Grumpy’s, the popular Downtown eatery known for its Garbage Salad, will soon be trucking the favorite meal around Toledo in its new food truck, called Grumpy’s On The Go.

Starting June 21, the Grumpy’s On The Go truck will be parked 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday at locations yet to be announced, and will be stocked solely with the eatery’s signature Garbage Salad, said the truck’s driver, Maggie Bauman, whose mother and aunt own the 30-year-old business.

“Our main seller is the Garbage Salad and our clientele is the work crowd and we can only cater to Downtown,” Bauman said. “There’s Perrysburg and Sylvania people who can’t eat Downtown on their lunch break and there’s such a demand for it. This is a perfect venue to get people what they want and they want the Garbage Salad.”

On Saturdays, the truck will be parked outside Grumpy’s at 34 S. Huron St., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., but during the week, Bauman said she is still trying to nail down locations.

“As of now it’s definitely going to be Harold Jaffe Jewelers on Talmadge Road one day a week,” Bauman said. “We would definitely like to spread out and be at different places every day.”

On Thursdays the truck will park at Arrowhead Park in Maumee and Bauman has also reached out to ProMedica about adding hospitals to the schedule.

“I’ve been in touch with the administration and right now, they are creating a system-wide policy for hospitals regarding food trucks so they said they’d get back to me in a couple weeks,” Bauman said.

Finding locations is a “tricky” business, she said, because Grumpy’s doesn’t want to “step on anyone’s toes.” Their goal is to find locations with parking lots, she said.

The food truck will sell only prepackaged Garbage Salads made at the Downtown deli.

The signature Garbage Salad comes in four varieties: regular, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free. Toppings include bacon, chicken, tomato, onion, mushroom, raisins, croutons and four cheeses. The salad comes with a homemade poppy seed dressing.

All salad toppings will come on the side of the pre-packaged salads, Bauman said. Cookies, soda and water will also be available for purchase.

Grumpy’s got the truck in March and has since been outfitting it to be ready for customers. On June 10, it was being vinyl-wrapped.

The truck also needed to pass an inspection by the health department, Bauman said.

Grumpy’s is owned by Bauman’s mother, Sara Bauman, and Bauman’s aunt, Jennifer Shemak.

Bauman is the third generation to come into the business that was started by her grandmother, Connie Horn, and her husband, Jeff, at their hardware store on Broadway Street in 1984.

“My grandparents had a hardware store and [Shemak] opened up a deli counter in back of Horn Hardware,” Bauman said. “That’s why some of the classic food is named after tools. They were doing so well with the food bar, they closed down the hardware store and opened up Grumpy’s.”

When Bauman’s grandmother died four years ago, Bauman’s mother returned to Toledo from New York, where Bauman was born and raised, to take over ownership of Grumpy’s with Shemak.

“So the third generation is coming in and growing the business in this direction [the food truck] so it’s very exciting,” Bauman said. “There’s just so much to learn from this experience. So when I found myself back in Toledo, it just made sense. It’s an incredible opportunity and I’m so blessed to have my family business.”

Bauman will announce future locations of the food truck on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Two young children run around with corndogs. Caramel apple lollipops pass from hand to hand. This is not the picture that immediately pops into one’s head when they think of a practice session for a rock band like OnceOver.

This band has been around for almost 15 years, frontman Steve Dwyer said in a recent interview, so the atmosphere is far different from the traditional rock ‘n’ roll setting.

“If our band was a kid, it would be getting their temps,” Dwyer said. “It would start getting their license soon.”

This year, the band plans to release its sixth album, “White Raven,” alongside Tropic Bombs, another band that Dwyer and bandmate Nick Archer play for. The release concert is slated for June 20 at Toledo’s Mainstreet Bar & Grill, 141 Main St.

The original OnceOver was founded in 2001, and has experienced multiple fan and membership changes throughout the years.

The current members are Dwyer, his brother Paul Dwyer on guitar, Colin de Saint Victor on guitar, Archer on bass and Bruce Stelter on drums.

The Dwyer brothers have a musical past, as their father is an alumnus of Berkley University’s music program. He holds a bachelor’s degree in composition and a master’s in guitar performance.

“We grew up in environments that were very music-savvy,” Dwyer said.

“Most people kinda have a passion for music from a super young age; I was one of those people,” de Saint Victor said. “I started playing guitar in maybe fifth grade and I spent countless hours playing when I was younger and just never quit.”

De Saint Victor and Dwyer said their fellow members have little or no formal training for the instruments they chose to play in this band.

“[Dwyer] had high school stuff at least, like orchestra, choir, that kind of stuff,” de Saint Victor said.

“[Archer] took a little bit of guitar lessons when he was a kid but, other than that, I think it’s safe to say we were all self-taught,” Dwyer said.

Dwyer said some of the band’s mainstay fans go to great lengths to show their loyalty, from bringing their now-adult children to shows to getting tattoos of the band’s logo on their bodies.

“I would say we’ve always had this core set of fans that are super die-hard but on the outer shell of that there’s been a lot of weird fluctuation,” Dwyer said.

“We’re like 30 and people our age don’t really go to shows,” he added.

“The fanbase stays the same age, almost,” de Saint Victor said.

The group also jokes they have had their share of interesting fan experiences, from injuries to pregnancies and all sorts of strange behavior in between.

De Saint Victor said OnceOver’s current challenges are different from the challenges of younger bands, which fight over creative differences or get tired of seeing one another.

“We’ve been together for so long the challenges now are way different than the challenges when we were 20,” de Saint Victor said. “Everybody’s got kids. It’s mostly an issue now with scheduling and making time in our lives to still do this.”

The new album focuses on overcoming life challenges, from death to addiction to dealing with bullies in the professional world.

“Kind of assessing and taking a step back, understanding some of the darker parts of your life and learning to grow from them,” Dwyer said. “Whether that be the death of a family member or a personal struggle and overcoming what seems to be insurmountable.”

The album begins with a song titled “The Death of You,” and ends with “The Locus of Control.”

“[The first track is] semi-inspirational but comes from a dark place,” Dwyer said. “The end of the album is kind of a positive note where it’s like you’re in control of your life.”

Musical inspiration comes from the members of the band coming together, not necessarily all at once, to conceptualize, write and play.

“I’d say our songs come from an inception point,” Dwyer said. “We work on songs together but normally it comes from one or two ideas that kind of sprout something.”

“Every song is definitely not started and ended with everybody’s input, which is probably the way it should be,” de Saint Victor said.

Paul said their goal with this album is not fame and fortune, but sharing their music with the audience that made them the band they are today.

“We’re not trying, at this point, to make money off of it,” Paul said. “We’re really just into getting people into the music and kind of networking with people and bands.”

The group will work on a better touring schedule, within drivable distance.

“We have little pockets of fans in a lot of the cities around us,” Archer said. “This year, we’re trying to make a little more of an effort to play out of town.”

The next year will also see a little bit of separation followed by endless hours dedicated to their next record, which is already in process.

“It’s some of our best stuff ever, I would say,” Dwyer said. “It needs a lot of work and we’re not that far into it.”

“As soon as we release an album, it just repeats,” de Saint Victor added.

Eight-ton sand sculptures and two 8-foot sidewalk chalk murals will be on full display at the fourth annual Sand-Tastic! festival, hosted June 27-28 by The Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg.

“Northwest Ohio as a whole is a very artsy area,” said Casey Pogan, marketing director for Levis Commons. “We have the Crosby Festival, the Black Swamp Arts Festival… our area really thrives on art. Sand-Tastic! has morphed into something that’s still fun, but artsy.” Chad Hartson, owner of Napoleon -based Ice Creations, will oversee the sand sculpture projects for the fourth year. They are one of the most popular features of Sand-Tastic!. “I went to culinary school to be a chef and my last year of college I took a bunch of sculpture classes,” Hartson said. “It was something I loved to do and had a passion for so I forgot about the culinary stuff I was doing—other than ice carving— and focused on the sculpture side of things.” The sand sculptures take three days to finish, with Hartson working on them 10-12 hours each day. In the past, he’s carved everything from a “Toy Story” scene to a prisoner of war to an elephant. “For a lot of artists, the stuff we do is ‘not really art.’ My challenge to them is ‘Let me see you do it,’” Hartson said. “It may not be your typical form of art —not paintings or drawings—but it is art. The art world is so vast and sand is one of those forms that people don’t really think of as art until they see it as an elaborate display.” Pogan said that Levis Commons has hosted parking lot parties, wine tastings and 5K races but the “art-inspired events” typically draw the biggest crowds. Last year, despite pouring rain on Saturday, Levis Commons’ traffic counter counted about 15,000 attendees at Sand-Tastic!. However, this year’s event organizers said they hope to attract 15,000 – 20,000 people to the event. “There’s nothing like it in our area. You can have it be one giant play date,” Pogan said. “Kids are getting out of school and need a reason to get together with friends and parents will be able to catch up with each other, too, while their kids are busy playing. “This is a great environment for reuniting.”

Activities for children include a John Deere Gator track with miniature mobile tractors, bounce houses, water tables with squirt guns, a community sandbox, obstacle courses, and hands-on science games courtesy of Imagination Station. For especially eager sandcastle builders, free lessons from professional sand sculptors will be offered in the community sandbox on Friday and Saturday from 2 – 2:45 p.m. In addition, live music entertainment will be provided by DJ Paul Hernandez on Friday from 3 – 8 p.m. and by Jeff Stewart on Saturday from 2 – 4 p.m. The Toledo School of Arts’ Steel Drum Band will perform on Saturday from 6 – 8 p.m. Businesses at Levis Commons plan to have normal business hours throughout the weekend and encourage visitors to take a break from the heat and check out their shops. “People just have so much fun with the sun and sand sculptures and friends at Sand-Tastic!,” Hartson said. “The sand sculptures will be up at Levis Commons for about a week before they get taken down. Sand is a disposable art where it eventually has to get taken down. For me, the creating process is what’s most important. There’s this excitement that goes into creating a sculpture and seeing it finished. I want everyone to have that same experience — watching something beautiful built before your eyes.”