Comments on: Alumni lead community petition to save Libbey

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:46:35 +0000

I am challenging every citizen for Big Positive Ideas. We are given this valuable property with both historical and future value and potential. This in not just about saving a school but making it a possible turnaround point in the city history and downward economic slide and defeated spirit. What if…Let’s not have regrets later for not trying our hardest. We are not at the end of the game yet. Let’s make up for those previous losses! Meeting Monday at the Canaan Community Outreach at 1333 Western Ave THIS Monday, January 3 at 6:30 pm.

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:29:21 +0000

No one is living in the past here. I know that expectations can rise or drop according to the environment that you are a part of. There is something to say for people who have been worn down for a long time and things slowing spiraling downward:especially when others who want to try, want some relief, give up and move on out. Those left may not see the power that they have to turn it around at any point. Various groups have met on their own throughout the years enjoying their social functions but there has has never been an official Libbey Alumni Association until November 2009. Yes, just over a year in existence! It is through this organization that the Libbey legacy will be entrusted. But I do not see this as an alumni issue…policies were in place that caused this decline of facilities and spirit. Yes, little support from anyone with vision. Living in the past? At what point do we learn from our mistakes and create the change that we need here. Most Libbey grads have memories of a proud heritage that goes far beyond successful sport teams.
Bottom line: Toledo has a valuable property on our hands and we treat it as if it were just another old building to demolish. A good faith effort must be accomplished by our city, county and state leaders. But each of us is capable of coming up with a possibility of something that might be the answer. In the spirit of this season there is the birth of hope and standing up for what is best for our community.

By: thisjustin

thisjustin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:28:29 +0000

TPS should provide those interested in “mothballing” the complex with a annual line item cost for doing so.

The threat of tearing down Libbey is not a “new threat” it has been known for quite sometime.

The alumni should have been on top of this a long time ago.

By: Bill Albert

Bill Albert — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:36:37 +0000

To save the Libbey campus is not to be living in the past. It is to improve the living conditions of the residents and students living in the present and those whose futures are to have a chance at better lives.

Only the largest social crater will exist. Those who can remember the Paramount Theater have had to view only a large surface parking lot in its place for the last 50 odd years. Which commenced the subsequent evacuation of the downtown. People then folded there arms and said,”What a shame. Oh! well that’s progress.” Libbey likewise will never be replaced.

Those willing to go along with the eradication. I doubt have ever had to endure the obstacles, the difficulties, now faced by the students merely trying to get to class and to strive to be good citizens.

I believe that the Trail will be overloaded even more so by those not wishing to get to and from the downtown by way of Broadway due to the high crime and unsettling views that will prevail.

There have been two Bowsher High Schools in 45 years. Yet the Libbey High Building,given the adequate renovation that the management purposely neglected over the same period will have twice the life expectancy of even the new Bowsher and Start High Schools.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:56:57 +0000

Get over living in the past. Tear it down!

By: Ty Coon

Ty Coon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:19:30 +0000

Yeah, turn it into some sort of Museum of Great Toledoans, since 1982…one tiny room will suffice !!