Best of the Blade: Feb. 24 – March 2

Lt. Tom Bartley supervises 47 fire recruits doing push-ups on their first day of training in the TFRD Training Academy on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT

Best of the Blade: Feb. 24 – March 2

The Blade Staff

March 4, 2019

: Toledo’s Greg Wolfe (86) celebrates a goal during an ECHL hockey game between the Toledo Walleye and the Fort Wayne Komets at the Huntington Center in Toledo on Saturday, March 2, 2019. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS

: Toledoans for Safe Water activists, including organizer Markie Miller, left, reacts to the Lake Erie Bill of Rights passage during an election watch party at Michael’s Bar & Grill in Toledo, Ohio on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING

: Northview’s hockey team throws their sticks and gloves in the air after winning the district final championship 4-2 against St. John’s at the Tam-O-Shanter in Sylvania, Ohio on Friday March 1, 2019. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON

: Notre Dame Academy’s Jala Johnson (23) shoots against Start’s Sincere Nicholson (2) during a Division I girls basketball district semifinal game Thursday, February 28, 2019, in Toledo, Ohio. . THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH

: Central Catholic’s Jonzell Norrils (3), left, goes up for a layup attempt as Northview’s Sam Clear (4) defends during a Division I boys sectional high school basketball final between Sylvania Northview and Central Catholic hosted at Lake High School in Millbury, Ohio, Friday, March 1, 2019. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS

: Metroparks volunteer Jon Cunningham walks through Maumee’s Riverside Cemetery where headstones are toppled from the ice on Tuesday, February 26, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT

: Bowling Green’s Demajeo Wiggins (1) shoots the ball over Miami’s Bam Bowman (14) during a MAC men’s basketball game in Bowling Green, Ohio on Tuesday February 26, 2019. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON

: Lt. Tom Bartley supervises 47 fire recruits doing push-ups on their first day of training in the TFRD Training Academy on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT

: Rogers’ Central Cortney Gardner (24) fights for control of the ball with Catholic’s Maverick Delp (42), left, and Kate Ellis (20), right, during the D-II district championship girls basketball game at Springfield High School in Holland, Ohio on Saturday March 2, 2019. Rogers defeated Central Catholic 63-55. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON

: Nikolas Petruso, 2, of Toledo, sticks his arm through the gaps in the railing while touring the unfinished treehouse during the Instagram Meetup of the Cannaley Treehouse Village at Oak Openings Metropark in Swanton, Ohio on Saturday March 2, 2019. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON