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May 20, 2013 It’s Where You Live!

www.troydailynews.com

Volume 105, No. 120

An award-winning Civitas Media Newspaper

Troy cheerleader on her way to UC

INSIDE

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@tdnpublishing.com

Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said Friday. In Granbury, the area hardest hit by Wednesday night’s exceptionally strong tornado, workers are trying to restore water service, raise electrical lines and clear debris piles.

If you know someone who should be profiled in our Next Door feature, contact City Editor Melody Vallieu at 440-6265, or send her an email at mvallieu@civitasmedia.com schedule — and enroll at the University of Cincinnati in the fall. There, Mills will be a part of STAFF PHOTO/ANTHONY WEBER the Bearcat cheerleading team, performing at all of UC’s football Troy High School junior Alexis Mills demonstrates several cheers • See MILLS on 2 outside the school recently.

Return to the Island

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Brady Bunch comes back to Kings Island

City awaits lottery winner Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn’t Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the Publix. He shook his head when asked about the jackpot. See Page 10.

BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@civitasmedia.com This time, there were no lost architectural plans, no mad dash across the park, Greg didn’t have to throw a football through a hoop to meet a girl and — most important of all — no near-death experiences on The Racers roller coaster. Sunday morning, three members of the iconic television sitcom “The Brady Bunch” — Barry Williams (Greg Brady), Christopher Knight (Peter Brady) and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) were back at Kings Island to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the episode “The Cincinnati Kids,” which was filmed entirely at the theme park just one year after it opened. The three met with fans, put on three variety shows for parkgoers and opened their morning by riding “The Racers,” the wooden coaster used in the filming of the show. And this time, it was a much safer experience. In Williams’ 1992 autobiography, “Growing Up Brady,” he recounted how a camera had been mounted to the front of the roller coaster to film the scene. Actor Robert Reed — who played the father, Mike

UPCOMING

Check out this Wednesday Dave's Place Restaurant in Piqua keeps it all in the family for 32 years. Also, RPets opens in Piqua with expert staff, and find out where you can adopt a duck for Big Brothers Big Sisters. See Wednesday.

INSIDE TODAY Advice ............................7 Calendar.........................3 Classified......................10 Comics ...........................8 Deaths ............................6 Kenneth L. Eilerman Linda M. Scott Martha J. Couch Marshall G. Stevens Sr. Dennis Dishong Horoscopes ....................7 Menus.............................3 NIE .................................4 Opinion ...........................5 Sports...........................12 TV...................................7

MASON Brady, on the show — didn’t think the camera would clear one of the overhangs the coaster went under and demanded a test run be done with none of the actors riding in the cars. “We were all ragging on Robert at the time,” Williams said Sunday. “We thought he was nuts. We were all really giving him a hard time about it.” The producers gave in, however, and sent the roller coaster off on a test run with empty cars. Williams said that Reed had been right, and the camera was knocked off the front of the roller coaster and would have flown back into the faces of the cast. A new camera was mounted on the front of the roller coaster — this time at a lower angle — before the scene was shot with the cast members riding The Racers. Even then, Reed and Olsen still refused to ride the coaster for the episode. Olsen rode The Racers once Sunday morning, but begged off when Williams and Knight went on a second trip around the track. “Robert and I didn’t ride STAFF PHOTOS/ANTHONY WEBER it the first time, because Susan Olsen, front left, Christopher Knight, front right, along with Barry we were both scared of Williams second right, visit Kings Island Sunday to celebrate an episode of the • See ISLAND on 2

show that filmed 40 years ago.

Stars still stunned by fan reaction BY DAVID FONG Executive Editor fong@civitasmedia.com Christopher Knight wishes he could remember the roar of The Racers, the smell of the cotton candy and the sights of people meandering up and down the midway. The truth of the matter is, however, “The Brady Bunch” star’s recollections of the Brady visit to Kings Island are hazy at best. “Honestly, I really don’t

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“You know it’s one of those deals where you don’t realize at the time what a big even remember being deal it’s going to be and here,” said Knight, who how much it’s going to played the middle brother mean to people. You don’t “Peter” on the sitcom clas- necessarily store those sic. Knight returned to memories away in a vault. Kings Island Sunday along To me, it was just another with castmates Barry summer day in the sumWilliams (Greg Brady) and mer that I had to work.” Susan Olsen (Cindy Which may come as a Brady) to celebrate the disappointment to the show’s legion of rabid fans 40th anniversary of the who devour “Brady Bunch” episode, “The Cincinnati trivia and can name the Kids,” which was filmed • See ISLAND on 2 entirely at Kings Island.

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Barry Williams, left, Christopher Knight, center, and Susan Olsen (Greg, Peter and Cindy Brady) reunite at Kings Island Sunday to celebrate an episode of the show that filmed 40 years ago.

Troy Daily News captures five AP awards

Tuesday T-storms High: 85°

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Next Door

Alexis Mills was so dedicated to start living out her lifelong dream she was willing to give up the one thing almost TROY no teenage girl would ever be willing to part with. Her senior prom. “I’ll only get to go to one prom,” said Mills, a junior at Troy High School. Mills will graduate from Troy this spring — a year ahead of

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The Troy Daily News brought home five awards — two first place and three third place finishes — in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editor’s Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon Sunday in Columbus. Competing in Division I,

COLUMBUS Executive Editor David Fong won three individual awards — first place in feature writing, third place in sports feature writing and third place editorial writing. Sports editor Josh Brown and sports writer Colin Foster were honored for

having the Best Daily Sports Section in Ohio for Division I. Finally, Brown, Fong, Foster and sports intern James Freeman all received third place in the Best Use of Multimedia category for “The Blitz Online,” a weekly webcast previewing high school football in Miami FONG County.

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