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Legos build community at Glenwood Lutheran Church
Attendees sorted through a sea of bright plastic colors at the inaugural Glenwood Lutheran Church Lego creator’s event Saturday. “When I've been stressed, it's such a calming activity” to play with Legos, said Chris Hanley, the pastor of Glenwood Lutheran Church. Mr. Hanley organized the event along with Church Council vice president Eric Hartkopf. Because of the two men’s love of Legos and extensive collections, they invited anyone to explore the Legos at the church Saturday morning. “I'm just amazed the different ways folks are focused and using Legos in their own way,” Mr. Hanley said of the handful of people who came out for the event.
Review: 'Tosca' remains fresh on Toledo Opera stage
The Toledo Opera will open its 2024-2025 season with Tosca, an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, Friday. The opera debuted 124 years ago, but the old warhorse — the opera, not Floria Tosca — never seems to age. Maybe it’s because of the plot. Maybe it's because of Puccini’s drama-heavy score. Maybe it’s because companies like the TOA and directors such as Jeffrey Buchman, conductors like Geoffrey McDonald, singers like Brendan Boyle, Lindsey Anderson, Corey Crider, and other talented cast mates and chorus, keep the work one of the world’s most popular. Maybe it’s all of the above. At any rate, TOA’s production strikes all the right notes, keeping the production set in Napoleonic days, using the traditional sets, and imbuing the chief of police, Baron Scarpia, with the perfect amount of sleaze.
To the editor: UT’s decision on BGSU band puts HOF inductees in awkward spot
BOWLING GREEN — I was a proud member of the Bowling Green State University marching band for three years. From 2016 to 2018, I was a member of the trumpet section, performing halftime shows at football games at Doyt Perry Stadium and twice at the Glass Bowl. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Yes, there were sacrifices. The practices were long (10 hours a week) and rehearsal conditions sometimes intense (wind, rain, sleet, and snow). All music was memorized on our own time, and students regularly met before rehearsal to play through the music together. Many students also struggled to fit marching band into hectic schedules (classes, exams, jobs, internship applications). Submit a letter to the editor But every time I marched onto the field, I was thrilled to hear the crowd cheer and see all our hard work come together. I never felt more connected to my fellow musicians, my university, and the community at large.
Toledo Christian dominates Holgate in matchup of unbeaten 8-man football teams
Toledo Christian remained unbeaten in a convincing way on Friday night. The Eagles scored touchdowns on their first nine possessions, held a short-handed Holgate team to negative yardage in the first half, and cruised to a 62-0 victory in an 8-man football game at Bowsher’s Charles W. Matthews Stadium. “Preparation’s huge,” Toledo Christian coach Andrew Skeels said. “Holgate’s a team that over the summer, we’ll practice against them. They’re kind of our rivals in the last few years, so we are really prepared for them, just like them for us. “They were short-handed today, but they always prepare well. Defensively, I think we were able to hit the quarterback and it kind of hurt them not having their starter in there. But our defensive line, we kind of try to set the tone.”
Editorial: Approve TPS Issue 19
Romules Durant, the superintendent of Toledo Public Schools, has been building a template for the survival of public urban education. The template includes the Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering, Aviation and Natural Science Technology Academy, Toledo Early College, Pre-Med and Health Sciences Academy, and Jones Leadership Academy of Business. Read more Blade editorials Some of these programs pre-date Mr. Durant. Mr. Durant’s vision and genius has been to highlight and broaden these programs and make them examples of success.
Rock of ages: Expert on Ethiopia shares insights into rock-hewn structures
With a rich history of arts and architecture dating to before the Queen of Sheba, seeing Ethiopia's treasures safely outside of the African country is always a treat. Even Michael Gervers, a professor of history and an expert on Ethiopia working at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, has not trekked that country's mountains and deserts since 2020, when civil war erupted. “I am very happy about this exhibition in Toledo,” said Gervers, who will be delivering a lecture, Rock-Hewn Churches and Sacred Groves: Architecture as the Home of Religion and Art in Ethiopia, at the Toledo Museum of Art from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday. “It is very rare in North America. “It is like a banquet. It is a joy,” he said of the collection of 225 historical and contemporary items being exhibited as part of the Toledo Museum of Art's exhibit, Ethiopia at the Crossroads.
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