Comments on: Crashing by design

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:57:09 +0000

Why not offer this property to Cherry Street Mission at a low price so that it can help to get homeless people off the streets? There is plenty of room in that building to provide shelter, especially during the winter for this need. Also, this building has equipment to prepare meals, give the homeless some activities during the day and to help cover the cost of providing these services the field house and stadium could be rented out for sporting events or activities. Maybe even some of the Libbey alumni would be willing to volunteer at the facility. From the pictures Bill Albert and Sue Terrill posted the inside of the building looks to be in good shape; anything that is in need of repair is the fault of TPS. TPS has wanted to close Libbey for years and now they have succeeded just like they closed the original Jones Junior High, which is still vacant and has been for years. Why the big push to hit Libbey with the wrecking ball TPS has been in no hurry to demolish other vacant schools?

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:38:55 +0000

There’s a $38 million deficit looming for the school system. What is the solution that will not add any more to the property taxpayers of the city? We have a time table to meet to get state dollars back to do the demolition work. So let’s go all you “save Libbey” peopl, give us solutions that won’t cost us more money. Otherwise, bring on the wrecking ball. If a building is needed to hold a neighborhood together and not the spirit of those that live in the neighborhood, then the neighborhood is already dead.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:56:50 +0000

Yet another example of the formula and union construction driven OSFC pushing hard for new schools no matter the community needs.

Hopefully the new governor will replace the disgraced director of the OSFC, and the agency will remake itself into one that truly is the servant of the citizens, not the arbitor of construction dollars.

By: warren woodberry

warren woodberry — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:08:27 +0000

There are so many others that make up the network of the “Saving Libbey Committee”, that adding their names could go on forever. The battle to save Libbey would have been still struggling along without the public reaction to but yet another destruction of the past while at the same time trying to cite the founding fathers on the value of history and teaching the value of history in schools. I was thankful that private citizens like Michael Miller, Editor of the Toledo Free Press, Michael Collins, Larrie Baccus, Bill Albert, June Boyd and many others allowed me to add my two cents to the efforts to stop a further destruction of a neighborhood by following the rules of destruction while at the same time having ignored the rules of construction for many years for the South End community.

By: thisjustin

thisjustin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:51:01 +0000

I wish them the best of luck!!! This is a different type of heroism.
Godspeed.

By: Virgilio Baker

Virgilio Baker — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:47:33 +0000

I am not a Libbey alumni I do not live in the south end of Toledo in fact I am a Scott High alumni and I live right behind Scott High. The reason that I am pointing that out is that the fight for Libbey High is a fight for Toledo. There is no price that anyone can put on a community or on the life of a community. We are in hard times, this is nothing new in the past it was said when times get tough the tough get going. The world has change it’s a more competitive world so we must also be more competitive and more creative. This is what TPS lacks because the game has change and they have not. Libbey High is named after a man that change the way glass was made and the world called Toledo The Glass City and now we have an opportunity not only to save Libbey High School but the change a community, to change a city and to make the world see that Libbey High and Toledo itself is worth fighting for.