It’s not fake, but it is false

There is so much propaganda using statistics about men who commit crimes--black and white. It's not exactly "fake," but it is meant to mislead. A man (or occasionally a woman) committing a crime is more likely to be shot or restrained by police than one who is out at a ball game not committing a crime. That's their job. Blacks commit crimes at a higher rate than whites or Hispanics or Asians, but for their numbers are less likely to be shot or restrained. It's something like 8x the rate of crime of whites, and blacks have a victim rate 6x that of whites. They are not being victimized by police--they call the police and report the crime. They want police protection. The police come, it's their job, and the assailant is black 93% of the time.

So how do the anti-police researchers figure this? By percentage of total population, not by percentage of criminal acts that put them in harm's way. The number of blacks killed by police has dropped dramatically since 2015 (although it was very small even then). Why? We may never know since the media won't investigate, but it is probably that the economy improved and they had hope with Trump as president instead of that slippery, feel-good guy who never lived in the 'hood, but preached hope and change because he had brown skin.

Here's the irony. When Obama was president that awful Dylan Roof shot a number of black people in a church, and the president blamed the Republicans for their deaths and demanded more gun control. When Chauvin killed Floyd in Minneapolis with an all Democrat controlled government top to bottom, governor to mayor to attorney general to senators (one a former prosecutor who should have put him away), the Republican president Donald Trump is blamed, and people rise up all over the nation demanding reform, when police killings are so much lower under Trump than Obama.
Republicans are so lame in defending themselves. Some even kneel and squeal. I used to be a Democrat and the spineless wimps in the GOP was quite a pill to swallow.

It's getting bizarre.

A sports announcer was fired because he tweeted "all lives matter," something President Obama said in 2015.

Young females were commanded to kneel to show they weren't racist for a YouTube cameraman, and they obliged him. That gesture was originally a Colin Kaepernick stunt to show disrespect for the American flag at sporting events, now it's become a BLM symbol and  has evolved to an anti-Trump gesture.

On channel 10 (Columbus) tonight a fearful white mother with her two young black sons who had questions about the Floyd story was interviewed and she suggested more meetings, programs and "discussions" on systemic racism. Every statistic kept for the last 30 years shows she and the reporter are wrong and are needlessly scaring her children and the viewers. There were 10 blacks killed by police in commission of a crime in 2019, a reduction of about 20 from 2015 (when Obama was president).  https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/white-cops-dont-commit-more-shootings/
General Mattis blamed Trump for the behavior of the Democratic administration in Minnesota and Minneapolis that didn't investigate thoroughly a rogue copy for previous crimes and couldn't control criminal gangs based on race. He used an anti-Trump publication, Atlantic, to criticize the man who fired him

Media criticize Trump for his brave and generous demonstration of unity with an historic church with presidential ties, because demonstrators were removed for his safety. They object to his using a Bible or quoting it when that's a staple for all politicians, especially Democrats like Pelosi. The Bishop of the church preaches the [Democrat] party line.

Drew Brees is forced to apologize for supporting and admiring the American flag and criticizing kneelers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/drew-brees-apologizes-criticizing-nfl-players-protesting-during-national-anthem-n1224786

New study on police, race and shootings

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877?

“There is widespread concern about racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings and that these disparities reflect discrimination by White officers. Existing databases of fatal shootings lack information about officers, and past analytic approaches have made it difficult to assess the contributions of factors like crime. We create a comprehensive database of officers involved in fatal shootings during 2015 and predict victim race from civilian, officer, and county characteristics. We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.”

Religious symbols—a church and a Bible

Imagine a president using a church as a symbol, or holding up a Bible. Shocking. I remember when Obama went to Notre Dame. Quite a stir. The most pro-abortion politician in the history of the country at a Catholic school named for Our Lady, the mother of Jesus. It was quite a mess--liberal and conservative Catholics squabbling and conservative pro-life Protestants butting in who were clueless that Catholics lead the way in the pro-life department.

Then there was President Obama at Georgetown, another Roman Catholic institution, and the religious symbols, not exactly being used, but being covered up so as not to detract from his royal presence. Yes, it sure is a shame that President Trump is the only president to ever have made use of religious symbolism. At least he wasn't thumbing his nose at the symbols.

The lies about  the tear gas and the bunker are just ridiculous.  No matter how many times it is denied, the left just keeps chattering about it.

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/6_2_20_statement_from_acting_chief_monahan.htm

David Meyers, guest blogger, on demonstrations and crimes

David Meyers writes at Facebook: “I have no issue with demonstrations. They are an important component in keeping our country from straying off course. But I am interested in what the demonstrators will do after they have called attention to “the problem.” Will any of them actually seek to become part of the solution?

For 30 years, I worked in corrections—both adult and juvenile. I know that the challenges we faced are similar to those faced by police departments. It’s a tough and dangerous job. And the pay is seldom commensurate to the risk. As a result, it is not always possible to hire the caliber of staff you want and need.

I personally spent thousands of hours trying to weed out the bad employees. All of them were represented by unions. I am not saying that unions are a bad thing. As I learned in graduate school, “Any organization that has a union deserves it.” And by that measure, corrections certainly does. However, that means that due process has to be followed in disciplining a bad employee—even those who have committed felonies on the job.

Not only does management find this frustrating, but many good employees as well. As I wrote in my first book on Ohio’s prison system, “Some of the finest people I have known were working in some of the most thankless jobs imaginable.” I was glad we had them, but we always could have used more. A lot more.

It’s the same with police departments, too. In fact, I have never belonged to any large group of people that didn’t have some miscreants. But in most cases, they aren’t tasked with life and death decisions. They don’t have to deal with violence on a near daily basis. It takes a special type of person to do that. Unfortunately, not all people who are attracted to this type of work want to make things better.
Watching the demonstrations, the confrontations, and the wanton vandalism and looting play out on television, I am concerned that it will drive away exactly the type of people we need to be peace officers and attract those we don’t."

David Meyers is the author of many books that reflect his interest in music, Ohio history, crime, and black history.

“We need to have a dialogue. . ." I'm so sick of that phrase

1. How about: no more senseless government programs that just increase bureaucracy.

2. Maybe we could: reduce or eliminate the rewriting of history and teaching victimhood to minorities and blame for whites from kindergarten to college.

3. Possibly: looking at skin color for positions of power, from president to police chief to hiring actors, isn't the best plan.

4. Think about: removing racialists, people who constantly beat the drum of hate, from writing, editing, selecting, and overseeing content in media, school text books, entertainment, staff positions for politicians, etc. and require that they develop a skill/talent not based on race or ethnicity or gender.

5. Think about: loving your neighbor as yourself after first putting God first. One of the most famous men in history commanded that based on thousands of years of Jewish traditions.

An interesting book review

Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment by Gerald R. McDermott

Last night I listened to a fascinating book review and author interview of Gerald R. McDermott.  I knew Moses was a stutterer, but I didn’t know about Marilyn Monroe, and that they had to do 47 takes to get one line right in “Some like it Hot.”  Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike.  I did know about Annie Glenn, who recently died, and had seen the movie about George VI, and John Stossel has talked about it.  McDermott said that millions suffer from the embarrassment and challenging disability of stuttering, and that 98% of them are men. I believe he said he is also a stutterer, although there wasn’t anything in the interview to indicate it. Singing, for some reason, is no problem, and each stutterer finds ways to handle it, and takes training or lessons to calm it. I remember almost 60 years ago helping a Russian graduate student with his first draft (or more) of his PhD thesis.  He had a terrible stutter, but only in Russian, not in English (which wasn’t very good).

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2017/02/20/12-famous-stories-determination-stutterers/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/northamptonseminar/2016/09/04/marilyn-monroe-stutterer/

The book review reminded me of the many, many people with  disabilities who struggle everyday to challenge, improve, or maybe despair. Some are bullied, some are teased, some give up. 

Did closing the churches contribute to the chaos?

Still thinking about two of the videos I saw on Tucker last night. One was a young white man who was standing alone beaten senseless by a group of young black men, and from the position of his body, I'd guess both arms and legs and maybe his neck were broken. Bystanders did nothing to protect him or stop his assailants. (Sound familiar?) They used ladders, pieces of lumber to bash him. It looked like he was just in the wrong place, perhaps separated from his friends, or maybe he lived in the area. There were many white people in these protest groups who had gone along to get along, thinking they'd show solidarity. All he had done was pull out his phone and supposedly was trying to call the police.

The other was an Asian woman, standing her ground, maybe Korean American, in front of her small grocery. I think she was trying to salvage some produce--her livelihood. Maybe it was paying the tuition for her son who was in medical school. The men beating her were twice her size and half her age. Her husband, or some other man, rushed out and they beat him too.

After the shock of seeing such inhumanity and lust for killing, I began to wonder if declaring churches, libraries, and museums as "non-essential services" had encouraged the greed, hate and thirst for revenge and blood. None of those young men knew George Floyd, and the main threat to their lives up to yesterday has been other black men, not the police, despite what grandma told them, unless they are part of a criminal element like a gang. If it weren't for the schools and TV reminding them daily they are victims of racism, they probably were leading fairly normal lives, until the last two months.

Was it smart for mayors and governors to close sports and entertainment venues? While maybe not essential for spiritual health, they do bind certain groups in society together. Competition and aggression are played out on teams, and aside from the occasional broken bone or brain injury, most just watch the aggression. Men could always talk about sports if they had nothing else in common.

I did see some young women bashing in car windows and harassing the helpless drivers, and maybe they were looting those high end stores in Santa Monica. But for the most part, the blood thirst was 16-30 year old men. Testosterone and youth, not race. Antifa, which is white, both genders and privileged had probably been a little more cagey--placed the bricks and lumber around. They arrived with a plan--anarchy.

And I know that's not an original thought, because I believe I first learned it in a "Sociology of Education" class when I was a sophomore in college. All societies have glue and shared interests, which schools need to encourage, we were told then in the 1950s, which educators promote in the form of athletics, clubs and special interest groups.

Perhaps our political leaders educated in the last 40 years never learned that there is more to creating a function society than race and gender. Unfortunately for us, our enemies knew.

The shifting stories

If the shift from Covid19 stories to riot stories wasn't your clue, the wealth gap stories had just made their appearance again as the economy was set to rebound. Forget all that "we're in this together" nonsense. The Columbus Business Journal has a lock on the article, but you can see the same stories, different characters that were appearing in 2005.

Here's my take. It takes marriage and family backing usually by parents or grandparents to live well. You only need to look as the highest income people in America, and that isn't "whites" as the demographers and dividers like to call people like me. Those would be "Asian," or more specifically Indians, Filipinos, and Japanese Americans. They have the highest marriage rates and strong support from the couples' parents.

I live in a very nice neighborhood with great amenities, good school system, many churches, and good shopping (although not as good as in the 80s since retail chases the money). It would be difficult for a mom with 3 children who does not have a handsome divorce settlement and alimony to live here. However, I would look low income compared to the areas northwest of my community. Wealth gap is relative. I'd look like a pauper compared to Colin Kaepernick and yet he whines about injustice because he didn't get picked for the NFL and wanted his own rules.

Let’s check with Minneapolis

In the wake of rioting and looting in Columbus the last 2 days during peaceful protests, Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin says we need to confront structural racism with police reforms in Columbus. (Columbus Business First)

Hmm. Has he looked at the black Attorney General, Black police chief, black officers in the incident, Jew hater Ilhan Omar, battling Somali gang warfare and far left mayor of Minneapolis for guidance in that reform? How about Amy Klobuchar who ignored the problem for years?

On Birthdays

Facebook makes a big deal about birthdays.  And often I forget or overlook those notices, even though many people just love receiving congratulations from people they never see, or often haven’t met. It might be the only time anyone makes a fuss over her or him to make the day really special with images of birthday cakes and balloons.

Father Peter John Cameron, author, editor and playwright, reflected on the birth of John the Baptist (celebrated June 24).  Just in case you don’t know that story from the Gospel of Luke, John was Jesus’ cousin. Their mothers, Elizabeth and Mary, were pregnant at the same time and John recognized Jesus in the womb and leaped for joy:

“The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist is a sacred reminder of the fact that every day I need born in my life:

someone who leaps with joy before the presence of the Lord, who makes me want to live my own relationship with Jesus with greater ardor and fervor;

someone to prepare the way of the Lord and to give me knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of my sins;

someone who turns my attention away from my distractions and preconceptions so that I will behold the Lamb of God as the true desire of my heart;

someone who models for me that there is no greater joy in my life than for Jesus to increase and for me to decrease, especially as regards my self-reliance, my self-assertion, my self-absorption;

someone who is a burning and shining lamp whose radiance gives light to my path and courage to my heart, making me want to live for others;

someone so committed to the truth that he is willing to lay down his life for the Truth-become-flesh—witnessing to me that all true happiness comes through self-sacrifice;

someone whose sanctity proclaims that there is no man born of woman greater than he is, but that I can share his greatness if I love Jesus as he did.”

Today is Pentecost Sunday, Acts 2:1-11

2 On the day of Pentecost^[a] all the Lord’s followers were together in one place. ² Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting. ³ Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there. ⁴ The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.

⁵ Many religious Jews from every country in the world were living in Jerusalem. ⁶ And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages. ⁷ They were excited and amazed, and said:

Don’t all these who are speaking come from Galilee? ⁸ Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages? ⁹ Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya near Cyrene, Rome, ¹¹ Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.

http://preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/VSS-2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8fDjBN1LU

The riots have bumped Covid19 from the news

Even without an investigation and a trial, there was almost universal agreement that the white policeman killed an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. With such unity on a charged racial matter, the left had to move in and stop the peaceful protests with organized rioters in many major cities. Looting, burning, assaults and arrests.

Michael Rechtenwald wrote yesterday: “Just watched for hours as sectors of Minneapolis were burned to the ground, killing whatever message was being conveyed--although I don't think the rioters had a message, other than to reap and sow chaos and destruction. This is the work of the media, the left, and the wantonly depraved. It's not the mere loss of property that I lament. Thousands of people will suffer from this, including blacks, whose livelihoods will be lost and whose lives will be otherwise diminished. Whoever is behind this, and I have my suspicions that it was sown by particular contingents and their masters, they are enemies of the people.”

What has happened recently in Minnesota with the police is deeply disturbing, and seeing it is now turning into looting and rioting even in Columbus, Atlanta, and Los Angeles forcing people to take sides based on race when we know it is a small number of people doing criminal acts should give us pause. My nephew, a California policeman, has written an impassioned post on the grief and anger he feels that a member of his profession has done the unthinkable--caused the death of someone he should have protected. With other officers standing by and not intervening! I have heard all conservatives/Republicans in media condemn this from the very beginning. And now it's time for the liberals/Democrats to condemn the demand for retribution when there's been no trial.

It is disturbing to see people rushing to judgement with no trial, evidence or protection for the accused (by video) until proven guilty, reenacting the old lynch mob mentality of 60-100 years ago. They've made a joke of our justice system--a joke that has been used on minorities many times in the past. Instead of realizing this lynch 'em high method was used against blacks and poor whites to terrorize by mob demonstrates the failures of 60 years of passing and enforcing laws guaranteeing civil rights or assuring trials for criminals.

The looters, the Democrat leaders and finger pointing self righteous by-standers on social media haven't read the police statistics--more whites are killed by police and at a higher rate than blacks. Who riots then? The leading cause of death of black children under 5 is not guns or whites or police--it's the people who care for them--fathers, mothers, boyfriends, step-parents. And 38% of abortions are for black babies. Someone in the "black lives matter" movement doesn't know or care that even black children in the womb and crib and Head Start have lives, too. It's easier to have his buddies take a video in front of a smashed store window to show his bravery and manhood and rush in to steal a pair of shoes.

In 2016 there was an increase in gang violence and assaults in Minneapolis. No one rioted when the police chief said she was proud of the stats because they were lower than expected!

Affordable housing destroyed during protests

“Midtown Corner's upper five stories were planned affordable housing. The building would have had 190 units, with rent keyed to households making between 60 and 80 percent of the area's median income.

The apartments were the final piece in Wellington's development of the former Rainbow Foods space on East Lake Street. It had already finished adding an Aldi and a charter school called Universal Academy. Both of those buildings were also damaged in the protests.”

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/05/28/affordable-housing-minneapolis-burned-wellington.amp.html?

Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt applies to today’s division

https://youtu.be/8SOQduoLgRw Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals (and conservatives, but he's a liberal talking to liberals). He's lecturing (Ted Talk) during the Bush years, so that's where the laughs are. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be civil and open-minded. And by "we" he means liberals (he surveyed the audience first). Still useful for the Covid divisions, on why liberals want to keep the lockdown, and conservatives want the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. This of course, is a flip of the usual vision of liberals as progressive, because in 2020, they are the regressives.

OK for Buckeyes to date Wolverines

All Ohio State students, faculty, staff and student employees are required to pass ANNUAL re-education courses in sexual matters. It's probably the same at your alma mater or institution of interest. I recall when this type of required re-education back in the 1990s was small group workshops from time to time, then they grew to a cottage industry for social workers and psychologists, now they are a national industry with thousands and thousands of employees and enforcers. The big catch all loophole which could get you denied a merit-based salary increase or public shaming is the term "gender-based." https://titleix.osu.edu/navigation/prevention/training.html

I read through the 17 pages of the university's sexual misconduct policy, only one brief paragraph of which was about protection of the accused (not innocent obviously)--and the policy is labeled, "interim," which means it could change at any moment.

It appears that the only safe relationship for a Buckeye is to date or become involved with someone from University of Michigan!

To mask or not to mask

I bought a box of disposable, one use, non-washable masks yesterday--50 for $25. I am concerned that they were made in China, but I'll keep a sack in the glove compartment instead of a used one on the passenger seat. Don't want to panic any people, and the evidence doesn't seem to be conclusive that it makes any difference. But I consider it polite like sneezing into a hanky, or using a napkin at dinner. Considering that most of us are self-centered (just look at all the selfies or dinner photos on social media) the story should have been that we protect ourselves, not others, by wearing a mask. And if we wait for the research to be published, it will probably say that.

https://fee.org/articles/stop-forcing-people-to-wear-masks-over-covid-19-fears/?

This is a very small study—4 patients: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342

Safety and sanitation in the workplace.

https://osu.app.box.com/s/yzjb809hg9tx6zg5jhm2d1r24r0x9y8s

Hand hygiene, social distancing, the proper use of PPE and routine cleaning—helps to reduce and limit the spread of viruses and infection to keep staff and patients safe.

I noticed from reading old (2009) recommendations during that pandemic (which didn't close down the economy or lockdown our normal activities) that sloppy habits of hygiene returned after the emergency passed. I hope some of these guidelines continue, like NOT EATING at workstations, and that applies not just to ICU, clinics, receptionist areas, but at ALL work places. It's difficult enough to clean computer equipment and keyboards, without adding the grease from French fries and Fritos. Plus for the patients nearby, there is the smell problem.

And I don't consider constant use of sanitizer a substitute for thorough hand washing with soap.

Can we survive this pandemic’s economic fall out?

I survived the “Asian Flu,” 1957-1958 (was sick, but the college didn't close) with about 1.1 million deaths worldwide, 116,000 of those in the U.S. I survived the “Hong Kong Flu,” 1968-1972, with about 1 million people worldwide, including 100,000 in the U.S. I don't remember if we had it--maybe that time Phil threw up all over Dr. Batterson wasn't the chili. I also survived the 2009 H1N1 pandemic which was first detected in the U.S. in April 2009. There were an estimated 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations, and 12,469 deaths. I don't remember anyone blaming President Obama. Certainly not the media.

You can read the summary at https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/cdcresponse.htm. Medical measures like testing, public announcements, and vaccines were used. The only economic measures I saw in the summary were travel advisories. The economy survived those pandemics. The schools didn't close. The elderly didn't die alone in nursing home lock downs. I just don't know about this pandemic. Can we survive our "leaders?"

What I said about the 2009 Swine Flu in April 2009: https://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/search/label/swine%20flu

Marion E. Boyer, former Lakesider, has died

We were saddened to get a phone call from Jim Boyer last night telling us his dear Marion had died of ALS May 16.  I don’t remember exactly the year, but I know the place where I met Marion.  It was in the Green Room (now Chautauqua Hall) of the Fountain Inn at Lakeside.  We discovered chatting before the lecture began that we were both librarians.  “Marion the Librarian,” how often she must have heard that line from the musical, The Music Man, but she laughed anyway. She and Jim had the sweetest, tiniest cottage.  We loved going there and sitting on their porch. Jim and Bob were on the Design Review Board together, so instead of just the wives knowing each other, we were a couple friendship. Many breakfasts together at the Patio and over in Marblehead. It’s so hard to lose a friend, especially to such a terrible disease. Her final days were grim, but she stay alert and active until her final illness, pneumonia made her too weak. Karen “Happy” Day, also a Lakesider, died about 5 years ago of this disease.

“With God's help and with courage, Marion Elizabeth Boyer, age 77, battled ALS until her death on May 16, 2020. Marion was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She graduated from King's Collage, Canada's oldest university, established in 1789. She met her husband Jim, when he was an exchange student from Muskingum College at Kings. Marion earned a fifth year education degree from Dalhousie University and began her teaching career at historic Chebucto School in Halifax. The school's basement served as a makeshift morgue for Titanic victims. After studying at OSU and UT, Marion received an Ohio school librarian certification. She spent most of her 35 year teaching career as a school librarian and reading teacher at Northwood Middle School. Surviving are her husband, Jim; daughter, Lori Boyer Gow, Eddie Gow and two cousins living in Canada.

After retirement, Marion was actively involved in a number of organizations. She was a lifetime member of the Lucas County Retired Teachers Association where she was on the Board of Directors, was editor of the Slate, a monthly newsletter, association secretary, and chair of a program awarding scholarships to college students with financial need who demonstrated outstanding potential as teachers. She volunteered in the Toledo Hospital Gift Shop and directed the Flower Hospital Auxiliary High School speech contest. For a number of years, she was a judge of the First Lego Contest at the former DeVilbiss High School.

Marion enjoyed summers in Nova Scotia and at their cottage in the Chautauqua community of Lakeside, Ohio. As a member of the Lakeside Woman's Club she was in charge of the annual Tour of Homes. Marion is a 2014 graduate of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, the oldest continuous book club in America, formed in 1897 to support adult education. Each winter, she and Jim enjoyed Road Scholar trips to warmer states. So she could vote in support of progressive causes, Marion became a naturalized United States citizen in 1982. At St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Marion served on altar guild and was a Lay Eucharistic Visitor.

A service will be held at a later date. Ashes will be interred in St. Michael's memorial garden and All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Halifax. Memorial donations may be made to the Northern Ohio Chapter of the ALS Association, 6155 Rockside Rd., Suite 403, Independence, Ohio 44131.”

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/toledoblade/obituary.aspx?pid=196211449