2010 Highlights
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Public Involvement Information
The Frogtown Fair provides everyone who participates with opportunities to protect our environment by choosing to act responsibly when disposing of wastes, maintaining vehicles, and purchasing items for home and garden.
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Exhibitors
The exhibit hall in the Civic Center Promenade of the Erie Street Market will be the source of doable ideas and local resources for greener living throughout the Frogtown Fair. Click here for a current list of green businesses, organizations and agencies that will be sharing their expertise at this year’s Fair.
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How-To Workshops
How-to workshops by exhibitors and other special guests provide a more detailed look at some of the green living ideas championed by the Frogtown Fair. Click here for this year’s location and schedule.
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Children's Activities
Children will be enriched and entertained by a variety of activities, demonstrations and crafts in the Children’s Activity Area. The Children’s Activity Area is located in the Toledo Civic Theater. Click here for a current list of Children’s Activities.
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Youth Pavilion
The Youth Pavilion is a new addition offering older youth the opportunity to learn more about what their peers are doing to be green and to participate in a green project. The Youth Pavilion is located in the stage area of the Toledo Civic Theater. Click here for information on activities and participating organizations.
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Food VendorsCJ’s Breakfast & Sandwich Shop and Bailey’s Pizza and Broaster Chicken are the resident food vendors in the Toledo Civic Theater. Street vendor Destinee’s Diner will be serving on South Erie Street across from Market Street. Click here for menus and special pricing for this year’s Fair.
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2009 Highlights
The Frogtown Fair is a free community event enabling the citizens of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan who attend to adopt a more environmentally friendly way of living. On Saturday, August 8, 2009, an estimated 1700 people visited the Fair to view 63 exhibits by green businesses, organizations and agencies; to participate in 13 children’s activities; and to engage in a variety of opportunities for public involvement:
- American Rivers, the Toledo Stormwater Program and the Rain Garden Initiative of Toledo-Lucas County sold 57 New England Rain Barrels and 20 Bio-Orb Composters.
- The Gas Cap Testing and Replacement Program sponsored by the Toledo Division of Environmental Services Air Section and TMACOG tested the gas caps of 52 vehicles for leaks. Of those tested, 9 failed and were replaced, resulting in the elimination of 1,791 pounds of evaporated emissions and 2 tanks of gas annually per vehicle.
- AccuShred, LLC, shredded 1000 lbs of documents and collected 1500 lbs of electronics. All of the electronics collected were recycled and disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner, keeping them out of landfills.
- The Mercury Pollution Prevention Partnership exchanged 35 mercury thermometers for safer digital ones. Three thermostats, one sphygmometer, and a small vial containing elemental mercury were also collected during the Fair. The BGSU Elemental Mercury Collection & Reclamation Program safely recycled all of the mercury collected.
- The Lucas County Solid Waste Management District’s Specialty Waste Program removed the following household hazardous wastes from the waste stream: 217 lbs of alkaline batteries, 10 lbs of nickel-cadmium batteries, 6 lbs of lithium batteries (total of approximately 2000 batteries), 51 lbs of compact fluorescent light bulbs (120 bulbs), 20 lbs of 4-ft fluorescent bulbs (10 bulbs), 127 lbs of electronics and five smoke detectors.
- The Nature Conservancy donated biodegradable and compostable flatware, containers, and bags for the resident food vendors, Bailey’s Pizza and C.J.’s Breakfast and Sandwich Shop, so that food waste could be composted. With the assistance of Hirzel Canning Company and N.A.T. Transportation, approximately 125 gallons of waste were diverted from the landfill.
- Over 100 people attended 6 how-to workshops offered by exhibitors on a variety of green topics and a tour of the Toledo Division of Environmental Services Demonstration Rain Garden by the Rain Garden Initiative of Toledo-Lucas County.
- Free passes were distributed to everyone who indicated that they used TARTA to get to the Frogtown Fair. A free monthly pass was raffled off to those arriving on public transportation.
- Volunteers distributed reusable shopping bags donated by Kroger and by the staff of the Menards in Holland, Ohio.
- Free raffles distributed several “green” door prizes, including a free energy audit donated by The Green Home Pros, LLC, a free week at the Lourdes College Life Lab Summer Science Camp donated by S.A.V.E., $50 in gift certificates donated by Menards, and nine rain garden plants donated by Naturally Native Nursery.
- Approximately 25 people participated in the social hosted by Toledo Green Drinks at the conclusion of the Fair and enjoyed a presentation by Stacy Jurich and Joe McEachern entitled “Waste Vegetable Oil as Fuel.”
