AUTHENTIC

PACZKI SALE

Your favorite flavors!

The Old Library Building

3101 Lagrange Street

in the historic

Polish Village

Sunday Monday Fat Tuesday

February 14 February 15 February 16

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 5 a.m. to 4 p.m.

(or when sold out)

$6.00 per half dozen

Polish coffee cakes $10

FREE CORPORATE DELIVERIES FOR FIVE DOZEN OR MORE

FOR PRE-ORDERS OF THREE DOZEN OR MORE,

CALL: (419) 255-8406

FAX ORDERS TO: (419) 255-7042

WILL ACCEPT CASH OR CHECK ONLY LVC

Lagrange Village Council

Dorr Street Revitalization Meeting

MEETING REMINDER

WE ARE ASKING THAT EVERYONE RECEIVING THIS MASSAGE PLEASE REMIND YOUR NEIGHBORS TO ATTEND THIS MEETING.  THANK YOU.

                                               Dorr Street

                                             Revitalization

                             Who:  Anyone interested in the 

                                        completed comprehensive plan

                             When: Thursday,  February 11, 2010

                             Where:  Friendship Baptist Church

                                            5301 Nebraska, Toledo, OH

                             PRESENTERS:

                                            The  Collaborative & Poggemyer Design Group

                                             Time:  6:00 – 7:00 P.M.

                                    Light Refreshments Will Be Served

                Sponsored by the Community Development Corporations of:

                                         ONYX, NHS, TCDC & FNV,INC.

525 Hamilton Street – Suite 302B

Toledo, OH  43604

Phone (419) 324-3619

Fax (419) 244-3955

Press Release

Contact: Jimmy L. Gaines, Sr.

Phone: (419) 324-3619

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 29, 2010

Organized Neighbors Yielding Excellence Inc. (ONYX), Joins forces with the United States census at the 26^th aspiring minority youth conference

Toledo, OH, January 30, 2010 will be the first of many joint events with the United States Census stressing the importance of being counted in this extremely important census year.

·    The United States Census, Toledo Office, and ONYX will kick off their first major event at the 26^th Aspiring Minority Youth Conference, to be held on Saturday, January 30^th at the University of Toledo Student Union.

Each year this event attracts more than 1200 students, parents, community leaders and special guests. 

Mr. David Young, Director of Toledo’s Program of Excellence (EXCEL) will have as guest speaker, Ms. Malaak Compton-Rock, President/CEO of StyleWorks, which provides women with services designed to transition from welfare to work.

ONYX’s Executive Director, Jimmy L. Gaines, Sr. and Board of Directors President, WilliAnn Moore, worked with Bernard (Pete) Culp and Mrs. Margarita De Leon, Partnership Specialists, who felt this would be an excellent opportunity to get the message out to the community.

Each person will receive literature on the importance of filling out the 2010 census forms and job applicant information.  As an added bonus, we will hand out hats or tee-shirts to become walking advertisements stressing the importance of being counted.  “It’s in our hands”.

ONYX Mission Statement: To be a proactive resident-driven non-profit community development corporation designed to provide quality and affordable housing structures; to revitalize the commercial and industrial entities as well as forming partnerships with other stakeholders to provide resources and support for social, educational, and economic improvement.

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`                                       PADUA CENTER

BRIGHTEN UP! COMMUNITY ORGANIZING INITIATIVE

IN ASSOCIATION WITH       ONYX

56     ABANDONED HOUSES HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED FOR OWNERSHIP AND REPORTED TO THE CITY OF TOLEDO AND THE LUCAS COUNTY AUDITOR OFFICE

47     VACANT LOTS HAVE BEEN RESEARCHED FOR OWNERSHIP AND REPORTED TO THE CITY OF TOLEDO AND THE LUCAS COUNTY AUDITOR OFFICE

52     STREET LIGHTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO FIRST ENERGY - TOLEDO EDISON

50%            OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS BEEN CANVASSED DOOR TO DOOR FOR RESIDENT FEEDBACK AND INPUT

BRIGHTEN UP!  COMMUNITY ORGANIZING INITIATIVE

OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD A COMMUNITY THAT IS SAFE, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS AND BEAUTIFIED BY PEOPLE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT AND SELF-GROWTH

Padua Center * 1416 Nebraska Street* Toledo, OH  43607 * (419) 241-6465

ONYX * 525 Hamilton St. Suite 302B * Toledo, OH 43604 * (419) 324-3619

Minnie Sebree and her daughter, Claudia Sebree-Pressley.

Proposed central city food plant gets another state grant
By: Journal Staff
The Toledo Journal
Originally posted 10/13/2009 

Its planned opening is still years off, but a state lawmaker says it’s a sure thing.
”This is going to be real,” state Sen. Teresa Fedor said last week while participating in an announcement of another state grant to benefit the Aunt Minnie’s frozen food manufacturing company.
Announced by Sen. Fedor, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, the company’s owners and other officials was a state grant of $243,282 to complete phase two of an environmental assessment of nine acres at 215 City Park Ave. – Aunt Minnie’s future home.
Through the efforts of Sen. Fedor and Organized Neighbors Yielding eXcellence (ONYX), mother-daughter owners Minnie Sebree and Claudia Sebree-Pressley have gained the support of the Ohio Department of Development, which helped arrange a $200,000 line of credit with an out-of-town bank and a $100,000 operations grant for new manufacturing equipment.
Sen. Fedor said the track record so far shows the project to bring a manufacturing plant that pays living wages to the central city will succeed.
”We keep getting awarded,” she said. ”Every time we apply for something, we’re awarded. Every time someone … hears about this project, they’re supportive. They see the potential.
”We’ll keep having press conferences until we see people walking through that new plant,” the senator added.
The previous press conference at the location – a former industrial site suspected of having petroleum and coal contaminants in the soil – was held slightly more than a year earlier, when the Sebrees announced their intention to ”come home” to Toledo. Both women live in Toledo but its plant currently is located in Perrysburg.
Not only do the owners of Aunt Minnie’s Food Service – which sells blackberry and peach cobbler, sweet potato pie and cornbread stuffing in several states – intend to move into the central city, they intend to employ residents of the central city.
”I would categorize this area right here as an area that’s disadvantaged and that needs jobs,” Ms. Sebree-Pressley said last week.
Still, that is a ways off. Joel Mazur, an environmental specialist for the city, said phase two of the ground contamination study could take eight months. He estimated it would be June of 2010 before an application for a grant to actually remediate the soil will be made, and that a reply from the state might come three months later.
Mayor Finkbeiner interjected when Ms. Sebree-Pressley was asked if the process was excruciatingly slow.
”What isn’t these days?” the mayor said. ”There just isn’t the private [investment] money. Everything is going slow. The Marina District, we’ve been working on that for 10 years. Money is just tight.”
He praised the business owners, who got their start in 1992 by operating a Southern style restaurant named Sebree’s, for sticking to their plan to grow their business.
”They have been battling and … they never entertained the thought of surrendering or giving up,” Mayor Finkbeiner said. ”They are the best and the brightest.”
The state of Louisiana had tried to talk the women into relocating Aunt Minnie’s there.
”It’s a very nice place to be but home is where our heart is,” Ms. Sebree-Pressley said.
Aunt Minnie’s is the only frozen food manufacturer in the United States owned by an African American mother and daughter. It recently hired seven more people for its Perrysburg plant.
”And we’re going to continue hiring,” Ms. Sebree-Pressley said. ”And now we’re going to have a state-of-the-art plant.”
She thanked Sen. Fedor and WilliAnn Moore, the president of ONYX, for their efforts on Aunt Minnie’s behalf. Mrs. Moore, in turn, predicted great things for the company.
”This plant is going to hire hundreds of people,” she said.
……………..As currently envisioned, the manufacturing plant could be a $5 million investment. Both Aunt Minnie… and ONYX will seek out private investors to raise the necessary capital.
Meanwhile, Sen. Fedor said she regularly purchases the company’s products, including one dish in particular.
”I also recommend that you try the blackberry cobbler,” she told reporters. ”I’m totally hooked. My husband doesn’t get a bite of it because I eat the whole thing myself.”

Landlord Tenant Training on January 14th

 Landlord / Tenant Training and Organizational Meeting

Residents in subsidized housing and manufactured housing parks have special rights and protections under the law. Residents cannot be evicted without good cause and residents are protected from retaliation from the landlord.

Learn about these rights and others in overviews about subsidized housing law and manufactured housing law.

 Know Your Rights!

Use Your Rights!

Daytime meeting: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Evening meeting: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Corner of Huron and Jefferson Streets

Downtown Toledo

Center for Equal Justice

The training overviews will be followed by a meeting. Interested tenants and

homeowners will decide what we can do together to improve our communities.

Come to the meeting and voice your opinion.

Together, we can win back our communities!

Presented by Greater Toledo Housing Coalition and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc.