Best of the Blade: March 10-16
L to r Dustin Wilson, 19, of Fayette, and Blaise Vallejo, 35, of Fayette. People concerned about future usage of the nine-county Michindoh Aquifer attend the Tuesday night public information session hosted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The public information session is about Artesian of Pioneer’s plans to drill a production well near the Fulton County village of Fayette, Ohio. THE BLADE/TOM HENRY Aquifer13
Kathryn Hopkins, of Toledo, waits to hand in her application for employment at The Courtyard by Marriott during a busy OhioMeansJobs Lucas County job fair in Toledo on Friday, March 15, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT CTY automation15
Bowling Green fans celebrate as the Falcons beat Ball State 99-86 in a quarterfinal game in the Mid American Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Cleveland. THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY MACtournament15
Vanessa Ngea (cq), left, celebrates with her cousin Sonita Tem (cq) after finding out Sonita was accepted into the radiology-diagnostic residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine and internal medicine residency at Case Western/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center during the Match Day event in which fourth-year University of Toledo medical students find out their residency placements at the Stranahan Theater and Great Hall on Friday, March 15, 2019. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS CTY match16p
Whitmer High School football player Chris Redway, left, watches Pasean Wimberly give a football to Laila Rivers, 14, a Whitmer student, during a visit to St. Vincent Mercy Children’s Hospital in Toledo on March 11, 2019. The visit was coordinated through the Toledo Wistert Chapter of the National Football Foundation. THE BLADE/LORI KING CTY VISIT12
Notre Dame Academy students cheer against Pickerington during a girls Division I state semifinal basketball game Friday, March 15, 2019, at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH SPT D1stateGBK16
BGSU students Jacob Jones, left and Nick Welker assist during the installation of the show by Kazuki Takizawa. The Los Angeles-based, Japanese artist is opening his first exhibition of glassworks in Toledo on Friday, March 15, 2019 at the River House Arts Gallery in the Secor Building in downtown Toledo. THE BLADE/PHILLIP L. KAPLAN — Kazuki14
Perrysburg Junior High 8th grader Myles Takats (cq), 14, left, shakes hands with Irene Butter after she spoke to Perrysburg Junior High students at their school in Perrysburg, Ohio, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Butter is a Holocaust survivor, and was brought in to speak for part of the language arts curriculum, as the junior high students have been reading literature on the history of the Holocaust. Butter has written a book on her experiences in the Holocaust. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS CTY Holocaust14
Jude Sistrunk, 2, watches while he blasts a paper rocket that he made into the air during a “Little Scientists” event at the Imagination Station on Thursday, March 14, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT CTY scientists13p
Start players celebrate defeating Whitmer, 30-31, to win a Division I boys district final basketball game Saturday, March 9, 2019, at Savage Arena in Toledo, Ohio. Start defeated Whitmer, 31-30. THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH SPT D1districtBBK10p
Pamela Camper, left, and Paula Bennett raise their hands after answering a question about their work experience at UPS at Malone, Ault, & Farell in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday March 14, 2019. 19 current and former UPS employees have filed a lawsuit regarding ongoing race discrimination and a racially hostile work environment at the UPS facility in Maumee. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON CTY UPSplaintiffs15
Teacher Ellis McGee, left, after she is announced as the winner. She says she doesn’t teach to receive awards: “My award is student growth”, says McGee. At center is her brother-in-law Jimel (cq) Jones, and her husband Larry McGee, all of Toledo. Winterfield Venture Academy holds an assembly at the primary school in Toledo, Ohio on March 12, 2019. At the assembly it is announced that Ellis McGee, fourth-grade teacher at Winterfield, has won the National Heritage AcademiesÕ annual Excellence in Teaching (EIT) Award. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER CTY teachingaward13
Rogers’ Zia Cooke (1) reacts to winning the girls Division II State Championship after defeating Dayton Carroll, 56-45, Saturday, March 16, 2019, at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH SPT D2stateGBK17