Press Releases


Aug 24

Cool Cat Strut Set for October 22nd

The Cool Cat Strut is an annual Halloween costume party/fundraiser for the PAWS and Whiskers cat shelter, sponsored mainly by Sylvania Veterinary Hospital, the City Paper and Krafting for Kitties.COOL CAT STRUT 2010Annual Halloween PartyFriday, ...

Posted By: Cindy Champer | Category: Community Interest



Aug 24

Musica Antigua de Toledo announces 2010-11 Concert Schedule

Musical Antigua de Toledo is proud to announce the schedule for our 2010-11 season, entitled "Heavenly and Earthly Delights"! In addition to our three-concert regular season schedule, we are having two additional, extra-special events. Regular ...

Posted By: Carol Goodman | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 22

Lakeside Celebrates 50th Annual Antique Show

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lakeside, Ohio – The 50th Annual Lakeside Antique Show will be held from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28. The show, located in South Auditorium, Wesley Lodge and Wo-Ho-Mis and on the lawns of these three buildings, ...

Posted By: Alexandrea Kontos | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 18

13th Annual Walk With Sunshine: Run, Walk & Roll

Join us for the 13th Annual Walk With Sunshine! Sign up for the new 5K Run on the certified course along Black Road. Or take a relaxing 3-mile stroll along the Wabash Cannonball Trail. Pre-registration fee is $15, children 12 & under are $10 ...

Posted By: Sunshine Development Team | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 18

Sunshine's Summer Jazz Series Finale: Celebrating 60 Years

Saturday, September 18 beginning at 7 PM Sunshine’s 60 Year Celebration Finale. Join us for the final Sunshine Summer Jazz Concert featuring The Toledo Jazz Orchestra Quintet with Nate Gurley and TJO Director Ron Kischuk at The Maumee Indoor ...

Posted By: Sunshine Development Team | Category: Events



Aug 18

Experience Life on Mars at Lourdes’ Appold Planetarium

This fall, audiences of all ages can experience life on Mars through the newest show at Lourdes’ Appold Planetarium. Mars forges through the science and the fiction, fast-forwarding to the space age and the dusty, cratered world discovered by ...

Posted By: Heather Hoffman | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 18

Scleroderma and PH support group

August 19, 2010 This Thursday at St. Luke's hospital in room 2 from 7:00pm to 9:00 pm we are having a support group meeting for those who have scleroderma and Pulmonary hypertension. We always meet the third Thursday of each month at St. Luke's ...

Posted By: Jerri Sue DeTray | Category: Health



Aug 17

Black Swamp Arts Festival Neraly Here

The 18th annual Black Swamp Arts Festival will feature a variety of visual artists from across the country, local and national musical acts, and an interactive youth art area – all free of charge. The Festival running from Friday, Sept. 10 at ...

Posted By: Michelle Grigore | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 17

It Takes a Community to Raise a Child ~ School Supply Drive

Keeping It Local NWO in collaboration with Coupons For Christ, are holding a school supply drive and coupon class at Latte'da in Genoa. Come for the FREE class OR just drop off a donation!! Help give a child the confidence in knowing he/she is ...

Posted By: Michelle Emahiser-Allen | Category: Community Interest



Aug 17

Lakeside Honors Men and Women of the United States Military

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lakeside, Ohio – To honor the men and women serving or that have served in all branches of the United States Military, the Lakeside Association has slated Saturday, Aug. 21 as Military Appreciation Day. Free admission ...

Posted By: Alexandrea Kontos | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 17

7th Annual Civil War Week at Lakeside, Ohio

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lakeside, Ohio – From Aug. 23-27, the Lakeside Association Education Department will present the 7th Annual Civil War Week with ten seminar talks Monday-Friday, a theatrical performance and a brass music concert that ...

Posted By: Gretchen Curtis | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 17

Fourth Thursday Art Walk, August 26, 2010, Toledo, Ohio

Come stroll the historic Warehouse District in downtown Toledo for another Fourth Thursday Art Walk on August 26th. Sur Saint Clair Gallery is proudly displaying the work of Philip Hazard with his neon and mixed media painting combined with ...

Posted By: Richard Rideout | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 17

45th German-American Festival Returns to Oak Shade Grove

45th German-American Festival Returns to Oak Shade Grove in Oregon Toledo, OH … August 17, 2010 – As the Toledo’s area’s oldest, largest and greatest ethnic festival, the German-American Festival (GAF) is always one of the ...

Posted By: Timothy Pecsenye | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 17

Live Stream: Toledo Public Schools Board Meeting

August 17 at 5:30, Toledo Public Schools Board will hold it's regularly scheduled board meeting. WGTE Public Media will stream the public meeting live on the Knowledge Stream Website (http://www.knowledgestream.org.) Citizens may attend the ...

Posted By: Knowledge Stream | Category: General News



Aug 16

Lend Us a Tenor-Lourdes College Chorus Welcomes New Members!

The Lourdes College Chorus, Karen T. Biscay, Director, is looking for a few more good tenors—and baritones, basses, altos, and yes, more sopranos, too—to make us bigger and better than ever before! Singers from the community are ...

Posted By: Karen Biscay | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 15

Art at your feeT - Street Painting Event Sept 11-12

Application Deadline - Aug. 28th - for Sept 11-12, ART AT YOUR FEET Street Painting Event! Soliciting artists for Blissfield's second annual Art at your feet street painting event. Artists and their chalk creations will be showcased Sept. 11-12, ...

Posted By: Carol Glauner | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 13

Laugh & Groove (A Party With A Purpose)

This special night will be hosted by Tiffany Pollard "New York" of Flava of Love and I Love New York & Comedienne Luenell. This is a RED CARPET AFFAIR. I would like to invite you to cover this event on September 17, 2010 at the Headliners in ...

Posted By: Vee Chisem | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 13

UTMC to Promote Health & Safety at Maumee Summer Fair

The University of Toledo Medical Center will host a booth at the Maumee Summer Fair Saturday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Participating departments include cardiology, trauma, child and adolescent psychiatric, rehabilitation, neurology and ...

Posted By: Felicia Guerrero | Category: Health



Aug 13

Artist Reception featuring Dan Newland, Aug 25th 5:30-7:30

Artist Reception @ Pam's Corner, 116 10th Street, Downtown Toledo Dan Newland is a resident of The Old West End, in Toledo. He holds a BFA in Digital Production from the University of Arizona. Dan has been drawing the human form since high school ...

Posted By: Deb Owens-Newland | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 13

Discussion Circles for Incest & Sexual Assault Survivors

Support and Sisterly Love for women incest, child sexual abuse, and rape survivors. Discussion Circles will assist survivors journey through their abuse experiences and explore how the culture of some ethnic groups might actually impede a ...

Posted By: CeCe Norwood | Category: Health



Aug 12

UT Physicians Cardiology to Promote Heart Disease Awareness

The University of Toledo Heart and Vascular Center will host a booth at the 2010 Ohio South of the Border Festival in Perrysburg Heights on Saturday, August 14 from 2 to 7pm. UT Cardiology staff and volunteers will offer free blood pressure ...

Posted By: Felicia Guerrero | Category: Health



Aug 12

Live Stream: John Kasich, Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate

Good Government Pre-Election Speaker Series Friday, August 13 - 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Featured Speaker: John Kasich, Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate This is your opportunity to engage with Ohio gubernatorial canddiate, John Kasich (R), to learn ...

Posted By: Knowledge Stream | Category: General News



Aug 12

Small Town Restaurant now selling Their Jams to the public

Beckeys Kountry Kitchen only minutes from Toledo in Blissfield Michigan has started selling their fresh in store made Jams and Jellies to the general public. They have been selling their fresh made fruit breads that way for years now, and now ...

Posted By: Randy Beckey | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 12

Mott Branch Library Community Garden

Giant sunflowers boldly peak over a wooden picket fence as some 20 children dance with honeybees and butterflies, step over fresh green kale ready for picking, and proudly hold giant squash and scented basil to the sky. “Be careful, those are ...

Posted By: Rhonda Sewell | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 12

Local Restaurant Supports Bittersweet Farms

On August 22, 2010 Caper’s Restaurant and Bar in South Toledo will host a parking lot party to benefit Bittersweet Farms in Whitehouse. Toledo, Ohio, August 5, 2010 – On August 22, 2010 Caper’s Restaurant and Bar will be hosting a ...

Posted By: Emily Meadows | Category: Community Interest



Aug 11

1005 Design To Hold Product Opinion Panel at Mancy’s

1005 Design is introducing a new decorative aluminum backsplash for use in the kitchen. We will be presenting six(6) designs and two(2) finish options. There will also be a drawing for a complete backsplash installation kit at the end of the ...

Posted By: Nicole Busenbark | Category: Events



Aug 11

5K Walk/Run for Kids' Sake

TOLEDO, OHIO - SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010 - Second 5K Walk/Run for Kids Sake Sponsored by Arby's Foundation to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio. Look for us at The Ottawa Park on Kenwood Blvd (open-air shelter). 2 for $20 You and ...

Posted By: | Category: Arts and Entertainment



Aug 11

Spanish Classes Register Now!

The Toledo Language Institute Fall Class schedule is here! We have a Spanish class for you! Registration is open now. Classes begin after Labor Day. Sessions run for 8 weeks. All classes (except for private tutoring sessions) held in the library of ...

Posted By: Violeta Padron | Category: Education



Aug 10

Hot August Night at the Mud Hens Supports Local Non-Profits

Event: Hot August Night fundraiser to benefit Northwest Ohio Community Shares, a federation of 23 northwest Ohio-based non-profit organizations. Date/Time: Wednesday, August 25, 6-8 p.m. Location: Fifth Third Field, downtown Toledo ...

Posted By: June Remley | Category: Events



Aug 10

TMA Seeks Entries for Winter Ball Film Festival

The Toledo Museum of Art is inviting artists to submit short videos to a film festival planned in conjunction with the Museum’s Winter Ball in December. The Winter Ball Film Festival will spotlight exciting and innovative winter-inspired ...

Posted By: Toledo Museum of Art | Category: Arts and Entertainment