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Bowsher football scores late to win back-and-forth game over Waite
Bowsher quarterback Jordan Singer found Nah'Sohn Triplett in the corner of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown pass on a 4th-and-11 play with six seconds left to lift the Blue Racers to a 20-18 road victory at Waite on Thursday night. After a 2-point conversion run failed and Waite secured the short kickoff, Bowsher sacked Waite quarterback Carl Foards on the last play of the game to win a back-and-forth City League contest. Waite opened the scoring with a 29-yard TD pass from Shayne Curns to Daveyon Holman on a fourth-down play, but failed to run in the 2-point conversion. With 10 seconds left in the opening quarter, Waite's Damien Harrington turned in a highlight-reel one-handed interception.
Car show and dancing witches coming to The Sports Gardens Saturday
MONROE — On Saturday afternoon, patrons will find a charity car show and dancing witches at The Sports Gardens, 1879 N. Dixie Hwy. in Monroe. The Hot Summer Nights Car Cruise for Charity and Lake Erie Hexenbrut dance troupe are scheduled to make an appearance at the family entertainment center. ...
UT focuses on providing safe space for students impacted by situation in Lebanon
Members of Toledo’s Lebanese community are witnessing attacks on their homeland from across the globe, with University of Toledo students feeling the impact through social media posts and texts with family. On campus, providing a place where students can feel safe amid the international tensions is a priority. “It is our duty. I mean, that’s our duty as professors, as an educational institution, despite where the students are coming from, despite where their political views are, despite where they stand on issues,” said Gaby Semaan, University of Toledo director of Middle East studies and coordinator of Arabic program. “Our duty is to make them feel safe that they can express their feelings, their emotions, even if we don't agree with it.” Ty Musa, a 22-year-old political science and history major, said he’s having restless nights.
Free early literacy program looking for volunteers and to help more children learn to read
TOLEDO, Ohio — At the downtown Toledo Library, the Read for Literacy and Clair's Day programs offer free assistance to any person, young or older, looking to learn how to read. Read for Literacy Executive Director Diana Bush said there are about 40,000 adults in Northwest Ohio who read...
Banned books event on UT campus draws the curious
A steady influx of people roamed the first floor of the Carlson Library as the University of Toledo’s 27th Banned Book Vigil took place Thursday. Warren Woodberry, 87, was one of 14 speakers at the event organized in coordination with the American Library Association. “My book was banned,” Mr. Woodberry said. “My book was on the rights of women. I put it in my church and they banned it.” For We Are Strangers, his self-published book, dealt with discrimination toward women within different religious contexts, and he said that was why the assistant pastor of his church in New Orleans, banned it. Women being able to preach from the pulpit was controversial for his particular denomination of Christianity at the time. He declined to identify which denomination.
UT hosts first Constitution Day address
An exploration of religious freedom took place during the University of Toledo’s first Constitution Day Address. The lecture offered a visiting scholar’s perspective on the Founding Fathers’ understanding of religious liberty as an inalienable natural right. “Natural, in this context, means that the foundation of our rights lies in human nature — human nature we're endowed by the creator,” said Vincent Phillip Munoz, founding director of the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame. “Natural right to religious liberty is not granted by the government, it's part of the moral fabric of the created moral order in which rights and duties are reciprocal. Mr. Munoz’s Thursday address “Freedom from or for religion?” took place in the University of Toledo’s McQuade Law Auditorium.
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