Now that the stock market has continued to rally from its March lows, many investors feel comfortable opening their statements and are happy to start heading back into a positive direction.  Most people are no longer in a panic state and aren’t paralyzed by what seemed like daily losses on Wall Street last year and in the beginning of this year.  Unfortunately, too often, we see people get comfortable at this point and put off updating their investment process because things seem to be fine.  The problem with getting comfortable and not updating the investment process is the next time things get tough, an investor may just move back into a panic state and make poor investment decisions that could hurt their long-term plan.  A great strategy to implement is to create an Investment Policy Statement to prevent emotions from getting involved in the future.
The Investment Policy Statement lays out the expectations of investments and details the process to reach various financial goals.  This can be a great exercise to go through, as it helps an investor clarify the plan and process. It also is a great tool to use now that the stock market has improved because you are more likely to use realistic expectations, versus what may have been created in a panic a few months ago.  Using this process will give you a guideline to follow  next time things aren’t working as planned.  Having the process detailed in writing can also make it easier to figure out what the actual problem is.
The Investment Policy Statement can be as unique as you are.  There is no one statement that fits all investors.  Start by figuring out what is important to you.  For example, safety could be a primary concern for a retiree.  Safety is important because retirees don’t want to run the risk of running out of money.  They are concerned about not running out of money so they can be in control of their future.  Complete this exercise with the three biggest financial concerns you have.  One could be retirement, another could be putting a child through college and a third could be planning for a second home.  Whatever your three goals are, write them down and ask yourself what is important about each of those goals. Expand on your answers at least three times as we did in our example.
The next step is to write down what has been done so far to reach those goals.  Write down the amount of money allocated toward each goal.  An investor should look at what is the current method or process used to try and fix a current concern or the steps to take to reach a goal.  Think about what tools you have used to solve these problems in the past.  Are those tools the most effective ones?  Typically, we would write down how much time you are spending, what has been the focus and how much money it takes to solve these problems.
Now take a look at where improvements could be made.  For one, take a look at how much risk there is.  Write down the maximum amount of risk you are willing to take in both percentage terms and in dollar figures.  Oftentimes, we find investors are taking too much risk and that could have a drastic negative impact on their plan if the stock market went down in the near future.  So, look for ways to reach the goals, while at the same time lowering the risk level.  This can be improved usually by proper diversification, asset allocation, using other investment products or taking a different approach.  The other areas that seem to hold a lot of investors back is the fees and expenses that eat into the total return of an account.  Look at both the disclosed and undisclosed fees and expenses in each of the investment accounts.  Decide what fees can be eliminated that are not adding value to the approach and look at reducing the cost of the plan.  Making these improvements could go a long way to helping create your perfect Investment Policy Statement.
Education is an ongoing process.  It is good to know what is going on financially, but it is more important how you use that knowledge.  If you are frustrated about any of your current financial management processes, then an Investment Policy Statement may be just what you need.  If you would like a copy of the complete discovery form we use, simply go over to our Web site at www.RetirementGuysRadio.com and download a copy of the Investors Repair Kit.

For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Sunday at 11 a.m. on 1370 WSPD or visit www.retirementguysradio.com.  Securities are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA / SIPC.  The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537.

At the ripe age of 13, I fell in love with math.  It was my eighth grade algebra teacher, Mr. Murphy, who opened my mind to the joy and simplicity of mathematics.  My vivid memories include the sarcastic sign on the wall reading “Ignorance is Bliss” and the other students asking, “When are we actually going to use this stuff in real life?”
Unlike many of the other students in the class, I could see very real applications for algebra in daily life, so I took a particular interest in the subject.  What I did not know at the time was that algebra has more applications than one textbook could possibly contain.
Algebra, and mathematics as a whole, when properly understood, can dissolve stress, vanquish fear and remove doubt.  To understand how this could be possible, take a look at the root causes of stress, fear and doubt.
When we do not know what to do, we feel stress.  When we face too many unknowns, we feel fear. When we are uncertain about particular outcomes, we feel doubt.  Feelings such as stress, fear and doubt prevent us from being able to reach our business goals.
The next time you encounter a problem, try looking at it as if it were a math problem.  The mathematical definition of a problem is, after all, a question that needs a solution; it fits.
Start by understanding what the word “is” means in mathematical terms.  If you were to say aloud, “3 + 3 = 6,” you could simply say, “Three plus three is six.”  Therefore, the word “is” represents an equal sign and an equal sign means that the expressions on either side of the equal sign are “balanced;” they are equal or the same.
Life has variables, but life also has things that are known.
Let’s say you work with a guy named Bill and you believe that Bill is not a good employee.  This situation can be expressed as a math problem: Bill ? a good employee.  To bring the “Bill equation” into balance, we need to change the left side of the equation.  Therefore, Bill + X= A good employee. Now, we know where to start in order to find a solution.  We need to figure out what “X” is, then we need to add “X” to Bill.
Perhaps “X” is an incentive.  If that is true, then “Bill” + “an incentive” = “A Good Employee.”  Now, you have something you can test.  If, after adding the incentive, Bill still is not a good employee, then your hypothesis is false, and you can test another variable.  Repeat the process until you find the real issue.
The key is in knowing where to start.  Start by figuring out what you know.  Then place the desired result (your goal) on the other side of the equal sign.  After you figure out your starting point and your goal, you can solve the problem.
Knowing where to start dissolves stress, for stress only arises when you don’t know what to do.  Knowing exactly which variables you are working to identify vanquishes fear, for fear only arises when you have too many unknowns.
Fall in love with mathematics all over again, use it every day, and you’ll realize that it is not ignorance, but knowledge, that is bliss.  Rather, life minus ignorance equals bliss.
For brain teasing examples of how to apply this concept, go to www.boltfromtheblue.com and enter ALGEBRA in the Blue Print Box.

Tom Richard is a Toledo-based sales trainer, gives seminars, runs sales meetings and provides coaching for salespeople. For more information, visit www.boltfromtheblue.com, call (419) 441-1005 or e-mail him at tom@tomrichard.com.

Since their inception in 2008, Rocket Ventures and Launch, programs of the Regional Growth Partnership (RGP), have prioritized the need to communicate their services to entrepreneurs and technology-based startup companies across Northwest Ohio. Through proactive outreach efforts, both Rocket Ventures and Launch have reached more than 6,000 people. This year alone, these programs have reported more than 300 inquiries among potential clients.
Yet, we also understand that this ongoing awareness campaign for Rocket Ventures and Launch is still relatively new and there are many people still unaware of our $22.5 million venture capital fund and the services it provides.
As evidence, in the Nov. 1 issue of Toledo Free Press, a print advertisement criticizing economic development efforts in Toledo claimed that local agencies cannot directly help small businesses because such assistance is tied to bank financing, and there are currently no loans being offered. The advertisement also named the RGP as one of a handful of taxpayer-funded entities which have produced no results.
As part of the RGP’s continuing education and awareness campaign, I will clarify a couple points in order to provide a better understanding of our organization.
First, the RGP is a privately funded entity, which does not receive local taxpayer dollars. In 2005, the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce spearheaded a funding campaign to privatize the RGP which cut us free from local tax money and strengthened our standing with national site consultants.
Secondly, Rocket Ventures does invest in early-stage companies that have strong potential in the northwest Ohio marketplace, primarily in bioscience, alternative energy and advanced manufacturing. So far, the program has awarded 26 development grants exceeding $1.24 million to early-stage companies. In addition, Rocket Ventures has made nine pre-seed investments of more than $3.6 million.
These grants and investments, along with the support of Launch, have helped in the commercialization of 60 new startup companies in northwest Ohio since the start of 2008. Our goal through Rocket Ventures is to commercialize 100 new startups by the end of 2010.
Moving forward, we will continue in our efforts to promote the many opportunities for technology entrepreneurs through our Rocket Ventures and Launch programs. We understand that a successful awareness campaign will ultimately generate greater deal flow, which means the commercialization of great technology into our marketplace. The end result will be a diverse and growing economy, greater investment in the region, and new high-paying jobs.
I encourage anyone who is interested in learning more about the Regional Growth Partnership as well as our Rocket Ventures and Launch technology program to contact me at (419) 252-2700 Ext. 307, or at weathers@rgp.org.

Steve Weathers is president and CEO of the Regional Growth Partnership.

The solar installation at UT’s Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation will become the largest solar field in Ohio upon its completion by the end of this year, according to industry sources.
“UT will have the largest solar field in Ohio and it was built cheaper, faster and quicker thanks to ADG and First Solar,” said Norm Johnston, chairman of Ohio Advanced Energy (OAE), a business trade association promoting advanced and renewable technology industries in the state.
Advanced Distributed Generation (ADG) is installing the 1.1 megawatt solar field that could provide 5 percent of the electric power used by UT, according to Johnston.
About 30 workers are involved in the installation of the 75-watt photovoltaic panels produced by First Solar of Perrysburg, according to John Witte, president of ADG.
“I believe the Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation will play a significant role in moving the world away from its dependence on fossil fuels, as well as serve as an extremely valuable resource for our students,” said UT President Dr. Lloyd Jacobs in a statement.
“The campus will become a laboratory for students and researchers to develop, test and advance alternative energy technologies,” he said.
Johnston reported that 99 percent of components for the UT solar installation were made in Ohio. Only the solar inverters were not produced in the state, but will soon be made in Northwest Ohio, he said.
Nextronex Energy Systems will begin producing solar inverters that convert the DC current from a solar array to AC current for electric utility grids, according Norm Rapino, president and CEO of the company.
“We’re entering our production phase for the solar inverters and should be ready to announce major investments in our company next week,” Rapino said.
ADG is a licensed general contracting company, based in the alternative energy incubator at UT, specializing in the design and installation of photovoltaic systems for commercial, institutional and residential customers.
The company’s experience includes more than $9 million in commercial construction projects and $4 million in photovoltaic installations.  The installed capacity of ADG projects is approximately 500 kilowatts of grid-connected photovoltaic systems, Witte said.
ADG is the leading photovoltaic system integrator in the Midwest, according to Witte who founded the business with his partner Mark Tuttle. They have 35 years of combined experience in the renewable energy industry.
Mosser Construction of Toledo is the general contractor for the UT project with other local suppliers, including Design Engineers & Consulting Associates of Maumee, Laibe Electric/Technology Company of Toledo and Toledo Fence & Supply Company.
The UT installation would replace the current largest solar field in the state located at the 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard Base adjacent to Toledo Express Airport.  That project was built with 93 percent of the materials and labor from Ohio, according to Witte whose company also installed that solar field.
“That project will help to lower the base’s electric costs and make it more energy independent,” Johnston said. “The one megawatt solar field even generates electricity on the shortest and darkest day of the year, while melting snow off the photovoltaic modules.”
Funding for the $5 million solar project at the National Guard Base was secured by U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur through her work on the Defense Appropriations Committee.  She also got $1.4 million to fund a smaller solar field at Camp Perry in Port Clinton.
“We would not have been afforded this opportunity without the support of Marcy Kaptur. That’s why we call it Marcy’s Megawatt,” he said.
“There’s a tremendous demand for solar that’s building and Northwest Ohio is uniquely positioned to fill that demand,” Kaptur said in a statement. “The pieces are all here.”
The OAE has developed a proposed plan for an Ohio solar cluster. Johnston said that Northwest Ohio has all the resources to be the center of solar energy in the state.
“Everything is in place and ready to go. All we need is someone in Columbus to help fund it,” said Johnston, president of Solar Fields LLC in Perrysburg.
Johnston has more than 25 years of experience working in the local glass and insulation businesses with Owens-Corning and former Libbey-Owens-Ford, now Pilkington Glass, and as a business entrepreneur in automotive manufacturing.

Toledo Mayor-elect Mike Bell named a three-person Transition Advisory Group Nov. 12 to “advise him in structuring an orderly transition into the Mayor’s Office and recommend a process to select choices for leadership and staff positions in his new administration,” according to a news release.
The team is Don Harbaugh, president of Toledo Molding & Die, Inc. and member of the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees; Joyce Chappel, former director of human resources for the City of Toledo and former director of the Ohio Department of Aging; and Joe Walter, director of the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency and former director of safety for the City of Toledo. The news release said, “the advisory group will work with Bell to assemble a larger transition team which will interview and assess existing City directors and commissioners and identify candidates for the Mayor’s chief of staff, business advocate, and other 22nd Floor positions.”
Jerry Jakes, the originator of the “Lake Erie West” concept for marketing our region, wrote in this week with an interesting idea regarding transition and economic development.
“There is too much to do for any one individual,” Jakes wrote. “So, why not let ‘Captain’ Mike Bell handle the day-to-day running of the ship, and appoint ‘First Mate’ Keith Wilkowski to handle economic development on a full time basis?”
The two recent rivals have a long history and certainly know enough about each other to know where the boundaries lie.
Jakes continues, “Consider the following: There has been little, if any, economic development undertaken by Toledo for many years. Meanwhile, the world has transformed into a global economic mode, based on regional economies (Asia’s “cities” represent regions). Toledo as a city has much baggage associated with its name, and in Europe, confusion with Toledo, Spain. Therefore, we need a new regional image to present to the world.
“Our region, with Toledo at its center, would do well to emulate Dubai, which sells itself as a region. We have an ‘inside man’ in former UT president Dan Johnson, who would be happy to feed Bell and Wilkowski much pertinent data.”
As Jakes points out, “Consider our sustainable competitive advantages: Geography with an abundance of fresh water, at the crossroads of the North American continent, within one day’s drive of more than 50 percent of the population of the USA and Canada. We are an ideal intermodal site, and in terms of biotechnology and medical potential, Ann Arbor, Wayne State and the University of Toledo are positioned to compete effectively with any and all similar complexes. In green energy, our advantages are too numerous to list.”
There would be a lot of detail work to such an arrangement, of course, and a lot of conversation about philosophy and cooperation. But Bell has at least twice reached out to Wilkowski in his public comments, and such an invitation would be a serious gesture to unity and quick action.
I do not know if Jakes’ idea would hold water, but it’s a great conversation starter and could lead to some productive development scenarios, and Bell’s team should be open to any and all options.

Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

For the members of the SOS Brigade, creativity is not only encouraged, it’s required. The Collective, which is comprised of both students and faculty from Bowling Green State University, just got its start at the beginning of the semester and already has wasted no time in spreading its energy to arts communities across our region.
While the majority of group members had known each other in the past, it was in professor Manuel Yang’s Modern Japanese History class that things really got started.
“I think what we’re doing allows members to explore and enhance their creativity outside of the classroom, which is important particularly here in the Midwest because there such a sense of authenticity that you might not find in other parts of country, a real sense of suffering,” Yang said.
This semester marks Yang’s first at BGSU. The widely published Toledo based poet and translator has also taught as an adjunct instructor at Lourdes College and Monroe County Community College.
Current SOS Brigade projects include a weekly open mic, an acting workshop, a video interview series, a monthly online arts publication with novel serializations, a manga anime workshop, and a steampunk translation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. SOS actives are videotaped by Yang and posted on Youtube at a rate of around 90 ten-second videos a week. Yang would also like to see the group write a full-length film script about people’s character based on video observations. While group members met at BGSU, their activities are not affiliated with the university.
“For me personally, it’s a way to express our creativity. It’s a very alternative initiative used to get people together and to get them thinking artistically,” said SOS President Oscar Connell.
Group members want to see SOS become a springboard to spread creative energy anywhere and everywhere they can. There is currently a branch of the Brigade being put together on the Lima campus of Ohio State University.
“Some of us are really getting to know each other for the first time through this group. It’s like you’ll run into someone and just mention the group offhand and find out their involved as well,” said SOS member Catherine Kennedy.
The SOS Brigade has no real rules or membership requirements except the desire to express one’s self through the arts. Those interested in getting involved or simply finding out more about the group can join their online mailing list by e-mailing at bgsusos@gmail.com.

What does a travel scribe do when he turns 70?
He thanks his lucky genes … and his long-suffering wife … for getting him here.  He looks forward to a few more trips that he can scribble about. And then he peers back 50 years to the day when a genial German came to dinner at his North London home … and changed his life forever!
The guest was Wolfgang Raether, a cousin of my mother’s. He also happened to be the sales manager of Porsche, in town to attend the annual Earls Court Motor Show where the latest company cars were being displayed.
Porsche in those days was nine-years-old with a workforce of 1,300 that turned out just 30 cars a day. But due to some highly original styling, rear engine configuration, meticulous hand fabrication and a very successful racing program, it had quickly amassed a passionate following — especially among the U.S. sports car set.
On the day that my “Onkel” Wolfgang showed up in London, I was a year out of boarding school and working a seemingly dead-end desk job processing orders for an oil company.

Roger Holliday, 50 years ago.

So when, after a substantial dinner, our guest suddenly said that he might be able to use a British chap like me in his Tourist Delivery Department, I jumped at the opportunity.
Tourist deliveries, he explained, allowed Porsche’s overseas customers — Americans and Brits mostly — to pick up new cars at the Stuttgart factory, use them on a driving vacation and then ship them home as “used vehicles,” with significant savings.
Letters were exchanged. A job  was offered. And three months later — February 1960, actually— I packed the pannier of my 125cc Lambretta motor scooter with some precious possessions, kitted up in my warmest duffle coat and woolen scarf, strapped on crash helmet and goggles and followed my parents’ car to the edge of town.
A quick tearful goodbye and I was off, headed for Southern Germany and a new life, some 600 tortuous miles away.
Even through the foggy prism of five decades, a few highlights of that “scoot to Stuttgart” still remain. I remember, how crisp and cool it was as I rode south through the countryside. Sheep grazed in green fields. Birds twittered in the hedgerows. And villages with age-old church spires punctuated a bucolic landscape.
I also clearly remember wondering what I was doing leaving friends, family and the comforts of home for life in a strange new land, and then fighting a strong desire to turn the bike around!
I  recall pushing my little scooter into the bowels of a Silver City Airways freight carrier, looking down on whitecaps as we crossed the English Channel and slip-sliding on notoriously slick Belgian cobble stones to my first overnight at a Brussels youth hostel, where I slept fitfully with my passport under the pillow. I remember, too, incessant rain on the German autobahn, being blown sideways and drenched with spray by every passing 18-wheeler and riding, maxed out at 50 mph, throttle wound tight, while peering through a tiny hole in the rain-spattered windscreen.
And how absolutely lost and alone I felt.
Everything turned out well in the end, of course. But there was still one more small sting in the tale to come. Due to a customs snafu, a trunk containing my “dress-up” clothes hadn’t arrived from London and I had nothing even remotely appropriate to wear for that all-important first day on the job.
Unfortunately, the bright green suit, the brown silk shirt and the pointy shoes that my obliging landlord managed to dig up were not exactly what sales manager Raether had in mind for the meeting and greeting of his important Porsche customers, and I was summarily sent back to my dreary room to await the trunk’s arrival. Not exactly the way I had planned to start my new and glamorous career at the House of Porsche!

Justin Moore was in Nashville Wednesday for the Country Music Association Awards.
“It’ll be my first time to go to the show. I’m very, very excited,” he said. “As a kid, I grew up watching this thing every year, and now to be called a peer of these guys is just unbelievable.”
The 25-year-old’s self-titled debut came out in August, and he’s been on the charts with the hits “Small Town USA” and “Backwoods.”

Justin Moore

“Fans, radio and everybody in the industry want to know who folks are as artists, singers and songwriters,” Moore said during a phone interview. “I think it’s important for fans, too, before they pay 15 bucks for a ticket to the show or who own the album to know who you are as a person as well; I think that matters to them, and I think we did a pretty good job on the album as well, putting songs on there where people get to know me, good, bad or ugly.
“ ‘Small Town USA’ is a prime example of that, and I think ‘Backwoods’ just drives that point home even more.”
Moore grew up in Poyen, Ark., population about 300.
“I moved to Nashville seven years ago, and I believe ‘Small Town USA’ was the second song I wrote when I moved,” he recalled. “When the label wanted to put it out as a single, I thought I don’t know if enough different types of people are going to be able to relate to this song; I thought the only people who would relate to it would be people who grew up in a town as tiny as mine.
“Thank goodness I was wrong. It’s been a huge record for us. It’s just unreal to me to say we have a No. 1 record. That record’s changed my year, my career and it’s changed my life.”
Moore will headline a Nov. 20 show at Erie Street Theater, 237 S. Erie St. Tickets are $18 and $15 for the 8 p.m. concert. Rodney Parker and Liberty Beach will open.
The singer-songwriter’s breakthrough came in 2008 with the wisecracking “Back That Thing Up.” Thanks to a contest sponsored by the Valory Music Co., fans voted to include the single on the disc.
“[The contest] came from me going into the label going, ‘This has got to make the record,’ and three days later going, ‘That’s going to make the record,’ bringing in song after song, and they went, ‘Dude, we’re not putting a box set out for your first album.’ So they came up with this promotion, and what we did was put up two songs each week for the last 10 weeks last year, and had the fans vote on what they like best,” Moore said. “And I thought, what’s cooler than allowing the fans to have a hand in making a record, you know, they’re the ones out there spending their hard-earned money on it, may as well give them what they want, and I think they did a great job. I’m very, very proud of it.”

Frank Vignola reminisced about the first time he heard guitar great Django Reinhardt.
“It was ‘Limehouse Blues,’ the classic jazz composition, and I remember I was 6 years old,” Vignola said. “When my dad got me the record, I couldn’t take it off the record player; I was just very intrigued by that sound.

Vignola

“We usually play it every show even to this day; 37 years later, it’s still one of my favorite songs.”
The guitarist is paying tribute to the man who popularized Gypsy jazz with a new disc due out in January.
“[The disc] celebrates 100 years of Django Reinhardt,” Vignola said during a call from his New York City home. “He was a very prolific composer for his 20 years in the music business. He wrote close to 100 beautiful compositions, so I decided to honor him as a composer as well as a guitar player.”
The Frank Vignola Band will play an 8 p.m. show Nov. 19 at the Ark in Ann Arbor. Tickets are $20. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The Hot Club of Detroit will open.
“We usually do a couple of the more rare Django tunes like ‘Rhytm Futur.’ Of course, we play ‘Nuages,’ ” Vignola said.
The guitar man covers anything from Mozart to The Police.
“What I like to perform are great melodies, and I think Mozart, Bach, some of the operas, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gershwin, and Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, even Black Sabbath has a couple nice melodies, believe it or not, so we try to pick different kinds of material,” Vignola said. “It’s important, especially playing instrumental music, to play some songs people know; to me, that’s half the battle of getting people to appreciate music, play something they know, that they can sing along with as opposed to just playing for yourself.”
Vignola learned from the best. He played for five years with guitar pioneer Les Paul in the Big Apple.
“Every week I would see [Paul] make hundreds of people so comfortable in the audience; it was almost like they were in his living room. That’s so important, especially in jazz, to relate to the audience,” Vignola said.

Glass City Opry presents NewFound Road Nov.16 at the Maumee Indoor Theatre.
“It’s a new band and new show, for the better. Our show is the best it has ever been. It appeals to a broader audience,” Tim Shelton, lead singer and guitarist for NewFound Road said.
Shelton is a founding member of the band from Franklin. He said the group formed seven years ago because of the members need to play and urge to share their music.
Since its founding the band has gone through changes as members have left to pursue other interests. Today the band is made up of members Jamey Booher (bass), Joe Booher (mandolin), Josh Miller (banjo) and Shelton.
“Our music is kind of a mixture from contemporary bluegrass to acoustic country to popular county and rock. We need to grow and change otherwise the music gets stale,” Shelton said.
NewFound Road’s most recent record, “Same Old Place,” was released in April. The record is the band’s second with Rounder Records and fifth record overall.
“This record is more contemporary then our past albums. We put more time, effort and money into it. It’s by far our best one,” Shelton said. “Stylistically we’ve come a long way from the first record.”
The band just finished shooting a music video for the title cut, “Same Old Place,” that will start running on CMT in the next month.
Shelton said when compiling songs the band writes their own pieces but also use songs from writers they love and respect. In addition NewFound Road sometimes takes classics and plays them in their own style.
“I like to do songs the way I want to do them and want to hear them,” Shelton said.
NewFound Road will begin work on a new album in August of next year. In addition the band will be spending part of January collaborating with another artist said Shelton.
NewFound Road last played at the Glass City Opry in March 2008.
“We’re thrilled to have NewFound Road back. They were the largest show that we’ve had since we’ve been doing this,” Sherri Chekal co-owner of Glass City Music said. “They’re also an Ohio native band. I’m excited to showcase what Ohio has to offer the bluegrass scene.”
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Faces Made for Radio will open the performance.
The show is $15 and children under 15 are free. Tickets may be purchased online at www.glasscityopry.com or at the Maumee Theatre.
Glass City Opry began in 2007 with its first show Aug. 13, 2007. Chekal and Jeff Birdwell, both members of bluegrass band Deep Water and owners of Glass City Music, decided to start the Opry in order to hold a consistent bluegrass shows in Toledo.
For more information about NewFound Road, visit the Web site www.newfoundroad.com.