgun fire is heard. something that we cannot tolerate.” Arbery is then seen on “The scary thing for me is the they video collapsing after the thought the video would help his client. sound of the gunshot in The culture is so backwards down front of the truck. there they actually thought that,” said Brunswick District Arbery family attorney Lee Merritt on By: Lauren Victoria Burke Attorney Jackie Johnson Roland Martin Unfiltered. The case NNPA Newswire Contributor recused herself because has widely been compared to the 2012 one of the men seen murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida by Months after the U.S. House passed a in the video of the fatal George Zimmerman. new lynching law, which has been held shooting pointing a gun “What happened to #AhmaudArbery up by the Republican led U.S. Senate, at Arbery worked in the is a MODERN DAY LYNCHING. This and a day after investigative journalist district attorney’s office. February, the House overwhelmingly Ida B. Wells was posthumously During an exclusive passed the Emmett Till Antilynching awarded a Pulitzer Prize — a lynching interview on Roland Act, which would make lynching a story dated February 23, 2020 is in the Martin Unfiltered on federal crime,” wrote Rep. Bobby Rush news. May 7th with Arbery’s (D-IL) The shooting death of Ahmaud mother, Wanda Cooper- South Carolina Republican U.S. Arbery, 25, went viral on social media Jones confirmed there Senator Tim Scott wrote, “ Every. on May 6, months after his murder. The was no support of her single.time. The excuses pour in – ‘he video shows Arbery jogging down a from anyone in the small looked suspicious’… ‘we thought he street in Brunswick, Georgia. It appears Georgia community after was committing a crime”…The fact to demonstrate the involvement of her son died. That is PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED remains, #AhmaudArbery was hunted three men — two on a pickup truck and changing. Since the viral Ahmaud Arbery, 25 of Savannah, GA down from a pickup truck and murdered another filming the scene from behind. video has been widely in cold blood. My heart breaks for his Arbery’s death took place on seen everyone from LeBron James been too long,” said Jones on Martin’s family, and justice must be served.” February 23rd about three miles from to former Vice President Biden and show answering a question from Likely Democratic presidential where he lived. Arbery was an avid President Trump has commented on Dr. Gregg Carr, the Chairman of the nominee Joe Biden said, Arbery was jogger and played football. Arbery’s death. African American Studies Department “shot down in cold blood,” and his The two men on the pickup truck “Initially I was told there was a at Howard University. killing reflected a “rising pandemic of have been identified through numerous burglary and a struggle over a firearm,” Late on May 7, Greg and Travis hate.” media reports as Greg McMichael, a Cooper-Jones said on Roland Martin McMichael were finally arrested. Many “Ahmaud Arbery should still be retired investigator in the Brunswick Unfiltered. She confirmed she has not observers of the breaking news warned alive right now. This is tragic and District Attorney’s office, and his son watched the video of her son’s death that the exotic charges and where any unacceptable. It should ignite us all in Travis McMichael. They appear to but the description of it from others did future court case is likely to take place demands for justice. I’m calling on the follow Arbery from behind as he is not line up with what authorities told matters. Department of Justice to investigate. jogging down a suburban street. Travis her after her son died. The Congressional Black Caucus We need justice for Ahmaud and his McMichael, the alleged shooter, is “I need to get these men indicted. had demanded arrests the day before family,” wrote Sen. Cory Booker on seen confronting Arbery and part of a They need to go to jail. Two months has and released a statement that in part twitter. This is the Law Firm That is Handling Ahmaud Arbery’s Case Submitted U.S. history for a rape victim, Rouge. Attorney Stewart Black News - Meet the very a record $5.1 million negligent holds five record jury talented and experienced security settlement, the first verdicts in Georgia and lawyers handling the case of $1.5 million jury verdict in rural is regarded as one of the Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Camden County, three record nation’s top injury trial 25-year old African American civil rights settlements, and lawyers. man who was pursued and Minnesota’s largest trampoline Chris himself is one killed by two white men park injury settlement for $3 of the most decorated while jogging in his own million dollars. African-American lawyers neighborhood in Brunswick Stewart Trial Attorneys are in the country having County, Georgia back in also recognized worldwide for received the 2019 February 2020. The law his civil rights cases including Southern Center For firm, Stewart Trial Attorneys, Walter Scott, who was shot in Human Rights Vanguard founded by L. 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He Bar Association’s also represents some of the Wiley Branton Award Public Service Proclamation, Civil Rights Award, the first assaults. the 2018 Pinnacle Leadership and only African-American Based in Atlanta, some of nation’s highest profile civil for Leadership, the 2018 rights death cases including Outstanding Citizen Award for Award, the 2018 Georgia voted 2016 Attorney of the their notable results include Legislative Black Caucus Year for the State of Georgia, having won the first ever Alton Sterling who was killed the State of Georgia, the 2018 on video by police in Baton Georgia Senate Outstanding Chairman’s Award, the 2016 and the 2014 Esquire Award. billion-dollar jury verdict in recipient of the R.E. Thomas Jack and Jill of America Scholarships available Continued from page 9. college students with financial The Jack and Jill of America hardship seeking a degree Foundation Scholarship is * Provide a Reference Form from a US. accredited four- accepting applications from from an individual certifying year college and/or university. May 5-June 8, 2020. Please that you have completed at The award can support visit scholarships.uncf.org and least 60 or more community the student’s educational search for “Jack and Jill” to service hours. expenses - including tuition, locate the scholarship home This is an undergraduate living expenses, books, and page and application details. scholarship program customary fees. The award(s) The award amount is usually PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED supporting high-achieving will vary based on available $2,500. Learn more at scholipers.uncf.org funding. Page 12- The Toledo Journal, May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 THE TOLEDO JOURNAL TO PLACE ADS CALL (419) 472-4521 or email: [email protected], [email protected] NOW ACCEPTING: OFFICE HOURS: MON-TUE 9-noon & 1-5, THUR-FRI 9-noon & 1-5 Closed Wed You Can Use Your Debit Card, Mastercard,Visa, Amex Deadline Friday 4:30 pm CLASSIFIEDS For Placing Classifieds PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE FOR RENTPUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE 2015-2020 FIVE-YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN
In accordance with 24 CFR 91.05(c)(2) and subpart B of the federal regulations relative to citizen participation for Community Planning and Development Programs and applicable waivers made available to those requirements through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the City of Toledo (COT) is making an amendment to the 2015-2020 Five-Year Consolidated Plan available to the public through this notice.
Public Comment Period and Process:
The Consolidated Plan amendment will be available for review beginning Friday, May 22, 2020, on the website of the following entities:
Department of Neighborhoods Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority One Government Center, 18th Floor 435 Nebraska Avenue Downtown Toledo, Jackson & Erie Streets Toledo, Ohio 43604 website: https://toledo.oh.gov/services/neighborhood-and-business-development/ website: www.lucasmha.org
Office of the Mayor Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board One Government Center, 22nd Floor 1946 N. 13th Street, Suite 437 Downtown Toledo, Jackson & Erie Streets Toledo, Ohio 43604 website: https://toledo.oh.gov/government/mayors-office/ website: www.endinghomelessnesstoledo.org
Clerk of Council Toledo-Lucas County Public Library One Government Center, 21st Floor 325 Michigan Street Downtown Toledo, Jackson & Erie Streets Toledo, Ohio 43604 website: https://toledo.oh.gov/government/city-council/ website: www.toledolibrary.org
The Fair Housing Center Lucas Co. Board of Developmental Disabilities 432 N. Superior Street 1154 Larc Lane Toledo, Ohio 43604 Toledo, Ohio 43614 website: www.toledofhc.org website: www.lucasdd.info
A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment to the 2015-2020 Five-Year Consolidated Plan is scheduled as follows:
Thursday, May 28, 2020, 5:30 p.m. by Virtual Hearing Virtual Link: https://toledo-oh-gov.zoom.us/j/99185317553
This Consolidated Plan amendment will also be available for a 5-day public review and comment period from May 25, 2020 to May 29, 2020. Citizens wishing to submit written comments during the public review and comment period may mail them, postmarked no later than May 29, 2020, to the following:
CITY OF TOLEDO DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE 2015-2020 FIVE-YEAR CONSOLIDATED PLAN ONE GOVERNMENT CENTER, SUITE 1800 TOLEDO, OHIO 43604
You may also email comments no later than May 29, 2020 to Monica Brown, Admin. Analyst IV, at [email protected].
Amendment:
This is an amendment to the 2015-2020 Five-Year Consolidated Plan for the COT to enable the COT to receive $4,453,360.00 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and $2,249,248.00 in Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made available through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
Additional CDBG and ESG funding made available to the COT by HUD through the CARES Act is unknown as this time but will be used for the same purpose of the initial allocations indicated above which is to prevent the spread of Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) and facilitate assistance to eligible agencies, households, and persons economically impacted by COVID-19. In addition, the COT may reprogram recaptured FY 2019-2020 CDBG funding and ESG funding as needed to respond to COVID-19.
Eligible CDBG activities include, but are not limited to, assisting low- and moderate-income households with rental and utility assistance for no more than three months, feeding/meal programs, business assistance to retain employees that are low- and moderate-income, micro-enterprise grants, community center up- grades, and support of other COVID-19 response services. Eligible ESG activities include street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid re- housing, Homeless Management Information System, and administration.
Further, eligible CDBG and ESG costs incurred as of March 1, 2020, and paid for with nonfederal funds may be repaid with CDBG and ESG funding, including those made under the CARES Act. These pre-award costs will meet all HUD requirements applicable to CDBG and ESG, including those under the CARES Act. Unless waived by HUD, CDBG pre-award costs for FY 2020-2021 will not exceed 25% of the grant and will be used for the CDBG-eligible activities as indicated above.
Public notices regarding future amendments to the Consolidated Plan will be printed in local newspapers and posted online on the COT’s website at www.toledo.oh.gov. Specific activities using ESG funding under the CARES Act will not require a 5-day public comment period but will be posted on the COT’s website.
Lastly, as part of this amendment, the COT has revised the Consolidated Plan’s Citizen Participation Plan to include the 5-day comment period as indicated above as well as to make other changes. The revised Citizen Participation Plan will be available for review on the COT’s website at: https://toledo.oh.gov/services/ neighborhood-and-business-development/fiscal-monitoring/reports-information.
Background on the Consolidated Plan:
The Consolidated Plan describes the housing and community development needs, as well as activities to address those needs, as defined and funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As required by HUD, the Consolidated Plan brings together, in one (1) consolidated submission, the planning and application aspects of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Programs. More information on the Consolidated Plan is available on the COT’s website at: https://toledo.oh.gov/services/neighborhood-and-business- development/fiscal-monitoring/reports-information.
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In 2010, at the age of 17, she LPGA Tour status for the first time in her became the youngest African American career when she tied for 43rd place in the to turn professional and win her debut final stage of the LPGA Tour Qualifying tournament. She won 5 events on the School in Daytona Beach. She also played SunCoast Mini Ladies Tour, and was the in the Symetra Tour, the Triple A level of her first African American in history to earn a sport, for five years. spot in the Junior Ryder Cup. She was also named one of Golf.com’s She actually began playing golf when she most “Beautiful Women in Golf.” was just 6-years old. She says that her dad Ginger, who continues to play golf today, would take her and her sister to practice says that the strongest part of her game is with him, and the interest began from there. her mental. Her younger sister, Robbi, who also excelled during her junior golf career PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED She went on to train at the IMG Academy but suffered an injury, has become her full- Ginger Howard, youngest black golfer to turn professional with other young top athletes in Bradenton, Florida. During her high school years, she time caddy. TARTA Extends COVID-19 Employee Policies Recognizing Essential Work Duties Submitted exposure; The Toledo Area Regional Transit Social distancing practices for Authority (TARTA) is extending employees and customers; and employee policies that recognize Sanitizing and disinfecting all work and support the essential duties of areas and vehicles. its workforce during the coronavirus “Continuation of these policies is pandemic. TARTA General Manager just one way to thank our employees’ Kimberly Dunham announced the outstanding and vital work during these extension of the following benefits and challenging times,” said Dunham. policies through May 29, 2020: “TARTA will continue to take all Front-line pay for employees at measures necessary to protect our services. With the gradual re-opening which TARTA is providing to customers high risk exposure to CovID-19 due to employees and customers, while doing of Ohio businesses, TARTA anticipates at-no cost if needed. extensive contact with the public and our part to reduce the spread of the ridership to increase as additional TARTA fixed-route bus service vehicles such as drivers, mechanics coronavirus.” essential trips to work will take place. continues to be on reduced schedule and bus cleaners; By first enacting these measures in The Authority reminds the community and running Monday through Saturday. Employee stipends to purchase March and April, TARTA was a state and to only utilize TARTA for essential trips For more details about service, visit personal protective equipment. TARTA national leader in swiftly implementing of work, medical appointments, and www.tarta.com or call the information also provides employees with hand policies to respond to the coronavirus. necessary shopping at the pharmacy line at 419-243-RIDE (7433) Monday- sanitizer, masks and gloves as they Currently, TARTA is transporting and grocery stores. All customers Saturday, 8:15am-6pm. are available; approximately 1,400 customers per are required to wear facial coverings, Modified work schedules to minimize day on its fixed-route and paratransit Toledo Zoo Continued from page 6. continuing to work out a daily routine but continue same time, Fajar was to bond and grow. Fajar trained to climb, crawl currently weighs just and take a bottle on a over 12 pounds, has stick through the mesh. 10 teeth and eats rice While these behaviors cereal mixed with fruits are quite advanced for and vegetables, while such a young orangutan, also starting to sample they were necessary to food from Leela. ensure proper care and “Fajar’s story is a true diet. Throughout the testament to the passion, process, much time was love and work ethic of spent simply allowing our animal care team, Leela and Fajar to bond. specifically the great When it was determined apes’ staff. They stepped that both orangutans in and cared for this new were ready, one on one baby just like parents. time was introduced. They worked around the On April 6, 2020, Leela clock, stuck to feeding and Fajar were officially schedule, changed re-introduced and when diapers and even wore the animal care team him in a baby sling while saw consistent healthy they worked to ensure bonding and proper proper strength and form care, the next step was for him to hold on just like to leave mom and baby in the wild. Successfully together overnight. Staff reuniting mom and baby continued to observe and was always the goal and when it was determined we could not be prouder they were doing well of our team and the together, human parental new orangutan family,” assistance was ceased. said Suzanne Husband, According to keepers, associate curator of Leela and Fajar are mammals. THE TOLEDO JOURNAL Page 16 • May 20, 2020 - June 2, 2020 • The Toledo Journal Black People Invented Memorial Day, But That Part Got Erased From History (Well, Almost!) book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory that years later African Americans were suddenly erased from the story by white Democrats after regaining control of state politics at the end of Reconstruction. Yes, that’s right. A day that originally celebrated Black liberation was now being utilized for white supremacy, and it apparently all started from an 1865 article that was published in the Charleston Daily Courier that tried to discredit the facts. After discovering that news article, many historians have agreed that after being freed, one of the first things this group of African Americans did was gather to pay tribute to those who died while fighting for freedom. Sadly, you usually don’t hear that part of the story. According to LiberationSchool.org, “the spirit of the first Decoration Day - the struggle for Black liberation and the fight against racism - has unfortunately been whitewashed from the modern Memorial Day.”
PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED U.S. Colored Troops from the Civil War. Memorial Day, formally known as Decoration Day, was originally started by a group of African Americans. Yes, The History Channel and many other cred- ible historians have confirmed that the popular holiday was, in fact, initially an event held by newly liberated Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina.
Submitted fought for their freedom. It happened on May 1, 1865 right after the Civil Also in attendance were thousands of Black women War ended, when thousands of newly freed slaves and children who reportedly sang hymns and carried and regiments of the U.S. Colored Troops gathered flowers, wreaths, and crosses. to march around a Confederate Army prison camp And then the holiday got whitewashed PHOTO CREDIT / SUBMITTED in honor of the unnamed fallen Union soldiers who Historian and author, David W. Blight, said in his Historian and author, David W. Blight
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