INSIDE TODAY 2013 Community Guide • Inside
June 1, 2013
Vol. 123 No. 109
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WILL BALLING (left) is sworn in as the new Sidney Police Chief by City Manager Mark Cundiff (right) at the police station Friday. Holding the Bible is Balling’s wife Suzanne Balling. In back are Balling’s children (l-r) Amber Balling, 16, Emmaly Goguen, 9, Zach Goguen, 12, and Donnie Goguen, 14. Not pictured is Andrew Balling, 14.
DEATHS Obituaries and/or death notices for the following people appear on Page 3 today: • Verna E. Gudorf • Denise E. Little • Vernon “Ted” Wion • Wilkie Travis Scott • Kenneth Loyd Wackler
INDEX Auglaize Neighbors ...............9 Business ...............................8 City, County records..............2 Classified .......................15-17 Comics................................10 Hints from Heloise.................6 Horoscope....................10, 18 Localife ..............................6-7 Nation/World.......................5A Obituaries..............................3 Sports............................12-14 State news ............................4 ’Tween 12 and 20 ...............18 Weather/Sudoku/Abby/Out of the Past/Dr. Roach ........11
New chief sworn in BY TOM MILLHOUSE Balling reflected on how tmillhouse@civitasmedia.com much he enjoys being a law enforcement officer. “I love Will Balling recalled that coming into work every day,” joining the police force was he said, adding that his wife one of the biggest days of his can attest to the fact that “I life and the 19-year veteran miss it even when I’m on vaofficer added another special cation.” memory Friday when he was “I’m coming into a good orsworn in as the Sidney Police ganization,” he said. “We are Department’s sixth police family,” Balling said of the pochief. lice department and city emWith his wife, Suzanne, ployees as a whole. He said their five children and a host with teamwork, the commuof city staff and friends look- nity will prosper. ing on, Balling was adminisCundiff said since Balling tered the oath of office by City took a “trip down memory Manager Mark Cundiff. lane” with his recollection of Balling, 42, succeeds Kevin how he felt when he became a Gessler, who retired effective police officer he would add a Friday after four years in the story of his own. Cundiff said position. he was assistant city manager After being sworn in, when Balling joined the force
and he remembered a comment made after the young hopeful completed his final interview with the Sidney Civil Commission. “I don’t recall who said it, but after Will left the room someone said ‘You know, someday he’s going to be police chief,’” Cundiff said. “They even recognized it back then.” In early May, Balling was selected from a field of 13 applicants. Other finalists for the position were Ronald Krueger, chief of the Rockledge (Florida) Police Department) and Bill D. Press, chief of the Fair Hope (Alabama) Police Department. A fourth finalist was Capt. Michael Rosengarten of the Sidney PoSee CHIEF/Page 3
TODAY’S THOUGHT “Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.” — Grace King, American author (1852-1932). For more on today in history, turn to Page 5.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday, killing a mother and baby and crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major interstate. The broad storm hit during the evening rush hour, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city. To the south, winds approaching 80 mph were forecast for Moore, where a top-of-thescale EF5 tornado killed 24 on May 20. Floodwaters up to 4 feet deep hampered rescue attempts and frequent lightning roiled the skies well after the main threat had passed to the east. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said troopers found the bodies of a woman and an infant near their vehicle. Randolph said it’s not known if the woman was driving into the storm when it hit around 7 p.m. Friday. Emergency officials reported numerous injuries were reported in the area along I-40, and Randolph said there were toppled and wrecked cars littering the area. Troopers requested a number of ambulances at I-40 near Yukon, west of Oklahoma City. Hail and heavy rain pelted the metro area to the point that emergency workers had trouble responding to “widespread” reports of injuries. “We’re scrambling around,” said Lara O’Leary, a spokeswoman for the local ambulance agency. “There is very low visibility with the heavy rain … so we’re having trouble getting around. “The damage is very, very widespread.” See TORNADO/Page 5
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Soggy days Serrinity Martinez (l-r) 10, shows off a sketch she drew to her cousins Elijah Rico, 9, and Jada Rico, 6, and her sister Naveah Ledcke, 8, all of Jackson Center, at Jackson Community Days Friday. Looking at pictures and eating carnival food were about all that was going on as ride operators worked to dry off their rides after a heavy rain stopped around 5:20 p.m. Serrinity and Naveah are the children of Desiree Lopez. Elijah and Jada are the children of Raquel Lopez. Jackson Center Community Days continues through Sunday.
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