ONYX, Inc.

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NIA HEIGHTS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - ONYX, MILLER VALENTINE, CITY...

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NIA HEIGHTS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT - ONYX, MILLER VALENTINE, CITY OF TOLEDO DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD, STATE OF OHIO AND US FEDERAL GOV.

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Legal Notice to Bidders Miller-Valentine is requesting bids for the Nia Heights project in Toledo,...

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Legal Notice to Bidders

Miller-Valentine is requesting bids for the Nia Heights project in Toledo, Ohio, a 16-unit scattered site of single family homes. MBE’s registered with the City of Toledo are encouraged to participate. Construction is scheduled to commence in summer of 2010 and will finish within 12 months. This is a formal request for competitive bids for work and / or supply of materials for this project. Pricing is expected to be guaranteed for the length of the entire project. Please note this project is governed by Davis Bacon Residential prevailing wage rates.

The bid deadline is Monday July 12th at 11:00 a.m. In order to ensure an equitable comparison of all bids, proposals must be on the required bid forms and delivered to our office in a properly addressed, SEALED envelope or it will be disqualified! We will analyze all bids and consequently award contracts for this project. The owner reserves the right to reject any, part of any, or all of said proposals, and to waive formalities in the bids. Send bids to: Miller-Valentine, Attn: Estimating / Nia Heights Bid, 9349 WaterStone Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45249. Questions can be directed to Estimating at 513.774.8400.

Plans, bid forms, prevailing wage rates, specifications, may be purchased by contacting Toledo Blueprints, Jeff Anderson 419.661.9841, AMI Apex Micrographics, Inc. 5973 Telegrah Road, Laneta Goings 419-476-6535 or Key Blueprints (Cincinnati) 513.821.2111. Plans are available for viewing at the following locations: McGraw Hill Dodge Online Plan Room, Northwest Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Toledo Minority Contractors Business Assistance Program. If you have the capability to view or print yourself, contact Kathy at 513.588.1611 or via e-mail at kathy.mathis@mvg.com to obtain login directions for the website.

Miller-Valentine Group is an EEO/AA Employer.

Set of Blueprints at ONYX 525 Hamilton Street Suite 302B

Toledo, Ohio 43604

419-324-3619

Jimmy L. Gaines Sr. Executive Director / WilliAnn Moore Board President

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Article published April 03, 2010Spared razing, Libbey has rich historyBy TOM TROYBLADE POLITICS...

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Article published April 03, 2010
Spared razing, Libbey has rich history
By TOM TROY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

At one time, Libbey High School had so many students that the young scholars had to be scheduled in shifts.

That was 1959, and Libbey’s brick walls bulged with 2,382 students.

In recent years, though, some school officials have said the near-600 young people trickling in from the aging South Toledo neighborhoods near Libbey just don’t justify the cost of maintaining the sprawling structure.

The Toledo Board of Education voted 3-2 Thursday night to find money to keep the school open.

Built with an imposing five-story facade in 1923 at a cost of $1.5 million, Libbey became the third high school in Toledo, joining Scott and Waite.

It was named after one of Toledo’s greatest industrialists and benefactors, glass industry pioneer Edward Drummond Libbey, who died three years after it was built.

An online history maintained by the Libbey High School Alumni Association says the 35-acre site at 1250 Western Ave. was “exceptionally large.” Mr. Libbey contributed $35,000 to alter the course of Swan Creek and fill in land behind the school site.

In 1927, his widow, Florence Scott Libbey, gave another $50,000 to build the school a football stadium. A field house was added in 1955, followed by the skill center in 1976.

The opening of Bowsher High School in 1962 about two miles southwest took a big bite out of Libbey’s enrollment.

Libbey’s alumni filled the ranks of Toledo leadership - among them former Toledo City Councilman Betty Shultz, retired WTOL-TV, Channel 11 sportscaster Orris Tabner, retired Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Bowman, and sitting Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Charles Doneghy.

Thanks largely to the appeals of students and alumni, the school has survived while others have been closed as Toledo’s school enrollment has dwindled.

But Libbey’s likely fate was sealed in 2002 when voters approved a levy to help finance an $821 million school reconstruction program, with Libbey on the demolition list.

Not all of the almuni have been as eager to see the school preserved.

Jimmy Gaines, a retired city administrator, class of ‘67, said in 2002 that Libbey’s students needed a modern high school. “The place just doesn’t meet the needs of the students and teachers anymore,” he said.

Contact Tom Troy at:
tomtroy@theblade.com
or 419-724-6058.

Article published March 26, 2010 The Blade/Amy E. VoigtStudents...

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Article published March 26, 2010

The Blade/Amy E. Voigt
Students say, count us in

WilliAnn Moore, president of the Toledo NAACP, hugs Tayeana Willis, right, after Miss Willis sang ‘The Greatest Love of All.’ In addition to the performances, students presented their creative writing projects, which dealt with the U.S. census.

Happy students at the Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls in Toledo including Jiliyah Easter, center, react after a surprise performance by the Zion City Drum Corps. The school, in conjunction with the Toledo Unit of the NAACP, hosted a ‘2010 Census Extravaganza’ yesterday.

Article published March 16, 2010TPS concerns heard; parents,...

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Article published March 16, 2010
TPS concerns heard; parents, students speak against proposed cuts

Trina Willis advocates keeping Ella P. Stewart Academy girls-only. Her daughter Taeyana, foreground, is a fifth grader there.
( THE BLADE/LORI KING )

By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Toledo resident Donna Cassady said she feels like a blackmail victim when it comes to public school funding.

School leaders want her and other voters to approve an income tax increase to raise $18 million annually to save popular school programs, including sports.

Ms. Cassady, a nurse, whose son attends East Broadway Middle School, is tired of tax increases. But if sports and other programs go away, her son will suffer, she said, more students will leave the district, and property values could decrease even more.

“I feel like we’re being blackmailed,” she said. “Show me, as a mom of a good kid, an athletic kid, who performs well in school, why I shouldn’t take him out of TPS.”

She spoke during a public hearing last night on the $30 million budget deficit that the school system projects for next fiscal year.

About 75 parents, school employees, and students attended the meeting at Waite High School. Their comments were recorded for consideration by the Toledo Board of Education.

Board members must choose from a menu of programs and teaching positions eligible for trimming or elimination because they’re not required by state law.

The list - which includes laying off more than 300 teachers, closing Libbey High School, and scaling back bus service - has prompted broad protest from the community.

Before the hearing, a group of community leaders and parents held a news conference objecting to a proposal to merge Lincoln

Academy for Boys, an elementary school with 147 students, and Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls, which has 230 students.

The group said the proposal, which would save $344,000, would be devastating because the students have performed better without the distraction of members of the opposite sex.

For example, in 2002, the year before Stewart became all-girls, 15 percent of sixth graders there passed the state reading test. Last year, 96 percent passed.

“With boys, there are distractions,” student Taeyana Willis said during the news conference. “There are boys liking girls, and we don’t get anything done.”

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jjoyce@theblade.com
or 419-724-6134.

TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY HOUSING FUND INC.

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TOLEDO LUCAS COUNTY HOUSING FUND INC.

AUTHENTIC PACZKI SALE Your favorite flavors! The Old Library Building 3101 Lagrange Street in the...

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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

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Dorr Street Revitalization Meeting

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:24:00 -0500

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.

CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE STORY IN THE TRUTH!

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CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE STORY IN THE TRUTH!

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525 Hamilton Street – Suite 302B Toledo, OH 43604 Phone (419) 324-3619 Fax (419) 244-3955 Press...

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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...

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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...

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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

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:21:14 -0500

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.