Just in time for Christmas!
The Toledo Gem & Rockhound Club is featuring its Annual Fall Open House on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16, 2008.
The event is held at the Toledo Botanical Gardens, 5403 Elmer Drive in Toledo at the Conference Center from 10 am -5 pm both days.
It is free to the public [...]

Pumpkin Fest
Trick or Treat @ the Market
October 25, 2008 – 8 am until 2 pm
“A celebration of our local farmers’ contribution to this holiday event”
Event Activities
Children’s Trick or Treat on the Market: 10 a.m. until Noon
Small Pumpkin Giveaway: 10 a.m. until Noon
All children in costume will receive a small pumpkin
Pumpkin Pie Contest: 11:00
See [...]

Come join the Village Players Theatre as we continue our 52nd season with My Three Angels written by Sam and Bella Spewack.
The year is 1910. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family whose roof [...]

Come have a ball with us! It’s not too late to join!!!
We bowl every other Sunday at 3:30p at Miracle Lanes in Toledo, Ohio. Teams of 4 are invited to join at any time, and all ages are welcomed!! This is a clean and sober support league, so it is a non drinking league. [...]

Just like you called to order flowers for delivery, you can now call to order gifts for delivery! We are expanding our services and offering local gift delivery, as well as balloon and flower delivery.
Toledo and surrounding area’s have been benefitting from our services of catalog order and gift wrap and ship since 2005. [...]

Please join us Tuesday, October 28 from 6-8 pm at the Delta Public Library on 402 Main St in Delta or a short program and book signing event by Jay LeFevre, author of “Jennifer” – a book that tells the miracle of their daughter’s healing, recovery, and lifelong battle with the effects of TBI. It’s [...]

Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, will deliver the eighth annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture Sunday, Oct. 19, at 3 p.m. at the University of Toledo Law Center Auditorium on the Main Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The title of Zogby’s talk is “The Stakes Have [...]

Sandusky, OH October 15, 2008 The Red Cross mobile unit will be at the Ghostly Manor Thrill Center on Saturday, October 18 for a community blood drive. The mobile unit will be in the parking lot in front of the Ghostly Manor Haunted House, 3319 Milan Rd., to take donations [...]

(Toledo, OH) – Due to a recent serious injury, leading social critic Gore Vidal has canceled his scheduled appearance here tomorrow, October 16 as the featured speaker for the fall 2008 Authors! Authors! series presented by The Blade, and arranged by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.
For refunds, below are the following options for advance ticketholders:
Advance [...]

Irish storyteller, Mike Mazur, (with roots in County Mayo, Ireland and more recent ones in Cleveland, Ohio) will join the Toledo Frogtown Storytelling Guild in the worldwide storytelling event Tellabration 2008!, Saturday evening, November 8 at the Maumee Indoor Theater. This annual worldwide event celebrates the grand art of storytelling – sharing [...]

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Use
Media Contact:
Dave Plunkett, Manager
Paws and Whiskers Cat Shelter
419-536-1914, pawsandwhiskers1@aol.com
COOL CAT STRUT
Paws and Whiskers presents Annual Halloween Party Fundraiser
Toledo; October 11, 2008—Paws and Whiskers, Toledo’s non-profit all-cat shelter, hosts their annual Halloween Party Fundraiser on Friday, October 24, 7pm – 11:30pm at St. Clement’s Hall, 2990 Tremainsville, Toledo.
The Cool Cat Strut [...]

Mozart and More Series and Mercy Health Partners Lifestyle Series Special Event –
Bruckner at the Rosary Cathedral
Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 4:00pm
Rosary Cathedral, Toledo
Stefan Sanderling, conductor
Program includes:
Bruckner – Symphony No. 5
Majestic music in a sacred place. Stefan Sanderling leads the Toledo Symphony in Bruckner’s inspiring Fifth Symphony. Now a Toledo Symphony tradition, the [...]

Native American and five time music award winner, Bill Miller takes the stage at Owens Community College – Center for Fine and Performing Arts on November 20 at 8:00 pm. Mr. Miller has toured with Willie Nelson, Arlo Guthrie, Pearl Jam, Waylon Jennings and more.
Bill has crafted a sound that is uniquely American; equal parts [...]

22 of the brightest and talented acting children from NW Ohio and SE Michigan are preforming a favorite Aesop’s Fable, “Androcles and the Lion”
on the big stage at The Ohio Theatre. Their performance will be open to the general public on Friday night at 7 PM and again at 2 PM on Saturday afternoon. [...]

Toledo area artists are invited
to join us at the beautiful
Secor Studios
for drop-in
Life-Drawing sessions
Next session:
Sunday, November 2 1- 4PM
425 Jefferson Ave
Sixth Floor
Studio 650
$10 models fee
Bring your own supplies
Meter parking free on weekends
For more info contact:
Ivan : 419.345.8980
Todd: 419.508.1985
ikende@hotmail.com
yusuflateef@yahoo.com
New models welcome

Free community pain program at the University of Toledo Medical Center, Dana Center on Thurs., 10/16 from 6:15 – 8:30 PM. Speakers are: Drs. Amish Patel (back pain); Roland Skeel (cancer pain), Joe Atallah (advances in pain management beyond medications) and Gretchen Tietjen (migraine headaches.)
This program is free, however, [...]

The Greater Toledo Area Chapter of the American Red Cross will host the sixth annual OSCAR Night on Sunday February 22, 2009 from 6-10 p.m. at the Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts.
Guests at OSCAR Night will enjoy star-treatment from the moment a limousine takes them from the parking lot [...]

Toledo, OH – October 7, 2008. The Alliance for Paired Donation (APD) announces its First Anniversary Celebration to recognize the living kidney donors and recipients who have been connected through the efforts of APD. A dinner and silent auction will be held on October 18, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn at [...]

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library is pleased to welcome Brian Lies, author and illustrator of his new book, Bats at the Library, (Houghton Mifflin Co.) scheduled at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14 in the Children’s Library at Main, 325 Michigan St.
Lies, whose book is on the New York Times Bestseller’s list for Children’s Picture [...]

Contact: Kelly McGilvery, 419-254-2787 ext. 13, www.acgt.org
Arts Zone October Third Thursday Art Walk
Next Thursday, October 16, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, along with business and community members of the Warehouse District and Arts Zone, presents the “Arts Zone Third Thursday Art Walk,” featuring 8 galleries and more than 25 artist studios open to visitors [...]