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Toledo Top 64 Showcase offers range of opportunities for local high school basketball players
For 64 Toledo-area high school basketball players, the Toledo Top 64 Showcase at Scott High School on Sunday offered a chance to play in front of area college coaches and enhance their recruiting prospects. Organized by brothers Anthony and Shane Garcia, and in its third year running, the Toledo Top 64 Showcase brought in a large sample of coaches from Division II to junior college. The 64 players were divided into eight different teams, each of which played in three games throughout the day, giving the coaches in attendance ample opportunity to scout each player. “There were a couple dozen...
Washington Local Schools welcomes its 1st Boys & Girls Club
When Jim Ravas became president and chief executive officer for Boys & Girls Club of Toledo in 2020, one of the first things he knew he had to do was expand the nonprofit to Washington Local Schools, he said. “It was a priority because this is the second-largest school district in Lucas County,” he said. “To me, it intuitively made sense to say we have to be here.” He reached out to former Washington Local Schools Superintendent Kadee Anstadt, who had wanted a Boys & Girls Club location within the school system for years but never knew how it would be possible. “It’s not an easy thing,” Ms. Anstadt said. “There’s just a lot of moving parts to getting funding for a club. The thing that I, that none of us, put together is just how expensive it is to put together a club. There are wages to be paid, there’s space that has to be available, and we don’t have a lot of space here at Washington Local. … You have to [meet] need qualifications from a national standpoint.”
'Strong student enrollment is our top priority': UToledo names new VP of strategic enrollment as student numbers decline
TOLEDO, Ohio — The University of Toledo announced an addition to its enrollment staff Monday as the number of enrolled students continues to drop year-over-year. Tony Bourne, a strategic enrollment leader, will join UToledo as the vice president for strategic enrollment management on Oct. 28. The university has seen...
Toledo gets $1M grant to enhance school safety
The City of Toledo has received a $1 million grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to enhance school safety and expand student and family support at Waite, Woodward, and Scott high schools. This federal funding, from the FY24 Enhancing School Capacity to Address Youth Violence program, will be used to support recommendations outlined in the Peace in Motion comprehensive plan. The city’s five-year plan was announced in August and aims to address the root causes of gun violence. Initiatives include community and system-level coordinated responses, enhancing youth peer support, further integrating services for youth impacted by violence, and developing a sustainability plan. Officials said the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement will use the grant to expand its efforts to foster a safer environment for youth.
BGSU scheduled to host Graduate and Professional School Fair
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University invites you to a "once-in-a-school-year" chance to access both graduate school and career resources. The Graduate and Professional School Fair will take place at the BGSU Bowen-Thompson Student Union Ballroom on Monday, Sept. 30 from noon to 2 p.m. The fair...
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