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Blade Holiday Parade to close downtown streets
The 39th annual Blade Holiday Parade will close several downtown Toledo streets Saturday morning, city officials announced. The parade begins at Summit and Jefferson streets at 10 a.m. Saturday. The route proceeds northbound on Summit to Jackson Street, westbound on Jackson to Huron Street, and southbound on Huron to finish near Washington Street. Several downtown streets will close around 7 a.m. for staging. The parade is estimated to be completed by noon, city officials said. It will feature high school marching bands, color guards, giant balloons, dozens of clowns, mascots, dance teams, and the guest of honor, Santa Claus. This year’s grand marshal, Bay View Yacht Club, will lead the parade. For the parade route and more information, go to theblade.com/holidayparade .
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Toledo to Host 137th Ship Masters’ Grand Lodge Convention in January 2027
One of the Great Lakes’ most prestigious maritime gatherings will return to Toledo in January 2027, when the city hosts the 137th annual Grand Lodge Convention of the International Ship Masters’ Association from Jan. 28 to 31 at the Renaissance Toledo Downtown Hotel, Capt. Rick Brown, president of ISMA Toledo Lodge No. 9, announced in […]
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Couple to tie the knot Friday the 13th at Toledo funeral museum
For a Grand Rapids, Mich., couple, it all started at their local haunted house. When Ryan Reyher met Stephanie Briceno-Rosas at the Haunt in Grand Rapids in the summer of 2020, he was immediately smitten, he said. “I thought she was gorgeous,” Mr. Reyher said of his first impression. But it wasn’t just her looks that attracted him: “She was really caring and her aspirations were really cool.” He asked her out at the end of August, 2020, and their relationship blossomed. Six years later, the couple, who share a love of all things spooky, plan to marry on Friday the 13th at Mortuary Manor Funeral Museum & Event Center, a museum housed in a Victorian-era building that later served as a funeral home in Toledo. “We were looking for kind of a gothic venue within our budget,” Mr. Reyher said. “We decided to reach out and see if we could host a wedding there, and he was more than happy to do it.” Friday’s wedding is the first for the museum, said Cory Leibenguth, operational manager of Mortuary Manor. The building dates to the 1870s and was remodeled into a mansion-style structure in 1897, he said. It became Urbanski